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Speaker 2: He is a worship Leader's name is Jeremy Riddle. He

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Speaker 1: Is he a famous guy?

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Speaker 2: Somewhat? I would say. I mean yeah, I has quite

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Speaker 3: Hey, my friends, I just wanted to come on here

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Speaker 3: You just need to know I've been an accomplice. I've

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Speaker 3: and I'm going to explain it. Every award show has

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Speaker 1: No, it looks exactly like them.

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Speaker 3: But what would a truly Kingdom Awards show look like.

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Speaker 3: we just were after Jesus' award systems, who would be

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Speaker 3: There's nothing of character in our current award system. It

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Speaker 3: I don't know how many times to just take that

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Speaker 1: There you go, those are my thoughts.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like he's crying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it does, he does. But he has some

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's like you said, dream with me on this,

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Speaker 2: You're correct. It would be a room full of not celebrities.

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Speaker 1: And just because of that, because of it being a

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Speaker 2: How would you do that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then what would that cultivate? It would cultivate

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Speaker 1: just never worked. You can't award anything. That's why the

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Speaker 1: this is coming from somebody. I despise award shows and

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Speaker 1: So the awards it's not it's not only to award

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Speaker 1: Award shows have launched. They launched Chris Stapleton like he

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my perspective is this one. This is why I

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Speaker 1: think the forest Frank model works.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, put the award out there. That helps all the

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Speaker 1: people that got the song to where it is. I

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Speaker 1: just won't be the one accepting it, right because I

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Speaker 1: don't think I deserve or should be accepting an award.

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Speaker 1: Give it to the song and thereby that rewards all

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Speaker 1: the people that were involved and people get to hear

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Speaker 1: the song.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Number two, I think I think it's very difficult to

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Speaker 1: be in the music business and to to serve the

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Speaker 1: Lord faithfully.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think there's that. So you don't need

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Speaker 1: God doesn't need a song to go viral so that

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Speaker 1: his message gets out there. God doesn't need more people

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Speaker 1: to hear an album so that the kingdom grows and

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Speaker 1: Heaven is crowded because of a song or an album.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't. He does things from the least of these.

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Speaker 1: God builds a kingdom from the least of these. He

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Speaker 1: makes the wise seem foolish and the foolish seem wise.

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Speaker 1: He does that. This is First Corinthians. And he does this,

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Speaker 1: and in his own mysterious way, God chose what is

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Speaker 1: foolish in the world to shame the wise. God chose

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Speaker 1: what is weak in the world to shame. The strong

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Speaker 1: God chose what is low and despised in the world,

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Speaker 1: even things that are not, to bring to nothing, things

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Speaker 1: that are so that no human being might boast in

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Speaker 1: the presence of God. And because of Him, you were

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Speaker 1: in Christ, Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God,

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Speaker 1: righteousness and sanctification and redemption. So that, as it is written,

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Speaker 1: let the one who boast boast in the Lord. You

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Speaker 1: don't need an award show, you don't need a record deal,

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Speaker 1: you don't need a popular song. I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: how many times I will speak for a men's group

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell him the gospel, and I'll tell him

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Speaker 1: my story how I came out of that to become

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Speaker 1: just a minister of the gospel, a plain, old, ordinary

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Speaker 1: minister of the gospel. And almost every time there'll be

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Speaker 1: a young boy that comes up to me afterwards and says,

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Speaker 1: how could I make it in the music business after

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Speaker 1: I just told him that I came out of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't want to be a part of it anymore?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I will graciously give him some advice. I

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Speaker 1: one of these days, I'm just going to go don't

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Speaker 1: But it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: See, I already give that advice to people that want

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Speaker 2: to get in a radio.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, don't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So if we're considering First Corinthians one, what did

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Speaker 1: I just read? I read twenty seven to verse thirty one,

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Speaker 1: and God doesn't He doesn't need an award show. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't need a viral song. But on the secular side,

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Speaker 1: if you want it to be viral, it needs to

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Speaker 1: be on the award show. So that's my reaction.