Sean Feucht: No Turning Back – Revival, Government Tyranny & Standing Firm in Crisis

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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang and welcome

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to this edition of the Strang Report podcast.

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I am so excited to talk to my good friend, Sean

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Foyt, who just wrote this book called No Turning

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Back. And full disclosure, I published the book,

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but I just finished reading it myself and I was

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excited. We wouldn't have published it if we

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weren't excited about it. But Sean, you did a

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great job on this book. I even listened to your

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credits where you said, this was one of the hardest

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things you ever did. And when I think of all,

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you know, you had smoke bombs and services, the

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kinds of things all over the world. So how in

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the world was writing a book the hardest thing

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you ever did and why? Well, you know, I think

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the book to me, you know, I don't, I'm not like

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maybe a typical author. I mean, I've written

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some books, but I don't get on a cycle of just

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writing them every couple years. I'll really

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only write them when I feel like, hey, this is

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a mandate from the Lord. You know, this is a

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word I need to and what happens in that and what

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happened with this book is I actually begin to

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live through it. I wanted to write a book on

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spiritual warfare to wake up the church. And

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having gone through a lot of the things that

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we went through. I didn't realize that actually

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writing this book would enter me into a whole

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new level of spiritual spiritual warfare. Yeah.

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So we were kind of, I was writing this, I would

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say in real time as we were walking through this

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stuff, which I think kind of makes it unique

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in a way because it's like a fresh word. It's

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not like a concept that's abstract or theological

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or something that's far off. It's actually something

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we were wrestling through at the time of writing

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it. That's kind of what made it a unique project

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for sure. Well, I thought it was very well written.

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In fact, I told a friend that as I was listening

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to it, because I listened to the audio version,

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which you read, which I enjoyed hearing it in

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your voice, that it kind of reminded me of someone

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like Mark Batterson, who's in ministry and he

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would use his own experiences. I mean, just the

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cadence and the way you wrote it. I thought it

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was great. And also the first time I ever heard

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of you, about you was when you ran for Congress.

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Yeah. And then when you lost and went in Congress

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and I found out you were with Bill Johnson's

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ministry, I didn't know much more about you.

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And then when COVID happened, Um, you defied

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the COVID lockdowns and, uh, probably a lot of

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people know this and hopefully if they read our

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Charisma, uh, website, they know about it. Cause

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we've covered, every time you did something that

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we felt was newsworthy, which was a lot, we tried

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to cover it. I remember you even had boycotts

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that, or maybe not a boycott, but, uh, I'm not

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saying it right. Uh, you had demonstrations at

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Disney when Disney did a couple of really wild

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things. You had one there in California where

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you are, you had one here in Orlando, which is

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where I am. I actually wanted to go to it, but

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I was out of town, but just tell me about your.

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Odyssey a little bit, and especially about the

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era with COVID and, and all the things. And then

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I went about, I have a whole list of questions.

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I want to talk about Canada too, which I just

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think is outlandish. Yeah, I mean, I think the

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whole, I think if you just look at my life or

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the years of ministry coming out of college,

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a lot of it was just following and being obedient

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to the word of the Lord. And a lot of times that

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looks like different things in different seasons,

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whether the branding is different or the ministry

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name is different or whatever, but it's been

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very consistent. for us on our mandate and our

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calling since the beginning when we had no kids

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and now when we have four, two of them are teenagers.

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So which is a whole new world. But for us as

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a family, it's just been pursuing God and making

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him known and being bold and, you know, standing

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up in the face of fear. And so, you know, in

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prior years, you know, pre -COVID, that looked

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a lot of doing mission work in closed nations

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in North Korea. I went inside of North Korea,

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Iraq, Afghanistan. You know, we planted works

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across the Middle East in the middle of wars,

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rescuing kids out of the sex trade and child

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trafficking, which we still do. But then I really

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felt like, man, you know, I can't go to any more.

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How many more prayer meetings can I go to where

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we're praying for the end of evil legislation

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of abortion or child perversion or just all the

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different things. I, you know, I'll raise my

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hand up and really felt the Lord called me to

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run. And, you know, which by the way, side note,

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you know, really when the Lord tells you to do

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something like, I felt like obviously God told

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me to run because I was going to win. I'm like,

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why else would he told me to do this? You know,

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but I was in California and running in a very,

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I mean, they said it was a purple district. It

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was a very blue district. And, uh, but yet I

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had this optimism like, okay, God, you're calling

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me into this. Like there's no way I can go wrong.

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Um, and of course I didn't win. And it took me

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a little bit to realize that the Lord wanted

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me to peek behind the veil of government, see

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the corruption, see the landscape, see, and that

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really began to set me up for what happened in

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COVID, which the first case of the virus happened

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in the district I was running in a month after

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I lost my election. And so it was like really

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this God set up for me to be able to see how

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that district in California responded, what the

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governor did, all the restrictions, all the tyrannical,

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all the hypocrisy. which enabled us to respond

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in the way that we did. And I couldn't, I don't

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know that I would have responded in the way that

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we did in COVID and the lockdowns had it not

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been for my run in Congress. So all that to say,

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God arranges the seasons and sets us up as long

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as we're willing to follow Him and be obedient,

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He'll make it all work out. Sometimes it takes

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us a few years to look and see, oh, I see His

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plan. But yeah, then we launched, you know, Let

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Us Worship. and became the largest, you know,

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revival pushback movement against that. The lockdowns,

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we went to all 50 U .S. capitals leading up to

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the election, held the largest church services

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in America during the pandemic. And still even

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to this day, this summer, I would say across

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America, I don't know that there's another ministry

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doing more outdoor revival events than we have

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hosted even this summer. So it's been a wild

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journey. It's been full of... twists and turns

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and a lot of opposition in many different ways.

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And so that's why even the book writing about

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how to navigate this spiritual dimension has

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been a message that's been really dear to me,

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something that we've lived. Well, I have so much

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respect for you. And I also wanted to mention

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that I really liked the title of the book, No

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Turning Back. I thought it was very appropriate.

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What I didn't really... realized that it's a

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lyric of a song. I have decided to follow Jesus,

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which is repeated several times and it says no

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turning back, no turning back. Sean, that is

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one of my favorite songs. In our churches, we

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don't sing it, but when I was a kid, I responded

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to the... Something the Lord was calling me to

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several times while they sang this song I have

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decided to follow Jesus and so it really meant

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a lot to me and I thought it was very appropriate

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But there's a very interesting story that I did

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not know about the man from India who wrote that

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song mm -hmm yeah, I mean it was written by a

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martyr basically and He, uh, he, he wrote the,

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and I talk about this in the book, you know,

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um, and I actually didn't know about this. I

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mean, I'd been singing that song a lot at altar

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calls across America. And most recently in one

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of the biggest venues was in the Kennedy center

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at Charlie Kirk's, um, Memorial, his vigil that

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took place in the Kennedy center in DC. I sang

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it. Um, And then all of a sudden I began to realize,

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man, there's such anointing in this. There's

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such, it's surrender in this. And then I researched

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it and realized it was actually a martyr that

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wrote it. And, you know, they were getting ready

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to take him away and he knew he would never see,

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and his whole family, he knew he would never

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see his community again and he was... They were

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you know, he was going through his mind is this

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is this worth it? And he said no turning back,

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you know, we've decided we made up our mind and

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so I think that that was really appropriate for

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Not only of course in the season the vigils that

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we did and stuff in in the wake of Charlie's

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life But I think also everyday for believers,

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you know, as we walk through different seasons

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and especially ones where we know God's called

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us on this path, but it's like we're not used

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to suffering. We're not used to persecution.

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We saw that in COVID where, oh, the government

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knows what it's doing. We're not going to push

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back. I feel like the Lord is trying to train

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our muscles, you know, on how to stand up, how

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to rise up and how to be bold and how to really

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say in the face of great suffering, I've made

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up my mind and I'm not going to change. I've

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decided to follow Jesus. So that song has been

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something that's really been special to me, to

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my family as we've walked through different seasons

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over the last several years. And special to me

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too. Let me ask you, how well did you know Charlie

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Kirk and why did or what were the circumstances

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that led to your leading the music at that memorial

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at the Kennedy Center? Yeah, Charlie and I were

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good friends. I mean, I was texting with him,

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you know, the day before, you know, his assassination.

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And so we joined together and did a lot of joint

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things together. I was at many of the Turning

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point end of the year events. We did pastors

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conferences together and For the first year of

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the Kingdom of the Capitol tour Which we went

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to all 50 US capitals hosting lettuce worship,

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you know preaching the gospel Act, you know activism

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standing up for biblical truths and foundations

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and altar calls ministry communion at every single

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US Capitol, Charlie was a part of the first year

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of that. So we kind of did that together. Um,

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so I, I had a history of, of things with Charlie

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and I mean, I think, uh, you know, I, everybody.

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in the beginning, in some of the early days of

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Turning Point, there wasn't as much of a buy

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-in. Obviously people were called Christian nationalists

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and white supremacists and whatever label they

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like to put. And so I was one of the kind of

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the only worship leaders that was like, hey,

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I don't really care. I just walked through COVID

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and, you know, Charlie was one of the first ones

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to endorse me when I took my congressional run.

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He said, yeah, we need a long -haired worship

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leader in Congress. So he was one of the first

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ones to join with me. And so I was one of the

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first ones to join with him when he started doing

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these events. I said, I'll come lead worship.

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So several times when the president was there,

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different people, I did worship and took the

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heat for it in those days. So when it came time

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for some of the vigils and stuff they had planned,

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especially the Kennedy Center, I was like, Man,

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it would be an honor to get to do worship for

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that. So it was special. Well, let's talk about

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COVID. You know, that's something that none of

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us will ever forget. Now, I happened to live

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down here in what we like to call the free state

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of Florida. And yes, we had shutdowns, but they

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were mild compared to other places. Although

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the very first pastor to get arrested was Rodney

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Howard Brown down in Tampa. They released him

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fairly quickly, but I didn't think I would live

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long enough to see that kind of thing happen.

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Yet it does happen and it's a whole lot worse

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in Canada and you have quite a story about Canada

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too. In fact, it's just hard for me to believe

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how biased the Canadians are. Do you think America

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is going to go that far left or do you think

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the tide is perhaps turning because different

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Christians are now standing up for Like you are

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standing up. And also we, we do have more freedoms

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in our constitution than, than the Canadians

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do. Yeah. Well, I mean, first of all, I, I actually

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had to push, push to Santa's a little bit in,

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in, uh, in a pandemic because I was getting fined

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$2 ,000 a day worshiping Jesus in Florida. So.

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I said, stop posting about you being the free

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state and you guys are, you know, finding me

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more than. So anyway, that was a Palm Beach thing.

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And, and, and, uh, you know, you find these pockets

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of very antagonistic, anti -Christian legislators

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in every state, whether it's a blue state or

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a red state, they're still there, you know? And,

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um, so thankfully we got all those fines reversed,

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but we had to fight in Florida for that. Um,

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now when it comes to Canada, I think, you know,

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I had never imagined, I was actually waiting

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to the Vax requirements, because for a while

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there in order to cross the border into Canada,

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you had to have a vaccine card and I was doing

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that. So I was waiting and I was seeing these

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pastors being drugged off to prison in Canada.

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I mean, a group in Montana, Canada was like right

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across the border. Went up went going there all

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the time but done ministry in Canada for 20 years

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back and forth across the country So it's a place

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that I really love people. I really love And

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I was just crushed to see what was happening

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during kovat in their nation So when they when

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they dropped the vax requirement, we made a plan

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to go from coast to coast Really modeling some

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of those early prayers and even in Canada, you

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know, they have this this statement, I believe

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it's even on their seal or on their whatever

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in Ottawa, but it's from that Christ would have

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dominion from sea to sea. And so that was kind

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of what we ran with to bring Spark Awakening

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and Revival and Hunger, not knowing that we would

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face this. unbelievable bias and hypocrisy and

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really this anti -Christian bigotry. Some call

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it Christophobia that was happening in Canada.

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That was last summer, which ended up being one

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of the biggest news stories. And the devil always

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overplays his hand. We had 12 permits that we

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had planned, paid for, We know we brought all

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of our gear, our bus, our truck, paid all the

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taxes, all the, you know, the insane expenses

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it is to bring stuff across the border, the duties,

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the fees, blah, blah, blah. And we pay for all

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of these permits, had everything in place. And

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then one by one, they began canceling them. They

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canceled 11 out of 12 of our permits. What did

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you do then? Oh, you know, what we did, we don't

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back down for anything. We just, you know, found

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alternate venues, did it in farmer's fields.

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I mean, we just, wherever and however. I thought

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that was cool about the field because it wasn't

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just any field. It was a wheat field and the

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farmer needed to harvest the wheat before it

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could become a big parking lot or whatever you

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needed. Yeah. It was actually really prophetic.

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That was really, really cool. That was the first,

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it was in Nova Scotia actually. And that was

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the first one that was canceled from a bunch

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of crazy LGTBQ activists, you know, that raised

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a fuss and, and, you know, they, they, the city

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canceled it. We had the most epic venue there

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in Nova Scotia, very historic place on the water.

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They canceled it because of safety concerns and.

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So yeah, we had to move it last minute and we

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couldn't, I mean, the sad part to be really,

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you know, honest is that we couldn't find church

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venues that would have us across the country.

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So the pastors were afraid, is that why? It was.

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They were just so afraid. Some of them were in

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the middle of building projects and they didn't

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want to lose favor with the city. I mean, just,

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I can go on and on the list, you know, of just

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how weak and soft and pathetic and frustrated,

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but the good thing is that there were some bold

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pastors. There were some that rose up and said,

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no, we're gonna do this. There were some, and

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definitely there were people. And I think we

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ended up, we're in the middle of three lawsuits

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in Canada right now. I'm not a big lawsuit guy,

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but here I am finding myself in the center of

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lawfare these days, which is the way it goes

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right now. But I feel like God brought us into

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this national conversation of pushing back this

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bigotry and the government trying to silence

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the voice of the church. Really, they were trying

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to cancel every other venue we would find for

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stupid reasons. And then we had a government

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contractor employee that was operating in a secret

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antifa cell that broke inside of a church when

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we were worshiping and threw smoke bombs at us.

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And the police didn't find him, didn't arrest

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him. They find us for hosting the worship service.

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So I don't even understand how that's possible.

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What did you do wrong? Well, their claim is that...

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They're claiming that we didn't have a permit

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to do it inside of a church. I mean, but what

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I'm saying is this is how stupid it is. It's

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like, you don't need a permit to worship God

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inside of a church. That's what churches are

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built for. But what Canada doesn't realize, and

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a lot of people in the US, is how strong and

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powerful these anti -Christian people are that

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are in authority and how they will do anything

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that they can to silence the church. So we get

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called dramatic and we get, you know, I get,

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um, you know, a zillion YouTube videos about

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how it makes stuff up. And it's just this dramatic

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thing. And it's like, no, no. Everybody that

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was in the room saw this guy break in, throw

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smoke bombs at us with the purpose of emptying

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the church so that we had to go outside where

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there was 500 raging protesters ready to do all

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kinds of horrible things to us. Um, that was

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the goal, but yet. What's wild is that the smoke

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alarms did not go off, which is crazy because

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the pastor was like, we light a birthday candle

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in here and they go off. He's like, it's a miracle.

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You know, so it's just, it's just wild how God

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works. But the point is, is that that confrontation

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brought a national conversation to the forefront

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in Canada. And it was like, well, why And it

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was even like normal people. Like, we had people

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showing up to the Let Us Worship event, so we're

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not church people. Just because they were caught

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up in this religious liberties conversation,

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and they were like, what is so crazy about what

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these guys are doing? Like, what's so wild about

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this long -haired dude? He wants to worship God

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and do whatever, let him do it, you know? So

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we actually had public opinion turn on this one

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issue simply because we provoked something. You

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know, we didn't plan for it. We didn't want it.

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It ended up costing me a ton of money. So much

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money that we never got back. Um, having to pivot

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and do secondary events. We're still in lawsuits

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to get the initial money back, you know? So,

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uh, it's not easy. That's why to bring a full

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circle about the book, uh, it's not easy. It's

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not, it's not a walk in the park, but yet it's

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part of following Jesus. And he's, he's been

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with us every step of the way. You know, one

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of the things that stood out to me is you said

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the greatest challenges, the greatest emergency

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in history are also the greatest opportunities

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for revival. Can you elaborate? Yeah. Yeah, I

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think the great, like, I mean, we say the greater

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the resistance, the greater the breakthrough.

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I think that the, you know, there's opportunities

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when things get so bad or, you know, I mean,

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you look in America, it's like, it had to get

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so bad for people to actually wake up. And I

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think if you look throughout the Bible or even

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the Old Testament, you can see the Israelites,

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when they were in seasons of prosperity and apathy

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and things were fine, they weren't really motivated.

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And the sad part is that sometimes it takes tragedy

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to motivate people. to want to change, to motivate

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people to have urgency. With Charlie Kirk being

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assassinated, you know, one of the things that

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came out at the funeral was something about a

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seed falling to the ground and, you know, they're

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becoming a lot of Charlie Kirk's. Are you saying

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that at all? Yeah. As a result, it's almost been

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a year since he was shot. Yeah, I mean... I feel

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like in the in the in the beginnings of that

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there was a real move like profound move of God

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where You know churches were packed people were

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coming to church. It was just like this I mean

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Beholding a guy in the most publicly viewed assassination

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maybe in high -profile assassination maybe in

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history Because everyone's seen it on their phones

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and on social media and it's replayed a million

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times It provokes people to want to live a life

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Worth, you know something and so I felt like

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that was amazing. But then I felt like the enemy

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released a counter move Which was one of conspiracy

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and suspicion and division And I feel like the

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purpose of that counter move was to rob what

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God was doing. I think right now we're seeing

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that, you know, the rise of the conspiracy podcasters

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and the whole purpose is to derail and distract

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from what God's doing. We've had a lot of those

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people come after us too. And so, you know, you

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have to recognize, again, pointing back to the

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book on spiritual warfare, you have to recognize

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The enemy is trying to come distract, discourage,

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and derail a genuine move of God. And so, yes,

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I think there was a movement that was birthed,

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but the enemy birthed a counter movement to try

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to distract and discourage people. We got to

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get back. We got to get back to what it's all

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about. In the few minutes we have left, I want

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to talk about the book. Before we went on, we

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were actually talking about how people don't

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read like they used to. I'm a reader. I read

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a book a week and I loved reading your book.

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I thought it was excellent. I highly recommend

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it to people. If somebody's watched this long,

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it means they're pretty interested in you. Of

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course, there's a lot of places they can see

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you on YouTube and everything else, but tell,

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persuade my viewers why they should buy this

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book, which by the way is probably easiest to

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get it on Amazon. You'll get it tomorrow. But

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why should somebody spend the two and a half

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or three hours it takes to read a book like this?

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Yeah, I mean, I just think right now, I think

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what I'm really struck with is there's a lot

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of people, either there's two categories of people.

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One, people that are just so overwhelmed with...

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What's happening out there with fientines with

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wars and rumors of wars and economies shaking

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and shifting and you know we have access to every

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single tragedy that we can get in our phone that

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comes in a second and they can overwhelm so they

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kind of disengage and. I think that that can

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be an issue because we're called as Christians

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to be salt and light then there's the other people

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that I think they're so engrossed in it that

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they're more impressed with What the devil is

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doing and very under impressed with what God

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is doing. And so my encouragement is like Why

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I wrote this book is not to sell it and sell

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copies. Like this is not This to me is not, it's

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not a branding thing. I really felt this word

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of the Lord remind the church about the weapons

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of worship and prayer and spiritual warfare.

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And I feel even since releasing it ever more

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stirred with this, we have to wake up the people.

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Like the church has to wake up. I feel like we're,

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just to be very honest, I feel like we're veering

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back into pre -COVID days. Like we forgot just

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six years ago what happened to us. And, you know,

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there's a lot of Christians with amnesia. And

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so my heart is that this would be a manual that

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would wake people up to the fullness of what

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God has for them to not be overwhelmed, you know,

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with, with evil or with distraction, with whatever,

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uh, but be consumed with, with what God's doing

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in the story he's writing and then activated

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to become a solution and be salt and light. So

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that would be my encouragement. I think I've

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written a bunch of books, sold a lot of books.

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I think this is probably the best one I've ever

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written. My wife thinks it is. So I would encourage

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you to get it. And your publisher does too. I

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really like this book. I highly recommend people

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read it. I appreciate you fitting in time to

00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:58.380
talk about it because we're doing a lot of publicity,

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but I wanted to personally do it on my podcast

00:27:01.420 --> 00:27:04.160
because I want to... encourage the people who

00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:06.779
follow me to read the book. I think it'll really

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benefit them. And thanks to you for taking the

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time. Thank you for the leadership that you provide

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in the body of Christ. You know, I've seen and

00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:22.519
read a lot of bad stuff about you, but from my

00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:25.259
personal interaction and watching you now for

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what, six or eight years, I believe that you're

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the real deal. And I just... pray that you'll

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raise up many other, that God will raise up many

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other Sean Foyts because we certainly need it.

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So, and to my viewers, thank you for watching.

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Tune in again next week for another episode of

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The String Report. God bless you.