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Gentlemen, start your engines. You're talking about mister Garbokoff teared
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down this one the only thing we have to bear.
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Spare it. I I'm not a crunk. If you like
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your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plans.
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Ye sick, f R three wye fire. You're listening to
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Jim Paris Live, your source for the latest news on money, politics, prophecy,
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and preparedness, and now your host, the editor in chief
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of Christian Money dot com and the author of more
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than thirty books. Jim Paris.
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All right, buddy, and welcome to the broadcast. Great to
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be back with you. And I want to start out
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by setting expectations because a lot of people have been
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emailing me and they're saying, Jim, you know, what's the
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schedule now for the podcast? And I know I've broken
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the number one rule of podcasting success, which is you've
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got to get on a schedule and you've got to
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stick with it. And on the one hand, once a
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week seemed possible with law school, however, it has not
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been able to happen that way. So right now the
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schedule is just whenever I can make some time to
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get to the microphone and do an episode, and so
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it might mean every other week, every third week. I'm
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just not sure yet, but I hope everybody had a
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great holiday. We did have a break from law school,
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so that gave me an opportunity to kind of recharge
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my batteries and to take care of a lot of
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personal things that I had to take care of during
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the break. But here's kind of the update. I have
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finished my first semester of law school. I passed all
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of my exams, all of my classes. So we move forward.
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We're now in the second semester of law school, and
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I have been kind of kicking around the idea of
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getting back into doing a little bit of teaching. And
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if you remember my kind of my two plans that
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I was looking at pursuing. One was being a lawyer,
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you know and continuing the writing, continuing the books and
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the speaking and the podcast all of that, but also
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you know, working as a lawyer. And then the other
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path was to possibly teach college. So I've had an opportunity.
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I've been invited to interview for a teaching position. It'll
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be an online teaching position, and I do have a
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master's degree. So now that I've got my master's and
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I've got the teaching experience behind me. I'm thinking about,
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you know, starting maybe at the end of this semester
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teaching college part time, just to get that experience and
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also to supplement my income a little bit. So those
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of you that pray for me, pray for wisdom in
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all of that as we move forward. So the Christmas
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break was it was great because I got officially twenty
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six days off from law school, which it sounds like
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a lot of time, and it is in one sense.
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But you know, there's a lot that you don't do
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when you're in law school. There's a lot of like
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personal business kinds of things I had to take care
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of during that. But I did make time just to
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do some fun Christmas things and a lot of you
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know that I am single now, and you know, I
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still like to go out and do fun things by myself.
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Yep.
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But it seems kind of weird, but I'm just kind
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of used to that now. So I did go out
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and go to you know, went to see all the
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Great Lights, went to Disney a bunch of times. I've
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got an annual Disney ticket, and yeah, I know, people
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hate Disney so whenever I say that, I get in trouble.
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But I've got an annual ticket to Disney, so you
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know all that and had a small quiet Christmas with
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my mom and my sister and brother in law.
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So it was all good.
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So let's get back into what's going.
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On the news and things on my mind.
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So the big news of course this week is this
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Ice shooting. And the more that comes out, the more
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it really simply looks like a matter of self defense.
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I mean, you're a police officer, You're standing in front
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of a vehicle, that vehicle accelerates and actually makes contact
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with you. You then discharge your firearm, and I mean
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it looks that straightforward, you know, still reserving a little
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bit of judgment. Maybe there's some other video angle we
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haven't seen yet, but I just don't see the other
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side having much of an argument. And you know, one
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of the things too, Now that I'm in law school,
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I can comment a little bit on legal things. So
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when you are a law enforcement officer, you have the
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right to use force generally not just in self defense,
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but also against a fleeing fleeing suspect that is likely
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to cause great bodily harm to the general public. So
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it's not just you're the police officer and you are
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protecting your own life, but maybe you weren't going to
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be killed, but you could have been possibly subject to
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great bodily harm. In either case, you would have the
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right to use deadly force in most jurisdictions. And then
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even though this person was, you know, pulling away after
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they made contact with a police officer, there would still
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be a justification to shoot a fleeing suspect that could
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cause harm to others, and that it would certainly be
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the case of a car, you know, speeding away like
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that in that situation. So you know, just my perspective
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and a little bit I know about the law, having
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finished one semester of law school, I just don't see
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the other sides argument. Obviously, it's a tragedy that someone died,
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and you never want that, you never want to celebrate that.
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But when it comes right down to it, what in
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the world do you do if you're in that situation
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and you are a law enforcement officer, And talking about
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Minnesota in general, it has become just a complete disaster.
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I mean, everything from.
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What's happening there with the illegal immigration to now this
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huge scandal involving tens of billions, maybe hundreds of billions
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of dollars with these allegedly fake daycare centers and a
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lot of other fraud, including allegedly COVID fraud. And so
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what we learned a few days ago was that Tim Waltz,
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the governor there, who by the way, was almost the
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Vice president of the United States, which is a scary thought.
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Tim Waltz, the governor there, has announced he will not
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be running again. But news came out just before I
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went to record this podcast that it is now being
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reported by isolated news outlets. It's not widespread news, but
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just starting to come out that stories are circulating that
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Tim Waltz is going to resign immediately. Now this comes
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right after there was a criminal referral made in Washington,
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and that is really putting the spotlight on Minnesota, the
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alleged fraud, everything in the world that is going on there.
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And I thought it was really bizarre this press conference
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that Tim Walts held where he talked about defending Minnesota
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against the federal government, and then he even went into
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this idea that Minnesota has a national guard and that
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the national guard would be deployed, and at least my
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impression was that he was indicating like that the National
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Guard was going to somehow take on the federal government.
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And then, you know, I thought, well, was that what
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I heard? And then I went online and a bunch
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of other people posted that Tim Waltz is just declared
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war on the federal government. So this is a really
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interesting thing. And I've looked into the law on this
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because the district attorney in Philadelphia has also come out
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along with the law enforcement in Minnesota. So the Philadelphia
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District Attorney is warning ICE agents that we will arrest
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and prosecute you here and a federal pardon will not
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help you.
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So I looked into this.
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I was thinking to myself, well, what would happen if,
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let's say, in Minnesota, this ICE agent is arrested by
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a local police agency or the state police and then
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charged under state law, but yet was legitimately operating in
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his role as a federal law enforcement officer. You know
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what would happen in this situation. And there was a
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legal case where something like this happened and it ended
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up in federal court and the case was dismissed, and
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that's what would probably happen here is that there would
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be what would be considered like a constitutional crisis or conflict.
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You'd have the state arresting a federal law enforcement officer.
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It would be filed in state court, but then the
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federal government would likely file a motion to remove that
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case into the federal court, which is where then the
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federal judiciary would almost certainly side with the federal government.
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If this agent was acting within the course of his duties,
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then there can be no state charges against him in
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the case would be dismissed. But this is now kind
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of a thing that is being threatened as they you know,
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rattle saber saying well, we may go after these ICE
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agents and arrest.
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Them, you know locally, you know.
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The thing that still confuses me, and it really seems like,
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I don't know if it's a messaging problem, it kind
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of seems like it is to me. But what is
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happening at this stage of the immigration enforcement is they
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are focused mostly, if not entirely, on individuals that are
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here illegally, that are also individuals that have a criminal history,
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in particular a violent criminal history. That being the case,
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I don't see how anybody could be against this I
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get the tension between you know, you take a family
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and deport them and they were just here working and
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trying to become you know, American citizens at some point,
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and they're not hurting anyone. I get the tension between
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that person, that family that's here illegally, right, but they're
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here trying to live a good life and tribute. I
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get the tension when someone like that is deported.
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But I don't.
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Understand the resistance to this idea of deporting individuals that
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are here illegally, that have criminal records both here and
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in their home country. Who could possibly be against that,
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but you know it is happening. All right. Let's talk
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about Philip Yancey. And if you don't know who Philip
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Yancy is and you're a Christian, you probably have been
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living under a rock. This guy has written really some
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of the most the several best best selling books in
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the Christian marketplace. I think the most successful was What's
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So Amazing About Grace? I believe that was his book. Also,
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he wrote a book on prayer, and he's one of
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those guys. He's also involved as an editor with Christianity. Today,
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I'm going to just type in his name here and
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make sure we get all of this right, because if
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you know who he is, you're going to be shocked
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when we get into kind of the story of what
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is going on with him. Philip Yancy, he's seventy six
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years old. He's written books, What's so amazing about Grace,
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Disappointment with God, the Jesus. I never knew. He's also
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involved with Christianity Today. He has been an editor for
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Christianity Today, has written for Christianity Today. And here's what
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the story is. And I want to get into a
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little bit of details on this in terms of my
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thoughts on this, because I really struggle with the idea
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that Christians are the only group that killed their wounded.
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So I've got this kind of compassion grace side to
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me that is in conflict now with what I'm reading
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about Philip Yancey. So Philip Yancey has admitted to an
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eight year affair with a married woman.
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So this is not.
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Hey, I was on a trip and I slipped up
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and something happened. It was a one night thing, or
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even a few week things or a few months things.
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This is an eight year affair with a married woman.
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So I'm thinking you know as a guy who I
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was married, and I was betrayed in my marriage. I'm
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not going to get into details about that, but I
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will say to you that when you think about betrayal,
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I also had a family member many know from my
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book who embezzled from me over a period of five years.
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That was my brother.
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And when I think about eight years, eight years, so
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I'm sixty years old, So eight years ago I was
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fifty two.
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That's a long time.
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That's eight years of Christmases and Easters and Fourth of
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July and Thanksgivings. And not only do you have Philip
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Yancy deceiving his wife who's he's been married to for
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fifty five years, you also have Philip Yancy whoever he's
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involved with. That woman is deceiving her husband for eight years.
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And so I posted on my Facebook, I don't know
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what to make of this. It seems to me more
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like a Lifetime movie than it does a legitimate confession.
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And a guy who's seventy six who says, well, I'm
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admitting this now publicly, I'm retiring from ministry. And apparently
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he's very sick and now his wife is going to
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have to take care of him as he struggles with
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medical issues. And the word is his wife is going
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to stand by him and stick with him after fifty
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five years. And I'll tell you what if anything comes
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out of this, is that woman's commitment to her marriage
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vows which she clearly has every grounds to walk away from.
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You have to absolutely admire that. You have to absolutely
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admire that. I am not here today judging Philip Yancy.
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I don't know Philip Yancy. I don't believe I've ever
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met Philip. I may have cross paths with him, as
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I was doing a lot of media when I was younger,
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going on a lot of Christian TV shows, when I
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was writing a lot. I may have cross paths with him.
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I just don't remember his books. This doesn't take away
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from his books. In my view, his books are brilliant.
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He's a brilliant guy. He's obviously done a lot for
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the kingdom. But it raises a question for me about
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Christian leaders that become famous, they become rich. I can
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tell you, having interacted with a lot of these people,
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they're not who you think they are. They're really not.
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And I don't want to name names today, but I've
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been in the green room with some really famous Christian
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names that you would know right off bat, right off
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the bat, and they're not the people that you think
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they are. And it makes you wonder, in today's society,
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the Christian community, how far really do we go setting
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up these people, uh to be kind of our spiritual superheroes,
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if you will, whether they're the pastor of a mega
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church or one of these huge authors.
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I don't know.
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These people obviously are never going to live up to
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what we expect from them because we usually expect them
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to be perfect and have no flaws, and that's just
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not the case for anybody. But I think this is
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a little bit of a different situation when you you
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look at this over so many years. Similar similarly, we
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had a situation with with another you know, major Christian
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name who after his death it was revealed that he
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was involved in things for uh decades that we're not right.
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It's tough and so Eric Metaxas has come out and
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posts he wrote an article. I posted it on my
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Facebook page, just really addressing this issue, and I like
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how he presented it, which is the you know, the
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text that he used is faith without works is dead,
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you know, basically making the point that our Christian faith
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it can't be all about grace. It can't be all
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about sinning and having habitual, ongoing sin in our life
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and then just trusting that God's grace is sufficient for that.
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At what point do we start living a different life?
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And this is really concerning to me in particulicular when
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it comes to marriage. You know, I'm a guy who
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you know, I went through that divorce after a thirty
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six year marriage, and I started looking a lot into
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you know, marriage and divorce and what's happening in the
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church and in the culture, and to learn that divorce
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is about the same percentage wise among non Christians as.
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It is in the Church.
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In fact, some statistics show that it's actually higher among Christians.
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So it makes you wonder what makes Christians any different.
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We're all sinners, right, whether we're a Christian or not.
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We've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
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But at what point as a Christian, as a man
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who's been a Christian, a lifelong Christian and in ministry,
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you know, lifelong in ministry, to have this kind of
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double life going on for eight years, for eight years.
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So Eric Metaxas writes this article. It's on my Facebook page.
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It says Eric Metaxas warns the American Church after Philip
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Yancey's confession, and the headline here is faith without works
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is dead. And I want to read to you also
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a little bit of this Facebook post that I shared
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because to me, this post really I think it says
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a lot. I'm probably not gonna be able to bring
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it up now.
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Oh there it is. Okay.
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This is from a minister by the name of Aubrey L.
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White.
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I don't know who he is, but this is, uh,
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this post really says it. I just want to read
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some of this to you, he says. Here, this is
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from Aubrey L. White on Facebook. He says, Philip Yancey
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lied to his wife for eight years and then he
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goes into now he needs her, and I'm paraphrasing, to
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take care of him, to feed him, to forgive him.
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Because of his illness.
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He's going to have to, you know, literally be taking
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care of bedridden at some point soon, according to reports.
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And he says, let that sink in to my great shame,
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I confess that for eight years I willfully engaged in
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a sinful affair.
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With a married woman.
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And then he goes on to say, this is the
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pastor commenting here. That's not a random pastor from a
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church you've never heard of. That's Philip Yancey, the man
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who wrote What's So Amazing About Grace, one of the
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most influential Christian books of the last thirty years. The
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man whose words have shaped how millions of believers understand
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the mercy of God. The man who has been married
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to the same woman for fifty five years. For eight
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of those years he was sleeping with someone else's wife.
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The timeline matters, he says. Yancey was diagnosed with Parkinson's
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disease in twenty twenty three. His wife, Janet has been preparing.
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His wife, Janet has been preparing to be his full
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time care giver as his body slowly fails him. And
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now he confesses, now when he needs her, Now when
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walking away would mean abandoning a sick man, Now when
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the diagnosis has made his future dependent on her grace.
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And then he goes on to say, here, I'm not God.
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I can't judge the sincerity of his heart, but I
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asked the question everyone is thinking, is this repentance or
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is this strategy and a lot more there. And that
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post is on my face book. And I'll kind of
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make a parallel to something I learned my first semester
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in law school in criminal law. So there's this idea
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in criminal law that somebody who is intending to commit
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a crime but then decides they change their mind. You
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know what, I'm not going to commit this crime after all.
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It's important when looking at the facts. A prosecutor would
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look at the facts and determine did this person's journey
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towards committing that crime. Did they abandon that own of
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their own free volition, or did they do so because
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of an intervening situation. So I'll give you an example.
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Let's say someone's planning to rob a bank. They've got
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a driver, they've got a couple of other guys. They're
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going in and they're going to rob this bank. They're armed,
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all of that. They go in planning to rob the bank,
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and then it turns out that they see there's a
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couple of armed security guards. They weren't expecting that, so
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they decide to turn around and leave the bank. A
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prosecutor could still say that there were enough steps towards
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that committing that crime to prosecute them, at least for
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the conspiracy and maybe the attempt, and that there's not
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a whole lot of stock put into renouncing your crime
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and changing your mind if you did so because you
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kind of had no other choice but to do so.
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And that seems to be what's happening here with Philip Yancy.
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I don't know the backstory. It very well could be
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that he was about to be outed and then he decided,
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you know, to go ahead and.
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Admit to this. I don't know if it was as.
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Much of a plan thing as what the pastor here says.
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But after eight years, eight years, is it the same
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as admitting a sin that was just over a short
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period of time. I think something that a lot of
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people are going to struggle with, and one of them,
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I think the biggest concerns about this kind of a
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thing for me, is all of the people that this
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You talk about evangelism drawing to people, drawing people to Christ.
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When you're a famous influential person who's got all the
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books out there, you're on TV, you're in Christianity today,
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all of that, you're on social media, and then you
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do something like this, Think of all of the people
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that may decide not to follow Christ because they use
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you as exhibit a. Look at this person. They were
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supposed to be a great and look at what they did. Now,
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I know that's not a logical thing for people to
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do in terms of you know, biblically, we have to
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realize that even our biblical heroes were sinners and failed morally.
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But it is the human thing that is done. And
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to me, that is the greatest tragedy of all of
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this is those that might reject Christ because of a
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public failure such as this. Okay, so mortgage rates are
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coming down. They're kind of creeping down a little bit.
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A lot of people are emailing me, so you know
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what's happening. How low are they going to go? They're
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just creeping down a little bit. And if you heard,
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President Trump made an announcement a few days ago that
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the US government, by way of intervening into the bond market,
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is going to try and push mortgage rates down some
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from where they are right now, and this will be
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done by the government buying mortgage bonds. And that just
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the news of that has already started to have a
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little bit of an effect. So if you're somebody you
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know you're in the market for a mortgage. I am
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still doing mortgages to help me pay for law school.
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So if you want to help me out and help
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yourself out, we can have a conversation and see if
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there's something I can do to help you. And I
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want to continue to tell people about the home Equity
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line of credit. If you want to borrow money against
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your home, but you want to keep that great low
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interest rate mortgage that you already have, but maybe you
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need money to pay off a debt. Maybe it's a
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car loan, maybe a student loan. Maybe you want to
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consolidate the credit cards, or even maybe make a home improvement,
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take a vacation, pay for a medical expense. There is
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a program, and I want you to check it out
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because there's so much information that I don't have time
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to share with you. But it'll just take you five
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to talk to me about that though, you can email
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me James Elparis at gmail dot com and we can
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either chat over email or we can set up a
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phone call. All right, so we move on to I
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don't know how I.
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Feel about this.
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The rhetoric now from President Trump is almost that he's saying, look, Greenland,
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we're taking you over, and we're gonna make you an
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offer you can't refuse. It's kind of what he's saying
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in the press conference that I listened to the other day.
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And I don't know how I feel about that.
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The US just saying, look, we're taking over Greenland. But
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you know, maybe there's a certain amount of money that
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the country of Denmark could be given, and then maybe
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the residents of Greenland could be given for the US
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to officially take over.
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It would be huge. I mean, it's not the first
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time the.
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US has bought territory, right, the US bought what we got,
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the Louisiana purchase, Alaska, Florida, these these areas were all
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purchased by the US, So it wouldn't be unprecedented, but
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it's certainly, you know, something that would not have happened
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in recent you know, recent decades, in recent history. But
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it would be interesting to see. And would Greenland become
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a state or just a territory. It'll be interesting to watch. Well.
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The country of Iran, it appears to be on the
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brink of collapse, which a lot of people think could
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be a really good thing. The only problem with these
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kinds of situations is you just don't know who's gonna
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be next. What you know, if the Ayatola is out,
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who's gonna take over next?
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Will this area just become.
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Sort of open, sort of like mad Max. It'll become chaos,
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nobody will be in charge. What about the humanitarian crisis.
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So there's a lot of buzz right now about maybe
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Trump somehow intervening. He's already said to the Iranian government,
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if you shoot at the protesters or you know, try
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to stop the uprising, you know, with the military, he's
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going to step in on the side of the protesters.
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So we obviously want the current government of Iran out.
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We want them out, but then the question is what
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do you replace them with and and how do you
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do that? Of course, you know, we we have examples
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of you know, Libya where we've done that. Iraq, of
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course we've got examples there. But it would be good
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to get rid of the Iyatolas. I. I just don't
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know what's next for Iran, but it seems like Trump
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has a big interest in Iran. And you know, this
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interventionist sort of spirit with Trump, whether it be Greenland
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or or Venezuela or you know, now talk about Colombia.
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It's something we haven't seen in a while, maybe since
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the sixties, but it is part of American history. I mean,
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there was a time where we really had this idea,
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the Monroe Doctrine, as it's called, where we had to
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get involved in what was happening, in particular in our hemisphere.
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It wasn't just enough to be concerned with what's happening
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inside our borders. And now we're really, you know, not
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talking about a Monroe doctrine. They're calling it the Donro doctrine,
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which is really kind of a worldwide version of the
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Minroe doctrine, the idea that interventionism is not necessarily a
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bad thing if we have to do that to protect
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the interest of the United States. And sort of exhibit
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a of that in recent times is Venezuela. I mean,
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we know they've been bringing drugs into the country. We
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know those drugs have killed hundreds of thousands of people.
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So there you go, and there it's in our hemisphere.
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There's a lot of influence there potentially with China and Russia.
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And that's an example right there, really of them in
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Roe doctrine. But now people are calling it the Donro doctrine,
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which is sort of saying, you know, more of a
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worldwide interventionist viewpoint, protecting the interests of the United States worldwide,
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even if that means we've got to intervene in these countries.
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So I met a guy at law school and I
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had a really interesting conversation with him, and I wanted
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to share that with you on this podcast. I have
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talked about this opportunity before, the opportunity of living overseas
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and working as a teacher, and this guy actually did it.
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And it's fascinating. He spent ten years in Vietnam, he
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and his wife working as teachers, teaching English, and he
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just raves about how great of an experience it was.
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And I had written an article about this when I
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was I had gone to Soeul, Korea, and part of
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that trip was me interviewing a couple of college graduates,
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recent college graduates, two young ladies who are living in
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Seoul working as English teachers. And it's something that a
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lot of students do right out of college to pay
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off student debt and also kind of have an, you know,
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international experience, kind of a breaking away, an opportunity to
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do something, you know, very adventurous.
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And he did it for ten years.
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In Vietnam and just absolutely loved his time there. And
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I may have mentioned this on prior episodes, but that
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I love Soul Korea. I love the Korean people, and
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the country of Korea is predominantly a Christian country, which
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a lot of people don't know that, and I just
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love it there. And I've often thought maybe someday I'll
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find myself teaching at a university in Soul, Korea and
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maybe being involved with some kind of ministry there. So
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I'm curious if you're somebody that has done this. You've
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gone overseas, whether it be to teach English or do
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something else, and you had a great experience as an expat.
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I love these stories, so let me know. Send me
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an email James L. Paris at gmail dot com. A
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lot of people are doing this, moving to different parts
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of the world where it's cheaper to live and with
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the Internet, even if they're not working in that location,
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they can still keep their remote job going.
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A guy that I.
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Work with in the world motgage industry, he lives in Bangkok, Thailand,
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yet he works for the same mortgage company that I
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do and does mortgages over the Internet from that distance. Unreal, Right,
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it's a different world that we're living. It certainly is.
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God bless have a great week. Maybe I'll be back
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in a week, maybe two weeks. Looking forward to cranking
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out more episodes in this new year. If you have
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a topic or a question you'd like me to address,
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James L. Paris at gmail dot com, we'll talk to
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you next time.
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So long, everybody,
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Jim Paris Live, your source for the latest news on money, politics, prophecy,
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and preparedness, and now your host, the editor in chief
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of Christian Money dot com and the author of more
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than thirty books. Jim Paris.
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All right, buddy, and welcome to the broadcast. Great to
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be back with you. And I want to start out
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by setting expectations because a lot of people have been
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emailing me and they're saying, Jim, you know, what's the
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schedule now for the podcast? And I know I've broken
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the number one rule of podcasting success, which is you've
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got to get on a schedule and you've got to
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stick with it. And on the one hand, once a
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week seemed possible with law school, however, it has not
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been able to happen that way. So right now the
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schedule is just whenever I can make some time to
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get to the microphone and do an episode, and so
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it might mean every other week, every third week. I'm
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just not sure yet, but I hope everybody had a
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great holiday. We did have a break from law school,
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so that gave me an opportunity to kind of recharge
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my batteries and to take care of a lot of
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personal things that I had to take care of during
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the break. But here's kind of the update. I have
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finished my first semester of law school. I passed all
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of my exams, all of my classes. So we move forward.
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We're now in the second semester of law school, and
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I have been kind of kicking around the idea of
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getting back into doing a little bit of teaching. And
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if you remember my kind of my two plans that
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I was looking at pursuing. One was being a lawyer,
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you know and continuing the writing, continuing the books and
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the speaking and the podcast all of that, but also
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you know, working as a lawyer. And then the other
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path was to possibly teach college. So I've had an opportunity.
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I've been invited to interview for a teaching position. It'll
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be an online teaching position, and I do have a
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master's degree. So now that I've got my master's and
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I've got the teaching experience behind me. I'm thinking about,
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you know, starting maybe at the end of this semester
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teaching college part time, just to get that experience and
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also to supplement my income a little bit. So those
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of you that pray for me, pray for wisdom in
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all of that as we move forward. So the Christmas
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break was it was great because I got officially twenty
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six days off from law school, which it sounds like
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a lot of time, and it is in one sense.
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when you're in law school. There's a lot of like
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personal business kinds of things I had to take care
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of during that. But I did make time just to
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do some fun Christmas things and a lot of you
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know that I am single now, and you know, I
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still like to go out and do fun things by myself.
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of used to that now. So I did go out
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and go to you know, went to see all the
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got an annual Disney ticket, and yeah, I know, people
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hate Disney so whenever I say that, I get in trouble.
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know all that and had a small quiet Christmas with
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my mom and my sister and brother in law.
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So it was all good.
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So let's get back into what's going.
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On the news and things on my mind.
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So the big news of course this week is this
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Ice shooting. And the more that comes out, the more
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it really simply looks like a matter of self defense.
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I mean, you're a police officer, You're standing in front
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of a vehicle, that vehicle accelerates and actually makes contact
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with you. You then discharge your firearm, and I mean
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it looks that straightforward, you know, still reserving a little
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bit of judgment. Maybe there's some other video angle we
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haven't seen yet, but I just don't see the other
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side having much of an argument. And you know, one
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of the things too, Now that I'm in law school,
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when you are a law enforcement officer, you have the
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right to use force generally not just in self defense,
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but also against a fleeing fleeing suspect that is likely
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to cause great bodily harm to the general public. So
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it's not just you're the police officer and you are
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protecting your own life, but maybe you weren't going to
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be killed, but you could have been possibly subject to
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great bodily harm. In either case, you would have the
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right to use deadly force in most jurisdictions. And then
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even though this person was, you know, pulling away after
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they made contact with a police officer, there would still
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be a justification to shoot a fleeing suspect that could
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cause harm to others, and that it would certainly be
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the case of a car, you know, speeding away like
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that in that situation. So you know, just my perspective
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finished one semester of law school, I just don't see
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the other sides argument. Obviously, it's a tragedy that someone died,
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and you never want that, you never want to celebrate that.
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the world do you do if you're in that situation
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Minnesota in general, it has become just a complete disaster.
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huge scandal involving tens of billions, maybe hundreds of billions
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of dollars with these allegedly fake daycare centers and a
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lot of other fraud, including allegedly COVID fraud. And so
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what we learned a few days ago was that Tim Waltz,
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the governor there, who by the way, was almost the
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Tim Waltz, the governor there, has announced he will not
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be running again. But news came out just before I
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went to record this podcast that it is now being
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reported by isolated news outlets. It's not widespread news, but
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just starting to come out that stories are circulating that
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Tim Waltz is going to resign immediately. Now this comes
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right after there was a criminal referral made in Washington,
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and that is really putting the spotlight on Minnesota, the
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alleged fraud, everything in the world that is going on there.
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that Tim Walts held where he talked about defending Minnesota
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against the federal government, and then he even went into
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this idea that Minnesota has a national guard and that
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the national guard would be deployed, and at least my
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impression was that he was indicating like that the National
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I heard? And then I went online and a bunch
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of other people posted that Tim Waltz is just declared
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war on the federal government. So this is a really
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interesting thing. And I've looked into the law on this
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because the district attorney in Philadelphia has also come out
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along with the law enforcement in Minnesota. So the Philadelphia
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District Attorney is warning ICE agents that we will arrest
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and prosecute you here and a federal pardon will not
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help you.
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I was thinking to myself, well, what would happen if,
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let's say, in Minnesota, this ICE agent is arrested by
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a local police agency or the state police and then
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charged under state law, but yet was legitimately operating in
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his role as a federal law enforcement officer. You know
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what would happen in this situation. And there was a
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legal case where something like this happened and it ended
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up in federal court and the case was dismissed, and
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that's what would probably happen here is that there would
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be what would be considered like a constitutional crisis or conflict.
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federal government would likely file a motion to remove that
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case into the federal court, which is where then the
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federal judiciary would almost certainly side with the federal government.
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If this agent was acting within the course of his duties,
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then there can be no state charges against him in
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the case would be dismissed. But this is now kind
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of a thing that is being threatened as they you know,
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rattle saber saying well, we may go after these ICE
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agents and arrest.
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Them, you know locally, you know.
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The thing that still confuses me, and it really seems like,
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I don't know if it's a messaging problem, it kind
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of seems like it is to me. But what is
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happening at this stage of the immigration enforcement is they
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are focused mostly, if not entirely, on individuals that are
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here illegally, that are also individuals that have a criminal history,
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in particular a violent criminal history. That being the case,
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I don't see how anybody could be against this I
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get the tension between you know, you take a family
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and deport them and they were just here working and
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trying to become you know, American citizens at some point,
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and they're not hurting anyone. I get the tension between
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that person, that family that's here illegally, right, but they're
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here trying to live a good life and tribute. I
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get the tension when someone like that is deported.
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Understand the resistance to this idea of deporting individuals that
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are here illegally, that have criminal records both here and
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in their home country. Who could possibly be against that,
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but you know it is happening. All right. Let's talk
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about Philip Yancey. And if you don't know who Philip
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Yancy is and you're a Christian, you probably have been
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living under a rock. This guy has written really some
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of the most the several best best selling books in
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the Christian marketplace. I think the most successful was What's
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So Amazing About Grace? I believe that was his book. Also,
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he wrote a book on prayer, and he's one of
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those guys. He's also involved as an editor with Christianity. Today,
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I'm going to just type in his name here and
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make sure we get all of this right, because if
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you know who he is, you're going to be shocked
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when we get into kind of the story of what
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is going on with him. Philip Yancy, he's seventy six
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years old. He's written books, What's so amazing about Grace,
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Disappointment with God, the Jesus. I never knew. He's also
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involved with Christianity Today. He has been an editor for
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Christianity Today, has written for Christianity Today. And here's what
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the story is. And I want to get into a
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little bit of details on this in terms of my
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thoughts on this, because I really struggle with the idea
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that Christians are the only group that killed their wounded.
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So I've got this kind of compassion grace side to
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me that is in conflict now with what I'm reading
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about Philip Yancey. So Philip Yancey has admitted to an
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eight year affair with a married woman.
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Hey, I was on a trip and I slipped up
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and something happened. It was a one night thing, or
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even a few week things or a few months things.
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was married, and I was betrayed in my marriage. I'm
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not going to get into details about that, but I
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will say to you that when you think about betrayal,
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I also had a family member many know from my
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book who embezzled from me over a period of five years.
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I'm sixty years old, So eight years ago I was
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fifty two.
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That's eight years of Christmases and Easters and Fourth of
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July and Thanksgivings. And not only do you have Philip
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Yancy deceiving his wife who's he's been married to for
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fifty five years, you also have Philip Yancy whoever he's
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involved with. That woman is deceiving her husband for eight years.
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what to make of this. It seems to me more
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like a Lifetime movie than it does a legitimate confession.
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admitting this now publicly, I'm retiring from ministry. And apparently
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he's very sick and now his wife is going to
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have to take care of him as he struggles with
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medical issues. And the word is his wife is going
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to stand by him and stick with him after fifty
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five years. And I'll tell you what if anything comes
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out of this, is that woman's commitment to her marriage
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vows which she clearly has every grounds to walk away from.
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You have to absolutely admire that. You have to absolutely
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admire that. I am not here today judging Philip Yancy.
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I don't know Philip Yancy. I don't believe I've ever
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met Philip. I may have cross paths with him, as
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I was doing a lot of media when I was younger,
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going on a lot of Christian TV shows, when I
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was writing a lot. I may have cross paths with him.
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I just don't remember his books. This doesn't take away
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from his books. In my view, his books are brilliant.
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He's a brilliant guy. He's obviously done a lot for
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the kingdom. But it raises a question for me about
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Christian leaders that become famous, they become rich. I can
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tell you, having interacted with a lot of these people,
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they're not who you think they are. They're really not.
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And I don't want to name names today, but I've
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been in the green room with some really famous Christian
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names that you would know right off bat, right off
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the bat, and they're not the people that you think
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they are. And it makes you wonder, in today's society,
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the Christian community, how far really do we go setting
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up these people, uh to be kind of our spiritual superheroes,
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if you will, whether they're the pastor of a mega
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church or one of these huge authors.
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These people obviously are never going to live up to
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what we expect from them because we usually expect them
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to be perfect and have no flaws, and that's just
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not the case for anybody. But I think this is
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a little bit of a different situation when you you
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look at this over so many years. Similar similarly, we
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had a situation with with another you know, major Christian
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name who after his death it was revealed that he
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was involved in things for uh decades that we're not right.
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posts he wrote an article. I posted it on my
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Facebook page, just really addressing this issue, and I like
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how he presented it, which is the you know, the
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text that he used is faith without works is dead,
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you know, basically making the point that our Christian faith
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it can't be all about grace. It can't be all
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about sinning and having habitual, ongoing sin in our life
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and then just trusting that God's grace is sufficient for that.
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At what point do we start living a different life?
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it comes to marriage. You know, I'm a guy who
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you know, I went through that divorce after a thirty
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six year marriage, and I started looking a lot into
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you know, marriage and divorce and what's happening in the
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church and in the culture, and to learn that divorce
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is about the same percentage wise among non Christians as.
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In fact, some statistics show that it's actually higher among Christians.
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We're all sinners, right, whether we're a Christian or not.
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We've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
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But at what point as a Christian, as a man
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who's been a Christian, a lifelong Christian and in ministry,
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you know, lifelong in ministry, to have this kind of
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double life going on for eight years, for eight years.
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So Eric Metaxas writes this article. It's on my Facebook page.
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It says Eric Metaxas warns the American Church after Philip
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Yancey's confession, and the headline here is faith without works
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is dead. And I want to read to you also
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a little bit of this Facebook post that I shared
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because to me, this post really I think it says
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a lot. I'm probably not gonna be able to bring
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it up now.
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Oh there it is. Okay.
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This is from a minister by the name of Aubrey L.
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White.
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I don't know who he is, but this is, uh,
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this post really says it. I just want to read
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some of this to you, he says. Here, this is
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from Aubrey L. White on Facebook. He says, Philip Yancey
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lied to his wife for eight years and then he
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goes into now he needs her, and I'm paraphrasing, to
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take care of him, to feed him, to forgive him.
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Because of his illness.
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He's going to have to, you know, literally be taking
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care of bedridden at some point soon, according to reports.
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And he says, let that sink in to my great shame,
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I confess that for eight years I willfully engaged in
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a sinful affair.
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With a married woman.
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And then he goes on to say, this is the
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pastor commenting here. That's not a random pastor from a
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church you've never heard of. That's Philip Yancey, the man
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who wrote What's So Amazing About Grace, one of the
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most influential Christian books of the last thirty years. The
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man whose words have shaped how millions of believers understand
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the mercy of God. The man who has been married
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to the same woman for fifty five years. For eight
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of those years he was sleeping with someone else's wife.
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The timeline matters, he says. Yancey was diagnosed with Parkinson's
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disease in twenty twenty three. His wife, Janet has been preparing.
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His wife, Janet has been preparing to be his full
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time care giver as his body slowly fails him. And
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now he confesses, now when he needs her, Now when
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walking away would mean abandoning a sick man, Now when
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the diagnosis has made his future dependent on her grace.
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I can't judge the sincerity of his heart, but I
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asked the question everyone is thinking, is this repentance or
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is this strategy and a lot more there. And that
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post is on my face book. And I'll kind of
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make a parallel to something I learned my first semester
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in law school in criminal law. So there's this idea
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in criminal law that somebody who is intending to commit
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a crime but then decides they change their mind. You
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know what, I'm not going to commit this crime after all.
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look at the facts and determine did this person's journey
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towards committing that crime. Did they abandon that own of
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their own free volition, or did they do so because
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of an intervening situation. So I'll give you an example.
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a driver, they've got a couple of other guys. They're
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going in and they're going to rob this bank. They're armed,
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all of that. They go in planning to rob the bank,
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and then it turns out that they see there's a
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couple of armed security guards. They weren't expecting that, so
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they decide to turn around and leave the bank. A
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prosecutor could still say that there were enough steps towards
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that committing that crime to prosecute them, at least for
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the conspiracy and maybe the attempt, and that there's not
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a whole lot of stock put into renouncing your crime
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and changing your mind if you did so because you
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kind of had no other choice but to do so.
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I don't know the backstory. It very well could be
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that he was about to be outed and then he decided,
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you know, to go ahead and.
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Admit to this. I don't know if it was as.
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Much of a plan thing as what the pastor here says.
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as admitting a sin that was just over a short
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period of time. I think something that a lot of
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people are going to struggle with, and one of them,
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I think the biggest concerns about this kind of a
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thing for me, is all of the people that this
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You talk about evangelism drawing to people, drawing people to Christ.
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When you're a famous influential person who's got all the
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books out there, you're on TV, you're in Christianity today,
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all of that, you're on social media, and then you
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do something like this, Think of all of the people
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that may decide not to follow Christ because they use
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you as exhibit a. Look at this person. They were
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supposed to be a great and look at what they did. Now,
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I know that's not a logical thing for people to
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do in terms of you know, biblically, we have to
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realize that even our biblical heroes were sinners and failed morally.
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to me, that is the greatest tragedy of all of
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this is those that might reject Christ because of a
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public failure such as this. Okay, so mortgage rates are
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coming down. They're kind of creeping down a little bit.
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A lot of people are emailing me, so you know
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what's happening. How low are they going to go? They're
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just creeping down a little bit. And if you heard,
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President Trump made an announcement a few days ago that
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the US government, by way of intervening into the bond market,
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is going to try and push mortgage rates down some
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from where they are right now, and this will be
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done by the government buying mortgage bonds. And that just
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the news of that has already started to have a
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little bit of an effect. So if you're somebody you
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know you're in the market for a mortgage. I am
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still doing mortgages to help me pay for law school.
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So if you want to help me out and help
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yourself out, we can have a conversation and see if
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there's something I can do to help you. And I
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want to continue to tell people about the home Equity
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to talk to me about that though, you can email
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me James Elparis at gmail dot com and we can
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either chat over email or we can set up a
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phone call. All right, so we move on to I
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don't know how I.
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Feel about this.
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The rhetoric now from President Trump is almost that he's saying, look, Greenland,
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we're taking you over, and we're gonna make you an
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offer you can't refuse. It's kind of what he's saying
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in the press conference that I listened to the other day.
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And I don't know how I feel about that.
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The US just saying, look, we're taking over Greenland. But
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you know, maybe there's a certain amount of money that
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the country of Denmark could be given, and then maybe
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the residents of Greenland could be given for the US
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to officially take over.
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It would be huge. I mean, it's not the first
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time the.
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US has bought territory, right, the US bought what we got,
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the Louisiana purchase, Alaska, Florida, these these areas were all
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purchased by the US, So it wouldn't be unprecedented, but
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it's certainly, you know, something that would not have happened
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in recent you know, recent decades, in recent history. But
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it would be interesting to see. And would Greenland become
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a state or just a territory. It'll be interesting to watch. Well.
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The country of Iran, it appears to be on the
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brink of collapse, which a lot of people think could
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be a really good thing. The only problem with these
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kinds of situations is you just don't know who's gonna
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be next. What you know, if the Ayatola is out,
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who's gonna take over next?
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Will this area just become.
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Sort of open, sort of like mad Max. It'll become chaos,
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nobody will be in charge. What about the humanitarian crisis.
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So there's a lot of buzz right now about maybe
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Trump somehow intervening. He's already said to the Iranian government,
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if you shoot at the protesters or you know, try
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to stop the uprising, you know, with the military, he's
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going to step in on the side of the protesters.
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So we obviously want the current government of Iran out.
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We want them out, but then the question is what
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do you replace them with and and how do you
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do that? Of course, you know, we we have examples
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of you know, Libya where we've done that. Iraq, of
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course we've got examples there. But it would be good
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to get rid of the Iyatolas. I. I just don't
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know what's next for Iran, but it seems like Trump
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has a big interest in Iran. And you know, this
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interventionist sort of spirit with Trump, whether it be Greenland
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or or Venezuela or you know, now talk about Colombia.
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It's something we haven't seen in a while, maybe since
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the sixties, but it is part of American history. I mean,
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there was a time where we really had this idea,
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the Monroe Doctrine, as it's called, where we had to
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get involved in what was happening, in particular in our hemisphere.
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It wasn't just enough to be concerned with what's happening
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inside our borders. And now we're really, you know, not
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talking about a Monroe doctrine. They're calling it the Donro doctrine,
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which is really kind of a worldwide version of the
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Minroe doctrine, the idea that interventionism is not necessarily a
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bad thing if we have to do that to protect
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the interest of the United States. And sort of exhibit
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a of that in recent times is Venezuela. I mean,
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we know they've been bringing drugs into the country. We
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know those drugs have killed hundreds of thousands of people.
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So there you go, and there it's in our hemisphere.
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There's a lot of influence there potentially with China and Russia.
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And that's an example right there, really of them in
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Roe doctrine. But now people are calling it the Donro doctrine,
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which is sort of saying, you know, more of a
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worldwide interventionist viewpoint, protecting the interests of the United States worldwide,
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even if that means we've got to intervene in these countries.
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So I met a guy at law school and I
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had a really interesting conversation with him, and I wanted
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to share that with you on this podcast. I have
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talked about this opportunity before, the opportunity of living overseas
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and working as a teacher, and this guy actually did it.
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And it's fascinating. He spent ten years in Vietnam, he
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and his wife working as teachers, teaching English, and he
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just raves about how great of an experience it was.
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And I had written an article about this when I
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was I had gone to Soeul, Korea, and part of
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that trip was me interviewing a couple of college graduates,
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recent college graduates, two young ladies who are living in
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Seoul working as English teachers. And it's something that a
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lot of students do right out of college to pay
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off student debt and also kind of have an, you know,
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international experience, kind of a breaking away, an opportunity to
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do something, you know, very adventurous.
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And he did it for ten years.
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In Vietnam and just absolutely loved his time there. And
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I may have mentioned this on prior episodes, but that
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I love Soul Korea. I love the Korean people, and
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the country of Korea is predominantly a Christian country, which
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a lot of people don't know that, and I just
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love it there. And I've often thought maybe someday I'll
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find myself teaching at a university in Soul, Korea and
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maybe being involved with some kind of ministry there. So
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I'm curious if you're somebody that has done this. You've
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gone overseas, whether it be to teach English or do
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something else, and you had a great experience as an expat.
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I love these stories, so let me know. Send me
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an email James L. Paris at gmail dot com. A
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lot of people are doing this, moving to different parts
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of the world where it's cheaper to live and with
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the Internet, even if they're not working in that location,
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they can still keep their remote job going.
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A guy that I.
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Work with in the world motgage industry, he lives in Bangkok, Thailand,
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yet he works for the same mortgage company that I
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do and does mortgages over the Internet from that distance. Unreal, Right,
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it's a different world that we're living. It certainly is.
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God bless have a great week. Maybe I'll be back
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in a week, maybe two weeks. Looking forward to cranking
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out more episodes in this new year. If you have
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a topic or a question you'd like me to address,
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James L. Paris at gmail dot com, we'll talk to
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you next time.
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So long, everybody,
