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The 700 Club | April 7, 2026 | April 7, 2026
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- . >> the following program is
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- >> the following program is sponsored by cbn.
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- Sponsored by cbn. >> coming up the vatican of the
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- >> coming up the vatican of the east.
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- East. we are here to celebrate the
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- We are here to celebrate the policy one of the oldest
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- Policy one of the oldest christian communities in the
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- Christian communities in the world.
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- World. >> this is of evangelization
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- >> this is of evangelization and it's under attack.
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- And it's under attack. >> we don't do anything now.
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- >> we don't do anything now. it will be too late in a few
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- It will be too late in a few years.
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- Years. >> those who remain have hope
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- >> those who remain have hope for the future will never
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- For the future will never completely at peace but the
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- Completely at peace but the same time it will.
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- Same time it will. >> today on the 700 club
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- >> today on the 700 club welcome the 700 club and thanks
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- Welcome the 700 club and thanks so much for joining with us.
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- So much for joining with us. >> god is good.
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- >> god is good. >> that's the message an airman
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- >> that's the message an airman sent from hiding place deep
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- Sent from hiding place deep inside iran after being shot
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- Inside iran after being shot down capture.
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- Down capture. well, yesterday president trump
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- Well, yesterday president trump revealed of his dramatic
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- Revealed of his dramatic rescue.
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- Rescue. >> the president also iran that
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- >> the president also iran that if there is no deal by 8 p.m.
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- If there is no deal by 8 p.m. tonight the entire country
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- Tonight the entire country could be taken out.
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- Could be taken out. cbn's reports u.s. f-15e
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- Cbn's reports u.s. f-15e fighter jet went down deep
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- Fighter jet went down deep inside iran while on a mission
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- Inside iran while on a mission as part of epic fury.
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- As part of epic fury. i ordered the u.s. armed forces
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- I ordered the u.s. armed forces to do whatever was necessary to
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- To do whatever was necessary to bring our brave warriors back
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- Bring our brave warriors back home a risky decision because
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- Home a risky decision because we ended up with 100 dead as
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- We ended up with 100 dead as opposed to one or two.
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- Opposed to one or two. the pilot rescued in a daring
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- The pilot rescued in a daring daytime operation with u.s.
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- Daytime operation with u.s. aircraft holding off iranian
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- Aircraft holding off iranian forces trying to get to him
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- Forces trying to get to him first.
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- First. the second operation much
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- The second operation much difficult comparable to hunting
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- Difficult comparable to hunting for a single grain of sand in
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- For a single grain of sand in the middle of a desert.
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- The middle of a desert. >> the the rescue efforts
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- >> the the rescue efforts included 155 aircraft, dozens
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- Included 155 aircraft, dozens of soldiers on the ground and a
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- Of soldiers on the ground and a cia deception campaign the
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- Cia deception campaign the enemy off track.
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- Enemy off track. >> so in a breathtaking show of
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- >> so in a breathtaking show of and precision lethality and
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- And precision lethality and force america's military on the
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- Force america's military on the area, the real area engaging
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- Area, the real area engaging rescued the stranded officer
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- Rescued the stranded officer destroyed all threat exited
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- Destroyed all threat exited iranian territory while taking
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- Iranian territory while taking no casualties of any kind.
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- No casualties of any kind. >> secretary of war pete
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- >> secretary of war pete hegseth said airman evaded the
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- Hegseth said airman evaded the enemy for more than a day
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- Enemy for more than a day scaling as they hunted him when
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- Scaling as they hunted him when he was finally able to to
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- He was finally able to to activate his emergency
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- Activate his emergency transponder.
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- Transponder. message was simple and it was
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- Message was simple and it was powerful.
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- Powerful. >> he sent a message.
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- >> he sent a message. god is good.
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- God is good. hegseth drew a parallel between
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- Hegseth drew a parallel between his journey and the weekend
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- His journey and the weekend holiday you see shot down on a
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- Holiday you see shot down on a friday good friday hidden a
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- Friday good friday hidden a cave, a crevice all of saturday
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- Cave, a crevice all of saturday and rescued on sunday flown out
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- And rescued on sunday flown out of iran as the sun was rising
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- Of iran as the sun was rising on easter sunday.
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- On easter sunday. >> meanwhile, time is running
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- >> meanwhile, time is running out on the president's for iran
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- Out on the president's for iran to reopen the strait of hormuz
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- To reopen the strait of hormuz by by 8 p.m. eastern time
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- By by 8 p.m. eastern time tonight.
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- Tonight. >> iran rejected a 45 day cease
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- >> iran rejected a 45 day cease fire plan and says it wants a
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- Fire plan and says it wants a permanent the war.
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- Permanent the war. the president threatening to
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- The president threatening to bomb bridges and and power
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- Bomb bridges and and power plants crippling iran's
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- Plants crippling iran's economy.
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- Economy. >> the entire country could be
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- >> the entire country could be taken out in one night and that
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- Taken out in one night and that night might be tomorrow night.
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- Night might be tomorrow night. >> in a social media post in
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- >> in a social media post in farsi.
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- Farsi. the idf warned iranians not to
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- The idf warned iranians not to travel on trains until p m
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- Travel on trains until p m iranian time tonight.
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- Iranian time tonight. iranian leaders are calling
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- Iranian leaders are calling people to form human chains
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- People to form human chains around power plants to to
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- Around power plants to to protect them from bombing.
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- Protect them from bombing. julie stahl cbn news.
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- Julie stahl cbn news. >> well joining us now is cbn
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- >> well joining us now is cbn senior house correspondent
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- Senior house correspondent kelly wright.
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- Kelly wright. so kelly, the president has
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- So kelly, the president has tweet out on what's going to
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- Tweet out on what's going to happen if the.
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- Happen if the. >> the deadline is missed at
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- >> the deadline is missed at 8:00 tonight.
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- 8:00 tonight. tell us about it.
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- Tell us about it. >> yeah, gordon as many people
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- >> yeah, gordon as many people are stating right, it's an
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- Are stating right, it's an ominous threat warning that the
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- Ominous threat warning that the president is to give a post-it
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- President is to give a post-it social today.
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- Social today. this morning as a matter of
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- This morning as a matter of fact before we want to know
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- Fact before we want to know knowing a whole civilization
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- Knowing a whole civilization will die tonight never to be
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- Will die tonight never to be brought back again.
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- Brought back again. i don't want that to happen but
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- I don't want that to happen but it probably will.
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- It probably will. however, now that we have
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- However, now that we have complete and total regime
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- Complete and total regime change where different, smarter
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- Change where different, smarter and less minds prevail maybe
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- And less minds prevail maybe something revolutionary
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- Something revolutionary wonderful can happen.
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- Wonderful can happen. who knows?
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- Who knows? we will find out tonight, he
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- We will find out tonight, he says, he says.
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- Says, he says. gordon one of the most
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- Gordon one of the most important moments in the long
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- Important moments in the long and complex history of the
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- And complex history of the world.
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- World. 47 years of extortion and he
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- 47 years of extortion and he wants to see that come to an
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- Wants to see that come to an end tonight by 8 p.m..
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- End tonight by 8 p.m.. >> what's been the reaction so
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- >> what's been the reaction so far?
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- Far? it's it's sort of calling for
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- It's it's sort of calling for the death of a civilization.
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- The death of a civilization. >> i've never heard that in
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- >> i've never heard that in modern times.
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- Modern times. silence.
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- Silence. well, you know, it's very
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- Well, you know, it's very extreme and it goes hand in
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- Extreme and it goes hand in hand with what he stated just
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- Hand with what he stated just yesterday during the press
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- Yesterday during the press briefing that he had with us
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- Briefing that he had with us during there in the james brady
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- During there in the james brady briefing room, he stated that
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- Briefing room, he stated that if does not open the strait of
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- If does not open the strait of hormuz by pm tonight he will
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- Hormuz by pm tonight he will begin the campaign of bombing
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- Begin the campaign of bombing iran relentlessly hitting its
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- Iran relentlessly hitting its power, its power plants, its
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- Power, its power plants, its bridges and them back into the
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- Bridges and them back into the stone age.
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- Stone age. so you can imagine how reaction
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- So you can imagine how reaction here in america has been to
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- Here in america has been to this and the president stated
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- This and the president stated today on truth social.
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- Today on truth social. many americans especially those
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- Many americans especially those in congress are watching this
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- In congress are watching this very closely.
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- Very closely. some are saying that the
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- Some are saying that the president is wrong for putting
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- President is wrong for putting this kind language out there
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- This kind language out there and others are saying let's
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- And others are saying let's wait and see.
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- Wait and see. it's just him being more
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- It's just him being more bluster in his speech but we
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- Bluster in his speech but we will wait and see how j.d.
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- Will wait and see how j.d. vance on the other hand hand
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- Vance on the other hand hand has a different message.
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- Has a different message. he's been stating that they're
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- He's been stating that they're still negotiating and, still
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- Still negotiating and, still trying to get a deal done
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- Trying to get a deal done operating through peace,
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- Operating through peace, through strength.
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- Through strength. >> well, there are reports
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- >> well, there are reports right now that the u.s. has
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- Right now that the u.s. has conducted strikes on kharg
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- Conducted strikes on kharg island just last night.
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- Island just last night. what is what does that tell you
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- What is what does that tell you if that's so important to the
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- If that's so important to the iranian economy, if we're
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- Iranian economy, if we're already doing military strikes
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- Already doing military strikes ,what does that say?
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- ,what does that say? well, it says a lot.
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- Well, it says a lot. it says that the united states
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- It says that the united states has the will has and has the
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- Has the will has and has the availability and ability to
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- Availability and ability to move in their discretion even
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- Move in their discretion even into cargill, of course is an
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- Into cargill, of course is an important asset to the iranian
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- Important asset to the iranian regime and this bombing that
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- Regime and this bombing that took place overnight, it was
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- Took place overnight, it was against only military and
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- Against only military and that's something to keep in
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- That's something to keep in mind as well when the president
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- Mind as well when the president says that he's after the power
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- Says that he's after the power grid the power and the bridges.
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- Grid the power and the bridges. is he going after those that
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- Is he going after those that rely on or is he going after
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- Rely on or is he going after those targets that the the
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- Those targets that the the iranian military has been
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- Iranian military has been utilizing to their advantage to
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- Utilizing to their advantage to fire these missiles and drone
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- Fire these missiles and drone attacks to launch, launch those
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- Attacks to launch, launch those against neighbors against
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- Against neighbors against israel and against of its
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- Israel and against of its neighboring countries that the
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- Neighboring countries that the iranians said that they would
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- Iranians said that they would never attack have and they've
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- Never attack have and they've proven that to be something
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- Proven that to be something they can do and also indicates
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- They can do and also indicates from a military standpoint if
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- From a military standpoint if they go in and take over kharg
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- They go in and take over kharg island as they've decided to do
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- Island as they've decided to do as of last night bombing those
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- As of last night bombing those military assets, does that mean
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- Military assets, does that mean that ground could be on the way
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- That ground could be on the way in?
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- In? could they possibly send in the
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- Could they possibly send in the 82nd airborne or some
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- 82nd airborne or some specialized forces?
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- Specialized forces? that's ahead the state.
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- That's ahead the state. i mean the department of of war
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- I mean the department of of war of what the president is saying
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- Of what the president is saying but the president stated he
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- But the president stated he doesn't doesn't want to put
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- Doesn't doesn't want to put ground troops in there but it
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- Ground troops in there but it could be an indication that
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- Could be an indication that something is possibly in the
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- Something is possibly in the planning.
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- Planning. >> well, if you take out the
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- >> well, if you take out the military not to take out the
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- Military not to take out the electrical grid any target
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- Electrical grid any target power points that has to harm
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- Power points that has to harm the average citizen of iran and
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- The average citizen of iran and it has to their economy.
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- It has to their economy. is the president really willing
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- Is the president really willing to take that that risk?
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- To take that that risk? you know, gordon, during
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- You know, gordon, during yesterday's press briefing with
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- Yesterday's press briefing with the president as he talked
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- The president as he talked about the daring rescue of the
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- About the daring rescue of the air force weapons officer who
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- Air force weapons officer who was rescued out of iran, he
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- Was rescued out of iran, he went on to state that he
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- Went on to state that he doesn't want to really see
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- Doesn't want to really see because he doesn't want to hurt
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- Because he doesn't want to hurt the iranian people.
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- The iranian people. he believes that that the
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- He believes that that the iranian people have been
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- Iranian people have been through enough for the past 47
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- Through enough for the past 47 years.
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- Years. he talked to in the james brady
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- He talked to in the james brady briefing room yesterday about
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- Briefing room yesterday about how was just incredulous to him
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- How was just incredulous to him and heartbreaking see that so
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- And heartbreaking see that so many iranians had stepped up
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- Many iranians had stepped up and stepped, stepped out to
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- And stepped, stepped out to protest for freedom from its
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- Protest for freedom from its own regime only to be gunned
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- Own regime only to be gunned down or to have snipers
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- Down or to have snipers shooting women in the streets.
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- Shooting women in the streets. men in the streets, children
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- Men in the streets, children that streets.
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- That streets. and so he doesn't want to bring
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- And so he doesn't want to bring more pain on the iranian people
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- More pain on the iranian people when when he was asked
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- When when he was asked specifically about this plan
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- Specifically about this plan tonight, he said that some
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- Tonight, he said that some iranian have actually said to
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- Iranian have actually said to him you must finish the job.
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- Him you must finish the job. you the regime.
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- You the regime. and while it will be difficult
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- And while it will be difficult we to bear this now.
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- We to bear this now. another thing that he said is
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- Another thing that he said is that is that he has wanted to
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- That is that he has wanted to bomb all these facilities
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- Bomb all these facilities because it means that when the
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- Because it means that when the iranians are able to rebuild
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- Iranians are able to rebuild the united states would have to
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- The united states would have to pay money in helping them
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- Pay money in helping them rebuild.
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- Rebuild. they'd rather have it
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- They'd rather have it operational and and functional
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- Operational and and functional as it is today.
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- As it is today. >> well, let's be prayer and
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- >> well, let's be prayer and this is certainly a turning
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- This is certainly a turning moment not just in the history
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- Moment not just in the history of the past century but.
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- Of the past century but. you look back for thousands of
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- You look back for thousands of years.
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- Years. this is this is is an
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- This is this is is an incredible moment, an
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- Incredible moment, an incredible moment of time.
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- Incredible moment of time. >> so kelly, thanks for joining
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- >> so kelly, thanks for joining with us.
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- With us. absolutely.
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- Absolutely. a pleasure to join you this
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- A pleasure to join you this morning.
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- Morning. it's very ominous in terms what
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- It's very ominous in terms what the president has stated
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- The president has stated government state.
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- Government state. real quickly there vice j.d.
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- Real quickly there vice j.d. vance says we have to pray that
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- Vance says we have to pray that we are on on god's side.
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- We are on on god's side. all right.
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- All right. let's just pause the show for a
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- Let's just pause the show for a i just want to pray for the
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- I just want to pray for the iranian people.
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- Iranian people. i want to pray for and our
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- I want to pray for and our leadership i want to pray for
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- Leadership i want to pray for their leadership to realize
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- Their leadership to realize what's at risk here and in
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- What's at risk here and in hopes that somehow or other
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- Hopes that somehow or other they'll realize their
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- They'll realize their ideologies failed.
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- Ideologies failed. unfortunately, there are
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- Unfortunately, there are ideologies actually calling for
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- Ideologies actually calling for those and they somehow in the
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- Those and they somehow in the devastation that's going to be
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- Devastation that's going to be unleashed that somehow or other
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- Unleashed that somehow or other there's going to be this and
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- There's going to be this and the mahdi is going to come out
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- The mahdi is going to come out of the well and save the day.
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- Of the well and save the day. it's to think that you're
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- It's to think that you're willing to put your entire
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- Willing to put your entire country your entire people at
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- Country your entire people at risk in this vein.
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- Risk in this vein. >> but you know, they've
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- >> but you know, they've they've said said it since the
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- They've said said it since the beginning 47 years ago the
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- Beginning 47 years ago the ayatollah on his way way to
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- Ayatollah on his way way to iran says i don't really care
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- Iran says i don't really care about the iranian people.
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- About the iranian people. i'm trying to establish an
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- I'm trying to establish an islamic culture that would rule
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- Islamic culture that would rule the world.
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- The world. that was his goal.
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- That was his goal. iran was a platform.
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- Iran was a platform. >> so let's just pause.
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- >> so let's just pause. let's pray.
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- Let's pray. lord we for the people of iran,
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- Lord we for the people of iran, the people who want no no part
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- The people who want no no part of of this and no part of any
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- Of of this and no part of any kind of war or they just desire
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- Kind of war or they just desire to be free and they've said
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- To be free and they've said that repeatedly there have been
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- That repeatedly there have been five revolutions in the last
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- Five revolutions in the last ten years.
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- Ten years. so lord, we ask that listen to
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- So lord, we ask that listen to their heart cry and give them
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- Their heart cry and give them them the freedom, the freedom
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- Them the freedom, the freedom of conscience, the freedom of
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- Of conscience, the freedom of speech the freedom of religion,
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- Speech the freedom of religion, all the freedoms that you want
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- All the freedoms that you want to enjoy.
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- To enjoy. we ask that you would provide
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- We ask that you would provide it for for them your words says
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- It for for them your words says the heart of leaders is in your
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- The heart of leaders is in your hand and we ask that you would
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- Hand and we ask that you would melt the of the leadership of
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- Melt the of the leadership of the iranian republic this
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- The iranian republic this islamic republic but you would
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- Islamic republic but you would no they would no longer desire
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- No they would no longer desire to rule and to oppress and to
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- To rule and to oppress and to spread terror throughout the
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- Spread terror throughout the world.
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- World. that they would realize what
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- That they would realize what they have done and turn and now
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- They have done and turn and now we pray for the leadership of
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- We pray for the leadership of america that give them unusual
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- America that give them unusual wisdom that you would be with
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- Wisdom that you would be with and strengthen and encourage
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- And strengthen and encourage and counsel most of all give
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- And counsel most of all give them wise counsel lord ask it
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- Them wise counsel lord ask it all in jesus name amen.
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- All in jesus name amen. amen.
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- Amen. well turning here at home,
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- Well turning here at home, university of michigan defeated
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- University of michigan defeated the uconn 69 to 63 to win the
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- The uconn 69 to 63 to win the college national championship
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- College national championship last night on a national with
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- Last night on a national with the highest stakes players kept
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- The highest stakes players kept the thrill of victory in
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- The thrill of victory in perspective.
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- Perspective. will dawson reports from
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- Will dawson reports from indianapolis indianapolis.
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- Indianapolis indianapolis. >> the michigan wolverines are
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- >> the michigan wolverines are national champions for just the
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- National champions for just the second time in school history.
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- Second time in school history. tonight they captured their
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- Tonight they captured their first national championship
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- First national championship 1989.
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- 1989. they ran into a scrappy uconn
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- They ran into a scrappy uconn huskies team.
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- Huskies team. let's take a look at the
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- Let's take a look at the highlights.
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- Highlights. we pick it up with 237 to go in
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- We pick it up with 237 to go in the game.
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- The game. uconn down nine.
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- Uconn down nine. .
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- . >> silas demaree junior finds
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- >> silas demaree junior finds alex caribbean three 6256 he
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- Alex caribbean three 6256 he had a team high 17 points but
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- Had a team high 17 points but on the other end trey mckinney
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- On the other end trey mckinney struggled to find long.
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- Struggled to find long. hits one when it matters the
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- Hits one when it matters the most.
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- Most. michigan goes up by nine
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- Michigan goes up by nine points.
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- Points. michigan fans are loving.
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- Michigan fans are loving. trey mckinney's loving it but
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- Trey mckinney's loving it but on the other end now 40 seconds
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- On the other end now 40 seconds to go.
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- To go. uconn not going away without a
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- Uconn not going away without a fight nails that three.
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- Fight nails that three. point game with 37 seconds to
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- Point game with 37 seconds to go.
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- Go. michigan on the other other in
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- Michigan on the other other in would hit a pair of free throws
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- Would hit a pair of free throws then malachi smith misses the
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- Then malachi smith misses the layup.
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- Layup. time is going to expire in
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- Time is going to expire in michigan wins the national
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- Michigan wins the national championship.
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- Championship. after the game to players from
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- After the game to players from both teams.
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- Both teams. i'll i'll give all thanks to
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- I'll i'll give all thanks to lord and savior jesus christ
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- Lord and savior jesus christ and thanks thanks to mental
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- And thanks thanks to mental health i mean coach hurley i
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- Health i mean coach hurley i mean he saw something that i
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- Mean he saw something that i didn't even myself so i mean
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- Didn't even myself so i mean top of my head ecclesiastes
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- Top of my head ecclesiastes seven eight better and in the
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- Seven eight better and in the beginning man so just looking
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- Beginning man so just looking the whole journey and in that
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- The whole journey and in that journey with these guys i mean
- 00:14:34.486 --> 00:14:37.723
- Journey with these guys i mean i'm going to miss it.
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- I'm going to miss it. so like i said lord does the
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- So like i said lord does the stadium serious ways and i got
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- Stadium serious ways and i got all my tears out.
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- All my tears out. i'm just blessed to be in the
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- I'm just blessed to be in the position in today and let these
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- Position in today and let these guys go like they're my
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- Guys go like they're my brothers for life.
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- Brothers for life. grace has been amazing nothing
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- Grace has been amazing nothing short short of amazing just him
- 00:14:49.668 --> 00:14:53.005
- Short short of amazing just him being that his presence is just
- 00:14:53.138 --> 00:14:56.575
- Being that his presence is just it overwhelms my life and in a
- 00:14:56.708 --> 00:14:57.442
- It overwhelms my life and in a beautiful way even when i feel
- 00:14:57.576 --> 00:15:00.178
- Beautiful way even when i feel like i'm i'm not being my best
- 00:15:00.312 --> 00:15:01.079
- Like i'm i'm not being my best best self that grace and gives
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- Best self that grace and gives you that feeling that i i will
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- You that feeling that i i will right that wrong whatever the
- 00:15:07.686 --> 00:15:08.286
- Right that wrong whatever the case may be and he has my back
- 00:15:08.420 --> 00:15:11.089
- Case may be and he has my back no matter what as long as i see
- 00:15:11.223 --> 00:15:12.057
- No matter what as long as i see him and i trust him and i trust
- 00:15:12.190 --> 00:15:14.626
- Him and i trust him and i trust all the ups and downs and and
- 00:15:14.760 --> 00:15:15.494
- All the ups and downs and and it was like he said said i got
- 00:15:15.627 --> 00:15:18.363
- It was like he said said i got you and i'm just grateful for
- 00:15:18.497 --> 00:15:19.197
- You and i'm just grateful for that.
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- That. >> it's amazing.
- 00:15:21.767 --> 00:15:22.134
- >> it's amazing. on the greatest stage in
- 00:15:22.267 --> 00:15:22.901
- On the greatest stage in college they're giving glory to
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- College they're giving glory to god in everything we do.
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- God in everything we do. let it be for his glory this
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- Let it be for his glory this this world world is is
- 00:15:30.675 --> 00:15:33.478
- This world world is is obviously passing away.
- 00:15:33.612 --> 00:15:34.079
- Obviously passing away. we we look forward to that
- 00:15:34.212 --> 00:15:38.116
- We we look forward to that better world to come and then
- 00:15:38.250 --> 00:15:38.850
- Better world to come and then that when give glory to god for
- 00:15:38.984 --> 00:15:41.520
- That when give glory to god for everything we're doing well
- 00:15:41.653 --> 00:15:42.187
- Everything we're doing well then we're fulfilled and what
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- Then we're fulfilled and what he wants us to do terry.
- 00:15:46.058 --> 00:15:46.625
- He wants us to do terry. >> well still ahead a
- 00:15:46.758 --> 00:15:49.661
- >> well still ahead a bestselling christian novelist
- 00:15:49.795 --> 00:15:50.395
- Bestselling christian novelist too disappears at the peak
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- Too disappears at the peak career the lost story of the
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- Career the lost story of the bell is a is a new novel from
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- Bell is a is a new novel from melanie dobson.
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- Melanie dobson. she joins us live to talk about
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- She joins us live to talk about the real life inspiration
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- The real life inspiration behind her book.
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- Behind her book. that's coming up later.
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- That's coming up later. >> and then up next, one of the
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- >> and then up next, one of the oldest christian on earth where
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- Oldest christian on earth where the people speak aramaic, the
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- The people speak aramaic, the is jesus.
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- Is jesus. see why it's on the brink of
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- See why it's on the brink of disappearing.
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- Disappearing. meet the man who's determined
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- Meet the man who's determined to save it when we come back.
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- An unlikely friendship shaped a nation campbell illuminates a
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- Nation campbell illuminates a thousand a great awakening.
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- Thousand a great awakening. rated 13 in theaters april 3rd.
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- Rated 13 in theaters april 3rd. >> wednesday become a monster
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- >> wednesday become a monster four years old facing a 30 year
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- Four years old facing a 30 year sentence.
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- Sentence. >> i can remember holding a gun
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- >> i can remember holding a gun in my hand in a demonic
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- In my hand in a demonic stronghold.
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- Stronghold. if you get this stone then it
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- If you get this stone then it ground to you.
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- Ground to you. >> if you get this stone then
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- >> if you get this stone then it provides provision.
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- It provides provision. how was set free?
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- How was set free? >> someone was speaking to me
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- >> someone was speaking to me in that moment inside the walls
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- In that moment inside the walls of a prison when he said it is
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- Of a prison when he said it is finished it.
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- Finished it. >> on wednesdays club stay
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- >> on wednesdays club stay connected with cbn news all day
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- Connected with cbn news all day across our platforms.
- 00:16:55.129 --> 00:16:58.232
- Across our platforms. >> one of the world's oldest
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- >> one of the world's oldest communities is on the brink of
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- Communities is on the brink of disappearing of war and
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- Disappearing of war and persecution in iraq have driven
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- Persecution in iraq have driven most believers the country.
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- Most believers the country. one man is now working to
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- One man is now working to restore hope his people back
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- Restore hope his people back home.
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- Home. george thomas has more northern
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- George thomas has more northern iraq in erbil just the ancient
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- Iraq in erbil just the ancient citadel lies a neighborhood any
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- Citadel lies a neighborhood any other?
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- Other? this is ankara, a christian
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- This is ankara, a christian enclave that has for nearly
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- Enclave that has for nearly 2000 years.
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- 2000 years. here people still aramaic the
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- Here people still aramaic the language of jesus.
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- Language of jesus. this is a place evangelization
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- This is a place evangelization .
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- . >> this is a place where where
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- >> this is a place where where christianity came right in the
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- Christianity came right in the first century the assyrian
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- First century the assyrian church of the east, the
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- Church of the east, the catholic church and the syriac
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- Catholic church and the syriac orthodox church all trace their
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- Orthodox church all trace their roots to this land making iraq
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- Roots to this land making iraq home of the oldest christian
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- Home of the oldest christian communities on earth.
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- Communities on earth. today, however, that ancient
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- Today, however, that ancient presence is fading.
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- Presence is fading. .
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- . the christian population here
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- The christian population here has been shrinking for decades
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- Has been shrinking for decades .
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- . >> every time there is a crisis
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- >> every time there is a crisis there is a war.
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- There is a war. there is a violence.
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- There is a violence. >> there is a persecution.
- 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:19.046
- >> there is a persecution. these old starts bleeding
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- These old starts bleeding again.
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- Again. >> what you what you are
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- >> what you what you are looking at there is the world's
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- Looking at there is the world's oldest syriac orthodox
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- Oldest syriac orthodox monastery located here.
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- Monastery located here. high up in the mountains of
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- High up in the mountains of northern iraq overlooking the
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- Northern iraq overlooking the famous nineveh plains back in
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- Famous nineveh plains back in 2003 when the united states
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- 2003 when the united states this country there were roughly
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- This country there were roughly point 5 million iraqi
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- Point 5 million iraqi christians.
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- Christians. well, today has dropped
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- Well, today has dropped dramatically to less than
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- Dramatically to less than 130,000.
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- 130,000. >> yeah, it's a frightening and
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- >> yeah, it's a frightening and frightening situation.
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- Frightening situation. >> the symbol of a i know i
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- >> the symbol of a i know i know how to abduct go is the
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- Know how to abduct go is the only christian member of the
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- Only christian member of the kurdish government's cabinet.
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- Kurdish government's cabinet. he says wave after wave of
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- He says wave after wave of violence pushed christians out
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- Violence pushed christians out of their homes.
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- Of their homes. it began the 2003 invasion.
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- It began the 2003 invasion. then came the rise of isis
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- Then came the rise of isis which forced more than 100,000
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- Which forced more than 100,000 christians to flee.
- 00:19:13.034 --> 00:19:16.337
- Christians to flee. >> 111 of our churches were
- 00:19:16.470 --> 00:19:17.204
- >> 111 of our churches were attacked once thousand 380
- 00:19:17.338 --> 00:19:23.511
- Attacked once thousand 380 christians were killed on
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- Christians were killed on identity only in two years.
- 00:19:24.312 --> 00:19:24.879
- Identity only in two years. so our people were targeted
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- So our people were targeted because we are christians the
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- Because we are christians the ones who decide to move here,
- 00:19:28.349 --> 00:19:31.152
- Ones who decide to move here, those who left two decades ago
- 00:19:31.285 --> 00:19:31.886
- Those who left two decades ago and made the decision to come
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- And made the decision to come is dillon adamant?
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- Is dillon adamant? >> i used to come here as for
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- >> i used to come here as for holy days just you know for a
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- Holy days just you know for a few weeks and going back to
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- Few weeks and going back to france was always a bit
- 00:19:42.630 --> 00:19:43.097
- France was always a bit frustrating because i was
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- Frustrating because i was missing here there was
- 00:19:46.434 --> 00:19:46.901
- Missing here there was something missing in my life
- 00:19:47.034 --> 00:19:47.635
- Something missing in my life which was iraqi side.
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- Which was iraqi side. after growing up growing up in
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- After growing up growing up in france for ahmad this
- 00:19:54.575 --> 00:19:57.278
- France for ahmad this neighborhood isn't just where
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- Neighborhood isn't just where he's from.
- 00:19:58.112 --> 00:19:58.346
- He's from. it's part of who he is.
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- It's part of who he is. >> this is my uncle's house.
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- >> this is my uncle's house. there.
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- There. >> it's my cousin's house.
- 00:20:04.952 --> 00:20:05.619
- >> it's my cousin's house. this is my aunt's house there.
- 00:20:05.753 --> 00:20:06.420
- This is my aunt's house there. holds a memory each home, a
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- Holds a memory each home, a connection.
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- Connection. this used to be the old
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- This used to be the old consulate.
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- Consulate. yes.
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- Yes. and it happens to be to be my
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- And it happens to be to be my cousin's house.
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- Cousin's house. >> so in the thousand i know
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- >> so in the thousand i know you'll say everybody is my
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- You'll say everybody is my cousin born in ankara and
- 00:20:20.167 --> 00:20:23.070
- Cousin born in ankara and raised in france.
- 00:20:23.204 --> 00:20:23.571
- Raised in france. >> he spent years returning
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- >> he spent years returning here as a child never feeling
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- Here as a child never feeling at home anywhere else.
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- At home anywhere else. >> for ahmad is more than
- 00:20:28.576 --> 00:20:32.446
- >> for ahmad is more than geography as an aramaic
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- Geography as an aramaic speaking chaldean christian.
- 00:20:33.214 --> 00:20:35.916
- Speaking chaldean christian. he sees iraq as the cradle of
- 00:20:36.050 --> 00:20:39.420
- He sees iraq as the cradle of of his faith.
- 00:20:39.553 --> 00:20:39.854
- Of his faith. >> language and history.
- 00:20:39.987 --> 00:20:40.488
- >> language and history. we belong to this place and we
- 00:20:40.621 --> 00:20:43.657
- We belong to this place and we need to come back we we need to
- 00:20:43.791 --> 00:20:44.725
- Need to come back we we need to be to sustain to thrive to our
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- Be to sustain to thrive to our culture language civilization
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- Culture language civilization religion alive.
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- Religion alive. >> now that heritage after
- 00:20:54.969 --> 00:20:58.672
- >> now that heritage after decades of violence and
- 00:20:58.806 --> 00:20:59.306
- Decades of violence and displacement he fears it could
- 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:02.943
- Displacement he fears it could disappear altogether.
- 00:21:03.077 --> 00:21:03.511
- Disappear altogether. >> because we're at a very
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- >> because we're at a very sensitive moment of history we
- 00:21:07.081 --> 00:21:10.718
- Sensitive moment of history we may disappear completely in a
- 00:21:10.851 --> 00:21:11.452
- May disappear completely in a couple of generations.
- 00:21:11.585 --> 00:21:12.052
- Couple of generations. so if we don't do anything now
- 00:21:12.186 --> 00:21:14.488
- So if we don't do anything now about this, it will be too late
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- About this, it will be too late in a few years.
- 00:21:18.292 --> 00:21:18.726
- In a few years. >> in 2019 he left a successful
- 00:21:18.859 --> 00:21:21.462
- >> in 2019 he left a successful in france and returned to
- 00:21:21.595 --> 00:21:22.129
- In france and returned to uncover to start a nonprofit
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- Uncover to start a nonprofit helping iraqi christians come
- 00:21:26.066 --> 00:21:29.036
- Helping iraqi christians come come back to their ancestral
- 00:21:29.170 --> 00:21:29.737
- Come back to their ancestral home.
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- Home. i wanted to normalize the idea
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- I wanted to normalize the idea of returning here especially
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- Of returning here especially for our community.
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- For our community. you we left for legitimate
- 00:21:34.742 --> 00:21:37.278
- You we left for legitimate reasons people by wars and
- 00:21:37.411 --> 00:21:41.348
- Reasons people by wars and crisis and.
- 00:21:41.482 --> 00:21:41.749
- Crisis and. but at at a point i realized
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- But at at a point i realized that most of these people had
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- That most of these people had this dream of coming back.
- 00:21:45.986 --> 00:21:48.289
- This dream of coming back. >> it's not an easy mission.
- 00:21:48.422 --> 00:21:49.089
- >> it's not an easy mission. iraq remains unstable and new
- 00:21:49.223 --> 00:21:52.293
- Iraq remains unstable and new regional tensions once again
- 00:21:52.426 --> 00:21:52.993
- Regional tensions once again have families if it's safe to
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- Have families if it's safe to return.
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- Return. >> one of the key of our
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- >> one of the key of our christian faith is the hope and
- 00:22:00.034 --> 00:22:00.734
- Christian faith is the hope and i'm people have lost hope here.
- 00:22:00.868 --> 00:22:04.438
- I'm people have lost hope here. so my mission was this to bring
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- So my mission was this to bring back this hope amongst our
- 00:22:07.942 --> 00:22:10.478
- Back this hope amongst our community and this is deeply
- 00:22:10.611 --> 00:22:11.212
- Community and this is deeply rooted in our christian faith.
- 00:22:11.345 --> 00:22:11.946
- Rooted in our christian faith. still thousand 23 his
- 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:14.815
- Still thousand 23 his organization has helped
- 00:22:14.949 --> 00:22:15.416
- Organization has helped hundreds begin that journey
- 00:22:15.549 --> 00:22:18.285
- Hundreds begin that journey home.
- 00:22:18.419 --> 00:22:18.586
- Home. minister aziz signs of hope
- 00:22:18.719 --> 00:22:22.189
- Minister aziz signs of hope especially here in iraq's
- 00:22:22.323 --> 00:22:22.857
- Especially here in iraq's kurdistan region in ankara
- 00:22:22.990 --> 00:22:25.960
- Kurdistan region in ankara which is called the vatican or
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- Which is called the vatican or the vatican of the east.
- 00:22:29.964 --> 00:22:30.464
- The vatican of the east. >> we had only two churches.
- 00:22:30.598 --> 00:22:33.133
- >> we had only two churches. now in ankara 2003.
- 00:22:35.302 --> 00:22:35.903
- Now in ankara 2003. only two churches now in ankara
- 00:22:36.036 --> 00:22:38.372
- Only two churches now in ankara we have more than 30 plus
- 00:22:38.506 --> 00:22:39.306
- We have more than 30 plus churches.
- 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:43.344
- Churches. we are here rows of three 000
- 00:22:43.511 --> 00:22:48.849
- We are here rows of three 000 existence.
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- Existence. >> last year the region hosted
- 00:22:49.350 --> 00:22:52.119
- >> last year the region hosted its first kurdistan national
- 00:22:52.253 --> 00:22:52.820
- Its first kurdistan national prayer breakfast bringing
- 00:22:52.953 --> 00:22:56.023
- Prayer breakfast bringing people of different faiths.
- 00:22:56.156 --> 00:22:56.690
- People of different faiths. a rare moment of unity a
- 00:22:56.824 --> 00:23:00.461
- A rare moment of unity a divided region.
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- Divided region. >> in kurdistan we are saying
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- >> in kurdistan we are saying to all east that peace is
- 00:23:01.795 --> 00:23:04.565
- To all east that peace is possible and and diversity
- 00:23:04.698 --> 00:23:07.801
- Possible and and diversity religious and ethnic diversity
- 00:23:07.935 --> 00:23:08.536
- Religious and ethnic diversity is not a threat.
- 00:23:08.669 --> 00:23:11.839
- Is not a threat. >> pastor malouf bethune seen
- 00:23:11.972 --> 00:23:15.109
- >> pastor malouf bethune seen that hope firsthand.
- 00:23:15.242 --> 00:23:15.676
- That hope firsthand. >> kurdistan has become safer
- 00:23:15.809 --> 00:23:18.679
- >> kurdistan has become safer place for many people.
- 00:23:18.812 --> 00:23:19.280
- Place for many people. over many years he started his
- 00:23:19.413 --> 00:23:22.783
- Over many years he started his church in 12 with just two
- 00:23:22.917 --> 00:23:25.452
- Church in 12 with just two families.
- 00:23:25.586 --> 00:23:25.819
- Families. it's now one of iraq's largest
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- It's now one of iraq's largest churches.
- 00:23:29.056 --> 00:23:29.356
- Churches. >> here we have kind of like a
- 00:23:29.490 --> 00:23:30.524
- >> here we have kind of like a freedom to be officially
- 00:23:30.658 --> 00:23:32.960
- Freedom to be officially recognized to expand, to build
- 00:23:33.093 --> 00:23:36.931
- Recognized to expand, to build and even to reach out to the
- 00:23:37.064 --> 00:23:37.698
- And even to reach out to the people to have to have whoever
- 00:23:37.831 --> 00:23:41.001
- People to have to have whoever wants to come and visit the
- 00:23:41.135 --> 00:23:41.702
- Wants to come and visit the church.
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- Church. >> so always you know, the
- 00:23:42.169 --> 00:23:45.205
- >> so always you know, the government here will support
- 00:23:45.339 --> 00:23:45.906
- Government here will support the the churches.
- 00:23:46.040 --> 00:23:48.275
- The the churches. still, those here know the
- 00:23:48.409 --> 00:23:49.109
- Still, those here know the future will not be easy.
- 00:23:49.243 --> 00:23:52.079
- Future will not be easy. it will never be completely at
- 00:23:52.212 --> 00:23:53.047
- It will never be completely at peace with that same time.
- 00:23:53.180 --> 00:23:55.583
- Peace with that same time. it will never be dead.
- 00:23:55.716 --> 00:23:59.086
- It will never be dead. george thomas, cbn news, ankara
- 00:23:59.219 --> 00:24:00.087
- George thomas, cbn news, ankara northern.
- 00:24:00.220 --> 00:24:02.523
- Northern. >> what's amazing is that
- 00:24:02.656 --> 00:24:03.390
- >> what's amazing is that kurdistan not really an
- 00:24:03.524 --> 00:24:06.927
- Kurdistan not really an official nation.
- 00:24:07.061 --> 00:24:07.394
- Official nation. it's this region within iraq
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- It's this region within iraq that has been self carved out.
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- That has been self carved out. it wasn't part of the plan of
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- It wasn't part of the plan of the bush administration the
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- The bush administration the invasion of iraq.
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- Invasion of iraq. >> there are some fundamental
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- >> there are some fundamental mistakes way and the american
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- Mistakes way and the american government is absolutely and
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- Government is absolutely and number one in the aftermath of
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- Number one in the aftermath of the iraq, the bush
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- The iraq, the bush administration installed sharia
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- Administration installed sharia law of iraq which for our
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- Law of iraq which for our christian minority of a million
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- Christian minority of a million and a half is intolerable.
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- And a half is intolerable. under saddam hussein and the
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- Under saddam hussein and the baathist party they were
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- Baathist party they were protected.
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- Protected. they weren't allowed to be
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- They weren't allowed to be overrun by the muslims.
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- Overrun by the muslims. >> and then the obama
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- >> and then the obama administration obama to
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- Administration obama to withdraw all u.s. troops from
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- Withdraw all u.s. troops from iraq.
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- Iraq. he.
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- He. he fulfilled that pledge and
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- He fulfilled that pledge and that isthis arose in northern
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- That isthis arose in northern iraq and devastated the
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- Iraq and devastated the christian community crucified
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- Christian community crucified christians in their own
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- Christians in their own villages.
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- Villages. >> absolutely horrific.
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- >> absolutely horrific. but to see it rebuild.
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- But to see it rebuild. it gives me a lot of hope and
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- It gives me a lot of hope and congratulate patience.
- 00:25:13.560 --> 00:25:16.897
- Congratulate patience. the christian missionary
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- The christian missionary alliance what an incredible
- 00:25:17.665 --> 00:25:18.232
- Alliance what an incredible pioneering work to go into the
- 00:25:18.365 --> 00:25:21.235
- Pioneering work to go into the middle of that and say we're
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- Middle of that and say we're going to to start a church that
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- Going to to start a church that is living faith.
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- Is living faith. >> congratulations, tara.
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- >> congratulations, tara. well, up next next she's the
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- Well, up next next she's the award winning author of nearly
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- Award winning author of nearly 30 novels and now melanie
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- 30 novels and now melanie dobson has written a book
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- Dobson has written a book inspired one of her childhood
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- Inspired one of her childhood heroes.
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- Heroes. christian novelist livingston
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- Christian novelist livingston hill discovered the lost story
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- Select insurance company. >> call 880 1717 that's 8517
- 00:25:42.006 --> 00:25:45.021
- >> call 880 1717 that's 8517 17.
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- 17. >> call now dobson first
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- >> call now dobson first discovered the novelist grace
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- Discovered the novelist grace livingston, a young girl.
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- Livingston, a young girl. well, today melanie is the
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- Well, today melanie is the author of nearly 30 novels
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- Author of nearly 30 novels herself.
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- Herself. the newest one is called the
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- The newest one is called the lost story of villa belle and
- 00:26:00.102 --> 00:26:00.670
- Lost story of villa belle and it was inspired by the life of
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- It was inspired by the life of grace livingston hill.
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- Grace livingston hill. so please welcome to the 700
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- So please welcome to the 700 club regent university graduate
- 00:26:06.509 --> 00:26:09.946
- Club regent university graduate dobson.
- 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:10.279
- Dobson. >> it's great to have you here.
- 00:26:10.413 --> 00:26:11.080
- >> it's great to have you here. thank you.
- 00:26:11.214 --> 00:26:11.480
- Thank you. i'm so delighted to be here.
- 00:26:11.614 --> 00:26:12.215
- I'm so delighted to be here. feels.
- 00:26:12.348 --> 00:26:13.916
- Feels. >> feels a little bit like i've
- 00:26:14.050 --> 00:26:14.750
- >> feels a little bit like i've come home.
- 00:26:14.884 --> 00:26:15.117
- Come home. well, i hope so.
- 00:26:15.251 --> 00:26:15.618
- Well, i hope so. yeah, we love to hear that when
- 00:26:15.751 --> 00:26:16.986
- Yeah, we love to hear that when somebody is back on campus
- 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:17.687
- Somebody is back on campus here.
- 00:26:17.820 --> 00:26:17.987
- Here. talk a little bit about grace
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- Talk a little bit about grace hill.
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- Hill. you began to love her as a
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- You began to love her as a child but what was it that
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- Child but what was it that really drew you to her?
- 00:26:25.194 --> 00:26:25.695
- Really drew you to her? >> i loved her just her story,
- 00:26:25.828 --> 00:26:29.098
- >> i loved her just her story, her ability to tell these
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- Her ability to tell these beautiful stories who had
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- Beautiful stories who had romance.
- 00:26:32.401 --> 00:26:32.602
- Romance. >> they had history.
- 00:26:32.735 --> 00:26:33.169
- >> they had history. they had mystery.
- 00:26:33.302 --> 00:26:33.669
- They had mystery. i was so intrigued a child and
- 00:26:33.803 --> 00:26:36.339
- I was so intrigued a child and i was allowed to read her books
- 00:26:36.472 --> 00:26:37.106
- I was allowed to read her books as an 11 or 12 year old.
- 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:37.807
- As an 11 or 12 year old. there were so.
- 00:26:37.940 --> 00:26:39.809
- There were so. >> there were so many books i
- 00:26:39.942 --> 00:26:40.610
- >> there were so many books i wasn't allowed to read.
- 00:26:40.743 --> 00:26:41.210
- Wasn't allowed to read. and she had about 100 of them
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- And she had about 100 of them so i could just go to the
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- So i could just go to the bookmobile.
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- Bookmobile. you know, we lived out in the
- 00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:46.115
- You know, we lived out in the in ohio and i would take my
- 00:26:46.249 --> 00:26:46.983
- In ohio and i would take my book out by bicycle out and i
- 00:26:47.116 --> 00:26:47.850
- Book out by bicycle out and i would load and that's and that
- 00:26:47.984 --> 00:26:52.221
- Would load and that's and that yeah, i could just stay up and
- 00:26:52.355 --> 00:26:53.189
- Yeah, i could just stay up and enjoy the wonder of books.
- 00:26:53.322 --> 00:26:54.156
- Enjoy the wonder of books. >> well the last story of v
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- >> well the last story of v about this it's actually just
- 00:26:55.224 --> 00:26:57.627
- About this it's actually just out next week.
- 00:26:57.760 --> 00:26:58.094
- Out next week. >> yes it comes out on tuesday
- 00:26:58.227 --> 00:27:00.930
- >> yes it comes out on tuesday .
- 00:27:01.063 --> 00:27:01.163
- . >> so how did grace livingston
- 00:27:01.297 --> 00:27:02.098
- >> so how did grace livingston hill affect this story?
- 00:27:02.231 --> 00:27:02.732
- Hill affect this story? inspired by her story.
- 00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:05.134
- Inspired by her story. >> you know, i had kind of this
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- >> you know, i had kind of this mindset this charmed life when
- 00:27:06.402 --> 00:27:09.038
- Mindset this charmed life when i was younger.
- 00:27:09.171 --> 00:27:09.505
- I was younger. i thought she had this very
- 00:27:09.639 --> 00:27:10.306
- I thought she had this very charmed and it turns out she
- 00:27:10.439 --> 00:27:13.209
- Charmed and it turns out she had a very difficult journey.
- 00:27:13.342 --> 00:27:13.943
- Had a very difficult journey. she had to really hard
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- She had to really hard marriages.
- 00:27:16.312 --> 00:27:16.545
- Marriages. she was a single mom to two
- 00:27:16.679 --> 00:27:17.280
- She was a single mom to two little girls and i wanted to
- 00:27:17.413 --> 00:27:20.249
- Little girls and i wanted to tell her story or story
- 00:27:20.383 --> 00:27:20.850
- Tell her story or story inspired by her by her but i
- 00:27:20.983 --> 00:27:24.053
- Inspired by her by her but i also wanted to tell a story
- 00:27:24.186 --> 00:27:24.754
- Also wanted to tell a story that i thought that she would
- 00:27:24.887 --> 00:27:25.454
- That i thought that she would enjoy writing something
- 00:27:25.588 --> 00:27:27.456
- Enjoy writing something something she would enjoy
- 00:27:27.590 --> 00:27:28.090
- Something she would enjoy reading.
- 00:27:28.224 --> 00:27:28.424
- Reading. so it has a history, has the
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- So it has a history, has the mystery, it has the chaste
- 00:27:29.258 --> 00:27:31.827
- Mystery, it has the chaste romance about her and for her
- 00:27:31.961 --> 00:27:32.595
- Romance about her and for her it's kind of a story within.
- 00:27:32.728 --> 00:27:35.164
- It's kind of a story within. you write about two different
- 00:27:35.298 --> 00:27:35.965
- You write about two different time periods in the book.
- 00:27:36.098 --> 00:27:36.599
- Time periods in the book. i'm always i'm intrigued by
- 00:27:36.732 --> 00:27:38.801
- I'm always i'm intrigued by novels and novelists because i
- 00:27:38.935 --> 00:27:42.571
- Novels and novelists because i don't know how you stay on top
- 00:27:42.705 --> 00:27:43.406
- Don't know how you stay on top of all the information.
- 00:27:43.539 --> 00:27:46.275
- Of all the information. >> how did you deal with two
- 00:27:46.409 --> 00:27:47.109
- >> how did you deal with two different time periods here it
- 00:27:47.243 --> 00:27:47.877
- Different time periods here it is all tied up in in my brain.
- 00:27:48.010 --> 00:27:51.013
- Is all tied up in in my brain. >> it's just how god is right
- 00:27:51.147 --> 00:27:51.881
- >> it's just how god is right here with my husband is like
- 00:27:52.014 --> 00:27:54.317
- Here with my husband is like where are you right now?
- 00:27:54.450 --> 00:27:54.951
- Where are you right now? if i come back tomorrow here?
- 00:27:55.084 --> 00:27:57.620
- If i come back tomorrow here? >> yeah.
- 00:27:57.753 --> 00:27:58.054
- >> yeah. it's just how god wired me.
- 00:27:58.187 --> 00:27:58.821
- It's just how god wired me. i love it.
- 00:27:58.955 --> 00:28:02.091
- I love it. i love the process of it.
- 00:28:02.224 --> 00:28:02.825
- I love the process of it. so what would you say if
- 00:28:02.959 --> 00:28:03.793
- So what would you say if somebody asked you about the
- 00:28:03.926 --> 00:28:05.528
- Somebody asked you about the book that hadn't read it yet?
- 00:28:05.661 --> 00:28:06.295
- Book that hadn't read it yet? what would you say are the
- 00:28:06.429 --> 00:28:07.096
- What would you say are the themes?
- 00:28:07.229 --> 00:28:09.865
- Themes? you know there's betrayal,
- 00:28:09.999 --> 00:28:10.533
- You know there's betrayal, there's deception in the story
- 00:28:10.666 --> 00:28:13.469
- There's deception in the story and there is god's light just
- 00:28:13.602 --> 00:28:14.203
- And there is god's light just shining right through the
- 00:28:14.337 --> 00:28:14.837
- Shining right through the darkness and recovery there is
- 00:28:14.971 --> 00:28:17.406
- Darkness and recovery there is redemption in the story.
- 00:28:17.540 --> 00:28:20.576
- Redemption in the story. >> there's just this hopefully
- 00:28:20.710 --> 00:28:21.377
- >> there's just this hopefully a beautiful picture of god
- 00:28:21.510 --> 00:28:22.044
- A beautiful picture of god working things things together
- 00:28:22.178 --> 00:28:24.947
- Working things things together for good in spite of all that
- 00:28:25.081 --> 00:28:25.715
- For good in spite of all that happens god has put together
- 00:28:25.848 --> 00:28:28.684
- Happens god has put together this story within the story
- 00:28:28.818 --> 00:28:29.352
- This story within the story within the story i guess like
- 00:28:29.485 --> 00:28:30.052
- Within the story i guess like life.
- 00:28:30.186 --> 00:28:32.254
- Life. yeah exactly and make something
- 00:28:32.388 --> 00:28:32.989
- Yeah exactly and make something really beautiful out of the
- 00:28:33.122 --> 00:28:35.658
- Really beautiful out of the hardship 30 novels do you
- 00:28:35.791 --> 00:28:36.325
- Hardship 30 novels do you always have a river of faith
- 00:28:36.459 --> 00:28:39.562
- Always have a river of faith running through what you write?
- 00:28:39.695 --> 00:28:40.329
- Running through what you write? oh, it's really important for
- 00:28:40.463 --> 00:28:41.063
- Oh, it's really important for me i'm a follower of christ to
- 00:28:41.197 --> 00:28:43.833
- Me i'm a follower of christ to be able to put that into my
- 00:28:43.966 --> 00:28:44.600
- Be able to put that into my story.
- 00:28:44.734 --> 00:28:44.900
- Story. .
- 00:28:46.569 --> 00:28:46.836
- . you know jesus told parables
- 00:28:46.969 --> 00:28:47.570
- You know jesus told parables it's how he communicated and.
- 00:28:47.703 --> 00:28:50.539
- It's how he communicated and. it's how i as a writer feel
- 00:28:50.673 --> 00:28:51.407
- It's how i as a writer feel really strongly about how i am
- 00:28:51.540 --> 00:28:52.141
- Really strongly about how i am supposed to communicate stories
- 00:28:52.274 --> 00:28:54.243
- Supposed to communicate stories .
- 00:28:54.377 --> 00:28:54.477
- . >> when you start to do
- 00:28:54.610 --> 00:28:55.177
- >> when you start to do something like the lost story
- 00:28:55.311 --> 00:28:55.945
- Something like the lost story of how much is in your heart,
- 00:28:56.078 --> 00:28:58.948
- Of how much is in your heart, in your mind before and how
- 00:28:59.081 --> 00:29:01.784
- In your mind before and how much kind of unravels as you
- 00:29:01.917 --> 00:29:02.518
- Much kind of unravels as you write us i am a am a discovery
- 00:29:02.651 --> 00:29:05.955
- Write us i am a am a discovery writer so there is a lot that's
- 00:29:06.088 --> 00:29:06.722
- Writer so there is a lot that's unraveling as i go grief.
- 00:29:06.856 --> 00:29:09.625
- Unraveling as i go grief. >> yeah i always start with my
- 00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:10.593
- >> yeah i always start with my characters though i know my
- 00:29:10.726 --> 00:29:11.293
- Characters though i know my characters inside and i know
- 00:29:11.427 --> 00:29:13.596
- Characters inside and i know their enneagram.
- 00:29:13.729 --> 00:29:14.096
- Their enneagram. i know the personality type.
- 00:29:14.230 --> 00:29:14.797
- I know the personality type. i know what know them better
- 00:29:14.930 --> 00:29:17.033
- I know what know them better than my best friends you know i
- 00:29:17.166 --> 00:29:17.800
- Than my best friends you know i really know their their
- 00:29:17.933 --> 00:29:20.236
- Really know their their desires, the desire of their
- 00:29:20.369 --> 00:29:20.936
- Desires, the desire of their heart and how god's going to
- 00:29:21.070 --> 00:29:21.637
- Heart and how god's going to change them and so i put these
- 00:29:21.771 --> 00:29:24.407
- Change them and so i put these characters on paper and kind of
- 00:29:24.540 --> 00:29:25.174
- Characters on paper and kind of let them tell their story.
- 00:29:25.307 --> 00:29:25.875
- Let them tell their story. it sounds me there.
- 00:29:26.008 --> 00:29:30.112
- It sounds me there. >> so i'm always surprised.
- 00:29:30.246 --> 00:29:30.846
- >> so i'm always surprised. i mean i've been in coffee
- 00:29:30.980 --> 00:29:31.580
- I mean i've been in coffee shops just bawling you know,
- 00:29:31.714 --> 00:29:33.082
- Shops just bawling you know, just crying because she's back.
- 00:29:33.215 --> 00:29:33.816
- Just crying because she's back. >> i know like what's with her
- 00:29:33.949 --> 00:29:36.919
- >> i know like what's with her like oh, this person is you
- 00:29:37.053 --> 00:29:37.620
- Like oh, this person is you know, this is what happened to
- 00:29:37.753 --> 00:29:39.722
- Know, this is what happened to better not share that i know i
- 00:29:39.855 --> 00:29:40.689
- Better not share that i know i know some of these things that
- 00:29:40.823 --> 00:29:41.457
- Know some of these things that keep private but it's just
- 00:29:41.590 --> 00:29:43.492
- Keep private but it's just delightful for me to find out
- 00:29:43.626 --> 00:29:44.226
- Delightful for me to find out how the story goes and how.
- 00:29:44.360 --> 00:29:46.695
- How the story goes and how. you mentioned being happy to
- 00:29:46.829 --> 00:29:47.396
- You mentioned being happy to come back home campus.
- 00:29:47.530 --> 00:29:50.800
- Come back home campus. you're a recent grad and and
- 00:29:50.933 --> 00:29:54.103
- You're a recent grad and and spent time here.
- 00:29:54.236 --> 00:29:54.603
- Spent time here. what impact did your time at
- 00:29:54.737 --> 00:29:55.471
- What impact did your time at regent on your writing?
- 00:29:55.604 --> 00:29:58.474
- Regent on your writing? >> you know here at regent i
- 00:29:58.607 --> 00:29:59.475
- >> you know here at regent i got we learned so much about
- 00:29:59.608 --> 00:30:02.144
- Got we learned so much about how to be excellent in our
- 00:30:02.278 --> 00:30:03.012
- How to be excellent in our craft, be excellent at how to
- 00:30:03.145 --> 00:30:06.482
- Craft, be excellent at how to value the gifts that god has
- 00:30:06.615 --> 00:30:07.316
- Value the gifts that god has given given us.
- 00:30:07.450 --> 00:30:09.752
- Given given us. you know, god created me with
- 00:30:09.885 --> 00:30:10.519
- You know, god created me with this desire to write and came
- 00:30:10.653 --> 00:30:11.253
- This desire to write and came here kind of with of with a
- 00:30:11.387 --> 00:30:13.956
- Here kind of with of with a blank page in my own life like
- 00:30:14.090 --> 00:30:14.757
- Blank page in my own life like what am i going what is my
- 00:30:14.890 --> 00:30:15.458
- What am i going what is my story going to be?
- 00:30:15.591 --> 00:30:16.792
- Story going to be? and here is where god said okay
- 00:30:16.926 --> 00:30:17.660
- And here is where god said okay you need to take seriously this
- 00:30:17.793 --> 00:30:21.931
- You need to take seriously this gift i have giving you.
- 00:30:22.064 --> 00:30:22.565
- Gift i have giving you. i want you to pursue this.
- 00:30:22.698 --> 00:30:23.265
- I want you to pursue this. i want you to pursue the dreams
- 00:30:23.399 --> 00:30:26.001
- I want you to pursue the dreams that i put in your heart and so
- 00:30:26.135 --> 00:30:26.969
- That i put in your heart and so i god i was pleased at the
- 00:30:27.103 --> 00:30:27.903
- I god i was pleased at the beginning of kind of this race
- 00:30:28.037 --> 00:30:29.972
- Beginning of kind of this race and had shown what to do and
- 00:30:30.106 --> 00:30:30.840
- And had shown what to do and said be and do this well and
- 00:30:30.973 --> 00:30:33.709
- Said be and do this well and given the tools that i need and
- 00:30:33.843 --> 00:30:34.477
- Given the tools that i need and then set out to out to run the
- 00:30:34.610 --> 00:30:37.146
- Then set out to out to run the course you know so many people
- 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:37.913
- Course you know so many people i say so many people i know
- 00:30:38.047 --> 00:30:40.149
- I say so many people i know many people maybe i should put
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- Many people maybe i should put it that way that desire to
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- It that way that desire to write that want to have books
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- Write that want to have books published that is not an easy
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- Published that is not an easy thing to do.
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- Thing to do. clearly god opened some doors
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- Clearly god opened some doors for you in all we were talking
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- For you in all we were talking just before we came on about
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- Just before we came on about the fact that that this is
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- The fact that that this is coming out next week and you
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- Coming out next week and you already have another story in
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- Already have another story in your head.
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- Your head. >> yes.
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- >> yes. do you ever take a break?
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- Do you ever take a break? >> i wish i could.
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- >> i wish i could. i just keep coming back all end
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- I just keep coming back all end one story and god gives me
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- One story and god gives me another one.
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- Another one. that's just a cease my brain.
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- That's just a cease my brain. >> yeah.
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- >> yeah. when people read the lost story
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- When people read the lost story of the bible is so much in it
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- Of the bible is so much in it the mystery and then the
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- The mystery and then the intrigue and and the the whole
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- Intrigue and and the the whole thing.
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- Thing. >> what do you want the
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- >> what do you want the takeaway to be?
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- Takeaway to be? i would love for people to just
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- I would love for people to just be inspired to pursue whatever
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- Be inspired to pursue whatever dreams that god has given them
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- Dreams that god has given them to know they are part of a
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- To know they are part of a bigger story to know that he's
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- Bigger story to know that he's things together for good and to
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- Things together for good and to just faithfully pursue and the
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- Just faithfully pursue and the dreams that god has given them
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- Dreams that god has given them so it's available next week
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- So it's available next week friends just let me hold it up
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- Friends just let me hold it up so you can see what it looks
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- So you can see what it looks like like.
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- Like like. melanie's book is called the
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- Melanie's book is called the lost story of the about i'm
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- Lost story of the about i'm able to take time to just sit
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- Able to take time to just sit down.
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- Down. usually it's on a vacation
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- Usually it's on a vacation rather than every single day
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- Rather than every single day with a good novel and get lost
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- With a good novel and get lost in it.
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- In it. i i mean words are a gift and
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- I i mean words are a gift and clearly god's gift to you.
- 00:31:52.955 --> 00:31:53.522
- Clearly god's gift to you. so thank you for sharing this
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- So thank you for sharing this with us and now it's available
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- With us and now it's available to the rest of you as it is
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- To the rest of you as it is coming next week.
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- Coming next week. congratulations.
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- Congratulations. thank you for gordon.
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- Thank you for gordon. >> well, still ahead arguments
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- >> well, still ahead arguments silent treatment for a long
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- Silent treatment for a long fight.
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- Fight. this couple's marriage was cost
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- This couple's marriage was cost every day.
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- Every day. watch how she prepared divorce
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- Watch how she prepared divorce while he was on deployment.
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- While he was on deployment. and find out out why those
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- And find out out why those papers went missing.
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- Papers went missing. that's coming up.
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- That's coming up. >> when i came to regent
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- >> when i came to regent university, the world opened
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- University, the world opened up.
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- Up. i felt like i needed to advance
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- I felt like i needed to advance my career career and go back to
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- My career career and go back to school.
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- School. regent was a perfect fit for
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- Regent was a perfect fit for me.
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- Me. the reason professors are world
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- The reason professors are world world class you are equipped.
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- World class you are equipped. the focus of the faculty is on
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- The focus of the faculty is on each individual student whether
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- Each individual student whether it's online or in person.
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- It's online or in person. you a part of regents family
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- You a part of regents family you carry with you not just the
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- You carry with you not just the content and the knowledge but
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- Content and the knowledge but the confidence to understand
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- The confidence to understand that we can be significant in
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- That we can be significant in the world region university
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- The world region university follow your path.
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- Follow your path. >> is there a spiritual war
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- >> is there a spiritual war going on around us?
- 00:33:02.157 --> 00:33:02.591
- Going on around us? are angels and demons real?
- 00:33:02.725 --> 00:33:03.292
- Are angels and demons real? investigate.
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- Investigate. >> i kept hearing god don't go
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- >> i kept hearing god don't go there.
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- There. >> it was in a matter of
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- >> it was in a matter of minutes a off.
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- Minutes a off. >> all of a sudden we hear this
- 00:33:14.303 --> 00:33:15.337
- >> all of a sudden we hear this guttural sounding voice come
- 00:33:15.471 --> 00:33:18.774
- Guttural sounding voice come out of the room aback by what i
- 00:33:18.907 --> 00:33:19.842
- Out of the room aback by what i uncovered changes everything.
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- Thousands. just call before happens.
- 00:33:23.008 --> 00:33:23.774
- Just call before happens. call 9337537.
- 00:33:23.941 --> 00:33:29.680
- Call 9337537. welcome back to the 700 club
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- Welcome back to the 700 club for this cbn news break.
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- For this cbn news break. >> the crew of the artemus two
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- >> the crew of the artemus two spaceship are on their way back
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- Spaceship are on their way back home today.
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- Home today. this comes after a record
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- This comes after a record breaking journey around the far
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- Breaking journey around the far side of the moon traveling
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- Side of the moon traveling farther into space than anyone
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- Farther into space than anyone has gone before.
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- Has gone before. the crew taking pictures and
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- The crew taking pictures and cataloging parts of the moon
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- Cataloging parts of the moon never seen and recommending a
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- Never seen and recommending a brightly lit crater be named
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- Brightly lit crater be named for commander reed wiseman's
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- For commander reed wiseman's wife carol who died of cancer.
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- Wife carol who died of cancer. >> splashdown is set for friday
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- >> splashdown is set for friday coast to coast prayer
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- Coast to coast prayer initiative is seeking to enlist
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- Initiative is seeking to enlist 1 million christians to pray
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- 1 million christians to pray for christ centered awakening.
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- For christ centered awakening. prayer at the heart is a multi
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- Prayer at the heart is a multi denominational campaign
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- Denominational campaign launched at easter and running
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- Launched at easter and running through pentecost.
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- Through pentecost. the goal goal is to have 1
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- The goal goal is to have 1 million christians praying for
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- Million christians praying for 1 million to come to faith in
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- 1 million to come to faith in christ.
- 00:34:23.567 --> 00:34:23.768
- Christ. the ministry says america is
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- The ministry says america is near a cultural and spiritual
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- Near a cultural and spiritual of no return that requires
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- Of no return that requires united nation prayer.
- 00:34:30.708 --> 00:34:34.245
- United nation prayer. >> want to remind you you can
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- >> want to remind you you can always get the latest from cbn
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- 700 club. it's coming up right after this
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- One 6330088. wednesday i'd become a monster
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- Wednesday i'd become a monster 20 four years old a 30 year
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- 20 four years old a 30 year sentence.
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- Sentence. >> i can remember holding a gun
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- >> i can remember holding a gun in my in my hand in a demonic
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- In my in my hand in a demonic stronghold.
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- Stronghold. if you get this stone then it
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- If you get this stone then it grounds get this stone then it
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- Grounds get this stone then it provides provision.
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- Provides provision. >> how she was set free was
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- >> how she was set free was speaking to me in that moment
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- Speaking to me in that moment inside the walls of a prison
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- Inside the walls of a prison when he said it is finished it
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- When he said it is finished it was for you.
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- Was for you. on wednesdays seven hundred
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- On wednesdays seven hundred club mora can barely afford
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- Club mora can barely afford rent and most days there's not
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- Rent and most days there's not enough money left to buy.
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- Enough money left to buy. she also worries about the
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- She also worries about the safety of her children and
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- Safety of her children and reason.
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- Reason. i'd like to show you now the
- 00:36:01.016 --> 00:36:01.650
- I'd like to show you now the area where this struggle family
- 00:36:01.784 --> 00:36:04.186
- Area where this struggle family lives here in this dangerous
- 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:10.693
- Lives here in this dangerous neighborhood, one of the most
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- Neighborhood, one of the most vulnerable in costa rica.
- 00:36:11.560 --> 00:36:12.061
- Vulnerable in costa rica. some children food.
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- Some children food. >> this is where we met jackson
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- >> this is where we met jackson his and their mom laura who is
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- His and their mom laura who is a single parent.
- 00:36:19.301 --> 00:36:22.004
- A single parent. laura is afraid for her kids
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- Laura is afraid for her kids especially when she to sell
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- Especially when she to sell items to commuters on the
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- Items to commuters on the streets.
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- Streets. i know the risks that children
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- I know the risks that children and young people face and the
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- And young people face and the influence that the streets has
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- Influence that the streets has on them.
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- On them. so me try to protect them even
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- So me try to protect them even more.
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- More. >> with her limited laura can
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- >> with her limited laura can barely afford rent.
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- Barely afford rent. most days enough left to buy
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- Most days enough left to buy food.
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- Food. >> most times at home at home
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- >> most times at home at home we are out of milk, eggs and
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- We are out of milk, eggs and bread.
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- Bread. >> it would be nice to have
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- >> it would be nice to have more food to eat.
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- More food to eat. >> that's found an after school
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- >> that's found an after school program that met both of her of
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- Program that met both of her of her needs food and a safe place
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- Her needs food and a safe place for her children to stay while
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- For her children to stay while she works.
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- She works. it's a program sponsored by
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- It's a program sponsored by operation blessings orphans
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- Operation blessings orphans promise.
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- Promise. >> here children have a safe
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- >> here children have a safe place to play.
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- Place to play. >> they receive hot meals and
- 00:37:11.720 --> 00:37:12.354
- >> they receive hot meals and they receive tutoring and and a
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- They receive tutoring and and a chance to hear the gospel
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- Chance to hear the gospel through cbn's superbook
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- Through cbn's superbook programs.
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- Programs. >> this opportunity was the
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- >> this opportunity was the door i needed to go go through
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- Door i needed to go go through and find god's blessing for me
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- And find god's blessing for me and my children.
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- And my children. >> thanks to you this
- 00:37:27.202 --> 00:37:27.703
- >> thanks to you this strategically placed after
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- Strategically placed after school will continue to provide
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- School will continue to provide tutoring, meals and a safe for
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- Tutoring, meals and a safe for kids to grow up among friends
- 00:37:34.710 --> 00:37:35.310
- Kids to grow up among friends and the loving staff i have to
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- And the loving staff i have to work.
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- Work. >> i can do so in peace because
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- >> i can do so in peace because in a safe place and they can
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- In a safe place and they can enjoy being.
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- Enjoy being. >> i am very grateful to the
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- >> i am very grateful to the people us the center where i
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- People us the center where i can eat and play.
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- Can eat and play. >> thank you.
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- >> thank you. >> that's all happening because
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- >> that's all happening because .
- 00:38:01.570 --> 00:38:01.670
- . you say yes to god's invitation
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- You say yes to god's invitation to be a part of it.
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- To be a part of it. it was so wonderful to be in a
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- It was so wonderful to be in a place where were safe and yet
- 00:38:06.375 --> 00:38:09.411
- Place where were safe and yet surrounded by a neighborhood
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- Surrounded by a neighborhood where anything but safe.
- 00:38:10.245 --> 00:38:13.315
- Where anything but safe. can you imagine for these have
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- Can you imagine for these have to go to work to support their
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- To go to work to support their children what it's like to to
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- Children what it's like to to have to leave a child home
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- Have to leave a child home alone.
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- Alone. they now go into into this
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- They now go into into this amazing center where they are
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- Amazing center where they are loved.
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- Loved. they are fed.
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- Go meets earth dot com today sylvester and denise both came
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- Sylvester and denise both came from troubled marriages so when
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- From troubled marriages so when they tied the knot the couple
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- They tied the knot the couple brought a lot of baggage with
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- Brought a lot of baggage with over the years their
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- Over the years their relationship deteriorated and
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- Relationship deteriorated and while sylvester on deployment
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- While sylvester on deployment denise got the divorce papers
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- Denise got the divorce papers ready his return lost myself in
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- Ready his return lost myself in you know, chasing the marriage
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- You know, chasing the marriage ,not getting anything in
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- ,not getting anything in return and i felt so at that
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- Return and i felt so at that that time i felt so just
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- That time i felt so just hopeless and so empty.
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- Hopeless and so empty. >> so i always my guard up i
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- >> so i always my guard up i always stayed on the edge,
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- Always stayed on the edge, always figure out a plan b
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- Always figure out a plan b didn't process about marriage
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- Didn't process about marriage because i certain point in time
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- Because i certain point in time she was going to leave me when
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- She was going to leave me when he.
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- He. he deployed i had already paid
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- He deployed i had already paid for the divorce sylvester and
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- For the divorce sylvester and denise jenkins met while both
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- Denise jenkins met while both were in the army army quickly
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- Were in the army army quickly bonding over common ground.
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- Bonding over common ground. they fell in love and married
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- They fell in love and married in 2011.
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- In 2011. >> both had a child from a
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- >> both had a child from a previous marriage as well as
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- Previous marriage as well as emotional wounds.
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- Emotional wounds. i'd gotten married when i was
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- I'd gotten married when i was 19 and it was a was a very
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- 19 and it was a was a very physically and very emotionally
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- Physically and very emotionally abusive relationship.
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- Abusive relationship. i really thought i was
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- I really thought i was worthless honestly i was
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- Worthless honestly i was absolutely something i did not
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- Absolutely something i did not share walls up when it came to
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- Share walls up when it came to her just wanting some sense of
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- Her just wanting some sense of intimacy with me i was like no,
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- Intimacy with me i was like no, if i drop my guard she going to
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- If i drop my guard she going to do me.
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- Do me. >> the last woman did.
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- >> the last woman did. it didn't take long for the
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- It didn't take long for the marriage.
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- Marriage. we was no longer communicating
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- We was no longer communicating talking.
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- Talking. >> there was never no real love
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- >> there was never no real love or connection or intimacy
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- Or connection or intimacy arguments the silent treatment
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- Arguments the silent treatment in full full out you.
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- In full full out you. >> although both were
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- >> although both were christians at that that time
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- Christians at that that time neither made god a priority.
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- Neither made god a priority. >> i felt like i was so
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- >> i felt like i was so consumed with my job and just
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- Consumed with my job and just trying to get everything
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- Trying to get everything together dealing with my
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- Together dealing with my career, being a protector
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- Career, being a protector provider and i got overwhelmed
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- Provider and i got overwhelmed that i was like i don't have
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- That i was like i don't have time for church anymore.
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- Time for church anymore. >> in late 2012 just before
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- >> in late 2012 just before denise's army contract up, the
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- Denise's army contract up, the two decided to have a child
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- Two decided to have a child together hoping that would help
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- Together hoping that would help their marriage.
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- Their marriage. i did think it would make us
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- I did think it would make us more aware and maybe more
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- More aware and maybe more committed because there was
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- Committed because there was children i'm willing to stay in
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- Children i'm willing to stay in this marriage even even if it's
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- This marriage even even if it's horrible.
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- Horrible. i'm willing to stay for the
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- I'm willing to stay for the sake of our children over the
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- Sake of our children over the next few years their family
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- Next few years their family grew but focused on their kids.
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- Grew but focused on their kids. sylvester and denise drifted
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- Sylvester and denise drifted apart, each blaming the other
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- Apart, each blaming the other for their empty empty marriage.
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- For their empty empty marriage. i really believed that he was
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- I really believed that he was just cold, that he did not love
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- Just cold, that he did not love me.
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- Me. >> he was never going to show
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- >> he was never going to show any any of emotions ever.
- 00:44:56.690 --> 00:44:59.259
- Any any of emotions ever. i struggled with it all
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- I struggled with it all throughout our i wanted it so
- 00:45:00.127 --> 00:45:02.629
- Throughout our i wanted it so bad i disregard anything that,
- 00:45:02.762 --> 00:45:06.399
- Bad i disregard anything that, she said when it comes to her
- 00:45:06.533 --> 00:45:07.167
- She said when it comes to her feelings and emotions so it was
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- Feelings and emotions so it was just a constant battle between
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- Just a constant battle between us on it on a daily basis.
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- Us on it on a daily basis. >> by 2018 as sylvester
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- >> by 2018 as sylvester prepared for a yearlong
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- Prepared for a yearlong deployment to kuwait, their
- 00:45:17.577 --> 00:45:18.111
- Deployment to kuwait, their marriage was all but over
- 00:45:18.245 --> 00:45:21.448
- Marriage was all but over divorce papers waiting to be
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- Divorce papers waiting to be signed.
- 00:45:22.315 --> 00:45:22.516
- Signed. >> when i discovered that he
- 00:45:22.649 --> 00:45:25.585
- >> when i discovered that he that he was deploying i was
- 00:45:25.719 --> 00:45:26.319
- That he was deploying i was like this is my time to just
- 00:45:26.453 --> 00:45:27.087
- Like this is my time to just build myself up.
- 00:45:27.220 --> 00:45:27.587
- Build myself up. this is my time to prepare to
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- This is my time to prepare to be a single parent all over
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- Be a single parent all over again.
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- Again. this is my this is the time i
- 00:45:30.924 --> 00:45:31.558
- This is my this is the time i can take to to heal all the
- 00:45:31.691 --> 00:45:34.461
- Can take to to heal all the wounds and just let it go.
- 00:45:34.594 --> 00:45:35.128
- Wounds and just let it go. it instantly put me in
- 00:45:35.262 --> 00:45:38.398
- It instantly put me in experiencing having a flashback
- 00:45:38.532 --> 00:45:41.968
- Experiencing having a flashback first marriage.
- 00:45:42.102 --> 00:45:42.435
- First marriage. >> so i was like i don't want
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- >> so i was like i don't want don't want you to leave, you
- 00:45:45.906 --> 00:45:46.540
- Don't want you to leave, you know, even if it's bad.
- 00:45:46.673 --> 00:45:47.207
- Know, even if it's bad. i just didn't i just don't want
- 00:45:47.340 --> 00:45:48.008
- I just didn't i just don't want you to me.
- 00:45:48.141 --> 00:45:49.176
- You to me. for those 12 months they had
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- For those 12 months they had little contact like man i just
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- Little contact like man i just don't want to deal with any
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- Don't want to deal with any type of problems, any type type
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- Type of problems, any type type of issues outside of what i got
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- Of issues outside of what i got going on now dealing with this
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- Going on now dealing with this deployment.
- 00:45:58.552 --> 00:46:00.053
- Deployment. >> when sylvester returned in
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- >> when sylvester returned in 2019, the couple speaking yet
- 00:46:01.021 --> 00:46:06.393
- 2019, the couple speaking yet one thing did change.
- 00:46:06.526 --> 00:46:06.960
- One thing did change. they both agree that the family
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- They both agree that the family needed to get back to church.
- 00:46:07.894 --> 00:46:10.664
- Needed to get back to church. >> my prayers were sounding
- 00:46:10.797 --> 00:46:11.364
- >> my prayers were sounding like god, whatever to do to
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- Like god, whatever to do to just help me to change my
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- Just help me to change my heart.
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- Heart. you know you know, to heal all
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- You know you know, to heal all this hurt.
- 00:46:18.538 --> 00:46:18.772
- This hurt. i don't really know how to
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- I don't really know how to articulate those prayers.
- 00:46:19.606 --> 00:46:21.841
- Articulate those prayers. i just knew that i was hurting
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- I just knew that i was hurting and all that was and praying
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- And all that was and praying for my marriage to be restored.
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- For my marriage to be restored. >> i wasn't praying to be back
- 00:46:25.612 --> 00:46:26.379
- >> i wasn't praying to be back with him.
- 00:46:26.513 --> 00:46:29.616
- With him. >> i just there's a something
- 00:46:29.749 --> 00:46:30.450
- >> i just there's a something in me that i just wanted to be
- 00:46:30.584 --> 00:46:31.251
- In me that i just wanted to be right with god god so it was
- 00:46:31.384 --> 00:46:33.353
- Right with god god so it was never too late really
- 00:46:33.486 --> 00:46:33.954
- Never too late really reconciled to marriage.
- 00:46:34.087 --> 00:46:34.554
- Reconciled to marriage. but i said said if we'd given
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- But i said said if we'd given up on each other let's not give
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- Up on each other let's not give up on god.
- 00:46:38.191 --> 00:46:38.458
- Up on god. >> in addition to church,
- 00:46:38.592 --> 00:46:40.327
- >> in addition to church, sylvester and denise joined a
- 00:46:40.460 --> 00:46:41.061
- Sylvester and denise joined a bible study where they safe and
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- Bible study where they safe and loved.
- 00:46:44.264 --> 00:46:44.431
- Loved. there they learned practical to
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- There they learned practical to improve their marriage.
- 00:46:47.734 --> 00:46:48.201
- Improve their marriage. we was able to learn more about
- 00:46:48.335 --> 00:46:51.905
- We was able to learn more about our roles and positions as
- 00:46:52.038 --> 00:46:54.975
- Our roles and positions as husband and wife how we
- 00:46:55.108 --> 00:46:55.709
- Husband and wife how we supposed to love and nurture
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- Supposed to love and nurture one another.
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- One another. praying with your spouse, doing
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- Praying with your spouse, doing the and these are things that
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- The and these are things that we never truly did together.
- 00:47:00.814 --> 00:47:03.617
- We never truly did together. >> i was like god forgives know
- 00:47:03.750 --> 00:47:07.454
- >> i was like god forgives know god is not holding anything
- 00:47:07.587 --> 00:47:08.154
- God is not holding anything against him.
- 00:47:08.288 --> 00:47:08.588
- Against him. why should i?
- 00:47:08.722 --> 00:47:09.055
- Why should i? i don't have the right to
- 00:47:09.189 --> 00:47:09.723
- I don't have the right to either.
- 00:47:09.856 --> 00:47:10.991
- Either. started to see someone that was
- 00:47:11.124 --> 00:47:11.758
- Started to see someone that was wounded too.
- 00:47:11.891 --> 00:47:12.192
- Wounded too. that was hurt too and someone
- 00:47:12.325 --> 00:47:14.027
- That was hurt too and someone that didn't know how to
- 00:47:14.160 --> 00:47:14.661
- That didn't know how to navigate that.
- 00:47:14.794 --> 00:47:15.095
- Navigate that. someone needed jesus just like
- 00:47:15.228 --> 00:47:18.565
- Someone needed jesus just like i needed jesus.
- 00:47:18.698 --> 00:47:19.065
- I needed jesus. >> over the next year their
- 00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:19.766
- >> over the next year their marriage was.
- 00:47:19.899 --> 00:47:21.568
- Marriage was. their walls slowly came down
- 00:47:21.735 --> 00:47:22.435
- Their walls slowly came down and they love each other again.
- 00:47:22.569 --> 00:47:25.905
- And they love each other again. >> we started to feel a
- 00:47:26.039 --> 00:47:29.676
- >> we started to feel a connection a strong level of
- 00:47:29.809 --> 00:47:30.377
- Connection a strong level of intimacy with one another and i
- 00:47:30.510 --> 00:47:31.111
- Intimacy with one another and i wanted know more about him.
- 00:47:31.244 --> 00:47:33.513
- Wanted know more about him. i wanted to hear more.
- 00:47:33.647 --> 00:47:37.117
- I wanted to hear more. you know how he felt.
- 00:47:37.250 --> 00:47:37.717
- You know how he felt. you know, to me i really
- 00:47:37.851 --> 00:47:38.418
- You know, to me i really started to have compassion and
- 00:47:38.551 --> 00:47:39.185
- Started to have compassion and i love.
- 00:47:39.319 --> 00:47:40.954
- I love. >> my heart was soft and again
- 00:47:41.087 --> 00:47:42.022
- >> my heart was soft and again for for him and those divorce
- 00:47:42.155 --> 00:47:44.691
- For for him and those divorce papers denise says they got
- 00:47:44.824 --> 00:47:45.425
- Papers denise says they got lost over the years.
- 00:47:45.558 --> 00:47:48.895
- Lost over the years. >> it's almost like they did
- 00:47:49.029 --> 00:47:49.629
- >> it's almost like they did disappear but i don't know what
- 00:47:49.763 --> 00:47:50.397
- Disappear but i don't know what to do with it.
- 00:47:50.530 --> 00:47:52.299
- To do with it. >> divorces now is not an
- 00:47:52.432 --> 00:47:53.333
- >> divorces now is not an option, is it?
- 00:47:53.466 --> 00:47:56.202
- Option, is it? feels so good to say that.
- 00:47:56.336 --> 00:47:56.970
- Feels so good to say that. i know know that's not an
- 00:47:57.103 --> 00:48:00.073
- I know know that's not an option.
- 00:48:00.206 --> 00:48:00.407
- Option. today sylvester and denise
- 00:48:00.540 --> 00:48:01.074
- Today sylvester and denise enjoyed taking what they
- 00:48:01.207 --> 00:48:03.977
- Enjoyed taking what they learned to help other couples
- 00:48:04.110 --> 00:48:04.711
- Learned to help other couples create a christ centered
- 00:48:04.844 --> 00:48:05.345
- Create a christ centered marriage.
- 00:48:05.478 --> 00:48:07.580
- Marriage. we took the opportunity to pray
- 00:48:07.714 --> 00:48:08.515
- We took the opportunity to pray together that pray together
- 00:48:08.648 --> 00:48:11.851
- Together that pray together husband and wife we pray to god
- 00:48:11.985 --> 00:48:12.652
- Husband and wife we pray to god that you have 1% chance of
- 00:48:12.786 --> 00:48:14.387
- That you have 1% chance of divorce.
- 00:48:14.521 --> 00:48:14.721
- Divorce. brant of god i don't i don't
- 00:48:14.854 --> 00:48:18.291
- Brant of god i don't i don't care how you look what it feels
- 00:48:18.425 --> 00:48:19.059
- Care how you look what it feels like with the images from the
- 00:48:19.192 --> 00:48:19.793
- Like with the images from the lies that he tells you run to
- 00:48:19.926 --> 00:48:21.628
- Lies that he tells you run to god followed and surrender
- 00:48:21.761 --> 00:48:22.295
- God followed and surrender everything and watch how he
- 00:48:22.429 --> 00:48:25.632
- Everything and watch how he turned things around for you.
- 00:48:25.765 --> 00:48:29.102
- Turned things around for you. >> you see the light in our
- 00:48:29.235 --> 00:48:29.969
- >> you see the light in our eyes you see the the smile on
- 00:48:30.103 --> 00:48:32.439
- Eyes you see the the smile on her face do you see how he
- 00:48:32.572 --> 00:48:33.373
- Her face do you see how he looks at her?
- 00:48:33.506 --> 00:48:36.343
- Looks at her? that is the transformation that
- 00:48:36.476 --> 00:48:37.143
- That is the transformation that can happen to you if you just
- 00:48:37.277 --> 00:48:41.081
- Can happen to you if you just follow what they did they
- 00:48:41.214 --> 00:48:44.017
- Follow what they did they decided instead of trying to
- 00:48:44.150 --> 00:48:44.751
- Decided instead of trying to fix themselves.
- 00:48:44.884 --> 00:48:48.722
- Fix themselves. their number one task was to be
- 00:48:48.855 --> 00:48:49.789
- Their number one task was to be right god.
- 00:48:49.923 --> 00:48:52.225
- Right god. you heard it clearly from
- 00:48:52.359 --> 00:48:53.059
- You heard it clearly from denise i don't care about these
- 00:48:53.193 --> 00:48:56.529
- Denise i don't care about these other things.
- 00:48:56.663 --> 00:48:56.963
- Other things. i just want to be right with
- 00:48:57.097 --> 00:48:59.632
- I just want to be right with god.
- 00:48:59.766 --> 00:48:59.899
- God. that's the beginning point for
- 00:49:00.033 --> 00:49:03.603
- That's the beginning point for all of us when we're right with
- 00:49:03.737 --> 00:49:04.404
- All of us when we're right with him.
- 00:49:04.537 --> 00:49:04.671
- Him. everything falls in line and
- 00:49:04.804 --> 00:49:08.441
- Everything falls in line and then there's suddenly more
- 00:49:08.575 --> 00:49:11.511
- Then there's suddenly more jealousy.
- 00:49:11.644 --> 00:49:11.878
- Jealousy. there's no more.
- 00:49:12.011 --> 00:49:15.281
- There's no more. is this going to happen to me
- 00:49:15.415 --> 00:49:16.249
- Is this going to happen to me again and?
- 00:49:16.383 --> 00:49:19.085
- Again and? all of these other things.
- 00:49:19.219 --> 00:49:19.753
- All of these other things. why does that happen?
- 00:49:19.886 --> 00:49:20.387
- Why does that happen? you get filled with his perfect
- 00:49:22.355 --> 00:49:23.356
- You get filled with his perfect love.
- 00:49:23.490 --> 00:49:26.593
- Love. the apostle paul talked about
- 00:49:26.726 --> 00:49:27.327
- The apostle paul talked about his love.
- 00:49:27.460 --> 00:49:27.694
- His love. one of the things his love does
- 00:49:29.529 --> 00:49:30.363
- One of the things his love does it doesn't keep a record of
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- It doesn't keep a record of wrongs.
- 00:49:33.633 --> 00:49:33.833
- Wrongs. it hopes all things believes
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- It hopes all things believes things it wants the best for
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- Things it wants the best for the person you're with.
- 00:49:40.774 --> 00:49:41.274
- The person you're with. that's what god's.
- 00:49:41.408 --> 00:49:44.244
- That's what god's. that's what jesus clearly
- 00:49:44.377 --> 00:49:44.978
- That's what jesus clearly demonstrated to give himself
- 00:49:45.111 --> 00:49:48.948
- Demonstrated to give himself for you.
- 00:49:49.082 --> 00:49:52.118
- For you. now are you willing to give
- 00:49:52.252 --> 00:49:53.052
- Now are you willing to give yourself for him?
- 00:49:53.186 --> 00:49:56.222
- Yourself for him? and when you do everything
- 00:49:56.356 --> 00:49:59.793
- And when you do everything comes into life.
- 00:49:59.926 --> 00:50:00.293
- Comes into life. so so if you want this if you
- 00:50:00.427 --> 00:50:03.897
- So so if you want this if you want not just happiness in
- 00:50:04.030 --> 00:50:04.631
- Want not just happiness in marriage but happiness in life
- 00:50:04.764 --> 00:50:07.600
- Marriage but happiness in life that righteousness that peace
- 00:50:07.734 --> 00:50:11.037
- That righteousness that peace and that joy that only comes
- 00:50:11.171 --> 00:50:11.805
- And that joy that only comes from you too can have light in
- 00:50:11.938 --> 00:50:16.409
- From you too can have light in your eyes.
- 00:50:16.543 --> 00:50:16.776
- Your eyes. you can have a smile on face
- 00:50:16.910 --> 00:50:19.112
- You can have a smile on face you can look forward because
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- You can look forward because you now have purpose and you
- 00:50:19.946 --> 00:50:23.817
- You now have purpose and you now have destiny and you now
- 00:50:23.950 --> 00:50:24.517
- Now have destiny and you now know that this world you're
- 00:50:24.651 --> 00:50:27.220
- Know that this world you're just a sojourner you're looking
- 00:50:27.353 --> 00:50:27.954
- Just a sojourner you're looking for that builder that is
- 00:50:28.087 --> 00:50:31.324
- For that builder that is creating a whole new city just
- 00:50:31.458 --> 00:50:35.528
- Creating a whole new city just for you.
- 00:50:35.662 --> 00:50:35.895
- For you. now if you want us very simple.
- 00:50:36.029 --> 00:50:39.332
- Now if you want us very simple. just do what they did the verse
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- Just do what they did the verse and and instead they said i'm
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- And and instead they said i'm going to put god first.
- 00:50:45.805 --> 00:50:46.306
- Going to put god first. if you want this power you had
- 00:50:46.439 --> 00:50:49.909
- If you want this power you had with me let's pray a very
- 00:50:50.043 --> 00:50:50.577
- With me let's pray a very simple prayer and god will
- 00:50:50.710 --> 00:50:53.513
- Simple prayer and god will answer what he did for them
- 00:50:53.646 --> 00:50:54.214
- Answer what he did for them he'll do for you.
- 00:50:54.347 --> 00:50:54.747
- He'll do for you. he's no respecter of persons.
- 00:50:54.881 --> 00:50:57.317
- He's no respecter of persons. he wants his love to be spread
- 00:50:57.450 --> 00:50:58.318
- He wants his love to be spread abroad.
- 00:50:58.451 --> 00:51:01.254
- Abroad. that's the whole point of the
- 00:51:01.387 --> 00:51:02.055
- That's the whole point of the gospel the good news.
- 00:51:02.188 --> 00:51:02.622
- Gospel the good news. he wants people to be
- 00:51:02.755 --> 00:51:05.325
- He wants people to be reconciled to him so that they
- 00:51:05.458 --> 00:51:06.092
- Reconciled to him so that they can live and be happy and have
- 00:51:06.226 --> 00:51:09.162
- Can live and be happy and have wonderful lives filled with
- 00:51:09.295 --> 00:51:13.099
- Wonderful lives filled with righteousness, peace and joy
- 00:51:13.233 --> 00:51:17.070
- Righteousness, peace and joy let's pray lord god i come to
- 00:51:17.203 --> 00:51:18.037
- Let's pray lord god i come to you and i just i thank you for
- 00:51:18.171 --> 00:51:23.943
- You and i just i thank you for the one that you sent.
- 00:51:24.077 --> 00:51:24.544
- The one that you sent. i thank you that you so loved
- 00:51:24.677 --> 00:51:25.411
- I thank you that you so loved the world that you sent your
- 00:51:25.545 --> 00:51:27.580
- The world that you sent your only for only begotten son.
- 00:51:27.714 --> 00:51:31.551
- Only for only begotten son. i thank you for jesus.
- 00:51:31.684 --> 00:51:35.021
- I thank you for jesus. and now i want to believe in
- 00:51:35.154 --> 00:51:36.089
- And now i want to believe in him so lord i believe now and
- 00:51:36.222 --> 00:51:42.395
- Him so lord i believe now and that you would help any area of
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- That you would help any area of my life any area where i'm not
- 00:51:43.496 --> 00:51:47.133
- My life any area where i'm not believing.
- 00:51:47.267 --> 00:51:47.500
- Believing. i ask ask that you would turn
- 00:51:47.634 --> 00:51:50.737
- I ask ask that you would turn all of that so that your
- 00:51:50.870 --> 00:51:51.571
- All of that so that your righteousness, your peace and
- 00:51:51.704 --> 00:51:54.941
- Righteousness, your peace and your joy would fill me to
- 00:51:55.074 --> 00:51:58.011
- Your joy would fill me to overflowing.
- 00:51:58.144 --> 00:51:58.411
- Overflowing. so i i come to you and i take
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- So i i come to you and i take the sacrifice lies that jesus
- 00:52:02.949 --> 00:52:06.786
- The sacrifice lies that jesus made for me.
- 00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:07.186
- Made for me. i ask that you forgive me i ask
- 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:11.324
- I ask that you forgive me i ask that you restore me.
- 00:52:11.457 --> 00:52:14.694
- That you restore me. i ask that you make me your
- 00:52:14.827 --> 00:52:15.662
- I ask that you make me your child once again.
- 00:52:15.795 --> 00:52:18.097
- Child once again. and jesus if this for me i want
- 00:52:18.231 --> 00:52:22.669
- And jesus if this for me i want to follow you the days of my
- 00:52:22.802 --> 00:52:26.039
- To follow you the days of my life hear my prayer answer it
- 00:52:26.172 --> 00:52:29.943
- Life hear my prayer answer it now for i ask it in jesus name
- 00:52:30.076 --> 00:52:33.513
- Now for i ask it in jesus name amen.
- 00:52:33.646 --> 00:52:33.813
- Amen. >> thing i want you to do i
- 00:52:33.947 --> 00:52:37.517
- >> thing i want you to do i want you to let somebody know.
- 00:52:37.650 --> 00:52:38.251
- Want you to let somebody know. for all who confess if you
- 00:52:38.384 --> 00:52:41.621
- For all who confess if you believe in your heart and
- 00:52:41.754 --> 00:52:42.288
- Believe in your heart and confess that he's a savior then
- 00:52:42.422 --> 00:52:43.089
- Confess that he's a savior then you saved so call us
- 00:52:43.222 --> 00:52:48.094
- You saved so call us one hundred 707,000.
- 00:52:48.227 --> 00:52:48.661
- One hundred 707,000. here's a word from matthew.
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- Here's a word from matthew. so they are they are no longer
- 00:52:49.495 --> 00:52:51.965
- So they are they are no longer two but one flesh.
- 00:52:52.098 --> 00:52:52.498
- Two but one flesh. therefore what god has joined
- 00:52:52.632 --> 00:52:55.034
- Therefore what god has joined together let no one separate.
- 00:52:55.168 --> 00:52:58.104
- Together let no one separate. wednesday a i'd become a
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- Wednesday a i'd become a monster 24 years old facing a
- 00:53:03.676 --> 00:53:05.612
- Monster 24 years old facing a 30 year sentence.
- 00:53:05.745 --> 00:53:06.112
- 30 year sentence. >> i holding a gun in my hand
- 00:53:06.245 --> 00:53:09.349
- >> i holding a gun in my hand in a demonic stronghold.
- 00:53:09.482 --> 00:53:09.949
- In a demonic stronghold. >> this stone and it ground to
- 00:53:10.083 --> 00:53:13.786
- >> this stone and it ground to you if you get this stone then
- 00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:14.554
- You if you get this stone then it provides provision was set
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- It provides provision was set free.
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- Free. >> someone was speaking to me
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- >> someone was speaking to me in that moment inside the walls
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- In that moment inside the walls of a prison when he said it is
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- Of a prison when he said it is finished it.
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- Finished it. >> on wednesdays club in a
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