Chains and the Gospel (Part 2): The Joy of Philippians

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So Zach, did you when I came in,
did you, you know, did you, was

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there any odor that you smell
like maybe you're always like

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Michael, you smell and I just
don't say anything.

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I also did not notice anything.
Yeah, yeah.

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So I thought maybe you were
thinking of this verse in three

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15315 First Corinthians 315,
I'll read 14.

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It says if any man's work which
he has built on it remains, he

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will receive reward.
If any man's work is burned up,

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he will suffer loss, but he
himself will be saved yet.

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As through fire.
I was thinking about as through

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smoke.
But right when I was, I went

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upstairs.
Jill went on a walk.

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Yeah.
And one of our daughters shall

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remain anonymous, I guess.
Yeah.

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Should should I protect the
identity of the the of the

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guilty?
You caught her smoking.

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No, she was microwaving French
fries and I guess she thought if

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she put a paper towel that was
kind of wet around them and it

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helped crisp them up.
But, you know, the water

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evaporated and the paper towel
like, started smoking.

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So I, I come out of the room
after like gathering at my

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computer and changing my
clothes.

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Like is the house on fire?
So it was, but no, it wasn't.

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It was just those that and and
she took them outside so.

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And I feel like that's the
perfect cover for some Marlboro

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Reds.
Marlboro Reds.

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Just just.
But Dad, it was, it was the

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French fries, you know?
Well, since my parents and my

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sister smoked, I think I would.
Oh, OK, I would know what

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cigarette smells.
That's true.

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Did you ever did you ever smoke?
You know the nasty habit trying

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to quit.
You know from down to two back

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2A day a cigarette.
I don't think I've ever had a

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cigarette before.
Cigars, yes, Cigarette.

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No.
I see I have asthma.

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Like not great.
Like where do you?

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Have an inhaler.
I do I yeah, I usually carry

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albuterol on me, not like all my
purse all the time, but before I

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play sports, I always take
albuterol.

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Like when I get sick it just
hangs just.

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A quick side note, I read a
study that said that albuterol

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inhalers account for as much CO2
in the air as 500,000 cars on

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the road.
Well, you know what?

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I You're supposed to take two
puffs before I do sports.

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Sometimes I just do 5 or 6.
Move that good stuff, boy I.

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Can move, doesn't it get your
heart racing like oh.

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It does it.
It doesn't get me like I know

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that's like what it's supposed
to do.

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It gets me like fired up a
little bit, but I'm not like,

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you know, going too crazy.
But it does get me ready to play

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sports where I'm like, I'm
ready.

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I'm ready for it.
I can breathe so much better.

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I highly recommend it.
You know, Before Sports helps

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out a lot.
I think I was 6 or 7.

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And of course like everyone in
my household smoked, even with

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my sisters who didn't know.
And like, I took a cigarette out

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of an ashtray and tried it and
tried it and thought I was just

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going to die.
Like.

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Like I ran to I, I don't know
why I thought water would help,

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but I ran to our, our kitchen
sink and was like just

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swallowing water trying to get
out.

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And honestly, maybe one of the
best things for me because I was

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like, I will never smoke these
cigars.

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Yeah, You know, that's why, you
know, as soon as my kids turn 3,

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have them smoke a pack, just get
it out of their system, you know

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what I'm saying?
Like, you're going to smoke

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that, you're going to like it.
And they're like, no, but no.

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Kick the habit.
My grandfather, he was always

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like smoking or chewing tobacco
kind of thing on the on the back

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porch.
I'm always trying to, you know,

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my mom was always like if he
offers you to back and don't

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take it as like a 12 year old
was like mom.

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Do you think your grandfather
would have?

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I have.
No idea.

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Well he's like 1 like he like
started spoken when he was 9 or

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something.
You know, it's like one of those

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he was, he obviously passed away
now, but he was like in World

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War Two, born in the 20s.
Like he was like, you know, it's

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a different world back.
Then you know.

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He's like worked and he like
went to school until 6th grade

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and you know, it's like then you
just help out on the farm and

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it's like a different, it seems
very different in my world, just

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two generations removed.
Like it's crazy has changed so

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much my my grandfather on my
mom's side smoked Swisher

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sweets.
Oh, OK, yes.

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And yeah, but I have smoked
cigars, like at a bachelor party

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or something, smoking one time.
And I'd read because I was like,

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you know what, What's, what's
the good thing?

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And it's like, you know,
supposed to like, take, you

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know, gentle puffs and get long
ashes and stuff.

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And there was this guy who was
just puffing.

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Just going that nicotine.
Right.

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And they're like, you need to
slow down.

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His eyes smoked these two hours
before.

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I'm used to it. 15 minutes later
he was out the back door.

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Dude.
That that, that stuff can I've

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never had it that bad.
But yeah, if you're if you're

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going too fast and you're not
acclimated, yeah.

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But I'll tell you what people
that day, man, dude with like

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these Zen pouches and stuff, it
is like people are so addicted

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to nicotine between vaping and
whatever it is crazy.

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Like I play, I play frisbee.
There's a guy that play Frisbee.

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He's just like, man, get some
nicotine in there.

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I can just focus on the field.
So, you know, whatever he's

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like, he's he's took it up to
play like like just, you know,

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yeah, I think he's done some
other things, but it's like.

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I mean, some people it's
nicotine, some people it's

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albuterol.
Yeah, who am I?

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Who am I?
Who am I to judge?

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So there.
There you go.

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I just wouldn't want you to be
like a prisoner to that stuff.

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I like it, the Segway, you know,
don't want to be a prisoner, you

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know, wouldn't it be great if,
you know, Paul had a chapter

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devoted to cigars?
You know, I don't think Charles

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Haddon Spurgeon would have loved
that.

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He like smokes like 5 cigars a
day.

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Just go and you know.
He'd probably be like some

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people smoke 5, some people
don't smoke any.

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The person who smokes 5
shouldn't judge the person who

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smokes.
None the.

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Person who smokes none shouldn't
do the person who smokes 5.

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That would have been a hot topic
in my church growing up.

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Yeah.
Yeah, it seemed like there was

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this shift because I remember
people standing outside my

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church when I was young, like
smoking by coming out and

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smoking and and then.
I guess it's this.

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War on early 80s.
And yeah.

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And then by the time the 90s hit
around you, that would not have

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happened.
We have all the commercials that

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are like this is you.
Know the woman talking, you

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know, with the little hole in
her that you know public

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service.
It's crazy.

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I know it's I know it's
different, but it's like, you

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know, all the other, all the
other stuff that's bad in our

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society too.
It's like I, we should have

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commercials with like, you know,
so it's like I eat McDonald's

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every day for a year and this is
what I, you know, the cancer I

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have or whatever.
It is.

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Well they tried to do that then
the the McDonald's one was fake.

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The Super size me.
That was fake.

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Oh yeah.
That was fake.

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It was faked.
No, you haven't heard of.

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This oh, I've seen.
It they went, they went through

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people have studied his claims,
Yeah.

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And how many calories that he
ate and they're like, it does

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not add up.
The math does not math man from

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what he said he was eating
because they're like if he

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would.
Every meal for like a month or

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something, something like that,
right?

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And he tried something like
different every or I don't know

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whatever.
And his, like, total calorie

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count was like way beyond, like,
there's no way you got to this

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many calories eating what you
said you ate on camera.

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So yeah, but you know that guy,
that guy died.

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Oh, where'd he die from?
I don't remember, but he seemed

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like he was like, trying to
always, like, do stuff.

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That was kind of yeah, yeah.
Man.

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I think he did, you know, Fact
Check, Fact Check us if that's.

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Interesting.
Yeah.

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Maybe we're just saying
whatever.

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Just just saying, you know, we
could be saying anything, but I

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like that.
Don't be a prisoner.

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Right to caffeine.
To anything I probably I

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probably am a prisoner, probably
to sugar, probably to caffeine,

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probably to a lot of things I
should re evaluate.

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I don't know.
I can quit whenever I want so

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that's fine.
It's fine.

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I can quit.
But we are in.

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I can quit, you know, I can quit
water whenever I want to.

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I just choose.
I just choose not to.

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We are in this great series
involving the Apostle Paul and

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we're going all over the place.
Yeah, we were going to do 1

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Series, 1 episode on the prison
epistles, but.

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You get 2 pastors slash elders
talking about, you know, these

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great letters of Paul.
We're realizing kind of halfway

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through, probably spending a
little too long on Ephesians,

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but hey, it's a great book, so.
It's a great book.

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So we are on Philippians.
Get ready.

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Get ready to smile.
Oh yeah, and to rejoice always.

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And again, I won't.
Say it again.

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Rejoice.
Let's take it to the next level

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from the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
I, I wouldn't say I feel bad for

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Timothy.
He's well known enough.

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But man, do you think he gets
enough love when it comes to

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like these letters where it's
like Paul and Timothy, we're,

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we're, we're servants of Christ
writing to you.

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Paul gets all the credit all the
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Yeah, that is, you know what if
we get up to heaven and Paul's

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like hardly none of that.
It was Timothy.

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Timothy's over there.
Like, come on, that's great, you

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know, but I, I just want to say
that for verse one, Paul and

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Timothy, servants of Christ
Jesus to all the Saints in

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Christ Jesus who are at Philippi
with the overseers and deacons,

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grace to you and peace from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
Opening it up.

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And you know, if we had the
pinpoints, we already kind of

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mentioned it.
But a theme in this epistle

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probably would have to do with
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Joy and also suffering's an
important thing, but it's really

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joy kind of over.
Is the overtone in the midst?

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Of the suffering and the
attitude you should have in

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suffering because you know,
Chapter 2 is this great, you

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know?
Thesis.

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That's right.
I can't think of the word.

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You know what's like a great
work that a composer does?

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Anyway?
It's a masterpiece on humility

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opus.
There you go to to humility as a

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word I couldn't think of and
blanked on, but yeah.

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So if you ever want to think
about, hey, how can I, you know,

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you know, look to Christ to have
humility.

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Read chapter 2.
But yeah.

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This is great.
I will say this too.

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If you ever John Piper desiring
God, they have like what they

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call fighter verses and they
have a fighter fighter verses

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like we're going to fight.
You know we're going to engage

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in spiritual warfare.
We're and, and it's different

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points, memorize different
verses and they have like maybe

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like 4 or 8 different tracks.
And one's like an easy track and

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one's like a harder track.
And one of their tracks is over

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the course of a year, you're
just memorizing Philippians.

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That's like what they're that's
what they're going with and,

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and.
And honestly, that seems

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Yeah, it's not like super long,

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but it's not, it's not nothing.
Yeah, it's not 'cause I set out

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to memorize the book of Romans
at one point that.

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Seems unreasonable.
And I think I got through maybe

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30, verse 30, verse 40 in
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Don't mean to weigh us down.
When I have gone like deep into

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memorizing like extended
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I'm gonna memorize James or I I
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like Titus very short.
And it's like, oh, made it

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through.
That was great.

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That was like, almost.
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The next Jude would be a good
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It's like short but good.
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memorize James, the same thing
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would get a chapter maybe 2 or
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It's going good.

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laborious, right?
Where I totally an aside, but

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like through James, I would like
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would just start a new chapter
because like I couldn't retain

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all five.
It was like so hard, you know?

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Neither here, I think even

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though you may not be able to
rattle it off, there's an

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understanding you gain from that
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That's that's actually.
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You don't have and like you, you
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memorizing requires these words
that you'd admit to memorize

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these words that you kind of
Passover the twos and the in

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twos and the therefore is an up
and the kind of those stuff that

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you you just kind of fly by.
But when you memorize it, it

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helps, you know, unlock those
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Better for you that's.
For you, Jonathan, Yeah.

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I, I should give I haven't, I
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passage in a little bit.
And I'm we when we memorize

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stuff, it's with my kids and
maybe it is like 5 or 8 verses,

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but not like we haven't taken on
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Like that'd be a good like New
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Like let's try to you.
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And then we have to recite it to
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This is what this is one of my I
wish I would have done this

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better, but one one time for
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I I memorized it took me
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I memorized Titus and then I was
like, hey, just put your Bibles

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Pretend I'm like talking to you.

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Like, as a letter.
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I think it was cool, but it's
hard to even, like, pay

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attention with the words and
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Get it down to where it's
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Yeah, yeah.
Then it's like.

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That is, that's crazy.
That's another level because

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lots of times when you're
reciting, you're like, you know?

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Yeah, you have.

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Those kind of awkward pauses as
you're thinking of the next

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thing and stuff.
Yeah, exactly right.

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And it's like, yeah, maybe maybe
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Like I'm just like mentally like
on fire, just discouraging when

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you memorize for like 2 weeks
and then you like take four days

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off.
And don't remember anything.

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But Philippians?
Philippians back to Philippians.

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Joyfulness.
We're going through chapter 1

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much like, you know, some of
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of jumps into some Thanksgiving
and prayer and has a, you know,

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we, you probably heard this
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And it's my prayer that your
love may abound more and more

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with knowledge and all
discernment so that you may

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approve what is excellent and be
pure and blameless for the day

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of Christ, filled with the fruit
of righteousness that comes

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through Jesus Christ to the
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A lot of good stuff mentions his
imprisonment in there and then

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kind of shifts to really where
where his heart's at to advance

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and the gospel and and he kind
of talks about like he's he's

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kind of chained.
But the Gospels going forward,

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it's kind of this great, this
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That's good and and there's also
I don't know how much you were

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wanting to go, but towards the
end of this is also a famous you

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know, for me to live as Christ
and to die as gain, but I want

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to live in the flesh.
This will be mean fruitful labor

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for me and I don't know which
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And so to have that type of
attitude like, you know what, I

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could live, I could die.
If I keep living, that means I'm

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going to have some more work to
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But if I die, I'm going to be in
the presence of the Lord.

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That's, you know, that's awesome
confidence.

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And you know, you can't really
harm a person who is mentally

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there.
Yeah, no, that that that's

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great.
Such AI love that this Christ to

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die is gain really contemplating
that which brings us to chapter

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2.
You alluded to it one of the

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most, you know, prominent parts
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Christ example of humility that
you know, it.

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It kind of, I think it flows
really nicely to where that's

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kind of like, you know, smack
dab in the middle, maybe not

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quite in the middle of this
book, but really you would be

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hard pressed to find a lot of
passages that kind of reach,

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reach this, this peak.
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or the emptying of Christ from
his, you know, divinity down to

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his natural man essence that he
has.

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And, and but, you know, he
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fine with him.
You know, he was able to give

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that up.
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able to give up, you know, what
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So, so good.
I think a lot of people look at

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this as like some ancient hymn
or a hymn maybe that the church

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would sing or something.
The way it kind of the rhythm of

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it and that kind of thing from
there goes and talks about the

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Philippians to be lights in the
world to do all things.

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You probably you know, if
Philippians is full of these

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like 1 liners do all things
without grumblings or disputing

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that you may be blameless
innocent children of God without

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blemish.
It's great for for that kind of

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stuff keeps on going on talks
about a couple of people.

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I love when people get shout
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don't, you know, again, Timothy
gets for Timothy not getting

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credit for writing this.
He at least gets a little bit

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more love than than his next
next fella Epaphroditus talks

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about Epaphroditus.
He says some some some great

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words about him.
I feel like more people should

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talk about this this person for
I have no one like him who will

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be genuinely concerned for your
welfare because everyone seeks

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their own interests.
But you know Timothy's.

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I guess Timothy's proven worth
talking about Timothy serving in

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the gospel.
And then I thought it necessary

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to sing send Apaphroditus.
I'm to be your master for his be

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longing for you and he's been
distressed because you heard

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that he was ill.
I guess this is actually a bad

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be.
He's telling this guy being

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sick, but he was really sick
near death.

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But God had mercy on him anyway.
He was.

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But be called a fellow worker.
That's right.

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That's right.
And a fellow soldier by by Paul.

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That's not bad.
That's pretty nice.

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So.
So receive him with this theme

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word with all joy, because he
nearly died for the work of

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Christ.
There you go.

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That that sounds good, risking
his life to to complete what was

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lacking in your service.
To me, that's a little bit of a

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rebuke there.
So that's chapter 2.

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Yeah, Chapter 3, we get this.
You know, we kind of already

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alluded it to in the banter, but
finally, my brothers rejoice in

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the Lord to write the same
things again.

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It's no trouble for me, and it's
a safeguard for you.

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So he's going to, you know,
remind them again to rejoice in

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the Lord.
And he's going to, you know,

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warn them of those, you know,
Judaizers who want to, you know,

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talk about how you got to be
circumcised, you got to try to

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keep the law.
And, you know, he'll go through

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his bona fides and he'll
basically say all that is like

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dung to me.
You know they had the.

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Age-old question, right how how
how hard is he pressing here is

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yeah, is is if cussing if it's
good enough for Paul, is it good

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enough for me?
Like you know, like what's the

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is it pre scripted?
Is it descriptive?

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What do I do with this?
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to that section and we get to I
feel like yet again another, you

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know, common passage that you
hear a lot that he talks about.

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He's pressing on, he's straining
toward the goal, forgetting what

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lies behind, straining forward
to lies ahead.

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I press on toward the goal for
the prize of the upward call of

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God in Christ Jesus.
Great stuff all the way through

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the end of chapter 3 and into
chapter 4.

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Where?
Probably the most famous verse

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of all the whole Bible in
chapter 4, right?

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Which 114?
OK, Yeah, Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.
Probably not for sure.

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I thought you were going to say
I entreat Yodia and I entreat.

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I'm just kidding.
But 413.

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Yeah.
Mary.

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Mary, because.
And I love it, you know, maybe I

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can do all things through him
who strengthens me.

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It's really like I want to win
this basketball game, right?

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That's what I'm praying for.
I want to be president.

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You know, I can do all things
through him who strengthens me.

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That's that's the, you know, the
The funny thing is, if, you

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know, if they read this and
Paul's like, I'm in prison, I'm

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suffering.
I'm learning how to be humble.

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I'm counting all of my worldly
things as dung.

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And you know, I can be rich if I
need.

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You know, I can act like I'm
rich.

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I can be, you know, I can be
poor.

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I can be with food.
I can be without food.

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I can be with the bed without
bed.

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I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me for

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the sake of the gospel.
It's one of those classic like

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great illustrations on context.
And it's one of those things

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like, I don't want to be too
hard on the people who are like,

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you know, I don't I don't say I
don't pray this for your

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basketball game.
It's just like, just like, you

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know, understand the stakes,
like, I don't, you know.

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Yeah, yeah.
There's famously some calendar

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or something that got printed
and it had like a little verse.

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Do you know what I'm talking
about?

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And it said something like, you
know, worship the shining one or

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something.
I don't know.

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And it was taken from where
Satan was tempting Jesus.

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And it was like, you know, bow
down and worship me.

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And it's like someone should
have read the context.

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Someone, there's someone just
checking boxes.

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Yeah.
It's like, it's like, great.

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So funny when people just don't
don't pay attention.

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But you know, there, there you
go.

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I'm trying to see.
Well, there's there also, you

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know, there, you know, 4/4
through 4/9 for the Warriors out

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there.
So often times Tim, he's, he's

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getting a lot of shout out,
shout.

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Outs he might be on the podcast.
We'll force him into a podcast

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in in December.
We need to, you know, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, He's cornered.
He can't go anywhere.

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Yeah, yeah.
We need to put that on the the.

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Yeah, the topics or agenda,
whatever that's.

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Good.
But lots of times people are

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motivated primarily either
through anger and lust or fear

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and worry.
I think those those things kind

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of go.
In pairs, you might be right,

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yeah.
But if if you are the fear and

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worry kind of person, these
verses are just you should have

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these up on your, you know, over
your in your kitchen.

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Oh yeah, there you go.
If you like.

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See it?
All the time from your kitchen

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00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,320
to your living room, you know,
like that you could see out like

449
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,480
from your kitchen sink, like
there's a little section you

450
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,120
should put up this plaque up
over your.

451
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:56,240
Sink.
That's good.

452
00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:59,720
Yeah, I love it.
Also, I think you do it.

453
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,280
Yeah.
We'll put it up in the in the

454
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,240
store.
You can buy it, you know, also

455
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,520
something that's great where I
went to college, really

456
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,280
monitored your Internet access
and everything was blocked.

457
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,040
Like even things that are not
bad.

458
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,720
And every time, like it would
pop up, it'd be like finally

459
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,840
brothers, whatever is true,
whatever is honorable, whatever

460
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,480
is just, whatever is pure.
But it was like this verse was

461
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,360
like, This is why it's blocked
because we're setting our minds

462
00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:23,280
on things that are pure and not
on this.

463
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,400
You know whatever, No, that's
good, that's great.

464
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,040
But so let me just read through
these.

465
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,000
Rejoice the Lord always.
Again, I will say, rejoice.

466
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,400
He said that several times,
because this is about rejoicing.

467
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,280
Let your gentle spirit be known
to all men.

468
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,560
The Lord is near be anxious for
nothing, but in everything by

469
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,960
prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving.

470
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,840
Let your court requests be made
known to God, and the peace of

471
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,240
God, which surpasses all, all
comprehension, will guard your

472
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,600
hearts and your minds in Christ
Jesus.

473
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,000
Finally, brethren, whatever is
true, whatever is honorable,

474
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,200
whatever is right, whatever is
pure, whatever is lovely,

475
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,560
whatever is of good repute, if
there is any excellent is if

476
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,400
there is any excellence, and if
anything worthy of praise.

477
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,280
Dwell on these things, the
things you have learned and

478
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:10,920
received and heard and seen in
me.

479
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,440
Practice these things, and the
God of peace will be with you.

480
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,360
So boom.
Yeah, that's a great, great

481
00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:19,600
passage to memorize.
And then towards the end,

482
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,280
another one.
I just want to point out to you,

483
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,800
you've probably heard this.
My God will supply every need of

484
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,880
yours according to the riches of
his glory in Christ Jesus.

485
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,920
To our God and Father be glory
forever and ever.

486
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,680
And so, you know, as we're
making our way through this,

487
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,880
it's like, man, I feel like
every paragraph has like, oh,

488
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,160
people quote this verse a lot
and this verse a lot probably is

489
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:42,600
not a bad, you know, book of the
Bible to just sit down and

490
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,400
meditate and and memorize.
What are some bad books in the

491
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,320
Bible to to read?
Don't get me started.

492
00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:52,640
Don't get me started.
Yeah, That's, that's great.

493
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:53,440
Good, Good.
Yeah.

494
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,040
Call my bluff.
Yeah.

495
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,320
But yeah, this is got a lot of
practical stuff and a lot of

496
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,240
practical stuff.
It's hard to you don't want to

497
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,560
say that, but you know, numbers
are a little bit like this.

498
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,120
You know those types of those
are good, good books, but.

499
00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:10,520
Honestly, I've been memorizing
all the laws in Leviticus.

500
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,280
I've been like, it's just like,
I just want to, you know, get

501
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:14,880
that down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

502
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,880
Get.
That down really, really well,

503
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,040
Philippians.
So so to recap.

504
00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:22,720
Right.
We got Ephesians, Clash of

505
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,760
Philippians, Philemon, we're all
kind of putting that together in

506
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:32,200
the prison epistles.
And I guess I could have like

507
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,080
kept scrolling down the notes
and there are a lot, a lot more

508
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,720
notes of like little takeaways
here and there.

509
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,320
I think I mentioned this in a
different one, but Ephesians and

510
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:43,960
Colossians and we did it
together for a reason.

511
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,600
Like they're they're like so
closely related.

512
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,840
People have been like, well, I
don't think they're written by

513
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,360
Paul because they're so similar.
And you're like, man, that is

514
00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:56,800
like bananas.
But anyway, good, good just to

515
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,800
think about all these, the
context they were written in.

516
00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:02,440
Most people I think know this,
but sometimes it's hard to, you

517
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:03,800
know, get, get all the letters
straight.

518
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,320
Like where, where does Timothy
and Thessalonians and all these

519
00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:08,800
things you know, fit in.
Yeah, and I.

520
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,080
I I.
Think this is maybe even

521
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,120
Philippians where I could be
wrong here.

522
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,640
I you always hate hate to say
something and then it'd be

523
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,960
wrong, but there's a place where
someone's saying, you know,

524
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,680
people are preaching the gospel
and he's like under false

525
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,400
pretense.
He's like, whether it's whether

526
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,640
it's under false pretense or
not, the gospels going out like

527
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,800
in this idea of you can't chain
the gospel even though I'm in

528
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,680
chains, you can't chain the
gospel.

529
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,360
I'll read that.
That is so good, and I'm glad

530
00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:38,960
you brought that up.
It says some indeed preach

531
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,200
Christ from envy and rivalry,
but others from goodwill.

532
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,720
The latter do it out of the
love, knowing that I am put here

533
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,160
for the defense of the gospel.
The former proclaimed Christ out

534
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,040
of selfish ambition, not
sincerely, but thinking to

535
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,400
afflict me in my imprisonment.
What then?

536
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,320
What's his answer?
I think it's so good only that

537
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,080
in every way, whether in
pretense or in truth, Christ has

538
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,040
proclaimed and in that I
rejoice.

539
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,960
And that's good for me to hear
because I look at other people,

540
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,800
I'm like, man, they're getting
it wrong.

541
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,160
But it's like, man, Christ is
going forth at some level.

542
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,840
I got to like be be rejoicing
and being like, it's not such an

543
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,480
exact thing I'm saying.
And maybe it's even being said

544
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,440
for bad motives, you know, maybe
I can't, you know, but it's

545
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,800
like, wow, it's a blessing that
God's name is going forth, even

546
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,040
if it doesn't fit to my specific
brand of doctrine or whatever,

547
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,160
you know, no, I.
Think that's good And sometimes

548
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,400
that's good.
You might not be able to say

549
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,480
that about every single
missionary that's out there.

550
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,360
But like if you think about, you
know, countries who are being,

551
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:42,120
you know what's converted that
I'm the word.

552
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,640
I can't think of words tonight.
I don't know what is I wanted to

553
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,480
say the word plagiarized.
They're not being plagiarized,

554
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,160
proselytized, proselytized into,
you know, something, But you

555
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,040
know, if they're getting the
gospel, that's good.

556
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,280
Especially, yeah, a good point
with like missionaries in

557
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,240
particular.
Maybe not the Mormons, but.

558
00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:01,880
Man, yeah.
And I'm like, maybe not the

559
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,040
Catholics, but if any, anything
else, you know?

560
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,520
Yeah, if like a missionary comes
back and maybe they're like

561
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,440
maybe a Lord a little more
charismatic than you would be,

562
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,680
it's like that's probably fine.
Like when we're preaching the

563
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,000
gospel, it's like, OK, that they
don't check like every box that

564
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,320
that you check.
Yeah, that's good.

565
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,440
That's a good.
I like that Gospel is going for

566
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:25,360
the prison epistles.
Anything else you you got on

567
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,840
these books of Paul?
Where else we going in Paul?

568
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:28,920
What, what are we?
What are we hitting?

569
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,120
So we have, I think, two more.
Sweets we're.

570
00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:36,640
Going to look at Paul's defense
of his apostleship.

571
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,600
Sweets good.
And he says some odd things at

572
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,840
the end of Second Corinthians
we're going to look at.

573
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,160
And then we want to have one
episode that's kind of like Paul

574
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,920
and Paul adjacent.
You know, how did Paul end his

575
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,360
life?
Oh yeah, that's did he make that

576
00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:54,200
West?
And then maybe we'll look at a

577
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,280
summary of where the other
apostles.

578
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,560
Ended up I love that.
Because you hear that every

579
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,520
single possible apostle except
for John was martyred.

580
00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:06,040
That may not be the case.
Wow, you heard it here first.

581
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,040
Sorry, maybe not first.
Actually, you heard it from John

582
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,520
McDowell first.
Wow, just take credit for it.

583
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,720
Maybe John McDowell was, you
know, maybe he got from you.

584
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,000
I don't know.
But cool.

585
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,040
All right.
Sweet.

586
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:18,880
Well, thanks for hanging in
there with us.

587
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,320
That's our take.
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00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,520
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