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#20231008 - The Vicissitudes in the Christian Life - John 4: 1-26 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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Thank you ever. Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Kanye. Love you.
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Thank you. Good morning.
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I was telling our staff that I was going to be going to Denver
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and my administrator said Denver, man, they're bussing
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people from El Paso, TX here and it's with the name like poncho,
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you're going to get caught. So I said no, I'm wearing my
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special suit. So that's.
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When they stop me, I go no, no, no, Oblin Glass, Vietnam
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Veteran. Hey, hey, in all seriousness,
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things are happening in Israel. We have a group in Israel right
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now and they were freaking out. Think of that.
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We're too young to understand this, but when I was coming up
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in LA, we had the the National Air System alarm system member.
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Anybody remember that? And it will go off on Friday,
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the 1st Friday of the month and you hear the siren like World
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War Two, man, it was crazy. So they're going to start it
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again in California and and so. The guys there on the team in
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Israel right now, they call, they were freaking out, dude,
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it's happening. I know you're in the middle of
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history and so it's a very sad situation.
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We also have a young lady by the name of Alisa.
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She's she's a student doing so her studies also in Israel and
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she called Mama, Mama called us and dad called me and
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everybody's freaking out. And so I knew exactly where she
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was at, knowing that I've been there to Israel several times.
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I I told her, don't freak out you and you're you're you're
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safe. This is only the the 1st 20
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miles from the southern border of Israel.
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And so I like to begin by praying and asking the Lord to
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bless our time. Father, I pray for the teen in
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Israel. I pray for not only the
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Israelis. I pray for the Palestinians.
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Father the few. The contention has been going on
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for centuries. So, Father, we ask you in the
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name of Jesus that peace be upon that nation.
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Father, you're the peacemaker, the Lord, as I see it from my
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perspective, I see a lot of things happening that this is a
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good time for the Antichrist to come in and become a peace
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broker. And then we'll see the mayhem
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that we're seeing in Ezekiel 3738.
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What we see in Revelation Chapter 13.
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Lord, we see the spectacle in the theater of the end Times is
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already live on TV. Help us to look up, be with
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this, be with us and speak to us as we thank you in Jesus name.
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Amen. Well, I think Pastor Ed and Reed
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and all the staff were allowing me to be here.
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It's wonderful. I've been a pastor for for 33
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years. I've been a Christian for 48
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years. Out of those 48 years, I've been
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serving the Lord for 47 years. It all started when I went to a
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Bible study and I love going to Bible studies.
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And then then they asked me punch punch with my nicknames.
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The punch actually was punched, but when Chips came in, I
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changed my name. Because they thought my name is
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Punch. You don't look like Eric Estrada
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with no hair. So I changed back to punch.
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But it's always been punch. And so they say punch.
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Would you like to read? And then to.
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I was so embarrassed. I so hurt.
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I didn't know how to read very well.
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I had like a fifth grade reading I had.
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I had no comprehension. I had no continuity.
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And so I told my girlfriend. Which is now my wife for 50
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years. I told my girlfriend back then.
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I said I thank you, Thank you Arigato the lamato, I told my
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girlfriend, don't ask them to ask me to read.
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It was very painful for me. And so in tears I told the Lord,
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Lord, if you teach me how to read, I'll serve you and I can
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see God. That's it.
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And within a month later I had a a drive and a desire to go back
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to school. And I went in and got my degree
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at East Lake College. I went two years, so Cal State
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and and then the Lord called me to go to Bible school.
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But I thought my wife's not going to allow that.
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She going to say no, you you do your four years and she said
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I've been praying for you. You don't like academics.
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You want to study the Bible? And so she gave me permission,
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went to Bible school only to get round and rooted.
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To know more about my faith, newfound faith.
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I was excited. And so I I I went to Bible
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school not to become a pastor. Used to be more equipped to so I
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can flourish, so I can be more cultivated, So I have roots,
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deep roots. I want to know what I believe
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because I'm in a world of people who live in a traditional,
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cultural, historical messed up church.
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And so I wanted to make sure that I have the right equipment
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to speak to people. They are religious, you
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understand, With religious people, there was a time when
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the ministry started in, and so I was speaking about Jesus being
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Jewish. And the lady came after me and
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and she came up to me with that Mad Dog face and she was kind of
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twirling her purse like this, which means like she can use it.
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So she says, I'm very upset with you, Pastor.
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Why is that? Oh, I'm misoffended.
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What did I say? And he says, well, you said that
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Jesus was Jewish. Well, he was born in, He was
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born in Bethlehem. He was raised in Nazareth, and
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he come from the Temple of the Jews.
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He comes to the tribal Juda. And so I gave her all the
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biblical historical facts. She wasn't satisfied.
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So I said, what do you think he is?
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She looked at me with a sasperated face.
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He's Latino. You laugh, but that's ignorance.
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That's culture. That is ignorance.
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So I was telling you that I needed to get grounded and
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rooted so I can not defend the faith, but believe what I'm
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going to believe. It's important to know what you
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believe in. You know why?
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Because Jesus said in this world you're going to have
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tribulations. Yes or no, The word tribulations
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is is not a a pleasant word. You look at tribulation is just
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like going, you're going, you're you're going through and I don't
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want to be, I don't want to be profane or crass.
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But some people would, because they don't have the vocabulary.
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They say things like, well, they hit the fan.
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You ever heard that expression? Oh, you hear others?
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I'm in a pile of this, and I don't want to use the profanity.
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So this morning, what I want to what I want to present to you is
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called the visitudes of life, The visitudes of life.
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You see, that's more proper, one of the visitudes of life, a
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change of circumstances or fortune.
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Typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
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Let's go visit to now based on the from Saturday night service,
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based on the first service after the service.
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As I spoke to people, they were going through changes, horrific
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changes. Just from 2 weeks to this day,
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their life has been spun out. Changes, changes.
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Life is always changes. Life is always changes.
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It happens to all of us. There's not one here, except
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that it's going to go through changes.
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You think I was born bald? I had hair like Farrah Fawcett.
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Do you think I wear this stripe? They're they're for now.
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You think that changes now? Give me the next panel.
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These changes are chapters in one's life that would they would
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rather avoid but must get through.
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These are changes that happen at different times during the life
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or development of someone, especially those that result in
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conditions being worse. Your friends change.
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Oh you high school friends. You have buddies always going to
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remain BFF. No you won't.
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You're going to change. Your parents change.
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Your children change. Everything change.
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I mean, jack-in-the-box manages to sell 2 tacos for $0.99 for a
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long time. One day I walk in there because,
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you know, I don't like, I don't like those tacos.
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But that's when you're hurting, You know?
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You ain't got no money. I walk in, Let me have two
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tacos. That'll be 175.
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What Burritos. That when you can't, you don't
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have enough money for the Chileveda Burritos.
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What kind of salvaritos you ordered?
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What kind of, what kind of burritos?
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Bean and cheese. They're only one 150 in LAA.
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Bean and cheese burrito right now is $11.00.
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So you might as well get your own can and get your own
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tortilla. And that's it.
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My point is everything changes. Now I'm.
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I'm out to show you my family. Right now.
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I'm not to show up my family, but just as an example, give me,
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give me the family, the crazy family.
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See, we put fun in this. Functional.
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Now, the reason I show this picture, by the way, this is my
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oxygen right here. See, this is my oxygen.
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I have a model. I have a mantra.
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I have a model. You know God loves me that I
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know. For the Bible tells me so,
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right? God loves me.
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You may not, but God does. God loves me.
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Here's another fact and truth. My wife loves me out.
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I can make mistakes. I get stupidities.
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And she was like, you're crazy, but I love you.
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I know that I have 5 grown children.
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They love me. And now we added two of them.
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Look at that. They, the grandchildren.
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They love Grandpa. The one on the left, Luna.
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She does not speak English. She speaks nothing but Spanish
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by choice. The parents want to take and.
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I have a conversation, Grandpa. Buenos Dias, Buenos Dias.
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Beautiful. But the reason I'm showing this
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because this was taken October of last year.
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This is a Christmas picture. So we're meeting again next
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week, the whole family. But the reason I'm showing this
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picture because everyone in that picture for the exception of the
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children, everyone of them had gone through a change and they
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have to adapt to those chains. And here's what the problem that
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I see from a perspective from a Christian, you know, living in
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the horizontal life. Meaning I don't live in the
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church. I live outside the church.
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And what I have observed is that everybody's going to go to a
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visit to, if not, you're going through one right now.
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But here's the problem. When something goes wrong in
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your life, you have to resort to something that's inside of you.
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Someone said that life is like a tea bag.
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We don't know what we're made of until we hit hot water.
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And when they hit. When you hit hot water, you
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resort to your own resources. Emotional.
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Listen to what Jesus said. Jesus said this is before he
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died. Dead man talking before he died.
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Hours before he died, he says. Peace I give unto you.
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Right. And then he qualified that
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peace, didn't he? He says, unlike the world.
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Do I give you peace? He doesn't explain what is the
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peace of the world, but I can give you the description of the
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peace of the world. The peace that described the
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world is the absence of conflict.
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In our history of humanity, man has always been in conflict.
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Look at now. We're in conflict right now in
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part of the globe. We're in conflict in our
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community. We're in conflict in our own
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country. We're in conflict in our own
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city. We're in conflict in our own
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neighborhood. We're in conflict in our own
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family. Conflict will always be there.
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So what kind of peace is he speaking about?
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Ah, that's why you got to read the whole Bible and the book of
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Philippians, Paul, he's writing from prison and he writes in
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Philippians. He says don't worry about
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anything. Rejoice, I say again.
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Rejoice, he says. Pray about, he says.
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Don't worry about anything, but pray about everything.
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Let your prayers, your requests, your your supplications, your
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Thanksgiving. Let me known unto God.
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Here we go, I ready. Here you go.
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There you go. And the peace of God that passes
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all say it loud understanding. What does that mean?
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That you and I don't have the mental wherewithal, the capacity
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to understand how that works. I don't care how it works.
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If I get in the car and I turn it on, I don't care how it
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works. Just get me there.
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Or you got to explain how it works.
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I don't know. All I know is I turn on the car
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and this combustion goes on in electricity and there's gas and
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there's Pistons. I don't know how, but I get
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there. So Paul says.
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And the peace of God that passes all understanding.
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Here we go. Will guard your what?
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Your mind's in your heart. What's the first thing that goes
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through your mind? Oh, I already said it.
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I already gave it away. What's the first thing that you
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encounter when someone says to someone I don't love you
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anymore. I found someone else.
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I'm sorry. And what do you say?
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Oh wow, my liver hurts. Oh wow, My knee cap.
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Oh no. What do you say?
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What? What?
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What? You understand?
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Jesus said joy. This is Jesus about to die.
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He was joy. Christian, don't let anyone take
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your joy away from you. Why?
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Because joy is the strength of the Lord.
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One more, a new commandment. Wow.
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Another commandment. We have a lot of commandments.
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Now. Which one?
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What other commandment? A new commandment.
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I give unto you that you love one another as I have loved you
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as my father has loved me. So you ought to love one another
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by this all of Denver. No Colorado will know that you
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are Christians by your love. Wow.
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So what happens if you don't have faith, you don't have love,
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you don't have joy, you don't have peace, you don't have the
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assurance of God. You're not in connection with
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God. What happens exactly what
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happens. People go through changes.
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They go through crisis, and then they resort to what they think
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they know. But they have no core values.
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They have. They have no resources.
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You know what the book of Hebrews, I think it's called the
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apostle. But the book of Hebrews says
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that that the hope for the Christian is the anchor for the
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soul. That was an anchor.
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An anchor is a nautical weight. That's a hook that holds on the
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ship from drifting away in the midst of turbulence and waters.
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And the anchor hold that ship. And and the Bible says that
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help. Is an anchor for our souls.
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Then when you have turbulence, when you're going through life
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and madness, you have no control.
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Who likes changes? Who like changes?
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I don't like changes. None at all.
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None at all. Because life changing it gives
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you It's painful, especially uninvited changes.
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Unwanted changes, but they'll come.
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Who likes change? Change is even more difficult
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when it's imposed on you suddenly or without approval in
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California. That's where I'm from.
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Changes that happen in California, changes that I don't
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feel should change me. But the government, the culture,
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Hollywood, the beautiful people, the Berkeley people, they want
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to change me. So they're foisting.
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They're change upon me. They're projecting their change
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upon me. They're trying to tell me that I
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need to accept this change, that in California we have 51
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genders. I mean, know what I'm talking
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about? Raise your hand if you raise
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your hand high. So I'm not lying.
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I am considered a social terrorist in California.
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Why? Jesus said marriage is between a
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man and a woman. That's my crime.
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That's my crime. So, so this changes.
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They want to force you and those changes you need to you need to
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be prepared because because you need to prepare how to deal with
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these things. But change can be both good or
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harmful depending how one reacts or responds to the change.
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Who likes change? I I don't like it.
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You get married, You get married.
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Changes when I got married. Changes when I became a father.
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Changes when I turn 50. Changes when I turn 60.
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Big chances when I turn 70. Major colossal changes.
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Big time. And if you don't adapt to those
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changes. With with the wherewithal that
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comes from the from the strength of God, the hope of God, the
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faith in God, the love of God, the joy with God.
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And when you don't have those resources, you are going to
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collapse, like many people collapse and then trying to
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medicate yourself. That's why we hit the pipe,
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That's why we drink a lot. That's why we take overt
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medication. If you need medication, you need
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medication. I take medication, but I don't
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take medication to medicate myself to get away from the
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crisis. That's escapism, and it's going
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to come back once you run out of your prescription.
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And you have to understand that you need to adapt to the
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changes. And that happens to many people,
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many, many people. It's an extreme, uninvited,
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unwanted change, and it's always a challenge.
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It's very painful. Some people have this phobia.
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I can't pronounce it, but I'll try.
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An extreme version of this fear of changes, known as
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metathesiophobia. There you go.
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Symptoms of metathesiophobia include increased self doubt,
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lack of self esteem, panic attacks, social anxiety,
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depression, and an ability to adapt to new situations.
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So if we have the truth, let me let me let me play a game with
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you. You don't have to answer.
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It's rhetorical. If we have truth, what's the
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opposite of truth? Lie.
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If we have hope, was the opposite of hope.
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Despair. What is the the opposite of
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peace? A lot of words, Chaos, distress.
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Wigged out, tripped out. What's the opposite of love?
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Indifference. Indifference.
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What is indifference? Look it up.
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It's an ugly word. Indifference.
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Mexicans have this. Mexico.
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Que Paso Bush. That's it.
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What happened? Bush.
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How many know what I'm talking about?
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Raise your hand Right. What?
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What does that mean? It means a lot, but they're
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saying to you in their nonverbal language, I don't know.
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I don't know figure. I don't know how to figure it
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out. And they don't know how to say
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I'm going to the visitors of life, What happened?
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Que Paso, what a sadness. They don't have faith, they
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don't have love, They don't have hope, They don't have peace,
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They don't have the truth. What is the opposite of
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assurance? Uncertainty.
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What is the opposite of purpose? Meaningless.
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Paul calls it a ship without a rudder.
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That's a wonderful analogy that he gives.
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It's it's a maritime term. A ship without a mass and
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without a rudder, left at sea, and you are now at the whim of
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the currents, the sea and the turbulence.
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And where you going? I don't know, boss.
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And therein lies the frustration.
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Therein lies the lack of communication.
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Therein lies when you say to yourself, I wish I can talk to
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someone about my feelings and my emotions.
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Sometimes my wife throws at me. I wish that's a hint that I
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should be doing that. Go.
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No, I can't do that because I don't know your heart.
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I don't know your mind. I'm your husband.
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I don't live inside of you. You're a woman.
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You're a boy harmonic on me. I don't know you, and you don't
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know me either. So we need to talk and talk to
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our master. Let us both talk to God.
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And then when God talks to us, He'll give us the answer.
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Then you and I can speak in the horizontal.
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In the meantime, we got to live like a triangle.
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What's a triangle? A triangle is like is the base
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is my wife and I, and the triangle is from when my wife
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speaks to God and I speak to God and we form that triangle.
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And when we both communicate with God, you see that triangle
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has a foundation. And we communicate 50 years,
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man, give me credit. 50 years with the same chick in 50 years
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with the same guy. How does that work?
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How can you, how can you live with that?
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How can you live like that? Oh no, no.
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Because we we, we both get our instructions from the Lord Jesus
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Christ. We have, we still have truth.
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We have hope. We have we have love, we have
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peace. We have assurance, we have
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purpose, and then we have faith. What's the opposite of faith?
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People say faithless? No, the opposite of faith is
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again, indifference. So when it hits, listen, this is
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story. It's called the rich young
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ruler. I'll give you a reference.
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You find it in the book of Mark. You find it in the book of Luke
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and Matthew. He's a rich, young man.
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He has everything you and I need.
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He has money. He's young.
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And he he's a shot caller, but he's a magistrate.
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He's a ruler. Meaning he knows the Bible and
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and the Bible says in the book of Mark there, if you take your
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notes, Mark chapter 10. There in Mark chapter 10, verse
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17, it says that a young man ran up to Jesus and he kneel before
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him. Good master, what must I do to
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inherit eternal life? What must I do?
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He says you have the commandments and Jesus gave him
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the 6th, the 78th, the 9th and the 5th commandment.
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And the young man says, as a young man I have lived all those
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commandments, which is a lie. The 10 commandments are there to
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let us know that we cannot fulfill them and they're in
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life. Another problem in my community
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as I trying to explain to people that need Jesus, they'll bring
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up the tradition, the rituals and the ceremonies.
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They say things like, you know, I did my first communion.
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Is there a second one? No, I don't know.
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I don't think so. I did my confirmation.
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That's it. I fulfill my duty.
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I was baptized a little kid. So thereby, therefore you are
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now a Christian. Yes.
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So you did everything to get to heaven?
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Yes. So why did Jesus die for if you
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already, if you're. If you hooked up to heaven, why
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would God have to die so brutally on Good Friday?
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And I don't know. Hey, I don't know.
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But but I I'm safe already. But give me another reason why
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you think you're safe. Well, the, the 10 Commandments,
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eh? What about 10 commandments?
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Well, I've done them all. He's a liar.
26:07
The 10 Commandments and the whole law.
26:09
When you read the whole law. Guilty.
26:12
Guilty. Guilty.
26:14
Guilty. Guilty.
26:15
Why? They're too hard.
26:19
I have a I have a heart this contrary to the word of God.
26:23
So Jesus was giving that young man an opportunity and out he
26:27
said, oh, I've done all those. And Jesus said you like one
26:31
thing. This is Jesus you're asking me.
26:37
You're going through a crisis. You're going through a you're
26:39
going through, you're going through through a visit to the
26:42
life. You you are concerned about your
26:44
eternity. You're rich, you're wealthy, but
26:46
they get to you concerned about eternity.
26:49
And you want to know what you need to do.
26:51
You don't need to do anything. But I tell you what.
26:52
If you ask my opinion, if I'm God, you call me God.
26:55
This is what you got to do. Yep.
26:56
You you're missing one thing. Go sell your possessions.
27:00
Give the proceeds to the poor and you come and follow me.
27:06
You know what the Bible says that then when the young man
27:09
heard that he was sad and went away from Jesus.
27:14
Very sorrowful. Now you we don't see Jesus
27:18
saying, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, Oh no, I love you.
27:21
I love you. That's what Mark says that he
27:24
did. Jesus loved him.
27:26
He beheld him and loved the young man.
27:28
But Jesus didn't go after this man and said, oh, you don't,
27:31
never mind that. That's too rush.
27:33
That's too harsh. I'm sorry.
27:35
Oh, you can sell the property and keep it to yourself and your
27:38
family and come and follow me. No, no, no, Jesus, let him go.
27:45
Wow. And I have to learn that because
27:49
there are people in my community that they throw religion at you,
27:52
that throw tradition at you, that throw rituals and ceremony.
27:56
They speak about things that make no sense.
28:01
How come you don't have holy water here?
28:04
I I, I don't know who's going to make it holy.
28:08
I'm not trying to be funny, you know.
28:11
You know when people, people die, I'm, I guess when when you
28:14
die, they go up to where do they go.
28:17
So bus station in heaven, what is it called?
28:20
Purgatory. I had a student of a college to
28:30
that traditional religion. It comes very fancy Wintip shoes
28:35
and little Chino pants. And he comes and says, a pastor,
28:40
tell me about purgatory. I said I have absolutely nothing
28:46
to tell about purgatory. So you don't believe in it?
28:49
No, it doesn't matter if I believe it or not.
28:51
It's not in the Bible. So I took him to chapter 16 of
28:55
Luke, where two men died. The poor man in Richmond died.
28:58
If I said one was carried into heaven and I was not carried to
29:01
heaven, they both ended in eternity.
29:03
By the way, we all have eternal life.
29:05
It's just but destination. And so I share that with them.
29:09
I said no, absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
29:14
That's biblical, he said. If we don't go to some bus
29:17
station up there and then someone starts praying for you
29:20
to bring you out, where did you get that from?
29:23
And he started quoting books from the 1600.
29:25
You know, according to Father Joe Pelota, this, this and that,
29:29
this and that. You're bringing that to me.
29:34
I mean this to you. I said The thief on the cross,
29:39
The thief on the cross. I don't understand that man to
29:43
this day until I went to Ava hospital Long Beach, but I give
29:49
him the scripture with where the thief on the cross and
29:53
knucklehead 187 PC murder, he said.
29:57
Jesus Lord, when you get to your Kingdom, Remember Me?
30:02
And Jesus said to the thief today you were with me in
30:06
paradise but on you wait there you're going to go to a weigh
30:10
station. Is that what he said?
30:15
No. And I and I shared that with the
30:18
young man educated. And he says, well, you know, you
30:24
have your reading, I have my reading, You're depending of a
30:28
historical book from the 1600 compared to the eternal word of
30:31
God. And he goes, yeah, that's why I
30:34
believe. Now I didn't say anything, but
30:38
in my heart I said, your Mama go, Why what?
30:44
Why? Why should I be trying to
30:46
convince this individual who's stuck in his academic and his
30:50
culture stuck with it? He's like this young man that I
30:52
just showed you. And there's another lady and I
30:56
and I, I, I, I put him like I just opposed him.
30:58
Before you there's another lady. She's called a Samaritan woman
31:03
on Friday. On Saturday night, I I call her
31:06
the Elizabeth Taylor of the New Testament.
31:09
And I apologize to Miss Elizabeth Taylor State.
31:12
I apologize personally, that's not cool.
31:15
But you know the incident, Taylor, if you don't know, she's
31:17
an actress from the 50s and 60s and she was married like around
31:20
8-9 times I think. So this is a lady here in John
31:25
chapter 4. She is a Samaritan woman.
31:29
The Bible says that Jesus, how was going from Judea, which is
31:32
by Jerusalem, is going back home to Galilee.
31:35
So he's going, She's going South and north now.
31:40
The fastest route to go from Judea to Galilee will be this
31:46
way straight line. But right here it's a city, a
31:50
region called Samaria. And Samaria is full of religious
31:54
mongrels. The Jews have no dealings with
31:59
the Samaritans. So a religious Jew, well, or
32:04
religious you will will avoid them by going the long way out
32:08
there because they didn't want to be contaminated by these half
32:11
dogs and mongrels. The story goes like this.
32:16
When the Assyrian empire came to destroy the nation of Israel,
32:22
the nation of Israel was divided.
32:23
We have the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom.
32:27
Each Kingdom has a capital, the northern Kingdom 10 tribes.
32:31
The capital was Samaria. The the the southern Kingdom was
32:37
the capital in Jerusalem. So Sanaquirim he is the emperor
32:43
of this ancient empire. They came in and pulverized the
32:48
10 tribes and destroyed them and took him back and they were
32:54
never to be found again. So Samaria was demolished.
32:58
So the Assyrians brought foreign people to occupy the land
33:03
because still agriculturally so they brought all kinds of non
33:07
Jewish people there. But the people begin to
33:10
complain. They go, oh man, there's some
33:11
weird stuff going in here, man, There's some Hibijibi going on
33:14
in here. So Sinatra thought he had a
33:18
great idea. Let me send some some priests
33:20
from the Jewish people and tell the priests to teach him about
33:23
about Jehovah God. So he sends priests to a bunch
33:27
of pagans. In time, those pagans went back
33:30
to their gods and they had a way of Jewish ways, but they were
33:36
worshipping their gods by the time Nehemiah gets to Jerusalem.
33:40
They want to work with him. And Nehemiah says we don't want
33:43
nothing to do with you. And when Ezra came up, Ezra also
33:47
spotted them and goes, Nah, you guys look like Jews and act like
33:51
Jews. But no, we don't want you
33:52
involved. So that division, race,
33:58
linguistic foods, diet, politics, geographical fighting,
34:07
there was a wall of division. They hated each other with a
34:11
passion. But the Bible says that Jesus
34:15
wanted to go to Samaria. So Jesus comes to this region
34:20
called Siccar and he sits by the well.
34:23
A very famous well was well that was built by Jacob and there the
34:28
Bible says on the 6th hour, which is 12:00.
34:31
Now you may not understand this, but in California, when I left
34:34
it was 101 degrees in California.
34:38
Then I come here and it's 44 degrees.
34:41
What's up with that 44 degrees? That's freezing, man.
34:48
But in Israel, which I've been there, in the area, Samaria, by
34:51
the way, when it's hot, it's not only hot, but the breeze is.
34:56
It's like in the oven. So at 12:00, Jesus sitting there
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and here comes the Samaritan woman.
35:04
She's not looking for eternal life.
35:06
She lives in shame. She lives in sorrow.
35:08
She lives in confusion. Listen, she's been married five
35:11
times already. I'll tell you what happened.
35:13
Now, anybody who got married five times, something's wrong
35:15
with that person. I mean, you can get married one
35:18
time. You messed up second time.
35:20
OK, second time. Now you're born again.
35:22
Now third time, OK, the third of the charmer.
35:25
But if you tell me, you know, this is my sixth time, I'm
35:27
getting married, I have to ask this pastor what happened on the
35:30
other five. I can't believe that all five
35:34
are weird. I think you're weird.
35:37
And that's usually the case. So she's living in shame.
35:41
She's shocking up. And I keep saying shocking up.
35:43
Forgive me. Cohabitating sounds much
35:47
frittier, right? I'm not shaking up pastor.
35:50
I'm cohabitating. Oh, so you're not committing
35:57
adultery fornication, right? It's you and Mrs. Jones, right?
36:02
Me and Mrs. Jones. We've got a good thing going on.
36:04
We meet at the same cafe at the same time, you know, And we both
36:08
know it's wrong. But, oh, we keep on meeting at
36:10
the donut shop. Oh, and me and Mrs. Jones.
36:14
That sounds so romantic. They're all jacked up.
36:19
It doesn't work. They're in a world of hurt.
36:22
The ficituse of life This woman sees.
36:25
Jesus and Jesus. Give me give me some water.
36:28
And she says up to him. He goes, how can you, being a
36:31
Jew, speak to a woman. And John said that Jews and
36:35
Samaritans do not hang around together.
36:38
And she says that if you knew who is asking for water, he will
36:41
give you living water. And so he Jesus speaking
36:46
spiritual realm and she's still speaking in the physical realm.
36:49
Well, how are you going to get water if you don't have anything
36:51
to carry? No, no, no, the kind of water
36:55
that I'll give you, he said. That kind of water they'll give
36:58
you is living water. And once you drink of it, you
37:00
have no need to come to this well, for I will give you living
37:03
water that will make your heart flow rivers or flowing rivers of
37:08
eternity flowing on you. You see, the other man was
37:13
asking for eternity, and Jesus was telling I can give you a
37:17
gift. And she said, are you greater
37:22
than our father Jacob? And the answer is, is loud.
37:26
Jesus could have said absolutely Jacob.
37:31
Jacob is Jacob is Jacob. I'm God.
37:34
He talking about that. But he didn't say anything.
37:38
And she says go call your husband.
37:42
Here's what the road meets the road.
37:45
She could have lied like a lot of you are like, well, you know
37:47
I'm OK. I'm not.
37:48
I don't need no, I'm not going to change.
37:50
I don't need Jesus. You know, Jesus is for people
37:53
who are crutch. And I go, no, Jesus, not just
37:55
the crutch Jesus, the whole hospital Jesus, the whole er.
37:58
Jesus is everything I a crutch. Who wants a crutch?
38:02
And so no. So go get your husband.
38:04
She goes, I don't have a husband.
38:08
And Jesus said, you're right. He says you've had five husbands
38:15
and the one you live with right now, you're shaking up with him.
38:21
I perceive your prophet, he said you Jews think we have to
38:25
worship in Jerusalem out there, but my father's worship in this
38:28
mountain, mountain Garrison. And Jesus shushers, he said, you
38:33
don't even know what you worship for.
38:35
Salvation is of the Jews, but the day is coming, and now is
38:39
where he who wants to worship God must worship God.
38:42
Not in a building, not in a mountain, not in the temple, not
38:45
in this mountain, not in Jerusalem.
38:47
But he who worships God. Because God is spirit, he who
38:50
worships God must imperative must worship God in spirit and
38:56
in truth. By that time they were
39:00
interrupted. The disciples came with lunch
39:04
and they saw a cheeks and stuck into the woman.
39:07
By then we can infer in the reading that that Jesus
39:10
liberated the woman and the woman left full of joy and went
39:15
and told all her friends who are her friends, nothing but men, no
39:21
women. And the Bible said that Jesus
39:25
stood in Samaria for two days, eating, talking in fellowship.
39:31
Salvation went to the Samaritus. At the conclusion of the
39:35
narrative, the Bible says that the Jewish man told the Jewish
39:39
woman we believe in him, not because you told us, because
39:43
we've seen him and we heard him and now we know that he is the
39:47
Messiah and they found salvation.
39:51
Changes came about. If you don't adapt to the
39:54
changes, it's going to hit you. You have to accommodate these
39:58
changes. Failure to change.
40:03
It's called the adapting. I came to this town in this city
40:11
in Denver, and this city too. I I couldn't find Blockbuster.
40:18
Remember Blockbuster? This is what happened to them.
40:24
The once powerful financial giant once bought for 8.4
40:28
billion by Viacom 5 for bankruptcy and it was brought
40:32
out for a mere 2200 and $30 million in cash out of
40:36
bankruptcy courts. What happened?
40:39
Blockbuster adamantly simply refused to change.
40:43
The handwriting was on the wall. A diminutive, unknown company
40:48
known as Netflix was coming upon the scene.
40:51
The mega chain executives A Blockbuster.
40:54
They scoff and they promised to crush the up and coming
40:57
competitor. As the saying goes, the rest is
41:00
history. Netflix 1.
41:04
Eastman Kodak, Have you ever had your get your film developed?
41:09
Dell computers, Motorola Borders Bookstore, Toys-R-Us, Xerox,
41:14
BlackBerry phones, Polaroid cameras, Myspace, Nokia, Atari,
41:18
Bath and Beyond. What happened to them?
41:21
They did not see the change that was coming and they failed.
41:27
I closed with this. My buddy and I, we're in high
41:32
school. We're 1969.
41:35
Like I said, we change. He he's weird.
41:37
He changed. So we both seniors in high
41:42
school, summer 69. The war in Vietnam is still
41:45
raging. And we both decided you know
41:47
what, let's join the Marine Corps and we go buddy, buddy.
41:50
OK, buddy, buddy. And we were promised that we
41:53
will go through boot camp together.
41:55
We will go through through rifle range together.
42:01
They will go through infantry training together, we will go
42:03
through jungle training, we will go through survival training.
42:06
And then after all that, then we'll be separated.
42:10
So we went to boot camp and boot camp, any boot camp, they trying
42:15
to basically brainwash you. It's called indoctrination
42:20
because they have to an 18 year old boy or an 18 year old young
42:24
lady and they have to transform in 13 to 1516 weeks.
42:29
You need to go through a transformational situation where
42:32
you actually have the capacity, the ability and the willingness
42:35
to shoot somebody to defend and kill and eliminate and kill
42:38
someone else. You have to do that.
42:41
So they have that the training and it's harsh physical, mental
42:45
and and so it's strenuous. The first week is the death
42:49
week, so we were going to the obstacle course.
42:53
This is the third week. By that time we lost some
42:55
pounds. We're looking good.
42:57
We're good. And then he told me 0300 in the
43:02
in the toilet because that's the only time we can talk.
43:05
As he was sitting in one in one commode, I was in the other one
43:08
just to talk softly. And he goes, I'm going to go 8
43:13
crazy tomorrow. What do you mean?
43:15
I want to quit. I was don't quit, man.
43:19
Don't quit. We can hang this man.
43:22
Don't quit, Okay. I won't.
43:24
Well, we went to the obstacle course and he said I can't do
43:28
it. And the D I's came upon him and
43:31
I can't do it. And he just ranked out and they
43:36
took him away in such horrible situation.
43:40
You see, there's an ugly acronym.
43:46
It's an ugly acronym. It's called FTA.
43:49
That's an acronym in the Marine Corps.
43:51
FDA means failure to adapt. It happens in life.
43:59
You're single right now. You're single and you go and you
44:02
meet somebody. Then we're going to get married
44:04
and you think that that person is going to accomplish all your
44:08
dreams. You're crazy, Be a nightmare.
44:13
So you get married. And then he does weird things,
44:17
like, I didn't know you did that, I know you did that.
44:23
When I got married, I would leave my tshirts and my wife
44:28
will wash them and then she'll throw them in the drawer, throw
44:32
them. And I said, tshirts wrinkle.
44:36
All the undergarments are wrinkle and tshirt and wrinkle.
44:39
And I said, why don't you iron them?
44:48
Hey, wait, why don't you iron them?
44:54
Why? Nobody's going to see them.
44:57
And that's it. My Mama ironed them then she
45:05
told me. But then have Mama wash it for
45:07
you. Okay.
45:10
I can say hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Okay, adapt.
45:20
Now don't get offended. I love white rice now, but she's
45:26
Puerto Rican. She likes white rice.
45:28
The last thing I want to do when I came from Vietnam Eat white
45:30
rice. We get married and she makes
45:34
white rice. Don't you know how to make
45:35
Spanish rice? No visitors of life now.
45:43
I can tell you now adapting a lot of white rice with bananas
45:47
and black meat, low enchilada on the side, jalapeno on the side.
45:53
Fine, adapt, but failure to adapt.
45:58
Now you here, let me give you my let me give you my intentions
46:03
and I don't want this to be fabricated.
46:04
I don't want you to do this. But see, it happened to me and I
46:09
went for it and Saturday and I did it in the first service.
46:14
What happened to me is that I was sitting in the third row.
46:17
I was full of mescaline. Mescaline.
46:18
If you don't know what mescaline, don't worry about it.
46:22
But I was. I was my veins with with
46:25
soaring, with with tequila. Johnny Walker.
46:29
I'm, I'm bilingual. I'm by drinker too.
46:31
Johnny Walker. And was incredible.
46:37
I mean I'm out. I'm going to a concert.
46:39
Told me it was a concert. It was a rock concert, but it
46:41
was a Christian concert. So I went, I started mad dogging
46:46
and then the pastor starts speaking about life and the
46:48
visitors of life in a different way, where I understood him.
46:52
And I said my life is a place where stinks.
46:55
I can't do anything. He says listen to your life
46:57
stinks. Like, how do you know that?
47:00
And he says, if you want Jesus, I want you to get up and come
47:04
down. There were 2000 kids.
47:06
I'm only 24 years old. I'm a veteran.
47:12
I'm doing drugs and selling drugs.
47:14
I couldn't get a job because I'm Vietnam veteran so I didn't want
47:18
to get up. But I got up.
47:22
Unbelievable. It was 6 steps.
47:26
When people when they saw me afterwards they said pod, you're
47:29
not drinking. Are you going to the 12 steps?
47:31
No, I only took six. I need to take 1212 is good, 12
47:37
is good. But I only took six for me.
47:40
And then there were two surfer girls that got saved too.
47:43
Only two surfer girls and myself.
47:45
No homeboy and two surfer girls. And I went and nothing happened.
47:50
OK, So OK, I did it. Now what?
47:52
Now what? What?
47:54
What? What do I do?
47:54
I don't know. They called me.
47:56
Now your brother, you're this and that.
47:57
OK, OK. I want to get out of there, man.
48:00
As soon as I left the church with my girlfriend, she dropped
48:03
me off in my car. I went in my car, her rolled me
48:06
a big joint and I went to the park and then Sunday rolled
48:11
over. The next Sunday rolled over.
48:13
My my girlfriend called me. Are you going to pick me up the
48:15
church? Go heck no.
48:17
I already went to church. I already did the whole ritual.
48:20
Nothing happened. Get out and I'm not going.
48:22
So I went to Griffith Park and went to a, what they call a drum
48:26
circle. I was playing.
48:30
And then I had a moment. It's called the awakening of
48:33
judicial reasoning. What does that mean?
48:36
Where now you start thinking like you were not thinking
48:39
before? And I start saying, why am I
48:41
hanging around with toothless people?
48:44
Why am I hanging around with all these people?
48:46
There are losers. I left and I ran and went to my
48:50
Volkswagen, put my drums away. I said I need to mellow out.
48:53
And I took me a joint that's that's marijuana.
48:55
And I smoked the joint and it got me jittery and go, oh man,
48:58
this messed up. I'm getting my Acapulco gold.
49:01
And I went and I got it, smoked it up and then I heard his voice
49:04
throw the weed away. I can't be God because God would
49:07
not call it weed. But I heard it throw the weed
49:11
away. So I flicked it.
49:16
All of it. All of it.
49:22
Wow. I'm driving in the fight
49:25
freeway. But the LA Zoo.
49:26
I reached over get my little my little stash and I throw it in
49:31
the freeway. Am I?
49:32
What am I doing? I don't know.
49:37
I get home. My mom is watering the lawn and
49:40
I ran to her like slow motion and in Spanish.
49:43
I begin to cry and yell in her bosom.
49:46
I'm sorry, Mama. Mamita Los cinto mamita
49:51
perdonna. And so loud that she's calling
49:56
you right now. Mama called me.
50:03
And so the neighbors all came out because I was making a scene
50:08
and my Mama didn't know what's going on.
50:10
So I see my mom mouthing to the neighbors.
50:12
Vietnam, Vietnam. There was no, I'm a non combat
50:18
veteran and she didn't know. I didn't know.
50:23
But they have given me a little Bible of not even the Bible,
50:26
just the book of John. That's why in night church you
50:29
don't get the you don't get the book of John, you get the whole
50:31
Bible. So they gave me the book of
50:33
John. I start reading it and that was
50:36
the beginning of my journey. Now the reason I made that walk,
50:43
because I know that no one made me, I wasn't forced to.
50:47
There was something inside of me that told me yeah, and I went up
50:53
and I did, according to the prescription of Jesus.
50:56
He said, if you confess me before men, I will confess you
51:01
before my father. But if you deny me before men, I
51:05
too will deny you in the presence of my father and the
51:07
angels. But with the heart 1 beliefs and
51:10
with the mouth we confess. See, if you're married, you tell
51:16
someone you know. Do you love me?
51:28
Do you love me? Do you understand?
51:35
There's a scene. And Fiddler on the roof.
51:38
Tivia the milkman. They've gone to the Visitors of
51:41
Life. All their children are getting
51:42
married. They're they're going through a
51:44
different episode. Finally they're alone.
51:47
Golda, the wife and and TV, the Milkman, the Fiddler on the
51:53
Roof, the actor. He says, Golda, do you love me
52:01
and Golda? I'll give you 5 kids already.
52:08
Golda, do you love me? I cook for you.
52:12
I wash your clothes, I milk the cows, Miley says.
52:20
Golda, do you love me? That's when Golda breaks down.
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You go, Tilvie. I love you.
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I love you too. And they hug so tenderly.
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What am I trying to say to you that you can say, well, you
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know, God knows my heart. He knows, No, no, no, no.
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You have to verbalize that. So I'm going to ask Ian to come
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up here, do a worship song. It's my intentions.
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I'm going to ask you in a moment.
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We all stand. And as he sings this song, if
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you want to receive Christ, so perhaps you grew up in a
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Christian home and but you're not a Christian and perhaps you
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were a Christian somewhere along the line.
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The visitors of life are too hard for you.
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And you said, I don't want to do anything when you walked away.
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But for some reason you're back again.
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Then come and rededicate your life.
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We'll pray for you. And if you were going through a
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situation that is very critical, you can come up to not to
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receive the Lord, but to be prayed for.
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And then when, when when you are dismissed, you don't have to go
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in touch it. I just came to rededicate my
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life. But if you never received the
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Lord Jesus Christ, here's the opportunity.
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You can be like the young man who walked away sorrowful or you
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can be You can be like this woman there was loose as a goose
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and yet the Lord saved her. The grace of God.
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This all stand. Thank you for your time.
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Thank you so kindly. If you're able to stand, that is
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OK. As a citrogenarian, I
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understand. If you're not able to stand, OK.
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But as Ian sings this song, if you want to receive the Lord,
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I'm going to ask you to get up from your seat.
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Come and meet me here and we'll pray for you.
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Whoever you are. Your boyfriend don't want to
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come. Ignore him.
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God bless you, brother. Love you.
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Don't let me cry, man. Don't make me cry.
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Don't make me cry. God bless you.
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If your boyfriend don't want to come, ignore him.
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If your girlfriend don't want to come, ignore her.
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If your husband don't want to come, ignore him.
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Your husband. What doesn't want to come?
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You come because you're hurting. We'll wait for you.
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Be on. Go for it.
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We'll wait for you. Let's hum whoever you are
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quickly. God bless you, brother.
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Are you hurting and broken with it?
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Overwhelmed by the way of sin? Jesus is called.
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Have you come to the end of yourself?
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Do you thirst for a dream from the where Jesus is called, will
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come to, will come to the altar of Father's arms are open wide.
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Forgiveness is by we. Look, fresh is lot of Jesus.
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If you're still wavering, this is this is what I see.
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Check this out. This is what I see from people.
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You're doing this. Don't you hear a voice say?
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Don't get up. You gonna look stupid.
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Why are they look stupid here but enter into heaven?
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I'd rather walk with the cross just like Jesus was humiliated
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just for 830 feet. I beg of you, don't let pride
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hold you, because pride is the only thing that's holding you
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right now. For once in your life, tell
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pride to go to hell for the first time in your life and
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humble yourself. If you a grandma, you a grandpa.
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Grandma, grandpa, you got power. You get saved.
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You come to Jesus, the whole family with your grandpa,
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grandpa, what happened? And all you guys, I love you
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guys. So Jesus loved me.
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There are people that said, man, if he says it one more time,
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that's that's a sign for me. I'll say one more time.
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We're going to sing it one more time.
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A little short version if that is you don't leave without Jesus
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because you're going to walk out of there without Jesus and
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you're going to say, man, I should have.
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Don't listen to that voice. Listen to the voice of Jesus.
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Come just as you are. We'll wait.
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We'll wait. Let's go for it again.
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Our goodness, let's by with the precious love Jesus Christ, oh,
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come to the altar. The father's arms are broken.
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Why? Forgiveness.
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The spot with the precious. Anybody else?
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Double time. Double time.
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Anybody else? Anybody else?
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We'll wait for you. We'll wait for you.
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We'll wait for you. You may be a professional.
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You may be a very academic, cerebral person.
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I I admire you. But you don't have Jesus.
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Walk out with Jesus and let the Lord use your all your qualities
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that you have and give it to the glory of God.
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Stop the madness. The only that's holding you
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right now, it cannot be the truth.
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The truth has been dispensed. The loyalty and the love of God
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has been offered to you. It's free.
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You don't have to do anything. Every.
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He did everything for us on Good Friday.
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Why was it good? Because he loved you this much.
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Anybody else? Quickly.
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We'll wait for you. Are we all right?
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Are we OK? We'll wait for you, Madam.
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Brother. We'll wait for you, Bella.
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Unless you. We'll wait for you.
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We'll wait for you, Papa. Wait for you.
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Come. There's room at the table, man.
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There's room at the table. Anybody else?
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Anybody else? We're room for you, Papa.
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We wait for you. Anybody else?
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There's room at the table. There's room at the table.
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There's room at the table. Anybody else?
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Anybody else? You know how I feel right now.
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I have. I have my brotherinlaw and he's
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one year older than me. He suffers from ID intellectual
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deficiency and he has a he has a saying when he feels something.
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So he cannot think intellectually as you and I can.
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When he sees some funkiness, he goes, I don't think so.
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I don't think so. Hey, the Dodger's going to win.
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That was yesterday. Dodger going to win.
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He goes, I don't think so. And he was right.
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And now I say, like my brotherinlaw, there's more here
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than me. Jesus, it's not over.
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I don't think so. There's someone else.
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Maybe one or two. If that is you, Listen, God is
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making space for you. Make your way.
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Whoever you are, quickly make your way.
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Anybody else? Anybody else?
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Are we good? I learned this in Hawaii.
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Okay. So this is not nasty.
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Anything else? Are we good?
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Yes, we're good. My brotherinlaw is wrong.
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For those of you that are here, you're not joining a religion.
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Amen. My brotherinlaw was right.
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My brotherinlaw was right again. God bless you.
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Love you. Listen, all of you that are
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here. You're not joining a church,
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though you're welcome here. But you know you don't have to
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come here. You're not joining a religion.
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You're giving yourself to Jesus Christ.
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He'll do the work. Would you repeat the simple pray
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it after me out loud there? Jesus, please forgive me.
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I'm a Sinner and I receive you in my heart as my Lord and my
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Savior, as my Redeemer and friend.
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Fill me with your Holy Spirit created me a new mind, a new
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heart and a clean conscience. And put my name in the book of
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life. In Jesus name I pray.
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Amen. We want to give you a Bible.
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We want to give you a Bible. And if you can go this way,
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they'll give you a Bible. If you don't need a Bible, let
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them know you don't need a Bible.
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Go this way. If you can't go for it, can't
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you go this way? Look this way.
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Where? Where?
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Where was my guys out here? Where's the guys out here with
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the Bible? Here you go.
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Right here. Thank you, son.
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All of you. Thank you for your time.
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I went a little over. But look at what God does with a
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little over. And the Lord be with you.
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The visitors of life will come. Your neighbor, your coworker,
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they're going to the pit bull right now.
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The last thing they need from you is to condemn them.
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Go out there and shine your little light and hopefully you
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can radiate the love, the goodness and the hope and the
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comfort. There is hope for Aurora.
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There is hope for Denver. There is hope for Colorado.
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As there will be hope in California and across the United
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States. Lord willing, in the name of
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Jesus, have a good afternoon. Let's worship.
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We pray that you've been encouraged by this Bible study
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delivered live from the sanctuary of Calvary Church for
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prayer. Call us at 87730 Grace.
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That's 877-304-7223. To listen to this message in its
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