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Kicking off Founder’s Week with Dr. Rick Melson & 5 Essential Strategies for Freedom, Healing, and Wholeness with Marcus Warner · Karl and Crew

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S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
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S1: and crew. Come as you are an experienced guide, overcome
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S1: what seems impossible and live as you never imagined delivering
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S1: the truth daily.
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S2: If it were possible to have every worldly gain available
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S2: and you're forfeiting your soul, there's no amount of gain
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S2: that would make it worth it.
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S3: Our own way never ever works. Because it's apart from
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S3: the life source, which is God.
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S4: For me, growing up, love was always conditional and can
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S4: be taken from you. Christ's love can't. And he went
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S4: to the cross with my mind and my heart that night.
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S1: Now, from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl
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S1: and crew. Lois. Lois. Amazing woman of God, you amazing
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S1: woman of God. my mom and grandma of Timothy. Pretty
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S1: cool story.
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S2: Yeah.
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S1: I mean, now here's what we got to get. Second Timothy,
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S1: let me break this down for you here. I thank God,
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S1: whom I serve, as did my ancestors, which is an
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S1: interesting statement from Paul, right? Because he's got some ancestors
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S1: that were anything but God fearing people. But he he
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S1: looks back with a clear conscience, as I remember you
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S1: constantly in my prayers, Timothy, night and day. Isn't that interesting?
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S1: He's praying night and day.
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S2: Yeah. It's I mean, how encouraging to hear somebody tell
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S2: you that they've been praying for you night and day.
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S1: Especially when it's your mentor.
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S2: Yeah.
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S1: As I remember your tears. I long to see you.
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S1: That I may be filled. Okay. So Timothy cried to
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S1: real men cry. Don't let anyone tell you different. Let
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S1: him flow, gents. Real men cry. I am reminded of
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S1: your sincere faith. So notice not just faith, but sincere faith, right?
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S1: There's something different here. A faith that dwelt first in
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S1: your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and now, I
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S1: am sure, dwells in you as well. Wow. Legacy matters.
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S1: It doesn't ensure anything. I mean, we've been hitting epic stories.
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S1: It's called a come and see series at 180 Chicago
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S1: or two campuses here in Chicago where I'm a pastor.
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S1: And I'm telling you, man, the amount of kings who
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S1: were righteous, that handed the baton to their sons and
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S1: their sons just absolutely swallowed their gum spiritually. It's just crazy.
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S1: So it doesn't ensure anything, but it sure can help.
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S1: And here we've got a classic example where Lois and
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S1: Eunice were rock stars in faith. Now, were they rock stars?
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S1: The only claim that they would take to this thing
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S1: is that they clung to Jesus, right? I mean, that's
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S1: all they would claim.
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S2: That they had a faith that was evident, the faith
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S2: that first dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother, Eunice.
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S2: So they were clearly doing something that it made evident
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S2: how much they trusted the Lord.
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S1: Yeah. And so there's a passing on, and he must
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S1: have seen that and could have God used that to
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S1: compel him to surrender all to Jesus, undoubtedly. But ultimately,
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S1: the Spirit of God must work there. But I gotta
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S1: tell you, we're in this week called Founder's Week. And
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S1: the root word of that is foundation. Founders get things grounded.
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S1: And so we're going to open up phone lines here.
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S1: We got a lot to talk about in this half hour,
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S1: but we're going to open up phone lines. And when
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S1: you're ready, give us a call. Who laid the foundation
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S1: of faith in your life? And what did they do
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S1: that you'll never forget? I want you to think about
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S1: that for a second. Who laid that foundation of faith
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S1: in your life? And what did they do that you'll
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S1: never forget? And I'm not talking about faith. I'm talking
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S1: about a sincere faith. Let's just stay right in this text. Right, Allie?
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S2: Yeah. I love this question because, because I oftentimes we,
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S2: we know that you are not born a Christian. We
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S2: make that distinction all the time that being born and
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S2: raised into a Christian family does not make you a
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S2: Christian at all. At all. Full stop. Yeah, I think
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S2: it's cool, though, that being raised with the foundation of
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S2: faith in a home where you hear about the things
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S2: of God, where you see it lived out, where you
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S2: have a model to follow, whether it's a parent or
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S2: a grandparent, an aunt or an uncle, Uncle. Someone who
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S2: went before you. Who got it right? Yeah. And you
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S2: were able to look at their life and model and emulate.
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S2: That's what we're looking for. Who laid the foundation of
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S2: faith in your life? And what did they do that
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S2: you'll never forget? 805. Five. 578, 98. We're celebrating legacy
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S2: of Faith. 805. 5578, 98.
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S1: Yeah. Light up those phone lines. Boom. Crew. This is
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S1: your show. 805 557898. Give us a call right now.
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S1: Let's just go for it this half hour. 805 557898.
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S1: Who laid the foundation of faith in your life? And
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S1: what did they do that you'll never forget? You will
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S1: never forget it.
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S5: Walking closer to Jesus every day. You're listening to Carl
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S5: and crew.
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S1: So we got a question for you. If you think
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S1: back about the foundation of your faith, that absolute surrender
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S1: to Jesus Christ. The question is. Who was that person
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S1: who laid that foundation and what did they do that
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S1: you will never, ever forget? Never forget? Give us a
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S1: call 805 557898 805 557898. Emmett in Illinois, what do
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S1: you say, Emmett?
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S6: Hey, Carl. Good morning. Yes. Um, what what began my
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S6: foundation was we were having a Zoom call, Bible study,
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S6: men's Bible study with four of us. And it was
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S6: with my best friend and his son and a minister
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S6: in Boston. And, um, his son, which I've known since
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S6: a baby, asked me, um, if I was ready to
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S6: accept Jesus. And I said, yes, I am. And we
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S6: went on and it was just wonderful. And then I
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S6: mentioned that I want to get a large print Bible.
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S6: And toward the end of the study he said, Uncle Emmett,
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S6: your Bible will be delivered tomorrow morning.
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S1: Oh.
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S6: And sure. And sure enough, it was. And I use
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S6: it to this day. And I go to High Point
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S6: in North Aurora.
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S1: Yeah.
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S6: And, uh, you were at our Naperville campus.
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S1: Um, doing a men's.
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S6: Promoting Killing Sin. Yeah. And, uh, I love it.
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S1: Bro. I love you.
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S6: Three and a half years in.
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S1: Three and a half years following Jesus. How old are you, Emmett?
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S6: I'm 68.
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S1: Bro. You are living life now. Oh, wow. You are
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S1: living life now. Emmett.
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S2: Emmett. How old is your son's best friend? Emmett. I'm
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S2: curious how your son's best friend. You've known him since
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S2: he was little. How old is he now?
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S6: He just turned 40.
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S1: Wow.
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S6: And he is so plugged in. Oh my goodness.
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S1: Yeah, he's plugged in. All right. Yeah.
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S6: My best friend.
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S1: Yeah.
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S6: Is currently in Costa Rica ministering.
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S1: Oh.
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S6: And he'll be back in a few days.
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S1: Dude, you're in the richest days of your life right now.
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S6: I am.
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S1: Yeah.
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S6: And he continues to provide so many blessings. I. It's just,
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S6: I called yesterday, and I told you about my job.
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S6: And that one of the residents came and, um, attended
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S6: our church. And now she's become a member.
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S2: Yeah, I remember that.
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S1: Yeah.
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S6: Yeah. She filled out a connect card and, uh, she
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S6: went to a women's. She went to a women's, uh, uh,
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S6: study yesterday and loved it. And.
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S1: Yeah. You're you're in the thick of it right now.
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S1: You know what? You're in the swift water right now
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S1: with God. There's no doubt about it. That is beautiful. Karlis.
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S1: First time caller from Miami, Florida. What? What do you say?
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S7: Well, it was my grandmother, um, that laid the foundation
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S7: for me. I saw her pray every day of her life,
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S7: and she lived to be 103, uh, three times a day,
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S7: every day, morning, noon and night before she went to bed. Uh,
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S7: if she'd be out somewhere during the noonday hour, she
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S7: if she was walking down the street, she'd stop and
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S7: pray or pray while she was walking. She never failed.
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S1: It's beautiful. Carla, thank you so much for testifying. These
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S1: foundations are radical, aren't they? Ali.
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S2: That's such an inspiration to hear these stories. Uh, Vera.
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S2: First time caller from Valrico, Florida. Tell us who laid
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S2: the foundation of faith in your life. What did they do?
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S8: My Aunt Alice followed God's call to the mission field
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S8: in the Philippines when I was four years old. I
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S8: saw her the least of any of my other family
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S8: members growing up. She had the biggest impact. She's prayed
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S8: for me every day of her life. I'm 60 years old.
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S8: She still does. She wrote to me faithfully when she
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S8: would come home from the field. She worked with me
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S8: on deepening my prayer life, memorizing scripture. She laid challenges,
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S8: offered incentives to memorize God's Word, and she consistently. Her
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S8: message to me has. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
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S8: Keep looking up. He's faithful. You can trust him no
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S8: matter what.
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S1: Oh, Vera. What's her name? First name?
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S8: Alice. Alice. Childs.
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S1: Alice Childs.
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S8: Mhm.
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S1: Wow. Vera. The relative. I saw the least and impacted
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S1: me the most.
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S8: Mhm.
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S1: That'll preach. Sister. Wow. Thank you for calling in today.
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S1: Thank you. Wow. Okay, let's go back to the phone lines. Allie.
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S1: Who do.
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S2: We have? We've got Melissa calling in from Brooklyn, New York. Melissa,
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S2: who laid the foundation of faith in your life, and
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S2: what did they do?
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S9: So actually, it was a youth group that I was
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S9: invited to. And a little backstory is I, I just
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S9: lost my mom. She had died when I was 13.
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S9: We grew up very poor. I was born in Missouri,
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S9: raised in Texas, and just really poor. When we went
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S9: up to Illinois to be with her parents, um, you know,
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S9: we were seen as the redneck hillbillies and hard to
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S9: kind of make friends. But after she had died, we
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S9: had gotten invited to this youth group. And man, I
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S9: tell you, when the Bible talks about loving one another,
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S9: they were a great example of just bringing me in. And, um.
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S9: I'm sorry.
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S10: It's okay.
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S1: No, it's all right.
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S11: But it was such an impact.
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S9: That it took me so a long time to to
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S9: to be not so hateful to God. I hated him.
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S9: After she died, and. But when they. When I got
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S9: into this youth group, I wanted to be there because
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S9: I wanted to be around this love that they showed me. And, um, now, now,
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S9: 30 something years later, I'm a pastor's wife here in Brooklyn,
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S9: New York. Um, eight kids of my own, nine kids
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S9: of my own. And, um, yeah, and I just, that
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S9: has been the impact in my life that overflows into others.
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S9: I tell my own kids, you know, we have to
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S9: love one another. The Bible says love one another. This
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S9: is what's going to distinguish us between the US and
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S9: the world.
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S10: So that's so that's.
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S1: That.
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S10: Is powerful.
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S2: Wow.
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S1: A redneck kid who's discarded goes to a youth group,
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S1: gets transformed by the grace and power of God through
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S1: their love, gets married to a flamethrowing preacher, and now
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S1: they're in New York. Brooklyn. Good grief.
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S10: Yes.
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S9: Doing a lot of evangelizing here in this mission field.
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S10: And it's a beautiful thing.
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S1: Way to go, sister. Thanks for calling in today. This
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S1: is peel paint time. My goodness. Rebecca. First time caller
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S1: in New Tampa, Florida. What do you say?
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S12: So my person was Samantha. We were in our 20s
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S12: working in the corporate world, and I was living a
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S12: very wretched life. I was completely ignorant to the Bible, Jesus,
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S12: all of it. And she never judged me. I always
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S12: felt love from her. She shared with me a track
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S12: and I held on to that, especially in my darkest times.
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S12: I would just go back to that. And when I
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S12: finally came to the end of myself, I don't know, five,
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S12: seven years later, it took a long time. Um, that
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S12: was what I was looking into when the Lord called
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S12: me and I finally came to the end of myself
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S12: and gave my life over to the Lord. And I
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S12: just want to say to those that are praying, especially
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S12: in the corporate world, you see the way people are living.
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S12: Don't give up on them. Don't judge them. Just love
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S12: them and pray for those opportunities to minister to them.
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S10: This is so epic.
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S1: What a word. Thank you so much, Rebecca. Oh thank you.
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S1: Thank you. What an amazing morning we're having here.
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S2: You know, I'm so moved by the simplicity of the
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S2: demonstrations of faith.
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S10: That love.
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S2: Love.
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S1: Non-judgmental.
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S2: That you saw someone pray. You saw someone read their
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S2: Bible faithfully that was poured into you, that these are
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S2: really simple, faithful things done day after day in a
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S2: life with Jesus that has changed the trajectory of a generation.
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S2: That's what I'm struck by, is that it's not this
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S2: the big stuff that we think?
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S1: No, it almost never is, right? I mean, that's the
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S1: proverbial story of life is that it's the little stuff.
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S2: I mean, it's it's those little expressions of faith over
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S2: time that proved out.
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S1: You know, here's the interesting thing. I mean, the broad
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S1: path is filled with people that are on you know,
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S1: there's been a lot of discussion about are people seeking.
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S1: And I would I would say this not everyone is
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S1: seeking God, but everyone is seeking something to fill, as
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S1: Pascal is. Want to say that God shaped void that
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S1: only God can fill. There's no question about it. So the, the,
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S1: the question is, what can we do that no one
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S1: on that broad path can do? And we've heard that
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S1: over and over this morning. Let your light so shine
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S1: before men and women that they will see your deeds
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S1: and give glory to your father in heaven. Now are
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S1: their God fearing people on that broad path that the
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S1: minute they hear about Jesus, they're like, yes, okay, I'm
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S1: turning around. Absolutely. And by the way, did you hear
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S1: a common thread here? All these people that have been
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S1: impacted by people have surrendered all they are to Jesus.
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S1: This isn't cultural Christianity. This is all in. And it
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S1: was brought on by extraordinary. How do you say this
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S1: extraordinarily simple fruit of the spirit love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness,
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S1: self control. Wow. This is. This is exhibit A for
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S1: why we do what we're doing here, right here to
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S1: tee up the ball for you guys to put on display.
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S1: How God works through every day life. I'm just gobsmacked
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S1: here this morning.
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S2: I am too. Truly. And it's. You think about what
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S2: opportunity that you have that I have because there's somebody
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S2: that we have the have influence. Oh, maybe children, maybe coworkers.
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S10: Yeah.
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S2: And could we be through our simple, faithful acts? The
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S2: next person, you know, maybe ten years from now, somebody's
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S2: going to be saying about what you did.
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S1: Yeah. And so where are you today? Let me just say,
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S1: these testimonies you've heard. May the Spirit of God may
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S1: be saying, wake up. Wake up to the reality of
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S1: the new birth miracle in your life. Maybe it's time
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S1: to recommit all that you are to Jesus and to
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S1: watch him work powerfully through you. It's worth it. People
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S1: are watching. Friend. Yeah, it's Carl and crew helping you
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S1: take your next step with Jesus. Or I should say
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S1: the boom crew's doing that.
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S5: Tune in whenever you like. Check out the Carl and
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S5: Crew podcast wherever you like to stream.
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S1: Well, as promised, we've got them in here. The man,
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S1: the myth, the legend. And I throw that around a
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S1: little to willy nilly because this is the man, the myth,
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S1: the legend. Doctor real doctor Rick Nelson. And I told
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S1: you this, doc, and I really mean this. We prayed
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S1: you in here, and I and I mean this seriously.
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S1: I do believe that you are the man to be
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S1: here at this time. 11th president of Moody Bible Institute,
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S1: by the way. And I'm overjoyed that this is your
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S1: first founder's week that you're going to be a plenary
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S1: speaker at. And I'm I'm thrilled. So we want to know,
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S1: can you give us the reveal on your big idea?
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S1: Alli was chomping at the bit to find out what
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S1: in the world you've really prepped here.
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S13: Yes. Well, you know, I'm always a little nervous to
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S13: give out too much information because I have no idea
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S13: what the other speakers are going to speak on. But
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S13: I will tell you this first of all, I am
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S13: just thrilled about our theme from generation to generation, The
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S13: Unstoppable Gospel. And I'm picking up on that theme right
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S13: from second Timothy. And I start right in chapter one,
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S13: right with Lois and Eunice and Timothy, as Paul is
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S13: reminding him of his incredible heritage, of the generation to
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S13: generation that's been passed down from his grandmother to his
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S13: mother to him. And then, of course, Paul goes on
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S13: in chapter two to encourage young Timothy to pass it
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S13: on to the next generation, and then to those faithful
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S13: men who will pass it on to the next generation.
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S13: So for generations, for links from Paul to Timothy to
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S13: faithful men to others. And that'll be the big idea.
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S10: Beautiful.
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S2: When you think about generation to generation and the legacy,
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S2: even here at Moody Bible Institute, I mean Founder's Week,
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S2: the oldest, longest running free Bible conference in the country.
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S2: What does it mean to you to, as the new president,
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S2: to be a part of this for the first time formally?
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S13: It's an incredible legacy and what an incredible heritage. You know,
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S13: I was thinking about this the other day from generation
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S13: to generation, that there are faithful men and women who
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S13: have been coming generation to generation, who have passed this
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S13: on to their children. Yet we will be singing the
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S13: same songs and hymns and truths. We will be sharing
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S13: the same gospel and the same word of God. So
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S13: from whatever generation someone has been here from ages past
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S13: to current, present, the same gospel, the same good news
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S13: of Jesus Christ, and the same Word of God.
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S1: You know, it's interesting that you mentioned that, and it
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S1: got me thinking. I did a little bit of a
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S1: deep dive for a message I was preaching recently, and
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S1: there's been a myth out there, an urban myth in
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S1: Christian circles. It's some of the hymns that we sing
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S1: come from pub songs. Now that is a myth. I
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S1: found that out. So I've even I've even shared that
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S1: in the past here a number of years ago. But
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S1: it is not a myth that the Wesley Brothers, Luther,
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S1: even Booth with Salvation Army. They took contemporary stuff in
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S1: their day. And so A Mighty Fortress is our God.
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S1: Classic hymns that we see as, boy, those are the
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S1: hymns those guys were writing that although they were generation
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S1: to generation, they were reaching the generation with songs, lyrics,
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S1: and even tunes that were relevant to that day. That's
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S1: an aha moment for a president, isn't it? Could you
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S1: comment on that?
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S13: Yeah. You know, I think you're absolutely right. You know,
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S13: the truths of scripture, the truths of our hymns that
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S13: we sing, they go from generation to generation. But oftentimes
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S13: the music that we sing has to be updated to
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S13: the times that we live in. And I love when
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S13: someone takes a wonderful old hymn and kind of modernizes it,
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S13: or encourages just our current generation of maybe how to
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S13: sing it, to refresh it, to just think about this generation.
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S13: And you're absolutely right. You know, the whole idea of
21:11
S13: Luther was to put everything in the vernacular, to sing
21:13
S13: in German. We don't sing in German today, although although
21:17
S13: I think the tune is a German tune that we sing.
21:20
S13: A Mighty Fortress is our God. And you know, those
21:22
S13: are just great truths that we can come together and enjoy.
21:25
S13: But we want to make everything relevant for today, right?
21:28
S13: We want every, every person that comes to hear the gospel,
21:31
S13: the good news of Jesus Christ, to hear it in
21:33
S13: their contemporary language. And in fact, I'm going to do
21:36
S13: something really special. Uh, Lord willing, on Friday to be
21:40
S13: able to present a Bible to a student that's in
21:43
S13: a different language and just being reminded that the gospel
21:46
S13: is for every person, the gospel is for every language,
21:49
S13: and the gospel is for every nation.
21:50
S10: Beautiful.
21:51
S2: You know, it's so exciting. A week like this, we
21:53
S2: get to welcome so many people to our great campus.
21:57
S2: And for many, it's a homecoming of sorts. There's going
21:59
S2: to be a lot of alumni who come back for
22:01
S2: a week like this, but many people who are maybe
22:03
S2: first timers never come to Moody Bible Institute. What do
22:06
S2: you want people to experience who are coming to this campus,
22:10
S2: who maybe for the first time.
22:12
S13: Experienced the Word of God? And I think that's the
22:14
S13: beauty of our Founders Week. You know, we have an
22:16
S13: incredible lineup. Priscilla Schreier, we have Tony Evans, we have
22:20
S13: Crawford and Brian Lauritzen. We have we have Philip Miller,
22:23
S13: who's the pastor right up the street here at Moody Church.
22:26
S13: We have an incredible lineup with other guests who will
22:29
S13: be here on Friday morning. Steve DeWitt, doctor DeWitt will
22:33
S13: be here. A good friend of mine, our wonderful president
22:35
S13: from past Doctor Stoll, will be back. But one of
22:38
S13: the things I'm confident about, that every one of those
22:40
S13: speakers will open the Word of God. They will speak
22:43
S13: from God's Word, and they will speak truths that are
22:45
S13: relevant for today. And they are timeless truths that everyone
22:48
S13: can be encouraged by. And that's my hope that people
22:51
S13: will leave encouraged because they encounter the Word of God,
22:54
S13: the transformational gospel that is unstoppable. As my friend Carl says.
22:59
S1: Yeah, it you know, Doctor Rick Nelson is our guest
23:02
S1: right now. You know, the interesting thing is a lot
23:04
S1: of people, I think, have mistakenly kind of undershot what
23:11
S1: God can do through moments of immersion in God's Word.
23:16
S1: And I look back to an event that I took
23:18
S1: a bunch of men to promise keepers in a stadium
23:22
S1: that's now no longer there, but it had a long tail.
23:25
S1: I truly believe that something like Founder's Week, whether you're
23:29
S1: live or digitally, and we're going to have a link
23:32
S1: for you because no matter where you're in this world,
23:34
S1: you can take part in every session. It seems to
23:38
S1: me that now I'm going back a little bit. When
23:41
S1: I was a kid, though, we had these intensives where
23:43
S1: we would have conferences for a Friday night. Saturday it
23:47
S1: would go into Sunday. There is something that can happen, doc,
23:52
S1: when we get immersed in truth, is there not?
23:55
S13: I think you're absolutely right. I think the spirit dwells
23:57
S13: within us, and I think there is something that happens
23:59
S13: intrinsically when we come together as the people of God
24:02
S13: gathered together around His Word. And we really are, you know,
24:06
S13: intentional about these few days together. It's a bit of
24:09
S13: a camp meeting. It's a bit of a revival. It's
24:12
S13: a bit of a Bible conference all packed together. We
24:15
S13: want to sing to the Lord. We want to praise
24:16
S13: his name. We want to open His Word, and we
24:18
S13: want to immerse ourselves in the truths of God's Word.
24:21
S13: And it is the power of the gospel that does
24:23
S13: the transformation. And we just pray that the spirit will
24:26
S13: be at work. Whether you are listening on the radio,
24:28
S13: whether you are digitally connected to us through a link,
24:31
S13: whether you are here live, every person can be impacted
24:35
S13: by the Good News of Jesus Christ.
24:36
S10: Amen.
24:37
S2: We do have a link for you and get here
24:39
S2: if you can. If not, please take advantage of the
24:41
S2: live stream. Also radio for the evening sessions. Text founders
24:46
S2: to 805 557898. Doctor Nelson is going to be the
24:50
S2: Friday night speaker, but full lineup starting tonight, just text
24:54
S2: founders to 805 five, five, 78, 98.
24:58
S1: Okay, a couple quick questions for you so that we
25:00
S1: can get to know you a little bit more. Are
25:02
S1: you deep dish or thin crust?
25:04
S13: Uh, it's probably thin crust.
25:05
S1: Okay. I'm with you on that one. Don't you don't
25:07
S1: you apologize? Um, are you truck or car?
25:11
S13: Uh, SUV.
25:13
S1: Okay. You're kind of in the tweener stage right there.
25:16
S1: We'll go with that. And are you him or modern chorus.
25:20
S13: Yes.
25:20
S10: Ah, you know, I love to.
25:24
S13: I love both, I love the great truths of the
25:27
S13: hymns that we sing. Uh, you know, I'll quote him
25:29
S13: sometimes I'll sing a hymn even as I'm as I'm
25:32
S13: speaking or preaching. And I also just love what God
25:35
S13: is doing through contemporary artists, even today who are writing
25:38
S13: truths of God's Word. And there's so many great hymn
25:41
S13: writers and, and contemporary worship leaders today that are bringing
25:46
S13: incredible truths to the church. And I just appreciate all
25:49
S13: of it. And it's just a good reminder. You know,
25:51
S13: a mighty fortress is our God was new at some point. Uh,
25:55
S13: as is, you know, a more recent contemporary song. The
25:58
S13: truths come from God's Word. They are applicable to our lives.
26:03
S13: I love hymns, love contemporary songs, love to worship. In fact,
26:06
S13: we're encouraged to sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. So,
26:09
S13: you know, Paul says, speak to one another, Psalms, hymns
26:11
S13: and spiritual songs. So all the above. Yes, yes, yes.
26:15
S2: I get to throw in a couple of my own. Right, Carl?
26:17
S1: Yeah. I think Ali emceeing ought to just.
26:20
S10: Burst into song. No, no no.
26:22
S2: No, I didn't mean songs.
26:24
S10: I meant questions. Oh, absolutely.
26:26
S13: Bring em on.
26:27
S2: Definitely not song. Morning or night person.
26:29
S13: Oh, definitely a night person.
26:30
S2: Night person. Okay. And then finally, the what verse or
26:33
S2: verses are speaking to you most right now? I'm guessing
26:37
S2: it might be where you're camped out for your session. Yeah,
26:39
S2: maybe someplace else.
26:41
S13: Well, right now I definitely have been hanging out there
26:43
S13: and I love the generation to generation. Uh, the, the
26:47
S13: psalm that reminds us to, to tell the good news
26:50
S13: of the great things that God has done from generation
26:53
S13: to generation. And I love that passage because it says
26:56
S13: specifically to us. And I've been thinking about this, that we,
26:59
S13: we tell the truths, we proclaim the truths of God's word,
27:02
S13: of the things and the mighty works that he has
27:04
S13: done to our children, to our grandchildren, and to the
27:08
S13: children's children that we don't even know that we will
27:10
S13: never meet. And thus the impact of that from generation
27:13
S13: to generation. So that's what I've been thinking a lot about.
27:15
S13: I love this theme. I'm encouraged by it. And I
27:18
S13: just think it's just something that, you know, there's a
27:20
S13: few stories that I'm going to share. I'm going to
27:21
S13: hold on to them because they're really special stories I
27:23
S13: want to share on Friday night. There's some personal stories
27:26
S13: of how that was passed on to me and how
27:29
S13: that is being passed on to the next generation.
27:31
S1: We so look forward to it. Doctor Rick Nelson And again,
27:34
S1: that link founders to 805 five, five, 78, 98. And
27:39
S1: if you vote that Alli should as she's emceeing break
27:42
S1: into song, you can do that as well. Text founders
27:45
S1: to 805 5578, 98. You know, Ali, I'm telling you,
27:51
S1: if you knew the Lord's return was like within 30 minutes,
27:53
S1: would you pop one out there if you just knew
27:56
S1: 30 minutes? I mean, it's just something fun to kick around.
27:59
S10: I'll give.
28:00
S2: It.
28:00
S10: Some thought. Well, we know.
28:01
S13: For we know for sure, Carl, the trumpet is going
28:03
S13: to sound, and we're going to be gathered together in
28:05
S13: the air, and we'll be singing gloriously for all eternity. Holy, holy,
28:10
S13: holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is
28:12
S13: and is to come. And the whole earth is filled
28:14
S13: with his glory.
28:15
S1: Oh my goodness, we could almost sing it right now.
28:18
S1: Tech's founders to 805, five, five, 78, 98. You know
28:29
S1: we are big on the grace of God here, guys.
28:32
S1: Big on it. Titus 211 and 12. Grace of God
28:35
S1: saves us and trains us to renounce ungodliness, worldly passions,
28:39
S1: live self-controlled, godly lives in this present age. It's all
28:43
S1: God's grace. It's all God's grace. Uh, when I think
28:47
S1: of and we want to tackle this topic breakthrough. When
28:50
S1: I think of breakthrough. Sorry, I got to go back
28:53
S1: to my dog blaze. Got to get my Alaskan husky
28:56
S1: wedged in here.
28:57
S10: Okay.
28:57
S1: You know, we took him down to this dog park,
29:00
S1: and he had a bad experience.
29:02
S10: Oh, no.
29:02
S1: The first time we were down, the first time we
29:04
S1: were down there, I went in there and there were
29:06
S1: a couple of alpha males, and they saw this long
29:09
S1: legged husky from Alaska, and they're like, we're going to
29:11
S1: dominate this guy. And it was rough. I had to
29:14
S1: get him up and out of there because they were
29:16
S1: really hard on him. So ever since then, he's been
29:21
S1: attentive when he gets in among these critters. Right. The
29:25
S1: tail's just tucked right under his legs and he's got
29:27
S1: hair on his back going up and he wants to
29:30
S1: enjoy it. So I took him down here a couple
29:33
S1: of days ago, and there are 22, count em, 22
29:36
S1: dogs in this big old dog park. 22.
29:39
S2: You actually counted them, huh?
29:41
S10: Oh, yeah.
29:41
S1: Because there were so many. I'm, like I told one guy.
29:44
S1: Is this a record? He goes, it is for when
29:45
S1: I'm out here. 22 of these things. And he was
29:50
S1: super tentative and it was really awesome because he learned something.
29:55
S1: I'm faster than every one of these suckers out here today. I'm.
30:02
S1: And all of a sudden he realized, ah, if if
30:06
S1: they start coming out, I'm free. And there was I
30:10
S1: could see in my dog's brain and emotional breakthrough in
30:15
S1: that moment. Now, metaphors are everywhere, aren't there?
30:19
S10: Oh, yeah.
30:20
S1: But there's some of us that walk through life with
30:23
S1: our tail between our legs. Doctor Marcus Warner It's true,
30:28
S1: isn't it, man? We walk through life with our tail
30:31
S1: between our legs. And we've been made for so much more.
30:33
S1: My man, pour out your heart.
30:35
S14: Yeah, absolutely. Now, there's a reason. When writing breakthroughs. I
30:39
S14: spent 40 years meeting with people who were in all
30:43
S14: stages of bondage and all stages of baggage they're carrying
30:47
S14: with them. And a lot of times you feel hopeless
30:49
S14: and you feel like this is never going to change.
30:51
S14: Nothing I, you know, do really matters. And we need
30:55
S14: to lay out a path. Like, how does breakthrough work?
30:57
S14: How do you experience this? And that's what we're trying
30:59
S14: to do.
31:00
S2: Doctor Marcus Warner with us in studio president of Deeper
31:03
S2: Walk International. Equipping people on the front lines of ministry
31:06
S2: with practical tools. Tools. We're featuring a book today, Breakthrough
31:10
S2: Five Essential Strategies for Freedom, healing and Wholeness. Now, your
31:14
S2: book takes the Bible and brain science combined with the
31:17
S2: Holy Spirit and provides an integrative approach to really walking
31:22
S2: in that freedom. First. Why is freedom so elusive? We
31:26
S2: read the scriptures. We know what we're promised, the abundant life.
31:31
S2: But why do so many people find that to be
31:33
S2: so elusive?
31:34
S14: Well, we know on the day that we get saved,
31:35
S14: we are set free from sin, right? Yes. And yet.
31:39
S14: And we are set free from the law. We're set
31:40
S14: free from the flesh. We're set free from the world.
31:42
S14: And we do that by dying to these things. And so, uh,
31:46
S14: but now we have to learn how to reckon ourselves dead.
31:48
S14: We have to learn. How do I walk in this? Therefore,
31:51
S14: since I have died with Christ, how do I then live?
31:55
S14: And that's what discipleship is all about. It's walking alongside people,
31:57
S14: helping them learn how do I walk in this freedom?
32:00
S14: So one of the reasons it's elusive is that there
32:03
S14: are we in our book, lay out five engines that
32:06
S14: drive our emotions. And a lot of times people are
32:09
S14: just doing one thing and hoping that'll give them the breakthrough.
32:12
S14: And they don't realize there's often a variety of things
32:15
S14: involved in the breakthrough journey. Um, for example, in our
32:18
S14: evangelical society, we tend to focus a lot on two
32:21
S14: verses especially, and that is renew your mind and the
32:24
S14: truth will set you free. And so we just read
32:26
S14: more books and we get more content and we get
32:29
S14: more information. And we think that if I just learned
32:32
S14: the right thing and I get the right information, I
32:34
S14: have the right insight, that'll give me breakthrough. But it
32:37
S14: often takes a lot more than just knowledge to, to
32:40
S14: get us there. And there's other verses in the Bible about,
32:43
S14: you know, what create healing and confession brings healing and
32:48
S14: the Holy Spirit brings healing. And there's a the spirit
32:52
S14: realm out there where we're in battle against spiritual forces,
32:55
S14: and that has to be reckoned in. And so what
32:57
S14: I find is oftentimes when we're struggling with breakthrough, it's
33:00
S14: because there are other areas that we need to be
33:03
S14: focused on than just the one that we keep going
33:05
S14: back to.
33:06
S1: This is super fascinating. You just alluded to a couple
33:09
S1: of things. One is Colossians three. So we are called
33:12
S1: to set our minds on things above, not on things
33:14
S1: on earth. Mind renewal is huge and all that and
33:17
S1: the power of the Holy Spirit. John 14, John 16,
33:20
S1: Romans eight. You said something that's super intriguing to me,
33:25
S1: and it's that and we say this how often? It's
33:28
S1: not about knowledge, it's about applied knowledge. Is there this gap?
33:33
S1: Because Jesus describes two people, one that survived storms, one
33:36
S1: that crumbles when the waves come. Is it about application
33:41
S1: of that truth and how does that work, doc?
33:45
S14: Yeah, absolutely. It's about the application of the truth, but
33:48
S14: it's not quite as simple as it sounds. Because what
33:50
S14: I find is there's, there's two concepts you have to
33:52
S14: bring together one's choices and one's capacity. For example, if
33:56
S14: I say, hey, I'm going to go run the marathon,
33:59
S14: I don't have the capacity to do that. I can
34:01
S14: make that choice, but it's not going to be pretty, right?
34:03
S14: Because I don't have that capacity. Well, capacity is directly
34:07
S14: related to our maturity, development, and maturity development isn't completely
34:11
S14: in our hands. Some of that is what we grew
34:14
S14: up with. Some of it is what we the skills
34:17
S14: and habits we've developed throughout our lives. And I can
34:20
S14: make the choice to start working on those things, but
34:22
S14: I can't make the choice to simply have them right.
34:26
S14: So if I've missed out on these skills, I've missed
34:28
S14: out on these habits. I can make the choices to
34:31
S14: start working on them. But that's different than saying, oh yeah,
34:33
S14: I can just be better tomorrow if I just, you know,
34:36
S14: put into practice what I learned today because it's not
34:39
S14: quite that simple. And that's why.
34:41
S2: So let's get some practical help here. Doctor Marcus Warner,
34:44
S2: author of breakthrough. What are these essential strategies for freedom,
34:48
S2: healing and wholeness. We'll find out. Coming up here on
34:50
S2: Carl and Crew.
34:52
S5: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
34:56
S2: Have you ever felt stuck? Stuck in your circumstances. Stuck
34:59
S2: in a cycle. Thinking, man, this is never going to change.
35:02
S2: Or I keep trying. I'm. I'm going to church. I'm
35:05
S2: reading my Bible. I'm praying I'm going to small group.
35:07
S2: And yet I still seem stuck. How do we get breakthrough?
35:10
S2: That's the focus of a new book, Breakthrough Five Essential
35:13
S2: Strategies for Freedom, Healing and Wholeness. The author, Doctor Marcus
35:17
S2: Warner with us in studio right now. So let's talk
35:19
S2: about some of these essential strategies that you lay out
35:23
S2: in the book.
35:23
S14: Yeah. So there's five. And they correspond to five engines
35:26
S14: that drive our emotions. So the first is body and
35:29
S14: then beliefs and then bonding. And then there's two spiritual engines,
35:33
S14: the Holy Spirit and wicked spirits. And so the idea
35:35
S14: is we need to be aware of our bodies because
35:37
S14: when things are off physically, sometimes that's the key to
35:40
S14: what's going on emotionally. We just need to do something
35:43
S14: about our body. Second is our beliefs. And this is
35:45
S14: the one that I was talking about before, like renewing
35:48
S14: our mind. Thinking about true things. Filling our minds with truth.
35:52
S14: Replacing lies. That's the beliefs engine. And then we have bonding.
35:56
S14: And what we found in from brain science is that
35:59
S14: my brain wants to bond in joy with other people,
36:03
S14: but it can learn to bond in fear. And so
36:06
S14: if my brain has learned to bond in fear with
36:08
S14: other people, fear will permeate my whole life. And I
36:11
S14: have to learn how to transform my fear bonding into
36:14
S14: joy bonding. So that's an engine. It's a whole conversation, uh, that, uh,
36:19
S14: but it's mostly about motivation and learning to motivate myself
36:22
S14: and what I do with things that are joy based
36:24
S14: rather than always fear motivating myself.
36:27
S1: Yeah. So I'm thinking of someone listening right now because
36:31
S1: there are family of origin issues or peer pressure issues,
36:36
S1: you name it. There's a lot of there's trauma that
36:38
S1: happens early on in life that can, uh, stifle us,
36:42
S1: I guess is a word you talk in breakthrough about
36:46
S1: building emotional resilience. And so my question is, what is
36:51
S1: it that causes some people who come from horrific backgrounds
36:54
S1: to get exit velocity from that versus someone that maybe
36:59
S1: comes from a lesser thing? I'm not trying to diminish
37:01
S1: this person. They feel like I haven't gone through that,
37:05
S1: and yet they can't get exit velocity from that. There's
37:08
S1: got to be something about the grace of God, the
37:12
S1: power of the Holy Spirit to overcome these things. What
37:16
S1: is that change agent right there, doc?
37:19
S14: Yeah, I would say there are two key change agents.
37:22
S14: One is healing and one is skill building. And so
37:26
S14: we talk a lot about healing. And that is let's
37:29
S14: go back to wounds. Let's find the lies that got
37:31
S14: planted in those wounds. Let's uncover the vows that we've
37:34
S14: made about the way we live that are keeping us stuck.
37:36
S14: Because most of the time when people are stuck, that
37:38
S14: there are wounds in their past that have led them
37:40
S14: to believe things that are not true, and now they
37:43
S14: have made vows about how they're going to live their
37:45
S14: life that are self-protective. And now they're in in bondage.
37:49
S14: They can't seem to break out of this. So they
37:50
S14: need true. They need healing for those wounds. They need
37:54
S14: replacements for those lies. And they need to identify and
37:58
S14: break these vows and learn new skill set. The other
38:01
S14: thing is, is skills. And that is a lot of
38:04
S14: us grew up in families that weren't good with emotions
38:06
S14: and weren't good with relationships. And so we didn't see
38:08
S14: that modeled. And we never developed our own skill set
38:13
S14: of how do you feel shame and recover? How do
38:17
S14: you feel? Ain't somebody being angry with you and recover?
38:20
S14: And we've never seen it modeled. We don't have a
38:23
S14: sense in our head of what that looks like. So
38:24
S14: we actually talk quite a bit about what's involved in
38:27
S14: beginning to build those skills. And we give, uh, very
38:31
S14: practical exercises on, on quieting, on growing my appreciation on
38:37
S14: the kind of habits that you develop. And so I
38:40
S14: think like I got a friend who used to work
38:43
S14: here at Moody and had great, huge trauma in her background,
38:47
S14: but is one of the most joyful people I know.
38:49
S14: And but she worked really hard at the healing and
38:53
S14: at growing her relational and emotional skills.
38:56
S2: You know, we have become, as a culture, very, very
38:59
S2: well versed in therapeutic language. So you have kids who
39:03
S2: talk about who use words like triggers and trauma and
39:07
S2: self-care and self-help and healing, and a lot of the
39:11
S2: words that you used, how do we stay up on
39:13
S2: this high ridge? Because I think some people recognizing that
39:17
S2: some of this language has been used in ways that
39:19
S2: doesn't actually lead people to freedom, can actually lead people
39:23
S2: to kind of this cycle of stuckness, but they're just
39:26
S2: saying maybe some of the right words. How do we
39:28
S2: climb up on the high ridge where we identify that
39:30
S2: some of these things are very real, but we don't
39:34
S2: land there. We hold we continue to hold out the
39:37
S2: truth of God's Word and the promise that we can
39:40
S2: overcome anything.
39:41
S14: Right. There's opposite extremes you can land on here. You know,
39:44
S14: one is we just forget everything and move on and
39:47
S14: we don't worry about it and kind of misuse that
39:49
S14: passage of scripture. The other extreme is that you can
39:53
S14: just get caught up in your whole life, and your
39:55
S14: identity becomes your malfunctions. And what we're trying to avoid
39:59
S14: is our malfunctions becoming our identity. So we want to
40:02
S14: look at what is what God designed us to be.
40:05
S14: Who did he designed us to be? And this is
40:06
S14: where grace comes in. Because grace is all about everything
40:10
S14: that God gives us to be the person that he
40:12
S14: made us to be. And so there's always going to
40:14
S14: be gaps. But what happens is we try to give
40:17
S14: you exercises and things that you can do in each
40:21
S14: one of these areas to improve, and not just to
40:24
S14: stay there. And so you got to know, but what
40:26
S14: is my target? What am I working on? And so
40:28
S14: it's going to look very different if you're dealing with
40:29
S14: spiritual warfare than if you're talking to inviting the Holy
40:33
S14: Spirit in to do something in your life. Then if
40:36
S14: you are meditating on scripture, or if you're doing something
40:39
S14: a little bit more therapeutic, where you're looking at your
40:43
S14: belief system and trying to replace those beliefs. And so
40:46
S14: whereas a lot of books have like one, here's the
40:48
S14: one thing, just, you know, get after these. What I've
40:50
S14: tried to do is put the whole model together and
40:52
S14: show that it actually takes all five of these. And
40:54
S14: if you're stuck, sometimes it's because you just keep going
40:57
S14: back to the same engine over and over again. And
40:59
S14: there's actually some other things you might want to look at.
41:02
S1: This is good. Let's, let's take a role play common scenario.
41:07
S1: I'm thinking of everybody driving right now or walking a
41:09
S1: path or sitting at home. There is a big temptation,
41:14
S1: especially in the Western culture, that we are. Our worth
41:19
S1: is measured by how we perform. Okay. So I want
41:22
S1: you to coach us up in two minutes or less.
41:25
S1: I'm kidding here, but give us some give us some
41:28
S1: handles here. How to walk into that meeting? How to
41:31
S1: have lunch with that friend in a way that my
41:33
S1: validation isn't based on how I'm perceived by that person necessarily.
41:40
S14: So one of the things that helps is like, I
41:43
S14: deal with my I think about the engines. And so
41:46
S14: before I go into that meeting, I want to do
41:48
S14: something physically. So I'm going to deep breathe, you know,
41:52
S14: pull the air in, blow the air out, and I'm
41:54
S14: going to try to calm my body, maybe rub down
41:56
S14: my arms a little bit and just calm myself. Second,
42:00
S14: I'm going to get my head in a good space.
42:03
S14: So I'm going to find a good motivation and remind
42:05
S14: myself what I like about this person. I'm going to
42:07
S14: remind myself to be curious and say, I'm going to
42:10
S14: be curious. I'm going to show appreciation in this thing,
42:13
S14: and I'm going to make it about my curiosity for them,
42:15
S14: my appreciation for them. And I'm not going to worry
42:17
S14: so much about how they think about me. And then
42:20
S14: I want to get my, uh, you know, just a
42:24
S14: quick game plan of what it is that I need
42:26
S14: to accomplish in this meeting. And what are the bullet
42:28
S14: points here that we need to be focused on? And
42:31
S14: that's how I would, you know, recommend. I'm going to
42:33
S14: walk into the meeting here and, uh, and make the
42:36
S14: focus on what I appreciate about them. And then I
42:38
S14: want to remind myself that I'm walking into this meeting
42:40
S14: as somebody that God couldn't love any more than he
42:42
S14: currently does.
42:44
S1: That's now that's a game. That's the game. That's the.
42:46
S10: Secrets.
42:47
S1: No, we that's not a flyby, is it?
42:50
S10: Not at all.
42:51
S14: Well, it's true because, uh, we are all very aware
42:53
S14: of the gaps in our lives. Everybody's very well that
42:56
S14: I could be more than I am. I could be
42:58
S14: further than I am. I could have a better prayer life.
43:02
S14: I could have a better this I could do. Something
43:04
S14: in my life could be better than it is. Maybe
43:06
S14: a whole bunch of things. And so if we only
43:07
S14: focus on the gaps, we don't. We think that God
43:11
S14: would love us more if I shrunk that gap. But
43:14
S14: that isn't the case. Because while we were yet sinners,
43:17
S14: Christ loved us, right? So his love truly is unconditional
43:20
S14: and his attitude is, I'm the perfect person that you
43:23
S14: need in your life right now to help you, uh,
43:25
S14: walk through what you're walking through. Uh, he's not as
43:28
S14: concerned about the gaps as we are.
43:30
S10: Wow. Love this.
43:31
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43:36
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43:48
S5: This is Carl and Crew on Moody Radio.
43:54
S1: Young thunder going to be back in the saddle. Possibly tomorrow. Yeah,
43:58
S1: it's getting a little time away, but we are, uh,
44:01
S1: we're overjoyed that we get to, uh, get to be
44:05
S1: here doing this. By the way, props to Merle stepping
44:08
S1: in last minute every morning.
44:09
S4: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
44:12
S2: He's been he's been a faithful soldier behind the scenes
44:16
S2: for as Jonathan was out on paternity leave and he
44:19
S2: has just graciously stepped in. He's a member of the
44:22
S2: team here at Moody Radio, but spent the mornings with us,
44:25
S2: learned our whole crazy system of doing things.
44:29
S4: And then still came back.
44:33
S1: Turn your mic on there, Merle.
44:35
S10: Yeah. We gotta.
44:36
S15: We gotta hear a hello from from Merle.
44:38
S16: I'm cracking up.
44:41
S10: Merle you're a.
44:42
S1: You're a blessing, man. Even when we prayed this morning
44:45
S1: to get the show kicked off, he. He said something
44:47
S1: like to God. He said, thank you, God, for the
44:50
S1: privilege of being in here. And I'm thinking not too
44:53
S1: many guys are thanking God for the privilege of waking
44:55
S1: up at, oh, Dark 30.
44:57
S2: Yeah. In addition to his other responsibilities here at Moody Radio.
45:00
S4: He's.
45:01
S2: Stepped in for our team in a major way. So
45:04
S2: I'm going to I'm going to put a picture up
45:06
S2: on our social media. So you can you can say
45:09
S2: thank you to Merle and you can see who's been
45:11
S2: helping us out over the last six weeks.
45:14
S1: You got you should probably get one with his bride
45:16
S1: in there. Boy, he's got a he's got a fireball
45:18
S1: for a bride.
45:19
S10: She's a she's.
45:20
S2: Fantastic.
45:21
S16: She loved meeting you guys and getting that picture. She
45:24
S16: she put it up on Facebook immediately.
45:27
S10: Yes.
45:28
S4: It was so fun. I turned around, I'm like, oh.
45:30
S16: Because we listen. We will listen to you guys every
45:33
S16: morning on our way to work.
45:35
S1: See how easily pleased she is.
45:36
S10: Doesn't take much.
45:37
S4: She lights up a room. I'm telling.
45:39
S10: You, boy.
45:39
S1: She is a spark plug, isn't.
45:41
S10: She? Yeah.
45:42
S1: My goodness, Merle.
45:44
S4: Can I hang with her for a while?
45:45
S10: Yeah.
45:46
S1: Hey, we love you, Merle.
45:48
S16: Love you too. Love you.
45:49
S1: You're a good man. How long have you been following Jesus, Merle? Authentically. Really?
45:53
S1: In it with him?
45:55
S16: Eight years old, I would say. Sunday School with Sister
45:58
S16: Shavers at Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church on the South Side
46:03
S16: of Chicago. I grew up as an altar boy in
46:06
S16: a Baptist church. So, um, that's my.
46:11
S10: You.
46:11
S1: Got a Wayback machine there, buddy?
46:12
S16: Yeah.
46:14
S1: Sister Shaver living it out. Yeah. It's just it's been
46:17
S1: a blessing to have you here, man. I really mean
46:19
S1: that from the bottom of my heart. You've done a
46:20
S1: lot of early time, especially for a whole month when
46:23
S1: Young Thunder was out. Now he's getting a couple of
46:25
S1: days here. But to be able to jump in on
46:28
S1: a moment's notice and set that alarm and get in
46:31
S1: here and always with the smile on your face and
46:34
S1: never grumpy, dumpy. That's pretty big, man.
46:37
S16: Oh, well. Thank you. You guys have been so gracious
46:40
S16: to me as well. Or with me as well. There
46:43
S16: were a few bumps, I'll admit.
46:45
S10: Hey, for all the stuff.
46:47
S1: I mean, literally, Merle is sitting at Mission Control and
46:51
S1: I can honestly tell you this. I don't know, one
46:54
S1: button he hits. I don't know why he hits them.
46:58
S10: I look at the screens.
47:00
S1: I don't know what's on the screens. I don't I'm
47:03
S1: I'm looking at them right now. And the screens have
47:06
S1: all kinds of stuff going on them that I could
47:10
S1: blow up this station if I hit the wrong button,
47:13
S1: and I certainly would, but.
47:15
S10: Oh man.
47:16
S1: Merle, you've been a real blessing. And I want you
47:18
S1: to know that from the bottom of our heart.
47:20
S16: Thank you.
47:21
S1: Tremendous man of God. Okay. Um, boy, we're having a
47:27
S1: good morning here. Got some emotional stuff going on.
47:30
S2: I know that emotional calls and testimonies. And now we're
47:33
S2: getting emotional celebrating.
47:35
S1: Yeah.
47:35
S2: Merle.
47:36
S1: Yeah.
47:37
S2: Give him a shout out on Facebook and Instagram.
47:39
S1: By the way, Merle the Pearl. Just for the record,
47:41
S1: I was waiting. Carl loves a good nickname. Oh yeah.
47:44
S1: He's the pearl man.
47:47
S5: Helping you take the next step in your walk with Jesus.
47:50
S1: God longs for us today to seek him and ask
47:54
S1: him to move in ways that we never could.
47:56
S5: You're listening to Carl and crew.
47:59
S1: Guess what?
48:00
S4: Yeah.
48:01
S1: Oh my goodness. Hold on. Yeah. Sure enough, it's Wednesday.
48:06
S1: I had to look over my shoulder.
48:08
S4: Just checking.
48:09
S1: It's the bottom of the hour. You know what it is.
48:12
S5: Making herself laugh no matter who joins her. It's time for.
48:16
S5: Allie thinks it's funny.
48:19
S17: Yes. The fans go crazy. They're kind of nuts. That's
48:24
S17: what we need. Here.
48:27
S2: Oh, boy. Yeah, I got a I got a couple
48:29
S2: jokes for you. The first one comes in the form
48:32
S2: of just a little unsolicited life advice.
48:34
S17: Okay.
48:35
S2: From me, you can.
48:36
S4: Oh, okay.
48:39
S2: Always dangerous to give unsolicited advice, by the way, but, uh. Yeah,
48:42
S2: I'll take a shot at it if you ever have
48:44
S2: to borrow money from someone. Piece of advice.
48:49
S17: Right?
48:49
S1: You're a slave to the lender.
48:51
S2: Okay, Carl.
48:52
S1: Sorry.
48:53
S2: Just hold it back until I get the punch, okay.
48:57
S4: Just a minute.
48:59
S2: Do you ever have to borrow money from someone? Borrow
49:01
S2: money from a pessimist? Not an optimist. Just kind of
49:04
S2: establish where they are in the kind of the glass
49:07
S2: half empty, glass, half full sort of debate.
49:09
S4: Okay.
49:10
S2: If you have to borrow money, borrow money from a pessimist.
49:13
S2: You want to know why? Yes. They never expect to
49:15
S2: get their money back.
49:20
S4: That's truth.
49:21
S17: That's really good. Little. Just a.
49:23
S4: Little.
49:23
S2: Life advice.
49:24
S17: If it.
49:25
S2: Fits. If it fits, take it. If not, reject it.
49:27
S2: No problem.
49:28
S4: All right.
49:28
S1: Fine. Negative. Ned. He won't be.
49:30
S17: Surprised.
49:31
S4: Negative, Ned.
49:32
S2: I'm never getting that money back. Correct. Next up, if
49:37
S2: you ever go to a restaurant. I guess this is, um,
49:40
S2: maybe two forms of life advice. This is life advice
49:43
S2: on ordering at your favorite Mexican restaurant.
49:46
S17: Okay.
49:46
S2: Okay. Do you ever get refried beans?
49:49
S17: Oh, yeah.
49:49
S2: Little rice and beans on the side of your carne
49:52
S2: asada tacos. Those are my.
49:54
S17: Favorite.
49:54
S1: Don't do that to me.
49:56
S2: What do you like on your beans? A little bit
49:57
S2: of melted cheese.
49:59
S17: Hot sauce.
49:59
S2: Ooh. Hot sauce. Like the.
50:01
S17: Whatever.
50:02
S1: They got.
50:03
S17: I'll throw it on there.
50:04
S2: Okay. Uh, avoid getting onions on your beans.
50:08
S1: Really?
50:08
S2: Yeah. What do you get if you get onions on
50:11
S2: your refried beans?
50:12
S4: What?
50:14
S2: Tear gas?
50:20
S18: I can't believe you said that.
50:23
S2: I can't believe I said it either.
50:24
S4: But shock right now.
50:25
S2: Okay, so that joke.
50:27
S18: I cannot believe.
50:29
S1: Ali just said that.
50:31
S2: Okay, so in fairness, that joke. I went out to
50:33
S2: eat with my whole family at Christmas time. No, no. Carl.
50:38
S2: And on the menu at this Mexican restaurant was some jokes,
50:43
S2: including this one. So my brother points it out. He's like,
50:45
S2: do you see this joke? I read it, I am
50:48
S2: at the table and I am rolling on the floor,
50:51
S2: practically laughing, crying. And I'm like, oh, I have to
50:54
S2: tell this one on air. It's a little it's close
50:57
S2: to the edge.
50:58
S1: Held on to that, though.
50:59
S2: Close to the edge.
51:00
S1: Close to the edge for you, Ali. That is over
51:03
S1: the edge. You're in freefall and you don't have a parachute.
51:06
S1: That is wild.
51:08
S2: Text jokes to 805 57898. Come on.
51:13
S1: What I'm laughing at more. The joker that Ali told.
51:16
S4: I know right.
51:17
S2: Jokes to 805 557898. Come on people. Text jokes to
51:24
S2: 805 5578, 98. Yeah.
51:27
S1: When you open Founder's Week tonight.
51:31
S2: I open with that one.
51:32
S4: Carl.
51:33
S1: I would, I would give you $100 bill.
51:37
S2: Okay. You'd give me $100 bill and I would get
51:39
S2: never asked back to do anything publicly.
51:42
S1: I promise you, I promise you, our president would say
51:46
S1: we've got to have her back every year emceeing.
51:49
S2: I think that this.
51:50
S1: Could you imagine opening with that?
51:53
S2: This is a Carla crew and crew exclusive jokes only
51:57
S2: found here.
51:59
S19: Tear gas. Oh. Tear gas. Nowhere else.
52:04
S2: Nowhere else.
52:05
S19: Bless your heart.
52:06
S4: Feel free to share.
52:08
S19: Oh my goodness.
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S1: Text jokes to 805 557898.