# Q&A: The Rapture, Curse for Not Tithing, and Depression

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 15 Apr 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/15/26), Hank answers the following questions: Is the rapture biblical? Linda - Pittsburgh, PA (0:48) Must Christians tithe or face the curses mentioned in Deuteronomy 28? Alicia - St. Louis, MO (5:38) Why wasn’t King David stoned for adultery? Kevin - Kansas City, KS (15:11) I struggle with depression. One part of the bible says that if I ask believing it will be given, but Paul prayed for the thorn to be removed, yet the thorn remained. How do I make sense of these different responses? Collin - NE (18:58) My son says he saw an angel at the age of three. How do I know if that’s true? Bill - MO (22:53)

## Transcript

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[0:39] Speaker 1: pre recorded to start today's Bible answer Man Broadcast. Here's
[0:44] Speaker 1: your host, Hank Canagraph.
[0:46] Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy, A lot of you hanging on.
[0:48] Speaker 2: Let's go right to the phone callers. First up as
[0:51] Speaker 2: Linda listening in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[0:54] Speaker 3: Hi, Linda, I how are you today?
[0:56] Speaker 2: I am well, thank you.
[0:58] Speaker 3: My question for you is about the Rapture. I'm really
[1:02] Speaker 3: debatable about this. I've been a Christian for a long time.
[1:05] Speaker 3: I'm fifty years old now, and I'm just always debatable.
[1:08] Speaker 3: Me and my friend was just talking today. I said,
[1:10] Speaker 3: I really want to find out more. I don't know
[1:13] Speaker 3: if I really believe the rapture, if it's actually biblical,
[1:17] Speaker 3: or if it actually was something that was fabricated by
[1:20] Speaker 3: earlier I was a eighteenth century woman.
[1:24] Speaker 1: I don't know.
[1:25] Speaker 3: I've heard different stories about this, and I want to know.
[1:27] Speaker 3: If the rapture is not true, how is it the
[1:30] Speaker 3: Lord's going to come back for his children? How is
[1:32] Speaker 3: that going to come into play?
[1:34] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Jesus Christ made that fairly plain when he said,
[1:37] Speaker 2: do not be amazed at this. A time is coming
[1:39] Speaker 2: when all who in the grace will come out. Some
[1:41] Speaker 2: will rise to live, and some will rise to be
[1:45] Speaker 2: eternally condemned. So I think that the end of all
[1:49] Speaker 2: things is when the Lord returns, and when he does,
[1:53] Speaker 2: he puts all things to right. He deals with the
[1:55] Speaker 2: problem of sin and satan. We are restored, are resurrected,
[2:01] Speaker 2: immortal and perishable, incorruptible. In fact, I think that this
[2:05] Speaker 2: is wonderfully stated by the apostle Paul in terms of
[2:10] Speaker 2: First Corinthians chapter four. According to the Lord's own word,
[2:13] Speaker 2: we tell you that we who are still alive, who
[2:16] Speaker 2: are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly
[2:19] Speaker 2: not proceed those who have fallen asleep, For the Lord
[2:23] Speaker 2: himself will come down from heaven with a loud command,
[2:27] Speaker 2: with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet
[2:29] Speaker 2: call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
[2:33] Speaker 2: After that, we who are still alive and are left
[2:36] Speaker 2: will be caught up together with him in the clouds
[2:38] Speaker 2: to meet the Lord in the air. And so we
[2:40] Speaker 2: will be with the Lord forever. Therefore, encourage each other
[2:44] Speaker 2: with these words. This is a great and glorious passage
[2:49] Speaker 2: on what happens when the Lord returns at the end
[2:52] Speaker 2: of time. If we're alive, we are changed in a moment,
[2:59] Speaker 2: in the twinkling of an and we're caught up with
[3:01] Speaker 2: those who had fallen asleep, who are now resurrected. And
[3:06] Speaker 2: Paul presents this wonderful picture of meeting the Lord as
[3:10] Speaker 2: he descends to make his home with us. There's nothing
[3:14] Speaker 2: in that passage, however, that supposes that Jesus Christ suddenly
[3:18] Speaker 2: reverses direction and takes people up to some safe space
[3:23] Speaker 2: for seven years. Rather, the entirety of the Bible communicates
[3:29] Speaker 2: a different message, and that message is that God himself
[3:33] Speaker 2: will be with us. It's beautifully rendered in Revelation chapter
[3:38] Speaker 2: twenty one. The dwelling of God is with men, and
[3:43] Speaker 2: He will live with them. They will be his people,
[3:46] Speaker 2: and God himself will be with them and be their God.
[3:50] Speaker 2: The picture is we welcome the King. We take him
[3:54] Speaker 2: back to our home or our homeland, and that homeland
[3:59] Speaker 2: is restored. That picture is poignant, it's beautiful, it's profound.
[4:04] Speaker 2: It's about the time that the Lord returns changes the universe,
[4:09] Speaker 2: and at that time, we too are changed in a moment,
[4:12] Speaker 2: in the twinkling of an eye, and so we will
[4:15] Speaker 2: be with the Lord forever. So the notion that Jesus
[4:21] Speaker 2: Christ comes and then there's going to be another coming
[4:26] Speaker 2: after the secret coming seven years later, and then there's
[4:29] Speaker 2: going to be a semi golden age and we're going
[4:32] Speaker 2: to have a new temple and new sacrificial system. No,
[4:36] Speaker 2: we celebrate communion. This do in remembrance of Me until
[4:41] Speaker 2: I come again. So the idea of sacrifices being restored
[4:50] Speaker 2: is not biblical. We remember him via a communion until
[4:56] Speaker 2: he comes again. Because the substance has replaced the symbol
[5:00] Speaker 2: of temple, priest and sacrifice, the ultimate sacrificial lamb has come.
[5:05] Speaker 3: Well, my understanding, First of all, do you have a
[5:09] Speaker 3: book that explains about the coming of the Lord, And
[5:13] Speaker 3: what about if are we going to go through this
[5:15] Speaker 3: tribulation while we're waiting for the Lord? And I mean
[5:20] Speaker 3: to explain the understanding of it all and the events
[5:23] Speaker 3: as they come as they're to come.
[5:25] Speaker 2: Yes, I do. I have a book called The Apocalypse Code,
[5:28] Speaker 2: find out what the Bible really says about the end
[5:30] Speaker 2: times and why it matters today.
[5:33] Speaker 3: Okay, well I'll have to read it. Thank you very much.
[5:36] Speaker 2: You got it. Let's go back to the phone lines.
[5:38] Speaker 2: Talk to Alicia. She's listening in Saint Louis, Missouri.
[5:41] Speaker 4: Hi, Alicia, Hi Mary, Hey, I enjoy your show. Thanks
[5:45] Speaker 4: for taking my call.
[5:46] Speaker 5: You got it.
[5:47] Speaker 4: I've been attending a church that was very much similar
[5:50] Speaker 4: to the one from my upbringing in the Apostolic Faith,
[5:55] Speaker 4: and of late the minister has been teaching a series
[5:59] Speaker 4: on high pain. He says that he's been led to
[6:03] Speaker 4: really explain the importance of high pay, and he puts
[6:08] Speaker 4: emphasis on it in such a way that has really
[6:12] Speaker 4: been disturbing to me, and I wanted to kind of
[6:16] Speaker 4: It's caused me to seek the scriptures a little bit more.
[6:19] Speaker 4: But the way that he delivers it is from Judonomy
[6:23] Speaker 4: twenty eight, and basically he gives a lesson every Sunday,
[6:27] Speaker 4: and the last this past Sunday was he named it
[6:33] Speaker 4: the domestic Curse. So as to say that one that
[6:36] Speaker 4: would not pay their tithes would experience, as a scripture
[6:42] Speaker 4: has written, one would take a wife, but another man
[6:45] Speaker 4: would lie with her, or one would have home and
[6:49] Speaker 4: never be able to live in it, and things of
[6:51] Speaker 4: this nature, and also making reference to sores and all
[6:55] Speaker 4: of this. And I just wonder your thoughts on the
[6:59] Speaker 4: delivery of that, because I personally desire have been taught
[7:04] Speaker 4: to pay tithes as I've been raised as a Christian
[7:09] Speaker 4: and had a heart toward it and continue to have
[7:11] Speaker 4: one and giving with joy and obedience and service unto
[7:18] Speaker 4: the Lord. But with this type of teaching, it really
[7:23] Speaker 4: it concerns me and makes me almost I'm wondering if
[7:27] Speaker 4: I need to find another place to go.
[7:29] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, a couple of things about this. I think
[7:31] Speaker 2: the major issue here is that we learn to trust God.
[7:36] Speaker 2: We learn to lean upon the arm of God rather
[7:40] Speaker 2: than the very weak arm of flesh. It's a matter
[7:44] Speaker 2: of demonstrating that you really trust God. And so I
[7:46] Speaker 2: think in that sense, learning to give is a very
[7:50] Speaker 2: important principle, and tithing might well be seen as the
[7:54] Speaker 2: training wheel to giving. So I think you've got the
[7:56] Speaker 2: right attitude in your heart but I think the kinds
[7:59] Speaker 2: of threats that are made are not particularly helpful, because
[8:04] Speaker 2: the Bible ultimately wants you to understand the joy of
[8:09] Speaker 2: free will giving, which is to say, you want to
[8:12] Speaker 2: learn how to depend upon the arm of God, and
[8:16] Speaker 2: that's a difficult thing for people to do. You also
[8:20] Speaker 2: are giving not because you want to avoid cursing, but
[8:24] Speaker 2: rather you're giving because you want the Gospel to spread
[8:29] Speaker 2: throughout the world. So I think that there's a case
[8:32] Speaker 2: that can be made, in a sanctified sense, that tithing
[8:36] Speaker 2: is a timeless principle. The reason we can make that
[8:40] Speaker 2: is because learning to reverence the name of God is timeless.
[8:45] Speaker 2: And this is precisely what we're taught by Moses. We
[8:48] Speaker 2: tithe so that we may learn to revere the Lord
[8:52] Speaker 2: our God always. So long before Moses, the Bible records
[8:57] Speaker 2: Jacob's promise to God, of all that give me, I'll
[9:00] Speaker 2: give you a tenth, And then long after Jesus reaffirmed
[9:04] Speaker 2: the practice of tithing, not for outward appearances, though, but
[9:08] Speaker 2: for an outward expression of an inward reality. And so
[9:11] Speaker 2: I think that there's a great, great need for people
[9:14] Speaker 2: to learn to become hilarious givers again, but I think
[9:18] Speaker 2: oftentimes the way in which this is forwarded is improper
[9:24] Speaker 2: and it puts guilt on people. Some people really want
[9:28] Speaker 2: to give, but they have not yet learned to give.
[9:31] Speaker 2: And it's kind of like me, I don't know, you know,
[9:34] Speaker 2: taking a small kid and pushing him around on a
[9:37] Speaker 2: bike without training wheels and letting him fall. You know,
[9:41] Speaker 2: I want to help him in the process. I want
[9:43] Speaker 2: to guide him, I want to instruct him. I want
[9:45] Speaker 2: to help him in a loving and kind way. And
[9:49] Speaker 2: as that person learns to trust, then they'll become more
[9:54] Speaker 2: and more free to extend his kingdom as opposed to
[9:57] Speaker 2: the extending their own kingdom.
[10:00] Speaker 4: Sure well, I appreciate you taking the call, but I
[10:04] Speaker 4: completely understand that it is and should be an outward
[10:08] Speaker 4: expression of what's going on inviably with us.
[10:11] Speaker 2: Yeah, let me weigh in on what you have just said,
[10:14] Speaker 2: because again I think you've made a good point. What
[10:17] Speaker 2: was practiced in the early Christian Church was a free
[10:21] Speaker 2: will sharing of material goods. You see that in First
[10:23] Speaker 2: Corinthians chapter sixteen, and Christians were not commanded to give
[10:27] Speaker 2: a tenth of what they earned, but rather to give
[10:30] Speaker 2: themselves completely as a living sacrifice to God and to
[10:34] Speaker 2: give materially as the Lord leads, as you see in
[10:37] Speaker 2: tewod Crinthans chapter eight. So that's the end game. The
[10:41] Speaker 2: endgame is to become a steward. And when you're a steward,
[10:43] Speaker 2: you hold everything you have with an open hand so
[10:45] Speaker 2: that God can take out and put in as he
[10:49] Speaker 2: sees fit.
[10:49] Speaker 6: I'm going to have to leave it at that.
[10:51] Speaker 2: Back in just a moment with more of your questions.
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[15:12] Speaker 2: Next up as Kevin listing on Kansas City, Kansas.
[15:15] Speaker 6: Hi, Kevin, Oh hey, how you doing good?
[15:18] Speaker 9: How are you confused? And that's really in need of
[15:22] Speaker 9: some guidance here in regards to divorce and remarriage. Brief
[15:27] Speaker 9: story of my life roughly six years ago, I kind
[15:30] Speaker 9: of drifted away from the Lord when I committed adultery.
[15:33] Speaker 9: Well what happened was my first wife ended up divorcing me,
[15:37] Speaker 9: and part of that was in my own manipulation and
[15:39] Speaker 9: the hardness of my heart. I really was just I
[15:42] Speaker 9: was in a bad place and I was just doing
[15:43] Speaker 9: what I wanted to do, committing sexual sin. Long story short,
[15:47] Speaker 9: she divorced me, and in that same kind of frame
[15:51] Speaker 9: of mind, I remarried. She's remarried. I ended up remarrying
[15:55] Speaker 9: the woman that I committed adultry with. And I had
[15:58] Speaker 9: stumbled on to some teachings by people who are stating
[16:01] Speaker 9: that if you remarry, especially if you're the guilty party,
[16:04] Speaker 9: that the only way for things to be made right
[16:07] Speaker 9: would be for you to leave that relationship, whether there's children,
[16:10] Speaker 9: involve anything, And they had said that, you know, obviously
[16:13] Speaker 9: if you don't, then you're not really repentant, and without
[16:15] Speaker 9: that there's no remission of sins. So, long story short,
[16:19] Speaker 9: I was reading through about King David's life and Nathan
[16:22] Speaker 9: the Prophet came to him when David confessed and said
[16:24] Speaker 9: that you surely will not die. And I'm assuming that's
[16:26] Speaker 9: because of the consequences due to breaking the seventh Commandment
[16:32] Speaker 9: that not committing adults.
[16:33] Speaker 2: You correct, Well, there's a whole thing going on with
[16:36] Speaker 2: Nathan because David is completely in denial, and so he
[16:41] Speaker 2: has told a story to which she responds, kill that man.
[16:45] Speaker 2: And then Nathan the Prophet points his finger and says,
[16:48] Speaker 2: you are that man. He is talking about a whole
[16:52] Speaker 2: plethora of sins that are committed by David, the sins
[16:56] Speaker 2: beginning with adultery even before that taking a census, but
[17:01] Speaker 2: also culminating in the death of Uriah, the husband of
[17:07] Speaker 2: beth Sheba, who David effectively had killed on the battlefront.
[17:12] Speaker 2: Although he did it through surrogates, he still was the
[17:14] Speaker 2: one that caused it to happen.
[17:16] Speaker 9: So why was David not stoned for his adultery?
[17:21] Speaker 2: Pretty hard to kill the king. I think that's the
[17:24] Speaker 2: common sense answer from a practical standpoint. It's pretty hard
[17:28] Speaker 2: to kill the king. Not only that, but Deuteronomy nineteen
[17:32] Speaker 2: fifteen requires two or three witnesses to convict of a crime.
[17:36] Speaker 2: David had this done through surrogates in a war scene,
[17:41] Speaker 2: So very very hard, I would say, to convict David
[17:45] Speaker 2: of this crime. But did David get away with it?
[17:49] Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I mean, the text says that the consequences
[17:54] Speaker 2: of David's sin followed inexorably, like night follows day. And
[17:58] Speaker 2: that's not the tech in the sense of a text,
[18:01] Speaker 2: but the text of Scripture as a whole underscores the
[18:06] Speaker 2: fact that consequences always follow sin, but God can forgive.
[18:11] Speaker 2: God can not only forgive, but continue to use. And
[18:15] Speaker 2: so in a modern day circumstance, going to your own situation,
[18:20] Speaker 2: I don't think that you can unscramble the egg and
[18:23] Speaker 2: to get a divorce now with simply adding insult to injury.
[18:28] Speaker 2: It would be a horrendous sin to end the marriage
[18:31] Speaker 2: that you're in right now. The fact of the matter
[18:34] Speaker 2: is you need to forget what is behind. Learn from it,
[18:37] Speaker 2: of course, but forget it. Press on, confess your sin,
[18:40] Speaker 2: as David did in Psalm fifty one. Move on, do
[18:45] Speaker 2: everything that you can to be the best husband and
[18:48] Speaker 2: father that you can be in the present circumstance.
[18:53] Speaker 9: All right, I appreciate your time, Hank.
[18:55] Speaker 2: You got it to appreciate your call as well. I
[18:57] Speaker 2: want to go back to the phone lines now and
[18:59] Speaker 2: talk to callin in Nebraska. Hi, Colin, how are you doing?
[19:03] Speaker 5: A very nice to talk to you. I appreciate that
[19:08] Speaker 5: you address the issues at the point of contention. I
[19:13] Speaker 5: really do. I have a family. I have an eleven
[19:19] Speaker 5: year old boy, nine year old girl, a wife who
[19:22] Speaker 5: is somewhat younger than I am, and the Lord has
[19:27] Speaker 5: blessed me richly. We have a background of depression in
[19:33] Speaker 5: our family. I have three uncles and an aunt who
[19:37] Speaker 5: spent more than a year in a state hospital for depression.
[19:42] Speaker 5: There's no reason why I should be depressed. And so
[19:47] Speaker 5: my question is, I know that the scripture says whatsoever
[19:53] Speaker 5: I ask, believing, will be given unto me. And I
[19:58] Speaker 5: also know that Paul the Apostle, who wrote more than
[20:03] Speaker 5: half of the New Testament, although he considered himself the
[20:08] Speaker 5: chief of sinners, was truly a believer. And he said
[20:13] Speaker 5: that he asked three times for this thorn to be
[20:16] Speaker 5: removed from his side. So the Lord replied, my grace
[20:23] Speaker 5: is sufficient to you. I've been praying and doing what
[20:31] Speaker 5: I can, but some mornings I wake up and I'm
[20:34] Speaker 5: crying for no reason. So I just wonder at the
[20:39] Speaker 5: scripture that says whatsoever you ask will be given unto
[20:43] Speaker 5: you if you believe it. And I'm just relating that
[20:47] Speaker 5: to Paul's request that this thorn be removed from his side.
[20:52] Speaker 2: You know, well a couple things. First of all, you
[20:54] Speaker 2: have to realize that every prayer of the believer is
[20:58] Speaker 2: whether you say it out loud or not, it is
[21:02] Speaker 2: qualified by nevertheless, not my will, but Thy will be done.
[21:07] Speaker 2: Because as a believer, we recognize that God sees the
[21:11] Speaker 2: totality of our lives. We only see a snapshot at
[21:15] Speaker 2: a time, so he knows what's best for us. And
[21:19] Speaker 2: as you relate that to what happens in Two Corinthians
[21:21] Speaker 2: chapter twelve, you have a Hebrew idiom, which is that
[21:29] Speaker 2: the thorn in the flesh was a continual reminder to
[21:34] Speaker 2: Paul that he was dependent upon God. So the thorn
[21:41] Speaker 2: of the flesh is an idiom for the continual persecutions
[21:46] Speaker 2: that Paul is facing. And Paul may be using this
[21:51] Speaker 2: idiom in the same way that it's used in Numbers
[21:54] Speaker 2: thirty three, where the Canaanites, who are not driven out
[21:58] Speaker 2: of the Promised Land and allowed to remain, are a
[22:03] Speaker 2: thorn in the flesh and a reminder that kept Israel
[22:06] Speaker 2: dependent upon God and away from dependence upon themselves. So
[22:13] Speaker 2: times we have these thorns in our own flesh, and
[22:17] Speaker 2: if we didn't, we would give into the flesh. We
[22:20] Speaker 2: would start to rest upon the arm of flesh as
[22:24] Speaker 2: opposed to resting on the arm of God. It's important
[22:30] Speaker 2: just from a practical standpoint, listening to your question to
[22:33] Speaker 2: ask the question, are you under a physician's care? Perhaps
[22:37] Speaker 2: you should see a medical doctor. There may be underlying
[22:40] Speaker 2: physical conditions that need medical intervention as well. So this
[22:45] Speaker 2: can be dealt with on two levels, one a spiritual
[22:48] Speaker 2: level of course, the other a common sense physical level
[22:51] Speaker 2: as well. Back to the phone lines, we talk to Bill,
[22:55] Speaker 2: he's listening in Missouri.
[22:56] Speaker 6: Hi Bill, Hi Hank, how are you good?
[22:59] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[23:01] Speaker 6: When my young my oldest son, was three years old,
[23:04] Speaker 6: he told us that an angel came to him. How
[23:08] Speaker 6: do you determine if that's real or not?
[23:10] Speaker 2: Well, it's very hard to deal with anecdotes, right, It's
[23:15] Speaker 2: very hard to falsify and experience like that. Certainly, angels
[23:20] Speaker 2: are real. Angels have appeared to people in biblical times.
[23:26] Speaker 2: Certainly I wouldn't think that would be normative. But you
[23:29] Speaker 2: can't absolutely rule out the possibility that happened. But even
[23:33] Speaker 2: if an angel of enlightenment appears to you according to scripture,
[23:37] Speaker 2: you need to test what that angel is saying in
[23:41] Speaker 2: light of what Scripture has said, because the revelation of
[23:44] Speaker 2: an angel does not supersede the revelation that we have
[23:49] Speaker 2: already been given in the word of God.
[23:53] Speaker 6: Okay, here's the little story is both my sons are adopted,
[23:57] Speaker 6: and when we had it, when we got our second son,
[24:00] Speaker 6: and now my first son was at four months old
[24:04] Speaker 6: or at six months old and ten months old, was
[24:05] Speaker 6: switched from different families. So he had very big separation
[24:09] Speaker 6: anxiety when we got my second son. For about a
[24:14] Speaker 6: month after we got him, for about a month and
[24:16] Speaker 6: a half, he was just nails on a chalkboard. I
[24:19] Speaker 6: mean I really dread it going home to him because
[24:24] Speaker 6: he was just so obnoxious. He said that he saw
[24:28] Speaker 6: the angel and that the angel told him that we
[24:30] Speaker 6: weren't going to get rid of him, and after that
[24:35] Speaker 6: he changed. I mean, he was fun to be with.
[24:38] Speaker 6: Why an angel often or am I just imagining that?
[24:43] Speaker 2: Well, as I said, I can't rule that out. But
[24:45] Speaker 2: here's the thing, what a beautiful look into his soul
[24:49] Speaker 2: recognizing that one of the reasons he was acting out
[24:52] Speaker 2: as he was acting out is he was afraid that
[24:56] Speaker 2: he'd be given away to someone again. And you've given
[24:59] Speaker 2: him that.
[25:00] Speaker 6: I mean, he believed we would get rid of them.
[25:02] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[25:03] Speaker 6: Wow, And that's the thing. That's why I thought you know,
[25:07] Speaker 6: I did, I did. I just don't know. I mean
[25:09] Speaker 6: because I'm not a good Christian. But I mean, for years,
[25:12] Speaker 6: it's always bothered me because after that we had the
[25:16] Speaker 6: greatest day and he did change. He wasn't that way
[25:20] Speaker 6: anymore after that.
[25:22] Speaker 2: Well, let me say a couple of things. One thing,
[25:24] Speaker 2: thank God for that transition. Secondly, when you say, now
[25:28] Speaker 2: that greater Christian where the real issue becomes involving yourself
[25:33] Speaker 2: in the means of growth in the Christian life. That
[25:36] Speaker 2: comes through prayer, that comes through disciplining yourself to get
[25:40] Speaker 2: into the Word of God, get the Word of God
[25:42] Speaker 2: into you. Involvement produces commitment. It means being part of
[25:47] Speaker 2: a healthy, well balanced church. It also means that you
[25:52] Speaker 2: will share not only with your kids but with others
[25:55] Speaker 2: what God has done in your life. In the process,
[25:58] Speaker 2: you will grow, and you'll once the presence of the
[26:01] Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, and you as yet can continue to make
[26:04] Speaker 2: a difference not only for time, but also for eternity.
[26:08] Speaker 2: What an inspirational story. Thanks for tuning in with see
[26:11] Speaker 2: you next time right here with more of the show.
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