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Scotty McLeod's Journey from Addiction to Ministry · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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  Speaker 1: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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  Speaker 1: A weekly broadcast with real people sharing real struggles and offering real hope.
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  Speaker 1: Today's show will encourage, inspire and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's join our host, ron Myers.
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  Speaker 1: The promoter.
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  Ron Meyers: Hello my friends, it is so good to be with you today.
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  Ron Meyers: Another inspirational show for you.
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  Ron Meyers: Scotty McLeod joins me from Alabama and friends, what a story.
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  Ron Meyers: You're going to be encouraged, empowered and inspired.
• 0:47
  Ron Meyers: Scotty told me something that I love God takes the cross and makes it a plus, from homelessness and addiction to running a ministry that transforms lives.
• 0:51
  Ron Meyers: Scotty McLeod, his journey shows how rock bottom can become the foundation for an extraordinary life of service.
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  Ron Meyers: Scotty McLeod, thank you for taking time to share your story with the listeners.
• 1:06
  Ron Meyers: So, scotty, what's your?
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  Scotty McLeod: When I .
• 1:09
  Scotty McLeod: As I grew a little older, I gave my life 10 years old, I gave my heart to Jesus.
• 1:13
  Scotty McLeod: I was young.
• 1:14
  Scotty McLeod: I got off the path.
• 1:18
  Scotty McLeod: So I come from a long line of preachers.
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  Scotty McLeod: Actually they were all Southern Baptists, and until my dad, who was a Baptist, too, Baptist but he went off in a little bit of a different direction.
• 1:31
  Scotty McLeod: But there and I got into the world, I got to doing drugs, drinking, and at one time I ended up homeless and I was on bottom and there was hell in my life and that hell just kept piling up and piling up and piling up until finally I gave up and surrendered and when I did it was the greatest thing could have possibly happened.
• 1:53
  Scotty McLeod: So my dad had started a ministry the name of the ministry is Broken Stone Ministries and there's been a lot of shoot offs from that and one of those is called Our Father's Arms and we have two homes for men and we have a free medical clinic located in Jacksonville, alabama, and my dad was building all this up, ended up with a music hall, had Christian artists on there.
• 2:17
  Scotty McLeod: It's called Duggar Mountain Music Hall.
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  Scotty McLeod: It played public television and actually like 80 stations across the world, and it's just been one thing after another.
• 2:26
  Scotty McLeod: How God has blessed this and kept it all going.
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  Scotty McLeod: So in the back of my mind.
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  Scotty McLeod: Even when I was living wild and in my sin, I knew God had a plan.
• 2:36
  Scotty McLeod: So I found out my dad had an aneurysm and they said it was inoperable.
• 2:42
  Scotty McLeod: So I started going to church with him and then God just started working on me, a little bit at a time, and when I'd go to family dinner I'd say something about Jesus and I'd say, daddy, turn and look at me, say, daddy knew he was about to pass and I had told myself that, ah, he could have had this for years, you know.
• 3:01
  Scotty McLeod: But daddy knew better than that.
• 3:03
  Scotty McLeod: And he comes to my house and he brings me his Bible and my granddad's Bible and I thought, well, that's cool, you know.
• 3:10
  Scotty McLeod: And then he leaves and within a week he had a stroke and passed preaching a graveside service.
• 3:16
  Scotty McLeod: He went down right there beside the grave while he was consoling the family and I was thinking, wow, that's amazing, you know that God would allow him to go serving.
• 3:24
  Scotty McLeod: And I was thinking, wow, that's amazing, you know that God would allow him to go serving.
• 3:28
  Scotty McLeod: And I was sitting.
• 3:29
  Scotty McLeod: It was hard on me, you know.
• 3:31
  Scotty McLeod: The first week or two I was in a fog and then it dawned on me that daddy had told me 15 years before that that when he passed a friend of his in Tennessee had some stuff for me.
• 3:43
  Scotty McLeod: So I got in touch with a friend in Tennessee and I drove up there and the friend gave me a bunch of teaching tapes, teaching CDs and tapes, and he gave me a DVD.
• 3:53
  Scotty McLeod: And I wasn't sure what the DVD was, but when I got back I put it in the DVD player.
• 3:58
  Scotty McLeod: And there's a little funeral home close to here.
• 4:01
  Scotty McLeod: It's called KL Brown's Funeral Home and daddy would always preach funerals for people that didn't have money.
• 4:07
  Scotty McLeod: They could always call daddy and he would come in there and do it.
• 4:10
  Scotty McLeod: So all of a sudden the camera comes in the front door at KL Brown and there's this music playing like funeral music.
• 4:17
  Scotty McLeod: The camera comes in and it goes to the coffin and a preacher in a suit opens the coffin and then daddy sits up in the coffin and a preacher in a suit opens the coffin and then daddy sits up in the coffin and starts talking about how awesome it is to be in heaven.
• 4:29
  Ron Meyers: Wow, well, I bet you did.
• 4:36
  Ron Meyers: I bet you did a little two-step, you'll.
• 4:38
  Ron Meyers: You see that on the dvd and you see your dad pop up out of a coffin I did did.
• 4:44
  Scotty McLeod: At first I started crying and then I started shouting, you know, and we ended up playing that it is Celebration of Life and when they first opened it was during COVID, but there was a lot of people there.
• 4:55
  Scotty McLeod: When the coffin first opened, everybody went ah.
• 4:58
  Scotty McLeod: But then, when he smiled and started talking about heaven, everybody started cheering and it was amazing and I know he hadn't gone too far.
• 5:07
  Ron Meyers: What did he tell the audience about heaven?
• 5:10
  Scotty McLeod: As always, we try to keep our focus completely on Jesus.
• 5:14
  Scotty McLeod: He just started talking about how great it is We'll see everybody again, and he had a song called Christians Never Say Goodbye.
• 5:22
  Scotty McLeod: Just so long, for a little while, and he was quoting that song and just talking about the love of Jesus.
• 5:28
  Scotty McLeod: And you know, 1 Corinthians 13, 8 tells us love never fails and that's just the motto he lived by and that's the motto we're living by Now.
• 5:40
  Scotty McLeod: Sometimes I think he's still here with us.
• 5:42
  Scotty McLeod: You know, I started going to the juvenile detention center close to here and playing and singing songs for the kids down there and daddy had went down there and done it years ago and they called us in at Christmas and they were going to give us this little award and certificate.
• 5:57
  Scotty McLeod: You know, and it was all the day I go, at night and all the daytime.
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  Scotty McLeod: People were the ones giving out the certificates.
• 6:02
  Scotty McLeod: So I'm sitting there and they're calling people were the ones giving out the certificates.
• 6:04
  Scotty McLeod: So I'm sitting there and they're calling people up and they're asking their name.
• 6:08
  Scotty McLeod: You know, they're calling the name out and the person goes up and gets their award and they call my dad's name out and I look at my friend and my friend looks at me and they call daddy's name out again and I go get his award.
• 6:19
  Scotty McLeod: You know it's those little God blinks.
• 6:20
  Scotty McLeod: You know God talks to you and if you're looking, you know it's those little God blinks.
• 6:22
  Scotty McLeod: You know God talks to you and if you're looking you can hear it?
• 6:25
  Ron Meyers: He sure does.
• 6:26
  Ron Meyers: So you've picked up the mantle of his legacy of, in my Father's Arms, your ministry.
• 6:32
  Ron Meyers: So you're running the show now, right?
• 6:35
  Scotty McLeod: I'm one of them, my mother and my cousin.
• 6:38
  Scotty McLeod: There's several of us that work with the ministry and, you know, through the years there's been a constant flow of healthy community coming through to work with the guys, the guys who have either been in prison or on drugs or on the street.
• 6:53
  Scotty McLeod: And God just keeps sending the right people at the right time and it's just amazing to watch what he does.
• 6:57
  Scotty McLeod: You know, we've never had a fundraiser or asked for money at all, wow.
• 7:01
  Scotty McLeod: And God's just kept supplying the money and the funds to keep it going and he can close it down anytime he wants to.
• 7:08
  Scotty McLeod: You know, we're not a it's not like we're out trying to make money or anything like that, matter of fact.
• 7:13
  Scotty McLeod: We're all most of us are volunteers, but he just keeps supplying the funds.
• 7:19
  Scotty McLeod: You know, when I first took over the part I'm taking, I took over I was praying to God and I was thinking, lord, do you want to keep it going without Daddy here?
• 7:27
  Scotty McLeod: And I was nervous and I was fearful, and that fear will, it'll, completely mess you up.
• 7:33
  Scotty McLeod: So the first thing God did, I asked him for a sign and the first thing he did was he, almost immediately he pulled some resources from us and I was thinking, lord, do you want to shut it down?
• 7:45
  Scotty McLeod: But in my heart I knew he didn't.
• 7:47
  Scotty McLeod: And then I went and played and sang up in Tennessee at a retreat and when I got back from the retreat there was enough money to keep it going for a few more months.
• 7:55
  Scotty McLeod: So it was just God put it on somebody's heart and there it was.
• 8:00
  Ron Meyers: Wow, god's never late and he's never early.
• 8:02
  Ron Meyers: But he's always on time, isn't he?
• 8:03
  Ron Meyers: That's right, god's never late and he's never early, but he's always on time, isn't he?
• 8:05
  Scotty McLeod: That's right.
• 8:05
  Scotty McLeod: It's an uncomfortable piece.
• 8:07
  Scotty McLeod: You know you got to trust him and if you trust him you can walk in peace and joy.
• 8:12
  Scotty McLeod: But if you're trusting in yourself, it's never going to work.
• 8:21
  Ron Meyers: Well, scotty, it is obvious your love, the calling on your life to love the hell out of other people.
• 8:24
  Ron Meyers: It is contagious Right now.
• 8:25
  Ron Meyers: We have a lot of struggling people in this world, don't we?
• 8:30
  Scotty McLeod: It's amazing how many there are.
• 8:31
  Scotty McLeod: You know used to back in the 90s, when we first started the men's homes, you know there was people that had problems and there were people that were struggling, but now it has touched every family.
• 8:43
  Scotty McLeod: Like every family you talk to, there has been a member of that family that has suffered on account of drugs or you know different reasons.
• 8:53
  Scotty McLeod: And God came and he said hey, you know, I'll bless you, even despite what you've been through or whatever you've done, it does not matter, I love you and I came to make a way for you.
• 9:05
  Scotty McLeod: And, man, when somebody gets a grasp of that how much Jesus loves them, it turns everything around.
• 9:11
  Ron Meyers: And I'm sure you've seen so many stories and people's lives change.
• 9:16
  Ron Meyers: Can you give an example of maybe one of your favorite?
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  Ron Meyers: I know they're all your favorite, but is there one that really stands out of somebody that just went from a lot of hell in their life to you know?
• 9:27
  Ron Meyers: Whatever?
• 9:28
  Scotty McLeod: Yes, sir, I'll tell you back.
• 9:29
  Scotty McLeod: You know, in the very beginning I was telling myself you know, well, maybe God doesn't want me to do this.
• 9:34
  Scotty McLeod: You know how the enemy will send out.
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  Scotty McLeod: And a fellow walked up to my house on foot and he was yellow and I had met him years before, 25 years before, and he was a stocky guy and he was shriveled up to nothing, he was yellow, His eyes were yellow, he was jaundiced, and he asked me for a ride and I gave him a ride and I went home and I was praying about it and I felt like God was telling me that I was going to see this fellow again.
• 10:02
  Scotty McLeod: So I was coming home, a way.
• 10:05
  Scotty McLeod: I do not usually come home, maybe a month later, and I come around the curve and there's that guy standing on the side of the road and I stopped and I said are you doing okay, man?
• 10:15
  Scotty McLeod: And he said no.
• 10:16
  Scotty McLeod: And I said do you need a ride?
• 10:18
  Scotty McLeod: And he said I do.
• 10:19
  Scotty McLeod: And he got in the car and I started taking him to town, wherever it was.
• 10:23
  Scotty McLeod: He told me he wanted to go and I asked him.
• 10:31
  Scotty McLeod: I said, friend, have you ever decided to try to get help or have you ever wanted to get help.
• 10:33
  Scotty McLeod: And he started crying and he said if I only had a chance.
• 10:35
  Scotty McLeod: And I said well, God can give you a chance Would you consider coming and staying with us at our father's arms?
• 10:42
  Scotty McLeod: And he teared up and he said, please.
• 10:44
  Scotty McLeod: And I took him back to the lawnmower shed.
• 10:47
  Scotty McLeod: He had been living in the lawnmower shed, didn't have power, there was just a bunch of junk in there.
• 10:51
  Scotty McLeod: We got what little bit he had.
• 10:53
  Scotty McLeod: We took him out to our father's arms.
• 10:55
  Scotty McLeod: He was telling me about how his kids told him, told him they didn't want anything to do with him anymore.
• 11:00
  Scotty McLeod: Come to find out, my wife had taught his daughter in Sunday school and knew her.
• 11:06
  Scotty McLeod: So this is amazing.
• 11:09
  Scotty McLeod: This is amazing.
• 11:10
  Scotty McLeod: So I go to the house one day and I say, hey, man, you want to go ride with me to my house?
• 11:16
  Scotty McLeod: And he's like sure.
• 11:16
  Scotty McLeod: But what I didn't tell him was that his daughter knew how good he'd been doing and how he put some weight back on and his color had come back.
• 11:25
  Scotty McLeod: And we were riding back to my house and I seen her van, his daughter's van, sitting at the house.
• 11:30
  Scotty McLeod: My wife had lined it up where she was, at our house and she was waiting on him to come and see her, but I didn't tell him that what was about to happen.
• 11:39
  Scotty McLeod: So we get to the house.
• 11:41
  Scotty McLeod: I got a split level house.
• 11:42
  Scotty McLeod: He walks up the stairs.
• 11:44
  Scotty McLeod: They see each other and they run and hug each other and start crying.
• 11:49
  Scotty McLeod: That's been over two years ago and they're on the phone 30 minutes to an hour every day.
• 11:53
  Scotty McLeod: I mean, that's what God does.
• 11:55
  Scotty McLeod: He restores families.
• 11:57
  Ron Meyers: You know I just get goosebumps when you say that story.
• 12:00
  Ron Meyers: You know, obviously you are the man to take over what your father has done.
• 12:06
  Ron Meyers: You have a love and a passion that I can just hear it in your voice, Scotty, and somebody right now is listening and can relate to the story you just told, but they have no hope.
• 12:17
  Ron Meyers: They don't think it can ever happen to them.
• 12:19
  Ron Meyers: Would you give that listener some hope right now?
• 12:22
  Scotty McLeod: God is bigger than.
• 12:24
  Scotty McLeod: God is bigger than the Big bang.
• 12:27
  Scotty McLeod: He's bigger than the big bomb.
• 12:29
  Scotty McLeod: He's bigger than all our problems.
• 12:32
  Scotty McLeod: God is bigger than and you just got to let him love you.
• 12:36
  Scotty McLeod: Get yourself out of the way.
• 12:37
  Scotty McLeod: It never was about us anyway.
• 12:40
  Scotty McLeod: It's about him.
• 12:41
  Scotty McLeod: And when we surrender our kingdom over to him and we start living in his kingdom, then he starts speaking to us and our life starts transforming and we become a light to other people.
• 12:53
  Scotty McLeod: We're no longer in darkness and he just loves us.
• 12:56
  Scotty McLeod: He loves the hell out of us.
• 12:59
  Ron Meyers: He sure does.
• 13:00
  Ron Meyers: He sure does, scotty, and while you are, I am excited about your ministry.
• 13:04
  Ron Meyers: I'm excited that I have the pleasure, the honor to talk to someone like you that is in the trenches and you've learned from a legacy of grandfathers, fathers, and your mom and all these people around you, and you just love the hell out of people.
• 13:19
  Ron Meyers: And isn't that all Jesus wants us to do?
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  Ron Meyers: Because, if was it, love brings a person to repentance.
• 13:26
  Ron Meyers: It's the love that draws people to Christ.
• 13:29
  Scotty McLeod: Yes, sir, and actually you know you have to be attitudes.
• 13:33
  Scotty McLeod: Blessed are the poor in spirit, Blessed are the poor.
• 13:35
  Scotty McLeod: Blessed are those when they mourn and it turns everything the world thinks upside down.
• 13:41
  Scotty McLeod: So God uses the bad.
• 13:43
  Scotty McLeod: He takes the cross and he makes it a plus.
• 13:45
  Scotty McLeod: He takes the cross and he makes it a plus.
• 13:46
  Scotty McLeod: He takes a minus and he makes it a plus.
• 13:49
  Scotty McLeod: When bad things happen to us, if they bring us back to God, then they're the greatest thing that ever could have happened to us.
• 13:56
  Scotty McLeod: I never would have made it.
• 14:00
  Scotty McLeod: I had to go through all that, the drugs, the jail, you know.
• 14:04
  Scotty McLeod: I had to go through that to be able to get to a point to where I was willing to surrender to God.
• 14:11
  Scotty McLeod: Those bad things can be good.
• 14:13
  Scotty McLeod: He uses them for the good.
• 14:15
  Scotty McLeod: Romans 8, 28.
• 14:16
  Ron Meyers: Yeah, he sure does.
• 14:17
  Ron Meyers: For the listeners out there, tell them how they could find some information about Our Father's Arms.
• 14:24
  Scotty McLeod: Our Father's Arms is in Jacksonville, alabama.
• 14:26
  Scotty McLeod: We're on Facebook.
• 14:28
  Scotty McLeod: We're actually.
• 14:28
  Scotty McLeod: We have a website that we're going to be updating pretty soon.
• 14:32
  Scotty McLeod: Or you can write us at 45 Pinewood Street, jacksonville, alabama, 36265.
• 14:39
  Scotty McLeod: Or you can write us at 389 Dogwood Lane, jacksonville, alabama, 36265.
• 14:46
  Ron Meyers: That's amazing, and it made me think that there might be somebody out there now that just wants to send a card or some encouragement to some of the folks that are there, and I'm sure you would love to have things like that right Amen.
• 15:00
  Scotty McLeod: Well, that'd be wonderful.
• 15:01
  Ron Meyers: Hey, scotty, tell us about your international ministry.
• 15:05
  Ron Meyers: You are doing work all over the world.
• 15:07
  Scotty McLeod: Yes, there's a preacher from Southampton, england, named Vic Jacobson and back in the 80s when my dad first turned his life around, vic was coming to this little country church once a year by the house and daddy was fired up for Jesus, you know.
• 15:23
  Scotty McLeod: So he started calling Vic long distance over in England and Vic was kind of his mentor and anyway, you know, daddy wrote these songs and daddy's songs have played in England, ukraine.
• 15:34
  Scotty McLeod: But Vic and Daddy's friendship blossomed and Vic ran a ministry out of Ukraine and England called Hope.
• 15:41
  Scotty McLeod: Now, well, vic knows all these people in Ukraine, so Daddy starts going over there and sharing and ministering to the people in Ukraine and him and Vic started working together.
• 15:52
  Scotty McLeod: So when Daddy passed away, vic and him and Vic started working together.
• 15:56
  Scotty McLeod: So when Daddy passed away, vic called me and Vic became my mentor and we've ended up going to visit Ukraine before the war, visiting the orphanages there, and now we raise money to send the families of wounded soldiers and we still have a little church here by the house.
• 16:14
  Scotty McLeod: They helped build a church in Ukraine, cherkassy, ukraine, and we just got stuff going all over God's hand's all in it.
• 16:20
  Ron Meyers: God's on the move, Scotty.
• 16:22
  Ron Meyers: The name of the show is Get the Hell Out of your Life, and I want to ask you how do you get the hell out of your life?
• 16:30
  Scotty McLeod: By surrendering all that you have, all that you are and all that you hope to be into the arms of our loving Lord and Savior, jesus Christ.
• 16:40
  Ron Meyers: Amen.
• 16:41
  Ron Meyers: Now, as we conclude our conversation, would you close us out in a prayer to the listeners listening?
• 16:48
  Scotty McLeod: Yes, sir, I would, Lord, thank you for all you've done for us.
• 16:52
  Scotty McLeod: Thank you for loving us in spite of all we've done.
• 16:56
  Scotty McLeod: Thank you for loving us in spite of the sin that's in us.
• 17:00
  Scotty McLeod: Lord, Thank you for loving the hell out of us.
• 17:02
  Scotty McLeod: Lord, we thank you, we love you and we praise you In Jesus' name, amen.
• 17:12
  Ron Meyers: When I return my commentary.
• 17:14
  Ron Meyers: Jesus wants his reputation back.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of your Life with your host, ron Myers.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Real stories, real struggles and real hope.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Get the hell out of your life with Ron Myers.
• 17:31
  Ron Meyers: I think there are a lot of people that are sitting in churches right now, or maybe sitting in coffee shops, that have a story to tell of what God's done in their life, but they're never going to get the pulpit, they're never going to get a microphone, they're never going to get an opportunity to share their story with the world.
• 17:48
  Ron Meyers: Well, that's where we come in.
• 17:49
  Ron Meyers: We will interview these people and we will have the platform in place and share their story in film and in written material across the world.
• 18:01
  Ron Meyers: And so I got pills that were once again laced with fentanyl and Xanax and I blacked out while I was driving my truck down the interstate.
• 18:08
  Scotty McLeod: I've seen so many people that have been set free.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: You know that's just surrendered, you know, surrendered to God, God's way, God's direction.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Life with Jesus is better than what I could have ever expected it to be.
• 18:21
  Ron Meyers: You know I have peace.
• 18:23
  Ron Meyers: We will be a voice for the silent that say hey, let me tell my story of what God's done for me.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Let me tell my story of what God's done for me.
• 18:35
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• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Here's a refreshing word for you today from Galatians, chapter 2, 20.
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  Speaker 6: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, the life I live in the body.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Jesus wants his reputation back.
• 19:29
  Ron Meyers: That is the title of my commentary today.
• 19:31
  Ron Meyers: Reputation Back.
• 19:33
  Ron Meyers: That is the title of my commentary today.
• 19:35
  Ron Meyers: I once told an atheist that I believe you are an atheist because nobody has really ever told you about the true character and nature of Jesus, and he said that could be true.
• 19:43
  Ron Meyers: You see, friends, we live in a world where Jesus is often misrepresented and the truth about what he did on the cross is distorted.
• 19:51
  Ron Meyers: So Jesus wants his reputation back.
• 19:55
  Ron Meyers: At the heart of Jesus' mission was the intention to reveal the nature of God as a loving, relational and gracious God.
• 20:02
  Ron Meyers: The cross stands as the ultimate testament to this truth, a symbol of sacrifice that transcends human understanding.
• 20:10
  Ron Meyers: Yet in many circles, this message has been overshadowed by legalism, fear and a portrayal of Jesus as an angry judge rather than a loving, compassionate Savior.
• 20:21
  Ron Meyers: This misrepresentation distorts the beauty, the awesome beauty, of the gospel and creates barriers that prevent individuals from experiencing the fullness of his love.
• 20:33
  Ron Meyers: Jesus does not want us to live in guilt or shame.
• 20:37
  Ron Meyers: Rather, he invites us into a relationship marked by his extravagant grace and freedom.
• 20:44
  Ron Meyers: His finished work on the cross signifies that the debt of sin has been paid, offering us a pathway to reconciliation with God and to suggest that Jesus is mad at us is to undermine the very essence of his sacrifice and the depth of his love.
• 20:59
  Ron Meyers: Instead, we are encouraged to see him as the one who embraces us in our brokenness, offering restoration and hope.
• 21:08
  Ron Meyers: This intimate relationship that Jesus desires with each of us is characterized by trust and vulnerability.
• 21:15
  Ron Meyers: He longs for us to approach him not as distant subjects bound by rules, but as beloved children, welcomed into his presence, inviting us to share our hearts with him, to seek his guidance and to experience the unspeakable joy of walking in fellowship with him.
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  Ron Meyers: This relationship is not I repeat, is not contingent upon our performance, but is rooted in his grace, which is sufficient for all our needs.
• 21:48
  Ron Meyers: As we reflect on what it means for Jesus to reclaim his reputation, we are called to embody his love in our actions and interactions.
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  Ron Meyers: We must strive to communicate the truth of the gospel with clarity and compassion, ensuring that those around us see the Jesus who loves unconditionally and desires a personal relationship with them.
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  Ron Meyers: This means breaking down the barriers of judgment and condemnation that have been erected in his name and replacing them with the messages of hope, forgiveness, acceptance and grace.
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  Ron Meyers: So, in conclusion, today I want you to think about this Jesus wants his reputation back, not as a distant deity demanding perfection, but as a loving Savior who will meet you where you are, and he invites you each and every day into a transformative relationship.
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  Ron Meyers: He wants us to understand that we are not defined by our failures or shortcomings, but by his unfailing love and grace.
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  Ron Meyers: So let's embrace this truth and share it with the world, allowing the true character of Jesus to shine brightly through our lives.
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  Ron Meyers: In doing so, we not only honor his sacrifice, but also invite others to experience the freedom and intimacy that come from knowing him.
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  Ron Meyers: And when we let our shine in this dark world and we tell people why we have the hope in us that is playing our part in helping to restore the reputation of Jesus.
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  Speaker 7: Jesus, Jesus, what do you think of when you hear that name?
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  Speaker 7: Jesus, Jesus, love, life, hope, joy, peace, friend, companion, confidant, savior.
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  Speaker 7: The God of the universe lives, and he lives in the form of a man.
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  Speaker 7: That man is Jesus Christ, For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whosoever believes in him shall have eternal life.
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  Speaker 7: Jesus, what will you do with him?
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  Speaker 7: He knocks on the door of your heart.
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  Speaker 7: When you open that door, your life will change forever.
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  Speaker 7: It came that the world may have life and may have it more abundantly.
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  Speaker 7: Ask Jesus into your heart and discover what living is all about.
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  Speaker 4: Ron, we'll be back in a moment to wrap up today's conversation, right after a word from our sponsor.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, friends, this week, as you go out, think about my statement.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus wants his reputation back, and when you do that, I promise you, god will begin to inspire you with things that you should do or say that will help restore the reputation of our friend and Savior, jesus Christ.
• 25:34
  Ron Meyers: I will be back next week with another empowering episode of Get the Hell Out of your Life, available on your favorite podcast platform.
• 25:44
  Ron Meyers: Until then, this is Ron Myers, reminding you that I love you, jesus loves you, and when you give Jesus your heart, you not only get the hell out of your life, but life gets good.
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