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The bad guys now run the United Nations · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Now, for years, it used to be for months, used to be for weeks, but now for years, as time just whizzes by.
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  They don't belong anymore on U.S.
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  soil.
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  Now, I would have not said that many years ago, but the fact of the matter is that most of the nations now, at least in my view, are not friendly to the United States of America.
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  You know, it was a promising idea when the UN was founded in 1945, no doubt about that.
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  I think it was a great idea.
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  UN was created after the League of Nations was created.
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  You know, the whole idea was to let's get some leaders together in one room in one building in one place when there are conflicts going on, and let's settle them between ourselves.
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  Great idea.
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  Great idea.
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  But now, in this century, the 21st century, well after 1945, based on its radical membership and its thirst for anti-American positions and the corruption that's going on in the United Nations.
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  I say it's time to go.
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  Absolutely time to go.
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  Now, after World War II, the United Nations was formed to help prevent further global conflicts, as I said earlier.
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  And it was supposed to, and it did years ago, encourage international cooperation.
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  That's what it was all about, right after World War II.
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  Look it, we had just gone through two world wars, World War I, World War II, many, many people died as a result of many, many leaders for some reason not being able to sit down and straighten out their problems.
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  You got a maniac in the name of Adolf Hitler who decided that he was going to conquer the world.
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  Well, he got conquered.
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  After the United States of America got involved in that war, he got conquered.
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  In fact, anybody who rises up against freedom and liberty around the world will end up at the very, very bad end of the military might of the United States of America.
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  Now, don't you think I should be saying, well, anybody who dares create conflicts around the world and tries to rise up against freedom and liberty worldwide, that they're going to deal with the United Nations?
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  Well, that's impossible these days, folks, because the United Nations is now part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
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  And unfortunately, it's just continuing on and on and on as an irrelevant, unwanted organization, at least in my view, here in the United States of America.
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  You know, the concept of the United Nations again arose during the war, war World War II when President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States of America pushed for an institution that would replace the League of Nations.
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  And it would be led by the United States.
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  The United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China.
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  Those were some of the most powerful nations on Earth back then, soon after World War II.
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  So uh President Roosevelt suggested and was successful in bringing the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and China into the fold.
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  Now I am sure that the Soviet Union and China saw this concept, if you will, at that time as an effective method to do what?
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  To collect intelligence.
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  Meaning to collect intelligence on the United States of America.
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  And that hasn't stopped since then.
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  In fact, it's grown and grown and grown.
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  And now I'm sure they've got so many spies running around the United Nations that uh probably every single one of those Chinese uh representatives belong to the Chinese Communist Party, and they are Chinese intelligence agents.
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  Soviet Union's gone, but Russia's still around.
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  Yeah, Russia has their agents in there too.
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  Look at the old saying, a leopard doesn't change its colors.
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  Well, communists don't change their colors, and Russia, as far as I'm concerned, uh they're no fools.
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  All right.
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  Vladimir Putin is not a fool.
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  So they have outposts now.
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  And the outposts are in New York City.
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  That's right.
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  Intelligence gathering outposts all over the world.
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  And the biggest intelligence gathering outpost in my view is in the United States of America in New York City.
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  Yep.
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  That's from the Chinese and from the Russians and from the Iranians, and let's go down the list of enemies of the United States of America.
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  You could believe they are collaborating with each other, trying to find a way to destroy our beloved nation.
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  That's why I have said over and over and over again, they gotta go.
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  Now, when the United States was founded, delegates from 50 nations, 50, they came together to draft and sign what they call the UN Charter, which set out the organization's goals, its principles, and its structure.
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  So far, so good, well organized.
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  Good thinkers, common sense, putting together an organization that would promote world peace.
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  So the charter was then ratified by the main allied powers.
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  China, France, Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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  So it appeared for the most part that there was a balance that was running the United Nations.
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  There were the bad guys, which I identify as China and the Soviet Union at that time.
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  And then there were the good guys, United Kingdom, France, and the United States.
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  With the good guys, United Kingdom, France, and the United States.
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  Boy, hasn't that changed lately?
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  Boy, hasn't that changed lately?
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  So let's look at that a minute.
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  So let's look at that a minute.
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  China, still a bad guy.
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  China, still a bad guy.
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  France?
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  France, I don't think they're a good guy.
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  I don't think they're a good guy.
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  Maybe not fully a bad guy, but getting there.
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  Maybe not fully a bad guy, but getting there.
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  Soviet Union, well, they're gone, but Russia took their place.
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  Soviet Union, well, they're gone, but Russia took their place.
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  United Kingdom?
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  United Kingdom, yeah, you know, not a bad uh uh a certified bad guy, but not a good guy either, at least at this point.
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  Yeah, you know, not a bad uh uh a certified bad guy, but not a good guy either, at least at this point.
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  And then we have the United States.
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  And then we have the United States, always was, is now, and always will be the good guys.
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  Always was, is now an old.
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  And then they had uh some other signatories on this uh UN charter, and then they officially established the United Nations, believe it was on October 24th, 1945.
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  Why do I believe that?
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  Because I understand by many from many people that October 24th, 1945 is a date that is recognized as United Nations Day.
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  I didn't know that.
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  I didn't know it because I never heard of it, and I never heard of it because I don't know if anybody celebrates it anymore.
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  Is there truly a United Nations?
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  And if there's not truly United Nations, you're not gonna celebrate United Nations Day.
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  In fact, I don't even think the United Nations celebrates United Nations Day.
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  Something we got to look into, folks.
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  Another one of those things that just come and go.
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  United Nations Day.
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  And if there is a day where you celebrate United Nations Day, you could be sure I will not be attending any celebrations that celebrate the United Nations, at least at this point in time in the history of not only our nation, but of the world.
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  So now you got the United Nations was created again for what reason?
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  It was created to help maintain worldwide peace and security, promote human rights, support social and economic advancement, all good things, great things, and encourage international cooperation on what?
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  Humanitarian issues.
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  That's what it was created for.
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  Now I could tell you there was a difference between the League of Nations and the UN, because unlike the League of Nations, the UN developed a stronger systems of collective security and engaged countries more actively.
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  Look, the League of Nations, they didn't have much of a strong, strong uh structure where they could actually come to the aid of each other in the events of some enemy rising up and attacking, attacking a member of the League of Nations.
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  But now, with the United Nations intact, uh, there's this big, very strong collective security uh put together that will join countries together in the event that uh one peaceful nation is attacked from a belligerent nation.
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  Really?
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  I tell you, I think about this.
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  Really?
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  You think that's really ever happened before?
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  Look at it, I've I've heard over the years of my lifetime that when some countries were attacked, you've got the the United Nations sending what they call UN troops into hostile areas, the Middle East, in the beginning of uh the Vietnam war uh developing over there way back then in history, uh UN forces went into the UN, uh went into Vietnam and uh and on and on and on, where there were problems uh arising up in Africa, certain parts of Europe and Asia.
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  Uh these were the guys running around with blue helmets on.
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  You see a blue Hamlet, you don't shoot them.
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  They're the United Nations.
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  Guess what?
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  The enemies of freedom and liberty didn't care if you had a green helmet, brown helmet, or blue helmet.
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  If you weren't the enemy of freedom and liberty, you were gonna get shot.
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  So that's what uh has been going on throughout the history as far as the UN.
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  Now, look at I understand that uh the UN, yeah.
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  I I know in the past they've done a lot of good things, right?
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  Food, humanitarian aid all over the world.
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  I mean, they've done a lot of good things.
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  And you know how they're able to do a lot of good things, folks?
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  Because we pay for that.
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  That's right.
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  The American taxpayers, we pay for all of that.
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  We give more money to the UN than any other country on the face of the earth.
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  That's right.
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  That's absolutely right.
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  And we're gonna continue to do that, I guess, until such time that uh we begin to do what we've done here in the United States.
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  We audit the books.
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  We do a doge.
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  Remember Doge by Elon Musk?
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  We go in there and we clean house financially.
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  Let's find out how much we're spending on the United Nations.
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  Let's see how much we're giving to world peace, and then uh take it from there.
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  I think we ought to stop giving to the UN and uh just maybe, maybe as I think about this, help advance President Trump's new Board of Peace.
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  That's pretty neat.
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  He created a Board of Peace, and he brought the you know, Russia in, he brought other countries from around the world in to sit down and to truly have discussions regarding world peace.
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  Hasn't gotten very far right now because we're engaged in a major war over there with Iran, but I'll tell you what, he he the president thought out of the box, and uh why not?
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  Why not give it a try?
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  Probably more will be more effective than the United Nations and a lot less expensive.
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  But um the United Nations created to help maintain worldwide peace.
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  Has it done that?
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  I don't believe it's achieved that goal since its inception in the 1940 and 1945.
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  Encourage international cooperation.
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  Well, have they done that?
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  I think they've done more damage to international cooperation.
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  Seems to me that they're taking radical progressive uh positions on just about every issue that comes before that body.
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  Condemning Israel, condemning America, right?
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  Think about that, folks.
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  You talk about uh biting the hand off that feed you.
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  Well, you bite our hand off, well, you're not gonna get fed anymore.
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  I mean, have they really stood up in the UN?
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  I mean, in a real strong, tough demonstrative way for freedom, liberty, and justice worldwide?
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  I haven't seen that.
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  If you have, let me know.
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  I'd like to find out where you get your information.
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  So uh that's what's been going on.
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  The uh they haven't been able to really, really uh abide by their charter.
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  So since its establishment, the United Nations has gradually violated its own charter by neglecting to promote human rights and failing to foster international cooperation for maintaining global peace.
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  Have we heard a peep, a peep out of the mouths of the UN to condemn Iran over its slaughtering of their own citizens on the streets of Tehran who were protesting?
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  Hear anything from the UN folks?
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  The public hanging of people, this execution of children in front of their moms and their dads in Iran.
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  This execution of children in front of their moms and their dads in Iran.
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  Any words coming out of the UN?
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  Any words coming out of the UN?
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  I don't hear anything.
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  I don't hear anything.
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  I don't even hear crickets.
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  I don't even hear crickets.
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  Nothing.
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  Nothing.
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  Not a word.
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  Not a word.
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  Remember the uh picture of the Chinese uh guy we saw in uh years and years ago in Tenement Square, standing tough, standing strong in front of a Chinese Communist Party tank.
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  Remember the uh picture of the Chinese uh guy we saw in uh years and years ago in Tenement Square, standing tough, standing strong in front of a Chinese Communist Party tank.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Got on the news, a lot of people spoke up, uh
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  Got on the news, a lot of people spoke up uh in favor of this man's courage.
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  Did you hear anything from the United Nations?
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  Ooh, I didn't.
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  I don't remember a peep coming out of the United Nations.
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  Yep, that's that's those are facts, folks.
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  You know, we're adding it up, fact after fact after fact.
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  You're adding it up, I am, but nobody else seems to be doing that.
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  But maybe our president will.
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  Maybe our Congress should.
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  Maybe we ought to write letters to Congress and say, hey, look, it's time for the UN to go.
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  Maybe here at America Out Loud.news we'll launch some sort of uh uh uh uh an educational uh advocacy program that will enlighten the American people on facts that will lead us to take some action, of course, within the framework of the law, uh that will ask our lawmakers to finally pass legislation to get rid of the United Nations.
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  Get it out of America.
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  You want to keep the UN good, go to Moscow, go to Beijing, go to Tehran, go somewhere far away from U.S.
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  soil.
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  Nowadays there seems to be a watchdog group monitoring every organization, right?
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  Every organization.
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  Well, it doesn't surprise me that there is a watchdog group, and I'm happy to learn about this.
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  There is a watchdog group that is actually monitoring the actions of the United Nations.
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  So in the scheme in the world of everybody tracking each other, everybody watching, everybody, lo and behold, there is somebody, there is some group watching the United Nations.
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  So after they do their watching of the United Nations and they make their discourages discoveries, I wonder what's next.
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  The group is called, from what I understand, UN watch.
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  I like that name because it's short, it's direct, we know what they're doing.
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  They happen to be an independent, non-government organization based in Geneva that monitors the United Nations.
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  And uh I've got to tell you that uh they they recently called out Canada, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, and the UK.
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  Now listen to this, folks, call them out, and other democratic nations to explain.
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  Hold on to your seats, to explain their participation in doing what?
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  In electing frequent human rights violators to important UN bodies responsible for overseeing human rights.
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  What do you think of that, folks?
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  That's an absolute fact.
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  I did some digging, and yeah, they're right.
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  The UN watch is right.
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  Canada, France, Spain, Norway and the Netherlands, and Australia and the UK, they decide to vote in favor of putting the heads and leaders, I shall say, of countries that violate human rights as a way of life in charge of overseeing human rights.
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  Now, the United Nations, 54 member economic and social council has nominated.
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  Get a load of this, folks.
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  You you I'll tell you what.
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  Uh I hope you're you're sitting very securely in your seats, because when I learned this, it just, you know.
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  Did it surprise me?
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  No.
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  Did it shock me?
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  No, but it disturbed me, yeah.
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  The United Nations 54 member economic and social council.
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  There's always a committee, right?
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  Always a council.
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  Always, always groups of people coming together to do what?
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  All right.
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  What does the economic and social council of the United Nations do?
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  Well, whatever they do, they did do one thing that um I think it's downright dumb.
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  All right.
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  They nominated, yeah, yeah, boy, I tell you, folks, if this wasn't so serious, it would really be laughable.
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  They nominated the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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  Now we know who those characters are, right?
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  To serve on the UN's Committee for Program and Coordination, another committee.
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  Could you imagine?
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  So we're talking about the economic and social council, whatever that is, nominating the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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  We know who those bugs are, to serve on the United Nations Committee for Program and Coordination.
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  What in the world is that all about?
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  Now, this committee, we're supposed to meet in the next few months.
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  Guess what they're responsible for?
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  You ready?
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  This is now the Republic of Iran heading this committee.
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  They're responsible for shaping policies regarding, here you go, sit down, I really mean it, sit down.
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  Women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and efforts to prevent terrorism.
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  You gotta be kidding me.
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  This is what you and I, taxpayers of the United States of America are funding.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yep.
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  Want me to say it again to you folks?
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  Iran, the Republic of Iran, the thugs who are running Iran, executing people, violating human rights.
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  There are no women rights in Iran.
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  They're arming themselves to the teeth to destroy Israel and the United States and some of the Arab nations right in the Persian Gulf.
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  They're financing terrorism worldwide.
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  They're now the watchdogs.
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  They are now the committee.
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  They are now responsible with this committee for programs and coordination of the United Nations to do what?
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  To watch human rights, to watch women's rights, to advocate disarmament, and to advocate the dissolution, if you will, the elimination of terrorism.
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  They're the ones committing these crimes.
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  And you put them in charge.
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  I'll tell you.
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  And what's very disturbing is not too many people are paying attention.
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  Look it up, check it out.
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  Look for uh who's in charge of the Committee for Program and Coordination and the United Nations.
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  We're gonna do another broadcast on this.
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  I I gotta get somebody to do a little bit more research for me on this, because I really think we ought to speak up here at America Out Loud.news.
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  We need to get out loud on this.
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  I want to get all our ducks in the water.
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  I want to get all the facts together and truly address this in a more formal way, and maybe start a movement here across the United States to address this.
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  In a more formal way, and maybe start a movement here across the United States to address this.
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  I really believe that, folks.
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  I really believe that, folks.
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  That we gotta we gotta get the word out that uh we got a bunch of maniacs running the United Nations.
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  That we gotta we gotta get the word out that uh we got a bunch of maniacs running the United Nations.
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  I know some people don't like to hear me say that, but what up?
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  I know some people don't like to hear me say that, but what up?
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  What do you want me to say?
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  What do you want me to say?
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  We got a bunch of leaders running the UN, good people.
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  We got a bunch of leaders running the UN, good people.
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  We got a group of uh intellectuals running the United Nations.
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  We got a group of uh intellectuals running the United Nations.
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  We got people who are evil running the United Nations.
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  There may be some good people mixed in there.
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  I haven't heard from them lately.
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  China's saying a lot, Russia's saying a lot.
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  Iran, they're saying a lot.
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  Terrorist uh sympathizers and supporters are saying a lot.
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  I don't hear too much coming out of uh, at least in support of freedom and liberty from uh the UK, from France, right?
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  Don't forget the United Kingdom, France, some other countries, they turn their backs on us, you know, as members of NATO.
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  They turn their backs on us.
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  And that uh that doesn't fly with me.
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  And I've you know, the deep, the deep inside of me says, you know what?
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  At some point in time, at some point in time, they better be careful because not if, in my view, but when Russia decides to go after a NATO country, they will be begging us for help.
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  They will be begging the United States to send our treasure in blood to defend them.
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  Now, should we turn our backs on them?
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  Two wrongs don't make a right.
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  Two wrongs don't make a right, but I wouldn't make it easy.
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  I would do what the president of the United States said to them, we'll remember.
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  We will remember.
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  I wouldn't make it easy.
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  And I'd make sure that the bulk of the uh the assistance they need or the armament they need and the manpower they need, they carry the big load, not us.
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  But I wouldn't say turn our back on them because if there is ever an assault on uh a European nation, it's gonna be ugly, it's gonna be bad.
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  China gotta watch out for them, folks.
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  Gotta watch out for them.
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  They're up there in the North Pole along with Russia.
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  Gotta watch out for them.
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  Don't forget Greenland.
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  You know what?
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  Denmark, those Scandinavian countries.
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  We got some NATO countries in there.
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  Greenland's part of that.
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  Man oh man.
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  So it's incredible, don't you think that the country, Iran, has been nominated with the support of many of our allies to oversee the rights, the liberties and freedoms and justice of people all over the world.
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  Yes, the country, Iran that tortures and kills its own citizens for peacefully protesting government policies.
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  It's known that such a nomination is rubber stamp by the entire UN Assembly, and they just simply take the gavel and boom, that's it.
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  Iran, you're now in charge of this new committee to oversee human rights, etc.
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  Well, the United States was the sole member to raise an objection stating that Iran is unfit to serve in this capacity.
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  Of course, they're they're unfit.
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  Dictators are beginning to control important UN committees, ensuring that human rights folks are going to be weakened and in some cases eliminated in some countries.
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  What are the leaders of the West?
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  What are they thinking?
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  Who in the world are in a lot of these countries that are supposed to be our allies are promoting this kind of stuff.
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  I've got to tell you, man, I've got to tell you.
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  It's absolutely incredible.
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  Unbelievable, but that's what's happening.
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  So uh what's next?
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  What do you think is next, folks?
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  What do you think is next?
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  I'll tell you what should be next.
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  Again, as I said earlier.
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  If we're the only ones around the world that are very well aware of what's going on, then we need to take action.
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  And we can do it.
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  We have the freedom and liberty to do it.
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  So again, uh welcome and thank you for uh coming back.
• 32:06
  Uh look at I want to talk a little bit about during the second half about friends, right?
• 32:11
  We we how many friends do you have?
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  When you count on your finger, I'm sorry, you count on your hands, how many friends can you really count on?
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  But I'm going to talk to you about a friend that uh they're gonna go away.
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  And whether you know it or not, this person is your friend through thick and through thin.
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  Now I could tell you throughout my life, I have often wondered how to become a true friend to one person and one person only.
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  And that person happens to be God.
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  That's right.
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  I remember at a as a young kid, I used to pray a lot.
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  My parents brought me up uh to understand that there's a God above, that I'm accountable to him, and they would constantly share with me every day of your life, try to get closer and closer to him through prayer through reading your Bible.
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  I remember we went to uh catechism classes and communion classes.
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  So my my parents really uh uh grounded me uh as well as my brother and my sister when we were young uh in the holy word of God, in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  And so as time went on, I I truly wanted to uh get to know him personally.
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  And I guess, like many, you know, I knew there was a God because my parents gave me a very well-grounded Christian education, and then they need to always pray and know that God was always watching over me.
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  But I remember my mother used to say, on your right shoulder is God.
• 33:40
  On your left shoulder is the devil.
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  Yeah, as a kid, as a young kid, she she would say this to us, uh kind of, you know, the the right shoulder figure that's good.
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  God's on that side, but scared the living daylights out of us that there was this little guy with a pitchfork and horns running around our left shoulder.
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  Uh she said, always look to the right and know that he, meaning God is watching, and you will do what is right.
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  And she was right.
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  I figured, you know, when I was able to do something that I knew was wrong, I actually looked at my right shoulder, and then I kind of quick glance at the left shoulder and said, uh-uh, uh-uh.
• 34:17
  It didn't always work that way, folks, but I gotta tell you, for the most part, I got uh a good education from mom and dad with regard to how to build a relationship with uh God Almighty.
• 34:28
  So as the years went on, I did uh grow older and uh had a hunger and thirst to really get to know God.
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  And I think all of us at some point in time perhaps do that as we get older.
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  But uh sometimes a lot of us don't.
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  So in time I took a giant step forward.
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  Yep.
• 34:47
  Took a long time.
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  Years, a couple of decades, maybe more than a couple decades.
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  Not until I was in my 30s, I would suppose.
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  I took a giant step forward when a fellow Christian had shown me what is written in the Bible in John 14 6.
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  In the Bible in John 14 6.
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  All right.
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  All right.
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  That is when uh this uh guy named Nicodemus comes along.
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  That is when this guy named Nicodemus comes along.
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  He was a leader in the government during the early New Testament days, Roman, Roman soldier, Roman centurion.
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  He was a leader in the government uh during the uh early New Testament days, Roman, Roman soldier, Roman Centurion, and he asked Christ, he says, Let me ask you something.
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  And he asked Christ, he says, Let me ask you something.
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  Basically, he he was saying, Well, how can I, how can I get uh close to you?
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  Basically, he he was saying, Well, how can I how can I get uh close to you?
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  How can I, you know, really become a follower of you?
• 35:23
  How can I, you know, really become a follower of you?
• 35:27
  And uh, you know, Jesus said, uh
• 35:27
  And uh, you know, Jesus said, uh, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me.
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  And he also said in another scripture in the book of John, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of heaven.
• 35:44
  Frankly, what he was told by Jesus was unless a man understand fully from his heart, his soul, and his spirit, who God is, unless a man, including a woman, by the way, we use man uh, you know, in the plural sense, uh, and let's say man and woman get to know who God really is, get to know that he is in fact Jesus Christ, uh, you're not gonna be able to get to know him as a close friend.
• 36:12
  You can't just say, I believe in God, I believe in Jesus.
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  You gotta say, well, you know what?
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  I do more than just believe in him, I accept him.
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  I accept him as my Lord and Savior.
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  I accept him as who he is.
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  That individual who shed his blood, crucified, died, was buried, shed his blood for me, so that my sins may be forgiven.
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  That's what he did.
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  This is facts, folks.
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  This is not fantasy, this is not a novel.
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  It's written in the word of God.
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  So uh I knew I had to do something.
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  I knew I had to accept Christ as my savior, my friend.
• 36:53
  Of course, the Bible says a man must be born again.
• 36:56
  Now, people think, oh, I'm gonna I don't want to change my religion, I don't want to be involved with these born again people and all that.
• 37:02
  You know, I heard it all, heard it all.
• 37:04
  Has nothing to do with that.
• 37:06
  Born again simply means that as Jesus said, a man's born of the water, right?
• 37:10
  Meaning we're born from our mother's womb, and then later in life, at a time that we may not even know is coming, but it'll come.
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  A man is born of the spirit.
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  Born again.
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  We were already born of the the water, right?
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  The mother's womb.
• 37:27
  So that's the first time, and then we're born again of the spirit.
• 37:31
  And that is when the Holy Spirit of God, all right, begins to move in our lives, move in our heart, our soul, and our spirits.
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  That is when you get the message from God Almighty that He wants you to be His friend.
• 37:50
  So I did that.
• 37:51
  I came to Him, I came to Christ.
• 37:53
  I I I actually confessed to Him all of my sins.
• 37:58
  Some I remembered, and those who I didn't, I said, Well, you know what, Lord, you know what they are.
• 38:02
  Forgive me for not going down the whole list of a whole bunch of sins I've created, but I want you to know that I don't understand all of this uh this uh stuff, but uh I I'll accept, I'll accept your word on its face value, and I really want you to be and understand that I accept you as my personal friend and my savior.
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  I believe you were crucified, you were died, you were buried, and most importantly, that you shed your bloods, your blood so that my sins may be forgiven.
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  That's it.
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  That's all you gotta do.
• 38:35
  God wants you to be your friend, and that's the kind of the first steps to be his friend.
• 38:40
  Remember what I just said at the book of John, right?
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  I am the way, the truth, and the life.
• 38:44
  No one comes to the Father except through me, meaning through Jesus.
• 38:48
  You gotta be his friend.
• 38:49
  You guys can't say, Well, listen, I believe in God, okay.
• 38:53
  Are you his friend?
• 38:54
  Oh, yeah, I pray every day.
• 38:55
  Really?
• 38:56
  I don't care if you pray every day, go to church every day.
• 38:59
  If you're not being his friend from the heart, I mean from your heart, for goodness sakes, you're not much of a friend.
• 39:06
  Hmm.
• 39:06
  Pretty pretty heavy at times, right?
• 39:09
  But it's not that hard to show that you're his friend.
• 39:13
  You just say that prayer, that prayer, that confession of faith from your heart.
• 39:18
  Now, being friends with God isn't about keeping a bunch of rules or going through all sorts of religious motions.
• 39:25
  I I gotta tell you, over the years, you know, I I've I've begin to realize that there seems to be a lot of division in in churches these days.
• 39:34
  Who's got this rule?
• 39:36
  Who's got that rule?
• 39:37
  You can't do this, you can't do that, you gotta celebrate a certain ritual on a certain day.
• 39:43
  Uh you got to do this, you gotta do that.
• 39:45
  Jesus, he only set up 10 rules.
• 39:48
  Ten.
• 39:49
  All right.
• 39:50
  And out of those ten, when you put it all together, you realize, hey, this guy wants us to be his friend.
• 39:57
  You know, he gave Moses not a uh uh uh uh 10, 15, 20 volumes of rules and regulations.
• 40:05
  He goes Moses the Ten Commandments.
• 40:07
  He said, Hey, share these with the people, and then they'll be my friend, a true friend.
• 40:14
  We can't even obey ten rules.
• 40:15
  So, so does one expect that we're gonna uh you know get ourselves involved with thousands, not hundreds, but thousands of rules and regulations.
• 40:24
  You got this religious institution, you got that one.
• 40:28
  You got this religious order, you got the other one.
• 40:30
  Oh, don't go there, they're crazy, don't go there, they're this, don't go there, they're that.
• 40:35
  I mean, on and on and on.
• 40:37
  All these different churches with all these doctrines, my goodness.
• 40:41
  And it gets worse.
• 40:43
  Oh, yeah, it gets worse.
• 40:44
  You know, having uh these religious institutions with doctrines that have a motive to get close to God, all right?
• 40:52
  They do, they have motives that, at least for the most part, I believe that they have motives to get the people to walk closer to God.
• 41:00
  So the motives are okay, all right?
• 41:02
  It's how they're getting there that's creating, I think, a lot of problems, a lot of division, a lot of confusion.
• 41:09
  And I've said over and over again, if the churches go back to talking about two topics, all right, two, only two.
• 41:16
  Talk about sin and talk about salvation.
• 41:19
  When you talk about sin, you're talking about the gateway to hell.
• 41:22
  When you're talking about salvation, you're talking about the gateway to heaven, which is Jesus Christ.
• 41:27
  Simple, right?
• 41:28
  There's a lot in the Bible.
• 41:30
  It could be a lifetime of stuff that they could preach about with regard to sin and salvation.
• 41:36
  But you don't hear much of that anymore.
• 41:38
  You hear a lot about obeying doctrines.
• 41:42
  You hear a lot about all kinds of uh stories that are are somewhat out of this world.
• 41:49
  And you want me to give you a couple of those stories, folks?
• 41:51
  How about this?
• 41:52
  How about uh uh, well, uh, Mr.
• 41:55
  and Mrs.
• 41:56
  John Doe were uh very, very, very uh uh financially strapped.
• 42:00
  Strapped.
• 42:00
  They came to my church and uh they gave us a seed of faith in the name of 500 and went home and there was a check in the mail for 5,000.
• 42:00
  They came to my church and uh they gave us a seed of faith in the name of 500 and went home and there was a check in the mail for 5,000.
• 42:10
  Yeah.
• 42:10
  Yeah, you've heard that, right?
• 42:11
  You've heard that, right?
• 42:12
  That's what's being preached.
• 42:12
  That's what's being preached.
• 42:13
  Well, I've got to tell you, those guys and those gals who are preaching that stuff, they got a lot to be held accountable for.
• 42:13
  Well, I've got to tell you, those guys and those gals who are preaching that stuff, they got a lot to be held accountable for, right?
• 42:19
  Right?
• 42:20
  Then you've got the others who will have uh Broadway shows in their churches, right?
• 42:20
  Then you've got the others who will have uh Broadway shows in their churches, right?
• 42:26
  To do what?
• 42:26
  To do what?
• 42:27
  To collect money.
• 42:27
  To collect money.
• 42:28
  You'll have a lot of them go to these big old
• 42:28
  You'll have a lot of them go to these big auditoriums, Madison Square Garden and some of these stadiums.
• 42:33
  Man, they'll draw 10,000, 15,000 people in.
• 42:36
  And some of these guys who are supposed to be preaching the gospel, oh, they're preaching a gospel, all right.
• 42:41
  They're preaching their gospel, not the gospel of Jesus Christ.
• 42:46
  But you see what's going on today, folks?
• 42:48
  These these what's going on is that they're not preaching that we become a friend of God's.
• 42:55
  They're just preaching that God is an acquaintance who we could just go to when we need something to use him, right?
• 43:04
  To be to use him as a crutch for goodness sakes.
• 43:07
  That's right.
• 43:08
  If you're a friend of God, if you're a friend of Jesus Christ, he's not a crutch, he's your friend.
• 43:13
  And you'll know how to speak with him.
• 43:15
  And you know how you want to speak with him?
• 43:17
  You speak with him the way you feel comfortable about.
• 43:20
  No formal written script, for goodness sakes.
• 43:22
  You think you're in a Hollywood show and have a script?
• 43:25
  Oh, this is what I gotta do.
• 43:26
  This is the words that I gotta use with regard to my discussions with Jesus.
• 43:32
  No.
• 43:33
  You want an example?
• 43:35
  I'll give you an example.
• 43:36
  The way I talk to you, the way I talk to God.
• 43:39
  The way I talk to you, I have my conversations and coffee with Jesus.
• 43:43
  I do.
• 43:44
  I just lay it out to him.
• 43:45
  Hey, look it.
• 43:46
  I got some problems, some challenges here.
• 43:49
  If we're friends, which I believe we are, I expect some help here.
• 43:53
  And you know what?
• 43:55
  The Bible says, go boldly before his throne.
• 43:58
  If you're a true friend, you're gonna lay it out to him.
• 44:00
  But keep in mind, he's also gonna lay it out to you.
• 44:04
  But as a friend, he's already prepared you.
• 44:07
  The Holy Spirit has already prepared you to take some of the heat, if you will, from him.
• 44:11
  Hey, look, I rather take heat from God than from the devil.
• 44:14
  Taking heat from the devil, you're gonna get burned up alive.
• 44:16
  I mean, yeah, you're you're gonna, you're gonna get destroyed.
• 44:19
  I mean that.
• 44:20
  The Bible says the wages of sin is death.
• 44:23
  Your sin will find you out.
• 44:24
  How about preaching that stuff, Mr.
• 44:26
  Preacher?
• 44:27
  How about preaching that stuff?
• 44:28
  Oh, I can't preach that.
• 44:30
  Why can't you?
• 44:30
  Oh, they'll leave the church fews.
• 44:32
  They won't come back to church next week.
• 44:34
  Well, good.
• 44:35
  Then send them off.
• 44:36
  Let them go do their thing.
• 44:37
  They'll come back.
• 44:38
  And if they don't come back, the Holy Spirit of God will lead people to your church because you are preaching truth.
• 44:44
  That's the way it is, folks.
• 44:46
  I want to go to a church where I'm gonna be told about Jesus Christ and how I could be friends with this guy.
• 44:53
  Why?
• 44:53
  Oh, you call him this guy?
• 44:55
  Yeah, call him this guy.
• 44:56
  What's wrong with that?
• 44:59
  Yes, I pay homage and reverence to him as a king.
• 45:03
  He's my buddy.
• 45:04
  He's my friend, and I gotta tell you.
• 45:06
  Up to recently, up to recently, I'm telling you, folks, he has answered just about every single prayer that I've prayed when I truly got close to him and getting closer to him every day.
• 45:18
  Now, some of those answers to my prayers, you know what, aren't what I expected?
• 45:24
  Like I expected, oh, I'm praying for A instead of B, right?
• 45:28
  Oh, I want A to come, A to come, A to come.
• 45:31
  But he sends B.
• 45:33
  And I'm thinking, hmm, what is this?
• 45:36
  And I find out later, B is better than A.
• 45:39
  In this case, right?
• 45:41
  He knows what's best.
• 45:42
  That's why it's thy will be done.
• 45:45
  All things work together, says the book of Romans 8 28.
• 45:49
  All things work together for those who love the Lord thy God according to his will.
• 45:54
  In other words, all things work together for the good for those, in my view, our true friend of Jesus Christ.
• 46:02
  Yep.
• 46:02
  Our true friend of Jesus Christ.
• 46:04
  And you will understand quickly why he doesn't give us exactly the things that we want the way we want it.
• 46:12
  Because no doubt my mind, most of the time it would hurt us.
• 46:16
  But he gives us a lot of what we want, but the way he delivers it, not the way we want it delivered.
• 46:25
  So again, being friends with God isn't about keeping a bunch of rules or getting through some sort of religious motions.
• 46:32
  We see a lot of that around the world.
• 46:34
  It's about a real personal relationship.
• 46:37
  Where he, this is where he delights in you.
• 46:41
  God, I'm sure at times God gets a kick out of me.
• 46:44
  And I'm sure he gets a kick out of a lot of people.
• 46:46
  He delights in me.
• 46:48
  Why?
• 46:48
  Because I joke around with him.
• 46:49
  I really do, folks.
• 46:50
  That's how personal I get with him.
• 46:53
  And I gotta tell you, he has a way of joking around with me.
• 46:57
  He communicates, folks, to all of us through his word.
• 47:00
  And I gotta tell you, there is a Holy Spirit that's dwells in all of us.
• 47:04
  I believe the Holy Spirit's a person.
• 47:06
  I believe in angels.
• 47:07
  I believe that certain things happened in our life.
• 47:10
  I sometimes think look up to the sky and say, Man, are you a funny guy?
• 47:15
  That's how personal you can get with God.
• 47:17
  He's not walking around with a hammer to hammer your head in over doing something wrong.
• 47:21
  You do something wrong, you say, hey, come over here.
• 47:23
  Let's have a talk.
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  And when you're that personal with him, you will get the message.
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  And you learn to delight in him.
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  So he delights in you, and you get to delight in him.
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  I get a kick out of God.
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  I I gotta tell you, I'm involved, as you know, in a lot of stuff.
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  Radio, TV, with the United States military, this and that.
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  The best times of my life are sitting quietly at three in the morning with my German shepherd and with God.
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  Now, don't say anything to my wife about that.
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  You know, I mean, you know, I uh I don't want to get ripped off of that.
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  Uh you know, my wife is in bed at three o'clock in the morning sleeping.
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  And if she was up, believe me, she would be with me.
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  Boy, did I just step into it.
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  Ah, I'm only for I'm only joking, folks, all right?
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  You know what I mean.
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  So, so I'm with my dog, all right.
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  I'm with my Bible.
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  I'm talking to God, having a cup of coffee, and then when my wife gets up, she joins us at a reasonable hour, and you know, the three of us.
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  We're talking to God.
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  Well, I should say the two of us are talking to God, and of course the dog is staring at us, wondering who the heck we're talking to.
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  But you see how personal things could get.
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  You're gonna have fun, enjoy Christ, enjoy God, enjoy him.
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  The Bible says he delights in you, and you could delight in him.
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  That's how personal I am with him.
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  That's why people ask me, how come you're so happy all the time?
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  You're always, you know, uh you're you're just always bringing the glass of water half full.
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  Because Jesus is not just half full, he is full of delight, full of hope, full of love.
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  He's a great guy, for goodness sakes.
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  He's a great guy, for goodness sakes.
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  I mean that, folks.
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  I mean that, folks.
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  And he delights in you.
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  And he delights in you.
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  And we delight in him, don't we?
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  And we delight in him, don't we?
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  So uh, no more layers of rituals, just a genuine heartfelt friendship.
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  So no more layers of rituals, just a genuine, heartfelt friendship.
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  What do you think of that?
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  What do you think of that?
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  What do you think of that?
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  What do you think of that?
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  I gotta tell you, it's the way things were when he was around, the way he preached things, and today that's not happening.
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  I gotta tell you, it's the way things were when he was around, the way he preached things, and today that's not happening.
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  And that friendship between man and God, by the way, globally.
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  And that friendship between man and God, by the way, globally, you know, that fell apart a long time ago.
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  Because we didn't have to go through, you know, trying to explain to people how they could become friendly with God, friendly with Jesus Christ.
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  Because it automatically happened until until sin entered the picture at a place called the Garden of Eden.
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  And after a person named Eve, and may I add Adam, you know, he doesn't escape this either.
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  Some people say Adam didn't do nothing.
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  Another guy, all right?
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  Another guy that uh didn't do what he was told, who Adam and Eve, they had an automatic friendship, I mean genuine friendship with God in the garden.
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  Well, until they decided to uh, you know what, God uh we're gonna be busy with somebody else for a while, we'll see you later.
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  And you know what they did?
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  They befriended the devil.
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  We all know the story, right?
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  One moment, one moment in time, one bit of temptation, and they gave in to sin.
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  And then that became an entryway into their lives and into the whole world that separated man from God.
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  So sin became the roadblock to a friendship, I mean a real genuine friendship with God.
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  But the loving God we have, the personal God we have, decided to do something about that and sent his son to this earth to die for your sin and my sin, so that we could now in this century delight in him and he delight in us, provided, provided we again accept the fact that he was crucified, died, and was buried, and forgave us for our sins by shedding his blood.
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  The roadblock was removed, folks.
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  It was removed by the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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  So don't you think that's a true friend?
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  Think about it.
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  Would you go get crucified for somebody?
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  Would you actually give up your life for somebody else?
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  I'll tell you what, that's a tough question to answer.
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  But I must tell you, at this point in time in my life, if I knew what was on the line, my I mean, my true, real uncompromising relationship with Jesus Christ, because I know I would be going to heaven.
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  I don't think I would hesitate in saying, hey, look, you know what?
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  Take it then.
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  I'm not going to deny Christ.
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  Just expedite myself to heaven.
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  That's what I say now.
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  I pray that day would never come, but I won't know.
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  None of us will know until that day comes.
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  But right now, my mindset as uh living as long as I could, serving Christ in the capacity and the assignment on earth he gave me, spreading the good news as part of that job, and then uh when my time's up, my time's up.
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  And if I have to sacrifice my life, which I understood when I was a police officer, when I was in the military, then so be it.
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  One way ticket to heaven.
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  John 15, 13.
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  Greater love has no man than this, but to lay down one's life for a friend.
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  He did that.
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  He did that.
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  Are we willing to do that for him?
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  Hmm.
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  It's a tough question to answer.
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  I get it.
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  But it gives you a food for thought, doesn't it?
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  Moving forward.
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  Real friendship sticks with you through thick and through thin.
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  Whether you're on a mountaintop of joy or down in a valley of despair, a true friend does not walk away.
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  And I would venture to say that Jesus never walked away from me.
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  I tell you what, folks, I've walked away from him a few times.
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  Not in the past, uh, I'd say not in the past uh maybe 10 years.
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  You know, I'd say maybe at times I walked away from him unintentionally, doing things that I shouldn't do and say, hmm, we all do that.
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  But we're all sinners, and I say, forgive me.
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  Forgive me, I blew it this time.
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  But I'm talking about really walking away from him, disregarding his sovereignty and supporting uh evil things.
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  You know, people do that, they're really walking away from God.
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  But I can, you know, admit that at times I walked away from him, but I learned never ever to do that again.
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  Proverbs 1824.
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  A man that has friends must show himself friendly.
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  And there is a friend, and listen to this, that sticks closer to you than a brother.
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  And guess who that is?
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  His name is Jesus Christ.
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  There's a friend that sticketh closer to you than a brother.
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  So how do you become his friend?
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  How do you become God's real personal friend?
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  Well, draw close to him.
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  I really mean it, folks.
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  James 4.8 says, draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
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  Now, how do you draw near to him?
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  Pray.
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  But how do I pray?
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  People ask.
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  Talk to him like I am.
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  This is a prayer.
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  When I'm talking to God, I say, Lord, here's my needs.
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  Here's my desires.
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  This is what I'd like to do in life.
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  Or I need help to pass that test.
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  I need help through a medical issue, through a marital issue, and on and on and on.
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  I need that help.
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  And I'm coming to you in faith for your help.
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  That's all you got to do.
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  You don't have to go through a long sermon.
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  That's all you got to do.
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  Spend time in prayer, right?
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  So remember, have those conversations with him and talk to him every day.
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  I do.
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  Let him know how you feel.
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  You remember what the Bible says, ask, seek and knock.
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  Take the word ask, take the word seek, take the word knock.
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  Take the first letter in each of those words, A S K, ask, ask, ask.
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  He's ready to answer.
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  You receive not because you ask not.
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  So get alone with him.
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  And I'll tell you what.
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  If you can, yeah, get on your knees.
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  All right, if you're comfortable, nothing wrong with that.
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  I recommend we do that often, okay?
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  But it's not mandatory.
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  A lot of times I'll sit in a chair.
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  You know, sometimes I'll pray in my car to him.
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  Talking to him.
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  Because that's what a friend does.
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  You don't go through this long ritual.
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  You don't go through the long script.
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  Yet talk to him.
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  You have a conversation with him, for goodness sakes.
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  He's listening, and he answers.
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  And he answers.
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  God is not just your father or creator or a savior.
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  God is not just your father or creator or savior.
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  He is your friend.
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  He is your friend.
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  And now it's up to us to be his friend.
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  And now it's up to us to be his friend.
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  John 15, 15.
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  John 15 15, I have said these things to you, so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
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  I have said these things to you, so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be full.
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  What do you think of that?
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  What do you think of that?
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  A friend really brings you joy.
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  A friend really brings you joy.
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  Take care, my friend.
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  God bless you.
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  Remember, go to him, talk to him today.
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  Today, not tomorrow, not next week.
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  Today become his friend.
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  He's waiting for you.
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  God bless you all.
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  Thank you for listening.