Veterans and God’s Word (253)

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I want to welcome you to the Quality Christian Living Podcast.

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I am your host, David Friend.

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Because we are nearing the Veterans Appreciation Day here in America, I have dedicated a couple

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of podcasts to address the issues facing our veterans in America and throughout the world.

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Today's topic is entitled Veterans and God's Word.

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We must look at what veterans have accomplished throughout this entire world.

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How have the Church and the military worked together?

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And where does God's Word say it's okay, or it's good to serve in the military?

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And we're also going to address what have our veterans protected across this world.

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Before we get into that, though, we need to pray and ask for the Holy Spirit's guidance.

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Heavenly Father, I thank you for those who have served their countries.

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I pray that you would bless this podcast today, that you would anoint it, and that the Holy

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Spirit would come in and take complete control.

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I yield and submit all that I've done to you.

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Holy Spirit, take us where you want us to go.

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And I pray for those who are listening in who are veterans, or they are the relatives,

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children, or husbands, or wives of veterans.

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I pray you would bless them and help them.

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And may our hearts go out to those who serve their countries.

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And I thank you for what you've done through them.

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And I pray that you will bless this podcast, that you would anoint it and touch it so that

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people's lives would be changed.

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And I'll be careful to give you the praise and glory for it.

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In Jesus' name I pray.

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Amen.

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You know, I want to start with reading a scripture found in John chapter 15 and verse 13.

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Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

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What a powerful scripture that is, and it applies to Jesus, and it also applies to our

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veterans across the world.

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This passage of scripture shows us what Jesus and our veterans share.

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As a matter of fact, I wrote an article entitled that, what basically do Jesus and our veterans

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have in common, and I wrote it and it's been placed in the Charisma Media online.

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And you could look it up if you'd like.

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It's one that the Lord put upon my heart to write and Charisma was happy to publish it.

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Now Jesus gave his life to save us from death and set us free.

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Our veterans are willing to give up their life for life and freedom of others.

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Because we owe Jesus for this debt that he paid for us.

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You know, he died on the cross.

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He paid the price of our sin.

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He paid the debt that we had, and he forgave us and took on the sins of the world.

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Because he did that, and he took care of the debt that we had.

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We must honor our veterans for the service that they have given their country.

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So let me show you a list of the sacrifices that veterans have made.

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You know, I can talk a lot about American veterans, but I don't want to limit to that

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because there's so many veterans across this world who have done wonderful things to rescue

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people, bless them, and protect them.

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I believe that veterans have a legacy, and we need to remember the legacy that they've

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left.

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Let me give you a list of those things that they've done for us, for their countries,

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and for America.

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They set America free from the tyranny of the British King, and they paid the price

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with 25,000 casualties in the Revolutionary War here in America.

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American and other countries, veterans helped people in Europe in World War I, where 116,560

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American veterans were killed.

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Veterans set free the people of Europe again in World War II, not only the American veterans,

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but other veterans from other countries.

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And the people of the South Pacific were set free also.

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And during World War II, just America's numbers, over 405,000 American veterans gave their

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life to help others be set free.

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Our veterans went to Vietnam.

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I was one of them.

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Veterans set free the people of South Vietnam, and over 58,000 casualties we've had.

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Our veterans set free the people of South Korea, with over 36,000 individuals died.

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They set free those in Afghanistan, and Iran, and Iraq, and the Middle East, with about

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8,000 casualties.

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Now, I'm using numbers for American veterans, because I don't have the numbers available

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to me as to what other nations lost, but I don't want you to forget that other great

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nations sent their veterans to fight these wars, and they lost thousands and even tens

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of thousands of their men and women.

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Our veterans have fought to keep Israel free, and today, there's 170,000 troops, American

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troops, in 159 countries around the world.

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And we have been blessed to have great veterans, not only in America, but in other great countries.

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Just one statistic I'll leave you with, when you want to know what have our veterans done,

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just in America, because I want to give you that stat right now.

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One million, 264,000 American soldiers have given their life in battle, in the 35 wars

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and rebellions and conflicts around the world.

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And I'm sure other countries would have numbers, huge numbers, of sacrificing their men and

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women in the fight for freedom.

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Now, I don't want to get you down because of the number of people that I've talked about

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who lost their lives, but I want you to realize how important it is that we support our veterans.

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I would encourage all of you who are listening in today to call your congressmen and women

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to let them know in the Senate.

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Let them know in your state level offices, our veterans need help.

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They need to be blessed, they need to be protected.

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For my own studies and writing the two books that I have for veterans, both based upon Vietnam

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issues since I did in the military and went to Vietnam, I discovered that today in America

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there are about 800,000 veterans from Vietnam living today who were exposed to Agent Orange,

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which was a horrendous toxic poison that was being sprayed in the air to kill the plants

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over there and kill the vegetation.

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And when that was being done, our troops who were in that same area were being sprayed.

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I was one of them.

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And from that spring, I wound up nearly 50 years later being diagnosed with multiple myeloma

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bone marrow cancer.

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When that happened, it made my eyes open up and my heart just weep for those people who

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are walking around today and not even aware of the problems they have.

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Our country needs to bless its veterans.

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We need to reach out and help them and expand our service to them.

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So with that, I just pray that we would all take action to help our veterans.

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You know, this nation was ordained by God to protect our freedom of religion.

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Our founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence as they were anointed by the

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Holy Spirit.

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And here are some of the words we must protect.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed

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by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.

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By the way, those rights came from God, not man.

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That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Now those words today are being abused.

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Those words are being talked about as being self-satisfying and self-protective.

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But in reality, when our founding fathers couldn't get the Constitution going, they

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couldn't write the Declaration of Independence, when they were struggling with it, they would

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break and go to prayer meetings and pray for the Holy Spirit to help them, to direct them

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in their endeavors to write these great documents that have so blessed and laid a foundation

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for our country.

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And they were saying that it needs to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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Well, I believe that.

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I believe that every part of me and that they're endowed, it says.

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They're created by God with rights, unalienable rights, rights that man can't take from them.

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And it is so important that we stress the importance of these rights.

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And our veterans have fought for these two centuries, nearly two and a half centuries

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now, have fought for the right to people, to have freedom and to have life, liberty,

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and the pursuit of happiness.

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And it's under attack right now in our country.

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We need to call our schools and tell them to put the Constitution back up on the walls

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and the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

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And those things need to be posted so our young people can see it and our young people

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will be able to understand that these veterans, our veterans fought for us to have those rights.

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Now, our founding fathers knew they would be required to give up their religious liberties

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if they did not fight for them.

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They couldn't just lay down and say, well, we're just hiding our houses.

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No, they had to fight for them.

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They needed to form a military presence to protect our freedoms.

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Now, before we could be free, we needed to establish a military presence.

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We need to have a military so the rest of the world would say, ha, there they are.

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They've got something.

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They're building something that we don't want to go up against.

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So in June 14th, 1775, the United States Army was born.

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In October 13th of 1775, the Navy was birthed.

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And in November the 10th, 1775, the Marines were established.

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So the three, and I know there's lots of other military branches that were formed after

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that.

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Obviously, you couldn't have an air force because there were no planes.

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So bottom line, we formed a military to fight for the rights of our people.

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Now how could they get volunteers?

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How could back then they get volunteers for the Navy, the Army and the Marines?

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And where would they go?

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They couldn't advertise across the country because there wasn't any way to do that.

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And across the colonies, I should say, it could take months, maybe even years to round

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up a military.

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So they had to go to where to get help.

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You may not believe this.

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I hope that you do.

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They went to the church for help.

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Here is what helped them obtain the military that they built.

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Pastors around the 13 colonies would speak to their congregations about the upcoming

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war with the British.

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They preached the word of God and they recruited soldiers from the pulpit.

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Literally, would ask people to sign up and join from the pulpit.

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One such preacher.

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Many of them did similar type things, but there was one particular preacher in 1775.

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He was a Lutheran pastor and he preached a sermon from the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter

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3 and verse 1.

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And here's what was preached, just the word of God.

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To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven, a time to be born

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and a time to die.

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He then moved on to verse number 8 and he read this, a time to love and a time to hate.

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Now that word hate doesn't mean the way we can hate people today.

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What it means is to hate the evil that's in a person, not the people.

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A time for war and a time for peace.

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Did you hear what I just said?

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In the word of God it says in Ephesians chapter 3 verse 1, there's a time for war and a time

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for peace.

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That's why I say that God's word does endorse and approve that we need a military and we

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will need our veterans.

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Now supposedly that preacher said this, right after he preached that message, he said, and

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there's also a time to preach and there's a time to fight.

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And this particular preacher, and he said supposedly these words, now is the time to

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fight.

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He threw off his clerical robes to reveal the uniform of a revolutionary army officer.

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That afternoon he led 300 men to join General Washington's troops.

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That preacher became a colonel of the 8th Virginia regiment.

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He was a veteran and became one of the great veterans in our country.

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Now I use that example because today I hear so much talk about, you can't talk about things

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from the pulpit.

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You're not allowed to talk about politics, politicians and all that kind of stuff.

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Well we don't need to talk about politicians, but we need to talk about the moral issues

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that are facing this country today.

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We're in moral decay in this country and we need Christian veterans to stand up.

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A Christian veteran is someone who's received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and is

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now serving in God's army.

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An army that fights and is opposed to immorality.

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An army that's opposed to people doing things that are blatantly against God's word.

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The word of God very clearly tells us that man should marry a woman, not two men marrying

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each other and two women marrying each other.

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It's a violation of God's word.

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Oh we can pass laws and say it's okay because we have a free country and they have a right

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to do that.

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But bottom line, it's a violation of God's word.

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And I believe in America we need to stand up for our veterans.

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We need to stand up for God's word.

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We must stand up for the things that are proper and morally proper in this country.

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Let me go back a second to what the pastors did back in, in and before the Revolutionary

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War.

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Pastors turned the colonial resistance into a righteous cause.

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The resistance was simply the underground army that we were building and the military

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that we were building back then, but he turned them into a righteous cause.

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These veterans served as chaplains and legislators and infantry officers and enlisted men who

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took up arms for their country and wanted to protect the rights of others.

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Now these preachers, these veterans became known as the Black Robe Regiment.

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Now you may have heard about that and you may not have heard about it, but it was an

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amazing event that took place in the American colonies.

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They did not fight in black robes, so don't think it's that way.

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But they removed their black clerical robes to put on a military uniform.

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The British hated the Black Robe Regiment so much that they made a special effort to

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have them all killed because they know that these pastors were recruiting men to help

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this country and recruiting women to help and support their husbands who were going

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off to war and their sons who were going off to war.

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And back then women didn't serve in the military on the fighting lines, but they did serve

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behind and they served as nurses and caring people and providing food and comfort and

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care to the military.

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So these Black Robe preachers, regimen as you call them, were building a great army in

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America and we need to have that happen today in our churches.

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We need to build a great army of Christians.

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I'm not saying an army that goes out in the streets and fights.

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I'm talking about an army that stands firm and helps this country get back to what the

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Word of God says which is correct and to follow the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ

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and follow the teachings found in the Word of God.

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So I thank God for our veterans who have served this nation and I thank God for the veterans

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who served their nations throughout the world.

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We must care for our veterans.

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We must help them.

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We must reach out to them.

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Sometimes just the easiest thing to do with a veteran, in America there's something very

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common happening.

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I'm not sure if it's that way in other nations, it probably is.

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But in American veterans, we'll go around with baseball caps on with maybe something

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that says I'm a veteran or it says veteran World War I, I mean not anymore I, but World

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War II or Korean War or the Vietnam War or just simply a veteran, United States Army

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veteran, whether it be United States Marines veteran or Navy veteran or Air Force veteran

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or Coast Guard veteran, whatever it might be, people are going around wearing these caps

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and when they do in t-shirts and all that stuff.

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I think it's great.

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I think it's wonderful.

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Whenever I see that, I like to just walk by the person, just simply say thank you for

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your service.

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Now I said something like this in my first podcast on veterans in this particular cycle,

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but I wanted to say that again and remind you that one of the ways we can help our veterans

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is let them know how much we appreciate them.

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Just smile at them.

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If you see that hat or you see that t-shirt, you know, sometimes they'll stop and say,

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well, I didn't serve in the military, but my dad was a veteran.

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I'm wearing it for him.

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I said, well, that's awesome.

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I want to thank you for doing that.

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Let me just say a little extra on that.

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Our country needs to bless our veterans.

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We need to reach out and comfort them and bless them and encourage them and love on

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them.

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Churches should have veterans ministries.

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I know I started up a small ministry in our church for veterans called vets helping vets

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and it's starting to grow and starting to increase and I'm finding out that veterans don't know

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where to go to get help.

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They're not aware of the fact that there is some help.

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There's been a lot of things approved by our government to help our veterans and I find

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out that people are suffering with diseases like diabetes or cancer or lung issues or

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whatever it might be or injuries that they receive while they're in service and they

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don't think enough to go and seek help from the veterans administration.

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So I encourage you to go to the veterans administration, call them up, just get online and find out

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what is available for you.

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I had one guy that I helped out and he was paying incredible amounts of money for his

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medication, $20,000, $30,000 a year just out of his own pocket and he applied to the veterans

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administration and they picked up the cost and paid for his things that he needed.

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I'm not talking about bad drugs, his prescription drugs that he needed in order to be able to

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recover from the injuries that he had during his service.

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So with that, I would encourage you to reach out and help our veterans.

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You know, I don't want to belabor this but I do want to continue to talk about how we

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need to help our veterans.

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Our country owes a debt of gratitude to our veterans and I know that you agree with me

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on that.

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Because veterans need to reach out to each other and in turn, all non-veterans must reach

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out to veterans and are active military and bless them.

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All Americans need to make an oath to help veterans.

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Let me read the oath that civilians made to America when they went into enlist to serve

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their country.

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These are exact words that I said in all the military men that I served with.

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I do solemnly affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States

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against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance

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to the same, and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and

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the orders of the officers appointed over me.

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Look at that quote.

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Isn't that amazing?

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What an amazing oath that is.

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That's the kind of commitment and oath that civilians made when they were inducted, when

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they joined a military service here in America.

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You know, that oath reminds me of the words written by the Apostle Paul in the book of

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Philippians, chapter 2, verses 3 and 4.

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I'll read it out of the new international version.

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Listen to this.

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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.

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Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves.

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Not looking to your own interest, but each of you to the interest of others.

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What the Apostle Paul said there is so similar to what a civilian gave an oath to serve his

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country made.

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Remember, the civilian was basically saying that I'm just going to do what I'm told to

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do.

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I'm going to help other people.

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I'm going to protect other people.

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I'm going to do everything that I possibly can do to make this country great.

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And then Paul turns and writes to Christians in their walk with God and he says, don't

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do anything out of selfish ambition.

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Well, the veteran doesn't do anything out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.

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And then Paul says, rather in humility, value others above yourselves.

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Well, I think our veterans have proven in their life that they value others as being

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more important than themselves.

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And also Paul said, not looking out to your own interest, that's what the veteran says

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when they make that oath to serve our country.

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But in each of you to serve and to bless others for the interest of others.

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You know, when Jesus came to earth, he came here to do what?

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To save the loss, to win the loss, but to sacrifice his life for the loss, but to serve

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others.

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And that's what veterans have done.

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They made an oath to serve others.

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And I believe the oath that veterans make, and I believe that the words that the apostle

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Paul spoke in Philippians chapter two, verses three and four are basically, they prove that

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that the military must serve others.

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Just as Jesus came to serve others, the military must serve others.

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Therefore, we are available today to help and to serve our veterans.

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We need to make an oath, a commitment to serve those who volunteered, made an oath to their

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country and an oath to help others.

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So therefore we must make an oath to commit to help them.

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How do we do that?

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How do we make an oath to help and then carry it out for our veterans?

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I made a comment earlier, I'll review it very quickly.

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When you see a veteran, just tell them thank you for their service.

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And if you see that maybe they're a little sad or sitting by themselves, go over to them

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and just tell them, can I pray for you?

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Is there anything I can pray with you about?

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We need to reach out to them.

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We need to tell them that there's help available to them.

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If you see a veteran living down the street from you, go over and knock on their door.

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Take them some cookies.

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Just do something nice for a veteran.

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It needs to happen more and more and more in our country.

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Something else that we can do for our veterans is to invite them to church or for those who

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already attend our church, just seek them out.

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Just visit with them.

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Have a coffee with them.

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Just let them know that you appreciate what they did.

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Now when we meet with a veteran, there's some things we should say and there's things that

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we shouldn't say.

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One thing is to obviously thank them for their service.

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And if it's a Vietnam veteran, you might want to say thank you for your service and welcome

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home because the Vietnam veterans didn't get much of a welcome home when they came home.

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So bottom line, see a veteran, thank them and appreciate them.

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But things that we shouldn't say to them is, where did you serve?

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What did you do when you were in the military?

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That's the kind of stuff they don't particularly want to talk about.

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If they were a combat soldier, most of those fellows and now ladies don't want to talk

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about what they did in the military, but they sure appreciate being told thank you for your

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service, thank you for what you've done for our country.

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Invite them to church.

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Be sure they get into your church.

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And if you don't have a veteran's ministry in your church, then get one going.

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If you'd like to know how to form one, how to get one set up, you could just email me

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if you'd like and I'll give you my email in a moment at the end of this when I kind of

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wrap this up.

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But I would encourage you to let me know if you have an interest in starting a veteran's

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ministry in your church.

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I'll give you some tips and some ideas of how you can make that happen and make it active

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in your church.

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It's going to require you to step out.

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It's going to be require you to talk to your pastor and be sure that they're in agreement

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to do that.

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And if they're not, then you might want to find out why they wouldn't want to do that.

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But I think they'll probably will.

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So I want to encourage you to do that.

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Let me give you the email now before I forget it.

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If you would like to set up a veteran's ministry in your church, then you can just send me

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an email at David C. That C is in cat.

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David C. Friend.

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Friend is the opposite of enemy.

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Author at gmail.com.

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Let me repeat that.

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David C. Friend.

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Author at gmail.com.

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And when you send that to me, I'll give you some tips and some ideas that have worked

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to get it started in our church.

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And I know that it'll be a blessing in your church.

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So today in closing out this podcast, I'm just going to read a paragraph that's in my

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article that I wrote for Curbism and Magazine.

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Today, we salute our veterans and the sacrifices of their families.

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When I see a veteran, I thank them for their service.

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We need to reach out to them and show our love by contacting our local and national politicians

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to increase veterans benefits.

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Although there have been improvements in the Veterans Administration, there's still more

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we must do.

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Christians need to reach out to our veterans.

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Consider starting a Veterans Administration in your church.

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I'm praying for a revival to break out in America's veterans.

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Just like we teach our children about how much Jesus loves us, we must tell our children

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about how American veterans have served to keep us free.

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Let me pray for those who are listening in today and I'll give you a little information

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about getting more information on veterans ministries.

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Heavenly Father, bless those who listened in today.

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If they're a veteran, I pray that you would touch them in a very special way.

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I thank them for their service and I welcome them home.

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And I pray that you would just keep them now, Lord, and bless them and that they would prosper

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in all things and be in good health even as their soul prospers.

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And Father, for those who are non-veterans but they're family members of a mom or a dad

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who is a veteran.

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I pray blessings upon them, comfort them and help them, Father.

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And I pray that you would provide for their every need, Father, and bless whatever they

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do.

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Thank you, Lord, for those.

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And for those of you who are listening in and you don't know Jesus as your Lord and

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Savior, I just ask you right now, if you're not sure where you're going to heaven, I'll

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ask you to pray this prayer with me very quickly.

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Just say, Heavenly Father, I'm sorry for the sins I've committed.

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I repent of my sins.

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I ask you to forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness.

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I believe that Jesus gave his life for me, that he was crucified, dead and buried, and

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he arose on the third day.

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And he sits at the right hand of the Father.

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So because all of that, I receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

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I thank you, Lord, for what you did for me and I promise to serve you all the days of

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my life.

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In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

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That only took about 30 or 40 seconds, but that 30 or 40 seconds could be the greatest

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time you've ever spent if you didn't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

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If you prayed that prayer and you meant it with all your heart, you need to find a good

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church, you need to find a church, a local church somewhere by you, you need to get a

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Bible into your hand.

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And many churches give Bibles away.

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So just get a Bible, go to the Salvation Army, go to some place that will provide that for

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you and start reading the Word of God.

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I recommend starting with the book of Romans.

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It's a wonderful scripture about how to live life as a Christian.

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It's a good way to start.

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So I just want to thank you for praying that prayer.

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And I just want to close this podcast out.

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I hope that it's been a blessing to you.

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I hope that it has reached into your heart and blessed you and that it will strengthen

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you and your understanding of how to deal with our veterans.

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And if you're a veteran, I pray that you'll be blessed because of this and through this.

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So let me just though give you more information about Quality Christian Living.

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If you'd like to know more about us, you can go to my other webpage.

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That's davidseefriendauthor.com.

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If you go there, when the front page comes up, you'll notice that there's a link there

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to the podcast that we've done.

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We are doing podcasts called Quality Christian Living.

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This is the 253rd podcast in about two and a half years that we've done.

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And the Lord has blessed us with tens of thousands of people who have listened into these podcasts

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and downloaded them in as many as 92 countries.

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And I thank God for that.

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But I would like to give you this free invitation to just pull up my webpage and press the link

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on the front page there.

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And that link will open up to a plethora of topics that we've covered.

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I've done series of podcasts dealing with faith, dealing with miracles, dealing with

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the gifts of the Spirit, the manifestations of the Holy Spirit.

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We've done podcasts for people in business, how to run a Christian business.

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I did a podcast for those with debt saying experience the joy of debt-free living.

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It was a, I think, 20 podcast series.

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There's a huge list of podcasts talking about spiritual prosperity and financial prosperity.

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Those are all things I believe are of God and have been a blessing to many people.

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So I would like you to go ahead and look at those if you'd like.

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If you'd like to scroll down from my first page, scroll down to the next one.

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You'll see a list of books that I've written.

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Two on Vietnam.

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And those books that are available on Amazon, one is Vietnam One and Vietnam Two.

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Vietnam One has to do with my experience before, during, and after the Vietnam War.

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And the second book that I wrote, Vietnam Two, has to do with helping people, having

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an impact of Agent Orange and PTSD in their life.

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So it explains where to get help and how to get that help.

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Now the books that you would purchase from me, those Vietnam books that you would buy

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from me, I want you to understand that the money that's made off of those, and it's not

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a lot of money, but the money that's made off of those will go into supporting my nonprofit

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group and they are working to help veterans.

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Vets Helping Vets is something that I've put together.

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And through David Seifren Ministries and any book sales dealing with Vietnam will go back

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into vets helping vets so that we can continue to give away free books and help veterans

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receive the kind of help that they're in need of.

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In addition to that, I've written books on finances, experience the joy of debt-free

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living, another book on generosity, what's in it for me, and a book on faith entitled

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Receive Everything from What We Call Nothing.

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People come into me and say, I don't have anything left.

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I've lost everything.

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I've lost everything.

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And I always tell them, no, you haven't lost everything unless you've lost your salvation.

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And you can't do that.

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So I want you to understand that God wants to bless us and you've never lost everything.

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So with that, I would also encourage you, if you'd like to subscribe to my podcast,

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you can do that by going to cpnshows.com or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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So I want to thank you for listening in to this podcast for our veterans today.

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Next week, next podcast, we'll be going back to our series on success and abundant living.

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It's an area of teaching that I think is much needed in our world today.

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And we're going to be giving you some ideas of why God really helps us to be successful

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and wants us to prosper and wants us to live abundantly.

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Remember what Jesus said in John 10, 10?

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He said that the devil comes to steal, to kill, and destroy.

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But he said, but I've come to give you life and to give it you more abundantly.

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Those are the words of Jesus.

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So just think about that.

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And we're going to talk about that in our upcoming podcast.

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I hope that you'll join me after we close out this particular one.

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Thank you once again for listening in.

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And I'd like to just say a couple of words of blessing over you.

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May the Lord bless you and keep you in his face.

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Shine upon him and be gracious unto you.

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May he give you faith and strength and hope in your life.

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And that may you prosper in all things and be in good health, even as your soul prospers.

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So until next time, thank you very much for listening to Quality Christian Living.

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I am your host, David Fren.

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This was podcast number 253.

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I look forward to seeing you once again.

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Thank you for listening.

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God bless you.