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Hello everyone, and welcome to

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Christian Warrior Mission , the

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show where

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we fight three battles Monday through

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Thursday . t

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Monday through Thursday , this

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is a Christian Fellowship show .

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, hmm

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, I'm going to put that in

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there . That's

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coming from one of my other videos . That

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would be weird . Alright

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, a little out of practice . Everyone . I

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apologize and I

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am 100%

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there we go . It was my Twitter live

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stream thingy tool over there . Anyways

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. So welcome to Christian

1:36

Warrior Mission . A little out of practice . Like

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I said , the

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Christian Fellowship show . We fight three battles . One

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, we get a humble and grateful heart aligned

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onto the Lord . Two , we pursue

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, deliberately pursue a relationship

1:50

with the Lord by studying

1:53

his word and through prayer . And

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then three , we with

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iron , sharpening iron , we

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do fellowship together . So

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this is a new show . We're

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going to do things a little different . We've

2:09

done a 90 day crucible . We've

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tried doing crucible one day a week . We've

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tried all kinds of things and

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the process continues

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to refine . So now that

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this show lives right

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and I want to say hello to some people here who are signing

2:26

on . We've got Lauren

2:30

, who's over on Twitter . Thank you , my love

2:32

, for being over there . We've

2:35

got Adrian on YouTube

2:37

, who needs to get over on Twitter . Sam

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, I hope you're doing well . It's good to see

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you here as well over on YouTube

2:44

, but the show

2:46

in the crucible is primarily hosted

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. We're going to stream everywhere , but

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it's going to be primarily hosted in

2:53

in

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Twitter . The reason why

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I do that is my

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reach in Twitter is so

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much bigger than

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anywhere else . I'll

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get 20 views in

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YouTube

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, I'll get seven

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in Facebook and I'll get 500

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on Twitter . So

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Twitter is playing nice with us

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. So

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That's where we're going to live . Okay , so

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I know there's going to be some growing

3:34

pains over on Twitter . I

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know it's an alien platform to a lot of people

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. I am still learning how to

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stream over there to the best of my

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ability . I

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know that everyone should be able to comment

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. As far as I can tell

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right now you

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know , in in my settings

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I've seen Lauren comment , but

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I haven't seen it in the chat yet per

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se . But

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I'm pretty darn excited

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I know that if I can get all my

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support because we've gotten

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500 views in

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24 hours on one of my sermons

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over there

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, without all of you guys over

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there commenting , sharing

4:23

, liking , you

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know that type of stuff . So if we can

4:28

do that , I know that we can do

4:30

really , really well . We

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also have people over in a rumble and I want

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to . I appreciate everybody over on

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rumble . You guys are not

4:39

left out . I'm here in the chat here

4:41

, you know as well

4:43

, and

4:45

so , again

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, I just appreciate

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all of you . Thank you for coming back

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, sam . Hey , I'm I graded to great

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, sam , good to see you over here . All right , awesome

4:56

. So it's working . So at least

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I'm seeing it in chat

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on restream , which is , which

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is great . So so

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again , we're going to do things slightly

5:10

different . I've decided to go

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all in on our online

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ministry , okay . So

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that , what does that mean for you

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guys ? That means that you're going to get

5:20

me Monday , tuesday

5:22

, wednesday , thursday night

5:24

9pm and we're going to do the crucible

5:26

, and I've already got about six

5:29

or so guests already

5:32

recorded on topics that I know you guys are

5:34

going to love . All right , that I'm going

5:36

to be able to rotate in . But

5:38

what I'm most excited about is

5:40

our Sunday service . So we

5:42

have moved our church service to

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11am Eastern Standard Time

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. I know that's going to make it harder for

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some of you , for our West Coast fans , and

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I'm sorry , but that's the only way I could do it

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. Hey , steve , get over to Twitter slacker

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, so

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I see you . So at

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11 o'clock is when we're going to go live

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, but what I'm most excited about

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is at 10 o'clock we're

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going to show up and that people are allowed to show

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up here , and at 10 o'clock

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at about 10 30 , we

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are going to start a prayer session . All

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right , the prayer session is

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going to be . I'm going to start a private

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, private , private

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again , say private zoom . I'm

6:30

going to share it within the community

6:33

, inside of Twitter , and

6:36

, and that

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is where we will do praises

6:41

and prayers and

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prayer warriorness . You

6:46

know our war closet

6:48

, whatever you want to call it . I don't like

6:50

it as well . But that is going to be our war room

6:52

there and within

6:54

that we are going to

6:56

, basically , you're going to be

6:58

able to sit there and say , hey

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, this is everything that's going on

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great in my life . This

7:04

is where I'm sucking and this is where I really need prayer

7:07

. I'm going to go around the circle

7:09

with people in this room . Right

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, I'll have the camera panned

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out for the people that are local here

7:16

that want to do it , and if there are no local

7:18

people here , then

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it's . You know , it'll just be the

7:23

Twitter room and we can just do camera to camera and

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people are going to get on there . We're

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going to go around because we need to get

7:29

more serious about prayer , we

7:32

need to get more intimate with one another , we

7:34

need to know and we need to get vulnerable where

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we are struggling because

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, I'll be honest , I

7:42

don't know what's going on in a lot of your guys lives

7:44

. I mean , I have snapshots

7:46

in history , but I want to know

7:49

. If I'm from your pastor , if you're

7:51

calling me your pastor , right

7:53

, that means I am responsible

7:55

for you and I want to be able to go to war

7:57

for you . So , again

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, you know , we're gonna start 30

8:02

minutes before service and we're gonna

8:04

see how long that goes All

8:06

right . Now we may it may happen

8:08

that at 10 am we

8:11

might have to start earlier , because this community is

8:13

gonna grow . Okay , it's

8:16

gonna grow , and as it grows it's

8:19

gonna take more time to pray for one another

8:21

, but we're also gonna pray for this church

8:23

. We're also gonna pray for our country

8:26

, okay , and we're

8:28

gonna pray for the persecuted church . We're gonna really

8:30

lean in to this

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being . I'm

8:35

seeing myself fine on Twitter , man

8:37

, I don't know what's going on , hey

8:42

. So , sam , I see you on here . Yeah

8:46

, I see myself fine on Twitter . So

8:48

I don't know what's going on there With

8:52

that . So , but , yeah

8:54

, I see myself on Twitter watching myself

8:56

in real time . Sam , tell

8:58

me you're on Twitter right

9:00

now . Yeah , how do you see me ? And , and

9:04

Lauren , tell me if you have any issues

9:07

. It might be . You know Adrian's

9:09

Android . Let

9:11

me get butter , was it right ? But anyways

9:13

, no . So

9:18

If you guys

9:20

haven't watched my sermon on the

9:22

church , we want to be see . Sam

9:24

said all good , okay , good , if

9:27

you haven't seen my sermon from Sunday

9:30

on the way we're

9:32

going to be as a church , and why ? Hey

9:38

, lindsay , good to see you . Yeah

9:43

, I'm sure , and you're completely unprotected

9:45

account . You know everyone

9:48

is going to Instantly know that

9:50

you're on there and and

9:53

it's gonna come for you . But no , my

9:56

sermon on Sunday , I Try

9:58

to lay out the case that the

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way we do church today is Not

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right . All right , not just us

10:06

, but the church community . We

10:12

should know each other intimately

10:14

. We should be a family . We are

10:16

a body , okay , and

10:18

a body . If I cut off my finger and

10:21

Put it away by itself

10:23

somewhere , it's gonna rot and die , and

10:26

that's what happens to us , okay

10:28

. Same thing if I pluck out my eye

10:30

or I cut off my ear , my foot of

10:32

my hand . We're meant to be tight

10:35

, we're meant to be intimate

10:38

, okay , and

10:40

You're the only one with an Android

10:42

. Oh , I have had issues as well

10:44

and I'm also having Android . Well , that's , that's

10:47

your problem . You guys have androids and androids

10:49

. You know , spill gates

10:51

hates Elon Musk , so

10:54

Gotta get off that

10:56

communist platform man that

11:01

that's pushing platform , but anyways

11:04

. So Within

11:07

that sermon I tried to , like I said , lay

11:10

out the case . So if you haven't seen

11:12

it , let me know

11:14

, because I'm seeing . The great thing is , I'm seeing

11:16

you guys is chat on Twitter in real time

11:18

and and restream . So

11:20

only Only

11:23

the youtubers right now are

11:25

over to the side and , of course

11:27

, my Over

11:29

there and rumble as well . So

11:32

, again , the reason why I'm choosing

11:34

Twitter it's the only one who's giving us a fair

11:36

shake . Okay , like I said , I

11:38

can do a sermon and get 500 people

11:40

to see it on YouTube in 24

11:43

hours , I mean , and , and on

11:46

Twitter and in 24 hours

11:48

, and I get throttled

11:51

on all the other services . So

11:53

that's why we're here and

11:55

thank you for dealing with this and

11:58

coming over with me . All right , if

12:00

you're not interested in coming over , you

12:02

can still participate , but just know

12:04

that you're not helping us as nearly as much as you

12:06

could as if you came over to Twitter

12:09

. Okay , I coming over to Twitter

12:11

. We tell the algorithms there to boost

12:13

us and we already have getting 500

12:15

people over there . We're running that our

12:18

community over there . I've moved it from Facebook

12:20

. I'm keeping Facebook there as

12:23

a Parachute if I need it , but

12:25

I really want to move everyone's posts

12:27

and all of our community to the communities

12:30

over in

12:32

In

12:34

Twitter , okay , so

12:37

again , that's where I'm gonna post the

12:39

link . On Sundays for

12:42

the Prayer group okay

12:44

, the prayer group which is gonna

12:47

meet 1030 Eastern

12:49

Standard Time . Right for

12:51

us to pray for one another and

12:53

to come in community . Now , for

12:56

those of you guys who are local , excuse

12:59

me , it gets even better . So

13:01

you can come to that prayer group here . You can come

13:04

here at 10 and help us set up . That

13:06

would be pretty awesome if you did that . Then

13:09

, after we go live at 11

13:12

, at around noon , when our my

13:14

sermon ends , we're gonna go have

13:17

dinner as a congregation or

13:19

lunch as a congregation . I'm gonna start

13:21

to on potlucks . We're gonna start

13:23

, you know , eating

13:26

as a church , family , as

13:29

a body , together , sharing

13:31

a table . So , yes

13:33

, we're gonna do communion and then we're gonna go

13:36

share a table and there

13:38

we're gonna do fellowship and

13:40

we're gonna really lean into one another

13:42

. You know , also

13:45

locally . If you are

13:47

local and you're part of this church and

13:50

you want to start working out with me here at the gym

13:52

that we have on site , let

13:54

me know , because I'm gonna start be working out in

13:56

the morning and I would love

13:58

to us to work out as a church

14:00

body , to come in there and

14:03

to work and pray , you know

14:05

, and and and do a sweat , offering

14:07

for the Lord . You know , and

14:09

and be there and and again

14:12

, be in Fellowship , real

14:14

Fellowship . Okay

14:16

, not seeing other each other once

14:18

a week , okay , not

14:21

just . You

14:24

know . You know , basically checking the

14:26

box . Now I know what some of you

14:28

guys are saying . Well , I can't have

14:30

community , you know , online

14:33

. And that's not true

14:35

. Okay , you guys know that I used to

14:37

be a hardcore gamer and there

14:39

are people who I've never met in my life , who

14:41

are close friends because I spent so much time

14:43

on headset , because I spent so

14:46

much time with them , you know , talking about

14:48

my life and they're sharing theirs life . Yeah

14:50

, I've never sat across from a table with them . That

14:53

doesn't mean they're not an important part of my life

14:55

. Is it better to be in person ? Absolutely

14:58

, but you get what you

15:00

put into this again . Christianity

15:03

is not about you , it's

15:06

about if you want to crush it in

15:08

Christianity . It's what you do for

15:10

others . That's how you crush

15:12

it in Christianity . That's

15:15

how , when you're doing it right , okay

15:17

, and that's where you'll find joy

15:19

, okay . So I know

15:22

that I just went off into

15:24

a lot of setting up the framework

15:26

, but get in there , you'll

15:28

see , the day posted today is posted

15:30

. It's been posted , I think , since last night

15:32

. Okay , get in

15:35

there , put all

15:37

your stuff in one day again . You don't

15:39

have to have all five pillars you

15:41

can put down . Hey , I'm struggling

15:43

on this , or nothing . You know I need

15:45

prayers . So the way I've been doing mine

15:48

is putting faith , family

15:50

fitness , fundamentals , finances

15:53

, and then prayer requests

15:55

or Prayer and

15:57

praises right for answered

15:59

prayers . So again , by doing

16:01

that , by investing in each

16:03

other , like that , we will

16:05

have a robust community and

16:08

then we can start looking at . You

16:10

know , alright , once we , once this starts

16:12

gaining momentum , once this starts

16:15

moving forward in the right way , then

16:17

I can start helping you guys set up your

16:20

own home churches . If you can't come here

16:22

, I know some people are trying to move

16:24

here and I know a lot of people are starting

16:26

to come in and we got we got another

16:28

Couple . You're not gonna believe this

16:30

cheerful coconut , but

16:32

we got another couple from Oregon

16:35

, five hours from you , that are gonna

16:37

be here on Thursday , that we just

16:39

found out about , just found out about us , and

16:41

they're coming to meet us . Yes

16:44

, steve , you're doing this Twitter thing correctly

16:46

, even though it's got your cell

16:49

phone number up there . We need to need

16:51

you to change that . But for right now , you're

16:53

doing it great , I can walk you through it or

16:55

find your daughters , and they can do that . Yeah

16:58

, so another Oregonian refugees

17:01

are coming here . So so

17:04

again , very cool

17:06

, you know God is moving , think

17:10

. But I can't do this alone

17:12

. I Need you

17:14

guys to go all in on this , I need

17:16

you to follow me on this

17:18

Right , and I need to be

17:20

able to outsource some

17:22

of this stuff to you at times . Okay

17:25

, I need to share the workload

17:28

, because you guys know I'm

17:30

like try or quad Vocational

17:33

right to try to pay for everything

17:35

. All right , so the

17:37

more you guys can help , whether

17:39

it's posting the workout of the day

17:41

, I'll put a whole month together in a folder

17:44

and you guys can just drop them over , copy

17:46

and paste , boom , done we

17:51

. You

17:53

know , if I can't host

17:56

this , having somebody else hosted

17:58

for a day , if , like

18:01

, I get work or anjure an emergency

18:03

or something like that , I want us to all

18:05

be able to lean on each other . Okay

18:07

, I want you guys

18:09

to , you know , be able to schedule

18:12

hey Bob's uncle

18:14

. Good , and I'm glad that you're

18:16

still trying to work out the Twitter thing . All

18:19

right , it's first day . All right , you

18:21

guys got till tomorrow to figure it out and

18:23

then I'm gonna start dropping the hammer . All right , now

18:25

just kidding . But no , come on

18:27

, you guys are all techies , you

18:30

guys work in tech . You can figure this

18:32

out , I promise you . It's

18:36

like anything , it's time on keyboard . But

18:39

anyways , let's get to our first

18:41

battle now , after 23 minutes

18:43

of me running my mouth on everything

18:46

else . So , dear heavenly father , lord

18:48

, we come to you now , grateful , grateful

18:51

for all of our blessings , big and small . We

18:56

know

19:12

that we have

19:14

a tendency , lord , to only see the flaws

19:16

, to only see what's

19:18

wrong with us , this

19:21

world , the church , with

19:23

each other . But

19:25

, lord , for everything that's wrong , there

19:28

are billions of things that are right . The

19:32

mere fact that we are here today

19:35

is a statistical improbability

19:37

. I think

19:40

it's 30 trillion cells and our

19:42

bodies had to work nearly perfect for

19:44

us to even be here today , never

19:48

mind the chaos of the world , the

19:51

random violence , the accidents , the

19:53

tragedies , but you have protected

19:56

us and blessed us through all of that , lord

20:00

, we know that for

20:02

every ache we have , we

20:05

have a gift . Lord

20:08

, I challenge us all to check our pity parties

20:11

at the door , all of our

20:13

griping and grumblings , and

20:17

let's just love on you and be grateful

20:19

for everything that we have , for

20:24

sunsets and sunrises

20:26

, for

20:29

the laughter of children

20:31

, for

20:33

a loved one's touch , the

20:37

smell of good food . Lord

20:41

, we thank you for all those

20:43

common blessings . We

20:49

also thank you most for

20:51

your son , jesus , and I

20:53

ask that this , this time

20:55

that we spend together , this deliberate

20:57

pursuit of you , lord would

21:00

please you and glorify

21:02

you and only you . May

21:07

we proclaim you with every breath and

21:10

may we serve you with every beat of our hearts . In

21:13

Jesus' name we pray amen , alright

21:15

. Battle number one done

21:18

, alright . So now

21:22

we are starting in James

21:24

. James is

21:26

one of my . It's one of the shorter books

21:29

and one of the most impactful books

21:31

of the Bible , and James

21:33

is a doer , my friends , and

21:36

that is why I love James Alright

21:38

, james

21:44

is believed to be the brother of

21:46

Jesus , right , the half-brother of Jesus

21:48

, and

21:54

you're gonna see that he's pretty hardcore . James

21:58

is the believed to be the

22:01

earliest New Testament writing

22:05

, so it was the first book of the

22:07

New Testament written , and

22:10

I think that that was about 46

22:12

AD . So

22:18

let's get into James

22:21

. James , one , one , and

22:23

I'm gonna be reading from the

22:26

English Standard Version here

22:32

we go . It's good to be back

22:34

, james

22:37

, a servant of God and

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of the Lord Jesus Christ , to

22:41

the 12 tribes and dispersions , greetings

22:44

. He's talking about Gentiles

22:46

and Jews there Spread

22:49

throughout Asia . Count

22:51

it all . Joy , my brothers , when you

22:53

meet trials of various kinds

22:55

, for you know that the testing of

22:57

your faith produces steadfastness

23:00

, and let steadfastness

23:02

have its full effect , that you may be

23:04

perfect and complete , lacking

23:07

in nothing . So

23:09

here he is . He's writing a letter to the church

23:11

to be read to all the churches , and the

23:13

first thing he's talking about is trials . Right

23:16

, he's talking about the

23:18

persecution of Christians . That's starting

23:20

, okay , that has

23:22

been going on , and

23:25

what he's saying is that trials now , it

23:27

could be persecution , because he didn't directly say

23:30

persecution , but it can be the trials

23:32

that we all face . You know

23:34

the loss of a job , sick kids

23:36

, exhaustion , stress

23:39

you

23:41

know all kinds of things that are going on , right

23:44

, just watching the news is enough

23:46

to discourage you . All

23:48

right , but we must learn that

23:50

through trials

23:53

our faith is grown

23:57

, that's the faith muscle growing that

23:59

we stay to him , we don't

24:01

drift , we don't fail and we continue

24:03

to lead into him . Picking

24:07

it back up in verse five If

24:10

any of you lacks wisdom , let

24:12

him ask God , who gives generously

24:14

to all without reproach

24:17

, and it will be given to him . But

24:19

let him ask in faith , with

24:21

no doubting , for the one who

24:23

doubts is like a wave of

24:25

the sea that is driven and tossed

24:27

by the wind , for that person

24:29

must not suppose that he will receive anything

24:32

from the Lord . He is double-minded

24:34

man and unstable in all ways . How

24:36

terrifying is that verse ? I

24:39

mean , how terrifying

24:41

is that verse ? The

24:47

part that scares the heck out of me , out of

24:49

this , is if any of you lacks

24:51

wisdom , let him ask God , who

24:53

gives generously to all without reproach

24:56

, and it will be given to him . And here it is

24:58

Verse six . But let

25:00

him ask in faith , with no

25:02

doubting , for the

25:04

one who doubts is like a wave in the sea

25:06

that is driven and tossed by the wind

25:09

Verse seven For

25:11

that person must not

25:13

suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord

25:15

. He is a double-minded man

25:17

, unstable in all ways . How

25:23

many of us have prayed and asked for stuff

25:26

and had doubts ? My

25:30

study Bible here , which

25:33

is reformed by R C Sproul

25:36

, says double-minded man

25:38

. The rare expression was possibly

25:40

coined by James . It's just a

25:42

man who has two souls . He is unstable

25:44

as a person with split personality

25:47

, since he claims to have faith but in reality

25:49

he is a doubter . Well

25:52

, which one of us in the modern church doesn't have

25:54

doubt ? Right

25:57

? But what are they talking about in doubt

25:59

? It's not that we

26:01

don't doubt that Jesus lived and

26:03

died and rose from the from the grave

26:05

. None of us doubt that . It's

26:08

whether God's gonna answer our prayers or not

26:10

, the way we want him to answer our

26:12

prayers , right . I

26:15

mean , that's the real big challenge . That's

26:20

the ones that time and time again , when we pray

26:22

and it doesn't work out the way we want . It's

26:29

pretty common . Now

26:31

my English Standard Version study Bible

26:33

is even more hardcore . I'll

26:39

start in one six what it has to say . In there I

26:42

settled trust and confidence in God based

26:44

on his character and promises

26:46

as revealed in Scripture , doubting

26:49

, vacillating between trusting God and

26:52

trusting the world or one's own natural

26:54

abilities , guilty as charged

26:56

. This makes a person like a wave of the

26:58

sea , picture of instability

27:00

and uncertainty . A

27:02

person who doubts God's goodness dishonors

27:05

him . Such a person must not

27:07

suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord

27:09

, since he is unsure whether God

27:11

is good or will do good . He

27:14

is a double-minded man that

27:16

is , two minds torn between God and the

27:18

world , and therefore

27:20

unstable in all of his ways . I

27:23

don't think any of us doubt that God is good

27:25

, so I don't think that that necessarily

27:27

applies , but

27:30

all of us have had prayers that

27:32

we don't think were answered . Heck

27:36

, if you're a part of the charismatic movement , I

27:38

mean if you're not part in the seas every other

27:40

day and curing people

27:42

of cancer and re-growing

27:45

limbs and bringing back people from the dead , well

27:48

, holy smokes , you know You're

27:51

. It must be a doubter right . But

28:00

what I really believe is being

28:02

saying here , you know

28:04

, and again the study Bible is

28:06

we have to break this cycle and

28:09

the stronger of a person you are

28:11

, the harder it is to do , where

28:13

we become dependent on the Lord first . And , trust

28:16

me , you are talking to one of the chief offenders

28:20

of this . Because I

28:22

was a seal , because I was so independent

28:24

, because I believed I

28:27

could knock down and solve any problem

28:29

, do anything . I still have to

28:31

catch myself from trying to

28:33

do it my way and

28:35

not his way . I

28:39

tend to run off and charge in my direction

28:41

without checking with him

28:43

and waiting

28:45

to hear on him , and waiting

28:48

to be affirmed through the Holy

28:50

Spirit that I

28:52

create a mess , and

28:55

then that mess is

28:57

when , after I've created a mess , is

29:00

when I bring God in . Well

29:03

, that's not how it's supposed to be . And

29:07

I think I know that I need to work on

29:09

that . Picking

29:14

up in verse 9 , let

29:18

the lowly brother boast in his exaltation

29:21

and the rich in his

29:23

humiliation , because

29:25

, like a flower of the grass , he will pass

29:27

away , for the sun rises

29:30

with his scorching heat and withers

29:32

the grass , its flowers fall and its beauty

29:34

perishes . So also

29:36

will the rich man fade away in

29:39

the midst of pursuits . Okay

29:42

now , rich riches

29:45

in itself are not sinful

29:47

. I was reading a

29:49

Doug

29:52

Wilson book where it really talked about

29:54

this not prosperity gospel

29:56

, but that you

30:01

know nowhere in Christianity says doesn't

30:03

say you need to be poor . In fact , the

30:06

more resources

30:09

you have , the more people you can bless . But

30:15

what James

30:18

is saying here , I believe , is

30:21

that and this is why you see missionaries

30:24

coming out of the third world and

30:26

coming to America In

30:29

America we are so self-sufficient

30:32

, we've made government to God , and

30:34

so people think they don't need

30:36

God because they can depend

30:38

on the government saving them . Yeah right

30:40

, or insurance companies , or

30:42

big giant hospitals or pharmaceuticals

30:45

, etc . Etc . In the

30:47

third world there is nothing but God and

30:51

they rely

30:54

on him for everything . So

30:57

their faith is

30:59

so much stronger than

31:02

the average American's faith

31:04

that they

31:06

truly can move mountains right

31:09

. They , you

31:11

know . They are now sending missionaries

31:13

like we used to send missionaries to them because

31:16

they'd never heard of the Lord . And we went

31:18

over there and did it and they'd

31:20

been walking out their faith every day for

31:22

60 years , 70 years , 100

31:24

years . And now they're sending missionaries

31:27

over here because we're lost , which is true

31:29

. Verse

31:37

12 , blessed is the man who remained steadfast

31:39

under trial , for when

31:41

he has stood the test , he will receive the

31:44

crown of life which God has

31:46

promised to those who love him . Let

31:49

no one say , when

31:51

he is tempted , I am being

31:53

tempted by God , for God

31:56

cannot be tempted with evil and

31:59

he himself tempts no one , and

32:01

each person is tempted when

32:03

he is lured and enticed by his

32:05

. What his own desire

32:08

then desire

32:10

, when it has conceived

32:13

, gives birth to sin , and

32:16

sin , when it is fully grown

32:18

, brings forth death . Now

32:20

this is where I really

32:23

lose it , on a lot of my charismatic friends

32:25

who want to blame a devil and a demon

32:27

for everything . And it's like how about

32:29

you have a porn problem , right

32:32

? Or how about you

32:34

know you just have a crappy

32:37

personality and that is

32:39

your thorn in the side and that you're

32:41

going to be working on that for the rest of your life . Not

32:44

everything is a devil and a demon . We

32:46

are plenty corrupt and

32:48

plenty sinful on our

32:50

own , okay

32:53

, so what James is saying

32:55

here is

32:57

that each

32:59

person is tempted when he is lured and enticed

33:02

by his own desire . Then

33:05

desire , right when

33:08

it is conceived , gives birth to sin , and

33:11

sin leads to death . Let's

33:14

pick it up in verse 16 . Do

33:18

not be deceived , my beloved brothers . Every

33:21

good gift and every perfect gift is from

33:23

above , coming down from the Father

33:25

of lights , with whom there

33:27

is no variation or shadow due

33:30

to change Of

33:32

its own will , of his own will

33:34

, sorry , of his own will

33:36

, brought us forth by the word of truth

33:38

that we should be a kind of first fruits

33:40

and creatures . So what he's saying here , the

33:43

light part is that the moon

33:45

has phases . The sun , you

33:48

know , here on from our perspective

33:50

on earth , is there , and then it vanishes

33:52

and it's night and then it comes in

33:54

the day . But God is light , eternal , okay

33:57

, and what he's talking about

33:59

here is that we should be a kind of first

34:01

fruits of his creatures

34:03

, is that as we go through our sanctification

34:06

, as we become more like Christ

34:08

and and as we die to ourselves

34:11

, we become the first fruits

34:13

that will be completed at the end

34:15

of time , when all of creation

34:17

is made new . So , as our sinful

34:19

self dies , we are a prelude

34:22

to what is coming . So

34:27

here we go now . Here's

34:29

. James , doing what James does best hearing

34:32

and doing the word . Knowing

34:34

this , my beloved brothers , let every person be quick

34:36

to hear , slow to speak , slow

34:39

to anger , for the anger of man

34:41

does not produce the righteousness of God

34:43

. Therefore , put away

34:45

all filthiness and rampant

34:48

wickedness and receive , with meekness

34:50

, the implanted word which

34:53

is able to save your souls man

34:55

that that verse goes

34:58

versus crush , or

35:01

a man he used to run on anger and stole all

35:03

, and I think

35:06

all of us deal

35:08

with anger on a daily basis . Put

35:12

away all filthiness and rampant weaknesses

35:14

, wickedness , and receive

35:17

the meekness , the implanted word

35:19

, which is able to save your souls . We

35:21

learn doing this all the time and

35:24

it's so inspiring Verse

35:27

22, . But be

35:30

doers of the word and not hearers only

35:32

deceiving yourself . For

35:34

if anyone is a hearer of the word

35:36

and not a doer , he is like a man

35:38

who looks intently at his natural face in

35:41

the mirror , for he looks at himself

35:43

and goes away and once forgets

35:46

what he was . Like the one who

35:48

looks into the perfect law , the law

35:50

of liberty and persevere . Being

35:53

no hearer who forgets but

35:56

a doer who acts , he

35:58

will be a blessing in his doing ? How

36:04

will we say that

36:06

in modern ways

36:09

? Don't just talk

36:11

the talk , you get to walk the walk . How

36:15

many of us are doing ? You

36:18

can read the Bible all day long . You

36:20

can be the smartest scholar in the world , you

36:22

can know everything Hebrew , greek

36:24

, aramaic , whatever and

36:27

if you're not a doer , if you're not walking

36:30

it out , it's all worthless

36:32

. Verse

36:37

26 , and this will wrap this up if

36:40

anyone thinks he's religious and

36:42

does not bridle his tongue but deceives

36:44

his heart , this person religion

36:46

, religion is worthless . Religion

36:49

is pure and undefiled before

36:51

God . The Father is this to

36:56

visit orphans and widows in their affliction

36:58

and to keep oneself unstained

37:01

from the world . That's

37:04

what he called religion pure

37:08

and undefiled religion to visit

37:10

orphans and widows , to take care of people

37:12

who need

37:15

help and you have no hope

37:17

or gain other

37:20

than you did it for the Lord , and

37:25

to keep oneself unstained from the world

37:27

. Well , how

37:30

many of us successfully do that

37:32

? You know , we just talked about this

37:34

last Super Bowl Sunday . How many Christians

37:36

contributed to

37:38

the NFL and to all their partners

37:40

in Planned Parenthood and all

37:42

the wickedness and the Satanic crap

37:45

going on in the stands , with

37:47

Taylor Swift's crew and everything

37:50

else right ? How

37:52

many of us love the

37:54

filth of the world instead

37:57

of the holiness of God ? Well

38:01

, that was fun . So

38:06

there is two battles one

38:08

. Now we're going to take

38:10

a quick break like

38:12

3045 seconds

38:14

. We'll be back and then we'll start a

38:16

fellowship portion . Alright

39:10

, we're back . I'm going to show you how to

39:12

join the community here . This

39:19

is my Twitter page . You'll come over

39:21

here and you'll see communities . You're

39:25

going to have to search for this community , which

39:28

is just Christian Warrior Mission . Then

39:31

you click on the community , you

39:33

answer the questions , you join it , I

39:36

approve you and you're in . This

39:40

is where everything is . Here

39:42

is the crucible , this

39:45

is today's crucible . The

39:48

write-up is the same here every day

39:50

. The only thing that changes is the date

39:52

. Brandy has

39:54

already commented here and he's already done a great

39:56

job . You can see Brandy

39:58

started with faith

40:00

. He read Colossians , numbers , galatians

40:03

, romans and John . Fundamentals

40:06

no changes . Family , spending time with his

40:08

wife , finances , shopping

40:10

still for insurance , fitness , did

40:12

his stuff and didn't ask

40:14

for any prayers . That

40:17

is great

40:19

. The more in-depth you can give , the better . That's

40:21

always the best . That's

40:26

a great , solid , right there , what he just did . All

40:29

you guys need to do . Are you guys not seeing

40:31

this ? Yeah , okay , you are . It's right

40:33

there . There's just a delay

40:35

between what I'm doing here and what

40:38

you guys are seeing . Again

40:40

, you would just post right here underneath

40:42

it Now , if there's character limits

40:44

because you don't want to pay three bucks to

40:46

support that , you just write

40:49

it and it will be one-on-one . You

40:52

run out of characters . You start and you pick it up and

40:54

you figure out where a natural break point is . Maybe

41:00

you do faith , fundamentals and family and you're like

41:02

, okay , I need a second thing of character

41:04

to do these ones . You do that

41:06

. Brandy gets it all in here and

41:08

I don't see him having a check mark . I

41:11

don't think he's paying for membership . That

41:15

works , guys . That works Again

41:21

. This is where

41:23

we are going to do business from

41:25

here on out . I

41:31

hope you guys stick with

41:34

me through this , because I'm really , really

41:36

, really excited to

41:39

be doing this in a place where I'm

41:41

not going to have someone pushing the scales down

41:43

on the opposite side , where

41:46

we have a chance to really grow

41:48

as a community . Please

41:51

, please , please , go watch the sermon from yesterday

41:53

. I said I don't want to beat

41:55

a dead horse , but the sermon

41:57

that I did yesterday covers

42:01

what we don't just

42:03

want . I'm

42:05

so tired of drive

42:08

through church services . You

42:10

show up , you grab your coffee in the lobby , you go

42:12

in , you sit in

42:14

the back row , you hide , you don't know

42:16

anyone , you don't talk to anyone , you don't invest in anyone

42:19

. It's all about you , you , you . You

42:21

get up , you sneak out the back and

42:23

you go back to your life , not

42:26

investing , not helping , not doing

42:28

anything . But yet you want to criticize

42:31

the church and say how bad the church

42:33

sucks and how the church should be doing this

42:35

better and that better and you've done

42:37

zero to help . And

42:40

throughout my experience , the

42:43

people who complain most are

42:46

the takers and not the givers

42:48

. Right

42:51

, christ washed his

42:54

disciples feet ? Right

42:57

, we just had a commercial talk about

42:59

this which was jacked up during the

43:01

Super Bowl . Right , christ

43:03

washed Judas

43:06

Iscariot's feet the

43:08

person who betrayed him , knowing

43:11

that he was betraying him . Right

43:14

. So we are

43:16

to be servants to one another and

43:18

we are a team . Everybody

43:21

wants community , everybody wants all this

43:23

stuff and we have a chance

43:25

here to have a community . Right

43:28

, but most often people like the idea

43:30

of a community when they want it but they

43:32

don't want to help build it and they may not

43:34

even want to participate in it , but they just want

43:37

it to be there . It's like

43:39

the fear of missing out . It's there and

43:41

they're good , happy , it's there , but

43:43

, god forbid , they get off their couch

43:45

or , you know , leave

43:49

their pets or do whatever

43:51

to go actually participate in Godly stuff

43:53

. So again

43:56

, I am prepared

43:58

to go all in on you guys . I

44:01

pray that you will go all in

44:04

on this church , on

44:06

this fellowship that we are doing All

44:09

right and let's see where

44:11

God takes it . All right . So

44:13

if there are

44:15

any comments , I'd be happy

44:18

to answer any comments , but if there

44:20

are not any comments . I will pray

44:22

us out and we will wrap up our

44:24

first day , which

44:27

I think has gone pretty well , with minimal

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, with minimal

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technological challenges

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for being rusty . All

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right , dear my Father

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, lord , we thank you . We thank you

44:43

for this fellowship . We thank you for these men

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and women who come together to invest

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in each other , invest

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in taking

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time out of their busy , busy lives

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. The world

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is pulling them in a million directions . They

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have dropped everything to be here to

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deliberately pursue you and

45:07

to deliberately pursue one another . I

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pray that you are blessed this time , that

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you would keep all attacks away from people's

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time and you

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would protect them and guard this

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hour or less that

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we have here . Lord

45:28

, I pray that you would highlight any sin in our

45:30

life that is keeping

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us away from you , that

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sin would drive us to our knees and

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become so painful that we would stop that

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sinful pattern and

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be dealt with , done with it and repent and

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bring it to you , and that you would heal us

45:47

. Lord

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, I pray a prayer of protection

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for this fellowship all

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around the world . I

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pray for the persecuted church , pray

46:04

for troops overseas

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or veterans at home first

46:08

responders at home . I

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pray that World War III would

46:16

not break out . I

46:20

pray for my beloved America , that

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she return from her sins hit

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her knees , repent and

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seek your face . Now

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you would heal her so we could once again be

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one nation under God , indivisible

46:34

, with liberty and justice for all . Now

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I call upon this fellowship to put on the full

46:39

armor of God , strap

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on the shield of faith and pick up the sword of the spirit

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and boldly step forward into the shield wall

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, locking shields

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to the left and to the right as

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we march forward to take ground for

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your kingdom , for your glory forever

46:56

. In Jesus' name , we pray amen . All

46:59

right , lindsay has a question . Go ahead

47:01

, lindsay . In

47:04

Jesus' name , we pray amen . Go

47:06

ahead , lindsay . Which question ? Typing

47:12

, typing

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, three

47:22

minutes of typing ? It's

47:25

going to be one heck of a long question . You're

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welcome , bob . You're

47:35

going to have to explain your handle to me someday

47:37

. So

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, bob , if Lindsay's actually

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got a question , can you

47:49

? Type a one or something and let me know that it's coming

47:51

. Waiting

47:54

, waiting

47:57

On

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some farm news . I

48:09

don't see it . I don't see it . I

48:11

have a question . I don't see it . The

48:16

only thing I have seen from you is techies are the

48:18

worst . Okay

48:25

, try breaking it down in parts

48:27

. It might be too long . That

48:30

might be the problem . So

48:32

just to let you know , on the farm we

48:34

actually processed Margo and

48:36

then go a week and a half two weeks ago and

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I'm going to pick up her meat tomorrow and

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I think her hang weight was in the

48:45

600s , so we're

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getting that's not all meat we're

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getting back , we're getting bones

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and some organs and

48:54

all that other stuff , but

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really

49:00

looking forward to that . So , margo

49:03

was a beloved animal on the farm and

49:06

you

49:11

know we're not going to waste a single bite . But we're

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about to have tallow . We've

49:15

been cooking so much with lard , it's been amazing

49:17

. Now we're going to have tallow

49:20

, which is beef fat to cook with

49:22

, and

49:27

well , that's going to be epic . That's

49:33

really going to be epic . You know

49:35

, we're also going to have a lot of bones for

49:37

beef broth and

49:40

collagen home-grown

49:43

collagen , not the powdered

49:45

stuff that we all spent so much money on at

49:47

Sam's and Costco . So

49:52

we're about to have like permanent beef

49:54

soup in the house , which I love

49:56

me some soup . Right

49:58

, I love me some soup . So

50:02

, anyways , we've downsized

50:04

. I think we're almost going to be , if we

50:06

have . I think we have one more sale this week and

50:10

then we might be finally

50:12

getting rid of Pixie

50:14

, who is pregnant . I

50:20

typed vis Twitter . Did

50:23

you get ? No

50:26

, I don't see it , but I'll check

50:28

and see if it's going somewhere . Crazy

50:30

, no

50:32

, I'm not seeing it anywhere and

50:36

I don't think anyone else is seeing it either . So

50:40

apologize that that's not working

50:42

, but your short questions

50:44

are coming through or

50:47

you can type it in over

50:49

there on YouTube if you want . So

50:54

we're down . Wally , margo

50:57

, burgamysta

51:01

, briscuit

51:04

, nugget

51:07

Wow , we're already down five , and

51:09

now we're about to be , and

51:18

now we're going to be down Pixie . So

51:20

six . So Chirpals , in for

51:22

the for a new Sunday mornings via zoom

51:24

. Our families included wives , kids

51:27

, husbands absolutely , if

51:29

they want to . I

51:33

mean it's , it's the same type of sermon that

51:35

I do . I'm not changing the way I

51:37

preach , but

51:40

wives , husbands , can come pray absolutely

51:42

. Kids

51:44

, you know , can , can pray

51:46

too and ask for prayer too . Most

51:48

if they're capable of understanding and you know what

51:51

they're praying and what they're doing

51:54

. Absolutely so

51:57

again , with the

52:00

medium of this

52:03

being tech , keep

52:06

that in mind . Until we figure out a

52:08

way to do this correctly , whether it

52:10

be raising hands in Zoom we've all

52:12

done enough Zooms now we know

52:14

how to do that . But I think

52:17

you know , particularly if you've

52:19

got chaos going in the background , muting

52:21

yourself , and then I can

52:23

go and raise your hand and unmute you and say

52:25

you know , it's your turn to go , that

52:28

type of stuff . That's an orderly way to do that

52:30

. So I might mute everyone to start

52:32

and then go , but if

52:34

I would love for it not to

52:36

be muted , because then we're

52:39

all you know . what I do want to make kind

52:41

of mandatory is cameras

52:44

and audio

52:46

, right , cameras

52:48

and audio , because with cameras

52:50

you can see expressions , you can see , you

52:52

can talk and not interrupt

52:54

each other . You can see what's going

52:57

on and you can see

52:59

where somebody's really at you know

53:01

. You know they can sit there and say they're

53:03

doing fine and they're covered

53:06

with tears and haven't been

53:08

in a month and they look like heck

53:10

right , or they may

53:12

be completely black and blue , you don't know

53:14

. So , again , I want to make

53:17

this as in person , as

53:19

close to in person as we possibly can

53:21

for those of you guys who are spread

53:23

out . Okay , so

53:25

my goal is eventually that

53:28

you

53:30

know a lot of us will be here , but

53:33

for all you guys who can't come here , you

53:36

will start bringing people into

53:38

your home and investing

53:40

in people there and you

53:44

know you guys will have your home church right

53:47

. You guys will be like a bunker

53:49

or an FOB

53:51

, a forward operating base behind enemy

53:53

lines , or other believers can come

53:56

, Right . That's how this

53:58

has to work , Right

54:00

? So that's all

54:02

I got for you . So I

54:05

enjoyed being back here . God

54:07

bless you and I'll see you tomorrow

54:09

. Bye , I'll

54:11

see you on the boards . Bye .