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 We're talking tonight about man as a fighter because this is probably one of the easiest topics

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 Just by way of inspiration to be inspired.

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 The easiest topic though is that it's the easiest topic to be inspired by and the hardest

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 topic to actually live out.

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 And I think that I would really have failed if we can't actually have some deep conviction

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 both towards ourselves and towards our real life in terms of taking action in some of

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 these things.

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 That's the rule, rubber meets the road.

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 I think we all can look at different men and their testimony and be inspired by it, but

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 it's really easy for us to be so blind to how we are not being fighters in our own life.

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 And I think that the thing that I think is really hard for me also to articulate and encapsulate

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 is a way of inspiring in practical life ways in which we aren't fighters.

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 You know what I mean?

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 I think that there is a lineage where you see men who are very heroic.

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 They lead great lineages.

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 But there also is something that when men abandon their posts, they lead these destructive wakes.

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 You know?

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 I think that for all of us, there are men in our lineage or men in our lives that we look

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 to where we know that they abandoned their children.

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 They abandoned their life.

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 They abandoned their life.

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 Let's say they abandoned their career.

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 It's like a fundamental temptation for men to flee.

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 You know what I mean?

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 It's like the stereotype of the dad who just, you know, he hides away in his man cave.

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 You know what I mean?

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 Or the dad who, you know, when things get real tough, peaces out.

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 He'll start a new family.

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 When things get tough, they peace out again.

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 Start a new family.

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 And I think the issue here is not that being a fighter is not inspiring.

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 It's that the actual cost of fighting is we oftentimes consider too much.

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 So I'm going to go through, I'm going to give a couple of quotes here, and I'm going to

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 go through a history.

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 A history of cowardice and courage.

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 We go through a bunch of stories in history where men were courageous and had a whole cascade

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 and a beautiful legacy and where men were cowards and left a destructive wake.

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 And we try to land the plane and call us to examine the lineage of our own life.

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 And what are we doing?

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 What are we doing right now where we're either abandoning the fight or warring the fight?

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 But where are the areas in which we actually need to be held?

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 One of the things, when we first got married, we did a birth training because my wife hadn't

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 had a baby.

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 And Dara Aldi, you know the Aldi, some of you guys know the Aldi's, Dara Aldi did this

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 birth training.

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 That was the first time I met her.

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 My wife's in the birth world right now, so she's known to Dara a lot.

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 But Dara Aldi did this birth training, and on one of the nights she had her husband come,

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 I think it's Darren.

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 Dennis.

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 Dennis, sorry, thank you.

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 Dennis.

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 Dennis came and he basically gave teaching on how men can show up for a birth.

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 How men can not just be spectators of birth, but they can actually really make a difference.

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 And what it then said, it was really stuck with me.

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 She was like, I just believe that there's something fundamental in men that wants to be heroic

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 and can be heroic.

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 And he was saying this about his relationship with his own family.

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 He kept on saying, you know, with my wife, I want her to feel like I am actually heroic

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 towards her.

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 That I'll put on my cape, that I'll swoop in, and that I will fight whatever needs to be

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 fought.

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 I'll be in any fight that needs to take place.

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 I will be there.

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 I want my children to feel the same way.

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 I want my family to feel like my role is very, very heroic.

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 And that I live up to that.

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 One of the things that was kind of inspiring about him saying that is it's not normally phrased

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 that way.

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 You know, I think all of us men can relate with appreciating heroism, but not a lot of men

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 will say it out loud.

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 I want to be heroic.

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 I want my wife to feel like I am heroic towards her.

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 I want my children to feel like I'm heroic towards them.

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 There's something that's very masculine about that.

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 There's something very powerful about that.

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 Because kind of the spirit of being a fighter is a willingness to count the costs and execute

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 the costs of heroism.

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 Everyone loves the victory, but we all hate the cost.

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 You know what I mean?

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 I think a lot of this is because we are what is in the way.

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 You know what I mean?

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 The cost ends up being ourself.

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 So, I'm just going to hop in here.

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 This is one of my favorite quotes from D.K. Chesterton.

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 He wrote a book called Orthodoxy.

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 If you guys haven't read Orthodoxy, I really, really encourage you to.

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 This is one of the books that C.S. Lewis read that helped persuade him to become a believer.

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 It's very similar to mere Christianity.

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 It's like a defense of the Christian faith.

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 Incredible, incredible book.

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 Probably most of you guys, or a bunch of you guys have already read it.

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 But anyway, he has this.

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 This is my favorite quotes on courage.

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 Take the case of courage.

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 No equality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages.

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 Sorry, what's that?

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 Let me make sure I'm...

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 Sorry, I'm going to go.

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 Courage...

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 Oh, sorry.

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 Take the case of courage.

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 No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages.

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 Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.

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 That means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.

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 He that loses his life, the same shall save it.

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 It is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes.

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 It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors and mountaineers.

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 It might be printed on an alpine guide or a drill book.

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 This paradox is the whole principle of courage, even if quite earthly or brutal courage.

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 A man cut off by the sea might save his life if he will risk it on the precipice.

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 He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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 A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying.

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 He must not merely cling to life, for then he would be a coward, and he will not escape.

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 He must not merely wait for death, for then he would be a suicide, and will not escape.

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 He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

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 He must desire life like water, and yet drink death like wine.

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 No philosopher I fancy has ever expressed this romantic riddle adequately, and I certainly have not done so.

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 But Christianity has done more.

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 It has marked the limits of it in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying.

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 And so with this quote, Chesterton is really bringing together the idea of you cannot have real courage without also really fixing death.

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 Right?

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 And this is actually bringing in even what Josh was talking about last week, because a man is self-sacrificial.

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 You can't actually, you can't actually be heroic.

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 You can't be courageous.

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 You can't actually be a good fighter until first you come to terms with being willing to give up your own self.

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 So the whole aspect of masculinity that is encapsulated in courage and heroism is an embracing of willing to be the sacrifice.

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 That you are the one who's taking the cost up on your own shoulders.

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 And I think this is actually probably one of the great ailments of even like the modern day family is men wanting to have all the inconvenience be chased away from themselves.

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 It's all an avoidance of that.

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 You know what I'm saying?

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 Where we in our own selfishness avoid all the cost and everyone else around us actually bears the broken fruit of our abandonment because it's because of us.

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 You know what I mean?

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 You know what I mean?

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 We are the villains in our story rather than the heroes of our story, right?

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 It all comes down to our ability, like Josh was saying, of self-sacrifice actually willing willing this to be the ones who are that are exerting the cost, expending the cost.

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 It says in Proverbs 28 1, well you guys know this verse, a wicked man flees when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

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 And I think that one of the things at stake here is not just big courage, but the reality that in order for us to be bold as a lion, we actually have to face our own wickedness.

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 Cowardice is wickedness.

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 This is actually something that has been historically well perceived.

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 And I think in this modern day and age, it's no longer front and center that cowardice is wickedness.

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 That's what the scripture says.

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 The wicked man flees when no one pursues him.

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 The righteous man is as bold as a lion.

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 There is something that the Lord wants to instill in us that is actually being sanctified.

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 You can't actually be bold without being sanctified.

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 We can't actually be courageous unless we actually face our own worst enemy, which is ourself.

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 This is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt.

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 You guys have already heard this.

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 It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or the doer of deeds could have done them better.

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 The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasm, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who is at the best, knows the end, the triumph of great achievement.

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 And who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

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 I think one of our big failures here, if we're just a spectator of heroism and not a participator.

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 I think that's one of the things that this day and age knows that men have this instinct.

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 So we have full industries that just appease the instinct rather than actually encouraging them to participate in real life.

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 I think in large part, this is not a combination of video games, but there is an extent to which a lot of the video game industry is just exploiting men's desire to feel heroic.

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 Right?

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 I would even say that a lot of pornography is actually the same way.

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 I think there's something that you feel like you're treated with great glory by a woman who's willing to unclothe herself with you.

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 I actually think that a lot of men turn to that because they feel the opposite when they interact with real women.

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 There's a lot about men that wants to be acknowledged as heroic and glorious.

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 And there's a whole industry that just cater to making men feel that way in their spectated position.

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 Right?

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 All right.

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 So I'm going to go.

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 This begins the history.

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 I hope you guys have soft hearts to this.

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 This is very convicting.

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 We're going to start in Genesis chapter 3.

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 Everybody here should know the story.

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 Now the servant was more crafty than the wild animals the Lord God had made.

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 He said to the woman,

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 Did God really say,

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 You must not eat from the tree of the garden?

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 And the woman said to the servant,

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 We may eat from the tree of the garden.

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 But God did say,

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 You must not eat from the tree that is in the middle of the garden.

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 And you must not touch it, or you will die.

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 You will certainly not die, the servant said to the woman,

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 For God knows that when you eat from it, your eyes will be opened,

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 And you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

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 When the woman saw the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye,

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 And also desirable for gaining wisdom,

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 She took some and ate it.

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 She also gave some to her husband,

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 Who was with her,

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 And he ate it.

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 Then the eyes of both of them were opened,

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 And they realized that they were naked.

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 So they sewed fig leaves together,

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 And made coverings for themselves.

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 Adam was there,

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 While all this was going down,

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 And he did nothing.

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 This is the first great abdication of a man.

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 And the cascade has traversed all of history.

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 All of history's ailments can come back to this one event,

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 Of a man who abdicated his position,

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 And did nothing,

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 While his wife, or gate, and calmly as well.

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 I'm going to keep on going.

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 Numbers 13.

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 This is when,

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 This is when,

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 Moses sent out the spies,

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 To spy in the land of Canaan,

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 After they had been delivered out of Egypt.

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 Numbers 13.

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 And this is what they reported to Moses.

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 So this is right after the spies,

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 He sent twelve spies,

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 You guys probably remember this story,

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 He sent twelve spies,

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 One man from each of the tribes,

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 And they went and scouted out Canaan,

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 And they came back.

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 And this is their report.

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 This is what they reported to Moses.

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 We went to the land where you sent us.

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 It really is the land flowing with milk and honey.

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 Here is some of its fruit.

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 But the people who live there are strong,

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 And the cities have walls,

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 And are very large.

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 We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

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 The Amalekites live in the Negev,

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 The Hittites,

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 The Jebusites,

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 And the Amorites live in the mountain region.

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 And the Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea,

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 And all along the northern river.

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 Caleb told the people to be quiet,

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 And listen to Moses.

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 And then Caleb said,

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 Let's go now,

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 And take possession of the land.

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 We should be more than able to conquer it.

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 So Caleb is actually very confident.

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 They can actually do this thing.

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 But the men who had gone with him said,

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 We can't attack those people.

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 They are too strong for us.

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 And they began to spread lies amongst the Israelites

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 About the land they had explored.

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 So not only were they cowards,

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 They actually invented a lie to discourage the rest of the peoples.

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 They would not have to go.

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 They said,

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 The land we explore is one that devours those who live there.

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 All the people we saw were very tall.

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 We saw the Nephilim,

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 The descendants of Anachron,

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 The Nephilim.

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 We felt as small grasshoppers.

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 And that's how we must have looked to them.

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 So this is them scouting out.

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 They come back.

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 They give them a report.

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 Caleb says,

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 Let's go.

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 The rest of the guys create a lie

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 And discourage the children of Israel.

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 And so what do they do?

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 They wander around the wilderness for 40 years.

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 And that entire generation passes away.

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 And then what happens?

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 Joshua and Caleb ends up going as well.

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 They actually do go to the promised land.

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 And one of the things it says,

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 After Joshua's conquest,

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 It says that Joshua conquered 31 kings.

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 And so what Caleb was believing right here was actually true.

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 Because they did do it.

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 But there was fear in the hearts of some of these men.

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 And they were cowards.

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 Not only were they cowards,

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 They actually came up with a false plan.

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 They actually came up with an alternative plan.

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 They actually directed their initiative

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 To circumvent what the Lord had worked on to do.

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 Thank you.

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 All right.

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 First chance, Samuel 17.

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 This is long.

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 David overheard the report from Saul.

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 And Saul said for him,

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 This is David.

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 Why?

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 David said to Saul,

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 Let no one lose heart on the account of the Philistine.

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 Your servant will go and fight him.

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 Saul replied,

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 You are not able to go out against the Philistine and fight him.

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 You are only a young man.

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 But he has been a warrior since his youth.

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 David said to Paul,

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 Your servant has been keeping his father's flock.

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 When a lion or a bear came and carried out off sheep from the flock,

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 I went after it, struck it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth.

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 When it turned on me,

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 I seized it by their hair and struck it and killed it.

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 Your servant has killed both lion and bear.

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 This uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them,

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 because he has defied the praise of the living God.

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 The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion,

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 the paw of the bear,

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 will rescue me from the hand of the Philistine.

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 And Saul said to David,

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 Go, and the Lord be with you.

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 And Saul dressed David in his own tunic,

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 and put a coat of armor on him,

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 and a bronze helmet on his head.

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 David fastened on his sword over his tunic,

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 and tried walking around,

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 but he was not able to know.

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 I cannot go on these, he said to Paul,

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 because I am not used to them.

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 So he took them off,

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 took off his staff from his hand,

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 chose five smooth stones from the stream,

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 and put them on the pouch of the shepherd's bag.

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 With his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.

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 Meanwhile, the Philistine and his shield-bearer in front of him

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 kept coming closer and closer to David.

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 He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy,

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 glowing with health and handsome,

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 and despised him.

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 And he said to David,

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 Am I a dog that you come at me with sticks?

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 And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

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 Come here, he said,

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 and I'll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals.

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 David said to the Philistine,

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 You come against me with a sword and spear and javelin,

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 when I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty,

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 the God of the armies of Israel,

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 whom you have defiled this day.

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 And this day the Lord will deliver you into my hands,

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 and I'll strike you down and cut off your head.

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 This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine's army

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 to the birds and the wild animals,

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 and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

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 All those gathered here will know that it is not by my sword or spear

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 that the Lord saves,

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 for the battle is the Lord's,

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 and he will give all of you into our hands.

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 As the Philistine moved closer to attack,

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 David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.

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 Reaching into his back,

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 he took out a stone

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 and struck the Philistine in the forehead.

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 The stone sank into his forehead,

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 and he fell face down on the ground.

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 So David triumphed over the Philistine

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 with a sling and a stone.

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 Without a sword in his hand,

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 he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

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 David ran and stood over him,

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 took hold of the Philistine's sword,

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 drew it from the sheath.

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 After he killed him,

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 he cut off the head with his sword.

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 When the Philistine saw that their hero was dead,

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 they turned and ran.

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 Then the men of Israel and Judah

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 surged forward with a shout

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 and pursued the Philistines

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 to the entrance of Gath

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 and to the gates of Ekron.

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 Their dead were strewn along

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 the Sheeran road in Gath and Ekron.

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 When the Israelites returned

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 from chasing the Philistines,

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 they plundered their camp.

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 David took the Philistine's head

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 and brought it to Jerusalem,

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 put the Philistine's weapon in his own tent.

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 As Saul watched David

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 going out to meet the Philistine,

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 he said to Abner,

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 that's his general,

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 commander of the army,

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 Abner, whose son is that young man?

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 Abner replied,

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 surely as I live,

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 your majesty,

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 I do not know.

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 The king said,

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 find out whose son that young man is.

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 As soon as David returned

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 from killing the Philistine,

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 Abner took him

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 and brought him before Saul

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 with David still holding

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 the Philistine's head.

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 Who's son of you, young man?

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 He said,

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 and David said,

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 I am son of your servant,

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 Jesse of Bethlehem.

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 One of the things I think

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 is really cool about that story

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 is what they really wanted to know

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 after he did that

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 is whose son is this?

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 Who raised this man?

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 And actually,

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 I think that's part of the mystery

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 of courage.

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 Not only just facing ourselves,

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 but also there's something

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 that pertains to even sonship,

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 like who is your father?

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 That's a really good question.

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 There's something about fatherhood

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 that instills courage in men.

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 And I think that that's part of the,

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 that is part of the fruit

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 of resolving

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 and the fruit of growing

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 in your relationship

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 to the father

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 is instilling the wisdom.

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 I think it's hard

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 without your identity

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 as a son being well established.

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 It's hard to have

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 this kind of self-escourge.

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 It's one of the things

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 the world builds up in us.

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 Second Samuel 11.

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 We're talking about

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 David being a hero here.

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 The reason Israel

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 continued to be a nation

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 is because

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 David prevailed over Goliath.

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 Phil seems we're going to take him.

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 And then he ends up being the king.

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 The king of the nation of Israel.

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 What does he do?

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 So, 2 Samuel 11.

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 Guys, this is both a tragedy

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 and a victory.

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 I'm going to read a bunch of stories.

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 Some of these are good stories.

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 Some of these are bad stories.

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 This is what perceives from our heart.

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 2 Samuel 11.

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 In the spring,

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 at the time when kings go off to war,

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 David sent Joab out

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 with the king's men

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 and the whole Israelite army.

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 So he sent his general

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 and he did not go.

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 And they destroyed the Ammonites

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 and besieged Rabath.

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 But David remained into Jerusalem.

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 And what does he do?

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 He sees Bathsheba

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 bathing

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 on the top of

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 her house.

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 He calls her and he sleeps with her.

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 He gets her pregnant.

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 And what does he do?

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 He's trying to protect himself.

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 So he goes and tries to hide it.

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 And he can't hide it

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 because of the integrity of Uriah.

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 So then he goes and has Uriah built.

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 And it's one of the things

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 that happens in his household.

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 Because of this one event,

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 the Lord curses his household.

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 David loses the son

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 that he impregnated Bathsheba with.

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 And then he loses two more sons,

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 including Absalom,

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 who created a civil war in the kingdom.

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 And David, you know,

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 wouldn't kill Absalom,

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 some of the most familiar

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 with the story,

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 this whole cascade

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 of just like a complete tragedy

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 in the house of David

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 that started so,

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 so gloriously

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 with him trusting the Lord,

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 with slaying Goliath

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 and things like this.

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 And obviously,

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 the life of David

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 is such an admirable life.

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 And this is like

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 the great taint on his life.

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 But what did he do?

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 He didn't go off to war.

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 It was a time

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 when everybody else went to war

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 and he just stayed home.

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 It was a time

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 when kings go to war,

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 David stayed home.

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 Right?

00:22:10.879 --> 00:22:11.279
 Okay.

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 Some of these

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 are not just Bible stories.

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 508 B.C.

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 Horatius.

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 How many of you guys

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 are familiar

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 with the story of Horatius?

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 It's one of my favorite stories.

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 Thank you.

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 At least somebody knows.

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 Okay, so Horatius.

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 This is early days

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 of the Roman Empire.

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 They get invaded

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 by the Truscan army.

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 And they come right up

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 to the River Tiber,

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 which is right outside of Rome.

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 And Horatius

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 is a captain in the military.

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 He tells him

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 and two of his officers

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 to come with him.

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 He tells the rest of the men,

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 I want you guys

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 to cut down this bridge.

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 He and two of his officers

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 go down to the other end

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 of the bridge

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 and fight off

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 the Tuscan army

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 who's trying to cross the bridge

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 and hold them at bay

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 while they cut down

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 the entire bridge

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 and the bridge collapses

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 and they fall into this river

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 and they swim back

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 and survive.

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 In the lay

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 that tells the story

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 because the Greeks

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 are very poetic,

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 this is what it said,

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 that he said

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 before he caught on that bridge.

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 This is one of the

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 most awesome,

00:23:08.560 --> 00:23:10.400
 incredibly awesome poetic line.

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 To every man

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 upon the earth,

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 death cometh soon or late

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 and how can a man die better

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 than facing fearful odds

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 for the ashes

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 of his fathers

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 and the temples

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 of his gods.

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 Such a bad-ass boy.

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 Such a bad-ass thing to say

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 before you go

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 defend the bridge.

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 Knowing that your men

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 are going to cut the bridge off,

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 your men are cutting the bridge off,

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 and I also love too,

00:23:37.980 --> 00:23:38.199
 it says,

00:23:38.299 --> 00:23:39.539
 for the ashes of his father.

00:23:39.679 --> 00:23:40.179
 So you can kind of

00:23:40.179 --> 00:23:41.019
 back to that theme

00:23:41.019 --> 00:23:41.819
 of like,

00:23:41.899 --> 00:23:42.379
 there's something

00:23:42.379 --> 00:23:44.139
 about honoring his fathers.

00:23:44.299 --> 00:23:44.740
 You know what I mean?

00:23:45.059 --> 00:23:46.259
 Just like this acknowledgement

00:23:46.259 --> 00:23:47.099
 of the legacy

00:23:47.099 --> 00:23:47.879
 of fatherhood

00:23:47.879 --> 00:23:48.859
 that's been passed down to him.

00:23:48.919 --> 00:23:49.639
 Such boldness.

00:23:50.059 --> 00:23:50.839
 Such incredible bravery

00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:51.379
 and boldness.

00:23:52.419 --> 00:23:53.639
 Darius III.

00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:56.279
 This is 331 B.C.

00:23:56.799 --> 00:23:57.299
 I'm going to just keep

00:23:57.299 --> 00:23:58.000
 on living through history.

00:23:58.099 --> 00:23:59.079
 These are chronological, baby.

00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:04.159
 All the way up to the hill.

00:24:04.859 --> 00:24:05.939
 I'm really going to go

00:24:05.939 --> 00:24:06.779
 all the way up to the hill.

00:24:07.159 --> 00:24:08.039
 I'm not joking.

00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:08.699
 I'm not joking.

00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:11.899
 I have no time.

00:24:13.159 --> 00:24:14.019
 Darius III.

00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:15.679
 The Persian emperor

00:24:15.679 --> 00:24:16.519
 twice abandoned

00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:17.460
 his massive armies

00:24:17.460 --> 00:24:18.460
 mid-battle against

00:24:18.460 --> 00:24:19.619
 Alexander the Great's

00:24:19.619 --> 00:24:21.000
 first ISIS

00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:22.259
 and then at the

00:24:22.259 --> 00:24:23.480
 decisive end clash.

00:24:23.639 --> 00:24:24.480
 His cannon caused

00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:25.539
 his troops to rout,

00:24:25.639 --> 00:24:26.240
 that means it caused

00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:26.899
 them to flee,

00:24:26.900 --> 00:24:28.700
 and handed Alexander

00:24:28.700 --> 00:24:30.620
 the entire Persian empire.

00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:31.500
 This is one of the reasons

00:24:31.500 --> 00:24:32.920
 Alexander the Great

00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:33.480
 was able to conquer

00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:34.180
 the entire world.

00:24:34.560 --> 00:24:35.740
 This was his one

00:24:35.740 --> 00:24:36.740
 big adversary

00:24:36.740 --> 00:24:37.460
 that stood this way

00:24:37.460 --> 00:24:38.500
 from having the entire world.

00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:41.400
 They handed Alexander

00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:43.300
 the entire Persian empire

00:24:43.300 --> 00:24:44.900
 and ended 200 years

00:24:44.900 --> 00:24:45.860
 Persian rule.

00:24:46.840 --> 00:24:47.740
 The king's fear

00:24:47.740 --> 00:24:48.700
 literally withdrew

00:24:48.700 --> 00:24:49.759
 the map of the entire

00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:50.400
 ancient world.

00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:52.720
 We, because of this,

00:24:52.800 --> 00:24:53.800
 if this hadn't happened,

00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:55.019
 think about it.

00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:55.740
 We wouldn't be,

00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:56.820
 we wouldn't be speaking

00:24:56.819 --> 00:24:57.659
 a language that's

00:24:57.659 --> 00:24:58.379
 based on Greek,

00:24:58.819 --> 00:24:59.059
 right?

00:24:59.859 --> 00:25:00.579
 The Persians,

00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:01.960
 like if Alexander the Great

00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:02.720
 hadn't conquered the world

00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:03.299
 again, you don't know

00:25:03.299 --> 00:25:04.139
 how history would have gone.

00:25:04.460 --> 00:25:05.399
 But this cascade,

00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:07.159
 as a result of

00:25:07.159 --> 00:25:07.879
 Alexander the Great

00:25:07.879 --> 00:25:09.059
 conquered the entire world,

00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:10.859
 then you have Greek

00:25:10.859 --> 00:25:11.559
 being passed down

00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:12.379
 and the Roman rule,

00:25:12.619 --> 00:25:13.240
 et cetera, et cetera.

00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:15.139
 This is changing

00:25:15.139 --> 00:25:15.819
 the course of history.

00:25:15.939 --> 00:25:16.419
 One man,

00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:17.939
 one Persian king

00:25:17.939 --> 00:25:18.460
 was towered.

00:25:18.859 --> 00:25:19.539
 Now, I'm not saying,

00:25:20.159 --> 00:25:21.000
 unfortunately,

00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:22.799
 you know what I'm saying,

00:25:22.859 --> 00:25:23.500
 for our history.

00:25:23.500 --> 00:25:24.059
 All right.

00:25:24.980 --> 00:25:25.500
 Keep going.

00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:27.799
 This is one of the things

00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:28.700
 that's said in the New Testament,

00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:29.559
 this is an encapsulation

00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:30.599
 of the heroes of the faith

00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:31.079
 in the Old Testament.

00:25:31.259 --> 00:25:32.119
 It's Hebrews chapter 11.

00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:33.299
 And what shall we say?

00:25:33.980 --> 00:25:34.960
 For time would fail me

00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:35.839
 to tell of Gideon,

00:25:35.940 --> 00:25:36.779
 Barak, Samson,

00:25:37.059 --> 00:25:37.440
 Jephthah,

00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:38.059
 of David,

00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:38.720
 and Samuel,

00:25:38.819 --> 00:25:39.319
 and the prophets,

00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:40.460
 who through faith

00:25:40.460 --> 00:25:41.740
 conquered kingdoms,

00:25:42.180 --> 00:25:43.140
 enforced justice,

00:25:43.539 --> 00:25:44.299
 obtained promises,

00:25:44.819 --> 00:25:45.539
 stopped the mouths

00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:46.039
 of lions,

00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:47.220
 and quenched the power

00:25:47.220 --> 00:25:47.660
 of fire,

00:25:48.180 --> 00:25:49.259
 escaped the edge

00:25:49.259 --> 00:25:50.680
 of the sword,

00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:51.839
 were made strong

00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:52.559
 out of weakness,

00:25:52.900 --> 00:25:54.059
 became mighty in war,

00:25:54.059 --> 00:25:55.619
 put foreign armies

00:25:55.619 --> 00:25:56.119
 to flight.

00:25:56.759 --> 00:25:57.619
 Women received back

00:25:57.619 --> 00:25:58.059
 their dead

00:25:58.059 --> 00:25:59.000
 by resurrection.

00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:00.759
 Some were tortured,

00:26:01.059 --> 00:26:02.440
 refusing to accept release,

00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:04.179
 so they might rise again

00:26:04.179 --> 00:26:04.859
 to better life.

00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:06.919
 Others suffered mocking

00:26:06.919 --> 00:26:07.619
 and flogging

00:26:07.619 --> 00:26:08.919
 and even chains

00:26:08.919 --> 00:26:09.559
 in the prison man.

00:26:09.819 --> 00:26:10.639
 They were stoned,

00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:12.440
 they were sawn in two,

00:26:13.220 --> 00:26:13.819
 they were killed

00:26:13.819 --> 00:26:14.539
 with the sword.

00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:15.700
 They went about

00:26:15.700 --> 00:26:17.079
 in skins of sheep

00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:17.559
 and goats,

00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:18.220
 destitute,

00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:18.819
 afflicted,

00:26:18.919 --> 00:26:19.440
 and mistreated,

00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:21.220
 of whom the world

00:26:21.220 --> 00:26:22.259
 was not worthy.

00:26:22.500 --> 00:26:23.240
 It's my favorite lines

00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:23.600
 of scripture.

00:26:23.740 --> 00:26:24.620
 Of whom the world

00:26:24.620 --> 00:26:25.440
 was not worthy.

00:26:26.620 --> 00:26:27.299
 Wandering about

00:26:27.299 --> 00:26:27.820
 in deserts

00:26:27.820 --> 00:26:28.420
 and the mountains,

00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:30.000
 in dens and caves

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:30.680
 and other earth,

00:26:31.380 --> 00:26:32.039
 all these,

00:26:32.340 --> 00:26:32.920
 though commended

00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:33.620
 through their faith,

00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:34.440
 did not receive

00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:35.039
 what was promised,

00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:36.200
 since God had provided

00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:37.160
 something better for us,

00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:38.400
 that apart from us

00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:39.299
 they should have

00:26:39.299 --> 00:26:40.539
 not been made perfect.

00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:42.900
 They did all this,

00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:44.600
 foreseeing Christ

00:26:44.600 --> 00:26:45.500
 that they didn't know.

00:26:45.740 --> 00:26:47.120
 They did not know Christ yet.

00:26:47.259 --> 00:26:48.240
 They foresaw Christ.

00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:53.079
 This is one more verse

00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:53.620
 from the New Testament.

00:26:53.859 --> 00:26:54.559
 Revelation 12,

00:26:54.620 --> 00:26:54.799
 11,

00:26:55.059 --> 00:26:55.740
 again one of my favorite

00:26:55.740 --> 00:26:56.620
 verses in the New Testament.

00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:57.900
 This is talking about

00:26:57.900 --> 00:26:59.000
 people who experienced

00:26:59.000 --> 00:26:59.579
 persecution.

00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:01.160
 This is about the believers

00:27:01.160 --> 00:27:02.160
 who experienced

00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:02.839
 the persecution

00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:03.799
 of the tribulation.

00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:04.440
 This is what it said

00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:04.839
 about them.

00:27:05.400 --> 00:27:06.759
 And they have conquered

00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:08.000
 him by the blood

00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:08.500
 of the Lamb

00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:09.400
 and the word

00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:10.059
 of their testimony.

00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:11.640
 For they loved

00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:12.880
 not their lives

00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:14.779
 even unto dead.

00:27:16.220 --> 00:27:17.400
 They overcame,

00:27:17.539 --> 00:27:18.140
 they conquered,

00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:19.460
 and they did not

00:27:19.460 --> 00:27:20.180
 love their lives

00:27:20.180 --> 00:27:21.180
 even unto death.

00:27:23.120 --> 00:27:23.500
 All right,

00:27:23.740 --> 00:27:24.420
 fast forward.

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:25.380
 This is like

00:27:25.380 --> 00:27:27.259
 mid-300s.

00:27:28.059 --> 00:27:28.819
 This is right around

00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:29.400
 the same time

00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:31.259
 as the Nicene Council.

00:27:34.180 --> 00:27:34.700
 Arianism,

00:27:34.819 --> 00:27:35.259
 because I'm about

00:27:35.259 --> 00:27:35.759
 to say that,

00:27:36.099 --> 00:27:37.099
 is the rejection

00:27:37.099 --> 00:27:38.420
 that Jesus Christ

00:27:38.420 --> 00:27:39.759
 is one with the Father.

00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:40.620
 It's a rejection

00:27:40.620 --> 00:27:41.740
 of the divinity of Christ.

00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:44.120
 When the heresy

00:27:44.120 --> 00:27:44.960
 of Arianism

00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:45.880
 threatened to consume

00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:46.339
 the church,

00:27:46.539 --> 00:27:47.660
 one man stood

00:27:47.660 --> 00:27:48.160
 for truth.

00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:49.680
 God raised up

00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:50.460
 Athanasius

00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:51.579
 to be a hero

00:27:51.579 --> 00:27:52.019
 of the faith.

00:27:52.099 --> 00:27:52.480
 Some of you guys

00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:53.140
 never heard that name.

00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:54.220
 I hope you remember it

00:27:54.220 --> 00:27:54.720
 after this.

00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:56.680
 God raised up

00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:57.380
 Athanasius.

00:27:57.539 --> 00:27:58.579
 It's such a powerful story.

00:27:58.579 --> 00:28:02.619
 To be a hero of the faith,

00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:03.939
 to stand for truth,

00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:06.159
 and to be a theological

00:28:06.159 --> 00:28:07.139
 light in all the world.

00:28:07.639 --> 00:28:08.339
 At the time

00:28:08.339 --> 00:28:09.079
 when this heresy

00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:10.139
 had strong political

00:28:10.139 --> 00:28:11.159
 and religious support,

00:28:11.639 --> 00:28:12.839
 Athanasius stood firm

00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:13.460
 and unafraid,

00:28:13.740 --> 00:28:14.779
 defending the divinity

00:28:14.779 --> 00:28:15.259
 of Christ

00:28:15.259 --> 00:28:15.819
 by declaring

00:28:15.819 --> 00:28:16.419
 the crisis

00:28:16.419 --> 00:28:17.399
 of the same substance

00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:18.080
 with the Father.

00:28:18.780 --> 00:28:19.540
 He was exiled

00:28:19.540 --> 00:28:20.280
 five times.

00:28:20.700 --> 00:28:21.360
 He was hunted,

00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:22.860
 he was slandered,

00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:23.680
 and forced to flee

00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:24.340
 into the desert.

00:28:24.780 --> 00:28:26.019
 Yet he never wavered.

00:28:26.800 --> 00:28:28.019
 When almost the entire

00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:28.780
 Christian world

00:28:28.780 --> 00:28:29.940
 had gone Arian,

00:28:30.540 --> 00:28:31.600
 and St. Jerome

00:28:31.600 --> 00:28:32.120
 could write

00:28:32.120 --> 00:28:33.380
 that the whole world

00:28:33.380 --> 00:28:33.740
 had grown

00:28:33.740 --> 00:28:34.519
 and was astonished

00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:35.519
 to find himself Arian,

00:28:36.100 --> 00:28:37.019
 Athanasius stood

00:28:37.019 --> 00:28:38.000
 virtually alone.

00:28:38.560 --> 00:28:40.580
 His courageous defense

00:28:40.580 --> 00:28:42.460
 preserved the orthodox faith

00:28:42.460 --> 00:28:43.740
 in the divinity of Christ

00:28:43.740 --> 00:28:45.360
 that we still confess today.

00:28:45.800 --> 00:28:46.000
 I thought,

00:28:46.060 --> 00:28:46.180
 oh no,

00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:46.940
 people don't know this.

00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:47.820
 The church

00:28:47.820 --> 00:28:49.320
 almost entirely rejected

00:28:49.320 --> 00:28:50.140
 the divinity of Christ

00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:50.779
 around this time.

00:28:51.220 --> 00:28:52.120
 And there was one man,

00:28:52.420 --> 00:28:53.299
 he just had balls

00:28:53.299 --> 00:28:54.100
 of freaking steel.

00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:55.360
 He would not back down.

00:28:55.740 --> 00:28:56.200
 And literally,

00:28:56.360 --> 00:28:57.420
 he was persecuted

00:28:57.420 --> 00:28:58.680
 by almost the entire church.

00:28:59.059 --> 00:29:00.140
 And then one after one,

00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:01.360
 people started getting persuaded.

00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:02.559
 And by the time

00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:03.360
 the Nicene Council

00:29:03.360 --> 00:29:04.080
 was actually formulated,

00:29:04.220 --> 00:29:05.000
 this is within like

00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:06.519
 decades of the Nicene Council,

00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:08.019
 the entire council

00:29:08.019 --> 00:29:10.000
 acknowledged the divinity of Christ

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:11.279
 and our most important creator.

00:29:11.779 --> 00:29:12.420
 One man,

00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:13.259
 there was one man,

00:29:13.860 --> 00:29:14.539
 there was one man,

00:29:14.660 --> 00:29:15.460
 one church leader

00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:16.920
 just would not relent.

00:29:17.620 --> 00:29:19.000
 Very dark hour for the church.

00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:19.960
 You know what I'm saying?

00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:20.860
 Anyway,

00:29:21.380 --> 00:29:22.080
 we keep on going.

00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:25.680
 408,

00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:26.299
 this is like

00:29:26.299 --> 00:29:27.440
 about a century later.

00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:31.400
 Silico,

00:29:31.620 --> 00:29:32.420
 the brilliant general

00:29:32.420 --> 00:29:33.720
 who had repeatedly saved

00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:34.820
 the Western Roman Empire

00:29:34.820 --> 00:29:36.700
 from barbarian invasion,

00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:38.120
 was suddenly accused

00:29:38.120 --> 00:29:38.759
 of treason

00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:40.360
 by the jealous courtiers.

00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:41.080
 That's the other

00:29:41.080 --> 00:29:42.240
 political people.

00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:43.779
 The emperor,

00:29:44.019 --> 00:29:44.580
 Honorius,

00:29:45.120 --> 00:29:46.019
 too weak and fearful

00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:46.600
 to protect

00:29:46.600 --> 00:29:47.460
 his best defender,

00:29:48.259 --> 00:29:50.940
 too weak and fearful

00:29:50.940 --> 00:29:52.259
 to protect his best defender,

00:29:53.059 --> 00:29:54.720
 ordered Silico's execution.

00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:56.380
 Within two years,

00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:57.839
 Rome itself was sacked

00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:58.920
 by the Viscoths

00:29:58.920 --> 00:29:59.620
 the first time

00:29:59.620 --> 00:30:00.640
 in 800 years,

00:30:01.360 --> 00:30:02.660
 removing the one man

00:30:02.660 --> 00:30:03.360
 who could have held

00:30:03.360 --> 00:30:04.120
 the empire together,

00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:04.900
 helped trigger

00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:06.039
 its final collapse.

00:30:06.819 --> 00:30:07.600
 So they killed

00:30:07.600 --> 00:30:08.440
 their main general

00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:10.079
 and then within two years

00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:10.640
 they were sacked

00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:11.779
 and that was the bald Roman Empire.

00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:12.839
 Again,

00:30:13.420 --> 00:30:14.279
 like cowardice.

00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:14.940
 This is actually

00:30:14.940 --> 00:30:15.900
 a good thing too

00:30:15.900 --> 00:30:16.279
 to note

00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:17.299
 is that these men

00:30:17.299 --> 00:30:18.240
 weren't just cowardly,

00:30:18.579 --> 00:30:18.980
 cowardly,

00:30:18.980 --> 00:30:19.860
 they schemed

00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:20.960
 against what was there.

00:30:21.420 --> 00:30:21.819
 You know what I'm saying?

00:30:22.140 --> 00:30:22.579
 I think that's one

00:30:22.579 --> 00:30:23.160
 of the themes here.

00:30:23.220 --> 00:30:23.940
 That's why I think

00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:24.700
 the scripture calls it

00:30:24.700 --> 00:30:25.180
 wickedness.

00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:26.039
 The wicked queen

00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:26.839
 in one minute or so.

00:30:30.339 --> 00:30:30.839
 All right,

00:30:30.860 --> 00:30:31.299
 another one.

00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:32.200
 It's probably absurd.

00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:33.099
 You guys might not know

00:30:33.099 --> 00:30:33.500
 about this.

00:30:34.460 --> 00:30:35.500
 Joshua Chamberlain,

00:30:36.620 --> 00:30:37.519
 a college professor

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:38.299
 turned colonel.

00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:40.039
 His 12th,

00:30:40.120 --> 00:30:40.400
 sorry,

00:30:40.460 --> 00:30:41.779
 his 20th main regiment

00:30:41.779 --> 00:30:43.460
 was at the extreme flank

00:30:43.460 --> 00:30:44.380
 of the Union Army.

00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:45.039
 That means he was

00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:45.799
 all the way down

00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:46.559
 at the back,

00:30:46.740 --> 00:30:47.259
 close to where

00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:47.619
 the enemy,

00:30:47.819 --> 00:30:48.819
 basically the most

00:30:48.819 --> 00:30:49.519
 important position.

00:30:49.700 --> 00:30:50.319
 That's what keeps

00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:51.440
 your entire army

00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.519
 from being flanked

00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:54.539
 effectively by the enemy.

00:30:54.940 --> 00:30:55.200
 So anyway,

00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:56.099
 the college professor

00:30:56.099 --> 00:30:56.819
 turned colonel,

00:30:57.299 --> 00:30:58.339
 his 20th main regiment

00:30:58.339 --> 00:30:59.960
 was at the extreme flank

00:30:59.960 --> 00:31:01.259
 of the Union Army,

00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:03.140
 low on the amble.

00:31:03.220 --> 00:31:03.500
 Oh, sorry,

00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:03.980
 I meant to say,

00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:04.920
 this is at Gettysburg.

00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:05.559
 Sorry.

00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:07.240
 At Gettysburg,

00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:08.700
 Joshua Chamberlain,

00:31:08.740 --> 00:31:09.359
 the college professor

00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:10.079
 turned colonel,

00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:11.740
 his 20th main regiment

00:31:11.740 --> 00:31:13.359
 was at the extreme flank

00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:14.740
 of the Union Army,

00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:16.259
 low on amble

00:31:16.259 --> 00:31:18.000
 and facing repeated

00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:19.259
 Confederate assaults.

00:31:19.779 --> 00:31:20.480
 Out of bullets,

00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:22.400
 he ordered a bayonet charge

00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:23.019
 downhill.

00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:24.400
 So they were at the hill position.

00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:25.980
 They had the high ground.

00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:27.480
 Out of bullets,

00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:28.940
 he ordered a bayonet charge

00:31:28.940 --> 00:31:29.500
 downhill,

00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:31.519
 a surprise that shattered

00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:32.119
 the enemy

00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:32.940
 and their attack.

00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:34.160
 He held the hill

00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:35.379
 and helped save

00:31:35.379 --> 00:31:36.299
 the Union victory

00:31:36.299 --> 00:31:36.799
 at Gettysburg.

00:31:36.879 --> 00:31:37.720
 When he did this,

00:31:37.819 --> 00:31:39.059
 it entirely changed

00:31:39.059 --> 00:31:39.740
 the whole tide

00:31:39.740 --> 00:31:40.220
 of that battle.

00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:41.519
 That is the main battle,

00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:44.259
 the way that that battle

00:31:44.259 --> 00:31:44.480
 went,

00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:45.240
 it was considered,

00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:46.539
 that would be actually

00:31:46.539 --> 00:31:47.720
 the settling of the war.

00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:48.240
 And that's actually

00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:48.519
 what happened.

00:31:48.639 --> 00:31:49.259
 When the Union won

00:31:49.259 --> 00:31:49.720
 that battle,

00:31:50.220 --> 00:31:50.879
 it ended up being

00:31:50.879 --> 00:31:51.460
 that the Union

00:31:51.460 --> 00:31:52.339
 actually won the war.

00:31:52.660 --> 00:31:53.660
 And one of the main

00:31:53.660 --> 00:31:54.420
 events that happened

00:31:54.420 --> 00:31:55.420
 is this guy,

00:31:55.779 --> 00:31:56.759
 they all ran out of ammo,

00:31:56.980 --> 00:31:57.559
 he just told them

00:31:57.559 --> 00:31:58.259
 to put their bayonets

00:31:58.259 --> 00:31:59.420
 on and they charged

00:31:59.420 --> 00:31:59.879
 down belt.

00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:00.920
 Just think about

00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:02.039
 how different things

00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:02.420
 would have been

00:32:02.420 --> 00:32:04.059
 if the Union Army

00:32:04.059 --> 00:32:04.879
 had bossed the battle

00:32:04.879 --> 00:32:05.799
 against Gettysburg.

00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:08.539
 One man split second

00:32:08.539 --> 00:32:09.259
 gutsy call.

00:32:09.700 --> 00:32:10.539
 Thank you so much.

00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:11.099
 I actually about

00:32:11.099 --> 00:32:11.599
 to ask somebody.

00:32:11.779 --> 00:32:12.000
 I'm like,

00:32:12.099 --> 00:32:12.359
 you know,

00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:12.579
 I'm going to get a little

00:32:12.579 --> 00:32:13.299
 jump in.

00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:15.639
 Figure I'd just

00:32:15.639 --> 00:32:16.240
 fight through it.

00:32:18.579 --> 00:32:19.980
 One man split second

00:32:19.980 --> 00:32:20.740
 gutsy call.

00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:21.519
 May have kept

00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:22.259
 the entire country

00:32:22.259 --> 00:32:23.180
 from splitting forever.

00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:24.619
 Okay,

00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:25.240
 now this is still,

00:32:25.399 --> 00:32:26.419
 this is crazy.

00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:28.619
 Hope you guys like these.

00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:31.119
 Czar Nicholas II,

00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:32.099
 1917.

00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:34.039
 When revolution broke out,

00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:34.839
 this is in Russia.

00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:36.940
 When revolution broke out,

00:32:37.059 --> 00:32:37.559
 1917,

00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:38.879
 the Russian emperor,

00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:40.480
 afraid of more bloodshed

00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:41.680
 and unwilling to fight

00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:42.220
 for his throne,

00:32:42.579 --> 00:32:43.980
 simply gave up the throne.

00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:46.759
 His cowardice created

00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:47.559
 a power vacuum

00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:49.200
 which the Bolsheviks

00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:49.720
 build.

00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:51.019
 So Bolsheviks are

00:32:51.019 --> 00:32:52.680
 the OG communists.

00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:55.779
 That single act

00:32:55.779 --> 00:32:56.579
 of quitting led

00:32:56.579 --> 00:32:57.779
 directly to Lenin

00:32:57.779 --> 00:32:58.500
 taking power

00:32:58.500 --> 00:33:00.159
 and 70 years

00:33:00.159 --> 00:33:01.039
 of Soviet rule

00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:01.940
 in the Cold War

00:33:01.940 --> 00:33:02.799
 that shaped the entire

00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:03.539
 20th century.

00:33:04.220 --> 00:33:04.960
 It is estimated

00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:06.579
 that up to 60 million

00:33:06.579 --> 00:33:07.680
 people were killed

00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:09.680
 under the Soviet's rule

00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:11.900
 and some 10 to 20 million

00:33:11.900 --> 00:33:12.880
 of them being Christians.

00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:14.819
 All come right back

00:33:14.819 --> 00:33:16.799
 to just one man

00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:17.799
 rolling on,

00:33:18.140 --> 00:33:19.400
 one man running,

00:33:19.840 --> 00:33:20.740
 one man fleeing

00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:21.299
 and abdicating,

00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:22.360
 literally abdicating.

00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:25.519
 Neville Chamberlain,

00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:26.200
 1938.

00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:27.200
 1938.

00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:29.600
 The British Prime Minister

00:33:29.600 --> 00:33:30.559
 chose to avoid

00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:31.580
 the war at all costs.

00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:33.460
 Paying Czechoslovakia

00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:33.819
 to Hitler

00:33:33.819 --> 00:33:34.559
 with his famous

00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:35.240
 Peace Corps

00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:35.819
 behind it.

00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:37.500
 That single act

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:39.940
 of backing down

00:33:39.940 --> 00:33:40.660
 convinced Hitler

00:33:40.660 --> 00:33:41.180
 that Britain

00:33:41.180 --> 00:33:41.580
 and France

00:33:41.580 --> 00:33:43.920
 were weak

00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:45.279
 and emboldening him

00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:46.180
 to invade Poland

00:33:46.180 --> 00:33:47.279
 the next year

00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:48.420
 and spark World War II.

00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:50.480
 Millions died

00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:51.740
 because of lack

00:33:51.740 --> 00:33:52.200
 of aggression.

00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:55.839
 And just a couple more

00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:56.480
 and then wrap up.

00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:01.299
 This is another one

00:34:01.299 --> 00:34:01.599
 that applies

00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:02.160
 into the Red Ark.

00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:04.039
 Cuban Missile Crisis.

00:34:06.220 --> 00:34:07.160
 I think it's named

00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:07.779
 Arkhipov.

00:34:09.059 --> 00:34:10.420
 Cuban Missile Crisis,

00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:11.239
 1962.

00:34:13.019 --> 00:34:14.280
 On a Soviet sub

00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:14.900
 surrounded by

00:34:14.900 --> 00:34:15.619
 U.S. warship

00:34:15.619 --> 00:34:16.699
 dropping depth charges,

00:34:16.699 --> 00:34:17.599
 the captain,

00:34:18.919 --> 00:34:20.519
 the political officer,

00:34:20.980 --> 00:34:22.079
 the captain

00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:23.139
 and the political officer

00:34:23.139 --> 00:34:24.339
 wanted to launch

00:34:24.339 --> 00:34:25.439
 a nuclear torpedo.

00:34:25.980 --> 00:34:26.759
 So they're under assault.

00:34:28.919 --> 00:34:29.439
 Arkhipov,

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:31.119
 the third ranking officer,

00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:32.219
 so this is the third person

00:34:32.219 --> 00:34:32.699
 in command,

00:34:33.579 --> 00:34:34.519
 refused.

00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:36.519
 A single vote

00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:37.199
 against it

00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:38.179
 stopped a launch

00:34:38.179 --> 00:34:38.879
 that could have triggered

00:34:38.879 --> 00:34:40.259
 an all-out nuclear war.

00:34:40.779 --> 00:34:41.359
 One man,

00:34:41.500 --> 00:34:42.480
 one vote,

00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:43.679
 and the world

00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:44.339
 kept breathing.

00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:45.980
 And to some of these guys,

00:34:45.980 --> 00:34:46.619
 just has such

00:34:46.619 --> 00:34:47.539
 awesome hands.

00:34:47.900 --> 00:34:48.920
 He'd like make me emotional.

00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:49.380
 He'd be like,

00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:50.039
 holy shit.

00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:51.219
 Like that one dude

00:34:51.219 --> 00:34:51.920
 didn't do that.

00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:52.500
 You know what I mean?

00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:53.659
 Can you freaking imagine?

00:34:54.179 --> 00:34:55.039
 Like one man.

00:34:55.099 --> 00:34:55.719
 It's actually similar

00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:56.219
 to the story

00:34:56.219 --> 00:34:57.199
 that you told last week

00:34:57.199 --> 00:34:58.420
 about that one guy

00:34:58.420 --> 00:34:59.599
 who sacrificed himself

00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:00.559
 in the Japanese

00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:01.280
 and turned the camp.

00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:02.000
 He's like,

00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:03.159
 he's such a man of courage.

00:35:03.300 --> 00:35:04.300
 So freaking inspired.

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:05.760
 So freaking inspired.

00:35:08.659 --> 00:35:09.440
 I'm going to end

00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:10.079
 on this note

00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:10.539
 and I'm going to give

00:35:10.539 --> 00:35:11.119
 you one last,

00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:12.059
 one last story.

00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:14.599
 I think the fundamental

00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:15.199
 thing,

00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:16.919
 that gets in our way

00:35:16.919 --> 00:35:18.419
 of being as heroic

00:35:18.419 --> 00:35:19.399
 as we'd like to be

00:35:19.399 --> 00:35:20.439
 is ourself.

00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:23.059
 And I think that

00:35:23.059 --> 00:35:26.960
 when we are not willing

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:28.779
 to look at ourself

00:35:28.779 --> 00:35:29.819
 and acknowledge

00:35:29.819 --> 00:35:31.879
 that we are our own

00:35:31.879 --> 00:35:32.339
 worst enemy,

00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:33.299
 when we can't face

00:35:33.299 --> 00:35:34.079
 a man in the mirror,

00:35:34.439 --> 00:35:35.179
 we are destined

00:35:35.179 --> 00:35:36.319
 to be the villain

00:35:36.319 --> 00:35:37.299
 in our own story.

00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:38.799
 I think there's something

00:35:38.799 --> 00:35:39.939
 incredibly masculine

00:35:39.939 --> 00:35:42.199
 and incredibly enrivening

00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:43.699
 to not only ourselves,

00:35:43.879 --> 00:35:44.319
 but to those

00:35:44.319 --> 00:35:45.179
 who trust in us

00:35:45.179 --> 00:35:46.599
 when we first

00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:47.339
 and foremost

00:35:47.339 --> 00:35:48.659
 are facing ourself.

00:35:49.419 --> 00:35:50.379
 And that's the question.

00:35:50.899 --> 00:35:51.980
 Where will you run

00:35:51.980 --> 00:35:54.539
 to be free

00:35:54.539 --> 00:35:55.379
 of yourself?

00:35:55.380 --> 00:35:57.039
 And the truth is,

00:35:57.380 --> 00:35:59.280
 none of these things

00:35:59.280 --> 00:35:59.940
 are possible

00:35:59.940 --> 00:36:01.300
 and all of these

00:36:01.300 --> 00:36:01.980
 things are possible

00:36:01.980 --> 00:36:04.180
 if we can just

00:36:04.180 --> 00:36:04.920
 turn to the Lord

00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:05.760
 and find freedom

00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:06.380
 from ourself.

00:36:06.780 --> 00:36:07.240
 You know what I'm saying?

00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:11.599
 Any act of courage

00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:12.640
 and heroism

00:36:12.640 --> 00:36:14.720
 is entirely achievable

00:36:14.720 --> 00:36:17.880
 if your personal cost

00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:19.140
 is of no issue.

00:36:19.139 --> 00:36:23.779
 If you can freely

00:36:23.779 --> 00:36:25.619
 spend and be spent,

00:36:26.219 --> 00:36:27.519
 it is of no issue.

00:36:28.579 --> 00:36:29.379
 This is the last story.

00:36:29.799 --> 00:36:30.739
 About 40 years ago,

00:36:30.739 --> 00:36:39.259
 about 40 years ago,

00:36:39.819 --> 00:36:40.739
 there was a man

00:36:40.739 --> 00:36:43.539
 who had just had,

00:36:43.579 --> 00:36:44.379
 his wife had just had

00:36:44.379 --> 00:36:45.739
 their third child

00:36:45.739 --> 00:36:47.359
 and the Lord

00:36:47.359 --> 00:36:48.559
 just radically

00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:49.219
 appeared to him.

00:36:49.619 --> 00:36:50.219
 He was radically

00:36:50.219 --> 00:36:51.399
 convicted of his own sin

00:36:51.399 --> 00:36:52.479
 and his mom

00:36:52.479 --> 00:36:52.979
 had been praying.

00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:53.939
 Sorry,

00:36:54.059 --> 00:36:54.519
 here's a little,

00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:56.359
 here's a little story.

00:36:56.739 --> 00:36:58.399
 And his mom

00:36:58.399 --> 00:36:58.839
 had been praying

00:36:58.839 --> 00:36:59.859
 for many, many years

00:36:59.859 --> 00:37:00.959
 and he was convicted

00:37:00.959 --> 00:37:01.679
 of his own sin

00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:02.399
 and he was specifically

00:37:02.399 --> 00:37:03.079
 convicted because

00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:03.679
 he had been cheating

00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:04.199
 on his wife.

00:37:04.659 --> 00:37:05.199
 He had been hiding

00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:06.119
 a lot of sin from him.

00:37:06.659 --> 00:37:07.539
 And he went to her,

00:37:07.699 --> 00:37:08.799
 she was still in the hospital

00:37:08.799 --> 00:37:10.079
 and he confessed

00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:11.119
 all of his sins to her.

00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:12.799
 He tore all these things

00:37:12.799 --> 00:37:14.439
 that he had not told her

00:37:14.439 --> 00:37:15.000
 he had been keeping

00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:15.439
 in the dark

00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:16.579
 and how he had been

00:37:16.579 --> 00:37:17.220
 an adulterer

00:37:17.220 --> 00:37:17.820
 and he had been cheating

00:37:17.820 --> 00:37:18.679
 on her and all this stuff.

00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:19.420
 But he just said,

00:37:19.500 --> 00:37:20.340
 the Lord appeared to me

00:37:20.340 --> 00:37:20.880
 that the Lord

00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:21.679
 had been praying to me.

00:37:22.200 --> 00:37:23.720
 And he completely

00:37:23.720 --> 00:37:25.400
 turned his life off.

00:37:25.579 --> 00:37:26.480
 Completely gave his life

00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:26.880
 to the Lord

00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:27.679
 and his life

00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:28.659
 has forever changed.

00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:29.519
 That was Dennis.

00:37:30.099 --> 00:37:30.240
 Okay.

00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:31.420
 Dennis is sitting

00:37:31.420 --> 00:37:31.860
 right there.

00:37:33.420 --> 00:37:34.960
 Dennis' oldest daughter

00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:36.679
 married Josh Christopherson.

00:37:37.539 --> 00:37:39.300
 And when Josh came around

00:37:39.300 --> 00:37:41.400
 according to his daughter,

00:37:41.980 --> 00:37:42.980
 Dennis is one of the people

00:37:42.980 --> 00:37:43.780
 that instilled

00:37:43.780 --> 00:37:45.100
 a lot of the virtues

00:37:45.100 --> 00:37:45.960
 of masculinity

00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:47.080
 in large part

00:37:47.080 --> 00:37:47.960
 taught Josh

00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:48.920
 many of the things

00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:49.880
 we're talking about today.

00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:51.420
 And including

00:37:51.420 --> 00:37:53.180
 a desire to plant churches,

00:37:53.500 --> 00:37:54.200
 including a desire

00:37:54.200 --> 00:37:54.880
 to lead churches.

00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:56.000
 The reason Michael

00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:57.680
 knows how to speak Spanish

00:37:57.680 --> 00:37:59.160
 is because Michael's parents

00:37:59.160 --> 00:38:00.440
 in Dennis and Sue

00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:00.980
 went down

00:38:00.980 --> 00:38:01.900
 and planted orphanages

00:38:01.900 --> 00:38:03.140
 in Mexico.

00:38:03.780 --> 00:38:04.360
 In Dennis,

00:38:04.600 --> 00:38:05.300
 in large part,

00:38:05.600 --> 00:38:06.540
 is a lot of the legacy

00:38:06.540 --> 00:38:07.480
 of what brings us here today.

00:38:07.600 --> 00:38:08.540
 If Dennis had not

00:38:08.540 --> 00:38:09.519
 faced himself that day,

00:38:09.560 --> 00:38:10.220
 we actually would not

00:38:10.220 --> 00:38:10.800
 be here today

00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:11.980
 talking about this right now.

00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:13.440
 I say all that to say

00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:15.659
 that the most important thing,

00:38:15.740 --> 00:38:16.599
 it's easy to look

00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:17.219
 at Dennis' legacy.

00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:18.699
 Dennis had nine children.

00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:20.280
 Every single one of his children

00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:21.159
 are following the Lord.

00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:22.460
 All of his kids

00:38:22.460 --> 00:38:23.480
 who can get married

00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:24.860
 are married with kids.

00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:26.480
 Dennis has had

00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:27.199
 an incredible legacy

00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:28.119
 and a very beautiful life.

00:38:28.260 --> 00:38:29.219
 It's been for the female God.

00:38:29.300 --> 00:38:30.219
 He's very much poured out

00:38:30.219 --> 00:38:31.059
 his life selflessly

00:38:31.059 --> 00:38:31.960
 for the female God.

00:38:32.340 --> 00:38:33.460
 That came because

00:38:33.460 --> 00:38:34.440
 he actually faced

00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:35.099
 his main enemy.

00:38:36.059 --> 00:38:36.920
 It wasn't all those

00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:37.460
 things out there.

00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:38.460
 It's really easy

00:38:38.460 --> 00:38:39.619
 to imagine yourself

00:38:39.619 --> 00:38:40.519
 a hero in a story

00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:41.559
 where all the villains

00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:42.079
 are out there.

00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:43.699
 And I think

00:38:43.699 --> 00:38:44.559
 that the main reason

00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:45.280
 why we missed

00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:46.139
 the mark on this one

00:38:46.139 --> 00:38:46.880
 is because we're not

00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:47.619
 able to look

00:38:47.619 --> 00:38:49.000
 at the man in the mirror

00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:50.159
 as the main villain

00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:51.139
 that needs to be slain.

00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:52.480
 You know what I'm saying?

00:38:53.739 --> 00:38:54.139
 So,

00:38:55.139 --> 00:38:56.460
 the only last thing

00:38:56.460 --> 00:38:57.500
 I want to leave you guys with

00:38:57.500 --> 00:38:58.320
 is that

00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:59.880
 there is a paradox

00:38:59.880 --> 00:39:01.139
 for masculinity.

00:39:02.139 --> 00:39:03.500
 Men want two things great.

00:39:04.340 --> 00:39:06.059
 Men want a worthy fight.

00:39:06.460 --> 00:39:08.019
 We long for a worthy fight.

00:39:08.019 --> 00:39:09.659
 This is why young men

00:39:09.659 --> 00:39:10.340
 are so quick

00:39:10.340 --> 00:39:11.940
 to sign up

00:39:11.940 --> 00:39:12.420
 in the military

00:39:12.420 --> 00:39:13.199
 to go off to war.

00:39:13.860 --> 00:39:14.579
 I agree with myself.

00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:18.380
 And we also want peace.

00:39:20.059 --> 00:39:21.139
 How can that be a place?

00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:22.739
 There is something

00:39:22.739 --> 00:39:23.460
 that the Lord

00:39:23.460 --> 00:39:25.039
 has read into the heart of man.

00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:27.759
 Distinctly,

00:39:28.340 --> 00:39:29.340
 I believe it is,

00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:31.320
 I think the right term for it

00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:32.159
 is shalom.

00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:34.280
 Translated as peace

00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:34.800
 in the scripture.

00:39:35.579 --> 00:39:37.079
 Shalom does not just mean peace.

00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:38.400
 It actually means

00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:40.799
 everything in its right place.

00:39:41.739 --> 00:39:42.940
 Shalom comes about

00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:44.500
 as a result of order.

00:39:45.699 --> 00:39:47.719
 The Lord has constructed men

00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:49.039
 as fighters,

00:39:49.579 --> 00:39:50.860
 as middle conquests,

00:39:51.659 --> 00:39:52.819
 as ones that he gives

00:39:52.819 --> 00:39:53.500
 dominion over.

00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:55.400
 And when we fight

00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:56.340
 for the right things,

00:39:56.860 --> 00:39:58.599
 it creates order.

00:39:58.980 --> 00:40:00.059
 It creates shalom.

00:40:00.539 --> 00:40:01.679
 It creates home.

00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:04.579
 I believe many men

00:40:04.579 --> 00:40:06.539
 are looking for a vision.

00:40:06.539 --> 00:40:07.619
 They're looking for a fight.

00:40:07.739 --> 00:40:09.539
 They're looking for a mission

00:40:09.539 --> 00:40:10.179
 to go on.

00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:12.759
 The Lord has given us one.

00:40:13.219 --> 00:40:14.899
 And it starts with us

00:40:14.899 --> 00:40:15.739
 picking up our cross

00:40:15.739 --> 00:40:16.679
 following Christ.

00:40:17.279 --> 00:40:18.119
 But also,

00:40:18.539 --> 00:40:20.119
 it has to do with this

00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.139
 peace that we're fighting for

00:40:22.139 --> 00:40:23.500
 that is actually

00:40:23.500 --> 00:40:24.359
 the kingdom of God

00:40:24.359 --> 00:40:25.219
 that expands

00:40:25.219 --> 00:40:26.139
 across the world.

00:40:26.139 --> 00:40:28.279
 And there is an extent

00:40:28.279 --> 00:40:29.420
 to which we long

00:40:29.420 --> 00:40:30.299
 for that in our own homes.

00:40:30.359 --> 00:40:31.119
 I think that's one of the most

00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:31.739
 difficult things

00:40:31.739 --> 00:40:32.239
 as a husband.

00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:34.920
 You fight your whole day

00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:36.099
 and then you just sort of

00:40:36.099 --> 00:40:36.839
 roll home

00:40:36.839 --> 00:40:37.739
 and then you just be

00:40:37.739 --> 00:40:38.739
 peaceful and chill.

00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:39.759
 And what is it?

00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:41.000
 It's extremely challenging.

00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:42.199
 There's a bunch of other things

00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:42.879
 you never fight for.

00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:44.079
 I think that one of the things

00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:44.960
 that we've given into

00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:45.480
 as men

00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:47.059
 is feeling entitled

00:40:47.059 --> 00:40:47.779
 to peace

00:40:47.779 --> 00:40:50.159
 and unwilling to make

00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:51.659
 our own sacrifices

00:40:51.659 --> 00:40:52.960
 that the Lord calls us to

00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:53.599
 that would actually

00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:54.500
 create that peace.

00:40:54.500 --> 00:40:56.000
 if that makes sense.

00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:56.420
 Right?

00:40:57.559 --> 00:40:57.920
 So,

00:40:58.880 --> 00:40:59.260
 anyway,

00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:00.599
 that's all I've got.

00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:01.079
 That's what I'm going to

00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:01.760
 leave you guys with.