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Allen Jackson - We Were Meant To Be Warriors (Part 2)

November 9, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - We Were Meant To Be Warriors (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - We Were Meant To Be Warriors (Part 2) | November 9, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: you know, when i was a child, i thought christmas
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  • Came every four years.
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  • Now i feel like it comes about every four weeks.
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  • Well, christmas is just around the corner.
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  • It's a season of tremendous opportunity for those of us who
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  • Are people of faith to remember what god has done for us and
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  • What we're inviting him into in the midst of this
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  • Holiday season.
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  • Well, we've created a tool, a resource, for you to lead with
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  • Your faith at christmas.
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  • It's a 25-day devotional along with some ideas about--from
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  • Recipes to activities for your friends or your family.
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  • It's just a fun way so that you can shape your faith into
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  • The holiday.
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  • I think all of us have a desire to see christmas be--have jesus
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  • In the midst of it a bit more.
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  • There's so many secular voices that speak, and sometimes i
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  • Think we feel powerless to do something other than put up a
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  • Tree or hang some lights.
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  • Well, "lead with your faith at christmas" is a tool we created
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  • So you can share your faith with your family, with your friends,
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  • With coworkers.
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  • I think it'll make this christmas season truly a way to
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  • Honor the lord in your life.
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  • In fact, i'm quite confident it'll be a blessing to you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Lt. general jerry boykin: one time, tony perkins and i were
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  • Speaking down in baton rouge or someplace.
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  • And i was drinking water, and i walked up on the stage and i put
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  • The water bottle up to my mouth and started talking.
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  • And then i acted like i did it on purpose, you know.
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  • At any rate, yeah.
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  • I got shot coming in on a target in grenada back in 1983.
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  • We were coming up onto the--a prison called richmond hill
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  • Prison, and we were gonna hit the prison and get the political
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  • Prisoners out of there and put them back in the offices where
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  • They had been appointed or elected.
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  • And we came up on a target and, as we started
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  • Settling in with black hawks.
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  • First time we'd ever had black hawks.
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  • And we started coming in, and all of a sudden, the skies
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  • Erupted, and i'm telling you the red tracers and green tracers
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  • Just--and all like, i could hear them hitting on the--in the
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  • Rotor wing, i mean, in the rotor blades, and i knew there was a
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  • Good chance that somebody was going to get hit.
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  • Well, and you know, we're firing back at them, you know, we're
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  • Doing all we can to knock these guns down.
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  • They had these 50 caliber anti-aircraft guns, and i'm, you
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  • Know, trying to whack them and they're trying to whack me, and
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  • All of a sudden, boom boom, and i knew i'd been hit.
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  • And i got hit.
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  • It came right up, knocked a big chunk out of my side, but it
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  • Went up into my armpit.
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  • Now, it went through my radio, which is, with god's mercy and
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  • Sovereignty, that's really what--
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  • Allen: can't hear you.
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  • Jerry: you can't hear me?
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  • Oh, okay.
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  • At any rate, i was bleeding profusely.
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  • And i said, "well, go around.
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  • Let's go around, go around," and i'm sitting there, rocking back
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  • And forth.
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  • I said, "go around, do it again."
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  • And my sergeant major reached over and took my morphine and
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  • Hit me right in the leg, and all of a sudden i was saying, "come
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  • On, get on the ground, we're gonna kill 'em," you know?
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  • Let me tell you, that was the most euphoric feeling i've ever
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  • Had, and when i speak to--i speak to people in prison, i say
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  • The difference between me and you is i made one decision and
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  • You made another one.
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  • When i got that, i said i'll never let anybody put that in my
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  • Body again because it's so euphoric.
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  • I know i could get addicted to this, and you made a
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  • Different decision.
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  • But they, as i told--you heard last night, well, how many of
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  • You were here last night?
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  • There's a good number that weren't, so let me just--can i
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  • Tell 'em the story?
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  • I was bleeding bad and they took me and dropped me off on a
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  • Little--a little navy ship there, which had a little ipad,
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  • I mean--ipad!
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  • It had a helipad.
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  • And i could hear them talking as they were saying, "we've got a
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  • Casualty that is expectant."
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  • That means they expect me to die, which means get in there as
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  • Quickly as possible.
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  • So i'm bleeding really bad and they can't stop the blood
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  • Because it was in my armpit and of course in my side.
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  • And they couldn't stop it, so all of a sudden, i hear this--
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  • I'm semiconscious and i hear this helicopter coming in and it
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  • Was a marine corps.
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  • I'm army, this was a marine corps helicopter that came in,
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  • A ch-53.
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  • It came in, landed on a deck and they start walking me out on
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  • A stretcher.
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  • They got me on a stretcher.
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  • And i'm saying, "lord, have you abandoned me?
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  • Have you abandoned me, god?"
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  • And i was serious, "lord, where are you?
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  • Have you abandoned me?
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  • Do you not care anymore?"
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  • And as i was walking out, i looked and--through my blurry
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  • Eyes and the pilot was hanging out the window giving me a
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  • Thumbs up.
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  • And i couldn't--i was--my eyes wouldn't focus, and i didn't--
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  • At first i didn't understand what was going on, and finally
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  • My eyes cleared and i looked up
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  • And the guy flying that helicopter was a guy i grew
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  • Up with.
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  • He was a marine and i was in the army.
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  • He had no idea who he was going to pick up, and only three weeks
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  • Before we had had our families together on vacation,
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  • A wonderful christian man.
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  • And i just said, "lord, i know you hadn't abandoned me," and
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  • The lord was saying to me, "not only did i not abandon you, i
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  • Sent your brother to get you."
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  • Allen: isn't that the time you had a bit of a debate with
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  • A surgeon?
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  • Jerry: yeah, i woke up--when i got back to fort bragg, they
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  • Operated on me on a carrier.
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  • Put me on a carrier and operated, and then they took me
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  • Back to fort bragg and right into the surgical--
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  • Surgery there.
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  • And when i came out of surgery, it was--and i gotta be careful
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  • On this 'cause i woke up in the
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  • Recovery room, is that right?
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  • Is that the one?
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  • Okay, i said delivery room one time.
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  • So i woke up in the recovery room.
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  • And this team of doctors said, "sir, you have a very
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  • Serious injury."
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  • And i thought, "and do you think i don't know that?"
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  • And they wanted to take my arm off.
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  • They wanted to take my arm.
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  • And i said, "no, you just do the best you can, because i have
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  • Been talking to god and he told me if i will trust him, he will
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  • Heal me."
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  • And there's the arm they wanted to take off.
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  • And for you golfers.
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  • This hand, this arm, is about 1/4 of an inch shorter than the
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  • Other one.
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  • It will clear your slice up better than anything else that i
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  • Know of.
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  • Allen: there's some orthopedic surgeon putting a new
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  • Advertisement out tomorrow that's listening to this.
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  • Well, i thought of you with the israeli hostages
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  • Because i know you were involved in the rescue attempt for our
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  • Hostages that were in iran, and i read where it was one of the
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  • More disappointing, but i--it's a part of the story.
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  • I mean, the lord blessed your life and has established you.
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  • But everything didn't work the way you wanted it 'cause that
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  • Day didn't.
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  • And i've heard you tell some of those takeaways.
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  • I mean, i've been celebrating all week, those israeli men and
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  • Women that walked out.
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  • It seemed impossible to me, but you went to get our hostages
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  • In iran.
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  • Jerry: you talk about iran, yeah.
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  • In 1980, we went into iran to rescue 52 americans that were
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  • Being held by followers of the ayatollah khomeini, and we got
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  • About 100 miles from tehran and we landed in c-130s and we
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  • Brought in rh-53 helicopters off the uss nimitz and tucked them
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  • In behind the c-130s and we pulled the hoses out and started
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  • Refueling the helicopters so we could go in 'em to the next leg
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  • Into the embassy and get our hostages.
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  • And all of a sudden, one of the helicopters
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  • Lifted off in the sand.
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  • This was right out in the middle of the desert.
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  • And the sand just blew up and it was, i mean, the pilot
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  • Couldn't see, he went vertigo,
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  • He lost his equilibrium and he came back and landed right on
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  • Top of the c-130.
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  • And it burst into flames.
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  • I was outside.
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  • I was about, really, probably from here to that screen from it
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  • And when it exploded, i turned and i felt the heat.
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  • And i had no idea what happened.
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  • I thought they had fired mortars or something at us, and i looked
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  • Back and i realized that 45 of the delta force men that had
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  • Prayed before we launched were stuck inside that burning
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  • Wreckage and i didn't--i didn't know what to do, so i did what i
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  • Always do.
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  • Since i couldn't call my mother, i just started praying.
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  • I went--i reached out to my source.
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  • I prayed a 10-second prayer.
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  • I said, "father, these men trusted you.
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  • I'm asking you to bring them out alive.
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  • Lord, spare them in jesus's name, amen,"
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  • 10-second prayer.
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  • Now, sadducees and the pharisees, they prayed these
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  • Long elaborate, you know, prayers, but they weren't
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  • Praying to god.
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  • They were praying to the people around them.
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  • And i will tell you that i get very suspect at people that pray
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  • These long prayers and start quoting scripture and all that.
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  • You think god doesn't know what the scripture says?
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  • Think about it.
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  • But it was--i guess it was one
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  • Of those turning points in your
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  • Life where you realize just how fragile life is and you realize
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  • That at any moment it could end.
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  • And for me, it made me much more aware, because those 45 men
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  • Jumped out of that helicopter-- i mean out of that aircraft.
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  • The troop door came open.
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  • And here they come jumping through the flames.
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  • Jumping through the flames out onto the desert floor
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  • And running.
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  • It was like shadrach, meshach, and abednego, you know, when old
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  • Nebuchadnezzar put them in that fiery furnace.
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  • And then nebuchadnezzar jumped up and ran over there and he
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  • Said, "yo, dudes, come here and check this out."
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  • That's the way they talked back then.
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  • "didn't we throw three?
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  • I see a fourth and looks like the son of god."
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  • I can assure you, there was a fourth walking around in that
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  • Burning wreckage that night.
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  • He will never leave us nor forsake us.
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  • Allen: have you ever said that christmas is too secular and
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  • You're tired of it?
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  • Well, we've got a solution or at least something that can help.
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  • We've written a book.
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  • It's called, "how to lead with your faith at christmas."
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  • It's 25 days of devotionals that you can read.
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  • You can share them with family, your friends, coworkers.
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  • Then there's some ideas, even recipes, activities.
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  • It's a fun--it's like a--it's a starter kit for bringing your
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  • Faith to bear this christmas season.
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  • Don't stand on the sidelines and complain.
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  • Let's lead with our faith this christmas season.
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  • Let's honor the lord and see the blessings that he brings to all
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  • Of our lives.
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  • Female announcer: christmas comes quickly, and it's easy to
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  • Allen: i read a quote of yours.
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  • I wonder if it's accurate.
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  • You had a teaching position for a season at a liberal arts
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  • College in virginia, years ago, when the trans discussion was a
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  • Little newer.
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  • And the comment--the quote i read was, "the first man who
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  • Goes into the restroom with my daughter won't have to worry
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  • About surgery."
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  • Jerry: i did, i did say that.
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  • And let me just tell you, if there's a man that has the
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  • Opportunity to stand against that kind of evil, and he
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  • Doesn't do it, shame on you.
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  • Shame on you.
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  • This is--the college that i was teaching in is the tenth oldest
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  • College or university in america.
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  • It's called hampden-sydney college.
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  • And i was teaching leadership, and they put out this policy
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  • That they were going woke and that the men could go into the
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  • Women's bathrooms there, and i did say that.
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  • I said it at a conference down in florida.
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  • I said that and somebody videoed me and then they took it back
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  • And gave it to the president of the university or of the
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  • College, and they fired me.
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  • Well, what they didn't count on was franklin graham got a hold
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  • Of it, fox news got a hold of it.
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  • I was doing a lot of fox news at the time.
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  • They got a hold of it and other organizations and other people
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  • Got a hold of it.
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  • And they started, i mean, they started bombarding the college
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  • And people started saying, "we will never put another dollar
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  • Into this college."
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  • And all of a sudden, eight days after they fired me because i
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  • Said, "the first man that goes into the bathroom with my wife
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  • Or my daughter is not gonna need to worry about getting the
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  • Surgery," and they fired me, but all of a sudden eight days
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  • Later, i get off a plane in denver and my
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  • Phone is blowing up.
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  • And i called my wife.
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  • I said, "what's going on?
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  • I got all kinds of calls on my phone.
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  • What's going on?"
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  • She said, "call the president of the university."
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  • And i called him, and he said--this is what he said.
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  • He said, "jerry, what would i need to do to get you to promise
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  • To come back so that i can announce it today," 'cause they
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  • Were losing money, they were hemorrhaging money,
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  • People who--so i said, "dennis," and i really did do--
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  • When i--when he fired me, i got up, shook his hand, and i said,
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  • "well, i just want you to know the last 10 years has been a
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  • Privilege to be able to be here as part of this," and i walked
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  • Out of his office, said, "i'm gonna take
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  • The high ground on this."
  • 00:18:17.678 --> 00:18:20.615
  • "well," i said, "dennis, nothing has changed since what i told
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  • You when i left and walked out.
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  • I will come back if you want me to, but only for a year."
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  • And he said, "okay."
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  • Well, in 15 minutes they had a notice up that i had been
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  • Rehired to the university, but look, this is another one of
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  • Those don't compromise what you believe.
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  • One of the things that i used to tell the--those young men that
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  • I was teaching--i taught leadership,
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  • I had the most oversubscribed class in all of that whole
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  • University, or college i guess it really is.
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  • You can't--you can't compromise on what you believe, and here's
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  • What i'd say to 'em.
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  • I'd get them around the fire the last night of class.
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  • We'd do it outdoors and i'd get them around the fire and i'd
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  • Say, "you need to know what your values are.
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  • You need to know what you believe in.
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  • You need to know what you're willing to sacrifice for, what
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  • You're willing to even die for maybe.
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  • You need to know that, but you need to know why you believe it.
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  • It's not enough, it's not enough, if you don't know why
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  • You believe it, that's not enough.
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  • You gotta know why you believe it and, in our case, we believe
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  • It because it's in the word of god.
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  • But we've got to know what we believe in.
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  • It's not just a matter of having a value.
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  • You need to know why you have that value, and i will tell you
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  • That there are a lot of people that don't know why they believe
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  • Certain things, and that's like antisemitism.
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  • Why do you believe that the jews are occupying territories that
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  • Belong to the arabs?
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  • Do you know anything about the history of that?
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  • Do you know that on the 29th of november, 1947, that the united
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  • Nations ceded that land to the jews?
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  • You're--you should be upset with the league of nations or
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  • Now united nations, not with the jews.
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  • This was bringing the jews home.
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  • This was giving them a homeland.
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  • And they didn't go in there and conquer it and take it.
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  • Now, they defended it.
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  • And by the way, do you know the first guy that was promoted into
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  • The haganah was an american?
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  • It was an american that went over there and helped to train
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  • The jewish forces there 'cause they knew that war was coming.
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  • His name was mickey marcus.
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  • He's a west point graduate.
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  • And after world war ii, the-- david ben-gurion called and
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  • Asked if he could get mickey marcus to come over and train
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  • His people because they were gonna wind up in a war.
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  • And mickey marcus went over there, and he trained them and
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  • He stayed with them when the war started and he fought with them.
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  • He led them.
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  • They made him a general.
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  • He was the first person to get promoted to general officer
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  • With them.
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  • He is the only man at west point that is buried there that died
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  • Fighting for another nation.
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  • That's the kind of devotion that we have to have.
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  • He was a jew, but it doesn't matter.
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  • I consider myself a jew.
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  • I'll just tell you that right now.
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  • I'm not.
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  • I mean, my bloodline doesn't say so, but my children are.
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  • Children are one-quarter ashkenazi.
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  • We gotta stand with israel and we gotta know why we stand with
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  • Israel and we stand with israel because still today, they are
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  • God's chosen people.
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  • And i will tell you, in 1948,
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  • Israel became a nation.
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  • I was born in 1948, and my
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  • Mother always believed that
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  • There was something special about the fact that she gave
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  • Birth to a son in the same year that the nation of israel
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  • Was recreated.
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  • Is this the biblical--is this the biblical israel?
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  • I don't think so.
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  • But i think it's pretty doggone close and it won't take much for
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  • It to be.
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  • And i will take your counsel on that.
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  • We have to stand with israel.
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  • We have to stand--it is not occupied territory.
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  • It was given to them by the united nations.
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  • And people don't understand that.
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  • We gotta stand with them.
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  • Sorry, i don't know where i started, but i know where
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  • I finished.
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  • Allen: you did well.
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  • General, thank you.
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  • Thank you for your service to our country.
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  • [congregation cheering]
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  • Allen: i wanna pray.
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  • I want to thank god for the general, but i wanna pray--we
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  • Wanna pray for him on behalf of all of those who stand watch on
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  • Our behalf, in our armed forces, our first responders.
  • 00:24:40.895 --> 00:24:46.934
  • We owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude, our veterans.
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  • You know, the christian church has been saying we have to treat
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  • Those who've come here illegally with compassion.
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  • First, we have a responsibility to our veterans that have served
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  • Our nation with courage.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i thank you for general boykin and his life, for his--
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  • For his faith.
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  • Lord, he taught us today about prayer and your faithfulness in
  • 00:25:14.862 --> 00:25:17.865
  • Hearing the prayers of your people.
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  • And so we come now to say thank you for the men and women who
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  • Stand watch on our behalf today.
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  • Lord, across this nation and throughout the earth, may those
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  • Leading them have wisdom from you.
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  • May they have the courage to do the right thing
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  • And not just the expedient thing.
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  • And may we have the wisdom and the boldness to stand on their
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  • Behalf, father.
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  • Because without us, they can't stand.
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  • Forgive us for our indifference.
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  • Lord, give us a new courage and a boldness to yield to
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  • Your authority.
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  • Maybe once again let the word of god inform our homes and our
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  • Lives and our choices so that you can look upon us and may god
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  • Bless america again, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, i'm a pastor and i have the privilege of
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  • Serving god's people.
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  • I can tell you from experience one of the most difficult things
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  • To do is introduce change.
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  • Most of us don't like it, and i think that's particularly true
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  • Around holiday seasons.
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  • We have traditions, we have patterns, we have habits.
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  • They're comforting to us, comfortable to us.
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  • Well, i wanna suggest something.
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  • We have created a tool for you this christmas.
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  • It's called, "leading with your faith at christmas."
  • 00:26:34.975 --> 00:26:37.544
  • It's a little book with a 25-day devotional that you can
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  • Do personally, you can do with your family,
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  • You can do it with coworkers.
  • 00:26:41.482 --> 00:26:42.916
  • There's some recipes. there's activities.
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  • It's really a guide for you to shape christmas with your faith,
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  • But it means i'm asking you to do something different, to
  • 00:26:49.990 --> 00:26:52.593
  • Introduce change, and i know that's not easy.
  • 00:26:52.593 --> 00:26:55.763
  • But it's time for us to stop raging against the
  • 00:26:55.763 --> 00:26:58.098
  • Darkness, folks, let's turn up the light.
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  • I believe "leading with your faith at christmas" is a tool
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  • That will help you be a better light for jesus in the midst of
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  • This christmas season, and that's worthwhile.
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  • Enjoy the book and merry christmas.
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  • ♪♪♪
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