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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand. There's something that comes to

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mind when you think of accountability,
and it's it's this thing that people try

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and run from. And this is
from the beginning, since the fall,

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all of mankind was rebellious, and
in that rebellious state, all they want

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to do is whatever they want.
So since the fall of mankind and that

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rebellion, all they want to do
is their own thing without any or very

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little accountability of their actions. And
I don't want you to fall into that

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category, fall into that place,
well, where all you want to do

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is whatever you want to do and
have no accountability. I get sent a

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lot of books on this program.
Producer Neil goes through them. I go

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through them. Well, I get
one recently and that dealt with sex in

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the Bible, and none of it's
really new. It's every once in a

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while someone comes up with a book
that says, hey, God really wants

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you to do whatever you want sexually, and premarital sex isn't a problem,

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and all these things, and they
just really what changes is slight justifications.

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Oh well this means that or that
means this, And I realize that there

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are parts of scripture that do take
some intense scholarship and scrutiny, and you

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have to kind of jump in and
pull them apart and learn a little bit

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more. That doesn't mean all of
scriptures like that. There's a lot that's

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right there in front of you,
and to deny it would be to just

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simply reject the truth of scripture.
But this particular book was was really forcing

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the reader to understand what the Bible
has said about sex differently, and not

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even in a very fair way.
A lot of the arguments were old and

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some of them were new and twisted
and really just trying to make the Bible

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say something it doesn't about sex.
And in reading this, it made me

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want to share with you the battle
that goes on between truth and fad religions

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or loosely defined spirituality. You had
psychics, you got modern fast food,

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kabbala, even atheism. They all
fall into this category of doing what you

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want the way you want to do
it, not having combat any sort of

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accountability. You know, if you
go to psychics, it's because you don't

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want to work through the process of
anything. You want to know now.

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You want to know what it is
now, and you want to know you're

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on the right track. There's tons
of signs that will show you whether you're

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on the right track or not.
But if you're too lazy to participate in

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them, to be accountable to the
things in your life. When you make

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mistakes, you want someone else to
just feed it to you. It becomes

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a problem. These fast food belief
systems and these pseudo spirituality type organizations now

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that just want well, you need
to know yourself and all these things,

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they just become flowery and they're nonsensical. They don't have any value because there

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is no reward or consequence. You
know, atheists say that man created God

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to control the actions of man,
but it's far more reasonable to say that

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the atheist rejects the notion of God
so that he can remain out of control,

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doing what he wants without any accountability. You've heard over and over again.

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Ah wow, Christianity is just a
crutch. Well, to someone with

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a broken leg or crutch is a
good thing. It's the world running around

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thinking that they're okay and that there's
nothing wrong walking, tearing tendons, tearing

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muscles, damaging bone. That's a
problem. Today's world wants God to be

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accountable to them rather than them be
accountable to God. It's backwards and you

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only end up cheating yourself with these
wishy washy beliefs. And as Matthew six

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' five says about the religious hypocrites
of my day, those that prayed out

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in the public, those that did
the things so that they would just be

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seen and just kind of acted through
the spirituality of things. Well, the

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only reward that they received it all, and the only reward you will receive,

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if this is the type of a
spirituality you're part of, will be

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the rewards of this world, not
one thing of God. And it reminds

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me sort of of the person well, let's face it, usually men the

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trace to justify away an illness.
You know, they're, oh, well,

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it's probably from this. It's not
a big deal. It's nothing at

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all until it becomes serious and too
late, pushing off going to the doctor,

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not wanting to be accountable to even
the own aches and pains of your

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body. Alcoholism, obesity, any
of these things start in that beginning stage

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without any accountability. Now is addiction
a serious thing, absolutely, but all

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these things have to start somewhere.
They start not being accountable to yourself,

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things around you, the changes that
you know and you see are happening,

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and then you let it go,
and you let it go, and you

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let it go. But you will
be accountable, God says, no matter

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whether you think you will, or
you will, or you think you won't,

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you will be accountable. Matthew twelve
thirty six says, but I tell

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you that everyone will have to give
an account on that day of judgment for

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every empty word they have spoken.
So even the very words you have said,

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you'll be accountable for, let alone
the actions and the things that you've

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done. It's not to frighten you. It's to show you the seriousness.

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There's a good side to accountability.
It shows you a path, It shows

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you directions how to follow through with
something, and you know better. You

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know when you're not being accountable.
You know when you don't want anybody to

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see what you're doing and you don't
want to ask, You just don't want

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to know. You want it on
your terms, and in doing so,

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you will only get your rewards here
and that's it. Some here, some

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there, and there'll be consequences.
You'll make mistakes and you'll try to brush

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them under and then it becomes a
whole cycle. But when you are accountable

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to one another, when you're accountable
to God, is when these things work

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out in your favor. Truly,
that's when you learn. But if you

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continue to tell yourself that you're not
making mistakes or that there is no true

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right or wrong when it comes to
whatever you're doing, and you don't learn

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anything, and you certainly won't get
any better accountability. It's very easy to

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get caught up in the kind of
fad religions of the day, or the

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kind of loose, loosely defined spirituality, whatever your choice may be. But

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these fad religions, the spirituality,
psychics, stuff like this. Even atheism

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is really focused away from it being
accountable. It's about not wanting to be

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accountable to something. Matthew twelve thirty
six does say that you will be accountable

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before God for every word that you
speak, and yes, you are ultimately

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account to God, but you're accountable
to more than that as well. It

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says in Romans fourteen seven through twelve
about this being accountable to God, for

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not one of us lives for himself, and not one of the uh,

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not one dies for himself. For
if we live, we live for the

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Lord, or if we die,
we die for the Lord. Therefore,

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whether we live or die, we
are the Lord's. Moving on to verse

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twelve, it says, so then
each one of us will give an account

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of himself to God. You will
be accountable. You will be accountable for

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who you are, what you do, what you say, how you act.

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And that's a good thing. Accountability
teaches, accountability builds. If you

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don't have those things, it's almost
like redefining something, make it something else.

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And they do this with laws.
Sometimes you can't redefine stealing and therefore

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say well the stealer rate in stealing
has in theft has gone down. No,

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you're merely redefining it. And if
you redefine your accountability say well,

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this is just my belief or this
is what I'm doing and this is what

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makes me feel good. Then you
just kind of step aside from it.

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But it doesn't eradicate the need to
be accountable. You should also be accountable

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to one another. Ephesians five twenty
one says submit to one another out of

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reverence for Christ, and being accountable
has so many benefits. You should be

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accountable not only to God, not
only to your brothers and sisters in Christ,

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but to your parents, your civil
leaders, your church. Then this

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accountability will strengthen. Be honest about
where you are in life, Understand what

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you're doing and why you do it. Because when you are honest and you

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have humility when it comes to the
things you struggle with, the things that

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you are in the middle of learning
and that you need to know. But

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you're honest and have humility with God, well then the Father will reward your

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accountability with growth and with strength.
Goodie, welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Good morning, and thank you for
taking my call, my pleasure.

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How can I help you? Yes, it's a bit of a long story,

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but I think we narrowed it down. I am overtainly gentleman. I'm

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I'm still German. I left Germany
when I was eighteen, okay, and

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I've always had trouble there. That's
why I left Germany. I've not been

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back, and everybody had grown up, my father had died and their situation

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has never been good. What kind
of troubles did you have in Germany?

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Maybe long story ssured you would either
commit suicide or leave Why so, why

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would those be the only options.
It's really hard to talk about. It's

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okay, okay. I was never
good enough, always the backshep of the

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family. Nobody ever took the time
to find out who I really was,

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what I wanted. I was always
pushing things that I didn't like to do.

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My mother never really liked me.
I was an accident. They didn't

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want me so well. I couldn't
find anybody else in the family because of

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the boar. We had many uncles
and aunts and uncles, and so therefore

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I didn't know anybody. And I
had no friends either, and that even

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exists today. I have no friends
now, well, now, goody,

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why do you why do you think
that is? You realize that's a that's

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rare. It's not that there aren't
people that feel the same way, because

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there certainly are. But why do
you think that you don't have friends?

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You know, I've asked my question
that a lot of times. I think,

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well, of course, being afraid
of being a band again, I've

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been lied to. People say they
are going to do any something for you,

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and then they don't. I had
applied myself many many times that I

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had been here for some reason.
The friendship doesn't go very long and I

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I'm not sure about that. Well, the common denominator in all of this

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is you, and I want you
to know that because this is where you

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get to take the power and understand
how you can make this change because it

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starts with you. It can't be
everybody, the whole world doesn't have a

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problem. And then you're okay,
this means there's something that you're doing to

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project those things partially out of fear, as you said, fear of rejection

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or being abandoned again. But that's
not that's not a legitimate fear. That's

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not okay. There's many people that
have relationships on this planet that aren't abandoned,

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and being abandoned sometimes happens. But
there are things that people exude and

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project from themselves that are not attractive
to others because they make other people feel

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insecure or the concerned about abandonment.
And sometimes people do those types of things

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without knowing. There's also social cues. Those are when somebody's when you're in

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a social situation, there might be
something you do that or don't do that

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turns people off, and you need
to look at those those really hard,

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kind of uncomfortable things to see where
you can grow and you know where you

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can bloom and start welcoming people into
your life. And they can be as

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simple as learning to see that when
you deal with people, are you in

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their space? Are you in their
face when you talk to them? And

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sometimes that bothers people, maybe if
you're if you talk too closely or too

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loudly. All these little things make
people who they are, but also can

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make someone comfortable or uncomfortable. So
do you ever do like a I hate

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to use such a such a goofy
term, but like an emotional inventory where

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you kind of look through who you
are and say, what might I be

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doing to turn people off? Have
you ever done that? Excellent? Did

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you come up with anything a list
of any kind? The only thing that

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I could find is that maybe maybe
because I am from Germany, people here

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are close nets and I have no
children, and so therefore there is not

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like Okay, let's meet at the
ball game. Sure you can meet people

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there. I have no associations here. I am a club member in this

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town. Where I am in this
particular town, there is just not a

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lot to do. There are not
a lot of socialization things going on.

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So I have a hard time becoming
a becoming a part of anything here.

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That's an excellent observation that in life
there are there are you know, doors

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and pathways that move us into circles
of of uh you know, social networking

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and meeting people. And the typical
ones, yes are children depending on your

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age. That when you get certain
ages, people tend to interact with UH

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like kinds. You know, they
tend to get in their own little tribes.

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But as far as being from Germany, your accent is absolutely lovely.

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So that's that's not that's not going
to turn people off. That's exciting.

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People like to hear people with different
accents and and and to learn about different

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experiences. So I think that we'll
start with with the the social doorways first

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because I think that was a great
observation that you that that you may not

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have the same life path as other
people, and so that keeps you running

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alongside rather than truly interacting with them. So you have to find maybe a

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network of people, whether that's through
a church or do you like to read?

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Are there hobbies that you have?
Okay, well, if there's hobbies

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that you have, that is a
wonderful place to start because you're connecting with

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people on a level. That's that's
different. Now there is all kinds of

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social stigma. I realize that if
you are of a certain age, you

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don't have a child and you're not
married, that people don't always know what

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to do with you. It's like, well, why aren't you married?

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How come you don't have kids?
And if you go down a path,

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well in Germany it was rough and
this and that. Then people that burden

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falls upon new friends and that can
be too heavy for them to lift at

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first. And I know that's a
burden that you have, yeah, and

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I know I can hear it in
your voice when you start to talk about

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it, the pain that's there.
But that's not something that a brand new

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relationship can handle. It's like building
a treehouse in a in a spud,

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you know, when you when you
just plant something, it's not going to

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lift that weight. And so that's
the entirety, that's your treehouse, that's

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the entirety of your life. And
you put that on a new relationship or

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friendship, just like putting that treehouse
on a brand new spud, it's going

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to crush it so or sprout.
Rather, it's going to crush it.

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So you need to find ways to
build these relationships through your I would say

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through your hobbies and your interests.
Libraries, book clubs would be a fantastic

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place to start and build the interest
on that commonality that you both share,

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and then from there you grow into
relationships where you're sharing the heavier experiences and

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the things. But start in those
those those rudimentary places, just like just

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like you were starting in grade school
or something like you were seven years old.

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Start with similar interests. I like
your dress, or I like that

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book, or I have that same
doll or whatever it is, and grow

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it from there and get it to
a place of strength where you can interact

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on the heavier things. But I
believe it or not that, well,

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you're going to keep doing it if
it If it hasn't worked, you're going

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to keep doing it. Every time
you tell yourself, well I've done that

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and it doesn't work, you're the
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one abandoning yourself, not everyone else. You're the only one that's with you

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every minute of every day. So
if you're constantly let down, that's not

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because of others, that's because of
you. Okay, can you can do

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you take that with you, goody. I mean, that's a very important

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thing to understand. I will,
I will, I definitely will, Okay,

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because it's you can't you can't just
constantly blame it on those outside,

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because that would make you the most
unique individual on the planet that you can't

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connect with anyone else. You're designed
to connect with people. If you're not,

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that falls on you. Yeah,
you know, I do know.

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God does not want us to be
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things, sure, you know.
And I have just not experienced that in

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his way, and I just I
long for that, and I am married

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now very he's my soulmate. But
now the problem that I have if he's

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just worked so many hours, I
see you, maybe five hours in the

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week he's working today. Goodness,
that's that's a lot of time. Yeah,

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it's been going on for about four
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Goodie. Those things are circumstantial,
and they may or may not change.

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The thing that I want you to
take with you that's most important to

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me is to understand the part you
play in all of this. It's you

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know, you don't turn everybody away. Obviously that you've got a husband,

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but there you've got to find a
social place where you can connect with people.

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And if people don't like it or
they turn away, you've got to

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be bold and you've got to go
to them and say, you know,

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I thought we were establishing a bit
of a relationship and then it kind of

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fizzled. I'm just curious, is
there's something I did? And you need

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to learn about yourself, because,
like I said, you're the only one

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that's with you all the time.
Tom. Welcome to the Jesus Christow.

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I'm well, Tom, how can
I help you? I'd like to know.

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And that's sort of a question.
Uh, you got an evil person,

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let's say that steals stuff, that
mean the people's whole life, just

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does nasty things all the time.
It comes time for him to die,

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he's on his deathbed. You see
it on TV shows the old Westerns.

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Everything he goes, he ask for
forgiveness, and the priest gives a forgiveness

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and apparently he goes to heaven.
Then actually real well, that's kind of

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a nutshell of it. But the
problem here is whenever it's posed to me

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that question, Tom, and it's
a completely legitimate one and a good one.

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Every time it's posed to me.
It's kind of from the perspective of

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man and not the perspective of God. So you're kind of asking it as

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you know, you know, you're
judging. Men tend to judge themselves against

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other men, so you're saying,
oh, well, I'm better than this

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guy. But really that's not the
standard. The standard of God is judging

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yourself against God. So whereas you
may look and you say, well,

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this little kid stole a candy bar, that's not as bad as somebody who

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burglarized an apartment building, but the
reality is they're both theft, and they

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both come from the same selfish attitude
that I can take what I want when

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I want it, and God's looking
at a bigger picture than man does,

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and therefore the judgment is different.
So, for instance, Tom, you

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judging yourself against another person and seeing
who's better is one thing. When you

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compare it to God, it's the
equivalent. And the analogy I'll give you

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is you standing on the southernmost part
of Texas throwing rocks trying to reach Canada

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and judging the guy next to you
to see who's closer to reaching Canada.

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You're both so far from ever reaching
Canada. That really the comparison is silly.

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So if you're trying to compare yourself
to a man, yeah, there's

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going to be times where you're better
than this guy or better than that guy,

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even you're going to be able to
look at it. That's not exactly

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what I'm asking, whether you're better
than somebody or no. But but Tom,

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I'm talking about basic evil. I
understand that. But God is the

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definer of what's good and evil.
So this brings me back to the bigger

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point that it's not about whether you're
whether someone's evil in your eyes or whether

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they do bad things. It's about
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There is nothing you can do evil
enough that is outside of the cleansing

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power of God. And there's nothing
you can do good enough that is going

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to somehow when you favor with God. I can understand that. Okay,

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just asking the question of you've done
bad things, murder, whatever, your

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whole life, and on your deathbed
you say forgive me, guy, can

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I go to heaven now? And
then does he go to heaven? No,

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it's not that easy. But can
a person be given on their deathbed?

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Absolutely? Can a person be forgiven
on their deathbed, no matter how

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heinous the ax they've done. Yes, because again it's about the goodness of

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God, not the badness of man, which is once again the perspective I'm

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trying to point out that you look
at it as escaped. Oh, that's

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easy. But God doesn't fall for
lies. Man tends to look at this

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question like a relationship, like somehow
the guy continues to beat the woman or

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cheat on her and comes back and
goes, baby, baby, baby,

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come on, I love you,
I love you. I'm not gonna do

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that again, and her going,
and somehow God is the woman in this

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equation going oh, okay, come
back. That's not what it is.

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That is not what it is.
It is not that man looks at this

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question and says, oh, so, is there three magic words I can

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say on my deathbed I'm sorry God, and then it's all erased. No,

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absolutely not. However, if somebody
is on their deathbed and they've lived

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a life of horrible evils but have
true repentance, no, keep in mind,

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a deathbed repentance is difficult because what
are you turning away from. You

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don't have an option at that point. And if it's just because you're dying.

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God knows the difference, so you're
not gonna somehow woo God. And

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I'm going, oh wow, this
is really sad. And you know,

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the music is playing in the background, and you're on the deathbed and you're

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coughing up blood and this is really
touching, and you know, que the

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violins. I'm in. Okay,
that's good, you're coming. That's not

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what it's about. That's how man
thinks. Man thinks that somehow that an

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evil guy's gonna get in on a
technicality. Huh huh. It's not how

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it works. However, it's about
the goodness of God, not the evil

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