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Speaker 1: Michael Verry Show is on the air.

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Speaker 2: It's Charlie from BlackBerry's Mother.

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Speaker 3: I can feel a good one coming on.

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Speaker 4: It's the Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 1: Yes it is. It's the Friday Drive Home.

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Speaker 3: Ah.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, it was a story out of San Francisco

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Speaker 2: this week that I didn't get to, and I marked

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Speaker 2: it with a post it note. I wanted to make

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Speaker 2: sure that we get this conversation in because it's not

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Speaker 2: It's never about the actual incident, a shooting, an arrest.

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Speaker 2: It's about the extent to which it represents a bigger pattern.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's start with the story.

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Speaker 2: A black activist in San Francisco, who led the Human

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Speaker 2: Rights Commission for San Francisco and constantly preached about initiatives

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Speaker 2: to benefit the city's black community, has been arrested for

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Speaker 2: stealing taxpayer dollars. Oh that's a shocker. Wonder what he's

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Speaker 2: spent it on you don't know, already know, a lavish

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Speaker 2: lifestyle of trips, sports tickets.

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Speaker 1: And showing off.

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Speaker 2: Because why steal all this money if you can't spend

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Speaker 2: it on cars and trips in instagrammable crap she's facing

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Speaker 2: seventeen felony charges and these initiatives that she took taxpayer

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Speaker 2: dollars and took it for herself like she was Black

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Speaker 2: Lives Matter. They were created after Saint George Floyd overdosed

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Speaker 2: and supposedly the cops were bad. She stole more than

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Speaker 2: three hundred thousand dollars. Prosecutors say the story from kron TV.

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Speaker 5: After being tipped by a whistleblower and an eighteen month investigation,

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Speaker 5: San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has filed seventeen felony

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Speaker 5: charges against Cheryl Davis, the former executive director of San

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Speaker 5: Francisco's Human Rights Commission, alleging financial misconduct in the way

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Speaker 5: she distributed and used city funds for the dream Keeper Initiative,

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Speaker 5: the program designed to reinvest in San Francisco's black community.

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Speaker 6: We have to hold government actors accountable, certainly when they

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Speaker 6: are abusing the trust of San Franciscans, when they are

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Speaker 6: abusing taxpayer dollars and in this case, using funds that

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Speaker 6: were supposed to be targeted and given to the black

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Speaker 6: community to actually engage in a reinvestment in an uplifting

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Speaker 6: of community, to help children and that money was lost

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Speaker 5: James Spingolo, the former executive director of the nonprofit Collective Impact,

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Speaker 5: which Davis used to run, was also charged with four felonies.

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Speaker 5: Prosecutors allege in addition to misappropriating funds, Davis had numerous

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Speaker 5: conflicts of interest.

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Speaker 6: We did find that a portion of this money was

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Speaker 6: spent in a manner that was self dealing and was

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Speaker 6: for her benefit and the benefit of her brand, ultimately

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Speaker 6: her finances, and paid for things that it was not intended.

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Speaker 5: To be used for.

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Speaker 2: The charges are a distortion of the truth.

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Speaker 4: What they do is they make it look like doctor

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Speaker 4: Davis was misappropriating funds for her own benefit.

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Speaker 5: Davis's attorney, Tony Brass, says what actually happened was the

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Speaker 5: city hired Davis, gave her no training in government worker

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Speaker 5: managing city money, and now is blaming her.

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Speaker 4: Sure, it yields an imperfect result, but that's what it is.

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Speaker 6: It's not felonious conduct.

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Speaker 5: The DA says the investigation is far from over. That

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Speaker 5: can mean more charges for these two or additional arrests.

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Speaker 1: It's bigger than that story.

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Speaker 2: It's how often the people who are claiming to do

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Speaker 2: good and trying to shame you while they get money.

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Speaker 2: Are actually scoundrels, absolute scoundrels. Welfare fraud, scholarship fraud, Gavin

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Speaker 2: Newsome and all the frauds there. These people are scoundrels,

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Speaker 2: and for some reason people can't admit that. Learn from

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Speaker 2: your mistakes. They're awful. They're not trying to solve the world.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to part you and your money. Period. Stop

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Speaker 2: with the guilt. The guilt is unhealthy, Sidle. You're destroying

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Speaker 2: American culture over the fear that you caused black people

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Speaker 2: be violent.

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Speaker 1: That's not on you. You heard it from me. Let

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Speaker 1: me convince you that is not on you. It's not

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Speaker 1: your fault. The failings of other people are not your fault.

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Speaker 1: You can't fix other people.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how else to say that, because what

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Speaker 2: they're doing is using their own failings, illegitimacy of you know,

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Speaker 2: fatherless homes, violence and all that your fault.

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Speaker 1: Broken countries your fault. It's not your fault. What you're

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Speaker 1: doing is good and decent, and you don't know anybody

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Speaker 1: a penny, how about that, A bunch of questions about

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Speaker 1: Pam Bondi and all me.

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Speaker 2: Look, I got a whole presentation on this next week.

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Speaker 1: It's natural. Trump is a leader.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you've got to churn your staff, up your team

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Speaker 2: and bring in fresh voices.

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Speaker 1: It's just let's leave it at that.

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Speaker 2: I want you to join them on the front. Pew

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Speaker 2: or a sermon that is going to challenge perspectives and

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Speaker 2: ignite hearts with the transformative power of the message of Christ.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about a renowned preacher by the name of

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Speaker 2: John Piper and his message about how Jesus defeated our

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Speaker 2: greatest enemy from the inside. So picture this a battle

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Speaker 2: of cosmic proportions, raging not on distant battlefields, but within

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Speaker 2: you know, your demons, against all that seeks to separate

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Speaker 2: us from the love of God. And in this struggle

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Speaker 2: stands Christ, our savior, our redeemer, our ultimate champion. In

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Speaker 2: this sermon, as you're going to hear, John Piper takes

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Speaker 2: us on a journey into the heart of this I mean,

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Speaker 2: it really is spiritual warfare, revealing that Christ doesn't just

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Speaker 2: defeat sin and death from the outside, but from within,

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Speaker 2: not just foreign enemies but domestic. Literally, the depths of

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Speaker 2: human broke brokenness, as we said, brokeness, but brokenness is

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Speaker 2: what he penetrated, our struggling, our suffering, our temptations, and

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Speaker 2: the ultimate victory. It's a beautiful message Jesus, you think

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Speaker 2: about it didn't just come to earth as some distant

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Speaker 2: observer passing judgment from afar. He walked among us, felt

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Speaker 2: what we feel, experienced our pain. He was made man,

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Speaker 2: was made of the flesh, just like us, our sorrows,

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Speaker 2: our humanity, our pain, our suffering, and in that he

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Speaker 2: conquered the very forces that sought to destroy us. Astor

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Speaker 2: John Piper unpacks what I consider to be a profound truth,

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Speaker 2: and he does it with what was his clarity conviction,

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Speaker 2: and he talks about how this is not just a

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Speaker 2: one time event, but an ongoing, continual, consistent reality, and

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Speaker 2: it is available to us today through his death and resurrection.

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Speaker 2: Jesus broke the power of sin and death once and

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Speaker 2: for all, offering us the hope, the prayer, the opportunity

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Speaker 2: of new life and freedom in him.

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Speaker 7: 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: it fitting and wise and just and beautiful and good

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Speaker 4: and right that the one who would reign over humans,

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

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Speaker 4: will rule should also redeem. That the one who will

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Speaker 4: want to commit suicide rather than face his judgment. That

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

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Speaker 4: one who sits upon the throne of the universe, calling

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Speaker 4: and said, I will save you.

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Speaker 3: 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 4: He suffered all of our temptations, He took all of

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

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Speaker 4: Listen to Hebrews two ten. For it was fitting that He,

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Speaker 4: for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing

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

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

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

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Speaker 4: 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: Him, killed him, and he let him do it. Nobody

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Speaker 2: Jacs says, come under a lot of suspicion of Late

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Speaker 2: for his personal life or his personal behaviors, for his money.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: I can't speak to any of that.

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Speaker 1: But I can tell you.

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Speaker 2: That he has a God given talent to preach, and

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Speaker 2: that when he's preaching, he has a voice that booms

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Speaker 2: I do think it has captured hearts and souls for Christ.

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Speaker 2: And I think he's in the Hall of Fame of

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Speaker 2: Christ gatherers Christ ministers for that. Pete Rose may have

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Speaker 2: had some personal indiscretions, but you can't doubt what he

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Speaker 2: did on the field So as we delve into on

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Speaker 2: open your hearts and minds to the wisdom and inspiration

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Speaker 2: that is not that of TDJS, but God who speaks

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Speaker 2: through us.

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Speaker 7: I hope you enjoy this. That's absolutely a perilous time.

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Speaker 7: It was a time that Jesus had forewarned them about,

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Speaker 7: but they did not understand. It was a time that

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Speaker 7: their faith was being challenged in a way that it

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Speaker 7: it was no longer popular to say you were with Jesus.

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Speaker 7: They had snatched him from judgment hall to judgment hall.

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Speaker 7: They had beat him until he was almost unrecognizable. There

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Speaker 7: was no beauty about him that we should desire him.

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Speaker 7: And they had hung him high, had stretched him wide

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Speaker 7: And one writer wrote, the graves opened up all over Jerusalem.

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Speaker 7: The veil of the temple was rent from the top

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Speaker 7: that even even his closest disciples wondered was he really?

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Speaker 1: Was he really?

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Speaker 7: Who they thought he was after him being publicly villainized

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Speaker 7: and ostracized and alienated. They ran and they hid, and

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Speaker 7: It's not night anymore, Church, It's morning. Wipe the tears

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Speaker 2: It's the Michael Verry Show, the Place of where Woke

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Speaker 1: Reverend Billy Green.

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Speaker 2: What a level of influence he had, undoubtedly the most

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the real message of it all. Reverend

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Speaker 2: Billy Graham proclaiming that Jesus is alive.

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Speaker 3: You know, they only brought three charges against him.

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Speaker 3: One, they said, this man loves sinners. The second he

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Speaker 3: They laid him away in a tomb. And when they

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Speaker 1: He has risen, He's alive.

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Speaker 2: That is powerful stuff right there. As my pastor used

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Speaker 3: Yes, Jesus Christ is alive. He rose from the dead.

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Speaker 3: thou comest into thy kingdom? Will you remember me? Lord?

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Speaker 3: And then Jesus gave one of the most astounding answers

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Speaker 3: in the history of the world. The angels in hea

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Speaker 3: and must have been shaken and startled and amazed when

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Speaker 3: they heard what Jesus. Jesus said today today, how shalt

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Speaker 3: be with me in Paradise