WEBVTT - You Can't Change Yourself 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.360 Coming to you from the Morning Star Mission sponsored studio. 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:08.080 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.400 There is a notion running around out there in circles 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.040 of disciples and I mean disciples. People who love God 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:22.520 have been radically altered by Jesus, and they suspect I 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:27.520 need to change my life. Let me give you one statement, 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:29.200 and then we'll shut down the show for today. And 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:29.720 we're done. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.960 Okay. This replay, this three minutes for. Wow. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:38.600 No you don't. That's God's work. I want you to 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.800 think about what you're up against today. When I say 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.200 up against, I'm not talking about external forces of opposition. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.400 I'm talking about the internal battles that you have going 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:54.560 on in your mind, in your body. Addictive cycles that 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.480 need to be broken. And those come in a lot 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.420 of different forms. Don't don't go to the. Oh, yeah, 0:01:00.420 --> 0:01:03.420 those cocaine snorters like old Carl was back in his 0:01:03.420 --> 0:01:09.300 young 20s. No, no, I'm talking about those behavioral things 0:01:09.300 --> 0:01:14.260 that range from lack of time control. So you're wasting 0:01:14.260 --> 0:01:17.420 great hours in the day that God wants to redeem 0:01:17.420 --> 0:01:21.220 in your life, and you know it. Don't beat yourself up. 0:01:21.260 --> 0:01:27.779 Let's just have a touchpoint here to that common thing 0:01:27.780 --> 0:01:31.100 you do when your cup gets bumped and anger just 0:01:31.100 --> 0:01:34.820 splashes out to the ones that you love the most, 0:01:35.500 --> 0:01:38.660 to your a serial gossiper and you can't seem to 0:01:38.700 --> 0:01:46.820 shut the trap up. You've tried over and over again. To. 0:01:46.860 --> 0:01:53.139 I am chronically given toward sullenness, and I let my 0:01:53.140 --> 0:01:57.020 sullenness be seen by everybody, hoping that that will give 0:01:57.020 --> 0:02:00.120 me some comfort, but I know God wants to change 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:04.120 my sullenness. He goes on and on. Right, guys? 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.560 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. There's I mean, if you 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.280 allowed yourself to look at all the things that you 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.880 quote unquote need to work on, then you can just 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.640 become overwhelmed because you're like, oh, man, there's just so 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.399 many things. And every time I take care of one 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.000 quote unquote, there's like three more that pop up. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.480 Oh yeah, man, it's I love spiritual. Whack a mole 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.200 is a great illustration for this. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:29.480 It is a great, great term. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.639 But the funny thing about spiritual whack a mole is 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.520 you're right, young thunder. You whack one. And that's not 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.560 like one more comes up. It's like 2 or 3. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.360 It's like, oh, for crying out, pick. And you can't 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.120 get your hand working fast enough. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.840 No you can't. And you just get tired and then 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.959 you probably get frustrated and say, I'm done playing. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:52.760 Yeah. And you know, that is what happens. We feel 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:57.940 this overwhelming need to change our life. And then exhaustion 0:02:57.940 --> 0:03:00.980 creeps in. And then we wave a white flag. And 0:03:00.980 --> 0:03:04.300 you know what we believe. Well, some things will never change. 0:03:05.540 --> 0:03:10.579 That really ticks me off. For you, it really does. 0:03:10.700 --> 0:03:14.179 I'm not mad at you because I live just like 0:03:14.180 --> 0:03:20.060 you do. We're all the same. There's no such thing 0:03:20.060 --> 0:03:24.380 as sinless perfection. No one's claiming this. But these cycles 0:03:24.380 --> 0:03:27.419 that we feel like when we look at our life. 0:03:27.419 --> 0:03:31.180 And it can be any way under the sun. I mean, 0:03:31.540 --> 0:03:35.540 the the patterns that are destructive to our life can 0:03:35.540 --> 0:03:41.100 manifest themselves in every layer imaginable. And I think Satan 0:03:41.100 --> 0:03:44.020 does a pretty good job of trying to. It's kind 0:03:44.060 --> 0:03:46.740 of like, you know, the the big game in Africa. 0:03:46.740 --> 0:03:51.740 We've determined the big stuff. This is how Recovery Ministries 0:03:51.780 --> 0:03:55.350 got going. And I'm going to remind you again. I 0:03:55.390 --> 0:03:58.990 love Recovery Ministries and they give me an upset tummy 0:03:58.990 --> 0:04:02.350 as a pastor. And I genuinely mean this because it 0:04:02.390 --> 0:04:08.950 casts this, this notion over the body at large. That, boy, 0:04:08.950 --> 0:04:11.990 we got this recovery group over there. Look at those guys. 0:04:11.990 --> 0:04:16.950 You see them over there. Oh my goodness. Bless their hearts. 0:04:19.430 --> 0:04:25.870 They're in recovery. Yeah boy. And then we forget we're 0:04:25.870 --> 0:04:32.390 all in recovery. Every one of us. No one no 0:04:32.390 --> 0:04:33.710 one's not right, Ellie. 0:04:33.750 --> 0:04:36.830 Right. And it's so often the people who come to 0:04:36.870 --> 0:04:40.029 the end of something and show up at a recovery 0:04:40.029 --> 0:04:45.390 group are actually the ones best positioned to actually change. 0:04:45.990 --> 0:04:51.109 Boom. And then the follow up question is, why is that? 0:04:51.790 --> 0:04:54.210 And you got to ask that question. Why do you 0:04:54.250 --> 0:05:00.650 hear such stories of breakthrough from Recovery Ministries? And could 0:05:00.650 --> 0:05:05.690 it be that God could do that in me? And 0:05:05.690 --> 0:05:09.490 the answer is absolutely. So coming up here, I'm going 0:05:09.529 --> 0:05:16.489 to give you the single most secret sauce to changing 0:05:16.490 --> 0:05:19.010 your life that you will ever find or hear about 0:05:19.529 --> 0:05:26.729 the single most important thing. Money back guarantee. Money back guarantee. 0:05:26.770 --> 0:05:28.770 I'm really curious. Like, I'm trying to think of what 0:05:28.770 --> 0:05:31.050 you're going to whittle it down to, and I'm actually 0:05:31.050 --> 0:05:31.930 not sure. 0:05:32.810 --> 0:05:33.529 That's good. 0:05:33.570 --> 0:05:36.090 We're gonna we're gonna have a little competition between the 0:05:36.089 --> 0:05:38.090 team here. We're. None of us know exactly what you're 0:05:38.089 --> 0:05:39.930 going to say, but we're all going to come up 0:05:39.930 --> 0:05:42.050 with a guess of what that one thing might be, 0:05:42.089 --> 0:05:44.730 and we'll see who gets closest to it. 0:05:44.850 --> 0:05:51.450 The single most important factor that will begin to give 0:05:51.510 --> 0:05:56.510 you breakthrough in your life. And I'm going to give 0:05:56.510 --> 0:05:58.750 one away because some of you are guessing, oh, Carl's 0:05:58.750 --> 0:06:00.710 big on humility. It's humility. Nope. 0:06:02.029 --> 0:06:04.550 Nope. That was my guess. Okay, check. 0:06:04.589 --> 0:06:06.790 Yeah. Me too. Throw that one out the window. I 0:06:06.790 --> 0:06:07.830 want humility. 0:06:08.270 --> 0:06:08.830 Not humility. 0:06:08.870 --> 0:06:12.190 Humility is right on this one's heels. But this one 0:06:12.390 --> 0:06:19.830 is the single most important factor. You learn to celebrate this, 0:06:21.150 --> 0:06:26.229 things will start to change in your life. Yeah. So 0:06:26.270 --> 0:06:28.150 fired up. I can barely stand it. 0:06:29.110 --> 0:06:32.830 Start your day moving closer to Jesus. You're listening to 0:06:32.870 --> 0:06:33.990 Carl and crew. 0:06:35.110 --> 0:06:37.630 I'll tell you when I praise God. And I'm doing 0:06:37.630 --> 0:06:40.349 it this morning. When you have a touch point of 0:06:40.350 --> 0:06:45.670 truth that you're like, boom! That. That is so true. 0:06:45.710 --> 0:06:47.349 You know what I'm talking about, guys. You read through 0:06:47.350 --> 0:06:49.310 the Bible, you see a truth, and you go. 0:06:49.810 --> 0:06:51.810 Whoa! Where the world has this been? 0:06:51.850 --> 0:06:54.489 Mind blown emoji. 0:06:55.050 --> 0:06:58.930 It's just so great. So here's the question because the 0:06:58.930 --> 0:07:01.290 myth is I need to change my life. And here's 0:07:01.290 --> 0:07:05.930 the truth. You can't do that. Which is somewhat freeing 0:07:06.490 --> 0:07:10.130 because you beat your head against the wall over something 0:07:10.130 --> 0:07:11.650 in your life. And I want to make sure that 0:07:11.650 --> 0:07:15.530 we're not letting anyone escape the orbit of what we're 0:07:15.530 --> 0:07:18.690 talking about here today. So what are some of the 0:07:18.690 --> 0:07:21.250 little things that we kind of give a pass to, 0:07:21.490 --> 0:07:24.090 that need to change in our life, that we can 0:07:24.370 --> 0:07:27.890 maybe benefit greatly by going, no, no, no, let's not 0:07:27.930 --> 0:07:29.930 let's not give that a pass. What are some of 0:07:29.930 --> 0:07:34.090 these things that are kind of accepted in evangelical circles, 0:07:34.090 --> 0:07:34.770 if you will? 0:07:35.290 --> 0:07:36.130 That's a good question. 0:07:36.170 --> 0:07:39.210 A big one we hear often from people is lack 0:07:39.210 --> 0:07:40.450 of time management. 0:07:40.890 --> 0:07:41.890 It's big, isn't it? 0:07:41.930 --> 0:07:45.050 So like an unproductive time wasting. 0:07:45.730 --> 0:07:49.950 Yeah. And full confession here I feel like I leverage 0:07:49.990 --> 0:07:53.550 time as well, or better than almost anyone that's in 0:07:53.550 --> 0:07:56.670 my sphere of influence around me. I really work at that. 0:07:56.910 --> 0:08:00.710 Can I tell you something, guys? It is an 24 0:08:00.710 --> 0:08:07.590 hours is a lot of time. I know you're you 0:08:07.630 --> 0:08:11.470 got a lot going on. You're raising kids. Ali's got this. Um, 0:08:11.790 --> 0:08:15.270 I mean, she's shuttling kids to basketball games when she 0:08:15.270 --> 0:08:17.870 gets off air and does a bunch more work than 0:08:17.870 --> 0:08:22.310 she goes home. And here goes mama. Commuter engine. She's 0:08:22.310 --> 0:08:27.550 flying all over. I get it, but I'm telling you, it's. 0:08:27.590 --> 0:08:32.110 Let's just pressure test this. Ali, there's still moments in 0:08:32.110 --> 0:08:36.550 your day that could get unredeemed. And of course, I 0:08:36.590 --> 0:08:37.430 don't want to put words. 0:08:37.550 --> 0:08:41.950 No, no, no, I mean, that's 100%. And we get 0:08:41.950 --> 0:08:45.349 so programmed to kind of say, well, I'm so busy. 0:08:45.750 --> 0:08:47.490 And kind of the flip side is so I sort 0:08:47.530 --> 0:08:51.210 of deserve to kind of like veg out or and 0:08:51.250 --> 0:08:54.970 they're talking about relaxation because relaxation is purposeful, right? 0:08:55.010 --> 0:08:57.330 There's spiritual rest for sure. And promote. 0:08:57.370 --> 0:09:00.610 Promotes rest. But what happens to me often is I'll 0:09:00.610 --> 0:09:06.170 just kind of like get into like a funk of like, okay, well, 0:09:06.450 --> 0:09:08.809 I'm tired, so I think I'm just going to scroll 0:09:08.850 --> 0:09:12.650 or I'm just going to like sit here and like, 0:09:12.690 --> 0:09:16.410 but it's not purposeful rest. It's just like unproductivity. And 0:09:16.410 --> 0:09:18.370 then you don't feel good about it. You don't feel 0:09:18.370 --> 0:09:19.850 any better. You feel worse. 0:09:20.290 --> 0:09:24.810 I love your term, purposeful rest. That's the line of demarcation. 0:09:24.809 --> 0:09:30.370 That's what delineates good rest from slothfulness. I mean, let's 0:09:30.370 --> 0:09:35.250 use the word right. It's not just slothfulness. There's other 0:09:35.250 --> 0:09:37.650 things that get a pass. There's things like and we 0:09:37.650 --> 0:09:41.449 almost we didn't go here because there were some pastors 0:09:41.450 --> 0:09:47.790 that were pretty big gluttony That that I remember as 0:09:47.790 --> 0:09:51.310 a kid thinking as a kid going, because I heard 0:09:51.309 --> 0:09:54.070 this word gluttony in Sunday school class. And I thought, 0:09:54.110 --> 0:09:56.189 I wonder why we don't talk a lot about that. 0:09:56.710 --> 0:09:57.710 And you're right. We don't. 0:09:59.710 --> 0:10:00.709 And that's a hard one. 0:10:00.710 --> 0:10:01.429 It's a hard one. 0:10:01.470 --> 0:10:05.390 And I've always said this here. Easy for you to say, Carl. 0:10:05.429 --> 0:10:08.030 You've got challenges in your life, and and weight is 0:10:08.030 --> 0:10:13.150 not one of them. But in the. The bummer about 0:10:13.190 --> 0:10:16.950 gluttony is that it is. So there's a lot of 0:10:16.950 --> 0:10:19.550 tentacles to it. A lot of this stuff is is 0:10:19.710 --> 0:10:23.069 a place of self-protection because of things that have happened 0:10:23.070 --> 0:10:25.829 in the past. But even in that if you pressure 0:10:25.830 --> 0:10:29.030 test it, God wants to give us victory even there. 0:10:29.070 --> 0:10:29.550 Yes. 0:10:30.190 --> 0:10:33.390 Even their hard fought hallelujah. 0:10:33.429 --> 0:10:37.470 And it's not about, you know, it's not about the eating. 0:10:37.470 --> 0:10:41.230 It's about what you get from it almost. You know, 0:10:41.270 --> 0:10:43.800 I feel like there's a, a deeper thing that comes 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.360 with it. You know, I've tried to make some changes 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.720 of of eating healthier and, and having specific days where 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.000 I can, I can have a snack or something that 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.000 I really like. And I, I noticed at the beginning 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.120 of it sometimes now that, hey, I'm a little I'm 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.000 a little more upset on the days where I can't 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:08.719 have the snack because. Because maybe I was trusting in 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.160 that a little too much to make me feel good 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:12.480 after a stressful day. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.000 All right. Gluttony. Confession. I'm going to come in right 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.720 behind you. I'm going to tell you what it is. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.280 I've actually had to get this under control. By the 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.400 power of the spirit. I'm going to make a confession 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.920 to you here. This is. This might sound goofy to you, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.160 but it's a spiritual thing to me. So I used 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:28.880 to love Cheez-Its when I was a kid, but my 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.240 wife told me those things are just jammed full of chemicals. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.600 We got to get you something different here. And so 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.840 she got me on to these things. They're called bunnies. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.400 I think that you get them at healthy kind of 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.840 places and they're like, you know, made with, you know, 0:11:42.140 --> 0:11:43.020 they strip out all. 0:11:43.460 --> 0:11:43.900 The cheddar. 0:11:43.900 --> 0:11:44.500 Bunnies. 0:11:45.100 --> 0:11:46.380 Yeah, they're like cheddar bunnies. 0:11:46.380 --> 0:11:47.500 Oh, the cheddar bunnies. Okay. 0:11:47.540 --> 0:11:48.420 Yeah. Oh, yeah. 0:11:48.460 --> 0:11:51.260 Well, you know what I do get a box. I 0:11:51.300 --> 0:11:53.940 have been known to eat the entire box in one sitting. 0:11:55.020 --> 0:11:55.500 I love it. 0:11:55.500 --> 0:11:58.300 Entire box of cheddar. 0:11:58.340 --> 0:11:59.660 Bunnies. That's real. 0:11:59.820 --> 0:12:04.620 And then I get up. Oh, why'd I do that? 0:12:05.140 --> 0:12:07.660 I ate the whole box. Should I even tell my wife? 0:12:08.500 --> 0:12:10.700 Should I? Should I put the empty box up in 0:12:10.700 --> 0:12:12.300 the cabinet? Or should I throw it in the trash 0:12:12.300 --> 0:12:14.380 and then have her say to me, what's going on 0:12:14.380 --> 0:12:16.540 with the cheddar bunnies, man? You went on a cheddar 0:12:16.580 --> 0:12:17.300 bunny binge. 0:12:19.420 --> 0:12:20.220 It's so good. 0:12:20.860 --> 0:12:23.500 I'm serious about this, guys. Let's cut it to you straight. 0:12:23.540 --> 0:12:24.380 No. That's real. 0:12:24.540 --> 0:12:29.459 Let's be real here. Well, I digress. I don't care 0:12:29.460 --> 0:12:32.980 if it's cheddar bunnies gossiping in the lobby. Kind of 0:12:33.020 --> 0:12:35.660 an addiction to sullenness. You know what I mean? Guys, 0:12:35.660 --> 0:12:37.580 we can all get into that funk. It's kind of 0:12:37.620 --> 0:12:39.660 like o b o b o b. Oh. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:40.560 Yeah. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.280 Things. Things aren't very good over here. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:43.240 Oh, woe is me. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.120 Sort of outlook on life. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.440 Yeah. Victim mode. We can all get there. We're all 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:53.439 in recovery. Here's the secret sauce. Here is the secret 0:12:53.440 --> 0:13:00.720 sauce to your life changing one word weakness and learning 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:05.800 to celebrate that you are too weak to change your life. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:13.480 Apostle Paul said it. He said, man, it's thorn in 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.640 the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:25.520 to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Reading 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.920 from Second Corinthians 12. But look at the many verses here. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:34.160 Is it the money verses? Verse eight. Three times I 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.560 pleaded with the Lord about this, that I that it 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:41.660 should leave me. But he said to me, my grace 0:13:41.700 --> 0:13:45.020 is sufficient for you. Oh, no, not just sufficient. There's 0:13:45.059 --> 0:13:49.980 a comma. For my power is made perfect in weakness. 0:13:51.660 --> 0:13:56.100 Back to Paul writing here. Therefore I will boast all 0:13:56.140 --> 0:14:00.620 the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power 0:14:00.620 --> 0:14:05.140 of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, 0:14:05.140 --> 0:14:11.699 then I am contentment with my weaknesses, even insults and hardships, 0:14:12.300 --> 0:14:19.820 persecutions and calamities. For when I am weak, then I 0:14:20.020 --> 0:14:29.580 am strong. Oh my goodness! How great is God's word! 0:14:31.260 --> 0:14:34.300 Here's my question for you though. So does this mean 0:14:34.300 --> 0:14:37.600 that I can boast in the weakness of, let's say, 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.880 unproductivity and time management say, well, that's the thorn in 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:46.280 my flesh, and I'm okay with that because weakness is good. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.880 Great question. Let's tackle that straight ahead. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.040 He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.400 he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.160 and crew on Moody Radio. 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:08.920 The crazy economy of God's world, as we find in Scripture, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:17.680 is so inverted, upside down and backwards to the world 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.520 that we live in. I mean, we live in a 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.880 world that screams at you. You need to overcome something. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:29.000 You need to get bowed up. You need to get strong. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.280 You need to get over this thing. You can do it. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:38.460 I mean, how many posters were in the 70s that said, inspiration, 0:15:38.460 --> 0:15:40.780 you can do this thing. And the reason people got 0:15:40.780 --> 0:15:43.940 sick of those after a while is guess what? They 0:15:43.940 --> 0:15:45.860 can be a real black hole. 0:15:46.180 --> 0:15:47.100 It's exhausting. 0:15:47.420 --> 0:15:52.300 It's exhausting. And you know, this is another topic for 0:15:52.300 --> 0:15:55.460 another time. But I'm absolutely convinced of this. I had 0:15:55.460 --> 0:15:57.820 a great discussion a number of years ago with my son. 0:15:57.820 --> 0:16:01.180 We were talking about tech founders that he was working with, 0:16:01.220 --> 0:16:04.660 and he said, man, there's a there's a black hole 0:16:04.660 --> 0:16:06.860 with a lot of tech founders. He goes, they're they're 0:16:06.900 --> 0:16:09.340 on Adderall to get their day started, and they're on 0:16:09.340 --> 0:16:12.620 weed to shut down the day. And he says, I've 0:16:12.620 --> 0:16:15.180 seen a couple of these guys get off one or 0:16:15.180 --> 0:16:20.980 the other or both. But the conclusion was they pick 0:16:21.020 --> 0:16:27.820 up some other kind of vice or thing because, wow, 0:16:27.860 --> 0:16:31.060 what are we left when we have nothing at all? 0:16:31.740 --> 0:16:34.680 The interesting thing, Ali asked a great question. And that is, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.720 do we kind of revel in the thorn in the flesh? 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.000 I mean, is that thing that keeps us weak? Restate 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:42.600 that question. 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.920 Yeah. I mean, you read the passage out of Second 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.400 Corinthians about boasting in the weakness so that the power 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.160 of Christ may rest upon me. Does that mean that 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:54.400 we accept whatever it is? I keep using the lack 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.120 of time management or time wasting slothfulness and say, okay, well, 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.120 that's the thorn in the flesh. That's how I am. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.680 This is my weakness. And so then I'm not going 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.920 to do anything about it because of Second Corinthians 12. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.200 Yeah, that's a that's a good point here, because the 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.000 malady that that Paul struggled with was something that he 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:19.200 desperately wanted to overcome. The general overarching thing here that 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.160 we find in Isaiah 40. And I'm going to give 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.199 this to you in just a moment, because it's classic, 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:28.400 is that weakness is to be celebrated because it forces 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.850 us to rely upon the grace of God to get 0:17:32.850 --> 0:17:37.050 through and overcome things in our life. We find this 0:17:37.050 --> 0:17:39.490 over and over again. I have two appeals that I'll 0:17:39.490 --> 0:17:41.650 have on this one. One is blessed are the poor 0:17:41.650 --> 0:17:44.810 in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. When 0:17:44.810 --> 0:17:51.170 we are bankrupt emotionally, spiritually, relationally, when we realize we've 0:17:51.210 --> 0:17:55.770 got nothing, Jesus says, now you've got everything. Okay, so 0:17:55.770 --> 0:17:57.250 the way up is down. You want to go to 0:17:57.290 --> 0:17:58.689 the front of the line, go to the back of 0:17:58.690 --> 0:18:01.010 the line. Everything in God's economy is different than what 0:18:01.010 --> 0:18:05.570 we're told in our youth. And here in Isaiah 40. 0:18:05.609 --> 0:18:09.929 It's an amazing thing. Verse 29, he gives power to 0:18:09.970 --> 0:18:13.570 the faint and to him who has no might, he 0:18:13.570 --> 0:18:18.850 increases strength. What an amazing thing to he who has 0:18:18.850 --> 0:18:22.530 no might. He increases strength. So what's going on there? 0:18:22.530 --> 0:18:25.450 It's like, hold it. He increased his strength. How? By 0:18:25.450 --> 0:18:30.810 embracing the fact that apart from him, we can do nothing. Nothing? 0:18:30.869 --> 0:18:31.550 Not a thing. 0:18:33.270 --> 0:18:35.510 And then he goes on. This is classic. You probably 0:18:35.550 --> 0:18:37.909 you just didn't know that verse. But you know, verse 30, 0:18:37.950 --> 0:18:40.430 a lot of you do. Even youths shall faint and 0:18:40.430 --> 0:18:43.950 be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted. But they 0:18:43.990 --> 0:18:48.230 who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They 0:18:48.230 --> 0:18:51.310 shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run 0:18:51.310 --> 0:18:55.350 and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint. 0:18:55.390 --> 0:19:00.070 What a beautiful thing! Those who wait on God's power. 0:19:00.670 --> 0:19:03.270 So here's the deal. Do you need to change your life? No. 0:19:03.270 --> 0:19:06.870 That's God's work in you. Bottom line, it's God's work 0:19:06.869 --> 0:19:08.870 in you. And he can do it. And it is 0:19:08.869 --> 0:19:13.550 a beautiful thing. It is beautiful. Let him have his 0:19:13.590 --> 0:19:15.470 way in you today. We're going to be talking about 0:19:15.470 --> 0:19:18.550 this all morning. Big myth we're debunking. I need to 0:19:18.550 --> 0:19:22.710 change my life. No. First reliance upon God's power. 0:19:23.950 --> 0:19:26.990 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:19:27.390 --> 0:19:30.250 It's one of the greatest discoveries that we can find 0:19:30.290 --> 0:19:33.970 wherever you go in God's word. I mean, consider my 0:19:33.970 --> 0:19:37.170 favorite king. I can you can go anywhere in the 0:19:37.170 --> 0:19:40.929 Bible to find people that walk in victory. And there 0:19:40.930 --> 0:19:46.730 is this one key. It's more than an emotion. Help 0:19:46.730 --> 0:19:52.369 me with this word. It's the awareness that I am 0:19:52.369 --> 0:19:58.649 too weak to do anything about this situation. It's what 0:19:58.690 --> 0:20:02.489 got the tax collector Matthew out of the tree to 0:20:02.570 --> 0:20:08.729 follow Jesus. It's the this the stunning response of the 0:20:08.730 --> 0:20:14.530 woman at the well. It's it's Lydia, the the seller 0:20:14.530 --> 0:20:18.730 of purple who just saw her need to then bring 0:20:18.730 --> 0:20:22.330 in these guests that were preaching to her. It's it's 0:20:22.530 --> 0:20:26.170 the list goes on and on and on. It's Moses, 0:20:27.590 --> 0:20:32.470 It's Moses faced with a sea in front of him 0:20:32.470 --> 0:20:36.750 and Pharaoh's army coming after him. God, what do we do? 0:20:38.270 --> 0:20:42.149 It's it's it's over and over. Isn't it amazing, guys, 0:20:42.150 --> 0:20:44.229 that when you look at the Hall of Fame, of 0:20:44.230 --> 0:20:47.870 faith from Genesis to Revelation, when you look at the 0:20:47.869 --> 0:20:51.629 Hall of Fame of faith, you see this deep river 0:20:51.630 --> 0:20:56.350 of perceived weakness in themselves and a and a desire 0:20:56.350 --> 0:20:57.790 to lean into God. 0:20:58.190 --> 0:21:00.190 I think the thing is that keeps us stuck is 0:21:00.190 --> 0:21:03.109 that so often we live with the illusion that for 0:21:03.109 --> 0:21:07.270 this thing, I just need to keep trying harder, or 0:21:07.270 --> 0:21:09.710 that there's some tactic that I haven't tried. I think 0:21:09.710 --> 0:21:11.830 we get it, that there's nothing we can do when 0:21:11.830 --> 0:21:14.430 we're faced with something that feels out of our control, 0:21:14.550 --> 0:21:18.710 some sort of diagnosis, something that's that truly we had 0:21:18.710 --> 0:21:21.470 nothing to do with per se. But when it's like 0:21:21.470 --> 0:21:24.670 those daily habits and hangups, we kind of live with 0:21:24.670 --> 0:21:27.210 the illusion that I'm just not trying hard enough. 0:21:27.330 --> 0:21:27.689 Yeah. 0:21:27.890 --> 0:21:29.050 Absolutely. Ali. 0:21:29.090 --> 0:21:33.090 I think we our big mistake is that we live 0:21:33.570 --> 0:21:38.250 as unqualified people constantly trying to qualify ourselves. 0:21:38.450 --> 0:21:40.210 That's a great way to put it, young Thunder. 0:21:40.250 --> 0:21:41.129 We are we. 0:21:41.130 --> 0:21:43.410 Unable people that try to be able. 0:21:43.450 --> 0:21:46.210 Yeah. And it's just the way it is. We will 0:21:46.210 --> 0:21:50.250 always be unqualified. The victory and the success comes when 0:21:50.250 --> 0:21:54.970 we acknowledge, when we're aware of our inability to be 0:21:54.970 --> 0:21:59.450 qualified on our own, and the fact that it's all God. 0:22:00.050 --> 0:22:03.050 God does the work when we let him have it. 0:22:03.090 --> 0:22:05.490 He gets the glory and he uses us. 0:22:06.130 --> 0:22:08.889 So what do you do when you realize your weakness, 0:22:08.930 --> 0:22:12.410 your inability to change your life? Do you sit there 0:22:12.410 --> 0:22:14.369 because you could sit there and just go, yeah, I 0:22:14.369 --> 0:22:19.050 can't do it. Or does that move us into a 0:22:19.050 --> 0:22:23.889 relationship with the Holy Trinity that positions us for God's power? 0:22:24.010 --> 0:22:24.609 Hang on. 0:22:25.390 --> 0:22:28.189 Tune in whenever you like. Check out the Carl and 0:22:28.190 --> 0:22:30.750 Crew podcast wherever you like to stream. 0:22:31.430 --> 0:22:33.590 Okay, here's the beauty. And I want to. I want 0:22:33.630 --> 0:22:37.389 to tackle this quickly. And I've done it again. She 0:22:37.390 --> 0:22:40.590 did it again. She's coming up with a cool little 0:22:40.630 --> 0:22:42.629 hot link that all you're going to do is text 0:22:42.670 --> 0:22:44.790 a keyword, and we're going to shoot it back to you. Bang! 0:22:44.790 --> 0:22:46.909 You don't even have anything to open up. It'll be 0:22:46.910 --> 0:22:53.470 right there before you. This proves how incredibly how incredibly. 0:22:53.710 --> 0:22:58.229 I almost want to use the word simple. Yeah, simple, 0:22:58.230 --> 0:23:03.870 but not easy. God's solutions are for our life. They're 0:23:03.869 --> 0:23:07.949 not easy, but they are very simple. God made the 0:23:07.990 --> 0:23:10.750 gospel so relatable to all of us. This is why 0:23:10.750 --> 0:23:13.350 he says, let the children come to me. Let the 0:23:13.350 --> 0:23:18.710 children come to me. The gospel is relevant for all ages, stages, 0:23:18.710 --> 0:23:22.750 and no matter what you're up against today, the first 0:23:22.750 --> 0:23:25.450 thing that needs to be celebrated when you realize you 0:23:25.450 --> 0:23:28.050 can't change something in your life is that you are 0:23:28.050 --> 0:23:31.410 utterly weak and you rejoice in it, as Paul did 0:23:31.730 --> 0:23:38.050 as Isaiah tells us. In our weakness he is strong. 0:23:39.609 --> 0:23:43.410 He gives power to the faint, says Idea Isaiah. And 0:23:43.410 --> 0:23:48.330 to him who has no might, he increases strength. Is 0:23:48.330 --> 0:23:55.570 that amazing? I mean, how how beautiful is God's Word 0:23:55.570 --> 0:23:57.090 and how beautiful is God. 0:23:57.130 --> 0:23:58.610 It's the upside down kingdom. 0:23:58.810 --> 0:24:00.889 It's the upside down kingdom. 0:24:00.890 --> 0:24:03.130 I think that that's one of the best ways to 0:24:03.170 --> 0:24:05.890 explain the kingdom of God, because it's the stuff that 0:24:05.890 --> 0:24:09.370 you wouldn't, you wouldn't think by worldly terms is what's 0:24:09.410 --> 0:24:11.369 going to move you closer to him, what's going to 0:24:11.369 --> 0:24:14.649 make you stronger. But it's true. Weakness is strength. 0:24:15.210 --> 0:24:16.890 Let me just give it to you quickly if you 0:24:16.890 --> 0:24:22.380 want real change. First and foremost, embrace Race. Your utter 0:24:22.380 --> 0:24:29.660 inability to change yourself. That's number one. That then ushers 0:24:29.660 --> 0:24:34.220 you into an awareness for where real change happens. And 0:24:34.220 --> 0:24:39.020 it's all related to the Trinity. It's found in humility 0:24:39.020 --> 0:24:41.820 before God. You humble yourself under God's mighty hand. He 0:24:41.820 --> 0:24:46.459 will lift you up. It's proximity to Jesus. You be 0:24:46.460 --> 0:24:49.100 a branch that abides in the vine. You will bear 0:24:49.100 --> 0:24:53.780 much fruit. And it's also found in the liberty of 0:24:53.780 --> 0:24:56.740 the Holy Spirit, raising the sails of your soul and 0:24:56.740 --> 0:25:02.820 allowing God to absolutely rock your world. This is such 0:25:02.859 --> 0:25:09.780 an important. This is such an important kind of paradigm shift. 0:25:09.780 --> 0:25:11.940 I love what you just said, Young Thunder. How did 0:25:11.940 --> 0:25:14.220 you say that again? The kingdom is. 0:25:14.340 --> 0:25:17.500 It's the upside down kingdom. The. The things that the 0:25:17.500 --> 0:25:20.119 world tells us are what we need to be strong 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:23.720 or what we need to have it all is is just. 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:26.040 It's the opposite in the Kingdom of God. It's blessed 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:28.520 are the poor in spirit, for they shall receive the 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:31.120 kingdom of heaven. It's Jesus saying, whoever is first will 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:33.680 be last, and whoever is last will be first. It's 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:38.879 God lifts up those who are weak. It's, you know, 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:39.360 it's it's. 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:42.320 The upside down kingdom. How good is that? The upside 0:25:42.359 --> 0:25:43.159 down kingdom. 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:44.120 It's so true. 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:47.880 You know, I don't know what you're up against today, 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:51.359 but I know this for sure. A myth that many 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:53.400 of us have believed. And. And by the way, do 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:56.040 we have to fight this off in here? Can we 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:57.000 just all. 0:25:57.040 --> 0:26:00.360 Yes, yes. Hands raised. Hands raised. 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:02.440 Can. I've got both hands in the air right now. 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:06.760 And can we just all say that this is one 0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:08.919 of the greatest baits of Satan? 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:09.919 Yeah. 0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:13.520 When you hear that notion rattling around in your brain, boy, 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:19.740 you need to change your life. The conviction Is possibly 0:26:19.740 --> 0:26:22.580 from God that something needs to change in your life. 0:26:22.780 --> 0:26:26.220 The deception is that you need to do it, and 0:26:26.220 --> 0:26:31.900 it's deadly. Scripture is loaded from beginning to end. Every 0:26:31.940 --> 0:26:35.340 time somebody wandered out into the wilderness of thinking, I 0:26:35.380 --> 0:26:37.820 got to. I got to fix this. I've got to 0:26:37.820 --> 0:26:41.420 get us across this river. I've got to. You've filling 0:26:41.420 --> 0:26:43.659 in the blank. I don't care what it is. I've 0:26:43.700 --> 0:26:47.899 got to fight this war. Jehoshaphat said, I've got this. 0:26:47.900 --> 0:26:51.300 So much. So put the worship team out in front 0:26:53.100 --> 0:26:59.859 of that story. It's. It's an amazing paradigm shift embrace. 0:26:59.900 --> 0:27:04.619 Let me just boil this down. Embrace your weakness. When 0:27:04.619 --> 0:27:11.300 we are weak, then he is strong. Embrace it. And 0:27:11.300 --> 0:27:17.840 then go after this humility before God. You humble yourself 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:21.920 under his mighty hand, he'll lift you up. Proximity to Jesus. 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:26.000 You abide in the vine. You will bear much fruit. 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:31.159 One of those fruits is self-control. Something you've been kicking 0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:35.520 your tail. You're like, I have no self-control and you 0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:39.360 don't have to produce it. That's the fruit of the spirit. 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:46.040 And liberty of the Holy Spirit. Raise the sails of 0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:48.960 your soul. Let the Spirit of God remind you of 0:27:48.960 --> 0:27:51.800 truth that's going to carry you into God's power and 0:27:51.800 --> 0:27:56.200 into change. It's an awesome thing. And super. I did 0:27:56.200 --> 0:27:57.480 it again for us. 0:27:57.520 --> 0:27:58.280 Yes she did. 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:00.919 She put together these quick little points just in a 0:28:00.920 --> 0:28:03.360 key word for you to grab. It's just a power 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:05.719 packed little statement. But man, there's scripture attached to it, 0:28:05.720 --> 0:28:08.560 so spend some time with it. Just text change to 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:17.820 800 555 7898. Just text change to 800 555 7898. 0:28:18.660 --> 0:28:22.500 Yeah. What a what a thrill. And I think what's 0:28:22.500 --> 0:28:26.020 so great about the Word of God is that it 0:28:26.020 --> 0:28:32.700 is not easy, but there's no complexity. God is very 0:28:32.700 --> 0:28:38.340 simple with this. Embrace your weakness, my friend. And then 0:28:38.340 --> 0:28:41.500 let's go on this ride. Trust in God. Text the 0:28:41.500 --> 0:28:47.340 word change to 800 555 7898. Just change to 800 0:28:47.380 --> 0:28:49.620 555 7898. 0:28:50.300 --> 0:28:54.060 Your spiritual pit stop to keep you going in the race. 0:28:54.260 --> 0:28:56.460 You're listening to Carl and crew. 0:28:57.940 --> 0:29:01.380 Alex, got a question for you. You exhausted yourself trying 0:29:01.380 --> 0:29:04.740 to change yourself, and then you cried out to God. 0:29:04.740 --> 0:29:07.940 And you've got a story of deliverance. In our weakness, 0:29:07.940 --> 0:29:11.300 he is strong. We are ready for your calls right now. 0:29:11.340 --> 0:29:17.600 800 555 Five, 7898 (800) 555-7898. 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:21.160 This is a big one, isn't it? Because it's it's 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:25.640 the point at which we realise I can't do this, 0:29:25.640 --> 0:29:29.800 that God shows up. Why do we keep thinking I 0:29:29.800 --> 0:29:33.440 need to do this in my strength? What keeps us there? Ali? 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:36.440 Well, it's that dangling carrot. I think we are hard wired. 0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:40.920 I mean, every January 1st, most people, whether they make 0:29:40.920 --> 0:29:44.880 a specific resolution or not, most people have some sort 0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:46.800 of idea that this is going to be a year 0:29:46.800 --> 0:29:49.160 that X, Y, or Z happens. This is going to 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:52.880 be the year that's different. People have like dry months 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:55.760 where they if they feel like they're too dependent on alcohol, 0:29:55.760 --> 0:29:58.320 people will do dry January and try to give up 0:29:58.320 --> 0:30:01.440 drinking for a month, or I'm going back to the 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:05.560 gym because we're hardwired to want to be better. 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:08.720 I this is something that God's been putting on my 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:10.440 heart a lot recently, and I'm finding a lot of 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:13.620 areas where it comes up, So it's convicting for me. 0:30:13.620 --> 0:30:21.060 But I think that we either don't trust to experience 0:30:21.060 --> 0:30:23.620 God in this kind of way, that he's going to 0:30:23.660 --> 0:30:28.420 handle it for us or or we just have assumed like, ah, 0:30:28.460 --> 0:30:31.620 God doesn't really show up in lives like that anymore. 0:30:31.660 --> 0:30:35.219 You know, I think about the way the apostles experienced 0:30:35.420 --> 0:30:37.620 Jesus because they were with him and they had this 0:30:37.620 --> 0:30:40.140 relationship with him. And even when he left, they were close. 0:30:40.140 --> 0:30:43.620 They had these encounters of the Holy Spirit. And there's 0:30:43.620 --> 0:30:46.740 this quote that I heard recently that really has stuck 0:30:46.740 --> 0:30:50.900 with me saying, you know, the the apostles had this 0:30:50.900 --> 0:30:55.219 life changing experience with, with Jesus, but it wasn't because 0:30:55.260 --> 0:30:58.500 Jesus loved or attended to them more than he does 0:30:58.540 --> 0:31:02.140 to us. It's because they loved and attended to him 0:31:02.140 --> 0:31:06.020 more than we do. And and I think that's a 0:31:06.020 --> 0:31:08.380 big deal when it comes to this, that we we 0:31:08.380 --> 0:31:10.709 tend to go on our own because we go, oh, 0:31:10.750 --> 0:31:14.110 God doesn't God doesn't show up in lives like that. 0:31:14.110 --> 0:31:17.430 But if we allow ourselves to experience him and spend 0:31:17.430 --> 0:31:20.190 time with him and love him, then he does. 0:31:20.230 --> 0:31:22.830 Yeah. And here's one point I want to I want 0:31:22.870 --> 0:31:25.950 a nuance to this is all you have to do 0:31:25.950 --> 0:31:28.390 is look at the apostles life and the struggle that 0:31:28.390 --> 0:31:32.670 they had with this very thing. Look at Peter. Sure enough, 0:31:32.830 --> 0:31:37.190 he denied Christ. And all you got to do is 0:31:37.190 --> 0:31:40.270 look at Peter and go, hold it a second here. Okay. 0:31:40.270 --> 0:31:43.630 We're all in a process. Yep. Do you think they 0:31:43.630 --> 0:31:45.430 got weak in the knees and tried to trust in 0:31:45.430 --> 0:31:50.750 their own strength when they were taking the gospel around? Undoubtedly, guys. Yeah. Undoubtedly. 0:31:50.750 --> 0:31:51.510 That was a battle. 0:31:51.550 --> 0:31:54.070 I mean, Paul even talks about in Galatians how he 0:31:54.070 --> 0:31:58.469 had to confront Peter because Peter was was getting a 0:31:58.470 --> 0:32:01.350 little more afraid of what people thought of him than 0:32:01.350 --> 0:32:03.750 what the gospel really was. And he was sticking around 0:32:03.750 --> 0:32:07.229 with maybe some of the the Jewish believers who were the, the, 0:32:07.350 --> 0:32:11.970 the over legalistic type of followers and and he was 0:32:11.970 --> 0:32:15.170 not sitting with the Gentile crowd. And I mean, they 0:32:15.170 --> 0:32:17.210 they did that. They struggled with the same stuff. 0:32:17.410 --> 0:32:21.610 Yeah. Good question Ali. You exhausted yourself trying to change 0:32:21.610 --> 0:32:24.250 yourself and then you cried out to God. We're looking 0:32:24.250 --> 0:32:26.930 for some testimonies in here today. Come on, get on 0:32:26.930 --> 0:32:29.610 the soapbox and share what God did in your life 0:32:29.610 --> 0:32:33.330 when you came to the end of yourself. In our weakness, 0:32:33.330 --> 0:32:38.250 he is strong. Life change happens when we embrace our 0:32:38.290 --> 0:32:42.330 weakness and God's strength. Phone lines wide open. I'm asking 0:32:42.330 --> 0:32:44.650 you to call in right now and testify your story. 0:32:44.690 --> 0:32:53.450 Someone needs to hear it. 800 555 7898 800 555 7898. 0:32:54.210 --> 0:32:58.210 Walking closer to Jesus every day you're listening to Carl 0:32:58.210 --> 0:32:58.810 and crew. 0:32:59.730 --> 0:33:03.890 The single most important emotion that we can have when 0:33:03.890 --> 0:33:07.090 we really want to see change in our lives is 0:33:07.150 --> 0:33:10.390 when we embrace our utter weakness to make it happen. 0:33:10.990 --> 0:33:14.830 Sounds crazy, but it's true. In our weakness, he is strong. 0:33:16.150 --> 0:33:21.630 We find it all over Scripture. Check this out Isaiah 40. 0:33:22.630 --> 0:33:25.070 He gives power to the faint and to him who 0:33:25.070 --> 0:33:30.230 has no might. He increases strength. How much might know. 0:33:30.270 --> 0:33:30.670 Might know. 0:33:30.710 --> 0:33:31.630 Might, might. 0:33:32.430 --> 0:33:33.350 It's so good. 0:33:33.870 --> 0:33:38.510 It's so powerful. When you embrace your weakness now you're 0:33:38.510 --> 0:33:41.990 positioned for the God of all power to do a 0:33:41.990 --> 0:33:43.950 work in your life. We're asking you a question. You 0:33:43.950 --> 0:33:47.310 exhausted yourself trying to change yourself, and then you cried 0:33:47.310 --> 0:33:49.870 out to God. What stories do you have today? 0:33:49.910 --> 0:33:54.630 800 555 7898. Let's go to Nikki. First time caller 0:33:54.630 --> 0:33:57.910 from Florida. Nikki, tell us your story. You exhausted yourself 0:33:57.910 --> 0:33:59.350 trying to change yourself. 0:34:01.110 --> 0:34:03.590 So a little over a year ago, I was having 0:34:03.790 --> 0:34:08.330 a really bad, Intrusive suicidal thoughts. And I kept telling 0:34:08.330 --> 0:34:10.770 myself that, you know, I just have to change my 0:34:10.770 --> 0:34:13.570 way of thinking. I had to go to a therapist, 0:34:13.610 --> 0:34:15.730 go to a counselor, just, you know, change the way 0:34:15.730 --> 0:34:21.690 I was doing things. And after months of failing and 0:34:21.730 --> 0:34:24.770 the intrusive thoughts were getting worse, I dropped to my knee. 0:34:24.770 --> 0:34:28.330 I was a lukewarm Christian before all this also, and 0:34:28.489 --> 0:34:30.850 I dropped to my knees and I just. I begged 0:34:30.890 --> 0:34:33.370 Jesus for help and, you know, just opened my heart 0:34:33.370 --> 0:34:37.210 to him. And immediately those intrusive thoughts disappeared. And they 0:34:37.210 --> 0:34:38.730 haven't been back since then. 0:34:38.770 --> 0:34:39.170 Wow. 0:34:39.570 --> 0:34:42.490 Yeah. And, Nikki, this is not this is not some 0:34:42.489 --> 0:34:46.009 cheap fix. You were you were truly desperate, and you 0:34:46.010 --> 0:34:49.170 embraced weakness in a very practical way and cried out 0:34:49.170 --> 0:34:51.570 to God. It's just that must have been a beautiful 0:34:51.570 --> 0:34:55.049 moment of emptying yourself and realizing, God, you got to 0:34:55.050 --> 0:34:56.210 do this, Nikki. 0:34:57.489 --> 0:35:00.370 It was. And, you know, I remind my family all 0:35:00.370 --> 0:35:02.930 the time, like, you know, you just have to open 0:35:02.930 --> 0:35:06.390 yourself up because, you know, my my family worries about stuff. 0:35:06.430 --> 0:35:08.190 They're like, oh, bills and know this and know that. 0:35:08.190 --> 0:35:11.149 And I'm just like, that's not. Yeah. You just have 0:35:11.150 --> 0:35:13.230 to let God let it be and let God. 0:35:13.550 --> 0:35:16.310 Amen. Nikki, there's so much truth in that. It's the 0:35:16.310 --> 0:35:20.430 large and the small stuff. It's horrible thinking suicidal thoughts 0:35:20.430 --> 0:35:23.310 to I've got to get this to do list done today. 0:35:23.350 --> 0:35:26.910 It's it's that real God's power. Is that real? Evelyn 0:35:26.910 --> 0:35:29.430 in Florida. Thanks for holding on. What's your story, Evelyn? 0:35:30.150 --> 0:35:34.270 Hi. Good morning. Yeah, I had been in alcoholic addiction 0:35:34.270 --> 0:35:39.070 for over 30 years, seeking help from recovery programs, from counseling, 0:35:39.390 --> 0:35:41.629 and nothing work. I would just get worse. And I 0:35:41.630 --> 0:35:45.229 remember sitting in my living room crying to God and 0:35:45.270 --> 0:35:48.390 asking him, God, why can't I do this? And he 0:35:48.390 --> 0:35:50.190 gave me a vision of what my life would be 0:35:50.190 --> 0:35:54.430 like if I didn't stop. And that day, um, he 0:35:54.430 --> 0:35:57.790 took me to a church and I surrendered myself entirely 0:35:57.790 --> 0:36:00.590 to God. And I've been three and a half years 0:36:00.590 --> 0:36:01.910 sober since then. 0:36:01.950 --> 0:36:02.189 Wow. 0:36:02.290 --> 0:36:05.290 Praise God. Were you born again on that day for 0:36:05.290 --> 0:36:07.330 the first time, Evelyn, or what was going on? 0:36:08.690 --> 0:36:11.169 I'm going to say I was because I knew who 0:36:11.170 --> 0:36:13.530 God was. But today I know who God is. 0:36:14.090 --> 0:36:14.770 Yeah, I. 0:36:14.810 --> 0:36:18.210 Knew who God was. But today I know who God is. 0:36:18.250 --> 0:36:18.410 Yeah. 0:36:18.450 --> 0:36:22.370 Are you kidding me? Quotable quotes. Evelyn. Way to go, 0:36:22.370 --> 0:36:25.450 Sister Cynthia. First time caller in Tennessee. What's your story, 0:36:25.489 --> 0:36:27.850 Cynthia Carle. 0:36:27.890 --> 0:36:32.810 Back in 1993, I was a young girl. Not having 0:36:32.810 --> 0:36:38.010 anywhere to live, found myself in a fornicating relationship, was 0:36:38.010 --> 0:36:42.930 there because mainly I needed shelter. But I heard the gospel. 0:36:43.290 --> 0:36:47.090 And the Holy Spirit, you know, just filled me up 0:36:47.090 --> 0:36:50.250 and and led me to understand that I can't be 0:36:50.250 --> 0:36:52.489 on both sides. So I wanted to serve God with 0:36:52.489 --> 0:36:55.489 my whole heart. But I knew that would call for 0:36:55.489 --> 0:36:57.890 me to give up the shelter that I had in 0:36:57.890 --> 0:37:02.020 the relationship. And six times I tried to come out 0:37:02.020 --> 0:37:05.660 of it on my own, tried my own strength, and 0:37:05.700 --> 0:37:11.339 kept failing miserably. And on the seventh time I said 0:37:11.340 --> 0:37:13.940 I went to church, went to the altar, I said, God, 0:37:14.500 --> 0:37:17.299 I have tried six times to come out of this 0:37:17.300 --> 0:37:20.380 because I want to serve you in truth. I said, 0:37:20.380 --> 0:37:23.620 but Lord, here I am again, broken. Can't do it 0:37:23.620 --> 0:37:27.140 on my own. I said, father, if you don't do it, 0:37:27.180 --> 0:37:29.620 it cannot be done. And I'm not taking myself out 0:37:29.620 --> 0:37:32.140 of this anymore. I'm letting you know I want to 0:37:32.140 --> 0:37:34.500 come out. So you're going to have to take me out. 0:37:34.660 --> 0:37:37.820 And I saw the power of God move in my life, 0:37:38.140 --> 0:37:41.700 removed me from that situation. And the rest is history. 0:37:42.140 --> 0:37:45.100 Gave me a husband like the following year. We were 0:37:45.100 --> 0:37:49.540 married for 20, almost 27 years when he passed away 0:37:49.540 --> 0:37:55.060 from Covid in in 2021. And I'm living the best life. 0:37:55.100 --> 0:37:58.540 Still serving the Lord. I can tell you stories upon 0:37:58.540 --> 0:38:01.560 stories about the miracles we have wrought in my life. 0:38:01.760 --> 0:38:05.520 From that one decision I made to choose him over 0:38:05.560 --> 0:38:07.200 a fornicating relationship. 0:38:07.239 --> 0:38:11.520 Oh, Cynthia. Oh, God bless you, sister. In the. And 0:38:11.520 --> 0:38:13.480 you know what the fruit of the spirit is pouring 0:38:13.480 --> 0:38:15.360 out of you? Just pouring out of you, Cynthia. 0:38:15.400 --> 0:38:16.160 Absolutely. 0:38:16.320 --> 0:38:16.640 Oh. 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:20.560 Oh, what a tremendous word. And listen, if you're listening 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:23.480 right now, you've got to. You got to know something. 0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:27.120 Cynthia's story can be your story. Guys, this is. This 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:28.720 is why we do this here. 0:38:28.760 --> 0:38:29.080 Yeah. 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:34.000 In our weakness, he is strong. There are hundreds of 0:38:34.000 --> 0:38:37.239 women and men listening to that saying, oh, God, let 0:38:37.239 --> 0:38:40.080 it be me. Fall to your face, my friend. Come 0:38:40.120 --> 0:38:42.520 right to the end of yourself. You got to get 0:38:42.520 --> 0:38:45.319 to the point where Cynthia got where she said, I 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:50.280 got nothing here. God. I can't do this. Six times 0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:53.320 I've tried to separate myself. I can't do it. But 0:38:53.320 --> 0:38:59.219 God can. I mean. Some of the greatest evidence. Let's 0:38:59.219 --> 0:39:00.819 go back to the phone lines here. What do. 0:39:00.820 --> 0:39:01.180 We have. 0:39:01.219 --> 0:39:04.500 Cindy calling in? First time caller. Cindy, first time caller 0:39:04.500 --> 0:39:07.300 from Pennsylvania. Cindy. Go ahead. Tell us your story. 0:39:09.260 --> 0:39:14.939 Oh, so at 62, due to back problems, I became 0:39:14.940 --> 0:39:18.580 an alcoholic. And alcohol is in my family, so I 0:39:18.620 --> 0:39:22.020 knew the consequences, but I couldn't stop. I would get 0:39:22.020 --> 0:39:24.700 up in the morning and say, okay, I'm not drinking today. 0:39:24.940 --> 0:39:26.739 On the way home from work, I would stop at 0:39:26.739 --> 0:39:30.700 the state store. And so I found out about Celebrate 0:39:30.700 --> 0:39:34.339 Recovery and went to one of their meetings. And on 0:39:34.340 --> 0:39:38.860 the way home I just screamed at the Lord, who 0:39:38.860 --> 0:39:44.260 does that? And I said, Lord, I don't care what 0:39:44.260 --> 0:39:47.020 it takes. This has to stop and you have to 0:39:47.020 --> 0:39:48.380 do it because I can't. 0:39:48.780 --> 0:39:49.460 Amen. 0:39:49.940 --> 0:39:55.219 And I this is stupid, but I fell down the 0:39:55.219 --> 0:39:59.680 cellar stairs and broke my C-2, and by rights, I 0:39:59.680 --> 0:40:03.560 should have died or been a paraplegic. And I'm as 0:40:03.560 --> 0:40:07.360 normal as I ever was. That's not saying a whole lot. 0:40:08.120 --> 0:40:12.640 I hear that one. But the bottom line, Cindy. Bottom line, Cindy, 0:40:12.640 --> 0:40:15.080 is you cried out to God and he saved you 0:40:15.080 --> 0:40:18.520 right there. That is beautiful, Cindy. First time caller from Pennsylvania. 0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:21.920 I mean, this is awesome, man. We got barely time here. 0:40:21.920 --> 0:40:24.319 I got to get one more in. Heather, first time 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:27.680 caller from Florida. We got a moment here. What's your story, sister? 0:40:28.280 --> 0:40:32.440 Uh, I am now clean and sober from drugs, cocaine 0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:38.320 and opiates and alcohol for 13.5 years. And in sobriety, 0:40:38.320 --> 0:40:40.520 I have also been pushed down to my knees by 0:40:40.520 --> 0:40:43.239 God with my face in the ground, crying, begging for 0:40:43.239 --> 0:40:46.160 help to take something that I was once again trying 0:40:46.160 --> 0:40:49.680 to control. And today I earn a living with my 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:52.200 clothes on and I walk with my head held high. 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:54.940 And I'm so grateful. And I get the opportunity to 0:40:54.940 --> 0:40:57.100 help other women do this journey as well. 0:40:57.780 --> 0:40:57.980 Wow. 0:40:58.020 --> 0:41:01.260 Heather, what a story. And I hear that other little 0:41:01.260 --> 0:41:04.820 thread in your story. Heather. And that is beautiful, sister. 0:41:05.540 --> 0:41:07.419 Ample evidence. We just got here. Allie. 0:41:07.420 --> 0:41:07.700 Right? 0:41:07.739 --> 0:41:10.060 Yeah. I mean, the common denominator is getting to that 0:41:10.060 --> 0:41:13.419 point where you're so sick and tired of being sick 0:41:13.420 --> 0:41:16.540 and tired, as the quote goes, and and you cry 0:41:16.540 --> 0:41:19.140 out to God and you finally get to the point 0:41:19.140 --> 0:41:21.860 where you go, I can't do this myself. And that's 0:41:21.860 --> 0:41:25.940 where you're best positioned to receive all of the grace 0:41:25.940 --> 0:41:31.299 and the mercy and the help that's available for gossip. 0:41:33.500 --> 0:41:39.820 For lack of time, redemption, discipline in your life. For 0:41:39.820 --> 0:41:44.979 horrible thoughts that keep coming back again and again. In 0:41:44.980 --> 0:41:48.860 our weakness. He is strong. Fall to your knees today, friend. 0:41:48.860 --> 0:41:51.420 I don't care what it is. Please don't whitewash it 0:41:51.980 --> 0:41:55.040 and shove it back into the shadows. Own it. Let 0:41:55.080 --> 0:42:02.680 God change you. He absolutely can. He absolutely can. Wow. Boom! Crew! 0:42:03.120 --> 0:42:04.160 You guys are awesome. 0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:09.200 Get to know the team behind the scenes. Follow Carl 0:42:09.200 --> 0:42:11.400 and crew on Facebook and Instagram. 0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:17.560 It's unavoidable. It's almost like a mantra. Even for Christ followers, 0:42:17.560 --> 0:42:21.040 I need to change my life. The question is, what 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:23.960 do you do with that? And I think the operative 0:42:23.960 --> 0:42:27.400 word that needs to change is I. It's often a 0:42:27.400 --> 0:42:31.239 man centered gospel knowing that God alone saved us, and 0:42:31.239 --> 0:42:34.919 then we think it's on us to change us. David Gregory. 0:42:35.080 --> 0:42:37.240 That's a crazy maker, isn't it, my man? 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:40.160 It is. Good morning, Carl and Ashley. So good to 0:42:40.160 --> 0:42:41.239 be with you again. 0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:44.759 Yeah. What's going on there? Um, how did we get this? 0:42:44.800 --> 0:42:47.279 It seems to not just be in North America as 0:42:47.280 --> 0:42:50.560 I traveled here recently to Africa. It's all over the world. 0:42:50.600 --> 0:42:54.420 Is it is Satan baiting a trap to get this 0:42:54.660 --> 0:42:57.980 thing called sanctification? Growing up in God, making it all 0:42:57.980 --> 0:42:58.780 about us? 0:42:59.460 --> 0:43:03.420 Well, absolutely. And where it goes back to is us 0:43:03.420 --> 0:43:05.779 eating originally from the tree of the Knowledge of Good 0:43:05.780 --> 0:43:10.380 and evil, which puts us into a, um, a self 0:43:10.380 --> 0:43:14.300 sufficiency mode. And it's all up to me mode. And 0:43:14.300 --> 0:43:17.380 God has switched kingdoms on us and brought us into 0:43:17.380 --> 0:43:21.500 the kingdom of God. And now we're eating from the 0:43:21.500 --> 0:43:25.940 tree of life, which is a 100% grace mode. God 0:43:25.940 --> 0:43:29.500 does it, we receive it. And so what that means 0:43:29.540 --> 0:43:32.700 is that we are not the agent of change. The 0:43:32.700 --> 0:43:37.900 Holy Spirit is. And so our role is to receive 0:43:37.940 --> 0:43:42.220 it all by faith. You know, in in Romans one, uh, 0:43:42.420 --> 0:43:45.660 Paul says, the righteousness of God is revealed not from 0:43:45.660 --> 0:43:49.140 our effort to our effort, but from faith to faith. 0:43:49.710 --> 0:43:53.629 It's because the gospel is a gospel of grace. And 0:43:53.630 --> 0:43:56.149 that means that God does it and we receive it. 0:43:56.390 --> 0:43:59.870 And so that's that's the the realm in which we 0:43:59.870 --> 0:44:03.550 operate now. But learning to operate fully in that realm 0:44:03.550 --> 0:44:09.070 rather than this realm, it's it's it's a real transition. 0:44:09.110 --> 0:44:10.790 I mean, God has to teach us. 0:44:10.830 --> 0:44:13.350 David Gregory, our guest right now. Best New York Times 0:44:13.350 --> 0:44:15.870 best selling author. Tell us a little bit about your 0:44:15.910 --> 0:44:20.150 own journey. You were saved in college, but it wasn't 0:44:20.190 --> 0:44:22.469 until about ten years later that you made a pretty 0:44:22.469 --> 0:44:23.750 important discovery. 0:44:24.110 --> 0:44:27.229 Yeah, I, I went to a retreat that was taught 0:44:27.230 --> 0:44:29.750 by this guy named Dan Stone and ended up going 0:44:29.790 --> 0:44:33.590 to several retreats that he was teaching at. And through him, 0:44:33.590 --> 0:44:37.110 he was just a pastor that nobody knew almost from, 0:44:37.110 --> 0:44:41.830 from Kentucky. But God had revealed to him the reality 0:44:41.830 --> 0:44:44.350 of Christ in us and how Christ has come to 0:44:44.350 --> 0:44:49.890 live within us in order for us to trust him 0:44:49.890 --> 0:44:52.210 to be living his life through us. Which is exactly 0:44:52.210 --> 0:44:55.730 the way Jesus operated on the earth, trusting the father 0:44:55.730 --> 0:44:59.930 to be living his life through them. Through him. That's what, uh, 0:44:59.930 --> 0:45:02.770 is evident if you read the Gospel of John closely. 0:45:03.210 --> 0:45:07.489 And so Paul said, the primary message that God has 0:45:07.489 --> 0:45:12.050 given him to share with the church is Christ in us. 0:45:12.370 --> 0:45:16.170 It's not the forgiveness of sins. The forgiveness of sins 0:45:16.170 --> 0:45:21.490 is is obviously an essential message. But the primary message 0:45:21.489 --> 0:45:24.170 Paul said in Colossians one that God has given him 0:45:24.170 --> 0:45:27.290 is Christ in us. And when you think about it, 0:45:27.330 --> 0:45:31.090 if God Himself has come to live within us, shouldn't 0:45:31.130 --> 0:45:36.530 that change everything? And why am I trying to pull 0:45:36.530 --> 0:45:41.210 off the life of Jesus and to, uh, you know, 0:45:41.250 --> 0:45:44.610 emulate the life of Jesus when Jesus himself is living 0:45:44.610 --> 0:45:47.950 in us and he is perfectly able to live his 0:45:47.950 --> 0:45:51.550 own life. I can't duplicate the life of Jesus, but 0:45:51.550 --> 0:45:54.549 he sure he can surely live it. Yeah. And so 0:45:54.550 --> 0:45:58.989 that's why Paul says in Galatians 220, I've been crucified 0:45:58.989 --> 0:46:01.350 with Christ, and it's no longer I who live, but 0:46:01.350 --> 0:46:04.430 Christ lives in me. And the life which I now 0:46:04.430 --> 0:46:06.549 live in the flesh. I live by faith in the 0:46:06.550 --> 0:46:09.629 Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself up 0:46:09.630 --> 0:46:11.989 for me. And so Paul is saying, hey, I'm not 0:46:11.989 --> 0:46:15.149 even the one living this life. It's Jesus living in me, 0:46:15.150 --> 0:46:18.030 and all I'm doing is trusting him to do it. 0:46:18.550 --> 0:46:21.790 And so that is is the fullness of the gospel. 0:46:21.790 --> 0:46:25.390 When we really grab the reality that Jesus is the 0:46:25.390 --> 0:46:28.470 one who's living his life in us, and we are 0:46:28.510 --> 0:46:33.670 at rest in that reality, then the Christian life becomes 0:46:33.670 --> 0:46:37.510 exactly what Jesus said it was. He said, uh, my 0:46:37.550 --> 0:46:41.230 my load is is uh, is easy and my, my, 0:46:41.390 --> 0:46:44.149 my yoke is easy and my burden is light. That 0:46:44.150 --> 0:46:50.290 doesn't mean life is easy, but walking with Jesus is 0:46:50.290 --> 0:46:54.489 supposed to be easy because we're simply trusting in him. 0:46:54.530 --> 0:46:57.490 We're not trying to pull it off all through our 0:46:57.650 --> 0:46:59.009 Herculean efforts. 0:46:59.050 --> 0:47:01.049 Yeah, I love it. David Gregory, our guest right now, 0:47:01.050 --> 0:47:02.170 we're going to have a link for you in a 0:47:02.170 --> 0:47:05.690 little bit for more resources. This is a circuit breaking message, 0:47:05.690 --> 0:47:08.690 and my wife and I constantly say to one another, 0:47:09.170 --> 0:47:11.850 we we need to relearn this truth over and over 0:47:11.850 --> 0:47:15.330 again because there's a grooved swing, little golf metaphor here 0:47:15.330 --> 0:47:18.490 in our mind that says, I need to change my life. 0:47:18.770 --> 0:47:21.129 So I just I want you to respond to this 0:47:21.130 --> 0:47:23.930 because Ali and I use this passage here all the 0:47:23.930 --> 0:47:27.129 time out of Titus two, for the grace of God 0:47:27.130 --> 0:47:29.890 has appeared, bringing salvation for all people. And I think 0:47:29.890 --> 0:47:33.050 most people get that. We know that we didn't do anything. 0:47:33.050 --> 0:47:38.450 But there's a comma there. David training us to renounce 0:47:38.450 --> 0:47:42.290 ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright and 0:47:42.290 --> 0:47:46.150 godly lives in this present age. That is enormous, isn't it? David, 0:47:46.150 --> 0:47:48.910 isn't that central to this whole issue? God does it 0:47:48.910 --> 0:47:49.910 by his grace. 0:47:50.670 --> 0:47:54.870 Yeah. It's incredible. And that's what he. That's what he promised, uh, 0:47:54.910 --> 0:47:58.669 in the in the to his old covenant people that 0:47:58.670 --> 0:48:02.230 would happen under the new covenant. Uh, in Ezekiel and Jeremiah, 0:48:02.310 --> 0:48:06.150 God says, talking about the coming New covenant. He says, 0:48:06.150 --> 0:48:09.790 I will forgive you. I will cleanse you. I will 0:48:09.790 --> 0:48:12.950 remove your dead heart. I will give you a living heart. 0:48:12.950 --> 0:48:16.150 I will put my spirit in you, and I will 0:48:16.150 --> 0:48:20.870 cause you to walk in my ways. Well, how many 0:48:20.870 --> 0:48:25.509 of us are living in the daily reality of God 0:48:25.510 --> 0:48:28.350 is the one who causes me to walk in his ways, 0:48:29.030 --> 0:48:33.069 and my role is to receive that, and simply to 0:48:33.110 --> 0:48:35.950 rest in trusting in that reality. 0:48:36.110 --> 0:48:36.550 Wow. 0:48:37.070 --> 0:48:39.910 You know your book that you co-wrote with your mentor, 0:48:40.190 --> 0:48:43.610 the rest of the gospel? What are we missing when 0:48:43.610 --> 0:48:47.169 we miss the rest of it? I mean, I know 0:48:47.170 --> 0:48:49.250 you captured in the book, but for those who haven't 0:48:49.250 --> 0:48:52.290 read it, what does life look like when we're only 0:48:52.290 --> 0:48:53.930 living out the partial gospel? 0:48:54.250 --> 0:48:58.050 Yeah, the partial gospel is certainly contains a lot of truth, 0:48:58.050 --> 0:49:01.210 which is Christ died for the forgiveness of our sins. 0:49:01.210 --> 0:49:04.090 He he rose from the dead. We trust in him. 0:49:04.090 --> 0:49:07.850 We're forgiven. And one of these days we'll go be 0:49:07.850 --> 0:49:11.290 with him forever. But in the in between. How do 0:49:11.290 --> 0:49:14.170 we live this life? And the rest of the gospel 0:49:14.170 --> 0:49:18.370 is we can't live this life. The only one who 0:49:18.370 --> 0:49:21.169 can live it is Jesus, because it's his life. And 0:49:21.170 --> 0:49:23.770 he is the life. And so he's come to live 0:49:23.770 --> 0:49:28.330 within us. We're the vessels of his life, and he 0:49:28.330 --> 0:49:30.850 simply wants to live his own life through us. And 0:49:30.850 --> 0:49:34.690 so our role in that is faith. We receive that. 0:49:34.690 --> 0:49:38.569 We trust him to do it. And, uh, so we 0:49:38.570 --> 0:49:41.790 just go from one episode of Faith to the other, 0:49:41.790 --> 0:49:45.589 trusting that Christ in us is living through us and 0:49:45.590 --> 0:49:48.670 he is completely sufficient for every circumstance. 0:49:48.950 --> 0:49:52.830 David, I want to get into the real pragmatic end 0:49:52.830 --> 0:49:55.190 of this thing, because a lot of people then go, okay, well, 0:49:55.190 --> 0:49:58.110 what what in the world does this look like? Uh, 0:49:58.150 --> 0:50:00.469 this has been a great journey that my I say, 0:50:00.469 --> 0:50:04.230 my bride, she is just a great partner in really 0:50:04.230 --> 0:50:08.830 this knowledge and growth and the grace of God and 0:50:08.830 --> 0:50:12.469 the rest of the gospel was huge in our lives. 0:50:12.670 --> 0:50:15.190 I just need you to know that, David. Huge. It 0:50:15.190 --> 0:50:19.910 was like Epiphany central. It was beautiful. But if we 0:50:19.910 --> 0:50:24.830 look at how we relate even to God, humility is 0:50:24.830 --> 0:50:28.110 the one of the postures that allows us to live there. 0:50:28.110 --> 0:50:32.830 With regard to the son. Proximity. John 15 allows us 0:50:32.830 --> 0:50:35.589 to bear fruit. None. None of those are our work. 0:50:35.590 --> 0:50:38.230 It's just a posture before the father and the son, 0:50:38.230 --> 0:50:41.000 and then the liberty of the Holy Spirit, hearing his 0:50:41.000 --> 0:50:43.719 voice and going his way as he reminds us of truth. 0:50:44.360 --> 0:50:47.320 Get really pragmatic here. Somebody gets up. Let's just take 0:50:47.360 --> 0:50:50.480 let's just take an issue right now. Let's just take time. Redemption. 0:50:50.520 --> 0:50:53.960 A lot of people call in here and texting here going, I, 0:50:54.000 --> 0:50:56.520 I find I'm a sluggard. I can have I can 0:50:56.520 --> 0:50:59.160 work really hard. And then I waste four hours of 0:50:59.160 --> 0:51:02.760 the day. And then the common context is I need 0:51:02.760 --> 0:51:06.240 to change that about myself. David Gregory, coach us up. 0:51:06.360 --> 0:51:08.120 How do we live in the grace of God? How 0:51:08.120 --> 0:51:10.600 do we live in the rest of the gospel to 0:51:10.640 --> 0:51:13.239 see that change rather than our own self-help? 0:51:13.800 --> 0:51:17.080 Well, I think our problem in that scenario, just like 0:51:17.080 --> 0:51:22.120 any scenario you might want to throw out, is we 0:51:22.120 --> 0:51:25.560 believe something that's false. What we believe is what you've 0:51:25.560 --> 0:51:29.680 been talking about. God expects me to change myself. 0:51:29.960 --> 0:51:30.400 Yeah. 0:51:30.840 --> 0:51:36.560 And so then we develop plans and programs and schemes 0:51:36.560 --> 0:51:40.259 to do all that and it ends up failing. And 0:51:40.260 --> 0:51:43.860 then we think, okay, well, God's disappointed with me. But 0:51:43.860 --> 0:51:47.500 our initial premise is completely wrong. God doesn't expect us 0:51:47.500 --> 0:51:51.380 to change ourselves because the Holy Spirit is the agent 0:51:51.380 --> 0:51:56.460 of change. And so what we do is we say, okay, God, 0:51:56.660 --> 0:52:00.180 I see this, this area of my life that seems 0:52:00.180 --> 0:52:04.700 like it. It could use some improvement, which is my 0:52:04.700 --> 0:52:07.580 time management. So I'm going to come before you. I'm 0:52:07.580 --> 0:52:09.140 going to wake up in the morning, I'm going to 0:52:09.140 --> 0:52:11.940 come before you and I'm going to say, God, how 0:52:11.940 --> 0:52:14.340 would you like me to be spending my time today? 0:52:14.700 --> 0:52:17.420 And I'm going to spend a little bit of time simply, 0:52:17.620 --> 0:52:20.739 quietly listening to what your Holy Spirit has to say 0:52:20.780 --> 0:52:24.500 to me. And when I hear what the Holy Spirit 0:52:24.500 --> 0:52:27.900 says to me, oh, work on this project today. Work 0:52:27.900 --> 0:52:31.660 on that project today. Do this with your kids today, 0:52:31.700 --> 0:52:36.799 whatever it may be. Then I say, okay, I hear 0:52:36.800 --> 0:52:41.680 that from your spirit, and I'm trusting Jesus that you 0:52:41.680 --> 0:52:45.480 are completely able to do that through me today. I 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:48.080 present myself to you as the vessel for you to 0:52:48.080 --> 0:52:51.279 do that through. Here we go. Let's get up. Let's 0:52:51.280 --> 0:52:54.640 fix breakfast. Let's let's start going through the day. And 0:52:54.640 --> 0:52:57.000 I'm going to trust you to do what the Holy 0:52:57.000 --> 0:52:59.440 Spirit has said. Do this. 0:52:59.480 --> 0:53:02.800 Okay, David, I want or this is huge right now 0:53:03.120 --> 0:53:07.560 because the Holy Spirit was my lost God for two 0:53:07.560 --> 0:53:11.120 decades of my spiritual journey. He was at work, but 0:53:11.120 --> 0:53:13.719 I called it. Oh, I have a hunch. I have 0:53:13.760 --> 0:53:16.400 a prompting. You know, we kind of speak of it 0:53:16.440 --> 0:53:20.920 in terms like that. I am now absolutely convinced the 0:53:20.920 --> 0:53:24.960 Holy Spirit is speaking constantly, if we will but tune 0:53:24.960 --> 0:53:28.000 an ear to him. He is here. He's now he. 0:53:28.040 --> 0:53:32.320 We're sealed in the Holy Spirit. Ephesians one we're grafted in, 0:53:32.800 --> 0:53:35.020 and we need to raise the sales of our soul. 0:53:35.060 --> 0:53:37.980 To those that have never listened to the Spirit's voice. 0:53:37.980 --> 0:53:41.379 I want you to demystify this, and let's just make 0:53:41.380 --> 0:53:43.259 this rock solid right now. David. 0:53:44.580 --> 0:53:48.060 Well, we were made to communicate with God. I mean, 0:53:48.100 --> 0:53:51.700 that that's that's how God created human humanity in the 0:53:51.700 --> 0:53:54.259 first place. That is obvious from the Garden of Eden, 0:53:54.300 --> 0:53:58.660 how God and Adam and Eve were communicating constantly. I mean, 0:53:58.700 --> 0:54:01.580 there was an open flow of communication between them. And 0:54:01.580 --> 0:54:05.540 so that's how we were made. And so this idea 0:54:05.540 --> 0:54:08.459 that we actually hear from God and we not only 0:54:08.460 --> 0:54:10.379 speak to him in prayer, but we hear from him 0:54:10.380 --> 0:54:14.379 in prayer or just casually throughout the day, shouldn't be 0:54:14.380 --> 0:54:18.180 something that's that's strange to us at all. I mean, 0:54:18.219 --> 0:54:20.859 you go through the Gospel of John, and Jesus is 0:54:20.860 --> 0:54:24.819 constantly saying, I only speak what I hear from the father. 0:54:24.820 --> 0:54:27.460 I only do the things I see the father doing. 0:54:27.460 --> 0:54:31.219 I only I only say the things that that the 0:54:31.219 --> 0:54:33.919 father tells me to say I don't do anything by 0:54:33.920 --> 0:54:37.200 my own initiative. I only do what the father is doing. 0:54:37.200 --> 0:54:40.080 And so the father was not only living through him, 0:54:40.080 --> 0:54:43.800 but the father was constantly communicating with him through the spirit. 0:54:44.040 --> 0:54:47.800 And that's just the way we're designed to live. If 0:54:47.800 --> 0:54:50.759 we want to live like Jesus lived, that's how we live. 0:54:50.920 --> 0:54:53.960 We're in this constant communication with the father. And so 0:54:53.960 --> 0:54:58.640 that's something that we simply learn to do by letting 0:54:58.640 --> 0:55:01.440 the Holy Spirit teach us. And will we do it 0:55:01.440 --> 0:55:05.359 perfectly every time? Will we always know for sure? Okay, well, 0:55:05.360 --> 0:55:07.680 the Holy Spirit is saying this to me. Well, I 0:55:07.680 --> 0:55:11.000 think that's that's something that that he wants to train 0:55:11.000 --> 0:55:14.080 us to hear his voice. And so we just step 0:55:14.080 --> 0:55:16.720 out in faith. We take time to be with him 0:55:16.880 --> 0:55:19.600 and we just say, Holy Spirit, what are you saying 0:55:19.640 --> 0:55:22.480 to me right now? Yeah. And, uh, and we trust 0:55:22.480 --> 0:55:24.200 that that he's speaking to us. 0:55:24.239 --> 0:55:28.240 30s on this one. How do you discern between an 0:55:28.239 --> 0:55:32.860 accusation of Satan? Um, a self-led hunch versus the Spirit 0:55:32.860 --> 0:55:33.340 of God. 0:55:34.700 --> 0:55:37.660 Well, God never accuses us of anything. And so that's 0:55:37.660 --> 0:55:40.660 never from the Holy Spirit. And I think in regard 0:55:40.660 --> 0:55:45.459 to trusting that it's the spirit. I think the best 0:55:45.460 --> 0:55:48.540 thing to do is just to realize we're on the 0:55:48.540 --> 0:55:51.900 same page as him. Our heart, our new heart, wants 0:55:51.900 --> 0:55:55.060 what he wants. And so he's not trying to overcome 0:55:55.060 --> 0:55:58.180 anything with us. We're already on the same page. And 0:55:58.180 --> 0:56:00.419 so if he nudges us in a certain direction, we 0:56:00.420 --> 0:56:03.779 take that as from him. Do we know 100%? Well, 0:56:03.820 --> 0:56:07.180 maybe not, but we learn. And it's that way with 0:56:07.180 --> 0:56:11.899 any communication. And so he's our trainer and he's very patient. 0:56:12.180 --> 0:56:16.060 David Gregory, if you want more resources to check out 0:56:16.060 --> 0:56:19.020 the website, some of the books just text David to 0:56:19.060 --> 0:56:24.380 800 555 7898. For more on David Gregory, our guest 0:56:24.380 --> 0:56:29.060 this morning, text David to 800 555 7898. 0:56:29.060 --> 0:56:29.160 898. 0:56:29.719 --> 0:56:31.640 Yeah. David, I want to thank you for being with 0:56:31.640 --> 0:56:33.839 us today. And this is this is not a one 0:56:33.840 --> 0:56:36.040 and done. You feel that with me, Ali? This is 0:56:36.040 --> 0:56:40.200 not like one conversation and we're done. And the only 0:56:40.320 --> 0:56:42.759 I think one of the the little things I'd add 0:56:42.760 --> 0:56:45.800 and I want you to kind of follow up quickly here, David. 0:56:45.800 --> 0:56:49.080 We're up against it. But if you're if you're feeling 0:56:49.120 --> 0:56:52.680 a hunch that we've got the word of God, that 0:56:52.680 --> 0:56:57.240 the Spirit of God is constantly reminding us with his words, 0:56:57.239 --> 0:57:01.520 that's the promise in John 14. John 16. We've got 0:57:01.520 --> 0:57:04.319 that as the kind of the failsafe to know if 0:57:04.360 --> 0:57:08.280 we're hearing from God and if it's confirmed in Scripture. Correct, David? 0:57:08.760 --> 0:57:11.120 Absolutely. I'm so glad you said that. I mean, the 0:57:11.120 --> 0:57:13.920 Scripture will never lead us in a direction contrary to 0:57:13.960 --> 0:57:18.240 God's Word. I mean, that's a given. And so, uh, yeah, 0:57:18.240 --> 0:57:21.720 we can, uh, that's why it's important to know God's word. 0:57:21.720 --> 0:57:24.520 And so we need to both know God's Word and 0:57:24.840 --> 0:57:26.920 to learn to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. 0:57:26.960 --> 0:57:30.450 Amen. Love it brother. Thank you so much. Again, that 0:57:30.450 --> 0:57:31.970 keyword and how do they get it out? 0:57:32.010 --> 0:57:39.650 Text David to 800 555 7898. David to (800) 555-7898. 0:57:40.610 --> 0:57:43.530 You're listening to Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:57:44.210 --> 0:57:47.850 Uh, we love making sure that you are resourced in 0:57:47.850 --> 0:57:51.330 every way possible. And there is I mean, one of 0:57:51.330 --> 0:57:55.050 my great joys in life is Sunday morning on either 0:57:55.050 --> 0:57:58.730 one of the campuses at 180 Chicago here and watching 0:57:58.730 --> 0:58:03.970 God move through worship. It is awe inspiring. And boy 0:58:04.010 --> 0:58:06.570 have we got which Shane do we have here? 0:58:06.850 --> 0:58:07.090 We have. 0:58:07.130 --> 0:58:08.010 Shane Bernard. 0:58:08.210 --> 0:58:08.730 Oh, good. 0:58:08.770 --> 0:58:11.450 He's along with his friend Shane Everett. They have the 0:58:11.450 --> 0:58:15.250 group Shane and Shane, a Texas based contemporary worship music band. 0:58:15.290 --> 0:58:18.970 They are known for acoustic praise and worship. I'm a 0:58:19.010 --> 0:58:20.090 personal fan. 0:58:20.130 --> 0:58:20.810 I know. 0:58:20.850 --> 0:58:21.770 You are. I am. 0:58:21.970 --> 0:58:23.729 Yeah. And we're going to play. We're going to spin 0:58:23.730 --> 0:58:26.350 one of those in just a second here. Shane, how 0:58:26.390 --> 0:58:28.230 are you doing this morning? It's God at work in 0:58:28.230 --> 0:58:29.190 your life, my man. 0:58:29.590 --> 0:58:32.510 Oh, doing great this morning. You know, just trying not 0:58:32.510 --> 0:58:35.030 to forget all his benefits this morning. You know what 0:58:35.030 --> 0:58:35.630 I'm saying? 0:58:35.790 --> 0:58:38.270 Oh, absolutely. You know what I want to drill down on? 0:58:38.310 --> 0:58:43.430 You've already won. This has deep, solid theology. What does 0:58:43.670 --> 0:58:46.310 what caused you to write this song? And I want 0:58:46.310 --> 0:58:48.030 you to pour out your heart about the kind of 0:58:48.070 --> 0:58:51.430 the underbelly of that writing process. This is powerful truth 0:58:51.470 --> 0:58:52.550 that you sing about. 0:58:52.670 --> 0:58:55.750 Oh, man. You know, I mean, there's just there's just 0:58:55.750 --> 0:59:00.550 crazy truth that we live in a time where, um, 0:59:00.670 --> 0:59:03.070 you know, things are hard. And we might ask ourselves 0:59:03.070 --> 0:59:05.470 the question a lot like, God, I don't know what 0:59:05.470 --> 0:59:07.990 you're doing. I don't know what you're doing, because, I mean, 0:59:08.030 --> 0:59:10.110 but he he he's promised that this in this world, 0:59:10.110 --> 0:59:12.710 we'll have trouble. And I don't know when we when 0:59:12.710 --> 0:59:15.670 we travel around, we see people. We meet people where 0:59:15.670 --> 0:59:17.470 people are in a place where they're like, God, I 0:59:17.510 --> 0:59:19.390 don't know what you're doing, but there's a truth that 0:59:19.390 --> 0:59:22.030 he's given us through his Word. We are standing on 0:59:22.030 --> 0:59:24.810 the promise that he has won the victory, you know. 0:59:24.850 --> 0:59:27.010 And so we we know what he's done on the 0:59:27.010 --> 0:59:30.850 cross for us. And that's enough. That's enough. But because 0:59:30.850 --> 0:59:33.650 of his precious word, we know how the story ends. 0:59:33.890 --> 0:59:37.930 We know what's coming for those who are in Christ. 0:59:37.930 --> 0:59:40.450 And so, you know these two truths. We live in 0:59:40.450 --> 0:59:42.970 the middle right now, and we we can really stand 0:59:42.970 --> 0:59:45.530 on the hope that he is coming to make all 0:59:45.530 --> 0:59:49.330 things new. But he has forgiven of our sins and 0:59:49.370 --> 0:59:52.169 has has paid the price for us to enter into 0:59:52.170 --> 0:59:54.530 relationship with him. And he's promised to be with us 0:59:54.530 --> 0:59:57.970 even through it. And so that's where this song comes from. 0:59:57.970 --> 1:00:00.650 It's just like, man, we live in that place of 1:00:00.690 --> 1:00:03.530 the already, but not yet. You know, we know the 1:00:03.530 --> 1:00:06.010 truth and he has already saved us, but he has 1:00:06.010 --> 1:00:09.690 not yet wiped away every tear from our eyes. But 1:00:09.690 --> 1:00:13.090 but let me tell you something, believer. He is going to. Yes. 1:00:13.290 --> 1:00:15.650 And we don't even have a. We don't even have 1:00:15.650 --> 1:00:18.130 the mind to comprehend what is to come. Yeah. For 1:00:18.130 --> 1:00:20.730 those who are in Christ Jesus, it's it's going to 1:00:20.730 --> 1:00:21.730 be a good day. 1:00:21.930 --> 1:00:24.550 Shane. So from your vantage point as a worship leader, 1:00:24.550 --> 1:00:27.870 we know that obviously musicality is important. You got to 1:00:27.870 --> 1:00:30.230 be able to play the instrument or hold a tune. 1:00:30.270 --> 1:00:33.190 Those things are vital. But from your vantage point, what 1:00:33.190 --> 1:00:36.110 is often missing when it comes to what we put 1:00:36.110 --> 1:00:39.070 forth on a Sunday morning in worship? 1:00:39.590 --> 1:00:43.270 Oh, man. You know, like, I think as a as 1:00:43.270 --> 1:00:46.590 a person who, you know, has served the local church and, 1:00:46.590 --> 1:00:50.030 and we get to walk through an organization we started 1:00:50.030 --> 1:00:52.670 about ten years ago called the Worship Initiative with churches. 1:00:52.670 --> 1:00:56.950 We serve about 10,000 now on a weekly basis with resources. 1:00:56.950 --> 1:01:01.110 And what we found is there is a lot of well, 1:01:01.110 --> 1:01:05.390 I'll just say there's a lack of biblical knowledge and, and, 1:01:05.630 --> 1:01:08.990 and how the scriptures inform the songs that we sing. 1:01:08.990 --> 1:01:12.390 And so we're on a mission to get the Word 1:01:12.390 --> 1:01:14.950 of God in the mouths and the hearts of worship 1:01:14.950 --> 1:01:19.430 leaders all over this nation and the world and, and, uh, 1:01:19.630 --> 1:01:22.570 you know, if you're a worship leader. It's just like, man, 1:01:22.570 --> 1:01:24.410 it's just like, how do I get better? What? At 1:01:24.450 --> 1:01:26.370 what I do. How do I, you know, you can. 1:01:26.370 --> 1:01:29.690 You can learn your instrument, but know the word of God. 1:01:29.730 --> 1:01:33.970 Saturate your mind and your heart in it. We plagiarize 1:01:33.970 --> 1:01:36.130 the scriptures. You know, if you've ever listened to any 1:01:36.130 --> 1:01:39.090 of our music, you would realize that it's just like 1:01:39.090 --> 1:01:41.930 these guys have never written really anything on their own. 1:01:42.370 --> 1:01:45.250 And it's true, because we believe that the Word of 1:01:45.250 --> 1:01:48.650 God is the hey, it's the power of God to save. 1:01:48.690 --> 1:01:50.490 You know? So come on. 1:01:50.530 --> 1:01:53.209 Oh come on, we're big. We're big on this one here. 1:01:53.210 --> 1:01:55.530 And we don't do Christian bubble gum. Here we go 1:01:55.530 --> 1:01:57.650 right after it. And central to that is the word 1:01:57.650 --> 1:01:59.890 of God. I mean, we've been drilling down this morning 1:02:00.170 --> 1:02:03.610 on the. If we want our life to change, the 1:02:03.610 --> 1:02:06.210 first emotion we need to break is that we are 1:02:06.210 --> 1:02:10.370 utterly powerless. And in our weakness, our God is strong. 1:02:10.610 --> 1:02:15.010 And it's this biblical illiteracy. It seems to be a big, 1:02:15.130 --> 1:02:18.530 a big challenge across the Christian landscape in North America 1:02:18.570 --> 1:02:21.910 and beyond. How do you practically do this? We're about 1:02:21.910 --> 1:02:25.310 to spike a tool that you have for pastors, worship leaders, 1:02:25.670 --> 1:02:28.950 and members of worship teams, and you're going to be 1:02:28.990 --> 1:02:31.310 fired up to hear this. But before we get to that, 1:02:31.630 --> 1:02:35.590 how how important is this and how do you aim 1:02:35.590 --> 1:02:38.950 to equip people to be people that deliver the Word 1:02:38.950 --> 1:02:41.550 of God, not just music of God. 1:02:41.870 --> 1:02:42.270 Who. 1:02:42.550 --> 1:02:45.110 You know, I say this, I'll start with this. We've 1:02:45.110 --> 1:02:48.830 just done survey after survey after survey, specifically with pastors. 1:02:48.830 --> 1:02:50.790 And it's just like, what are your what are your 1:02:50.830 --> 1:02:54.150 deepest concerns for like the guys who lead on Sunday 1:02:54.150 --> 1:02:56.230 or your teams or what are the biggest holes that 1:02:56.230 --> 1:02:59.110 you you would like us to if you could help 1:02:59.110 --> 1:03:01.270 us with? And I think that a lot of it 1:03:01.270 --> 1:03:05.790 is leadership in discipleship in the Word of God. Like, 1:03:05.790 --> 1:03:09.190 how do we duplicate and how do we find leaders 1:03:09.190 --> 1:03:11.670 who are not just hungry for the Word of God, 1:03:11.670 --> 1:03:14.550 but have a desire to see the people of God 1:03:14.590 --> 1:03:19.170 understand the truths in Scripture? And so what we do 1:03:19.170 --> 1:03:21.690 is every day we get up and we create content 1:03:21.690 --> 1:03:25.010 and resources to say, here's how you do it, you know. 1:03:25.050 --> 1:03:30.330 And so from discipling teams to really getting into Bible studies. 1:03:30.330 --> 1:03:33.610 And so we build a lot of tools around like 1:03:33.810 --> 1:03:37.250 how do the scriptures inform the songs that we sing? 1:03:37.290 --> 1:03:39.770 A lot of people don't even know how rich some 1:03:39.770 --> 1:03:43.450 of these praise courses are in Scripture. And so what 1:03:43.450 --> 1:03:45.210 we try to do is just say, okay, this is 1:03:45.210 --> 1:03:47.850 where this come from. This is the concept. But like, 1:03:47.850 --> 1:03:51.570 here are tier ten verses that kind of inform this thought. 1:03:51.610 --> 1:03:55.050 Like implant those in your heart, implant those into people 1:03:55.090 --> 1:03:58.290 because it's just like, man, we're equipping people for the 1:03:58.330 --> 1:04:00.490 I mean, for the good work, you know. And so 1:04:00.530 --> 1:04:03.090 if you've got if you've got people that are sitting 1:04:03.090 --> 1:04:06.169 under you on Sunday and you've got 22 minutes, it's 1:04:06.170 --> 1:04:07.810 just like, what are we going to do with those 1:04:07.810 --> 1:04:12.209 22 minutes, man? We want to inform these people of 1:04:12.210 --> 1:04:15.970 God and equip them for the good work. You know, 1:04:16.010 --> 1:04:19.300 of sharing the gospel of of being, realizing who you 1:04:19.300 --> 1:04:22.220 are in Christ. Like connecting with the heart of God. 1:04:22.540 --> 1:04:24.900 Born out of that passion. Shane and Shane started the 1:04:24.940 --> 1:04:28.100 Worship Initiative. It's a community of worship leaders and musicians 1:04:28.100 --> 1:04:31.420 from around the world committed to serving the church faithfully. 1:04:31.420 --> 1:04:34.260 Their support in just about every area. You can think 1:04:34.260 --> 1:04:39.020 about leadership, training and development, but also just the practical harmonies, 1:04:39.060 --> 1:04:42.140 strumming all of the things that go into a Sunday 1:04:42.140 --> 1:04:45.540 morning service. There's opportunities for you to take part of 1:04:45.540 --> 1:04:49.300 this individually or as a collective. Just text the word 1:04:49.300 --> 1:04:54.580 worship to 800 555, 7898. Text the word worship to 1:04:54.620 --> 1:04:57.460 800 555 7898. 1:04:57.940 --> 1:05:01.540 Making herself laugh no matter who joins her, it's time 1:05:01.540 --> 1:05:03.580 for Allie thinks it's funny. 1:05:04.540 --> 1:05:07.180 Anyone have a dentist in their life? I hope everybody 1:05:07.180 --> 1:05:08.620 has a dentist in their life. 1:05:08.660 --> 1:05:09.500 In your life. 1:05:09.500 --> 1:05:11.380 Is kind of an interesting way of putting. 1:05:11.380 --> 1:05:12.420 It. You have a relationship. 1:05:12.420 --> 1:05:13.940 With the dentist, correct? 1:05:14.700 --> 1:05:15.020 Oh. 1:05:15.880 --> 1:05:18.240 Yeah. I don't like to get too close to my dentists. 1:05:18.360 --> 1:05:19.240 That's fair. 1:05:20.360 --> 1:05:22.720 What would we do without our favorite dentist? I have 1:05:22.720 --> 1:05:24.720 a favorite dentist I've been going to for at least 1:05:24.720 --> 1:05:25.640 ten years. 1:05:25.880 --> 1:05:26.880 Okay, quick, quick. 1:05:26.880 --> 1:05:27.480 Note on this. 1:05:27.520 --> 1:05:29.520 I know we'll get back to this, but I had 1:05:29.520 --> 1:05:33.240 a dentist friend who he was one of my elders 1:05:33.240 --> 1:05:35.320 years ago. In fact, he did a lot of work 1:05:35.360 --> 1:05:37.360 on my teeth and all that kind of stuff. And 1:05:37.400 --> 1:05:39.360 every time I got around him, I just felt the 1:05:39.360 --> 1:05:40.680 need to smile more. 1:05:41.240 --> 1:05:41.640 It was. 1:05:41.640 --> 1:05:43.880 Weird. And I noticed this and I said it one 1:05:43.920 --> 1:05:46.520 one day to him. I said, Paul, I feel so 1:05:46.520 --> 1:05:50.320 weird talking with you, even though we're comrades in ministry. 1:05:50.320 --> 1:05:53.080 I said, I feel like I have to check my 1:05:53.080 --> 1:05:54.560 teeth before we meet to make. 1:05:54.600 --> 1:05:55.520 Sure I floss. 1:05:55.560 --> 1:05:56.400 No groceries. 1:05:56.400 --> 1:05:56.920 In there. 1:05:57.200 --> 1:05:59.720 And then. And then I feel. And he laughed. He goes, 1:05:59.720 --> 1:06:01.080 everybody says that to me. 1:06:01.120 --> 1:06:02.240 That's so funny. Isn't that funny? 1:06:02.280 --> 1:06:04.600 So you got Paul. So I got a gift idea 1:06:04.600 --> 1:06:06.840 for you. What do you give your favorite dentist in 1:06:06.840 --> 1:06:09.240 your case, Paul? What do you give your favorite dentist 1:06:09.240 --> 1:06:12.360 at the end of the year? This is your way 1:06:12.360 --> 1:06:16.060 of saying thank you. You you give them a little plaque. 1:06:21.300 --> 1:06:24.020 Thank you. Great. Oh. 1:06:24.500 --> 1:06:25.220 Great. 1:06:25.260 --> 1:06:28.460 So I have a hobby that maybe you didn't know about. 1:06:28.740 --> 1:06:31.780 I like to do a little limbo. A little limbo. 1:06:31.860 --> 1:06:33.500 Wow. Yeah. I guess. 1:06:33.540 --> 1:06:36.100 So there's a stick that I keep in my garage 1:06:36.100 --> 1:06:40.780 that's specifically for limbo. And would you believe that about 1:06:40.780 --> 1:06:44.460 three nights ago, someone stole my limbo stick out of 1:06:44.460 --> 1:06:45.140 my garage? 1:06:45.180 --> 1:06:46.020 What a bummer. 1:06:46.060 --> 1:06:46.340 Yeah. 1:06:46.380 --> 1:06:48.140 I mean, how low can you go? 1:06:49.540 --> 1:06:54.220 Every little girl all around the limbo world. 1:06:54.220 --> 1:06:54.580 That was. 1:06:54.580 --> 1:06:58.460 Good. Limbo around. All around. 1:06:59.020 --> 1:07:02.500 Oh. That's great. If you love those jokes. 1:07:02.940 --> 1:07:02.980 Or. 1:07:02.980 --> 1:07:04.060 Sex jokes. 1:07:04.500 --> 1:07:12.740 To 800, 555, 78, 98. Text jokes to 800 555 7890.