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The Best Life Possible · SOLID START

• 0:03
  SPEAKER_01: Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Solid Start, podcast designed to help get your week off to a solid start by focusing on life from God's perspective.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Greg Reed, life coach with Meryl Bros up in Cochemu, Indiana, located in the heart of the Midwest, kind of the tropical paradise, if you will.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm joined in paradise today by my ever-amazing co-host, Brian Hertzog.
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  SPEAKER_01: Brian, welcome to paradise, buddy.
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  SPEAKER_01: If that's what you call it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has been paradise for the last, what, three weeks?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's been great.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been gorgeous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful weather.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've commented several times uh to people when we're out and about.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, man, it is so nice out.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is.
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  SPEAKER_01: The fall is uh I mean, I know what's coming, and so I try not to get discouraged by that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh this has been a delightful three or four weeks of fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's really helped us here at Merrill Brothers, too.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um we are making a big push here to get a lot of this stuff done before it gets cold.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we are in the sludge business and that is liquid, and so when the temperatures drop and things freeze, that that affects the makes it a lot more complicated, isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know that uh once we get to the end, we'll we'll pray that uh we finish strong uh here in this uh fall season and and do all of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh tell me uh your thoughts when you hear the words midterm elections, what comes to your mind?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, I'm not I'm not much into politics.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like who's who is who, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who's who is what comes to mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I did uh have an opportunity to vote early on uh Saturday, and so just a reminder that uh I was thankful that we live in a country where there's freedom of elections and we get to vote for people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um much of the rest of the world does not have that opportunity.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you and I have traveled quite a bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we you're in other countries and you hear about elections, you don't travel to a lot of countries during the city.
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  SPEAKER_01: As in Kenya, both of us have been there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and I remember my host saying a couple of months before and a couple of months after, we had to plan our entire uh itinerary of going three times a year around.
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  SPEAKER_01: If it was an election year, it just knocked out about four or five months because it was just so um you know chaotic.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's turmoil and they they block streets off with barricades and it's a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he said it's just not safe to be here during election time.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um regards how it turns out, I know some people will be delighted, some people will be depressed, but it's uh at least our opportunity here in 2026 to say, hey, here's the direction that I would like to see the country go.
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  SPEAKER_01: May not go that direction, but ultimately God's in charge anyway.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm not depending on uh any particular party to save the day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's only uh it's only what God does.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as I thought about as I voted and then thought about this whole term thing of elections and electing people, I was reminded of a passage uh of scripture that I read uh several weeks earlier.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've been listening through the book of Judges back in uh September, and I came to uh verse 25 in the very last chapter.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll have you read that verse because it may be one of the saddest verses, uh, Brian, in all of the Old Testament, uh kind of a conclusion of 400 years of people living a particular way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh read that for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: In those days, Israel had no king.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.
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  SPEAKER_01: What could possibly go wrong, Brian?
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, that sounds like when uh um when I had some teenagers in my house and they thought, hey, there's no king, they were king, actually, they were king, and so we're gonna do what's right in our own eyes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that uh just the results of that, it was a 400-year period of of chaos and degradation because they rejected God as their king, and so they didn't have a king, an earthly king, and then they just were able to do whatever they wanted.
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  SPEAKER_01: Prior to Judges 21 in Judges 19 and 20, it's just an awful uh expose of the of what happens when people do what's right in their own eyes.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was a Levite, a religious guy, who had a mistress.
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  SPEAKER_01: That seems like a problem, maybe from the very beginning, Brian.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh he was looking for a place to stay in a particular town, and he thought, hey, I'll stay with some of my own relatives rather than staying with uh stranger danger.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he did, and the men of the city brutally uh abused his mistress, and then he ends up cutting her body into twelve pieces, sending a piece to each of the twelve tribes as a way to say, look what happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and then all the tribes of Israel demand that those Benjamite men that they hand over the guilty men, and Benjamin refuses, so Israel goes to war, and then they wipe out almost all the men and think, hey, how's this tribe going to reproduce?
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  SPEAKER_01: And then they do something even uglier to uh try to find them some husbands.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's just I was listening to that and I thought, is this possible?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like look what happens when people's lives fall apart the way they did.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so just thinking about the election, thinking about no king and the book of judges, I was thankful that the next book that I listened to was the book of John.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, as you know, the fourth book in the New Testament, and Jesus comes as as king and he offers himself as the king of our lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I'd like for you, Brian, to read the first three verses of John 14, because this is Jesus' really final conversation.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's his last meal with his with the twelve disciples, and he's saying to them, Hey, I know I've given you some bad news, I know I've told you I'm leaving, I'm going to die, but there's hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus said, Don't let your hearts be troubled, trust in God and trust also in me.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is more than enough room in my father's home.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am, and you know the way to where I am going.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Jesus is reminding them, hey, I've got there's really good news, even though I've given you bad news, there is good news that when you take your last breath, we're going to be together forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um I always uh have to chuckle at the next verse when Thomas says, Lord, uh no, we don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we have no idea where you're going.
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  SPEAKER_01: So how can we know the way?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, here's this Thomas guy just being so, you know, so uh so real saying, uh, just I can almost see him raising his hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um no, we don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have no clue.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh when you uh I know you've read that story before, so what came to your mind is Thomas.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, could you relate to uh what Thomas is doing there?
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you know, when you're when you're not when you don't have your eyes fixed on Jesus, yeah, you asked that same question, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I have no idea where I'm going.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And for both of us, there were, you know, times in in our lives before we said yes to G.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even after that, it's like, okay, God, what are you up to?
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  SPEAKER_01: What's uh what's going on?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not really sure where you're taking this.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then after Thomas makes that statement and and says, uh, by the way, we don't know where you're going, so how do we ever know the way?
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  SPEAKER_01: Our GPS doesn't get us there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then what's Jesus' response to Thomas?
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one can come to the Father except through me.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of the defining statement by Jesus in John's gospel of saying, Hey, there's there's no other way, there's no other truth, and there's no better life than life with me.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we're really trying to uh say this week, here's our challenge.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's either it's not my way or the highway, it's my way or Jesus' way.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Brian, tell us a little bit about what that what that means this week as we take some time to seriously consider uh those three aspects of G of what Jesus has in store for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the first one is the way, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: If Jesus really is the way, where is he inviting me to follow him rather than insist on my own way?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's profound.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is profound.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I talked to somebody uh just last Friday and she has a three-year-old, and I she said that her three-year-old told her preschool teacher, hey, just so you know, I'm in charge.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just so you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm free and I got this.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I mean, it starts early.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not like you don't have to be, you know, an uh a senior citizen to get there.
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  SPEAKER_01: That starts almost from the time we are born, that we just want life our way.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second is the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask yourself this question: if Jesus really is the truth, am I willing to examine what he says about himself?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, oftentimes, Brian, for me and I'm sure for you as well, people have said, hey, what about this particular religious uh expression?
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  SPEAKER_01: And often it's it's a cult, and they say, hey, what do what do this uh what do Hindus believe, what do Buddhists believe, and all of these things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I say it all, I don't know everything that they believe by any means.
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  SPEAKER_01: All I do know that is every religion misses it when it comes to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's something in what they what they teach.
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  SPEAKER_01: Either he's not fully God, he's not fully man, there's something, he's not divine, there's something in their uh view that says that Jesus gets diminished.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's one of God's children, you name it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so that that one is really big, is that if you say, hey, what what do these all these religions teach, just look at what they teach about Jesus and that'll get you to the point.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not not just religions, but other like there are false teachers everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even you know, within churches.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if you're like if you're asking yourself, what is the truth?
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  SPEAKER_00: Just go back to Jesus' words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like read John.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Read John, that's the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh the third one is the life.
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  SPEAKER_00: If Jesus really is the life, what might I be missing by trying to do life without him?
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  SPEAKER_01: And I would say everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it is it is the best life possible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh following Jesus has made my life better and has made me better at life uh in every particular way.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: You were talking about the um what even in churches, what's being said, I listen to uh just this, I thought I can't believe I'm really hearing this.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's a pastor in Ohio who is referred to as the prophet by his congregants, and I think it I think they spell Prophet P R O F I T is what I think.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: But he he had so on this on a podcast I was listening to, a radio show, his wife got up and introduced his other wife.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: And then that person got up and just talked about how it's been so wonderful being the prophet's second wife and being a uh sister wife to uh and I just think I can't, I there's no way I just heard that.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but it's it's in Ohio, it's one state away from us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, polygamy is illegal there, so there's something they're doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in a church, she's standing up and saying, Hey, my husband has another wife, and I love her, she's amazing, and we have this wonderful life.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I just I went online, I thought, sure enough, there's this, you know, they gave all the names and it was it was a mess.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of that can be you can find the real truth by literally just going back and reading scripture.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's right.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: If you're ever seeking truth, if you're ever trying to find the way, read the Bible.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like read scripture.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: And and there are easy ways to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think you said this morning, there are apps.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, there are uh you can even download full like audio books of the Bible and just listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like God will speak to you uh through his word.
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  SPEAKER_01: The most popular one in the world, I think it's been downloaded now by over a billion people, is you version.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Y-O-U and then V E R-S-I-O-N.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you're listening to this and you say, I don't, I don't have a Bible, I don't know where I could read it, I don't know how I could listen to it, I don't really like to read, I'd rather listen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um if you download that free app, they just there are so many, there's the verse of the day, there are videos that help explain the verse of the day, there are ways to guide you through praying.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's no excuse to say I don't I don't have access to anything.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you do.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um so those of you that are driving trucks and are out on the road a lot, this would be a great way through UVersion to do exactly what Brian is saying, to say, how do I get how do I get the truth uh so that I that that becomes a part of how I think in order that I get to live the best life possible.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, those really follow, don't they?
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  SPEAKER_01: The way, the truth, and as a result of that, it's the best life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so we're very excited about this week challenging you to take time to s seriously consider um those three questions about the way about Jesus being the truth and what he says about himself, and that Jesus is really the life.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: Brian, when I think about it, um that really is the central question of this of our existence.
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  SPEAKER_01: Am I gonna do life my way or am I gonna do it God's way?
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think everything can be boiled down to that, and that choice determines everything.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um so what else uh what else do we need to do to to help our uh our listeners today?
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: Anything else that comes to your mind?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're struggling in life, if things just aren't going your way, maybe you need maybe there's a reason.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we were just talking about uh before we started recording about the struggles parents are having in schools and how our school systems are falling apart and uh how parents aren't stepping up, you know, being good parents to a lot of these kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, it's I know a lot of people are struggling, parents are struggling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Life is not what they thought it would be, and maybe it's because you've been trying to do it your own way.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I, you know, I I look at like the situation with my family and the health struggles with my daughter, and I'm just gonna be honest, I don't I don't know how I could how we as a family could even be going through this with the thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's just true.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: You were sharing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought, that's too much to try to carry yourself, isn't it?
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I could not do it.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: And and throughout this process, and and we're getting help for her, and we've been we've see God in so many different um steps along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're like, God, we we need help in this.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, here you go.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, God, I we don't know where to go next.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you help us?
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  SPEAKER_00: Here you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we just continue to trust in him because without without that, I we would be completely lost.
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  SPEAKER_00: We would probably be destroying ourselves and our family would be falling apart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: Because life is, you know, sometimes people say God won't give me more than I can that I can carry.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't think that's an accurate statement because often we get way more than we can carry, but he he offers us help.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Come to me, give me those burdens, because if you couldn't download those all the time, uh and you and your wife and family had to carry them, you'd probably be crushed.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: I mean it'd be easy to it's no wonder people slip into depression or or some kind of addictive behavior, because how do you how do you deal with the pain?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: And if you don't have a person that you can go to like Jesus to say, okay, God, I can't I can't pull this off.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: I've got to give it to you.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: So you if you're saying there has to be another way, yes.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: I would say seek the truth.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seek the truth for a better life.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's it.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and let us know if we can help you.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: And she said, I don't know exactly where to begin.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um, how do they uh how do they remind us, Brian, how to get a hold of us?
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just go to help them take a next step.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Go to Merrillbrose.com, click on the prayer tab at the top of the page, and we had someone do it this weekend.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we did.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, just please reach out to us that way, and um we will get in touch with you or we'll just pray for you.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, great.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Brian, I thought just following up on um the idea that in uh Israel there was no king in the in the book of Judges, I want us to pray uh for the and give God thanks for the fact we live in a democracy, and uh maybe we can also include in that uh praying for people of integrity to be elected uh tomorrow.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: We just pray that uh regardless of what particular stripe uh their their uniform is, um we can pray that people of integrity will be uh will be elected.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: So I'll uh I'll have you uh you take those uh those two if you would, and just including in their idea of giving thanks.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then I'll I want to pray for uh those uh are that are listening to the podcast that maybe you're a part of uh this company or another company and you're in the fall season and you're rushing to finish strong.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: We want to uh we want to pray for uh for you as well.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: And then this just incredible life-altering decision whether you're gonna live life your way or Jesus' way is uh huge.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: We want you this week uh to take that challenge to say, hey, I'm gonna give thought to how I'm doing my life.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: Sound okay?
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's pray.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you that we live in a country where we have the right to vote.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: And we just spoke earlier about countries that the the political systems are so crazy and so messed up, and just so thankful that uh we can choose.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: We have a right to vote in this country, and so we're praying for those individuals who are on the ballot that we're just praying for, as Greg said, integrity.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: Integrity doesn't matter what side they're on, God.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: We just we just want people who have integrity, who live for you.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um because if they are living the way that you have instructed us to live and they're seeking the real truth, um, God, then we know they are living the life that you have called them to live.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: And so we can we can trust that they're gonna make good decisions.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: And so we're just praying for uh all of the candidates, God, that uh they would seek you first.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: And we know that's not always the case, God, but God, we're all in this together.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: And so all we can do is just continue to pray uh for those in those who have been elected and and just pray for our country and pray for our our neighbors around us.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so just put it all in your hands, God, and we continue to trust in you.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: Eternal God, we are so grateful that on this first day of uh the week, on the second day of November, we get to come to you and recognize that you sent one who declared to be the way, the truth, and the life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're so grateful for the life of Jesus, so grateful for the life that He makes possible to us that we don't have to do life our way because it's crushing and it's overwhelming.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when Jesus walks beside us and does the heavy lifting, uh, we get relieved of that burden that's often overwhelming.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so just pray for the people that are listening who have already made that decision.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm so grateful for that and thankful that uh this week they get to live life your way and not their way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Father, for those that uh might not yet have made that decision, uh I just pray that uh this would be the week, that uh maybe even today uh that there's this recognition that life's too much.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't carry this any longer on my own.
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  SPEAKER_01: I desperately need the one who's the way, the truth, and the life.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I pray that today they can come to you with that plea, God, here's my life, and I need, I desperately need you.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so we're so grateful for uh this season and for the beauty of all that you've created, for uh the wonderful harvest of fall that comes and the rewards that come from all the sowing that's happening, that the harvesting now is uh plentiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we just give you thanks, pray for strength for our team as they're scattered around the country doing an amazing work.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we uh just give you thanks for all your good gifts to us.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name we pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: This week uh let's pray for our country, let's pray for one another, and make this an incredible week of doing life God's way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Take care.