The Free Burma Rangers is a humanitarian relief group led by David Eubank. They work in conflict areas around the world, providing aid and support to those in need, all in the name of Jesus. Their main focus is Burma, where they have been operating for over three decades, but they have also worked in other places such as Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Tajikistan, and Ukraine. Despite facing danger and persecution, they remain dedicated to their mission and continue to bring hope, love, and the message of Christ to those who need it most.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Spreading the Gospel of Jesus | Allen Jackson Now | May 2, 2025
- I'm delighted to be able to introduce you to david eubank.
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- He's the founder and president of the free burma rangers.
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- Yes, sir.
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- We've had the privilege of talking
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- On a number of occasions prior today.
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- But maybe for some of our audience,
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- This is a first time introduction then.
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- So tell them, tell us if you will, just a little bit
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- About the free burma rangers, what you do.
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- It's an amazing story.
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- With the free burma rangers is a humanitarian
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- Relief group
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- Working in conflict areas around the world where we're invited,
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- Giving help, hope and love and getting the news out
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- For me in jesus name.
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- And we started in burma.
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- That's still our main effort for the last 31 years.
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- But we also have worked in sudan, iraq,
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- Syria, tajikistan and now recently in ukraine.
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- And our main job is go and help people in jesus name.
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- At the same time, you don't have to be a christian to join us.
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- You probably get tired of all the prayers,
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- But you know, i did one quick story about that.
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- We're in the battle of mosul
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- And i had a marine join
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- Us, ex-marine who'd been shot four times
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- In the battle of fallujah earlier left the marine corps.
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- He's an atheist, and he joined.
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- He said, dave, i've noticed on these missions
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- You don't really trust me because i'm not a christian.
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- And i said, no, man, you don't trust me
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- Because i talk to the invisible god on the invisible
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- Radio and make decisions based on that conversation.
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- And do you trust me?
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- And he goes, i trust you, dave.
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- I say, i trust you. let's go man.
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- And sir, i earlier on the on the show,
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- I talked with the guy shot six times next to me.
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- I was shot
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- When we were in that street fighting for our lives.
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- This atheist ran out to help me
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- And i said, justin,
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- You don't know god.
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- You say you don't, but you do because god is love.
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- Greater love is no man than this.
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- He laid down his life for his friends.
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- You came up to me twice, as happened in heavy gunfire.
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- When you don't want to be there, he risk his life to save me
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- And help us. in this case, lieutenant hussein.
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- So justin does know god by another name called love.
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- He just hasn't surrendered everything to him yet.
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- So, freedom rangers, you don't have to be a believer.
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- But those of us who lead it, and most of us in it,
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- Have realized without jesus, we can't do much good.
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- And so we follow him because he saves us.
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- And we always share that.
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- But you don't have to believe it,
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- But you got to do it for love.
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- Well, i doubt most of our audience
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- Could find burma on a map.
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- Tell us where it's at.
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- Sir, if you went straight through tennessee, came out
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- The other side, you'd be kind of close to burma,
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- I think, if not exactly in the middle of it.
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- And so burma sits between india and thailand
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- Up to the west and the east, india and thailand.
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- Below is malaysia and above is china.
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- It's in southeast. asia.
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- And they've had a civil war now for more than 70 years.
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- 74 years, sir. burma is also called myanmar.
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- It has two names
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- From his old traditional name and dictator stuck on myanmar.
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- So you can call it either one
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- Civil war for 74 years as different dictators
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- Repeatedly tried to crush their own people.
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- And it's the heaviest fighting
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- We've seen in the last three years.
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- So free burma rangers is really focused on humanitarian aid
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- To suffering people in many places in the world.
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- But your your background, you are a green beret.
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- Yes, sir.
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- And you went to fuller theological seminary?
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- I did.
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- That's got to be a short list of people that check those boxes.
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- So you have a theological background, but you also know
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- You work in some places that are,
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- There's still bullets flying.
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- Yes, sir.
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- And, i mean, i know you've lost a lot of people who work
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- With you.
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- I think for a lot of people listening that
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- It's hard to believe there are places
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- As dangerous in the world as they really are.
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- Yes. the places we work are not the only dangerous places,
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- But they are dangerous
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- Because the government in this case
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- Is trying to kill its own people.
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- And back when i was in seminary, one of my professors said
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- That your biggest danger in the world
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- Is not from a foreign government,
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- Historically from your own government.
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- You look at the amount of people killed,
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- How many people stalin killed, 50 million or 20 million,
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- Mostly doing a china 50 million.
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- Hitler,
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- You know, where there's there's some exceptions to that.
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- But the places we work, it's generally
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- Their own governments killing their own people.
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- And we've lost 65 of our team
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- And hundreds of hundreds of them wounded.
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- And so it is dangerous.
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- Our job is not to fight
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- The burma army or isis
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- In the middle east when they were stronger.
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- Our job is to give health, hope and love.
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- We're not pacifists.
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- You can fight. and we, some of us have.
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- But the main thing is to share the gospel of jesus and help.
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- And in the middle of that.
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- Yeah, you're you're in harm's way.
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- And i remember someone asked me, there's a scene.
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- If you've ever seen our documentary,
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- But we're trying to say,
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- This little girl in the streets of mosul.
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- And i finally get an iraqi tank to go in front of us
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- Who are running behind the tank,
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- And we got the americans dropping smoke.
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- That's all on the jesus relationship with.
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- I'm long out of the army by now.
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- And i remember to get this girl is probably i'm going to die.
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- And everybody one of us is going to die.
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- And i remember praying about that.
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- And i have a wife and three kids, but i thought
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- If that was my little
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- Girl hiding under my dead wife, and i was in another country
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- And i knew about it, and you were there, i'd say,
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- Reverend jackson, please help my daughter, please.
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- And you say, yeah, day, but i will die.
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- Please try not. please die.
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- Please try.
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- So i prayed and thought, okay, if i die saving this little girl
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- Or trying to save this little girl,
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- My wife and kids will be sad forever.
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- But there's no shame. this is for love.
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- This is for love. and i said earlier.
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- You know what i learned the first day at some seminary?
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- You can live well with sorrow.
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- You can't live well with shame.
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- And, i keep going back to your mother.
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- If i just learned about that thing, you're going to be sad.
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- And you see her, of course, because you love her.
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- But what a glory and honor to be her son.
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- You got to have her on this world.
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- So i'm glad i didn't die.
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- I just thank god i don't deserve it.
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- And we got the little girl i say we it wasn't just me.
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- It was our team. people praying.
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- The iraqi army, the americans smoke. it's a big team effort.
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- The iraqi army, the americans smoke. it's a big team effort.
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- When i come back, the first time i ever met you.
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- It was a zoom interview,
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- But the topic was about the persecuted church.
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- And we had a long conversation
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- And i think for most of our audience,
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- They're pretty much unaware.
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- I mean,
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- The christians are the most persecuted
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- Religious group in the world.
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- And you're really the point
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- Of the spear and interceding, intervening on
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- Behalf of a lot of those people.
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- Talk to you a little bit
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- About all the places where you've been,
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- Where christians are suffering because of their faith.
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- Right.
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- Well, i first thing i thought of was syria.
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- Isis took over over a third of syria.
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- And the first thing they did is destroy the churches.
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- And there were a lot of churches in syria.
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- There still are some under assad's dictatorship side.
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- But we were in northeast syria and the capital of isis,
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- The capital of their worldwide caliphate, was in raqqa,
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- Syria, on the on the euphrates.
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- And there was an armenian church there.
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- And i remember the first time i saw it
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- And raqqa was liberated.
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- It was bombed and wrecked.
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- And i went to it and it was ruined.
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- It's just like a shell of itself.
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- Isis had blown it up, and then isis had tunnel underneath it
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- Because the superstructure was there.
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- You kind of see, it's a kind of church, like like a cathedral.
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- Looked like, see the flying wings and buttresses?
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- That's all that was left.
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- And they tunneled.
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- And you can put their headquarters there
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- Because they knew the allies,
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- The americans had it marked as a church.
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- They would never bomb it.
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- They wrecked it first, and then they hid underneath it.
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- So i walk in that church with our team.
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- We've been in syria since 2016, back and forth.
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- So we were there through the whole isis thing.
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- And i walked in that church and i prayed this prayer,
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- Said, hey, let's pray.
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- And my whole team gathered around.
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- We prayed and i said, lord, please bring christians
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- Back to this church and help us rebuild it back to the city.
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- There was no christians left in rock at this point.
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- They all left armenians.
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- And as soon as i said that prayer,
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- I said, that's a dumb prayer.
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- First of all, who would ever want to come back to syria?
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- And second, no one will build this church.
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- And i said, god, that was just a reflexive christian prayer
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- With no sincerity.
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- Forgive me.
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- How do you want me to pray?
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- And god spoke to me very clearly.
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- Pray that again. this time with faith.
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- Wow. okay. lord. i'm sorry.
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- Please bring the christians back and rebuild this church.
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- Amen. i walk out of the rubble.
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- A guy walks up to me with an ak 47, a guy behind him.
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- What are you doing in my church?
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- This is your church?
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- Yeah. we're armenian. there's only four of us left.
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- And i was shot four times by isis.
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- He throws me his body.
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- I said, we're praying to rebuild the church
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- Because you're going to do it.
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- I said, no, god's going to do it.
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- I have no money, man.
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- But we're praying.
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- He goes, i will help you.
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- His name is william.
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- Well, i had my tithe, like $300 or whatever i had in my pocket.
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- I said, well, this is sunday.
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- Here's the down payment on the church.
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- We'll pray for the rest.
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- 6017,
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- Three years later, that church is built
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- By american christians sending money.
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- That church is built.
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- And franklin graham got involved at the very end.
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- Dave, what do you need to finish this?
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- I need 50 grand, sir.
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- You guys, you got it.
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- And samaritan's purse finished it off.
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- But there were many other believers.
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- My friends, the starlings and so many others.
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- You know, that pitched in.
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- And so here you are in rock.
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- A city is a beautiful church.
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- Well, and a few people going back to it
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- Now, like 20 or something. armenian christians.
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- So that's one thing i saw and it's just makes me happy.
- 00:09:38.894 --> 00:09:42.731
- I thought, well, we could be part of that.
- 00:09:42.731 --> 00:09:44.900
- And the lord.
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- Honored your prayer. yeah.
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- That's unbelievable.
- 00:09:47.803 --> 00:09:49.471
- And we don't build churches. so. right.
- 00:09:49.471 --> 00:09:57.996
- And we don't build churches. so. right.
- 00:09:57.996 --> 00:10:01.818
- You know, you
- 00:10:02.185 --> 00:10:03.253
- Said something that i think is worth just a moment.
- 00:10:03.253 --> 00:10:06.322
- That in syria, they destroyed the churches.
- 00:10:06.322 --> 00:10:09.059
- But one of the hallmarks of authoritarian governments,
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- Dictators, typically socialist communist
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- Is either they have to silence
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- Or completely obliterate the churches.
- 00:10:15.298 --> 00:10:17.600
- And i don't think most of us who are christians
- 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:19.569
- Imagine, understand the role we play in freedom.
- 00:10:19.569 --> 00:10:22.639
- It's the gospel that brings freedom to human lives.
- 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.442
- You know, we've been coached into this
- 00:10:25.442 --> 00:10:27.677
- Almost cowardly christianity where we argue
- 00:10:27.677 --> 00:10:29.579
- Whether we're methodist or baptist or episcopalian.
- 00:10:29.579 --> 00:10:32.348
- And the gospel of jesus christ transforms lives and brings
- 00:10:32.348 --> 00:10:35.285
- Freedom to people.
- 00:10:35.285 --> 00:10:36.286
- There's no other force like it on planet earth.
- 00:10:36.286 --> 00:10:39.255
- And if the church is silenced,
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- Or the church willingly silences ourselves,
- 00:10:40.590 --> 00:10:43.593
- There's tremendous suffering that comes to humanity.
- 00:10:43.593 --> 00:10:46.930
- And we need the church to find the courage
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- To be advocates for jesus again.
- 00:10:48.865 --> 00:10:50.867
- You're always such a good reminder of that.
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- Thanks, sir.
- 00:10:52.736 --> 00:10:53.470
- You take up.
- 00:10:53.470 --> 00:10:54.404
- You go places that are difficult to do.
- 00:10:54.404 --> 00:10:56.806
- What we're unwilling to do
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- In our local communities, in schools.
- 00:10:57.841 --> 00:10:59.776
- So i pray people listening
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- Can gain some courage from your boldness. thank you sir.
- 00:11:01.077 --> 00:11:03.947
- So you mentioned syria in the middle east.
- 00:11:03.947 --> 00:11:06.316
- Where else are the free burma rangers these days?
- 00:11:06.316 --> 00:11:09.052
- Burma's of primary effort. yep. and
- 00:11:09.052 --> 00:11:11.888
- Churches are definitely a target.
- 00:11:12.622 --> 00:11:13.923
- They're not in the cities for the dictators control.
- 00:11:13.923 --> 00:11:16.459
- They've got control of that.
- 00:11:16.459 --> 00:11:17.594
- But anywhere else, they realize the church is a visible
- 00:11:17.594 --> 00:11:21.498
- Symbol of the invisible threat of people's faith.
- 00:11:22.499 --> 00:11:25.969
- And if there's a god of him, too,
- 00:11:25.969 --> 00:11:27.937
- And they don't like that.
- 00:11:27.937 --> 00:11:29.139
- So almost any church outside
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- Is bombed and destroyed by the by the dictators.
- 00:11:31.908 --> 00:11:35.478
- And so we see that in burma, in iraq,
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- The neighborhood on the west side of the
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- Of the tigris river in mosul, one of the last places
- 00:11:41.451 --> 00:11:43.920
- Liberated is called how we can isa.
- 00:11:43.920 --> 00:11:45.588
- It means, says church in arabic.
- 00:11:45.588 --> 00:11:47.857
- It's the place that the church
- 00:11:47.857 --> 00:11:49.125
- Is, every one of them destroyed, historically christian place.
- 00:11:49.125 --> 00:11:52.128
- Jonah's tomb was there.
- 00:11:52.629 --> 00:11:53.596
- That was wrecked by isis.
- 00:11:53.596 --> 00:11:55.665
- And so. but still, the church is coming back.
- 00:11:55.665 --> 00:11:57.967
- And in ukraine,
- 00:11:57.967 --> 00:11:59.969
- We have a small rotational ministry of presence in ukraine.
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- Chaplains and medics going together.
- 00:12:03.740 --> 00:12:05.375
- We've done four of these trips.
- 00:12:05.375 --> 00:12:07.010
- I did the first one
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- For our organization with my family and medics from burma.
- 00:12:08.378 --> 00:12:11.047
- Pretty funny.
- 00:12:11.047 --> 00:12:12.282
- They're. they're funny.
- 00:12:12.282 --> 00:12:13.283
- They're like hobbits, you know, one second.
- 00:12:13.283 --> 00:12:15.018
- Breakfast in search. breakfast. but they're super brave.
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- Every church i
- 00:12:18.555 --> 00:12:19.489
- Saw outside of kiev was hit purposely.
- 00:12:19.489 --> 00:12:22.959
- Russian weapons system.
- 00:12:23.459 --> 00:12:25.228
- Very accurate.
- 00:12:25.228 --> 00:12:26.429
- Every single church anywhere near the front line was hit.
- 00:12:26.429 --> 00:12:29.899
- Boom. and sometimes you'd see a russian
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- Orthodox church untouched.
- 00:12:32.235 --> 00:12:34.137
- And every other one ukrainian church smoked.
- 00:12:34.137 --> 00:12:37.640
- So this is what we see.
- 00:12:37.640 --> 00:12:39.542
- And in our country of america.
- 00:12:39.542 --> 00:12:42.078
- I thank god for you, sir,
- 00:12:42.078 --> 00:12:43.646
- And the american church, because people ask me,
- 00:12:43.646 --> 00:12:45.949
- What's the greatest thing about america?
- 00:12:45.949 --> 00:12:47.650
- Well,
- 00:12:47.650 --> 00:12:48.651
- I love the nature because i like to climb
- 00:12:48.651 --> 00:12:50.220
- And surf and ski and jump.
- 00:12:50.220 --> 00:12:51.855
- It's fun. it's really unique.
- 00:12:51.855 --> 00:12:54.991
- The political system is pretty good.
- 00:12:54.991 --> 00:12:56.426
- You got democracy. you can vote.
- 00:12:56.426 --> 00:12:58.595
- But you know what makes america special
- 00:12:58.595 --> 00:13:00.897
- Is people following jesus.
- 00:13:00.897 --> 00:13:02.365
- It's the american church.
- 00:13:02.365 --> 00:13:03.766
- And there's all different kinds.
- 00:13:03.766 --> 00:13:05.134
- That's what makes america really different.
- 00:13:05.134 --> 00:13:07.604
- That's what makes it home.
- 00:13:07.604 --> 00:13:09.105
- And so i'm grateful.
- 00:13:09.105 --> 00:13:10.473
- I want to say one word, hopefully of encouragement.
- 00:13:10.473 --> 00:13:13.543
- Before i was in special forces, i was in the ranger battalion
- 00:13:13.543 --> 00:13:16.746
- And the second ranger battalion the 50th anniversary last week.
- 00:13:16.746 --> 00:13:19.616
- And as i came into the united states, i stopped there.
- 00:13:19.616 --> 00:13:22.819
- And here's a formation in full uniform, all the rangers.
- 00:13:22.819 --> 00:13:26.222
- They're all young guys, right?
- 00:13:26.823 --> 00:13:28.491
- And helicopters and all this.
- 00:13:28.491 --> 00:13:29.859
- And band.
- 00:13:29.859 --> 00:13:30.827
- The chaplain walks out.
- 00:13:30.827 --> 00:13:32.028
- I wonder what he's going to say.
- 00:13:32.028 --> 00:13:33.663
- Is it going to be a watered down prayer? no.
- 00:13:33.663 --> 00:13:36.132
- The prayer is the whole gospel of jesus.
- 00:13:36.132 --> 00:13:38.434
- God sending his son on this earth to die for our sins.
- 00:13:38.434 --> 00:13:41.804
- He says the whole thing in this prayer.
- 00:13:41.804 --> 00:13:43.806
- And then he says, holy spirit, come wash over all of us.
- 00:13:43.806 --> 00:13:47.477
- I thought it was in a church service.
- 00:13:47.477 --> 00:13:48.811
- And he says, this place, any other spirits
- 00:13:48.811 --> 00:13:51.347
- And you could feel it.
- 00:13:51.347 --> 00:13:52.882
- And in three times
- 00:13:52.882 --> 00:13:55.785
- The name of jesus and his story was lifted up.
- 00:13:55.785 --> 00:13:58.488
- And then we sang amazing grace.
- 00:13:58.488 --> 00:14:00.623
- This is an army post.
- 00:14:00.623 --> 00:14:02.058
- So it's not over.
- 00:14:02.058 --> 00:14:03.092
- And i asked the chaplain, how do you do that?
- 00:14:03.092 --> 00:14:04.227
- Because why wouldn't i do it?
- 00:14:04.227 --> 00:14:05.762
- This is why i'm here.
- 00:14:05.762 --> 00:14:06.896
- And so even the military, sometimes it's under
- 00:14:06.896 --> 00:14:09.599
- A ton of pressure to conform to immorality.
- 00:14:09.599 --> 00:14:13.736
- But there's still many wonderful jesus followers
- 00:14:13.736 --> 00:14:17.040
- In our military, and i thank god for that.
- 00:14:17.040 --> 00:14:25.000
- In our military, and i thank god for that.
- 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:28.760
- But you mentioned prayer that
- 00:14:29.394 --> 00:14:30.362
- A lot of the people who listen to this
- 00:14:30.362 --> 00:14:31.630
- Are people who pray, tell us how we can pray for you.
- 00:14:31.630 --> 00:14:34.733
- Me personally, to be a true follower of jesus,
- 00:14:35.701 --> 00:14:39.438
- Not sin.
- 00:14:39.705 --> 00:14:40.505
- And when i do confess it quickly
- 00:14:40.505 --> 00:14:43.642
- Ask for forgiveness and give forgiveness.
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- Be obedient follower of jesus till i can be an ambassador
- 00:14:45.677 --> 00:14:48.780
- For jesus, this personal and for my family to do the same.
- 00:14:48.780 --> 00:14:52.384
- And then for our organization
- 00:14:52.384 --> 00:14:54.086
- To be part of god's kingdom and his way.
- 00:14:54.086 --> 00:14:56.221
- Not to be proud, not to be jealous,
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- Not to seek after things, but to serve him
- 00:14:57.956 --> 00:15:01.660
- Wherever we can around the world.
- 00:15:01.660 --> 00:15:03.795
- And then for the resources to do that to help you.
- 00:15:03.795 --> 00:15:05.831
- It's fun to like you all help
- 00:15:05.831 --> 00:15:06.999
- A lot of people and fun to help people.
- 00:15:06.999 --> 00:15:08.400
- It is when someone says, i need this, you go, yes, here it is.
- 00:15:08.400 --> 00:15:11.570
- So we want to be able to do that as well.
- 00:15:11.570 --> 00:15:14.006
- So i think the and then protection
- 00:15:14.006 --> 00:15:16.208
- Because i'm a chicken and access some places we go.
- 00:15:16.208 --> 00:15:19.811
- They don't want you there.
- 00:15:19.811 --> 00:15:20.912
- So we need access so that whoever prays those.
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- That's my list. thank you.
- 00:15:23.582 --> 00:15:25.484
- I have a hard time
- 00:15:25.484 --> 00:15:26.551
- Thinking of you as a chicken because i'm concerned.
- 00:15:26.551 --> 00:15:27.786
- What category? that puts me. yes, but.
- 00:15:27.786 --> 00:15:30.055
- So if somebody wants to support
- 00:15:30.055 --> 00:15:31.356
- You, support the free burma rangers
- 00:15:31.356 --> 00:15:33.392
- And dave eubank, how do they do that?
- 00:15:33.392 --> 00:15:34.960
- Well, i think first pray
- 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:36.261
- Because maybe god wants you to do something else.
- 00:15:36.261 --> 00:15:38.063
- But if it's support us, we would say thank you.
- 00:15:38.063 --> 00:15:40.432
- We have a website, free burma rangers.org
- 00:15:40.432 --> 00:15:43.235
- And there's ways to donate through that website.
- 00:15:43.235 --> 00:15:45.370
- We have a 500 13c that also is on
- 00:15:45.370 --> 00:15:47.773
- The website is called free the oppressed.
- 00:15:47.773 --> 00:15:50.242
- Free burma rangers
- 00:15:50.242 --> 00:15:51.176
- Operates under that title free the oppressed.
- 00:15:51.176 --> 00:15:53.111
- It's a513c based in colorado.
- 00:15:53.111 --> 00:15:55.414
- That's how we pay caesar and make sure our
- 00:15:55.414 --> 00:15:57.883
- Ducks are in a row. that's important. yeah.
- 00:15:57.883 --> 00:16:00.485
- You redefine what it means to be a missionary.
- 00:16:00.485 --> 00:16:03.955
- You're taking the love of jesus
- 00:16:03.955 --> 00:16:05.390
- To the difficult places in the world,
- 00:16:05.390 --> 00:16:07.125
- To people who have been overlooked and forgotten.
- 00:16:07.125 --> 00:16:10.295
- And you do it in the face of some tremendous persecution.
- 00:16:10.295 --> 00:16:13.865
- Thank you for representing our lord so well.
- 00:16:13.865 --> 00:16:16.468
- Thank you.
- 00:16:16.468 --> 00:16:17.636
- Can i say one more thing, please? you can cut it out.
- 00:16:17.636 --> 00:16:19.738
- It just came to me, and i hope it's of god.
- 00:16:20.605 --> 00:16:23.341
- When afghanistan fell, we went to go help.
- 00:16:23.341 --> 00:16:26.945
- The whole thing collapsed fast.
- 00:16:26.945 --> 00:16:28.580
- I mean, when the u.s. withdrew, the u.s. withdrew.
- 00:16:28.580 --> 00:16:30.982
- Now you can debate should the u.s.
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- Withdraw or not?
- 00:16:33.185 --> 00:16:34.352
- And it's a role. legitimate debate.
- 00:16:34.352 --> 00:16:36.121
- But the way we left was inept and cowardly,
- 00:16:36.121 --> 00:16:39.758
- And we were involved trying to get americans on the base.
- 00:16:39.758 --> 00:16:42.694
- And over 800 that we know of did not we're not allowed in.
- 00:16:42.694 --> 00:16:46.331
- I had a family from amarillo, texas.
- 00:16:46.331 --> 00:16:48.767
- Blue passports.
- 00:16:48.767 --> 00:16:50.068
- Ronnie jackson's advocating for.
- 00:16:50.068 --> 00:16:51.670
- I'm like, what are you doing?
- 00:16:51.670 --> 00:16:52.804
- They weren't allowed in 36 hours before takeoff.
- 00:16:52.804 --> 00:16:56.007
- Inept and cowardly and shameful.
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- Okay.
- 00:16:58.643 --> 00:16:59.878
- We went to help. we. and then we go.
- 00:16:59.878 --> 00:17:01.680
- We can't help birdie there.
- 00:17:01.680 --> 00:17:02.647
- We go to seek asylum.
- 00:17:02.647 --> 00:17:03.815
- We're coming into the
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- To the panjshir valley
- 00:17:04.483 --> 00:17:05.717
- To set up a humanitarian corridor that falls apart.
- 00:17:05.717 --> 00:17:08.420
- So i ended meeting with our ruler, saleh.
- 00:17:08.420 --> 00:17:10.489
- The president ghani leaps.
- 00:17:10.489 --> 00:17:11.756
- He runs away with a bunch of money and rule.
- 00:17:11.756 --> 00:17:13.492
- Saleh stuck.
- 00:17:13.492 --> 00:17:14.926
- He has his own story.
- 00:17:14.926 --> 00:17:16.161
- I don't have time to tell you about how god talks to him.
- 00:17:16.161 --> 00:17:18.263
- He's a muslim.
- 00:17:18.263 --> 00:17:19.464
- But this is the main thing.
- 00:17:19.464 --> 00:17:21.666
- Well, i'll say it real quick.
- 00:17:22.300 --> 00:17:23.702
- Amrullah saleh is going to kill himself.
- 00:17:23.702 --> 00:17:25.203
- The taliban are coming in. he's lost his whole country.
- 00:17:25.203 --> 00:17:28.073
- He's going to die.
- 00:17:28.073 --> 00:17:29.541
- And he says, god, i curse you my whole life.
- 00:17:29.541 --> 00:17:32.511
- And you let this whole country fall apart.
- 00:17:32.511 --> 00:17:35.847
- Just how should i die?
- 00:17:35.847 --> 00:17:38.083
- And he said, i saw writing in the air.
- 00:17:38.083 --> 00:17:41.119
- You have not served the your whole life.
- 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:43.155
- You served yourself and you depended on yourself.
- 00:17:43.155 --> 00:17:45.524
- You never depended on me.
- 00:17:45.524 --> 00:17:46.791
- Well, give up everything. he said i had a bag.
- 00:17:46.791 --> 00:17:49.027
- A few hundred thousand dollars. my go back.
- 00:17:49.027 --> 00:17:51.029
- I gave you this local herder.
- 00:17:51.029 --> 00:17:53.165
- I gave him my pistol and my two iphones.
- 00:17:53.165 --> 00:17:56.568
- And then god's peace came over me.
- 00:17:56.568 --> 00:17:58.370
- I went to sleep.
- 00:17:58.370 --> 00:17:59.738
- I woke up to the sound of tanks
- 00:17:59.738 --> 00:18:01.339
- Coming right down the panjshir venture valley.
- 00:18:01.339 --> 00:18:02.941
- Very narrow taliban tanks coming in.
- 00:18:02.941 --> 00:18:05.544
- I was terrified before.
- 00:18:05.544 --> 00:18:06.578
- I was no longer afraid to open the window.
- 00:18:06.578 --> 00:18:08.246
- They're looking for me.
- 00:18:08.246 --> 00:18:09.781
- The president of afghanistan, head of security before
- 00:18:09.781 --> 00:18:13.385
- Responsible for many taliban deaths.
- 00:18:13.385 --> 00:18:14.953
- They hate me.
- 00:18:14.953 --> 00:18:15.954
- I was not afraid. god's presence is over me.
- 00:18:15.954 --> 00:18:18.423
- I opened up and smiled at them.
- 00:18:18.423 --> 00:18:20.091
- They did not recognize me.
- 00:18:20.091 --> 00:18:22.160
- Long story short, he was rescued.
- 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:24.563
- After that, i met him
- 00:18:24.563 --> 00:18:26.565
- And he said, dave, tell this to the american people.
- 00:18:26.565 --> 00:18:31.136
- The way you left
- 00:18:31.536 --> 00:18:33.471
- Was cowardly, inept and pitiful.
- 00:18:33.471 --> 00:18:36.741
- You should recognize that and say you're sorry.
- 00:18:36.741 --> 00:18:39.644
- Do you think we thought you're superman? no.
- 00:18:39.644 --> 00:18:43.014
- Are you fallible?
- 00:18:43.448 --> 00:18:44.349
- Yes. just say it. just say it.
- 00:18:44.349 --> 00:18:47.519
- And get up and lead.
- 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:49.588
- Because there's no one like your country.
- 00:18:49.588 --> 00:18:51.356
- You know why afghanistan fell? it's not america's fault.
- 00:18:51.356 --> 00:18:53.758
- You gave your sons, your daughters, your money,
- 00:18:53.758 --> 00:18:56.895
- Your treasure. you tried so hard. it's not your fault.
- 00:18:56.895 --> 00:18:59.764
- The fall of afghanistan is the fault of the afghan people. us?
- 00:18:59.764 --> 00:19:03.435
- We were too selfish to too wicked.
- 00:19:03.435 --> 00:19:07.572
- The only blame yourself with that one tactical error.
- 00:19:07.572 --> 00:19:10.809
- We caused it.
- 00:19:10.809 --> 00:19:11.743
- So get up. say you're sorry for that.
- 00:19:11.743 --> 00:19:13.545
- We should be responsible for what we did.
- 00:19:13.545 --> 00:19:15.814
- You'll be forgiven. you're just human.
- 00:19:15.814 --> 00:19:17.515
- We never thought you weren't anything different.
- 00:19:17.515 --> 00:19:19.651
- And get up and lead. because if you don't,
- 00:19:19.651 --> 00:19:21.953
- Russia or china will take your place.
- 00:19:22.687 --> 00:19:24.522
- And they aren't embarrassed when they do bad things,
- 00:19:24.522 --> 00:19:26.291
- They do them on purpose.
- 00:19:26.291 --> 00:19:27.459
- When americans do bad things, you did it by accident.
- 00:19:27.459 --> 00:19:30.395
- You don't want to do that.
- 00:19:30.395 --> 00:19:31.830
- You have a different heart.
- 00:19:31.830 --> 00:19:32.998
- So please, he said, when you see the americans say
- 00:19:32.998 --> 00:19:35.433
- Thank you for trying to save my country.
- 00:19:35.433 --> 00:19:37.869
- We forgive you for how you left to say you're sorry.
- 00:19:37.869 --> 00:19:39.838
- Just be normal.
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- But keep leading.
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- Because america is used by god.
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- This is a muslim, a muslim leader.
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- I'm little saleh, and now he's in exile.
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- So i don't mean
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- May or may not be part of your program,
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- But i just felt i wanted to share that.
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- I think it's part of our program,
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- Because we've had
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- Too many leaders
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- That say they've never been proud of our nation,
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- Or they're ashamed of our nation,
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- And the american people have to come back
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- To understanding god has blessed us.
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- He has shed his grace on this nation,
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- And we do have a role to play in the world.
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- Not because we're perfect.
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- We have to repent, acknowledge our weaknesses, our sins.
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- But if we will do that,
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- God will help us bring light and hope to another generation.
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- Yes, sir.
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- Thank you back. thank you. thank you sir.
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- May god bless the free burma rangers. thank you sir.
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