How To Really Pray： Hymns, Scripture, And Chant
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In addition to fasting, there are other ways of praying that we need to learn about that most Catholics don t know anything about. In this episode, Pastor John Henry Weston and Drew Mason talk about the importance of praying during the fourth watch.
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Our Protestant brothers will say, hey, well, you know, you have to discern if that's from God or
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not. But the reality is those fruits are unmatched by anything. The millions of conversions, the
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entire continent converted. And what came out of that? Repentance, turning to Jesus. There's really
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nothing to discern. If you're going to fight the importance of Guadalupe, I think you have to take
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a hard look at yourself and say, am I looking to justify myself? Am I looking to say what I believe
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is right? Or am I really looking to see what heaven is doing? Now, I know many of you saw
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the show I did with Drew Mason, who was telling us about the missing Bible verses in Matthew 21,
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just completely missing from Bibles, about fasting, the key to defeating Satan that our Lord gave to
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his apostles removed from the Bible. I want to go a little bit deeper into that today, because in
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addition to fasting, there's ways of praying that we need to learn about that most, I'd even say most
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Catholics don't know anything about, certainly I didn't, about one aspect of this. This is the
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Drew Mason, so good to see you again. Thank you so much for having me, John Henry. Praise be Jesus.
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Let's begin, as you always do, with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father,
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Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Amen.
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Drew, tell us about this prayer. I was stunned, because when you mentioned about prayer in the
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fourth watch, I had not heard that before, and then learned that it's actually in the scriptures,
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but give it to us from the beginning, if you will.
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So fasting is the power that overcomes evil when it's strongest, but it can only be effective if
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it's in combination with prayer. And I don't believe, John Henry, that most Catholics in particular
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really know how to pray. They haven't been formed. And so some of the things you kindly asked us to
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share that we do when we're fasting, how we pray, the first thing that you're referring to is when we
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pray. And if you go back to Genesis, it said that God came and spoke to Adam during the cool of the
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day. It was unprecedented communication for humanity with heaven at that time. And science
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tells us the cool of the day is 3 to 6 a.m. approximately. So fast forward to Jesus, and what
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we see in the Gospels is again and again, scripture telling us he went out to pray well before sunrise,
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during the fourth watch. And then scriptures explicitly tell us one of the greatest, most
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powerful manifestations of his divinity came during the fourth watch. When he did something
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that had never happened in history before, he walked on water and went out to the boat to meet
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the apostles and calm the storm. And there they really realized who he was because he didn't pray
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to God to calm the storm. He commanded the storm as Lord to be calm. So all that happened during the
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fourth watch. And John Henry, I think we have a lot to learn from our Protestant brothers
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about prayer. And they have a great insight on this. And their analogy they'll often make is
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if you want to make progress, if you want to hear from God and you want to quickly make progress and
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deepen your relationship with him, praying during the fourth watch versus other times of the day
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would be like flying from city to city versus walking. The Holy Spirit will just speak to you
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with such an abundance of insights. You're going to have trouble handling all the content he's giving
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you. If you're a pastor looking for ideas, et cetera. So I think that's a super powerful time.
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And we would encourage people to start with that. Then the second, once we're, once we're there,
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what, you know, and the Holy Spirit often will just wake people up. Don't think, Oh, I got to go
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back to sleep. I'm tired. Think of it as a divine appointment. The Holy Spirit wants to spend time
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with you. He's whispering to you, I have gifts for you. So you get up, you take, you make the commitment,
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you go, you sit in your favorite comfy chair. And then what do you do? Well, the word worship,
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I don't think most Catholics realize means praise. So when we go to Sunday worship, it's not us
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showing up with our sad song or our want list, our obligation, our duty. What God expects of us
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is to praise him because he fully deserves it. And that's how we want to start our praying.
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Praise is the threshold that allows us to come into his presence and praise precedes miracles.
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So the way we praise, of course, is starting to tell him how, you know, your favorite things,
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his extraordinary brilliance, his power and hanging the stars where he did, lighting the sun,
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making the ocean surge, the mountains so beautiful. Then we sing. Scriptures again, tell us sing
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again and again, sing a song to the Lord. And when you sing, God doesn't hear your voice. He hears your
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heart. So if you are miserly and you say, Oh, I'm too tough to sing or my voice doesn't sound good. He
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doesn't care. He wants to hear you sing. And specifically want to encourage people to sing
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songs of praise to him. So we always start out with Holy Spirit by Battistelli. The words in it
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are extraordinary. She talks about how once you come into his presence, there's nothing else that
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can compare. When we sing, we want to encourage you to sing songs of praise. And there are some
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fabulous ones. I'm just going to list a handful of them here for you that if you're not familiar with
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them, I think you will like them very much. Holy Spirit by Battistelli is what we start with,
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because heaven has told us when you pray, pray first for the Holy Spirit, then you'll have
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everything. An extraordinary insight that heaven has spoken to believers. Tremble by Lauren Daigle,
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First by Daigle, Oceans by Hillsong, Unrivaled from Lakewood, I Speak Jesus, that powerful song,
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Speaking the Name of Jesus. No matter what time of year it is, we love Noel by Chris Tomlin,
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Protector by Kim Smith, Your Great Name by the awesome Natalie Grant, I Can Only Imagine by Mercy
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Me, Beautiful Name by Hillsong. I'm listening to these so that if people are looking for content,
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those are great songs to sing. And when we sing, I want to encourage you to get your paws up,
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right? When we see in scripture, when Moses raised his hands, they were victorious. It was him in praise.
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And often, you know, people sit in Catholic churches with their arms folded and just by
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language that says you're not that excited to be there. You're not happy to be there.
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So I want to encourage you, as silly as you may feel, show him that you're super happy to be in
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his presence. Show him that you're so thrilled that he considers you so important to him. And then,
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of course, we turn to scripture and we read a little bit of scripture. Our lady has said at one
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point, read the scriptures every day. She makes the point that it's almost impossible to understand
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how significant it is to pray every day. Almost perhaps like if you were scuba diving and one day
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thought, I'm just going to go without my backpack, without my oxygen. You would never do that. She's
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saying it's that important. So in the scriptures program that we use, it's just the mass readings.
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Every day, those readings from mass are the most studied passages in the world. And they were chosen
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decades and centuries ago before anyone knew what today was. But the spirit knew that his articulate and
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his extraordinary plan of detail. And those words, I think, will speak to you in your life. And it is
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what is on the mind of the spirit. So those first few ideas there for John Henry, clearly our Protestant
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brothers would say, hey, we've championed this. And that's how our Protestant brothers pray. I take
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great inspiration from them. And if you look at the fruits from many of these independent Protestant
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churches, you see the Holy Spirit is working powerfully through them. And I think we want to,
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you know, learn from them, take some of the points from them that we can improve upon in our own
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church. Because I'd say in 98% of cases, we're agreeing and we need to improve our unity. Those
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first points, John Henry, I have really learned from my experiences with the Protestant churches. I love
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praying with our Protestant brothers. The next two points of how we pray are viewed as Catholic. And
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these points, I place great importance to because they have been emphasized by the greatest miracles
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in Christendom since the Bible was written. So today we happen to be recording this, no coincidence,
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on December 12th, which I would say is the greatest miracle we know. 500 years ago, there was this talk
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given by this preacher woman who went right into the heart of satanic worship in Latin America,
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where although it was called Aztec religion, was satanic worship. They would literally cut the hearts
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out of living beings and offer them up to Satan as a blood sacrifice. Christianity had failed. The
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missionaries had gotten nowhere. She shows up and she says to do exactly what Abraham had done. It was an
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echo of Abraham, where after the angel appeared to Abraham, he went and he built an altar to offer a
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sacrifice. She said, build an altar here to Jesus. And what happened, Christianity flourished. That is
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why it wasn't the Catholic missionaries. It was that spectacular miracle that made Latam Christian.
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And today, the idea that that talk, those words were so important to God that you and I can go to
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Latin America today, see a miracle with our own eyes that science today still can't even begin
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to explain as evidence that heaven was emphasizing this. And our Protestant brothers will say, hey,
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well, you know, you have to discern if that's from God or not. But the reality is those fruits are
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unmatched by anything. The millions of conversions, the entire continent converted. And what came out of
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that? Repentance, turning to Jesus. There's really nothing to discern. If you're going to fight the
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importance of Guadalupe, I think you have to take a hard look at yourself and say, am I looking to
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justify myself? Am I looking to say what I believe is right? Or am I really looking to see what heaven
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is doing? The second extraordinary miracle, perhaps the second most, I would say, in history,
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John Henry, was in Fatima. A hundred years ago, we had this biblical echo of Esther and of Isaiah,
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where 75,000 people saw the sun look like it was ripped out of its orbit and come hurtling towards
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them as the sun, of course, was rearranged in the Old Testament. And as an echo of Noah, God had flooded
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the world with Noah. Here he dried up the floods. In a period of moments, no one could explain how that
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happened. And what was the message there? Again, it was biblical. Repent, turn to Jesus. But here she
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gave a little more granularity and said, pray the biblical meditation of the rosary. And she actually
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gave an ultimatum with that miracle, saying, if you want peace, pray the rosary. So I would say to
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our Protestant brothers, again, look at Fatima, but look at fruits, look at the teachings, because
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Jesus said a house divided can't stand against itself. Look at how she explicitly talked about
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evil and how Christians have to defend themselves against it. So it gives credence to the idea of the
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rosary. Now, as Mary has explained, she was asked, should we pray to you or pray to God? Protestants will be
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so glad to know. She explicitly said, direct every prayer to God. But she said, if you would like me
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to pray with you, I will gladly do so. We have only one mediator, and that's Jesus. But we can intercede
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for one another, like you can intercede for me, I can intercede for you. There's nothing in Scripture
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that says once you die, you can no longer pray for others. Just the opposite. We see all these thousands
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of cases of near-death experiences. The people often see links where people they loved are interceding
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for them. So it supports that. And this biblical prayer is to God the Father. Some Protestants may
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say, well, you know, how can that be when the words of the prayer that's recited the most is,
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Hail Mary, full of grace. What I think she's clearly telling us is, we're to pray that to God the Father.
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When we do, we're quoting him, his favorite Scripture verse of all time. He had all eternity to think of
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the birth announcement for his son. And those are the words he picked. Hail, full of grace. The Lord
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is with you. So we're quoting that, this greatest hit, when the Trinity will never act in a similar
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way again, right? This was the wedding of the Holy Spirit. He took his girl. He took Mary at this
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moment. Jesus became man. This is never going to be replicated again. And so that is the essence
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of that Hail Mary prayer. We're quoting it to God the Father. So I think Protestants can very comfortably
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understand that the rosary is a biblical meditation to God. And this is, again, being held up by the
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greatest miracles that Christendom has seen to emphasize its importance. And then the last type
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of prayer that I would emphasize, which is paramount above all others, is the Eucharist,
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which obviously is scriptural, coming from the Last Supper. And I would say to our Protestant
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brothers, you know, who often practice communion, look, however, at, again, the miracles that heaven
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is holding up that we see through the Catholic Mass, the Catholic celebration of the Eucharist.
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We have case studies that are hundreds of years old that, again, like Guadalupe, are inexplicable,
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where there is a heart tissue that has never deteriorated, where you have these miracles
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across the world. It's always the same blood type. Heaven has told us that we will never be able to
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fully appreciate how powerful that moment is. And what I would say to our Protestants brothers is,
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although I love, you know, singing with them, praying, et cetera, I believe the time is going to come
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when we die, we will gladly trade all the prayers, all the worship, all the singing, all the good
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experiences in our life combined for the chance to go to Mass just one more time, to receive the Eucharist
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just one more time in a worthy state. What the monks and nuns did for centuries is actually listed
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in the Scriptures and encouraged for all of us to engage in. That was startling and stunning.
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Allocate a portion of your wealth to whatever you think looks best, but make sure you have
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a portion, especially if you're a conservative, allocated to gold because nothing has protected
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wealth like gold through the centuries. And that's our message, John Henry.
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Just recently, the head of pensions in the U.S. government talked about avoiding a financial
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apocalypse. And for that reason, they had to send $36 billion to prop up pensions for the
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Teamsters. There's been something similar seen in the U.K. What in the world is going on with
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finances around the globe? We have with us Drew Mason, who works with LifeSite in getting people
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to get gold as part of St. Joseph's Partners. Public talk about a financial apocalypse. I mean,
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we were always worried, you know, as we're looking at the deficit in Canada, in the United States and
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elsewhere, I wonder if the money that I'm constantly putting toward pension is actually going to come
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back. But everybody said, oh, yeah, it's going to, it's going to, no problem, no problem.
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Except things are looking very strange right now. What's really going on?
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What happened was last week, the U.S. government announced that they were investing this $36 billion
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because the head of pensions in the Senate said it was necessary, quote, to avert a financial
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apocalypse. Now, John Henry, this $36 billion one-time injection is not going to be enough
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to stem what is going on. It's just basically wasted money that they're throwing at something,
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trying to avoid what is unavoidable. And what has happened, John Henry, is, and this is something
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that we have also seen just play out in the UK as well, these pensions have obligations that they
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must pay out to retirees. And historically, pensions have had a heavy allocation to fixed income because
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of the yield they could count on the income each year to meet these obligations. But as the central banks
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have pushed interest rates to abnormally low levels, levels literally never seen in 5,000 years of
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financial history, where in Europe, they actually turned negative, it began to create this unexpected
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stress in the financial system where they no longer had income to match with these demands,
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these needs for their pensioners. So what happened was the financial firms began coming up with products
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of excess leverage, so they could still invest in bonds, and the excess leverage would allow them to get the
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income they needed. Because after all, everybody knows bonds never go down, right, John Henry?
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So as always, the unexpected seemed to surface. And not only did the bonds go down, but the leverage these
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pension systems had compounded and made the losses even worse.
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So we first saw Great Britain doing an about-face recently when they had been raising rates to fight
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inflation, their central bank. And then they seemed to get a call from above saying,
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we have to, you know, our pension system's on the verge of eviscerating. And they did an about-face.
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Come across the pond here, and last week we saw something similar in the U.S. with this $36 billion
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injection into the Teamsters. And what I would really just want to leave with viewers is the
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urgency of what is going on. When you see public institutions being forced to put up capital to
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preserve the wealth of these plans, you don't want to have all of your assets aligned with what is
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obviously a very stressed market, or they wouldn't need to come in and invest this money in the first
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place, right? I mean, if you back up a step, QE, Fed Chairman has been saying since 2010, they were
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going to withdraw that liquidity right away and right-size the balance sheet. Well, they haven't
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just forgotten about it. They haven't been able to do it because they know if they took that artificial
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liquidity out, the market would be extraordinarily stressed. So what we say to our clients is,
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obviously, we're hoping for the best. We're not rooting for a market correction. However,
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you don't want to build your future, especially your retirement, on hope. You want to have an
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allocation that historically has thrived when these other assets, stocks, bonds, and real estate
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are stressed. And historically, gold has done just that. If you go back and you look through the
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hundreds of case studies that history offers us, or those who will look, you see that when a country
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becomes overly indebted, it leads to a depreciation, the value of its currency, and a commensurate shift
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in wealth to gold. And so we would say to investors, you don't need to sell everything. We're not talking
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about Armageddon. We've seen this hundreds of times, but you want to have eyes wide open. You don't want
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to be scared. Be on your front foot. Allocate a portion of your wealth to whatever you think looks
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best, but make sure you have a portion, especially if you're a conservative, allocated to gold because
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nothing has protected wealth like gold through the centuries. And that's our message, John Henry.
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What is happening? It's very hard for those of us who aren't looking at financial markets,
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who aren't in the stock market or anything else, to really understand how this all works from the
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ground up. Can you give us just a sort of simple run through as to where we are right now financially?
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We've had the worst start to a year for stocks and bonds combined in an extraordinarily long period of
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time. So the ideas that stocks and bonds were complementary is really being blown out of the
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water. You're seeing the biggest financial firms in America now admitting that they can both go down
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at the same time. Why is that? It's the simple laws of finance that are irrefutable. And that is
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when inflation rears its head, the value of stocks and bonds and real estate compresses because all those
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assets are expected cash flows in the future. And the higher inflation, the less those cash flows are
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worth. So we're seeing these multiples compress. Having said that, with all the pain that's happened
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this year, today is we're taping this. We are still at levels that were equal to the prior bubble peak in
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the dot-com era. So we have been so richly valued. People don't appreciate how we're still in the
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stratosphere from historic valuations. So as inflation, we believe, won't be transitory,
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like the press says, we think the reprieves from inflation will be transitory. As inflation persists,
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you're going to continue to see pressure on the valuations of those assets. In the 1970s,
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for example, which was the last time America saw significant inflation over a prolonged period,
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the S&P multiple was cut in half. Meanwhile, gold traded higher by multiples. And so we think
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that is this dynamic. There's no single economic input that's more important to value all assets
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than inflation. And when it rises, it's bad for these traditional paper assets. When it rises,
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it's great for gold. Job 101 of portfolio construction or management, if you're an advisor or if you're for
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your family, is you want to have some exposure to assets that complement one another. You don't have
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all your eggs in essentially one basket that's going to tank if inflation skyrockets, if stress
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increases. You want to have some exposure to these assets that thrive. And history tells us,
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don't dally, don't wait. This is about, again, management. If everything I'm saying is dead wrong,
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and the Fed is able to bubblegum this miracle solution, right? And again, that has never happened.
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If all you had to do is print money out of your trouble, ancient Greece would still be standing.
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Ever since then, every government that's tried it has failed. But let's just say I'm totally wrong,
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and the government is going to be able to bring prosperity to all the markets. Well, if you do
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that, if that happens, and you have a small allocation to gold, less than a quarter of your
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investments, then you're going to be in good shape because the other 75 plus percent of your
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portfolio is going to be doing great as the Fed makes this miracle work, pulls this trick out of their
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hat. However, if history plays out as it always has, and the Fed is only able to do this for a
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certain amount of time, and then reality comes back to the markets, then you're going to be very happy
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you have this gold allocation. So the risk-reward is looking at ways that you can preserve your
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family's wealth. And this is about giving families more opportunities for what's coming.
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Gold is this bridge that gets one's wealth to the future amidst all this fog with your wealth
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intact. And then when you get there, you can reallocate to stocks, bonds, whatever it is you'd
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like to buy at that moment in time. Because history suggests when we get to that point, gold will be
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worth a lot more. And those other assets will probably have peeled off from their all-time high
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One interesting thing that I just want to leave people with is that you suggest that people actually
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get physical gold themselves rather than investing in gold as you could do, but you would suggest
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that they actually hold the physical gold themselves.
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That's correct. At the end of the day, again, gold is about diversifying one's wealth. And as you reflect
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on this, that includes diversifying what's called your counterparty risk, right? So if there's a problem
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with the stock exchange, like look at September of 2001, right? The planes hit the World Trade Centers,
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all the exchanges, the U.S. exchange was shuttered for over a week, right? That's just with one local
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incident, albeit it was horrific, right? But when you have physical gold, you're not dependent upon the
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exchanges being open. You're not dependent upon what any government says is a law because gold sits above
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the capital stack of any country. And we're seeing this play out again and again with the way Russia
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and Asia are moving. If your readers and viewers aren't aware, John Henry, what has also just happened
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is that the central banks around the world who make the rules, who print the money, who know what's
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coming, are investing more money in gold than they ever have since records have been kept. We are seeing
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record central bank investing in gold. And these nations are aggressively decreasing their exposure
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to the U.S. dollar. So we would say to investors, if that's what you see the most informed sources
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doing with their money, it probably makes sense for you to do something similar. Dial back your risk
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When you first told me this about the Bible being changed, I had to actually look it up because,
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well, I read the Dewey Rhames and I looked it up and there it is in front of my face. And it is so
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strange. It's so strange to me because you'd think especially the evangelicals would have freaked out
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to notice that there's a change from the King James Version to the NIV, which is now the most popular
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one. So, okay, you tell us. I'm going to let you do the big reveal because you were, this was so
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stunning to me. Where is it changed and why? Beginning with the why you asked, I would call to
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mind all believers, the quote that we have in the New Testament telling us, don't ever wonder why
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something happens, whether it's a financial, a political issue, health, whatever it is.
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The scriptures tell us it happens because of the spiritual war we are in. We are so priceless that
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Jesus died for us. And because that Satan hates us with a passion, with an intensity that is difficult
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for us to imagine. And so there's this constant battle going on around us that we're really oblivious
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to. And that is what is shaping everything. So imagine Jesus teaching one of his most important
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revelations in his whole ministry. He tells his believers, when you are confronted with evil,
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here is your playbook on how to defeat evil. You need to know this or you will never defeat evil.
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You will lose every time by prayer alone when evil is at its strongest. And where we see this teaching
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for centuries in the Dewey Reims and for centuries in the King James is in two places. The first is in
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Mark chapter nine. And what we see happening there is the apostles have been on fire. They're just doing
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incredible miracles. And then it seems they come back together. And then these 12 men that Christ
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handpicked and hand-trained confront one evil person. And when they do, the evil person is actually
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able to take down the 12 apostles. So they have to run and get Christ to come and save the day.
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And he does, of course. And then it tells us explicitly, when they had him alone, they said,
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Lord, why did this happen? Why couldn't we have victory here like we have in every other case?
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And then Jesus gives us this incredible teaching. He says, because this, when evil is strongest,
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can only be won with prayer and fasting. For centuries, that was a clear understanding.
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Similar, exact translation to King James. The parallel is in Matthew chapter 17. And in there,
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you'll see in verse 21, he says the same thing. Now, what has happened post-Vatican II,
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a very interesting development took place. Those references on how to defeat evil, what we must
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do and understand in order to defeat evil, were removed. So the teaching was taken from us
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on what we need to do and think of what's happened to the church, to our countries since then. And so
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now, most modern Catholic Bibles, and like you referenced, the NIV, the ESV, say this can only
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be won by prayer. What's nonsensical? The apostles had prayed and they had lost. The teaching was about
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fasting. And it's even more bizarre in Matthew, because there you'll see verse 21 has entirely been
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omitted in many of these Bibles. So sequentially, the chapter goes, verse 18, 19, 20, 22. Wait,
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what happened to verse 21? They took it out. And then you compare it in the King James and the Dewey
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Reams, and you see that was what was removed, this knowledge of how to defeat evil.
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I want everybody watching, please stop for a second. Get out your Bible, especially if you have an NIV.
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And you can do the comparison later, but just take out your NIV for a quick second.
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Let me just read to you. I'm going to read it first from Mark. Mark, verse 29.
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So I'll start at 29. Excuse me, sorry. Mark, from the Dewey Reams, it's actually 28,
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but it's in everything else, it's 29. So, and this is Jesus replying. Just as Drew said there,
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the conversation is about inability to cast out this demon, and Jesus does, and they ask him
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privately what. And the punchline is 28 in the Dewey Reams and 29 in everything else. So you check
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29, what it says. Remember Mark 9, 29, in Dewey Reams 28. And he said to them, this kind can go out by
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nothing but prayer and fasting. Now you notice how the and fasting is missing from the NIV and any of
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the other modern translations. Look it up in the King James. It's the same, prayer and fasting.
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Okay. Now let's turn to Matthew. So in Matthew, you see again, here you have Matthew 17.
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Okay. So the whole verse is actually missing. That's, that's just brilliant. So let's look at
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it in the Dewey Reams in Matthew. You're talking 17, 20, but in everything else, it's 21. Look at
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the numbers, just as Drew said. You see it goes 17, 18, 19, 20, 22. It's missing. Here it is in the
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Dewey Reams. Again, same words, but this kind is not cast out, but by prayer and fasting.
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It's so bizarre that in the other versions, it's, it's there in the King James version too,
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by the way, but not in these modern versions. Let's actually just skip the verse altogether.
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This is unreal. My mind was blown. Um, okay. So Drew, back to you. Why in the world have they done this?
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Because this doesn't make sense. How did they get away with this? Was there any explanation or was
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just, oh, well, let's just skip it. Well, how did they get away with it is a great question,
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John Henry. It was, I would equate it to a Navy SEAL type operation to be able to sneak into the
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church and undercover to do this and just decimate the church is an extraordinary event. One of evil's
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greatest victories in the last century plus. Now, I don't know. Anyway, I'd welcome anyone who did.
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We don't know who it was in the Catholic church who championed this, but in the Protestant church,
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there were two gentlemen, Westcott and Hoyt, who championed this to change the King James.
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It turned out they were later associated with the occult. And I suspect that's exactly what happened
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in the, in the Catholic church as well. People who were in disguise, they were, they were the wolves
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in sheep's clothing who took this defense away from us. Now, to your point, John Henry, there is,
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of course, a justification. Evil always has a justification for what it does. And here,
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what the, the justification is, is that they discovered two manuscripts that they believed
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were the oldest found about the New Testament, the Vaticanus and the Siatic, I believe is the two,
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is the exact pronunciation of it. And those two manuscripts did not talk about fasting. So the
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argument was raised, since these are the oldest, they must be the most accurate. So we're just going to
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omit fasting. But the reality is there are thousands of manuscripts of the Old Testament
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that talk about fasting. And those are dog-eared, meaning think about it's parchment. People were
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using them. They were referring to them. They were teaching by them.
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