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God Loves You: A Tale of Two Bikers · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

• 0:01
  Announcer: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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  Announcer: A weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles, and offering real hope.
• 0:10
  Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope.
• 0:19
  Announcer: Now let's join our host, Ron Myers, the promoter.
• 0:23
  Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends.
• 0:24
  Ron Meyers: It is so good to be with you today.
• 0:27
  Ron Meyers: I just feel so good because today is a breakthrough for someone that is listening to this show.
• 0:34
  Ron Meyers: You know you've been asking and praying for some things in your life, and here we are together.
• 0:39
  Ron Meyers: And today's show is definitely going to speak some life into you.
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  Ron Meyers: And today's thought-provoking question to start the show is this Have you ever judged someone before you ever knew their story?
• 0:53
  Ron Meyers: Maybe it was the clothes they wore, the tattoos on their arm, the color of their hair, the neighborhood they lived in, or maybe the motorcycle they rode.
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  Ron Meyers: Years ago, I had an encounter with a biker I'll never forget.
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  Ron Meyers: His name was Randy.
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  Ron Meyers: He was enormous.
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  Ron Meyers: Leather vest, work boots, long hair, beer on his breath.
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  Ron Meyers: He got nose to nose with me in a crowded nightclub and said, Ron Myers, I could take you outside and break you like a matchstick.
• 1:27
  Ron Meyers: I thought, Lord, this is how my life is gonna end.
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  Ron Meyers: But then something happened that neither one of us expected.
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  Ron Meyers: I'm going to tell you the rest of the story a little later.
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  Ron Meyers: And now let me introduce you to today's guest, another biker.
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  Ron Meyers: Man, he's big, he looks tough, he has the whole package, the leather, the bike, the boots.
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  Ron Meyers: But before the conversation is over, you'll discover that one of the toughest looking men you'll ever meet has one of the softest hearts you'll ever encounter.
• 2:03
  Ron Meyers: You'll hear about the little boy who asked, Who killed Jesus?
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  Ron Meyers: Or the growing man who heard the whisper, get up.
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  Ron Meyers: And the biker who discovered that true strength isn't found in throwing punches, it's found in surrendering your life to Jesus Christ.
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  Ron Meyers: Now let's take a listen to my conversation with Rick the biker.
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  Ron Meyers: Rick, who is Jesus to you?
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  SPEAKER_05: He is my savior.
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  SPEAKER_05: You look at the man that he was, you look at what he did.
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  SPEAKER_05: He didn't get drugged to the cross, he went to the cross for who?
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  SPEAKER_05: For us.
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  SPEAKER_05: And what brings tears to my eyes is he went to the cross for me.
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  SPEAKER_05: For me.
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  Ron Meyers: Amen.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, it really is something to grasp that even if we were the only person in the world, he'd still go to the cross for us.
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  Ron Meyers: That's how much he loves us.
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  Ron Meyers: So where did you first meet Jesus?
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  Ron Meyers: Did you have Jesus in your family as a as a child?
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  Ron Meyers: And were you drugged to church every Sunday?
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  SPEAKER_05: Well, my family was was Catholic.
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  SPEAKER_05: And one day we sat in front of the TV and it was the greatest story ever told, and Ten Commandments was on and all this.
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  SPEAKER_05: It was about that time of the year, and asked my mother, I said, Mama, who who killed Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_05: Because I was looking for somebody to blame.
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  SPEAKER_05: And she turned and looked at me right in the eyes and said, Ricky, we killed Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_05: That affected me.
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  Ron Meyers: How old were you at that age, you think?
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  SPEAKER_05: About five.
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  Ron Meyers: Wow.
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  Ron Meyers: That's a kind of a powerful question to ask your mom at five years old.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that people don't realize the effect that Hollywood has on our families' lives for good and for evil.
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  Ron Meyers: So did this begin a journey in your life that you wanted to find out more about who Jesus was?
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  SPEAKER_05: And it was that question almost was like I put my hand up and God saw it and said, Okay, you want to know?
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  SPEAKER_05: I got an answer for you.
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  SPEAKER_05: And he dealt with me throughout the rest of my life until 2005, right after Katrina, when I was at this church and sitting next to the woman that would be my third wife, because the other two had had gone on.
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  SPEAKER_05: And I heard a voice and it said, Get up.
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  SPEAKER_05: But it was even softer than that.
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  SPEAKER_05: I turned and I looked at her and I said, What did you say?
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  SPEAKER_05: She's I didn't say nothing.
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  SPEAKER_05: She wasn't even singing.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_05: It was during the the the part where they were they were singing a lot of gospel songs.
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  SPEAKER_05: It was beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_05: But she wasn't singing, she was just listening.
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  SPEAKER_05: And then I heard it again.
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  SPEAKER_05: Get up.
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  SPEAKER_05: And I turned around, there was nobody around behind me.
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  SPEAKER_05: I'm getting just pulled into it, you know.
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  SPEAKER_05: And I felt something on my arm, and I looked and there's nothing there.
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  SPEAKER_05: And I'm thinking, better get up.
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  SPEAKER_05: And I turned to her and I say, Amy, I'm guess I'm going up to the altar.
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  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_05: So up I get, and I walk up to the altar.
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  SPEAKER_05: I understand, Ron.
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  SPEAKER_05: Thirty-five years I've been a biker.
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  SPEAKER_05: You don't show any emotion except for maybe anger and joyment.
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  SPEAKER_05: You don't show tears.
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  SPEAKER_05: That's weakness.
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  SPEAKER_05: You might cry for a brother that that went down, that died.
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  SPEAKER_05: You might cry for his family, but that's it.
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  Ron Meyers: So you're Mr.
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  Ron Meyers: Tough Macho Rick the Biker sitting in church, and you hear a voice, a quiet voice, that says to stand up, but you kind of fight that, but finally you stood up.
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  Ron Meyers: Did you go to the altar?
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  SPEAKER_05: I went to the altar before I hit my knees.
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  Ron Meyers: Sounds like you ran into Jesus at that altar.
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  SPEAKER_05: I did.
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  SPEAKER_05: The Holy Spirit was there waiting on me.
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  SPEAKER_05: They say, they say Jesus, Jesus is a gentleman.
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  SPEAKER_05: God's a gentleman.
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  SPEAKER_05: God is sovereign.
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  SPEAKER_05: He is the master of all.
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  SPEAKER_05: He is the king of the universe.
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  SPEAKER_05: He made it, he owns it, he owns us, whether we like it or not.
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  SPEAKER_05: He called me to that altar.
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  Ron Meyers: So that day you had a date with destiny.
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  Ron Meyers: Yes, sir.
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  Ron Meyers: Destiny was knocking on the door and about to change your life forever.
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  Ron Meyers: Now, this was in 2005, right after Katrina.
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  Ron Meyers: So what was the change?
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  Ron Meyers: What happened to Rick the biker?
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  SPEAKER_05: My stone heart became flush.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah, the Bible says he gives us a new heart.
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  SPEAKER_05: He certainly did that to me.
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  SPEAKER_05: He certainly did.
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  SPEAKER_05: I had been told that I was a good man.
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  SPEAKER_05: You're a good person.
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  SPEAKER_05: You you do nice things for people.
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  SPEAKER_05: I also did a lot of horrible things to people because of the life that I was living.
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  SPEAKER_05: Now I'm ashamed of what I used to be, but I hit my knees because what Jesus made me.
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  SPEAKER_05: Because if not for God's Holy Spirit, they'd have found me under a bridge under I-10 dead, either because of something I put up my nose or in my arm, and I'd have been alone, utterly alone, because the Holy Spirit wouldn't have been with me.
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  SPEAKER_05: I would not have been known to God, and I wouldn't want to have been known to God.
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  Ron Meyers: But there are a lot of people listening and say, well, that guy, that was just his time.
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  Ron Meyers: You know what?
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  Ron Meyers: I'm enjoying life right now, and I don't have God in my life, and I'm having fun.
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  Ron Meyers: I'm going down the road with my hair blowing on my motorcycle, and I don't have Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: So, you know, what's the big deal?
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  SPEAKER_05: The big deal is time is getting short.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_05: And it's getting shorter.
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  SPEAKER_05: You think you got tomorrow?
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  SPEAKER_05: There was a fellow, and if there's any banditos listening, and I'm sure there is, because there are some believers in the banditos.
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  SPEAKER_05: It is a secular club, but there are people with heart in that club.
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  SPEAKER_05: And there are people whose heart whose hearts are owned by Christ.
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  SPEAKER_05: And there was a fellow, he was loved by a lot of people, as they called him Bandito Rock.
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  SPEAKER_05: One day he was just riding down the road, not acting a fool.
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  SPEAKER_05: When you're when you become a bandito, you learn not to act a fool.
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  SPEAKER_05: His front tire hit a spot in the road and it just pulled him off the road.
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  SPEAKER_05: He went down and got hit by two vehicles.
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  SPEAKER_05: He was killed instantly.
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  SPEAKER_05: He thought he had tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_05: He thought he had months, years.
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  SPEAKER_05: I ride that bike and I know when God calls me, I ain't got no more days.
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  Ron Meyers: A lot of us we're we are planning tomorrow.
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  Ron Meyers: And the Bible says that enjoy today because we don't know what tomorrow will bring.
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  Ron Meyers: What wisdom would you share with somebody listening that's just living for today?
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  Ron Meyers: And you know what?
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  Ron Meyers: Jesus is in the rear view mirror, it's not even in the rear view mirror.
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  Ron Meyers: He's just nowhere in their life.
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  SPEAKER_05: All I could tell really is tomorrow is not promised to us.
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  SPEAKER_05: As a matter of fact, the next 10 minutes is not promised to us.
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  SPEAKER_05: You could hop on that bike, get in that car, and you think I'm driving safe, I'm operating this bike reasonably, but the enemy is everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_05: And if Jesus doesn't have you, who does?
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  SPEAKER_05: And it's either or.
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  SPEAKER_05: You think, oh, I am me, I own myself.
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  SPEAKER_05: No, you don't.
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  SPEAKER_05: Somebody owns you.
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  SPEAKER_05: And they're going to do with you what they want.
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  SPEAKER_05: Satan is going to make you sick, Satan is going to make you feel bad.
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  SPEAKER_05: Satan's going to infuriate you and make you say things that you normally wouldn't say to a person.
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  SPEAKER_05: Somebody you care so very much about, you're going to say some things to them that hurts.
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  Ron Meyers: Now you say that almost like you know that for a fact because that was your old life.
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  SPEAKER_05: That wasn't me.
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  Ron Meyers: That was your old life.
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  SPEAKER_05: That wasn't me.
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  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_05: You're a meanie.
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  SPEAKER_05: I was.
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  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_05: I try not to be.
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  SPEAKER_05: Because it becomes so ingrained.
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  SPEAKER_05: It's a drug.
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  SPEAKER_05: I don't do drugs.
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  Ron Meyers: Well, when when you can intimidate people with your size and strength and your voice, it also kind of, I would think, gives you a little bit of power.
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  Ron Meyers: That's the drug.
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  Ron Meyers: So then now tell us how does Mr.
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  Ron Meyers: Tough biker, Rick DeBiker, now Jesus turned you into a cupcake.
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  Ron Meyers: According to Ramona.
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  Ron Meyers: So what's life like with Jesus now?
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  SPEAKER_05: Before, like I would tell people, there's nobody I couldn't whip.
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  SPEAKER_05: I knew how to f I learned how to fight, and when I was in the army, I learned how to fight.
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  SPEAKER_05: Before that, I was I was a wimpy little kid.
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  SPEAKER_05: I was bullied all the time.
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  SPEAKER_05: Because of that, I learned how to fight in the army.
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  SPEAKER_05: I learned how to defend myself.
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  SPEAKER_05: I learned how to hurt people.
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  SPEAKER_05: Jesus got a hold of me and he says, I will repay.
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  SPEAKER_05: Revenge is not for you.
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  SPEAKER_05: Aggression is not for you.
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  SPEAKER_05: I am the way, the truth, and the light.
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  SPEAKER_05: No one comes to the Father but through me, and I know you want to see him.
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  SPEAKER_05: Do you?
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  SPEAKER_05: And I ask anybody out there who's at all curious, who do you want to see?
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  SPEAKER_05: Do you want to see God the Father?
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  SPEAKER_05: Do you want to see him on his white throne angry?
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  SPEAKER_05: Or do you want him to say, Welcome home, my son or my daughter?
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  Ron Meyers: Amen.
• 12:28
  Ron Meyers: So you have a mission to tell people about Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: Here's Rick the Biker.
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  Ron Meyers: I'll even have a few sound effects.
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  Ron Meyers: We'll have the little bike going.
• 12:41
  Ron Meyers: Have to put a little step in Wolfan.
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  Ron Meyers: All right, do your thing.
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  Ron Meyers: And what do you got for me there, Mr.
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  Ron Meyers: Biker?
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  SPEAKER_05: I pointed one of my patches, and it says, Satan sucks.
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  SPEAKER_05: And it's not, it's not being vulgar, but it's true.
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  SPEAKER_05: He will pull money from you.
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  SPEAKER_05: He will pull your health from you.
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  SPEAKER_05: He will pull your very life from you.
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  SPEAKER_05: Only Jesus will save you.
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  SPEAKER_05: Come follow me.
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  SPEAKER_05: We'll park somewhere and I'll tell you all about my Jesus.
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  Ron Meyers: Yeah.
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  Ron Meyers: That's good.
• 13:22
  Ron Meyers: That's good.
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  Ron Meyers: So how is life now?
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  Ron Meyers: You look you just seem so happy, and you and Ramona.
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  Ron Meyers: Uh she's your third wife.
• 13:31
  Ron Meyers: Fourth.
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  Ron Meyers: She's your fourth.
• 13:33
  Ron Meyers: My fourth wife.
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  Ron Meyers: My last wife.
• 13:37
  Ron Meyers: Your last wife.
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  Ron Meyers: So you guys seem like you're just a marriage made in heaven.
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  SPEAKER_05: With Jesus in the middle of this marriage, it cannot fail.
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  Ron Meyers: Amen.
• 13:50
  Ron Meyers: Before we go, can I get you to pray for the listeners right now?
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  Ron Meyers: Anyone that is listening to this, Rick the Biker, alias Cupcake, is going to pray for you.
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  SPEAKER_05: Almighty God.
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  SPEAKER_05: You have your children listening, but you also have those who have not asked for the Holy Spirit to come into their heart.
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  SPEAKER_05: They are not yet your family, they might think they are.
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  SPEAKER_05: But I also know that you love them so very much.
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  SPEAKER_05: You went to the cross for them.
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  SPEAKER_05: You offered to take their sins for them, to feel the pain that we should feel because you took it for us.
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  SPEAKER_05: Please, O Lord, reach out to them, call them, call them to repentance, and call them to salvation.
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  SPEAKER_05: Those of you listening who have not yet asked for Christ in your heart, it's easy.
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  SPEAKER_05: It doesn't cost you anything, but it does change your life.
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  SPEAKER_05: It puts you on the track of happiness and love.
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  SPEAKER_05: Almighty God, please, please, please reach out to these who don't know you.
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  SPEAKER_05: They might have been just dumbing through the internet or on a radio.
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  SPEAKER_05: Grab their ears, grab their hearts, and change their lives and give them life.
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  SPEAKER_05: In Jesus' name I beg you, please, God.
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  SPEAKER_05: Jesus Almighty, at the right hand of the Father, include this into your intercessory prayers to God the Father.
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  SPEAKER_05: You know what is needed.
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  SPEAKER_05: Go to them, become real to them, and make them my brothers and sisters.
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  SPEAKER_05: Those of you listening, you take on this offer.
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  SPEAKER_05: You might not have a mother, father, brother, sister, or you might have dozens, but this is a royal family, and you will be a prince or princess.
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  SPEAKER_05: In Jesus' name.
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  Ron Meyers: Amen.
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  Ron Meyers: Wow.
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  Ron Meyers: What a conversation with Rick.
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  Ron Meyers: I love Rick.
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  Ron Meyers: And as I listened to Rick share his story, I couldn't stop thinking about Randy.
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  Ron Meyers: Remember the biker I mentioned at the beginning?
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  Ron Meyers: Years ago, he confronted me in a crowded nightclub.
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  Ron Meyers: He towered over me.
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  Ron Meyers: He smelled of beer.
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  Ron Meyers: He looked angry.
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  Ron Meyers: He told me he could take me outside and break me like a matchstick.
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  Ron Meyers: And there wasn't a thing I could do.
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  Ron Meyers: I couldn't outrun him.
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  Ron Meyers: I couldn't outfight him.
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  Ron Meyers: So I silently prayed.
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  Ron Meyers: Lord, help me.
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  Ron Meyers: Then these three words came out of my mouth.
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  Ron Meyers: Not because I had planned them, not because I was trying to preach.
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  Ron Meyers: They simply came from somewhere deep.
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  Ron Meyers: I looked at him and said, God loves you.
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  Ron Meyers: Those three words changed everything, my friend.
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  Ron Meyers: Instead of throwing a punch, he smiled and said, Man, I'm going to buy you a beer.
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  Ron Meyers: Later, I learned something I never could have imagined.
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  Ron Meyers: Just months after that encounter, Randy was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
• 17:15
  Ron Meyers: His wife called, asking if Ron Myers Productions would help with a fundraiser for his medical expenses.
• 17:23
  Ron Meyers: Short time later, Randy passed away.
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  Ron Meyers: And before he died, he accepted Jesus Christ as his savior.
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  Ron Meyers: You know what that reminds me of?
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  Ron Meyers: We almost never know what someone else is carrying.
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  Ron Meyers: The angry person, the rude person, the biker, the homeless man, the executive, the waitress, the teenager.
• 17:40
  Ron Meyers: Friends, everyone has a story.
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  Ron Meyers: And everyone is fighting a battle we can't see.
• 17:48
  Ron Meyers: Rick reminded us that tomorrow isn't promised.
• 17:52
  Ron Meyers: Randy reminded me that sometimes God puts someone in our path for just one reason to plant a seed.
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  Ron Meyers: Maybe that's why the Holy Spirit prompted those unexpected words.
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  Ron Meyers: God loves you.
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  Ron Meyers: I certainly didn't plan them, but God did.
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  Ron Meyers: Looking back now, I don't believe that meeting was an accident.
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  Ron Meyers: In fact, if you've listened to this show for a while, it was rigged.
• 18:19
  Ron Meyers: God had planned it.
• 18:20
  Ron Meyers: It was a divine appointment.
• 18:22
  Ron Meyers: One of those moments where God quietly reminds us He's always working behind the scenes.
• 18:29
  Ron Meyers: So what's the life lesson?
• 18:31
  Ron Meyers: Well, here's what I hope you'll remember: don't let appearances determine your compassion.
• 18:37
  Ron Meyers: Some of the toughest looking people are simply waiting for someone to tell them God loves you.
• 18:44
  Ron Meyers: Jesus never judged people by their appearance.
• 18:47
  Ron Meyers: He looked past the leather, past the failures, past the addictions, past the reputation.
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  Ron Meyers: He always saw the heart.
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  Ron Meyers: And that's exactly what he is asking us to do.
• 19:02
  Ron Meyers: Here's Ron's next step.
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  Ron Meyers: This week, I want you to ask God to help you see people the way He sees them.
• 19:10
  Ron Meyers: Pray this simple prayer.
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  Ron Meyers: Lord, let me see people through your eyes.
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  Ron Meyers: And if God gives you an opportunity, and I believe he will, don't be afraid to speak life into someone.
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  Ron Meyers: You never know.
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  Ron Meyers: Three simple words, God loves you, may become the seed that changes someone's eternity.
• 19:31
  Ron Meyers: I'll be back in just a minute and close out today's show.
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  Announcer: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of Your Life with your host, Ron Myers.
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  Announcer: Real stories, real struggles, and real hope.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, when we show up on this planet, we're in Adam, and that's our problem.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's not just what we're doing, it's not our lying and cheating and stealing hubcaps that's our core issue.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, we've got a deeper problem at the core of our being.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are in Adam, and that defines us.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're in his lineage, we have his spiritual heritage.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so salvation is calling upon the name of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_03: And when we do, well, we're asking God to take us out of Adam and put us in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Bible says that whosoever believes in him will receive everlasting life.
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  SPEAKER_03: It says we're saved by grace through faith.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not of ourselves, it's a gift of God, so that nobody can brag about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: So God is standing at the door of every human heart, including your heart.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_03: And he says, if you open the door, he will come in and live with you forever.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then he says, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nobody can snatch you out of my hand.
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  SPEAKER_03: And even when you're faithless, I remain faithful.
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  SPEAKER_03: Those are incredible promises of our God.
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  SPEAKER_03: And how does this relationship with him really begin?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, we call upon Jesus Christ, putting our confidence in his death, burial, and resurrection.
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  SPEAKER_03: He died for your sins to take your sins away so that he could remember your sins no more, keeping no record of your wrongs.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then he was raised from the dead to give you new resurrection life, life that endures forever, even beyond your physical death.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we're saved by the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_03: And how does it all begin?
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  SPEAKER_03: Call upon him, call upon the name of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_03: Open the door of your heart, and he promises he'll come in and be with you forever.
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  SPEAKER_06: You don't like where you head and rearrange.
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  SPEAKER_06: Get the hell out of your life.
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  Ron Meyers: As I wrap up today's episode, I want to say this that Rick's story, Randy's story, and maybe even your story all point to one incredible truth.
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  Ron Meyers: God specializes in changing hearts.
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  Ron Meyers: He doesn't care where you've been, he isn't intimidated by your past.
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  Ron Meyers: And he surely isn't impressed by your image.
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  Ron Meyers: He simply loves you unconditionally.
• 24:09
  Ron Meyers: Maybe today you have been pretending to be tough.
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  Ron Meyers: Maybe you have built walls around your heart.
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  Ron Meyers: Maybe you are carrying herds that nobody knows about.
• 24:21
  Ron Meyers: Jesus sees them every one of them.
• 24:23
  Ron Meyers: And just like he called Rick, just like he pursued Randy, he's calling you.
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  Ron Meyers: Not into religion, but into a personal relationship.
• 24:33
  Ron Meyers: Not into fear, but into freedom.
• 24:35
  Ron Meyers: Not into condemnation, but into grace.
• 24:39
  Ron Meyers: If today's episode encouraged you, will you do me a favor and share it with someone who needs hope?
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  Ron Meyers: You never know who needs to hear that God loves them today.
• 24:52
  Ron Meyers: And if God has written a powerful story in your life, I'd love for you to share it with my listeners.
• 24:58
  Ron Meyers: Just go to the promoter.org, click share your story, and let us help tell the world what Jesus has done in your life.
• 25:07
  Ron Meyers: Your testimony may become the very seed God uses to change another person's eternity.
• 25:15
  Ron Meyers: I will be back next week with another grace-filled episode of Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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  Ron Meyers: Available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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  Ron Meyers: And remember this, my friend, you were created on purpose for a purpose by a God who loves you more than you can possibly imagine.
• 25:36
  Ron Meyers: Now go out, live like it, believe it, and tell someone that God loves them.
• 25:56
  Announcer: Today's show was produced by Ron Myers Ministries, a listener-supported ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 43rd annual Christmas City Gift Show returns November 13th through the 15th at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center in Biloxi.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: Tickets are on sale now at Christmas City Gift Show.com.
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  SPEAKER_07: Shop the magic, find the joy at Ron Meyer's Christmas City.