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So again, I welcome you aboard to uh Peace Through Strength, America's Navy.
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So how about this, folks?
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How about we proceed with today's topic?
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I call today's topic, do or die.
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Now, who in the world am I addressing when I use such language as do or die?
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I am presenting the doodie language to the government of Iran.
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Those creeps, those thugs, those people who are so evil, who execute their very own citizens for doing nothing but crying out for freedom.
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I was told years ago by Israeli military personnel that America needs to learn that you don't negotiate with terrorists.
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And I believe that.
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Contrary to what the mainstream media want you and me to believe, contrary to our liberals and progressives want you and me to believe, the fact of the matter is is that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Department of War, Department of the Navy, all our military leaders, as well as the President of the United States and the Secretary of War, Pete Heggseth, want to prevent a major, major war.
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Want to prevent this war from expanding.
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They want the Iranian government to come to the peace table.
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But the Iranian government doesn't want to do that in my view.
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But I hope and I pray that through all of the efforts that the President and this administration has made towards them that somebody, somebody in the Iranian government, will come to their senses and say, you know, we better sit down with America because they mean business.
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And I've also shared time and time again on this broadcast, on other broadcasts, on nationally televised networks.
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I've shared with uh uh all of the listeners because I know that the Iranian government personnel, as well as the Chinese Communist Party, and perhaps every enemy of the United States of America monitor just about every single broadcast in this country, in our country, the United States of America.
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They do, I believe that.
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That's how they collect intelligence and information.
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It's called uh open source information.
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Uh a lot of information and intelligence one could reap from listening to what we call open source channels.
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That would be your news networks, newspapers, magazines, etc.
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But since I know that they do that, again, I have news for them.
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Either you do what the president of the United States is telling you to do, or you will die.
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I believe that.
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We've got enough military hardware in the Mid East that could ensure that the leadership of the Iranian government, the present leadership, will follow to the grave the others that have gone to.
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And we must keep one thing in mind, and I'm sure our government, the United States of America and our leaders, keep in mind that the people of Iran want us to do what must be done to take those shackles off of them, to return to them a free country.
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My goodness, they went out there and they marched.
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They died for their country.
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Not marching against America, not saying death to America, like they were forced to by this this terrible, terrible regime, but they're saying long live America.
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And now we're hearing long live the American Navy.
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They know our ships are out there.
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They know the United States Navy is engaged in a very, very tough situation in a war, though, that we have already won, as far as I'm concerned.
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Now, the next step is to free them.
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And we leave that up to the diplomats.
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We leave that up to our government leaders who are elected to office, and we do exactly what we are trained to do, exactly what we gave an oath to do, and that is to carry out the policies of the people who we elected to office.
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So I must tell you that after several weeks of employing a whole load of strategies to encourage Iran to engage in negotiations to resolve this ongoing war, their leadership persists.
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They just don't give up in rejecting key components that would facilitate an end to this crisis, an end to it.
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They don't want an end to it.
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They don't want an end to it because they know at this point that they are in a state of total despair, that they have lost their Navy, lost their Air Force, lost any army that they had.
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All they got is a bunch of gangsters running around trying to figure out what they're going to do as far as the next step.
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And they're trying everything to hinder the ability of the United States of America to move forward and again to take complete control of their country.
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They know the Navy's out there.
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You know, they're doing a lot of bragging these days about how they're gonna sink a couple of Navy uh warships, and they're gonna kill Americans if the Marines uh land on the beaches.
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They're doing a lot of talking, but no action and any action they have taken hasn't gotten them very much.
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In fact, it's backfired on most of what they have been doing.
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But they persist in rejecting anything that we try to advance, and now again we hear they want to come to the table and talk.
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Remember, at least I remember what I was told years ago, you can't negotiate with terrorists.
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Let's see how far we're gonna go before we teach them another lesson.
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So rather than negotiating with Americans to resolve the conflict, what do they do?
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They now confront the world's most powerful Navy.
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That's what they do.
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I can imagine what they're thinking when they take a pair of binoculars on one of their coastal beaches and they stare at the most powerful warfighting fleet in the world.
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What are they gonna be?
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What are they thinking?
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I mean, they can't be thinking, gee, can we really sink that ship?
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We can really sink that ship.
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Oh, we could take out that carrier.
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They're crazy.
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They're out of their minds.
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And their generals and their military personnel.
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Hey, if any of you are listening from one military officer, meaning me, to you, give it up.
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Give it up, get a hold of your generals, get a hold of your military, and how about you guys do something about the problem?
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You guys convince the civilian leadership in Iran, those dogs to give it up.
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Save your own lives, save your souls, save your families' lives.
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Believe me, what we would with the what the United States Navy, with the power and might of the United States Navy can do to you and your country, is is something that you can't even conceive.
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But we haven't done that.
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And contrary again to what you and your government in Iran and what a lot of the mainstream media out here is trying to lead people to believe, we do not target civilians.
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We don't target people who are innocent, and as I said over and over again, if we have a military target in our sights and we believe that there will be massive civilian casualties, we don't attack.
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We've never done that, we haven't done that, and we won't do that.
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And for those of you in Iran, and I understand some way, somehow you get broadcasts, and I'm hoping some of you are getting one of mine somehow, somehow, and some of my colleagues, we ain't giving up on you, and you're not being targeted by the American government.
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You're not being targeted by the U.S.
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Navy.
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We pray for you, and we do everything we could to defend you against that evil, evil regime that is controlling your lives.
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But keep everything in prayer, keep your faith in God Almighty and keep your faith in us.
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My faith is in us in God and in the United States Navy.
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And I believe, as we have demonstrated in history, we always win, and our enemies always lose.
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Now, a considerable number
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Number of individuals in our country and around the world, they're looking in some way somehow to learn about the rationale behind the naval blockade that we now have near Iran.
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And they're telling me a lot of people I ran into tell me that they just do not fully grasp the definition of what a naval blockade is.
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They hear about it on the news, on TV and radio, in the press, everybody's talking about a naval blockade, but most Americans don't know what that is.
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Well, I could tell you that this broadcast, right here.
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Peace through strength, America's Navy.
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We offer an opportunity to deliver information that clarifies the key aspects of the who, the what, the when, the where, and the why of military operations worldwide.
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Specifically, the segment that you're listening to now of this broadcast will address the activities of the United States Navy in the Strait of Hormose.
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I will now share with you what we mean by naval blockade.
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Now, a naval blockade, all right?
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Now, such as the current operation at the Strait of Hormoz, it exemplifies the peace through strength strategy.
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Remember, we've talked about peace through strength a few times.
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And what's it doing?
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It's deterring our adversaries, in this case, the Iranian government, without the need for military engagement.
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We're deterring them without the need for us to bomb the living daylights out of them again.
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Peace through strength.
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Remember what I just said a second ago?
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They get a pair of binoculars, they look out to the ocean from their coast, and they see the most powerful warships on the face of the earth.
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You'd think they would use their brains if they have any.
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Let's forget their brains.
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They don't have brains.
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If they had brains, we all means they'd be ending this war.
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Uh surrendering, if you will, to the will that we are wanting to impose it on them.
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And our will is freedom and liberty.
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But getting back to getting to them to uh understand that this this peace through strength strategy is a methodology that we're using to deter them from turning their backs on negotiations.
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It isn't working.
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It should have worked by now.
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When you're dealing with people with common sense, when you're dealing with people who get it, they don't get it.
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And this approach clearly communicates the consequences for noncompliance with established demands.
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We have established demands.
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No nuclear weapons in your country.
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None.
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And there are a few other demands in there.
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Like uh, you know what?
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Put an end to your supporting of the other killers and murderers and animals called Hezbollah and Hamas and all these other terrorist organizations.
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I mean, come on, they got the whole world against them.
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And the fact of the matter is, the whole world is now slowly taking some time, coming together, and they're looking at the United States Navy fleet out there, and they're saying, you know what?
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Let's let's maybe help them out.
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That's the winning side, not Iran, not the empty threats, not the nonsense, but the real, real meat of the situation is right there, right there off the coast of Iran.
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So peace through strength, and maybe a message is getting through to our allies saying, look it, we've got the power, we've got the might, come on, nobody's gonna hurt you.
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We'll protect you.
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And that what is going on right now, at least in my view.
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Now, this isn't the first time that I've heard about a naval blockade.
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I've heard some others going on throughout my lifetime, but the biggest one, the most powerful one, the most effective one, was in 1962.
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And some of you who were around then and old enough to listen to the news and understand and live through, listen to this, folks, for those of you who have not lived through that time, who lived through the possible end of the world.
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That's right.
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I'm not talking about a science fiction movie.
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I'm talking about the real deal.
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And you know why it was almost the end of the world?
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It was because during that time, there was a Cuban missile crisis going on.
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The United States of America found Soviet nuclear missiles being placed in Cuba.
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That's 90 miles off our coast.
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Why in the world would the Soviet Union want nuclear missiles right off our coast?
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Well, that escalated what we called a cold war.
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Now, a cold war is a war going on without fighting shots, bullets, bombs.
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Cold war is a lot to do with propaganda, intelligence, information, not kind of hugging, maybe shaking a hand once in a while, but it was a cold war.
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And it was a standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Now, to counter this, to counter these Soviet ships coming into Cuba, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy imposed a naval blockade to halt all Soviet ships transitioning to Cuba that were carrying missiles and military shipments to Cuba.
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Which means, guess what?
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They, meaning the Soviet ships were going to be stopped, they were going to be boarded, and if they didn't allow us to board them, we were going to sink them.
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And of course, the Soviet Union said that if you sink one of our ships, we're going to be launching nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union.
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Which led to us telling them then we'll be launching missiles from not only here in the United States, but from Europe, and we will destroy the entire Soviet Union.
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So there, we were close to World War II, World War III, folks.
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And I've got to tell you, it was a frightening time.
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People all over America, they would stop in front of stores, look at the TV sets in the stores, and get uh up to the minute the news flashes as to what was happening down there in the Caribbean, close to Cuba.
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But Kennedy did that.
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He imposed a naval blockade, and it worked.
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We're still here, folks.
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It worked.
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Not a shot was fired, and the Soviets, they turned their ships around.
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They got just so far, Kennedy told them where the red line was, you cross that line, and we're gonna sink you if we don't board you and seize your ship.
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And Nikita Khrushchev, the premier of the Soviet Union, brought his ships right up to that red line, and then they heard the voice of the President of the United States, John F.
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Kennedy and others, turn your ships around, do or die.
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They did and they didn't die.
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Although years later, President Ronald Reagan and his term of office helped facilitate, if not lead the fall of the Soviet Union.
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It worked.
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There were people in the Soviet Empire who had some common sense.
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There were military leaders who used their brains and clearly understood that we can destroy them in minutes.
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Yeah, they would do a lot of damage to us, maybe destroy us, who knows?
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But everybody understood it would be the end of this world.
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A nuclear holocaust, never seen before, would never be seen again, because no one would be left.
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And believe me, if we allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon like the Soviets did, it's a replay of 1962.
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So a naval blockade, for those of you now who I hope are learning something here, it restricts the movement of vessels, not only ships now, big ships and small ships, but also aircraft to and from an adversary's ports, their airfields, and their coastal regions.
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That's what it does.
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It prohibits them from transitioning back and forth.
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They just can't go anywhere, folks.
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Not into the country, not out of the country, on land, sea, or air.
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And it serves, these blockades serve as a as a strategic military and economic measure to do what?
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Designed to disrupt supply chains, which we're now doing in Iran, impede commercial activity, definitely doing that, and potentially compel changes in leadership without necessitating full military operations.
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That is exactly what we're doing.
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That is what we want to see work.
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But again, it's going on, it's happening.
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Instead of the Iranians coming to the table, they decided to put, for lack of a better illustration, a toll booth in the Strait of Hormos.
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And here's the toll booth.
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You got a few Iranian ships, all right?
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Not their warships, they got nothing left but a few small boats.
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They're hanging around over there at the strait, and they're making it known that you got to pay a fee.
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I think it's five million dollars for an oil tanker.
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You give them five million because they need cash, they're going broke, they're going bankrupt.
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I mean, deeper than bankrupt.
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Their economy is really getting bad.
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Give them five million, you could go through without worrying about being sunk.
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But if you're going to go through without paying the five million, which happens to be blackmail, by the way, uh, we're going to sink you.
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That's what the Iranian government has resorted to.
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They are charging people a fee to go through the strait so that they can get the oil to other countries.
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Well, we put a stop to that because now we're controlling the state of Hormoes.
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And we're making it clear that no ship is going to get by without, without us, the United States of America, checking on them, making sure that they're not bringing stuff into Iran and making sure that they're going from one place to another through the strait without the necessity of stopping in Iran.
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We want to check you out before you use those straits.
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We check you out, you get a stamp of approval, you don't get charged a fee, you go for free.
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How do you like that?
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International law being enforced, right?
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Freedom of the high seas, they call it.
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Since one do you charge someone to go on the ocean?
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Which leads me just a little bit off the uh side here.
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Why in New Jersey do we have to pay a fee to go to the beach?
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I go to other states around the country.
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You go to the boardwalk, you have a cup of coffee, ice cream, you want to go down the beach, you go to the beach, you're on the sand, you're near the beach.
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In New Jersey, in many places, not in all.
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There are a few freebies there.
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You gotta pay a fee to go to the beach.
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Well, I know I went off on a little tangent, but it just came to my mind, folks.
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And I thought I'd mention that for whatever reason.
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It's nice to have a little fun on a broadcast, isn't it?
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I mean, everything is serious, serious, serious, and it needs to be serious.
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And we need to address things that are serious.
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But there's nothing wrong with kind of taking a step back every once in a while and say, you know all this serious stuff.
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We have it under control.
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The mainstream media would lead us to believe it's out of control.
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I have enough confidence and enough faith in the United States Navy and our military commanders, army, navy, marines, air force, space force, coast guard.
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Enough faith and confidence in them that they know exactly what to do and when to do it.
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They know the who, the what, the when, the where, and the why.
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I've been with many of them.
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They plan things out perfectly.
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This is why we have the strongest military on earth.
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Common sense, compassion, strategic thinking, tactical thinking, pulling it all together into one one big plan.
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That not just one or two people put together, but a whole lot of smart people put together.
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And that is why we are the greatest country on the face of the earth, and we have the greatest military on the face of the earth.
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Now, some of our naval ships that are involved in what they call a close blockade, all right.
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These are our naval ships that either patrol or remain stationed just outside enemy territory, aiming to intercept any vessels coming or going, including merchant ships and oil tankers.
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So that's that's pretty pretty uh uh I'm sorry, that's uh kind of a uh more than close, they're a little bit more than some other ships that are closer to the uh shores of Iran.
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Now, certain U.S.
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Navy vessels are carrying out what I originally shared with you, close blockade missions, okay?
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Those are the ones that are stationed directly outside Iran's ports, very close to their ports, very close to their their border, okay, their beaches, if you will.
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Meanwhile, the other Navy ships are assigned at a greater distance to monitor what?
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Hostile aircraft, other ships, and submarines.
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So that's what they're doing.
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Now, the blockades are not an attack.
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Group of people they don't want to attack.
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If they have to, they will.
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I mean, they'll certainly defend themselves, but they're not there to attack on the territory of Iran, unless they have to.
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But rather, they are working on what we call maritime restrictions.
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They're checking on the ships, they're seeing who's coming and going, and if they have to signal to take uh tough military action, they will.
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So what's the goal here?
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We always hear the new Ah, what's the goal?
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What's this?
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Why are we there?
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Well, the goal is to starve the adversary of resources by doing what?
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By controlling the sea lines of communication.
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It is simple.
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Every time I hear some expert, so-called expert, quote unquote, uh, get on the air.
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Well, there is no plan.
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Well, you don't know the plan, a, because you haven't sit in on the plans, and B, the president, the joint chiefs of staff, U.S.
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military personnel, Department of the Navy, on and on and on.
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They're not going to broadcast the plan for goodness sake.
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You should know better.
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And we have retired military people going on these mainstream media networks, sharing that kind of stuff.
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They want to know what the plan is.
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They should know better.
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And then, of course, there's what they call legal standing.
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A lot of going on, right?
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With all kinds of uh politicians and the Congress and on and on.
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Oh, is it legal?
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Is it legal what we're doing?
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Well, to be valid, a blockade must be declared, formally announced, and effectively maintained to prevent entry or exit, rather than just being a paper blockade.
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That's it.
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There's your legal standing.
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It is valid.
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It was declared, and it was formally announced.
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Right?
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Our government announced, I think, a week ahead of time.
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We're coming, Mr.
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and Mrs.
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Iran.
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No, Mrs.
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Iran's in there, the way they treat women.
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What a shame, huh?
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Another issue about them.
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But uh the dogs over there in Iran, they were they were told we're coming.
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And we got there.
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So again, this is what a blockade is.
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All right.
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Now, the U.S.
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Navy, we're using this strategy to stop oil exports in this case by intercepting ships that are paying those tolls and aiming to freeze, guess what?
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The adversary, in this case, Iran's economy.
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We're not only freezing it, folks, we're taking it down.
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Those are going to be like big, big blocks of ice that we're gonna chip away at.
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And then they're gonna melt and become part of the Strait of Homoes.
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So, where we are now?
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What are we up to now?
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What's the ultimate, ultimate mission?
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It's the mission is to get them to the table, and if they don't come to the table, again I go back to the original theme of this broadcast.
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Peace through strength, America's Navy, this particular broadcast, message to Iran is do or die.
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Psalm 234.
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Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
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For you are with me.
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God bless America, and God bless the United States Navy and all of our armed forces.
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Thank you.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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Certainly uh my pleasure to be with you, and I hope it's as much as a pleasure of you being with me.
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Well, this is the second half of our broadcast.
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And during the second half, I share with you information and news of all kinds of things, except any news or other things, if you will, that are created by man.
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Hmm.
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Sounds like a science fiction, doesn't it?
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Well, it's not.
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I'm talking about the things that come from the creation of God Almighty.
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The things that are written in the Holy Word of God, the Bible, known as the book of life.
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I'm talking about what reams and reams and reams of paper that have printed on those reams and reams and reams of paper.
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Words that were written by people many, many years ago, thousands of years ago, written by people indeed, but inspired by the Holy Spirit of God, which tells me that everything written in the Bible, everything written on those pages, has come from the mouth of God.
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Have come from Him.
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It's His Word.
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Now, if you don't believe that, well, that's your problem, not mine.
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But if you do believe it, get ready, because what you're about to hear may affect you in some way somehow.
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May affect the destiny of your life.
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That's why I love the second half of this broadcast, because this half of the broadcast doesn't bring you gloom and doom, doesn't bring you a lot of the news that kind of makes you feel like, oh my God, the sky is falling.
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I know that happens during the first half.
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But I always make sure that during the first half that you get at least some relief that you're getting to understand and learn that as the world goes around and around, you're in this world, you're part of this world, and you can help make change.
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But now, during this portion of the broadcast, you could help make significant change in this world going round and around in your life.
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Your life, not anybody else's life, but your life.
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So listen up.
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Listen up, and I hope and pray that what I'm about to share with you does have profound positive impact on you and delivers you from the challenges and the problems and the worries that you may be facing right now.
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Before I continue, I want you to know I know I have uh uh three broadcasts, I'm sorry, two broadcasts, okay.
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I have Peace Through Strength, America's Navy, Thursdays at 8 a.m.
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Eastern time, Rogers for America, 1 p.m.
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Fridays Eastern time.
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Those are the two broadcasts that I host on America Out Loud News, and there's another one, I'm not the host.
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Malcolm is, okay.
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Malcolm is, and that broadcast is a viewpoint Sunday mornings, 10 a.m.
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Eastern time.
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You're gonna want to tune in.
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Oh, yes, you're gonna want to tune in.
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And go to the uh the America Out Loud News website, and there you'll see some of the greatest hosts of the greatest broadcast on the greatest network, America Out Loud News, that will bring you a lot of great news.
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What do you think of that, folks?
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I just I didn't write that as a script, it just came to my mind.
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Not bad, huh?
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Not bad.
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Well, let's get to the word of God.
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Let's talk about one or two things that I hope and pray will impact your life.
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Now I know I've said this and shared what I'm about to share with you many times at the opening of many of these broadcasts, but um I want to do it every once in a while, especially when people ask me to repeat what I said about the Bible for the benefit of those who are new listeners.
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So, here we go.
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What is the Bible?
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Well, it's the word of God.
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The Bible reveals the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers.
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Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable.
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Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy.
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It contains light to direct you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you.
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It's a traveler's map, the pilgrim staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword, and the Christian's charter.
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Here, paradise is gained, heaven opened and hell disclosed.
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Christ is its grand object, our good, its design, and the glory of God, its end, it shall fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet.
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Read it slowly, frequently and prayerfully.
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It is a mine of wealth, a paradise of glory and the river of pleasure.
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It has given you in life, will be opened in the judgment and be remembered forever.
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It involves the highest responsibility, promises the highest reward for labor, and condemns all who trifle with its sacred contents.
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That is the Bible.
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That is the word of God.
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And I would venture to say that the overwhelming majority of you have Bibles in your homes.
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Maybe it's time to kind of take it off of that bookshelf or wherever it's been there for years and shake the dust off of it and open it up.
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Take a look at it.
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In fact, I'm going to ask you to take a look at the 103rd Psalm.
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Oh, yeah, I got one all figured out already, folks.
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And there's a reason why I bring up the 10th Psalm.
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Because occasionally I visit a monastery.
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And you know what I do in that monastery?
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I have conversations with God.
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Yeah, yeah, that's correct.
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I I speak with him.
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Now you may wonder, does he respond?
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I mean, come on.
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Does he respond?
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Are you telling us that you're getting a voice out of heaven?
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No.
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But he does respond.
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Oh, yeah, he does.
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And the fact of the matter is is that I'm not experiencing hallucinations or hearing voices unexpectedly.
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Also, lightnings are not coming down and the earth is not shaking.
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However, after I express gratitude for the blessings that I've received in my life and making a few more requests during my conversations with him, which happen to be the way I pray.
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You see how I'm talking to you?
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I'm speaking with you.
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That's the way I pray.
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I've said to people over and over again, I'll pour a cup of coffee, five o'clock in the morning, get my dog, my German Shepherd Bear, he sits next to me.
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I'll sip that coffee and I begin to talk.
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Now, Bear must be wondering what the heck is this guy doing?
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Did he flip his lid?
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Well, I mean, you never know.
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You know, animals are smart.
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He looks at me, he does.
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I wonder what he's thinking about.
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My point is, folks, is that I'm talking to God.
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I'm having a conversation with God.
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And yes, me talking to him.
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I don't hear any voices, like I said, out of the heavenly realm.
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But I've got to tell you, after I have this conversation with God, things do happen.
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And it's happened in the monastery several times.
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And what I do is after I make a few requests and talk to God, I proceed to a Bible that's in the monastery.
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It's right out there on top of a podium.
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It's located near the altar where I have these discussions with God.
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And I'll kind of leaf through the Bible and I'll always go and just sleep through the book of Psalms and then suddenly randomly stop.
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And then I see a psalm that I'm led to.
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Now, why do I say I'm led to?
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Because I don't purposely go to like a particular psalm and look for it and search it and say, gee, this is the one I wanted to read.
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I'm glad I'm here.
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No.
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I just stop.
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And each time that I stop, I begin to read that psalm.
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And I believe it is the Holy Spirit that led me to that psalm, because God just heard my prayer.
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I just had a conversation with God.
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Show me thy way, O Lord, is what I say to him.
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Please show me thy way.
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Teach me thy path.
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Speak to me.
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Let me know what direction should I go in life.
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How can I solve this problem?
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How can I tackle this challenge?
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I do that, folks.
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And he does answer me through his word through the Bible.
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Happens in my house.
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Happens wherever I go.
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Sometimes I do carry a little pocket testament with me.
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I travel back and forth to Washington, D.C., I'm on a train.
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I bring a Bible with me, little one in my pocket or bigger one in my briefcase.
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Or actually I have one on my phone, an app called Bible on my phone.
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But after chatting with God, like I did recently, I begin to get led to the Bible near that altar.
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And recently, I was led to 103rd Psalm.
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You know how I was led to that psalm?
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When I went up to the podium where that Bible was, it was opened to the 13rd Psalm.
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Now, as I read this Psalm to you, I'm going to ask you to apply it to your life.
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I did.
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And I realized that the words spoken in this Psalm were directed to me at that point in time in my life.
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And now I tend to believe that at this point in time in your life, this is God's message to you.
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Using me as a vehicle as he uses other.
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As vehicles to reach me.
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And here's what that psalm says.
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You ready?
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Think about you now and your life.
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Think about you.
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Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me.
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Bless his holy name.
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See?
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Reverence to God right away.
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Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
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That's right.
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Let's not forget all that he's done for us.
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Ten times we tend to do that.
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Then a lot for you, then a lot for me.
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Let's not forget that.
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Who forgiveth all thine inequities, who healeth all thy diseases.
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Greatest disease he heals all of us from is our sins.
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Oh boy, I've committed sins in life.
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Sometimes a little here and there now, you know, but not like I used to.
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Oh no.
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The reason why I tell you a little here and there, well, the fact is we're all sinners, right?
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We're all sinners.
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Bible says all are sinned, all are sinners, but God forgives us of our sins.
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So we should thank him that he forgives us our inequities in that great disease called sin.
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Who redeemeth thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies.
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You ever on a road to disruption?
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Road to destruction.
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I'm sorry, a road to destruction.
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Does he take that destruction and just put it aside?
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And he crowns you with his loving kindness and his mercies.
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It's happened to me a few times in my life.
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I was on my way to hell, folks.
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I'm telling you.
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On my way to hell.
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But he picked me up.
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40th Psalm says, I cried and I cried.
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The Lord bent over and heard my cry.
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He pulled me out of the miry clay.
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And he established my life on a rock.
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And that rock happens to be Jesus Christ.
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That's what he has for you.
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This 103rd Psalm goes on to say, who satisfieth my mouth with good things, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles.
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I've prayed for quite some time.
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Lord, I want the vigor of my youth, the strength of my youth.
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As time goes on, I'm running out of time.
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And God is saying, You ain't run out of time, buddy.
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This is just the beginning.
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And he began to renew my strength.
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Some of you are weak out there, depressed and weak, you feel lonely.
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I get it, I've been there.
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I mean, King David, he's been everywhere.
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Jesus Christ saw it all.
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Nothing new to God.
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You're not new to God.
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He loves you.
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He will renew your strength.
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Like an eagle.
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You're gonna mount up, the Bible says, mount up with the wings of an eagle, and fly, my friend.
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That's what he has for you.
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You know what's exciting right now when I'm thinking about?
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Somebody out there is listening to this, realizing that this is really a message from God to them.
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He has heard your prayer.
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He is answering that prayer.
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Whether you're on a warship somewhere around the world, whether you're on the ground in the U.S.
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military somewhere, whether you're that cop, that firefighter, that custodian, that that cashier, uh, whoever you are, wherever you are, maybe you're unemployed, you're going through a living hell right now, help is on the way.
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Help is on the way, for goodness sakes.
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Pastor once said to me, you know what, Steve, the longer you look at the problem, the bigger the problem gets.
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But the longer you look at the Savior, the bigger he gets.
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The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
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He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
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If he, my friends, made his ways known to Moses, and his acts unto the children of Israel, and the Bible says the Lord is the same today as he was yesterday.
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Yes, who is going to make his ways known to you.
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What was good for Moses, according to the Bible, is good for you.
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The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plentiness and mercy.
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He will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger forever.
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Yeah, I've gotten anger from him, boy.
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Woo-hoo!
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And I thank God he hasn't kept it forever.
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In fact, he probably keeps his anger towards me in a minute or two when I know I fell up.
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But boy, I tell you, it feels like a long time.
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But I get the message.
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We all go that way.
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He has not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our inequities.
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For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
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That word fear is not a fear in the sense that you're scared to death of him.
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That word fear is translated for those who respect him, who love him.
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Yep.
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Great is his mercy towards you, my friend.
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What are you waiting for?
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Talk to him.
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Have a conversation with him.
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He's gonna talk back to you.
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You're gonna hear from him.
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You're hearing from him right now, simply my voice, me, I'm just a vehicle.
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Go right to his word, right to his Bible, like I've done.
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As far as the East is from the West, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
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Man, I tell you, when I read that over and over again, I used to think, man, I did things bad.
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I did things that I shouldn't have done in life.
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I remembered them, and maybe others remember those things.
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But guess who forgot about them?
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Jesus Christ did.
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The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Forgot about him.
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He forgave us.
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That's it.
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Done over with.
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Finito, don't worry about it.
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It's gone over with.
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What are you worried about?
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I always say that Christian people, those of us who love Christ and who are, you know, work hard to be the best Christians we can.
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We don't forgive ourselves.
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He does.
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So if God forgives you, what are you running around feeling guilty about this and that?
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It's over and done with.
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You did it, done with it.
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You have a new heart, a new soul.
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A new spirit cleanse by the blood of Jesus.
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That's right.
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Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
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For he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust.
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You know what that means, folks?
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God knows us.
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You know, the Bible says that God knew us in the womb of our parents.
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That God knew us before he put us in the womb of our mother.
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Hmm.
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But that's in a bit.
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He knows us all.
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He knows us longer than we know ourselves.
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As for a man, his days are as grass as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
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As I've gotten older, folks, I realize what that says.
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His days are as grass.
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Grass don't live long.
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You know what?
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We get up in years and we begin to look at the grass and the flowers and nature.
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I'm beginning to do that more so than I've ever done in life.
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I began to appreciate everything around me now.
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My younger years, I was there, I took it for granted, it'll always be there.
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Well, it'll always be there.
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But you get to a point in life when you realize that you won't always be there.
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Where you're gonna be, where you're gonna go.
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I had planned on going to a better place.
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Oh, yeah, I'm gonna get there.
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And that's heaven.
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My job now is to share with people everything I know about the Savior, my friend, my buddy, God Almighty, the Holy Spirit.
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I remember sharing with people, I've been asking God for years.
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What do you want?
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What can I do for you?
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And I finally realized in the Bible through his word, that you wants one thing.
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One thing.
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Nah, you don't want, you don't care.
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You know, I'm not gonna say you don't care, but he likes the idea you go out and help people, and you do this and you that, and maybe you give here and give there.
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That's great.
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You're a good person.
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You pray.
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He loves that stuff.
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He wants you to do that.
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But he wants really one thing from you, and that which encompasses all of that.
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You know what that is?
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He wants you to be his friend.
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That's it.
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Be God's friend.
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And how you are God's friend is by doing the things that he wants you to do.
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He wants you to pray, communicate with him, love thy neighbor, right?
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Love thy neighbor, commit no sins, and when you do, just ask for forgiveness, repent.
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In fact, all of the things he wants you to do, wrapped up in ten things.
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Got it, folks?
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Ten, the number ten.
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Remember that?
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Any of you remember that?
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What does the number 10 mean to you?
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I'll give you 10 seconds.
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Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
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Here you go.
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The Ten Commandments.
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Some of you are saying, Oh, I knew, thank God, I knew, I knew.
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Others are saying, Oh my God, I forgot.
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Oh my goodness.
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Listen, you're not no penalty, no penalty involved, okay?
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No penalty involved.
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And I'm not talking about the Constitution of the United States and the bill of rights.
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All right.
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I'm talking about maybe the bill of freedom.
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How about that, folks?
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The Ten Commandments of God.
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All right.
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But he said, for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust.
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And that's what we are, we're dust.
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But to him, we're his loving children.
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Remember that.
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As for a man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field.
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I just share it to you what that means.
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For the wind passeth over it, and it's gone.
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And the place thereof shall know it no more.
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Oh, that hits hard, don't it?
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For the wind passeth.
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Over it.
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How about the wind passing over us?
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And we're gone.
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Whoosh, that's it, gone.
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And the place thereof shall know it no more.
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The place where we are in life.
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Not only will we know not know anymore, but as time goes on, people will forget.
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You'll forget years from now that Steve Rogers was on the air talking to me about Jesus Christ, about a relationship we should all have with God.
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You'll remember, and then you won't remember.
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Somebody will ask you one day, hey, did you hear a guy on the radio on a podcast talking about God and you know, relationship with Christ.
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You remember who he was?
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Nah, I don't.
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The point is, God remembers, and that's what's important.
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All things on this earth are temporary, folks.
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Oh, everything, believe me.
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But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him.
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Again, that word fears respect and his righteousness unto children's children.
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To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
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So he remembers.
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We're accountable for every word that comes out of our mouth.
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We're accountable even for the things that are deep in our heart.
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But we could correct all these things.
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And I'm going to share with you how you can do that in a few minutes.
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We need to keep his covenant.
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And to those that remember his commandments, he remembers them.
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The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all.
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You know, I tell you, I think about all the leaders today.
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And uh, you know, they're gonna do this, they're gonna do that.
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They're gonna solve our problems, your problems, everybody's problems.
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They promise this, they promised that.
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They're long gone before they can fulfill any of those promises.
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The only one who could fulfill his promises.
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The only one who truly rules over all of us, even those so-called big shots and powerful people on earth who have no power at all.
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No power at all.
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It's only that God allows them to have power, not for their purposes, but for his God rules even over them.
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Bless the Lord, ye his angels that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
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I get a kick out of this part.
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You know why?
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This part of the scripture?
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Blessed the Lord, ye his angels.
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Yeah, I believe in angels, folks.
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The Holy Spirit of God is a powerful angel.
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Guardian angels, I'll bet they're all over the place.
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I believe that.
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I don't know if he assigns one angel to every, you know, one end, every everybody a personal angel.
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I don't know if he does that or not.
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I couldn't believe he does.
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Well, scripture in the Holy Bible that kind of points in that direction.
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But here's one that says, you know what?
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Bless the Lord, ye his angels that excel in strength and do his commandments, hearkening unto what?
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The voice of the Lord.
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Mm-hmm.
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Bless ye the Lord, all ye his host, his ministers of his that do his pleasure, the minister of his that do his pleasure.
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You, me, all of us who are Christians who believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior, we're ministers of his.
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Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion.
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Bless the Lord, oh my soul.
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What do you think of that, folks?
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Now, how do you get there?
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Step one, most important step.
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Receive Jesus Christ into your life.
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Have a chat with him, a conversation with him.
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Confess to him that you are a sinner.
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Why?
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Because you are, like I am.
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Let him know you're a sinner.
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And you know some of the sins you've committed, some of them you justify.
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There's no justification in sim.
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Let him know, tell him.
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You could even say, Lord, I don't know if I sinned or not, if this is bad, if this is good or what, but I confess it to you.
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And I want you to know I'm sorry for doing it if it's offended you.
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And I ask that you forgive me.
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And you have that conversation with him.
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And then you let him know that you believe that he came to this earth, was crucified, and shed his blood so that those sins of yours would be forgiven.
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Now, a lot of people say to me, Yeah, I could say it, I don't understand it all.
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Let him know.
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Just say it.
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Confess it to him.
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He knows your heart.
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Sometimes things that come out of our mouth are not necessarily the greatest things that could explain how we feel.
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He knows that.
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Let's just tell him.
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I know people have said to me, gee, they prayed to God, and I've said it at times when I pray, you know, Lord, I don't understand how this works, but I believe it works.
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I trust in you and have faith in you that it works, so I pray it.
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So accept him then, as your friend, as your buddy, as your savior.
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Let him know he's your God, he's your Lord, not money, not any boss, politician, nobody but him.
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The Bible says, for he is a jealous God.
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Yep, he loves you, he wants to take care of you.
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And as I said earlier, he really just wants one thing.
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Be his friend.
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You do that, and he's a friend who has promised I will stick closer to you than a brother.
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Come to me, you who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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And I will give you peace that far passeth understanding.
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That's what he has ready for you.
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Now you tell me, are you listening to this broadcast because you plan to by accident?
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Well, you're listening to this part of the broadcast because God wanted to speak to you through me this time.
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Next time, somebody else, next time there'll be somebody else at work, at home, somewhere somehow, somebody you're gonna run into that's gonna speak to you about the word of God Almighty.
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And remember what I said to you.
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We're merely vehicles, and then he will use you one day to be a vehicle to bring his word to someone else.
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That's it.
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God bless you all until next time.
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Have a great and wonderful day.