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And he stood for preaching the gospel. I'm sure now there are certain people who are like, well, I didn't like him and he was racially. He was racist or he was a bigot or all these different things. I'm sure if someone took a minute, snippet, 60 second snippet of something that you have said and put it online over all of your life, you would have something that people would think that you, you listening? Would have something that is. Could be hurtful to a certain group of people. But people have to know the context. Again, I'm not here, you know, to sway you if you believe otherwise. But I'm wanting you to know that, like, his heart was for Jesus, for the gospel. And the things that he stood on were, okay, marriage should be between a man and a woman. He stood on that. God created man and woman, that those are the two biological genders that there are. He stood for. He stood for racial equality. You know that you should Be hired based on, you know, what you are like, you should be hired on based on your performance, not necessarily giving things out according to age, gender or race or whatever. You know, those are things that he stood on that he believed for that, you know, most of my beliefs line up with those beliefs. And so anyways, I think that in this time, Pastor Paul shared a really great word that we would encourage you guys to go back and listen to was his sermon in September. We were going through the book of Ephesians, and it was. And his sermon is called the Turning Point. And I think that there's a more in depth, in context behind what we as Victory is what we believe and what we are standing on, the Word of God. But I think the thing that really, that everyone can agree on who is a believer, if you are a believer in the Bible, if you're a believer in the Word of God, is what he stood for in the Word of God. And so anyways, but whenever you see the. The impact. And I didn't mean to get off on that tangent on this podcast, but I think that what you see was the impact of, oh, my goodness, this person Facts. This person would go on college campuses when I don't think I would do that. I would actually be intimidated and scared. He went on college campuses and he had debates and he debated the Bible and the Word of God. Now, like I said, there was probably certain things that he said that were taken out of context or certain things that could have come across cross and sensitive, but he did something that no one else was doing. I wonder, like that type of an individual, did they ever have an opportunity not to start? Did he ever have an opportunity that just said, you know what, I got really shut down at this last one. I'm not gonna do it. Sure, I got embarrassed. I got whatever. And so really what I actually wanted to hit on was the art of start of him just doing it and then seeing the ripple effect of after he passed. The impact of what happened is that, you know, one thing that was shared in the service at Victory was, you know, your life is. And this was a quote taken from someone else who's talking about it. It's like your life is measured not in your duration, but in your donation of what you give your life for. Jesus gave his life for mankind. What are you giving your life for anyways? There's certain things that maybe God has put on the inside of you. Those of you who are listening and watching and you're like, well, I've thought about doing this I've thought about doing that, and you're just talking yourself in circles. I want to tell you today. To start. Yeah. To write it down. Because you never know what God can do with it.
