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Who really started the Iran War? · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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Thank you very much for joining our broadcast today.
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I appreciate every minute that I'm with you because it gives me the opportunity to share some uh very important news uh for you to hopefully consume as fact, as facts that you could take to the bank, gives you a greater understanding of what really is going on, without worrying about whether the news that you're receiving from us is uh editorialized, if it was spliced and cut and diced uh to fit a political agenda or uh one's political narrative.
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Unfortunately, and you've heard me say this over and over again, I probably will say it uh as as as as time goes on, because it is a fact.
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We don't have a media like we did years ago.
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Journalism died long, long time ago.
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I was asked by a reporter, uh, I guess a couple of months ago.
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Well, well, how do you feel about news broadcast today?
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Uh how do you feel about journalism today?
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I said, well, news broadcasts, I don't feel one way or another.
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It is what it is, but journalism doesn't exist very much in America anymore.
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There's no longer any journalism.
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By the way, folks, think about this.
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Somebody uh the other day asked me for a newspaper.
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I said, newspaper.
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I haven't seen a newspaper in years.
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Now, there's some local papers that I've seen around, but not the major newspaper outlets that we had years ago.
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I used to deliver papers.
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Yeah, as a kid in school to make a few bucks, throwing them on people's porches and their driveways.
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You know, I mean, bad weather, got plastic bags.
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Yep, we put them newspapers in plastic bags and threw them on the porches and in the driveways.
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That is was the way it was.
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We read newspapers.
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We read magazines, Vic magazines, get a magazine today.
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You're lucky you got 10 pages, and eight out of 10 pages are advertisements.
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What do you think of that, folks?
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My point is this.
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We're not getting Fed information that we were years ago.
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There are no, there's no one seems to me is writing the news.
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You know, I mean, they're interpreting the news, and then they're shaping their opinions and embedding it in the news.
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At least that's the way I see it.
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That's the way I see it.
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But the fact of the matter is is that we've got to deal with it today.
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We got to do the best we could in order to uh uh understand what's going on around us and in order for us to address the problems that we're facing.
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Now, before I get into a lot of the questions, and maybe let's just get into one question.
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There's so many, it would take 10 broadcasts to answer them all.
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But I want to answer the question who really started the war with Iran.
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Who really started it?
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Because there are people in this country, including congressional representatives who should know better, who are clearly stating to the American people that it's the president of the United States who started the war.
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It's the United States Navy that started the war.
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It's the United States Army, Marines, Air Force, all of our military personnel started the war.
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Really?
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You gotta wonder how deep in the sand the heads of these people have been.
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But before I get into that, I don't want to miss one important fact.
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To begin with, I want to extend my sympathies and the sympathies of the America Out Loud News family are sincerest condolences to the families of all the U.S.
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service members who lost their lives in the recent attacks on a Sadhu military base recently.
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Sad folks, terrible.
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In war, there are losses, and when those losses come, we all get hurt.
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The offense, the events, folks that are unfolding in Iran and the actions of our heroes in uniform, that is what represents the genuine cost of freedom.
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Our war fighters are courageously fighting in Iran and globally.
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That's right, not just in Iran, but they're fighting all over the globe for the preservation of freedom, not only in some of the countries that they are fighting in, but for the United States of America.
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And despite these unbelievable, ridiculous negative reports out of the news media, I believe that most Americans, like you and me, understand the reasons for this conflict.
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The heroes, the heroes that have sacrificed their lives for this country in all conflicts, and now this one, they were meaningful.
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They were not in vain, they were meaningful and never forget that.
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Well, as I mentioned time and time again, it is shocking and it is appalling to see reports of American leaders, and I'm talking about those in the United States Congress, some senators, some congressmen, and there are others on state and local levels, but they continue to question our intentions and our military actions during wartime.
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What's even more troubling is hearing that some members of our Congress, now this is really going to get you mad if you didn't hear this, voted against a resolution declaring Iran the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
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Yes, voted against, not for, against a resolution.
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Calling Iran out as one of the largest state sponsors of terrorism in the world, and perhaps even probably even in the history of mankind.
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How do you do that?
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How do you vote against that type of resolution?
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Now you find out who these people are in Congress, and then doesn't matter, Republican, Democrat, independent, you find out who they are, you should give them a phone call, let them know that you are going to make sure that they are going to be defeated in their next election or re-election, because you're going to go out and you're going to vote against them and urge others to vote against them.
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The sad part of the story is probably without a doubt, there will be people who will support them, who will vote for them.
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And yet, the impact, I'm talking about the negative impact on the morale, the welfare, the feelings, the emotions of not only those who are in uniform and their families, but all of us who are Americans.
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We should be outraged.
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We should truly show our outrage over what these individuals did.
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You know who's not outraged?
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You know who's applauding?
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President Xi over there in communist China, Vladimir Putin over there in Moscow.
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The government of what's left of it of Iran, they have been emboldened to take very serious actions against us, believing now that there's great division in the United States of America, not because of you and me, but because of some of the people we elected to office.
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It's time to get them out.
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I mean, folks, they gotta go.
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They gotta go.
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Hey, it's one thing not wanting to stand for the victims of terrorism, not wanting to stand with the whole world watching during the State of the Union message for our country.
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It's another thing actually voting for the bad guys.
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That's right.
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They don't want to hear this, but I'm gonna tell it.
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You all who voted against that resolution that would call out Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, the largest one, you have shown your support for the enemies of this country.
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That's my belief, and it's a belief I believe of probably the majority of Americans.
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Shame on you.
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Shame, shame, shame on you.
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Additionally, we continue to hear from politicians who state that we should be at the negotiating table with Iran.
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And then, furthermore, they continue to just beat the drum as to who started this war.
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Israel started this war.
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It's Israel's fight, not ours.
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That's what we hear.
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No, no, no.
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America started this war, and America is dragging the entire world into a world war.
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No, no, no, that's not true.
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Boy, again, how deep are their heads in the sand?
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Gotta be really deep.
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Well, anyway, I think what we need to do is to turn the clock back in history.
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And let's share some lost and forgotten facts regarding the beginning of this war.
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I happened to be here when this war started 47 years ago.
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And you know what?
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A lot of people either have forgotten about this or they know about it and they want to forget about it.
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Because when the facts are made clear, the majority of the American people will understand why we're at war with Iran.
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Because it was Iran in November of 1979, who stormed our U.S.
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embassy in Tehran.
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They occupied that embassy.
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They detained 66 Americans, including 52 diplomats and staff members, including some Marines.
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Now, this action was taken in response to the United States support for former Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
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Now, his uh his uh grandson, I believe, is the one who's seeking to become the leader of Iran at this point.
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But for those of you who don't know much history about the relationship between Iran under the uh leadership of the Shah at that time.
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In the United States, it was good.
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Not saying he was a good guy.
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He was not much of a good guy.
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But they did have freedoms there in Iran.
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They did have liberties, and they were an ally of the United States.
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But you know what?
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A dictator is a dictator.
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There are a lot of things going on that we were not in support of, but we needed a strong ally in addition to Israel in the Mideast, and the Shah actually stepped up and became our ally.
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But because of that, you got these lunatics, as the Secretary of State describes them as in Iran, these militants.
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They decide one day that they're going to take things into their own hands.
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They stormed the embassy, and there we got it.
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We're seeing the smoke come out of the windows, the windows being broken.
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Next thing you know, they're uh marching our American citizens out of the embassy, blindfolded, bloodied.
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Some of them were smacked around and beaten and dragged out of the embassy with their hands tied behind their backs and dragged, dragged across the front lawn and I don't know, put into a truck and shipped off to some undisclosed location.
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66 of them, including a few Marines.
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So despite several months of diplomatic efforts, well, it's Iran, folks.
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Negotiations were unsuccessful.
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In April of 1980, it's a year later, after the storming of our embassy, President Jimmy Carter, he approved of a military operation aimed at rescuing the 53 hostages.
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I believe some of them, and uh again, a little bit unclear on this part of history.
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I believe some of the 66 somehow were released for whatever reason.
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Uh, I believe that the Iranian government was trying to use them as negotiating tools in order to get exactly what they wanted.
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Well, it didn't work out very well for them at that time.
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Well, I should say it didn't work out very well for us until something very significant happened.
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We'll get to that in a minute.
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So, what should have happened?
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Well, Jimmy Carter waited too long.
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He didn't want to drop bombs on uh Iran.
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He didn't want to go after the militants, he didn't want to do anything, anything that at least in his view would jeopardize the lives of the hostages.
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Well, their lives have already been jeopardized.
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And the Iranians actually told Carter that if he didn't keep to their demands, they would kill the hostages.
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They would kill our citizens.
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So here's what happens.
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President Jimmy Carter with the United States uh joint chiefs of staff supporting him, approves of Operation Eagle Claw.
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Now that was a mission that brought together 118 elite Delta Force soldiers and personnel from all branches of the U.S.
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military, army, navy, marines, air force, they're all there, right?
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The plan called for helicopters to carry our troops to a desert staging area known as Desert One.
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I remember this very very clearly.
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And after they landed over at Desert One, they were going to move on to Tehran for an embassy raid.
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They were going to raid the embassy, because they apparently, through intelligence sources, still had or had information that the hostages were in the embassy, taken out, allegedly transported somewhere that we didn't know, but somehow, some way we received information that they were back in the embassy, with of course their captors.
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Now, although eight helicopters were sent, only five arrived ready for action, because the remaining one of those, the remaining helicopters, they had mechanical failures, hydraulic failures, there were sandstorms they ran into, and a lot of crack rotor blades.
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Could you imagine that?
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Could you imagine?
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This was going on during a rescue mission.
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Since at least six operational helicopters were required required, well, they aborted the mission.
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They decided to tell those pilots bring those helicopters back.
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We're going to endanger the lives of those uh rescuers, just bring those troops back.
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We don't need more death and destruction on our hands.
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Well, here's what happens.
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We had other U.S.
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forces that went a little later.
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Uh they uh uh were ready to go.
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Well, they landed or at least attempted to land in the desert.
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One helicopter crashed into a transport plane carrying troops and fuel, ignited a fire that destroyed both the helicopter and the aircraft, and killed eight Americans.
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So we had Americans die anyway, with regard to what became a very, very widespread news item for those to criticize our government with, and unfortunately, we lost on that one, and the hostages remained with their captives in Tehran, and then it happened.
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After all the threats against America, all the bullying of Jimmy Carter, who did absolutely nothing before or after these attempted failed rescue missions, there was an election for the American presidency, and Ronald Reagan got elected.
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Now, I remember this very clearly.
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Ronald Reagan puts his right hand up and his left hand on the Bible, and he's being sworn in as the president of the United States of America, replacing Jimmy Carter.
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Not a minute after Ronald Reagan went to the podium to give his speech at the inauguration on the at the Capitol.
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A message came in that the hostages were freed.
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They were set free on their way to an Air Force base, a U.S.
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Air Force base in Germany.
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What happened?
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Ronald Reagan made it very clear, very very clear during his run for the presidency, his campaign, that Iran would pay a heavy, heavy, heavy price if he becomes president and those hostages are killed.
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He made it clear.
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It was clear to every American that Ronald O'Reagan, and may I add probably very clear or no doubt very clear to the Iranians at that time that Ronald Reagan would have used the might of the United States military to force Iran to free our hostages.
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They would have paid way back then a very heavy price.
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They would have known we America means business.
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That's the reason why Iran released those hostages minutes after Ronald Reagan became president of the United States of America.
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That's the real reason why.
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So who started the war?
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Who started the war fifth 47 years ago?
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Wasn't Jimmy Carter.
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Although I'll tell you what, the guy tried, although it failed, he did try, but he could have taken tough action way before that, but he didn't.
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But he tried eventually.
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He didn't start the war.
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The United States military didn't start the war.
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Iran started the war.
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Ronald Reagan didn't start this war.
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Iran did 47 years ago.
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And by the way, no, Donald Trump.
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Israel didn't start the war.
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The American people didn't start the war.
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The lunatics in Iran started the war 47 years ago.
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And for 47 years, they have killed, maimed, tortured, beaten, people from all walks of life, all around the world, through the production of IEDs, explosive devices that they just put out on highways and byways and blow up no matter who's driving over them.
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Responsible for the naming and killing of American troops during the Iraq war.
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Had something to do with the bombing of the USS Coal, a US Navy warship years ago.
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All this is going on over a 47-year period.
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Nobody's doing anything.
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Oh, I must say there was somebody doing something.
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The United States Congress.
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They were having their meetings, their commissions, they were having their investigations.
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They were getting on the news on C-Span.
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Well, we're going to do this and we're going to do that.
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And they do nothing.
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Absolutely nothing.
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You're going to hear me say that a lot on this broadcast, because I'm hoping to get that through everybody's head, that the people that are being elected to office, not all of them.
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We got some real good ones there.
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Unfortunately, you don't hear much about them because they're the good guys.
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They're doing what's right.
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They're not running to the microphones.
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They're not running to get publicity.
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In fact, some of them are not even for office anymore, sadly to say.
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Because we don't want to lose the good guys.
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We want to keep them in office.
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But many of them, maybe far too many of them at this point, are more interested in their political careers and their political agenda and the survival of their political party than the survival of the people of the United States of America.
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And that's what I believe that many people across this country believe.
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But should this not be enough proof to the doubters of what I'm saying?
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To the doubters of those who are out there saying, Look, give me evidence that President Trump started this war.
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Give me evidence that the United States of America started this war.
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Give me the evidence.
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There is not, oh, we got evidence.
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Who fired the first shots?
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Well, let's talk about that.
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Did Israel fire the first shots?
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You think so?
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Really?
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October 7th.
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Remember that day, October 7th?
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Do you know who is behind October 7th?
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Hmm.
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Interesting, isn't it?
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Uh so all right.
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So if it wasn't Israel, it had to be America.
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Okay.
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When did we fire the first shot?
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Well, Mr.
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Rogers, didn't you see all these missiles and bombs and jets and aircraft carriers and ships being sent out to the peaceful, quiet waters off the coast of Iran?
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Yeah.
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So what's that all about?
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You know, when you start pushing it right back in their face, they have no answers.
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The reason why the ships were sent there was that Iran was ready, willing, and able to fire missiles directly into Israel.
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And now that we know, they were ready to fire missiles all over the region, destabilizing the region, and really possibly dragging us into a world war.
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But we had to do something because there are reports that they are rebuilding their nuclear weapons arsenal.
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And I believe the president is right that given the chance, they will not hesitate on firing a nuclear weapon at the United States of America, let alone Israel and now maybe some of those uh Arab states.
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Horrible.
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These people are lunatics.
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So who started the war?
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They did.
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47 years ago.
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Who did nothing for 47 years?
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We did nothing.
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Israel did everything they could with the little help they got over the years, but now that there's a new administration office, and our military is back very, very strong.
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I mean, you could see what's going on in that country, Iran.
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I just find it amazing that the Iranian government has lasted this long.
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Don't you think that's incredible, folks?
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I'll tell you what, it's incredible.
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But I learned that the type of government they have is you could cut off the head of the snake.
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But there are a lot of snakes now.
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They got a system where if the head of the stake, in this case the Ayatollah, the guy in charge of the country gets killed.
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Well, all of the authority does not go down to one person yet.
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It goes down to several people.
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As if each governor in each province in each state.
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I don't know what they call them.
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All right.
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I don't know what they call their leaders.
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Well, that's just for the sake of uh explanation.
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You got a governor in each state.
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In each province, in each region that makes up Iran.
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And they conduct their own affairs now.
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They call the shots.
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So on the east side of Iran, if that governor wants to fire a missile at the United Arab Emirates, he could do it.
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You don't need anybody at the head of government because there's nobody there.
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And the guy, the governor on the west side of Iran, he wants to fire a missile, let's say at Egypt or something.
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Well, he could do it.
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Doesn't need permission.
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Nothing's coordinated there right now.
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They're just firing missiles all over the place.
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Now, one of the reasons why they're hitting some of the other Arab states is because you talk about a miscalculation.
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This is how dumb they are.
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They start hitting people who were friendly to them.
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At the at at the at the most, uh, you know, absolutely at the most an ally of theirs, at the worst, neutral.
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They were not on anybody's side for the most part.
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They don't want to get involved in this.
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And they didn't.
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But all of a sudden, they get targeted by the Iranian government.
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Isn't that crazy?
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Well, it backfired.
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Because now all those Arab states are looking towards the United States of America to help them, to help them address this problem.
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And soon, I believe soon, you're going to see missiles flying out of Saudi Arabia and some of those other Arab countries, right smack into Iran.
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It's got to be done.
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It's got to be done.
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So now the uh guy that uh got elected after the Ayatollah was killed, believe it or not, is the attire Ayatollah's son.
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Politics, folks, all politics.
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So perhaps he's the next person on the Israelis target list.
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They're not going to go away.
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They are not going to go away.
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And until the people of Iran rise up the way they did a few weeks ago.
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And I listen, I know their concern and they're worried that if they do that, another 30,000 will be killed by their own government.
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So we've got some issues there we got to help them with.
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Don't expect the United Nations, what a waste.
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NATO, they may want to get involved.
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Don't you think they should?
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A missile was shot from Iran into Turkey, a NATO country.
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Isn't uh Article 5 say if one NATO country is hit, we're all hit.
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We all got to come in and protect each other.
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Where are the European nations, right?
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Where are they?
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You know what?
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It is laughable, isn't it?
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Where the heck are they?
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If this wasn't so serious, it would be laughable.
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NATO ceases to exist as far as I'm concerned.
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It's only when their backyard is invaded that they want us.
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Unbelievable.
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Again, another story at another time.
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So anyway, folks.
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47-year war to answer the question.
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Who really started the war with Iran?
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Iran.
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47 years ago.
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And now the president of the United States is going to end it so that the next generation of Americans don't have to deal with these lunatics.
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And lunatics, they are.
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Matthew 24-6.
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You will hear of wars and rumors of wars.
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But see to it that you are not alarmed.
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Such things must happen.
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But the end is still to come.
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Yep.
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This is just the beginning.
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Liberty and justice for all.
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People fall into a lot of despair, a lot of problems, a lot of difficulties.
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And there are unlimited, unlimited numbers of people we could go to for help.
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Therapists and sociologists and psychologists and psychiatrists, the people in the medical profession, mental health people.
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I mean, uh, thank God we have a country with a wide, I mean, uh a tremendous amount of resources that we can go to in the event that we need professional help.
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Look at the diseases that we've been able to cure.
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Look at the medications that we have today, perhaps far too many, some will argue.
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But my point is there's always a place to go for a lot of the problems that we are facing.
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But I've got to tell you, there is absolutely no denying that we are living today.
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We are living and we are experiencing challenging times on a global scale.
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Widespread unrest exists across many regions of the world.
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We've got conflicts emerging on nearly every continent.
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In fact, I got to tell you, sadly to say, it seems like we have conflicts emerging on every corner in every neighborhood in every city and every state across America.
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The economies are facing significant downturns.
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There are deep divisions within many nations that have brought some to the verge of a civil war.
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Now, these circumstances, I gotta tell you, they're causing considerable physical, emotional, and mental distress from millions of individuals worldwide, many of whom are seeking ways to cope with the resulting worry, anxiety, depression, and stress brought on by these unbelievable, unprecedented challenges.
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Yeah, unprecedented, especially affecting our young people who have access to news media outlets, TV outlets, radio outlets, and more let's say demonstratively, the internet streaming right into their brains, violence, division, hatred.
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I mean, on and on and on.
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Make no mistake about it.
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Our children are being affected adversely by what they see and what they hear via the transmissions that are now being broadcasted through a lot of the networks around the country and around the world.
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Now, there are several individuals who've indicated that they have pursued medications, therapy, counseling, and all kinds of approaches to alleviate the discomfort they are facing.
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That is a good thing.
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Go for help.
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Don't be ashamed to pick up the phone.
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Say, look, I got some problems.
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I need some help.
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Can you help me?
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You know, God has gifted a lot of people on this earth with a lot of talents and skills that could help you.
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And believe me, I've heard people on some radio talk shows, and I've talked to some people that would lead me to believe that man, they're going to go off the edge.
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They need help.
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They really do.
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I worry about people that get that close to the edge.
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And I do take action.
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I do make a phone call.
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I urge them first to make a phone call.
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And if they don't, well, I make a phone call and I make it anonymously.
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Yep.
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And eventually you find out, thank God I made the call.
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I mean, there's not dozens of people.
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I think one or two in my lifetime.
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But the fact is, the way they were talking to me concerned me enough that they were going to go off the edge.
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You don't want to see that happen.
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So it's very, very important, especially those of you who are on the internet a lot, in the chat rooms a lot.
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You get somebody in there who starts talking about taking their own life.
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Somebody in that chat room that is alarming you as to what they may do to themselves or even worse, somebody else.
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You might want to do everything you could to try to get them into a conversation and find out where they are.
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And if not, well, get in touch with the, you know, write down the time to date the chat room and uh find out the uh provider that's uh your internet provider.
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I know it's going to take a little work.
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You report it to the police first, all right?
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And I'm sure we got enough technology today where they may be able to track that person down.
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At least try.
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At least try.
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But my point is there are resources out there to get help.
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But most individuals, most individuals, not everyone, who've conveyed the challenges they are experiencing to me at least, have not discussed one area that they can go into in order to help them meet the challenges that they're facing.
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And that is the spiritual dimensions of everything that we are facing around the world today.
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I've said over and over again, I'm convinced we're involved in a spiritual warfare, pretty big one, something a lot of people don't accept.
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They don't accept it because maybe they don't understand it, and maybe they just don't want to believe it.
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But believe me, believe me, based on what I've read, based on what I've researched, I have no question in my mind that we're engaged in a spiritual warfare.
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Good against evil.
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There it is, the battle lines.
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Now, as I said earlier, we often seek out every available solution, every available problem solver to treat physical, mental, and emotional pain.
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And it's good.
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I'm glad that those resources are there.
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But what about our spiritual condition?
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Does anybody really talk about that?
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Does anybody really want to sit down and say, you know, I got a problem?
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And uh how do I address it?
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And then when you say, well, have you gone help?
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Well, I've seen this doctor, that doctor, I've taken this pill, that pill.
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Well, have you ever prayed?
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Have you ever had a conversation with God?
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Now, I've actually asked that question to people who have come to me for help over the years.
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And to my surprise, every single person but one, and there were dozens.
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And I honestly mean this, folks.
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Every single person but one.
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Listen carefully.
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And they thank me for sharing with them what I believe to be part of a solution to the dark days that they were walking in.
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And that solution happened to be Jesus Christ.
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Had to be God Almighty.
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Except one.
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And I believe that particular one actually went on the internet at some point in time and criticized me as an elected official who came to me with a problem.
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And all Mr.
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Rogers left me with is that he would put me on his prayer list, and his door was open any time if he ever needed anybody to help.
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Criticize me for praying, for telling him I would pray for him.
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Could you believe that?
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Not about corruption, not about being a thief, a crook or anything like that.
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I mean, you know, I mean, I was never ever part of that gang.
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And I got criticized for not being part of that gang, all right?
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Because I offered something that I believe would address the spiritual condition, the spiritual health of this individual.
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And I tell people, I'm not a priest, I'm not an evangelist, a minister, nothing like that.
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I'm just a regular person who's journeyed this life, who's been successful, a lot of pain.
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Oh, a lot of pain, folks.
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You know, there was uh I know I've read a few books, and in one of the books I I remember putting on the, I believe the first page, a quote, I believe it was by Queen Elizabeth.
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All right, some queen of England, if I remember, said that it is easier, or it is more relaxing for the person looking at the crown on the head of the person who wears the crown.
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Life is better for the person looking at the crown on the head of the person than wearing the crown.
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And boy, when I got involved in politics, boy, I knew a real truth to that.
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It may look great, it may look glorious, it may look fun, it may look powerful, it may look really good, being an individual in a position of power and influence.
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But as time goes on, if you're wearing walking those shoes, if you've got that crown on your head, really, folks.
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There's a time when you say, can't wait to take it off.
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Can't wait.
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And that's happening today with a lot of our political people.
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They're being mentally tortured.
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The good guys I'm talking about.
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The bad guys, they don't care.
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They're corrupt.
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They're liars, they're cheats, they look out for themselves.
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Not all of them.
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Let me get that straight, not all of them.
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Most of them, I want to believe most of them are good guys, but I'm beginning to believe that most of them are not.
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But that's a problem that they have to overcome, not me.
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I'll get off on a tangent.
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So let's talk about get back to the spiritual conditions of people after they've tried everything.
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They've tried the therapists, they've tried the sociologists, the doctors, etc.
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It's a good thing.
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Go to these people.
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They're good people, they're dedicated and committed to the well-being of fellow human beings.
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So please go to them.
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But add to your list of individuals that you may seek out, add to your pastor, add your priest, add to a friend who you know is uh someone who has talked to you about a strong belief in God and the and faith and trust in the Lord.
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Ain't gonna hurt you.
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I've recommended that individuals consider incorporating a true, honest for goodness spiritual approach as an additional avenue for addressing the problems and pains they're experiencing.
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Another words, get this.
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I'll put it in two words.
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Sure, some of you have heard this.
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Try God.
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Try God.
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We used to have buttons, little lapel buttons that had the words try God on them.
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We had these uh these wristbands.
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You've seen wrist bands, right?
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Classic wristbands.
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All kinds of message on them.
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Try God.
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And I've got to tell you, folks, I remember years ago, I was driving from one place to another.
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And many times in those days, we'd see all kinds of bumper stickers, especially around election day.
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Vote for this person, vote for that person, and then there would be some corporation bumper stickers, support this support that nonprofit corporations give here, give there.
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But the one bumper sticker that stuck in my mind, even until today, had two words on it.
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Try God.
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A simple message with profound impact.
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Think about it.
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I'm praying for something, I'm asking for something, I'm looking for something.
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I'm running around like a chicken without a head to this person, to that person, I need help with this, I need help with that.
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How do I solve this?
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How do I solve that?
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In the meantime, getting distressed, getting depressed, taking aspirins.
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I can't sleep, on and on and on.
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Yeah, nobody to help me.
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I remember saying that to myself years ago.
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I gotta, I got nobody to guide me through the storm.
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I go to people, friends, they're good people, they put their hands on my back, the old pat in the back.
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Hey, look, anything you need, let me know.
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But I came to you.
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I need this, I need that, but you can't give it to me.
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Because basically, what I needed was peace of mind.
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And that's what you need right now.
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Peace of mind.
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But you're not going to get that until you go to the Prince of Peace.
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He has a name.
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His name is Jesus, Jesus Christ, right?
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He's God.
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So my question to you is have you tried God?
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You've tried everything else.
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Why won't you try him?
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Now, what some of you might say, well, I tried him, but hasn't worked out very well.
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I have learned in life that when you try God with all your heart, soul, and spirit, you go down that road.
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Listen, things aren't going to happen overnight.
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You know, a bed full of roses isn't going to blossom in the morning.
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The morning sun isn't going to come up and give you a beautiful day.
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But you will be putting God's plan into action for your good.
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So when I looked at that bumper sticker that said, try God, it made me think, why not?
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So many people make every effort to maintain their physical, mental, and emotional health.
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Yet oftentimes, the spiritual effort, trying God is overlooked.
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Now, here's something else I'd like you to think about.
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When you're hungry, like when I get hungry, where do we go?
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We run to a place where we can fill our stomachs.
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A restaurant, a diner at home, the refrigerator, the food pantry, run right to that place.
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Let's get something to eat.
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And boy, it's there.
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Popping popcorn in our mouth, hamburgers, hot dogs, whatever it is.
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We just start stuffing our mouth because our stomach's empty.
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Nothing wrong with that.
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That's what we do.
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We're hungry.
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Now, when you're thirsty, what do you do?
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You ever have one of them hot days?
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You're dying of thirst, you run right to a water fountain.
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You run in a store and get a bottle of water.
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You're at home, you run to the kitchen sink, water, soda, whatever you like to drink, you go and you get it.
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Why?
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Because you want to quench your thirst.
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Logical, right?
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You solve that problem.
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Now, when you have a headache and you have some illness that you've got to deal with, where do you go?
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You'll go to the medicine cabinet, you'll get an aspirin, you'll get a pill that a doctor prescribed to you.
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You'll go to the pharmacy.
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You'll go here, you'll go there to get rid of the headache, or to help ease the pain that you are suffering as a result of an illness.
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So once we notice symptoms that prompt us to seek help, we go out and we get those things that could help us relieve those symptoms and get rid of that pain.
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But sometimes, maybe most of the time, some of the pains we suffer appear without any warning.
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And it's only when the problem has progressed to a point that we are depressed and distressed, and that we feel hopeless and helpless, and there's no place else to go.
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It's only at that time that we realize that something is seriously, seriously wrong, and that we've got to find a very, very different way of dealing with it.
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So go to the professionals.
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I'll repeat that a million times.
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Go, they will help you guide uh along the way that you are now facing if you're in the situation right now.
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Go do it.
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Nothing wrong with that.
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But add, add to what you're doing, whether it be with a doctor, psychologist, therapist, whatever way you're doing it.
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And you still don't seem to be getting there.
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Remember these two words.
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Try God.
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Look at consider.
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Where do you turn your heart when it is broken?
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Where do you turn your heart when you are overwhelmed by life's changes and life's challenges?
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Where do you go?
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Where do you go when there's no peace?
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As I said earlier, you got to go through the Prince of Peace as one avenue, as one person.
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Yeah, person.
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Jesus Christ is a person.
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The guy ain't dead.
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He's alive and well.
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Read the story.
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Read the story.
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He's alive and well.
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And he said when he left this earth, I am leaving, but I'm sending you another comforter.
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And he did.
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The Holy Spirit of God.
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And whether you believe it or not, whether you understand it or not, because frankly, I don't understand it, but I believe it.
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That the Holy Spirit of God indwells within all of us.
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And I use the illustration, all he's waiting for us to do is to activate him, is to activate them.
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And we activate them by trying God, by accepting Christ as our Savior, by giving our life over to him.
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All it is, it's so simple.
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It is so simple, but people don't do it, they don't believe it, they don't want to do it, they don't understand it, so they don't understand it, they don't do it.
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A lot of things I don't understand about God in the Bible, but I do believe in the stories written in the Bible because they're not novels, they're not fiction, they're real life stories.
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He said, I have come to prosper you, not to harm you.
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And he's not just talking about prosperity and a sense of material things.
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He's talking about prospering you by giving you peace through the storms, giving you answers to your prayers, the desires of your hearts.
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As long as those things don't hurt you, they're yours, yours to take.
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But the way to get there is like the way to get to a solution to a mental health issue, the way to get to a solution to solve a problem that you have, the way to get to a solution for a headache is to go to the right place.
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The way to go and get a solution for peace of mind through the challenges and storms that you have, and to get the help you need to get through those challenges, you got to go to the solution.
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And one man once said to me, Look, the longer you look at the problem, the bigger it gets.
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But the longer you look at Jesus Christ, the bigger he gets.
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Woody think of that.
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Try God.
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What's wrong with that?
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What's wrong with trying God?
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I've asked that question to a lot of people.
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And they said to me over and over again, well, you know, I don't know if it'll really work.
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It works, but you won't know until you try God, correct?
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So I believe that the people you go to, all the professionals that I mentioned, they're gifted, and they are gifts from God Almighty to those of us who need their help.
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I really believe that.
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And I I pray for them and God, I say bless them every single day.
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Because whether they believe in God or not, they have been given that gift to help you, to help anyone who is in a certain kind of need.
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Now, it's believed that everyone who has those gifts, it is believed that truly they are very talented and skillful people who truly got their skills and gifts from God.
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But how about this?
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How about this?
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How about you got a gift from God?
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I got a gift from God.
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I'm not talking about the skills and talents that he's given all of us.
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Some may believe, well, you don't have a skill or talent.
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You do.
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Maybe you haven't discovered it yet, but you have it.
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But you know what the gift that God gave you and gave me.
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You ready?
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The gift that he gave you and me was his word, the word of God.
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That's written in the Bible.
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What a gift.
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That is a gift.
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That is the history of man.
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You want to know the beginning of creation?
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Start with the book of Genesis.
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You want to know how it ends?
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Well, you're going to go through one heck of a journey through the 66 books of the Bible.
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Every paragraph, every page is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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And there are some difficult days, dark days, stormy days.
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There is a lot of action in the Bible.
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Yeah, wars, bloodshed, destruction, judgment, a lot.
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But the key to all of that is salvation.
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Because the Bible talks about the creation of man, and then man bringing into the world sin.
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And therein lies the beginning of it all, the beginning of all our problems, sin.
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And so doesn't mean your sin.
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You know, you're a person being punished or you have your problems because of sin.
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Nah.
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We're all sinners.
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I'm a sinner.
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Bible says we're all sinners.
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We all sure fought the glory of God.
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But the other part of the story is Jesus Christ has offered us a gift.
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God has offered us a gift of his son Jesus, who is crucified on that cross, shed his blood, so that all of our sins may be forgiven.
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And that's it.
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You want to try God?
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Try that.
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Try going to him.
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You don't have to be on your knees, be nice if you were, but go to him.
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Talk to him.
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Say, Lord, I got to tell you something.
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I don't understand how this works, but I'm going to try God.
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And here's how I'm going to do it.
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The Bible says that no man cometh to the Father but by me.
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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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So go the way, go to the truth and bring into your life his life and bring your life into his life.
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Okay.
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And here's how you do.
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All you got to do is say something like this.
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It's simple.
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Just say something like this.
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Lord, I may not understand all of what's going on with this Bible and what I'm reading in the Word of God, but I'm I'm going to take a step in faith and do the best I could to understand it.
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But in the meantime, I would like very much for you to help me understand you.
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And I accept you as my Savior.
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I accept the fact that you came to this earth and shed your blood so that my sins shall be forgiven.
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And here's some of the sins that I've committed that I'm sorry for.
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Don't remember all of them.
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I know you do.
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But I pray that you forgive me for my sins.
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And now I ask you to take control of my life.
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I accept you as my Father in heaven and my Savior and my friend.
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In Jesus' name I pray.
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Amen.
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That's it.
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Yeah, that's it.
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Did the earth shake?
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No.
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Bolt the lightning strike?
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No.
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But something is transforming in your life right now.
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I believe that.
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Now, after you do that, you know what?
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Sit back, relax a little, and go about your business, but don't forget him now.
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I recommend you go and you get a Bible.
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If you don't have one, go to a store, right?
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Go to a store, go to a bookstore, find the Bible.
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I recommend you get what's called the New King James Version of the Bible, because it's it's really simple to understand.
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I've had problems in the past with the those and vows of the King James Version.
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But there's several versions of the Bible.
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I recommend the New King James Version.
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And there are different pastors and evangelists and great men and women of God who actually published Bibles, uh, helped us understand it.
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Uh, the pastor David Jeremiah, you remember that name?
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He has a great Bible out with commentary.
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Make sure you get a Bible with commentary.
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These are pastors and and great men and women of God explaining what a lot of these scriptures really mean.
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So you got David Jeremiah, Charles Spurgeon, one of the greatest, greatest evangelists uh known to mankind, Charles Stanley.
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I mean, there's a limitless number of them, but those are the three that I trust the most.
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So if you want to follow my lead on that, by all means, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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So, where do you start?
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You get yourself a Bible and uh make some time.
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How's five minutes a day?
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Five minutes a day.
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How's that?
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All right, you take five minutes a day, and what do you do?
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Well, how about starting?
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People ask me, well, where do I start in the Bible?
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Uh, by the time I get to the end of it, I'll be a hundred years old.
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I say this start in the book of Psalms.
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The book of Psalms, those are written by King David when he was uh going through the most difficult times of his life.
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And in that book, the book of Psalms, you'll find food for your soul.
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You'll find some mending for your broken heart, you'll find hope.
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You'll find love, you'll find acceptance, and you will find peace of mind, at least in my view, in the book of Psalms.
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The book of Proverbs is wonderful also.
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There is a lot of wisdom in the book of Proverbs.
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You want some guidance on how to conduct yourself at home on the job, at school, or whatever, the book of Proverbs.
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So you go to Psalms and you go to Proverbs, and I've got news for you.
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He will not let you down.
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No, he will not.
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Jesus Christ will not let you down, and he will make it very clear to you that once you accept him, you can be sure he will keep his word that I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.
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John 635, I am the bread of life.
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Remember, Jesus said man cannot live on bread alone.
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That's right.
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You can't live on the bread of man, the food of man.
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Man cannot live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God.
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Now, John 6 35, I am the bread of life.
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Whoever comes to me will never go hungry.
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And whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
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Remember, try God.
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God bless you all.