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Victory over Time Wasting: Listener Testimonies & Standing Against Jew Hatred with Dr. Michael Rydelnik · Karl and Crew

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S6: For me, growing up, love was always conditional and can
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S6: to the cross with my mind and my heart that night.
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S1: Now from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl
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S1: and crew.
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S2: Here we go. We're opening up phone lines wide open.
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S2: It's Freedom Friday. And there's some of you that have
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S2: gotten freedom over a black hole that was sucking time
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S2: up for you. Time redemption challenge is still in play.
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S2: You can get that link anytime. It's never too late
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S2: to join in here. You know, I had some thought
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S2: about time redemption. I am at the point where this
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S2: is what I firmly believe. Either you have a built
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S2: in clock around time redemption, and some people do. Some
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S2: have ordered their private and public lives in such a
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S2: way that they that they truly have rhythms in their
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S2: life that are time, redemption. They don't have black holes
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S2: of time that just get frittered away. And I'll tell
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S2: you who I think of. My dad was one of
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S2: the best time redeemers going. He didn't short cheat his
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S2: relationship with his kids at all. He had room for
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S2: spontaneity because time redemption does not mean this is my schedule.
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S2: I've got no time to go out and play catch
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S2: with my son right now, you know, spontaneously. Yeah, that's
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S2: that's dangerous when you start living like that. But redeemed time.
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S2: Oh my goodness. My dad had one weak spot for TV,
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S2: one weak spot. Hogan's Heroes. That was.
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S3: It.
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S2: I mean and that was one half hour a week
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S2: I think. And that was it. So I don't think
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S2: you could call that a black hole necessarily. I think
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S2: that's just good old fashioned.
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S3: I mean yeah, that's just sounds like Relaxation.
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S2: Yeah. And so he redeemed time by, you know, I
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S2: wish I could talk to dad about this and I
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S2: never did before he left this earth to go on
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S2: to his reward. I wish I had it's one of
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S2: those that gets me. But he he just had a
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S2: built in rhythm. I mean, my dad would get up
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S2: from dinner. We'd we'd I don't know, we'd go out
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S2: and play catch or something or he'd have a special
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S2: project going. He was always fixing up things around the
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S2: home because we didn't have discretionary dough to call in
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S2: a guy to come fix stuff. So he was fixing
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S2: stuff all the time and dragging me along to learn
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S2: how that's.
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S7: I mean, that's, that's great that you're able to learn
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S7: a lot though along the way.
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S2: It was good. And so I know some of you
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S2: are great time redeemers. Some um. Are use a day
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S2: planner of some sort And that's me. If I don't
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S2: plan my day by half hour blocks and even plan
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S2: dinking around by half hour blocks, I'll get gobbled up.
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S2: I do not have the discipline to to stay out
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S2: of black holes of of of time robbers, I just don't.
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S2: But there are and there are some of us that
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S2: feel like, man, I, I need to get an accounting
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S2: for my time. Here's one thing I want to let
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S2: you off the hook on as we talk about time, redemption.
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S2: I want to stress this again, the goal of time
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S2: redemption is not staying busy. It's it's not giving a
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S2: foothold to Satan to get in our life. It's that simple, guys.
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S2: It's just that simple.
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S3: Yeah.
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S2: And there's some of you that have gotten victory and
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S2: you've got a story. And on this Freedom Friday, we
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S2: want to hear those stories. There was a there was
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S2: an area of your life where Satan had gotten a toehold.
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S2: And by God's grace and his power, man, you broke
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S2: that chain. And on this Freedom Friday, we'd love to hear.
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S2: What was that thing that was a black hole for
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S2: time for you. And now you've gotten victory. Give us
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S2: a call 805 557898 (800) 555-7898. You know, this week we've
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S2: we just came off of an interview with Michael Ray
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S2: where he was in Colossians looking at time redemption. We've
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S2: we've been all over the scriptures. You go to Romans,
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S2: you find time, redemption. You go to Ephesians five, you
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S2: find time, redemption. You go to Psalm 90, you find time, redemption.
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S2: We've got a lot of opportunities in a 24 hour day,
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S2: and we don't want to give Satan a toehold.
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S7: And, you know, this conversation is so convicting, but helpful
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S7: because you're right. And I'm glad you keep stressing that
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S7: it's not about finding something, quote unquote productive, to fill
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S7: every half hour of your day because it's easy to
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S7: busy to allow busyness to kind of actually become an idol.
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S2: Oh, yes. Yeah. For sure.
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S7: I mean, a lot of people where it's easy to
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S7: wear your busyness as a badge of as a badge
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S7: of honor, like, oh, I am just so busy, so busy, busy, busy, busy.
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S7: And we say it as like with a sense of,
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S7: of pride. And I think we got to be careful
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S7: of that too, because that's not the goal.
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S2: Yeah. The goal isn't busyness. And the irony is we
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S2: find ourselves busy and then sometimes exhausted. Mhm. And then that,
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S2: that 2 to 3 hour band of time where we're
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S2: exhausted because we don't have bandwidth, that then becomes a
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S2: black hole for condemnation. Yeah. It's it's really a high
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S2: ridge deal here, isn't it?
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S7: And we, we, that's why everything else we like. Everything else,
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S7: we need the help of the Holy Spirit.
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S2: Yeah. This is this is Holy Spirit help through and through.
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S2: But a really cool thing to see is, I mean,
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S2: take C.H. Spurgeon. I think he lived to 57 years old.
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S2: Do you know that there's he has written more, boy.
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S2: Check me on this one because I, I heard this from, uh,
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S2: David Jeremiah who said his statement was that C.H. Spurgeon
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S2: had more written content than I believe any pastor in
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S2: recorded history. And he lived a 57 years old. And
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S2: David Jeremiah is a prolific author, constant communicator. And he
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S2: said that he just used his time so incredibly well.
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S2: Did C.H. Spurgeon have challenges? Yeah, he, um, his bride
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S2: had to help him through valleys of darkness that really
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S2: hit him hard. But an added bonus here. I'm going
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S2: to give you on this Freedom Friday. See each. Spurgeon
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S2: found that every time he went into these funks of discouragement,
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S2: it was a precursor to a massive breakthrough in ministry
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S2: for him.
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S7: Interesting.
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S2: Isn't that fascinating?
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S3: Yeah.
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S2: So the question is, what is the thing that was
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S2: the black hole for time for you, and now you've
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S2: gotten victory. These are Freedom Friday stories here. 805. 557898.
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S2: Light em up, guys. 805 5578. 98. New rule for
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S2: Freedom Friday. Whenever you've got a freedom story of any kind. Salvation, sanctification.
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S2: Growing up in Jesus, getting victory in some area, you
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S2: just pick up that phone and we will try to
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S2: wedge you in sideways into this program, won't we?
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S7: Yes, absolutely. We we love those Freedom Friday stories.
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S2: 805 557898. Taking your calls 805 557898.
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S1: You're listening to Curl and Crew on Moody Radio.
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S2: It's Carl and crew got a lot going on today.
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S2: Going to get an update here in just a moment.
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S2: But Rachel first time caller. Lakeland, Florida. What's going on, sister?
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S8: Well, I had the death of my son, and I
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S8: turned to the games that are on the phone, and
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S8: I just lost all sorts of myself time in that.
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S8: And then all of a sudden, I just got a
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S8: kick and I put the phone down, put the games down,
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S8: and started reading the Bible, especially Psalms. Psalm 77 helped
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S8: the most, and four years ago I was actually saved
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S8: and was baptized. And everything's been such a blessing and
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S8: a joy.
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S2: Oh, Rachel. Rachel. First time caller. Boom! Sister, we love you.
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S2: What a great word, huh?
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S7: Guys, I love that.
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S3: Wow. Oh wow. My goodness.
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S5: We talked about that not just a couple of days
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S5: ago of, you know, sometimes pain in life gets us
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S5: to not redeeming time because we're trying to distract ourselves
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S5: or hide away and, and that can become really destructive.
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S5: And so I praise God that, that he really spoke
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S5: to Rachel's heart and brought her to himself.
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S2: Rachel, sister, we love you. And wow, four years ago,
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S2: born again, reading through the Psalms as opposed to, you know,
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S2: the pain medicating pain there. There's a lot there with
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S2: Rachel and that's, that's tough. But being aware enough by
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S2: the power of the spirit that there needs to be
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S2: some other outlet for that pain because the video game
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S2: can't fix it. It only can dull it for a
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S2: little bit. That's really true. Yeah. It's amazing. Nico, let's
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S2: get you in here. West Palm Beach. What did God
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S2: set you free from? What was the black hole man?
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S9: So a black hole of time that I had in
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S9: my life. I would say was social media. So what
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S9: I've done to be able to like get victory from it,
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S9: because I used to be scrolling a lot, especially like, um,
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S9: especially after a long day. So what has helped me
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S9: to get victory from it was actually like putting it
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S9: on a, on a separate device. I know somebody that
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S9: came on the show, not, not the show, but on
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S9: the radio like a few months ago was talking about
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S9: that and like putting and putting time limits with passcodes
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S9: that I don't know, but a trusted family member knew
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S9: has helped me a lot to just like to not
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S9: not just keep on going and just, you know, feeding
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S9: my flesh.
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S2: Wow. Niko, how old are you?
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S9: I'm 17.
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S2: You're 17? 17, bro. Let me tell you something. You're
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S2: a man's man. You are a man's man, Niko.
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S3: Yeah, that's.
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S2: And you're getting this stuff. You're getting this stuff right
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S2: now in your life. You are a spiritual stud, muffin bro.
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S2: That is awesome. I am so proud you stay on
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S2: the horn. I'm sending you a call and crew prize pack. Okay,
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S2: you stay on the horn here.
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S3: Yeah.
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S5: I don't think I've ever met a 17 year old
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S5: who's like, I need to set timers on my devices, man.
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S3: That's awesome.
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S2: I'm self-aware enough where I'm setting timers and I'm getting
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S2: different devices for different purposes. Are you kidding me? Niko?
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S3: Oh that's incredible.
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S2: We got a 17 year old named Niko in West
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S2: Palm Beach. Who's listening? Who's doing this in his life?
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S2: Are you kidding me?
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S7: I'm. I'm stunned. That's that's so.
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S3: Cool.
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S2: Oh my goodness. Okay. We'll take stories all day long.
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S2: All day long. What's that black hole that God has
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S2: set you free from? It was a time waster and
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S2: now it's getting redeemed. You can call anytime. We'll wedge
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S2: in here sideways, 805, five, five, 78, 98 getting, uh,
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S2: pop up update from Iran. Lana Silk gonna be ducking
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S2: in here in a moment. We got to keep our
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S2: eyes on what's going on in the Middle East. My goodness.
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S2: All you got to do is read Jeremiah 49 and
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S2: you'll see. You'll see exactly why we need to keep
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S2: our eyes on what's going on there. Lana silk straight ahead.
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S1: Want to hear that again? Just download the Curl and
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S1: Crew podcast wherever you like to stream.
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S2: We want to keep our eyes on Iran. We're going
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S2: to keep going back and getting updates. Lana silk popping
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S2: in with us right now. Okay. I'm gonna I'm going
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S2: to give it to you in real time. I'm kind
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S2: of encouraged because Iran's coming back with deals that aren't
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S2: deals according to our administration. And frankly, I'm a little
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S2: bit excited about this because my hope is that this
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S2: regime might get taken out. Do you share that kind
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S2: of passion with me?
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S10: Lana I do, Carl. We need to see action. I
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S10: see all the reasons why it was necessary to go
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S10: through these steps of diplomacy, but the Iranian government are
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S10: not playing fair and it will be good to replace them.
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S3: Yeah.
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S7: Lana Silk with us this morning, president and chief executive
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S7: officer with Transform Iran. She was born and raised in Iran. Okay.
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S7: So give us the latest update. From your vantage point.
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S7: What do we need to know? What do we need
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S7: to be aware of as we pray?
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S10: We need to remember that when a islamically motivated player
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S10: actor engages in any kind of, um, negotiation or sort
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S10: of business dealings of any kind with a Western or
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S10: non-Muslim actor, they're, they have a very clear instruction from
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S10: their Koran that their deceit is absolutely acceptable to get
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S10: to their end game. So when we're talking about negotiations
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S10: between these two parties, the words that come out of
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S10: the leaders of Iran's mouths are not reliable. You know,
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S10: any kind of promise, even if they were to turn
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S10: around and say, we promise never to do this again,
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S10: that doesn't mean they won't. So let's pray that that
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S10: wall of deceit will be exposed and that these negotiations
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S10: will quickly come to an end, and we'll get into
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S10: the region of realm of action, just like Carl was saying.
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S2: So is is it canonically accurate to deceive infidels? Is
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S2: that in the Quran?
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S10: Not as a general form of life. Like every day
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S10: go around lying to people, but when they're under this
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S10: kind of duress and they're certainly particularly when they're at war? Absolutely.
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S10: It's part of the process.
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S2: Okay. Lana Silk, our guest right now. All right. Give
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S2: us an update. What's going on? What are you hearing?
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S10: Well, honestly, it's just more of the same right now.
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S10: There's this big waiting game happening to see what what's
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S10: going to happen at the end of these talks. We're
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S10: on something like 40 days. I want to say 44.
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S10: I think of ceasefire now. And this has been a
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S10: really critical time for the Iranian government to strengthen themselves.
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S10: They have really established their military Um, capabilities. They have
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S10: even been talking about taxing the people to help, you know,
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S10: this kind of missile tax to help them fund what
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S10: they're doing. They have continued on a massive campaign of
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S10: intimidating and harassing people, even really petty things like hiring
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S10: people to make a lot of noise, aggressive noise in
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S10: neighborhoods so people can't sleep at night, just constantly working
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S10: to build this sort of tension and fear in people
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S10: to keep them submissive. And one person was saying to us,
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S10: you can't even stop in the streets because there's always
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S10: a risk they'll arrest you in case they're worried you're
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S10: about to start a protest.
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S7: Lana Silk with us this morning. One thing I think
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S7: you mentioned last time that I think bears repeating. Why
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S7: shouldn't we trust things that we see when we see
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S7: social media reports or other accounts about how the Iranian
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S7: people supposedly feel about this conflict or this regime? Why
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S7: should we be hesitant to trust those sort of testimonials?
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S10: Yes, even that plays into this question of deceit. The
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S10: Iranian government are hiring actors to say all the right
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S10: things in front of cameras. We've seen cases where the
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S10: same actors have come up over and again in different
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S10: contexts with different stories. So they're not doing a great
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S10: job of even, um, you know, hiding that. And they
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S10: use AI whenever you see these images of groups of
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S10: people showing support for the government with some kind of
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S10: march or whatever, that's AI in the most recent turn.
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S10: And I think this might be since we spoke, they
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S10: have been paying people to take to the streets and
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S10: march in solidarity. And people are terribly hungry now. So
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S10: that kind of economic incentive has been working, and there's
17:15
S10: been a very clear pricing structure. As many people from
17:18
S10: your household turnout will give you this amount of money.
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S3: Man.
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S2: Lana Silk, our guest right now, an expert on Iran.
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S2: And I would look, I was looking at your website,
17:28
S2: by the way, it's a great place to go and
17:30
S2: know how to pray, but you've got a great team
17:33
S2: of people not just here stateside, but in Europe and
17:36
S2: and beyond. What's your strategy? I noticed one thing looking
17:41
S2: at your site and everything that you're up to. You
17:43
S2: guys are strategists, you're entrepreneurs. What's the what's the unique wrinkle?
17:47
S2: I would, I would love to be in one of
17:49
S2: your strategy sessions. So kind of take us there. What
17:52
S2: are you what are you feeling from the Lord and what's,
17:54
S2: what's God got you doing right now?
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S10: Lana we are extremely, um, focused in on when this
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S10: current situation changes and we're, we want to be ready
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S10: if it's today, we need to be ready. So our
18:07
S10: conversations are much more around. If the doors were open
18:10
S10: to right now, what do we need in place? So
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S10: that goes right across the gamut from aid to networks
18:16
S10: to Bibles that still need translation, even the training of
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S10: missionaries and pastors. And we are actively pursuing all these
18:25
S10: areas and are the conversation, the flavor of our meetings
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S10: is what do you still need? Are you ready when
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S10: the doors open?
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S7: Lana silk with us from Transform Iran. We want to
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S7: get you the information. Just text transform to 805 557898,
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S7: text transform to 805 557898.
18:47
S2: We have got an opportunity here to pray boom crew. And, uh,
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S2: you know what we don't have because we don't ask
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S2: them to do it right now. Father, in the name
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S2: of Jesus, I'm asking you that who your hand would
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S2: move according to Jeremiah 49, that we would see the
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S2: bow of strength of the mullahs broken, and that your
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S2: children would rise up, that the gospel, as Jonathan was
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S2: saying yesterday, that peace would be in that land so
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S2: that the gospel could go out with even more boldness.
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S2: I pray that you would be calling men and women,
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S2: boys and girls to yourself that those who are witnessing
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S2: would be protected, almost blinded, blinded to the eyes of
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S2: the Republican Guard and those that mean harm and that
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S2: you would protect and guide and direct. In Jesus name
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S2: we pray. Amen. Text. Transform to our number here. Get
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S2: an update on what's going on. Transform to 800 555, 78, 98.
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S2: There's ways to pray. And I'm so grateful for you,
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S2: the boom crew that have a real interest in what
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S2: God is doing in Iran. It is still the fastest
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S2: growing church in the world. Iran. I think Afghanistan is
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S2: right behind it. And you look at things like that
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S2: and you're going, wow, what's wrong with us? We got
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S2: all these freedoms. These people have persecution galore for following Jesus,
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S2: and it's just burgeoning. It's almost hard to get your
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S2: head around, isn't it?
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S7: It is. But I mean, it's acts. We see that
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S7: in the book of acts.
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S2: Yeah. it's acts going on.
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S2: Its cast and crew on this Freedom Friday. We are
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S2: taking your stories. God's giving you victory over something that
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S2: used to be a black hole. I mean, giant sucking
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S2: sound taking time, and you've been reclaiming it and it's
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S2: beautiful and you've gotten victory over. What was it? Give
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S2: us a call right now. 800 555, 7898. Light em up. Boom. Crew,
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S2: this is your show. 805 557898.
21:02
S7: Yeah. Let's go to Debbie calling in this morning from
21:05
S7: South Carolina. What was that thing? That was a black
21:07
S7: hole of time for you. And how did you get victory?
21:12
S11: On the radio.
21:13
S7: Go ahead. Debbie. You're on with Carl and Crew. What
21:15
S7: was that for you? That that black hole of time.
21:19
S12: First of all, I love Carl crew. I didn't think
21:22
S12: I would because I liked Steve and Don, but, um,
21:28
S12: for a long time. But you guys are great. Um,
21:33
S12: I'm in my 70s, and my daughter signed me up
21:37
S12: for Facebook when they became missionaries in Uganda, Africa 16
21:42
S12: years ago. They're still there. Um, and that was just
21:49
S12: so I could have a way to contact her, uh,
21:53
S12: without having to pay a great deal. So anyway, um,
21:59
S12: Facebook became a black hole for me for years. Um,
22:05
S12: now that I'm in my 70s, I finally decided this
22:07
S12: is crazy. So I, um, have probably eight pages of apps,
22:16
S12: many of which I don't use and need to get
22:18
S12: rid of. But it does help because on that last page,
22:22
S12: the very last app is my Facebook, so I don't
22:26
S12: see it. I don't use it.
22:29
S2: Way to go. That's a big deal. Debbie. That's a
22:31
S2: big deal. And I'm proud of you, sister.
22:33
S5: That's smart. I think that, you know, there is a
22:36
S5: little bit of that out of sight, out of mind thing.
22:38
S5: If you got other things going on, just stick it
22:40
S5: in a in a back spot of your phone where
22:41
S5: you're not going to see it. And you'll kind of
22:44
S5: only go there when you need to.
22:45
S3: Yeah.
22:45
S2: But if there's people like me listening, they're going, way
22:48
S2: to go. Debbie. Glad that works for you. But if
22:50
S2: it's anywhere on my phone, I don't care if it's
22:52
S2: the 49th page of apps.
22:55
S3: I'm going to find it. I'm serious.
22:57
S5: That is true for some people.
22:58
S2: So that is that is the power of the Holy
23:00
S2: Spirit there.
23:01
S3: Amen.
23:02
S2: Uh, Viviana, is that right from Tennessee? What's your story, Viviana?
23:07
S13: Oh, no, it's Vivian.
23:08
S2: Vivian. All right. We had a we had a little
23:10
S2: bit of a typo in our call screen here. Viviana.
23:13
S2: That's kind of a cool take on that one. All right, Vivian,
23:16
S2: what's your story?
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S13: Well, ever since I've been saved. And I was saved
23:22
S13: at 12 years old. I have been teaching in Sunday
23:25
S13: school or in some format. I actually started, um, in
23:30
S13: my teen class teaching my teen friends, and I've been
23:35
S13: doing it ever since. I've been teaching. I've been, I
23:39
S13: am still a pastor's wife, minister's wife, a mom of
23:42
S13: four young adult children, a Gigi to six grandchildren. And
23:47
S13: I'm just this year I turned 59 and my husband
23:51
S13: and I will celebrate 40 years of marriage.
23:53
S3: Congrats.
23:54
S13: And yes, in talking with my therapist counselor, however you
23:58
S13: want to say it on yesterday, I just realized that
24:02
S13: God sees me as me, as his daughter. He doesn't
24:06
S13: see me as a teacher, uh, pastor's wife, but he
24:10
S13: sees me as me, as Vivian, and he's coming to
24:14
S13: take care of me as Vivian. I've been doing all
24:17
S13: things for all people. And he's saying to me that
24:21
S13: in this season of life, this is your time, and
24:24
S13: I'm embracing that. And I'm just so excited to see
24:28
S13: what he has to do for chapter 60. That's loading.
24:31
S13: And chapter 40. That's loading for my husband and I.
24:35
S13: And I am just so thrilled and excited. Um, yesterday, uh,
24:40
S13: for probably a long time in the counseling session, tears
24:43
S13: of joy instead of tears of sadness. So.
24:47
S2: Oh, Vivian. Vivian or Viviana as our call screener calls you. Um,
24:53
S2: thank you so much. That is heartwarming. And here's why
24:56
S2: that's so important. If you don't have your identity squared away,
25:00
S2: you're going to get down a sinkhole of time trying
25:02
S2: to find your identity and stuff. Even good things like
25:06
S2: Sunday school teaching.
25:07
S7: Oh yeah, pastor's wife.
25:09
S2: And I mean, that's real. Vivian. That is awesome, sister boom.
25:14
S2: That's why we call you the boom crew. In fact,
25:18
S2: for my own bride, a pastor's wife. Boom boom boom.
25:22
S2: Triple boom in you, Vivian. Way to go! Taking your calls, guys.
25:26
S2: Light em up, man. This is your show.
25:28
S7: What was that thing? That was the black hole for?
25:30
S7: Time for you. And now you've gotten some victory. 805. Five. Five. 78. 98. 805. Five. Five. Seven. Eight.
25:39
S7: Nine eight.
25:40
S1: This is Carl and Crew on Moody Radio.
25:44
S2: Grab your phone. Light em up. God has given you freedom.
25:47
S2: There was a a thing in your life that was
25:50
S2: a black hole of time. And I don't know what
25:53
S2: it was. It can be so many different things, but
25:55
S2: it was it was something that you were wasting time on,
25:58
S2: something fierce and God's giving you victory. Give us a
26:01
S2: call right now. Light em up, guys. 805 557898 805 557898. Uh, Jeremy. Tennessee. Man,
26:14
S2: what was that black hole? And now you've gotten victory.
26:19
S14: Okay, so mine mine's going to sound a little bit weird,
26:22
S14: but I'm going to go in and say it anyway. Okay.
26:25
S14: The I have Bible verses and Bible videos that I
26:28
S14: share with family, friends, and loved ones on Facebook and
26:32
S14: via text message, Facebook Messenger during the morning and during
26:34
S14: the evening, and how it's starting to become a little
26:37
S14: bit of a time sink was the I was getting
26:40
S14: where at night I would spend 2 to 3, sometimes
26:43
S14: more than three hours at a time on it. And, and, and,
26:48
S14: and the I knew it was getting the point where
26:50
S14: I was getting a smidge on the overboard side, and
26:53
S14: I just heard the voice of God telling me, just dedicate.
26:58
S14: Dedicate to her evening. I'll guide you to which two
27:03
S14: I want that I want that I want. Whoever's going
27:06
S14: to hear it is going to hear it.
27:07
S2: Yeah, I love it.
27:08
S3: That's great.
27:09
S2: Jeremy. That's really cool, man. That's really cool. And you know,
27:14
S2: this is where. this is Hebrews 12 esque. You know,
27:20
S2: we're called to throw off everything that entangles and the
27:24
S2: sin that so easily clings to us. There's two things there.
27:27
S2: One is direct sin. And then the implication there in
27:30
S2: Hebrews 12 is sometimes good things get to be too much,
27:34
S2: and they impede our ability to walk with God. And
27:38
S2: you might say, wow, you mean to tell me linking
27:42
S2: videos and memes of scripture for Jeremy? Yeah, it was
27:46
S2: too much.
27:47
S5: And that's the cool thing because it, you know, we've
27:49
S5: heard the stories of I come here for this kind
27:51
S5: of encouragement, but it also kind of dips into something else.
27:54
S5: And that's super common. But this is no, it was
27:57
S5: it was all sending videos of scripture to, to other people.
28:01
S5: But God even spoke to him and said, hey, Jeremy,
28:05
S5: that's a little too much. I'm going to get. I
28:06
S5: want you to do a couple. I'll direct you on
28:08
S5: where to go with them, but only do a couple.
28:10
S5: And then let's get on to do something else. I
28:12
S5: think that was awesome.
28:13
S2: It's so cool. Uh, what is it for you? 805
28:17
S2: 557898 805 557898. We got time to get a couple
28:23
S2: more in here. Way to go, boom.
28:25
S1: Crew helping you take the next step in your walk
28:28
S1: with Jesus.
28:29
S15: God longs for us today to seek him and ask
28:33
S15: him to move in ways that we never could.
28:35
S1: You're listening to cast and Crew.
28:38
S2: It's Carl and crew helping you take your next step
28:40
S2: with Jesus on this Freedom Friday, asking, what was that thing,
28:43
S2: that black hole of time for you? And now you've
28:46
S2: gotten victory. Paul. First time caller. Chicago. What you got,
28:49
S2: my man?
28:50
S16: Hey. Well, first of all, a big God bless you
28:52
S16: to everybody there. Thank you. Um, my my moment came. Um,
28:57
S16: I suffered from the disease of alcoholism and addiction. And
29:01
S16: I had gone to countless programs and stuff, inpatient programs,
29:05
S16: and we string together a few months, maybe a year.
29:09
S16: And just when it got bad, go back again. Get bad.
29:13
S16: Go back again. And every time it was like, how
29:16
S16: long will it last this time? But it wasn't until I,
29:20
S16: I mean, I knew God, I grew up in church
29:22
S16: and everything, and I believe and I had faith and.
29:27
S16: But it wasn't until the point where I absolutely, you know, God,
29:32
S16: I can't take this anymore. You know, I need you
29:35
S16: to manifest yourself in my life. And it became. And
29:39
S16: I had to. Now I'm going to 12 step meetings
29:41
S16: and everything too. And, um, it wasn't until that point
29:45
S16: where my mind and I stopped listening to the secular music,
29:48
S16: you know, so I may have been the golden oldies
29:51
S16: station I may have listened to.
29:52
S2: Yeah.
29:52
S16: Yeah. But I, I kept my mind focused on God.
29:55
S16: I didn't allow my mind to be programmed. When I
29:58
S16: was in my car, I turned on Christian radio or
30:01
S16: if I, if I wanted to hear music, I would
30:03
S16: play Christian music and everything. But it wasn't until I
30:07
S16: put my mind on God and incorporated with my 12
30:10
S16: step program because I still make meetings. Yeah. You know,
30:13
S16: but I have God first and now. Yes, I know, man.
30:18
S16: And I thought I, I thought I couldn't do it,
30:21
S16: but it wasn't. God came and took it away, man. Yeah.
30:25
S16: And then the program reminds me of the fact that
30:28
S16: I have a problem and stuff that I need the
30:31
S16: support of people that are recovering, but my relationship with
30:34
S16: God and my reliance on him and keeping him every
30:37
S16: single day and talking to him throughout my day, however
30:40
S16: small it may be, something funny may happen to me. Okay, God,
30:44
S16: I see you have a sense of humor and everything.
30:47
S16: I mean, and it's like everything I see is like
30:49
S16: he's telling me I'm here and it's, it's I can't
30:52
S16: describe it. Yeah. And, and things that may happen bad.
30:57
S16: It's like, okay, this is the lesson I need. You
30:59
S16: needed to have done this. And so it's like, I'm
31:02
S16: almost getting day by day life lesson.
31:04
S3: And you are.
31:06
S16: You are stayed on them.
31:08
S2: Yeah.
31:08
S16: You have to keep your mind stayed on him.
31:11
S3: Yes.
31:12
S16: You can't allow the world to distract you. You have
31:14
S16: to put God in. You have to put some God
31:16
S16: on everything in your life when you're riding. Thank you, Lord,
31:20
S16: for riding with me. Thank you for getting me home safely.
31:23
S16: Just acknowledge him throughout the day, just like he's standing
31:26
S16: right next to you. And I assure you, you can
31:28
S16: have the victory man in April 1st. April 1st, the
31:32
S16: fool stopped being the fool. I celebrated eight years of sobriety.
31:36
S2: Oh, Paul, listen. Listen to me. I want you to
31:38
S2: listen to me. Paul. I love you, man. You are
31:42
S2: my brother and I'm running with you. We're going toward
31:46
S2: the cross, bro. That is boom, boom boom. Brother, talk
31:51
S2: about a time suck.
31:52
S7: Wow.
31:53
S2: And Paul is free. Paul, stay on the horn. I'm
31:56
S2: giving you a call and crew prize pack just because
31:58
S2: I love you. And from a from a guy who's
32:01
S2: breaking chains like your friend Carl. Boom. Keep it cranking, bro.
32:05
S2: Really quick, Karen, let me get you in here from Florida.
32:08
S2: What's your story, Karen?
32:10
S17: Yes, I love him and I love this. And I'm
32:12
S17: so honored to be able to have this opportunity to
32:15
S17: share this message on such a national platform, because that
32:17
S17: was God's plan for me. So as similar to the
32:20
S17: gentleman before, I suffered from battled alcoholism, addiction and mental
32:25
S17: health challenges for over two decades, came from a great family.
32:28
S17: But just, you know, I was in the grips of
32:31
S17: the disease. And by the grace of God, you know,
32:33
S17: I turned my life around. I hit my multiple bottoms.
32:35
S17: I lost my son twice to DCF before he was
32:37
S17: the age of two years old because I was an
32:39
S17: unfit mother. And I said, no, this is not how
32:40
S17: my life is going to end. I cried out to
32:42
S17: the Lord. I said, take my life, put me in prison.
32:44
S17: I don't care what you do. And he went to work.
32:47
S17: I'm now almost 11 years in my recovery. I'm a
32:49
S17: national strategic account manager for leaders of Behavioral Health. I'm
32:53
S17: a certified recovery specialist. I'm an interventionist, and I have
32:56
S17: placed hundreds of people in treatment over the United States.
33:00
S17: And as with the disease, it's a ripple effect. And
33:02
S17: I've probably helped to save thousands and thousands and thousands.
33:05
S17: You have in.
33:06
S2: Life.
33:06
S3: You have.
33:07
S17: So.
33:07
S3: Good.
33:08
S2: Yeah. Way to go. Karen! Boom! Sister. That is powerhouse, man.
33:12
S5: Thank you. God!
33:12
S3: Man. Man.
33:13
S2: Whoo! Oh my goodness, guys, that's why we call it
33:19
S2: Freedom Friday. You know, sometimes you don't think just at
33:25
S2: first blush. Oh, yeah. Time sinkholes. Drug and alcohol addiction.
33:29
S2: You kid me. That's some of the biggest sinkholes going.
33:32
S3: Yeah.
33:33
S7: And, Carl, I think somebody needs to hear is they're
33:37
S7: at a place where they've not. They're what? Sucking their
33:39
S7: time is their own lostness.
33:42
S2: Yeah. So here it is. Let me give it to you.
33:44
S2: Way to go, Ali. Here's the deal. You heard two
33:48
S2: people back to back saying they had to come to
33:49
S2: the end of themselves. That's what Jesus said. Blessed are
33:52
S2: the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God.
33:56
S2: So right now, this is how you change. You embrace
34:02
S2: the fact that you are at the bottom and you
34:05
S2: need a savior. And you are courageous enough to say,
34:08
S2: I'm the problem. I'm a sinner. I need a savior.
34:11
S2: Tell him right now I'm the problem. Tell him right
34:17
S2: now I'm the problem. And the unction of the Holy Spirit.
34:24
S2: You weren't even a seeker. There's no seekers here. There's
34:28
S2: only one who seeks to save the lost. And that
34:31
S2: is our God who's calling out to you right now.
34:35
S2: But God sought you this morning, and he found you.
34:38
S2: And today you're going to repent. You're turning around. You're
34:41
S2: going a whole new way. Right now. You are acknowledging, yes,
34:47
S2: I'm a sinner. I need a Savior. Jesus, I believe
34:50
S2: you came to die for my sins, and I'm repenting
34:53
S2: and I'm turning around and I'm following Jesus, and I'm
34:56
S2: not taking any idols with me off the broad path.
34:59
S2: I'm walking the narrow path today for the first time.
35:02
S2: And if that's you, we want to help you today.
35:04
S2: It's a cry of the soul. It's just that acknowledgement.
35:06
S2: You don't need to walk an aisle. There doesn't need
35:08
S2: to be bad music playing. It's brand new today because
35:11
S2: you are repenting by the power of God and you
35:13
S2: are turning everything over to God. How do we help him?
35:17
S7: Ally, we've got something for you. We want you to
35:19
S7: text the word new so that we can send you
35:21
S7: a follow up text new NEW to 805 557898, just
35:28
S7: that one word new 800 555 7898. You're going to
35:34
S7: get just a link, read through it. There's an opportunity
35:36
S7: for you to give some information so that we can
35:39
S7: have one of our community leaders around the country follow
35:42
S7: up with you, help you get a Bible, help you
35:44
S7: get connected to a church text new to 800 555, 78, 98.
35:50
S3: Yeah. Awesome. Wow.
35:52
S15: What a Freedom Friday we've had.
35:55
S3: Yeah. All right.
35:56
S7: We're never disappoints.
35:57
S2: Never disappoints.
36:00
S1: Start your day moving closer to Jesus. You're listening to
36:04
S1: Carl and crew.
36:06
S2: It is such an awesome thing when you find yourself
36:10
S2: feeling convicted of the Lord and you identify an area
36:15
S2: of your life that needs to change, and then you decide,
36:18
S2: let's bring in as many people as we can confess
36:22
S2: in their sin. Let's just bring them all in.
36:25
S7: Amen.
36:26
S3: Bring him.
36:26
S2: In. Come on, bring em in. Hey, let's. I know
36:29
S2: what we need to do, okay? Let's bring in Shawna,
36:33
S2: our buddy in midday. Host. Hey, Shawna. We want you
36:37
S2: to play along with us, sister.
36:39
S18: This isn't all play. Everybody has been in their life.
36:43
S2: Missing the mark with time. Redemption. You've never battled that ever, right?
36:47
S18: Come on, I can't. I haven't heard anybody say this
36:50
S18: this week. Maybe I just missed it. But for me,
36:52
S18: it's online shopping.
36:53
S3: Oh.
36:55
S18: Here's the thing. I can literally be minding my own business,
36:59
S18: one minute trying to be holy, and then my phone
37:02
S18: lights up and it tells me there's a flash sale
37:05
S18: or there's some limited time discount, and I get this
37:09
S18: huge flash of FOMO and my girl mouth kicks in
37:14
S18: and I start thinking, if I don't check this out,
37:17
S18: I'm basically losing money.
37:18
S3: You are.
37:21
S18: 30 minutes later, I'm looking for stuff I don't even need.
37:26
S3: On.
37:26
S18: Some site I'm not even interested on.
37:28
S2: Yeah, you know what? Thank you for being honest. No,
37:31
S2: we hadn't heard that live. At least we did have
37:34
S2: some people text in. So tell me about this because I.
37:39
S2: I guess mine would be Amazon and it's around dog
37:43
S2: toys right now.
37:44
S3: For me.
37:45
S2: I kind of delight when he chews one in half again,
37:47
S2: one of the tug of war toys blaze. But the
37:50
S2: online shopping. They. They're smart, aren't they? So you're telling
37:54
S2: me they send you alerts when they've got a flash
37:57
S2: sale going on?
37:58
S18: Well, yeah, if you let the store have your information,
38:02
S18: they will use that information to make sure that you
38:03
S18: don't miss any opportunity to purchase from them. So they,
38:07
S18: I mean, they're all their strategy, all of their wisdom
38:10
S18: and all of their education and research says this is
38:12
S18: how to get you. And I'm telling you, they know
38:14
S18: how to get me.
38:16
S2: That's really good to know.
38:18
S3: Okay.
38:18
S2: All right. Yeah.
38:19
S3: So what's.
38:20
S7: The strategy? What as you've been kind of reflecting on this,
38:23
S7: as we've all been in this this week. What's your
38:26
S7: plan of attack?
38:28
S18: I have a few plans of attack. First of all,
38:31
S18: you can just type or you can text stop to
38:34
S18: any any text that you're receiving that you don't want
38:36
S18: to receive. And they have to stop texting you. Um,
38:38
S18: so I mean, this is a really practical one. Another one. Yeah.
38:42
S18: Another one for me is I've started shopping my own house.
38:46
S18: So the minute I start to think I have a need,
38:49
S18: I actually check to see if that's real or if
38:52
S18: they just got me like, did I just get hoodwinked
38:54
S18: or do I really need that thing.
38:56
S2: Do I do I need another tank top? No. I've
38:59
S2: got 20. This is awesome.
39:01
S18: Shoes for the love. You don't even want to know. Like,
39:04
S18: I would be embarrassed to tell you how many shoes
39:06
S18: I have. But I think underneath that though, what really
39:09
S18: has helped me to change is changing my mind because
39:13
S18: I feel like the world is constantly telling me you
39:15
S18: need more. And even deeper than that. The lie and
39:18
S18: believe in is that, I don't know, maybe God's holding
39:21
S18: out on me. And so by replacing that with the
39:24
S18: truth of Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd, I
39:26
S18: have everything I need. It turns it from behavior modification
39:33
S18: into the renewing of my mind and then transforming of
39:37
S18: my life. It's like I need to know what the
39:39
S18: why is like, why am I susceptible to this? Why
39:42
S18: do I fall into this? And if I can bring
39:44
S18: myself back to the truth, it actually kind of ticks
39:47
S18: me off to think that the enemy was messing with
39:48
S18: me in that way. And so there's like this righteous
39:51
S18: anger that turns the thing upside down.
39:53
S2: You know what that is? Powerhouse. Here's my contention for
39:57
S2: every no. There has to be a bigger yes. And
40:00
S2: I don't know that we've lingered on that enough. I
40:02
S2: know we touched on it, but that's what you're saying, Shawna,
40:05
S2: for every. No, there has to be a bigger yes.
40:07
S2: And his. He's got he's got a bigger yes for
40:10
S2: his sister.
40:12
S18: Right. So what is the thing like, I mean, this week,
40:15
S18: what is the thing on X. Is it, you know,
40:17
S18: not to not to mess with you but is it.
40:20
S18: If I have the information then I have some sense
40:22
S18: of control.
40:23
S3: Yeah.
40:24
S18: Rather than believing God's in control or social media, like,
40:27
S18: I just want to rest a minute. Like I just,
40:29
S18: I just want some mindless time. Is it? I mean, honestly,
40:33
S18: our true soul rest is going to not be found there.
40:36
S18: It's found in God alone. So it's like, what's the
40:38
S18: thing underneath the thing?
40:40
S3: Yeah. No, I love that.
40:42
S2: Really good. Shawn, our midday host with us right now.
40:46
S2: Shawna for our morning crew, all the boom crew. What's
40:51
S2: going on? Middays you want them to know about just
40:54
S2: what's on your heart.
40:56
S18: There is so much good teaching that is happening 24
40:59
S18: over seven at Moody Radio, and on the middays in particular,
41:03
S18: you're going to hear long form teaching. It's different format
41:06
S18: than what happens in the morning, and you might not
41:08
S18: be able to sit for 30 minutes and listen to
41:10
S18: an entire message, but I'm telling you, you might catch
41:13
S18: five seconds, 15 seconds, or 30s that the Lord's just
41:17
S18: speaking directly to your heart. So whether it's, you know,
41:20
S18: Colin Smith and opened the Bible or Erwin Lutzer running
41:22
S18: to Win Revive Our Hearts. Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. It just
41:25
S18: keeps going and going. The good stuff just keeps coming.
41:29
S18: So there's opportunities all day long to tune in and
41:32
S18: to hear from the Lord through these different folks.
41:35
S2: Yeah, it's it's really true. I mean, I, I had
41:38
S2: to drive across Chicago with my bride and after 30
41:43
S2: minutes of listening to Janet Parshall, I fired her a text.
41:47
S2: I said, yeah, you go, sister, this is awesome. You
41:50
S2: are courageous. You hit tough topics in a timely manner,
41:54
S2: and 20 minutes later she texted me back. She goes,
41:57
S2: thanks brother for that encouragement. But I gotta tell you honestly,
42:03
S2: whenever I've kicked on Moody Radio just driving, I'm blown away. Shauna,
42:09
S2: there's some dynamite truth, isn't there?
42:13
S18: There is. And the thing is, we are in a
42:15
S18: spiritual battle. And it's a battle of your mind. This
42:17
S18: just goes right back to what we were talking about
42:19
S18: with the black hole of time, right? Like what you
42:21
S18: believe is not. It doesn't sit isolated in some spot
42:25
S18: that doesn't influence how you live. So the more we
42:29
S18: can kind of get after those lies by having the
42:32
S18: truth make its way into our heart and into our minds,
42:35
S18: the more we're going to live rightly.
42:36
S3: Yeah.
42:37
S2: Love it. Shauna, thanks for being so honest and candid
42:40
S2: and thanks for all you do. Mid-days. Your words are powerhouse,
42:44
S2: by the way. I'm going to brag on Shauna. My
42:47
S2: bride says Shauna brings the goods.
42:51
S3: She's like, every.
42:52
S2: Time the mic comes on with Shauna. Shauna's bringing something
42:56
S2: just so encouraging. So. Way to go, sister. Keep it up.
42:59
S2: All right.
43:00
S18: I appreciate you guys. Thanks for letting me join you.
43:02
S3: Oh, yeah.
43:03
S7: That's so great. And a and a very familiar voice
43:05
S7: to our West Michigan listeners. So we know that you
43:08
S7: have loved her for years.
43:09
S3: Yeah, yeah.
43:11
S2: Shauna, way to go. Okay, coming up here in a minute. Minute.
43:14
S2: We got the man, the myth and the the legend. Yes,
43:18
S2: we as she breathes out.
43:21
S7: I love when he busts out with the man, the myth,
43:23
S7: the legend. I'm like, well, which one?
43:25
S3: Yeah, we.
43:26
S7: Got a lot of them around here.
43:27
S2: Well, it's a mystery guest. Then we're going to leave
43:29
S2: it as a mystery guest. Who is this man? Myth
43:32
S2: and legend. Perfect, Ali. That's good radio.
43:36
S3: Coming up.
43:37
S1: Standing on the rock each and every day. You're listening
43:41
S1: to Carl and Crew.
43:43
S2: Well, we've been talking it up this morning. 900% increase
43:48
S2: of attacks, violent crime against Jewish people in many European
43:53
S2: nations right now. Those numbers almost. I've got my head
43:57
S2: in my hand right now because it's almost. You cannot
44:02
S2: get your brain around this alley. There's no other way
44:04
S2: to describe it except that it is a spiritual issue.
44:07
S7: Yeah, it really is. I just was looking at numbers
44:09
S7: from the Anti-Defamation League. 2025 was one of the most
44:13
S7: violent years for American Jews. So just now, looking at
44:17
S7: this country, 2025 was one of the worst. Doctor Michael Dolnick,
44:22
S7: that is not news to you, but just getting your
44:25
S7: what what are you hearing as it pertains to these
44:27
S7: kind of numbers?
44:29
S19: Well, if you just look at the time period since ten, 723,
44:33
S19: we're talking about two and a half years. It's, it's,
44:37
S19: I think up over 900% in terms of anti-Semitic crimes. Uh,
44:43
S19: by the way, I'm moving away from using the word anti-Semitic.
44:46
S3: What are you saying now?
44:49
S19: Jew hatred. That's the history of the word. It was
44:54
S19: a term that was used in German. Judenhass and Wilhelm
44:58
S19: Marr at the end of the 19th century said, oh,
44:59
S19: that sounds so crass, so crude, it's so vulgar. So
45:03
S19: he came up with a scientific term and called it anti-Semitism.
45:06
S3: And it kind of.
45:08
S2: It almost anaesthetizes the culture, doesn't.
45:11
S3: It?
45:11
S19: Exactly. Let's call it what it is, Jew hatred. And
45:14
S19: one of the things that that, uh, kind of bugs
45:17
S19: me is that many times people who are hateful of
45:20
S19: Jews say things like, well, I'm a Semite myself, so
45:23
S19: I can't be anti-Semitic. That's talking about language categories, Semitic languages, right?
45:30
S19: The term anti-Semitism meant Jew hatred. Uh, it was from
45:35
S19: the false racial ideologies that were prevalent in German universities
45:39
S19: at the end of the 19th century and adopted by
45:41
S19: the Nazis in the beginning of the 20th century. And
45:45
S19: that's what it means. It means hatred of the Jewish people.
45:47
S19: So I've been trying to be clear about that. That's
45:50
S19: obviously Carl, you and I and Ali. We we are communicators.
45:54
S19: We want to communicate really what's what. And so I
45:57
S19: think Jew hatred is a better term or hatred of
46:00
S19: the Jewish people.
46:01
S2: You know, you know, it's funny about that. I hear
46:03
S2: that and I'm like, come on, Ali, be honest with me.
46:06
S2: You hear Jew hater or Jew hatred. And it kind
46:09
S2: of makes you flinch a little bit, doesn't it?
46:11
S7: Oh, yeah.
46:11
S2: I mean, but it's real.
46:12
S7: It's a much more graphic term than anti-Semitism, for sure.
46:15
S2: Yeah. anti-Semitism almost sounds like a flower in the spring
46:19
S2: or something. There's a little, you know, something over there.
46:21
S19: It sounds innocuous. It's just a scientific term. Yeah, I
46:25
S19: know my son has put me. He said, dad, why
46:27
S19: don't you just call it what it is? And I'm like, yeah,
46:29
S19: I think you're right. Uh, but anyway, it's growing. Yeah.
46:33
S19: And here just in Michigan, of course, there was the
46:36
S19: attack on the synagogue. Uh, allegedly because of what? Above
46:41
S19: the war with Hezbollah. And so for that reason, I
46:46
S19: think that we have to be I where I live
46:49
S19: in Michigan, I was surprised no churches were praying for
46:54
S19: Jewish people the following week. Uh, I knew there were
46:58
S19: churches praying for people and as they should, for Muslims
47:02
S19: to come to know the Lord because it was Ramadan.
47:05
S19: But I didn't hear any prayer for the peace of Jerusalem,
47:08
S19: or prayer for the Jewish people to come to know
47:10
S19: the Messiah or, uh, prayer for, uh, the protection of
47:16
S19: the Jewish people in this time of hate.
47:18
S2: I know where that is, Michael. I know why it is.
47:20
S2: I don't think it's nefarious. I think that we have
47:24
S2: grown already so incredibly accustomed to this. We don't even
47:29
S2: think twice about it much anymore.
47:31
S19: Mhm. It's sad. Uh, I, I really want to challenge
47:35
S19: pastors if you're listening or people, if you would go
47:38
S19: to your pastor and say, now is the time to
47:41
S19: be praying for the protection of the Jewish people. It's
47:43
S19: time to be taking a public stand that whatever your
47:47
S19: theology is, there are people who hold that the church
47:49
S19: is the new Israel. I don't agree with that.
47:51
S2: But it doesn't matter if you're exactly if you're covenant
47:54
S2: theology and you're not dispensationalist, you can still pray for Israel.
47:59
S19: Yeah. And, and also, I mean, there are so many
48:02
S19: people who are not dispensational who are terrific on the
48:06
S19: the issue.
48:06
S2: Oh yeah.
48:07
S19: God's faithfulness to Israel. Uh, you know, I, I find
48:11
S19: that it's amazing that there are people who think that
48:13
S19: you have to be dispensational to believe that Jew hatred
48:16
S19: is wrong. So it's.
48:19
S2: Crazy. I gotta tell you. So I was in a
48:22
S2: country I can't disclose where it was because the Christians
48:26
S2: are under persecution. I was there for a couple of
48:28
S2: weeks and I was just talking with the guy. And,
48:32
S2: you know, we'd come from totally different parts of the world.
48:35
S2: And English is like his second language, so he's very articulate.
48:39
S2: And we were just chatting it up. And then the
48:42
S2: issue of Israel came up and Jewish people around the globe.
48:46
S2: And long story short, I was explaining to him the
48:49
S2: rise of this. Well, he was well aware of the
48:50
S2: rise of anti-Semitism or Jew hatred, as you're now calling it.
48:54
S2: And I said, so what do you chalk that up to?
48:58
S2: I just wanted to see what he'd say. He's a
49:00
S2: big leader of a big Christian movement, underground church movement.
49:04
S2: And he says, oh, this is easy. It's just demons.
49:08
S2: That's all it is. This is just demonic. He says
49:10
S2: there's no other way to explain it. What do you say, Mike? Yeah.
49:14
S19: I agree, revelation 12 is one of the more interesting
49:16
S19: passages because it's a passage that's an end times passage,
49:19
S19: I believe it's talking about during the tribulation period, particularly
49:23
S19: the second half when, uh, the world will turn against
49:27
S19: the Jewish people and there'll be persecution of the woman.
49:30
S19: That's how she's described symbolically at the beginning of revelation 12.
49:34
S19: But who is behind it all there at that time?
49:38
S19: the same person that's behind it all. All the time.
49:40
S19: It's the devil, the serpent of old Satan. He is
49:44
S19: named there. I think that's the explanation for the mystery
49:47
S19: of of hatred of the Jewish people. Why do people
49:50
S19: hate the Jews? Well, what did they do? No, no,
49:53
S19: it's not the fault of the Jewish people. There are
49:55
S19: good Jewish people. There are bad Jewish people. You know,
49:58
S19: it's it's not like Jewish people are without sin. They're
50:01
S19: just like everybody else, you know. But why is it
50:05
S19: that people blame Jewish people for the evil that's done
50:08
S19: to them? It's because the enemy stirs them up and
50:11
S19: has them become the source of all evil. And they
50:14
S19: make these lies up. And, uh, as a result, you know,
50:18
S19: we see it in our elections. There are people now today,
50:21
S19: I don't know if you heard that.
50:23
S2: There's.
50:23
S19: A Florida congresswoman.
50:24
S2: Going to talk about this congresswoman that wants to take
50:27
S2: current current detention facilities and turn them into concentration camps
50:32
S2: for Zionists.
50:33
S19: Yeah, she's running for Congress. Yeah. I mean, how And
50:37
S19: she she actually is was the leader. It's in a
50:39
S19: runoff now, but she did the best. I mean, how
50:42
S19: does this happen? And I am grateful that even those
50:45
S19: who hate Israel in Congress, uh, stood.
50:48
S2: Against.
50:48
S19: Spoken up.
50:49
S2: Yeah, they did. And they put out a large press
50:51
S2: release on that one. Yeah. Oh, Michael, you know what?
50:56
S2: We gotta pray. Ali, would you pray right now?
50:59
S7: Yeah. Lord, we thank you that there's nothing new. God,
51:04
S7: that you are the same yesterday, today and forever. And God,
51:06
S7: you call your people to yourself. God. So Lord, we
51:11
S7: pray that in in an atmosphere where there is so
51:14
S7: much hatred, God hatred that can only be explained by
51:18
S7: demonic suggestion, by the evil that comes from the evil one. Lord,
51:23
S7: we just pray for peace for Jerusalem. Lord, we pray
51:26
S7: for the protection of the Jewish people. God, we pray
51:29
S7: for the opening of eyes and ears that have been
51:32
S7: closed off. God to the truth that you would God.
51:37
S7: That you would pull off blinders, Lord, even even among Christians. Lord,
51:41
S7: where we have believed wrongly or have spoken things that
51:46
S7: are untrue. Lord about your people. God, I pray that
51:49
S7: you would bring just such truth to the forefront. God
51:52
S7: that you would expose the lies of the enemy. God the.
51:56
S7: Expose the lies of darkness, God and ultimately Lord Jesus,
52:00
S7: we pray for peace. Lord, in Jesus name, Amen.
52:03
S2: Amen. Michael, I'm not cutting you loose yet. I want
52:06
S2: your best thoughts really quickly here. We're going to keep
52:08
S2: you around for a couple of minutes. Best thoughts on
52:10
S2: time redemption. What do you what do you say? Moses
52:14
S2: wrote about it. His one song that he got into
52:16
S2: the hymnal of songs. He said, teach us to number
52:19
S2: our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
52:21
S2: I love.
52:22
S19: I've been meditating on that. Yeah. Lately I the older
52:26
S19: I get, the more I think about how much, how
52:29
S19: fewer days I have. And I think we need to
52:33
S19: make them count. That's what Moses is saying. There was
52:35
S19: a professor at Dallas Seminary many years ago, uh, taught
52:40
S19: Old Testament who counted up his days. He thought, okay,
52:44
S19: we're going to our our biblical sell by date is
52:47
S19: 70 or 80. You know, that's what Psalm 90 says.
52:51
S19: So he counted.
52:52
S2: Sell by date. That's hilarious.
52:54
S19: That's what he did. He counted up how many days
52:56
S19: he had until he was 70. And every day he thought, okay,
53:00
S19: am I using this for the Lord? And I think
53:03
S19: that was a great idea. And now I'm a little
53:06
S19: nervous because I don't have that many days. You know,
53:08
S19: if I go to buy biblical sell by date, it's
53:10
S19: about a year and a half. So, uh, but I
53:13
S19: might go to 80, I might go older. Uh, the,
53:16
S19: the point of it is, is every day needs to count.
53:18
S19: And then there's actually a passage that I was just
53:21
S19: talking about in Colossians. And it's actually not about how
53:25
S19: many days, but how many opportunities. And it's in Colossians
53:29
S19: chapter four, and it talks about how we need to
53:33
S19: seize every opportunity. And here's what it says. It's all
53:38
S19: about evangelism here. Devote yourselves to prayer. Colossians four two
53:42
S19: alert in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray
53:46
S19: also for us, that God may open a door for us,
53:48
S19: for the message to speak the mystery of the Messiah.
53:52
S19: So he says, pray for opening for which I am
53:55
S19: in prison. So that's the message he's in prison for,
53:57
S19: so that I may reveal it as I am required
54:00
S19: to speak or be clear about how I'm supposed to speak.
54:02
S19: So pray for me for opportunity. Pray for me. Paul
54:05
S19: says for clarity. And then he says to those who
54:08
S19: he's asking to pray, walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making
54:13
S19: the most of the time that's seizing every opportunity. Your
54:18
S19: speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt. In other words,
54:22
S19: when we talk, we seize every opportunity. We talk to
54:25
S19: people graciously, not yelling at them, not scolding them, but
54:30
S19: graciously but make the message that we seize every opportunity
54:35
S19: for it. Make it flavorful.
54:38
S2: You know, I got to. I got to give you
54:39
S2: another one here. We're going. We're tag teaming here. Tag teaming.
54:43
S2: I found this in in Romans 13. Never seen this before. In.
54:47
S2: Right after the the portion of love does no wrong.
54:50
S2: It's about loving each other. It's going to get into
54:53
S2: this great salvation. But Romans 1311 says, besides this, you know,
54:58
S2: Paul writes the time, which is Karen, which is a
55:02
S2: moment of you're in this season of time that the
55:06
S2: hour has come. You think of John, the gospel of John.
55:09
S2: This is not my hour. Jesus said, this is not
55:11
S2: my hour. It's hurrah! And here we've got two elements
55:16
S2: of time. And he says, And Ali made this great observation,
55:19
S2: I'm not going to steal it from you. Ali. What's
55:21
S2: the observation that you found in that text?
55:23
S7: Yeah, that we are when we are asleep physically, we
55:25
S7: are unaware of the passage of time. I mean, you
55:29
S7: you go from maybe 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. and
55:31
S7: you are totally unaware. And it's the same spiritually that
55:35
S7: when we're asleep spiritually, time is just passing and we
55:37
S7: are unaware of it.
55:38
S2: And Paul says, wake up, don't be asleep with two
55:41
S2: different words for time, Michael.
55:44
S19: Yeah. And that's just it. We have to be wise
55:47
S19: in how we use our time. Wake up. Time is passing.
55:52
S19: And not only just for our families and for our
55:56
S19: own personal lives, but for every opportunity that we have
56:00
S19: to serve the Lord. And so I think that's what's
56:02
S19: so crucial. Hey, I'll tell you my favorite personal time
56:06
S19: management story.
56:07
S2: Oh, yeah.
56:07
S19: We got to get it. I was a pastor of
56:11
S19: a congregation in New York that I had planted, and
56:15
S19: not only at the same time, I was also the
56:17
S19: regional director for Chosen People Ministries, had a staff of
56:20
S19: about 20 that I was leading of outreach workers, as
56:23
S19: well as additionally administrative staff. That was a lot of work,
56:27
S19: and I was working on my doctorate at the same time. And,
56:31
S19: and I was super busy and had little kids at home.
56:38
S19: One day I was driving down to South Jersey to
56:41
S19: speak in a church, and I was I plopped into
56:45
S19: the cassette player. That's how old it was in my car,
56:48
S19: a tape called Time Management for Busy Pastors by Bob Logan.
56:53
S19: And I'm listening to that thing, and I found myself
56:56
S19: singing songs because I didn't want to hear what he
56:59
S19: was saying halfway through. I thought, why am I singing now?
57:05
S19: I should be listening. But what it was is I
57:07
S19: was just trying to avoid hearing it. And it was
57:10
S19: a great learning experience for me. That part of time
57:13
S19: management is really managing ourselves so that we don't overdo.
57:19
S19: I think that's part of it. And, and I, I
57:22
S19: think Stephen Covey got it right that we have to.
57:26
S19: He does that matrix of time where he talks about
57:28
S19: things that are unimportant and urgent. That kind of comes
57:33
S19: into our time all the time. What we need to
57:35
S19: focus on our priority ought to be things that are
57:38
S19: important but are not urgent things that we have. And
57:42
S19: I thought that was that was a great insight. And
57:45
S19: then there are other things that are important and urgent.
57:47
S19: We have to care for those. But things that are
57:49
S19: unimportant and not urgent. Forget those. Michael.
57:53
S2: Look at look at Michael here. He's quoting Steven Covey here.
57:57
S19: Yeah, that was very helpful to me. That changed my
57:59
S19: life then. And that that tape by Bob Logan. I
58:02
S19: want to say it was good, but I didn't want
58:03
S19: to hear it.
58:04
S7: That was that is good.
58:06
S2: That's honest.
58:07
S7: Doctor Michael Riedel we mentioned a couple of different things.
58:09
S7: He's got some resources available. His latest book, How Should
58:14
S7: Christians Think About Israel. Just text Israel to 805 557898.
58:20
S7: Text Israel to 805 557898.