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Music.
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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your sins.
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Yes, Father God, we recognize the war, but it has already been won.
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And so we thank you, Lord God, for your faithfulness, for the protections that
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you've sent us through the Holy Spirit, through your word, and through the angels of God.
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We thank you, Jesus, that your will be done, O God, on earth,
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in and through us as it's being done and declared in heaven.
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We thank you, Lord Jesus, thy kingdom come. You are coming again.
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We look for and prepare and watch for your return.
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Father God, in Jesus' name, and we thank you, Lord, for your coming the first time.
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We thank you for bringing us salvation, for settling the debt that we could
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not pay in paying with your own blood.
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We thank you for giving us power and victory and eternal life through that transaction.
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We thank you, Lord God, for giving us, you said, you know, you want us to,
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you've come that we might have an abundant life.
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And so we pray, Father, today that people would receive the joy,
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the peace, the goodness at this time of the year and receive the Spirit,
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the true Spirit of God, the Spirit of giving, the Spirit of love,
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the Spirit of hope, Father God, in their lives, in their hearts,
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in their relationships with one another.
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And we also thank you, Lord God, for the promise, the promises,
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many promises, and we work and live in those promises, that no weapon formed
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against us will prosper, that no word said, no deed done, no action taken by
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the enemy will be able to bring forth any shame, trouble, or reproach.
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So guide us now as we bring forth the revelation of your truth through this
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podcast, Father, in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Well, today we want toâ It's going to be a fun day. A fun day, we want to reintroduce.
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God on Trial. Now, God on Trial is an audio series that you've done really under
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the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
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And so we just want to, some of you have heard about this, and some of you have
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no idea what this is all about, God on Trial.
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Could you share with us a little bit of the background.
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How did this come to pass? And really, it is a monumental effort.
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And it turned out to be, what, 20 years in the making? Yeah, really.
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Something like that. But give us a little information about how did this come to pass?
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Well, as I was praying this morning, the Lord said, why don't you give them a gift for Christmas?
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And I think the gift, of course, is this God on Trial radio drama,
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which has been basically hidden, although it's in plain sight.
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I mean, you can go purchase it right this second on our website, liferecovery.com.
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But yeah, it started out in the year 2000, I think, or maybe even before that.
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I was writing a big, long, deep theological treatise on God and the war and
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the devil and all this stuff.
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And I took it to some fellow writers at a conference, and they just said, ugh.
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This is never going to work. And so I felt very devastated, but we had lunch.
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And as I was sitting at lunch with one of the gals, she said,
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well, why don't you chunk the material?
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And I thought, oh, what does that mean? I thought it was from God, but what does that mean?
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So really what it ultimately ended up being was taking all the material and
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rewriting it as a drama in a script format so that people could read the drama.
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And then ultimately it became a radio drama, or an audio drama so that people
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could actually enjoy the sound effects and the inflections and the actors and
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the background sounds and all that kind of good stuff.
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So it was really turned into a very rich experience.
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Well, yeah, part of the rich experience, it didn't seem so rich at the time,
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is that you sent this teaching treatise, a treatise book,
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however you call it, But you put it into script form, and really all the publishers
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that you sent to, I don't remember how many you sent to, they said, this will never work.
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We're not going to publish anything like this in this form.
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Yeah, it was kind of funny because Pilgrim's Progress was written exactly in
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the format that they rejected.
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And Pilgrim's Progress is the second most popular book in all the world.
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Next to the Bible. Next to the Bible. and so but anyway
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so that wasn't you know I I didn't really care
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if they wanted the book or not because usually when they want your book they also
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want the rights to the book and I wanted to write it and keep
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it as as pure and holy as I wanted it to be a creative license I didn't want
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to lose that so yeah so I got busy writing and I wrote and wrote and ended up
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the the script was 450 pages long of course there's a lot of white space on
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the page like that but so it was like half done.
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You know, it was maybe a third done because once you have the words down the
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dialogue, now you have to find the actors. And so that was our next journey.
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Yeah, I mean, you need all these people for all these characters.
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So basically the general theme of it, this is really, it's an ambitious project
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because you're covering things,
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Theology, you're covering God and his activity and the activity of the evil
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one interacting over the centuries, over the millennia.
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And so you're doing this in a creative, biblically accurate, yet entertaining form.
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And so this is a lot of content here. And then, of course, you had the characters,
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all these different characters and voices that you needed. How in the world?
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It's like you're starting from scratch.
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Who do I get to do this? Who do I get to do this? How do I do this?
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Well, first of all, we have to understand that this synopsis of what this is,
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it's the story of spiritual warfare told from the devil's point of view,
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and it's the war between God and Satan for the souls of men.
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And so the anti-hero of the book, The Hero's Journey, is the enemy.
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So everything is seen from his point of view, from his plan, his plot.
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So we're kind of getting in on the mind of the enemy and how he's trying to
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stop God in God's plan of redemption.
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So basically the thing starts before creation when Lucifer falls and he's angry
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and upset and jealous of God. of God making the human beings.
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And so the first dialogue we have is between God and Satan and,
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you know, that contempt that Satan is holding against God.
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And so eventually, however, we have to pull this into a drama where we have,
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you know, Adam and Eve and Cain and the actors and various ones.
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But so that's how it began.
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And I had to, yes, I had two sets of actors. I had ones that were professionals
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that we paid a lot of money to.
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Most of them were out of Chicago. And the man who did the sound effects, Steve Wick.
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Was a professional already. He had done all the sound effects on the left behind audio.
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I mean, the video version of that left behind series.
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And so he was very, very gifted in all these things and did a great job.
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And so, so we had professional actors and then I pulled local people who just
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were characters and had good voices and were fun.
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And, and so what we, cause we had a cast, not only God and Jesus and Adam and
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Eve and all of those well-known people.
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We also had to find people who would play the parts of these demons like confusion
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and doubt and murder and contention and torment, etc.
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And so we kind of just picked people who were willing to have fun with us,
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and so we recorded locally and then also recorded in Chicago.
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So it was kind of an effort, a dual effort on the parts of technology and people working together.
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It's kind of fun. You recorded in several different studios.
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Yeah, over the course of time, because recording, we must have recorded over
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the space of like almost 13 years.
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That's my fast guess, because we actually started the production, I think,
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in 2006 or 2008, and we didn't complete it until 2019, and we only completed
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it then because the Lord said, finish what you started.
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And so I said, okay. But the problem was not, you know, finding the actors or
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the script. The script was already written.
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The problem was finding the money because it was a lot of money because,
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you know, those people are not cheap.
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So it turns out that I think every episode was at least four to $5,000 and there's 28 episodes.
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And I didn't want to go in debt with all this. So it was just like,
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as the money became available, we did the next recording.
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Another thing, too, about God on Trial is that you, in this series,
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you're dealing not only with the spiritual warfare,
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the realities of spiritual warfare between God and Satan for the souls of men,
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but you're also dealing with just about every philosophical question that people
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would have about God, about life, about nature.
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That's incorporated into.
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And amazingly, those questions are dealt with. Through dialogue.
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Through dialogue, basically in every episode is dealing with that. That is just amazing.
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So someone that, whether you're a new believer, you're going to get a lot of truth.
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Whether you're a more mature believer, you're going to be reinforced and challenged.
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And then someone who does not believe at all is going to hear about.
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About answers from God on these life issues, these questions.
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The reason we call this whole audio drama God on Trial is because the question
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is, does God have a right to be God? Does he have a right to rule the universe?
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What gives him that right? And so many people who are skeptical.
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Agnostic, atheists, anti-God people have these serious questions,
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and I don't think the church has been able to answer them in a way that we can
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actually reach these people because these people aren't going to go to church for one thing.
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And so what, and it's also very entertaining and children love it.
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There's a, you know, one of my best audiences actually in the trials and pilot
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projects were the children.
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They loved it so much that they would collect their little allowances and give
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us $12 to do the next episode. It was so cute.
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But anyway, so it's something that can reach the children too.
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And I think this is why it's really good for parents to look at this because
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not only does it pull you in for 28, 30 minutes, it gives you a discussion at
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the end of it with your family,
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with your kids, with your friends, with your Bible study, where you can actually
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go look up these scriptures.
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So it's a phenomenal way to study the Bible and have fun doing it.
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And they're about, what, 30 minutes long?
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Yeah, 28 to 30 minutes. 28 to 30 minutes long.
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And they're formatted in a sense after years ago, way, way, way back.
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There were these radio dramas.
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People would, before television came around, people would sit by the radio,
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families would sit by the radio and listen to these dramas. And I remember listening
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to those as a kid. I'm that old.
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But anyway, you would listen. And they had all this.
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Like unshackled and things like that. Yeah, they had the sound effects and the
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drama and the music. And it was like.
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It just really pulled you in, and that's one thing I've noticed about each of
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these, not just because you wrote it and you're my lovely wife,
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but every episode, it just pulls you right in,
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gets your attention, and keeps your attention all the way through.
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Well, there was going to be a lot of dialogue in the court because we had to
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take, God is on trial, so therefore God is being taken to court,
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and so Satan is the chief prosecutor in presenting his arguments against God,
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pulling his witnesses, and all of that.
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The witnesses are all pulled from the Old Testament, both God's and Satan's,
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so we're just getting a real look at, does God have a right to be God and rule the universe?
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So again, we have that dialogue going on in heaven, but at the same time,
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I wrote a subplot for finding Jesus,
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the head crusher, on earth, because there were some demons that were stationed,
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and their job was to protect themselves and be aware, because the premise was
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that God was going to send the head crusher out of the born of a woman,
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and so their job was to find this head crusher and deal with him before he did
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any damage to their kingdom.
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And so we have two plots going on, so you'll see that we flip back and forth
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in every episode so that they don't just become a boring listening of arguments
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and cross-examinations,
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but they really become important and powerful truths that are released.
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So, again, Satan is challenging God, and God grants him the right to his appeal
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to test God and bring him to court.
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And so, Satan is pulling his witnesses from the Old Testament.
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I think all of the old characters in the Old Testament that had a bone to pick
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with God, you know, There's Nimrod, there's Lot's wife, there's Cain,
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there's all these people that had felt.
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Angry with God, and they had a case to present.
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But then Justice, which was God's defense attorney, he would cross-examine them.
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So in every argument, there was a counter-argument, there was a presentation,
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so that you end up actually having
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answers, or at least options to answers that you didn't have before.
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Not only those who had a bone to pick with God, but those who were truly faithful
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to the world. Right, because Jesus... Moses, Abraham, Noah, and they're tested.
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They're challenged by the enemy for what they believed and what they did.
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Right, and we go into the details, too, like when the crossing of the Red Sea,
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when Moses is on the witness stand and he's talking about how that happened
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and Satan is challenging him on how in the world God could be so cruel as to
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use his own people as bait to pull Pharaoh into the Red Sea,
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but Pharaoh willingly went. It wasn't that God forced him to go, etc.
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So there's a lot of drama in there. And so what we want to do right now is,
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I pulled a Christmas section, you know, with Jesus in Bethlehem.
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I pulled that section and we'll have you have a listen.
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It's about, I don't know, seven or eight minutes long and see what you think.
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And here at the end of it, we'll come back and we'll talk to you about how you
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can get a hold of this and how it might be helpful to you.
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Have a listen. Just gone live here at EUL. It looks like there's been a slight delay.
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We expect the prosecution to press formal charges any minute against God and
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call Cain as his first witness.
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Yeah. What do you want? Make it snappy. I'm running late.
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You're where? Right here. Standing behind you in the blue soon.
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I didn't want to go red because I thought that would be too conspicuous.
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What are you doing here? This is heaven.
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There's got to be hundreds of reporters around here and thousands of undercover angels.
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Someone is bound to recognize you. Hey, what can they do to a fallen angel? Take away his wings?
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Besides, this is important. I got some good news and I got some bad news.
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What? No backstabbing, tear-wrenching sob story?
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No big fat excuse for breaking the rules and being here?
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As best we can figure it, he's coming as a baby.
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The bad news is, we don't know which baby. Hi, where exactly?
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Now tell me something I don't know.
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Everybody knows he's coming as a baby, idiot.
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What do you think seed of the woman is? A grapefruit?
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I think he might be coming in by Bethlehem. Bethlehem?
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Why Bethlehem? It's small.
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No good restaurants. And a few crummy motels. That's about it.
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A king coming out of Bethlehem?
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You've got to be kidding, right?
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That's where these wise guys were heading when the star disappeared.
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What wise guys? What star?
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The new star in the east. Oh, don't bore me with the details.
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Good news for us. They stopped to ask for directions.
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Got the whole town stirred up. Oh, how fortunate is that?
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Lost in Bethlehem.
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It ought to be a movie As we speak, they're meeting in Jerusalem With the fat
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cats and the big shots To find out where the kid is The king of the Jews, they call him Whoa,
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now? In Jerusalem?
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Isn't that Herod's precinct? Our boy's got it covered Herod's hot under the
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collar and ready to blow a gasket Oh,
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keep the pressure on him make him paranoid about this kid taking away his kingdom.
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He knows he's no Jew and has always
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been insecure about being an Edomite sitting on the throne of David.
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We got him gathering all the experts. They all say the same thing.
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It's got to be Bethlehem. So, what are you waiting for?
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Go get the kid and kill him! More bad news.
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There's a big census going on in Bethlehem right now and thousands of extra
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people are in town for the holidays.
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So, when did a party ever stop you from doing your job?
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If we just wait, that'll lead us right to him.
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Oh, what makes you think they're going to find him if you can't?
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Aaron's got them believing he wants to come along and worship with them.
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Dumb enough to believe him so when they
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come back to tell him where the kid is you'll just ride along isn't it a beautiful
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thing when you can get everybody else to do your dirty work for you I want to
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know the minute he's dead oh by the way did they bring any gifts.
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Music.
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Gold, frankincense, myrrh, stuff like that.
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Be sure you get the loot on the way out.
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God's perfect world was falling apart. Abel was dead, and the war to kill the
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Deliverer had begun. So, what did you think?
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Wow. I mean, just every time. I mean, I don't know of any presentation anywhere that's like this.
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No, I think we're pretty unique here. It's unique.
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Just the way it's approached, the way it's presented, it's just very powerful.
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Truly the Lord really inspired you in writing this and producing this.
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It's good, but it's not all positive because some people say, well,
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you know, because what we're really doing is we're helping people to understand
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how the devil, the demons, the liars, talk in our minds, talk in our hearts,
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and how they talk among one another, and how they set up plots,
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and how they plotted to kill Jesus.
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So the whole thing takes you all the way to the crucifixion.
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It starts in the garden, goes all the way to the crucifixion,
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and we have Caiaphas, and we have various other ones who are,
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you know, playing their parts, Pilate and whatnot. And so, but really what's happening is, you know.
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You know, people have to see that there were real people involved here with
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real emotions, and that they were being pulled and pressured by real spirits
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that were trying to get them to act in a contrary way to what was righteous and good.
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So, yeah, it's a, so people, again, with the title God on trial,
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people just say, well, you know, maybe we're giving the devil too much credit,
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you know, from his point of view, whatever.
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But the thing is, the devil is a real enemy, and he's really here among us and
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it's not going to help you out to just ignore him or pretend he does not exist.
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He won't go away if you ignore him. You need to know, you know,
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Paul said we're not ignorant of his devices.
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We recognize what his strategies are.
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Well, I would encourage people, you know, this is just a little sample in episode six, actually.
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If you want to start the series, I'd go right back to the beginning and start with episode one.
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And, you know, again, And it's like, what can you do with this?
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Well, it's for edification, it's for entertainment, it's for enlightening people,
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and it's for evangelism.
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So you can use this again over and over.
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And we have it in both MP3 formats and a hard copy on a disc.
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And they're very, very reasonable. And so, again, it's just like a treat to
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be able to hear the Bible, take it to a deeper, different level.
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I mean, we have the audio dramatizations of the Bible.
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Some people, they use those versions and there's that very deeper sense of emotion
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and things that's included in that kind of a rendition.
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And this is kind of what happens here. So we would really encourage you,
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make it a Christmas gift, make it a Christmas project,
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make it a New Year's project, just come one a day or one a week and enjoy just
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pondering, thinking, rethinking, thinking, meditating.
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So many times we're sucked up into all kinds of fantasies and all kinds of entertainment and escapes.
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And those things are fluff and they're foolishness and they don't make any difference in our lives.
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But this is something where you can actually escape into reality and leave your
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fake reality behind for a minute and look into some real reality and be blessed
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and encouraged and enlightened. Escape into reality.
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I like that. I like that statement. Yeah. So how can they get this series? Okay.
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Well, it's pretty simple. It's go to liferecovery.com, and we have it right
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there in our bookstore, God on Trial.
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Every episode, I think you can get a sample from hearing in every episode.
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And or you can go to God on Trial and just type in God on Trial.
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I think it's .org, isn't it?
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And you can...
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Dot com? Oh, GodOnTrail.com. And then you can just, it'll pull you right into
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the place where you can buy it on the website.
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What's nice, if you're on a road trip. Oh, yeah, that's very nice.
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We know people that listen.
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And on their phones nowadays. On their phone, on a road trip.
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And basically each episode is about the same length as the average commute in the Twin Cities.
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Oh, yeah, that's true. You know, back in the day, back in 2004,
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when I was just beginning this, and we had no idea how long it would take or
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how much money it would cost, or if we'd ever have the wherewithal to finish it,
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I remember I was standing in my kitchen doorway one day and flipped my Bible
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open, which I do sometimes, and Isaiah 29,
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17 popped out at me.
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It was just God confirming that this is going to go forward,
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but it's going to take a while. And so it says in 17, here's the question.
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Is it not yet a very little while till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful
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forest and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?
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In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book. What?
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What does that mean? The audio book.
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God was confirming that this is going to be an audio book. The eyes of the blind
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shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
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The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord. and the poor among men
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shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel, for the terrible one is brought to
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nothing. So we're talking about in the God on trial.
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The scornful one is consumed, and all who watch for iniquity.
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Wait for iniquity, look to find iniquity in other people, are cut off,
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who make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in
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the gate and turns aside the just for a thing of evil.
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And then verse 24, it says, and those who erred in spirit will come to understanding
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and those who murmured will learn doctrine.
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So this is Isaiah chapter 29, starting verse 17.
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So God is saying this is going to become an audio book. And this was about the
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exact time when we had just made that decision and we're starting to actually
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record this drama as an audio book. And so God just gave me this.
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So he says, is it not a little while? Well, it's been a little while.
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It's now like 20 years later again. We started in 2000 and now we're 2024. 24.
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So we're about 24 years into this production that's been well-aged and hidden,
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but for such a time as this. I believe it was for the end times.
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And I believe it's for the generation Z and X and Y and millennials,
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because they're the ones right now who are going to carry the torch for the return of Jesus Christ.
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So again, have a look, have a listen, and let us know what you think.
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Well, God bless you. Lord, I thank you for the anointing that you've given Marjorie
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to create this and put this together.
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Lord, we give you the credit and you give you the glory.
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We just pray that those that are listening right now,
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that they would just consider this and take a listen and take a look and go
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deeper into the teaching and the opportunities that there are to use this as
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a tool to share the gospel. with friends and family.
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And we love you and we thank you so much. Thank you, Jesus. And we really encourage
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you too, if you like it, send us a little email.
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You can send that to info at liferecovery.com, info at liferecovery.com.
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We'd love to hear from you. And maybe even for the first few of you that are
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brave enough or willing to send us, you know, your report, your comments,
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we might even give out a few free episodes just because you're helping us to get the word out.
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So God bless you, and again, have a merry, wonderful, blessed,
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holy season as we prepare for and remind ourselves about the first coming of
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Jesus Christ and look forward to his second coming. Amen.
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