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Celebrating 100 Years: Moody Radio’s Vision for the Future with Wes Ward & How God’s Goodness Changes Us with Dr. Bradley Baurain · Karl and Crew

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  S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
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  S1: and crew. Come as you are an experienced guide, overcome
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  S1: what seems impossible and live as you never imagined delivering
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  S1: the truth daily.
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  S2: If it were possible to have every worldly gain available.
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  S2: And you're forfeiting your soul. There's no amount of gain
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  S2: that would make it worth it.
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  S3: Our own way never ever works. Because it's apart from
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  S3: the life source, which is God.
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  S4: For me, growing up, love was always conditional and can
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  S4: be taken from you. Christ's love can't. And he went
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  S4: to the cross with my mind and my heart that night.
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  S1: Now from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl
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  S1: and Crew. Well, here we are 100 years and day
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  S1: 300 years. In day three. I'll stop.
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  S5: Doing that. Count down here pretty soon. Go on a
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  S5: while here. Right, guys? 100. Yeah. 100 years and 98
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  S5: days right now. It's it's an awesome thing to be here.
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  S5: And talk about life in Christ Jesus. I want to
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  S5: talk with you about this simple little reality. What is
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  S5: it that keeps us from the kingdom of God? Clearly,
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  S5: it's our sin, right? I mean, we're born with our
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  S5: backs to God. We're born all of sin and fall
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  S5: short of the glory of God. But there is a
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  S5: certain sense in which, uh, the Pharisees are great. Um,
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  S5: they're a great illustration and backdrop of what it takes
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  S5: to come into the kingdom of God. We find that
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  S5: when Jesus was teaching and walking and going down to town.
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  S5: They were really upset because he. He met with sinners.
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  S5: He met with sinners, and they had a real problem
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  S5: with this. Now. They shouldn't have. Because their sin was
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  S5: very evident for God to see and for others to see.
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  S5: But they were going through the routine and the punch
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  S5: list of feeling like, yep, we got it together and
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  S5: the others don't. It's the backdrop of them chastising Jesus
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  S5: for eating with sinners that we find. In Luke 15,
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  S5: Jesus goes into three teachings the lost sheep, the lost coin,
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  S5: and the lost son. Now, here's the interesting thing about this.
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  S5: If you look at it in direct context, Jesus was
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  S5: illustrating that going out after whoever, wherever they are, is
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  S5: his heart. Lost people matter to God no matter what
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  S5: big a. No matter what mess they are in. There
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  S5: is no one out of reach of God. He will
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  S5: leave the 99 to get the one. When a lost
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  S5: coin is found, there's rejoicing. So it shows the intentionality
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  S5: and the celebration of our father. And then, with the
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  S5: parable of the Lost Sons, it reveals that there must
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  S5: come a time for all of us, when we have
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  S5: such little regard for our standing with God, that we
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  S5: can celebrate anyone coming to God. Such little regard for
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  S5: our standing with God that we can celebrate anyone coming
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  S5: to God. And let me be this bold. You Genuinely celebrate.
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  S5: So the story of the wayward sons is powerful, because
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  S5: the first son might have never heard the story before.
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  S5: You might have heard it for 50 years, but it's
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  S5: classic story. Son wants his inheritance would have broken every
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  S5: Jewish tradition under the sun to get the inheritance before
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  S5: the father dies. But we got a greedy son. I mean,
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  S5: he's a mess. And one of the cool things about
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  S5: this story is that the father does not chase him down.
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  S5: He lets him go, and the son goes probably off.
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  S5: They would have thought in their minds, big city Antioch,
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  S5: something hustling and bustling, and he squanders the entire inheritance
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  S5: and he's living as a slave and he's eaten with
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  S5: pigs and he's like, what in the world is going
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  S5: on here? Now, the cool thing about this younger son
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  S5: is he came to his senses and he realized I
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  S5: got to go home. And on the way home we
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  S5: find a great picture. The only time we find God
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  S5: represented in the scriptures, being in a hurry is in
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  S5: this story. And he gathers up his outer garment, and
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  S5: Jesus tells the story, and he runs toward the sun,
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  S5: and he puts a ring of authority and a cloak
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  S5: of authority, and he puts sandals on his feet to say,
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  S5: you're not a slave anymore, son. And he kills the
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  S5: fatted calf, and they have a party. It's one thing
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  S5: I want you to know right now. You are not
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  S5: out of reach of God. The one who holds all things.
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  S5: The one who has given you so much, no matter
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  S5: how much you've squandered it. Our God loves you. And
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  S5: Jesus says, come on home, kid. Come on home. So
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  S5: that's got to sit right there. No matter what, you've
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  S5: screwed up. If today you have come to your senses
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  S5: and realize I need to go home to God. Today's
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  S5: the day. So that's one. But the other one is
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  S5: the older son. And this was actually the aim of
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  S5: this portion of teaching. It was the religious who could
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  S5: not celebrate anyone and everyone, no matter where they come from,
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  S5: no matter where they're from. There was no ability to
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  S5: full on celebrate. Let me just give you a warning
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  S5: right now. If you cannot joyfully, exuberantly celebrate someone from
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  S5: any walk of life, no matter what they've done, this
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  S5: could be a huge alert that you are not a
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  S5: child of God. If I look at the true context
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  S5: of Luke 15, we've got a picture of Jesus reaching
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  S5: people who have blown it, and they've been lost and
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  S5: they've been gone, and they have squandered so much, and
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  S5: they realize and they come home. But the other group
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  S5: of people are those that are pretty meh with regard
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  S5: to those people coming home to Jesus. No joy. Well enough.
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  S5: No ecstatic sense in their heart. Do you know that
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  S5: the absence of celebration for those that have encountered regeneration
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  S5: by God is one of the greatest evidences that you
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  S5: have a touch of Pharisee in you? That's hard to hear,
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  S5: isn't it, Jonathan?
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  S3: It is hard to hear, but it's real. It's important
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  S3: to hear because that's where change happens.
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  S5: See, the problem with the Pharisees is that they were
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  S5: checking all the external boxes. And I just want to
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  S5: ask you a question. Beyond all the things that you
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  S5: think you've done well, have you ever really been overjoyed
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  S5: at the regeneration of the Holy Spirit, of someone who's
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  S5: been far off the reservation?
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  S3: Mhm.
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  S5: Because the absence of a heart that overflows with joy,
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  S5: like the older son who was so begrudgingly ticked off
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  S5: that his brother had come home is, is a very
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  S5: good possibility and probability that you do not know God personally? Yeah. See,
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  S5: religion is a bad elixir, man. We drink it and
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  S5: we think we got something, but we don't.
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  S3: It's so convincing of that. Yeah.
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  S5: So you say, well, Carl, I'm not a celebratory kind
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  S5: of person. If you're in Jesus Christ, when you see
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  S5: lost people saved buddy, friend, sister, you are busting at
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  S5: the seams. You are overjoyed straight up. It's undeniable. You say, Carl,
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  S5: one of the greatest evidences is my ability to celebrate
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  S5: lost people being born again. Yeah. And if you've never
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  S5: had that exuberant joy, it could be that you're a
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  S5: box checker like the older son, and you've never known
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  S5: the grace of God yourself. Because when you've been touched
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  S5: by grace, my friend, you will celebrate anyone coming to God.
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  S5: And I mean celebrate. So I just want to ask you.
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  S5: Have you wandered so far away and squandered so much
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  S5: of what God's given you? And you're realizing it today,
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  S5: and you're saying, I want to come home and give
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  S5: my life to God, not take stuff from him anymore.
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  S5: I want to give it. I'm giving my life to God.
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  S5: He's running toward you right now and it's the most
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  S5: awesome thing. Are you a box checker? I don't I
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  S5: say this all the time. It doesn't matter how many
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  S5: years you've been in church. Here's true to the text
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  S5: in Luke 15. If you cannot genuinely. With the Spirit
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  S5: of God in you, filling your spirit. Be overjoyed for
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  S5: the salvation of others. You may not have ever been
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  S5: saved yourself. Oh yeah, you're on the plantation, man. You're
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  S5: on the farm, you're on the ranch. You're jumping through
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  S5: all the hoops, meaning you're in church, you're in a
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  S5: small group. You might be on the worship team, but friend,
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  S5: if that's if that's never been a genuine emotion that
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  S5: you can celebrate with God, those that surrender and come
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  S5: home to God, I mean, celebrate, oh, it could be
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  S5: that you don't have a spiritual pulse. And here's what's
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  S5: great the Spirit of God. Just as he cut through
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  S5: the Pharisees 2000 years ago, the hardness of heart and
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  S5: the religious performance can cut through today and save your soul.
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  S5: So whether you have been far from God and you're
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  S5: coming home today and you've never before surrendered to God's kingdom.
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  S5: But today you are all in with Jesus, or you've
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  S5: been all around this religiosity churchianity but today you're saying,
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  S5: Oh God, I've not been able to celebrate because although
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  S5: I've been around you, I've not been in you. Praise God.
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  S5: You say, what do I do right now? You need
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  S5: to come to grips with this reality. Number one, you're
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  S5: a sinner. You're missing the mark. Your life is not
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  S5: all of that. And you've been in control for too long.
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  S5: And today you are surrendering all you are to Jesus Christ.
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  S5: You're recognizing soberly by the power of the spirit. I'm
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  S5: a sinner. I need a Savior. And you're surrendering all that.
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  S5: You are holding nothing back for the first time ever,
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  S5: and you're repenting and you're turning. And even right now,
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  S5: the Spirit of God is doing this within you. Let
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  S5: your soul cry out to God today. What does it
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  S5: profit a man to gain the whole world and lose
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  S5: their soul? You know what the answer to that is? Nothing. Nothing.
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  S5: Don't play with eternal things, friends. Don't play with eternal things.
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  S5: Surrender to Jesus today. If the cry of your soul today,
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  S5: right now, is to say, I give all I am
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  S5: to Jesus Christ. This is your freedom Friday. This is
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  S5: your day when you're walking free. This is your day
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  S5: of salvation. This is a day now when you can
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  S5: celebrate those who are lost. For those of you that
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  S5: have been far from God and you're coming home and
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  S5: you've squandered everything, this is a day when you can
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  S5: celebrate life in the kingdom. If you're saying right now,
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  S5: just answer this question. Yes, Carl, I'm saying I'm a sinner.
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  S5: I need a savior. I look at me as the
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  S5: biggest problem in my life. Praise God, and I want
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  S5: all of you right now to repent and turn and
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  S5: follow Jesus. That's the invitation that Jesus gives. And if
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  S5: this is you right now, no fanfare, nothing. Just the the,
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  S5: the rush of the Spirit of God that's filling that
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  S5: void in your life that only God can fill. Just
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  S5: your first steps with Jesus. Use this link. God began
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  S1: and crew.
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  S5: Coming up here, West Westward. He's VP of Moody Global Media,
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  S5: and we are going to talk with him about where
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  S5: we are today and some of the exciting things into
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  S5: the near future. Hang on.
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  S5: Westward with me right now. Vice President of Moody Global Media.
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  S5: He's served at Moody way back in the 90s for
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  S5: a few years, and now he's back with us. And
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  S5: it's a joy. Wes, where are we first? Where are we?
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  S5: Where is Moody Radio? We're parked on the Word of God,
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  S5: aren't we, my man?
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  S6: We are just as in tune today. And that's really
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  S6: encouraging to me to think of first importance as we
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  S6: were before we went on the air 104 days or
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  S6: so ago. I know you're keeping count, and I am
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  S6: just so encouraged that I'm not having to say to
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  S6: hosts like you, hey, Carl, get back to things of
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  S6: first importance. Get it back to the word dude. Because
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  S6: you guys are doing that every single day.
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  S5: Uh, Wes, as we look forward here, it's an interesting
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  S5: landscape that we have in media. Where are you believing
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  S5: God is taking us? What are you and your team
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  S5: believing that we're going to start leaning into now with
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  S5: Moody Radio? We've been strong terrestrially all around the nation
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  S5: in the world. But where are we going here, my friend?
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  S6: Well, we just got to be where people are. And
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  S6: people are increasingly on just a lot of different kind
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  S6: of devices. Uh, you know, it's interesting when you go
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  S6: to any store and you walk around and you see
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  S6: the kid in the cart with mom, the kid in
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  S6: the carts got a device. Yeah. And we just want
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  S6: to be where people are. That's why Moody went on
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  S6: radio in the very first place. They knew that these
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  S6: devices were in homes and people were gathered around That
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  S6: device called radio, and they just wanted to be there
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  S6: with the truth of God's Word. And and we just
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  S6: got to do that increasingly, uh, with great skill and
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  S6: wisdom and, uh, not a sense of reluctance. There's going
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  S6: to be some courage. We're going to fail some and
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  S6: stub our toes and learn from that. But wherever people
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  S6: are on some device watching or listening, Moody's got to
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  S6: be there. And Carl, already the statistics are telling us
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  S6: that we're in 190 countries right now doing that. So
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  S6: we just need to pray with a lot of humility
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  S6: and zeal. Lord, take us where you want us to go,
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  S6: and may your will be done and not ours.
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  S5: You know, the interesting thing about missions is that there's
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  S5: been a goal for years to go reach people. Now,
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  S5: with this digital age that we live in, it's pretty astounding, Wes,
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  S5: how we can get this good news. And we're getting
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  S5: word back, aren't we, that people around the globe are
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  S5: hearing the gospel or being built up in Christ? What's
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  S5: going on right now?
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  S6: Well, people are searching and, you know, it's really crazy
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  S6: when you think about it. Um, anytime I hear somebody
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  S6: talk about a home renovation project, the first words out
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  S6: of everybody's mouth around me is YouTube. You don't. I mean,
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  S6: you don't need a handyman anymore. You just YouTube it.
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  S6: And that's what people are doing around planet earth right now.
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  S6: They're going to YouTube and Google the two most searched things,
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  S6: and they're typing in things like, Who is Jesus? What's
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  S6: the relevance of the Bible in 2026? How do I
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  S6: get along with my husband? What does God say about
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  S6: those things? People are searching right now for answers because
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  S6: they've got problems. And 140 years of Moody Bible Institute,
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  S6: 100 years of Moody Radio, more than 100 years of
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  S6: moody publishers. Our faculty. God is doing something crazy right
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  S6: now in the life of Moody Bible Institute. I'm so
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  S6: excited about that. But, Carl, this really isn't just about moody.
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  S6: This is the response of our every church. You're a
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  S6: pastor in a church. I want the media in your
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  S6: church to be dangerous for the gospel in a really
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  S6: good way. I want every single church and Christian to
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  S6: handle media in a great way, because let's flood the
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  S6: airwaves and the digital waves with the truth of God's Word.
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  S5: I want to give people that, whether it's share or
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  S5: 48 hours of impact that's coming up next week and
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  S5: different efforts that we have here to leverage resources toward
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  S5: Kingdom Gold. You saw a group of kids walking on
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  S5: campus here, and they're young. They're young people. They're in
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  S5: their 20s, they're in their 30s, and they're part of
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  S5: a brand new digital team here. I want everyone who
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  S5: gives so sacrificially here. And those listening this morning, whether
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  S5: they've jumped in or not, how thrilling it is. When
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  S5: you came in, you did a revamp on this whole
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  S5: thing of digital. We're leaning into this, aren't we, Wes?
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  S6: Yeah, we really are. And Carl's mentioning that from my
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  S6: office window yesterday, I saw a team of digital natives
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  S6: walking the sidewalk around Moody. And I know that they
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  S6: were discussing what are we going to do and how
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  S6: are we going to reach our generation? And I'm so
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  S6: grateful that Moody has never been afraid of reaching generations
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  S6: for Christ. Carl, I don't know if you know this,
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  S6: but within the first 13 years of Moody being on
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  S6: the air, 1939, we were already in 19 different languages.
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  S6: On one station W, b I in Chicago, we were
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  S6: in Polish, and we were in some really difficult to
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  S6: translate languages. Right within the very first decade of Moody
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  S6: being on the air. I love that I work at
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  S6: a place where gospel advancement and gospel entrepreneurial ism is
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  S6: our DNA. And so yeah, we're trying to shake up
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  S6: ourselves now at the same time, listen, we're still faithful
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  S6: to this audience. We don't want Moody radio to go away.
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  S6: We believe in it. And I'm so grateful we're Christ centered,
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  S6: putting audiences first. We love God, we love people. And
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  S6: whether we do that on radio or podcast or social media,
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  S6: we want to collaborate and embrace transformation at every level.
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  S6: But again, we're gospel entrepreneurs.
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  S5: Yeah. What role do you believe digital is going to
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  S5: have in all of our prayer? That another great awakening
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  S5: might happen in our nation and across the globe, that
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  S5: a remnant will rise up. What role?
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  S6: I don't know, but I know this in my own family.
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  S6: I've got four adult kids. Two of them are married.
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  S6: And I know this. We are constantly sharing content through
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  S6: texting with each other. And, you know, revival starts when
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  S6: we reclaim a right thinking about God and the gospel,
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  S6: and then it's shared person to person. And, you know,
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  S6: every single day you are connected to, you know, who
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  S6: knows hundreds of people through your own devices. And I
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  S6: think it's going to spread like wildfire. And I think
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  S6: it's going to happen, you know, person to person in
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  S6: digital like that. But I also love that we're committed
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  S6: to analog too. And what I mean by that is
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  S6: I want to hear pages of Scripture. I love hearing
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  S6: the real rustling of God's Word in front of us.
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  S6: So let's get back to the Bible. State of the Bible,
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  S6: help each other get there. But I'm praying for a
• 22:58
  S6: great awakening. And you know you know it, Carl. When
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  S6: you look in the faces of young men and women
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  S6: in their 20s and 30s, God's doing something fresh, for sure.
• 23:06
  S6: They're they're digital natives, and they know what to do
• 23:09
  S6: with these tools.
• 23:10
  S5: Yeah. And there's a seeking out there like we haven't
• 23:13
  S5: seen in recent years. This is beautiful. West-ward v P
• 23:17
  S5: of Moody Global Media. I wanted to bring him in
• 23:19
  S5: to give you a taste here. We're at 100 years.
• 23:21
  S5: In three days, here we are. 100 years in three days. Guys,
• 23:26
  S5: how about that?
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  S7: We're on it. We're on it. On the move to
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  S7: the next hundred.
• 23:29
  S5: And this is so encouraging and it's thrilling for me.
• 23:34
  S5: I get choked up with these 20 somethings that are
• 23:36
  S5: working here around Moody, leveraging content on a media platform
• 23:41
  S5: for which a lot of us are new to. But
• 23:44
  S5: the world is grabbing up quickly, and this is how
• 23:48
  S5: we can take the gospel to the ends of the earth.
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  S1: He was sharing the gospel on the radio, and then
• 23:54
  S1: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Colin
• 23:59
  S1: crew on Moody Radio.
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  S5: Okay, we got some freedom for you on this Freedom Friday.
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  S5: We are 100 years in, three days old today, 100
• 24:09
  S5: years in three days.
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  S7: I'll get started on this.
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  S3: Next 100 years.
• 24:13
  S5: I'll stop counting down at 100 years and 226 days. Okay, good. Now,
• 24:18
  S5: we'll we'll just keep you updated here. But here's the
• 24:21
  S5: cool thing going forward. We want to hear from you.
• 24:24
  S5: What do you want us to keep cooking with? And
• 24:29
  S5: maybe what would you like to see us add to
• 24:31
  S5: the recipe? Not changing the gospel in any way, shape
• 24:34
  S5: or form that stays. That's staying. We aren't. We aren't
• 24:38
  S5: giving up on that. But what do you want to
• 24:40
  S5: see us stick with here at Moody Radio? Not just
• 24:44
  S5: Carl and crew, but across the dial? And what would
• 24:48
  S5: you love to see more of? Or a new innovation?
• 24:52
  S5: Look at the freedom we're giving you. Give us a
• 24:54
  S5: call right now, 805 557898 805 557898. Now, I want
• 25:04
  S5: you to think about this. What are we hanging with?
• 25:07
  S5: What are we holding on to? What are we bringing
• 25:11
  S5: more of or a new innovation going forward? What is
• 25:15
  S5: it for you? 805 5578, 98 we're going to spin
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  S5: a song, and then we're going to get back here
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  S5: and go lightning round on this question. Get your call
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• 25:31
  S5: a programmer here at Moody Radio. How about that?
• 25:34
  S1: He's a sports fanatic with a stand for anything you
• 25:38
  S1: can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. It's
• 25:42
  S1: curl and crew on Moody radio.
• 25:45
  S5: Okay. Getting a lot of feedback here. You can give
• 25:47
  S5: us a call. 800 555. Better give the right number.
• 25:53
  S5: 805 557898 805 557898. Uh, we've got a vote for
• 26:02
  S5: more apologetics. Someone is saying Old Testament deep dives. I
• 26:07
  S5: love Old Testament deep dives.
• 26:08
  S3: Oh yeah.
• 26:09
  S5: Yeah for sure.
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  S3: That's that's true. Because I think sometimes when we're on
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  S3: our own, it can feel a little scary to get
• 26:16
  S3: into the Old Testament. It's like, I'm just gonna stick
• 26:18
  S3: over here in Galatians and Ephesians and Philippians because I
• 26:21
  S3: know those. Uh, but the Old Testament can be, can
• 26:24
  S3: be hard or scary sometimes. It doesn't have to be.
• 26:26
  S5: No man. It's, uh, everything was pointing in the Old
• 26:30
  S5: Testament to Jesus. Yeah. Everything was pointing to Jesus. Lucy
• 26:35
  S5: in Holland, Michigan. What's your idea going forward?
• 26:39
  S8: Well, they had the southern Gospel music on the Moody
• 26:43
  S8: Radio app for quite a while there. And then all
• 26:46
  S8: of a sudden it was gone. And I love all
• 26:50
  S8: kinds of music, but I especially like Southern Gospel because
• 26:53
  S8: that was the first Christian music that I was exposed to,
• 26:57
  S8: and I just want the messages that come out of it.
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  S5: I love it. Thanks for your feedback on that one.
• 27:02
  S5: Did one of you guys take that off the app?
• 27:04
  S3: Uh, it wasn't me. It wasn't me. Did you do it?
• 27:08
  S4: Oh, that was that button. No.
• 27:10
  S3: No it wasn't. But I accidentally.
• 27:12
  S4: It was not me.
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  S5: Hey, we will let. We will let folks know. We
• 27:16
  S5: will let folks know. Yeah, it's it's great. Um, getting
• 27:20
  S5: getting calls coming in here. Pearl in Oklahoma. What do
• 27:24
  S5: you say, Pearl.
• 27:25
  S9: Hey. Good morning. I love Freedom Fridays. And I love
• 27:29
  S9: hearing just the stories of how the Holy Spirit's working
• 27:34
  S9: in people's lives when they call in with testimonies. And
• 27:37
  S9: I was just thinking it would be neat if there
• 27:39
  S9: was a daily opportunity, maybe like a 15 minute chunk.
• 27:43
  S9: I don't know, that just came to mind. Yeah. Of
• 27:46
  S9: people sharing how the Spirit of God is working in
• 27:49
  S9: their lives.
• 27:50
  S5: That's a good note. I think I think one of
• 27:53
  S5: the things we could do here in the mornings is
• 27:56
  S5: just let everyone know constantly. The phone lines are open
• 27:59
  S5: because we have windows when we can pop people in
• 28:02
  S5: with stories.
• 28:03
  S3: Yeah. And we can just pop them in one little
• 28:05
  S3: thing here before we jump on to something like, I
• 28:06
  S3: love that. That's a great idea.
• 28:08
  S5: Clear right now, if you've got a story of how
• 28:10
  S5: God has rocked your world, changed your life, saved you,
• 28:14
  S5: is growing you. Call in any time.
• 28:17
  S3: Yes, you can do that right now. We can make that.
• 28:19
  S3: Make that change right this minute.
• 28:21
  S5: Make it happen. Oh, yeah. Uh, Paige in Indianapolis. Real quick. Paige,
• 28:27
  S5: what do you got? Hello, Paige.
• 28:33
  S10: Hey. How are you?
• 28:34
  S5: I'm doing great. Is there a delay in Indy?
• 28:39
  S10: Oh. No. We're fast. Speed over here.
• 28:43
  S5: Okay. What do you got? What's your idea?
• 28:46
  S10: Um, so I always, um, I listen, when you guys
• 28:50
  S10: first started Indianapolis and I became a Christian when someone
• 28:53
  S10: even gave me a soundtrack to Christian music. So I
• 28:58
  S10: would love to hear more about the Christian artists behind
• 29:00
  S10: the stage of how they even had their testimony, how
• 29:04
  S10: they started the music, and how they even got the songs.
• 29:06
  S10: Going out with the new artists would be great.
• 29:09
  S5: That's a really good idea. Now that doesn't have super
• 29:12
  S5: fired up.
• 29:13
  S3: No, it doesn't at all.
• 29:15
  S4: I'm gonna hang out with Paige for a while.
• 29:17
  S5: Hey, write. Write these down. These are good guys.
• 29:20
  S3: Can we tease something with that? Because.
• 29:23
  S5: Are you going to do it?
• 29:23
  S3: I'm gonna do it because we're we're already doing it.
• 29:26
  S3: And we're almost we're almost ready to to launch this.
• 29:30
  S5: Thing.
• 29:30
  S3: Out. Is that super Di has a new segment that's
• 29:33
  S3: going to be coming up in just a little bit
• 29:35
  S3: here that is all about that the, the stories behind
• 29:39
  S3: the songs with the artists. And it's going to be
• 29:42
  S3: really cool. So yes, that that will be coming in
• 29:45
  S3: just a few weeks here.
• 29:47
  S5: How about that? How about that? Paige? Is Paige still there?
• 29:51
  S3: She's still here.
• 29:52
  S5: She's still there.
• 29:52
  S10: I'm still here. I'm still here. I'm in awe of
• 29:54
  S10: you guys because you guys are so funny. I literally
• 29:56
  S10: passed your jokes on on Wednesday tonight.
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  S4: That are.
• 30:00
  S5: Yes, yes. Well, Paige. Guess what. Winner. Winner. Chicken. Dinner
• 30:07
  S5: at the blue. You're getting a Carl and Crew prize pack.
• 30:10
  S5: How about that?
• 30:12
  S10: Oh my gosh. Yeah. You guys already are a part
• 30:15
  S10: of a party pack with me every day, so.
• 30:18
  S3: Well, now you can have another.
• 30:19
  S5: One coming your way. Awesome. All right, love you guys. And, uh,
• 30:24
  S5: taking all those things and more into consideration. Pretty cool, huh?
• 30:29
  S3: It's awesome.
• 30:30
  S5: I love it.
• 30:30
  S4: Great ideas.
• 30:31
  S5: All right, young Thunder, give us a couple news hits, man.
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  S3: A deal to disarm the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has
• 30:41
  S3: been announced. President Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday that
• 30:44
  S3: the Board of Peace has reached an agreement that would
• 30:47
  S3: involve the complete disarmament of all armed groups in Gaza.
• 30:50
  S3: The agreement was negotiated over months of talks in Egypt,
• 30:54
  S3: with a 15 point proposal requiring all heavy and light
• 30:58
  S3: weapons held by Hamas and other armed factions to be
• 31:01
  S3: decommissioned over a period of 6 to 8 months. It
• 31:04
  S3: would also see Hamas members granted amnesty and allowed to
• 31:08
  S3: remain in Gaza. There is reportedly concern among some Israeli officials, though,
• 31:12
  S3: that Hamas is not seeking a genuine commitment to disarmament
• 31:15
  S3: with the deal, but rather a tactical reprieve from mounting military,
• 31:19
  S3: political and financial pressure. Spain is sending in military reinforcements
• 31:25
  S3: to respond to a surge of immigrants crossing into its territory. Yesterday,
• 31:30
  S3: hundreds of immigrants crossed the border of Morocco into Ceuta,
• 31:34
  S3: a tiny Spanish territory on the northern tip of Morocco.
• 31:38
  S3: One of Spain's two territories on the African continent, the
• 31:41
  S3: immigrants were reportedly attempting to flee into Europe after Spain
• 31:44
  S3: recently launched a program to provide legal status for some
• 31:47
  S3: 500,000 undocumented immigrants. Spanish authorities say about 2000 immigrants have
• 31:53
  S3: made their way over the border in the past few days,
• 31:55
  S3: and around 20 have died trying. I'm Jonathan, and that
• 32:00
  S3: is your quick update.
• 32:01
  S5: Okay, uh, got some cool news, but it's news you
• 32:05
  S5: need to know. We are almost halfway full on the
• 32:08
  S5: cruise to Alaska. Can you imagine that?
• 32:11
  S4: That's crazy.
• 32:12
  S5: We've got, like, what, nine months to go? What is it? Nine. Ten? No.
• 32:16
  S3: We we're still, like, just about ten. A little more
• 32:19
  S3: than ten months to go.
• 32:21
  S5: Oh, boy. Okay, so the reason I mentioned that is
• 32:25
  S5: I don't want to say summer is winding down. It isn't,
• 32:29
  S5: but it's getting close to winding down.
• 32:31
  S3: I did walk into target though, and see the back
• 32:32
  S3: to school signs.
• 32:33
  S5: Told you.
• 32:34
  S4: Oh, boy. See? They're everywhere.
• 32:36
  S3: Here.
• 32:36
  S5: Oh, no. The back to school signs are back.
• 32:39
  S3: It's nice to see those signs now. And no, they
• 32:41
  S3: don't affect me at all. I used to loathe seeing
• 32:44
  S3: those signs in stores.
• 32:46
  S4: Coming, though.
• 32:46
  S5: Because you knew the homework was right on the heels there, man.
• 32:49
  S3: I don't want to go back, but it's coming.
• 32:52
  S5: I like certain aspects of it. One of the things
• 32:54
  S5: that I loved as a kid growing up is when
• 32:56
  S5: it was back to school time, was getting school supplies
• 32:58
  S5: and seeing the supply list that you had to get
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  S5: for school. I loved that.
• 33:01
  S3: Did you?
• 33:02
  S5: Yeah. I didn't use them, but I loved him. Loved
• 33:05
  S5: getting them.
• 33:06
  S3: I hated it because it meant another shopping trip and
• 33:09
  S3: I hated going to the store.
• 33:10
  S5: I loved it. Did you loved it? Oh, going up
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  S5: and down the aisles. Oh, mom, I need a ruler.
• 33:14
  S5: We got one at home. But this is a nice one.
• 33:17
  S5: Look at this one. This is plastic. That thing at
• 33:20
  S5: home would.
• 33:20
  S3: That's awesome. My mom used to take me shopping before
• 33:23
  S3: school for, like, a a first day of school outfit.
• 33:26
  S3: That was like a thing. I don't know if they
• 33:27
  S3: still do that.
• 33:28
  S5: Oh, are you kidding me?
• 33:30
  S3: Oh, please. Yeah. So right now it was cold. It
• 33:33
  S3: was cold. And my mom, she'd be like, okay, go
• 33:35
  S3: pick something out. And I like five seconds into the store,
• 33:38
  S3: I'd be like, this looks great. And she goes, are
• 33:40
  S3: you sure you don't want to like, try some things on?
• 33:42
  S3: And I go, nope, this is fine, I want this.
• 33:44
  S3: And she was like, you wanted to get out of
• 33:46
  S3: that store as fast as you possibly could, even for
• 33:49
  S3: stuff that was for you. I was like, just get
• 33:51
  S3: me out of here. Give me the clothes. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:53
  S5: That's good. That'll serve you well. Yeah, yeah. More clothes.
• 33:56
  S5: Budget for your bride.
• 33:58
  S3: That's right. Not for. I don't care. I still got
• 34:00
  S3: shirts from high school in my. In my drawer, I'm sure.
• 34:02
  S4: But now you got a little girl and another one
• 34:04
  S4: on the way.
• 34:04
  S3: A lot of.
• 34:05
  S4: Shopping. Good luck. A lot of shopping.
• 34:08
  S5: Good thing you're not a clothes horse, big dog.
• 34:10
  S3: That's exactly right.
• 34:11
  S1: You're listening to Karl and crew on Moody Radio.
• 34:15
  S5: What does it profit you to gain the whole world
• 34:19
  S5: and lose your soul? And there's a lot of things
• 34:23
  S5: that we try to gain in this world. We try
• 34:25
  S5: to gain security from this world. We try to get
• 34:28
  S5: some kind of satisfaction and maybe some kind of status.
• 34:34
  S5: But it is a powerful moment when you say to yourself, self,
• 34:39
  S5: this ain't working. This is not working. And I know
• 34:43
  S5: that you may have come here today looking for something more.
• 34:46
  S5: And I've got some good news on this Freedom Friday.
• 34:49
  S5: His name is Jesus. And Jesus love transcends all earthly security,
• 34:58
  S5: all earthly satisfaction and all earthly status. And that's not
• 35:04
  S5: a pipe dream. And the interesting thing about how God
• 35:09
  S5: saves souls is that he will allow us, in his mercy,
• 35:14
  S5: to just get exhausted, just get exhausted, spiritually fatigued. Our soul,
• 35:22
  S5: our heart, our mind feels parched, empty and cluttered. And
• 35:32
  S5: God wants to free you today, my friend. I know
• 35:36
  S5: what it is to be on that treadmill, trying to
• 35:40
  S5: squeeze something out of this world thinking that you know Jesus,
• 35:46
  S5: but not knowing Jesus personally. And it can be a
• 35:50
  S5: crazy maker because you think, well, I've got all Jesus
• 35:53
  S5: has to offer. What if you don't? What if you
• 35:57
  S5: don't have what Jesus has to offer? What if what
• 36:00
  S5: you have is mere Western belief in Jesus, which even
• 36:06
  S5: the demons possess, and they tremble? Think about that. What
• 36:11
  S5: does it profit you to gain the whole world and
• 36:15
  S5: lose your soul? And see, the resounding answer to that
• 36:18
  S5: is nothing. And God may have caught you at a
• 36:23
  S5: moment today. And providentially, he knew that you would be
• 36:27
  S5: here where you are at the end of yourself. Praise God.
• 36:32
  S5: And on this Freedom Friday, I want you to know
• 36:34
  S5: there is life in Jesus Christ. Can I remind you
• 36:38
  S5: what he said? Come to me, all who are weary
• 36:43
  S5: and weighed down, and I'm going to give you rest.
• 36:47
  S5: For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
• 36:53
  S5: If you've been under the yoke of this world. And
• 36:57
  S5: what I mean by that is we're all yoked up
• 37:00
  S5: with someone or something, but we've been you've been trying
• 37:05
  S5: to squeeze satisfaction, security or status out of this world.
• 37:11
  S5: It's a powerful thing to come to the realization this
• 37:17
  S5: isn't working. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs
• 37:24
  S5: is the kingdom of heaven. See the beautiful thing about
• 37:27
  S5: what Jesus said in that sermon on the Mount was
• 37:30
  S5: just this, that when we come to the realization, man,
• 37:34
  S5: I am spiritually bankrupt and no amount of squeezing, security, satisfaction,
• 37:42
  S5: or status out of this world is going to help me. Wow.
• 37:45
  S5: That's powerful. It's a sobering thing because you enter into
• 37:51
  S5: a portal where God is having an honest conversation with
• 37:55
  S5: your soul and with your mind and with your heart.
• 37:59
  S5: And by the power of the Holy Spirit, there can
• 38:02
  S5: be this metamorphosis where your mind is changed, your heart
• 38:08
  S5: is softened. He becomes the potter. You are the clay,
• 38:15
  S5: and he begins to shape your life in his hands.
• 38:19
  S5: And I'm inviting you into the hands of Jesus today.
• 38:26
  S5: How do you do that? How do we move from
• 38:29
  S5: being a slave to everything that we're trying to find
• 38:32
  S5: in this world, security, satisfaction, and status and move into
• 38:36
  S5: the arms of God? There's one thing that keeps us
• 38:40
  S5: from it our sin. We're separated from God. Sin is
• 38:46
  S5: missing the mark over and over again. Meaning we can't
• 38:50
  S5: attain to the righteousness of Christ. But God so loved
• 38:55
  S5: the world that he sent His Son. Whoever believes in him,
• 38:59
  S5: meaning full faith and trust in God. You won't die.
• 39:05
  S5: You'll have everlasting life. And here's the coolest thing. The
• 39:09
  S5: reason I can say this with great joy in my
• 39:12
  S5: heart is John 317 says, Jesus didn't come to condemn you.
• 39:19
  S5: He came to save you from you. And if the
• 39:26
  S5: Spirit of God is cutting through into the innermost part
• 39:29
  S5: of you this morning, praise God, he's he's showing you
• 39:34
  S5: in a in a quiet moment. You're seeing yourself for
• 39:40
  S5: what you really are. And he's showing you something more.
• 39:43
  S5: His arms are outstretched, saying, come to me. How. If
• 39:53
  S5: you admit to God that you are in fact a
• 39:56
  S5: sinner and you are the problem and you need a
• 40:02
  S5: Savior because he is the answer for your problem, you
• 40:07
  S5: will enter into a relationship with Jesus. I can't force
• 40:12
  S5: you to come to grips with the fact that you're
• 40:14
  S5: a sinner. All I can do is invite you to
• 40:17
  S5: let the spirit of the living God search you deeply
• 40:20
  S5: and say you're missing the mark. You're trying to profit
• 40:27
  S5: from the world. You're exhausted. Come to me. Bring your
• 40:35
  S5: sin to me. Lay it down at the foot of
• 40:37
  S5: the cross. I died for you. Jesus shed his blood
• 40:42
  S5: on the cross for you. He was put into a grave,
• 40:47
  S5: but the grave couldn't hold him. And he's alive today.
• 40:53
  S5: No more hoop jumping. No more scrambling for security. No
• 40:59
  S5: more looking for satisfaction in what this world has to offer.
• 41:03
  S5: It's too broken. No more need for status. Can you
• 41:08
  S5: imagine being freed from those things? Can you imagine that? Well,
• 41:13
  S5: Jesus has it for you. And I want you to. Today,
• 41:20
  S5: for the first time in your life, confess with your
• 41:22
  S5: mouth Jesus is Lord. It's no longer a man that
• 41:26
  S5: I look to with good teaching. It's a man that
• 41:29
  S5: I look to now fully God, fully man, and say,
• 41:34
  S5: you are my highest authority. And because of your acknowledgment
• 41:40
  S5: that you're a sinner and you're turning around from a
• 41:43
  S5: broad path that leads to destruction, That path you've been
• 41:47
  S5: walking to see if I can profit something from it.
• 41:53
  S5: And God, by his grace, turns you around and you repent.
• 41:56
  S5: You change your mind. You change your heart, you change
• 41:59
  S5: your attitude, and you change your direction. And you say, finally,
• 42:04
  S5: once and for all, I give all I am to Jesus.
• 42:06
  S5: Today I want to say, welcome to the family of
• 42:08
  S5: God and all over the world right now people are
• 42:12
  S5: hearing this and this is your moment. This is your
• 42:16
  S5: Freedom Friday. This is a day that God knew when
• 42:20
  S5: you were in your mama's womb, you would come. To
• 42:23
  S5: this day, God is providential. He brought you here for
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  S5: a purpose and he's sovereign. He's the ruler of all things.
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  S5: And today he's ruling your heart. And if this is you.
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  S5: revealed it to you, that you were dead, and now
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  S1: He was running from God, but God's love brought him home.
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  S5: So we're talking about the goodness of God. This has
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  S5: been quite a week, Ali.
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  S2: It really has. It's. I love the layers that we've
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  S2: been able to feature. This has not been a one
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  S2: dimensional conversation.
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  S5: Doctor Bradley Bahrain is with us right now. He is
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  S5: professor and program head of Tesol, which is teaching English
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  S5: to speakers of other languages here at Moody Bible Institute.
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  S5: He's got degrees from different universities, including Moody, and he's
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  S5: armed for bear and ready to rumble here. And we
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  S5: got a bear out there, Doctor Bradley. And the bear
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  S5: is life doesn't always go well. Sometimes it goes very poorly. Right,
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  S5: my friend?
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  S11: Yes it does.
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  S5: And yet God is still good. How does that work?
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  S11: Well, it means that we're finite and we can't always
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  S11: see right when we're running from the bear. We can't
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  S11: always see the landscape around us or God's purposes in it.
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  S11: And that may sound like a cop out, but part
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  S11: of what we mean when we talk about God's goodness
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  S11: is trusting it absolutely all the time.
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  S2: All in Doctor Bradley Baron, our guest. You know, people
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  S2: like to talk about God being good all the time
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  S2: and God's goodness being seen in everything. How should that
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  S2: affect how we live? I think of Chuck Colson's famous book,
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  S2: How Now Shall We live in light of what we
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  S2: know to be true about God? What do we do
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  S2: with that?
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  S11: We follow his example. God's goodness is not only for
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  S11: us to receive, it's for us to give out to
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  S11: others as well. In the same way that the gospel
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  S11: is not only redemption for us. We get to proclaim
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  S11: that redemption to others. Um, it's a, it's a form
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  S11: of the golden rule. It's, there's a vertical and horizontal dimension,
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  S11: I think, to every moral command. Everything we learn about
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  S11: God has ways for us to obey it in our
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  S11: own life. And if we're commanded to do something in
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  S11: our own life, we can be sure that God is
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  S11: already doing it perfectly. And it's not just an example
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  S11: for us to follow. He's going to empower us and
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  S11: enable us to do Exactly what he does. But from
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  S11: our point of view, if we want to think of
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  S11: it as following his example and doing what he does,
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  S11: that's what it means to follow Christ.
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  S5: Yeah. I want to get into that golden rule in
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  S5: a moment here, but I notice and I've I've learned
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  S5: that you taught sometime in China and in Vietnam. My
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  S5: conviction is having traveled a good bit and lived in
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  S5: South Africa for a year of my life with my
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  S5: bride and two children. There's a lot to be learned
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  S5: about the character of God. Your theology can really get
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  S5: squared away when you get out of your bubble. What
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  S5: did you learn in China and Vietnam about the sovereignty
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  S5: and goodness of God? Anything at all there?
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  S11: Oh my goodness, what a small question. No, I'm just kidding.
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  S11: It's a huge question. It's an overwhelming, overwhelming question. Um, well,
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  S11: we mostly lived in Vietnam. So that's, that's, uh, so
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  S11: what we learned, my wife and I and our first
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  S11: two children who were born over there, we learned The.
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  S11: God takes care of us. God provides. We may be
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  S11: in an unexpected situation. We might not have enough support.
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  S11: We may need prayer on a particular issue. Someone may
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  S11: have an apologetics question that we don't necessarily know the
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  S11: answer to right away, or we may want more opportunities
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  S11: to share the gospel, whatever we want, whatever we need,
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  S11: God provides. And he provides it at the right time,
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  S11: in the right way. And you know, I'm here to
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  S11: tell the story.
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  S2: You know, when we think about the golden Rule, our
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  S2: natural reaction is to want to do unto others as
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  S2: they've done unto us. I mean, I think many people
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  S2: would like to rewrite it because that's what feels easy.
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  S2: You're good to me. I'll be good to you back.
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  S2: But if you cross me, well, then look out. And
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  S2: that's how many people live. And it's hard to fight
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  S2: that impulse, Because how in the world do we do
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  S2: good to people who are rude to us, who more
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  S2: than just offend, maybe, who betray, who even harm us?
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  S2: Speak to that a little bit.
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  S11: Yes, that's a great that is a great question. And
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  S11: I feel like the sermon on the Mount is Jesus
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  S11: answer to that question, because the law was eye for
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  S11: an eye, tooth for a tooth. Yeah. And just as
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  S11: you described, how much joy is there in getting somebody's back,
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  S11: you know, um, because it feels like justice. Um, but
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  S11: Jesus raised the bar, you know, if somebody's hurt you,
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  S11: what are we supposed to do? For some reason, I
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  S11: don't understand it in my humanness. Turn the other cheek,
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  S11: go the extra mile, you know? And while loving your
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  S11: neighbor is a good thing. Jesus upped the bar and said,
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  S11: love your enemies. Um, as he did for us. He
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  S11: loved us when we were still enemies. Um, I think
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  S11: that kind of love, that kind of goodness is going
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  S11: to get the world's attention, is going to be something
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  S11: that brings glory to God and His plan of redemption.
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  S5: Yeah. You just answered my next question. Uh, but let's
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  S5: go down after this a little bit. Uh, my question is,
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  S5: and I think you just answered it for every one
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  S5: of God's precepts. I have a firm conviction for every teaching,
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  S5: for every command, every law. It is inextricably linked to
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  S5: the greater from God. Whatever that greater is. So your
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  S5: contention is the Golden Rule as we know it from
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  S5: the sermon on the Mount. The greater good is we
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  S5: will let our light so shine before men, that they
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  S5: will see our deeds and glorify our father who is
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  S5: in heaven. Is that fair?
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  S11: I would say yes, absolutely. The moral principles are not abstractions.
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  S11: They are all rooted in the character of God.
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  S5: So what we keep coming back to time and again
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  S5: this week, doc, is that it's rooted in the character
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  S5: of God. It seems that we can't be grabbing a
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  S5: verse here, grabbing a verse there. Listen to another inspirational
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  S5: message here without having the broader context of the character
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  S5: of God. Uh, to what degree do you think we
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  S5: have underestimated our need to understand good theology, the character
• 51:56
  S5: of God? How does how does that work in our
• 51:59
  S5: discipleship of his Son Jesus?
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  S11: I don't know if we've underestimated it. Um, it is
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  S11: hard in practice. Like, as you say, in practice, we
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  S11: grab a verse here, we grab a verse there. Um,
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  S11: but that's not necessarily bad. We need something manageable. But
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  S11: then we do need to step back. And every follower
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  S11: of Christ should be hotly pursuing, passionately pursuing the knowledge
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  S11: of God, the presence of God. You know one thing
• 52:30
  S11: have I desired one thing, that I could dwell in
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  S11: your temple. Right. And, you know, instead of a shopping
• 52:38
  S11: list of things that we usually have for God that
• 52:40
  S11: I usually have for God, you know, if we're going
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  S11: to reduce it to one thing that includes everything, that
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  S11: is God's character, learning about it, soaking ourselves in it,
• 52:53
  S11: drawing nearer to him, and that is following Christ. Absolutely.
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  S2: Doctor Bradley, Bahrain. I think we mentioned today in the word.
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  S2: He's written the devotional this month, the July 25th one.
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  S2: I want you to pay close attention to that, even
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  S5: February 21st, 2018. I got chills right now. Uh. Heaven
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  S5: welcomed a giant. The presence of God welcomed a giant
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  S5: Billy Graham. What an amazing man of God. And we've
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  S5: got his daughter here right now, Ruth and Anne. Graham
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  S5: Lotz is with us right now. And, oh, we're going
• 53:50
  S5: to tell a story about the impact of your dad's
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  S5: passing on Moody Radio on our morning show that I
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  S5: think is going to really encourage you, but you got
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  S5: to talk about the goodness of God to give you
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  S5: a daddy like Billy.
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  S12: You know, it's very humbling. And I think it was
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  S12: Psalm 16 that says, my lines have fallen pleasant places. Lo,
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  S12: I have a goodly heritage. And you're exactly right. God
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  S12: gave me that. It wasn't anything I had anything to
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  S12: do with. You know, I.
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  S5: Just he.
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  S12: Just placed me in that family. And, and I'm very,
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  S12: very grateful. And one of the things I'm most grateful for, Carl,
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  S12: is my father's faithfulness to the gospel all of his life,
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  S12: until the day he went home. And I know I've
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  S12: heard my mother and father both just appreciate Moody so
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  S12: much for the fact that Moody Bible Institute and Moody
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  S12: Radio have been faithful to God's Word over the years.
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  S12: You know, sometimes, you know, an institution tends to sort
• 54:45
  S12: of drift away and they drift left. And Moody has
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  S12: stayed true. So I applaud you all for 100 years
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  S12: of faithfulness to the Word of God and proclaiming it
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  S12: to people all across the world.
• 54:57
  S2: Yeah, it's been it's been an incredible week. And it
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  S2: was celebrating all week long this 100 year anniversary and
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  S2: culminated on Tuesday with a big full day birthday celebration.
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  S2: But we want to take you back. Carl, I'm going
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  S2: to let you explain that moment of February of what,
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  S2: 2018 when there was a real shift. It was a
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  S2: defining moment. We call it our defining moment of the
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  S2: morning show.
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  S5: Yeah. And when we say defining moment, we mean this.
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  S5: And your dad's passing charted a course for us that
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  S5: has resulted in. Jonathan, you want to venture a guess
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  S5: how many people have been impacted since that day?
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  S3: Uh, it's it's probably close to about 3000 who have
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  S3: made commitments to Jesus Christ, either for the very first
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  S3: time in their life or recognizing I thought I had
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  S3: a relationship with Jesus and I didn't, and I want to.
• 55:51
  S5: Now, that's been many. So February 1st I brought in
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  S5: Doctor Erwin Lutzer. The next day, and he gave the gospel.
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  S5: And we decided, no, let's not just give the gospel.
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  S5: Let's give an active call to respond. And then we
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  S5: are going to start caring for these people who respond.
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  S5: That day alone, 400 people responded to the gospel and
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  S5: it's never stopped. We've seen thousands of souls saved here.
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  S5: And one of the things we're committed to in is
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  S5: being clear with the gospel. One thing I love about
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  S5: your dad's ministry, not only was he clear about the
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  S5: nature of man that were sinners, that were born with
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  S5: our backs to God, but the call to repentance, and
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  S5: then his commitment to clarity. Because every one of those
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  S5: who came forward at a Billy Graham crusade was followed
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  S5: up with, this wasn't just walk an aisle and then
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  S5: see you later, boy. He was committed to really making disciples,
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  S5: wasn't he?
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  S12: And he was. And they had a plan in place.
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  S12: They put people in churches and had Bible studies that
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  S12: they would plunge them into their little following Christ. A
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  S12: little packet that they gave them when they came down
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  S12: just helped them get into God's Word that they would
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  S12: understand the commitment they made. Because like you said, it's
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  S12: not just a one off, you know, you don't just
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  S12: sign a card, you just don't walk forward and think,
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  S12: that's it. That's the first step. And then you have
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  S12: to grow in your relationship with God, and he did that.
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  S12: It was the head of the navigators that helped him
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  S12: design that course and, and, and it was very effective,
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  S12: I think. I've traveled all over the world, and I
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  S12: meet so many people who've put their faith in Jesus
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  S12: and who've, you know, just not only put their faith
• 57:33
  S12: in Jesus, but then grown in their faith to the
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  S12: point that then they're, they're sharing their faith with others.
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  S5: Yeah. It's amazing. What do you believe is the unseen
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  S5: part of your daddy's legacy?
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  S12: He's been examined so closely. I'm not sure there is
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  S12: an unseen part of my father's legacy, unless it's just
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  S12: the Holy Spirit himself. You know, it's the Holy Spirit
• 57:54
  S12: that moves in people's hearts. Just when you say there
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  S12: are 3000 people who've responded, that's evidence of the Holy
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  S12: Spirit moving. And I do believe, Carl, that we're in
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  S12: a harvest time right now. You know, it's amazing that
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  S12: you see that on college campuses. You see it across
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  S12: the globe. People are responding to the gospel. And I
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  S12: think as the world situation melts down and we're in
• 58:16
  S12: such a very critically strategic, dangerous time in the world.
• 58:22
  S12: People get concerned, they get afraid, and they start looking up,
• 58:25
  S12: and God uses that to draw them to himself. And
• 58:29
  S12: it's up to people like you and Allie and myself
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  S12: and others to proclaim the gospel clearly. So. So they
• 58:35
  S12: know where to find the answer, where to find peace
• 58:37
  S12: in their hearts and hope for the future.
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  S2: You already started to touch on it, but I'm going
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  S2: to ask you to go a little further in light
• 58:43
  S2: of the days that we are living in. We're living
• 58:45
  S2: in a harvest time. A lot of times we talk
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  S2: about that people are far more ready to hear sometimes
• 58:51
  S2: than we are to share. Prepared to share. How do
• 58:54
  S2: we live in this moment as believers? For every person,
• 58:57
  S2: whether you have a platform or not? How do we
• 59:00
  S2: live faithfully in these times and speak to our listener?
• 59:04
  S12: Well, you know, I think first of all, you need
• 59:05
  S12: to make sure that you're maintaining your personal walk with
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  S12: the Lord. So, so this morning, I've already been up early.
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  S12: I've had my prayer time and Bible reading. And one
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  S12: of the things I asked the Lord was to give
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  S12: me opportunities. Today I have a doctor's appointment. I have
• 59:18
  S12: some media things to do and just asking me to
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  S12: be aware of the people around me so that he
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  S12: would give me those divine appointments. And sometimes it's just
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  S12: a nurse in the doctor's office who needs prayer. I
• 59:30
  S12: had a nurse this last time. She was facing a
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  S12: cancer diagnosis, and I just put her arms around her
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  S12: and prayed for her. Sometimes it's if you go out
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  S12: for a meal and when the server comes, you just
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  S12: ask how you can pray for them. As you pray
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  S12: your blessing over your meal, is there something you can
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  S12: pray for them? I've had so many servers stay there,
• 59:48
  S12: put their hands out and let me hold their hands
• 59:50
  S12: while I prayed over them before we prayed for the meal.
• 59:53
  S12: So just little things like that, asking God to make
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  S12: you aware of the people around you. And then you
• 1:00:00
  S12: don't have to have a, you know, we don't have
• 1:00:02
  S12: to be trained or, but just what's in your heart
• 1:00:04
  S12: should come out in your mouth. You know, if you
• 1:00:06
  S12: love Jesus, if he's been good to you, if he's
• 1:00:08
  S12: answered your prayers, then just share with other people what
• 1:00:11
  S12: he's meant to you.
• 1:00:12
  S5: Anne Graham Lotz is with us right now, Billy Graham's daughter.
• 1:00:15
  S5: And and I, I'm curious about this because I had
• 1:00:19
  S5: a daddy that was incredibly rich in faith. And one
• 1:00:21
  S5: of the things that he would constantly do is he'd say, oh, oh, Carl,
• 1:00:26
  S5: the grace of God is so good. And matter of fact,
• 1:00:29
  S5: I was I was far from God. When my dad
• 1:00:31
  S5: went to a Billy Graham training session in George Beverly
• 1:00:36
  S5: Shea was there. And, uh, I wasn't walking with Jesus
• 1:00:39
  S5: young 20s, very reckless, living in Alaska, far from God.
• 1:00:43
  S5: And I saw tears just streaming down my dad's face.
• 1:00:46
  S5: There were things about my dad that I only saw
• 1:00:48
  S5: in private. What was your daddy like when he came
• 1:00:50
  S5: back from these crusades? What was going on? Give us
• 1:00:53
  S5: a peek inside the man behind the scenes.
• 1:00:57
  S12: You know, the man behind the scenes was the same
• 1:00:59
  S12: as the man in public. Actually, Carl, you know, there
• 1:01:02
  S12: weren't two of them. And, um. But he loved to relax.
• 1:01:05
  S12: He loved his comfortable jeans and his old sweaters and
• 1:01:10
  S12: soft shoes. He loved to walk up on the mountain.
• 1:01:13
  S12: He was very faithful, even as long as he could
• 1:01:16
  S12: be upright. You know, he walked on the mountain and
• 1:01:19
  S12: just exercised himself. He loved to sit in the chair
• 1:01:22
  S12: in the kitchen and talk to the people who would
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  S12: come in to help with, whether it was with the
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  S12: yard or with mother in the house or, you know,
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  S12: he spent time on the phone and and he spent
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  S12: time in his study, you know, preparing his messages. And
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  S12: he was just he was at ease. He wasn't uptight.
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  S12: I don't remember him coming home frustrated or uptight or
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  S12: snapping at anybody or never. When he came, he was
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  S12: he was thrilled to see my mother. It was really
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  S12: sweet when when he walked into the room, she lit
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  S12: up and he lit up. And, you know, they had
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  S12: a really, uh, precious love relationship. And he was good
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  S12: with us. And so he loved his dogs. He always
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  S12: had a dog that he had either. As he got older,
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  S12: the dog stayed in the room with him when he
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  S12: was younger. Mother wouldn't allow that, you know, she made
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  S12: the dog stay outside. But he loved the mountain with
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  S12: the dogs and he loved to feed them, so he
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  S12: would take something from his plate. Goodness. I remember when
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  S12: he had ribs and he would hand a rib to
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  S12: one of the dogs and or if he had bacon
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  S12: in the morning, he would have people fix extra bacon
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  S12: so he could feed the dog.
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  S13: Get some extra bacon.
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  S12: Yeah. So, so he was, he was an animal person. He,
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  S12: you know, and he just, he just relaxed. So I
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  S12: had to have been a gift that God gave him,
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  S12: that he could do the things he did and then
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  S12: immediately come back and relax and shift gears.
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