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2080 You Could Dance Too Hard · Brant & Sherri Oddcast

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  Welcome to the Brant and
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  Sherri Oddcast sponsored by America's Christian Credit Union.
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  To order Brant's latest book: Life is hard.
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  God is good.
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  Let's dance.
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  Or to find out more about the show.
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  Go to branthansen.com.
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  So I don't know if this guy's listening.
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  He might be, I don't know.
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  Follow him on Twitter.
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  He tweeted something...
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  I tweeted back. Okay.
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  I tweeted to reply to his tweet. I said: does it...
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  would it matter to you if this wasn't true?
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  And what did he say?
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  His response was, yes, it matters.
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  And I just looked up some additional information and I have deleted my post.
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  Oh, and it does matter.
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  I. Wow. Right.
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  I don't even know what to do with that.
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  So if you are listening, sir, I told him I still like
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  who does that?
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  If there's a tweet Hall of Fame... Much respect.
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  Yeah.
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  I respect you more now than I did before.
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  I saw the thing. That’s amazing.
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  Yeah, I was just like that is fantastic.
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  So much respect.
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  Hey, every now and then we do like to just sit back and remember stuff...
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  the old days.
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  That's not the right music.
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  Hahahahaha hahaha.
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  That's us graduating, let’s graduate, into yeah...old age.
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  This is what I was looking for. Yes.
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  All right.
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  I like to think back to the old days. Yes.
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  People today do not understand that this is even possible.
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  What?
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  That there's a time that we went through when if you dance too hard.
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  It messed up the music.
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  That's very true.
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  Can’t compute.
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  That's right. CD skips.
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  That's that's exactly right. Would you guys settle down.
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  Yes, please. You're messing it up.
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  You don't understand.
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  Enjoy yourself, but careful.
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  Or you’re gonna mess it up for all of us.
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  Kids these days don't know that you can dance too hard and it messes up the music.
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  ... Tell you what.
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  It's so true.
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  It's a lesson I keep learning over and over and over.
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  And it is: I find out who I am when someone crosses me.
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  There's that old
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  proverb which we love talking about, but the proverb is:
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  if you want to find out what kind of tree a tree is, you bump into it
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  and then you see what falls out of it. Yeah.
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  So when somebody bumps into me, crosses me, doesn't...
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  I don't get what I want.
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  I don't get what I want. What happens?
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  And then then we find out.
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  But like everybody can be super nice when everything's going their way.
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  But what if somebody...
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  what if I don't get what I want?
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  Well, bump into a tree and see what falls.
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  And now you know
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  while we're remembering stuff I was just thinking this,
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  another thing that kids won't understand as we're
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  just kind of rocking here on the porch just looking back.
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  Back when we texted.
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  Okay. You had to really want to.
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  What do you mean?
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  Remember, it's like, okay, I want I want the letter S.
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  I'm going to have to press the number seven four times.
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  A bunch of times. Yes, yes. That's right.
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  And I got that letter done. That's right. Yeah. Yeah.
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  You had to really....it had to matter, man.
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  It had to be SOS, that's the only thing, like, it had to be something serious.
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  So I'm really excited about something I wanted to tell you about.
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  Like, last week, I talked at a Christian school.
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  Hundreds of kids, boys and girls, high school, middle school.
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  It's a big school
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  about masculinity.
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  And the reason I'm so pumped about it, it went so well.
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  I love that. They were so dialed in
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  because I think it's because they hadn't heard...
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  I was going to say there's, there's nothing being said.
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  Yeah. Like a positive.
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  Yeah. Here's what it actually is.
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  And so I take a shot at it.
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  I've written about this, what it means to be a keeper of the garden.
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  The job that Adam was given. Yeah.
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  And what that looks like to cultivate and bring security to people so they can...
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  they can flourish because you're there.
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  Yeah. And the.
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  You would not have believed the high school guys were scribbling notes so fast.
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  Oh, I love that.
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  I could see them, like the football team. Like all of them.
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  What a blessing.
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  It was so great.
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  I just I was so thankful.
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  I'm like, I'm not doing the perfect job of presenting this.
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  Doesn't matter. I love that we get to talk about this.
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  Okay,
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  here's a feature of the show that's pretty popular, I think.
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  And now can you do the intro? Yes, sure.
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  And now a masterclass on joke telling with your instructor, Brant Hansen.
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  So when I was little, a strange adult guy
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  stepped out of a time machine and slapped me for no reason whatsoever.
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  Now, after devoting my life to building my own time machine, I'm
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  ready to go back to when he was little and we'll see how he likes it.
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  hahaha
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  It's so.
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  That's pretty funny.
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  Oh, and I'm really into...
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  anyone who doesn't think it's funny then this is really annoying because the du- .
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  That's fine.
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  Just bear with this.
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  It just hits us in the right spot.
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  That's all. It's just like,
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  kind of our thing.
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  Can we just marvel at something for a second?
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  Like, if you study ancient cultures.
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  I've talked about this before, but like the gods of ancient cultures.
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  Think about Zeus, for instance, or whatever, like.
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  Wow, Isis and Osiris all, all of that stuff.
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  There's nobody like the God of the Bible.
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  It's like he's so different, so removed.
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  It's amazing.
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  Like it's just to bounce a couple scriptures off you.
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  The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
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  and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
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  That's in Psalms.
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  Psalm. And here's another psalm.
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  He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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  I love that.
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  Another piece of Scripture.
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  But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted.
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  You consider their grief and take it in hand.
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  The victims commit themselves to you.
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  You are a helper of the fatherless.
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  No one else is like that.
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  No one is like him.
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  That is utterly exceptional in the world.
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  That an ancient culture would be like to have a God like that.
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  That just.
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  There's.
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  There's no one like that.
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  I have a neighbor
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  who gets paid to play video games online.
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  Okay.
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  And then people get on her stream and interesting.
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  Watch how good she is at this game, okay.
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  And that's a thing. And it's a big thing.
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  And I've heard people from Gen X which is our generation making fun of that.
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  Like who would watch someone else play a video game.
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  And I think I might have even said something like that myself.
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  Sure. And then I had a vision. Okay.
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  And what was that vision. Me at an arcade
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  leaning over...
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  which... What was it?
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  Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong. Pacman. Zaxon..
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  Yes. Centipede.
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  Because I don't have any quarters.
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  I’ll just watch you play.
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  If you're somebody who struggles with fear and doubt.
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  Don't be ashamed of that.
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  It's actually pretty common.
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  And it's something.
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  I'm so glad to remind you that Jesus was extremely patient about with people.
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  Guy said, I believe it.
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  Help me with my unbelief and Jesus found that to be a fine answer.
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  Like, yeah, he did what the man wanted.
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  He healed a family member and
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  but when John the Baptist was doubting, Jesus was patient.
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  When people, his disciples, were out on the sea with him,
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  they failed their test and they got fearful like, he was patient with them.
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  He didn't disown them.
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  I just I just want to remind you that, like, God's really good and patient with us.
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  We were just talking about something a little while ago.
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  I don't know if you heard it, but I was mentioning in the scripture
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  where it says the Lord is close to the brokenhearted
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  and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
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  And how remarkable it is in the ancient world that you would have
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  anything written down like that about a God who gets closer to you
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  when you're brokenhearted.
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  Like every other culture, it's it's an honor culture.
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  It's like strength.
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  That's what we respect and... Gods want....
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  Strength. Yeah.
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  This one.
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  When you're brokenhearted, it comes closer to you.
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  And I'm mentioning it again because I'm thinking
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  that might be you right now.
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  And I want you to know that that's his heart for you.
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  He draws closer.
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  He's not he's not getting away.
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  And even if you don't feel like he's around,
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  if you trust him at any level at all, I just, I know,
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  I know he's faithful and he means it.
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  He's actually drawing closer to you whether you feel it or not.
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  Cool.
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  That's, something.
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  Now batting for the Dodgers,
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  Manny Mota.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. No. No problem.
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  Okay, so I did that for a reason.
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  I got to play this thing off. This.
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  Okay. The computer.
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  So we were talking about scripture songs and how it'd be really good to commit
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  to memory. Yes.
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  Using, little, little courses.
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  And I was thinking I could do that.
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  I think most people listening could do that.
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  So I was like I'll try it.
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  Okay.
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  I'm going to try it.
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  I sat down and I found Psalm 94.
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  And I had a couple really sweet verses I'd never noticed before.
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  I'm like, I can put this to music, so I'm going to play that for you.
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  It's only a minute long.
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  All right.
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  So I just repeat it twice. Okay.
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  But I got it in my head now. Nice.
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  Let's hear it.
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  Okay, so but I want to absolve you of saying I don't want you to comment on
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  whether it was good or not, okay?
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  I don't want you to feel like you have to say, “oh,
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  that was really nice.” All right.
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  I won't I'm not going to say a thing.
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  No, it's just I just want to give an example of that...
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  It can be done. Yeah. So I sat down at a piano.
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  You don't need a piano. You can just be in your head.
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  You don't have to play an instrument. Okay?
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  But I'll see if I can play it here.
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  I Thought...
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  I recorded it on my iPhone when I did it.
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  And it goes like this, this is Psalm 94...I think I'm
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  calling it “And the Trees will sing” okay, because it literally says that.
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  Oh, wow.
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  Like, next time I'm out in nature and appreciating... Psalm 94.
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  Okay. Yeah.
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  So here we go.
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  Turn it up. That's why it's echoing.
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  And here we go.
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  Okay. Psalm 96.
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  Try this. And G.
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  Let the heavens rejoice.
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  Let the earth be glad.
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  Let the sea resound And all that is in it.
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  Let the fields be jubilant and everything in them.
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  Little trees sing for joy.
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  Let the trees sing for joy.
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  Let the heavens rejoice.
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  Let the earth be glad.
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  Let the sea resound and all that is in it.
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  Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
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  Let the trees sing for joy.
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  Let all the trees sing with joy.
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  Sorry, I garbled a little bit to the lyrics,
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  but the last two verses of Psalm 96. Yeah.
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  Point is, I have that drilled into my head now, and I will too.
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  And you can walk around. I love that. Yeah.
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  Walking around. It's so beautiful outside some day.
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  Yeah. There you go.
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  Let the earth rejoice and everything in it.
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  Like, the seas and everything.
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  Yeah. Let it resound.
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  I really do love that. Yeah.
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  I love the idea of it.
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  You sent..
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  Didn't you send me something?
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  You sent me someone singing scripture.
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  Oh, yeah. That was off that scripture. Yeah.
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  Hymninal project which is on Spotify.
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  That was so good. Yeah. That was,
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  song.
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  What was it?
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  I was just listening to that today.
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  It was really, really good. This very day.
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  And I here on this very day.
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  Yeah. The year of our Lord 2024.
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  I just think that it is going to be
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  more and more important
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  that we find a way
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  to have our minds absorb
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  Scripture and God's Word.
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  Like, as things, as you said, things become weirder.
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  Yeah. And it just, it's...
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  because you're not going to....
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  I really do believe. And we've seen it.
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  You're you're not really going to be able to tell some things Fake to true.
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  You know what I mean?
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  And and we know Scripture is truth. Yeah.
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  And any and every way we can commit that to our minds and our hearts.
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  It's going to be ever increasingly important, I think.
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  This is not worshiping scripture, by the way.
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  It's acknowledging Jesus. Yeah.
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  And his regard for Scripture. Yes.
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  He's constantly quoting it. Yes.
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  As a, as a rock to go back to. Right.
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  The song that I had shared with you is called Those Who Trust in the Lord.
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  So it's like those who trust in the Lord.
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  Just holding up to them like
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  It's good.
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  Trust in the Lord
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  are like Mount Zion, we cannot be moved.
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  Yeah. Forever.
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  Those who trust in the Lord.
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  So it's really just two parts of the song.
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  And it repeats. Yeah.
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  I like the next part and it's
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  but abides forever.
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  As the mountains surround Jerusalem.
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  So the Lord surrounds his people.
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  From these times Lord and forever.
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  Then you get the idea of that...
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  Yeah.
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  And, I, I just I love all of that.
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  Yeah. Yeah. So I got that in my head, too. Yeah.
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  But you can come up with your own little your own melody.
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  You and your kids, all of that.
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  But you just between you and God.
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  Yeah. Sing a little song.
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  You don't have to be a musician to do that.
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  The Brant and Sherri Oddcast, sponsored by America's Christian Credit Union.
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  To find out more about the show, go to branthansen.com