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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 listen, a lot of people

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talking about current events and what's going on in the world Bible prophecy

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this and that. What should we be talking about? We should start with first things

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first. Stay tuned, you'll see what I'm talking about.

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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 life in

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Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's

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

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Hey everybody, current events. It's a big deal right now. Obviously, supposed to be

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with all that's going on in the world right now, current events are absolutely off

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the charts and everybody's curious and interested in current events. In fact, if you

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want to get a bunch of views and if you want to get a bunch of attention, do a

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statement on Bible prophecy or you know, breaking Ezekiel, maybe whatever. How about

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this? The epitome in my opinion of breaking news. Are you ready for it? I don't think

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so. It's this. In the beginning, God created. That's it. What's the breaking news in

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the beginning? God created. Why do I bring it to you this way? Because listen, if that

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statements true, then everything about the rest of this book is absolutely a green light.

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If I can get past those few words in the beginning, God created. The word in the beginning

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is in the beginning of physics as we know it in this world. It's not in the beginning

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God created himself. When the beginning happened, God was not only there, he was the creator

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of it, which means he's outside of creation. So how about this? Imagine with me for a moment,

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you have the the unique opportunity. I say unique. I mean, I've never had this opportunity.

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I'd love to someday, but to be standing in front of some dirt, land, an acre of land. And you look

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at it and you see how the sun rises and how the sun sets and you want to build a house. Where's

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the house? It's in your head. It's in your head until you commit it to paper. Now it's a concept

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design. Can you live in it? No. Does it exist? Yes, in the mind of the creator. How do I know?

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It's written down in the beginning God, written down. Is that enough evidence for me as a human

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to believe it? No. But am I willing to entertain someone who's bigger than me, greater than me,

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stronger than me? Am I willing to entertain the idea of God? Well,

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let's just be bold and brave and let's venture into this water for just a second. And I confess,

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I'm a pastor, teacher of the Bible. I'm not an apologist. I'm not a genius like my friend Frank

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Turek or some others. But I'll do the best I can on this. If I can have an idea in my head,

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where did that come from? How is that possible? At what point did the evolutionary process say

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that that's a good thing for me to have? I just entertain that. You should do the same thing.

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Or does not my very existence and how you and I function that I see a house on an acre of land

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in my mind that I'm going to commit to paper, that I'm going to take. In fact,

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we can do it right now. This is kind of fun, you know, if you think about it. This is for real.

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This is real time. I want to talk about current events. This is happening right now.

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Okay.

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This is a horrible drawing of a quick house. This was in my mind. Here's the entryway.

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Here's the roof. I just put it on paper. I'm not asking you to evaluate my artistic skills.

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I don't have any. But that came out of my head. In the beginning, God created him.

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If you can say, you know what? Maybe you're right now. Maybe you're in

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Fifth Avenue, New York City, and you happen to be taking a break right now and you're watching this

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and you're a designer. Or maybe you're up in San Francisco and you're at Levi Company and

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you're designing the latest look for the Levi clothing line and you see this in your head and

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you do the coloring and you do all that stuff. I want to ask you this question and you don't believe in

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God. How in the world is that possible? You're using all of God's tools. Because the

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Bible says you were created in his image, you're even using tools that God reserves for himself.

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We have no evidence, by the way, that angels can create anything.

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But humans can. Where does it start? We preempt our creation of a house.

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But it starts with the image in the mind, in the beginning, God created, it starts in the mind,

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in the mind of God, in your mind, then you commit it to paper and then I hand it to a contractor

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and he builds what was in my mind. I look at it, finished. I get the permit. I move into it.

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Who's house is this? It's my house. Well, it's finished. True, it's physically finished,

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but it was finished a long time ago up here. It was finished before it was ever physically started

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in the beginning. God created. Are you willing to entertain the fact or how about this?

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For me, it's a fact. For you, maybe it's a philosophy. I don't care.

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The idea that if you exist right now and you can create something and I ask you,

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can you commit that to paper and you draw it out and you have somebody build it?

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Can you entertain the reality, the fact, the possibility that God is a grand dynamic

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of what you are in little? Of course, sin has ravaged us, but he is without sin,

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but we have been created in his image. The word is his moral likeness, meaning that we can dream,

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we can think, we can write a song, we can love, we can create, we can choose.

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In the beginning, God created. If you can get past those few words,

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then the rest of God's promises, the rest of God's word, the rest of your life

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takes a radical dynamic shift right now.

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So listen, it's not some quirky, weird thing to believe in God. In fact, I'm not kidding when I tell you.

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I think a person who does not believe in God, I don't think you can trust them.

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I mean it. So how can you say that? My grandmother, she's wonderful, she doesn't believe in God.

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I don't care who it is. You know why I can't trust them because they're not being honest with

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themselves. If they're not going to be honest with themselves, how do I know if they're going to be

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honest with me? Because if you are trying to live your life thinking, it's all an accident,

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I believe in evolution, it's all things an accident. This very moment, I'm not even sure if it's

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happening or not, is this real? You get all ethereal or what's the word esoteric? You get very

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hyper about your very moment. You want to hear some breaking news? This is the breaking news.

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In the beginning, God created it means he stepped into a world that he designed. He was in his mind,

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he created it. By the way, Colossians chapter one tells us he did that through Jesus.

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Hebrews chapter one says he did it through Jesus. Jesus was the contractor. Not a big stretch. Jesus is

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a carpenter. Fantastic. Everything he made was first in his mind. So we'd look around this world.

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You see, Jack, that's crazy. Really? Is it crazy? Don't you think? Listen, the greatest minds in the

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world right now, they're still scratching their head, trying to figure out what is physics?

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What is marine biology and it's full, full revelation? What is astrophysics in its full

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revelation? We are learning stuff every day about who and what we are and where we exist.

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So the truth is, listen, be intellectually honest. It is insane not to believe in the existence of

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the supernatural because the evidence is overwhelming that the supernatural preceded the natural.

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It was the supernatural that brought forth the natural.

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And if you begin to entertain that, all of a sudden you are going to have to come to

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the grips of who are you? Who am I?

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And what are the depths to my existence? What is my purpose?

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There's no fathoming that to its full extent apart from believing that we are not an accident,

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but we are in fact living a life that God designed and created even to the point of the fall

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itself because you and I live in a very terrible world, very violent, very ugly mean.

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And is it interesting that God himself, the designer said, that's not the world I created.

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You know how you and I have the tendency to blame God for all the evil in the world?

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We need to calm down and stop doing that because we're really, really being dumb when we do that.

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He told us that's not the world I gave you. You are the guys that crashed it.

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I gave you this and you drove it into the wall, but I've come to redeem it back.

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That's why the return of Christ is so awesome for the believer. He's going to fix

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that which we crashed. And on top of the fact that Satan is running around with his

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goobers demons on this world and this universe, which is really enemy occupied territory,

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this belongs to God. The Bible tells us that Satan has commandeered it. And so there's rape and

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there's murder and there's evil. There's prostitution, pornography, drugs, abuse, none of that

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stuff's from God. So I have to wrap this up. I'll bring it down to this.

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Be honest. If you right now can say or point out something that is wrong,

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something that you know in this universe is not right. Listen, when I'm conducting a funeral

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service, I often, if not always, remind the congregation that all of a sudden you have come to

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this gathering today and your lives were dramatically interrupted by a phone call or an email.

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You had to take time off from work. You had to book a flight. You had to get in the car and start

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driving. You had to buy a suit or a new tie to come to this gathering. Your life was interrupted

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by something that seems so wrong. It seems so wrong. It's not wrong that your life was interrupted.

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It's that your life was interrupted by death. And you've come to this service today.

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And you sense how wrong this is. It's all wrong. This shouldn't be happening.

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You know that inside. I know that inside. Be intellectually honest with yourself.

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You know why it's terribly wrong? Because Jesus said, I came to give you life,

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but Satan has come to rob, to kill and destroy. That's why you feel awed at a funeral or

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seeing that person mangled in that car wreck on the freeway. And there's a sense of

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of frailty instantaneously. You sense that all of your foundations and stability are now shaken

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in an instant of time. Why do you feel that way? Because you have been interrupted by a reality

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that was never, never supposed to be its death. But the Bible says Jesus Christ came to undo

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the ramifications of death. That's why Jesus went to the cross. That's why Jesus said,

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if a person dies believing in me, he shall live forever. Why? Because this physical life is thank God.

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This physical life is not all there is. But in the beginning, God created. That means in the

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beginning, if God created, God can redeem. God can repair. God can make new. God could save

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in the beginning. If God created, then God can bring me back into His presence.

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I just want you. I wanted to drop this thought bomb on you to be thinking,

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if you don't believe in God, why? Why do you not believe in God? There's overwhelming scientific

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evidence. There's indisputable historical existence. What about anthropology and sociology and

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the existence of man? What about man's quest to try to search to find something out there

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in our search for intelligence? Is there anyone out there? Did you know that we as Americans

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spend billions of dollars a year? We have special telescopes that are in various parts of the world.

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Hawaii, Peru, Europe that are listening. Searching for any intelligent life out there.

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Can you imagine if God were to say, here I am, I wish He would. Some day He will. It's going to

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be with a trumpet blast, but my dear friend, I'm going to put this out to you for you to ponder.

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To not believe in God is to be intellectually dishonest with yourself first.

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And with all the evidence around you.

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And those people who are religious, they may be on to something, I don't know, I don't know what

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their religion is. But for those who have encountered the Creator God, we're not nuts.

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We've actually come home. We've come back as it were to the one who thought us up in the first place.

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And you're not some expiring vapor.

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You have an eternal soul that will live forever. And I pray that you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ

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exactly as the Bible says. Read John chapter three in a Bible. If you don't own a Bible,

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just get your device and type in John three, John chapter three of the Bible and read it.

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Just John chapter three can save your life forever. You want to know why? Because you're not an

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accident. You were actually designed by God. And you've wandered far from God. It's time for you to

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come back to him. I'll leave you with this silly analogy. So I have a very perfectly vintage

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awesome. I have to add, I have a European German import car. Yeah, no, it's not a Porsche. It's

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not a it's not a 911. It's not nothing like that. It's a 1967 Volkswagen. That's in perfect

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condition. It's so well preserved that I just can't take it to anybody to work on it or to

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do anything to it. I don't want anybody just touching it. It's got to be handled by one or two people

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period because it was designed even though it's a 1967 beetle. It was designed to be handled by

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people who know it. I don't take my bug to a Ferrari dealer. I don't take my bug to the Ford dealer.

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It's got to be handled by someone who knows it. And it just so happens to be that the guy who does

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the service on my little bug is also the same guy who literally took it apart every nut and bolt

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and laid it out in his barn and refurbished and restored that vehicle from every nut being separated

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and put back together every piece internally and externally. And he and I have photographs of this.

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If we can do that with a car, can't God do that with you? He can. He did it with me.

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So why don't you talk to him about these things and listen for him. He'll talk to you about you

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and what he wants for you. In Jesus name, amen. So yeah, listen, it's time for us to live out what we

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believe in. And I hope you believe in the God who says in the beginning, God created

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because God wants to recreate you right now. If this has been a blessing to you, let people know.

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We'd love to hear back from you guys. God bless you.

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