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Hey folks, this is
Jesse Cope, back with another
episode of the American SoulPodcast.
Hope y'all are doing well,wherever y'all are, whatever
part of the day you're in.
I sure do appreciate you joiningme, giving me a little bit of
your time and attention, alittle piece of your day.
I will try and use it wisely.
For those of y'all who continueto share the podcast with others
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and tell others about it, thankyou.
For those of y'all who continueto pray for me and for the
podcast, thank you very, verymuch.
Father, thank you for today.
Thank you for you, Father, andyour Son Jesus Christ and your
Holy Spirit.
Thank you for your love and yourmercy, your grace and your
forgiveness of sins.
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Through the merit of your sonJesus Christ alone.
Help us to remember that,Father.
That there is no other way toyou besides Jesus Christ alone.
We don't need more than him, andwe can't have less than him.
Be with those who are hurting,Father.
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Be with our veterans who arestruggling.
Be with those across the nationhere in America and around the
world who struggle with mentalillness, anxiety, fear, who feel
alone and abandoned.
And help us to remember, Father,that at the end of the day your
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goal is that that none shouldperish.
Or at least one of your goals,Father.
And help us to work as long aswe can, as hard as we can, to
save as many as we can, to bringas many as we can to you,
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Father, through your Son JesusChrist.
Be with our leaders, Father, inthe state, and in the pulpit,
our pastors, priests, governors,mayors, council members,
admirals, generals, senators,representatives, presidents,
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vice president, judges, primeministers in countries where
they are.
Be with their wives and theirchildren if they have them.
Keep them safe.
Comfort them.
Help us to follow the commandsof your son Jesus Christ,
Father, to love you with ourwhole heart, mind, soul, and
strength, to love our neighborsas ourselves.
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And please, please be with thoselistening to the podcast
wherever they are.
Comfort them.
Guide them.
Bless them.
Strengthen their faith,strengthen their families.
Thank you for them, Father.
And guide my word, take yourplace.
In your Son's name we pray.
Amen.
Have you made time for God andJesus Christ and the Holy Spirit
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today?
Have you made time to read hisword?
Have you made time to pray?
I didn't do a very good job withthat today.
At least not so far.
So hopefully I'll do a littlebit better.
And if you're married, have youmade time for your spouse?
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Do they know that you are theirtop priority before anything
else save God and Jesus Christ?
One of the ladies that I followonline that talks about marriage
a lot, social media.
She made that comment that a lotof us, we really we're a lot
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more comfortable with excusesthan we are results.
And it's not even that theresults are that hard, it's just
that we're that lazy.
We would rather make excusesabout why we uh are overweight
or you know don't have a greatmarriage, or our faith is weak,
or our children are not wellbehaved.
We we don't actually want to putthe time and the effort in to do
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those things, even if it's nothard, even if it just takes you
know daily repetition.
We're much more comfortable, alot of us, with excuses.
And I wonder how often I'm likethat.
You know, and you you thinkabout yourself, how often are
you like that?
How often do you really youdon't even really want the
results, you'd rather justcomplain to somebody.
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We got a lot to get throughtoday.
I I so our pastor was on firethis last weekend, and my whole
little uh program, whatever youwant to call it, that we get in
when we go to church is justchalk full of little notes.
I'm just gonna kind of runthrough some today, maybe a few
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tomorrow.
Uh these are either commentsthat he said or that kind of
spurred these thoughts.
You can't truly repent if you donot actually acknowledge your
sin, failure, rebellion, and donot change your actions, right?
No matter what we say, if wedon't really change our actions
or at least strive to do thateach day, we we don't really
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care.
We're not really repenting.
Uh the children's message fromour the man that shared with our
children was great.
He said, you know, what do you,how do you get right with God?
What do you need to do?
You know, we we acknowledge oursin to God.
In prayer, we resolve not torepeat those actions, but we're
gonna fail.
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And that's okay.
We just keep on trying, keep ongetting back up, keep on going
back to God and Jesus Christ andconfessing.
Right?
It reminds me of a quote I can'tremember.
I think it was by GeneralNathaniel Green in the
Revolutionary War.
It was something along the linesof we fight, we get beat, we get
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back up and fight again.
Right?
Anyway.
I hope, I think.
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The bridegroom praises thebride, the beloved.
Behold, you are fair, my love.
Behold, you are fair.
You have doved eyes behind yourveil, your hair is like a flock
of goats going down from MountGilead, your teeth are like a
flock of shorn sheep which havecome up from the washing, every
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one of which bears twins, andnone is barren among them.
Your lips are like a strand ofscarlet and your mouth is
lovely.
Your temples behind your veilare like a piece of pomegranate,
your neck is like the tower ofDavid, built for an armory, on
which a thousand bucklers hang,all shields of mighty men.
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Your two breasts are like twofawns, twins of a gazelle which
feed among the lilies, until theday breaks and the shadows flee
away.
I will go my way to the mountainof myrrh, and to the hill of
frankincense.
You are all fair, my love, andthere is no spot in you.
Come with me from Lebanon, myspouse, with me from Lebanon.
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Look from the top of Amana, fromthe top of Seneer and Hermon,
from the lion's dens, from themountains of the leopards.
You have ravished my heart, mysister, my spouse, you have
ravished my heart, with one lookof your eyes, with one link of
your necklace.
How fair is your love, mysister, my spouse?
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How much better than wine isyour love, and the scent of your
perfumes and all spices?
Your lips, O my spouse, drip asthe honeycomb, honey and milk
are under your tongue, and thefragrance of your garments is
like the fragrance of Lebanon.
A garden enclosed is my sister,my spouse, a spring shut up, a
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fountain sealed.
Your plants are an orchard ofpomegranates with pleasant
fruits, fragrant henna withspikenard, spiknard and saffron,
calamus and cinnamon, with alltrees of frankincense, myrrh and
aloes, with all the chiefspices, a fountain of gardens, a
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well of living waters, andstreams from Lebanon.
The Shulamite, awake, O NorthWind, and come, O south, blow
upon my garden that its spicesmay flow out.
Let my beloved come to hisgarden and eat its pleasant
fruits.
You know, we may not understandall the comparisons here in Song
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of Solomon today, but thatdoesn't make them any less true.
And one of the points thatreally strikes me, I was talking
again to somebody on socialmedia about this, is I think one
thing today, probably true forhusbands, but definitely I think
talking to men is very true forwives.
A lot of women don't understandthat what makes a woman
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beautiful to a man is actions.
And and women, if you're outthere and the same is true for
men, you know, good on you.
I I think it probably is, basedon what I I've heard, but but
actions are really what definebeauty.
The world can look at a woman,for example, and see uh what
they kind of derogatorily call amid, right?
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A quote unquote mid.
But if that woman desires andstrives to please her husband
each day, to her husband, she'sa ten.
Guaranteed, no doubt.
In his eyes, she's a ten.
By the same token, you can havea woman that looks like what the
world would call a tenth,supermodel, you know,
perfection.
And if she's lukewarm orindifferent to her husband each
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day, disrespectful, I mean,maybe a two at best, maybe, in
the eyes of that man.
All right.
Bible verses for today.
Let's see.
We're gonna start with Hebrews.
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I was gonna say chapter seven,but I think we did chapter seven
last time.
Yes, we did.
So we're gonna start withHebrews chapter eight.
There we go.
Here is the main point.
We have a high priest who satdown in the place of honor
beside the throne of themajestic God in heaven.
There he ministers in theheavenly tabernacle, the true
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place of worship that was builtby the Lord and not by human
hands.
And since every high priest isrequired to offer gifts and
sacrifices, our high priest mustmake an offering too.
If he were here on earth hewould not even be a priest,
since there already are priestswho offer the gifts required by
the law.
They serve in a system ofworship that is only a copy, a
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shadow of the real one inheaven.
For when Moses was getting readyto build the tabernacle, God
gave him this warning Be surethat you make everything
according to the pattern I haveshown you here on the mount.
But now Jesus, our high priest,has been given a ministry that
is far superior to the oldpriesthood, for he is the one
who meditates for us.
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No, mediates, sorry, for us afar better covenant with God
based on better promises.
If the first covenant had beenfaultless, there would have been
no need for a second covenant toreplace it.
But when God found fault withthe people, he said, The day is
coming, says the Lord, when Iwill make a new covenant with
the people of Israel and Judah.
This covenant will not be likethe one I made with their
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ancestors, when I took them bythe hand and led them out of the
land of Egypt.
They did not remain faithful tomy covenant, so I turned my back
on them, says the Lord.
But this is the new covenant Iwill make with the people of
Israel on that day, says theLord.
I will put my laws in theirminds, and I will write them on
their hearts, I will be theirGod, and they will be my people.
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And they will not need to teachtheir neighbors, nor will they
need to teach their relatives,saying, You should know the
Lord, for everyone, from theleast to the greatest, will know
me already, and I will forgivetheir wickedness, and I will
never again remember their sins.
When God speaks of a newcovenant, it means He has made
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the first one obsolete.
It is now out of date and willsoon disappear.
Psalm one oh six verse thirteenthrough thirty one.
Yet how quickly they, theIsraelites, forgot what he had
done.
They wouldn't wait for hiscounsel.
In the wilderness their desiresran wild, testing God's patience
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in that dry wasteland.
So he gave them what they askedfor, but he sent a plague along
with it.
The people in the camp werejealous of Moses and envious of
Aaron, the Lord's holy priest.
Because of this the earth openedup.
It swallowed Dathan, and buriedAbra, Abram, and the other
rebels.
Fire fell upon their followers,a flame consumed the wicked.
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The people made a calf at MountSinai, they bowed before an
image made of gold.
They traded their glorious Godfor a statue of a grass eating
bull.
They forgot God their Savior,who had done such great things
in Egypt, such wonderful thingsin the land of Ham, such awesome
deeds at the Red Sea.
So he declared he would destroythem, but Moses, his chosen one,
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stepped between the Lord and thepeople.
He begged him to turn from hisanger and not destroy them.
The people refused to enter thepleasant land, for they wouldn't
believe his promise to care forthem.
Instead they grumbled in theirtents, and refused to obey the
Lord.
Therefore he solemnly swore thathe would kill them in the
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wilderness, that he wouldscatter their descendants among
the nations, exiling them todistant lands.
Then our ancestors joined in theworship of Biel at Peor.
They even ate sacrifices offeredto the dead.
They angered the Lord with allthese things, so a plague broke
out among them.
But Phineas had the courage tointervene and the plague was
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stopped, so he has been regardedas a righteous man ever since
that time.
Proverbs twenty seven, seventhrough nine.
A person who is full refuseshoney, but even bitter food
tastes sweet to the hungry.
A person who strays from home islike a bird that strays from its
nest.
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The heartfelt counsel of afriend is as sweet as perfume
and incense.
Hebrews eight, you go back toverse twelve, and I will forgive
their wickedness and I willnever again remember their sins.
That's that's encouraging,folks.
Very encouraging.
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And I don't know why really, butthe thought occurred to me as I
was reading this.
If you have somebody in yourlife, folks, that you're really
concerned about knowing God andJesus, especially if you feel
like that person is a littlesmarter than you are, just give
them the Bible.
You don't have to try and defendGod.
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You don't have to defend try andconvince them.
Just show them through youractions your faith and just give
them the Bible.
Any really, the more intelligenta person is, right, if they're
really seeking the truth,they're gonna become a Christian
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reading the Bible.
That's why you can tell whetherany of these AI generators that
are being created today, ifthey're really unbiased or not,
because if an AI is trulyunbiased, right, if they're just
turned loose to find the truth,that AI is going to become
Christian.
And if it's not, you're gonnaimmediately know that there's a
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basis, a bias that the creatorsof that AI put in there.
Because again, if that AI istruly free to seek the truth,
and that's what they want, it'sgonna become a Christian AI,
right?
So for our medal of honor today,I've got one I stole from my
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father.
We're gonna get a little out oforder right now, and I'll tell
you why at the end of it.
This is William John Crawford,private high-strank master
sergeant, World War II, 3rdPlatoon, India Company, 3rd
Battalion, 142nd Infantry, 36thInfantry Division, U.S.
Army, September 13th, 1943, nearAltavilla, Italy.
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For conspicuous gallantry andintrepidity at the risk of life
above and beyond the call ofduty in action with the enemy
near Alta Villa, Italy, 13thSeptember 1943.
When India Company attacked anenemy-held position on Hill 424,
the third platoon, in whichPrivate Crawford was a squad
scout, attacked as base platoonfor the company.
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After reaching the crest of ahill, the platoon was pinned
down by intense enemy machinegun and small arms fire.
Locating one of these guns,which was dug in on a terrace on
his immediate front, PrivateCrawford without orders and on
his own initiative moved overthe hill under enemy fire to a
point within a few yards of thegun emplacement and
single-handedly destroyed themachine gun and killed three of
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the crew with a hand grenade,thus enabling his platoon to
continue its advance.
When the platoon, after reachingthe crest, was once more delayed
by enemy fire, Private Crawfordagain in the face of intense
fire advanced directly to thefront, midway between two
hostile machine gun nets locatedon a higher terrace and emplaced
in a small ravine.
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Moving first to the left with agrenade, he destroyed one gun
emplacement and killed the crew.
He then worked his way undercontinuous fire to the other,
and with one grenade and the useof his rifle killed one enemy
and forced the remainder toflee.
Seizing the machine gun, hefired on the withdrawing Germans
and facilitated his company'sadvance.
Accredited to Pueblo County,Colorado, not awarded
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posttubously, presented May 30,1984.
The medal was originallypresented to his father in 1944
at Camp Carson, Colorado byMajor General Terry Allen, as
Crawford was erroneouslypresumed to be killed in action.
On May 30th, 1984, anotherpresentation ceremony was held
by President Ronald Reagan atthe U.S.
Air Force Academy, ColoradoSprings, Colorado, to present
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the medal to William J.
Crawford.
Born May 19, 1918, Pueblo,Pueblo County, Colorado, United
States.
Died March 15, 2000, PalmerLake, Colorado, United States.
Buried U.S.
Air Force Academy Cemetery, 3TAC D, TAC 68, Colorado Springs,
Colorado, United States.
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Okay, so the reason we went overthat one today is the little
snippet that I got from myfather through his Marine Corps
channels was that a U.S.
Air Force cadet was readingabout World War II when he
stumbled upon the name of thisjanitor who worked at the Air
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Force Academy.
And that turned aboutdiscovering that this janitor
had actually been awarded themedal, was a Medal of Honor
recipient.
Now, I don't know, you know, Idon't know how all that went
down, but you had this Medal ofHonor that had, you know,
finished his career, obviously,in the Army.
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And he's just a humble janitorthere working at the Air Force
with all these cadets.
And they didn't know.
You want to talk about humility.
And then the other part of thestory, you know, they thought he
was dead.
They gave the medal to hisparents, uh, to his father, I
think.
Yeah.
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At Camp Carson in Colorado.
And they didn't discover untillater that he was alive.
It's just a fascinating littlestory.
I don't even know all of it, butI wanted to share the little
part that I did with y'alltoday.
All right.
I we're going to go over folks,and I'm sorry.
So maybe you can listen to it atanother time as your day allows.
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I wanted to spend one more dayon Pennsylvania.
This comes out of the SupremeCourt of Pennsylvania in 1815,
the case of the Commonwealthversus Jesse Sharpless and
others.
This is the grand juryindictment.
Jesse Sharpless, John Haynes,George Haynes, John Steele,
Ethram Martin, and Mayodesigning, contriving, and
intending the morals as well ofyouth as of diverse other
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citizens of this Commonwealth todebauch and corrupt, and to
raise and create in their mindsinordinate and lustful desires,
and a certain house therescandalously did exhibit and
show for money, a certain lewd,obscene painting representing a
man in an obscene and indecentposture with a woman, to the
manifest corruption andsubversion of youth and other
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citizens of this Commonwealth,offending the dignity of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
I want you to keep that in mind.
These men pulled kids into, andadults, I assume, into this
house, and they showed them thispainting, right?
That was an obscene painting.
This is the court's verdict readby Judge Duncan.
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The defendants have beenconvicted upon their own
confession of conduct indicativeof a great moral depravity.
The court is invested with powerto punish not only open
violations of decency andmorality, but also whatever
secretly tends to undermine theprinciples of society.
Whatever tends to thedestruction of morality in
general may be punishablecriminally.
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Crimes are public offenses, notbecause they are perpetrated
publicly, but because theireffect is to injure the public.
Burglary, though done in secret,is a public offense, and
secretly destroying fences isindictable.
Hence it follows that an offensemay be punishable if in its
nature and by its example ittends to the corruption of
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morals, although it may be doneit not be committed in public.
The defendants are charged withexhibiting and showing for money
a lewd and obscene painting.
A picture tends to excite lustas strongly as writing, and the
showing of a picture is as mucha publication as the selling of
a book.
If the privacy of a room was aprotection, all the youth of the
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city might be corrupted bytaking them one by one into a
chamber, and there inflamingtheir passions by the exhibition
of Lashibus pictures.
In the eye of the law, thiswould be a publication and a
most pernicious one.
Lord have mercy on what we'redoing today, 200 years later,
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with pornography on the internetand everywhere else.
And then you've got to remember,folks, this whole live and let
live mentality that we've toutedfor so long, particularly on the
conservative side.
Look at what's done to thechildren that are twisted into
LGBTQ lifestyles or all sorts ofsexual dysfunction through
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pornography and so many otherthings.
That is absolutely corruptingmorals and a public offense,
right?
Destroying our nation.
It doesn't matter if it's donein secret, folks.
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It doesn't matter if you stealsomething in secret.
That doesn't matter.
That doesn't make you suddenlynon-punishable.
We we don't do a very good jobof applying the law, the
standards equally today.
One more little bit about this.
A second justice by the name ofJudge Yeats.
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They were so upset about thisthat he added another comment.
Although every immoral act, suchas lying, etc., is not
indictable, yet where theoffense charged is destructive
of morality in general, it ispunishable at common law.
The destruction of moralityrenders the power of the
government invalid.
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The corruption of the publicmind in general and debauching
the manners of youth inparticular by lewd and obscene
pictures exhibited to view mustnecessarily be attended with the
most injurious consequences.
No man is permitted to corruptthe morals of the people.
Secret poison cannot be thusdisseminated.
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Again, the point here, folks, isjust because you do something in
secret, every immoral act is notindictable, right?
Lying is not necessarilyindictable.
You lie to your neighbor orsomething.
But if the action is destructiveof morality, pornography
destroys morality, LGBTQrelationships destroy morality,
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right?
The sexual perversion that wehave so prevalent in our nation
destroys morality.
Right?
Those things, the people thatpromote those, they're not
talking about the people thatthe kids that went in or the
adults that went in and looked,they're talking about the people
that promoted that morality.
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That is punishable.
So since I've already kept you alittle long, and I apologize,
folks, maybe a lot long.
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newspaper.
The last couple issues have hadtwo articles that I thought were
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One was on Mill Prep, and theother was on shopping early for
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I know we're all pinchingpennies these days, and so they
they were really good articles.
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newspaper because they have areally well-rounded paper with a
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I think that's it.
Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will bedone on earth as it is in
heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread, and forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive thosewho trespass against us, and
lead us not to temptation, butdeliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, thepower, and the glory forever and
ever.
Amen.
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God bless y'all, God bless yourfamilies, God bless your
marriages if you're married.
God bless America, God blessyour nation, wherever you are
around the world.
Listen, folks, we'll talk to youall again real soon.
Looking forward to it.