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Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. Hey the Bible says trained

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up a child in the way that he, she, they should go. What does that mean? Is it

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true? How do you do it? Let's find out.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us,

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that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs.

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We everybody, welcome to the Jack Hibbs Podcast. Today, we're going to be talking about

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something that involves every single one of us. I know that's a tall statement, but it

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is absolutely true. We're talking about being a kid. Being a kid, growing up, coming

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to that place of, do I dare say it? In the natural world of humans, there's a, a

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natural puberty that takes place without doctors being involved. It's amazing how we got

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here after all these years without doctors messing with our puberty. But God's got a great plan.

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And specifically, this might speak to most of you who are either teens or you have a teen.

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And I'd like to start out with the profound philosopher, the great thinker, the sage of wisdom,

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Mark Twain. Mark Twain said that when you have a kid turn into being a teenager,

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it is time to put them in a 55 gallon barrel and feed them through the hole.

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And when they reach 21, seal up the hole. That's kind of fatalistic, but you get the drift.

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It's like we bring our little children in the world and God gives them to us and the

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Bible says that they are a gift and happy as the man who has a quiver full of them, but nowhere

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is that set of the woman because she's running around picking up the pieces. It's family. Listen,

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life, family life. It's messy. It's loud. It is, it's somewhat there's a level of craziness

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in growing up a family. And we just need to get used to that. For some of you've never heard such a

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thing, I remember years ago, you guys, this was so fun. Lisa and I, we were flown out to Little Rock,

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Arkansas and we did a couple of programs back in those days with family life with Dennis Rainey,

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Bob Lapine and Dennis Rainey. And we sat down at a table and we're doing radio. We're doing a

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program on being a family. And right in the middle of the show, the phone rang, Dennis Rainey's

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phone rang. And there was an argument between his two daughters about who, who got the box.

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I thought it was mine. I thought my name was on it. And he's, he told, he had to say to them, listen,

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listen, listen, listen, we'll talk about this one when I get home. And he hung up and I'm thinking,

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wow, this is so refreshing to see a family life specialist, a world renowned

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one, a minister of family life going, going through the dynamics of a family. And he's so,

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it was so beautiful. He hung up the phone, put the phone down and he said, as you can see,

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we're a family also. And so let's get it. And it was like, yes, that's right. Family,

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warts and all family. But let's talk about raising up kids. So number one, the Bible does tell us

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that they are a blessing. They're a gift given to us by God, which is why side notes, Satan

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wants to kill babies and Satan wants Democrats to rule and reign so they can install abortion

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because it is their religious act to eventually change the Supreme Court that they might enshrine

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our nation again to the violation of God's will that children are a blessing. Look, if you,

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if you know anybody who doesn't want their baby, they shouldn't abort it. They should put it

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up for adoption because boy, I tell you, we know people who want to adopt babies. They're a blessing.

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Are they hard work? Yes. Is it rewarding? Yes. God made us to reproduce. If I was an evolutionist

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right now, I would be saying to you, the survival of the fittest is predicated upon the ability or

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the strength to breed. So for example, when we look at the animal kingdom, it's always the

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boar, when I say boar, I'm talking about the male bear, the great male brown or black or

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grizzly bear, who is the one that rules and reigns in a particular area of territory and he

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is the one that sires these baby cubs, these little bear cubs, right? And why is he the guy? Well,

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because by fighting and worrying, he wins the gold medal to be the one, the alpha male. And

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evolutionists look at that and they say, well, look, it's the survival of the fittest.

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And which is interesting because they take a God engineered reality that has always been,

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but they don't want to think about God. So they'll call it, it's the survival of the fittest

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or natural selection. Listen, there is no natural selection apart from what God is engineered.

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Okay. The evolutionary theory is an accident. It's not an accident in the mind of thinking.

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It's an accident that never took place in the past. God is the design engineer. Life is built

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that way and it doesn't work well unless it's structured around a family. The healthier,

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stronger, the family, the healthier and stronger, the outcome of the children. And so what I want

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to touch on in our brief time together is something that in this day and age is a simple truth

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that has gone missing, a simple truth that has gone missing. And it is this, proverbs, the book of

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wisdom, proverbs out of the Bible, proverbs 22 verse 6 says, train up a child in the way that

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he should go or we could even say, or she could go if you have a daughter. And when he is old,

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he will not depart from it. What does that mean? First of all, train up. To train up a child

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is to do this. Mom and dad, listen carefully. To train up a child, I want you to get this picture

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in your mind. Think of it is if I am a journeyman, a stone worker, craftsman, I'm the journeyman,

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but with me is an apprentice. The relationship between the journeyman and the apprentice goes this

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way. By the way, the same meaning is true about Jesus being master and us being His servants or

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Him being Lord and we being His followers. Him being God and we being His children. It means this,

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the journeyman puts his hand on the project. So he is working the stone or the pottery or the

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painting and the apprentice puts his hands on top of the journeyman's hands so that the apprentice

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is actually doing no work at all. The journeyman is doing the work but the apprentice is feeling

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every movement. I'm not sure if you can see my hands where I'm at on the table. Producer Sharan says

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that you can't. So watch, here's the journeyman. Here's the apprentice and here's what it looks like.

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I'm sanding, right? Or I'm sculpting. The apprentice goes like this. He's doing no work but he's

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feeling all the work get done. He's sensing the pressure. He's sensing the speed, the motion,

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the movement, the intensity. He's starting to develop an appreciation for what the journeyman

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has known for a lifetime, right? You got that? Train up a child. You are the journeyman, mom and

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dad. You are the expert. I know it doesn't feel like that, right? Insert. Raising children immediately

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causes all of us as grown adults to all of a sudden feel incredibly overwhelmed and we can't do it

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this is too big. I know, I know. But again, that's why we have a family structure. That's where

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older brothers and sisters come in. That's where moms and dads which are grandmas and grandpas come

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in. This is where aunts and uncles come in. It's a family. And so we all feel overwhelmed raising

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kids. Thank God you know in this Christian world right now there's more books written about being

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a family and we've never had more messed up families than ever before. Why? Because we simply do not

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proverbs 22 verse 6, train up a child. Have them learn everything you know.

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So to speak example, are you a please officer? Are you an attorney? Are you a homemaker? Are you

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a schoolteacher? Are you a truck driver? Whatever it is, there is from the earliest moments of

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their young ages, you can reveal to them life in the areas where you are the journeyman. You are

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the expert in these various areas of your life's vocation. When it's a day off and it's time to

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work in the backyard. Listen, I know this is tough, but when it's time to work in the backyard,

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you don't want kids all around you because they'll, it takes an hour, takes six hours. But to be

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apparent, you bring your kid out there and you have them help you. You ask them, hey buddy listen,

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can you pick that up right now? Move it over here. Can you bring the trash can, tilt it? This is

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how you tilt it. Hold the, put your foot on the wheels of the trash barrel and tilt it back. You

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can do it. You can do it. And you help them do it. Okay, now pull it buddy, put it, bring it over

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by where the more is at. That a boy. That takes you four times longer than it does for you to do it

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yourself, but you don't pass on anything to your kid. Mums and dads, grandmas and grandpas out

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there. I want you to start deliberately. In fact, even make a list after hearing this podcast,

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write down one, two or three things that you're going to start doing that are so basic to you,

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you never think about it. And I want you to bring your grandchild or bring your child in on it.

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Hey, let's do this. This is how this is done. You need to know this. You need to know this kiddo

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and this is what we're going to do. And so do that. You suggest that seems so basic. It's the

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opening of a door to establish a lifelong relationship of saying, hey, you know what?

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When I was your age, I learned this. And some of you who know me or you drive by my house,

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you know that I'm a freak about mowing my lawn in straight lines. Call it an obsession. My dad

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put that into the head of my brother and I and that's what we do. I know right now I could show up

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unannounced to my brother's house and this I know. I don't know what kind of what condition

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his home will be in, but I know this. His yard will have perfect lines of mowing, right? I got that

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for my dad. So listen, train up a child. Here's where it gets fun. Emboss, imprint,

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cause the journeyman's hand to take the apprentice hand and watch the shift. The journeyman puts

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the apprentice hand on the stone and now the journeyman begins to move the hands of the apprentice.

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So the journeyman's hands are still moving, but now in a different way as we mature along from being

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two years old to five years old. Watch this journeyman apprentice two years old.

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Five years old apprentice journeyman. The journeyman is still the parent doing the work,

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but now it's being done through the hand of the child to expose them to the actual now. This is where

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they're going to maybe to make my point. They're going to start getting calluses. They feel it

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stronger. They feel it more vividly. There's more sweat to it. They begin to appreciate the cost

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of it, things that they've never known before, but because now they're acting in the place of the

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journeyman or of the parent, they realize, so now I get it. When we leave all the lights on in

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the house, we have less money to go to the movies or to get popcorn or to have fun. So I'm going to

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start turning off the lights, dad, when I leave the room, cause now I understand. This is how life

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works. And here's where it gets awesome in my opinion. Train up in a child in the way that he

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should go. And I don't mean to be crude or I don't mean to be rude, but this applies to either a

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he or a she. Well, how do you know? Well, the Bible says he, but we also know from God's logic,

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you don't raise up boys with all the skills and leave a girl to sit in the corner and not know

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anything. God does not hold anyone in preference. He astings all worthy, right? So if you have a

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daughter, how do you know? What's your biology? Because listen, this is no joke. I know that there's

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people out there. I have no respect for them. I'm telling you right now, I have no respect for a

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the Bible says don't respect the fool. The Bible says don't give a fool one moment. The Bible says

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to avoid fools. The Bible says don't answer a fool. And the Bible says let a fool leave a fool in

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their folly. When somebody says, well, we're not going to declare the gender of our child. We're

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just going to let them figure that out on on their own. That is class A, type one child abuse.

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God says train up the child in the way that he should go. If you have a child that is XX chromosome,

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that's a female. If you have XY, that's a male. And so if you have a biological male,

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it means you the parent are supposed to be. It's not hard. It's not rocket science. You see,

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this is a boy. So what that means is I'm going to train this kid how to crawl around in the dirt.

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I'm going to teach this kid how to use a hammer and a nail.

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And you see, mom and dad just calm down. I don't want my kid to have some

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medial task job. We're not talking about that. I hope your kid grows up to be a brain surgeon.

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Don't get me wrong. But the brain surgeon still has to hang a picture at home.

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Drive the nail. Teach your kid how to change the oil. Teach your kid out of sweat.

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You don't have a problem in America. Children are not sweating. Did you know that's an

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actual medical issue. Children are not sweating. And so they're storing up toxins in their body.

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We got to get our kids sweating again. Teach them how to sweat. Teach them how to put a trailer hitch

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on the truck or the van or the SUV. Teach them how to clean windows.

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Get XX or XY. Doesn't matter. Everybody needs to clean windows. Train up in the train up a child

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in the way that they should go. Everybody likes clean windows. Someday your kids got to clean

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windows. Train your kids from the earliest age. Everybody gets what we're going to do right now.

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And they're looking at you, you know. By the way, when they're young, when they're like two and

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three, you say, you are going to do and they go, what? We are going to play clean the living room.

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And you're going to be on the vacuum and you're going to be on the pillows on the couch.

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You're going to arrange them that looks good and you're going to vacuum this way here. I'll show

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you guys. I'll do a couple of pillows, journeyman. And I'm going to do a couple of pushes with the

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vacuum journeyman. Why? So the apprentice can try it. This is raising up a kid in the way that

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they should go. You see, Jack, aren't you going to get super spiritual about this though? I mean,

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isn't that where we're supposed to go? You're reading out of the Bible. You're talking about

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spiritual things, right? I'm talking about what comes first in reality. And that is teaching

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you to look at from the beginning before they know anything about theological issues. You teach

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your child every time they see something on the floor that's not supposed to be on the floor.

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They pick it up and set it on the table. Have you ever heard people say, well, we,

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we childproof our home. Well, okay, maybe you have to do that. You can do that to some extent,

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but I'm a big fan of teaching your child how to respect the home. That doesn't mean you

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beat it into them. That doesn't mean you tie a, you know, something around their neck so they

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can see it all the time. No, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about that you would say to them,

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see that? That vase right there? That's grandma's vase. It's very, very precious. Grandma loves that.

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It's one of a kind. Nobody's got one like that. So hey, kids, here's the deal. We stay away from that.

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Okay, we treat that with respect. You can't say to your little one, see that? Yep. Don't touch it.

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The moment you say that and leave the room, guess what they're going to touch. You got to tell

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them why. That's grandma's vase. She loves that. That was given to her by her grandpa. And so

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someday that's going to be one of yours. That's pretty cool, right? So here's the deal. We're going

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to treat that with respect because it means something and they got an answer. They got an answer.

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When you start to train them, they're going to start to trust you.

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And so when you take them out, now let's go spiritual. In fact, without

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without kidding you whatsoever, I mean what I'm about to say. Let's go deep spiritually with them.

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Let's take them out into the backyard. We're going to go spiritually deep now.

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We're going to say in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Wow.

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The Bible says that God created everything that creeps on the earth.

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At that moment, your kids could care less. At that moment, there's no picture.

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They're their memory bank. The synapses and the operation and memory storage. It's blank.

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What they've heard is we're going to go in the backyard and God created everything that creeps

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on the earth. That's all they know, which quite frankly is theoretical.

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Let's not raise his and she's theoretical about the existence of God. Theory is for the laboratory

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for concept. When you have a concept in a theory, it is also the same laboratory that creates it

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and puts it to the test. Mom and dad, your park, your neighborhood, a terrarium,

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your garden is the laboratory. Take your kids out in the backyard and say, kids, what did I just

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say a moment ago? Let me repeat that God created everything that creeps on the earth.

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Well, let's see what's creeping in our backyard. Do you see anything creeping? No.

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Well, where do you think we'll find things creeping on the earth?

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And maybe your little one doesn't know. But you say, let's get on our hands and knees. Let's look

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around and you go over there to the flowers, to the garden and there's a rock in there or there

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maybe there's a brick or maybe there's something and you turn it over and I guarantee you, you'll see

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a worm quickly go down into the earth or you'll see a little bug scurry away and you're telling your

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kids, look at that. Didn't God say that? There it is. God did that. That's amazing. He made everything

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and he made the birds of the air that fly through the sky through the air. He made those birds.

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See any birds? No, I don't see any birds. Wait, if you don't see any birds, close your eyes.

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Listen, do you hear any birds? And you're going to hear a bird. You might hear more than one.

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So kids, listen, we just heard a bird. How do we find the bird when we can't see the bird?

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Okay, wait, stand here.

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Stand this way. Listen, movie here is around. What do you think the bird is? I think it's over there.

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I think it's over there because that's where I heard it over there. Listen, you're taking

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what God said is true and your kids now are seeing it in their heads. They're touching it with

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their hands. They're hearing it with their eyes and a picture is being formed in their mind.

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If they can't see the bird but they can hear the bird, ask them,

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what colors the bird, you think? I think it's black. I think it's brown. I think it's white,

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they might say, all right, let's see. I think it's a big bird. How big's the bird? Oh,

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it's a little bird. No, I think it's a bird like this. Let them guess. Let them play. Why? What are

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they doing? You are training up a child in the way that they should go. They should be thinkers.

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They should be analyzers. They should be researchers. They should be explorers. Why do we? Why do

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you think we love adventure? You know, we're in our offices, at least in America, we're in our

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offices 51 weeks out of the year and then we get a week off for vacation. Europeans, I don't know,

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I'm certain I love the European model way better. Europeans take four to six weeks off a year

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for vacation. It's totally normal there. In America, it's brutal. We take a week off and I don't

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think that's enough. We take a week off to try to find ourselves or to find something cool.

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But here's the point. If you've got a few days or a few months off, you know what you do,

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you go like this. Where are we going to go? What are we going to do? You know, God made us to be

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explorers. Isn't it amazing? You read about Magellan and Balboa. You read about Cortez and

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Cornado. You read about Columbus. You read about the Fuca and all these guys that were adventures.

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And they they traveled the globe. I don't know about you, but I am not going to get in a

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hundred-foot ship and sail the Atlantic. Are you nuts? But that's all they knew back then and

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the drive of exploration was greater than their fear of dying. And they said, we got to go, man.

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We got to check this out. Your kids were born with that God-given human nature of exploration.

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Train up a child in the way that they should go and when they are old, they will not depart from it.

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When you begin to ingrain within your kids that discovering bugs, finding worms, identifying birds,

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and looking at leaves with a magnifying glass and through or at night taking the leaf and shining a

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flashlight behind the leaf and looking at all the veins and all of the arteries and the capillaries

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that are in a leaf. You tell your kids, now watch this and you hold your hand up to your kids

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and you turn on a nice big strong flashlight behind your hand and they can see your bones in the

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blood vessels just like the leaf. You know what you say? You say to them the same God that made

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this hand is the same God that made this leaf and you can even tell by some of his design features

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that he built into us and they'll never forget it. Why am I saying this? Because that's how you

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introduce the Bible to your kids. And when they are old, they will not depart from it. Do you know what

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that means? It means that no matter what in life that has been seated in their mind and their

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imagination and in their storage banks forever. God has promised it to be there. So if, for example,

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your child is a wayward, the context of this verse is often used to quote or to pray for a wayward

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child, I get it. I do understand that. But most importantly, it's actually to know that you have

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a son or a daughter and to raise them in that direction. And then I'll end with this.

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If you have a son, if you have a son, you expose them to male things, male things meaning this.

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And it's, by the way, it's loosely, I loosely put this because man things look, changing the oil

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in the car is not a man thing. Our daughters should know how to change the oil in our cars. That's

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good for them to know that. Look, our sons should know how to change the tire or flat tire. Our daughters

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should know how to change a flat tire. But what I'm saying is that a boy should be handed things

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that are part of the boy nature that's within a boy. For example, it doesn't take any instruction

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whatsoever. And this is a great experiment, by the way, to do at home. It's not 100% because there's

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curiosity within a child, but we have to direct them. But this is a good place to end.

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If you put in your backyard, some stuffed animals, maybe some toys, airplane, some toy guns,

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Barbie, GI Joe. I don't even know if there's a GI Joe anymore. I hope there is. I had them all

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grown up, not Barbie. I had all GI Joe's. Basketball, slingshot, mirror magnifying glass,

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you see what I'm saying? Put this stuff out there. Mom and dad, pull back. Let the kids go in the

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backyard. Watch who does what with what? Most often, most often, the boys will gravitate toward

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the gun automatically. The boys will automatically gravitate toward a magnifying glass, perhaps.

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Now, these are generalities. So watch, you might be saying, oh my gosh, I did that and my boy

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went straight for the doll. So he must be gay. No, he's not. Here's what you do. He goes for the

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doll and he looks at it and you should go to him and say, what is that? It's a doll.

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Who plays with the doll? I don't know. I was thinking about playing with it. What do you do with it?

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I don't know. Well, why don't you ask your sister or the girl next door who's in the backyard with

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this and this little experiment? Ask Susie if she wants to play with the doll. Susie, you want

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to play with this doll? You have any need for the doll? More often than not, the girl will say,

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that doll looks like it needs help. That doll looks like it. It's lonely.

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This is often how things go. This is child development. You see, you and I have been conditioned.

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Oh, that's so sexist. That is so gender insensitive. That's what I'll do with respect. That is

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the argument of lunacy. That is the woke sick mentality that violates 100% the command of scripture.

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If your three-year-old boy wants to wear your high heels in the house and he goes down the

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hallway with your high heels, you should say, hey, little jack, what are you doing? I'm playing

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these shoes. Well, listen, those are mine. So listen, you want to play with shoes? Put your dad's work

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boots on and do the same thing. Give those back to me right now. What would you just do? You just

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sent them a message that little boys put on big boy boots. If you don't see that plainly,

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then you've already been woked and whacked by a system that denies the existence of God.

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You've got to train up a child in the way that they should go. And if you think I'm making

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this up, how about this? Do you have a job at your job? You should have a job at a place that

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says something like, hey, Jack, you've been doing this job for six months. You're doing it good.

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We're going to move you on now to a new part of what this company does. You know what that's called?

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That's called a promotion. That's not gender insensitive. That's not being mean. They're developing

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you. Same as true with a child. You develop them upward and onward. And you might say, well,

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my daughter is very, very tomboyish. Yep. A lot of tomboyish-type girls. I think they're pretty

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awesome, to be honest with you. A tomboy girl is fun stuff because you know what? She's the one

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that you want to take out because she totally wants to go. She comes in and says, Dad, I want to

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go to the shooting range. I want to shoot some guns. Yeah, come on, girl. We'll show you how those

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things work. It's so much fun. Just prepare yourself, Dad. Women shooters are way more accurate

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than us guys. They have an amazing gentle squeeze on the trigger at very still hand. There's

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nothing wrong with that. It's fantastic. Or your son might say, I want to spend more time in the

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kitchen learning how to cook and bake some really awesome stuff. That doesn't mean he's gay. It

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means he's more like Jacob in the Bible. Jacob was a dude in the kitchen. Did you know that?

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He saw was the guy out in the field. It's nothing wrong with that. Just make it something that

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your son or your daughter is aware of the fact all along the way in life that they happen to be

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a female cop. That they happen to be a male cop. They happen to be a female captain of United

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Airlines or a male captain of United Airlines. They happen to be a female in a construction zone

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or a male in a construction zone. It's not wrong with that. Just teach them because the ultimate

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goal is to teach them about the Lord and what they experience in life should be consistent with

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the instruction of scripture and your child will grow up never being confused.

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Never being confused. I'm really curious to see the response to this podcast because I don't know

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where it's happening right now, but you're seeing comments being made somewhere around here and

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people are saying, oh my gosh, that makes sense. Look at that one right there. People are saying

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that guy's an idiot. People are saying things like, yeah, that's how I was raised. People are saying,

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I never had any parents. I wish I would have known this before. Or I've been doing it the wrong

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way and I'm going to change that today. Good. Bible truth is the only truth. All truth is God's truth

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