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What Happens When Jesus Becomes Your Teacher? · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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  Announcer: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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  Announcer: A weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles, and offering real hope.
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  Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
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  Announcer: Now let's join our host, Ron Myers, the promoter.
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  Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends.
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  Ron Meyers: It is so good to be with you today.
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  Ron Meyers: My name is Ron Myers, and this is Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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  Ron Meyers: Real stories, real struggles, and real hope.
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  Ron Meyers: I love my job sharing stories of faith and grace.
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  Ron Meyers: And today's title is called What Happens When Jesus Becomes Your Teacher?
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  Ron Meyers: You're going to hear some things today that, well, you probably have never heard before.
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  Ron Meyers: You know, most people know the historical Jesus, the stories, they know the religion, and they know the traditions like Christmas and Easter.
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  Ron Meyers: That used to be me.
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  Ron Meyers: But something happened when COVID came.
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  Ron Meyers: COVID closed the churches, but I still wanted to visit with Jesus, so I began a direct dialogue with Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: And friends, it's the most incredible thing that ever happened to me.
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  Ron Meyers: And today I know Jesus as my teacher, my mentor, my friend, my king and savior.
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  Ron Meyers: He is my life, he is my oxygen, he is my future.
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  Ron Meyers: He knows my dreams, he knows my insecurities, and he knows my weaknesses.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus said, I am the vine and you are the branches.
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  Ron Meyers: Now the branch doesn't struggle to produce life, it simply stays connected to the vine.
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  Ron Meyers: Today I'm sitting down with best-selling author Rick Osborne, a man whose work has helped children around the world discover hope through the gospel.
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  Ron Meyers: His message has been translated into more than 120 languages.
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  Ron Meyers: Reaching kids in places where sharing the faith can be very difficult.
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  Ron Meyers: But what Rick shares in this conversation goes far beyond children's ministry.
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  Ron Meyers: It's a bold and simple conviction.
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  Ron Meyers: Every believer has equal access to Jesus as teacher.
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  Ron Meyers: Rick spent years allowing Scripture to become a living classroom, inviting Jesus to teach him directly.
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  Ron Meyers: And what he discovered is something available to every believer.
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  Ron Meyers: Guidance when you need direction, peace when panic tries to take over, and quiet courage when God asks you to take a step of faith.
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  Ron Meyers: So if you have ever felt like faith is something you are supposed to perform, or you have wondered if Jesus really speaks in everyday life, today's conversation may change how you see everything.
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  Ron Meyers: Let's jump in.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, listeners, walking through the National Religious Broadcasting Convention, I met this dynamic man that loves Jesus as much as I do, and that's a lot.
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  Rick Osborne: His name's Rick Osborne.
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  Rick Osborne: Hi, Rick.
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  Rick Osborne: How are you?
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  Rick Osborne: I'm doing great.
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  Rick Osborne: It's good to be here at the NRB.
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  Rick Osborne: And it was great to run into you.
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  Rick Osborne: Well, you and I have something in common.
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  Rick Osborne: We love Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: Absolutely.
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  Ron Meyers: And I have a podcast called Get the Hell Out of Your Life, where I interview people that share their God stories.
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  Ron Meyers: And from what I understand, you have a pretty good God story, and then you've written books that have sold millions of copies.
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  Ron Meyers: So, Rick Osborne, what's your story?
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  Rick Osborne: Well, yeah, I've my books have sold, I've had over written over, written or co-written over 60 books, and they've sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
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  Rick Osborne: And that's just the ones that have sold, not the ones that have.
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  Rick Osborne: I did a book a lot of people know called The Most Important Story.
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  Rick Osborne: I helped create that and produce that.
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  Rick Osborne: Samaritan's Purse uses out.
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  Rick Osborne: It goes out with the children's shoe box kind of thing.
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  Rick Osborne: Operation.
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  Rick Osborne: Operation Blessing, yes.
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  Rick Osborne: So the material that goes out with that all around the world.
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  Rick Osborne: So I think it's now a hundred million copies have gone out around the world in 120 different languages and dialects.
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  Rick Osborne: So that's it.
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  Rick Osborne: All because God placed an idea in your heart.
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  Rick Osborne: Well, and because again, and then like someone came alongside you, Samaritan's purse, to help you.
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  Rick Osborne: Exactly.
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  Rick Osborne: It wasn't Samaritan's purse, but it was eventually Samaritan's purse.
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  Rick Osborne: Oh, eventually.
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  Rick Osborne: Eventually Samaritan's purse.
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  Rick Osborne: And the key was, and what you're saying, the key was knowing Jesus.
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  Rick Osborne: The key is knowing Jesus because you you wake up every morning and that's your connection.
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  Rick Osborne: That's who you are with.
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  Rick Osborne: That's who you're in.
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  Rick Osborne: That's who's in you.
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  Rick Osborne: That's what your life becomes all about.
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  Rick Osborne: It isn't Jesus, isn't it?
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  Rick Osborne: And I like to say it this way, it's not a life burger with a side of Jesus fries.
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  Rick Osborne: It's Christ in me and me in Christ.
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  Rick Osborne: It's every part of life is with him and walking with him.
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  Ron Meyers: I say it's we need oxygen to breathe.
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus is my oxygen.
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  Ron Meyers: And when I do life with Jesus, it's amazing some of the things that happen in my life, the thoughts I get, the people I run into.
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  Ron Meyers: And I believe that if more people did life with Jesus on a daily minute basis instead of once a week in a building, they'd find a whole lot of different things in their life.
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  Rick Osborne: What do you think?
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  Rick Osborne: Well, that's exactly it.
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  Rick Osborne: And that's how that happened.
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  Rick Osborne: That book that that documented has millions and millions of children that have given their lives to Jesus around the world.
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  Rick Osborne: That happened because I was up talking to Jesus and he gave me that idea.
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  Rick Osborne: Well, what's the idea?
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  Rick Osborne: What's the book?
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  Rick Osborne: Well, the idea was a booklet with really good artwork.
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  Rick Osborne: Back then, that was a while ago.
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  Rick Osborne: Back then, you know, the Iron Curtain was coming down and everybody was rushing to get Bibles into every country in the world and you know, to Russia and everything like that.
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  Rick Osborne: And my thing was, who's doing something for the kids?
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  Rick Osborne: That's what was on my heart.
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  Rick Osborne: I had young kids, and who was doing something for the kids?
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  Rick Osborne: And what as that was in my heart, I knew the Lord put that, and I started praying about it.
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  Rick Osborne: And I saw this booklet, this booklet that would tell the gospel story around the world.
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  Rick Osborne: And we worked with organizations in a way to tell that and write that and show the like the animated kind of pictures in a way that no one culturally we want to offend anybody.
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  Rick Osborne: Like there was one scene at first where the Bible was on the floor, and I said, No, you don't do that.
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  Rick Osborne: You don't do holy books on the floor for some countries, right?
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  Rick Osborne: So we had that all changed.
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  Rick Osborne: And when that booklet was finished, and that was a it was a gift.
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  Rick Osborne: I mean, we did that for like I had a production company, we did that as a gift to go out to the children of the world.
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  Rick Osborne: And that thing, when it it first hit, it just went crazy.
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  Rick Osborne: I remember getting the call.
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  Rick Osborne: I was locked up in a room trying to write another book in a hotel room because I needed some time away just to get that thing done.
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  Rick Osborne: And I got the phone call about that because they were also putting it in the underground churches, giving them the files so that they could print it and do parties and stuff like that among the kids.
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  Rick Osborne: And I got this call, and I think it was something like one of the first calls I got about this, that they had done this party, and I won't name the name of the country, but in this communist country, they'd done this street party during one of their regular festivals and stuff like that.
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  Rick Osborne: And just that first time around, a hundred, more than a hundred thousand children had given their lives to Christ.
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  Rick Osborne: Wow.
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  Rick Osborne: And it's like I remember weeping in my hotel room, just thanking the Lord I was able to share in something like that, that so many more people would come to know Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: You know, I thank God for a convention like this.
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  Ron Meyers: You're from British Columbia, Canada, I'm from Mississippi.
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  Ron Meyers: We would never meet each other unless it's at a convention like this.
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  Ron Meyers: Now, there are people listening to this podcast, this radio show now that they wish they could have that intimacy with Jesus we talk about.
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  Ron Meyers: They wish they could come up, or they pray maybe, that they could come up with a book idea.
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  Ron Meyers: What would you tell someone that is skeptic about Jesus and says, well, that Rick, he was just, God liked him more than he does me.
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  Ron Meyers: What would you tell that person?
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  Rick Osborne: And I get that all the time.
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  Rick Osborne: It's like, well, Rick, you're a pastor.
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  Rick Osborne: Rick, you're a teacher, Rick, you know, you know, you run a Bible school.
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  Rick Osborne: You're, well, well, of course, God does that with you.
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  Rick Osborne: No, that's not it.
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  Rick Osborne: That's not it.
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  Rick Osborne: If you're a pastor or you're a teacher, it doesn't matter what title you have, you are still a child of the living God.
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  Rick Osborne: You are a person who walks with and in Christ Jesus.
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  Rick Osborne: All it means is if I'm a teacher, I'm supposed to do it first, then turn around and show you how to do it.
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  Rick Osborne: He's not giving me a special relationship with him.
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  Rick Osborne: You cannot get a more special relationship with Jesus than you already have.
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  Rick Osborne: Amen.
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  Rick Osborne: And so it's our job as teachers, whether we have a podcast or a school or whatever, or we write books, it's our job as teachers to point people to Jesus.
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  Rick Osborne: So you can hear Jesus' voice because he said you can.
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  Rick Osborne: You have a passion for Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Ron Meyers: He doesn't show.
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  Ron Meyers: It shows.
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  Ron Meyers: So for someone out there that doesn't know you, and they say, Well, who is Jesus to you, Rick?
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  Rick Osborne: What would you tell them?
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  Rick Osborne: Everything.
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  Ron Meyers: Everything.
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  Rick Osborne: Everything.
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  Rick Osborne: I'm gonna back up and tell you a story, okay?
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  Rick Osborne: Okay.
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  Rick Osborne: Do I have time for a little story here?
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  Rick Osborne: Yes, absolutely.
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  Rick Osborne: Okay.
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  Rick Osborne: And this will show you the heart of this.
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  Rick Osborne: About 15 years ago, I had millions of books sold all around the world.
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  Rick Osborne: I was on all of the, you know, the Christian radio shows and TV shows and all of that kind of stuff.
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  Rick Osborne: And I had a vision.
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  Rick Osborne: I was just spending my normal time in prayer, and I had a vision.
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  Rick Osborne: And Jesus, in a vision, walked into the room, and he very nonchalantly, calmly, you would think that that happened.
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  Rick Osborne: You know, Jesus would act like I'm doing something special here.
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  Rick Osborne: Well, I found out he wasn't, and that's why he acted that way.
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  Rick Osborne: Very calmly.
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  Rick Osborne: He said, I'm gonna start teaching you personally and directly from my word from this day forward.
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  Rick Osborne: And it started that day.
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  Rick Osborne: So my wife had a name for me because this lasted for 10 years.
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  Rick Osborne: She called me Weepy Boy because she says I wept for 10 years.
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  Rick Osborne: Because literally, and I want to make this really clear, he never taught me anything without teaching me from his word.
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  Rick Osborne: And what he taught me, one of the first things he taught me, is the Bible says that Jesus wants to do this with every one of his kids.
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  Rick Osborne: You and I were talking earlier on, Ron, about how sometimes we've gotta, you know, we've got to, you know, make sure that we get everybody churched and, you know, well brought up and all of this kind of stuff.
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  Rick Osborne: Every single one of his children, you've got Jesus in you and with you.
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  Rick Osborne: He said he would never leave you.
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  Rick Osborne: Leave you, never forsake you.
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  Rick Osborne: He wants to actually, you can open the word of God, and I teach people how to do this now.
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  Rick Osborne: You can open the word of God and acknowledge Jesus, your teacher, with you.
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  Rick Osborne: Remember, he said, call no one else teacher.
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  Rick Osborne: You remember he said that?
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  Rick Osborne: Oh, yeah.
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  Rick Osborne: And he said to the disciples, the 12, we sometimes say it would be better if we were walking with Jesus, if we weren't the disciples.
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  Rick Osborne: Jesus said the opposite of the disciples.
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  Rick Osborne: He said, It's better for you if I go away, because then he can disciple us 24-7 from the inside.
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  Rick Osborne: And so what he taught me was he wants to do this with all of us.
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  Ron Meyers: You know, you've said something there that I've been saying for the last couple years, but I don't say it to many people because, you know, they think I'm a little nutty, but you are exactly right.
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  Ron Meyers: He wants to tutor us personally because he is the way, the life, and the truth.
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  Ron Meyers: Who better to give us the truth than Jesus through his word and through his inspiration and encouragement?
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  Ron Meyers: I tell people that the one thing Jesus wants to do, I think more than anything, to all of his children, he wants to minister to us.
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  Ron Meyers: He wants to love the hell out of our life.
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  Ron Meyers: Amen.
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  Ron Meyers: He wants us to become who he created us to be.
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  Ron Meyers: The Bible said that he knew what we would do before we were ever in our mother's womb.
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  Ron Meyers: So doesn't that mean he's got a plan?
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  Ron Meyers: But if we listen to the world and we listen to all these teachers, then we want to do, okay, that's a good idea.
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  Ron Meyers: I'll do that.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, the things that I do now are not because I have to do it, I want to do it.
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  Ron Meyers: And that's what that personal relationship does.
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  Ron Meyers: It makes you, you know, give from the heart, a love from the heart, pursue Jesus from the heart.
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  Ron Meyers: Does any of that make sense?
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  Rick Osborne: Absolutely.
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  Rick Osborne: He he's in us to change us from within.
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  Rick Osborne: We were born in Adam, like it says in Romans, but now we're in Christ.
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  Rick Osborne: We have a different nature, and he is our nature.
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  Rick Osborne: He is the one that we're one with, Christ and us, us in Christ.
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  Rick Osborne: This is an amazing journey that we've been called on.
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  Rick Osborne: Wow.
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  Rick Osborne: So when everybody realizes, and this is what I teach people now, when everyone realizes that the height and the depth and the the length that Jesus wants to go to to be every part, be center with every with you in and re in a relationship with you in every part of your life.
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  Rick Osborne: When you get that, your whole life changes because you're not walking around thinking, well, oh, I need to talk to Jesus, I'll get to church or I'll do that tomorrow morning.
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  Rick Osborne: No, you're walking around with the living resurrected Jesus in you.
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  Rick Osborne: Exactly.
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  Ron Meyers: Because what happens if you wake up at two o'clock in the morning with a panic attack or fear and you hear a noise outside, you know, you're gonna call 911.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, you probably should do that, but I call out to Jesus right away, Lord, give me some peace.
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  Ron Meyers: Help me get through this.
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  Ron Meyers: What's going on, Lord?
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  Ron Meyers: Let me see.
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  Ron Meyers: And I think if we just treated Jesus as our friend, he's our mentor, he's our teacher, he's our life, he's our peace, he's our shield of our armor of God, is it through him?
• 12:53
  Ron Meyers: Everything we need is through him.
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  Ron Meyers: But I've never heard this preached to me in a church.
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  Ron Meyers: I talk to people like you and I.
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  Ron Meyers: How come we found this out and we experienced this?
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  Ron Meyers: We're not some weirdos, we're not from another planet.
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  Ron Meyers: Why don't we hear this more in church?
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  Rick Osborne: I I think that this is the thing, this is the thing that that the Lord is doing in the church now.
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  Rick Osborne: The whole idea of discipleship, the whole idea that we've made disciples of churches, we've made disciples of denominations, we've made discipleships.
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  Rick Osborne: We we talk about having mentors and everything like that, and we look to man, but Jesus said, Jesus said that I want to be your teacher.
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  Rick Osborne: Like even us, like ourselves that are called as teachers, we're small tea teachers.
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  Rick Osborne: He's the big tea teacher.
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  Rick Osborne: Our job is to point, point everyone to him and show how they can walk in reality with him, to see visions with him, to see him, to walk with him.
• 13:46
  Rick Osborne: Here's something most people don't know.
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  Rick Osborne: People talk about Paul, right?
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  Rick Osborne: Paul said again and again and again, I'm not special.
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  Rick Osborne: You look at what I'm doing and follow Jesus as I'm following Jesus.
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  Rick Osborne: In other words, he didn't say, I'm an apostle, you can't experience what I experience, right?
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  Rick Osborne: Right.
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  Rick Osborne: So, and if you look at all of the recorded, especially in the book of Acts, if you look at all of the times that he was led by God in one way or the other, the Holy Spirit led him, and angel talked to him and everything like that.
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  Rick Osborne: You know what the number one way Paul was led?
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  Rick Osborne: Mentioned five times in the Bible, not just one in it at his salvation, Jesus appearing to him, Jesus standing beside him, Jesus appearing to him in vision, Jesus talking to him.
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  Rick Osborne: The number one way recorded in scripture that Paul walked with God was Jesus walked with him.
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  Ron Meyers: You know, I was talking to an evangelist that's overseas, I don't know, about six months ago, and he told me that over in the countries that are predominantly Muslim, that a lot of Muslims, record, record amounts, are coming to Jesus because they saw a vision.
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  Ron Meyers: Almost kind of like Paul.
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  Ron Meyers: Why are you perse persecuting me?
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  Ron Meyers: And they just, because they love Jesus as in a Muslim faith, but they just don't think he was the Son of God.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, you know, when Jesus shows you up in your life as a vision, he changed a lot of their minds.
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  Ron Meyers: And this missionary told me that, Ron, you don't hear this in the United States, but there are a lot of Muslims that are converting to Christianity, and Jesus is going to do anything he needs to do, is need to get our attention, to get a relationship with him.
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  Rick Osborne: Absolutely.
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  Rick Osborne: Anias.
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  Rick Osborne: Yeah.
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  Rick Osborne: In in the in in the book of Acts.
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  Rick Osborne: He was the one who was sent to Paul to go and get his eyesight back and to get him filled with the Spirit, right?
• 15:25
  Rick Osborne: So he was sent to Paul.
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  Rick Osborne: And you read the recording of that, okay?
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  Rick Osborne: Anias, it says a disciple.
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  Rick Osborne: It doesn't say an apostle, a preacher, a teacher, a pastor.
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  Rick Osborne: It says a disciple.
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  Rick Osborne: And it says that Jesus came to him and started talking to him.
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  Rick Osborne: And if you read the way that Luke recorded that, right, in the book of Acts, it's just normal.
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  Rick Osborne: He's just talking to him.
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  Rick Osborne: Talk to him, no, and and and and Anah says, but Jesus, isn't he the guy that's persecuting the Christians and dragging them away and stuff like that?
• 15:52
  Rick Osborne: And Jesus basically ignores that and says, No, no, you need to go and see him and tell him what all of what he's gonna suffer.
• 15:58
  Rick Osborne: You read that.
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  Rick Osborne: Luke, who wrote it as a historian, did not put any pizzazz on that because it was normal.
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  Ron Meyers: It was normal.
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  Rick Osborne: Anias didn't didn't put any any, had no like, oh, I'm seeing Jesus, I'm gonna fall.
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  Rick Osborne: Nothing.
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  Rick Osborne: It's just normal.
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  Rick Osborne: And what we need to do as Christians is we've gotten this idea that Jesus is somewhere far away, that he ascended and one day he will come back.
• 16:22
  Rick Osborne: He ascended, he'll come back, but it said right in Mark chapter 16, verse 20, it said right there that they said goodbye to Jesus.
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  Rick Osborne: He said, you know, go lay hands on the sick and all that kind of stuff.
• 16:31
  Rick Osborne: And then it said right away there, verse 20, it says, and they started going, preaching the kingdom, the Lord working with them, the Lord working with them, showing, confirming the word with signs, wonders, and miracles following.
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  Rick Osborne: So he went physically, but he came, that's why, that's why the Holy Spirit's called the Spirit of Christ.
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  Rick Osborne: Because he came back in us through the Holy Spirit to disciple us, to walk with us, to share with us.
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  Rick Osborne: I got I've got it, I gotta talk.
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  Rick Osborne: This gets so exciting.
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  Rick Osborne: You get excited talking about it, don't you?
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  Rick Osborne: Well, I love it.
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  Rick Osborne: If you if you have this kind of experience with Jesus, and then when you know you're weeping for 10 years and he shows you all the way along the way, it's not because I was special.
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  Rick Osborne: It was because he he needs all of his children to know this.
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  Rick Osborne: That'll get you excited that every single one of us can walk that way, that every single one of us can wake up in the morning.
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  Rick Osborne: You're all your listeners can wake up in the morning and they can say, Jesus, I'm here.
• 17:24
  Rick Osborne: And they can start expecting him to talk to them.
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  Ron Meyers: That's a good segue.
• 17:28
  Ron Meyers: I want you to share some hope with somebody listening right now.
• 17:32
  Ron Meyers: Maybe they don't believe in Jesus, they've got tired of church.
• 17:35
  Ron Meyers: You can talk to them now.
• 17:36
  Ron Meyers: They need some hope, they need some encouragement.
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  Rick Osborne: Rick, what would you tell them?
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  Rick Osborne: I would I would tell them so many people are offended with religion.
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  Rick Osborne: And in some cases, Christianity has been made into a religion.
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  Rick Osborne: It's it's been the relationship has been taken out of it.
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  Rick Osborne: But when God created man, he created us to be sons and daughters.
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  Rick Osborne: He created us for relationship, he created us to be one with him.
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  Rick Osborne: And in Christ, we're returned to that.
• 18:02
  Rick Osborne: We're not returned to church.
• 18:03
  Rick Osborne: Church is the building where we're supposed to gather to encourage each other in this relationship.
• 18:07
  Rick Osborne: This relationship is the essence of what we were created to be.
• 18:10
  Rick Osborne: And no one, no one who enters into a relationship with Jesus Christ and has their sins forgiven and understands that he's right here with you and he wants to guide you in every part of your life, no one will have a need to lose their hope ever, ever again.
• 18:25
  Rick Osborne: This is, this is it, all you have to do is cry out, just say, Jesus, I know I'm a sinner.
• 18:30
  Rick Osborne: I I just want to experience what Rick and Ron are talking about.
• 18:34
  Rick Osborne: I want this to happen in my life.
• 18:36
  Rick Osborne: Amen.
• 18:36
  Rick Osborne: And just invite him in and say, I want my life to, I want you to be my mentor.
• 18:42
  Rick Osborne: I want you to be the one that's showing me where to go and what to do.
• 18:45
  Rick Osborne: I want to have ideas like you gave Rick.
• 18:47
  Rick Osborne: I want that to happen in my life.
• 18:49
  Rick Osborne: And as soon as you ask that, you are you are you are embarking on a journey that is going to blow you away.
• 18:56
  Ron Meyers: Blow you away.
• 18:56
  Ron Meyers: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 18:58
  Ron Meyers: Boy, Rick, what a what an incredible conversation with you.
• 19:02
  Ron Meyers: Before we go, I want to ask you a couple things.
• 19:04
  Ron Meyers: First, the title of the show is called Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
• 19:07
  Ron Meyers: So I'm gonna ask you, Rick Osborne, how do you get the hell out of your life?
• 19:11
  Rick Osborne: You keep your eyes focused on Jesus.
• 19:13
  Rick Osborne: Amen.
• 19:13
  Rick Osborne: The Bible, before Jesus left, he said, All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.
• 19:19
  Rick Osborne: All author, all the word there in the Greek is pasta, all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.
• 19:24
  Rick Osborne: That means somebody doesn't have any.
• 19:26
  unknown: Oh yeah.
• 19:28
  Rick Osborne: Somebody we usually picture with horns.
• 19:30
  Rick Osborne: He doesn't have any, but you have Christ in you.
• 19:33
  Rick Osborne: So if the enemy is trying to get into your life, all you need to say is use the name of Jesus.
• 19:38
  Rick Osborne: You just need to say, you have no right here.
• 19:40
  Rick Osborne: Jesus, you've got, and this is a powerful, Jesus is in you, you're in Jesus.
• 19:45
  Rick Osborne: Devil has no more right to touch you than he does Jesus.
• 19:48
  Rick Osborne: You just say, get out in Jesus' name.
• 19:50
  Ron Meyers: Get out in Jesus' name.
• 19:51
  Ron Meyers: One last thing before we go.
• 19:53
  Ron Meyers: Will you close us out in prayer?
• 19:55
  Ron Meyers: Will you pray for my listeners?
• 19:57
  Rick Osborne: Absolutely.
• 19:57
  Rick Osborne: That'd be an honor.
• 19:58
  Rick Osborne: Thank you.
• 19:59
  Rick Osborne: Father, just for everybody who's listening and will listen to this podcast, Father, I thank you for them.
• 20:05
  Rick Osborne: And I thank you that you hold every single one of them in your hand.
• 20:09
  Rick Osborne: You've known them since before they were born.
• 20:11
  Rick Osborne: You have a plan for them.
• 20:13
  Rick Osborne: I thank you that those who have not received you and started to ask you what your plan is, that they would do that now by accepting Jesus into their heart.
• 20:22
  Rick Osborne: And I say, I'll say in the name of Jesus, any any kind of force or evil that's trying to hold them back, you let them go in Jesus' name.
• 20:30
  Rick Osborne: And Father, those Christians that are listening, I ask you that you would give them a sense of you holding them in your hand and that, Jesus, you would start to disciple them and teach them and love them and show yourself to them in very real ways from this minute forward.
• 20:47
  Rick Osborne: And I thank you for it in Jesus' name.
• 20:49
  Rick Osborne: Amen.
• 20:52
  Ron Meyers: Wow.
• 20:53
  Ron Meyers: What a powerful conversation with Rick.
• 20:55
  Ron Meyers: One of the things that stood out to me the most was how Rick describes Scripture as a living classroom where the indwelling of Jesus Himself becomes our teacher.
• 21:07
  Ron Meyers: That's a very powerful statement.
• 21:10
  Ron Meyers: And that is a game changer.
• 21:12
  Ron Meyers: Because when you experience Jesus, you begin to find out that Jesus is your teacher, your mentor, your friend, your king, and your savior.
• 21:23
  Ron Meyers: You also find out that he's your life, he's your oxygen, he's your future.
• 21:28
  Ron Meyers: And when you begin to see Jesus that way, faith stops feeling like pressure and starts feeling like connection.
• 21:34
  Ron Meyers: Rick also shares stories of the gospel spreading across cultures with humility and respect.
• 21:41
  Ron Meyers: It's a powerful reminder that when we are led by the Spirit of the Lord, doors open, opportunities come our way, we become the hands and feet of Jesus.
• 21:54
  Ron Meyers: And this is the most important takeaway of my conversation with Rick.
• 21:59
  Ron Meyers: Jesus didn't come to start a religion.
• 22:02
  Ron Meyers: He came to bring us into a relationship where He leads our lives.
• 22:08
  Ron Meyers: When I return, some action steps so that you can start having Jesus teach you.
• 22:15
  Announcer: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of Your Life with your host, Ron Myers.
• 22:19
  Announcer: Real stories, real struggles, and real hope.
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  Speaker 5: Jesus, Jesus.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: What do you think of when you hear that name?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Jesus, Jesus.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Love, life, hope, joy, joy, peace, friend, companion, confidence.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: The God of the universe lives.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: He lives in the form of a man.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: That man is Jesus Christ.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whosoever believes in him shall have eternal life.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Jesus.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: When you open that door, your life will change.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Forever.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: It came that the world may have life and may have it more abundantly.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Ask Jesus into your heart and discover what living is all about.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Call 1-888-NEED Him.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Today's refreshing word is from John chapter 15, verse 7.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Jesus said, If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
• 23:36
  Ron Meyers: How do you get the hell out of your life?
• 23:38
  Ron Meyers: Get on your knees and cry out to the Lord.
• 23:42
  Announcer: How to get the hell out of your life?
• 23:43
  Announcer: Well, yeah, replace it with Jesus.
• 23:45
  Announcer: We gotta be born again, born of the Spirit, and that's by trusting Jesus Christ, turning from our sins and trusting Jesus.
• 23:50
  Announcer: How do you get the hell out of your life?
• 23:51
  Announcer: Oh gosh.
• 23:53
  Ron Meyers: Jesus.
• 23:53
  Ron Meyers: Jesus, Jesus.
• 23:54
  Ron Meyers: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
• 23:55
  Ron Meyers: Turn to Jesus.
• 23:56
  Ron Meyers: As I close out today's show, I want to ask you a question that I ask believers quite often.
• 24:03
  Ron Meyers: If you knew beyond a shadow of doubt that you were forgiven, past, present, and future, and you knew that you were completely secure with Jesus, that he would never leave you, never forsake you, and never kick you out of the family, how would your life change?
• 24:21
  Ron Meyers: Every time I ask that question, people pause and say something very honest.
• 24:26
  Ron Meyers: They say, Well, I think I could finally relax with Jesus instead of always trying to perform for him.
• 24:33
  Ron Meyers: And friends, that's where some people struggle.
• 24:36
  Ron Meyers: Because we live in a merit-based world.
• 24:39
  Ron Meyers: You've heard the saying, No pain, no gain.
• 24:41
  Ron Meyers: Work hard for that promotion.
• 24:43
  Ron Meyers: You have to earn the reward, and the big one, prove yourself.
• 24:48
  Ron Meyers: From the time we're young, we're taught that everything valuable must be earned.
• 24:52
  Ron Meyers: So when people hear about grace, that forgiveness is a gift from God, they sometimes struggle to believe it because their entire lives have been built on working hard and succeeding.
• 25:04
  Ron Meyers: But the gospel is not about proving yourself, it's about receiving what Jesus already finished.
• 25:10
  Ron Meyers: Through his death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus completed the work of salvation, and we have access to God through Jesus.
• 25:19
  Ron Meyers: We are not striving for acceptance, we are living from acceptance.
• 25:25
  Ron Meyers: And when that truth finally settles into your heart, fear begins to fade, pressure begins to lift, and your relationship with Jesus becomes what it was always meant to be: a connection, a friendship, a vine and branch relationship where life flows naturally.
• 25:41
  Ron Meyers: Here's some action steps this week to help you get that mindset of Jesus being your teacher.
• 25:46
  Ron Meyers: Number one, start your coffee with Jesus each day with one sentence.
• 25:50
  Ron Meyers: Jesus, teach me today, and then expect him to lead from within.
• 25:56
  Ron Meyers: Number two, open scriptures expecting guidance, not grind.
• 26:01
  Ron Meyers: Read for direction, not mere data.
• 26:04
  Ron Meyers: His spirit illumes truth as you go.
• 26:07
  Ron Meyers: Number three, think vine and branch, not self-powered.
• 26:12
  Ron Meyers: Your role isn't to manufacture life, but to express the life you already share with Jesus.
• 26:19
  Ron Meyers: Number four, trade striving for trust.
• 26:23
  Ron Meyers: You're not earning love, you're learning to live inside the love you already have.
• 26:29
  Ron Meyers: And number five, talk to Jesus as your indwelling mentor and friend and companion.
• 26:36
  Ron Meyers: He's with you and in you at every moment to counsel and to comfort.
• 26:42
  Ron Meyers: Friends, when you understand what Jesus wants to do with you, you can chill, you can relax, and you can trust him with your life.
• 26:50
  Ron Meyers: And then you finally discover that freedom that helps you get and keep the hell out of your life.
• 26:57
  Ron Meyers: Thanks for listening.
• 26:58
  Ron Meyers: I will be back next week with another Grace Field episode of Get the Hell Out of Your Life available wherever you listen to podcasting.
• 27:07
  Ron Meyers: If this episode encouraged you, please share with someone who needs hope.
• 27:11
  Ron Meyers: Until next time, this Ron Myers Reminding You, let Jesus be your teacher.
• 27:29
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• 27:34
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• 27:39
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• 27:47
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