March 7, 2026

The Blockhead Project Continued: Back In The Saddle/God's Relentless Pursuit of Your Heart

The Blockhead Project Continued: Back In The Saddle/God's Relentless Pursuit of Your Heart
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Broadcasting live coming to you through the rain drops of

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the Dallas Fort Worth area. You are listening to your

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favorite Blockhead. It has been too long since I've been

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able to get on this microphone and be able to

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talk with you, Blockhead Nation, So come on in, take

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a seat, relax, even though the rain is hitting me

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from the back on the windows here at the Blockhead Nation.

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I think this has been a long time coming. It

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was almost an entire month since I have been on

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this microphone, and I do apologize that it started with

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the flu turning into pneumonia. Plus the last thing to

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always leave when you get those type of strands, whether

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it's type A or type B, is the cough, which

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means I'd have been editing through a whole bunch of

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pauses and it just wouldn't have sounded like one of

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my best works, even though this one might not hit

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any home runs with you, It's just good to be back.

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It's good to be on the microphone. It's good to

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be here in my living room here at the Blockhead

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Mansion aka my house. There are times I've done this

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in the study. There's times I've done this in other studios.

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There's times I do this right and the comforts of

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my home. And that's why I say kick up your feet, relax,

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and enjoy a podcast that has taken a different direction

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since December. This is still a podcast of a Peanuts fan.

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This is still a podcast of a man who follows

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the sport of mixed martial arts, just not as in

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depth as I used to. Now I will still bring

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up things from time to time. There's a main event

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coming up this Saturday that has perked my attention, But

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most of this is the journey that I'm on. Most

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of this is moving through life now that both parents

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have passed away and gone on to glory. Now it's

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a person who faces grief, who takes it one day

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at a time, one breath at a time, but also

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is very much here to serve you. And what I

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have found is not only my love for the Peanuts,

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but also my devotion to understanding and sharing God's word

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is prevalent when it comes to this particular podcast. And

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I have received many suggestions from several of you on

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what my next topic would be, what I would be

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discussing next on the show. But before I do that,

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I want to remind you that if you are not

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getting daily updates from me about the Peanuts comic strip,

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And you ask where can I turn to? Well, that's

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really simple. There's this thing called the Charles Schultz Museum

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in Santa Rosa, California, who does a phenomenal job of

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putting out social media posts, especially on their Facebook. Those

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that are of that generation, you know, those old folks,

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us unks and everything in between that go to this

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particular website. Charles SCHULTZMDIAM does a great job of keeping

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us updated, especially now that we've had the seventy fifth

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anniversary of this comic strip, and a few days ago

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on March fourth, it kind of befits that it's raining

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here in my hometown to where Snoopy's brother Spike out

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in Nils, California, out in the desert face the same

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thing to where the comic strip that's displayed from March

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fourth has Spike looking at a cactus in the distance

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and asks is it raining where you are? And there

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was a lot of discussion all the way from fans

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from Ontario, Canada, all the way to Atlanta, Georgia. So

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there is still very much engagement with the Charles Schultz

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Museum via social media. So if you ever need anything

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that would be accurate that would catch you up on

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current events with the Peanuts comic strip, or the TV

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show or the movie or everything in between. They do

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a phenomenal job, and they just celebrated as of yesterday,

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what has been called Freda Day because Freda, the young

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girl that is known for her naturally curly hair, made

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her debut on yesterday in nineteen sixty one. And this

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is coming straight from the Charles Schultz Museum about Frida's

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involvement in the strip, and I quote, Frida was a

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regular in the comic strip throughout the nineteen sixties, mostly

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known for her naturally curly hair, and she's happy to

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tell everybody about it. Frida is often seen in the

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early days carrying her cat, her cat being federin telling

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Snoopy to go chase rabbits and play an outfield with

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Charlie Brown's baseball team. She was also well known for

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huge bubblegum bubbles. That was a common theme for her

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as she played baseball. So not very attentive, we'll put

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it that way. So there is some trivia that was

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put in here that for her name's sake, Frieda comes

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from an artist from the Art Institute Schools in Minnesota

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that Charles Schultz worked with early in his career. That

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would be Frida Rich. So, unlike the Peanuts character, the

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real life Frieda was very popular, very well loved, I

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apologize for the thunder in the background, and a great

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friend to Schultz. So according to Rich herself, Schultz didn't

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ask permission to use her name and warned her cryptically

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to watch for your day in the newspaper. So that

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doesn't mean that Charles Schultz is always squeaky clean, doesn't

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mean that he's perfect. He certainly is a guy who

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if you go looking for admirable qualities, you'd find them,

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but you would find flaws as well. So amongst the

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friends that have reached out to me, I will not

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disclose who this is, but if you are listening, my friend,

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you know I'm talking about you. The big discussion that

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I will carry through most of this episode stems from

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my friend's question that says, when you are falling off

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the path of following the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,

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and you want to and I quote fight your way back, Well,

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I can go ahead and start with from a societal standpoint,

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I understand where he's coming from. And I will use

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a movie that a lot of us from the nineteen

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nineties will remember. I'm gonna use the nineteen ninety six

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movie Dragonheart. Some of you listening have no idea the

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significance of that movie, and some of you knew right

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away the voice of Sean Connery Dennis Quaid playing the

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main role. Now here's the main point of that particular movie.

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Is that a knight of the Old Code who had

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put his faith in the king's son, so the king

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itself in the beginning of this movie is a wicked ruler,

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goes against everything that Bowen stands for. He feels that

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his only hope is in training his son to be

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a knight of the Old Code, which I will share

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with you in just a minute. Well, that's not exactly

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what happens. The dragon in this story shares a part

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of his heart to save the young king Ininan, and

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King Ironan actually becomes worse than his father. So Bowen

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naively lashes out against the dragon, swearing to kill him,

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and you know, swearing a life of vengeance instead of

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focusing on how really it's im that polluted the heart

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in many ways. So there's a story here behind all this.

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If you watch the movie, you see how Bowen tells

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the dragon and begin that he served the father only

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for the sake of the son. Well, that doesn't work

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out too well, and that's been Bowen's thing. He doesn't

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want to ascend to the throne. He has assumed the

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position of a knight. If you think about the social hierarchy,

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the classes that were in place of the olden days

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from the twelfth thirteenth fourteenth century, especially upon European royalty

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and kingships, well there are knights that are very, very

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loyal to their task. And Bowen had always, as he said,

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dreamed of serving noble kings, noble ideals, and that dream

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never came to fruition. Now, towards the end of the movie,

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he does ascend the throne because there's really nobody else

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to take that position, as he was the mentor to

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King Einen. So I'm going into some depth here a

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little bit. But here's what a lot of us I'll

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say it blocked nation. There are still a lot of

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us Bowen's out there. It's not exactly spoken about. It's

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an undercurrent. People don't talk this way anymore. But deep

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in their hearts, there are plenty of us that wish

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that we could trust those that are appointed to leadership positions.

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We wish that we can trust our administrators, our politicians,

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our government, our president. And when we look at it

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and we see them fail or even worse, we see

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the corruption time and time again. It might be a

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bit of naivete, but it's also a huge letdown for

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nights of the Old Code. And here is that better

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known version. It's the shorter version, but in that movie,

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this is where you hear the Old Code in depth.

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A knight is sworn to valor. His heart knows only virtue.

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His blade defends the helpless, His might upholds the weak,

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his word speaks only truth. His wrath undoes the wicked.

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Now that was the true core of the movie Dragonhart.

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This is one of those feel good movies that you

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can enjoy watching, but you can appreciate what Bowen is

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fighting for Blockhead Nation. This is what lets us down

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time and time again. Speaking from a person who would

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have believed in the Old Code if I didn't have

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biblical narrative to support what my true beliefs are to

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its very core, So My answer to you is if

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you are a person who's fallen away from the path

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of the Lord, and you believe that I have to

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fight my way back, well, the first thing I'm gonna

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tell you is you're fighting a battle that Jesus already won.

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So the simple answer to your question is to submit.

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To do something that our society looks down upon, something

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our commander in chief would never do. To surrender. It's

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the antithesis to everything that our culture talks about. You

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stand your ground, you stand up and fight. You believe

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in the old coade, no in humility, to get right

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with God. The solution for your strife is to submit

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to Him. Now, you can find that easily in the

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teachings of what a husband and a wife are called

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to be. By Biblical standard, wives submit to your husband's

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husbands submit to Christ. That's how a man is worthy

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of submission, is if he have submitted his life to

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Christ and Jesus. You can go by that anytime you

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go to a wedding, you hear these things, or you

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hear love is patient, love is kind, It does not envy,

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it does not boast. These are all admirable when it

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comes to submission. But there's somebody who said it better,

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and you can find that if you have your Bible.

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If you don't, it's okay. I will put the scriptures

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up in my blog today. The first scripture I'm using

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in this podcast is James chapter four, starting with verse

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six through verse ten. But he gives more grace. Therefore,

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he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to

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the humble. Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and

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he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and

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he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners,

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and purify your hearts. You double minded, lament and mourn

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and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and

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your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of

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the Lord, and he will lift you up. Knows the contrast.

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This is coming from commentary from David Guzig from Blue

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Litter Bible. Actually I apologize this is actually Charles Spurgeon talking,

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but this is coming from that commentary. So he quotes

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Spurgeon here, observe how weak we are and how strong

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he is, how proud we are. Somebody who falls after

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their own heart plocad nation. The heart is deceitful above all,

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how condescending he is with this scripture, how much we

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err in our ways, and how infallible he is, how

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much we change, and how immutable he is. How provoking

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we are, but how forgiving he is. Observe how in

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us there is only ill sickness, and how in him

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there is only good. Yet our sickness and our illness

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draw his goodness forth, and still he will bless you.

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James reminds us that this grace only comes to those

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who humbly submit. Grace and pride are eternal enemies. Your

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pride demands that God bless me in the light of

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my merits, things that I've done that are wonderful, real

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or imagined. But Grace will not deal with me on

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the basis of anything in me, good or bad, but

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only on the basis of who God truly is. In

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light of the grace offered to the humble, there's only

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one thing to do, to submit in order for yourself

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under God, to surrender to Him as the sovereign, conquering

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King and start receiving the benefit of now that he

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is on the throne. He has never left the throne.

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It's his reign blocked nation, that brings true satisfaction. So

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I simply call you to submit, bend your knee, because

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one day He is going to bend in the knee

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of every nation. I would rather be the one that

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is wilfully submitting to His will. And I hope that

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stirs your heart today, blocked nation, as I show you

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more in depth of what God's heart truly looks like.

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That will be on the second part, part two of

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this show. Our scripturean for this podcast comes from Hoseiah

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chapter two, verses fourteen through fifteen. Therefore, behold, I will

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allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak

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tenderly to her, and there I will give her her

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vineyards and make the valley of Acre a door of hope,

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and there she shall answer as in the days of

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her youth, as at the time when she came out

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of the land of Egypt. Now block at nation. This

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is a lot for me to unpackage for you, because

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when you spend time in the Old Testament and you

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look at the prophets, I will just say this, when

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it comes to prophecies, there's two ways that if you look

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back in the Old Testament, if a prophet is a

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legitimate prophet. One way is what they have pronounced, what

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they have prophesied, becomes a reality within a few hundred years.

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Here's an example of the four major prophets you had Daniel.

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Let me know the story of Daniel in the lions Den.

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What may you may not know is that Daniel interpreted

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a dream for a very cruel king named King Nebeknezer

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and tells him what's going to happen to his kingdom,

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that if you follow the statue, that he will be

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overtaken by the Persians, which does line up to secular

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history because Babylon fell to Persia. So if you read

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that story all the way through to the end, you

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see that Daniel is called to interpret the writing on

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the wall, and it's pretty much a I told you

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this was going to happen when you were vulnerable, King

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Cyrus of Persia was going to overtake you. So the

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Persians and the Meds do overtake the Babylonian Empire, just

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as the prophecy said and just as history determined it.

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truthful in what they say. The other way to know

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is if a prophet speaks of a messianic king that

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is to come, meaning a Messiah as in Christ Jesus,

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and we see that happen during the Roman Empire. So

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that's two ways you can know the prophet that I

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just read from is a minor prophet by the name

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of Hoseiah. And we could debate this all you want,

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because a lot of people will say that the worst

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job you could have had would have been Jonah because

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he ended up in the belly of a whale. Now

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you've got to understand that the reason why he was

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swallowed and in the the fish for three days was

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because he ran from the Lord. He was supposed to

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go to Nineveh and he was going the opposite way.

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I will tell you that if there's anybody who's got

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the worst job of a prophet, it's gotta be Hoseiah.

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Why because in the first chapter of Hosea, the Lord

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calls him to marry gomer Well, calls him to marry

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a promiscuous woman. He calls him to marry a woman

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known for adultery. He calls for him to marry a prostitute.

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Where it's gonna be real with these words. If this

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falls upon younger ears. I'm telling you from a scriptural standpoint,

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this is symbolic of God's love for his chosen people.

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Hoseiah marrying Gomer, who continues to go after other lovers,

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is a representation of God. God's heart for Israel. So

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if we look at how Israel fell apart, if you

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look at the two kingdoms after Solomon's reign, you have

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a breaking of the two kingdoms to what would be

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the ten Northern Kingdom, the ten tribes in the Northern Kingdom,

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and two in the southern Kingdom of Judah. So you

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have Israel and you have Judah, and both of them

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are going to fall to outside forces. The Northern Kingdom

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will fall to the Assyrians. Now, I know that's all

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background information leading up to what we just read in

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Joseah chapter two, because God is given a prophecy of

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punishment but also a promise of restoration. There's a part

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earlier in this chapter that says, your mother has been unfaithful,

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I will expose her lewdness. Now I will speak tenderly

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to her. I will betrothe you to me forever. This

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is a quick summary of the entire chapter of Hoseiah

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chapter two. That I got from step Bible dot org.

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It's another resource I will put up for you. That's

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for free. It says God tells Hoseiah to give the

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people of Israel this prophecy. The people should change from

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their spiritually adulterous ways, otherwise God will strip their kingdom.

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He will send a drought to the land. He will

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stop their celebrations where they've been celebrating every other God.

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They've been celebrating pagan deities like Ball, which was a

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tree god of I believe impurity of some kind, but

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gain more into that, punishing them for worshiping Ball and

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for seeking protection and other allies in other nations when

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you should have been seeking God all along. So later,

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if you look at the end of this, it starts

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off extremely, extremely punishing. With the words it talks about.

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You have run from your true love. It's not like

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you lost your true love. You have abandoned the one

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true love, which was your God, who gave you everything.

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And now he's gonna snatch it away. He's gonna take

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his wine, he's gonna take his bread, he's gonna take

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his animals. You will be left to the instrument that

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God will use to bring about his will, which is

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the Assyrian kingdom. So it's very easy to read chapters

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like this and go, oh, God of the Old Testament

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was cruel, he was hateful. You're missing something. God will

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bring judgment for those that have continuously turned away from Him.

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But there's also a message of hope and restoration all

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through the book of Oseiah. This resembles God's heart towards Israel.

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As much as Joseiah has to go and buy back Gomer,

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pay off her debts, buy her out of slavery, that

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will come in the next after, but just to share

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all that, God will allure the people of Israel back

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to Samaria. So Samaria be in the capital of Israel

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and Jerusalem be in the capital of Judah, the two

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divided kingdoms, where many more prophets will come into play.

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We're just talking about one minor prophet. Hoseiah begins his

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mastery that lasts about sixty to seventy years. Then Isaiah

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comes after that, one of the major prophets who speaks

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about the Assyrian invasion as well, and that happens around

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seven twenty two b C. So continuing how again he

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will become their God. They will no longer worship idols.

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This is gonna be crucial. God will make the people

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safe from the weapons that destruct the land. The land

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will again become productive. This is what he promises. This

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is God's heart in the midst of Israel's unfaithfulness, over

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and over again, he will come back and say, just

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like you did in the first verse of Oseiah chapter one,

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say to your brothers, you are my people, and to

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your sisters you have received mercy. He wants to win

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her heart back blockad nation. That's the kind of love

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you receive when you seek and return to God. Joseah's

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message is simply returned to him. And know that I

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am the God that provides for you. There is a

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Messianic message all the way through that as well, of

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a Messiah who will fulfill every prophecy that needs to

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be fulfilled. And it doesn't matter what prophet you're talking about,

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whether that's Isaiah or Jeremiah or Ezekiel or Daniel. Who

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would considered the major prophets the minor prophet. There's twelve

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of them. It's not that they are inferior, it's just

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that third chapters are shorter. They can fit them all

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onto one scroll. Every one of them either portrays something

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that happened in history that is exactly accurate to what

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secular history would say. The Assyrians overtook the Northern Kingdom,

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the Babylonians overtook the southern Kingdom of Judah. Eventually King

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Cyrus comes in with Persia and overtakes the Babylonians. Then

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there will be the Greeks known as Alexander the Great

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that will set the city of Alexandria as a port city,

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because the Greeks and the Phoenicians were the best sailors

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of all time. But then you have the takeover of

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the Iron Age known as the Roman Empire, as during

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their reign that a thirty three year old man is

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brought before a local Roman governor who wants nothing to

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do with it, but the Jews ensure that he is

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going to be crucified, which his crucifixion and his death,

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and his resurrection and his ascension, all of these things

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fulfill the prophecies of old. We don't need the prophets

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blockad nation. We have the Old and the New Testament.

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But all you've got to do to experience God's love,

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the one that relentlessly pursues your heart just the way

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he did Israel, the way Joseiah did with Gomer. All

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you gotta do is turn back, just repent and know

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that He is God. I pray that that stirs your

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heart this week block at Nation as it does. Mean.

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It's almost like since the time of my grief from

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one parent to both parents. The more I spend time

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in the Word, the less I care what goes on

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in this world. So I'm not talking about current events

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with you, talking about things that have happened in my lifetime.

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More than once, I'm gonna tell you, don't put your

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faith in your leaders. Pray for them, pray for discernment,

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but don't put your faith in them. Don't put your

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faith in this midterm election coming up in November. You're

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not gonna find it there. Stop being in foolish and

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naive as I was, and as Bowen was in Dragon Heart,

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looking after nobility in this lifetime. Even in a way,

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there's a parallel on that movie. Where do we turn

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when Draco gets killed to the stars Bowen, where do

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we turn? Turn your hearts back to God as he

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has pursued yours over and over again. I pray you

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know that's the truth. Blockhead Nation. We can discuss it

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more next week after I make sure I mentioned on

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the back end there are friends of mine that's still

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gonna go. Man, will he ever talk MMA again? Sure,

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I'll talk about it. You got a great match coming

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up tonight. You got my favorite fighter, Max Holloway, who

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is known for the ten seconds of the last fight

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with Justin Gaechee. Ten seconds where they just he pointed

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to the canvas said let's just throw in the last

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second he knocks out Justin Gai Chee. We're never gonna

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see anything like that again in the midst of our lifetime.

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This guy's put his title on the line, known as

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the BMF title, the brainchild of Nate Diaz, that hasn't

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had the the greatest reputation for many fighters since it

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first was put around Jorgey Mozwitol's waist. The landing edge

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has been a little bit off. There have been some

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spectacular moments for that particular belt. What you're gonna have

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tonight is one guy that I love, who's my favorite fighter,

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and another guy that I just can't get mad at

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no matter what I do. I don't know how I

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can stand against Charles oliver one of the most likable

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guys in the history of that sport. So Charles oliver

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versus Max Holloway is a great matchup. It does have

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my attention. I am interested to see how that plays out.

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But can I tell you that I have a great

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track record on predicting what they're gonna do? No, I

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can tell you have a submission artist. They can get

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this done early. Both of them have gas tanks to

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get them to the very end. Is Charles Olivera going

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to be lured into the ten seconds of throwing hands

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in the middle of the cage where Max points to

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the cage and said, let's go. Only one guy has

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truly fallen for that, and that's just engagee will we have?

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And that again see history pea itself. Probably not so

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either way. Am I okay with Charles Olivera defeating him? Yes?

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I am am I good with Max Holloway continuing to

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have dominance in the sport. Absolutely great guy, lovable guy,

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one of the most likable guys in the history of

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the sport. Both men are truly loved and enjoyed by

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MMA fans around the world. Do I have a prediction

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for you. No, you have a guy who is expected

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to strike and a guy who's expected to take it

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to the mat who's gonna have their defenses up. Will

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this go the whole way? Well, we have another ipoke,

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because that's been a consistent thing time and time again

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in this sport. It doesn't seem to be getting any better. So, friends,

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I don't know, you know, it's okay for me to

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say that I don't know what's going to happen with

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this sport. I don't know what's gonna happen with this

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fight tonight, but I'll be tuned in. I might have

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somewhat of an analysis for you on the back end

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later on. But this, as we are in go in

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this new direction with the Blockhead project, is how can

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I serve you? And I pray that you are more

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in tune to open your Bibles and seek the truth.

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If you don't know how to do that, the first

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thing you do is you read it. I could always

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give you suggestions of chapters to go to if you

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need that. Reach out after you read it, pray over it. Lord?

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What are you asking me to see in this scripture?

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And I'm not against you watching shows like the chosen.

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Just don't let that be a substitute for the word.

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Be careful not to read yourself into the word, because

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this story from began to end is all about one man.

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It's about our Savior. Then I tell you to meditate

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upon it. And there are plenty of resources that are

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out there that I can give you. First of all,

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Blueletterbible dot org. There's a commentary by the name of

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David Musick that will go into any chapter you want.

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He's very easy to understand, easy to read and interpret it,

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so I recommend that one. But also stepbible dot org

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is free. Any chapter you want a summary on you

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can pull it up and you can hit the chapter

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summary plus more commentary of people that are much smarter

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than I am. So much to chew one. So start

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with reading it, then pray about it, then meditate over it,

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and then my prayer is on the back end that

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we can tend to go and make disciples to share it,

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to share the truth. Even call to do three things

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blockade nation, love your God with all your heart and

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all your soul, all your mind, to love your neighbor

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as yourself, to love others, and finally to disciple no

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matter the cost. Could that be in teaching, sure? Could

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that be an administration? Maybe? Could there be in hospitality? Maybe?

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As Paul talks about the spiritual gifts, something to consider,

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how are you spreading the gospel? Blocking nation? You cannot

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lose your salvation, but how are you continuing to be

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a jewel in his crown and that royal diadem that

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is our Lord and savior Christ Jesus, who will return

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one day on a white horse and all of his

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glory and all of his splendor. I'll leave you on

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that note, and we will catch you next Saturday, same

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blockhead time, same blockhead chain,