Aug. 15, 2024
"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants"
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Join Jimmy and Annette as they discuss what it means to stand on the shoulders of giants and while living up in a down world!
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We'll be right back.
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Don't get down when you're seeing the worst.
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Cause the last will be the first.
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What a day I'm telling you.
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All things will be new.
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Living up in a down world.
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Yeah we're living, yeah we're living.
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Living up in a down world.
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Oh!
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This is Jimmy and Annette and we are living up in a down world
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and we are excited to be coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country.
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Fredericksburg, Texas.
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Hey beautiful how are you doing over there?
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I'm doing great.
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Actually my real world for you is gorgeous.
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Your hair is stunning.
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Thank you.
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Well you're the one who told me to curl it today.
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I know.
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Wow.
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It worked.
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It worked.
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How are you doing this morning?
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I'm good.
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Are you full of energy and excited?
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Well I'm kind of upset.
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We're at work.
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I have a lot of work to do.
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I'm upset.
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Well and we have no internet back here so I'm going to have to move to the other part
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of the church just because we've been gone all week and I have work to do.
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I know you've got work to do.
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You have a sermon to prepare which you can do at home but I have work.
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I have a wedding today at 1 o'clock too because what time is it right now?
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It's about 9.51 am.
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We better hurry.
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We've got to get this done.
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No we love talking about God and we love talking about living up in a down world
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and what that actually means that that's not just a clever or cute title to a podcast.
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It's really our mantra.
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I mean what does it look like to live up when the world seems to be losing its mind?
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That's for sure.
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By the way this is episode number 71.
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Hey cruising right along.
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I know Tina said we're hitting 100.
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They're going to catch up with us.
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I'm like it doesn't work that way unless you all don't.
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Unless they take a big break.
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Take a big break.
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We're the ones who take a break.
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They don't.
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I know.
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We're more.
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It's a little different.
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We have day jobs.
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We have full time jobs.
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Our day jobs just take over our lives sometimes but that's the nature of ministry.
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And all of our trips.
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We have had a lot of trips.
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To me it's kind of hard to take the equipment on a trip because you kind of have to stop,
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regroup, be able to talk but especially when you have other people with you.
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I would rather come back from the trip and talk about it.
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I will say this so Adam Curry the pod father.
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We'll talk a lot more about Adam and Tina a bit because we're going to talk about our
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trip to up to New England.
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Boston.
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Boston.
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Boston.
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Boston.
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You have to say Boston.
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It was amazing but we'll talk more about that in a minute.
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I just want to let's get some things out of the way.
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So he secured from this guy this portable podcast unit that is like tiny.
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I know I saw it.
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Not much bigger than a deck of cards has two inputs so it would be very easy to travel
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with that.
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It would fit in the backpack.
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The biggest tricky part is your mic stands.
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That's it.
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But we do some small mini stands.
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Can you buy mini stands?
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Yes we can.
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Smaller than what you already have?
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Yes they make them and they're a little tabletop and they fold up.
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So that way we could literally have.
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Well that's a little bit better than taking a whole bunch of equipment.
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No I agree.
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We can do that too so we'll be able to be more portable.
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It's kind of fun.
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Listen we have no trips planned.
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Not for a while.
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No airplane trips.
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We have a trip at the end of September for our staff but that's a work trip.
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Staff retreat.
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We don't have anything planned.
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No.
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I'm sure something's going to come up though.
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Things do in our lives.
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My executive assistant.
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Our assistant.
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But it really might.
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Thank you.
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Because I tell her what to do for you so I'm really yours.
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That's true.
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She keeps sending me stuff.
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Hey you might want to go here.
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I'm like what are you trying to get rid of us or something?
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So it's cute.
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There's a lot of amazing things that we would like to attend.
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We're on a really learning and growth track.
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I feel like you and I both are trying to catch up from high school.
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Poly Sci, political science.
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I took Poly Sci in college.
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I was actually part of a very cool program.
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But I don't remember anything because that was a season of life
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where I was so focused on the Bible and learning as a pastor,
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a young minister.
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I was on such a learning curve with that.
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So anyway, we're catching up.
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It's like catching up.
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Lost time.
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We're making up.
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I feel like because of the things that we're learning right now
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about history, and I had really bad history teachers.
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They were actually coaches that were forced to teach a subject.
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No knock on coaches who were teachers.
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No, and I don't know if they're doing that now,
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but it was back then in the 70s.
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They were forced to teach subjects,
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but they ended up spending so much time with the football players,
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baseball players, basketball players, and cheerleaders
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that we really didn't get taught.
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So I had no interest in history.
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And now I feel like I'm playing catch-up towards the end of my life,
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which is crazy.
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End of your life.
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You've got lots of treadwear left.
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Well, you know what I mean.
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We're in at least the last third of our life.
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Yes, hello, the last third.
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Okay, I'm not depressed about that.
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So I think of...
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If I knew I was dying in a month, I'd still be studying this.
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It's so important.
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But I love the fact that we're having biblical citizenship classes
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with Patriot Academy going on in our church on Wednesday nights,
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and Faith is able to hear all of this information.
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That's our daughter.
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And she's soaking it in.
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That's our daughter.
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Yes, I was going to say that.
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But I'm so glad that she's getting this at her young 23-year-old age
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and not waiting until she's in her 60s and 70s to get this.
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So that makes me...
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Because we really need to know where we came from.
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We need to know our heritage, not just who our Creator is,
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but those that created America that sacrificed on our behalf
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and our children's behalf and children's children's behalf
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so that we could have liberty.
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And it's been very interesting learning about that.
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So, yes, we just got back from Boston yesterday.
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That trip was phenomenal.
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Everybody is asking me at the office, so how was it?
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Not enough time.
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I know, I couldn't even get you down here to do the podcast.
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We were saying, 9 o'clock, we're going to meet at 9 o'clock.
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And you couldn't even...
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I was down here waiting.
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It's hard because we had two travel days and one full day doing the exploration.
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And we need about a week.
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At least.
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Well, I would say like a five to six day kind of deal.
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We would still be back on Sunday.
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So, yeah, we'll need to plan that a little more careful.
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But it was our first trip out.
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I kind of called it a scouting trip,
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just to see where we'd want to go the next time to stay,
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which would probably be Plymouth.
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I want to stay at one of the B&Bs there.
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That was just a little fascinating.
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It's a great central spot.
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We can get up to Concord, up to Lexington,
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get down if we needed to go back around Boston or anything.
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So, it's kind of a good place to start and kind of be,
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I wouldn't call it central, but it's more in the southern or eastern edge of things.
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But it puts us an easy driving distance
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and a lot of places that are historical.
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And we'll go into a little bit more detail,
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but I want to remind people, just a little commercial caveat,
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do go to our website, Living Up in a Down World.
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I do daily devotionals on there.
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The only time, if you don't see a devotional,
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it's only because it was a travel day.
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And so, and we've had a lot of travel days.
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So, whenever it looks like there's a skip,
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that's the same way on social media platforms,
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it's only because we were traveling
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and probably flying at 6 o'clock in the morning,
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which we did twice this week.
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I know, that was early, brutal early.
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It's very hard on me because literally, I do not sleep at night.
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And so, my mind is so worried that I'm going to not wake up in time,
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even though we have all these alarms on.
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I have mine on, you have yours on.
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And I can't, for some reason, my body says,
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no, you're not going to sleep, you're just going to stay up all night
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and then get on the plane and, oh my gosh.
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And then you're mad at me because I'm snoring and sleeping.
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And you're like, how can he sleep?
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And I'm like, really?
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How can he do this?
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But I had a lot of Bible time because when I don't sleep,
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I'm like, okay, I'm going to get in the Bible
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because that's definitely going to put me to sleep.
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And that didn't even put me to sleep.
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So, a couple of things and we're bouncing around,
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but it's because it's 9 o'clock and we just had two cups of coffee.
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So, we may be all over the place.
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But I want to invite you to go to our website,
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livingupinadoworld.com and subscribe to our newsletter.
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I put out a newsletter either the day of or the day before
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that we're going to release a podcast.
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That way you kind of know what's coming.
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I love pictures, so I put a lot of pictures in it.
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I'm going to put a lot of pictures from our trip.
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And then leave a review.
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If you like what you're hearing, man, leave a review.
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It's so helpful for us just to hear from you,
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to know that our voice is getting out there.
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I was talking to Adam Curry about this,
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and Adam, one of our topics of conversation was
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there's not always great instant feedback loops in podcasting.
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There's some things, some tricks, some end arounds,
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some things you can do.
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But for the most part, for most podcasters,
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the reason they don't last over a year or even over a few weeks
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is because they don't get any feedback.
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So, they think we're not touching anybody.
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Even Tina last week, not this week, but last week,
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she was struggling because she's like, nobody's listening.
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I'm not hearing anything.
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No one's writing.
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No one's sending anything.
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And so, she was really struggling on the show.
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And I thought, I kind of get that.
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We've had that conversation before,
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because it comes in cycles, it seems like,
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where you won't hear anything, and then you'll hear a bunch.
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And so, just appeal to those of you who are listening.
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If this is encouraging you, you can do two things.
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One, you can write us.
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I mean, just go right on there.
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You can literally write us.
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It'll send a direct email to me, and I'll get that.
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We'd love to hear from you.
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That's it.
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That is our biggest thing.
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We want to teach people what it looks like to live up in a down world,
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even on your worst day, even when things aren't perfect,
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or even when you did a whirlwind three-day trip 24-7 each day,
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and you come back and you're like,
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we're back in the office on Thursday after a trip to New England.
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Or you just turn on the news and watch it.
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That'll wipe you out, won't it?
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you and I drove to work separately because you've got a wedding to do.
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It's Mary in the afternoon, like 1 o'clock on a Thursday.
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Outside, it's going to be 1 o'clock.
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96 degrees.
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It's going to be 96.
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Lovely.
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I'm glad it's you and not me.
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I have a meeting.
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Thank God I got out of it.
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Can't wait to get that jacket on.
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I got boots.
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But anyway, I was driving to work and I felt like the Holy Spirit said,
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pray for your country.
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Pray for this administration.
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Pray for the upcoming administration because God knows who's going to win.
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Wow.
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Because as much as we disdain what's happening in this world
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because of this administration,
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it doesn't mean that we shouldn't pray.
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If anything, we need to pray more.
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Absolutely.
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So I literally prayed for their eyes to be open,
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for policies to be made that are in conjunction with what the Word says.
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I prayed for the upcoming administration.
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I prayed for protection and safety.
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I prayed for Israel.
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I just felt like the Lord said, pray right now.
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especially as Christians, when you're a Christian,
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things like that come into your head often
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because we live and breathe Jesus.
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We live and breathe God.
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And I felt like the Lord said, pray right now.
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And I just filled up my car.
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I just turned down the music.
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Because we're in really troubling times.
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And I could just be in a fetal position in bed and just say,
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oh, no, the sky's falling, chicken little.
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Or I can pray.
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Or I could go protest and have everybody think that I'm full of hate.
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And I'm not.
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And there's nothing wrong with protesting if you're protesting in the right spirit.
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We've been given that right.
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Exactly.
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But there's a right spirit too.
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It's part of the Bill of Rights.
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We shouldn't be belligerent and evil.
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Right or violent.
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I even prayed for the January Sixers,
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the ones that really were convicted that they had good intentions.
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There was no evil intentions.
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There was no belligerent.
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It was just they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Or right place at the wrong time or whatever you want to say.
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Wrong place, wrong time.
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And I prayed because I know that I feel that if Trump gets on,
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he's probably going to pardon all those people.
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But I prayed for that because we need to pray for those things in our life
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because what is going on in this world is affecting everybody.
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And it's affecting our children, our children's children.
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What happens right now this year is going to affect our legacy.
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Yeah, this is historic.
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So I feel like that's what God had me do this morning,
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which I haven't just turned my car into a sanctuary like that in a long time,
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but I knew God had pricked my heart for a reason.
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Something's probably going to happen today that is the reason why I needed to do that today.
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Very possible.
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Could be in a preemptive strike.
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Could be.
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So interesting enough, I'm driving in the other car.
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Behind me.
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I'm on hold with a place to get top breakfast tacos and they're not helping.
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So I'm just sitting there and I did the same thing.
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I started praying for our nation.
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One of my prayers is this because I think people are living under this misnomer
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that if we just get my guy elected into office, everything's going to be okay.
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And we need to wake up.
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First of all, we don't worship a man or a woman.
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We don't worship a candidate.
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We vote.
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We do our part.
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We do the due process of being a participant in the system.
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Even if it's broken, that doesn't mean give up.
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That means you still go vote.
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You still go do what you need to do, participate, speak up, speak out, talk about it.
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However, we've got to realize there is no one that will ever sit in that oval office
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that will fix everything.
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And we've got to wake up to that.
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We do.
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We have to wake up to that.
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There's a reason why the founding fathers constantly appealed to God and nature's God,
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to providence, divine providence, to living our lives for our posterity,
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for those that will come behind us and leaving the legacy,
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why they were willing to literally laid face down in the mud dead
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so that the next generation could walk over their bodies into the next level of freedom.
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All of that combined, we have to realize unless Jesus is going to run for office,
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there will never be a perfect candidate, and we'll never have a completely righteous platform ever.
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I think what I'm seeing so much of is people worshiping, they spend more time
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worshiping a candidate like Trump than they do.
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You're going from preaching to meddling.
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Well, it's true.
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Seriously though, I see it too.
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It's bad.
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It's like they idolize him, and what they're doing,
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Or her.
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Yeah, but what they're doing is they're putting other gods before God,
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and that's a dangerous place.
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What's the Bible word for that?
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Idolatry.
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It is.
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I just refuse.
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I've never felt like a president could, even though I appreciate policies
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that presidents have put forth that are good, wholesome policies,
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I've never thought, I guess because we're pastors,
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and people put us on pedestals, and we fall all the time,
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I never put people on a pedestal like that.
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No, not at all.
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Especially politicians, even though Trump's not really a politician,
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he's a businessman, he's not our savior.
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There's only one.
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And even if he gets in office, it's a life raft for a very short time,
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but you know what?
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I truly believe Jesus is coming back soon.
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I just do, and I want to live my life believing that.
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If we lived our life believing that Jesus is coming any day now,
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we could be raptured out, our life would change.
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Our life would change.
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And literally, Annette, I love what you're saying there,
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because Dame Annette, because...
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That's reserved for Adam Curry only.
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He's the only one that can call me Dame.
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I can step in and use that name.
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No, you call me Gorgeous, he calls me Dame Annette.
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Okay, all right, we'll go with Gorgeous.
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But if you think about it, you totally took me off my thought.
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Never mind.
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I lost my thought.
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Oh no, I'm sorry.
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It's okay.
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We're talking about putting people on a pedestal.
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If we get put on or put on a pedestal, we're going to fall.
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No one can save this world, no one.
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I didn't help you.
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It's okay.
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I'm sorry.
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It's all right.
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It'll come to you when you're talking about something else.
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Probably will.
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It's all good.
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I'm sorry.
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No worries.
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I feel like it's time for us to...
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I remember now.
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Oh, go ahead.
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We have to live ready.
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Yes, there you go.
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Because really that's what you're saying.
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By living ready, being prepared, expectant, living expectant, he could come any day.
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Let's expect that.
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What's wrong with having hope for that?
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And saying, you know what?
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If he were to come back today, would I be living my life different?
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Exactly.
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If I knew he was coming back in a month, would it change the things I'm doing right now?
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And if it would drastically change the thing you're doing right now, then you're not doing
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the right things right now.
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Exactly.
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And you know what?
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We're not promised our next breath.
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We are not.
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And we wake up in gratitude when we wake up and we can breathe and everything is all well,
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but anything could happen from day to day.
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And I think that if we live constant...
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Even today, just driving here, I was thinking about all the things I don't like about myself.
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We talk about physical things we don't like.
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And I'm like, if I would get my mind off that and put it on God, I need to take my mind
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off of myself because my body is rotting.
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I mean, because we're all rotting.
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We're all dying.
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It's dying every day.
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Yeah, the physical body.
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Our physical body.
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And yet, if I'm constantly thinking about me, then that means I'm not thinking about
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him.
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And I literally said, Lord...
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Can I ask a question?
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Yeah.
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Can I ask a question or something here?
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Yes.
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Would you say that can be a form of idolatry?
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It totally is, which is why I even asked God to take that out of my mind because I'm like,
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that keeps putting...
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Pointing the fingers back at me.
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It's all about me because I don't look good enough.
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I'm getting older.
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I'm getting more wrinkles.
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I'm getting this.
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And so I got to go do something about it.
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And I think God's more interested in what I'm going to do for him than what I'm going
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to do for me.
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And it hit me hard this morning.
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But what's in there?
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I pointed to the chest because the heart.
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Because he's trying to craft our character and he wants our heart to be for him and not
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so tangled up and caught up in the things of this world.
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We do have to live here.
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We get to live here.
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We get to do this.
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But it can't be always everything.
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Everything.
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Yeah.
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And it felt like just even this morning I was kind of beating myself up.
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In the get ready room?
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In the get ready room.
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That's the bathroom.
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That's the bathroom.
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And I'm like, oh my hair is so pretty but my face is so ugly.
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I mean I literally was just going through that in my head because I'm aged.
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Not just your head.
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You were doing it out loud.
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I said it out loud to you but in the car.
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And that's why I felt like the Lord said start praying for the administration.
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Start praying for Israel.
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Start praying.
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And what did it do?
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It took my mind off myself.
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That's awesome.
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And that's when I said, Lord help me to not put my mind so much on myself that I think
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I need to change all this to be attractive to you because you don't even see all the
515
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:50,760
things I see.
516
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,200
You're always, you're always, always building me up.
517
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,240
Here's a way that plays out, right?
518
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,200
So somebody captures a picture of us.
519
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,120
They take a picture of us.
520
00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:06,720
And if the first thing you do when you grab a picture is look at everything that's wrong
521
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,920
about you, which is what I do, or bad about you, that's an indicator that there's something
522
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,200
broken in the system.
523
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:18,240
I actually deleted two pictures yesterday that you sent me that we took because I was
524
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,320
like oh my gosh.
525
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:26,320
I was just, it just, yeah, it upset me to see those two pictures.
526
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,320
I just felt disdain.
527
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:33,240
But that's not right because God made me.
528
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:38,480
And I know, I really, I ask God to help me in this area because I don't want to be so
529
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:44,440
vain that I feel like I need to go do something every time I don't like something about myself
530
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,640
because I would be in surgery 24-7.
531
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:49,640
So let's be honest.
532
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,600
Let's be real here.
533
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,480
The people who have impacted our lives the most.
534
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:56,480
Are the godly people.
535
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,800
Were the godly people, not the gorgeous people.
536
00:22:58,800 --> 00:22:59,800
Yeah.
537
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:00,800
Let's just be real.
538
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:01,800
No, it's true.
539
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,240
The people that have impacted me, I've got a list of names running through my head right
540
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,240
now.
541
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,600
I never think about their physical appearance.
542
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,680
I never think about their stature.
543
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:12,680
Are they buff?
544
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:13,680
Are they shredded?
545
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:14,680
Are they swole?
546
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:15,680
Do they work out?
547
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,720
I don't think about any of that.
548
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,800
I think about the giants they are in the kingdom.
549
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:21,800
The giants they are.
550
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:22,800
How they persevere.
551
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,760
Yeah, character.
552
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,960
That's all that matters at the end of the day but we get so caught up in the other.
553
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:29,960
Yeah.
554
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:37,400
I'm going to be real honest here and hopefully I'll know if she's listening to the show.
555
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:44,440
When I get around Tina and she is so gorgeous and we're the same age and I look 20 years
556
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,200
older than her, it's very hard on me.
557
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:55,200
That's when I tend to go inside and yet she wants to enhance her looks and yet I'm like
558
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,560
going, God, if I look like that, I would never have to do anything.
559
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,560
She said similar things.
560
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,800
As best friends, there's always that tendency to compare.
561
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:05,800
Yes.
562
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,520
That's easy to do.
563
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,800
Especially for females.
564
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,360
What I love about her, she's so beautiful on the outside but she's equally as beautiful
565
00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:15,360
on the inside.
566
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:16,360
Oh yeah.
567
00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:17,360
She radiates.
568
00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:18,680
I love her love for God.
569
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:25,040
She was talking last week on the show how she had lost her joy and we got to talk about
570
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,600
that over the week because they were with us in Boston.
571
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,680
It was really cool because she said that the one thing I didn't lose was my faith though.
572
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,800
My faith is strong and I was like, okay, very good.
573
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,880
You didn't go... Because a lot of people when we lose our joy, we just don't even want
574
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:43,880
anything to do with God.
575
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:49,960
We're just like when yet the joy of the Lord is our strength, that's what we need.
576
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:51,640
She didn't lose that and I love that.
577
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,160
I really love that about her.
578
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,160
What a thing.
579
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,640
She has beauty on the inside.
580
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:56,640
Totally.
581
00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,160
When I watch her worship like in church, like when I'm up on the platform, if I'm playing
582
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,920
music, my eyes are always scanning the audience.
583
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:03,920
It's her and Adam at the front.
584
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,320
It's her and Adam right there.
585
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,320
Forefront, center and male of course.
586
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,320
Male.
587
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,320
Oh.
588
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:15,320
But Adam and Tina, I love watching them worship because there's such a purity about it.
589
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,600
They lift my heart just to watch them.
590
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,200
Has nothing to do with their outward appearance.
591
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,800
Has everything to do with their heart.
592
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:22,800
Although he's gigantic.
593
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:23,800
Well, that's terrific.
594
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,800
I'm standing next to me and I'm like at his stomach.
595
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:26,800
I actually noticed that.
596
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:27,800
I'm at his abdomen.
597
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,800
We've got some great pictures.
598
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,800
Yeah, it's great.
599
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,800
Yeah, I saw that and I thought, wow.
600
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,800
We should not put you two together.
601
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,160
So we got to go see, we flew out to Boston.
602
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,240
We got to see the National Monument.
603
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:45,360
Talk about that for a minute because for one, I had never even heard of this National Monument
604
00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:47,160
and it's...
605
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:51,160
It's somewhat little known, which is unbelievable.
606
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,520
And there's hardly anyone who goes to see it.
607
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,960
It's moving and it's in the middle of a residential area.
608
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,600
Although we don't want people to go deface it so we don't even want to tell you where
609
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,600
it is.
610
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:02,600
Right, right.
611
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,040
It's called the National Monument to the Forefathers is the total title.
612
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,280
Everybody just says the National Monument.
613
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,200
It is an 81 foot granite structure.
614
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,440
It is the largest granite monument in America.
615
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,440
In America.
616
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,440
Yeah, I never heard of it.
617
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,440
I've lived here.
618
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,680
Yeah, it was built in 18, I think 1859 if I remember correctly.
619
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,280
It was when they finished it.
620
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,880
1889 I think.
621
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:25,880
89?
622
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:26,880
Okay.
623
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:27,880
I think.
624
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:28,880
1800s.
625
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,120
But this thing, it's actually a formula.
626
00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:33,960
If you go around it, so on the top there's a large...
627
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,160
I'm going to have this on the newsletter as well.
628
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:42,920
But on the top of it, there's a female who's got her finger pointed to the sky and it's
629
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,540
actually labeled in granite, faith.
630
00:26:46,540 --> 00:26:52,960
And then below that, there's four other figures that go around the base of this massive, massive
631
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,920
granite monument.
632
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,960
And it has all over it symbolism.
633
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:03,520
It has reliefs that show them signing the Mayflower Compact.
634
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:10,440
It shows the Puritans slash Pilgrims conversing and probably negotiating with the Indians.
635
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:17,240
It has all these different things that shows them embarkment, them going on to getting
636
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,680
arrival on the land.
637
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,920
Just them holding a Bible, holding the Ten Commandments.
638
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,400
And then the four figures are, first of all, the most impressive to me is Liberty Man.
639
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,840
Liberty Man looks like Schwarzenegger back in the day.
640
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,320
But the detail of the veins in this...
641
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,520
The detail, the muscle structure, everything's there.
642
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:35,520
Oh my gosh.
643
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:36,520
It was amazing.
644
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:37,520
There's so much symbolism.
645
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,720
And then there's a mother and she's called Education.
646
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:40,720
Education.
647
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:41,720
She's educating her child.
648
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:42,720
And she's the other one.
649
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,400
And then there's another one, another male figure, and he's Law.
650
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,440
So you've got faith at the top.
651
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,800
You've got law.
652
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,300
You've got education.
653
00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:53,300
You've got liberty.
654
00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:58,400
What was the last one?
655
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,160
I'm drawing a blank.
656
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,760
It's another female.
657
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:05,760
It's not justice.
658
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:06,760
No, it wouldn't be justice.
659
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:07,760
That was part of law, I think.
660
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:08,760
It would be...
661
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:09,760
Because it's education...
662
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:10,760
Oh.
663
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:11,760
I've got it in my pictures.
664
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:12,760
I do too.
665
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,320
I have to look at it.
666
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,320
I know.
667
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:16,600
It's a lot to take in.
668
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:17,600
I mean...
669
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,600
Education.
670
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,440
There's an unbelievable amount of things to take in.
671
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,440
I have it up here on the...
672
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:24,440
Evangelist.
673
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,440
That's just another piece.
674
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:28,440
Youth.
675
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:29,440
Morality.
676
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,440
Morality.
677
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,440
Yeah, morality.
678
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,440
So you've got morality.
679
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,440
So you've got faith, morality.
680
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,440
And her eyes are not open.
681
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:37,440
Right.
682
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:38,440
They're like blank.
683
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,440
Because it's about inward.
684
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:40,440
Yeah.
685
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:41,440
The inward heart.
686
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,640
It's looking inward instead of looking outward to find that.
687
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:44,640
It is the most...
688
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,640
It's remarkable.
689
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,040
What I loved about it is when you walk up to it...
690
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:55,040
Of course, we took a picture of me standing by it and it's hilarious.
691
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,040
Oh yeah.
692
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,040
It's amazing.
693
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,520
Because I'm the shortest of us four.
694
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:06,480
But what I loved is when you walk up, when you first drive up and you see this...
695
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,840
Is it called osprey?
696
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:08,840
It's an osprey.
697
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,080
Osprey nest, which looks like a crown of thorns.
698
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,080
It does.
699
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:19,760
It's like a bird built a nest on the top of her head and literally it looks like a crown
700
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:20,760
of thorns.
701
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:21,760
It's wild.
702
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,760
Because the nest is substantial.
703
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,880
Oh, I'm sorry.
704
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,920
I just got a...
705
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,880
Grandma Lenora died last night.
706
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,880
Alicia just sent me.
707
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:33,880
Wow.
708
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:34,880
Yeah.
709
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:35,880
Family member.
710
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:36,880
Yeah.
711
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,880
Well, God bless her.
712
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:39,880
Yeah.
713
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:40,880
Wow.
714
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,160
So, sorry, yeah, I know that took you off a little bit.
715
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,160
Totally.
716
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,120
So, Adam and Tina went with us.
717
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,120
One of the things...
718
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,840
So, here's how this trip started.
719
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:56,600
A few months ago, we were taking the biblical citizenship class online just to get a kind
720
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,440
of a precursor of what we're going to be doing at the church.
721
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,600
And so, we did the online version of it.
722
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:06,400
And the very first was about the national monument, the very first lesson with Kirk
723
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,080
Cameron walking through all the symbolism and all.
724
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,200
And it was so compelling.
725
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,440
And so, we said to each other, I mean, literally almost...
726
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:15,440
At the same time.
727
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:16,440
At the same time, basically.
728
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:17,440
We need to go there.
729
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:18,440
We have to go.
730
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,400
And then I said, well, we should go there during our break, during our time off.
731
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:23,400
And I was like...
732
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:24,400
You're like...
733
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,040
No, let's wait till August.
734
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:31,520
And so, we just got online, looked, and found out where it was.
735
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:32,520
You could fly into Boston.
736
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,560
It'd be about 40 minutes, 45 minutes from there to the monument.
737
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:42,680
So, we'd just go to Boston, and then we had also been watching the Doobie Brothers on YouTube
738
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,520
in their 50th tour.
739
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,520
And it showed...
740
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,640
And guess where they were going to be?
741
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,640
In the Boston area.
742
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:49,640
In the Boston area.
743
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,200
Okay, this is where we're going.
744
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:52,200
Okay.
745
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,960
So, we had the miles.
746
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:54,960
We did our tickets.
747
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,760
And we just like, we're going to do this.
748
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,120
And I've been excited about ecstatic...
749
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,400
You're not going to believe this, but this is the truth.
750
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,120
I was more excited about going to the national monument than I was seeing the Doobie Brothers.
751
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:12,640
But you know, I was too, because we, again, then we had the biblical citizenship class
752
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:13,640
in our church.
753
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,640
We were doing it online.
754
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:15,640
The week before.
755
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,760
And the first class was the week before we were leaving.
756
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,240
And that just stirred up more...
757
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,240
Fresh again.
758
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,240
...interest in going.
759
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,440
Now, don't get me wrong, the Doobie Brothers crushed it.
760
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:27,440
And Steve Winwood.
761
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,800
And Steve Winwood was off the hook.
762
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:29,960
Adam Curry was like...
763
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:30,960
Amazing.
764
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,040
So, I prefer Steve to the Doobie Brothers.
765
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,040
I preferred...
766
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,320
Steve is 76 years old.
767
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,200
He came out and they did a five or six, seven minute jam.
768
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,200
Yeah.
769
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,200
I liked the Doobie Brothers better.
770
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,360
And they tore it up.
771
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:43,360
They were all good.
772
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,360
I don't compare bands.
773
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:49,080
I like to just say, hey man, they both bring what they have and yay for them.
774
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,680
So all that to say is we planned this a while back.
775
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,000
And then we were like, let's invite the Currys.
776
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,120
Not knowing if they'd be able to because he does so many podcasts.
777
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,120
Because he never gets to leave because of his podcast.
778
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:00,160
He's got a lot going on.
779
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,160
And they said yes.
780
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,160
And it worked.
781
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:03,160
It worked out.
782
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,880
And they did their show last night, by the way.
783
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,840
Kareem the Keeper, check them out.
784
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,020
And then he's doing his show, No Agenda Today.
785
00:32:10,020 --> 00:32:11,760
Check that out.
786
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:17,160
And so yeah, it was such a blessing to share this trip with them.
787
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:18,160
It was.
788
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,160
For one thing, we travel well together.
789
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,160
It's shocking.
790
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,760
A lot of friends and couples don't.
791
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,840
We've been around some that were hard and we were like, oh, let's not ever do that
792
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:30,840
again.
793
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,480
It's because we're easy going and they're easy going.
794
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,320
We don't have one of us playing tug of war.
795
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:36,320
It's like, what do you want to do?
796
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:37,320
I don't care.
797
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:38,320
Just decide.
798
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,640
And usually I'm the most easy going.
799
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,960
But on this particular trip, I was like, we need to go.
800
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,100
We need to go.
801
00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:45,100
We're going here.
802
00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:46,100
And now we're going to go.
803
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:48,000
Because I was like, well, you had it all planned.
804
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,000
I did.
805
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,000
This is what we're doing.
806
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,960
I mean, it wasn't a heavy agenda or time wise.
807
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,320
It was like, I want to go to I want to go to the National Monument.
808
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,400
And then we found out some people say, yeah, Plymouth Rocks right around the corner.
809
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:00,800
Well, let's go see Plymouth Rocks.
810
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:01,800
We were right there.
811
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,800
And I said, now everybody's getting tired.
812
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:04,800
It was in the afternoon.
813
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,840
I said, that's we're driving to Lexington.
814
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:12,760
And nobody cared because we wanted to get the most out of the trip that we could.
815
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:13,760
And we really did.
816
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:14,760
And it was fascinating.
817
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:20,640
And I love I loved watching, especially Adam, because he loves history so much.
818
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:27,720
And it was just it was really wonderful watching his excitement of what we were doing.
819
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,200
And we were reading all the plaques, all the monuments.
820
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,240
Because you were like, I'm not going to stop at every marker.
821
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:35,240
And he goes, why?
822
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:36,240
I want to.
823
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,040
Tina and I are kind of rolling our eyes.
824
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,040
We're like, oh, gosh, where's the mall?
825
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,040
Where's the mall?
826
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,040
Which we didn't do.
827
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,040
We were going to drop you off so you can go shopping.
828
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:48,720
It's funny because the hotel we stayed at had like an outdoor mall attached, but we
829
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:49,720
didn't even shop.
830
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:50,720
We didn't even go shop.
831
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:51,720
We did not.
832
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,600
Because we were so if we would have had time, we might have.
833
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,120
But we were enthralled with what we were doing.
834
00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:59,940
And it was just so much.
835
00:33:59,940 --> 00:34:01,080
It just wasn't enough time.
836
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:05,520
So we have to go back and spend another week.
837
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,320
I was two days is travel days.
838
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,320
So you really lose it.
839
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,320
You lose the time.
840
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,320
It's true.
841
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:16,280
We spent one full day on sacred ground.
842
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,780
I was so moved at Lexington Green.
843
00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:20,520
That's where the shot was fired.
844
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,520
The what they shot.
845
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:23,520
Is it the Minutemen?
846
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:28,080
So the Minutemen were involved in that, but it was the shot heard around the world.
847
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:33,200
And it was where the Hancock Clark house is.
848
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,600
Reverend Clark.
849
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:36,600
His house.
850
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:37,600
We walked down to it.
851
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:38,600
It was a couple blocks down.
852
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,600
We went down to that.
853
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:40,600
It was closed.
854
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,060
Unfortunately, I couldn't get the tour, but I'll do it another time.
855
00:34:43,060 --> 00:34:48,280
But he was the Reverend who some say it wasn't actually a shot fired from a gun.
856
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:53,180
It was actually the shot fired from his sermons because he was preaching about liberty, about
857
00:34:53,180 --> 00:34:59,640
freedom, about tyranny, and about where is for freedom that Christ has made us free.
858
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:06,040
He was preaching freedom and he prepared the congregation of Lexington, the Lexington Church
859
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:07,120
of Christ.
860
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,840
He prepared them for war.
861
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:15,160
When Paul Revere rode into town, say the British are coming, the British are coming on Paul
862
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,280
Revere's midnight ride.
863
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:22,360
And it just so happened that John Hancock and Samuel Adams were staying hiding out at
864
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,680
his house because the British were trying to find them because they were two of the
865
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,680
key players in the revolution.
866
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,480
And you read all this before you went.
867
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,360
You were like studying everything you could.
868
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,320
I could have been a tour guide.
869
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:35,320
Yeah, you sure could.
870
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,320
I totally could.
871
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:37,320
I was all in.
872
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,160
And so all of that was happening and it all happened right there on that spot of ground
873
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,040
we were standing on.
874
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:49,160
And there's a huge flagpole, kind of a mast style flagpole in the middle of the park,
875
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,800
Lexington Green they call it, Commons.
876
00:35:51,800 --> 00:36:00,080
And on the front of it has a thing that says where American liberty began, something like
877
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,080
that.
878
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,840
I may not be getting that just right.
879
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,040
But where freedom began or where liberty began.
880
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,360
And I was moved.
881
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,320
I was emotional.
882
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:15,480
And then it turns out eight Americans of the, by the way, the army, 800 British soldiers
883
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,320
march into Lexington.
884
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,320
Wow.
885
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:23,600
And they meet on that common ground, the green where all this happened.
886
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:30,480
And the next piece of that is about 30 to 50, I don't know the exact number, mostly
887
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,960
congregation members from Reverend Clark's church.
888
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:35,080
Which people don't know.
889
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,080
And they're not fighters.
890
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,080
They're not militia.
891
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,600
They're just normal folk.
892
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:44,280
That'd be like us taking up arms and standing against a Chinese invasion.
893
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:51,480
So these Brits, which were professional battle hardened soldiers come and they meet and they're
894
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:57,240
trying to, the captain, interesting story, the captains of the British army are going,
895
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,160
this is going to be a bloodbath slaughter.
896
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,520
So he was trying to get his men to back off.
897
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,680
They were actually telling him stand down.
898
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:05,680
He knew it would be.
899
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,680
Because it would be.
900
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,080
And he knew these were just regular, I mean, so there was some compassion there on the
901
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:15,320
captain's part from the Brits and somebody fired off a shot.
902
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,920
Now there's a big debate on who fired the first shot.
903
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,800
So nobody really knows.
904
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:21,800
No one really knows.
905
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:22,800
Wow.
906
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,120
But it is true that they were itching to fight because they had marched all night and they
907
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,720
were like ready for blood.
908
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:28,720
They're soldiers, right?
909
00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:29,720
They're warriors.
910
00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:33,720
And the captains kept yelling, stand down, stand down.
911
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:39,000
And somebody started it and they dropped eight of the congregation members died on that
912
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,000
field.
913
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,040
And seven of the eight are buried right there on the field.
914
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:44,680
And you can go to the memorial.
915
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,440
That is moving.
916
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:47,440
It was.
917
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:53,400
Because it felt like how we felt when we were at the Vietnam wall.
918
00:37:53,400 --> 00:38:01,880
You feel this heaviness of what those servicemen did for our country.
919
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,400
There's an atmosphere that surround those kinds of things.
920
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,240
We went to the Holocaust Museum in Israel.
921
00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:08,240
It was very moving.
922
00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:09,960
It was the same thing.
923
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,240
You feel this weight.
924
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:13,600
Because you know something important.
925
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:21,200
This is something important that literally shifted the way the world saw the world.
926
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:28,080
So those are powerful moments for me to be able to pray over our nation, lay hands on
927
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:34,440
that monument and pray, to be able to walk around Lexington Green.
928
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,360
It's just to know you're standing on sacred ground.
929
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:39,740
Consecrated ground.
930
00:38:39,740 --> 00:38:40,740
Very powerful.
931
00:38:40,740 --> 00:38:42,440
So anyway, we got to go back.
932
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:43,440
We got to go back.
933
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,080
I'm going to park it now.
934
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,080
We're not taking early flights anymore.
935
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,080
I'm not doing it.
936
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:49,080
That was brutal.
937
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,600
Although the traffic is great.
938
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,200
Driving to the airport.
939
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,200
That was easy.
940
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,200
Yeah, it was great.
941
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,520
So yeah, anyway.
942
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:03,520
So if we don't know our history, we are doomed to repeat it.
943
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,320
And we really are repeating it.
944
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:06,320
We are.
945
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:07,320
Totally.
946
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:08,320
Oh my gosh.
947
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:09,320
It's mind boggling.
948
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:14,160
I've had a great insight as we're there at Lexington and we're talking and processing
949
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,160
everything we're seeing.
950
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,560
There are several churches that are all the way around the Commons because now it's like
951
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:20,560
a park.
952
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:29,440
And two of the churches that we saw right there had LGBTQ flags, banner, colors, Black
953
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,480
Lives Matter banner.
954
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,600
It was kind of that everything goes.
955
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:41,320
Everybody is included in our church too, but we don't want people to stay where they're
956
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:42,320
at.
957
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:43,320
We want them to obviously be saved.
958
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:44,320
That's right.
959
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,280
We want the kingdom of God to be in front of anything else.
960
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:54,800
And it's obvious that his observation was just as evil was surrounding that church and
961
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,560
those men at Lexington Green that were ready to fight and the enemy was encroaching upon
962
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,280
them, it's the same today.
963
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:03,280
It looks the same.
964
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:08,040
It feels like the enemy is surrounding everything that's standing for liberty, everything that's
965
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,320
standing for freedom.
966
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:16,320
And so we had a real poignant moment with that just going, wow, it's not a lot changes.
967
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,120
History is indeed repeating itself.
968
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,160
Anyway, loved our time with them.
969
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,040
We went on the Mayflower too, which is fascinating.
970
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:30,200
That was interesting because it's so small and to know that it was carrying 102 people
971
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:35,080
with animals, 30 crew, animals.
972
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,680
I can't even imagine.
973
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:42,400
I was claustrophobic just being underneath where they were all standing.
974
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,480
And they said it was actually eight inches shorter.
975
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,480
The actual one was eight inches shorter.
976
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,280
Oh, that totally would have done me in.
977
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,120
You had to know God was calling you to do that.
978
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,120
Me and Adam both were having to stoop over just to walk through it.
979
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,120
I know.
980
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:57,120
Well, I didn't have to do that.
981
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,400
Well, three of y'all did, but I didn't, just kidding.
982
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:01,400
But yeah, it was...
983
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,400
So anyway.
984
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,800
I did not know that we were going to get to see that.
985
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,760
I just, I didn't think that we were going to be that close to a heart.
986
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,040
I guess we were.
987
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:19,760
I wasn't thinking in conjunction to where we were landing, but I was quite surprised.
988
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:20,760
Yeah, that was a surprise.
989
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:21,760
That was a surprise.
990
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,960
It was, you got to see Plymouth Rock if it's actually where they landed.
991
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,240
There's all kinds of legends around that.
992
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:32,120
Plymouth Rock was very much a disappointment because it's just a rock.
993
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:39,560
And we were at the monument and some people say, well, looking at this monument makes
994
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,040
Plymouth Rock, that was disappointing.
995
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,040
Yeah, yeah.
996
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,040
It was a small rock.
997
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,040
Well, it's just a rock.
998
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,040
It's a big rock, but oh yeah.
999
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,400
And it's really iffy if that's really...
1000
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:50,400
If that's even...
1001
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,400
They could have grabbed a rock off the seat.
1002
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:53,400
It was funny.
1003
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:54,400
Yeah, I was like, yeah.
1004
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,000
It was one of the best things I think.
1005
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,080
But it's interesting, fascinating, all of it was, and just such a great joy to be with
1006
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,080
our friends.
1007
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,960
And man, we love those guys.
1008
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,840
Can't wait to explore more of our history with them because I think that's amazing.
1009
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,340
A couple of things, how about Carnivore Corner?
1010
00:42:10,340 --> 00:42:12,220
Let's talk a little bit about that.
1011
00:42:12,220 --> 00:42:20,480
So the producers of the documentary, Healing Humanity, The Power of a Proper Human Diet,
1012
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,080
I think we shared this.
1013
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:30,440
They sent a cinematographer, John, out here and he spent the day with us, videoing, filming,
1014
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,720
talking, flying drones around.
1015
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:38,120
I mean, it was very cool being a part of that and that was B-roll stuff.
1016
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:42,400
And so this last week, we got to see the actual torch.
1017
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,520
It's called a torch.
1018
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,280
Which in layman's terms, it's a trailer.
1019
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,280
That's what I would think.
1020
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:48,280
Yeah, kind of.
1021
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:49,280
Kind of a trailer.
1022
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,280
I mean, I don't...
1023
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:51,280
Torch sounds like, what is that?
1024
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,240
It's a trailer and you know exactly what that is.
1025
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:54,240
They call it a torch.
1026
00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:57,400
And all that means is this is the...
1027
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:04,400
It's a 10 minute video that I guess almost like a trailer, kind of carries the gist of
1028
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:05,400
everything.
1029
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:11,400
And it's what they present to networks like Angel Network or any of these other distribution
1030
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:12,400
networks.
1031
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,400
Investors, too.
1032
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:14,400
They pitch this.
1033
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,600
This is what they use to pitch.
1034
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:21,440
It shows the quality of their cinematography and their production and their editing.
1035
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,880
So it's to give them a 10 minute snippet.
1036
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:28,280
And I know they had a couple big meetings last week or a big meeting last week with
1037
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:29,280
investors.
1038
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,400
So they're excited about that.
1039
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,120
But they will be presenting this to the Angel Network.
1040
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:41,040
But when we saw it, your first statement before you hit play was, we're probably not even
1041
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,500
in it or I mean, maybe a snippet.
1042
00:43:44,500 --> 00:43:46,200
We were the ones featured.
1043
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,080
Yeah, I was about a third to...
1044
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,400
Between us and Dr. Kiltz.
1045
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,440
Yeah, about a third of it was us.
1046
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:52,440
Wow.
1047
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,440
Which was shocking.
1048
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,800
And it's funny because Tina said they should have had Brian on there because he's lost
1049
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:57,800
so much weight.
1050
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,360
But I'm thinking this isn't about weight.
1051
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:00,420
No, it's not.
1052
00:44:00,420 --> 00:44:01,420
This is about...
1053
00:44:01,420 --> 00:44:02,420
It's about lifestyle.
1054
00:44:02,420 --> 00:44:04,360
Lifestyle changes and health.
1055
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:09,280
And the reason they wanted to feature us and Dr. Kiltz, I think, is because of our age.
1056
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:10,280
Yes.
1057
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:15,960
Because we're showing that you can live up and down in the world physically as well as
1058
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,120
spiritually and emotionally.
1059
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:23,440
And I think that's what captured them because they showed us working out, showed us walking.
1060
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:24,440
But they showed Chevy.
1061
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:25,440
They...
1062
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:26,440
Chevy...
1063
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:30,120
John loved Chevy so much that Chevy is in this movie, y'all.
1064
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:31,120
This is so cool.
1065
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:32,120
This is so funny.
1066
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:33,120
He's going to be on the big screen.
1067
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:34,120
He's going to be on the big screen.
1068
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,440
We're always going to remember Chevy.
1069
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,320
There were at least two shots of Chevy.
1070
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:39,320
It made me laugh.
1071
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:40,320
At least.
1072
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,480
One with him sitting in my lap and another one of him by himself.
1073
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:43,480
I'm like, really?
1074
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:44,480
What does that have to do with health?
1075
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:45,480
I know.
1076
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:46,480
Really?
1077
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:47,480
I thought, how funny.
1078
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:48,480
I know.
1079
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:52,280
But you know Chevy, he's what, eight years old?
1080
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,280
Yeah.
1081
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:57,440
He's not going to live forever and yet we're going to have him on film.
1082
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:58,440
I know.
1083
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,400
And about a thousand pictures that I've taken of him.
1084
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:02,400
Yeah, exactly.
1085
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,960
But I thought, how funny.
1086
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:04,960
We'll always remember that.
1087
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:05,960
So here's a good thing.
1088
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:11,240
And speaking of Chevy and our podcast, so we've got the studio up at the church, but
1089
00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:12,680
we're not always at the church.
1090
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,600
And because our lives are so...
1091
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:15,920
Because he gave you that little piece.
1092
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:16,920
Yeah.
1093
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,920
Our lives are so nuts that with Adam providing me with this little podcast unit, we're going
1094
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,400
to have a setup at home as well.
1095
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:24,400
Yeah, we'll be able to do both.
1096
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:29,760
It's going to be nice because a lot of times we miss simply because we're so stinking busy
1097
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,640
or we're traveling or whatever now.
1098
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,480
And the bonus and caveat is Mr. Chevy will get to be on the show again.
1099
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:37,480
Right.
1100
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:38,480
There you go.
1101
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:39,480
So I'm super excited about that.
1102
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,600
Although it's not video, so you never know he's there.
1103
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:42,600
It doesn't matter.
1104
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:43,600
We know.
1105
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:44,600
He's part of the show.
1106
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:45,600
We know.
1107
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:46,920
So yeah, he's not with us today.
1108
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,360
So in terms of Carnivore, we've continued our journey.
1109
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,200
We're on like day 406 right now.
1110
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,200
Is that crazy?
1111
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:55,200
Who's counting?
1112
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,200
You are.
1113
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:57,200
Not me.
1114
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:58,200
Yeah, you are.
1115
00:45:58,200 --> 00:45:59,200
I am.
1116
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,200
I'm totally him.
1117
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,640
And so anyway, super excited about the torch and yeah, we're doing this.
1118
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:03,640
Yeah.
1119
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:04,640
It's been amazing.
1120
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:05,640
It's great.
1121
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:06,640
All right.
1122
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:10,000
So speaking of spiritual things, I have a little thing, a little precursor of where
1123
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,760
I'm going to go on Sunday, but it's also bouncing off.
1124
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,800
It's really riffing off of something I said last week.
1125
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:16,800
Right.
1126
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:17,800
Which is?
1127
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:23,040
And it is this, is that the answer is always, yes, Lord, what is the question?
1128
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:24,800
I saw that on your devotion.
1129
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:32,800
That has really been burning in my spirit because a lot of times we don't, we wait to
1130
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,520
say yes to the Lord until we hear the assignment and all he wants is our yes.
1131
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,920
Because we're afraid he's going to send us to Zimbabwe.
1132
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,360
Yeah, Nigeria or something.
1133
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:43,360
Yeah, I'm right.
1134
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:44,360
Yeah.
1135
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:45,360
We're going to get some weird assignment.
1136
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,200
No, he's going to send us to Fredericksburg to an amazing group of people.
1137
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:50,200
No kidding.
1138
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,640
We're just talking about how blessed we are to be here in Fredericksburg, in our church,
1139
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:54,640
the bridge.
1140
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:55,640
People are afraid we're going to leave.
1141
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:56,640
I know.
1142
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,760
And we're like, you don't know us.
1143
00:46:58,760 --> 00:46:59,760
We want to stick.
1144
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:00,760
We love you.
1145
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:01,760
You're stuck with us.
1146
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:02,760
God called us here.
1147
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:03,760
That's right.
1148
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,320
He would be the one to send us off, but I don't.
1149
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:06,320
Yeah, I don't see that happening.
1150
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:07,320
I don't feel that.
1151
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,480
We're right where we're supposed to be.
1152
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:14,840
So anyway, that's just something that I want to encourage you, and that is this, is that
1153
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:16,960
just say, yes, Lord.
1154
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,520
Let everything be a yes.
1155
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:23,880
And I had a friend write me, he said, man, you gave me my new morning, my morning saying,
1156
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,120
the first thing I'm... when I get up in the morning, I'm going to say, yes, Lord.
1157
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:28,120
Oh, wow.
1158
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:35,160
So anyway, I want to encourage you with this because it's percolating in me in a deep way.
1159
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,240
So I just want to share it with you.
1160
00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:43,800
And the scripture is going to be out of 1 Samuel 3, and it's when he was coming to Samuel,
1161
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:44,800
to call Samuel.
1162
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,760
It says, the Lord came and stood there calling as at the other times.
1163
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,400
Samuel, this is when Samuel was a kid too.
1164
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:51,680
Samuel, Samuel.
1165
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:56,120
Then Samuel said, speak for your servant is listening.
1166
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,660
So that's what got me thinking about this.
1167
00:47:58,660 --> 00:48:01,400
And so let me just read this and we'll end with this.
1168
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,040
And it's titled, Yes, What's the Question?
1169
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,120
Have you ever had a moment when you realize God had been trying to get your attention
1170
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,480
for some time?
1171
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,200
Well, I've lost count.
1172
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:13,600
Call me slow on the draw.
1173
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,880
Sometimes I miss his cues.
1174
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:17,160
Samuel was no different.
1175
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:21,000
God was calling and he was slow to realize it was him.
1176
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,400
Our answer should always be a hearty, yes, Lord.
1177
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,640
Now what is the question?
1178
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:32,200
We know from the biblical record that God speaks 24, 7, 3, 6, 5.
1179
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:36,480
So say out loud, yes, Lord, now what's the question?
1180
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,120
Give him your yes right now.
1181
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,840
Then listen, his question will surface soon enough.
1182
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,400
So I want to encourage you now because he will.
1183
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,600
If we will give him our yes, the question will come.
1184
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,600
And so I'm just adding to my morning thing.
1185
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,680
First thing is good morning, Holy Spirit.
1186
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,400
Good morning, Lord Jesus.
1187
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:56,840
Good morning, Abba Father.
1188
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,560
Good morning, God.
1189
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,720
And then I'm going to add, yes, Lord.
1190
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:03,960
Now what's the question?
1191
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:09,760
And he's never going to ask you to do something that he doesn't equip you to do.
1192
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:10,760
Exactly.
1193
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:11,760
And it could be...
1194
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:12,760
It could be uncomfortable.
1195
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:13,760
It could be a stretch.
1196
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,760
It could be forgiving people that have wronged you.
1197
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,440
Even this morning, that was another thing.
1198
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:25,560
I spent time saying, Lord, those people that I have asked for forgiveness over and over,
1199
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:30,720
and I used their names again, I said, I'm going to do this again.
1200
00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:32,600
I'm praying for restoration.
1201
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:33,800
That's good.
1202
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:37,560
I don't know what it looks like, but I'm still praying for it because I don't ever want to
1203
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,120
hear a name and feel uneasy.
1204
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:45,080
We should never feel uneasy about someone that we have forgiven.
1205
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:46,080
That's true.
1206
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:47,080
Hello?
1207
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:48,800
That means the hurt is still there.
1208
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,560
I'm asking God to take all that away.
1209
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,880
Because I don't want to live like that.
1210
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,800
I don't want to every time a name comes up, I recoil.
1211
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:07,200
I want to live with such love and gratitude that we have a God that is a restorer, that
1212
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:12,200
is a redeemer.
1213
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:17,640
If we have that attitude, our life, we can live up in a down world.
1214
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,880
I was really having a good time with the Lord this morning.
1215
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:21,880
I didn't have time to get...
1216
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:22,880
You had a great drive in.
1217
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,880
I'm on hold trying to get our breakfast tacos ordered.
1218
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:26,880
Maybe I needed this.
1219
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,680
But the thing is, I didn't have time...
1220
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:33,400
When I got up, I had to get ready because we had to be up at the office so early.
1221
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,880
I didn't have time to get in the Word, so I was like, okay, well then I'm just going
1222
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,320
to speak directly to Him and let Him speak to me.
1223
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:44,880
I felt like every time I thought of something, I knew that was Him speaking to me.
1224
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:45,880
Wow.
1225
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:46,880
It's beautiful.
1226
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:56,600
If it's something that's good, that is helpful, profitable, I know it's from Him, period.
1227
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,640
So I knew that.
1228
00:50:58,640 --> 00:50:59,640
I love that.
1229
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:00,640
I love you.
1230
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:01,640
You are gorgeous.
1231
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,920
So on a land plane, we got a boost today.
1232
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:05,920
We did?
1233
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:06,920
Well, yesterday.
1234
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:07,920
Is it yesterday?
1235
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:08,920
No, I'm talking about a boost.
1236
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:09,920
Oh, you got a boost.
1237
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:10,920
Oh, okay.
1238
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:15,920
This is from a man named Adam Curry, and he boosted us with a striper boost.
1239
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:23,320
Now, we have 77,777 sats, and he writes, what an amazing time.
1240
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,120
What an amazing time we had together in New England.
1241
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,520
Now that I think of it, we should have done a podcast together to revel in it.
1242
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,840
Support your favorite podcasters with value, y'all.
1243
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:35,520
Thanks, Adam Curry.
1244
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:36,520
We love you, brother.
1245
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:41,660
And man, what a joy to do this life with you and your sweet wife, Tina.
1246
00:51:41,660 --> 00:51:43,440
We are loving life with you guys.
1247
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,560
And you said we got another- I sent you a message.
1248
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:47,560
Look at your message.
1249
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:48,560
I'm looking.
1250
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:52,600
We got a $25 PayPal from Cole Dahl.
1251
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,320
Don't know who that is, but thank you, Cole, for that.
1252
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,280
He sent it a couple of days ago.
1253
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:58,280
Awesome.
1254
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,400
And that's, hey, we have one listener that we know of.
1255
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,440
So- You're funny.
1256
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,040
But we're appreciative.
1257
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:07,960
We are a value for value show.
1258
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:14,840
So if we're bringing value to you, the best way, the best way without sending any money
1259
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:23,440
is to just let other people know about us and give them our website, livingupandadownworld.com.
1260
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:24,440
Beautiful.
1261
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:31,040
But yes, it's very nice when we get a PayPal donation or a Bitcoin donation.
1262
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:32,040
We love that.
1263
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:33,040
We appreciate it.
1264
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:34,040
But thank you, Cole, for that.
1265
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:35,040
That was sweet.
1266
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:36,040
Thank you, Cole.
1267
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,040
Blessings.
1268
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:38,040
Blessings.
1269
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,040
All right, baby.
1270
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:40,040
I think we probably need to call her today.
1271
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:41,040
Yes, I have some work I have to do.
1272
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:42,040
Hey, me too.
1273
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:43,040
I still got- You have to get ready for a wedding.
1274
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:44,040
I can't prep for this wedding.
1275
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,040
I've got to put on a jacket- And boots.
1276
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,040
In a 196 degree weather.
1277
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,040
Yes.
1278
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:51,040
Or a baby.
1279
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:52,040
Oh, wham, wham, wham.
1280
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:53,040
Call the whambulance.
1281
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:54,040
Hey, you get to do this.
1282
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,040
I get to do this.
1283
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:56,040
It's true.
1284
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:57,040
And it's for a sweet couple.
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That's it.
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That is our biggest thing.
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We want to teach people what it looks like to live up in a down world,
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even on your worst day, even when things aren't perfect,
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or even when you did a whirlwind three-day trip 24-7 each day,
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and you come back and you're like,
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we're back in the office on Thursday after a trip to New England.
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Or you just turn on the news and watch it.
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I mean, literally.
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That'll wipe you out, won't it?
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So, I have to tell you, this morning,
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you and I drove to work separately because you've got a wedding to do.
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In a little while.
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It's Mary in the afternoon, like 1 o'clock on a Thursday.
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Outside, it's going to be 1 o'clock.
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96 degrees.
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It's going to be 96.
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Lovely.
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I'm glad it's you and not me.
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I have a meeting.
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Thank God I got out of it.
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Can't wait to get that jacket on.
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I got boots.
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But anyway, I was driving to work and I felt like the Holy Spirit said,
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pray for your country.
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Pray for this administration.
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Pray for the upcoming administration because God knows who's going to win.
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And I just began to fill my car up with just prayer.
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Wow.
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Because as much as we disdain what's happening in this world
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because of this administration,
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it doesn't mean that we shouldn't pray.
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If anything, we need to pray more.
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Absolutely.
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So I literally prayed for their eyes to be open,
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for policies to be made that are in conjunction with what the Word says.
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I prayed for the upcoming administration.
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I prayed for protection and safety.
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I prayed for Israel.
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I just felt like the Lord said, pray right now.
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And I think when something comes into our head,
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especially as Christians, when you're a Christian,
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things like that come into your head often
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because we live and breathe Jesus.
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We live and breathe God.
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And I felt like the Lord said, pray right now.
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And I just filled up my car.
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I just turned down the music.
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Because we're in really troubling times.
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And I could just be in a fetal position in bed and just say,
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oh, no, the sky's falling, chicken little.
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Or I can pray.
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Or I could go protest and have everybody think that I'm full of hate.
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And I'm not.
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And there's nothing wrong with protesting if you're protesting in the right spirit.
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We've been given that right.
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Exactly.
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But there's a right spirit too.
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It's part of the Bill of Rights.
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We shouldn't be belligerent and evil.
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Right or violent.
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I even prayed for the January Sixers,
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the ones that really were convicted that they had good intentions.
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There was no evil intentions.
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There was no belligerent.
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It was just they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Or right place at the wrong time or whatever you want to say.
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Wrong place, wrong time.
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And I prayed because I know that I feel that if Trump gets on,
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he's probably going to pardon all those people.
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But I prayed for that because we need to pray for those things in our life
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because what is going on in this world is affecting everybody.
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And it's affecting our children, our children's children.
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What happens right now this year is going to affect our legacy.
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Yeah, this is historic.
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So I feel like that's what God had me do this morning,
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which I haven't just turned my car into a sanctuary like that in a long time,
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but I knew God had pricked my heart for a reason.
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Something's probably going to happen today that is the reason why I needed to do that today.
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Very possible.
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Could be in a preemptive strike.
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Could be.
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So interesting enough, I'm driving in the other car.
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Behind me.
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I'm on hold with a place to get top breakfast tacos and they're not helping.
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So I'm just sitting there and I did the same thing.
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I started praying for our nation.
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One of my prayers is this because I think people are living under this misnomer
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that if we just get my guy elected into office, everything's going to be okay.
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And we need to wake up.
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First of all, we don't worship a man or a woman.
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We don't worship a candidate.
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We vote.
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We do our part.
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We do the due process of being a participant in the system.
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Even if it's broken, that doesn't mean give up.
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That means you still go vote.
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You still go do what you need to do, participate, speak up, speak out, talk about it.
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However, we've got to realize there is no one that will ever sit in that oval office
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that will fix everything.
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And we've got to wake up to that.
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We do.
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We have to wake up to that.
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There's a reason why the founding fathers constantly appealed to God and nature's God,
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to providence, divine providence, to living our lives for our posterity,
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for those that will come behind us and leaving the legacy,
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why they were willing to literally laid face down in the mud dead
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so that the next generation could walk over their bodies into the next level of freedom.
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All of that combined, we have to realize unless Jesus is going to run for office,
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there will never be a perfect candidate, and we'll never have a completely righteous platform ever.
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I think what I'm seeing so much of is people worshiping, they spend more time
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worshiping a candidate like Trump than they do.
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You're going from preaching to meddling.
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Well, it's true.
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Seriously though, I see it too.
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It's bad.
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It's like they idolize him, and what they're doing,
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Or her.
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Yeah, but what they're doing is they're putting other gods before God,
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and that's a dangerous place.
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What's the Bible word for that?
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Idolatry.
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It is.
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I just refuse.
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I've never felt like a president could, even though I appreciate policies
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that presidents have put forth that are good, wholesome policies,
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I've never thought, I guess because we're pastors,
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and people put us on pedestals, and we fall all the time,
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I never put people on a pedestal like that.
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No, not at all.
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Especially politicians, even though Trump's not really a politician,
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he's a businessman, he's not our savior.
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There's only one.
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And even if he gets in office, it's a life raft for a very short time,
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but you know what?
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I truly believe Jesus is coming back soon.
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I just do, and I want to live my life believing that.
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If we lived our life believing that Jesus is coming any day now,
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we could be raptured out, our life would change.
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Our life would change.
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And literally, Annette, I love what you're saying there,
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because Dame Annette, because...
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That's reserved for Adam Curry only.
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He's the only one that can call me Dame.
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I can step in and use that name.
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No, you call me Gorgeous, he calls me Dame Annette.
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Okay, all right, we'll go with Gorgeous.
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But if you think about it, you totally took me off my thought.
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Never mind.
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I lost my thought.
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Oh no, I'm sorry.
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It's okay.
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We're talking about putting people on a pedestal.
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If we get put on or put on a pedestal, we're going to fall.
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No one can save this world, no one.
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I didn't help you.
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It's okay.
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I'm sorry.
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It's all right.
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It'll come to you when you're talking about something else.
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Probably will.
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It's all good.
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I'm sorry.
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No worries.
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I feel like it's time for us to...
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I remember now.
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Oh, go ahead.
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We have to live ready.
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Yes, there you go.
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Because really that's what you're saying.
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By living ready, being prepared, expectant, living expectant, he could come any day.
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Let's expect that.
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What's wrong with having hope for that?
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And saying, you know what?
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If he were to come back today, would I be living my life different?
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Exactly.
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If I knew he was coming back in a month, would it change the things I'm doing right now?
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And if it would drastically change the thing you're doing right now, then you're not doing
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the right things right now.
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Exactly.
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And you know what?
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We're not promised our next breath.
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We are not.
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And we wake up in gratitude when we wake up and we can breathe and everything is all well,
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but anything could happen from day to day.
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And I think that if we live constant...
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Even today, just driving here, I was thinking about all the things I don't like about myself.
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We talk about physical things we don't like.
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And I'm like, if I would get my mind off that and put it on God, I need to take my mind
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off of myself because my body is rotting.
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I mean, because we're all rotting.
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We're all dying.
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It's dying every day.
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Yeah, the physical body.
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Our physical body.
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And yet, if I'm constantly thinking about me, then that means I'm not thinking about
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him.
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And I literally said, Lord...
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Can I ask a question?
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Yeah.
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Can I ask a question or something here?
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Yes.
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Would you say that can be a form of idolatry?
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It totally is, which is why I even asked God to take that out of my mind because I'm like,
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that keeps putting...
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Pointing the fingers back at me.
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It's all about me because I don't look good enough.
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I'm getting older.
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I'm getting more wrinkles.
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I'm getting this.
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And so I got to go do something about it.
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And I think God's more interested in what I'm going to do for him than what I'm going
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to do for me.
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And it hit me hard this morning.
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But what's in there?
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I pointed to the chest because the heart.
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Because he's trying to craft our character and he wants our heart to be for him and not
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so tangled up and caught up in the things of this world.
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We do have to live here.
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We get to live here.
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We get to do this.
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But it can't be always everything.
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Everything.
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Yeah.
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And it felt like just even this morning I was kind of beating myself up.
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In the get ready room?
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In the get ready room.
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That's the bathroom.
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That's the bathroom.
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And I'm like, oh my hair is so pretty but my face is so ugly.
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I mean I literally was just going through that in my head because I'm aged.
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Not just your head.
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You were doing it out loud.
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I said it out loud to you but in the car.
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And that's why I felt like the Lord said start praying for the administration.
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Start praying for Israel.
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Start praying.
510
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And what did it do?
511
00:21:37,420 --> 00:21:38,420
It took my mind off myself.
512
00:21:38,420 --> 00:21:39,420
That's awesome.
513
00:21:39,420 --> 00:21:44,760
And that's when I said, Lord help me to not put my mind so much on myself that I think
514
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:49,760
I need to change all this to be attractive to you because you don't even see all the
515
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:50,760
things I see.
516
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,200
You're always, you're always, always building me up.
517
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,240
Here's a way that plays out, right?
518
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,200
So somebody captures a picture of us.
519
00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,120
They take a picture of us.
520
00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:06,720
And if the first thing you do when you grab a picture is look at everything that's wrong
521
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,920
about you, which is what I do, or bad about you, that's an indicator that there's something
522
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,200
broken in the system.
523
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:18,240
I actually deleted two pictures yesterday that you sent me that we took because I was
524
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,320
like oh my gosh.
525
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:26,320
I was just, it just, yeah, it upset me to see those two pictures.
526
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,320
I just felt disdain.
527
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:33,240
But that's not right because God made me.
528
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:38,480
And I know, I really, I ask God to help me in this area because I don't want to be so
529
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:44,440
vain that I feel like I need to go do something every time I don't like something about myself
530
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,640
because I would be in surgery 24-7.
531
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:49,640
So let's be honest.
532
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,600
Let's be real here.
533
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,480
The people who have impacted our lives the most.
534
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:56,480
Are the godly people.
535
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,800
Were the godly people, not the gorgeous people.
536
00:22:58,800 --> 00:22:59,800
Yeah.
537
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:00,800
Let's just be real.
538
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:01,800
No, it's true.
539
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,240
The people that have impacted me, I've got a list of names running through my head right
540
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,240
now.
541
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,600
I never think about their physical appearance.
542
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,680
I never think about their stature.
543
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:12,680
Are they buff?
544
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:13,680
Are they shredded?
545
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:14,680
Are they swole?
546
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:15,680
Do they work out?
547
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,720
I don't think about any of that.
548
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,800
I think about the giants they are in the kingdom.
549
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:21,800
The giants they are.
550
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:22,800
How they persevere.
551
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,760
Yeah, character.
552
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,960
That's all that matters at the end of the day but we get so caught up in the other.
553
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:29,960
Yeah.
554
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:37,400
I'm going to be real honest here and hopefully I'll know if she's listening to the show.
555
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:44,440
When I get around Tina and she is so gorgeous and we're the same age and I look 20 years
556
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,200
older than her, it's very hard on me.
557
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:55,200
That's when I tend to go inside and yet she wants to enhance her looks and yet I'm like
558
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,560
going, God, if I look like that, I would never have to do anything.
559
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,560
She said similar things.
560
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,800
As best friends, there's always that tendency to compare.
561
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:05,800
Yes.
562
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,520
That's easy to do.
563
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,800
Especially for females.
564
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,360
What I love about her, she's so beautiful on the outside but she's equally as beautiful
565
00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:15,360
on the inside.
566
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:16,360
Oh yeah.
567
00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:17,360
She radiates.
568
00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:18,680
I love her love for God.
569
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:25,040
She was talking last week on the show how she had lost her joy and we got to talk about
570
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,600
that over the week because they were with us in Boston.
571
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,680
It was really cool because she said that the one thing I didn't lose was my faith though.
572
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,800
My faith is strong and I was like, okay, very good.
573
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,880
You didn't go... Because a lot of people when we lose our joy, we just don't even want
574
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:43,880
anything to do with God.
575
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:49,960
We're just like when yet the joy of the Lord is our strength, that's what we need.
576
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:51,640
She didn't lose that and I love that.
577
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,160
I really love that about her.
578
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,160
What a thing.
579
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,640
She has beauty on the inside.
580
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:56,640
Totally.
581
00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,160
When I watch her worship like in church, like when I'm up on the platform, if I'm playing
582
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,920
music, my eyes are always scanning the audience.
583
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:03,920
It's her and Adam at the front.
584
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,320
It's her and Adam right there.
585
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,320
Forefront, center and male of course.
586
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,320
Male.
587
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,320
Oh.
588
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:15,320
But Adam and Tina, I love watching them worship because there's such a purity about it.
589
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,600
They lift my heart just to watch them.
590
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,200
Has nothing to do with their outward appearance.
591
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,800
Has everything to do with their heart.
592
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:22,800
Although he's gigantic.
593
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:23,800
Well, that's terrific.
594
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,800
I'm standing next to me and I'm like at his stomach.
595
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:26,800
I actually noticed that.
596
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:27,800
I'm at his abdomen.
597
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,800
We've got some great pictures.
598
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,800
Yeah, it's great.
599
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,800
Yeah, I saw that and I thought, wow.
600
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,800
We should not put you two together.
601
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,160
So we got to go see, we flew out to Boston.
602
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,240
We got to see the National Monument.
603
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:45,360
Talk about that for a minute because for one, I had never even heard of this National Monument
604
00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:47,160
and it's...
605
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:51,160
It's somewhat little known, which is unbelievable.
606
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,520
And there's hardly anyone who goes to see it.
607
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,960
It's moving and it's in the middle of a residential area.
608
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,600
Although we don't want people to go deface it so we don't even want to tell you where
609
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,600
it is.
610
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:02,600
Right, right.
611
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,040
It's called the National Monument to the Forefathers is the total title.
612
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,280
Everybody just says the National Monument.
613
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,200
It is an 81 foot granite structure.
614
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,440
It is the largest granite monument in America.
615
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,440
In America.
616
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,440
Yeah, I never heard of it.
617
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,440
I've lived here.
618
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,680
Yeah, it was built in 18, I think 1859 if I remember correctly.
619
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,280
It was when they finished it.
620
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,880
1889 I think.
621
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:25,880
89?
622
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:26,880
Okay.
623
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:27,880
I think.
624
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:28,880
1800s.
625
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,120
But this thing, it's actually a formula.
626
00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:33,960
If you go around it, so on the top there's a large...
627
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,160
I'm going to have this on the newsletter as well.
628
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:42,920
But on the top of it, there's a female who's got her finger pointed to the sky and it's
629
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,540
actually labeled in granite, faith.
630
00:26:46,540 --> 00:26:52,960
And then below that, there's four other figures that go around the base of this massive, massive
631
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,920
granite monument.
632
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,960
And it has all over it symbolism.
633
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:03,520
It has reliefs that show them signing the Mayflower Compact.
634
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:10,440
It shows the Puritans slash Pilgrims conversing and probably negotiating with the Indians.
635
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:17,240
It has all these different things that shows them embarkment, them going on to getting
636
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,680
arrival on the land.
637
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,920
Just them holding a Bible, holding the Ten Commandments.
638
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,400
And then the four figures are, first of all, the most impressive to me is Liberty Man.
639
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,840
Liberty Man looks like Schwarzenegger back in the day.
640
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,320
But the detail of the veins in this...
641
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,520
The detail, the muscle structure, everything's there.
642
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:35,520
Oh my gosh.
643
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:36,520
It was amazing.
644
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:37,520
There's so much symbolism.
645
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,720
And then there's a mother and she's called Education.
646
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:40,720
Education.
647
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:41,720
She's educating her child.
648
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:42,720
And she's the other one.
649
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,400
And then there's another one, another male figure, and he's Law.
650
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,440
So you've got faith at the top.
651
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,800
You've got law.
652
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,300
You've got education.
653
00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:53,300
You've got liberty.
654
00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:58,400
What was the last one?
655
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,160
I'm drawing a blank.
656
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,760
It's another female.
657
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:05,760
It's not justice.
658
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:06,760
No, it wouldn't be justice.
659
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:07,760
That was part of law, I think.
660
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:08,760
It would be...
661
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:09,760
Because it's education...
662
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:10,760
Oh.
663
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:11,760
I've got it in my pictures.
664
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:12,760
I do too.
665
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,320
I have to look at it.
666
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,320
I know.
667
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:16,600
It's a lot to take in.
668
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:17,600
I mean...
669
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,600
Education.
670
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,440
There's an unbelievable amount of things to take in.
671
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,440
I have it up here on the...
672
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:24,440
Evangelist.
673
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,440
That's just another piece.
674
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:28,440
Youth.
675
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:29,440
Morality.
676
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,440
Morality.
677
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,440
Yeah, morality.
678
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,440
So you've got morality.
679
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,440
So you've got faith, morality.
680
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,440
And her eyes are not open.
681
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:37,440
Right.
682
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:38,440
They're like blank.
683
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,440
Because it's about inward.
684
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:40,440
Yeah.
685
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:41,440
The inward heart.
686
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,640
It's looking inward instead of looking outward to find that.
687
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:44,640
It is the most...
688
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,640
It's remarkable.
689
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,040
What I loved about it is when you walk up to it...
690
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:55,040
Of course, we took a picture of me standing by it and it's hilarious.
691
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,040
Oh yeah.
692
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,040
It's amazing.
693
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,520
Because I'm the shortest of us four.
694
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:06,480
But what I loved is when you walk up, when you first drive up and you see this...
695
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,840
Is it called osprey?
696
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:08,840
It's an osprey.
697
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,080
Osprey nest, which looks like a crown of thorns.
698
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,080
It does.
699
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:19,760
It's like a bird built a nest on the top of her head and literally it looks like a crown
700
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:20,760
of thorns.
701
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:21,760
It's wild.
702
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,760
Because the nest is substantial.
703
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,880
Oh, I'm sorry.
704
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,920
I just got a...
705
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,880
Grandma Lenora died last night.
706
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,880
Alicia just sent me.
707
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:33,880
Wow.
708
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:34,880
Yeah.
709
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:35,880
Family member.
710
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:36,880
Yeah.
711
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,880
Well, God bless her.
712
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:39,880
Yeah.
713
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:40,880
Wow.
714
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,160
So, sorry, yeah, I know that took you off a little bit.
715
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,160
Totally.
716
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,120
So, Adam and Tina went with us.
717
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,120
One of the things...
718
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,840
So, here's how this trip started.
719
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:56,600
A few months ago, we were taking the biblical citizenship class online just to get a kind
720
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,440
of a precursor of what we're going to be doing at the church.
721
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,600
And so, we did the online version of it.
722
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:06,400
And the very first was about the national monument, the very first lesson with Kirk
723
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,080
Cameron walking through all the symbolism and all.
724
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,200
And it was so compelling.
725
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,440
And so, we said to each other, I mean, literally almost...
726
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:15,440
At the same time.
727
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:16,440
At the same time, basically.
728
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:17,440
We need to go there.
729
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:18,440
We have to go.
730
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,400
And then I said, well, we should go there during our break, during our time off.
731
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:23,400
And I was like...
732
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:24,400
You're like...
733
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,040
No, let's wait till August.
734
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:31,520
And so, we just got online, looked, and found out where it was.
735
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:32,520
You could fly into Boston.
736
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,560
It'd be about 40 minutes, 45 minutes from there to the monument.
737
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:42,680
So, we'd just go to Boston, and then we had also been watching the Doobie Brothers on YouTube
738
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,520
in their 50th tour.
739
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,520
And it showed...
740
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,640
And guess where they were going to be?
741
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,640
In the Boston area.
742
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:49,640
In the Boston area.
743
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,200
Okay, this is where we're going.
744
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:52,200
Okay.
745
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,960
So, we had the miles.
746
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:54,960
We did our tickets.
747
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,760
And we just like, we're going to do this.
748
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,120
And I've been excited about ecstatic...
749
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,400
You're not going to believe this, but this is the truth.
750
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,120
I was more excited about going to the national monument than I was seeing the Doobie Brothers.
751
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:12,640
But you know, I was too, because we, again, then we had the biblical citizenship class
752
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:13,640
in our church.
753
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,640
We were doing it online.
754
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:15,640
The week before.
755
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,760
And the first class was the week before we were leaving.
756
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,240
And that just stirred up more...
757
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,240
Fresh again.
758
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,240
...interest in going.
759
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,440
Now, don't get me wrong, the Doobie Brothers crushed it.
760
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:27,440
And Steve Winwood.
761
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,800
And Steve Winwood was off the hook.
762
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:29,960
Adam Curry was like...
763
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:30,960
Amazing.
764
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,040
So, I prefer Steve to the Doobie Brothers.
765
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,040
I preferred...
766
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,320
Steve is 76 years old.
767
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,200
He came out and they did a five or six, seven minute jam.
768
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,200
Yeah.
769
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,200
I liked the Doobie Brothers better.
770
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,360
And they tore it up.
771
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:43,360
They were all good.
772
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,360
I don't compare bands.
773
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:49,080
I like to just say, hey man, they both bring what they have and yay for them.
774
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,680
So all that to say is we planned this a while back.
775
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,000
And then we were like, let's invite the Currys.
776
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,120
Not knowing if they'd be able to because he does so many podcasts.
777
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,120
Because he never gets to leave because of his podcast.
778
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:00,160
He's got a lot going on.
779
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,160
And they said yes.
780
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,160
And it worked.
781
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:03,160
It worked out.
782
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,880
And they did their show last night, by the way.
783
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,840
Kareem the Keeper, check them out.
784
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,020
And then he's doing his show, No Agenda Today.
785
00:32:10,020 --> 00:32:11,760
Check that out.
786
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:17,160
And so yeah, it was such a blessing to share this trip with them.
787
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:18,160
It was.
788
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,160
For one thing, we travel well together.
789
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,160
It's shocking.
790
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,760
A lot of friends and couples don't.
791
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,840
We've been around some that were hard and we were like, oh, let's not ever do that
792
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:30,840
again.
793
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,480
It's because we're easy going and they're easy going.
794
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,320
We don't have one of us playing tug of war.
795
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:36,320
It's like, what do you want to do?
796
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:37,320
I don't care.
797
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:38,320
Just decide.
798
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,640
And usually I'm the most easy going.
799
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,960
But on this particular trip, I was like, we need to go.
800
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,100
We need to go.
801
00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:45,100
We're going here.
802
00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:46,100
And now we're going to go.
803
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:48,000
Because I was like, well, you had it all planned.
804
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,000
I did.
805
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,000
This is what we're doing.
806
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,960
I mean, it wasn't a heavy agenda or time wise.
807
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,320
It was like, I want to go to I want to go to the National Monument.
808
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,400
And then we found out some people say, yeah, Plymouth Rocks right around the corner.
809
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:00,800
Well, let's go see Plymouth Rocks.
810
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:01,800
We were right there.
811
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,800
And I said, now everybody's getting tired.
812
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:04,800
It was in the afternoon.
813
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,840
I said, that's we're driving to Lexington.
814
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:12,760
And nobody cared because we wanted to get the most out of the trip that we could.
815
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:13,760
And we really did.
816
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:14,760
And it was fascinating.
817
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:20,640
And I love I loved watching, especially Adam, because he loves history so much.
818
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:27,720
And it was just it was really wonderful watching his excitement of what we were doing.
819
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,200
And we were reading all the plaques, all the monuments.
820
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,240
Because you were like, I'm not going to stop at every marker.
821
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:35,240
And he goes, why?
822
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:36,240
I want to.
823
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,040
Tina and I are kind of rolling our eyes.
824
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,040
We're like, oh, gosh, where's the mall?
825
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,040
Where's the mall?
826
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,040
Which we didn't do.
827
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,040
We were going to drop you off so you can go shopping.
828
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:48,720
It's funny because the hotel we stayed at had like an outdoor mall attached, but we
829
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:49,720
didn't even shop.
830
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:50,720
We didn't even go shop.
831
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:51,720
We did not.
832
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,600
Because we were so if we would have had time, we might have.
833
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,120
But we were enthralled with what we were doing.
834
00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:59,940
And it was just so much.
835
00:33:59,940 --> 00:34:01,080
It just wasn't enough time.
836
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:05,520
So we have to go back and spend another week.
837
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,320
I was two days is travel days.
838
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,320
So you really lose it.
839
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,320
You lose the time.
840
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,320
It's true.
841
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:16,280
We spent one full day on sacred ground.
842
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,780
I was so moved at Lexington Green.
843
00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:20,520
That's where the shot was fired.
844
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,520
The what they shot.
845
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:23,520
Is it the Minutemen?
846
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:28,080
So the Minutemen were involved in that, but it was the shot heard around the world.
847
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:33,200
And it was where the Hancock Clark house is.
848
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,600
Reverend Clark.
849
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:36,600
His house.
850
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:37,600
We walked down to it.
851
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:38,600
It was a couple blocks down.
852
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,600
We went down to that.
853
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:40,600
It was closed.
854
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,060
Unfortunately, I couldn't get the tour, but I'll do it another time.
855
00:34:43,060 --> 00:34:48,280
But he was the Reverend who some say it wasn't actually a shot fired from a gun.
856
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:53,180
It was actually the shot fired from his sermons because he was preaching about liberty, about
857
00:34:53,180 --> 00:34:59,640
freedom, about tyranny, and about where is for freedom that Christ has made us free.
858
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:06,040
He was preaching freedom and he prepared the congregation of Lexington, the Lexington Church
859
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:07,120
of Christ.
860
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,840
He prepared them for war.
861
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:15,160
When Paul Revere rode into town, say the British are coming, the British are coming on Paul
862
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,280
Revere's midnight ride.
863
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:22,360
And it just so happened that John Hancock and Samuel Adams were staying hiding out at
864
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,680
his house because the British were trying to find them because they were two of the
865
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,680
key players in the revolution.
866
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,480
And you read all this before you went.
867
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,360
You were like studying everything you could.
868
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,320
I could have been a tour guide.
869
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:35,320
Yeah, you sure could.
870
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,320
I totally could.
871
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:37,320
I was all in.
872
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,160
And so all of that was happening and it all happened right there on that spot of ground
873
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,040
we were standing on.
874
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:49,160
And there's a huge flagpole, kind of a mast style flagpole in the middle of the park,
875
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,800
Lexington Green they call it, Commons.
876
00:35:51,800 --> 00:36:00,080
And on the front of it has a thing that says where American liberty began, something like
877
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,080
that.
878
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,840
I may not be getting that just right.
879
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,040
But where freedom began or where liberty began.
880
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,360
And I was moved.
881
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,320
I was emotional.
882
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:15,480
And then it turns out eight Americans of the, by the way, the army, 800 British soldiers
883
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,320
march into Lexington.
884
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,320
Wow.
885
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:23,600
And they meet on that common ground, the green where all this happened.
886
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:30,480
And the next piece of that is about 30 to 50, I don't know the exact number, mostly
887
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,960
congregation members from Reverend Clark's church.
888
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:35,080
Which people don't know.
889
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,080
And they're not fighters.
890
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,080
They're not militia.
891
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,600
They're just normal folk.
892
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:44,280
That'd be like us taking up arms and standing against a Chinese invasion.
893
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:51,480
So these Brits, which were professional battle hardened soldiers come and they meet and they're
894
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:57,240
trying to, the captain, interesting story, the captains of the British army are going,
895
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,160
this is going to be a bloodbath slaughter.
896
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,520
So he was trying to get his men to back off.
897
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,680
They were actually telling him stand down.
898
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:05,680
He knew it would be.
899
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,680
Because it would be.
900
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,080
And he knew these were just regular, I mean, so there was some compassion there on the
901
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:15,320
captain's part from the Brits and somebody fired off a shot.
902
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,920
Now there's a big debate on who fired the first shot.
903
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,800
So nobody really knows.
904
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:21,800
No one really knows.
905
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:22,800
Wow.
906
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,120
But it is true that they were itching to fight because they had marched all night and they
907
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,720
were like ready for blood.
908
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:28,720
They're soldiers, right?
909
00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:29,720
They're warriors.
910
00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:33,720
And the captains kept yelling, stand down, stand down.
911
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:39,000
And somebody started it and they dropped eight of the congregation members died on that
912
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,000
field.
913
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,040
And seven of the eight are buried right there on the field.
914
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:44,680
And you can go to the memorial.
915
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,440
That is moving.
916
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:47,440
It was.
917
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:53,400
Because it felt like how we felt when we were at the Vietnam wall.
918
00:37:53,400 --> 00:38:01,880
You feel this heaviness of what those servicemen did for our country.
919
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,400
There's an atmosphere that surround those kinds of things.
920
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,240
We went to the Holocaust Museum in Israel.
921
00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:08,240
It was very moving.
922
00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:09,960
It was the same thing.
923
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,240
You feel this weight.
924
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:13,600
Because you know something important.
925
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:21,200
This is something important that literally shifted the way the world saw the world.
926
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:28,080
So those are powerful moments for me to be able to pray over our nation, lay hands on
927
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:34,440
that monument and pray, to be able to walk around Lexington Green.
928
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,360
It's just to know you're standing on sacred ground.
929
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:39,740
Consecrated ground.
930
00:38:39,740 --> 00:38:40,740
Very powerful.
931
00:38:40,740 --> 00:38:42,440
So anyway, we got to go back.
932
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:43,440
We got to go back.
933
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,080
I'm going to park it now.
934
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,080
We're not taking early flights anymore.
935
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,080
I'm not doing it.
936
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:49,080
That was brutal.
937
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:50,600
Although the traffic is great.
938
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,200
Driving to the airport.
939
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,200
That was easy.
940
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,200
Yeah, it was great.
941
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,520
So yeah, anyway.
942
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:03,520
So if we don't know our history, we are doomed to repeat it.
943
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,320
And we really are repeating it.
944
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:06,320
We are.
945
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:07,320
Totally.
946
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:08,320
Oh my gosh.
947
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:09,320
It's mind boggling.
948
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:14,160
I've had a great insight as we're there at Lexington and we're talking and processing
949
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,160
everything we're seeing.
950
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,560
There are several churches that are all the way around the Commons because now it's like
951
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:20,560
a park.
952
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:29,440
And two of the churches that we saw right there had LGBTQ flags, banner, colors, Black
953
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,480
Lives Matter banner.
954
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,600
It was kind of that everything goes.
955
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:41,320
Everybody is included in our church too, but we don't want people to stay where they're
956
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:42,320
at.
957
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:43,320
We want them to obviously be saved.
958
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:44,320
That's right.
959
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,280
We want the kingdom of God to be in front of anything else.
960
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:54,800
And it's obvious that his observation was just as evil was surrounding that church and
961
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,560
those men at Lexington Green that were ready to fight and the enemy was encroaching upon
962
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,280
them, it's the same today.
963
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:03,280
It looks the same.
964
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:08,040
It feels like the enemy is surrounding everything that's standing for liberty, everything that's
965
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,320
standing for freedom.
966
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:16,320
And so we had a real poignant moment with that just going, wow, it's not a lot changes.
967
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,120
History is indeed repeating itself.
968
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,160
Anyway, loved our time with them.
969
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,040
We went on the Mayflower too, which is fascinating.
970
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:30,200
That was interesting because it's so small and to know that it was carrying 102 people
971
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:35,080
with animals, 30 crew, animals.
972
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,680
I can't even imagine.
973
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:42,400
I was claustrophobic just being underneath where they were all standing.
974
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,480
And they said it was actually eight inches shorter.
975
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,480
The actual one was eight inches shorter.
976
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,280
Oh, that totally would have done me in.
977
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,120
You had to know God was calling you to do that.
978
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,120
Me and Adam both were having to stoop over just to walk through it.
979
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,120
I know.
980
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:57,120
Well, I didn't have to do that.
981
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,400
Well, three of y'all did, but I didn't, just kidding.
982
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:01,400
But yeah, it was...
983
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,400
So anyway.
984
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,800
I did not know that we were going to get to see that.
985
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,760
I just, I didn't think that we were going to be that close to a heart.
986
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,040
I guess we were.
987
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:19,760
I wasn't thinking in conjunction to where we were landing, but I was quite surprised.
988
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:20,760
Yeah, that was a surprise.
989
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:21,760
That was a surprise.
990
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,960
It was, you got to see Plymouth Rock if it's actually where they landed.
991
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,240
There's all kinds of legends around that.
992
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:32,120
Plymouth Rock was very much a disappointment because it's just a rock.
993
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:39,560
And we were at the monument and some people say, well, looking at this monument makes
994
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,040
Plymouth Rock, that was disappointing.
995
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,040
Yeah, yeah.
996
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,040
It was a small rock.
997
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,040
Well, it's just a rock.
998
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,040
It's a big rock, but oh yeah.
999
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,400
And it's really iffy if that's really...
1000
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:50,400
If that's even...
1001
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,400
They could have grabbed a rock off the seat.
1002
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:53,400
It was funny.
1003
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:54,400
Yeah, I was like, yeah.
1004
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,000
It was one of the best things I think.
1005
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,080
But it's interesting, fascinating, all of it was, and just such a great joy to be with
1006
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,080
our friends.
1007
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,960
And man, we love those guys.
1008
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,840
Can't wait to explore more of our history with them because I think that's amazing.
1009
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,340
A couple of things, how about Carnivore Corner?
1010
00:42:10,340 --> 00:42:12,220
Let's talk a little bit about that.
1011
00:42:12,220 --> 00:42:20,480
So the producers of the documentary, Healing Humanity, The Power of a Proper Human Diet,
1012
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,080
I think we shared this.
1013
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:30,440
They sent a cinematographer, John, out here and he spent the day with us, videoing, filming,
1014
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,720
talking, flying drones around.
1015
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:38,120
I mean, it was very cool being a part of that and that was B-roll stuff.
1016
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:42,400
And so this last week, we got to see the actual torch.
1017
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,520
It's called a torch.
1018
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,280
Which in layman's terms, it's a trailer.
1019
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,280
That's what I would think.
1020
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:48,280
Yeah, kind of.
1021
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:49,280
Kind of a trailer.
1022
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,280
I mean, I don't...
1023
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:51,280
Torch sounds like, what is that?
1024
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,240
It's a trailer and you know exactly what that is.
1025
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:54,240
They call it a torch.
1026
00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:57,400
And all that means is this is the...
1027
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:04,400
It's a 10 minute video that I guess almost like a trailer, kind of carries the gist of
1028
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:05,400
everything.
1029
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:11,400
And it's what they present to networks like Angel Network or any of these other distribution
1030
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:12,400
networks.
1031
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,400
Investors, too.
1032
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:14,400
They pitch this.
1033
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,600
This is what they use to pitch.
1034
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:21,440
It shows the quality of their cinematography and their production and their editing.
1035
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,880
So it's to give them a 10 minute snippet.
1036
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:28,280
And I know they had a couple big meetings last week or a big meeting last week with
1037
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:29,280
investors.
1038
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,400
So they're excited about that.
1039
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,120
But they will be presenting this to the Angel Network.
1040
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:41,040
But when we saw it, your first statement before you hit play was, we're probably not even
1041
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,500
in it or I mean, maybe a snippet.
1042
00:43:44,500 --> 00:43:46,200
We were the ones featured.
1043
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,080
Yeah, I was about a third to...
1044
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,400
Between us and Dr. Kiltz.
1045
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,440
Yeah, about a third of it was us.
1046
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:52,440
Wow.
1047
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,440
Which was shocking.
1048
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,800
And it's funny because Tina said they should have had Brian on there because he's lost
1049
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:57,800
so much weight.
1050
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,360
But I'm thinking this isn't about weight.
1051
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:00,420
No, it's not.
1052
00:44:00,420 --> 00:44:01,420
This is about...
1053
00:44:01,420 --> 00:44:02,420
It's about lifestyle.
1054
00:44:02,420 --> 00:44:04,360
Lifestyle changes and health.
1055
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:09,280
And the reason they wanted to feature us and Dr. Kiltz, I think, is because of our age.
1056
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:10,280
Yes.
1057
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:15,960
Because we're showing that you can live up and down in the world physically as well as
1058
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,120
spiritually and emotionally.
1059
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:23,440
And I think that's what captured them because they showed us working out, showed us walking.
1060
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:24,440
But they showed Chevy.
1061
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:25,440
They...
1062
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:26,440
Chevy...
1063
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:30,120
John loved Chevy so much that Chevy is in this movie, y'all.
1064
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:31,120
This is so cool.
1065
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:32,120
This is so funny.
1066
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:33,120
He's going to be on the big screen.
1067
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:34,120
He's going to be on the big screen.
1068
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,440
We're always going to remember Chevy.
1069
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,320
There were at least two shots of Chevy.
1070
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:39,320
It made me laugh.
1071
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:40,320
At least.
1072
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,480
One with him sitting in my lap and another one of him by himself.
1073
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:43,480
I'm like, really?
1074
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:44,480
What does that have to do with health?
1075
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:45,480
I know.
1076
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:46,480
Really?
1077
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:47,480
I thought, how funny.
1078
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:48,480
I know.
1079
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:52,280
But you know Chevy, he's what, eight years old?
1080
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,280
Yeah.
1081
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:57,440
He's not going to live forever and yet we're going to have him on film.
1082
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:58,440
I know.
1083
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,400
And about a thousand pictures that I've taken of him.
1084
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:02,400
Yeah, exactly.
1085
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,960
But I thought, how funny.
1086
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:04,960
We'll always remember that.
1087
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:05,960
So here's a good thing.
1088
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:11,240
And speaking of Chevy and our podcast, so we've got the studio up at the church, but
1089
00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:12,680
we're not always at the church.
1090
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,600
And because our lives are so...
1091
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:15,920
Because he gave you that little piece.
1092
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:16,920
Yeah.
1093
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:21,920
Our lives are so nuts that with Adam providing me with this little podcast unit, we're going
1094
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,400
to have a setup at home as well.
1095
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:24,400
Yeah, we'll be able to do both.
1096
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:29,760
It's going to be nice because a lot of times we miss simply because we're so stinking busy
1097
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,640
or we're traveling or whatever now.
1098
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,480
And the bonus and caveat is Mr. Chevy will get to be on the show again.
1099
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:37,480
Right.
1100
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:38,480
There you go.
1101
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:39,480
So I'm super excited about that.
1102
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,600
Although it's not video, so you never know he's there.
1103
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:42,600
It doesn't matter.
1104
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:43,600
We know.
1105
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:44,600
He's part of the show.
1106
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:45,600
We know.
1107
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:46,920
So yeah, he's not with us today.
1108
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,360
So in terms of Carnivore, we've continued our journey.
1109
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,200
We're on like day 406 right now.
1110
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,200
Is that crazy?
1111
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:55,200
Who's counting?
1112
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,200
You are.
1113
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:57,200
Not me.
1114
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:58,200
Yeah, you are.
1115
00:45:58,200 --> 00:45:59,200
I am.
1116
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,200
I'm totally him.
1117
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,640
And so anyway, super excited about the torch and yeah, we're doing this.
1118
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:03,640
Yeah.
1119
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:04,640
It's been amazing.
1120
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:05,640
It's great.
1121
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:06,640
All right.
1122
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:10,000
So speaking of spiritual things, I have a little thing, a little precursor of where
1123
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,760
I'm going to go on Sunday, but it's also bouncing off.
1124
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,800
It's really riffing off of something I said last week.
1125
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:16,800
Right.
1126
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:17,800
Which is?
1127
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:23,040
And it is this, is that the answer is always, yes, Lord, what is the question?
1128
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:24,800
I saw that on your devotion.
1129
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:32,800
That has really been burning in my spirit because a lot of times we don't, we wait to
1130
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:37,520
say yes to the Lord until we hear the assignment and all he wants is our yes.
1131
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,920
Because we're afraid he's going to send us to Zimbabwe.
1132
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,360
Yeah, Nigeria or something.
1133
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:43,360
Yeah, I'm right.
1134
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:44,360
Yeah.
1135
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:45,360
We're going to get some weird assignment.
1136
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,200
No, he's going to send us to Fredericksburg to an amazing group of people.
1137
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:50,200
No kidding.
1138
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,640
We're just talking about how blessed we are to be here in Fredericksburg, in our church,
1139
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:54,640
the bridge.
1140
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:55,640
People are afraid we're going to leave.
1141
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:56,640
I know.
1142
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,760
And we're like, you don't know us.
1143
00:46:58,760 --> 00:46:59,760
We want to stick.
1144
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:00,760
We love you.
1145
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:01,760
You're stuck with us.
1146
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:02,760
God called us here.
1147
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:03,760
That's right.
1148
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,320
He would be the one to send us off, but I don't.
1149
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:06,320
Yeah, I don't see that happening.
1150
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:07,320
I don't feel that.
1151
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,480
We're right where we're supposed to be.
1152
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:14,840
So anyway, that's just something that I want to encourage you, and that is this, is that
1153
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:16,960
just say, yes, Lord.
1154
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,520
Let everything be a yes.
1155
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:23,880
And I had a friend write me, he said, man, you gave me my new morning, my morning saying,
1156
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,120
the first thing I'm... when I get up in the morning, I'm going to say, yes, Lord.
1157
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:28,120
Oh, wow.
1158
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:35,160
So anyway, I want to encourage you with this because it's percolating in me in a deep way.
1159
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,240
So I just want to share it with you.
1160
00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:43,800
And the scripture is going to be out of 1 Samuel 3, and it's when he was coming to Samuel,
1161
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:44,800
to call Samuel.
1162
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,760
It says, the Lord came and stood there calling as at the other times.
1163
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,400
Samuel, this is when Samuel was a kid too.
1164
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:51,680
Samuel, Samuel.
1165
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:56,120
Then Samuel said, speak for your servant is listening.
1166
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,660
So that's what got me thinking about this.
1167
00:47:58,660 --> 00:48:01,400
And so let me just read this and we'll end with this.
1168
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,040
And it's titled, Yes, What's the Question?
1169
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,120
Have you ever had a moment when you realize God had been trying to get your attention
1170
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,480
for some time?
1171
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,200
Well, I've lost count.
1172
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:13,600
Call me slow on the draw.
1173
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,880
Sometimes I miss his cues.
1174
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:17,160
Samuel was no different.
1175
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:21,000
God was calling and he was slow to realize it was him.
1176
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,400
Our answer should always be a hearty, yes, Lord.
1177
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,640
Now what is the question?
1178
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:32,200
We know from the biblical record that God speaks 24, 7, 3, 6, 5.
1179
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:36,480
So say out loud, yes, Lord, now what's the question?
1180
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,120
Give him your yes right now.
1181
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,840
Then listen, his question will surface soon enough.
1182
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,400
So I want to encourage you now because he will.
1183
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,600
If we will give him our yes, the question will come.
1184
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,600
And so I'm just adding to my morning thing.
1185
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,680
First thing is good morning, Holy Spirit.
1186
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,400
Good morning, Lord Jesus.
1187
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:56,840
Good morning, Abba Father.
1188
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,560
Good morning, God.
1189
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,720
And then I'm going to add, yes, Lord.
1190
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:03,960
Now what's the question?
1191
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:09,760
And he's never going to ask you to do something that he doesn't equip you to do.
1192
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:10,760
Exactly.
1193
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:11,760
And it could be...
1194
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:12,760
It could be uncomfortable.
1195
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:13,760
It could be a stretch.
1196
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,760
It could be forgiving people that have wronged you.
1197
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,440
Even this morning, that was another thing.
1198
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:25,560
I spent time saying, Lord, those people that I have asked for forgiveness over and over,
1199
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:30,720
and I used their names again, I said, I'm going to do this again.
1200
00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:32,600
I'm praying for restoration.
1201
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:33,800
That's good.
1202
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:37,560
I don't know what it looks like, but I'm still praying for it because I don't ever want to
1203
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,120
hear a name and feel uneasy.
1204
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:45,080
We should never feel uneasy about someone that we have forgiven.
1205
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:46,080
That's true.
1206
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:47,080
Hello?
1207
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:48,800
That means the hurt is still there.
1208
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,560
I'm asking God to take all that away.
1209
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,880
Because I don't want to live like that.
1210
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,800
I don't want to every time a name comes up, I recoil.
1211
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:07,200
I want to live with such love and gratitude that we have a God that is a restorer, that
1212
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:12,200
is a redeemer.
1213
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:17,640
If we have that attitude, our life, we can live up in a down world.
1214
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,880
I was really having a good time with the Lord this morning.
1215
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:21,880
I didn't have time to get...
1216
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:22,880
You had a great drive in.
1217
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,880
I'm on hold trying to get our breakfast tacos ordered.
1218
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:26,880
Maybe I needed this.
1219
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,680
But the thing is, I didn't have time...
1220
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:33,400
When I got up, I had to get ready because we had to be up at the office so early.
1221
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,880
I didn't have time to get in the Word, so I was like, okay, well then I'm just going
1222
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,320
to speak directly to Him and let Him speak to me.
1223
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:44,880
I felt like every time I thought of something, I knew that was Him speaking to me.
1224
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:45,880
Wow.
1225
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:46,880
It's beautiful.
1226
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:56,600
If it's something that's good, that is helpful, profitable, I know it's from Him, period.
1227
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,640
So I knew that.
1228
00:50:58,640 --> 00:50:59,640
I love that.
1229
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:00,640
I love you.
1230
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:01,640
You are gorgeous.
1231
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,920
So on a land plane, we got a boost today.
1232
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:05,920
We did?
1233
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:06,920
Well, yesterday.
1234
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:07,920
Is it yesterday?
1235
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:08,920
No, I'm talking about a boost.
1236
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:09,920
Oh, you got a boost.
1237
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:10,920
Oh, okay.
1238
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:15,920
This is from a man named Adam Curry, and he boosted us with a striper boost.
1239
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:23,320
Now, we have 77,777 sats, and he writes, what an amazing time.
1240
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,120
What an amazing time we had together in New England.
1241
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,520
Now that I think of it, we should have done a podcast together to revel in it.
1242
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,840
Support your favorite podcasters with value, y'all.
1243
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:35,520
Thanks, Adam Curry.
1244
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:36,520
We love you, brother.
1245
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:41,660
And man, what a joy to do this life with you and your sweet wife, Tina.
1246
00:51:41,660 --> 00:51:43,440
We are loving life with you guys.
1247
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,560
And you said we got another- I sent you a message.
1248
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:47,560
Look at your message.
1249
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:48,560
I'm looking.
1250
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:52,600
We got a $25 PayPal from Cole Dahl.
1251
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,320
Don't know who that is, but thank you, Cole, for that.
1252
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,280
He sent it a couple of days ago.
1253
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:58,280
Awesome.
1254
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,400
And that's, hey, we have one listener that we know of.
1255
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,440
So- You're funny.
1256
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,040
But we're appreciative.
1257
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:07,960
We are a value for value show.
1258
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:14,840
So if we're bringing value to you, the best way, the best way without sending any money
1259
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:23,440
is to just let other people know about us and give them our website, livingupandadownworld.com.
1260
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:24,440
Beautiful.
1261
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:31,040
But yes, it's very nice when we get a PayPal donation or a Bitcoin donation.
1262
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:32,040
We love that.
1263
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:33,040
We appreciate it.
1264
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:34,040
But thank you, Cole, for that.
1265
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:35,040
That was sweet.
1266
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:36,040
Thank you, Cole.
1267
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,040
Blessings.
1268
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:38,040
Blessings.
1269
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,040
All right, baby.
1270
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:40,040
I think we probably need to call her today.
1271
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:41,040
Yes, I have some work I have to do.
1272
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:42,040
Hey, me too.
1273
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:43,040
I still got- You have to get ready for a wedding.
1274
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:44,040
I can't prep for this wedding.
1275
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,040
I've got to put on a jacket- And boots.
1276
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,040
In a 196 degree weather.
1277
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,040
Yes.
1278
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:51,040
Or a baby.
1279
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:52,040
Oh, wham, wham, wham.
1280
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:53,040
Call the whambulance.
1281
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:54,040
Hey, you get to do this.
1282
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,040
I get to do this.
1283
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:56,040
It's true.
1284
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:57,040
And it's for a sweet couple.
1285
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,040
It is.
1286
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,040
So it's a blessing.
1287
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:00,040
All right.
1288
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,960
We are out of here and we challenge you in love.
1289
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:03,960
Live up in a down world.
1290
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:04,960
God bless you all.
1291
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:32,580
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