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Father's Day. I think throughout television and

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all of these things, the primary
focus on fathers has always been discipline.

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It seems the concept of wait till
your father gets home has found its way

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throughout culture and throughout the minds of
children everywhere. The worry and the concern

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that comes with that statement. And
it's not that parents as partners don't look

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toward one another to raise a child
and to give discipline. Oftentimes the woman

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in a relationship will be the disciplinarian. So it's not so much about you

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know who gives discipline, but it's
about understanding the power of what you have

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in your hands when you're a parent. In this case being Father's Day,

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we focus on the father's weight of
that equation, and that concept that the

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father is only there for discipline or
force or some sort of imagery of the

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cracking of the belt is not a
true image of what Scripture sets forth.

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Psalm one of three thirteen says,
just as a father has compassion on his

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children, so the Lord has compassion
on those who fear him. Of course,

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fear is a legitimate thing when it
comes to the father. Both in

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deep reverence and the unknowing of the
power of God. But what an interesting

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way of putting it talking about the
compassion of a father, not the power,

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not just the discipline, but the
compassion every human being. Every human

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being is born a motor. Just
go, go go. They are designed

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to learn. You are designed to
consume information, to grow and strengthen in

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both physicality and mental acuity, taking
on every bit of information you can.

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That's a motor starts revved up and
continues throughout life trying to take in as

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much information and understanding as possible.
What humans aren't born with initially is a

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rudder. The rudder is your environment. The rudder is your family, your

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friends, your faith, your worldview, that which guides you. But the

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first, the very first rudders in
your life, or your parents, your

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guardians, the people that are raising
you. And I know that it seems

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many people go into raising a child
with the attitude that they're programming the child.

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You're not programming a child. What
you're doing is guiding a child.

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And I love this first for that
reason. Psalm one of three thirteen.

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As a father has compassion on his
children, so the Lord has compassion on

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those who fear him. That that
idea of showing compassion towards a child understanding

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that they're a motor and you're just
the rudder. You're not there to program

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them to be a little you or
program them to be what you want them

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to be. You're guiding them to
make sure that that motor instinct, that

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desire to move forward, be curious
about everything, to to when their small

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children wanting to see if they can
jump off the highest piece of furniture in

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the house. What you don't want
to do is program them not to want

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to jump. Would that have the
same results, Sure, it would keep

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them safe, But to program them
not to want to jump is to is

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to track the very nature that God
put into them at birth, the desire

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to explore, to test their bodies, their minds, their ideas. And

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that's where guidance comes in. It's
not shutting down the motor. It's not

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programming them not to be human explorers
or any of these things. It's to

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explain. It's to engage, to
show compassion and show the child yet that

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yes, it's a great thing to
have curiosity. It's the it's a great

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thing to have an explorer's heart.
It's a great thing to want to test

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and push your bodies. However,
in the setting that we have here,

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with glass windows and tile floors and
all of these things, probably not the

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best way to test yourself in this
moment. So let's figure out a way

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where we can test those things safely. I think the desire is always to

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squelch, squelch, and that word
programming to program a child, even with

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faith, I see it the desire
to program them in faith. And you're

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not programming a child in faith.
You're being an example like you should with

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everything. You are the one they're
learning from. If you live a certain

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way, that's going to be their
desire is to grow in that way.

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If you walked around the house on
all fours and the child had no other

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idea of walking, they'd walk around
in all fours, even though their body

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had the desire to stand up.
So the things that you do matter,

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and if you show by example,
if you live in a way that they

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can first mimic. Keep in mind, the lowest form of learning in any

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situation is memorization. That's the lowest
form of learning, and you're just memorizing

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something. So that's why you have
children The first things they do is memorize

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the alphabet, memorize counting. But
then comes the power of understanding what one

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means and what two means. It's
the power of combining those numbers to see

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the first steps of mathematics, or
that A, B and C, that

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those letters have sounds that are associated
with them, that it's part of what

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they they speak and they say,
and then they learn to write. So

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you see that that lowest form is
memorization, and that's the first tool children

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will use, is memorizing the things
that you do. Just like a father

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showing compassion to the children, they
will learn compassion. Father's Day fatherhood.

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That idea of just being a disciplinarian
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family is not the whole picture by
any stretch. In scripture, we've talked

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about many different attributes of fatherhood.
And although it parenting is a collaboration in

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its best circumstance, there are many
people that are going about it alone.

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And I realize that, and we
honor you with your dedication and your love

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and your consistency under those circumstances.
But of course, it being Father's Day,

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we look at the father's role in
the relationship of raising a child.

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And and as I said, all
humans are born motors. They're just they

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come out wanting to go and learn
and consume life and grow and strengthen.

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And the best you can be is
not someone who programs them. They don't

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need to be programmed, not even
with their faith. You need to trust

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God, you need to be a
great example. But you don't need to

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program or force a child. You
guide them. And oftentimes the concept of

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a father is just seen as that
disciplinarian. And we talked a little bit

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about Psalm one of three thirteen where
it talks about a father having compassion.

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First, Thessalonians two eleven and twelve
says, for you know how, like

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a father with his children, we
exhort each other one of you and encourage

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you and charge you to walk in
the manner worthy of God, who calls

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you into his own kingdom glory.
So, like a father with his children,

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we exhorted each one of you and
encouraged you and charged you. So

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you pull us apart. And it
shows that a father should exhort, should

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encourage and charge. Here could be
challenge to be that person allinge give them

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obstacles that will help them grow.
Be that rudder to their motor to help

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guide them into areas to use their
gifts and abilities. I see this so

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often parents, whether it be the
mother or father, trying to squelch their

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natural desires. And it's not about
squelching them, it's about guiding them.

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If they have a lot of energy, and your desire as a parent shouldn't

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be just to squelch that energy,
It should be guiding that energy to a

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place of productivity. Keep that in
mind. And I can't say that enough

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this morning, that your job is
to be a guide. Be the rudder

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to their motor. Don't try and
program into them into something that's comfortable with

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you or easy for you, or
that mirrors you. Be that rudder to

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guide who they are in the things
of God and the things of life.

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Be that example so that they may
see it every single day. Daniel,

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Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Hey, good morning. Hi. How

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can I help you? Daniel?
Yeah, I had a couple of questions

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for you. My first question would
it be what is the Kingdom of God?

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And what does it really mean to
follow Jesus Christ and be righteous under

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his name? Okay, it great
questions. By the way, the Kingdom

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of God is seeing and used for
different things. One and first and foremost,

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it's the dwelling place of God.
The Kingdom of God is Heaven,

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but there is also a part that
is very important on earth. So you've

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got Matthew forty one twenty one referring
to the Kingdom of Christ and God.

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Mark eleven ten refers to the Kingdom, Matthew three, Matthew four, Matthew

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eight, Matthew thirteen and beyond refer
to the Kingdom of Heaven and the verbiage

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the words change slightly in what's used. That is translated into the Kingdom of

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God, but you have to think
of it first. Yes, yes,

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that's heaven. However, it's also
about Christ's rule on Earth. It's also

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about the blessings and advantages that come
from living a life under the will of

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God on earth Earth. It also
talks a Kingdom of God is also the

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people in the kingdom. The believers, people that have given their life over

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to God are part of the Kingdom
of God on earth. So it means

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many things in the context of which
it's being used in scripture or your life.

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Okay, um, thank you,
UM, I have UM another question,

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sure, UM, I have a
I have a son right now,

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UM, and you know, UM, I also have his mother and basically,

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UH, I want to know how
I'm able to UM, basically fix

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my situation with his mother. UM. You know, to to to form

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the family and and and in in
the environment. You know that that that

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my son to be able to guide
him. Probably, Well, what is

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It's a that's a very loaded question, Daniel, and a good one,

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but very loaded. So what's the
situation with UM your son? And how

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old is your son? A year
and six months? Oh? Well,

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bless you Happy Father's Day. That
is it's a major gift. And I

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realize there's a burden that comes with
that gift, but it's a it's a

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loving burden to be trusted by God
to raise a child. And the mother.

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Are you guys married? No?
Okay? And how long have you

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been together? Um? Mn for
like two years? Okay, okay,

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So it was a pretty quick relationship
and that produced a child. So what

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is your concern with the mother?
UM? Basically that UM, Now we

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don't we don't cooperate with each other
in terms of really learning UM from our

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Lord to be able to, you
know, set a foundation and um um

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with our family and the Jesus Christ
to be able to move forward in um

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and just um behave in a peaceful
manner. Yeah, it's tough because the

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relationship is built on stress of a
new life coming in quickly and there wasn't

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the foundation built with one another prior
um. But it's not impossible. I

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mean, it's not impossible in the
slightest And the fact that you're asking the

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right questions means you are going in
the right direction. Now does she?

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Is she a person of faith as
well? Well? I would say not,

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now okay, And are you newly
a person of faith? Yes,

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Jesus christis help me with the like
with so many things that so many advices

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that I can control myself and m
and yeah, so I would say,

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yeah, I am a person of
faith and I'm eager to keep on learning.

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I can hear it. I can
hear it in your voice, and

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I can feel it in your spirit
that you're dedicated and you really want this.

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And it's not magic. And although
you will see things, you will

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see scales fall from you and that's
part of your growth. It's not magic.

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It's that's work that you're putting into
it and work that God's putting into

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it. And it is also a
relationship and learning about yourself and getting yourself

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right is a huge part of this
and the dedication you put into it may

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not be understood or even appreciated in
this case by the mother of your son,

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but you're going to need to show
her because you've presented other ways to

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her that she's not a fan of. And now that this change is going

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on, people aren't going to trust
it just because you learn new words and

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things like that. They're gonna have
to see actual change in who you are

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and what you do. And you
need to be a positive force. You

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need to be someone who shows up
for that child and shows up for her,

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making sure she knows that you want
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mother of your child, for one, and to be non confrontational as long

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as she's being good to that child. The only time that you would be

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confrontational if you thought she was somehow
harming the child or not being good to

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the child or something like that.
But other than that, you have to

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find ways to serve her as you
would serve that child, and your service

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and that heart of a servant is
what needs to be seen first. And

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as you grow in the Word of
God, as you read, as you

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learn, as you find yourself a
good, solid church where you can be

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fed and cared for, you're going
to grow. And she's going to see

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that, and you're going to be
dedicated because she is the heart of God

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to that child. She's the one
there with that child and loving on that

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child and nurturing that child. And
so you should see them as similar and

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that your job is to do everything
you can to bring more peace to her

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so that she can help guide that
child the best way possible. And so

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serving her and showing kindness and dedication
to her and that child are going to

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be synonymous. It's a lot of
growth you're going through. Yeah, UM,

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I appreciate, Yeah, answer.
I have I have another question.

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Sure, UM. I recently got
congregated into a church that I'm in.

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UM. I don't know if to
call her to church or a movement,

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um, but um, they they
tell me that, UM, that only

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their their church is a Kingdom of
God, and like leaving that church is

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like leaving the Kingdom of God and
going back into the world, or or

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or like if people don't give money, they start shaming shaming them and um

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kind of like judging. Um.
Yeah, I'm going to tell you that

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concerns me. And any church who
says they have a direct line to God

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is not good. And you don't
need to name them. I have a

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good idea who you're talking about.
Um, but you need a good,

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solid church. And I'm nervous about
that, Daniel. That doesn't sound like

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a church that I would recommend.
Yeah, because um, like, um,

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I've been feeling these feelings and they
kind of make you feel they kind

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of guilt trip you until that's not
of God making. Yeah. They they

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tell you that, oh you're you're
the sheep, and I'm like that shiper

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that's trying to pull you back into
to the kingdom because you're trying to leave

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the church. Um. And if
like like when it comes to to missions

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and in contributing to missions to plant
churches, well to plant, yeah,

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they plant, they meet up at
now they meet up at a part But

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then when when before COVID they will
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guess the Marriat hotel. Well,
some churches can meet in all kinds of

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places. But I'm more concerned about
the theology that you're talking about. Yeah,

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and they bring out they bring out
charts they did another church. They

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divide on various groups into um groups
called Bible talks, where it's like a

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groople like eight to ten people.
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guys to get in the region that
there are. And when it comes to

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the money like they bring out they
bring out a chart of the people and

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how much money they've been giving and
if they're not coming under like the goal

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or not. Daniel, I don't
like any of that, Daniel. This

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is what I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna put you on hold and we're going

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to talk off the air and we'll
talk about that some more. Because I'm

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concerned your heart and your spirit.
I can feel it is in the right

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place. Um, but that is
not the church for you. I can

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tell you that right now by just
the way you've described it, all right,

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I would be that you can bring
out a second or red to talk

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to me, and absolutely it will
be high priority. That is worrisome to

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me and you when you're a new
seed like that. This is the time

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you ever see a tree that didn't
have a post to guide it and it

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leans or it grows crooked. I
don't want that right now because I can

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hear it in your heart and it's
imperative that you get attached to some something

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that's going to help you grow.
Um, So I will go ahead and

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connect with you. I encourage you
to be bold and brave, and I

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know you hear me say that a
lot, but Daniel was a perfect example

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of that. And when you have
the opportunity or the urge to call and

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reach out to someone, not just
this show, to get guidance or any

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of these things, to take that
step, as it can be a difficult

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one. So when I say bold
and brave, I mean it that there's

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many people that have a question and
I've been blessed to run into many of

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you as listeners and to have conversations
and and I've been told by some you

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know, I wanted to call,
but I was nervous. You are welcome

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here with whatever questions thoughts that you
have, and everything we do on this

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show goes beyond this show. It's
about you being a part of other people's

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lives. It's about you strengthening and
being there for others, not in judgment,

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not in all knowingness and say this
is the way you need to do

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things, or that's the way.
It's not about that. It's to help

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each other, lift each other up, and to guide each other. And

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I hope you learn that from this
program. This program is minuscule. It's

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a tiny, tiny, tiny drop, even though it's been on for over

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two decades. If anything, it's
it's to inspire you to do the things

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that are important in scripture. That
means to connect with each other, to

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sharpen each other, like aren't iron, sharpen's iron? To ask the questions

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and get answered is not just of
the show, but the people that you

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trust in your life. So when
I say reach out and give me a

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call, I mean it. If
there's something on your heart, we'll talk

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about it. Eight hundred five to
zero one five three four. That's eight

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hundred five to zero one five three
four. To hear Daniel and to know

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to hear it in his voice and
in his questions. Right now, he's

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a baby in Christ. When it
talks about in John three sixteen about becoming

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born again, I know that can
be off putting to some people here born

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again. It's like, oh,
those born again Christians. Every Christian is

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born again, whether you're Catholic or
Protestant, you must be begotten from of

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and when you are born again into
the faith of Christianity to seek God's will,

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you start as a baby again.
And what's strange is when you're older,

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you're like, I'm not a baby. How do I go back to

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being a baby? But a babe
in Christ is somebody who is young and

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learning. And who you learn under
and who you are taught by is important.

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I hope you learn from this program. I hope you gain things from

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this program. But it's three hours
on a Sunday. You have a lot

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of life in between that. And
you need a good church. You need

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structure. You need a community that
you can connect with and that love you

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and don't judge you, and don't
fleece you, but look to water you

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and help you grow in the knowledge
and the power and the understanding of Christ.

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