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What a story it is. As
you go through my birth and the story

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of what would take place not only
on that day but for future to come,

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the weight of the situation when it
comes to the people involved, my

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mother, my foster father. And
when you put this picture together you start

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to see what many people will often
say, Oh, this is the reason

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for the season. As you gather
with friends and family tonight and tomorrow to

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celebrate, be reminded not only of
what took place and the faith they'rein,

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what you believe and why you believe
it, And think that every turn of

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the story, every piece, every
jot, every tittle, every single part

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of the story rests on the bedrock
of faith. Now you can get lost

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in details. Was I born in
December? No, absolutely not. But

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rather than getting into the different insights
and specifics of the history, I want

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you to think about the weight of
the story itself. Matthew talks about the

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breakdown of the birth of Suam Sih, the birth of Jesus the Messiah,

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and it says it came about this
way his mother Mary was pledged to be

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married to Joseph. That betrothal is
important back in the day, of course,

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in Biblical times when you are betrothed
to someone like that or engaged,

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there is a period prior to that
engagement of a year, and you were

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technically married at that point, but
there is no consummation of the marriage.

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So pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, before

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there was before they consummated that marriage, which she was found to be pregnant

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through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph, her husband, was faithful to the

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law and yet did not want to
expose her to public disgrace, he had

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in mind to divorce her quietly.
You know the scriptural language there is to

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put her away quietly, and the
reason was to have a child out of

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wedlock. Wedlock in two thousand years
ago was more than just a scandal.

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The amount of focus on Mary could
be life threatening. Now remember Mary went

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through the weight of understanding by having
an angel tell her what was going on.

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Well, now it was time for
Joseph as well. After Joseph considered

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the divorce quietly, an angel of
the Lord appeared to him in a dream

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and said, Joseph, son of
David, do not be afraid to take

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Mary home as your wife, because
what is conceived in her is from the

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Holy Spirit. She will give birth
to a son, and you are to

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give him the name Jesus, because
he will save his people from their sins.

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Now this is to fulfill what had
been said through the prophets. The

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Virgin will conceive and give birth to
a son, and they will call him

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Immanuel, which means odd with us. Joseph woke up. How's that for

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a dream? Right? Coming back
from that, and he did what the

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Angel of the Lord had commanded.
He took Mary home as his wife.

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So the simplicity of that story,
obviously, there are the stories of the

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Nativity and Luke as well, and
breaking down going through those, each little

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nook and cranny of the story is
one thing. But as you take in,

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as you take in truly what was
going on and what that would be

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like, not only for Mary but
for Joseph. These were people of God,

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These were people of deep faith,
and they have now put upon them

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the most intense weight that could be
imagined in seeded in their time over two

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thousand years ago. And only by
that faith, only by the power of

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their belief in God, their trust
in God, could they move forward through

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something that is truly unimaginable. Hebrews
eleven one says, now, faith is

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the assurance of things hoped for,
the conviction of things not seen. Some

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have twisted the concept in of faith
into something that is believing in something you

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know not to be true, and
that's not faith in the slightest. Faith

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is that small portion, that small
portion, that leap of faith that comes

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after reason, past reason. You
can take in everything that you can from

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your surrounding and you can believe this
is what's going on. I know what

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is happening. But every time you
actualize something, every time you do something,

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commit to something, there's faith.
You can't have trust in a partner

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know them for years, but to
engage in a true relationship takes faith in

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the things that you've seen, the
things that you know. But since you

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can't know the future, you walk
forward in faith. You walk to the

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curb to cross the street. You
can look both ways. You can say,

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my eyes can see at least a
quarter of a mile that way,

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at least a quarter of a mile
that way, And I know that there

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is no vehicle fast enough to be
invisible right now and to be able to

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get here and meet me in the
middle of the street in that amount of

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time past my eyesight. But when
you step off that curb, it is

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still done in faith. Faith is
not the weight of everything. It's that

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smaller part that comes at the very
end where you can't know because it's future.

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You can't know, because it's outside
of your true understanding. You can't

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know about something. But if you
lived that way, if you had to

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have an engineer come in and check
the structural integrity of every chair before you

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sat in it, you couldn't live. So the power of faith stepping into

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a world of a virgin birth,
not only as the woman, but now

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as the man, and the entirety
of the weight that you are going to

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birth the savior of all mankind.
That's a faith you can learn from.

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So Christmas christ Mass is upon us, and what you're celebrating is not only

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my birth and the possibility of redemption
and salvation eventually through my death and the

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teachings along the way your cell upbraiding
the faith at the very least of two

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people, my mother Mary and my
foster father Joseph. The weight of that

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faith is important because not only is
their faith in God, their faith and

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belief was encapsulated in care for you. Were there going to be trials for

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them? Absolutely? Was there going
to be tribulation in their life, scrutiny

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by people around them? Absolutely.
It gets worse when those in power or

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learn of a future king and go
down the path of what is referred to

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as the slaughter of the innocence.
All these things are put in the face

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of humans who are not thinking about
themselves. They start that way. Mary

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says, how can this be?
Joseph says, I need to deal with

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this the way I'm a man of
the law. This is the way I

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need to do it. The angel
says, give it a second thought and

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understand what's going on. Joseph makes
the right decision, and what goes forth

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is the opportunity unity for all.
You contrast and compare that to what goes

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on in today's world. People have
broken apart into individuals, become so independent

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they believe they need nothing else from
anyone but for that person to serve them,

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everyone to serve them, and then
to get out of their way to

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get whatever their need is so that
they won't be bothered. Could you imagine

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being bothered by bringing a son a
child into this world? When you haven't

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even been with somebody, yeah,
I mean been with a man and then

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your husband to take that on as
well, not for their own blessing and

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it was, but for the blessing
of others and being in that mindset to

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have a faith that surpasses even your
own comfort, but the comfort of others.

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Merry Christmas to you all, and
I pray that you are spending time

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with people that care about you and
you care about them. Gifts are nice,

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but really it's about the connection and
the meaning in those gifts, just

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like it was when I was born. The gold, the frankincense, and

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murr all have importance behind it.
You have gold dealing with royalty, you

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have frankincense, an incense that deals
with spirituality, and mr an interesting addition

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because it was used as an embalming
fluid and a fluid not exactly, but

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a fluid that was used at the
time of burial. Those gifts obviously mean

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something and speak to things that were
going to happen. And I hope that

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the gifts that you give and receive
tie into meaningful sentiments to the people in

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which you give them. If you
have a theology question or a life situation

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question, Give us a call.
Eight hundred five to zero one five three

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four, eight hundred five to zero
one five three four Randy. Welcome to

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the Jesus Christ Show. Hey,
Merry Christmas and happy birthday Jesus. Oh

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thanks Randy, thanks for calling.
How can I help you today? Yes,

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they're always longer on this topic.
Oh, no, breaking up a

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little. Oh, let me step
out. I'm sitting in a parking lot

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and I'm gonna guess he's sitting in
a parking lot in his car. Yeah,

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can you hear me? Now I've
stepped out, it's still it's still

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breaking up a bit. What I'm
gonna do is I'm going to put you

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on hold and we'll check your line
and come back to you. Pat.

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Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Hi Jesus, how are you today?

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I am well? How are you
well? I I have a quick question

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maybe you can help me with Okay, I'm I don't know if it's a

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faith question, but uh, basically
I I worship you. I believe in

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that you were born for our sins. But there's people that I work with,

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there's people that know that they don't
worship. They don't believe in you,

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and they're their food there, They're
flourishing, they have money, they

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have possessions, and I'm currently struggling. I'm struggling financially wise. I currently

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lost a house due to a house
fire. My son had passed away years

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ago, and I'm just wondering,
Jesus, is is this a trial with

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my faith? Well? A trial
indeed. I mean those things are trying

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to you. I mean, goodness, the loss of a son, a

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home being burned. Absolutely, those
are trials. Now, if you're saying

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it's based on lack of faith or
something, absolutely not. But the weight

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of what is valuable on earth is
much different. That isn't to belittle either

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of those things or anything that happens
in your life Goodness, No, not

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in the slightest. Whoever, the
things that you've described in many ways can

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be blessings, but aren't blessings unto
themselves. Having things like you said about

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you know, money or homes.
Is there something to be learned? Absolutely,

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whether it's the house, the circumstance
when it comes to the death of

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a child, that is simply that
people die. Now they can go in

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different ways. That's something, you
know. The moment a child is brought

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into this world, the hope and
the prayer is that you know, no

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parent wants to bury a child,
and the hope in the prayer is that

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you go before they do. But
ultimately, somebody's going to have loss,

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whether it was your son when you
pass or your son passing when you're alive.

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That's a reality that everyone knows that. The hope is that they have

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a long life, but none of
that is guaranteed, of course, to

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anyone. So beyond the reality of
that and the sadness and mourning, I'm

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pulling back a little bit for you
to see a bigger picture and understanding as

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to how God interacts with you and
to teach you. Now, it's not

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that God puts trials in your path. There are things that happen in your

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life because of the collective of humanity. Your house, for instance, how

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did it start fire electrical? Yeah, so that's not something you did per

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se unless you knew about it or
had concerns or smelled smoke before and didn't

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do anything about it, or you'd
had it checked or something like that.

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Not putting the blame on you,
but humans do human things or two,

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whether it was not done properly,
or whether some element of the house was

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not done properly, or too many
things were put on a single circuit.

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Whatever it is. Things happen in
life because a multitude of interactions. People

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come in, people come out,
different things happen. So if there's something

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that you could have done, then
yes, there's a lesson in there,

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but it doesn't mean God made that
happen for you to have that lesson.

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And I think some people get that
confused. The blessing in the Old Testament

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really was about special favor. It
often dealt with joy and prosperity. But

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as you move into what Christians refer
to as the New Testament, that changes.

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It's really about spiritual blessing rather than
material blessings. And you can find

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that that changes as if you think
of Scripture, the entirety of it as

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the life of a child. So
the beginning of Scripture and what Christians refer

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to as the Old Testament really the
law and the prophets, and you go

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through that, you'll see that there
is a different kind of interaction with humanity,

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between God and creation. It's a
little rougher. Yet the blessings often

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tend to be more physical in nature, So like a child, the rewards,

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whether it be toys, getting food, shelter, all these things that

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are necessities, the blessings seem bigger. But as one gets older, you

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can see that God starts interacting with
humanity as it goes through adolescence, you

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know, in the teen years,
and then into adulthood, and the blessings

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become different. Wards are different,
like love and connection is different than a

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toy. It's deeper, it's realer, it lasts longer, it's not something

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you put out in a garage sale
two months later. So similarly, as

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you get more mature in your relationship, it's the exact opposite of what most

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people might think, Oh, my
life is going through these trials, so

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I must not be connected with God. And although that could be the case

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at times, but those trials speak
differently. Those trials will deal with your

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relationships or things like that. But
houses burned down, it's horrible that happens

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to you. Electrical problems happen,
and in life. As horrible as that

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is, it's not completely out of
the norm. So in this particular case,

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you're taking those things on. So
what can you learn from them?

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You tell me, Pat, what
are some of the things that have gone

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through your head as you've dealt with
these things. Well, I'm trying to

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be as strong as I can for
my family, you know, showing a

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good faith based for them, and
that's power. That is power. I

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mean you really you hit it.
Our conversation this morning and our talk this

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morning was about having faith that is
so deep it's but beyond your comfort,

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it's for the comfort of others.
How spot on was that, like Joseph

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who looked and said, this doesn't
feel right to me. So you take

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that on yourself, and no,
it's not going to feel good. And

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I'm not saying that this is going
to be the rest of your life,

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Pat, there is more to come. But you are the living proof and

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example to your family and to people
around you of your faith. And I

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know that's a lot to take on. You're going, so my house has

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to burn down, I have to
lose a child for others to see my

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faith. No, but it happened
to you because people die and houses burned

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down, and it's not what has
happened to you. It's your reaction to

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it that shows the world who you
are and why you are and in that

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one Peter three point fifteen, they
want to ask you about that hope that

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they can't understand that lies within you. All right, Randy, let's give

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this a shot again. My friend, Hey, thank you Jesus. How

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am I coming in? You sound
better to me, my friend? So

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what's going on? Yeah, I'm
just wondering all this hype about the artificial

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intelligence and what's come. And they've
been talking about it a lot on the

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on the air. Yeah, I
have some conspiracy theorist friends and stuff that

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you know, you know those folks
are. They're always worried about some nefarious

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thing going behind it. But you
know, it brought me ever since I

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was a kid. I remember in
Revelations thirteen they talk about an image coming

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to life and talking the false prophet
has it yet they're talking about these robots

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that they're making, Elon Musk and
all these guys neuro link in our brains

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that coming cashless society. You know, we're halfway there. I wonder when

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it comes to some of these scriptures
about not losing our freedoms, not being

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able to sell or trade or barter
unless you're hooked up to this electronic network.

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And then on top of that,
all of a sudden, what these

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machines are all going to turn smarter
than us and trick us or manipulate us

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or I don't know, if you
like the Terminator movie and you know,

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destroy all humans like this, I
saw movies. Say, why do you

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think, Jesus, what's coming with
this? You know? I stay in

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prayer and I'm not overly worried about
it, but I have friends that seem

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to be very worried about it.
Well, this has happened forever, Randy.

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This has been going on since printing
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invented, it was thought to be
problematic every new technology. You talk about

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Revelations thirteen, fourteen and fifteen talking
about what takes place before the mark of

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the Beast, you've got the anti
crisis false prophet. You talk about things

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that are taking place, like the
breath to the image of the beast that

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you talk about coming to life and
all of that, And people are trying

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to fit these things into scripture.
When you read scripture, a study scripture,

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there's isoget and exeget there is.
When you're studying, you're either taking

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from scripture. You see it and
you take from it naturally or you try

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and force something into it, and
doing that can be highly problematic. They

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talked about this with credit cards.
Do you use a credit card? I

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do, yes, I have to. But you know that used to be

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a problem for Christians when they first
started. They thought that was going to

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be the mark of the beast.
You have to use this piece of plastic,

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you become a number. And they
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So Christians have many times and religionists
many times over and over believed that some

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technology was going to be the mark
of the beast. But the reality is

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that has never come to fruition.
Technology is the same as any else.

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In the hands of somebody who wants
to do good with it, good will

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be done. In the hands of
someone who wants to do bad with it,

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bad will be done. But the
technology itself is neutral. It has

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no value morally one way or the
other unless it's used for good or evil.

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There are many good things that can
come out of AI, and there

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are many bad things. It once
again is in the hands of humanity to

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make the decision as to what direction
it goes. Your own personal Jesus someone

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to hear you cares, someone who
cares