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The war on ICE, drugs, and the people · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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Welcome to Rogers for America.
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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for joining me today.
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Well, as I quite often share with you, you never know where you're going to wake up to.
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And as each day passes by, it appears that more and more violence is spreading across our country.
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If they're not rioting for this reason, they're writing for that reason.
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If they're not writing for that reason, they're rioting to this reason.
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We have a few situations here in America that are truly, truly exploding.
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And it's not getting any better.
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The topic I'm talking about is the controversy regarding the position and the tactics that ICE has been using in order to round up illegal criminal aliens.
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Now, those are the words of the left.
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Those are the words of the anti-ICE people.
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Those are the words of those who are absolutely positively without any doubt opposed to any federal intervention in their towns, cities, or states across this nation.
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They're the ones who talk about, well, you know, it's ICE who's the enemy.
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It's the law enforcement officers who are causing the trouble.
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It is the president of the United States of America who has been creating an atmosphere of division.
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Really, folks, do you really believe that?
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Sooner or later, many have predicted, including myself, that there would be an unintended consequence that would be led to a tragedy, and that tragedy would lead to what we're facing today.
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Unrest, rioting, and in many, many cases, people across the country being victimized by those in this country who hate us.
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That's right, Americans who hate America, because that's what it boils down to.
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Now, I've been on the airwaves for the past few weeks, discussing with many, many people, the incident that happened in Minneapolis.
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And I gotta tell you, you look at the videotape over and over and over again, you can only come to one conclusion.
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That the ICE agent was doing his job.
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And in his mind, he believed that he was going to be run over by a car.
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Which, by the way, in my view, turned into a deadly weapon by its driver.
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Who created that problem?
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Who created that very, very tragic incident?
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You have people on television and radio and talking to the newsprint media that it is the ICE agent.
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It is the police that is creating the problem.
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So you have an incident where a woman is allegedly on the street, causing havoc, causing chaos, yelling and screaming all kinds of things, according to certain reports, gets in her car.
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We know she got her car, we saw that.
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And instead of complying with the police to get out of the car, she begins to resist.
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Haven't we said over and over and over again, none of these incidents would happen if the individuals who are being told by the police to get out of the car if those individuals simply complied.
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Why is it so hard to comply with a lawful order?
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The police are doing their job.
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But these people aren't there to help the police.
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They're not there to help our country.
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In my view, they're here to hurt this country.
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They're there to make a political statement that they hate America.
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Now, they'll argue that point.
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Oh, we love our country.
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If we didn't love our country, we wouldn't be out here protesting.
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If you loved your country, you would not be out there violently protesting, agitating police officers and innocent people.
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And unfortunately, in this particular incident in Minneapolis, woman's in a car, she decides not to comply, not at all to comply with the lawful orders of the police.
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And after she doesn't comply, uh you could see a police officer near her window.
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Uh, you see one uh pretty much near the front of her car, and you see others just about uh almost trying to surround her to get her out.
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And what does she decide to do?
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Instead of applying the brakes, right?
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She could have done that.
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We all see that she didn't uh uh uh apply the brakes, folks.
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What she did was put the car in gear and began to drive away.
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And there were police officers, I believe they were ICE agents on the side of her vehicle.
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I believe there was one officer on the side of the vehicle who I who I saw, who I looked at and thought, gee, this guy, you know, he's lucky he didn't get run over.
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And sure enough, a cop did get run over, and can you deny that that cop got ran over?
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I mean, you saw what I saw, right?
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So she decides to move forward.
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Of course, the uh left and others are arguing, well, she was trying to get away.
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Uh she didn't intend to kill anyone, she didn't intend to run anybody over.
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Well, you know what?
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Let's let's give her that.
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Let's say, well, maybe she didn't intend to intend to do that, but she did.
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She was reckless.
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So you got the left and those uh screaming, by the way, the armed trail generals, I call them.
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I call them the uh the expert police officers that get on the air and uh begin to argue against the cops.
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There was some sheriff out there in uh Minnesota who I believe is running for governor.
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I forgot his name, or I'd give it to you.
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I was appalled at this guy's statements on TV.
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As if he was there, as if he was actually there.
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He was able to tell us exactly what happened from A to Z.
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Was he in the mind of the officer?
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You get the sheriff on there defending the woman and condemning the cop.
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And then the cop is the sheriff's on the air talking about, well, I would have done this, I would have done that.
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Really, you would have done all these things in a split second.
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You don't know, folks, how I wish I could have jumped through the TV tube and just get on the air on that CNN network, which we'll talk about some other time, and debate that sheriff.
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What an embarrassment to law enforcement.
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But see, it's people like him who get on the air and then plant a lot of negative seeds in the minds of people, and then it inflames people.
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It actually brings people to a point where they become emboldened to go out and commit more criminal acts.
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So look at you saw what I saw, many of you listening may disagree, but I believe that that officer did everything in his power to prevent himself from being killed by an automobile, driven by the woman.
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Now, the woman who was killed, I agree, tragic.
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Tragic, folks.
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I mean, I I I pray for her family, she had a kid.
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I mean, all these things, very tragic, and and I just hope and pray to God that some way down the road the family will recover.
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But it was a tragic incident.
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How do you think the officer felt when it was all over?
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You think he was having a party?
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You think he was uh having some sort of a parade over the fact that he unfortunately shot and killed someone?
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That is the worst nightmare for a police officer.
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The worst nightmare is to take a life.
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But he did his job in his mind, and what I from what I saw, I would agree with him, his life and the life of others would be in danger.
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Now you hear these people say, well, you know, she she was trying to escape.
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Escape, nearly running over a couple of cops.
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So the cops are just to let her go.
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You go ahead, you go ahead, lady, you go speed down the street, don't worry about it.
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When police officers have done that in the past, usually the person in the car is losing control of their car and ran runs into somebody else and kills them or seriously injures them.
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You see, that's what you're not being told.
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That's what nobody's being told.
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So all the experts are on there, and they're saying, well, you know, what he did was illegally, and by the way, ICE is in the city of Minneapolis, um Minnesota illegally.
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Out of the state, says the mayor, the foul filthy mouth of that guy, the mayor of the city, using the language he did.
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My goodness, Mr.
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Mayor, children are watching television.
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You're the type of leader we need to keep our kids away from.
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That's right.
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The mayor of Minneapolis, I forget his name, Fry or something like that.
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He needs to be completely and totally without any question, defeated in the next election.
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If the people of Minneapolis smart enough.
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Hey, for all we know, he may be tied up in some of this scandal going on in that uh state.
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But the governor, right?
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What a governor that is.
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There's a guy that uh, I'll tell you, imagine all this scandal, all this uh corruption, fraud, waste going on, and he didn't know anything about it.
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The mayor, maybe he didn't know anything about it, maybe he did.
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Now, there are reports.
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That he, the mayor of Minneapolis, and the governor are not running for re-election.
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I wonder why.
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Hmm.
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That's something really to ponder.
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You gotta wonder why.
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But getting back to this incident, it'll go to a grand jury.
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And hopefully they'll use their heads and say, look, there's nothing here that that no criminal act that this cop committed.
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He actually believed in his mind, in his heart, his soul, in his spirit, that he was going to die.
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And he took the action necessary to protect himself and others.
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What would you do?
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That's what these people should be asked on a grand jury.
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What would you do in a split second?
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What would you do if you believed or saw a car coming towards you?
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And the driver of that car prior to that was helping cause chaos in the streets, according to a lot of reports, and then deciding not to comply and simply drive away.
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Tragic incident that should have never occurred.
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The officer did not cause that incident.
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ICE did not cause that incident.
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President Trump did not cause that incident.
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The woman driving the car caused that incident and the conditions that existed for that officer to fire that shot.
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Any argument with that, folks?
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Any argument at all?
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I don't see an argument.
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But let's see where all this ends up.
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We got to hope and pray to God that it doesn't end up before a group of liberals, liberal judges, because if it does, it's probably gonna end up in the Supreme Court, and I don't know what's gonna happen to this officer.
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So we need to pray for him.
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We need to pray for him.
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And as I said all along, what we need to do is to put term limits on some of these uh judges and these mayors and these governors that don't have term limits, they need term limits.
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We they gotta, they gotta, they gotta go.
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I mean, they they they gotta go.
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Some of the decisions that have come down from the courts and the parole boards and others, I also said that they should be held accountable.
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You know, these are the people talking about accountability.
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Well, if you release somebody, judge, and that somebody goes out and kills somebody else, you should be held accountable for that.
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So maybe immunity for judges, that ought to go away.
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Maybe immunity for parole board officers, all right.
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Uh, that ought to go away.
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Hmm.
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That's something they would never want to see happen, right?
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Because if it happened, they would have to really be fair.
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That's the way I feel about it.
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I don't know how you feel about it, folks, but I do.
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And yeah, I'm a little riled up over it.
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You know, you get sick and tired of seeing and hearing the same old story over and over and over again.
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I'll tell you, it's it's just unbelievable.
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But this is part of life now in the 21st century in the year 2026.
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We all have to live with it, but we don't have, we all don't have to tolerate it.
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And I've said all along, people could rally.
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Let me tell you something.
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Politicians don't care about rallies.
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They can care less.
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We could write letters, they don't care.
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Believe me, I know a lot of them, they just throw the stuff in the trash, they watch a rally, they say, that's gonna go away in about a week, maybe even a month, but by the time election day comes, it'll go away.
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They don't care what you have to say, other than the day that you go in to the voting booth, or you plan you uh cast your ballot by mail.
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They don't care about anything but that day.
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And leading up to that day, believe me, the photo ops, they'll tell you what you want to hear, they'll jump through hoops to get your vote because they know if they don't jump through those hoops and don't tell you what you want to hear, even if it's a lie, even it's there to deceive you, you won't vote for them.
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I've seen it over, over and over again.
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And I've seen it in a lot of states.
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In New Jersey, I've seen it.
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We just had a gubernatorial race, state assembly race, right?
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And uh, it is uh the majority of the Democrat Party under Phil Murphy, the former mayor, decimated this state.
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Our taxes are, I believe, one of some of the highest in the country.
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I mean, sales taxes high, gas taxes high.
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I mean, they they do all kinds of crazy stuff here, probably in other states.
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They spend our money like it's water.
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Gas, electric, it's just completely out of control.
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And for four years, people were whining, complaining, oh, I can't live here anymore.
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I can't afford food, I can't pay my mortgage, I can't do this, can't do that.
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But election day is coming.
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It's coming, and we're going to make change.
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So you hear that for four years.
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And over the four-year period, they're still, they the people are still paying a heavy price.
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But here's election day.
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Boy, are we ready?
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All right, election day comes.
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The election day comes and the election day goes.
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And guess who gets re-elected?
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The very people who are picking your pockets.
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The very people picking your pockets.
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What do you think of that?
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What in the world are they?
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I mean, it goes on everywhere.
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It's the same thing may happen in Minneapolis.
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They'll be whining, they'll be crying, they'll be, oh, they're thieves, they're crooks, they're this, they're that.
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And if they decide to run for re-election, they're gonna be your next mayor again.
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They're gonna be your next governor again.
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And on and on and on.
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Yeah, you know what I'm talking about, and you know I'm telling you the truth.
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That's what happens in the United States of America, because unfortunately, sadly to say, not like years ago when people got involved and they were very concerned about their quality of life.
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People today are so apathetic that a horse could run for office and get elected.
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In fact, no kidding now, I read a story some time ago where an individual, I believe it was in Texas, was running for office, and they could never find the individual.
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Just put press releases out, name, what his positions were, on and on and on, regular campaign, right?
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And then election day came, election day went, the guy got elected.
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So finally, finally, the guy produced himself.
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He was walking down a street near a farm with a horse.
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And he had called for a press conference.
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And some of the reporters allegedly went to the press conference to finally interview this guy, this mystery man.
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He comes to the mic and he introduces not himself, but the candidate, the horse.
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That's a true story, folks.
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I read about that a few years ago, and uh I didn't believe it until I did a little bit more research in it and said, could you imagine?
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That was an American citizen trying to prove a point.
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Trying to prove a point.
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But the fact of the matter is that that's a story about apathy.
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It's a story about people don't care.
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It's a story about people who just simply will follow anybody who promises them anything.
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Like they have, had taken place in the city of New York, right?
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I just mentioned that before.
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We have a socialist communist who is now mayor of the city of New York.
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And I understand this guy is now going in and out of court like a revolving door.
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We're going to tax white people.
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So he allegedly said, it was reported, whether he said it or not, I don't trust the press.
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Whether he said it in those terms or not, I'm always going to say allegedly, because I don't even trust the press.
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They like to fire people up on both sides.
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But I have had read reports where he's going after very wealthy people, very rich people.
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And people who are not rich are applauding him.
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Good.
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Get those rich people.
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Get into their bank accounts.
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Let them pay my way, not just their way.
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Free buses, free lunch, free breakfast, free rent, get a load of that, folks.
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Free housing, free education.
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Who's going to pay for it?
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Well, the rich people are going to pay for it.
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Now, what we're finding out is that, not hundreds, but thousands of wealthy people in New York are leaving the city.
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The tax base is going to be crushed.
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There's going to be nothing left in the treasury.
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Where's he going to get the money?
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Governor Hochel, governor of New York, has stated she ain't sending him the money.
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President Trump's not sending him the money.
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So where's he going to get all that money to pay for everything he promised the people?
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The people need to understand that they're not going to get what he promised because he ain't getting the money.
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But he got elected.
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Got to give the guy credit.
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He got elected.
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He's on this bandwagon of pretty much disbanding the police.
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Mental health workers will respond to domestic violence crimes where criminal acts will come out of an argument to the point where people could be murdered.
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But we're not going to send cops who have the weapons that they may need to defend life in limb.
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They're going to send mental health therapists with pens, papers, and maybe even recorders.
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And they'll be able to.
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Confront a violent, violent husband or a violent, violent wife with a gun or a knife, and calm that person down.
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That's what's gonna happen.
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We're just gonna calm them down.
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We are gonna de-escalate.
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I've been the hundreds of domestic violence calls.
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Many of them became violent.
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And there was no way that the greatest therapist on earth would be calming down, someone full of hate and rage.
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But that's what the mayor of New York's doing.
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Getting back to my point.
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The people of New York elected him.
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They had a chance to vote for a Republican.
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They had a chance to vote for a Democrat conservative.
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I think Cuomo is liberal, but I, you know, I don't believe he's so far gone that he would be a socialist or communist like this other guy.
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You would rather have Cuomo than have this guy.
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I'd rather have a Republican in office.
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I think it was Curtis Slee, who I know I don't think he was qualified at all to be mayor, but I'd rather have him in office, and maybe people like Giuliani would jump in and help him out.
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But the people decided to elect this guy to office.
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So that's what we have, folks.
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That is exactly what we have.
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That's what they're facing in the city of New York.
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And on top of all that, there is a war going on.
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And it is the war on drugs.
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Now, there's a war going on, and and it's been going on for many, many years.
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Recent studies reveal, folks, that over 649,000 people, aged 18 to 64, died from a drug overdose here in the United States of America.
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In the United States, folks, we spent just alone in the war on drugs, over two trillion dollars in the year 2023 alone.
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Imagine what it is now.
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Now, as we're fighting this war on drugs, are we really really at least I should say, do we really believe we're winning the war on drugs?
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Over the years, the government provided free needles for drug users, spending billions on failed anti-drug programs like their and all kinds of other so-called drug education programs for children in schools, providing chemicals to destroy drugs in foreign countries like Cambodia, and then arresting drug addicts and drug dealers, only to see them get released by the courts to go out and do what?
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To get on the front lines with the drug war.
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In five decades, get a load of this.
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Five decades since President Richard Nixon declared their war on drugs.
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We have not won one battle.
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In fact, we were never winning the war on drugs.
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We lost that war a long time ago.
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Now, what has been reported by the mainstream media and others are the ongoing debates between politicians on local, state, and federal levels about what?
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Get a load of this, folks, about the legality of United States military forces being used to take down the drug lords who have been responsible for millions of American deaths over several decades from the illegal and lethal drugs they have been transporting to the United States of America.
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This is not new.
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They have been, they, the drug lords, have been transporting drugs since the 1960s and 70s.
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They are the men and women who, for decades who have created this big, unbelievable problem that just won't go away in America because we have not really engaged them, the bad guys in a real war on drugs.
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And as I said, what has not been reported is the people who are actually dealing with the drugs from another perspective.
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I'm not talking about drug dealing.
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Dealing with the drugs, dealing with the drug war.
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Like cops, parents, grandparents, children, victims.
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Have you heard much from them on the mainstream media networks?
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I haven't.
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They are the men and women who for decades have been notifying parents that their child had died of a drug overdose.
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They are the men and women who have had to make notifications to a wife or husband, a child, or a family member that their mom, their dad, their brother, their sister, or whoever had died of a drug overdose.
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The victims are the parents, the sons, the daughters, and I'm sure you know many of them.
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And millions of other men, women, and children and their family members who suffered dearly for years as a result of illegal, lethal drugs being introduced into their lives.
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Not much media coverage about those people.
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Let me say this to you.
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I've served out as a police officer for 38 years in New Jersey.
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And over those four decades, I've seen nothing but talk talk talk and more talk from Washington, all the way to Main Street USA that there is a war on drugs that we need to address.
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That's right, four decades, maybe even five.
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And what was done?
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Politicians holding hearings, investigations, and eventually throwing millions of dollars into drug prevention programs that don't work, that have failed.
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So after speaking with many police officers, victims of the drug epidemic as well, I can conclude without a doubt that the debate, the debate between politicians should end, and we as a nation, not representing a political party or agenda, but representing the people of our country.
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That's you and me should fully support the U.S.
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government's actions against the drug cartel worldwide.
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And that includes in the area of Venezuela.
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Well, that's it, folks.
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That's it for today's broadcast.
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Hey, hang around.
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Come to part two, be coming up in a few minutes.
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God bless you.
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God bless the United States of America.
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And remember, a house divided cannot stand.
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We don't have to be divided.
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We can be united, but that's up to we, the people.
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See it round two.
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God bless you.
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Welcome back to Rogers for America.
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This is the second half hour of a one-hour broadcast, Rogers for America.
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And thank you for joining me.
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The difference between the first half hour and this half hour is that during the first half hour, and I've explained this I know over and over again, but it's worth explaining what we're doing here because every single week we're getting new listeners.
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We're expanding our horizons.
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People are beginning to realize here at America Out Loud News that they're getting real credible, actionable, honest news.
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They know that with Rogers for America on the air, we are tackling some of these important issues and just telling it like it is.
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We're saying things that people would normally not say on the radio or on TV newscast.
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Why wouldn't they say it?
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Because they don't want to offend anybody.
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I'm not here, and I know many, many broadcasters on this network are not in the air, being concerned about offending anyone with the truth.
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That's the key.
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Tell people the truth.
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Talk with people, not to people.
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Let them know that they count.
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I want you to know that you count as a listener.
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I'm concerned about what you hear, especially what you hear out of my mouth.
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And I have to be very, very uh aware that those of us on the air, we influence a lot of people by what we say, and sometimes what we do.
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So during the first half, yep, we're going to tackle issues that are happening around the world, but during the second half, I like to tackle issues that are happening directly to you.
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That's right.
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And what resource I have with regard to this second half is not great newspapers, if there's any left, around the country, or radio or TV programs that are uh widely watched or heard, but from another place, and that's the Holy Bible, the Word of God, the living water, the fruit of the Spirit, food for your soul, not for just for your mind and not just for your uh stomach, but fruit for your soul and your spirit.
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And I like to share good news.
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That's what the Bible is.
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It's good news.
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Good news from the kingdom of heaven that will have, without a doubt, impact on you if you're willing to listen.
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Now, many individuals, in fact, I gotta tell you, maybe hundreds of individuals in my lifetime, have expressed to me their concerns regarding whether their prayers are being heard.
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Did you ever ask that question of God?
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Hey, Lord, are you hearing my prayers?
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Because I don't seem to be getting any answers here.
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Now it's not uncommon for people to report that, despite persistent and long-term prayer, and we've all been through that.
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They feel as though their request may be overlooked or unanswered by God.
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Faced with this uncertainty, and believe me, I've been there, done that.
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Some people may eventually become so discouraged, interpret the lack of a clear response from God is in fact an implicit answer that says, I don't have time for you.
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That's right, people have shared that with me.
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They become discouraged, they become upset, and then they stop praying.
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Now you may be an individual who has devoted considerable time to seeking guidance from God regarding a matter of personal significance to you.
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And now you find yourself contemplating discontinuing your prayers.
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Why?
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Because you're feeling that he isn't listening, that the Lord is not listening, that he has no time for you.
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And then you get this sense of resignation, and you give up.
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I mean, why on earth would God want to have anything to do with Steve Rogers?
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I used to say those things to him directly.
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Then I found out.
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We're all his children.
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Wouldn't you stop the world to help your child, your son, your daughter?
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Or how about your child, your mom or dad?
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Point is, wouldn't you stop everything, drop everything if a person you love, including a dog, a cat, an animal that you love, wouldn't you drop anything to save them from harm that could kill them?
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I learned that that's exactly what Jesus did.
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For all of us, no matter what sins we committed, no matter what we've done wrong, not only in the eyes of man, but in his eyes, where man will not forgive you, God does forgive you if you repent of those sins and ask him to forgive you.
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That's a prayer.
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That's right.
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That is a prayer, Lord forgive me for all my sins.
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Forgive me for ignoring you, for turning my back on you.
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Forgive me, and and and I now recognize you as my Lord and Savior as my God.
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Just like that.
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Boom.
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Just like that.
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Forgive him.
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He puts you on a new path.
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Whether you feel it or not, whether you know it or not, whether you believe it or not, you will be put on a new path.
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All you gotta do is to help yourself, make it grow, make the walks get bigger and bigger on a longer and longer road.
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And how do you do that?
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Through the word of God.
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The Bible.
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That's the word of God.
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Read those scriptures.
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Talk to people who know the Bible, a minister, a friend.
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Look, you know who's a Christian.
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You know who's faithful to Jesus Christ.
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We all do.
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Either you shy away from them or you embrace them.
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You don't have to hug them and go out with them and uh you know socialize with them, but if you want a good friend, I mean a real good friend.
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Talk to someone who knows Christ as their friend.
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Now don't trust just anybody who says that they love Christ and they walk with Christ.
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You know, you gotta test the waters.
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A lot of people out there that are false prophets.
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I want to caution you about that.
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But how do you prevent yourself from walking into that trap?
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You pray.
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Lord guide me, show me thy way, teach me thy path.
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I love that scripture.
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Show me thy way, teach me thy path.
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But what is prayer?
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People constantly ask me that question.
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What is prayer?
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Well, prayer refers to direct communication with God.
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It's not characterized by some formal script, by monologues, or repetitive phrases written on a piece of paper or contained in books, except for one specific directive from God, where prayer is very, very important in the terms that he put it, and I'll talk to you about that a little later.
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But for the most part, prayer is a conversation.
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It's a talk between you and God.
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We talk, he listens.
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We talk, he listens.
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See, like I'm talking to you, you're listening.
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Every day I talk to God.
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Early in the morning, I wake up, I'm having a cup of coffee, having a conversation with him, and then I wait.
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Here we go now.
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Listen carefully.
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I wait and wait and wait for him to talk back to me.
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Now you're thinking, did Steve Rogers lose his mind?
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No, I did not.
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It took me a long time to realize that God does in fact listen to the point where he will answer.
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And hear how he answers.
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I pray, have a sip of coffee.
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My prayer is what?
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Talking to him like I'm having a conversation with you.
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And then someone said to me a long time ago, when you're having a conversation with someone, and then you stop the conversation, your part of the conversation.
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Do you turn around and walk away?
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Or do you wait for a response?
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I said, Nah, you get I wait for a response.
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It's rude to walk away.
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Guess what?
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God, Jesus Christ is listening to you where you are.
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I don't care if you're in your car, he's in the passenger seat.
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I don't care if you're at work, he's not far away from you.
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You're never alone.
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The Holy Spirit of God is with you.
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Jesus through the Holy Spirit of God is.
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Is with you listening to every single word that comes out of your mouth.
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And why is it that you can't just wait a few minutes to keep quiet, even if you're at work behind a desk or in a car or you wait and you're alone somewhere, just wait.
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Wait for what?
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Wait for that whisper.
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You know what I'm talking about, that inner heart tug where the spirit of God is going to nudge you and gonna speak to your heart, speak to your spirit.
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Not an audible voice booming out of the heavens or an earthquake or a bolt of lightning, but you'll get the message.
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And 99.9% of the time, that message is gonna lead you to the Holy Bible, to the Word of God.
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I believe that the overwhelming majority, maybe close to 99.9% of the people in the United States have Bibles in their homes, and close to 90 point something, they haven't never opened it up.
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There it is.
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The road to salvation, the book of life, the book to prosperity.
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I'm not talking about just material prosperity.
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I'm talking about spiritual prosperity.
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When people ask me, gee, you're here, you're there, you're doing a lot of things.
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Man, you probably have one one heck of a treasure chest filled up.
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I said, I do.
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I do.
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And then they start asking me, Well, where do you invest?
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Where do you bank?
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I said, I invest in God Almighty.
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I invest in the name of Jesus Christ.
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I can actually tell them that.
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They start staring at me.
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My treasure is in the kingdom of heaven.
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I'm a rich person, folks.
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Money goes away.
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The riches of the earth goes away.
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All the years that I've been working very hard to where I am today, and I'm a middle class guy.
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I'm not a millionaire.
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I'm not, you know, involved with that crowd.
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A lot of friends I have in that crowd, but I'm not part of that.
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I've shared with you over and over again.
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I was born and raised on the other side of the tracks.
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And you know what side that is the poor side.
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But I've been able to make it in life through hard work, trusting God, prayer, talking with him, following his lead, and I've been pretty successful.
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But only with the treasure he's given me.
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Didn't take money, it didn't take jewels, it didn't take the riches and the politics and all the things people lean on here on earth that disappear, but it took me getting on my knees saying, Lord, I'm yours.
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A complete and total surrender to him got me to where I am today.
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So when we talk, he listens.
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And guess what?
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When he talks, do we listen?
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Hmm.
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Do we really listen when he talks?
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Are we willing to wait a few minutes to listen to what he has to say to us?
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Now I've got to tell you, it's very important that when you get together with the good Lord, I would recommend you get alone with him, make sure you have maybe a good half hour or an hour and have a conversation with him.
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And that's very important that you do that because he does want to get alone with you.
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No distractions, no radio or TV on, turn off the phone, get away from the iPad and computer, and just talk with him.
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I've got to tell you, folks, a lot of people talk to God.
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They have a monologue with regard to a conversation with God, meaning they do all the talking and don't allow him to even get a word in edgewise.
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So I've got to tell you.
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When I realized that I was doing that long, long time ago, I decided to stick around the place where I was praying to God, talking to God.
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I remained completely silent.
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In a few minutes, it took a few minutes, and boy, that whisper.
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And those of you who are Christians know what I'm talking about.
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That whisper came in loud and clear.
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It was that familiar voice, the familiar voice of the Holy Spirit of God that led me to reach for my Bible and go directly to a scripture verse that incredibly was showing me a pathway to find answers to my prayers.
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I don't know.
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I can't tell you, I can't explain to you how that happened.
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Other than I went to the Bible and I opened it up.
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I didn't know where I was headed, the book of Genesis, the book of Revelation, who knows?
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I opened it up a few pages, kind of scanned it, and bingo, my eyes hit on something in the book of Psalms.
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And that something was Romans 8 28.
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All things work together for those of you who love the Lord thy God according to his will.
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I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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No man cometh to the Father but by me.
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And there are a lot more scriptures that came to me that day.
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So I realized that during the course of my lifetime, when God, at least in my view, remained silent, there was the answer.
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Some answers are yes, some are no.
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But answers they are.
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And let me tell you this, folks, that no answers came with a peace, a grace, and an understanding that God was looking out for my best interest.
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My point is, if you're praying for something to come your way, and the answer you really sense is no, and you haven't gotten to where you want to be, years from that point in time that you prayed for that, you're gonna look back and say, I thank God that prayer was not answered.
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Happens a lot.
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I remember a long time ago, someone once saying to me, be careful what you pray for.
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Be careful what you ask for.
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I've learned that by looking back at the times I wanted to hear God's yes, and he said no, I'm now glad that he answered no, because I would not be where I am today.
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And what I wanted was something that I saw that I wanted to see, but God knew that it was not good for me.
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You may be praying for a new job.
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You may be praying for some way somehow to increase your finances.
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You may be praying for a number of things that affect your life.
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And if it's out of the will of God, the answer is gonna be no.
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You may not know it's out of the will of God.
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That's why that scripture, Romans 8.28, all things work together for the good for those who love the Lord thy God according to his will.
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I've always fought God.
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Oh, even now sometimes.
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I don't want this to be your will.
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Come on, my will's a good will.
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So it isn't.
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It isn't.
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You know, yeah, that's right.
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I do that, so I have arguments with the guy.
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You think I win?
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Never.
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But I'm glad as I look back, I'm glad, thank God I never won that battle, I'd be in trouble.
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That's why count it joy.
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The scriptures in there say, count a joy one.
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Sometimes the answer is no.
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Right away, we panic.
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Oh my god, I'm not gonna get this and get that.
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What am I gonna do?
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He will find you a way to get through your difficulties and problems.
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Many people go through difficult marriage.
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Now it's in the will of God that you do everything you could to bring the marriage together.
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But if you can't, and it's impossible, then you pray that for the good Lord to guide you in the right direction to make sure that if the marriage ends, that it ends peacefully.
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It ends in the best interests of everybody, especially that if there are children involved.
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I mean that, folks.
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A lot of people are going through tough times in their marriages because of finances and this and that, but you may find out that when you pray and commit your prayers to Jesus Christ, to the good Lord, that he's gonna show you things that you could have never imagined were there, that may help heal the wounds of a marriage.
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Or may I add the wounds of a divorce?
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They're ugly divorces, they're terrible.
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As a police officer, I could tell you I've been into homes of so many people in domestic violence problems, saying things and doing things against each other in front of their children for goodness sakes.
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And then years later, because I was there 38 years.
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So if within a span of 38 years I was involved in helping people or responding to a domestic violence call that ended in a divorce, I was there when it all started.
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I was there when it all ended.
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And those who decided to make peace with each other and pray that their divorces went peacefully, and that God somehow, some way would just forgive everybody and give them a new start.
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Everybody won.
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Maybe the marriage didn't get back together, but everybody won.
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Meaning everyone walked away peacefully.
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Maybe not joyfully.
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I mean, who goes joyful when something like that happens?
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But that joy that man gives is temporary, but the joy of the Lord is for eternity.
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A lot involved there, right, folks.
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But my point is this have that talk with God, have that talk with him.
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Let the Holy Spirit know he's with you.
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Let him know you're hurting, you're in pain.
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Let him know.
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I gotta tell you, he's listening.
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Absolutely listening.
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You know, a lot of people go to different churches and they have different doctrines and they have different ways of praying.
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And I've said the most common way that I've learned in the Bible to pray is to have a conversation with God.
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Now I know there's some denominations that say it's okay to pray to saints and others, but I've got to tell you, and I'll share this with you folks.
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I respect.
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Everyone's religion.
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That's your business, your belief.
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But if I'm going to talk to you about religion and talk to you about Christ, I'm talking to you about his word.
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What came out of his mouth?
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What is his will?
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What is written in his Bible?
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And his Bible, I've got to tell you.
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There's nowhere in the Bible does God condone that we are to pray to anyone but to God the Father through his Son Jesus Christ.
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In fact, he condemns it.
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Consider the first commandment.
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Ye shall have no other gods before me.
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That's in Exodus 23.
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Now, this is a directive right from God.
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And it highlights the need to love the Lord your God completely with all your heart, soul, and strength.
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It is the core principle of Judeo Christian beliefs, encouraging everyone we know, every follower of Christ to put their relationship with God first.
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Avoid idolatry and seek a very meaningful connection.
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Meaningful connection means a very meaningful friendship with our creator.
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When people pray to statues or buildings or different deities and all kinds of things other than the Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, through his son Jesus Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Pray any other place to any other thing other than the person of Christ.
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Those prayers aren't going anywhere.
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Absolutely not going anywhere.
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And I believe it grieves the Lord.
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Now many people say, gee, you know, I was brought up that way, and and I understood that I had to pray to this person and that person.
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I mean, I didn't know better.
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That's right.
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God knows that.
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But at some point in time, he's going to lead you to the truth.
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I was raised, folks, in a church that we prayed to statues.
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We prayed to saints.
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We prayed to all kinds of people.
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And then as time went on, through the word of God, through the Bible, through the spoken word of God, I was led to those scriptures and found out, whoa, there's something wrong here.
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And I accepted the fact that I couldn't do those things anymore.
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And what did I do?
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I didn't leave my church.
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I didn't leave people that I love, that I work with and talk with.
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I still remain friends with them, but I let them know my best friend is Jesus Christ.
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And many of them actually came over.
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Yeah.
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Said, Wow, what do you think of this?
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We are to condemn and judge no one.
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But we are to share the truth.
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And I thank God every day, even though I was taught in a way that maybe was, well, that not maybe that wasn't really in line with the biblical principles that I learned to be truthful in my adult life.
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I thank God for my mother and father, giving me those strong roots, those strong roots to allow the Holy Spirit of God, the Son of God Jesus Christ, and God the Father to grow within me.
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Because many times there are denominations where people are led to pray one way, this way, that way to saints or whatever.
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And although it's wrong, although it is contrary to what the Bible says, they still talked about Jesus.
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They sure did.
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That counts.
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That counts.
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Your prayers are heard, but you gotta pray the right way.
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You gotta have a conversation with Christ, with God Almighty.
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He's there.
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There's not a word in the Bible that says you have, you know, to pray to camps or to pray to saints or to pray to this person or that person.
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They may be special people, a lot of special people in the Bible.
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You notice Moses, folks?
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Abraham, you talk about biblical heroes.
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If there's anyone that you would think that we should pray to because of the blessings that God brought upon them, including King David of all people, don't you think it would be them?
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Hmm.
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Pretty provoking thought.
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But God said very clearly, there'll be no other gods before him.
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You turn your life, your heart, your soul, your spirit over to him, and you give him all your love.
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Make that connection, and you do it through accepting Jesus as your Savior.
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And it's a very significant friendship, a very significant connection.
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Or more precisely, as I said earlier, it is a direct conversation between you and God.
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It's facilitated through prayer.
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And what is prayer?
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It goes back to those words, that conversation.
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The way I'm speaking with you, I speak with God.
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Simple as that.
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You're gonna find that prayer strengthens your relationship with God.
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And it will enable you to develop a closer relationship with him and gain a deeper understanding of his nature.
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Now, I I've been a Christian my whole life, right?
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Brought up this way, that way, but always focused on Christ, right?
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And all these years later, all these years, a lot of years, all these years later, I'm still learning about Jesus Christ.
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In fact, I am ordering books that I never thought existed, even now.
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The biography of Jesus, biography of Paul.
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I'm reading now a leadership book about Nehemiah.
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Now, why am I doing this?
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I am in a leadership position, and I sense and believe, and I've said this to people quite some time.
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For me, and for many people in their 70s and 80s, and some in their 90s, this is the last mile.
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I'm gonna make it count.
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Not for me, for him.
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And he's positioning me to do just that.
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I encourage you, make the last mile count.
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If you're up in those years, if you're in your 20s, all the way up to your 50s, 60s, make every mile count.
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I can't make those miles in the past count the way I'd like to do it now.
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Mm-hmm.
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Let's not go down that road.
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You know what I mean?
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But I'm gonna make the last one count.
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Oh, yes, I am.
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So keep this in mind, all right?
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Keep this in mind.
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Draw near to God, and he's gonna draw near to you.
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The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
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That's what the Psalms say.
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Stay close to him.
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In my distress, I call to the Lord.
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I cried to my God for help from his temple, he heard my voice.
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My cry came before him into his ears.
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As for me, I call to the God, and the Lord saves me.
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Evening, morning, and noon I cry out in distress.
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Here you go.
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This will bring tears to your eyes.
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And in my distress, he heard my voice.
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He answered, folks.
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He answered those prayers.
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That's it.
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Go and have a good cup of coffee with the king.
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Tell him I said hello.
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Maybe you don't mention my name, he'll be scratching his head.
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Oh, him again.
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All right.
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We should have a sense of you.
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God bless you.
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Have a blessed day.
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And uh salute you and God bless them.