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Speaker 1: I look forward to our specials we do every year

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Speaker 1: Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day, and Memorial Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: But Easter is the most important of them all to

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Speaker 1: me because Easter is the manifestation of everything. I believe

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Speaker 1: the birth and death of Christ are very important, but

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Speaker 1: the resurrection is to me, the inspiration. That's the beautiful part.

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Speaker 1: So I look forward to the show and I hope

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Speaker 1: you enjoy it as we always to get a start,

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Speaker 1: as we always do courtesy the greatest executive producer and

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Speaker 1: all the land, Chattaconi Nakanishi. I go into tex Mex

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Speaker 1: restaurant and this blows my mind alone, and they don't

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Speaker 1: have chips and sauce, and you have to add asked

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Speaker 1: for it. I'm like, by God, the Russians have won.

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Speaker 1: A good Text Mex experience is to walk in and

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Speaker 1: there's some guy who doesn't wait table. He's about four

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Speaker 1: or eleven. You sit down and he slides that basket

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Speaker 1: of piping hot tortilla chips in front of him.

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Speaker 2: Oh Man was stabbed at a mortuary in Southwest Houston.

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Speaker 3: He said.

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Speaker 2: Police say that he went to look for his mother's body,

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Speaker 2: only to find several others lying in the open.

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Speaker 3: Discover their deceased loved one was left decomposing in a

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Speaker 4: No ac She described conditions as deplorable.

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Speaker 1: They have nats, they and foxes.

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Speaker 4: A confrontation broke out with a mortuary worker.

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Speaker 1: Tamara's brother was stabbed and rushed to the hospital. Did

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you wanna fight me.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stab you and guess what when you die,

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Speaker 1: your family's punishment, he is, We're gonna do the funeral.

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Speaker 3: No, not that too.

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Speaker 5: Dale King wipes away a tear as she rides along

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Speaker 5: with Katie Perry and four other fellow astronauts to the

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Speaker 2: just a rich people saying, you're not looking at the

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Speaker 1: The concept of being an astronaut. These guys were the

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Speaker 1: best of the best. They were mental giants, they were

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Speaker 1: physical giants. And now we've got this cosplay of Gail King.

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Speaker 1: Anything Gail King does is therefore necessarily not impressive.

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Speaker 4: We're the prize patrol of the publishers clearing now by

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Speaker 1: We could surprise you now Publisher's clearing House, it's filing

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Speaker 1: for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. You didn't know they were

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Speaker 1: still around that whole setup. Man, I'm slogging. My life's miserable,

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Speaker 1: but maybe I'll win the publisher's and clearing Clappy Eastern.

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Speaker 1: I want you to join them on the front pew

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Speaker 1: for a sermon that is going to challenge perspectives and

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Speaker 1: ignite hearts with the transformative power of the message of Christ.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about a renowned preacher by the name of

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Speaker 1: John Piper and his message about how Jesus defeated our

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Speaker 1: greatest enemy from the inside. So picture this a battle

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Speaker 1: of cosmic proportions, raging not on distant battlefields, but within

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Speaker 1: the very depths of our souls. A tempest in a

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Speaker 1: teapot of our own individual souls, a battle against sin, darkness,

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Speaker 1: you know, your demons, against all that seeks to separate

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Speaker 1: us from the love of God. And in this struggle

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Speaker 1: stands Christ, our savior, our redeemer, our ultimate champion. In

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Speaker 1: this sermon, as you're going to hear, John Piper takes

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Speaker 1: us on a journey into the heart of this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it really is spiritual warfare, revealing that Christ doesn't just

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Speaker 1: defeat sin and death from the outside, but from within,

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Speaker 1: not just foreign enemies but domestic. Literally the depths of

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Speaker 1: is what he penetrated, our struggling, our suffering, our temptations,

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Speaker 1: distant observer passing judgment from afar. He walked among us,

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Speaker 1: felt what we feel, experienced our pain. He was made man,

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Speaker 1: conquered the very forces that sought to distress. Pastor John

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Speaker 1: Piper unpacks what I considered to be a profound truth,

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Speaker 1: and he does it with what was his clarity conviction,

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Speaker 1: it is available to us today through his death and resurrection.

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Speaker 1: Jesus broke the power of sin and death once and

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Speaker 3: Here we go.

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Speaker 4: In the beginning was the Word, and the word was

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Speaker 4: with God, and the Word was God. Jesus Christ is God,

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Speaker 4: and therefore he has divine rights, creator rights to subdue

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Speaker 4: all reality under his feet. However, there is another sense

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Speaker 4: in the New Testament is that God the Father thought

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Speaker 4: it fitting and wise and just and beautiful and good

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Speaker 4: he assumes his role as reigning judge over them. There

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Speaker 4: the Lion of Judah will first be the lamb slain

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Speaker 4: on the cross for the sins of those he's coming

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Speaker 4: to damn if they reject him. It is fitting that

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Speaker 5: I will save you if you will have me.

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Speaker 4: It is so fitting that God would do it this way,

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Speaker 4: and he did it this way. He doesn't just rule

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Speaker 5: His redeemer purchased rights.

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Speaker 4: He came among us, He bore our sin, He suffered

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Speaker 4: all of our temptations, He took all of our pain,

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Speaker 4: he took all of our shame. So that he has

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Speaker 4: has a redeemer right. There will be a fitness about it.

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Speaker 4: perfect through suffering. That's a heavy verse. That's an awesome verse.

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Speaker 4: I'll read it again. This is Hebrews two ten. For

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Speaker 4: it is fitting that he, this is God, the Father,

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Speaker 4: Jesus should make the founder of their salvation perfect. Through suffering,

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Speaker 4: the Lord, the Judge, the savior over the universe was tested.

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Speaker 4: He didn't just go up there, he was tested. He

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Speaker 4: all of your temptations, and he conquered. Satan took hold

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Speaker 4: Nobody takes my life from me. I lay it down,

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Speaker 4: He handed his life over to Satan's blast weapon and

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Speaker 5: It's another work week in the books, getting you geared.

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Speaker 1: Up the weekend, It's the Friday drive home. On the

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Speaker 1: Michael Berry Show, Bishop T. D. Jake says, come under

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Speaker 1: a lot of suspicion of Late for his personal life,

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Speaker 1: for his personal behaviors, for his money. But I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what. I can't speak to any of that, But

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that he has a God given

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Speaker 1: a voice that booms like thunder and a spirit that

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Speaker 1: ignites like wildfire. And I do think it has captured

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame of Christ gatherers Christ ministers for that.

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Speaker 1: Pete Rose may have had some personal indiscretions, but you

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Speaker 1: can't doubt what he did on the field. So as

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Speaker 1: but God who speaks through us. I hope you enjoy this.

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Speaker 3: It was absolutely a perilous time. It was a time

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Speaker 3: It was a time that their faith was to being

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Speaker 3: It was a time that it was no longer popular

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Speaker 3: until he was almost unrecognizable. There was no beauty about

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Speaker 3: just on Friday. It was a dark Saturday. It was

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Speaker 3: Transfiguration and caused the very heavens to open up. The

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Speaker 3: was gone. He was absolutely gone. His mama knew he

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Speaker 3: this is too much for me to bear. Thomas had

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Speaker 3: know what to think about this. Peter had cursed somebody

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Speaker 3: And the tension was so thick you could cut it

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Speaker 3: he had stopped the widow of Name and touched the

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Speaker 1: Reverend Billy Graham. What a level of influence he had,

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Speaker 5: You know, they only brought three charges against him. To

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Speaker 5: Yes, Jesus Christ is alive. He rose from the dead.

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