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Hey, guys, good morning. Welcome to Before the Noise. Let's do a couple of technical things here and see if we are live. See if we are going.

I'm double checking a couple of different platforms. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. All right. I think we're there. Can you guys see me? Let me see those dancing bananas there in the Rumble live chat. If you are watching by way of YouTube, hope you can see us there as well. Facebook X, all the places. Welcome. Good morning. It is Tuesday. I love you guys. There you are.

You know, every now and then I get an email that says, hey, Chad, tell everybody, well, we just lost all of Facebook.

So there's that. Anyway, such as it is, that is technology.

We will hang out on X and YouTube and Rumble. Welcome. Well, we're not on Facebook.

People always send me emails saying, hey, tell the team, thank you. Well, you're welcome. David Medina, our producer for the Chad, Prather's show loads everything up the night before. Of course, party file, Steve, he's over on the West Coast. He is in the chat. He's here here i see him there in the studio he's our hall monitor show again uh if you act up he'll put you in time out but you know this is as i said doing before the noise is a labor of love and i do love it i'm thankful for you guys as i was praying for you this morning and just praying over our time together i was thinking about how much I'm so I'm thankful for you guys. As I was praying for you this morning and just praying over our time together, I was thinking about how much I'm so, I'm just so thankful that you guys have kept me accountable for so long now.

But particularly these last two weeks post-surgery, this would have been a perfectly good time to say I'm just going to check out and sleep in.

And I didn't want to do that I

did not want to do that I wanted to be with you guys so thank you for uh there's a few things we're

behind on like I'm not putting the notes in the at before the noise.com right now just not taking

that extra time consumer and I just want to be able to focus on putting this together.

So good morning, good morning, good morning, and thank you for being here.

I love our times together in the morning.

Get right into it.

This is part two of a series this week.

It's a five-part series that I'm calling How Nations Fall.

Yesterday we dealt with Judges Chapter 2, particularly verse 10, but Judges Chapter 2 about how a nation forgets God.

And we made some application to how we do that here, not only in our individual lives, but we

have as a nation, as a society, as a culture,

and just we've become indifferent to the things of God.

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