You know, all the years that we spent with Brother Hagen, one of the greatest things,

and I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again, is him teaching us the value of

this book and being led and combining the two.

We had the great privilege of spending time not only with them in services, but we had the great privilege of getting to spend time with them personally and seeing how they lived their lives and seeing what they did in circumstances and seeing behind the scenes, you know, not just as an

employee, because you see things as an employee, but seeing things more in the eyes of a friend

or fellowship, you know, with someone that you're doing things with them on a continual basis

and seeing how they react to situations. And, you know, when you're doing things with them on a continual basis and seeing how they react

to situations.

And, you know, when you're around someone all the time, you begin to see how they respond

when a situation arises.

You begin to see what they do when tragedy happens.

You begin to see what they do when good things happen or negative things happen.

And so in being with someone for decade after decade, you begin to see how they react and what they

do to apply things in their life and get the results that they got.

And we were privileged to not only hear him speak the words, what the word said, but to live

what he spoke. And there are very few people that we've been around that I can say that had a consistency in their life that were the same when they got up today as when they got up tomorrow as when they got up the next day.

And through the years, a lot of people, I don't know how to say it, but just say it this way, would say of Brother Hagen,

oh, he's just an old man that just continues to teach exactly the same thing.

We are tired of going in here and exactly the same thing.

How many of you heard people say things like that about Brother Hagan?

Well, the reason that he would teach exactly the same thing. How many of you heard people say things like that about Brother Hagen? Well, the reason that he would teach exactly the same thing and the more mature that Keith and I get

is we realize people didn't get it. Even the very people that were saying it, they didn't get what he was saying.

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