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Speaker 2: so much for tuning in today. I like to get

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Speaker 2: this man. He came up to a Baptist pastor and

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Speaker 2: he said, Sir, my dog has passed away, and I

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Speaker 2: to your church. The pastor smiled and said, why didn't

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Speaker 2: up your bible. Say it like you mean it's This

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Speaker 2: is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: be the same, never, never, never, I'll never be the same.

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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 2: That's what a loyal person does. Well, Joel, one of

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Speaker 2: your members tried to run me off the road last week. Well,

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Speaker 2: That's easy. But I don't know about you. I don't

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Speaker 2: the way it is in life. It's easy to cheer

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Speaker 2: Them notice it doesn't say you who are spiritual should

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Speaker 2: Them that's what a loyal person. Does there are too many,

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Speaker 2: that's my, neighbor that's my. Coworker they may have made a,

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Speaker 2: instead of saying too bad for, you we're supposed to

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Speaker 2: Juicy let me tell you something. ELSE i know, now

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Speaker 2: when you're, loyal you'll be. Merciful there's a scripture In.

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Speaker 2: Proverbs it, says have you heard a word against your,

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Speaker 2: it's saying you heard any good gossip? Lately you heard

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Speaker 2: Pastor here's what you need to. Do bury, it don't spread,

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Speaker 2: tell him how he loved, him and he encouraged him

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Speaker 2: you to have a bigger vision. Today the people in

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Speaker 2: let's stick up for each. Other you hear somebody talking

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Speaker 2: are loyal to our own family. Members stick up for your,

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Speaker 2: It don't you? Dare let them get you all stirred

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Speaker 2: should always be positive and honoring toward our. Family it

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter if they're the, laziest most undisciplined scoundrel. Around

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Speaker 2: are to get upset at, them no matter how different

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Speaker 2: if you tell it to, somebody they're going to tell

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Speaker 2: will be talking about your family's. Problems that only makes it. Worse,

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Speaker 2: well you, Say, joel you don't understand my. Situation my

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Speaker 2: pay us back and we're all. Upset or my father

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Speaker 2: well that's, unfortunate but it's still your. Family and it's

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Speaker 2: easy to kick people when they're. Down it's easy to

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Speaker 2: be judgmental and SAY i told you, so and just

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Speaker 2: shut somebody out of your. Life but the honorable thing

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Speaker 2: thing to do is to help bring peace back to your.

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Speaker 2: Know i've been blessed in my. FAMILY i BELIEVE i

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Speaker 2: have people around me that would die for. Me my, wife, brothers,

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Speaker 2: they would defend me to their dying. DAY i MEAN

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Speaker 2: joe he's just borring. It he's wanting to help somebody. Else,

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Speaker 2: MY i act. Together but in front of, you that's my.

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Speaker 2: FAMILY i can do no. Wrong they're, loyal they're gonna defend.

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Speaker 2: i remember one, time years, AGO i went through a

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Speaker 2: to tell you how incredibly proud of aiming. You he.

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Speaker 2: SAID i love, YOU i respect, YOU i believe in.

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Speaker 2: a friend loves at all, times but a brother is

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Speaker 2: born for. Adversity that's saying your friends are, great we

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Speaker 2: all need, them but there's something special about your own.

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Speaker 2: aunt's your. Uncles they were born to be with you

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Speaker 2: in the tough. Times and when things get, difficult we

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Speaker 2: use strife and, conflict jealousy and bad attitudes to pull us.

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Speaker 2: Apart but we've got to rise above. That, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles.

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Speaker 2: Relatives quit bickering over things that don't. Matter get over

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Speaker 2: you can give as a, brother a, sister an aunt and,

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Speaker 2: a loyal. Person when you're a loyal, person you respect

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Speaker 2: You they made incredible sacrifices for your. Sake and, really

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Speaker 2: Them do you know how many lonely parents there are

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Speaker 2: building their. Careers know the honorable thing is to take

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Speaker 2: honoring our parents is the only commandment that comes with a.

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Speaker 2: Promise it, says if you will honor your mother and,

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Speaker 2: this takes, time it takes, commitment and, REALLY i don't

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Speaker 2: somebody to take care of your. Parents it's our, duty

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Speaker 2: one reason That god has blessed me is Because i've

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Speaker 2: Mother And i'm not, perfect but anybody that knows me

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Speaker 2: will tell you THAT i always treated my father like a.

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Speaker 2: KING i used to go over to my parents' house

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Speaker 2: Every saturday night And i'd pick out a suit and

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Speaker 2: a tie for my father to Wear Sunday morning on.

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Speaker 2: out his. CLOTHES i remember One SATURDAY i was running.

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Speaker 2: Late my father, said Oh, joe don't worry about. It

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Speaker 2: let me pick out something on my. Own i'll pick

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Speaker 2: out something. Good daddy showed Up sunday. MORNING i, thought Dear,

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Speaker 2: lord the cameras can't even handle. That you better. Believe

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Speaker 2: the Next, SATURDAY i made SURE i made it by his.

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Speaker 2: DIALYSIS i was able to take him to the clinic many.

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Speaker 2: What i'm saying is sometimes you have to make sacrifices

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Speaker 2: at four o'clock many of those, mornings but that's. Okay

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Speaker 2: that's our duty as a, son as a. Daughter if

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Speaker 2: your parents live close, by swing by and check on,

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Speaker 2: them mow their, lawn take them out to, dinner change

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Speaker 2: the oil in their, Car let them be involved in your.

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Speaker 2: Life watch after. THEM i know this young lady that

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Speaker 2: gets up early every morning and before she goes to,

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Speaker 2: work before she gets her kids off to, school she

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Speaker 2: makes lunch and dinner for her elderly. Parents then after

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Speaker 2: she drops her kids, off she swings by and takes

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Speaker 2: her parents that, food and then she goes to, Work

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Speaker 2: she'll get up the next day it all over. Again

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Speaker 2: let me tell you that young lady is going to be.

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Speaker 2: Blessed she's going to live a long. Life god sees

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Speaker 2: those seeds of. Loyalty AND i realize some of you

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Speaker 2: don't have your parents any, longer or maybe you were

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Speaker 2: raised by parents that didn't necessarily treat you very. Good

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Speaker 2: and you're, Thinking, joe the last Thing i'm gonna do

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Speaker 2: is honor my parents after what they did to. Me

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Speaker 2: BUT i want to challenge. You it may be, difficult

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Speaker 2: but you've got to do whatever you can to make.

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Speaker 2: Amends and you may not ever be best, friends but

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Speaker 2: the fact Is god chose that man and woman to

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Speaker 2: bring you into this, world and you have a responsibility

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Speaker 2: to show them respect and. Honor and even if you

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Speaker 2: don't do it for, them number, one you should do

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Speaker 2: it for yourself so you can live a long. Life

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Speaker 2: and then number, two you should do it for your.

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Speaker 2: Children don't keep passing all that junk. Down set a new.

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Speaker 2: Example your children are watching. You they're watching how you

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Speaker 2: treat your. Parents and if you're cold and rude and

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00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,119
Speaker 2: you just blow them off and you don't let and

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00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 2: be a part of your. Life then those same seeds

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00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 2: are being planted in your. Children now you've got to

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00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 2: swallow your pride and do whatever it takes to make

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00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 2: amends if you want to live a long. Life we

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00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 2: need to honor our. Parents we should learn to be

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00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 2: loyal to our, family loyal to our, friends and then

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Speaker 2: let's make sure that we are loyal to our. Country

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00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 2: be loyal to that place wherever you. Live it may

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Speaker 2: not be, perfect but that's Where god has. You and

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Speaker 2: REALLY i don't know of one perfect. Country you have

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00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 2: to look for the good and then be grateful for.

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00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 2: That and we should never demean and bad mouth our.

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00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: Leaders god has placed those people in. Authority we may

447
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,399
Speaker 2: not like what they, do but the scripture tells us

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00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 2: to pray for our. Leaders and there's so much hatred

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00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 2: and mean spiritedness in the world, today especially in the

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00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 2: area of politics and toward our. Leaders and we may

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00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 2: not agree with, them we may not see eye to

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00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,439
Speaker 2: eye on their. Policy when it comes to name calling

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00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 2: and these personal, attacks it's not only dishonoring to that,

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00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 2: person it's dishonoring to our. Country and my prayer is

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00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 2: that we'd see a rebirth of, patriotism that we would

456
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 2: not focus so much on what we don't agree, on

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00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 2: but rather what we do agree. ON i, Know victoria

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Speaker 2: and all the national, holidays we hang the flag outside our.

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00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 2: Home we loved our. Country this is a great place to,

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Speaker 2: live And i'm all for having freedom of. Speech but the,

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00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 2: anger the, hostility it's not doing anything. Productive it's divisive

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00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 2: rather than unifying. Us and we need to learn to

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Speaker 2: honor those that serve. Us learn to honor the people

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Speaker 2: in our. Military when you see one of our service

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Speaker 2: men or, women thank, them buy their, dinner express your.

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Speaker 2: Gratitude let's be loyal. CITIZENS i think about this. Church

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00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 2: it was built by loyal, people people that have stuck

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00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 2: with us for thirty or forty, years through the exciting

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00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 2: times and the not so exciting. TIMES i ran into

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00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 2: a lady last. Week she, Said, JOEL i remember when

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Speaker 2: you were. BORN i used to change your diapers in the.

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Speaker 2: NURSERY i, said that's, great but you can go ahead

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00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 2: and keep that to. Yourself but it was built by faithful,

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00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 2: people people we could count. ON i See robin around

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00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 2: here all the. Time i've known, him since he was this.

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00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 2: Big he and his family have been here, forever serving.

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00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 2: Faithfully they are. LOYAL i could Give robin the keys

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00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 2: to my, car my, house give him my. Wallet i'm

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00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 2: not going To he's not that. Loyal but they are true.

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00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 2: Friends they are committed, people and that's the kind of

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00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 2: PEOPLE i want us to, be not high maintenance. Friends

482
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 2: where if you do everything just right and you never

483
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 2: let me down and you never offend, me Then i'll

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00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 2: stick with, you. Man but the moment you don't perform

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00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 2: perfectly and you make a mistake and you don't come

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00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 2: to my birthday, party That i'm out of. Here, now

487
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 2: let's be bigger than. That lest they committed to each

488
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 2: other through thick and. THIN i heard a story about

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00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 2: two young, Men jim And. Philip they were the best of.

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00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: Friends they did everything. Together they went to high school

491
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 2: and college. Together they played sports. Together even after, college

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00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 2: they both joined The. Marines they were, inseparable and one

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00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 2: day they were out on the battlefield In germany in

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00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 2: the midst of a very fierce. Battle gunfire was, everywhere

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00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 2: bombs were. Exploding it got so bad they were giving

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00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 2: the order to. Retreat as the men were running, Back

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00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 2: jim noticed that his Friend philip wasn't with. Him his

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00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 2: heart was gripped with. Fear he. Panicked he rushed over

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00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 2: to the commanding officer and requested permission to go back

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00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 2: into the battle. Zone the officer, said are you. Crazy

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00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 2: you don't have a. Chance they'd be committing suicide going

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00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 2: back in. There without missing a, Beat jim turned around ran,

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00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 2: back defying the. Orders in a few, minutes the officer

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00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 2: Saw jim hobbling back across the field carrying a lifeless

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00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: body in his. Arms it was his, Friend. Philip he

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00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 2: squeamed at. HIM i told you not to. Go you

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00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 2: could have been. KILLED i knew your friend was already.

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00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 2: Dead jim, said, no, sir you were. Wrong he was

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00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 2: still alive WHEN i got, there and his last words

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00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 2: WERE i knew you would come. Back and that's the

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00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 2: kind Of that's WHAT i want my friends in my

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00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 2: family to be able to say about. Me be, loyal stay,

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00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 2: committed stick up for each other when somebody falls when they're,

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00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 2: down don't kick, them don't criticize, them restore, them go to,

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00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 2: them pour the healing oil onto their. Wounds, remember mercy

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00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 2: is loyalty in. Action and when you're loyal to your,

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00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 2: family to your, country to your, friends then in your

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00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 2: time of, need you can be Assured god will have

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00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 2: somebody there for. You god rewards, Loyalty so let me

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00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 2: challenge you. Again be a person of. Honor don't be

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00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 2: a fair weathered, friend stay, committed stick up for each,

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00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: other defend your, family honor your. Parents if you'll keep

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00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 2: sowing these seeds of, Loyalty god has promised he'll pour

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00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 2: out his blessings and favor and you'll find that life

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00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 2: of victory That he has in. Store, amen do you

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Speaker 2: receive it this? MORNING i know you. Do we never

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Speaker 2: to Make jesus the lord of your. Life would you

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00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 2: pray with? Me just, Say, Lord, JESUS i repent of my.

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00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 2: Sins come into my. HEART i make you My lord and. Savior,

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Speaker 2: friends if you've prayed that simple, prayer we believe you

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Speaker 2: got born. Again get in a Good bible based, Church

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