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Authority of Christ is Lord over all things. That's right all things and you say all things we mean all things all things

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Even video game even even art. Yeah video games right movies Television shows like the

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Christian worldview ought to have something to say in those areas. What does it does?

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Yeah, that's that's why the word all right, too. All right, and we do a lot of stuff about apologetics. Yes, and so Recently we started doing this series called called post bit right because your kids

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Watch a lot of YouTube videos of people playing video games. Yeah, and a lot of them are vulgar.

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Mm -hmm and They're just not very They don't want to go into much discussion as to like what is the worldview the video game, right?

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It's trying to like present to you. Like what is this because a video game is a story right immersive, right?

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But it's trying to tell you something right and so we thought of this idea a while back ago Postman we first started one of the first things we wanted to do right and so we got to a point where we can do it and so we wanted to make a video game series that Discussed video games had a good time was entertaining, right but also talked about theology

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And and worldview around that as as a means of apologetics, right?

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Well, that's right yeah, so like a defense of the biblical worldview over against anti biblical and I'm on and Hostile even worldview.

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Yeah, right And so and people might and we live in a culture right Marcus where people might See something like that on a

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Christian channel that does a lot of apologetics and a lot of sermons a lot of theology They might see like a video game review pop up and they might say

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What in the world is that doing there? That seems completely out of place. I would ask him well What is apologetics?

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What is what is apologetics? What's it's that find it, right? It's a apologia is there the word first Peter 315 that the

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Apostle Peter uses there He says for Christians to set Christ apart as Lord in their hearts and to always be ready to give an apologia a reason

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Defense to everyone who asks us a reason for the hope that's within us. So it's a reason defense Yes of what of the faith of opposite, but it's defending yourself against the opposition, right?

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So Okay, do our is that only talking about other religions?

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Well, that's that's that and that's that's exactly the point right is that the biblical worldview is is all -encompassing and so it answers every area of life, right so whether it's

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Apologetic against bad economics, right correct government, right? Movies that are presenting to you bad art about bad art.

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Yeah bad movies. Yeah people lying about God With their art, right, right, right, but then you have this area now.

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It's about video games. It's multi -billion dollar industry It's bigger than Hollywood or going to be bigger than Hollywood Grand Theft Auto 5 which is a game we don't endorse right and we don't play right but that that game made a billion dollars

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In three days three days and Star Wars took how long Star Wars episode 7 goodness

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I don't know. It definitely wasn't a billion dollars in three days. It wasn't three days No, no a video game did right and that's the that's the franchise of Star Wars, right?

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This is like what's bigger than Star Wars? Seriously Grand Theft Auto right right Right. Yeah, so so that's that's the thing like that's it's when you see a form of art that's being

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Consumed by our culture and there's zero Christians that are

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Major voices or major players in that realm. Yeah, there's Christians in it. Oh, yeah

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There's actually there's a lot of Christians that are actually developers right there's gamers There's I heard there's some some some studios that are coming up.

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Yeah, but there's no real Discussion as to hey, what are these video games trying to tell us right, right?

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Like is that is that okay is Grand Theft Auto's worldview that says you can go around steal people's cars beat people up Sleep with prostitutes.

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Is that okay? Yeah, is that is that a bit is that a is it a true interpretation of the world?

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Yeah, and are and you're gonna immerse yourself in that for 60 hours of gameplay, right? What are you getting at like what is the value to that that's right versus I'm gonna play no man's sky for 60 hours of Same amount of gameplay, but am

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I am I getting some things that I can say? Well, this is from a Christian worldview here.

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Like this is good or this immersion is okay Because I'm I'm doing things like we had

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Colin Gunn on the show, right and he's on a TV Apollo Yeah, it's on apology. Yeah, check it out. So Colin Gunn was talking about how

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Video games are good because they can train people to do things without actually having them in it, right?

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So right war right they can train you for war they can train you for even like medical procedures

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Aviation aviation. Yeah, right flying. Of course, right? That's a video you don't fly You don't you're not even allowed to fly without a certain amount of time in the same hundreds of hours and the simulator is is

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A video game is a video game, right? Of course it is. So so there's a value to video games in that we can experience things

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Colin was saying did you bring up a good point Colin was talking about and this really resonated with me the say there's a kid

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Who's a kid who's his environment is he's raised in a poor community? And maybe he won't be able to travel to different locations and places and experience certain things.

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Well video games can actually Provide that experience in many ways right you could you could do it sometimes we read books to our children and and it they it allows them to to form the story in their mind and to end for Their for them to have the ability to escape into that realm and produce this

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Response to the story right exactly and video games are a modern tool

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Technological advancement that allows us to actually tell stories but immerse people into them, right exactly

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But they this is the argument and I know somebody is already thinking that's watching the channel because I've seen some of the comments

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We ignore most of the comments, but we wanted to see as a test run. What are they saying? right, we're looking at right and seeing people say things like well, there's the risk of people becoming obsessed with or Abusing of course there and I and the answer that it should be obvious to everybody

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Yeah, that's a problem with sinners handling anything in God's world.

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We talk whether it's food whether it's sex abusing sex a good gift from God whether Anything you name it if a sinner puts their hands on it, they can wreck it, right, right

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Right, and so it's not a good argument to say well people have sinned with this or I sin with this

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So therefore nobody can do it and it's it's of the devil. That's legalism. It's legalism and it's completely anti -biblical, right?

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Because if you think about what some of this is It's art

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God's an artist It's story. God is the is the original master storyteller.

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Jesus was an amazing storyteller Right, it's storytelling and there's there are elements within video games and really any media like this that Always do something and you you you were the one that first really brought this to me and I and I've never forgot

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I've never forgot it the elements of art Right, which makes something good art, right?

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Talk about that because that's that's a really important Well, I remember. Okay. Okay. I'll see and you can respond

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He said like when you look at God and his creative works true. It's true when God creates things.

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They're true, right? So they're true when he creates things. They're holy Right, and when he creates things, they're good.

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He says it's very good And so he's our standard of artistry right has to be true has to be holy it has to be good

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Right, so there's a creative good a creative good, right? Okay. So so let's talk about that because Those elements of us imaging

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God really imitating God in his artistry, right really ought to be Around the world and the things that we produce so just real fast

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So think about hang on to it because when the unbelieving world gets hold of these things

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They don't stop imaging God. We talked about this today in the radio show They don't stop imaging

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God and doing art because they reject Jesus. They still do art They still tell stories, but they're unbelievers and they're not they're not gonna glorify

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God with their art and stories So they're gonna go and do something else, right? So they ask ourselves the question do we want as Christians the unbelievers telling all the stories?

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Do we want the unbelievers giving our children all the art or as Christians? Do we want to be the ones that are the? Standard in that area, right?

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No, it's like well So if you take a game like Grand Theft Auto, right say it's it's good in the fact that the graphics are amazing

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Like the level the size quality game the quality Yeah, like they put a lot of work into it, but it's not holy

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No, and it's not true and it's reflection of God's world, right? right so you can just go around and shoot things and then you'll get you can kill the police and get away and There's no justice in Grand Theft Auto, right?

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So that's not a true reflection, right? But then you take a game and this will probably generate a lot of hate like No Man's Sky Which I'm really liking a lot.

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So No Man's Sky is is it's it's it's true to the world in that There's there's laws and physics like there's commercial

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Capitalism and stuff and if you if you are aggressive on a planet or you you're not a good steward of a planet

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There's justice and that there's people that come after you and like try to kill you if you mind too much or whatever

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So there's a true nature to it. It doesn't have to be it's not perfect snare But there's a true next a true nature to it.

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And then it's holy and that there's there's there's true good and evil in the game There there are pirates who try to steal your things.

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That's evil. You're defending your your possessions and whatnot So there it's a holiness to it. I don't think there's any cuss words in the game

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Because well, everybody speaks a different language so there's no cuss words, there's no immorality in the game and then it's

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And I think it's just magnificent in time in terms of being good, right? Although there's a lot of people that disagree whether it's a good it could be better It could be and they're working on making it better Yeah so so there's there's

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I mean just a scope of the game in terms of the size of the universe and it kind of makes you Reflect on the size of like the universe that God made and that that the universe they made with 17 quintillion planets is probably a lot smaller than the actual universe and it's fake

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Right, and then so there's a lot to go there from that game You can say you can do that and you can just like it's a great game

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Just yeah in terms of like redeeming the game like you're like spending 60 hours on a game. That's a waste of time

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But some people spend 60 times 60 hours listening to podcasts But see

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I can play that game and I can listen to a podcast at the same time because it doesn't take a lot of Thought it's a good break and you can listen to a podcast or a sermon or whatever as you play the game

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So there is a redemptive value in terms of your time, right? It can be redeemed and it's a hobby right if it's an obsession if you're not if you're skipping work

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Yeah, or abandoning your family and children and responsibilities in the midst of it. What's like anything else?

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You need to repent of that idolatry and get it in the right place, right? But people have all kinds of hobbies some guys like to build certain things

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Yeah, and some people make a lot of money with their hobbies Yeah, which is like what's video game industries become right?

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We've got a multi -billion dollar industry that started with a hobby, right? So you can't say well that guy's wasting his time making food in the kitchen and this other guy

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Is making a billion dollars making food in a restaurant. Yeah, right, right so so there's value to both and so when we when

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I see an Entire industry that's making billions of dollars and Christians are like, oh,

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I don't know if we should get involved in that and the pagans just They're already there. We'll give your kids.

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Oh, yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah, you know, you don't want to tell stories. That's fine Well, we'll tell your kids stories. Yeah, we'll tell the story.

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So that attitude is dangerous that sort of isolationism Christianity is right is not okay in the history of the

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Christian Church It wasn't always this way in terms of Christians and cultural retreat, right?

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You have Christians who were the movers and shakers in the area of arts in Architecture you have

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Christians that were movers and shakers in the area of education whether it was like long long long ago

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Oxford Cambridge those kinds of universities that were like Let's let's train you to think in a way that glorifies

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God and go out into the world and take Dominion Right, right and expand and study and observe

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God's world and do something in it And you have Christians who gave modern science the biblical world you get modern science.

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It's big Explosion you you did a I think a wonderful message at reform con on you can thank biblical worldview and Christians for your smartphones

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Right because that's one that's on the YouTube That's on our YouTube channel, right? And so but so in the history in our history

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Christians often would even build churches that they knew that they would never ultimately finish Because their great -great -grandchildren would finish and then be worshiping in this place they built things to last generations and we live in a time where many

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Christians are Really committed to cultural retreat and surrender and we reap the rewards for that right now

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We've stepped away from culture in many ways. And so now the unbelievers don't go. Oh, we'll step away too, right?

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They say no. Okay. Yeah, I'll take that away. Please go away. Yeah, please go away. We'll tell your kids the stories

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We'll produce the media and the content we will tell people what's good What's holy and what's true and you can you can step away?

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Whereas Jesus tells us as Christians to be salt and light salt acts as a preservative light dispels darkness and so Christians ought to be imaging

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God and be Ambassadors for Christ proclaiming the excellencies of Jesus Christ in every area of life

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That means everything that means in my personal life. That means in my family. That means in my church That means in in government and it means like hey

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Really in art in television in movies Because we our basic intention and we say it all the time is that Jesus Christ is

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Lord of all and that he is in charge of and Master over every realm.

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So you I would say to somebody just tell me what Jesus doesn't have authority over Tell me what area

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Jesus doesn't have something to say in Now, I think as Christians we just say well, that's it. That's a fallacious

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That's a fallacious form of reasoning right? There is no place where Jesus doesn't have say great

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So post bit. Yeah, people will say because this was something that came up. Okay is

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Jesus Lord over brothels Yes in the sense that he commands them to repent of their sins.

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So shut the brothels down to she exactly So if Jesus is Lord of the video games, why don't you just shut them down because in video games aren't inherently sinful

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The the storytelling and art and neither sex and neither is sex but storytelling and art is not inherently sinful prostitution is

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Inherently sinful and Jesus has something to say about that repent and believe the gospel, right?

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But when you look at storytelling and art and all the stuff in media, it's not inherently sinful and Christians use it all the time

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So mix for example media Chris, we're using media right now for the glory of God, right?

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Is there media is there stuff happening right now on the internet live through webcams

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That's utterly sinful and Jesus has something to say about absolutely But are we using this to the glory of God and the exaltation?

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Exactly. And so when we look at video games, we see an arena where Christians ought to be the one saying well

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Let's talk about that story. Is that good? Is that a good story? Is that good art? Is that glorifying to God?

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Is that gonna stand the test of time like that? That's the sort of things Those are the sort of things that we ought to be doing as Christians.

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It's a post -bit is our feeble little stab At saying as Christians, let's engage this arena and let's talk about at the very least encouraging others to do it

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That's right better than us. Yeah. Yeah, so let's talk about post -bit Okay, cuz we've been trying to figure out how to do it.

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Okay, cuz we don't want a Jesus juke theology into it like it's like Obviously forced and wedged like they're like finding the gospel and stranger things right, right exactly.

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It's like well You know, right, so we don't really want to do that right, but we found that when we were playing it

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We were it was very difficult to talk about the theology and stuff as we're playing it Because we were talking about theology and then our characters just like walking in a wall

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We're not even paying attention because we're talking about theology and we die and so that doesn't really make for good stuff But what we found was after we played the game

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We were talking about the theology of it's just like you watch a movie you watch a movie You're not sitting down talking about every every element while you're watching

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So what we wanted to do is find a way how can we? Play the game and have a good time if it's a game that you should enjoy have a good time, right?

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But we won't be playing games that you can't do that But so how can we play the game have a good time make an entertaining video?

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That's funny And and and that can bring new audiences into on our

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YouTube That's a hey these guys make great stuff. What else they make and then they hear the gospel Yeah, then they find apologetics and stuff like that So that's one element right and then the other element is hey this there needs to be a serious theological

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Discussion as like the content character of this game so the our post -it reviews are going to be two parts

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One's going to be the fun This is us playing and joking around and making jokes and stuff like that and then the second part will be a discussion

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Of in commentary of world the discussion yeah, yeah, so that's that's the plan right now good So if you see one you're like those guys are just joking around and like you know whatever well first off It's not nothing wrong with just joking around and having it

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Martin Luther said if you're not allowed to laugh in heaven I don't want to go there right and it's a studio channel So it's gonna be all kinds of content in the future.

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Yeah, very various theological Like that, but so there's gonna be that one element

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And then we're gonna we do really want it to be about theology. That's why we're doing it right Then we're gonna have the second element. That's so so there'll be two videos a week okay on the game and the discussion and so Somebody might say you guys just need to focus on the gospel

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Right and in my response to a person saying that is well we do Keep looking through the videos right it's all over and that's what our that's what our ministry is all about is proclaiming

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The need to repent and believe the gospel and trust in Jesus Christ and him their salvation and only in and through him through faith

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But but here's what I would say to somebody that says you just need to go about preaching the gospel I would I would say do you eat? Do you have hobbies?

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Do you play games with your kids? Do you do you do any sports right you know what I say? Let's draw that out

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Do you really mean what you're saying and then if I really take a stab at what I think they're saying I would say to them you need to stop believing in a truncated gospel

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Because you see the the gospel is the gospel of the kingdom which includes the salvation of sinners in Jesus Christ But it's also the proclamation of who

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Jesus is He's Lord right. He's God right and he is seated and ruling with all authority

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Matthew 18 20 Matthew 28 18 through 20 all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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That's past tense, baby That's that's done and gone Present tense having all authority in heaven and on earth which means that as Christians we come into the world as representatives of the king and We tell his truths and his story right and so we're supposed to come into conflict with the world

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And in the kingdom of this world with the kingdom of the Messiah, and I think that means everything

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I think it means in every realm I Listen if somebody says well, I prefer to focus in this area.

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I would say great praise God Do it do it to the glory of God and do it Well, we're gonna be over here doing just what we can't right like we're gonna hit where we can't you got a better idea

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Go do that in your area because Jesus is Lord of everything and and so for us as a studio

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We want to be able to be light in the areas that we can and this is one of those areas because it's a huge It's a it's it makes me mad

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Honestly, it really makes me mad when I see an industry that's void of Christian world the Christian world like that upsets me great

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Christian influence right like it's missing great Christian exactly right like I don't like the fact that Steve Jobs made the iPhone

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And it wasn't a Christian was a Christian that gave him the ability to do it, but I'm going even farther

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I'm glad I'm with you know what I mean, so yeah So I don't like the fact that Silicon Valley is run Like Facebook is not run by a

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Christian and YouTube is not run by a Christian Google was not owned by Christians directly Yeah, you know what

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I mean like that bothers me I know something along something will come along in the future That'll be better and a

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Christian will be able to take credit for it for the glory of God right and so that'll happen but when

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I see stuff that Christians are absent from or void of Like that's that's an issue and so so I think it's good that we say hey this these video games

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Is Jesus King over it right now or the pagans taking over it right now right and say well the pagans look like they're running

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Running the show well, it's time to stop them. You know and we need good Christian game makers

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Developers Christian artists and because you could think about this for a second you could If you had it

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Christians with like real dominant influence in this in this area They could create stories and immersive experiences and games where There are consequences

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For wrong actions right right and so it actually teaches even young people at a young age

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That's not allowed right right exactly. That's a moral failure right and That can't even be allowed in a pretend world and when you do these kind of things in even a pretend world a story

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There are consequences and justice whereas a lot of the games today It's just do whatever helter -skelter.

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It's just fun right it's yeah I get to do this a thing and do anything I want and When Christians start speaking into this area and actually are using our voice as dollar as Dollars capital right so in other words when game developers are creating games with really bad stories and really immoral stuff as elements in the game

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If Christians speak into it within their voices amount to capital right right then the game developers go

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We can't tell these bad stories Exactly people don't won't purchase bad stories right if it's if it's if it's really grungy underground bad art and Stories really gritty seedy stories it belongs in an alley

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Right sold by a guy wearing a trench coat right and and they're not making a lot of cash

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They're not they're not on the top shelf That's right. Yeah, right We need we need that kind of stuff to Disappear where it belongs for the good art and the good stories to be a top shelf in front of everybody else

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And there's a standard, but here's this is my final point Where's that standard come from? So come from unbelievers.

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They got an ultimate standard. They got something they can appeal to and say that's good storytelling That's good art.

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That's true and good They don't have that standard because an unbelieving worldview can't give you an ultimate standard to say

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This is the standard of good art and story now Christians Actually have the

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God who gives us that so Why would anybody suggest we don't talk about this?

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We're the one with the standard right that's apologetics Exactly yeah, that's right. I think it's the idea.

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Just that Christians aren't allowed to have fun Right right so like when

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God made Adam and put him in the in the garden. It was just work That's it except for that one day, and then you worship me, and then it's back to work again, right?

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But there there was there was joy. There was food. There was a wife in the garden, right? There was joy and entertainment that was available to Adam in the garden right and so that still applies

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Yeah God is Lord over entertainment and entertainment is a gift from God to us to enjoy

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And it's not a Gnostic of you or we say anything. That's you know Material or earthly or worldly no this is

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God's world that's right and the things that we enjoy here Can glorify God right if they're truly and if somebody said something to the effect or something and they aimed at something like well

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I think technology is abused today, and it's pretty much evil and evil dominates technology first of all

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I would completely disagree with that But if they suggested such a thing and they're watching this video right now. I would say you're watching technology

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Right now right before you and you're using media right now right before you you're spending time right now not reading the

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Bible So to watch that to watch this video, right? It's digital technology

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And you're learning and you're hearing truth spoken and hopefully and right and truth spoken and and a particular worldview

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Well, that's also over here in the area of video games right saying this technology is telling you a story

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You're learning right, and you're not reading your Bible right exactly right right right and and the same thing is like when you read a book

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Right you're immersed in that book There's no difference between being immersed in a video game and being immersed in a book

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It's it's the experience is It follows your head. Yeah, right it fills your head your imagination and right not video games might help that They might be able to add a different level to that and then

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Colin Gunn says It's one of the greatest forms of art today because of how immersive it is, right?

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That's not a bad thing I guess one of the beauties of the game of video games is it's an it's the most immersive form of art available

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Mm -hmm And so so that's a good thing and so books and audio book or listening to a sermon or what listening to a podcast

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It's still an immersive experience in some way and if it's not immersive, it's boring and you're not paying attention to it

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All the forms are so video games is just another way to consume art media

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And so Christians need to be producing What's being consumed and the reason

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I would say that people are so Drawn into these sorts of things movies

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TV video games is because We have a natural propensity towards art

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Right, right, of course and it's inescapable. You're not gonna get away from it I mean you look at kids like my kids last night came home and they just busted out all these

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Papers with watercolors and paintbrushes and they were just going to town painting stuff and they were painting my face and you know

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They couldn't help themselves like give them a paintbrush and colors and they're just going out of their image bearers their image bears and that's not

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Gonna go away. And so here's the point Christians image of God means a lot and it's not going away

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Yeah, and you can't suppress it and you can't suppress a lot of Christians think they can suppress the image of God, right? Yeah, and that takes them out of the world.

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That's right. Just suppress all these natural godly desires I have right I'll be like the good Christians.

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No, no, that's good stuff You're you're a good Christian because you have those godly desire, right?

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And the point is is like I said unbelievers They are gonna image God whether they were they submit to Jesus Christ or not, right?

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They're in sin and they're gonna be condemned for not turning to Christ, but they're not gonna stop imaging Jesus They're not gonna stop imaging

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God They're gonna be artists and then my our point is is that Christians need to stop allowing the unbelievers to take the lead

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In telling you stories and doing this kind of art and immersive experiences Christians ought to be the ones that actually set the standard

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Now what's that? What's that mean for us today in? 2016 an apology a studio is doing a thing on post bits, but we don't have any grand delusions about What exactly we're gonna accomplish with post bits, but we're trying to say there needs to be a seed planting now

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We're Christians start saying. Oh, yeah, that's right. Jesus actually isn't charge everything Yeah, but think about this think about this goes back to capital, right?

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Right say post it does become successful just like it does become successful to a point where? Developers are sending us games to review and talk about and some of the games we get are like we're not talking about that game that game is garbage and Nobody hears about it.

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We don't play about it. We don't talk about it. They're gonna they're gonna start making games that The Christians who are the voices and the reviewers and the the curators of art on the planet

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They're gonna start making games that the Christians hang in their museums. Yep, right

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So that so that's the ultimate thing is like how do we get it to where the Christians are the curators of the garden again?

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Mm -hmm, because the curators of the garden is not Adam anymore. It's it's it's it's

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This is the serpent, right? So he's curating the garden right now. We're like, oh, we just better stay away from the garden

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Right, right, there's there's an animal talking we got to get away as opposed to saying wait a minute

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Let's take it back. Right? It's ours. God made that for us. Why are they? Why are they curating the

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Museum of God's art? Like right? That's that's that's that's what we need to do That's that's the hope with post bit and other things we make right future that might just be entertaining or hey

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Look, this is a Christian comedy. All right. This is this is a Christian drama. This is a Christian short film, right?

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Not everything might be Expository from Scripture right but that worldview is going to be there for sure and everything we do we can't help that Right, right because we love

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Jesus right right so so even even even the video game reviews We do we're just joking around or playing around are still gonna be of the

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Christian worldview, right? And then we're gonna take it to another level and really dive in but but that's what that's what

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I'm saying Like this whole world is ours So everything we do that's good and right is is amazing.

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Even if it's not a gospel track. That's right so the meek shall inherit the earth the meek shall inherit the earth is a

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Real thing Abraham's descendants will inherit the world Right that that's the view that Paul had that's the view that Jesus had right, right?

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That's why it's called post bit right post Bit bit the future right of gaming right exactly and there's a little bit of a little bit of a nod there to post millennialism

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Yeah, so that might be also the difference is that we actually think that Jesus wins the world

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Through his gospel and salvation And that means that we have to actually get to busy speaking truth into every area of life, right, right?

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I mean imagine if like the CEO of Rockstar games who makes

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Grand Theft Auto Became save tomorrow, right, right. What's the grandson?

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What's Grand Theft Auto 6 gonna look like? It's probably not even gonna be around because The temp the the spiritual salvation

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God working on his heart Affected him in such a way that even his work his art his

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All that stuff is affected right his art changes because his heart change exactly, right?

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There you go So, there you go my arts from my heart, that's right

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And so you have you have today and this is something we say a lot we borrowed it from a buddy of ours

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You have a culture of death in many ways a culture that is hostile to Jesus in many ways

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And yes, we believe that through salvation it becomes the culture of Christ exactly when your hearts changed your life changes when society's

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Collective heart changes their culture changes, right? And so it has to begin somewhere, right?

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And so it begins through the proclamation of the gospel Jesus is Lord God Messiah Lived perfectly died for sinners and rose from the dead

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He is ascended and seated and he commands men and women everywhere to repent and believe the gospel to trust in him for salvation

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And for forgiveness, that's where it begins. And then we start as Christians going beyond a

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Truncated worldview as though we only have one thing to say to the world, right? We have lots of things to say right it starts with the gospel

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But we have lots to say that we think the biblical worldview is full -orbed Everything counts everything matters and Jesus has something to say, right and so There's gonna be a lot more post bit a lot more video games.

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That's right And and and we have other things too. We have the red screen media right media review. We have a new show coming up We're not gonna announce details about right now.

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We have of course apology Radio we have apology a television and my apology after show and Academy I mean, we're just trying to do everything we can to the glory of God and it's all a ministry of apology at church because We love

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Jesus. We think he's the boss and we think he's in charge of every realm So we want to do what we can to the glory of God in every area, right?

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That's how we do it Yeah, so you're gonna see a lot of us. That's right in a lot of different forms So we want to thank you by the way, if you guys are watching this live right now

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