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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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Usually one of the good things,
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when you're bowing in respect,
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you never take your eyes
off of the opponent though.
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- It's been too long.
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- Yeah. And you cheated,
you didn't even wear your Gi.
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- Well, the Gi
is on the premises,
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but I took one
look at yours and went,
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okay, mine doesn't have
any of the little fancy things.
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And there is no black on my Gi.
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My little blue belt
just shriveled and lost all
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confidence. - How
many years did you have?
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- We're talking maybe two.
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And then I broke my
back and that kind of ended.
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My skiing
career ended there too.
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- I've had a little
more about maybe 20 years
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or so where... - And it shows.
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- But let's do
just a little bit,
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we'll kind of-
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- Seeing what I remember.
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- Wanna at least
almost hit you today anyway
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you know, after
the week it's ready.
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(laughing)
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- So if I attacked
you in a parking lot,
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which is highly unlikely.
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- Okay.
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- If I came at you.
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- Okay. So you're in here.
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You're looking at
what's set up now.
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That's set up.
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So we come in here.
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Boom, boom, boom, boom.
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There's lots of things for me.
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- And at that
point long before that,
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I would say, I'm
sorry, I surrender.
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- I used to do...
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Well, we taught Chuck Norris
United Fighting Arts Federation
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for some time
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- had studio. - Yeah you're way
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above my class.
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- But then we went
into Kung Fu San Soo.
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And San Soo's totally different.
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Throw me a left.
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- My left hand.
- Your other left.
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Yeah. That's.
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- My left hand is
purely decorative,
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but here it goes.
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- So you come in here.
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Boom, boom, boom.
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You look at stuff,
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that is kind of set up and open,
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but the interesting
thing is Martial Arts
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is cool for defense and things,
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but a lot of things
begin going on in your mind
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in Martial Arts too.
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I know I was a
Christian during that time.
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- And you were
obviously very into it.
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I was doing it with
my kids and thinking,
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well, this is more
fun than just working out
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at the gym, you know.
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And I was with
them. I enjoyed it.
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Like I said, I went all
the way up to a blue belt,
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but I was very proud of that
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because I'm not
much of an athlete.
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And I loved the
respect that they emphasize
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I love the
discipline that they emphasize.
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I mean, I can't
tell you how many times
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our senseis were telling
this group of mostly boys,
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you know, you don't
ever start anything.
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This is so that you could
defend yourself if someone
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or defend someone
weaker than you are.
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And I liked those aspects.
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- One of the things I noticed,
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grab me by the lapels here,
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you know, you for a
woman, you've got a guy,
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well, you're really doing that
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with ferocity aren't
you? (Janice laughing)
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You've got a guy
that grabs a woman,
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you know, well, there
are some things you can do,
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and it's really good
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to actually train
those things nowadays,
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the way things are.
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But there's some simple things,
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you know, you come in, it
sets up the throat, right,
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you know, into that
area, lots of different things.
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Those are good things.
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But I think what
we're talking about today
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is kind of going past on,
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there's kind of
other levels of this.
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- Well, anything
can become an obsession,
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even if it
started out a good thing,
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we're talking about
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what we should be
filling our minds with.
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And frankly, I had two issues
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and I suppose breaking my back,
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which by the way, was
not in Martial Arts class,
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it was completely unrelated.
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But I think in some ways,
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perhaps it was a
blessing that I did quit,
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that when I quit,
actually it wasn't long
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before the kids quit as well.
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Two things that
kind of bothered me,
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just niggled at
the back of my brain.
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One most of these Martial Arts
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were developed with
a certain philosophy
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and there is so
much Eastern mysticism,
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which as a
Christian, I stay away from.
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And so much of
that I began to wonder,
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can you truly
separate all of the philosophy
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from the technique?
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- I noticed that,
especially in some,
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what I was in we'd
talk about the key force,
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you know, it's like,
it's that energy that proceeds
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that comes before
your actual hand or so
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before an actual strike,
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and having worked in a
lot of the world, it's real.
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There's things
that are real and say,
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"Well, how can that
be? And how can that be?"
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Well, because you're looking
right in the very beginning,
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you look at the Bible.
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The actual instruction
book on why we're here,
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is Adam and Eve seeded
all their power to Satan,
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who was the light bearer.
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He stood next to
God, had tremendous power.
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He came down here.
He still has that power.
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We're basically under
his rulership as it were,
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unless we choose to
step out from under it.
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And so within Martial Arts,
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within everything virtually
in his world, he's there.
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And he has real power.
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I was in some
place in South America.
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And one fellow told me
that he was a devil worshiper.
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He followed the devil.
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And he decided he
wanted to follow God.
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And at one point he said,
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other fellows were
walking along with him
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in this dark alley.
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And all of a sudden he was
lifted up, pinned against a
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wall, about five
feet off the ground.
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This guy's over six foot,
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200 pounds just
pinned against the wall
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and he couldn't move.
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And the story goes on and we
don't have time for that story
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but this stuff is real.
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I mean, people in our
audience may go, whoa,
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(Jim chuckles)
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but it's real stuff.
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- No.
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And I think a lot of times
Christians are playing around
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with different
concepts of energy.
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- [Jim] Yeah. -
[Janice] You know
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and who doesn't want more
energy, particularly at our age,
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who wouldn't like
to tap into something.
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- [Jim] Speaking of
the energy, let's go ahead
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and sit down -
[Janice] That's going
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to give you more energy.
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- [Jim] Yeah.
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Have a seat.
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- Getting down here on this mat,
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the mat reminds me
of another practice
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that is very
popular and that's yoga.
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And I have
purposely not gotten involved
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even though I have
friends who are fanatical.
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- [Jim] Those forms
of meditation thing,
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you empty your
mind and everything.
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- [Janice] All right. And I
think there's a danger there.
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I think that's
why you have to look
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at the philosophy
behind, whatever practice it is
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you're getting involved in.
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Emptying your mind, meditating.
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It's so popular.
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They're incorporating
meditation classes into schools.
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Middle schools, because
they say it helps kids focus,
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it helps calm them but
what are we teaching them
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when we're teaching
them to empty their mind?
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- You gotta ask if
you've got an empty vessel,
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in the universe,
something's gonna come in it.
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(Janice chuckles)
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- Universe doesn't
like vacuums, does it?
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- Yeah.
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- Jesus told a
parable about exactly that.
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And I think it's
one that Christians
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really need to pay attention to.
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It was, a man had a house
and it's filled with devils.
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I think it said seven devils.
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And he decides, I
wanna be rid of those.
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This is a good thing,
getting rid of the evil.
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So he absolutely cleans
the house top to bottom,
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sweeps it, not a speck of dust.
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There is nothing at house.
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So far so good, but he
didn't take it far enough
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because he didn't decide what
he was going to fill it with
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to replace the evil, to
replace the bad practices.
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He left it empty and it
got refilled worse than before.
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- Yeah.
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- And I think there is a danger
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if you are simply meditating.
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Some of those
practices can be good.
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The Bible tells us to meditate,
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but what does it
tell us to meditate on?
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It's not just emptying.
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It's filling your
mind with the word of God.
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- [Jim] Yep.
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- [Janice] Contemplating God.
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- We've got to
take the Spirit of God.
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Invite the Spirit
of God into our life.
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That's the true meditation.
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That's the true
emptying of ourselves.
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And then God will
come in and fill us up
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and give us the
most joyous life.
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- It's exciting
that we serve a God
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who sees the
end of human history
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from the very beginning.
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This is a God who can
be trusted with my life.
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But how do you know that he
can be trusted with your life?
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Well, because he has
demonstrated to us in the Bible
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- So we're standing in
front of a crystal shop
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and you said it's
not the only one in town,
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that this town has.
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how many? - Many, many,
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I don't know how many
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but a lot of 'em yeah. -
You haven't counted really
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like one on every corner.
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- Not quite that many,
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but it's probably
as many as pot shops.
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(both laughing)
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- Now I love
looking at crystals.
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They're awfully pretty.
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And I actually like,
I'm not a rock hound.
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I can barely tell one
kind of rock from another,
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but crystals are
just so pretty to look at,
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but that's not the real draw.
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That is not why this town
has so many crystal shops.
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It's not just people
going, "Ooh, pretty."
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- It's true.
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I mean, I've gotta say
though, I love crystals too.
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I mean, I love,
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I always wanted to go to Mexico
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where they found this
monster cabin with crystals
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that are hundreds of feet long.
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- [Janice] Are you kidding?
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- [Jim] Oh, no I'm
not, just spectacular stuff.
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Unfortunately it
got so hot in the place.
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It was, I don't know
exactly the dynamics of it,
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but they had to have suits
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and everything to
protect themselves.
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And the government
finally closed it all down.
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- So you can't
get there anymore?
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- Only by special
permit now but marvelous stuff.
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And I like watching on YouTube
where they find the crystals
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and they dig for the crystals,
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you know, in
Colorado, in different places.
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- Have you ever opened a geod?
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- Well, I've had
geodes I collected as a kid,
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so I enjoyed that
too, but you're right.
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There's a different
reason for these crystals
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and the collection of them.
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- Not long ago, one of a
magazine I was looking through
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had an article on gifts to
get your mom for mother's day,
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you know, suggestions.
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And one of them was a really,
really pretty water bottle.
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And have you ever
seen those wine bottles?
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They have a big
bubble in the bottom.
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- Oh yeah.
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- Well, this
water bottle was glass
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and it had a
bubble in the bottom
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and that bubble was filled
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with lovely lavender crystals.
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And of course I'm not
enough of a rock counter
00:11:54.44\00:11:57.41
to remember what kind they were.
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Amethyst?
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Those are purple. - Yeah
00:12:00.28\00:12:01.35
- [Janice] Aren't
they? Could have been.
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And so I looked and thought,
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"Ooh, that's really pretty."
00:12:04.82\00:12:06.52
But then I was reading about it
00:12:06.52\00:12:08.52
and it said that
this water bottle
00:12:08.52\00:12:11.23
would infuse the water
with the energy of crystals.
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In fact, it said it
promises to infuse the water
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with the energy of crystals.
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And I don't, trust promises,
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I mean, ads, they're
always trying to say,
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"I guarantee it'll do this."
00:12:26.31\00:12:28.24
And my husband is
of a scientific bent
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being a surgeon.
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And so I said,
00:12:33.18\00:12:34.32
"Hey, Steve, come
and look at this."
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And I said,
00:12:36.52\00:12:37.59
"So if you're
promising the crystal energy,
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you must have a way to
prove it's really there."
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You know, do you
measure the energy of the water
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before you put it in?
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And then after
it's been in contact
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with the crystals for a while,
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oh, now it registers
higher on the energy meter.
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And I know I sound
like I'm mocking it,
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but it's because of
going, how do you promise
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that it's infused
with crystal energy?
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I suppose that takes a
different kind of faith
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right there in the
crystals themselves.
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But I've read so much recently.
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There was an
interview with a woman who is,
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she uses crystals for healing,
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and she had this article
on eight different crystals
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and what they can do for you.
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And each one had a
different property to it,
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whether it was for mental
healing or physical healing
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or energy or focus
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or one that that
helps with meditation.
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And again, they're all pretty.
00:13:34.34\00:13:36.68
I have an
acquaintance who has crystals
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hanging all over her house
and they really are decorative.
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They're quite lovely to look at,
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but that's not why
she has them in her house.
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- Janice, I would submit to you
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that all this stuff is
true to a certain extent
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because of you read the Bible,
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the Bible says,
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there was someone
that was so close to God.
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He was the light bearer.
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Right next to God.
00:14:03.41\00:14:04.97
And he decided that
he was better than God.
00:14:04.97\00:14:07.48
He wanted to be
like the most High God.
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He wanted to take his place.
00:14:09.94\00:14:11.55
He wanted to ascend
to the heavenly throne
00:14:11.55\00:14:14.55
and he has come down here
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and he wants to
build his kingdom
00:14:17.85\00:14:20.92
with all of these things.
00:14:20.92\00:14:22.02
Now, if you
remember in the government,
00:14:22.02\00:14:22.99
the treasury department,
00:14:22.99\00:14:26.96
how do they study
counterfeit money?
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- I actually know this one.
00:14:29.70\00:14:31.13
I have my sister
lives in DC and I've toured.
00:14:32.27\00:14:34.67
And I remember
them say that, like,
00:14:34.67\00:14:36.50
if you go to work for
the FBI or the treasury,
00:14:36.50\00:14:39.31
they don't show you
counterfeits and say,
00:14:39.31\00:14:41.74
"Now look at this bill,
00:14:41.74\00:14:42.84
this one you see
up in the corner.
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Here's how we know it's fake."
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You spend your whole
time studying the real thing.
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- Real thing.
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- Because once
you've spent enough time
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studying the real thing,
00:14:51.69\00:14:53.49
you can look and
spot a fake like that.
00:14:53.49\00:14:56.06
- So if you don't
believe in the Bible,
00:14:56.06\00:14:57.96
you get in the Bible
00:14:57.96\00:14:59.09
and you begin
studying about the real thing.
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The Bible says,
Jesus is the light,
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not the devil, not Satan.
00:15:04.47\00:15:06.23
Jesus is the light.
00:15:06.23\00:15:07.70
You begin studying
his pattern, his life.
00:15:07.70\00:15:10.44
And then you say, are
the crystals the real thing?
00:15:10.44\00:15:13.31
Is that where my
energy comes from?
00:15:13.31\00:15:15.18
Is that where-
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- Is that where my
healing comes from?
00:15:16.28\00:15:17.38
- Is that where my
healing comes from?
00:15:17.38\00:15:18.18
Is that where all this happens?
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And you gotta begin
to look at it and say,
00:15:19.98\00:15:21.78
"No, it's really
not. That's the fake.
00:15:21.78\00:15:24.69
That's not the real."
00:15:24.69\00:15:26.19
- Are crystals what we
should be meditating on?
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I think they become an idol
00:15:29.09\00:15:30.89
because you're
looking for something
00:15:30.89\00:15:32.23
that you should be
getting from the Lord.
00:15:32.23\00:15:34.60
- Yeah, yeah, exactly that.
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"And this is the condemnation
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that light is
come into the world
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and men love
darkness rather than light."
00:15:41.00\00:15:44.21
What's this other side?
00:15:44.21\00:15:46.01
There's light
and there's darkness.
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Jesus said, "I am
the light of the world,
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I have come that men
might have that light
00:15:51.65\00:15:53.72
and they might
have a more abundantly."
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- And David said, what was it
00:15:55.72\00:15:57.42
that was a light unto his path?
00:15:57.42\00:15:59.55
- Yeah. - The word of God.
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- [Jim] The word of God.
00:16:01.46\00:16:02.79
- [Janice] Now this is
where we should be turning
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to meditate on this.
00:16:04.33\00:16:05.93
This is where we
turn for healing.
00:16:05.93\00:16:07.96
This is where we turn our focus
00:16:07.96\00:16:10.77
because other
things can be pretty,
00:16:10.77\00:16:13.60
but they're getting in the way,
00:16:13.60\00:16:14.84
they're actually
getting between us and God.
00:16:14.84\00:16:17.64
They're not
getting us closer to God.
00:16:17.64\00:16:19.21
- And they might
appear to give healing.
00:16:19.21\00:16:21.34
They might appear at
some point to lift us up,
00:16:21.34\00:16:24.78
to do these things.
00:16:24.78\00:16:25.75
- Steve had a patient.
00:16:25.75\00:16:27.25
I can't remember
how many years ago,
00:16:27.25\00:16:29.42
but he had a patient
who was looking for wisdom,
00:16:29.42\00:16:32.65
for enlightenment,
and he found it in a way.
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He actually thought,
00:16:38.39\00:16:39.53
well, if these crystals
are giving me something,
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they're enlightening
me by looking at them
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and meditating on them.
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If I took them internally that
I'd really absorb the energy.
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- Oh no.
00:16:51.01\00:16:51.87
- And he got,
as my husband says,
00:16:51.87\00:16:53.51
he got enlightened all right.
00:16:53.51\00:16:54.81
He found out that
was a stupid thing to do
00:16:54.81\00:16:57.21
because he needed
the help of a surgeon.
00:16:57.21\00:16:59.71
- He swallowed a crystal.
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- He swallowed a crystal.
00:17:00.85\00:17:02.75
And he was looking for something
00:17:02.75\00:17:05.59
that crystal could never give
him, but we're all searching.
00:17:05.59\00:17:09.42
It's that hole, that
can only be filled by God.
00:17:09.42\00:17:13.26
And if you're
filling it with substitutes,
00:17:13.26\00:17:15.70
with things that the
enemy has misdirected you
00:17:15.70\00:17:19.60
and said, "Oh, you're
looking for enlightenment?
00:17:19.60\00:17:21.87
Look here.
00:17:21.87\00:17:22.90
Or, oh, you're
looking for healing?
00:17:22.90\00:17:24.11
Look what I have over here."
00:17:24.11\00:17:25.71
And they look
good. It sounds good.
00:17:25.71\00:17:28.58
It might even make you at
least temporarily feel good,
00:17:28.58\00:17:32.18
but it'll kill you in the end.
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- Yeah, it's all here.
00:17:34.45\00:17:36.05
And Jesus said, "I am the
way, the truth and the life."
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(Jim laughs)
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- I'll carry that
for a while. I need it.
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- Jim, we've been
talking about misdirection here,
00:19:03.04\00:19:06.14
which is one of the
enemy's favorite tactics.
00:19:06.14\00:19:09.48
Kinda like at to football.
00:19:09.48\00:19:10.68
Everybody's
looking for the ball.
00:19:10.68\00:19:12.01
They know they
need to get the ball,
00:19:12.01\00:19:14.08
but someone will go like this
00:19:14.08\00:19:16.05
and pretend
they're handing it off
00:19:16.05\00:19:17.42
and their eyes
go this direction.
00:19:17.42\00:19:18.95
They think they're
following the ball,
00:19:18.95\00:19:20.76
but it's not really there.
00:19:20.76\00:19:22.19
Everybody knows
that they have a hole
00:19:23.59\00:19:26.43
that they're trying to fill.
00:19:26.43\00:19:27.76
People talk about, "I
want to be more spiritual",
00:19:27.76\00:19:30.60
that they consider
themselves a spiritual person,
00:19:30.60\00:19:33.60
but their focus
isn't on the real ball.
00:19:33.60\00:19:37.21
And I have a
relative who thinks,
00:19:37.21\00:19:41.28
in fact she's told me that
she's never felt so centered.
00:19:41.28\00:19:46.05
She is extremely new age,
00:19:46.05\00:19:48.75
I guess you would call it.
00:19:48.75\00:19:50.15
She has a women's drumming
circle that she's part of.
00:19:50.15\00:19:53.56
She has a home altar
with incense and all of that.
00:19:53.56\00:19:57.39
And she
meditates. She does yoga.
00:19:57.39\00:20:00.96
All these things
that she is certain
00:20:00.96\00:20:03.40
are keeping her
focused spiritually.
00:20:03.40\00:20:06.57
But that focus isn't
pointed at the right God.
00:20:06.57\00:20:11.57
You know, they
feel warm and fuzzy.
00:20:11.57\00:20:14.28
You can feel like, oh yes,
00:20:14.28\00:20:16.64
I feel very well
centered is the word she uses.
00:20:16.64\00:20:21.05
And I think that's
what people are seeking.
00:20:21.05\00:20:23.92
But if you're seeking
it in the wrong place,
00:20:23.92\00:20:25.82
you're gonna
find the wrong thing.
00:20:25.82\00:20:28.22
- Yeah. It's true.
00:20:28.22\00:20:29.36
- You brought a toy?
00:20:30.73\00:20:32.63
- Well, really
isn't, a toy, but it is.
00:20:32.63\00:20:35.83
Got it from Nepal and in
Nepal, it's a prayer wheel.
00:20:35.83\00:20:39.70
- Oh.
00:20:39.70\00:20:41.24
- Now been in Nepal and
they have this great big,
00:20:41.24\00:20:42.80
massive prayer wheels.
00:20:42.80\00:20:44.27
You walk around, you
spin this prayer wheel,
00:20:44.27\00:20:46.94
each one successively
in this monster circle.
00:20:46.94\00:20:49.98
- They're all like this only...
00:20:49.98\00:20:51.71
- Well, big.
00:20:51.71\00:20:52.55
I mean they're huge.
00:20:52.55\00:20:53.85
- Okay.
00:20:53.85\00:20:55.08
- And well, let me
show you here inside.
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Oh little wind coming up here.
00:20:59.45\00:21:00.96
I can't get it out,
it would never come out.
00:21:04.03\00:21:05.63
Maybe not.
00:21:05.63\00:21:06.53
Anyway, there it is.
00:21:06.53\00:21:08.00
There's a whole prayer written
00:21:08.00\00:21:10.27
and you write your prayer down.
00:21:11.07\00:21:12.67
- Do you know what it says?
00:21:12.67\00:21:13.94
- Have not a clue on this one.
00:21:13.94\00:21:15.57
Didn't really
care just wanted to-
00:21:15.57\00:21:17.61
- So the point though
00:21:17.61\00:21:18.91
is normally you would
write your own prayer.
00:21:18.91\00:21:21.68
- Yeah, write your own prayer.
00:21:21.68\00:21:22.78
- And roll it up
and stick it in there.
00:21:22.78\00:21:23.98
- Yep, yeah.
00:21:23.98\00:21:25.38
And you get it in and
then you, for whatever reason,
00:21:25.38\00:21:28.88
the energy you spin this around
00:21:28.88\00:21:30.82
and then this helps
it ascend someplace.
00:21:30.82\00:21:33.29
Not really sure where.
00:21:33.29\00:21:34.82
- How long do you spin?
00:21:34.82\00:21:36.09
- I don't know.
00:21:37.33\00:21:39.29
Guess as long as it
takes to get it outta here
00:21:39.29\00:21:41.30
and out there.
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It's also, you've seen
the Tibetan prayer flags.
00:21:43.93\00:21:47.24
You know, those prayer flags
00:21:47.24\00:21:48.47
are supposed to
send up the prayers.
00:21:48.47\00:21:50.57
And I'm not slighting
anybody who's doing that,
00:21:50.57\00:21:53.31
you know, but I
think it's what you said.
00:21:53.31\00:21:54.94
It's misdirection.
00:21:54.94\00:21:56.75
- They might honestly
be seeking a connection
00:21:56.75\00:21:59.65
with their God,
honestly, having a need,
00:21:59.65\00:22:03.39
wanting it to be fulfilled
00:22:03.39\00:22:05.02
and doing all that
they know how to reach out
00:22:05.02\00:22:09.12
and somehow find heaven.
00:22:09.12\00:22:10.96
- Because we were
created, you said it earlier,
00:22:10.96\00:22:12.99
we were created
as spiritual beings.
00:22:12.99\00:22:15.30
We were created for a friendship
00:22:15.30\00:22:17.20
and a personal relationship
with the God who created us.
00:22:17.20\00:22:20.60
- Which is why we all
seem to have that draw.
00:22:20.60\00:22:23.51
That we want
something spiritual.
00:22:23.51\00:22:25.87
We were talking
about misdirection
00:22:27.11\00:22:29.44
the genuine, there's a
verse here, 1 John 5:14.
00:22:29.44\00:22:34.52
"And this is the
confidence that we have in him."
00:22:35.82\00:22:38.02
I love that
confidence that we have,
00:22:38.02\00:22:40.36
"that if we ask anything,
00:22:40.36\00:22:42.26
according to his
will, he hears us."
00:22:42.26\00:22:46.09
The 'according to
his will' is a little bit
00:22:46.09\00:22:48.80
of the kicker there.
00:22:48.80\00:22:51.77
Because of course, if I
am praying for something
00:22:51.77\00:22:54.60
that he knows, isn't
gonna be good for me,
00:22:54.60\00:22:57.41
then he's not
going to do that for me,
00:22:57.41\00:23:00.14
which is good.
00:23:00.14\00:23:01.48
You know, so
sometimes when prayers
00:23:01.48\00:23:03.48
don't seem to be
getting answered,
00:23:03.48\00:23:05.71
instead of getting
frustrated or angry,
00:23:05.71\00:23:08.62
you might stop and think,
00:23:08.62\00:23:11.02
well, maybe God
knows that's not ultimately
00:23:11.02\00:23:12.99
good for me after all.
00:23:12.99\00:23:14.02
He does know a
little more than I do.
00:23:14.02\00:23:15.82
- Yeah.
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- And things like this,
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there are all kinds
of ritualistic prayers
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throughout
history you'll find it.
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Things that people have done
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to get their prayer answered.
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And some people repeat
rote prayers over and over,
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say a prayer this many times.
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Imagine I have a
relationship with my husband.
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Imagine though, if every
morning I got up and I said,
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"Good morning,
Steve, I love you.
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Please be with me today."
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And it was the same thing
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every time - Over and over...
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- Yeah.
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I kept coming to
him during the day,
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saying
basically the same prayer.
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I know I've had
friends who grew up.
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It was the every
night literally saying the,
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Now I Lay Me
Down To Sleep prayer
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or some version of that
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or at, when you sit down to
a meal, it's the same thing,
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a little rhyming kind of prayer.
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How does that feel genuine?
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How is that coming
from a genuine place?
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When you're just
repeating certain words.
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- Even Jesus, when
the disciples came to him,
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because they saw that
his prayers were so different
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than everybody's,
"Lord teach us how to pray."
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- Because they didn't
know how to do it that way.
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- Yeah. Yeah.
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And he laid out a prayer,
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but that prayer
wasn't to just repeat
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that thing over and over
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to get some cosmic blessing.
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- I love the Lord's prayer
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who doesn't love
the Lord's prayer?
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But if that is your prayer,
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you just reciting that,
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it's still not
coming from a genuine spot.
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God wants to hear what
you really have to say.
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What you're really feeling.
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And if you're not
talking to him like a friend,
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maybe you don't
have the relationship yet
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that you really, really want.
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- But that's the
relationship God wants.
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- Right.
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I can sit and talk
with Steve about anything.
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And he won't tell me, I
don't have time for you,
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or that's dumb.
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(Janice Laughs)
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You know, he
might think it inside,
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but he is wise
enough not to ever say it.
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And God, he might be listening
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to the most childish
thoughts coming out of us.
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But he wants to talk to
us to genuinely talk to us.
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- I am so happy.
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There are times when
I've asked things of God,
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I'm so happy he didn't answer.
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(both laughing)
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You know, he understands,
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he sees the end
from the beginning.
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He knows exactly what
would be perfect for us.
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- Did you always
say yes to your kids?
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- No. 'Cause I knew
what it would lead to.
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Yeah. Good.
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- And sometimes they're
mad at you when you don't.
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- Yeah. Yeah.
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But yeah, it's
so amazing with God
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that he wants to do
the very best thing for us.
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And he says,
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"I'll even do it ahead of time.
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Before you call on me,"
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he says,
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"I will answer."
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That's a friendship.
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That's a relation.
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And it's the same
way I trust my wife.
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You trust your husband,
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you know ahead of time
and what they're gonna do
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in a certain situation.
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- There are times
where, by the time he said,
00:26:10.17\00:26:12.10
"Janice, could you get me..."
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I'm already up and I've got it,
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"You mean this?"
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- Yeah. (Janice laughing)
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I have a favorite writer.
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What they said to
me is just so special.
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It makes so much sense.
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Prayer is the key
in the hand of faith
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to unlock heaven's storehouse
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where treasure of the boundless
resources of omnipotence.
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Our God is omnipotent.
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And he's our father.
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And as a father
who loves the children,
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he just wants the
showers with every good thing.
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So amazing to me and folks,
that's what God wants to do.
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He wants to shower
you with every good thing
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he wants to come in
be your very best friend,
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put his arms around you,
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hold you so tightly that
you can feel his heartbeat.
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Give it a try today.
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Hey Janice, how are you doing?
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- Hey, you wrote another book.
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- I did.
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Had a burden on my heart,
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God helped me get it done.
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- So "The Plan of
Love", what's it about?
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- Well, it's really
about God and eternity.
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He saw everything that
was going to happen here
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and in amazing love he says,
00:27:13.50\00:27:16.00
"I'm gonna take
care of the problems.
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I'm gonna take
care of the situation
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by giving my own life."
00:27:18.90\00:27:20.34
He did all that, but
we've been lied to so much.
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We don't see what
God has planned for us,
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what God is doing for us.
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Matter of fact,
the angel came down
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to Mary and said,
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"You shall call his name Jesus,
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for he shall save his people
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from their sin." - Sins.
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- Notice it wasn't in, but from.
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- Where can people get the book?
00:27:38.65\00:27:40.32
- Hey, I'm glad you asked.
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Folks, if you like
your own personal copy
00:27:41.86\00:27:43.79
log on to
talkingdonkeyinternational.org
00:27:43.79\00:27:46.49
and I'll please if you
would send us a donation of $12.
00:27:46.49\00:27:49.60
- [Janice] Or more.
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- Or more, and
we'll get you the book
00:27:50.67\00:27:52.50
and I'll be happy
to sign it for you too.
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Thank you so much.
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