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Ghislaine Maxwell offers to testify before Congress about Epstein · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Greetings on this Tuesday, July the fifteenth, twenty twenty five.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Denison forums, Daily Article Podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's Daily article is written by our co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by yours truly, Chris Elkins.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Jeffrey Epstein file saga is leading the news again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To make a long story short, many people have believed for years that Epstein was at the heart of a child sex trafficking ring that involved blackmailing prominent people on a worldwide client list.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many also doubt the government statement that Epstein died by his own hand when he was jailed in twenty nineteen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, a memo by the Department of Justice and the FBI stated last week that such a client list does not exist and that no credible evidence that Epstein Blackmail prominent individuals has been found.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Reaction from longtime conservatives especially has been furious.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now comes the news that G-Slane Maxwell, Epstein's former girlfriend, who is currently in prison on child sex trafficking offenses, is willing to tell Congress what she knows about Epstein.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Clearly, as many are warning, this story is not going away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't you wish you could trust everyone who makes and reports the news?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: According to Gallup, fifty years ago, seventy percent of Americans said they trusted the mass media.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today, less than half that number agree and all time low.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Only twenty-two percent of U.S.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: adults say they trust the federal government to do the right thing just about always or most of the time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Office workers are feeling paranoid about job security with fears of layoffs and being replaced by AI.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Conversely, some are turning to AI therapy bots even though as a Stanford study found, they fuel delusion and give dangerous advice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As a sign of the times, the New York Times reports that many people are rewatching television shows made in the early twenty-first century.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The article sites, the show's quality and the nostalgia of watching them again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I also think they're popular in an unpredictable world because we like stories that we already know we like and know we like the way they turn out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Numerous studies show that people value their earthly lives more today than ever before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We are willing to spend far more on healthcare, cutting back on teenage driving and motorcycles, reducing participation in extreme sports, and taking fewer social risks than ever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One explanation is especially foundational, quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For most of human history, death wasn't the end.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a transition.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whether you believed in heaven, reincarnation, or joining our ancestors, mortality had an escape clause.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But as traditional religious belief declines, this life becomes all there is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The stakes of mortality go from high to infinite.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote, when our boys were young, they found my father's old manual typewriter in a closet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They pulled it out, tried to make it work, and gave up and asked me, what is it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you've never seen one before, you might have the same question.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could function as a doorstop, a large paperweight, or a book-in, but it was designed to do what people of a certain age understand its function to be.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why did our Maker make us?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For what purpose are our lives intended?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God created humans in his own image, according to Genesis I verse twenty seven.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like children who inherit their father's DNA, we are made to be like our father as members of his family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Accordingly, we learn in Romans eight verse twenty nine that he intends us to be conformed to the image of his son in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our Father wants us to have such an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus that we become like him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He forgives our sins and saves us from hell, not just so we can spend eternity with him in heaven, but so we can extend his family as his Christlike children.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As Jesus' best friend said of his Lord in first John two verse six.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: who ever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To be like Christ is why we exist.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing less will give our life's purpose and joy because this is the joyful purpose for which we were designed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If we live for any other purpose than this, our lives fall into brokenness and grief.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like a diesel truck fueled with gasoline, our engine fails and the truck stalls.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We can push it ourselves, use it as a storage closet, or park it in front of our house as a decoration, but it doesn't do what it was made to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thus, the distrust and anxiety in our secularized culture.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you and I want what God wants for us, we want to know Christ so fully that we become like him and thus make him known to the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We may want far less.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We want God to forgive our sins and save us from hell for heaven.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We want Him to answer our prayers and meet our needs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We may even want Him to use our lives in significant ways in the world, but how many of us get up every morning with the goal to be more like Christ today than ever before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine a world in which every government official and every reporter covering them acted with the integrity and servant heart of Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine a world in which the rest of us did the same.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There would be no Jeffrey Epstein scandals, no sexual immorality, or crime, or wars to report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Before you dismiss such a possibility as hopelessly naive, remember that the Holy Spirit and dwells every Christian for just this purpose.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As Oswell Chambers noted, the Holy Spirit is determined that we will manifest Christ in every domain of life, in quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you saying the Spirit is incapable of doing what the Father intends them to do?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's my point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Spirit will see to it that we become as much like Jesus as we want to be like Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As evidence from Galatians five verses twenty two and twenty three Ephesians five verse eighteen and John fifteen verse five he will manifest the fruit or character of Christ in every life that is fully yielded to him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He will empower us to resist temptation based on first Corinthians ten verse thirteen and live as more than conquerors through him who loved us promised in Romans eight verse thirty seven and as with his first followers in acts for verse thirteen the world will know that we have been with Jesus
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Reverend John McArthur, one of the best-known evangelical preachers and pastors of our generation, died last night at the age of eighty-six.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In his nineteen eighty-one sermon, Christlikeness, the goal of discipleship, he quoted Jesus' statement from Luke six verse forty, everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then he defined true discipleship very simply, you are a learner growing toward Christlikeness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll you be a true disciple today.