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Speaker 1: How do we as fathers when a war or an

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Speaker 1: does how do we talk about it? Hellogan, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the March or Die Show today. This is the show,

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Speaker 1: to give you both the perspectives and principles you need

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Speaker 1: to March when it would be easier to stay where

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Speaker 1: you are and die. How do we move forward in

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Speaker 1: Maybe in our world something relationally, financially, something else is

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Speaker 1: Many are framing as simply a military operation. However you

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Speaker 1: where we must stand up number one, against wickedness. We

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Speaker 1: have to. There are times when it's not okay to

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Speaker 1: simply say let's talk it out, or let's just try

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Speaker 1: to figure this out, or let's leave them alone and

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Speaker 1: see if it works itself out. There are times when

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Speaker 1: we need to stand up against wickedness. Psalm ninety four

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Speaker 1: and verse sixteen says this, who will rise up for

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Speaker 1: me against the evil doers? Or who will stand up

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Speaker 1: for me against the workers of iniquity. This rhetorical question

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Speaker 1: that God is asking here in Psalm ninety four. Who's

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Speaker 1: going to rise up against the evil doers? Who will

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Speaker 1: stand up against the workers of iniquity? There are times

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Speaker 1: in life where we need to stand up against that

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Speaker 1: which is wrong. How do we define wrong? It's those things, actions, words,

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Speaker 1: attitudes that are contrary to God's word and God's will.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says us this, and others oppose that those

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Speaker 1: are those evil doers. They're doing evil, they're violating the

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Speaker 1: will and word of God, and there are times we

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Speaker 1: need to stand against that. James, chapter four and verse

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Speaker 1: seven says this, in a spiritual sense, submit yourselves to God.

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Speaker 1: Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Fight

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Speaker 1: the devil. Remember we talked about that spiritual warfare a

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Speaker 1: minute ago. We need to be willing to stand up

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Speaker 1: against those things that are wrong. Often we'll see this

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Speaker 1: played out geopolitically. If I'm being honest, it's very hard

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Speaker 1: at this moment in time to know what's real and

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Speaker 1: what's not, what's true and what's not. Again, so much

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Speaker 1: information coming our way, so I want to be careful

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Speaker 1: not to pass judgment. One way or another on what

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Speaker 1: is currently happening now. As an aside, I'm thankful anytime

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Speaker 1: enslaved people can be set free. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 1: in just a minute too, But that's really not what

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Speaker 1: this is about. It's about using this as an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to teach the young people in your life that life

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Speaker 1: is not always easy, that wickedness does exist, and there

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Speaker 1: are times where we are called on to stand against

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Speaker 1: that wickedness. Why do we stand against wickedness? And why

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Speaker 1: do we stand for those who cannot stand for themselves?

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Speaker 1: This is the second part of this, stand for those

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Speaker 1: who cannot stand for themselves. This is so important and

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Speaker 1: we are seeing this in Iran. We're told that over

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand people were killed by the current regime or

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Speaker 1: the former current regime, whatever, the people in power in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks because the people who live

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Speaker 1: there were protesting the government, protesting the dictatorship, protesting the oppression,

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Speaker 1: and the government's response was to murder more than thirty

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Speaker 1: thousand people. One of the things that's happening right now

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Speaker 1: is that those people who since nineteen seventy nine have

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Speaker 1: and use their voice and hopefully their influence to put

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Speaker 1: in place a government that allows them to pursue God's

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Speaker 1: will and God's plan for their lives. But in our world,

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Speaker 1: in far away places, in our community, neighborhoods surrounding us,

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Speaker 1: maybe in a school, maybe on a sports team. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what it is. I just know it exists everywhere,

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Speaker 1: there are those who cannot stand up for themselves. For

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Speaker 1: one reason or another. They can't they don't have the ability.

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Speaker 1: The enemy against them is too large or too powerful.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're not clear on exactly what should happen, but

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Speaker 1: they are unable to stand for themselves. There's an imperative

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Speaker 1: in scripture for us to stand up for those who

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Speaker 1: can't stand for themselves. Psalm eighty two, verses three and four,

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Speaker 1: defend the poor and fatherless, Do justice to the afflicted

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Speaker 1: and needy, Deliver the poor and needy, rid them out

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Speaker 1: of the hand of the wicked Again. The Psalmist, receiving

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Speaker 1: the word from God, says there is a time to

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Speaker 1: defend the poor and fatherless. These are people who have

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Speaker 1: no resources to do justice to the afflicted and needy,

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Speaker 1: to set right things that have been tossed upside down

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Speaker 1: to deliver the poor and needed to rid them out

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Speaker 1: of the hand of the wicked. If you see oppressed

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Speaker 1: people in the hand of the wicked and you don't

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Speaker 1: stand against that, you are, I believe, in violation of

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Speaker 1: scriptural teaching to stand for those who cannot stand for themselves.

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Speaker 1: We find a great verse in Matth chapter five and

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Speaker 1: verse nine. You may be familiar with it. You probably are.

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Speaker 1: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the

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Speaker 1: children of God. We can read this, I think a

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Speaker 1: couple of ways. One way and the most common way

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Speaker 1: people read this is blessed are those that can kind

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Speaker 1: of bring peace, that can talk people down, that can

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Speaker 1: bring people together. Certainly, that's that's implied here, but we

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Speaker 1: have to understand that often bringing peace requires standing up

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Speaker 1: and perhaps even using force. And the Bible says, blessed

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Speaker 1: are the peacemakers, the ones who are willing to do

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Speaker 1: what is necessary to bring peace, to make peace, it

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Speaker 1: says they will be called the children of God. We

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Speaker 1: need to talk to our kids about war by alleviating

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Speaker 1: alleviating their fears, discussing the reasons for war and conflict,

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Speaker 1: and explaining to them why we stand against wickedness and

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Speaker 1: for those who cannot stand for themselves. Next, I believe

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Speaker 1: we need to have a conversation discussing the difference between

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Speaker 1: necessary violence and unnecessary violence. Now, I can spend a

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Speaker 1: lot of time here, and I'm gonna give you a

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Speaker 1: couple of verses and just a few thoughts. But necessary

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Speaker 1: but force that is used to accomplish an end or

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Speaker 1: a goal. Violence. There is a good application of violence,

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Speaker 1: and there are certainly bad applications of violence. When talking

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Speaker 1: about this, it must be explained that the Bible is

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Speaker 1: the lens of truth for all things. That when we're

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Speaker 1: trying to understand these concepts, what's good and what's bad,

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Speaker 1: what's right and what's wrong, the Bible is the lens

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Speaker 1: for all things. Let me give you a couple of verses,

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Speaker 1: so on one nineteen one five. Thy word is a

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Speaker 1: lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

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Speaker 1: What should I do? It seems dark and hard to understand.

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Speaker 1: Will light the Word of God? Allow it to be

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Speaker 1: that light to your path? Proverbs six twenty three. For

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Speaker 1: the commandment is a lamp, and the law is a

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Speaker 1: light and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.

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Speaker 1: The Word of God lights our path Psalm one nineteen

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Speaker 1: one point thirty. The entrance of thy word giveth light,

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Speaker 1: It giveth understanding. Unto the simple John Chapter seventeen and

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Speaker 1: verse seventeen, sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth.

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Speaker 1: Back to the Psalm Psalm one nineteen one sixty. Thy

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Speaker 1: word is true from the beginning, and every one of

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Speaker 1: thy righteous judgments endureth forever Psalm thirty three four. For

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Speaker 1: the word of the Lord is right, and all his

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Speaker 1: works are done in truth. There is a difference between

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Speaker 1: righteous or right application of violence and wrong or evil

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Speaker 1: or sinful application of violence. Using force is a method

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Speaker 1: or a technique to get something done. Whether it's right

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Speaker 1: or wrong. Is based on morality, it's based on motives,

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Speaker 1: It's based on a lot of things. But the Word

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Speaker 1: of God is the lens. It's the filter through which

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Speaker 1: we can make those decisions, understanding what God would have

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Speaker 1: for us to do. Again, a much broader conversation here,

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Speaker 1: But as we look at what is right and what

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Speaker 1: is wrong, go to the word of God. Here's an

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Speaker 1: example of using scripture to navigate these difficult truths. In

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Speaker 1: the Book of Neomiah, I've talked about this often, but

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Speaker 1: Neemiah is a man who's leading the children of Israel

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Speaker 1: to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem. There are those who

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Speaker 1: oppose the rebuilding of the walls, and in their opposition

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Speaker 1: they say mean things. But then they begin to threaten

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Speaker 1: physical violence. They say things like we're going to hurt you,

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Speaker 1: We're going to kill you, We're going to tear down

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Speaker 1: the walls. They're threatening physical violence. Here's how Neemiah responded

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Speaker 1: and Neamia chapter four and verse fourteen, speaking to the

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Speaker 1: children of Israel, he says, this, be not ye afraid

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Speaker 1: of them. Don't be afraid of them. Remember the Lord,

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Speaker 1: which is great and terrible. And then he says this,

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Speaker 1: and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives,

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Speaker 1: and your houses. He says to these folks, look, they're

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Speaker 1: threatening violence, and you need to be willing to stand

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Speaker 1: up and fight for what is right, fight for what

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Speaker 1: is yours. Fight for those relations, your brothers, your sons,

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Speaker 1: your daughters, and your wives. And then he says, in

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Speaker 1: your houses, this is your land, this is what you possess,

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Speaker 1: fight for those things. God blessed you with those things.

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Speaker 1: God gave you a responsibility to care for those things.

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Speaker 1: And those people stand up and fight. This is different

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Speaker 1: than the Old Testament admonition against murder, of course, other

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Speaker 1: places where the Bible t tells us that murderers are condemned.

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Speaker 1: This is a different application of violence, just versus unjust

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Speaker 1: right versus wrong, And using scripture as the lens, when

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Speaker 1: is it right, well, certainly to fight for your brothers,

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Speaker 1: your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses. We

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Speaker 1: have to understand along with this when we're considering the difference,

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Speaker 1: the difference between good and bad, the motives matter. Why

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Speaker 1: a thing is done actually does matter. Motives matter. We

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Speaker 1: should not use a circumstance or a situation to excuse

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Speaker 1: bad behavior, nor should we do more than we need

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Speaker 1: to to protect what God has placed in our world

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Speaker 1: to protect, to stand up for others, to stand against evil.

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Speaker 1: Your motives matter. Why are you doing what you do? Next,

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Speaker 1: I'm not moving as quick as I thought I would. Next,

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Speaker 1: I think this is so important as a parent. I

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Speaker 1: think you need to do those first four things and

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Speaker 1: sit down or have a discussion at dinner or on

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Speaker 1: a long drive whenever you can do that. But this

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Speaker 1: is really important as you're talking to your kids about war.

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Speaker 1: Words are important, but I think you also need to

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Speaker 1: demonstrate a right understanding. Demonstrate a right understanding. You need

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Speaker 1: to come to terms with the answers to some of

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Speaker 1: these questions and then live that understanding out a couple

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Speaker 1: of ideas. Here's how you live out or right understanding.

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Speaker 1: You lead your family in prayer. Lead your family in prayer.

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Speaker 1: You see, as you lead your family in prayer about

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Speaker 1: what's happening, you're prioritizing God is our protector and God

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Speaker 1: is our sustainer, and we're putting our trust in him.

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Speaker 1: This goes back to alleviating fear. You can talk about

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Speaker 1: why we're in a situation like this, but bringing it

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Speaker 1: back to God. Lead your family and prayer. Pray for

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Speaker 1: military and political leaders people who are making these decisions. Again,

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Speaker 1: whether you like the people in leadership or not doesn't

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Speaker 1: change the truth that the Bible says, the heart of

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Speaker 1: the king is in the hand of the Lord. God

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Speaker 1: is all powerful, God is supreme, God is sovereign. God

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Speaker 1: can work in the hearts and lives of even people

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Speaker 1: you don't like. Pray that they'll make the right decisions.

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Speaker 1: Pray for our military as they're engaged in what's happening

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Speaker 1: around the world. These are real people, and these are

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Speaker 1: husbands and wives, sons and daughters. They have families to

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Speaker 1: go back to, and families from which they came, communities

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Speaker 1: that watch them grow up. They played Little League baseball,

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Speaker 1: they played on their high school sports teams not too

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Speaker 1: long ago, a couple months ago, they were sitting in

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Speaker 1: a house with their family at Christmas. These are real

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Speaker 1: people and there are real life, long term consequences to

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Speaker 1: these real people dealing with the things they have to

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Speaker 1: deal with. Pray for our military folks. Pray that there

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Speaker 1: would be gospel openness at times like this, often people

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Speaker 1: are more open to the truth of the Gospel than

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Speaker 1: at other times. Pray that that would happen. Lead your

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Speaker 1: family in prayer. This demonstrates dependence on God in all things.

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Speaker 1: I would say this, speak faith and courage. Speak faith

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Speaker 1: and courage. Listen. Your kids are going to listen to

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Speaker 1: what you say and watch how you act. You can

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Speaker 1: instruct them as in sit them down and talk through

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Speaker 1: the things that we just talked about, or you can

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Speaker 1: undermine what you just told them by saying things that

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Speaker 1: lead them to believe that you're afraid, that cause them

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Speaker 1: to believe you may not be as confident in God's

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Speaker 1: ability to take care of things as you said you were.

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Speaker 1: Speak faith and courage as you talk about these things,

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Speaker 1: and I would say everything else in your life, speak

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Speaker 1: words of faith and courage, courage because of faith, standing

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Speaker 1: up strong, standing against those things that are wrong, standing

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Speaker 1: for those things that are right, doing the courageous thing. Why,

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Speaker 1: because of faith, because of your confidence in God. Communicate

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Speaker 1: that again and again and again to your kids, because

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Speaker 1: someday they're going to need to find courage and faith.

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Speaker 1: And then just practically limit media. Limit media in your home.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you have one of those houses

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Speaker 1: has the news on all the time, or wherever you're

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Speaker 1: consuming this from. Just limit that. Everyone has an agenda.

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Speaker 1: Every news channel has an agenda, Every commentator has an agenda.

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Speaker 1: Everyone has an agenda. And I don't know of anyone

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Speaker 1: whose agenda is solely and completely to communicate what's actually happening.

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Speaker 1: Commentary perspectives left right, there's an agenda in all of it. Again,

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Speaker 1: it can be helpful to receive the information, but limit media,

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Speaker 1: stop putting junk in and allowing people to fear monger,

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Speaker 1: and instead control the conversation in your home. And then finally,

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Speaker 1: use all of this I mentioned this in the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Use all of this as an opportunity to train for

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Speaker 1: the wars ahead. This will not, undoubtedly be the last

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Speaker 1: conflict that your kids observe have to process through. We

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Speaker 1: could bring this down kind of from that macro worldview

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Speaker 1: to a micro personal view. Your kids are going to

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Speaker 1: have to walk through battles of their own, maybe through

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Speaker 1: relationships and finances and whatever else goes on in the world,

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Speaker 1: maybe real opposition to what they stand for. We don't

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Speaker 1: know what the world is going to look like when

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Speaker 1: they're adults, no idea, but use this as an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to train them for the wars ahead. This isn't just

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Speaker 1: about what's happening now. It's about what will happen in

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Speaker 1: the future when you may or may not be there

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Speaker 1: to encourage them and to guide them. A great passage

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Speaker 1: I would draw your attention to, and I would encourage

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Speaker 1: you to draw your kids attention to is this Filippian

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Speaker 1: chapter four, verses six through eight says this, be careful

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Speaker 1: for nothing. We're careful. You could say, anxious, overwhelmed, fearful,

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Speaker 1: be careful for nothing. It's a strong statement. But in everything,

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Speaker 1: what we're going through now, good, bad or otherwise. In everything,

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Speaker 1: by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be

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Speaker 1: made known unto God. Give thanks to God for who

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Speaker 1: he is, for what he's done, and for what he

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Speaker 1: will do. But communicate to Him what's on your heart

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Speaker 1: prayer and supplication, asking him to work Verse seven. And

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Speaker 1: the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep

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Speaker 1: your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus, in spite of

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Speaker 1: what's going on in the world now or in the future.

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Speaker 1: The Bible tells us that the peace of God will

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Speaker 1: keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. If what,

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Speaker 1: what's the condition? If by everything? If in everything, by

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Speaker 1: prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, we let our requests be

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Speaker 1: made known unto him. Bring your burdens, your challenges, your

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Speaker 1: uncertainties to God, and allow him to keep your heart

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Speaker 1: and mind. The next verse in this passage is so important. Finally, brethren,

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Speaker 1: so after all that whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things

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Speaker 1: are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,

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Speaker 1: whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report,

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Speaker 1: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,

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Speaker 1: think on these things in all of it. Prioritize. This

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Speaker 1: isn't putting your head in the sand and pretending bad

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Speaker 1: things don't happen, But in all of it, prioritize. Thinking

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Speaker 1: on those things which build, not those things which destroy,

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Speaker 1: Thinking on those things that create peace and not chaos,

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Speaker 1: Thinking about those things that allow you align your heart

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Speaker 1: and mind to God's will for you. There is so

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Speaker 1: much going on in our world, and right now it's

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Speaker 1: just a little more in our face than normally. But

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Speaker 1: there's always something crazy going on. I don't see that changing.

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Speaker 1: But we as parents, and maybe you're not a parent,

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Speaker 1: but you have young people that you can influence in

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Speaker 1: your life. A lot of different family situations and relationship circumstances.

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Speaker 1: If you have young people in your life, use times

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Speaker 1: like this to teach them how to trust God, how

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Speaker 1: to go to God's word for guidance and direction, how

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Speaker 1: to stand up for those things which are right and

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Speaker 1: against those things which are wrong, to stand up for

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Speaker 1: people who can't stand up for themselves, put the right

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Speaker 1: perspective in their heart so that they are equipped to

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Speaker 1: deal with whatever happens in the future, whether you're standing

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Speaker 1: next to them or not. I hope that has a

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Speaker 1: help to you. This is one of those top of

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Speaker 1: mind conversations, and I hope that you'll take it. I

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Speaker 1: hope that you'll use it. I hope that you'll send

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Speaker 1: it out to other people that can use it. And

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Speaker 1: please participate in the comment section of this episode and

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Speaker 1: share some other thoughts, maybe something that's helped you or

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Speaker 1: helped the family member as you kind of navigate this

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Speaker 1: landscape of chaos that we're walking through right now. And man,

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Speaker 1: again this probably fifteen times. This isn't about politics. This

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Speaker 1: is just reality of what's happening. And if anyone wants

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Speaker 1: to engage me, at least in the comments on why

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Speaker 1: it's happening, that is completely not the point and I

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Speaker 1: won't engage in that because that has nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with what we're talking about. What we're talking about is

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Speaker 1: the reality that it is happening and it will happen again,

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Speaker 1: and whether you agree with it or not, there's a

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Speaker 1: right and a wrong way to walk through it. And

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Speaker 1: we need to use this opportunity as the adults in

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Speaker 1: the room, so to speak, to put the context it's

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Speaker 1: necessary to provide hope and confidence and peace for a

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Speaker 1: generation of people that are coming up in a very

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Speaker 1: confusing world. Thank you for listening, Thank you for watching.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate it, and we will talk to you next