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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart

and is a continuation of a series entitled Survival Space. Well, several years ago I had the opportunity to navigate an obstacle course on a Navy seal base.

I was honored to get to visit the base

and they brought me to this oak course

and it was a water oak course,

which is essentially a series of ropes and nets

hanging from a ceiling far above a swimming pool.

So the idea is that you just sort of negotiate it the best you can

until your forearms give out and you plummet into your failure.

And so when I got there, the way it starts

is you climb up on this high dive

and there's a rope that leads to a cargo net.

And I'm like, okay, the idea is you grab this rope

and kind of Tarzan swing over over and then grab this cargo net.

So I'm getting ready to do that and the Navy SEAL that's guiding me through this was like,

hey man, I know what you're thinking, you're gonna try to Tarzan swing it's not going to work

there you're just going to hit the water he's like here's what you're going to need to do

when you jump off the high dive jump throw your head back wrap your foot around rope, you'll be swinging backwards and upside down,

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