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- Hey, welcome everybody to
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and our new television
series, Country Wisdom.
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- Let's set the tone
for this new series of ours.
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It's found in Proverbs 4,
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let your eyes
look directly forward
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and your gaze be
straight before you.
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Ponder the path of your feet
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and then all your
ways will be sure.
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- Join us now
for Country Wisdom.
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- Jim, I've
gotta be honest here.
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My day did not start off well
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and so far it's
not getting any better.
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- I don't appreciate that.
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- Started off with
my dogs deciding that,
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way before my
alarm was set to go off,
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they thought that there was
some intruder in the backyard.
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So they jump off the bed,
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running across me,
to get to the pet door,
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barking their heads off.
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I realized, oh, it's
getting a little light.
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Every 10 minutes after that,
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one of them was
growling or barking,
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ruining my day.
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- You've told me at one time,
but how many dogs do you have?
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- [Janice] Four.
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- [Jim] Four, so four dogs,
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four dogs were
running across you.
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- Yes, yes.
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And they don't weigh
that much by themselves
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but when the whole herd
decides to launch you...
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Then, when I did
finally get out of bed,
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grumbling,
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I go in the bathroom,
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I can't get the heater
to work and it was chilly.
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So, fortunately the
hot water heater did work.
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I got a shower.
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That was like the only
bright spot in the day.
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I can't find the jeans I
want to wear, my favorite pair.
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They're no place.
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They're not in my closet,
they're not in the drawer,
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I'm storming around
my bedroom and bathroom.
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Finally, ended up
waking up my husband
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because of my stomping.
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I go downstairs to
feed the dogs and the cats
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and I'm out of cat food.
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The container is empty.
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- I'm sorry to be
laughing at you but you're-
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- No,
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I'm glad you're enjoying
it 'cause it was not funny.
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I have two cats
who are staring at me,
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one of them is
a Siamese yelling,
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"Where's my breakfast?"
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And I can't find
cat food, so I'm going,
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okay, you get tuna
today, I guess, or something.
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Eggs, milk, cats
like that kind of thing.
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And I ended up
slipping on something
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that was spilled on the kitchen,
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almost breaking my neck.
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It's like you're
grabbing the counter
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and you look around
hoping nobody's seen,
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this graceful swan
dive that you just did.
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Then, I come out here with you,
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we're supposed to be
coming up to view this,
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what, the eddies,
the mountains, something?
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There's no view Jim.
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Have you looked?
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There's no view.
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- [Jim] You're
right, there's no view.
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- [Janice] And the
weather keeps getting worse.
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This isn't what I was expecting.
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So far,
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it's a fairly
horrible, what's that book?
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Judith Viorst wrote it,
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the Horrible,
Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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This is it.
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- This is it?
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This is it, well, uh-oh.
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- Because,
you're supposed, what?
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- We've got real troubles.
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- Worse than being out of milk,
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when you're in
the mood for Cheerios?
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- The road's gone.
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- [Janice] How are we
supposed to get across?
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Why did you bring me here?
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Uh, why did I agree to come?
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Go ahead, Jim.
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I suppose you're
gonna tell me that,
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God has something to teach me.
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(Jim laughs)
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- He actually probably
does, you know, but listen,
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here's the situation,
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at least as I see
it, but since you asked,
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I have permission to-
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- The situation is it's a
horrible, no good, very bad day.
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- Do I have permission to,
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share with you what
the Bible talks about and-
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- Go ahead.
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- Okay, okay.
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- There really are
some good Biblical accounts
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of people had terrible troubles.
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I don't wanna get you
excited but a lot worse than,
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probably you've been having.
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(Jim laughs)
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But, Job is a
really incredible example.
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He was a friend of God's,
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God loved this man
with all of his heart.
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One day the devil came and said,
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the only reason Job loves you,
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is because you
treat him so good.
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You put a hedge around
him, you put a fence around him.
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And the Lord said, okay,
I'll take the fence away,
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but don't take his life.
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Well, what
ensued was unbelievable.
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His 10 children were all killed.
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All the houses,
there were tornadoes,
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everything blew everything down.
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Raiders came in, took all
of his wealth, took everything.
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And basically in another scene,
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the devil strikes him
with boils from head to foot.
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Now I've never had a boil
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but it sounds
like it's pretty bad.
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The Biblical
description you see,
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he sat on a bed of
ashes and with a potsherd,
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you know, a piece of
pot and scraped his sores.
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That's all-
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- You're not
making the day better yet.
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- Hey, he just, you
know, he couldn't hardly move.
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I mean, it was
just, it was unbelievable.
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But then to top it off
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and maybe I
shouldn't say it this way, but,
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the one the devil
didn't take is his wife.
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And the wife said,
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"Why don't you
just curse God and die?"
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There was no help
from the wife whatsoever.
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And so this went on.
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You begin reading
Job, Job cries out to God.
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In the very
beginning, Job cries out to God,
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"Lord, please help me."
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And for 37 chapters,
God is absolutely silent.
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God never says a word.
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- Well, we've all had times,
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where we felt like God
wasn't saying anything.
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- Well, yeah, yeah.
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- At least we're
not hearing anything.
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- You know, the
children of Israel, I love,
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that's an amazing story.
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- [Jim] God calls
them out of Egypt,
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He calls them out of slavery.
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They're on their way
to the promised land.
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They get up to the edge
of the Red Sea, it's a huge,
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body of water,
they've got to cross somehow,
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but they've got a problem.
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It's just, it's,
nighttime is coming,
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the Egyptian
army is pursuing them,
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with all of their chariots.
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Those guys are hot, they're
mad, they're ready for a fight.
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And they're bearing down on
the Egyptians who are slaves.
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They have no implements
of war, they have nothing.
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What's gonna happen next?
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I mean, they began
crying out to Moses.
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Moses, what's the matter?
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You brought us out
here to kill us out here
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because there weren't
enough graves in Egypt?
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And Moses talks
to God and basically,
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the word of God is, be
quiet and allow me to work,
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stand back and
watch God at work.
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I'm not saying anything to you.
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- It's all gonna be quiet, huh?
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- I'm just sharing.
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- Thought went through my head,
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are you telling
me to stop griping?
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- Well, I didn't say that.
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And anyway, in the next scene,
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God tells Moses,
raise up your staff.
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He raises up that
staff, the whole sea parts
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and the children walked through
on dry ground, dry ground.
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And in the next scene, the
Egyptian army is pursuing them,
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Moses drops his staff
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and God drowns the
entire Egyptian army.
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Now I think of one
situation in New York,
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there was a street preacher.
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This street preacher was
telling this very story and,
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he's telling
everybody in New York about it
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and everybody would
listen on the street corner.
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One atheist came
up to him and said,
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"You, stupid old man,"
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he said,
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"Don't you know, it was
the Reed Sea not the Red Sea,
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"and there was
only a foot of water."
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And the old man, "Really?"
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And the atheist went away
thinking, yeah, I'm pretty cool,
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I shut that man down.
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The next day he's
walking by the street corner
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and the old man's preaching
on the street, he says,
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"Guess what?" He said,
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"God drowned the whole Egyptian
army in one foot of water."
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(Janice laughs)
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You know, it really,
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it's all about a lot
of perspective, you know?
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And it's that, God is in charge
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and God can handle
any situation in life,
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even when it's a no good
rotten, horrible, terrible,
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whatever few other things
you threw in there, you know.
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- A day like this?
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- Yeah, admittedly,
it's a horrible day.
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But there are so many
situations in the Bible
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that give comfort and courage
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to those that
are having troubles.
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You know, I think of King David.
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David, what a man of God.
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As a young man, he was
anointed to be King of Israel.
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Wasn't King yet, but he
was anointed to be King.
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But now the King is
getting more jealous of him,
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all the time.
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This went on
and on and on until,
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virtually David had
to flee for his life.
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He goes and he hides in a
bunch of caves and he just,
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he just camp, down there.
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He's pursued all
the time and guess what?
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He's pursued for 10 years.
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Get this, he's
anointed as the King of Israel,
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he's living in a cave
with 500 or 600 other guys,
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hiding away from
the quote, bogus King.
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In Psalms 22, I believe it is.
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He writes to God, my
God, my God, I cry out to you
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and you don't answer.
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You don't answer.
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And you wonder sometimes
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that God allows,
that silence of God,
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sometimes we cry to the Lord.
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Matter of fact
there's a, the story of,
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I call it the
Syrophoenician woman.
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Syrophoenician woman
had a daughter who was just,
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oh, she had a daughter, the
Bible says was terribly vexed,
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with a devil.
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Now I don't know
exactly what that had been like
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but apparently the
devil would tear at her
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and this child was,
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you know, fits and throw
her on the floor and everything.
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And you can
imagine, you're a mother.
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What would that do
to you as a mother?
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- Oh, it just
rip your heart out.
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- Yeah, and that's
exactly what this mother,
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was happening to her
but she heard about Jesus.
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She began building up
some faith that maybe he can,
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he can help my daughter.
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So he went one day and he found,
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or she found Jesus and she says,
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"Lord, Lord, please help me,
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"my daughter is
grievously vexed with the devil
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"and you can help."
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He doesn't even
say anything to her.
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Then he ignores her and
then pretty soon he says,
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"Woman, I don't wanna
cast my bread to the dogs."
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He refers to her as a dog.
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Not only does
first time, not answer,
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then, basically,
woman you're a dog, go away.
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- Now that's harsh.
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- Now the 12, if you were,
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the 12 ordained
ministers of the church,
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they say, she's bothering us.
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Lord, get rid of
her, send her away.
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As a mother, how
would that make you feel?
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- You know, I'd do
anything for my daughter.
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- Yeah, exactly
and this woman did.
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She hung right in there,
she continued to press and said,
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"Lord, but even the dogs,
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"eat the crumbs off
the master's table."
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And pretty soon Jesus said,
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"Woman, great is your faith."
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Great is your faith,
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he hadn't told that
to anybody in Israel,
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but here is this
Syrophoenician woman,
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great is your
faith, be it done to you
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and her daughter was
made whole that very instant.
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That woman hung
in there with God.
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Matter of fact, Martin
Luther, not Martin Luther King
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but the old Martin
Luther, the preacher, says,
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this woman bundled up
all the promises of God,
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threw 'em at his feet
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and dared Jesus step over them.
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And Jesus couldn't do it.
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He granted that
request to that woman.
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You know, tremendous
stuff of God, tremendous stuff.
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And then probably,
probably one of them that,
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that means so much to
me is, I think about Jesus.
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You know, our example.
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In his life, you know, 33 1/2
years, that's how old he was.
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33 1/2 years, but at age 30,
he went into public ministry.
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Man, it was like,
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the devil started
throwing everything at him,
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including the
kitchen sink, you know.
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Just everything.
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- So you think he had bad days?
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- Oh, it's like from
the moment he stepped into,
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public
limelight, it was a bad day.
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It was all a bad day.
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- Hadn't thought
about it like that.
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- And, but you know what?
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He found some very good
friends during his time.
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He found one,
Martha, Mary and Lazarus.
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Remember them?
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You know, he liked them so much
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because he
could go to their home
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and he could find
solace and quiet and peace.
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All the other stuff is
dumping on him continually,
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all the time.
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So he needed that little
respite to just get away.
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He could be himself as a
word, Jesus was always himself,
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but you know what I
mean, he could just relax.
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Yeah, He could just relax
and be at peace and at home.
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One day, he's out
with the disciples,
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he's, they're a long ways away
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and Lazarus gets sick
and he is really sick.
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And Martha sends a
runner to please go tell Jesus.
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All she says to tell Jesus is,
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your friend Lazarus is sick.
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Well, the servant
gets out there to Jesus.
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They've got a little campsite
and the servant tells Jesus.
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And Jesus said,
okay, that was it.
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Servant goes away.
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The disciples say
that, Lord aren't we going?
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No, no, I'm not going right now.
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And one day
passes, two days pass,
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three days pass.
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And, wow.
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Fourth day he
said, well you know, the,
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Lazarus is sleeping
now, I think we'll go.
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The disciples say,
well, he's sleeping,
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then Lord, he's getting better.
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No, he explained to
them, now he's dead.
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See the Bible really says when
you're asleep, that's death.
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Death is a sleep.
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You don't travel up to
heaven and spend time there
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and then come back
later on or anything else.
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You're, just go
to sleep in Jesus,
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waiting until
the resurrection day.
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But that's a whole nother study.
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(Janice chuckles)
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But, he heads out
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and the disciples are
thinking, what is going on?
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Well, just before
he gets to the home
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of Martha, Mary and Lazarus,
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the ladies hear about
it because a runner says,
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Jesus is coming.
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Well, Mary gets
up and she runs out.
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A lot of the people
there thought, well, you know,
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she's going out because
she's going to the graveside.
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Well, so some of
the mourners come out
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but there is Jesus and Mary
and, Lord, if you'd been here,
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he wouldn't have died.
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Well, that was true.
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Death couldn't be
in the sight of Jesus.
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Jesus broke up every
funeral he ever attended
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and says, well, do you believe?
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Yes, I believe.
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Says,
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she said, I know there's
gonna be a resurrection morning.
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No, no, do you believe?
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Yes Lord.
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They go down that graveside,
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they roll away the stone
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and Jesus calls
Lazarus out of that tomb.
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He'd been dead all that time
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but the creator, God of the
universe, put life back in him
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and rose him, right up there,
right in front of everybody.
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I mean, it was so exciting.
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It had been a very bad
day for Martha and Mary.
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It had been a bad day for-
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Lazarus, a few days ago,
you know, he kicked the bucket.
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(Jim laughs)
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But God raised him up.
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And now we're in
a situation that,
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Jesus, is just
about time for him
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to give the ultimate sacrifice.
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He spends that time,
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well, it's so amazing
because he knew exactly
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in his own mind,
what was going to happen.
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So he has, what we've
referred to as the last supper.
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- [Jim] And at that last supper,
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he gets together
with the disciples.
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And the first thing he does,
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he gets a bowl and he gets down
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and he begin washing
the feet of the disciples.
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And the disciples are
going, what are you doing?
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- It should have
been the other way around.
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- Yeah, they should
have been the ones to do that
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but they were too proud.
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You know, that they're
in the company of Jesus.
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You know, we don't
do anything like this
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but now all of a sudden, Jesus
wants to touch their hearts
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and say, look,
just relax in life here,
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trust me for everything.
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He gets down, begins
washing Peter's feet.
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Peter said, "Lord, you have
no, no, you can't wash my feet."
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Jesus said,
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"If I don't wash
your feet, Peter,
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"you have no business with me."
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And then Peter,
like typical Peter,
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Lord, wash all my whole body.
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- Right.
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- Take it all, Lord.
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He begins washing
the other disciple's feet
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and pretty soon he gets around,
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all the way around the
disciples, except to one.
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He begins washing
the feet of one disciple,
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who is having a few problems.
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Do you remember
who that might've been?
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- I'm going to guess, Judas?
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- Yeah, he's
washing the feet of Judas
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and we know that right at
that moment, for just a moment,
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feelings begin
to raise up in Judas
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because he was the one
who had betrayed Jesus.
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He's sold him for
30 pieces of silver.
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He was ready to confess his sins
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but then pride
got in the way, again.
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I can handle life, I can
deal with this, I'm in control.
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And he just repulsed
everything God wanted to do.
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They got up, they
sat down at the table
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and they began eating.
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And Jesus said, one of you
here, is going to betray me.
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Well, and he did that so that
the disciples would know later
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that Jesus was God, also.
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- [Both] He knew
what was going to happen.
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- Yeah.
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And he finally says, you
know, what you're going to do,
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do it fast.
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He heads out, goes away.
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And later on,
disciples are out at the,
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in all of the
vineyards and everything.
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And Terry and I
have been to those areas,
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we've filmed in
some of those areas
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and the olive trees are just,
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well, I mean they're
monsters, olive trees, huge.
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- [Jim] There
Jesus was out there,
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in the middle of the night
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and he tells the
disciples, you wait right here.
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But his heart is so weighed
down, he can't hardly stand it.
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And the reason is,
00:20:31.33\00:20:32.39
he's taking on the
sins of the whole world.
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That he's going
to be the sacrifice.
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It's all him.
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And as I told you
earlier, 33 1/2 years old,
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what young man wants to die?
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All of this
weight is on him now.
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It begins to crush him
because he was taking your sins
00:20:47.78\00:20:51.08
and my sins because, I
can't do anything about my sins.
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I'm born into sin.
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You're born into sin.
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And, you know, the
things we talk about,
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the very bad, ugly,
horrible day and everything,
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can you compare that
00:21:04.26\00:21:05.36
to what was
happening to Jesus right now?
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In Revelation it
says, he took the cup.
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That cup is the, it says
the indignation of the Father.
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And that indignation,
00:21:15.90\00:21:17.84
is all of the wrath of God
upon those who finally say,
00:21:17.84\00:21:20.74
I don't want
anything to do with you, God.
00:21:20.74\00:21:22.68
Get out of here.
00:21:22.68\00:21:23.91
I don't want your sacrifice.
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Jesus drank that cup,
00:21:26.21\00:21:28.68
so that whoever comes to him,
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sins are washed away.
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Jesus sheds his
blood for everyone.
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And he went to the rock
where he grabbed the ground,
00:21:36.69\00:21:40.03
he even clutched the
ground and we're told that,
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out of the
pores, he sweat blood.
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His vessels were breaking.
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The consternation was so
bad on what was going on,
00:21:46.53\00:21:49.64
He cried out to the Father,
00:21:49.64\00:21:50.67
" Father, please help me.
00:21:50.67\00:21:52.54
"Let this cup pass from
me, if there's any other way."
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And you know what, there was
silence, not a word from God.
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The second time, same
thing, cried out to the Father,
00:22:02.95\00:22:05.92
"Please Father,
if there's some way,
00:22:05.92\00:22:08.32
let this cup pass from me."
00:22:08.32\00:22:10.36
Again, silence in the water.
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Third time, same situation.
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Jesus, finally,
00:22:18.60\00:22:19.93
he's resolved to do it.
00:22:21.80\00:22:23.67
He gained that
victory right there.
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The biggest victory was not
with Jesus hanging on the cross,
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the victory was
gained right there
00:22:29.18\00:22:31.31
in the garden of Gethsemane.
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- When he decided
to go through with it.
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- When we decided
to go through with it.
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Take your sins and my sins
00:22:35.15\00:22:36.72
and the weight of the
world on his shoulder.
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God who had done nothing,
00:22:39.62\00:22:41.86
God who just simply
created us from the beginning
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and the devil came
and messed it all up.
00:22:44.29\00:22:45.93
God says, I wanna save you.
00:22:45.93\00:22:48.16
I wanna save you.
00:22:48.16\00:22:49.16
And he gets up,
00:22:50.40\00:22:53.34
heads with the disciples
00:22:53.34\00:22:55.34
and all of a sudden,
00:22:55.34\00:22:56.67
here's all the
rabble coming to take Jesus.
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They grab Jesus, several
other scenes happen and go on
00:22:59.04\00:23:02.71
but finally we see
Jesus in that final scene,
00:23:02.71\00:23:05.38
hanging on the cross.
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As he's hanging on
the cross, he cries out,
00:23:07.28\00:23:10.05
"My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?"
00:23:10.05\00:23:13.76
Well the Father
hadn't forsaken him
00:23:14.82\00:23:16.73
but the Father
didn't say anything
00:23:16.73\00:23:18.93
because Jesus
was taking that sin
00:23:18.93\00:23:21.83
of the unrepentant sinner.
00:23:21.83\00:23:24.60
Taking those
sins, dying that death,
00:23:24.60\00:23:27.90
that you and I don't have
to die, if we accept Jesus.
00:23:27.90\00:23:30.64
But he suffered
through all that.
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You talk about a bad day,
00:23:32.71\00:23:34.98
I mean, that was a bad day.
00:23:34.98\00:23:36.88
And as he hung on that
cross, He looked out at everyone
00:23:38.21\00:23:43.15
and he knew as he hung his head
00:23:43.95\00:23:45.69
that his sacrifice, many
would accept his sacrifice
00:23:45.69\00:23:49.52
and be with him
in God's kingdom.
00:23:49.52\00:23:51.76
And that is what gives us cheer.
00:23:53.26\00:23:56.70
That should give us hope.
00:23:56.70\00:23:58.23
Even when we don't
hear the voice of God,
00:23:58.23\00:24:00.74
even when we don't have
God's apparent arm around us
00:24:00.74\00:24:04.77
but it really is.
00:24:04.77\00:24:05.87
And now that
even starting to sun,
00:24:06.98\00:24:09.01
little sunshine
right now, right?
00:24:09.01\00:24:10.75
- Yes Pollyanna, there's sun.
00:24:11.75\00:24:13.28
(Jim chuckles)
00:24:13.28\00:24:14.82
- But that's the,
that's the situation.
00:24:14.82\00:24:17.65
Now we can't let things in
this life get us discouraged
00:24:17.65\00:24:22.16
because God is with us.
00:24:22.16\00:24:23.96
God will help us.
00:24:23.96\00:24:25.53
God will get us
through to the other side.
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- We have to get
through to the other side here.
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- Yeah, let's go see if
we can find a place, huh?
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- I'll follow you.
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- Okay.
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I wrote a little
book a while back called,
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"Overcoming The 3Ds: Depression,
Discouragement, Despair".
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It's helped thousands of people.
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If you'd like a copy,
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you can log on to
TalkingDonkeyInternational.org
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and for a small
gift, it can be yours.
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Please, do it today.
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- [Commentator] Introducing
Talking Donkey International.
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God once used a
donkey to spread his word,
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but he'd rather use all of us.
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It's time to
prepare quality programming,
00:25:06.90\00:25:09.20
created to attract and
reach viewers of the world,
00:25:09.20\00:25:12.11
not just those
of our denomination.
00:25:12.11\00:25:14.51
Together, we can carry
the final advent message
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to the
individuals of planet Earth
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and hasten the
return of our Lord.
00:25:19.71\00:25:22.12
Please pray for and
support the successful mission
00:25:22.12\00:25:25.12
of Talking Donkey International.
00:25:25.12\00:25:27.26
- Praise the Lord, Janice.
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I think we've got a way out.
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You may get your
feet a little wet, but-
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- Oh, is that all?
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- Yup.
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- And my, oh great, I got
a drip right down my neck.
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(Jim sneezes)
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- You want me to
help you a little?
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- Yes.
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- There, do it so
in case, there you go.
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- There, there, here.
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Oh, I'm going to break
into the hallelujah chorus.
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(Jim laughs)
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Oh.
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Remember what I was
saying about I don't know,
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why I let you talk
me into these things?
00:26:02.72\00:26:05.59
- Yeah.
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- But I was listening,
I was paying attention.
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- Oh, good and we made it.
00:26:09.30\00:26:11.33
- Yes.
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From up there, I didn't
see how we'd get across.
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I'm glad you were here with me
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or I would have still
been over there crying.
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But you did put it
in perspective for me.
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There were some
people that you know,
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God cared about and loved.
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I mean, Jesus
himself, son of God,
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had moments where he
felt like he'd been abandoned.
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That it was, must've just
seemed like everything was black
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and yet he didn't give up.
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He didn't give up on us,
God doesn't give up on us.
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And even if you're having a,
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horrible, terrible,
no good, very bad day,
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it helps to remember
that this isn't all there is.
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- Exactly, we'll
get through this.
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- Five minutes from
now, it could be different.
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Five minutes from
now, there might be sun
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and someday, we know
there's gonna be sun,
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the sun.
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- Amen.
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Well, let's get in
the warm truck, huh?
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- That'll make
the day a lot better.
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- Hey, did you have the keys?
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- No, you have 'em.
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Jim, you've got the keys, right?
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Please tell me
you have the keys.
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(Janice sighs)
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- Oh man.
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(gentle music)
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No, I don't have the keys.
00:27:48.10\00:27:49.73
(Janice screams)
00:27:49.73\00:27:52.57
- Stop laughing,
00:27:54.97\00:27:56.17
it's not funny.
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(gentle music continues)
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- Hey, thanks for
joining us for Country Wisdom.
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- See you next time.
00:28:05.01\00:28:06.58
(gentle music continues)
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