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Allen Jackson: May 8, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

May 8, 2025 | S25:E508

Television is filled with dysfunction, and the world is drowning in it. Negativity has saturated people of all ages, fed by competition to the bottom on social media. What if someone new came along with a fresh operating principle? A person who has travelled the world, seen the worst of it but deals strictly with how to move forward. An honest and inspiring leader who has lived the full Christian life as a pastor and uses his wisdom to inspire others. Meet Allen Jackson.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: May 8, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | May 8, 2025

Well.
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Good evening, i'm alan jackson.
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Welcome to nashville, which is best known
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As the country music capital.
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There's also plenty of good
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Music and great food to enjoy while you're here.
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Over the years, i have met so many talented people,
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Not just from the music world, but from all walks of life.
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That said, our guest tonight was the first famous person
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I met from the car and truck world.
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I'd seen his name before, but never thought
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I'd get to meet the man behind the brand.
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Barry mcguire. welcome to our. show.
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Thank you.
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I finally learned you could take me to i.
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Finally, i finally made it on your stage last night.
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A hero of the day. i live at large.
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We are honored to have you.
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For those of you
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Who might not know, barry is the president
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Of mcguire's car wax.
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It's the number one car wax product in the country,
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And the guys at the car shows will tell you
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That this is the one to use if you want to win a ribbon.
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Barry is also the host of the tv show
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Car crazy, and he also has another side to his life.
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We're going to explore it a bit.
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He's the founder and president of ignite america
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And the author of a new book, ignite your life.
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It's nice to see you again, sir.
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Awesome, awesome.
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Well, every time where we get to talk, it goes so fast.
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Because we are.
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We are soulmates.
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I mean, we both have this passion for souls,
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And now you're reaching millions.
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I mean, tens of it's every day.
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I mean, can you believe where your ministry is?
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Oh, technology is an amazing multiplier.
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It's incredible.
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It really is.
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And you said something on a recent podcast.
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You said that you often listen to several sermons,
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Even on a sunday morning before you go to church.
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For a live show. yes, yes, i've.
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I've a junky mad and, you know, the great voices.
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And so, i get up and i've got my repertoire of, of who i wear
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And so i'm, well, church.
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Before i get to church,
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I said, how many sermons have i listened to last sunday?
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Okay.
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Last sunday i was taking prolific notes.
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I mean, it was a great sermon,
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And in
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The middle of it, i digressed for a moment.
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How many thousands of sermons.
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How. many thousands of sermons
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Have i heard and listened to and taken notes to from videos?
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I've been taking notes because you remember,
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Folks, you remember sermons
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A lot better if you take notes on them
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And you use those notes going forward.
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And i think what other subject is there
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In existence that you can hear
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About that many times not personally
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Jerking your emotions, falling to your knees.
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And and 80 years later,
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Ten thousands sermons later, i'm learning, we can't learn.
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And the majesty of god.
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I mean, as closer we we get closer and closer.
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But the more the closer we get, the bigger
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He gets in, the smaller we get, right?
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I mean, it's just like, god,
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Have mercy on.
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How can we possibly know you like we know
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And be loved by you like you love
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Is is this secret of whether.
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Our faith is not a hobby, where we master a set of skills
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And then we put it on the shelf? oh.
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I'm curious, how did you arrive at a place with the faith?
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It's that dynamic.
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Well, i, i, i don't have any excuse.
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I have,
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It goes back for generations on both sides of my family.
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I, i won't go into it,
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But it's rich heritage on both sides of my family.
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Frank mcguire, senator maguire's car wax, family business, 19
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01i have his book on systematic theology on my desk.
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He devoured it.
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And that was the the the man who started my business.
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My mother's parents were both pioneer preachers
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In texas back in the late 1800s and trusted god.
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I mean, all that came down there,
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I knew them both sets of parents bless me.
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And i've been church. i've been i was raised the church few.
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You know, i mean, i just i had it all.
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But all that having said, first year marriage.
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Karen, i are you know, i was trained well,
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So we're giving of our time, our money, everything
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Sacrificially in all in all in loving.
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The pastor didn't have any joy.
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And i would suspect that a lot of folks
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Watching right now are in that role.
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Do you know about the statistics?
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Say about 70% of christians are living in fear?
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There's no joy
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In living in in fear and without it reward with fear.
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You have no faith, and without faith you can't please god.
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And of course faith opens a door when you have complete faith.
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Then he says in james one, i'll answer your prayers.
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Proverbs three five as i direct your steps should oh, john 5011
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Your joy, my joy be with you, your joy before.
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I mean, those are great promises,
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But how do you get to wholehearted faith?
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And what i never realized was that sharing faith
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And having wholehearted faith are two sides of the same coin.
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And i learned that through a guy named herb lingwood.
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He was the legal affairs secretary for governor
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Ronald reagan.
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I go way back as 1973,
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And i was sitting beside him at a luncheon,
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And for the hour before he spoke, he talked to me
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Nonstop about his faith sharing experiences.
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He never mentioned reagan,
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And he was
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Laughing and sometimes crying, then laughing.
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And last night, you'll never guess what happened last night.
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And i saw on display a christian who were sold out to god,
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Who got his joy, his energy from sharing his faith.
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That was revolutionary to me.
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I never heard that before.
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And so karen, i shared with her after i
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After driving away, i said he i want what he has.
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So we start sharing our faith in 1973.
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Wow. and doing it poorly.
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And at first of all,
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It took all the various programs and i and i love
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And thank god for all evangelism programs
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Have led millions to the lord.
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I didn't do well with them getting the points down.
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I just was too clumsy. i just didn't work.
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And then i read the scripture, this wonderful scripture
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I'd read a thousand times, though.
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No, no, you're my disciple by your love.
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Well, i know i can do that.
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So we decide we're going to start loving everybody
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All day long. just love everybody.
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See what happens.
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Well, you know what?
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When you love,
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That's god's holy spirit, love flowing through you.
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I'm convinced.
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Now, this is my theology.
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I think it's true.
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God's love. and i just love it.
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It's it's salvation.
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When he loves us, he's salvation us.
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He's drawing us to him. that's right.
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That's that's not just love.
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That's everything about who god is.
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Bring us to him. salvation.
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And when we love others, it's he.
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If we allow him, his holy spirit speaking through
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Us, and we're salvation to others, he's salvation.
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Others through us.
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That means we don't have secular conversations.
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There's there's nothing in our lives, in secular.
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Everything we do is sacred. it all is.
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And then i come to realize that everything we say
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And do all day long is moving.
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Everybody watching us closer, further away from god.
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And that goes back to loving god and loving your neighbor.
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If you do that, that's all you need.
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I don't ask anything else you will love if i love,
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But as i kept working on that a little bit
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And so i started realizing if i love my neighbor as myself,
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I'm just concerned
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For their salvation as i am my own salvation.
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And with 80% of people
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Around us at any given moment, unless we're in church loss,
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You know, they're not evil.
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They're lost. right?
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They don't have shoes,
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They're lost,
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And they're going to stay lost because they're not in church.
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They're going to stay in loss and lost.
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Somebody tells them and we're not telling them.
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And that's the reason for ignite.
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And i use the term because when you do that,
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When you allow the holy spirit
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To not not as you're reading a script,
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But you just allow the holy spirit
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To give you the words to say in luke 12 actually says,
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The holy spirit give you the word.
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Say so you don't have to prepare,
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Don't have to be worried, and you do it routinely.
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But you know what i'm talking about.
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But the average person so worried fear again.
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You know, satan, fear not only paralyzes
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It sterilizes us, it keeps us so we can't reproduce.
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And that's why our numbers we're not reproducing ourselves,
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We're just going down and down.
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He doesn't want us to know that the most important thing in
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Our lives is sharing our faith.
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That's why it's the great commission.
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It ignites us.
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It goes on.
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And we've talked about this.
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You have a gift for sharing a story with somebody.
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And then we know that the outcomes in god's hands.
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Absolutely.
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So i want to come back.
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We're going to take a short break okay.
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And we'll come back and talk about that.
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But there's a lot more to we'll even get to some auto polish,
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I promise.
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It is an exciting time.
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We've got a man who has a passion
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To see people find their way into the kingdom of god,
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And he's a clever businessman as well.
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We'll be right back in just a moment.
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We'll be right back in just a moment.
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We're back now with barry mcguire.
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He's a native of paradise valley,
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Arizona, and a man who's active in many ministries.
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You've spoken a lot about being happy with your faith,
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But yeah,
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I know that that came to you after some really tough times.
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You mentioned
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The venture capital guy
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That actually tried to throw you out of your job,
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And you spoke about your daughter, that you had your life
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Lost to addictions.
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I was i was dying in the hospital.
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God gave god gave me a virus.
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He puts you through the fire to build your faith.
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And he's done that many times in our lives.
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When you realize he's in charge, it doesn't bother you.
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In fact, when bad things happen to us.
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Scared, i get excited.
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I say, okay, what's he up to now?
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And you know what? he always is
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Because we live for rome.
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Romans 828 and we know this, but we don't really know what
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He says.
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I promise you everything, even the bad stuff.
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Even when you lose your 49 year old daughter,
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I promise you everything will work together for good.
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If you do two things.
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If you love me and you love your neighbor as yourself, what?
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That's not quite what it said, but it is.
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It's the same thing, he said. that's all i ask you.
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You are fulfill the whole law if you love
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Your neighbor as yourself, because if you do that,
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It changes you.
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You realize everything i'm doing, you're doing,
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Folks, is is impacting people.
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So the way you dress, what you talk about,
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What you laugh at, what you indulge in,
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What you partake of, all that you do is like,
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Will that bring them closer to jesus?
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And when you know you and god's using you that well,
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I wrote a book about it, you know,
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Ignite your life and here's why.
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And the bottom line is defeat fear with effortless faith.
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About 70% of christians are living in fear.
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How do you feel defeated with effortless face when you
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When you allow the holy spirit to speak through you as you're
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Touching people all day long, if only to say, god bless you
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When they asked you a question in your ministry,
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A holy spirit gives you the words to say.
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It's super natural. i had that several times a day.
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Thousands of people were doing
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The ad, or maybe millions, but thousands that we know of
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Every year.
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When you have that intimacy with god, you know, god is
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He's at that moment.
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I'm right where god wants me to be.
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And i'm giving the words he's
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Saying, the life changing in front of me.
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I gotta tell you, that's exciting.
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And that's why let me just say one last scripture isaiah 4310.
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I love the book of isaiah is i know you do.
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Isaiah 4310 is he says,
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I put you as my witness, so they'll believe.
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No, he didn't say that.
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He said, i put you as i were, so that you will know
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And understand and believe that i am god.
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Because when you have that intimacy with god,
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Most christians have never experienced it.
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They're on their way to heaven, but they're not having fun.
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But when you know you're right where god wants you to be
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And you're experience him speaking through you,
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I gotta tell you that ignite your life
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And you have no more fear.
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It's god. you don't have to work at it.
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It's just god, that's pretty cool.
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Well, every time i'm around you, your enthusiasm leaves me
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Fired up. well, and that's it.
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We sharpen each other right as you sharpen me as well.
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So it's what we do as the body of christ.
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I just have to.
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I'm a layman. i support what you're doing.
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I'm a third party endorser for your message.
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This is how i see myself.
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Well, i mean, obviously, you
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Have a passion around your ministry,
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And people can find more about it at ignite america.com.
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Ignite america.com.
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We'll give you all the bells and whistles.
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And, do we have time to talk about this card?
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Are we out of time? no. we're good. just real quick.
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You have this casual conversation
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In the line at starbucks or in the aisle at walmart,
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Or in a waiting room or wherever you are.
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You're surrounded by people. love on them.
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Put your phone away. love on them.
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They will light up.
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Tell them what a beautiful tattoo
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Could you tell me about that too?
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They'll see you're loving them
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And within moments they'll start telling
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You and opening up and give you.
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And you have this wonderful conversation.
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Now it's over 5 or 6 minutes.
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You're never going to see them again.
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Then you say to them, sound
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Like you'd like to know more about god.
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It's really just what their appetite.
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And they'll always say, yes, yes, i would that we have a card
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Seeking god.
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There is a huge website and i explained,
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If you go to this website,
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It'll tell you how much god loves you,
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How he has a plan for your life, has it had
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He has a place reserved for you in heaven?
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If they'll take this card,
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I can get all that off this website.
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Yeah.
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And so you have no idea how far that will go.
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But instead of just having
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Conversation started with you, actually give them a path.
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It's it's a valuable card.
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We have hundreds of thousands of these out.
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And it's free. now. it's free. you just go to our website.
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We send you a whole pack of free.
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It will such a deal.
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It works.
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It really works well.
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On some of the people watching,
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I suspect know you from your auto polish.
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Yeah, and i think that story is fascinating enough.
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Can we give him the short version on that?
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Which one? but you will.
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You didn't start the company.
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You actually took something that. you're great. yeah.
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My grandfather started making furniture polish back in 1901.
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He was
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He was obsessed with creating perfect furniture, black lacquer
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Furniture and all the horse's carriage manufacturers.
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Half of them were in indiana,
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And they all being painted with black lacquer.
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They took us furniture polish without permission
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And put it on his carriage.
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That launches.
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And the fun thing to me is now
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We're 30 million car guys out there.
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We are the car guys.
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Car wax, if you ask any car guy,
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What's mcguire's most famous for?
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They will tell you.
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Creating a perfect finish on black paint.
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I'm honoring my dad's, my granddad's legacy.
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Is that cool? is that cool?
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What he started i'm still doing and he honor god,
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And he shared his faith, and here i am.
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I just
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I must, of all people, i cannot
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Believe i get to do what i do and every day
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Have these experiences, intimate experiences with god.
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And they're all around us everywhere we go.
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Hey everybody.
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You talk dude, just, just just be kind to.
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And don't just be kind because we're going to be in kind.
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Not mentioning god being kind and then say, and god bless you.
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And don't look at you and say it with your eyes and say,
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God bless you and it will bring tears.
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There is about half the time they want they want to know god.
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They're searching for god, they're starving for love,
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And they don't have a good impression of christians.
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Most christians are not
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Christians are not christians because of christians,
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Because we're doing all kind of thing.
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We're the indulgences, the language.
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I mean, that's christian,
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You know, we're all witnesses, some mr.
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Witnesses for the prosecution.
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But, you know, in a season when there's so much division
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And anger and hatred, you're a living reminder
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That the love of god can bring people together.
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And all those people
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And the politician, you're hating everything.
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God loves them, and they have an excuse.
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They're lost.
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And it's our burden to tell them they're lost because of us.
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The church. what's our excuse?
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We don't have an excuse, and we're running out of time.
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I, you know.
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We've got to take a short break, okay?
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And you stay with us for one more quick segment.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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But we're back.
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And my guest is barry mcguire.
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Barry, there's a quote on the back of your book
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That i want you to respond to it. it's intriguing to me.
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The battle is not in our streets or in washington, d.c.
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The battle is in our churches
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And in the heart and soul of every christian, i believe it.
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Can you tell us what you meant?
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It's a spiritual battle, isn't it?
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It is.
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And satan is a full on attack on the church
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And keeping us paralyzed, sterilized in fear.
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And he's laughing at us.
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And when we have fear, we're offending god.
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We're saying, god, i don't trust you, and satan's laughing.
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If that doesn't get you off your chair and get good
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And share your faith, nothing will end.
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You know, most importantly,
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When we get to heaven,
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The only thing that's going to matter
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Is how many bottles of car wax i saw. no, no, no.
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The only thing that we were talking about, car wax.
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I love my business.
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The only thing, no matter when we have it,
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How many people are in heaven because of our influence?
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It's about souls.
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Our whole life is about souls.
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It's about getting ourselves
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To have a god goddamn savings and tickets to heaven.
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He made us for heaven.
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And then working together with him and led by him
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To get as many people
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Into heaven as possible before we hear that trumpet.
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And quite frankly, they're left behind. and that's,
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That's that's
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That's the thought that should wake all of us
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Up and keep us, keep us on our toes.
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Absolutely.
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Well, i've got one quick question.
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We're doing construction on our campus. yes.
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So i have to drive through a construction site.
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Coming and going every day. yes.
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My car is black. yes.
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I can't keep it clean. yes.
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Have you got a product suggestion?
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The everyday product that everybody uses
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And they use, we have 100 where you have
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75 products on the shelf at walmart. okay.
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But everybody uses quick detailer.
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Get to ultimate quick detailer because you could just spray
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It real quick and it takes all that dust off.
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But you need to do it regularly and it won't scratch.
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It's amazing. you're spray it and wipe it.
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It'll keep your car looking like it's detailed every day.
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I'll take it.
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I want to thank you.
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You have reminded all of us that in the midst
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Of a very polarized culture.
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Yeah, we're not powerless.
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We can be an expression of the light of god.
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Mcguire. you're an inspiration.
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Thank you, thank you. amazing. thank you.
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Greatly honored.
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I hope you'll come back again.
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We want to hear more about your mission.
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I'll do it.
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We'll be here, god willing, in a moment.
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Stay tuned.
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We're going to read some of your emails.
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We're going to read some of your emails.
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Just a quick reminder.
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And you can see all the programing there.
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Of what's happening with the ministry.
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I appreciate your emails.
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Your thoughts and perspectives are a highlight of our program.
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Jane from michigan wrote, with the current world
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Situation, would you say that this is part of god's plan
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Or perhaps the beginning of the birth pains?
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Or we don't know for sure?
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Well, jane, i'm certain it's a part of god's plans.
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I'm of the opinion that that the beginning of birth
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Pains is appropriate.
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Though my father was a veterinarian,
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I've helped a lot of things be born.
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Puppies and kittens and calves and foals.
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I can tell you this.
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Once the birth pains begin, they will continue to gain
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Both in frequency and strength until there's a delivery.
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The timeline of that is always a mystery,
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But i don't think there's any question.
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God is moving in the earth,
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And he's moving us towards the culmination of the age.
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David from washington wrote, i was flabbergasted to discover
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That the majority of senate democrats
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Voted against mike huckabee as ambassador to israel.
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We know the history of mr.
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Huckabee's trips to israel since the 70s,
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And his support for those poor israelis
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Directly after october the 7th.
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Can you help me understand
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These buffoons who voted against him?
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I'm afraid i can.
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I think they would vote against the lord himself
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If he didn't identify with the party they belong to.
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They're not making decisions for the best of our country.
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They're making decisions out of selfish ambition.
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We've got to pay more attention and select better leaders.
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I want to thank you for watching tonight.
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Maybe you can include a friend. ask them to watch as well.
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I'm alan jackson and i hope to see you again tomorrow.
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Good night.
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