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What it’s like to live in Israel with Omer Eshel & Are You Born Again with Karl Clauson · Karl and Crew

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  S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
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  S1: and crew. Come as you are an experienced guide, overcome
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  S1: what seems impossible and live as you never imagined. Start
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  S1: your morning with a laugh.
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  S2: Practical from the Bible. Tips and tricks to kill. Not tricks,
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  S2: but tips and tricks.
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  S3: Tips and tricks to kill. Tips and tricks.
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  S1: Delivering the truth daily.
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  S4: All of my attempts to you know. Prop myself up
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  S4: with achievement and good works. Well, God wasn't impressed by that,
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  S4: even if other people were.
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  S2: The gospel changes everything.
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  S5: Freedom in Christ. Man, it's like that backpack of cement
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  S5: just falling to the ground.
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  S1: Now, from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl
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  S1: and crew. Yay! Yay! Yay! Here we go on this.
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  S1: Freedom Friday.
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  S2: Oh, Friday.
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  S3: Friday. Great day in the city. It's Friday in the city.
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  S3: It's Carl and crew here. And, uh, welcome aboard everybody.
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  S3: Hope you had a good night's sleep. I sure did.
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  S3: Didn't get a lot of sleep, but the quality of
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  S3: sleep was good. By the way, if you've got a
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  S3: smart watch or smart ring. Anyone else have a smart
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  S3: ring like me? As a matter of fact, does anyone
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  S3: I have for a smart ring. The Ultra Human Pro,
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  S3: if you do, just jingle me up because I want
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  S3: to know who's with me today. 805 557898 805 557898.
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  S3: Just text me. Don't call in. Uh, that'd be rubbing
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  S3: in everyone else's nose. That wouldn't be good. But if
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  S3: you've got an ultra human Ultra human pro or is
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  S3: it air?
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  S2: I have no idea.
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  S6: I don't know.
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  S3: Forget which one I have ultra humans a brand. If
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  S3: you got ultra human smart ring, let me know. 805 5578, 98.
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  S3: Tell you what's good about that sometimes. And I've learned
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  S3: this by track and sleep and I love you guys.
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  S3: Know that I kind of love like data points. Uh,
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  S3: but if, uh, if you think that it's about getting seven,
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  S3: eight hours of sleep, it's actually not. Now, brain science
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  S3: proves that you've got to get good sleep. And by
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  S3: the way, if anyone ought to be interested in their sleep,
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  S3: it's Jesus followers because it makes us refreshed. It keeps
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  S3: us sharp, keeps us on point. Yeah. But it's it's
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  S3: in fact true that the amount of recovery REM sleep
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  S3: that you get is very important. The ability to have
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  S3: hrvs that are in line with our body types, and
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  S3: that your resting heart rate goes down quickly when you
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  S3: go to sleep. All those are big contributors to your
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  S3: quality of sleep, and quality of sleep actually outstrips the
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  S3: duration of sleep, which makes sense, right?
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  S2: Oh yeah. If you get seven hours of tossing and
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  S2: turning sleep all night, you're still going to wake up
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  S2: feeling exhausted. Yeah.
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  S3: Yeah, you got to, you got to get good quality
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  S3: sleep for sure. Okay. It's what if we can we're
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  S3: wrapping up this week's strong guys. We got a what
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  S3: if question for you. We're. I'm flying blind. Super dives
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  S3: got one for us. What do you have, sister?
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  S6: All right. What if money, safety. Not an issue. What
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  S6: would be your ideal getaway? Your ideal vacation? Money safety.
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  S6: Not an issue. What's your ideal getaway? It's Friday. Think
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  S6: of getting away. Where would you go and why?
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  S3: Maybe if safety is not an issue. In other words,
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  S3: there's no way you're going to die.
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  S6: Yeah, right.
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  S3: Well, then I do. I'd be that dude that jumped out.
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  S3: What's the guy that jumped out of the highest skydiver ever?
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  S2: Oh.
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  S3: I remember, I do.
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  S2: He had to wear a spacesuit to do it.
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  S3: Yeah. He had a spacesuit.
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  S2: Yeah, I don't remember.
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  S3: If I if God told me. Because I don't trust
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  S3: you guys, but if God told me, there's no way
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  S3: you're going to die. I mean, I love you, but
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  S3: I don't trust you on that stuff.
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  S2: You know what.
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  S3: Can you tell me, Carl? There ain't no way you're
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  S3: going to die. I'm like, I want to get another opinion,
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  S3: and it needs to be God. God needs to tell me.
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  S3: Ain't no way you're gonna.
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  S2: Clearly for that one fair.
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  S3: Um, so if God told me, no way you're gonna die,
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  S3: that would help me overcome all my fear of heights.
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  S3: Jumping out of a plane that high. And yeah, I'd
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  S3: want to. Can you imagine jumping out? What an adventure. Now,
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  S3: it's not a long adventure. So maybe you were thinking
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  S3: of something longer than.
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  S6: But it's your ideal getaway. That's what you would like
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  S6: to do. Yeah.
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  S3: Want to get away?
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  S6: Get away! Where are you going to go. Jonathan.
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  S2: Oh, man. See, even without, like, uh, needing to worry
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  S2: about safety or anything like that. I just am not
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  S2: that big of an adventurer. So I would say for me,
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  S2: it's going and staying at like a luxury hotel in Hawaii.
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  S2: Like that would be my ideal vacation.
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  S6: That's great.
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  S3: You like Hawaii even though they have dolphins?
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  S2: Well, I don't have to go in the water. I
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  S2: didn't see that's what I said.
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  S6: I had to throw that in.
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  S2: I did think about that. I was like, well, if
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  S2: I'm not gonna get hurt, do I, do I want
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  S2: to go in the water and like scuba dive or something?
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  S2: And the answer's still no, because all the fish, even
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  S2: though they can't hurt me in this scenario, they can
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  S2: still touch me. And I don't want that. So I
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  S2: think I'm still going to stay out of the water,
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  S2: but I will go.
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  S3: Look at it. There's no way you're going to be injured. Yeah.
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  S3: You didn't hear that?
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  S2: No, I did hear that. I still don't want to
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  S2: be touched. I don't want the fish to touch me.
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  S6: This is getting.
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  S3: I did not know that.
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  S2: Yeah. I really don't like being in the water with fish.
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  S2: I have sometimes if I if I can, I can
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  S2: get in the water if I don't think about it.
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  S2: But if I start thinking too much about. There's fish
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  S2: swimming around me. I don't want to be in the water.
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  S6: Oh, goodness. Okay.
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  S2: That's just me.
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  S6: No, my heart's like, oh, it's not going to you.
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  S2: He's broken.
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  S3: All right. Super.
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  S6: Mind if their money was not even an issue? I'm
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  S6: taking a month and going to Greece. I've never been
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  S6: to Greece.
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  S2: Greece is a great one.
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  S6: Stay in Greece. I want to chill out in Greece. Absolutely.
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  S3: She wants to see family and Greece.
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  S6: Oh, yeah.
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  S3: Family probably is extended family there right?
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  S6: There is. Sure there is. Yeah.
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  S3: They're crazy, by the way.
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  S6: Well, that's why I want to go.
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  S3: I haven't met him, but I know they're crazy. Just
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  S3: watch my big fat Greek movies. So good.
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  S6: I know you love that movie.
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  S3: Greek.
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  S6: Would really. Not far from the truth.
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  S3: By the way, speaking of movies, if you don't get
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  S3: to a Great Awakening, you are missing a good one.
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  S3: If you've been to a Great Awakening, text me about
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  S3: that as well. Nobody has an ultra human smart ring,
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  S3: apparently anywhere in the world that's listening, which is a bummer.
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  S2: You're the only one.
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  S3: So if you got an ultra human smart ring 805, five, five, 78, 98,
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  S3: just give me a text. And if you've been to
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  S3: a Great Awakening, please text me 805 557898. Please get
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  S3: there before it leaves. Boy, it might be gone. Don't
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  S3: they put in new films on Fridays?
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  S2: I usually. Thursday. Thursday nights usually. Kind of like the
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  S2: release for a weekend.
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  S3: Well, I'm going to be promoting this all day, so
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  S3: could somebody check this out? Just AI and see if
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  S3: it's still in theaters this weekend. That would be great.
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  S3: I mean, we don't need to get an answer right now.
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  S3: This could take a while, but we'll get one for.
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  S6: You research here.
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  S3: Got a tough question for you on the what if today?
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  S3: But it's really liberating if you think about it. And
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  S3: here it is. What if your prayers are not heard? HMM.
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  S3: Let's think about that for a moment. What if your
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  S3: prayers are not heard? I think that's a bit discouraging,
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  S3: isn't it? Because what if we spend time praying but
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  S3: they're not heard by God? And you might say, Carl,
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  S3: why would you say this on a Freedom Friday? Are
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  S3: you trying to discourage us? No, friend, I'm really not.
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  S3: There's no desire to do that at all. Our desire
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  S3: here is to help you take your next step with
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  S3: Jesus to grow and go with God. And this is
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  S3: one of the best Freedom Friday little segments we could
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  S3: possibly have. I want you to hear me. There are
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  S3: things that you're doing or not doing that could be
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  S3: hindering your prayer big time. So you can both want
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  S3: this thing. You could appeal to God about this thing,
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  S3: and it's possible that that thing is never going to
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  S3: be acted on by God, because there's something standing in
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  S3: the way and it's in your life or in your heart.
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  S3: Now God's not mocked. And we find this principle all
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  S3: over Scripture. So we've got some resources coming your way
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  S3: because this can be cleared away like this. But my
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  S3: hope for you is that you not spend a lot
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  S3: of time talking to God in an unfruitful manner. But
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  S3: when you talk with God, God moves. Think about that.
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  S3: Think about that distinction. And you might wonder, mm, is
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  S3: there ever a time in your life that you can
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  S3: look back and say, yeah, God probably wasn't moving on
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  S3: those prayers, no matter how earnest they were.
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  S3: that just takes off. My goodness. Well, you know this
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  S3: is hard. This is hard. This is a hard one.
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  S3: And we're not going to withhold the truth from you
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  S3: because why shortcut this thing, right? Why sit here and
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  S3: walk around and flap our gums and say a bunch
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  S3: of rubbish that isn't even true or doesn't comport with
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  S3: Scripture and be utterly foolish. Here's a fascinating scripture in
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  S3: James five. It's all about the whole last section of
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  S3: this is dealing with prayer and In someone who's suffering
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  S3: and someone's cheerful and what to do with each of
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  S3: these folks. And then it gets in verse 16 of
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  S3: chapter five. Therefore, confess your sins. Confession means to agree
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  S3: with your sins to one another. By the way, this
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  S3: isn't precluding confessing to God. But what James is hitting
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  S3: here is he knows the power of coming clean with
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  S3: other people. We've talked a lot about that around here.
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  S3: Sometimes it's easier to come clean with God than it
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  S3: is someone else, but that's why God put people in
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  S3: our path. So he says, confess your sins to one
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  S3: another and pray for one another that you may be healed.
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  S3: The prayer of a righteous person has great power as
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  S3: it is working. So the question is here is are
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  S3: you is the emphasis of this passage to get someone
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  S3: to pray for you who is a righteous person so
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  S3: that you can be healed? No, that's not the emphasis
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  S3: of the passage here. If you look at the original language,
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  S3: the intent here is to get everybody praying effectively, everybody
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  S3: praying fruitfully. So it's to get people praying with one another.
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  S3: But it's like, all right, as we're praying for one another,
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  S3: let's pray righteously. Now let's get very clear here. We
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  S3: don't stand in our righteousness. It's not your good works
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  S3: that get your prayers heard by God. But the what
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  S3: if today is what if your prayers are not heard?
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  S3: And you might say, Carl, what do you mean? How
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  S3: can prayers not be heard? All we have to do
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  S3: is go to Scripture. Let me give you a few.
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  S3: Did you know that God loves you so much that
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  S3: if you are ignoring truth, your prayers will not be heard.
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  S3: If one turns away his ear from the law, we
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  S3: find in Proverbs 289. Even his prayer is an abomination. Wow.
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  S3: We find in James four two if you desire and
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  S3: do not have and you murder. It's interesting. This is
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  S3: in the book of James, right? You cover and cannot obtain.
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  S3: You fight and quarrel. You do not have because you
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  S3: do not ask God. Okay. That's a jealous spirit. And
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  S3: then in verse three of chapter four of James, you
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  S3: ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly to
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  S3: spend it on your passions. So you get self-focus. Now
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  S3: calling all men, lend me your heart and yours here
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  S3: for a moment. Likewise, husbands, this is first Peter three seven.
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  S3: Live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor
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  S3: to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are
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  S3: heirs with you of the grace of life, so that
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  S3: your prayers may not be hindered. So what's being said here?
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  S3: God loves your wives so much. Men that no matter
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  S3: how much you pray, if you're not living with your
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  S3: wife in an understanding way, your prayers are bouncing off
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  S3: the ceiling. They are hindered by God. Sobering isn't it?
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  S3: And by the way, here's a general one hard heartedness.
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  S3: John 931 says, we know that God does not listen
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  S3: to sinners. And this is not just those that are
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  S3: far from God, but these are those that persist in sin.
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  S3: If anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will,
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  S3: God listens to him. So we gotta make sure our
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  S3: heart's not hard, persistent in some way that's leading us
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  S3: astray from God. And there's more. So I want to
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  S3: do something here right now. I want to give you
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  S3: a link to a blog that I wrote some time ago. Now,
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  S3: I haven't used this in a long while. You know
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  S3: that guys.
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  S6: It's been.
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  S2: It's been.
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  S6: A little while. Too long, too long.
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  S3: I want to answer the question why your prayers go
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  S3: nowhere and what God can do about that today. Today,
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  S3: why your prayers go nowhere. I want you to text
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  S3: the word prayer in this little blog. In fact, it's
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  S3: even got a message link to it that I hadn't
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  S3: forgotten about that that you can grab and even spend
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  S3: some time looking at. Just scroll ahead through our worship services.
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  S3: A number of years ago when we just had the
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  S3: downtown campus. But check it out. Prayers. Text that prayers
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  S3: to 800 555, 78, 98. And this is a tough
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  S3: one because I don't want to freak you out, but
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  S3: I want to tell you the truth. And the truth
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  S3: is the prayers of the right. Let me read it.
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  S3: The prayer of a righteous person has great power and
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  S3: it's working. So what's the context of this passage? Just
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  S3: the verse before it. Confess your sins not only to
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  S3: God but to one another. Coming clean on these things
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  S3: is powerhouse texts. The word prayer. Prayer to 805 557898.
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  S3: On this Freedom Friday. Just one word prayer. Not don't
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  S3: put an S at the end. I guess they does
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  S3: an S get it for you.
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  S6: I've got it all.
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  S3: Prayer or prayers? Prayer or prayers. Just that one word, pray,
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  S3: prayer or prayers. And we're going to get this link
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  S3: out to you. Why? Your prayers go nowhere. Wow. Coming
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  S3: up here in a moment. It's at the front end
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  S3: of this blog, but I'm going to capture it again.
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  S3: I want to be vulnerable and humble and show you
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  S3: that this is this is true and what you can
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  S3: do about it.
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  S1: Hang on your shot of hope to get you through
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  S1: the day.
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  S5: You are so, so loved. God does not want you
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  S5: to stay in your past, and I want you to
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  S5: know and believe that today.
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  S1: You're listening to Carl and crew.
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  S3: Okay, um, coming out hot on this Freedom Friday. And
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  S3: one of the great principles of liberty is realizing that, wow,
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  S3: I can be living in such a way, kind of
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  S3: harboring sin in my heart in a way that our
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  S3: prayers will not be answered. And when I say that,
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  S3: you might say, is that even possible? Well, it is
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  S3: why your prayers go nowhere if you haven't gotten this resource.
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  S3: I did this blog a few years ago, several years
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  S3: ago now, and I want to tell you that Scripture
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  S3: is clear. If you ignore truth, you got a jealous spirit,
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  S3: you got self-focus. I'm giving you the headlines to these scriptures.
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  S3: You are an unloving or not living with your wife
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  S3: in a non understanding way which is unloving. Your prayers
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  S3: are hindered. You got a hard heart toward truth. You
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  S3: got willful sin in your life. You're double minded. All
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  S3: these things indicate that it actually puts a governor on
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  S3: our prayers, and God wants to make that right. Now,
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  S3: when you hear that, that could freak you out a
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  S3: little bit, couldn't it?
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  S2: It can. Absolutely. Because when we when we talk about praying,
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  S2: we talk about praying in the sense of we'll pray
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  S2: at any time. God's listening. God wants to hear your prayers.
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  S2: And it is true that he wants to hear your prayers,
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  S2: but he also loves you so much that he doesn't
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  S2: just want to let you live in the sin that
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  S2: you're living in. And I think that's really important to
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  S2: talk about because God wants to see our lives changed.
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  S2: And I think it's fair that we can't just walk
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  S2: around apart from his will on a regular basis and
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  S2: just let everything keep going the way it is. He's
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  S2: not okay with status quo.
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  S3: Yeah. So you just got me thinking about something. So
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  S3: if you want to hear how I. I know my
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  S3: prayers were hindered for a period of time, seven years
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  S3: into our marriage with my bride, um, been married 38
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  S3: years now coming on 39. It's hard to believe, by
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  S3: the way. It's awesome.
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  S6: Um it's beautiful.
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  S3: I want you to check out this blog, but I
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  S3: want you to get this blog. Please. Why? Your prayers
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  S3: go nowhere and just text the word prayer to 805 557898.
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  S3: Never texted before and now is your time. This is
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  S3: just biblical truth, guys. And here's the principle. So the
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  S3: story goes way back in the day, we were moving
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  S3: from little Rock to Alaska, and my son was at
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  S3: that sketchy young age where he's starting to kind of
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  S3: really chafe against Mama. And she gave me a call.
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  S3: She's trying to pack boxes, I'm finishing up at work,
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  S3: and she calls me one day and says, man, your son,
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  S3: your son is.
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  S6: Giving me some grief.
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  S3: Um, and I said, what's going on? She told me,
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  S3: and I came home and I went in and talked
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  S3: to Cabe. And the Lord gave me some wisdom on
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  S3: this one. And I said, hey, son, here's the deal.
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  S3: I want to tell you something. He was already really
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  S3: intrigued with history and geopolitics and different things. So I said,
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  S3: do you know why? And did you know that we
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  S3: will freeze the funds of rogue nations? And he said, well,
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  S3: tell me more about that. So I gave him a
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  S3: scenario at that time, I forget what it was, but
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  S3: I said, yeah, we will freeze the funds of nations
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  S3: to get their attention. So we get their behavior aligned
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  S3: with something that's right and decent before we let them
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  S3: have their monies. He said, man, that's cool. I said, yeah,
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  S3: it's cool. And I said, here's what's happening with you.
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  S3: Your funds are frozen. Your funds are absolutely frozen right now.
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  S3: We're going to Alaska. You cannot use your monies to
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  S3: buy sports magazines or anything until your attitude with your
• 20:31
  S3: mom changes. Yeah. They're frozen. Well, he got that. And
• 20:37
  S3: in a matter of a week's time, he earned that
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  S3: money back. God loves you so much that he will
• 20:48
  S3: hinder your prayers for the purpose of getting your life
• 20:51
  S3: aligned with him. Why? Because the prayer of a righteous
• 20:54
  S3: person has great power in its working. It's a great
• 20:59
  S3: Freedom Friday truth, guys. Oh, I know we say things
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  S3: that aren't often said here, but we love you enough.
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  S3: To tell you the truth. I want you to get
• 21:08
  S3: this blog. I want you to get it. I want
• 21:10
  S3: you to read it. And here's what you do. Spend
• 21:12
  S3: some time just going through it and then go, Lord,
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  S3: just clean the decks. Here's what's beautiful. If you confess
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  S3: your sin, he is faithful and just to forgive you
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  S3: of your sin and cleanse you of all unrighteousness. If
• 21:30
  S3: you do confession of any known sin, it clears the decks.
• 21:36
  S3: You agree with God on that. It clears the decks
• 21:39
  S3: and makes your prayers effective. I want you to text
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  S3: the word prayer right now. Prayer to 805 557898, one
• 21:52
  S3: word prayer to 805 557898. Tough truth to hear, but
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  S3: on this Freedom Friday. This is freedom here. Guys, this
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  S3: is freedom. Take hold of it today.
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  S1: Your shot of hope to get you through the day.
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  S5: You are so, so loved. God does not want you
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  S5: to stay in your past. And I want you to
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  S5: know and believe that today.
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  S1: You're listening to cast and crew.
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  S3: Big hope here guys on this Freedom Friday. Uh, it's
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  S3: it's it's just a biblical truth. You go anywhere you
• 22:28
  S3: look in scripture. Here's what we find. Answering the question
• 22:33
  S3: why your prayers go nowhere. We're answering the what ifs
• 22:36
  S3: this whole week. What? What if your prayers are not heard? Well,
• 22:41
  S3: I wrote this blog and man, it's been a while
• 22:44
  S3: since we've gone back to this, but we've got so
• 22:46
  S3: many links pouring out right now. This is so encouraging,
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  S3: isn't it, guys?
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  S6: Oh, absolutely. I love this.
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  S2: I mean, each text is a is a step to
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  S2: walking to further insight and relationship with the father. And
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  S2: so I think that this is an exciting time. Text
• 23:04
  S2: this link.
• 23:05
  S3: Yeah grab it. Text prayer to 805 557898. It's not
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  S3: often talked about. I mean, we can we we skirt
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  S3: issues oftentimes, but one of the ones that we have
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  S3: to go after, if we know we look at Elijah,
• 23:20
  S3: was a man with a nature like ours, and he
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  S3: prayed fervently. And he's the example of answered prayer. The
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  S3: prayer of a righteous person has great power as it
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  S3: is working. And this righteousness is not ours. It's not us.
• 23:38
  S3: We stand in the righteousness of Christ, but it's getting
• 23:40
  S3: aligned with him and confession agreement with God that our
• 23:45
  S3: life is missing. The mark in some way is the
• 23:49
  S3: posture of humility, and humility wins the day, guys. It's
• 23:53
  S3: the one virtue that gives birth to every other virtue.
• 23:59
  S3: God loves you. And on this Freedom Friday. Get your
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  S3: heart scrubbed clean by God. Come to him with contrition.
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  S3: Go to that unfamiliar place. Moses went to the tent
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  S3: of meeting. Tent of meeting is where he met with God,
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  S3: but he. He always, through contrition, swept the deck clean
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  S3: with God the great, the richest among us have a
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  S3: clean deck with God. It's not talking about you being perfect.
• 24:33
  S3: It's about you being confessed up and saying, God, search me,
• 24:36
  S3: know me, try me. See if there'd be any hurtful
• 24:39
  S3: way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
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  S3: That prayer, cried in earnestness, is a prayer that will
• 24:45
  S3: soon be heard by God. So text prayer to 805 557898.
• 24:52
  S3: The title of my blog, Why Your Prayers Go Nowhere
• 24:55
  S3: and the answers are right there in that blog. Well,
• 25:00
  S3: I've been telling you, get to it and I'm getting
• 25:02
  S3: some feedback. It's still in theaters. It's called The Great Awakening, man,
• 25:06
  S3: what a movie. My goodness, you want to see how
• 25:10
  S3: George Whitfield's preaching absolutely shaped the Constitutional Convention. Yeah. Benjamin
• 25:20
  S3: Franklin's rousing speech at that convention was a hearkening unto
• 25:26
  S3: his mentorship from George Whitfield. Was Benjamin Franklin born again?
• 25:30
  S3: Was he a God fearing man? Sure looks like it.
• 25:34
  S3: Down the last few years of his life. I mean,
• 25:36
  S3: he was one compromised dude when he went to France
• 25:38
  S3: and he went to the UK. He was peddling on
• 25:41
  S3: his wife and everything. He was a wreck. But my goodness,
• 25:47
  S3: it shaped our nation. You got to get to this.
• 25:50
  S3: You got to get to this movie. A great awakening,
• 25:53
  S3: a great awakening. Get to it. All right. Coming up here,
• 25:56
  S3: I've got a what if for a dear friend of mine,
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  S3: his name's Omer Eshel, and he's coming in to us
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  S3: live from Israel. What's the what if I have for Omer?
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  S3: Hang on.
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  S1: Your shot of hope to help you through the day.
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  S1: This is Carl and Crew on Moody Radio.
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  S3: Got a dear friend with me right now coming in
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  S3: live from Israel. His name is Omer Eshel. He's a
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  S3: phenomenal friend, great man and dear friend. And goodness sakes, Omer,
• 26:28
  S3: how many trips have we taken together in Israel? I
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  S3: think for.
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  S8: At least four. At least at a minimum. For. Yeah.
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  S3: Yeah. Oh, it's so good to have you with us
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  S3: here this morning. It's what if week. And I really
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  S3: feel this is important. There is a national trend of
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  S3: anti-Semitism and even a growing disdain for Israel. On one hand,
• 26:50
  S3: I say I don't get it. On the other hand,
• 26:52
  S3: I know that there's great spiritual forces of evil that
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  S3: are planting seeds in our brains constantly. Uh, that's the
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  S3: only way you can explain some of the hatred for
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  S3: Jewish people and even the nation of Israel. But my
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  S3: what if is what if it What if you lived
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  S3: in a context boom crew where at any given moment
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  S3: a bomb. A terrorist could sneak in to your area,
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  S3: your home, a bomb launched by a rogue nation, a
• 27:24
  S3: proxy of Iran, by the way, threaten life and limb.
• 27:30
  S3: What if. So I brought in Omer. It's a hard reality.
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  S3: I mean, I'm I'm just being straight. That's hard, isn't it?
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  S3: To live in a place like that, Omer.
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  S8: Yes, of course it's hard. But if we look at history,
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  S8: this is how the Jewish people lived, basically since ever.
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  S8: If we look in scriptures all the way from Pharaoh,
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  S8: through book of judges, through the Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans, we
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  S8: were always under threat. That's not a new thing. And
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  S8: the reason why, and I completely agree with you, it's
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  S8: because it's spiritual. It was always spiritual. It was never political.
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  S8: It was never about land or about resources. It was
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  S8: always since day of creation. This is spiritual. So the
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  S8: question is what if how it is to live under
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  S8: constant threat? I got to share this with you because
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  S8: humanity has a very short memory. The US lived under
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  S8: a severe threat during the 60s in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yes, severe.
• 28:29
  S8: And people forgot. People forgot what it is because it's comfortable.
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  S8: It's nice. Life is good. People forgot. The problem is,
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  S8: and this is something very important. That's what Scripture teaches us,
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  S8: especially the book of judges. When your life becomes too comfortable,
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  S8: you forget the prayer. You forget to understand that whoever
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  S8: is in charge is our father in heaven and no
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  S8: one else. And once you do that, my friend, once
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  S8: you do that, you let the enemy inside your home.
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  S8: So you're asking, what if. Look at Europe today. You
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  S8: and I had a lot of conversation about this. When
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  S8: you forget God. When you forget who puts you in
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  S8: the place that you're at right now. You let the
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  S8: enemy in and look at Europe. Europe. Their enemy is
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  S8: already inside the. It's inside the government. It's inside the
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  S8: city halls, also in places in the United States.
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  S3: Yeah. I was talking with a dear friend about this
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  S3: October 7th, 2023 horrific attack, terrorist attack from, uh, Palestine,
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  S3: the Hamas. And if you look at those numbers, over
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  S3: a thousand. But if you extrapolate that per capita, it
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  S3: would be the equivalent of 40,000 people. It's just imagine,
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  S3: just imagine, just get a scenario here. This isn't going
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  S3: to happen. But let's just imagine if here in the
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  S3: United States boom crew, some forces came in across the
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  S3: border and annihilated 40,000 Americans. That's what it would be
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  S3: per capita. That's what, 40,000 people massacred overnight. What would
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  S3: our response be? Well, we'd be on high alert. I
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  S3: don't know that if we had to go, uh, defend ourselves,
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  S3: if we'd even sprinkled leaflets over regions telling them we're
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  S3: about to come into this area. The amount of forbearance.
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  S3: I know there's a lot of people listening right now
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  S3: that just they lose biblical perspective and even practical perspective
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  S3: on this. What happened October 7th of 2023 was horrific.
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  S3: Nobody claims that the IDF is perfect, but with regard
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  S3: to warfare, their restraint is amazing, isn't it, Omer?
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  S8: It's all connected to actually a biblical command. If you
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  S8: remember in Scripture, there is a full I think it's
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  S8: in Leviticus. There's a full, uh, notion, a full section
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  S8: of the Bible that speaks about warfare and what happened
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  S8: when you attacked a city that you needed to give
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  S8: them a chance to, to, uh, to retreat. You need
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  S8: to give you're not allowed to do any atrocities in
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  S8: the population. Now, this text was written 3000 years ago.
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  S8: And the Israeli army, by the way, not just Israeli,
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  S8: also American army, also British army. We have the same
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  S8: biblical values, but in the Israeli army, because we are
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  S8: connected directly to the lineage of David, directly to the
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  S8: same army, with the same language. This is why we
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  S8: are doing these leaflets. It's come from scriptures. But I
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  S8: gotta share this with you. This is the reason why
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  S8: we are winning. Because when you look at it, you're right.
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  S8: If it was the United States, it would be 4000 people.
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  S8: I don't think you guys would have thrown any leaflets.
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  S8: I think that there would be that would be the
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  S8: end of Hamas in the next five minutes. So you
• 31:41
  S8: come and say, why don't you do that? We don't
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  S8: do that because the Bible commands us not to do it,
• 31:48
  S8: that this is a biblical principle, and that is why
• 31:51
  S8: the Palestinian notion was born in 1964. The name Jew
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  S8: was born in the tribe of Judah under Jacob.
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  S3: Yeah, yeah, it's a big distinction right there. Omer Eshel,
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  S3: my guest right now, coming up here in a few minutes.
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  S3: I have not announced this on air until today, and
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  S3: I'm probably going to do it one time. And all
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  S3: I can tell you is I feel prompted to do it.
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  S3: Coming up. What is it? Hang on.
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  S1: Standing on the rock each and every day. You're listening
• 32:24
  S1: to Carl and crew?
• 32:28
  S3: Yeah. I don't know if you heard the word yet,
• 32:29
  S3: but Michael Ray is going to be guest hosting on
• 32:32
  S3: Chris Fabry today and his book on Israel. And how
• 32:36
  S3: in the world should we look at things as they
• 32:38
  S3: are going on? Amazing. A professor picked up that book
• 32:43
  S3: and actually was astounded at the amount of negative responses.
• 32:50
  S3: It was actually pretty sickening, pretty tough to take. So
• 32:55
  S3: one of the things we're going to be committed to
• 32:57
  S3: do here, as long as we have breath with Carl
• 32:59
  S3: and crew, is to not in any way super spiritualize Israel,
• 33:06
  S3: but just look at it as it is and say,
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  S3: how do we stand with Israel? And the question is,
• 33:11
  S3: how in the world do we stand with Israel? Well,
• 33:13
  S3: one way you can do this is to take a trip.
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  S3: Michael goes there a lot. Uh, you name it, we've
• 33:19
  S3: got a lot of people here. You hear about trips?
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  S3: I've got a wild one for you today. Boom crew,
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  S3: November 15th through 24th. Uh, we are going to open
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  S3: it up now for others to join us. Uh, Jim
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  S3: Coakley and myself, with the guidance of Omer Eshel. He's
• 33:38
  S3: my man. When we get to Israel, are going to
• 33:41
  S3: be going to Israel November 15th through 24th. And this
• 33:45
  S3: is not just a sightseeing trip. When you go with Omer,
• 33:48
  S3: this is called a study trip, right, my man?
• 33:51
  S8: Absolutely. Hands down brother.
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  S3: Okay, Here's the beauty. We can stand with Israel in
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  S3: this way, and I'll have a link for you in
• 33:58
  S3: just a moment, but I am so looking forward to
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  S3: this trip. Every time we go with you, we study.
• 34:04
  S3: We open up the Word of God. And it's astounding.
• 34:08
  S3: Through archaeological digs for which we've just. How many of
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  S3: the tells these little outcroppings, these historical sites have actually
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  S3: been dug up thus far in the country.
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  S8: We got all in total, 5000 biblical sites, 37,000 archaeological
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  S8: sites in Israel, 5000 out of them are biblical. I
• 34:29
  S8: would say around 200 to 300 were actually excavated and
• 34:34
  S8: not just surveyed. And I got to share this with
• 34:36
  S8: our listeners. None of them contradict the Bible.
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  S3: Yeah.
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  S8: That's incredible.
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  S3: Give us the most what's top of your heart, the
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  S3: most confounding thing that is evidence of the scriptures that
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  S3: you've either discovered recently or discovered in the recent past
• 34:52
  S3: that you're like, oh my goodness, there we go again.
• 34:55
  S8: I have one for you. January 23rd January 23rd, 2023.
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  S8: Israel Ministry of Antiquity did a survey and digs in
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  S8: an ancient city by the name hippos, which is very
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  S8: close to where I live. And they found the entire
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  S8: city of the dead. It's called necropolis. That was dated
• 35:13
  S8: to the time of Jesus. And when they dated it
• 35:17
  S8: and they opened scriptures in Mark, the gospel of Mark,
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  S8: Mark five that speaks about the miracle of the swine today.
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  S8: Because of this archaeological dig that was done not even
• 35:26
  S8: two years ago, we know exactly where Jesus met the demoniac.
• 35:30
  S3: Wow. The more you dig, the more you discover that
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  S3: this thing called the scriptures is true, right? Omer.
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  S8: Absolutely. I think that the actual just to be in Israel,
• 35:42
  S8: it's it's like a fifth gospel. Go to Israel. You
• 35:45
  S8: see it, you see what Jesus saw. You understand why
• 35:47
  S8: he took this route and not the other. You understand
• 35:50
  S8: what he was doing. You understand the language, you understand
• 35:53
  S8: the parables, you understand everything. Because and this is something
• 35:57
  S8: I keep on saying all the time. You know the Bible,
• 35:59
  S8: our Bible is not a Greek mythology. It's not crazy
• 36:03
  S8: fairy tales. This is actual historical fact that you can
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  S8: actually scientifically prove.
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  S3: Yeah, it's it's wonderful. Okay. Uh, in November 15th through 24th,
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  S3: what are some of these sites that we're going to
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  S3: be going to just give us a highlight of a
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  S3: top 3 or 4?
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  S8: Well, the Garden Tomb is definitely one of the biggest ones.
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  S8: We're going to see the place where Jesus resurrected. So that's,
• 36:24
  S8: that's a big one. Uh, we're going to be sailing
• 36:27
  S8: on the Sea of Galilee. And once we're on the
• 36:29
  S8: Sea of Galilee, it's not just a regular sailing. You
• 36:31
  S8: just don't just enjoy the wind. We stand there, we
• 36:34
  S8: look around. It's called a biblical panoramic. We go in
• 36:37
  S8: throughout all the beaches, around, around us, in the Sea
• 36:41
  S8: of Galilee, and point every location where each miracle took place.
• 36:46
  S8: And you can see 90% of Jesus's life in three seconds.
• 36:50
  S3: Tell me. Tell everyone about where we stand. Looking down
• 36:53
  S3: at Capernaum. Talk about that percentage of Jesus's miracles. When
• 36:56
  S3: you hold up your hands and look through a little spot.
• 36:59
  S8: Yeah. You know, when people say, yeah, Israel, they speak
• 37:01
  S8: about Jerusalem and, you know, the Holy Week and and
• 37:05
  S8: the Triumph Walk. Yes, Jerusalem is very important, but it's
• 37:08
  S8: a week of Jesus's life. I mean, it's the last
• 37:10
  S8: week of Jesus life, but that's just week when you
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  S8: go to Capernaum, when you go to the Sea of Galilee,
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  S8: when you go to Nazareth. Imagine you open your arms,
• 37:18
  S8: just spread your arms. And again, you see 99% of
• 37:22
  S8: Jesus life. And I'm not talking about a week. I'm
• 37:25
  S8: talking everything right between your left hand and your right hand.
• 37:30
  S3: It's so astounding. It's an amazing thing. And I we're
• 37:35
  S3: opening it up. So if you're interested in going with
• 37:39
  S3: a guy named Carl, your friend Carl here, and Jim Coakley, um,
• 37:43
  S3: one of the professors here at Moody Bible Institute, myself
• 37:46
  S3: and Omer Eshel on a trip to Israel that will
• 37:50
  S3: change your life forever. You'll never read the scriptures the
• 37:53
  S3: same way again. Just text the word trip for all
• 37:56
  S3: the details. Just text the word trip to 805 557898.
• 38:02
  S3: One word trip to 800 555, 78, 98. And it's
• 38:09
  S3: going to be an incredible, incredible time. Obviously, a lot
• 38:14
  S3: of people wonder, what about safety? The irony is that, uh,
• 38:18
  S3: one of the safest places in the world to go
• 38:21
  S3: is Israel. Even even with what we see going on
• 38:24
  S3: in the news, isn't it, Omer?
• 38:26
  S8: Absolutely. I mean, think about it. Nowadays, a cease fire.
• 38:29
  S8: I'm actually starting from yesterday. There's a cease fire on
• 38:33
  S8: all fronts. On Gaza, on Lebanon, on Iran. Complete cease fire, which,
• 38:37
  S8: by the way, I think will last for a long time.
• 38:40
  S8: And I got to tell you why. Because we're entering
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  S8: into election. Nobody wants war during election time. Yeah. So
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  S8: I really think there's going to be very, very peaceful,
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  S8: safest place in the world.
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  S3: Yeah. Text trip to 805 557898. Trip to (800) 555-7898.
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  S1: Start your day moving closer to Jesus. You're listening to
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  S1: Carl and crew.
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  S3: Is a tough what if to hear. But boy, it's
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  S3: so vitally important. What if you are not born again
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  S3: but assume that you are now our purpose? My purpose
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  S3: here is not in any way to freak people out.
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  S3: Here's what you need to know. The greatest assurance of
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  S3: salvation is that the Spirit of God is in you,
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  S3: working in you, convicting of sin, aligning your life with
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  S3: with God's Word. You have a hunger to not only
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  S3: hear God's Word, but to apply it to your life.
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  S3: And when someone asks you, who in the world is
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  S3: your Savior? Where do you ascribe and who do you
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  S3: give credit to for the hope that's in your life?
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  S3: You're eager and ready to say, I've surrendered my life
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  S3: to Jesus Christ. And if maybe those things aren't characteristic
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  S3: of you or you kind of, well, you might fall
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  S3: into this category. Because when I ask the question, what
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  S3: if you are not born again, but assume you are?
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  S3: Jesus said, this is going to happen. So I want
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  S3: to give you a couple of warnings, and then I
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  S3: want to give you the hope. In this. The warning
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  S3: is found. I often go to two primary passages of Scripture.
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  S3: I'll begin with Matthew 25. Jesus is talking about the
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  S3: end and coming judgment, and he talks about ten bridesmaids,
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  S3: and he says this. He said that these bridesmaids were
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  S3: all looking for the return of Jesus Christ. So they
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  S3: were all dressed up. They all were ready for the groom,
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  S3: the coming of Jesus. And he's telling this story. And
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  S3: he says that they all tend got a little bit
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  S3: are kind of got a little groggy. They were falling asleep.
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  S3: And so it's his story that he's telling is compartmentalized
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  S3: in one evening, but it's representative of those even today
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  S3: who are waiting for Jesus to return. But here's the irony.
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  S3: All ten were dressed up. Only five were ready to go. Yep.
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  S3: So they had the external trappings of being ready to go,
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  S3: but only five were ready. Jesus goes on to explain
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  S3: it this way. He said they all had lamps in
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  S3: their hand. Only five had oil in those lamps, a
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  S3: direct reference to the infilling of the Holy Spirit. The
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  S3: power of God simply put Christ in me, the hope
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  S3: of glory. Five didn't. And so at midnight there was
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  S3: this cry. The groom's coming. This is Jesus speaking of
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  S3: his return. Five were ready to go. Five are now
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  S3: on a mad scramble. In fact, they went to the
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  S3: five with oil in their lamps. They said, give me
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  S3: some oil. And they said, we. We have enough for
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  S3: ourselves and that's it. And they went scrambling looking for oil,
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  S3: but it was too late. All ten dressed up. Five
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  S3: were ready to go. What if. What if you are
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  S3: not born again, but assume you are. Then you go
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  S3: to Matthew seven sermon on the Mount. My goodness, guys
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  S3: told 2000 years ago. He said, many will say to
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  S3: me on that day, Lord, Lord, and he's going to say,
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  S3: I never knew you. And these are ones who say,
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  S3: we preached in Jesus name, cast out demons in his name,
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  S3: and did mighty works in his name. All three things
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  S3: they will say. And he's going to say, I'm sorry,
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  S3: I don't know you. Meaning you can be very Spiritually
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  S3: active and not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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  S3: It's happening all over the globe right now as we speak.
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  S3: Here's one of the great dangers in the book of Galatians.
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  S3: We find in fact, the words in Galatians one are strong.
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  S3: He said, man, why have you deserted me? It's a
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  S3: military metaphor. It's claiming to be in God's army, and
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  S3: you've left the ranks. And what he was saying this
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  S3: about was those that had twisted the gospel and stripped
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  S3: it of its power, and they'd gone back to a
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  S3: man centered, external kind of an approach to the gospel.
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  S3: And he's like, man, you've deserted me. Who's bewitched you?
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  S3: That that you began by the power of the spirit,
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  S3: only the Spirit of God can regenerate and then sanctify us.
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  S3: Why have you relied on the flesh, the external stuff?
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  S3: Now I'm going to cut honestly to you here. Cultural
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  S3: Christianity and what I call is not just myself, but
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  S3: what we've had for a couple hundred years is called Decisionism.
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  S3: Decisionism is this this thing that even Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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  S3: was resistant to? Big time. He resisted doing altar calls
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  S3: of any kind. Now, I'm not anti altar call, but man,
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  S3: we got to be clear with the truth. And I'll
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  S3: tell you what the truth is here in a moment.
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  S3: But it is very dangerous that we ask people to
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  S3: raise hands and walk aisles without explaining what it means
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  S3: to be born again. Can we do physical actions that
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  S3: are not in keeping with the truth of our heart? Yeah.
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  S3: Look at the disciple Judas, for crying out loud. He
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  S3: walked with Jesus for three years, but he was never
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  S3: in Christ. Wow. So here is the reality. We have many,
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  S3: many millions of people in the West who go to
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  S3: Bible preaching churches every weekend and think they're saved, but
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  S3: they're lost. I was one of them. Jonathan was one
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  S3: of them. Ali was one of them. Right, guys, let's
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  S3: just be straight here.
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  S2: That's true. I mean, yeah, that's my whole story. I
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  S2: was I was very religiously active. I, I was on
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  S2: missions trips. I went to church twice a week growing
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  S2: up and I was baptized as a kid. I wasn't
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  S2: wasn't for real baptized. I thought I was, but no,
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  S2: I was just getting wet because it didn't it symbolize
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  S2: a inward reality that had taken place in me. I
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  S2: had never surrendered my life to the Lord. I yeah,
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  S2: I wanted him as Savior. I believed that he. He
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  S2: came and he died and he rose again. But even
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  S2: the demons believe, as James says, and. And so my
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  S2: belief never caused me to bow a knee to him. Yeah,
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  S2: I just wanted his benefits.
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  S3: Yeah. And and that could freak you out. But it
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  S3: doesn't have to, because I want to tell you, we
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  S3: can clear this up here right now. I need you
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  S3: to hear my heart. Jesus said it to Nicodemus. You
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  S3: must be born again. And how did Jesus say that happens?
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  S3: By the power of the Holy Spirit. And I believe
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  S3: the Holy Spirit is working right now. I know he is.
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  S3: Let me be very clear with you. In the first
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  S3: gospel that was written, the gospel of Mark. In verse
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  S3: 14 of the first chapter, it says, Now John was arrested.
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  S3: Jesus came into Galilee. That's John the Baptist proclaiming the
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  S3: gospel and saying, this is what he said. The time
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  S3: is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.
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  S3: Repent and believe in the gospel. See what we've done,
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  S3: probably through the absence of persecution and the. Really, it's.
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  S3: Christianity in the West has been a pretty good gig.
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  S3: You get to hang out with some good people. You
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  S3: get to go on. You get to have some great
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  S3: connections with people. There's even enthralling music and things like
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  S3: that can capture your heart.
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  S2: You can go to a baseball game where they have
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  S2: a faith and family night at a professional, at a
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  S2: professional sporting event.
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  S3: Yeah, there's so much stuff in our culture that biblical
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  S3: Christianity or Christianity, as we've reframed it can be a
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  S3: pretty good gig. But here's the reality. Is it possible
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  S3: to have an illusion or hallucination of salvation, seeing something
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  S3: in yourself that isn't there? Now here's what's beautiful. The
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  S3: Spirit of God can cut through bone and marrow right
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  S3: to the point of your heart right now. And I
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  S3: believe he is saying to you. You claim my name,
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  S3: but you are Christian in name only. But today you
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  S3: can be born again. Here's the distinction. There are a
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  S3: lot of people that have tears of regret, but the
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  S3: tears of repentance are the only tears that save. The
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  S3: time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand.
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  S3: Repent and believe in the gospel. And so this is
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  S3: how it is, how it goes. Believing in the gospel
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  S3: is believing that Jesus Christ died for your sins. It's
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  S3: owning the fact that you're a sinner. No more blame,
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  S3: no more explaining away. It is full throated acknowledgment. My
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  S3: life is missing the mark. I was born with my
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  S3: back to God, number one. Number two, it involves repentance
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  S3: that repentance will be a real action. It's a changing
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  S3: of your mind. It is this metanoia moment. it has got,
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  S3: turning your mind around and helping you understand that you've
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  S3: got to go a new way. You were born onto
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  S3: a broad path that leads to destruction. And I'll tell
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  S3: you what I was doing. I was trying to walk
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  S3: this broad path, holding on to all my idols while
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  S3: trying to hold on to Jesus as well. And Jesus
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  S3: will not be mocked. God must be the God of
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  S3: your heart. Are we talking about perfection here? No, no.
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  S3: But are we talking about full blown surrender to Jesus,
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  S3: holding nothing back and giving him your time, your talent,
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  S3: your treasure, your dreams, your aspirations. And you are saying,
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  S3: I give my life to you if you confess with
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  S3: your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart
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  S3: that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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  S3: Jesus as Lord means he's your highest authority and some
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  S3: of you have tried to attach yourself to the authority
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  S3: of God while holding on to other idols still. And
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  S3: I'm trusting that the Holy Spirit is working in your
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  S3: life today. And I don't care how long you've been
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  S3: in church. Doesn't really matter. I don't care how many
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  S3: times you walked an aisle. It really doesn't matter if
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  S3: you've been baptized. I've been baptized before I was born again.
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  S3: Jonathan had been. And the longer I live, the more
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  S3: I see that this has become an epidemic in our nation.
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  S3: But you can know that. You know that you know
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  S3: that you stand with God and he stands with you today, friend.
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  S3: I'm gonna ask you right now if this is the
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  S3: Spirit of God cutting through, dividing bone and marrow, I'm
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  S3: asking you to repent. Surrender all that you are to
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  S3: Jesus for the very first time in your life. Never
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  S3: before have you done this. Today is your day and
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  S3: I'm going to pray for you right now. Father, thank
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  S3: you that you are cutting through the fog of a
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  S3: hallucination of salvation. You're calling men and women, boys and girls,
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  S3: to yourself today, and I thank you for that. I
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  S3: thank you too, Lord, that we can help these people
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  S3: now take their first steps with you. And if this
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  S3: is you right now, just say in your heart with
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  S3: everything that you are for the first time today in
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  S3: my life, God, I'm laying down all the idols on
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  S3: this broad path. I'm turning to you. I give you
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  S3: all that I am and God, it's scary, but it's
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  S3: real and I'm doing it. But I give you everything
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  S3: that I am. I'm holding nothing back today. I'm fully
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  S3: surrendered to you, and I admit to you that I'm
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  S3: a sinner and I need a Savior. And if that's
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  S3: you today, I want to say to you, we're going
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  S3: to help you. We're going to help you. We're going
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  S3: to send you a link, and we're going to have
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  S3: just found out that we're going to send a Bible
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  S3: to every one of you that goes through this link
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  S3: just works the path. We have an opportunity for you
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  S3: to have someone reach out to you, pray with you,
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  S3: and encourage you. It's not a private matter because this
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  S3: is you now needing each other. We who are in
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  S3: Christ Jesus, we need each other and we're here to
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  S3: help you. So right now, no matter where you are
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  S3: in this world, I'm asking you if this is the
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  S3: day that you are finding true freedom in Christ. Text
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  S3: the word new. One word new. No one else texting
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  S3: right now. Just those that for the first time ever
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  S3: that they with integrity can say, this is the first
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  S3: time I've surrendered all that I am to Jesus Christ.
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  S3: I have repented, my mind has changed. I have acknowledged
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  S3: that I'm a sinner. I'm my biggest problem. And today
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  S3: I've surrendered all to Jesus Christ. I'm holding nothing back.
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  S3: Text the word new right now to 805 557898. No
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  S3: other texts coming in right now. We're just going to
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  S3: just leave room for God to work in hearts. Text
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  S3: the word new right now. New to 805 557898. Just
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  S3: that one word. New to 800 555, 78, 98. What's
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  S3: on your heart, young thunder?
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  S2: Yeah. I felt like this needed to be said because
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  S2: of the group of people that we're talking to, and
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  S2: my story is the same one from the time that
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  S2: I was first convicted, that Matthew seven, the person who
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  S2: would be turned away by Jesus and the time where
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  S2: I actually surrendered to Jesus was over two years. I,
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  S2: I was first convicted of it, and I didn't want
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  S2: to handle it because I was afraid of what it
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  S2: would mean of what people would say of the life
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  S2: that I. I was living and how it looked like Christianity.
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  S2: But it wasn't Christianity and it wasn't a relationship with
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  S2: Jesus and. And how fearful I was of, of breaking
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  S2: down those walls. I say to you this from Psalm
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  S2: 95 today. If you hear his voice, do not harden
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  S2: your heart. Yeah. Don't let conviction today turn into surrender
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  S2: two years from now. I'm glad I surrendered, but I
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  S2: could have. I could have done it so much sooner.
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  S2: Don't delay because we don't know that we have two
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  S2: years in the future. We have today, right now. So
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  S2: don't harden your hearts. Yeah.
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  S3: Keep a tender heart before God. And if today is
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  S3: a day of new birth for you, you know that
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  S3: God has called you out of darkness and the indication
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  S3: is there is fresh hope. There is fresh. I'm telling you,
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  S3: when I was truly born again, the greens were greener,
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  S3: the blues were bluer, and the hope sprung up abundantly.
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  S3: Just text the word new right now, wherever you are,
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  S3: text the word new to 800 555, 7898. If today
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  S3: is the day of repentance, turning around, surrendering all you
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  S3: are to Jesus, just text the word new. Follow this link. Uh.
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  S3: Don't be afraid. Do not be ashamed of the gospel
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  S3: of Jesus Christ. God is on the move in your heart.
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  S3: Today I'm going to shout out the last four numbers
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  S3: of your telephone number. We're going a little long here,
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  S3: but that's okay guys. Text the word new right now
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  S3: and I'm going to shout out the last four numbers.
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  S3: It's a powerful thing when you can see that we
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  S3: see what God's doing in your life. It's just rich man.
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  S3: Welcome to the family. Welcome to this Path less Traveled.
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  S3: Today I'm going to shout out last four numbers here. Uh, 34, 84, 40, 30, 61.
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  S3: Oh two. Welcome to the family. 70. 48. 83. 72. 98. 72. 29. 26. 44. 41. 29. 74. 001. Zero. 57. 50.
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  S3: Welcome to the family. And we'll be here for you.
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  S3: But today is the day of your salvation. And Jonathan's right.
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  S3: Don't harden your heart. Don't let pride hold you back.
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  S3: No matter how long you've been in church. That would
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  S3: be what? What a. What does it profit a man
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  S3: to hold on to your earthly reputation and lose your soul?
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  S3: Think about that. What does it profit you to hold
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  S3: on to an earthly image and lose your soul? If
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  S3: today is your day of salvation, and maybe that right
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  S3: there just broke through, the Spirit of God said, yeah,
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  S3: you've been you've been holding on to this lie too long.
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  S3: Text new to 805 557898, just one word new. Follow
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  S3: that link, new to 805 5578981564. First time texter. Welcome
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  S3: to the family. 8252 welcome to the family. Just a
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  S3: couple of texts so far in their life here with
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  S3: Carl and crew. 9207 welcome to the family. Looks like.
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  S3: 2549 welcome to the family. They missed the W on
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  S3: that one so help them out.
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  S2: You got.
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  S3: It. 0193. Welcome to the family. Welcome to the family.
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  S3: This is God's work and he's bringing you to the table.
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  S3: 7454 welcome to the family. 2549 welcome. God sees you.
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  S3: He knows your heart. He's making all things new. He's
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  S3: set a table before you come. Have a seat.