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S1: in to the Carl and Crew show cast. You know,

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S2: Coming to you live from the call of Hope studio.

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S2: This is Carl and crew.

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S3: It's garlic crew off to the races here on this

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S4: That you were telling a joke? I'm like, uh.

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S3: Yeah. It's, uh. What day is it? Yes, it's Friday,

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S4: Freedom Friday, December 5th.

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S3: Freedom Friday. Uh, boy, we're steaming close here to Christmas,

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S3: Oh my word, he was horrible. It was horrible. Well,

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S3: Merry Christmas, everybody, and we're here to follow Jesus strong.

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S3: You know, next week I'm changing all our content, actually. Yeah.

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S3: Let it be a hallelujah. Come on. Lift the praise today.

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S7: You know, one of my favorite Bible verses is John six,

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S7: verse six. Eight to whom else shall we go? Yeah.

448
00:25:34,750 --> 00:25:36,950
S7: And Jesus was talking about all the people that left,

449
00:25:36,990 --> 00:25:39,990
S7: you know, because it's getting too hard. It's getting too tough.

450
00:25:40,030 --> 00:25:43,750
S7: You know, you can't do it anymore. And Peter said,

451
00:25:43,790 --> 00:25:45,990
S7: my Lord, to whom shall we go? Only you have

452
00:25:45,990 --> 00:25:48,630
S7: the words of eternal life. You know. So maybe you've

453
00:25:48,670 --> 00:25:52,590
S7: tried everything like me and like you. You know, we've

454
00:25:52,630 --> 00:25:53,469
S7: tried everything.

455
00:25:53,510 --> 00:25:53,910
S3: We tried.

456
00:25:53,910 --> 00:25:57,190
S7: It. We tried it all and nothing worked. And man,

457
00:25:57,190 --> 00:25:59,950
S7: it was just a dead end road. Every single time.

458
00:26:00,510 --> 00:26:03,270
S7: And if you're tired, you know, if you're listening and

459
00:26:03,270 --> 00:26:05,230
S7: you're tired and you're sick and you're just like, man,

460
00:26:05,350 --> 00:26:07,709
S7: I'm ready for something else. I want something more. I

461
00:26:07,710 --> 00:26:11,950
S7: need something new, you know? Um. Isaiah 43. Look, I'm

462
00:26:11,950 --> 00:26:14,389
S7: doing a new thing. Can't you see it? Just call

463
00:26:14,390 --> 00:26:16,270
S7: on his name, you know, and that's what I can't.

464
00:26:16,270 --> 00:26:18,070
S7: I can't say it enough. It's like, man, how did

465
00:26:18,070 --> 00:26:20,070
S7: you get that, man? Where did you do that? How

466
00:26:20,070 --> 00:26:22,310
S7: did you play the Grand Ole Opry with Carrie Underwood? Man,

467
00:26:22,310 --> 00:26:24,430
S7: how'd you get that tour bus, bro? How'd you play

468
00:26:24,430 --> 00:26:26,149
S7: Red rocks, man? How'd you do all these things? Like,

469
00:26:26,190 --> 00:26:28,629
S7: you know what? I don't know, but I know one

470
00:26:28,630 --> 00:26:31,670
S7: thing is true. And his name is Jesus. Because I

471
00:26:31,670 --> 00:26:35,870
S7: was trying to do all those things before and nothing

472
00:26:35,869 --> 00:26:39,550
S7: was happening. I was just spiraling. I was drinking myself

473
00:26:39,550 --> 00:26:41,790
S7: to sleep every night. I was I was wallowing in

474
00:26:41,790 --> 00:26:43,629
S7: my pain all the time. And I was so tired

475
00:26:43,630 --> 00:26:46,270
S7: and sick and lonely. You know, I called in the

476
00:26:46,270 --> 00:26:48,150
S7: name of Jesus. So I would just say this. Ask

477
00:26:48,150 --> 00:26:51,590
S7: him for yourself. Ask him for yourself, you know, and

478
00:26:51,590 --> 00:26:54,190
S7: you'll see what I mean. You'll see exactly what we're

479
00:26:54,190 --> 00:26:57,470
S7: talking about. If you ask Jesus into your heart. Romans

480
00:26:57,470 --> 00:26:59,910
S7: ten nine says, believe in your heart and confess with

481
00:26:59,910 --> 00:27:01,950
S7: your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and that God

482
00:27:01,950 --> 00:27:04,190
S7: raised him from the dead. And if you believe that,

483
00:27:04,190 --> 00:27:06,869
S7: you will be saved, you know this isn't a joke.

484
00:27:06,869 --> 00:27:10,230
S7: I'm sitting here covered in tattoos and and and six

485
00:27:10,230 --> 00:27:13,149
S7: foot three and and, uh, you know, I lived a

486
00:27:13,150 --> 00:27:17,190
S7: lot of years really hard. And, um, Jesus has saved

487
00:27:17,190 --> 00:27:19,429
S7: my life, you know? So I don't care who you

488
00:27:19,430 --> 00:27:22,310
S7: are or what you've been through, what you're going through.

489
00:27:22,950 --> 00:27:26,020
S7: He can change everything. He can fix everything for you

490
00:27:26,020 --> 00:27:27,540
S7: and it's not going to look pretty. And I think

491
00:27:27,540 --> 00:27:29,659
S7: that's the thing. It took me months to to give

492
00:27:29,660 --> 00:27:31,580
S7: up the alcohol. It took me months. Right. And and

493
00:27:31,580 --> 00:27:33,820
S7: he's still working on my heart. He's still he's still

494
00:27:33,820 --> 00:27:36,260
S7: changing me. But it's like, man, I can promise you

495
00:27:36,260 --> 00:27:37,899
S7: he's going to he's going to change you.

496
00:27:38,180 --> 00:27:41,179
S3: And he's merciful in that. Ben. I mean, one of

497
00:27:41,180 --> 00:27:44,940
S3: my worst face plant relapses was three weeks after I

498
00:27:44,940 --> 00:27:48,300
S3: was radically born again. Yeah, I was at my uncle's home,

499
00:27:48,619 --> 00:27:51,740
S3: and I walked into the room at 3 a.m. into

500
00:27:51,780 --> 00:27:54,139
S3: my bedroom. And I'm glad my uncle was awake to

501
00:27:54,180 --> 00:27:56,500
S3: hear me cry out to God. And I just said, God,

502
00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:58,740
S3: you saved me. Now kill me. Because obviously I can't

503
00:27:58,740 --> 00:28:00,820
S3: win this battle. Yeah, and my uncle put his arm

504
00:28:00,820 --> 00:28:02,780
S3: around me. He goes, no, no, we're going to we're

505
00:28:02,780 --> 00:28:04,620
S3: going to get this. It's a step at a time

506
00:28:04,660 --> 00:28:07,500
S3: out of this thing. Yeah. You know, you've written a

507
00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:11,460
S3: song if if I got Jesus. Yeah. And you say

508
00:28:11,460 --> 00:28:14,380
S3: in there, I've got it all. Do you believe that

509
00:28:14,380 --> 00:28:15,060
S3: Ben Fuller?

510
00:28:15,220 --> 00:28:19,260
S7: Yeah. I think because I've had all these things, I've

511
00:28:19,260 --> 00:28:21,940
S7: had all these other things that don't mean anything. And

512
00:28:21,940 --> 00:28:24,820
S7: I'm realizing that too, you know, all these all these

513
00:28:24,820 --> 00:28:28,100
S7: special things. And I just bought a farm in Tennessee,

514
00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:31,020
S7: and I'm so grateful that God has opened the doors

515
00:28:31,060 --> 00:28:33,220
S7: for that and, and all this stuff. And it's like, man,

516
00:28:33,220 --> 00:28:35,780
S7: I've like, walked the land. And it's so special and

517
00:28:35,780 --> 00:28:39,300
S7: so beautiful and amazing and and a beautiful old house

518
00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:41,500
S7: and all this stuff. And I'm like, man. But it's

519
00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,380
S7: just that. Yeah, it's just vanity.

520
00:28:43,420 --> 00:28:46,300
S3: Red rocks is red rocks. The buses, the bus, the

521
00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:48,940
S3: farm is the farm. But if I got Jesus.

522
00:28:48,940 --> 00:28:49,460
S7: I got it.

523
00:28:49,460 --> 00:28:52,020
S3: All. Give it to us. Come on, man, pour it out.

524
00:28:52,060 --> 00:28:53,540
S3: I will pour it out.

525
00:29:00,220 --> 00:29:04,180
S8: But I've had a dollar to my name. And I've

526
00:29:04,180 --> 00:29:09,980
S8: had friends that walked away. And I've even lost myself

527
00:29:10,180 --> 00:29:16,700
S8: a time or two. There were bridges crossed and burnt.

528
00:29:16,780 --> 00:29:21,860
S8: But through all the wreckages I had learned, there's one

529
00:29:21,860 --> 00:29:28,900
S8: thing that I could never lose. If I got Jesus.

530
00:29:30,940 --> 00:29:35,740
S8: I've got all that I could ever need. Take the

531
00:29:35,740 --> 00:29:41,300
S8: world away from me and I'll be okay. If I

532
00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:48,420
S8: got Jesus up. There's a hope that's living deep inside.

533
00:29:48,580 --> 00:29:52,780
S8: The joy that I could never hide. In a safe

534
00:29:52,780 --> 00:29:59,420
S8: place to fall. If I got Jesus, I've got it all.

535
00:30:01,380 --> 00:30:05,580
S8: But I seen weakness turned to strength. And I've seen

536
00:30:05,580 --> 00:30:11,219
S8: failures met with grace. And it's not from what I've done.

537
00:30:11,420 --> 00:30:18,780
S8: It's Christ in me. No miracle I can't explain. Oh,

538
00:30:18,780 --> 00:30:24,540
S8: he's given me his name. I'm the richest man I

539
00:30:24,820 --> 00:30:32,459
S8: could ever be. If I got sick and I've got

540
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:37,940
S8: all that I could ever need. Take the world away

541
00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:43,180
S8: from me and I'll be okay. If I got Jesus.

542
00:30:45,540 --> 00:30:50,420
S8: There's a hope that's living deep inside. Joy that I

543
00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:55,340
S8: could never hide. A safe place to fall. If I

544
00:30:55,380 --> 00:31:04,980
S8: got Jesus. I got it all. Oh, someday that trumpet's

545
00:31:05,020 --> 00:31:12,260
S8: gonna sound. And the King of heaven will ride upon

546
00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:18,140
S8: the clouds coming down. Then I'll hit my knees. Oh Lord.

547
00:31:18,340 --> 00:31:25,940
S8: Then sings my soul. Yes. I'm going home. If I

548
00:31:25,940 --> 00:31:32,860
S8: got this. I've got all that I could ever need.

549
00:31:33,180 --> 00:31:38,300
S8: Take the world away from me. And I'll be okay.

550
00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:46,540
S8: If I got sick. There's no hope that's living deep inside.

551
00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:52,020
S8: Joy that I could never hide. A safe place to fall.

552
00:31:52,420 --> 00:31:59,820
S8: If I got tears. I got it all. If I

553
00:31:59,820 --> 00:32:05,380
S8: got Jesus, I got it all.

554
00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:14,140
S3: You know you're listening right now. And you're thinking I

555
00:32:14,260 --> 00:32:17,220
S3: want that. Jesus. I want to be really clear with

556
00:32:17,220 --> 00:32:20,660
S3: you what Jesus said. He said, don't let your hearts

557
00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:23,940
S3: be troubled. To his early disciples and he's speaking to

558
00:32:23,940 --> 00:32:29,460
S3: you today. He says, believe in God. Believe also in me. And.

559
00:32:31,620 --> 00:32:34,980
S3: Thomas actually said to him, he says, now, now, hold

560
00:32:34,980 --> 00:32:39,620
S3: it here. I don't know exactly where you're going. And

561
00:32:39,620 --> 00:32:42,220
S3: these boys don't either. And he said, I'm going to

562
00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:43,860
S3: prepare a place for you, and I'm going to come

563
00:32:43,860 --> 00:32:46,140
S3: again and take you to myself. That where I am,

564
00:32:46,140 --> 00:32:49,780
S3: there you will be also. Then he went on to explain,

565
00:32:49,780 --> 00:32:51,580
S3: he said, I am the way and the truth and

566
00:32:51,580 --> 00:32:53,980
S3: the life. No man comes to the father but through me.

567
00:32:53,980 --> 00:32:57,060
S3: And right now, today, right now, in this moment. See,

568
00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:58,940
S3: just like Ben Fuller, you don't have to walk down

569
00:32:58,940 --> 00:33:00,660
S3: a center aisle. You don't have to lift a hand

570
00:33:00,660 --> 00:33:02,180
S3: in the air. You can fall to your knees right

571
00:33:02,180 --> 00:33:04,380
S3: now and receive the love of Jesus, and he will

572
00:33:04,380 --> 00:33:09,100
S3: change you forever, right now, right now. And so I

573
00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:10,940
S3: just want to ask you right now, is today your day?

574
00:33:10,940 --> 00:33:12,460
S3: I'm going to have Ben pray over you in just

575
00:33:12,460 --> 00:33:14,100
S3: a moment. But it's the day, the day that you

576
00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:16,540
S3: say I'm going a new way. I'm going God's way.

577
00:33:17,020 --> 00:33:20,140
S3: That means that you've got to say this because repentance,

578
00:33:20,740 --> 00:33:23,580
S3: it doesn't have sticky hands. It let goes of lets

579
00:33:23,580 --> 00:33:26,580
S3: go of everything on this broad path that leads to destruction.

580
00:33:26,580 --> 00:33:30,100
S3: But right now you're saying I'm done. I'm turning around.

581
00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:32,620
S3: I'm following Jesus. I'm saying no to everything that I've

582
00:33:32,620 --> 00:33:35,220
S3: built my life around to this point in time. The

583
00:33:35,260 --> 00:33:38,100
S3: cycle can be broken today through the shed blood of

584
00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:40,500
S3: Jesus Christ. The tomb is empty. Our God is alive.

585
00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:43,100
S3: The Holy Spirit is calling you out of darkness. Not Ben,

586
00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:46,420
S3: not Karl. Holy Spirit's calling you out of darkness into

587
00:33:46,420 --> 00:33:49,739
S3: the light. Jesus said, I'm the truth. You're willing to

588
00:33:49,740 --> 00:33:52,420
S3: embrace the truth. Hard truth. You're a sinner and you

589
00:33:52,420 --> 00:33:56,380
S3: need a Savior. And his name is Jesus. And his

590
00:33:56,380 --> 00:34:00,500
S3: arms are open wide. His arms aren't folded, they're open wide.

591
00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:04,500
S3: And he says, I am the life, and he's going

592
00:34:04,540 --> 00:34:06,700
S3: to fill you up with a life like you've never

593
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:10,020
S3: had before, my friend. And today is the day. And

594
00:34:10,020 --> 00:34:14,580
S3: if this you. This isn't about you doing anything except

595
00:34:14,580 --> 00:34:17,340
S3: falling on your face before God. You might be driving,

596
00:34:17,340 --> 00:34:21,779
S3: but you're on your face. And you can wipe those

597
00:34:21,780 --> 00:34:24,780
S3: tears away because you got a hand helping you. His

598
00:34:24,780 --> 00:34:28,540
S3: name is Jesus. And if today is the day right

599
00:34:28,540 --> 00:34:30,420
S3: now that you are turning around, I'm going to give

600
00:34:30,420 --> 00:34:33,620
S3: you a resource here in a moment. But if today

601
00:34:33,620 --> 00:34:35,540
S3: is the day when you're turning around off this broad

602
00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:37,620
S3: path onto the narrow path, today is the day that

603
00:34:37,620 --> 00:34:41,100
S3: you man up, woman up, and you say, I'm a sinner,

604
00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:45,500
S3: I need a Savior. Praise God, because if you confess,

605
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:48,100
S3: as Ben said earlier, with your mouth, Jesus is Lord,

606
00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:49,859
S3: and believe in your heart that God raised him from

607
00:34:49,860 --> 00:34:52,140
S3: the dead, you will be saved. And you know what

608
00:34:52,180 --> 00:34:55,939
S3: God's saving you from? He's saving you from yourself. That's

609
00:34:55,940 --> 00:35:01,860
S3: what he's saving you from. Because below cocaine, below stuff

610
00:35:01,860 --> 00:35:12,060
S3: below 401 below significant status security is you. And I've

611
00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:14,420
S3: got enough courage to tell you you're the problem. Album.

612
00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:20,380
S3: And Jesus is the answer. We got many surrendering to

613
00:35:20,380 --> 00:35:23,100
S3: Jesus right now. Today. Ben, would you pray for him?

614
00:35:23,140 --> 00:35:26,100
S7: Yeah. Father God, we just come to you and we

615
00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:28,060
S7: just thank you. Thank you for the truth. Thank you

616
00:35:28,060 --> 00:35:29,739
S7: that we don't have to have it all together. We

617
00:35:29,739 --> 00:35:31,940
S7: don't have to have it all figured out that we

618
00:35:31,940 --> 00:35:35,419
S7: can be a mess, um, that our lives can be

619
00:35:35,420 --> 00:35:40,500
S7: falling apart, um, that we have nowhere to turn. Um. But, father,

620
00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:42,819
S7: I just thank you for. For riding with us, for

621
00:35:42,820 --> 00:35:46,420
S7: walking with us, for for loving us when nobody else does.

622
00:35:46,460 --> 00:35:50,140
S7: For for for being with us when nobody else is. Um, father,

623
00:35:50,140 --> 00:35:52,899
S7: that we're not alone. Thank you. That you never leave us,

624
00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:56,140
S7: that you never forsake us. That. That, um. That your

625
00:35:56,140 --> 00:35:59,620
S7: love is everlasting, Lord. So we just. We turn to you.

626
00:36:00,020 --> 00:36:03,820
S7: We look to you. Um, father, you've done it for me. Yeah.

627
00:36:03,860 --> 00:36:06,380
S7: And I'm so grateful you've done it for for Carl.

628
00:36:06,580 --> 00:36:08,500
S7: And I'm so grateful for his life. And it's by

629
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:10,660
S7: the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. Father,

630
00:36:10,660 --> 00:36:12,379
S7: I thank you for all the stories that are going

631
00:36:12,380 --> 00:36:15,339
S7: to be told. Yes. After today, all the testimonies that

632
00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:16,899
S7: are going to be told, it's like, man, I don't know.

633
00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:19,140
S7: I was driving in my car, I called on the

634
00:36:19,140 --> 00:36:21,620
S7: name of Jesus and I'm not sure what's happening. The

635
00:36:21,620 --> 00:36:25,339
S7: wipers turned on and my car started running again. The

636
00:36:25,340 --> 00:36:28,300
S7: tires suddenly had air in them and I could go.

637
00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:31,540
S7: So hallelujah! We thank you. We thank you for all

638
00:36:31,540 --> 00:36:35,580
S7: the people that have realized that. That it's you, Jesus,

639
00:36:35,580 --> 00:36:38,540
S7: that they've been looking for. It was you, father, that

640
00:36:38,540 --> 00:36:41,220
S7: I was looking for the whole time. Yeah. I love you.

641
00:36:41,260 --> 00:36:44,820
S7: We love you. And it's in Jesus name, I pray. Amen. Amen.

642
00:36:45,460 --> 00:36:47,020
S3: I want you to get out your phone wherever you

643
00:36:47,020 --> 00:36:49,779
S3: are right now. Get your phone right now. Wherever you are,

644
00:36:49,900 --> 00:36:51,580
S3: get to the side of the road. I'm going to

645
00:36:51,580 --> 00:36:53,540
S3: help you with your first steps with Jesus. We're going

646
00:36:53,580 --> 00:36:56,020
S3: to send you a link. I want you to text

647
00:36:56,020 --> 00:36:59,060
S3: one word in because you are new. I want you

648
00:36:59,060 --> 00:37:01,420
S3: to text the word new right now. Get your phone.

649
00:37:01,420 --> 00:37:02,980
S3: Don't worry. I'm going to give you a number a

650
00:37:02,980 --> 00:37:06,540
S3: couple of times. I'll give you time. Text the word

651
00:37:06,540 --> 00:37:12,020
S3: new to (800) 555-7898. Right now, wherever you are, text new

652
00:37:12,580 --> 00:37:17,900
S3: to 800 555 7898. We're here to help you take

653
00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:20,299
S3: your next step with Jesus. And for some of you,

654
00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:22,460
S3: this is your first step and you are on to

655
00:37:22,460 --> 00:37:26,020
S3: a new path. And it's like, whoa, there is substance here.

656
00:37:26,020 --> 00:37:30,140
S3: That's God calling you. Text the word new. Just one

657
00:37:30,140 --> 00:37:35,339
S3: word to 800 555, 78, 98. We're going to have

658
00:37:35,340 --> 00:37:42,580
S3: this right out to you. 800 555 7898. Ben Fuller.

659
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:43,860
S7: Wow.

660
00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:44,300
S3: Wow.

661
00:37:46,020 --> 00:37:48,739
S7: Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for having me. I

662
00:37:48,739 --> 00:37:51,339
S7: just I know that, uh, there were so many things

663
00:37:51,340 --> 00:37:54,500
S7: that came against me to get here, and I know why. Yeah.

664
00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:58,779
S7: So I'm just. I'm honored and and grateful to to

665
00:37:58,820 --> 00:38:03,940
S7: tell my story. Um, you know, and and it's. Yeah.

666
00:38:03,980 --> 00:38:04,900
S7: The devil hates me.

667
00:38:05,219 --> 00:38:07,460
S3: Yeah. Thanks for that short arm and that thing. Thanks

668
00:38:07,460 --> 00:38:09,180
S3: for giving it the full thing, man.

669
00:38:09,219 --> 00:38:11,500
S7: Amen. Yeah, I don't know any other way.

670
00:38:12,100 --> 00:38:12,700
S3: I can tell.

671
00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:12,859
S7: It.

672
00:38:13,540 --> 00:38:17,100
S3: Ben Fuller, everybody and God is in control. Welcome to

673
00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:19,980
S3: all of you new in Christ Jesus today. Again, text

674
00:38:19,980 --> 00:38:24,460
S3: the word new to 800 555 7898.

675
00:38:24,739 --> 00:38:27,819
S2: He's a sports fanatic with a stat for anything you

676
00:38:27,820 --> 00:38:32,060
S2: can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. It's

677
00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:34,259
S2: curling crew on Moody Radio.

678
00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:38,580
S3: What a great morning we're having and I am so moved.

679
00:38:38,580 --> 00:38:41,100
S3: I don't know how many people have surrendered to Christ

680
00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:44,700
S3: this morning, but probably close to 20 people surrendering to

681
00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:49,100
S3: Jesus today. And what we felt prompted with on this

682
00:38:49,100 --> 00:38:53,900
S3: Freedom Friday, especially in this season that we're in. And

683
00:38:53,940 --> 00:39:01,419
S3: let me just emote here for a second. Christian culture

684
00:39:01,620 --> 00:39:04,780
S3: is a pretty good deal. Okay.

685
00:39:04,820 --> 00:39:05,180
S5: Well, okay.

686
00:39:05,219 --> 00:39:06,500
S9: Explain what you mean by that.

687
00:39:06,540 --> 00:39:11,220
S3: The the common Christian culture that we have today is

688
00:39:11,219 --> 00:39:18,820
S3: a pretty good gig. You've got good people, you've got fellowship.

689
00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:20,980
S3: You kind of have a group of people that you

690
00:39:20,980 --> 00:39:26,100
S3: can kind of hang with. You can go do lunch with.

691
00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:29,939
S3: You can be around, feel pretty good. You can have

692
00:39:29,940 --> 00:39:33,940
S3: moments where you're it's kind of like being at a

693
00:39:33,980 --> 00:39:38,540
S3: U2 concert or, you know, I don't know, any old concert.

694
00:39:38,540 --> 00:39:41,860
S3: You can you can come in at a, at a

695
00:39:42,020 --> 00:39:48,100
S3: worship service and really get enthralled, almost like, uh, going

696
00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:50,299
S3: to a basketball game. And you're with a group of

697
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:52,420
S3: people and you see a three pointer go in and

698
00:39:52,420 --> 00:39:55,379
S3: you're like, yeah. And you can hear stories and it

699
00:39:55,380 --> 00:39:58,100
S3: can be a good deal. And it added to be

700
00:39:58,100 --> 00:40:01,980
S3: a good deal in that it in Christian culture in

701
00:40:01,980 --> 00:40:05,580
S3: the West here, it doesn't cost you a lot. Matter

702
00:40:05,580 --> 00:40:08,660
S3: of fact, it can be free in that there's no

703
00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:12,500
S3: price of entry. So the gate fee is really reasonable,

704
00:40:12,540 --> 00:40:15,180
S3: as in nothing cost you anything to go to church

705
00:40:16,180 --> 00:40:18,980
S3: and in many cases doesn't cost you anything at all.

706
00:40:19,020 --> 00:40:22,020
S3: I mean, for a lot of people, they can have

707
00:40:22,020 --> 00:40:24,459
S3: their alcohol and hit it a little bit too much

708
00:40:24,460 --> 00:40:28,540
S3: every now and then, but and knowing their heart that

709
00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:31,420
S3: they probably need to change that. But it doesn't really

710
00:40:31,420 --> 00:40:34,700
S3: cost you that you can have other substitute gods and

711
00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:38,100
S3: still go to church. I mean, it's a pretty good gig.

712
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:38,900
S5: Okay.

713
00:40:38,940 --> 00:40:45,779
S3: From a worldly standpoint, that's the danger. That's the danger.

714
00:40:47,060 --> 00:40:51,460
S3: The great danger of Western Christianity is it really doesn't

715
00:40:51,460 --> 00:40:57,980
S3: cost you much, and you can easily fly under the radar. See,

716
00:40:58,020 --> 00:41:00,700
S3: I was talking with I had a conference call last night,

717
00:41:00,700 --> 00:41:02,460
S3: and that's that's what I was going through with these

718
00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:06,860
S3: two people on this conference call with because we were discussing, And,

719
00:41:07,860 --> 00:41:10,980
S3: you know, the the need to make disciples. And I

720
00:41:10,980 --> 00:41:14,180
S3: did this post that went viral. I've never seen anything

721
00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:16,580
S3: go viral. It almost made me nervous while I'm watching this,

722
00:41:16,580 --> 00:41:19,899
S3: because I'm watching real time thousands of shares. And then

723
00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:24,420
S3: it's gone to 1,090,000 people now, Ali. 1,090,000.

724
00:41:24,780 --> 00:41:25,460
S5: That's crazy.

725
00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:28,700
S3: But you know what it was? It was it was this.

726
00:41:29,780 --> 00:41:32,620
S3: It just it just began with my soul laid on

727
00:41:32,620 --> 00:41:35,300
S3: the table, going after 40 years of ministry, there's one

728
00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:39,340
S3: thing that I have finally, finally resolved in my heart,

729
00:41:39,340 --> 00:41:46,460
S3: and that is you can't disciple lost people. And I'm

730
00:41:47,060 --> 00:41:51,420
S3: long enough in this. Seen enough of it, talked with

731
00:41:51,420 --> 00:41:57,020
S3: great theologians, spoken with hundreds if not thousands of pastors.

732
00:41:57,540 --> 00:42:02,380
S3: And I'm telling you, we are trying to disciple lost people.

733
00:42:04,060 --> 00:42:06,180
S3: And it's not a small number that we're trying to

734
00:42:06,180 --> 00:42:10,580
S3: do this with. This is why I really feel so

735
00:42:10,580 --> 00:42:13,300
S3: strongly that our morning show has to come back time

736
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:15,299
S3: and again to the gospel. That's why we're playing Ben

737
00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:19,259
S3: Fuller this morning. That interview with Ben Fuller that you

738
00:42:19,260 --> 00:42:22,980
S3: just heard that harkens back to July 11th when he

739
00:42:22,980 --> 00:42:30,740
S3: was in studio here. And. Some of you might say, oh, Carl,

740
00:42:30,739 --> 00:42:32,540
S3: come on, man, you guys talk about the gospel all

741
00:42:32,540 --> 00:42:34,660
S3: the time, by the way. Credit to the boom crew.

742
00:42:34,700 --> 00:42:37,700
S3: We've never gotten anyone, not one person that has said, boy,

743
00:42:37,700 --> 00:42:39,300
S3: you guys share the gospel too much.

744
00:42:39,340 --> 00:42:39,740
S5: No.

745
00:42:41,020 --> 00:42:45,340
S3: And the reason that we do that is that the

746
00:42:45,540 --> 00:42:49,819
S3: rite of passage into Christianity, I have that in air

747
00:42:49,860 --> 00:42:55,060
S3: quotes right here. Christianity in the American Church has cost

748
00:42:55,060 --> 00:43:00,140
S3: us little to nothing has become a it's a pretty

749
00:43:00,140 --> 00:43:02,660
S3: good gig, just to put it in practical terms. Pretty

750
00:43:02,660 --> 00:43:05,819
S3: good gig. Does anyone else know what I'm wrestling with here?

751
00:43:05,860 --> 00:43:06,460
S9: Yeah, I mean.

752
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:07,140
S3: It's a pretty good.

753
00:43:07,140 --> 00:43:09,740
S9: Gig. Excuse me? When you're just talking about the the

754
00:43:09,780 --> 00:43:11,980
S9: cultural way that it's often lived out.

755
00:43:12,020 --> 00:43:16,340
S3: Yeah, yeah. The Christianity that we have in the West,

756
00:43:16,340 --> 00:43:18,260
S3: it's a pretty good gig. You know what I'm saying?

757
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:21,779
S4: It's comfortable. It's comfortable. It's it's I mean, we see

758
00:43:21,780 --> 00:43:24,540
S4: the stories of of people all around the world who

759
00:43:24,739 --> 00:43:29,900
S4: and I think about, uh, our brother, uh, hormone chariot, who,

760
00:43:29,900 --> 00:43:32,500
S4: who came in from Iran. And he said that, uh,

761
00:43:32,500 --> 00:43:35,260
S4: a young woman is spending 17 years in prison for

762
00:43:35,260 --> 00:43:40,340
S4: attending a church home. A home church? Yeah. And and that's.

763
00:43:40,380 --> 00:43:42,180
S4: And she's in prison for 17 years because of that.

764
00:43:42,180 --> 00:43:44,580
S4: And it ain't with joy. Yeah, with joy. And it

765
00:43:44,580 --> 00:43:47,140
S4: ain't no nice prison. It's not an American prison where

766
00:43:47,140 --> 00:43:49,100
S4: they're making sure you're getting all the things you need

767
00:43:49,140 --> 00:43:52,940
S4: each and every single day. Like they ain't treating you nicely. No.

768
00:43:53,780 --> 00:43:56,899
S3: No. And so I want to be clear here. Am

769
00:43:56,900 --> 00:44:00,739
S3: I saying that the essence of Christianity is the presence

770
00:44:00,739 --> 00:44:05,980
S3: of persecution? No. Not necessarily. Cessarily. But but real biblical

771
00:44:05,980 --> 00:44:11,020
S3: Christianity is transformative. And the key word that we've left

772
00:44:11,020 --> 00:44:14,820
S3: out of this is metanoia. It's repentance. We've invited people

773
00:44:14,820 --> 00:44:18,940
S3: to accept Jesus. Nowhere is that anywhere in Scripture. It's

774
00:44:18,980 --> 00:44:21,940
S3: nowhere there. No one says except Jesus.

775
00:44:21,980 --> 00:44:22,260
S5: What?

776
00:44:22,260 --> 00:44:23,859
S9: What language do you prefer?

777
00:44:23,900 --> 00:44:29,779
S3: Receive minimum, which is a hugely different word than accepting.

778
00:44:29,820 --> 00:44:32,980
S9: Okay, so explain how accept and receive are different.

779
00:44:33,380 --> 00:44:36,020
S3: You know, I love to use this metaphor because metaphors

780
00:44:36,060 --> 00:44:38,100
S3: are great and I'm so glad Jesus used them. And

781
00:44:38,100 --> 00:44:40,540
S3: I'm sorry it's a football metaphor, but they don't call

782
00:44:40,540 --> 00:44:44,299
S3: them wide accepters. They call them wide receivers in football,

783
00:44:44,820 --> 00:44:48,540
S3: a wide accepter. It's kind of like a wide Accepter

784
00:44:48,580 --> 00:44:52,259
S3: catches the ball and in my mind's eye, Rome Odunze

785
00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:55,820
S3: let's say for the Chicago Bears, if he's accepting the ball,

786
00:44:55,860 --> 00:44:59,700
S3: it's kind of casually hands up, bang. Okay, it's hit

787
00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:04,170
S3: my hands when you're a wide receiver, the game is

788
00:45:04,170 --> 00:45:06,810
S3: on the line. You're moving the ball down the field.

789
00:45:06,810 --> 00:45:10,689
S3: You are paid to be good. Okay? And when that

790
00:45:10,690 --> 00:45:14,610
S3: ball's in the air, you're thinking one thing. Catch it.

791
00:45:14,650 --> 00:45:18,010
S3: Hold on to it and don't let it go. That's

792
00:45:18,010 --> 00:45:18,890
S3: a wide receiver.

793
00:45:18,930 --> 00:45:20,330
S4: Yeah, I almost think of.

794
00:45:20,370 --> 00:45:22,730
S3: Is that a cheap metaphor? I feel like it almost

795
00:45:22,730 --> 00:45:23,609
S3: gets close to it.

796
00:45:23,650 --> 00:45:24,650
S9: I think so too.

797
00:45:24,690 --> 00:45:27,569
S4: I think that another thing I think of when I

798
00:45:27,610 --> 00:45:32,610
S4: hear the word acceptance is acknowledging like like almost like

799
00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:36,370
S4: like a wide, a wide acknowledging like, hey, that ball's coming.

800
00:45:36,410 --> 00:45:39,810
S4: I recognize that ball's coming my way. I'm not I'm

801
00:45:39,810 --> 00:45:42,649
S4: not grabbing it, holding on to it and running with it.

802
00:45:42,650 --> 00:45:45,210
S4: Like like my life depends on it though. I just

803
00:45:45,250 --> 00:45:49,850
S4: like I acknowledge the reality of God in life. Okay.

804
00:45:50,130 --> 00:45:53,290
S4: That's great. How is he transforming you? Are you letting

805
00:45:53,290 --> 00:45:54,570
S4: him control your life?

806
00:45:54,730 --> 00:45:57,010
S3: Yeah. And so you got to ask the question, are

807
00:45:57,010 --> 00:46:01,290
S3: there is it possible to acknowledge your a sinner and

808
00:46:01,290 --> 00:46:04,890
S3: not be born again. Yes. Check. Very possible.

809
00:46:04,930 --> 00:46:05,770
S4: Absolutely.

810
00:46:05,810 --> 00:46:10,330
S3: I mean, I've got lost friends who are. I've got

811
00:46:10,330 --> 00:46:13,170
S3: a couple of buddies that are rank atheists, and I

812
00:46:13,170 --> 00:46:16,850
S3: love them. Would they acknowledge they're sinners? Heck, yeah.

813
00:46:16,890 --> 00:46:21,410
S4: Yeah, absolutely. Uh, this is, uh, this is it's out

814
00:46:21,410 --> 00:46:24,009
S4: there in the world. I he said it a couple

815
00:46:24,050 --> 00:46:28,210
S4: of times. Uh, President Trump has been has been interviewed

816
00:46:28,210 --> 00:46:30,970
S4: where he's talking about his own actions, and he says.

817
00:46:31,010 --> 00:46:31,609
S3: I ain't gonna make.

818
00:46:31,610 --> 00:46:32,810
S4: It. He says, I ain't gonna make it.

819
00:46:32,850 --> 00:46:33,850
S3: And we all agree.

820
00:46:33,890 --> 00:46:36,370
S4: Yeah. He said, in terms of the list, I'm probably

821
00:46:36,370 --> 00:46:38,169
S4: at the bottom of the list in terms of getting

822
00:46:38,170 --> 00:46:40,450
S4: into heaven. I hope I do, but I'm probably at

823
00:46:40,450 --> 00:46:43,690
S4: the bottom of the list. He's acknowledging he's a sinner.

824
00:46:43,690 --> 00:46:47,649
S4: He's acknowledging he makes mistakes. But it hasn't led him

825
00:46:47,650 --> 00:46:50,410
S4: to a transforming relationship with Jesus.

826
00:46:50,450 --> 00:46:53,250
S3: And by the way, when it does, you'll know it.

827
00:46:53,250 --> 00:46:56,810
S3: Because then, by the way, what a great example. Because

828
00:46:56,810 --> 00:47:02,890
S3: then there will be full blown blowing snot through nostrils

829
00:47:03,050 --> 00:47:06,490
S3: with those not for the public first, but for those

830
00:47:06,489 --> 00:47:10,850
S3: in the sphere of influence. We're talking children, family, bride,

831
00:47:10,850 --> 00:47:16,570
S3: all this stuff. Because when you repent, there is something amazing.

832
00:47:16,930 --> 00:47:22,330
S3: There is an acknowledgement. Wow, I'm a sinner and he

833
00:47:22,330 --> 00:47:24,330
S3: came to save my soul.

834
00:47:24,370 --> 00:47:24,770
S5: Yeah.

835
00:47:25,130 --> 00:47:26,450
S3: And that is different.

836
00:47:26,570 --> 00:47:30,730
S9: Definitely. I mean, because when you can just kind of like, yeah,

837
00:47:30,770 --> 00:47:33,930
S9: I accept that I'm a sinner and and be okay

838
00:47:33,930 --> 00:47:37,650
S9: with that, then that's a problem, right? I mean, if

839
00:47:37,650 --> 00:47:40,770
S9: it's just like sort of the acknowledgement like, yeah, I mean,

840
00:47:41,410 --> 00:47:43,090
S9: I guess I'm not as good as I could be.

841
00:47:43,130 --> 00:47:43,770
S3: Yeah.

842
00:47:44,210 --> 00:47:47,250
S9: Like that you haven't received.

843
00:47:48,130 --> 00:47:51,770
S3: Yes. You're right on, Ali. And then I mean, take

844
00:47:51,770 --> 00:47:55,170
S3: the word. Take the word believe. This is why I

845
00:47:55,170 --> 00:47:58,930
S3: don't even like to use the word believer. Why? James again?

846
00:47:58,969 --> 00:48:03,010
S3: The half brother of Jesus said, the demons believe, and

847
00:48:03,010 --> 00:48:09,090
S3: they tremble. So even belief that Jesus came to forgive

848
00:48:09,090 --> 00:48:14,810
S3: you of your sins without repentance for sins to follow

849
00:48:14,850 --> 00:48:18,370
S3: the one who died for you, you're not born again.

850
00:48:18,890 --> 00:48:20,490
S4: Absolutely. That was my story.

851
00:48:20,890 --> 00:48:21,850
S3: That was your story.

852
00:48:21,890 --> 00:48:24,689
S4: I very much so believed that Jesus existed and died

853
00:48:24,690 --> 00:48:28,650
S4: for my sins. But I wasn't saved. It didn't change

854
00:48:28,650 --> 00:48:31,170
S4: my life. I didn't. I didn't say, Lord, I give

855
00:48:31,170 --> 00:48:32,969
S4: it all to you. I repent of my sin and

856
00:48:32,969 --> 00:48:35,529
S4: I want to walk a new way. It was not.

857
00:48:35,530 --> 00:48:37,450
S4: I believe that you've got me covered so I can

858
00:48:37,450 --> 00:48:40,130
S4: go do whatever I want, and I'll make it right

859
00:48:40,130 --> 00:48:41,650
S4: with you at the end, and we'll be good.

860
00:48:43,250 --> 00:48:45,850
S3: So I'm going to linger here for a moment. Just say, okay,

861
00:48:45,850 --> 00:48:48,410
S3: so what do we do with this? Right. That's that's

862
00:48:48,450 --> 00:48:50,049
S3: kind of where you go with that. What do you

863
00:48:50,050 --> 00:48:55,330
S3: do with this information? Because the born again experience is radical.

864
00:48:55,330 --> 00:48:57,410
S3: Nicodemus heard that in the middle of the night when

865
00:48:57,410 --> 00:48:59,250
S3: he went to Jesus. And by the way, he did

866
00:48:59,250 --> 00:49:04,049
S3: ultimately repent and surrender his life to Jesus at great cost.

867
00:49:04,090 --> 00:49:07,210
S3: You don't want to be a soldier in the Roman

868
00:49:07,210 --> 00:49:11,169
S3: Roman army and surrender your life to the Messiah and

869
00:49:11,170 --> 00:49:14,690
S3: have a new king. Hello? That's a problem.

870
00:49:14,730 --> 00:49:16,049
S9: Life might get kind of hard for you.

871
00:49:16,090 --> 00:49:18,890
S3: Might, might, life might get hard for you. But it's

872
00:49:18,890 --> 00:49:25,290
S3: overflowing with abundance even through that difficulty. So here's here's

873
00:49:25,290 --> 00:49:30,330
S3: where we go. Let's get really practical here. Can you

874
00:49:30,330 --> 00:49:35,850
S3: have believed in Jesus and accepted Jesus and not be

875
00:49:35,850 --> 00:49:43,209
S3: born again? Yes. Yep. Yes. Okay. When you clear that

876
00:49:43,210 --> 00:49:46,969
S3: away now. Okay, now it's like. All right, well, what

877
00:49:46,969 --> 00:49:52,209
S3: is the most salient issue here? It's repentance. It's thought

878
00:49:52,210 --> 00:49:58,370
S3: that results in following Jesus Christ. It's not even regret.

879
00:49:58,850 --> 00:50:03,170
S3: It's not even soul wrenching pain over your sin. It's

880
00:50:03,170 --> 00:50:06,930
S3: surrendering all that sin and your soul to the one

881
00:50:06,930 --> 00:50:09,529
S3: who can save you through and through. I mean, this

882
00:50:09,530 --> 00:50:12,729
S3: is so deeply spiritual. It cuts between bone and marrow

883
00:50:12,730 --> 00:50:15,650
S3: and goes right to the pierces, right to the innermost

884
00:50:15,650 --> 00:50:18,770
S3: darkness of our soul and says, surrender your life to

885
00:50:18,810 --> 00:50:25,529
S3: me today. And is there cost? There's cost in so

886
00:50:25,530 --> 00:50:30,250
S3: much as it'll probably reorder your the friends that you have,

887
00:50:30,290 --> 00:50:34,330
S3: the priorities that you have, the aspirations that you were

888
00:50:34,330 --> 00:50:38,250
S3: chasing and all that. But the payoff is I came

889
00:50:38,250 --> 00:50:40,890
S3: late to give you life and life more abundant.

890
00:50:40,890 --> 00:50:43,770
S9: And I mean, it's going to cost. I mean, we

891
00:50:43,770 --> 00:50:45,130
S9: are supposed to count the cost.

892
00:50:45,170 --> 00:50:45,570
S5: Yes.

893
00:50:45,610 --> 00:50:49,610
S9: Because even if we don't experience the kind of cost

894
00:50:49,610 --> 00:50:53,049
S9: in terms of persecution, we've here in the West that

895
00:50:53,050 --> 00:50:55,450
S9: we see in other parts of the world. The Bible

896
00:50:55,450 --> 00:50:57,770
S9: is still true as as true for us as it

897
00:50:57,770 --> 00:51:00,169
S9: is for people in other contexts. Yeah, right. I mean

898
00:51:00,210 --> 00:51:03,650
S9: that to take up your cross and die daily is

899
00:51:03,650 --> 00:51:04,210
S9: a cost.

900
00:51:04,250 --> 00:51:09,009
S3: It's there's a cost attached to that. And and the

901
00:51:09,010 --> 00:51:13,609
S3: cost is just saying who I'm going to. I'm going

902
00:51:13,650 --> 00:51:17,370
S3: to bend a holy knee before a holy God and say,

903
00:51:17,370 --> 00:51:20,730
S3: you saved me. Now grow me through this whole new

904
00:51:20,770 --> 00:51:26,290
S3: training of my value system, of my what drives me everything.

905
00:51:28,370 --> 00:51:31,050
S3: So if today is a day of repentance for you,

906
00:51:32,370 --> 00:51:36,370
S3: and here's what I love the Holy Spirit convicts of sin.

907
00:51:36,370 --> 00:51:41,370
S3: So if the Holy Spirit's convicting you, you've accepted, you've believed,

908
00:51:41,370 --> 00:51:45,089
S3: but you've never repented of your sin. Today is your

909
00:51:45,090 --> 00:51:47,569
S3: day of salvation, friend. And if that's you, we want

910
00:51:47,570 --> 00:51:49,330
S3: to help you in your first steps. And I don't

911
00:51:49,330 --> 00:51:51,170
S3: care where you are in this world. And we've got

912
00:51:51,170 --> 00:51:55,850
S3: a link coming to you. And I just do you

913
00:51:55,850 --> 00:51:59,370
S3: need this link to walk forward with Jesus? No, you

914
00:51:59,370 --> 00:52:02,490
S3: don't need this link. There's nothing. There's nothing magic about

915
00:52:02,489 --> 00:52:07,610
S3: this link, but it gives you an opportunity to connect

916
00:52:07,610 --> 00:52:10,410
S3: with someone in your local area who's going to help

917
00:52:10,410 --> 00:52:12,810
S3: you in your first steps with Jesus. It's something new

918
00:52:12,850 --> 00:52:15,210
S3: that we're doing here, but if this is you, we

919
00:52:15,210 --> 00:52:18,930
S3: want you to today surrender all you are to Jesus Christ.

920
00:52:18,930 --> 00:52:19,250
S3: Don't we?

921
00:52:19,290 --> 00:52:19,730
S5: All we.

922
00:52:19,730 --> 00:52:22,810
S9: Do. So if that's you, just text new to 800

923
00:52:22,850 --> 00:52:31,530
S9: 555 7898 text new and e w to 800 555 7898.

924
00:52:31,570 --> 00:52:36,450
S3: Yeah. And today friend. And the biggest kicker here I

925
00:52:36,450 --> 00:52:40,010
S3: think this is the I think this is the stranglehold.

926
00:52:40,010 --> 00:52:43,250
S3: If Satan could get Ahold of your gullet which is

927
00:52:43,250 --> 00:52:45,130
S3: right here. And if you can get Ahold of your

928
00:52:45,170 --> 00:52:47,370
S3: gullet in one way, it's going to be this way

929
00:52:47,370 --> 00:52:51,130
S3: right here. What the heck are people going to say?

930
00:52:52,050 --> 00:52:57,330
S3: They've thought I've been a Christian for forever. Who cares

931
00:52:57,330 --> 00:53:02,130
S3: what those knuckleheads say? You know, what matters is people

932
00:53:02,130 --> 00:53:07,250
S3: like me. Ali, Super Die Young Thunder, and those authentic

933
00:53:07,250 --> 00:53:10,210
S3: followers of Christ around you. Those are the only people

934
00:53:10,210 --> 00:53:12,090
S3: that matter. And you know what they're going to say.

935
00:53:12,210 --> 00:53:13,410
S3: Come bring it in.

936
00:53:13,650 --> 00:53:14,290
S5: Huge hug.

937
00:53:14,489 --> 00:53:15,730
S3: Bring it in.

938
00:53:15,850 --> 00:53:16,370
S5: Absolutely.

939
00:53:16,410 --> 00:53:19,009
S9: It's what we're finding, both through our own experience and

940
00:53:19,010 --> 00:53:23,770
S9: hearing many, many testimonies on, er, Karl's experience as a pastor.

941
00:53:23,930 --> 00:53:27,570
S9: This is real. It's really common. Jonathan's story not talked

942
00:53:27,570 --> 00:53:30,890
S9: about very much. My story not talked about very much,

943
00:53:30,890 --> 00:53:33,810
S9: but it's very common. Very common.

944
00:53:34,090 --> 00:53:36,450
S3: I was using us as an example here. I mean,

945
00:53:36,770 --> 00:53:40,570
S3: super dies, probably the anomaly here in that she was

946
00:53:40,570 --> 00:53:45,370
S3: raised in a, um, a Christian. I'm using air quotes here.

947
00:53:45,410 --> 00:53:49,730
S3: Sect of Greek Orthodoxy that isn't very clear with the

948
00:53:49,770 --> 00:53:52,850
S3: gospel at all. So you didn't have a fair shot

949
00:53:52,850 --> 00:53:53,570
S3: at the gospel?

950
00:53:53,610 --> 00:53:55,210
S5: No, not at all. It was more of a culture thing.

951
00:53:55,250 --> 00:53:56,810
S5: Of what you went to church and where you went

952
00:53:56,810 --> 00:53:59,930
S5: to church, than it was a relationship with this Jesus

953
00:53:59,930 --> 00:54:03,649
S5: who hung on the cross. Well, why? Why? Where's my

954
00:54:03,650 --> 00:54:04,690
S5: connection with that?

955
00:54:05,090 --> 00:54:09,210
S3: But the rest of us here. So three out of four, 75%

956
00:54:09,210 --> 00:54:12,730
S3: of us had at some point in our spiritual journey,

957
00:54:12,770 --> 00:54:14,690
S3: a big deception of salvation.

958
00:54:14,730 --> 00:54:18,130
S9: And and one thing I'll say, I, I, I was

959
00:54:18,130 --> 00:54:21,089
S9: and I'd been in church my entire life. I would

960
00:54:21,090 --> 00:54:25,050
S9: say I it wasn't until I was maybe seventh or

961
00:54:25,050 --> 00:54:28,569
S9: eighth grade that I ever even remember understanding or even

962
00:54:28,570 --> 00:54:30,770
S9: hearing a little bit of the gospel. So you can

963
00:54:30,770 --> 00:54:34,850
S9: be in in Bible preaching churches and not hear the gospel.

964
00:54:34,850 --> 00:54:38,770
S9: I didn't hear the gospel for the first 12 to

965
00:54:38,770 --> 00:54:42,450
S9: 15 years of my church experience.

966
00:54:42,489 --> 00:54:45,089
S3: Yeah, because the God of this age has blinded the

967
00:54:45,090 --> 00:54:46,210
S3: minds of the unbeliever.

968
00:54:46,250 --> 00:54:47,650
S9: And because many churches.

969
00:54:48,130 --> 00:54:49,689
S3: Aren't being clear with.

970
00:54:49,690 --> 00:54:53,210
S9: It. So I would hear Bible teaching. I would hear

971
00:54:53,210 --> 00:54:57,890
S9: invitations to join the church. I didn't hear the gospel.

972
00:54:58,530 --> 00:55:02,170
S3: Yeah. Powerful. So, I mean, what does this result in?

973
00:55:03,090 --> 00:55:06,530
S3: It is it. I'll tell you what it results in.

974
00:55:06,570 --> 00:55:12,210
S3: It is imperative that you say, O God, search my heart.

975
00:55:12,530 --> 00:55:16,089
S3: If I've never surrendered my soul to you today, I

976
00:55:16,130 --> 00:55:19,850
S3: do it. Today I repent of my sin. By the way,

977
00:55:19,850 --> 00:55:24,649
S3: repentance of sin means full acknowledgement. I am the problem.

978
00:55:26,090 --> 00:55:28,810
S3: What's amazing? When I repented of sin, did I have

979
00:55:28,810 --> 00:55:31,649
S3: people in my life that had done me wrong in

980
00:55:31,650 --> 00:55:35,050
S3: all kinds of stuff and crazy things? I mean vicious stuff.

981
00:55:35,050 --> 00:55:38,129
S3: I had happened to me and one story that I've

982
00:55:38,130 --> 00:55:41,130
S3: never even shared on air about one thing that happened

983
00:55:41,130 --> 00:55:43,170
S3: to me, and I'm not even going to tell it today.

984
00:55:43,210 --> 00:55:46,089
S3: I've been debating telling it sometime down the road. I

985
00:55:46,090 --> 00:55:48,730
S3: had one thing that happened to me. It's like, wow,

986
00:55:49,170 --> 00:55:51,569
S3: you got to be kidding. But you know what? When

987
00:55:51,570 --> 00:55:56,850
S3: I came to Jesus, that wasn't in my mind at all.

988
00:55:56,850 --> 00:56:01,570
S3: What was in my mind is I'm a sinner. I'm

989
00:56:01,570 --> 00:56:06,770
S3: a problem. Save me. Isn't that powerful?

990
00:56:06,810 --> 00:56:07,330
S5: It is.

991
00:56:08,170 --> 00:56:11,330
S3: If today is your day of salvation and you're crying out,

992
00:56:11,730 --> 00:56:15,529
S3: I repent. Save my soul. Jesus, today I give all

993
00:56:15,530 --> 00:56:20,930
S3: I am to you. Just text the word new to 805, five, five, 78, 98.

994
00:56:21,730 --> 00:56:23,850
S3: And you might have people that you know who you

995
00:56:23,890 --> 00:56:26,250
S3: got to go tell right now. Just text the word

996
00:56:26,250 --> 00:56:30,290
S3: new because there's something really cathartic and healthy and spiritual

997
00:56:30,290 --> 00:56:33,689
S3: about you saying, I am new in Jesus today. Just

998
00:56:33,690 --> 00:56:40,450
S3: text the word new to 800 555 7898. Hadn't planned

999
00:56:40,450 --> 00:56:43,970
S3: on vamping on that that long, but boy, we cleared

1000
00:56:43,969 --> 00:56:45,690
S3: away some stuff here today.

1001
00:56:45,730 --> 00:56:46,530
S9: I think it's important.

1002
00:56:46,650 --> 00:56:47,650
S5: Good stuff.

1003
00:56:49,090 --> 00:56:54,650
S3: Text new and welcome to the family. New to 805

1004
00:56:54,690 --> 00:57:05,489
S3: five five 7898 7715 06432540 7359. Probably more of you

1005
00:57:05,530 --> 00:57:06,330
S3: coming in here.

1006
00:57:06,850 --> 00:57:11,370
S2: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is

1007
00:57:11,370 --> 00:57:15,089
S2: in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.

1008
00:57:15,130 --> 00:57:18,770
S3: It's Carl and crew. Boy, this is really an interesting day.

1009
00:57:18,810 --> 00:57:21,410
S3: As a matter of fact, I can tell you with

1010
00:57:21,410 --> 00:57:24,010
S3: absolute certainty we had not planned to go here today.

1011
00:57:24,450 --> 00:57:28,210
S3: Not at all. But. God. Yeah. Super. Just close their

1012
00:57:28,210 --> 00:57:30,330
S3: eyes and pointed straight up to the heavens.

1013
00:57:30,810 --> 00:57:32,930
S5: God is the ultimate producer. God always.

1014
00:57:33,050 --> 00:57:35,650
S3: Yeah. He is the best executive producer.

1015
00:57:35,690 --> 00:57:37,050
S5: Isn't he always?

1016
00:57:37,290 --> 00:57:41,250
S3: Every time we do the executive producing around here, it stinks.

1017
00:57:41,290 --> 00:57:41,690
S5: Hello?

1018
00:57:42,450 --> 00:57:44,970
S3: We need someone to raise us from the dead.

1019
00:57:45,530 --> 00:57:47,450
S5: It's all yours. All yours.

1020
00:57:47,490 --> 00:57:52,330
S3: Okay, so here's the deal. Um, the reason we have

1021
00:57:52,330 --> 00:57:55,370
S3: to go after this is it is clear. And by

1022
00:57:55,370 --> 00:57:58,090
S3: the way, not just Matthew seven. You go to Matthew 25,

1023
00:57:58,530 --> 00:58:03,730
S3: parable of the bridesmaids, ten of them. You go to

1024
00:58:03,770 --> 00:58:08,130
S3: Second Corinthians and you see, hey, man, examine yourself to

1025
00:58:08,130 --> 00:58:11,610
S3: see if you're in the faith. Um, you go to

1026
00:58:11,770 --> 00:58:14,570
S3: multiple passages of Scripture. I mean, you can go to

1027
00:58:14,570 --> 00:58:17,250
S3: Hebrews six, you can go you can look all through

1028
00:58:17,250 --> 00:58:20,050
S3: Scripture and you can find out, man, there's a lot

1029
00:58:20,090 --> 00:58:23,250
S3: of people that claim to be in God but are

1030
00:58:23,250 --> 00:58:27,210
S3: far from him. You take my favorite king, Josiah. Do

1031
00:58:27,210 --> 00:58:30,169
S3: you think am and his dad or Manasseh? His granddad

1032
00:58:30,170 --> 00:58:33,650
S3: would have thought they were, um, would have thought they

1033
00:58:33,650 --> 00:58:36,770
S3: were out of sorts with God. I actually think they

1034
00:58:36,770 --> 00:58:41,290
S3: were bound to bale Asherah poles and sacrificing babies on

1035
00:58:41,290 --> 00:58:44,169
S3: the arms of Molech, and did not have a clue

1036
00:58:44,290 --> 00:58:46,330
S3: how far they were from God. I'm convinced of.

1037
00:58:46,330 --> 00:58:48,730
S4: It. Well, I think you're right, because, well, you see, Josiah,

1038
00:58:48,730 --> 00:58:52,010
S4: when he's king, he tears all that stuff down because

1039
00:58:52,010 --> 00:58:55,210
S4: he realizes there's a there's a wrongness to it. But

1040
00:58:55,810 --> 00:58:58,250
S4: he it's not until a little while after he's king

1041
00:58:58,250 --> 00:59:03,330
S4: that they discover again God's law. And so his, his

1042
00:59:03,650 --> 00:59:07,130
S4: father and grandfather before him were most likely operating without

1043
00:59:07,130 --> 00:59:11,450
S4: any knowledge of God's Word and God's direction. And so, yeah,

1044
00:59:11,450 --> 00:59:14,330
S4: they were doing horrible things that in their spirit, they

1045
00:59:14,330 --> 00:59:17,169
S4: should have known were different, but they probably didn't know

1046
00:59:17,170 --> 00:59:18,490
S4: how far away they were from God.

1047
00:59:18,530 --> 00:59:24,290
S3: Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. And by the way, just

1048
00:59:24,290 --> 00:59:28,050
S3: because you're the chosen people, you the the the nation

1049
00:59:28,050 --> 00:59:32,050
S3: of Israel isn't chosen because they're better. They are chosen

1050
00:59:32,050 --> 00:59:36,770
S3: because they were a vehicle of grace, but not ensuring

1051
00:59:36,770 --> 00:59:39,930
S3: that all of them are born again. Not at all.

1052
00:59:41,610 --> 00:59:45,330
S3: I mean, chosen doesn't mean, you know, it's not like, oh,

1053
00:59:45,370 --> 00:59:48,689
S3: you're the better meat. You know, you're the chick fil A.

1054
00:59:49,170 --> 00:59:51,810
S3: I mean, you're the you're the the prime. Good grief.

1055
00:59:51,810 --> 00:59:55,810
S3: That's the worst meat. You're not you're not the filet mignon. Yeah. No,

1056
00:59:55,850 --> 00:59:59,930
S3: you're not a better cut. It's no. God graciously chose

1057
00:59:59,930 --> 01:00:02,130
S3: you as a vehicle. You can choose them or not.

1058
01:00:02,130 --> 01:00:05,090
S3: By the way, you're just a vehicle of his grace.

1059
01:00:05,130 --> 01:00:08,850
S3: It doesn't mean that you're in his grace. Very important distinction.

1060
01:00:08,890 --> 01:00:10,410
S3: We're covering a lot of things here today.

1061
01:00:10,450 --> 01:00:11,930
S9: We are. We got a question out there for you

1062
01:00:11,930 --> 01:00:14,810
S9: on this Freedom Friday. Uh, do you have the experience

1063
01:00:14,810 --> 01:00:18,250
S9: of being in the church, but not in Christ? And

1064
01:00:18,250 --> 01:00:20,690
S9: then the Lord opened your eyes to where you really

1065
01:00:20,690 --> 01:00:25,610
S9: stood with him. 800 555 7898 Eric, first time caller

1066
01:00:25,610 --> 01:00:27,890
S9: from Brookfield, Illinois, tell us your story.

1067
01:00:29,930 --> 01:00:33,810
S10: Yeah. Um, gosh, I, I was I grew up, you know,

1068
01:00:33,850 --> 01:00:39,450
S10: kind of going to church, um, and, uh, you know, um,

1069
01:00:40,210 --> 01:00:45,169
S10: went to, um, Christian college. Um, but I just didn't

1070
01:00:45,170 --> 01:00:48,370
S10: have Jesus in my heart. Wasn't led by the Holy Spirit. Um,

1071
01:00:48,610 --> 01:00:53,650
S10: and in my 30s, uh, gosh, there's there's a couple

1072
01:00:53,690 --> 01:00:56,130
S10: sermons that just started, like, penetrating my heart.

1073
01:00:56,170 --> 01:00:56,690
S11: Yeah.

1074
01:00:56,770 --> 01:01:00,890
S10: Um, yeah. I mean, I still remember to this day,

1075
01:01:00,930 --> 01:01:05,050
S10: you know, I'm. I'm 49, but I remember the pastor

1076
01:01:05,050 --> 01:01:08,410
S10: was talking about, you know, Jesus and, you know, you know,

1077
01:01:08,450 --> 01:01:11,170
S10: and just talking about, you know, are you talking about

1078
01:01:11,170 --> 01:01:13,770
S10: it with your at home? And, you know, it hit.

1079
01:01:13,770 --> 01:01:15,610
S3: Me part of your life. Yeah.

1080
01:01:16,450 --> 01:01:19,330
S10: Yeah. Is he part of your life? And I was

1081
01:01:19,610 --> 01:01:22,690
S10: kind of shocked. I'm like, I'm not talking about Jesus.

1082
01:01:22,970 --> 01:01:27,850
S10: He's not part of my life. Um, it was almost like, uh, like, oh,

1083
01:01:27,930 --> 01:01:29,930
S10: my gosh. What? I've been going to church all these

1084
01:01:29,970 --> 01:01:34,050
S10: years and what the heck? Yeah. Like, how how have

1085
01:01:34,050 --> 01:01:36,450
S10: I missed the boat? You know, like. Yeah. No, like,

1086
01:01:36,490 --> 01:01:39,890
S10: it was a little shocking. Um, sorry.

1087
01:01:39,890 --> 01:01:42,610
S3: You know, Eric, you are.

1088
01:01:42,930 --> 01:01:43,250
S10: On the.

1089
01:01:43,250 --> 01:01:47,810
S3: Radio. Oh, Eric, this is awesome. Yeah. Keep going bro. So.

1090
01:01:48,130 --> 01:01:52,330
S3: So what? It. You know, what's funny is my prediction

1091
01:01:52,330 --> 01:01:55,330
S3: is you had as a kid growing up in church

1092
01:01:55,330 --> 01:01:57,850
S3: and clearly going to Bible college. You had quote. And

1093
01:01:57,850 --> 01:02:00,610
S3: I got air quotes here. You had accepted Jesus, which

1094
01:02:00,610 --> 01:02:03,090
S3: doesn't mean anything. You can accept Jesus and not be

1095
01:02:03,090 --> 01:02:06,570
S3: born again. You had probably been baptized, right, Eric? Had

1096
01:02:06,570 --> 01:02:07,410
S3: you been baptized.

1097
01:02:07,450 --> 01:02:10,890
S10: As a baby? As a baby. But yeah, you know, um, yeah.

1098
01:02:10,890 --> 01:02:14,850
S10: So but never, you know, baptized, you know, the choice

1099
01:02:14,850 --> 01:02:16,770
S10: when I was older. So, um.

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S3: What a powerful thing. Eric, I want to thank you

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01:02:20,690 --> 01:02:23,810
S3: so much for calling in, bro, because this is you

1102
01:02:23,850 --> 01:02:29,730
S3: are you are a poster guy for what is a problem.

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01:02:29,730 --> 01:02:32,290
S3: You see it with us, don't you, Eric? You see it, dude?

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01:02:32,330 --> 01:02:34,810
S3: I mean, the church is filled with people who don't

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01:02:34,810 --> 01:02:36,450
S3: know the real Jesus today.

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01:02:37,530 --> 01:02:40,480
S10: Yeah, that's absolutely true. And I was going to church

1107
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:43,760
S10: and I did not have Jesus in my heart. And

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01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:48,120
S10: I'm I am an example of that. So, um, there

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01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:48,520
S10: you go.

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01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:49,840
S3: There you go.

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S9: Thanks for taking that step of courage to call in

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01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,600
S9: this morning, Eric. Really appreciate that.

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S3: Yeah. Great. Great.

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01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:56,920
S9: Great to hear.

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01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:59,400
S3: Wow. Okay. Taking your calls.

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01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,720
S9: Can you relate to Eric's story and Jonathan's story and

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01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:06,240
S9: Carl's story and mine? You were in church, but not

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01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:13,520
S9: in Christ. 855 five 7898 (800) 555-7898.

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01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:18,840
S2: Breaking chains and running free. You're listening to Carl and crew.

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S9: So we got a question out here this morning. You

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01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:25,440
S9: were in church, but you were not in Christ. 855

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01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:29,360
S9: five 7898 let's go to Robert calling in this morning

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01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,800
S9: from Jenison, Michigan. You can relate to this story. Tell

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01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:33,480
S9: us yours.

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S12: Hi, this is Robert from Jenison, Michigan. I was raised

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01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:42,000
S12: in a somewhat liberal Presbyterian church. I went to the

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01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:46,560
S12: Westminster Shorter Catechism as a teenager. Uh, and all that.

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01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:50,280
S12: I was a leader in a youth group and youth, uh,

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01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:54,080
S12: in our church. I preached on Youth Sunday a couple

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01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:58,200
S12: of times. Uh, but I wasn't. It was only an

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01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:01,400
S12: intellectual thing. I didn't realize it. I thought I was saved,

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01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,920
S12: but then when I was 21, I was nearly suicidal,

1133
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:06,760
S12: having lost my dad when I was three and some

1134
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:10,160
S12: other things. My friend Glen rice told me about a

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01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:13,400
S12: personal relationship with Jesus, and he said, behold, I stand

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01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:16,240
S12: at the door and knock. Revelation 320 he said that

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01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:19,080
S12: the door of his heart and life. And if I

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01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:21,400
S12: would open the door to my heart, Jesus would come in.

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01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:27,160
S12: And he did wonderfully saved me at age 21. November 28th, 1965.

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S3: Yeah, you got to date down brother Robert from Jenison, Michigan.

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01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:35,800
S3: Thank you for calling in. It's real alley.

1142
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,680
S9: It is. We got more callers. Let's go to Nathaniel.

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01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:42,600
S9: First time caller from Cleveland, Ohio. Tell us your story, Nathaniel.

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01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:48,800
S13: Yes, I, I my life changed when I turned 21. Um,

1145
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:52,280
S13: growing up, I'm a preacher's kid, you know, all my life. Um,

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01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:54,320
S13: but I went to a Pentecostal church, and it was

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01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:56,920
S13: the first time that I actually gave my life to Christ.

1148
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:00,320
S13: Because prior to that, I believed in God. I believed

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01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,840
S13: in Jesus, but I never really confessed it. Were you

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01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:04,760
S13: a particular time?

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01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:07,680
S3: I'm sorry to interrupt. Here. A couple of questions. Just

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01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:11,600
S3: clear this up. I'm certain that you had accepted Jesus,

1153
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,440
S3: which doesn't mean salvation. We covered that earlier. I mean,

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01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:18,360
S3: you can accept that Jesus is real. Were you baptized

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01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:19,720
S3: even then as a kid?

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01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:22,440
S13: Uh, yeah. I was baptized at 12 years old. I

1157
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:24,440
S13: remember getting the water when I came out. There was

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01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:26,439
S13: no change in me. As I got older, I started

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01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:29,480
S13: using foul language. Still, you know, there was no change

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01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:32,080
S13: in me until I went, till I turned my 20s

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01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:36,560
S13: and went to this Pentecostal church and, um. uh, was

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01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:39,080
S13: an evangelist. He talked about Jesus in a way that

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01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:42,680
S13: I never had heard. You know, like this I confess,

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01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:46,880
S13: I confess Christ that Sunday morning with my mouth. According

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01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,600
S13: to Romans ten 910, I confess my sins. Then I

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01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:52,240
S13: had a change of heart. I, you know, I stopped

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01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:54,280
S13: doing the things, you know, that I used to start

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01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:57,000
S13: using bad language. Um, yeah. I had started loving people

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01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,160
S13: that I would normally, you know, used to hate. And

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01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:01,400
S13: I was like, wow. I didn't even know that could

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01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:01,920
S13: happen to you.

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01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:02,880
S3: Well, see, hold it.

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01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:03,160
S13: You know.

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01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:07,160
S3: You just proved the point, Nathaniel. This isn't about you.

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01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:11,680
S3: It's about Christ in you. And that's one of the

1176
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,960
S3: best one liners I've heard. God had me starting loving

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01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:16,200
S3: people I used to hate.

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01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:19,000
S9: I love that, Nathaniel. Thank you for calling me this morning.

1179
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:21,880
S9: First time caller from Cleveland, Ohio.

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01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:26,200
S2: Get to know the team behind the scenes. Follow Carl

1181
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:28,480
S2: and crew on Facebook and Instagram.

1182
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:31,600
S3: Yeah, we are so grateful for the stories that have

1183
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:36,000
S3: come in today. It is. It is an awesome thing

1184
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:39,640
S3: when people come to the realization, I've been in a

1185
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:44,480
S3: Christian culture, I've been indoctrinated in what to say, how

1186
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:48,480
S3: to act. But when the lights come on in a

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01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:53,520
S3: person's soul and they realize, oh my, my goodness, I've

1188
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:57,520
S3: never been born again. What an awesome testimony that is.

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S9: And so we're asking you for yours this morning. You

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S9: were raised in church. Maybe you would have considered yourself religious,

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01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:09,680
S9: but you weren't in Christ. 855 five 7898. How did

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01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:14,600
S9: God open your eyes to the truth? 855 five 7898.

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01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:19,640
S3: Yeah, yeah. Grateful for this. Uh, Jonathan. Guess what?

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01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:20,800
S4: Yeah.

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S3: It's time. Dude.

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01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:27,560
S4: Okay. I grew up as a pastor's son, so I

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01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:31,800
S4: went to church a lot, I knew it, I attended

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01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:35,800
S4: youth group each Wednesday and church each Sunday. I served

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S4: on missions trips. I played bass guitar in the worship team.

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01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:42,560
S9: Oh, I didn't even know that.

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01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:43,760
S3: I didn't know that part.

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01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:44,200
S5: Really?

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01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:44,880
S4: Yeah.

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01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:45,720
S9: Wow.

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01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:52,760
S4: And I went to conferences. I went to Bible college

1206
01:07:52,760 --> 01:07:55,720
S4: after I graduated high school. I took a lot of

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01:07:55,720 --> 01:08:01,720
S4: Bible classes, wrote papers on what the Bible saying, took tests,

1208
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:06,480
S4: got good grades. I got a job here on Carl

1209
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:09,680
S4: and crew where then I started talking on air and

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01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:12,600
S4: giving the gospel and talking about Jesus and His love.

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01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:16,639
S4: And then I got saved after all of those things.

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S3: Yeah.

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01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:23,240
S4: Um, that is way more common than we would think,

1214
01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:26,720
S4: because the passage that Jesus used to start to hit

1215
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:30,160
S4: my heart was Matthew seven, where Jesus says, on the

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01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:34,480
S4: day of judgment, Many will come to him saying, Lord, Lord,

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01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:36,360
S4: and he will say, I never knew you, but they

1218
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:39,719
S4: did mighty works in his name, performed miracles, cast out demons.

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01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,240
S4: And he still says, depart from me, ye workers of lawlessness,

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01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:48,080
S4: I never knew you. And I was sitting in the

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01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:52,920
S4: studio listening to Karl talk about that passage, and I

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01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:54,800
S4: don't know if I'd ever really heard it before, or

1223
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:58,560
S4: if it just never hit my heart before. But God

1224
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:02,040
S4: started to speak to me, saying, that's you. If you

1225
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:05,080
S4: come to me, you will be one of those people.

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01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:10,280
S4: And that was scary. That was really hard to deal

1227
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:16,280
S4: with because I had built my whole life on Christianity, uh,

1228
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:19,800
S4: at least in a cultural aspect. I lived the life.

1229
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:21,920
S4: Like I said, I was a pastor's kid, so I

1230
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:26,000
S4: knew the stuff I. I accepted Christ when I was five.

1231
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:29,400
S4: I remember sitting at the table and praying the prayer

1232
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:33,880
S4: with my parents getting baptized when I was eight, doing

1233
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:35,479
S4: all the things I said I was doing, but the

1234
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:41,040
S4: heart was different than the actions I. I wanted to

1235
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:42,760
S4: get baptized because I wanted to do what everyone else

1236
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,960
S4: was doing. I thought about my salvation and worried about it,

1237
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:48,719
S4: but I thought that my works and missions trip justified it.

1238
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,559
S4: I believed that Jesus existed, but I didn't care to

1239
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:54,439
S4: have a relationship with him. I still wanted to live

1240
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:56,920
S4: the life I wanted to live, and I did. I

1241
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:58,840
S4: looked like a Christian to Christians, and I looked like

1242
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:05,080
S4: not a Christian to non-Christians. And it wasn't until the

1243
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:08,240
S4: year I got married I was living my life. I

1244
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:11,200
S4: was doing all the Christian things, and God put everything

1245
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:13,880
S4: before me, and I wanted to focus on his grace,

1246
01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:16,000
S4: his forgiveness. I didn't want to look at my sin.

1247
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:17,320
S4: I didn't want to look at how far I was

1248
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:19,840
S4: from him. And I said, God, you forgive me. And

1249
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:22,080
S4: he spoke to me. Luke 646. Why do you call

1250
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:25,480
S4: me Lord, and do not do what I say? And

1251
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,240
S4: I had fought him off on this Matthew seven thing

1252
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:31,439
S4: for two years, but I didn't have an argument for

1253
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:34,639
S4: Luke 646 because I had lived my whole life believing

1254
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:37,200
S4: in him, but never doing anything that he had said,

1255
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:38,920
S4: at least not intentionally.

1256
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:41,120
S3: You were doing cultural performance.

1257
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:42,200
S4: Yeah, but but.

1258
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:43,080
S3: Not heart level.

1259
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:46,880
S4: And looking to glorify myself in everything that I did.

1260
01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:50,360
S3: But not looking like you were looking to glorify yourself.

1261
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:51,120
S4: Not know.

1262
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:53,440
S3: You look like a humble dude 100%.

1263
01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:58,960
S4: But I, I lived that life and God in his

1264
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:04,320
S4: grace let it all crumble down. Uh, six years ago

1265
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:10,360
S4: and I came to a moment where I said, okay,

1266
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:14,240
S4: I believed that you existed. Now I'm going to follow you.

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01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:14,639
S3: Wow.

1268
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:17,560
S4: And my life has been changed.

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S3: Surrender all you are to Jesus Christ, guys. Surrender all

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01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:28,439
S3: you are to Jesus Christ.