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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand. Dean, Welcome to the

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Jesus Christ Show. Hi you,
Dean good. I'm very good good.

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I have a question for you.
I've been studying all week. I actually

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called before your show. I've been
listening to there for a few months.

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And I looked at John three fifteen, and then I looked over on Mark

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ten fifteen, and then Mark ten
fifteen. It says in order to enter

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in the teen of haveven, you
have to come as a little child he

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had. In John three fifteen it
says, all you have to do is

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believe. So we were confused with
that. Oh no, they actually match

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up quite well. The essence of
what's being said is exactly the same in

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both. The problem throughout scripture,
and you'll see this in different parts of

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scripture, is that man in their
adult state has a hard time believing,

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and so they tend to reject things, or make excuses, or constantly be

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pushing truths out of their way because
it's not what it's not where they are

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now, whereas children are always in
that state of curiosity and bringing forth and

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believing and taking those things under their
wing. And really you see a kid

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jump into the air just knowing that
they'll they'll land on their feet. And

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it's this type of youthful belief that
is very difficult for people as they get

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older. And so the marriage of
the two verses Mark ten fifteen and John

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three fifteen, it really is dealing
with the exact same thing. One having

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the belief of a child, the
simplicity of giving to God and trusting in

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the Father as a child would,
rather than rebelling and pushing things or making

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it as the Pharisees did, into
something that was to control other people and

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things like that. That's really what
it comes down to. I had a

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study Bible and it states there a
marked fifteen. It says children exhibit sincerity,

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eagerness, and trusting answers, and
the depends on the parents. Their

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child likeness is a fitting comparison for
the qualities of a disciples. Yeah,

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so that's that's pretty much what I
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Uh. The UH children are often
an example and an illustration in UH

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in Christianity and seeing that that that
way of taking in all of life is

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a pretty magical thing. And with
the holidays, you you may see that

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too. The wide eyed kind of
receptiveness to that which it seems magical or

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wonderful really ties in to children.
You probably sometimes, thinking back on it,

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when you see Christmas lights or you
see those things that go with Christmas,

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maybe your heart kind of goes back
to when you were younger. That

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all ties into that, that simpler, more understanding heart of a child.

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And it's not that you're you're to
be stupid, but children aren't stupid.

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Children have a way of understanding things
actually quite deeply and quite simply, whereas

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as adults, you can, you
know, kind of add a bunch of

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gook on top of more gook and
more gook and more, but what the

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but what of that? And you
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So that's why children are often used
in scripture as an illustration of somebody who's

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receptive, who's ready to receive and
uh and and that can be a very

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a very powerful thing. And so
that's why children are often used in these

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illustrations in scripture. Jesse, welcome
to the Jesus Show. Hi Jesse,

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Hi, how are you doing in
the morning? I am well, how

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can I help you? Anyway?
I was calling because I was curious when

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you walked on the years you followed, you know, all the high holy

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days that are talked about in the
Old Testament in this art to be everlasting

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convocations. So is there a a
reason why or why wouldn't we still follow

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those today? Oh? Sure,
and it doesn't mean that you can't.

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But let's look at things, uh, and see that there's one one major

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happening that hadn't taken place yet.
If I'm still doing feasts and guess what

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that is, that's the destruction of
the temple, right, Well, no,

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there, well, yes, and
no, it depends who you're asking.

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But uh, if I'm alive and
I'm eating and I'm being part of

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a festival and religious ceremony, what
hasn't happened yet your sacrifice? Yeah,

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exactly, So that's a major that's
a major part of what's going on.

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So as an example, for instance, when I was asked about asked about

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the law, I said that I
didn't come to abolish the law. I

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came to fulfill it. So it
didn't mean that the law had no meaning

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afterwards. It means that it was
fulfilled and therefore it's it's not usable.

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In the same way, in the
same sense. So it's not that you

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can't. You can. There's certainly
all kinds of festivals, and I'm pleased

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to say that more and more Christians
are adapting and bringing the festivals and the

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feasts and traditions of our Jewish brothers
and sisters into their Christianity, and I

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think that that can be very important. But Passover, for instance, that

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passover is completely moot if you're a
Christian because of my death on the Cross.

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So that's not something even though I
was, as most scholars believe,

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in dealing with the passover meal on
the Last Supper, that doesn't mean that

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you necessarily should because you wouldn't have
the need for passover anymore because the spirit

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of death has passed over via my
death right right. So there are certain

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things, but it's still points.
It still points towards it too, though,

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I mean it's like almost like a
it's yeah, but now now the

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celebration is really about the resurrection,
so that would land on Resurrection Sunday or

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what people call Easter, so it
would be more appropriate to be celebrating in

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that than it would be celebrating a
sacrifice of a lamb put on the door

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poster above the door. That's it's
just a different it's the same thing,

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but it's it's different in the sense. Think of it this way. The

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difference between a check and a dollar
bill. H A check is writing something

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looking forward to the money that's somewhere
else. And that's how our Jewish brothers

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and sisters were living prior to and
those that ended up believing prior to my

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death and resurrection, they're looking towards
and writing based on towards what's going to

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be in the bank, and the
Christian is looking backwards. Christians looking towards

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the money that's already put in the
bank. So it's a slightly different positioning,

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but yes, very much the same. So we're the we're the Jewish

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believers. Before the Temple is destroyed? Were the Jewish believers in Jerusalem?

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Did they did they still follow those
traditions? I mean, you know,

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did they still did they still follow
all the all the high holidays? And

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well, there's some sort of time
when that transition, you know, well,

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the transition to those that became Christians, these that ended up falling the

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becoming Christians along and being disciples of
mine. Uh, those changed after my

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death, and you can find that
some of those things change fairly immediately immediately

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during the Book of Acts. Shane, Welcome to Jesus Christ Show. Thank

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you. How can I help you? Shane, Yeah, I got I

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got a question. Your name is
Jesus, right, Yesua, Jesus who

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when you when you Yesua to English, shouldn't be Joshua? Yes? Okay,

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Well, thank you. That was
easy. Really, what it comes

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down to the confusion lies in a
literary device to separate me from the other

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Joshua's in scripture. There are other
Joshuas, and if you referred to me

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as Joshua in scripture, I'd get
lost with all the other Joshuas. So

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to make it stand out in scripture, kind of like in the movies,

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they'll make me, you know,
blonde and blue eyed. I certainly am

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not blonde and blue eyed. But
it's a device used to make me stand

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out amongst the other people in scripture. But yeshuah hamashiek Jesus the Messiah doesn't

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translate directly into Jesus, although it
is the same name. It's just depending

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on which if you go by way
of Latin or you go by a way

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the English, or you go by
way of the Greek, or you go

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by way. It's just different translations. But yes, the easiest jump would

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be Joshua, not Jesus. The
importance of using Jesus is to separate from

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other Joshuas in scripture. So when
it talks about the power of the name,

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it talks about more than that.
As a matter of fact, there's

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over fifty sixty seventy eighty one hundred
names for me in scripture. The advocate

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from the Omega, the author of
life, the author and perfector of faith,

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the author of salvation, the beginning
and the end, Bread of life,

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Bread of God, the capstone,
the cornerstone, the chief Shepherd,

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the Christ, creator, Deliverer,
everlasting Father, fateful Witness, good Shepherd,

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great shepherd, great high priests.
So there's many things that talk about

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the essence of that, and people
get caught up in the consonants and the

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vowels, thinking that therein lies the
power. But I want you to think

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of it this way. In the
old time movies, the cops and robbers,

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the cops would come around the corner
and they'd yell what they'd say,

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stop in the name of the law. Now, what they weren't saying is

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stop in the power and authority of
the consonants and vowels law, because that

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doesn't make any sense. There wasn't
any power in the consonants in the vowels.

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They're saying, stop in the name
and the authority given to me by

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the principalities and the government to carry
the badge, the gun, the baton,

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and by that authority, I'm telling
you to stop. So the power

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wasn't in the name of the law. It was in the name meaning the

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power or authority of the law.
So whenever you hear there's no other name

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in which man can be saved the
power in the name, these types of

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things that really it's referring to the
power and authority of God. That's what

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it's not saying, the power and
authority in any particular. There's people that

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even argue this, well, no, because Jesus actually comes by way of

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pagan roots, so you have to
use Yeshua and these types of things,

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and that's just not true. Otherwise, there's a good chunk of scripture that

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is written in Greek that you're gonna
have to say is pagan just because of

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the Hellenistic belief system. Rachel,
Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi

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Jesus, Hello, Hi, I
have a question for you. I was

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reading this morning numbers twenty two,
and in eighteen Baalim flat out says to

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the Lord, let's see here.
Oh, he says, I would be

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powerless to do anything against the will
of the Lord. And in twenty God

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came to Baalim and said, since
these men have come for you, get

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up and go with them, and
he tells him to go with them and

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then drop down a little bit.
In twenty two, God was furious that

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Balem was going and this troubles me. I need to know that it seems

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out of seems like a contradiction.
Yes, and I don't that's not the

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God that I know. No,
it's like a sneaky God going go over

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here, and now you went over
there. There's a lot going on here.

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And if this involves the Angel of
the Lord, and if you notice,

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the Angel of the Lord does not
kill him, No, he doesn't.

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No, he actually gives him.
The concern here is about dealing with

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Balem's greed that in his heart he
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his way. You can read Numbers
you know twenty two to twelve, also

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verse seventeen about the temptation, and
the intent was not about to kill him.

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It was to remind him of what
his original agreement was, because he

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kept getting tempted and his heart was
clearly filled with greed. As you read

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on and understand that it wasn't a
direct result of not in direct contradiction to

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God's word, but he was rejecting
it in his heart. So his greed

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had kind of come up with a
way. You can read about this in

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Numbers thirty one sixteen come up with
a way to help Israel's enemies will not

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directly disobeying the Lord's command to speak
only the words that he would give to

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him, but he found a way
to kind of backdoor it to corrupt Israel

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by allowing women to marry men of
Israel and lead them into idolatry. You

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can read about that in two Peter
two fifteen. I hope that that helps

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Marty. Welcome to the Jesus Christ
Show. Good morning, Jesus, hi

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hi. I just want to say
a few things very quickly before I get

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into my question. I came to
know you personally very young at the age

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of five. I'm fifty three years
old today, and just want to thank

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you publicly for always being there and
always never ever ever letting me go through

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anything without knowing that you were there
for me. Well, Glory to God.

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That's wonderful to hear. Yes,
I have a question, and for

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the first time in my life,
just wondering what a spiritual battle truly is.

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My firstborn grandson became very ill two
years ago, is ill today as

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we speak. And You've been so
faithful to guide and give this family strength,

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because without you we couldn't have done
it. But I have other believers

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around me that keep saying or asking
me what is the spiritual battle that your

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family is going through and why?
And as though there were an evil something

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looming over us, even though you've
been so faithful to be there every step

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of the way for us during this
trying time. And so I'm confused why

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other believers would I would say that
or question that, or they are they

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acting as if it's a curse or
something or some sin broduct that you brought

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in and then therefore this is somehow
punitive. Yes, yes, And I'm

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blown away and I'm confused about that, and we lean on you every day

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and every step of this way.
You have shown us that you are there

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and have never left this family.
Well, I'd like to think that maybe

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they're miss they're missing something, or
that really when they're saying spiritual battle that

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they're just referring to the generic term. There are spiritual battles going along in

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every Christian's life, every single one
of them. And that's part of the

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protection and growth process of Earth.
That's one of the reasons why you're here

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and you're not created in Heaven,
you're created here on Earth. There's a

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purification process that goes through this life, and every Christian in this life that

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you're going to experience. Romans five
three says more than that, rejoice in

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our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces
endurance. So those trials that suffering one

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Peter four twelve, Beloved, do
not be surprised at the fiery trial when

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it comes upon you to test you
as though something strange were happening to you.

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You shouldn't be surprised. It shouldn't
be out of the norm for a

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Christian to go through things through garbage, and it's the old bumper stick because

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you know how Christians love the little
sayings the old bumper sticker. That's not

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what your future holds. Who holds
your future that's important is really the key.

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And either there's some misunderstanding as to
that concept of spiritual battle, but

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really you should want to welcome it
in the sense that it's part of the

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purification process that God is with you
throughout the entirety of it. Rejoicing in

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those things are good because in those
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it and has glory. I mean, listen to the tone of your voice

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when you talk about the things that
God has done in your life, you

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know, and those times when I've
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My presence and all of that is
you can only talk about that because there

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are trials in your life. If
everything was perfect, you know, what

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are you going to say? Well, life is great and God is good

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and everything's fine. You know how
dull is that the things in life that

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are commonly referred to as trials are
the things that make your life unique to

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you, and your experience is unique
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and spiritual growth unique to you and
your family in this case. And that's

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not a bad thing. It's bad
in the world. You know, we

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were having this discussion earlier about what's
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gets confused about those things. There
are many things that are painful and that

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can cause pain or turmoil that are
good for you. And so I wouldn't

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look at that as a as a
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says spiritual battle, I would look
at that as you know, you you

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go through Ephesians and you see where
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What do you think the armor of
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to protect you from evil. And
if if you could see what's taking place

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on a daily basis in the spiritual
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and angels with swords drawn to defend
and all these things, it's quite

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fantastic, beautiful and terrifying to those
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and and you're covered in that.
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going through a spiritual battle, you
look at them and say, thank you

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God. God sees you in the
light that you are worthy of protection,

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you are worthy of refinement, you
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you can glorify God. And that's
what comes from trials, and we do

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every single day we give God the
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of the fact that you have proven
doctors wrong. You've every time we receive

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bad news, you do. Your
perfect plan is shown to us. And

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you've been so faithful to do that. And this family has grown spiritually and

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pulled together and has brought us so
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daily, We lean on you,
and people see that and that's part

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of your testament of faith and it's
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about the outcome. Everybody's always saying. You know, you see these Christians

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that are always walking around with smiles, and you know they're not always happy.

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It's not about always being happy.
It's a joy is different. Happiness

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is a momentary feeling of joy due
to a happening. Something happened and you

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go, now I'm happy. But
joy, true joy comes in times of

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pain. It's an understanding that God
is there and that God provides, and

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it's a constant and you're gonna have
highs and lows, and there's gonna be

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good things and bad things that happen
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ultimately you keep that attitude, Marty, that God is with you and that

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it's all to glorify God, and
you're ahead of the game. People misunderstand

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things. I think about this for
a second. Every time you refer to

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someone as courageous. You know,
if you think of firefighters or law enforcement

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or military, or any of these
people that put their life on the line

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for you on a daily basis,
for your freedoms, for the peace of

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mind, all of these things,
your protection. That the very things that

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you call them, the very attributes
that you find noble or heroic or courageous,

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don't exist without turmoil, without fire, without gunfights, without you know,

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ugliness and adversity. That really it's
that purification. It's those trials that

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really show the character of an individual
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makeup of somebody. And this attitude, not that you certainly don't have,

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Marty, but this attitude that I've
heard from time to time with Christians,

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that it's Christianity is supposed to make
everything okay, and that you're always fine

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and there's never a problem. More, there aren't these tests. Now,

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spiritual battle is true. But every
Christian and should be going through a spiritual

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battle of one kind or the other. And I'll tell you something, the

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closer you get to God, the
more that you might experience. Because it's

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like the hotter the fire, the
more refining that fire, the hotter it

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will get. One Peter one p. Seven says, so that the tested

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genuineness of your faith, more precious
than gold that perishes, though it is

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tested by fire, may be found
to result in the praise and glory and

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honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. The purification of gold goes through a

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heating process, in a process of
trials, if you will, And Scripture

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talks about the dross being scraped off
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The dross is the imperfections, it's
the it's the oils or certain minerals that

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shouldn't be there, or whatever dust
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that which doesn't burn out, that
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top. When you're heating these metals
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stamps on the side of metals,
whether it be jewelry or what have you,

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that talk about their purity that comes
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of those metals to get them to
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the maker. And if you're a
believer, you should be going through these

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things. You should be going through
experiences that are tough, that are testing,

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that that are purifying who you are
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that you shouldn't be surprised, as
it says in one Peter four twelve,

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you shouldn't be surprised about fiery trials
in your life. You should be content

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with God's great yes, and you
should know that you're going to go through

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these tests. So if anyone comes
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and uses it as a as a
negative term or says that, oh,

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like there it's some weakness in your
faith. On the contrary, it could

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very much be due to the intensity
of your faith. The enemy putting special

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attention on you, and I want
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your faith, and that should be
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And the weight on your shoulders is
if you've done something wrong, because

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that's not the case. Just a
little bit of time, let's talk Dominic.

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Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Good morning. How can I help

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you? Yeah, I was wondering. I've been in the business that I'm

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in for thirty five plus years,
and I've noticed a lot of changes over

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the years. My question tends to
be too as being a Christian, you're

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supposed to love everybody and try to
do the best you can. But over

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these last years, I've noticed,
like I don't know, people seeming really

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judgmental and very critical of whatever you
do. And you know, it kind

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of leads to tend me to not
like them. Also, you understand what

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I'm saying. What are you in
law enforcement or you work in the medical

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field. No, I'm by working
the transportation industry. I see because we

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hear a lot of people that when
you're dealing with lots of people, you're

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gonna get all kinds I mean,
if you listen to the show, you

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can hear that we get all kinds
of people going through all kinds of things

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here too. I've been hearing that
this morning. But really it's it's not

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about them, It's about you.
You can't control what other people do.

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For the most part. You have
to control what you do. And I

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agree with you. My having a
conversation with my producer Neil recently, he's

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been getting really really bummed about people's
attitudes and reality TV and how everybody's looking

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to pick people apart or even tear
into their past or look for ugly things

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and to tear people down. And
you have to see a lot about of

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that too when you're all you're trying
to do is help people get from point

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A to point B and and do
your part to make society run, or

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to help people in a small way, but help society run. Because I'm

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wow. I'm a truck driver,
you know, and I haul goods from

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the Colorado Kansas area to the West
coast and back. You know. Oh

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yeah. And here's the thing is
you're hauling goods that those people that are

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honking at you, were swerving and
driving in front of you, or all

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those things that you're driving goods for
them. And it's very easy to get

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frustrated. But here's the deal,
Dominic. All I need from you is

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to find that piece and that attitude
that I had on the cross that forgive

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them, father, for they know
not what they do. You have to

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allow yourself to not be burdened by
that, to smile, to wave,

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to do your part, to breathe
that and perpetuate that is what your job

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is. No matter if you're moving
people or if you're moving goods, the

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whole point is you're making You're making
things go. You're trying to be a

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part of the system in the most
positive way. People will bring you down

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if you allow them. And there's
an old trick like if you set down

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cross legged on the ground and someone
was standing up, even if they're strong,

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if they try and pull you up
by the arm and you try and

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pull them down, it's always going
to be so much easier. The leverage

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is going to be on there and
to pull you down much easier than it

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is for you to pull them up. Life is like that, even emotionally.

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It's much easier for someone to bring
you down than for you to bring

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them up. So we need more
people like you staying in a possible positive

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frame of mind to lift other people
up. And the only thing that I

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can tell you is consistency. You
have to be consistent. Don't let it

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get you down, continue to have
that smile on your face, and always

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play by the rules even when others
don't. I appreciate that you take the

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time to listen to the show.
Join us every single Sunday, same time,

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same place, and remember, more
importantly than all the people and all

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the things trying to pull you down
in the world, these simple words.

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