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Ignite with Barry Meguiar - Why Your Hardest Days Matter Most · Your Network of Praise

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  If I stop somewhere, I'll come across somebody, and this is just giving me more encouragement to pull them aside and say, listen, I know you don't know we have to talk.
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  You don't know me, but we have to talk for just a little bit.
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  Can I get some time?
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  If you ask them about time, give me some time.
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  They're never gonna refuse you.
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  Very few will, it's like when you put your blinker on, no one lets you over.
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  But you put your hand out, that real hand, and you got a better shot.
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  Put your hand out and be able to receive.
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  Welcome to the Ignite with Mary Maguire podcast.
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  How would you like to have the time of your life for the rest of your life?
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  How would you like to defeat fear effortlessly, knowing for sure God is hearing and answering your prayers and directing your steps and making everything work for good?
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  This is exciting.
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  Here's the question.
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  How would you like to ignite your life?
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  Stay tuned.
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  Hi, everybody.
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  Welcome back to Ignite.
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  Having a blast talking to Keith Collins, one of the most talented people I've ever met in my life.
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  He is just a—in fact, you need to go—if you didn't watch the earlier segment, the segment before this one, we introduced him, explained the largeness of his incredible talent and—
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  art pieces in the great car collections of the world, Peter Mullen being one of the greatest French car collector in the world, mind-boggling, and his art is all over the place.
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  And he's been a bit of a friend from afar.
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  Because he's famous, I managed to talk to him on occasion, but we...
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  I got together at Pebble Beach this year, and he had a great table right at the front of a building where there were a lot of artists.
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  And he was talking about Jesus so much that I just kept listening, and he was doing it with people that were not Christians around.
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  And he was, this man's on fire.
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  He's ignited.
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  So I quickly said, Keith, I need to get you on the podcast.
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  podcast.
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  So we already did one that went for actually a little more than a half an hour, but it was spectacular.
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  But at the end of that podcast, you're talking about your dad and a very emotional, I mean, end of life type thing.
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  Can we pick up?
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  So I want to get that in one piece.
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  Can you kind of share that story?
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  Because it really speaks to God's timing.
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  Yes.
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  Well, it's a story within a story.
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  My father was a radiologist, was the radiologist in the entire world at one point in his career.
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  I mean, some of his clients were Muhammad Ali, Edward G. Robinson, come off the top of my head, but he was a healer in the natural.
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  And I spoke to him several times.
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  I said, Dad, you know, this is the last quarter of your life.
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  We need to talk about the things of God.
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  I don't want to talk about that.
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  I don't want to hear that.
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  So now fast forward to ICU.
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  He wants to hear everything.
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  So I praise God.
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  So I said, Dad, we don't have a lot of time.
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  Let me tell you,
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  what you need to expect here, that you'll stand before God and you want him to say, J.D., well done, thy good and faithful servant.
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  It's as simple as that.
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  And he said, I want that.
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  So we talked about not just believing in God, believing in Jesus, because the devil believes in him, but recognizing him as the only way.
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  He says his word, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  And no man, no man coming to the Father but by me.
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  And he was wide open.
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  It was amazing.
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  It was like
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  The room lit up.
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  So I praise God.
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  He received him.
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  He passed within two weeks later.
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  My mom, who was a believer, they died within two weeks of each other.
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  But she was ready to go ahead of time.
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  So it's a kind of a story in the story.
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  So I praise God that I was actually prepared to share the good news, to share the gospel with my father.
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  So that's the rest of that story.
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  Isn't that amazing?
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  It's God's timing.
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  I don't know why I say when I'm speaking to car guys, you know, you're the greatest guys in the world.
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  If you could get to heaven based on work, you'd be at the front of the line.
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  Yeah.
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  You're awesome.
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  No, I don't love it.
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  There's no way I love more.
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  You're generous.
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  You're kind.
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  And it's a global phenomenon.
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  Car guys are a special breed.
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  And I say to Christians, I know a lot of car guys that live better lives than you.
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  And it's true.
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  Yeah.
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  But it's not about works.
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  I explained to you folks, but it's not, you know, it's about what Jesus did.
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  But you tell that story and they're not interested in any until the end of their life.
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  And then they want to talk.
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  I had one, I had Bill called me from Chicago.
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  He says, our buddy Jack is dying.
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  He's in his hospice bed in Oregon.
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  And he wants to talk to you.
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  Right.
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  And it turned out that in his hospice bed, he told his wife, I have to talk to Barry.
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  50 years?
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  50 years?
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  I've been sharing.
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  So I called him and I said, hi, Jack.
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  And, you know, how you doing?
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  He said, well, I'm not doing well.
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  I'm in a hospice bed.
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  I'm dying.
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  And I didn't want him to know that I knew.
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  I just let him talk, you know.
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  I said, well, why are you calling me?
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  He says, I need to know about God.
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  I mean, you've talked about this a lot.
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  So I set him up and I had him pray the sinner's prayer.
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  And then I said, now I want you to pray it again in your words, with your voice, is I want to make sure it's connecting with you.
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  This is the single biggest decision of life, your life and everybody's life.
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  And he did.
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  And I led the Lord.
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  It was fantastic.
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  I tell people I did that in about 12 minutes.
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  No, no, actually, I did it in 50 years.
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  And we're fishers of men, right?
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  So I call it chumming.
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  People know I call it chumming.
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  You keep throwing out chum, just God loves you or God's doing this.
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  You know, just so they know that you're a Christian and they understand why you have chumming.
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  joy and why you're living the life that you're living.
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  And at some point, it'll take.
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  And sometimes it's decades later.
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  I have some that are friends with you that we're both working on, that they're so smart.
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  They're mega rich.
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  They're wealthy.
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  They're caring.
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  They love their families.
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  They're basically not doing anything wrong.
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  And they know who Jesus is.
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  And they think that's enough.
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  But I say, explain, you know, the demons in hell know Jesus and shudder.
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  It's not about knowing who he is.
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  It's about receiving him personally as your Lord and Savior.
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  So you and I get to do that a lot.
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  And come on, share with me.
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  This is not about my story.
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  It's about your stories.
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  Something spontaneous.
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  What would be a spontaneous story?
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  I know you do it specifically with people that you know, but you're a machine, man.
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  You're doing it all the time.
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  I do it in a supermarket.
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  I can think of an example there.
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  There's a lady, she has her basket.
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  I have my basket.
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  And we stop at the same time.
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  I say, you know, I got to tell you something.
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  God, and I opened with that before the foundation,
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  of the world, God determined that you and I would meet at this moment.
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  I'm going to tell you why.
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  So that I can tell you about Jesus, our advocate.
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  She's like, really?
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  You know, I've heard about, you know, all that stuff is hypocritical.
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  I said, you know what?
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  We're all hypocrites.
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  We're not perfect.
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  You're a hypocrite.
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  I'm a hypocrite.
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  We're all sinners that fall short of the glory of God.
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  She said, well...
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  Can you tell me about him?
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  And then I went to talk about him.
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  I give them my number.
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  You can't just say it.
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  But this is the crazy thing, folks.
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  You don't have to push.
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  Yeah.
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  You love on them, and then they start asking, and you know it's working well when you're really responding to them.
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  They want to tell me.
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  The world wants to know where Jesus is.
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  Since Charlie Kirk, it's 1,000%, 1,000%.
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  Everybody wants to know.
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  They're looking around.
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  All of a sudden, the Holy Spirit again confirms to them that this is a Christian.
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  I can trust this guy.
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  And they ask you questions that the Holy Spirit gives you answers.
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  Go ahead.
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  And I give I keep my car with me.
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  I said, you can call me day or night.
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  We can talk about the things of God.
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  We can talk about what you might be going through.
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  And and we're all going through something.
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  So the main thing people want to know is that someone cares about them and who.
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  Who beyond us is the ultimate caregiver of them?
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  God created you in his image and likeness.
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  You are very special.
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  And you're special.
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  And so the rest of this day will be different for you.
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  I believe in God.
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  Wanted me to say something to you.
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  I don't know what he wanted me to say, but he just wanted to tell me for you, for me to tell you that he loves you and he is concerned about you.
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  So that was, that was a, a,
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  a market situation.
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  Yeah.
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  There's the one at home Depot.
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  We're talking about people are building stuff, you know?
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  And I said, what are you working on?
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  Well, I'm working on a remodel, you know, of my, my bathroom.
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  I said, you know what?
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  I'm working on a remodel too.
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  I'm working on a remodel of me.
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  And I want, I want to share with you guys working on a remodel of you.
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  And he wants you, he wants the construction to be as perfect as your creation.
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  But you have to participate.
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  You have to get the tools.
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  And when it comes to a car guy, I got a great one for you on that.
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  Opening for a car guy, I've experienced this at a car show too.
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  People are talking about, well, you know, I don't believe all that.
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  I say, you know what?
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  The wonderful thing about it is God's existence is not based upon you believing in him.
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  Okay?
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  I'm going to tell you something.
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  Now, you've got these wonderful cards on the lawn, Pebble Beach, and you've got everything covered.
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  I bet you've got an owner's manual.
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  Oh, yeah, I've got the original owner's manual.
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  I'm going to tell you something.
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  You know what the owner's manual is?
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  The original owner's manual is right here.
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  This book.
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  This book.
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  This is your owner's manual.
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  So this owner's manual tells you how to live your life, how to operate, and then opens up the whole other conversation because they can relate to owner's manual.
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  So that was a conversation that happens at a local car show.
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  And then you start talking about things of God, you know, and we're talking about original equipment.
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  Okay, those terms are applied to the spirit round two.
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  Original equipment, our original sin was paid for with a price.
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  And that's what Jesus was about, coming here to pay the price.
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  No one else could pay it.
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  He was perfect.
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  And that was that.
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  We're talking about new old stock, things like that.
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  Those terms can be applied, NOS.
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  Those examples, but I'm going to tell you something.
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  Now, what I've experienced is today, after we're done and I'm going home, I will come across, if I stop somewhere, I'll come across somebody, and this is just giving me more encouragement to pull them aside and say, listen.
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  I know you don't know we have to talk.
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  You don't know me, but we have to talk for just a little bit.
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  Can I get some time?
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  If you ask my time, give me some time.
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  They're never going to refuse you.
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  Very few.
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  It's like when you put your blinker on, no one lets you over.
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  But you put your hand out, that real hand, and you got a better shot.
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  You know what I'm talking about?
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  So you want to put your hand out and be able to receive.
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  It's a wonderful opportunity.
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  This is a wonderful opportunity that we have to share the gospel.
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  Angels will rejoice in heaven every time.
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  It's a big fanfare when this goes down, you know?
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  And I want him to say to me, Keith, well done, thy good and faithful servant.
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  I want that.
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  I want that.
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  Folks, you can't do it like Keith.
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  I can't do it like Keith.
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  We're all different.
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  But you can do it with his joy, and you can do it with it.
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  He's not preaching.
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  He's not pointing his finger and saying, you're damned, or you're bad, or you've got to change this.
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  Stop that.
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  None of us have the right to do that.
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  We're all sinners saved by grace.
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  But we each have our own personality, even if it's a quiet personality.
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  You have a personality and you just, when you're loving on them, folks, it's another world.
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  I got to tell you, it's when you feel God's love flowing through you, it's intimacy with God.
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  And his love is flowing through you and they're starving for his love.
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  And when you tell people God loves you, you know, more than half the time they say, no, he can't.
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  He can't love me, he does love you.
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  No, he can't, you don't know what I've done, I don't care what you've done, and he doesn't care what you've done.
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  He loves you, and he wants you to spend the heaven with him.
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  And that just takes down their defenses.
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  You're not attacking them, you're just overwhelming them with God's love and how much he has intentions for them to spend eternity with him.
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  And when you do it in your own way,
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  It's effortless.
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  It's just, one fun conversation after another.
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  If you're not sharing your faith, I know this must seem incredulous to you because I did back when, you know, I go back 50 years.
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  I knew I should share my faith, but I dreaded it.
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  I dreaded sharing my faith.
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  I was an introvert.
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  I didn't want to share my faith.
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  I did it with pain.
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  And then I found out Jesus says, you know, you're my disciple by your love.
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  Not by your ability to quote scripture and be pious and be the all-knowing.
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  I'm not.
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  I'm an old guy who pedals car wax.
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  Right.
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  But I allow God to flow through me.
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  And then I watch what happens when I see that life changing.
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  God is using me to change that life.
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  And that ignites my life.
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  And that's why I wrote this book, Ignites Your Life, because that's what he does for you, folks.
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  That's waiting for you.
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  That's living in the center of God's world.
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  He said, what?
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  They said, what's the most important thing we should do?
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  He said, love me, right, with all your heart and mind.
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  So I really love you.
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  I love you, man.
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  All our love, number one love.
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  We love him.
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  And when we do that, we'll love our neighbors as ourselves, everybody around us.
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  And when we do that, we're as concerned for their getting to heaven, their salvation as we are our own salvation.
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  And then automatically, without any legalism or laws, God already loves you as much as he could possibly love you.
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  But just to honor him and to bring people to him, the things that don't honor him, that bring stumbling blocks, might be your language, might be your indulgences, the way you dress, what you laugh at, the stories you tell.
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  They become appalling to you.
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  You just don't want to have anything to do with you.
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  You just want to lead people to Jesus.
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  And that's the sweet spot with God.
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  yes yes Keith you are you are a potion child for that word big night well I appreciate the compliment I really do
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  But I know where my help comes from.
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  I know who's the source of whatever you see.
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  If you see it in me, it has nothing to do with me.
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  It's all about God.
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  It's all about his son, Jesus Christ.
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  It's all about him.
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  So how do you start your day?
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  You talked about this in the last segment a little bit.
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  But starting your day, I mean, you have purpose in your life every day, and it's not to create art necessarily.
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  What is your?
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  When you start your day, why is it that you have these exciting days and sharing your faith all day?
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  Because you're expecting it.
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  You're looking for it.
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  You're prepared.
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  Talk about the beginnings of your day and how you see the day in front of you.
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  Well, I'll talk about today, for example.
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  Okay.
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  I have this book full of notes.
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  I said I probably won't need them all, but just in case.
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  So last night, I woke up about midnight.
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  I said I got to write stuff down.
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  I'm going in and writing, writing, writing.
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  Okay.
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  And I wrote down...
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  scriptures.
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  And I said, you know, a lot of scripts I wrote down and I said, you know, I got to prepare myself for this.
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  This is a very important opportunity.
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  So I went back to sleep.
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  I thought I did.
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  I woke up at three 30.
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  I said, Lord, I just dropped to my knees.
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  And, uh, I dropped up to my knees next to my bed.
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  I said, Lord,
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  Help me today as you helped me days prior.
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  Help me with my attitude.
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  Help me not to be irritable.
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  Help me to be sensitive, Lord.
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  But most importantly, let me, I mentioned this before, let me recognize, because you say in your word that you have ordered my steps.
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  Let me recognize each step that you ordered for me, not just recognize it, but follow it to the T. So I pray that.
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  That's the first thing I pray is about recognizing my blessings,
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  giving thanks immediately, recognizing calamity in the day before it comes, hopefully, and allow me to adjust to that in you, Lord.
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  I just want to be, I want people to see you in me.
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  So I pray for that.
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  Then I got a list of folks I pray for, family members, friends and so on.
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  That's how my day begins.
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  It begins on my knees.
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  And, you know, you can lay in bed, nothing wrong with laying in bed and praying, but...
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  It's a physical sign that you have bowed down to your creator.
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  So, you know, no matter how my back is feeling today, it begins on my knees.
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  You know, it really does.
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  And throughout the day, I'm praying and it requires that to just because this world is tough, man.
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  It's a tough world, you know, and things that are going on in this world.
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  I couldn't imagine even dealing with this stuff without having God in my life and having my Savior and Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Can you imagine?
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  How would you understand what was going on, even in the nth degree, without having God in your life?
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  So I want to tell folks, you want to understand what's going on?
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  You want to get some insight?
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  Then you need to turn your life over to Jesus.
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  Let him have control of your life.
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  And then you'll be able to see things.
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  And the Word says...
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  To not look at the things that are temporal, the things that you see with your eyes, they're temporal.
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  But look at the things that are eternal.
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  That means you have spiritual eyes.
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  So if you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you will no longer have to look at things with your natural eyes.
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  You will have spiritual eyes.
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  You will have a whole new outlook.
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  And that's what I want for you.
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  the crowd that's out here.
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  That's what I really want for you.
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  Barry says the same thing.
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  The words may be changed, but this is what we want for you.
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  We want you to have eternal salvation.
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  And while you're here, to be able to look at things from a spiritual standpoint.
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  This will be so much better for you.
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  The steps of the Lord, how does that scripture go?
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  The steps of the righteous are directed by the Lord.
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  Right.
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  And the prayers of the righteous man don't want to avail as much.
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  And so you.
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  The most powerful.
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  Yeah.
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  The most powerful weapon we have is prayer.
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  It transcends miles.
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  It transcends a flight.
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  It transcends a submarine prayer.
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  It gets immediate response.
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  Even though you may not hear it, not hear what you want.
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  Prayer gets him gets God's attention in his son's name immediately.
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  Yeah.
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  I'll give you an example, folks.
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  You know, when you're moving everybody every day closer to Jesus, you do just that.
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  You move everybody every day closer to Jesus.
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  One to the next, you know.
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  I often joke and say that I look at my wife once in a while when we're getting ready in the morning, and I think, I didn't just move you closer to Jesus.
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  It changes everything when you're living that way.
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  And then it's every person.
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  It's the operator of the phone.
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  It's the person checking you and I flying planes a lot.
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  And we're in Southwest, and we had a long line, very busy morning.
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  We get up, and we're immediately sharing with this young black man, probably 30 years of age, with a nice mustache and beard, handsome guy, about 6'4 or something.
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  And we're immediately into it.
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  You know, that's just what we do, Karen and I together.
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  You could see him and so could everybody behind us.
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  I know that what they're saying is give them the tickets and get out of the way.
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  But you know what he said?
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  He says, this is really interesting.
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  Can I walk you to the gate?
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  What?
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  Right.
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  So he closes his computer.
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  He stepped across the weight thing for the baggage.
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  Wow.
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  And he walks us to TSA.
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  Wow.
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  And Karen, I looked at each other and said, praise God.
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  So we're giving him scripture all the way to the TSA.
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  And then I say to him, I sound like you'd like to know more about God.
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  He said, yes.
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  And so we all carry these cards, these Seeking God cards.
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  I don't know if I told you about these yet, Keith.
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  And this is a website, seekinggod.org.
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  It'll tell you everything you need to know about how much God loves you.
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  He took it, as everybody does, because you just kind of whet their appetite.
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  I can get all that information off this card, how to get to Jesus.
• 21:16
  Yeah.
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  And so they're all excited about that.
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  And then I said, can I pray for you?
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  He said, would you?
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  And so Karen and I are hugging this guy, and the Holy Spirit came.
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  It was a Holy Spirit prayer.
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  It was a wonderful time.
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  I did think about later what it looked like, these two old white folks and this young, handsome black guy.
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  You're thinking too much.
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  You're thinking too much.
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  But at the end, he said, I took a picture of your ticket.
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  And I said, why did you do that?
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  He said, because I want to remember your name.
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  And I said, why do you want to remember my name?
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  He didn't know anything about me, who I was.
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  He said, because, and then he stopped, and with tears in his eyes, he said, this is the most important conversation I've ever had.
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  Wow, he's right.
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  And you know why?
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  Because we're moving everybody, everybody close.
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  We could have just gone up and got our ticket and gone off.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  But we didn't.
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  And what if we had not done that?
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  Oh, my goodness.
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  What if we had not ministered to him?
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  You know, we'll never know the story of that until we get to heaven.
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  But, folks, when you do it all the time and every time you walk away, I mean, when he said that, do you think my feet were touching the ground when I walked to the plane?
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  Not at all.
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  Not at all.
• 22:32
  So it is great fun, and if you like the excitement of Keith and myself, you want to have a piece of it yourself.
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  One guy talked to me about that.
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  I wanted joy.
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  I wanted happiness, and he spent an hour with me telling me about all his.
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  He was laughing and laughing and laughing about all the times, and I never put together that joy had anything to do with sharing faith.
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  I thought they were totally opposite.
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  I said, that's what I do and why Satan doesn't want you to do it.
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  He absolutely stops you.
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  He puts fear in you.
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  That's his number one tool to fight you, Christians, is fear.
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  You know, 76% around there of Christians are living in fear.
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  When you're living in fear, you're telling God, I don't trust you, God.
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  Right.
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  And that's, you don't want to be there.
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  You want to live in faith?
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  Let me tell you this.
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  I give you a great scripture before I close here.
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  This is a powerful one.
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  Write this.
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  If you don't write anything else down, write this down.
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  Isaiah 43.10.
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  Okay?
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  Isaiah 43.10.
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  Listen, because from Genesis to Revelations, he tells us, proclaim the good news.
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  Tell people about Jesus.
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  Obviously, you know it.
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  It's the Great Commission.
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  If you're a Christian, you know you should be doing it, but you're afraid of doing it.
• 23:45
  Yeah.
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  But it's the polar opposite.
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  Because in Isaiah 43, 10, he actually says, I appoint you as my witness so that you'll believe.
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  I would have said, I appoint you as my witness so they'll believe.
• 23:59
  Right?
• 24:00
  But he's not doing that for them.
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  It's secondarily about winning the loss.
• 24:04
  He wants to win you because he knows when you're sharing your faith and you're allowing his love to flow through you, you get filled with the Lord.
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  You get filled with courage.
• 24:14
  You get filled with joy.
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  You have intimacy with God, and you'll have faith.
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  And you'll be smiling like Keith and I do every day.
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  You know, it ignites your life.
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  So what can I say?
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  You said it.
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  You said a lot of it.
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  That's what you could say.
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  It's amazing.
• 24:31
  So anything you want to add before we close out this amazing conversation that we're having here?
• 24:37
  But anything else, experiences or thoughts or a reaction somebody might have had to your joy and how you see the transformation of their lives?
• 24:48
  Yeah, I think, you know, I had a stroke in 2022.
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  And I was led to read a scripture, all of you out there that have gone through physical ailments.
• 25:05
  There's a scripture that talks about, it's good that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.
• 25:12
  God puts you through stuff to get your attention.
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  And so count it all joy when you fall into diverse situations, because he's doing that constantly.
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  for a reason.
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  It's not just woe is you.
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  And he also is doing that to get your attention.
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  So just count it all joy, you know, just count it all joy.
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  And I'm a living witness.
• 25:35
  I have a whole series of things I could say about trials that if you belong to him, if you belong to him, he's going to get your attention.
• 25:43
  And keep this in mind.
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  He chooses you.
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  He chooses you.
• 25:47
  And if you belong to him, he's going to get your attention.
• 25:51
  Ladies and gentlemen So just be aware of that
• 25:54
  I want to just say that.
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  Amen and amen.
• 25:57
  Karen and I.
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  And the price has been paid.
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  There's no work that you can do.
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  Your price has been paid and your ticket to heaven has been paid.
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  And just remember that, just remember that.
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  And it's just what an opportunity is for us to speak to you.
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  And even though we don't know your names,
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  We're receiving your attention right now.
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  We're filling you and receiving your attention.
• 26:27
  So praise God for you, audience.
• 26:30
  And if you have any questions, you know, number one, you can seek Jesus.
• 26:34
  And you got Barry here.
• 26:36
  You got your information.
• 26:37
  If my information is spread, you can feel free to call me and talk about whatever.
• 26:41
  We can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
• 26:43
  So I just want to say that I want to encourage all of you that this life is a vapor.
• 26:47
  Make that decision.
• 26:48
  Make that decision today.
• 26:50
  Make it now.
• 26:51
  And we can pray with you.
• 26:53
  And there's folks that can pray with you.
• 26:54
  Everybody.
• 26:55
  I just want to encourage you.
• 26:56
  I want to encourage you that you were created in his image and likeness.
• 26:59
  What an honor.
• 27:00
  What an honor.
• 27:04
  an honor to represent God.
• 27:05
  In these last days, we have the opportunity to represent him.
• 27:09
  I mean, it's an incredible honor.
• 27:10
  Keith, let me speak to the audience right quick.
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  He brings up an important subject.
• 27:16
  A lot of you watching this are not feeling the joy and feeling justified for not feeling the joy because you're in some sort of trouble, maybe financial, maybe physical, whatever.
• 27:30
  God's right there.
• 27:32
  He's right there.
• 27:34
  And it's almost a bit of a compliment, folks, because he doesn't give you more than you can endure.
• 27:40
  So he knows you can endure it.
• 27:44
  And he's doing it, as Keith already said, oftentimes just to get your attention, to get your focus.
• 27:51
  And we learn through times of travail.
• 27:53
  Karen and I, we've talked about the growth spurts we've had through the times when we were in perilous times where I was losing my business, I was losing my life, what have you.
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  So if you're at that spot, don't waste the opportunity.
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  people see me and Keith, and well, if I had all of Keith's art, I would be smiling too, but I just got this.
• 28:20
  You know, you hear that, but they don't understand that you can give all that away.
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  Get rid of it all.
• 28:26
  The joy remains because our joy is not in that.
• 28:29
  That has nothing to do with our joy.
• 28:32
  We're on our way to heaven.
• 28:33
  We're on our way to heaven, folks.
• 28:35
  Right, that's right.
• 28:36
  And so Isaiah 4310 says, when you share your faith, you will have faith.
• 28:43
  When you're a witness, you will have faith.
• 28:46
  You will have joy.
• 28:48
  And the more you do it, the more joy you have.
• 28:51
  And I would just say, add this last thing.
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  I don't care how weak your voice is.
• 28:56
  I was dying in the hospital.
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  I had a weak voice.
• 28:59
  You know, I never had more influence.
• 29:00
  I don't care.
• 29:02
  in my life that I did when I was dying and my voice was weak because they didn't expect me to have joy.
• 29:10
  They didn't expect that.
• 29:13
  And I had pain they couldn't quench.
• 29:17
  Oxycontin went right through that, everything.
• 29:19
  They went through it, nothing could quench.
• 29:21
  The pain was immense.
• 29:23
  But I was focused on moving everybody every day closer to Jesus.
• 29:27
  I couldn't wait for the next person to come through the door.
• 29:30
  Does that comment?
• 29:31
  And I ministered to every doctor, every nurse, 23 different doctors and nurses I ministered to.
• 29:37
  It's really in a sense of weakness or when you're in pain or you're in travail that you have the greatest opportunity for joy.
• 29:47
  When you use it, you don't get down on it.
• 29:50
  You use it for God's glory.
• 29:52
  And sometimes, I mean, I talk about Mrs. D'Amato a lot.
• 29:56
  A godly lady died in pain.
• 29:58
  I was upset with God until I got to the funeral.
• 30:00
  And I found that three nurses, all accepted the Lord because they said they'd never seen anybody in so much pain with so much joy.
• 30:09
  So that's our message to you.
• 30:11
  It's joy, joy, joy.
• 30:13
  Rejoice.
• 30:14
  And again, I say rejoice.
• 30:16
  Rejoice.
• 30:18
  Final word.
• 30:18
  Anything else you want to leave the folks with right quick?
• 30:22
  We're over time.
• 30:23
  I want to just thank you all for taking the time to listen.
• 30:29
  And I want to thank you in advance on behalf of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for you receiving him into your heart and your soul.
• 30:39
  And I look forward to seeing you again.
• 30:42
  And I'm talking about in heaven.
• 30:45
  Well, I'm looking forward to meeting you.
• 30:46
  Either here or in the air.
• 30:47
  Yes, with all the heroes of the faith, you know.
• 30:51
  And so I'm just grateful.
• 30:53
  It's a wonderful time out that we've taken.
• 30:56
  And hopefully it's lifted you all up and benefited you in a very special way.
• 31:04
  So thank you, Barry.
• 31:05
  Thank you, audience.
• 31:07
  Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ.
• 31:09
  Amen.
• 31:10
  Thank you, Keith.
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  And this is not hype.
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  This is our life.
• 31:15
  And hopefully it's your life.
• 31:16
  God bless you all.
• 31:17
  See you next time.
• 31:18
  Amen.
• 31:19
  Indeed.
• 31:20
  Amen.
• 31:21
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• 31:30
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