WEBVTT - Christ-like Compassion 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. 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.920 Man, I love these songs. Meant to help you take 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.800 your next step with Jesus. And they're so encouraging. Speaking 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.800 of encouraging. Look who's back in town, man. Yes. 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:26.560 I'm back in the saddle again. Allie's back out where 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:31.520 a friend is a friend. Where the longhorn cattle feed 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:33.519 on the lowly jimson weed. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:34.559 Yes, she was out in these. 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:39.960 Parts in the saddle again, riding the range. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:41.400 Once I was riding the range. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.800 Totin my old 44. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:46.400 44, 44. 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.720 Where you sleep out every night. And the only law 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.560 is right. Yeehaw! Back in the saddle. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.920 Thank you, Gene Autry. Appreciate you reintroducing Allie to the 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:57.200 whole team here. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.440 Two days I was gone Friday and Monday. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:00.730 Oh, no. That's a its four day weekend. 0:01:00.730 --> 0:01:03.130 It feels like a more appropriate. If it was like 0:01:03.130 --> 0:01:04.170 a two week vacation. 0:01:04.450 --> 0:01:05.649 You got to have some fun though. It's good to 0:01:05.650 --> 0:01:07.089 have you back. It's a good time away. 0:01:07.130 --> 0:01:10.009 Yep, it was explored. The great state of Iowa. 0:01:10.690 --> 0:01:12.530 You explored it. Would you explore? 0:01:12.569 --> 0:01:15.290 Well, I saw a lot of the I saw actually 0:01:15.290 --> 0:01:18.450 a lot of hills. I was really surprised someone texted me. Yes, 0:01:18.450 --> 0:01:22.010 Iowa has a lot of hills. I was expecting total flatland. 0:01:22.090 --> 0:01:24.810 Well, yeah, it's next to Illinois. And Illinois is one 0:01:24.810 --> 0:01:26.569 of the flattest land you can find. 0:01:26.610 --> 0:01:31.169 I drove to a small town called Waukee, Iowa. Never 0:01:31.170 --> 0:01:33.209 heard of Milwaukee, but just take off the mill and 0:01:33.209 --> 0:01:38.569 it's just Waukee town, Waukee, Iowa. My my son, who's 0:01:38.569 --> 0:01:40.649 like a little stat man. He likes to find out 0:01:40.690 --> 0:01:43.570 demographic information on the places that we're going. 0:01:43.770 --> 0:01:44.250 That's awesome. 0:01:44.290 --> 0:01:47.610 Like, this is the population of this city that we're 0:01:47.610 --> 0:01:52.250 going for a big, uh, girls basketball tournament that lots 0:01:52.250 --> 0:01:54.770 of games, lots of time spent in a in a 0:01:54.770 --> 0:01:55.810 gym watching. 0:01:55.930 --> 0:01:56.450 Oh, yeah. 0:01:56.490 --> 0:01:57.850 Watching my daughter and. 0:01:58.250 --> 0:02:01.420 Those gyms still smell all the same, right? Well, this this. 0:02:01.420 --> 0:02:04.180 Was a really I mean, Waukee has a like this 0:02:04.180 --> 0:02:06.820 gym facility was really one of the nicest I have 0:02:06.820 --> 0:02:09.980 ever been to. Brand new. I think this was the 0:02:09.980 --> 0:02:12.700 first tournament and you could tell it was new because 0:02:12.700 --> 0:02:16.180 they had just put sod down everywhere on all of 0:02:16.180 --> 0:02:18.540 the landscaping around. So there was all these keep off 0:02:18.540 --> 0:02:20.500 the grass signs and it was. 0:02:20.500 --> 0:02:20.740 Like. 0:02:21.220 --> 0:02:24.260 Literally like patches of grass that had just been put down. 0:02:24.260 --> 0:02:26.420 So this was like fresh. You could hear the sneakers 0:02:26.419 --> 0:02:30.540 squeaking on the floor. It was brand new. So it 0:02:30.540 --> 0:02:31.940 was a it's a nice trip. 0:02:32.100 --> 0:02:32.780 Here we go. 0:02:33.180 --> 0:02:34.020 There you have it. 0:02:34.500 --> 0:02:35.620 It's good to have you back here. 0:02:35.900 --> 0:02:36.579 Good to be back. 0:02:36.980 --> 0:02:41.220 Uh, got a question for you. What's the most recent 0:02:41.220 --> 0:02:45.340 search you've done on AI? Whether your platform is ChatGPT 0:02:45.380 --> 0:02:47.900 or grok or what are the other AI platforms out 0:02:47.900 --> 0:02:49.739 there right now? All I know is grok. 0:02:49.900 --> 0:02:51.380 I mean, I use ChatGPT. 0:02:51.900 --> 0:02:53.579 I use ChatGPT as well. Yeah. 0:02:53.580 --> 0:02:55.940 Or if you're going old school. Isn't that funny? Google's 0:02:55.940 --> 0:02:56.540 old school. 0:02:57.500 --> 0:02:58.790 Yeah, Google is old school now. 0:02:58.870 --> 0:03:02.390 Most recent search that you have if you can share it. 0:03:03.350 --> 0:03:04.510 Oh man I'm gonna have to. 0:03:04.510 --> 0:03:04.830 Look to. 0:03:04.870 --> 0:03:09.470 See 805 five five 7898. What say you boom crew. 0:03:09.510 --> 0:03:13.870 Most recent search. If you're hands free right now, if 0:03:14.150 --> 0:03:18.030 you do not need them to drive, please be safe. 0:03:18.950 --> 0:03:22.430 What's most recent search you've got on ChatGPT or Google? 0:03:22.430 --> 0:03:23.470 What do you have, young Thunder? 0:03:23.510 --> 0:03:25.549 Well, I know that general question. I don't have an 0:03:25.550 --> 0:03:28.150 account with ChatGPT, so it doesn't tell me what my 0:03:28.190 --> 0:03:31.230 my previous questions were, so I don't remember exactly. But 0:03:31.230 --> 0:03:33.310 as a new parent, I get freaked out about a 0:03:33.310 --> 0:03:36.470 lot of stuff. And so and if I go to Google, 0:03:36.510 --> 0:03:39.950 Google will say, oh yeah, everything's wrong. You got to 0:03:39.950 --> 0:03:42.430 go to the doctor right away because they just do that. 0:03:42.430 --> 0:03:45.630 And but ChatGPT gives me a little more nuance. And 0:03:45.630 --> 0:03:49.910 so I'm like, hey, chat, can you this happened. How 0:03:49.950 --> 0:03:52.950 likely is it like, you know, maybe she's a little 0:03:52.990 --> 0:03:56.430 a little overtired today. Is that a problem or should 0:03:56.430 --> 0:03:59.360 I take her to the doctor? Is she probably fine? And? 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.200 And they said she's probably okay, right? 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.840 She's probably. Probably okay. And I go, okay, cool. I 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.240 don't need someone to tell me that there's, like, a 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.440 chance of things going wrong. I just need to know 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.040 she's probably fine. And then I go, okay, she's probably fine. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.920 And then I let it go. So that's helpful. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.469 Yeah. Okay. This is great. We got the first 2 0:04:18.470 --> 0:04:24.440 in 855, five, 78, 98, 805 five, five, 78, 98. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.520 The most recent question that you feel comfortable sharing with 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.640 us here on ChatGPT AI platform of any kind, or 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:38.120 Google load them up. Um, mine was, uh, Kierkegaard in theology, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.880 kind of a boring guy. Soren Kierkegaard I was wanting 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.880 to know some stuff about what Kierkegaard had said with 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.039 regard to some theological points. So there you go. Uh, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.200 did the Cubs win yesterday. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:51.480 For six. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.860 Eight, seven? Oh 4289. Was looking for job interview You 0:04:55.900 --> 0:05:00.940 questions 43, 43, 85 looked up. What's the difference between 0:05:00.940 --> 0:05:02.300 an apostle and a disciple? 0:05:02.339 --> 0:05:03.260 Oh, good. 0:05:03.300 --> 0:05:05.419 I wonder what came up on that one. 0:05:05.460 --> 0:05:07.300 Oh, I wonder if it came up right. 0:05:07.700 --> 0:05:12.300 She's a choreographer extraordinaire and everything is Greek to her. 0:05:12.740 --> 0:05:16.420 Super die is in the crew. It's Carl and crew 0:05:16.460 --> 0:05:17.740 on Moody Radio. 0:05:18.060 --> 0:05:20.740 You know, it would be great if we get transformed 0:05:20.740 --> 0:05:22.979 by the power of God. And then all of our 0:05:22.980 --> 0:05:27.180 questions are answered. It's just like we got. We got them. 0:05:27.220 --> 0:05:29.460 Everything's handled. Ali, wouldn't that be great? 0:05:29.500 --> 0:05:34.700 It would be, but yet it seems impossible. So many 0:05:34.700 --> 0:05:36.340 questions remain. 0:05:36.860 --> 0:05:38.620 Uh, we got a man right now that's going to 0:05:38.620 --> 0:05:42.260 clear the fog. Alex McFarland, give us his, uh. What's 0:05:42.260 --> 0:05:43.460 his pedigree here? Ali. 0:05:43.500 --> 0:05:48.219 Doctor Alex McFarland is a Christian apologist, author, evangelist, religion 0:05:48.220 --> 0:05:51.380 and culture analyst. You pay a lot of attention to 0:05:51.420 --> 0:05:54.980 what's going on in the world around us. Ten questions 0:05:54.980 --> 0:05:59.190 that every Christian is asking or soon will be. Where 0:05:59.190 --> 0:06:01.430 did you come up with that? How did you identify 0:06:01.430 --> 0:06:03.830 these ten as the big ones? 0:06:04.430 --> 0:06:06.549 You know, I've been doing a lot of traveling for 0:06:06.589 --> 0:06:09.669 like 25 years, and I've just kept journals of the 0:06:09.670 --> 0:06:13.150 questions people ask. And, you know, the good news is, 0:06:13.190 --> 0:06:15.510 for one thing, let me say, when people have questions 0:06:15.510 --> 0:06:18.710 and they're searching for truth, I think God's okay with that. 0:06:18.710 --> 0:06:22.750 Because like the Bible says in Isaiah 118, God says, 0:06:22.790 --> 0:06:27.310 come now, let us reason together. And so when people 0:06:27.310 --> 0:06:32.750 have spiritual questions, questions about life, questions about integrating Scripture 0:06:32.750 --> 0:06:36.390 into our life, you know, that's a wonderful opportunity to grow. 0:06:36.510 --> 0:06:39.469 And so there are answers. The good news is there 0:06:39.470 --> 0:06:42.870 are answers to the questions. And my wife and I, 0:06:42.910 --> 0:06:45.670 our journey has been to help people find those answers. 0:06:45.990 --> 0:06:48.150 What are some of the biggest questions you had as 0:06:48.150 --> 0:06:50.309 a young follower of Jesus? What are they? 0:06:50.750 --> 0:06:54.190 You know, for me personally, it took me a while 0:06:54.230 --> 0:06:57.560 to really have assurance of my salvation. I became a 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.839 Christian when I was in college. I was 21 years 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.880 old and I really for like a year, was on 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.560 this treadmill of thinking that maybe I wasn't really saved 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.960 because I had grown up. I was really into like 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:15.960 the Ouija board and magic and trying to learn even, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.760 you know, spell casting and things like that. I mean, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:23.040 I had a very unhealthy interest in the occult, and 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.040 I was afraid that I was unsavable and that I was, like, 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.160 too sinful for God to really love me. And what 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.600 really got me sorted out was Scripture. Guys, I think 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.160 that's really a reason that the Bible is so near 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.520 and dear to my heart, for one thing. And I'll 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:45.280 be brief, but I was reading first John 513 and 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.960 it says of Scripture, these things are written to you 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.960 who believe in the name of the Son of God, 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:57.850 that you may know you have eternal life K-n-o-w know. 0:07:57.970 --> 0:08:00.410 And I later looked that word up. And it means 0:08:00.410 --> 0:08:04.970 to know something with certainty. And for me and this, 0:08:04.970 --> 0:08:08.050 this may not be where many people are, but I 0:08:08.090 --> 0:08:13.010 just I had to give myself permission to trust that 0:08:13.010 --> 0:08:16.850 Jesus really could love me as as bad, as sinful 0:08:16.850 --> 0:08:19.250 as I was. Yeah. I think about a quote by 0:08:19.250 --> 0:08:22.330 John Piper is really cool. John Piper said, the bad 0:08:22.330 --> 0:08:24.930 news is you're a whole lot worse sinners than you 0:08:24.930 --> 0:08:27.690 think you are. But the good news is, God's a 0:08:27.690 --> 0:08:31.210 whole lot bigger Savior than you think he is. That 0:08:31.210 --> 0:08:34.050 was my deal, was assurance of my salvation. 0:08:34.370 --> 0:08:36.610 You know. And that brings us to one of ten 0:08:36.610 --> 0:08:40.490 questions that you say most followers of Christ are going 0:08:40.530 --> 0:08:43.770 to have. Or if they don't, maybe next week they will. 0:08:44.090 --> 0:08:47.290 And we have this here, Alex. We've had thousands of 0:08:47.290 --> 0:08:49.929 people surrender to Christ on this morning show that we've 0:08:49.929 --> 0:08:53.700 sent follow up material to about 7000, maybe more in 0:08:53.700 --> 0:08:56.540 just a few years. But one of the things that 0:08:56.540 --> 0:09:00.459 I see that breaks my heart and actually chokes me 0:09:00.460 --> 0:09:03.260 up right now, and you answer this question how do 0:09:03.260 --> 0:09:06.700 I overcome memories of my sinful past? I was a 0:09:06.700 --> 0:09:12.420 cocaine snorting, crown royal drinking fool, and and sometimes I 0:09:12.700 --> 0:09:15.700 get bombarded with the past. Not so much lately, but 0:09:15.740 --> 0:09:18.060 for the first few years of my spiritual life, I 0:09:18.059 --> 0:09:20.540 think I had a notion like you. It's like, did 0:09:20.540 --> 0:09:24.860 God really change me? I was such a horrendous sinner. 0:09:25.860 --> 0:09:29.020 Why is it so important to overcome, and how do 0:09:29.020 --> 0:09:31.540 we overcome memories of our sinful past? 0:09:32.059 --> 0:09:37.339 This is where really biblical worldview truth, I believe, can 0:09:37.340 --> 0:09:42.100 be so transformative. Because when we put our faith in Jesus, 0:09:42.140 --> 0:09:47.620 our identity changes in the eyes of God, Almighty God. 0:09:47.620 --> 0:09:50.819 And these are the promises of His word that we 0:09:50.820 --> 0:09:56.390 are in Christ. And while we as humans, obviously we 0:09:56.390 --> 0:10:01.790 remember stuff, you know, but in a very legal sense, 0:10:02.190 --> 0:10:05.630 not only are we not guilty of those past sins, 0:10:05.630 --> 0:10:11.070 they've been absolved, forgiven, washed away in Jesus. But even 0:10:11.070 --> 0:10:15.470 more than that, Romans chapter four says that the righteousness 0:10:15.470 --> 0:10:20.830 of Christ has been attributed or accredited to us. Now 0:10:20.830 --> 0:10:24.949 here's the deal. To get to heaven, you've got to 0:10:25.150 --> 0:10:29.470 be righteous. You say, what does that mean? Well, righteousness 0:10:29.470 --> 0:10:33.830 means as holy as God. And you say, Uh-Oh. I'm 0:10:33.830 --> 0:10:37.590 not as holy as Almighty God. And you can't buy it. 0:10:37.590 --> 0:10:40.270 You can't earn it. So what do you do? Romans 0:10:40.270 --> 0:10:44.150 four says, if we put our faith in Jesus, that 0:10:44.150 --> 0:10:47.390 Jesus is the Son of God, and he died on 0:10:47.390 --> 0:10:50.949 the cross for me and for you and for everyone. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.640 And he rose from the dead. So you say, Lord, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:59.400 I trust you. I believe in you. And please save me. Well, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:04.160 according to Romans four and five, this is utterly unique 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:10.480 in the pantheon of world religions. God says of the believer, 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.960 I count you as righteous as Jesus. In other words, 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.120 the holiness. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:17.520 That's so. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:22.160 Good, the Son of God is accredited or attributed. The 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:26.400 technical word is imputed to you. And so if you say, oh, 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.840 you know, I'm such a bad sinner. God, if he 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.080 were here, God would say, I'm sorry. I don't know 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.960 what you're talking about, because I look at the believer 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.840 and I see the believer as holy as my own son. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.560 Now we don't get arrogant. We're like, oh, I'm. I'm 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.160 as holy as God. It's a gift. It's his grace. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.560 It's his mercy. But honestly, and I want to say 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.360 to everybody out there and guys, I was on a 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.730 radio show last week and weekend, a woman called in 0:11:51.730 --> 0:11:56.330 just profusely crying, and she had prayed to accept Christ 0:11:56.370 --> 0:12:00.650 a thousand times. But she had had an abortion years 0:12:00.650 --> 0:12:04.170 ago and she said, can I go to heaven? And 0:12:04.170 --> 0:12:07.210 I said, absolutely. We prayed with her on the air 0:12:07.410 --> 0:12:11.610 and I said, look, sin is serious. We're all sinners. 0:12:11.610 --> 0:12:15.090 I'm a sinner. We're all sinners. But God loves to 0:12:15.090 --> 0:12:19.329 forgive sinners. I mean, that is the joy of the 0:12:19.330 --> 0:12:24.130 heart of God is to say we're good. Yeah, my 0:12:24.130 --> 0:12:27.410 son paid it all. And God looks at us no 0:12:27.410 --> 0:12:30.210 matter who you are. Maybe there's even somebody listening right 0:12:30.210 --> 0:12:34.010 now and they're incarcerated. We hear from so many people 0:12:34.010 --> 0:12:38.410 that are serving time in the eyes of God. You're clean, 0:12:38.770 --> 0:12:43.690 you're new, and so don't let the accuser, Satan, keep 0:12:43.690 --> 0:12:46.930 you in the bondage of shame and guilt in the 0:12:46.929 --> 0:12:50.470 eyes of the Lord. If you're a believer, you're set free. 0:12:51.070 --> 0:12:55.550 Doctor Alex McFarland, our guest right now, Christian apologist, author, evangelist. 0:12:55.750 --> 0:12:59.630 You know, we want that assurance of salvation for ourselves. 0:12:59.630 --> 0:13:02.870 We want to be free from the memories of our past. 0:13:02.870 --> 0:13:05.230 But as a parent, I would say you want it 0:13:05.230 --> 0:13:08.830 even more so for your children. You have this desire 0:13:08.830 --> 0:13:10.950 for your children to know the Lord. One of the 0:13:10.950 --> 0:13:13.750 questions you tackle, which is a big one that people 0:13:13.750 --> 0:13:17.870 are asking, how can I help my kids care about Jesus? Yes, 0:13:17.870 --> 0:13:21.270 they're going to church. They're doing the things their youth group, 0:13:21.270 --> 0:13:24.270 Sunday school. But man, are they getting it. 0:13:24.630 --> 0:13:27.470 I think all of us that have raised kids resonate 0:13:27.470 --> 0:13:30.870 with that. You know, the good news is there's a real, 0:13:30.910 --> 0:13:35.470 real desire among the part of young people to know truth. 0:13:35.670 --> 0:13:40.510 Bible sales. For the last five years, Bible sales have 0:13:40.510 --> 0:13:45.630 been increasing 14 to 20% a year. And the number 0:13:45.630 --> 0:13:51.040 one purchaser of the scriptures are people 18 to 30, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.120 so they skew kind of young. I was on a 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.280 show just recently, and they were showing the bookshelves in 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:02.360 one of the major national retailers, and the Bible shelves 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:06.520 were like 90% empty. And this bookstore manager, he was like, yeah, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.720 we're selling Bibles as fast as we can get them in. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:10.040 Wow. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.880 So kids have a spiritual hunger, and that's a wonderful thing. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.440 But I would say what young people are looking for, really, 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.400 they might not verbalize it this way, but they want 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:24.000 to see authenticity in the lives of the adults around them, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.320 especially mom and dad especially, you know, the youth pastor 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.920 and pastor that if we as the grown ups, if 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.760 we talk about Jesus, we should live it. You know, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.960 it ought to be real. So they're looking for authenticity, 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:44.160 consistency and accessibility. And I want to say to moms 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.680 and dads, be the person that your kids are going 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.650 to come to you when they've got the big questions. 0:14:50.690 --> 0:14:53.250 Try not to have the deer in the headlights look. 0:14:53.570 --> 0:14:56.850 They want to see that this Jesus thing is real 0:14:56.850 --> 0:14:57.850 in your life. 0:14:58.010 --> 0:15:00.730 Yeah. It's beautiful. Alex McFarland, our guest. I got one 0:15:00.730 --> 0:15:03.450 more for you. And this relates to everyone listening right now. 0:15:03.490 --> 0:15:07.650 Why does God sometimes seem so far away? I think 0:15:07.650 --> 0:15:11.410 what's so encouraging is that he's near to the brokenhearted, right? Alex? 0:15:11.450 --> 0:15:14.370 I mean, isn't that beautiful? So. But take it away. 0:15:14.370 --> 0:15:15.530 What do you say, my man? 0:15:15.810 --> 0:15:18.210 The two big things. One is like the problem of 0:15:18.210 --> 0:15:20.810 pain and suffering. You know, if God is good, why 0:15:20.810 --> 0:15:23.090 are there bad things in the world? But the other 0:15:23.090 --> 0:15:29.729 is the apparent sometimes. Not always, but the hiddenness of God. 0:15:30.170 --> 0:15:34.930 Sometimes God seems distant because we have drifted away. Yeah. 0:15:34.970 --> 0:15:38.530 And then other times, like any good parent or any 0:15:38.530 --> 0:15:44.970 good teacher, sometimes God is allowing us to go through 0:15:45.010 --> 0:15:49.980 something that is going to teach us Purge and cleanse us. 0:15:50.340 --> 0:15:54.540 Mature us. I will tell you this in all of my, 0:15:54.580 --> 0:15:58.860 you know, dark nights of the soul. I learned things 0:15:58.860 --> 0:16:02.180 about the faithfulness of God. Yeah. Now, it took a while. 0:16:02.300 --> 0:16:07.420 I look back retrospectively, and I see how faithful God was. 0:16:07.700 --> 0:16:12.780 I see how he did answer the cries of my heart. 0:16:13.300 --> 0:16:19.260 And so to the question, Why is God sometimes apparently hidden? Well, 0:16:19.660 --> 0:16:23.460 God is at work. I can promise everyone here by 0:16:23.620 --> 0:16:28.060 a dozen scriptures and a lot of testimony. God has 0:16:28.060 --> 0:16:32.460 not abandoned you. God has not gone off to do 0:16:32.580 --> 0:16:37.900 other things. God is very often silent, but he is 0:16:37.900 --> 0:16:43.300 at work. And be patient. Please and know that Almighty 0:16:43.340 --> 0:16:48.550 God will not harm you. Almighty God, will not abandon you. 0:16:48.910 --> 0:16:54.350 And if we wait and trust, that trust is always validated. 0:16:54.350 --> 0:16:55.270 It really is. 0:16:55.910 --> 0:16:57.870 Yeah. Those dark nights of the soul. I mean, they 0:16:57.910 --> 0:17:01.270 are real. Um, but I think all of us here 0:17:01.270 --> 0:17:05.070 on our team, Super Die Young, Thunder Alley and myself, 0:17:05.070 --> 0:17:09.030 can attest to the fact that oftentimes that that meeting, 0:17:09.350 --> 0:17:11.790 that appointment with God in the dark night of the 0:17:11.790 --> 0:17:14.790 soul can be one of the most transformative, you know, 0:17:14.830 --> 0:17:17.950 boom crew. You're listening to Amanda and Alex, who has 0:17:17.950 --> 0:17:21.750 put together a resource, and it's titled ten Questions Every 0:17:21.750 --> 0:17:26.790 Christian is Asking or Soon Will be. That's true, isn't it, Alex? 0:17:26.830 --> 0:17:29.070 It is. And we've got it for you, along with 0:17:29.070 --> 0:17:33.350 some other information from his website, including an upcoming speaker series, 0:17:33.350 --> 0:17:36.750 Conversations That Matter. You've got it all in one link. 0:17:36.790 --> 0:17:42.990 Just text 10 to 800 555 7898. Spell it out, please. 0:17:43.030 --> 0:17:47.400 T e n 10 to 805, 55, 7898. 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.679 He's a sports fanatic with a stat for anything you 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.919 can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. It's 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.120 curl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.080 Okay, we got a big one for you. Some really 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.159 big news usually coming in here on Wednesday. And we 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.959 don't want to mess up your circadian rhythms or your 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.360 sleep schedules or anything by this, but we just thought 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.000 it's probably better to give it to you today rather 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.399 than not have it tomorrow. What am I speaking of? 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.399 I'm speaking of the phenomenal time that we have with 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.679 Ali around here. And tomorrow's going to be a day 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.320 and Thursday set aside for some Uber special that's super die, 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.080 by the way, is super fired up about. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:27.439 Uber. 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:28.760 Fired up about. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.560 All right. So it's going to bump out jokes tomorrow. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.159 And Ali came in and said Ali we got to 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:35.800 give the people what they need. 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.240 That's such a such an oversell. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.240 No, we got to give the people what they need, right? 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.649 All I need is one text right now. Going? Yes. 0:18:46.650 --> 0:18:49.290 If we don't have jokes tomorrow, we need them today. If. 0:18:49.290 --> 0:18:51.690 If no one wants them, that's okay. But if you 0:18:51.690 --> 0:18:54.490 want the jokes today because we can't get them tomorrow, 0:18:54.490 --> 0:18:57.450 just say we want the jokes so to. 0:18:57.530 --> 0:19:00.170 So. If even one person wants the jokes on a Tuesday, 0:19:00.170 --> 0:19:01.129 you'll go for it. 0:19:01.330 --> 0:19:03.409 Well, yeah. I mean, if we'll see which one comes 0:19:03.410 --> 0:19:06.010 in first. No, we can pass on the jokes or 0:19:06.050 --> 0:19:12.850 give me the jokes. 800 555 7898 800 555 7898. 0:19:12.850 --> 0:19:14.729 But I thought I came in with a heart of 0:19:14.730 --> 0:19:16.970 compassion because we're going to be talking about that here 0:19:17.290 --> 0:19:20.450 next few minutes. And oh, there we go. Yes jokes. 0:19:20.490 --> 0:19:21.170 Yes. Jokes. 0:19:21.650 --> 0:19:24.570 9658 said it. So here we go. 0:19:25.410 --> 0:19:28.970 Making herself laugh. No matter who joins her, it's time 0:19:28.970 --> 0:19:31.010 for Ali thinks it's funny. 0:19:32.650 --> 0:19:33.290 Little fun. 0:19:33.410 --> 0:19:33.850 Amount of. 0:19:33.850 --> 0:19:36.810 People that are saying yes jokes. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 0:19:36.810 --> 0:19:41.050 What happened? Oh my goodness. They're, like, demanding the jokes. 0:19:42.090 --> 0:19:42.729 It's like okay. 0:19:42.730 --> 0:19:43.219 Hey, mom. 0:19:43.460 --> 0:19:44.619 Oh my goodness. 0:19:44.660 --> 0:19:45.020 It's an. 0:19:45.060 --> 0:19:45.740 Angry mob. 0:19:46.100 --> 0:19:48.780 Okay, well I'm encouraged. 0:19:48.820 --> 0:19:49.300 Okay. 0:19:49.700 --> 0:19:55.180 The people have spoken. First joke up today. Fun fact 0:19:55.180 --> 0:19:58.020 for you. Anyone enjoy French fries? 0:19:58.220 --> 0:20:00.500 Love em. Yes, I love French fries. 0:20:00.540 --> 0:20:01.020 French fries. 0:20:01.140 --> 0:20:04.180 Side note I tried those air fryer French fries. 0:20:04.540 --> 0:20:04.940 From. 0:20:04.980 --> 0:20:05.580 Sweetgreen. 0:20:05.940 --> 0:20:06.540 You didn't like. 0:20:06.700 --> 0:20:07.220 Garlic. 0:20:07.220 --> 0:20:08.020 Sauce? Yes. 0:20:08.260 --> 0:20:08.700 Whoa. 0:20:08.740 --> 0:20:11.580 Was that good? Oh, are those awesome or what? 0:20:12.060 --> 0:20:13.420 I thought Carl was not lying. 0:20:13.460 --> 0:20:15.220 You just made Carl very okay. 0:20:15.260 --> 0:20:16.340 So try him today. 0:20:16.740 --> 0:20:20.180 Back to. Back to the joke. First French fries. Did 0:20:20.180 --> 0:20:22.780 you know they were not actually cooked in France? The 0:20:22.780 --> 0:20:25.460 first French fries were not actually cooked in France. 0:20:25.500 --> 0:20:26.180 I didn't know this. 0:20:26.220 --> 0:20:29.300 Fun fact. They were cooked in Greece. Yes. 0:20:31.700 --> 0:20:32.180 Okay. 0:20:32.420 --> 0:20:33.980 Super die. Come on. That was for. 0:20:33.980 --> 0:20:38.220 You. Super die. That's me. Yeah. 0:20:38.260 --> 0:20:40.700 They were cooked in Greece. 0:20:41.780 --> 0:20:42.060 Okay. 0:20:42.100 --> 0:20:45.750 I was watching a beehive the other day. There's a 0:20:45.790 --> 0:20:49.550 beehive near one of my kids schools. That is a fact. 0:20:50.190 --> 0:20:52.870 And it was just one be just one bee. The 0:20:52.869 --> 0:20:55.390 rest of his compadres. I don't know where they were, 0:20:55.390 --> 0:20:57.870 but this one bee. He kept going into the hive, 0:20:57.869 --> 0:20:59.629 and then he would pop right back out, and then 0:20:59.630 --> 0:21:01.790 he'd go back in the hive. And this went on 0:21:01.790 --> 0:21:04.790 for maybe a good 2 or 3 minutes. It's like 0:21:04.790 --> 0:21:07.030 he couldn't make up his mind. What do you call 0:21:07.030 --> 0:21:10.350 a bee who can't make up his mind? 0:21:11.790 --> 0:21:12.030 I don't. 0:21:12.070 --> 0:21:12.350 Know. 0:21:12.390 --> 0:21:20.190 A maybe. Oh, you. 0:21:20.190 --> 0:21:21.149 Gotta give me points. 0:21:21.150 --> 0:21:22.710 At least for the setup on that one. 0:21:22.750 --> 0:21:23.350 Oh. Come on. 0:21:23.390 --> 0:21:25.590 I'll give you points for the genuine excitement that was 0:21:25.590 --> 0:21:27.189 on your face. Maybe. Oh, I. 0:21:27.190 --> 0:21:27.630 Know I. 0:21:27.630 --> 0:21:30.790 Was itching to give you that punchline. That one man, 0:21:30.790 --> 0:21:31.190 that one. 0:21:31.230 --> 0:21:32.950 Slaps text jokes. 0:21:33.590 --> 0:21:42.010 To (800) 555-7898. Text jokes to 805 Oh. 0:21:42.530 --> 0:21:43.570 Those are good. 0:21:43.609 --> 0:21:44.530 Glad you enjoyed it. 0:21:44.609 --> 0:21:47.850 Maybe a maybe in Greece. 0:21:49.490 --> 0:21:49.930 Super. 0:21:50.130 --> 0:21:51.130 That was for you. 0:21:51.210 --> 0:21:52.890 She tried. She tried to. 0:21:52.890 --> 0:21:53.090 Give. 0:21:53.410 --> 0:21:54.090 It her best. 0:21:55.450 --> 0:21:57.370 I cheered. Oh my goodness. 0:21:57.530 --> 0:22:00.250 Way to go, Ali. Keep telling those little jokes. 0:22:00.290 --> 0:22:01.090 Golf clap. 0:22:01.530 --> 0:22:05.490 I'm still bummed that the sequels to My Big Fat 0:22:05.490 --> 0:22:07.490 Greek Wedding were so lame. 0:22:08.010 --> 0:22:08.890 Oh, okay. I'm still. 0:22:08.930 --> 0:22:09.530 Bummed about. 0:22:09.530 --> 0:22:10.570 That. Like super dying. 0:22:11.730 --> 0:22:12.410 Oh, okay. 0:22:13.450 --> 0:22:14.449 They were. 0:22:15.650 --> 0:22:16.730 They just weren't that good. 0:22:16.770 --> 0:22:17.090 I mean. 0:22:17.130 --> 0:22:17.450 Isn't. 0:22:17.450 --> 0:22:19.250 That mostly true of sequels? 0:22:19.290 --> 0:22:21.210 I don't know, I'm not a big sequel guy. 0:22:21.250 --> 0:22:23.850 Oh, yeah. I mean, it's always the original. And then 0:22:23.850 --> 0:22:26.050 you try to recreate what made it great. 0:22:26.050 --> 0:22:27.929 And there are a couple of. 0:22:28.010 --> 0:22:31.410 A couple of instances where the sequel is better. Really? Yeah. 0:22:31.450 --> 0:22:34.530 Star Wars Empire Strikes Back is known as being better 0:22:34.530 --> 0:22:37.410 than A new Hope, which was the first and second 0:22:37.410 --> 0:22:38.369 movie that came out. 0:22:38.970 --> 0:22:39.370 Hmm. 0:22:39.970 --> 0:22:42.100 I don't know, man. That first one. I remember where 0:22:42.100 --> 0:22:42.780 I was sitting. 0:22:43.340 --> 0:22:44.020 Do you really? 0:22:44.060 --> 0:22:47.900 Yeah, yeah. One theater. I mean, we're in Wasilla, Alaska, man. 0:22:48.380 --> 0:22:50.980 And the guy that ran the place was the grumpiest 0:22:50.980 --> 0:22:52.980 old guy. And I made it my job to make 0:22:52.980 --> 0:22:55.140 him laugh, and I could get him going, but, boy, 0:22:55.140 --> 0:22:56.060 he was grumpy. 0:22:56.100 --> 0:22:56.860 That's great. 0:22:56.900 --> 0:22:58.979 He's a grumpy old guy. He owned and operated the 0:22:58.980 --> 0:23:01.460 whole thing. I think his wife was taking tickets, you know. 0:23:01.500 --> 0:23:04.980 That's back when. I mean, come on, you got cash tickets? 0:23:05.020 --> 0:23:05.740 Yeah, yeah. 0:23:06.060 --> 0:23:07.940 Oh. Can I. Can I go back to the jokes 0:23:07.940 --> 0:23:10.780 for a second? Yeah, sure. 1155 just gave me an 0:23:10.780 --> 0:23:14.139 alternate punchline to my joke. Oh, and I love this one. 0:23:14.300 --> 0:23:17.700 This one? Oh, this rivals the so the maybe so. 0:23:17.740 --> 0:23:20.180 A bee that can't make up his mind. Could be 0:23:20.180 --> 0:23:23.980 a maybe. They also said it could be bewildered. 0:23:24.580 --> 0:23:28.820 Oh that's good that is. 1155 I had to give 0:23:28.820 --> 0:23:30.020 you a shout out there. 0:23:30.460 --> 0:23:32.899 If you are co-writing jokes with me. 0:23:32.940 --> 0:23:33.460 I am. 0:23:33.500 --> 0:23:35.700 Appreciative. Giving me alternate. 0:23:35.740 --> 0:23:37.139 Like I've seen your ending. 0:23:37.180 --> 0:23:39.780 I've seen alternate punchlines come in several. 0:23:39.910 --> 0:23:41.790 Times for some of these over the years. 0:23:42.390 --> 0:23:43.150 That's good. 0:23:43.750 --> 0:23:46.470 You could also answer it this way. Thank you for that. 0:23:46.869 --> 0:23:52.350 Okay. Text jokes to 800 555 7898. You too can 0:23:52.350 --> 0:23:55.189 drive someone crazy today. 0:23:55.310 --> 0:23:56.550 And write your own ending. 0:23:56.710 --> 0:24:02.590 Yeah. Tremendous stuff, man. Maybe. Okay. Uh, got a question 0:24:02.590 --> 0:24:04.350 for you. It's a serious one. We're going to get. 0:24:04.350 --> 0:24:09.750 We're going to whiplash here. How has someone else's compassion 0:24:09.750 --> 0:24:12.109 led you to trust God? I want you to think 0:24:12.109 --> 0:24:14.229 about this a moment. It's built on the premise of 0:24:14.230 --> 0:24:18.350 Holy Week that Jesus put on display the heart of God. 0:24:18.390 --> 0:24:20.990 Because what you see Jesus do. You've seen the father. 0:24:22.230 --> 0:24:27.230 How how has someone's compassion been the thing that God 0:24:27.230 --> 0:24:31.790 used to lead you to God? How did that work? 0:24:32.390 --> 0:24:34.430 Text or phone calls? In fact, let's get some phone 0:24:34.430 --> 0:24:39.189 calls in here. Someone's compassion led you to trust God 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:42.560 And it could be for saving faith or to trust 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:45.480 him more fully. And it was just like transformative. Let's 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:48.320 just use that kind of a general bucket. It was 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:58.560 someone's compassion really changed your life. (800) 555-7898 taking phone calls. 0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:00.959 Let's light them up. Boom. Crew if you can. If 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:04.600 you can text for jokes, you can call for compassion. Yes. 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:10.240 I love this question. How did someone else's compassion lead 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:14.040 you to trust God? Maybe more. Or maybe for the 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:21.920 first time. (800) 555-7898 phone lines officially open. 800 555 7898. 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:24.920 She was trying to earn her way to God, but 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:28.439 God showed her she didn't have to. Ali is in 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:31.800 the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:25:32.119 --> 0:25:34.760 Got a question for you. And it flows right out 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:40.570 of Holy Week. Jesus rode into To Jerusalem on a donkey. 0:25:40.970 --> 0:25:43.290 And then he went in and he flipped over tables, 0:25:43.290 --> 0:25:46.770 and then he flipped over conventional wisdom because the blind 0:25:46.770 --> 0:25:49.570 and the lame, they came to him and children started 0:25:49.570 --> 0:25:54.130 crying out, Hosanna to the Son of David! And the 0:25:54.130 --> 0:25:57.650 Pharisees were indignant. They're like, come on, what's going on? 0:25:57.690 --> 0:26:00.170 Do you hear what they're saying? Jesus said to them, yeah. 0:26:00.170 --> 0:26:02.250 Have you never read out of the mouth of infants 0:26:02.250 --> 0:26:07.810 and nursing babies? You have prepared praise. Wow. What a statement. 0:26:07.850 --> 0:26:14.530 So here's what Jesus flipped upside down. His kingship, his authority. 0:26:14.570 --> 0:26:20.969 His deity was grounded in compassion. How powerful is that, guys? 0:26:21.609 --> 0:26:24.530 It's the most important thing. It's so good because it 0:26:24.530 --> 0:26:27.010 draws us to him. And it also gives us the 0:26:27.010 --> 0:26:29.770 blueprint as to how to present him to others. Yeah. 0:26:31.570 --> 0:26:35.129 Vivi in Illinois. What do you say, Vivi? What's your story? 0:26:36.170 --> 0:26:39.260 Well, Carl, I just come back from missions in Africa 0:26:39.260 --> 0:26:43.820 at 18 and in Africa my face got covered in pimples, 0:26:43.980 --> 0:26:46.980 almost like it looked like volcanoes were erupting all over 0:26:46.980 --> 0:26:50.020 my face. And I was so ashamed. I was so 0:26:50.020 --> 0:26:52.180 ashamed as an 18 year old girl. And I went 0:26:52.180 --> 0:26:56.180 to Oral Roberts University and heard pastor Bill Wilson of 0:26:56.220 --> 0:27:00.260 what is now Metro World Child speak about ministering to prostitutes, 0:27:00.300 --> 0:27:02.740 and it touched me so much. So afterwards I went 0:27:02.740 --> 0:27:06.140 to meet him and he had had his face disfigured 0:27:06.500 --> 0:27:09.220 as a child. He had a prostitute mother. She was 0:27:09.220 --> 0:27:12.020 an alcoholic and was born with a disfigured jaw. And 0:27:12.020 --> 0:27:14.300 he reached out. When he saw me, he saw my 0:27:14.340 --> 0:27:17.820 my shame from my face. And he reached out. He 0:27:17.820 --> 0:27:20.460 took my face in his hands, and he looked deeply 0:27:20.460 --> 0:27:24.580 into my eyes. And I could see that he understood 0:27:24.580 --> 0:27:28.060 my shame, and he was accepting me and reaching out 0:27:28.060 --> 0:27:31.899 and touching me just as Jesus touched the leper. And 0:27:31.900 --> 0:27:35.700 that kindness drew me closer to God and to understanding 0:27:35.700 --> 0:27:36.500 the love of God. 0:27:37.190 --> 0:27:40.230 That's a great story, sister. Thank you so much. How 0:27:40.230 --> 0:27:41.750 real is that alley, man? 0:27:41.790 --> 0:27:45.149 And you feel that, like those teenage years, you can 0:27:45.150 --> 0:27:48.510 still feel the things that you felt about yourself that 0:27:48.510 --> 0:27:52.190 made you unlovable. Unacceptable. 0:27:52.510 --> 0:27:52.990 Yeah. 0:27:53.869 --> 0:27:57.990 Taking your calls right now. How is somebody's act of 0:27:57.990 --> 0:28:01.630 incredible compassion drawn you closer to God? Might have saved 0:28:01.630 --> 0:28:07.390 your life. God used that. Possibly 805 five. I got 0:28:07.390 --> 0:28:11.830 it here. 800 555 7898. Give us a call. Let's go. 0:28:11.869 --> 0:28:16.149 Let's light them up. How is someone's compassion drawn you 0:28:16.190 --> 0:28:20.110 closer to God? 800 555 78. 98. 0:28:20.350 --> 0:28:23.109 You can take him out of Alaska, but you can't 0:28:23.150 --> 0:28:26.990 take Alaska out of him. Carl is in the crew. 0:28:27.190 --> 0:28:29.790 It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:28:29.990 --> 0:28:34.790 You ever have someone see or hear of you doing 0:28:34.790 --> 0:28:39.040 something that could be somewhat embarrassing. And instead of kind 0:28:39.080 --> 0:28:42.600 of jumping on with the embarrassment factor, they go a 0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:45.440 totally different direction with it and it's like, oh, thank 0:28:45.480 --> 0:28:48.360 you for that compassion, man, I needed that. I ran 0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:54.200 a half marathon that to this day. Uh, I trained 0:28:54.240 --> 0:28:58.040 on flat ground and in Portland, Oregon, and I'm a 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:02.520 newlywed and I'm getting ready for this half marathon. And 0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:04.520 I'd been a sprinter in high school, and I should 0:29:04.560 --> 0:29:07.800 have known. Maybe I'm reaching beyond my capacity here. How? 0:29:07.800 --> 0:29:11.120 I'm naturally wired. But I started training. It was getting pretty. 0:29:11.160 --> 0:29:13.640 It's getting pretty good. I was breaking through some walls, actually. 0:29:13.680 --> 0:29:16.320 It was getting. It was getting good. Did a couple 0:29:16.400 --> 0:29:18.240 of ten mile runs. So I was getting ready for 0:29:18.240 --> 0:29:20.720 this half marathon I signed up for. I should have 0:29:20.720 --> 0:29:23.160 known by the name of the half marathon it was 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:25.520 going to be a problem. It's called the Goat Mountain Gallop. 0:29:25.920 --> 0:29:26.560 So maybe. 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:29.080 No. Say that one more time, please. 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:30.600 Goat mountain gallop. 0:29:30.640 --> 0:29:31.200 Thank you. 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:31.640 Isn't that. 0:29:31.640 --> 0:29:32.680 Something? What a name. 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:35.850 Well, I didn't know two things. I didn't know how 0:29:35.850 --> 0:29:38.570 many hills would be out there, and it was. I mean, 0:29:38.570 --> 0:29:42.130 the whole thing was up and down, up and down. 0:29:42.130 --> 0:29:43.850 But the first mile wasn't that way. The first mile 0:29:43.850 --> 0:29:46.730 was pretty good. But what piled there were a couple 0:29:46.770 --> 0:29:49.010 of school buses showed up, and these guys get off 0:29:49.010 --> 0:29:53.170 and they've got on track and they are prepping. I mean, 0:29:53.210 --> 0:29:57.130 these are no joking. Kenyans, Ethiopians prepping for like Olympic 0:29:57.170 --> 0:29:59.410 trials and stuff. And I didn't know that because Portland's 0:29:59.450 --> 0:30:02.250 a big running area, you know what I'm saying? I mean, 0:30:02.290 --> 0:30:05.930 it's a big runner's Paradise. Well, I didn't know this 0:30:05.930 --> 0:30:08.010 was like a warm up meet for these guys. And 0:30:08.050 --> 0:30:10.050 the only thing going through my head is make sure 0:30:10.050 --> 0:30:11.930 the first mile is slow. Make sure the first mile 0:30:11.930 --> 0:30:14.770 is slow. Don't. Over. Well, that didn't last long. The 0:30:14.770 --> 0:30:17.250 gun goes off, and here I go. And at the 0:30:17.250 --> 0:30:19.770 one mile mark. No joke. I was at fifth or 0:30:19.770 --> 0:30:23.250 sixth in the whole pack, and there was 150, 200 0:30:23.250 --> 0:30:26.130 runners out there. And I was where I should not 0:30:26.130 --> 0:30:28.130 have been. It was probably the fastest mile I've ever 0:30:28.130 --> 0:30:30.290 run in my life, which is not what you do 0:30:30.290 --> 0:30:33.930 when you've got another dozen to go. And it was 0:30:34.390 --> 0:30:38.270 bad news. And immediately then after that first mile, we 0:30:38.270 --> 0:30:43.670 start to go into some mountains, as in Goat Mountain. Gallup. 0:30:43.710 --> 0:30:48.070 Carl boy speaking to younger Carl now. And it was horrible. 0:30:48.310 --> 0:30:52.430 And I went up that first hill. And you guys 0:30:52.430 --> 0:30:54.350 have heard of stitches there. 0:30:54.390 --> 0:30:55.350 Oh yeah. Absolutely. 0:30:55.390 --> 0:30:57.870 And you're when your abdomen muscles and I had them 0:30:57.870 --> 0:31:00.710 so bad that right below my rib cage. Why am 0:31:00.710 --> 0:31:02.709 I feeling my rib cage right now? Right below my 0:31:02.710 --> 0:31:05.550 rib cage. Right where it gets. You know, there's no 0:31:05.550 --> 0:31:10.550 more bone there. Those things swelled up so thick and tall. 0:31:11.070 --> 0:31:14.430 I was pulling muscles in my abdomen that were just, like, 0:31:14.470 --> 0:31:17.070 almost dangerous. And they were cramped up so bad. But 0:31:17.070 --> 0:31:19.470 I was still wanting to compete. So I'd walk a 0:31:19.470 --> 0:31:21.150 little bit, and then I'd jog a little bit, and 0:31:21.150 --> 0:31:24.110 then I'd walk, and then I'd have to stop. And 0:31:24.110 --> 0:31:28.070 I had guys coming by me. A couple guys chuckled. 0:31:28.430 --> 0:31:31.790 One guy said, stitches, huh? And and I'm like, I 0:31:31.790 --> 0:31:33.680 didn't even know what they were, by the way, that's 0:31:33.680 --> 0:31:37.680 how novice I was to any distance running. And. But 0:31:37.680 --> 0:31:39.560 a couple guys patted me on the shoulder and said, 0:31:39.560 --> 0:31:42.240 you got this. That's what's cool about runners, right? You 0:31:42.240 --> 0:31:43.960 get some guys that go, you got this, man. 0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:45.120 It feels like a team sport. 0:31:45.120 --> 0:31:46.920 But I didn't have it. And my wife's at the 0:31:46.920 --> 0:31:48.920 finish line waiting for me to come in, and she's 0:31:48.920 --> 0:31:51.320 seeing all these people come in. And now really slow 0:31:51.320 --> 0:31:53.760 runners are coming in. And people that she thought maybe 0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:55.400 he should have been in front of these folks and 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:57.920 I'm wiped out. So I was out on that race course. 0:31:57.920 --> 0:32:02.960 No joke. In half marathon for four hours. Absolutely. Battling 0:32:02.960 --> 0:32:08.959 in agony, walking, stopping, laying down. It was brutal. And 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:11.120 I got Ahold of my buddy, Mark Donner. I'll never 0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:13.280 forget this. I got Ahold of him and I said, hey, Mark, 0:32:13.760 --> 0:32:16.640 I ran a Goat Mountain gallop. And he said, how'd 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:20.480 it go? And he was in Alaska. And I said, well, 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:22.479 I told him the story. You know what he said? 0:32:23.200 --> 0:32:26.040 He said, four hours. Man, that's a long time battling. 0:32:26.040 --> 0:32:27.960 I'm proud of you. And I'm. 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:28.160 Like. 0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:28.600 Oh, that's. 0:32:28.600 --> 0:32:28.840 Great. 0:32:28.840 --> 0:32:29.120 Oh. 0:32:29.600 --> 0:32:30.560 You know what I'm saying? 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:31.280 Yeah. 0:32:31.280 --> 0:32:32.320 What a beautiful thing man. 0:32:32.410 --> 0:32:33.290 Wow. My eye. 0:32:33.490 --> 0:32:37.650 And Mark. Mark is a great distance runner, but he 0:32:37.650 --> 0:32:41.690 didn't put it in my face. He. He went. He 0:32:41.690 --> 0:32:44.690 flipped it the other way around. Compassion's like that, it 0:32:44.690 --> 0:32:49.010 does something inside us. And that's what Jesus put on 0:32:49.010 --> 0:32:52.170 display in Holy Week when he said, come on, children, 0:32:52.170 --> 0:32:54.890 you can come to me. And he said to the 0:32:54.890 --> 0:32:58.090 lame and to the blind, he said, well, he had 0:32:58.090 --> 0:33:01.690 said for three years, by the way he lived. Come on. 0:33:02.170 --> 0:33:06.969 Come on in here. Compassion's powerful guys. Uh, let's go 0:33:06.970 --> 0:33:09.090 back to the phone lines. Jack in Indiana. Thanks for 0:33:09.090 --> 0:33:12.090 holding on. How did compassion move you? Closer to God? 0:33:13.330 --> 0:33:16.970 I remember when I went to, uh, kids camp, uh, 0:33:16.970 --> 0:33:19.010 upon all the activities that we did, they shared the 0:33:19.050 --> 0:33:22.250 gospel to us. And I had this big emotional response. 0:33:22.250 --> 0:33:24.890 I felt the weight of my sin and God's love. 0:33:24.890 --> 0:33:28.010 And of course, tears started rolling down my eyes. And, uh, 0:33:28.010 --> 0:33:31.700 a youth counselor or, uh, or kids counselor at that 0:33:31.700 --> 0:33:33.940 time pulled me to the side. Seeing the response that 0:33:33.940 --> 0:33:36.500 I had and sat next to me and guided me 0:33:36.500 --> 0:33:38.860 to the prayer of salvation and and what I was 0:33:38.860 --> 0:33:41.460 feeling and what I was experiencing in that moment. I 0:33:41.500 --> 0:33:43.940 will never forget the person, maybe the name I forgot, 0:33:43.940 --> 0:33:46.780 but I was 1011. Uh, but yeah, she led me 0:33:46.780 --> 0:33:48.620 to the Lord that day, and I've been serving him 0:33:48.620 --> 0:33:49.260 ever since. 0:33:49.780 --> 0:33:50.140 Wow, how. 0:33:50.140 --> 0:33:53.300 Cool is that? How cool is. 0:33:53.300 --> 0:33:54.780 That? Wow. I love that. 0:33:55.300 --> 0:33:56.900 Compassion of a camp counselor. 0:33:58.500 --> 0:34:01.420 Compassion wins the day. That's what Jesus put on display 0:34:01.420 --> 0:34:04.180 in Holy Week. You know, it's pretty cool. I love this. 0:34:04.180 --> 0:34:06.620 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple. 0:34:06.620 --> 0:34:10.500 You know why? The word was on the street. No 0:34:10.500 --> 0:34:14.819 one's held at arm's length from Jesus. And if we 0:34:14.820 --> 0:34:16.940 could be that today, can you imagine. 0:34:17.540 --> 0:34:20.180 If we could be the kind of people who other 0:34:20.180 --> 0:34:24.100 people thought. Oh, yeah, go talk to her. Go talk 0:34:24.100 --> 0:34:24.700 to him. 0:34:25.060 --> 0:34:25.460 Yeah. 0:34:27.300 --> 0:34:31.509 Power, man. You know, we're disciples of Christ. And in 0:34:31.510 --> 0:34:33.509 this Holy Week, we're going to get an opportunity to 0:34:33.510 --> 0:34:36.310 look at these cool little snippets of what Jesus did, 0:34:36.310 --> 0:34:38.109 how he lived. And I'll tell you one thing for 0:34:38.110 --> 0:34:43.030 sure compassion is victory. We don't even know the outcome 0:34:43.070 --> 0:34:49.589 of it, but it's victory. God wants you living with 0:34:49.590 --> 0:34:53.190 compassion today. Be that arm around for someone else. 0:34:54.469 --> 0:34:57.150 Your shot of hope to help you through the day. 0:34:57.469 --> 0:35:00.589 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:35:01.190 --> 0:35:05.229 I don't know if we maybe shoot too high or 0:35:05.270 --> 0:35:07.549 miss the mark with regard to what we think. Kind 0:35:07.550 --> 0:35:09.910 of the essence of what our faith is going to 0:35:09.910 --> 0:35:15.310 look like. But I think Jesus makes, uh, what's the term? 0:35:15.310 --> 0:35:18.310 I'm reaching for outreach. I guess I think when we 0:35:18.310 --> 0:35:21.109 think of outreach, we think of an event, a speaker, 0:35:21.510 --> 0:35:24.190 a bold witness, something like that. Right? 0:35:24.390 --> 0:35:24.950 Yes. 0:35:25.710 --> 0:35:31.319 It's interesting, but Jesus flips everything upside down. Pardon the pun, 0:35:31.320 --> 0:35:33.239 but he just walked into the temple and he took 0:35:33.239 --> 0:35:36.200 the money changers table, and he flipped that upside down. 0:35:36.200 --> 0:35:39.120 But that's not the only thing he flipped upside down 0:35:40.200 --> 0:35:44.680 because he comes in as the King of Kings, and 0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:49.600 immediately he starts acting not like a king, not in 0:35:49.600 --> 0:35:54.799 the common world, but as King eternal. And by Jesus's actions, 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:57.759 we get a reflection of our Heavenly Father and a 0:35:57.760 --> 0:36:02.440 model for how in the world we can express outreach 0:36:02.440 --> 0:36:04.680 to the world around us. I think sometimes we think, oh, 0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:07.080 I'm not equipped. I've got to get apologetics. I've got 0:36:07.080 --> 0:36:10.160 to have few verses pinned down. I've got to. What 0:36:10.160 --> 0:36:14.359 if it was way more accessible than that? Boy, have 0:36:14.360 --> 0:36:17.560 we got a passage of Scripture here. Ali, pick it up, sister. 0:36:17.600 --> 0:36:20.319 This is Matthew 21, starting with verse 14. And the 0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:22.360 blind and the lame came to him in the temple, 0:36:22.360 --> 0:36:24.640 and he healed them. But when the chief priests and 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:26.839 the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:29.489 the children crying out in the temple, Hosanna to the 0:36:29.489 --> 0:36:32.890 Son of David! They were indignant. And they said to him, 0:36:32.890 --> 0:36:35.529 do you hear what these are saying? And Jesus said 0:36:35.530 --> 0:36:38.370 to them, yes. Have you never read out of the 0:36:38.370 --> 0:36:42.089 mouth of infants and nursing babies? You have prepared praise. 0:36:42.570 --> 0:36:46.569 Yea it's beautiful. And here's here's the point. Notice that 0:36:46.570 --> 0:36:50.370 the blind and the lame came to him. Jesus, in 0:36:50.370 --> 0:36:54.370 three years had put on display that he was accessible 0:36:54.570 --> 0:36:59.009 and that no one was below him. How powerful is that, guys? 0:36:59.050 --> 0:37:01.569 It is because you think about like the boldness to 0:37:01.610 --> 0:37:06.890 approach Jesus. But they knew enough about him. 0:37:06.930 --> 0:37:07.330 To. 0:37:07.370 --> 0:37:11.090 To believe that maybe they'd have a moment with him, 0:37:11.130 --> 0:37:14.410 an audience with him, that he would not turn them away. 0:37:15.170 --> 0:37:17.730 I mean, how that took a step of faith on 0:37:17.730 --> 0:37:21.850 their part. But also, have you ever not approached someone 0:37:21.850 --> 0:37:24.049 because you thought there's no way they'd want to talk 0:37:24.050 --> 0:37:24.530 to me? 0:37:25.010 --> 0:37:25.290 Sure. 0:37:25.290 --> 0:37:27.570 Have you ever, like, shied away from a conversation? Maybe 0:37:28.020 --> 0:37:30.540 it is. It wasn't even with someone who was like, 0:37:30.580 --> 0:37:34.340 super important. Maybe, like, you're don't even approach your boss 0:37:34.340 --> 0:37:37.020 because you're like, yeah, they don't really they don't want 0:37:37.020 --> 0:37:39.700 to hear from me. This is Jesus. And they're like. 0:37:39.860 --> 0:37:40.260 Yeah. 0:37:40.420 --> 0:37:42.540 Yeah, let's go talk to him. Maybe he can help us. 0:37:43.020 --> 0:37:44.780 And the word on the street with the little kids 0:37:44.780 --> 0:37:46.899 apparently was, hey, Jesus is a good guy. He's good 0:37:46.900 --> 0:37:49.500 with kids. And we know that because he told the 0:37:49.500 --> 0:37:52.379 disciples on multiple occasions, let the little ones come to me. 0:37:52.380 --> 0:37:53.940 And now he's having to duke it out with the 0:37:53.940 --> 0:37:57.180 Pharisees who are saying, hey, these kids. And here's we 0:37:57.219 --> 0:38:01.020 got to remember this historically, up to this point in time, 0:38:01.500 --> 0:38:07.819 children were discarded. They were exchanged. They were sold. They 0:38:07.820 --> 0:38:13.060 were left for dead. I mean it he Jesus revolutionized 0:38:13.100 --> 0:38:16.700 not just the calendar, not just the monetary system, but 0:38:16.700 --> 0:38:19.580 all of life. That's the cool thing about our Savior. 0:38:19.620 --> 0:38:25.339 Yeah, I, I love that Jesus made these reputations for 0:38:25.340 --> 0:38:28.600 himself so that when he came to Jerusalem this time 0:38:28.600 --> 0:38:31.439 it was so known about him. Hey, we the kids 0:38:31.440 --> 0:38:33.120 can come to him, the sick can come to him, 0:38:33.120 --> 0:38:34.960 the poor can come to him. And it makes me 0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:38.680 think of the reputations we build for ourselves. Or how 0:38:38.719 --> 0:38:43.040 are we building our reputation? Or am I known as compassionate? 0:38:43.080 --> 0:38:46.560 Am I known as approachable? That someone can come to 0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:48.800 me and I'm not just going to shirk them off? 0:38:48.960 --> 0:38:51.799 You know, that's important for us to remember. 0:38:52.280 --> 0:38:59.640 Yeah. If you think about people who are approachable, there 0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:03.000 is just something about them where you feel like, oh man, 0:39:03.040 --> 0:39:06.359 I if I. Here's the beauty. When you feel like 0:39:06.360 --> 0:39:08.560 I've got something to share I've got a need. I've 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:12.520 got a concern. Yeah, I can go to this person. 0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:15.719 What a great attribute. And I think sometimes we put 0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:20.000 ministry on this high bar of apologetics, and we've got 0:39:20.040 --> 0:39:23.960 to have everything kind of pinned down theologically. We've got 0:39:23.960 --> 0:39:27.770 to know a certain number of scriptures. What if Jesus 0:39:27.770 --> 0:39:31.690 put on display in Holy Week what real ministry looks like? 0:39:31.810 --> 0:39:36.730 And that's to have compassion for everyone, especially those that 0:39:36.730 --> 0:39:39.649 the world says we got no place for you. What 0:39:39.650 --> 0:39:40.370 a ministry. 0:39:40.370 --> 0:39:44.129 And when you think about just historically, the impact of 0:39:44.130 --> 0:39:49.529 Christ followers like we would not have what hospitals if 0:39:49.530 --> 0:39:52.770 it wasn't for Christ's followers. You think about all of 0:39:52.770 --> 0:39:55.970 the good innovation. And I'm not talking about just like 0:39:56.170 --> 0:39:59.170 progress in terms of inventing things. I'm talking about care 0:39:59.170 --> 0:40:01.930 for the poor, care for the sick, the way we 0:40:01.930 --> 0:40:07.890 treat people. Any sort of ethos that is inclines towards 0:40:08.010 --> 0:40:10.970 compassion is because of Christians. 0:40:11.530 --> 0:40:12.050 Yeah. 0:40:12.810 --> 0:40:16.050 Yeah, it's because of this template that God put down 0:40:16.050 --> 0:40:19.410 here 2000 years ago. I mean, Ali's right, guys. I 0:40:19.410 --> 0:40:21.649 went through that whole riff. Remember that a few years ago, 0:40:21.650 --> 0:40:23.650 I had a whole outline of all the things that 0:40:23.650 --> 0:40:26.259 changed as a result of the coming of Christ. Now 0:40:26.260 --> 0:40:32.540 he's right. Hospitals, orphanages, child care. It's just a beautiful thing. 0:40:32.540 --> 0:40:36.620 And here's here's what's awesome about this passage of Scripture. 0:40:37.300 --> 0:40:41.180 It tells us today that we can follow Jesus by 0:40:41.180 --> 0:40:46.060 being people of compassion. Compassion is victory in God's economy. 0:40:46.540 --> 0:40:51.460 Compassion is victory. Oftentimes in the evangelical world, we we 0:40:51.460 --> 0:40:55.060 get notches on our belt for how many people get saved, 0:40:55.060 --> 0:40:57.900 how many people get baptized? What if I told you 0:40:57.940 --> 0:41:02.180 God measures it by how many people you're compassionate to today? 0:41:02.580 --> 0:41:06.140 And you know what's awesome about that? Everyone needs that 0:41:07.540 --> 0:41:10.340 up and outers down and outers. We all need it. 0:41:11.180 --> 0:41:14.540 So Jesus was breaking the mold of what ministry looked 0:41:14.540 --> 0:41:17.260 like when he came. And I just want to challenge 0:41:17.260 --> 0:41:21.339 you today. Would you break the mold today? Would you 0:41:21.340 --> 0:41:25.629 break the mold? Would you be the person that asks someone, 0:41:25.670 --> 0:41:28.549 how are you doing? Is there something I can do 0:41:28.550 --> 0:41:32.509 for you? If you see someone who is apparently struggling 0:41:32.510 --> 0:41:35.470 at work or at home, you say, can I pray 0:41:35.469 --> 0:41:38.910 for you? You know, it's the wildest thing I have. 0:41:38.950 --> 0:41:42.229 Yet never once have I been turned down when I've 0:41:42.230 --> 0:41:45.630 asked someone who and I don't go up asking random 0:41:45.630 --> 0:41:49.069 strangers this. But if someone's hurting at. I mean, a 0:41:49.070 --> 0:41:52.790 clerk at a store, um, someone that I see on 0:41:52.790 --> 0:41:56.310 a plane. I've prayed with people on a seat next 0:41:56.310 --> 0:41:58.190 to me on a plane who it was very obvious 0:41:58.190 --> 0:42:01.070 they were going through some pain. When I ask, would, 0:42:01.230 --> 0:42:03.670 would you be okay if I prayed with you? I've 0:42:03.670 --> 0:42:08.830 never been turned down. Everyone needs this, right? 0:42:09.310 --> 0:42:14.029 Everyone needs compassion. We know that we need it. And 0:42:14.030 --> 0:42:17.549 so today, look for opportunities to extend compassion. Maybe it's 0:42:17.550 --> 0:42:21.470 somebody who comes across as pretty rude, pretty mean. Maybe 0:42:21.469 --> 0:42:24.550 you respond like Jesus would with compassion.