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Celebrating 100 Years of Moody Radio · 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 God, 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. It was Bruce Everhart we had in here
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S1: a week or two ago, and we were talking about
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S1: defining moments, and he was getting choked up talking about Moody,
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S1: the history of Moody Radio. And he asked me a
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S1: question and he said, do you know the defining moment
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S1: of Carl and crew? I said, I think I do.
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S1: I think it was a day, February 22nd of 2018,
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S1: when we had Pastor Lutzer in studio, and I felt compelled.
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S1: We had shared the gospel, but we'd never called for
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S1: response to the gospel to surrender all they are to
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S1: Jesus recognize their their sin, their need for a Savior,
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S1: and to once and for all surrender all to him.
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S1: It was in memory of Billy Graham's passing, and it
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S1: was the day after. It was February 22nd of 2018.
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S1: Doctor Lutzer was with us that day and he's with
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S1: us right now. That was an amazing day, pastor. About
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S1: 400 people surrendering to Christ on that morning show alone.
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S1: Thank you for that.
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S5: And you know the thing that motivated them and motivated
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S5: me to give the gospel was I had the privilege
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S5: my wife and I did of visiting Billy Graham when
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S5: he was about 90. And the thing that I mentioned
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S5: on the air at that time was this here's this
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S5: famous man, always surrounded by cameras, always surrounded by aides,
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S5: everybody wanting to do something for him. And here he is,
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S5: sitting alone in a wheelchair in his home without any
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S5: of the buzz around him and totally satisfied with Jesus
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S5: and the challenge. I think, if I remember correctly, and
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S5: I wasn't expecting you to mention this, but I think
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S5: the challenge was simply this. Do you today and I'm
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S5: talking to our audience, do you have that kind of
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S5: certainty and faith by which someday you will be alone.
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S5: Nobody will be buzzing over you, so to speak, and
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S5: yet you're going to be satisfied with Jesus. And that
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S5: really struck me that day that we were there is
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S5: that here's this very famous man. Of course, at the
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S5: age of 90, he was starting to get old, but
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S5: he lived many years after. And, uh, at the end
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S5: of the day, satisfied with Jesus, though, he was one
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S5: of the most famous men in the world. And here's
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S5: the question I'm asking everybody who's listening to me right now.
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S5: Are you satisfied with Jesus or to ask it differently?
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S5: Who do you love? You know, when when the new
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S5: birth happens in a person's life, the first thing that
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S5: he or she notices is that they have a love
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S5: for God and they have a love for Jesus. And
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S5: I would say to all those who are listening, Carl,
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S5: if you don't have a love for God and a
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S5: love for Jesus, I really wonder if you're born again.
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S1: Yeah. Yeah. Pastor Lutzer is our guest right now. And pastor,
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S1: you and I have discussed this a lot lately. We
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S1: have a because of a cultural Christianity, an easy believism
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S1: some have called it, um, it doesn't withstand the test
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S1: of time. It doesn't withstand those wheelchair moments when we're
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S1: alone with God. But we offer that today, don't we, pastor?
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S1: And it's, it's not a calling to be conformed to
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S1: the image of a church and the expectations of the outside.
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S1: We know when we've been rehearsing this this morning, haven't we, Ali?
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S1: That Jesus warned to be not a person with a
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S1: cup clean on the outside, but that we would look within.
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S1: And it's that deep look within that moment of sobriety,
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S1: the Spirit of God can reveal the love of God
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S1: and what a relationship with Christ really looks like. How
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S1: can someone know that they know that they stand with Christ?
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S5: Well, I think first of all, we want to make
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S5: it very clear that salvation is a free gift. It's
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S5: the gift of God. But why is it that some
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S5: people who think they have received the gift haven't? And
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S5: I think you've already touched on it. There's a sense
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S5: in which they conform, or even they pray thinking, well, okay,
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S5: I prayed or I made some kind of a decision
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S5: for Christ without understanding any of the depth of their
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S5: sinfulness and the tremendous need that they have of God's grace.
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S5: So once you place your trust in Christ alone, once
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S5: you give up all other options, put your faith in
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S5: Jesus Christ alone. How do you know? Well, I think
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S5: I've already mentioned one way, and that is the fact
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S5: that you love and you're going to love God. You're
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S5: going to love Jesus. If any man or woman be
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S5: in Christ, they are new creatures. Something happens within us.
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S5: Something is within us that wasn't in us before we
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S5: were converted. And then, of course, beyond that, a desire
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S5: to obey God, a desire to pursue him along the way. Stumbling, yes,
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S5: maybe even some backsliding, but always having that Desire.
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S1: Yes.
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S5: Always having that desire to be in fellowship with God
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S5: and to walk with him.
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S6: Doctor Erwin Lutzer so for the person who's listening and
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S6: they're wrestling, there's a wrestling going on in their soul
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S6: right now as they weigh out the words that you're speaking.
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S6: I want you to invite, invite people in. How can
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S6: you know Jesus if you don't? Today.
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S5: I'd say no matter where you are, if God has
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S5: spoken to you and you know that you're among those
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S5: who don't really know Jesus, you've never really been converted.
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S5: Why don't you just stop now and come to God
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S5: with all your doubts? I love that song. You know,
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S5: of course, it was always used in the Billy Graham meetings,
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S5: just as I am, though tossed about with many a conflict,
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S5: many a doubt fightings within fears without. O Lamb of God,
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S5: I come, I come. Come with your doubts. Come with
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S5: your misgivings. Come with your your fear that you aren't
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S5: going to hold out because you probably. If you think
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S5: you will, you're going to stumble. Yes. I'm not saying you're.
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S5: It's inevitable. I'm just simply saying it happens, but you
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S5: come anyway. I remember witnessing to somebody on the plane
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S5: who said, I'm not going to get saved until I
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S5: can hold out until the end. Really? So how do
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S5: you know that you're going to hold out until the end?
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S5: I mean, who of us knows that we aren't going
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S5: to stumble and fall? That certainly could happen. It happens.
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S5: You come as you are, you come with your misgivings,
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S5: but you come to Jesus, who said, he who believes
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S5: on me has eternal life. And that belief is a
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S5: very deliberate, committed belief. Because you're desperate, you have no
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S5: other option.
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S1: Yeah. As you're listening right now, the apostle Paul was clear.
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S1: If you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord. That
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S1: is that he is the new ultimate authority of all
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S1: that I am, all that I do. If you confess
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S1: with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your
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S1: heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will
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S1: be saved. And you know there's no I'll to walk today.
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S1: There's no patent prayer. Salvation is a cry of the
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S1: soul friend. It's looking in the mirror of your soul.
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S1: And the Holy Spirit's doing that with you right now.
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S1: You're seeing yourself for who you are. And you might
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S1: feel like, oh, I'm wrecked. Praise be to God, because
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S1: blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the
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S1: kingdom of heaven. When you're spiritually bankrupt, my friend, you
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S1: are strategically positioned to be enveloped in the arms of
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S1: Jesus who says, come to me, all who are weary
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S1: and heavy laden. I'll give you rest, and you need
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S1: rest for your soul, because this religious performance in all
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S1: of those things are not going to save you. Only
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S1: Jesus and Christ alone can save you. In just a moment,
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S1: Pastor Lutzer is going to pray for you. But if
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S1: the cry of your soul today and there's something new happening,
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S1: there's something totally different. This isn't another hand in the air.
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S1: This isn't another prayer prayed. This is a full blown
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S1: surrender of all that you are. It's a metamorphosis. It's
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S1: a turning over of all that you are. Your mind,
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S1: your aspirations, your hopes, the life that you've built. And
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S1: you say, I give it all to you, Jesus today.
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S1: Every bit of me. Just let that be the cry
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S1: of your soul, friend. Right now, just let that be
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S1: the cry of your soul. Surrender all you are to Jesus.
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S1: And when you do that, I want you to get
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S1: to a safe place. If you're driving, get to the
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S1: side of the road. We're going to give you a
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S1: link in just a moment here, because we want to
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S1: help you in your first steps of Jesus. This is
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S1: the most important conversation we can have with you right now.
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S1: So get to the side of the road. Get to
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S1: a safe place. If you're walking, grab grab your phone,
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S1: get it in front of you. If you're in the
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S1: kitchen or at work, grab that phone. And right now,
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S1: if this is your day of declaration that Jesus Christ
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S1: is Lord, he is my highest authority. Never before have
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S1: I done this today. This is as real as the
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S1: breath I breathe. Text the word new right now. Wherever
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S1: you are. New two 805 557898. We're going to pray
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S1: for you in just a moment, but right now, text
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S1: the word new wherever you are to 805 five, five, 78,
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S1: 981 word new 805 557898 pastor Lutzer pray for those
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S1: that are coming to Jesus today.
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S5: Father, we're asking in the name of Jesus and for
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S5: your glory that you'll overcome darkness. Yeah, that you'll overcome
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S5: all excuses, that you'll overcome anger, which oftentimes stands in
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S5: the way of faith in Jesus, that you might overcome
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S5: all of the overwhelming issues that people are facing, and
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S5: that you might show them that Jesus is their only
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S5: hope for eternal life, Yes. Both in this life and
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S5: in the life to come. Help them, father, to pray
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S5: and to know that their prayer doesn't save them, but
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S5: the cry of their heart does. And so we ask
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S5: that many, many might believe in you right now, that
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S5: they might be saved based on your promises. We love you,
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S5: and we thank you for the opportunity of sharing this.
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S5: In Jesus name. Amen.
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S1: Amen. What a joy. Ali got numbers responding here. We're
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S1: going to call out in a little bit the last
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S1: four numbers of your telephone number on this birthday of
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S1: 100 years of Moody Radio. The amazing thing is that
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S1: today is your birthday. Spiritually, God is making you new,
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S1: and some of you are wiping tears from your eyes.
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S1: You can barely see the numbers on your phone, but
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S1: when you can text the word new Today is a
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S1: new day. Today you come just as you are and
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S1: God changes everything. Text new two 805 557898. And in
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S1: the spirit of this moment, text new Friend to 805 557898.
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S7: She was trying to earn her way to God, but
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S7: God showed her she didn't have to. Ali is in
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S7: the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
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S1: I've never said this before. It's kind of heartache and.
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S1: Former Moody Bible Institute president, founding pastor of New Life
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S1: Community Church, bold steps. Author, alum, the gospel man himself,
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S1: doctor Mark Jobe. Mark, I miss you, young man.
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S8: Hey, I miss you guys too. But let me say
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S8: before anything else, Moody radio. Happy birthday. Yes.
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S1: Yes, that's what we got to hear, Doctor Jobe.
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S6: Good to hear your voice again as you reflect on
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S6: your part, your role in these last hundred years. You've
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S6: been you were around as a student to. You, of course,
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S6: spent time as the president. Give us your vantage point.
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S6: What have you seen God do through Moody Radio?
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S8: You know, I could tell you story after story after story, Ali,
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S8: of just people that have been touched. But as I
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S8: was thinking about this, a couple thoughts come to my mind.
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S8: Number one, I love the fact that on July 28th, 1926,
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S8: a hundred years ago today, the very first words from
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S8: what I understand that were broadcast were, I want you
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S8: to know him.
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S6: That's right.
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S8: You know, that's prophetic. That's powerful.
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S1: Yes.
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S8: And think about it. That was the 1920s. It was
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S8: the Roaring 20s, I think of Chicago. It was just
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S8: a time of upheaval, of change. Little did they know
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S8: that Moody would be moody. Radio would be ministering to
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S8: people as the war. As the war started to approach
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S8: us in the. In the 19 late 1930s, Moody was there,
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S8: walking people through that 911, bringing hope to people. I
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S8: think of Covid and some of the testimonies from people
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S8: that said I was dying in my hospital room or
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S8: dying alone. I couldn't see anybody. Moody radio was a lifeline,
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S8: reminding me that there's hope in Jesus Christ. And I
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S8: think 100 years this nation has been through a lot.
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S8: But I love the fact that the gospel of Jesus
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S8: Christ is still clearly, boldly, powerfully presented via these airwaves.
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S8: It's an amazing thing. Only a God story.
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S1: Yeah. Mark, it is, uh, it's breathtaking, isn't it? To
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S1: look back at what God has done over the years.
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S1: You think about when when it was begun here, and
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S1: then it would be two decades later, a little bit more.
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S1: That World War Two broke out. And to navigate that
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S1: in every other natural disaster, in every cultural change. But
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S1: here's what's amazing. The gospel has never changed for 100 years, Mark.
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S8: It hasn't. And you know what? I've said this often,
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S8: but what really compels me inspires me about the story
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S8: of not only Moody radio, but Moody Bible Institute as
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S8: a whole, is that there are so many ministries, colleges, organizations,
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S8: places that have been successful that with growth and success,
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S8: they typically start to water down and steer away from
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S8: the simplicity of the gospel. One of the things that
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S8: makes Moody Radio Moody Bible Institute so unique is that
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S8: in spite of its growth, in spite of its impact,
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S8: for some reason, and I can only attribute that to
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S8: the hand of God. Karl, the hand of God that
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S8: Moody has stayed with the powerful but yet clear simplicity
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S8: of the gospel and has stayed rooted. And, you know,
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S8: people say, well, that's, uh is that so unusual? Yes,
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S8: it is very unusual in today's day and age, especially
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S8: with institutions that started over 100 years ago. So this
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S8: is something really worth celebrating. I can't even imagine literally
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S8: the millions of people, uh, when we first started getting, uh,
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S8: testimonies from Muslim teenagers in Malawi, Africa, saying they gather
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S8: around the radio and listen and have come to Christ
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S8: my heart. I couldn't keep back the my eyes welling
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S8: up with tears at thinking of how something broadcast in
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S8: Chicago is made its way to some remote areas around
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S8: the world.
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S6: Doctor Mark Jobe joining us this morning. Former president of
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S6: Moody Bible Institute. He's about a less than a month
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S6: into his not retirement because he's still actively working.
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S1: He's rolling up the spiritual sleeves and he's after it. Yeah.
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S1: We're so grateful for you, Mark. And what a happy birthday,
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S1: isn't it, friend?
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S8: It really is. And, um, my, you know, my, the
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S8: storm went through Chicago. Those of you that are listening.
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S8: Chicago was hit by some tornadoes and storms. And so my,
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S8: the electricity in my house, along with thousands of other
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S8: people went out. And so it was I couldn't make
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S8: coffee this morning, had to go out for it. And,
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S8: you know, I was thinking to myself, until it's gone,
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S8: you know, you don't realize how much you depend on
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S8: it and how much you need it. And like, it's
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S8: just electricity. But our whole you can't, you know, the air,
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S8: the coffee maker, the reading, the charging of the phones.
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S8: And I was thinking, you know, Moody radio is kind
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S8: of like that as well. There are people that have
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S8: grown up listening to Moody Radio. We just kind of
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S8: expect it's been there. It's influenced not only Chicagoland area,
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S8: but so many other places. Um, but I thought it's
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S8: like electricity in our house. If it weren't there, it
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S8: would leave a huge vacuum. Not that the gospel doesn't
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S8: go out through so many other places, but this has
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S8: been one of those ministries that has been consistent, faithful, powerful, uh,
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S8: stayed true and has continued to influence so many people.
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S8: If it were not here, it would be like electricity.
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S8: We'd say, wait a second. I didn't realize how important
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S8: it was.
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S1: Well, you get that right, Mark. And what a joy
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S1: to have you in here on this hundredth birthday. And
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S1: from all of us listening to you, Mark Jobe, we
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S1: love you. We are proud of you. Grateful for your
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S1: tenure here as president. You made a difference, my man. Godspeed.
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S7: Breaking chains and running free. You're listening to Carl and crew.
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S9: It's a big birthday.
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S1: Celebration here for Moody Radio 100 years today. We've seen
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S1: scores and scores of people this morning surrender their lives
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S1: to Jesus Christ. It's an emotional thing. It's a it's
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S1: a powerful thing to witness the spirit of the living God,
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S1: reach into the soul of a dead person and breathe
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S1: life into them. And we're bringing in voices in this
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S1: next voice that we're bringing in is just a great
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S1: woman of God. I admire her so much for two
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S1: things in particular clarity. She's a culture watcher, but she's
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S1: a gospel woman all the way. Clarity. And the second
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S1: word is courage.
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S6: Yes.
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S1: She is courageous. I don't know why. I just think
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S1: her and Lydia, the seller of purple, are going to
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S1: have a great ten years just talking it up when
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S1: they get to glory together. I just I just believe it. Janet. Partial.
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S1: Our guest right now. Good morning Janet, and happy birthday
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S1: to this celebration. Thanks for joining us.
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S10: Oh, what a joy to be a part of this
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S10: chorus of voices. And boy, when Lily and I get together,
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S10: I want to learn about her business acumen. I funded
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S10: so much of the church. You know.
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S1: I'm telling you, I honestly believe because you're such you're
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S1: so entrepreneurial in the way God wired you and you're
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S1: so bold and courageous. I just really believe you and
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S1: Lydia are going to be talking it up, Janet.
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S10: All right. So, Carl, on that note, who are you
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S10: looking forward to talking?
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S1: Oh, Josiah. A million years. Josiah. Yeah, I can't wait,
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S1: I can't oh, you're going to get me crying. I
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S1: can't wait to see King Josiah.
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S6: Duck. We've got Janet, a doctor. Doctor Janet Parshall that's
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S6: got a nice ring.
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S1: To it for one on her.
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S6: Today. As you reflect on your time broadcasting on Moody
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S6: Radio as a partner, what do you what stands out
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S6: to you that you have noticed over these years?
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S10: Oh, beyond a shadow of a doubt. And it relates, ironically,
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S10: to one of the news stories we just heard. We're
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S10: not drifting at sea. We are anchored in the Gospel
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S10: of Jesus Christ. I was thinking this morning, when you
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S10: come up to 100 years, first of all, just the
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S10: world of broadcasting has changed to the point where if
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S10: you were in a time machine and you went forward
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S10: 100 years, we wouldn't recognize who we are today. And hence,
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S10: if they look back 100 years, see where we are today.
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S10: Reel to reel that, uh, tracks, cassettes, digital to analog,
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S10: analog to digital, all the changes that have gone on.
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S10: But what hasn't changed in 100 years is the gospel message.
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S10: That's why we at Moody Radio don't drift. We're anchored
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S10: in the Word of God. We know exactly who our
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S10: northern star is. We're on course because we follow him.
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S10: And whether the seas are stormy or whether they're calm.
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S10: And we've seen that in the culture in 100 years,
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S10: wars and rumors of wars, we can hold on to
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S10: Jesus Christ because we know he's going to lead us
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S10: home safely. So that's why I love Moody Radio personally.
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S10: That's why I love to listen to Moody Radio, because
23:28
S10: I know I'm going to turn it on, and I'm
23:30
S10: going to hear consistency and the clear declaration of the
23:34
S10: Gospel of Jesus Christ. And you know what? They haven't.
23:37
S10: They haven't drifted to keep up with the times or
23:38
S10: to be trendy, or what's the new bright, shiny thing?
23:41
S10: They said the gospel is enough. And that's what we've proclaimed.
23:45
S10: And so that's why I love Moody, personally honored to
23:48
S10: be a part of the team. But personally, there's no
23:50
S10: mission drift here. My sail mast is not broken. Our wind,
23:54
S10: the wind of our sails is filled with the truth
23:57
S10: of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So we're heading home,
23:59
S10: and he's our sailor.
24:00
S1: Okay, I want to shut her down and just get
24:02
S1: out out there right now. Wow. Uh, Janet, partial or
24:05
S1: guest right now? Janet, uh, you have a good boy on.
24:11
S1: You're a culture watcher, for sure. Well, there's there's been
24:15
S1: a lot of speculation. It's it's ironic to me that
24:18
S1: in the 70s, there was a lot about end times.
24:23
S1: I've been stunned at the relative silence. Given all that
24:27
S1: is happening with AI, and especially in the Middle East,
24:32
S1: you have been courageous standing up for our friend Israel
24:36
S1: and to bless them. What are you seeing that you
24:41
S1: have not seen before?
24:44
S10: anti-Semitism in the church. Just to put it simply, I mean,
24:47
S10: to me it's like bread and butter. I was one
24:49
S10: of those kids who was raised in a Bible church,
24:51
S10: came to faith in Christ when I was six. My
24:53
S10: mother loved the Jewish people and passed that down to
24:56
S10: us as her children. And so there is zero ambiguity
24:59
S10: in our lives about the precious placement of God's chosen
25:02
S10: people and the profound understanding that I'm saved because of
25:05
S10: a Jewish Messiah. I've been grafted on, and salvation came
25:09
S10: by way of the Jews first. Never in a gazillion
25:12
S10: years would I have thought that anti-Semitism would have crept
25:15
S10: its way under the front of the church. And now
25:17
S10: we get people who try to answer the question, how
25:19
S10: many angels dance on the head of a pin by
25:22
S10: couching the question as well? I could be anti-Israel, but
25:25
S10: I'm for the Jewish people. Wait, you can't be anti
25:28
S10: a Jewish state and say that you're not as well
25:31
S10: anti the Jewish people. So I think Carl the answer
25:34
S10: to that question really comes back to the Word of God.
25:36
S10: This isn't our opinion. This isn't raising a moistened finger
25:39
S10: in the air and seeing what the geopolitics are. It's
25:41
S10: looking at a covenantal God who made an unconditional promise
25:46
S10: with the people that he chose to bring salvation to
25:49
S10: the world. And God is a promise. Keeping God at
25:52
S10: its core are two things. Number one, we need to
25:54
S10: recognize that the original anti-Semite is Satan himself. And number two,
25:59
S10: really anti-Semitism at its core calls into account the character
26:02
S10: of God. God didn't change his mind, and he keeps
26:06
S10: his promises. And somewhere between Malachi and Matthew, he didn't
26:09
S10: lose his way.
26:11
S6: Yeah. Janet partial with us this morning as we look forward.
26:14
S6: You know, you have the opportunity. We have the opportunity
26:17
S6: in the mornings, you would take it in the afternoons
26:19
S6: to proclaim the truth of the gospel. And as culture shifts,
26:23
S6: as there's so many, so much messaging, so much confusion
26:26
S6: about what's true, what's exciting, what excites you as you
26:29
S6: look forward?
26:31
S10: Well, the more I see chaos in the culture, the
26:34
S10: more I'm understanding the power and the clarity and the
26:37
S10: necessary application of the gospel of Jesus Christ. So I'm
26:41
S10: excited about that because I don't have to wake up
26:42
S10: every morning personally and say, oh my, I hope I
26:45
S10: discover truth today. I wake up this morning knowing that
26:48
S10: the one who is truth has already crowned me with
26:50
S10: his tender mercies and his sufficient grace and his unconditional love.
26:54
S10: So my attitude is, the culture was doing exactly what
26:57
S10: Jesus told us the culture was going to do. That
26:59
S10: doesn't bother me one iota, but I get excited because
27:02
S10: as I'm seeing all of the pieces being moved on
27:05
S10: the stage of life right now, I don't know about you,
27:07
S10: but I know we're in the final act. It could
27:08
S10: be tomorrow, it could be a thousand years from now,
27:11
S10: but everything is in place for that trumpet to sound
27:13
S10: and boom harpazo us to be taken up. First Thessalonians,
27:17
S10: and I'm ready when it happens. But from that, because
27:19
S10: we care about people you, Ellie, you, Carl, I, we
27:22
S10: care just so much about people because we, like Jesus,
27:26
S10: don't want anybody to miss the opportunity to have Jesus
27:30
S10: Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. Our King said
27:32
S10: he wasn't willing that any should perish, but that all
27:35
S10: should come to repentance. And so because we love people,
27:38
S10: we want to say, look at your oh, look, my watch.
27:40
S10: It says Matthew 24, hey, you need to know Jesus
27:44
S10: because he could come tonight. And the question on your
27:46
S10: lips better be, Who is Jesus? How do I know
27:49
S10: him personally? And where will I go when I breathe
27:51
S10: my last? That's not a panic. There's an urgency and
27:55
S10: a necessity of that message. And I think that's what
27:58
S10: I love about Moody is that we understand the times.
28:00
S10: I want to be like the men of the tribe
28:02
S10: of Issachar, who know the times and know what to
28:04
S10: do right. And what we need to do right now,
28:06
S10: more than ever before, is, say, there is a right
28:08
S10: way and a wrong way. I got to tell you,
28:10
S10: one of the things I'm watching, and, you know, on Fridays,
28:12
S10: we love to put out Wolf audio, which is the
28:14
S10: proclamation of people who are in Matthew. Ravenous wolves, like
28:17
S10: Jesus told us. And boy, there is a pattern I've
28:20
S10: heard over and over and over again from so many
28:22
S10: wolves where they're going after John 14, where Jesus makes
28:26
S10: this exclamation, exclamation that is at the same time inclusive
28:30
S10: and exclusive that he said, I am the way, the truth,
28:33
S10: and the life, and no one comes to the father
28:34
S10: but by me. I have never heard such sloppy eisegesis
28:38
S10: in my life where people are going to exclusive. I
28:41
S10: don't believe Jesus is the only way. I think he
28:43
S10: is a way. And I'm thinking to myself, when the
28:46
S10: culture starts going to the core issue, that Jesus is
28:49
S10: the only way to God through him. Okay, this is
28:53
S10: the way. Walk in it. When the culture starts going
28:55
S10: after that plumb line of the orthodoxy of what we believe,
28:59
S10: then you know Jesus is coming again. And it underscores
29:03
S10: why we at Moody need to be even more fastidious
29:05
S10: about proclaiming the gospel without blush, embarrassment, or hesitation. Because
29:10
S10: the day is coming when the world gets divided into
29:12
S10: two camps those who said yes and those who said no.
29:15
S10: And we at Moody love people so much. We want
29:17
S10: that camp of yes to be overflowing. We want to
29:20
S10: make heaven crowded, as the saying goes.
29:23
S1: Yes. Partial. You are an inspiration, and you keep that
29:27
S1: clarity and that courage at peak form. Okay, sister.
29:32
S10: Thank you, brother, and you too. And thank you, Ali
29:34
S10: and Carol for all you do in the mornings. I
29:36
S10: love you in the Lord.
29:37
S1: Oh. Godspeed, Janet Parshall, everybody. What a. What an inspiration.
29:42
S6: Listen. Afternoons right here on Moody Radio.
29:46
S7: Get to know the team behind the scenes. Follow Carl
29:49
S7: and crew on Facebook and Instagram.
29:52
S1: Nobody's been here a hundred years, but some have been
29:56
S1: here a while and have remained faithful. And one of
30:00
S1: our favorite men of God is clearly Doctor Gary Chapman. Gary.
30:04
S1: So good to have you with us here today. 100
30:07
S1: years of faithful gospel ministry. What's on your heart to
30:11
S1: share today, my friend?
30:13
S11: That's incredible. I was just thinking, I hope I make
30:15
S11: it to 100, you know?
30:17
S1: Well, you're you're on. You are in good shape, my friend.
30:21
S1: You're on your way. But you are doing so well.
30:24
S1: It's so beautiful.
30:25
S11: I tell you, one of the things I really appreciated
30:27
S11: is working through the book. The new book has just
30:30
S11: released on the history of Moody Radio, and I've been
30:33
S11: working my way through that, and all the people who
30:36
S11: have been so faithful through the years, you know, and
30:38
S11: it's just encouraging. It's just very encouraging. And the other
30:42
S11: thing I really appreciate just personally is the Moody radio app,
30:47
S11: you know, so I can be driving down the car
30:49
S11: or sitting anywhere, anywhere, and just get on the app
30:53
S11: and hear what's going on on Moody radio. Uh, of course,
30:57
S11: technology today has advanced even way beyond that. And I'm
31:01
S11: so grateful for what God has done through Moody Radio and, uh, just,
31:07
S11: you know, really appreciate it. And I am happy to,
31:10
S11: you know, be a part of that with my program
31:12
S11: on building relationships with Chris Fabry and Andrea. So it's
31:17
S11: just and of course, I went to Moody, you know,
31:19
S11: and I have many good memories of those years I
31:21
S11: spent there in Chicago. So I'm so grateful for Moody
31:26
S11: Radio's ministry that has been good and will continue by
31:31
S11: God's grace, to touch other people.
31:33
S6: One of the cool things, if you are outside of
31:35
S6: the Chicago area, you may not know this, but we
31:38
S6: broadcast live each day from the Chapman Center, right here
31:43
S6: on the campus of Moody Bible Institute, which was dedicated
31:45
S6: in November 2018. Do you remember that day? Doctor Gary
31:49
S6: Chapman I remember it well, standing outside and celebrating God's
31:53
S6: faithfulness in this brand new building.
31:56
S11: Yeah, I do remember that day. And, uh, it was
31:59
S11: a great day for our family and our friends that
32:02
S11: were there with us celebrating that, that occasion. Uh, never, ever,
32:06
S11: ever dreamed of having that kind of role in Moody's history.
32:13
S11: So and it's history now, as you said, was it
32:16
S11: ten years?
32:17
S6: Well, almost. Yeah. It's been eight years. And you are
32:20
S6: a part of we all get to be a part
32:21
S6: of Moody radio history because it's still being written, which
32:24
S6: is a really cool thing.
32:25
S1: Yeah.
32:26
S11: Yeah, absolutely.
32:27
S1: As you think about faithfulness, because that seems to be
32:29
S1: the reoccurring word today, you've seen seasoned saints that were
32:35
S1: just rich. They may not have had a big platform,
32:38
S1: but they were rich in faith. What keeps people faithful?
32:45
S11: You know, I think it's realizing and having a daily
32:48
S11: personal walk with God, that the relationship with God is
32:52
S11: not a Sunday thing. You know, just going to church,
32:55
S11: it's a daily thing. And I don't even I don't
32:58
S11: mean even a, a, a, a daily quiet time. I mean, that's,
33:01
S11: that's a starting place. But it's talking to God throughout
33:04
S11: the day, you know, about everything that's happening in your
33:07
S11: life and asking him for wisdom and just sharing it
33:10
S11: with him. I mean, that's the Christian life. It's a
33:13
S11: relationship with God. And so I think that's what keeps
33:17
S11: people faithful. I think those that often drop by the
33:20
S11: wayside don't don't have that quality of a relationship with God.
33:26
S6: Doctor Gary Chapman, such a joy. It feels very fitting
33:29
S6: that we close this momentous morning with your voice speaking
33:34
S6: into this birthday celebration. Thank you for your many contributions,
33:37
S6: your faithfulness to the Lord all of these years.
33:39
S1: Yeah. Doctor Gary Chapman has been an inspiration to so
33:42
S1: many and I'm sure he has to you. And our
33:45
S1: God is faithful, isn't he?
33:47
S6: Amen.
33:48
S1: He's been good to us and we're so grateful for that.
33:52
S1: Give God praise for his faithfulness today. Give God praise.
33:56
S1: Look at your own life and give him praise.
33:59
S7: It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
34:03
S1: Oh, he's a ball of fire and I love him.
34:07
S1: Ron Hutchcraft Ron Hutchcraft ministries co-founded On Eagle's Wings. He's author, speaker, evangelist,
34:15
S1: great man of God, and he's an alumnus here. And
34:20
S1: he's with us right now. Ron, good morning and happy birthday,
34:24
S1: my friend.
34:26
S12: Good morning Carl. Good morning Ali. You know, I don't
34:29
S12: get invited to many parties, so this is very special.
34:33
S6: It is 100 years we are celebrating today. Tell us
34:37
S6: as you reflect me. Not you, not you. Moody radio.
34:40
S6: You are not 100, Ron Hutchcraft. You are younger than that.
34:43
S6: You are a young man. But as you reflect on
34:45
S6: the role that you or your relationship with Moody Radio
34:48
S6: over the years, what stands out to you as maybe
34:51
S6: a sign or evidence of God's faithfulness?
34:55
S12: Consistency in being intentional about getting the gospel out. And
35:00
S12: we heard it just a few minutes ago that has
35:02
S12: been there since the very first days of Moody Radio. And,
35:07
S12: you know, the opportunity for people like myself and many
35:10
S12: others of God's messengers, that's all we are, whether the
35:14
S12: UPS guys, we deliver the thing that God bought for us.
35:18
S12: And the neat thing is, whether it was Saturday Night Alive,
35:21
S12: the youth broadcast where the pizza guy was about to
35:25
S12: deliver a pizza, and instead he he heard about how
35:29
S12: he could come to Jesus.
35:30
S1: Yes.
35:30
S12: Pull over. I think the guy never got his pizza.
35:33
S12: But he. But but the pizza delivery guy got Jesus and.
35:37
S12: And a few months later, I was on share with
35:40
S12: a state, one of the Moody stations, and they played
35:43
S12: for me a recording of the baptism of the pizza boy, uh,
35:47
S12: who found Christ. You know, that's just one of many,
35:50
S12: many things. And the neat thing is that what Moody
35:54
S12: radio represents is Jesus. All day, every day, everywhere you
36:00
S12: can find Jesus and hear the voice of Jesus any time,
36:05
S12: any place, all, all day and all night. Because he's
36:09
S12: right there where you are. He's in your car. He's
36:11
S12: in your house. He's in your phone. And everywhere you go,
36:15
S12: there he is. That's been the thing about Moody Radio
36:18
S12: that is most exciting of all that people can find him.
36:21
S12: Jesus didn't stay at the synagogue and invite people to come.
36:25
S12: He was out where they are or out where they were.
36:28
S12: And that's exactly what Moody Radio is.
36:30
S1: You know, we look back over 100 years, and I've
36:32
S1: been listening to a lot of clips from even the
36:35
S1: first day, 100 years ago today when Moody went on air.
36:39
S1: And you listen to these clips, and what I've been
36:42
S1: awestruck by is the continued faithfulness of these great men
36:47
S1: and women of God. What's the defining attribute of faithfulness?
36:52
S1: What is it? What? What is it that makes that
36:55
S1: life tick, that remains faithful to God?
36:59
S12: I think in a word, it is trust. Um, the
37:03
S12: fact is that, uh, we have we know God's track
37:07
S12: record in our lives. We know the moments, the dark moments.
37:10
S12: We know, um, I, the, the day that my dear Karen, uh,
37:15
S12: who I met at Moody, uh, suddenly was with Jesus
37:18
S12: and not with me. Uh, and that when you see
37:23
S12: what that this Jesus does through all those moments of
37:26
S12: your life, um, you are you. You say, I can't
37:31
S12: afford a minute without him. I have to stick with him.
37:33
S12: I have to be faithful. And you know what he does.
37:37
S12: You know the difference he makes. The problem is we
37:39
S12: like control. And when we're controlling things, that actually doesn't
37:44
S12: make us faithful. What is, is the surrender of the
37:48
S12: of the wheel of our life to Jesus, that that's
37:51
S12: what keeps you faithful. And Karen and I would sing
37:54
S12: at Moody at like every other chapel, great is thy faithfulness.
37:59
S12: And the last one of the verses says. A pardon
38:03
S12: for sin. Peace that endureth thine own dear presence to
38:07
S12: cheer and to guide. Strength for today. And bright hope
38:11
S12: for tomorrow. And then this is where I hug her close.
38:15
S12: Blessings all mine with 10,000 beside. And that's the story
38:20
S12: of 100 years of moody radio. Blessings all mine with
38:24
S12: 10,000 beside.
38:25
S1: Yeah.
38:26
S6: Ron Hutchcraft from Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, co-founder of On Eagle's Wings.
38:31
S6: A joy to have you with us to spend part
38:33
S6: of this 100 year birthday with us. Thank you for
38:35
S6: your contribution, your faithful ministry over the years, through the
38:39
S6: many roles that God has allowed you to steward.
38:41
S1: Yeah.
38:42
S12: Thank you so much to celebrate. I'm honored to be
38:45
S12: a part of it.
38:45
S1: Yeah, just tremendous celebrating 100 years today of God's faithfulness
38:54
S1: through Moody Radio.
38:56
S7: Take your next step with Jesus today. You're listening to
39:00
S7: cast and crew.
39:02
S1: Happy birthday to Moody Radio. 100 years today and we've
39:06
S1: got a voice from the president. I want to set
39:09
S1: this up. This is a guy who takes some of
39:11
S1: the most difficult calls you can possibly receive, and he
39:17
S1: is so filled with grace, kindness, and truth. He's an
39:22
S1: awesome man of God.
39:24
S6: And he's a friend of our program. Rob West, host
39:26
S6: of Faith and Finance Live. Uh, happy birthday to Moody. Rob.
39:32
S6: Tell us, um, tell us kind of your vantage point.
39:35
S6: You've been here for a little bit with us. Tell
39:37
S6: us what you see God doing.
39:40
S13: Well, Carl and Ali, what a treat to be with
39:42
S13: you on this really special day as we celebrate 100
39:45
S13: years of Moody Radio. You know, I'm so thankful to
39:48
S13: be a part of the Moody family. Um, you know,
39:51
S13: as I have this opportunity to talk about Stewardship. You know,
39:55
S13: when you think about it, once you give your life
39:57
S13: to Jesus and you surrender to him as Lord and Savior,
40:01
S13: it's all about stewardship, right? We're stewards of our time
40:04
S13: and we're stewards of our relationships. And yes, we're stewards
40:07
S13: of God's money and we're stewards of God's Word. And
40:11
S13: that's what I love about Moody Radio, is that everything
40:14
S13: begins and ends with scripture, and it's about the unstoppable gospel,
40:20
S13: and it's about seeing life change as we surrender. And boy,
40:24
S13: what a place for us to see a picture of
40:26
S13: that on a daily basis in our financial journey. I
40:30
S13: believe it's one of the key ways God shapes us spiritually,
40:33
S13: as every day we're kind of voting with our dollars.
40:36
S13: What do we value and where do we place our trust?
40:40
S13: And our trust is in God. He is our ultimate treasure.
40:44
S13: You know, the pursuit of joy isn't wrong, but but
40:46
S13: if it reveals something deeper about what we treasure, that's misplaced, well,
40:52
S13: that's where we need to get it back on to
40:54
S13: understanding that God is our ultimate treasure. And Moody Radio
40:57
S13: celebrates that every day. And it's just such a privilege
41:00
S13: to be able to serve and love on God's people
41:02
S13: on these airwaves all day long.
41:04
S1: You know, Rob, I was in Matthew 25 recently, and
41:07
S1: I had a fresh take on the parable of the talents.
41:12
S1: And it's often used and not wrongly, but in a
41:15
S1: very limited scope, often encouraging the person with one talent
41:20
S1: to become a two or a five talent person. But
41:23
S1: the truth of that passage is that it was a
41:27
S1: judgment passage that reveals that when a person has Christ
41:33
S1: abiding in their heart, they are a 2 or 5
41:37
S1: talent person. And the cautionary tale there is, if we
41:42
S1: are holding tightly to all the things, not just not
41:47
S1: just treasure, but time and talent, it could be an
41:50
S1: indication that God hasn't become the God of our life,
41:54
S1: that Jesus Christ hasn't set up rule and authority there
41:59
S1: to the person that feels like they're clinging to the
42:02
S1: things of this world, there could be a derailed disciple there,
42:06
S1: but there could be someone who's never tasted and seen
42:10
S1: how good God is yet. Rob, what do you say
42:12
S1: to this, my friend?
42:14
S13: Yeah, I think you're exactly right. I mean, in this story,
42:17
S13: Jesus tells us something about how the servants viewed their master,
42:21
S13: and the one who buried what was given admitted that
42:24
S13: he viewed the master with fear and maybe even suspicion. Carl. Yes.
42:29
S13: That the master would not be good or just. And
42:31
S13: yet the other two responded with courageous action because they're
42:36
S13: motivated by faith in their master. And, you know, we
42:40
S13: could ask ourselves, do we trust God's goodness enough to
42:44
S13: act on his behalf in this world with courage and
42:47
S13: without fear? And do we view the resources at our disposal?
42:51
S13: Is ultimately his multiplying and protecting and directing them according
42:56
S13: to his will? And the truth is, we serve a
42:59
S13: God who never fails, that we can trust not just
43:03
S13: with our savings and our income, but the whole world
43:05
S13: and everything in it. And you know, he's an owner
43:09
S13: we can trust and we are his stewards. And that's
43:11
S13: that's the message today, I think.
43:13
S6: Rob West, host of Faith and Finance Live. You can
43:16
S6: hear him afternoons right here on Moody Radio.
43:19
S1: Yeah. Thank you so much, Rob. It's our 100th birthday
43:22
S1: today bringing in a lot of voices. And what strikes
43:25
S1: me with every one of them is the humble dependence
43:29
S1: on God.
43:30
S6: Yeah. I mean, the voices have changed a lot over
43:33
S6: the years, but the message has not. Yeah.
43:37
S7: Your spiritual pit stop to keep you going in the race.
43:41
S7: You're listening to cast and crew.
43:43
S1: It's a different day to day 100th birthday today. And
43:47
S1: with us right now in studio West Ward. He is
43:49
S1: the vice president of Moody Global Media. What strikes you
43:53
S1: on our 100th birthday here, young man?
43:55
S14: I'll tell you, it is a humbling moment.
43:58
S1: It is, isn't it?
44:00
S14: Why us? Why did we get to be here on
44:02
S14: the 100th birthday? Right. This morning I was thinking about
44:05
S14: one of our long standing employees, David Woodworth.
44:09
S1: Yes.
44:09
S14: David has been here for of the ten decades. It's
44:13
S14: so amazing to think about his faithfulness. And so when
44:16
S14: you you know, obviously part of my job is to
44:18
S14: look forward. And how will we reach more people with
44:21
S14: the timeless truth of Jesus and his love? But you
44:24
S14: do that by looking back and you and you're inspired
44:26
S14: by people every day, men and women who are just
44:29
S14: faithful in the trenches every single day over these last
44:31
S14: ten decades. It's an amazing but humbling moment.
44:35
S1: Well, Ali's big on this one, so we need a
44:38
S1: story from him, don't we?
44:39
S6: Yeah. When you think about your years at Moody Radio,
44:42
S6: what's a story that stands out for you? That's kind
44:45
S6: of your this is why we do what we do.
44:48
S14: Yeah. You know, it's funny. I'll go back to West
44:50
S14: Ward in college. So in 1986, I got started in radio.
44:55
S14: So this is my 40th year in ministry. I started
44:58
S14: when I was 16 years old, and then a moody
45:01
S14: radio station came to town the next year and I
45:03
S14: got employed there. Got to get on FM radio and
45:05
S14: it was amazing. But then the next year they brought
45:09
S14: a broadcast here to to my town in Wichita Falls, Texas,
45:13
S14: Saturday night alive with Ron Hutchcraft.
45:15
S1: Oh my. He's going to be on with us here.
45:18
S14: Okay, so this was and there was a, there was
45:20
S14: a new artist. His name was Steven Curtis Chapman.
45:23
S15: A new artist.
45:24
S14: And my job was to drive him around with my
45:27
S14: then girlfriend, now wife Carrie. And so we, uh, so,
45:32
S14: but here's the, here's the cool thing. We did this
45:34
S14: moody broadcast. It was broadcast to the nation, uh, teens
45:37
S14: in the auditorium. We had 2000 students from the area.
45:41
S14: The gospel was given. And in 1988, 83 kids came
45:46
S14: to know Christ, and I saw the power of God
45:50
S14: using this medium of radio through this person. Uh, Ron
45:54
S14: Hutchcraft and that was in 1988. So I've been close
45:58
S14: to the moody story for about 40 years myself. Wow.
46:01
S14: And I'm so grateful that there's a lot of personal
46:04
S14: stories about, for me, being in a studio in college,
46:08
S14: listening to Moody radio. Uh, things like Prime Time America.
46:12
S14: I was on the air during the afternoon show and
46:15
S14: just being inspired to take my next step with Jesus
46:19
S14: and to be missional and live sent wherever I am.
46:22
S14: So I never thought in Wichita Falls 40 years ago
46:25
S14: that I would end up in Chicago 40 years later.
46:28
S14: And here you are. Yeah.
46:29
S1: Well, we are so thrilled that you're here, young man.
46:32
S14: Well, let's continue to pray. Right. Uh, this the the
46:35
S14: hero of this story is God. Yeah. And that's my
46:38
S14: main message throughout this day and this 100th year. And
46:42
S14: he wants us to keep going. Time is short. People
46:44
S14: need Jesus.
46:47
S1: West Ward. Good man.
46:50
S6: Excellent. Excellent to have him in studio. Vice president of
46:53
S6: Moody Global Media.
46:54
S1: Yeah. Celebrating 100 years today. We're so grateful you can
46:59
S1: be with us because this is your show Boom Crew
47:02
S1: and we love you.
47:03
S7: Your shot of hope to get you through the day.
47:06
S4: You are so, so loved. God does not want you
47:10
S4: to stay in your past. And I want you to
47:12
S4: know and believe that today.
47:13
S7: You're listening to Carl and crew.
47:16
S1: You know what a what a day we're having and
47:18
S1: what a perfect guy to bring in. Talk about a,
47:21
S1: a clear communicator of the gospel with a tremendous accent
47:27
S1: as well. Colin Smith, teaching host of Open the Bible,
47:31
S1: senior pastor emeritus of the orchard, multiple campuses here in Chicagoland.
47:36
S1: He's an author and a speaker, and he's with us
47:38
S1: right now. Colin, you look back over 100 years. What
47:42
S1: does God impress upon your heart this morning?
47:45
S16: Well, I hasten to add, I can't look back over
47:48
S16: 100 years.
47:49
S15: No, I'm not asking you to look back over your life.
47:52
S15: 100 years of radio. Boy, oh boy, did I step
47:55
S15: in it there, guys.
47:57
S6: Since you're over 100 years old, Pastor Colin.
48:00
S15: How was how was that first episode of Moody Radio?
48:04
S16: Over 100. Now come.
48:05
S15: On. Yeah, I.
48:06
S16: Tell you what an amazing birthday you're celebrating. I mean,
48:09
S16: this is fantastic. It really is. And to think that
48:12
S16: Moody Radio would have started in in 1926. I mean,
48:17
S16: that that that is mind blowing to me. Yes. And
48:20
S16: and then to think, all these years there has been
48:24
S16: faithfulness to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
48:27
S16: I just love the way that you said that a
48:29
S16: moment ago, Carl, because that to me is the single
48:33
S16: most significant thing. Paul says in Colossians. We proclaim him
48:39
S16: and it's the fact that Christ is exalted. I think
48:43
S16: sometimes people have a sense that Christianity is just any
48:46
S16: reference to God in general, and it's more than that.
48:51
S16: The world is full of religion, and other religions offer
48:55
S16: a way of life. They can offer an ethic. They
48:59
S16: can offer spiritual disciplines in Christianity. There's a person, Jesus Christ,
49:06
S16: and it's all about who he is and what he's
49:09
S16: done and what he's able to do for people who
49:12
S16: will come to him and believe in him. And we
49:14
S16: proclaim the unique glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, because
49:18
S16: it's in his face that we see the glory of God.
49:21
S16: And that's been happening on Moody for 100 years. It's marvelous.
49:24
S6: Pastor Colin Smith, our guest right now, give us a
49:27
S6: story of how you've seen God used, used the ministry
49:30
S6: that he's allowed you to steward open the Bible. How
49:33
S6: has God used that through Christian radio to impact a life?
49:38
S6: Something come to mind for you?
49:40
S16: Well, I mean, if I just tell you, the most
49:42
S16: recent one would be from last Sunday preaching in a
49:45
S16: church and met a person I've never met before. Uh,
49:50
S16: big guy would have been about 50 years old and,
49:54
S16: and tells me that he was homeless, that he had
49:58
S16: been given a tract that he had begun to seek
50:02
S16: after Christ had begun to, to, to, to, to listen,
50:05
S16: to open the Bible on the radio, uh, had, uh,
50:09
S16: that had reshaped his life as now baptized. He now
50:12
S16: leads a reggae band and is, um, proclaiming Christ himself
50:18
S16: and has a wonderful family. So this happened about ten
50:22
S16: years ago. Um, I met him for the first time
50:25
S16: and he said, I just want to thank you. Um,
50:27
S16: this is what the Word of God does. It drip
50:29
S16: feeds into people's lives. And there are people who are
50:33
S16: hungry and are looking and they find Modi on the on,
50:38
S16: on the dial. They find the truth. They find Christ,
50:41
S16: and Christ changes their lives. A wonderful thing.
50:44
S1: Yeah, it is beautiful. Colin. There's been a lot of
50:47
S1: change over 100 years. And the I think the thing
50:51
S1: that we've been struck by is how the gospel can
50:55
S1: pop up its head in the middle of storms, in
50:59
S1: the middle of national disasters through world wars, and it
51:05
S1: is still changing lives. I think there's a there's a
51:09
S1: move afoot to try to make the gospel relevant of sorts.
51:14
S1: And that's impossible because the gospel is relevant. Pour out
51:18
S1: your heart about the unchanging word of God.
51:22
S16: Yeah. Well, you know, as you say that, Carl, what
51:25
S16: comes to mind is a verse in Hebrews where, um,
51:28
S16: we're told that everything, um, will be shaken so that
51:33
S16: that which cannot be shaken will remain. And you think
51:36
S16: of what's been shaken in 100 years, going back to
51:39
S16: the Second World War and all the events and traumas
51:42
S16: that the world has gone through and continues to go through. And, uh,
51:46
S16: the world never changes. In its essence, it's inherently unstable
51:52
S16: apart from the grace of God that holds it together.
51:56
S16: But the one thing that can never be shaken is
51:59
S16: the promises of God to us in and through the
52:01
S16: Lord Jesus Christ. And Christian believers have trusted that not
52:06
S16: only for 100 years, but throughout history. And we can
52:09
S16: trust the promise of God today. Uh. All things around
52:13
S16: us will be shaken. Every created thing will be shaken.
52:16
S16: But what God has given to us in Christ will
52:18
S16: never be shaken.
52:19
S17: Amen. And I will never leave you. I will never
52:22
S17: forsake you.
52:23
S16: And we can trust him with everything.
52:25
S6: Pastor Colin Smith, host of Open the Bible, thank you
52:28
S6: so much for sharing part of our birthday with us.
52:30
S6: And thank you for your contribution here to Moody Radio.
52:33
S1: Yeah, we so love Colin Smith.
52:36
S7: Your shot of hope to help you through the day.
52:39
S7: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
52:43
S1: It's Carl and crew here. And boy, are we in
52:45
S1: a momentous time. A hundred year birthday today, Alex.
52:50
S6: We've been celebrating all morning with voices from the past
52:53
S6: and the present. Nancy Turner, former midday host for WMBI
52:58
S6: joining us now, Nancy, your voice. How many years did
53:01
S6: you spend on Moody Radio?
53:03
S18: I think it was like 15 years at least.
53:06
S1: It's it's so awesome. You know, Nancy, I got to
53:09
S1: tell you, I haven't spoken with you in a while here.
53:11
S1: It's so good to have you here. I just want
53:12
S1: to cheer for you.
53:13
S15: Your authenticity is so inspiring. What you see is what
53:20
S15: you get with Nancy, right, Nancy?
53:22
S18: It's so true. So true.
53:25
S15: How is.
53:25
S1: God? How is God worked in your life here lately?
53:28
S1: Because he's still working, isn't he, Nance?
53:31
S18: Always. Always. every day, every minute, every breath that's closer,
53:35
S18: closer than my breath. He is with me and instructing me,
53:39
S18: informing me, and revealing his beauty to me every day,
53:43
S18: which is what I loved to do on the radio
53:47
S18: when I was with Moody. I mean, all the years
53:50
S18: that I got to open my heart to the listeners. Um,
53:55
S18: can I tell you one of my favorites?
53:56
S15: Yes. Yes.
53:57
S19: I mean.
53:58
S18: This was one of the things that I got to
54:01
S18: do among many, many wonderful things in studio B in
54:04
S18: the green room and all of that. But it was
54:08
S18: the day we had our Marvelous Christmas podcast with Steven
54:13
S18: Curtis Chapman. Uh, and we invited all the listeners to
54:18
S18: come and be with us. And we had a celebration
54:22
S18: of joy. I mean, the room was electric with love
54:26
S18: for the Lord, love for Steven. It was just a
54:29
S18: big love happening. And, you know, being a child of
54:33
S18: the 60s, I can say, okay, it was a happening. Like.
54:41
S1: Oh.
54:42
S18: It was wonderful. It was wonderful. And I think the
54:45
S18: main stories of my career at Moody were about our listeners.
54:51
S18: I felt like every day I was speaking to one
54:54
S18: person and that one person was you, dear listener, that
54:58
S18: that one person was you. Whoever's listening today, just know
55:02
S18: that I've held you in my heart. You have been
55:05
S18: a part of my life, a major part of my life.
55:08
S18: I hope that I brought joy to you. And now,
55:12
S18: as we celebrate the 100 years of Moody, what could
55:15
S18: be on the horizon? Carl, what do you think?
55:17
S1: Oh, I you know, the beauty of the way God
55:20
S1: works is that we don't know. But we know this
55:22
S1: because of his faithfulness and his promises. It's going to
55:26
S1: it will be extraordinary. It will be different, but it
55:29
S1: will be life transformational. Nancy Turner, we love you, sister.
55:34
S6: Thank you so much, Nancy.
55:35
S19: I love you. Yay! Happy birthday. Moody. Yes!
55:39
S1: Oh my goodness. What a joy. What a joy! Hang on.
55:42
S1: More surprise guests popping in here straight ahead.
55:47
S7: He's a sports fanatic with a stat for anything you
55:51
S7: can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. It's
55:55
S7: curl and crew on Moody radio.
55:58
S1: Well, some guests that we bring in here. We have
56:02
S1: to encourage them. Bring some life, bring some vitality. Uh,
56:06
S1: don't be too chill, because that's kind of your nature.
56:09
S1: And then then there's other guests that you don't need
56:11
S1: to say that at all.
56:13
S6: Not at all.
56:14
S1: Look who's here.
56:16
S6: Look who's back. We have a familiar voice in the
56:19
S6: studio with us right now. Before it was Carl and crew,
56:22
S6: it was Carl and June, our Chicago area listeners. We
56:27
S6: are welcoming back Judy.
56:28
S20: Felix and I am indeed welcomed. It's so great to
56:32
S20: be here with you guys. Oh my gosh.
56:35
S1: This is so great. So give us a fresh story
56:37
S1: of what God's doing in your life.
56:39
S20: Oh so much Carl. So many fresh stories. Just, you know,
56:42
S20: you never expect what God is going to do. Just
56:44
S20: just throw that away. There's no expectations. Just let God
56:46
S20: lead the way. And my life is what some of
56:48
S20: the nerds would call chaotic good. So I've got so
56:52
S20: much going on right now. That's just all God. And
56:55
S20: it's just amazing that he's brought me back here for
56:57
S20: the birthday celebration. And Moody Radio has been such an
57:01
S20: enormous part of my life. I mean, when I started
57:04
S20: with Moody guys, I was like, when Jonathan started, I
57:07
S20: was a baby. You know? I was like, yeah, I
57:10
S20: was a baby. When I did my first share with Moody,
57:12
S20: I was like 24.5 years old and just never could
57:15
S20: have imagined that the Lord would invite me to go
57:17
S20: on this, this journey with Moody Radio. So yeah, to
57:19
S20: be a part of the celebration. I think that's my
57:21
S20: biggest headline right now, because Moody Radio has really been
57:24
S20: such a big part of my life. I literally grew
57:26
S20: up serving with my family here at Moody Radio, with
57:29
S20: our listeners, with everyone on the air. Um, Carl, you know,
57:32
S20: I wasn't raised in any anything nearly close to being
57:35
S20: raised in the church or in any level of faith.
57:37
S20: So I was assimilated into the faith in my early 20s.
57:41
S20: And then shortly after that, the Lord put me on
57:43
S20: the air and had me telling people all over the
57:46
S20: world that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and
57:48
S20: the life, and he really is the best news of all,
57:51
S20: every single moment of every single day. And that never, ever,
57:55
S20: ever gets old.
57:56
S6: Yeah. When you think about how you grew up here
57:59
S6: at Moody Radio, how God used this ministry as you
58:02
S6: were pouring out to listeners and helping to impact their life,
58:05
S6: your own life was being shaped and formed as it
58:08
S6: is for all of us. What stands out to you
58:10
S6: most from your time here?
58:12
S20: Oh, just watching God work. One of my favorite stories
58:15
S20: to share is how some years back, me and Ray Ashley. Maybe.
58:18
S20: Maybe folks have heard his voice on the air before.
58:20
S20: But we went to Mongolia, and while we were there,
58:22
S20: just for that short time, We came back and we
58:25
S20: were fundraising for the station there with Far East Broadcasting,
58:28
S20: and there was one testimony that really stayed with me,
58:30
S20: caught my heart. And so I continue to invite listeners
58:32
S20: into that journey. And it was a Batzig and her husband,
58:35
S20: there were no libraries in their community, so many problems.
58:38
S20: And she just wanted to open a library for children.
58:41
S20: And so Moody radio, our listeners, they, you know, they
58:45
S20: partnered with us. And now she's been able to grow
58:47
S20: that one first library that she opened after we visited
58:51
S20: into ten libraries in Mongolia. And so children are able
58:55
S20: to come and gather and, you know, learn what unconditional
58:58
S20: love is. That's how they celebrated Mongolia Unconditional Love day
59:01
S20: every Christmas. But yeah, just one of my favorite stories
59:04
S20: is watching how God does. He really does take what
59:06
S20: we have, the small little things that we have and
59:09
S20: grow them into something so much greater. The impact has
59:11
S20: been so beautiful all over the world. But right here
59:14
S20: in Chicagoland, through partnering with Praise Chicago and Pray Naperville
59:18
S20: and all the ministries where we go out into the
59:20
S20: communities and we serve and we offer hope and joy
59:22
S20: and love. That's always the best part of seeing God
59:24
S20: at work through this ministry. Yeah.
59:26
S1: Why don't you give a listener some hope here? And
59:29
S1: let me tell you how the joy of the Lord
59:32
S1: is our strength. Oh, yeah. But you have from childhood,
59:36
S1: without rehashing a lot of challenges and heartache that you
59:39
S1: were raised in. You have every reason to not have joy.
59:43
S1: To the person out there that has every earthly reason
59:46
S1: to not have joy, but in Christ we can. What
59:49
S1: do you say to them, Judy?
59:51
S20: Well, my older sister Teruko, my heritage on my mother's
59:54
S20: side is Japanese. So Teruko is my older sister. She
59:56
S20: tells people, our childhood was so bad. My sister got
59:58
S20: a book deal. Yeah. So. Wow. And I didn't even
1:00:01
S20: ask for it. But yeah, it was it was terrible.
1:00:04
S20: It was rough. So if you're like me and you
1:00:06
S20: are at a place in your journey where you're thinking, oh,
1:00:08
S20: God loves me, what in the world does that mean?
1:00:10
S20: You have no idea what love is. I remember when
1:00:12
S20: I first started attending church and the pastors would say
1:00:14
S20: over and over again, God wants to use you now
1:00:17
S20: when you're a trauma survivor at the level that I know,
1:00:19
S20: when you hear that, you think, okay, God wants to
1:00:21
S20: use me. Tell him to take a number and get
1:00:23
S20: in line. Right? So when I came into the knowledge
1:00:26
S20: of Christ and realized that I had not just some worth,
1:00:29
S20: I went from thinking I had no worth in this
1:00:32
S20: world to knowing that I'm a beloved and blessed and
1:00:34
S20: beautiful child of the King. And you know what? I
1:00:37
S20: just chose to believe. And so that was my big news.
1:00:40
S20: Most of my career, I never talked about my trauma.
1:00:43
S20: My headline has always been God is good, and you
1:00:47
S20: were made for love by love to be loved forever.
1:00:51
S20: And that's the best news of all. And it will
1:00:53
S20: never change.
1:00:53
S1: Wow. Judy. Felix, everybody. It's good to have her in
1:00:57
S1: for this 100th year birthday celebration. Judy, we love you. Um,
1:01:03
S1: my bride and I, we are so grateful for your
1:01:06
S1: presence in our life. And we're thankful that you could
1:01:08
S1: duck in here this morning.
1:01:09
S20: I adore the awesome Clausen's. Now, I know you guys
1:01:12
S20: don't like to sing, but I got to leave with.
1:01:14
S20: Happy birthday to you. There we go. Happy birthday Moody.
1:01:19
S20: Have a great day.
1:01:20
S1: Thank you.