Jonathan Cahn and the Foot Washing Controversy

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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang and welcome to this episode of The Strang Report on the

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Charisma Podcast Network today, Tuesday, February 13th, the day before Valentine's Day.

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And today I'm going to just share with you about some controversial things to opine,

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to give you my experience after all these years over 40, over 40 years of covering the

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Christian community, really covering the culture.

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You know, the culture is covered by journalists who report the breaking news if there's a

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fire or an earthquake, that kind of thing, if there's an inauguration or a funeral of

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head to state, you know, the normal journalism things.

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And there's journalists who cover sports.

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We just came through the Super Bowl and I'm going to talk about that in just a minute.

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But also there's financial reporters.

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Most of the journalism is very, very liberal.

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I know I started my career in secular journalism and I saw it even back then.

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And of course it's now to where NBC is almost like a propaganda tool of the Democratic Party.

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Now that's a discussion for a different day, but I'm just saying there are some alternative

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media that have risen up daily.

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Wire comes to mind, Blaze to some extent, Fox News, even people like Bill O'Reilly and

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Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly, all of whom used to be on Fox.

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Now they're independent journalists and there's a rise of that.

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Mike Shapiro and others are a welcome to bring the news from a conservative point of view

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and we applaud that.

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In fact, it's brought some balance to journalism in a way that we really, really need.

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But there's a gap.

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The gap is the spiritual aspect.

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The spiritual world that we don't see is as real or more real than the physical world

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that we see.

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But the general population doesn't believe in that.

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In fact, a lot of people say they don't even believe in God.

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Most people in our culture still have some basis of believing in God, but they just don't

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live it out.

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And what we do at Charisma Media, and what I've been doing over the years with Charisma

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Magazine and all the other magazines that we've published and now Books is to try to fill

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this gap.

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There are some others who are doing it.

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They generally tend to be small and they don't have a big, big platform.

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And some of them, sadly, are either cessationists who don't even believe that the gifts of the

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spirit operate today, or they are going more and more liberal.

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It still isn't popular in evangelical circles to go out and outwoke, but there are steps

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in that direction.

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And it's very concerning to me.

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So when you watch my podcast every Tuesday and Thursday at 4 p.m., I'm bringing you people

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who I know personally, who I interview.

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I know a lot of people.

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I have a lot of sources.

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I'm able to text or call just about any of the Christian leaders today.

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In fact, on something totally separate, I talked to the head of one of the largest denominations.

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It just, it was something that I was wanting to check out.

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And I texted him to ask him and he called me a few minutes later.

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I had that kind of access.

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I'm not bragging about it.

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I'm just saying that I have a perspective that I think is important to you.

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So yes, we need to keep up with the sports news and the financial news and the conservative

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news, et cetera.

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But really, what is the Lord saying about some of these things?

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And there's a lot, it seems like the left bans together better than the Christians do.

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In fact, somebody said that the left, they don't like each other, but they work together.

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The Christians all like each other, but they don't work together.

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Now that's the cliche, but I think there's a little bit of truth in that saying.

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And we need to be able to work together because things are getting worse and worse.

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So we had an example with the Super Bowl.

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Now if you know me personally, you know that I'm not much of a football fan other than

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the Florida Gators.

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And when it comes time to the Super Bowl, I always tune in because it's always a good

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game and it's part of our culture.

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In fact, you almost need to watch the Super Bowl to see the ads.

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Some of them are very funny and some of them are good and some of them are horrible, but

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you have to watch for the ads, which is what I'm going to talk about today.

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So the other night I watched the Super Bowl.

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It was a great game.

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The Kansas City Chiefs won it in the last three seconds of overtime.

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Only the second time, the Super Bowl had gone into overtime and I was there rooting and

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for patching my homes and the Kansas City Chiefs and I was very glad that they won.

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Now during the Super Bowl, there were two Christian commercials.

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There were a lot of commercials that weren't godly at all.

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The halftime show was not godly at all, although it did seem to be a little more tame than

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some of the ones in the recent past.

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But there's a group called He Gets Us.

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It's some people who have put a lot of money behind getting up the message that Jesus Christ

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gets us, that Jesus Christ is relevant and they've done different things over time and

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I have a lot of respect for what they do, but they did two commercials.

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The one was kind of pictures of different people that you might love or not love that

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weren't particularly lovable.

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It was what I would call what we've come to expect from He Gets Us.

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That did not get a lot of controversy.

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What did get controversy was another commercial about washing feet.

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Now you have to know a little bit about the Bible to even know what washing feet means.

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It's not part of our culture, but in the Middle Eastern culture, in Jesus' day, people walked

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on dusty roads, they wore sandals.

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When they would come to somebody's house, their feet were dirty and it was the custom

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that a servant or sometimes the host would wash their feet and it was an act of service.

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And the last supper, the last time that Jesus had supper, the first communion, if you want

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to call it that, the night before He was betrayed, the night before He was crucified, or the

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day before He was crucified, Jesus took a towel and washed His disciples' feet.

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And Peter didn't want Him to wash his feet if you know the story and Jesus insisted and

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He said, well, that's the case, you need to wash the rest of me as well.

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But He went around and washed the feet of His disciples.

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So here's what happened.

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Jesus knew that Peter was going to deny Him.

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In fact, He told Peter that.

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He also knew that one of them was going to betray Him.

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He told them that too.

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So He washed the feet of Judas Iscariot, who just a few minutes later, certainly not more

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than an hour or so later, betrayed Him into the hands of the people who crucified Him.

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And Peter denied Him three times.

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This and throughout the centuries, this has become a symbol.

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There are some denominations, not too many, but there are some denominations who've actually

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made this part of their ritual, maybe at a special time, maybe New Year's Eve, something

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like that.

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I have participated in foot washing only twice, and it was a very moving experience.

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So here I'm giving you the background for this commercial.

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And the commercial was really kind of like still pictures, and we're going to look at

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some of them, we're going to analyze them because there have been Christian people who

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have been very, very critical of the fact that the feet, in fact, let's watch it and

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we can kind of talk through it.

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So the first one, okay, we can see that, okay, let's slow it down.

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Here is a cop washing the feet of someone.

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You have to kind of use your imagination, but this person might have been a Black Lives

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Matter type person.

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Here are some very funky looking teenagers, the washing the feet.

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Okay, let's go on.

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You know, you have to kind of use your imagination.

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Here is, is that maybe a cowboy washing the feet of a Native American?

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And the next one.

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Okay, here must be an abortion clinic.

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And a young girl who's pregnant, and a lady who's probably a protester.

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You know, maybe she's a nun, although she's got on jeans, but she is washing the feet

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of that young lady who's considering getting an abortion.

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Let's go on.

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You know, you can only use your imagination on who those people are.

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And it's, you know, a very messy house, kind of a poverty setting.

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These are not the rich and powerful type people.

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You know, again, clean air now, is that someone in the oil business washing the feet of someone

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who is into, you know, kind of radical climate change?

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You know, again, it's, you know, they use some artistic license to make you think.

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And all this happens very, very quickly.

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Let's go on.

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Okay, here's kind of a transient type of person.

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We're repeating some of the pictures.

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Here we go.

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It looks like it's a Muslim lady.

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Maybe that's a Christian washing her feet in a neighborhood setting.

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Okay, here's, they're saying, shut him up.

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We, they're yelling at people.

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Maybe somebody's preaching and they're saying, shut him up.

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And in that setting, what does that say?

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Does something about hate on the ground?

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What's hate?

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Okay, then there's, yeah, under the bullhorn is kind of no censorship.

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You know, there's too much of these pictures.

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Okay, here's a black man and a white man.

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Looks like they're kind of getting ready to wash each other's feet.

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Okay.

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This must be kind of a transgender person.

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It's kind of unclear who it is.

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And that's obviously a priest because he's got a kind of dressed in clerical garb with

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a cross washing his feet in kind of a beach setting.

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Okay, now I think.

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In fact, if you want to see this, you can go on the, he gets us website or you could

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actually just Google it and see the whole thing yourself.

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It's got some kind of haunting music behind it.

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It was a minute long commercial.

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There's only a certain limit to what you can do in a minute.

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And I think these people were masterful to pack all this in because you had to kind of

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use your imagination.

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It happened very, very quickly.

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You couldn't really, I mean, we analyzed it much more slowly than the average viewer would

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have.

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But you get the idea that these people who normally aren't the ones that you would serve

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need to be served with the love of Jesus.

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And but because some of them are very anti-Christian, there are some who are saying that the people

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behind this are actually going woke.

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I totally disagree.

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The only thing that I would have done differently is I would have avoided using the word hate

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because that's come to mean something else.

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The left has kind of taken that word and it kind of means anything that's biblical as

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hate, which is exactly the opposite.

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In fact, the whole message of the commercial is opposite.

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But I think it's a powerful message.

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And I think that it's sad that a lot of Christians are so narrow minded that they can't see the

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bigger picture and can't see that we have got to show the love of Jesus no matter what.

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Washing someone's feet does not mean that you approve of everything that they do.

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I think where we have to draw the line.

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Just where we let them start defining our theology and what's right and what's taught

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and our public policies and those kinds of things based on the other kind of worldviews

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that are very, very different than the biblical worldview.

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So my hat off to the people behind this, I've been told that it's the Green family.

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I didn't actually research that, but that is certainly consistent with the kind of evangelistic

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outreach that they have done over the years.

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And I'm very, very glad.

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And listen, they did it to get discussion going and they were successful right here

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in the middle of the Super Bowl with everybody eating pizza and chips and drinking soda or

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whatever.

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The gospel was inserted good for them.

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We need more examples of that.

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Usually the cost is so very, very high that it doesn't justify it.

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But these people felt that it was worth the investment.

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And I think that they got a very good return on their investment.

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Now there are comments.

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I want to know if you agree with me, don't agree with me, write your comments.

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I'll answer some of them later when I read over them, but I'm interested in what you

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have to say.

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In fact, I didn't say it earlier, so I'll say it now and then I'll say it later.

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If you don't subscribe to the Strang Report, you need to do so and you need to hit the

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Our viewership has partly because I guess we've been dealing with some controversial

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things like the International House of Prayer and some other issues.

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It's gone way, way up.

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Now I want to talk about one of the prophets of our time.

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This is not a surprise to you that I would commend to you.

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Jonathan Kahn, he is the author.

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This is his latest book called The Josiah Manifesto and this is his previous book called

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The Return of the Gods, which is continuing to sell and sell and sell.

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And he basically says that the ancient gods, the pagan gods, are coming back with a vengeance

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because there's kind of a vacuum as the West kind of gets away from its Christian roots.

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And Jonathan Kahn is a prophet for our day.

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Now he's not the kind of prophet that gets up and says, someone's going to win the election

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or that someone's going to get a new house.

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There are some prophetic ministries that will have a personal ministry and feel that the

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Holy Spirit touches them.

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And I believe that there's a very valid part of that.

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I wrote about that in my book, Spirit-led Living in an Upside Down World.

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There is a valid gift of prophecy.

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He is more a prophet that says this is the biblical base.

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And if you don't follow him on social media, you need to because he will deliver a message

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and in just a few hours, it will get tens of thousands of responses.

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And he did this in about two very, very powerful things.

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And I'm going to refer to it.

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I'm not going to actually play it.

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Apparently, his material is copyrighted as it should be, just like his books are copyrighted.

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But he talked about the fact that there are those who are coming against Israel and the

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Abrahamic covenant in which God said that he would bless those who blessed Abraham and

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he would curse those who cursed Abraham.

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And by extension is Abraham's children who are the Jewish people.

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And what's happened recently with the war with Hamas, where Hamas brutally attacked

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Israel on October 7th and killed well over a thousand Jews in one day.

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It was the worst day in history since the Holocaust of the number of Jewish lives lost

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in a single day.

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Now you would think that the whole world would rise up in condemnation, but exactly the opposite

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has happened in many ways.

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There are many people who condemn Israel and say that Hamas was justified in what they

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did.

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One of the people who did this was a member of the parliament in the country of Turkey.

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Now Turkey is what the Bible would have called Asia Minor.

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That's where the book of Ephesians or the Church of Ephesus is there in modern day Turkey.

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And the seven churches in the book of Revelation, if you know much about the Bible, Turkey is

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a huge country and it's secular, but it's also Islamic.

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And he showed a diplomat who got up to condemn Israel.

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In other words, he was going against the Abramic Covenant and he actually placed a curse against

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Israel.

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Now you have to read the translation underneath.

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We're going to show it on the screen of the man giving this speech in parliament, a fairly

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normal kind of thing.

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Here's Jonathan Khan showing a little bit about Turkey and we're speeding through to

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the part where he actually showed this.

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Here's the man giving the speech and you can see it says, you will not get rid of a guilty

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conscience even if you can get rid of a guilty conscience.

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You will not be able to escape the torment of something.

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It's like a curse that he's putting on Israel.

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And then I want you to watch what happened.

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He says the torment of history, even if you escape the torment of history, you will not

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be able to escape the wrath of God, Allah.

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Then right after that happened, look at what happened.

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You see him at the podium.

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He collapsed dead at the podium.

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Now this is a very dramatic thing that happened and Jonathan is giving his perspective as

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a prophet for our generation.

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Now there are many people who raises their voice against Israel or against the Jewish

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people that it's not this traumatic, that this should get people's attention, that this

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man cursed Israel and immediately fell dead.

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Then he also in the same video goes into the fact that Pope Francis has come out with blessing

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same sex unions.

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Now this is a step short of blessing same sex marriage, but if couples want to come before

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a priest or a bishop, they can get a blessing.

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The Catholic Church is famous for giving blessings of various kinds.

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And there are people who are saying, well, this is no big deal.

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They give a blessing for everything else.

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But it's a step in that direction.

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And Jonathan Kahn is calling out Pope Francis as this being apostasy.

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In fact, he had someone in a certain position that was very much against this and he moved

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him out of this position and put somebody who was very, very left leaning.

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Then some things happened.

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And in his video, which I encourage you to go on YouTube and watch, in his video, he

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goes into this.

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And what happens is Pope Francis is from Argentina.

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He was the bishop over Brannis Aries.

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And in Brannis Aries, there's a statue of Peter and you see it right there.

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It's been there for many years.

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And as Pope, Pope Francis is in the line of Peter.

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The Catholics consider that Peter was the first pope.

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And so he's in apostolic progression all the way down to the present.

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So here is the statue.

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And then on Pope Francis' birthday in the month of December, there was a lightning strike

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at this statue in Buenos Aires.

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Even though, okay, do you see the halo?

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It's kind of like a metal halo.

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Halo insinuates it as holy.

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And Jonathan Cahn goes into this whole thing.

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And then, see, he's holding the scepter.

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And then in his hand, if we can see that, do you see the keys to the kingdom are in

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his hand?

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Okay, this is before the lightning strike.

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Now there's lightning rods all the way around.

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You know, the lightning happens all the time.

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And there was lightning rods to try to, you know, draw lightning away from these things.

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But this was when Pope Francis did the same-sex blessing.

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And it was on his birthday.

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And Jonathan Cahn believes that this has prophetic significance.

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And I felt it was important enough to bring it up and to mention it on my podcast today.

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And I hope that you will, okay, if you'll notice on the picture.

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This picture, my producer just pointed out to me, this is after it.

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And you see that the halo is gone.

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And then also the keys, you see the keys there.

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And then here they are, they're gone.

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And the hand is just like burned to a crisp.

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Jonathan Cahn goes into all this.

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He's very eloquent, much more so than I am.

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But I just felt that this was important.

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And it was my way to call attention to his video.

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I'd like to know what you think.

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Please put your comments below.

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But I believe that God is speaking.

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You know, the secular culture believes that God is not even...

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They don't put any importance at all on God's will, God's plans and purpose, displeasing

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God, blaspheming about the closest they come is saying that there's acts of God that are

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things like hurricanes.

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And maybe in this case, a lightning strike.

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But like I said earlier, the spiritual world is more important than the physical world.

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It's more real than the physical world.

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It's the part of us that's going to live forever as our spirit.

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Our bodies will die.

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This world as we know it someday will be passed away, maybe a long, long time from now.

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But we believe that's going to happen.

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Well, I need to wrap up this podcast.

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I will tell you that my next podcast, my guest will be Dr. Michael Brown.

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And he and I are going to do a deep dive into what's happening in Kansas City at the International

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House of Prayer.

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A lot of things have happened since I've done a podcast on it a few days ago.

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I'm going to be issuing a statement at that time too, so you don't want to miss that.

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That's on Thursday, the 15th at 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

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And then, of course, it's on YouTube and Rumble and all the other platforms after that.

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If you know somebody that would enjoy this podcast, be sure to forward it to them.

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We're wanting more and more people to sign up.

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Our list is growing.

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And I think that it's important that we deal with these spiritual topics and try to understand

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what God is saying and how we should respond as believers.

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We need to not just be passive and just sing in the sweet by and by and pray our prayers

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and cross our fingers and hope something good happens.

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No.

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God has put us here, filled us with the Holy Spirit to be salt and light.

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So this is the end of my podcast.

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I hope you've enjoyed it.

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I hope you'll subscribe if you haven't.

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I hope you'll sign up.

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And I hope that you'll share this with others and be sure to leave comments below.

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Thank you for watching The Strang Report today.

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I'm Stephen Strang.

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God bless you.

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Do you ever feel discouraged?

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Do you need hope?

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The world is so upside down that even if you believe there's power in the Holy Spirit,

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sometimes you need to be reminded that greater is He that is within us than He is in the

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world.

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My new book, Spirit-led Living in an Upside Down World, was written to give you hope,

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to remind you of things you know, to explain spiritual truths that you didn't understand

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or maybe have forgotten.

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I draw on my decades of covering the worldwide move of the Holy Spirit to give you examples

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and stories of great men and women of God from Jack Hayford to Catherine Coleman and

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many others explaining spiritual gifts and telling stories of victory in the face of

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trials and temptations.

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I wrote this book for you and I want you to read it.

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It's easy to read with lots of practical stories to help you.

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It is not a theological treatise on the Holy Spirit.

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In a way, it's a self-help book looking at the spiritual side of life.

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So if you long for more of God and to experience the power of the Holy Spirit and the power

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to rebuke the spiritual attacks in your life and boldness to stand for God, when the cancel

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culture wants you to sit down and shut up, then my book, Spirit-led Living in an Upside

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Down World, is for you.

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You can find the book wherever Christian books are sold, including Amazon.com or Mychorismashop.com.

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Remember, the Holy Spirit is here to help us now and for all the days ahead, no matter

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how upside down the world gets.

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Enjoy the book and God bless you.