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0:00Can I tell you something?
0:01>> Oh, my gosh, what? Let me guess.
0:04>> Okay, I'll let you guess.
0:05>> Is it about your car?
0:08I I already know.
0:10>> How do you know?
0:10>> Cuz I just I just
0:12You know what? I know
0:13>> it?
0:13>> Yeah.
0:15>> What do you think happened?
0:17You have a popped tire.
0:20You went over a curb.
0:21You backed into something.
0:23>> Close, but the opposite.
0:25>> You Yeah, you you put your the pedal to
0:28the metal cuz you're on your phone.
0:30>> No. No. Okay.
0:32I had a fender bender.
0:34Barely touched this on my way here. What
0:36happened was I was on the [snorts]
0:38>> beautiful.
0:39>> Thank you. It's very I was on the phone
0:41with my friend and what?
0:44>> It's so weird. I think that black thing
0:46just it's on your lip now. This is
0:47[laughter] bizarre.
0:49This is a bizarre moment. Sorry. Sorry,
0:51gang. Sorry. [laughter]
0:52What what what was that a Was that a
0:55coke cocoa nib?
0:57Cocoa nib.
0:58Cocoa nib. It actually
1:00>> It was. How did you know that?
1:01>> It is?
1:02>> Yes. What is your problem today? Oh my
1:04gosh, you're so prophetic.
1:06Can you Can you tell No, no, like
1:08Godlike prophecy.
1:10>> [laughter]
1:11>> No, I'm impressed with that movie.
1:13>> I know.
1:14>> Okay, well
1:14>> Cuz I think nobody can get mad at us for
1:16at us for anything anymore cuz they know
1:18us. They know we're literally kidding
1:2099% of the time.
1:21>> I know, except for those couple where
1:23they're like, "You girls are so are so
1:25so fluffy."
1:26>> I know.
1:27>> You joke too much. I'm like, "Can we
1:29laugh a little?"
1:30>> Literally. I know.
1:31>> So this guy this guy not this guy.
1:34So I'm on the phone with a friend and
1:36she's telling me about just like this
1:39story about this girl who was getting
1:41sober and going to rehab and was like
1:43going through a lot and I was just
1:45overtaken by compassion.
1:47>> Yeah.
1:48>> And we were going slow like so slow. I
1:50mean, I barely touched this person.
1:52>> Were you on the highway?
1:53>> No. No, no. [snorts] I was at a
1:55stoplight.
1:55>> Mhm.
1:56>> Um but you know how cars inch up a
1:58little bit? And so I I start praying and
2:01I'm like, "Lord, I cover this girl in
2:04the blood of Jesus." But I closed my
2:06eyes.
2:07>> [gasps]
2:08>> And all of the sudden
2:09>> [laughter]
2:11>> I just did a little like a like a little
2:13just a little kiss. Like I just kissed
2:15its bumper and
2:17nothing happened. Nothing was dented. It
2:19was just a little paint.
2:23And it was all cuz I wanted to pray for
2:25this girl.
2:27>> [laughter]
2:28>> I can't. But for everyone listening
2:31right now, just
2:33I am so sorry that when it comes
2:35[laughter] to driving on the road, we
2:37are just such
2:38terrible examples to the
2:40>> [laughter]
2:40>> Horrible examples. Do as I say, don't do
2:42as I do.
2:43>> bumper, huh? You just you just
2:45[laughter]
2:45kissed the bumper. [gasps]
2:47>> And then my my friend goes, um, "I'm
2:50confused. Why did Jesus let you run into
2:52that person if you were like doing
2:54something like praying?" And I was like,
2:56>> don't know. Maybe that's close your eyes
2:58and drive.
2:58>> it's not his fault. I closed my freaking
3:00eyes." Like and she goes, "You standing
3:02up for him?" I said, "Absolutely."
3:03>> So my dad always is like 20 ft behind
3:07the car.
3:08>> My mom, too.
3:09>> And it's something that like always
3:10irritates me cuz it's like, "Dad, just
3:12go. Like just drive."
3:13>> That's me, too. Just go.
3:16>> But now I'm so much like my father when
3:18I drive. Like I drive extra slow. I stop
3:21at the yellow light.
3:22>> You become your dad every day.
3:24>> No, it's actually uncanny.
3:26>> And I'm becoming my mom.
3:28>> But I am like my mom too in certain
3:30ways. But
3:31>> We just become more like them as we get
3:33older.
3:34>> So
3:36now, [clears throat] yeah. But here's
3:39the thing.
3:40I'd rather
3:42be slow and annoying than like
3:46get a like
3:47>> It's good.
3:48>> Get in a car accident.
3:49>> No, and it's good and it's good and it's
3:52good.
3:52>> to me though. My sister even said it.
3:54She's like, "You used to drive like
3:57>> I think your frontal lobe
3:58>> Andretti."
3:59>> Who's that?
4:00>> The race car driver. Like I used to
4:03weave. I used to like I was nuts.
4:06>> Do you know Lewis Hamilton?
4:07>> Yeah.
4:07>> Um
4:08>> He's dating Kim.
4:09>> Kim. First name basis. Our girl Kim.
4:12>> [laughter]
4:12>> How you been? How was everything?
4:16>> How's everything?
4:17>> How's everything?
4:19Everything's good. Me and you have some
4:20travel coming up. We're going to Vegas,
4:24Arizona, Orlando, bus.
4:28>> Bus.
4:28>> Bus. Car.
4:29>> Party.
4:29>> Club.
4:30>> Club.
4:31>> Car.
4:31>> Club.
4:31>> How does that How does that song go?
4:33Party. Bus.
4:34>> Do people still go to nightclubs?
4:37There's no way, right?
4:39>> I've heard that LA club culture died.
4:42What are we talking about?
4:44>> [laughter]
4:44>> Thank god.
4:45>> think Well, you know Gen Z like doesn't
4:47really drink.
4:49I love us.
4:50>> I'm telling you this is amazing.
4:52>> Yeah.
4:52>> You love
4:54>> [laughter]
4:54>> You love your uh
4:56>> I love my cute little camera.
4:59I am a millennial Gen Z cusp. I'm on the
5:01year that it switched.
5:03>> me too.
5:04>> [laughter]
5:07>> I know.
5:08>> Me too.
5:08>> Me too.
5:09>> Seriously.
5:09>> Two Gen Z's over here just trying to
5:11figure it out with our low-rise baggy
5:13jeans.
5:14>> [laughter]
5:14>> We're just a couple of Gen Z kids.
5:17>> Yeah. No matter what any of these Gen
5:20Z's are doing, I'm never going to stop
5:23>> wearing high-waisted
5:24>> high-waisted jeans with my thick belts
5:26and my '90s little
5:29>> You know.
5:30>> Yeah.
5:31>> What's the word? Style?
5:32>> Uh
5:33Fashionista.
5:34>> That's not [laughter] the word. Okay.
5:36>> I sweated a lot last night. And in my
5:39sleep Yeah. Is it sweated? Sweat.
5:41>> it's it's sweat.
5:43>> No, it's
5:44>> It's sweat.
5:44>> Sweat.
5:45>> [sighs]
5:46>> No, that's called swass.
5:47>> It's sweet.
5:48>> What?
5:49>> Swass.
5:49>> [clears throat and laughter]
5:54[gasps and laughter]
5:55>> You're going to give an account for that
5:56one.
5:57>> your hair look this morning [snorts]
5:58when you woke up? Have
5:59Have you been wearing a bonnet?
6:01>> Yeah, but I took a shower this morning.
6:03>> you be wearing a bonnet with your
6:04[snorts] husband?
6:05>> Yeah.
6:06>> Yeah?
6:07>> Yeah.
6:07>> Okay.
6:08>> I have enough
6:09uh
6:10Like it's all about the personality. You
6:12distract him with your multiple
6:14personalities and he won't even notice
6:16that what you're wearing a bonnet and an
6:18eye mask.
6:19>> How many personalities do you think you
6:20have?
6:22>> Mhm.
6:24Nah, I just have one.
6:26How many do you have?
6:27>> [gasps]
6:29>> I think two.
6:31>> What are they?
6:33>> I think I can be very calm and just
6:36chill and then I can also be very fiery
6:40and
6:41>> Boston.
6:42>> I don't know why I'm laughing.
6:44>> What is it
6:45What What do they call me when I turn
6:47Boston? Fred.
6:49>> Who calls you Fred?
6:50>> Like a Like a southy
6:52like Irish man coming out of the pub
6:55that's about to like
6:57>> fight everybody.
6:58>> No, just kind of
6:59>> [laughter]
7:00>> Smoke a cigarette and fight everybody.
7:01>> Start some trouble.
7:03>> [gasps]
7:04>> You've been super Boston recently, I
7:05feel.
7:06>> Really?
7:07>> Yeah.
7:07>> What What do you mean?
7:08>> the last year.
7:09>> You think You know what it You know why?
7:10>> Huh?
7:11>> Cuz I Cuz I finally accept myself.
7:13>> Good.
7:14>> All those years trying to get rid of
7:16this accent.
7:18>> For what?
7:18>> That's so crazy.
7:20>> to for acting.
7:21Even though I always ended up just
7:23booking the Brooklyn girl.
7:25>> It's just so crazy because it's the best
7:27part of your personality. It's like your
7:29personality. It's your humor.
7:31>> Really?
7:32>> Yeah.
7:33>> Well, you You've been more Boston this
7:36year more than ever, too.
7:38>> Yeah.
7:39>> [gasps]
7:40>> Well, two of your best friends are from
7:41Boston.
7:43>> Yeah, but I don't think I'm
7:45>> But Christina doesn't have
7:46>> She doesn't have a Boston accent at all.
7:48>> At all. I don't think Neither does my
7:49sister.
7:52>> I think it's just like an East Coast
7:54vibe. I think I just
7:56>> What's the East Coast vibe? Like tell me
7:58about it.
7:58>> Like probably very I feel like the East
8:01Coast vibe is like hyperbolic, for
8:04example. It's like we use very intense
8:06language. We're very passionate. Like
8:09the difference Like well, you know what
8:11I Does that make sense?
8:13>> Like what?
8:14>> Like we're very intense in the way that
8:15we speak. We
8:17>> Yeah.
8:18Intense.
8:20Oh, like Like what are you talking
8:22about? Like
8:23>> Like what are you talking about? Yeah.
8:24>> Do Do an Do an impression of your mom
8:26and I'll do an impression of mine.
8:27>> Okay, hang on.
8:30>> I I What's Yeah.
8:31>> My mom, when she doesn't like a
8:33conversation that's happening and knows
8:34that someone else in the family is about
8:36to get triggered, she goes, "Uh-huh. Oh,
8:39I love that movie." Yeah, I remember. It
8:41makes me so mad.
8:42>> Wait. Wait. What?
8:43>> So, if I like bring something up like at
8:45a dinner table or like whatever and she
8:47doesn't like it, she'll go, "Oh, yeah, I
8:49love that movie. Uh-huh." And like
8:51switch. It makes me so mad.
8:54>> If she doesn't like it?
8:56>> Yeah, if she doesn't like it, she'll go,
8:57"Oh, I love that movie."
8:59>> Do you know why you don't you don't you
9:00hate it so much? Cuz you do that. Cuz
9:03you do that.
9:03>> No, I don't.
9:04>> I don't do that. [snorts]
9:06>> You do that when I'm having a panic
9:07attack. You'll go, "Oh, Target."
9:09>> Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, but tell me that
9:10doesn't help you when you're on the
9:12highway about to drive off the cliff.
9:14>> That hasn't happened, by the way, in a
9:15[laughter] long time.
9:16You're actually getting really bad.
9:19I'm better, right?
9:20>> You're doing so good.
9:21>> Thank you. What were you going to say?
9:24What does your mom do?
9:25>> Oh, no, I was going to say that I wasn't
9:28Cuz we're talking about like be a doer
9:30of the word, not just a sayer.
9:32>> Yeah.
9:32>> And
9:35I wasn't a doer yesterday of the word.
9:39>> Why? Sometimes when you just get on the
9:41phone with your mom, you got to
9:43>> [laughter]
9:44>> you got to take deep breaths and then
9:45you get off the phone and you're like,
9:46someday I'm going to miss this.
9:49Do you ever do that?
9:50>> I was just on the phone with my mom
9:52coming in here. And I had a moment where
9:54I was about to be like, okay, well, I
9:56love you. And then I literally felt
9:57myself go,
9:59it's okay, relax.
10:00>> Yeah.
10:00>> You know?
10:01>> Yeah, all right. That's what I do. I go,
10:03all right, it's time to go. And then
10:05that's how you just like stay No, stay
10:07on the phone. I did that yesterday, too.
10:09>> I hate when you do that to me. When
10:10you're like, all right, well, I love
10:13you. Take care. Send photos.
10:15>> All right, text me.
10:16>> That's you.
10:16>> I'll call you right back, right? I'll
10:18call you right back, someone's calling.
10:19>> Well, do you know what you do?
10:21>> [laughter]
10:24>> She pretends it gets disconnected when
10:26somebody she wants to talk to more calls
10:29her. She just hangs up. I'm like
10:31>> Yeah, but no, no. But now when it's just
10:33you and I, now when it's just you and I
10:36you don't do that.
10:36>> You'll be like I'll be like, so I was
10:38like, no. So I was like, so what
10:40happened was I was hold on one second.
10:42Click.
10:42>> No, come on.
10:44>> Okay, tell everyone the truth.
10:45>> No, the truth is the truth is if I'm on
10:47FaceTime with multiple people
10:49>> [laughter]
10:51>> No, if I like on the the other day, I
10:54was on FaceTime with my mom and she was
10:56telling me a story and I was like, wait,
10:57I want Ari to hear this. So I FaceTimed
10:59you in. So the three of us are talking.
11:01I got a phone call. I said, hey guys,
11:02one second. I hang up. And then I leave
11:05you and my mom on FaceTime and then my
11:08mom texts me an hour later, that was so
11:10mean. Why did you do that?
11:12>> confused [laughter]
11:13and I knew exactly what you did and I'm
11:15like, anyways, Caleb Flynn.
11:17>> I know. And then you guys sat and talked
11:19for another hour. Um, but I don't do it
11:21when it's just me and you. But I will be
11:23like,
11:24>> You won't hang up but you'll be like
11:27>> [laughter]
11:30>> I [gasps] don't I have this really
11:32[clears throat] weird thing where I
11:33don't know how to get off the phone with
11:35people. It makes me uncomfortable to
11:37have to say goodbye.
11:39>> It's when somebody that you want to talk
11:41to more in that season.
11:44>> Season?
11:46>> No, I um no, sometimes like I just want
11:49to be treated like a woman. [laughter]
11:51I don't want to be treated like a little
11:53kid.
11:53>> Who's treating you like a little
11:54>> what I'm saying. The incongruent the
11:56sayer the So, my mom calls me
11:59and it's just like every day
12:01Hi. What's so
12:04Nothing. What's up? Did you pay that
12:05bill? [laughter] Did you lock the door?
12:07>> It's First of all, you do it in in
12:10person.
12:11>> No, I'm like, "Mom, [clears throat] yes,
12:12I locked the door and I'm also been
12:14living on my own for like since I was a
12:16kid." No, because my freaking kid
12:19doesn't have her freaking brain screwed
12:22on. All right? And you're going to call
12:24me and you're going to say, "Mom, I
12:25forgot to pay the bill. It's late." No,
12:27you're like, "Did you look both ways
12:28before you crossed the street?"
12:30>> It's amazing.
12:31>> [laughter]
12:31>> All day.
12:32>> It's amazing.
12:33>> And so I snapped on her a little bit and
12:35then I called her back and I go, "Was
12:36this being a doer or the word?" No, I
12:38go, "I'm sorry, Mom." She goes, "Yeah,
12:40you better be. Goodbye."
12:42>> You know what my You know what the I
12:44think this is an East Coast thing.
12:46So, she It's so funny like even when I
12:49was little with the nuns she So, she
12:50would say, "If you act up, I'm calling
12:52the nuns."
12:54Yeah. So, she would have her friend Gail
12:57like she They had a whole script. She
12:59would pretend she was the nun and she
13:00goes, [laughter] "Oh, yeah? You want to
13:02act like that? You're going to the nuns.
13:03Pack your stuff." I was like a kid and
13:06I'd be like, "No."
13:08And she'd be like, "Yeah." She goes,
13:10"All right, and if you do it again,
13:11here, she's on the phone. Talk to her."
13:14And Gail would pretend she would pretend
13:15she's the nun. "Hello, Ariel.
13:18You're going to be a good girl, right?"
13:20>> [laughter]
13:21>> Wait, that's so funny. That's what Vilma
13:23does with the kids. I think she goes um
13:25"Oh, I'm going to call your teacher. I'm
13:27going to call your teacher." And she
13:28would go, "No!"
13:30>> Yeah. [laughter]
13:31Yeah, and so for that next week I'd be
13:32on my best behavior.
13:34>> So we didn't have to you know what put
13:36>> call the nuns. I'll call the freaking
13:37nuns. [laughter] Get in your room.
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16:06Hey, can I ask you a question? If you
16:07were to date John, Matthew, Mark, or
16:10Luke,
16:10>> [laughter]
16:12>> who would you date?
16:17I would date John.
16:18John the Baptist.
16:20>> Oh, I meant the beloved, but you like
16:22the Baptist.
16:24John, Mark, who else?
16:26>> Luke and Matthew.
16:28>> I mean, I wish I could be with Paul, but
16:30he remains single.
16:31>> He remained single.
16:32>> Yeah. Yeah.
16:33>> So, that's not an option. Who would you
16:34be with?
16:35>> [snorts]
16:35>> I would probably want Can I Why isn't
16:37James in that that
16:39>> Yeah, you could be
16:40James of Zebedee?
16:41>> I probably would be with James just cuz
16:43he seems so rational and
16:45>> Yeah. Yeah.
16:46>> kind and I feel like he's super cute,
16:49too.
16:49>> He is Well, yeah, cuz he was cute on The
16:51Chosen.
16:52>> I don't know.
16:52>> He was the cute one on The Chosen.
16:54James, yeah.
16:55>> [snorts]
16:55>> Um
16:57If we could go through the disciples, I
16:59would choose This is the most ridiculous
17:01episode. I would choose
17:03um obviously Peter because me and Peter
17:06would get into so much trouble together.
17:09Two fools.
17:11Well, okay.
17:12>> [laughter]
17:16[laughter]
17:17>> What's that?
17:20>> [gasps]
17:21>> You mean?
17:22>> [laughter]
17:23>> I don't know what you mean. Like
17:25>> Yeah.
17:26>> Like acting fool like fooling around.
17:28>> [laughter]
17:29>> Would you fish with them?
17:31>> Yeah, we'd Yeah, we'd fish together.
17:34We'd probably have a little bit of like
17:35a toxic relationship.
17:37>> would be nuts together.
17:39>> You'd be like fighting.
17:41>> [laughter]
17:42>> Jesus would have been your saying go
17:44get away from me Satan to be too.
17:46[laughter]
17:46>> What is going on?
17:48>> No, remember when he was like trying to
17:50tell Jesus cuz he was manic and he's
17:52like kept [laughter] behind him saying
17:53it. So Jesus would do it.
17:55>> No, that's literally me. We've been
17:56going through the book of James.
17:59>> Remember when we used to speak Spanish?
18:01>> Yeah.
18:01>> Okay.
18:02Um
18:03We've been going through the book of
18:04James for a long time now. And I'm so
18:08grateful for the way that we move
18:09through it because I think reading the
18:11Bible should be verse by verse like
18:13this. And so today we are finishing the
18:15book of James and I'm just really
18:18excited for this.
18:20>> And no, we're not finishing the book of
18:22James. Sorry, we're finishing the first
18:24chapter of James.
18:25>> [laughter]
18:28[gasps]
18:28>> Watch your mouth.
18:30>> [laughter]
18:30>> Okay.
18:31So
18:33let's read it all first. We're going to
18:34go James 1:22 all the way to James 1:20
18:39seven. Do not merely listen to the word
18:42and so deceive yourselves. Do what it
18:45says. Anyone who listens to the word but
18:47does not do what it says is like someone
18:50who looks at his face in a mirror and
18:52after looking at himself goes away and
18:55immediately forgets what he looks like.
18:57But whoever looks intently into the
18:59perfect law that gives freedom and
19:02continues in it, not forgetting what
19:04they have heard but doing it, they will
19:06be blessed in what they do.
19:09>> Those who consider themselves and do not
19:11keep a tight rein on their tongues
19:13deceive themselves.
19:15And their religion is worthless.
19:17Religion that God our father accepts as
19:20pure and faultless is this. To look
19:22after orphans and widows in their
19:24distress and to keep oneself from being
19:27polluted by the world.
19:28>> All right, let's start verse by verse.
19:30That first verse, James 1:22, do not be
19:33doers of the word or sorry, be doers of
19:36the word. Do not merely listen to the
19:38word and so Stop. [laughter]
19:43Be do do not be doers of the word. Be
19:46[snorts] doers of the word, you guys. Do
19:48not merely listen to the word and so
19:49deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
19:51James word word
19:54James warns that hearing God's word
19:56without obeying it leads to
19:57self-deception. Now, there are two ways
20:00I feel like this has come up in my life.
20:02First, it's when I first started reading
20:04the Bible and I would cherry-pick from
20:06the word what served me. So, I would
20:08read all the passages about God being
20:10sovereign and God being kind and God
20:13being faithful and delivering me from my
20:15enemies and delivering me from anxieties
20:18and and like all the scripture that is
20:20like comfort comfort comfort. Jesus is
20:23here for you and he loves you so much.
20:25And then the parts of it that actually
20:27convicted me and confronted me and
20:29challenged me to change and be more like
20:32Jesus. I would be like, no, thank you.
20:34>> Yeah.
20:35>> That's not for me. So, I was like and
20:37you guys know this about me but and and
20:39you too that we were like literally
20:41reading the Bible, loving the word,
20:43believing in the word and then just
20:44leaving out the parts that we didn't
20:46feel like succumbing to yet.
20:48>> Yeah.
20:49>> Um and then the other way though is
20:52and this is something I've been and I
20:54want your opinion on this. This is
20:55something I've been sensing and seeing a
20:57lot recently that like
21:00I feel like
21:01when we try to interpret the word in a
21:06way that serves us, and I know I've been
21:08there, and
21:10I just see this a lot where like someone
21:12can be going through something in their
21:13life and read the word in a way that
21:17kind of
21:18either justifies them or
21:21uh
21:22just makes them like right in a
21:24situation when really God is like
21:27maybe speaking something else, and I
21:29think that's something that
21:30>> an example of that cuz I'm truly
21:33I want to know what you mean.
21:33>> Yeah.
21:35So, basically, what I mean is like
21:38I'll I'll take an example from my own
21:40life. Like reading scripture and being
21:43like, "Okay, I need to be the kind of
21:45friend that scripture calls me to
21:47challenge and confront and XYZ and blah
21:51blah blah," and I'm doing that, and this
21:53person isn't receiving it well, but
21:54that's on them because I'm doing what
21:56scripture is calling me to do.
21:57>> Yeah.
21:58>> When in reality, when I look back with
22:01humility, I say, "Oh, I was taking
22:04scripture, but I wasn't doing it in the
22:07way that God intended for me to do it,
22:09and actually that person needed to be
22:11loved by me. That person needed to be
22:14accepted by me.
22:16That doesn't mean to be okay with what
22:18they were doing, but if I make this
22:20person feel judged and not accepted,
22:22they will never receive from me what I
22:24want them to receive."
22:25>> Yes.
22:26>> And so, I look back. I have so many
22:27situations like that where
22:29I
22:31I was I was deceived even reading the
22:33Bible, you know?
22:35>> Mhm. Well, that I think that's what so
22:37many people do. They they take it and
22:39they abuse the word.
22:40>> Right. Yeah.
22:41>> that so much. Like they take it and they
22:43like so many Christians are become so
22:46abusive.
22:47>> Right.
22:47>> And it makes people run from
22:48Christianity because they're taking
22:50scripture and they're like making it
22:52>> Yeah.
22:52>> into this thing that it's not.
22:54>> 100% Yeah. And I really like this.
22:56Spiritual maturity isn't simply measured
22:58by how much scripture we you
23:00but by how it transforms our lives. And
23:03I think it's just even in the little
23:05things
23:06I've said this so many times, but like I
23:08remember when I was younger, I thought
23:10like
23:11to be like a
23:13obeyer and a doer of the word meant that
23:15I just like didn't do certain things.
23:18When really it's like
23:20searching my heart, letting God search
23:22my heart and be like, oh yeah, that
23:24response like had a little bit of pride
23:26or that response was a little bit
23:28arrogant. And like those are the matters
23:30that I feel like God is speaking to the
23:33most. Like yeah, it's easy to do the big
23:35outward things. Like obviously we're not
23:37going to have sex and drink and do
23:38drugs. I just think it's like the small
23:41things of the heart, you know?
23:43>> And I think that's I think even like
23:45that's what it means in the second line
23:47where it says, "Anyone who listens to
23:49the word but does not do what it says is
23:52like someone who looks at his face in
23:54the mirror and after looking at himself
23:56goes away and immediately forgets what
23:58he looks like." That's exactly what
24:00you're talking about. It's like imagine
24:02like you you look in the mirror, you see
24:04like dirt all over your face.
24:05>> Right.
24:06>> And instead of washing your face off,
24:08you just keep keep on walking. And it's
24:11it's the same with scripture. Like
24:12>> Yeah.
24:13>> the word of God reveals what's in us and
24:17we can ignore it and continue to keep
24:20living the same way or we can humble
24:23ourselves and respond in obedience and
24:26let the word transform us. When David
24:28was a man after God's heart, it's not
24:30that he was perfect, but he humbled
24:32himself. He had a heart of repentance.
24:34He kept fighting for purity and that's
24:37that that's what it is. That's what it
24:38means to be a doer of the word. God does
24:41not want us to just be a mouthpiece. He
24:43wants us to demonstrate through how we
24:45live our lives.
24:46>> So good.
24:47>> How do how we love, how we forgive, how
24:49we treat people what they can do nothing
24:51for us, how we treat someone that maybe
24:55doesn't treat us the best, how generous
24:57and compassionate we are to others
24:59>> Yeah.
24:59>> should testify the Jesus living in us.
25:01And one thing I want to say is like
25:04we're not always going to get it
25:05perfect. We're not always going to
25:07respond like Jesus. Sometimes our flesh
25:09is going to get the best of us, but
25:11there's a difference between falling
25:13short and being comfortable in your
25:16disobedience. How can we be doers of the
25:19word if we don't spend time in his word?
25:21How can we be doers of the word if we
25:24are not down on our phones all day and
25:26we can't hear him? How can we be doers
25:28of the word if we don't sit in his
25:30presence? It's his presence that
25:32transforms us. It's the word of God that
25:34transforms us. But if we're just reading
25:36it and we're just like going about our
25:38lives and keep living the same way, then
25:40it's ignorance. Integrity, a person with
25:43integrity is someone who walks living
25:46out what the word of God says.
25:48>> Period. Yeah. And I you know what I love
25:51too so much is that in what you were
25:53reading James 1:24, how it talks about
25:57so you look at your face in the mirror,
25:58but then after looking at yourself you
26:00go away and immediately you forget um
26:03what you look like. And I think it just
26:05speaks to the fact that like don't walk
26:07away from Jesus unchanged. Don't walk
26:10away from reading the word unchanged.
26:12Don't walk away from a big conference or
26:14a Sunday service unchanged. Don't ride
26:17the highs of emotions. If you experience
26:20something, I can't tell you how many
26:21times I've like experienced something
26:24with Jesus where I'm confronted and I'm
26:26encouraged to repent and do something
26:28different.
26:30And if I just like feel that emotion, I
26:32think what happens to people sometimes
26:33is they'll just feel the shame and
26:35they'll feel the guilt and they'll feel
26:37like a I feel the confrontation and then
26:39they think that's enough. If you feel
26:41bad, that's that's what repentance is.
26:44And what I think people need to
26:45understand is that confession and
26:47repentance aren't the same thing.
26:49Confession is saying like oh yeah, I
26:51that is true. I do acknowledge that I
26:53was wrong or that is wrong or that's not
26:55Christ-like, that's not godly.
26:58But then repent. So, that's just
27:00confession though, and I feel like a lot
27:01of people stop there and that's why they
27:03don't have true change. You can't just
27:05acknowledge, yeah, that was wrong. True
27:07repentance means that you change your
27:09mind and then you turn the other way.
27:11So, you acknowledge, you confess to
27:13people and to Jesus, but then you repent
27:16and you say, I'm going to do it
27:17differently next time. And again, that
27:19doesn't mean that it's perfect. You are
27:21not a bad person if you repent and then
27:24fall short once again. And you and I had
27:26a conversation yesterday where we were
27:28talking about how
27:30I think sometimes the language is in the
27:32language in church is like, oh yeah, I
27:34met Jesus and then my entire life
27:36changed. And that is true in a sense. So
27:39many things can change about you, about
27:41your life. And at the same time, if you
27:44go 25 years living your life a certain
27:46way with all the trauma and all the
27:48triggers and all the patterns and the
27:50family stuff that you grew up in,
27:53that takes time.
27:55And it takes acknowledging, repenting,
27:59trying again the next time. Shoot, I did
28:01it again. That's my pattern. I'm going
28:03to try again. That is what we're talking
28:05about. So, it's not that you're going to
28:07be perfect, but it's not it's also not
28:09just the emotion of feeling bad about
28:11something. It's pursuing the change.
28:14>> The the the glorious moments that I have
28:18and when I feel the sweetest presence of
28:21Jesus is when I am literally so honest
28:25of like, you don't have to hide in shame
28:28because God can't heal what you don't
28:32confront.
28:33>> Exactly.
28:34>> It's like, when you hear it too, people
28:36could be like,
28:37there's certain things that I didn't
28:39want to give up. There's certain things
28:41that I didn't want to change. Go deeper,
28:44get real because it's in that place
28:45where he he communes with you. When you
28:48read the word, you have to just read it
28:50to experience the person of Jesus.
28:52That's when it starts to transform you.
28:55You have to sit with it. You have to
28:57say, "Encounter me in your word." Not
28:59just going to the word to to read, yeah,
29:01but to actually encounter the person of
29:03Jesus. That's when it starts to
29:05transform your life.
29:07>> Yeah.
29:07>> And that's when you become a a doer of
29:10the word. The word of God transforms you
29:13from the inside and out, but you have to
29:14let the walls of pride down. You have to
29:17stop saying, "I don't know if I believe
29:19this. There's some things in here I
29:21don't know." You know what I mean? When
29:23you put those walls of pride down, you
29:25say
29:27say to your father, "Encounter me in
29:29this. I want the word to transform me. I
29:31don't want to stay the way I am. I want
29:33to have the faith. Give me faith that I
29:35can read this and it can start to
29:37literally like do something in my
29:39heart." That's what I had to do from the
29:41very beginning. Even some things that I
29:43didn't understand and it was like, "It's
29:46been transforming my heart all these
29:48years." And there's And what's so
29:50beautiful is like
29:52I don't even like every month I see I'm
29:55like blossoming more and more, but you
29:57have to allow the word to transform you.
30:00You can't stay in pride and like with a
30:03heart and heart because if you do, it
30:05will never get to your heart and change
30:07you. You have to be willing to let the
30:09word take root in your heart to
30:11transform you. And that's how you look
30:14more like Jesus.
30:15>> I think one of the most important things
30:17to remember is that
30:19if you you can read the entire Bible
30:21start to finish and if you don't see
30:23Jesus in the Bible, it will do nothing
30:25for you.
30:26Every Pharisee, every religious leader,
30:29every like expert theologian, Paul was
30:32an expert in theology, Nicodemus was uh
30:36an expert in theology and Jesus
30:38literally said to Nicodemus Nicodemus
30:40Nicodemus, "You search the scriptures
30:43looking for eternal life, but you don't
30:45realize that the scriptures point to me.
30:47They're rejecting Jesus, the one who is
30:49himself eternal life, and searching the
30:52scriptures. And Jesus is like, "Hello,
30:53it's me in the scriptures." You can read
30:56them, but if you're reading them without
30:57him, it's not going to do anything.
30:59Information doesn't change you. What you
31:01love changes you.
31:02>> Yeah, it's so true. I love that you say
31:04that.
31:05>> read the Bible all you want. We can read
31:07through James. And sure, we could take
31:09it from the perspective of morality.
31:11Like, yeah, we're going to do the things
31:13that James says because we want to be
31:14morally right, and we want to do the
31:17right thing.
31:18But, that's not the right motivator for
31:21why we are doers of the word.
31:23We don't want to read James and just
31:25write a checklist of rules and things
31:27that we're meant to do because that's
31:29the right thing. We do it because there
31:31is a man who died on a cross for the
31:33forgiveness of sins who who his whole
31:36point was to set us free from living in
31:38the bondage that a life of sin causes.
31:43And so, when we read James and we read
31:46you know, through ways that he's
31:48confronting us and and rebukes and
31:50things and instruction and guides, we do
31:52it because the person that this is
31:54coming from loves us so much and we love
31:56him and we want to follow him because of
31:58that love and because of that trust.
32:00It's not like you can't read the Bible
32:04without love, truly.
32:06>> and it's so beautiful, too, cuz I'm just
32:08even thinking like
32:10how he like the way he walks with you
32:12through through changing and stuff.
32:14Like, I'll I'll be doing something that
32:16probably won't be, you know, a doer of
32:20the word. And
32:21he just like that convic- like that
32:24little conviction in your heart of like,
32:26"Don't go that way." And it's like so
32:28beautiful. Like, if you partner with him
32:30in that way of like
32:33you're just your your your heart wants
32:35to just follow him. You have to just
32:38like you have to be hungry. You have to
32:40be like I want to do I want to be all in
32:42with this. And it's like it's literally
32:45like a father. Like you it's like no no
32:47no don't do that. Don't go that way. Say
32:49sorry. Forgive. And it's just like this
32:52beautiful walk and dance and you it's
32:54like every That's why like you don't
32:56have to live in shame. You just have to
32:58be like oh yeah, that probably wasn't
33:00the best thing that I did. Let me try
33:02this again. Let me get back up. Let me
33:04keep surrendering that thing. And it's
33:06just this beautiful walk that we're all
33:08on that we're always just falling and
33:11then getting back up and um
33:14>> Truly.
33:14>> That's why there's just no such thing as
33:16perfectionism, but you just keep going.
33:18You just keep asking him I want to I
33:20want to be hungry for the word. I want
33:22to be hungry that to do to do to look
33:24more like you. And in that he really
33:26does
33:28transform you.
33:29>> Yeah. And you know what I love so much
33:31talking about like
33:33>> [sighs]
33:34>> just what the word does when you truly
33:37obey it and follow it because James 1:25
33:41says, "But whoever looks intently into
33:44the perfect law that gives freedom and
33:46continues in it, not forgetting what
33:48they have heard, but doing it, they will
33:50be blessed in what they do." And I think
33:52that's just such a It can sound so
33:54contradicting, right? Whoever looks
33:56intently into the perfect law will
33:58receive freedom.
34:00If the perfect law gives freedom, that
34:02like doesn't make sense to people and
34:04that's what I think causes
34:05>> Yeah.
34:05>> to turn away from faith because it seems
34:07like a law, rules essentially, will take
34:11away your freedom. People think that a
34:14life of freedom means there's no rules,
34:16there's no limitations, there's nothing
34:18that's off limits, like go and be free.
34:21When in actuality, and I love what Jesus
34:23does consistently through the whole
34:24Bible, is that he's constantly
34:26countercultural saying actually freedom
34:28is abiding by my law.
34:30This law that I'm giving you, this um
34:33exhortation, this encouragement, this
34:35guidance, and this structure for your
34:38life that I'm calling you to obey, that
34:41will be true freedom.
34:42>> Yeah.
34:42>> Because anything that's outside of my
34:44law, that leads you to sin, that is the
34:46bondage. It is not freedom. It is
34:49bondage um outside of the ways of Jesus.
34:53And I just love that, and I think it's
34:55so countercultural.
34:58>> It is freedom, and I think about
35:01I think about how I used to live and the
35:03way my mind just my mind and the way I
35:05struggled and
35:07the way the freedom that I feel, the
35:10freedom that I live in, the joy that I
35:11carry, the peace that resides in me
35:14because I I follow him. I follow it it
35:18is it truly is freedom, and you can't
35:20understand it until you actually live
35:22it.
35:23>> Right. You can't. You will never
35:24understand it. And it feels crazy on the
35:27outside, and we just want to come here
35:28today to just encourage you guys that if
35:31you feel weary, if you feel tired, if
35:34you feel bored, even like you can feel
35:36bored in your faith like, "Ah, man." Or
35:38you can feel lazy, remember we are just
35:41here to encourage you guys
35:43let Jesus set your heart on fire to be
35:46doers and obeyers of the word. Today is
35:48the perfect day to say, "You know what?
35:50My heart is waking up to the word of
35:52God, and I am going to follow in his
35:53ways." And even in the little moments
35:55that seem insignificant, that don't seem
35:57like a big deal, like don't gossip or
36:00don't have pride or don't react in that
36:02way or don't numb out on your phone,
36:03like in those ways that might not seem
36:06like a big deal, take action today to be
36:08like, "No, I'm going to pursue the
36:10things of God
36:11>> Yeah.
36:11>> and I am going to obey." Yeah. All
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40:07Okay, James 1:26. I love this one. Those
40:11who consider themselves religious and
40:13yet do not keep a tight rein on their
40:14tongues deceive themselves and their
40:17religion is worthless.
40:19Um Ari and I talk about this a lot, and
40:20I think that this is incredibly
40:22important, and
40:23and, [snorts] you know, James talks a
40:25lot about restraint and self-control,
40:28and not saying things uh out of spite
40:31and out of turn. And I love that James
40:34literally right now gives a practical
40:35example of being a doer in the word by
40:38controlling your tongue.
40:40And I think that this is where that
40:42horizontal faith that then becomes
40:44vertical is so important. Our
40:46relationship with Jesus isn't just for
40:49us, it has to extend to everybody in our
40:51lives, and I think we can do so many
40:54religious things, spend time in the
40:55secret place, read the Bible, and like I
40:58am so very convicted by this, because
41:02it's so true for all of us that we can
41:04do all these things, be so close to
41:06Jesus, and then still not control the
41:08way we talk to people. And I mean, I
41:10think James having a whole book on this
41:13in the Bible really, really, really,
41:15really, really um emphasizes that, guys.
41:19It doesn't matter how much time you
41:20spend with Jesus when we don't have
41:22self-control with the way that we're
41:23speaking to one another.
41:25And your spiritual maturity isn't just
41:27revealed by how you worship, it's
41:29revealed by how you speak, and I think
41:31that's what's really important. You can
41:32be the most prophetic, gifted leader in
41:36the church, you can be like just
41:38absolutely the most amazing person with
41:41so many gifts, but if the way you treat
41:43people isn't Christ-like, your gifts
41:45don't mean anything. Like your gifts
41:48aren't uh evidence that your heart's in
41:51a good place. I think what comes out of
41:52your mouth is, and I'm just truly so,
41:56so, so deeply convicted by that, and I
41:57really want to be somebody who it's not
42:00just like how I can't. Like being a good
42:03preacher,
42:05but then not treating people with
42:07respect with how I speak. You know what
42:09I mean?
42:09>> Yeah, you really you to You really have
42:11to look at yourself if your words don't
42:14match up with the Jesus that you follow
42:16because it's
42:17>> Yeah.
42:18>> you can't preach forgiveness and then
42:20hold all this unforgiveness and be nasty
42:22to someone. If you are listening to this
42:24and you're like, "Man, that's me. Like
42:26I'm I tear people down. I'm carrying so
42:28much bitterness." Go deeper in his word.
42:31Ask him to help you. He will. This is
42:33what This is what relationship with your
42:35father is all about. Tell him.
42:37>> Yeah.
42:38>> Literally, it's that simple. Like if
42:40>> It's that simple. This isn't any crazy
42:43thing that we even have to say. This is
42:45what I what we've lived.
42:47>> Yeah.
42:48>> You know, some of us have grown up with
42:50with not the best upbringings that yes,
42:52we've we have pride and anger and like
42:55we've watched our parents like, you
42:57know, and so I I understand and I have
42:59so much compassion, but don't stay that
43:02way. You have to fight to change. You
43:04have to go deeper with him. You could be
43:06the representation of someone that has
43:09never encountered Jesus. It could be you
43:11that that literally could change
43:13someone's life by the way you live.
43:15>> Right.
43:15>> Like think about that. We have the
43:17opportunity to change someone's life by
43:20someone watching how we live. Do you
43:22want somebody to watch you say you
43:24follow Jesus, but somebody's watching
43:25you talk bad about people and acting
43:28nasty? No. You want to be the light of
43:30Jesus. You want him to shine his light
43:32through you.
43:33>> Yeah.
43:33>> And that's something to really think
43:35about and I think about that often. I
43:37think, "Man, I want to watch what I
43:38say." Cuz they're watching the way I
43:40live. Right. And if somebody that's a
43:42new believer is watching you and you're
43:44doing the opposite, how is that going to
43:46make someone say, "Oh, I want to follow
43:48Jesus?"
43:49>> Yeah, 100%.
43:50>> You are set apart to be the light of
43:52Jesus.
43:53>> I love when you say nasty. I don't know
43:54why. Somebody go, "Don't be acting
43:57nasty."
43:59>> [laughter]
43:59>> Um last verse, James 1:27. What pure
44:03religion looks like. I'll give a little
44:06definition and then I want already to go
44:07into this one. So the verses religion
44:10that God our father accepts as pure and
44:12faultless as this to look after orphans
44:15and widows in their distress and to keep
44:18oneself from being polluted by the
44:19world. So in this moment pure religion
44:22means genuine devotion to God. Hear it
44:25again. Genuine devotion to God not
44:29merely outward religious activities.
44:32Look after orphans and widows. Reflects
44:35God's heart for the vulnerable. God
44:38protects the vulnerable. In the ancient
44:41world these groups were often especially
44:43vulnerable economically and socially.
44:45And then genuine faith expresses itself
44:48through compassion, generosity, and
44:51practical care for people in need. And
44:54then last moment keep oneself from being
44:56polluted by the world obviously means
44:58resisting sinful values, behaviors, and
45:01influences that oppose God.
45:03>> This means everything to me because if
45:06we're the hands and feet of Jesus and we
45:08follow Jesus, there's no way that you're
45:10following Jesus and you don't have a
45:12heart to
45:14help people and to just keep walking by
45:16someone that's in need or and every
45:19single one of us that's
45:22every one of us should be have someone
45:25that we're helping.
45:26>> So true.
45:27>> And and I mean like even if you have
45:29little, you you God did not save your
45:33life to just do things for you. With
45:35your life
45:37I love when the Apostle Paul says, "My
45:39life is not for my own but for the life
45:42of others." That is a man that truly
45:46knows Jesus. That is a man who truly
45:48said, "My life is not my own." That is
45:51what it means when your life isn't your
45:52own is when you get saved by Jesus, you
45:55realize that everything else is
45:56worthless.
45:58And I look back at all the things that I
46:00I wanted and my goals and my dreams and
46:03the lists that I wrote about all of the
46:05things that I want and while we have
46:07desires
46:08and we have things that we want, we
46:10recognize that God did not set us apart
46:13and save us so we could just live for
46:15for ourselves and so he could work
46:17through us to help others to help the
46:20lives of others. And
46:23I think
46:24I think a lot of even our depression and
46:27and and
46:28our anxiety and our I'm not I don't know
46:31if the word pity, but a lot of us like
46:33are in this place where we're like, oh,
46:36I [sighs] don't have this yet and I'm
46:37preaching cuz I'm one of them.
46:40Um, and it's because we're too focused
46:43on ourselves. When you realize that
46:46even even in your darkness
46:49in your moment of darkness that you
46:51could be a light to somebody else you
46:53recognize, oh my gosh, this is this is
46:56the whole point. This is what life is
46:58all about. And
47:01I think God really
47:03walked through that with me and showed
47:05me that especially through, you know, my
47:07season of singleness. I I was
47:11complaining a lot, like, why, you know,
47:13you know, just it's okay. Like, we have
47:15desires. It's okay to grieve I
47:17and it's a beautiful thing that we can
47:19be honest, but I felt like God really
47:22had walked through with me. There's a
47:24bigger purpose. There are things that we
47:26don't have and we can sit and we can be
47:28we can keep asking why and waste days
47:31and months and years,
47:33but there are things in a season that
47:35God wants to do for us that we're meant
47:37to like help other people in that season
47:39and you're complaining that you don't
47:41have something yet and he's like,
47:42because I have you here [clears throat]
47:43to serve this person or that person.
47:46I'll I'll tell you a quick little story.
47:48I mentor this little girl and I just
47:50she's been she's become like the joy of
47:52my life. I just and I was driving with
47:55her. I was driving her home and I look
47:57over
47:58and about 2 days before I kind of was
48:01just questioning like, "Man, you know,
48:04I can't believe like my friends are
48:05having kids and blah blah." And I look
48:07over at her
48:09and I see her sleeping in the car, and I
48:11just have tears, and I'm just like, "I
48:13would never be able to
48:16have her right now, mentor her, read the
48:19Bible with her. I wouldn't even know her
48:21if I had a family."
48:23And it's just so crazy how God its
48:25timing and what he does and how he
48:27ordains people in your life to help.
48:30>> Right.
48:31>> But we can miss that if we're constantly
48:33in complaint of our own lives. And so
48:36>> I just encourage everyone while you're
48:39in a season of of
48:42maybe like
48:44struggle right now.
48:46Be a blessing to somebody else.
48:48Sometimes when you're waiting for God to
48:50bring light into your own darkness, he
48:53invites you to be a light in somebody
48:54else's.
48:55>> So true. It's beautiful.
48:57>> While you're in your waiting season,
48:59while you're especially like go help If
49:01you if you are a person that doesn't
49:03have kids, especially and you're single,
49:06go help kids. That is like
49:09>> So true.
49:09>> kids, you know? Don't be someone who
49:12just walks by someone and and just says,
49:14"Oh, you know." Help people, bend down
49:16to people, even if it's, "Hey, can I
49:18pray for you?" Hold like
49:21It's it's the most fulfilling and
49:23purposeful thing we can do in this life
49:26>> Truly.
49:27>> others. That's what he put us here for.
49:29He didn't put us here so we could just
49:31focus on our own goals. He put us here
49:33to to be to be a hand for somebody else.
49:36>> Absolutely.
49:36>> And I'll read this this scripture in
49:38Isaiah 58. If you pour yourself out for
49:40the hungry and satisfy the desire of the
49:42afflicted, then shall your light rise in
49:45the darkness and your gloom be as the
49:47noonday. And the Lord will guide you
49:49continually and satisfy your desire. And
49:52then I just love when he says the least
49:54you do for these brothers and sisters
49:56you did to me.
49:57>> Yeah.
49:58>> When you decide to keep walking, when
49:59you don't when you decide to not help a
50:01person, when you decide to just keep
50:03living for yourself, you're doing it to
50:05Jesus. Anytime you offer a hand to
50:08someone, every time you help a child,
50:09every time you help someone in need, you
50:12are literally helping Jesus.
50:14>> Yeah. I think about my mom would always
50:16say like
50:18every time my dad would do something for
50:22one of the kids, like if he would buy me
50:25something or like do something for me,
50:27my mom would say
50:28it felt like he was doing it for me
50:31because I love you more than anything in
50:34the world. So it's it's even more for me
50:37than it is for you when he does
50:38something for you. And it's like
50:39literally the same thing with Jesus. We
50:41are his. Every person is his. So when we
50:44Imagine if you have kids or if maybe you
50:46don't, but if you have kids and one day
50:48you'll have kids, if somebody is kind to
50:51your child, you will feel like they're
50:53being kind to you.
50:54>> Yeah.
50:54>> Someone helps your child like, you know,
50:56it's so beautiful and
50:57>> That's so true.
50:58>> I think just to wrap up this last
51:00moment,
51:02I love this because James is bringing
51:03together two essential aspects of being
51:06a Christian.
51:08Compassion towards other, compassion
51:10towards others, and personal holiness
51:13before God.
51:13>> Mhm.
51:14>> It is so important for us. And obviously
51:16the whole Christian walk is not just
51:18about not sinning. We know that.
51:19>> Mhm.
51:20>> We're just going through the book of
51:20James right now. And the book of James
51:22is like he's just he's honest and and it
51:24can be intense at times, but it's good.
51:26We need that.
51:28Um so it's our holiness and our purity
51:30before God and then how we care for
51:33others. And I think yeah, I think that's
51:35a really really wonderful place to leave
51:37off of that. Like you should be
51:39compelled and motivated by compassion.
51:42Every time Ari and I speak somewhere, my
51:44number one prayer is Lord, give me
51:47compassion for the people. Don't let
51:49this be about me sounding good or being
51:51impressive or getting everything right.
51:53That's not what it's about. Give me
51:55compassion for your people. Jesus
51:57Scripture talks about how he was moved
51:59by compassion and then he healed
52:01everybody who was sick.
52:02>> Yeah.
52:03>> Um if Jesus was moved by compassion, so
52:05should we. So, we love you guys so much.
52:08We have gotten through the first chapter
52:10of the book of James and we'll be
52:11continuing. We love you guys so much. Um
52:14go be doers, obeyers, and doers of the
52:16word and go help people and be
52:18compassionate.
52:19>> Yeah. Thank you guys. We love you.
52:21>> We love you so much. May the Lord bless
52:23you and keep you. May he make his face
52:25shine upon you and be gracious to you.
52:27May he turn his face towards you and
52:29give you peace. Shalom. Shalom. We love
52:32you.

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