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May 6, 2026 | 53:35

Matt and Laurie Crouch host James "JB" Brown.

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Praise | James Brown: Step Off the Sidelines | Praise | May 6, 2026

So it's not a
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Matter of either or faith or works.
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It's having a faith that works.
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Tonight on praise
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With us for one hour, james brown, host of nfl today,
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Record setting host of the super bowl.
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I'm in the world of sports.
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My desire was always to use that as a platform
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For kingdom building purposes
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In the nfl.
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When the players get together in the huddle
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And they get the play.
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They run the play.
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But many times
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When we come to church and god gives us a play to run straight
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From his playbook, we know it's from him.
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But you know what?
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We might never break the huddle.
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James essentially says
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You've got to break the huddle and run the play.
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Move into action.
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Action. action.
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If we run the play that god has given us, the good news.
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God himself will block for you and me.
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Break the huddle
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And run the play with us for one hour.
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James brown, host of the nfl today,
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Record setting host of the super bowl.
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You were voted by sports illustrated.
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Is the best in-studio host of the decade.
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So we're going to we're going to make you do some work here.
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You're going to have to prepare
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Some questions for laurie and me.
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We're going to have to go back and forth.
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You're going to have to do some work.
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You're going to bring it
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And you're going to bring it the other way. is that fair?
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You ready to go?
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First of all, i'm thrilled that your wife is here.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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Because you are one of the best.
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It's not fluff. it's true.
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With the range of guests
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That the two of you have had on the program.
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It's always an exercise in intellectual gymnastics.
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Come on now.
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Spiritual gymnastics to elicit the best out of them.
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But i'm so thankful
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That your wife is here to soften the approach.
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Okay.
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Well, can i say one thing before you just start talking?
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Phillip island balanced.
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Jb is one of the funnest people i get to watch on tv.
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And what i what i do all the time.
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What is so fun, though, is that you'll text him
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While he's on and during a commercial break.
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Absolutely. get back at him. take my hand.
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I love you.
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Okay. ready? stand up.
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No! oh! let's go. ready?
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Break! break! oh! break the huddle.
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I love that. one. two. three.
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Hey! hey.
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Pastor d on staff here knows better about that.
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Because, believe it or not, despite the size and girth.
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Ha ha ha.
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I played basketball. yes you did.
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So you know what?
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Unlike pastor d, who played football,
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Who reminds me a lot of mel blunt,
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The hall of fame football player with the pittsburgh steelers.
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I mean, pastor d is solidly built.
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I mean, yeah, that's how they talk about me.
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Yeah. mel blunt.
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But fluffy i think is i think is the, you know, a
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Little bit of a fluffy, you know.
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No no no.
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Oh he's you're a little rock solid. yeah.
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Look at that suit.
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That suit is fitting them perfectly.
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So he is rock solid.
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But actually, we were talking about
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A couple of biblical points before we came out here
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Because i was whispering to him about the subject matter.
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Break the huddle and run the play. right.
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And because he's an ex-football player. right.
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I was asking him about the relevancy of the message.
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Break the huddle and run the play
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To what's happening in society right now.
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And he absolutely endorsed that, saying this is relevant.
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This is real.
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Does that make sense?
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Jb break the huddle. run the play.
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You know you're a football guy.
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You played basketball.
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You're all about this kind of stuff.
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Love the analogy, but you're about
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Jesus more than about anybody i've ever been with.
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So what?
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Where do you want to start this?
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Let's let's kind of.
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Let's break the huddle. run the play.
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There's a bunch of, you know, going on there,
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But you you just need to kind of get into,
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What are you trying to point number one?
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You. absolutely, absolutely.
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Point number one,
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If you're in the huddle, you never make any yards.
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Correct.
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What does that mean?
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Meaning no progress is made.
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And maybe good to go back to the very beginning of the point.
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Although i'm in the world of sports,
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One of your other, good guest that you've had
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Here many a time, a doctor, tony evans.
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He influence coach tony dungy.
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Hearing tony dungy heard him deliver a chapel service.
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Okay.
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And the point that doctor evans was making.
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There's no separation
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Between christian and whatever your avocation is.
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That's right.
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Whatever the descriptor you use to describe yourself.
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Christian is first in everything a christian husband, christian
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Wife, a christian teacher, a christian grandparent.
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Oh my gosh.
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I'm seeing the light all over her right now.
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She started to show that way before we went on the air.
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So that's what it is.
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So even though i'm in the world of sports, my desire
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Was always to use that as a platform
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For kingdom building purposes.
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I remember asking one of the sportscasters,
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A season guy in the washington, dc area
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When he was looking to hire me as his weekend guy.
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I said, do you think i can use that
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Platform to be influential and impactful in other areas?
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And he said, no, you're going to have to focus solely on that.
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He meant, well, i'm glad i didn't embrace that
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As the only truth, because you can use that platform.
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And the fact of the matter is, as i've learned in the world
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Of sports, those on any platform with any degree of visibility
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Have a responsibility that's beyond that which they do
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In their avocation. we are christ's first.
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So this break the huddle and run the play.
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First of all, who was it?
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It was jim rohn.
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Do you remember that name, jim brown?
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The christian motivational speaker and he said,
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It's always important to give credit where credit is due.
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So if you got the message
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From someone else, he said, that's okay.
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Acknowledge that.
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It shows that it's the right thing to do.
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Two it shows you've done your homework.
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And three, if there is something erroneous
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That you're sharing that
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That person shared, you can say,
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You know what jim rohn should have known
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Better than and say that, you know.
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So i have that doctor, kevin cosby saint stephen's
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Baptist church in louisville, kentucky.
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I'm on the home of muhammad ali,
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And he spoke of muhammad ali's homegoing service funeral.
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He was the
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One that i heard deliver this message many years ago.
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You guys know los angeles well.
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West angeles, church of god in christ, bishop lake charles.
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But look at you guys.
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I heard the message delivered there and it touched my heart.
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So i called pastor cosby.
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I said it touched my heart.
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May i use that message?
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But tweak it the way the lord has me designed
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To tweak it for the audience i'll be dealing with.
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And he said, absolutely.
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So do you know, it was less than a year ago?
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I finally got a chance to meet him
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In person in louisville doing a story for cbs news.
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And i said, finally, i get the guy whose message
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I've been using because it touched my heart,
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And that's
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What i've been doing in the world of sports,
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Is breaking the huddle and runni
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If you don't know
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Anything about football, perhaps you do know this.
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In between each play, the players come together,
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11 of them in a little small, closed and group.
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And we call that no, no, no.
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It's a prayer service that they're getting together
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And that's what they're doing.
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It's called the huddle.
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But what they do in that huddle, they get a plan of action,
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A play to run.
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And the purpose of the huddle and the purpose of that little
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Worship group, that little prayer
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Meeting, is to discuss a plan of action.
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They get a play from the quarterback that comes in,
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And the purpose of it is to advance the ball down the field.
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Coming to church, it's just like playing football
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Because we huddle up
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At various times during the week and of course on sunday,
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All for the purpose of getting a new play to run.
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Last week's play may not work.
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You had a different issue to deal with last week.
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So when you come in this week, if you're paying rapt attention
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To the pastor, the preacher, you will get a play to run.
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So therefore, we come to church for the purpose
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Of getting a play to run.
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And while we're in the huddle, if you are attentive,
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Check this out.
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We absolutely will get a customized,
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Specialized play for you to run in your life.
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But what we see in the huddles at church
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Can actually be different
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Than what we see taking place in a game of football.
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And here's a difference.
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It is absolutely simple.
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In the nfl, when the players get together in the huddle
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And they get to play, they run the play.
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But many times
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When we come to church and god gives us a play to run straight
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From his playbook, we know it's from him.
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But you know what?
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We might never break the huddle.
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We might just stay in the huddle and not run the play.
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And if quietness is kept,
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Some of us have been in the huddle for two years.
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Five years,
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Ten years, 15 years, and
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Never have ever broken the huddle and run the play.
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James essentially says,
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You've got to break the huddle and run the play.
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Move into action.
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Action.
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So give me the analogy.
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So we're saying my my dad was from missouri.
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So he would say it's like this.
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He would have said,
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You know, if you still got your rear end in the pew
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And you're not outside the four walls, the church talking about
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And sharing your faith in christ and telling your story, then
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You haven't broken the huddle and you're not running the play.
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You have to be basically a
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Emissary for the for the kingdom.
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Is that kind of what you're talking about?
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You're so good and letting it out.
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Because what he was saying to us is, you know, i'm better
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Because you've been married to him so long.
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Jb, can you help me out and get to the essence
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Of what this message is?
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So it's based on the book of james chapter
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Two, verses 14 through 26, which basically says,
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Which we know faith without works is dead.
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And while the audience was jewish, christians,
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If you will, of the diaspora in the greco-roman world,
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To let them know that your faith really isn't
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Significant if you're
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Not doing something with it to bring people into the fold.
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Now, there were great scholars and historians and church
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Reformers like martin
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Luther back in the 16th century, who said he thought
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The book of james was the epistle of straw
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Because it seemed to focus on works
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Where martin luther was focusing on
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Faith, grace and grace.
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We understand that we're saved by faith through grace,
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But we are his workmanship, made unto good works.
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So it's not a matter of either or faith or works.
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It's having a faith that works.
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So good faith is the root
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Fruit.
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The fruit is the works.
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So i love the way doctor cosby did it.
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He would take that scripture, and in the congregation
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He would have everybody go through,
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Read each of the verses.
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And everywhere you saw the word works.
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Substitute the word action.
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James, who wrote it, clearly had something heavily on his mind
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Because in 13 verses, 12 times
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He mentioned the word works.
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Or action.
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So that's what i'm attempting to do is to tell people yeah.
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You know what. this is the great commission.
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We must do this.
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We can't sit around because if we sit around
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And just continue to grow on our own
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And not going out and doing something with it,
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That is antithetical to the great commission
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To go out and make disciples.
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So you set me up with point number one.
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You said you make no progress in the huddle
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In the game of football.
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It would be pretty boring.
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And i still have
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Pastor dee in my mind here
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Because i see him out on the football field.
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If we went to a game to watch pastor dee play,
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And all those guys did on the football
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Field would to stay in the huddle.
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That's boring.
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You make no progress in the huddle.
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You can't kick a field goal from the huddle.
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You can't score a touchdown from the huddle.
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You can't do anything in the huddle
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But discuss the play that is not moving forward with progress.
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Because the game in football
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Is to matriculate the ball down the field,
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Move it down the field for the ultimate purpose
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Of scoring a touchdown.
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And are we not trying to score a touchdown in the game of life.
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And that means bringing as many people as possible
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Into the fold with the saving knowledge of jesus christ before
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Time is up.
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Look at the times that we're in right now.
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Very challenging out here in society.
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It was
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Talked about in the book of revelation ad nauseum.
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Don't be surprised.
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But as opposed to getting discouraged
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Because even in the book
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Of revelation in the front, it says there's a blessing
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For those who read and study and understand revelation.
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Those whose names are in the book of life.
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Got it? that's what's important.
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So you were
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Impacted by this sermon the first time you heard it?
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So give me an example of
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How jacob would have
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Heard this first point.
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He never make any progress if you don't break the huddle
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And get out there.
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Without you, there's without moving the ball down the field.
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But in this case, without faith and without works,
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You got to have a little, little of both.
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How did that change who you are?
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What might you not have done prior to hearing it?
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And what might you have done after you heard that?
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Great question matt.
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What i would have done was just to get as much information,
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As much knowledge about the word of god,
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Understanding the bible, all 66 books.
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What was the theme and the point of each of the books?
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How they all pointed to jesus christ.
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The old testament, we know, is jesus christ concealed.
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The new testament is jesus christ revealed.
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But so what are you looking to get all this information
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To sit around and indulge in intellectual gymnastics
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To sound like, you know, what's going on
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And how many people do that
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On this program
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That the lord has blessed you to, to be taken
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To the next level as you are?
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You talk with some phenomenal people, brilliant people.
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But what good is it
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If all folks are doing is just feeling puffed up?
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Because they know a lot, but they're not doing anything
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With it?
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We understand that
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Church leadership is to train and make disciples for them
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To go out, and in fact, to bring souls into the kingdom.
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But to just sit there and get information
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For information purposes only was nothing.
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And that first point about there's no progress made
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When you're in the huddle
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If in fact, you're not doing something with it.
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So you're saying stop sitting on your blessed assurance
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And get outside the church and get something done.
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Is is that kind of what you're saying?
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Can i reference you if i use that one?
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I'll say lori didn't
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Necessarily approve of that, but it's just absolutely.
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That's what we're saying.
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Hey, because you know what's better than some. yeah.
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One of the points that doctor crosby made is that
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In the
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Huddle, the church has huddles throughout the week.
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Yeah.
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Bible study, choir rehearsal,
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Small group meetings on sunday with the sermon.
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All of those are huddles.
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And if we go to church with an expectant
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Ear and heart, spirit, we will hear the lord
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Have a customized, specialized message.
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Just for you.
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It could be group. yeah.
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It could be the small group. it could be the church.
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When i say the church i think about cathedral international.
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I've been blessed to go around
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And meet some wonderful people and speak of their churches.
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Cathedral international in perth amboy, new jersey.
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Bishop donald hilliard, his church
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He started was in a pornography theater.
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In the hood
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Turned it around.
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But around the neighborhood, all kinds of
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Influences that will pull you off the track.
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Nightclubs, liquor stores, strip clubs.
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So the lord spoke to the leadership there
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And told them to go around and buy up all of those properties
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That they shared with the congregation.
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This is what the lord is instructing us to do.
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Gave them a play to run, to go and buy up all of those
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Places in the hood that their kids
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Would have to walk by every day and see those influences.
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So what he in essence did, he told them
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To go and buy those buildings, buy those businesses
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And turn them into build buildings and buildings
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For redemptive purposes so one could get cute and say so.
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Basically, what he told them to do
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Is to go buy out all the land of the hittites
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And the right to the high lights and the bud lights,
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And turn them
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Into buildings with redemptive purposes.
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Now he's got 4 or 5 different locations
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That's running to play.
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There weren't just sitting around discussing it.
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They weren't debating it.
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They weren't pontificating about it.
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They got the message from god that was the place.
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And then for them.
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And run the play.
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And they have done remarkably well.
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And you started by saying,
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You know, faith without works is dead.
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So you can have all the knowledge about who jesus is.
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You can hear his voice.
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But if that doesn't translate into you mentioned bishop.
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Blake. blake.
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Yes, yes.
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And excellent job you start, you know, coming
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Towards the big cathedral there in in los angeles.
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And they they've bought up half of that whole street there.
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You know, you start
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And when you meet with bishop blake,
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You don't even know what building to go to
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Because there's about 14 of them that, you know,
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He could be in up and down that street,
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Same kind of thing, transforming areas
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With the gospel, buying them up, turn them into, you know,
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Places for the church and and running the play.
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Absolutely.
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Okay.
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Point two we're all on the clock.
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What do you mean by that?
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But i think it was in,
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It's it's in genesis.
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Genesis six, i think, where it talks about,
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You know, we could have 120 years. yeah.
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Which is so much less than what was the case back in
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Biblical times.
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But today, it seems like based on all the studies i've had,
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The average life span, if you combine
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All the ethnic groups together, it's about age 78.
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Okay. okay.
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Bottom line is, even if it were longer, we're all on the clock.
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There will be a time
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When that stopwatch is pressed and time's up.
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What have we done during that time?
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Are we carrying out that which the lord told us to do?
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Are we living fulsome lives?
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But the principle focus is to bring as many as possible
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Into the fold,
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And there's only a certain amount of time to do that.
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In the nfl, you have 40s
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After the previous play ends to run your next play.
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Unless there's been
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An administrative stoppage, then it's 25 seconds.
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If you don't want to play in your allotted time.
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If you don't run your play in the allotted time,
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The referee will do what?
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He'll throw a flag, and the flag is because.
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Thank you.
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Penalty delay of game.
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That's a penalty flag that he throws.
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If you don't run the play in time.
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And you know what.
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There are many of us
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As you go to church and look around on the floor.
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God is throwing a bunch of penalty flags
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At the feet of a whole lot of saints
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Because they have delayed the action.
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And when you ask them, why haven't you run the play?
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Here's the common refrain that you get.
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Well, one of these days,
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A penalty flag flag being thrown on you from heaven.
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Keep in mind we are all on the clock.
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Time is passing.
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We don't have as much time as we used to.
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Stop and think about that.
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The finish line.
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For most of us who are of some age.
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It's in the horizon.
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We can see it.
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Folks, let's be about god's business.
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So we've got to maximize that time in the game of life.
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Four quarters in the game of life.
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Let's make it easy for the math challenge here.
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Just say 72 is the average life span.
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That means by the time you turn 18,
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If you're at the end of the first quarter in your life. wow.
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18 years of age. wow.
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And i know it's more 78.
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And now i would have to use fractions.
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So i'm not going to try to deal with the fractions here.
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Although it's been 19 19.5.
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So that means by the time you turn 36 you're at half time.
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Yeah.
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Half time in your life at age 36.
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My goodness.
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I have shoes that are older than 36 years of age.
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Dorothy won't let me wear them. laurie.
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Okay. that's another story.
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That means by the time you turn 54,
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You have the end of the third quarter. wow. so work with me.
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That means by the time we turn 72, that means what?
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Game's over.
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End of regulation.
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And i always have some people say wait a minute, i'm 78.
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I'm mad if i say hold on, i'll be there.
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And the game of football.
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If you live past 72 or in game of football if the game is tied
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At the end of regulation, you go into overtime.
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Overtime.
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In the game of life and in the way football was
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Originally structured, overtime ends.
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How in sudden death.
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So that means we don't have any time to play.
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We need to maximize the fact that all of us are on the clock.
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We don't have time to be lollygagging
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And caught up in things that are insignificant.
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We need to be kingdom focus
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And everything that we're doing, because we don't know
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When that stopwatch will be stopped.
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So i want to make a
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I want to make a point on what you just said.
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Kingdom focused. yes.
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Let's say
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You would almost have to have a conversation with somebody
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To even kind of.
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It's ask them what they mean by kingdom.
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Now we have the opportunity
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To be on the phone every once in a while.
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And we had a pretty long convers
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Our common friend, doctor ed young, former
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Southern baptist convention guy, head of the southern baptist
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And former pastor of second baptist houston,
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Said something to me that day that that made a lot of sense.
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Kingdom is everything.
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And what do you mean by that?
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What scripture do you land that on?
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And it's the earth is the lord's,
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The fullness thereof, and all they that dwell therein.
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So the kingdom is everything.
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And the church sometimes has called the church the kingdom.
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And, you know, again, you have to sit with somebody
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And get their definition of things.
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Not that that, that technically have to be wrong.
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But for this analogy,
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It's we're talking about football.
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We're talking about,
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You know, the the guy that's hosted more super bowls.
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Anybody you know, football, television, hall of fame.
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You're in the world according to some people's definition.
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You share your faith.
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You interview people about jesus, even right here on tbn.
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And you and you've done a lot of that kind of stuff.
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So some people would say, you are outside the church,
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And unless you're a pastor or preaching
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From a sermon that that, that you're not even in the kingdom.
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And, boy, i think the church has had that wrong.
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I like ed's definition.
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The the kingdom is everything. god.
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God thinks he owns it all.
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The earth is the lord's, okay.
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And so the idea that we should
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Basically have influence everywhere is is the key.
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I think that you're talking about,
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If we have a short time
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And if we got to break a huddle and get something
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Done, we've got to get influence felt everywhere.
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Even broadcasting
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Of football and sports and this kind of thing.
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And so if you're there at cbs
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And if you're there inside of all the different
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Things you're doing,
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The church is,
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In essence, filtering and expanding
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Inside of your world because you're there. see?
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And again, you're not sitting on a pew
00:26:30.345 --> 00:26:33.181
24 over seven on your blessed assurance.
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You're in the broadcast booth and your light is shining
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Because god thinks everything belongs to him.
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And he's right. and it does.
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And you're expanding the church inside of the kingdom,
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The kingdoms, everything, the kingdoms, everybody.
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And it's hard to grasp that because you think, well,
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That dirty, rotten
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Set of scoundrels over there
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And that other country that are picking on this country
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Or they're doing this or they're doing that.
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How could they?
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Well, you know, good, bad and ugly.
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They're all in the kingdom. the earth is the lord.
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We are all created in his image.
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Now we're not all living it.
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And so we're talking about getting expanding outside
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The four walls of the church.
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And that's what you do every single day.
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So the point is, we need to be about bringing
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As many people into the kingdom, because the kingdom is is.
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But everybody isn't in
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The kingdom
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Because they haven't embraced jesus christ as lord and savior.
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And unless your name is in the lamb's book of life,
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You will not spend eternity with him.
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We know how death is defined in the bible.
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Death is not the first death when we pass.
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We are to be concerned about the second death,
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And the second death is eternal separation from god.
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Eternity for everybody who's born there is an eternity.
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The question is,
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Are you going to spend eternity in nonsmoking or smoking?
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That's it. period.
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I go back to deuteronomy 30 and 19.
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I mean, even when the word is being delivered that i call
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Heaven and earth to record or record this day, your choice.
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Love is a choice.
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Jesus is a choice.
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Many people think that we're trying
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To beat people over the head.
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I wasn't hired by any of the companies with whom i've worked
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To proselytize right?
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But that's who i am.
00:28:29.564 --> 00:28:30.832
It doesn't mean that i'm not a christian.
00:28:30.832 --> 00:28:32.400
I am, but even as the expression goes,
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I know there's a poet who's, written a poem about it.
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Some will ascribe it to saint francis of assisi,
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But i love this expression.
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Many people would prefer to see a good sermon
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Before they hear a good sermon,
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And that would be most convicting and convincing.
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As we share the message, our lives radiate that.
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So my job, yes,
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I am a sportscaster, but i'm a christian sportscaster.
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I'm a husband, but i'm a christian husband.
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I'm a grandfather, but i'm a christian grandfather.
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That is who i am first, foremost and always.
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Preach always.
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And if you have to use words, use words.
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Absolutely. that's exactly right. okay.
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Point three because of where the play comes
00:29:20.481 --> 00:29:23.318
From, i'm gay, offensive coordinator sits high.
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God sits high.
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Isaiah 4022.
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What do you mean by all that?
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I know it's in the book of isaiah that says,
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The lord sits upon the circle of the earth.
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Yeah,
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That's in the bible for all you flat earthers.
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You're right.
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Have they referenced the bible even back
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During the time when they were saying
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No, if you go out, you know you're going to fall out?
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It's in the word.
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He sits on the circle of the earth.
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So in in football terms, most people think
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That the offensive coordinator is down on the field.
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He may be, but the offensive staff
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And many of the offensive
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And offensive coordinators themselves,
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They're up in the booth.
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Why are they in the booth?
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I don't know, because they can see the whole field of play
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And they can see
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What the defense is doing to try to stop the offense
00:30:13.167 --> 00:30:15.770
From scoring, moving the ball down the field
00:30:15.770 --> 00:30:19.274
For the purpose of scoring a touchdown.
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I just reinforce that for those who might just be tuning in
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To get the touchdown.
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All truth is parallel.
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What's true in the natural is true in the supernatural,
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Because often what has happened for us in the kingdom,
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It's been shown to us.
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It has been shown to us.
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Shadows in types. yep.
00:30:37.392 --> 00:30:39.327
In the natural first.
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But the natural is a reflection of what is in
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The supernatural rgb. get back to the norm.
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So the offensive coordinators are up in the offensive booth
00:30:45.767 --> 00:30:49.237
Looking at the whole field, sending in plays
00:30:49.237 --> 00:30:52.874
That will are designed to minimize what the defense
00:30:52.874 --> 00:30:56.778
Is trying to do to keep them from scoring a touchdown.
00:30:56.778 --> 00:30:59.380
Well, as the old folks used to say, come on now
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Our god sits high there.
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Come on and looks low.
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Our god is jesus christ,
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Who sits upon the circle of the earth.
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He sees the end from the beginning.
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So who better to take direction from?
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If jesus himself and he is our offensive
00:31:20.568 --> 00:31:23.738
Coordinator, if he sends a play into us,
00:31:23.738 --> 00:31:26.441
Why do we waste time in the huddle discussing,
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Pontificating, dissecting?
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It came from jesus.
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We only have so much time.
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Run the play that jesus gave us.
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God says, i will instruct you
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In the way you should go.
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Instruct and teach you in the way you should go.
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I will guide you with mine eye.
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Yeah.
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Whose eye is better to follow now than jesus christ.
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They use the example if you are in a given city
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And say it's in washington d.c.,
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You got the washington monument.
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Those people who are lined along the streets
00:32:01.075 --> 00:32:03.211
Looking at the parade coming along.
00:32:03.211 --> 00:32:04.946
They only have the viewpoint of what's right in front of them.
00:32:04.946 --> 00:32:08.783
Whoever is sitting on top of the monument
00:32:08.783 --> 00:32:10.485
Can see where the play,
00:32:10.485 --> 00:32:11.619
Where the parade starts and where it's going to end.
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That's our jesus.
00:32:15.056 --> 00:32:16.491
So why are we debating?
00:32:16.491 --> 00:32:18.459
Why are we pontificating?
00:32:18.459 --> 00:32:20.895
Why are we trying to tear apart the bible and what it is said
00:32:20.895 --> 00:32:24.332
When it's so true?
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Speaking of that, before we get the point
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Number four, it's amazing because i know in the
00:32:27.001 --> 00:32:29.103
In the body of christ today, i understand that there's this
00:32:29.103 --> 00:32:31.506
New term, excuse the vernacular.
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My mom and in heaven will get on me.
00:32:34.742 --> 00:32:36.377
But laurie and matt ain't nothing new under the sun.
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The term deconstruction.
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Yeah.
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We're a lot of young people are having problems
00:32:43.251 --> 00:32:44.919
Because their faith is being challenged
00:32:44.919 --> 00:32:47.155
As people are asking them to explain it.
00:32:47.155 --> 00:32:49.524
I haven't done my homework on this,
00:32:49.524 --> 00:32:51.259
But even if you were just to use a simple intellectual
00:32:51.259 --> 00:32:54.295
Understanding of the word deconstruction,
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It means to take apart.
00:32:56.397 --> 00:32:57.698
Well, okay.
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If you take it apart
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By a biblical definition, you come to the foundation.
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There's no other foundation that can be laid
00:33:03.571 --> 00:33:05.740
Other than that which is christ jesus the rock.
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He's the cornerstone.
00:33:09.110 --> 00:33:10.311
So people should not get fearful about having to deconstruct
00:33:10.311 --> 00:33:13.981
Their faith
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To help people understand, because god's word is true.
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Please.
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He's already said in the word numbers 23 and 19.
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I'm not a man that i can lie,
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Nor the son of man that i should repent.
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Have i not spoken?
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It will not occur if i've mentioned it.
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It will manifest titus one and two in hope of eternal life.
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God, who cannot lie.
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No greater force
00:33:37.705 --> 00:33:38.673
In him to talk about because he can't lie.
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That's who we base our life upon.
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It's based upon the character and integrity of god himself.
00:33:44.112 --> 00:33:47.315
There's no other faith that i'm aware of that
00:33:47.315 --> 00:33:50.084
Has prophecy as an integral part of it.
00:33:50.084 --> 00:33:54.088
Some may have had one prophecy that they have uttered, that
00:33:54.088 --> 00:33:57.859
They had to go back and revise when it didn't happen.
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Christianity.
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Let jesus let god the father be wrong about one prophecy
00:34:02.530 --> 00:34:07.635
That he's ever, spoken and uttered through the bible,
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And people have a reason to pull the rug
00:34:11.739 --> 00:34:13.875
From up under the foundation of christianity.
00:34:13.875 --> 00:34:16.344
But from the little bit of studying
00:34:16.344 --> 00:34:17.545
That i've done and asking,
00:34:17.545 --> 00:34:19.413
How many prophecies have there been that god has spoken about
00:34:19.413 --> 00:34:22.950
That have come true?
00:34:22.950 --> 00:34:24.051
The number is somewhere between 7 and 8000 prophecies.
00:34:24.051 --> 00:34:27.788
Most scholars settle on 7487 prophecies.
00:34:27.788 --> 00:34:32.059
That's a pretty good track record.
00:34:32.059 --> 00:34:33.394
But check this out.
00:34:33.394 --> 00:34:34.295
In the world,
00:34:34.295 --> 00:34:35.396
When we go for a job interview, we take our resumé.
00:34:35.396 --> 00:34:39.333
Yeah, to give it to matt and lori to work at tbn.
00:34:39.333 --> 00:34:42.203
And you guys review the resume to see what that candidate
00:34:42.203 --> 00:34:46.274
Has done, to give them some inkling of what they can do.
00:34:46.274 --> 00:34:52.880
Is jesus his track record?
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Good with 7487 prophecies that have been true.
00:34:55.583 --> 00:35:00.454
I asked my good friend, pastor dale o.
00:35:00.454 --> 00:35:02.924
Shields,
00:35:02.924 --> 00:35:04.192
Head of a church of the redeemer in gaithersburg, maryland.
00:35:04.192 --> 00:35:07.595
I called him up and he's evangelizing over in panama.
00:35:07.595 --> 00:35:10.531
I said, what one prophecy has jesus mentioned
00:35:10.531 --> 00:35:14.068
That hasn't come true yet?
00:35:14.068 --> 00:35:15.503
And the first one off of his lips was
00:35:15.503 --> 00:35:18.439
His return. his return?
00:35:18.439 --> 00:35:20.641
Well, don't you think if you've got a candidate
00:35:20.641 --> 00:35:22.643
Who's got 7487 things that he said is going to happen
00:35:22.643 --> 00:35:26.380
That, don't you think his track record
00:35:26.380 --> 00:35:28.082
Is pretty good to believe that he is returning?
00:35:28.082 --> 00:35:30.918
Does that make sense? it does.
00:35:30.918 --> 00:35:32.787
If you would just take this football and spike it back up
00:35:32.787 --> 00:35:36.224
The the end of the third quarter.
00:35:36.224 --> 00:35:38.359
Yes, sir.
00:35:38.359 --> 00:35:39.093
You scored the touchdown.
00:35:39.093 --> 00:35:40.761
Okay.
00:35:40.761 --> 00:35:41.462
But before we got to the fourth
00:35:41.462 --> 00:35:42.563
Quarter, if you spike that just but i, i don't want to
00:35:42.563 --> 00:35:44.532
I don't want to ruin it right there.
00:35:44.532 --> 00:35:45.733
Hope pastor dee would be better over here.
00:35:45.733 --> 00:35:48.002
Hey, now, pasadena is going to grade
00:35:48.002 --> 00:35:49.670
Whether or not i do this right. well, i didn't play football.
00:35:49.670 --> 00:35:52.073
I played basketball, but i would never have.
00:35:52.073 --> 00:35:55.142
Come on.
00:35:55.142 --> 00:35:55.943
Yeah, like that's true. all right.
00:35:55.943 --> 00:35:57.812
Yes, sir.
00:35:57.812 --> 00:35:58.746
For the. settle down. did that makes it?
00:35:58.746 --> 00:36:00.982
Yeah. yeah.
00:36:00.982 --> 00:36:02.350
Beautiful.
00:36:02.650 --> 00:36:03.751
If you don't run a play, he will get somebody else
00:36:03.751 --> 00:36:07.288
To run that play. run the play.
00:36:07.288 --> 00:36:09.624
Some of you might say, okay, you know what, i got it.
00:36:09.624 --> 00:36:11.659
I hear you loud and clear.
00:36:11.659 --> 00:36:12.893
I know i'm supposed to run this play,
00:36:12.893 --> 00:36:14.762
But you just have no idea.
00:36:14.762 --> 00:36:16.564
There's so much opposition against me out there.
00:36:16.564 --> 00:36:20.201
I can't get it done in the game of football.
00:36:20.201 --> 00:36:24.472
Every play that comes in
00:36:24.472 --> 00:36:26.707
Already recognizes that there is opposition against you.
00:36:26.707 --> 00:36:30.978
We know that satan is like a roaring lion
00:36:30.978 --> 00:36:34.215
Going about daily seeking whom he can destroy.
00:36:34.215 --> 00:36:38.252
God recognizes that he's given us the game plan,
00:36:38.252 --> 00:36:41.989
But it's on us to be obedient to his game plan
00:36:41.989 --> 00:36:45.493
And run it when he sends the play in,
00:36:45.493 --> 00:36:48.062
Our play comes directly from god.
00:36:48.062 --> 00:36:50.498
If we run the play that god has given
00:36:50.498 --> 00:36:54.502
Us, the good news, god himself
00:36:54.502 --> 00:36:58.506
Will block for you and me.
00:36:58.506 --> 00:37:03.444
God will block for you.
00:37:03.944 --> 00:37:05.913
Yeah.
00:37:05.913 --> 00:37:06.747
Okay.
00:37:06.747 --> 00:37:07.648
So we're we're in the fourth quarter now.
00:37:07.648 --> 00:37:10.451
We're getting down to the to the end of the game.
00:37:10.451 --> 00:37:13.421
Biblical examples.
00:37:13.421 --> 00:37:15.122
Abraham. moses. david.
00:37:15.122 --> 00:37:17.325
What do you mean by all that?
00:37:17.325 --> 00:37:18.893
As we're, settling in on our sermon here.
00:37:18.893 --> 00:37:22.563
Break the huddle. run the play.
00:37:22.563 --> 00:37:24.932
So when i say god will block for you, i'm using it
00:37:24.932 --> 00:37:29.637
Maybe some degree metaphorically using abraham.
00:37:29.637 --> 00:37:33.441
Abraham.
00:37:33.441 --> 00:37:34.709
The prophecy was that
00:37:34.709 --> 00:37:35.910
He was going to be the father of many nations. right?
00:37:35.910 --> 00:37:38.212
He's 100 years old. sarah is 90.
00:37:38.212 --> 00:37:41.415
So what happened?
00:37:41.415 --> 00:37:42.750
That the promise happened for abraham?
00:37:42.750 --> 00:37:45.186
How god came
00:37:45.186 --> 00:37:48.522
And blocked for him and sarah.
00:37:48.522 --> 00:37:51.892
Okay. and look at what happens.
00:37:51.892 --> 00:37:53.127
What was the second example?
00:37:53.127 --> 00:37:54.862
Moses. moses.
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My gosh.
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He's leading the israelites out of captivity.
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And they go and they get to a dead end
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From our perspective,
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Because he's got the red sea in front of them.
00:38:08.342 --> 00:38:10.811
He's got a mountain on either side, and pharaoh's coming up
00:38:10.811 --> 00:38:14.515
Hot and heavy from behind to recapture the israelites.
00:38:14.515 --> 00:38:18.986
And what does god do?
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Yeah.
00:38:22.723 --> 00:38:23.924
Pharaoh can't go any further because god's blocking him.
00:38:23.924 --> 00:38:26.327
God moved from in front where he was leading them to behind.
00:38:26.327 --> 00:38:31.565
I think it's in isaiah 54 and 12.
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He says, i will be your rear guard.
00:38:33.601 --> 00:38:35.836
He went behind to protect them while god did
00:38:35.836 --> 00:38:39.407
His thing with the red sea, led them across to safety.
00:38:39.407 --> 00:38:44.145
And when pharaoh and the egyptians tried
00:38:44.145 --> 00:38:47.014
To come behind them to recapture what happened to them,
00:38:47.014 --> 00:38:50.618
Covered up, killed
00:38:51.051 --> 00:38:54.722
A blessing that is intended for you
00:38:54.722 --> 00:38:57.958
Is a blessing that is intended for you.
00:38:57.958 --> 00:39:00.528
Anybody else who tries to walk in your blessing?
00:39:00.528 --> 00:39:03.531
It ain't going to happen. wow.
00:39:03.531 --> 00:39:05.533
So he blocked for moses at the red sea.
00:39:05.533 --> 00:39:07.735
Who was david?
00:39:07.735 --> 00:39:08.636
David and goliath. my gosh.
00:39:08.636 --> 00:39:10.738
You know, i'm loving it.
00:39:10.738 --> 00:39:11.806
When, when when king saul tried to give david
00:39:11.806 --> 00:39:14.475
All of his armor, said, man, i can't use this.
00:39:14.475 --> 00:39:17.645
You know, let me use what i.
00:39:18.245 --> 00:39:19.880
I've got god on my side.
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.116
This is just a james brown version
00:39:22.116 --> 00:39:23.617
As i'm trying to truncate this.
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So. and he's looking at all of these grown men
00:39:25.085 --> 00:39:27.621
Who are intimidated by this nine foot giant.
00:39:27.621 --> 00:39:30.391
And he's like, what?
00:39:30.391 --> 00:39:31.725
And when he goes into battle saying,
00:39:31.725 --> 00:39:33.160
No, i'll take him out because i've got god on my side.
00:39:33.160 --> 00:39:36.630
And he doesn't go walking timidly towards goliath.
00:39:36.630 --> 00:39:40.201
He runs at him
00:39:40.201 --> 00:39:41.836
And he has a nervous, who is this uncircumcised
00:39:41.836 --> 00:39:44.738
Philistine that would dare defy the army of the lord,
00:39:44.738 --> 00:39:47.975
And he takes him out.
00:39:47.975 --> 00:39:49.343
God blocked for him as well.
00:39:49.343 --> 00:39:52.513
God is a big dude.
00:39:52.947 --> 00:39:55.082
And if god comes down a block for you, you got it covered.
00:39:55.082 --> 00:39:58.252
The only thing that we need to be mindful of,
00:39:58.252 --> 00:40:00.354
Just like in the game of football, laurie and matt
00:40:00.354 --> 00:40:04.425
We need to stay behind god.
00:40:05.025 --> 00:40:07.261
Many people would try to get cocky
00:40:07.261 --> 00:40:08.929
And think they can get in front of god.
00:40:08.929 --> 00:40:10.631
Know the dangers in front of us.
00:40:10.631 --> 00:40:12.566
Let god block for us.
00:40:12.566 --> 00:40:15.169
And when we score the touchdown in the game of life,
00:40:15.169 --> 00:40:19.106
And we stop
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:20.808
And look back over the terrain that god brought us through
00:40:20.808 --> 00:40:24.445
Pitfalls, valleys and enemy
00:40:25.045 --> 00:40:28.749
Laying in the dark, looking to take us out
00:40:28.749 --> 00:40:32.319
And all that god has blocked for us and carried us through.
00:40:32.319 --> 00:40:36.357
Now we can act like the football players
00:40:36.357 --> 00:40:38.959
If you want to, and get up
00:40:38.959 --> 00:40:40.160
And do your little stupid dance or whatever, okay?
00:40:40.160 --> 00:40:42.363
But hey, be careful. be mindful.
00:40:42.363 --> 00:40:45.866
Give god the credit.
00:40:45.866 --> 00:40:46.967
Because when the world figuratively comes up to you.
00:40:46.967 --> 00:40:49.603
Matt. laurie, how did you do it?
00:40:49.603 --> 00:40:51.805
It ain't because of me.
00:40:51.805 --> 00:40:53.107
Yeah, it's because of what he did.
00:40:53.107 --> 00:40:55.709
Give him the credit.
00:40:55.709 --> 00:40:56.610
Romans 828.
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All things work together for good to those who love god
00:40:57.745 --> 00:40:59.780
And the called according all those ephesians
00:40:59.780 --> 00:41:02.716
Three, all of those scriptures.
00:41:02.716 --> 00:41:05.719
So proverbs three five and six,
00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:07.321
One of the first ones i remember remembered, you know,
00:41:07.321 --> 00:41:09.323
That god will take over joshua one eight and nine.
00:41:09.323 --> 00:41:12.793
God will do what he says because he can't lie.
00:41:12.793 --> 00:41:17.364
Does that make sense?
00:41:17.364 --> 00:41:18.332
Oh, good. let me tell you how.
00:41:18.332 --> 00:41:20.634
I'm remembering a version of this story,
00:41:20.634 --> 00:41:25.539
Even when it pertains to the 53 year history of tbn.
00:41:25.539 --> 00:41:30.578
We're sitting here,
00:41:30.578 --> 00:41:31.879
Continuing the mission of paul and jan crouch.
00:41:32.780 --> 00:41:36.884
And how do you how do you do the impossible?
00:41:36.884 --> 00:41:40.421
How do you become an abraham, a moses, a david?
00:41:40.421 --> 00:41:43.324
How do you do something amazing?
00:41:43.324 --> 00:41:46.160
You respond to the voice of the lord.
00:41:46.160 --> 00:41:50.764
So when god
00:41:51.098 --> 00:41:52.232
Tells you to do something, you can do the impossible.
00:41:52.232 --> 00:41:55.269
When he tells you to go and create a nation
00:41:55.269 --> 00:41:58.806
Out of a group of slaves and the most powerful country
00:41:58.806 --> 00:42:02.276
In the world at the time.
00:42:02.276 --> 00:42:03.877
Okay, moses.
00:42:03.877 --> 00:42:06.146
How do you how do you do that?
00:42:06.146 --> 00:42:07.781
The burning bush said, go do it.
00:42:07.781 --> 00:42:10.484
He was afraid.
00:42:10.484 --> 00:42:11.585
God hath chosen the foolish to confound the wise.
00:42:11.585 --> 00:42:15.089
And you go, and you do it.
00:42:15.089 --> 00:42:16.490
How do you do the impossible?
00:42:16.490 --> 00:42:18.258
You respond to the voice of the lord.
00:42:18.258 --> 00:42:20.461
So it feels like what we're saying is that.
00:42:20.461 --> 00:42:23.664
Yeah, god blocks for you.
00:42:23.664 --> 00:42:26.233
And my daddy came to, you know,
00:42:26.867 --> 00:42:30.170
My brother and i, you know, when we were a little kids,
00:42:30.170 --> 00:42:32.673
And he goes, kids, we're going to either buy a tv station
00:42:32.673 --> 00:42:36.710
Or we're going to buy a vending machine business.
00:42:36.710 --> 00:42:39.380
And we said, you know, we'll get the vending machine
00:42:39.380 --> 00:42:42.483
Business. duh. you know, i mean, candy coins.
00:42:42.483 --> 00:42:45.352
I mean, why not?
00:42:45.352 --> 00:42:46.420
You know, and, and and so i'll forever be grateful
00:42:46.420 --> 00:42:49.223
That he that he chose correctly and went into tv.
00:42:49.223 --> 00:42:52.893
But my parents for 40 years, my dad was chairman of trinity
00:42:52.893 --> 00:42:56.330
For 40 years and four months.
00:42:56.330 --> 00:42:58.399
And he put a satellite signal everywhere.
00:42:58.399 --> 00:43:00.234
There's electricity in the world.
00:43:00.234 --> 00:43:02.002
How do you do something like that now?
00:43:02.002 --> 00:43:04.905
You know, 30 partner networks, 17 language
00:43:04.905 --> 00:43:07.808
Networks were on 65 full power tv stations.
00:43:07.808 --> 00:43:11.612
You know, how does something like that happen?
00:43:11.612 --> 00:43:14.748
You respond to the voice of the lord.
00:43:14.748 --> 00:43:17.351
My mom and dad were sitting in the car.
00:43:17.351 --> 00:43:19.720
My dad looked at my mom and said, jan,
00:43:19.720 --> 00:43:21.655
You're not going to believe what the lord just said to me.
00:43:21.655 --> 00:43:24.291
She said, no, i will.
00:43:24.291 --> 00:43:25.392
He just said the same thing to me.
00:43:25.392 --> 00:43:27.161
He's released us from our work here.
00:43:27.161 --> 00:43:29.897
They quit the job they were in and a few months later
00:43:29.897 --> 00:43:33.167
The lord said, call angel lerma.
00:43:33.167 --> 00:43:35.669
My dad called angel lerma.
00:43:36.236 --> 00:43:38.972
His secretary picked up the phone.
00:43:38.972 --> 00:43:41.241
Paulie's in an important meeting down at the end of the hall.
00:43:41.241 --> 00:43:43.711
Can't be disturbed.
00:43:43.711 --> 00:43:46.080
Didn't know what to say.
00:43:46.080 --> 00:43:47.347
Okay, well, tell him i called and she said, hang on a second.
00:43:47.347 --> 00:43:50.084
I might hear him coming down the hallway.
00:43:50.084 --> 00:43:51.719
Why don't you just hold a second?
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:53.520
Sure enough, he picks up the phone.
00:43:53.520 --> 00:43:55.022
My dad said angel called you a couple of months ago.
00:43:55.022 --> 00:43:58.158
You had no intention to sell your channel,
00:43:58.158 --> 00:44:01.161
But i wanted to call you again today,
00:44:01.161 --> 00:44:03.697
See if anything's changed.
00:44:03.697 --> 00:44:06.900
Long pause.
00:44:07.234 --> 00:44:09.436
Paul, i just finished a board meeting.
00:44:09.436 --> 00:44:11.939
We just officially voted to sell this channel.
00:44:11.939 --> 00:44:15.242
Did you know that?
00:44:15.242 --> 00:44:16.844
He said no, sir, but based on that, i'd like to come see you
00:44:16.844 --> 00:44:20.714
By the end of that afternoon.
00:44:21.348 --> 00:44:23.250
The deal was constructed for the first tv station.
00:44:23.250 --> 00:44:26.687
That was 1973.
00:44:26.687 --> 00:44:28.522
We sit here 53 coming up on 54 years later.
00:44:28.522 --> 00:44:32.893
7 million miracles later.
00:44:33.460 --> 00:44:35.996
You bet. god blocks for you.
00:44:35.996 --> 00:44:37.898
You bet.
00:44:37.898 --> 00:44:38.465
He does.
00:44:38.465 --> 00:44:39.566
Through thick, thin litigation.
00:44:39.566 --> 00:44:42.302
This that attacks, you know, all the different things
00:44:42.302 --> 00:44:45.873
That my dad fought a lawsuit
00:44:45.873 --> 00:44:48.842
With the federal government for nine years.
00:44:48.842 --> 00:44:51.845
Nine years? okay.
00:44:51.845 --> 00:44:53.914
The idea that that god will.
00:44:53.914 --> 00:44:56.483
Which was dismissed
00:44:56.483 --> 00:44:58.252
At the appellate court in the fourth circuit,
00:44:58.252 --> 00:45:00.721
Three to nothing decision.
00:45:00.721 --> 00:45:02.289
And the whole matter was vacated at the at the fcc.
00:45:02.289 --> 00:45:06.927
So you bet god will be with you.
00:45:06.927 --> 00:45:09.163
So if you don't ever break the huddle and run the play,
00:45:09.163 --> 00:45:13.400
You're never going to get anything done.
00:45:14.268 --> 00:45:16.370
God hath choose chosen the foolish
00:45:16.370 --> 00:45:18.472
To confound the wise. so we all qualify.
00:45:18.472 --> 00:45:20.974
You know we can. we.
00:45:20.974 --> 00:45:22.943
You know i can be the.
00:45:22.943 --> 00:45:24.111
I can be the least likely of anybody to to do something.
00:45:24.111 --> 00:45:28.081
But when you hear god do it, you better like a coach.
00:45:28.081 --> 00:45:33.187
You know, i played football in high school,
00:45:33.187 --> 00:45:36.590
And my coach had a habit of swinging his whistle.
00:45:36.590 --> 00:45:39.660
And when he didn't like what you were doing,
00:45:39.660 --> 00:45:41.361
Sometimes that whistle hit you in the helmet
00:45:41.361 --> 00:45:43.664
And that caught your attention.
00:45:43.664 --> 00:45:45.299
And i'm talking about the analogy now.
00:45:45.299 --> 00:45:48.602
Break the huddle, run the play.
00:45:48.602 --> 00:45:51.205
God's saying when you hear my voice, get after it.
00:45:51.205 --> 00:45:55.475
God has chosen the foolish to confound the wise.
00:45:56.476 --> 00:45:59.713
No matter if you don't
00:45:59.713 --> 00:46:00.981
Have the right connections, if you don't have the right.
00:46:00.981 --> 00:46:02.983
My dad didn't have any money. nobody had any money.
00:46:02.983 --> 00:46:05.586
No one around him. any money.
00:46:05.586 --> 00:46:07.321
My mom's family didn't have.
00:46:07.321 --> 00:46:08.822
Nobody had money. okay.
00:46:08.822 --> 00:46:11.024
But they got after it.
00:46:11.024 --> 00:46:12.226
And god was with them.
00:46:12.226 --> 00:46:13.493
And you, betty block, for.
00:46:13.493 --> 00:46:16.530
You know what?
00:46:16.864 --> 00:46:17.931
I can get pretty animated, and people may shout.
00:46:17.931 --> 00:46:22.603
I'm ready.
00:46:22.903 --> 00:46:23.604
I'm ready to holler.
00:46:23.604 --> 00:46:26.139
I'm doing it quietly on the inside.
00:46:26.139 --> 00:46:28.609
Listening to what you just shared.
00:46:28.609 --> 00:46:31.011
And can i say i would never violate yours and lori's trust.
00:46:31.011 --> 00:46:36.483
People.
00:46:36.717 --> 00:46:38.252
I don't know why the word ain't is in my vocabulary,
00:46:38.252 --> 00:46:41.088
But people ain't seen nothing yet.
00:46:41.088 --> 00:46:43.223
Thank you lord.
00:46:43.223 --> 00:46:44.358
You guys shared something with me and you know what?
00:46:44.358 --> 00:46:47.628
I can't wait to see it manifest because you're listening
00:46:47.628 --> 00:46:52.499
And can also say, i so love the fact that you
00:46:52.499 --> 00:46:55.669
And lori together, the 98% of us
00:46:55.669 --> 00:46:59.206
Shows that i see the two of you together.
00:46:59.206 --> 00:47:02.342
You know what?
00:47:02.342 --> 00:47:03.443
But to get married, they become one.
00:47:03.443 --> 00:47:05.212
And it is strong.
00:47:05.212 --> 00:47:06.613
And i love it.
00:47:06.613 --> 00:47:07.848
Lover, i'm better together to them.
00:47:07.848 --> 00:47:09.650
That's okay.
00:47:09.650 --> 00:47:10.617
Yo, lebron, he don't want to be on that one.
00:47:10.617 --> 00:47:13.854
It's.
00:47:14.087 --> 00:47:14.922
I don't know for some reason. yeah,
00:47:14.922 --> 00:47:17.157
Well, i don't have any pink ties.
00:47:17.925 --> 00:47:19.760
I just got lori can buy you some pink ties.
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:23.130
That's not an issue. okay. jb.
00:47:23.130 --> 00:47:24.798
Hey, can i just say thank you guys?
00:47:24.798 --> 00:47:26.400
No, you're not done yet.
00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:27.467
You got some more work to do. okay.
00:47:27.467 --> 00:47:28.902
I need you to to look into the camera
00:47:28.902 --> 00:47:32.906
And and, jb, i know that you're not real comfortable.
00:47:32.906 --> 00:47:35.609
No, i'm not stuff you.
00:47:35.609 --> 00:47:36.877
If you're, you know, you'll find a red light. okay?
00:47:36.877 --> 00:47:39.279
You know. there it is. yeah.
00:47:39.279 --> 00:47:41.281
And i want you to,
00:47:41.281 --> 00:47:44.084
Kind of finish this, you know, like a coach,
00:47:44.084 --> 00:47:48.655
You know, debriefs a team when you win, when you lose.
00:47:48.655 --> 00:47:52.626
There's there's there's a little bit of application
00:47:52.626 --> 00:47:56.964
That i think the audience.
00:47:56.964 --> 00:47:59.032
And i'd love for you to pray for our audience.
00:47:59.032 --> 00:48:02.202
This has been a joy. yeah.
00:48:02.202 --> 00:48:04.071
We love you on cbs.
00:48:04.071 --> 00:48:06.673
Cbs this morning.
00:48:07.107 --> 00:48:08.342
Every once in a while, we see you there.
00:48:08.342 --> 00:48:09.977
And sometimes, you know, 60 minutes
00:48:09.977 --> 00:48:12.212
And you're doing a lot of
00:48:12.212 --> 00:48:13.647
And and everyone knows you and loves you.
00:48:13.647 --> 00:48:16.116
But we've sat here and got to listen to who you are today.
00:48:16.116 --> 00:48:20.020
That's who you are.
00:48:20.487 --> 00:48:22.255
You know, he's always like you.
00:48:22.255 --> 00:48:23.957
He's always like that.
00:48:23.957 --> 00:48:24.958
I'm, you know,
00:48:24.958 --> 00:48:26.026
I talk to him on the phone, and once while
00:48:26.026 --> 00:48:27.661
I was on the phone with you the other day,
00:48:27.661 --> 00:48:29.396
And you preached at me till, you know, about five
00:48:29.396 --> 00:48:32.966
In the afternoon, you know, i mean,
00:48:32.966 --> 00:48:34.935
Tony dungy was late for a plane,
00:48:34.935 --> 00:48:36.937
And you're sitting there preaching on and on and on
00:48:36.937 --> 00:48:39.172
Just went on forever.
00:48:39.172 --> 00:48:40.273
I love it, but that's who you are.
00:48:40.273 --> 00:48:42.242
You, when you get into that mode.
00:48:42.242 --> 00:48:46.413
And we hadn't done that on tbn yet.
00:48:46.413 --> 00:48:49.216
We love this.
00:48:49.216 --> 00:48:50.684
We want more jb, we want more tony dungy.
00:48:50.684 --> 00:48:54.254
And and when we when we met,
00:48:54.254 --> 00:48:57.457
We were at legal seafood in washington.
00:48:57.457 --> 00:49:00.160
And his lawyer going to let you tell tell the yarn tell
00:49:00.160 --> 00:49:03.563
Tell the audience
00:49:03.563 --> 00:49:04.798
What what happened there in the in the booth at legal seafood.
00:49:04.798 --> 00:49:08.035
What happened?
00:49:08.368 --> 00:49:09.002
Well, the net net was
00:49:09.002 --> 00:49:11.171
I have been very prayerful for a while, asking the lord
00:49:11.171 --> 00:49:14.641
What my next is to either add to or
00:49:14.641 --> 00:49:18.945
However he sees fit.
00:49:19.413 --> 00:49:22.049
And when the two of you said, well, we'd like to have you do
00:49:22.049 --> 00:49:25.385
Some work for us.
00:49:25.819 --> 00:49:29.056
Big boy is known
00:49:29.056 --> 00:49:30.424
As the weeping minister no matter what church.
00:49:30.424 --> 00:49:34.227
This is grammatically incorrect at.
00:49:34.995 --> 00:49:37.297
Yeah.
00:49:37.297 --> 00:49:38.832
I cried like a baby.
00:49:38.832 --> 00:49:39.933
Yes, you did.
00:49:39.933 --> 00:49:41.735
And lori leaned over like
00:49:41.735 --> 00:49:43.470
You sure you want to sit here a little longer?
00:49:43.470 --> 00:49:45.472
Well, like,
00:49:45.472 --> 00:49:46.239
Let me let me tell you
00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:47.407
That that because of the spirit of the lord was with us.
00:49:47.407 --> 00:49:51.311
That was a divine a long time ago.
00:49:51.311 --> 00:49:53.413
And that was a long time ago.
00:49:53.413 --> 00:49:54.881
And but but get after it.
00:49:54.881 --> 00:49:57.017
You're pretty well know, guy.
00:49:57.017 --> 00:49:58.952
Especially there and you know kind of dc area.
00:49:58.952 --> 00:50:02.589
You know you're you're part of the nationals
00:50:02.589 --> 00:50:05.192
And you know you're pretty well known dude.
00:50:05.192 --> 00:50:07.394
So when you were sitting in the booth with us crying,
00:50:07.394 --> 00:50:10.864
You know,
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There were people that were actually concerned
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About you in the other booth and, and when
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You finally had to kind of
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Literally tell you to go to hell,
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That story, you know, but i kind of had to then.
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Yeah. and and.
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Hey. hey, everybody. it's all good. okay.
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You know, i, you know, it's okay.
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These folks had a little problem in my eyes.
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You know, to me.
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You know what?
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That's the only thing lori you got.
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Gotta be careful what he sees and knows about you, but. yeah.
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Hey, it's true, but it. because it touched my heart.
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But it was a reflection of my mother and father.
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God bless them. hardworking high school graduates.
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But i like to say they have phds and drive and determination.
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And my mother was like jacob wrestling the angel.
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Okay?
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And my mother became saved. that was it.
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My father had
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My father had a deathbed conversion at the age of 46.
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I didn't really, but my mother was she was awesome.
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And when mama brown became saved,
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We had no shot at not being saved.
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But her whole point was,
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Don't let anybody tell you what you can't accomplish.
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Perspiration and inspiration.
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But jesus has to be first.
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High school coach i played for morgan wootten
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Greatest high school basketball coach many say ever.
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He was the first high school basketball coach inducted
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Into the naismith basketball hall of fame.
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I guess
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Simply because of what he did in high school only
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And was considered
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To be the best high school coach of the 20th century.
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His priorities for us, who played for him? god.
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First family second, school third, then your sport
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Because he was a man of god, never uttered a profanity.
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Many people know that about tony dungy.
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There's a colleague of tony dungy, is a reporter.
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He's been going around for 6 or 7 years
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Asking all the ex-players,
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Have you ever heard coach utter one word?
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He's never, ever curse.
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It's doing things the right way. hey.
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And the only thing that i can say with respect
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To those out there
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Who haven't made a decision for jesus christ, you know what?
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He is the real deal.
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I just gave you those stats about how many promises
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He's kept.
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How many promises are you asking to be kept?
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His only one that's most important,
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And that is to be able to spend eternity with him.
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Because eternity is real.
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One place or the other.
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And god has made it clear in his word.
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There's only one way to him, and that is through jesus christ.
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I would certainly encourage you to do your homework.
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Time is short.
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Study the word of god.
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Ask him into your heart
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And you will never fail because eternity is yours.
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I love you.
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I pray you would take this seriously and don't sit around
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And just dissecting the play.
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Discussing the play.
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Staying in the huddle won't get it.
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Break the huddle and run the play for jesus christ.
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So good.
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Love you, love you, love you jesus.
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Absolutely. we'll see you next time.
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Bye bye.
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James Brown: Step Off the Sidelines | Praise

May 6, 2026 | 53:35

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