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Hey, welcome, everybody to
A Talking Donkey International
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in 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 and then all your ways
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"will be sure."
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- Join us now
for "Country Wisdom."
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- I have to tell you,
Jim, I love your garden.
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This is so
impressive, at least to me.
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I mean, our garden
is maybe a 10th the size
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and I was impressed with it.
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Steve doesn't let
me up there very often
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because I have a black thumb.
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- He does the green at all.
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- Yeah, in fact, you
probably shouldn't let me
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out here very long or
things will just start wilting.
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But you have done a great job.
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- You know,
Janice, I'm gonna tell you
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it isn't me, it's God.
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Because seriously, you
know, I don't do anything
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that a lot of
gardeners do but I mean,
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God brings the
sunshine, He brings the rain,
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you know, the water, even
the fertilizer from the animals,
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you know, in a
roundabout way he brings,
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He created it all.
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- [Janice] Hadn't
thought about it that way.
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- Yeah, and when I get
out here in the garden,
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I get so excited thinking
about God created all this,
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all the different, I mean,
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the different things are
phenomenal, you know, from
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squash to beans to Jerusalem--
- You obviously like squash.
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I don't know that
many varieties even grew.
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- I got a little carried
away because my wife planted
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a lot of different starts and
so I had them all I use them.
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But you know, I think about
right there in the beginning,
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God created everything.
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In a matter of fact,
can I read you something?
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- Sure.
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- Headed here I
think in Genesis 1,
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very beginning of the Bible.
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Nothing before that
inspires the word for us.
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Matter of fact, I
think about, you know,
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you've got the first two
chapters tell us where we were,
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the last two chapters
tell us where we're gonna be
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and everything in between
tells us how to get back there.
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Because there was a
problem and interesting problem.
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See, God
created all this beauty.
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Each day He did
He'd say, it's good.
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It's good, and He
got down to the bottom
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and He said he is very good.
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And not just good from
the hand of the Creator,
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but very good.
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Then He takes this garden
that He's created and this world
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and then He puts in
verse eight of chapter two,
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"And the Lord God planted
a garden eastward in Eden,
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"and there he put a man."
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He created a special man.
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Right back in
the start, God said,
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let us make man in our
image after our likeness.
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So the God had all three the
Father, the Son, Holy Spirit,
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God together, talked
this all out and then decided
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what it would
take to represent them,
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a very special
creation, a very special being,
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but He put man in
the garden and He said,
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is not good the
man should be alone.
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- Oh, it still isn't,
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- Still isn't, still I
can guarantee is still isn't.
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And He caused
asleep to fall upon man
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and while he was asleep,
He took a rib from his side
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to create a woman not from
his head, not from the foot
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to be under the
foot, but from the side,
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they were to be
helpmates together.
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And that's what it
took to represent God
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as a man and a woman.
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Each a man and a woman have
their own very special traits.
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You and I do a
marriage program too,
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man is not like a woman,
a woman is not like a man,
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regardless of
what people say today.
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- No, in fact, often
have said to you things
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I'll be talking
about something I'll go,
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well, I don't know,
maybe it's different for you
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being a guy but women,
you know, tend this way
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because I understand women.
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I don't understand men so
much but I know that together
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we're whole lot
healthier than apart.
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- Yeah.
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I think about the various
names of God in the Bible.
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And you got, you
know, the Mighty God,
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the Everlasting Father.
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And then you've
got to Jesus He calls,
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oh how often I
would have gathered you
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as a mother hen
gathers her chicks.
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There He is El
Shaddai, the Mighty breasted one
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who would take all
of the little chicks
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under his wings
in great protection.
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That's a woman, that's a
woman, the others, the man.
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You know, and people
today the devil wants to destroy
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all of it, he wants to
totally annihilate the semblance
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of what God was really
planning; husband and wife,
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man and woman,
the home, all of that.
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- He wants to twist
and destroy every good gift
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God has given us.
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- And He saw this garden, he
got totally mad, totally upset,
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and he comes down,
he possesses basically
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the most beautiful serpent
in the garden at that time,
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apparently it flew up on a tree.
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- I have to tell you the
thought of flying snakes.
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- But this was a beautiful one.
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And on top of that talked
in human voice, and it began--
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- [Janice] That
would get your attention.
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- Yeah, well, you bet.
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It begins
wandering in the garden,
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that day she's
taking care of something
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but she forgets
a couple of things.
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One, God said, don't
leave the side of your mate
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and she just kind of
inadvertently wandered away.
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And when she realized
that, she should have run back
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and gotten together
because there was what
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with that partnership.
- Strength in numbers
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- Strength in
that partnership, yeah.
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And so anyway,
she's wandering out there
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and she sees the tree of
knowledge of good and evil
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in the midst of
this beautiful garden.
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And that should have been
another key because God said,
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don't go over that tree,
don't mess around that tree.
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- They were not
supposed to go near.
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- Here's this
beautiful voice and pretty soon,
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we don't have time to
go into the whole story
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but basically,
the devil tricked her.
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She ate of the fruit
because the devil is no, no,
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God's wrong, you
won't really die.
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And she runs back to
Adam, she takes that fruit
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back to Adam too,
and Adam, well, he falls,
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he accepts the fruit too,
and leads the entire human race
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into a whole new situation.
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And what can I say?
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They felt guilty.
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Now, what does guilt do?
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What does it look like?
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- Well, they went and hid
from God, the next time He came.
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They used to look forward to it,
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used to like when
you have company coming
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that you haven't seen in
a while, and you love these
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people, you don't even stay
inside, you go and run out to
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greet them in the driveway.
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- Yeah.
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- They heard, saw God,
and they went the other way.
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And all that it
changed was them.
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- They had spent
so much time with God,
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we don't know how long,
could have been, you know,
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maybe who knows
years. - It doesn't say.
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- Spent that time with God
but yet they ran away from Him
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the second they
heard Him this time
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because they felt guilty.
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Guilt creates fear.
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And the devil loves fear because
he can operate with fear,
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he can twist you inside now
with that fear and that guilt.
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And you know, the sad
situation about all this is,
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is they continue to blame God,
God it's all your fault, God.
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And well, I've got a little note
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I wanted to talk
to you about to here.
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It says, after sin, of
course, they ran and hid
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and they blamed God.
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Then after sin, weed
showed up in the garden.
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- Everything
changed. - Everything changed
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after sin, they began
fighting, had family fights,
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after sin,
brother killed brother,
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after sin as time went on,
they lived for almost 900 years
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so they had a little
time to think about all this
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but I can imagine they
continued to watch and see
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the actions
that they had caused.
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In matter of fact,
in the very beginning,
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the first leaf that
fell from the tree that died,
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that probably
caused Adam more guilt
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than anything you can imagine
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because they never seen
anything like that happen.
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- And they knew
it was their fault.
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- Knew it was their fault.
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And then can you
imagine when son killed son.
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I can't even begin to
imagine those conversations
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between husband and wife.
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Even though God had
come in to save them
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and gave a whole
plan of salvation,
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it was still gonna be some
heavy burden upon them you know.
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It's just, I don't know,
they just felt absolute guilt.
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- And guilt ruins everything.
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- Guilt ruins everything, yeah.
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Hi, I'm Jim Ayer.
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My good friend
Terry Cantrell and I
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have traveled the world together
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filming from Egypt to Zanzibar,
from Costa Rica to Brazil,
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India and beyond.
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For years,
we've captured stories
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that uplift the God of heaven,
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stories that
touch and change lives.
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Now on a new
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we started Talking
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Talking Donkey as a
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to sharing Jesus Christ
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out of the ordinary,
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Like us, I'm
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of the same old
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that line the
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The gospel is exciting, it's
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and let the donkey talk.
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When that happens,
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It's way out of the
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Give the donkey a voice.
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(birds singing)
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- Are we there yet?
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- A little bit to, we can take
a break up here for a second.
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- I'm going to need it.
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- You're getting tired.
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- This pack, with every
step is getting heavier.
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I swear every 100
feet, it gains 10 pounds.
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- What would you put in it?
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- I don't know food,
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I can't go anywhere
without snacks, water.
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- Well, that
shouldn't be that heavy, yeah.
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- You should feel
this thing though.
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Or at least feel what it
feels like on your shoulders.
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- Oh, what are
you having that thing?
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- I told you
some food and water.
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- Mine is totally light though.
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- Well, you can
check it if you want
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but I know I only
put in what I needed.
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- You can have a
seat, I will help you down.
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- I can do it.
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- Your own hips
and your old knees.
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- Oh, who's talking?
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- Yeah, well, yeah, I
am but I've just got to see
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what's in this
backpack but since it's yours,
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I'm gonna let you deal with it.
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- You can look through,
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I'm just happy to
be sitting for once.
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- Just dig out, I
wanna see what's in this bag.
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- There.
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- Rocks, seriously?
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- I did not put
these in, you did this.
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- No, no, no, no, no.
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- Why would I pack rocks?
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- Wasn't me, you know.
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- Some of them are so big.
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- Really, it's kind of
like, you do that I thought,
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that's a perfect illustration
of the way the devil is.
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You know, the devil
takes sin in our lives,
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he drops that guilt in,
just one rock at a time,
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one piece at a time and
we never think about it.
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Because it usually is so small.
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I mean, yeah, you got
some big ones in there,
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you got some
big sins, don't you?
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- We're not getting into that.
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But you know, it
reminds me back in the day
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when I used to do a whole lot
more camping and backpacking,
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Steve and I had gone on a trip
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with my brother
and sister-in- law.
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And we had Collin, our
oldest, and he was maybe two,
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he had to been less
than three because Lauren
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hadn't been born yet.
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And Collin was adorable.
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Oh, he was the most,
you're talking this blond,
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blue eyed Gerber baby toddler.
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And I remember he had this
little corduroy Oshkosh jacket,
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and it had a hood on it.
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Well, we're
going down this trail
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and the hood is of
course hanging down his back.
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My brother kept
picking up little rocks
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and slipping
them into that hood.
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Well, Collin, you
know, as we go on,
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he's not noticing it 'cause
you don't notice a little rock.
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One of those big
ones, he would have noticed,
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you know, would have
knocked him backwards.
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But by the end of that trail,
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that poor kid is
trying to stay upright
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and practically
staggering and I felt so guilty
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because I was
laughing, which was bad.
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But it reminds me of so
often, it's not some huge thing
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that we've done that is
just weighing on our minds,
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it's a buildup, it's a
little nagging sin that grows
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and pretty soon
you don't realize
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how much weight you're carrying.
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Just like, - That
weight is called guilt.
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- Yeah, Collin didn't
realize how much weight
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he was carrying
because it came on very slowly.
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It would be nice if you
know, God just hit you upside
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the head with a
rock, you'd notice that.
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Satan just weighs us down slowly
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and we don't realize
what's happening sometimes.
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If you don't get rid
of those little sins,
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while they're still pebbles,
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you end up with the
boulder in your backpack
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that's really holding you down.
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- That's such a good example.
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I think of my dad, my dad
did not speak to his sister
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for 20 years
because she'd done something
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and that was it,
he just cut her off.
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And I thought, how
could you even do that,
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you know, to a family
member but boy, that's the way,
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you know, you do my
dad wrong and that was it.
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My dad became a
Christian, he accepted the Lord
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later in life like 75 years old.
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And every once in a while I'd
mention something to him dad,
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you should call your sister.
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- Did he feel guilty
about the fact he'd cut her off?
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- He would never say a word.
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One day my mom calls
said, your dad called his sister
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and it was so cool
that I finally said dad,
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I understand you
called Aunt Margret.
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Yeah, I did.
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So how do you feel, dad?
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He said, really good.
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You know, that's what sin does,
that's what the guilt does,
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it weighs you down.
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He'd had that
with him for 20 years
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and it changed his whole life.
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- Carrying a boulder around
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that he didn't
need to be carrying.
00:14:44.38\00:14:46.25
- Yeah, exactly, a huge boulder.
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- It changes us.
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We might think we're
punishing someone in fact,
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but it's not, it's punishing us.
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We talked about Adam
and Eve in the garden
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and what changed that one
evening when God came to visit,
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they had always
looked forward to it,
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this time they're hiding.
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The change was
in their own heads.
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That's why guilt
separates us from God
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because now we're afraid,
now we're running from Him.
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We're trying to hide,
we're trying to cover up.
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And once you finally
admit, here's what I did,
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you know, then there's no more,
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nothing between
you and God anymore.
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- That's right.
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You know, I thought we
were alone on this mountain
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but there's
hackers all over the place.
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I've got to see
what's in my pack.
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- Oh, yeah,
you're making fun of--
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- Well because
certainly, you know--
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- Here's another one.
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- Rocks all over the place.
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Well, this was
kind of, you know,
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I thought you
were the only one--
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- All right,
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now the truth is
out. - That guilt and sin.
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Right, but man, oh,
man, oh, man, this horrible.
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But, you know,
really, that's an example too
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because every single one of us,
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there isn't anybody that's
immune from it, even Christians.
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You know, as Christians, we
can hang on to the tiniest thing
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I mean, you could
almost say that Adam and Eve
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in the garden, you know,
they were kind of Christians,
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they knew Jesus, right?
00:16:06.70\00:16:08.53
- Obviously. - They spent time
00:16:08.53\00:16:09.90
communicating with Him in
the garden but all of a sudden,
00:16:09.90\00:16:12.50
when the devil comes
in and starts dropping
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that guilt on
them, they hid from God,
00:16:14.24\00:16:18.11
I can't even imagine that,
you know, you hide from God
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but that's what
all that sin does.
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- I just thought
when I was a girl,
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I shared a
bedroom with my sister.
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And I may have
been the kind of sister
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who occasionally got
in her sister's closet,
00:16:28.82\00:16:31.99
you know, maybe
that's just a girl thing
00:16:31.99\00:16:33.99
but Bonnie always
had better clothes,
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I got the hand me downs, right?
00:16:36.69\00:16:38.69
And there was one time where
I was just trying something on
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when she wasn't
home and I snagged it.
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Now, it was very
small but of course,
00:16:47.47\00:16:50.11
my sister was the sort who
someday was gonna notice it.
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But I put it back.
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Now, it might have
been weeks before she went
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to get that
particular sweater out,
00:16:58.41\00:17:00.55
but I knew the snag was there
00:17:01.45\00:17:04.02
and it changed my
attitude toward her.
00:17:04.02\00:17:07.29
Every time Bonnie was
around, I was kind of on edge
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like has she found it.
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- She hadn't
changed. - She was oblivious.
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- She hadn't
changed. - She had no idea
00:17:12.63\00:17:13.73
that there was a
little snag on that sweater.
00:17:13.73\00:17:15.96
She maybe wouldn't
have even noticed it later
00:17:15.96\00:17:18.60
or would have thought, oh my
goodness, I snagged my sweater.
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I might have been
able to get away with it.
00:17:21.04\00:17:23.24
But it was eating away in
me and changing my attitude
00:17:23.24\00:17:27.64
so that when she came
in, there was that fear.
00:17:27.64\00:17:31.81
I understand how
Adam and Eve felt
00:17:31.81\00:17:34.48
when they heard God's
voice because it was the guilt.
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There was nothing on her end.
00:17:38.39\00:17:39.95
If she walked in a
room and said, hey, Janice,
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I was just like, what,
what, no what did I do?
00:17:42.29\00:17:44.89
You know, because I
knew I had done something.
00:17:44.89\00:17:48.10
And she probably
would have been shocked.
00:17:48.10\00:17:50.67
And you know, I
don't honestly remember
00:17:50.67\00:17:52.27
if I ever confessed it
or not, maybe that's why
00:17:52.27\00:17:55.44
the Lord just
brought it to my head.
00:17:55.44\00:17:56.91
- And the devil
uses a magnifying glass.
00:17:56.91\00:17:58.81
- Oh, yeah, some little
thing grows and grows and grows.
00:17:58.81\00:18:02.48
Like, you can stick a
little pebble in this backpack
00:18:02.48\00:18:05.31
and it wouldn't
have bothered me.
00:18:05.31\00:18:07.18
But they grow because if
you don't take care of sin
00:18:07.18\00:18:12.25
by handing it over to God,
it just gets worse and worse.
00:18:13.59\00:18:15.69
- I got something my pack
that actually somebody say,
00:18:15.69\00:18:18.53
well, that's heavy, but no,
it actually lightens the load.
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It lightens the load,
you know, Word of God.
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God can come in and take
all that garbage in your life,
00:18:25.43\00:18:28.70
take all that
guilt and get rid of it.
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That's what
Jesus does. - And oh,
00:18:32.07\00:18:33.07
don't you feel
lighter like your dad.
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Once he had made that phone call
00:18:35.11\00:18:37.85
which probably loomed
so large in his own head.
00:18:37.85\00:18:41.85
He might have been
worried she's gonna hate me now.
00:18:41.85\00:18:44.85
- Yeah.
00:18:44.85\00:18:45.65
- I'm sure Adam and Eve thought
00:18:45.65\00:18:46.99
God hated them at that
point, that He was the one
00:18:46.99\00:18:50.29
who didn't wanna talk to
them, didn't wanna to see them.
00:18:50.29\00:18:53.26
I've had people who've said, oh,
00:18:53.26\00:18:56.03
you don't know what I've
done, I've done too much,
00:18:56.03\00:18:57.63
I can't even talk to God.
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God, you know, wouldn't
want anything to do with me.
00:18:59.77\00:19:03.10
And the opposite is
true, He's just waiting for you
00:19:03.10\00:19:07.44
to turn around and say,
can you help me with this?
00:19:07.44\00:19:11.61
- Yeah.
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- Unfortunately
unlike the garden of Eden,
00:19:56.52\00:19:58.13
in our gardens today,
we got weeds, big weeds.
00:19:58.13\00:20:01.43
I mean, this is
one of the small weeds,
00:20:01.43\00:20:03.60
I've got some in here
that I can't even pull out
00:20:03.60\00:20:05.77
because they'll actually
pull the plant out with it.
00:20:05.77\00:20:07.84
- The roots
have gotten too deep.
00:20:07.84\00:20:09.14
- Roots have gotten
too big, too deep, yeah.
00:20:09.14\00:20:11.54
But God gave us
those weeds, right?
00:20:11.54\00:20:15.04
- Well, you know, I
hadn't thought about it
00:20:15.04\00:20:17.88
until you were mentioning that.
00:20:17.88\00:20:19.68
But God actually
had a blessing in that,
00:20:19.68\00:20:23.92
they had to work harder.
00:20:23.92\00:20:25.42
And I know people
think of that as a curse
00:20:25.42\00:20:27.86
and if you're out here in
the hot sun and you're sweating
00:20:27.86\00:20:30.93
and you have weeds
that are weeding that day,
00:20:30.93\00:20:33.96
it does feel like a curse.
00:20:33.96\00:20:35.83
But having to
work a little harder,
00:20:35.83\00:20:38.13
it's actually good
for us in a lot of ways.
00:20:39.40\00:20:41.34
It kept them
out of more trouble.
00:20:41.34\00:20:43.51
- You remember what
the saying is today?
00:20:43.51\00:20:45.51
Idleness is the
devil's workshop.
00:20:45.51\00:20:47.74
- Oh, yeah, the
same grandmother I did.
00:20:47.74\00:20:49.54
(both laughing)
00:20:49.54\00:20:51.18
She loved saying that.
00:20:51.18\00:20:52.81
Anytime she caught me
on the couch with a book,
00:20:52.81\00:20:55.32
which was fairly often,
she would find something
00:20:55.32\00:20:57.69
for me to do.
00:20:57.69\00:20:58.95
- But the devil
knows it's true, don't he?
00:20:58.95\00:21:01.12
- In fact, if you want
more evidence about idleness
00:21:01.12\00:21:05.03
is not what God intended for us
00:21:05.03\00:21:06.86
and that it leads to bad things,
00:21:06.86\00:21:10.63
the moment the lockdown hit--
00:21:10.63\00:21:12.80
- For the pandemic.
00:21:12.80\00:21:14.04
- Right. - Yeah.
00:21:14.04\00:21:15.14
- And all of a sudden
you had more people idle
00:21:15.14\00:21:18.67
than ever before, and
what's been the result?
00:21:18.67\00:21:22.58
If you look at, as it
progressed, rise in suicide
00:21:24.08\00:21:28.48
rates because it's
messing with people's emotions,
00:21:29.55\00:21:32.52
rise in domestic violence.
00:21:32.52\00:21:34.92
There were women mostly
but people who are now trapped
00:21:34.92\00:21:39.69
with an abusive spouse,
00:21:39.69\00:21:43.03
children who are trapped with
an abuser, no place to turn.
00:21:43.03\00:21:46.43
- In matter of fact, I heard
a stat that there are 25% less
00:21:46.43\00:21:50.81
reports of abuse of children.
00:21:50.81\00:21:52.84
Why is that?
00:21:52.84\00:21:54.11
They're not going
to school and schools
00:21:54.11\00:21:55.31
are normally the
place that reports it.
00:21:55.31\00:21:56.91
So much more is going unnoticed.
00:21:56.91\00:21:59.38
- Because nobody's, you
know, nobody's around to see.
00:21:59.38\00:22:02.55
And more anger, alcohol,
oh, the rise in alcoholism
00:22:02.55\00:22:07.29
and drug abuse has
just skyrocketed as well.
00:22:07.29\00:22:10.89
Because people can't
deal with that kind of thing,
00:22:10.89\00:22:13.56
with enforced idleness.
00:22:13.56\00:22:15.70
It happens to
people who lose their jobs,
00:22:15.70\00:22:18.10
even if it's not
their fault, you know,
00:22:18.10\00:22:19.50
their company down sized,
it just completely throws you.
00:22:19.50\00:22:22.87
- I just was thinking, here's
the big thing, the devil says,
00:22:22.87\00:22:25.21
you're not worthwhile,
you're worth nothing.
00:22:25.21\00:22:27.84
You know, you're
sitting there, you're idle,
00:22:27.84\00:22:29.24
you don't have your job,
you don't have whatever he says,
00:22:29.24\00:22:31.71
you're not worth anything.
00:22:31.71\00:22:33.11
You may as well
just go ahead and end it,
00:22:33.11\00:22:34.55
you may as well
bury your sorrows.
00:22:34.55\00:22:36.75
- And we reap the results.
00:22:36.75\00:22:38.65
But all of that
leads to even more guilt
00:22:38.65\00:22:41.62
because then you
hate yourself even more.
00:22:41.62\00:22:44.66
And getting rid of guilt, facing
it, turning it over to God,
00:22:44.66\00:22:49.70
well, let me read you something
00:22:50.63\00:22:51.97
if you wanna know.
- That's a big key.
00:22:51.97\00:22:53.27
That's a big key,
turn it over to God.
00:22:53.27\00:22:55.80
- A lot of people don't
even like admitting guilt.
00:22:55.80\00:22:58.74
You probably never read
an interview with a celebrity
00:23:00.21\00:23:04.28
but I've heard people
say, well, yeah, you know,
00:23:04.28\00:23:08.88
I was in and out of
rehab and I have 14, you know,
00:23:08.88\00:23:12.12
broken relationships behind me.
00:23:12.12\00:23:13.69
But you know, I
don't regret any of it
00:23:13.69\00:23:15.72
'because it made me who
I am, it made me stronger.
00:23:15.72\00:23:18.43
I think he might as
well say I do it all again
00:23:18.43\00:23:20.80
and I don't care who I hurt
because I like where it got me.
00:23:20.80\00:23:24.60
- You leave a trail
of sorrow behind you.
00:23:24.60\00:23:26.00
- It's still not dealing with
that guilt the way David did.
00:23:26.00\00:23:30.44
And when he had, here he wrote,
00:23:30.44\00:23:34.28
"How blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven,
00:23:34.28\00:23:37.91
"whose sin is covered.
00:23:37.91\00:23:39.75
"How blessed is the
man to whom the Lord
00:23:39.75\00:23:41.92
"does not impute in
iniquity, and in whose spirit
00:23:41.92\00:23:45.59
"there is no deceit.
00:23:45.59\00:23:47.42
"When I kept silent about
my sin, my body wasted away
00:23:47.42\00:23:52.19
"through my
groaning all day long.
00:23:52.19\00:23:55.43
"For day and night,
your hand was heavy upon me.
00:23:55.43\00:23:59.20
"My vitality was drained away
as the fever heat of summer."
00:23:59.20\00:24:03.10
But when he
acknowledged his sin,
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and he didn't hide
his iniquity, he says,
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"I will confess my
transgression to the Lord."
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- You can just
feel-- - That heaviness.
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- Flourishing through this
as he confesses the murderer,
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the adulterer, the one who
killed maybe even a friend,
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all of these things,
you can just feel how
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it's all lifting off of him.
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- In spite of the fact
he still had consequences,
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he didn't feel that weight.
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He felt better, he was free.
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- Yeah, amen.
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- You know, we can't take
any kind of comfort and think,
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well, compared
to David, you know,
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I've never murdered anyone,
I haven't lied to that extent,
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I haven't committed
adultery, but we all are guilty
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because even the little tiniest
sin, it harbors, you know,
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it finds a place in
your heart, in your psyche,
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it starts separating you
from people that you love
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because you're hiding that
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and it starts
getting heavier and heavier.
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And God wants to be
able to take that away
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just like he took
David's guilt away.
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- You know, I have
got good news for you.
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And you already know
this news, Romans 5:8,
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"But God demonstrated
His own love toward us,
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"in that while we were
yet sinners, He died for us."
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He died for us.
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- He didn't wait until
we had cleaned up our guilt
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and confessed everything
and fixed everything ourselves.
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- Yeah, He didn't
wait for King David
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to get the act
together and then come to him
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and said, you're forgiven.
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He came to him first
that hey, you got to clean up
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your act here,
I'll help you do it.
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- And he did. -
Yeah, here's another one.
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Psalms 103:12, "As far as
the east is from the west,
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"so far has He removed
our transgressions from us."
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That's where David, when
you read that text in Psalms,
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that's where David
could get that feeling of, oh,
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it feels so good. -
The weight off of him.
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- Yeah.
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When Janine and I, when
we gave our lives to God,
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I can remember
flushing stuff down the toilet,
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I thought, you know, flushing
the drugs down the toilet.
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And it was like this huge
weight was lifted off of me,
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a weight that I
wasn't even aware I had.
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- Until you got rid of it.
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- Until I got rid of it,
util God got rid of it really.
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1 John 1:9, "If
we confess our sins,
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"He is faithful and
righteous to forgive us our sins
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"and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness."
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Now, you know
I've experienced that,
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you've experienced
that, what I wonder folks,
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have you experienced it?
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Have you experience that
change that comes into your life
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when you allow
God to cleanse you
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and wash you with his
blood, to take care of the guilt
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and the sin that plagues
you because as Janice just said,
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sin is in every one of us,
the guilt is in every one of us.
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But when we accept God,
when we allow Him to change us,
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well, you talk about a change.
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Right, they're serious changes.
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- Oh, yes, you're not the same.
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Once you unload that
backpack full of rocks
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that you've
been carrying around,
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you're free to do other things.
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- Good analogy,
perfect analogy, folks.
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Take the backpack off.
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Experience God and
what He'll do in your life.
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Believe me, it is life
changing, it's exciting
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and like King David,
you can begin rejoicing
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for what God is
doing in your life.
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Try it, I mean, we're in
terrible times, horrible times,
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they might get worse.
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They probably will
according to Scripture,
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but God will be with
you, He'll take care of you.
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Whatever is
going on in your life.
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Give Him a try it today.
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