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- Welcome everyone,
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we're excited to share
some Country Wisdom with you.
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- King Solomon had
a thing or two to say
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about the path to wisdom.
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In Proverbs 4, he wrote,
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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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Keep straight
the path of your feet
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and all your ways will be sure.
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- Join us now
for Country Wisdom.
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This can be a
little more for you,
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but this digging- - I can do it.
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I think, ah! (laughs)
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- You know that,
that worked good.
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- Ah, it's all
your fault. - Yeah.
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Well, here, let me get to you.
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(Jim laughs)
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- Don't tell me I
didn't dig my toe in enough.
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- That's right.
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- But I did, it
shouldn't have happened.
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- Well, apparently not,
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you wouldn't be
sitting down right now.
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- No, I dug my toe (Jim laughs)
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in just the way you said.
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- You did it okay, you wanna...
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- I can do it.
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There. - Okay.
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- I did it myself. -
You did it yourself, yeah.
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Okay, look, you
gotta go up to this spot
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and dig in really hard.
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- I did before.
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- Got to dig in.
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- I am digging in.
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- (laughs) Whoa,
okay, you're okay.
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- I was digging in
back when I fell down.
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- Yeah, like I told
you, that's why you fell,
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you weren't (laughs) digging in.
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- I was. (Jim laughs)
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I was doing it
exactly the way you said it.
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- Had you allowed me
to help you? (laughs)
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- I didn't need help,
I got up all by myself.
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- You did, but why
did you have to fall?
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No need falling.
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I'm just saying, just saying.
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You are a stubborn
lady, aren't you? (laughs)
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- My husband would
not argue with that.
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(Jim laughs)
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But, okay, I like
to be independent,
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I don't like asking for
help, which is I think a virtue,
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although I suppose
under certain circumstances
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it might be a
fault. (Jim laughs)
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- It is not here.
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- Just might be. (Janice laughs)
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- That's true, that's true.
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But in the Christian realm,
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it probably is a
negative a lot of times
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because we think we can
do it all in our own way.
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- I have to admit
you're right there
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because I know there are
times where I've had a problem
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or I've recognized an
issue, ooh, in my life.
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- Yeah. - See.
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- I don't wanna- -
See, I caught myself.
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(Jim mumbles) You
didn't need to help.
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And finally I've gotten
to the point where I can't
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kick this certain habit
or whatever, and I realized
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that pretty much when I'm
faced with chocolate cake,
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I have no self-control.
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- I don't know that many people
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would consider
that a real problem,
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but it's true, you
think about so many,
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including myself many time,
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I wanna lift myself up. - Yeah.
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- I can do this
myself, God- - Mm-hmm.
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- Okay, you said it in
the Bible, I'll go do it.
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- Yeah. - Really doesn't work
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that way, doesn't it?
(laughs) (Janice laughs)
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I've unfortunately
found that out many times.
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- It doesn't work
well some of the time.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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Kind of, and like you in
snowshoe here once in awhile,
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you take a
little more direction.
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- But there are parts of
it I was doing very well-
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- You were, you
were. - Thank you.
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- Well, we've got to
get up to the campsite.
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- Yeah, you promised there was
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not any snow on the other side.
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- Yeah, I did
promise that, didn't I?
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- I'm waiting to see if
you're right about that.
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- Now this is pretty steep,
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so we're gonna be just
keep digging in with your toes.
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- I'm digging.
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- Oh, the last of the snow.
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- Good thing because I was
so ready to take these off.
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- Yeah.
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I'm really happy
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that everybody got the
camp set up for us too.
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- Huh, we stayed
away long enough.
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- Yeah.
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Now I just gotta get a
little bit of wood for the fire.
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- And sit. - And sit.
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- Let me sit.
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All right, on the way here,
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about the third or
fourth time that I fell,
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and insisted on
getting up by myself.
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I did, if you caught it,
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I grudgingly
admitted that sometimes
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my wanting to do it my way
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isn't always the best way.
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- Was that a- - No,
that is as close as-
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- That's a little bit
of an apology. (laughs)
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- You'll ever get to an
apology for my attitude.
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- Just joking.
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- But it reminded me, we have
evidence of that in the Bible.
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There, I can
actually think of several,
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but one that comes to mind.
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If someone who do
it my way was Saul
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on more than one occasion.
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But do you remember the
time when he had been told
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to wait for Samuel?
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- Yeah.
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- Well, even before
that, he had been told exactly
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to destroy
everything- - Yep, yeah.
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- In the city that he was trying
to, that they were taking.
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And he had a
better idea, it was,
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hey, I can
improve on God's plan,
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and so he didn't
destroy everything.
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He thought, no,
we'll keep all the best
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for a sacrifice to God.
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Somehow thinking that
by disobeying God's orders,
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he was going to end
up making God happy.
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- Yeah, here's the
text, amazing text.
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I would not utterly destroy
them, but everything that was,
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he said that was good, I
kept everything that was good.
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What he didn't
keep was the vile,
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the refuse that was no good
anyway, that's what he kept.
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That was his idea and his plan.
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- But Samuel, when he got
there corrected him right away.
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- Yeah, it's amazing.
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Let's see.
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And Samuel came to
Saul, and Saul said,
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blessed be thou of the Lord,
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I have performed thy
commandment of the Lord.
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- He was so blind, he
didn't even recognized
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that he had not
followed what God had said to do
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because in his mind
I think it was like,
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but I'm helping
God, I'm doing it better.
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And there's a verse in the Bible
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that talks about
running before the Lord.
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And too often, I know I do that,
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it's like God will give me
an idea and then I run with it,
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and it doesn't end up as well.
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I end up tripping or falling
like I did on the snowfield.
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- Yeah.
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- Even though I
think I'm doing it right
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because I swear I
was digging my toes
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and doing
everything you told me to do,
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and yet I ended up sliding
halfway back down the hill.
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- Just for the record, you
weren't quite doing everything
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or you wouldn't have
fallen down the hill,
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but that's okay. -
But it seemed like I was.
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- Yeah, and that's what-
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- I couldn't figure
out what I was doing wrong,
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I thought I was doing everything
the way you said to do it.
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- And that's what
Saul kind of thought too.
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- I still think
you left a step out.
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- (laughs) You know, it's not,
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and this is not
reflecting what you did,
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we're having fun here and
talking about it, but with Saul,
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Samuel had said,
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hey, you wait until I come back,
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and then I'll
just sacrifice to God.
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Saul said, I can't wait.
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Samuel goes away and
Saul sacrifices to God.
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He was not his position,
he was not the high priest,
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there was not
anything to do with him,
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but he began
thinking in his own mind,
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I can do just as good a
job as God's high priest.
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- Right, and it didn't
make sense to him to wait,
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they already
been waiting for Saul.
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- Yeah. - The men were getting
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impatient and he thought, we
can do this, I can handle this.
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- Yeah, and the end
result unfortunately is,
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it turned out very bad for Saul,
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he ended up losing his own life.
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You don't follow God and things
aren't gonna turn out well.
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But hey, let's
go get some firewood
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for the fire. - Yes.
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- And I wanna show you- -
I was thinking it was time
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for a campfire.
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- There's a tremendous location,
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I wanna show you out
here, the views are incredible.
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- Sure, if I can get up.
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(laughs)
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- Look at that view.
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- That is great.
- Did I tell you?
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Did I tell you? -
That was worth walking
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out here for, but on the way
here I thought of another story
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because we were
talking about Saul
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and how he had this great idea
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and he could do it by himself.
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There was
another classic example,
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and that was, after Jericho.
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Do you remember what they did?
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What the children of Israel did?
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- Yeah, that was the city of Ai.
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- Ai, not AI as in
artificial intelligence.
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- It is true. -
But the town of Ai,
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they had just conquered Jericho,
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but the problem was,
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they forgot that
they hadn't conquered it,
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all they had done
with Jericho is walk around
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and then yell and
watch what God did,
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but they got it in
their heads somehow
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that they had taken Jericho.
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And a little while later,
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they see this
little town beyond Jericho
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and they go, no sweat.
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- That was my direction
of their leader, right, Josh.
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Josh would just go out
and check out this place
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to spy out over there and
see the city of Ai, and so they-
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- And they said, ah, it's tiny,
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compared to
Jericho it's nothing.
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- Yeah. - We can do that
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in the morning
because they forgot
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who had really
been working for them.
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- That's the key,
they'd absolutely forgot.
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- They thought they
could do it themselves.
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- And the thing is, God
had just told him with Jericho,
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look, how on earth are you
gonna take Jericho without me?
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They couldn't, they were
supposed to learn that lesson.
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God wiped out an entire
monster city, a huge city,
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walls that were massive, but
yet they thought, well, yeah,
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look, with 3,000 men, I mean,
that sounds like a lot to you
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and me right now,
but just 3,000 men,
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we can go take that city.
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- Right, they didn't even think
they needed their full army.
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- Yeah, monster army
really, the whole nation.
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- They could take Ai with
one arm tied behind their backs.
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- Yeah, yeah, so they
head out with 3,000 men.
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Yeah, I remember that story.
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- Yeah, it didn't
turn out so well for them.
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- No.
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- Their great plan
didn't turn out so well.
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- Yeah.
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- Because they
hadn't taken God with them.
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- That was the key.
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- They were doing it themselves.
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- Yeah, and of course,
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we've talked about that
already a little bit today.
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It's so easy to do in
the Bible, there's so many,
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we could probably spend hours
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talking about the different
situations of God's people.
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God's people saying,
yeah, I can do it myself.
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It's so easy to
slip into that mold.
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God gives you victory one time,
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and the rest of the
times I can just sail through.
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Prayer, eh, I don't
need to pray today. (laughs)
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- I did it yesterday.
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- I did
yesterday, (Janice laughs)
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I'm covered, right, I'm covered.
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- And I don't think
that we're any smarter
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than the
children of Israel were.
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There are so many times
I've read stories like Ai
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and thought, you idiots,
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you just ran off to
do that on your own.
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God didn't tell you, go
take Ai and I'll be with you.
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They were just all pumped
up with their own abilities.
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Forgot who it was
that really took Jericho.
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- Yeah.
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- And I think, why
were they so senseless
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except that then
in maybe smaller ways,
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I don't know that I've ever
tried to sack an entire town,
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but I'm constantly
doing that in my own life.
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I see a little problem
or something and I think,
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oh, no sweat, I can handle that.
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And I don't go and ask God,
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first of all,
should I be doing this?
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Second of all,
how would you like me?
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- You don't ask God,
should I be doing this?
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Because you're scared
of the answer sometime.
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I am. - Or I'm
just overconfident
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because I'm so certain
I have a brilliant idea,
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why would God object? - Yeah.
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- God is gonna look at me
and go, oh, she is brilliant,
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I should let her have
her own way more often.
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(laughs)
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They're like we did
the snowshoing, right?
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- Are you gonna
keep bringing that up?
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- Probably. (laughs)
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Let me share one
with you I was thinking of
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is in Joshua 23, God speaking.
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One man of you
shall chase a thousand,
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for the Lord, your God,
it's he that fighteth for you.
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As he's promised you.
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Who does the fighting for us?
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- God.
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- God does the fighting for us.
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So many times I
get in the situation
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where I just wanna
fight it on my own.
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All these things
had come up in my life,
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I want to do battle
with the devil on my own.
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And how many times am I
gonna win against the devil?
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- Zero. - Yeah,
zero; yeah, zero.
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- But why is it that I
so often have exhausted
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all of my resources
before I think to turn to God?
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It's like he's my
last resort. - Yeah, yeah.
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- Instead of
being the first one.
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- We can't make
God our last resort.
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- No. (Jim laughs)
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as much fun as I had
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- Sliping down the hill.
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(Jim laughs)
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I like this area.
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I hadn't been here before
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and it is just so
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and there's less chance
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- There you go, there you go.
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It's a great area.
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And I don't know why,
it kind of reminded me
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of the peace of God
in here, the creator.
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- Yeah.
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- And I was kinda
thinking about Hezekiah
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as we're talking
about a difference,
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people who lay
their lives out to God.
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- Well, we were
talking about people
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who ran before the Lord
who wanted to do it their way.
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Are you saying that
Hezekiah was the opposite?
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- Well, it seems to
me, he did it God's way,
00:16:09.10\00:16:10.73
at least in the beginning
there was a couple foibles as-
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- We all have
hiccups. - Humanity does, yeah.
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But yeah, he did
a tremendous job.
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- So of which incident
are you thinking about?
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- Well, I was thinking
about when all the kings said,
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we're gonna come,
we're gonna take you out,
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we're gonna wipe
you out completely.
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And they wrote him a letter.
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- He was surrounded,
was that Sennacherib?
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- Yeah, Sennacherib.
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- Sennacherib, I love that name.
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He got a letter unlike any
that we're ever likely to get
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because I'm not important enough
to get threatening letters.
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- (laughs) Yeah.
00:16:41.83\00:16:43.26
- But he got one that,
didn't it basically say,
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look at everybody
else that we've wiped out?
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Their gods didn't save them.
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What makes you think
you are any different?
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Pretty much just get ready,
you might as well roll over
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and just play dead
and let us come on in.
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- Yeah, exactly.
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I mean, how would
that make you feel?
00:17:01.05\00:17:03.42
- (laughs) I
probably would have curled up
00:17:03.42\00:17:06.12
in a little ball on
the floor and being crying,
00:17:06.12\00:17:09.19
but I don't think
that was his reaction.
00:17:09.19\00:17:11.79
- Yeah, no, really, it wasn't,
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rather than I could do it
myself, he ran to the sanctuary,
00:17:13.09\00:17:17.53
he unfurled that whole
letter out to God and said,
00:17:17.53\00:17:20.37
God, these guys
are trying to kill us,
00:17:20.37\00:17:22.37
these guys are trying
to spit in your face, God.
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Eh, you got a, man, got him.
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- (laughs) I know.
00:17:26.94\00:17:27.84
- Yeah, the
mosquitoes. - Nature.
00:17:27.84\00:17:29.84
- But he just laid the
whole letter out to God
00:17:29.84\00:17:32.28
and said, here it is.
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What are you going
to do about it, God?
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- I think I mentioned yesterday
00:17:35.02\00:17:36.28
that sometimes God
is our last resort,
00:17:36.28\00:17:39.89
it's only after
I've exhausted myself,
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exhausted all of my resources.
00:17:42.12\00:17:43.76
- Yeah. - But
Hezekiah, you're right,
00:17:43.76\00:17:45.93
it said, he got the
letter and he got up
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and went to the temple.
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- I got to tell you,
there are so many times
00:17:50.50\00:17:52.57
when I catch myself,
okay, let's see, I'll try this,
00:17:52.57\00:17:55.60
I'll try this, I'll try
that on, then we'll pray.
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- Uh-huh, we do it
backwards, don't we?
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- Absolutely backwards,
Hezekiah had it together,
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he laid it out to God
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and God answered his
prayer in a mighty way.
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- So did it work?
00:18:07.65\00:18:09.05
- Well, let's see
if I can find that.
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Here is, I wanted
to read this to you.
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It says, now therefore, O
Lord our God, I besiege thee,
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save us out of his hand,
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that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know
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that thou art the Lord, God.
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It's interesting
too because it says,
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I want to give glory to you,
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it's not about
me, it's about you,
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and your glory and your honor.
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And God answered the prayer
and he wiped them all out,
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he wiped out all
the enemy. (laughs)
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- And they hardly
had to lift a finger.
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- They really did.
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- Just like Jericho- - Yeah.
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- Where their part
was minimal, God did it.
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- So many times you
find throughout the Bible,
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if we rely on God,
God totally takes care of,
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he says, I will fight for you.
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Matter of fact, remember
children of Israel says,
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fear not, I am with you.
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Fear not, if you
went through the Bible
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and you found out
there those fear not times,
00:19:02.27\00:19:04.37
there's a lot of that.
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- Well, that's because we
tend to get afraid. (laughs)
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The children of
Israel were- - Yeah.
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- A lot like me or
I'm a lot like them
00:19:09.71\00:19:11.25
because they came first. - Yeah.
00:19:11.25\00:19:13.15
- But there's
still plenty of fear.
00:19:13.15\00:19:15.02
- Yeah. - My first reaction,
00:19:15.02\00:19:16.35
and then it's, God take this.
00:19:16.35\00:19:18.35
- It really is, it really.
00:19:18.35\00:19:20.62
We're gonna take just
a momentary break here,
00:19:20.62\00:19:22.69
but I wanna
share a story with you
00:19:22.69\00:19:24.93
about another fellow in our time
00:19:24.93\00:19:27.66
that really allowed
God to work in his life.
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I love your
stories. (Jim laughs)
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I told you I was gonna share
00:19:32.97\00:19:34.10
an amazing story
with you. - Mm-hmm.
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- But I can't do
it with one hand,
00:19:35.20\00:19:36.67
so would you hold my Bible?
00:19:36.67\00:19:37.77
- Oh, you have to talk
with both hands, do you?
00:19:37.77\00:19:38.84
- I gotta talk with
both hands, yeah, yeah.
00:19:38.84\00:19:41.41
This is basically,
it's a story of Akimatu.
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Akimatu lived in
Pacific, or Pacific, PNG,
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Papua New Guinea. - Okay.
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- And basically Akimatu was
a young man about 14-years-old.
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He lived with a warring tribe,
00:19:55.19\00:19:56.73
I mean, it was a
pretty nasty tribe.
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One day he
showed up to a school.
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Nobody knew why, nobody
had reached out to this tribe
00:20:02.90\00:20:05.53
and they weren't
the type of people
00:20:05.53\00:20:07.90
that went out and studied
or did anything like this,
00:20:07.90\00:20:11.21
but they signed him up.
00:20:11.21\00:20:13.38
Every day he
sat in Bill's class,
00:20:13.38\00:20:16.11
the professor sat
clear in the back,
00:20:16.11\00:20:19.58
never said a word,
nobody said a word to him,
00:20:20.88\00:20:22.62
they were a little
nervous about him and-
00:20:22.62\00:20:25.75
- They were afraid of
him. - They were afraid of him.
00:20:25.75\00:20:27.62
- Hmm. - Because of the tribe
00:20:27.62\00:20:29.09
that he'd come from.
00:20:29.09\00:20:30.23
And in New
Guinea, there can be some
00:20:30.23\00:20:31.86
(Janice laughs) -
Pretty nasty people.
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Well, things went on and
progressed and nobody said much,
00:20:34.20\00:20:38.63
but the quarter of
the year has gone through,
00:20:38.63\00:20:41.50
he never says a word.
00:20:41.50\00:20:43.07
One day Bill asked a
question and he answered it.
00:20:43.07\00:20:46.34
Now the student, one of the
students upfront just thought
00:20:47.81\00:20:50.95
that was the dumbest
answer, just the craziest thing.
00:20:50.95\00:20:54.35
And he starts razzing,
you know as young people do.
00:20:54.35\00:20:56.92
- Yes, I work at a school.
00:20:56.92\00:20:58.85
- There you go. -
I know what you mean.
00:20:58.85\00:20:59.85
- Young teenagers.
00:20:59.85\00:21:01.26
And, man, they started just
razzing and razzing and razzing.
00:21:01.26\00:21:04.03
And it just got so
bad, little Akimatu,
00:21:04.03\00:21:07.56
he has four foot pygmy frame
stood up on top of those desks,
00:21:07.56\00:21:10.90
he started running
across all those desks.
00:21:10.90\00:21:13.57
And he's got his
little tribal gowns on
00:21:13.57\00:21:15.47
and he pulls
out a big old knife,
00:21:15.47\00:21:17.81
and he's going to
decapitate this kid.
00:21:17.81\00:21:19.41
He gets almost to him, he
is just ready to take him down,
00:21:19.41\00:21:22.18
and all the
classroom jumps on him,
00:21:22.18\00:21:23.95
wrestles the
knife away from him.
00:21:23.95\00:21:25.98
Now any place elsewhere,
you'd probably go to jail
00:21:25.98\00:21:28.58
or whatever, but no,
00:21:28.58\00:21:30.05
they just stayed away
from Akimatu. (laughs)
00:21:30.05\00:21:32.82
They really treated
him with kid gloves now.
00:21:32.82\00:21:34.96
They didn't wanna
get anywhere near him,
00:21:34.96\00:21:36.42
but they never said much.
00:21:36.42\00:21:38.66
Akimatu didn't say
much more after that.
00:21:38.66\00:21:40.73
- And he kept coming to class.
00:21:40.73\00:21:42.10
- Kept coming to
class as like he,
00:21:42.10\00:21:44.50
and matter of
fact it seemed like
00:21:44.50\00:21:45.80
he started
enjoying class a little bit.
00:21:45.80\00:21:47.47
Well, toward the
end of the season,
00:21:48.67\00:21:51.84
the professor Bill, he noticed
00:21:51.84\00:21:53.71
that it seemed like
there was some changes in him.
00:21:53.71\00:21:56.68
He could kind of see that,
00:21:56.68\00:21:58.21
yeah, things are getting
a little bit better here.
00:21:58.21\00:22:00.62
What's going on?
00:22:01.48\00:22:02.68
And he kept
instructing and instructing,
00:22:03.69\00:22:07.06
and finally Akimatu would
answer a few more questions.
00:22:07.06\00:22:09.86
The classroom never
dared say another word,
00:22:09.86\00:22:12.26
no matter what
the answers were like.
00:22:12.26\00:22:14.03
(laughs)
00:22:14.03\00:22:15.76
And, anyway, he
continued on in class
00:22:15.76\00:22:19.00
and everything seemed fine.
00:22:19.00\00:22:20.60
Now at the end of the
school season every year,
00:22:20.60\00:22:23.44
professor Bill would go
out someplace in the mountains
00:22:23.44\00:22:26.27
and he'd do
evangelistic meetings,
00:22:26.27\00:22:28.18
he'd hold a little
meeting with some tribe.
00:22:28.18\00:22:31.15
He found out that this
one tribe he was going to,
00:22:31.15\00:22:34.42
basically they were,
well, in a situation that...
00:22:34.42\00:22:37.55
What can I say?
00:22:39.35\00:22:40.72
They didn't speak any of
the languages that he knew
00:22:40.72\00:22:42.89
or any of the
translators that he had,
00:22:42.89\00:22:44.29
it was a variety of
pidgin English that nobody knew.
00:22:44.29\00:22:47.13
He discovers when he
gets back to the school
00:22:48.30\00:22:50.27
that Akimatu knew that language,
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but he didn't wanna
ask Akimatu anything at all
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because he's scared of him too.
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But he's thinking,
well, I don't know.
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Finally, the Holy
Spirit keeps getting to him,
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working at him, working at him.
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And Bill finally thinks,
okay, I'll listen to the spirit
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and I'll go ahead and do what
the spirit says, I'll ask him.
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He asked him, Akimatu
was just excited about it.
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He said, yes, I'll do it.
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Okay, cool.
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So in the school year they
take off up in the mountains,
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hike and hike and hike
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to get to this
tribe way back in there,
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and this tribe is
very happy to see them.
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They give them the place
of honor to sleep that night.
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They arrived there pretty late,
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they give them a place to sleep.
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It's right in the pig house.
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Yeah P-I-G, (Janice laughs)
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pig house, you got it,
where they keep all the pigs.
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- That was the place of honor.
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- That was the place of honor,
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real honor with all the pigs
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because they're
precious, they're important.
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So they climb in there,
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and Akimatu, he just right
in there, he is sound asleep,
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he is having a good old time.
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Bill to show on, or
he kind of gets in there,
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but he got his head out.
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He got to kid
his head out there,
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so he can get a breath
of fresh air once in awhile.
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In the middle of the
night all of a sudden,
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you Seventh-day
come a quick house,
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you Seventh-day
come a quick house.
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Well, Bill happened to
be Seventh-day Adventist,
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and the translation was,
you Seventh-day Adventist,
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you are needed at the
witch doctor's house right now.
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They get up, they
run through the jungle,
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they get to this little hut,
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Bill peeks in,
here's the whole crowd,
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and everybody,
basically the women are crying,
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and this mother is
clutching this child.
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What, what is happening?
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What, what's going on?
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Well, the child apparently
had died, nothing they can do.
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Bill thinks,
well, I'm also a pastor,
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I need to say something,
I need to do something.
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He takes a breath, he starts
to walk under the little door
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because they're all
pygmies. (Janice laughs)
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And little
Akimatu shoves him aside,
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runs in there, grabs the baby.
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And everybody is
going, what, what is going on?
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He grabs that baby,
he holds that baby up,
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and he says, God, you
gave life to this child,
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now you took life away.
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Now, God, you give life back
and we'll give you the glory.
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Man, everybody
is just like, whoa.
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And Bill is
going, what is going on?
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And all of a sudden
fingers start moving,
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toes start moving, and
that baby begins to cry.
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And Akimatu walks back
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and he hands that
child to the mother,
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and everybody is
going, whoa. (laughs)
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The Chief comes
to Bill and he said,
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nobody, nobody has ever
done anything like this.
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Our spirits can't
do anything like this.
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You've got to tell us
what your spirits are like.
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Please tell us what
your spirits are like.
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- After something like that,
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that whole village was
ready to listen to anything
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he had to say. - Exactly.
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Well, Akimatu and
Bill got together,
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they studied all that
night, they talked all night,
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that night with the
Chief and through the next day,
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and they raised up a
church in that village.
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Amazing stuff,
and I think about,
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here was a young
man who basically,
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I don't know, head
hunter, whatever else,
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a really warring
tribe, and God called him
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and he surrendered to God.
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A young man ready to cut
off another student's head,
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that's how bad he was,
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but God allowed the Holy
Spirit to work in his life.
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And I think about this
situation with each one of us,
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I can do it
myself, I can do it myself.
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No, we can't.
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We can't do the things
that God would desire to do
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in and through us.
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- But Akimatu
recognized who could.
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- Yeah, who could
do it, and it's God.
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And friends, I wanna tell you,
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God can do things
mighty and through you too.
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No matter what
it is in your life,
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no matter what's burdening you,
00:26:30.89\00:26:32.22
no matter like
Hezekiah laid out before God,
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choose God today.
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God will work mighty
miracles in your life,
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whatever your life is like.
00:26:39.06\00:26:40.70
Please (laughs) do it today.
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(thunder rumbles)
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- There's a storm coming.
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That means any minute now,
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my grandchildren
will start appearing.
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The little ones first,
00:27:06.89\00:27:08.82
but the older ones
won't be far behind,
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all of them scrambling for
the safety of grandma's lap.
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They know their grandmother
isn't afraid of any storm.
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And soon one of them is
bound to ask to hear it again,
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the story of the great storm,
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how God decided to
rid his world of evil,
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how he decided to send the rain
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and how we asked
grandpa Noah to build a boat.
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