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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: January 6, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | January 6, 2025
- Well.
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- Good evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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- Donald trump
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- Is inheriting a troubled world with a rather undefined u.s.
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- Role these days.
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- There are ongoing wars involving ukraine, israel, syria.
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- There are additional threats
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- From china, russia, north korea and iran.
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- You know, it seems that ever since vietnam, americans
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- Have been hesitant to engage in wars around the world.
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- We've done it, but there's been a reluctance here at home.
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- We have displayed some strength to accomplish some good things.
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- We found bin laden. we rescued kuwait.
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- We still stand behind nato,
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- And there have been some glaring failures and weaknesses.
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- Our withdrawal from afghanistan,
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- No border in our own nation, an enemy now within our nation,
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- A new axis of evil with china, north korea and russia.
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- And then we woke up to the
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- New orleans massacre inspired by isis.
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- Terrorism is once again on our own borders, in our own state.
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- Well, i've been saying this for a long
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- Time, but it's important to remember
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- We tend to point at people,
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- Politicians and governments and think that all
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- These problems are because of them
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- The terrorist attacks, the wars, the division, the unrest.
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- But the root of all these is spiritual.
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- There is a spiritual battle taking place in the earth,
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- And we're not only in the middle of it, we're a part of it.
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- This is nothing new.
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- It's biblical.
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- From the garden of eden to cain and abel to saul
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- And david, jesus in the sanhedrin,
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- All the way to the book of revelation.
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- It's throughout the entire narrative of scripture.
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- We're simply the 21st century edition.
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- Well, our assignment is not just to go to church
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- And pretend that we don't notice,
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- But to uphold the truth of god, to use our voice
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- And our influence to lead with our faith.
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- This is our season.
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- We have to make a difference.
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- Well, in a moment, we'll be
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- Joined by the senior counselor on international engagement
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- At the heritage foundation, james carafano.
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- At the heritage foundation, james carafano.
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- We're joined now by james carafano, the senior
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- Counsel to the president of the heritage foundation.
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- Welcome back, sir.
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- Hey, it's great to be with you.
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- Well, we may not be directly involved
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- In any of the wars around the world right now,
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- But we certainly have a stake in many of them.
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- And the president elect,
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- Donald trump will have his hands full on day one.
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- Do you think there's going to be changes?
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- Well, let me tell you, as somebody
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- Who was on the president's transition team in 2016,
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- And who knows how you how you bake the cake,
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- I am enormously impressed with the incoming team.
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- I think they're going to do great.
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- I think they're perfect for the world we're in,
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- Because a lot of the problems
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- Were created really by our own administration,
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- Whether it's the embarrassing evacuation from afghanistan,
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- Which kind of gave a green light to america, is weak
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- To really feckless policies
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- In the middle east, to the open borders.
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- These are all things that we created.
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- And not only do we create them.
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- They're exactly the kind of challenges, whether it's isis
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- Or securing the border,
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- That trump dealt with in his first term.
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- He knows how to deal with these things,
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- And if anything, he is way better prepared this time
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- To deal with the issues he was confronted last time.
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- Well, you mentioned it, but it seemed to me
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- That a major turning point in america's role in the world
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- Seemed to be the botched u.s.
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- Withdrawal from afghanistan.
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- Not only did we lose lives, but we left a mess on the ground.
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- We left top u.s. weapons there.
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- We abandoned a lot of the afghan people who had helped us go
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- After global terrorist groups and even the massive drug trade,
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- And we lost our place as a trusted partner
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- In keeping the world safe.
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- Well, you know, you nailed it in your opening monologue
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- When you said that
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- Really the root of much of this is spiritual.
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- God put us on earth for humans to flourish
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- And and to flourish by doing the right thing.
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- And we we have two visions in this country, and i'm afraid.
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- One vision.
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- The vision of the left simply departs from that.
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- It doesn't place an emphasis on human flourishing.
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- It doesn't recognize the responsibility
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- Of good governance.
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- And it's it's roped into
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- All these ideas
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- And ideologies
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- That, you know, somebody thinks is good for somebody.
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- But none of it is rooted in real faith or christian belief,
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- Or even fundamental truths about how you manage works. and
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- The one thing i think we can really count on from donald
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- Trump is a return to the kind of governance
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- That was created by the founding fathers,
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- That they try to create a system
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- To implement god's will here on earth.
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- And it's simply the notion of good governance, governance
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- For the people to allow the people to do good things.
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- And i think getting back to
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- That would solve a lot of our problems.
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- Well, the biden white house seemed to be less than fully
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- Supportive of israel's war against hamas and hezbollah.
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- Yet the israelis have managed
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- To decimate those terrorist groups and almost single
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- Handedly do some great damage to iran in the process.
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- How important is what they accomplish despite the signals
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- From the biden team to hold back?
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- Well, i think it's it's actually,
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- There are actually a number of things which have
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- Put president
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- Trump in a really good place to implement the vision
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- Of a prosperous america in a peaceful and safe world.
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- The israelis, hezbollah, hamas.
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- That was impossible without the sponsorship of iran,
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- Which was impossible
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- Without all the money they got from the biden administration.
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- They burned through all that money.
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- It's gone. iran is not poor.
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- Their surrogates have been destroyed.
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- All we need is the united states to step back and
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- Put the kind of pressure that iran that on iran
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- That trump did in his first term,
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- That put is in a stronger place that will come at least down.
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- That's good for our interests.
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- Similarly, in in ukraine, i think both the ukrainians
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- And russians have really reached
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- The point of strategic exhaustion.
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- It's time for somebody like a donald trump to come in
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- And put his foot down and say, it's game over.
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- The chinese economy is not in good shape.
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- The chinese are actually overstretched.
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- It's time for america to come back on the stage
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- And tell china it's it's time to cut it out.
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- And so donald trump is uniquely
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- Well positioned to take advantag
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- But but all the mistakes
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- That our enemies have made in the last few years.
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- So and in many ways, i think god blessed us.
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- We've got the right leader
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- At exactly the right time when we need them.
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- Wow. with the inaugural coming up, i'm reminded of
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- The american hostages were held by iran
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- And only released when president reagan took over.
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- They'd been held for 444 days.
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- Well, sadly, the israeli and american hostages being held
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- By hamas have now been held for more than 444 days.
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- We keep hearing that there's
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- An effective negotiation to get them released.
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- Listen to the comments
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- From the national security adviser, jake sullivan.
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- There are any number of reasons for why contexts
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- Change in negotiations,
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- Especially in a situation as fluid as this.
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- But i would point out that hamas's posture
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- At the negotiating table did adapt.
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- Follow ing the announcement of the cease fire between,
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- Israel and lebanon.
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- Do you think they have a chance
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- Of being released sometime soon?
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- And is trump coming into office?
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- Part of that pressure?
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- Well, certainly.
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- I mean, i
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- Think they feel an enormous amount of pressure
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- That they know
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- That there's going to be no luck
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- When donald trump gets in office.
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- I think putin feels the same way.
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- I think the chinese feel the same way.
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- It doesn't mean they're automatically going
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- To do what donald trump says. but here's the deal.
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- And this is what makes donald trump an effective leader.
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- When donald trump says it's got to stop,
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- He just doesn't ask people to stop and wait a singer
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- Like biden did.
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- He says there are consequences for not stopping.
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- And he tells you those upfront.
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- And then what makes him credible is if if they don't
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- Make a deal,
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- Then he's
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- Going to deliver those consequences
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- And they're going to be very severe.
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- So i don't know what the, hamas is going to do.
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- I don't know if putin is going to take a deal.
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- I don't know if china is going to back down,
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- But but i do know, it's very unlike biden.
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- I think they will take him very seriously when he says,
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- You know, the consequences
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- And that he will follow through on those.
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- Well, i'd like to get just
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- Your sense of what you think china is up to militarily.
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- Certainly they're spending billions of dollars.
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- I remember in japan,
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- Building up their resources prior to the pearl harbor event.
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- The chinese have done this pretty boldly, launching
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- Their aircraft carriers on video so we can all see it.
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- Are they threatening us,
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- Or do you think there's real
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- Substance behind what they're doing?
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- Well, they certainly are building up
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- Very powerful capabilities, and they certainly are using it
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- In a very provocative and threatening manner.
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- But the one thing you have to recognize
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- About the chinese military is it's untested in combat.
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- It hasn't been in a major war since
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- It fought a war that it lost with vietnam in the 1970s.
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- It's only had border skirmishes with the chinese.
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- They've never utilized these forces on a large scale.
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- So they're rolling the dice and look
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- What happened to the russians
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- When they rolled the dice in ukraine. so
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- We don't want the chinese to
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- Actually roll the dice and say, let's just see what happens.
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- And that's why it's really important
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- When donald trump comes back in that we re-embrace
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- This idea of peace through strength.
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- We're not looking for wars.
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- We're not looking for regime change.
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- You know, we're not looking to, rebuild countries.
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- But what we are looking to
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- Is that we will have the capacity and the capability
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- And demonstrate the will to defend our interests.
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- It's the one thing the chinese would.
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- It's probably the one thing they would hate
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- Most if we would do.
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- And that's exactly why we need to do that.
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- You know, we know from natural law
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- That a presentation of weakness makes you vulnerable
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- To your enemies, your adversaries.
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- If it's true in the wild, i'm
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- Sure it's true amongst nation states.
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- Which really brings me let's go back to china.
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- Their economy is weakened.
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- Is there really any benefit to them
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- Trying to threaten the rest of us?
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- Well, let's not
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- Forget russia did not have a strong economy that ukraine.
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- Iran had a big, heavy cash flow and it unleashed
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- Lots on hezbollah.
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- But that was just because in the united states,
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- They don't have a strong economy.
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- Donald trump's going to come in.
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- He is going to push energy exports.
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- That's going to be at a record low.
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- That is going to
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- Really jeopardize the iranian and russian economies.
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- And, you know,
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- China has a big economy, but it has a huge population.
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- It has a massive amount of debt.
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- If the united states is is not an economic partner,
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- And if china is being shut out in other places,
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- They were very, very fragile economy.
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- Now, that doesn't mean they won't start wars
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- Or do bad things.
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- But if you, on the one hand, have a weak economy
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- And on the other hand you show you're presented with strength,
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- Your tendencies do nothing.
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- This.
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- Remember, putin attacked ukraine in 2014.
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- Donald trump was in for office for four years.
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- But, putin did nothing.
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- Why did he do nothing?
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- The american economy was strong
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- And the american military was a threat.
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- He leaves, biden comes in, and then putin sees an opportunity.
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- So peace through strength,
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- Coupled with an empower you going thornaby.
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- That's that is the kind of deterrence
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- That that makes your enemies
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- Think twice before they start something.
- 00:11:42.732 --> 00:11:44.600
- Well, we're very familiar with iran using their proxies
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- To wreak havoc in the middle east, hamas and hezbollah.
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- China is now using their proxies to help russia
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- In their war with ukraine.
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- Is that one of the ways
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- They're trying to make their mark in our world
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- Without having their direct fingerprints on it?
- 00:11:59.749 --> 00:12:02.385
- Well, we're getting more of that,
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- And we're likely to see more of that as particularly as china
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- And russia and iran lose hard power,
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- The ability to really directly get in your face.
- 00:12:09.992 --> 00:12:13.062
- They'll increasingly try to look for these other
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- Forms of malicious activities to poke at the united states,
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- Whether it is, hybrid, you know, hybrid warfare,
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- Surrogates, terrorist attacks, cyber warfare, espionage.
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- So we're likely to see more of that poking.
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- But it's
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- That's actually out of russia
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- And china, chinese and iranian weakness.
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- But we have to be prepared to deal with that as well.
- 00:12:33.616 --> 00:12:35.585
- Well, before we're done, can you give us your thoughts
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- On the trump vision of peace through strength?
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- Can we really expect a safer world?
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- Yeah.
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- Look, trump is laser focused on one thing
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- For the american people prosperity.
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- Prosperity comes from two things.
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- On the one hand, it's unleashing your economy,
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- Whether it's low energy prices or less regulatory,
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- A lighter regulatory environment,
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- But growing the economy, letting the economy grow.
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- And on the other hand,
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- Providing the stability that allows economies to grow.
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- And that's from peace through strength
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- By demonstrating your enemies both the capacity
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- And the capability to defend your interests,
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- You do those two things together,
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- And you get a brighter world for the united states
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- And for for its friends and allies as well, i think.
- 00:13:16.826 --> 00:13:20.062
- Well, i pray you are a prophet,
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- And we see that security come to our world.
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- It'd be better for all of us.
- 00:13:25.268 --> 00:13:28.070
- Thanks.
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- Thanks for having. me. well, thank you james.
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- We look forward to staying in touch during the year ahead.
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- Yeah. we love you guys.
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- We love nashville. best place on earth.
- 00:13:36.078 --> 00:13:38.481
- We'll have to get you here in nashville on set soon.
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- We'll be back in just a moment with a few thoughts of my own.
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- Stay tuned.
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- Stay tuned.
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- You know,
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- The horrific, violent attack in new orleans on new year's day
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- Is a painful reminder that we live in
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- An evil world in need of a breakthrough.
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- Now, almost the immediate message
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- When you see the horror
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- Or something like that is i feel so powerless.
- 00:14:05.075 --> 00:14:07.778
- You know, i don't have the ability to stop that.
- 00:14:07.778 --> 00:14:09.846
- I don't have the ability to change that.
- 00:14:09.846 --> 00:14:11.815
- That message echoes inside my head.
- 00:14:11.815 --> 00:14:15.085
- Well, i have a better response
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- Because i believe
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- There is something
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- That you and i can do that will actually make a difference.
- 00:14:18.722 --> 00:14:21.892
- Bear with me for just a moment.
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- For a number of years,
- 00:14:23.560 --> 00:14:24.528
- I've been inviting the congregation i serve
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- To read through their bible on an annual basis.
- 00:14:26.897 --> 00:14:29.700
- It's about a 10 or 15 minute commitment of time.
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- Each day, depending on the speed with which you read.
- 00:14:32.302 --> 00:14:34.705
- You can read the whole bible from the table of contents
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- To the maps in the course of a year.
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- I have watched it bring changed to multiplied
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- Thousands of lives, including my own.
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- Well, i want to give you an invitation
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- At the beginning of this year.
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- Let's not start with the whole bible.
- 00:14:49.052 --> 00:14:50.454
- That's a pretty intimidating task.
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- But if you'd be willing to make
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- That commitment of 10 or 15 minutes a day
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- For about the first two months of the year,
- 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.029
- We can read through the four gospels together
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- Matthew, mark, luke, and john.
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- If you want to take on a little bigger chunk
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- By easter time, we could read through
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- With the same commitment of time.
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- We could read through the whole new testament.
- 00:15:08.905 --> 00:15:10.907
- That means we could arrive at easter
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- Having taken a few minutes every day
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- To read our bibles and completed the new testament.
- 00:15:14.544 --> 00:15:17.681
- Now, why does that matter?
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- Because i believe if people will take the time
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- To focus their attention on scripture
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- And indirectly on god, that it will bring
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- The blessing of god to our nation, folks.
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- They're not sending me to washington.
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- Nobody's elected me for anything.
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- My assignment is to make choices that will allow god
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- To bring his best outcomes into my life, into our homes,
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- Into our communities, and ultimately into our nation.
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- I believe the willingness to read your bible will do that.
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- So don't just decide to read it for yourself.
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- Recruit a friend.
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- Invite your small group, your sunday school
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- Class, a coworker or a neighbor, whomever that may be.
- 00:15:52.616 --> 00:15:56.253
- There's a bible reading plan available to you.
- 00:15:56.253 --> 00:15:58.388
- We've got an app you can go to, allen jackson ministries.
- 00:15:58.388 --> 00:16:00.590
- It's right there. it'll read it to you.
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- You can go to allen jackson.com, our website.
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- There's a bible reading plan there. it's not the only one.
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- I'm not even saying it's the best one.
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- But if you'll pick that plan up before we get to easter,
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- We'll finish the new testament and we'll be a catalyst
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- For bringing the blessings of god into our nation.
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- Now that's worthwhile,
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- And that is a greater reason for hope than despair.
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- I promise.
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- Well, that's my message for tonight.
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- And after a short break,
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- We're going to start looking at some of your messages.
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- We're going to start looking at some of your messages.
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- Thank
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- You for taking the time to share your thoughts with us.
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- Your emails and perspectives are a highlight
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- And we get to read them.
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- Tracy c from clarkston, michigan said i truly enjoy
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- Watching you on now
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- With so many interesting guests on your show.
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- God has raised you up for such a time as this to reach
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- The people
- 00:16:55.745 --> 00:16:56.713
- You've helped to restore my faith
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- When things weren't looking so good.
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- Now i know
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- God is listening to this nation crying out for mercy and help.
- 00:17:01.184 --> 00:17:03.820
- May the lord surround our new president with wisdom
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- And others to hear his words of peace.
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- God bless.
- 00:17:08.925 --> 00:17:10.660
- Well, tracy, i join you in that prayer
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- That god will continue to show us mercy as a people.
- 00:17:13.997 --> 00:17:18.568
- I believe the election was more
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- Than about political parties and candidates.
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- I believe we deserved god's judgment
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- And he showed us mercy, as you so rightly observed.
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- Now it's our turn to respond to him with faithfulness.
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- Cynthia, i ask.
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- I found myself in a spot i couldn't respond to.
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- I was at a table of nonbelievers this weekend and i felt dumb.
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- I need help with an answer.
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- When someone challenges me.
- 00:17:40.724 --> 00:17:42.659
- The question was your god lets little children get cancer.
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- They are innocent.
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- If your god was a good god, as you say,
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- Why does he let little children get cancer?
- 00:17:49.499 --> 00:17:52.536
- I froze because i know my lord and savior,
- 00:17:52.536 --> 00:17:55.272
- But apparently not enough knowledge
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- To proceed with an answer that will satisfy.
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- Any help appreciated?
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- I can give you a response.
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- I can't solve the problem of suffering in our world.
- 00:18:03.947 --> 00:18:06.950
- I think what's often overlooked
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- When people express their anger at god
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- Is we ignore the existence of evil,
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- And the reality is both are present in our world.
- 00:18:14.324 --> 00:18:18.028
- You know, in physics, i learned that for every action
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- There's an equal and an opposite reaction.
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- So it's illogical.
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- It's irrational to believe in a good god
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- And then reject the existence of evil or satan.
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- And we want to imagine we're a little too
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- Sophisticated, a little too educated,
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- Perhaps a little too something in order to believe
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- In the devil, folks, just as certainly as god exist.
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- And he's a good god.
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- The devil exist, and he's a bad devil.
- 00:18:42.686 --> 00:18:45.989
- I know that's a simplification, but we see expressions of good
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- And evil in our world every day.
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- We see children with diseases.
- 00:18:51.328 --> 00:18:53.296
- We see children suffering in ukraine, in gaza, in syria.
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- We see suffering in our own nation.
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- We see children being trafficked on our border
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- And politicians acting like they don't notice,
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- And a general public who looks the other way.
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- That's evil.
- 00:19:09.579 --> 00:19:11.081
- The best thing i believe we can do is choose to honor god.
- 00:19:11.081 --> 00:19:14.351
- That gives him permission to have another voice
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- And other expression of his goodness in our world.
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- We're not powerless.
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- There is a god, and he is good and finally, laura ann wrote.
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- Thank you for having mrs. king.
- 00:19:25.262 --> 00:19:27.464
- I've been following her for years.
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- She's a precious lady.
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- Thank you for standing on the word.
- 00:19:30.634 --> 00:19:32.936
- Well, laura and i agree alveda king is a gift in our nation.
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- She has a courage and a boldness to tell the truth,
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- But she does it in a way that makes you feel like
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- You've been embraced, not slapped.
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- It's a gift to all of us.
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- Well, make sure you send your emails to comments at alan
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- Jackson now.com from all of us here in nashville.
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- Thank you for joining us tonight,
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- And we pray you have a wonderful evening.
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