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Speaker 2: Perhaps you were born for such a time as this.

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Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to faith and freedom. I'm Shamain Najen.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Hey, thanks so much for having me back. Well,

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, as a fellow writer, I'm always curious. Do

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Speaker 5: Should be discussed as well.

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Speaker 8: The biggest concern is mostly coming from parents, because we

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Speaker 2: Is that too much to ask?

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Speaker 8: I mean, my best patience, the best sources of relationships

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Speaker 5: This open debate and dialogue. There are a lot of

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Speaker 8: Our diet, it's poor health choices and cavities.

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Speaker 5: There is nothing more than just.

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Speaker 8: One little sign of a symptom of a much larger,

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Speaker 2: I thank you so much for saying that, because it

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Speaker 8: I think you know, being right is necessary, but not sufficient,

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Speaker 8: health choices. For healthy individuals that do keep a great

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Speaker 8: time in human evolution where we did not have access

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Speaker 8: tapwater is a good thing, but here's the best approach.

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Speaker 8: You don't have to drink tap water either. And I

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Speaker 5: By the NIH and CDC of how much.

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Speaker 8: Water consumption does the average American do with tap water.

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Speaker 8: All of this may be for not because of the

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Speaker 8: pervasiveness of spring water, bottle water, other filtered water that

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Speaker 8: you take enough high dose of fluoride, it is toxic.

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Speaker 8: But we don't want people eating toothpaste sandwiches either, And

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Speaker 2: So you were just in Washington, d C. Talking about this.

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 8: So the interesting hot topic with this is that the

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Speaker 8: is concerned about that. As I think the next upcoming

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Speaker 5: And Florida isn't necessarily the enemy here.

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Speaker 8: Floride is not causing a lot of other things, especially

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Speaker 8: be very mindful of how do we address this to

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Speaker 8: not just saying well, if you don't florid then then

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Speaker 8: these other increased costs in dental disease or secondary to

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Speaker 8: dental disease. No, we need to be open, We need

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Speaker 8: any other products that are otherwise mandated to us, and

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Speaker 8: Fauci and others at the NIH that really kind of

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Speaker 2: Good way to put it. I've got about a minute left.

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Speaker 2: What's your thought on how RFK is handling health in America?

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Speaker 5: Fantastic?

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Speaker 8: I know that's only one word, but I would want

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Speaker 5: To reiterate the point, florid.

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Speaker 8: Is not as necessary for healthy teeth as it is

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Speaker 8: for having the right diet. Reduce your acidity, reduce your

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Speaker 8: processed foods, reduce your sugar consumption, and you're.

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Speaker 5: Not going to have abscesses all over your mouth.

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Speaker 8: And you're going to have fun appointments at your dentists

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Speaker 8: if you could belie eat me on that, to hear

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Speaker 5: Job you're doing brushing and flaussing and.

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Speaker 8: Using the rights daily home care, and you do not

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever had a fun appointment at

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Speaker 2: the dentist. Doctor, Frank, thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: That's why I have to come see you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining.

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Speaker 4: Meeblas, thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Don't go away.

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Speaker 6: Relish the opportunity to be an outside, because it's the

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Speaker 2: Perhaps you were born for such a time as this.

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Speaker 6: Relish the opportunity to be an outside because it's the

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Speaker 2: Perhaps you were born for such a time as this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Ted switch to America with chemaine beef.

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Speaker 2: We're going to actually go home and have a ribbi

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Speaker 2: It's not like you can go okay, God, cue the deer.

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Speaker 1: I think I got twenty nine days in a row

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Speaker 1: that the deer have avoided me. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: that is, but we have switched to America with Chamaine

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Speaker 1: beef to compensate for the days that the deer don't

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Speaker 1: show up. Yet, the best healthiest natural beef in the world.

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Speaker 5: I swear.

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Speaker 1: We believe in this stuff and what goes into the

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Speaker 1: Sacred Temple determines your quality of life and health and

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Speaker 1: quality beef like switch.

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Speaker 7: To America with Chamaine beef.

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Speaker 5: Is the best you can eat.

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Speaker 2: Now. Jackson's way up there. We got to go catch him.

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Speaker 2: How do you know what God's purpose for your life is?

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Speaker 2: Especially in a world that's trying desperately to pull us

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Speaker 2: in every direction but his and Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven,

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Speaker 2: God says, for I know the plans I have for you,

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Speaker 2: Plans to prosper and not harm you, plans to give

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Speaker 2: you hope and a future. Joining us now is Pastor

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Speaker 2: Anthony Thomas, pastor of Tip of the Spirit Church in Naples, Florida.

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Speaker 2: Pastor Anthony, how are you hey doing good?

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Speaker 5: Chamaine? How about yourself.

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Speaker 2: Doing good now that you're here? So what does it

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Speaker 2: actually look like to walk in your purpose?

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Speaker 9: I think here's the awesome thing I believe un that's

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Speaker 9: a core belief of mine. Every individual has a unique

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Speaker 9: part to play in God's big story, and that is

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Speaker 9: to me that your destiny. God formed your identity to

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Speaker 9: connect with your destiny or the part you're supposed to

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Speaker 9: play in this grand story of God's tapestry of people.

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Speaker 9: And to me, success in life is simply fulfilling that part.

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Speaker 9: We were supposed to play. And that to me, when

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Speaker 9: you are walking in the role that God made for you,

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Speaker 9: you are living an awesome, powerful, impacting and you will

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Speaker 9: have a successful life.

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Speaker 2: So how do we know that we're on the right path.

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Speaker 9: One of the ways you know you're on the right

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Speaker 9: path is first you have to know the author of

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Speaker 9: that path. The Bible says God is the author and

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Speaker 9: the finisher of our faith because only he knows.

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Speaker 5: Exactly the steps.

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Speaker 9: In fact, the Bible says, the steps of a godly

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Speaker 9: man or woman are ordered. When you get around the

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Speaker 9: author of your life, he begins to reveal to you

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Speaker 9: your purpose in this life, and you can feel it.

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Speaker 9: Your spirit inside of you when you're born again feels

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Speaker 9: when you were walking in your divine purpose and destiny,

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Speaker 9: because there's a grace on your life and there's a

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Speaker 9: strength that comes inside of you that will make you

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Speaker 9: powerful and your life will be impacting to those around

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Speaker 9: you because you're fulfilling your pardon.

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Speaker 2: Isaiah forty talks about those who wait upon the Lord's

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Speaker 2: shall renew their strength. But Pastor Anthony, waiting isn't always easy,

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Speaker 2: is it?

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Speaker 5: No, it's not.

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Speaker 9: But the awesome thing is waiting on the Lord. And

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Speaker 9: that's the difference. No one likes to wait for WIT's sake,

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Speaker 9: But when you're in God's presence, that's really what it's

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Speaker 9: talking about. The Apostle Paul said Ephesian six. He said,

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Speaker 9: my brethren, be strong in the Lord and the power

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Speaker 9: of his might. So we understand that strength is a person.

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Speaker 9: His name is Jesus. He is strength personified. And that's

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Speaker 9: why the Apostle Paul said, in my weakness is perfect.

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Speaker 9: When we get in the presence of God, we make

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Speaker 9: an exchange of our weakness, our frailties, our las, and

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Speaker 9: we exchange for god strengths because God knows exactly what

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Speaker 9: you and I are going to need to fulfill our

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Speaker 9: destiny and our life. The other thing about strength, that's powerful.

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Speaker 9: God commands us to be strong, he told Joshua. He said,

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Speaker 9: be strong and courageous, Do not be terrified, do not

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Speaker 9: be afraid, for the Lord, your God is with you

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Speaker 9: wherever you go. I learned this principle as a young boy.

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Speaker 9: My father is a rik or veteran fought in the

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Speaker 9: tet offensive. A man of man and a very strong man,

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Speaker 9: always has been, and I can remember as a boy

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Speaker 9: feeling safe wherever.

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Speaker 5: I went, as long as Pops was with me.

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Speaker 9: And that's the command when he gave to Joshua, he

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Speaker 9: said be strong and be courageous. But he tells them

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Speaker 9: at the end because I'm with you wherever you go.

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Speaker 9: So when someone is God strong, they're not strong in

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Speaker 9: their self, they're strong.

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Speaker 5: And who's with them. And when you know God is

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Speaker 5: with you, you can.

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Speaker 9: Be strong no matter where you're at or what situation

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Speaker 9: you're going through.

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Speaker 2: So let's say life throws you a curveball, something that

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Speaker 2: you didn't expect to see, and there's a delay or

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Speaker 2: flat out detour. What do we do? How do we

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Speaker 2: know that we're supposed to be strong? We know that

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Speaker 2: we're supposed to wait, But what are the actual steps

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Speaker 2: pastor Anthony that we should take.

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Speaker 9: The step says number one to get in the presence

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Speaker 9: of God, and that's through prayer. Because remember what throw

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Speaker 9: you and I a curveball, did not throw him one.

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Speaker 9: He is omniscient, he's omni president. You can't outthink him,

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Speaker 9: you can't hatch a plan where he can't see it.

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Speaker 5: He sees every single thing that's for you. He sees

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Speaker 5: every single thing that's against you, and you cannot outwit him.

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Speaker 5: That's why the Bible is one of the awesome terms.

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Speaker 5: He's matchless, he cannot be.

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Speaker 9: Beat And so when you get in his presence, we

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Speaker 9: can be honest with our feelings and our emotions and say, God,

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Speaker 9: I didn't see this coming. God, I'm hurting God, I

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Speaker 9: feel weak. That's the exchanging of our weakness to him.

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Speaker 9: But the awesome thing is when you get out of

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Speaker 9: the presence of God, there will be a strength upon

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Speaker 9: your life because you've been in the presence of the Almighty.

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Speaker 9: One of my favorite passage when God spoke of Joseph and.

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Speaker 5: What a life he lived.

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Speaker 9: I mean he had everything against him is family members

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Speaker 9: tried to break him, the government tried to break him,

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Speaker 9: colleagues tried to break them. I mean everything around this

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Speaker 9: man tried to break him. And God says at the

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Speaker 9: end in Genesis forty nine twenty four, it says his

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Speaker 9: bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands

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Speaker 9: were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God

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Speaker 9: of Jacob. And that tells me, and that tells you,

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Speaker 9: Shaman or anyone watching here, no matter what you're going through,

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Speaker 9: if God's hands are upon your life.

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Speaker 5: You will not break.

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Speaker 9: I know that all of us hit breaking points we

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Speaker 9: think God, I can go no longer, and that many

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Speaker 9: times is accurate in our own strength.

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Speaker 5: But it's in those moments when we get in the

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Speaker 5: hands of the Almighty that he he makes us strong

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Speaker 5: and he allows.

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Speaker 9: Our bow to not be broken in this thing called life.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that I love most about you

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Speaker 2: is when you preach, you're like fire. And I always

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Speaker 2: say that if Ted was a preacher, he would be

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Speaker 2: just like you. But you talk about things that a

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Speaker 2: lot of other pastors don't, which is spiritual warfare. Can

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Speaker 2: you describe for people what that is and how to

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Speaker 2: look out for that and how to protect yourself.

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Speaker 9: Spiritual warfare and its purest element is unseen forces that

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Speaker 9: are trying to break you. They want to remove you

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Speaker 9: out of your destiny. They want to destroy you. Jesus said,

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Speaker 9: the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, and so

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Speaker 9: he wants to wipe you out from you fulfilling your

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Speaker 9: purpose because he knows this. When God's purpose is on

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Speaker 9: your life, it will impact man for the Kingdom of God.

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Speaker 9: I love what you said about Ted, and I think

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Speaker 9: Ted is a preacher, and he has been preaching a

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Speaker 9: message all of us have. You're a preacher also, all

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Speaker 9: of us have messages that God has given us. Were

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Speaker 9: voices that have been prepared by God. God wants our

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Speaker 9: voice to go out to reach people, to impact them.

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Speaker 5: And one of my favorite words to encourage them, which

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Speaker 5: means to impart courage.

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Speaker 9: And when we can impart courage to other people, we

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Speaker 9: are fulfilling our destiny and why God put us on

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Speaker 9: the sarth.

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Speaker 2: So for the person watching right now and feeling a.

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Speaker 10: Little lost or unqualified, a little maybe doubting, what do

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Speaker 10: you say to help them step boldly into their destiny

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Speaker 10: that God's already prepared for them.

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Speaker 9: Obey the calling God's given you. If you don't know

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Speaker 9: what that is, ask him to reveal it to you.

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Speaker 9: But one of my favorite sayings is this, we are

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Speaker 9: qualified in his calling. Never called anyone that had what

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Speaker 9: they needed to fulfill his task in themself. That's pride.

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Speaker 9: When we're in humility, we understand that the call that

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Speaker 9: God's put on us is impossible to complete unless He

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Speaker 9: gives us grace to do it. Our confidence is the

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Speaker 9: fact that He who called us will give us strength wisdom, grace,

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Speaker 9: and tenacity.

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Speaker 5: To fulfill what he called us to do.

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Speaker 9: So I would encourage the viewers today stay within your calling.

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Speaker 9: Your calling is holy, it came from above. It will

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Speaker 9: impact many. And at the end of your life, if

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Speaker 9: you're obedient to the calling God gave you, you will

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Speaker 9: look back and go. I spent my life well in

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Speaker 9: fulfilling what my Master called me to do.

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Speaker 2: I love that. So for people who aren't in Naples, Florida,

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Speaker 2: they can watch you online. And where's that We're on

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Speaker 2: rumble We.

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Speaker 9: Got kicked off of YouTube. Go to Tip of the Spear.

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Speaker 9: You can look us up to the Spirit Church dot org.

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Speaker 9: And we have messages every week that are meant to

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Speaker 9: bring strength. God gave me a mandate, he said, I

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Speaker 9: want the messages to be fresh bread and a fresh

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Speaker 9: sword for people.

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Speaker 5: That was a mandate he gave for me. So every

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Speaker 5: week we come together.

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Speaker 9: That is my calling, is to get in His presence,

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Speaker 9: to get fresh bread to strengthen you and fresh sword

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Speaker 9: so you can go and be victorious in this fight

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Speaker 9: called life.

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Speaker 2: And if they're in Naples, Florida, where can they go

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Speaker 2: see you in person?

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Speaker 5: Just go online on that website. It shows.

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Speaker 9: We've rented out different buildings. I've never made the emphasis buildings.

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Speaker 9: The emphasis is on who's in the building, and if

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Speaker 9: Jesus is in the building, it's going to be an

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Speaker 9: awesome thing.

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Speaker 5: So we've met at different places. I've been very fluent.

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Speaker 9: Yes, I'd love a building someday, but the emphasis has

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Speaker 9: never been on the building.

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Speaker 5: It's that Jesus is there when you come in the building.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Pastor Anthony Thomas, thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for joining me as always. And we should do more

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Speaker 2: on spiritual warfare. What do you say?

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Speaker 5: I would love to Chamaine.

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Speaker 9: We live in a time right now or I believe

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Speaker 9: we're about ready to enter in some of the greatest

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Speaker 9: exploits that we've seen, and it's going to mean we're

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Speaker 9: going to have to be tenacious to bring this thing

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Speaker 9: to finality.

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Speaker 2: So I would be honored to awesome faster. Anthony Thomas,

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Speaker 2: thank you again, God bless God.

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Speaker 5: Bless you. Chamaine. Take care and I have a wonderful day.

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Speaker 2: You too, don't go away much more to come relish.

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Speaker 6: The opportunity to be an outsider, because it's the outside

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Speaker 6: is to change the world.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps you were born for such a time as this.

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Speaker 6: Relish the opportunity to be an outsider, because it's the

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Speaker 6: outside is to change the world.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps you were born for such a time as this.

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Speaker 2: Water is important. Doctor Frank was on talking about fluoride

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Speaker 2: in the water, and there's a lot of other things,

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Speaker 2: days in office have comment gone, and while there's still

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Speaker 2: much to do for the Trump administration, let's take a

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Speaker 2: look at how he's delivering on the promises he made.

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Speaker 2: Here to discuss is political commentator Eduardo neret nee Nerett. Sorry, Eduardo,

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Speaker 2: great to have you with us. Okay, sorry about that.

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Speaker 2: People usually get my name wrong, so I apologize. So

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Speaker 2: let's get right into this. Trump made immigration a top priority,

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Speaker 2: and unlike most politicians, he actually followed through. Imagine that,

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Speaker 2: do you think he delivered on closing the border?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely?

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Speaker 11: And I should say before answering or I guess assessing

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Speaker 11: his first sixty days in office where I was personally

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Speaker 11: the last time he left office, because I think it

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Speaker 11: gives my answer in my view a little more credibility.

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Speaker 11: So I have voted for Trump in every single election

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Speaker 11: he's been on the ballot. I thought his first term

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Speaker 11: was terrific until we got to COVID. I felt like

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Speaker 11: that last year, whether it was because the Washington bureaucrats

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Speaker 11: found their way to go around him, or for whether

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Speaker 11: he trusted them too much. And then, like you said,

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Speaker 11: on immigration, especially on that issue, I felt like he

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Speaker 11: left office and we didn't get the wall as promised,

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Speaker 11: We didn't deport enough legal immigrants, and even at times

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Speaker 11: under Trump, we had those caravans.

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Speaker 4: So going into this second.

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Speaker 11: Term, I of course supported him, but I myself was worried,

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Speaker 11: you know, was he going to be able to fulfill

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Speaker 11: in these things he said he was going to do

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Speaker 11: on day one, whether it was the slew of executive orders,

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Speaker 11: whether it was shutting down the border, and whether it

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Speaker 11: was doing the deportations and so I have to say

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Speaker 11: I was totally wrong about having those doubts. He has

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Speaker 11: proved me wrong many many times over. In his first

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Speaker 11: sixty days in office, he has border crossings are down

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Speaker 11: ninety percent. We just got the numbers yesterday. He has

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Speaker 11: deported one hundred thousand illegal immigrants, many of them criminals,

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Speaker 11: in his first sixty days in office, and I'm hoping

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Speaker 11: he will up those numbers. So on the issue of

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Speaker 11: immigration alone, he just proved that the entire Biden line

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Speaker 11: of Biden was arguing and the Democrats were arguing, well,

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Speaker 11: we need new laws to be passed by Congress to

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Speaker 11: secure the border. It's out of our hands. He proved

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Speaker 11: that all of that was a lie in less than

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Speaker 11: sixty days, and it's just been amazing to watch. And hopefully,

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Speaker 11: not only can he keep it going, but what I'm

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Speaker 11: looking for is the Congress to actually codify these things

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Speaker 11: into law so that a future Democrat president can't come

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Speaker 11: in and then undo all of this via executive order.

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Speaker 2: Now, President Trump has been big on peace through strength,

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Speaker 2: specifically with Russia and Ukraine. What do you think about

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Speaker 2: that strategy? Has it worked?

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Speaker 4: It's working? I mean, I think it's going to take

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Speaker 4: more time. But it's another remarkable thing to see from

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Speaker 4: an American president.

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Speaker 11: It's been decades, I think, since we've seen American presidents

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Speaker 11: go to the world stage, friends and enemies alike, and explain,

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Speaker 11: we're the United States, we pay for many things around

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Speaker 11: the world, we help the world run, we help the

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Speaker 11: world work, and.

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Speaker 4: We can basically do this two ways.

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Speaker 11: We can make it easier for everyone where we actually

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Speaker 11: can get along, or we can make it tough for you.

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Speaker 11: But what we are not going to do, and what

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Speaker 11: Trump is no longer going to accept, is the United

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Speaker 11: States being taken advantage of, whether again it's from our

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Speaker 11: friends in Europe or whether it's from our adversaries like

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Speaker 11: Russian and China. So what I think he's doing is remarkable,

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Speaker 11: and you can tell just by the reaction from the

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Speaker 11: Washington d C elites.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 11: So, these are the same people who have run foreign

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Speaker 11: policy for the last several decades, and they claim to

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Speaker 11: be so annoyed and so bothered by the way Trump

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Speaker 11: is doing things.

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Speaker 4: And the reason for that is He's proving that.

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Speaker 11: Their entire existence, their entire theology, if you will, the

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Speaker 11: entire way that they've tried doing things for the last

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Speaker 11: several decades hasn't worked. And he's proving that all it

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Speaker 11: takes is a little muscle. All it takes sometimes is

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Speaker 11: understanding our role and the we have to achieve these

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Speaker 11: things like peace, And why anyone wouldn't want peace to

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Speaker 11: meet is unbelievable. I mean, will we be able to

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Speaker 11: get putin to agree to these things? Will we able

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Speaker 11: to get peace.

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Speaker 4: In the Middle East? Time will tell. But what is

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Speaker 4: the harm in trying?

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Speaker 11: And I think that's all President Trump is doing by

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Speaker 11: coming to the table and say we need to achieve peace,

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Speaker 11: Let's stop the killing.

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Speaker 4: And actually it will benefit everyone.

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Speaker 11: It'll benefit all of us economically, it'll benefit the world

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Speaker 11: if we can end some of these wars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he said it before. If he found a

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Speaker 2: cure for cancer, somehow, the Democrats would be bucking at that.

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Speaker 2: He's also taken heat for DOGE and cutting back on

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Speaker 2: government spending, which for some reason drives the left crazy.

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Speaker 2: Why do you think they have such a problem with

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Speaker 2: fiscal responsibility.

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Speaker 4: It's much more than fiscal responsibility.

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Speaker 11: I think because they realize that DOGE has the potential

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Speaker 11: and they're already doing this, but it is exposing the

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Speaker 11: entire Democrat slush fund that has existed in Washington for

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Speaker 11: the last thirty forty fifty years.

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Speaker 4: And what do I mean by that.

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Speaker 11: You take some of these members of Congress, so they

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Speaker 11: allocate spending through things like USAID, They use millions and millions,

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Speaker 11: if not billions, and taxpayer dollars to go to these

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Speaker 11: what are so called nonprofits, and a lot of times

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Speaker 11: they're Democrat friends, their Democrat donors, their spouses.

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Speaker 4: They live off of these nonprofits.

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Speaker 11: And what Elon and Doese were able to expose is

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Speaker 11: some of these organizations operating again supposedly as charities, were

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Speaker 11: taking in billions and billions of dollars that were paying

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Speaker 11: their board members high six figure salaries two three four

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Speaker 11: hundred thousand dollars a year to push left wing agendas

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Speaker 11: and left wing initiatives here at home and overseas.

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Speaker 4: So it was really what was.

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Speaker 11: Enabling the Democrat gravy train is what I call it,

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Speaker 11: to continue, whereas you can always increase government funding and

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Speaker 11: it's always going to go to Democrat causes. I think

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Speaker 11: that's why they were so bent out of shape about it.

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Speaker 11: But something else interesting that Doge has exposed is that

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Speaker 11: really the legacy media is dead, and that was something

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Speaker 11: that Donald Trump helped kill off. He helped destroy the

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Speaker 11: legacy media, and that might be one of his most

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Speaker 11: important achievements, really, one that isn't talked about enough in

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Speaker 11: his first sixty days in office. And what I mean

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Speaker 11: by that is, we've seen all the media bloviating about Doge.

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Speaker 11: We've seen these sort of fake protests, these organized protests

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Speaker 11: go out there, and yet the polling remains the same.

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Speaker 11: The Democrat Party's popularity amongst the American people has never

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Speaker 11: been lower. So what that tells me is is despite

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Speaker 11: all the protests, despite all the hyperventilating by the mainstream media,

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Speaker 11: they can go on and on about it, and it

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Speaker 11: just won't work with the American people anymore. The American

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Speaker 11: people aren't going to buy into that. They aren't listening,

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Speaker 11: and so they can go on and on and on

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Speaker 11: about it, but it really is having no effect in

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Speaker 11: how the American people view Trump, Elon or the Democrat Party.

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Speaker 2: And here's another shift. Voters eighteen to twenty four are

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Speaker 2: shifting towards President Trump, and that's not what the media expected.

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Speaker 2: What do you think is driving that change?

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Speaker 11: Eduardo Economics economics and victimhood culture. So first on economics,

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Speaker 11: I think many people grew up in a country thinking,

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Speaker 11: if I just get a college degree and if I

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Speaker 11: just work hard, if I put in the shift at work,

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Speaker 11: maybe I won't end up being a millionaire, but I

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Speaker 11: am guaranteed to have a better life than my parents.

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Speaker 4: That was the promise of the American dream.

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Speaker 11: And for the last ten or fifteen years, you talk

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Speaker 11: about these young first time voters, eighteen to twenty some

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Speaker 11: year olds, these college voters, they grew up during the

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Speaker 11: Great Recession. They have seen years and years of these

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Speaker 11: promises fall through the cracks. They have seen their parents

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Speaker 11: grow up in an economy where even on a median wage,

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Speaker 11: you know, ten twenty thirty years ago, Americans could afford

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Speaker 11: to buy a home. The home ownership rates for our

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Speaker 11: parents was much different than the ability to own a

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Speaker 11: home right now. So I think growing up through that

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Speaker 11: and then being in an economy where you had rampant inflation,

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Speaker 11: where now it is basically impossible for someone just coming

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Speaker 11: out of college to buy a home, that has not

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Speaker 11: resonated well with young Americans, and they're looking at the

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Speaker 11: Democrat message and saying, you people were in charge for

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Speaker 11: a lot of this. You people have defended and haven't

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Speaker 11: talked about it. Trump is the only one talking about it,

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Speaker 11: So why am I going to vote for you? So

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Speaker 11: that's certainly one element of things. And the other thing

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Speaker 11: is the victimhood mentality. I think the entire left, when

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Speaker 11: you look at college campuses, when you look at young Americans,

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Speaker 11: this woke culture, which I know that's a term that's

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Speaker 11: thrown around a lot, but if we can narrow it,

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Speaker 11: it's this idea that straight white men or Christian men

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Speaker 11: and women are responsible for all the problems in the

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Speaker 11: United States. Minorities are inherently good people. If you're white,

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Speaker 11: you're an inherently bad person, and especially if you're a

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Speaker 11: young male on a college campus, because I think we

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Speaker 11: saw young men, especially trend towards Donald Trump. And you're

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Speaker 11: existing on a college campus where everyone telling is telling

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Speaker 11: you that you're the source of all their problems, that

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Speaker 11: you're a bad person simply for an immutable characteristic right

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Speaker 11: characteristic you can't change about yourself. Eventually, if you demonize

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Speaker 11: those people enough, they're not going to vote for you.

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Speaker 11: And so I think that's what we saw with a

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Speaker 11: lot of young Americans, particularly young men again on the

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Speaker 11: issue of economics. And then again there's just tired of

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Speaker 11: this victimhood, tired of being attacked for everything, saying I'm

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Speaker 11: going to go with the guy who's going to defend me.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to go with the guy.

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Speaker 11: Who just wants every single American to have an equal

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Speaker 11: shot and to be treated not for certain characteristics, not

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Speaker 11: for the color of their skin, not for their sex,

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Speaker 11: but treated based on their character and what they're able

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Speaker 11: to contribute to society.

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Speaker 2: Edward, Oh, thank you so much. This has been great.

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Speaker 2: I hope you come back on again soon, will you?

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Speaker 11: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to anytime.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, God bless take. Okay, couple of announcements.

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Speaker 2: I am back on Facebook, but we'll see how long

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Speaker 2: that lasts. So you can follow me once again on Facebook.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for sticking with me. I share my story

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Speaker 2: and what happened and what I'm actually doing about it

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Speaker 2: or may not be doing, but I'll tell you more

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Speaker 2: about that on Instagram. You can check out my Instagram

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Speaker 2: what time it is. It's the end of the show

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Speaker 2: and we got to show you this take it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about funny pet videos this week

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Speaker 2: kind of scary, but they were still fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed them. Don't forget esther four to

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Speaker 2: fourteen reminds us that perhaps you were born for such

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Speaker 2: a time as this. I think about that every time

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Speaker 2: I do this show and I do social media. Should

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Speaker 2: I speak out? Should I say things that might get

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Speaker 2: me banned on Facebook or other social platforms? And as

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Speaker 2: Pastor Anthony has been telling us, yeah, we're in the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter right now. If this we're a basketball game,

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Speaker 2: we're looking at the fourth corner, the fourth quarter. These

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Speaker 2: are the beginnings of end of times. Nobody knows the time.

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Speaker 2: It could be another one hundred years, but we do

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Speaker 2: need to speak out and find our calling and find

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Speaker 2: our purpose. Thank you guys so much for being here.

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Speaker 2: God bless you. I'll be here every Sunday. I hope

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Speaker 2: you will too. Please share this show and have a

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Speaker 2: great rest of your day.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's the opportunity to be an outside because it's

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Speaker 6: the outside is to change the world.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps you were born for such a time as this.