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When I was graduating from high 
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to me about careers, not a 
single person asked me if I 

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wanted to be an influencer. 
I'm not sure if anyone here got 

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asked that question. 
John, were you ever asked? 

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No, you don't. 
It's influencing it. 

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It is a reality that that is now
a profession. 

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I don't. 
I still don't quite understand 

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that. 
But that's all right. 

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It's not my generation. 
There are folks out there who 

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knows. 
Gavin, do you think you might be

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a social media influencer by 
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No, no, no. 
How about you, AJ? 

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You. 
You're going to be a social 

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media influencer. 
No, maybe not. 

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Did you say that's all right? 
Yeah. 

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You're going to be a social 
media influencer when you grow 

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up. 
No. 

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No. 
OK. 

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How about you going to be a 
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No, no. 
All right. 

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We've got no future social media
influencers in this crowd. 

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Except maybe Anne. 
I think. 

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I think you will. 
OK, Aiden, Aiden's going to do 

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it. 
He's going to lead the way for 

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us. 
The rest of us will will not be 

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that. 
It's weird to me that that's a 

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profession. 
The fact that it's weird to me 

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is nothing says nothing other 
than that I'm getting old. 

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But the simple reality is the 
question of whether we're going 

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to be an influencer or whether 
we're just going to be 

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influenced is something that 
every single one of us has to 

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wrestle with and deal with. 
And, and it's it's not a 

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question that stops that. 
It's true. 

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Wherever we go ongoing, it's a 
renewed question that we have to

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keep asking ourselves, are we 
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just influenced. 
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respects is that this is one of 
the often untalked about aspects

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of the story of the destruction 
of Sodom and Gomorrah and and 

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particularly of Lot's role and 
place in all of that. 

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If you recall, Lot and Abrahm 
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grazing flocks, and Abrahm gave 
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Lot decided to go to the Jordan 
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Sodom. 
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Canaan, while Lot moved among 
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pitched his tents near Sodom. 
When he did that, Lot could have

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gone in with a particular 
mindset. 

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The mindset could have been, you
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of things going on down in Sodom
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lot of wealth, but there's also 
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indifference to the poor and the
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And even though they are very, 
very prosperous, they do nothing

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to care for the vulnerable among
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That's a problem. 
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Abraham, well, Abrahm, then at 
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Abrahm and I've traveled with 
him. 

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Abrahm left. 
We left our homeland because God

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promised Abrahm to take him to a
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And God did. 
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nations of the world would be 
blessed through him. 

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And I'm part of that promise. 
And I've seen it work because it

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well, though it would not at 
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been captured, but he eventually
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He could have gone down to the 
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what? 
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powerful. 
God has shown himself to be 

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faithful. 
I want to, as much as I am able,

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influence folks around me to 
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to live their lives God's way, 
including sharing the good 

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things God has blessed us with. 
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That's that's the essence in 
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to Abram, that his life is about
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just accumulating blessings for 
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That could have been Lot's 
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If it was Lot's mindset, we have
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What we do know, what we do know
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influence his community or his 
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plains of Jordan near Sodom and 
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He became a leader in the city. 
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That's that's why he was at the 
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That's what the leaders did. 
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They welcomed the gusts. 
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that would people would bring to
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gathered, they would make 
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And and that's what Lot became a
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yet failed to have any real 
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that city, and not just in the 
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well. 
So let's talk about family 

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first, because that's where 
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impact our family and the folks 
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And, and there's a lot. 
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he had two. 
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had two sons in law. 
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engagement, what we call 
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be married was a much more 
formal relationship and that 

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part of the world in those days.
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that they were his sons in law 
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not yet married to them, but 
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Their families had already 
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uniting. 
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God's going to wipe this whole 
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If you've got any family here, 
go tell them so they can get out

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too. 
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and they laugh at it. 
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This is crazy. 
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told them about God. 
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seen it first hand when his 
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political prisoners and God 
through Abram set them free from

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that and brought them safely 
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But they laughed at him. 
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When they're fleeing, they're 
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And now it's just Lot and his 
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They're fleeing. 
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mountains. 
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They're well, they're getting 
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The destruction is happening 
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just turned around to take a 
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The implication there in that 
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go back, that that she didn't 
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there. 
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which was so intent on the 
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indifferent toward the needs of 
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And that's the life she wanted. 
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She was already missing that 
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And then they get into the 
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and his daughters, and they're 
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don't have their husbands 
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their mom anymore. 
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things to their dad so that they
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Lot had no influence for the 
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tell. 
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influencing his family, that his
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culture that they were in, the 
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Get what you can for yourself, 
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Lot had no influence, no 
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influence with his family. 
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begin with. 
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because he was focused on the 
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You remember why Lot went to the
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his tent near Sodom. 
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the whole plain of the Jordan 
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It's like the Garden of the 
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like the land of Egypt, the most
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So Lot chose for himself the 
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set out to go. 
E Lot went to the Jordan value. 

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Lot went to Sodom because he 
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prosperity that was already 
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He didn't go to be a blessing. 
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to get something for himself. 
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chasing status, he was chasing 
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And so instead of going to that 
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blessing here, he went to that 
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blessing of that stuff. 
He wanted to get in on the 

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wealth too. 
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influencing the people around 
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culture. 
He was influenced by the people 

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around him. 
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Anyone know the name Eric 
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Do you know that? 
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I've had one person do. 
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movies, there's a movie from the
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which in my humble opinion, one 
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ever made, one of the greatest 
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That's just my opinion. 
That's not a thus saith the Lord

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thing. 
It's a true story about and Eric

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Little is one of the main 
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Eric Little at the opening of 
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He is, he is in university and 
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20s. 
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Edinburgh and Scotland training 
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But he's also a tremendous 
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multiple games for the Scottish 
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very fast and he competes in 
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successful. 
He's so successful that he makes

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it on to the British Olympic 
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it will be held in Paris Now his
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are very disturbed by Eric's. 
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sports, and they believe he's 
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losing his focus, that that he 
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mission work, not on these silly
games and not on the glory and 

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the fame and the publicity and 
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can come from being a successful
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time. 
But Eric assures them that he 

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hasn't lost his focus. 
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But the test comes after he 
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They're actually travelling to 
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comes out Eric qualified to 
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That's what he's going to be 
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The only event he's he's he's 
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meter dash. 
And they find out on the ship on

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the way there that one of the 
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meter dash is on a Sunday. 
And one of the key tenants and 

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Eric's, you know, tradition of 
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Sabbath. 
And you don't do anything but 

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worship and spend time with 
family on the Sabbath, nothing 

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else. 
And so here's the test. 

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Is Eric going to be an 
influencer or will he be 

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influenced? 
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that he will not compete on the 
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withdraw from the 100 meter 
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This, he was one of the 
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This does not go over well with 
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the Olympic team. 
And they bring Eric in to have a

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discussion with him to really to
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And and they use all of the 
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high-ranking people, people of 
wealth and position authority, 

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including the Prince of Wales, 
the Crown Prince of England is 

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there to persuade Eric to 
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honor and dignity. 
We're going to watch a slide. 

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You're probably, we might need 
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The it's pretty quiet. 
You might need to push up the 

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particularly at the beginning. 
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conversation. 
Lord Birkenhead has advised us 

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as to your attitude towards your
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heats little Or would your non 
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It would say yes. 
We were also consulted as to the

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correct manner in which to 
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Something we just can't allow to
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Going cap and hand to the frogs 
of all people, simply out of the

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question. 
Simple matter of national 

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dignity? 
Little being a patriot, I'm sure

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you understand. 
Well, I must say so I felt it 

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was an impractical suggestion 
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Why did you say so man? 
As an athlete, you value economy

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of effort. 
I wanted to run. 

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I was desperate not to try 
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Well, all that being understood,
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a little chat to see if there's 
any way that we can help resolve

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the situation. 
There's only one way to resolve 

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the situation, that's for this 
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Don't state the obvious, 
Gadagan. 

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We have to explore ways in which
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Reach that decision. 
I'm afraid there are no ways, 

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Sir. 
I won't run on the Sabbath, and 

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that's final. 
I intended to confirm this with 

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Lord Birkenhead tonight, even 
before you called me up in front

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of this inquisition of yours. 
Don't be impertinent, Needle. 

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The impertinence lies so with 
those who seek to influence a 

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man to deny his beliefs. 
For the country, little We're 

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appealing to your beliefs in 
your country and your king, your

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loyalty to them. 
Yeah, here in my day it was King

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fest, God after. 
Yes, and the War to End wars 

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bitterly proved your point. 
God made countries, God makes 

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kings, and the rules by which 
they govern, and those rules say

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that the Sabbath is His, and I 
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way. 
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your race, as I am. 
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common bond, a common loyalty. 
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to make sacrifices in the name 
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And without the my allegiance is
worthless. 

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As I see it, for you this is 
such a time. 

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So God knows I love my country, 
but I can't make that sacrifice.

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He chose not to run. 
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kind of cool. 
One of Eric's team mates who had

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qualified in two events and 
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gave up his spot in the 400 
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400 meters instead, which did 
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Eric ended up winning gold 
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Rather extraordinary story if 
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the movie stops. 
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next year, 1925, Eric left 
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missionary, where he spent the 
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out to only be 20 years, where 
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in terms of mass conversions, 
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individual people's lives. 
He was there in China when World

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War 2 started. 
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Japanese arrived and he, along 
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into a prison camp. 
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And while Eric was in the prison
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doing? 
He was was playing rugby when he

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could. 
He was teaching Bible studies. 

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He was preaching when there 
wasn't enough food, he gave his 

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food to people that were 
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When there wasn't enough 
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to people who were sicker than 
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And before the war ended, he 
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Polar opposite of Lot Eric 
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Lot focused on prosperity. 
What can I get for myself? 

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How can I improve my position, 
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place in society? 
And Eric Little how can I be a 

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blessing to others? 
How can I serve others? 

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How can I lift up others? 
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shaped and became just like the 
culture in which they lived. 

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The other influenced those 
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himself off from the culture in 
which he lived. 

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Lot's failure was huge on both a
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Horizontal level. 
We've already talked about that.

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Everyone that he knew was either
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the destruction of Sodom and 
Gomorrah, or were so shaped by 

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the culture of that place that 
it destroyed them as people. 

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Particularly thinking of his 
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many respects, but vertically as
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his daughters had that were also
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two of the nations that 
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as they left slavery in Egypt 
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Promised land. 
They stood in their way and did 

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everything they could to prevent
them from receiving the blessing

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that God had for them. 
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failure to influence, his 
decisions were still having a 

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negative impact. 
This question is important for 

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the same reasons for us, because
our ability to influence or our 

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capacity to be influenced, we'll
have positive or negative 

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consequences not just around us 
now, but for generations to 

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come. 
So let's talk about that. 

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Some of the practical 
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chances are, chances are, none 
of us is going to compete in the

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Olympics, probably chances are 
none of us is going to be die in

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a prison camp in a foreign land.
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So what does all of this have to
do with us? 

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What does all of this have to do
with us? 

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It has to do with this. 
We need to be aware in our own 

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daily lives of our own limits, 
including our capacity to 

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influence. 
Maybe the best decision Lot 

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could have made in his entire 
life was when Abrahm said you 

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pick where to live. 
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what, I really like what's 
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Jordan Valley. 
I like it so much. 

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I don't think it's a good idea 
for me to go there. 

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Even if I want to influence 
them. 

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I, I, I, I don't think I have 
that in me to do that, to 

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recognize our own limits. 
Because for all of us, there are

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places where we can be of 
influence and there are places 

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where we can't. 2 simple 
examples to illustrate this. 

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Someone's two years sober from 
alcoholism. 

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The bar is probably not your 
mission field. 

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Right, Because you go there, 
there's our good chance you're 

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just going to go back to doing 
the stuff that made you in such 

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a bad position to begin with. 
Guys I worked with so often 

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about girls and guys at the 
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Seneca County when I lived up 
there just were repeated 

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examples of this. 
It would come in to jail. 

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They would swear off everything.
They were determined they were 

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going to do life better after 
they got out so they would never

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have to come back to jail. 
They were, some of them didn't 

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care, but a lot of them were 
absolutely serious. 

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They would leave and 6 to 12 
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And I would say what happened 
and their story inevitably, like

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9 times out of 10 was something 
like, well, I got to hanging out

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with my old friends again. 1st. 
I wasn't going to, but I went to

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hang out when I was like, I'm 
going to hang out with them, but

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I'm not going to do the stuff 
that they're doing. 

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And they hang out with them And 
they started doing, well, they 

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were, you know, well, they're 
passing a joint, but I, I'll 

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just pass it. 
I'm not going to partake when it

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comes to me. 
And they would partake when it 

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came to them eventually. 
And they eventually just went 

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back to the same pattern of 
behavior, influenced by the same

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group of people that had helped 
them fail before. 

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They had zero chance of having a
positive influence and an almost

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guaranteed chance of being 
negatively influenced. 

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And we all have situations like 
that, places that are our 

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Achilles heel relationships, 
context settings, where if I go 

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there, I know I got almost zero 
chance of being a positive 

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influence and a 99.9% chance of 
being negatively influenced. 

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I got those kind of situations. 
It's like I just can't go there.

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I can't. 
I can't try to help that person.

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I can't try to be a friend of 
that. 

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I can't. 
And sometimes it is. 

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It's just a relationship too. 
When you know, it's like friends

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and family say you know, when 
you're around that person, 

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you're a completely different 
person. 

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You should stop being around 
that person. 

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That person is not helping you 
and you are not helping them. 

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Let them go. 
Let someone else help him. 

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Pray for him, but you these are 
the kinds of things I'm talking 

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about. 
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This principle, this notion of 
being aware of our limitations 

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of being aware that there are 
some people in some groups, in 

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some situations where we just 
don't have the capacity to be a 

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positive influence. 
That's in tension with some of 

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the things that Jesus taught us 
lot story is in tension with 

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Jesus example of being a friend 
to sinners because Jesus made 

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Bible makes it clear. 
Jesus hung out with the quote UN

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quote bad people. 
He hung out with the folks that 

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were doing the bad stuff. 
He went to their house, He had 

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dinner with them. 
He invited them to have dinner 

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with him. 
He made friends with them. 

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He invited some of them to be 
part of his inner circle and 

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that's intention. 
Jesus's example and call to us 

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to be a friend of sinners is in 
tension with lots pitching his 

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tent near Sodom and the one of 
the ways that some people 

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resolve that and some churches 
resolve that is to say we've got

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to have a silo. 
We'll be in the world, but not 

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of the world. 
You know, we'll, I, I, we'll, 

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we'll, we'll be there. 
But, but we're going to put a 

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layer of bubble wrap and we're 
going to put a wall around us 

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and we're going to make sure 
that those bad people out there 

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don't influence us and our 
families in here. 

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We're going to have a whole 
separate subculture. 

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It has as little to do with 
those folks as possible. 

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We'll be the shining city on the
hill. 

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But you better be like us before
you get inside the gates. 

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Jesus's teaching an example 
completely disallows that. 

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We don't get to do it that way. 
But the other way we don't get 

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to do it is just whoo, Hoo. 
We'll just join in with 

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everything and do whatever they 
do, and we'll have fun. 

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And we'll be just like they are,
and there won't be any 

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difference between US and them. 
That's what Lot did. 

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We also don't get to do well, We
yeah, we can do either one of 

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those things. 
It just doesn't work well and 

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doesn't work out well. 
The middle course is much more 

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challenging, which is prayer and
discernment. 

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And that we, we, we pray and we 
talk with God and we talk with 

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people that know us and love us 
best. 

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And we say, what about this 
person? 

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What about that situation? 
What about that relationship? 

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Because I feel like, you know, 
I, I feel like I can have an 

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impact there. 
And sometimes God and our 

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friends that know us and love us
will say, yeah, go for it. 

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Sometimes they'll say, you know 
what? 

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I don't think you will. 
I think I think you will just 

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get dragged down. 
I think you won't make them 

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better. 
I think they'll make you worse. 

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And that's the route that we 
have, the difficult route of 

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prayerfully discerning. 
Can I have an impact? 

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Can I be an influence? 
Or will I simply be dragged down

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in that situation, in that 
circumstance? 

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And we ask ourselves in prayer 
with them, to what degree can I 

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keep my focus on Jesus and his 
call in any given situation? 

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There are some situations I will
not put myself in. 

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God bless the people that are in
them. 

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They need to know that someone. 
They need someone to go and tell

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them that Jesus loves them. 
They need someone to go and be 

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their friend without 
manipulating and exploiting 

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them. 
But there's some situations 

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where I am just not going to be 
able to be that person because 

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if I go there, I'm done. 
I'm done. 

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That's why it's great that we're
part of the body because other 

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people can go there and they'll 
be all right. 

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Now I can go places. 
They can, I can go to a bar, I 

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can have a drink and it's going 
to be all right. 

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But there are places that I can 
go and that I won't go. 

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And and there's some folks I got
good friends that are like, 

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don't ever take me to a bar. 
I can never be a good positive. 

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To what degree can we keep our 
focus on Jesus in any given 

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situation? 
I want to close with another 

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concrete modern day example. 
Someone you might have heard 

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this name a lot recently, and 
particularly if you follow the 

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news a lot, Maria Carina 
Machado. 

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Have you heard that name? 
I love that. 

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I don't know that I just, I love
that, love the name Maria Carina

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Machado is the the most recent 
recipient of the Nobel Peace 

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Prize. 
She just received it a couple 

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weeks ago. 
She could not go pick it up 

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herself because she is currently
in hiding. 

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Most of her allies don't even 
know where she is. 

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She is a citizen of Venezuela 
and she, like every other person

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in the world, was given the 
opportunity and the choice. 

453
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Do you want to get along to go 
along or go along to get along? 

454
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,080
Or are you going to stand 
against something in the culture

455
00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:42,840
that is negative? 
Can you be an influence here? 

456
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,600
And she chose to be that. 
She grew up in a wealthy family.

457
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,440
It would have been easy enough 
to just kind of go along and use

458
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the wealth to gain political 
favor and Curry political favor.

459
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:56,800
For whatever reason, she chose 
not to do well, not for whatever

460
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,480
reason. 
She has said her faith is one of

461
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the reasons she's doing what 
she's doing. 

462
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:06,560
She's a staunch Catholic and and
deeply committed to to God and 

463
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,520
to prayer. 
She's also an industrial 

464
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,840
engineer, very well educated. 
She's also a competent and 

465
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,080
capable business person who was 
convinced to go into politics. 

466
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,720
Politics is one of those places 
where I don't think I could ever

467
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:26,200
survive. 
I'm not, you know, just saying I

468
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,040
think I would be too easily 
corrupted. 

469
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,200
She has not been. 
She's been threatened. 

470
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,920
She's had her life threatened. 
She's had her family threatened.

471
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,160
She's been accused of multiple 
crimes. 

472
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,640
She was last year in 2024, she 
was going to run for president 

473
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,280
was an election. 
She was going to run for 

474
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:48,120
president of Venezuela against 
Maduro, A dictator president, a 

475
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,440
name dictator in fact. 
And, and, and the Maduro regime 

476
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,240
declared it illegal for her name
to even be on the ballot. 

477
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,600
So she convinced an old guy to 
run as her proxy. 

478
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,160
Everyone knew that a vote for 
this guy was not a vote for him,

479
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,120
but was a vote for Machado. 
You know how what percentage of 

480
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,680
the popular vote she got running
when she wasn't allowed to run? 

481
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,400
90 percent, 90% of the popular 
vote. 

482
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,160
And she lives in hiding. 
And she still lives in hiding 

483
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,560
and she still prays for her 
people. 

484
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,480
She still speaks, she still 
leads. 

485
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,360
She still, she does a lot on 
social media now. 

486
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,600
And she's still convinced that 
one day democracy and freedom 

487
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:38,840
will return to Venezuela. 
She's choosing at great risk to 

488
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:43,120
herself and to her family. 
She's choosing to be an 

489
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,280
influencer rather than simply to
be influenced. 

490
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:53,520
I think she's a tremendous 
example, someone going into an 

491
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,560
environment that for many people
would be corrupting. 

492
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,600
And for her, she's being an 
influencer. 

493
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,440
This is the choice that we all 
have. 

494
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,560
Most of us probably will not 
have an opportunity to run for 

495
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,680
president and a country 
struggling against dictatorship.

496
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,600
Most of us probably not going to
have an opportunity to win a 

497
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:19,040
Nobel Peace Prize. 
Although I think I think Aidan 

498
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:25,600
might win 1, maybe you could, 
you could feel like you could. 

499
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:37,120
Yeah, I do think this that 
although our the scale of impact

500
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:41,720
open to most of us is much 
smaller than that of Eric Little

501
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:48,520
or Machado or even Lot. 
But we all have this opportunity

502
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:53,280
to be an influencer in our 
family, in our school, in our 

503
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:58,520
place of work, in our community,
in our county to influence folks

504
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,200
for good to see. 
How can I be a blessing in this 

505
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,480
situation? 
How can I help others? 

506
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,480
How can I lift others up? 
How can I be a shield and a 

507
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,640
protection for folks that are 
vulnerable and are in need? 

508
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:15,200
How can I do those things versus
how can I just adopt the values 

509
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,800
around me and get along and go 
along and get what's best for 

510
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,880
myself and who cares about 
everybody else? 

511
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,880
We have that choice to be an 
influencer or to be influenced 

512
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,960
in Jesus name. 
Let's choose to be influencers. 

513
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:31,480
Amen. 
Amen.