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073 - What I Wish Was in "Battle Plan"
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Well, "Battle Plan" will be released on Saturday, May 18th 2024! I am very excited about the launch of my first book and I hope that all of you will get a copy and share it with your friends. This is an important message we all need to hear!
However, there were a few things I wish would have gotten into this book, but I didn't think of it until it was too late. :o) Oh well, maybe a second edition will be released if this one does well enough! But you listeners of the Preacher Dad Podcast will get the extra scoop on the content that was left out. So listen in and be encouraged!
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Introduction and Humor
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Hello, welcome to the Preacher Dad podcast.
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My name is Jared and I am the Preacher Dad.
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I blog over at PreacherDad.com where you can find biblical perspectives on everything from parenting to politics to preparation.
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And at PreacherDad.com we're trying to equip and inspire Christians in the West to engage in the culture war and make a difference.
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for the next generation in Christ's name and for his sake.
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I'm really glad to have you here today.
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Thank you for listening.
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I want to share with you, first of all, a couple dad jokes just to kind of make things interesting.
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First of all, I grew facial hair without telling anyone.
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It's my secret stash.
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I like that one.
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I like that one.
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This one says, I sat next to a baby for a 10-hour flight.
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I didn't think it was possible for someone to scream for 10 hours straight.
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Even the baby was impressed.
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I pull it off.
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Yes, sir.
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I've been watering my herbs with leftover coffee.
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Because I love coffee time.
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Time, get it?
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Time?
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Not bragging, but I made six figures last year.
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So they named me the worst employee at the toy factory.
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My dad said I always loved alphabet soup when I was young, but it was just him putting words in my mouth.
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Good stuff.
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Well, I hope that you're smiling.
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And I hope that you're having a good day, whether you're going home from work or whether you're on your way to work, or maybe you're off today and you're like, you know, I got some time.
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I'm just going to catch up on the preacher, Dad.
Writing 'Battle Plan' Insights
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I'm glad you're here.
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And, you know, I've been working hard on writing my first book, and it's called Battle Plan, How Christians Can Engage in the Culture War.
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And it's really a good way for Christians
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the regular guy, the regular, normal, average Christian to be able to figure out how to engage in the culture or how to do things that make a difference.
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It's not very long.
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It's a pretty simple, short read.
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And, you know, as I was thinking about it, I was thinking, you know, there's some things I wish I would have put in there that I forgot to put in there.
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Or I've just kind of, you know, thought about those chapters a little more recently.
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And thought there's some things I wish I would have added.
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So today's episode is things I wish I would have put in the book.
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And starting out with a scripture verse from Deuteronomy 20.
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This probably should have gone in the introduction.
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In Deuteronomy 20, verse 1, it says, When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them.
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For the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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And when you draw near to the battle, the priests shall come forward and speak to the people, and shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies.
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Let not your heart faint.
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Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them.
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For the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.
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And it goes on to talk about if anybody's afraid, let him go home so he doesn't make his brother's heart afraid like his is.
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And there's some other good stuff in there.
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But that's just an inspiring verse of Scripture that talks about the fact that the Lord has won the victory already.
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Why should we be afraid to go into battle when he has already won?
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And, you know, we need to realize that we are in a struggle against evil forces that have already lost.
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And we don't need to be afraid of the enemy.
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When we're standing with the truth, standing with God through the Scriptures, standing with the truth of the Word of God, we do not need to be afraid of the enemy.
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And we should be willing to engage with confidence and courage without fear of, well, what are they going to say about me?
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Or what are they going to think about me?
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Or how can we really do anything?
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It's all useless or pointless.
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I think that is a lie of the enemy.
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It's useless.
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It's pointless.
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There's no point.
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That is a lie of the enemy to keep good people on the sidelines out of the battle.
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And so we need to resist that type of thinking.
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That should have
Voting and Political Engagement
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been in the introduction.
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No question about it.
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The next chapter is called Vote.
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First chapter is Vote.
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And I think that something I would have liked to have put into the chapter, and if you want to know what's in the chapter, you have to buy the book, folks.
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Sorry about that.
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But I wish I would have put into that chapter some information about how to register to vote.
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You do have to register to vote in order to vote in every state.
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And so...
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I wish I would have put some information there about how to do that or ways that you can have a get out the vote campaign or ways, you know, instructions about how to chase down ballots and encourage people to vote and help them to vote.
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That would have been good.
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Maybe that'll be in the second edition.
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The next chapter is called Contact Your Congressman.
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And I did put some information in there about how to find out who your congressman is, federally at least.
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But it would have been good to have some stuff for the state legislators, and I'm not sure I really did that effectively.
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It would have been good to have some information about how to find out who are your local magistrates, your
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City councilmen, your mayors, your county councilmen, your county clerks, the judges, different things like that, elected officials in your local community.
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How can you find out who those people are?
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Well, that should have been in the book.
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And it's not gotten in there, and we finished the editing process, so it's going to have to just be in the second edition.
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But for you lucky listeners of the Preacher Dad podcast, you're getting a little extra today.
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So congratulations.
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Thank you for listening.
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Chapter three is run for office.
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Run for office.
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Now, this is going to be different in every municipality, in every state, in every county of the country.
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There's a little bit, usually some variance, some things that you have to do, and it would have been good to describe specifically what those things are, not in every county, but just generally speaking.
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You have to qualify.
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Usually there's some sort of fee in order to qualify.
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qualify as a candidate.
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Even presidential candidates don't always get on the ballot in every single state.
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Usually if they win, if they want to win, they need to.
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But you have certain filing deadlines, things like that.
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That should have been in the book.
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Chapter four is volunteer with a campaign.
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Volunteering with campaign is a good chapter about getting involved and plugging in, but I should have included some more specifics about the specific type of jobs that you have on a campaign.
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You have a campaign manager, you have a finance chair, you have a
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social media manager.
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You have, in a political campaign, you have people making phone calls and knocking on doors.
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And there's a lot of folks that are doing that, trying to drum up support.
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You have people that are on sign duty.
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Their job is to put signs out wherever they can do it.
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So all these different types of positions are part of a
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a campaign for office and in addition to the candidate he needs a lot of other people to help him out him or her so that would have been good to put in there i wish i would have put put that in there chapter five is get to know your legislator get to know your legislator and there's some really wonderful tips in there from a legislator friend of mine
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But what I wish I would have put into chapter five is more about how to do that, how to contact, how to get in touch with them, how to get to know them better, would have been better to put in the book.
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You know, not just contacting them, but
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Ways in which they are real people.
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So stories of them being real, normal folks, you know, the challenges that they have faced, all of those things would have been great to put in that chapter, but it didn't get in there.
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The book probably would have been too long to read if I had put all this stuff in there.
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Chapter 6 is teach a Bible class.
Bible Study Importance
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Teach a Bible class.
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That's a very valuable and important thing that we all need to be doing if we can.
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We need to be in the Scriptures all the time, and teaching a Bible class is a great idea.
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Now, what I wish I would have put into the book is more material on where to find trustworthy Bible study aids.
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Maybe...
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some of the Bible study tools that I use when I'm studying the Bible, or if I would have included more than just navpress.com.
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There's quite a number of other places where you can find reliable Bible study information, and I should have put it in the book.
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But it's not in there.
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It'll come in the second edition.
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You know, I find I use eSword to study the Bible.
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I look up Strong's definitions.
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I use Brown, Driver, Briggs' dictionary.
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I compare versions between the King James, the English Standard Version, the New King James, the New American Standard Bible, and oftentimes look up the Amplified Bible as well just to get a better idea and understanding of
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of the original languages and what they're teaching.
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And that's what I do to study the Bible.
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Now, when we're trying to find Bible study aids or helps, I trust the Navigators.
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They're a good group and they have good, solid Bible study information.
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I trust Wall Builders, the ministry there.
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They're excellent for providing solidly biblical information.
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Family Life today, they're pretty solid.
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I like a lot of their material.
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So all these places are good spots to go to if you're trying to find a Bible study aid.
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Number seven is Disciple Someone.
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Chapter 7, Disciple Someone.
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Now, this is a hard concept to grasp because we just about lost the art of discipleship in American society, in American Christianity.
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And so, you know, we talk a lot about evangelism, but we give very little focus to discipleship.
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So we don't really know what it is or how to do it.
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So I try to talk about this a little bit in this chapter about
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But what I wish I would have put in there is some good books on discipleship.
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I have some in my library which are really, really good.
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There's The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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You have Conformed to His Image.
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I think that was by Kenneth Boa.
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There's just some really excellent books out there on discipleship that have begun to blossom and spring up.
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And I wish I would have given a list in the book, but I didn't.
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But you get a couple of suggestions here on the Preacher Dad podcast.
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Chapter 8 is give your money away.
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Give your money away.
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Give your money to worthwhile causes and organizations that are doing God's work in the world.
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Now, I did not list, I did not give a very long list of people to give money to.
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I basically said if you believe that they are doing good work in the world, you need to give them money.
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But I wish I would have given a starting point to encourage people to give to the organizations that I believe in.
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But here you go.
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It's a short list.
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Certainly, Wall Builders is on that list.
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Wall Builders is an outstanding organization founded by David Barton, and they are committed to restoring America.
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to its constitutional and biblical foundations.
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And so I really believe in what they're doing and sincerely support what they do.
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Another one is Turning Point USA.
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Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA, and it's just an outstanding organization doing so many great things strategically, principally, ideologically.
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They are really making some good headway here in the culture war, and I just encourage everybody to
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Check them out and get involved and give them some money.
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There's quite a number of other organizations like Family Life Today, as I've mentioned already.
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You could give to Cornerstone Fellowship.
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Our church here in middle Georgia could use some financial assistance for the things that we're trying to do in this small community.
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By the way, this episode is brought to you by Cornerstone Fellowship, located just a little bit north of Tombsboro, Georgia.
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and a congregation of a few people with big hearts.
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And we love Jesus and would love to invite you and welcome you to love him with us.
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And so we are pleased to be where we are and glad that God is blessing our little congregation.
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In just a little while, we're going to have a meal here
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And then we're going to have prayer meeting after the meal is over.
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So we do some decent amount of eating here at Cornerstone Fellowship, and it's good food if that entices you.
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But if you just come for the food, then you're going to be disappointed the first time somebody brings a bad casserole or something.
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Anyway, so give your money away.
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Give your money away to worthwhile causes, candidates that are running for office.
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I believe in Donald Trump and what he is trying to do to save our nation.
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He certainly is not faultless.
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He's not a perfect man or a perfect candidate, but he is a strong candidate and has conservative ideas and
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We need to get behind him and support him.
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Even if you have to hold your nose and vote, fine.
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But we need to vote for him or we might not ever get a chance to vote again.
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It is that serious today, folks.
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It is that serious in our culture war.
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Hey, parents, if you're looking for a fun and entertaining way to teach your children about character, then I've got the right podcast for you to check out.
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It's called Character Stories Podcast.
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On the Character Stories Podcast, we do voices of all shapes and sizes, and we have occasionally sound effects as well.
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And I would love for you to come and join us over there and hear a great story that has a great lesson and moral in it as well.
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So come on over and check out the Character Stories podcast today.
Prayer in the Culture War
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Chapter 9.
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Keep your money from the wrong people.
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Keep your money away from the wrong people.
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And I talked about the importance of being careful where our money goes.
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But I, again, wish I would have listed more dangerous organizations that we should not be giving money to.
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That we should not be shopping with.
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And I...
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I wish I would have included in the book names like target.
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Um,
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I don't think that we should be shopping with Target.
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I think that they're advocating and supporting things that are ungodly and unbiblical, and it's just a bridge too far.
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If you like to shop at Target, nope, okay, fine.
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I'm not going to fuss at you or wag my finger, but I just think that they are a bad company that is promoting bad things, and we shouldn't be supporting them.
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Um, there's, there's a number of others.
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I have been participating in a boycott of Home Depot as best I can because of their open support of the LGBTQ agenda.
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I don't even like getting into all the alphabet soup, but they openly and adamantly support
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homosexual marriage and things of that nature.
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And that's just, I'm just doing the best I can not to give them my money.
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Now I got to shop for tools and supplies somewhere, but when I can, I try to stay away from Home Depot.
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You know, I'm pretty much ready to sell every piece of Disney, anything that I ever have had and just wash my hands of their entire company because they are actively and adamantly
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trying to persuade children to turn into radical leftists, pagans.
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I've been shocked by some of the things that I've seen in the recent years that Disney has produced for children that are actively, adamantly pagan and worshiping false gods, just really, really bad stuff.
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Some of the worst stuff I've ever seen.
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And so, you know, I wish I would have listed some of those problems.
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But I was trying to keep the book short.
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And so for the sake of time, I left some of that out.
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Chapter 10.
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Chapter 10 is Pray.
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Chapter 10 is probably one of the most important chapters in the book because prayer is one of the most important things that we can do as believers, as warriors in the culture war, is to pray.
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We have to realize the effectiveness of prayer, the power of it, and it's very, very important.
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And what I wish I would have put into the chapter about prayer is the different aspects of prayer.
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and expanding on an understanding of what those things are.
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Maybe a little Bible study about what Jesus said when he taught us to pray.
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He said, the disciples came to him and said, teach us to pray.
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And he said, okay, this is how you should pray.
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Our Father, which art in heaven.
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So you're addressing the Father, you're addressing him corporately.
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Our Father, not my Father.
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Personal prayer is important, but he's saying, you know, corporate prayer is important too.
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Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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Your name is holy.
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It's declaring the nature of God and what he's like.
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Declaring the holiness of God.
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Hallowed be thy name.
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Thy kingdom come.
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That is a declaration of the desire of the prayer.
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that your kingdom would come, your rulership, your authority.
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Let thy kingdom come.
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And we'd like to say that sometimes as a poem.
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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
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And we forget that thy kingdom come is a three-word sentence that's talking about the kingdom of God in us and in our world.
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Both in us and in our world, we're treating the kingdom to come.
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Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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I wish I would have gone into the details of these aspects of prayer more.
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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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God's will is done immediately and absolutely without question in heaven, and that needs to be done here on earth as well.
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And in my own heart, I need to surrender to his instruction, to his guidance, to
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And so it's very important that my prayers include that kind of surrender.
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Give us this day our daily bread.
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That's just prayers for today.
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That's requests for the things that I need.
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It's not me worrying about tomorrow.
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It's just me simply thinking about today.
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What do I need today?
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Lord, bless me today.
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That doesn't mean we don't pray about tomorrow or pray about things to come.
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It just means, Lord, provide for my needs today.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
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We really need to understand the power of forgiveness, and it's very hard for us to come before the throne of God and expect to be heard if we are harboring bitterness towards others.
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If we're harboring bitterness towards someone else, that will hinder our prayers, hinder our walk with God, and it will destroy and defeat the good things we're seeking to do in the world.
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So forgiving others is incredibly important.
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Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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And that's not saying that God would lead us into temptation, because the Bible says in James, God will not tempt us, neither tempteth he any man.
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So it's not that he's enticing us to do evil, and we're saying, please don't entice me to do evil.
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It's saying, lead me away from evil, is what that really means in the original language.
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Lead me away from evil.
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And deliver me from the power of the enemy, from the evil one.
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Deliver me from the evil one.
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It's the spiritual warfare prayer.
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We need to pray spiritually.
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We need to recognize the spiritual warfare that we are in.
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And that this culture war is much deeper than just a battle of ideas and right versus left.
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This is a spiritual battle.
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We are fighting demons.
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Look, folks, I am not overstating that.
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We are fighting demons.
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And when we stand up for the truth and we stand up on God's side and we proclaim the truth, we are actively attacking the strongholds of lies that Satan has implanted in the hearts of others.
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He does not want that to happen.
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We are in a spiritual war.
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This culture war is not just a battle of ideas to see who's going to run the United States.
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It's a battle of truth versus lies, good versus evil, the spiritual forces of darkness versus the Lord Jesus and his Holy Spirit, the power of God, and all of the righteous angels that still follow the king of all kings, the Lord of the universe, the creator God.
Nature of the Culture War
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It is a battle between those forces,
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It's a battle that Jesus really has already won, but there's still, you know, things that have to happen.
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But the battle's over.
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There's no question about who the winner will be.
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Unfortunately, the devil, he just wants to take out as many as he can before he has to finally go to the lake of fire.
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Well, that's 10 chapters.
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There's an 11th chapter called Final Thoughts, and there's some things I wish I would have added to the Final Thoughts area there, like maybe more of the Scripture from Deuteronomy.
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There's been quite a number of thoughts, some sort of...
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analogy to Rocky, you know, Rocky Balboa.
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You're Adrian.
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Hey, Adrian, we did it.
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I loved, I love saying, Hey, Nick, Hey, Nick, I can do a bit.
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That was probably a really, really bad Sylvester Stallone impression.
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And if he ever hears this podcast, I hope that he will forgive me for murdering those lines.
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But it's a great, great film, great series of films, and it's really inspiring to me.
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And so I wish I would have put in a Rocky analogy in there.
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You know, he's beat up, but he's still standing up.
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He's going the distance.
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And sometimes, you know, in the culture war, we just have to keep standing and keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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Keep swinging.
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Just keep punching, Rock.
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Keep punching.
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Don't stop.
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And folks, for you and me, the regular average G.I.
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Joe guy,
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In the culture war, we have to keep trying.
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We can't lay down and give up.
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We have to keep swinging because duty is ours, but consequences are God's.
Engagement and Updates
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Duty is ours, but consequences are God's.
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And we need to remember that that is true.
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And I hope that you will remember that today.
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Well, I hope this episode has encouraged you.
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I hope that it's given you something to think about.
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And I'm sure grateful that you chose to listen to the Preacher Dad podcast today.
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But you can do all of that at PreacherDad.com.
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And I would sure love to connect with you there.
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But I hope that you have a great afternoon or evening or morning or good night.
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Have a good rest whenever you're listening.
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I sure appreciate it.
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And I hope that God will bless you and cause his face to shine upon you.
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And I hope that you remember that he has won the victory.
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You have no need to be afraid.
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God bless you.
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We'll see you again next time.
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Bye-bye.