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You're listening to KFI A six on
demand. Auzie. Welcome to the Jesus

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Christ. How are you doing?
Good morning, Good morning? How can

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I help you? So about a
week ago, I saw a car accident

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and I ended up pulling over to
see if there was anything I could do

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to help the guy inside. It
was a it was a pretty bad accident.

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It was on a rainy day.
I got out of the car.

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You know, there was four total
for people too cars, two in each

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car. And the guy that was
hit, he was he like he was

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unconscious for his wife was in there. And we managed to get the wife

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out and we try to help the
help the older guy, you know,

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we were trying to give him CPR. We couldn't get any bottles from him,

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and then we finally go to check
on the other people the other vehicle.

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I ended up opening the door and
I smelled like just you know,

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alcohol and you know, marijuana.
I did it just smelled of it,

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and like I just have like just
like sometimes I don't know how to control

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the anger that I have towards this
guy. You know, you know,

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I just found out the guy that
he ended up hitting actually passed away.

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And also I have anger towards myself
because what if there was something else I

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could have done help him out?
Like you know, I just I just

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feel like I didn't do enough to
help the guy out. And it's like

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I don't know what to feel or
how to act or anything. And you

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really use the advice, Well,
well, look at this in two different

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parts. First of all, whether
you could have done more and the concept

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of anger, the productive kind of
anger is is the anger that attacks problems,

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not people. And I know it'd
be easy just to want to pull

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apart somebody and deal with them,
someone who would be so cavalier towards humanity,

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so selfish and uncaring that they would
consume so much alcohol or pot or

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whatever they were consuming to the degree
where they couldn't control the vehicle. Yet

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they got behind that vehicle anyways and
caused a massive accident. So it's very

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normal to want to respond to that
physically, but it doesn't help or bring

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any glory to God in any way, shape or form, And it can

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put you in a bad situation when
it comes to releasing and forgiving. Under

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circumstances like that, you're not forgiving
the person because with that kind of forgiveness

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comes something called reconciliation, and you're
not looking to be friends with them again.

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What you're looking to do is release
this this ugliness, this garbage that

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festers in your heart, that weighs
you down. And my biggest concern is

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you finding a way to place that
on God's shoulders so that you're not bound

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by all that garbage as you go
through life. Now, as far as

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the other aspect of things, did
you do enough? What makes you think

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that you didn't do enough? Well, you know I was there trying to

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help them out. You know.
The only thing I ever knew was just,

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you know, just do cprs,
you know, if you're not breathing,

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you know, just do whatever you
can't help out. You know something

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my mom told me, you know, if you taught me as a little

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boy, you know, I'll help
out. And I just you know,

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I tried what I could. And
it's just in my mind it's what if

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there was something else I could have
done? You know, what if there

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was something I could have done you
know too, you know, just to

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give them a better fighting chance to
make it, you know, And it's

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just been on my mind. I'm
like, could I have done anything else,

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you know, did I not do
something right that he didn't make it.

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There is so much going on in
a situation like that, and the

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fact that you even run to a
situation to help out when many people don't

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care or run away from it is
more than most. The fact that you

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assessed the situation and that you assessed
that there was somebody who had been under

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the influence of maybe pot, maybe
alcohol, means that you were really present

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and really there and looking for answers
in that horrible accident. I don't think

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you did anything wrong. I think
you need to be comfortable with the fact

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that you ran to help and you
did what you could. And it's very

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overwhelming. It's different from academically being
in the mindset, okay, well,

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if something happens, I'm going to
do X, Y, and Z,

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versus actually having to do it and
to be there and to look at any

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carnage or anything like that or trauma
to someone can be overwhelming. And it's

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sad that somebody, somebody lost their
life that day, and it's sad to

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think that it may have been for
no reason, just some selfishness, but

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just because that that's the truth of
the situation. Doesn't mean that has to

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do anything with you. You're not
the selfish one. Selfish one would be

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anyone who thought it was okay to
to drink or to smoke pot and then

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drive. So I think you did
what you could under the circumstances, and

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I think that's great. I think
you're very brave, and I think that

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the very human and communal thing to
do to be a part of things around

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you and do your best to make
them work out in everybody's favor. But

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as far as this individual being angry
at them isn't going to do anything,

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it really is just interfester inside you
and make you a pretty ugly person based

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on it. Do you have any
contact with them? No, I didn't

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even know these people, you know. It was just something I saw on

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the side something, you know,
something I try to do is just help

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out, and you know it's I
don't even know these people. Well you

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didn't. I really wish I wish
I could keep it, you know,

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there would be certain ways I could
be there for the wife, you know,

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you know, Infinite was just saying, you know, like you know,

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just to send my condolence without her. Well, she's going through a

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lot, right now, and in
a circumstance like this, there's a lot

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of pain and a lot of confusion, and people are trying to sift through

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it. If that opportunity arises,
I'm sure it will come your way.

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But right now, you focus on
the fact that you did that your mama

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raised your right and that what you
did was the right thing to do.

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To get involved and to make sure
everybody's okay, and to do whatever you

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can in any limitation to help out, and then leave it at that.

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It is sad that someone lost their
life in that car accident, especially if

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it involves alcohol and pot and it's
much less an accident than it was negligence.

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But don't second guess what you did. You did the best you could,

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and don't harbor anger because that hurts
no one but you. So just

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keep those two things in mind.
Donna, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Hi, I thank you for taking
my call. Love your show.

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Oh well, thank you my pleasure. How can I help you? Well,

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I do have a question. As
an infant, I was baptized and

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went to religious schools and always had
a very close personal relationship with Jesus.

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He is my savior and I always
believe that throughout life, and now as

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an adult, I have friends who
say that I must be baptized again in

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order to have salvation, which really, for me doesn't make too much sense

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because I've always had a personal relationship
with Jesus since I could remember. And

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my question is, must I be
baptized again? And if so, where

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would I even get baptized? Since
my church does not do I don't think

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they do second baptisms. I've never
heard of it. Now you still go

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to the same church, sure do
Okay, is it a Protestant or a

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Catholic church. It's a Catholic church. No, there's no need to be

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baptized again. And can you explain
why? Well, because it's one It's

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not a mandate for salvation the way
the other person is saying. Salvation comes

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from the blood on the Cross,
not from any act that you do,

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although that there are things that will
manifest Now Catholics and Protestants believe differently here

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as well, But I will say
this that if you are a believer in

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the Catholic Church and the structure of
the Catholic Church, they're not the ones

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telling you to do it. It's
an outside individual telling you to do it,

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which is why I say, if
you're still you know, believing and

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attending and a part of the Catholic
Church, then no, you're taking care

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of that is by their structure and
their belief If for some reason you became

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a Protestant and at some point you
wanted to be baptized as a Protestant because

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you're an adult and now it's your
choice or something like that, there's nothing

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wrong with that. I'm leery of
groups that say, hey, we want

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to baptize you in our belief system. That to me can be signs of

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something a little screwy. If they
know you're Catholic and they're saying, hey,

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but you know, if you come
over here, we'll get your baptized

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and make things right. If they
start saying things like that, I would

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raise an eyebrow. And I'm not
sure if that's the path they're going down.

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It's what it sounds like to me. But ultimately, Donna, if

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you were baptized in the Catholic Church
as a child and you're still in the

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Catholic Church, why spend the time
getting baptized again. You haven't changed your

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belief system in any way, shape, or form, and there's no reason

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to do that. You're not being
asked by your own clergy to do it,

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and so it's really someone else's agenda
who isn't here to explain what that

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is or why. They believe that
baptism is a beautiful, beautiful thing,

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and it is one thing in the
family of Christians, both Catholics and Protestants

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where there is discussion. There are
those that think that it should be infants,

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like our Catholic brothers and sisters,
and there are those that believe it

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should be adults. That there is
a time of understanding when a human being

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goes no. I want to make
this decision on my own and get it

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done. But these are in house
discussions. But in your case, doesn't

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sound like they're any purpose whatsoever.
Jeff, Welcome to Jesus Christ Show.

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Hello Jesus. Well, hello Jeff. How can I help you? How

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does one know they are assured of
salvation? Uh? You're well, the

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question is is a healthy one.
But you know, the principles of salvation

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deal with you know, giving your
life to Christ. Have you mean exactly,

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Well, it means that there's a
lot of things that drive your life

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you know, sex, drugs,
rock and roll, whatever it may be,

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and whoever's at the wheel is the
one controlling it. Whether that be

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you and self worship and that it's
all about you, or whether the principles

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that are are in scripture and things
that are taught in the Judeo Christian precepts

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are part of your life. If
they're not, it's like it's like you

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asking me right now, well,
what does a relationship mean? Well,

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it's when you put somebody in a
place of importance in your life. You

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exchange ideas, you propel yourself based
on that relationship, protecting it and understanding

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it, ever deepening it. It's
a process. It's not just one particular

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day. But as far as salvation, the word itself means security, safety.

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The purpose of it deliverance, The
purpose of it is to understand that

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there is a God that loves you, that created you, that wants to

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have a relationship with you, and
once to guide your life, wants you

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to understand his will because he's the
maker and his will is what will help

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you to live efficiently in a way
that is just and loving towards the rest

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of creation. And if you rebect
against those ways and you continue to just

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do it however you want, then
you're not in that place with God.

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However, if you put God first
and you have given your life to God,

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truly to God, that is salvation. It's said in scripture that if

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you confess your sins and that God
is faithful and just to forgive that if

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you confess before man that God is
your savior, if you believe. Some

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people talk about it as the sinner's
prayer, and that's praying for God to

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be in your life. God,
I give my life to you. You

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are the center of my life.
I want you to direct my life for

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here on out. I will see
myself as a Christian. Respond to those

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that ask that I am a Christian, not because they're looking for a label,

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but because the word means to be
a follower of the anointed One,

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and that if you find yourself in
a good Bible teaching church and you're reading

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God's word, then you're in that
relationship and you're your experience and receiving that

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salvation. That's what it means.
Michael, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Thanks for having me my pleasure.
What's going on? Well, I

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just wanted to know. You know, we only have one Bible and there's

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only one Jesus, and it seems
like today there's so many different interpretations and

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understandings of the Gospel, and I'm
just kind of curious to know or at

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what point did we get off track? And why is it that when you

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ask somebody what the gospel is,
you get so many different variations of an

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answer. Well different just because differ
people have different perceptions, doesn't mean that

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there's different gospels, per se.
I mean, you work, right,

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Michael, You go to work correct, okay, and they see you one

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way, and maybe your family sees
you another way. And when you were

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in high school and you come home
with your friends, your friends would see

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you one way and your parents would
see you another way. But you're still

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only one person and there is only
one truth. You just are a little

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different in this sense, a little
different that sense, but it doesn't mean

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it's a different you. Now.
The gospel, there's only one gospel,

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and it's simple. For God so
loved the world that he gave his only

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forgotten son, that whoever believes in
him shall have everlasting life. That's the

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gospel. Gospel just means good news. The good news is that life can

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be rough and there can be things
that go on here, but there is

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a payment, a way out for
the sins that are that people are accountable

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for here on earth, and that's
through the death on the cross and the

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resurrection. That doesn't change. If
anybody tells you something different than that,

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then it's not the gospel of Scripture. It's whatever they believe. Now,

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if you're talking about the books the
Gospels Matthew, Luke, and John,

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that you have what you are called
the synoptic Gospels Matthew, Mark, and

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Luke, meaning that they're similar in
what they're describing. They're looking at similar

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accounts and describing them, and then
John, which is slightly different and coming

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from a slightly different perspective. The
hope is that taking all of those into

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account, you see the best picture
possible through the eyes of man as to

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what took place or what the important
thing is about that good news. Right,

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I guess I understand that this seems
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that or feel like they have the
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flesh and kind of follow the tame
commandments. And it's even you know,

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we see so many people in the
church who are basically, you know,

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trying to perfect their body here and
they're using Christs simply for this life,

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and it seems like they're not interested
in him to the next life. That's

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that's a really interesting observation. And
I'm not going to say that that's not

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true. Of course, there are
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mutually exclusive. There's nothing wrong with
with Uh, here's the truth. You

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will not hit perfection in this in
this world, but on the on the

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way, on that path to perfection, you can hit excellence. And there's

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nothing wrong with that. There's nothing
wrong with allowing God to purify you while

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you're here, to be the best
you you can while you're here. There's

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nothing wrong with that. You be
perfect, of course not, but why

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not be a better you? Why
not allow God to continue to cleanse you,

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to be a better you while you're
here? Right, You're right,

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that's not something that it's beneficial to
everyone around you. The Ten Commandments are

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there to keep you on that track. You should be checking yourself against them

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to make sure that you're not getting
to a place of being coveting people's whether

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it's their husbands, their wives,
their cars, their home. There's a

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lot of things that are good for
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of that cleansing. It says in
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the finisher of your faith. So
not only if faith alone exists because of

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God, but also the purification process, the perfection of your faith comes from

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God as well. And part of
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earth. But if you get lost
in church and it's just about well being

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the best you and you see all
these kind of I know they're very popular

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when you come across television. Preachers
are very famous, often selling lots of

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books. It's a lot of it
has to tie into things that seem more

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like motivational speaking than it does about
the Gospel, right, And I get

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that too. I know that it
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bit, but that's part of the
process as well, getting people on board

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to understand that there is things to
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to your life here in the now. Otherwise God wouldn't put you here,

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Michael, you're here. Did He
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to heaven? No, there's stuff
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purification, right, I totally agree. This seems like a lot of people

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are wanting to justify themselves based on
their works that they do here. Yeah,

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it's human nature. You're right,
it does happen. Happens a lot

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people get lost in the works and
looking at what people are doing and how

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they're doing it and forget the entirety
of the process. But fruit on a

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tree does play a part as well. You know, the scripture says that

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if you don't have if the tree
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So there should be good works coming
from somebody who believes. Now, they

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don't get to heaven based on them, but there should be good works,

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just like a healthy fruit tree should
bear fruit. All right, Well,

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what are the like? Where are
they good works that we should be seen

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coming from people who believe that Jesus
Christ is as the author and finished of

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their faith? And you know,
I believe the Bible says without faith is

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impossible to please. You know,
what are those fruits that we should be

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looking for? There should be the
desire to purify yourself. There should be

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a desire to share your faith and
not in an overbearing way, but in

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a way, as one Peter three
point fifteen says, to be ready to

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first sanctify Jesus's Lord in your life, but moving forward, to be ready

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to give a defense or an answer
to those who ask about the hope that

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lies within you with meekness and reverence. That is to say that when people

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ask you about why you are different
because of the things you do, whether

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you're helping those around you that need
help, whether you are standing up for

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someone you don't know, whether you
are not joining the hordes or the mobs

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or the masses that are going one
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because you believe it to be the
direction of God. When you do those

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things, those works, people will
ask you why are you different? Why

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at a funeral do you shed tears
but still have hope? Uh? You

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know why? When you are struggling
through a process of learning something or knowing

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something, do you still believe that? All these things tend to push people

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back to you, asking well,
why how come you're able to do this

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when others are not? And you
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through that process you are growing and
purifying. Yet you're passing them along to

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others as well. You're being a
good person. You're learning to do those

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things that glorify God and show that
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I appreciate taking my phone call,
of course, excellent question, and I

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appreciate you lifting up Jesus because it
seems like, like you said earlier,

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a lot of these some of these
preachers on TV are more like life paches.

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Now oftens don't even hear the name
of Jesus but see them opening your

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Bible. So I appreciate what you're
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Thanks Mike. Well, and it's
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a place there is there are things. I mean, even Paul talked about

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the unknown God and the altar to
the unknown God, and it wasn't about

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preaching Jesus in name, but it
was about preaching me in concept to get

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people's attention. And sometimes there's so
many distractions that some of these preachers use

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that as a tool to get people
involved in hearing the truth before they can

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naturally reject it based on up they
said Jesus, I'm running the other direction,

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and that's that's fine. This is
a whole different thing. All glory

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to God, of course in all
all of these scenarios, but this is

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a different type of thing. We
too, you know, use our own

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way to get your attention on this
program in hopes of you maybe hearing some

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truth and learning some things. Me
I like to focus on the things that

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are of great importance. And if
this allows this venue allows us the opportunity

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to talk about those in a comfortable
manner, then praise God and all glory

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goes to him. There was an
article that came out. I won't get

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into all the details of it because
it's not It's one you've probably heard many

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times before. Each with each new
generation or each new group, there an

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article comes out about how they're rejecting
religion. Now, I'll tell you that

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it is the norm. Every younger
generation wrestles with the faith of their fathers,

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and I use that as just a
term. It's gonna be the faith

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of their mothers as well. But
in that process of growing and wanting to

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find themselves, there is a lot
of pressure to to adapt to what other

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people are doing as well. And
if it looks to be just a thing

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for adults, if it looks to
be something that doesn't seem to understand modern

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times. Then by definition, the
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It looks ancient, it sounds ancient, it is ancient. I want no

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part of it because I'm modern,
so says the young millennial. Now it

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is the age old problem of the
adults and those that have practiced the faith

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to not want anything to change,
and the youth that need the faith but

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don't want to practice it in the
old ways want to see it modify and

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grow. And this happens in scripture. There's a story of the new temple

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being built, and all the old
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other way the temple used to be, and that's what they loved. And

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then the new, the younger generation, loved it because while it's more modern,

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it has all of these things.
I will tell you this. If

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religion does not grow, if it
is not living, breathing, if faith

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is not something that, like a
branch of a tree, continues to grow

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and change and be pruned and bring
forth fruit, it will die. You

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may not understand the ways of the
youth or the desires of the youth.

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You may not understand there once but
I will tell you this without it becoming

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some sort of liberal belief. And
I don't use that in the political sense,

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but in the sense that you just
want to pull apart scripture into the

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point where it's wishy washy and it
means nothing and no one's accountable. Nobody

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wants that, and I would never
call upon that. Surprisingly enough people that

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listen to the show think that it's
going to be a mockery of faith and

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that are surprised at the hard line
we do take on things that are important,

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but also hopefully on the flip side, you learn something and when we

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talk about things like homosexuality and the
laws and marriage, that you see things

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different as well, and that you
learn and that you're capable of growing and

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understanding that there's something different about being
a Christian versus being an American and learning

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all of the variables in between,
so that there's growth. And I tell

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you these things because you, if
you are on the older spectrum, need

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to understand what the needs of the
younger spectrum is and learn to adapt.

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And you on the younger spectrum need
to know that if you water it down

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to where it has no backbone,
it will have zero value to you now

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or in the future. And in
the process of watering something down, it

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loses the entirety of its value.
There's a point where if you put the

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old joke about going to Las Vegas
and then watering down your drinks, that

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you put enough water in the beverage, it's no longer an alcoholic beverage.

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It's not just water. And to
do that is to remove all of the

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power of what scripture has. So
may the balance be met by both of

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you until next week. I am
with you Always. KFI A six forty on demand