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- 0:00S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
- 0:06S1: and crew.
- 0:07S2: Come as you are an experienced guide, overcome what seems
- 0:11S2: impossible and live as you never imagined.
- 0:15S1: Delivering the truth daily.
- 0:17S3: If it were possible to have every worldly gain available.
- 0:21S3: And you're forfeiting your soul. There's no amount of gain
- 0:25S3: that would make it worth it.
- 0:26S4: Our own way never ever works. Because it's apart from
- 0:29S4: the life source, which is God.
- 0:32S5: For me, growing up, love was always conditional and can
- 0:36S5: be taken from you. Christ's love can't. And he went
- 0:39S5: to the cross with my mind and my heart that night.
- 0:44S1: Now from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl
- 0:48S1: and Crew.
- 0:49S2: Well, I hope you're feeling good coming off the big weekend.
- 0:52S2: Boom crew.
- 0:54S4: That's a weekend that goes fast. 4th of July weekend.
- 0:58S2: Yeah, it went fast for me. Well.
- 1:00S5: And welcome back.
- 1:01S2: I had a little bit longer than a weekend. A
- 1:04S2: little bit. It was a good week so far. It
- 1:08S2: was so good. Man came back refreshed as can be.
- 1:10S4: Oh that's good.
- 1:11S5: I'm glad.
- 1:12S2: Feeling ready. Ready to go here. It's, uh. It's interesting man.
- 1:17S2: I gotta say this. Look, for all of our imperfections.
- 1:20S2: We got plenty. And we got plenty of things to
- 1:22S2: repent of. And we need another great awakening in our nation.
- 1:25S2: But this. Come on. A republic where officials are elected
- 1:33S2: to have 250 years of continuity and growth. More evidence
- 1:39S2: over the week. This last week I was gone that
- 1:41S2: my goodness, greatest country going period. Full stop. I mean, yeah,
- 1:47S2: we got a lot of imperfections, but my goodness, I.
- 1:51S2: The proof is in the pudding for me. One of
- 1:54S2: the coolest restaurants I've ever been to in my life.
- 1:57S2: I went to on vacation and it's called The Loft
- 2:02S2: and it's in Door County. Uh, up in Michigan. Wisconsin.
- 2:07S2: Excuse me. Who? People in Wisconsin.
- 2:09S4: Oh.
- 2:10S2: They were like, what do you mean? Um, and it
- 2:14S2: was just an epic place. But then to see the
- 2:17S2: story of this couple behind this thing, I'm going to
- 2:20S2: get into that a little bit later on this morning,
- 2:23S2: the full story on it. But it's one of those
- 2:26S2: stories where you walk away going, oh my goodness, people
- 2:31S2: can you can come to this country, roll up your sleeves,
- 2:36S2: get to work. And it's flat out amazing what you
- 2:40S2: can do if you got the gumption. It's amazing.
- 2:44S4: It is. It's it is difficult. Yet everyone has an
- 2:51S4: opportunity and I. That's not something you can say about
- 2:55S4: every country. There are certain countries where depending on where
- 2:59S4: you grew up, the, you know, the system that you
- 3:02S4: were in, the family that you were born into, you're
- 3:04S4: limited from certain things. You know, you think about the
- 3:08S4: caste system in India. It doesn't matter how hard you work.
- 3:11S4: The caste you're born into is the caste you stay
- 3:14S4: in for the rest of your life. And that's just
- 3:17S4: how it is. Yeah.
- 3:18S2: Yeah, it's so true, man. I mean, the, the amazing
- 3:21S2: thing about the American dream, which by the way, I've
- 3:25S2: shared a lot around here, has its own failings, especially
- 3:28S2: when you try to leverage the same mechanisms to grow
- 3:31S2: up in your relationship with God.
- 3:33S4: 100%.
- 3:33S2: But the American dream, it's why people flock here.
- 3:38S4: Yeah.
- 3:38S2: They're flocking. They aren't flocking to Iran. They aren't flocking
- 3:44S2: to Afghanistan. They're flocking to Russia. No. And they're no
- 3:48S2: longer flocking to Europe. No, they're flocking here.
- 3:51S4: I mean, we, I, I yesterday our friend at church,
- 3:55S4: Carl Legit. He shared with us. He shared with the
- 3:58S4: whole the whole congregation, uh, before he preached his sermon that,
- 4:02S4: you know, he grew up in India. And he said,
- 4:04S4: when I was growing up, all of my friends, he said,
- 4:06S4: had a dream of moving to America. Every single person
- 4:09S4: I knew their dream was to come to America. He said,
- 4:13S4: he said, I didn't have that dream because I didn't
- 4:15S4: think it was ever possible for me to get here.
- 4:17S2: And he's the one that's.
- 4:18S4: Here and he's the one that's here. And, and so it's,
- 4:21S4: it's a reality. I think when we live here, we
- 4:23S4: don't recognize just how good we have it. But there
- 4:28S4: are so many other countries where every kid's dream is
- 4:31S4: to just be here, just, just to live here, not
- 4:35S4: necessarily to do something here, but to live here.
- 4:38S2: Yeah, yeah.
- 4:39S4: It's it's a good thing.
- 4:40S2: It's an extraordinary thing. I mean, do we have problems?
- 4:44S2: Of course. I mean, is this. Do we live on earth? Shoot. No.
- 4:48S2: Absolutely not. You kidding me? But is it a great
- 4:51S2: place to plant your flag. Get with the program. Yeah. Uh,
- 4:57S2: by the way, speaking of the whole world loving to
- 5:01S2: get here or slash hating us, we got more reasons
- 5:06S2: to be hated. Tonight at 7 p.m.. Have you noticed
- 5:10S2: the news? What's this kid's name that got reinstated?
- 5:13S4: Uh, balagan.
- 5:14S2: You know what's funny? People went from not knowing anything
- 5:17S2: about soccer or little bit about soccer to having a
- 5:21S2: strong opinion on Balagan red card. And. Yeah, and now
- 5:26S2: he's been reinstated, and it looks like our administration might
- 5:29S2: have gotten the mix of it. And oh, I mean,
- 5:31S2: they're all ticked off. The Belgium head coach is like,
- 5:34S2: this is not good. And and he's.
- 5:37S4: One of our best players.
- 5:38S2: Boy. But it was a bogus red card. I don't
- 5:41S2: know anything about soccer, but I saw it.
- 5:43S4: That's the that seems to be the sentiment is that
- 5:46S4: it was highly controversial.
- 5:47S2: Yeah. He didn't intend it or something like that. And
- 5:50S2: I even got into the rules of what a red card.
- 5:53S2: What constitutes a red card? Yeah. Yeah, I did. I
- 5:56S2: got the rules.
- 5:57S5: Hilarious.
- 5:58S2: You read the rules on what constitutes a red card.
- 6:00S2: And that was. That was definitely not a red card.
- 6:04S2: That was a yellow card. Yes. But, boy, that thing
- 6:07S2: got reversed. Or it got delayed or something.
- 6:09S4: It got. Yeah, it said it got suspended for a year,
- 6:12S4: which I don't even know what that means. Like, well.
- 6:14S5: He's on probation.
- 6:16S4: Okay.
- 6:17S5: So if he should get another red card or something.
- 6:19S4: Within a.
- 6:19S5: Year, within a year or certain violation within a year.
- 6:22S2: And I heard he had to do it, serve it
- 6:24S2: within a year, but just not on World Cup stage
- 6:27S2: or whatever it is, whatever it is. We've got him
- 6:30S2: tonight at 7 p.m..
- 6:32S5: One game at a time. Okay.
- 6:34S2: And now? Now. Oh.
- 6:37S4: Another question.
- 6:38S2: What's the dude's name? Alexa. Alexa. What's his name? Somebody
- 6:43S2: help me.
- 6:43S4: Here. Oh! Oh, the old soccer player who.
- 6:46S2: Played the old soccer player. Yeah. No, no. Not Pelé.
- 6:51S4: Well. Oh, Alexi. Lalas.
- 6:53S2: Lalas. Yeah. Lawless. Okay. I didn't want to say that
- 6:55S2: because I thought he might be a law biter. And
- 6:58S2: if I got it wrong, I might get it wrong.
- 6:59S2: He's lost. So Alexi Lalas, he's like, yeah, now we've succeeded.
- 7:03S2: We're going to have the whole world ticked off at us.
- 7:07S4: Well, the question is. So I genuinely don't know that
- 7:09S4: much about soccer. Is this a normal thing that happens
- 7:12S4: or is this happening because it's we're like a host. No,
- 7:16S4: I don't.
- 7:16S2: Think they're picking on us. I think the I think
- 7:20S2: the VAR, which is video replay, he stuck his nose
- 7:23S2: in that screen. And I think what he saw, I mean,
- 7:27S2: what he saw in slow motion was pretty bad. I
- 7:31S2: mean his right cleat went down.
- 7:34S4: On his.
- 7:35S5: Achilles. And I mean that's not good.
- 7:37S2: Laid the ankle over. Now the guy went on and played.
- 7:41S2: But I believe the rule involves malicious intent or some
- 7:44S2: level of intent where you can.
- 7:46S4: Kind of prove.
- 7:46S2: It. He wasn't even looking at him. He was just
- 7:49S2: he was just putting his foot down.
- 7:50S4: Just moving. Yeah.
- 7:51S2: Just putting his foot down. But we got him reinstated.
- 7:55S2: Hasn't happened in 60 years. So guess what?
- 8:00S5: There you go.
- 8:01S2: People, either they want to get to this country, but
- 8:05S2: if they can't get here, by golly, by gum, we're
- 8:08S2: going to cheer against you. Now, we got more reasons
- 8:10S2: to in the World Cup.
- 8:11S4: You know, I told my dad this weekend, I said,
- 8:13S4: I think it'd kind of be just for for comedy's sake.
- 8:17S4: I think it kind of be funny to have the
- 8:19S4: US win the World Cup just because, oh, the one
- 8:22S4: country that's in here where most of the population doesn't
- 8:25S4: really care about it all that much, wins the entire
- 8:28S4: thing against all these countries where it's like their most
- 8:30S4: important thing.
- 8:32S5: They gotta get by Norway though. That's kind of my goodness.
- 8:35S4: Oh yeah. Norway had a good win. We have a
- 8:38S4: Norwegian friend in here, Andrew who is big cheering for Norway.
- 8:42S5: Yeah.
- 8:42S2: Yeah well my team's out.
- 8:45S5: Yes we did. Yeah. Sorry.
- 8:47S4: Sorry about that.
- 8:48S2: Yeah. I need to call up my Swedish.
- 8:50S4: Look at all of us.
- 8:52S2: I've never watched.
- 8:53S4: A full game of soccer, and we're all in here
- 8:55S4: talking about it.
- 8:56S2: I've got a Swedish friend who, uh, actually tells phenomenal
- 8:59S2: Sven and only jokes. Didn't I have him on here
- 9:01S2: one time?
- 9:02S4: I think he did years ago.
- 9:03S2: Yeah, yeah, years and years ago. I need to get
- 9:05S2: some Sven and all the jokes in here for sure. Okay.
- 9:08S2: Coming up. We got a lot going on today. We're
- 9:10S2: talking this week about soccer. And. No, I'm kidding. We're
- 9:15S2: talking this week about living free. Yes. And the question is,
- 9:20S2: how can we be so free and so stuck? And boy,
- 9:24S2: does this relate to the American dream. We're going to
- 9:26S2: be breaking it down for you today.
- 9:29S1: Breaking chains and running free. You're listening to Carl and Crew.
- 9:34S2: You know, this freedom that we have in Christ. It's analogous,
- 9:37S2: but only on steroids compared to the freedom that we
- 9:40S2: have in our nation. Look, and I'm going to keep
- 9:43S2: saying I shouldn't have to keep qualifying this, didn't use patriotism,
- 9:46S2: didn't use to have to be where you put parenthetical
- 9:49S2: statements like, I know we're got a lot of problems.
- 9:52S2: I mean, doesn't that go without saying? Yeah, we got
- 9:55S2: a lot of problems. We got a lot of things
- 9:56S2: we got to repent of and change and, uh, allow
- 10:00S2: for people to make a way where we've impeded some opportunities.
- 10:05S2: All those things exist. I mean, those, those are real.
- 10:08S2: But America is analogous at some level to the spiritual life.
- 10:15S2: And it's right here in Philippians chapter two, I love this. Therefore,
- 10:20S2: my beloved, as you have always obeyed. So now not
- 10:25S2: only as in my presence, but much more in my absence.
- 10:29S2: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Now,
- 10:32S2: if you just clip that verse, you just look at
- 10:35S2: that verse. You go, oh boy, yeah, man, I gotta
- 10:38S2: get on that treadmill. But there's something that is analogous
- 10:45S2: to the freedom that we have as a nation in America,
- 10:48S2: only it's way better because this is not just an opportunity,
- 10:53S2: it's a total transformation of your nature. Because it goes
- 10:57S2: on to say, for it is God who works in
- 11:01S2: you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
- 11:04S2: So it's because this is what Paul's saying, because of
- 11:09S2: the initiating work of God who loved you so much
- 11:12S2: that he sent His son to die for you, he
- 11:14S2: died for you, called you out of darkness, changed you.
- 11:17S2: You are no longer enemies of the cross. You are
- 11:20S2: children of God. Work it out, man. We're talking about
- 11:26S2: living free this week. And why are we free but
- 11:31S2: still stuck? And the headline from this passage is a
- 11:36S2: tough one to swallow, but we're going to get after
- 11:38S2: it here. What's that headline? I'll have it with you
- 11:41S2: and our special guest, drew Dick. Straight ahead.
- 11:46S1: Get to know the team behind the scenes. Follow Carl
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- 11:52S2: Talking live and free, obviously. Analogous to this great 250th birthday.
- 11:58S2: Are you kidding me? And coming off of that, there's
- 12:02S2: a lot of parallels between the United States of America
- 12:06S2: and the life that we have in Jesus Christ. And
- 12:09S2: it's it's an amazing thing, though, that I guess where
- 12:13S2: it breaks down is nobody's rushing to the shores of
- 12:16S2: Jesus to find that freedom that he offers.
- 12:19S4: But fortunately not.
- 12:20S2: But but it's real. Yeah. And it's powerful. The question is,
- 12:27S2: how can we be so free and still be stuck?
- 12:31S2: And it boils down to one thing. I'm gonna give
- 12:33S2: you the headline, and then I'm going to get a
- 12:34S2: great dude in here to talk about it. Here's the headline.
- 12:37S2: This is tough. I'm going to give it to you.
- 12:39S2: And it's hard, but I have to say it to
- 12:41S2: myself all the time. And let me Parenthetically say, good grief,
- 12:46S2: a lot of warm ups here. But let me parenthetically
- 12:48S2: say this the goal of Christianity is not to perform
- 12:52S2: in a way that you get in good with God.
- 12:56S2: That's never the goal. Grace is all about God's favor
- 13:00S2: and his power to do in us what we can't
- 13:02S2: do in ourselves. But look here, Philippians 12 or excuse
- 13:06S2: me two. Some of you are like, wow, new chapters.
- 13:09S2: Philippians 212 through 13 therefore, my beloved, as you have
- 13:14S2: always obeyed. So now not only as in my presence,
- 13:18S2: but much more in my absence. Work out your salvation
- 13:22S2: with fear and trembling, for it is God who works
- 13:26S2: in you, both to will and to work for his
- 13:29S2: good pleasure. Drew Dick. This is a great passage because
- 13:33S2: it illustrates something powerful, and if you don't read verse 13,
- 13:38S2: you're going to take off on verse 12 with all
- 13:41S2: kinds of self-will, Self striving. But God began this work
- 13:46S2: in us. He secured the freedom. So walk it out.
- 13:50S2: What's your thought about Philippians two?
- 13:53S6: Amen. That's a great passage. I love it because it's
- 13:56S6: got both. You know, God's role. It's, it's God who's
- 14:00S6: working in you. And yet at the same time, we
- 14:02S6: have a role too. Gotta work out our salvation, right? Uh,
- 14:05S6: and I think it's a good corrective because so many people,
- 14:08S6: they fall off the horse in 1 or 2 ways
- 14:10S6: when it comes to this topic. They think, you know what?
- 14:12S6: The Christian life, I can live it just by discipline
- 14:15S6: and white knuckling it and just trying as hard as
- 14:18S6: I can and doing it all on my own. And
- 14:20S6: they negate God's role in the process. Or they say,
- 14:24S6: you know what? I can just sit back and take
- 14:27S6: a pleasure, cruise towards holiness, let go and let God,
- 14:30S6: as some people say. Yeah. And I don't have to
- 14:32S6: exert any effort. Well, both are corrected by that passage.
- 14:36S6: It's saying, hey, work it out. But at the same time,
- 14:39S6: you can't do this of your own volition. It is
- 14:42S6: God's power that's working in you. And probably the best
- 14:46S6: metaphor I've heard is it's like sailing, right? You can
- 14:49S6: you can sit in a sailboat without your wind, your,
- 14:52S6: your sail up and you won't go anywhere. You can
- 14:54S6: just sit there and take a snooze and you're not
- 14:56S6: going to move. But if you put up that sail and,
- 14:59S6: and the Holy Spirit's wind catches it, it's going to
- 15:03S6: move you. So you do have a part to play.
- 15:05S6: But at the end of the day, it's all God's work.
- 15:08S2: Yeah, it's all God's work. And I think, uh, one
- 15:10S2: thing that we're recovering from drew is this, oh, Galatians,
- 15:16S2: modern day Christianity that, uh, who is bewitched you that,
- 15:20S2: that you began in the spirit? Why are you working
- 15:22S2: out in the flesh? So we don't want to become that.
- 15:24S2: But what we do have here is this mindfulness of, okay,
- 15:29S2: it's God at work in you. Therefore work out your salvation.
- 15:33S2: So I'm wrestling this whole week with Living Free. This
- 15:37S2: coming off 4th of July. It's almost like the no
- 15:39S2: brainer week, right? The focus. And today I'm free. For
- 15:44S2: a lot of people listening right now, they're totally free
- 15:47S2: in Christ Jesus, but they're still stuck. And this is
- 15:51S2: the hard reality. Sometimes we got to look in the
- 15:53S2: mirror and go, I'm not working out my salvation with
- 15:57S2: fear and trembling, drew. I'm not leaning into this freedom
- 16:01S2: that Jesus has secured. Why do we get stuck there
- 16:05S2: so often? In fact, let's just wrestle with that. Why
- 16:08S2: do we get stuck there so often?
- 16:10S6: Well, I'd say part of it's normal. And sometimes that's
- 16:13S6: a comfort because when you're in a season of stuckness
- 16:16S6: or dryness and you're just not feeling it, you don't
- 16:19S6: feel like you're making progress. You have to realize that
- 16:22S6: Christians all throughout history, from Charles Spurgeon to Martin Luther,
- 16:25S6: you name it, Christians all throughout the Bible felt these
- 16:29S6: seasons where they felt stuck. And so, you know, my
- 16:32S6: first thing to say is don't panic. You know, it's
- 16:34S6: par for the course in the Christian life and it
- 16:37S6: often doesn't last forever. Uh, so just, you know, stay
- 16:42S6: faithful and, and you don't need to find some exotic
- 16:45S6: spiritual discipline that's going to lift you out of it. Just,
- 16:48S6: you know, communing with God, going to church, reading your Bible, praying.
- 16:53S6: Those are incredibly helpful to get us out of these
- 16:56S6: spiritual seasons of stuckness.
- 16:59S2: Yeah. You know what's funny about that, drew, is you're
- 17:01S2: right on. Um, I think sometimes we're looking for the
- 17:05S2: new and I'm big on this. I do think there's
- 17:08S2: some valuable spiritual disciplines like introspection and quietness and alone
- 17:14S2: and letting God look at your life. And those are
- 17:16S2: important things. But once you do that, there's nothing like
- 17:21S2: open the Bible, read it when it says something, walk
- 17:26S2: it out. I mean, it's it, it just gets down
- 17:29S2: to that. Some people are stuck today and all they
- 17:31S2: need to hear is open the Bible. There's a portion
- 17:35S2: of scripture that's going to relate to where you're stuck.
- 17:38S2: Obey it because the power of God is in you
- 17:41S2: at work right now, and you can go get some
- 17:44S2: victory today.
- 17:45S6: Amen. I remember I had a friend who went through
- 17:48S6: a tough season where he felt stuck. He went to
- 17:50S6: his childhood pastor who'd been a mentor to him, and
- 17:53S6: he says, what should I do? And the childhood pastor
- 17:56S6: just said, you know what? Just show up every day.
- 17:59S6: Keep reading your Bible and praying. And the pastor said,
- 18:02S6: it's like doing push ups. And my friend thought that
- 18:05S6: was a weird way to describe communing with God. He's
- 18:07S6: like push ups. That doesn't sound right. And yet, as
- 18:10S6: he started to do it consistently, he realized that his
- 18:13S6: mentor had a point because it's like push ups in
- 18:16S6: the sense that it it might not change everything that day,
- 18:19S6: but over time, it shapes you. Right. And, and those,
- 18:23S6: those it's like eating healthy, right? It's, it's not going
- 18:26S6: to make a difference in the next, you know, day
- 18:28S6: or two. But six months down the road, a year
- 18:30S6: down the road, all of a sudden you find that
- 18:33S6: you're feeling better and you're feeling different. And it's like
- 18:35S6: that way with communing with God. Because often the first
- 18:38S6: thing we do when we feel a little bit stuck
- 18:40S6: is maybe we disconnect from God, right? We don't we
- 18:43S6: don't open our Bible. We don't turn to him. Yes.
- 18:46S6: And so just having that consistency and listen, sometimes the
- 18:50S6: feelings aren't there. And we think there's something wrong when
- 18:52S6: we go, you know, I'm not feeling like reading my
- 18:54S6: Bible today. I'm not feeling like praying. Guess what? Often
- 18:57S6: the feelings follow the obedience. And so if we just
- 19:01S6: keep doing that and persisting in it, it can have
- 19:04S6: fruit down the road.
- 19:05S2: Uh, we bring drew on to talk about these kind
- 19:08S2: of issues. And he's written a book called Your Future
- 19:11S2: Self Will. Thank you. And so many of you have
- 19:13S2: already gotten it and read it, and some of you
- 19:16S2: haven't yet. And I'm gonna give you a link in
- 19:17S2: a minute here, but its subtitle is Secrets of Self
- 19:20S2: Control from the Bible and Brain Science. I loved, I
- 19:26S2: loved this because anytime I'm convinced of this, you get
- 19:30S2: a microscope and look closer to cellular level. You see
- 19:33S2: more of God. You get an archaeologist. He digs a
- 19:36S2: little deeper. You find more evidence of God, but you
- 19:40S2: go into the brain and you find evidence of God.
- 19:44S2: What in brain science have you learned that relates to
- 19:47S2: this whole issue of God secured our freedom. Now go
- 19:51S2: walk it out.
- 19:53S6: Well, one thing I've seen in the literature on this
- 19:56S6: is that often when we obey God, what follows that
- 20:01S6: is more obedience. And when we don't, often what follows
- 20:05S6: that is, is actually more sinning. And that might sound
- 20:09S6: strange because you think, wow, if I, if I just
- 20:12S6: kind of beat myself up a lot over my sin,
- 20:15S6: then then maybe my behavior will improve. But I've mentioned
- 20:18S6: this to you before, Carl, but I saw this one
- 20:20S6: study that was fascinating, um, where, um, diet researchers observed
- 20:25S6: people that had messed up in some way, either they'd
- 20:28S6: had a slice of cake or a piece of pizza
- 20:30S6: that they weren't supposed to eat. And what often followed
- 20:33S6: that one small indiscretion was a full on binge where
- 20:36S6: they just threw caution to the wind and said, I'm
- 20:38S6: going to eat whatever I want. Yeah, because they kind
- 20:40S6: of beat themselves up and they called it the what
- 20:42S6: the heck effect? You know what the heck, I already
- 20:44S6: messed up. I'm going to mess up more. But then
- 20:46S6: they observed the opposite phenomenon where when people felt like
- 20:50S6: they had a fresh start, they called it the fresh
- 20:52S6: start effect, where their behavior actually improved when they felt like, hey,
- 20:56S6: I got a blank slate. And that's the beauty. You
- 20:59S6: talked about this at the beginning of grace. When we
- 21:01S6: feel fully forgiven by God, when we internalize that grace,
- 21:05S6: that he gives us what follows, that is not a
- 21:07S6: license to sin, but rather a desire, at least it
- 21:11S6: should to obey God and to walk in holiness.
- 21:14S5: Yeah.
- 21:15S2: You know, it's even digging a little bit deeper into
- 21:18S2: this text. We're in Philippians 212 and 13 all day
- 21:21S2: to day, but work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
- 21:25S2: This is a holy, reverent awe. And, and it's a
- 21:31S2: weird one because we use fear as like, go run
- 21:34S2: into the basement or something. But the fear here is
- 21:37S2: way more than that. It's in reverence for all that
- 21:41S2: God has done. Verse 13 For God is at work
- 21:44S2: in you both to will and to work for his
- 21:46S2: good pleasure. Because of this great sacrifice that he laid down,
- 21:51S2: sending his son who died, rose again to give us freedom,
- 21:55S2: victory over sin. Work that out. And there should be
- 21:59S2: a looking back of sorts. Right, drew, where we go.
- 22:02S2: Look at what God has done. My goodness. Quake in
- 22:05S2: my boots, open the Bible, find something to obey today
- 22:10S2: and go walk this thing out. What do you say?
- 22:12S6: Yeah, like Scripture says, I can't put it any better
- 22:15S6: than this. It is for freedom that you've been set free, right?
- 22:19S6: And so to walk in that, because you're right, it
- 22:22S6: was a a costly sacrifice that secured our salvation. And
- 22:25S6: not only that, God doesn't just save us. He's not
- 22:27S6: content to let us stay like we were. He wants
- 22:30S6: to see us grow, to be transformed into the image
- 22:33S6: of his son. And that's a lifelong, exciting journey that
- 22:37S6: we get to participate in.
- 22:39S2: Yeah, I think the takeaway here, drew, is what is
- 22:43S2: that next thing that God would have you do? And
- 22:47S2: some of you, maybe, maybe you blew it over the
- 22:50S2: big weekend. You know, there's people out there right now. Drew, who, um,
- 22:54S2: had been set free from enslavement to alcohol. And they
- 22:58S2: frankly went back into it. I'm talking to them right now.
- 23:01S2: You're listening right now. Or my goodness, you can come
- 23:06S2: away from a 4th of July and said some stupid stuff. Whatever.
- 23:09S2: This isn't a time to go binge on those things.
- 23:12S2: This is a time to turn it around. Isn't it, drew?
- 23:15S6: Absolutely. You know, and don't I mean, hey, that's great
- 23:18S6: if you're feeling guilty about it because that's God, you know,
- 23:22S6: putting a finger on that and saying, I want you
- 23:24S6: to change that, but don't dwell on it. Don't let
- 23:27S6: yourself get down. Realize that God's well of grace is
- 23:30S6: deep and he. He knew that you were going to
- 23:33S6: do it before you did. That's a mind bender. But
- 23:35S6: that's true. And he's. He'll forgive you when you turn
- 23:38S6: to him in repentance. And then the reason he's giving
- 23:42S6: you that repentance, repentance is so that you can walk
- 23:44S6: in freedom.
- 23:45S2: Yeah. Love it. You might want to get this resource.
- 23:48S2: Your future self will thank you. Secrets to Self Control
- 23:51S2: from the Bible and Brain Science. Phenomenal. Read by drew Dick.
- 23:55S2: Just text the word future to 805 557898. Text future
- 24:01S2: to 805 557898.
- 24:06S1: It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
- 24:09S2: It's all about living free. It is for freedom that
- 24:12S2: Christ has set us free. And it's analogous to what
- 24:15S2: we have here in the United States of America. Man,
- 24:17S2: the freedoms that we enjoy. This is why people flock here.
- 24:21S2: And parenthetically, yes, we are imperfect. Yes, there are things
- 24:25S2: we need to repent of. But 250 years, a representative
- 24:30S2: Government 250 years sustaining itself that long. If you don't
- 24:34S2: see God's fingerprints on this thing. Gotta open our eyes
- 24:40S2: because it's real. And boy, did I get a full
- 24:44S2: dose of just how great this country is. While we
- 24:46S2: were on vacation, my bride and I got some R&R
- 24:49S2: and we had a great time.
- 24:51S5: I'm really happy, man.
- 24:52S2: It was good. So good. I just fired up, man.
- 24:57S2: Came back, revved up, ready to rumble here. So we
- 25:02S2: found a restaurant where we were hanging out for a week.
- 25:06S2: Found a few actually, but we found one in particular
- 25:10S2: that was so good there. Asparagus. Oh, Nelly.
- 25:16S4: That's it. That's how you know it's good. Because usually
- 25:18S4: when people leave a good restaurant, they're not talking about
- 25:20S4: the asparagus.
- 25:21S2: No. And I use that as an illustration because this
- 25:24S2: is better than any of these high end steak joints
- 25:26S2: plopped down the a la carte. And you get a
- 25:28S2: tray of asparagus and they're good. They're buttered because you
- 25:31S2: can't screw up with butter. But oh my goodness, the
- 25:34S2: melted parmesan and the seasonings on this thing and the
- 25:37S2: way they were steamed. Oh my word, it was so good.
- 25:42S4: But every Carl's gonna be making weekly trips up there.
- 25:45S2: Every, every, every meal we had, they had a shepherd's pie.
- 25:50S2: And you might think, man, it was hot. It doesn't matter.
- 25:53S2: Oh my goodness. And they didn't call it that, but
- 25:55S2: I it was basically shepherd's pie where they have this
- 25:59S2: cool home baked, baked in kitchen, little big old blob
- 26:05S2: of bread. And then they cut the top off and
- 26:08S2: then they hollow out, they grab the bread and then
- 26:11S2: they pour in just all the innards of the shepherd's pie.
- 26:17S2: Oh my goodness. It was good. Oh.
- 26:22S4: Did you bring some home to share?
- 26:24S5: Watering right.
- 26:24S2: Now. My mouth's watering right now. Uh, it was so good.
- 26:29S2: So we're there so often that we got to know
- 26:32S2: the owner. So, I mean, because I love to chat
- 26:35S2: it up with folks. Anyway, the owner's wife, she came
- 26:38S2: up and she's chatting with us and I said, so
- 26:43S2: when did you start this place? And I could tell
- 26:45S2: she had a bit of an accent, European accent. Turns
- 26:48S2: out it was Eastern European accent. And she started giving
- 26:52S2: us the story. And the story was just epic. And
- 26:56S2: I mean, it's an American Dream story. So she was
- 27:00S2: managing a restaurant. The service staff just managing them. And
- 27:06S2: this guy comes in and he wants to wait tables.
- 27:10S2: And she said, I can't hire you. And he said, why?
- 27:16S2: And he she said, Your English is so bad, you
- 27:18S2: can't wait tables. You can maybe do dishes, but you
- 27:21S2: can't do it. And he said, I'm going to come
- 27:25S2: back and I'm going to have good English. And he
- 27:28S2: came back two months later in his English was just great.
- 27:35S4: That's incredible.
- 27:36S5: Two months.
- 27:37S2: Two months. And the story goes on that now her
- 27:44S2: husband is this dude that she sent away and said,
- 27:47S2: you got to learn English.
- 27:48S4: That's really cool.
- 27:50S2: And I said, oh man, how did that come together?
- 27:53S2: She said, it took a while because when he came back,
- 27:56S2: we started striking up a friendship. And I asked him
- 27:59S2: one day, what did you say to your buddies after
- 28:02S2: you told by me you couldn't get a job here?
- 28:05S2: He said, I went back and said, some woman with
- 28:07S2: a Tweety Bird face told me, I can't work here.
- 28:11S4: Wow.
- 28:12S2: But she does have like a really cute, like, Tweety
- 28:15S2: Bird face. It was really funny. So we're all just
- 28:17S2: laughing our heads off. So they get married. They're young,
- 28:21S2: they're young. I mean, they haven't even started their family yet,
- 28:25S2: So they got hitched soon thereafter. And then they start
- 28:28S2: going and they go from wait staff to now they
- 28:32S2: own one of the coolest, hippest restaurants that is formed
- 28:37S2: in the summers for customers, like waitlists, like waitlists. And
- 28:42S2: then she's explaining, looking at different things like so they
- 28:47S2: heat can come into this place. It's called the loft.
- 28:50S2: He can come into this place pretty serious on some
- 28:53S2: of those warm days. So he got he got fans
- 28:58S2: installed that are just super high end fans. And I said,
- 29:02S2: man is the electrician know had to figure it out.
- 29:04S4: Wow.
- 29:05S2: Figured out the whole thing. And then on the cool days,
- 29:09S2: they wanted to get some kind of some infrared heat
- 29:11S2: or something in there. So they had these super high
- 29:15S2: end heaters up there that were strategically placed look so good.
- 29:20S2: And I said, yeah, man, how'd you get an electrician here? Well, no,
- 29:24S2: he figured that one out too. But we had to
- 29:26S2: get it through inspection, so he had to get someone
- 29:29S2: in here to bend some of the tubing. But he
- 29:33S2: did the whole thing himself.
- 29:35S4: That's really cool.
- 29:35S2: And we're looking at these things that block the rain
- 29:38S2: when the rain's coming in sideways. And she goes, yeah,
- 29:41S2: you see those things right there? These are big, beautiful
- 29:45S2: vinyl things that come down and you can still see
- 29:47S2: through it and all that stuff. But then they're raised
- 29:50S2: with these super cool cords. She goes, yeah, he, uh,
- 29:54S2: he went and bought a sewing machine because the cost
- 29:57S2: of these things was going to be so much. He
- 29:59S2: got a commercial sewing machine, and he went on YouTube
- 30:03S2: and figured out how in the world you rig these
- 30:06S2: ropes up. And he created the pulley system and everything. Guys,
- 30:11S2: they've got this blowing and going restaurant that is amazing.
- 30:17S2: And they came from abroad a few years ago.
- 30:20S4: That's really cool.
- 30:23S5: That's inspiring. I love that inspiring.
- 30:25S4: To just be like, you know what? If I gotta
- 30:26S4: get something done, I'm gonna figure out how to get
- 30:28S4: it done. I don't know how to do it, but
- 30:30S4: I'm gonna figure it out. I mean.
- 30:31S2: It goes it goes on from there. So you can't
- 30:33S2: get wait staff in the summers because it's summer employment
- 30:38S2: where we went vacation. It's just summer employment. So they
- 30:44S2: recruit from Eastern Europe, they recruit people over. And they
- 30:50S2: had bought one home. And I never did see him
- 30:53S2: because each day we were there, he's up at a
- 30:56S2: five room home that they built, renovated and rent out
- 31:01S2: for 13 bucks a day to rent staff that come,
- 31:03S2: and that's where they house them.
- 31:06S4: That's incredible.
- 31:08S5: I know these.
- 31:08S4: People are the most innovative people I've never met.
- 31:11S5: I want to meet them.
- 31:13S2: And it's just it's just the coolest thing.
- 31:16S5: Wow.
- 31:16S4: We need to take a team field trip up there
- 31:18S4: to Door County.
- 31:19S2: Yeah. Door County, Wisconsin. It was amazing. Uh, here's my
- 31:24S2: point in this one. And it's even more so in
- 31:28S2: the spiritual realm. Think about the freedoms that we have
- 31:32S2: in this nation. They're huge. And a lot of those
- 31:35S2: freedoms don't go leveraged. Well, I think when you're born
- 31:38S2: into it, sometimes you don't appreciate what kind of latitude
- 31:41S2: we have to go make stuff happen here.
- 31:43S4: 100%. Because the the only context that we have is this.
- 31:48S4: And so I think we're way more prone to focus
- 31:50S4: on the struggles of an imperfect nation, just as every
- 31:54S4: nation is, rather than to look around and see something,
- 31:58S4: you know better because this is this is the best.
- 32:01S2: And we and we, we go to that restaurant, we
- 32:04S2: don't build the restaurant.
- 32:06S5: We've been here long time.
- 32:08S2: You know what I mean?
- 32:09S5: Yeah.
- 32:09S2: It's crazy.
- 32:10S4: But if we wanted to build the restaurant, we have
- 32:12S4: the opportunity to do so.
- 32:13S2: Yeah, but here's how it inspired me. And this is
- 32:17S2: what's cool. This is so analogous to the spiritual life.
- 32:26S2: And it's out of Philippians chapter two. I'm going to
- 32:31S2: start with verse 13, for it is God who works
- 32:34S2: in you both to will and to work for his
- 32:36S2: good pleasure. In other words, here's what Paul's saying. God
- 32:40S2: invaded your life when you were surrendered, broken, humbled, contritely
- 32:46S2: given over to God. He radically altered you. He did
- 32:52S2: it in the verse before that says, therefore, my beloved,
- 32:57S2: as you have always obeyed. So now not only as
- 33:01S2: in my presence, but much more in my absence. Work
- 33:04S2: out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Now verse
- 33:07S2: 13 for it is God who works in you. He
- 33:12S2: secured this freedom. He did it. He secured a freedom
- 33:17S2: for us that allows us to way live in ways
- 33:21S2: that are unimaginable. That's what grace is. And so I
- 33:29S2: want you to just think about that today. Is there
- 33:32S2: something about living in this spiritual realm of a relationship
- 33:36S2: with Christ? And you're squandering some opportunities. And I just
- 33:42S2: want to ask you today, is there a needed entrepreneurship
- 33:47S2: to get out, roll up your sleeves and let's get
- 33:49S2: cooking with Jesus. Because of this freedom that's been secured,
- 33:53S2: it's so analogous with the American dream. Doesn't that fit guys?
- 33:57S4: Yes, I love it. And it it just reminds me
- 34:00S4: of all the you know, the first thing I thought
- 34:02S4: of as we were, you were kind of giving this analogy,
- 34:04S4: these restaurant owners is when Jesus talks about the kingdom
- 34:07S4: of heaven being like a treasure in a field, that
- 34:10S4: that person recognized the value that treasure and did whatever
- 34:14S4: they could to get to it. I think of those,
- 34:17S4: those that lovely couple who came here and and built
- 34:20S4: up a restaurant they recognized, hey, this place is a
- 34:24S4: great treasure, a great opportunity. I got to get there
- 34:26S4: and build something there. And I think of the kingdom
- 34:29S4: of heaven being infinitely more that this is a place
- 34:32S4: where the kingdom of heaven is a place where we
- 34:34S4: drop everything we have here to get to there because
- 34:38S4: of how beautiful and magnificent it is.
- 34:41S2: So I want you to be spiritually entrepreneurial here for
- 34:45S2: a second. Innovative. I want you to think, what has
- 34:52S2: Christ secured that I've taken for granted? Think about that.
- 35:00S2: What freedom has Christ secured for me that I've taken
- 35:03S2: for granted? And if I really got sobered up about
- 35:08S2: this thing, it would change the way I live today.
- 35:12S2: The stuff I'd build, the stuff I'd do, the people
- 35:16S2: at reach. Think about that.
- 35:20S1: Take your next step with Jesus today. You're listening to
- 35:24S1: cast and crew.
- 35:25S2: Yeah. I got a question for you here. Uh, it's
- 35:28S2: we're coming off July 4th, 250 man Representative Republic, 250 years.
- 35:36S2: That's got God's fingerprints on it. Perfect. No. But amazing.
- 35:41S2: And the American dream. Oh, man. Amazing. And people are
- 35:46S2: taking hold of it. But this great gift that we've
- 35:51S2: been given, this freedom in Christ. My question for you
- 35:55S2: is this simple. And these phone lines, I'm asking you
- 36:00S2: to jam them right now. What freedom has Christ given
- 36:03S2: you in Christ? What freedom have you been given? And
- 36:06S2: now you're going to take hold of it and use.
- 36:08S2: There's something in your life that has been languishing, but
- 36:13S2: you realize this freedom is too precious and bang gods
- 36:17S2: telling you this is what you got to do now.
- 36:21S2: And it's overwhelming you. And you might not have it
- 36:26S2: done perfectly, but you are in. Process right now 805,
- 36:31S2: five five, 78, 98, 805 557898 Tim from Florida. Thanks
- 36:38S2: for calling in. Man. What do you say?
- 36:41S7: Yes. Great question. You know, in this country, we have
- 36:45S7: the freedom as believers, and also we have the Holy
- 36:49S7: Spirit living in us to share God's truth with others.
- 36:53S7: So this morning when I had my quiet time, instead
- 36:56S7: of reading it silently, I stood up on the back
- 37:00S7: porch and I read it out loud. And it was
- 37:03S7: just very empowering. And I think we can do we
- 37:07S7: can do one on one with people we come across daily.
- 37:12S7: Just just offer to pray with them and maybe we'll
- 37:15S7: get to share the gospel with them. And we can
- 37:18S7: also go to university campuses and and do that. We
- 37:22S7: have the freedom if we want to, to preach in
- 37:26S7: the public.
- 37:27S2: Yeah. It's true. Tim, thanks for calling in from looks
- 37:31S2: like Bonita, Florida. Good to have you with us today.
- 37:33S2: Here's the thing. Boom crew. Just like my newfound friends,
- 37:39S2: the co-owners of a restaurant where we were vacationing have
- 37:43S2: taken they've come from Eastern Europe. They had nothing. And
- 37:48S2: now they've got this blown and going concern. Sometimes we
- 37:51S2: forget that the freedom that Jesus secured for us has
- 37:58S2: opened the door for so much. And the simple little
- 38:03S2: question I got for you is what? What is the
- 38:07S2: Holy Spirit asking you? This is a very important to
- 38:10S2: answer right now. What is the Holy Spirit inviting you
- 38:16S2: to begin to roll up your sleeves on because of
- 38:19S2: this great freedom that you have in Jesus Christ. How
- 38:22S2: are you going to work out this salvation in such
- 38:26S2: a way that it reflects because it's God who works
- 38:30S2: in you? 805 557898 give me a call right now.
- 38:38S4: You know, for me, I think that the, the thing
- 38:41S4: that the Holy Spirit's convicting me of this morning is
- 38:43S4: that I have the freedom now that I'm in Christ
- 38:47S4: to become more like him. Before I knew him, I
- 38:50S4: was bound to my sin, unable to to look like
- 38:54S4: Jesus because because I didn't know him. But now that
- 38:58S4: I have a relationship with him, I've been given a. Well,
- 39:01S4: I had access to his word. But now that the
- 39:03S4: Holy Spirit indwells within me, he gives me new understanding
- 39:07S4: of it every single day. And I don't want to
- 39:09S4: squander the time I have to spend time in His word,
- 39:14S4: growing and understanding in him, and then also growing to
- 39:17S4: look more like him. I have a freedom in that
- 39:20S4: that I don't want to take for granted, and I
- 39:22S4: think it's easy to take it for granted, for myself included.
- 39:25S4: And I'm being convicted this morning. Don't take that for granted.
- 39:28S4: Grow closer with me every single day.
- 39:30S8: Yeah. I mean, oh.
- 39:32S2: That's so good. I mean, that's just a big umbrella
- 39:35S2: of we've been given freedom to be an apprentice of
- 39:38S2: Jesus Christ.
- 39:39S4: Yes.
- 39:40S2: To live as he lived. Yep. And we got to
- 39:43S2: roll up our sleeves and go. Not got to.
- 39:47S4: Right. I get to I don't earn anything through through
- 39:51S4: looking more like Jesus. I've already earned it, but I
- 39:54S4: get to. And there's freedom in that as well.
- 39:59S8: Yeah. I mean, one of my.
- 40:00S2: Goals when I went away for this week was that
- 40:02S2: my bride would come back refreshed. And you know, it's.
- 40:06S4: A good.
- 40:06S2: Goal. You know what's cool? What's cool about that. And Look,
- 40:11S2: I'm a long ways away from being perfect, but I
- 40:15S2: had a really good week. So my wife told me
- 40:17S2: where I, I my aim was to help her come
- 40:22S2: back so refreshed from a week away. And guess what?
- 40:26S2: When you aim for that, the refreshment that comes to
- 40:29S2: you is astounding. Men, men, you aim to let your
- 40:34S2: bride get renewed when you get away to get it together.
- 40:37S2: Everything changes. Give me a call right now. I'm going to.
- 40:40S2: I'm going to take some time, even here, for a
- 40:42S2: few minutes to get some calls in here. 805. Five. Five. 78. 98.
- 40:46S2: Give us a jingle right now. This freedom that has
- 40:50S2: been secured and this work of God who works in
- 40:54S2: you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
- 40:58S2: How's God telling you to work out this salvation with
- 41:01S2: fear and trembling? Time to get on it. What's it
- 41:03S2: look like? 805. Five. Five. 78. 98. Tony. First time caller. Trenton, Georgia.
- 41:10S2: What do you say? Man.
- 41:11S9: What do you say?
- 41:11S10: Hey. Good morning. Thanks for the opportunity. I need to
- 41:14S10: share the gospel. I have not been sharing it like
- 41:17S10: I should. I feel like the little song, this little
- 41:19S10: Light of mine, where I've been hiding it under the bushel.
- 41:22S2: You know what's funny, Tony, is when we think about
- 41:25S2: sharing the gospel, we got to remember that there are
- 41:29S2: God fearing people like we see with Lydia thief on
- 41:33S2: the cross, Cornelius. There are God fearing people that all
- 41:37S2: they need is a fair shot at who Jesus is
- 41:40S2: and what he came to do. And they're out there.
- 41:42S2: We're running into him. I'm not saying everyone, but they're
- 41:45S2: out there. Tony. How encouraging is that?
- 41:47S10: Exactly, exactly.
- 41:49S2: Oh, man.
- 41:50S10: Well, pray for me. Pray for me.
- 41:52S2: Yeah. Well, father, right now we do pray for Tony
- 41:55S2: and anyone else right now that wants to use their
- 41:57S2: freedom in a way that they share that freedom with others. God.
- 42:00S2: And just encourage Tony right now. God, strengthen them and
- 42:04S2: fortify this conviction big time. God, thank you for this, brother. Amen.
- 42:09S2: And let it be. Edward. Uh, somewhere. Does he live
- 42:15S2: in South Florida? That's not a city. Yes, that's. Yeah.
- 42:19S2: Where are you at, Edward?
- 42:20S11: Well, West Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Florida.
- 42:23S2: West Palm Beach. Good man. All right. Um, what what's
- 42:27S2: God telling you to use with this freedom he's given you?
- 42:31S11: Uh, right now, we're using the social media like YouTube.
- 42:34S11: We're sharing the gospel. Like, uh, why do you believe
- 42:37S11: in God? Why we need to believe in God. Because remember,
- 42:40S11: they always told us, you need to believe in God.
- 42:42S11: But a lot of people don't say why. But now
- 42:44S11: that's what we teaching. We have a book that we
- 42:48S11: share them with everybody, uh, to YouTube. Also, we have
- 42:51S11: a print shop. Whoever come to my shop and I
- 42:53S11: have the opportunity to, uh, to talk the good news.
- 42:57S11: I do that.
- 42:58S2: Awesome.
- 42:59S11: We create, we're creating like a website now my kingdom network,
- 43:04S11: we want to bring all the business, Christian business owner
- 43:08S11: in one place so everybody can find it because we
- 43:11S11: have to support the community, you know? Yeah, man, why
- 43:14S11: we gotta go somebody else to buy something when we
- 43:16S11: have a big community that we can support. And that's
- 43:19S11: what we're doing for the Kingdom.
- 43:21S2: Yeah. Way to go, Edward. I love you, man. You're
- 43:23S2: salt of the earth, dude. That's what you are. You're
- 43:26S2: salt of the earth. Love it. So think about it.
- 43:30S2: This morning. I want you to think about this one
- 43:32S2: long and hard. What is it that God would have
- 43:36S2: you do because of this freedom in Christ that has
- 43:39S2: been secured? Think about that. What is it that God
- 43:42S2: would have you do because of this great freedom that
- 43:47S2: has been secured? It's this. It's this entrepreneurial spirit. It's like, wow,
- 43:53S2: he's done this work in me. I'm going to go
- 43:57S2: build stuff. I'm going to go share stuff. I'm gonna
- 43:59S2: go build up a spouse. It's it's cool. Uh, Juliana Lake, Geneva, Wisconsin.
- 44:06S2: Let's get you in here. What do you say, sister?
- 44:09S12: Hi, there. I've been in recovery for, um. I struggle
- 44:13S12: with alcohol, so I've been in recovery for about going
- 44:16S12: on six years and, uh, through celebrate recovery.
- 44:20S5: Good.
- 44:21S12: And the Lord placed on my, I worked through, um,
- 44:23S12: I work at a group home here around the area
- 44:27S12: for girls who suffer with trauma and a couple about
- 44:32S12: a month or so ago, the Lord placed on my
- 44:34S12: heart that, um, I lead the landing there for these
- 44:37S12: girls and they really took to it this year. So
- 44:40S12: he placed on my heart that I needed to start
- 44:42S12: something this summer for, um, girls that struggle with trauma
- 44:47S12: and that they need a recovery because kids have no
- 44:49S12: recovery program. So I start that next week and I
- 44:53S12: don't know, uh, all of a sudden I just stepped
- 44:56S12: into it. I had volunteers signing up, I had people
- 44:59S12: signing up. So I don't know where he's going to take.
- 45:02S13: Me, but I'm.
- 45:03S12: Stepping into what he tells me.
- 45:04S2: Okay, Juliana, here's what's cool and I want to affirm
- 45:07S2: you get my. I'm going to go. I'm going to
- 45:09S2: be a pastor to you right now. You know what?
- 45:11S2: You're proven, sister. You are proving that when you hear
- 45:14S2: the spirit of the living God prompt you with something
- 45:18S2: to do because of this great freedom that you've been
- 45:21S2: given in Christ, and you begin to roll up your
- 45:24S2: sleeves and get after it. One of the great confirmations
- 45:27S2: is people saying yes and amen to this vision that
- 45:30S2: God's given you. You find people that say, I'll come
- 45:33S2: along with that. I'll help out there. It's just a
- 45:37S2: beautiful thing and you're living it. Way to go, Juliana.
- 45:42S2: It's awesome. It's for freedom that Christ has set us free.
- 45:51S2: Be careful not to squander this great freedom that we
- 45:55S2: have in Jesus. How will that dictate your life today?
- 45:58S2: That's my question for you. How will that direct your
- 46:03S2: life today. How will that shape the way you talk
- 46:07S2: with people? How will that shape the way you begin
- 46:09S2: to open and read the word? Maybe renewed for the
- 46:13S2: first time? Let it happen, man. Young Thunder, let's get
- 46:19S2: a couple of news hits here, my man.
- 46:25S4: At least 25 deaths are being blamed on the extreme
- 46:28S4: heat that's been gripping half of the nation. Over 150
- 46:32S4: million Americans across the eastern U.S. were subjected to record
- 46:35S4: setting heat on the 4th of July, with heat alerts
- 46:38S4: issued from the Midwest to the Deep South and the northeast.
- 46:41S4: In Washington, D.C., National Guard members were seen rendering aid
- 46:44S4: to heat victims attending the America 250 festivities. The extreme
- 46:49S4: heat helped create massive thunderstorms later in the evening, causing
- 46:53S4: gusty winds, large hail and power outages as well. The
- 46:57S4: preliminary hearing is about to begin for the man accused
- 47:00S4: of killing the Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Prosecutors
- 47:05S4: say Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, and his parents are expected
- 47:08S4: to attend the week long hearing beginning later today in Utah,
- 47:11S4: where they will outline their case against Tyler Robinson. Robinson
- 47:15S4: is accused of fatally shooting Kirk at Utah Valley University
- 47:18S4: last September. He faces aggravated murder charges and could receive
- 47:21S4: the death penalty if convicted. I'm Jonathan, and that is
- 47:25S4: your quick update.
- 47:27S2: Yeah, quite a day we're having here. We're talking about
- 47:31S2: this incredible freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, and
- 47:36S2: we can't squander it. But it leads to another question.
- 47:39S2: And that is why when he secured such a great freedom,
- 47:44S2: why are we sometimes stuck? I want you to do
- 47:48S2: this right now. Just focus on an area that you
- 47:51S2: feel stuck. You know you've been given freedom, but you
- 47:54S2: feel like you're stuck. We got answers coming up here.
- 47:58S1: Your spiritual pit stop to keep you going in the race.
- 48:02S1: You're listening to Carl and crew.
- 48:05S2: Carl and crew. Well, I love blaze.
- 48:07S14: I love my dog. I love that boy.
- 48:10S15: Hey, dude, you.
- 48:11S2: Got back from break. And. Oh, man, when I saw him.
- 48:14S5: Oh, he had to miss you.
- 48:16S2: Yeah we did. We missed each other big time. And early,
- 48:20S2: early this morning, I woke him up and said. I
- 48:24S2: got to go out and go potty. Dude, he's like, oh, dad,
- 48:27S2: can I sleep in? I mean, he's like, almost talking
- 48:30S2: to me with those eyes, like, really now? Yeah. And
- 48:36S2: then he always had that look on his face, like,
- 48:38S2: are glad you woke me up, boy. I was really
- 48:41S2: bursting there. Didn't want to get just like a typical teenager.
- 48:44S4: Yeah. That's right. Absolutely.
- 48:46S2: Uh, I take him out walking and, uh, I took
- 48:50S2: him out and he pulled the leash handle right out
- 48:55S2: of my hand. And what do you do when that happens?
- 49:00S2: And the dog's not really trained? Well, I instantly yell, whoa!
- 49:06S2: And he's learned. That means stop. I'm getting ready to
- 49:09S2: get harness broken. In about three months. I'm going to
- 49:11S2: put a harness on this boy.
- 49:13S5: Alrighty. Yeah. Okay.
- 49:14S2: About three months. Going to put a harness on him.
- 49:17S2: So I say, whoa. And I gingerly just walk up
- 49:21S2: like I have still got Ahold of this thing. And
- 49:23S2: he doesn't know. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He's
- 49:26S2: standing there and I reach out and grab it. And
- 49:28S2: he looked at me like I was free. I was free.
- 49:33S16: Why didn't you tell me? I take full.
- 49:35S2: Advantage.
- 49:36S16: Of that. What? Oh my goodness.
- 49:40S2: This whole freedom. We've got it, but we're not using it.
- 49:44S2: Why is that? Dan darling, coming up.
- 49:47S1: Your shot of hope to help you through the day.
- 49:50S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
- 49:54S2: So two things can be true. At one time. We
- 49:57S2: can both be free and live like we're not just
- 50:04S2: made reference to my dog blaze and me losing a
- 50:08S2: handle on his leash, that was scary. He was totally free,
- 50:12S2: but he's been on a leash so much he didn't
- 50:15S2: know he was. Thank the Lord because the cars were
- 50:17S2: zipping by on the street out front.
- 50:19S4: Oh man, I know that.
- 50:20S16: So he just.
- 50:20S2: Stood there and I just can't walk over to him like, yeah, buddy. Oh,
- 50:27S2: when it comes to spiritual freedom, it's not a laughing matter.
- 50:30S2: Dan darling with me right now. Daniel, you're a best
- 50:34S2: selling author, pastor, leader, podcaster, and you're a real human being.
- 50:40S2: We can live in total freedom in Christ and also
- 50:43S2: at the same time, live like we still got shackles
- 50:46S2: on us, my man.
- 50:48S17: That's right, that's absolutely right. And thank God that, you know,
- 50:51S17: every day we can go back and and pursue the
- 50:54S17: freedom that Christ has given us big time.
- 50:57S2: You know, I'm going to look at a passage here.
- 50:59S2: For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm therefore,
- 51:04S2: and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
- 51:08S2: That's Galatians five one. And the context here is there
- 51:12S2: was a circumcision group. They had their knives out for
- 51:15S2: the men. And what it boils down to is they
- 51:19S2: were in enslaving them to a external outward appearance of
- 51:27S2: righteousness that had nothing to do with real righteousness. Those
- 51:31S2: are things that we can get caught in today, aren't they, Daniel?
- 51:35S17: They can be. You know, um, I think it's, it's
- 51:38S17: about legalism and, uh, versus, um, yes, you know, really
- 51:43S17: the gospel. And I think we, we confuse this. Carl.
- 51:47S17: Sometimes people think if you want to obey Christ and
- 51:50S17: follow him with your life. Jesus said, if you love me,
- 51:53S17: keep my commandments. That that that's legalism, that anytime you
- 51:59S17: apply the scripture and say, this is not something a
- 52:01S17: Christian should do, or this is something a Christian should do,
- 52:03S17: that's legalism. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking
- 52:05S17: about here is sort of extra rules on top of things. It's,
- 52:10S17: it's sort of this idea of, of self-righteousness, of saying,
- 52:13S17: I am better than you because I do these things
- 52:15S17: and you don't. Do you know, my righteousness is because
- 52:18S17: of my effort, not not the grace of Christ.
- 52:21S2: Yeah. You're so spot on. And Dan, this is this
- 52:25S2: is an ongoing moving target. And I, I just, let's
- 52:28S2: just kick this around a little bit because I think
- 52:31S2: one of the great dangers here, people that don't know
- 52:35S2: they're stuck with something oftentimes don't realize what kind of
- 52:44S2: freedom Christ really wants to give them. So, I mean, there's,
- 52:48S2: there's kind of a code in the church. And you're right, Dan,
- 52:52S2: because some of these things that we're were called to do.
- 52:56S2: Those acts of obedience are for our good and for
- 53:00S2: the betterment of the whole. But we can codify things
- 53:04S2: that have nothing to do with Scripture. And let's just
- 53:08S2: take a big one. And that is that going to
- 53:11S2: church is paramount. Now, this is what I'd say it is,
- 53:16S2: but there's something more important than that. And that is
- 53:19S2: being the church. And oftentimes we can get into these
- 53:23S2: cycles of doing things without the life and vitality of
- 53:28S2: what Jesus said they should be done in. What do
- 53:31S2: you say to that?
- 53:33S17: Yeah. I mean, I think Scripture is pretty clear that, um,
- 53:38S17: God has wired us for community, and gathering on Sundays
- 53:42S17: is essential for our spiritual lives. You know, being a
- 53:47S17: lone Ranger Christian is not something you see in the
- 53:49S17: New Testament, but at the same time, merely going to
- 53:53S17: church is not a is not the end of our Christianity, right?
- 53:57S17: It's it's one of the means that God provides for us. Uh,
- 54:01S17: but you can go to church, you can fill a pew.
- 54:03S17: And we're grateful that you do, but, um, you can
- 54:06S17: do that and still not have a personal relationship with
- 54:09S17: Christ and not have a deep and vibrant walk with,
- 54:11S17: with him. And, and sometimes we, you know, the external
- 54:16S17: things that we do, we can sometimes look and say, look,
- 54:18S17: I'm good because I do these things. And it masks
- 54:21S17: other other issues that Christ wants to be dealing with
- 54:24S17: in our lives.
- 54:25S2: You know, for me, um, I shared this a couple
- 54:28S2: of weeks ago. I actually was so culture ized as
- 54:34S2: a Christian, I knew when to stand up, when to
- 54:36S2: sit down, when to say amen. I knew the songs
- 54:39S2: to sing. I knew all this stuff that I didn't
- 54:43S2: know what I didn't know, and that was that I
- 54:46S2: wasn't truly born again. And I think, uh, when, When
- 54:52S2: Jesus saved me and radically released me from being a
- 54:56S2: slave to my sin, I now now going to church fellowship.
- 55:03S2: Everything changed. How do we know the difference between a
- 55:09S2: discipline that is life giving versus a discipline that is
- 55:15S2: just a 2000 year old call to circumcision just to
- 55:20S2: make it look good?
- 55:21S17: That's a that's a great question. I think a discipline
- 55:24S17: that's life giving, you know, says in Galatians, the fruit
- 55:29S17: of the spirit is love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith. Um,
- 55:33S17: we will know that it will be evident that we've
- 55:36S17: been with Christ. If those things are evident in our lives,
- 55:39S17: like people see us and there's joy and there's peace,
- 55:44S17: that's the fruit that that tells us that the discipline
- 55:46S17: of something like going to church is producing that fruit
- 55:49S17: versus a kind of self-righteousness where, um, if our relationships
- 55:54S17: with everyone are fraught, if we constantly are looking our
- 55:57S17: nose down on everybody else because they're not as good
- 55:59S17: as we are, we're like the elder brother who's like,
- 56:02S17: you know, look at me, I've been doing this and
- 56:04S17: how come there's grace extended here and not toward me? And,
- 56:07S17: and I think one of the things you're hitting on
- 56:10S17: this is this was the situation with the circumcision in, uh,
- 56:14S17: the New Testament that we are elevating to primary things
- 56:19S17: that are preferential or, or, um, not that important, right?
- 56:24S17: There are some core things that Christians have to believe
- 56:26S17: and Christian ways that Christians follow Jesus. But then there
- 56:30S17: are preferential things that you and I, Carl, might disagree on, right? Yeah.
- 56:34S17: You know, you, you might like this and I might
- 56:36S17: like this. And we're both faithful Christians. But when we
- 56:39S17: raise those to the level of. If you don't do
- 56:41S17: it just like me, then, um, you're not a real
- 56:44S17: spiritual Christian. And I think there's a danger of that today, Carl,
- 56:47S17: particularly with the internet to say, well, you know, you you, um,
- 56:51S17: you know, do this with your kids in terms of
- 56:53S17: their education. And I do this, therefore I'm more righteous
- 56:55S17: than you and you have good reasons for doing that or,
- 56:58S17: or some other preferential tertiary issue that you raise to
- 57:01S17: that level. And you start to feel like, I am
- 57:04S17: the good ones. We are the good ones. We are
- 57:05S17: the righteous ones. Everyone else has got it wrong. Um,
- 57:08S17: that's really, uh, not spirit filled Christianity.
- 57:14S2: How do we hold? And I don't normally go here,
- 57:17S2: but I'm going to go here. How do we hold
- 57:21S2: on to political planks without letting them be the evidence
- 57:29S2: of a so-called righteousness? When the real evidence is not
- 57:33S2: holding on to a plank, even if it be righteous,
- 57:37S2: but holding on to Jesus, how do we do that.
- 57:40S17: Man, that's a great question, because you and I both
- 57:44S17: urge people to get involved and to, you know, if
- 57:48S17: we love our neighbor as ourselves, we should try to,
- 57:51S17: you know, have a voice in the policy that affects
- 57:54S17: our neighbors flourishing. We care about righteousness in the nation.
- 57:57S17: But man, we can easily get to a place where
- 58:01S17: we think, well, I'm voting right. I'm speaking out. I'm
- 58:04S17: right on the issues. Therefore, I must be right with God.
- 58:06S17: And look, you can you can vote appropriately. You can
- 58:11S17: speak out on on things and against the wrong things
- 58:15S17: and for the right things. You can be doing all that.
- 58:17S17: And that could be a fig leaf for all the
- 58:19S17: stuff inside that we're not dealing with. Right? And ultimately,
- 58:23S17: the end of the day, I mean, all that stuff
- 58:24S17: is important, but what's most important is our relationship with God.
- 58:27S17: And what we can do, Carl, is we can start
- 58:31S17: to be pharisaical about this and start to say, well,
- 58:35S17: the way that you do it or the way that
- 58:37S17: I do it is better than the way that you
- 58:39S17: do it or you're not, you know, posting this on
- 58:42S17: Facebook or social media the way I'm doing it. Therefore,
- 58:45S17: you must not be courageous. You must not be a
- 58:48S17: real Christian or you don't have this position on this
- 58:51S17: specific political issue. You must not be a real Christian.
- 58:55S17: Instead of saying, wait a minute, you know what makes
- 58:57S17: me a Christian is that I'm a sinner saved by grace. Yes.
- 59:00S17: And even though I, I want to speak out on things,
- 59:02S17: I really do. We really should speak on things. I
- 59:05S17: don't want to do it from a place of self-righteousness,
- 59:07S17: from a place of love. Um, knowing that, you know, I,
- 59:13S17: you know, I am just one step away from that
- 59:15S17: person that, uh, I might think is, is going through
- 59:18S17: a hard time or whatever, like that, that at the
- 59:21S17: end of the day, what will, what will make the
- 59:24S17: nation more righteous is people following Jesus and revival and
- 59:30S17: people going to church and, and like ultimately politics is useful,
- 59:34S17: but it's not ultimate. And we can't let it divide
- 59:37S17: us from our friends and our neighbors. We can't let it,
- 59:39S17: let it make us self righteousness if, if we're not careful, activism, politics,
- 59:44S17: all this stuff, which is good, It. It can produce
- 59:47S17: a kind of very arrogant self-righteousness that separates us from
- 59:51S17: other Christians.
- 59:52S2: Totally and in the ability to reach the world that
- 59:55S2: we claim to defend.
- 59:56S17: That's exactly.
- 59:57S2: Right.
- 59:57S17: Yeah. That's right. We can't hate our mission field, can't we?
- 1:00:00S17: We have to love our mission field.
- 1:00:02S2: I love this discussion. You know, it goes on here.
- 1:00:04S2: This is very interesting. Look, Paul says in verse two
- 1:00:08S2: after he's talked about, if you got this freedom in Christ,
- 1:00:10S2: don't be submitted to this yoke of slavery. So the
- 1:00:13S2: whole premise today is we can be totally free in
- 1:00:16S2: Christ and stuck. And sometimes religiosity gets us stuck. And
- 1:00:20S2: he goes on to say, look, I, Paul, say to
- 1:00:22S2: you that if you accept circumcision now, what he's talking
- 1:00:25S2: about here, he's not talking about, oh, if you've been circumcised,
- 1:00:28S2: you've done something wrong. He's saying, people were saying this
- 1:00:31S2: act of circumcision was more important than this relationship with God.
- 1:00:36S2: He says Christ will be of no advantage to you.
- 1:00:41S2: So the great danger here is if we measure our
- 1:00:44S2: spirituality by all these external things. We could well be
- 1:00:51S2: a person that Jesus says, I don't know. You depart
- 1:00:55S2: from me. That's a scary proposition, Daniel.
- 1:00:58S17: Yeah, it really is. I mean, I think what he's
- 1:01:01S17: saying is you can you can meet all these external
- 1:01:04S17: things and not have the inward work of the heart.
- 1:01:10S17: And man, if you've been a Christian for a long time,
- 1:01:12S17: like I have, like you have, we know that we
- 1:01:14S17: can play that game at times.
- 1:01:16S2: Where believe.
- 1:01:17S17: It, I'm checking all the boxes and look, these are
- 1:01:19S17: good boxes. We're not saying not to check them. Right.
- 1:01:22S17: Good family, good good church. You know, doing all these
- 1:01:25S17: things faithful here and there. But we're not tending to
- 1:01:28S17: our heart. We don't have a real strong, vibrant relationship
- 1:01:30S17: with Christ. We're not coming to him in repentance and prayer,
- 1:01:34S17: and he's not changing our lives. And again, I think
- 1:01:36S17: Paul gives us that metric. Are you are you showing
- 1:01:39S17: the fruit of the spirit in your life? Yes, it's
- 1:01:42S17: pretty easy, right?
- 1:01:42S2: The flesh.
- 1:01:44S17: Right? If you. It's pretty easy, right? If you plant corn.
- 1:01:46S17: Corn is going to grow. So if something growing is
- 1:01:49S17: not what you. Is are not those things, then we're
- 1:01:52S17: not planting things in our lives, right? So if, if love, joy,
- 1:01:55S17: peace and all that stuff is not growing, then there's
- 1:01:57S17: something wrong.
- 1:01:58S2: Yeah, beautiful. And we've probably made secondary tertiary things primary.
- 1:02:05S2: And therein lies the problem. Dan darling. Yep. He's got
- 1:02:10S2: great website for you and I'm going to give it
- 1:02:13S2: to you right now. One key word. Text the word
- 1:02:16S2: book to 805 557898. Book 805 557898. When you get
- 1:02:26S2: to his site, you're going to find a lot of resources,
- 1:02:29S2: great works man. Podcast links, book links, article links. You
- 1:02:35S2: want to be a freedom fighter? We've got a location
- 1:02:38S2: for you. Text book to 805 five, five, 78, 98.