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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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(peaceful country music)
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(indistinct crowd chatter)
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- [Speaker] Just inside.
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- [Speaker 2] All right, Rocky!
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Give it back,
baby, give it back!
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- [Speaker 3] Come on, Rocky.
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- [Speaker]
(indistinct) One strike.
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- [Speaker 4] No, no, no.
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(indistinct crowd chatter)
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- Hey, look at that,
not quite over the fence.
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Hey Chad, good seeing you, man.
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- [Chad] Good to see you too.
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- Thanks.
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- Thanks for meeting us today.
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And you said you really wanted
to meet us at the ball field
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because that's where
some of your story is.
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And I don't know how
much Janice has heard,
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but why don't you just
go ahead and start talking?
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- Yeah, absolutely,
anybody that knows me knows
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that baseball was a
big part of my life.
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It was something
that helped me through
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a lot of
difficult times in my life.
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It's something that I
was very passionate about,
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to say that I was consumed by
it would be an understatement.
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I identify with baseball.
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You see, I started up
in a very loving family.
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Started out in life
with a Christian family
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that showed me a
lot of good values,
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and they began to
show me the ways of life.
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And I never thought
that there was anything
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really wrong with me, with
the way that they raised me.
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You see, I was born
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with something called
claeidocranial dysplasia
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dysostosis. - [Janice]
Which I've never heard of.
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- Yeah, and
there's a lot about it.
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And I'll just say
it's CCD from now on,
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so that you know
what I'm talking about.
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But basically, I
didn't have any collarbones.
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I had a hole in my head here
and here in my sagittal suture,
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which is an open
fontanelle directly to my brain.
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I've had 45 teeth
pulled out of my mouth.
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- 45, how many do
we have in our head?
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- I didn't think
we had that many.
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- A lot, a lot, and
I have hip dysplasia,
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just to say a few
things that are wrong with me.
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Medical doctor
said there's about
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a hundred things
that are wrong with me.
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- Seriously?
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- And I'm one in a
million in the case
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of the syndrome that I have.
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But I didn't really realize
that I had an issue with me.
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It was until I got to school,
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and I began to show
kids what I was made of
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and what was wrong with me.
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And I'd show them things like
putting my shoulders together.
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I'm gonna show you what I do
so you can see what it's like,
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but I can do this.
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I know, and in that
moment you had a feeling,
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you had something
that you just saw.
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And the kids, they
would identify me as weird,
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gross, strange.
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And I'd be
getting all these labels
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that I began to identify as.
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- So in your family,
you never felt different.
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You go to school,
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and now you feel like
you're the odd man out.
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- That's right, that's right.
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But my dad, with the love
of sports, showed me baseball.
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And baseball is what
I began to hide behind,
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and it was like a warm cloak.
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And I changed my identification
from gross, not wanted,
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into someone that
could play baseball.
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And I began to play baseball
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all the way through high school,
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and it was
something that I excelled at.
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- I noticed, you've actually,
on that Louisville Slugger,
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you've got your name on the bat.
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- Yeah.
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- Not everybody has that.
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- No, yeah, I had a
friend that made it for me.
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Went to Kentucky
to make it for me,
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and that was very nice of him.
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But yeah, it's
something that I excelled at
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and played all the
way through high school.
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And it opened up a new
opportunity for me to go to
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college. I don't know
if you've ever heard of it,
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but a school called
Columbia Union College, CUC,
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offered me a scholarship to play
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at the NCAA Division II level.
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Where some elite
athletes get to play
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at their perspective sports.
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- So you were good?
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- I was pretty good.
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I don't like to
brag about myself,
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but yeah, I played
at a pretty high level.
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Well, while I
was at that school,
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I was exposed to something
that changed my life forever.
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And that was at this school,
it was a Christian school,
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and they made
you do some worships.
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And at these worships,
you got credit for 'em.
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Well, I didn't
know what was going on.
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So I walked into the church,
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sat in the back
where I normally sat.
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And I look up on the screen,
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and this thing called "Net '98".
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And I thought, what
in the world is that?
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And this guy, Dwight Nelson,
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he was up there and
he began to tell a story.
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And I thought he was
talking directly to me.
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I don't know if you've
ever had that experience,
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where you've been
in a crowd of people
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and somebody begins to speak,
and it could be to anybody,
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but they're talking
to you at your heart.
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That's the
experience that I just felt.
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- That was God.
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- And it was, I believe it was.
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- What was he saying
that made you feel like,
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"This is for me?"
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- I couldn't tell you everything
that Dwight Nelson said,
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but what I locked
on to was he said that,
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"You're beautifully
and wonderfully made."
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And that, "God has a purpose
and a plan for your life."
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And it began to
change my perspective
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on who I am, and
what I was born with.
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I began to see all this
grossness that I began to hide.
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I didn't tell my
family and my parents
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the things that
people said to me.
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I kept that all in my heart.
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And I felt safe at home,
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but I always held
onto that baggage,
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those labels, those
things that people would say
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that were mean and
hurtful towards me.
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And I began to see that
Christ had a plan for me
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with this message that
Dwight Nelson was saying.
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Well, at the end of
this talk, I walked up front.
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Well, there was an altar call,
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and I immediately
get out of my seat.
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And I get up and I
walked straight to the front.
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And these two pastors
come right towards me.
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I think I was the only one
at the front of this church.
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And when I get up
there, they asked me,
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"Do you wanna pray, and
do you wanna get baptized?"
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I said,
"Absolutely, let's do this."
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So I get the opportunity
to sign a little card.
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I walked out of the
church, up Flower Avenue,
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if you're familiar
with Tacoma Park's campus.
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Towards Morrison Hall,
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and I don't wanna go
into the boys' dorm yet
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'cause I'm still
chewing on everything
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that he's saying to me.
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I walk across the
street into the commons area,
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by Weis's Library, and there's
this little flower patch.
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And then it hit me,
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and I realized the
plan that God has for me.
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That I am beautifully
and wonderfully made,
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and that I'm
perfect for his ministry.
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And I just fall to my
knees and I began to cry
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and bear my heart to the Lord,
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and asked Him to
take all that baggage,
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all that pain, all that
stuff that I was holding onto,
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and I gave it to Him.
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And I pray that you get to
have that same opportunity,
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where you get to be
real and raw with the Lord.
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- But now, I've gotta tell you,
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Janice is getting
slightly older, I'm not saying,
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but maybe we ought to go
sit down in the bleachers
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and hear the rest of your story.
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- Okay, let's do that.
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- That'd be appropriate for me.
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I spent most of my softball
career on the bench anyway,
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so I feel right at home.
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- Sounds good.
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- [Chad] All right.
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- Sounds good,
appreciate you sharing, man.
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- [Chad] Yeah, absolutely.
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- The great
Catholic monk, Martin Luther,
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was so concerned
with his salvation,
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that when in Rome,
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he climbed the holy stairs
on his knees to earn salvation.
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But when he reached the top,
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God flashed a Bible
verse before his mind.
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"The just shall live by faith."
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That brings me to the
title of a free pamphlet
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that I'd like to give you.
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It's called, "Am I Good Enough?"
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It's easy to get your copy.
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Go to
TalkingDonkeyInternational.org,
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and order offer
107, "Am I Good Enough?"
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It will be a comfort for you.
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- I have to admit,
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I will never get used
to Tennessee humidity,
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but it's a little
easier to take sitting down.
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- That's true,
this is very true.
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- I don't know
how you live here.
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- Well, my parents moved here,
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and we decided to come
and live with my in-laws
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and we could be closer together.
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- Chad, we kind of
left you in the garden.
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I wanna hear the
rest of that story.
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- Yeah, I had just
dedicated my life to the Lord
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and knew that I
had a purpose for Him.
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But your identity is
what you allow people to see.
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And I wasn't
prepared for everybody to see
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what I was so raw and
real with with myself.
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And I continued to be dedicated
to my game of baseball.
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And I played there at
CUC for the rest of my time,
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until I graduated, and
I was quite successful.
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I was the USCAA
player of the week,
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which is the
league that we played in.
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I was an All-American nominee.
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I wasn't the All-American,
but I was nominated.
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So I was part of
the top crowd in there.
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I was an MVP of my
team multiple times,
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and I was the captain as well.
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So I had a lot of
success with baseball,
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but when I graduated,
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I didn't have a plan B,
it was baseball all the way.
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And so when I
continue to play some baseball,
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I had to try out
with a couple of teams,
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and it wasn't
really going anywhere.
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And finally, the Chicago Cubs
gave me one last opportunity.
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And I was there trying out
for their minor league team.
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I was there for five days,
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and they came up
to me and they said,
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"Look, you're not what we need.
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"Thank you for
coming, we'll see you later."
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And that was devastating to me.
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- I was gonna say,
what does that do to you,
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when your whole
focus is baseball
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and baseball
doesn't come through.
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- Yeah, with no plan B.
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- I gotta tell ya, he did
come up with another plan.
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He wrote a book
about those experiences.
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And why don't you tell
us a little bit about that.
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- [Janice] It was a
little bit of a shift of focus.
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- A real shift, yeah.
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- Yeah, that book was
something that came about
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about my life and
some of my experiences
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that I go into throughout
my life in the military.
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And it was an inspiration
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that was brought on
by some of my students
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that I used to teach
back in Milo, in Oregon.
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- Chad, help me out, military,
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with all of the things you
listed tested wrong with you?
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- Yeah, so I don't make
it into the baseball realm.
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I go into depression, I
bounce around from job to job,
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not really sure where
I'm going with my life.
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And I find myself
homeless, living in a garage,
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outside of a worm factory.
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Literally printed on
the side, "Worm Factory".
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And my brother
calls me out of the blue.
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And he says, "Chad, what
are you doing with your life?"
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And I said, "Well, I'm
thinking about investing
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"in some worm poop, what
do you think of that idea?"
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My brother, he
laughed, and he's like,
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"Yeah, you might
be able to do that.
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"But you ought to think
about going into the military.
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"You're still young,
you got a lot of energy.
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"You've got a lot to offer.
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"You ought to
explore that opportunity.
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"The special forces has
some opportunities for bonuses,
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"and they could pay
you quite a bit of money."
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And I thought about
that, thought about that.
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And I get off the
phone with him, telling him,
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"Well, I'm still thinking
about the worm poop idea",
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but I let him go, and I said,
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"You know what, this is
not the end game for me.
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"I'm not gonna stay here.
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"I'm gonna get off the bench,
and I'm gonna go somewhere."
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And with that said,
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we need people in our lives
that I consider swim buddies.
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That are willing to call us
out of the funk that we're in.
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And they recognize the
potential that we have.
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Christ Himself did the same
thing to the woman at the well.
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When He called that
woman, who was a Samaritan,
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He said, "You
have more to offer.
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"And if you're
looking for the water of life,
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"I'm right here, I have
that potential for you."
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And she becomes the
first gospel messenger,
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telling people about Jesus
Christ as she goes into Samaria.
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Well, my brother did
the same thing for me.
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He said, "Chad, go do
something with your life.
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"Get off the bench,
get out of the factory,
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"the worm factory,
and go do something."
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So I go and enlist in
the United States Navy.
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And I took four months off.
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I quit my job and began
to train, and invest my time,
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and my effort into something
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that I was about
to get myself into.
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I changed my diet, I
changed my workout regiment.
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I began to consume my knowledge
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with the people
that I'm gonna be around,
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and the things that
I'm going to be doing.
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To the point where I knew
that I was ready to go in.
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Now, there's
another lesson there,
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that we can't just jump into
things that we just wanna do.
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You have to have
a preparation time.
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You gotta pour your
heart and soul into things,
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and understand what
you're getting yourself into
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before you jump in,
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because you might fail not
knowing what's ahead of you.
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So I go through a medical
examination, which is called
00:12:18.83\00:12:22.97
MEPS. And they just check you
over to make sure that you're
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alive. - And you passed?
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- Yeah, so they
just basically asked me,
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"Do you have
anything that would keep you
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"from doing your job?"
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And I said, "No,
there's nothing wrong with me
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"that's gonna keep
me from doing my job."
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- I love that response.
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- Yeah.
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- And so they passed me through
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the initial medical examination.
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Well, since I had a
special warfare contract,
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I had to go through a
deeper medical examination
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when I got to Chicago,
it's called the dive physical.
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And they do an x-ray of your
body, and they look inside you.
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I pray that no one ever
gets to look inside of you
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and see what's wrong with
you, but they did that to me.
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And I got pulled out
of the line of the guys
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that were going through to
get their medical examination.
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And the Lieutenant put
me at the end of the line
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and he said,
"Just sit here, Lambie."
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And so I get
through all the people,
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they all go
back to the barracks.
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Then the doctor went to
the instructors and said,
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"Hey, we're going
to keep Lambie here.
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"We need to talk with him."
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I knew something was
up right then and there.
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And so he pulls me
into the office and he says,
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"Lambie, are you sure you wanna
go into the special forces?
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"Is this
something that you think
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"you're going to be able to do?"
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"Absolutely,
I've been working out,
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"I've been dedicating my life.
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"I've been put
forth a ton of effort
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"so that I can go
do this opportunity
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"in the special
warfare community."
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He said, "Are you aware that
you don't have collarbones?"
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(Janice and Jim laugh)
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Yeah.
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- Did you sit
there and go, "What?"
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- "I'm aware I
don't have collarbones.
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"But it hasn't done anything
to keep me from my goals."
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He said, "Well, wait here,
I can't make this decision.
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"I gotta go get the commander."
00:14:00.10\00:14:01.60
So he leaves the room,
goes and gets the commander
00:14:01.60\00:14:04.07
that's in charge of
the medical facility.
00:14:04.07\00:14:06.27
And he comes walking in with
my medical record in his hands,
00:14:06.27\00:14:09.44
he looks at me and he said,
00:14:09.44\00:14:10.81
"Chad, I see that you wanna
be a special warfare operator.
00:14:10.81\00:14:14.98
"Are you sure you're
gonna be able to do this?"
00:14:14.98\00:14:17.25
I said, "Sir, I've
been training my body.
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"I've met every standard that's
been required of me so far.
00:14:19.95\00:14:22.86
"And I would just
love the opportunity
00:14:22.86\00:14:24.46
"to get the chance to try out.
00:14:24.46\00:14:26.93
"And I know that you
have that capability."
00:14:26.93\00:14:29.53
And he opens up
my medical record,
00:14:29.53\00:14:31.30
and he goes to my
physical readiness test scores.
00:14:31.30\00:14:33.84
And he sees my
pushups, my sit-ups,
00:14:34.87\00:14:36.77
my pull-ups, my
swim, and my run.
00:14:36.77\00:14:39.34
He says, "Wow, you've got
some outstanding numbers here.
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"You've got elevated numbers."
00:14:41.38\00:14:43.31
And I was in the
top four percentile
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of the guys that I
was going through with.
00:14:45.21\00:14:47.65
And I just didn't
leave anything to question.
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I had poured a ton of effort
00:14:50.45\00:14:51.92
and a ton of time
into preparation for this.
00:14:51.92\00:14:54.39
And he said, "I don't
know if you're aware of this,
00:14:55.76\00:14:56.99
"but the military has a rule
00:14:56.99\00:14:58.39
"that they don't allow people
in if they're missing a bone."
00:14:58.39\00:15:01.23
"But I'm gonna
sign a waiver for you
00:15:01.23\00:15:02.60
"that allows you to go
for your dream, your goals.
00:15:02.60\00:15:05.97
"That you wanna
be in the military."
00:15:05.97\00:15:08.74
I said, "Thank you, I
really appreciate that."
00:15:08.74\00:15:11.04
And he signs it,
00:15:11.04\00:15:12.11
and they take some
pictures of me putting
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my shoulders together
for their medical records.
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- Wow.
00:15:16.24\00:15:17.31
- So that they knew
what they were allowing
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to go through the doors.
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And I walked
away and I understood,
00:15:22.65\00:15:24.22
wow, if I didn't go
through the preparation process,
00:15:24.22\00:15:26.92
if I didn't pour
my heart into this,
00:15:26.92\00:15:28.99
then I could have
left so much on the table.
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We have another story of
that in the Bible with Moses.
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Moses had an
opportunity to be a leader
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for the Israelite nation.
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He was called to
save the Israelites
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And when he put the plan
for God in his own hands,
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he ends up killing an Egyptian.
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He then has to go out into
the wilderness for 40 years,
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and it takes 40
years of preparation
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before he's ready to do
what God intended him to do.
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I pray no one has to go
through 40 years of preparation,
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but there I was,
four months preparation,
00:16:03.22\00:16:06.33
and I'm meeting
what I wanted to do.
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Well, that led to an opportunity
00:16:09.36\00:16:11.23
to go to Special
Warfare Combatant Craft School
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in Cornado
California, San Diego.
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This is the
special warfare community
00:16:17.14\00:16:19.44
that I was trying out for.
00:16:19.44\00:16:20.81
Well, when I got
there, I was put on a slab.
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A concrete slab,
00:16:24.55\00:16:25.91
on hold because there was
another class going through.
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There wasn't enough room
for us to get into there,
00:16:30.12\00:16:31.82
so we were sitting there,
00:16:31.82\00:16:32.92
and we would
work out and prepare
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for the
opportunities to try out.
00:16:34.92\00:16:37.43
Well, every Friday, they
had approved yourself Friday.
00:16:37.43\00:16:40.33
And basically we
do pushups, pull ups.
00:16:40.33\00:16:42.60
But on this particular day,
00:16:42.60\00:16:44.33
we were going to
do flutter kicks.
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Flutter kicks, you lay
down in a horizontal position,
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and your feet are six
inches off the ground,
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and they go up 18 inches.
00:16:51.14\00:16:52.81
And they go in intervals
00:16:52.81\00:16:54.08
until your stomach
is totally exhausted.
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For me, two, don't you think?
00:16:58.31\00:17:00.62
- Yeah.
00:17:00.62\00:17:01.68
- I challenge
anybody to do 100 of 'em,
00:17:01.68\00:17:03.69
and it would be
quite an achievement
00:17:03.69\00:17:06.55
to be able to do 100
four count flutter kicks.
00:17:06.55\00:17:08.66
And four count basically means,
00:17:08.66\00:17:10.13
1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3,
2, until you're exhausted.
00:17:10.13\00:17:15.16
Well, this particular
day we had 30 guys lined up,
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and we were
starting this competition.
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30 guys get to a
hundred, and we're down to five.
00:17:22.10\00:17:26.71
And five guys,
we get to about 200,
00:17:26.71\00:17:29.74
and it's just me
and Mike Corvelli,
00:17:29.74\00:17:31.75
we're just
dropping off like flies.
00:17:31.75\00:17:33.95
And Mike Corvelli and I
are pushing each other along,
00:17:33.95\00:17:36.02
encouraging each
other, and he gets 250.
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Now, let me remind you
that 250 is the maximum
00:17:39.09\00:17:41.99
that anybody had ever
done while on hold, waiting.
00:17:41.99\00:17:45.23
So it's quite an
achievement just to get to 250.
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And he quits, he says, "Lambie,
get to 300, you got this."
00:17:48.40\00:17:52.40
And I thought to
myself, all right, no problem.
00:17:52.40\00:17:54.24
Let's keep going.
00:17:54.24\00:17:55.64
And all of a sudden, all these
guys heard what was going on.
00:17:55.64\00:17:57.81
And they began to gather around
00:17:57.81\00:17:59.71
and see me go
through this pain and agony
00:17:59.71\00:18:01.94
I was just putting
myself through for no reason
00:18:01.94\00:18:04.51
'cause I'd already
won the competition.
00:18:04.51\00:18:06.35
And they kept encouraging
me and encouraging me.
00:18:06.35\00:18:08.98
And one of them said,
when I almost got to 300,
00:18:08.98\00:18:10.69
he's like, "Oh, he's
gonna get 300 no problem.
00:18:10.69\00:18:12.65
"Lambie, you gotta get 400."
00:18:12.65\00:18:15.02
And I'm not even
focused on a number,
00:18:15.02\00:18:16.69
I'm just going through the pain,
00:18:16.69\00:18:18.26
and just going
through the focus.
00:18:18.26\00:18:19.86
And then just being
lifted up by the encouragement
00:18:19.86\00:18:22.33
and comradery that's going
on with my buddies around me.
00:18:22.33\00:18:26.00
And they're
pushing me and pushing me,
00:18:26.00\00:18:27.04
and I'm getting closer to 400.
00:18:27.04\00:18:28.57
And finally, one of them said,
00:18:28.57\00:18:29.70
"Lambie, you need to get 500."
00:18:29.70\00:18:31.61
And that's when it hit me,
I got laser focused on 500.
00:18:31.61\00:18:35.78
- And that's twice what
anybody had ever done before.
00:18:35.78\00:18:38.68
- Yeah, it was something
that was insurmountable.
00:18:38.68\00:18:41.42
It was something that
wasn't even discussed.
00:18:41.42\00:18:44.19
Why would anybody go 500
four count flutter kicks,
00:18:44.19\00:18:46.45
it's just crazy.
00:18:46.45\00:18:48.09
But I got
focused on this number.
00:18:48.09\00:18:49.82
I'm in the fight,
I'm not gonna quit.
00:18:50.93\00:18:52.89
I'm gonna go for this number.
00:18:52.89\00:18:54.46
So I push myself, and
push myself, and push myself,
00:18:54.46\00:18:57.07
till I get to 499,
500, and my body just quit.
00:18:57.07\00:19:02.14
And the guys picked me up,
00:19:02.94\00:19:04.27
and I go through this great
congratulations from these guys,
00:19:04.27\00:19:08.08
and they really
made me feel good.
00:19:08.08\00:19:09.21
But the real
thing that I pulled away
00:19:09.21\00:19:11.18
from that whole experience,
was when I was sitting by myself
00:19:11.18\00:19:14.58
and I was thinking about it.
00:19:14.58\00:19:16.32
And I said, "Wow, what if I
didn't put a limit on myself?
00:19:16.32\00:19:19.79
"Could I have achieved
more, could I have kept going."
00:19:19.79\00:19:22.56
- If you weren't focused on 500?
00:19:22.56\00:19:24.43
- Yeah, I put a wall on
myself, a limit on myself.
00:19:24.43\00:19:27.50
And so once I hit that number,
I just totally collapsed.
00:19:27.50\00:19:30.07
I quit, it was like
my body just gave up.
00:19:30.07\00:19:32.83
And we definitely do
that in our own walks in life.
00:19:34.24\00:19:36.74
We give up,
00:19:36.74\00:19:38.11
we have these limitations
that we give ourselves.
00:19:38.11\00:19:40.31
And when we focus on
what God has in our lives,
00:19:40.31\00:19:42.51
He can see so much more
potential than we have to offer.
00:19:42.51\00:19:45.58
We always hold ourselves back
00:19:45.58\00:19:47.22
from what we're
totally able to achieve.
00:19:47.22\00:19:49.45
- Now, Chad, we
can't just leave you there.
00:19:49.45\00:19:51.22
We've gotta hear
the rest of the story,
00:19:51.22\00:19:52.99
and you got about three minutes.
00:19:52.99\00:19:53.82
- Okay, so we move on,
00:19:53.82\00:19:57.03
we get through that
perseverance and the comradery.
00:19:57.03\00:20:00.33
And I get an
opportunity to class up.
00:20:00.33\00:20:03.37
Now, I got a paddle
over here that I wanna grab,
00:20:03.37\00:20:05.37
if that's all right.
00:20:05.37\00:20:07.14
- We're gonna
see that in a minute,
00:20:07.14\00:20:08.44
but I kind of wanna
hear, how did you end up?
00:20:08.44\00:20:10.44
I mean, did you find
God through all of this,
00:20:10.44\00:20:12.41
or what happened?
00:20:12.41\00:20:13.31
- Once you found
Him there in college,
00:20:14.91\00:20:17.01
did you hold onto
Him the whole time?
00:20:18.11\00:20:20.55
- God was in my
life all the way through.
00:20:20.55\00:20:23.35
And I began to
see glimmers of Him
00:20:23.35\00:20:25.35
as I'm going
through the special forces.
00:20:25.35\00:20:27.42
And I knew that I
needed to put God in my life.
00:20:27.42\00:20:30.06
And I began to
go to church again.
00:20:30.06\00:20:32.09
I had actually
walked away from God
00:20:32.09\00:20:34.00
when I hit my lowest point,
00:20:34.00\00:20:36.16
and I wasn't going to
church for a long time.
00:20:36.16\00:20:37.83
And then little by
little life, as I came back,
00:20:37.83\00:20:40.20
being in the
military, and I said,
00:20:40.20\00:20:42.04
"You know what, I need
the Lord back in my life."
00:20:42.04\00:20:43.37
And so I did go to church,
00:20:43.37\00:20:44.94
and I started to be
around the people that I needed
00:20:44.94\00:20:48.61
The encouragement, the
comradery, the swim buddies,
00:20:48.61\00:20:51.61
keeping me
accountable for what I'm doing.
00:20:51.61\00:20:53.48
- How many years did
you spend in the military?
00:20:53.48\00:20:55.32
- I was in there for six years
00:20:55.32\00:20:56.58
- [Jim] Six years.
00:20:56.58\00:20:57.89
- Six years, and
I spent a lot of it
00:20:57.89\00:21:00.36
in the Special Warfare
Combat-Craft Crewman team
00:21:00.36\00:21:04.06
at Special Boat
Team 22 in Mississippi.
00:21:05.33\00:21:07.76
- What does that
mean for all of us really?
00:21:07.76\00:21:09.83
I mean, what
does that really mean?
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- Special Warfare
Combat-Craft Crewman
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is a brother in
line with Navy Seals.
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Everybody has heard of
the Navy Seal community,
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but most people haven't heard
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of Special Warfare
Combat-Craft Crewmen.
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We are the boat
insert extract platform,
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per Seals and
other ranger battalions.
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And we give them safe passage
in and out of harm's way.
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And so there's two
special warfare communities,
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Seals and SWIC, and everything
else is special operations.
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So it's an elite fighting force,
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there's about 700 hundred of
them in the United States Navy.
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- Now, six years,
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did you have any urge to go
on any further, do any more?
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- I did, but I met my wife.
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- That'll do it.
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- And she changed my life.
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She changed my life,
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and we decided that we didn't
wanna stay in the service.
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See, the problem
was I got married
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when I was in the military,
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and I was away from my
wife more than I was with her.
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And she was my
now new swim buddy,
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helping me keep accountable
and closer to the Lord.
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And we knew that
I needed to get out
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in order to begin
to be an influence
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for people in their lives.
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- [Jim] Okay.
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- And so then after six years,
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I turned in my time slip,
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and I was able to get my DD 214,
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which is my exit paperwork.
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It allowed me to get out
of the United States military.
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- And since then, say,
we've just got very few
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because we want to
hear about your paddle too.
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- [Chad] Yes, sir.
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- But quickly, you
started a ministry?
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- Yeah, it's No
Excuses, and I wrote my book.
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And it's helping people overcome
adversity in their lives.
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And I'm willing to
give them the formulas
00:22:42.92\00:22:45.69
that I learned while I was
in the special forces and life,
00:22:45.69\00:22:48.70
going through the
adversity that I went through.
00:22:48.70\00:22:50.70
Helping people realize
that there is no limit,
00:22:50.70\00:22:53.23
that there's so
much more potential
00:22:53.23\00:22:55.34
that we're leaving out there,
00:22:55.34\00:22:56.81
and we're not allowing
God to work through us.
00:22:56.81\00:22:58.27
- It's so amazing, I mean,
00:22:58.27\00:22:59.74
I look at you
like almost a Superman.
00:23:00.94\00:23:02.84
With the way your body
is, and what you did in life.
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It's gotta be all God, right?
00:23:05.01\00:23:07.18
- To God be the glory.
00:23:07.18\00:23:08.82
I looked at what I
was born with as a curse.
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And then it wasn't
until God made me realize
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that there is potential for me,
00:23:14.26\00:23:15.92
and there is a
purpose for me in my life.
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That it transformed
that curse into a ministry,
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into a positive
experience for young people
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and all people alike.
00:23:25.83\00:23:27.50
- Well, we've gotta
hear about this paddle.
00:23:27.50\00:23:28.97
- I know, the baseball bat,
00:23:28.97\00:23:30.74
when he got out and he has
a bat, that I can understand,
00:23:30.74\00:23:33.61
because one thing
I knew about him was
00:23:33.61\00:23:35.18
he used to be a ballplayer.
00:23:35.18\00:23:36.61
Or still is, I
shouldn't use the past tense,
00:23:36.61\00:23:38.81
but you know what I mean.
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And then he had a paddle,
I'm going, is that a paddle?
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I'm trying to figure
out, is he carrying a paddle?
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- He is, let's go
check out the paddle.
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- [Chad] All right.
00:23:47.66\00:23:48.69
- The great
Catholic monk, Martin Luther,
00:23:50.23\00:23:52.56
was so concerned
with his salvation,
00:23:52.56\00:23:55.20
that when in Rome,
00:23:55.20\00:23:56.73
he climbed the holy stairs
on his knees to earn salvation.
00:23:56.73\00:24:01.04
But when he reached the top,
00:24:01.84\00:24:03.41
God flashed a Bible
verse before his mind.
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"The just shall live by faith."
00:24:06.37\00:24:09.21
That brings me to the
title of a free pamphlet
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that I'd like to give you.
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It's called, "Am I Good Enough?"
00:24:13.78\00:24:16.52
It's easy to get your copy.
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Go to
TalkingDonkeyInternational.org,
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and order offer 107.
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"Am I Good Enough", it
will be a comfort for you.
00:24:24.79\00:24:28.93
- Hey everyone, Jim Ayer here
00:24:31.50\00:24:32.80
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Janice, look at that paddle.
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- [Janice] I saw it
when he got out of the van.
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- [Jim] Beautiful.
00:24:59.36\00:25:00.53
- Yeah, the paddle
is very significant
00:25:00.53\00:25:02.73
for us when we
go through training.
00:25:02.73\00:25:04.70
Because it's
something that we have
00:25:04.70\00:25:06.43
to carry with us
everywhere we go.
00:25:06.43\00:25:08.90
It's what directs us and propels
us when we're in our boats.
00:25:08.90\00:25:12.84
But we have our
names inscribed on it,
00:25:12.84\00:25:15.58
and then it's all uniform black.
00:25:15.58\00:25:17.38
And whenever we
would sit it down,
00:25:17.38\00:25:18.98
we'd set it down
on our equipment.
00:25:18.98\00:25:22.22
And the instructor staff,
00:25:22.22\00:25:23.35
if they didn't
like what we were doing,
00:25:23.35\00:25:25.05
they would come up,
00:25:25.05\00:25:26.25
and they couldn't
reprimand us physically,
00:25:26.25\00:25:27.82
they couldn't hit us.
00:25:27.82\00:25:28.96
So they'd grab your paddle,
00:25:28.96\00:25:30.33
and they'd begin to beat
it against a rock or a tree.
00:25:30.33\00:25:33.29
And it would
begin to chip and gouge,
00:25:33.29\00:25:35.00
and create pot
marks all over it.
00:25:35.00\00:25:36.87
- I can see that.
00:25:36.87\00:25:37.93
- Yeah, it would
be not in the shape
00:25:37.93\00:25:40.80
that it was intended for.
00:25:40.80\00:25:42.17
And it was your job to
pick up all the pieces,
00:25:42.17\00:25:44.81
go home, and
get some wood putty,
00:25:44.81\00:25:47.24
and begin to put wood
putty back into all the holes,
00:25:47.24\00:25:50.31
the cracks, and
the imperfections.
00:25:50.31\00:25:52.58
Then you had to
sand down the paddle
00:25:53.65\00:25:55.48
till it was nice and smooth.
00:25:55.48\00:25:57.45
Then you had to take paint
and recover that whole paddle
00:25:57.45\00:26:00.69
so that it was back
to its original purpose,
00:26:00.69\00:26:02.89
not just a hunk of wood.
00:26:02.89\00:26:04.73
And this is hugely
impactful in my walk in life,
00:26:04.73\00:26:07.96
because we all have
cracks, we all have holes,
00:26:07.96\00:26:11.10
we have divots all over us.
00:26:11.10\00:26:13.77
Well, what are we
filling those divots in with?
00:26:13.77\00:26:15.90
What are we filling
those cracks in with?
00:26:15.90\00:26:17.71
People sometimes go to
drugs, they go to pornography,
00:26:17.71\00:26:20.04
they go to a lot
of different things.
00:26:20.04\00:26:21.58
But really, what is most
important is the Holy Spirit.
00:26:21.58\00:26:24.48
To put the Holy Spirit in our
lives, and it begins to bond,
00:26:24.48\00:26:26.92
and it's not right
away, it takes time.
00:26:26.92\00:26:29.32
And once it
adheres, you're not done,
00:26:29.32\00:26:33.02
because you have
pieces that are sticking up.
00:26:33.02\00:26:35.02
You gotta sand it down.
00:26:35.02\00:26:36.79
We have to go through
a purification process,
00:26:36.79\00:26:39.39
a walking with Jesus process,
00:26:39.39\00:26:42.26
and begin to get
it nice and smooth.
00:26:42.26\00:26:44.27
And then finally, you
get to have that final coat.
00:26:44.27\00:26:47.50
So that it's back, and
you can't see the scars,
00:26:47.50\00:26:50.31
and that's the
character of Christ.
00:26:50.31\00:26:52.74
- Amen.
00:26:52.74\00:26:54.14
- And once you, you have
the character of Christ on you,
00:26:54.14\00:26:55.54
they no longer see your name
on here, but it's Christian.
00:26:55.54\00:26:58.45
And so when they see
the intended purpose,
00:26:59.55\00:27:00.88
they don't see Chad
Lambie, they see Christian.
00:27:00.88\00:27:03.69
Exuding the character of Christ,
00:27:03.69\00:27:05.39
that has been covered
over with the character of God
00:27:05.39\00:27:09.36
by the Holy Spirit. - Amen.
00:27:09.36\00:27:10.83
Chad, I wanna thank you today,
00:27:10.83\00:27:12.13
it's incredible, your story.
00:27:12.13\00:27:13.70
- I'm getting the book.
00:27:16.80\00:27:18.23
- Yeah.
00:27:18.23\00:27:19.27
- Or borrowing
yours, I don't know.
00:27:19.27\00:27:20.40
- Folks, look at
this incredible young man,
00:27:20.40\00:27:23.91
what God did in his life.
00:27:23.91\00:27:26.47
You and I, I
mean, I have no excuses.
00:27:26.47\00:27:28.64
I mean, there just
can't be any excuses
00:27:28.64\00:27:31.25
for not being in the kingdom.
00:27:31.25\00:27:33.31
Because God will do whatever
it takes to get you there.
00:27:33.31\00:27:36.22
He did amazing
things in this young man,
00:27:36.22\00:27:38.52
and I wish you tremendous
success in your ministry too.
00:27:38.52\00:27:41.09
- Thank you. - Thank
you so much, brother.
00:27:41.09\00:27:43.49
- Praise God,
thank you very much.
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