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The 7 Types of Rest You Need with Dr. Sandra Dalton-Smith & 14 Fresh Ways to Enjoy the Bible with Dr. Jim Coakley · 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. Start
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  S1: your morning with a laugh.
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  S2: Practical from the Bible. Tips and tricks to kill. Not tricks,
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  S2: but tips and tricks.
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  S3: Tips and tricks to kill. Tips and tricks.
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  S1: Delivering the truth daily.
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  S4: All of my attempts to you know. Prop myself up
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  S4: with achievement and good works. Well, God wasn't impressed by that,
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  S4: even if other people were.
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  S2: The gospel changes everything.
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  S5: Freedom in Christ. Man, it's like that backpack of cement
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  S5: just falling to the ground.
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  S1: Now from the call of Hope Studios. This is Carl
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  S1: and Crew. We're in the middle of it, guys. And
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  S1: I can't change because week. And we're not here to
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  S1: hammer excuses. But boy, the truth will set you free,
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  S1: won't it?
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  S4: It will. And I mean, I think identifying a lot
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  S4: of these things that maybe we haven't put words to,
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  S4: but we're feeling is a good thing.
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  S6: Yeah, it is a good thing.
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  S2: I think, like you said, Carl, we're not here to
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  S2: to hammer excuses. We're here to hammer the truth. Yeah. These,
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  S2: these things can dig their way and root themselves in
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  S2: our head very easily. And sometimes, like Ali said, we
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  S2: don't even necessarily know we're doing it. We just kind
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  S2: of start operating that way. The truth sets us free.
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  S6: Yeah. I want to come out of this shoot hot
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  S6: here in this hour, and I'm going to jump into
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  S6: an aspect of my story that I don't share a lot,
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  S6: but it is big. I think oftentimes we miss some
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  S6: of the stuff that leads up to, boy, this huge
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  S6: awareness that I need God not just for salvation, but
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  S6: for growing up in him. Sanctification, big fancy word for
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  S6: growing up in Jesus. And when we're vulnerable here with
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  S6: what's really going on, sometimes that just breaks down walls,
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  S6: turns on the lights in ways in your life that
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  S6: really liberate you. And I know that God brought you
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  S6: here for a reason today. And there's some of you
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  S6: that need to hear this for yourself, or maybe a
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  S6: friend or someone you're praying for. I had a great
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  S6: discussion over a meal yesterday with a couple of just
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  S6: dear people from our church that are just battling with something.
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  S6: And you know, the advice I gave was not what
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  S6: to do, but what not to do. And it was
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  S6: a holy moment, sitting around just talking about what not
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  S6: to do. And sometimes you need another set of eyes
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  S6: to go, oh, wow, that's what I'm up against. So
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  S6: I want to look back so that you can see
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  S6: maybe what you need to see this morning. I a
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  S6: lot of, you know, my story. Uh, it, it was
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  S6: there's a level of recklessness that happened in my young
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  S6: 20s that I can't even Fathom about me because my
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  S6: life is so different now, but haven't been raised in
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  S6: the church and having the prospect of abundant life held
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  S6: out before me, I knew what that was. I'd heard
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  S6: stories galore about it, and I saw salt of the earth.
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  S6: People saw my dad and mom experiencing this relationship with God,
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  S6: so I and I memorized John 1010. I knew that
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  S6: he came to give me life and give it abundant.
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  S6: So I knew all the promises of God, but I
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  S6: was far from him. And when you're far from God,
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  S6: but you have this churchianity, this illusion of salvation, man,
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  S6: you can go on a mad scramble looking things to
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  S6: fill it up. And I did, and it's hard to
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  S6: even get my head around it. Except that it's true.
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  S6: I mean, this God shaped void, that scream of the soul. Woo!
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  S6: It'll call you to find almost anything to fill it up, right?
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  S6: I mean, it will.
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  S4: I mean, and we've all experienced it and seen it.
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  S6: Yeah. In in, in different ways. So if you listen
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  S6: to my story, you might say, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  S6: You're one of those guys drugs to Jesus guys. You
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  S6: can be from chronic gossiping to Jesus, chronic insecurity to Jesus.
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  S6: I mean, without Jesus in our heart and we're born
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  S6: far from him. Uh, there's no hope in this world,
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  S6: but with him, everything changes. So I had this vision
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  S6: of what life could be and all this, and I
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  S6: had that in the back of my mind while I'm
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  S6: out after the Iditarod trail race, because I thought that
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  S6: would fill up the void, really on a search for
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  S6: something to make me complete. It's amazing how low shelf
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  S6: you'll go when you're looking for something like that. So
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  S6: I got into serious cocaine addiction and serious alcohol use.
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  S6: And when I say cocaine addicted, I mean bad. When
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  S6: you start using alone and you start hiding it from
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  S6: junkie friends, you got a problem? I was a mess.
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  S6: I'm still working. Trying to be life of the party,
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  S6: but dying inside. And I actually had a package busted
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  S6: by the feds at Anchorage International Airport with cocaine in it.
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  S6: That would have gotten me a lot of time. So
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  S6: that scared me straight for about like a week. It
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  S6: got me really scared away for like a week. Headed
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  S6: back to the state of Alaska. Got back there and
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  S6: I'm just wrestling. So I've got this vision in my
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  S6: mind about being at church, seeing people that were experiencing
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  S6: this life in God, and trying to figure out why
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  S6: is it elusive for me. And what I did next
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  S6: is crazy. I remember thinking for about 3 or 4 days,
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  S6: you know what I've got? I got a problem. I've
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  S6: got a spiritual problem, and I know what it is.
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  S6: And so I got Ahold of my my pastor From
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  S6: my childhood. And this guy was a just a man's man,
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  S6: great dude, and had a history of helping people get
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  S6: freed from demonic strongholds. So I'm like, this is it, man.
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  S6: This is what stands between me and this abundant life
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  S6: in Christ. And I had I was so in the
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  S6: know about how this went down that when I called
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  S6: him up, I was a little bit nervous. But I'm like,
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  S6: I'm ready. Bring him up. So he said, man, Carl,
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  S6: I'll come up and see you. So he came up
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  S6: to my apartment, poured him a cup of coffee. We
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  S6: sat there and he began what I knew he would do.
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  S6: He began to look in my eyes, and he began
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  S6: to speak out to see if there was any spiritual
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  S6: blockage in me. And he began to go through some things.
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  S6: And I'm waiting. Little ear warning here right now, guys.
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  S6: I'm waiting to manifest. Okay? Like biblical times, like demonic
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  S6: expressions or something, or this is what I had done
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  S6: in my mind. I had concocted this excuse for why
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  S6: I was missing the abundant life in Christ. And boy,
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  S6: I had blamed it on demons. I gotta be demonized.
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  S6: That's what's holding me back. And he sat and he.
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  S6: And there were a couple of times he looked into
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  S6: my eyes and I'm like, here we go, here we go. Man,
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  S6: I don't know if I'm going to be flopping on
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  S6: the floor. That's where I went in my brain.
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  S2: Sure, sure. You genuinely thought, yeah, this has to be it.
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  S6: Yeah. I'm going to be flopping on the floor. Something's
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  S6: going to be coming out of my mouth that looks
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  S6: like New Testament narrative and his strong guy. But his
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  S6: strongest move was about an hour and a half. Two,
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  S6: I don't know, maybe even three hours. There he stood up.
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  S6: Nothing had happened, demonstrative or otherwise. And he stood up.
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  S6: I and said, hey, you heading out? He said, yeah,
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  S6: it was abrupt and I stood up. He looked me
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  S6: in the eyes one more time and he said, Carl,
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  S6: you don't have a demon problem. You got a real problem.
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  S6: And it rocked me, guys. And God, by his grace,
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  S6: allowed this man to show me what the real issue was.
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  S6: It wasn't too much longer. I was driving down the
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  S6: road in Anchorage and God just said to me, are
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  S6: you done yet? Are you done being the problem in
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  S6: your life? It was a radical transformation that day. And
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  S6: it was beautiful because I look back now and I
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  S6: see God used my pastor friend from my childhood to
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  S6: look me square in the eyes and tell me the truth.
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  S6: And there's some of you that need to hear this today,
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  S6: and I'm going to. I love you enough to tell
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  S6: you the truth. You don't have a demon problem. You
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  S6: don't have a parent problem. You don't have an employment problem.
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  S6: For some of you, you don't have a broken heart problem.
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  S6: You don't have a socioeconomic problem. You're the problem. All
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  S6: we like sheep have gone astray, each to his own way.
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  S6: You might say. Man, that hits hard. You know what
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  S6: I found in my life? The truth will set you free.
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  S6: And friend, I don't know where you're at today. But
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  S6: I know that God in His goodness had you here
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  S6: for this moment. It's a freeing thing when you can
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  S6: look in the mirror and go. The biggest challenge in
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  S6: my life is looking back at me right now. And
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  S6: I want to tell you what you do when you
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  S6: realize I'm the problem. I'm a sinner. I'm missing the mark.
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  S6: I can't change because it's me. It's that that's the
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  S6: only way to experience the abundant life is to, by
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  S6: the power of the Holy Spirit, come to a startling
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  S6: recognition that I am the problem. And God has a
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  S6: solution for that because he sent his Son, Jesus Christ,
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  S6: to die for your sins. He took him to the cross.
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  S6: All of your missing the mark, all of your messes,
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  S6: all of your secret sins, all the stuff that you
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  S6: wouldn't want anyone to find out. God knew even before
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  S6: you were born, and he sent his Son Jesus to
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  S6: die for you. And he's reaching out his hand, saying,
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  S6: won't you follow me today? So I want to be
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  S6: really clear. If you today are saying, Carl, God, I'm
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  S6: the problem. And today you are ready to repent because
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  S6: this is key. There's a lot of you that have
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  S6: maybe walked this path, this broad path, and here's what
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  S6: you've done. You had a hunch that you were the problem,
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  S6: but you held on to all your idols and all
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  S6: the stuff that you've been dragging along with you since, well, forever.
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  S6: And you tried to hold on to Jesus with another hand.
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  S6: I gotta tell you, Jesus loves you so much, and
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  S6: he is so exclusively wanting to be the Lord of
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  S6: your life that he will not cohabitate with the other
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  S6: gods in your life. He won't. He wants all of you.
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  S6: That's why repentance is fundamental. It's not about believing Jesus
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  S6: on the broad path. It's not about raising your hand.
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  S6: On the broad path. It's not about tears on the
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  S6: broad path. It's about tears that lead to repentance and
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  S6: turning around and saying, I'm turning my life over to you,
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  S6: and I just want to ask you, are you willing
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  S6: to look into your heart today by the power of
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  S6: the Holy Spirit, who's really causing this to happen and say, shoot, man,
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  S6: I'm like you, Karl. I'm the problem. I'm a sinner.
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  S6: It's a freeing thing to go, oh, I, it is
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  S6: me and I'm done. And I want to ask you
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  S6: because we find in the gospel of Mark the very
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  S6: first few words that Jesus went out and told his
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  S6: earliest disciples, he said, hey, go out and tell the
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  S6: world here. This is about repentance. This is about turning around. Why?
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  S6: Why do you need to repent? Why can't you just
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  S6: take Jesus along with you on this path? Because you
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  S6: were born with your back to God, and it's hard
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  S6: to follow Jesus when you can't see him. And right now,
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  S6: I'm asking you to acknowledge your sin. And I don't
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  S6: care if you're in a heap of tears, because those
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  S6: are tears of shame and tears of joy all at
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  S6: the same time. But acknowledge your sin. And quit blaming
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  S6: it on something else and just say, okay, I'm the problem. God,
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  S6: I'm a sinner. I'm turning around. I'm repenting. I'm surrendering
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  S6: all that I am to Jesus Christ today. And you
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  S6: will be born again. And the abundant life that seems
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  S6: so elusive will be yours. And I'm going to pray
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  S6: right now. Father, son, Holy spirit, I thank you, Spirit
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  S6: of God, that you are moving in the hearts of
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  S6: people all around North America and beyond right now. And
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  S6: I praise you, Lord, because it's a powerful thing when
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  S6: we recognize it's been me all along. I'm a sinner
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  S6: and God, I pray right now that you, as you
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  S6: pour out your spirit into the hearts of people, you
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  S6: would not only turn them from this broad path onto
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  S6: the narrow path, and that they would finally, once and
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  S6: for all, say, I confess with my mouth, Jesus is Lord.
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  S6: He's the authority. Say that to him. You're my highest
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  S6: authority now. Never before have you been. But now you're it, Lord,
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  S6: as you give them new life. I pray that streams
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  S6: of living water would just flood them. Just flood them.
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  S6: And Lord, when they hear whispers from Satan saying it
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  S6: won't work, it won't stick. Just show them by the
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  S6: power of your spirit. Oh yeah, it will. Because I
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  S6: began this in you, kid. I started this work today
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  S6: and I give you thanks. You know, we want to
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  S6: help you, and it's a really practical thing, and I'm
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  S6: just going to keep it right here and talk to
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  S6: you like a friend. I want to tell you, man,
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  S6: we we aim to help you. I've got a link
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  S6: I'm going to send you. Get your phone ready because
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  S6: we're going to send you a brand new Bible. You
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  S6: might say, well, I've got one now. Why don't you
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  S6: have a fresh start? You got a new life. How
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  S6: about a fresh start? Well, you're going to send you
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  S6: a new Bible. We're going to have in this link
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  S6: a way for you to connect with someone, and you're
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  S6: going to be able to get some help and get
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  S6: some encouragement. And I want you to text the word
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  S6: new right now. One word new to 805 five, five, 78, 98.
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  S6: Today's a new day. You realize, man, it's just, it's
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  S6: just great. It's so freeing. It's hard to go, I'm
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  S6: the problem. And then it's beautiful to say, oh, God's
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  S6: the answer. Thank you. Jesus. Text the word new right now.
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  S6: We're going to help you in your first steps with Jesus.
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  S6: Might have time here in this half hour. Still gone
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  S6: on quite a while, but might have time to just
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  S6: read out the last four numbers of your telephone number.
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  S6: I'm going to spin a song for you, though. Right now.
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  S6: Just text the word new wherever you are new to
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  S6: 805 five, five, 78, 98 helping you in your first
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  S6: steps with Jesus. One word new to 800 5557898. Welcome
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  S6: to the family, guys. Man. God is doing a new
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  S6: thing in you.
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  S7: She was trying to earn her way to God, but
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  S7: God showed her she didn't have to. Ali is in
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  S7: the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
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  S6: Yeah, man, what a beautiful thing. So many of you.
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  S6: In fact, if you were wiping tears from your eyes. Hey, um,
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  S6: now's the time. Just text the word new. If if
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  S6: God is finally revealed to you that you are the
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  S6: one that's standing between, uh, where you are today and
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  S6: the abundant life that is found in Jesus Christ. Just
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  S6: text the word new, and we're going to help you
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  S6: in your first steps with Jesus. 800 555, 78, 98 uh,
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  S6: Ali's going to read out the last four numbers here.
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  S6: What I'm so encouraged by is how many I've been
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  S6: looking at some of these. Ali, our first time, never
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  S6: texted to the show before for anything.
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  S4: Yes. So those of you texting new here in the
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  S4: last couple of minutes, I want to read out the
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  S4: last couple digits of your phone number just to welcome
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  S4: you to acknowledge you for 061. Welcome. 576142310768. Welcome. 606976
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  S4: 1099 776845 welcome. 8152 welcome. 3188 60 187228 welcome. 755268843909
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  S4: 1043 welcome. 9441 last four digits of your Phone number.
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  S4: 8473 welcome. 87, 49, 83, 21, 66, 38, 30, 26,
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  S4: 5903 welcome. 763557 20 welcome.
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  S3: 4283 wow.
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  S6: What a blessing, huh?
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  S4: And what a. 9092 welcome.
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  S6: MM. We are so grateful for you. We are so
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  S6: happy for you. In fact, when we get back, we're
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  S6: going to tackle it as a team. Each of us.
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  S6: What our heart is for you in these first new
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  S6: steps with Jesus Christ. We'll tackle that together. Straight ahead.
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  S6: Hang on.
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  S7: Breaking chains and running free. You're listening to cast and Crew.
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  S6: God turned in so many of his kids around this morning. Transformation.
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  S6: Abundant life. Salvation 46, 63, 131644100 6054. Some more that
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  S6: just came in. Welcome to the family. Uh, Allie, what
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  S6: do you say to these new followers of Jesus? What's
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  S6: on your heart, sister?
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  S4: You know that what has happened this morning is very
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  S4: much real. It is very real. As real as real
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  S4: can be. So do not listen to the voice of
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  S4: the enemy that will later make you question what you
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  S4: felt or questioned the decision that you've made this morning.
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  S4: So that would be my first piece of, I guess, wisdom.
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  S4: It's real. And then the second one would be to
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  S4: open that Bible and start digging in as soon as
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  S4: you possibly can and start that journey with God's Word.
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  S6: It's your freedom manual, for sure. Man. Super di. What
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  S6: do you say, sister?
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  S5: Mine is to find community, get a mentorship community. Fellow
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  S5: brothers and sisters, get around, find a church. But get
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  S5: people around you. Right around you. The right. Yes, the
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  S5: right people around.
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  S6: Yeah. Good word. Young thunder. What do you say, my man?
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  S2: Don't be ashamed of this faith that God has placed
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  S2: in you. Uh, it is a beautiful transformation. And sometimes
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  S2: the world can make us shrink down or make us
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  S2: be afraid of, uh, of talking about the reality of
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  S2: what was done in you.
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  S6: No matter how long you've been in church.
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  S2: No matter how long you've been in church. Sometimes if
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  S2: you've been in church for a while before you got saved,
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  S2: it's even scarier and you become even more afraid. That
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  S2: was my story. But don't be ashamed. God's transformation is
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  S2: real in you, and that is nothing but exciting.
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  S6: Yeah. Thrilling, man. Welcome to the family. The beat goes on.
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  S6: I can't change because we're tackling every which way today. Ali.
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  S4: Yeah. And you know, you think about all the different
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  S4: excuses that you make. I can't change because I'm tired.
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  S4: I can't change because I don't understand what I'm reading
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  S4: in my Bible. How about that one?
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  S6: Yeah. That's big. Tackling all these and more this week
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  S6: on Carl and Crew. We love you guys. Welcome to
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  S6: the family. Those of you new in Jesus.
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  S7: He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then
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  S7: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl
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  S7: and crew on Moody Radio.
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  S6: Here's an interesting thing. You can see the hand of God.
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  S6: You can see his providential goodness. You can know there's
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  S6: new mercy in the morning. And yet in different aspects
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  S6: of our life, we can feel like, man, I can't
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  S6: change because. And we're tackling a ton of those this
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  S6: week here with Carl and crew, and we're overjoyed that
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  S6: you're with us this morning on this great Wednesday morning.
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  S6: My goodness, hump day. Here we are. Middle of the week. Uh,
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  S6: what a joy to tackle a fresh one here. And
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  S6: this is one that I don't know that we can
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  S6: bring to mind all the time. I think it's one
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  S6: of those things that's just kind of an undercurrent, you
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  S6: know what I mean Alex.
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  S4: Absolutely. Doctor. Jim Coakley joins us in studio this morning.
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  S4: He's a professor here at Moody Bible Institute. He's also
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  S4: an author of several books, including 14 Fresh Ways to
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  S4: Enjoy the Bible. How would you capture Carl? You said
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  S4: there's multiple ways you could capture it, but try to
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  S4: capture it in a sentence. The I can't change because
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  S4: as it relates to our guest today.
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  S6: The Bible doesn't come to life like it does for
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  S6: a lot of people for me. And that's fair, isn't it, Jim?
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  S8: Oh, it sure is. And I've been there myself. I mean,
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  S8: I went to Bible college. I I went to seminary,
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  S8: grad school, got my doctor's degree, and there's times when
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  S8: I didn't really enjoy reading the Bible. And so it's like,
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  S8: wait a second, this is what I'm training to do,
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  S8: and I don't really enjoy doing it. And so really,
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  S8: over the years, this is why really the kind of
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  S8: the premise for the book is that I just wanted
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  S8: to kind of help myself get more out of the Bible.
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  S8: And I realized that some of the ways that we
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  S8: teach people how to approach the Bible is not really
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  S8: all that helpful. And so just giving them some fresh
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  S8: ways to look at the Bible really did it for me.
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  S8: And I know now it has for so many others.
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  S4: So let's start with what are some of the unhelpful
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  S4: approaches that are commonly given that maybe aren't best for understanding?
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  S8: Yeah, we tend to just read the Bible one way.
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  S8: We tend to read it just for content, for information
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  S8: we're looking for. Okay, I got to pass a Bible quiz.
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  S8: I got to know people, places and events. And so
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  S8: you know, that that kind of forces people to kind
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  S8: of look only at certain elements of the text. And
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  S8: so we're not passing a history quiz, though it is historical,
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  S8: but it's really kind of written to change lives. And
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  S8: so we have to understand that authors, biblical authors, are
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  S8: trying to do something when they give us these texts,
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  S8: and we just need to try to figure out what
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  S8: they're up to.
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  S6: You know, Jim, we look at let's just camp there
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  S6: for a second. We look at some of these historical texts,
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  S6: and I think we do tend to look at them historically.
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  S6: We can even look at the book of acts and go, wow,
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  S6: look what God did there. Or we can make presumptions
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  S6: that are really dangerous before we get into these fresh
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  S6: ways to even enjoy the Bible, we need to understand
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  S6: that the Bible is for us, correct?
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  S8: Oh yeah. Now it's not written to us, but it
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  S8: is for us. And this is I just taught on
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  S8: the book of acts last week in hermeneutics class. Uh,
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  S8: talking about we have to be careful with the book
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  S8: like acts because some of it is descriptive, not prescriptive.
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  S8: And so we don't necessarily feel like we have to
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  S8: handle snakes. Like Paul's sticking his hand into a wood
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  S8: pile in order to practice the book of acts. And
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  S8: so this is the kind of thing that, yes, it
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  S8: actually happened. So we're not denying that the fact of it,
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  S8: but we're saying, okay, what is it the book of
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  S8: acts is trying to do? And I love the last
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  S8: words of the book. The gospel is going out unhindered.
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  S8: So even though Paul is in prison, the gospel is
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  S8: set free and it's booming out everywhere.
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  S4: Love that. Doctor Jim Coakley with us this morning. Is
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  S4: the Bible a hard book to read? I mean, that
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  S4: most people feel like it is. Is that true?
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  S8: No, I think there's there's a sense of truth to
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  S8: all of that, because that's why I love the Bible
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  S8: and that it has all sorts of different styles of writing.
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  S8: So if you love poetry, you got the Psalms. If
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  S8: you're a little bit of a heady, intellectual kind of person,
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  S8: you love to dig in. You got books like Ecclesiastes
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  S8: and Job to kind of really kind of make sure
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  S8: you use all your brain cells, but if you just
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  S8: want to just kind of sit back and just like
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  S8: a film kind of watch how God has worked through
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  S8: people in the past. I love narratives because even though, yes,
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  S8: they are stories about people and how God worked in
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  S8: their lives. There's a lot of lessons that we can
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  S8: learn from that. And that's why even Paul says, hey,
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  S8: go to the wilderness period and we can learn lessons
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  S8: from them. So even though that happened to them in
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  S8: the past, there's still lessons that we can take away today.
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  S6: Doctor Jim Coakley, our guest. Okay. I'll tell you what.
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  S6: We're going to leave some room for this. I want
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  S6: to get into some of these fresh ways to enjoy
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  S6: the Bible. And we're going to get so practical. Boom crew.
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  S6: We want your Bible reading to come to life. Come
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  S6: to life, to the point where you put into practice
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  S6: the very truths that God is calling you to apply.
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  S6: How do we do that? Well, let's get a fresh
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  S6: look at the word straight ahead.
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  S7: You're listening to Curl and Crew on Moody Radio celebrating
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  S7: the unstoppable gospel.
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  S2: It's not that I've got to fill in these check boxes,
• 25:19
  S2: so he's okay with me, but it's that I get
• 25:21
  S2: to stand close to him so that I can experience
• 25:24
  S2: the life that he has for me.
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  S7: You're listening to Carl and crew.
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  S6: I can't change because. And a lot of that really
• 25:34
  S6: revolves around, I wish I could really understand this Bible.
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  S6: I really wish I could enjoy it even more. And
• 25:42
  S6: and you know, the funny thing about that statement, Jim,
• 25:45
  S6: is it's almost like sacrilege. People think to, to say,
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  S6: I don't know that I enjoy the Bible, but that's
• 25:52
  S6: a healthy thing to be able to say, isn't it?
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  S8: Oh yeah. We have to be honest about where we're
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  S8: at currently. If we're going to change, we have to admit,
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  S8: you know what our issues are. And I think acknowledging
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  S8: the fact that, hey, I feel a little dry right now,
• 26:06
  S8: I don't feel motivated to read the Bible. And I
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  S8: think too, there's a little bit of that. I think
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  S8: there's it's just like a musician has to practice scales.
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  S8: I think some of these Bible reading programs are great
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  S8: for just kind of getting us familiar with some basic details.
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  S8: So then the Spirit of God has something to work
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  S8: with later on when we do that. But if we
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  S8: always do it just musical scales and never get into
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  S8: the performance, then that's not helpful as well, you know?
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  S6: So that leads to something before we get into some
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  S6: fresh ways to enjoy the Bible, you've got to get
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  S6: into it. And I think, you know, I was pulling
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  S6: up some stats this morning. They could be discouraging. Yeah.
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  S6: Because it's hard to have fresh ways to look at
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  S6: the Bible if you aren't in the Bible. How do
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  S6: you help people even begin to build a routine? I
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  S6: think maybe we bite off too big a chunk at
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  S6: a time. Jim.
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  S8: Yeah, I mean, start small. I mean, start in ways
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  S8: I don't recommend necessarily starting with like the book of
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  S8: job or the book of Leviticus. If you're just getting started,
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  S8: you're one of our new family members. Yeah. You know,
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  S8: start reading, you know, the Gospel of John or the
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  S8: gospel of Mark or first John. These are really practical
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  S8: book of James. They're very easy kind of ways to
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  S8: kind of get right into it. Book of Proverbs, read
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  S8: a chapter a day. There's all sorts of these kind
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  S8: of things that can help you get started. Then I
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  S8: think you can begin to expand your diet, your menu,
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  S8: to other things, but realize that, you know, there's some
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  S8: work that has to be involved in order to try
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  S8: to read. You know, it's like different sports. You have
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  S8: to know the different rules. How do you read a
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  S8: Psalm as compared to how to read Romans or how
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  S8: to read, you know, job? You have to kind of
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  S8: know a little bit about what is it that we're reading,
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  S8: the type of reading that we're doing. That's why the
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  S8: epistles early on are great because they're straight line communication.
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  S8: They tell you directly, hey, this is what you do,
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  S8: here's how you live. But stories for many people are
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  S8: very challenging to say, okay, what's the what's the theme?
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  S8: What's the walkway that I should have with this? And
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  S8: it's kind of subtle. Authors are very creative and they
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  S8: don't necessarily come hit you upside the head with a
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  S8: two by four. They kind of subtly kind of get
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  S8: you in all of a sudden know that payload really,
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  S8: really connects once you see it.
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  S4: So let's start to get into some of these fresh
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  S4: ways to enjoy the Bible. You've got 14 of them
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  S4: in your book. We won't be able to get to
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  S4: all of them, but give us one this morning. That's
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  S4: a fresh way to enjoy what you're reading.
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  S8: Well, I even just last night I talked about the
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  S8: inclusio or what I call bookends, the idea of look
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  S8: for things that are repeated at the beginning and ending.
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  S8: And so the Gospel of Matthew is a good one
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  S8: where it says, his name shall be called Immanuel, which
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  S8: is God with us. And then you go fast forward
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  S8: to the last chapter, and it ends with Jesus on
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  S8: a mountain in the Galilee region. And lo, I am
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  S8: with you always to the end of the age. And
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  S8: so we see that, oh, Matthew is focusing on God's presence.
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  S8: And then a couple years ago, I was asked to
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  S8: write a today in the word devotional on the Gospel
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  S8: of Matthew. And I said, hey, if that's true, if
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  S8: Matthew begins and ends with the presence of God, where
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  S8: is it in every part of the book? And so
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  S8: I really fashioned the whole devotional about where is God's
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  S8: presence Emphasized in the book, and it was popping out everywhere.
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  S8: And so that's really kind of like was for me
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  S8: exciting to realize, oh, that's just not a, you know,
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  S8: a device that's just there for aesthetics. It's really helpful
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  S8: for readers to kind of say, once you observe that
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  S8: or you come to the book of Romans, obedience of
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  S8: faith and obedience of faith is at the end. And
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  S8: all of a sudden you realize that Paul is really
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  S8: stressing obedience of faith. And that's something that he begins
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  S8: with and finishes up with. But all throughout the book,
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  S8: he's stressing that.
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  S4: Which is interesting is if you've ever written even like
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  S4: a research paper, one of the things you're taught a writing.
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  S6: That's what I was thinking.
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  S4: Is to, you know, when you start a paper and
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  S4: then when the time you're concluding, you're sort of restating
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  S4: the main point, which you started with. So that's, I
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  S4: remember that from high school English.
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  S8: It's all good communication. And that was one of the
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  S8: thrilling things that I was discovering when I was writing
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  S8: my book. I was talking about all these different techniques,
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  S8: but I said, okay, where are these techniques found in
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  S8: things we're familiar with? and wow, I was finding them
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  S8: in modern film, modern literature. And so these are devices
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  S8: that are commonly used by all good communicators. And so
• 30:28
  S8: it's just standard good speaking and writing. And so it's like, oh,
• 30:32
  S8: and so if you're out there and you're love movies,
• 30:34
  S8: but you don't like reading the Bible, well, get a
• 30:37
  S8: copy of the book, look at the examples I have,
• 30:39
  S8: and then start looking for examples of those techniques that
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  S8: you like in those movies and books, how they're also
• 30:44
  S8: in the Bible. And that will then give you, I think,
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  S8: another get you out of that rut where you're just
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  S8: reading it one way.
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  S6: Yeah. Love that. Okay, give us an example of one
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  S6: of your 14 fresh ways to enjoy the Bible. Give
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  S6: us one that isn't featured a lot, but it's like, oh,
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  S6: you gotta see this one, guys.
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  S8: Yeah. I think, you know, like what I call out
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  S8: of order. Uh, sometimes we assume that the Bible is
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  S8: written to us in chronological linear fashion, but that's not
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  S8: the case. Sometimes things are out of order from the
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  S8: actual timeline of what they occurred, but the author is
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  S8: rearranging the content in certain ways. Probably a good example
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  S8: of that is Genesis nine through 12. Genesis nine is
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  S8: Noah off the boat? Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.
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  S8: Chapter ten. Very strange chapter. It's a table of nations.
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  S8: Then chapter 11 is a Tower of Babel. And then
• 31:39
  S8: chapter 12 is the call of Abraham. But if you
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  S8: read in chapter ten the Table of Nations, it talks
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  S8: about at the very end, just a couple verses before
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  S8: chapter 11, it says, these are the clans of Shem
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  S8: according to their tribes, according to their languages, plural. And
• 31:54
  S8: then you read a couple verses later, chapter 11, verse one,
• 31:57
  S8: all the world had one language. You say, what, what,
• 31:59
  S8: what happened there? How is it we went from multiple languages?
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  S8: Now we're only speaking one. Did they unlearn all that? No,
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  S8: it's that Moses rearranged the content, the order of nine, ten,
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  S8: 11 and 12 to fit thematically because the table of
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  S8: nations comes after chapter nine. Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth.
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  S8: So we see the nations as a positive thing, whereas
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  S8: if we see it in the actual order of it
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  S8: happened after the Tower of Babel. They all scattered and
• 32:25
  S8: they all formed all these different nations. Then we're going
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  S8: to say, well, what started these nations was a bad event.
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  S8: The Tower of Babel, pride and arrogance. But see, God's
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  S8: not looking at nations that way. He sees it as
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  S8: a blessing rather than as the negative effect of the
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  S8: Tower of Babel incident.
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  S4: Doctor Coakley, have you gotten any stories from someone or
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  S4: people who've read this book? And it's it's made a
• 32:50
  S4: real transformation in how they read the Bible.
• 32:52
  S8: Well, besides Janine, Karl's wife, there's there's others that have
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  S8: done that. I've had several say, hey, we're using it
• 32:59
  S8: for our small group devotional. Uh, because a lot of
• 33:02
  S8: small groups get stuck in a rut again. They kind
• 33:05
  S8: of do things a certain way. And this is a
• 33:07
  S8: way to kind of up the skill level of people
• 33:10
  S8: as they read the Bible on their own. And then
• 33:12
  S8: it gives them some language to just kind of simply
• 33:15
  S8: identify what they're reading. So we talk about read the labels.
• 33:19
  S8: That is, looking at the references of how were they
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  S8: referred to as uncle by ethnic labels, by occupation. And
• 33:27
  S8: so it's a, it's an easy way to just kind of,
• 33:29
  S8: you know, ramp up the skill level and make people
• 33:32
  S8: get a little bit more excited about the things that
• 33:34
  S8: they're seeing, but then also that they're applying.
• 33:37
  S6: Yeah, I want to spike that again, my bride has
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  S6: told me on numerous occasions and tells anyone she talks
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  S6: to that this 14 Fresh Ways to Enjoy the Bible
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  S6: has been the single most utilized book in her life
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  S6: for opening up the Word of God in fresh ways,
• 33:52
  S6: which is really cool. We've got something really neat for
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  S6: Yeah, what a joy. Guys, I want to tell you
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  S6: something I can't change because we're doing everything we can
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  S6: this may be exactly what God would have for you today.
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  S2: It's not that I've got to fill in these check boxes,
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  S2: so he's okay with me, but it's that I get
• 35:00
  S2: to stand close to him so that I can experience
• 35:03
  S2: the life that he has for me.
• 35:05
  S7: You're listening to cast and Crew.
• 35:07
  S6: So as we've rehearsed, there's a lot of reasons for
• 35:10
  S6: I can't change because. But one that I have real
• 35:14
  S6: compassion for because I've experienced it in my life a
• 35:18
  S6: lot is I can't change because I'm exhausted. I'm tired,
• 35:25
  S6: I'm beat, I need a nap. And I'm. I'm not
• 35:31
  S6: being funny with this one, Ali. This is real.
• 35:33
  S4: Not at all. And this is something that so many
• 35:36
  S4: people feel in a fast paced, busy world that it
• 35:39
  S4: feels like the demands never end. Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith
• 35:42
  S4: joining us right now. She's a board certified internal medicine physician,
• 35:46
  S4: an international speaker. She is the author of several books.
• 35:50
  S4: You know, when people say that they're tired, the most
• 35:54
  S4: common thing that we think about is that I haven't
• 35:56
  S4: slept well. My body needs more rest, more sleep. But really,
• 36:01
  S4: there's lots of different types of exhaustion, right? I mean,
• 36:05
  S4: let's talk about that first, because it's usually not just
• 36:08
  S4: the lack of sleep.
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  S9: Absolutely. And I think specifically as it relates to the
• 36:14
  S9: desire to change, and then the hesitation because of the fatigue,
• 36:18
  S9: mental rest deficits tend to be the cause of that.
• 36:21
  S9: It's one of the seven types of rest I talk about.
• 36:23
  S9: And when you think about change, the first thing you
• 36:26
  S9: have to evaluate is, do I have energy for this?
• 36:29
  S9: It's going to require some decision making, and most of
• 36:31
  S9: us are on decision fatigue already.
• 36:34
  S6: Yeah. This mental risk thing, this is a good one.
• 36:36
  S6: I want to go after that. You know, I've got
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  S6: one of these smart rings. It's called the Ultra Human
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  S6: Pro and it's got really good data points, like even
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  S6: brain waste dumping and all that. And I know you've
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  S6: been a physician, internal medicine physician. You've probably got a
• 36:53
  S6: good beat on that. This really is interesting because sometimes
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  S6: you can even get good sleep and even get good
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  S6: sleep scores on your data points, but you're exhausted. Is
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  S6: that all around what Ali was just talking about?
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  S9: Yes, because sleep is only one of the types of
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  S9: rest we experience. Sleep primarily falls into the physical rest category.
• 37:18
  S9: It does hit a little bit on things like sensory rest,
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  S9: but if we look at the whole scope of rest,
• 37:23
  S9: there's multiple areas including the physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, sensory,
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  S9: and creative. So you can get sleep and still not
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  S9: get some of these other types of rest or restorative
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  S9: areas in your life.
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  S4: Met doctor, I want to draw from your experience working
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  S4: directly with patients, because I am sure based on the
• 37:44
  S4: nature of your work, that you often make recommendations to
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  S4: people as to changes that would help their overall quality
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  S4: of life. And sometimes people listen. What what is the thing,
• 38:02
  S4: the common denominator or some common themes you see around
• 38:06
  S4: sometimes the resistance that people have to change, even things
• 38:10
  S4: like diet or exercise or things that they can see. Numbers,
• 38:14
  S4: whether it's cholesterol levels or a number creeping up on
• 38:17
  S4: a scale where you as a doctor say, hey, it
• 38:20
  S4: would be a good idea for you to do this.
• 38:22
  S4: What is it that keeps people from listening to what
• 38:25
  S4: you're telling them? What are some themes you see?
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  S9: The number one theme I see is people feel like
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  S9: it's going to be too hard. And so automatically the
• 38:33
  S9: thought is, oh no, she's going to make me change everything.
• 38:37
  S9: And really often it's 1 or 2 small tweaks that'll
• 38:40
  S9: make a huge difference. It might just be changing the
• 38:43
  S9: thing you have for breakfast that's causing some of the
• 38:46
  S9: cholesterol problems, so to speak, or a small shift in
• 38:49
  S9: the spices that you're using that will help improve your
• 38:52
  S9: blood pressure. So I think that's the number one thing,
• 38:55
  S9: is just this concept of change is going to be
• 38:58
  S9: so hard. It's going to be harder than the benefits
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  S9: that come after the change.
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  S6: There's a lot of science on brain health and physical health.
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  S6: What is the correlation and how does mental exhaustion play
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  S6: into the physical body?
• 39:13
  S9: Oh, they are closely connected. A huge part of the
• 39:17
  S9: chronic stress response that people experience is driven by our
• 39:22
  S9: mental unrest that we're experiencing, the amount of frustration from
• 39:26
  S9: jobs or overwhelmed from responsibilities, which then show up in
• 39:31
  S9: our bodies in different way, whether that be an elevated
• 39:34
  S9: heart rate or tension in our neck and back muscles,
• 39:37
  S9: or insomnia is also a side effect of that. And
• 39:41
  S9: so all of these are things that have a physical response,
• 39:45
  S9: but the body's really responding to what is processing. And
• 39:49
  S9: that processing mentally and emotionally can lead to the release
• 39:53
  S9: of hormones that then have that impact on the body.
• 39:56
  S4: Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith with us right now, her book
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  S4: Sacred Rest Recover Your Life, renew your energy, restore your sanity.
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  S4: Sounds like change, doesn't it? How do you do that?
• 40:08
  S4: How can I recover my life, renew my energy and
• 40:10
  S4: restore my sanity? Doctor Moore, coming up here on Carl
• 40:13
  S4: and Crew.
• 40:15
  S7: Want to hear that again? Just download the Carl and
• 40:18
  S7: Crew podcast wherever you like to stream.
• 40:20
  S4: So you want more rest? You want more life. You
• 40:24
  S4: want more energy. You want your sanity back. I'm paraphrasing
• 40:28
  S4: a title of the book, Sacred Rest. Recover your life,
• 40:30
  S4: renew your energy, restore your Sanity, doctor Sandra Dalton Smith.
• 40:34
  S4: You make a big promise in the title of this book.
• 40:37
  S4: What are some first steps for people who want to
• 40:39
  S4: do just that?
• 40:40
  S9: Well, the first step is realizing that Rest does not
• 40:43
  S9: require these vacations or taking a 30 day sabbatical. It's
• 40:48
  S9: a small tweak that requires you to be intentional about
• 40:52
  S9: restoring the places where you're draining yourself. And so I
• 40:55
  S9: think that's the first place we have to begin kind
• 40:58
  S9: of changing how we view change and how we approach
• 41:02
  S9: it in a way that allows us to see that
• 41:04
  S9: we can start where we're at and then expand as
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  S9: we go.
• 41:09
  S6: How often do you see that? One of the complicating
• 41:12
  S6: factors here is that some people have just too much
• 41:15
  S6: on their plate, and so less would be more.
• 41:19
  S9: That's very common. Um, our culture is built around this
• 41:23
  S9: concept of get as much as you can and kind
• 41:26
  S9: of store it. But for a lot of people, that
• 41:29
  S9: just compounds the responsibilities and the workload. And many of
• 41:33
  S9: the things that they are collecting are things that, that
• 41:38
  S9: really are no longer serving them. That includes sometimes even
• 41:41
  S9: jobs and titles and roles. I know a lot of
• 41:44
  S9: people who have been doing, let's say, leading a Bible
• 41:47
  S9: study for 15, 20 years, but God doesn't always call
• 41:50
  S9: us to do something forever. He calls us to do
• 41:53
  S9: things for seasons, and we have to recognize when seasons
• 41:56
  S9: change so that we open up ourselves for whatever he's
• 41:59
  S9: calling us to next.
• 42:01
  S4: Let's talk about some of these other different types of rests.
• 42:03
  S4: We've touched on physical and mental, but you point to
• 42:06
  S4: seven different types of rests in your book. What are
• 42:09
  S4: some of the others that maybe are often overlooked?
• 42:11
  S9: Find one that's highly overlooked is sensory rest. Most of
• 42:15
  S9: us ignore things in our periphery, so we ignore the
• 42:18
  S9: background sounds of our children playing while we're working at home,
• 42:22
  S9: or we ignore the sounds of things happening in our office.
• 42:25
  S9: And we don't realize that even when we're ignoring it,
• 42:28
  S9: our brain is processing it. That's how we can ignore it.
• 42:32
  S9: It's filtering out safe from unsafe, and that process can
• 42:36
  S9: drain the brain over time. So if you're someone who
• 42:39
  S9: finds that you're agitated at the end of the day
• 42:41
  S9: and you don't understand why, start looking at your sensory
• 42:45
  S9: inputs that are happening. You may be ignoring it, but
• 42:48
  S9: your brain's not ignoring it. And that's part of the
• 42:51
  S9: fatigue you're experiencing.
• 42:52
  S6: Well, that leads to something that is so I boy,
• 42:57
  S6: almost feels impossible in our culture today. You see Jesus
• 43:01
  S6: getting away to a quiet place. Probably the only thing
• 43:05
  S6: he heard were birds chirping and some grass rustling with
• 43:09
  S6: the breeze. I've had seasons like that when I get
• 43:13
  S6: away and early in the morning for me, is that
• 43:16
  S6: really quiet? How important is that in a person's life
• 43:20
  S6: to keep their sanity?
• 43:22
  S9: It's highly important. There's a need for neurological regulation within
• 43:28
  S9: our body. Our our body wants times when it feels
• 43:31
  S9: as if it can just relax, not be on edge,
• 43:34
  S9: not be on alert. And so having those moments in
• 43:38
  S9: silence and solitude where you can allow your body to
• 43:42
  S9: down regulate and allow your nervous system to down regulate,
• 43:46
  S9: it helps every aspect of our mental capacity, of our sensory, physical,
• 43:51
  S9: all areas of our body get restored during those times.
• 43:54
  S4: Because the funny thing is that we find ourselves, or
• 43:57
  S4: maybe it's just me spending precious downtime on things that
• 44:00
  S4: aren't restful.
• 44:02
  S3: Yeah. No.
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  S6: That's. See? Therein lies the rub, I think. Right.
• 44:05
  S4: Doctor, you know, you've got 30 minutes to an hour.
• 44:07
  S4: But many people will disappear into a screen or scroll
• 44:11
  S4: on their phone, spend some time on Facebook, maybe watch
• 44:14
  S4: something on Netflix, and you've had time away from work,
• 44:17
  S4: but you don't feel really full.
• 44:21
  S9: Yeah, I totally agree. I think for many people, this
• 44:25
  S9: concept of how do we stop? You know, how do
• 44:29
  S9: we get to a place where we allow ourselves to stop?
• 44:32
  S9: It's countercultural. Our culture really builds itself around productivity. So
• 44:36
  S9: I get it. Rest feels as if you're doing something unproductive. Yeah,
• 44:41
  S9: but rest in itself is productive. That's part of the
• 44:45
  S9: mindset shift that has to occur when you're when you're resting,
• 44:49
  S9: you're not not doing nothing. You're still doing something. You're
• 44:53
  S9: doing something restorative. And just because it's restorative doesn't mean
• 44:57
  S9: it's lesser than it actually is. What is going to
• 45:00
  S9: keep you sustainable. It's what's going to empower you to
• 45:03
  S9: continue to do all those things that you want to do.
• 45:06
  S6: Give us I this is so resonating with me because
• 45:11
  S6: I had a dean of students give me a book.
• 45:13
  S6: When I relax, I feel guilty because he saw the
• 45:15
  S6: pace of my life when I was in college and
• 45:18
  S6: it was convicting. Give us the top three disciplines that
• 45:22
  S6: you prescribe to people who are exhausted, beat up, feel
• 45:27
  S6: like they have no margin. Top three.
• 45:30
  S9: Top three. Number one is identify a day you will
• 45:34
  S9: honor a Sabbath. I feel like that's a concept that
• 45:37
  S9: we've kind of thrown aside. And I realize that in
• 45:40
  S9: the Jewish culture, it's specific day and many Christians go
• 45:44
  S9: to church on a specific day, but I'm a physician.
• 45:47
  S9: The hospital doesn't close. I have to identify a day
• 45:50
  S9: that I'm going to honor the Sabbath. It won't always
• 45:53
  S9: be the same day, but the heart position is the same. God,
• 45:56
  S9: I trust you as my source, and I'm going to
• 45:59
  S9: honor what your word says. That's number one. Number two
• 46:02
  S9: is start small. Rest does not require large blocks of time.
• 46:07
  S9: So if you say, I don't have any time, I
• 46:09
  S9: don't believe you because you have time to do what
• 46:12
  S9: you choose to do. So it can start with ten minutes,
• 46:16
  S9: ten minutes a day. You're going to do a specific
• 46:19
  S9: restorative practice based on the type of rest that you need.
• 46:23
  S9: And so that's the number two. Find a time to
• 46:26
  S9: incorporate rest daily, not just weekly. And number three is
• 46:31
  S9: move yourself into a mindset of rest is necessary. It's
• 46:38
  S9: not a bonus. It's necessary for me to live a
• 46:42
  S9: John 1010 life. I cannot stay in a place of
• 46:45
  S9: abundance if I have no time to spare.
• 46:49
  S6: I think that is the linchpin issue. I think we
• 46:52
  S6: have so spiritualized busyness. I think we've made room for Unspiritual.
• 46:58
  S6: What do you think, doc?
• 46:59
  S9: I hundred percent agree. I you know, it's really interesting
• 47:02
  S9: that you mentioned my book Sacred Rest. I literally wrote
• 47:06
  S9: the book with over half the book talking about Jesus.
• 47:09
  S9: And it's very strange to me that corporations and I
• 47:13
  S9: spend most of my time traveling and speaking in corporations
• 47:16
  S9: about a book. That's half of it talks about Jesus.
• 47:18
  S6: Awesome.
• 47:19
  S9: Because they specifically understand the power of restorative practices to
• 47:25
  S9: help people be sustainable as leaders, as entrepreneurs, whatever career
• 47:30
  S9: people are in. But it's very interesting. I wrote the
• 47:32
  S9: book for the church specifically, and the church has given
• 47:36
  S9: the most pushback about rest. It makes no sense to me,
• 47:40
  S9: but I realize that this is an area that the
• 47:42
  S9: enemy has a hold on believers, because we feel as
• 47:46
  S9: if because we're doing Christ centered work, we can omit
• 47:50
  S9: his way of doing it, which includes Rest.
• 47:53
  S4: Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith, a great, great stuff today. If
• 47:57
  S4: you want more, text rest to 805 557898. Just that
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• 48:08
  S7: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is
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  S7: in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody radio.
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  S3: All right, guys.
• 48:18
  S6: Looking around here. Oh, sure enough, here it is. It's Wednesday,
• 48:21
  S6: bottom of the hour. Shazam! It's time right now.
• 48:26
  S7: Making herself laugh. No matter who joins her, it's time
• 48:29
  S7: for Ali. Thinks it's funny.
• 48:33
  S4: I got a joke. I think Jonathan's gonna like, you know,
• 48:36
  S4: we affectionately call him stat man boy.
• 48:39
  S6: Yeah we.
• 48:40
  S3: Do. That's right.
• 48:41
  S4: Because he's got stats for everything. I got a stat
• 48:43
  S4: for you.
• 48:44
  S3: Okay.
• 48:44
  S4: Kind of a surprising one. Did you know that 90%
• 48:48
  S4: of bald men still own a comb? 90% of bald
• 48:52
  S4: men still own a comb.
• 48:53
  S2: That's an interesting stat.
• 48:55
  S3: Surprising.
• 48:55
  S5: I did not know.
• 48:56
  S4: That they just can't part with it.
• 49:01
  S2: Okay, that was really good.
• 49:02
  S3: I like that.
• 49:03
  S2: Yes, absolutely.
• 49:05
  S3: All right. That was a good one. Thank you.
• 49:07
  S6: That was.
• 49:07
  S3: Good.
• 49:08
  S4: Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed that one. I don't
• 49:11
  S4: know who this one's for. Anyone like pirates?
• 49:13
  S3: Oh, yeah, I love pirates. Pirates?
• 49:16
  S4: Uh, the pirate wanted to make a call to his mom.
• 49:20
  S4: He called his mom every Sunday dutifully from the ship.
• 49:24
  S4: I guess the boat made a call to his mom. How, though?
• 49:27
  S4: How in the world would you call a mom as
• 49:30
  S4: a pirate on his I phone?
• 49:37
  S2: Oh my.
• 49:37
  S3: Goodness.
• 49:39
  S10: Oh my goodness is right.
• 49:42
  S3: That's really good Ali. Those both were good, kiddo. You
• 49:46
  S3: did all right. Oh.
• 49:47
  S4: Text jokes to 805 557898. Yep. I went for it.
• 49:52
  S4: Text jokes to 805 557898. Thanks for the music support.
• 49:58
  S4: Young thunder always helps.
• 50:01
  S6: Being a Swede, though I do need to help you with, uh,
• 50:04
  S6: Viking pirate type music, but I guess that's from the
• 50:07
  S6: soundtrack of what? Uh, that's.
• 50:08
  S2: Pirates of the Caribbean.
• 50:10
  S4: Yeah.
• 50:11
  S6: Or the Caribbean.
• 50:12
  S2: Or the Caribbean. However you say.
• 50:14
  S5: Caribbean.
• 50:15
  S6: Is it Caribbean or Caribbean? Which one is it?
• 50:17
  S4: It's a tomato tomato kind of thing.
• 50:19
  S2: It is. But the movie is more popularly.
• 50:22
  S6: Pronounced.
• 50:22
  S2: Pirates of the Caribbean. I like Caribbean, though.
• 50:26
  S6: I don't know which one it is. I think the
• 50:29
  S6: people in the Caribbean could scare us away.
• 50:31
  S4: Yeah, if you are from the Caribbean or the Caribbean.
• 50:35
  S6: You have tears coming down your face. Her eyes are
• 50:38
  S6: absolutely wet. That is.
• 50:40
  S4: Great. No one laughs harder at my jokes than me.
• 50:45
  S6: That's what it's called. Ali thinks.
• 50:46
  S4: It's funny.
• 50:47
  S6: Get the jokes, jokes, jokes to 805, five, five, 78, 98.