WEBVTT - Pillars of Christ Followers 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.360 Coming to you from the Morning Star Mission sponsored studio. 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:09.120 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio coming out. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.760 Hot on this beautiful. What day is it? Tuesday. What 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:14.760 day is today? Okay. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:15.680 July 1st. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.800 It's July 1st, everybody. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:19.440 Can't believe it. 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:21.720 Doesn't that mean, like summer just showed up? Or is 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.520 that a few days ago? That was nine days ago. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.800 Sorry about that. I'm not doing well this morning on 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.120 my markers in life. Sorry, but I know this for sure. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.480 It's gonna be hot in Chicago. How about where you 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.240 are today? I don't know what it's going to be, but, boy, 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.519 we've had a hot streak here in Chicagoland. It's Carl 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.880 and crew helping you take your next step with Jesus 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.000 this whole week long. And this is why I wanted 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.599 to do this. We're coming to a weekend that you 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.400 know what weekend vacations can do. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:51.200 What's that? 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:56.320 They can discourage you thoroughly. Why? They can be so. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:57.520 No, I love them. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.800 I love them, too. Two. I love them too. But 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.280 have you ever come back from a vacation either exhausted, 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.280 sideways with a family member, or feeling like you're behind 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.360 in life altogether? Well, you know what I'm saying? It's 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.959 like it's either like, I've gotta take a break from 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.440 this break. Yeah. Uh, something came up with a family member, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.520 and now I got to sort that out, and I'm 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.920 so behind. I don't know how to get caught up. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:25.440 That's fair. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.040 The third one's a big one for me. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.320 Yeah, yeah. And then on a on a very slightly 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.760 long weekend, you know, it's still too short of a 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.920 break to get any of that stuff resolved. And now 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.840 you're tired from the, the conflict of the weekend, and 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:37.880 then you're back in it. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.720 So I promise you, Thursday I'm going to tell you 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.679 how to vacation. Not with a. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:45.200 Purpose. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.320 But I'm going to tell you how to vacation in 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.000 a way I shouldn't be tongue in cheek in this, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.360 I shouldn't I should be more serious. I'm going to 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.560 tell you really what the Lord taught me. On my 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.690 last vacation. I had the best vacation, Haitian and I 0:01:58.730 --> 0:02:01.770 really mean this ever. And it all had to do 0:02:01.770 --> 0:02:04.770 with spiritual refreshment. And so on Thursday I'm going to 0:02:04.770 --> 0:02:07.130 try to break that down for you. Anyhow, it's going 0:02:07.130 --> 0:02:09.810 to be fun. I love it. Ellie got back in 0:02:09.810 --> 0:02:12.570 the wee hours of the morning. I told her, take 0:02:12.570 --> 0:02:16.170 a rest, young lady, but she is so fired up. Guys, 0:02:16.169 --> 0:02:21.530 she was in a location we still cannot disclose, and, uh, 0:02:21.530 --> 0:02:24.850 hopefully she'll be able to, but either way, um, she 0:02:24.850 --> 0:02:29.570 had an incredible trip abroad. That's all I got. Just incredible. 0:02:29.770 --> 0:02:32.730 And she said truly life changing were the words she said. 0:02:32.770 --> 0:02:33.250 That's awesome. 0:02:33.290 --> 0:02:34.209 Awesome. 0:02:34.490 --> 0:02:37.530 So we're going to hear back from Ali, God willing, tomorrow. 0:02:37.530 --> 0:02:39.329 Who knows? She might have had such a good time 0:02:39.330 --> 0:02:42.250 overseas or wherever she was that she just leaves and 0:02:42.250 --> 0:02:42.770 goes back. 0:02:42.810 --> 0:02:43.810 Gets right back on that plane. 0:02:43.850 --> 0:02:46.609 Never, never jumps in here again. I don't. 0:02:46.610 --> 0:02:47.810 Know. I could see that. 0:02:47.930 --> 0:02:51.090 You just never know. I mean, you just don't know. 0:02:51.330 --> 0:02:53.570 It's crazy. Christ followers these. 0:02:53.570 --> 0:02:53.970 Days. 0:02:54.850 --> 0:02:58.410 It's crazy. Crazy grace followers these days? Okay, coming up 0:02:58.410 --> 0:03:00.170 here in a moment. Here's what we are wanting to 0:03:00.169 --> 0:03:05.050 do this week. Give you bedrock, rock solid truths that 0:03:05.050 --> 0:03:08.970 can lead into this incredible weekend. And there's something about 0:03:08.970 --> 0:03:13.690 getting on the rock and then applying things so that 0:03:13.690 --> 0:03:18.010 we can truly build our life on the rock. That 0:03:18.010 --> 0:03:20.290 changes everything. So we're trying to give you some core 0:03:20.330 --> 0:03:24.970 truths that are going to help you today, this weekend, 0:03:25.130 --> 0:03:27.889 and in this journey ahead. You know, I don't know 0:03:27.889 --> 0:03:30.570 what you are up against today, but this I know 0:03:30.570 --> 0:03:37.050 for sure. Giving God praise is incredibly powerful. So powerful 0:03:37.050 --> 0:03:39.970 that we wanted to get Sam Storms in here to 0:03:40.010 --> 0:03:41.570 talk about it. Hang on. 0:03:42.770 --> 0:03:45.490 She was trying to earn her way to God, but 0:03:45.490 --> 0:03:48.970 God showed her she didn't have to. Ali is in 0:03:48.970 --> 0:03:52.330 the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:03:53.010 --> 0:03:57.300 There is power in praise. And oftentimes we think, yeah, 0:03:57.340 --> 0:03:59.580 you're right. There is power in praise. And it's for 0:03:59.580 --> 0:04:02.220 the glorification of God. But what if it's not only 0:04:02.220 --> 0:04:05.740 for the glorification of God, which is everything, but for 0:04:05.740 --> 0:04:09.020 the good of we who stop to give him praise? 0:04:09.540 --> 0:04:12.860 With me right now, Doctor Sam Storms. Sam is the 0:04:12.860 --> 0:04:15.740 founder and president of Enjoying God Ministries and serves on 0:04:15.740 --> 0:04:20.020 the Council of the Gospel Coalition. Prolific author, great preacher 0:04:20.020 --> 0:04:22.220 and a heart as big as a bucket for the 0:04:22.220 --> 0:04:25.860 things of God. Praise Sam. Talk to me about it. 0:04:25.860 --> 0:04:27.300 It's vital, isn't it? 0:04:27.339 --> 0:04:31.340 It is. It is absolutely vital. Unfortunately, I think that 0:04:31.339 --> 0:04:35.180 some Christians, and obviously a lot of non-Christians struggle with 0:04:35.180 --> 0:04:37.820 it because we look at the Bible where God says, 0:04:37.860 --> 0:04:41.740 praise me. Tell me how great I am. And we think, 0:04:41.740 --> 0:04:46.620 my goodness, that sounds a rather egotistical, rather selfish God 0:04:46.620 --> 0:04:50.660 constantly telling us to praise him. And yet we read 0:04:50.660 --> 0:04:53.380 more in Scripture and we find this to be true 0:04:53.420 --> 0:04:56.580 and confirmed in our experience that when we praise God, 0:04:56.580 --> 0:04:59.900 he communicates his presence to us. He comes to us 0:04:59.900 --> 0:05:03.580 in power. There are numerous examples of this in the Bible, 0:05:03.620 --> 0:05:06.300 both Old and New Testament. I was just reading the 0:05:06.300 --> 0:05:09.380 other day a very famous passage. I think most everybody 0:05:09.380 --> 0:05:12.220 listening to this knows the story of Jehoshaphat in Second 0:05:12.220 --> 0:05:13.300 Chronicles 20. 0:05:13.339 --> 0:05:14.020 Great story. 0:05:14.060 --> 0:05:18.500 He is faced. Yeah, he's faced with the ammonites, the Moabites, and, uh, 0:05:18.540 --> 0:05:21.140 doesn't really know what to do. And he puts the 0:05:21.140 --> 0:05:24.619 choir in front of the army and basically says, just 0:05:24.620 --> 0:05:26.859 say this. Give thanks to the Lord, for his steadfast 0:05:26.860 --> 0:05:30.420 love endures forever. And the next verse is stunning. It says, 0:05:30.460 --> 0:05:33.180 and when they began to sing and praise the Lord, 0:05:33.380 --> 0:05:36.260 he set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moabite, 0:05:36.260 --> 0:05:40.060 and others. So it wasn't until they praised that God's 0:05:40.060 --> 0:05:43.860 power was released in their midst to defeat their enemies. 0:05:44.339 --> 0:05:48.140 So it's remarkable. Yes, we are extolling God. We are 0:05:48.140 --> 0:05:51.220 exalting him. But when we do that, God goes to 0:05:51.380 --> 0:05:54.060 work on behalf of his people. He draws near to us. 0:05:54.060 --> 0:05:58.380 We experience his presence, intimacy with him. And there's also 0:05:58.420 --> 0:06:01.740 the release of his power into our lives to help 0:06:01.740 --> 0:06:03.500 us do what we otherwise couldn't do. 0:06:03.540 --> 0:06:05.580 Sam, you're not wrong. I'm just going to cite a 0:06:05.580 --> 0:06:09.900 few here. Boom. Crew praise invites God's presence that's found 0:06:09.900 --> 0:06:13.900 in Psalm 22 three. Praise shifts our focus from ourselves 0:06:13.900 --> 0:06:17.700 to him. Psalm 34 one and two. It breaks chains 0:06:17.700 --> 0:06:22.780 and brings deliverance that's found in acts 16. It strengthens 0:06:22.779 --> 0:06:26.780 faith and defeats fear. That's in Psalm 28 seven and 0:06:26.779 --> 0:06:30.020 it goes on and on, confuses the enemy, cultivates joy 0:06:30.020 --> 0:06:33.860 and peace. You know you hit something, Sam. I don't 0:06:33.860 --> 0:06:37.140 know that we have apprehension as much as we've not 0:06:37.140 --> 0:06:40.860 had good information about what praise can do. 0:06:41.060 --> 0:06:44.779 I think you're exactly right. Praise is the consummation of 0:06:44.779 --> 0:06:48.740 our joy in Jesus. Uh, we talk about enjoying God. 0:06:48.740 --> 0:06:50.790 We talk. That's the name of my ministry. We talk 0:06:50.830 --> 0:06:55.870 about delighting in him, but that is never fully consummated 0:06:55.870 --> 0:06:58.830 until we give expression to it in worship. I tell 0:06:58.870 --> 0:07:00.950 people all the time, try to think of that which 0:07:00.950 --> 0:07:03.510 you enjoy most in life, and then try to keep 0:07:03.510 --> 0:07:07.630 it to yourself. It's it's painful. It's hard. We just 0:07:07.670 --> 0:07:11.390 instinctively want to give, vent to and voice to the 0:07:11.390 --> 0:07:14.390 things that we value most and treasure most. And that 0:07:14.390 --> 0:07:16.870 especially applies in our relationship with God. He is the 0:07:16.870 --> 0:07:20.150 most valuable being in the universe, the greatest prize, the 0:07:20.150 --> 0:07:23.230 greatest treasure. And to know that and then not be 0:07:23.270 --> 0:07:26.390 able to give expression to it in worship, it's stunted. 0:07:26.390 --> 0:07:30.230 Our joy is not allowed to come to its consummate expression. 0:07:30.230 --> 0:07:33.070 So if we want to enjoy God to the fullest, 0:07:33.110 --> 0:07:36.950 we need to praise him regularly, daily, moment by moment. 0:07:36.990 --> 0:07:41.350 There is something about the posture of praise. The irony 0:07:41.350 --> 0:07:43.350 is we can get more fired up about a three 0:07:43.390 --> 0:07:46.830 pointer at the buzzer or a field goal in overtime 0:07:47.270 --> 0:07:50.190 than we can about God. What's going to break us 0:07:50.190 --> 0:07:54.550 free from that funky mess? It is misconception. It's a 0:07:54.550 --> 0:07:57.750 little bit of apprehension. What have you learned will break 0:07:57.750 --> 0:07:58.990 people free, Sam? 0:07:59.230 --> 0:08:02.150 Well, first of all, is a greater grasp of the 0:08:02.150 --> 0:08:04.670 glory and the greatness and the beauty and the majesty 0:08:04.670 --> 0:08:07.550 of God. I think people have a very stunted and 0:08:07.550 --> 0:08:09.710 limited view of who God is and what he's done 0:08:09.710 --> 0:08:12.670 for us in Jesus. I think, secondly, we have to 0:08:12.710 --> 0:08:16.630 help people overcome their fear. They're afraid of doing something 0:08:16.630 --> 0:08:19.750 that might draw attention to themselves. They're afraid that somebody 0:08:19.750 --> 0:08:23.590 might think, oh, they're just showing off, or they're afraid 0:08:23.590 --> 0:08:26.910 that somebody will accuse them of being overly emotional. And 0:08:26.910 --> 0:08:29.470 I just think we need to stop and just basically 0:08:29.470 --> 0:08:32.670 push delete on all of our fears concerning what other 0:08:32.670 --> 0:08:35.829 people think. My only concern when I worship is what 0:08:35.830 --> 0:08:38.830 does God think? How can I honor him? Let me 0:08:38.830 --> 0:08:41.150 give you one other verse that that I've always found 0:08:41.150 --> 0:08:44.830 really important in this regard. It's in acts 13, when 0:08:44.990 --> 0:08:48.589 Paul and Barnabas were at the church in Antioch. And 0:08:48.590 --> 0:08:52.030 it says while they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, 0:08:52.270 --> 0:08:55.589 the Holy Spirit said, set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, 0:08:55.590 --> 0:08:57.830 for the work to which I've called him. Now think 0:08:57.830 --> 0:09:01.030 about this. Prior to that moment, Paul had not gone 0:09:01.070 --> 0:09:04.589 on a missionary journey. He had not planted a single church. 0:09:04.590 --> 0:09:07.270 He hadn't written a single one of his letters. And 0:09:07.270 --> 0:09:09.710 yet it was in the midst of a worship service. 0:09:09.910 --> 0:09:13.310 And it's again, while they were worshiping at the moment, 0:09:13.309 --> 0:09:17.030 they were exalting God. The Holy Spirit invaded the meeting 0:09:17.030 --> 0:09:19.830 and said, set apart these men for the ministry to 0:09:19.830 --> 0:09:23.469 which I've called them. That changed the course of world history. 0:09:23.710 --> 0:09:26.790 That worship service and the in-breaking, as it were, of 0:09:26.790 --> 0:09:30.590 the Spirit's voice in commissioning Paul and Barnabas. The whole 0:09:30.590 --> 0:09:33.949 world is different as a result of that one worship service. 0:09:33.950 --> 0:09:37.150 And it happened while and I even like to say, 0:09:37.309 --> 0:09:40.309 because they were worshiping and praising the Lord. 0:09:40.350 --> 0:09:43.230 That can get lost on us quickly. So you would 0:09:43.230 --> 0:09:47.800 say not to stretch it, stretch it, but direct application. Oftentimes, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.760 praise will unlock the direction that God has for the 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.079 glorification of his name through our lives. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.439 Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I'm sure Paul and Barnabas were wondering. 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.360 You know, Paul had been commissioned, been saved for I 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.160 don't know how long before they arrived in Antioch, but 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.440 really at that time had no direction as to where 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.520 they should go, what they should do. And it was 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.120 in the midst of a worship service. They were exalting 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.959 the Lord, celebrating him, acknowledging and extolling his greatness and 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.840 his glory that God drew near. I mean, it's the 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.640 principle of James four eight draw near to God and 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.920 he will draw near to you. When we draw near 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.560 to God and worship, he promises he will draw near 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.000 to us, whether in power, to help us overcome struggles 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.559 with sin or giving us guidance as to what we 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.840 should do and how we should carry out ministry. But 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.520 even more than that, he'll draw near to us in 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.280 intimacy and love, and enable us to feel the affection 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.360 that he has for his children. And all of this 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.839 happens in the context of worship and praise and celebration 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:48.760 of who God is. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:53.280 Sam, there's habitual things that we do. Some habitually go 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.000 into a, let's just say, a worship service. Let's say 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.280 it's 1110 and there's a, a song that's being performed 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.600 that gives glory to God. But habitually, that person that's 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.760 listening right now has never gotten their hands out of 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:14.200 their pockets or from their sides. Others habitually raise their hands. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:19.440 Both can be habitually kind of off, as it were. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:19.880 Sure. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:25.920 So how do we break the habits and really have 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.839 a right response to God as we posture ourselves in worship? 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.000 Well, obviously, I mean, you identified it. People who are 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.800 exuberant and physically expressive, as well as those who are 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:42.250 silent and look like dead statues. They can all dishonor 0:11:42.250 --> 0:11:45.490 the Lord. It's a question of the motivation of our hearts. 0:11:45.490 --> 0:11:48.410 What is my intent? What am I doing here? Am 0:11:48.410 --> 0:11:50.250 I just singing a song? Because that's what we do 0:11:50.250 --> 0:11:53.690 every week. Or I'm singing this song from memory because 0:11:53.690 --> 0:11:56.170 I've heard it so many times before in years past. 0:11:56.210 --> 0:12:00.130 Or are we captivated by the majesty and the splendor 0:12:00.130 --> 0:12:02.209 of who God is and all that he is for 0:12:02.210 --> 0:12:05.010 us in Jesus? Just getting back to the whole issue 0:12:05.010 --> 0:12:06.690 of raising of hands, I had a man come to 0:12:06.690 --> 0:12:08.730 me one time and he said, Sam, why do you 0:12:08.730 --> 0:12:11.010 raise your hands in worship? And I said, well, why 0:12:11.010 --> 0:12:13.170 do you assume that the proper posture is for your 0:12:13.170 --> 0:12:15.569 hands at your side or in your pocket? You don't 0:12:15.570 --> 0:12:17.490 have a single text of Scripture that tells you to 0:12:17.490 --> 0:12:19.530 do that. I've got a dozen or more that tell 0:12:19.530 --> 0:12:23.250 me to lift my hands in gratitude and praise and thanksgiving. 0:12:23.570 --> 0:12:26.890 He just kind of stood there stunned. He said, well, yeah, 0:12:26.890 --> 0:12:30.330 I never thought about that. Why do we just assume 0:12:30.570 --> 0:12:34.810 that God wants us to stand there stiff like a flagpole? 0:12:34.970 --> 0:12:38.130 Rather than extolling. And we're supposed to worship God with 0:12:38.130 --> 0:12:41.250 our bodies, not just our our hearts and our minds. 0:12:41.290 --> 0:12:44.929 I mean, Paul says in Romans 12, present your bodies 0:12:44.929 --> 0:12:47.850 to the Lord as a sacrifice of praise and honor 0:12:47.850 --> 0:12:48.490 and worship. 0:12:48.490 --> 0:12:52.530 Wonderful. Doctor Sam Storms our guest right now. Sam, it's 0:12:52.530 --> 0:12:55.329 it's an interesting thing. We aren't even getting into dancing 0:12:55.330 --> 0:12:57.210 before the Lord with all your might, as David did. 0:12:57.210 --> 0:12:59.130 We aren't even going there right now. We're just talking 0:12:59.130 --> 0:13:02.689 about let's get our posture rightly responding to God. I 0:13:02.690 --> 0:13:04.690 was at a Promise Keepers event. I think it was 0:13:04.690 --> 0:13:07.890 the first time I was kind of jarred loose from 0:13:07.890 --> 0:13:12.809 some of my early childhood spiritual moorings. Somebody that raised 0:13:12.809 --> 0:13:15.650 their hand in the church where I was at in Anchorage, Alaska, 0:13:15.650 --> 0:13:17.450 for a lot of years, and they were good saints 0:13:17.450 --> 0:13:19.370 in that church. Don't get me wrong here. There's no 0:13:19.370 --> 0:13:23.570 denigration here. But somebody who lifted their hands was a visitor, Sam. 0:13:23.610 --> 0:13:28.170 I mean, that's what they were. And I remember thinking, boy, 0:13:28.490 --> 0:13:31.210 could I ever get the courage of the brand new 0:13:31.210 --> 0:13:33.450 follower of Jesus? Could I get the courage to lift 0:13:33.450 --> 0:13:37.210 my hands and praise? And we were at this Promise 0:13:37.250 --> 0:13:40.650 Keepers event at Texas Stadium before they tore it down. 0:13:40.650 --> 0:13:44.050 And God was on the move and a wave of 0:13:44.050 --> 0:13:46.210 hands began to go in the air. And, you know, 0:13:46.250 --> 0:13:50.210 it was the most natural response to what God was 0:13:50.210 --> 0:13:53.570 doing in that moment. And when I lifted my hands 0:13:53.570 --> 0:13:57.329 before God, between me and him alone, it was like 0:13:57.330 --> 0:14:00.850 there was a new sense of freedom. Now, this is 0:14:00.850 --> 0:14:04.250 not about getting your hands in the air, right, Sam? 0:14:04.250 --> 0:14:08.130 This is about glorification of God and a right response 0:14:08.130 --> 0:14:10.690 to what he's done. Final words? Absolutely. 0:14:10.730 --> 0:14:13.170 Yeah. And one other topic. I don't want us to 0:14:13.170 --> 0:14:16.570 end this without addressing this is the relationship between our 0:14:16.570 --> 0:14:19.570 worship and spiritual warfare. Let me just give you one example. 0:14:19.610 --> 0:14:20.050 Okay. 0:14:20.090 --> 0:14:23.930 You mentioned David back in first Samuel 16. You remember him. 0:14:23.930 --> 0:14:27.610 Saul had fallen into idolatry and sin, and an evil 0:14:27.610 --> 0:14:30.570 spirit came upon him to torment him. And when David 0:14:30.570 --> 0:14:33.250 came in and played his lyre or his harp or 0:14:33.250 --> 0:14:36.290 whatever the ancient equivalent of a guitar would be, it says, 0:14:36.290 --> 0:14:39.740 the spirit lifted off of Saul, and I find that 0:14:39.740 --> 0:14:42.220 every time David would play, it would lift. When he 0:14:42.220 --> 0:14:45.860 would stop, it would come back. Demons hate our worship. 0:14:45.860 --> 0:14:48.620 They hate it when we extol the Lord. They hate 0:14:48.620 --> 0:14:51.340 it when they see we are wholly committed to him. 0:14:51.340 --> 0:14:56.740 Whether soul, mind, spirit, body will all of our affections 0:14:56.860 --> 0:14:59.740 and they run for cover. So sometimes when we're being 0:14:59.740 --> 0:15:02.540 attacked by the enemy, people say, what should I do? 0:15:02.580 --> 0:15:04.020 I said, well, obviously there are a lot of things 0:15:04.020 --> 0:15:06.900 you can pray, you can read scripture, but spend an 0:15:06.900 --> 0:15:10.860 hour today just silently by yourself, not silently, but by 0:15:10.860 --> 0:15:14.980 yourself worshiping the Lord. Or go to a corporate worship service. 0:15:15.300 --> 0:15:18.060 The enemy hates it because the one thing he wants 0:15:18.060 --> 0:15:21.780 to do, he wants to short circuit and undermine our 0:15:21.820 --> 0:15:24.420 extolling of God and are drawing attention to Him and 0:15:24.420 --> 0:15:28.300 His glory. So when we worship, when we give expression 0:15:28.300 --> 0:15:31.340 in song and in our bodies and in every other way, 0:15:31.500 --> 0:15:35.220 it drives the enemy mad. And that's that is something 0:15:35.380 --> 0:15:37.980 people need to keep in mind. Just really do think 0:15:38.020 --> 0:15:40.940 you know. Revelation 12 talks about they conquered him by 0:15:40.940 --> 0:15:44.100 the word of their testimony. Well, that's not just spoken word, 0:15:44.100 --> 0:15:47.700 it's sung word. It's singing as well as speaking. That's 0:15:47.700 --> 0:15:48.940 what conquers the enemy. 0:15:48.980 --> 0:15:50.619 Boy, this is powerful, Sam. 0:15:50.660 --> 0:15:53.260 This is powerful. We had a guy text in one 0:15:53.260 --> 0:15:56.140 time to our show, and he wasn't. He went years 0:15:56.140 --> 0:15:59.020 without being born again. He said something profoundly simple. He 0:15:59.020 --> 0:16:01.900 said I just got bad information. He said now that 0:16:01.900 --> 0:16:04.979 I've got good information, I've surrendered my life to Jesus. 0:16:05.380 --> 0:16:08.740 And we've given you boom crews some good information here, 0:16:08.740 --> 0:16:11.700 and I want you to build on this. You want more? 0:16:11.940 --> 0:16:17.620 Sam storms, phenomenal author. Great blog posts, great resources. One 0:16:17.660 --> 0:16:20.980 stop shop. Text the word storm to our number here 0:16:21.020 --> 0:16:28.620 800 555 7898. Storm to 800 555 7898. 0:16:29.700 --> 0:16:33.700 Walking closer to Jesus every day. You're listening to Carl 0:16:33.700 --> 0:16:34.270 and crew. 0:16:34.310 --> 0:16:37.550 What a day for praise. What a day for praise. 0:16:37.590 --> 0:16:40.230 Coming off that interview with Sam Storms, if you're just 0:16:40.230 --> 0:16:43.470 joining us, bottom of the hour here we are giving 0:16:43.470 --> 0:16:47.950 rock solid truths this week that you can take to 0:16:47.990 --> 0:16:52.110 the spiritual Bank. One of them is praise. There's something 0:16:52.110 --> 0:16:56.750 about praise that just lifts your heart. It reorients you 0:16:57.070 --> 0:17:01.310 when you have a a gratitude journal. You with me 0:17:01.310 --> 0:17:02.190 on this one? 0:17:02.230 --> 0:17:02.950 Oh, goodness. 0:17:03.110 --> 0:17:03.350 All the. 0:17:03.350 --> 0:17:07.070 Way. I mean, just a gratitude journal alone, where at 0:17:07.070 --> 0:17:10.390 least somewhere in your day, you're taking time to mark 0:17:10.390 --> 0:17:13.710 down these things I give God praise for. It can 0:17:13.710 --> 0:17:19.150 give you perspective because the black dot is easy to see. 0:17:19.750 --> 0:17:24.190 The cumulus nimbus cloud, that big one that's over there 0:17:24.430 --> 0:17:26.469 is easier to see than all the rest of the 0:17:26.470 --> 0:17:27.270 blue sky. 0:17:27.350 --> 0:17:27.869 Mhm. 0:17:28.550 --> 0:17:31.830 And there's so much to give God praise for. I 0:17:31.830 --> 0:17:36.710 want to do something really different here today. I want 0:17:36.750 --> 0:17:41.030 to enter God's gates with thanksgiving and his courts with 0:17:41.030 --> 0:17:42.030 praise this morning. 0:17:42.070 --> 0:17:42.669 Amen. 0:17:42.790 --> 0:17:46.070 I want to be thankful unto God and bless his name. 0:17:46.070 --> 0:17:48.870 For the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and 0:17:48.869 --> 0:17:53.310 his truth endures for all generations. I want to praise 0:17:53.310 --> 0:17:56.669 the Lord. I want to praise God in his sanctuary. 0:17:56.990 --> 0:18:01.830 I want to praise him in the firmament of his power. 0:18:02.270 --> 0:18:05.630 Praise him for his mighty acts, praise him according to 0:18:05.630 --> 0:18:07.950 his excellent greatness. And I want to tell you what 0:18:07.950 --> 0:18:09.990 I want to praise God for this morning. I have 0:18:09.990 --> 0:18:14.990 a word of praise. I want to praise God for 0:18:14.990 --> 0:18:17.870 all of you that are new to Carl and crew. 0:18:18.150 --> 0:18:20.550 Or should I say, we are new to you? 0:18:20.590 --> 0:18:20.990 Yeah. 0:18:22.270 --> 0:18:26.470 I want to praise him that God has arranged things, 0:18:26.470 --> 0:18:32.230 that he has God's kids so teed up for change. 0:18:33.109 --> 0:18:36.830 So willing to flex by the power of the Holy 0:18:36.830 --> 0:18:42.950 Spirit that you have been gracious to us. I praise 0:18:42.950 --> 0:18:48.270 God for your kindness. I praise God for your words 0:18:48.270 --> 0:18:53.750 of encouragement. I praise God that you've battled well through 0:18:53.950 --> 0:18:58.270 changes in life. I praise God for you, boom crew. 0:19:00.350 --> 0:19:02.230 I don't think I've ever done that in ten years 0:19:02.230 --> 0:19:03.750 where I've been this bold. 0:19:03.790 --> 0:19:05.310 No, but I think it's good. 0:19:05.950 --> 0:19:08.230 That was great. Yeah. 0:19:08.470 --> 0:19:12.270 I don't you guys. Are you with me on this one? 0:19:12.310 --> 0:19:13.670 Of course. Of course. 0:19:13.670 --> 0:19:14.870 110%. 0:19:14.910 --> 0:19:17.950 I mean, we, you know, we're we're talking about it. 0:19:17.950 --> 0:19:21.389 So change is difficult and it's hard and it's not 0:19:21.670 --> 0:19:24.270 it's not easy to deal with all the time and 0:19:25.150 --> 0:19:30.000 and listen, I we got an email yesterday from someone who, 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.040 who was listening and and they said, you know, we 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.439 underwent the change and, and we stopped and we prayed. 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.160 We prayed that that God would just give us an 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.719 open heart. And I mean that that just makes me 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:47.480 sit back in my chair, humbled the to to sit 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.200 there and say, God, would you just let me hear 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.200 and be open to what you're doing? I mean, that 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.680 is that is a heart that inspires me to move 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.080 closer to God. That's the heart you have. Boom crew. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:06.480 Yeah, it's it's an awesome thing to behold. It really is. I, 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:13.360 I am so filled with praise this morning. I mean, 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:18.840 my heart is overflowing with joy. I don't know you, 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.720 but God does. And if God is our father, we 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.600 are brothers and sisters in Christ, and we are on 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:30.280 this path less traveled. And we're on this narrow way. 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.520 And we're being shaped and molded by the power of 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:38.040 the Holy Spirit to be men and women. Young people. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.160 I'm blown away, too. I want to give God praise 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:45.200 for the 20 somethings that listen to this program. Blows 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:49.920 my mind. Just blows my mind. I want to thank 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:54.760 God for the 90 plus year olds that listen here, 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.240 and when they call in, we get testimonies that they're 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:03.800 still submitting themselves to God for his power to change them. Still, 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:05.520 I praise God for that. 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:05.960 Yeah. 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:14.439 We praise God for that. My goodness. What are you 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.400 praising God for today? I want you to be a 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.480 gratitude journal on air. We're going to open up phone 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.920 lines right now. Little bursts of praise. And you know what? 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:31.320 I'm not, I am absolutely not asking you to praise 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.040 God for what we're doing here today. I want you 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.879 to look around at the things in your life and 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:44.000 give God praise. It is so healthy. It is. And 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:48.360 Philippians four what do we find Paul saying? Whatever is 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:54.359 worthy of praise, whatever is true, whatever is good. Put 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:59.680 your eyes on these things. It's easy to see the trials. 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:04.400 Some of you are going through it today. But the 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:08.760 backdrop behind all these trials, and beside all these trials 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:14.200 and challenges, is the goodness and greatness of God. So 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:16.720 let's give him praise today. We're going to open up 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.840 phone lines, little bursts of praise, but we're asking you 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:23.040 to just call in with bursts of praise. What are 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:28.490 you praising God for today. Lift up his name. It's 0:22:28.490 --> 0:22:32.369 so healing to the bones, man. Think about it. 0:22:33.410 --> 0:22:36.410 You're listening to Curl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:22:36.770 --> 0:22:39.850 Danielle, first time caller in Florida. What do you say? Danielle? 0:22:40.250 --> 0:22:45.369 Hi there. Good morning guys. Um, I am just so grateful. Um, 0:22:45.369 --> 0:22:49.770 we've had a very stressful, um, week, and God has 0:22:49.770 --> 0:22:53.210 provided a reprieve in the church member opening up their 0:22:53.210 --> 0:22:56.090 home to us while we're having that issue in our home, 0:22:57.090 --> 0:23:00.889 and which has been such a beautiful testimony of God's 0:23:00.890 --> 0:23:04.530 goodness just using the body and also him working in 0:23:04.530 --> 0:23:07.129 the lives of everyone in our family. 0:23:07.570 --> 0:23:11.810 Yeah. It's beautiful. Danielle. Danielle, I hear your voice cracking 0:23:11.810 --> 0:23:15.210 there a little bit, sister. And I rejoice with you. 0:23:15.369 --> 0:23:18.770 It's through the pain that sometimes God shows his glory 0:23:18.770 --> 0:23:22.570 the most. And you are spot on, sister. The body 0:23:22.690 --> 0:23:28.570 of Christ. Spiritual gifts. Loving one another. Bearing one another's burdens. 0:23:28.570 --> 0:23:31.530 It's a beautiful thing. Way to give him praise, Danielle. 0:23:31.970 --> 0:23:34.730 Caroline in Florida as well. What do you say? Caroline. 0:23:35.369 --> 0:23:39.889 Yes. Hi. Good morning. I am extremely grateful. The fact 0:23:39.890 --> 0:23:42.490 that God's breath in my lungs. He woke me up. 0:23:42.490 --> 0:23:44.889 My state of mind. To the point where I can just. 0:23:44.930 --> 0:23:48.490 I'm so gracious and grateful. I can just praise his 0:23:48.490 --> 0:23:51.369 holy name. Because without him, I would not be able 0:23:51.369 --> 0:23:54.330 to see another day today. So that I'm very thankful 0:23:54.330 --> 0:23:57.130 and extremely grateful to my Heavenly Father for her. 0:23:57.330 --> 0:23:59.810 Isn't it great breath in our lungs this morning? Caroline 0:23:59.810 --> 0:24:02.650 from Florida. Thank you for calling in taking your phone 0:24:02.650 --> 0:24:05.970 calls this morning. What are you giving God praise for? 0:24:06.609 --> 0:24:10.170 Praise him in the sanctuary. And you know what's amazing 0:24:10.170 --> 0:24:14.850 about this term? Sanctuary from Psalm 100 and Psalm 150. 0:24:14.890 --> 0:24:19.330 In both of them we are the temple of God. 0:24:19.730 --> 0:24:23.420 We praise him in the sanctuary in ourselves. Yes, we 0:24:23.460 --> 0:24:27.100 are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, these old tents. I 0:24:27.100 --> 0:24:29.859 know they they aren't much. You might look at your 0:24:29.859 --> 0:24:32.740 bod and go, wow, this is the temple of. It's 0:24:32.740 --> 0:24:36.220 the temple of God. And we give him praise today. 0:24:36.740 --> 0:24:39.580 Tune in whenever you like. Check out the Carl and 0:24:39.580 --> 0:24:42.180 Crew podcast wherever you like to stream. 0:24:42.980 --> 0:24:45.700 Stephanie, first time caller in Florida. What do you got, Steph? 0:24:46.619 --> 0:24:50.979 I am so grateful. And I'm praising God because my 0:24:50.980 --> 0:24:54.020 son's father, who was shot over the weekend, made it 0:24:54.020 --> 0:24:57.300 through the night. We're taking this thing one day at 0:24:57.300 --> 0:25:01.420 a time, and I'm praising God that he survived another night. 0:25:01.940 --> 0:25:02.980 That was your dad? 0:25:03.580 --> 0:25:05.020 No, my son's father. 0:25:05.380 --> 0:25:10.300 Your son's father. Oh my goodness. Stephanie. Sister, we're praising 0:25:10.300 --> 0:25:13.980 God with you. God's got a reason that this man 0:25:13.980 --> 0:25:17.180 has breath in his lungs. Be looking around. Live with 0:25:17.180 --> 0:25:20.580 your head on a swivel and see what God's doing there, sister. 0:25:20.580 --> 0:25:24.020 Way to go, Steph in Florida. First time caller. Thank 0:25:24.020 --> 0:25:27.540 you for that, Joe in Illinois. What do you say, Joe? 0:25:27.900 --> 0:25:30.100 Uh. Good morning. I just want to praise and thank 0:25:30.100 --> 0:25:35.220 God for his healing touch and his work in, um, 0:25:36.060 --> 0:25:40.739 helping my wife battle blood cancer for the last two 0:25:40.740 --> 0:25:43.220 and a half years. She's doing great. I just praise 0:25:43.220 --> 0:25:46.740 and thank God for his healing touch and his guidance 0:25:46.740 --> 0:25:53.139 and navigating and just sustaining us through this challenging time. 0:25:53.500 --> 0:25:53.979 Way to go. 0:25:54.020 --> 0:25:56.700 You're a good man, Joe. You're a good husband, Joe. 0:25:56.940 --> 0:26:01.379 Giving God praise. Happy for your wife, man. Happy for her. 0:26:01.700 --> 0:26:04.859 And we give him praise today. Way to go, Joe 0:26:04.859 --> 0:26:08.260 in Illinois, Jake, first time caller in Ohio. What are 0:26:08.260 --> 0:26:09.820 you praising God for today? 0:26:12.540 --> 0:26:14.820 So I came to a roadblock a year ago in 0:26:14.820 --> 0:26:17.020 my life and didn't know what to do or where 0:26:17.060 --> 0:26:21.980 to go, And, uh, he pretty much uplifted my whole life. 0:26:22.020 --> 0:26:26.460 Changed it in one year. He blessed me with a house. 0:26:26.540 --> 0:26:31.260 My first house. I bought a new fiance. I'm getting 0:26:31.260 --> 0:26:36.020 ready to marry and, um, a new job with Christian people. 0:26:36.060 --> 0:26:37.900 I'm just blessed to have that today. 0:26:38.340 --> 0:26:39.020 And give him. 0:26:39.020 --> 0:26:41.300 Praise today, Jake. And you're making a left turn there. 0:26:41.300 --> 0:26:43.979 I can hear the clicker, my man. You're ready to 0:26:43.980 --> 0:26:48.379 go left. Oh, sweet word from Jake in Ohio. First 0:26:48.380 --> 0:26:51.340 time caller. What are you praising God for today? Think 0:26:51.340 --> 0:26:57.699 about that. You know, it's one thing to think to yourself. 0:26:59.140 --> 0:27:03.379 It's one thing to kind of consider what you're going through. 0:27:04.140 --> 0:27:07.660 It's another thing to stop and look for those things 0:27:07.660 --> 0:27:11.540 that we can give God praise for today. You know, 0:27:11.580 --> 0:27:14.700 praise is one of the most therapeutic things that we 0:27:14.700 --> 0:27:18.710 can do. And it's a God glorifying thing. We lift 0:27:18.710 --> 0:27:22.350 up our voice to God. It gives us new perspective 0:27:22.350 --> 0:27:25.510 on the day. So I don't know what you're going through, 0:27:25.550 --> 0:27:28.350 what you're up against, but I know this for sure. 0:27:28.550 --> 0:27:32.790 Our God, he's worthy of praise. And I'm asking you 0:27:32.790 --> 0:27:37.110 to give him praise today. Gary, first time caller in Indiana. 0:27:37.109 --> 0:27:38.030 What do you say, Gary? 0:27:38.790 --> 0:27:41.030 I'm just giving God praise for the lung surgery. I 0:27:41.030 --> 0:27:46.430 just came through. Um, my, uh, men's group that prayed 0:27:46.430 --> 0:27:49.230 me through. My church family that I was prayed through, 0:27:49.230 --> 0:27:52.430 and just the family in Christ I have. Everywhere I go, 0:27:52.590 --> 0:27:54.109 I get to give the testimony. 0:27:54.470 --> 0:27:55.310 Way to go, Gary. 0:27:55.350 --> 0:27:56.030 In my life. 0:27:56.270 --> 0:27:59.310 Way to go, Gary. I appreciate you, man. First time 0:27:59.310 --> 0:28:03.030 caller from Indiana. Good word, my man. Keep spreading the word. 0:28:03.270 --> 0:28:05.550 Matt in Grand Rapids. What do you say, Matt? 0:28:05.869 --> 0:28:10.030 I am thankful for salvation through Christ Jesus. That I 0:28:10.030 --> 0:28:13.070 don't have to face the wrath to come, and that 0:28:13.070 --> 0:28:16.550 my mercy I can share with others the amazing love 0:28:16.590 --> 0:28:18.590 God has for the lost. 0:28:19.150 --> 0:28:24.109 Amen. Amen. Matt from Grand Rapids. Uh, that's good theology, man. 0:28:24.150 --> 0:28:27.270 Because there is going to come a day when we 0:28:27.270 --> 0:28:29.710 are going to be called to account. Did we look 0:28:29.710 --> 0:28:34.870 at creation Romans one and see God? And what did 0:28:34.869 --> 0:28:38.430 we do when we saw that? It's a beautiful thing 0:28:38.470 --> 0:28:40.989 to give God praise for. I want to take you 0:28:40.990 --> 0:28:44.310 to a passage of Scripture that shows the power of praise. 0:28:44.830 --> 0:28:49.870 In Second Chronicles, chapter 20, after the Moabites and the 0:28:49.870 --> 0:28:56.310 ammonites and all these conflicts, some men came and told Jehoshaphat, 0:28:56.350 --> 0:29:00.230 A great multitude is coming against you from Edom from 0:29:00.230 --> 0:29:07.870 beyond the sea. They're coming. Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he 0:29:07.870 --> 0:29:10.870 set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a 0:29:10.870 --> 0:29:15.000 fast throughout all of Judah and Judah assembled to seek 0:29:15.000 --> 0:29:17.600 help from the Lord from all the cities of Judah. 0:29:17.640 --> 0:29:22.080 They came to seek the Lord. Josephat stood in assembly, 0:29:23.000 --> 0:29:25.520 and a man came to him and actually said to him, 0:29:25.920 --> 0:29:29.800 put the worship leaders out in front, and they put 0:29:29.800 --> 0:29:33.400 the worship leaders out in front. They put the choir 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:38.680 in the front. And you know what happened? God delivered. 0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:44.120 The story that we find from this battle in Second 0:29:44.120 --> 0:29:48.560 Chronicles 20 is an epic story of the power of praise. 0:29:49.960 --> 0:29:55.040 The Lord did their fighting. Give him praise today. I 0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:57.920 know you're up against tough stuff, but put the choir 0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:01.920 out in front and watch God get the victory in 0:30:01.920 --> 0:30:12.000 your life. He can do it. Burt, right here in Illinois. 0:30:12.000 --> 0:30:13.640 What are you praising God for, Burt? 0:30:13.800 --> 0:30:17.640 Hey, here is an awesome thing. For two months, I 0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:20.160 had back pain a couple months ago. Went in to 0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:23.280 get it checked out. They found out I've got stones. 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:26.360 Kidney stones. Right? That's happening. I still have them today. 0:30:27.200 --> 0:30:30.920 They also found in there taking blood all this stuff. 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:33.440 You look like you might have prostate cancer. I was like, 0:30:33.440 --> 0:30:36.280 the devil's a liar. I do not have prostate cancer. 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:39.960 I'm standing on the word. I am beautifully and wonderfully made. God, 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:42.280 you're going to deliver me from this? No weapon formed 0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:45.480 against me shall prosper. That happened then they said your 0:30:45.480 --> 0:30:49.560 body's producing too much calcium. Brother. Something's wrong with your parathyroid. 0:30:49.560 --> 0:30:51.840 Which you just look it up. And I was like, 0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:55.160 what is going on? But I stood in God's word 0:30:55.520 --> 0:30:57.600 and I'm journaling. You said this a minute ago, Carl. 0:30:57.600 --> 0:30:59.920 It's important to journal because go back to what's happening 0:30:59.920 --> 0:31:02.600 on a daily basis, if you can, or whatever you 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:05.760 need to do, and trace it and follow it. But 0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:08.680 I'm praising God. I said, God, I'm beautifully, wonderfully made. 0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:10.840 If you don't dissolve these stones. And I still have 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:13.280 the stones. I'll do surgery. I'm still praising you. 0:31:13.360 --> 0:31:13.719 Because. 0:31:13.720 --> 0:31:17.560 The praise is the weapon against the enemy. You've got 0:31:17.600 --> 0:31:19.320 to raise your hands. You got to open your mouth 0:31:19.320 --> 0:31:21.440 because they cannot. It's like being in an NBA game. 0:31:21.440 --> 0:31:23.400 Like the finals. You know how they get. So one 0:31:23.400 --> 0:31:26.480 team gets so far ahead, the other team just looks dejected. 0:31:26.880 --> 0:31:29.560 That's what's happening. That's what's happening with the enemy. So 0:31:29.560 --> 0:31:32.479 you got to praise. The praise absolutely has to. You 0:31:32.480 --> 0:31:35.120 have to worship a God. He loves us too much. 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:36.240 So I'm praising God today. 0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:36.800 How's your. 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:37.280 Pain? 0:31:37.520 --> 0:31:38.400 How's your pain? 0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:42.040 Okay, so I forgot to tell you the most important part. 0:31:42.040 --> 0:31:44.600 I prayed to God. Even if you don't dissolve these, 0:31:44.800 --> 0:31:46.480 whatever you're going to do, however you're going to heal me. 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:49.400 I just don't want to feel the pain. And so 0:31:49.440 --> 0:31:51.960 I'm going into the doctors. They're like, these things are 0:31:51.960 --> 0:31:55.040 huge and they're not passing. How are you? Not in 0:31:55.040 --> 0:31:58.200 my office, in the fetal position, laying on the floor crying. 0:31:58.440 --> 0:32:01.600 I've seen men with the size, and I've got them 0:32:01.600 --> 0:32:04.720 on both. On both kidneys. I've seen men with these 0:32:04.720 --> 0:32:08.530 sized stones balling in my office. And In all I 0:32:08.530 --> 0:32:10.370 told my doctors was, I don't know what else to 0:32:10.370 --> 0:32:10.650 tell you. 0:32:10.690 --> 0:32:11.490 Chalk it up to God. 0:32:11.530 --> 0:32:14.210 I serve a God. I serve a god. 0:32:14.370 --> 0:32:17.570 Yeah. Burt, thank you for calling in my man. Good word. 0:32:17.610 --> 0:32:21.850 Good word. Taking your calls right now. Let's load them up, guys. 0:32:21.850 --> 0:32:24.690 Maureen in Akron, Ohio. What do you say, Maureen? What's 0:32:24.690 --> 0:32:26.490 your what are you praising God for today? 0:32:26.970 --> 0:32:30.810 I'm praising God for this radio station. I've been a 0:32:30.850 --> 0:32:34.250 listener of Wkar's out of Cleveland. We're in Akron for 0:32:34.250 --> 0:32:37.930 54 years, and we've had some hard changes with things. 0:32:37.970 --> 0:32:40.969 And every morning I get up, you've got something on 0:32:40.970 --> 0:32:43.410 there that blesses me. And I'm talking to other older 0:32:43.410 --> 0:32:45.650 people and telling them, you've got to get on the program. 0:32:45.650 --> 0:32:49.690 It's really good. So I'm praising God for CRF and 0:32:49.690 --> 0:32:52.130 for you guys being faithful and for God always meeting 0:32:52.130 --> 0:32:52.810 our needs. 0:32:53.370 --> 0:32:56.010 Maureen, you made my day. Thank you for Macron. Thank 0:32:56.010 --> 0:32:58.850 you for that. Appreciate you. Maureen. Go back to the 0:32:58.850 --> 0:33:01.050 phone lines here. What are you praising God for today? 0:33:01.090 --> 0:33:03.170 Meena in Illinois. What do you say, Meena? 0:33:05.330 --> 0:33:08.410 Yeah. Good morning. Thank you all for having me. Um, 0:33:08.410 --> 0:33:11.290 so I'm praising God for two things. Number one, my 0:33:11.290 --> 0:33:16.010 father's surgery. He had a bad arthritis for years and 0:33:16.010 --> 0:33:19.050 he was scared to have surgery. But finally he did. 0:33:19.090 --> 0:33:21.050 And now he's able to walk well. So I just 0:33:21.050 --> 0:33:23.890 want to give God all the glory for no complications. 0:33:24.330 --> 0:33:28.570 And then I'm thanking God for the success of my wedding. 0:33:28.930 --> 0:33:31.570 This year makes it six years of marriage with three 0:33:31.570 --> 0:33:35.370 beautiful children. So I'm so grateful for all of that. 0:33:35.410 --> 0:33:37.650 So thank you all so much. I'll bless the Lord 0:33:37.650 --> 0:33:42.290 at all times. His praise will continue in my mouth. Hallelujah! 0:33:42.330 --> 0:33:45.050 Amen. You broke away there, but we know the passage. 0:33:45.090 --> 0:33:49.450 The praise will continually be in my mouth. Give him praise. 0:33:49.450 --> 0:33:52.330 Peace is right. Coming in the door. Right behind that 0:33:52.330 --> 0:33:57.250 word of praise. Roberta in Chicago. What do you say, Roberta? 0:33:57.250 --> 0:33:58.570 What are you praising God for? 0:33:59.850 --> 0:34:02.810 Oh, hi. How are you? I've been listening to you forever. 0:34:02.850 --> 0:34:06.370 I'm in Chicago, okay. And I call in sometimes write 0:34:06.370 --> 0:34:09.569 my emails. But going back five years ago, I just 0:34:09.570 --> 0:34:11.810 happened to call it. I can't remember what the topic was, 0:34:11.810 --> 0:34:13.569 but at any rate, I called in for something else 0:34:13.570 --> 0:34:15.370 and I said, by the way, today is my 80th 0:34:15.370 --> 0:34:18.489 birthday and you guys saying happy 80th birthday to me 0:34:18.489 --> 0:34:21.529 on air. Well, in a couple more weeks I'm going 0:34:21.530 --> 0:34:24.969 to be 85. Praise you Jesus. And I'm just as 0:34:24.969 --> 0:34:26.650 healthy as ever running around. 0:34:27.850 --> 0:34:31.090 Roberta, you sound you sound like you're 33. 0:34:32.489 --> 0:34:35.129 Well, I, you know, run around a lot, but my 0:34:35.130 --> 0:34:38.010 mom was like that, too. She passed away at 94, 0:34:38.010 --> 0:34:40.210 and she was a contemporary lady. And, I mean, she 0:34:40.210 --> 0:34:43.170 just lived every day. It's. It could be as basic 0:34:43.210 --> 0:34:45.609 as just what I do is get up in the morning, 0:34:45.810 --> 0:34:48.690 raise my arms and say, oh, my gosh, thank you 0:34:48.690 --> 0:34:51.290 so much. It's like somebody said, I got a birthday 0:34:51.290 --> 0:34:54.489 card the other day, said, happy birthday. And they said, congratulations, 0:34:54.489 --> 0:34:55.690 you're still alive. 0:34:56.570 --> 0:35:00.529 It's beautiful. Roberta, thank you for calling in today. 85 0:35:00.570 --> 0:35:03.290 years young. Let's go to Dave in Wheeling. What are 0:35:03.290 --> 0:35:05.020 you praising God for today, Dave? 0:35:05.420 --> 0:35:08.820 Light is the first thing made in creation. It's a 0:35:09.020 --> 0:35:11.700 beautiful thing this morning. Um, we had a great Bible 0:35:11.700 --> 0:35:14.540 study with your friend Freddy Velasco on Saturday, and we 0:35:14.580 --> 0:35:17.660 were praising John one, where he is the light in 0:35:17.660 --> 0:35:20.740 the darkness. And the darkness didn't understand him. And he's 0:35:20.780 --> 0:35:23.460 the promise and the hope of Christ. It's a beautiful thing. 0:35:23.780 --> 0:35:26.580 Yeah, it is beautiful, Dave. Light is beautiful. Dave. In Illinois. 0:35:26.580 --> 0:35:30.739 Right here. Way to go, my man. What do you say, Abigail? 0:35:30.780 --> 0:35:33.259 First time caller from Florida. What are you praising God 0:35:33.260 --> 0:35:33.980 for today? 0:35:34.620 --> 0:35:37.460 Hi, guys. I just want to say that I've been 0:35:37.460 --> 0:35:39.779 a believer my whole life. My mom didn't play that. 0:35:39.780 --> 0:35:42.420 She really raised us the right way. But recently, I 0:35:42.420 --> 0:35:46.340 became closer to God. And every single day, I really, 0:35:46.340 --> 0:35:49.379 really thank him for Jesus Christ. He is the most 0:35:49.380 --> 0:35:54.299 biggest historical figure that people literally need to know about. 0:35:54.340 --> 0:35:57.900 He was truly sent as a messiah and to this day, 0:35:57.940 --> 0:36:01.379 places where he walked and talked are being guarded. And 0:36:01.380 --> 0:36:05.180 I just really thank God for Jesus Christ, my family, 0:36:05.180 --> 0:36:08.540 every person that's pushing the gospel. Thank all of you guys. 0:36:08.780 --> 0:36:13.819 Amen. Abigail, first time caller from Florida. It's true Messiah. Deliverer. 0:36:14.060 --> 0:36:16.900 He is the deliverer. And although we're raised in a 0:36:16.900 --> 0:36:20.060 Christian context, that faith needs to become our own way 0:36:20.060 --> 0:36:23.420 to go. Abigail. Ron. First time caller in Florida. What 0:36:23.420 --> 0:36:25.020 are you praising God for? Ron. 0:36:25.420 --> 0:36:28.259 I got so many things to praise for that I couldn't. 0:36:28.300 --> 0:36:31.780 It would take up too much time. But a person 0:36:31.780 --> 0:36:34.660 is 74 and 79 years old with a wife of 0:36:34.660 --> 0:36:39.060 55 years. I am totally thankful for the caring people 0:36:39.060 --> 0:36:42.060 that are around us in different places, but starting off 0:36:42.340 --> 0:36:46.740 for the entire book of the Bible with everything that's 0:36:46.739 --> 0:36:49.700 in it from the beginning to the end, all the 0:36:49.700 --> 0:36:52.740 wonderful words of life that are expressed throughout the Bible 0:36:52.739 --> 0:36:55.779 that are meaningful on a daily basis. But as of 0:36:55.780 --> 0:36:59.660 the moment, you know God has blessed us in our 0:36:59.660 --> 0:37:04.790 work overseas for over 20 years and 26 countries, and 0:37:04.790 --> 0:37:08.509 protected us in many cases with many examples of near misses. 0:37:09.030 --> 0:37:11.669 But what is the most important thing now? My wife 0:37:11.670 --> 0:37:16.870 has been discovered with lung cancer that spread to her 0:37:16.870 --> 0:37:21.030 spine and spread to her brain. But we have a 0:37:21.030 --> 0:37:25.830 wonderful team of doctors that have come together that we 0:37:25.830 --> 0:37:31.549 believe were were brought together with the help of Jesus Christ. 0:37:31.910 --> 0:37:34.910 That's the only thing I can say. Doctor. Amen. They 0:37:34.950 --> 0:37:38.350 are there. The mechanics, the equipment is there. The medicine, 0:37:38.390 --> 0:37:41.509 the the blessings that God has provided in the kind 0:37:41.510 --> 0:37:44.270 of medicines that are out there. And then at our 0:37:44.270 --> 0:37:48.670 church where we are connected, caring friends who are praying 0:37:48.670 --> 0:37:49.310 for us. 0:37:49.630 --> 0:37:53.150 That is beautiful, Ron. Ron, first time caller from Florida. 0:37:53.430 --> 0:37:56.310 When you have something that you're up against like that 0:37:56.310 --> 0:37:59.989 and then bang, God shows up in power, a team 0:37:59.989 --> 0:38:03.710 of good caregivers, and then a church to support you. 0:38:03.710 --> 0:38:06.950 It is huge. Let's get a couple more in here. 0:38:06.989 --> 0:38:09.589 Is it Sukhwani? Did I get that right or is 0:38:09.590 --> 0:38:14.830 that off? Szechuan. Szechuan? Szechuan from Indiana. What do you say? Szechuan? 0:38:15.670 --> 0:38:16.230 Yes. 0:38:16.230 --> 0:38:19.670 I am so grateful for God, grace and his mercy 0:38:19.670 --> 0:38:24.110 and his faithfulness. Like throughout my seasons, his faithfulness has 0:38:24.110 --> 0:38:27.870 been always true. Um, times when I just felt like, 0:38:27.910 --> 0:38:30.549 you know, things may not be going well, and then 0:38:30.550 --> 0:38:32.910 I turn to God and I'm like, you know what, God, 0:38:33.070 --> 0:38:35.790 you have been faithful in every season and I trust 0:38:35.790 --> 0:38:39.830 you in this season. And also his grace and his mercy. 0:38:39.870 --> 0:38:44.070 Lord have mercy. My my faith has been tested so 0:38:44.070 --> 0:38:47.550 strongly these last couple of weeks. But you know what? 0:38:47.590 --> 0:38:50.549 God great that his mercy, the way that he loved us. 0:38:50.550 --> 0:38:53.830 And he said, look, I give you grace. You give 0:38:53.870 --> 0:38:56.350 other people grace because people do not know what I 0:38:56.390 --> 0:38:59.029 am doing inside of you. And what I need you 0:38:59.030 --> 0:39:02.069 to do is show up as who I am designed 0:39:02.070 --> 0:39:04.589 for you to show up as. And so I just 0:39:04.630 --> 0:39:08.270 thank God for it because Lord knows he is so good. 0:39:08.830 --> 0:39:11.750 Yeah, that is so good. Shaquan. That's great. You go 0:39:11.750 --> 0:39:14.109 by Queenie too. I'm going to go with Queenie. I'm 0:39:14.150 --> 0:39:18.310 going with that. Yeah, I love nicknames. Yeah. Way to go, sister. 0:39:18.350 --> 0:39:20.190 Thanks for calling in here today. 0:39:20.750 --> 0:39:24.430 Start your day moving closer to Jesus. You're listening to 0:39:24.469 --> 0:39:25.630 Carl and crew. 0:39:26.350 --> 0:39:29.670 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer. 0:39:29.710 --> 0:39:32.750 My God, my rock in whom I take refuge. My 0:39:32.750 --> 0:39:36.670 shield and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold. Psalm 0:39:36.670 --> 0:39:41.509 18 two. Give God praise for that. And I'm so 0:39:41.550 --> 0:39:46.670 intrigued by the metaphor of rock used most powerfully in 0:39:46.670 --> 0:39:50.190 the sermon on the Mount. Jesus said these words, everyone 0:39:50.190 --> 0:39:54.950 who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice, application, 0:39:54.950 --> 0:40:00.239 not just information becomes a person who survives storms. You 0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:05.640 want to be a storm survivor. God's hardwired you for victory, 0:40:06.160 --> 0:40:10.720 even through difficulty. So what are some bedrock truths? Three 0:40:10.719 --> 0:40:14.440 of them in particular that every disciple of Christ needs 0:40:14.440 --> 0:40:17.800 to stand on. Greg Dempster is with me right now. 0:40:17.840 --> 0:40:23.920 He's a man that has mentored, coached, helped provide wise 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:27.439 counsel to a lot of pastors that feel burned out 0:40:27.440 --> 0:40:30.320 and have lost their way. What are you learning, Greg? 0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:35.000 The symbolism of rock is dead on. That's where my 0:40:35.000 --> 0:40:38.560 heart was this morning. Psalm 27 that you can. The 0:40:38.560 --> 0:40:42.120 one thing that David asked for, and the one thing 0:40:42.120 --> 0:40:44.319 that he sought, was to dwell in the house of 0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:46.279 the Lord all the days of his life, to gaze 0:40:46.280 --> 0:40:48.479 upon the beauty of the Lord, and to seek God 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:51.600 where he could be found. And the result, then, that 0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:54.240 he expected that he'd be put high up on a rock. 0:40:54.480 --> 0:40:54.960 Yeah. 0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:58.399 When we're thinking about three core truths to base our 0:40:58.400 --> 0:41:01.640 lives on, that's one of them. That. Why try to. 0:41:01.680 --> 0:41:06.000 Why waste our lives trying to protect ourselves when God 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:10.120 so clearly wants to protect us? 0:41:11.080 --> 0:41:14.400 Yeah. And it's it's an amazing thing because we're afforded 0:41:14.400 --> 0:41:19.080 that opportunity. Everyone listening right now can make that adjustment, 0:41:19.080 --> 0:41:21.919 that shift, even a moment of repentance to get back 0:41:21.920 --> 0:41:24.600 on that rock. Right. Greg, it's that we have a 0:41:24.600 --> 0:41:26.239 binary choice today. 0:41:26.880 --> 0:41:30.520 Well, you said hardwired. That's exactly it. We're hardwired to 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:36.040 turn to to Jesus for help. I mean, that's Jeremiah 213, right? 0:41:36.040 --> 0:41:39.360 That the nation of Israel had committed two grievous sins. 0:41:39.360 --> 0:41:42.719 They had forsaken the fountain of living water in their thirsting, 0:41:42.719 --> 0:41:46.320 in their living. They turn from God as their supply, 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:49.040 and they tried to do it on their own. God's 0:41:49.080 --> 0:41:52.890 wired us to turn to him, and that might be 0:41:52.890 --> 0:41:55.089 where a lot of your audience is today, man. They've 0:41:55.090 --> 0:41:58.450 been trying it on their own for a long time, 0:41:58.489 --> 0:42:01.450 and they feel like they're out in the the flats. Man. 0:42:01.450 --> 0:42:05.890 With the tide coming in and the tide rushing out. 0:42:05.930 --> 0:42:09.570 In fact, a lot of us feel are totally embarrassed 0:42:09.570 --> 0:42:12.210 when the tide goes out because everything that's buried in 0:42:12.210 --> 0:42:14.410 our lives shows up on the sand there, all the 0:42:14.410 --> 0:42:17.529 old tires, all the old mess of our lives, and 0:42:17.530 --> 0:42:19.890 we just want to keep it covered. Yeah. And so 0:42:19.890 --> 0:42:25.730 we wear masks. We strive, we try to perform, gain approval. 0:42:26.290 --> 0:42:29.050 And God just wants us to turn this moment, turn 0:42:29.050 --> 0:42:31.370 to him and just say, I'm done, man. I can't 0:42:31.370 --> 0:42:33.850 do it myself. I need you come and draw me 0:42:33.850 --> 0:42:34.610 to yourself. 0:42:35.010 --> 0:42:37.530 And that discipline of coming back to God. This isn't 0:42:37.530 --> 0:42:40.330 a one and done. We're disciples of Christ. There are 0:42:40.330 --> 0:42:44.770 such things as derailed disciples. Disciples that find themselves in 0:42:44.770 --> 0:42:47.810 a ditch off the path, off the rock. So get 0:42:47.810 --> 0:42:51.650 back to the rock. His name is Jesus. All right. 0:42:51.690 --> 0:42:53.930 Second bedrock truth. What do you got, Greg? 0:42:54.730 --> 0:42:59.049 Psalm 139. Man, that there's nowhere we can go where 0:42:59.050 --> 0:43:03.770 he's not present. And we need to begin practicing the 0:43:03.770 --> 0:43:06.649 nearness of God. The question that we've got to ask 0:43:06.650 --> 0:43:09.969 ourselves is, where is our gaze set? Because where our 0:43:10.010 --> 0:43:13.650 gaze set, our life will follow. In Psalm 139 opens 0:43:13.650 --> 0:43:18.009 up this phenomenal reality that that God, there's nowhere I 0:43:18.010 --> 0:43:23.090 can flee from God's presence. And God would desire for 0:43:23.090 --> 0:43:28.410 us to begin to live in a sense of that nearness, 0:43:28.570 --> 0:43:31.930 as the sense of the rock being right before me, 0:43:31.930 --> 0:43:35.970 the rock being right behind me, the rock being never 0:43:35.969 --> 0:43:39.049 leaving me. And so the idea that number one, that 0:43:39.050 --> 0:43:42.650 I learned to trust in his protection. But number two, 0:43:42.930 --> 0:43:46.490 that I'm learning that I'm never alone, that God is 0:43:46.489 --> 0:43:50.290 always with me. That God will never reject me, never 0:43:50.290 --> 0:43:55.009 forsake me. And accessing his help and his power is 0:43:55.010 --> 0:43:58.650 just a matter of stopping right now. Turning my attention 0:43:58.650 --> 0:43:59.170 to him. 0:43:59.690 --> 0:43:59.930 And. 0:43:59.969 --> 0:44:01.810 Asking him to fill me with himself. 0:44:02.090 --> 0:44:04.930 David is so clear. Where can I go from your spirit? 0:44:05.130 --> 0:44:10.690 You're everywhere. Yeah. It's so beautiful. All right, third bedrock truth. 0:44:10.690 --> 0:44:15.490 Every disciple needs to stand on what's on your heart, Greg. 0:44:15.930 --> 0:44:19.890 I would say Augustine. Augustine says that our hearts are 0:44:19.890 --> 0:44:25.730 perpetually restless until they find their rest in him. And 0:44:25.770 --> 0:44:28.450 and so we need to realize, I mean, even going 0:44:28.450 --> 0:44:31.770 back to Jeremiah 213, where God reveals that he's the 0:44:31.770 --> 0:44:36.330 fountain of living water. Every thirst that you have today, 0:44:37.010 --> 0:44:42.009 every hunger or desire that you have growing in your heart, 0:44:42.290 --> 0:44:46.770 is something that God wants to move into and fill 0:44:46.770 --> 0:44:51.140 you with himself to satisfy that. Sometimes we develop these 0:44:51.180 --> 0:44:55.580 these habits, these appetites around wayward and broken things. But 0:44:55.580 --> 0:44:58.700 at the root, you need to understand that you're thirsting 0:44:58.700 --> 0:45:01.900 isn't bad. God's just surprised. He's not surprised that you 0:45:01.900 --> 0:45:04.700 have thirst. He's surprised that you're turning to anything else 0:45:04.700 --> 0:45:07.739 to get that thirst quenched. And so wherever you are, 0:45:07.780 --> 0:45:11.219 if you're turning to pornography today to get thirst quenched, 0:45:11.260 --> 0:45:13.860 let me just say there's a way better way to go. 0:45:13.980 --> 0:45:16.700 And that is the fountain of living water. That's a 0:45:16.739 --> 0:45:23.739 God who who desires for you to leave restlessness and 0:45:23.739 --> 0:45:27.180 move towards being deeply satisfied in him. 0:45:28.100 --> 0:45:32.060 Yeah, the Jeremiah's passage that is so powerful there we 0:45:32.060 --> 0:45:38.460 forsake these these living waters, and then we hew out cisterns. 0:45:39.020 --> 0:45:43.820 These are these water reservoirs that can't hold water. Greg, 0:45:43.820 --> 0:45:46.300 what do you say to someone that is hewed out 0:45:46.340 --> 0:45:49.020 a cistern and they come in a lot of forms. 0:45:49.020 --> 0:45:50.980 It can be in the food that we eat, the 0:45:51.020 --> 0:45:54.540 porn we watch, the 401 K that we're carving out 0:45:54.540 --> 0:46:01.140 for ourselves. And the amazing thing is whether it's emotional, financial, 0:46:01.580 --> 0:46:07.540 relational cisterns that were digging out their leaky and and 0:46:07.540 --> 0:46:10.460 God says, I want to give you a drink, and 0:46:10.460 --> 0:46:13.420 I want to build your reservoir so that when times 0:46:13.420 --> 0:46:16.620 are lean, you got something to dip into. What's on 0:46:16.620 --> 0:46:18.060 your heart with that? Greg. 0:46:18.660 --> 0:46:21.020 Wherever you are right now, if you've got a Bible 0:46:21.020 --> 0:46:24.500 on your phone, just open it up to Jeremiah 213. 0:46:24.900 --> 0:46:28.180 If you look at the end result of that small 0:46:28.180 --> 0:46:32.100 portion of scripture, you see that you've only got two options. 0:46:32.540 --> 0:46:36.380 You've got the fountain of living water who will supply everything, 0:46:36.380 --> 0:46:41.140 everything that you need. The other option is intense labor 0:46:41.380 --> 0:46:44.900 and total failure. That's where it goes, either the fountain 0:46:44.940 --> 0:46:48.299 of living water or intense labor. Total failure. Last time 0:46:48.300 --> 0:46:52.980 I checked, the ancient world didn't dig cisterns out of dirt. 0:46:52.980 --> 0:46:56.620 They dug them out of solid stone. And that's the 0:46:56.620 --> 0:47:01.299 metaphor that the prophet Jeremiah is giving to us. Either 0:47:01.340 --> 0:47:07.259 backbreaking labor and in the end, failure, or the fountain 0:47:07.300 --> 0:47:10.980 of living water. When failure, intense labor, and total failure 0:47:11.020 --> 0:47:14.500 is in front of me. And I know that investing 0:47:14.500 --> 0:47:17.580 in the independent life going my own way is going 0:47:17.620 --> 0:47:20.020 to lead to that end. It causes us to take 0:47:20.020 --> 0:47:23.100 a step back. Yeah, it's like that three second pause 0:47:23.100 --> 0:47:26.500 on radio, right? It gives us that three second pause 0:47:26.540 --> 0:47:29.939 to say, no way, I've tried this road. It's a 0:47:29.940 --> 0:47:32.180 rip off. I'm going to move towards the fountain of 0:47:32.180 --> 0:47:32.900 living Water. 0:47:33.340 --> 0:47:35.859 Greg Dempster, my guest right now, he's the founder and 0:47:35.860 --> 0:47:39.580 director of Christ's Life Ministries. He's been a dear friend 0:47:39.580 --> 0:47:43.030 for a lot of years. We've been in ministry together 0:47:43.030 --> 0:47:47.109 in the past, running shoulder to shoulder, watching God do 0:47:47.150 --> 0:47:50.669 amazing things. What he's talking about is real. And you 0:47:50.670 --> 0:47:53.029 want that today. Greg, I'm going to ask you to 0:47:53.070 --> 0:47:55.190 pray right now. We got a lot of people right 0:47:55.190 --> 0:47:58.910 now that have forsaken living water. They've stepped away from 0:47:58.910 --> 0:48:04.390 the rock, our fortress, our our mighty protector, and they 0:48:04.469 --> 0:48:08.110 have opted for digging out cisterns that can't hold water. 0:48:08.110 --> 0:48:12.390 You're right. They've they've opted to try to carve out 0:48:12.390 --> 0:48:16.149 a life for themselves in the dirt. And it's leaky. 0:48:16.190 --> 0:48:18.430 I want you to pray right now that God would 0:48:18.469 --> 0:48:20.830 bring us home back to that rock. Would you do 0:48:20.830 --> 0:48:21.670 that right now? 0:48:21.989 --> 0:48:24.469 God, I just I'm just asking for a great grace. 0:48:24.830 --> 0:48:27.310 Your grace is you doing something for us that we 0:48:27.310 --> 0:48:30.910 can't do for ourselves? Over all the thousands and thousands 0:48:30.910 --> 0:48:34.630 of listeners right now, I'm asking for a great grace. 0:48:34.630 --> 0:48:37.190 Would you. Would you just lift them up? Would you? 0:48:37.230 --> 0:48:39.550 Would you give them a hand up? Lord? Would you 0:48:39.750 --> 0:48:42.750 lift them out of all of their self-effort and their 0:48:42.750 --> 0:48:46.670 inability and all their brokenness and all this just slamming 0:48:46.670 --> 0:48:49.310 into the wall over and over and over again. And 0:48:49.310 --> 0:48:51.830 would you give them a great hope? Would you allow 0:48:51.830 --> 0:48:54.750 your hope and your deliverance to rise like, like the 0:48:54.750 --> 0:48:58.630 sun rising over the mountain and just asking for your 0:48:58.630 --> 0:49:03.470 freedom for these people that that you would allow great wisdom, 0:49:03.670 --> 0:49:07.910 a great sense of your presence to to fill their lives, 0:49:07.950 --> 0:49:13.110 and that you would break every chain to the independent life. 0:49:13.150 --> 0:49:16.190 And I thank you in Jesus name. Amen. 0:49:16.550 --> 0:49:19.390 And let it be. You know, Greg has got a 0:49:19.390 --> 0:49:22.870 very unique ministry right now ministering to a lot of 0:49:22.910 --> 0:49:27.710 spiritual leaders. A lot of spiritual leaders. What's the common 0:49:27.710 --> 0:49:31.270 thread that you see that leads people to digging out 0:49:31.270 --> 0:49:35.630 their own muddy cisterns? Greg. What? What is that? What? 0:49:35.670 --> 0:49:38.790 Because if we can identify that, we can. We can 0:49:38.790 --> 0:49:40.799 unwind that thing. What is it? 0:49:42.200 --> 0:49:44.799 I think prior to Christ. All we have is the 0:49:44.800 --> 0:49:47.880 independent life, right? It's what I bring to the table. 0:49:47.880 --> 0:49:51.279 My own intellect, my own ability, my own strength. When 0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:54.560 we surrender our lives, when we transfer ownership of our 0:49:54.560 --> 0:49:57.160 lives to Christ, all of a sudden we have a 0:49:57.160 --> 0:50:00.120 new experience, and that is that we die in Christ, 0:50:00.120 --> 0:50:03.400 lives in us. And there's the sanctification process. And the 0:50:03.400 --> 0:50:08.920 process of changing is the process of me relinquishing control, 0:50:08.920 --> 0:50:12.720 allowing me becoming less and allowing Christ to become more. 0:50:13.160 --> 0:50:17.520 And in that process, a lot of these governing ideas 0:50:17.520 --> 0:50:20.200 that drive our lives rise to the surface. And a 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:22.840 lot of the leaders that I work with are driven 0:50:22.840 --> 0:50:27.800 to perform in order to be valued. They're driven by approval. 0:50:28.440 --> 0:50:33.080 They're driven by the needs that they have for for 0:50:33.080 --> 0:50:37.399 acceptance or importance. They have, as Dallas Willard would call them, 0:50:37.400 --> 0:50:41.000 these governing ideas that drive their lives, and that what's 0:50:41.040 --> 0:50:44.280 true for these pastoral leaders is also true for everyone 0:50:44.280 --> 0:50:47.520 who's listening today. The question that we've got to ask is, 0:50:47.760 --> 0:50:51.880 what really are my primary motives, what drives my life? 0:50:51.880 --> 0:50:56.960 And can I identify those and move them into the 0:50:56.960 --> 0:51:00.160 presence of the true Jesus and ask him to to 0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:04.840 make the swap? Really? God loves to take the trash 0:51:04.840 --> 0:51:08.160 of our lives and replace it with gold. That's what 0:51:08.160 --> 0:51:11.240 he does. He loves to take the broken things in 0:51:11.239 --> 0:51:14.600 us that just don't work and replace it with himself. 0:51:15.040 --> 0:51:18.080 And so for most of the pastoral leaders I'm working with, 0:51:18.120 --> 0:51:20.120 there are guys that are there. Some of them are 0:51:20.120 --> 0:51:24.320 leading churches of 20, 25,000 people. And and so getting 0:51:24.320 --> 0:51:28.600 set free from the things that empower our flesh is 0:51:28.600 --> 0:51:32.839 a key aspect of, of moving forward towards Christ. 0:51:33.640 --> 0:51:37.200 Man, I love you, Greg. This is good stuff. You 0:51:37.200 --> 0:51:39.200 might want to learn a little bit more about what 0:51:39.239 --> 0:51:43.760 Greg's up to with Christ's Life Ministries, and we're going 0:51:43.800 --> 0:51:47.719 to in the coming days, weeks and months here. We're 0:51:47.719 --> 0:51:49.640 going to bring on Greg, and we're going to walk 0:51:49.640 --> 0:51:55.439 through this journey of identifying those, what do you call 0:51:55.440 --> 0:51:58.040 those things, those thoughts of origin, what do you call it? 0:51:58.040 --> 0:51:59.320 What's that term you use? 0:51:59.840 --> 0:52:02.359 Yeah, actually the term is a Dallas Willard term as 0:52:02.360 --> 0:52:04.879 governing ideas. But the other way to talk about it 0:52:04.880 --> 0:52:09.400 is our core distortions. What are what are the distortions 0:52:09.400 --> 0:52:12.360 that drive my life. We've got to uncover those. That's 0:52:12.360 --> 0:52:16.160 part of the sanctification or the the journey towards Christ 0:52:16.200 --> 0:52:21.319 is uncovering those flawed areas of thinking and inviting God 0:52:21.320 --> 0:52:22.800 to change our perspective. 0:52:23.239 --> 0:52:25.120 Yeah, it's so true. One of the things I love 0:52:25.120 --> 0:52:28.120 to say here that is just a it's almost a 0:52:28.120 --> 0:52:33.000 scary reality, but what we're thinking about today will be 0:52:33.000 --> 0:52:35.890 lived out in our life by high noon. Here, Greg. 0:52:35.930 --> 0:52:38.330 It's where we fix our gaze, man. Where our gaze 0:52:38.370 --> 0:52:41.690 is fixed, our lives are going to follow. And Jesus 0:52:41.730 --> 0:52:44.290 is inviting us to lift our gaze unto him. 0:52:44.850 --> 0:52:47.969 It's great stuff. Greg Dempster everybody, if you want to 0:52:47.969 --> 0:52:50.410 learn more about what Greg's up to, just take a peek. 0:52:50.450 --> 0:52:52.009 You're going to be blown away. And we're going to 0:52:52.010 --> 0:52:54.969 bring him on. He's he is he is taking what 0:52:54.969 --> 0:52:59.650 he's been mentoring now for many years. These spiritual leaders 0:53:00.170 --> 0:53:03.050 at a very high level, leaders that have just gotten 0:53:03.090 --> 0:53:06.089 off the path. And we're going to be walking through 0:53:06.090 --> 0:53:07.810 some of that content here. It's going to be a 0:53:07.850 --> 0:53:09.210 lot of fun. You're going to want to keep it 0:53:09.210 --> 0:53:12.210 pinned here with Carl and crew. And Greg can be 0:53:12.210 --> 0:53:15.529 found by texting the word life. Just the word life 0:53:15.530 --> 0:53:19.290 to 800, 555, 78, 98. You might want to take 0:53:19.290 --> 0:53:21.609 a look at that link and go look at some 0:53:21.610 --> 0:53:26.330 of those resources at Christlife Usa.org. Just text the word life. 0:53:26.330 --> 0:53:32.770 We'll get you a link. Life to 800 555 7898 Eight. 0:53:33.730 --> 0:53:37.450 Your spiritual pit stop to keep you going in the race. 0:53:37.650 --> 0:53:39.650 You're listening to Carl and crew. 0:53:39.690 --> 0:53:42.290 Just had Greg Dempster with us here and this just 0:53:42.290 --> 0:53:47.569 got my fires cooking here. Uh, I'm going to ask 0:53:47.570 --> 0:53:49.450 you a crazy question here in just a moment, but 0:53:49.450 --> 0:53:51.129 let me set it up. I'm going to linger here 0:53:51.130 --> 0:53:54.730 in Jeremiah two for a moment. When God's people went 0:53:54.730 --> 0:53:57.650 away from him, they tried to carve out a life 0:53:57.650 --> 0:54:00.690 for themselves. This is what we do. You can be 0:54:00.690 --> 0:54:04.370 radically altered by Jesus Christ. And some of you might say, 0:54:04.370 --> 0:54:06.690 I don't know if I've been radically altered. If you 0:54:06.690 --> 0:54:10.450 have been saved by God, you've been radically altered. You're 0:54:10.450 --> 0:54:13.690 born with your backs to God. We are born as 0:54:13.690 --> 0:54:16.130 enemies of the cross. I know that's hard to get 0:54:16.130 --> 0:54:17.810 your head around, but it's true. Let me give you 0:54:17.810 --> 0:54:20.650 another truth that we often don't embrace. We are not 0:54:20.650 --> 0:54:23.609 born children of God. We are born again to be 0:54:23.610 --> 0:54:26.930 children of God. Got to get our theology straight. This 0:54:26.930 --> 0:54:28.330 is really matters. 0:54:28.370 --> 0:54:28.850 It does. 0:54:29.290 --> 0:54:33.089 And in Ephesians one, we're were sealed in the Holy Spirit. 0:54:34.050 --> 0:54:38.170 God's gifts and callings are irrevocable. No one can snatch 0:54:38.170 --> 0:54:43.569 you from the hand of God. You cannot lose genuine salvation. 0:54:43.570 --> 0:54:48.450 No way, no how. How is that true? Because we 0:54:48.450 --> 0:54:52.330 did not earn it. Therefore we cannot lose it. If 0:54:52.330 --> 0:54:56.330 you have an idea that you've somehow earned God's favor, well, 0:54:56.330 --> 0:55:01.650 that's not salvation. That's a works based, salvific approach that 0:55:01.690 --> 0:55:05.730 ends in heartache. But when we're born again by God, 0:55:06.010 --> 0:55:11.210 he has brought us into this new life. Now, Jeremiah 0:55:11.210 --> 0:55:14.009 two is very relevant for the Christian life, even though 0:55:14.010 --> 0:55:19.129 it's an Old Testament passage, because, hey, even Abraham was 0:55:19.130 --> 0:55:24.250 justified by faith. He believed God and it was credited 0:55:24.250 --> 0:55:29.009 to him as righteousness. So these Old Testament saints put 0:55:29.010 --> 0:55:33.460 their full faith and trust in God. Now this is amazing. 0:55:35.140 --> 0:55:38.140 The people of Israel tried to carve out a life 0:55:38.140 --> 0:55:41.020 for themselves, these empty cisterns. I'm going to read that 0:55:41.020 --> 0:55:44.300 in just a moment. So God sent a prophet, Jeremiah, 0:55:44.860 --> 0:55:48.219 and he didn't hold back. He told people what he 0:55:48.219 --> 0:55:53.540 heard from God. And we love to quote Jesus, the 0:55:53.540 --> 0:55:55.540 truth will set you free. But I got some news 0:55:55.540 --> 0:55:58.340 for you. Tradition holds that the truth got the prophet 0:55:58.340 --> 0:56:03.100 Jeremiah stoned to death. Guys. It seemed any time that 0:56:03.100 --> 0:56:08.660 Jeremiah dared to speak truthfully, he was falsely accused, beaten, imprisoned, 0:56:08.660 --> 0:56:13.939 or thrown into a cistern himself and left for dead. Now, 0:56:13.940 --> 0:56:18.020 Jeremiah's words might not have gotten him killed today, but 0:56:18.020 --> 0:56:20.940 for sure he'd have been silenced. Listen to what he says. 0:56:20.980 --> 0:56:24.700 Be appalled, O heavens, at this. Be shocked. Be utterly desolate, 0:56:24.700 --> 0:56:28.860 declares the Lord. For my people have committed two evils. 0:56:28.860 --> 0:56:32.860 My people. They are his people and they've committed two evils. 0:56:33.060 --> 0:56:37.660 They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and 0:56:37.660 --> 0:56:43.580 hewed out or carved out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns 0:56:43.580 --> 0:56:46.180 that can hold no water. The metaphor is super clear 0:56:46.180 --> 0:56:48.899 here for those people, then, and it is for us today. 0:56:48.900 --> 0:56:52.140 You can go anytime. If you go to Israel, you'll 0:56:52.140 --> 0:56:57.100 find cisterns, ancient cisterns. They're cut out of bedrock. They 0:56:57.100 --> 0:57:03.419 don't leak because they're in the right material. But they 0:57:03.460 --> 0:57:07.380 had dug out cisterns out of clay, out of soil. 0:57:07.380 --> 0:57:10.620 And the metaphor is that they've done their own digging, 0:57:10.620 --> 0:57:13.500 not where God wanted them to build their life, but 0:57:13.500 --> 0:57:16.660 they tried to carve out a life for themselves, their 0:57:16.660 --> 0:57:23.020 own way. Jeremiah nailed it, and his words ring true today. 0:57:24.620 --> 0:57:26.710 It is true that we can abandon the Abandoned the 0:57:26.710 --> 0:57:31.510 guide who wants to fill our lives and dismantle our 0:57:31.510 --> 0:57:42.870 self constructed cisterns that can hold water. We build systems 0:57:43.230 --> 0:57:47.070 for ourselves that can't deliver what we'd hope for or 0:57:47.070 --> 0:57:52.350 what we need. They leak. They come up empty. And 0:57:52.350 --> 0:57:56.669 I've got a simple question for you today. Where have 0:57:56.670 --> 0:57:58.990 you been? Carving out a life for yourself that the 0:57:58.990 --> 0:58:04.390 Holy Spirit is saying no more? Where have you been 0:58:04.390 --> 0:58:10.150 digging to get yourself validated, to find security. But it's 0:58:10.150 --> 0:58:16.470 not in God. As I say those words, a lot 0:58:16.510 --> 0:58:21.230 of different things come to your mind. And I'm not 0:58:21.230 --> 0:58:22.790 even going to fill in the blank. I'm going to 0:58:22.790 --> 0:58:25.750 let you do that for me. You can call in anonymously. 0:58:25.750 --> 0:58:27.950 You can call in with your real name. You can 0:58:27.950 --> 0:58:31.220 call in. But I'm wondering, do we have 1 or 0:58:31.220 --> 0:58:33.630 2 of you this morning that are willing to say, Carl, 0:58:33.630 --> 0:58:38.350 I've been carving out a life for myself that's not 0:58:38.350 --> 0:58:42.270 grounded in God. It's not in the bedrock of my identity, 0:58:42.270 --> 0:58:47.030 of who I am in Christ Jesus. I'm trying to 0:58:47.030 --> 0:58:53.510 get my validation, my security, my elevation from something or 0:58:53.510 --> 0:58:57.950 someone else. Where have you been digging that God is 0:58:57.950 --> 0:59:03.350 saying no more today? Where is that? Who's got the 0:59:03.350 --> 0:59:07.430 courage to call? Get up on a soapbox and say, 0:59:07.430 --> 0:59:10.189 this is what God is revealing to me in my 0:59:10.190 --> 0:59:18.669 life right now. 855 five 7898. The real test for 0:59:18.670 --> 0:59:20.910 a cistern that we dig out in our lives is 0:59:20.910 --> 0:59:26.870 the dry season. There's no more the runoff water. It's done. 0:59:26.870 --> 0:59:29.030 And we look down and we go, man, this thing 0:59:29.030 --> 0:59:33.070 is dry hole. There's nothing here. There's no reservoir to 0:59:33.110 --> 0:59:38.110 pull out of. What have you been digging in? Trying 0:59:38.110 --> 0:59:42.150 to carve out a life for yourself. And it's coming 0:59:42.150 --> 0:59:47.230 up empty. And God's telling you it's time to build 0:59:47.230 --> 0:59:51.110 your life on Christ again. Moses in Florida. What do 0:59:51.110 --> 0:59:51.950 you say, Moses? 0:59:52.350 --> 0:59:55.470 God bless you. Thank you for your message. I just 0:59:55.510 --> 0:59:58.710 realized that within that message, it's been 40 years with 0:59:58.710 --> 1:00:01.870 my ministry. I've been pastoring and I have an outreach 1:00:01.910 --> 1:00:05.550 ministry called Feed Our Children. We've been giving food for 1:00:05.790 --> 1:00:08.630 hundreds and hundreds and giving water. But I realized I 1:00:08.630 --> 1:00:11.790 haven't given the bread of life, haven't given them the 1:00:11.990 --> 1:00:15.150 water that lasts forever. They keep coming back for food 1:00:15.190 --> 1:00:17.830 and food. And we've been serving and serving and serving. 1:00:18.150 --> 1:00:20.310 And I said, Lord, how many have I given back 1:00:20.310 --> 1:00:24.320 to you? And I said, you know that's what you say. 1:00:24.360 --> 1:00:27.720 Let your good be evil spoken of. It's been good, 1:00:28.080 --> 1:00:32.440 but it hasn't been good enough because the bread of 1:00:32.440 --> 1:00:33.960 life has not been given. 1:00:34.440 --> 1:00:37.360 Moses, what? What a humble pastor you are. And that 1:00:37.360 --> 1:00:42.000 is so good. It is so easy to do good things, 1:00:42.360 --> 1:00:44.480 but it's a great thing. It moves from good to 1:00:44.520 --> 1:00:47.000 great when you attach that to the gospel. And I 1:00:47.000 --> 1:00:48.960 don't know how God's going to give you wisdom to 1:00:49.000 --> 1:00:51.680 do that. But Moses, I want to confess something with you. 1:00:52.480 --> 1:00:56.200 A number of years ago, we were giving out backpacks 1:00:56.240 --> 1:01:00.320 loaded with winter gear for homeless people in Alaska, and 1:01:00.320 --> 1:01:02.080 one of our elders came to us at a meeting 1:01:02.080 --> 1:01:04.520 that we had before we launched these things. And he said, 1:01:04.520 --> 1:01:08.640 what are we doing? Not to not to make it 1:01:08.640 --> 1:01:12.160 something difficult for people, but to make sure that they 1:01:12.160 --> 1:01:15.280 receive this backpack in the name of Jesus so that 1:01:15.320 --> 1:01:19.120 we they know what motivates us and where life is 1:01:19.120 --> 1:01:21.920 really found. And we went to work on that stuff. 1:01:21.920 --> 1:01:24.720 Moses and I got to tell you, man. God gave 1:01:24.720 --> 1:01:26.880 us a vision for what to do. And Moses is 1:01:26.880 --> 1:01:29.479 what I'm believing. As you bow your head in prayer 1:01:29.480 --> 1:01:32.520 with your leadership, God's going to make this food ministry 1:01:32.520 --> 1:01:34.920 into a gospel ministry as well. Are you with me, 1:01:34.920 --> 1:01:35.560 my man? 1:01:37.640 --> 1:01:39.480 Oh, yes. Yes, yes. 1:01:39.760 --> 1:01:42.000 He's going to do it. Moses. And I love you, man. 1:01:42.000 --> 1:01:44.439 Thank you for calling in. You're a good pastor. That 1:01:44.440 --> 1:01:48.560 takes humility to admit that that's powerful. What about you? 1:01:48.600 --> 1:01:51.120 What's this life you've been carving out for yourself? But 1:01:51.120 --> 1:01:56.200 it doesn't hold water. And you get it. Joshua, first 1:01:56.200 --> 1:01:58.440 time caller in Ohio. What do you say, Josh? 1:02:00.640 --> 1:02:05.120 It's just the lifestyle of drugs and, um, women and 1:02:05.120 --> 1:02:09.560 stuff like that. That's my past that's haunting me. And, um, 1:02:10.560 --> 1:02:14.400 I'm ready to. I'm going back. I'm going to sober living. Um, 1:02:14.640 --> 1:02:20.650 I've been going through a rough patch. And, um, I'm 1:02:20.690 --> 1:02:23.770 grateful my grandma has cancer and stuff, and I've been 1:02:23.770 --> 1:02:27.170 out on bond, and, um, God told me to, uh, 1:02:28.010 --> 1:02:29.610 everything in my heart told me to go to sober 1:02:29.610 --> 1:02:33.290 living before her, and I just started working. Well, um, 1:02:33.490 --> 1:02:36.010 I have some stuff going on, and I'm going to 1:02:36.010 --> 1:02:40.010 Sober living next week, so hopefully everything works out with that. 1:02:40.010 --> 1:02:41.850 But just the. 1:02:41.850 --> 1:02:42.050 Life. 1:02:42.370 --> 1:02:44.050 I live, it's following me. 1:02:44.530 --> 1:02:46.810 Yeah. Joshua, I need you to hear my heart here 1:02:46.810 --> 1:02:48.330 for a second, bro. And I want you to listen 1:02:48.330 --> 1:02:52.170 really closely to me. When you get out of prison 1:02:52.170 --> 1:02:54.770 and you're out on bond right now, we've got an 1:02:54.770 --> 1:02:57.410 amazing opportunity. God's put a Y on the road for 1:02:57.410 --> 1:03:01.610 you and Joshua, I know you, I don't know you, 1:03:01.610 --> 1:03:05.850 but I, I know you. I've been there. I'm an 1:03:05.850 --> 1:03:10.010 old cocaine addict from the early 20s of my life. 1:03:11.330 --> 1:03:14.250 I gladly say that because I know the God who 1:03:14.250 --> 1:03:17.930 delivered me. And I want you to hear me, Joshua. 1:03:17.930 --> 1:03:21.610 Right now. Listen closely to me. I want you to 1:03:21.650 --> 1:03:25.410 find a man somewhere at a church or this ministry 1:03:25.410 --> 1:03:28.250 that you're going to. Whatever. And I want you to 1:03:28.250 --> 1:03:30.570 tell him what you just told me. That things have 1:03:30.570 --> 1:03:34.410 to change. And I want you to fully surrender all 1:03:34.410 --> 1:03:37.610 that you are to Jesus. What's amazing is you've been 1:03:37.610 --> 1:03:40.729 kicked hard. You've had to pay a price for some 1:03:40.730 --> 1:03:45.370 foolish stuff. But all that can be turned away from 1:03:45.370 --> 1:03:48.770 as you repent and give your life totally and completely 1:03:48.770 --> 1:03:53.090 over to Jesus, begin to reorient the friends around you. 1:03:53.330 --> 1:03:58.850 Begin to reprioritize what matters, and believe that God can 1:03:58.850 --> 1:04:02.810 break the addictions of your past. Joshua, do you hear 1:04:02.850 --> 1:04:04.250 me speaking to you right now? 1:04:05.530 --> 1:04:09.169 Yes, yes I do. I've done that. That's what I've 1:04:09.170 --> 1:04:11.890 been going through, actually, for the past two years. I've 1:04:11.890 --> 1:04:15.450 done that and I've been doing great. It's just this 1:04:15.570 --> 1:04:17.730 little hiccup in the road right now. That. 1:04:18.250 --> 1:04:19.050 That's awesome. 1:04:20.170 --> 1:04:21.370 I have to deal with, you know. 1:04:21.730 --> 1:04:24.170 Yeah. And you know, the little hiccup. I want you 1:04:24.170 --> 1:04:25.730 to take that to the Lord. I don't know what 1:04:25.730 --> 1:04:27.530 that hiccup is, but I want you to take that 1:04:27.530 --> 1:04:30.450 to the Lord as well. Satan's trying to derail you again. 1:04:30.650 --> 1:04:35.850 Don't let him do it. Joshua. First time caller in Ohio. Man, 1:04:36.650 --> 1:04:38.850 it's easy to carve out a life for yourself that 1:04:38.850 --> 1:04:43.730 doesn't hold water. It's easy, but God's got more. So 1:04:43.730 --> 1:04:47.370 much more. Dana, first time caller in Florida. What do 1:04:47.370 --> 1:04:48.090 you say, Dana? 1:04:49.490 --> 1:04:52.970 I, um, have been blessed to be raised by a 1:04:52.970 --> 1:04:56.850 pastor and have been a Christian from a very young age. Um, 1:04:57.250 --> 1:05:00.610 but we did not have very much growing up. And 1:05:00.650 --> 1:05:05.330 I have been holding on to my finances, even tithing 1:05:05.330 --> 1:05:08.770 and giving. Um, I've been blessed in the stage of life, 1:05:08.770 --> 1:05:11.050 and God got me through nursing school, which was the 1:05:11.050 --> 1:05:15.340 hardest thing I've ever done. I just feel that he's 1:05:15.660 --> 1:05:20.740 possibly calling me to something else. I don't know what 1:05:20.740 --> 1:05:24.260 it is. Yeah, my heart's broken for my children and 1:05:24.260 --> 1:05:28.020 my grandchildren and ministering to them. And I feel like 1:05:28.020 --> 1:05:31.700 all I'm doing is working and making money. Um, I 1:05:31.700 --> 1:05:34.220 feel like I need to give that portion over to him. 1:05:34.900 --> 1:05:37.420 And I know that we are created in his image. 1:05:37.420 --> 1:05:39.660 I know that he is sovereign over my life. I 1:05:39.660 --> 1:05:42.540 trust him, I bring him glory and honor in everything 1:05:42.940 --> 1:05:46.420 from being able to pass school. But I'm finding my 1:05:46.420 --> 1:05:53.220 security and satisfaction and performance in that area. And I 1:05:53.260 --> 1:05:55.580 have not given that over to him. 1:05:56.340 --> 1:05:59.420 Yeah, Dana, you're a precious. It's a real. 1:05:59.460 --> 1:06:00.100 Struggle. 1:06:00.820 --> 1:06:02.459 Here's what I want you to do, Dana. I want 1:06:02.460 --> 1:06:04.140 you to listen to me. I want you to go 1:06:04.180 --> 1:06:07.540 tell one person who is rich in faith today. This 1:06:07.820 --> 1:06:10.420 other than me. Okay? I want you to go find 1:06:10.460 --> 1:06:13.900 a sister who is rich in faith. And I want 1:06:13.900 --> 1:06:18.620 you to make that break today because finances is great 1:06:18.620 --> 1:06:20.780 until it becomes a god, right? 1:06:22.540 --> 1:06:23.100 Yes. 1:06:23.780 --> 1:06:24.780 That's the problem. 1:06:24.780 --> 1:06:25.100 Yes. 1:06:26.380 --> 1:06:27.380 Yeah. Dana. 1:06:28.180 --> 1:06:28.660 Yeah. 1:06:29.940 --> 1:06:32.220 Dana, it's a new day to day. Go find a sister. 1:06:32.260 --> 1:06:35.180 Get on your knees, physically. Get on your knees. Let's 1:06:35.180 --> 1:06:38.460 break ties with this thing that's been binding you up, 1:06:38.460 --> 1:06:41.020 and you're going to walk in freedom, sister. Thank you. 1:06:41.060 --> 1:06:43.780 Dana from Florida. First time caller. Way to go. 1:06:44.860 --> 1:06:48.940 Romans eight brought her to Jesus while broadcasting traffic overnight. 1:06:49.260 --> 1:06:52.980 Super die is in the crew. It's curl and crew 1:06:52.980 --> 1:06:54.220 on Moody Radio. 1:06:54.980 --> 1:06:56.660 Well, I guess first you got to answer. Where in 1:06:56.660 --> 1:06:58.940 the world are we aiming our kids? We want to 1:06:58.980 --> 1:07:03.340 aim them for success. Where are we aiming them, Arlene? 1:07:03.500 --> 1:07:06.660 Where are we aiming? Kids? What is the goal for success? 1:07:06.660 --> 1:07:07.460 For kids? 1:07:08.340 --> 1:07:11.020 Well, that's a good question, right? And it's something that 1:07:11.020 --> 1:07:13.020 we can be like, where are we? Are we going 1:07:13.060 --> 1:07:16.740 like academic success, sports success, you know, kind of merit. 1:07:17.420 --> 1:07:21.700 We are aiming for kids who love God, who have character, 1:07:21.860 --> 1:07:24.660 who are going to be good people as they grow up, 1:07:24.660 --> 1:07:27.419 who will be adults, who can be independent of us, 1:07:27.420 --> 1:07:29.820 who will actually know what to do when they become adults. 1:07:29.820 --> 1:07:32.060 I think that is really what we are aiming for. 1:07:32.260 --> 1:07:36.100 That's a that's an awesome thing. Arlene Pelikan, speaker, author, 1:07:36.100 --> 1:07:40.540 host of Happy Home Podcast. She is truly a marriage 1:07:40.540 --> 1:07:44.340 and parenting expert and she's written some amazing books Growing 1:07:44.340 --> 1:07:48.180 up social, calm, cool, and connected. That's a cool title. 1:07:48.580 --> 1:07:53.419 Parents rising screen kids Grandparenting Screen Kids. So really, what 1:07:53.420 --> 1:07:55.700 we want to talk about here today is relevant not 1:07:55.700 --> 1:08:00.020 just for parents, but for grandparents. But getting those kids 1:08:00.020 --> 1:08:03.580 aimed at something rock solid is real. But what I 1:08:03.580 --> 1:08:05.540 wanted to pitch to you today, and I'm having some 1:08:05.540 --> 1:08:09.430 fun with this. Give me three rock solid A bedrock 1:08:09.470 --> 1:08:14.310 truths that set kids up for success. What do you say? 1:08:14.710 --> 1:08:20.030 Yeah. Number one, I think fear God, not man. So, like, 1:08:20.030 --> 1:08:22.309 as you are parenting, you know, sometimes we have the 1:08:22.310 --> 1:08:24.309 fear of man. Oh my goodness, I have to put 1:08:24.310 --> 1:08:26.549 my kid in this. And everyone else is doing this. 1:08:26.550 --> 1:08:28.830 And Instagram tells me to do this. It's like, wait, no, 1:08:28.830 --> 1:08:31.070 wait a minute. The fear of the Lord is the 1:08:31.070 --> 1:08:35.590 beginning of wisdom and and respect God. Honor God. Think 1:08:35.590 --> 1:08:38.349 of like what you know. Make that the the center 1:08:38.350 --> 1:08:41.790 so God not Google. You know, we've talked about this before. Yes, 1:08:41.790 --> 1:08:44.630 you may use Google. Yes, I guess you may use AI, 1:08:44.670 --> 1:08:47.870 but those are not really your parenting tools. Your biggest 1:08:47.910 --> 1:08:51.830 parenting tools are God, I'm going to fear you. God, 1:08:51.830 --> 1:08:53.790 I'm going to seek you. I'm going to pray. I'm 1:08:53.830 --> 1:08:56.510 not going to think of the fear of man. And really, 1:08:56.510 --> 1:08:58.830 a lot of that has to do with with our kids. 1:08:59.189 --> 1:09:02.870 Are they more connected to you, to God, or are 1:09:02.870 --> 1:09:06.550 they more connected to their iPad, to their video game? 1:09:06.590 --> 1:09:08.670 You know, if do they cry more when they say 1:09:08.670 --> 1:09:11.229 goodbye to you? Or do they cry more when it's 1:09:11.229 --> 1:09:13.990 like you take away their tablet? Okay, so we just 1:09:14.030 --> 1:09:17.150 have to connect to God and not to devices and 1:09:17.590 --> 1:09:19.470 what our devices are going to teach you. The fear 1:09:19.470 --> 1:09:22.429 of man. Like, okay, what do people say about me? 1:09:22.910 --> 1:09:25.030 Let me let me ask you something here. Something just 1:09:25.030 --> 1:09:30.470 dawned on me. It seems that a really healthy parenting 1:09:30.510 --> 1:09:35.950 tactic is that when the fear of people disappoints, they 1:09:35.950 --> 1:09:38.630 get betrayed by a friend. They get let down by this. 1:09:38.670 --> 1:09:43.070 It comes up empty. Aren't those great teaching moments right 1:09:43.070 --> 1:09:45.590 there to go right here? Not to rub it in 1:09:45.630 --> 1:09:48.750 their face, but isn't that a golden opportunity to say, 1:09:48.870 --> 1:09:51.670 look at this. This is what I told you. Now 1:09:51.670 --> 1:09:54.469 you're getting burned by it. Let me cry with you here. 1:09:54.470 --> 1:09:57.389 But isn't that. Aren't those the moments that God gives us? 1:09:57.430 --> 1:10:00.750 Arlene, there's a friend that sticks closer to you than 1:10:00.790 --> 1:10:03.509 a brother, right? So that when you have a team 1:10:03.510 --> 1:10:05.389 that was like, oh my goodness, I thought these were 1:10:05.390 --> 1:10:07.479 my friends and this is what they're saying about me 1:10:07.479 --> 1:10:11.360 or whatever it is that just like you're saying, you're commiserating, 1:10:11.360 --> 1:10:13.920 you have empathy, but you're like, you know what? In 1:10:13.920 --> 1:10:16.920 your mind, instead of rushing to fix it, to, like, 1:10:16.960 --> 1:10:20.759 erase it to, you know, whatever snow plow it. Let 1:10:20.760 --> 1:10:24.160 them feel those things and let them experience the comfort 1:10:24.160 --> 1:10:26.680 of the Holy Spirit so that they are building that 1:10:26.680 --> 1:10:29.920 relationship with God. Yeah, that's so good. Yeah, I love that, 1:10:29.920 --> 1:10:32.879 I love that, that's good. Okay, so fear God, not man. 1:10:33.000 --> 1:10:36.280 Yeah. And and by the way, and here's the beauty. 1:10:36.280 --> 1:10:38.559 And I just want to spike this. We're we're all 1:10:38.800 --> 1:10:42.880 big kids now. Sometimes that's God's dinner bell for us 1:10:42.880 --> 1:10:45.240 when the world disappoints. And he's saying, come back here. 1:10:45.280 --> 1:10:49.760 Come on, let's fear me. It's it's beautiful. Okay. Second, 1:10:49.760 --> 1:10:53.800 rock solid truth that set kids up for success. What 1:10:53.800 --> 1:10:54.360 do you say? 1:10:54.880 --> 1:10:58.840 Build a home of joy so that your house has 1:10:58.840 --> 1:11:02.839 smiles and laughter and fun. And when your kids think 1:11:02.840 --> 1:11:06.280 of God, they smile. they say like, wow. That's because 1:11:06.320 --> 1:11:08.040 look at our look at Jesus. He is a God 1:11:08.040 --> 1:11:11.240 of joy. Children come to him at the right hand 1:11:11.240 --> 1:11:16.200 there is fullness of not like rules or meanness or, 1:11:16.400 --> 1:11:20.320 you know, passivity or whatever. It's joy. There's fullness of joy, 1:11:20.360 --> 1:11:24.960 pleasures forevermore. So I think as you are parenting your kids, 1:11:25.560 --> 1:11:29.200 be in that position, right? That you're that you're experiencing 1:11:29.200 --> 1:11:32.559 the joy of God that's overflowing out of your life 1:11:32.560 --> 1:11:34.880 to your kids. And when you go to church, it's 1:11:34.880 --> 1:11:37.879 not like a death sentence. It's like, okay, guys, it's Sunday. 1:11:37.880 --> 1:11:41.120 Get in the car. Let's go. Let's open up the Bible. 1:11:41.160 --> 1:11:43.040 You know, we gotta do this, you know? Oh, you're 1:11:43.040 --> 1:11:45.000 not allowed to do that because God doesn't like that. 1:11:45.040 --> 1:11:48.639 You know that we are parenting from this place of like, no, 1:11:48.680 --> 1:11:51.240 we know this is where the joy is. And that 1:11:51.240 --> 1:11:53.720 when other families look at your family, they would say, wow, 1:11:53.760 --> 1:11:58.600 they have fun together. They laugh together, they do things together. 1:11:58.600 --> 1:12:01.200 So really like, like work on that. Jesus. When he's 1:12:01.200 --> 1:12:04.080 talking to his disciples, he's about to face the cross 1:12:04.080 --> 1:12:07.120 and he's telling him, you have sorrow now, but soon 1:12:07.120 --> 1:12:09.880 your heart will rejoice and no one's going to take 1:12:09.880 --> 1:12:12.559 away your joy. So joy is so crucial to the 1:12:12.560 --> 1:12:15.559 faith and make your house a house of fun so 1:12:15.560 --> 1:12:19.240 that you're really laughing together. You're not just sitting in 1:12:19.240 --> 1:12:23.160 a room together, you know, just coexisting. You are having fun. 1:12:23.760 --> 1:12:27.920 A quick note on that joy is a fruit of 1:12:27.920 --> 1:12:31.800 the spirit, and one of the things that I have 1:12:33.120 --> 1:12:39.920 told and challenged people from John 15 is Jesus's great metaphor. 1:12:39.960 --> 1:12:42.439 I am the vine. You're the branch. You abide in me. 1:12:42.439 --> 1:12:45.400 You'll bear much fruit. Now here's the kicker with this 1:12:46.000 --> 1:12:49.120 the fruit that's borne is fruit of the spirit. It's 1:12:49.120 --> 1:12:54.200 not our own. And joy, if it's not coming from 1:12:54.200 --> 1:12:57.800 the Lord. Some parents could do a mad scramble. And 1:12:57.800 --> 1:13:01.170 what we find ourselves doing is trying to manufacture facture 1:13:01.170 --> 1:13:04.210 something that only God can give us. And what's crazy 1:13:04.210 --> 1:13:08.210 is we put fake fruit on our life. Arlene and 1:13:08.210 --> 1:13:12.689 those closest to us, our kids and grandkids, know it 1:13:12.689 --> 1:13:15.889 for what it is. What does a parent do that 1:13:15.890 --> 1:13:20.889 feels like, um, you know what? Joy sounds great, but 1:13:20.890 --> 1:13:22.889 if I try to muster that, it's going to be 1:13:22.890 --> 1:13:26.129 fake fruit. What? What does a parent do, I guess? 1:13:26.570 --> 1:13:29.530 Bottom line, we got to get back with God here, right, sister? 1:13:29.570 --> 1:13:33.210 Yes, it's Lord. Fill me by your Holy Spirit having 1:13:33.210 --> 1:13:36.089 that faith that God, I just have this teeny tiny 1:13:36.090 --> 1:13:38.450 mustard seed of faith. And I'm giving it to you. 1:13:38.450 --> 1:13:41.689 And I'm asking you, will you bring back the joy 1:13:41.689 --> 1:13:45.210 of my salvation? Will you renew my spirit, Lord, and 1:13:45.210 --> 1:13:48.130 trust and look at those things? And then, you know, 1:13:48.170 --> 1:13:50.769 it's as simple as smiling in the morning when you 1:13:50.770 --> 1:13:52.650 don't even feel like it, and just kind of working 1:13:52.650 --> 1:13:54.689 with the Holy Spirit. That's like, okay, Lord, I need 1:13:54.689 --> 1:13:56.730 you to fill me. And then I'm going to physically 1:13:56.729 --> 1:14:01.130 try to smile and and you will start smiling. Be thankful. 1:14:01.130 --> 1:14:04.210 Look for things to to be thankful for. Cultivate that 1:14:04.210 --> 1:14:07.650 gratitude in your life as that's often very connected to joy. 1:14:07.930 --> 1:14:10.530 Yeah, we were actually talking about that in the first 1:14:10.570 --> 1:14:13.330 hour of The Power of Praise, because there's some people 1:14:13.330 --> 1:14:16.890 you don't need to manufacture joy. You can look around 1:14:16.890 --> 1:14:20.290 with a gratitude journal today and go, wow, there's some 1:14:20.290 --> 1:14:22.610 things to praise God for, and I need to look 1:14:22.610 --> 1:14:25.250 at those, not the big cumulus cloud hanging over our 1:14:25.250 --> 1:14:29.210 home today. Yeah. Good stuff. Okay. Number three third rock 1:14:29.250 --> 1:14:33.570 solid truth to set kids up for success. What say you, Arlene? 1:14:33.890 --> 1:14:36.010 This one comes out of one of the chapters of 1:14:36.010 --> 1:14:40.769 Parents Rising. And it's parents Call the shots. So, my friends, 1:14:40.770 --> 1:14:43.210 that the parent. You go be the parent. It used 1:14:43.210 --> 1:14:46.530 to be maybe a generation ago that the parent was 1:14:46.530 --> 1:14:49.050 too big and the child's real small, and the child 1:14:49.050 --> 1:14:51.969 never says anything. He's afraid to say anything, right? So 1:14:52.010 --> 1:14:55.490 big parent, very small child. Now we have the very 1:14:55.490 --> 1:14:59.820 big child and the very scared tiny parent. That's like, okay, 1:14:59.820 --> 1:15:03.139 if you want that after, you know, your fifth screaming thing, 1:15:03.140 --> 1:15:05.540 I will buy that for you. You know, we're afraid now. 1:15:05.820 --> 1:15:09.580 So it's so important for us to realize, oh, I 1:15:09.620 --> 1:15:13.099 am the adult in the room. Honor your father and 1:15:13.100 --> 1:15:15.179 mother so it will go along with you. It's not 1:15:15.220 --> 1:15:18.540 honor your children. It's honor your father and mother. Train 1:15:18.540 --> 1:15:21.300 up a child. You know Proverbs 22 six that we 1:15:21.300 --> 1:15:25.900 have that responsibility of training. So don't blame. Don't blame like, oh, 1:15:25.939 --> 1:15:29.700 it's the school system. Oh, it's the government. Oh, it's 1:15:29.700 --> 1:15:32.660 the peer pressure. Oh, it's the phone. Oh, it's the 1:15:32.660 --> 1:15:35.300 video games. Know that. We say, wait a minute, I'm 1:15:35.300 --> 1:15:37.420 the parent. Whether I have a two year old or 1:15:37.420 --> 1:15:40.540 an 18 year old that we say, wait, I still 1:15:40.540 --> 1:15:42.540 have influence. And for the 18 year old, you have 1:15:42.540 --> 1:15:44.740 a lot of influence. For the two year old that 1:15:44.740 --> 1:15:47.939 I will be the parent. I will be the leader. 1:15:47.979 --> 1:15:51.299 You know, in our neighborhood, we we had we watched 1:15:51.300 --> 1:15:54.139 all these dads and their kids would be riding around 1:15:54.140 --> 1:15:57.300 without helmets like bike helmets. And so my husband would 1:15:57.300 --> 1:15:59.620 ask the dad once, like, why doesn't your kid wear 1:15:59.620 --> 1:16:02.260 a helmet? And he's like, I just can't get him 1:16:02.260 --> 1:16:04.019 to wear the helmet. I mean, the kid's like five 1:16:04.020 --> 1:16:07.740 years old, right? And we had the experience that our 1:16:07.740 --> 1:16:11.259 kid in first grade literally got hit by a car 1:16:11.540 --> 1:16:13.900 in our neighborhood. But he was wearing a helmet. He 1:16:13.900 --> 1:16:16.780 went to the hospital. Everything. But he was fine. And 1:16:16.780 --> 1:16:19.099 so my husband, James would say, you know, our motive 1:16:19.100 --> 1:16:22.460 was was hit on this street with wearing a helmet. 1:16:22.460 --> 1:16:26.660 Really helped him. And yet no change. So for parents 1:16:26.660 --> 1:16:29.460 to realize. Wait a minute. You know, the Proverbs four 1:16:29.500 --> 1:16:33.580 tells us, my children, listen, when your father corrects. Pay 1:16:33.580 --> 1:16:38.139 attention and learn. Good judgment. So really taking that role of. 1:16:38.180 --> 1:16:40.220 Wait a minute. I'm supposed to help my child have 1:16:40.260 --> 1:16:43.940 good judgment? I am really crucial in training this child. 1:16:44.100 --> 1:16:47.460 And a big, big underlying thought here. I can feel 1:16:47.460 --> 1:16:51.540 it with thousands of parents right now. And grandparents is 1:16:52.020 --> 1:16:54.900 what if my kid doesn't like me? Arlene. 1:16:55.220 --> 1:16:57.580 I know it's like, oh, no, this is like you. 1:16:57.660 --> 1:17:00.220 Because we have to have friends that we have to 1:17:00.220 --> 1:17:03.099 have friends that do like us. So when our kid 1:17:03.100 --> 1:17:06.059 looks at us and either tells us I hate you 1:17:06.060 --> 1:17:08.460 or I don't like you, or acts in that way, 1:17:08.660 --> 1:17:11.939 that we can say, I really don't care, like I 1:17:11.939 --> 1:17:14.059 obviously I do care. I do care that I want 1:17:14.060 --> 1:17:16.700 my children to like me, but to realize that's not 1:17:16.700 --> 1:17:21.260 my role. My role is to help you, to guide you, 1:17:21.260 --> 1:17:25.019 to correct you. And nobody really likes that person that's 1:17:25.020 --> 1:17:28.380 correcting you. But you have a child who's uncorrected and 1:17:28.380 --> 1:17:30.420 you have a wild child that's not going to be 1:17:30.420 --> 1:17:32.900 very happy later when they have to have all these 1:17:32.900 --> 1:17:36.540 difficulties later in their life. So, so be okay with 1:17:36.540 --> 1:17:41.019 not being liked and realize that your child down the 1:17:41.020 --> 1:17:43.939 line will grow to like you again. So it's not 1:17:43.939 --> 1:17:46.700 a permanent thing, but just you just have to weather 1:17:46.700 --> 1:17:49.460 that moment of, okay, I'm not here to be popular. 1:17:49.780 --> 1:17:52.740 I'm not here for adoration. I'm here to actually be 1:17:52.740 --> 1:17:53.549 your parent. 1:17:53.750 --> 1:17:55.750 Yeah, we laugh about that. But there's a lot of 1:17:55.750 --> 1:17:58.790 parents that are hooked on an addiction of affirmation back 1:17:58.790 --> 1:18:00.710 from their kids. And we've got to break that tie, 1:18:00.750 --> 1:18:01.309 don't we? 1:18:01.590 --> 1:18:04.070 We do. We do. And honestly, and I'm not joking 1:18:04.070 --> 1:18:07.309 about have a friend. If you're married, your spouse like 1:18:07.350 --> 1:18:11.990 someone else, give you that stability and be okay with it. Hey, 1:18:11.990 --> 1:18:13.950 I'm not always going to say the popular thing with 1:18:13.950 --> 1:18:15.110 my kid, and that's okay. 1:18:15.710 --> 1:18:19.350 That's good. Arlene Pelikan, let me ask you a crazy 1:18:19.350 --> 1:18:23.830 one here. Kind of philosophical slash culture. Watch what's going on. 1:18:23.830 --> 1:18:27.350 What are parents up against today? That's. It. Seems like 1:18:27.350 --> 1:18:32.070 even with AI, everything is moving. It's like Satan never 1:18:32.070 --> 1:18:34.950 stops angling to get his way into our home. What's 1:18:34.950 --> 1:18:35.910 going on right now? 1:18:36.270 --> 1:18:39.030 Well, literally what you just said, I. I think that 1:18:39.030 --> 1:18:40.990 is the big thing that we are not ready for 1:18:41.030 --> 1:18:44.150 as parents. Like if we thought, wow, this whole video 1:18:44.189 --> 1:18:48.070 games and Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, you know, this kind of 1:18:48.110 --> 1:18:51.910 variety was really getting to our kids. I mean, what 1:18:51.910 --> 1:18:55.310 what's coming down the pike. So I think the connection 1:18:55.310 --> 1:19:00.110 to people and not device like understanding the difference of 1:19:00.270 --> 1:19:02.630 this is what's happening in the real world. This is 1:19:02.630 --> 1:19:05.390 the virtual world. And then the real world is better 1:19:05.390 --> 1:19:08.750 because all the persuasive design is going to get better 1:19:08.750 --> 1:19:12.630 and better and better. And that AI chatbot that your kid, 1:19:12.630 --> 1:19:15.189 if your kid's used to texting and now they've got 1:19:15.189 --> 1:19:18.110 this AI chatbot. Believe me, they're going to like that 1:19:18.110 --> 1:19:20.830 chatbot more than any other person because it's going to 1:19:20.870 --> 1:19:23.990 know them inside and out. It's going to compliment them. 1:19:23.990 --> 1:19:26.030 It's going to feed them what they like. There will 1:19:26.030 --> 1:19:29.070 be no problems with them there, you know, with real people. 1:19:29.110 --> 1:19:31.590 You know, you get conflict. You get correction. You get 1:19:31.590 --> 1:19:34.509 to say you're sorry. Like this is going to be huge. 1:19:34.510 --> 1:19:37.550 So the way that kids grow up, the way what 1:19:37.550 --> 1:19:40.870 they know and learn, and instead of learning that they say, 1:19:40.870 --> 1:19:42.750 I don't have to learn that my I will do 1:19:42.750 --> 1:19:45.270 that for me. Like that's going to be a problem. 1:19:45.470 --> 1:19:47.870 It's it already is. Yeah, it already is. 1:19:47.910 --> 1:19:49.150 It's just going to get bigger. 1:19:49.510 --> 1:19:54.750 You know. Interesting. Arlene, I think, um, it's. We live 1:19:54.750 --> 1:19:57.630 in a weird world right now, and it's. And knowledge 1:19:57.630 --> 1:20:00.470 is increasing on steroids, by the way, which is predicted 1:20:00.470 --> 1:20:03.510 to come in Matthew when the end is near. I'm 1:20:03.510 --> 1:20:06.710 not saying the end is near, but, boy, there's so 1:20:06.710 --> 1:20:11.309 much geopolitically in family, in church, in government structure around 1:20:11.310 --> 1:20:13.710 the globe, not just stateside here, we're not the focal 1:20:13.710 --> 1:20:16.469 point of end times prophecy. In fact, we're absent, which 1:20:16.470 --> 1:20:19.750 is eerie. But the interesting thing is that we find 1:20:19.750 --> 1:20:24.870 ourselves in a world today that is so inundated with 1:20:24.990 --> 1:20:29.950 fake gods. Yeah. And my question is, how do you 1:20:30.430 --> 1:20:33.950 help a kid? And if your grandparents, you're kind of 1:20:33.990 --> 1:20:39.670 co-coaching if those parents have granted you that opportunity and authority, 1:20:39.950 --> 1:20:43.389 how do you how do you coach kids without them 1:20:43.390 --> 1:20:47.830 feeling deprived? How do you help them see that? No, 1:20:47.870 --> 1:20:50.479 this phone isn't yours right now. No, you're not going 1:20:50.520 --> 1:20:52.840 to be five years old and have a smartphone or 1:20:52.840 --> 1:20:56.720 ten or whatever age, but how do you give them 1:20:56.720 --> 1:21:00.040 a bigger yes without them resenting you? Because that's a yeah, 1:21:00.320 --> 1:21:03.520 whatever it is, through the ages, that's always been the challenge. 1:21:03.560 --> 1:21:06.559 Yes. Yeah. And I think we're actually could be at 1:21:06.560 --> 1:21:10.719 an inflection point here where more parents are realizing this 1:21:10.720 --> 1:21:15.160 whole device based childhood is not good for children. And 1:21:15.479 --> 1:21:18.800 getting back to a play based childhood that that is 1:21:18.800 --> 1:21:22.080 good for children and for kids, like, think of it 1:21:22.080 --> 1:21:24.320 as a kid. If they're given the choice, like, hey, 1:21:24.320 --> 1:21:26.760 I get to run around and like be crazy and 1:21:26.760 --> 1:21:29.080 like jump off of things and like, build things. Like, 1:21:29.080 --> 1:21:31.519 I think they would like that better than I'm going 1:21:31.560 --> 1:21:33.760 to sit stock still for eight hours every day of 1:21:33.760 --> 1:21:36.120 my life and look at a screen and not move. 1:21:36.320 --> 1:21:40.240 So I think that as we embrace as parents like, 1:21:40.280 --> 1:21:42.880 oh no, we're taking this back, we're going to give 1:21:42.880 --> 1:21:47.000 our kids fun, that you won't have that, that, um, 1:21:47.240 --> 1:21:49.640 you know, I think about my own children. I have 1:21:49.640 --> 1:21:52.720 one now who is post college and working. I have 1:21:52.720 --> 1:21:54.719 a college student and I have a high school student. 1:21:54.720 --> 1:21:56.160 I know. How did this happen, Carl? 1:21:56.200 --> 1:21:56.760 How did it. 1:21:56.760 --> 1:21:58.920 Happen? You know, how did this happen? And they didn't 1:21:58.920 --> 1:22:01.960 get phones, smart phones in high school. You know, they 1:22:01.960 --> 1:22:04.479 did all the and they had a real childhood and 1:22:04.479 --> 1:22:07.559 they don't resent us. They're like, hey, this this was good. 1:22:07.560 --> 1:22:10.120 This worked out real good for us. We have skills 1:22:10.120 --> 1:22:12.760 and we have hobbies, and we play instruments and do 1:22:12.760 --> 1:22:15.559 sports and do art like they like it. So I 1:22:15.560 --> 1:22:18.280 think if you as a parent approach it not like, oh, 1:22:18.320 --> 1:22:21.559 woe is us, we're like these Luddites and we can't 1:22:21.560 --> 1:22:23.920 do anything. No, but you say, hey, we're kind of 1:22:23.920 --> 1:22:27.639 smarter than everybody else because we're actually doing things and 1:22:27.640 --> 1:22:30.559 you're healthy. You're not you're not sedentary all the time. 1:22:30.560 --> 1:22:33.759 You're doing things. And the thing is, think of all 1:22:33.760 --> 1:22:36.760 the times a kid has a device in their spare time, 1:22:36.760 --> 1:22:39.479 and they go to the device when the kid does 1:22:39.479 --> 1:22:43.920 not have a device. Guess what? They get bored. They create, 1:22:44.120 --> 1:22:46.930 they talk to God. They learn how to be more patient. 1:22:46.970 --> 1:22:49.370 They learn how to wait for things, and it's way, 1:22:49.410 --> 1:22:50.210 way better for them. 1:22:50.250 --> 1:22:52.290 That's so much better. It's not even close. It's not 1:22:52.290 --> 1:22:54.929 even close. It's not even. It's not even a close call. 1:22:55.330 --> 1:22:58.769 You know, if I couldn't have built stuff, broken stuff, 1:22:58.770 --> 1:23:02.049 and fallen out of trees when I was a kid, I. 1:23:03.010 --> 1:23:05.809 It wouldn't have been a great childhood. And I, and 1:23:05.810 --> 1:23:09.490 I thank God that I was raised in the woods 1:23:09.490 --> 1:23:13.130 and that we built stuff and created. And I want 1:23:13.130 --> 1:23:16.410 that for your kids and grandkids, guys. And Arlene's got 1:23:16.410 --> 1:23:21.650 some great truths. You just the podcast amazing but tons of. 1:23:21.689 --> 1:23:24.690 And you you were my guest on the happy podcast 1:23:24.729 --> 1:23:27.170 and when I yes when I have to wake up 1:23:27.170 --> 1:23:29.210 early because I'm in California to be on this show, 1:23:29.250 --> 1:23:31.570 my daughter Lucy, who edits the podcast, is like, oh, 1:23:31.970 --> 1:23:35.530 Mister Carl, killing sin. Like, of course you have to 1:23:35.530 --> 1:23:38.370 do that with Mister Carl. He's the best. Like he's. 1:23:38.410 --> 1:23:41.929 That's encouraging. We had a sweet time together, for sure. Um, 1:23:42.130 --> 1:23:44.849 this this landing page that we're going to get you 1:23:44.850 --> 1:23:48.490 to is chock filled with resources, and you're going to 1:23:48.490 --> 1:23:50.370 want to check it out. Just text the word happy. 1:23:50.370 --> 1:23:53.410 You're going to get in touch with Arlene Pelikan. She's 1:23:53.410 --> 1:23:56.290 in our frequent flyer club here. Means that we call 1:23:56.290 --> 1:23:58.210 her up and we say, would you come on again? 1:23:58.210 --> 1:24:02.330 And she happily says, okay, so text the word happy 1:24:02.330 --> 1:24:10.769 to 800 555 7898 800 555 7898 just that word 1:24:10.810 --> 1:24:14.930 happy and Arlene. Thank you sister. You are such an 1:24:14.930 --> 1:24:17.370 encouragement and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. 1:24:17.370 --> 1:24:18.729 Thanks for being with us today. 1:24:19.010 --> 1:24:20.250 Thank you so much, Carl. 1:24:21.330 --> 1:24:26.170 Again, that word is happy to 800 555 7898. Get 1:24:26.170 --> 1:24:27.810 those resources today. 1:24:28.850 --> 1:24:31.849 He's a sports fanatic with a stat for anything you 1:24:31.850 --> 1:24:36.130 can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. It's 1:24:36.130 --> 1:24:38.290 Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 1:24:38.330 --> 1:24:41.210 All right, my man, we are having some fun. Boy, 1:24:41.210 --> 1:24:42.970 what a day we've been having, huh? 1:24:43.010 --> 1:24:45.089 It's been a great day, Sam storms. 1:24:45.130 --> 1:24:49.729 Greg dempster, Arlene Pelikan. You listen to anything you hear here. 1:24:49.729 --> 1:24:52.370 And somebody. This is so funny. We get these texts 1:24:52.370 --> 1:24:54.570 every now and then. Sorry for bumping my microphone there. 1:24:54.610 --> 1:24:57.049 Every time you bump your mic, it goes like that. 1:24:57.290 --> 1:25:00.370 That's a bump mic. Uh, somebody said I won't give 1:25:00.370 --> 1:25:03.570 you the name. They said they called out someone's name. 1:25:03.570 --> 1:25:05.889 They texted us and said, I couldn't help but think 1:25:05.890 --> 1:25:07.769 of you when I heard this on my Christian radio 1:25:07.770 --> 1:25:10.850 station this morning. I know you have a lot of resources, 1:25:10.850 --> 1:25:14.290 but here's one that that's really special, I think. So 1:25:14.290 --> 1:25:16.530 we've got to let this person know. I think you 1:25:16.530 --> 1:25:18.769 meant it for someone else, but how cool that there 1:25:18.770 --> 1:25:21.490 are people getting hold of friends going. Get a hold 1:25:21.490 --> 1:25:26.690 of this resource. Now, we've been given instructions par excellence, 1:25:26.689 --> 1:25:28.410 and we're going to do a crash course on it 1:25:28.410 --> 1:25:32.530 right now. If you have not gotten our showcast yesterday. 1:25:32.570 --> 1:25:37.810 Young Thunder took two minutes. You're fired up. Aren't you ready? Okay, 1:25:38.010 --> 1:25:42.380 so yesterday Young Thunder took two minutes to tutor everyone 1:25:42.420 --> 1:25:45.580 on how to download the show cast, so that you 1:25:45.580 --> 1:25:48.500 never have to text the word show again. 1:25:48.540 --> 1:25:49.060 Yes. 1:25:49.220 --> 1:25:51.620 Now this is really cool. Now our show cast is 1:25:51.620 --> 1:25:52.580 what our show. 1:25:52.900 --> 1:25:56.540 Our show cast is the best bits of every single 1:25:56.740 --> 1:25:59.180 day we have here. So you can go back and 1:25:59.180 --> 1:26:01.740 listen to a year worth of shows. We get all 1:26:01.740 --> 1:26:04.940 the songs out, all the underwriting. It's just our content 1:26:04.939 --> 1:26:05.939 and guests and calls. 1:26:06.260 --> 1:26:11.700 So today, Sam Storms. Yep. Greg Dempster, yep. Greg Dempster 1:26:11.740 --> 1:26:15.300 three bedrock things every disciple of Christ needs to bank on. 1:26:15.340 --> 1:26:16.979 I mean, the list goes on and on. And then 1:26:16.979 --> 1:26:21.900 Arlene Pelikan just crushed it with three rock solid truths 1:26:21.900 --> 1:26:25.820 that set your kids up for success. I mean, killer stuff. Now, 1:26:25.939 --> 1:26:27.620 you might want to hear it again. Or you want 1:26:27.660 --> 1:26:30.700 to pass it on to a friend. Bada bing, bada boom. 1:26:30.740 --> 1:26:33.340 Have we got it for you? Take it away, young thunder. Yeah. 1:26:33.340 --> 1:26:34.019 How does it work? 1:26:34.020 --> 1:26:37.620 It's great. So first just text the word show. Text 1:26:37.660 --> 1:26:42.660 the word show to 800 555 7898. When you do, 1:26:42.700 --> 1:26:45.340 it's going to send you back to links. If you 1:26:45.340 --> 1:26:48.059 have an iPhone or an Apple product, it's going to 1:26:48.100 --> 1:26:50.740 give you a link for Apple Podcasts. That's an app 1:26:50.740 --> 1:26:53.660 that's automatically downloaded onto your iPhone when you get it. 1:26:53.660 --> 1:26:56.339 So it's a little purple app. It'll open that up. 1:26:56.380 --> 1:26:58.460 Or if you don't have an iPhone or you just 1:26:58.460 --> 1:27:01.700 like to use it, Spotify, you get that app as well. 1:27:01.700 --> 1:27:03.860 Once you get those, those links are going to take 1:27:03.860 --> 1:27:05.660 you to them. Once you get those, it's going to 1:27:05.660 --> 1:27:07.979 take you right to Karl and Cruz page. You'll see 1:27:07.979 --> 1:27:10.019 all of our shows there that you can access. But 1:27:10.020 --> 1:27:12.300 up at the top of those pages there's going to 1:27:12.300 --> 1:27:15.059 be a button. And it's basically the same for both apps. 1:27:15.220 --> 1:27:18.259 It's a follow button. Click the follow button. That means 1:27:18.260 --> 1:27:21.740 every time you open up your Apple Podcasts or your Spotify, 1:27:21.860 --> 1:27:24.740 you'll be able to see new episodes of Karl and 1:27:24.740 --> 1:27:27.140 crew right there. You don't ever have to text show again. 1:27:27.140 --> 1:27:29.540 Now, I think some people, when they hear follow button, 1:27:29.540 --> 1:27:32.059 they're freaking out, going, uh oh, this means I'm going 1:27:32.100 --> 1:27:35.500 to get spammed or something. No, that doesn't happen that way, right? 1:27:35.540 --> 1:27:38.309 No, it's it's nothing. We're not going gonna text you 1:27:38.310 --> 1:27:41.910 anything or anything like that. It's. It's literally just letting 1:27:41.910 --> 1:27:45.710 the app know this show. I want to get updates 1:27:45.710 --> 1:27:47.910 of when they drop a new episode. So every time 1:27:47.910 --> 1:27:50.030 we drop a new episode, it'll either give you a 1:27:50.229 --> 1:27:52.510 notification on your phone or when you open the app, 1:27:52.510 --> 1:27:54.350 it'll just be right there at the top of the 1:27:54.350 --> 1:27:57.150 page saying, hey, Carl and crew dropped a new episode recently. 1:27:57.550 --> 1:28:00.349 And you might. Yeah, and you might go, huh, okay. 1:28:00.390 --> 1:28:03.150 And move on. Cooking bread or whatever you're doing driving 1:28:03.150 --> 1:28:05.990 down the road. Or you might go, I got to 1:28:05.990 --> 1:28:10.349 check that out or forward it on ahead. Okay. You 1:28:10.390 --> 1:28:12.710 got the goods. You know how to do it now. 1:28:12.750 --> 1:28:16.389 Text the word show. Let's get this show cast fired up. 1:28:16.390 --> 1:28:21.670 We want you to be, um, radiant lights. And sometimes 1:28:21.670 --> 1:28:24.390 some of the coolest things you can do is forward 1:28:24.390 --> 1:28:28.389 on resources. As God leads to people that you know 1:28:28.390 --> 1:28:31.590 and love, they could be radically committed Christ followers. Here 1:28:31.590 --> 1:28:33.910 you go. Oh, they've been battling with something. I know 1:28:33.910 --> 1:28:36.549 exactly what to do. Like we had a guy text 1:28:36.550 --> 1:28:38.309 in here just a moment ago. Thank you so much 1:28:38.310 --> 1:28:40.950 for that segment with Arlene. The past two days, I've 1:28:40.950 --> 1:28:43.470 been praying and asking God to show me how to 1:28:43.510 --> 1:28:46.389 navigate through a situation I'm having with my 16 year 1:28:46.430 --> 1:28:49.470 old son. I don't want my son to resent me, 1:28:49.470 --> 1:28:51.430 but I also don't want my son hanging out with 1:28:51.430 --> 1:28:53.990 the crowd he's been hanging out with. Tough situation, but 1:28:53.990 --> 1:28:56.990 thank you guys. Well thank you. Yeah, because we're in 1:28:56.990 --> 1:29:00.509 this thing together. All right. How do they get that link? 1:29:00.550 --> 1:29:01.510 Young thunder. 1:29:01.550 --> 1:29:06.470 Just text the word show to 805, 55, 78, 98, 1:29:06.510 --> 1:29:10.950 805 five, five, 78, 98. The word show. Yeah. 1:29:11.390 --> 1:29:14.429 Oh my goodness. Okay, I got a crazy question for you. 1:29:15.070 --> 1:29:15.549 Okay. 1:29:16.030 --> 1:29:19.950 You and I got a crazy question for you. Crazy question. 1:29:19.950 --> 1:29:21.189 You guys ready for this one? 1:29:21.189 --> 1:29:21.830 We're ready. 1:29:21.870 --> 1:29:22.150 Okay. 1:29:22.189 --> 1:29:24.510 What is the craziest thing you did as a kid 1:29:24.510 --> 1:29:28.350 growing up that had nothing to do with a machine? 1:29:28.630 --> 1:29:34.310 No phone, no game, no Pac-Man, no Pac pack, mom. 1:29:34.350 --> 1:29:35.349 Did they pack? Mom? 1:29:35.590 --> 1:29:36.549 Uh. Miss Pac-Man. 1:29:36.870 --> 1:29:39.910 Pac-Man. Pac-Man. We'll see. I miss that one. Uh, they 1:29:39.910 --> 1:29:42.349 didn't have the Air Force thing. That was the big thing. After. 1:29:42.350 --> 1:29:44.189 What was the Air Force game? You had that. 1:29:44.229 --> 1:29:45.030 You mean Galaga? 1:29:45.470 --> 1:29:48.390 Yeah. See, there. Um, that shows you how much I 1:29:48.390 --> 1:29:49.389 was into those things. 1:29:49.510 --> 1:29:49.950 Jonathan. 1:29:50.110 --> 1:29:52.150 And how do you know that? For crying out. 1:29:52.150 --> 1:29:52.309 Loud. 1:29:52.350 --> 1:29:53.710 I'm a pro at Galaga. 1:29:54.390 --> 1:29:55.389 Oh, wow. Okay. 1:29:55.510 --> 1:29:55.910 Okay. 1:29:55.950 --> 1:29:56.309 So. 1:29:56.710 --> 1:30:00.430 What did you do as a kid? That was just crazy. 1:30:00.590 --> 1:30:01.910 Crazy town. 1:30:01.950 --> 1:30:02.670 Crazy. 1:30:02.830 --> 1:30:04.389 Come on. Crazy thing. 1:30:04.670 --> 1:30:06.389 I don't know if it's a good. Please don't do 1:30:06.390 --> 1:30:09.110 this at home. Can I just preface what I'm going. 1:30:09.150 --> 1:30:10.150 Okay. Go ahead. 1:30:11.030 --> 1:30:14.830 I mean, back in the day, uh, but we we 1:30:14.830 --> 1:30:16.750 would take off on our bikes. You know, you didn't 1:30:16.750 --> 1:30:18.790 have to be home to, like, street lights came on 1:30:18.790 --> 1:30:21.630 kind of thing. Right. But we would like, we would 1:30:21.630 --> 1:30:24.830 go to abandoned buildings and just kind of play hide 1:30:24.830 --> 1:30:27.389 and seek in these abandoned buildings. Now you've got these 1:30:27.430 --> 1:30:30.990 young kids in abandoned buildings. Hello. 1:30:31.030 --> 1:30:31.950 I love it. 1:30:33.080 --> 1:30:35.760 You blast. We played hide and seek. We played tag 1:30:35.760 --> 1:30:36.800 in these buildings. 1:30:37.760 --> 1:30:41.240 If you survive, you grow up well adjusted by going 1:30:41.280 --> 1:30:42.320 through abandoned building. 1:30:42.360 --> 1:30:44.519 There were holes in the floor. Sure, you just hopped 1:30:44.520 --> 1:30:47.880 over them. I mean, come on. But yeah, it's good stuff. 1:30:48.680 --> 1:30:52.599 Good stuff. See, she was raised in a Greek home. Uh, 1:30:52.600 --> 1:30:55.280 everybody had a bottle of Windex on their hip. Just 1:30:55.280 --> 1:30:58.080 like my Big Fat Greek Wedding. It was just great. 1:30:58.080 --> 1:31:00.280 And then she went to abandoned buildings on a bike 1:31:00.280 --> 1:31:02.160 and had to be home by dark. But we rarely 1:31:02.160 --> 1:31:04.120 made it home by dark, right? Oh, it was just 1:31:04.160 --> 1:31:04.639 at the. 1:31:04.680 --> 1:31:05.160 Nip. 1:31:05.200 --> 1:31:05.759 Right there. 1:31:05.760 --> 1:31:07.439 Bang! Oh, calling it close. 1:31:07.479 --> 1:31:09.360 Young thunder, what do you say, my man? 1:31:09.400 --> 1:31:12.200 Yeah. For me, I was, uh, I was really big 1:31:12.200 --> 1:31:16.320 into climbing trees. So when I was a kid, there 1:31:16.320 --> 1:31:18.519 was a tree in my yard that, you know, was 1:31:18.520 --> 1:31:21.400 probably about 30ft tall. And so I would just climb 1:31:21.400 --> 1:31:22.840 to the top of the tree, and I would sit 1:31:22.840 --> 1:31:25.160 up at the top and just chill out up there. 1:31:25.200 --> 1:31:28.320 I loved just being up high. It felt good. It 1:31:28.320 --> 1:31:30.760 felt nice. And and any tree you could give me 1:31:30.760 --> 1:31:32.240 that I could climb, I'd climb it. 1:31:33.040 --> 1:31:39.080 Make the world go away. While I sway in the branches. 1:31:39.120 --> 1:31:41.800 It's basically what it means a lost art. People do 1:31:41.800 --> 1:31:42.360 it anymore. 1:31:42.400 --> 1:31:44.400 I don't know, no tree climbing still happening. 1:31:44.439 --> 1:31:45.960 I feel like it's innate in kids. 1:31:45.960 --> 1:31:50.040 To sound, of sound of music. Like tree climbing. Sorry. 1:31:50.080 --> 1:31:52.320 Ali's not here today. She'd be fired up right now. 1:31:52.320 --> 1:31:54.240 All those kids up in the trees. Remember that. 1:31:54.240 --> 1:31:55.560 Scene? Film. By the way, everyone. 1:31:55.880 --> 1:31:58.680 Oh, yeah, she loves it. She's getting back from the 1:31:58.680 --> 1:32:02.599 mission field. She'll be here tomorrow. Uh, somebody texted in. 1:32:02.600 --> 1:32:05.240 I didn't even ask him. Said craziest thing I did 1:32:05.280 --> 1:32:08.720 as a teenager. Galloping across a golf course at night 1:32:08.760 --> 1:32:09.800 on my horse. 1:32:10.080 --> 1:32:11.680 Oh, yeah. On a horse. 1:32:11.720 --> 1:32:12.280 Wow. 1:32:12.439 --> 1:32:14.280 The grounds crew had been digging that. 1:32:14.280 --> 1:32:14.920 That's called. 1:32:15.479 --> 1:32:18.799 That's called divots. That's called divots for sure. 1:32:18.840 --> 1:32:19.360 Okay. 1:32:20.400 --> 1:32:23.519 Okay. I'm opening up phone lines right now. What's the 1:32:23.520 --> 1:32:27.120 craziest thing you did as a kid? Craziest thing you 1:32:27.120 --> 1:32:34.920 did as a kid? 805 five, five, 7898, 805 five, 1:32:34.960 --> 1:32:37.560 five 7898. 1:32:39.200 --> 1:32:42.400 Get to know the team behind the scenes. Follow Carl 1:32:42.400 --> 1:32:44.600 and crew on Facebook and Instagram. 1:32:45.040 --> 1:32:48.200 What's the craziest thing you did as a kid? David 1:32:48.200 --> 1:32:49.679 in Florida. What do you say, my man? 1:32:50.400 --> 1:32:51.880 Me and my friend tried to. 1:32:51.920 --> 1:32:52.800 Parachute. 1:32:52.800 --> 1:32:53.519 With a bed. 1:32:53.520 --> 1:32:53.840 Sheet. 1:32:53.880 --> 1:32:55.879 Off of his roof at the peak. 1:32:57.680 --> 1:32:58.439 That's awesome. 1:33:00.520 --> 1:33:04.040 I think most kids tried that. I tried to do 1:33:04.040 --> 1:33:07.160 it with spruce boughs taped to my arms. David, I 1:33:07.160 --> 1:33:10.640 tried to fly off of a garage. Didn't work. How 1:33:10.640 --> 1:33:11.639 did it work for you, David? 1:33:11.760 --> 1:33:16.679 Okay. Uh, well, the knots didn't hold, and we lost 1:33:16.720 --> 1:33:19.559 a grip on one end, and we both landed hard 1:33:19.600 --> 1:33:23.400 on our each individual attempts. Nothing broken, but we were 1:33:23.439 --> 1:33:25.960 sore for days. And then, of course, we're like moms. 1:33:26.160 --> 1:33:29.290 Why are you limping? Oh, I crashed on my bike 1:33:29.290 --> 1:33:29.849 or something. 1:33:30.890 --> 1:33:34.290 Yeah. You lied. Oh, goodness. David in Florida. Way to go, 1:33:34.330 --> 1:33:39.130 my man. Uh winnette. I think that's how I pronounce it. Uh, 1:33:39.130 --> 1:33:40.570 in Illinois. What do you say? 1:33:41.570 --> 1:33:41.929 Hi. 1:33:42.210 --> 1:33:44.210 Um, I'm still laughing from that last one. 1:33:44.250 --> 1:33:48.809 That was hilarious. Um, I grew up in front of 1:33:48.850 --> 1:33:53.490 a very large cemetery, and, like Young Thunder, I was 1:33:53.490 --> 1:33:55.929 a tree climber. So me and my friends would climb 1:33:55.970 --> 1:33:59.530 trees all over that cemetery because it was loaded with them. 1:34:00.050 --> 1:34:03.170 And occasionally we would get caught having to sit up 1:34:03.170 --> 1:34:06.010 there for quite a while because a funeral would come 1:34:06.010 --> 1:34:09.570 by and all the cars would stop underneath us, and 1:34:09.570 --> 1:34:11.009 so we had to wait it out. 1:34:13.450 --> 1:34:14.610 I did the leaves. 1:34:14.610 --> 1:34:17.450 I saw many a visitation or funeral. 1:34:17.930 --> 1:34:22.770 Oh, bless your heart. That is great. Winnette. Oh my word. 1:34:22.890 --> 1:34:24.530 All right. Taking your calls, we're going to go to 1:34:24.530 --> 1:34:27.530 Lightning Round here in three minutes. What's the craziest thing 1:34:27.530 --> 1:34:29.610 you did as a kid? Craziest thing you did as 1:34:29.610 --> 1:34:31.849 a kid? My bride. Do you know what she would do, guys? 1:34:32.450 --> 1:34:35.650 No joking. As a teenager, she would look in the 1:34:35.650 --> 1:34:39.530 Rockies at a peak, look at the peak and go, 1:34:39.570 --> 1:34:41.889 I'm going to go climb that mountain. And she'd go 1:34:41.890 --> 1:34:42.890 do it alone. 1:34:42.930 --> 1:34:45.049 Oh my goodness. How old was she? 1:34:45.650 --> 1:34:46.290 Teenager. 1:34:46.330 --> 1:34:47.090 That's crazy. 1:34:47.650 --> 1:34:49.410 She looks back and she goes, I don't know why 1:34:49.410 --> 1:34:53.210 I did that stuff alone. Matt and Grand Rapids, what 1:34:53.210 --> 1:34:54.049 do you say, Matt? 1:34:54.490 --> 1:34:57.130 Um, we took my dad to the state patrol car. 1:34:57.170 --> 1:35:01.090 State police patrol car for a drive. Me and my 1:35:01.090 --> 1:35:03.610 buddy as they went up to House Lake to vacation. 1:35:03.930 --> 1:35:05.970 But on the way back, I looked in the rear 1:35:05.970 --> 1:35:09.650 view mirror. And that's my dad and my siblings in 1:35:09.650 --> 1:35:12.769 the car with my mom just gazing at me. So 1:35:12.770 --> 1:35:14.210 that was the craziest thing I ever did. And I 1:35:14.250 --> 1:35:18.450 survived the beating. When we got home, um, so I 1:35:18.490 --> 1:35:20.129 wouldn't advise anyone to do that. 1:35:20.530 --> 1:35:26.580 So if your dad's a trooper, don't use his car ever. 1:35:27.180 --> 1:35:33.860 Oh my goodness. It's crazy what kids do. They think yeah, 1:35:34.979 --> 1:35:36.219 this looks like it could be fun. 1:35:36.260 --> 1:35:37.059 Looks fun. 1:35:38.260 --> 1:35:42.780 Oh my word. Dave, first time caller in Indianapolis. What 1:35:42.780 --> 1:35:43.740 do you say, my man? 1:35:44.540 --> 1:35:48.059 Oh, the craziest thing I've ever done was jumped off 1:35:48.060 --> 1:35:51.219 of an overpass onto the back of a moving semi, 1:35:51.260 --> 1:35:53.780 just to see if I could do it. My friend 1:35:53.780 --> 1:35:56.900 and I made it, and the driver didn't realize we 1:35:56.900 --> 1:35:59.580 were on top of the trailer until he was almost 1:35:59.580 --> 1:36:00.380 to Chicago. 1:36:01.060 --> 1:36:05.060 Okay, that is in a new category of crazy. Oh 1:36:05.460 --> 1:36:08.380 my goodness. People do not do this. 1:36:08.420 --> 1:36:09.700 We do not recommend. 1:36:10.020 --> 1:36:12.419 In fact, I should have put a teen ager warning. 1:36:12.900 --> 1:36:14.259 Yeah, that's true too. 1:36:15.860 --> 1:36:18.380 Do not take your dad's car if he's a state 1:36:18.420 --> 1:36:23.740 trooper and do not jump off overpasses. Talk about crazy stuff.