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Lorenzo Sewell: Our Role In The Battle For The Soul Of America · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  You will not steal our country.
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  You will not have our children.
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  You will not have our families.
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  Enough is enough.
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  I know I got somebody in this room that believes in the King of glory.
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  The one who is strong and mighty.
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  The one who is mighty and better.
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  He's got the only name given among men.
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  Whereby.
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  we must be saved and that's the name of Jesus, come on now if you believe in that name put your hands together and give your great God great glory
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  Welcome to Worldview Matters.
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  Discussing controversial issues.
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  Discerning current events.
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  Defending biblical Christianity.
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  No topic.
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  Off limits.
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  And now, here's your host, David Fiorazzo.
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  Friends, we aim to give our great God great glory.
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  You're in for a treat today.
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  Our special guest, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell.
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  He was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
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  Grew up in a physically and verbally abusive home.
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  He's got an amazing story.
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  Thank God he is where he is today.
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  High school was a challenge emotionally.
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  His father went to prison.
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  His younger brother was killed.
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  As a result, he became heavily involved in drugs, and Lorenzo was even dealing, ultimately becoming a gang leader.
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  And his life started out rough, but man, God had great plans for him, and he is now giving his great God great glory.
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  On April 18, 1999, during his senior year at Frazier High School in Michigan, he had a Damascus Road encounter with Jesus.
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  And here he is today.
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  Pastor Lorenzo, thank you for your time.
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  Welcome to Worldview Matters, brother.
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  Good to see you.
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  I'm so Holy Ghost happy, David, to be with you today.
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  Well, thank you for your time.
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  I want to give your church site so people can look you up and get more information that we can cover in the podcast.
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  But it's 180church.cc.
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  And you can also look him up on Facebook.
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  You've got a profile, Lorenzo, S-E-W-E-L-L. And you can find him on X.
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  We can show the profile there.
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  So he's on all across.
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  Also, Instagram.
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  You don't want to...
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  Forget that.
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  He posts frequently.
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  He's also doing some either interviews or podcasts to just keep people up to speed, trying to encourage the body of Christ to wake up and stand up for the truth and then vote.
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  So, Lorenzo, let's start with your story.
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  I told you before we got on the podcast, I grew up in the UP.
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  the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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  And, you know, you grew up in Detroit.
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  Tough area.
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  It has changed dramatically since we were children.
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  First of all, tell us a little bit about your upbringing and what was that like?
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  I mean, the only thing a lot of people know about Detroit is Motown.
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  And then didn't they do a lot of car manufacturing, too?
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  They were known for Ford and everything else.
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  So talk to us about growing up in Detroit and your story, please.
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  Well, I was born and raised on the east side of Detroit, mentored by murderers.
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  Dave, student of the street.
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  My dad is in prison for murder today.
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  I was shot at when I was 11 years old, before there was Xbox, before there was PlayStation.
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  I was playing Atari.
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  Remember Atari video games?
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  Yeah.
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  So I was playing Atari and I was shot at.
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  Can you imagine it?
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  Can you imagine just being a kid playing Atari video games?
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  And in your house?
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  Bullets.
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  At my friend's house.
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  On the corner of Killborn and Queen.
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  Yeah, I'll never forget it.
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  Green home.
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  11 years old.
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  And Jesus, he interrupted my life with his love.
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  This is the best way to describe what happened with me.
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  I was cutting myself.
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  I was on ecstasy, acid, shrooms, all types of barbiturates.
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  Cutting myself.
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  Cutting myself.
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  Can you imagine?
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  Just like the prophets of Baal.
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  Remember the false prophets of Baal?
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  They cut themselves.
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  Yep.
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  Remember how Jesus had that man in a cave?
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  He was what?
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  Cutting himself.
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  Yeah.
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  People tried to bind him and they didn't.
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  They couldn't bind him.
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  No man could bind him.
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  And just like that man who was demon possessed cutting himself.
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  I found myself right after a prayer.
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  Can you imagine somebody praying for me in the midst of that context of
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  The security guard, David, said, can I pray for you?
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  He never told me what church he went to.
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  He didn't tell me if he was Presbyterian or Pentecostal.
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  He didn't tell me if he was Catholic or charismatic.
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  Only thing he said is, can I pray for you?
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  I'm grateful that God has people that pray for us.
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  I'm just so grateful for a grandmother, a grandfather, a preacher, a teacher, a coach, a Christian who lays hands on us and pray for us.
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  And that's exactly what happened, David.
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  He prayed for me.
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  When he prayed for me, I experienced then what I know now as the conviction.
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  I was convicted by the Holy Spirit that drug dealing was wrong.
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  And I went back up to the only church that I knew, my grandmother's church.
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  Straight gate church.
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  Jesus said, enter ye into the straight gate.
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  And I was in that church, bloody brow, broken heart.
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  I was a street pharmacist, so I had drugs in my pocket, but I was worshiping.
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  Can you imagine that?
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  Can you imagine?
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  Can you imagine you're worshiping?
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  Bloody brow, broken heart, but worshiping and saying, God, would you please do something?
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  I was crying.
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  I didn't know if Jesus was Lord, but I was crying, but worshiping.
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  Drug dealer, but worshiping.
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  Bruised and broken, but worshiping.
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  And Bishop Merritt said, does anybody want to come down and give their life to Christ?
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  I came down and I gave my life to Christ.
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  He gave me the microphone and said, why are you crying?
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  I said, because I love Jesus.
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  I got baptized that same day.
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  Wow.
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  Get filled with the spirit that same day.
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  Can you imagine that?
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  Can you imagine still being a drug dealer, but yet encountering the Holy Ghost as a drug guy?
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  I went back to my neighborhood that same day.
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  It was April 18, 1999.
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  I went back to my same community that day.
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  Listen to me.
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  And I tried to put in my two-week resume.
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  Your two-week notice?
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  Yeah.
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  I tried to put in my two-week note.
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  I tried to cash out my 401k.
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  I tried to say, listen, I'm done.
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  Can you imagine that?
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  That's not how it works.
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  That's not how it works.
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  All of my friends said, you know what's going to happen to you?
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  I said, yeah.
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  So I went to go and talk to my distributor.
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  He was a murderous man.
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  He had bodies under his belt.
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  Just started taking steroids.
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  Had a tattoo of Medusa on his bicep.
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  I walked in on April 18, 1999.
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  I gave him the drugs.
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  I gave him all the money and I said, I'm done.
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  He said, why are you done?
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  Are you sick?
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  Are the cops on to you?
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  I said, no.
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  I said, I gave my life to Jesus.
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  And when I said that to Larry,
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  I got up knowing that he would invoke some type of violence.
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  And you know what he said to me?
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  He said, I respect you.
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  Whoa.
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  I did not know the Bible from a blunt.
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  The only thing I knew about Bible paper is I can roll and smoke weed with it when I ran out of zigzags.
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  That's all I knew about the Bible.
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  But I knew the God of the Bible was real that day.
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  Friday, I was a dope dealer.
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  Monday, I went to school as a hope dealer.
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  People thought I took a bad hit of acid, Dave.
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  They thought I took a bad head of acid.
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  Now, can you imagine God taking a kid born and raised on the east side of Detroit, mentored by a murderer, student of the street, save him.
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  And then on President Trump's birthday weekend, 2024, the president comes to my church.
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  Can you imagine that?
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  So let's stop right there for a second.
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  I was going to ask you, how did that happen?
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  Was he in town for a speech and he ended up at your church?
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  How did that happen?
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  You've got to tell us about that.
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  Okay, I've got to explain this.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Let me explain this in gang terms.
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  Okay.
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  So I grew up in a context where you had gangs.
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  Every gang represented a territory.
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  So in our community, you have the Bloods, you have the Crips.
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  The Bloods represent the Blue Crips.
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  The Democratic Party in Detroit is like the Bloods.
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  They are like a gang.
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  It's not, this is no gang.
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  You don't bring in a blood into a Crip neighborhood.
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  The Crips represent the blue, that's the Democrats.
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  And when President Trump came as a Blood, he came as a Republican.
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  People thought they said they would blow my church up.
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  They said that they would kill me.
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  Givers left my church.
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  All the teachers, all the union people, they all left.
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  All because a pastor wanted to pray for a president.
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  I never asked him to come.
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  I never asked him to come.
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  Wow.
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  He called me and said he wanted to come to church.
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  Can you picture that?
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  Out of 400,000 places to worship, 400,000 in America, or 400,000, whether it be synagogues, whether it be cathedrals, whether it be sanctuaries, whether it be temples, there are 400,000 places to worship in America.
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  And he picked a nobody from nowhere to come and have me pray over him.
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  Can you see that?
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  Now, why is that?
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  Now, everybody asks me why.
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  Let me tell you why.
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  because God wants to bring the church back into politics.
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  Let me break this down, because this is important.
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  Thank you.
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  In the 70s, we had some of the greatest movements and some of the greatest revivals.
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  We had the Great Jesus Movement.
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  We had Billy Graham crusades.
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  But in the 70s, what happened?
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  Abortion was passed.
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  In the 70s, the Johnson Amendment took place where preachers were no longer allowed to endorse candidates over the pulpit because LBJ was challenged by a preacher in Alabama.
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  So you had prayer taken out of school, you had abortion, and you had the LBJ Amendment all take place while some of the greatest
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  revivals were happening in America why because the church was not involved in politics but Jesus makes it very clear he said upon this rock I will build my ecclesia now what is an ecclesia that is a secular term the first place where the Athens voted ecclesia is a secular term this is not the term for temple this is not the term for synagogue this is not the term for tabernacle
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  This is a secular term that everyone listening at that time would have understood that term as a place where people voted.
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  So it is.
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  The church is called to be a place where the gates of hell will not prevail because the church are binding.
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  We're forbidding things.
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  like the LGBTQ movement, we're binding and forbidding things like Islam, we're binding and forbidding those things that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God, and we're loosing or we're allowing a Judeo-Christian culture.
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  And that's exactly how our country was birthed.
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  People forget the Revolutionary War was not won by George Washington.
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  Not saying he wasn't a great leader.
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  We're not trying to take away from him being one of our founding fathers.
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  What we're saying is it was won because of the militias.
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  It was won because of the black people.
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  Robe regiment.
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  People forget that.
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  Forget it was preachers.
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  It was preachers and it was the men in their congregations that led the revolution.
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  That's how we won the revolution.
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  So when people say that the church shouldn't be involved in politics, listen to this.
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  If a pastor says a church should not be involved in politics, that means he should no longer be a 501c3.
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  Now, what is a 501c3?
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  This is important.
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  This is important.
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  A 501c3 is the only, an ecclesiastical, which churches are, an ecclesiastical 501c3 is the only organization in America, the only one,
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  where we say to the government, not only can you not take our money, we're not telling you who gives in our organization.
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  Think about that.
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  Other nonprofits have to do that, not ecclesiastical ones.
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  Why?
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  Because Jesus wanted the church to understand how powerful they are.
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  Think about it.
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  Government is so powerful that even Jesus had to pay taxes.
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  But the church is so powerful that the church doesn't have to pay taxes.
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  That's how powerful the church is.
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  Brother, thank you.
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  There's so much in there I would love to follow up on.
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  But for the sake of time, let's talk a little bit about the Johnson Amendment.
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  By the way, friends, I got to tell you, we mentioned briefly at the beginning of this interview, Lorenzo is going to be coming to Green Bay, Wisconsin in a couple of weeks.
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  It's going to be an event called Bread and Bibles.
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  That's going to be at the Rock Garden in Green Bay.
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  Doors open 1230 program starts at 1 p.m.
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  You can get details on Eventbrite.
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  Look up Bread and Bibles.
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  I think people are sharing this event on Facebook as well, but we need to get the word out about this because he's going to be speaking in another local gal who we had in this podcast several months ago.
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  Her name is Myra.
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  She's going to be talking about Sharia La.
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  Lorenzo, you know he's going to bring it.
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  So that's Bread and Bibles in Green Bay Rock Garden Event Center.
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  So look that up.
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  So Pastor Lorenzo, a lot of people— let's go back to the Johnson Amendment because that—
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  a lot of pastors and so-called pastors and Christians are unnecessarily self-censoring because they think the church shouldn't talk about politics.
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  You know, a political issue like destroying a pre-born human life in a mother's womb.
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  A political issue, right?
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  So could you just refresh the memories of our viewing audience and our listeners about,
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  of why it's important for people to understand Christians are to be salt and light.
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  We've kind of lost those concepts.
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  And voting for who's going to represent you locally and nationally is one of the biggest things you can do as far as what you can do for your community and country.
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  Go ahead, sir.
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  Yeah, voting is an act of worship.
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  This is what everyone needs to understand.
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  Now, somebody would say, Lorenzo, why is voting an act of worship?
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  Well, let me tell you why.
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  Because Paul, when he writes his protege, Timothy, he says, first of all, pray for those who are in authority that you may lead an honest and peaceable life unto all godliness and honesty.
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  If you take politics out of the Bible, you have no Bible.
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  Jesus was crucified because of a political statement.
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  Remember the Sanhedrin council, they said to Pontius Pilate, you are no friend of Caesar.
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  That political statement caused Christ to be crucified.
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  If you take politics out of the Bible, you have no Joseph, you have no Nehemiah, you have no Daniel.
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  If you take politics out of the Bible, you have no prophets who.
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  holding kings accountable.
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  You have no Samuel going to Saul.
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  The problem is we in America, we have allowed the people who are the politicians who should be the employees, we've allowed the employees to be the employers.
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  And the Bible says that's evil.
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  That's an evil under the sun.
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  When you have a slave on horseback and a horseback acting like a slave, that is a problem when you have us who should be the voice of God to our nation, the church, we are the mind of Christ.
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  We are speaking for God, the word of God.
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  And we should be telling politicians what to paint, how to paint and where to paint.
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  And the reason why we have not done this, let me tell you why.
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  Because the devil knows
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  that politics is spiritual warfare.
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  He knows that the gates of hell prevail.
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  Let me give you a great example.
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  Me and you, me and you can pray all day.
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  We can fast all day.
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  We can call a national fast.
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  We can pray and fast.
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  And guess what?
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  Babies will still be aborted.
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  That's how powerful politics are.
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  Doesn't matter what we do.
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  We can pray.
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  Politics are so powerful that
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  That the devil knows that if the church gets involved in politics, he knows, hear me, that the church will be the conduit of compassion and we will do what the government was never meant to do.
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  See, watch this.
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  The government was never meant to lead education.
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  It's not the government's job.
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  It's church's job.
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  The government was never meant to lead health care.
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  The government was never meant to lead a disaster relief team.
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  That was never their job.
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  They should have never been leading it.
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  It is our job.
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  And the devil knows that if the church get a revelation of politics, we will be a resource so we can point people to the source.
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  He knows that.
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  So that's why he says the pastors, no, no, don't.
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  Don't do it.
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  Don't get involved in politics.
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  I got to say this.
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  I just got to say this one point.
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  Any pastor out there, and I'm just a pastor.
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  That pastor is a couple hundred people.
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  I just, pastor, I know where you're at.
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  Let me just say this.
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  If you want to wake up to politics, remember COVID-19.
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  If you want to remember how powerful the government is, remember COVID-19.
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  That's all you need to do.
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  Just remember COVID-19.
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  Oh, let me say this.
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  And remember...
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  Muslims are voting at a 95% clip.
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  Thank you for saying that.
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  Come on now.
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  Christians what?
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  During the May of Toms, 65% of Christians do not vote.
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  Do not vote.
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  Think about that.
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  Do not vote.
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  Yes.
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  It's mind-boggling.
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  It's mind-boggling.
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  And yeah, absolutely.
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  Thank you for sharing those numbers, because this is how people radicals are getting elected in New York and Minnesota.
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  We'll see what happens in Texas and the midterms are coming up.
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  That's why one of the reasons we wanted to get you to talk to pastors and basically Christians who have been told your vote doesn't matter, which is a lie.
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  Um, so let me ask you this.
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  The left has done a good job.
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  And when I say good, I mean evil, scheming, deceptive.
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  They've done a good job at convincing people that it's okay for them to talk about whatever issue in their churches, but...
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  True Bible-believing Christians with a solid biblical worldview, conservatives, should not talk about political issues and things like that.
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  Why have we—how did they do such a good job of selling that, Pastor?
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  Can you give us any insight on that?
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  Absolutely.
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  This is what the demonic Democratic Party did.
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  This is what they did.
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  They understood through Margaret Singer.
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  See, Margaret Singer, she understood this.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  She said it herself out of her own mouth.
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  And the first lifetime achievement award she gave was to Dr. King.
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  She knew.
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  He didn't accept it.
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  He sent Coretta because he didn't want to be disrespectful, but he didn't accept it himself.
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  She knew if you could get to the preachers.
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  She understood that.
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  Now, why is that?
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  Because the preachers were always meant to pick the politicians, to anoint the politicians, and to appoint the politicians.
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  It's the preachers.
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  And as a matter of fact, if you look at the history of our church, on the history of America, we know that in the beginning of our emphases, we didn't allow people to run for office.
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  The church picked people.
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  That's what happened.
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  And pastors, this is what I would say to every pastor out there.
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  Every pastor says to me, okay, Lorenzo, I hear you.
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  But I pastor a big church.
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  I don't want to offend anybody.
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  Why would I offend somebody when we're not talking about, and this is what I would say to the pastor.
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  I would say, pastor, this is all I want to say to you.
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  With all due respect, I would say, pastor, listen.
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  I get it.
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  How about we make election day national soul winning day?
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  I like that.
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  How about we win a soul at the poll?
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  Hmm.
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  How about we have our church do prayer evangelism at the polls?
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  Don't make it about a donkey.
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  Don't make it about an elephant.
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  Make it about the lamb that was slain.
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  How about you take your entire church and say, church, we are winning souls at the polls.
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  We're going to do prayer evangelism.
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  We're going to invite as many people out to vote.
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  And guess what?
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  We're going to pray for people and we're going to pray for our nation.
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  Amen.
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  That's good.
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  That's good.
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  We need a revival.
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  We need another great awakening.
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  What's interesting is the religious freedoms we have, I think Christians tend to be a little bit more apathetic, and maybe Americans in general, because of, we're spoiled!
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  Our Constitution!
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  our First Amendment, our religious freedoms, go to other countries and try to vote and speak up and share the gospel.
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  If we continue to not show up at the polls, Bible-believing Christians, there will be a time where laws will be passed, like Canada hates speech, and we will not be able to freely share the gospel, although we will still speak it, we'll just be arrested.
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  We don't want that in America.
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  We're trying to wake people up and people to understand this could happen.
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  But I love what you're saying.
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  Let's make it about winning souls, because indirectly, that's what voting.
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  We're trying to do that, get the right people in office, get the right legislation passed.
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  But the answer is not just political.
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  It's spiritual.
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  I know I'm preaching to the choir.
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  Lorenzo, we only have five minutes left, but I don't want to run out of time before I ask you.
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  What's on the horizon for you and your ministry?
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  I know prayer is such an important part of your ministry, and thank you.
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  Thank you for that, an important emphasis.
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  What do you have coming up, or what do you see, I mean, aside from midterms and politics, just for ministry, just for what America needs in this country for Christians just to, I don't know, wake up before it's too late?
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  David, the number one thing is this.
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  I want to lobby for the Lord.
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  I want to caucus for Christ.
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  I want us as pastors to be on Capitol Hill so it can be a city that's set upon a hill that cannot be hidden.
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  We must be in Washington.
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  Our problem is we're absent.
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  Our problem is we're not present.
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  We need to be on there.
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  We need to lobby for HUD.
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  We need to get housing.
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  We need to do housing.
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  Every church should have housing.
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  a charter Christian school, bottom line.
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  Yes.
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  Every church should have an entity where they can be able to make sure that women can choose life.
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  That is not even, that's not negotiable.
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  How can I, why am I saying that?
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  When you look at Planned Parenthood, they get $2 billion every single year to destroy life.
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  You mean to tell me the church can't get $2 billion a year to give life?
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  Mm-hmm.
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  These are the things we need to be doing.
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  And that's my heart right now.
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  I'm looking for a place actually in Washington to represent every single Bible believer.
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  Because I want pastors to run for the Senate.
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  I want pastors to be mayors.
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  I want pastors to be governors.
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  Because Islamists, jihadists, they're doing it.
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  Yes.
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  They're doing it.
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  And you said something, I got to say this to you, Dan.
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  We are up under Sharia law already.
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  See, people don't understand this.
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  Sharia law is two-tier justice.
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  See, people don't get this.
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  Right now, I'm in Detroit.
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  I live right next to three majority Arab communities.
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  Only three in the world next to the Middle East.
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  Listen to me.
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  Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, I haven't tried to.
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  A virtual member from my church, his name is Jake Lane.
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  He was there holding up a sign saying, Dearborn belongs to Jesus.
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  Dearborn belongs to Jesus.
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  And they stoned him in front of the cops.
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  They ran him down.
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  They were trying to kill him.
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  He literally went in.
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  You can see the footage.
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  I went to Dearborn and I asked the council if they would renounce Sharia law.
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  None of them renounced Sharia law.
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  No.
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  We are up under two-tier justice right now.
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  Yep.
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  And it's spreading.
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  And Christians, we cannot afford to be silent.
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  By the way, thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing up Margaret Sanger.
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  That's a hundred-year history right there, the founder of Planned Parenthood.
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  My very first book, called Eradicate, Blotting Out God in America, I did a chapter on Planned Parenthood's buried history.
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  And Sanger actually inspired...
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  Hitler and eugenicists over with the Nazis, and that's a whole other story, but that's a warped worldview.
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  It's about death, population control, women's so-called rights, reproductive freedom, which is a lie from the pit of hell.
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  Brother, two minutes left.
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  Again, I want to mention his website, guys, 180church.cc.
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  Find Lorenzo.
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  on Instagram and make sure you know if you're in the Northeast Wisconsin area, please share this event, Bread and Bibles.
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  It's going to be October 25.
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  It's a Sunday at the Rock Garden Banquet and Event Center in Green Bay.
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  You know, we didn't have a chance to really dive into some of the details of your take on what happened to Detroit and Michigan because when I was growing up,
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  in the 60s and 70s, it looked a little different.
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  And I know even that was in the upper part of the state where you're at, I know it looked different as well.
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  Lord willing, maybe if we have time, we can have you back another time.
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  But Lord willing, we'll meet you in a couple weeks when you come to Green Bay, brother.
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  Just your closing encouragement in about a minute and a half.
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  To Bible-believing Christians, we have a very generally mature audience that watches and listens and shares this podcast.
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  And they still need encouragement because they might be a little battle-weary because of the warfare out there and because we're put down and shot down.
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  But, brother, go ahead and speak life and encouragement to our audience.
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  There are more for you than against you.
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  I know you might be weary in your worshiper, but I want to encourage you.
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  Your strength is coming.
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  I'm going to encourage you because there is a man that was hung high and he was stretched wide.
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  I want to encourage you because there was a man beaten beyond recognition for you.
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  I'm going to encourage you because if it has not been for America,
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  Millions of missionaries would never been sent.
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  If it had not been for America, we would not be the shining light to be able to protect Israel.
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  If it wasn't for America, you and I wouldn't be able to do what we're doing right now.
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  Would you get out of the boat and vote?
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  Would you go to your young people and tell them that they must walk on water?
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  Because God wants the church to walk on water so we won't drown.
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  You are about to walk on the thing that would normally drown you if you're willing to get out of the boat and vote.
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  Hmm.
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  Brother, thank you.
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  I thank you for your voice.
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  I thank you.
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  I know it's, you know, let's just say it.
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  It's not popular to be a black pastor in Detroit.
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  I'm guessing, I'm guessing and be conservative and even maybe even support Republicans.
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  Oh, anyway, brother, thank you.
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  I know it's not about politics.
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  It is about the will of God and the spirit of God in America.
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  And God had blessed this land.
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  We want to preserve our republic.
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  Thank you so much for all you do and your time.
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  Lord willing, we'll see you in Green Bay in a few weeks.
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  Pastor, God bless you, sir.
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  Bless you.
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  Thank you so much.
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  You're most welcome.
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  Friends, share this one, especially if you are in Wisconsin.
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  We've got to get people out to this event.
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  We've got to get people stirred up before the midterms.
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  And not only that, just for Christ and our ambassadors.
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  We are ambassadors for Christ.
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  We've got to remember that, Lord.
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  Help us be salt and light.
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  God bless you, friends.
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  As always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.
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  See you next time.