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S2: Practical from the Bible. Tips and tricks to kill. Not tricks,

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S2: The gospel changes everything.

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S4: Freedom in Christ. Man, it's like that backpack of cement

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S1: Now, from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl

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S5: One of the greatest gifts I ever received from my dad.

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S5: Our commitment at Carl and crew here is to really

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S5: It's below the waterline, man. That's what matters most. It

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S5: And I was cogitating this morning. Ronnie, how many people

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S5: Yeah. He does. And then that Bible, as it begins

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S5: Love it, doctor Ronnie Floyd, I've got a link for you.

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S5: they're they're trying to pull on this ripcord and that

444
00:26:14,410 --> 00:26:16,890
S5: pins up and they pulled with all their might. They

445
00:26:16,890 --> 00:26:19,410
S5: couldn't get it loose. So boom! They deploy the reserve

446
00:26:19,450 --> 00:26:20,970
S5: chute and everything was fine.

447
00:26:21,250 --> 00:26:21,850
S2: Oh, good.

448
00:26:22,250 --> 00:26:23,530
S5: Okay, you guys got one?

449
00:26:23,570 --> 00:26:26,169
S2: Yeah, I think at the time I was probably ten.

450
00:26:26,210 --> 00:26:29,929
S2: I have three older brothers. And so, you know, taking

451
00:26:29,930 --> 00:26:33,250
S2: advantage of the little one was a common practice and

452
00:26:33,770 --> 00:26:36,649
S2: and I was the little one. And, uh, and so

453
00:26:36,650 --> 00:26:40,930
S2: we were driving in my brother's, uh, convertible in the summer,

454
00:26:40,930 --> 00:26:43,050
S2: and me and my, my brother closest to me are

455
00:26:43,050 --> 00:26:44,889
S2: sit in the back. The two oldest ones are sitting

456
00:26:44,890 --> 00:26:47,169
S2: up in the front and they're driving. And they all

457
00:26:47,170 --> 00:26:49,970
S2: had this plan that I didn't know about, that they're

458
00:26:49,970 --> 00:26:52,010
S2: driving down this street, and all of a sudden my

459
00:26:52,010 --> 00:26:55,450
S2: oldest brother slows the car down. He stops it, he

460
00:26:55,450 --> 00:26:58,169
S2: puts it in park, and they all just get out

461
00:26:58,210 --> 00:27:00,650
S2: of the car and run off into the woods. And

462
00:27:01,330 --> 00:27:04,250
S2: they just left the car running, sitting in the middle

463
00:27:04,250 --> 00:27:06,250
S2: of the street. And I'm the only one who didn't

464
00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:08,770
S2: know about anything. So I'm sitting, I'm ten, I can't

465
00:27:08,770 --> 00:27:14,610
S2: do anything with the car. And so I'm sitting there going, uh, guys, guys.

466
00:27:14,810 --> 00:27:17,090
S2: And they've all just run off into the trees and

467
00:27:17,090 --> 00:27:18,050
S2: I can't see.

468
00:27:18,090 --> 00:27:20,450
S5: See, I know you enough to know you were panicking

469
00:27:20,450 --> 00:27:21,170
S5: in that moment.

470
00:27:21,210 --> 00:27:22,090
S2: Oh, yeah. I was.

471
00:27:22,130 --> 00:27:22,250
S5: A.

472
00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:23,050
S2: Panicky kid.

473
00:27:23,170 --> 00:27:24,090
S4: Brothers, man.

474
00:27:24,250 --> 00:27:26,290
S2: I know, and they just left me there. They. I mean,

475
00:27:26,330 --> 00:27:28,130
S2: they came back, but they're losing.

476
00:27:28,690 --> 00:27:30,810
S5: They're losing some rewards for that one.

477
00:27:30,850 --> 00:27:31,129
S2: Oh, my.

478
00:27:31,170 --> 00:27:31,850
S5: God. Ain't gonna go.

479
00:27:31,890 --> 00:27:33,850
S2: Well, I know Jesus is gonna have a talk with him,

480
00:27:33,850 --> 00:27:35,730
S2: but yeah, they they just left me there in the

481
00:27:35,730 --> 00:27:37,770
S2: car and I felt stuck because I was like, I

482
00:27:37,770 --> 00:27:39,050
S2: don't know what to do.

483
00:27:39,490 --> 00:27:42,410
S4: I have yeah, I have to write a comic movie.

484
00:27:42,410 --> 00:27:45,210
S4: This is many, many years ago, but, uh, company I

485
00:27:45,210 --> 00:27:47,970
S4: was working for had a beautiful, like, Christmas party. This

486
00:27:47,970 --> 00:27:51,450
S4: was at a beautiful, like, restaurant back then. I'm dressed

487
00:27:51,450 --> 00:27:53,410
S4: to the hilt. Yeah, okay. And I've got, like, this

488
00:27:53,410 --> 00:27:55,050
S4: cape that goes with the dress. I get out of

489
00:27:55,050 --> 00:27:57,130
S4: the cab and guess what? The cab drives off with

490
00:27:57,250 --> 00:28:01,250
S4: my cape. Cape stuck in the door and all my

491
00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:04,250
S4: employees and my friends, they see this. I mean, I

492
00:28:04,250 --> 00:28:06,169
S4: had to. You have to laugh, right? What are you

493
00:28:06,170 --> 00:28:06,610
S4: gonna do?

494
00:28:07,050 --> 00:28:08,010
S5: It was gone.

495
00:28:08,250 --> 00:28:10,290
S4: Well, it was gone, at least for a few blocks.

496
00:28:10,330 --> 00:28:12,489
S4: One dear friend chased it, but by the time I

497
00:28:12,490 --> 00:28:13,690
S4: got it back, it had been raining.

498
00:28:13,730 --> 00:28:14,169
S5: It was a.

499
00:28:14,170 --> 00:28:16,690
S4: Mess. It was a mess. But yeah. There went my cape.

500
00:28:17,210 --> 00:28:18,530
S4: There goes my cape. Oh.

501
00:28:19,090 --> 00:28:21,570
S5: Oh, she's still. She's still super dry, though.

502
00:28:21,730 --> 00:28:22,130
S2: Looks good.

503
00:28:22,170 --> 00:28:22,730
S4: That's right.

504
00:28:23,050 --> 00:28:25,690
S5: She's still super dry. She didn't need a cape. No,

505
00:28:25,810 --> 00:28:26,609
S5: she didn't need a cape.

506
00:28:26,650 --> 00:28:27,530
S4: I didn't need that cape.

507
00:28:27,970 --> 00:28:32,689
S1: She's a choreographer extraordinaire, and everything is Greek to her.

508
00:28:33,050 --> 00:28:36,810
S1: Super di is in the crew. It's Carl and crew

509
00:28:36,850 --> 00:28:38,090
S1: on Moody Radio.

510
00:28:38,450 --> 00:28:41,050
S5: It's Carl and crew helping you take your next step

511
00:28:41,050 --> 00:28:43,050
S5: with Jesus and having a little bit of fun on

512
00:28:43,050 --> 00:28:45,490
S5: this whole principle of being stuck. We got a lot

513
00:28:45,490 --> 00:28:47,970
S5: of you have been taking the quiz. Spiritually, we can

514
00:28:47,970 --> 00:28:51,250
S5: get stuck in practically everyday life. We can get stuck.

515
00:28:51,250 --> 00:28:54,210
S5: I'm glad I encouraged someone, they said, and I thought

516
00:28:54,210 --> 00:28:57,570
S5: I was the only one where my whole hand was

517
00:28:57,570 --> 00:29:00,090
S5: caught in a car door. I yelled to and mom

518
00:29:00,090 --> 00:29:02,650
S5: opened that door fast. I couldn't believe I didn't have

519
00:29:02,650 --> 00:29:06,650
S5: a broken finger. That's true, my man. It happens. So

520
00:29:06,650 --> 00:29:09,970
S5: you got stuck. You got a stuck story. Could be funny.

521
00:29:09,970 --> 00:29:14,330
S5: Could be crazy. Sheila. First time caller. Mccordsville. Indiana. What

522
00:29:14,330 --> 00:29:15,170
S5: do you say? Sheila?

523
00:29:15,410 --> 00:29:17,890
S7: Good morning, everyone, and thank you so much for your show.

524
00:29:17,930 --> 00:29:20,090
S7: It's it's very much a blessing. So thank you so

525
00:29:20,090 --> 00:29:21,290
S7: much to listen every morning.

526
00:29:21,490 --> 00:29:22,010
S5: Thank you.

527
00:29:22,050 --> 00:29:25,730
S7: Um, I was calling one morning. One evening I was

528
00:29:25,890 --> 00:29:28,050
S7: leaving work, trying to get ready to go work out,

529
00:29:28,050 --> 00:29:31,290
S7: and I was changing clothes really quick. Went to run

530
00:29:31,290 --> 00:29:33,890
S7: out the door and my wedding ring got caught on

531
00:29:33,890 --> 00:29:37,450
S7: the plate, um, of the doorframe where the door locks.

532
00:29:37,850 --> 00:29:40,450
S7: And so my wedding ring got caught on that I

533
00:29:40,450 --> 00:29:42,530
S7: was running full speed, went around the corner, and it

534
00:29:42,530 --> 00:29:46,370
S7: literally yanked me back. And so, um, I turned around,

535
00:29:46,370 --> 00:29:50,090
S7: I did I did dislodge my finger from the plate,

536
00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:53,130
S7: and then my ring was stuck into my skin. So

537
00:29:53,130 --> 00:29:55,490
S7: it was just one of those things that it's a

538
00:29:55,490 --> 00:29:58,170
S7: lesson in life to slow down. But, um, yeah, it

539
00:29:58,170 --> 00:29:59,010
S7: was really.

540
00:29:59,770 --> 00:30:02,130
S5: Yeah. That's what we got to ask Sheila. You're right on.

541
00:30:02,490 --> 00:30:06,730
S5: What's the lesson in life here? Slow down. Sheila from Mccordsville, Indiana.

542
00:30:06,770 --> 00:30:09,250
S5: Way to go, Sheila. Thank you for calling in. Spencer.

543
00:30:09,290 --> 00:30:11,610
S5: Grand Rapids, Michigan. What do you say, Spence?

544
00:30:13,050 --> 00:30:16,090
S8: Good morning everyone. Hey, Carl. I had my fingers caught

545
00:30:16,090 --> 00:30:18,770
S8: in the door like that when I was a kid, too. Okay, good.

546
00:30:18,810 --> 00:30:21,810
S8: Is my. My first year as a brick mason. I

547
00:30:21,810 --> 00:30:25,730
S8: was in Oklahoma, and, uh, it had been raining and

548
00:30:25,730 --> 00:30:29,330
S8: the rainy season. And I fell from the third jack

549
00:30:29,370 --> 00:30:34,170
S8: up of scaffolding, which was approximately 18ft, and fell straight

550
00:30:34,170 --> 00:30:38,610
S8: down the scaffold into the mud. And my boots got stuck.

551
00:30:38,610 --> 00:30:40,650
S8: I couldn't get myself out, and I had to have

552
00:30:40,650 --> 00:30:43,050
S8: two guys pull me out of the mud and retrieve

553
00:30:43,050 --> 00:30:44,330
S8: my boots after the fact.

554
00:30:44,330 --> 00:30:49,130
S5: So you know the problem. Yeah. Well, weren't you called

555
00:30:49,130 --> 00:30:52,090
S5: hotties or or or or what's that term for? Guys

556
00:30:52,090 --> 00:30:55,330
S5: that are bricklayers hauling. Did you did you do bricks

557
00:30:55,330 --> 00:30:58,130
S5: or was it concrete block or both?

558
00:30:58,170 --> 00:31:00,610
S8: Yeah, both. Uh, we're on a on a brick job

559
00:31:00,610 --> 00:31:02,530
S8: at that time. An apartment complex, so.

560
00:31:02,570 --> 00:31:05,090
S5: Oh, my goodness, you don't you don't live that one

561
00:31:05,090 --> 00:31:08,570
S5: down with your with your comrades out there, that's for sure. Spencer.

562
00:31:08,610 --> 00:31:13,450
S5: Grand Rapids, Michigan. Thank you for calling in, Frank in DeKalb, Illinois.

563
00:31:13,450 --> 00:31:14,370
S5: What do you say, Frank?

564
00:31:14,730 --> 00:31:15,090
S8: Hey.

565
00:31:15,570 --> 00:31:17,690
S9: When I was younger, I was playing hide and seek

566
00:31:17,690 --> 00:31:22,810
S9: with my sisters, and we had a foldaway bed couch,

567
00:31:23,090 --> 00:31:25,610
S9: and I said, I'm gonna hide in here and put

568
00:31:25,610 --> 00:31:28,290
S9: myself in there. And I pulled it and closed it

569
00:31:28,290 --> 00:31:31,010
S9: in on me, and I couldn't get out. I mean,

570
00:31:31,050 --> 00:31:33,410
S9: we were playing hide and seek. I'm. I'm eight years

571
00:31:33,410 --> 00:31:35,890
S9: old and I'm hiding really good. But all of a sudden,

572
00:31:35,890 --> 00:31:39,450
S9: I realized I cannot get out of here. And they're going,

573
00:31:39,490 --> 00:31:42,570
S9: where are you? I'm in here. They couldn't find me

574
00:31:42,610 --> 00:31:45,010
S9: for about 2 or 3 minutes. I'm going. How am

575
00:31:45,010 --> 00:31:46,890
S9: I going to get out of here? And they go,

576
00:31:47,210 --> 00:31:50,170
S9: we can't pull the couch out. I said, well, get mom.

577
00:31:50,730 --> 00:31:52,490
S5: Get mom now.

578
00:31:53,530 --> 00:31:56,810
S9: Yeah, yeah, I pulled it in, but I stuck and

579
00:31:56,810 --> 00:31:57,770
S9: I couldn't get out.

580
00:31:58,050 --> 00:32:00,209
S5: What'd your mom say? What'd your mom say when she

581
00:32:00,210 --> 00:32:01,050
S5: pulled you out of there?

582
00:32:01,130 --> 00:32:03,489
S9: Why didn't you? She goes. Why did how do you

583
00:32:03,530 --> 00:32:05,770
S9: close this thing? I said, well, I was pulling it.

584
00:32:05,770 --> 00:32:07,490
S9: All of a sudden it just fell in on me

585
00:32:07,490 --> 00:32:09,410
S9: and I didn't want to close it the whole way.

586
00:32:09,410 --> 00:32:11,770
S9: She goes, well, it's a good hiding spot, but don't

587
00:32:11,770 --> 00:32:14,090
S9: ever do that again, okay? I won't.

588
00:32:16,570 --> 00:32:20,530
S1: Take your next step with Jesus. Today you're listening to

589
00:32:20,570 --> 00:32:21,610
S1: Carl and crew.

590
00:32:22,050 --> 00:32:25,890
S5: Kathy. First time caller in Weston, Florida. Thanks for calling in, Kathy.

591
00:32:25,930 --> 00:32:27,050
S5: How'd you get stuck?

592
00:32:27,370 --> 00:32:29,969
S10: Oh, this is a good one. I used to clean stalls,

593
00:32:30,330 --> 00:32:33,770
S10: so we put the manure in these great big garbage cans.

594
00:32:33,810 --> 00:32:35,850
S10: They were like 90 gallon. They were, I don't know,

595
00:32:35,890 --> 00:32:36,850
S10: four feet tall.

596
00:32:37,090 --> 00:32:37,850
S5: Oh, those are big.

597
00:32:37,850 --> 00:32:39,770
S10: I got it full to the top. Yeah, it was

598
00:32:39,770 --> 00:32:42,730
S10: really big and heavy. Really heavy. So I got it

599
00:32:42,730 --> 00:32:44,730
S10: full to the top because I was lazy. I didn't

600
00:32:44,730 --> 00:32:47,610
S10: want to go get another one. It was as full

601
00:32:47,610 --> 00:32:50,290
S10: as it could be. So I always just kind of

602
00:32:50,330 --> 00:32:53,090
S10: took it over and roll it out to the road. Well,

603
00:32:53,090 --> 00:32:55,530
S10: I think you can guess where this is going. It

604
00:32:55,570 --> 00:32:58,530
S10: passed the tipping point and fell on top of me,

605
00:32:58,890 --> 00:33:02,690
S10: and my legs were stuck underneath and I could not move.

606
00:33:03,130 --> 00:33:06,050
S10: There was nobody around. I couldn't reach my phone. But

607
00:33:06,050 --> 00:33:09,130
S10: my hands are free. So you might know where this

608
00:33:09,130 --> 00:33:09,490
S10: is going.

609
00:33:09,530 --> 00:33:12,370
S5: Oh my word. You started digging on manure.

610
00:33:13,690 --> 00:33:16,450
S10: The only way I could get out was to take

611
00:33:16,450 --> 00:33:19,330
S10: some of the manure out of the garbage can. Well,

612
00:33:19,370 --> 00:33:22,330
S10: of course it had to go on top of me because.

613
00:33:22,730 --> 00:33:24,969
S10: Because it's the only place it could go. Because the

614
00:33:24,970 --> 00:33:27,330
S10: only thing sticking out was my chest and my hands.

615
00:33:27,890 --> 00:33:30,810
S10: So I finally got it light enough where I could

616
00:33:30,810 --> 00:33:33,290
S10: push it off my legs and get my legs out.

617
00:33:34,290 --> 00:33:36,250
S2: Oh, man. That's horrible.

618
00:33:36,290 --> 00:33:40,570
S5: Kathy, I love it. I love it, Kathy I love it, Kathy.

619
00:33:40,610 --> 00:33:43,250
S5: Who was the first person you told about? Told that

620
00:33:43,250 --> 00:33:45,490
S5: to somebody in the home or something?

621
00:33:45,530 --> 00:33:47,290
S10: Sure. Probably my husband.

622
00:33:47,770 --> 00:33:49,530
S5: Oh, you were married at the time?

623
00:33:50,290 --> 00:33:52,930
S10: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This is not. Well, it was

624
00:33:52,930 --> 00:33:56,410
S10: probably about 20 years ago. I've been married 44, so. Yeah,

625
00:33:56,450 --> 00:33:59,290
S10: my husband knows I did crazy things like that. So.

626
00:33:59,490 --> 00:34:02,330
S10: And I still ride horses. I don't clean stalls anymore,

627
00:34:02,330 --> 00:34:03,210
S10: but I still ride.

628
00:34:03,610 --> 00:34:07,810
S5: Oh my word. Oh my goodness. Thank you Kathy. First

629
00:34:07,810 --> 00:34:11,730
S5: time caller, Western Florida. Way to go. Danny in Bedford, Indiana. Danny,

630
00:34:11,770 --> 00:34:13,090
S5: what do you say? What's your story?

631
00:34:13,330 --> 00:34:16,129
S11: My story is the day before my wedding, we had

632
00:34:16,130 --> 00:34:18,410
S11: the rehearsal, and my friends and I went on a

633
00:34:18,410 --> 00:34:22,370
S11: river fishing trip and ran out of gas. So here

634
00:34:22,370 --> 00:34:24,689
S11: I am, stuck on the river all day long, doing

635
00:34:24,690 --> 00:34:26,489
S11: everything I can to get back. We're trying to use

636
00:34:26,489 --> 00:34:29,410
S11: a trolling motor, trying to paddle everything we can. So

637
00:34:29,410 --> 00:34:32,169
S11: I show up just in time for the rehearsal and

638
00:34:32,170 --> 00:34:35,609
S11: I'm still in my fishing clothes, burnt to a crisp look,

639
00:34:35,650 --> 00:34:37,489
S11: like a lobster. My wife, as soon as I walk in,

640
00:34:37,489 --> 00:34:40,170
S11: she said, oh my goodness, she looked like a lobster.

641
00:34:40,530 --> 00:34:44,690
S11: And now all of my wedding photos. All my wedding photos.

642
00:34:44,690 --> 00:34:46,569
S11: I am just bright red. And every time we look

643
00:34:46,570 --> 00:34:49,330
S11: at them, she reminds me, you need to get gas

644
00:34:49,330 --> 00:34:50,130
S11: in the boat.

645
00:34:51,730 --> 00:34:52,930
S4: That's so good. Oh.

646
00:34:53,330 --> 00:34:59,090
S5: Danny. That's outstanding. Danny. That's outstanding. Danny from Bedford, Indiana. Oh,

647
00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:03,370
S5: these are too good. Oh, thank you all for calling in. Oh,

648
00:35:03,370 --> 00:35:05,170
S5: we can't get to every one of these because I

649
00:35:05,210 --> 00:35:09,969
S5: got to shift gears. But those are outstanding, Danny. Get, get.

650
00:35:10,130 --> 00:35:13,489
S5: He will never stop hearing about this as long as

651
00:35:13,530 --> 00:35:14,250
S5: his bride.

652
00:35:14,690 --> 00:35:17,569
S2: Well, the pictures of one of his most important days

653
00:35:17,610 --> 00:35:18,530
S2: tell the story.

654
00:35:18,690 --> 00:35:23,170
S5: He's lobster red. Oh. Burned to a crisp. No guests.

655
00:35:23,210 --> 00:35:26,010
S5: And by the way, that trolling motor thing. You trying

656
00:35:26,010 --> 00:35:29,610
S5: to paddle upstream? I lived that nightmare. I lived it

657
00:35:29,890 --> 00:35:33,330
S5: on the little Susitna. Got all the way down, sheared

658
00:35:33,330 --> 00:35:35,930
S5: off all the shear pins on her propeller. And I

659
00:35:35,969 --> 00:35:40,690
S5: am carving hardwood shear pins. That basically keeps the prop moving.

660
00:35:41,130 --> 00:35:46,090
S5: That worked really well. Not at all. It steals your pins.

661
00:35:46,090 --> 00:35:49,890
S5: The only way to go. Hardwood shear pins do not work. Oh,

662
00:35:49,930 --> 00:35:53,529
S5: it's just crazy. Uh, Daniel, get you in your first, uh,

663
00:35:53,530 --> 00:35:56,480
S5: first time caller, Saint Pete Beach, Florida. my man. What

664
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:57,240
S5: do you say? Daniel?

665
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,480
S12: Hey. Good morning. How you guys doing?

666
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,439
S5: Doing great. Just got a quick minute, dude.

667
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,680
S12: My story. Yeah. My story is a little serious, a

668
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,560
S12: little serious. Around 7 to 10 years old, we playing

669
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:14,160
S12: hide and go seek out in my backyard. My brother, relatives.

670
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,880
S12: Neighborhood kids. And I got locked down in a old refrigerator.

671
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:19,280
S5: Oh.

672
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,040
S12: One of the real thick old refrigerators. And this was

673
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,080
S12: before they started running commercials about taking the doors off

674
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,920
S12: the refrigerator. Because. Kids were dying that way. Well, somehow,

675
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,120
S12: I don't know if somebody pushed it the door down.

676
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,120
S12: Didn't know I was in there, but I got down

677
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,600
S12: in the refrigerator and I got locked in there. It

678
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,640
S12: didn't open till I called on the name of Jesus.

679
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,960
S12: I remember my son's teacher saying, if kids, if you

680
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,520
S12: ever get in trouble, just call on Jesus. Call on Jesus.

681
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,760
S12: And I called everybody name at the last minute. I'm crying,

682
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,040
S12: snot running down my face. I'm screaming. I can hear

683
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,920
S12: people running by the refrigerator, but nobody knew I was

684
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,800
S12: in there. And the last thing I did, I said, Jesus,

685
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,560
S12: I don't want to die. Jesus, I don't want to die.

686
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,160
S12: And I hit the refrigerator door and it popped open.

687
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:08,799
S5: Oh, Daniel. First time caller from Saint Pete Beach. That

688
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,880
S5: is a beautiful transition, because this is where we're going, man.

689
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:17,479
S5: Sometimes you feel stuck alone. No one can help. But

690
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:24,000
S5: God can. That's the point. And it's beautiful, man. Remember this.

691
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,759
S5: No matter where you are, no matter what, it may

692
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:31,160
S5: feel like God can do it, guys. God can.

693
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,400
S1: You can take him out of Alaska, but you can't

694
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,239
S1: take Alaska out of him. Carl is in the crew.

695
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,040
S1: It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.

696
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,000
S5: Oh my goodness. Cracking up over these stories. If you

697
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,560
S5: weren't with us in this last segment that we had. Oh,

698
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,719
S5: the amount of people that get stuck in the craziest

699
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,680
S5: spots and then have a story to tell. Pretty amazing.

700
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:54,480
S4: They were good.

701
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:55,680
S2: Oh my goodness.

702
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,920
S5: Oh my goodness. Some of those are scary. In fact

703
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:03,680
S5: this last caller that we had um, what a what

704
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:08,400
S5: a what a tough one. Getting caught in a refrigerator. Daniel. Before. Daniel. Yeah,

705
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,680
S5: from from Florida. Right. Where was he from?

706
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:11,279
S2: Yeah. Saint.

707
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:17,600
S5: Saint Pete. Uh. Guys, there's. Sometimes when we feel stuck

708
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,359
S5: spiritually and we don't know what in the world we're

709
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,000
S5: going to do, how are we going to get out

710
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,200
S5: of this one? But I just want to remind you

711
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,880
S5: that the way up is down in God's kingdom. I

712
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,600
S5: want to take you to a fishing trip I did

713
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,840
S5: with my dad. It was on Ship Creek downtown Anchorage, Alaska.

714
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,279
S5: We had the Hilton Tower and above us. Hilton had

715
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,600
S5: just been built. So you get these, well, relatively big

716
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,080
S5: buildings in Anchorage, Alaska. But we drive from kind of

717
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,640
S5: the hillside across town, downtown, across the bridge, Ship Creek,

718
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,799
S5: a beautiful river. Well, no, it's not beautiful at all.

719
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,120
S5: It's beautiful when it's low and it's running out, but

720
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,040
S5: it's right at the mouth of Ship Creek, where tides

721
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,860
S5: from Cook Inlet come in and come out every six

722
00:38:57,860 --> 00:39:02,520
S5: hours over 20 foot tides. So imagine where you're standing

723
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,020
S5: at your feet. There's no water. And then in six

724
00:39:06,020 --> 00:39:11,760
S5: hours you are 14ft underwater. If you're six feet tall,

725
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,200
S5: 14ft underwater. So you got to get that. You got to.

726
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,040
S5: This is not like Tahiti, where you've got, you know,

727
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,760
S5: six inch tides or something like that. These are monster tides,

728
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,200
S5: second biggest in the world. And it can get dicey.

729
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,520
S5: And what's what the tides bring in are a lot

730
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,760
S5: of silt and mud. And it's just I mean, it's

731
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,840
S5: always there. So the tide was out. We were waiting

732
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,640
S5: for the incoming tide to bring in more salmon, because

733
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:41,080
S5: the tides at peak runs bring in big thousands upon

734
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,040
S5: thousands of salmon. And these things are getting ready to feed.

735
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,439
S5: And they hit eggs on a single hook or treble hook,

736
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,080
S5: something like that. Sometimes they'll hit a pixie. If you're

737
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:54,440
S5: a fisherman, they'll hit a pixie out there. And so

738
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,520
S5: we're getting our rambler backed up. Yep. Yeah. Rambler. If

739
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,520
S5: you've never seen a rambler. Boy, what a beast to behold.

740
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,799
S5: Rattles all the way. Wherever you drive, it just rattles

741
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,200
S5: the rattle and rambler.

742
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:08,320
S4: I remember those.

743
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,720
S5: Oh my word. So we back up to a parking space,

744
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,239
S5: and we're getting all of our gear out and getting

745
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,080
S5: ready to go. We got our hip waders on, and

746
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:17,360
S5: we aren't going to go all the way down to

747
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,080
S5: the bottom. We're going to wait for this tide to

748
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,200
S5: come in. And the banks are pretty steep, but they're

749
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,359
S5: filled with this silty mud. And we see a guy

750
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,360
S5: down there fishing, and there were others down there fishing.

751
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,520
S5: But you got to pick your route very carefully. And

752
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,520
S5: he didn't. And he's getting stuck in the mud. It's

753
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,239
S5: got we got time. Tide hasn't turned yet and the

754
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,000
S5: tide doesn't come in immediately. Over six hours you get

755
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,640
S5: over 20ft of water in there. But he starts to

756
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,960
S5: get stuck. And my dad's looking at this guy, and

757
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,360
S5: I'm looking at dad, and he's looking down at me,

758
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,040
S5: and he's now looking at the guy down on the mudflats,

759
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,480
S5: deep down right at the creek bed where it's running

760
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,200
S5: out and the tide is beginning to turn. So now

761
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,600
S5: the creek that was running out is now still and

762
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,879
S5: water is starting to come in. And he yells down.

763
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,239
S5: The guy says, hey, you're going to want to get

764
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,960
S5: up out of there. Well, he tries, but every time

765
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,680
S5: he put down his foot, it would go. It would

766
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,600
S5: sink more deeply into the mud, and then he'd push

767
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,400
S5: with the other foot, and that foot would go further down.

768
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,920
S5: And he wasn't making any headway. He was getting deeper

769
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:22,640
S5: and deeper into the mudflats, dangerous mudflats of Alaska. He's

770
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,680
S5: got a tackle box in one hand. He's got a

771
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,280
S5: rod and reel. Nice rig, everything beautiful, man. Just like new.

772
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:33,120
S5: That's probably part of the problem here. And my dad

773
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,840
S5: at one point says, hey, buddy, uh, we're going to

774
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,359
S5: have to help you here. He says, okay. And my

775
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,560
S5: dad throws down a rope. He says, tie it around

776
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,279
S5: your waist. He says, I'm going to hook this up

777
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,600
S5: to the car, and I'm going to gently give you

778
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,200
S5: a little tug here and we're going to get you

779
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,520
S5: pulled out. And he tries it. My dad just told

780
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,440
S5: him one thing. He said, lay down on the mud,

781
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,359
S5: and the guy didn't want to do that. You don't

782
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:56,640
S5: want to lay down on the mud. You got all

783
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,919
S5: this nice gear and equipment. You got your coat on,

784
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,960
S5: you got everything going. You're like, ah, I don't want

785
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,680
S5: to lay it on the mud. He thought, I'm just

786
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,439
S5: going to let him tug on me a little bit. Well,

787
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,960
S5: nothing's working because it's leverage, man. And this guy's standing up.

788
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,399
S5: So my dad gets out of the rambler, yells down

789
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,000
S5: at him, Bud, you're going to have to lay down.

790
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,680
S5: You've got to lay down on the mud. You can't

791
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,320
S5: worry about getting dirty now. The water's coming in, guys,

792
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,080
S5: and it's just a couple of feet from him at

793
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,640
S5: this point. So the only way and just dawned on

794
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,560
S5: me when I've told this story so many times, it

795
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,399
S5: just dawned on me because the only way you're going

796
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,040
S5: to get out of there is to lay down. Now

797
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,040
S5: he's going to be right near the water's surface really quickly.

798
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:35,720
S2: Yeah.

799
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,200
S5: So as my dad puts a tug to it on

800
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,800
S5: the Rambler, this guy lays down in the mud finally.

801
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,200
S5: And as he lays down, put a little pressure on

802
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,959
S5: that rope. And slowly but surely, this guy gets pulled

803
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,920
S5: out of his hip. Waders. Hip waders. Long gone. They're

804
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,160
S5: there forever buried in the mudflats.

805
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:56,360
S2: On Ship Creek.

806
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,360
S5: Oh, yeah. They're still there. Yeah, they're still there, along

807
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,359
S5: with a lot of other hip waders, by the way.

808
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:01,840
S2: Yeah.

809
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,839
S5: And so we're pulling we're pulling this guy out. And

810
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,479
S5: when we got him to safety he was one happy guy.

811
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:14,600
S5: No tackle box, no rod and reel, no equipment and

812
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:18,440
S5: mud all over him. But he's alive. And here's the

813
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,919
S5: spiritual point of the day. Look, you might get it,

814
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,000
S5: but if you didn't, let me just tell you what's

815
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:30,319
S5: going on here spiritually. If you humble yourself under the

816
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,360
S5: mighty hand of God, he will lift you up. This

817
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,279
S5: attempting to get out of whatever you are in that

818
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,640
S5: has you stuck spiritually. You keep working yourself and all

819
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,359
S5: you're going to get is deeper into the silt and

820
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:49,120
S5: the soup of life. This is God's job. God actually

821
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,640
S5: stands in opposition to the proud, but he gives grace.

822
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,480
S5: In other words, his power to the humble. Lay yourself down.

823
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,879
S5: The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom and

824
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:05,640
S5: humility comes before honor. And the reward for humility and

825
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,600
S5: fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

826
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:13,200
S5: This guy lived again. He was grateful to dad. Gave

827
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,839
S5: him a big old hug. You might say, man, a

828
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,399
S5: muddy guy like that, he he must have known what

829
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,960
S5: was coming his way. He ultimately put two and two

830
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,240
S5: together and goes, whew! If not for this guy coming along,

831
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:32,960
S5: my dad, I'd be a dead man. There's a lot

832
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:37,960
S5: of self effort that goes into getting ourselves unstuck from

833
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:43,640
S5: sin that's missing the mark. Something that's got you and I.

834
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,040
S5: And I go back to this often because it's become

835
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,319
S5: a big thing in Christian circles. Some people have have

836
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,400
S5: thought the grace of God has given me permission to

837
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,319
S5: fill in the blank. And and one of them is alcohol.

838
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:56,960
S5: And the reason I'm on this is I see how

839
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:02,480
S5: devastating it is to even genuine Jesus followers who need

840
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:07,280
S5: wine more than they need God, or so they think.

841
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,719
S5: And I just want you to know today, if it's

842
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:18,120
S5: if it's lack of good time redemption, if it's you're

843
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,719
S5: stuck in the soup of alcohol, you're stuck in the

844
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:27,959
S5: soup of self-righteousness and pride, and you're just working your

845
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,760
S5: way and you're just going further and further into the mud.

846
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,760
S5: I want you to know there's one way out, one

847
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,080
S5: way only, and that's to humble yourself under the mighty

848
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,759
S5: hand of God. And he will lift you up. He

849
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,150
S5: will do it. Coming up here in a moment, I'm

850
00:45:41,150 --> 00:45:44,390
S5: going to have a very different conversation. Host to host

851
00:45:44,390 --> 00:45:46,390
S5: Chris Faber is going to be with me. We're going

852
00:45:46,430 --> 00:45:50,150
S5: to talk about the deeper things of life, hearing the

853
00:45:50,150 --> 00:45:53,790
S5: voice of God. I'm going to ask him questions like,

854
00:45:54,310 --> 00:45:56,469
S5: you've seen a lot of people walk in victory. What's

855
00:45:56,469 --> 00:46:01,430
S5: characteristic of these people that walk in victory? What defines

856
00:46:01,469 --> 00:46:04,550
S5: a person that gets unstuck from the stuff of life?

857
00:46:05,190 --> 00:46:08,229
S5: Hang on, my friend and yours, Chris Faber, coming up

858
00:46:08,230 --> 00:46:08,990
S5: straight ahead.

859
00:46:09,790 --> 00:46:13,550
S1: Your spiritual pit stop to keep you going in the race.

860
00:46:13,670 --> 00:46:15,910
S1: You're listening to Carl and crew.

861
00:46:16,390 --> 00:46:18,910
S5: What do you do when you get stuck spiritually? You

862
00:46:18,910 --> 00:46:21,589
S5: feel like the joy is gone. Self-control is gone. Those

863
00:46:21,590 --> 00:46:26,629
S5: are fruits of the spirit. Peace, kindness. I gotta tell you,

864
00:46:26,630 --> 00:46:29,069
S5: the way up is down. God's economy. Young thunder. We

865
00:46:29,110 --> 00:46:31,069
S5: say it around here all the time, my man. In

866
00:46:31,070 --> 00:46:35,110
S5: God's economy, the way up is down. Always and forever.

867
00:46:35,190 --> 00:46:38,310
S2: No doubt about it. It's. it is so counterintuitive to

868
00:46:38,350 --> 00:46:41,989
S2: what the world would say you have to do. But

869
00:46:41,989 --> 00:46:43,430
S2: it works every time.

870
00:46:43,630 --> 00:46:45,669
S5: Yeah. You might be on a mad scramble today, going,

871
00:46:45,710 --> 00:46:47,550
S5: how am I going to get out of this mess?

872
00:46:47,550 --> 00:46:50,430
S5: And the I think the conventional wisdom is you got

873
00:46:50,430 --> 00:46:52,910
S5: to try a little harder. What if we told you

874
00:46:52,910 --> 00:46:56,270
S5: you got to go a little lower with me right now? Oh,

875
00:46:56,430 --> 00:46:59,669
S5: good man of God. Chris Fabry from Chris Fabry live.

876
00:46:59,710 --> 00:47:00,950
S5: How you doing, young man?

877
00:47:01,230 --> 00:47:05,270
S1: I'm awake and upright and ambulatory. How about you, Carl?

878
00:47:05,310 --> 00:47:07,790
S5: I'm doing great. You know what? I want to peel

879
00:47:07,790 --> 00:47:09,989
S5: it back. Let's get after it. Here. You've talked with

880
00:47:09,989 --> 00:47:11,990
S5: a lot of people over a lot of years. You've

881
00:47:11,989 --> 00:47:14,910
S5: seen those that have walked in victory. No one is.

882
00:47:15,469 --> 00:47:19,470
S5: No one is immune or avoids getting stuck at times

883
00:47:19,469 --> 00:47:23,270
S5: in life. And it can be. It can be a

884
00:47:23,590 --> 00:47:25,989
S5: missing of the mark, a sin. That's what it's called

885
00:47:25,989 --> 00:47:28,109
S5: in Scripture, just means to miss the mark. It can

886
00:47:28,110 --> 00:47:31,150
S5: be a repetitive thing that it's like, boy, I'm living

887
00:47:31,150 --> 00:47:33,510
S5: in secret with this thing and I can't get out.

888
00:47:34,190 --> 00:47:37,790
S5: This whole issue of humility, Chris. It's foundational, isn't it,

889
00:47:37,830 --> 00:47:39,630
S5: my man? Pour out your heart for a minute.

890
00:47:39,670 --> 00:47:41,910
S1: Yeah. You and I have both the same book that

891
00:47:41,910 --> 00:47:44,430
S1: we've gone through several times by Andrew Murray.

892
00:47:45,510 --> 00:47:46,350
S5: Murray guy.

893
00:47:46,430 --> 00:47:49,549
S1: I had a listener send this to me, and she said,

894
00:47:49,550 --> 00:47:52,390
S1: I think you'd really like this. And it's like, I

895
00:47:52,430 --> 00:47:55,630
S1: don't I don't look at things that I don't underline,

896
00:47:55,630 --> 00:47:59,950
S1: underline everything, you know, but, um, yeah, the one of the,

897
00:47:59,989 --> 00:48:02,430
S1: one of the things that I have and this echoes

898
00:48:02,430 --> 00:48:05,230
S1: from Don Cole, who used to be radio pastor, and

899
00:48:05,230 --> 00:48:07,669
S1: it was a good friend that I worked side by

900
00:48:07,670 --> 00:48:11,109
S1: side with who taught me so much. But his line

901
00:48:11,110 --> 00:48:13,430
S1: that I continue to remember, if you're going to walk

902
00:48:13,430 --> 00:48:16,430
S1: in victory, you have to see struggle not as failure,

903
00:48:16,430 --> 00:48:20,109
S1: but as a sign of God at work. And the

904
00:48:20,110 --> 00:48:23,229
S1: thing that I see in people who get stuck is

905
00:48:23,270 --> 00:48:28,110
S1: they they start looking at themselves rather than the sovereignty

906
00:48:28,190 --> 00:48:30,950
S1: of God, the goodness of God. You know, hearing his

907
00:48:30,950 --> 00:48:34,750
S1: voice in the middle of the stuckness that God is

908
00:48:34,750 --> 00:48:37,910
S1: using this thing in my life, if I will let

909
00:48:37,910 --> 00:48:41,070
S1: go of it, if I will let go of even

910
00:48:41,070 --> 00:48:44,750
S1: the ability for me to feel better about myself and

911
00:48:44,790 --> 00:48:47,390
S1: will just say, look, this is where I am. This

912
00:48:47,390 --> 00:48:49,989
S1: is where I'm walking in this slough of despond or

913
00:48:49,989 --> 00:48:53,870
S1: whatever it is. If I let that do its work,

914
00:48:53,870 --> 00:48:56,950
S1: let the weakness do its work in my heart, then

915
00:48:56,950 --> 00:49:00,070
S1: I will be in a much better place, because that's

916
00:49:00,070 --> 00:49:02,670
S1: the place of surrender and submission to him.

917
00:49:02,910 --> 00:49:06,870
S5: Yeah. Weakness. It's an interesting thing. Nobody claims weakness as

918
00:49:06,870 --> 00:49:09,870
S5: a commodity, but in God's kingdom it is in our weakness.

919
00:49:09,870 --> 00:49:13,029
S5: He is strong. Second Corinthians 12. Amazing passage. If you

920
00:49:13,030 --> 00:49:16,109
S5: need that today, go there. Give us a story from

921
00:49:16,110 --> 00:49:18,110
S5: your life, and I want you to be as vulnerable

922
00:49:18,110 --> 00:49:21,189
S5: as you can be here. We're big on authenticity and

923
00:49:21,190 --> 00:49:24,430
S5: you are too. Chris, how does this work in your life?

924
00:49:24,550 --> 00:49:28,790
S1: Well, the thing that came to my mind very first was, uh,

925
00:49:28,790 --> 00:49:31,189
S1: the house that we lived in in Colorado a few

926
00:49:31,350 --> 00:49:34,790
S1: years ago, and we were stuck in this place at

927
00:49:34,830 --> 00:49:37,950
S1: a place where our kids were sick, our pets were sick,

928
00:49:37,989 --> 00:49:41,310
S1: my wife and I were sick, and we we couldn't

929
00:49:41,310 --> 00:49:43,990
S1: figure it out. And we'd done all that. We'd run

930
00:49:43,989 --> 00:49:47,390
S1: to every doctor. I mean, it was something like Andrea, uh,

931
00:49:47,710 --> 00:49:51,830
S1: catalogued 60 to 70 some doctors for all of the

932
00:49:51,830 --> 00:49:55,510
S1: different maladies that that everybody had. And they were all different.

933
00:49:55,750 --> 00:49:58,910
S1: We couldn't figure it out. And a neighbor of ours said,

934
00:49:58,910 --> 00:50:01,229
S1: have you ever thought that maybe it's your house that's

935
00:50:01,230 --> 00:50:04,750
S1: making you sick? And at first we kind of pushed

936
00:50:04,750 --> 00:50:09,509
S1: it off, and then we started thinking, well, maybe there's

937
00:50:09,510 --> 00:50:13,070
S1: something to this. And I was on an airplane coming

938
00:50:13,070 --> 00:50:17,630
S1: back from Chicago to Colorado, and Andrea had just called

939
00:50:17,630 --> 00:50:21,590
S1: me and she had talked with another expert who said,

940
00:50:21,750 --> 00:50:24,110
S1: I think this is right. I think it's your house

941
00:50:24,110 --> 00:50:26,549
S1: that's making you sick. And I think you need to

942
00:50:26,550 --> 00:50:31,750
S1: leave it. I think you need to to walk away. Wow. And, uh,

943
00:50:31,989 --> 00:50:33,790
S1: and this is a house that we thought we were

944
00:50:33,790 --> 00:50:35,270
S1: going to, you know, we bought it.

945
00:50:35,310 --> 00:50:36,149
S5: That's your life house?

946
00:50:36,230 --> 00:50:38,350
S1: Yeah. It was. We were going to die in that house.

947
00:50:38,350 --> 00:50:41,910
S1: We almost did. Um, and and as I'm. And as

948
00:50:41,910 --> 00:50:45,030
S1: I'm flying back, I'm, I'm running through all this stuff,

949
00:50:45,030 --> 00:50:48,469
S1: especially for me as provider, you know, I what's going

950
00:50:48,469 --> 00:50:50,990
S1: to happen to us financially if we do this. What's

951
00:50:51,510 --> 00:50:53,989
S1: this is a huge how in the world and all

952
00:50:54,030 --> 00:50:57,990
S1: of this. And I got to the place where I said,

953
00:50:58,270 --> 00:51:01,029
S1: you know, if, if, if we're wrong about this, if

954
00:51:01,030 --> 00:51:04,629
S1: the doctor's wrong, if my wife is wrong, then we

955
00:51:04,630 --> 00:51:08,390
S1: can go back. If the doctor's right and my wife

956
00:51:08,390 --> 00:51:12,390
S1: is right, then what will I think 10 or 15

957
00:51:12,390 --> 00:51:15,390
S1: years down the road if I don't, if I don't

958
00:51:15,390 --> 00:51:22,510
S1: surrender this. And and so that plane flight was my Gethsemane. Uh,

959
00:51:22,910 --> 00:51:25,790
S1: am I going to. And no sweat. Drops of blood.

960
00:51:26,030 --> 00:51:29,390
S1: But it was just this wrestling. And by the time

961
00:51:29,390 --> 00:51:33,430
S1: I landed in Denver and then had to drive the

962
00:51:33,430 --> 00:51:36,230
S1: two hours, you know, south to get there, I was

963
00:51:36,230 --> 00:51:38,750
S1: I was at the place where I was ready to say, okay.

964
00:51:38,989 --> 00:51:41,469
S1: And it went in and I took my suit off

965
00:51:41,750 --> 00:51:45,830
S1: and laid my, you know, a valise or whatever I

966
00:51:45,830 --> 00:51:49,989
S1: was carrying, you know, the the knapsack down. And I

967
00:51:49,989 --> 00:51:52,830
S1: got dressed in a t shirt and shorts and walked

968
00:51:52,830 --> 00:51:56,030
S1: out the door, and that was it. Everything we had

969
00:51:56,030 --> 00:52:00,270
S1: in the house, we left there and we walked away. Now,

970
00:52:00,310 --> 00:52:03,230
S1: I worked in the. There's more to this story, I'll

971
00:52:03,230 --> 00:52:07,509
S1: tell you later, but that's basically I had to I

972
00:52:07,510 --> 00:52:12,150
S1: had to surrender in order to get to the life

973
00:52:12,150 --> 00:52:15,790
S1: and the the healing and the repair. And it was

974
00:52:15,790 --> 00:52:19,549
S1: it was brutal. It was grueling. You know, everything in

975
00:52:19,590 --> 00:52:23,950
S1: me screamed, no, don't, don't do that. You can't do.

976
00:52:23,950 --> 00:52:28,910
S1: That's a dumb thing to do. Um, but then I

977
00:52:28,910 --> 00:52:32,510
S1: started to see the turnaround. Then I started to see

978
00:52:32,510 --> 00:52:36,670
S1: the health that came from those decisions, breathing clean air.

979
00:52:36,710 --> 00:52:39,989
S1: We had stachybotrys behind the walls. You know, it was

980
00:52:40,030 --> 00:52:43,870
S1: this black mold that we couldn't see. Yeah. And and

981
00:52:43,870 --> 00:52:46,509
S1: it was affecting all of us. It was affecting all

982
00:52:46,510 --> 00:52:49,150
S1: of us differently, too. That's the thing. It's the thing that,

983
00:52:49,190 --> 00:52:52,390
S1: you know, sin will do. It'll affect one person one

984
00:52:52,390 --> 00:52:55,790
S1: way and another person another way. So that has been

985
00:52:55,790 --> 00:52:59,710
S1: this object lesson in my life, that if you will

986
00:52:59,710 --> 00:53:02,989
S1: surrender and I'm not telling everybody, everybody gets mold. You

987
00:53:02,989 --> 00:53:04,630
S1: don't have to walk away from your house. There are

988
00:53:04,630 --> 00:53:07,910
S1: things that you can do. But for me, spiritually, that's

989
00:53:07,910 --> 00:53:11,709
S1: the thing. I got to lay down my own ability,

990
00:53:11,750 --> 00:53:16,430
S1: my own actions, my own, uh, stress and struggle, you know,

991
00:53:16,469 --> 00:53:19,350
S1: in this whole thing, and allow God to do what

992
00:53:19,350 --> 00:53:20,390
S1: he's going to do.

993
00:53:20,750 --> 00:53:24,509
S5: Yeah. Chris, it's it's interesting because that's a great metaphor.

994
00:53:25,190 --> 00:53:28,350
S5: There is something in our lives and it and it

995
00:53:28,390 --> 00:53:34,310
S5: affects everyone differently. Uh, that moment of humility you're going

996
00:53:34,310 --> 00:53:36,750
S5: up against a lot. What are people going to think?

997
00:53:36,790 --> 00:53:39,750
S5: Am I going to look crazy? Uh, those are real

998
00:53:39,790 --> 00:53:42,509
S5: battles that we face. And they're just. You're talking to

999
00:53:42,510 --> 00:53:45,189
S5: a lot of people right now that feel stuck. And

1000
00:53:45,190 --> 00:53:47,709
S5: it might not be a moldy home. It could be

1001
00:53:47,710 --> 00:53:50,390
S5: stuck in you name it, fill in the blank. And

1002
00:53:50,430 --> 00:53:53,189
S5: I want you to do this exercise right now. If

1003
00:53:53,190 --> 00:53:55,910
S5: you could get victory over this one thing that God's

1004
00:53:55,910 --> 00:53:58,509
S5: revealed to you that you know would have a domino

1005
00:53:58,510 --> 00:54:02,310
S5: effect to every other victory and promise in Christ Jesus,

1006
00:54:02,310 --> 00:54:04,790
S5: what would that one thing be? And if the Spirit

1007
00:54:04,790 --> 00:54:07,230
S5: of God laid that on your heart? Right now, a

1008
00:54:07,270 --> 00:54:09,430
S5: lot of people have brought to mind so many different

1009
00:54:09,430 --> 00:54:12,710
S5: things right now that they know they need to walk

1010
00:54:12,710 --> 00:54:17,390
S5: away from in humility and surrender. What do you say, Chris?

1011
00:54:17,390 --> 00:54:20,270
S5: Because there's a lot of voices from Satan and demonic

1012
00:54:20,270 --> 00:54:23,589
S5: forces that are lying and screaming in our ears. What

1013
00:54:23,590 --> 00:54:24,190
S5: do you say?

1014
00:54:25,110 --> 00:54:28,990
S1: I say what Andrew Murray said, do what God says

1015
00:54:28,989 --> 00:54:33,549
S1: is your work and that is humble yourself. Trust him

1016
00:54:33,550 --> 00:54:36,549
S1: to do what he says is his work. He will

1017
00:54:36,550 --> 00:54:42,430
S1: exalt you in due time if you will obey him. Again,

1018
00:54:42,430 --> 00:54:45,989
S1: I go back to Gethsemane, not my will, but yours.

1019
00:54:46,430 --> 00:54:52,870
S1: And and that is the full rock ribbed. Trust that

1020
00:54:52,870 --> 00:54:57,230
S1: God is good, first of all, that he is sovereign.

1021
00:54:57,390 --> 00:55:00,710
S1: Second of all, that he is at work in whatever

1022
00:55:00,710 --> 00:55:03,630
S1: this thing is that you don't want to be stuck in.

1023
00:55:04,030 --> 00:55:07,750
S1: Third of all, and your work is to humble yourself

1024
00:55:07,750 --> 00:55:10,390
S1: and to say, I can't do this, I need, I

1025
00:55:10,390 --> 00:55:15,310
S1: need your help, God. And that then invites other people in.

1026
00:55:15,430 --> 00:55:18,989
S1: I talk with Tommy and Kevin yesterday about, you know,

1027
00:55:19,030 --> 00:55:23,060
S1: hospitality of weakness, that our weakness is the very place,

1028
00:55:23,060 --> 00:55:26,940
S1: the entree for not only God to work in us,

1029
00:55:27,140 --> 00:55:29,500
S1: but then to connect us with the people that are

1030
00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:31,500
S1: around us who really care about us.

1031
00:55:31,860 --> 00:55:35,620
S5: I love it. Chris, this is an important topic. There's

1032
00:55:35,620 --> 00:55:40,900
S5: no more important topic. I mean, Andrew Murray says humility

1033
00:55:40,900 --> 00:55:45,700
S5: is the one virtue that gives birth to every other virtue.

1034
00:55:45,739 --> 00:55:48,540
S5: You've you've tested that. It's true, isn't it, my man?

1035
00:55:48,860 --> 00:55:52,459
S1: Yeah it is. And and but it's hard. It's hard

1036
00:55:52,460 --> 00:55:55,460
S1: to lean into that because everything in me wants to. Well,

1037
00:55:55,460 --> 00:55:56,859
S1: I want to do this and I want to get

1038
00:55:56,860 --> 00:55:59,820
S1: another expert. And I want to remediate again, you know,

1039
00:56:00,580 --> 00:56:02,780
S1: and spend a lot more money on this thing because

1040
00:56:02,780 --> 00:56:05,700
S1: I want to salvage this thing. It's like, no, no,

1041
00:56:06,100 --> 00:56:11,500
S1: walk away in humility. Allow God to do in you

1042
00:56:11,540 --> 00:56:14,700
S1: what you can't do yourself so that through you he

1043
00:56:14,700 --> 00:56:15,660
S1: can be strong.

1044
00:56:16,100 --> 00:56:19,940
S5: Yeah. That's beautiful. That's exactly what God had us talking

1045
00:56:19,940 --> 00:56:23,700
S5: about today, Chris. I love you, my man. You're listening

1046
00:56:23,900 --> 00:56:24,820
S5: to this girl.

1047
00:56:24,980 --> 00:56:26,899
S1: I'm glad to get to to talk with you early

1048
00:56:26,900 --> 00:56:29,140
S1: in the morning here. Yes, it's early for me.

1049
00:56:29,380 --> 00:56:31,740
S5: Well, it's early for us still, but it's real early

1050
00:56:31,739 --> 00:56:34,500
S5: for you. Chris, I want to thank you. You're listening

1051
00:56:34,500 --> 00:56:36,739
S5: right now to a man that you might say, man,

1052
00:56:36,739 --> 00:56:39,540
S5: that guy's got a radio voice. Well, he's got a

1053
00:56:39,540 --> 00:56:44,220
S5: radio show. It's called Chris Fabry Live, and he's an

1054
00:56:44,219 --> 00:56:48,140
S5: author of some great novels, great works. And we've got

1055
00:56:48,140 --> 00:56:51,899
S5: a one stop shop for you. Ours got there's an

1056
00:56:51,900 --> 00:56:57,540
S5: hour filled with power and really cool ways. Uh, Chris

1057
00:56:57,580 --> 00:57:01,100
S5: is not nearly as rambunctious as his friend Carl. That's

1058
00:57:01,100 --> 00:57:05,740
S5: a good word. Rambunctious. But boy, he is sincere. And

1059
00:57:05,739 --> 00:57:08,100
S5: he brings in some phenomenal guests. You're going to want

1060
00:57:08,140 --> 00:57:10,300
S5: to check it out. I just want you to, uh.

1061
00:57:10,300 --> 00:57:13,500
S5: You can check out novels. You can check out where

1062
00:57:13,500 --> 00:57:15,540
S5: how you can listen to Chris in your listening area,

1063
00:57:15,540 --> 00:57:18,300
S5: wherever you are in North America and beyond. I want

1064
00:57:18,300 --> 00:57:22,420
S5: you to check it out. Just text live. Just one word. Live.

1065
00:57:22,780 --> 00:57:25,740
S5: That's for Chris Fabry. Live. You got it. Text live

1066
00:57:25,740 --> 00:57:30,860
S5: to 800 555 7898. Just that one word. Live to

1067
00:57:30,900 --> 00:57:36,220
S5: 800 555 7898. And, Chris, I want to thank you

1068
00:57:36,220 --> 00:57:38,900
S5: from the bottom of my heart. This is this is

1069
00:57:38,900 --> 00:57:43,780
S5: really cool. I'm God's doing a great work here today. Um,

1070
00:57:43,780 --> 00:57:46,660
S5: I it's been really interesting, man. I had Ronnie Floyd

1071
00:57:46,660 --> 00:57:52,340
S5: on earlier, and, uh, there's something about stopping to consider

1072
00:57:52,340 --> 00:57:56,540
S5: beyond all the hustle behind all the beyond all the

1073
00:57:57,020 --> 00:58:01,780
S5: outward Christianity. It's those hidden places, those secret places where

1074
00:58:01,820 --> 00:58:04,060
S5: God does his most powerful work. I'm going to give

1075
00:58:04,060 --> 00:58:05,900
S5: you a final word, Chris. What's on your heart?

1076
00:58:06,180 --> 00:58:09,380
S1: Well, the first step in this whole thing is to

1077
00:58:09,420 --> 00:58:12,660
S1: see it. And if God is pressing down on that

1078
00:58:12,660 --> 00:58:15,260
S1: nerve in your life and you say, I see. Slow

1079
00:58:15,340 --> 00:58:18,020
S1: down long enough to be able to see it then.

1080
00:58:18,340 --> 00:58:20,620
S1: That's the first step. That's a good thing. It's a

1081
00:58:20,620 --> 00:58:24,420
S1: hard thing. And if you're if you're struggling with that, again,

1082
00:58:24,420 --> 00:58:27,060
S1: it's not a sign of failure. Struggle is a sign

1083
00:58:27,100 --> 00:58:29,740
S1: of life. Lean into that and let God do his

1084
00:58:29,740 --> 00:58:32,220
S1: work in you and through you today.

1085
00:58:32,420 --> 00:58:36,260
S5: Good word again. The word is live. L I v

1086
00:58:36,340 --> 00:58:41,580
S5: e l I v e to 800 555 7898.

1087
00:58:42,060 --> 00:58:45,060
S13: He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then

1088
00:58:45,100 --> 00:58:49,580
S13: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Colin

1089
00:58:49,580 --> 00:58:51,180
S13: crew on Moody radio.

1090
00:58:51,460 --> 00:58:54,540
S5: All right, so we're talking about a tough one, and

1091
00:58:54,540 --> 00:58:56,260
S5: some of you might be tempted to turn away. And

1092
00:58:56,260 --> 00:59:03,340
S5: that is sacrifice over riches or sacrifice over any substitute God,

1093
00:59:03,340 --> 00:59:05,060
S5: something that may be getting in the way. So I'm

1094
00:59:05,060 --> 00:59:07,380
S5: going to have some fun with this one. I want

1095
00:59:07,420 --> 00:59:10,380
S5: to ask you, Young Thunder, what is the crazy little

1096
00:59:10,380 --> 00:59:13,820
S5: thing that has such great value in your life.

1097
00:59:13,940 --> 00:59:17,900
S2: It's a good question. Uh, sports. Sports is the crazy

1098
00:59:17,900 --> 00:59:20,980
S2: little thing that has, uh, so much value in my life.

1099
00:59:21,020 --> 00:59:23,540
S5: You know what? That that's a good one to talk about.

1100
00:59:23,540 --> 00:59:26,660
S5: Because sports is blowing up right now, and, you know,

1101
00:59:26,660 --> 00:59:28,940
S5: it's become an idol when you got these prop bets,

1102
00:59:28,980 --> 00:59:30,300
S5: things going on. You know, they're.

1103
00:59:30,300 --> 00:59:30,580
S2: Trying.

1104
00:59:30,580 --> 00:59:34,060
S5: To pass legislation now so that prop bets, what are

1105
00:59:34,060 --> 00:59:36,500
S5: prop bets by the way in that in game betting

1106
00:59:36,500 --> 00:59:37,060
S5: or something.

1107
00:59:37,100 --> 00:59:41,700
S2: Yes. So uh, you know, for example, it can be, uh,

1108
00:59:41,700 --> 00:59:45,580
S2: a football game, the bears versus the Steelers. Uh, you

1109
00:59:45,620 --> 00:59:48,740
S2: can make bets that what are the bears going to

1110
00:59:48,740 --> 00:59:51,060
S2: do on this play? Are they going to pass it?

1111
00:59:51,060 --> 00:59:53,420
S2: Are they going to run it? And then there's odds

1112
00:59:53,420 --> 00:59:56,180
S2: based off of that that you would then bet if

1113
00:59:56,220 --> 00:59:58,420
S2: you bet this side it's less likely. So you'd make

1114
00:59:58,420 --> 01:00:01,020
S2: more money if you won. And this side it's more likely.

1115
01:00:01,060 --> 01:00:03,500
S2: So you'd make less money if you won. Uh, but

1116
01:00:03,500 --> 01:00:06,620
S2: people will bet on the in game. Who's going to

1117
01:00:06,660 --> 01:00:09,260
S2: catch the next ball? You know, that type of thing.

1118
01:00:09,380 --> 01:00:12,100
S5: Yeah. So sports and money are kind of cluttered there

1119
01:00:12,140 --> 01:00:14,780
S5: and you know which one's the god. But I'll confess

1120
01:00:14,780 --> 01:00:16,780
S5: to you, when the 40 Niners were on their run

1121
01:00:16,780 --> 01:00:20,260
S5: in the 80s and early 90s, I was on cloud nine.

1122
01:00:20,260 --> 01:00:22,860
S5: But when they started tailing off a little bit, boy,

1123
01:00:22,860 --> 01:00:25,820
S5: it messed with my psyche. On Sunday afternoons. Allie.

1124
01:00:26,260 --> 01:00:26,980
S2: Absolutely.

1125
01:00:27,020 --> 01:00:29,540
S3: And you can see it because, you know and I

1126
01:00:29,660 --> 01:00:33,940
S3: mine is probably sports, but it's specifically like my kids sports.

1127
01:00:34,220 --> 01:00:34,860
S5: Yeah. You're a.

1128
01:00:34,860 --> 01:00:38,820
S3: Mama. Find yourself becoming overly invested. And, you know, my

1129
01:00:38,820 --> 01:00:43,060
S3: daughter's high school basketball season kicked off, and I found

1130
01:00:43,060 --> 01:00:48,180
S3: myself so, like, kind of stressed and sort of obsessing

1131
01:00:48,180 --> 01:00:50,380
S3: over it. And I had to check my heart like,

1132
01:00:50,380 --> 01:00:53,900
S3: why is this why? Why is this so tethered to

1133
01:00:53,940 --> 01:00:57,060
S3: my emotions? Why am I thinking about this so much?

1134
01:00:57,100 --> 01:01:01,540
S3: And I realized that this can become the thing that

1135
01:01:01,540 --> 01:01:02,740
S3: has a hold.

1136
01:01:02,900 --> 01:01:05,419
S5: Okay, so here's what we're going to do coming up.

1137
01:01:05,420 --> 01:01:08,580
S5: We are going to let Ali testify how the Lordship

1138
01:01:08,580 --> 01:01:13,020
S5: of Jesus Christ works when her daughter or son. And

1139
01:01:13,020 --> 01:01:15,780
S5: this is for all parents because it's relevant to all y'all.

1140
01:01:15,780 --> 01:01:18,340
S5: Don't say you're on the righteous high ground because when

1141
01:01:18,340 --> 01:01:20,660
S5: Johnny's not getting minutes and he should be, and you

1142
01:01:20,660 --> 01:01:23,220
S5: know it because you got a stat box to prove it.

1143
01:01:24,660 --> 01:01:30,220
S5: Or when a foul is missed on your kid, it's like, hey,

1144
01:01:31,380 --> 01:01:35,420
S5: so how do you unwind that and get your get

1145
01:01:35,420 --> 01:01:38,460
S5: your mind back? We'll get that from Ali. Coming up.

1146
01:01:38,980 --> 01:01:43,500
S13: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is

1147
01:01:43,500 --> 01:01:47,220
S13: in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.

1148
01:01:47,460 --> 01:01:51,180
S5: Okay, so Ali has been honest with this this morning,

1149
01:01:51,180 --> 01:01:54,220
S5: and this is. You're confessing everyone's issue, and that is

1150
01:01:54,260 --> 01:01:57,340
S5: we love our kids so much, and they get into sports. And,

1151
01:01:57,340 --> 01:02:00,020
S5: I mean, it can be eight year olds playing soccer,

1152
01:02:00,060 --> 01:02:00,900
S5: you know what I mean?

1153
01:02:00,940 --> 01:02:02,980
S3: And this can be anything. I mean, as a parent,

1154
01:02:02,980 --> 01:02:05,980
S3: this can go beyond sports. Maybe your kids are into

1155
01:02:06,380 --> 01:02:10,419
S3: music or the arts or their academics. Academics. And you

1156
01:02:10,420 --> 01:02:14,979
S3: can start to very subtly connect how you feel your

1157
01:02:14,980 --> 01:02:19,580
S3: emotions with how well they're doing in whatever arena that

1158
01:02:19,580 --> 01:02:22,860
S3: they're in. And it happens. And I always say, if

1159
01:02:22,900 --> 01:02:26,300
S3: you're if you've never struggled with this at all as

1160
01:02:26,300 --> 01:02:29,660
S3: a parent, I'm not sure you're 100% honest with yourself

1161
01:02:29,660 --> 01:02:32,340
S3: because I don't know a parent who hasn't at least

1162
01:02:32,340 --> 01:02:35,700
S3: had the temptation to make more of whatever it is

1163
01:02:36,100 --> 01:02:37,460
S3: than it should be. Right.

1164
01:02:37,700 --> 01:02:40,860
S5: Yeah. For sure. And and I've been there. And you

1165
01:02:40,860 --> 01:02:43,740
S5: know where you're wrestling with that. You know where you're

1166
01:02:43,740 --> 01:02:45,900
S5: wrestling with that young thunder. You don't know this yet,

1167
01:02:45,900 --> 01:02:48,620
S5: but Ali and I do. It's when you have a

1168
01:02:48,620 --> 01:02:54,180
S5: piece of wood that you're sitting on. It's. Or metal. No. Right. Ali?

1169
01:02:54,220 --> 01:02:54,700
S4: Oh, yeah.

1170
01:02:54,740 --> 01:02:58,220
S5: This is it's called a bleacher. And you get a

1171
01:02:58,220 --> 01:03:01,020
S5: bleacher moment with God, or we're going to take Ali

1172
01:03:01,020 --> 01:03:03,300
S5: to the bleacher, and you're going to hear her story

1173
01:03:03,300 --> 01:03:06,700
S5: about how she wrestles with this real time coming up.

1174
01:03:07,460 --> 01:03:11,460
S13: Walking closer to Jesus every day. You're listening to Carl

1175
01:03:11,460 --> 01:03:12,060
S13: and crew.

1176
01:03:13,020 --> 01:03:16,939
S5: Okay, so we're talking about not being a person that

1177
01:03:16,940 --> 01:03:19,420
S5: has substitute gods. And what do you do when the

1178
01:03:19,420 --> 01:03:23,340
S5: substitute god crops its ugly head? Do you wrestle with

1179
01:03:23,340 --> 01:03:27,380
S5: God or do you let him pin you? So, Allie,

1180
01:03:27,380 --> 01:03:30,540
S5: I'm taking you to a bleacher seat. Most often would.

1181
01:03:30,580 --> 01:03:34,540
S5: Sometimes metal, usually very uncomfortable. On top of that, you

1182
01:03:34,580 --> 01:03:37,940
S5: got an uncomfortable situation. Your kids not getting right, minutes.

1183
01:03:37,940 --> 01:03:41,020
S5: The ref didn't see that foul and you are ticked off.

1184
01:03:41,660 --> 01:03:44,580
S3: I'm actually going to take you to. What usually works

1185
01:03:44,580 --> 01:03:47,540
S3: more for me is the prep the ow before.

1186
01:03:47,860 --> 01:03:49,660
S5: So not not in game.

1187
01:03:49,700 --> 01:03:54,300
S3: The before because I because I know myself, I try

1188
01:03:54,340 --> 01:03:59,100
S3: to prepare my heart. It sounds ridiculous.

1189
01:03:59,140 --> 01:03:59,580
S4: It's not.

1190
01:03:59,620 --> 01:04:00,900
S5: This is really good.

1191
01:04:00,940 --> 01:04:04,300
S3: You know, my daughter plays high school basketball. And so

1192
01:04:04,340 --> 01:04:07,180
S3: I was feeling all types of emotions. This week. I

1193
01:04:07,180 --> 01:04:09,980
S3: was a little stressed. I was a little anxious. I

1194
01:04:09,980 --> 01:04:12,660
S3: found myself really thinking about it. You know, this first

1195
01:04:12,660 --> 01:04:15,660
S3: game is so important. And so I think the first

1196
01:04:15,660 --> 01:04:19,020
S3: thing is just being honest with the Lord. Like I God,

1197
01:04:19,020 --> 01:04:22,180
S3: I care way more than I know that I should

1198
01:04:22,180 --> 01:04:24,900
S3: right now about the outcome of this game, or about

1199
01:04:24,900 --> 01:04:26,540
S3: how well my child performs.

1200
01:04:26,540 --> 01:04:27,580
S14: How do you do that?

1201
01:04:27,620 --> 01:04:31,700
S3: I think the honesty is the first part, the admission,

1202
01:04:31,700 --> 01:04:33,820
S3: because you can try to deny it. You can act

1203
01:04:33,820 --> 01:04:37,060
S3: like it's not there. But I think brutal gut level

1204
01:04:37,060 --> 01:04:40,540
S3: honesty with the Lord is important and then confessing what

1205
01:04:40,540 --> 01:04:43,060
S3: you know to be true. And so for me, that's

1206
01:04:43,060 --> 01:04:46,020
S3: driving to the game. And God, you are sovereign over

1207
01:04:46,020 --> 01:04:50,140
S3: all of this. You hold my child's future. You determine

1208
01:04:50,220 --> 01:04:52,900
S3: what she does, what she doesn't do. I'm not going

1209
01:04:52,940 --> 01:04:55,380
S3: to make more of this game than what there needs

1210
01:04:55,380 --> 01:04:55,900
S3: to be.

1211
01:04:55,940 --> 01:04:57,900
S5: Okay? I was just going to ask you that is,

1212
01:04:57,940 --> 01:05:02,220
S5: does it help for you to rehearse this reality? Because

1213
01:05:02,410 --> 01:05:06,530
S5: Me not being the father to your daughter, I can

1214
01:05:06,530 --> 01:05:08,810
S5: look at you and go, come on, it's only a game.

1215
01:05:08,810 --> 01:05:11,850
S5: Easy for me to say. Until it was my son.

1216
01:05:11,890 --> 01:05:12,330
S4: Sure.

1217
01:05:13,010 --> 01:05:19,210
S5: Playing for state championship in basketball. Ah, it's. It's hard

1218
01:05:19,450 --> 01:05:21,250
S5: to see that this is only a game.

1219
01:05:21,290 --> 01:05:23,330
S3: That it's only a game. And so confessing what you

1220
01:05:23,330 --> 01:05:25,370
S3: know to be true about the Lord and so that

1221
01:05:25,370 --> 01:05:28,330
S3: you try to. And it does it work perfectly. No.

1222
01:05:28,530 --> 01:05:31,530
S3: But I think that the Lord is honored by the

1223
01:05:31,890 --> 01:05:37,130
S3: honest confession and pursuit of his better.

1224
01:05:39,130 --> 01:05:40,850
S5: So we're going to take this a step further. We

1225
01:05:40,890 --> 01:05:43,530
S5: got Young Thunder here, and he's got a precious little girl,

1226
01:05:43,570 --> 01:05:45,970
S5: her blue eyes. I told him the other day, I said,

1227
01:05:45,970 --> 01:05:47,970
S5: you better get some kind of a bat or something

1228
01:05:47,970 --> 01:05:50,730
S5: near the front door, because you gotta you gotta have

1229
01:05:50,730 --> 01:05:53,850
S5: that there. But it's going to crop its head because

1230
01:05:53,890 --> 01:05:58,170
S5: guess what? It's his daughter. How can a young person

1231
01:05:58,170 --> 01:06:02,570
S5: prepare right now so that you don't have to unwind

1232
01:06:02,570 --> 01:06:06,450
S5: yourself like a corkscrew when you're sitting there watching it happen.

1233
01:06:06,970 --> 01:06:07,729
S3: Are you asking me?

1234
01:06:07,730 --> 01:06:08,810
S5: I'm asking you.

1235
01:06:09,210 --> 01:06:14,330
S3: I think continuing to seek the Lord and to surrender

1236
01:06:14,330 --> 01:06:19,530
S3: your child to the Lord. Because what can happen so easily,

1237
01:06:19,530 --> 01:06:21,770
S3: and it's not just with sports, is that you love

1238
01:06:21,770 --> 01:06:25,490
S3: this child so much, and every child wants to see

1239
01:06:25,490 --> 01:06:29,570
S3: their child. Every parent wants to see their child succeed.

1240
01:06:29,570 --> 01:06:31,450
S3: You want to see them successful. You want to see

1241
01:06:31,450 --> 01:06:33,570
S3: them happy. You want to see them be able to

1242
01:06:33,610 --> 01:06:36,970
S3: perform in the thing that they care about, but continuing

1243
01:06:37,010 --> 01:06:41,170
S3: to give them to the Lord, their plans, their future,

1244
01:06:41,370 --> 01:06:43,730
S3: and trusting that his way is best. And I know

1245
01:06:43,730 --> 01:06:46,810
S3: that that sounds cliche, but we have to remind ourselves

1246
01:06:46,810 --> 01:06:49,970
S3: that we are stewarding this child, in this case, this

1247
01:06:49,970 --> 01:06:53,130
S3: little girl. You're stewarding her, you are training her, you

1248
01:06:53,170 --> 01:06:55,930
S3: are teaching her. But ultimately she belongs to the Lord.

1249
01:06:55,930 --> 01:06:58,690
S3: So what he wants for her is way more important

1250
01:06:58,690 --> 01:07:01,690
S3: than what you and your wife want for. And I

1251
01:07:01,730 --> 01:07:05,690
S3: speak from 16 now years of parenting experience, having battled

1252
01:07:05,690 --> 01:07:06,730
S3: this quite a bit.

1253
01:07:07,210 --> 01:07:10,090
S5: Yeah, it's good stuff. I want to add a wrinkle

1254
01:07:10,090 --> 01:07:13,690
S5: to this. It's really interesting. So my adult son is older,

1255
01:07:13,930 --> 01:07:17,970
S5: he's in his 30s, and he shared with me something

1256
01:07:17,970 --> 01:07:20,250
S5: that I knew was happening, and I didn't know what

1257
01:07:20,250 --> 01:07:22,170
S5: kind of an impact it had on him. When he

1258
01:07:22,170 --> 01:07:24,050
S5: was a sophomore in high school, he had a coach

1259
01:07:24,050 --> 01:07:29,130
S5: that was insane, like mean, and I saw some of

1260
01:07:29,130 --> 01:07:30,850
S5: it and came and gave me a little bit of it.

1261
01:07:30,890 --> 01:07:35,410
S5: In retrospect, I wish I would have actually engaged there

1262
01:07:35,410 --> 01:07:37,890
S5: a little bit more. This is a high ridge, isn't it?

1263
01:07:37,890 --> 01:07:41,810
S5: Because I'm I actually had a cringe moment when my

1264
01:07:41,810 --> 01:07:44,010
S5: adult son was talking to me. He said I lost

1265
01:07:44,010 --> 01:07:46,850
S5: my love of the game when I was hitting my prime. Dad.

1266
01:07:46,890 --> 01:07:47,330
S4: Yeah.

1267
01:07:48,170 --> 01:07:51,250
S5: Isn't that isn't that hard? And I and I, I

1268
01:07:51,290 --> 01:07:53,650
S5: wish I would have pulled him out of that. I

1269
01:07:53,690 --> 01:07:56,169
S5: pulled him out, but I wish I would have pulled

1270
01:07:56,170 --> 01:07:59,970
S5: him sooner. There was a little bit of hesitancy because

1271
01:07:59,970 --> 01:08:02,250
S5: I'm a pastor of a big church in the town

1272
01:08:02,250 --> 01:08:04,930
S5: and boy, what would that. But in retrospect, I should

1273
01:08:04,970 --> 01:08:07,410
S5: have jumped in. How do you hit that balance? Ali.

1274
01:08:08,370 --> 01:08:13,570
S3: Prayerfully. I mean, when you when you're talking about confronting situations,

1275
01:08:13,610 --> 01:08:16,050
S3: I mean, we just had a whole conversation about being

1276
01:08:16,090 --> 01:08:20,450
S3: unaffordable and about anger and releasing the anger. It's hard

1277
01:08:20,450 --> 01:08:23,769
S3: because you start to feel really wrapped up in this.

1278
01:08:23,770 --> 01:08:26,689
S3: And you, you don't want to see your child mistreated. So,

1279
01:08:26,729 --> 01:08:28,530
S3: I mean, you got to trust the Holy Spirit there.

1280
01:08:28,570 --> 01:08:31,410
S3: I that's all I can offer is that trusting the

1281
01:08:31,410 --> 01:08:34,410
S3: the leading of the Holy Spirit and going into things

1282
01:08:34,410 --> 01:08:37,450
S3: prayerfully where you try to surrender as much as you

1283
01:08:37,450 --> 01:08:43,370
S3: can your own preferences, your your own offense even, and

1284
01:08:43,370 --> 01:08:45,809
S3: trusting that the Lord's going to lead it well.

1285
01:08:45,810 --> 01:08:48,250
S5: This is going to be really good exercise because we're

1286
01:08:48,250 --> 01:08:50,009
S5: warming you up for the weekend. Ali.

1287
01:08:50,330 --> 01:08:50,929
S4: That's right.

1288
01:08:53,930 --> 01:08:56,410
S2: You know, I want to add something we've been talking

1289
01:08:56,410 --> 01:09:00,290
S2: about continuing to seek the Lord's face in prayer. Uh,

1290
01:09:00,810 --> 01:09:05,729
S2: I was reading this last night. Uh, second Chronicles 20, uh,

1291
01:09:05,729 --> 01:09:10,330
S2: when Jehoshaphat is getting ready for battle, uh, between Moab

1292
01:09:10,330 --> 01:09:13,689
S2: and Ammon and their army was the army of Judah was,

1293
01:09:13,729 --> 01:09:17,729
S2: you know, ill equipped comparatively. And so he brings all

1294
01:09:17,729 --> 01:09:20,250
S2: the people together and he prays. And at the end

1295
01:09:20,250 --> 01:09:23,450
S2: of his prayer he says, Lord, we do not know

1296
01:09:23,450 --> 01:09:26,570
S2: what to do, but our eyes are on you. And

1297
01:09:26,610 --> 01:09:30,290
S2: I think that that's a good posture to have in

1298
01:09:30,330 --> 01:09:32,889
S2: terms of preparation and stuff. Because, Ali, you were saying,

1299
01:09:33,090 --> 01:09:35,570
S2: you know, how do we discern what's the right thing

1300
01:09:35,570 --> 01:09:38,530
S2: to do, when to jump in, when not to jump in?

1301
01:09:38,810 --> 01:09:41,929
S2: And I think just that starting sentence is a good

1302
01:09:41,930 --> 01:09:44,490
S2: prayer for all of us to pray, is we don't

1303
01:09:44,490 --> 01:09:46,490
S2: know what to do, but our eyes are on you.

1304
01:09:46,530 --> 01:09:49,290
S3: I love that beautiful man.

1305
01:09:50,610 --> 01:09:54,250
S5: It's Carl and crew helping you take your next step

1306
01:09:54,250 --> 01:09:55,130
S5: with Jesus.