Kathie Lee Gifford - Living Hope

May 7, 2026 | 27:29

The television personality shares the powerful, life-changing truths she learned from researching and writing her latest book “Nero and Paul.”

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Life Today with James Robison | Kathie Lee Gifford - Living Hope | May 7, 2026

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Kathie lee gifford: every one of us needs a savior about
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Something in our life.
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So have hope in that, that your savior is here for you right
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Now, for your addictions, for your brokenness, for your
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Loneliness, for your desperation, everything that
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You're facing.
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He's here right now, but he's also coming again.
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Announcer: kathie lee gifford shows how the god that
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Transformed paul can transform you.
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Randy robison: welcome to "life today."
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I'm randy robison. blynda lane is with me.
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Great to have you with me, blynda.
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Blynda lane: thank you. so happy to be here.
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Randy: i'm so excited about today's guest, kathie lee--yes,
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Kathie lee gifford is back with us, and you know, we always get
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Great feedback when she's on.
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But she's got a new book called "nero & paul," and as someone
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Who appreciates context and history, scriptural, that kind
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Of thing, i like--some people refer to it as almost like
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Historical fiction, which it's not, no, but there's a
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Creativity to it.
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Blynda: that's actually, for me, that's why i liked the book,
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Because i am not necessarily the biggest history buff, or if i
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Just hear history, like maybe in high school, the history teacher
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Talking about it, i didn't find it that interesting.
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But when it's presented like this, because what they do is
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They give you historical accuracy with, obviously, people
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Who really lived, but in a way where there is some creativity
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In the writing that draws you in.
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Randy: yeah, it draws you in.
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And i think that's key, and for me, it helps me understand the
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Context of the founders of our faith, and it applies today.
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So let's talk to the author, kathie lee gifford, welcome back
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To "life today."
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Kathie lee: thank you, thank you, randy.
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And hi, blynda. nice to see you guys again.
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Thanks for having me on, thank you.
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Actually, i just--i take a little issue with the fact that
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It's fiction, it's not.
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These are true stories. these are true stories.
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And anywhere where we're not sure of exactly what happened,
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We notate it.
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That's why i wrote it with a gentleman, bryan--
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Dr. bryan litfin, because he's the one with the phd after his
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Name, not me.
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And if i was to write these kinds of books, i don't have
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Time to do five years of research or ten years of
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Research on each book.
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He's already done it. he's already done it.
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And then he comes into the picture with my son, who's
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Producing all these things with me.
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And it was cody's idea to say, "mom, let's take your obsession
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With these epic stories in the bible," because i truly am.
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I'm a history buff about everything, all kinds of
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History, but especially biblical history, because the bible, when
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We read it the way it's written, is really black and white.
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It's just too much detail to put--it would be a full
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Encyclopedia if we had every detail of everything.
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But when you study the way i study, which is rabbinically,
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Meaning what does the greek and the hebrew tell you about every
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Single word in the scripture, then it comes to life.
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It goes from being a black and white bible that you've been
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Reading forever into technicolor and dolby sound, and you get--my
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Faith started finally coming back when i started studying
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This way, because you also get cultural relativity.
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You get geopolitical content.
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And then it's thrilling, and it's like a--it becomes a
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Thriller, because it's thrilling.
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Blynda: that's right.
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And you almost find that ways that you've thought about things
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Haven't even maybe been historically accurate, because
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We haven't really broken it down into those measures.
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And you kind of correct some of that.
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Kathie lee: well, i don't try to because i'm "right," you know?
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I try to because i've done my homework.
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And i've done the studying.
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The word of god is to be read, yes, but it's also to be
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Ingested into us, you know?
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And we don't do it.
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Randy: i have a question though.
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The book, "nero & paul."
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I get it, there's a lot of great books about paul.
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Obviously paul is a cornerstone of the christian faith and our
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Understanding of it.
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Why nero?
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Kathie lee: well, because we're in a series of books.
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This is the second.
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The first one was called "herod & mary."
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Second one's called "nero & paul."
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And it's subtitled "ancient evil, living hope."
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People ask me all the time, "kathie, do you think there's
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More evil in the world today?"
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And i go, "no, it just seems like it."
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Everybody's got a cell phone.
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Everybody's got, you know, cable television, and there's just
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Such an abundance of information.
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It's almost--you almost can't even deal with it.
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It's overwhelming.
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And i said, but you know, you look back at the very beginning,
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As in, dawn of time, adam and eve in the garden, in the cool
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Of the night as jehovah god walked with adam and eve, who
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Was there?
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The serpent.
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Evil's been with us ever since creation.
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And then when i had a little lull in my life, heaven forbid i
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Get a lull, my son says, "mom, let's take your obsession, not
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Obsession, but your fascination with these ancient evil
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Characters that we know so little about, and let's make
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Them into thrillers."
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And then what we do is we juxtapose the evil that we
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Didn't even realize.
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I mean, each of our books start out with you're going, "are you
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Freaking kidding me?
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This was herod?
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Are you freaking kidding me?
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This is agrippina, the mother of nero, and he's looking at her
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Dead body because he just murdered her."
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These are real stories.
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The point of it is we wanted to show, and this was fascinating
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To me, i'd never thought about it this way.
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We know the lust for power that exists in people that do not
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Know a personal god.
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You know, there are many--most of the religions in the world
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Are polytheistic.
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They worship the sun, they worship the moon, they worship
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Aphrodite, they worship sex, they worship all of
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Those things.
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But the one thing they all have in common is a lust for power.
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And that's where it's juxtaposed against a man like saul of
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Tarsus, we start out with, of course, who didn't realize that
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He--he thought he had a zeal for righteousness.
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We've all thought that--well, we've been taught, well, he
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Thought he was doing the right thing by killing the original
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Followers of yeshua jesus.
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He thought that they weren't following mosaic law.
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They believed in the messiah, and he didn't believe the
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Messiah had already come.
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He had heard about yeshua, of course, but he didn't realize
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That he'd missed him.
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He was one of the greatest biblical scholars, or
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Mosaic scholars.
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There was no bible at the time.
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He was one of the greatest mosaic scholars of his day.
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He was on his own zest and zeal for power, to be in
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The sanhedrin.
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That was his power world.
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And to be the next caiaphas, the next high priest, who was the
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One who actually, you know, architected, was the architect
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Of jesus's torture and crucifixion.
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So that's the road he was on.
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So who's the bad guy?
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Who's the bad guy?
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Not until saul of tarsus hears the voice of yeshua jesus on the
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Road to damascus, and then jesus says, he says, "who is this?"
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And he says, "saul, saul, why are you--why are you
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Persecuting me?"
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And he goes, "who are you?"
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He says, "i am jesus, yeshua, whom you are persecuting."
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And then he's blinded, right?
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He'd been blind already, to the truth that had been in front of
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Him forever, that all these people were being martyred in
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The name of their messiah, jesus, yeshua.
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Remember, you guys, and this is what we don't understand in our
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Culture, in the west, in western christianity.
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We don't understand that the story of all the scriptures from
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Beginning to end is a jewish story.
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Jesus was jewish, mary was, joseph was,
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All of the disciples.
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And we talk about how jesus's apostles were there at the--no,
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There were no apostles yet.
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The apostles came once jesus had ascended, and that's when they
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Went out, because of persecution, as apostles, which
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Means to be sent forth with a message.
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And what was their message?
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The good news of the gospel that jesus came to save, the message
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Of salvation.
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And that's when they were first called christians.
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You know why?
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Because nero named them that.
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Nero realized they were losing power to these people that
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Believed in yeshua.
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So he said, "we have a problem with these little christians,"
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And he said it very derisively, why?
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Because he did have a power problem with them.
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But that's the first time the word "christians" was used.
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Blynda: interesting.
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So when you're juxtaposing this evil person with this really
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Righteous, godly person, and you do such a great job in the book
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Of describing nero as how evil he really was, like you said, he
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Killed his mother.
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But when we're thinking about today--
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Kathie lee: and many, many others, blynda.
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Blynda: and many others, yes.
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But when we're thinking about today and the--what it reminds
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Me when i read something so historical like this, is the
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Human condition really hasn't changed over time.
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Kathie lee: nothing under the sun, as ecclesiastes says.
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I think it's ecclesiastes.
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Blynda: so without jesus coming in and changing who we are, we
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Have every possibility of being like a nero, meaning just living
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For ourselves.
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How would this book encourage viewers today to really
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Understand that there is a spiritual battle that we face
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Every day, and we get to choose which path to take?
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Kathie lee: well, scripture is so clear about that.
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It says that, you know, out of our mouths, we can speak garbage
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Or we can speak life, and every time, the scripture says,
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"choose life, that you may live long in the land."
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Now, how do you want your story to end?
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We all start out as babies.
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Nero started out as a baby, and so did saul, and you and i did,
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All of us, all of creation does.
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And my belief is that every baby comes directly from the heavens.
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A baby is perfect.
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A baby's never sinned.
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And then the world gets ahold of us.
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Nero didn't start out evil.
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He became evil.
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But the point of it is, saul, if he hadn't heard the voice, the
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Genuine audible voice of jesus, yeshua, the messiah, he would
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Have kept going to damascus.
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He would have found peter there.
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He would have found mary there.
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He would have kept his horrendous zeal for what he
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Thought was righteousness.
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So let's ask ourselves in real time, in our lives today, what
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Are we wrong about?
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What are we zealous about that really has nothing to do
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With jesus?
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Nothing to do with this.
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And we all have stuff.
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We all have stuff that's more important to us than pleasing
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Our lord.
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So thank god jesus showed up in that form.
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If only he would do it for absolutely everybody, there'd be
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Far more many believers in the world today, because nothing
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Like jesus getting your attention, you know, that way.
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There's showing up visually, which he's doing quite a bit now
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In the muslim world, i hear.
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And i believe it.
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I have friends who--yes, he's in dreams now.
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Yes, nothing's changed.
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He's still saying, "why are you persecuting me?
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I'm the one that died for you.
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Why are you persecuting me?
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I'm the one that loves you so much that i died for you."
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And thank goodness he doesn't have to do it again, but he
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Would if he had to.
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I know that.
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So, i just think it's important to find new ways to tell the
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Old stories.
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Just--but really, really clever and artistic and excellent ways.
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And because of--that's important to me in my career all my life,
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That was our intention, is to give people hope in today's
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World who think that we're losing the battle, somehow
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Losing the battle.
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We're not losing the battle.
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The battle's won.
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Randy: no, i think that's really important for people to hear,
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Because yeah, we do see things and we think, man, the world's,
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You know, it's all going to hell in a hand basket kind of thing.
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But when you look at the evil of nero, which you do lay out even
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More graphically than you've discussed here because it
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Was--it's hard to even comprehend how awful nero was,
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And rome, how corrupt it was.
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And then you see paul, and his obedience to go into these
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Difficult situations and boldly proclaim the gospel of
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Jesus christ.
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And it took a while, but it--
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Kathie lee: and persevere.
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That's right, it took--yes, it took a long time.
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Randy: what do you get from that as you look at the world and you
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Keep proclaiming the gospel of jesus christ in your books and
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In your ministry and the things that you do?
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I mean, there's got to be some encouragement there that even if
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We may not see the full completion of the seeds that
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We're sowing and the gospel, it will overcome the darkness.
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Kathie lee: it totally will overcome the darkness.
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You light one candle, a black room becomes lit up, you know?
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And i think the reason i've always proclaimed it so boldly,
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That's what a lot of people say, "how could you be so bold?
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You're the only one on television for years that talked
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About jesus, no matter where you were."
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When i was 12 years old, i did hear the voice of jesus.
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It wasn't audible in the same way, but i had just watched a
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Billy graham movie called "the restless ones," and at the end
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Of it, there was an altar call.
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And i remember hearing jesus say to me, very clearly into my
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Soul, "kathie, i love you, and if you'll trust me, i'll make
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Something beautiful out of your life."
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And i ran down that--to ask yeshua jesus into my life.
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I call him that now because studying the way i've been
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Doing, with the hebrew and the greek, i'm so much more aware of
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My jewish heritage, my jewish blood.
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My father was a russian jew, but i didn't know very much about
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My history.
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I didn't know much about my father's heritage.
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I first started going to israel when i was 17, and the minute my
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Feet landed in the holy land, i was forever changed.
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And the lord gave me a lyric, it says, "oh, the ancient blood
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That flows through me, from the dawn of creation through
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Eternity," and that changed me.
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And because i had heard the voice of yeshua as a young girl,
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That's the voice that kept me on my path and gave me the ability
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To become bolder and bolder and bolder.
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Never missed an opportunity, that i can ever remember, to not
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Share the hope that is within me, because how could i, after
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I've heard the voice of jesus, you know?
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I can't, and i won't.
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And everybody, wherever i worked, whether it was, you
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Know, on top of a mountaintop directing a movie or on a
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Broadway stage with sondheim, or on a daytime, whatever, daytime
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Talk show for abc, nbc, cbs, cnn, i didn't care where i was,
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Because i never separated the secular from the spiritual in
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My life.
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That's the biggest mistake we make as believers.
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We are one child of god.
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We're not a different person when we're doing plumbing or
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When we're on our face in prayer before jesus and our father.
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You know, no.
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It does not please god.
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We're supposed to take him--"in him we live and move and have
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Our being," it says in acts, and that was paul who said that.
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Blynda: in the conclusion at the very end of the book, you kind
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Of sum up that the message of this book is that for the
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Followers of jesus, that they know that the presence of god is
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In them and will never leave them.
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And so as we're concluding, do you have a message for the
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Viewers today to encourage them about continuing in their walk
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With christ, pursuing christ?
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I'll give you the last word.
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Kathie lee: well, you're saying christ, and you know why?
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Because now you know where the word christian came from.
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Christ in greek means messiah.
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It's christós.
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So that's why people are--in christ jesus, paul would
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Speak often.
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"in christ jesus."
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He's saying, "in messiah jesus."
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Don't forget that.
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You'll never say it again the same way.
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Everybody needs a savior, whether people are watching me
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Right now, watching the two of you, or listening to us.
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Every one of us needs a savior about something in our life.
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We need a messiah.
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And don't be a fool like saul of tarsus was.
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Many of us feel like we--and miss him.
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He's already been here. he's already been here.
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He's already shown us the way, and he's coming again.
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And then that's only up to the father.
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Only the father knows when that's gonna be.
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So have hope in that, that your savior is here for you right
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Now, for your addictions, for your brokenness, for your
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Loneliness, for your desperation, for everything that
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You're facing.
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He's here right now, but he's also coming again, to bring
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Salvation to all of humankind, redemption for all of humankind.
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And if we don't understand that, we don't understand our jesus.
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Randy: so encouraging.
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Thank you very much for that.
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And by the way, if you're watching right now and you're
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Like, "you know, i don't know what she's talking about.
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I haven't had that encounter that kathie lee had," there are
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People right now on the phone, and that phone number there,
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That would love to pray with you, and just be there for you
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To encourage you.
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And if you just need some other encouragement, maybe you are a
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Believer and you're like, "you know, i want to have the passion
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That kathie lee has.
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I want to have the steadfastness that paul had," again, there's
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Someone that will will pray with you.
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So we wanna be here for you.
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And by the way, if you'd like to get the book "nero & paul,"
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Kathie lee gifford's latest book, it's available lots of
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Places, but we would love to send it to you by asking you to
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Do what we love to do, which is to reach into an area where
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People are hurting, where people are hungry, literally hungry,
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And give them something in christ jesus's name.
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Watch this.
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Kathie lee: christós.
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Randy: yes, christós, that's what we do.
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Everything--every good work we do is a god work, and here's one
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That we would love to show you, that you can be a part of
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Right now.
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Announcer: rural health clinics in africa serve as a lifeline
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Work so diligently.
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Clinic hoping to get aid, and there'd be none available?
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How defeating, how hopeless is that feeling for her, knowing
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That her baby is days away from dying?
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We're the ones that have a responsibility to step into the
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These children.
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It could mean the difference between life and death.
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The time to act is now.
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You can.
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The situation obviously is desperate, but there is a way,
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And you're a big part of that.
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I hope you've enjoyed kathie lee gifford.
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I know we have, blynda.
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Blynda: how could you not?
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I mean, someone with so much passion and knowledge.
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She's done all the work.
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Randy: and you request that book, we'd love to send it
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To you.
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Kathie lee, thank you so much for being with us today.
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Kathie lee: oh, bless you both and the great work you've always
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Done for years and years and years.
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That's why you're still doing it, because the favor of the
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Lord is on you, and because you put him first.
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He loves that.
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He loves--well, shalom, shalom to you and all of your viewers.
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Thank you, everybody.
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Randy: you too. keep up the good work.
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We appreciate you so much.
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Kathie lee: thank you.
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Randy: come back, there's more.
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We'd love to see you next time here on "life today."
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Kathie lee gifford: i love the story in the bible in i think
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It's john 6, verse 68 where jesus talks to his disciples,
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And he says, "hey guys, they're all leaving me.
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Everybody's leaving me. this is getting hard.
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Are you gonna leave me too?"
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And, of course, peter looks at him and says, "lord, where would
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We go?
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Only you have the words of eternal life."
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And i think that's something that all of us as followers of
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Jesus yeshua can be mindful of today.
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What about if we're there with jesus right now in the sea of
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Galilee where they're all walking through the fields or in
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A synagogue or wherever he walked with them.
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He went everywhere with them.
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What would he say if he said, "what about it, you guys?
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Is this getting too hard for us now?
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Is this too hard for you?
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I told you it wouldn't be easy.
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I told you in this world you'd have trouble and tribulation,
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But i told you i'd never leave you or forsake you too, but just
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Tell me now if you're gonna leave me."
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And i wonder if our own hearts, even though we're tired and
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We're weary and we're scared and we're broken in so many ways, i
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Wonder if at this very moment we could try to use our
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Imaginations and put ourselves there and see our lord asking
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Us, "are you gonna leave me too?"
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And i hope we would have the kind of courage and wisdom that
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Peter had said to him, "where are we gonna go, lord?
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Once we've tasted of you, we've tasted and see
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That you are good.
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We've watched you and we've seen that you're a miracle worker.
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We've eaten with you and we've seen how generous and kind and
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We've fed the multitudes with you.
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And we've watched you raise people from the dead, jesus.
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We're not going anywhere.
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We're in.
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We are in to the end, because you are the beginning and the
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End, you are the alpha and the omega, you are the one who
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Changes not when the rest of the world is falling apart.
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You are our messiah.
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You are the rock.
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Kathie Lee Gifford - Living Hope

May 7, 2026 | 27:29

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