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Speaker 4: I'd like to start with something funny. Heard about this

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Speaker 4: man named Bubba. He lived way out in the country

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Speaker 4: and there was this stray dog that kept showing up

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Speaker 4: at his house. His wife said, Bubba, you have to

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Speaker 4: Bubba drove him a mile down the road, dropped him off.

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Speaker 4: When he came back home, the dog was walking up

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Speaker 4: the driveway practically beat him back. He did the same thing.

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Speaker 4: It happened again. His wife said, Bubba, you have to

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Speaker 4: him all mixed up. Bubba drove him an hour away

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Speaker 4: crisscross country roads he had never driven down before, and

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Speaker 4: dropped the dog off. Two hours later. Bubba called his

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Speaker 4: wife from the truck and said, did that dog make

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Speaker 4: it back home? She said, yeah, here he comes walking up.

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Speaker 4: He said, do me a favor. Put him on the line.

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Speaker 4: I need directions. Say it like you mean it. This

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

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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'll boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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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 you have a defender.

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Speaker 4: We all have people that come against us, make negative comments,

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Speaker 4: trying to discredit us or belittle us. Human nature is

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Speaker 4: prove to them how they're wrong. We think we have

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Speaker 4: problem with this approach is as soon as you get

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Speaker 4: will always be somebody that's against you, somebody that's trying

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Speaker 4: You are spending emotional energy that you need for your dreams,

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Speaker 4: Those are all distractions. That's the enemy trying to debate

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Speaker 4: involved in battles that don't matter. Well, Joel, I'm upset

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Speaker 4: because I'm a good person. What they're saying about me

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Speaker 4: somebody's not going to like you. Somebody's going to try

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Speaker 4: How did he defend himself? How did he protect his reputation?

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Speaker 4: Says in one Peter. Even though he had never sinned

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Speaker 4: He left his case in the hands of God. I

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Speaker 4: wonder how much more peace you would have, how much

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Speaker 4: more you would enjoy your life, if you would start

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Speaker 4: Why don't you put your reputation in God's hands. I

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Speaker 4: They're not going to like you. Their intent on misunderstanding you.

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Speaker 4: don't want to give you the benefit of the doubt. Now,

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Speaker 4: don't go the next five years frustrated because they're negative

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Speaker 4: to be engaged in. It's time to leave that case

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Speaker 4: how you can pay them back. As long as you're

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Speaker 4: But when we make this decision. God, I'm turning this

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Speaker 4: That's when the creator of the universe will go to work.

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Speaker 4: When people try to push you down, God will lift

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Speaker 4: He'll turn it around and cause you to look good.

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Speaker 4: He'll cause you to shine. This is what happened in

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Speaker 4: the Scripture to Mordecai. He was a good man doing

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Speaker 4: didn't like him. Mordecai was a Jew. He wouldn't bow

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Speaker 4: read about a good deed that Mordecai had done. The

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Speaker 4: He said, Hayman, what do you think we should do

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Speaker 4: serve the king with excellence. Well, Hayman was so self

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Speaker 4: I love that idea. Now go find Mordecai and do

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Speaker 4: am I saying? God knows how to protect your reputation.

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Speaker 4: Why don't you put that case in his hands? Quit

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Speaker 4: spending all your time trying to defend yourself. You have

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Speaker 4: This is what Jesus did. He was disrespected. They called

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Speaker 4: He will take care of your critics. God will deal

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Speaker 4: put it this way, Psal, I'm sixty nine. Those who

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Speaker 4: People can dislike you without a cause. They don't even

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Speaker 4: They've never been to lunch with you, never heard your story.

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Speaker 4: It'd be one thing if they knew you and didn't

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Speaker 4: don't like you because you're happy, because you're successful, because

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Speaker 4: you're talented, because you're a different nationality. Life with David.

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Speaker 4: Are you going to get offended and try to straighten

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Speaker 4: get involved in a battle that you're not supposed to fight?

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Speaker 4: Stay on the high road. They don't control your destiny.

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Speaker 4: They're a distraction trying to lure you off course to

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Speaker 4: get involved in something that's not between you and your destiny.

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Speaker 4: One of the best things we can learn to do

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Speaker 4: But I keep right on praying to you. He was saying,

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