Priests And Preachers Entering Islam

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In these conversations, various speakers discuss the importance of faith and proving in religion. They touch on the history of the Bible and the acceptance of religion by the western world. The speakers also talk about the loss of Islam in the United States and the success of Islam in India. They also mention various examples of people who have become Muslims and become successful after proving their faith.

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They asked me to give a talk. Now, tonight's the night chart along, you've been very patient. I want to tell you a story, the story of how priests and preachers enter Islam.

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It happens something like this.

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My father and I had a business in a mall.

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Some years ago.

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One day dad came to the house, he had a big house in the country and he said, you know, son, something amazing. We're going to be doing with a business with a man from Egypt. So what's great

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Egypt, that's the land of the pyramids, the Nile River, Cleopatra, all that good stuff. This is exciting.

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So I said, well, when are we going to meet this guy said, Yeah, we're gonna set it up and we're gonna have, you know, a chance to get with him coming up in Oh, he didn't. He's a Muslim. I said, Uh, what?

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A Muslim. Now that those guys, we don't do business with these people, you know, no way. They're terrorists, hijackers kidnappers? murderers. They don't believe in God. They worship a black box in the desert. And they kissed the ground five times a day.

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We don't need anything to do with no moslems. My dad said, I want you to meet him. I said no. He said yes. I said, I don't want to meet him. He said, You will meet this man. So well, I can't argue with that. So all right, tell you what I'm gonna do.

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I do it on my terms. Here's what I want to do. I want to come to him on Sunday after church with my Bible, and my BORN AGAIN wife, who will be all prayed up, I'll have on my cross and my cap that says, Jesus is Lord.

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And that's what we did. We went to church heard a big sermon.

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heard somebody get the Holy Ghost. And somebody else translated what they were saying. And I'm not sure what that means. That means somebody speaking in tongues, they don't know what they're saying, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then somebody else translates it for him. And that really happened just like that and then after that, we said boy, we're charged up let's go get this moslem

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we went into

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the store where my father's place was, and I was ready for this guy and I expected to see you know, one of those guys with a big you know, code on to the floor, and a big you know, turban on and a long beard and

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never mind anyway.

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In a sword, I was expecting like Ayatollah Khomeini or something, you know, eyebrows it start here and go all the way across, you know, really?

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My dad said, Here he is. I said, Where? He said here, this guy.

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guys wear normal clothes, you know? And he doesn't have a beard. He didn't have any hair at all. He was bald headed.

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This is what a Muslim looks like, say, yeah. Okay, I shook hands with him. I was surprised it was warm. He was him and you know, I get fewer awards than that.

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Okay. So I'll be nice. Hello, how are you? My name is good. What's your name? My name is Mohammad. Okay, Mohammed, very nice to meet you. By the way. You believe in God?

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She said yes.

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Yeah, but do you believe in the God of Abraham? He said, yeah. Cuz he had been studying up. I know something about these Muslims. What about Moses, deeply Moses? He said, Yeah.

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How about David and Solomon? He said, Yeah. But do you believe in the Bible? Do you believe in the Old Testament? He said, Yeah. How about the New Testament? He said, yeah.

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I said, Wait a minute. You believe in Jesus? He said,

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not gentlemen. Do you believe Jesus is a miracle birth? Yeah.

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But you don't believe him as the risen Jesus? He said, Yes. Is with God. I said, You

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are a minute. This is gonna be easy. is gonna be so easy. Yes. So I told my dad, let's do business with this guy. We can convert him no problem. My dad said leave him alone. said no. You know, we start doing business. We start traveling together. He and I

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I began to observe you

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ways, I began to realize that he was a real decent person, a nice person, a fair person. In fact, we would have discussions and I would purposely try to sneak things around in the talk. But he would just be straight and say, okay, whatever, let it go. So

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this is gonna be easy.

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At one point, a friend of mine that has a big cross, he has a huge wooden cross, and he carries it down the street from time to time he'll go down the freeway, he'll go across the country, just so people see him walking along with this big huge cross. They'll stop and say, What is this, and then he'll start to preach to them, please the preacher to you know,

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he given these little miniature Bibles with just a few verses in it.

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Especially has the verse john 316, For God so loved the world, etc, etc.

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And this man with the cross, I told him, You know, I have found a Muslim, he says, Stop right there. Stay away from those guys. It's very dangerous. I said, Yeah, but I think we can get him you know,

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I have some ideas about this. He said, Well, just take it easy. said, you know, they don't really believe in anything. They're infidels. Okay. Then he had a heart attack and went to the hospital.

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When I went to visit him in the hospital, I met another man there. This man was a priest, a Catholic priest, and we became friends.

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When the Catholic priest was released from the hospital, we asked him to come and stay with us.

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And I know drive out to the country to my dad's house. The priest told me that he knew about Islam quite a bit because he told me, Catholic priests have to study all religions, especially they have to study Islam.

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I said, I didn't know that. He said, Yes, we have to know about Islam. He said, these guys, they know about the Bible. They know about the New Testament. They know about the Psalms, and they know about Jesus and they know a lot about our religion and their religion and their Quran. I said, Really? He said, Yeah, take it easy. Okay.

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simulator, they don't really believe right? delay, he said, you'd be surprised. So they really do have a lot going for them. So okay. Now I've been warned about these guys. So I started again, trying to give the invitation to this gentleman to jump into our religion. Guess what he said? He said, Well, I'll go to your religion if your religion is better than my religion. This is this is great. Philip, the bathtub was dunking tonight make him a Bible yours, ready to go.

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But then he threw something at me. I wasn't ready for

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it. He said, but

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you're gonna need proof. I said proof. religions, not about proof. Religion is about faith. He said in his in Islam, we have both. We have proof. And we have faith. Both.

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Okay. Are you trying to tell me you can prove there's a God?

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He said yes. I said, No, I don't think so. Look at this. a preacher

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arguing with somebody who wants to prove there's a God saying No, there isn't. Isn't proof that is? And he said, Yes, there is.

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Now I decided what we need to do

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is gang up on him because I wasn't a match for this guy. You know, you know, just one on one. I need to help. My dad's ordained minister. He read the whole Bible. By the time he was 10 years old. He had a certificate for that. My wife was very conversant in the Bible. She had her own Bible.

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And

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I felt like the best thing to do gang up on him. So after the meal at night, clear off the table, and I'm gonna bring my Bible dad brought his Bible. My wife has her Bible, Catholic priest, he's ready to go with his and we're really going to give it to this man. But it didn't work like that because my dad has the Masonic Bible which is King James Version.

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But I had the Revised Standard Version which is different doesn't have all the verses that he has.

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My wife has Jimmy Swaggart Bible the good news for modern man and that's another version with

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weird stuff in

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the Catholic priest as the Bible was 73 books in our books only have 66 books and we're arguing with each other all yes, no, not that this that the other, and all the rest of it. Were a problem. How are we going to justify what versus we're talking about when we can't even agree with ourselves? How are we going to convince this man about the Bible?

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How?

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Finally, it became obvious we weren't going to get ever agree on anything. So I turned to the Muslim and I said, by the way, how many versions of that book of your co ran do you have? There must be a lot of those two, right?

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He said there was only one,

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one, and it's in Arabic. And if it's not in Arabic, then it's not the Koran because Koran is recitation.

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recitation. It's what you recite. And he recited some things for us. And I was amazed. He knew it in the original language. I had not seen anything like this before.

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A lot of people

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who look at Islam realize how powerful it is.

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To have the original in Arabic language, they don't realize that.

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Because when you compare to other religions, they don't have their original books anymore. They have copies, translations, pieces of this and that people's opinions books written about it. For instance, if a person wrote a book today about the Quran, and 2000 years from now, Somebody said, Well, that is the Quran, that'd be a joke wouldn't

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wouldn't be a joke.

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Well, that's pretty much what they got

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somebody writing about it.

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But it's not the speech of the law.

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Next, we got off the subject, because I see I'm not going anywhere with that. Next another night.

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We're going to talk about what we believe. Because after all, Christianity is the easiest religion in the world.

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There isn't anything easier than Christianity. You just say the magic words, you don't have to pray. You don't have to fast You don't have to make Hodge, you don't have to pay Zika. You don't have to grow a beard. You don't have to wear a job. You don't have to do anything.

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Except hope that it's gonna work.

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You got to hope that God is really going to punish somebody else for your sins, so you don't get punished.

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Not too likely, is it?

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So

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I decided to talk about this.

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In explaining him about salvation, we came to a new subject.

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He said, How do you get saved? What will save you from going to hell? I said, Well, that's what Christianity is best that we have the perfect salvation. We have the grace. He said, How does it work? I said, Well, the grace works like this. God

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can't forgive sins. So he sends His Son to die for everybody's sin. He said, Why can't God forgive sin?

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Wow, know how that works.

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said, if you can forgive sin, then how come after he kills his son, he can forgive sins.

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I don't know how that works, either.

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He said, and you're guilty, but his son is innocent. So we're in history, do we find it that it's good.

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The innocent people have to be killed

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for the sake of the guilty ones,

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on how that works, either.

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So we had a problem with that one.

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Especially when you consider if your child is bad, really bad. Maybe he did something to the cat.

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Maybe threw stuff out of the refrigerator, ran around the house and the skateboard, broke the television set, broke some windows, maybe let the car roll out in the street and get hit by the trash truck.

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So you come home and you said Oh God, he did.

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But I can't forgive him. So I've got my other child over here that didn't know anything at all. So I'll beat him up.

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No, I'll kill him.

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The innocent one.

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People would put that man in Insane Asylum would need the lock that man up for that right? society won't accept that. So why does religion accept it?

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And if you accept that, then it should be okay for people to kill their innocent children. But Islam forbid the killing of innocent children

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is forbidden because some of the ignorant Arabs used to do that kill their innocent children, especially their daughters.

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Islam forbids killing of the innocent.

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Whoops.

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I had to stop on that one. Let's back off of that. Well forget about the Bible. Forget about the salvation. That doesn't work. He said, especially when you talk about salvation in Islam. We also say what you say you say nobody is saved except by grace. That was everything we knew in Texas. I heard that so many preachers said nobody is saved except by grace. He said the word for grace in Arabic is Rama.

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And the Quran begins with Rama Bismillah here rough man. Rahim. Yes. How many times lotuses a rock man or rahima rock man are in throughout the Quran.

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Too many times. So many times, Lord talks about Rama and Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him talked about a was rough man. So much Rockman, one of the Hadees he talks about that a law has 100 parts of Rama, in one part of the 100 was used for all mankind in all of his dunion one part. All the mercy you ever saw or ever imagined, since the beginning to the end is one part of a loss Rockman.

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The other 99 parts, is waiting for the believers on the Day of Judgment.

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And the Prophet said, peace be upon him. Nobody is saved except by this Rama. They said, Even you are so long. He said, Even me.

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So who has the grace? Okay, let's get off of that subject. I'm thinking we'll move to something else.

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He says, Can you talk to me about your belief in God? What do you believe about God, which God has one?

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He said, Do you have Trinity? Yes, God is 330 said he's one. He is one and three. So how does that work?

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Because God can do anything.

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Okay, let me get back to you. So I go to my friend with the cross remember him, he's out of the hospital, I go to him, I start to turn the problem I'm have with the mouse and he said stay away from I told you.

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I said, Yeah, but they believe in Jesus was a miracle birth and Jesus was, you know, doing miracles in Jesus's with God. He's coming back. He said, but they don't believe in the cross. They don't believe in the sebacean said, whoo, yeah, but he said, Stop. Stay away.

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I said, all I have to do is explain the Trinity.

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And I'm sure I'll get him.

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But how can I explain that one equals three? He said, No, no, no, no, no look like apple. The Apple has a skin inside of the skin is the meat and inside of that is the seeds. three things. One apple. Same way Father, Son, Holy Ghost, one God.

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Got it. Okay, got it. So, I go back and I'm ready to clear off all the dishes after supper. Sit down. My father myself, my wife, the priests then the Muslim.

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Pull out the apple. See this Apple

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has the skin. Inside is the meat and inside of that is the seeds. He said yes. About six or eight seeds in there. What is that equal?

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Yeah.

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Okay, he said and looks like a worm crawling through it.

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Could be four or five Gods here.

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So, let me get back to you. I'm gonna go back to the guy with a cross the next day so okay.

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The Apple didn't work. He said stay away from this guy.

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See, the apple didn't work. I told him what he said. It's not forget about the apple said okay, I forgot about it. It's like an egg.

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God is like an egg.

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He said, the egg is a shell. Inside of the shell is the white inside of the white is a yellow three things one egg. said yes.

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Now I'm ready.

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Go back, clear the table. Sit down. Here we go. See this egg? Yeah, it's pretty big a big. What if it's a double yolk?

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God just becomes four.

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And what if it's rotten? Who? Yeah, okay, forget about that.

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Few days later.

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I was in a parking lot. Some people talking to me. I was preaching as usual. And fella said to me what's probably I was telling him some difficulties with these model forms.

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I said, I'm trying to explain the Trinity to this guy, and I just can't seem to catch it. He said, Don't you know how to do it? You're a preacher. You ought to know that. I said, Yeah, I do. But I don't have it. He said, look, see me on one person. I said, Yes. You see my wife, right. There's a young she's one person issues. You see my son right there? Yes, he's one person there. 111. But all together. We're a family of three, one family. It's the family of God. I said, that's it. Here we go. But on the way back, I got to thinking about it. I said, Let me try to process this before I get there and wind up with Apple or egg on my face.

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I said, Okay.

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A father,

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the mother this What did they have another kid?

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What if they have twins?

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What if they get divorced talaaq.

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Because in Texas, when you get divorced, the woman she gets the house, the car, the savings, the bank account, the retirement, the IRS, everything, and your computer and all your email.

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I don't want a God that could lose his email. I'm trying to think how I'm going to explain this. So I sat down the table that night and I didn't have a clue, but we're gonna try something I'm trying to explain. The Bible said.

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The Bible said, Actually, the Bible said God is one.

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Everywhere I look in the Bible, it says God is 1111111 there's nothing except once throughout the whole Bible. There's no Trinity. There's no dude, there's no three. There's just one God, say, O Israel, the Lord your God is One Lord.

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That's in the book of Deuteronomy. And it's in the book of Mark. That means the Old Testament and the New Testament, both the Jews and the Christians are ordered to believe that God is

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like this. Besides, who wants a God with a worm in it? Or a God that can be rotten, or a God that gets a divorce?

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So we asked the Muslim, what do you guys say about God?

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Look what he said.

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Today, Minister, Tony regime Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Khan, who will love Allahu Ahad Allahu Samad. Then you lead with lamb you lead with lamb Yoku, for one had,

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say,

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he is a law. That uniquely one

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the eternal.

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He is not the father of anything.

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He's not the son of anything.

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He doesn't compare to anything.

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And he's unique.

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One

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said, Wow, that sounds like what I believe anyway.

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Okay, we can go with that.

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Now, along the way through all of this, all of us are having our own questions or our own discussions individually with this man from Egypt. The Catholic priest

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asked him one day Can I go to your church with you?

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He's temple is mosque said, Sure, come on. They were gone for a while. They got back a little later. We took the priest aside, we said, Did you go in there? Yeah. Did you see them? Yeah. What do they do?

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Do they like slaughter little animals or anything like that? Or you know? He said no, actually, they stand there like monks. Do you know and monks in a monastery, they stand for hours praying. He said, that's what they do. They just stand there and pray. And then they bow and they do something that only the high priests gets to do, which is to put a such or prostration I said, Really? He said, yeah. And then what? Then they leave. That's it. Yeah.

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Okay.

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What kind of music do they have?

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So they don't have any music? How in the world do you worship God without music?

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I was a music minister. Hello.

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So I went to my friend from Egypt. I said, Excuse me. Is it true? You guys don't have any music in your mosques? He said, That's true.

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How many mosques are in the world? He said, millions. Send millions.

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They all have electricity said Yeah.

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Cuz I sell electric pianos organs. I was thinking, hmm. go by, I could get rich.

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This is a good idea.

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Do you think they'd be interested in any music? He said you could try.

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But I doubt it.

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You boy.

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See, didn't want to make anything just like Haram, Haram, haram just let you get in the door. First thing first first.

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Law, Eli the law. And he kept that first no matter what we brought up.

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No matter what was the subject. He had it back to law a lot in the last

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few days more go by the Catholic priest says Can I go again with you? He said, Sure. He said, I found such peace there. I just want to go there again and feel that feeling again. So they left and they didn't come back. They didn't come back. And it was so late at night and they finally finally drove up the old country road out there. And when they got out of the car right away, I recognize the Muslim you know,

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the who is this guy with a

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hat on a white kafir, a long white robe.

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That's the priest.

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What happened to you?

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pain? Did you become a Muslim?

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He said his shed with a large metal Mohamed also

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our show.

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I consider this to be the biggest part of the story because this man

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had dedicated his entire life

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to the Lord. He had completely given up all worldly things so that he could be a priest. He could not get married. He could not have children. He cannot do this and that and so and so they don't even gamble. They don't do they don't know anything. They just pray.

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So Wow.

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You given all that up? He said I'm giving up nothing. I'm gaining.

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Going Really? He said this is the right way.

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I said I know it is. Because let me get my cameras out. We used to have a television show. I get my camera out, set it on a tripod, get the lights hooked up, put the microphones in. You guys know how long that takes? We get it all together. Guess what? The priest was asleep.

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So well. So I went upstairs. I want to tell my wife I'm still excited. I can't believe it. A priest entered his line today. Can you believe that? A priest the Catholic priests became a moslem I'm telling her.

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She said I want to get a divorce.

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I go Hmm.

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Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is a different subject here. What happened? She said, I've had it been listening, talking. We were thinking about what's going on around here. I see where you're going. I know where I want to go. And I see and our Muslim cannot be married to a Christian we heard him say that all Muslim can't be married to a Christian. So I want to divorce. I said I'm not going to become no Muslim. Take it easy. Did I say I want to be one of them guys. No, I didn't say that. For this thing from my mind. Forget about that. Let's go back to

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Normal. And besides, he said that a Christian woman couldn't be married to a

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Muslim, a Muslim woman can't be married to a Christian man, you see. So if I became a Muslim, it would be alright for you to be a Christian. It's just that a Muslim woman can't be married to the Christian or Jew or anything else. She said, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I want to become a Muslim.

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Okay, I didn't see that coming.

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Okay, it's time to go into a save mode. there's what's called Plan B.

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By the way, there's some good news here. I do like to be a Muslim. She said What? I said, No, really, I want to do but I didn't know how to tell you. So I also want to be a Muslim. So that's it. Okay. She don't believe you.

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I said, No, I really, I just didn't know how to tell you. I didn't know what to say in front of dad. But hey, you know, now that it's all out, I'm ready to be a Muslim, Donna.

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She said You're a liar.

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I said, How can you say that?

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She said, You're either lying right now. Or you were lying five minutes ago when you said you didn't want to be a Muslim?

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Got me there. All right.

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Yep, that's pretty true.

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She said, Get out.

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You know,

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I'm going down the steps. And I'm thinking, you know, all my life and everything. Is this flashing in front of me, my wife, my kids, my, wait a minute, this is my father's house. How am I getting thrown out of here?

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So I go down.

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I wake up my friend from Egypt, and say, from outside, you and me, we got to talk. So what's mine? So we gotta go outside? Oh, yeah. We go outside. And I begin telling my whole life story, everything. I don't know why I had to talk to somebody. So we walked up and down those country roads until the sun started to rise for butcher.

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He was so patient he listened so intently. And by the way, that wasn't the only time this man was always ready to listen to my problems long after I got into Islam. But on this particular occasion, I really needed him to listen.

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As the sun started to rise, and we saw the first little bit of orange, I told him, You better go pray your fudger. And I got to figure out what to do.

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So I snuck off by myself. I found a big piece of board with a shelter over it, and I put it down. There's something in the Bible about making a booth to pray to the Lord. Okay, I don't know if you knew about that. It's called the booth. And they set it up.

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I tried to face it toward what I figured is the East about the direction he's aiming himself. And I put my head on the ground because I said, if it works for those Muslim guys, maybe it'll work for me. And with my head on the ground, I said these words only.

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Oh, God, if you're there, guide me.

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And when I raised my head, I understood everything.

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It was in me where the problem was. It's not out there. It's in here.

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And not until you begin to deal with this in here. Will you ever be able to get right with what's out here? Because this is not right. Your connection to him is not right. And when that's not right, ain't nothing right.

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I had to become a Muslim, and I had to tell the truth. And I had to admit there could only be one God.

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not two, not three. And God can forgive sin if he wants to. And he doesn't need to kill somebody else to get it done.

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In fact, I had to be responsible for my own sins. And that's the hardest part about changing out of Christianity to Islam is to come to grips with the fact that you have to stand up and pay for what you did. You can't charge it to somebody else's American Express card.

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So that was it for me. I knew I had to go in. So I went in and I made a bath. And I came downstairs and I was ready.

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And I stood there in front of my friend from Egypt

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and the brand new Muslim

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ex priest, and I said these words of Chateau La ilaha illallah wa Chateau Mohammed Ursula.

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A few minutes later here came my wife right behind me. said the same thing. I showed her the

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ilaha illallah wa Chateau Muhammad Rasul Allah.

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Without giving you the whole story tonight, I will tell you, some weeks and months went by what my father also said the same thing and Chateau de la, la,

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la. And just before she died, my stepmother said, I've been listening to you guys for all these years. And I know that Jesus can't be a god or a son of a god. There can only be one God.

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Holmes's messenger, Allahu Akbar. She died a few months after that.

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At the age of about 86

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Amazing, isn't it amazing how a lot works. Yesterday, we gave Shahada to a man 63 years old. This year, in the spring of this year, we gave Shahada to a woman who was 99.

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And all of her children and grandchildren and great grandchildren, not 100 in law are Muslim. All of them 100 all Americans, by the way,

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summation.

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I've seen so many people enter Islam, and every time they do I cry, I cry and they cry, and it feels good to know that

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there is this Rockman from Allah that He will bring even the priests and the preachers of other religions to Islam.

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As you know, the people who are pundants from the Indian religion of Hinduism, I've seen them come in Islam. Yes.

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Have you heard of the Brahmin caste of the Hindus? The one who is making so much money, selling CDs for Bollywood from India, a woman

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named I think her name was they used to call her Sharman or something like that. She had this big company doing millions of CDs for Bollywood.

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She had a dream one night.

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Vision she said it was like being wide awake. I was in a store, she said, and I was looking at a book and there was a special book in this store. And I knew I had to buy this book. If I ever see this book, I have to buy it.

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Her driver had taken her to some store, she was going to go in and do something she realized this is the store. And this is the book there it is she started screaming This is a book of my dream. I have to buy it. The vendor there said well then buy it.

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So she bought it

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and went home and read it guess what the book was?

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Your re translational Quran. She said, because this is from my dream. I'm going to read it. And I'm going to believe it. And I'm going to accept it. And she did. She became Muslim. homme de la.

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By the way, her driver had been driving for her for over seven years. Then all of a certain she found out he was Muslim.

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He never told her.

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She never knew she thought he was a Hindu.

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The one who sold her the book was a Muslim.

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didn't tell her that she was buying Quran, you said you made the money.

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Imagine that.

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I'm wondering how many opportunities we miss every day.

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Because that lady came up to me as a brand new Muslim, and she said to me, I would like to take one of your tapes and make CDs out of it. I said go ahead and have a good time. She did. She's made over 600,000 of them and distributed all over the United States. Many people came to Islam, maybe some of you know about that. Because of her effort, not mine.

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We've done hundreds of 1000s of these CDs, we see the result of it all the time. But you know something, you don't have to just sit here and listen to the story. You can be part of this story is real easy. You can go to our website,

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Islam tomorrow.com our other website with the CDs are right there for you free.

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I don't know if anybody else came and offered you something for free.

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Maybe they did. But the websites there and it's free. You go to slam yesterday.com and download as many as those CDs as you'd like. Make copies of them and give them out to all the people and let's find out how many more people are here this message in say, a Chateau la isla de la la shala Homer's

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I'll give you a little free entertainment.

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It goes something like this. I you know, I was in Saudi Arabia recently. And I found you know, everybody's very style conscious. I don't know why. But you know, we think about Muslims should be like, less than

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In your mind is worrying about how your clothes look and things like that. But people are the golf they're just like everybody else they want to look nice show off and so that's why I'm wearing this outfit tonight. This dish this they call it, you see how it fits like this? Now I'm going to take this off and show you

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watch closely

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say this.

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This is called what?

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goodra now you can put a goal and this is real classy. But for the poor guy, he doesn't have a goal. He can just go like this.

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Good.

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He can also wrap around with it like this.

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So good.

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Like it.

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Thank you.

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I got excited, huh? Okay, now see this looks good, huh?

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stunning, man. But then what about the kids? No, that's old man stuff. So the kid said you know what? That just let me have one of these.

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And when it's time for Scylla

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cheesy

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Murphy muscular.

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Right.

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That's funny. Oh.

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By the way, that's why I wore this all night long. I was getting tired of wearing this anyway.

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We flew in here today from Melbourne. And I guarantee I didn't wear this on here.

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But tomorrow and Shalom when I leave. I can imagine if I put all this stuff on and that and get in the airplane right? Every time I sneeze they're gonna go whoa.

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I know it's bad Muslim shouldn't do it. But I've always had this idea What if you had a briefcase just leave it in the airport and go What's that?

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That'd be alright.

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Well,

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I've had a lot of fun here in the land down under. I gotta tell you that it's been a lot of fun as we say it's been a real hoot. And

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no worries good I made

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