Best of 2024 Part 2

Best of 2024 (Part 2)

December 30, 2024 | 54:19

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Best of 2024 Part 2 | Best of 2024 (Part 2) | December 30, 2024

- and slate.
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- [voiceover] welcome to part two of the best of 2024.
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- in 2024, they're going, "oh my lord.
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It's about time."
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- the best is yet to come.
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- faith is really at the center of everything.
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Jesus is the truth.
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- he's faithful and he's good.
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- if it can help bring people to god, then let's do it.
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- [voiceover] get ready for some more of tbn's
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Best moments of the year.
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- let's hit it.
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- how cool is that?
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- this isn't a catholic thing, it's not a christian thing.
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It's a jesus thing.
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- we know him as jesus of nazareth.
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This is where he began much of his work.
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- god is real.
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- he loves you and he is going to work it out for your good.
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- we have this incredible gift to be able
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To share with the world.
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- got a line inside of my mind's like,
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"get up and praise the lord."
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- it glorifies the king of kings.
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- high five, boom.
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- [voiceover] let's come together
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To celebrate the power of faith
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And the message of the gospel.
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- when i watch programs like praise,
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I stay on mission for what the lord has called me to do.
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- there's just this idea that god is orchestrating this
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And that we all need each other.
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- when followers of yeshua work together,
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We're fulfilling the final wish of our redeemer.
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- we are in the greatest season where generations will come
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To christ as lord and savior.
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- because the gospel's going out further,
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More people are being encouraged to share their faith.
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- i would say that we're living in a time now
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Where people are desperate to leave their mark.
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- receive the spirit now, be people of new life,
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In and for the world.
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- it's just so exciting when you see
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That god will work through you.
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- that was the first picture in history
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That was left for us,
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For the world to know who he is.
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- it's about the ability to tell the story,
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To deliver the truth with understanding and power.
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- how do you do the impossible?
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You respond. - you respond, that's it.
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- to the voice of the lord. - right.
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- [voiceover] this is the best of 2024 on tbn.
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♪ even in the valley of the shadow of death ♪
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♪ i can take rest
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♪ 'cause the living god is living in my chest ♪
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♪ everyday i wake up
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- there is such power in your worship.
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- when we worship, it invokes the presence of god.
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- yes. - anywhere god comes in,
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He doesn't come to take sides.
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He comes to take over. - come on.
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- so when you invite him in
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And he sits there with you- - come on.
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- what better idea is there than let's worship
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For the family? - yeah.
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♪ you came to set us free
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- to the name of jesus.
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♪ say i am no longer bound
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- i remember when the surgeon said,
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"hey, we're gonna go in there.
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We're gonna get the cancer out,
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But your voice may be paralyzed."
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God, like he protected my voice
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And brought it back stronger.
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I'm gonna use it to glorify him.
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♪ i'm about to have a good day
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♪ good day
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♪ no matter what they say
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♪ the sun is shining down on me ♪
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♪ birds are singing praise
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♪ i'm gonna have a good day
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♪ in every single way
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♪ cause the god who
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- i would remember how i felt a few years ago
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Thinking that there is no way
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That he could be working any of this together for mike.
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There's no, and when that vocal finished,
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Him being like, "yes, i can."
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♪ now i'm standing up
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♪ look at what my father does
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♪ turning old things new
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♪ gray skies blue
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♪ i hear the church saying won't he do it ♪
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♪ i know he's got my back
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♪ that's why i'm singing that
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♪ i'm about to have a good day
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- this is my testimony "where did this song come from?"
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And they said, "well, it's been out.
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It's called goodness of god."
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And so i told my team, i was like, "well, guys,
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I wanna record this song.
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It's just a god thing
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Because no one can deny the goodness of god."
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♪ 'cause the god who made the universe ♪
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♪ knows me by my name
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♪ so it's a good day
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- who is jesus christ to you?
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- he's the core of everything.
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He's life itself.
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He changes your heart.
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Now, he didn't say, and now that you're a christian,
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You can no longer be in rock and roll.
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His plan was, now you're a christian,
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Go be in a rock and roll band, but follow me.
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♪ na na na na
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♪ na na na na na na na
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♪ na na na na
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♪ it's a good day
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♪ oh (audience cheers)
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(light electric guitar music)
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- somebody that i think of as a friend,
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Even though he's not, willie robertson.
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You're the ceo of duck commander.
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- i didn't realize- - of course i am.
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- that you had that.
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I didn't know that.
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- well, you've never watched "duck dynasty."
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So we had a show- - yeah, i have
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Watched "duck dynasty."
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Can we talk about what you're wearing today?
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Well, i was gonna wear,
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I had a button-up shirt and i left it,
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But obviously i knew you would be dapper as always.
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- listen, i've been put on several best dressed lists
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And now i feel like i've gotta keep it up.
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It's really a burden.
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I got this jacket off ebay.
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Nobody believes that, but it's true.
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Where do you get the crazy idea
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To write a children's book?
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- i mean it obviously took some months,
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But it actually started as like a children's clothing line.
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- what started as a children's clothing line?
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- [brandon] the-
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- levi. (laughs) - the book actually started-
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- that sounds like a joke.
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It's like, "my book started as a clothing line."
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(brandon and brittany laughing)
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- well, he was so cute and i was like,
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"man, maybe this is what the story needs to be about-
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- yeah. - is this little lion.
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So there's a lyric in the song
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That says "you've got a lion inside of your lungs.
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Get up and praise the lord."
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And really, it's like david, right,
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In the psalm saying like,
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It was a creative way of saying like,
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"bless the lord, oh my soul."
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Like you're commanding yourself.
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Like, "i've got a lion inside of my lungs."
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Like, "get up and praise the lord and now's the time.
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I do have a gift to bring to god."
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You're never too young to bring a gift to god.
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- i wrote a song called "brave," and the lyrics are,
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I mean, "be brave.
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Stand up for freedom.
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Stand for truth.
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Don't be afraid.
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You got a voice that you can use,
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So go on and speak out.
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The time is right now.
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If you want to keep that flame of liberty ablaze,
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Stand up and be brave."
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We're the land of the free,
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And the home of the brave.
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But why are we the land of the free?
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We're the land of the free because people were brave,
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And this is where people are getting,
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Bravery is standing up and speaking truth
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When you're persecuted for speaking truth.
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- i think the culture we live in today
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Is one that actually penalizes excellence,
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Penalizes hard work.
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You're taught to hide your achievements,
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Rather than to be proud of them.
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And that's what we're now passing on to our kids
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And their generation, across the country.
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Very different than the kinds of values
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That my parents imparted to me.
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I think the goal is to potentially,
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I believe we can just turn the tide to revive who we are.
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The pursuit of excellence in america
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Is something that i think we're longing to revive.
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- i had men coming up to me saying,
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"thank you, thank you for including us in the future."
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I was like, "you're welcome."
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I had women coming up and saying, "i need that t-shirt."
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So i thought, "everybody's happy."
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So i take a selfie with that t-shirt on in my car,
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And i just wrote "the future is male and female,"
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Because without male and female, there is no future.
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- in 26 years, patriotism has fallen from 71% to 39%.
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That's not even a generation.
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It's (fingers snapping) like that.
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When these ideas are attacked and challenged,
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It's incumbent on us
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To make a reasonable case for the proposition.
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(soft inspirational music)
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- the power of god raised christ jesus from the dead,
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And that put an image on a cloth,
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And that cloth testifies to that resurrection.
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This isn't fables or fairytales.
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What it recounts is credible.
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And what it recounts is that jesus rose from the dead.
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- people are running around the world.
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They're looking for answers.
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They're looking for happiness.
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You know what was so interesting to me?
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When i stood here before the shroud
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And saw the face of jesus,
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That was the first picture in history that was left for us,
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For the world to know who he is.
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And so many people don't know it's here.
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It's life-changing, and there's something about it,
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When you see it,
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There's an energy that comes from it.
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It is not a burial cloth.
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It's a resurrection cloth.
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- beautiful.
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- because if there wasn't a resurrection,
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There would be no image.
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That's the message of the shroud of turin.
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(light ethereal music)
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- jesus' resurrection is the starting point
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Of the new creation.
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The new creation is promised
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In the old testament again and again.
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"the earth shall be full of the glory of the lord
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As the waters cover the sea.
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Instead of the thorn
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Shall come up the myrtle," et cetera, et cetera.
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How does this new creation happen?
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Well, god comes in person.
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God deals with the problem of evil and corruption and death,
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And god in person launches the new creation.
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That's what it's about.
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So it's happening small, close up
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And personal in this one case,
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And then the risen jesus
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Becomes the agent of that new creation
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By breathing his spirit on his followers and saying,
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"okay, now, you get on and be new creation.
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Be that for and in the world, because it's now begun."
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(light inspirational music) (motor revs faintly)
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(suspenseful music)
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(upbeat music)
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- these peaks are in samaria,
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Long ago and now again, part of israel.
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Samaria was home to most of what we refer to
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As the ten lost tribes.
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Those tribes split from the united kingdom ruled by solomon
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Around 3,000 years ago.
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Two centuries later, those tribes were
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Conquered by assyria,
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Dispersed around the world and lost forever.
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(funky music)
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Samaria has enormous biblical importance
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And was restored under israeli control
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In the six-day war of 1967.
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(funky music)
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You know, mike, i've been all over israel so many times,
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Even before i started working for the government,
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And i've never been here, and i am so excited to be here.
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- [mike] amen.
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(gentle music)
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- so the bible says that when joshua built this,
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God did not want stones that were (speaking hebrew),
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Chopped up, because metal is an instrument of war,
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And he wanted altars to be instruments of peace.
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(gentle music)
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My bar mitzvah was in 1971,
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And it was at the western wall.
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When you're a bar mitzvah boy,
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Especially in the observant world,
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You read one of the sections of the torah.
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There's 54 of them.
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So the one that i read begins, "behold."
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(speaking hebrew)
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And god says, "behold, i have set before you today
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The blessing and the curse,
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And i've placed the blessing on mount gerizim,
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And i've placed the curse on har ebal."
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So of all the verses in the torah,
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This is the one i'm the most familiar with
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Because i practiced it for a year before my bar mitzvah.
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Joshua comes across the jordan river
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With the people of israel.
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He now is leading the jewish nation,
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Taking over for the greatest leader in history,
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The one who spoke to god face to face.
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There were other battles to be fought.
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You know, the philistines are there
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And there are plenty of other nations
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That had to be conquered to conquer the entirety of israel.
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But he stopped fighting and he went back here
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And he built an altar and he prayed to god
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And he wrote his own set of ten commandments.
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You're staring at an altar of joshua,
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Who began, like you, at west point, right?
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- right, as a fighter.
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- as a fighter.
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- as someone who graduated from west point
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And then had this incredible privilege
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To serve the united states as its most senior diplomat,
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I literally got up every morning reminding myself
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Of the task, the task of putting our nation
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In the right place so that we could create peace
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And prosperity with an understanding
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Of something that's bigger.
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It's god, right? joshua came to see that, right?
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He reconnected the jewish people with god in this place.
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(contemplative music)
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- [fighter] at some point he yells,
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He said, "your time's up.
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I'm not talking to you anymore. i'm counting down."
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What do you mean you're counting down?
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Then he was standing outside the safe room
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With an rpg on his shoulder, and i see him in front of me
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And he starts counting down.
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I say, "why are you counting?"
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"'cause if you don't come out, i'm gonna kill you
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And finish all of you off."
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He starts counting down and i remember around
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10 or 12 seconds asking him to stop,
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And i told him, "i surrender.
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I'm coming out."
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And then he says,
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"i want you to come out with your hands up,
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Open the door and drop the gun and kick it towards me."
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And i start to shake the door
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Pretending that i was coming out.
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And then i tell him, "if you promise not to shoot me
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Or my family, the way that you promised me,
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Why don't you put down the rpg?
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You don't need it."
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At some point, he says, "you're right."
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I remember he starts to put the rpg down.
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I simply opened the door, ran to him and shot him.
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- [interviewer] you charged him?
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- [fighter] i charged him. and that was the end of it.
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- do you know how many you were up against?
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Do you know how many you hit?
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You probably go over it in your head.
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- [fighter] i think i shot at least 10, 14 terrorists.
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- [interviewer] all of them in your home.
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- [fighter] yeah.
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- my husband is a real hero. he's a real hero.
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- imagine your life doesn't belong to you.
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You have no voice, no rights.
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You, your thoughts, your feelings, your
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Needs don't matter.
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Even though all you have ever known is pain,
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You still have dreams.
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You still have faith.
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You dare to believe that freedom is coming.
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And then one summer day, your prayer is answered
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When some 2,000 soldiers march into your city
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Declaring the end of slavery and the.
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That's what happened right here in galveston, texas
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On june 19th, 1865,
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A day that became known as juneteenth.
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- i see some people who've been through
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A great, great traumatic experience
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But are optimistic about their future,
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But really don't know what to expect.
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- you know, don, i gotta be honest with you,
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I'm just feeling these emotions that i did not anticipate
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Prior to us going on this tour.
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I can feel the presence of my ancestors.
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- [don] i've lived my whole life in dallas.
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But to me personally, i know of no sight more sacred
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Than where we are right now.
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- so inside the church, there is no longer a division,
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Yet we've divided it.
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I am not my ancestors,
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However, i have been shaped by what they experience.
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- good point.
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- we live in a society where i've been shaped
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By what the community i've lived in has done.
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- right, right.
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- and so i think for christians,
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It's acknowledging the true history.
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- that's right. - not pointing fingers,
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But acknowledging history and repenting.
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And i believe that is part of the story
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Of how healing can happen.
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- yes. - yeah.
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- the only way you get to see
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A bigger version of who god is,
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Is to put the different cultures together.
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Well, that's what jesus prayed for.
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Oneness, not diversity.
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- that's right.
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- you put people together,
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But it's gotta be more than just,
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We're occupying the same space,
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But we're actually sharing the same heart,
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Which is the heart of christ sacrificially for one another.
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- almighty god said, "all people have dignity.
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All people have honor."
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We serve a god that knows our name.
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Come on, y'all.
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We serve a god that knows every man,
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Every woman, and every child.
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(indistinct) preacher.
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And so we come here at this time
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To honor you, lord, and to say thank you
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That you greet us by name
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And you welcome us home by name.
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Whether we came from slaves
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Or whether we came from slave owners,
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We are united today.
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And so we say, thank you, father.
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What the devil meant for bad god has turned for good.
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In jesus' name, amen. (crowd applauding)
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(bright music)
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- this is a very special place.
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Tell us why.
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- the side over here is identified since the 4th century
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As the golgotha, skull hill, calvary.
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- the place of the skull.
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- [danny] the place of the crucifixion of jesus.
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- jesus christ was not murdered for what he did,
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He was murdered for what he said.
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He was murdered for his freedom of speech.
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Think about that.
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He didn't do anything, he didn't hurt anybody.
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He only helped people,
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But they didn't like what that guy had to say.
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I mean, he was saying things
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That challenged the religious elite,
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It challenged the government, challenged the empire.
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And so it's that way again today.
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- well, we're really at a crossroads.
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What kind of nation are we going to be?
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Our founders knew that there was a tendency
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To always move toward control,
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Growth, infiltration, and control.
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And they gave us a constitution
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That would help us to maintain our freedom.
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- this is for so many millions of people who feel silenced
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And who are told it's okay.
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"be you."
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"identify how you want." - your truth.
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- your truth,
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Unless you're a little more conservative.
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- at the last six, seven years, every movie i do,
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I shoot about four or five a year,
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I get another actor, i get a director,
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And a camera guy, a makeup artist,
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Whatever coming up to me,
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Pulls me aside like we're doing a drug deal
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Over in the backside of the studio,
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Saying to look around and go,
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"hey, thanks for being a voice for us."
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And i look, i go, "be a voice for yourself."
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- faith, family, freedom.
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When i think of "duck dynasty,"
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For me as a believer, especially,
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One of my big takeaways is at the end of every episode,
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Your family's around the table,
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You're sharing a meal, and you're praying.
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- we were gonna be true to our faith.
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We weren't gonna be able to separate that.
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And the thing was, people didn't know,
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And i say people like in the television business,
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They were like, "we're not sure this is gonna work."
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And so praise god it worked.
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- yeah, i think, willie,
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People were hungry for it, you know?
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To us, look, this is the kind of thing
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That america was founded on that made us great.
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(bright music)
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- we've got a song called "jesus music,"
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And it celebrates all the heroes
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That made jesus music before us.
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Just how thankful we are, that's...
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I was raised on steven curtis chapman, amy grant, michael w.
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- so many names and their song shaped my faith,
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And here i am making the music that made me who i am.
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I wanna celebrate that.
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And so it's a big thanks to all christian artists
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Who had an influence on us.
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(acoustic music)
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- when you do something nice for somebody,
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A random act of kindness,
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You never know how it's gonna change their life.
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Make love your focus.
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Jesus said, one new commandment, i give unto you
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That you love one another just as i have loved you.
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By this shall all men know that you're my disciple.
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♪ down in my soul
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♪ i got jesus music
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♪ turn up that beat
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- and so the bible says that they sat down for a meal
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And it said, hannah wept, she cries.
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And when she gets to the temple, she lets out
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All of her emotions before god.
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She says, oh lord of hosts,
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Look on the affliction of your servant.
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She walked away from the temple
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And her face was no longer sad.
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Mind you, her circumstance hadn't changed.
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- mm. - she was still
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Where she was like she was going back
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To a home where suffering was a possibility.
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- that's really good. - the difference
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Was she gave god her emotions and god gave her his joy.
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God can give us new emotions.
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That's what the fruit of the spirit is what, joy.
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♪ sound of freedom in my ears
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♪ i'm gonna sing it til the whole world hears ♪
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♪ that jesus music
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♪ crank up that jesus music
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- the devil's been trying to put you through it.
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I'm gonna tell you the only way i found to get through it.
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Come on y'all.
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♪ the devil's out to put me through it ♪
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♪ thank god for jesus music
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- sometimes it's good to take a look back
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At how far we've come from being in a small church,
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Singing our songs that we wrote that make no sense
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To moving to nashville and trying our best.
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And i never dreamed that we would make it
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To the grand ole opry.
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It's amazing.
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(upbeat music)
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(bright music)
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Without highlighting tbn's incredible global impact
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- [reporter] with a new state-of-the-art studio
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Advancing their mission,
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(inspiring music)
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(graphics whooshing)
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This is the impact of tbn,
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Made possible by god's guidance and your generosity.
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Thank you for partnering with us
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To reach the world for christ, one life at a time.
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(inspiring music intensifies)
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(triumphant music)
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(triumphant music intensifies)
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(graphics whooshing)
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- so, this story
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(airy music)
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Is my way of explaining
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The practical side of what we're discussing right now,
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The signs and secrets of multiplication.
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This is best shown
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Through the miracle from john chapter 6,
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Where yeshua fed a ton of people
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With just (chuckling) a little bit of food.
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We're taking a look at the multiplication
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When god takes the little
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That we have and does extraordinary things with it.
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(airy music intensifies) (birds twittering distantly)
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(graphics swishing)
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Remember that the messiah is a prophet greater than moses.
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He wants to show his disciples this
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And bring everything full circle.
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Fast forward to john 6.
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Yeshua's about to feed (people chattering distantly)
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This crowd in an unbelievable way.
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Just like the israelites were fed in the desert.
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But this time, it was going to be a little different.
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God's not about making our lives hard just for the kicks.
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He tests us to teach us and grow us.
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We know this is true
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Because when we take a look at the hebrew words here,
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We find a pretty incredible secret hidden in the language.
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The hebrew word for test
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That's used a lot in scripture is nisayon.
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This hebrew word specifically describes
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Trials or tests of faith.
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The israelites went through a nisayon
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When they had to rely on god for the mana in the desert.
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(graphics whooshing)
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The word nisayon is connected
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To the hebrew word nasa, which means to be lifted up.
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What does this point to?
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God doesn't put us through trials to push us down
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Or diminish us,
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He tests us nisayon so that we can be lifted up nasa.
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When we emerge on the other side of a difficult trial,
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We have even greater faith, we are even more capable,
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And we can take on even bigger challenges.
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Problems lead to promotion.
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This is the full circle moment.
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When yeshua multiplies the loaves and fish,
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He not only met their physical needs, yes, but he did it
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While also meeting their spiritual needs.
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Not only was he speaking to the crowd,
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Giving them words of life that nourished their souls,
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He showed that by trusting in him,
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They didn't have to worry about anything.
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They passed the test
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And were able to walk an even greater
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(dreamy music)
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Spiritual power. (graphics whooshing)
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(triumphant music) (graphics whooshing)
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(graphics whooshing)
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- and after the teaching was over, jeff went to him
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And called his name, put his arm around him,
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And said, "what was that about?
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Did you get a call?
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Somethin' happened at home?"
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And he said, "no."
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He said, "well, why did you leave the room
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Cryin' like that?
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That's not like you!"
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And he said, "i just realized, jeff, i've been suicidal,
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I've been depressed, i've been on medication.
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And the reason is because i've been chasing god
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For 40 years trying to make him happy with me.
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And i realized today that, (sobbing)
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And he wants me happy with him!
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It's not about striving to try to make him happy with us!
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And that's what we haven't done a good enough job with,
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We're not presenting the kind of joy that
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(guest chuckling)
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We should be presenting with what we got.
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If all this is true, and it is!
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Then the story we have to tell is so wonderful.
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(graphics whooshing)
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- but joy is different, right?
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Joy is that steel rod that holds you straight up,
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Even in the middle of chaos,
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In the middle of the busyness of a season perhaps.
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And so, i think rather than looking for happy,
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(soft music)
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Which is always great, we always wanna be happy.
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But being determined, right?
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To just have that joy.
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I mean, the bible's pretty clear
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That joy is where strength comes from.
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Right?
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And joy is, it comes from him!
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Right?
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It comes from my relationship with him,
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Not all my circumstances lining up, right?
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- exactly!
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(graphics whooshing)
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- i mean, for 40 years, there weren't 40 days
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That i didn't take multiple puffs of a rescue inhaler,
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I slept with it under my pillow.
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I played basketball with it in my sock.
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I was code blue!
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At 13, i thought i was takin' my last breath.
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July 2nd, 2016,
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I prayed a bold prayer.
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Lord, would you heal my lungs?
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(soft triumphant music)
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I had not touched an (chuckling) inhaler for.
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- from that day to this day,
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God did an unbelievable miracle.
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Isn't every breath a miracle?
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- hey, yo.
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- any single moment you believe anything coming from you,
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Who you are, what you did, what was done to you,
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Or what you can do is greater than who he is,
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What he's done, what he's doing,
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And what he will do for you, that's pride.
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And the opposite of pride is humility.
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- [sheila] wow.
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- humility is what?
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Utter dependency on the finished work of christ
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For absolutely everything.
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- if the holy spirit can get jesus out of the grave,
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He can get you out of anything, and i'm thinking of things
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That people are facing right now.
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Devastating situations,
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But the holy spirit can get you out of anything.
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- shame, condemnation, trauma, drama,
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Brokenness, divorce, infirmity, depression, anxiety,
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Fear, confusion, discord, a darkness.
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Whatever it may be, the same holy spirit
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That took him out of the grave will take you
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Of whatever circumstance you're in right now.
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That's what he does.
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He's the expert, he raised jesus from the dead.
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- god has to break your heart
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Before you can be compassionate.
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Before i had cancer years ago, i was just a hard drive
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And visit every night and build your church,
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Not always aware of the hurting people around me.
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And when i came back from that, i was totally changed.
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God broke my heart.
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He gave me a sense, to the sense
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When i was in the presence of people who were hurting,
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I knew it, i could sense it.
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And i think that most people
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Who go through something like this would tell you that,
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And that's why the bible says,
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"you comfort others with the comfort
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Where with you yourself have been comforted."
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You learn what it's like to feel compassion,
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And then you want to be a person of compassion
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Because you see other people hurting as you've been hurting.
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- don't let go of your faith.
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And when you feel like it's slipping from your fingers,
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That's where we need people around us
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That can believe for us
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I've treated people in horrible depressions
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Who were going to kill themselves,
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And i step in and i say, "trust me, trust me.
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This is going to get better."
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And they've had to tell me, "i can't believe that.
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You've got to believe it for me."
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And sometimes just like the guys that took the guy
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To get healed and lowered him through, you know,
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Through the roof to jesus,
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Depend on somebody else's faith when you don't have it.
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But know this, god is the one, he says,
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That holds us in our faith even when it's slipping.
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- didn't you say to me in a previous conversation,
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I forget exact the line, as a christian
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You have to respond when called.
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- sure.
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- you responded when called, and when your mom and dad
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Started this network so many years ago,
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They responded when called.
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God knew all this would happen at this point in time.
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You didn't, i didn't.
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I didn't know we'd be sitting here.
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- how do you do the impossible?
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You respond. - you respond. that's it.
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- to the voice of the lord. - right.
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(upbeat bluesy music)
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- i'm not an expert or a historian.
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I'm just the son of a social studies teacher
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With an appreciation for the people who built our country.
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So i thought it might be fun
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To share a few of the stories i've written over the years
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About some of the most impressive americans
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I've ever read about.
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And along the way, i thought i'd take a trip
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To our nation's capital, not too far from where i grew up,
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To reacquaint myself with the memorials
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And the monuments that have been built
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To honor the people in the stories you're about to hear.
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In other words, it's a field trip,
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And i'm glad you're along for the ride.
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Assuming the old truck makes it.
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(engine cranking)
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It's gonna be fine.
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(engine cranks)
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This is "something to stand for."
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A us merchant ship was missing,
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21 crewmen were being held hostage,
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And the libyan consulate had been brazenly attacked.
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Enough was enough.
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- do it, james.
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Send in o'bannon.
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Do it fast, do it right.
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- and keep it quiet.
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And with that,
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The president of the united states
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Launched one of the most famous top secret operations
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In naval history.
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It was a controversial decision,
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But when the dust settled,
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The president's actions were deemed constitutional,
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Just as his secretary of state predicted.
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And his secretary of state would know.
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He had not only read the constitution several times,
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He had written it,
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Not too long after the president
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Had written the declaration of independence.
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Few people today remember levi lincoln,
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The attorney general who opposed the covert mission,
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But you might recall president thomas jefferson,
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And his secretary of state, james madison,
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The two elected officials
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Who finally decided to stop negotiating with terrorists
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And start fighting back.
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Which is precisely what they did,
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With a little help from an intrepid lieutenant
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Named presley o'bannon
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And the small team of elite fighters under his command.
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Eight handpicked warriors
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Who prevailed in their first engagement on foreign soil,
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Leading an assault force
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Across a sprawling african desert to the shores of tripoli,
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Where they breached the walls of a mighty fortress
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And killed a gang of islamic terrorists
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Called the barbary pirates.
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So began america's war on terror,
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With a covert action,
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Made possible by a small group of highly trained men
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Who took an oath to fight for right and freedom,
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And to keep their honor clean.
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The same group that's still at it today,
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The few, the proud,
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The marines. (inspirational music fades)
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- you know, many people know, but some don't,
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That the last supper was actually a passover seder,
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And that's why this is so significant.
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We can't fully understand what jesus' hebrew name, yeshua,
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What he was doing with his disciples
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As they gathered around the table
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On this very special evening in history.
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Passover reminds us of the exodus,
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The coming forth out of egypt,
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But it also reminds us that what god did in the past
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Is not just in the past.
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The hebrew word for the holidays
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Is the word (speaking in hebrew)
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Or the word (speaking in hebrew),
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And it literally means a circle.
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Why is there this connection between holiday and a circle?
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Because what god did in the past, he wants to do again
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And again and again in our life,
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Passover is not just a mere remembrance,
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It is meant to be a recurrence,
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Because god is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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And just like he brought redemption in the days of moses,
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Just like he brought salvation through jesus, our messiah,
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And freedom as a result,
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So god wants to do something powerful
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In your life right now,
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This evening, at this time,
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Because this is literally on the biblical calendar,
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A season and a month of miracles.
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So let's believe god to do something miraculous
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And supernatural.
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(gentle instrumental music)
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- early in the journey,
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We were sitting around the table at your house in lajatico,
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And i asked you what your expectation was.
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And you said something like, "i don't know."
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What we came to find out is your answer was really not,
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"i don't know," but more about...
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"i want to experience it one day at a time."
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- [andrea] i said it well.
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I don't know,
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Because actually now i realize
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I didn't quite understand what i was getting into.
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Today, i can say that the kilometers seem longer
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Than they actually are.
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At the same time, we have lived very beautiful experiences,
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Visited wonderful places,
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Which i, as an italian, did not know of.
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- regarding this journey, it was supposed to be just a walk.
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No, it's true, like a walk.
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But immediately afterwards, i realized that this walk
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Crossed the path of many pilgrims
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Who had traveled it for faith
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To meet the precepts of the gospel.
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I thought this journey of mine
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Could and should also become a sort of spiritual pilgrimage.
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(bright dramatic music)
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The importance that this journey,
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Somewhat strange, peculiar,
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Can inspire all those who want to listen to our message.
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- there are certain hours during the day,
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Morning or very late, you know,
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When you really arrive in a place.
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Few days ago, we arrive in a tower
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That andrea has in his heart
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That the corfe was unbelievable.
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We didn't know such a beautiful place existing italy.
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Proud to show now to the world,
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To spread the news about the beauty
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And the spiritual, you know, journey we are doing.
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And if you will ask what is gift to us, i will answer it.
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Time to reflect.
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♪ and i will call upon your name ♪
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♪ and keep my eyes above the waves ♪
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♪ when oceans rise
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♪ my soul will rest in your embrace ♪
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♪ for i am yours and you are mine ♪
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♪ ooh
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- [interviewer] taya, when did you start knowing
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That you really like to sing a live?
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- [taya] apparently i was three years old
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And i used to run around the house.
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Mum would always say that i was just
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With a song in my heart.
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And then she politely says
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That i have never been quiet since.
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♪ where feet may fail and fear surrounds me ♪
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♪ you've never failed and you won't start now ♪
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♪ so i will call upon your name ♪
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- so are you happy about your song?
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- oceans?
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- yeah. - yes.
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- did you like it immediately, or?
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- i did.
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I actually, when we recorded it in the studio,
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I was just meeting everybody
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And they told me i was just in to be background vocals.
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And sang i one song and then they said,
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"can you come back tomorrow?"
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And i only told two people
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That i sang on the record in case the song didn't make it.
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- it's a very beautiful song.
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- thank you.
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- and your voice was sweet.
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- yeah. yeah.
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- you're very kind.
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♪ spirit lead me where my trust is without borders ♪
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♪ let me walk upon the waters
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♪ wherever you would call me
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♪ take me deeper than my feet could ever wander ♪
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♪ and my faith will be made stronger ♪
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♪ in the presence of my savior
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(bright music)
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- [presenter] and now your host.
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Here they come.
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- welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
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We want you to join in with us
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As we lift our hearts, hands and voices.
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Let's give him a great big praise offering tonight
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Just as we get underway and tell him how much we love him.
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- my husband, dave, and i watched tv,
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And from the very beginning, paul and and jen,
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They were truly pioneers.
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It was quite exciting really because they had a vision
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That the gospel could be shared through television,
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- well over a hundred souls
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Have received jesus christ as savior.
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It is glorious beyond words what the holy spirit is doing
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Through spirit field christian television.
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- it was always inspiring to watch tv.
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And we thought it was wonderful that so many people
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Were coming to the lord and we really admired them.
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Dave had a generous heart and was glad to give.
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He started a-
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- ministry of personal evangelism
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And he was pretty much (reverent music)
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A man on a mission.
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There's no way of knowing how many people he witnessed to.
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I'm sure that he had a warm welcome
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For the lord that he loved and served.
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- i couldn't believe it. it is so fantastic.
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- oh, look at that.
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- [dave] there it is. there it is.
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It's not his, it's yours, it's yours.
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- since he has been gone, i have been giving,
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Because i wanna continue dave's legacy.
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- jesus is on the move in the continent of africa.
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(audience cheering)
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- matt and lori, they have done just an excellent job
00:45:53.250 --> 00:45:56.720
Of carrying on with tbn and by adding channels
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In different countries,
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So many more people are hearing the gospel.
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It's a privilege to be a partner.
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When you watch tbn, it's all good news.
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(tense music)
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- it's saturday morning and i'm asleep and my phone rings
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At 7:03 a.m. on october 7th, and it's my producer.
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Straight shot.
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I'm running a few red lights on the way there.
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I get to the expressway and the rocket fire is continuing.
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And this is really an eerie feeling
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Because i have to make a decision.
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Do we keep heading south?
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Do i call the team and tell them it's too heavy,
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The fire, or do we keep going?
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(solemn music)
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- it's hard in the moment. i know it takes you back.
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But you keep going, right? 'cause you're strong.
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- i'm trying to, i'm trying to.
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- how in the world did israel pull off
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Such an astonishing and miraculous rescue?
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I'm here at ground zero of these political protests
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That are swelling week after week
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As tens of thousands of israelis turn out to protest
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Netanyahu not making a deal at all costs.
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- [protester] but he is not recognizing his responsibility.
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- my exclusive interview
00:47:28.612 --> 00:47:30.080
With former israeli prime minister naftali bennett.
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- the palestinian authority today
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Is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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- the iranian regime launches an historic
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And unprecedented attack on the state of israel.
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And if there were ever a need
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For a program like this, it would be now.
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The garden tomb where so many christians over the years,
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So many christians have come to spend time in this garden.
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It's where the most intense fighting
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Has happened in gaza over the last two months.
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And then the general told us
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Their headquarters were turned into cages to keep hostages.
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Let's go in.
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You know, we're well over 120 days
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And they're still being held somewhere in these tunnels.
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- so iran has an extraordinary amount
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Of american blood on its hands and yet biden
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Has taken actions to allow iran to have more money.
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- i saw things i never thought i'd see in my life.
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- the governor and i sat down
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With israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu.
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The reason we're here in this particular community
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Right along the border, and you can just see
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Where the bombs, the bullets, just destroyed this community.
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Your reaction, just walk me through.
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I just heard you say it's a vision of hell.
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- [boris] yeah, it is.
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- joel, we have a siren going off here.
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We'll have to cut this interview and come back to you.
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- [joel] oh my goodness. all right, be safe.
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- the lord will supernaturally comfort and heal
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Every israeli, palestinian, and lebanese family
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That has been traumatized by this bitter, brutal war.
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(dramatic music)
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♪ then i seize the light
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♪ you see the victory
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- if you look at the new testament,
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Jesus came to bring the kingdom of god here.
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Right? he's already ruling, he's already reigning.
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And he preached the kingdom of god.
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He came to preach the kingdom,
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So let him who have ears hear, right?
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And so what is the kingdom of god?
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It's righteousness, peace, and joy.
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And so we can live in that because it's here.
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It's here for us.
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If we have the ears to hear and the eyes to see.
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♪ and i fight, i fight on my knees ♪
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♪ with my hands takes me high
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♪ oh yeah, the battle belongs to ♪
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♪ and every fear, i lay at your feet ♪
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♪ i'll sing through the night
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♪ oh god, the battle belongs to you ♪
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- that's what the bible is all about.
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The bible was written so that you could know god,
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So you could experience god in your life
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And be with him forever in heaven.
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And as a christian then, if you are a follower of jesus,
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To take as many people with you to heaven as possible.
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That's what this program is about.
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That's what this network is about.
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It is proclaiming the good news of jesus christ
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So that you could know him
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And experience his love, his grace.
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♪ when all i see are the ashes
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♪ you see the beauty
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♪ thank you god
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♪ when all i see is a cross
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♪ god, you see the empty tomb
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- you are going through a battle, the
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Battle belongs to god.
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If you're going through a storm, you can calm it.
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If you feel like you're dead inside,
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God raises dead people from dead to life.
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So god is with you.
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He's emmanuel.
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He will never leave you, never forsake you.
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♪ battle belongs to you
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♪ and every fear, i lay at your feet ♪
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♪ i'll sing through the night
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♪ oh god, the battle belongs to you ♪
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- in difficult times, more than ever,
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You need to have a battle cry of faith,
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Create a sound of victory.
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Yes, this problem is big, but i know my god is bigger.
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A sound of praise.
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Lord, thank you that you're making ways
00:51:42.933 --> 00:51:45.035
Where i don't see a way.
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How about a sound of abundance?
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Not i'll never get ahead.
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This has done me in.
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Oh father, thank you that blessings are chasing me down.
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Surely goodness and mercy is following me.
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God responds to faith.
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When he hears you speak in victory
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In the midst of the trouble bragging on his greatness
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When you're surrounded by enemies,
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Praising him despite obstacles that look permanent,
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That's when he'll step in
00:52:10.827 --> 00:52:12.362
And you'll see supernatural healing.
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The problems suddenly turn around, the
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Right people show up.
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When you have this battle cry of faith,
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God will show himself strong in your life.
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♪ and every fear, i lay at your feet ♪
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♪ i'll sing through the night
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♪ oh god, the battle belongs to you ♪
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♪ yes, it does
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♪ o god, the battle belongs to you ♪
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♪ he is enough
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- we have this incredible gift
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To be able to share with the world this gift of music,
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Which i still think is the most powerful
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Universal language in the world.
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(singer in glasses speaking in foreign language)
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- one of the things that i feel like god has told me
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Is i'm just supposed to tell the world that he loves them.
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People still feel like they have to earn it
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Or they have to do this or do that.
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(singer in glasses speaking in foreign language)
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- and i love doing that.
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I love sharing the hope of the world with people.
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♪ hallelujah
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♪ hallelujah
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Best of 2024 (Part 2)

December 30, 2024 | 54:19

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