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#260 - 21 Days In: Iran War Hardens America – The Brutal Divide · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Some sad news. Chuck Norris has passed away. He died yesterday at the age of 86.
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  And I thought it would be fitting to share some of the greatest,
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  well-known Chuck Norris jokes.
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  And he owned it. He completely owned that.
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  There are a few people that have that type of just presence that Chuck Norris did.
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  That his name will go down, you know, as the greatest.
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  In so many different areas. He's an actor, martial artist.
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  He worked with Bruce Lee and just the gravity of this man was just insane.
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  But some of the funny jokes I hear, when Chuck Norris does division,
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  there are no remainders.
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  Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the face. We now call those animals giraffes.
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  Chuck Norris is the only person who can slam a revolving door.
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  Chuck Norris was the first sculptor of Mount Rushmore. He completed the entire
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  project with only a bottle opener and a drywall trowel.
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  Chuck Norris doesn't go swimming.
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  Water just wants to be around him.
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  Chuck Norris doesn't do pushups. He does earth downs.
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  There is no control key on Chuck Norris's keyboard. Chuck Norris is in control.
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  Most people fear the Reaper. Chuck Norris considers him a promising rookie.
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  Someone tried to make a brand of toilet paper with Chuck Norris's face on it,
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  but the idea was rejected because Chuck Norris doesn't take crap from anybody.
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  And I saw like just videos, you know, death coming.
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  God sending death to, you know, call his servant home and death has to psych
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  himself up, you know, you know, precious in the sight of the Lord are the death of his saints.
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  You know, we think that death is the end. It's really the beginning.
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  When we wake up from this, which is going to feel like a dream,
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  you know, Chuck Norris is more alive than we are at this point.
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  But I wanted to read this. This
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  was also, this was from Chuck Norris's Instagram and his family posted.
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  It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved
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  Chuck Norris yesterday morning.
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  While we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that he was
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  surrounded by his family and was at peace.
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  To the world, he was a martial artist, actor, and a symbol of strength.
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  To us, he was a devoted husband, a loving father and grandfather,
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  an incredible brother in the heart of our family.
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  He lived on life with passion, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to the people he loved.
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  Through his work, discipline, and kindness, he inspired millions around the
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  world and left a lasting impact on so many lives.
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  While our hearts are broken, we are deeply grateful for the life he lived for
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  the unforgettable moments we were blessed to share with him.
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  The love and support he received from fans around the world meant so much to
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  him and our family is truly thankful for it.
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  To him, you were not just fans, you were his friends.
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  We know many of you had heard about his recent hospitalization,
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  and we are truly grateful for the prayers and support you sent his way.
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  As we grieve this loss, we kindly ask for privacy for our family during this time.
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  Thank you for loving him with us. With love, the Norris family.
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  And this is a video, towards the end of his life, he was still pumping iron.
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  He was still doing a martial arts.
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  Just an incredible human being. I don't age. I level up. Hi, son.
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  Hi, Dad. What are you doing? Just warming up. Just curling about 500 pounds. I see that.
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  All right, you have fun. Sure will. Well, did you know that I can build a snowman
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  out of brain? Hello, friends.
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  I hope you're all well. What a beautiful day out here on the ranch.
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  It just seems so surreal. It isn't, it's a, he's an iconic person,
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  you know? You know, you think you could take me on.
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  You know what happened to the last guy who said that? Yeah.
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  Good one. Man, Chuck Norris was certainly an incredible figure in our lives.
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  You know, not many people just have that, that gravitas, that presence.
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  That it crossed all boundaries, all lines.
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  Everybody could make a joke because there was no person like him.
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  You know, like Chuck Norris, he defeated tornadoes. He was like a Paul Bunyan of our era.
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  You know, just legends, myth, just walking around among us, you know, which was amazing.
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  And to me, it's just sad because, like, you know, as we get up in age,
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  just people, you know, pass away. They go to be with the Lord and it's,
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  it's extremely tough. It doesn't feel real.
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  It just doesn't feel like, how is this life go so quickly?
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  I mean, the, the days, the weeks, they seem like an eternity,
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  but like the years are like over in a blink of an eye.
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  You can just look back and it's just like, how did that decade just go like
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  in an instant? And it's just, I think we all experienced that and you started just becoming more.
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  Just nostalgic, more wistful in your, in your old age or whatever age you are.
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  I mean, everybody goes through it at different times. You know,
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  we're all going through this.
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  I just, I needed to talk about Chuck Norris, just his, the presence that he
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  had, which was beyond so many people.
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  And I wanted to pull up his, his movie history, which was pretty crazy.
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  So these are Chuck Norris movies.
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  Obviously he was in a Walker, Texas Ranger. You can see that in the way of the
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  dragon with Bruce, Bruce, we Bruce Lee, who is, I am appreciating more and more
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  Bruce Lee every day. I'm seeing just quotes of him.
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  And I'm also seeing quotes of Chuck Norris, but just like, it's just such wisdom.
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  And that these guys that these had, these two men figures had interaction that like early on.
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  And I, the, the, the, the movies that they did together, it was just, it was just phenomenal.
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  They're, they are legendary. Uh, the Delta force.
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  I haven't seen a lot of these expendables missing in action lone wolf
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  mccade agent recon so many
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  of these i didn't check out but i mean dodgeball probably
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  just made a little cameo appearance in that the one i go to i i i loved was
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  sidekicks sidekicks was awesome if anybody's familiar with that one i don't
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  know that the kid's name that was in that that main guy and he's no longer with
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  us as well but that was an awesome movie you know i mean it kind of seemed like you know a kids movie,
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  but it was, it was, it was awesome. It was.
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  It gave you that comfy vibe. And it's just like, just even then,
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  the strength and power of Chuck Norris, you know, the guy, he's climbing up
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  the rope and he has this imaginary, you know, he wants to be like Chuck Norris.
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  He loves Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris is right there alongside of him.
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  And then later on, he actually gets to go into a tournament with Chuck Norris
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  and which is incredible. And then they, I don't want to spoil it for you.
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  What happens, but you can guess, you can guess. All right.
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  I mean, there's so many he did. I didn't, I haven't caught some of these.
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  I think a lot of these were, you know, I mainly go to Texas Walker,
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  uh, Walker, Texas Ranger.
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  He was iconic for that. Well known for that, but he had a, he definitely had
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  a resume and of, of movies, but I, I go to those Bruce Lee movies,
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  those Bruce Lee movies that he did pretty crazy.
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  Uh, his, the things that he was able to create and do, they will last with us the movies.
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  But I, to me, it goes a lot to the, to just his, nobody messed with this guy,
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  you know, he, his, his reputation preceded him everywhere he went.
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  And even when he wasn't there, you know, you, people could talk about Chuck
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  Norris, just a phenomenal person. And most importantly, a Christian,
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  a Christian, a man of faith, you know, and he led a good, strong life for the Lord.
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  And now he gets to be sharing with the Lord forever and be with him forever,
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  which is, you know, which is the most important thing when we get down to it.
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  That's all that matters. You know, what we do here in this life, we,
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  if people are blessed enough to go out and create movies, create,
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  you know, if you're doing whatever, something on the internet or just doing
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  a regular job or in government, whatever, wherever you find yourself,
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  you know, it's God has placed you there.
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  You're not there just for your own purposes, your own reason.
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  And we, everything you do, it's not the things that you just randomly do accumulate
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  wealth, or accumulate whatever.
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  The things that you're doing unto the Lord, those are the things that are going to last.
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  Jesus said, store up in heaven things that neither moth or rust can destroy
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  and thieves can't break in and steal.
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  Like everything we have, even like if your main gig and what you want to do
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  is create content and make things for people, you know, enjoyable, entertaining things.
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  I was just thinking about this earlier today.
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  Like so many people, like you feel like you don't reach the level of success
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  that you want and you're, you're disappointed.
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  Some people get a little bit, but they always want more because it's never enough.
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  Some people have reached in to beyond their wildest imagination.
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  And then they realize it's really not as fulfilling as you thought it would be.
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  So it's like, whatever stage you're at in life, having a mindset of being content.
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  Being like, this is for Christ's glory.
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  This is for God. This isn't about me.
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  Everything that I'm doing in this life, it's not about me. It's not about trying
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  to build up my bank account or, you know, just put like, I mean,
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  even good things can turn it just like almost like not as satisfying as they can.
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  If you, unless you have God in it, unless you are doing it for him, you know, everything.
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  So whatever you put your hand to, you know, I think everybody,
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  it's, that's a reminder for anybody, even myself included. because I was just thinking about that.
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  It's just like, no matter what I'm reaching for, I never feel like I've.
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  God, where I'm like, I'm good. I'm happy. I'm content. You know,
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  I never naturally feel like that. I always feel like I need something more.
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  And it's like, Jesus gave the example. He said, don't store up things on earth
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  where it's going to just, it's going to go away.
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  It's not going to last, but store up things like that.
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  I mean, do things for God and for his glory and for your fellow human beings,
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  for everybody, you know, do everything unto him and for him.
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  Him and then that is what's going to be stored
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  it's like imperishable it's going to be in heaven ready for
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  you waiting for you and it's it's it's like we are
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  going to stand before god and we're going to have something to give
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  him like my life i was doing it for you these things i was doing them for you
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  and he that's him saying to you that him saying to chuck norris well done my
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  good and faithful servant you know and i think that is a it's a it's an awesome
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  thing if we have that mindset.
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  All right, shifting gears a little bit, because I wanted to talk about Chuck
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  Norris and what he means to everybody, what he's meant for America,
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  that we are that blessed to have him.
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  We are in day 21 of the Iran war.
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  And all I'm thinking about lately is there's a massive division.
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  People at each other's necks right now with the war in Iran,
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  what's going on there. And people are hardening themselves.
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  And I feel myself as well. I'm like, you just feel like I'm not getting any more merciful.
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  I'm not getting any more gracious. I feel like I'm getting, and I'm not even in battle.
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  I'm not even in battle. I mean, imagine our soldiers over there,
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  you know, and as we even get more into this conflict, that it could get even
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  more out of control and more desperate and dangerous, you know?
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  We haven't been in, like, a hardcore war in a while as a nation.
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  We've tried to stay out of wars, and I think that is why everybody's at each
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  other's necks, because Donald Trump, he made the decision to go into Iran,
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  and whatever you think of it.
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  Whether you think he made the good decision or not, at the end of the day,
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  he did it. we got to stand with our commander in chief.
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  We got to stand with our president, you know, because I think,
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  cause you can't really like almost just based off the internet,
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  you're going to get a good, a good feel and a good measure of where we should be.
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  Because the internet is like almost more and more. It's just,
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  all it does is divide everyone because the only thing that's going to fit your algorithm,
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  the only thing that's going to get thrown in front of you is if people are screaming
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  at each other and calling each other names, and just making fun of everybody.
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  Instead of just being really nuanced and reasonable
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  because reasonableness doesn't put you
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  on the front page of youtube being reasonable doesn't
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  show you to everyone so you you see the
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  most crazy lunatics out on the front page the ones that are boosted are the
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  ones that are the ones that aren't probably putting forward what's in your best
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  interest and i i have found that more and more people just want to be angry
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  more and more people just want to be mad and when I saw what Donald Trump posted this morning,
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  just about two hours ago.
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  Which it kind of stood out to me. And I don't know about you.
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  He put out there, Robert Moeller, Robert Moeller. I don't know if I can talk.
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  Robert Moeller. I'm probably saying it normal. It just sounds weird to me.
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  Robert Moeller just died. Good. I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.
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  President Donald J. Trump. Donald Trump, he is getting more and more.
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  I feel himself in this war, just not as merciful or gracious.
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  He, I mean, he has said some things in the past. And I, whenever he called out, what was that?
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  Who, what was that man's name? Was it the director Schneider?
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  I don't even know who, what, I forget his name. I'm going blank. The princess bride guy.
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  And he said the kind of, a very awful thing about him whenever he passed away,
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  Robert Mueller, he was a, he was the person that pretty much in did the investigation
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  when the whole Russia, Russia, Russia thing was happening.
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  When everything was being just slandered upon Donald Trump in his first term
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  about that Rush was colluding with Donald Trump.
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  And that was what's going on, what put him in the White House, which was it was evil.
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  It was worm food. It was just it was just things that were just beneath the pale.
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  But it's what when the national the networks on the mainstream TV like CNN,
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  that was what they ran on. And things have changed dramatically now.
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  I think the power has moved from the like those main networks and it has moved to the internet.
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  It has moved to podcasts and people talking on there. That was, the shift has happened.
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  More older people are just watching those things like ABC, what is on mainstream
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  news and more just the younger generation. They're not there.
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  We're watching the internet.
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  I'm trying to say I were, I'm like, I'm in there, you know, I'm 40. Okay. Whatever.
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  I'm, I'm still a young cat, you know, spry, you know, spry is the,
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  the day is young, you know, but like.
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  I think the more and more people are focusing on the internet and that's where
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  more of the power is at and what was happening like in that timeframe,
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  but was, it was wrong what Robert Mueller was doing, you know,
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  he's probably just doing his job, but like,
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  and Donald Trump just has some bad, bad blood with him.
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  And, but him just to say that when someone dies, you know, unless they're just
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  a crazy dictator, you know, or, or whatever, I mean, and you don't need to,
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  I mean, he's an American citizen.
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  You know, he was like, so him just to say that it does rub me the wrong way.
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  And I'm not like, like Laura Loomer, where I'm just like, oh yeah, Donald Trump.
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  Like I, I see everything you're doing is perfect.
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  I'm not like that. And watch, well, I probably would not be a friend of Donald
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  Trump, you know, cause you, you almost have to agree with him in every point,
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  but Donald Trump doesn't know my name. Donald Trump probably doesn't know your name.
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  So, I mean, I think we can be real about this. And we can still be as a loyal,
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  patriotic Americans and stand with our president. But that did disrupt me the wrong way.
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  And it just shows that where we are at, like as the United States and just a
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  lot of the world, we are in a bad state and it seems like it's going to get worse.
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  Things are, and I don't want to, I don't, there's no need to like kind of make
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  it all doomer and say there's no, there's no way out of this.
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  Donald Trump could reverse course in a second and get us, and get us out of the war with Iran.
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  I don't think that would be the best idea. I think we've, we've crossed the
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  Rubicon and which most people are, the divide is happening, whether it's, it's Israel.
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  I keep, I'm going to keep going to that because that's more and more going to
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  become more and more poignant for everyone.
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  Everybody's going to be a realization of Israel, whether they pushed us into
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  war or not, whether they have like coaxed us into going with them,
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  their interest is to secure in that area around them.
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  I mean, imagine being like over there. There's just a very small nation surrounded
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  by other nations that don't like them too much.
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  That a lot that really want to kill Israel. They want to wipe them off the planet.
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  They don't want them there. And it's like, we're the power arm,
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  the strong arm that is standing with this little nation over there, Israel.
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  And whether they pushed us and helped us get into war with them,
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  Donald Trump, you think he is going to be a person that is going to be blackmailed?
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  If he's really blackmailed, he's going to be posting, he's going to be attacking.
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  Donald Trump is not a person on the defense. He's never been that.
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  And you would be crazy to think that he's being controlled by Netanyahu or anybody,
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  these Israelite people over there, these...
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  People like these Jewish people that they're, he has sympathy towards them.
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  His, his daughter is married to Jared Kushner, who is Jewish.
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  And then I I'm assuming that his daughter became Jewish as well.
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  So it's, it's realizing that the Jews in Israel are our best friend. They are.
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  And they, they are a kind of, they are kind of like, if you've seen the movie
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  casino, you know, that Joe Pesci, his name in the movie is Nikki.
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  He's kind of, he's kind of a wild guy, you know, and he gets into a lot of fights
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  and we're almost like the Robert
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  De Niro, like trying to keep it under control, trying to keep it cool.
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  But like Nick, Nicky, he goes, he goes off Joe Pesci. He goes off and just like,
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  just does things that aren't always great.
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  It's us in a little bit more trouble than we'd like to be. But I mean,
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  he's still, he's still a bulldog.
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  He's still a, a fighter and he's still an secret in the room for everyone out there.
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  And people don't want to believe this, they do got God's hand on them throughout history.
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  You know, I think of Mark Twain who wrote like the thing that made him believe
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  most in the Bible, like that it is the real deal is, and I'm,
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  this is what I remember of it is like, is the Jewish people that they've been able to last this long.
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  You don't see these, these, these, these people groups from all,
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  from so long ago in the same kind of intact measure that the Jewish people are.
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  The people of Israel, God has preserved them throughout history,
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  you know, and we can see that God kind of turned his back on them,
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  you know, when they rejected the Messiah.
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  And I know that's not going to make people that are Jewish the most happy because
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  I know, I know, I've heard it over and over that they don't like that.
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  They don't like you saying that, that they're the ones that sent Jesus to the cross, but they did.
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  They, they, they rejected their Messiah and that was what brought judgment on them.
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  But we can see kind of that like within the last hundred years,
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  God has been kind of turning his gaze back on his covenant people.
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  So we know how we can kind of see how this plays out.
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  I think about when the expectation of the Messiah coming into the world,
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  you know, with Abraham and David, they look forward to God's promise because
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  God promised that he would send someone a savior to come.
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  Because David wrote about blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven,
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  he knew God was going to take care of it, but he didn't know exactly how.
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  He didn't know that God himself was going to come in the person of Jesus Christ
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  and die for our sins, be a sacrifice on the cross for our sins.
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  And I think that that's kind of like how it is now for us.
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  We kind of know how this is going to play out. We can go to the back of the
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  book, the book of Revelation.
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  We can kind of see these imagery and these things of events that take place,
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  but really you'd be insane to think that you know everything and you know exactly
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  how in detail what's going to happen.
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  Nobody knows. And I think it's the exact same way that the expectation went
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  before Jesus came and then he came and it was like a plot twist to everybody.
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  Even the apostle Paul had to completely rearrange his theology because it messed him up.
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  It was not what they were expecting. And they had to rethink and reevaluate
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  and reinterpret what they thought they understood,
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  Now that the Messiah has come in, it wasn't what they expected.
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  I think that's going to be kind of what it is as we kind of near get closer
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  and closer to the second coming of Christ, as we get closer and closer to Armageddon,
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  as we get closer and closer to the things that are talked about at the end of the book.
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  It's not going to look like it's not going to work. Nobody has a picture of
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  it in their head of what it's going to, what it's actually going to, what's going to happen.
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  Nobody does. But whenever it does happen, we're going to be like,
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  wow, that makes sense. Not what we expected.
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  But praise God. All right. So that's, I know as this builds up more and more,
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  we are in a crazy time being in war with Iran and things are going to more than likely escalate.
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  Maybe even if they kind of did dial back, history goes in, in two of different,
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  one of two different directions. It goes, you know, it's, it builds up more
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  and more and then it calms down and cools down.
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  It doesn't seem like it's going to cool down, but God only knows.
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  I just think as we are in this time, it just feels like people are getting more
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  and more hardened into what they will be.
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  So it's like, as much as you have life and breath in you, continue to try to
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  lean towards the mercy side, the gracious side, the melting side of God's grace.
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  Don't be a stone or that hardens or clay that hardens in front of the flame of God,
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  but be wax that melts in front of God and that has mercy and love and grace, you know,
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  because it's going to be as things build up and get crazier and crazier,
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  it's going to be harder and harder to demonstrate mercy and grace and love.
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  All right. So, all right, we'll leave it at that. Follow me on X and Instagram
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