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Erick Stakelbeck: Holy Spirit Awakening in Youth | Stakelbeck Tonight

September 19, 2025 | 25:5

Erick Stakelbeck delves into current events surrounding Jewish people, including conspiracy theories, the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the demonic obsession with Jews. Congressman Randy Weber discusses national security issues, energy independence, and the importance of the US-Israel alliance. The show emphasizes the importance of standing for truth rooted in biblical principles in a world of misinformation and lies. Special guests include Rabbi Pesach Wilkey, Troy Miller from the National Religious Broadcasters, and insightful discussions on border security and law enforcement. Viewer takeaway: Stand on the truth of Jesus Christ and be free from deception.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Holy Spirit Awakening in Youth | Stakelbeck Tonight | September 19, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck
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And i'd like you to wrap your head around this.
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The jewish people make up 0.2% of the world's total population.
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To put it in perspective, out of 8 billion people worldwide,
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There are less than 16 million jews.
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Now, most of the world's
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Jews live in america or in the nation of israel,
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Which is roughly the size of the state of new jersey.
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So we have a people that is less than 1%
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Of the world's population,
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And whose tiny homeland is surrounded by enemies.
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And yet the jews have been blamed for everything
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From supposedly undermining ancient empires
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To causing the black death in the middle ages
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To orchestrating 911 and now arranging
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The murder of charlie kirk.
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Folks, i'm not joking.
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I wish i was, but there are a growing number
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Of online conspiracy cases suggesting that israel
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Was behind charlie's assassination.
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Even though charlie was one
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Of israel's greatest defenders in the public arena.
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It's gotten so insane
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That charlie's pastor felt compelled to respond.
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Take a look.
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You know, there's
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There's discussion about his his views on israel.
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What i can tell you
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Is that charlie believed, and i was with him in korea.
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Just.
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It was the last trip we took.
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It was last week.
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And he was.
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He was.
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Want me to go. to israel to start a work there?
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That was that was his. requested me.
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And i know this, that
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He believed the jews had an ancestral right to the land.
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He believed that jews are god's chosen people.
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He believed in the sovereignty of israel.
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Again, that's charlie kirk's pastor,
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Who talked with him frequently about israel.
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Seems pretty clear where charlie stood.
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But the anti-isis media chatter is getting so bad
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That even israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has weighed
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In, calling the conspiracies insane.
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But folks, it's even deeper than that.
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This obsession with the jews is demonic and
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A sign of the prophetic times that we're living in.
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I spoke about all that and more
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With a good friend of charlie kirk, an israeli rabbi,
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Who spoke to him the night before he was killed.
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That's next.
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The west is facing unprecedented threats.
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An unholy alliance of radical islam.
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And the radical left
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Is seeking to bring down judeo christian civilization.
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And at the center of it all stands israel, fighting
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Not only for its own survival,
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But for the future of the entire free world.
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Joining us now to unpack these critical issues
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And to share how the passing of his close
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Friend, charlie kirk, has personally impacted him
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Is our good friend, rabbi pesach wilkey,
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Executive director of israel.
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365 action pesach.
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Always great to see you, my friend.
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And i want to ask you about charlie first.
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We've got a lot to unpack and discuss, but,
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You and charlie were in regular
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Communication, including shortly before he was assassinated.
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What are your personal thoughts on him and his legacy?
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Well, first of all, charlie was a man of faith.
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And that informed everything that he did,
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Everything that he did,
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Even when he rubbed people to the right of him
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Or the left of him or whatever side
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You want to call it the wrong way.
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Charlie was always seeking truth.
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It was very much a relationship
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About the fact that he wanted reliable information
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From israel, from someone in israel,
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Someone who understood the america first movement,
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The maga movement that he's from.
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And we would talk about israel issues.
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And if he had questions and he had questions
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And he had criticisms for israel, he wanted,
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Someone that confidentially, he could talk to
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About these things and, and seek information and then
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You mentioned the meeting that we had right before his passing.
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And this was this was very jarring in retrospect.
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So, charlie, when he would go out to these campus tours,
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Most people don't realize
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That a large percentage of the questions
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That charlie would get on campuses were about israel.
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Well, and they were about israel,
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Because our campuses have become hotbeds
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Of anti-israel hostility.
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And charlie was known as someone who defended
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Israel, who was supportive of israel,
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Although, again, with his criticisms,
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And charlie wanted to meet with us to go over the issues
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That he anticipated he would be asked about
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About israel and hear what our thoughts were.
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Again,
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We weren't telling him what to say,
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And he wasn't necessarily
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Accepting every argument we made. that's fine.
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Just giving wise counsel.
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And, we ended the conversation by simply saying, look,
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Of course we didn't know it was the end.
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It was more just like, hey, let's continue
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Communicating on whatsapp.
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If questions come up that we didn't
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Anticipate, we'll talk about them.
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That was the call,
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And that was tuesday evening, and i'm told that it was
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Actually his last work meeting.
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What do you make of these?
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Now some are saying, well,
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He was in the process of turning against israel
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Was that you're taking your interactions with him.
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Look, he had his criticisms for israel,
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And there were things that made him uncomfortable.
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And some of those, from my perspective,
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As a defender of israel, as an israeli.
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Some of his criticisms were more founded than others.
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We didn't necessarily see eye to eye and everything.
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That was all part of our conversations.
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And the very fact that he called this meeting
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Speaks to the fact that with all of his criticisms,
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Charlie remained pro-israel, because why on earth
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Would he have a meeting with willkie and josh hammer
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To talk through israel issues if he had turned on israel
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And abandoned israel?
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Yeah,
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And he recently called the anti-israel bile
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We're seeing from some quarters of the right demonic.
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He actually used that word judea and samaria.
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One contentious issue, of course.
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I'm sure charlie asked you about judea and samaria,
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The biblical heartland of israel,
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Israel possibly ready to apply sovereignty.
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There. what's the latest. there? and what are you hearing?
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The latest there is that prime minister
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Netanyahu seems to be saying that it's not the right time,
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And that he wants to delay a little bit
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More and more israelis have realized that the only way
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To end this conflict, once and for all is to end it.
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And the only way to end it is if there's no more open issues.
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We've learned this from the first trump administration,
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And from all the peace
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Through strength policies that work, that
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The only real way to achieve peace in the middle east
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Is to, is to be unequivocal and lay down
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And lay down the truth.
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So i hope that israel applies sovereignty very soon.
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But the latest we're hearing is
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That there might be some delays.
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Hey, speaking of the radical islamic
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Threat, we've got really?
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And you know this well,
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An unholy alliance, i'd say, forming radical islam.
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The radical left working together,
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Some may say, well, it's strange bedfellows,
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But they share a hatred
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For judeo-christian western civilization.
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Talk more about that.
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How we see that developing right here in the west?
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Well, right after october 7th, eric, that november
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At the christmas
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Tree lighting at rockefeller plaza, november 2023.
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Yeah, there was a riot, a pro hamas anti-israel riot.
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And they were chanting, christmas is canceled
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Until palestine is free and it's saint patrick's cathedral.
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On easter sunday, the easter mass
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Was interrupted by anti-israel pro hamas demonstrators.
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Now, let me state the obvious, eric.
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Israel is a jewish state.
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Jews don't celebrate christmas and easter.
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Why does it make sense to our enemies to attack
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Christmas and easter in the name of their hatred of israel?
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Yeah, because it makes sense to them.
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To them we're all the same.
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So what the what?
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The two components of the left.
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This progressive atheist left,
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And these islamic fundamentalists
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Who seem to have nothing in common.
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But as you say, what they share is a burning hatred
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For biblically based western civilization.
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And i don't think anything scares them more
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Than prophecies in the bible coming true.
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Rabbi pesach, thank you so much, my friend. god bless.
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Keep up the great work. we'll see you again soon.
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And coming up after the break, folks,
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Some very big things are happening
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In the world of christian media.
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In the run up to america's 250th birthday, we're joined
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By the head of the national religious
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Broadcasters convention after the break to hear all about it.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to
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Stakelbeck tonight,
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The national religious broadcasters, or nrb,
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Have been a powerful voice for christian
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Communicators, ministries and media for over 80 years
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At a time
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When faith, family and freedom have been under attack and rb
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Is standing boldly to defend biblical truth.
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I recently sat down with nrb president troy miller
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In washington, dc to hear about some of the exciting things
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They have planned.
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Take a look.
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Troy, great to be with you here in dc.
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And speaking of dc, you've got some exciting news.
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And rb are opening an office
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Right here in the nation's capital.
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Tell us more about it and why this is the perfect time.
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Yeah. thanks, erica.
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And this is the perfect time
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Because of so much that's going on in the
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Just the world of communications in general,
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But in christian communications.
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So god has blessed us to have a building,
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On 800 maryland avenue.
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So we're just about a mile behind, the capitol building.
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And we're kind of, you know, dc at all.
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We're on the senate side.
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So we're very close.
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And, look,
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It's really important to the work
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That we're doing here because so much of what we deal
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With for christian communicators is legislative in nature.
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The laws that are coming out of,
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Out of the house, out of the senate,
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Those are so important
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Because
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We want the best environment there can be for christians
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To operate in.
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But we also want to make sure that christians can stay
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In that public space,
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In that marketplace and be part of the media.
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So this office will allow us to expand and to grow
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And to keep that mission active and alive.
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Yeah, an amazing poll.
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I just read, troy,
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That 60% of all americans, not just christians,
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60% of all americans, consume christian media
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On a regular basis. it seems like something's
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Stirring in our country right now. oh, absolutely.
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So that's a survey we did with the barna group.
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And it is i do think that there's,
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A major rejection of the mainstream secular
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Messaging that's been going on
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That really has, you know, divided people.
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And it's it's really caused a lot of depression.
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It's caused a lot of lack of hope out there.
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And let me tell you about a couple other numbers in there.
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Two big numbers that were really exciting.
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Was that the the biggest demographic age group
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Was the gen zers gen z engaging with christian media,
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64% of them engaging with christian media.
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And then right behind them, the millennials gen y,
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With 56%, engaging.
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So the young adults in this country are really rejecting,
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As i said, that
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Mainstream secular messaging that's going on there.
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And they're looking for truth.
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They're looking for authenticity.
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Yeah. talk a bit more about that, troy.
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Number one, do we see stirrings of revival in gen z
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In particular?
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And number two,
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What kind of difference has president trump
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Made for the christian media landscape?
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Okay, those two are really connected.
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I think it as well.
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So let me let me take the second one first.
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President trump and this administration,
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I think what they have done more than anything,
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And this is probably been
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One of the most christian
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Friendly administrations
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That may have existed since our founding fathers.
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Okay.
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I think they have
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Created an environment where it's okay to be christian.
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It's okay
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To even want to search out and think about christianity.
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You know, so
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So that that i really credit the administration
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For creating that kind of environment.
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And they certainly created
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A friendly environment for christian communicators.
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Now flip back to gen z.
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Yeah, i do think we are seeing the beginnings of a revival.
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You know, nb has over 1500 members.
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So we work with a lot of different organizations.
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And we've all heard in the in the media,
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But we know about the campus revivals
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Have been going on across the country.
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We know that
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There have been major revivals on both the east and west coast
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And in really particularly what we would call blue,
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Very progressive, liberal areas of the country.
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And again, go back in our survey,
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The two main reasons people say they were engaging
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With christian media was to find hope and encouragement.
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That was number one, hope and encouragement.
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And number two was that it was an active engagement.
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They wanted to know more about god.
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How do i find out more about god?
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And right behind it? this one was super.
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And how do i have better relationships with other people?
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Wow. that's a rejection of the indoctrination
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That they've been taught over the last several decades.
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It's such an amazing moment.
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And again, troy,
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We can't stress enough for anybody to open an office
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In the shadow of the nation's capital in dc
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For such a time as this.
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To get biblical. it goes without saying.
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And there's also a white house faith office
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Right around the corner from the west
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Wing in the white house right now.
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So an amazing moment
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For believers and believers in christian media.
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Which brings us to nb the big one,
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The 2026 nrb convention annual event.
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Truly amazing every year.
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A highlight on my schedule every year
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This year back in nashville.
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Tell us more about what we can expect
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And how people can sign up to attend.
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Yeah, this is the largest gathering of,
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As we put it, christian communicators.
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That happens anywhere around the world.
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So last year it nearly 6000.
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We're expecting 7000 people to be there.
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We have a huge exhibit floor, over 270 exhibitors,
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Will be on that floor
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From all kinds of different ministries
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To people that are serving ministries.
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Will be there. it's in nashville, tennessee.
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Tennessee, as you said, february 17th through the 20th.
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You can go to npr.org and click on convention and find out.
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And it's open to anybody.
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You don't have to be a christian communicator, but guess what?
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If you show up and you're in a general audience person
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And you just want to know how to communicate better
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On your social media page or your facebook page,
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You might see eric
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Walking around on the floor, or your favorite pastor
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Or your favorite broadcaster there,
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But we're going to cover
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A number of very key topics in the christian community
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Everything from where the pro-life movement is today.
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Where are we at with the family movement
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Today, what's going on in education?
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And of course, all things for communicators.
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What is artificial intelligence all about and how do we use it
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As communicators for the glory of god?
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Yeah, i say this is the super bowl
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For christian communicators, the nrb convention.
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Troy, we love it.
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We're so glad you're here in dc
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With a major presence now for nrb.
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Great things lie ahead.
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Thanks my friend. we appreciate troy. keep it up.
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God bless. thanks for having. me.
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Up next,
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Congressman randy weber joins me to discuss the tragic
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Assassination of charlie kirk, the trump effect
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On securing our southern border.
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America's energy future, and more.
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Don't move.
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Don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight from the tragic
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Assassination of charlie kirk to america's border crisis.
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From energy independence to the growing threat of iran
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And its impact on israel,
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We're facing a host
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Of defining issues right now for our nation and the world.
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Texas congressman randy weber joined me to share the way
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Forward to watch.
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Congressman weber, great to have you
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With us here in washington, d.c.
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We're reeling, obviously, from the assassination
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Of charlie kirk. yeah.
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Still need more details, of course.
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But your first impression, this was a lie.
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And i would say for conservatism,
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For the lord, for jesus. absolutely.
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First impressions of all this as we try to process this
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And the ramifications for our country going forward.
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Yeah. so scary.
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And i mentioned earlier that our oldest granddaughter
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Did volunteer work for him when she was in college,
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And she followed him very closely.
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And so even her mother, my daughter,
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Our beautiful daughter, followed him somewhat to and
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Would send me videos and stuff from time to time.
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It's unbelievable.
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Of course,
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The bible says in the last days, you know,
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The evil men will call evil good and good evil.
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And we're seeing a movement right now, or evil is rearing
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Its ugly head.
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And if you're a christian, if you name
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The name of jesus as your savior, you are a target.
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So we hate that for charlie, hated for his wife.
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There's two kiddos.
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Congressman. well said. so true.
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And a good deal that evil over the past few years emanated
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From our formerly porous southern border.
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You're in texas.
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You know the border very well.
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You know texas house.
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You focused on the border as well and in a previous life.
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But talk about the border.
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Now, we were talking off camera.
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You said in 42 years
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You've never seen it more secure than it is now.
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How did that happen, first of all?
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Well, of course you're not a great president.
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Donald trump has
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Said he would secure the border, but i think americans
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Need to think through this.
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Well, if they don't realize all the fentanyl coming across.
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And then texas is a great
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We love having the records
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On a bunch of stuff, but we have more,
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Believe it or not, a human trafficking
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Come to our state than any other lesser 49 states.
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A lot to say.
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And so then we have fentanyl.
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We have all the cartel stuff coming up from the border.
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If we don't secure our border and here's what people need to
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Think about to eric to was it two years ago in december
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Or maybe three at this point now i when biden was in office,
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I call him mo biden because i think he's obama's third term.
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300,000 illegals came across the texas border.
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In one month in. one month, december.
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Now, if you do the math,
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If 20% of them were kids kindergarten through 12,
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You just brought in 60,000 children.
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Somebody has to pay to educate.
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Guess who that some money is?
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It's the american people.
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And then also think of it this way
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You've got people who need medical help.
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Our great medical practitioners,
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They're going to help them whether they get paid or not.
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So they're going to have to increase their fees,
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Facility charges or anything else.
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Again, guess who's going to pay for that?
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It's going to be americans.
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Yeah.
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And speaking of a congressman, crime and lawlessness.
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You spent a good chunk of your time,
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Of course, here in washington dc. yes, sir.
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President trump saying, hey, look,
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We're going to take control in dc. it's out of control.
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We need to establish law and order here.
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He's talking about doing it in other american cities.
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How important is that?
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I mean, it seems the the great american city
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Has been under siege from crime and mayhem on the streets.
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You see president trump getting a handle on that.
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How important is that for our country?
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What you're seeing in washington, dc, out near
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Chicago, other cities as well, even though some of the mayors
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Are rebuffing him and saying, you can't do this, you don't
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Need to do this in chicago, i forget how many one of the hit
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30 murders in the last month or 28, whatever it was.
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And you think your city is safe and you don't want the help
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From the united states government to help
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You make your city secure and deal with crime?
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It's because they hate trump.
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Yeah. that bad?
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Very true and very sad.
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Td's trump derangement syndrome as a.
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That's right.
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Energy and issue.
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Obviously you're on the house energy committee.
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Yes, sir.
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President trump has made this paramount
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In his initiative going forward.
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Not only for domestic,
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But it's a foreign policy implication as well.
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Talk about how he is putting emphasis once again
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On american energy and america being an energy superpower.
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Right.
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Very important from my district 14 in texas, because we're
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The upper gulf coast, we start the louisiana border
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And we come down the gulf coast, four counties, orange
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Counties,
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Jefferson county, galveston county,
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In the southern half of missouri county,
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We have seven ports, eric, more than any other member of
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Congress, some have for district 14, has seven.
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We produce 65% of the nation's jet fuel,
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80% of the nation's military grade fuel,
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And 60% it's actually 59 point something percent
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Of the strategic petroleum reserve is in our district.
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And our democrat friends, they they don't want,
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For the most part, we own energy and commerce.
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They like they don't like fossil fuels.
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They want wind and solar. that's fine.
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You probably know texas is the number one
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Wind energy state in the country,
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But these aren't sustainable.
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I've told my friends on the other side of the aisle
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To listen.
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Y'all may have not noticed this,
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But the wind doesn't blow all the time.
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Number one and number two about solar panels.
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Did y'all know that the sun goes down at night?
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And so we have to smile at our friends and say, look,
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Y'all should be for all of the above,
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Including nuclear and texas should be leading the way.
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And president trump is aimed directly at doing this.
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Yeah.
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And a big part of that congressman
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Is not relying on foreign oil. correct.
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In the middle east in particular,
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Talk about the state
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Of the iranian regime and talk about the need.
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We see some wobbling as if that's a word i would say
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In support for israel in some quarters.
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These days, we talk about the state of the iranian regime.
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Right now, the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism
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And the importance of the us israel alliance.
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Well, the importance of the u.s.
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Israel alliance, man, we can't overstate.
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We cannot overstate that. it is so important.
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You know, this country
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Was founded on judeo christian principles.
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We had better be israel's best friend,
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Because the bible says in zacharias,
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Israel is the apple of god's eye.
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And whoever touches him, the touch of that touches god.
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And there's a price to be paid.
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And i know that i don't want the united states
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To be on that path. we should be israel's friend.
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The iranian regime has to be toppled.
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There's a lot of discussion about regime change.
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The world needs to know that israel isn't
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Starting this problem.
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They didn't start this.
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This is the hatred that the iranians have for jews.
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And it has to stop.
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And the united states better be 1,000% behind this.
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Congressman. well said. thank you.
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Thanks for all you're doing here on capitol hill.
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God bless. we appreciate it.
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Appreciate you all.
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Thank you, thank you, thank.
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Thanks again to congressman randy weber for joining us.
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Coming up, my final thoughts. it's not your truth.
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It's not my truth.
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There is the truth and it comes straight from the bible.
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My thoughts on that after the break.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks, as wrap up here,
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We're talking about the misinformation
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And disinformation,
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The lies that are traveling across the world.
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Well, if you're wondering about what's really real,
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The gospel of john, chapter 14, verse six has the answer.
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Jesus said, i am the way and the truth and the life.
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No one comes to the father except through me.
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That should cut through all the clutter, all the lies.
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Build your life on the rock
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King jesus and the truth will set you free.
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Speaking of which, some great guest
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Next week, including on monday, our good friend joel
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Rosenberg is here
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And lisa smith
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With some great investigator work
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You won't want to miss until then.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: Holy Spirit Awakening in Youth | Stakelbeck Tonight

September 19, 2025 | 25:5

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