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Victories Over Bruises
00:03:44
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| Jim, I got a quote for you. | |
| This has been on my mind since you've been talking. | |
| In the beginning of the program, you talked about David's army. | |
| Yes. | |
| And you've been talking about how God's restored and the critics and the naysayers and all the people that did harm against you, but how God is restoring and the victories that you're getting. | |
| And I was thinking about David's army. | |
| Okay, David's army, they had bruises and cuts, and their uniforms were smeared with dirt and grit and mud and blood. | |
| Yes. | |
| But they had one more thing. | |
| They had victories. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You can't have victories without mud and blood and strikes and cuts. | |
| You can't. | |
| That's a good word. | |
| It's impossible. | |
| It is absolutely impossible. | |
| No victory without a battle. | |
| Is that what you're saying? | |
| No victory without a battle. | |
| So when people talk to me. | |
| That's not nice. | |
| You know, people, preachers are telling people they just can give a few dollars and get a lot of money. | |
| Yeah, when I hear people who come to me and they tell me all the bad things about some preacher or anybody, a businessman, a businesswoman, anybody. | |
| You know, did you know that this happened to him? | |
| Okay, but you're not doing anything. | |
| He or she was doing something. | |
| And this is the quote I want you to hear. | |
| This is Theodore Roosevelt. | |
| My favorite president, okay? | |
| And he was a doer. | |
| He was. | |
| He was a doer. | |
| And, you know, I was in Boquetty, Panama, which is up in the mountains near Costa Rica, and I saw a plaque that said Theodore Roosevelt was here. | |
| When the Panama Canal was built, which he built, as president, he hiked from the city of David to Boquetty, which was, I'm guessing, a 50-mile hike up the mountains. | |
| That's the kind of president we had. | |
| This is what he said in 1910. | |
| It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. | |
| The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, | |
| who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. | |
| Wow, that is exactly. | |
| I didn't know he wrote that. | |
| That was a speech he gave April 23rd, 1910. | |
| I'm telling you, these were great men of God. | |
| Maybe not of God, but I don't know. | |
| No, he was. | |
| Let me tell you. | |
| I should have said that. | |
| No, he was a great man of God. | |
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Truman's Stand for Israel
00:01:01
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| But he was. | |
| Well, you know, we've misjudged a lot of our past leaders because we were sort of narrow-minded, like Truman. | |
| I mean, my family always, I always heard him saying, Truman used salty language. | |
| I've said this before, but, you know, and so, yeah, Truman, you know, I feel like using some salty language running around some of the Christian people. | |
| And we're in Harry Truman State. | |
| This is a Missouri. | |
| That's right. | |
| Show me. | |
| Prove me. | |
| Show me stay, whatever, you know. | |
| But Truman is the man without, we probably wouldn't have Jerusalem and Israel today. | |
| That he's the state of Israel. | |
| He's the man who stuck his neck out into the arena and said, I am going to stand for Israel. | |
| No one was with him. | |
| Do you know his whole the board of advisors or whatever you call the men around the president? | |
| The cabinet. | |
| The cabinet. | |