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S2: You got ask the question. Why do we do things right?
S2: Why do we do stuff? So let's let's mess with
S2: this a little bit. Okay, sure. Why do we buy
S2: a car?
S3: Because I need to get places that are farther than
S3: I can walk.
S2: Okay. Boom! Nailed it. Yeah. All right, now it's your turn.
S3: Uh, why? Why do we. Why do we want to
S3: eat dinner at the table with our families?
S2: Oh. Good question. That's because we actually want to look
S2: each other in the face.
S3: It's a good thing to do. I agree.
S2: So now the new dilemma is, why do we why
S2: do moms ask cell phones to be set down?
S3: Uh, that is the follow up question.
S2: Uh, What do you say? Ali, give us another way.
S4: Why do I occasionally struggle to sleep at night?
S2: That is a forever conundrum. You hit one that I
S2: do not know the why. Okay. Well, no no no, no.
S2: There's a there's a few factors here, so let's just
S2: go after it. Little life hacks here. Okay. Could be
S2: that you're having water way too late. Could be. And
S2: it could be that you got too many, uh, blue
S2: lights cooking.
S3: Yeah.
S2: Blue screens are bad news. I mean.
S3: You got teenage kids. It could be stress.
S2: You could be. Yes, it could be that could. You
S2: could be freaking about out about having to work with
S2: Jonathan the next morning.
S3: It is.
S4: I mean, that could be it.
S3: A common fear.
S2: It could be. Henry snores. I don't know if he
S2: snores or not. It could be. It could be almost anything. Right?
S4: It could. I'll go with the one that fits. This
S4: was actually a conversation I had with my son. He
S4: was struggling with. Why do I do the right thing?
S4: Even though it seems like the kids at school who
S4: don't do the right thing get rewarded anyway. He was
S4: really wrestling.
S2: That's a great question.
S4: I'm trying to do the right thing. The kids who don't,
S4: they just give them what they want anyway. I love it,
S4: and I'm over here trying to do right, and I
S4: don't feel like anybody's seeing it. Why why, why?
S2: So you got to ask the why. That's the big question.
S2: And if you look at the book of Romans, you
S2: got to go. Why? And the fulcrum point is found
S2: in chapter five and chapter six. And here it is.
S2: Verse six, we know that our old self was crucified
S2: with him in order that the body of sin might
S2: be brought to nothing, so that we who. No longer
S2: we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one
S2: who has died has been set free from sin. Pretty clear,
S2: isn't it?
S4: Yes.
S2: That the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus is the
S2: dinner bell for the why of his resurrection. To set
S2: us free from the chains of sin. That's the biggest
S2: answer to the why for the resurrection, which, if you
S2: think about it, makes perfect sense. We're born with our
S2: backs to God. We get saved. Why? To get liberated
S2: from this body of sin and death. And we can
S2: go on bearing fruit, glorifying God and all that cool stuff.
S2: So the question is, how does this work? Right, Ali?
S4: Yeah. How do we get victory over sin? What's the why?
S4: Let's bring in Pastor Erwin Lutzer here on this Tuesday morning.
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S2: The Book of Romans is one of the greatest meaty
S2: books and the lynchpin issue is found in chapter five
S2: and chapter six. And the issue is that the resurrection
S2: of Christ from the dead signals a new covenant. Chains
S2: of sin have been broken by faith in Jesus Christ.
S2: The power of sin has been broken. Does it mean
S2: that we're sinless? No. Does it mean that we're slaves
S2: to sin? No. We are no longer slaves. We're bound
S2: over to Jesus Christ. Well, what in the world does
S2: that mean? We need a guest in here who can
S2: knock it out of the park.
S4: Ali, how about Pastor Erwin Lutzer, pastor emeritus of the
S4: Moody Church, where he served as senior pastor for 36 years,
S4: also host of the daily Bible teaching program Running to Win.
S4: Pastor Lutzer. Sometimes it feels like we're winning the battle
S4: against sin, but sometimes it feels like we're losing. Why
S4: are our feelings not necessarily the best indicator when light
S4: of this scripture verse we're talking about out of Romans six.
S5: You know Ali and Carl. Romans chapter six is awesome.
S5: But what I'm going to do is actually read a
S5: similar text from the book of Colossians. And then I
S5: want to give an illustration that I think will be
S5: very helpful to everyone who's listening. It says that Jesus
S5: has made us alive together. That's what you've been talking about.
S5: We are together with him, having forgiven all of our
S5: trespasses by canceling the record of death that was against us,
S5: and with its legal demands, nailing it to the cross.
S5: He set aside and disarmed the rulers and the authorities,
S5: and put them in open shame by triumphing over them
S5: in him. Here's the illustration that came to me this morning.
S5: Let's suppose that you lived in an apartment. You were
S5: born into a family that was in debt, and all
S5: of us are. We're indebted all the way back to Adam.
S5: Not only that, you had a landlord who is very evil,
S5: who always wanted you to be obligated to him to
S5: pay him. And he would come, so to speak, knocking
S5: on your door, and you had an obligation. Then Jesus
S5: comes and he redeems you from the hand of that landlord.
S5: You no longer have any obligation to him at all. Zero.
S5: You are now belonging to Jesus Christ, having purchased you,
S5: and he purchased you. He didn't buy you from the
S5: devil because the devil has never owned anything, though he
S5: claims everything that is his own. But he pays the
S5: debt to God the Father so that your sins have
S5: been nailed to the cross. But this is what happens
S5: to the devil. First of all, it says very clearly
S5: that his legal demands are over because Jesus purchased us
S5: out from under his authority. All authority that he exercises
S5: today is fake. Now he comes to us, knocking on
S5: our door saying, hey, you still owe me, but we don't.
S5: But here's another exciting thing. You'll notice that it says
S5: that Jesus disarmed principalities and powers, triumphing over them and
S5: and putting him to an open shame. In the imagery
S5: that Paul is using is Rome used to take defeated
S5: kings and march them through the city of Rome in humiliation,
S5: because they were the losers and Rome was triumphant. And
S5: that's the imagery here. Yeah, Jesus Christ put the devil
S5: to an open shame, and he has shamed the devil.
S5: So the bottom line. If we belong to Jesus, we
S5: have no obligation to the flesh or to the devil.
S5: He comes knocking, insisting that he go back to our
S5: old ways. But we have the authority in Christ to say, no,
S5: I don't belong to you. I now belong to Jesus,
S5: and he has my allegiance. And be gone.
S2: Why do too many genuine disciples of Christ truly born again?
S2: People live as if we have a evil landlord. Why?
S5: Because our vision of what Jesus Christ did is too,
S5: too low.
S2: Yeah. Yeah.
S5: It is not fully formed. And so we feel that
S5: we have this obligation when really we don't. If we
S5: understood the exalted Christ and the total triumph over evil,
S5: If we saw that very clearly, we would then have
S5: the authority. Now we don't have the power over the devil.
S5: I can't go to the evil landlord and say, well,
S5: I'm more powerful than you are. We send Jesus to
S5: the door, so to speak, and say, oh, you're knocking
S5: on my door. Guess what? I have a guest who
S5: has taken care of you. Jesus. You go and you
S5: fight this battle for me.
S2: So I rebuke you. Yeah.
S5: Without any, uh. We have to recognize that without any
S5: intervention from God. And that intervention, of course, comes to
S5: us through Jesus Christ our Lord and all the work
S5: that he did. We really have no other alternative except to, uh,
S5: bow to our evil landlord.
S4: Pastor Erwin Lutzer. Our guest this morning. So, what are
S4: you battling this morning? What is that persistent sin, that
S4: issue that keeps coming back. And what practical steps can
S4: you take standing on the Word of God to get victory?
S4: More coming up here on Carlin Crew.
S1: Your shot of hope to help you through the day.
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S4: D.L. Moody once said that at his conversion, he expected
S4: that his battle with sin would be over. But instead,
S4: he discovered something different. That he was actually enlisting himself
S4: as a soldier in a new war. The assaults of
S4: sin were that strong. Pastor Erwin Lutzer you you mentioned
S4: this analogy about an evil landlord. We have been set
S4: free from our slavery to sin. The price has been paid,
S4: but that the assault of sin is D.L. Moody described.
S4: It becomes even stronger for the believer. Explain.
S5: Well, you know, we should not be surprised at that.
S5: What's important, Ali, is you'll notice that it says here
S5: in Colossians that legally, Satan has no authority over us,
S5: but of course he is going to deceive us. In fact,
S5: the phrase that is used here is empty deceit. He's
S5: going to deceive us and tell us we still have obligations.
S5: But at the same time, you know what D.L. Moody
S5: said was is absolutely right, because we are enlisted with
S5: a new war. And I want to emphasize to all
S5: those that are listening. Just because Jesus Christ won a
S5: legal victory, that does not mean that it is automatic.
S5: That's why you have in the Scripture the war against
S5: the devil putting on the armor of God. It means
S5: we yield ourselves to the Lord every single day. We
S5: begin with a new yieldedness and as a result of that,
S5: as we grow, we find that the lust of the
S5: flesh and the lust of the eyes and the other lusts.
S5: And by the way, the sins of the spirit, the jealousy,
S5: the desire to be recognized and pride. The closer we
S5: get to God, the more he is showing us of
S5: areas of our life which are still not under his
S5: total submission. So D.L. Moody is right. That's why the
S5: Bible says that we have to do it. You know,
S5: I was sitting next to somebody last night. I'm at
S5: a conference, actually, and he was talking about who is
S5: the best athlete in basketball or something. And I think
S5: of all of the exercise and the discipline that is
S5: needed to attain that kind of recognition. And Paul says
S5: they do it to receive a corruptible crown. Could you
S5: even imagine what would happen if we had the discipline
S5: that they have? But at the same time, as Carl
S5: likes to emphasize, this isn't human, Will. This isn't self-help.
S5: It is enlisting God's help. But God's help is not automatic.
S5: And that's why we need the church. We need other
S5: believers to pray for us. Because you're right, we are
S5: definitely in a war.
S2: You know, you've pastored a few years and you've seen
S2: people walk in victory and you've seen people on that
S2: horrible treadmill of sin, shame, repent, repeat. What is the
S2: common denominator of those that walk in victory, Pastor Lutzer?
S5: I think it is a a commitment to the body
S5: of Jesus Christ, but also a commitment to the word.
S2: I agree.
S5: You know, just, uh, just the other day, I was
S5: reading about how Elijah was there and he was at
S5: Dothan and how his servant was so afraid. And Elisha says,
S5: open his eyes. We need our eyes open continually to
S5: see that Jesus Christ is Victor. And the reason that
S5: so many people, uh, fall into their old sins repeatedly
S5: is they really do feel a sense of obligation to
S5: those sins because of overwhelming temptation, and overwhelming temptation demands
S5: serious yieldedness. Being in the word, recognizing our tremendous need,
S5: and having a desire to please Christ alone. And when
S5: that begins to happen, that's where we see. And then,
S5: of course, Carl, as you and I know you have
S5: all those people who have been hurt by other Christians
S5: who have been hurt by the church. And on and
S5: on it goes. And so they say, I'm done with that.
S5: And so they walk in the world and saying, I
S5: want nothing to do with Christianity or Christians, etc., and
S5: you cut yourself off from the body. And, um, you know,
S5: it's pretty gruesome. I know a man who opened his
S5: fridge door. He was staying with a doctor and there
S5: was a human hand in the refrigerator. Remember, he was
S5: staying with a doctor and a a hand cut off
S5: from the body. I can tell you, is gruesome. And
S5: there are people trying to walk this journey alone, and
S5: they discover that they can't do it. So together, as
S5: a body, as believers, we continue to fight and we
S5: continue to win.
S4: Pastor Lutzer, you mentioned the body of Christ and how
S4: important it is to to be in community with other believers.
S4: Many people attended church this past Sunday on Easter Sunday,
S4: some of whom may not go back for 6 to
S4: 8 months. Talk about the importance of community. How do
S4: we find that for the person who maybe is in
S4: church but feels isolated?
S2: Yes.
S5: You know, Ellie, first of all, I want to say this.
S5: Have you ever wondered, as I have Easter Sunday, the
S5: church is full. Where in the world are those people?
S5: The next Sunday and the next? I don't know who
S5: they are. I don't know. It's just simply a tradition.
S5: But in answer to that, and by the way, without
S5: getting into the deep weeds, the idea of watching online,
S5: which we did during Covid, has had some unintended bad
S5: effects in my opinion. Now people think they're going to
S5: church because they watch a computer, have a cup of
S5: coffee and, um, do texting on their cell phones. I'm
S5: being a little sarcastic here, but they are watching that
S5: and that isn't the same. So that community has to
S5: be found. If we're talking to people who have been
S5: hurt by the church. I understand that. But still, you
S5: have to find believers that fellowship with you that are
S5: going to walk with you through this life. The Christian
S5: life is communal. You know, you look at the book
S5: of acts they hung together. And what we need is
S5: the same thing. And for those who say, well, I've
S5: been hurt by some Christians, well, there are lots of
S5: Christians also out there who don't hurt people.
S2: Yes.
S5: Who are willing to pick up the pieces of a
S5: broken life and to help you navigate a very difficult
S5: storm that you are going through.
S2: Yeah. Wonderful. Pastor Lutzer, thank you so much for being
S2: with us today. And there's some of you that, as
S2: Ali said, you are in church, but you're not in community.
S2: And that's maybe the greatest problem, because how many times
S2: we talk around about it here. Ali, we can go
S2: to church and go to church and go to church
S2: and not be in community. So it's a two step.
S2: Let's move from online to in church to grafted into
S2: the body of Christ. Find others who can help you.
S2: Unbelievable time with Pastor Lutzer here. What do you say then?
S2: What do you say then? What does God want to
S2: do in your life today? The reality of the resurrection
S2: is that the chains of sin have been broken.
S1: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is
S1: in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Moms are amazing, amazing superheroes. Moms are superheroes. And some
S2: of you might have had a bad experience with a mom.
S2: We get that. But there's mom figures that come into
S2: our life. There's adopted moms and are just moms are
S2: just terrific. You know, sometimes moms have these funny little
S2: things about them that you're like, I didn't know that
S2: my mom was a champion. I don't even know what
S2: the game is. What's the game where you've got the
S2: paddle and the ball on the rubber band. Paddle ball that. No,
S2: it's something different than that. What's it called?
S3: Uh, well, like on the little string. And you bounce.
S2: The little string.
S3: It's paddle ball.
S2: Is it paddle ball?
S4: I don't know. I know what you're talking about. Where
S4: you kind of bounce it up and down and it
S4: keeps coming back.
S2: It keeps coming back.
S3: Yeah, it's a paddle ball.
S2: Yeah. So she was like. She was right here in
S2: Chicago back in the day when she was a little kid.
S2: She like won some big prize for going I don't
S2: know how many hundreds of times with a paddle ball is.
S2: How weird is that? And then what really blew my
S2: mind was when yo yos got popular. Anyone remember when
S2: yo yo, they they cycle.
S3: So.
S2: They kind of cycle. They. I think they even got
S2: hot when you were a kid.
S3: Young thunder. Yeah, absolutely. Late 90s. Yo yos were a thing.
S2: Oh, yeah. So my mom taught me how to rock the.
S2: I couldn't believe it. She says, you know what? You
S2: got a new yo yo. Can I show you a trick?
S2: And I'm like, yeah, it's called Rock the cradle. And
S2: I'm like, When mom rocked the cradle. Rocked the cradle
S2: is where you boom it. Pop it down. It's sitting
S2: there spinning at the bottom. You grab it, you grab
S2: a string one way, you grab it another. So you
S2: grab it with your left hand. You grab it with
S2: your right hand, and then you swing the yo yo
S2: through the triangle of string. It's called Rock the cradle.
S2: And then she says, I'll walk the dog for you.
S2: I'm like, walk the dog, boom, yo yo went to
S2: the bottom. Then she's going along without it. Pop it
S2: up and that thing's scooting along and it's walking with
S2: her on the floor. It's like moving. And I'm like,
S2: my mom is, uh.
S4: That's impressive.
S3: That's awesome. I used to isn't that funny? But I
S3: just drag it on the ground. It just drag.
S4: The.
S3: Dog. I'm walking the dog.
S2: The dog is walking you, man. Oh my goodness. What's
S2: what's the what's the funny, goofy stuff your mama did you.
S3: Know I for for me this it's still to this
S3: day the same way. So whenever we play like a
S3: card game together as a family. And you know.
S2: She is shark.
S3: She's. Well, yeah, that that's one thing. But then also,
S3: she can shuffle a deck with the best of them.
S3: She like.
S2: Really?
S3: Yeah. She's not a not a gambler. I'm not like,
S3: my mom didn't spend a bunch of time in casinos
S3: or anything like that. But you think she was a
S3: blackjack dealer?
S2: I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
S3: You think she's a blackjack dealer for a second job?
S3: Because whenever the pile of cards that needs to be reshuffled,
S3: we just pass it all to her, and she takes
S3: it and goes, and I go, what? When did you
S3: learn how to do that, mama?
S2: Work in the cards.
S3: So to this day, we always just pass it to her.
S3: And she shuffles it all up because she's no one
S3: else can do it.
S2: You know what? We need to get a video of
S2: your mom shuffling the deck.
S4: I want to see that I'm always impressed by people
S4: who can really shuffle because I cannot. I have, like,
S4: the slowest. Like, I shuffle that like half the deck
S4: comes down.
S3: Just rub your hands together and kind of try to
S3: fit it in place.
S6: Oh, I'm the worst.
S4: I'm terrible at shuffling cards. I'm like, just let me
S4: just move them around, mix them up.
S2: What about your mom, Ellie?
S4: You know, I recently found out some new stuff about
S4: my mom I went to visit a couple weeks ago,
S4: and she. She got this big award in our hometown.
S4: A community like a lifetime achievement award. So I was
S4: helping her document some stuff from her past. And so
S4: she brought out this scrapbook from high school that I
S4: had never seen in my life. And I was like, mom,
S4: I haven't seen these pictures. She had pictures of her
S4: as a high school cheerleader. And then there was this
S4: one picture. I guess she had done, like catalog modeling
S4: for like mom.
S7: Or like the local.
S4: You know, the department stores. There's this picture. And she
S4: was really it was my mom's 511. So she she
S4: cast a very tall. She was very tall and lanky.
S4: And so they had her dressed up in this outfit,
S4: and she's standing up tall and looking off to the
S4: side with a serious face.
S3: That's great.
S7: I was like, mom, I never knew you.
S4: Took this picture. That was in the the catalog. And
S4: so it was it was fun to see some of
S4: her high school stuff that I had never seen.
S8: You know, you know, what's.
S2: Funny about moms is they'll tell your children, their grandchildren,
S2: stuff that they would never tell you.
S3: Yes, absolutely. I don't know why that's the case.
S2: I don't know either. But one day our daughter comes
S2: home and goes. I know something about grandma that you
S2: don't know about your own mom. I'm like, what? She
S2: says I know something. Well, what? Muriel. Your mom was
S2: a leg model for Cadillac. And I'm like, no wonder
S2: she didn't tell me. That freaked me.
S4: Out. They get, they get. The next generation gets the stuff. Like, yeah,
S4: we're free now.
S2: No, it was in the old days. So it wasn't
S2: a leg model. It was a calf model. Okay. That's
S2: what it was. That's hilarious. So. But isn't that funny stuff?
S4: And they.
S3: Just.
S4: You find out much later in life this stuff.
S2: Mom couldn't bear to tell me that. So she tells
S2: her daughter.
S3: What? Yeah. No. Who wants to hear? Who wants to
S3: hear that? As a kid from your mom?
S2: No, I was horrified. In my adult years, I was horrified.
S2: I'm like, oh, no, no.
S4: Embarrassing.
S3: Don't tell me that. Yeah.
S2: Isn't that funny, Ali? Oh my goodness guys. All right, so, mamas,
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S2: Oh they do. Oh, give me a little bit of
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S3: Man. Hold on. Yeah. Give me a minute.
S4: Well, I will tell you where we're going with this. Yeah.
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S2: The reality of the resurrection is that we can rise
S2: up with victory over sin. That's the whole crux of
S2: the matter. That's it. It's the fulcrum. It's the tipping
S2: point in Romans five and six. We don't have Romans eight.
S2: We don't have everything beyond that without these theological truths,
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S1: He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then
S1: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl
S1: and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: You got to share that story on Friday again. Got
S2: to do.
S3: It. Be happy to.
S2: Yeah. It's an amazing story. Young Thunder is in the crew. Well,
S2: we got a question for you. Ali, what is it?
S4: What sin has God given you? Victory over? Not by
S4: your power, but by his resurrection power. Let's go to Cathy.
S4: Calling in this morning from Indiana. Cathy, tell us, what
S4: is that sin that you can declare that the resurrection
S4: power of Christ has given you victory over?
S11: Yes. Good morning. Um. He had helped me quit drinking
S11: for 45 years. I struggled with alcohol hard, and he
S11: led me to AA meetings, and and this is for
S11: sure how it happened. And Easter Sunday. It was my
S11: three month mark, 90 days. And I praise the Lord
S11: for it.
S2: Amen. It's his power at work in you, Cathy. That
S2: is sweet sister. Stay on the horn. If you got time,
S2: I'm going to get you. Carl and crew press back
S2: just because. Boom! This is why we call you the
S2: boom crew. Will in Tennessee. What's your story, will.
S12: And your shoe gave me victory over porn. Soul desires
S12: and sexual sins.
S2: It's a powerful freedom, isn't it, Will?
S12: Oh, it is, because it's. It has been passed down
S12: through my father.
S8: Yeah.
S2: Yeah. You broke.
S12: That. It's been broken.
S2: Yeah.
S12: I did not break it.
S2: No! God did it. God did it. Yeah, you got
S2: that right, Will. You know, it's interesting. Uh, the sins
S2: of the fathers we find in Exodus 20, visit to
S2: the third and fourth generation. But righteousness to a thousand.
S2: And you have set a course in history. Will. That
S2: is breaking the chain, brother. And I want to thank you.
S2: Stay on the horn. We're going to get you a
S2: Carl and Crew prize pack. Let's get Megan in here
S2: from Washington. What do you say, Megan?
S13: Good morning. Boom crew. God bless you. So today is
S13: my birthday. I told myself I'd call in if you
S13: guys did one. I figured it was testimony day. God
S13: gave me another year. But God has given me victory
S13: over just, well, a life of addiction. I was just
S13: in a really dark, dark, dark world, born into darkness
S13: and just a life of addiction. But five years ago
S13: that that led to me being, um, just the lifestyle,
S13: being homeless and then rented a cheesy motel where I
S13: ended up being trafficked. And, um, Satan thought that he
S13: would deliver me a final blow, but God. And so
S13: now I have been plucked out of all of that.
S13: I'm part of the leadership team here in Washington at
S13: a recovery ministry. I lead, um, some steps groups, and I,
S13: I have a thing of ministry I do downtown called
S13: worship and walk. And we just go and we pray
S13: downtown over people and worship the Lord and play music.
S13: And so, yeah, God's done a real amazing work. So praise.
S2: The Lord. Again. Number one. Happy birthday. Number two. Wow, sister,
S2: you must share your story. Does have you. Have you
S2: seen the story of your life and what God's done
S2: in it? Impact others? It's got to inspire people.
S13: It does. You know, that's what I love about the
S13: Recovery ministry is that, you know, we do testimonies all
S13: the time. And watching my testimony go from, you know, what?
S13: I you know, from what it was to now, it's like,
S13: I don't even want to talk about the dark stuff.
S13: I kind of have to, to show like the gravity
S13: of what God did in my life. But I just
S13: want to get to the part where the blessings, you know,
S13: God's done this and this and this, and, you know,
S13: the different groups that I get to do in Bible studies,
S13: I lead. And it's an entirely different world. Yeah, yeah.
S2: Megan, that is so cool. Oh, sister, this is this
S2: is why we call you the boom crew. Boom boom boom,
S2: triple boom. I'm going to give you a quad boom
S2: because it's your birthday. Boom.
S4: Happy birthday, happy birthday. Thanks for spending a couple minutes
S4: of your birthday with Carl and crew.
S2: Hey, Megan. Happy birthday. I'm going to give you a
S2: Carl and crew prize pack today. What do you say
S2: about that?
S13: I say yay, thank you. Praise God.
S2: Yeah, yeah, it's coming your way, sister. So stay on
S2: the horn. We're going to get that out to you. Oh,
S2: how sweet is that? What a story, huh?
S3: My goodness.
S4: Let's go to John. First time caller from Chicago. John,
S4: tell us what is the sin that God's given you
S4: victory over and you want to testify?
S14: Good morning everybody. It's drunkenness, without a doubt. Drunkenness. I would, uh,
S14: I would drink in times of stress. Even after being
S14: a believer, there'd be times I'd be sitting in a
S14: church pew and I would be hungover from the night before. Um,
S14: and it was a battle. I was, you know, being
S14: a secret agent for Jesus. But actually, I was being
S14: a double agent for the devil. Um, and and and
S14: drunkenness leads. It's like a gateway sin. It opens you
S14: up to many other sins. And the Lord, by the
S14: power and his grace, he brought me to my knees.
S14: I got to the point where I asked for forgiveness
S14: so many times from Jesus. I finally asked him to
S14: help me to repent, and within 12 hours he brought
S14: me to my knees. Wow. It hurt my family greatly.
S14: But through that hurt and through that pain, my wife
S14: should have divorced me. But she didn't. She showed me
S14: the love of Jesus. Mhm. And, uh, God restored me.
S14: And I'm a sober minded man now.
S2: Wow. John. Wow. That's so beautiful. Oh, boy. I hope
S2: this doesn't get too catchy here, but I got you.
S2: Got to stay on the horn. You're getting the Carl
S2: and Crew prize pack. He didn't call to win something,
S2: but thank you, John. Just stay on the horn. Annette.
S2: First time caller in Illinois. What do you say, Annette?
S2: What's your story?
S15: Good morning everybody. Um, God has delivered me from, um, alcohol,
S15: alcoholic and committing adultery. And the way he did it,
S15: I was at the at the lounge, and I saw
S15: a big mirror and I looked, I said, uh, I'm
S15: tired of this. I'm tired of this. And I went
S15: to church the next day, and he took the taste
S15: from my mouth. And it was kind of scary, though,
S15: but he took the taste. I didn't want no more alcohol.
S15: I didn't even want it. I didn't have any more
S15: desires for for men because I was hurt in my past.
S15: So I didn't want to just have a man that
S15: just was available. I wanted a man that was committed
S15: to somebody. So that way I don't have to be
S15: committed to him. But God is good. He's good. He's good.
S4: Amen.
S8: Yeah.
S15: To God be the glory.
S2: Amen. And that. Sister, thank you so much for calling in.
S2: And what a sweet thing. And you know what You prove, Annette,
S2: this morning. And I want you to hear my heart.
S2: The way God's power flows through our life, it's undeniable
S2: in Scripture through humility. And when you looked in that mirror,
S2: God brought you to the end of yourself. And that's where.
S2: God's power begins. Annette and sister, you stay on the
S2: horn to. I'm sorry. We're giving away two prize packs here, guys.
S2: That's all there is to it. But how about that alley?
S2: What do you say?
S4: You know, I love her heart and the humility that
S4: you don't when you. When you've been set free by
S4: the resurrection power of Jesus. There's no self in it.
S4: There's no. Look what I've done. Yeah, that is right on.
S4: So when you testify about it, it gives so much
S4: glory to God. And no. And there's no part of
S4: you that wants to take credit for it.
S2: That's so true. Way to go, Annette. Way to go, John.
S2: Whom the son sets free is free indeed. Humble yourself
S2: and watch him work.