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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: February 21, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | February 21, 2025

Well good evening, i'm alan jackson,
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And welcome to nashville.
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I want to begin the program
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Tonight, the way i sometimes end it.
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You've heard me say many times that if you want to see change,
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Don't start by looking to our politicians.
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Because the solution for society
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Is not fundamentally political.
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It's spiritual. and god
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Has given us the assignment to be salt and light.
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When we embrace that assignment, greater change will follow.
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Well, tonight we have a wonderful man
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Who's put that in practice for many years,
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And he's done so in order to plant the wisdom
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In his heart and other fathers and other children.
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Jack brewer, welcome back to our show.
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Great.
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Great to be with you, bastien.
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You know,
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I don't think we've seen you since the election,
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But i've already seen that you've been helping
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The people whose families were split
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By the dysfunction at the border during those biden years.
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Tell us what you've been doing to help the missing fathers
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And the children who missed their fathers,
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Who were either in guatemala or here in the u.s..
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You know,
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Alan, as christian, that's conservatives.
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You know,
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Sometimes, you know, we can get caught into the
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Political side of things.
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And so what we try to do with our ministry,
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In all our work, is try to,
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You know, do what jesus would do and turn to the word of god,
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And ask god to lead us and guide us,
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To the heart, to mind of the people, of his people.
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And those people may be in america
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And they may be abroad, you know.
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And so,
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When the word starts to spread, spread his word to all nations.
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We try to live that out.
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And so he was really, heavy on my heart.
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You know, i've been doing work, in latin america, in haiti,
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In guatemala in particular, for years.
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And i've, you know, served in those prisons,
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Distributed bibles, throughout that land.
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And so when this started to happen,
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You know, i was wondering, you know, is the word of god
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Being preached to these people who may have lost hope?
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And as i got there and started to really realize
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What was going on,
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You know, i saw a lot of folks who were confused.
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I saw a lot of indigent people who didn't have, you know,
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A lot of education, and had been, you know, kind of soul
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Lies, from different human traffickers and such.
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And so it was really heartbreaking and devastating,
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To see these people that were already so vulnerable,
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Now really at the bottom of what they thought.
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And so
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To be able to hand a bible to someone and pray with someone
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And to give them food and resources, in that time,
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And tell them that jesus loved them, really meant a lot.
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And so that was really
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The point of our mission, was to go there, understand?
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Really from the ground, you know,
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Turn off the political noise and the rhetoric,
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And really get down to the truth.
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And so we were able to do that,
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And really impact a lot of people.
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Does the government open the prisons for you?
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Do you have an open door there?
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Yes, i do, yes, i do.
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We actually got a chance to to meet with,
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The head of the prisons there in guatemala,
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Members of congress, we visited the state house
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With the president's, residence as well.
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But no, they invited us in, and they've asked us to expand,
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Our ministry and our programs
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To all 23 of the country's prisons.
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And these prisons are in tough shape, you know,
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That they can hold in total, about 6500
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Inmates in 23 prisons.
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And currently they have over 26,000 inmates,
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In those prisons.
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And so the overcrowding, is beyond comprehension.
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And so if you can imagine, the conditions
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That are inside there and the need for the gospel,
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To, to be preached into those prisons
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Where those guys have lost so much hope.
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And so we plan to do that. you know,
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They have a fatherlessness crisis of their own.
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They're in guatemala.
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You know, many of the men have left.
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They go to try to find work and jobs in the u.s.
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And other countries,
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Leaving their families there, really struggling.
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And so that male influence in that presence, is really,
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In a, in a dire situation in guatemala,
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Similar to as it is, in the united states.
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And so, you know, our ministry is focused on the father.
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We want to go and help combat fatherlessness,
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Just like you says in malachi four and six.
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Turn the hearts of the fathers to the children.
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In the hearts of the children, to the fathers.
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Lest i smite the earth with a curse.
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And so our ministry sets out to do something about that,
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That curse through the gospel of jesus christ
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And by uplifting fathers.
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You know, the open border policy the previous administration
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Contributed greatly
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To disruption of families, but it seems like some of that's
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Being resolved due to president trump
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Making the border priority one.
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The number of gateways is down 90% from where it was during
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The biden years.
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That should eventually lead
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To more families not being split up.
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Am i right about that?
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You all right about that?
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And i think the most important thing is,
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You know, law and order is back.
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You know, god is about order.
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And so to give back the rule of law,
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I think is the most important statement that can be made.
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Because lives end up being hurt.
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And unfortunately, it's
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Usually the poorest of the poor and the most vulnerable
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Were lied to and taken advantage of.
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You know, by all these human traffickers.
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I mean, they've created
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A multi-billion dollar industry of human trafficking.
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Because of our open border policies.
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You know, so that is just not godly.
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The things that that are being empowered.
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Because of that.
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And so i think, you know,
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Just simply the statement of having a closed border,
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Having law and order, will help set a new balance in the world.
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And and particularly when it comes to fatherhood
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And families, you know, people may struggle.
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Nations may need to be rebuilt.
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Nations may need jobs, and they may be poor.
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But we have to have helped nations rebuild themselves.
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Not not allow illegal, illegal, cartels to run,
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A human trafficking ring
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That, you know, migrant race people by the millions.
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It's just not right.
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And thank god that we have president trump
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Putting an end to that. amen.
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We know you had a very successful career
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In the national football
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League, despite their investment would die
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And some other clumsy efforts to try to widen their appeal.
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Seems like the fans simply want good football
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And the players many of them now are speaking openly
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In their tv interviews about their faith.
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Listen to these recent interviews.
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How have you grown this year spiritually
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And your faith in jesus?
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I think my faith is has always been a part of me.
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Well, i've
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Always wanted to root myself in that
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And keep him in the center of my life
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And everything that i do.
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And so, you know,
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Through the highs and the lows, he's graded in all of them.
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He's my lord and savior and someone that i look up
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To every single day to decide
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What i want to do with my life and how i want to live my life.
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It's so nice to hear even the
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Big networks have stopped trying to edit those comments out.
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Having the youth of our country hear those players.
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That has to be a positive influence.
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That's right.
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You have two super bowl quarterbacks.
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You know mahomes and jalen hurts.
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Both proclaiming the gospel of jesus christ
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From the largest stage. in the world.
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I mean that has to make you feel good.
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You know, what's so cool about this is if
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If this was three, 4 or 5 years ago,
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You'd be
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Hearing conversations about, oh, we got two black quarterbacks
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In the in the super bowl.
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Now they're not even talking about skin color anymore.
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They're talking about jesus christ.
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They can't ignore the fact that we have
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To christian proclaim christian quarterbacks,
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In the super bowl.
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I think that's the most beautiful thing.
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You know, it shows us that the love of god in
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Jesus christ penetrates all of this divide.
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This racial ideology, this gender ideology,
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And all the other identity.
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No other identity matters except your identity in christ.
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And so it's just a beautiful thing,
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To see these two men of god sitting on those stages,
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And using it as a platform to proclaim the gospel.
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Amen.
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Well, it's time for us to take a brief timeout.
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Jack, you can have some gatorade.
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Our viewers can send us an email
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With their thoughts on our discussion.
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You can send them to the address on the screen.
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It's comments at allen jackson now.com.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back now with jack brewer
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As a national leader as well as a former player.
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You've been very open about your concerns
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Involving transgender
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Athletes, biological males competing in women's sports.
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Well, the president has signed
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An executive order to put that to an end.
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And if you saw it, the young women are thrilled.
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Listen to what the president had to say.
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Under the trump administration, we will defend the proud
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Tradition of female athletes, and we will not allow men
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To beat up, injure and cheat our women and our girls.
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From now on, women's sports will be only for women.
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We are putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars
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On notice that if you let men take over women's sports teams
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Or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated
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For violations of title nine and riskier federal funding.
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Jack, do you have any sense of whether this change in direction
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Will be followed by every level of sports across the country?
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I think so. i think we'll see.
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Addressed the shift.
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I think you already have this in the rhetoric.
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I think by him declaring two genders,
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On day one as president and then now being able
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To take a hard stand, you see the ncaa,
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And others,
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Taking back, you know, some of the national championships.
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And i think, you know, that really,
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These leagues were waiting on strong leadership.
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You know, you were hearing,
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You know, the reason why you thought
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He thought things start to sway so much is because
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The biden administration, on day one came in and passed
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Executive orders, pushing transgender ideologies.
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And i think, you know, once, once president
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Trump took a stand as a strong leader,
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I think you started to see things change.
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And i think it'll continue.
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And we have,
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You know, great strong
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Voices, female voices
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Who, have been out there in the forefront, talking about,
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This, this issue.
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And so as a, as a father, with a little girl,
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Who's a tennis player.
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I'm so glad that this is happening,
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Because it's just not right.
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Well, here's another interesting change.
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Disney's just decided to scale back
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Their content warnings
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That they put on certain classic films
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During the height of the eye movement.
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I assume bob iger, the chief executive, is trying to restore
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Disney to its more successful and traditional roots.
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Long before i came along.
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Do you think they saw
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The election results
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And decided to kind of reposition themselves?
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No question.
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I mean, just like, you know, caterpillar and ford and toyota,
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Walmart and so many other companies,
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Mcdonald's, so many companies that have,
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You know, pushed away from the this whole the,
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Woke agenda.
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I think it's great for, employees.
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It's great for the stockholders, it's great
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For america, for us to get back to common sense in reality.
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And so i think disney is just falling in line with that.
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I think it's actually, probably a good feeling for bob iger.
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It probably takes a lot of weight off
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His shoulders to try to have to juggle, with this nonsense
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That he doesn't even believe in himself.
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And so, it's great to see it happening,
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Especially when you talk about disney
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That has such an impact on our children.
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You know, for me, i, you know,
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Not allowing my kids to be able to watch disney.
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I live three hours from there.
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So not being able to take my, my, my young kids there.
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Just didn't make sense. it was uncalled for.
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And i hope they get back, to be in the, the, the american brand
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That we can all count on, to represent this nation.
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We know you were at the
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Correctional facility in century florida.
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Can you tell us what you're going to be doing there today?
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Yes. so we, you know, we've been working
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With the florida department of corrections.
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We're in over 20 facilities now,
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With our heroes second chance fatherhood initiative.
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That really goes into the prisons.
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And we help men, go from being a criminal and an inmate
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To a father, and we teach them how to become fathers again.
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Our our mission is malachi four and six.
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And so we truly try to help
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Turn the hearts of the fathers to the children.
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In the hearts of the children, to the fathers.
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We have class every day.
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We work with the men.
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We help them put together case plans in a rehabilitation plan
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So that they can get back into their kids
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Lives, and become taxpayers, pay their child support,
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And more importantly, be fathers to all these children
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And grandchildren and nieces and nephews that,
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Have unfortunately had to do time
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Along with their father or grandfather or uncle.
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And so kids shouldn't be punished for that.
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So we're taking a stand across the state of florida
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And the nation, to help empower fathers inside of prisons.
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You know, i started this program,
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With the geo group, where i.
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I'm a board member.
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And it's just grown.
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And so, you know, through i work with the continuum of
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Care, really, you know, learning rehabilitation programs
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That are full circle that help these men get their geds,
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Help them get their cdl license in their
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In their forklift license so they can go out and get a job
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And take care of their families, but instead advising them,
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Incentivizing them
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To write letters to their children
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To make phone calls to their children.
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And then
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We have a whole team of men
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That have graduated from our program
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That go out and do relief work.
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We deliver, over 150,000 pounds of food,
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To fatherless families every single month.
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We did over 1 million pounds of food, in 2024.
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We also delivered birthday gifts, to the children
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Of fathers on their birthday from inside of our prison.
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And so this makes a huge impact
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On the reunification of the family.
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And we can just see the impact that they're having.
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And the last thing i'll say is our men come together
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Once they get out. i have a group of about 30 men.
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Anytime there's a national disaster,
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You know, we load up our trucks, we load up our our forklifts,
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And we load up, our chainsaws, and we go,
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And help our community.
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We collect trees, we do debris removal,
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And we deliver, hundreds of thousands of pounds of food,
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To help bring relief, to our fellow floridians.
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And so,
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I'm really, you know, proud of the guys,
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Proud of the commitment that they've all made.
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And more importantly, the transition
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That they made to become great fathers.
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Jack brewer, thank you for your time.
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It's always inspiring to listen
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To you and to hear what you're doing.
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A famous football player
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Turning his spotlight on those in need.
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Well done, my friend.
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When we come back, some further words of hope
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And later your emails and my response.
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It's always a great pleasure to hear from those of you
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Who are watching.
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Who are watching.
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You know, i know i've used this reference
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Before regarding
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The theater of the absurd, but we've
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Watched lots of releases from that theater lately.
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The theater of the absurd has been saying
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For quite an extended time now that there's
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A limitless number of genders,
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And they're determined by how you feel today.
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I had a meeting with a psychiatrist from new york
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That works in the institutions there, and their induction form
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Had more than 30 choices for gender.
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Personally, i'd need some training
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Just to understand how to utilize the form.
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We've had men competing against women
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In athletic competition at the highest levels
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In our nation and globally.
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At the most recent olympic games,
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There were men and women in the same ring.
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Boxing.
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Now, how can you say to young boys
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That it's wrong to use physical violence against a girl
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And then show them the olympics where they're fighting one
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Another, punching one another in the face?
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It's an absurdity.
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Well, i'm grateful to say that of late,
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There are some new releases coming out
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That are focused on the truth of god's word.
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Biblical principles being lived out in the public arena.
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The president, the president of the united states,
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Actually stood up and said
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That there are only two genders, male and female.
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I'm grateful,
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But i would submit to you that the church
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Should have been standing up with that message long ago.
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Instead of finding ways
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To accommodate an increasingly secular culture.
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The church.
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And when i say church, i don't mean the institution.
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I mean you and me.
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As believers,
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We have failed to teach
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The biblical truth regarding our gender roles.
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Genesis 127.
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It's at the very beginning of the book
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Says god created man in his own image.
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In the image of god, he created him, male and female.
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He created them.
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The lord has blessed us with
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A beautiful picture of gender
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In the very beginning of the bible.
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How have we wandered so far from this fundamental truth?
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If you'll allow me, it's time for us as christians
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To stand up once again for a biblical worldview.
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If we'll do that, i assure you there's more reasons for hope
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Than despair.
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I'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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I hope you'll stay with us.
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I hope you'll stay with us.
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Your emails are always a highlight of our program,
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The highlight of our week, and we get to read them.
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A viewer on youtube wrote.
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Pastor allen,
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Thanks for your wisdom and insight on everyday issues.
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Calling people across the country to trust in
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God rather than ourselves or government.
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Well, you know, ultimately god's
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The one who secures our future.
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We have a representative form of government.
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If we want better government, we have to become better people.
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That means you and i, we have to yield our lives
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And our hearts to the lordship of jesus more fully.
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We do that and we have the courage to talk about it.
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I believe we'll get better government.
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Terry eilers emailed, thank you for covering such a wide
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Variety of issues that we face today in this crazy world.
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It helps
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Keep life in perspective as we live in these last days.
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My question is, what can we do to get all those elected
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Politicians to stop acting like high school
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Bullies with childlike behavior, and remember that
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They work for us, not themselves?
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Well, terry, we need wisdom from heaven to answer that.
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The simplest answer i know is if they don't do what they tell
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Us, they'll do.
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Send them on with the next election
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If we'll do that with a little bit of consistency.
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I think we will find that they'll begin
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To be a bit more responsive to our attitudes.
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We can at least see
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Joseph defranco emailed.
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Ai is outpacing our ability to think
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And our ability to apply moral and ethical constraints.
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The bible is not neutral on this situation.
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It would be extremely helpful and much needed
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For your audience
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To be made aware of the many cautions, red flags,
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And warnings that accompany this relatively new but
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Exploding technology of artificial intelligence.
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Is it possible
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That you might consider a follow up program, or a sequel
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That will more intentionally address
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The way
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Christians should examine ai from a biblical world and life?
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View?
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Joseph, i think it's a good idea.
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There's certainly a lot to be learned and understood.
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Maybe we could
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Even do a special program where we focused on that entirely
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With a little bit of a different agenda.
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I have learned this new technologies are often
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Frightening.
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They can be used for evil and destruction,
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But they also hold an even greater power for good.
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I think we can spend our time and energy
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Finding the ways to use
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Ai to advance the betterment of humanity,
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And the message of the kingdom of god.
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That'd be a win for all of us.
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It's a program i look forward to being a part of.
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Well, if you miss our
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Broadcast in real time, you could always go to youtube.
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They post the programs every evening. there's a whole.
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All the programs are there.
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You can share them easily with your friends.
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If you go, be sure to subscribe and like them.
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It'll help us stay on the air.
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Well, if you haven't yet, take a moment
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To send your emails to comments at alan jackson.
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