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And you know, so anyways, that's where we are.
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You want to lead us into prayer? So you're going to you're going
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to do the reading and I'll do the prayer and we're going to do
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the interaction because 50 everyone is a heavy, heavy
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chapter, particularly with the moral injury involved there as
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well. And you know, what we've been
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talking about after going through Genesis, we're going to
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take several episodes to really, I think you slice it up and
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really talk about the common themes that we have found with
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Genesis. And, you know, I think it's
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great for our whole discussion about moral injury to healing
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and recovery. And we didn't make sure that we
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cover that. There we go.
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Get us a little bit more centered in here on the screen.
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One of these days I will have my studio here at the house, fully
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decked out. And and or plus your.
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My RV on wheels? Yes.
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The studio on the wheels. Yes.
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Studio on the wheels. All right, Daryl.
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Hey, go ahead. And then the Father, Son and the
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Holy Spirit Father, never. We thank you for this wonderful
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day. A day, Father, certainly there
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was never promised. We don't guarantee to us,
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because of who we know that you are as Father, God, Lord and
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Creator, as our Father, and as your children, you granted to us
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none. Lords, Lord, we thank you for
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you. We thank you for Christ Jesus.
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We thank you for the Holy Spirit.
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We thank you for all the wonderful spiritual and personal
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gifts you must throw upon us daily.
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We thank you for health, faith, love, hope, fitness, and
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Wellness. Bless our families and our
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friends, those that are praying for us, those that we pray for.
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And Lord, let us continue to watch over those.
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Lord, if you place in our presence that we may be the
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pinnacle of modeling who you are to them.
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It's a loving, wonderful name that is Christ Jesus.
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In the presence of the Holy Spirit, that your daughters,
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sons, friends and servants, we say Amen, Amen, Amen, and the
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Father, Son of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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All right, let's jump into. I already have it ready to pop
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up here on screen. We're going to read Genesis
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chapter 50. Take your time.
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Yep. All right.
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Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and
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kissed him. Remember, Jacob's dead now.
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Right then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to
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embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,
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taking a full 40 days, for that was the time required for
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embalming, and the Egyptians mourned him for 70 days.
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When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's
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court, If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for
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me. Tell him my father made me swear
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an oath and said, I'm about to die.
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Bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.
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Now let me go up and bury my father.
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Then I will return. Pharaoh said.
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Go up and bury your father as he made you swear to do so.
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Joseph went out to bury his father.
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All Pharaoh's officials accompanied him, the dignitaries
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of his court, and all the dignitaries of Egypt, besides
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all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and
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those belonging to his father's household.
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Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in
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Goshen. Chariots and horsemen also went
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with them. It was a very large company.
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When they reached the threshing floor of a Todd near the Jordan,
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they lamented loudly and bitterly, and there Joseph
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observed A7 day period of mourning for his father.
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When the Canaanites who lived there saw the morning at the
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threshing of a Todd, they said the Egyptians are holding a
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solemn ceremony of mourning. That is why that place near the
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Jordan is called Abel Mizrahim. So Jacob's sons did as he
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commanded them. They carried him to the land of
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Canaan and buried him in The Cave in the field of Macphaila
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near Monterey, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a
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burial place from Ephron the Hittite.
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After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt together with
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his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury
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his father. Joseph reassures his brothers.
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When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they
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said, What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us
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back for all the wrongs we did to him?
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So they sent word to Joseph saying, Your father left these
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instructions before he died. This is what you are to say to
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Joseph. I ask you to forgive your
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brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you
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so badly. Now please forgive the sins of
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the servants of the God of your father.
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When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
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His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him.
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We are your slaves, they said. But Joseph said to them, don't
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be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
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You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good, to
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accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
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So then don't be afraid. I will provide for you and your
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children. And he reassured them and spoke
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kindly to them. The death of Joseph Joseph
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stayed in Egypt along with all his father's family.
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He lived 110 years and saw the third generation of Ephraim's
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children. Also, the children of Makir, son
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of Vanessa, were placed at birth on Joseph's knees.
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Then Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die, but
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God will surely come to your aid and take you out of this land to
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the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, God will
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surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up
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from this place. So Joseph died at the age of
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110, and after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin
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in Egypt. These are the words of our.
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Lord and the Lord had His blessing to the reading,
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hearing, and professing about faith in His Word.
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Wow. You know this, it is heavy.
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You know, this is, I don't know, there's a part of me that has
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really come to love Joseph as a character, but as a right, but
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he just very endearing, right? Very endearing and never.
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Mind, he was good looking and well built.
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Looks are something, but they're not everything you know but.
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Evil. Come on, the guys with Gargoyle
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standing in front of you not going to talk to him.
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And she knows that to be true. The Lord will say, well, Eva, I
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have a question for you. Why didn't you choose the
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gargoyle Lord? Now you know, I just no, no
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gargoyles. I've had gargoyles in my life.
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I didn't want to have another. One, yeah, I've had gargoyles,
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but there's probably been a time or two where I was not very good
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looking either, right? We all have.
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Gargoyle though. I'm I think I'm better looking
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now than I have had in some of my other times in my life.
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We both can, we both can attest to that, right?
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And and the people we were in our youth, they're no match for
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us today. Exactly 0 Yeah, I mean, we
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mature and. Shut them down.
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Well, we all mature in life. You know, This is a
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particularly, I would think, heavy chapter because we saw
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this evolution, we saw his full life schedule, you know, life
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event, these big critical things, brothers.
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Outlived him. Yeah, but it was kind of funny
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how fear on their behalf was sneaking in.
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And you know what? They would have done the same to
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him. You know, part of me as I read
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it was thinking, are they fixing up, trying to plot to kill him
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again? You know I mean.
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That that, that tinge was still there, right?
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Right. I mean, it's almost like I
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wouldn't have put it past them. I mean, he knew he was dying,
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but what if? What if?
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I'm going to play it. What if, what if he was actually
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poisoned by his brothers because they had that resentment again,
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I mean. Well, you know, they would have
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been summarily executed. That's Joseph we're talking
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about. Pharaoh would have snipped it
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out or with officials or whatever.
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They wouldn't have had a leg to stand on in that play.
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Benjamin, too, you know, I was not involved.
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Well, you know, brothers, so. I don't know.
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You know, it's, it's I, I think there's the side of it about
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the, there's a part that I was, I was reading that there's that
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honorable procession side of things that we experienced with
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military ceremonials, you know, burials that there was a very
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formal process that you and I both have seen on the right.
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So tell, tell us about that. So private first class Isabella
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Gonzalez was laid to rest at the Dallas Fort Worth Cemetery last
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Sunday. Not this one.
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Just passed that Sunday. Before and before that, she had
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a ceremony at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano,
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Carrollton. Epic.
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And you know no one you know where everyone knows that we all
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have an expiration date. But she was actually killed in
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battle, 19 years of age. Never see any descendants be on
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or on. But as our president gloryingly
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said, whatever this family needs now and going forward, they
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shall have people say what they want to say and how they feel
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and think about President Trump. But he's never, never lied about
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assistant veterans in their time of need or the time of
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discomfort or whatever. For those of us with the VA, we,
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we can test it. But her services on both days
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are very moving. There was a dry eye in the
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house, got to see her parents and family applause and
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personal, no photos or anything like that, but a hug.
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And they saw the chaplains badge.
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So they're, you know, they, they're, they're looking for as
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much comfort as possible. They have a large family.
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There's a large military presence in their family as
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well. If we go back and we talk about
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moral injury, this is going to stick with her mother, her
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father and her her family for the remainder of their lives,
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but Isabella will be celebrating for generations to come.
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You know, in some ways as you're saying that, and I'm thinking,
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you know, Jacob was one of those people that we're still
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celebrating and honoring. I mean, maybe not formally, but
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we are honoring his, you know, what he did because he gave us
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Joseph and gave us the 12 tribes.
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And you know, some of them are the ascendants right before
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Jesus that, you know, I think one of the things that I don't
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know, maybe maybe I'm wrong, but maybe you've seen it.
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But I know veterans who have had a loss of somebody in their, you
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know, group of friends, you know, they're soldiers and they
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lose that ability to cry. I've lost people.
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But I'm talking about in the, you know, you lose that ability
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to cry. But Joseph, who had lost so many
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years with his with his family, had reunited with his father.
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And and, you know, I love that there's this open discussion
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about him as a man weeping for his father.
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Is is. And today there's someone come
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right and I can, I can give you instances, you know, many
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prisons across the globe on Mother's Day, you can't get on
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that telephone. On Father's Day, every phone is
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on. And it's because more times than
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not, father was not available. Outside of impregnating your
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mother, father had other places and things to do.
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So we would say so the disconnect from fatherhood to
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sonship to daughterhood and such, to family, generational,
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being able to just grasp what we're talking about today.
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It's so uncommon because the father is absent in the home,
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the father is even dead in prison streets, another family
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with other families and so on and so forth.
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We must attest the fact that as Father God is our Father, He
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would direct our paths and guide our steps, that those
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relationships can be salvageable if both people involved desire
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that to occur. And I promise and guarantee all
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of you who may have a disconnection with your Father,
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find your Father if He's still with us, and make peace with
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them. Whether the Father reciprocates
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or not. Make peace with them and our
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Father in Heaven shall bless and reward you.
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That's incredible. You know, I think part of it is
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not just something obviously that is affected families who
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experienced prison ship, but I would think there's a big
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portion of those families who the fathers and mothers from
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military service have have had some broken bonds as well.
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I think it's the right term, broken bonds.
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There is a certain right. And how do you, you know,
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navigating that reconnection so that we get get families moving
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into the healing and recovery? Fact.
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Yeah. And it it it may take a week
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among decades for you as a human immortal.
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To come to the realization is that you're taking poison,
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expecting them to die. That's not going to happen.
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The person who's been injured must reconcile to themselves
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that I cannot live this way any longer and I must forgive the
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person. No matter how heinous the crime
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is, you must forgive them because our Father in Heaven
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forgives us and forgets. That's what the last part we
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don't do. We forgive, but there's still
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the siblings have not forgetted. When we come to the realization
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that we have to forgive and forget, and if it comes up, we
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have to pray it away, then we can make those reconciliations
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with mothers. So mothers cannot escape this
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either. But we're talking about the
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fathership right now. When fathers have injured the
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child by disappearing acts and such, the child will grow up to
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be this wonderful person. One outstanding image that can
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appear is Shaquille O'Neal. He does not have any formal
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communication with his father. That's the way it has to be for
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him. And his father will go around
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and say, well, I gave him the name.
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Well, we know what we know what you did right.
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And the reason you don't have this relationship with Shaquille
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is because when Shaquille needed a father, you were not present.
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And the mother went and found someone who's going to accept
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her and her child and subsequent children for whom they are and
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what they can be. A person can look at you because
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we're looking at we're looking at the global audience here.
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You can surmise where the person is, but you don't understand
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what it took even I to get to where we are and where we're
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still going. You have no idea.
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And there is dysfunction in the in in the family tree, but we
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have to navigate away from it. We have to prune it.
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That way it doesn't affect us the way it was because it's easy
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for you to push plate when you've been morally injured by
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your parent. A child only wants to love their
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parent and have it be reciprocal.
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What we see here is Joseph, even at 13 years, he was away from
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Israel. Jacob It was always reciprocal.
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Yeah, the, the distance, you know, distance makes the heart
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grow fonder. But they both went through what
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they thought were mourning processes only to, you know,
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fortunately been reunited. And there was, I was reading a
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few weeks ago as there's a podcast, Maybe it was that there
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was this woman who decided to figure out where her family tree
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LED. She knew that she was an adopted
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young woman from, I think it was Korea.
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All right, so you can see where I'm probably going with this
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story. Her father was an American who
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served in Korea, had fallen in love with this woman and was not
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able to, you know, go further because guess what?
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He got sent back to America unbeknownst to him she was born
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and the mother didn't have any way to connect with him.
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This was adna test that she had done and found him and there was
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AI think the connection was that there was also some other half
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sister or something that was back in free as well that he got
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to get reunited with both of them and documentary it might
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have been yeah you know what story I'm telling It was really
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I. Think I've browse through it in
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my own, but he's not the only one.
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Right. It's happened, it's happened
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plenty of times, but there is that aspect of moral injury.
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I mean, there, you know, we heard about it even with like
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World War One or World Two couples got married, you know,
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had sex. They get, you know, go off to
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war and unfortunately perish. There's a moral injury from that
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standpoint as well. There was a lady that I need to
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reach out. I need to reach out to her.
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Sharon Bannister, so beautiful lady.
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She was a speaker of ours. She was our keynote for Head
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Memorial Day this year. And she's a Gold Star daughter.
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Her father had perished in Vietnam.
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And so, you know, there is that moral injury that happens in
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some of these incidents. It's not always because of, you
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know, siblings being nefarious. I didn't have to use this word
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twice today. Nefarious and judge.
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I was wanting attention. Sorry, guys.
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She's like, I want to join. You know, it's not always always
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going to be because somebody's acting nefarious that there's
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some moral injury that's happening and being able to
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navigate well, how do we get past the this moral injury side
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and move it into healing recovery?
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If we wrote a book, it'd be volume.
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In fact, it may take up half of the Library of Congress on
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historical value of reconciliation with those who
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morally injured you. And sometimes you can do it.
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That doesn't mean you're going to still have the same status
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you had previously with the person.
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But when we are, when it's incumbent upon us to say I'm
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sorry, I apologize, I apologize, I'm sorry, and attempt to build
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from the remnants of what was torn down.
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That's what's significant. Now they can give you all sorts
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of symbols on their hands, all the colorful metaphors that come
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out of their mouths about they don't want to, you know, say or
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be around you. But you do your portion, and the
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Lord thy God will complete what remains.
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I think what was particularly beautiful about this story was
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the level of honor as we, you know, close out Chapter 50 was
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was Joseph's commitment to his father in honoring his father's
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last wishes. But then you also had the
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Pharaoh who says, yes, we support you and, you know, go on
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your journey. You know, as we were reading
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that, I was thinking, how many of us have our wills?
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How many of us have, how many have us have put together what
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we want our last wishes to be? If you don't do it, your state
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will do it for you. Right.
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And you're going to leave it up to people to make some decisions
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that, you know, we never had the discussion, right?
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You know, how do you, how do you do you know what your mother or
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father want? You know, I mean, we never had
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that discussion with my mother when she passed away.
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Where? What did she?
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Want. So he was making a video today.
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Y'all if you see this video you know I'm not here.
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This is what I want. No, what I'm getting at is that
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that, you know, honoring those wishes are so important, right?
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And that the provisions were already there.
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To the letter Joseph. Did it?
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Yeah. That, you know, he, he knew that
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he wanted to return where, you know, the rest of the family was
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buried. That was something.
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The provisions were already there.
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And you don't have to expend any other funds other than going
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through the mourning process itself and get the body there.
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You made Joseph promise him. Well, yeah, that was last.
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Well, that's his last words. Too that was the end of 48 on
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putting his hand on his thigh right that he said he would he
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was going to do what he said it's it's not just a matter of
28:27
you know what somebody says, but if you're not committed to them.
28:31
This was this gets back to integrity and and right, I mean,
28:36
that's that's pretty important integrity and being a man of his
28:40
word. And Joseph knew that his son,
28:45
sorry, Jacob knew that Joseph was going to be a man of his
28:49
word because I think he had some doubts about whether the rest of
28:53
the boys were going to. Plenty of them.
28:55
It's self for Benjamin. Right, right.
28:58
Except for Benjamin, I think there would have been some
29:00
serious doubts about whether what?
29:04
Well, he read down the list and said he went down the list.
29:07
Yeah, right. Yeah, he.
29:10
Went down, he. Knew he knew.
29:12
He knew, right? And.
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And so if we have the same insight in foresight, how far
29:18
along can we be? But the Scriptures teach us we
29:21
have not, because we ask not, and we perish for a lack of
29:24
knowledge. So we go to the Father sincerely
29:29
and ask. It may not be on your time
29:32
frame, but He'll do it. And you don't have to ask Him
29:35
once. You have to keep asking the
29:36
same. God is not a God who repeats
29:40
Himself. Yeah, it he's kind of like,
29:44
didn't you hear me? Can you hear me?
29:46
I already. Got you.
29:48
I already said that fear. Not.
29:50
Fear not so it was, you know the I love always reading the notes
29:56
that are in my NIV study Bible. And you know, this gets back to
30:01
what I was saying while ago. Now that Jacob or Israel was
30:05
dead, the brothers feared revenge.
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That's that word fear. We just got to mention it feared
30:12
revenge. Because they would have done the
30:14
same. Thing right?
30:15
Could he really have forgiven them for selling him into
30:19
slavery? But to their surprise, Joseph
30:23
not only forgave them, but reassured them, offering to care
30:27
for them and their families. Joseph's forgiveness was
30:30
complete. He demonstrated how God
30:33
graciously accepts us even though we don't deserve it
30:37
because God Forgives us when we have ignored, even when we have
30:42
ignored or rejected Him, we should graciously forgive
30:46
others. I'm saying that because it
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reiterates something that you were saying a while ago.
30:51
We may learn how to forgive, but we don't necessarily know how to
30:56
forget. And that's the hard part where
30:59
we keep kind of going on repeat, right?
31:03
Like the remember the, you know how the album spins around and
31:07
it repeats? Yeah.
31:09
And it gets. Get to the end, come back and
31:11
put it back down. Yeah, but but even when you get
31:14
a scratch on there, it repeats the same thing and I think.
31:19
That's wax evil, I mean. I think that they thought that
31:23
they were going to get the same issue.
31:26
We'll see, man. Now he the gig is up, right?
31:30
The gig is up. They know he knows that we'd
31:34
caused all of this and he forgave us.
31:38
He knew when they first came to Egypt who they were.
31:43
Not a news crash yet. He he knew.
31:46
But they're thinking in their hearts and minds the same way
31:50
that they would have done. It could have been them.
31:53
Right, right. They wouldn't have forgiven him
31:55
that they'd have finished them off.
31:58
Well, he could have, you know, Joseph could have very well.
32:01
He could told all of them, hey, I'm bringing dad to Egypt and
32:07
you guys can stay there, right? I mean, what's going to happen?
32:10
We didn't ever talk about that option.
32:12
We're going to get to it because we're going to tie in with the
32:14
story in. But but think about it.
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I mean, if Joseph had a vindictive, A vindictive heart
32:22
at all, wanted any kind of retribution against his
32:25
brothers, he would have said you guys are all going to stay in
32:29
Egypt or stay back in Canaan and perish.
32:33
I don't care, you know, but. My father and Benjamin.
32:37
Won't, right? Right.
32:39
Because that was a choice. But you remember, he wept.
32:45
He wept when he first met because he knew who they were.
32:48
But that love was there. But guess what?
32:50
He, he was, he's a man of God. And I'm getting the bills.
32:55
Can you imagine? All the goodness from God to put
32:59
on parchment paper or papyrus or whatever to, to, to to present
33:04
this to us. Are we as forgiving and
33:10
passionate about our beliefs as Joseph?
33:12
No, we're not. We should get to that place that
33:15
we can't. Because if anybody had any
33:18
reason to be angry and befiled by the name of the Lord, it
33:22
would be Joseph. But he did not.
33:25
It's, it's not because Scripture is silent and we don't know
33:28
because if, because we know Moses is the author of this book
33:33
he wrote. He wrote the vast majority of it
33:35
anyway. If there was something that was
33:40
not supposed to be written, it wouldn't have been written.
33:42
So yes, Joseph was human. Yes, Joseph was morph.
33:47
Yes, Joseph probably had his time of doubt and such.
33:49
Because I'm going to tell you this, when the Baker and the
33:55
Butler was the Baker and the cupbearer were told what their
33:59
fates were going to be, Joseph admonished them to tell Pharaoh
34:04
that he was in prison for something he did not do.
34:09
There's no reason for me to be here.
34:11
And they forgot all of like they forgot about David out in the
34:14
field, right? They forgot all about Joseph and
34:17
Joseph toy more until Pharaoh couldn't interpret those dreams.
34:23
And if you can't interpret the cane dreams, you're going to get
34:25
executed. They knew that if it had not
34:29
been for the cupbearer, all of them been wiped out.
34:33
I. I think the biggest thing is,
34:39
you know, we tend to think that we have these bad things that
34:43
happen in our lives And, and you know, how many times have I
34:48
talked about my own car wreck? It has been a blessing in
34:51
disguise. I mean, this whole thing about
34:55
their brothers selling him into slavery was a blessing in
34:59
disguise that was lit. That's what led to the
35:03
fulfillment of the original dream way back when.
35:07
And he got and and Joseph's kindly telling his brothers,
35:13
don't worry, God had a plan for all this.
35:15
It wouldn't want us to eat. God made it.
35:19
Yeah, ain't that crazy how that happened.
35:22
Maybe with? A little crooked smile.
35:27
So the note in here says God brought good from the brothers
35:32
evil deed Potiphar's wives falls back decision.
35:36
Remember, Remember that way back at the beginning about this, you
35:40
know, once he got sold into slavery, that this was he, he
35:45
was, he was, he was sold to them, right?
35:51
And. Immediately.
35:53
And the cupbearers neglect and seven years of famine.
35:58
The experiences in Joseph's life taught him that God brings good
36:04
from evil for those who trust him.
36:07
So did you see on social media there's a guy who is taking a 30
36:12
day challenge to act like a Christian and believe that God
36:19
exists? He's a Muslim, isn't he?
36:22
No, I'm asking. You, I think he was a non, he
36:26
was like like agnostic and he decided to take on this
36:31
challenge. What if he actually starts, you
36:35
know, acting and believing that that there is a God?
36:40
And I don't know how far he's gotten in the journey, but even
36:44
after the third, I think some time of it, I don't remember for
36:48
sure how many days, but he was determining that believing in
36:54
something was way better than believing in nothing, that there
36:57
was positive reinforcement that was coming in because he was he
37:04
was choosing to believe versus not believing.
37:08
Right. Imagine everybody.
37:15
Where would you be right now if you had no belief?
37:19
There are people who exist who don't, such as the person we're
37:22
speaking about right now. But what about you?
37:25
What if your belief was minimal or non existent?
37:28
Where would you be? Ponder that.
37:30
You don't have to answer today. Ponder that.
37:33
Joseph had every rational reason to discount the fact that who he
37:38
was, who he was birthed with and by and the Lord I got, he did
37:43
neither. The Scriptures are clear.
37:48
God blessed him wherever he was. Don't you want that?
37:53
Don't you want those blessed? I do, I do, right?
37:58
You want those things because they only come from him.
38:01
They don't come from us. When somebody gives you
38:04
something, they are compelled by the Holy Spirit to do it, not
38:08
because they're nice people. They're compelled by the Holy
38:11
Spirit to do it. Without the Holy Spirit, they're
38:13
you think there's mayhem and, and, and goofing off going on in
38:16
the world. Now, if the Holy Spirit wasn't
38:19
here, no, but you, you'd be boarding your house up, never
38:22
mind locking the doors and putting the alarm systems on.
38:25
Crime would just be if you didn't have the police.
38:28
For those of you who don't like the police, if you didn't have
38:30
the police, do you know how much crime would actually happen?
38:33
It would be like the purge 24/7, right?
38:37
Could you imagine the purge 24/7 It'd.
38:40
Be legal. Can you imagine?
38:43
I just. I don't.
38:44
Like him? Let's go over there and get him.
38:47
You know, that's tough. I mean, careful what you ask
38:50
for. You're good.
38:51
I mean there there are consequences to things, so
38:55
careful what you ask for. Joseph was not a bad actor at
38:59
all. Not apparently, I mean, not, not
39:03
that, not that, and not any indicators that I read War
39:09
runner price. Let's see, Let's get to this
39:14
comment on verse 24. This verse sets the stage for
39:20
what would begin to happen in Exodus and come to completion in
39:24
Joshua. God was going to make Jacob's
39:27
family into a great nation, lead them out of Egypt, and bring
39:31
them into the land He had promised them.
39:33
The nation would rely heavily on this promise, and Joseph
39:37
emphasized his belief that God would do what he had promised.
39:42
And you have to think about it, folks, nothing up to that point
39:46
gave any kind of indicator that God would do anything different.
39:51
I mean that's date. The scripture said I change not
39:55
said the Lord. There may be some areas where
39:59
people say, well that's a contradiction.
40:00
When he did change his mind, He's God, He can do whatever you
40:03
want to do you. Mean like women.
40:07
And again, when we get to heaven, he won't be there with
40:10
that scroll. It's like, right, It's going to
40:15
hit. It's going to hit this.
40:16
It's like, wow, man, even. Really.
40:22
So for the other folks that don't know, you know, when we
40:25
first started recording a revivalist, I was like, man, I
40:28
have AI have a question. He has a question.
40:30
God and I I I was telling Daryl last week.
40:35
I said, you know, I don't think I kept up with my questions for
40:39
God lady. And he goes, don't worry you'll
40:41
think about it. They.
40:42
Will be revealed believe. Me.
40:45
That's another book. Exactly that will be in the
40:49
Library of Heaven. It's Congress, right?
40:51
Yeah, it's. It's what did you mean by this
40:54
God you have? One more.
40:57
Yeah, just one. More curious people want it out.
41:04
All right, so getting in. 26 The book of Genesis gives us rich
41:11
descriptions of the lives of many great men and women who
41:14
walked with God. They sometimes succeeded and
41:18
often failed. Yet we learn much by reading the
41:21
biographies of these people. Where did they get their
41:24
motivation and courage? They got it by realizing God was
41:28
with them despite their inadequacies.
41:31
Knowing this should encourage us to be faithful to God, to rely
41:35
on Him for guidance, and to utilize the potential He has
41:39
given us. Potential.
41:40
Think about potential and. What was that word?
41:44
Be intentional. Well, that's my word for this
41:47
year. We have to be intentional about
41:49
our potential, OK? We need to write that down.
41:54
Yes, be intentional about your potential because if you don't
42:00
do what's outlined by the Lord our God, you know what He'll do?
42:04
You'll give to somebody else who's less than you and you will
42:08
see the benefits of what you could have done to what's being
42:12
done by this other individual or series of individuals.
42:15
It's like somebody who steals your copyright or your trademark
42:19
or whatever. It wasn't for them, but they
42:23
have it. But they'll reap less benefits
42:25
of it than you will because you still, you don't have to have it
42:29
on the paper. It's here and it's here, and
42:32
that's how we have to have a Lord like God in our hearts and
42:35
our minds, our souls. Who is this?
42:37
Well, I think the biggest thing that I was thinking of is you
42:39
can't let let other people take things away from you, You know,
42:45
to subtract. I mean, I, you know, it's 3
42:51
signs of a toxic person I talk about in my book.
42:54
We'll see there it is pointing behind my head.
42:57
Welcome to my people garden. That's that's the first version
43:02
that the book, the hard copy, that's the original version.
43:06
I have my second version out. But you know, 3 signs of a toxic
43:10
person. The ones that bark the loudest
43:12
are the ones that are the most guilty.
43:14
They always telling them they always make somebody else look
43:18
bad to make themselves look good and #3 is they always tell on
43:22
themselves. I don't know about you, Daryl,
43:26
but I think I see the traits of all three with these brothers
43:31
because they have barked pretty loud, right?
43:35
They have been pretty boisterous about what their fears were.
43:40
They took those actions that I mean, they and and you know, you
43:45
get to this point where they've done everything they could to
43:47
make themselves look better than Joseph, even even though his
43:52
actions have spoke louder than words then.
43:56
But they always, you know, even here at the end, they told on
44:01
themselves. There you go.
44:05
You know you have to if you are curious about the people that
44:09
are surrounding you in your people garden, you have to know
44:14
what does that look like? Well, scripture has shown us
44:16
what that looks like. I didn't make this up, I just
44:20
told it in a different way using the parable, the sower.
44:23
You reap what you sow. I'm so thankful that we live in
44:29
a time and I'm reminded of Ecclesiastes 19.
44:35
There's not one thing new under the sun.
44:39
So the people that we're discussing today with those
44:42
people. We still are.
44:44
We still are. I mean, the moral injury, you
44:49
know, you even get to this part about Joseph's life ending and
44:56
yet he still is helping to ensure that his whole family is
45:01
taken care of. What a what a gift of love.
45:06
I can't say I would do that and being 100, I I can't say I would
45:10
because, you know, we're human and more I do carry animosity
45:13
and things because of things that have occurred to me in my
45:15
life. But I have to find a place that
45:18
it goes into a time capsule and it's only released by God
45:21
because otherwise you see me, right?
45:25
Otherwise it's, it becomes it is what it is.
45:28
And we can make excuses. We can intellectualize, we can
45:31
generalize, we can pontificate, we can elucidate all day about a
45:36
subject. But if it's not, if we're not in
45:38
right standing with the Lord, I got, I'm telling you, if you're
45:42
not in right standing with the Lord, I got everything you
45:45
attempt to do until you become right standing with him, meaning
45:48
in protocol, it will not come to fruition.
45:54
It will not. You may think, oh man, I'm
45:56
winning. No, you're not, because he's not
45:58
done with you yet. So Darryl, what do you think is
46:03
a good way for folks? We're thinking both from the
46:08
child perspective and from that returning parent from
46:15
deployment, right? I mean, it it, you're, we're
46:19
working on trying to work on those relationships because you
46:23
and I both know from the trauma bond experience side of things
46:27
and this is a really a moral injury side.
46:30
How can we help folks navigate the healing and recovery side?
46:38
First of all, we have to go on prayer.
46:42
That's that's essential. And many times in your prayer,
46:47
you can ask those questions. You know, it'd be very, very
46:50
solemn and honorable when you're speaking to the Lord of God and
46:53
be very, you know, reverent. Doing it incoming.
46:57
But He will direct your past and guide the steps of someone on
47:02
His words, and his actions will answer these questions for you.
47:06
Not that they're prophetic. Not that they're Wizards now
47:09
because they they have any, any alchemy, anything.
47:12
What will happen is that there have been times recently this
47:18
year that I wanted to push play and I talked to Eva and Eva came
47:24
over with more. I was buried with reasons why
47:29
not to. Because if you do you worse than
47:32
the other situation all together and that's all people are going
47:36
to remember is what you did doggone what he, she, they did.
47:42
What did you do? You and your child and and and
47:47
your parents come home and something happened with your
47:50
brother, your sister, both of you.
47:51
And then they they hear both sides maybe before they beat you
47:55
half to them, but before they, they hear both sides.
47:58
And then they'll say, well, what did you do?
47:59
And if the answer is not sufficient, well, you know, here
48:04
comes the punishment. So when a person has been on
48:07
deployment, this person been in a relationship that went awry, a
48:12
person that is is is severed a friendship with someone.
48:16
Whatever the case may be, go into prayer.
48:20
You'll receive greater guidance than you ever realize.
48:25
Then go to someone that you really trust.
48:28
God will already have that person waiting on you to talk to
48:33
me, and then you will find out what you find out in the prayer.
48:37
This is what we ought to be able to do.
48:39
But more irrational people, we can't do that because we're only
48:43
looking at the person paying a penance or offending us.
48:49
Never mind you've already offended yourself.
48:51
Probably, probably getting to that point when you come back
48:55
from a deployment. That's a tough thing.
48:58
Single or married or in a relationship, it's a tough thing
49:01
because you've been away. Time has elapsed, right?
49:04
Letters are one thing, telephone calls or something else, But a
49:08
person's presence reigns supreme.
49:11
And when you're not present for a person, they're liable if
49:14
they're not rooted and grounded in God's Word to go astray or
49:18
ride. So what we have to be able to do
49:21
for those of us who are revivalists, we don't call
49:24
ourselves revivalists, are revivalists.
49:27
We understand the pitfalls of life.
49:29
We don't ever want to return to that quicksand because quicksand
49:32
does exist, contrary to my belief, right?
49:35
So we don't want to ever go into quicksand.
49:37
We want to be those people who are above ground, not risking
49:42
anything because no man or woman or or entity can do anything to
49:46
you that God won't allow. So blessed with that security,
49:51
when we speaking to somebody, we're not speaking because
49:54
we're, you know, we're trying to hear ourselves speak.
49:57
We're speaking to a person that their lives may not be engulfed,
50:01
ensnared in drama, trauma, situation, circumstances,
50:05
trials, tribulations and persecution.
50:08
That when you push play and you didn't think it through, you're
50:12
going to do more harm to yourself, perhaps your family
50:15
and anything else. And even once again, I bless you
50:18
and I thank you and I applaud you because you don't know.
50:27
I was, you know, we've talked about what you're talking about
50:30
and I remember you saying you had this conversation with
50:34
yourself. What would Eva do?
50:36
I. Did.
50:37
And I've had other people tell me that before, too, you know?
50:42
I was going. To get them, you know, I mean,
50:45
but they but they've had situations of what would Eva do?
50:48
And I'm not trying to I'm not saying that to elevate myself.
50:53
I I don't. Know I did say it.
50:55
But I'm I'm very strategic in the things that I do.
51:00
The the things that I say come from the heart, the people that
51:04
I deal with, or it's always in a very cultivating manner.
51:09
And I think that the people in my people garden know and trust
51:14
that what I bring to them, you know, it's even developing.
51:20
And I am sorry, Scott, that I could remember your name, but
51:23
you're one of those people that I consider my people garden.
51:26
That there is this opportunity of having relationships, even in
51:32
a virtual circumstances of things that, you know, the good
51:36
that we serve and the seeds that we sow with other people, you
51:43
know, is immeasurable. And, you know, they, I, I, I
51:49
feel very blessed and honored that I have people who come and
51:53
consult with me. I don't have a degree in
51:56
consulting or you know, I'm not a theologian or any of those
52:00
kind of you're not. What are we doing here?
52:05
Not, not a book, you know, the you know, the classical
52:12
university dictated theologian. I, you know, I consider myself a
52:17
lay minister that God works with me to help people.
52:22
And that I think does give me, and certainly all of the
52:27
experiences that I've been through in life has exposed me
52:32
way more much in some ways like Joseph, I really identify with
52:38
Joseph from a female perspective that I've endured these things,
52:45
but God has he has made them for his good and not for my failure.
52:52
And I think that's where a lot of people need to be able to
52:56
flip that narrative in their own brain.
53:00
Because something else I talk about in my book is there are
53:06
lies that people tell us. Certainly Joseph's brothers have
53:11
been great at lying all those years when the greatest liars
53:18
are not those people. It's the lies that we tell
53:21
ourselves. Could you imagine what the story
53:23
would look like if Joseph had bought into what his brothers
53:29
did to him and become the total victim and didn't know how to be
53:34
able to use it for good? We would have a total different
53:38
story we would be reading about because.
53:39
We would also align control to. God, right, right.
53:43
But he believed what God had shown him in that dream way long
53:49
ago and he never let that, he never left that out of his goal
53:56
post, right? If he's at the, you know, you
53:58
guys know I'm a hiker. What's at the end of the trail?
54:03
Joseph knew that God was at the end of the trail and God was
54:07
going to get in there. He just had to stay the course
54:10
and let things work through. All these distractions were
54:15
exactly that, distractions. But God was going to see him
54:19
through for his good, not for bad.
54:27
It's succinctly said and you know how we stayed our lives
54:31
going forward. There's always someone that you
54:34
don't think will know will leave watching our lives have to be a
54:42
mirror of what the effects preach.
54:44
What we practice and practice what we preach we we get right
54:48
now. Does that mean that you won't
54:50
fall and get fractured and fail? No, it does.
54:53
God will put you back to the head of the line on what's going
54:56
on. And for those of us who are, you
55:02
know, trending towards 60 and those of us who already are you
55:06
the girl, you snipping, You snipping.
55:10
So you know what we my children said, Daddy, you old.
55:15
I said, girl, you better pray you turn 16 people.
55:21
You've gone to high school and she's 28.
55:24
They're gone, but you're still. Here.
55:28
People in my class reunion a few weeks ago, they were planning on
55:33
coming to the reunion and paid their, their, their dues, their
55:36
fees and such. They didn't make.
55:40
We don't know. And it's incumbent upon us now
55:44
to have, if you don't have a closer relationship with the
55:48
Lord our God, with Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit, you have to
55:52
because there's going to come a day, it's called an expiration
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date. It's going to befall all of us
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and there's no bartering. There's no reasoning.
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No one with a cloak and dagger is going to come get you or a
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sickle. It's time.
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So take the time today, as I said last week, if you haven't
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spoken to someone, please call them, e-mail them, do the
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alternate e-mail, the alternate alternate e-mail, leave a note
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on the on the doorstep. Do something to let them, even
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if they detest you, take them in.
56:30
If you have anything done before, say hey, I was thinking
56:33
about you. And then if they blast you on
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social media, whatever the case is, that's not your business.
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It's just words. Don't leave today without
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leaving somebody a message or talking to them or communicating
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with them on some level because we don't know.
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That's the last time we saw those people from the class
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reunion before it all happened. So one last thing.
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So instead of we doing a 10 year reunion, we're thinking about
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two or three every two or three years to do something because we
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just don't know. No life is short, you know,
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That's why I've done my check one videos.
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So some of the people that we have known in our past before
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they took themselves out, you know, it was very unfortunate
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and beautiful people. And that's sad.
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But if we want to be able to help ourselves as a community,
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if we're wanting to change the numbers for veteran suicide, we
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have to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
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And you know, there's check one videos.
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I think it is where we can start right, Because I'm showing by
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example. Hey, I've been pretty
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transparent how how I felt, you know, in the last, you know,
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year and a half and finally getting come back.
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You know what my blood pressure today.
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I'm. So proud.
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I mean it was 137 / 72. That's a Far Cry steak.
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Potato and sour. Cream.
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No. I'll go back and have some more
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hatched Chili Peppers now that my mouth is not on fire.
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But you know, As for the last like 5 or 6 years, you know that
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my doctor wanted me to take high blood pressure medicine.
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I just didn't want to do it. Just no, I want to fix it with
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my diet. So I'm attributing it to diet,
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healthy living. I've been out there moving
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motion is lotion. And I think that, you know, we
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have to help ourselves. We have to engage with other
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people for those numbers to start changing the next couple
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of weeks. We are, like I said, we are
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going to be, we're going to take the whole of Genesis and really
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kind of, you know, focus it on this.
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What are the trends with the moral injury side, right?
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I mean, I think that's really going to help people digest what
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we've read. And you know, it's been neat for
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me to have taken this time slowly dishing it out and being
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able to unpack it all so quick. I know we have to go quick
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prayer. And dear Heavenly Father, thank
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you for bringing us together. Thank you for giving your us
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your word. And what you, what your message
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is that there is something out there for everybody.
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And you are bringing us together for one hour a week to cover
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this. But you are with us every day of
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our life, every minute, every second.
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Please Lord, keep everybody health and safety this week and
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and keep bringing them to you. In your name we pray.
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Amen. And Father, Son, the Holy
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Spirit. All right folks, you'll have a
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great week. See you next week.
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