What Has Buford Pusser to do with the Apostle Paul?

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Years ago there was a movie, movie was called

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Walking Tall and it was the story of Buford Pusser who was a law enforcement officer in the state of Tennessee and he had gone to the

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Marines he had been a professional wrestler and then when he came back to his small town he found out that his small town was being overrun by a local mafia it was called the

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Kentucky Mafia and so he basically went on a personal war against these people and they beat him cut his body viciously and left him to die on the side of the road well he survived having to have stitches thousands of stitches and to survive and he went to court over the issue and he was testifying against his opponents the men who cut him the men who beat him and the judge was in the pocket of the

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Kentucky Mafia so the judge was going to let them off Buford Pusser according to the stories and I believe they're true at one point in the court hearing

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Buford Pusser stood up and ripped his shirt off to expose all of the scars that he had from being beaten and cut by these violent men and he says look at what they did to me and then case was closed it was proof positive that he had in fact and been inflicted this terrible harm by these people now why do

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I tell the story Paul is standing in front of his opponents saying look at my suffering for Christ and you're going to call into question my ministry look at the scars that I bear in my it was as if he took his tunic off and said look

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I've been beaten five times I've been beaten with rods three times I've been in shipwrecks

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I've been almost killed I've almost frozen to death for the cause of Christ how dare anybody question my integrity in ministry look at what

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I've suffered for Christ you want to compare resumes here's my resume you see