From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: February 25, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | February 25, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck and we live in turbulent times.
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- Whether it's the ongoing chaos on the world
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- Stage, growing cultural division here at home
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- Or the personal struggles we all face.
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- One thing is certain life will bring challenges.
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- The bible makes that very clear.
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- But the good news is we don't have to face
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- Those challenges alone.
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- That means no matter what you face, fear, anxiety,
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- Heartbreak, disappointment.
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- And no matter what's happening in the world around us,
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- We have reason to hope.
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- And all because of jesus.
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- No one knows that better than jonathan isaac.
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- He was at the top of his game as a star forward for the nba's
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- Orlando magic.
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- Yet for years, he secretly battled anxiety
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- Until he learned a life changing truth
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- That helped carry him through season ending injuries
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- And media backlash when he was the only nba player
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- To stand for our national anthem in 2020.
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- Amid the black lives matter protests.
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- Now, jonathan has also started a great faith based sports
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- Apparel line
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- Called unitus that you're going to want to check out.
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- In the meantime, he took a few minutes
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- Away from the busy nba season
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- To share more with me about his journey of faith, courage
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- And what it means to stand
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- Strong in today's culture, which is very hostile,
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- Needless to say, to a biblical worldview.
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- Take a look.
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- Hey, when you came into the nba,
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- Maybe you raised the christian home.
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- Maybe your walk wasn't where it is right now.
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- How did you grow in your faith upon coming into the league?
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- And is there anyone who kind
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- Of led you along the way there in growing your faith?
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- Yeah, for sure.
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- When i when i came into the league, it was honestly,
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- Much like most people, you know, today, i had a
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- I had somewhat of a foundation in christ,
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- You know, learned about the bible and,
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- You know, having a relationship with god when i was young.
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- My dad always had us in church. my mom had us in church.
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- But it was just a it was just a foundation.
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- It was just something that was kind of transactional.
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- I didn't understand the reality
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- Of a real relationship with christ.
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- I was walking with him on a daily basis
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- And submitting my will and all those things.
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- Once i kind of found basketball,
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- A lot of that stuff went out the window.
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- It was just about becoming this great nba basketball player
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- And living the life that everybody wants to live.
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- And once i got to the nba, you know,
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- I had my fair share of struggles.
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- You know,
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- I struggled with anxiety for much, much part of my life.
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- And i was that was having struggles just being in the nba.
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- And one day i met a man on an elevator
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- And he said to me, i can tell you how to be great.
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- And i said, how? and he said, you have to know jesus.
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- And that man ultimately became my pastor.
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- And i talked about even the pastor that that
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- That gave me the name unitus
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- That told me to start the shoe brand and company.
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- His name is dr.
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- John hepburn, and he passes a church here
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- In orlando called jump ministries
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- Global church that i've been going to
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- For the past seven years since i got into the league.
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- And he's helped make me into the man that i am today.
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- Yeah. jonathan, you're a family man.
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- And yet there are obviously,
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- As a professional athlete,
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- Temptations, a lot of noise around you.
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- How does your faith center you there
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- And just keep you grounded
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- And keep you walking the straight path?
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- Yeah, well, i mean, it gives me purpose.
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- It gives me a sense of identity and belonging.
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- Definitely doesn't take take all that away.
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- You know, it's, you know,
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- Again, the age that we live
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- In the world that we live in is extremely difficult.
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- And i'm grateful that i have,
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- You know, amazing
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- People around me to want to hold me accountable,
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- But also be there for me, to strengthen
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- Me and keep me encouraged and keep me, you know,
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- Moving in the right direction.
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- My wife, my pastor, my church family, my my family, of course.
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- And so, you know, all of that plays into a role.
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- But i'm grateful that we have an amazing god
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- That loves us unconditionally.
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- And there's grace and there's mercy for us when we fall short.
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- And so i'm grateful for all of that.
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- Yeah. you wrote a great book called why i stand.
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- And jonathan,
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- You did
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- Stand during the national
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- Anthem there in the bubble in 2020 during the covid
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- Lockdown season, the nba.
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- But you stood other players
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- Obviously were kneeling during the national anthem.
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- What was the reception you got from maybe fellow athletes,
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- Other players in the nba to your strong stand?
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- It probably wasn't very popular in a lot of quarters.
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- Yeah, it was absolute craziness.
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- It was just a wild time.
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- Everyone remembers the what was happening,
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- You know, the rise of the black lives
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- Matter movement and organization.
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- And it kind of took over the world.
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- You know, to a degree.
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- You know, the nba got involved and,
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- You know, there was black lives matter on the court
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- And it was just, you know, kind of pandemonium going on.
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- You know, the the the things that were happening
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- In the streets, you know, just what was going on.
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- And so, you know, i found myself in this bubble to finish out
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- The nba season here at disney and with a decision to make.
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- And so, you know, we had a team meeting and
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- We had a team meeting and we kind of decided as a team,
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- Everybody said, hey, you know, we don't have a choice.
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- We're going to kneel for the national anthem.
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- We're going to put the t-shirt on.
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- And one of my teammates asked
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- Me, said, what are you going to do?
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- And i said, fellas, i'm
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- Not going to kneel and i'm not going to wear the t-shirt.
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- And all of that came from prior conversations
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- And kind of understanding that i had gone before.
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- And there was a moment
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- Where i was listening to my pastor
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- Because i wasn't able to be there
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- Because we were in the bubble.
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- And he was preaching on the moment
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- That jesus gets captured by the roman guard
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- And how peter lunges forward and cuts off the guy's ear.
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- And he was trying to get us to understand
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- That if we approach this moment, you know, this george
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- Floyd situation, this,
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- You know, high racial tension with the same kind of
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- What's what's innate to us, which is to retaliate,
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- To be angry,
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- To to fight evil with evil, then we'll get the same result.
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- And he was trying to say that
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- If we get step into this moment with love and grace,
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- There can be real change and redemption.
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- And so i decided not to kneel
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- And to kind of say that as my message.
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- And like you said, i was
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- I was met with my fair share of critique.
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- And, you know, people weren't happy with me.
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- But at the end of the day,
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- There was a ton of encouragement as well.
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- And people understood where i was coming from
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- That if we could
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- If we could see ourselves or see each other
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- The way that god sees us, which is in spite of our sin
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- Inside of us, shortcomings and just love,
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- Then we could have real redemption and defeat,
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- Not just racism,
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- But all the things that plague the hearts of men.
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- Yeah.
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- Number one, jonathan, did you have
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- Did that open your bold stand, that open conversations?
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- I'm sure there were some pretty important
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- And fascinating conversations that were opened up with you
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- And teammates were asking, hey, why aren't you kneeling?
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- Why are you standing?
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- Maybe we had a chance to share the gospel with some of them.
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- That's number one.
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- And number two, did you see god move in your life after you
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- Took that bold stand?
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- Yeah, absolutely.
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- You know, there were so many conversations.
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- I had conversations with not only just my teammates,
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- But players from across the world.
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- You know, guys were reaching out to me saying, hey,
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- They felt the same way and and needed
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- That strength and encouragement to stand themselves.
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- And, you know, you know, soccer players, baseball players.
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- And i was able to walk, you know, walk through it with them.
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- And and i told them about the conversation
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- That i had with my pastor the night before i stood.
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- And what i was trying to do on the phone
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- Was get him to understand
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- How kind of crazy this thing was going to be.
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- You know, i knew that i was going to be a sellout.
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- I was going to be, you know, a lot of different things.
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- I hadn't signed my contract extension
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- Yet that was coming up that summer.
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- And there was just a lot of things
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- That could have stopped me
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- From moving forward just out of fear.
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- And he said to me, you cannot stand
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- For god and god not stand for you.
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- And that was kind of like that, my drag moment.
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- I said, okay, i'm going to go through this.
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- And that's what i relate to.
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- All the different players that, you know,
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- That reached out to me for encouragement.
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- But for the guys that that kind of disagreed,
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- It was just saying, hey, look, it's
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- Not that i don't recognize the issue.
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- You know, i understand your pass
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- To have change.
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- I just believe that the true change
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- Starts in the hearts of men, not legislation,
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- Not different things, not a kind of meeting people
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- With the same thing that they meet you at.
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- I think, you know, it starts in the hearts of men,
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- And that's where the gospel penetrates.
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- And so that was kind of my kind of answer for everybody
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- Who i had conversations with.
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- And people understood, even if they were,
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- You know, kind of against it to start with.
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- And that absolutely afterwards, even just take the book,
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- You know, being able to tell my story,
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- Being able to give god glory through the entire process,
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- How god was able to take this
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- This little boy who struggled immensely with anxiety.
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- And it breaks it down in the book.
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- But i was the number one player
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- In the state of florida while i was at florida state
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- And i was on anxiety medication and nobody really knew about it
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- Except, you know, a coach and a teammate.
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- And my parents, they know, you know what,
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- I was struggling with back home because i was on campus.
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- And so a lot of those things
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- Were in the dark and god took that one
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- And caused him to grow into the man that i am
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- Today, to be willing to stand up for what i believe in.
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- And that's that doesn't speak to me.
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- That speaks to who he is.
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- And i was able to give him glory in the book.
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- And, you know, it became a national bestseller.
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- And i'm grateful for that.
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- And unitus has come out of it.
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- And just just growing a relationship with god
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- Has come out of it, understanding who he is.
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- I ended up getting injured in that same bubble,
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- Tore my acl and god had to meet me in the valley
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- And continue to show me who he is.
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- And i've made it out and back on the court today.
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- Folks,
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- Jonathan's willingness
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- To stand strong for the lord
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- In the face of relentless opposition
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- Reminds me of psalm 23, verse four
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- Even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
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- I will fear no evil, for you are with me now.
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- Jonathan's faith carried him
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- Through every trial, including the moment he was cut from nike.
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- But what seemed like a setback became the launching pad
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- For his next bold adventure.
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- He shares that powerful story after the break.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- What do you see in sports in general,
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- But in particular in the nba?
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- Do you meet a lot of guys in the nba
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- Who do have a strong faith, who are growing in allure?
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- Do you come across guys?
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- Do you have kind of a fellowship?
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- Is there a brotherhood,
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- So to speak,
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- Of believers in the nba that you can maybe pray with
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- And fellowship with?
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- Yeah, it's growing.
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- It's something that
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- I've tried my best to be really intentional about.
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- We've got a weekly zoom call that a couple guys
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- From across the league hop on and we just, you know,
- 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:06.063
- Strengthen each other and talk and pray and whatnot.
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- And so that's been growing
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- And we've been adding new guys to it every week.
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- But there's a
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- There's also a chapel of 60 minutes
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- Before every game where,
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- You know,
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- Guys from different teams
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- Come out and we're able to fellowship there.
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- But it's something that, you know,
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- Just kind of leaving it to god to continue to,
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- You know,
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- We plant seeds, but god brings increase
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- In allowing it to happen naturally.
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- And it started.
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- Yeah, it's exciting.
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- Hey, for such a time, is this how you notice
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- Great things happening there?
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- Riley gains one of your brand ambassadors,
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- Of course yourself to tell us about.
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- You noticed your great new brand.
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- You've got apparel footwear.
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- This is great stuff, jonathan and it is christ centered.
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- You've got bible verses on it.
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- Tell us more about it and why you started it.
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- This is just about giving people an option.
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- I'll tell you a little bit about the back story
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- Back in 2020, i was signed to nike
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- And i ended up injuring myself and they didn't resign me.
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- And i remember having
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- A conversation with my pastor
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- And i was telling him about, you know,
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- I don't have a shoe brand or who am i going to go with?
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- And he said, you should start your own.
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- And that kind of lost the genesis of thinking about
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- What would it look like to have
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- A shoe that was kind of tailored around my belief system
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- And being able to bring that to the world.
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- And that's how unitus was born.
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- He actually came up with a name as well, tailored around the
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- The ark of the covenant that we have in our church.
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- And so that's how it started.
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- And it was just about
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- How can we give people
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- An opportunity and an option to stand for their faith.
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- The sneakers have bible verses on the back, the clothes.
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- The local was inspired by the word of god.
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- And so
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- It's just about in our crazy culture
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- And our crazy day and age
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- That's continuing to move farther away from christ.
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- There's something out there
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- That is setting a standard saying we know who we are,
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- We know what it is that we believe.
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- We love you,
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- But we're not apologizing for who we are
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- And what we believe and we stand on it
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- And just giving people
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- An ability to honor god,
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- You know, to say, i see what the world has to offer,
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- But i'm going to make a decision to honor god with my funds
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- And with my daily decisions.
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- Yeah. amen. jonathan's a great message, a great cause.
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- And it looks great, too.
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- It's some great gear that you got there for sure.
- 00:12:00.677 --> 00:12:03.213
- What are your plans going forward for unitus
- 00:12:03.213 --> 00:12:05.549
- And what's next for you've had the bestselling book.
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- You've got, you know this, a great career with the magic.
- 00:12:07.517 --> 00:12:09.753
- What's next for you? what do you see on the horizon?
- 00:12:09.753 --> 00:12:12.989
- Oh, a whole a whole lot of stuff at the same time.
- 00:12:12.989 --> 00:12:15.258
- I have no idea.
- 00:12:15.258 --> 00:12:16.760
- It does allow and got to take on a lot of my steps.
- 00:12:16.760 --> 00:12:21.565
- But, you know, over unitus has been amazing.
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- You know, i'm
- 00:12:23.533 --> 00:12:24.634
- Such a big fan of ryley and the stand that she's taken
- 00:12:24.634 --> 00:12:26.970
- And you know how she just goes about it.
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- You know, she's amazing.
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- Caleb guy of people, no image of king on social media.
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- You know, right now it's mainly basketball
- 00:12:34.477 --> 00:12:36.346
- Because we have the judah one
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- And we stepped out of that and created a fortune,
- 00:12:37.581 --> 00:12:40.083
- Which is our every day kind of lifestyle sneaker
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- That people are loving right now.
- 00:12:42.686 --> 00:12:43.954
- And we're selling out of a lot of sizes.
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- So we're working on getting it back up.
- 00:12:45.589 --> 00:12:47.257
- But the goal is to go from, you know,
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- Football, baseball, soccer
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- And kind of just build this thing to a fully functioning,
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- You know, brand that honors god in every way.
- 00:12:54.164 --> 00:12:56.933
- And so we're we're running with the tag honor, god everywhere
- 00:12:56.933 --> 00:13:00.604
- Where the where in everywhere is wta are.
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- And i just think that's what
- 00:13:03.607 --> 00:13:05.208
- You know, that's what our message is,
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- Being able to honor god every day
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- And everything that we do.
- 00:13:07.777 --> 00:13:09.079
- You're doing it. jonathan. hey, i love the gear.
- 00:13:09.079 --> 00:13:11.047
- Can't wait to wear it.
- 00:13:11.047 --> 00:13:12.215
- And hey, although i'm a philadelphia 70
- 00:13:12.215 --> 00:13:13.850
- Sixers fan, the big question, hey, you're magic.
- 00:13:13.850 --> 00:13:16.486
- You're looking really good.
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- Young team, exciting on the upswing.
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- What are your
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- What's your forecast for the magic going forward?
- 00:13:20.824 --> 00:13:23.193
- Good things happening in orlando.
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- Yeah, amazing things.
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- You know,
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- I'm expecting us to continue to play well
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- And you know,
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- As our guys get back where
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- We're kind of riddled
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- With injury right now, but we've been able
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- To sustain ourselves and still keep winning games.
- 00:13:33.370 --> 00:13:35.639
- And i think it's just amazing.
- 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:36.673
- It speaks to, you know, who
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- We are as individuals and as a collective.
- 00:13:37.607 --> 00:13:39.709
- So really happy.
- 00:13:39.709 --> 00:13:40.810
- I know the cities have you know,
- 00:13:40.810 --> 00:13:42.178
- Magic fans are happy all over the world.
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- So we want to keep it going.
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- And jonathan, you're doing great things.
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- Hey, man, we can't
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- Thank you enough. we know you're a busy man.
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- You got a busy season going on here.
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- Jonathan. keep up the great work.
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- Keep up the great work on the court with unitus
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- And for the lord. we appreciate you, man.
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- God bless, john. and we'll see you again soon.
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- Thank you so much.
- 00:13:58.662 --> 00:13:59.462
- Thank you for having me.
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- Appreciate you.
- 00:14:00.297 --> 00:14:02.933
- Folks. what a testimony.
- 00:14:02.933 --> 00:14:04.534
- Jonathan isaac story is a powerful reminder
- 00:14:04.534 --> 00:14:07.404
- Of what it means
- 00:14:07.404 --> 00:14:08.605
- To stand boldly for your faith and his courage to stand alone
- 00:14:08.605 --> 00:14:12.676
- Has inspired countless americans to stand together.
- 00:14:12.676 --> 00:14:15.979
- That's exactly
- 00:14:15.979 --> 00:14:17.213
- The kind of move of god that sparked the vision of gather 25.
- 00:14:17.213 --> 00:14:21.251
- It's a massive upcoming event
- 00:14:21.251 --> 00:14:23.119
- That's all about uniting believers
- 00:14:23.119 --> 00:14:25.255
- Across every continent, every time zone
- 00:14:25.255 --> 00:14:28.124
- And every denomination
- 00:14:28.124 --> 00:14:29.859
- For 25 hours of prayer, worship and repentance.
- 00:14:29.859 --> 00:14:33.964
- Coming up after the break, we're joined
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- By the founder and visionary of this global movement
- 00:14:35.332 --> 00:14:38.535
- That you'll want to be a part of.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
- 00:14:43.008 --> 00:14:47.109
- Welcome back to stakelbeck
- 00:14:47.676 --> 00:14:49.144
- Tonight, believers across the globe
- 00:14:49.144 --> 00:14:51.447
- Are coming together for a powerful event.
- 00:14:51.447 --> 00:14:54.483
- Gather 25, this incredible movement
- 00:14:54.483 --> 00:14:57.753
- Is inviting people to pray, repent,
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- Worship and witness how the love of jesus
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- Is transforming lives through everyday individuals.
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- You can catch gather 25 on tbn or tbn
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- Plus starting february 28th at 8 p.m.
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- Eastern time through march 2nd.
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- Here's a quick look at what's in store.
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- Hi, i'm jenny allen
- 00:15:22.845 --> 00:15:24.446
- And the global church is gathering like never before
- 00:15:24.446 --> 00:15:28.017
- And we're going to pray and worship and so much more.
- 00:15:28.017 --> 00:15:31.286
- You're going to love it.
- 00:15:31.286 --> 00:15:32.354
- Gather 25 begins friday, february 28th at 8 p.m.
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- Eastern live on tbn and td and plus be here.
- 00:15:36.325 --> 00:15:40.229
- Do not miss it.
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- Joining us
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- Now is jenny allen, the visionary behind gather 25.
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- Jenny, great to have you.
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- Hey, i can't wait for this event, number one.
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- And number two,
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- A global gathering of believers for such a time as this.
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- Why this year, jenny?
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- Why 2025?
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- What is it about this new year
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- That makes this event the perfect time to be held?
- 00:16:11.627 --> 00:16:16.398
- Well, you would have to ask god that question
- 00:16:16.398 --> 00:16:18.367
- Because this is just exactly when it fell.
- 00:16:18.367 --> 00:16:20.502
- So we are so grateful
- 00:16:20.502 --> 00:16:22.071
- For the chance to go live from every continent.
- 00:16:22.071 --> 00:16:25.507
- Right now, the technology is more powerful
- 00:16:25.507 --> 00:16:28.444
- Than it has ever been.
- 00:16:28.444 --> 00:16:29.645
- We're able to translate 80 plus languages around the world,
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- Live the verses
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- This, the songs that we're going to sing,
- 00:16:36.151 --> 00:16:38.754
- They're all going to be translated live.
- 00:16:38.754 --> 00:16:40.322
- And it's because of technology and where it is today.
- 00:16:40.322 --> 00:16:42.591
- So it's a unique moment in history.
- 00:16:42.591 --> 00:16:44.359
- It's never been possible for the global church
- 00:16:44.359 --> 00:16:46.395
- To gather before it is right now, and we're going to do it.
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- Yeah.
- 00:16:49.665 --> 00:16:50.732
- You've got some incredible speakers, by the way,
- 00:16:50.732 --> 00:16:51.533
- Jenny, run down
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- Some of the guests,
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- Some of the people who will be participating
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- And speaking and praying.
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- I gather 25.
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- Names you may know, like priscilla chaya and louie
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- Giglio.
- 00:17:03.779 --> 00:17:04.313
- We've got incredible
- 00:17:04.313 --> 00:17:05.314
- Worship artists like cody carnes and kari jobe.
- 00:17:05.314 --> 00:17:08.484
- But then we have incredible worship leaders and teachers
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- From africa, asia, auckland, new zealand, all over the world.
- 00:17:12.054 --> 00:17:16.525
- We're going to go we're going to transport all of you.
- 00:17:16.525 --> 00:17:18.393
- I want you to picture it's a small world,
- 00:17:18.393 --> 00:17:19.995
- But for the church and way more epic and way more beautiful.
- 00:17:19.995 --> 00:17:23.132
- We're going to take you all around the world
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- And you're going to see and hear what god is doing on earth
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- In this year.
- 00:17:28.070 --> 00:17:29.037
- And you are going to be so encouraged
- 00:17:29.037 --> 00:17:31.640
- And we're going to worship together.
- 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:32.975
- The whole earth singing one song together.
- 00:17:32.975 --> 00:17:35.644
- We're going to end the entire thing with every continent
- 00:17:35.644 --> 00:17:38.647
- Singing all around the world at the same time.
- 00:17:38.647 --> 00:17:40.949
- This has never been possible
- 00:17:40.949 --> 00:17:42.618
- Before because of the language barriers.
- 00:17:42.618 --> 00:17:44.453
- Yet you mention that word encouragement.
- 00:17:44.453 --> 00:17:46.355
- Jenny, i want to go back to that in a minute.
- 00:17:46.355 --> 00:17:47.823
- But tie tribute also there.
- 00:17:47.823 --> 00:17:49.291
- Christine cain faces
- 00:17:49.291 --> 00:17:50.959
- Very familiar to me and yet very familiar to tbn viewers.
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- Hey, encouragement and look, we live in dark times, difficult
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- Times, obviously.
- 00:17:58.934 --> 00:18:00.202
- But to me,
- 00:18:00.202 --> 00:18:01.370
- Just the take away in talking to you and seeing the promo
- 00:18:01.370 --> 00:18:04.273
- Is that this is a move of god and that we should be
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- Encouraged.
- 00:18:08.043 --> 00:18:09.178
- We should be optimistic as the body of christ about what
- 00:18:09.178 --> 00:18:12.714
- Lies ahead.
- 00:18:12.714 --> 00:18:13.849
- Well, that kind of be a theme throughout gather 25.
- 00:18:13.849 --> 00:18:17.653
- Absolutely.
- 00:18:17.653 --> 00:18:18.787
- You are going to walk away from this experience,
- 00:18:18.787 --> 00:18:21.256
- However much of it you can tune in for,
- 00:18:21.256 --> 00:18:23.358
- And you are going to feel like you are on the winning team,
- 00:18:23.358 --> 00:18:26.328
- Like god is moving in such a miraculous way.
- 00:18:26.328 --> 00:18:29.097
- I think we've lived really discouraged
- 00:18:29.097 --> 00:18:31.200
- In the last few years.
- 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:32.301
- In the last few decades, it feels like
- 00:18:32.301 --> 00:18:34.269
- The church is trending down, that god is not moving.
- 00:18:34.269 --> 00:18:36.805
- It's not true.
- 00:18:36.805 --> 00:18:38.040
- We're going to show revival happening on every continent.
- 00:18:38.040 --> 00:18:40.342
- It is going to blow everybody's minds
- 00:18:40.342 --> 00:18:42.544
- Because right now
- 00:18:42.544 --> 00:18:43.445
- The news is so dire
- 00:18:43.445 --> 00:18:45.380
- And discouraging and we don't know what to think.
- 00:18:45.380 --> 00:18:47.783
- And this is going to be a moment where believers
- 00:18:47.783 --> 00:18:49.918
- Get to hear the truth about what god is doing his church,
- 00:18:49.918 --> 00:18:52.988
- And how powerful he is. moving on. earth.
- 00:18:52.988 --> 00:18:55.424
- Jenny, i really do think this is a movement,
- 00:18:55.424 --> 00:18:57.759
- And i'll use the word this is unprecedented,
- 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:00.162
- What you're doing,
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- February 28th through march 2nd with gather 25.
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- Do you see this becoming maybe an annual event?
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- Yeah, i mean, that is the hope.
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- But we are right now, we're thinking every other year,
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- As you can imagine, this is an incredibly heavy lift
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- Financially in every way.
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- And we we are we are going live in seven events.
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- And so you can pray for us, in fact, pray for the technology.
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- As you know, we're dependent
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- Upon so much of it around the world.
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- Pray for the governments
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- That we are livestreaming into and out of.
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- We're telling stories of the persecuted church
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- That had never been told before.
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- Pray for the people risking their lives to watch it
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- Or to tell their story.
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- It's it really is unprecedented.
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- And i just think people, you know, everybody's got a
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- Right now it's like, trust me, you want to be there,
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- But after this is over,
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- You're going to wish you've been there
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- Because it is going to be so special to see and hear
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- The gospel shared to the world from the world.
- 00:19:48.744 --> 00:19:52.347
- Each continent has programed and planned their own part.
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- And you're going to go into asia
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- And you're going to feel blown away.
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- You're going to land in africa
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- And the drums are going to be beating
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- And the worship is going to be incredible
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- And you are going to feel
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- God's presence in such a powerful way.
- 00:20:03.892 --> 00:20:06.128
- Jenny, this is all going to be amazing.
- 00:20:06.128 --> 00:20:08.063
- How can people
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- How can everyone watching right now be a part of gather 25?
- 00:20:09.298 --> 00:20:14.269
- Well, the best way our hope is
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- That you will not be watching this alone.
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- Our hope is that you would invite people
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- Into your living room, into your local church.
- 00:20:19.207 --> 00:20:21.076
- Right now,
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- We have 10,000 live events happening at the same time.
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- And so it's unbelievable.
- 00:20:25.447 --> 00:20:27.115
- We want you to be a part of this story
- 00:20:27.115 --> 00:20:28.483
- And you can go to gather 25 dot.com
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- And you just sign up and click
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- The little box that says, i'll host an event.
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- And if you're terrified about it, don't worry.
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- We're going to give you all the tools and help you do it.
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- Folks, do it for such a time as this.
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- And remember, february 28th through march 2nd, all kicks off
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- Right here on tbn and tbn, plus gather 20 5:08 p.m.
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- Eastern time, february 28th.
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- We will see you there, jenny. we will see you there as well.
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- Thanks for all you're doing, jenny. god bless.
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- And we will see you soon.
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- Folks.
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- We are in the midst
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- Of a massive spiritual battle right now in america
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- And around the world.
- 00:21:03.318 --> 00:21:04.720
- So will you stand or will you shrink?
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- My final thoughts on that after the break.
- 00:21:08.290 --> 00:21:13.002
- My final thoughts on that after the break.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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- As we wrap up, i want to remind you
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- That standing boldly for our faith
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- Has never been more important than it is right now.
- 00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:26.243
- We live in a time when biblical truth is under attack
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- And the world is pressuring followers of jesus
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- To stay silent.
- 00:21:32.316 --> 00:21:33.650
- But we are called to do the opposite.
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- We're called to stand firm.
- 00:21:35.619 --> 00:21:37.988
- Think of ephesians chapter six, verse 13, where paul implores
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- Us, therefore take up the whole armor of god
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- That you may be able to withstand in the evil day.
- 00:21:45.129 --> 00:21:48.198
- And having done all to stand firm,
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- When we stand together in unity as the body of christ,
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- We become an unshakable force for god's kingdom.
- 00:21:55.105 --> 00:21:58.976
- That's why men like jonathan isaac
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- And why movements like gather 25 are so powerful.
- 00:22:00.944 --> 00:22:04.681
- Because when the body of christ unites,
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- We see lives transformed, we see nations impacted,
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- And we see the gospel proclaim.
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- So let's be bold.
- 00:22:13.090 --> 00:22:14.591
- Let's take our stand.
- 00:22:14.591 --> 00:22:16.059
- Because remember, we're never alone.
- 00:22:16.059 --> 00:22:18.462
- God almighty goes ahead of us and fights the battle for us.
- 00:22:18.462 --> 00:22:22.399
- And he will never leave us or forsake us.
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- So be encouraged.
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- Before we go, some quick programing notes as well.
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- Remember to join us on friday, february
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- 28, right here on tbn for gather 25
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- And be sure to tune in tomorrow where our good friend dr.
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- Robert jeffress
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- Joins us to talk about his brand new book, jesus revealed.
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- You won't want to miss it.
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- Until then, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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