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The Weight of the Name: Living a Life of Excellence · That KEVIN Show

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  Speaker 1: Somewhere in the bowels of the city that never sleeps.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, radio host with Salem Media.
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  Speaker 1: Is a man also not sleeping.
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  Speaker 3: Syndicated radio talk show host Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 2: And that guy would like a word with you. Many
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  Speaker 2: of you know him.
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  Speaker 4: Of course that Kevin show is going to be great.
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  Speaker 5: The only thing that could be greater, of course, would
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  Speaker 5: be that Donald show.
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  Speaker 2: Straight ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Everything you need to know about the top headlines of
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  Speaker 7: the day and a perspective that will give you some
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  Speaker 7: eternity to it. Plus practical tips for family life, spiritual life,
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  Speaker 7: and good old regular life. It's Kevin McCullough, Monday through.
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  Speaker 1: Friday on That Kevin Show.
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  Speaker 7: And now, from the Connors & Sullivan Broadcast Studios, the
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  Speaker 7: man who is not what he wants to be, but
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  Speaker 7: is way grateful that he's not who he used to be, here's.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome in. It is the Tuesday edition of
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  Speaker 2: The Kevin Show. We've got so much in store for you.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of important things to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Important people are going to be here. David Wilson's back
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  Speaker 2: with us in the How Do We Live segment. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to speak with Rear Admiral Peter Brown, KT McFarlane,
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  Speaker 2: former defense advisor to the Trump administration and to two
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  Speaker 2: other presidential administrations. We've also got Pastor Jamal Smith. Bernard
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  Speaker 2: of one of the nation's largest churches, the Christian Cultural Center,
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  Speaker 2: will be with us in hour two as well. And
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  Speaker 2: we've got some fun stuff to do by way of
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  Speaker 2: getting Bibles to people. We are so close. Thank you. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: your efforts helped another 700 people get Bibles, and I
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  Speaker 2: am just thrilled with that. That means that we are
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  Speaker 2: closing in now on, I think it's somewhere around 2,500
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  Speaker 2: Bibles to go. But if we could If we could
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  Speaker 2: just get those Bibles to people, there's so much good
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be done in their life. And to
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  Speaker 2: all you people who have been sending me emails saying,
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  Speaker 2: who wants to get a Bible?
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  Speaker 8: Bibles aren't important.
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  Speaker 9: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry for those of you that feel that way,
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  Speaker 2: because by not knowing the extreme goodness and comfort and
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  Speaker 2: encouragement and wonder that the Bible can bring to your life,
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  Speaker 2: You're just turning into bitter, mean people. I'm sorry. It's
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  Speaker 2: one thing. Maybe you don't think that it's important to
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  Speaker 2: give Bibles to people. That's okay. You can disagree with that.
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  Speaker 2: But just take the time to send me an email
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  Speaker 2: and be like, you don't think that that's actually helping anybody,
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  Speaker 2: do you? Dude, just, you know, take a giant chill pill.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we do it, because it is helping. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I got something else I want to talk about here
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  Speaker 2: at the opening of the show. Somewhere in a green
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  Speaker 2: room in Atlanta, a CNN producer is polishing his outrage
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  Speaker 2: face for tonight's segment on.
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  Speaker 8: The death of press freedom.
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  Speaker 1: This is CNN.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind that the segment is happening on television in America, uncensored, unmolested,
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  Speaker 2: and beamed into however many homes still bother tuning in
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  Speaker 2: to CNN in prime time. The crime is apparently that
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  Speaker 2: CNN's laminated hall pass to roam the White House without
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  Speaker 2: restrictions got revoked. President Trump, two days ago, removed CNN, MSNOW,
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  Speaker 2: which used to be MSNBC, and Politico from the White
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  Speaker 2: House grounds after years of what the administration characterizes as
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  Speaker 2: blatantly false reporting. That's it. Nobody's newsroom got raided. Nobody's
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  Speaker 2: sources got subpoenaed. Nobody's phone got tapped. A handful of
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  Speaker 2: outlets lost the privilege of parking a camera crew inside
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  Speaker 2: the fence, and somehow this is being sold to us
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  Speaker 2: as the sequel to Kristallnacht. The First Amendment protects the
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  Speaker 2: network's right to publish. It does not entitle anyone to
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  Speaker 2: a hard pass, a briefing room set, or a spot
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  Speaker 2: in the press pool. That's not a Trump talking point.
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  Speaker 2: It's how the White House access has always worked. And
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  Speaker 2: whatever a judge eventually decides about this particular fight, because
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  Speaker 2: people are suing over it, CNN can still say whatever
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  Speaker 2: it wants to about this administration from a studio in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 2: or they can do their stand-up from across the lawn
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  Speaker 2: at the White House. What it can't do is demand
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  Speaker 2: a permanent taxpayer-subsidized parking spot on the North Lawn as
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  Speaker 2: a constitutional entitlement. Access to the White House has always
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  Speaker 2: been a privilege. And the last few administrations just never
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  Speaker 2: had to defend that principle out loud because they were
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  Speaker 2: the ones handing out the privileges selectively. Which brings us
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  Speaker 2: to the amnesia currently sweeping the White House Correspondents Association
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  Speaker 2: like some sort of bad bird flu. Barack Obama went
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  Speaker 2: on television recently to call a media ban, quote, unimaginable, adorable.
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  Speaker 2: That's really sweet from him because his own White House
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  Speaker 2: branded Fox News the research arm and communications arm of
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party. Then they barred Fox News from a
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  Speaker 2: round of exclusive Sunday show interviews and instructed all agencies
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  Speaker 2: to skip including them in pooled coverage and work to
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  Speaker 2: isolate the network entirely. In other words, They didn't just say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you don't get a spot at the White House today,
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  Speaker 2: but you can still have all your reporters at the
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  Speaker 2: Pentagon and the House and everywhere else. They said, no
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  Speaker 2: good on Fox News anywhere. And then there's the funny
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  Speaker 2: case of James Rosen. Some people won't remember, but everybody
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  Speaker 2: wants to talk about CNN losing a hard pass, but
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  Speaker 2: nobody on the left wants to talk about how the
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  Speaker 2: Obama Justice Department labeled Fox reporter James Rosen at the
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  Speaker 2: time a possible, quote, co-conspirator in a criminal case, they
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  Speaker 2: secretly monitored his emails and phone calls and tracked his
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  Speaker 2: physical movements. So here's a question for every purple-haired, press-freedom
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  Speaker 2: cosplayer clutching pearls this week. Did Trump ever get a
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  Speaker 2: warrant to read CNN's texts? Did he ever tap a
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  Speaker 2: phone like they did to James Rosen? you can't come
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  Speaker 2: to the briefing room anymore, is not the same thing
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  Speaker 2: as the federal government is monitoring your private communications and
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  Speaker 2: treating you as a criminal. And then it kept going.
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  Speaker 2: In 2011, Obama officials told the Boston Herald flat out
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  Speaker 2: that its pool access depended on covering the president fairly,
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  Speaker 2: right after the paper ran a Romney op-ed on its
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  Speaker 2: front page. That same year, 2011, A San Francisco Chronicle
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  Speaker 2: reporter caught protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser on tape, and
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  Speaker 2: the White House threatened to pull the paper's access over that.
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  Speaker 2: Then in 2012, the Obama Justice Department secretly seized two
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  Speaker 2: months of phone records off more than 20 Associated Press
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  Speaker 2: lines used by over a dozen journalists. Not a credential yanked,
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  Speaker 2: but the government quietly finding out who all of the
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  Speaker 2: journalists were talking to. That was all just under Obama.
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  Speaker 2: Under Biden... He blocked the New York Post's Stephen Nelson
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  Speaker 2: from a public event in 2023, and there were empty
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  Speaker 2: seats in the convention. Where was the primal scream from
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  Speaker 2: the press corps for any of that? Where were the
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  Speaker 2: somber MSNBC panels mourning the Fourth Estate and a sitting
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  Speaker 2: DOJ reading a Fox reporter's private email? They were busy
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  Speaker 2: hosting Brian Stelter, CNN host. who, and I promise I'm
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  Speaker 2: not making this up, repeatedly floated banning Fox News from
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  Speaker 2: the White House altogether, and later suggested pulling it off
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  Speaker 2: cable entirely. Stelter just didn't want Fox out of the
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  Speaker 2: briefing room, he wanted it off the air. And if
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  Speaker 2: you want the cherry on top, the Media Research Center
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  Speaker 2: found that during the first 100 days of the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 2: mainstream coverage ran 92% negative compared to 60% positive for
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  Speaker 2: Biden over the same stretch. So spare me the vapors.
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  Speaker 2: CNN didn't lose its voice. It lost its parking spot.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing more complicated than that. All these people are like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: the First Amendment's under attack. No, it's not. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: They can still say and do whatever they want. They
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  Speaker 2: just may not get to do it from the White
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  Speaker 2: House prop. And they're not the first ones that have
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  Speaker 2: been denied that privilege.
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  Speaker 8: Here he is from New York. That Kevin. Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: It's That Kevin Show. And the website is thatkevinshow.com. And
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  Speaker 2: there you can go back and get all the podcasts
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  Speaker 2: from all of the shows every day. And if you
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  Speaker 2: want to, you can get this week's discussion about how
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  Speaker 2: we live by going there as well. David Wilson is
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  Speaker 2: our pastor who's joining us and helping us walk through
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  Speaker 2: a very important discussion that I think, David, we don't
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  Speaker 2: talk about enough. We started the conversation yesterday, but I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that this idea that we are as believers,
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  Speaker 2: if we are going to be Christ-like, give us the
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  Speaker 2: mindset of what Christ's goal is for us, how we
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  Speaker 2: should you know, go about living out that faith. It
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  Speaker 2: is really termed in no better term, I think, than
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  Speaker 2: the word excellence and how he wants us to represent him,
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  Speaker 2: how he wants us to represent the gospel. Uh, we
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  Speaker 2: want to do it with excellence. We want to do
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  Speaker 2: it with, with, um, precision and with, and with honesty, but,
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  Speaker 2: but also greatness in terms of like what the message is,
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  Speaker 2: because it's such an important call.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I definitely, um, See the living out of excellence.
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  Speaker 11: And of course, we're basing this on what Paul says
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  Speaker 11: in Colossians 3, 17, that whatever you do, and I
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  Speaker 11: like that, whatever, that's an old preacher's kind of word.
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  Speaker 2: Anything and everything. That's right.
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  Speaker 11: Stretch your hands wide and say whatever you do in
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  Speaker 11: word or deed, do all in the name of the
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  Speaker 11: Lord Jesus. giving thanks to God, the father through him.
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  Speaker 11: And now doing all in the name of the Lord
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  Speaker 11: does not mean that whatever you do, you say in
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  Speaker 11: Jesus name, in Jesus name, I'm going to go upstairs
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  Speaker 11: in Jesus name. I'm gonna drive down the street. That's
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  Speaker 11: not what it means. That's how you get locked up
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  Speaker 11: in a padded room somewhere. I'm sorry if they still
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  Speaker 11: do that.
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  Speaker 9: But in the name means in the manner or under the.
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  Speaker 11: Authority of like a diplomat or an ambassador, makes decisions
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  Speaker 11: and has conversations, not for their own name, but in
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  Speaker 11: the name of the country that they serve.
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  Speaker 2: Wearing a jersey, if you will.
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  Speaker 9: Say that again?
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  Speaker 2: Wearing a jersey, if you will.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that'll work.
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  Speaker 11: But we ought to make decisions on what we say
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  Speaker 11: and what we do.
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  Speaker 9: Not in our own name, but in the name, under
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  Speaker 9: the authority and.
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  Speaker 11: Respect to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And I
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  Speaker 11: think that applies to the style of what you do.
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  Speaker 11: That the way that the Lord carried himself, the things
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  Speaker 11: that he did, he did it excellently. I love the
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  Speaker 11: fact that when it came to feeding the 5,000, I
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  Speaker 11: think it was like 20, counting women and children, that
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  Speaker 11: he not only fed them for them to fill or
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  Speaker 11: be full, but he had even more left over after
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  Speaker 11: he fed them. That's the level of excellence.
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  Speaker 9: That's the going.
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  Speaker 11: Beyond the transcendence of God and Jesus, and I believe
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  Speaker 11: that that we as followers ought to have the same
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  Speaker 11: attitude of going beyond the regular, doing more than what's
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  Speaker 11: necessary for the purpose of people seeing Christ in.
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  Speaker 4: Us.
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  Speaker 9: I actually make a point that this well-known verse, that
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  Speaker 9: whatever you do, I mean, it's even in a song.
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  Speaker 9: We used to sing a song. out of the hymn
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  Speaker 9: books that was out of this.
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  Speaker 11: Verse, but it belongs in a larger discussion of Christian character.
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  Speaker 11: And it starts in verse 12.
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  Speaker 9: Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put
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  Speaker 9: on tender mercies.
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  Speaker 11: Verse 14, but above all these things, put on love.
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  Speaker 9: So this passage is talking about the.
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  Speaker 11: New mind, The new manner that you ought to put
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  Speaker 11: on and part of that manner of putting on mercies,
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  Speaker 11: forgiving one another, putting on love, let the word of
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  Speaker 11: Christ dwell in you richly includes that whatever you do
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  Speaker 11: in word or deed, do all in the name of
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  Speaker 11: the Lord. So it's that important that we have a
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  Speaker 11: level of excellence in God. Whatever we do, wherever we go,
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  Speaker 11: whatever we say, we ought to do it in the style,
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  Speaker 11: in the manner, and under the authority of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Does this have to do also with the amount of
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  Speaker 2: what we do as opposed to just the quality of
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  Speaker 2: what we do? Is it a quantity of work in
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  Speaker 2: addition to the quality of the work that we do?
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 11: So you just put me in mind of like the
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  Speaker 11: Proverbs that often warn against is a slothfulness or laziness
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  Speaker 11: or a lack of diligence.
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  Speaker 9: So I believe that the Christian.
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  Speaker 11: The follower of God needs to be about something, needs to.
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  Speaker 9: Be diligent, needs to have a life.
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  Speaker 11: Of getting it done, which would take you beyond, uh,
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  Speaker 11: your beautiful peanut butter and jelly.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 11: That you really did put it in my head, uh,
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  Speaker 11: that there needs to be more, more, um, That goes
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  Speaker 11: along with life.
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  Speaker 9: Work, for that matter, Christians ought to be the best workers.
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  Speaker 11: So the workers, the best students, the best neighbors, the
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  Speaker 11: shape of our house, the look of the lawn, all
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  Speaker 11: of that.
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  Speaker 9: Reflects a lifestyle change. that is under the Christ manner.
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  Speaker 11: So I think you're right that it's not just about,
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  Speaker 11: I would say this, I would say this, that if characteristically,
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  Speaker 11: and that's a big word in this, character, characteristically you
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  Speaker 11: are a hard worker, characteristically you are.
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  Speaker 9: Doing and accomplishing good parenting, good husband, good wife.
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  Speaker 11: If characteristically you are pouring yourself into life, If you
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  Speaker 11: decide today I'm only going to eat a peanut butter
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  Speaker 11: jelly sandwich and go and.
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  Speaker 9: Lay back down, that's fine.
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  Speaker 11: I think we need to do more of that to
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  Speaker 11: where we take time off. But that's only in the
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  Speaker 11: context of of being a hard worker, having the character
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  Speaker 11: of diligence, uh, then you could take a vacation and
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  Speaker 11: not be.
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  Speaker 2: It's, it's a, it's a contrast. It's not a, it's
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  Speaker 2: not a, uh, uh, a constancy, I guess would be
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  Speaker 2: the way I put it. Um, very interesting. Uh, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that, I think that, that, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people have said, well, you know, I, I
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  Speaker 2: preach the gospel with how I live and how I work.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. That's good.
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  Speaker 2: I know that the scripture also says that we have
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  Speaker 2: to physically speak the gospel to preach the gospel as well.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to underscore that. But I'm also
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  Speaker 2: not trying to dismiss the idea that if we are
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  Speaker 2: faithful in how we do what we do, it will
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  Speaker 2: point to God's work in us. And it will cause
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  Speaker 2: people to say, why do you do it the way
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  Speaker 2: you do it?
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  Speaker 9: That's right. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 11: And you mentioned witnessing. it's always important, it kind of
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  Speaker 11: sneaks by us, that when we're reading these texts, we're
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  Speaker 11: not reading about a time.
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  Speaker 9: Where Christianity is popular. It might not be popular.
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  Speaker 11: With everyone, but this is a startup faith, if you will,
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  Speaker 11: aside from understanding Judaism and Abraham and all of that.
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  Speaker 11: but they are going into a pagan world talking about
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  Speaker 11: unbelievable things that God came down as a man and
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  Speaker 11: then lived a perfect life and died on a cross
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  Speaker 11: and was buried and rose again.
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  Speaker 9: We say that.
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  Speaker 11: Easily, but that was some unbelievable words back then And
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  Speaker 11: so the life that people lived as they spoke that
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  Speaker 11: word really became important.
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  Speaker 9: We'll mention it again, but that's what Jesus.
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  Speaker 11: Says when he says, let your light so shine for
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  Speaker 11: men that they may see your, not your good message,
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  Speaker 11: but your good works and glorify God. god uh on
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  Speaker 11: your on your behalf uh so it was important for
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  Speaker 11: the first century church to have a lifestyle a heart
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  Speaker 11: that's that's why he even tells slaves believe it or
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  Speaker 11: not To make sure.
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  Speaker 9: That you serve like you're serving under the Lord.
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  Speaker 12: Now, I know that's been manipulated and abused, but the
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  Speaker 12: fact was, whatever place of life you're in, you ought
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  Speaker 12: to show an allegiance, ought.
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  Speaker 11: To show that Jesus style, do it in his name.
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  Speaker 11: so that he gets glorified through your life.
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  Speaker 2: All right, David Wilson, great stuff. Senior pastor at King's
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  Speaker 2: Church of Christ in Brooklyn, two locations, East Flatbush and
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  Speaker 2: also in Brownsville. Thank you. We look forward to continuing
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  Speaker 2: the discussion tomorrow.
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  Speaker 9: Awesome. See you then.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough coming right back. Don't go away.
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  Speaker 8: Stick around for more of That Kevin next week.
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  Speaker 10: Here he is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: It's That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com. And as I have been
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  Speaker 2: telling you this week, we are in the deadline. We
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  Speaker 2: have come to the end of this journey with the
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  Speaker 2: Bible League. And after the end of this week, we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to have the opportunity to continue to remind
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  Speaker 2: you about the Bibles that are needed that we have
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  Speaker 2: been asking for you to help us with. And I
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  Speaker 2: have to say, I want to say a big word
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  Speaker 2: of thanks because yesterday I was telling you that we
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  Speaker 2: were still like 3,200 Bibles away. from getting where we
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  Speaker 2: need to be. Michael Woolworth is back with us from
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  Speaker 2: Bible League HQ. And Michael, you're telling me that we
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  Speaker 2: are only 2,500 Bibles away now. That means that about
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  Speaker 2: 700 people got Bibles yesterday that were needing them, asking
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  Speaker 2: for them, begging for them, praying for them. And the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we are that much closer is huge. And
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  Speaker 2: we just need people to keep being faithful today and
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow and Thursday and Friday and Saturday and Sunday. And
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  Speaker 2: if we can do that, we can actually get these
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  Speaker 13: Good Friday 1938 in the Chicago area when Bible League
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  Speaker 13: five dollars a Bible. So, again, we've seen thousands sent
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 13: Waiting believers waiting. Again, that we know by name at
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  Speaker 13: Bible League. People like Maria of Detroit said, Michael, Kevin,
• 22:58
  Speaker 13: count me in at 20 Bibles. Don of Gresham, Oregon said,
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  Speaker 13: I want to be a part of this, a $ 500
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  Speaker 13: gift to fill 100 waiting hands. Samuel of Auburn, yeah,
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  Speaker 13: this is in Washington, Auburn, Washington, right? An $ 800 gift, Kevin,
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  Speaker 13: an investment in this campaign to bless 160 believers, again,
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  Speaker 13: that we know by name at Bible. You know, and
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  Speaker 13: that really ought to be a comfort to you listeners.
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  Speaker 13: We're not going into a village, dropping a box of Bibles,
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  Speaker 13: Every believer that we've talked about is somebody who's come
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  Speaker 13: to saving faith. They've said, one, I want to follow
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  Speaker 13: Jesus that typically comes on the heels of of somebody
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  Speaker 13: maybe in their small village or in their bustling city saying, what,
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  Speaker 13: come learn about Jesus. And then they're pulled into a
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  Speaker 13: as we hear them make a profession of faith, Bible
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  Speaker 13: League is there to provide that Bible in the language
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  Speaker 13: of the receiver. We do that often without charge.
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  Speaker 11: Why?
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  Speaker 13: Because a lot of believers live in extreme poverty. When
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  Speaker 13: you identify as a believer, you're denied access to services, jobs,
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  Speaker 13: listeners come in. They've been incredibly generous over the years,
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  Speaker 13: not only to Bible League, but really those to whom
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  Speaker 13: a map, but I love this. Ming is in Vietnam.
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  Speaker 3: If they don't have Bible, how they can find the truth?
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  Speaker 3: Because the Bible like a map to bring them to
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  Speaker 3: find the truth.
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  Speaker 1: So if they don't have a.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Map, They couldn't find any truth. So it is a
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  Speaker 3: very special opportunity that the Lord answered our prayer. Our
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: country opened the door for the gospel. And many people,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: they are really hungry for the word of God.
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: And then they need the Bible.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: The phone number to help get the Bibles to the
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  Speaker 2: people like Meng and the people that are in his
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: community who are seeking Bibles that don't have them. Most
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: of these are believers that have come to faith through
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• 25:46
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• 25:49
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• 25:52
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  Speaker 2: verse that came to you or that you read or
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  Speaker 2: the Bible is. We don't, as Christians in this country today,
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  Speaker 2: Bible-believing Christians, we don't sit back and look at this
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  Speaker 2: and say, that's just like a book of any other books.
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  Speaker 2: We don't believe that. All of the literature and the
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  Speaker 2: has the power to do the stuff in the text
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  Speaker 14: Here he is from New York. That Kevin.
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  Speaker 8: Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, glad to have you with us. I talked
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: about it first thing on my Saturday show on TV
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: because the news broke late Friday. As the week broke
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: out Monday, I was talking about it again because it
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: is such a big deal. Though I'm noticing that the
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: mainline press is really not highlighting any of it at all.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: But it is such an enormous defensive, strategic objective that
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the administration pulled off. And crazy like a fox... Our
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: commander-in-chief did it again. And here to discuss is Rear
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Admiral Peter Brown from the America First Policy Institute. Peter,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I see this happen time and time and time again.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Trump floats a suggestion. He makes it sound somewhat reasonable.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: The people in the mainstream go crazy. Their brains explode.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Green goo oozes everywhere because they're just so like, I
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: can't believe he would say something like that. But in
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  Speaker 2: the case of Greenland, In the case of what we're
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: going to be able to do there, this was one
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: of the most deft moves of any president in the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: modern era, in my opinion. And it shook an ally
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: kind of out of its doldrums and kind of woke
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: them up and said, you know, you really owe Greenland
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: some responsibilities here. And oh, by the way, now we're
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: going to get to operate everything we wanted to do
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: for the Golden Dome and the protection of North America. Oh,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: and by the way, the protection of Europe and the
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: protection of our whole Eastern seaboard, it's all going to
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: be reinforced because the president said, hey, what about this idea?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: And they're like, oh, you're crazy.
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: You're nuts.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: They immediately go in, start negotiating in secret. They get
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: a deal. And now we're going to have an actual
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: security gate, basically, to the top of the globe that's
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: going to protect the West in a way that we've
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: never had it before. You're a military guy. Talk to
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: me about what this agreement actually delivers for the American
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: people and the West in general.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: And you and I are both smiling because of the
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: president's negotiating style and the way he did this, which was,
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: as he often does, and he He telegraphed it in
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: his book four decades ago, The Art of the Deal,
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: that he stakes out a what to some people is
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: going to say crazy position or a maximalist position and
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: then generates conversation about that demand. And then his counterparty
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: has to negotiate with that demand in mind. And we
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: end up I've got to I've got to read for
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: a second Secretary Rubio's statement. And when I read it,
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: it's going to be this is where we ended up.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 6: If Trump had said at the beginning, this is what
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: we want. People would have said, well, OK, that's we
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: wouldn't have gotten it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It says he said Greenland will forever be part of
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  Speaker 6: the strategic defense area of North America and exclude any
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  Speaker 6: adversary from it and the surrounding area. That's you can't
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: argue with that. It's so important. The defense of the
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: North Pole is so important for strategic ballistic missile defense
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: of the United States. It's indispensable from that regard. And
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: that's why we continue to have a Space Force base
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  Speaker 6: in northern Greenland. The other part of this, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: a maritime guy, a lot of people don't think about this,
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: is as big as Greenland is, the exclusive economic zone,
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: the ocean area around Greenland is just as big.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: And so we've gained a defensive footprint not only on
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  Speaker 6: the landmass of Greenland, but also in the exclusive economic zone,
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  Speaker 6: which extends up into the Arctic Ocean and comes the
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: closest to the North Pole of all the exclusive economic
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: zones of the Arctic nations. So the ability to control
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  Speaker 6: an EEZ, exclusive economic zone, only means something if you
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: can exclude people in Greenland right now, does not, even
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: with the support of the Kingdom of Denmark, does not
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  Speaker 6: have the capability to know, observe, and exclude people from
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  Speaker 6: that area.
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  Speaker 2: Put this in the context also of Venezuela and what
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: we did there and Cuba and what still might happen
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: even there. I mean, when you're talking about complete hemispheric security,
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  Speaker 2: it's not just getting China out of one country or
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: another or telling Russia to stop sending missiles to communist states.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: It is literally saying, hey, let's do this together and
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: we will all win.
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  Speaker 6: And I think we're seeing that. Certainly the inauguration of...
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: of newly elected presidents in Peru, in Chile, in Colombia,
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: are definitely moves in the right direction.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, and might I also add, all of those guys
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: got elected right after we dried up all the USAID
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: slush funds that were going to fund the communists down there. Like,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: as soon as we cut off the pipeline, the people
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: of those countries actually went, oh, no, we really do
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: want freedom.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
• 33:23
  Speaker 12: And so....
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  Speaker 6: Cuba is the unfortunate worst case of seven decades of
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: communist rule. Venezuela only had to suffer through about three
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: decades of it. Some of these other countries have gone
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: through episodes with leftist governments and their people are telling
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: those leftists, no, we like what the United States is doing.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: We want to be on that team. the team of safety, security,
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: and prosperity. And oh, by the way, if we, with
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: those countries, help achieve that, safety, security, and prosperity, the
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: migratory pressure from south to north will be reduced, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: all of the crime, all of the harms, economic, social,
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: and otherwise that come from that will be reduced. So
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: this is literally... win-win kind of dealing. And our president
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: and this administration are the absolute masters of it.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Well, and to your final point there, there are different
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: ways of ending illegal immigration. And one of the best
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: ways is to help the countries that they are from
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: to be magnets for them to return to. And the
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: way you do that, it's not complicated. You give them
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: free markets and free enterprise and freedom. and let the
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: people with their own energy and enthusiasm and entrepreneurship go
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to work, and they will make the kind of life
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: that they want. You just can't have it when there's
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: a gun to your temple all the time.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: I often say.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: The Statue of Liberty is a light, not a magnet.
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: She's there to show others how to do it, not
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: to pull them to do it here. And I think
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: Columbia has one of the strongest, and most civic-minded business
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: populations in all of South America, I think they will
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: become a regional leader and example locally for how this
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: can be done with their business community there.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: All good stuff, and all because some crazy guy in
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: the White House goes, hey, why don't we just annex Greenland? Anyway,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Admiral Peter Brown, thank you for all that you're doing.
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  Speaker 5: We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 6: Kevin, always a pleasure talking with you.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, coming.
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  Speaker 2: is active in something else called church planning. Tell us more.
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  Speaker 13: Well, in parts of the world where there's not an
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• 36:51
  Speaker 13: church planners, men like Tomas in Ghana, Africa, to say what?
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  Speaker 9: Why?
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  Speaker 13: A lot of these churches, they exist in extreme poverty.
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  Speaker 13: When you identify as a believer in places where they're Muslim-dominated, right?
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  Speaker 13: My colleague Jason was in Ghana, Africa, has this to
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  Speaker 15: The importance of church planter training, it can be understated,
• 37:38
  Speaker 15: especially in places like Africa where syncretism, which is the
• 37:41
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, he's talking about Ghana, Africa specifically. It's a Francophone country.
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  Speaker 13: That's where French is spoken more and more. But Pastor Tomas,
• 38:06
  Speaker 13: not only an ordained pastor, Kevin, he's a licensed snake handler.
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  Speaker 13: He risks his own safety to capture reticulated pythons. It's
• 38:14
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  Speaker 13: host to Indonesia, I don't know, several years ago. You
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  Speaker 13: But You know, a week before we left, a reticulated
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  Speaker 13: python actually swallowed an elderly woman whole. I mean, this
• 38:31
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• 38:35
  Speaker 13: reticulated pythons from harming people. But anyway, he's also a
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  Speaker 13: church planter. And again, he's in a part of Africa, again,
• 38:43
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• 38:48
  Speaker 13: different elements of their past religion. They're tempted to carry
• 38:51
  Speaker 13: that on into their walk with the Lord. And again,
• 38:54
  Speaker 13: Bible League is there to provide good direction for these congregations.
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  Speaker 13: He was tortured by the Islamic State there, but he
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  Speaker 7: Straight ahead, everything you need to know about the top
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  Speaker 1: It's Kevin McCullough, Monday through Friday, on That Kevin Show.
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  Speaker 7: And now, from the Connors & Sullivan Broadcast Studios, the
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  Speaker 7: man who is not what he wants to be, but
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  Speaker 7: is way grateful that he's not who he used to be, here's.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, glad you're with us. Hour number two as
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  Speaker 2: we are kicking off the second hour on this Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: edition and yet to come. We've got Rear Admiral Peter
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  Speaker 2: Brown going to be with us. KT McFarlane, former Pentagon official,
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  Speaker 2: will be with us a little bit later on in
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  Speaker 2: the hour as well. So much to get to. But friends,
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  Speaker 2: I can't let go of this. We need your help.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to help us. You've got to help us
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  Speaker 2: get Bibles to the Christians that are asking for them.
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  Speaker 2: And so many of you helped us yesterday. 700 Bibles
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  Speaker 2: in a single day. Going to people that don't have
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  Speaker 2: them and want them desperately. Michael Woolworth is back with
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  Speaker 2: me checking in from the Bible League HQ, the big
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  Speaker 2: international headquarters just outside Chicago, where for 88 years, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: you guys have been helping people get scriptures that didn't
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  Speaker 13: Well, and to think that, you know, this station, you know,
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  Speaker 13: this Kevin show, that Kevin show has been with us
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  Speaker 13: for what, more than 30 years, right? Right there, sending out,
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  Speaker 13: you know, the clarion call to be a part of
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  Speaker 13: what God is doing in his world through his words.
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  Speaker 13: So Kevin, I can't thank you enough. But yeah, we
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  Speaker 13: have come so far. We, you know, we started at zero.
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  Speaker 13: We were looking at a big old goose egg, right?
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  Speaker 13: Thousands of Bibles have been sent to this point. We're
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  Speaker 13: down to the final 2,500. Kevin, that's doable. But the
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  Speaker 13: problem is, We're running out of the month of September, right?
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  Speaker 13: We're officially done on Sunday. We're going to close the
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  Speaker 13: books on Monday. We'll rejoice in whatever God does through
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  Speaker 13: listeners to that Kevin show. But again, we're so close
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  Speaker 13: to getting this goal met. Kevin, I know it's a
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  Speaker 13: little too soon to be talking about Christmas, but I
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  Speaker 13: think we're like 90 something days away.
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  Speaker 8: But Kevin, I'm a little giddy.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let that stop you.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and bring it up because I know my
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  Speaker 2: kids are thinking about it already.
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  Speaker 13: I got to get the jump on this. But, you know,
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  Speaker 13: I think about the believers we're talking about, people that
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  Speaker 13: have never read a single verse in their own Bible
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  Speaker 13: this year. reading for themselves the precious Christmas story.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 13: Because this listening family chooses to get involved. You know,
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  Speaker 13: we shared this clip earlier from Ming, this former Zen Buddhist, right,
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  Speaker 13: near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. You know, he
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  Speaker 13: told me, he said, Michael, I lost 100 family members
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  Speaker 13: to the Vietnam War. He said some of those were civilians,
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  Speaker 13: some were soldiers. But to counter that, God is so good.
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  Speaker 13: This man has led about 100 people to Christ in
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  Speaker 13: his small remote village in this communist country that only recently, Kevin,
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  Speaker 13: began opening the door to the gospel, as he said
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  Speaker 13: in that clip. You know, he likens the Bible to
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  Speaker 13: want a map. When you've got a map, you can
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  Speaker 13: find your way, right, when.
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  Speaker 8: You have a Bible.
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  Speaker 13: You're driven to truth, right? And again, this is a
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  Speaker 13: man who's on fire for Jesus. Kevin, you and I
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  Speaker 13: in the day-to-day, it doesn't matter if you're in greater
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  Speaker 13: New York City, somewhere around the U.S. or, you know,
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  Speaker 13: in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, You need to be
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  Speaker 13: able to open the Bible, to be reminded that God
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  Speaker 13: knows you intimately, to claim for yourself those precious promises
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  Speaker 13: that are there in the day-to-day. If you're anxious, what
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  Speaker 13: do you do? You read Psalm 48, right? In your peace,
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  Speaker 13: I will live. You know, if you're tired, Isaiah 40
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  Speaker 13: says what? He gives power to the weak and strength
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  Speaker 13: to the powerless. If you're lonely, go to Psalm 73. Lord,
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  Speaker 13: I belong to you. You hold my hand, right? If
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  Speaker 13: you need wisdom, right? Psalm 25 says, Lord, show me
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  Speaker 13: the right path. If You're feeling unloved, right? Zephaniah 3
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  Speaker 13: says what? God delights in you with gladness. He rejoices
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  Speaker 13: over you with joyful songs. You know, even just sharing
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  Speaker 13: those few verses, Kevin, they're sort of, I feel an
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  Speaker 13: infusion of grace in my soul, right? And again, the
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  Speaker 13: Christians that we're talking about today have never read a
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  Speaker 13: single verse in their own Bible, but enter this listening family.
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  Speaker 13: And again, call by call, click by click, we've seen
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  Speaker 13: it happen for thousands upon thousands. We're down to the
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  Speaker 13: final 2,500, but I'd love for you to hear this
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  Speaker 13: clip from Anismo, my partner in the country of Zimbabwe, Africa.
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  Speaker 13: I assure you, he does not exaggerate the truth that
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  Speaker 13: he finds relations to Bibles and Christians in his native Zimbabwe.
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  Speaker 17: There is a huge Bible gap here in Zimbabwe. Some
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  Speaker 17: churches in the rural areas, you will find that you
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  Speaker 17: get to a church where.
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  Speaker 6: There are about 200 members.
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  Speaker 17: And in that church, you only find one person with
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  Speaker 17: one Bible. So you can say in that church, the
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  Speaker 17: ratio is one to 200.
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  Speaker 9: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Anismo.
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  Speaker 13: Again, not exaggerating the truth. A lot of times, Kevin,
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  Speaker 13: the pastor is the only one. to have a Bible
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  Speaker 13: in a congregation. I have preached. I've been a guest
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  Speaker 13: preacher in some churches. I realized the pastor, again, was
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  Speaker 13: the only one with a Bible. You know, one of
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  Speaker 13: the pastor's roles is what? Turn his congregation into faithful Bereans. Listen,
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  Speaker 13: when you've got a congregation with the precious Word of God,
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  Speaker 13: you can turn them into faithful Bereans. Kevin, that's what
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  Speaker 13: we're doing today. Thousands of Bibles have been sent. We've
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  Speaker 13: got the remaining 2,500. We're officially done Sunday. We're praying
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  Speaker 13: that we can get across the finish line together.
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  Speaker 13: And let me say thanks to Yvonne of Brooklyn. She said,
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  Speaker 13: I love Inga. She is in the country of Armenia
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  Speaker 13: in Europe. has a very profound statement to say about
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  Speaker 13: the Bible being the spiritual nourishment that every believer, regardless
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  Speaker 13: of where you live, absolutely needs.
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  Speaker 18: Such a privilege and honor to know the Lord and
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  Speaker 18: the Lord has chosen us to have time and to
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  Speaker 18: serve and to work with. We know how Bible value
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  Speaker 18: to us because that's how we grow, because that's our
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  Speaker 18: spiritual food.
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  Speaker 1: Without a Bible, like without food.
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  Speaker 13: I love the analogy, right? I mean, Kevin, if we
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  Speaker 13: were tackling human hunger today. If you don't eat, you
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  Speaker 13: eventually what? Starve to death.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 13: I don't think it's a stretch when you talk about
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  Speaker 13: believers around the world denied access to God's word. Really,
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  Speaker 13: in a real sense, are spiritually malnourished.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 13: So, again, if you're maybe enjoying a meal today or tonight, whatever,
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  Speaker 13: think about the nourishment that comes from that. And then
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  Speaker 13: the spiritual nourishment that comes from the word of God.
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  Speaker 13: It'd be great for you to go home tonight over
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  Speaker 13: your family dinner and say, look, we provided food. Bibles,
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  Speaker 13: part of the That Kevin Show listening family. We're helping
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  Speaker 13: we mentioned Tony, Maria, and Don earlier, all getting involved. Kevin,
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  Speaker 13: we've got 2,500 Bibles to go. We're officially done on Monday.
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  Speaker 13: We'll tally up whatever God has done through this listening family.
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  Speaker 13: But I can tell you as the eyes and ears
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  Speaker 13: of Bible League, it is always a joy to circle
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  Speaker 13: back to these waiting believers and let them know the
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not called to be involved in everything. And
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  Speaker 8: Here he is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 2: And KT, I'm so glad that you are because the
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  Speaker 2: first thing I thought On Friday afternoon at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the news cycle, I don't know why they dumped
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  Speaker 2: this that late into the news cycle in the week,
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  Speaker 2: but Trump's getting everything he wanted out of the Greenland deal.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to buy Greenland from Denmark for it.
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  Speaker 2: We actually got Denmark to wake up and say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we should take care of our protectorate and do stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And we get to launch the Golden Dome and help
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  Speaker 2: keep all of Europe and all of North America safe.
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  Speaker 2: Not a bad Friday for the president.
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  Speaker 4: It is such a huge game changer. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 16: I'm amazed that the administration didn't tout it more and
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  Speaker 16: the media didn't analyze it better.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a total game changer.
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  Speaker 16: And it is such a Donald Trump classic art of
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  Speaker 16: the deal negotiation. So if you read his book, The
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  Speaker 16: Art of the Deal, you realize that he has a
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  Speaker 16: certain pattern that he progresses with. Number one, open with
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  Speaker 16: an outrageous demand. And then everybody gets all excited and
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  Speaker 16: nervous and criticizes. And then he slowly but surely negotiates
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  Speaker 16: backwards from his outrageous demand to, in the end, get
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  Speaker 16: what he wanted in the first place. And everybody's happy.
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  Speaker 16: So what happened with Denmark? He says, we have to
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  Speaker 16: own Denmark. And we're going to invade Denmark to get
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  Speaker 16: it if that's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Greenland, not Denmark.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, not Denmark. No, we're going to– yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to give the king another heart attack.
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  Speaker 9: Exactly.
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  Speaker 16: Let's invade Greenland and steal it. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 16: NATO went nuts. The media went nuts. The Trump duration
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  Speaker 16: syndrome people went nuts. Everybody said Donald Trump's crazy. He's
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  Speaker 16: going to invade Greenland. And so then some of the
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  Speaker 16: NATO allies from France and Britain sent over, I think,
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  Speaker 16: like two dozen military ski team people. To defend Greenland
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  Speaker 16: from the American invasion that was happening.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody goes nuts, nuts, nuts, nuts.
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  Speaker 16: And so slowly but surely, President Trump walks back what
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  Speaker 16: he wants. And so he gets the deal that he
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  Speaker 16: wanted in the first place. He doesn't have to pay
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  Speaker 16: anything for it.
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  Speaker 4: What's the deal?
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  Speaker 16: Number one, we get to use exclusive use of Greenland
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  Speaker 16: as a military base.
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  Speaker 4: We can put our bases there.
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  Speaker 16: We don't have to ask permission from Denmark or Greenland
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  Speaker 16: or anybody to use those bases, which we do have
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  Speaker 16: to do when we're trying to use NATO bases in Europe.
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  Speaker 16: Number two, we can develop their rare earth minerals and
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  Speaker 16: oil and other natural resources.
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  Speaker 4: We don't even know what's there. We know a lot's there,
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  Speaker 4: but we don't know how to get it.
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  Speaker 2: I was wondering if the rare earth component was included
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  Speaker 2: in this because I had not seen the finished text.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 16: Absolutely it is. And so that's included. And then the
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  Speaker 16: next thing is maritime trade routes. So the Arctic, as
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  Speaker 16: the Earth heats up, however you think it heats up,
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  Speaker 16: it is. And so as the Arctic Circle melts, the
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  Speaker 16: trade route, maritime trade route from Asia to North America,
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  Speaker 16: to Europe, to other parts of Asia, that's going to
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  Speaker 16: be the most important trade route. It's the shortest trade route,
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  Speaker 16: you know, much shorter than going across the Atlantic or
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  Speaker 16: the Pacific.
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  Speaker 9: So.
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  Speaker 16: Whoever dominates that trade route is going to be in
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  Speaker 16: a very important position going forward. And it's now going
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  Speaker 16: to be us because between Alaska, hopefully Canada, and then Greenland,
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  Speaker 16: we then control the Arctic Circle maritime trade route. And
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  Speaker 16: so we get all these good things. Now, in addition
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  Speaker 16: to that, there's underwater cables. It's a major communications hub
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  Speaker 16: to go, again, the same way maritime trade. It'll be communications,
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  Speaker 16: the undersea cables. We're going to dominate those. And then
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  Speaker 16: the best part of all is that China and Russia
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  Speaker 16: are aced out. They can't do any of these things.
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  Speaker 16: They can't put bases there. They can't develop the raw
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  Speaker 16: materials into rare earth minerals or oil. They can't do
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  Speaker 16: any of that stuff. They can't even step foot. in
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  Speaker 16: Greenland without our permission.
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  Speaker 4: And what happens?
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  Speaker 16: President Trump gets Denmark to think it's a great deal.
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  Speaker 16: You know, America didn't invade. Gets Greenland to think it's
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  Speaker 16: a great deal. We're going to get a lot of
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  Speaker 16: job opportunities from America. The American taxpayer, we don't have
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  Speaker 16: to pay for it. It is just a win, win, win,
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  Speaker 16: win all the way along. And then the cherry on top.
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  Speaker 16: is that Xi Jinping is coming to Washington, D.C. to
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  Speaker 16: meet with President Trump tomorrow on Wednesday. So having just
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  Speaker 16: been edged out of all of the Greenland operations, all
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  Speaker 16: of the Arctic operations, Xi Jinping is going to have
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  Speaker 16: to come to the White House and eat humble pie.
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  Speaker 2: I documented it. I put it in my column yesterday
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  Speaker 2: at Town Hall. And I was thinking, well, what else
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  Speaker 2: is underway right now that he's operating this way that
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen through and figured it out? And I'm
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  Speaker 2: even wondering if maybe the expulsion of CNN from the
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  Speaker 2: White House press corps isn't a bigger long play to
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  Speaker 2: get them to just say, OK, we will be more fair.
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  Speaker 2: And ultimately, the rule for how people operate in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the press circles within the White House will be
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  Speaker 2: we're going to tell the truth, you know, minimum responsibility,
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  Speaker 2: tell the truth and it will it will work out better.
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  Speaker 2: But he uses this pattern over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: Idea of a big action, much more bold and kind
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  Speaker 2: of brash than is necessary. And then after the exploding
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  Speaker 2: heads all kind of stop, Marco Rubio and team go
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  Speaker 2: into these private rooms starting in February and they pound
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  Speaker 2: this thing out until.
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  Speaker 5: It is perfected.
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  Speaker 2: And I just think it just demonstrates that this man
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  Speaker 2: never takes a minute off in thinking about the welfare
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  Speaker 2: and the future of America, because KT, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be long out of office before the biggest impact of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of this goes into effect. And he's not
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  Speaker 2: doing it for people to be protected 12 months from now.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to protect America for the next hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: And at the end of that, We're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of generations that lived under a protection of
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  Speaker 2: the Golden Dome and of freedom and of the rare
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  Speaker 2: earths and the other stuff that it took someone thinking proactively,
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  Speaker 2: not about themselves or their moment in time or their
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  Speaker 2: next election or the next cycle that's in front of them.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: It took someone who was thinking big term, long term
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: for America to really secure this. And that's what he did.
• 58:09
  Speaker 16: You know, if you were going to write a profile
• 58:11
  Speaker 16: and courage, it would be Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: He could have gone for the cheap wins. He could
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: have done, you know, he could have couched out in Europe.
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  Speaker 4: The small things, yeah. The little small things.
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  Speaker 16: And frankly, with Iran, it's going to be tough because
• 58:24
  Speaker 16: gasoline prices have not yet started going down.
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: But he is playing the long game.
• 58:30
  Speaker 16: Somebody, a good mutual friend of ours once explained to me,
• 58:33
  Speaker 16: he said, do you really want to understand Donald Trump?
• 58:35
  Speaker 16: Understand the mind of a builder. A building project, it
• 58:39
  Speaker 16: doesn't happen overnight. It's a 30-year project. You have to
• 58:44
  Speaker 16: buy the land. You have to secure the rights. You
• 58:47
  Speaker 16: have to get the workers. You have to get the
• 58:49
  Speaker 16: raw materials. And you don't think about it as a
• 58:53
  Speaker 16: short-term win. It's probably a short-term loss to get the
• 58:57
  Speaker 16: long-term win. And I've got to credit President Trump with
• 59:00
  Speaker 16: enormous personal courage to avoid the quick, easy, cheap win.
• 59:05
  Speaker 16: That's a Joe Biden thing, right? Cheap, easy win to
• 59:09
  Speaker 16: get reelected. Donald Trump is doing it for the long-term
• 59:12
  Speaker 16: health of the country, peace and prosperity of America. So
• 59:15
  Speaker 16: even though I've known him for a long time, I've
• 59:17
  Speaker 16: worked for him very closely in his first term, my
• 59:20
  Speaker 16: respect for him has grown enormously to see what a
• 59:24
  Speaker 16: leader he has become.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that the history.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Will be very different in terms of how they view
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  Speaker 2: those accomplishments than what the editorial pages of the New
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: York Times or the primetime lineup of CNN have to
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: say about it. I am curious, KT, Fox News and
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: even Talkers magazine and some of the others came out
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: and stood in solidarity with CNN yesterday. Did you have
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: any thoughts on what happened there?
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  Speaker 16: No, but I do think that President Trump has a
• 59:55
  Speaker 16: point of the fake news.
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: And Bobby Kennedy... Jr.
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  Speaker 16: Said it best at the last cabinet meeting. He said
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 16: that he's watched his uncle, John F.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: Kennedy.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 16: He's watched his whole family's been in politics their whole lives.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 16: And he said he's never seen such a hostile and
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 16: unfair press coverage of any political leader in the history
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 16: of the country. And when President Trump has banned Those
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 16: news organizations, he has every right to do it and
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 16: to ban them for fake news where they're obviously lying
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 16: and they're lying because it's clickbait for them. And to say, OK, guys,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 16: you know, we're not going to put up with this,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 16: I think is a really important lay down the law.
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  Speaker 4: What will happen as a result?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 16: If you're not in the White House press briefing, you're
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 16: not answering, you're not asking those questions. You're not on
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 16: the air. You've got a report from like across the
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 16: street from.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: The White House. You're going to lose viewers.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 16: Viewers are going to turn to other channels which do
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 16: have reporters in the room. And if you start losing viewers,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 16: you start losing advertisers. You lose the bottom line. So
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 16: there will be a price to be paid for the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 16: fake news.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: News people.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 16: And I think it'll have an effect on the people
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 16: who are still promoting sort of half fake news to
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 16: not promote fake news. And it will probably have an
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 16: effect on the networks that have been banned. Maybe they
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 16: change their lineup. I hope so, because fake news is
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 16: a real thing. And as we enter the age of AI,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 16: AI plus the fake news, that's a bad combination. America's
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 16: got to get back to the truth.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: Big time. Big time.
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  Speaker 2: All right, KT, good to have you back. We'll talk
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: to you again soon.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Talk to you next week.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough coming right back from New York. Don't go away.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 10: Stick around for more of That Kevin next. Here he
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 10: is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back. It's That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com. And again, thank
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: you to Admiral Brown for being with us, KT McFarlane
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: this hour. Also back with us is Michael Woolworth, who's
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: checking in once again from HQ in Bible League country.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: And Michael, before we do anything else, let's just say
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: thank you to some people that have heard the call
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: and have said, I've got to be involved in getting
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Bibles to Christians who desperately need them.
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  Speaker 13: Well, we added another 110 to the tally because of
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 13: people like Jose of Miami, Florida said, I'm in at
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 13: $ 300 for 60 Bibles. Rosemary of Federal Way, Washington said, Michael, Kevin,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 13: count me in at 10 Bibles. Daniel of Southport, Connecticut said,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 13: I want to be a part of this, a $ 200 gift.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 13: for 40 Bibles. And then, Kevin, we're going to double
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 13: each of those because of a Bible for Bible match.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 13: Friends of Bible League in another part of the country
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 13: that believe so strongly in what we're doing have said,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 13: we're going to double every single gift. There's a limited window.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 13: They want to put Bibles into as many waiting hands
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 13: as possible. And so thanks to Jose, Rosemary, Daniel, many
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  Speaker 13: others that have gotten us to this point. Kevin, we've
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 13: got 2,500 Bibles to go. We've seen thousands sent to
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  Speaker 13: this point. We're running out of the month of September.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 13: So if you're waiting to hear it's the 11th hour,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 13: let me throw this out. It's the 11th hour, folks, right?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 13: It's the fourth quarter, right? We're down to like the
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 13: two-minute warning, right? If I can use some sports speak here.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 13: But we're grateful to be at this point, Kevin. I'm
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 13: personally thankful that you share our enthusiasm and our burden.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 13: to see these Bibles reach these waiting believers. And this
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 13: listening family, again, being incredibly generous. I know, you know,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 13: gas is up, groceries still costing more and more, right?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 13: But again, somewhere in your budget, you're finding a place,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 13: a way to send Bibles even half a world away.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 13: So I'm grateful for that. Again, we're down to the
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  Speaker 13: final 2,500. We're officially done Sunday. We'll tally up whatever
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 13: God has done through listeners to that Kevin show. We'll
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 13: get these Bibles on their way. As I say, you know, Christmas,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 13: only 90-something days away, and to think that this year,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 13: these waiting believers who have gone without a Bible, some
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 13: of these for years, right, will be able to read
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 13: for themselves the precious Christmas story. But Kevin, we're grateful.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 13: We're down to the final 2,500, believing we can get
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  Speaker 13: it done in the coming days.
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  Speaker 12: 1-800-937-9673.
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  Speaker 2: If you've not yet given, that is the number to
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  Speaker 2: where you can. And again, as Michael said, we are
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: running out of time. The end of this week is
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: the end of the campaign. 2,500 Bibles to go. I
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: don't want us to get to Sunday night and go, oh,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: we just missed it by like just a little bit. No,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: I want us to get this done so that these
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: people that have been on this list and Bible League
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: knows every single person that's receiving a Bible because most
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: of them, more than 90% of them have been qualified
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: for a Bible because they've completed the Project Philip Bible
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: Study program. that has been done in their area by
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: a local pastor with them. And because of that, they are,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: they are asking for a Bible to continue to study with.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: And that's how they've been qualified for that. But they
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: know every single person. And what we're, what we're so
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: ecstatic about being able to do is, is we can
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: tell ministry leaders that are in these areas, many of
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: whom we've played you the story of who've said, I
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: need 30 Bibles here or 50 Bibles over there, or,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: you know, a thousand Bibles for this. What's the, Michael,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: what's the, the tent city that is in the Middle
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: East where they literally have so many people that are there,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: but they needed a thousand Bibles. That's because the gospel
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: is taking root in people's lives that are in hard places.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: But that's what we need. 800-937-9673, 800-937-9673. Yeah, man, Kevin.
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  Speaker 13: We've shared the stories. I call these people heroes of
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 13: the faith, right? They're persecuted, often a singled out targeted
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 13: monitor because they bear the name of Jesus. They live remotely.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 13: They live in extreme poverty. They're under the corruption. of
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 13: governments that fiercely oppose the gospel. But make no mistake,
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  Speaker 13: what we're asking this listening family to do today is
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 13: no less important than what those people are doing on
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 13: the front lines. I'm going to take you to Afghanistan
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  Speaker 13: here in a moment. But again, it's $ 5 a Bible.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 13: Every gift will be doubled. We've got 2,500 Bibles left
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 13: to go. I want to tell you about a great
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 13: opportunity we have at Bible League to minister within the
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 13: walls of Afghanistan. But when I look at the Middle East,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 13: There is a disturbing trend that's happening there. Persecution is
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 13: on the increase, especially among Christian clergy. This is my
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 13: colleague Yazan, and he is in the Middle East.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 6: I met a pastor.
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  Speaker 19: He was kidnapped and threatened to be killed. His freedom
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 19: was as easy as for him not to confess that
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 19: he follows Christ.
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  Speaker 9: Of course, he.
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  Speaker 19: Chose not to, and Yeah, that's what's happening. Persecution is
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 19: on the increase. Christians are suffering terribly.
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  Speaker 13: In a country like Afghanistan, if they merely suspect that
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  Speaker 13: you're a Christian, they can throw you in jail, they
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  Speaker 13: can beat you. That happened to a man by the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 13: name of Yusef, a cobbler in Pakistan, who goes back
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 13: and forth between those countries. When he became a believer
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 13: after attending a small Bible study in his village, his
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 13: entire family shunned him, turned him into the authorities. He's
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 13: been beaten, he's been jailed. But Kevin, more than anything,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 13: he's awaiting his very first Bible in the Urdu language.
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  Speaker 13: And so That's why we're doing this kingdom business. Again,
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  Speaker 13: I know it's tempting to think, what will my $ 5
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  Speaker 13: Bible do in this great big world? But to a
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 13: man like Yusef, who's been shunned by his family, needing
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 13: to be reminded that God is there. Listen, that $ 5 Bible,
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  Speaker 13: that's a lifeline that will give him the encouragement to persevere.
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  Speaker 13: And again, Kevin, that's why we're here doing this kingdom business.
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  Speaker 8: Here he is from New York. That Kevin.
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  Speaker 5: Kevin.
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  Speaker 8: McCullough.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. It is That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us and glad to be
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: rejoined by the senior pastor at the Christian Cultural Center
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  Speaker 2: out of Brooklyn, New York, Pastor Jamal Bernard. You may
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: know the name CCC, even if you're in Anchorage, Alaska
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: or Miami, Florida this afternoon, but you probably previously associated
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: it with his father, Dr.
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  Speaker 9: A.R.
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  Speaker 2: Bernard, who was deeply respected in that position and well
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: beloved by the church community and is now doing exciting
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: other things post full-time pastoring. And Jamal has received the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: mantle and doing a great job. And Jamal, we've, we've
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  Speaker 2: had a chance to be together at a couple of events.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: I was at your, um, your golf outing recently, and
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: you just had your leadership summit and you've got your
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: enough women's conference that has be coming up again in
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: the next year. And we're just looking forward to all these, uh,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: times to be able to work together and so forth.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: But you wrote a book that's just brand new and
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: it takes on a topic that I think is of
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: great interest. Tell us a little bit about, uh, the
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: weight of the name.
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  Speaker 20: So it's a book I wrote and thank you for
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 20: having me.
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  Speaker 5: It's always good hanging out with you, Kevin.
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  Speaker 20: I always appreciate what you're doing, especially for the kingdom
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 20: of God.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: The Christian community.
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  Speaker 20: But the weight of the name, it was, it just
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 20: ended up, it started out.
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  Speaker 5: With one.
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  Speaker 20: I just wanted to do a book about learning from
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 20: lessons from my father.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 5: You know, so the first, you know.
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  Speaker 20: Everybody's been asking me, what was it like getting prepared
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 20: and things like that? I said, okay, well, let me,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 20: I should just put it down. So I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 20: this is my father, but I still do my mother.
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  Speaker 20: And I said, okay, that's not the best of names.
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  Speaker 5: It's too long.
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  Speaker 20: So I said, I ended up with the weight of
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  Speaker 20: the name and understanding that, you know, the weight of
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  Speaker 20: the name is, is so it's multifaceted.
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  Speaker 5: It is one.
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  Speaker 20: We just talked about the weight of being a Bernard
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  Speaker 20: and what I went through, uh, you know, with that.
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  Speaker 20: And then, um, also the weight of God's name, right?
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  Speaker 20: It is this power saying this, the name of Jesus, uh,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 20: with different things. So it was just a play of words,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 20: and it was just a great title.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting because I can imagine that following in
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: the footsteps of a father who had such a story,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: and if people are new to the show, they probably
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: don't know. Your dad's been on with me many times,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: but his life before becoming a Christian had a certain
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: rhythm and tone to it, and let's just say it
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: ran in a different direction than And then his life
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: after becoming a believer and then his life in becoming
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: a pastor and someone who was serving a community and
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: really took that charge very seriously. It's just an incredible
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: legacy that he left to you and the other kids.
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  Speaker 2: But it's also something that you're probably tempted to measure
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  Speaker 2: yourself against. And other people are tempted to measure you
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: against it because that's how people are. We're just, you know,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: we're that shallow. well, this kid, how does he measure
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: up to dad? That's just the normal thing. But, and
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  Speaker 2: then I was thinking, so that has to be an
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: interesting story in stepping out of his shadow and becoming
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: the senior pastor at the church that he built. But
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: then you just added on the real kind of, oh,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: now that's the real heavy hitter, which is, are we
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: stepping into the weight of the name of Jesus when
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: we take on his identity? So, There's got to be
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: some layers of practicality here. How do you step into
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: the name of an earthly legacy that one has left?
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  Speaker 20: And that was the struggle, right? Because it was, he's
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 20: not like his father. And so my father became the
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 20: standard in the measuring machine. stick for me to be
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 20: able to minister and do what I do and do
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 20: with the reality. And I thank God for my father
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 20: and the way he mentored me. He said, my goal
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 20: is to make sure that you become the best Jamal
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 20: that you can be.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: CCC does not do another Dr. Bernard.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 20: Jamal Bernard is good enough.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: And I said, wow, that was a very freeing thing
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 5: that he did. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I would imagine that that is encouraging people Because
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: your dad's still around, and I know he still comes
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: to worship services, and there's probably a temptation to want
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: to put some fingerprints on things. But the fact that
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: he has really empowered you and said, I believe in
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: you and want you to go for it. Make that
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: parallel now to our walk with Jesus. Like, we carry
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: the weight of his name with us everywhere we go.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and so....
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  Speaker 20: And on the cover of my book, it says, I
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 20: have the way to name, but I have a little
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 20: line that says, becoming the leader, your legacy requires. So
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 20: the question is, who do you have to become, right,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 20: to represent one, because we're all receiving a legacy. We're
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 20: all standing on somebody else's shoulders, whether it's direct or indirect.
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  Speaker 20: And the question is, what are you doing to help
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  Speaker 20: steward that responsibility.
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  Speaker 5: And then when you say, okay, look, I'm now I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to say, I'm representing God, I'm representing Christ and culture.
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  Speaker 5: What does that mean? What does that look like?
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  Speaker 20: And who do you become as an individual to represent
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  Speaker 20: Christ and culture? And that's why I was looking at, uh,
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  Speaker 20: second Timothy chapter two, verse 15, and just understanding what, uh,
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  Speaker 20: you know, Paul was saying to Timothy, uh, in that text.
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  Speaker 5: And it's, it's, it's a very profound check.
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  Speaker 20: It says, uh, uh, is study and show thyself approved
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  Speaker 20: unto God, a workman that needeth not be ashamed, rightly
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  Speaker 20: dividing the word of truth, right?
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  Speaker 5: And so when we break.
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  Speaker 20: That down, it's basically saying cultivate the individual because if
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  Speaker 20: you're representing God, there's weight to that name, right? And
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  Speaker 20: you have to be, often they say most atheists have
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  Speaker 20: a problem with Christians because They know the scriptures, but
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  Speaker 20: they have a hard time living it out. And that
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  Speaker 20: becomes a tension that we deal with as Christians and
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  Speaker 20: as believers.
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  Speaker 5: And so there's a weight behind representing Christ.
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  Speaker 20: And we have to understand that that is not something
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  Speaker 20: that we typically do. But we have to really be
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  Speaker 20: intentional about stewarding this reality.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and that is. You're correct. The Christian life is
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  Speaker 2: not one of passivity, but it is of action. And
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  Speaker 2: the action that we take is to steward the name
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  Speaker 2: and mission of Jesus so that more people know him,
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  Speaker 2: so that more people are introduced to the kingdom, so
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  Speaker 2: that we have a greater unfolding of his purpose and
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: plan in the world around us. Friends, the book is
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  Speaker 2: called The Weight of the Name. The author is Jamal
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  Speaker 2: Bernard Sr., and I want you to get a copy
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  Speaker 2: of it. He's also authored Unapologetic Christianity. and Battle Rhythm,
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  Speaker 2: and I would encourage you to read those as well. Jamal,
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  Speaker 2: always a pleasure to have you with us. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being with us today.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: You got it. Kevin McCullough coming right back from New York.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back. That Kevin Show. Thatkevinshow.com. And hello to those
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  Speaker 2: of you in Anchorage and Columbus and Miami and San
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  Speaker 2: with us today. Michael Woolworth, the fun part of this
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  Speaker 2: is to see people respond and to know that those
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  Speaker 2: Bibles are going to go out.
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  Speaker 13: Well, Kevin, praise God. All these, what do you got,
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  Speaker 13: 400 new affiliates, right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just.
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  Speaker 2: Something along those lines.
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  Speaker 13: Something along those lines. I mean, it makes sense when
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  Speaker 13: I look at this list of people to think, okay,
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  Speaker 13: you know, where'd these folks come from, right? Well, they're
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 13: part of this expansive listening family. Gregory of Bull Shoals,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 13: Arkansas said, I'm in at 20 Bibles. Rhonda of Brooklyn said, Michael, Kevin,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 13: count me in 10 Bibles. Nita listening in Louisiana today said,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 13: I'm in, count me in. I want to be a
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  Speaker 13: part of this. Again, we have a goal to bless
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  Speaker 13: 10,800 waiting believers that we know by name at Bible League.
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  Speaker 13: We're closing in on 2000. And again, we're there because
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 13: of people like Gregory, Rhonda and Nita, but keep us
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 13: moving forward today. I'd love to wrap up the hour today.
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  Speaker 13: Maybe just talking about women. You know, we, Gosh, we've
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  Speaker 13: reached 100 million people in the course of our nine
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  Speaker 13: decades in ministry. Kevin, about 60% of those are women, right?
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  Speaker 13: Most of those are women. I think of women in
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 13: the Bible. Sarah found out what? Nothing's too hard for God, right? Esther,
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  Speaker 13: God can turn nobody into somebody. Rahab, your past doesn't matter.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 13: God can use anyone. Hannah found out what? God answers.
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  Speaker 13: And of course, Mary said, let it be to me
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  Speaker 13: according to your word. And there's many other women there
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 13: in the Bible. You know, these two women are waiting
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  Speaker 13: for Bibles today on the continent of Africa. This is
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 13: where Christianity is growing in the greatest numbers. Dali lost
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 13: her husband, son, and about 30 extended family members to
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 13: the Rwandan genocide 30 years ago. Today, she's a believer.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 13: She's forgiven those who's murdered her family after reading the
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  Speaker 13: words of Christ on the cross. 92 adults in her
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  Speaker 13: village of 300 adults. Kevin, a third of those adults
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  Speaker 13: are now following Jesus because they look at Dally, they
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 13: see the grace and the gumption in her life, and
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  Speaker 13: they say, you know what?
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  Speaker 8: I want that.
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  Speaker 13: Lally's the former village witch doctor in Madagascar, became a
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  Speaker 13: believer after somebody introduced her to the hope of the gospel.
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  Speaker 13: She read the account of Zacchaeus in Luke 19. She's
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  Speaker 13: led 200 families, 2,100 adults and children to him in
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  Speaker 13: the remote rainforest area. of Madagascar, Africa, where no bookstores
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 13: or Amazon.com exist, right? But again, I want you to
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 13: hear the audio clip of people like Christine. God has
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  Speaker 13: her situated there on the continent of Africa. I met
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  Speaker 13: her when I was in Tanzania not too long ago.
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  Speaker 13: What a beautiful spirit. I think you'll enjoy hearing this clip.
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  Speaker 13: The woman is Christine. She's a follower of Christ, has
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  Speaker 13: an incredible burden to reach women in that part of
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  Speaker 13: the world.
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  Speaker 21: First, I will introduce myself as Christine. I'm born again,
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  Speaker 21: and I'm happy for the books that you have given us.
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  Speaker 21: And the Bible has helped us to become women with
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  Speaker 21: an empower. So we can teach the young women how
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 21: they can stay. Also, we can teach them to read
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  Speaker 21: the Bible because that simple language for them to read.
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  Speaker 21: We have Swahili Bible and also we have English Bible.
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  Speaker 4: So we are very happy, very happy.
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  Speaker 21: And we are asking God to bless you as well
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  Speaker 21: as us.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like she's truly thankful. And that's the response
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: every time a Bible League Bible hits the hands of
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: someone who's been wanting one. Like there's so much joy there.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: They may dance. They may say they're happy. They may cry,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: but they're all, they're all experiencing joy.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I witnessed somebody who would, who just clutched the Bible.
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  Speaker 13: She held in her hands, the book that would tell
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 13: her about the God who loved her. And Kevin, I
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 13: was there in that room when she read her very
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  Speaker 13: first scripture.
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  Speaker 8: What was it?
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  Speaker 13: It was, I'm a new creation in Christ. The old
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  Speaker 13: is gone. The new has come. Hey, listen, that's thrilling
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  Speaker 13: to be there when they read that very first scripture.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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