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You're listening to the Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Good Morning morning, I

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was wondering. He talked the whole
night through good morning, good morning to

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you. All right, wow,
and the percussion and you know which movie

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that is from? Now? Singing
in the Rain, Yes, you know

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that. My son was in the
car the other day. We're all traveling

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down somewhere downtown for my daughter's birthday, and Tory grabbed the phone and she

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said, what song you want to
hear? And my son said, out

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of the Blue play singing in the
rain? Good Morning? And I was

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like, what just out of the
blue? Yeah, wow, and he

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and he and he wanted to listen
to you. And then he realized that

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most of that song is tap dancing. So we got to the interlude and

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he's like, there's more tap dancing
in here that I thought, so we

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turned it off. O. Hey, Jeff, thanks for being here with

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me. I am I'm so glad
to be with you today. It's truly

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my privilege. Oh thanks, Jeff. I appreciate that. Hardly contained myself.

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I hardly sleep last night, and
I'm excited, my honor to be

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with you, my liege. Okay, today we're doing DESIREE wants us to

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read a only the most important news. Yes, because after all, we

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believe the news in this country is
all reliable. Yes, that's right,

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especially the stuff that's on the Internet. Yes, just like the news that's

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on the Babylon be Yes. It
is very very important news, which,

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by the way, is a satire
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we love satire. So here you
go. Here's the most important news

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today from the Religions Action. I
love the title couple in prayer over decision

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to possibly sit in different pew this
Sunday. This is funny. Arlington,

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Texas local couple Dan and Emily Wise
have begun earnestly praying over the difficult decision

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to potential set in a different pew
on Sunday morning worship service. After years

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of sitting on the left side of
the sanctuary, thirteen pews from the back,

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the Wise family recently began to feel
their hearts being tugged at the right

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side of the sanctuary. I felt
like, as a couple, we needed

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a change in perspective, said Emily. We've loved our pew. Don't get

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me wrong, I'd begun to feel
a sense of malaise though, and I

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began to feel the still small voice
pushing me to try sitting in different pew,

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fifteen feet further to the right.
It was a terrifying thought, but

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at the same time very exciting.
After weeks of discussion, the wise couple

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still had a sense of trepidation about
such a drastic change. Began praying for

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the Lord's wisdom in the matter.
This would be a big move for our

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family, and I want to be
leading the family well, explained Dan,

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that pew has been our home for
almost a decade now. Two lunges in

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from the aisle, just out of
the glare from the stained glass, with

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the hymnal exactly on plane with my
right hand, it'd be hard to say

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goodbye. At publishing time, the
White family. At publishing time, Ice

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family had deeply regretted trying a new
pew after just covering the toddler behind them

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was a pew kicker, and the
view was terrible over missus Benefield's bufont Oh,

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my goodness, gurracious, it's so
good. Another fact that there's a

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follow up. There's a follow up
to the news article. Hey it didn't

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work out for him. They had
to move back to their original seat.

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Oh that's so good. The language
is fantastic, right, yeah, it's

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still small voice. Well yeah,
because because anybody who's actually prayed over something,

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yeah, prayed over something big,
that those are the words that they

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might use, right, Which is
so funny. And it's also pretty hilarious

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to camp on the fact that people
they sit where they sit, don't they?

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I do, yes, don't you
do the same spot? I have

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a tendency to sit in the same
spot. But what's really funny is,

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you know, so on Sunday mornings, Heritage is the church that we passedor

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together, and we have four services
identical. Yeah, they're identical, eight

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thirty, ten o'clock, eleven thirty, one o'clock, and certain people attend,

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you know, the only coming to
the thirty or something. And I

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will literally say, hey, I
didn't see in church today, And I

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say, how would you ever know? Yeah, you know we're that I

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wasn't in church day with five thousand
people or whatever it does. And I

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said, because you're in the third
service right hand side, fifteen rows back

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on the odd that's right, and
then oh, my goodness, you're right,

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that's exactly where we sit, and
you start to know the people around

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you, yes, start yep,
everything. It's so funny, funny.

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It's just it's so cleverly written,
and it's clearly somebody who's also had to

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struggle with those same same issues.
So very funny. So there you go,

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only the best news for our listeners. Straight there, we bring you

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the cutting edge and you're welcome.
That's right, you are so welcome.

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All right, Well, today we
are sort of wrapping up, aren't we.

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Yes? Is that right? Because
Matthew twenty five went through thirteen Yep,

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it's a different topic, right,
so next tomorrow is a different topic,

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but today we're wrapping up what's a
different illustration about the same topic.

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Actually, oh is it okay?
But that's okay, but it's a different

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passage. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So this was the last half of

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Luke twenty one. We read the
first twenty four verses a few podcasts ago,

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and now this next half is a
shorter version of what we read yesterday

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in the day before. That's correct, and he deals with some different things

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that he didn't mention in the others. So verse twenty five Luke, chapter

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twenty one. It says, and
there will be strange signs in the sun,

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the moon, and the stars.
And here on earth the nations will

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be in turmoil, perplexed by the
roaring seas and strange tides. People will

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be terrified at what they see coming
upon the earth, for the powers in

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the heavens will be shaken. Then
everyone will see the sun a man coming

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on a cloud with power and great
glory. So when all these things begin

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to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near. Then

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he gave them this illustration. Notice
the fig tree or any other tree,

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when the leaves come out, you
know without being told that summer is near,

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the same way, when you see
all these things taking place, you

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can know that the Kingdom of God
is near. I tell you the truth.

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This generation will not pass from the
scene until all these things have taken

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place. Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.

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Watch out, don't let your hearts
be dulled by carousing and drunkenness and by

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the worries of this life. Don't
let that day catch you unaware like a

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trap, for that day will come
upon everyone living on the earth. Keep

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alert at all times, and pray
that you might be strong enough to escape

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these coming oars and stand before the
sun of man. Every day Jesus went

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to the temple to teach, and
each evening he returned to spend the night

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on the Mount of Olives. The
crowds gathered at the temple early each morning

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to hear him. So there you
go. There, it is all right.

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So there's several things that are different
in here, but several things is

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the same theme and a lot of
the same big ideas. Yeah, well,

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I like the again. We talked
about warnings yesterday and application, and

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this one he seems to say something
slightly different. And by the way,

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that doesn't mean that that these passages
are contradictory, right, It just means

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that new information. Right. Luke
recorded some things, and Matthew recorded some

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things, and Mark recorded some things, and which means he said all of

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them right, that's right, and
it's and it's a matter of what they

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remembered and recorded and what God you
know, used in their minds and hearts

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to record. If you and me
and somebody else were all sitting in the

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same meeting and we were all taking
notes, right, we would include some

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of the same information, but then
we might include unique pieces of information that

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each of us are remembering or that
we recorded. And that's what's happening there.

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So what they don't do is give
anything contradictory, right, They're just

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adding other information that may be marked. And right here the edition, one

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of the big editions, would be
here on Earth, the nations will be

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in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring
seas and strange tides. The roaring season,

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strange ties, the rising tides didn't
come up in the other the other

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books, right, So yeah,
and he said in this particular excuse me,

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sorry, sorry that I bored you. I was like, really tides

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again. But he also said this
will uh cause people to be terrified.

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Yeah, it's scary, which he
did not say earlier, right, and

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he called it horrors. Yes,
horrors. Yeah, if you know,

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be aware so you're not caught up
in these horrors. Yeah. Well,

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hey, this is what I was
going to say earlier. And that is

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when I said that I sort of
branched off with parallels. But when I

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was when I talked about his warnings
and applications. Uh, he says something

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slightly different here, and he says, don't let your hearts be dulled by

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carousing and drunkenness and by the worries
of this life. Don't let that day

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catch you unaware like a trap.
He didn't say that before you. Yeah,

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that's really unique. Yeah, And
so again it's it's a it sort

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of goes along with my story two
days ago, doesn't it does? It

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really does? Yeah. Yeah,
in regard to somebody that's obsessed with Jesus

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returning but spending his life in the
wrong way, that's right, exactly right,

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exactly right, And and uh,
don't let don't let it catch you

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unaware like a trap. And I
think I think that's yeah, that's that's

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appropriate that I think God connected that
in my in my mind and heart.

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Yeah. So there's a couple of
things. One, when Jesus tells I've

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said every time just about when we
read these things, Jesus doesn't tell us

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these things to scare us, right, He tells us to let it,

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let us know, Hey, he's
he is returning, he's in control,

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and to be ready. And here
he says, look up. You want

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to know what you're supposed to do, Just look up. Keep looking for

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Jesus. Right when you when you're
looking up, when you're paying attention to

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Jesus, I view that, or
I think of that very similar to when

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Peter was walking on the water heading
towards Jesus. The Bible said he sees

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a storm and the waves around him, and that's when he when he took

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his eyes off Jesus is when he
sunk, right, And and on this

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one it's the same. The world
with all these things would be terrifying.

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He actually calls them horrors and terror, right, But if we keep looking

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up, we keep our eyes on
Jesus. Hey, the rest of these

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things aren't so horrible for us and
not so scary. You remember those old

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VHS cartoon things that we used to
play in Sunday school family entertainment, So

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for those of us listening who knew
back in the day, uh, there

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was just these cartoons that former Disney's
employ Disney employees made and they call it

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a family entertainment. Anyway, it
was Jesus's ascension. The end of that

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video, that particular tape was he
went up to the clouds. The music's

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going, you know, just in
great, great Christian fashion, right,

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and then zooms at a little tiny
boy who's like eight years old, and

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he looks up and he starts crying, and one single tear comes down his

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cheek and he goes. He looks
up and he goes, come again,

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Lord Jesus will always be watching.
And that's how it ends. But believe

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it or not, I mean,
that's that's like, it's right on point.

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That's a kid's version of what it's
super jezy. Keep looking. It's

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very Hollywood, but it is right
on point. Yep. But I just

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remember it. So I think of
this and I think of family entertainment.

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So it's really funny. Those were
good videos. I wonder if you're on

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YouTube. I bet they are.
You know what. The thing that he

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doesn't do here he doesn't talk about
the rich man return. No. I

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think that's his watch out. Don't
let your hearts be dulled by crowsing and

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drunkeness in the world. Yeah,
but he doesn't say it's a lot.

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He doesn't talk about the rich man. Yeah. Yeah, it's the same

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principle. But which, by the
way, I wonder if I could slip

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this in for fun. I bet
you can. I bet you can too.

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That's see how fun it is really
okay. My father in law when

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I was in college, I was
dating Liz about the marryer. He had

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a business partner who was a multi
multi millionaire who owned the building that he

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rented. And so this guy,
I'll give you his first name because it's

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really fun. Okay, his name's
Aldo Aldo. Yes, yes, name

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was Alda. Where's Aldo? Right
there? You go? And he said,

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hey, come over and and work
at my house. He said,

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I want you to come and do
some projects at my house. So he

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borrowed me, you know, did
some side jobs. Little did he know,

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I wasn't handy at all, and
I screwed everything up. I messed

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everything up. I'm not kidding.
Like when I painted by stained his barn

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and they had to redo it and
everything. It was really bad anyway.

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So the point is is that I'm
this young punk kid and he's like,

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okay. He goes, I want
to have you stay in this bar.

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And it's a two story, huge
garage barn and he goes, now,

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whatever you do, he goes,
don't touch the Lamborghini or the Porsche that's

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inside the bar. Oh, And
he's like okay. So he leaves and

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so I walk in through and I
see there's a Lamborghini. I'm like,

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oh, this is kind of nice, right, And so what I ended

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up doing is is I ended up
like opening it. I was like,

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I wonder if it's open, and
so of course I touched it, right.

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I opened it, and the thing
opens sideways. You know those doors,

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I go straight up gold wing doors. Yeah, so it's like one

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hundred degrees in this barn, right, So I get inside. By the

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way, I'm covered with grass.
I didn't know that till later, Right,

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So I get inside the Lamborghini.
Right. I closed the door and

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then realized that you need a key
to unlock the door to get out,

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and I'm stuck inside the Lamborghini.
Oh no, I was in there for

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like almost forty five minutes, right. So I started to roll down the

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window, thinking I'm just gonna roll
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like like twelve inches, right,
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it's like because it's like goes fast. So I tried to put my arm

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through, and then I tried to
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but the door is curved and the
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reaching all around. I'm going like
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hit it with my finger, and
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go up, my arm oh gets
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to go up, and then like
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on going, ah, click click
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when I say I ended up having
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head down, and somehow my other
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open it up. Pry my anyway. I finally get out after like an

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hour, and as soon as I
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my sweats everywhere, and I cleaned
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it. Oh oh no. And
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think it's I don't think it did
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it smelled so bad to where like
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later and said, hey, did
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no, huh, I didn't spill
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and the illustration was the story.
Wait, what's the application? The application

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is the rich man man I return
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I was the guy cutting up right. I mean I wasn't, like,

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you know, doing the things that
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jump out for me, and the
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Don't let your hearts be dulled by
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Isn't it interesting? It is interesting? Right? So he wants us

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to be vibrant, He wants us
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enthusiasm and our focus and our energy
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and he has a mission for us, right to be sharp and so

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here don't be dulled. And the
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oftentimes are the most fun or the
biggest deal to us. Right, We're

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worried about the things of this life, and that can dull us or it's

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the other side. It's having fun, the crowsing, the drunkenness, all

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those kinds of things. And what
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you ruining your life. He just
needs to get you dull. He just

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needs to distract you. Right,
And there are a lot of great people

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who could have a tremendous impact in
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the worries of paying the bills and
keeping life going, or the business or

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whatever, or they're being dulled by
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And there's nothing wrong with paying bills, there's nothing wrong but taking care of

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your life and building your career.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying life and all

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those kinds of things. But we
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us, and because we can get
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Hey, there's a note here in
the Life Application Study Bible, in

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verse thirty six where it says Jesus
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and pray that you might be strong
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before the sun a man. So
this note says this only days after telling

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the disciples to pray that they might
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spare him the agonies of the cross, right, and if it was,

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if that was God's will, it
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as Jesus's followers, we must be
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help build God's kingdom. And by
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not say. It also does not
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be alert at all times and pray. Don't you remember that he asked the

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disciples are going to pray with them
and they fell asleep. Yeah, it

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doesn't include that, but that happened
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do. He comes back and he
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right, And then he goes back
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why are you sleeping? You know? Are you? Are you so

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dulled your senses that you that you're
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pray with me one hour? Right? Yeah, you're right? Yeah,

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And so that's that's an interesting thing
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then the other one. And this
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but in verse twenty eight, it
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he say? I'm sorry it's not
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says, oh yeah, Verse thirty
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but my words will never disappear.
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and then we talked about something else
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earth, right, So he seems
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important. So I'm coming back.
Don't let your senses be dulled, don't

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let your effectiveness be dulled. Watch
look beyond mission. Right, He's got

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all those things. And then every
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these, he says, Heaven and
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will never pass away. And so
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Jesus tells us that even though the
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his words will never be changed or
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only stability in our unstable world.
How short sighted people are who spend all

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their time and energy learning about this
temporary world and accumulating its possessions, on

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neglecting the Bible and its eternal truths. Isn't that fantastic? So this idea

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that the only real stability is God's
words because it's the only thing that will

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never change. It's the only thing
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everything else we spend our time on, will change. God and his word

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never change. Well, so,
just for a fun trivia fact, there

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is one thing, actually several things
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going to last into heaven. Do
you know this well, your soul,

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yes, but I'm talking about a
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everything on this earth will disappear phys
right, yeah, but there is one

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thing that is mentioned that will be
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Covenant is I think it's three.
I'm being vulnerable here because I'm pretty sure

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I know the answer to this,
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Yeah, it's the tank commandments,
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the stones that were broken, ye, so the remnants of them,

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yep. Aaron's rod there, good
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Mana yes, there it is boom
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which didn't last a single day,
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the Ark of the Covenant, and
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Covenant had what's called the mercy seat, right is there? I think I

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said I said the wrong word a
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and that's that represents then the pouring
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the sacrifice that is sufficient to pay
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so yeah, that's that's the idea. So there's that your eternal soul well

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is here on earth, but we'll
we'll spend eternity uh with God, and

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we'll make it past this heaven and
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word so God never changes. Yeah, that's what. Did you ever hear

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my favorite Jim Gaffigan reference about the
gates of Heaven? No Jim Gaffkin,

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you know, the comedian. So
he's a Christian and he goes, he

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goes, gates of Heaven. I've
always wondered. He goes, what kind

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of neighborhood is heaven? It has
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goes, Yeah, we had to
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are sneaking in and using the pool. He goes, and he goes gates.

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He goes, what kind of neighborhood
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he goes, they were really hard
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we had to go all the way
down to Hell and find a contractor

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and everything. Oh no, I
know all of our contractors are like,

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hey, wait a minute, but
that's that's Jim Gaffkin's joke, not mine.

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There you go, there you go. Yep. So, so this

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idea of you spending a little bit
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of God's words might be the only
thing you do to day that will last

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forever. Yeah. That and sharing
the gospel. Yeah, there you go.

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Those two things are the two things
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here you are, you're drawing closer
to Christ. You're you're learning his words,

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and uh, these are should strengthen
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and they should challenge you too.
That's that's a great that's a great thought

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because every time we read God's word, every time we spend time in it

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and work toward it, that means
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of God, which means those are
the things that will last. Right,

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So we live this life just as
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I forget what's behind, I strain
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press on to win the prize for
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So so what he's saying is he's
like, live this life as if you

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know that there are rewards in heaven, things that will actually last, and

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don't just run the race of the
Christian life, but run to win.

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That's right, right, which is
which is really cool? Yeah, So

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keep looking up. That's right there, it is. That's the motto.

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There you go of the last six
days. Yes, that's right, all

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right. So that's it for our
time together, and we'll see you hopefully

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next time. I'm the bibble guys. H