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Jim Scudder, Jr.: InGrace

Jim Scudder Jr. - God's Priceless Treasures (Part 1)

January 4, 2025 | S

Jim Scudder Jr. - God's Priceless Treasures (Part 1)
Jim Scudder Jr. - God's Priceless Treasures (Part 1)
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Jim Scudder, Jr.: InGrace | Jim Scudder Jr. - God's Priceless Treasures (Part 1) | January 4, 2025
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  • Jim scudder: there was an old rancher named cebe tate, and he
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  • Said that there was a panther that was killing his livestock.
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  • So he took his gun and went into the swamp and he said, "i'm
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  • Gonna take out that panther."
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  • And there he is.
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  • Jim: i've always dreamed of finding treasure, and the place
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  • That you would most likely find treasure is in florida.
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  • But the older i get, the more i realize that god has already
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  • Given us priceless treasure.
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  • Welcome to this "ingrace" series as we take four families on
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  • Adventures to four places in
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  • Florida to search out the riches
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  • From the bible about raising kids:
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  • "god's priceless treasures."
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  • Jim: we are in florida today, one of my favorite states.
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  • I was actually born in florida, and there's so much to do here.
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  • In this series, "god's treasures, florida," we're gonna
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  • Explore four parts of florida, and we're gonna explore
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  • Parenting in this series.
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  • How can parents do the job in the day that we live?
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  • What are some of the things that they need to watch for?
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  • How can they be the best parents god want them to be?
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  • This is gonna be an adventure.
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  • We're gonna be going into some beautiful crystal clear rivers.
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  • We're gonna be going out into the ocean.
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  • We're gonna be kayaking.
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  • We're gonna be seeing manatees.
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  • This is gonna be an amazing, amazing series, and i'm glad
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  • That you're coming along for the ride.
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  • Jim: our first stop in the series is florida's
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  • Forgotten coast.
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  • It's sparsely populated, surprisingly woodsy, and
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  • Very beautiful.
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  • We meet up with the brown family at a house that their
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  • Relative owned.
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  • What amazing views.
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  • The browns, michael, nicole, aiden, and hunter, are featured
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  • On the youtube channel, "fishers with faith," and they love
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  • Fishing, so it was up at dawn to see what we could catch.
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  • Right outside the house is the saint george sound, boasting
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  • Some of the best shallow saltwater fishing in the world.
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  • The brown boys were beyond excited.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: what do you think about dads and parents that just give
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  • The kid a phone or an ipad or a tv and they
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  • Just watch that all the time?
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  • Michael brown: dangerous, especially today.
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  • Dangerous, dangerous.
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  • When my kids--if they're doing anything, if they're watching
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  • Tv, whatever they're doing, when they say, "dad, i wanna go
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  • Outside," whether i'm tired or not, i get up and i go.
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  • I say, "let's go."
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  • Jim: we also interviewed mark and nina laskus in this series.
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  • We'll feature their family's adventure to the dry tortugas
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  • Later, but i was impressed by some of the things that they had
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  • Learned in raising their three amazing boys.
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  • Jim: we can be so distracted by our phones, right, devices, so
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  • You make a conscious effort with the--when the boys are around
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  • To have that communication going.
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  • Shut off the phone, turn it off.
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  • Have those times of talking.
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  • I think that's the key.
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  • That's how it was with my sister and i.
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  • You've decided, and it's actually
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  • A school rule that your--
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  • Mark laskus: it's one of the best rules.
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  • Jim: and a lot of public schools are actually looking at this,
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  • But is that--how important is it that your kids don't
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  • Have phones?
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  • Like, why would you not want them to have phones?
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  • Mark: they're not ready for it, first of all, they're not
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  • Mature enough.
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  • Jim: and it's not the phone that the problem;
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  • It's all the other stuff on it.
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  • Mark: anything that's on it.
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  • And the very least, it's a-- it's a robber of time for sure,
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  • But it can be a pitfall.
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  • I've seen it be a pitfall in so many lives, and it's a work in--
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  • Even for myself.
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  • I--she helps me so much with that because there's always
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  • Something to do, but our kids are only here with us for so
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  • Long, and i really do feel that the devil tries so hard to,
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  • Whatever--it may not even be something bad, but it'll be
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  • Something that will just take-- take that time away.
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  • It's critical to have a relationship with the lord
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  • First, but then with each of the kids.
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  • Jim: spending time with your kids is one of the most
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  • Important parenting tips that i can give you.
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  • Every moment you spend focused on them is money in the bank.
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  • Jim: i like to do this with kids; who made this?
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  • Because you've got to reinforce that today because they're
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  • Hearing, even when whenever you're careful and you're
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  • Careful what they watch, they're gonna still hear people say.
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  • Millions of years we evolved and if you don't reinforce that,
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  • Every chance i get with the grandkids, with the church kids,
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  • I'll ask them that.
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  • Who made that?
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  • Just so they can say it, they can hear themselves say it,
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  • 'cause it doesn't make any sense to say that we're here by
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  • Accident and then--and then they don't--then they have, you
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  • Know, a bully or they are starting to get depressed and so
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  • They start thinking suicidal thoughts.
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  • If they don't realize that i was put here on purpose by god and i
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  • Can't just do--i can't just take my life or, you know, to me
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  • That's key.
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  • Not just for that, but for lots of things in life to say i'm
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  • Here for a reason.
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  • Michael: with my dad, my dad did the same thing with me.
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  • He would always, we would go out there and just in the middle of
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  • It and fish would bite and he would start talking about
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  • Scripture and the lord and he would start sharing.
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  • So i try to do that with my boys.
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  • And i got something good, good, good.
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  • Holy smokes, this thing's taking--
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  • Jim: i got a little something.
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  • I don't know if you're gonna be able to get that in.
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  • I don't know what that is.
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  • Jim: when you catch a big fish like this, don't ever use a
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  • Little snoopy pole like he has.
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  • Michael: i was anticipating small, small red trout.
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  • Oh, my gear popped.
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  • Oh, there it goes.
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  • Jim: what makes you watch that?
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  • Hey, bob.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Michael: but you wanna hear me talk again.
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  • [laughing]
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  • Look at that face.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Michael: oh, we got that.
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  • Please tell me we got that on film.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Michael: the most important thing with us with the kids is
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  • That they know where they're going when they die.
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  • The gospel, as soon as they could even talk, we started
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  • Putting words into their mouth like believe and trust and
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  • Things like that.
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  • Karen scudder: building that foundation.
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  • Michael: yes, yeah, and then once we get that and we know
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  • That they're saved, when they know that they're saved, that's
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  • Such a joy knowing that if the rapture was to happen right now,
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  • Which would be awesome, then we know that we're gonna be in
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  • Heaven with them forever.
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  • What's the point in having good kids and having great kids?
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  • Your kids are so great and they did this and they did that and
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  • They're good at golf or they're good at this or they're good at
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  • That and they die and they go to hell and they're separated from
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  • God because they don't know the the gospel?
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  • They don't know--
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  • Nicole brown: and they're still sinners.
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  • Jim: and i think a lot of parents are blind
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  • To what their kids--to the kids' sin or they really defend
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  • Their kids too much or "my kid--"
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  • The teacher says your child lied.
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  • "oh, my son or my daughter would never ever lie," you know, it's
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  • Like, well, don't say that.
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  • Michael: give 'em time.
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  • Jim: yeah, yeah.
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  • Michael: give 'em time, they definitely will.
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  • Jim: kids need a lot of encouragement.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: dotting these shores are
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  • Amazing historic lighthouses.
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  • We stopped in to see the crooked river lighthouse and museum.
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  • This was built in 1895.
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  • It is 103 feet tall.
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  • Boy: i'm scared.
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  • Jim: oh, wow.
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  • Oh, guys, look at--look at the view.
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  • Yeah, this is amazing, isn't it?
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  • Whoa.
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  • Jim: the boys scampered up the 128 steps without losing
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  • Their breath.
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  • Me?
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  • Well, let's just say i may have taken a couple breaks on
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  • The way.
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  • What an impressive view up here.
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  • Although the need for these lighthouses has diminished, the
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  • Biblical concept of light being our guide is still
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  • Very important.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: this is a ship.
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  • It's kind of a play ship, right?
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  • But the lighthouse that we were just in guides the ships in and
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  • Out of the harbor and that's to keep the ship from crashing into
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  • The rocks, right?
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  • Michael: you know that it's just like the bible says.
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  • The bible says that "the word is a lamp unto our feet, a light
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  • Unto our path, and it guides our path."
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  • When we read the word of god, it lights up our feet.
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  • We can know where we're going.
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  • If you wanna know the will of god, you gotta read the word of
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  • God to know the will of god, got it?
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  • So when you read it, god will instruct us in how we should
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  • Live our lives and what we should do.
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  • Jim: i strongly feel that our children need both rules
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  • And freedom.
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  • I asked the browns and another family we feature in this
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  • Series, the reyeses, about how to balance these two things.
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  • Nicole: i think it's really hard at times just because you really
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  • Have to know who they're around, you have to know their families.
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  • It's not just the parents because, you know, if there's
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  • Other family members living in a certain house you wanna--you
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  • Really wanna know who they are and i think the one thing that
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  • Has been a blessing to us is that we are kind of submerged in
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  • Our church family, so you kinda have that sense of community
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  • Already so you don't worry as much.
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  • So that makes it a little easier for us, i think, to have that
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  • Church community and that church family and to be able to entrust
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  • In them.
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  • Lauren reyes: if the church doors are open, we try
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  • To be there and i feel like as our kids have gotten older,
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  • I feel like we've realized the importance of having people
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  • Around them.
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  • Like, when they're two, everything mom and dad says is
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  • The best thing in the world.
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  • But then they turn 12 and things that their coaches and
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  • Teachers say to them, when they back us up, it means more to our
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  • Kids than us saying it to them.
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  • So i think that's something we've really realized in the
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  • Last couple of years as we're hitting these teenage years, the
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  • Importance of surrounding yourself with like-minded people
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  • Who are saying the same things to your kids that you are trying
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  • To teach them because that means so much more.
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  • Michael: you don't want to be that helicopter parent, but at
  • 00:11:36.141 --> 00:11:37.710
  • The same time you don't, like you said, you don't, you know,
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  • You want them to be able to interact and go with kids and
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  • Stuff like that, you know.
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  • Karen: that was something you shared with me because of the
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  • Job that you had as a firefighter and then when you
  • 00:11:47.953 --> 00:11:50.990
  • Became a mother and you had seen so many awful things that you
  • 00:11:50.990 --> 00:11:55.594
  • Were like, "whoa, i can't be a helicopter mom but i know what's
  • 00:11:55.594 --> 00:11:58.264
  • Gonna happen if he does this."
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  • Nicole: yeah, and so you try to warn them, like, "hey, if you--
  • 00:11:59.865 --> 00:12:03.035
  • If you jump off of that you're probably gonna break something
  • 00:12:03.035 --> 00:12:05.671
  • And so--" but you still have to let them learn and figure it out
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  • On their own to an extent, but you try to warn them at the same
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  • Time but if they're gonna be hard headed they're gonna learn
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  • Tough lessons in the meantime.
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  • Jim: the small town coastal community of carrabelle is quiet
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  • And uncrowded, reminiscent of how all of florida used to look.
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  • But even in these rural areas, crime is still a real problem.
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  • Aiden was thrilled to arrest his brother hunter and throw him
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  • Into what ripley's believe it or not called the world's smallest
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  • Police station.
  • 00:12:40.806 --> 00:12:42.508
  • Male: and action.
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  • Aiden brown: you're going to jail.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: i told the boys that another fact that almost no one
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  • Knows is that the florida panhandle is the world's leading
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  • Manufacturer of panhandles.
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  • And they believed me.
  • 00:13:08.434 --> 00:13:11.136
  • Someone also thought that this was the location of the original
  • 00:13:11.136 --> 00:13:14.373
  • Garden of eden as four rivers, including the apalachicola
  • 00:13:14.373 --> 00:13:18.544
  • River, flow out of the apalachicola basin.
  • 00:13:18.544 --> 00:13:23.349
  • Something that i read about, there's somebody some years ago
  • 00:13:23.349 --> 00:13:28.554
  • That up this river said he thought that this might be the
  • 00:13:28.554 --> 00:13:32.024
  • Garden of eden because there was a place that four rivers flowed
  • 00:13:32.024 --> 00:13:36.261
  • From and we know the bible does talk about that being the garden
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  • Of eden.
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  • Female: well, mr. callaway, you say that this is the garden
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  • Of eden.
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  • There it is.
  • 00:13:45.604 --> 00:13:46.972
  • Well, now, according to the bible, the garden of eden must
  • 00:13:46.972 --> 00:13:49.808
  • Have trees pleasant to the sight, and it must have gold and
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  • Onyx stone, and a river of four heads.
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  • Is this one of the rivers?
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  • Rev. e.e. callaway: this is the pishon river, which is mentioned
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  • In the 2nd chapter of genesis when it says, "the river went
  • 00:14:01.186 --> 00:14:05.624
  • Out of eden to water the garden and parted and became into
  • 00:14:05.624 --> 00:14:08.594
  • Four heads."
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  • Jim: but of course we know it's--it wasn't here.
  • 00:14:09.928 --> 00:14:11.296
  • It'd be over in the middle east, but it did lead me to think
  • 00:14:11.296 --> 00:14:14.633
  • About what's behind us, which is an old dilapidated building
  • 00:14:14.633 --> 00:14:20.639
  • Probably used for the fishing industry and a beautiful river
  • 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:25.811
  • And everything's beautiful, but then we have like this curse,
  • 00:14:25.811 --> 00:14:29.348
  • This rundown, rust, falling apart and i think it's kind of
  • 00:14:29.348 --> 00:14:34.520
  • Like what our life can be, is we have these problems in life.
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  • We have the curse.
  • 00:14:38.891 --> 00:14:41.894
  • What is it that has caused death and disease and sorrow
  • 00:14:41.894 --> 00:14:45.597
  • And suffering?
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  • It's sin.
  • 00:14:46.932 --> 00:14:48.300
  • It's the original sin and it's sin that we do, but there's a
  • 00:14:48.300 --> 00:14:51.003
  • Remedy for sin.
  • 00:14:51.003 --> 00:14:52.404
  • Isn't that wonderful?
  • 00:14:52.404 --> 00:14:53.739
  • That we can reset the world back to the eden state, you know,
  • 00:14:53.739 --> 00:14:57.443
  • Where everything was good and we didn't have these problems and
  • 00:14:57.443 --> 00:15:02.247
  • That one came into the world to pay for sin on a cross and that
  • 00:15:02.247 --> 00:15:08.520
  • We can be restored not, you know, immediately.
  • 00:15:08.520 --> 00:15:11.824
  • We're still going to be getting older and having these aches and
  • 00:15:11.824 --> 00:15:16.662
  • Pains but immediately our sin problem is solved because we are
  • 00:15:16.662 --> 00:15:22.701
  • Given the righteousness of jesus when we put our faith in him.
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  • Jim: those brown boys love the water, so we took them on the
  • 00:15:27.506 --> 00:15:31.343
  • Wacissa river.
  • 00:15:31.343 --> 00:15:32.778
  • The weather was partly cloudy and warm, about 85 degrees, and
  • 00:15:32.778 --> 00:15:36.915
  • The wacissa, like many in florida, are fed by underground
  • 00:15:36.915 --> 00:15:40.252
  • Springs, keeping the crystal clear water a nice and cool 70
  • 00:15:40.252 --> 00:15:44.823
  • Degrees, year-round.
  • 00:15:44.823 --> 00:15:46.525
  • We kayaked and boated to the big blue spring and jumped in to
  • 00:15:46.525 --> 00:15:50.662
  • Explore its 40 foot depths.
  • 00:15:50.662 --> 00:15:53.332
  • And that's when we found out that the wacissa river is also
  • 00:15:53.332 --> 00:15:57.436
  • Home to alligators and snakes.
  • 00:15:57.436 --> 00:16:00.706
  • Karen decided that she's gonna keep guard in the kayak.
  • 00:16:00.706 --> 00:16:05.444
  • Karen: i won't be going in there.
  • 00:16:05.444 --> 00:16:07.079
  • [laughing]
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jim: with our kids, we were trying to be real, you know,
  • 00:16:20.392 --> 00:16:27.399
  • 'cause your kids--kids spot a phony really quick and
  • 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.435
  • Really fast.
  • 00:16:30.435 --> 00:16:31.770
  • And so that was our attempt was to say, first of all, we're--we
  • 00:16:31.770 --> 00:16:35.440
  • Want to serve the lord and we're--that's our life, and
  • 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.310
  • That's our heart.
  • 00:16:38.310 --> 00:16:39.645
  • But we also want to be, like, we make sure that we're not saying
  • 00:16:39.645 --> 00:16:43.515
  • One thing and then doing something else because no matter
  • 00:16:43.515 --> 00:16:46.518
  • How hard you think you're hiding something, you're not.
  • 00:16:46.518 --> 00:16:50.155
  • These kids know.
  • 00:16:50.155 --> 00:16:51.590
  • And then just be there, love them.
  • 00:16:51.590 --> 00:16:55.194
  • Karen: and you gotta have fun too.
  • 00:16:55.194 --> 00:16:56.762
  • Jim: have fun.
  • 00:16:56.762 --> 00:16:58.197
  • Be serious, have fun, involve them in whatever the issues are,
  • 00:16:58.197 --> 00:17:02.267
  • You know, you're going through.
  • 00:17:02.267 --> 00:17:03.969
  • If you have loved them and showed that, that you're putting
  • 00:17:03.969 --> 00:17:07.639
  • Them very high in your priority list, you know, then they'll
  • 00:17:07.639 --> 00:17:12.377
  • Take what you have to tell them in those moments.
  • 00:17:12.377 --> 00:17:15.247
  • Michael: i agree with that.
  • 00:17:15.247 --> 00:17:16.615
  • They are your wealth really, kind of, if you think about it,
  • 00:17:16.615 --> 00:17:18.784
  • You know?
  • 00:17:18.784 --> 00:17:20.152
  • I mean, they're the--my wife and my kids, that's
  • 00:17:20.152 --> 00:17:22.821
  • The greatest.
  • 00:17:22.821 --> 00:17:24.189
  • I like to hunt and fish and sometimes i get animals mounted
  • 00:17:24.189 --> 00:17:26.959
  • And all that stuff, or stuffed, taxidermy work, whatever.
  • 00:17:26.959 --> 00:17:29.394
  • Those--these are my greatest trophies ever, you know?
  • 00:17:29.394 --> 00:17:33.265
  • It's the best thing i've got in my life besides the gift that
  • 00:17:33.332 --> 00:17:36.635
  • Jesus gave me, you know, the free gift of salvation.
  • 00:17:36.635 --> 00:17:39.238
  • Jim: we passed an unusually named state forest.
  • 00:17:40.672 --> 00:17:43.775
  • We stopped and i told the boys, the legend of tate's hell.
  • 00:17:43.775 --> 00:17:49.381
  • Jim: there was an old rancher named cebe tate, and he said
  • 00:17:49.381 --> 00:17:54.152
  • That there was a panther that was killing his livestock.
  • 00:17:54.152 --> 00:17:58.924
  • So he took his gun and went into the swamp and he said, "i'm
  • 00:17:58.924 --> 00:18:02.094
  • Gonna take out that panther."
  • 00:18:02.094 --> 00:18:04.229
  • And he went into the swamp.
  • 00:18:04.229 --> 00:18:06.265
  • Well, guess what happened?
  • 00:18:06.265 --> 00:18:07.899
  • Seven days passed.
  • 00:18:07.899 --> 00:18:10.135
  • And they said an old man came crawling out of the swamp, all
  • 00:18:10.135 --> 00:18:14.573
  • Messed up, and he said these words to the person that saw him
  • 00:18:14.573 --> 00:18:18.644
  • Come out of the swamp.
  • 00:18:18.644 --> 00:18:20.479
  • "i am cebe tate, and i've just been through hell."
  • 00:18:20.479 --> 00:18:26.351
  • And there he is.
  • 00:18:26.351 --> 00:18:28.587
  • Michael: my name is cebe tate.
  • 00:18:32.257 --> 00:18:34.359
  • And i just came from hell.
  • 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:36.161
  • [screaming]
  • 00:18:39.531 --> 00:18:43.769
  • Jim: while the legend of tate's hell is morbidly funny, the
  • 00:18:43.769 --> 00:18:47.773
  • Biblical description of an eternal fire is quite serious.
  • 00:18:47.773 --> 00:18:52.210
  • The forest service was doing controlled burning while we were
  • 00:18:52.210 --> 00:18:55.514
  • There, and that reminded us that hell is real, but it can
  • 00:18:55.514 --> 00:19:00.152
  • Be avoided by faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:19:00.152 --> 00:19:03.488
  • On a little island next to carrabelle, there were three
  • 00:19:03.488 --> 00:19:06.558
  • Crosses, so we took the boys there by boat for one
  • 00:19:06.558 --> 00:19:10.362
  • Final adventure.
  • 00:19:10.362 --> 00:19:12.331
  • Jim: god's treasures, these children, this beauty that we
  • 00:19:12.331 --> 00:19:15.634
  • See around us, god has given us so much to enrichen our lives.
  • 00:19:15.634 --> 00:19:19.371
  • But the greatest treasure is eternal life.
  • 00:19:19.371 --> 00:19:21.873
  • The greatest treasure is jesus.
  • 00:19:21.873 --> 00:19:24.476
  • God came to this earth to pay for our sin, to save us from
  • 00:19:24.476 --> 00:19:29.848
  • That inferno, that burning fire of hell, to everlasting life,
  • 00:19:29.848 --> 00:19:35.487
  • Which is eternity with god in heaven.
  • 00:19:35.487 --> 00:19:38.623
  • And the bible says that we're sinners, that we all deserve
  • 00:19:38.623 --> 00:19:41.393
  • That inferno, that we all deserve eternity separated from
  • 00:19:41.393 --> 00:19:44.863
  • Him, but he loved us, so he came and his son to die for our sins
  • 00:19:44.863 --> 00:19:49.901
  • On a cross.
  • 00:19:49.901 --> 00:19:51.503
  • He rose again the third day, and he invites anyone, you, anybody
  • 00:19:51.503 --> 00:19:56.441
  • At all, to simply believe in him, trust in him.
  • 00:19:56.441 --> 00:20:00.145
  • It's not about being better, it's not about reforming
  • 00:20:00.145 --> 00:20:02.214
  • Your life.
  • 00:20:02.214 --> 00:20:03.548
  • It's not about stopping certain things and starting
  • 00:20:03.548 --> 00:20:04.983
  • Certain things.
  • 00:20:04.983 --> 00:20:06.318
  • It's about putting your faith in him--you can't do anything, he
  • 00:20:06.318 --> 00:20:09.488
  • Did it all-- believing in him.
  • 00:20:09.488 --> 00:20:11.089
  • Let me show it to you this way.
  • 00:20:11.089 --> 00:20:12.724
  • The bible says that we're all sinners.
  • 00:20:12.724 --> 00:20:14.092
  • Let my billfold represent sin, and you and i are sinners.
  • 00:20:14.092 --> 00:20:18.263
  • We sin.
  • 00:20:18.263 --> 00:20:19.631
  • Jesus had no sin, but he was made sin for us that we might be
  • 00:20:19.631 --> 00:20:23.935
  • Made the righteousness of god in him.
  • 00:20:23.935 --> 00:20:26.104
  • Jesus came, perfect and innocent.
  • 00:20:26.104 --> 00:20:27.672
  • He died on the cross.
  • 00:20:27.672 --> 00:20:30.175
  • He rose again the 3rd day, he paid for our sins on the cross,
  • 00:20:30.175 --> 00:20:33.345
  • And he invites you to just believe in him, to trust in him.
  • 00:20:33.345 --> 00:20:38.450
  • And once you've done that, once you've put your faith in him,
  • 00:20:38.450 --> 00:20:41.520
  • You're saved.
  • 00:20:41.520 --> 00:20:42.854
  • Some people say, "well, what if i mess up?"
  • 00:20:42.854 --> 00:20:44.222
  • You're probably going to.
  • 00:20:44.222 --> 00:20:45.557
  • Well, you will, but he has you in his all-powerful hand.
  • 00:20:45.557 --> 00:20:48.260
  • You're in his family.
  • 00:20:48.260 --> 00:20:49.628
  • You're born again, and that will never change.
  • 00:20:49.628 --> 00:20:51.763
  • Now we need to love him more and serve him more and allow his
  • 00:20:51.763 --> 00:20:55.167
  • Spirit to live through us so that we can be his hands and
  • 00:20:55.167 --> 00:20:59.004
  • Feet on this earth until he returns.
  • 00:20:59.004 --> 00:21:01.173
  • But that's the greatest news in the entire world that you can be
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  • Saved from your sins by simple faith in jesus.
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  • Jim: yeah?
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  • Ow, found the crab.
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  • It got me good.
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  • Ow, hiya hiya.
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  • Ow, how do they have such strong pincers?
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