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Speaker 4: But thanks so much for tuning in today. Thanks for

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Speaker 4: coming out again. I like to start with something funny

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Speaker 4: each week. And I heard about this teenager. He had

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Speaker 4: if he could borrow the car. The dad said, son,

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Speaker 4: I'll make a deal with you. If you bring your

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Speaker 4: grades up, read your Bible every day, and get your haircut,

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Speaker 4: I'll let you borrow the car. Months later, he came

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Speaker 4: back and asked about the car, and the dad said, son,

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Speaker 4: but you still haven't gotten your haircut. The son said, well, Dad,

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Speaker 4: I've been thinking about it. Moses had long hair, Sampson

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Speaker 4: had long hair, even Jesus had long hair. The dad

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Speaker 4: said yes, son, and they walked everywhere they went. Hold

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Speaker 4: up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 4: is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 4: to talk to you today about pushing people up. There

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Speaker 4: help them get to a new level. They are divinely

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Speaker 4: God will help you fulfill your dreams. On purpose, God

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Speaker 4: it says in Ecclesiastes eleven to one, give and your

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Speaker 4: have a product. Somebody we're believing in, somebody we've taken

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Speaker 4: They just need a little mentoring, a little training, a

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Speaker 4: little advice. Well, Joe, I'm busy. I've got my own goals,

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Speaker 4: they would never normally meet. What you send out is

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Speaker 4: me ask you today, who are you pushing up? Who

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Speaker 4: When I was nineteen and I first started working here

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Speaker 4: who I am, today, they wouldn't fit on this platform. Brothers, sisters, parents, cousins, friends, relatives.

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Speaker 4: The fact is none of us got to where we

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Speaker 4: Maybe so. But your mother stepped up. She worked twice

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Speaker 4: After four or five hours, he'd usually come home with

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Speaker 4: You can babysit someone's children, or you can teach someone

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Speaker 4: tips about what you know in your field. There's all

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Speaker 4: kinds of ways we can push people up and understand.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be something big in order to

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Speaker 4: make a big difference. Probably nobody has done more to

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Speaker 4: help mankind, at least in the field of medicine, than

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Speaker 4: doctor Michael DeBakey. He has spent his lifetime studying the heart.

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Speaker 4: Many of the procedures that linked in our lives today,

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Speaker 4: even the artificial heart, were developed by doctor DeBakey. But

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Speaker 4: do you know where it all really started. When he

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Speaker 4: was a little boy way back in the early nineteen hundreds,

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Speaker 4: his mother taught him how to sew. She took time

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Speaker 4: and invested into him. Little did she realize that small

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Speaker 4: seed that she planted in an eight year old boy

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Speaker 4: would one day grow and develop, and those hands would

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Speaker 4: become one of the most skilled surgeons that ever lived.

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Speaker 4: Take time to invest in those around you. Here's the key.

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Speaker 4: Start with your own family. Make sure you're pushing up

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Speaker 4: those that are closest to you. Don't take them for granted.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't be half of who I am today if

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Speaker 4: it was not for Victoria. She's always pushing me up.

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Speaker 4: In these days in families, there's competition in marriages, competition

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Speaker 4: in families. But if we can just realize the higher

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Speaker 4: we help others go, the higher we're going to go.

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Speaker 4: It's all connected. I've got to tell you my brothers, sisters,

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Speaker 4: brothers in law, sisters in law, they're always encouraging me,

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Speaker 4: so loyal, so supportive, no wonder, I'm so blessed. They

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Speaker 4: inspire me to want to return the favor. That's the

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Speaker 4: way it should be. Push your spouse up, push your

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Speaker 4: children up, push your cousin up, push your nephew up.

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Speaker 4: Push your grandparents up, start with your own family. One

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Speaker 4: more I left out, push your mother in law up

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Speaker 4: and not out. I read a story about a young

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Speaker 4: man named Patrick Henry. He was born with no eyes,

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Speaker 4: totally blind, and he had no ability to walk. He

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Speaker 4: couldn't fully straighten his arms and legs out. His parents

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Speaker 4: that little Patrick had an incredible gift for music. He

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Speaker 4: actually started to learn to play the piano at nine

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Speaker 4: months old. He grew up and not only became a

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Speaker 4: concert pianist, but he was a world class trumpet player.

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Speaker 4: He went to the University of Louisville and they invited

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Speaker 4: him to play in the marching band. Of course, he

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Speaker 4: couldn't march, he couldn't walk, he couldn't see. He was

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Speaker 4: in a wheelchair. But that didn't stop him. His father

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Speaker 4: resigned from his daytime job and he took an overnight

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Speaker 4: position at the mail company so he could be there

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Speaker 4: to help his son. The father attended every band practice,

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Speaker 4: He learned all the routines. I'm talking about a arching band,

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Speaker 4: not putting his child on the sideline and letting them

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Speaker 4: march around him. This father would push his child in

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Speaker 4: a wheelchair in perfect formation, zigging, zagging, grooving, moonwalking. You're

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Speaker 4: talking about pushing people up. When you watch them on

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Speaker 4: the field, you would have thought the father was the child.

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Speaker 4: He was so happy, he had a big smile, just

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Speaker 4: maneuvering that wheelchair. He told later, when their child was

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Speaker 4: first born, he and his wife said, God, why us,

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Speaker 4: What did we do to deserve a child like this?

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Speaker 4: Now they asked the question in a different light, God,

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Speaker 4: why us? What did we do to deserve such a

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Speaker 4: great child like this? A child that could bring us

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Speaker 4: so much joy, so much happiness. Let me ask you again,

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Speaker 4: are you pushing anybody up? Are you encouraging your family?

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Speaker 4: Are you investing your time and energy making someone else better?

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Speaker 4: Look around you. There are people in your life that

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Speaker 4: are connected to your joy, to your peace, to your dreams,

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Speaker 4: hold the key to your promotion. If you'll help them

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Speaker 4: go higher, then you're gonna go higher. When you give,

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Speaker 4: your gifts will come back to you. I heard somebody say,

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Speaker 4: if you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If

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Speaker 4: you want happiness for a month, get married. And I

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Speaker 4: didn't say this. If you want happiness for a year,

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Speaker 4: inherit a fortune, But if you want happiness for a lifetime,

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Speaker 4: help others. I'm asking us today to develop a habit

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Speaker 4: of pushing people up. When you take time to invest

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Speaker 4: in someone else, it doesn't go unnoticed. Every minute you

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Speaker 4: encourage that friend, every mile you go out of your

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Speaker 4: way to do a good deed, every penny you spend

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Speaker 4: to make someone else better. God sees that he's keeping

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Speaker 4: the records. He's not only gonna pay you back, He's

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Speaker 4: gonna multiply what you've sown. When you push people up,

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Speaker 4: you might as well get ready. The blessings are gonna

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Speaker 4: come down. You're gonna get breaks, You're gonna see favor.

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Speaker 4: New doors are gonna open. I believe because you're a giver,

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Speaker 4: because you're looking out for others, you're going to see

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Speaker 4: your dreams, your desires, every promise God put in you,

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Speaker 4: your goodness is gonna boomerang right back, and you're going

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Speaker 4: to see those promises come to pass. Amen. Do you

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Speaker 4: receive it today? We never like to close all broadcast

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Speaker 4: without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord

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Speaker 4: of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say

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Speaker 4: Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, come into my heart.

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Speaker 4: I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you

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Speaker 4: Get in a good Bible based church, Keep God first place.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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