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- Join with Me Ministries Podcast Episode 14: We are honored that you have chosen to listen to this podcast. Join with me, where the information will be biblical, filled with joy, and very helpful. Stay tuned to the end where you will learn how to communicate with Rayburn and Donna about today's episode. Hi, I'm Rayburn Hayer. And this is Join With Me Podcast. Does the name John Coulter mean anything to you? Maybe it does. If you're a history buff, I'm not necessarily, but I read a story that that intrigued me so much. And I and I kind of thought about the story and I I I've kind of put a an application to this. So if you've you've heard the story, you'll You'll be very familiar with it in the in the late 1800s, early eighteen hundreds, I should say, John Coulter and his partner were trapping on a on a river when suddenly they were come kind of overcome by a a group of black feet warriors, Indians. Well, his partner jumped in the boat. And begin to try to get away where they were just he was just immediately killed with arrows and they shot him and he was killed. But but John Coulter just stood his ground right there, had nothing really to fight with. But the chief decided, hey, listen, let's don't kill it. Let's don't kill him fast. let's have some fun with him. So he asked him, kind of put him, you know, aside and while they tied him up, all that. He said, Hey, are you a fast runner? Well, Coulter thought he would try to play strategy and said, No, I can't I can't hardly run at all. So the chief said, Okay, here's what we're gonna do. They stripped him completely naked, and they said, You run, and we're gonna give you a head start. And then about five or six, as I recall, of my warriors is gonna come after you and they're gonna try to kill you. So Coulter took off. And as it turned out, he was a very good runner. So after 300 yards, sure enough, they took off after him. Not horses, but running. Well, because of his speed and endurance, he outlasted several and it came to the very last one. The very last one approached him and Coulter let him get, say, let's say twenty-five to fifty yards from him, where he took a spear and threw it at Coulter, and Coulter was able to dodge it, and at the side time he threw it, the warrior fell. Coulter grabbed the spear and went and killed him with his own spear. So he outlasted the five or six warriors and But he knew there were more, so he turned and took off running. Now, as the story is told, and this is documented, so I'm not, trying to make this up, that he ran five to six miles completely naked, barefooted, through a through a kind of a desert like area with lots of cactuses. So you can imagine what it did to his feet. He came to a maybe a lake, pond or whatever. And he found in that water, which was freezing cold by the way, he got into the water and there was a beaver dam. And and look now look, if you've ever seen dealt with beavers, and I haven't a lot, but in my hunting and outdoors I've encountered beavers and and yeah, they will dam up a a a place, but oftentimes they will build what they call a beaver castle. And so he found that he was able to go down underneath, find a pocket of air under that beaver literally castle, and as the other warriors came, he was able to stay in there maybe a day, freezing cold, outlasted them to where they finally give up looking for him. Now, that would be a good story. Is a good story. But he then continued, the story says, over a hundred and fifty miles before he got to a settlement. completely naked, hungry. you can imagine, you can only imagine what it was like for him to to can encounter what he did with the warriors, and then another hundred and fifty plus miles. own foot, barefooted, hunger all those things that you can think about. imagine. You go read the story. I mean, it's it's well d well documented of the John Coulter story they now actually have in certain places. John Coulter runs. Not that you run naked and barefooted, but but anyway, to kind of honor him, it's been said that he was the very first one. He was on the expedition. That's explored and and and all that. It's been said that he was maybe the first person to ever see the Yellowstone National Forest, and as it goes. But anyway, it's a great story. I'm so thrilled to be able to offer a new sponsor, Community Mortgage, and my friend Becky Schultz. She's got an amazing opportunity for invest the investors. 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Call her directly, 816-914-8050. And by the way, tell her that Rayburn or Join Me Podcast told you to call her. Becky's license number is 257952 and Community Mortgage license number 224143. When I read that, I kind of thought, here's what I thought. A verse in scripture immediately came to my mind, found in Matthew chapter 10 and verse 28. It says, Do not fear those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul. Now why did I think about that verse? Well, I'm not saying he was not afraid. I'm sure he was afraid. But he faced his enemies that were literally trying to kill him, desperate, naked, you know, all of that that you can conjure up in your mind. He faced his enemies head on, completely stripped bare of anything other than his what? We'll say his will. To live. Now, obviously he was a skillful outdoors person and and all that. So I'm not saying that he wasn't. But I am saying that he was stripped completely of any resource other than his will to live. So I I think when I s I read that verse, I I I think do not fear those who can kill the body. He knew they were could kill him. were trying to kill him, had killed his partner. So he knew that, knew they could, but they could not kill his soul, as the scripture says. In this case, his will to simply live. That verse goes on and it says in the in the second part, it says, Don't kill don't fear those people, but big but there's two B U T in that verse, but rather fear him, as the scripture says, speaking of really God, who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Now that's what the Bible says. What Jesus said in Matthew chapter ten and verse twenty eight. He said, Don't fear man. They can only do so much to you. And I'm not making light of that. But I am saying Jesus said, they can only do so much. You need to fear me. Who has the power, the ability, and as the scripture says in Matthew 10, 28, who is able, is able. Hey, I that's what the Bible says. I'm just trying to tell you what it says. He's able to destroy both soul and body. So the those those warriors, they certainly could kill the body. They'd killed his partner, but they didn't kill him. So they stripped him of everything he had, but they couldn't take his will to live. Now how? I I want you to just contemplate that and just think about, yeah, I'm not look, I'm not saying I hope I don't and I hope you don't ever have to face that kind of literally trial, t torment or whatever. But what is your will to survive? What is your will and maybe a better application to live and to live not for the world but for for God? He tells us that if you if you serve Christ, you will suffer persecution. You will have hard times. You will have difficult times. I do believe that, by the way. I'm not going to get off on that right now, but I do believe that for the true believer in Jesus Christ, that there will come times of I I'm not trying to figure that out, but I just know the Bible says that. Are you prepared for that? Are you prepared to to fear God and not man? Now, here's a thought. Coming up, we're gonna have a question and answer session. Because and I think maybe this came to mind because we've had listener ask the question about fear. What does the Bible mean when it says fear God and not fear man? Well, I'm gonna ask my pastor friend to ask answer that for us best he can. And we'll try to maybe talk about it a little bit more in this podcast. So John Coulter, what an amazing story. I'd never read that story. Maybe you have, maybe it's old as as as can be, but for me it was very intriguing, very interesting. What an amazing man that survived and and here I am talking about it as many. Okay, I hope that helps you encourages you gives you something you didn't know and think about you know what matthew 1028 says who to fear not those that can only kill the body but but fear god who can both destroy the body and the soul for all eternity in hell so I hope you'll think about that and maybe that'll help you okay this is rayburn hair and this is join with me Podcast. We trust you enjoyed today's sharing from the heart. If you want to learn more, please feel free to contact us at Rayburnhair at gmail.com. Or you can go to our website, joinwithme.life. Thank you for listening. Be sure to share with a friend and have a blessed day on purpose.