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Speaker 4: about this man. He was the only Protestant in a

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Speaker 4: his steak, saying, you were born a cow, you raised

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Speaker 4: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about knowing it

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Speaker 4: for about nine months, a friend of mine called me secretly.

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Speaker 4: She said, Joel, I just talk to Victoria. Don't tell

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Speaker 4: God loves you right now. He loved you when you

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Speaker 4: John was written by the disciple John. What's interesting is

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Speaker 4: He never referred to himself as John. When he talked

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