Could This Be The End?

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So this this bill is is especially special to all of us and Many of you know, you've seen us

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Talk about rusty Thomas Back a few months ago. We actually had Jeremiah Thomas on the radio program who was battling cancer.

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He's now Since passing is with the Lord, but this video or this bill is named after him

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So we're gonna go ahead and play the video here now to talk about and then I'll let Bradley you can Talk some more about it if you want it for that.

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So go ahead Carmen after football season

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Jeremiah had trouble sleeping and he couldn't get comfortable because he had this pain in his chest

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We took him in thinking the doctors would tell us that he just had a minor sports injury

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But that's not what happened our healthy athletic 16 year old son

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Had cancer and was given only a 10 % chance of survival

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Jeremiah was dying the tumor grew rapidly putting pressure on his lungs and Wrapping around his spine and slowly crushing it

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When his legs gave out we rushed to the hospital. We didn't know if he'd ever walk again, but Jeremiah was a fighter

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When he became paralyzed, he actually said I could still preach from my wheelchair

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Jeremiah wanted his life to count for others So he made a wish instead of wishing something for himself

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He requested to speak with governor Abbott of Texas to grant his dying wish when the governor called

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Jeremiah told her about how before his cancer he used to go out and minister at the local abortion clinic with our family

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Then Jeremiah made his wish. I think that we could ride with Texas and we could end abortion here and now because I would at least for me just make my wish complete before I pass

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Jeremiah will never see governor Abbott abolish abortion in Texas He died before that wish came true

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Now we are carrying on our son's legacy by asking you to do something simple yet powerful join

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Jeremiah's wish every year in the state of Texas 55 ,000 pre -born children are killed in places just like this where Jeremiah often ministered

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We are calling on all Texans who love life to sign the petition urging governor

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Abbott to make outlawing abortion an Emergency item for Texas and let him know that you will stand with him in the fight to abolish abortion in this state

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Well, this is not something Jeremiah saw during his lifetime This is something we can do in our lifetime

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Join Jeremiah's wish and sign the petition right now Thank you for honoring

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Jeremiah and defending the people with children in the state of Texas Please sign the petition to call upon governor

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Abbott to keep his promise to our son and make abolishing abortion an

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Emergency item this legislative session. All right, everybody Welcome back.

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Everyone hear me now Yeah, yeah, we're trying out some new technology there guys.

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All right, so We are back Bradley bring us into the discussion of Jeremiah's wish

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Yeah, so everybody sees there, you know saw the video there kind of a little background on the video

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You know, Jeremiah had been approached to make a wish and He decided there were lots of things that he was thinking about making a wish about but as he was

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Thinking about those things and we mentioned those the friends and family They would just happen without you know him actually making any kind of formal wish and then as he started to think about what he wanted his legacy to be

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And and how he wanted his life what he wanted it to be about if he was passing He decided to make a really big wish and that you saw there on the video and governor

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Abbott very graciously reached out to him and talked to him for about 20 minutes and And their conversation then came to a close there as Jeremiah made

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The wish that he made there and it's and the governor's response is pretty amazing you know as you just heard he said that that's what we're going to be pursuing this next legislative session and that is to Outlaw abortion all together in the state of Texas.

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And so your wish is granted And that's amazing So That is

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The legislative session as I mentioned earlier is is now starting on Tuesday We're five days away from it starting and so the opportunity for him to follow through and fulfill make good on that Yeah, that's right problem that he's made.

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Yeah, it is now here and now it's up to us to Join here my switch, right?

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It's not just a wish of one young man one brave young man It needs to be all of our wish.

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That's right. That's what That's what it's why we made this video to get this message out there to let people know about this

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We want people here in Texas to sign the petition that you saw there Jeremiah wish calm but I'll not just people here in Texas even across the country to go and sign that petition and let governor

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Abbott know that We're gonna stand with you. You know, that's a lot of people You know, they say well, why don't our politicians have courage to do what's right and you know

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I can definitely give politicians a hard time for not doing what's right not having a backbone off the thing But you know what?

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It's up to us to give them courage They need to have it themselves, but they also need to know that people are standing behind them

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Yep, and that's what this petition is doing is letting governor Abbott know Hey You need to fulfill the promise that you made and we're going to be with you we're standing with you

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Yes, and so that's what we're asking for people to do to sign a petition Give the governor courage give the state of Texas courage give our leaders courage to do what's right and end abortion here for Jeremiah But more importantly even then for him for the 55 ,000 children that are that are slated to die here in this state

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For nearly a million in the country and most importantly for the sake of the image of God, that's right.

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Amen. Very good All right, Bradley. So how can? People get behind you help with what you're doing.

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How can we right now? You know about 200 people just watching live here, but many many more gonna see this and download it.

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How can we all Partner together with you to help you get this seen by more people

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How can we let more people know about this and how can we all participate together with you? Well, the first thing everybody can do is go sign a petition yourself that way

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You know, you're at you're in the list or get our emails will let you know what what to do next The next thing is we certainly would love for people who are able to donate

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You know every you know The money that people give lets us reach more people with this with this message and get more names

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Added to the list of signatures they were had to look to deliver to Governor Abbott And here's what we're asking

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Governor Abbott to do just give everybody a little bit more detail So the first 60 days of the legislative session here in Texas The only things that can be voted on generally by the ledge legislature are things that the governor has

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Named as and declared to be emergency items for the state. Hmm.

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Well if there's ever an emergency item Yes, we're asking Governor Abbott to name this to be

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Declare this to be an emergency item outlawing abortion to be an emergency item for Texas And so that's what we're at the folks to do

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So for people to sign the petition is great donating is great Our window for doing this is really really short and that's why it's just so important people do this right now

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Yeah, so typically the governor declares these in his state of the state address Which is done at the normally at the end of January or at the beginning of February.

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Well, that's me We're there that's right this month. And so we need people to act now And we need to get this message out to tens of thousands right now

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And there's already been thousands that have signed the petition and we've only been going for a few days

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And so we just expect that number to grow exponentially and it folks donate It just helps us to reach even more.

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The next thing that people can do is to share this Yeah, obviously share it with your friends and family email it around share it on social media

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You can you know, you can go watch the video you can Talk Facebook all over Facebook.

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You can sign the petition Jeremiah's wish calm. The video is also Jeremiah's wish org But also we're asking people we're asking two things kind of over and above normal sharing and that is number one

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Show it to your church If you can organize something with your church that was shown to all the folks there at your church

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We're asking people specifically there's Sunday, January 20th is often referred to as sanctity of life

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Sunday And because it's two days before the anniversary anniversary of Roe vs.

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Wade So we're asking folks to show this video on Sanctity of life Sunday, January 20th, and then at the end of the video ask folks in your church

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Hey, take out your smartphones go to Jeremiah's wish calm and sign this petition right now

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And we think that there are going to be it's great churches all across Texas and all across the country that are going to be doing that awesome that We think that's gonna be really powerful the other thing we're asking folks to do especially who are younger and I'm Jeremiah's generation

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Is to go make your own I Know you're joining here my promise

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But then also if you live outside of Texas Challenge your own governor to make the same kind of promise Yeah, the governor at it here isn't it and and then challenge some friends and make their own videos and if folks want to go outside of Abortion mills and make these videos.

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I think it just makes it that much more powerful For young people to be standing up and saying hey

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I'm inspired by Jeremiah, and I'm gonna pick up the baton from Jeremiah, and I'm joining