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Turn to Acts 4, 8-13.
Acts 4, 8-13,
we'll be talking about in
just a little bit,
right after we read Tozer
for the Christian leader for May 20th.
I sound like Daffy Duck there.
Did you hear that?
I swear I saw a putty cat.
For May 20th.
And it's called,
Too Timid to Tell the Truth.
The reference for A.W.
is Acts 4.13,
and it's King James that says,
Now when they saw the
boldness of Peter and John,
and perceived that they
were unlearned and ignorant men,
they marveled,
and they took knowledge of them,
that they had been with Jesus.
Amen.
Awesome.
The contemporary moral
climate does not favor a
faith as tough and fibrous
as that taught by our Lord
and his apostles.
The delicate,
brittle saints being produced
in our religious hothouses
today are hardly to be
compared with the committed,
expendable believers who
once gave their witness among men.
And the fault lies with our leaders.
They are too timid to tell
the people all the truth.
They are now asking men to
give to God that which cost them nothing.
Our churches these days are filled,
or one quarter filled,
with a soft breed of
Christian that must be fed
on a diet of harmless fun
to keep them interested.
About theology they know little.
Scarcely any of them have
read even one of the great
Christian classics,
but most of them are
familiar with religious
fiction and spine-tingling films.
No wonder their moral and
spiritual constitution is so frail.
Such can only be called weak
adherents of a faith they
never really understood.
Lord,
send the Holy Spirit to renew within
us a depth and seriousness
in our pulpits.
Give us boldness in our preaching.
Amen.
Wow.
This was written decades ago.
Can you imagine?
I mean,
if he thought it was weak back then,
we have like children now.
A.W.
is rolling over in his grave, as they say,
if he was still there.
He's probably not there.
Well, his soul's definitely not there.
His decaying body is there.
It's just so funny because I
was talking to one of the
people who worked at Bodie.
She was going to Friends
Church and she was talking
about how Chris Ward,
who was at Friends Church,
he left and now is over at Bodie.
um richfield richfield and
she went to scoop from her
no other than she went and
he was uh given the message
at richfield this last
sunday oh we got to look up
and see if it's online yeah
and I and what I'm
gathering and what she kind
of told me was that that
was his audition and then
they were going to vote
whether to keep him or not
that's kind of what I got from yeah
But besides that,
we got into a discussion of
how she felt like he could only work.
He had to work within the
parameters that friends
told him he could preach under.
And we learned that same
thing when we were talking to him.
Yes.
That he was being held back
from preaching how he wanted to.
But she felt strongly that
at Richfield that he was
going to be able to do that.
And in his message.
Yes, they don't vote him down.
Well, in this message, he says,
I'm going to read the book,
the Bible from cover to cover.
Expository.
Yep.
And that's the way this is
what I want to do.
I want to be at a church
where I can do that.
I've not been able to do that before.
Is Richfield expository?
Are they going to be if they
decide to keep them?
I don't know about in the past.
I've never sat through a message.
I've been there for events and other stuff,
but I don't know.
But that is kind of
interesting because I think
that based on this message
that we're going to see a
little bit of this, some of the shakeup.
And I think that we're going
to see some good changes and some.
Well,
I know a lot of people that were
staying at friends just because of Chris.
Yes.
I'm curious to know what
they're going to do now.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's very interesting.
We got to we got to get the
scoop on what's happening.
Yeah.
Well,
you got a lot of friends that go there.
Yeah, well.
I guess I gotta ask them.
Do you have a group chat?
Just say, what's the scoop?
They've all since gone to other churches.
The only person that I can
see on this list that
understands what we're
talking about is Jan.
Hi, Jan.
Hi, Carrie.
In a French church,
it would be like on the
small end of a megachurch.
At one time, it was full.
Yes.
Quakers.
Yeah, since COVID, it hasn't been.
No surprise there.
It's very interesting what's
happening there.
Not sure what's going on.
But in regard to this message,
when we do realize that
this was written decades ago,
I think in the 40s or something like that,
A.W.?
Yes.
I mean,
it couldn't have nearly been what
it is we see today with the
preachers that we see on television.
What do you call them again?
Prosperity.
Prosperity preachers.
There was no television
really then per se that, you know,
they were evangelizing and
that kind of stuff.
And now, I mean, now forget preachers.
We've got influencers,
people that have no degree
whatsoever that are
teaching Christianity to
people kind of like us.
I don't know.
Intentions are not as good though.
That's the difference.
Yeah.
Well, we're learning.
I think we're learning live.
Yes.
On television, on the internets.
On the internet.
We're not necessarily.
And we're definitely not preachers.
Preaching or teaching.
We are learning along with our viewers.
And I think from the very beginning,
at least I've admitted that.
I admit that too.
This has been my way of learning.
Absolutely.
I don't want to be accounted
for as a preacher.
Now,
I've got to email Pastor Jack's
assistant again and say, okay,
let's get this next date together.
Because when he's on, we're learning.
Yes.
It's a funny concept, Kerry.
You're like,
is it a denominational church?
So that's the Quakers.
So they do have a hierarchy.
They do have a structure,
but it's interesting.
Every church I've been to
seems to tell the pastor what to do,
that the pastor is beholden to the elders,
almost like an employee.
And so I think that that, I mean,
Driscoll had the same
problem and they were non-denominational.
I guess it all depends on how much
trust and relationship is
built in between the pastor
and the elders.
I know like the way we've
talked about Pastor Jack's church,
his elders are basically
there to support him and
his mission and his vision,
but that's not always the case.
In other churches,
I know that's often not the case.
And I know, friends, it is the reverse.
Like the pastoral staff are
beholden to the elders.
So interesting.
But about the devotional.
Yeah,
this this theme of weekend
Christianity is a product of decades,
decades of watered down preaching.
The delicate,
brittle saints being produced
in our religious hot houses today.
What do you mean by hot houses?
Like spas?
Was that what he meant?
Like hot springs?
They don't have air conditioning.
I don't know.
I don't know what that means necessarily.
Yeah, it's a little strange.
But it is definitely endemic.
It's the same plague we're
dealing with today.
They're too timid to tell
the people all the truth.
Right?
They are now asking men to
give to God that which
costs them nothing.
And that's an interesting concept too,
meaning you sacrifice
nothing and you tell other
people to sacrifice
something when you've sacrificed nothing.
It's kind of a hollow demand.
Yeah.
You know,
the story I've told often was in
the beginning,
my hesitation of being full
Christian and not just
Christian in name only.
Mm-hmm.
Being born again,
making that step of being born again,
the thing holding me back
was everything that I had to give up.
At least I thought I had to give up.
Which you did.
But yeah, I mean,
that is a purposeful step
here where AW says they are
now asking men to give to God,
which costs them nothing.
That you have to be willing to give up
the old self that they have to,
that old man has to die.
And I wanted to hang on to that old man.
I thought there was some
value in that old dude.
Most people do.
And it was my, it was, um, uh, fun.
it was what I thought was
fun yeah it was not fun
it's funny it reminds me of
the couple it was a
disaster the couple we know
that's dating mature older
people in in courting uh
phase you know no
commitments or anything
just kind of trying to
understand each other and
then one of the people I'm
not gonna say whether it's
the man or the woman but
constantly negotiating the
parameters like
I don't understand why I
have to stop drinking.
I mean, can I drink a little?
What about bars?
Can I go to bars?
Can I continue to dance?
Can I go dancing with my friends?
In moderation.
Yeah.
I want to know if I have to
give up going to raves.
I was like, oh, Lord have mercy.
At that age,
you're still worried about
going to raves all night?
There's something wrong.
And I feel like that's often...
uh this person has the
humility to say it out loud
I said but I think that's
often yeah what you're
describing is that people
are thinking like I gotta
be a jesus freak I gotta
give up all this stuff that
I like and I don't know if
I'm prepared to do it yeah
I gotta give up cussing and
that's another thing this
one gives uh brings up all
the time do I really have
to stop cussing like I
don't understand like
what's wrong with the cussing
And I was telling the other
partner in the equation, like,
do you really want to be
negotiating every step of
this relationship?
I think it's kind of the
definition of unequally yoked.
If you feel like you have to
drag this person along the road of faith,
kicking and screaming,
that's a lot of work.
That's a lot of work.
Tell the guy to run.
Yeah, I'm kind of thinking that, Carrie.
How did she know that it was the girl?
I don't know.
But she figured it out.
And Carrie's just talking about me.
We're not talking about you.
Not talking about you.
Maybe the cussing.
That wasn't necessarily you.
No.
There's a lot of people who
say the same thing.
The other one was I didn't
want to give up my persona, per se.
Oh.
Wow, that was really something.
What?
Persona, per se.
Oh!
I'm going to write that down.
Because I knew once I went
full born again that there
was going to be a bunch of people going,
there's no way.
There's no way that Andy...
I don't believe it.
Right.
That was the whole thing.
No, really.
I am.
And they go, no, you're not.
How long is this going to be for?
Is this going to be... This
is like your new agey...
I'm really Christian now.
This is going to be like
when you're playing chess
for a couple weeks.
I picked up pickleball.
People pick up Jesus like
they're picking up pickleball.
I play pickleball now.
That's the new rave.
I think the first time that
I went live with the ducks
over there in Tri-City Park,
I knew I was waiting for all the people,
all my friends,
to just... I could hear them laughing.
I could hear them laughing.
But I laughed occasionally
at you with the ducks.
Not that I was with the ducks,
is that I was with Jesus.
Yes.
That was what they were laughing at.
But you reading a devotional
out by the ducks was kind of funny, too.
Yeah.
Well, where else was I going to do it?
It was cute.
Do you notice that I have to do something?
I have to do something.
I have to physically move
myself somewhere.
Yes.
I don't know why that is.
I don't know what that is.
Anybody know what that is?
So to read the daily
devotional or the daily,
the Bible in the day or Bible in the year,
what's that called?
Bible, the early Bible.
I have to go someplace in most cases.
I have to go to Starbucks or
Bodie's or a park,
which I've done a couple of
times and read it.
I can't read it here.
Why is that?
What is that?
You're restless.
Yeah.
To do the devotional and do the show,
I had to go out of the house.
You're constantly in motion.
I don't know what that is.
You'd be a little bit restless.
But back to the original
thought is that I had to,
there was a giving up.
I had to give up the
protection of not
continuing to be myself.
Once you move into that
place where you become born
again and you announce it out loud,
you're going to have the
people that want the old Andy back.
No, I want that guy.
I actually don't know a
single one of your friends
that prefer that guy.
Well, there is a couple out there.
The ones you don't, you've never met?
The ones that don't talk to him.
Yeah, the ones, yeah.
All the ones I met that knew
the pre and the post prefer this guy.
They're about, well, probably.
But those are the good people.
Those are the good people.
The 30 people that I used to
hang out with mostly before I met you,
I never talked to.
I never see.
There's a lot of them.
Oh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah,
I'll run into them on occasion on
their way to the places I used to go to.
But there is a giving up, right?
There's no doubt.
You gave up a whole family.
You gave up a whole life.
Yes.
Yeah.
And some people just, it's hard.
It's hard to do that.
When Jesus says...
You're going to have to
leave your mother and
father and your life.
Leave it all behind.
They're going to hate you.
He ain't kidding.
No.
He is not.
Wow.
He is not.
Did you consciously think,
did that enter your
consciousness when you
pulled off your head
covering and decided to leave?
No, because I didn't know Jesus then.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
I left Islam before I met Christ.
So that might have been, was it easier,
do you think, to do that first?
I mean, everybody was fine.
I think everybody was fine
with me leaving Islam.
My immediate family would
have been fine with that.
It was becoming a Christian
that caused the uproar.
When I started batting for the other team.
Hmm.
That was, that was, but for me, it was,
it was a natural
progression because I always loved God.
I was a worshiper.
I just didn't know who God was.
So to live without God was
an impossible proposition.
I wasn't going to last.
Wow.
I want to hear from Carrie says, Andy,
you mean the Andy who knew
every guy wanted to be Andy?
That's the old Andy.
Now the God-loving guy is
who they want to emulate.
Very true, Carrie.
Sure.
So we are in Acts 4,
and Peter and John have
just healed the man.
I think it's after the Pool of Bethesda.
And so they are addressing...
the scribes and the
Sanhedrin and all the
people about what they had just done.
And then Peter,
filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them,
rulers of the people and elders of Israel,
if we this day are judged
for a good deed done to a
helpless man by what means
he has been made well,
let it be known to you all
and to all the people of Israel that
that by the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified,
whom God raised from the dead,
it is by him this man
stands here before you whole.
This is the stone which you
rejected by you builders,
which has become the chief cornerstone.
Nor is there salvation in any other,
for there is no other name
under heaven given among
men by which we must be saved.
Now,
when they saw the boldness of Peter
and John and perceived that
they were uneducated, untrained men,
they marveled and they
realized they had been with Jesus.
Amen.
How good is that?
Oh, may people look at us and say,
and you have been with Jesus.
They have been with Jesus.
Hmm.
not had anybody obviously
say that to me out loud but
I wonder if people think it
because it's such a
difference I mean it's for
me I understand when I met
jesus in that room in utah
it that that was
life-changing it gave me
the boldness to talk about
something that I would not
normally feel comfortable
talking about and that's
about right being a christian
certain aspects of the Bible,
even though I don't may not
understand it completely.
I have less concern about it than before.
Like if somebody would ask
me about the Bible before meeting Jesus,
I would have folded and said,
I don't know, read it yourself.
Where now, as I've shared recently too,
it's talking to my kids about it,
certain stories in the Bible,
that kind of stuff.
And then when I don't know, then I say,
well, let's look it up and find out.
Almost like anything else
that I didn't understand at
the time and said, well, I don't know,
but I'll find out.
And so I think that that's, for me,
his gift was that, you know,
now that you've met me,
you can do this you don't
you don't have to be a you
know a professor of of the
of the scriptures to be
able to talk about amen you
don't have to uh you know
uh memorize all the verses
in order to talk about them
you got the book just look
it up right you just cheat
it's an open book test it's
actually you could just google it yeah
Well, that's why I like the enduring word,
because I could go there
and get some context to
some of the scripture.
But it surely does help to meet him,
to be able to do that.
But I don't know that you
have to necessarily have
that happen in order to make that step.
But it sure does help.
Sure.
Well,
you have to be able to give it a
defense for the hope that you have.
It's a biblical concept.
So we should be prepared to
explain what our hope is.
And I tell this also,
especially for Christian parents,
that if we are not able to
defend the Bible,
the authenticity of the
Bible and the integrity of
the gospel to our children,
they will look elsewhere.
And it becomes just a matter
of time because culture
alone will not protect our children.
They have to have a saving
faith of their own.
They have to accept Christ for themselves.
And how do they get there?
How do they get there if
it's just we just attend
church on Sundays?
We have to be able to lead our children.
We can't leave that up to youth ministry.
True.
They have to see Jesus.
the value sometimes through us.
Right.
Absolutely.
Especially since the older
ones know us from our past.
Right.
They know us today.
Right.
What do you think that has done
In addition to prayer for Zara,
do you think that gives her
hope in the sense of
relationships that she... Well,
I think the most important
was my commitment to her.
Because remember, I was never around.
So for, you know, when she turns 11, 12,
13, I'm telling her,
I'm going to be around now.
I'm around now.
And she's like, uh-huh.
You know, just like counting down.
Let's see.
Let's see how long you're
going to be around.
It really required the test
of time for me to be able to demonstrate.
No, no, no.
I'm actually really here.
I'm really invested.
I love you.
I want to make I want to redeem the time.
And I think that that that
she sees comes from Jesus.
The patience, the fortitude, the love,
the care, the kindness,
those are all qualities I
did not have when she was growing up.
And then with us as a family,
there's that sense of security.
It's a completion.
It's a completion for her of her life,
her dreams,
her hopes as a child that she
would be part of a family,
that she would have siblings,
that she would have a
father and a mother that were present.
And all of that she
associates with Christ.
I like the sweetness that's
starting to peek through.
It was Kelly's birthday on Sunday,
and she put together a little picture,
what do they call it, collage?
Yes.
And sent it to him,
and she said that she loved him.
She sent him a very nice message.
Amazingly nice message.
I think his response was one of like,
I don't know what to do with this.
Well,
I love you back would have been nice.
Yeah, it would have been nice.
But he does the same thing to me.
Like I go,
so are you going to tell me that
you love me?
But part of that is just who he is.
But I think also that it's like,
I think it would have been
the same way as a young teenager.
Like, oh my gosh,
do I got to say I love you back?
You're my sister,
but I don't know what to do with that.
But I loved it.
Yeah, it was extraordinary.
I was shocked.
Yeah, it was awesome.
I really love that.
But that's how Jesus works.
It's just these little
incremental changes and
little additions to.
Yeah, for some people,
it happens instantly.
And for some people, it takes time.
Yeah.
Peeling layers of an onion,
shaving off the the not so pretty parts.
Have you ever been known to
be patient before?
So patience is a great gift of God.
Forbearance and self-control.
Yes.
Fruit of the Spirit.
Right, my friends?
Kindness, forbearance, gentleness,
self-control.
These are all fruits of the Spirit.
Most of all, which?
Love.
I love you.
I love you, too.
Wait one minute.
Can I share a little story?
Oh, no.
Is it a bad one?
Well... Because I'll share a bad one back.
I told Andy, I said, if you attack me,
I will retaliate when you
least expect it with the
force three times as strong.
I go to this gym.
It's called the UFC.
UFC.
Oh, yeah,
you're going to share that crazy story?
Yes.
Okay, good.
Good.
I'm so glad, audience members,
because I would really love your opinion.
Don't drop off.
Please comment.
So they got a ring in there.
They got a cage.
Yeah, okay.
Don't make the story too long.
No, but they got... What is that?
What is that relevant?
Because they're training kickboxers.
Yeah.
Championship kickboxers.
Master fighters.
MMA fighters.
Boxers.
Yes.
They're walking all over the place.
Tough man, Jim.
Yeah, tough man.
And then there's tough women,
but tough men are there.
Yes.
So I'm leaving the gym.
And women looking for tough men.
So I'm leaving the gym the other day.
I got done working out.
Still a little sweat on my brow.
I'm going to get my smoothie,
my Superman smoothie.
That's what I was ordering
was the Superman smoothie.
Of course you were.
And as I'm walking up and to
receive my Superman smoothie,
this woman comes up that
I've seen around there from time to time.
And we've been in some of
the same hit classes together.
She's a little short Asian woman.
And it's important I let you
know what nationality is
because she goes by the name of Kimchi.
He did not make up that nickname for her.
No.
That's her own self-described nickname.
So sorry.
Which even makes the story
more ridiculous.
So Kim Chi comes to me and she goes, hey,
can I talk to you about something?
And I said, sure.
And she goes,
I got these two people that
are harassing me.
And I giggled.
know you find that shocking
but I giggled because I
thought she meant it in a
funny way that these people
were like harassing her in
a funny way like uh get to
the classes work out harder
but no she goes and she
looks at me like like I
don't know why you're
laughing at me something I
say often to him in the middle of a fight
laughing is inappropriate
right now oh you're serious
you mean people are
actually harassing you and
she goes yeah so I don't
know why you were laughing
I said well I i I thought
you were sorry it's a
nervous tick yeah yeah and
then she goes on to tell me
that these two women are
actually harassing her and
um and they intimidate her
they like bump into her and
the stuff like that like mean girls
And she's a Marine.
Kim Chi is a Marine.
Retired Marine.
Kim Chi's a retired Marine.
So Hedia says to me when I'm
telling her the story,
and so she needed a bodyguard.
And so why did she come to you?
Okay,
why would she go to the 62-year-old
man who's neither an MMA fighter,
who does not work at that gym,
who is male?
Because if she wants
somebody to beat up two other women,
is she supposed to choose a man?
Or should she find a woman
that would defend her
against two other women?
Because what dude is going
to come up and slap two women?
Well, first of all,
I don't understand why...
why you can't understand why
she came to me for
protection as opposed to
some 20-year-old kickboxer.
You know, I don't know, folks,
but I told him, I said, listen,
that sounds like some
strange ploy of some weird.
I sell them.
I don't think he should go
to the gym alone anymore.
And I'm going to go mark my
territory because as we've heard today,
two stories of women coming
up to him in the gym,
because earlier you told
him another story of a
woman who was like,
talk to you at the gym.
Oh no,
that was a Bodhi at the coffee shop.
Yeah, Andy's super friendly.
Super friendly.
And so he chats with literally everyone.
I don't know why.
Why?
There's a lot of things that
go into asking somebody for protection.
I just want to know from
each of you out there,
is it weird or not?
Is it weird or not?
How old is the woman?
I don't know.
She's got to be in her 40s.
In her 40s, coming up to Andy,
asking him to protect her
against two women in the gym.
She wanted my discernment
because she was wondering
if these people were
actually intimidating.
Were they doing something or
was it just her?
She had a question.
Am I crazy or are these
women really bumping into
me and harassing my purpose?
Because she goes, it's constant.
It's not like just one time
by accident they did it.
You laughing at Carrie's comment?
Yes.
Andy, run.
Celestina, yes.
That's crazy.
Crazy face.
It's a bit unusual.
Kelly and her demure kind of response.
It is unusual.
My favorite is Andy, run.
Well,
I was supposed to show up the
following day during this conversation.
She goes, tomorrow morning,
we'll probably be in the class together.
Can you just let me know if
you think that they are, in fact,
you know,
purposefully intimidating me or
trying to intimidate me?
And I didn't show up,
so I don't know what happened.
We went to Palm Springs.
I forgot we were going to Palm Springs.
So I felt bad.
I didn't see her there today.
My purpose for telling the
story is that I just don't
understand what you don't understand.
Good question.
Does she know you're a former cop?
I think she had an inkling
because of the shirts that I wear.
I'm always wearing something American.
Only because he's wearing
these shirts that are like,
don't get dead.
And cutesy time is over.
We the people.
Guns, God and Trump.
Andy drips machismo.
And I probably were.
If I was scanning a room and
had to call somebody to defend me quick,
it probably would have been Andy.
So I don't know why you
questioned her choice.
It wasn't an immediate danger.
She had to muster up the courage,
come up with a story,
and go up to a complete
stranger that doesn't work in the gym.
He doesn't work there.
She said she's gone to the
people in the gym and they
don't do anything.
Andy, her real name is Jezebel.
And you know what?
I got to tell you, I got to tell you folks,
I told Andy early on in our
relationship when he would
chit chat and flirt with
the Starbucks barista that
it's not that I don't trust him,
but because we are trying
to serve the Lord.
Jezebel, the enemy,
will come and do everything
possible to break our relationship,
however he can do that.
And so he may have no
intention of doing that,
but it's the woman who puts
him in a precarious
situation he can't get
himself out of or puts
himself in a situation that
he didn't expect to be in
in the first place.
I'm sitting right here.
No, I'm telling them what I told you.
And so, hence,
this is just another example of that.
She didn't say, hey,
can you come to my house?
I think people are coming in
late at night.
It was a class.
I know.
But then it's so easy to go
from there and say, you know what?
I think they're in the parking lot.
You're my hero.
Or they're not here.
They just left.
They're in the parking lot.
Can you walk me to my car?
Interesting.
And then what happens after that?
How far do you go?
What if she wants you to
walk her down the street?
No, my wife would kill me.
See that?
I agree with Hedia.
It's definitely weird.
Be aware.
Thank you.
And it's probably give the
gospel of Jesus.
We got somebody contributing
a new comment.
Probably her line with all the men.
She probably is lining up a gang of men.
Right?
No, if you sell kimchi, you...
What do you mean no?
No.
She just picked you out of the crowd,
which makes you feel even better.
So she boosted your ego even more.
She boosted my ego at all.
She did because all you've been saying is,
why are you surprised she chose me?
Of course she chose me.
Who wouldn't choose me?
See?
And she knew that.
I came right home and I said,
you'll never guess what
happened at the gym today.
I know.
I said, I trust you implicitly.
It's other people I don't trust.
Carrie says.
Stories I can tell you about
women and my husband, same.
He was clueless.
It's so true.
oh my goodness and then she
asked me to change her oil
yeah exactly see that just
a couple steps thank you
for your input folks thank
you folks love that
yes truly appreciate it I
didn't see her today I
meant I was gonna say I'm
so sorry I was I was in
palm springs I missed but
now you have to have an
ongoing conversation like
you'd go up to her and say
that why can't you just
leave it alone into her
she'd probably give me that
look like hey where are you
but what what if she what
if I what if I what if I
see her she has a broken
arm and her eyes poked out
what is such a problem
It's not your problem.
Come to me in the gym tomorrow.
Oh, my goodness.
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Red flags.
Just because she's Asian?
No.
Chinese flag?
Oh, my God.
No, it's...
Let me give you a working example.
Yes.
I'm going to give you a working example.
I am coming out of the gym.
There's a guy who kind of
checks me out in the gym.
Yeah.
I'm all that in a bag of chips too, buddy.
Okay.
So I come out of the gym and I'm at my car,
you know,
and I've got this new car and
I've got this little card
that allows me to swipe the
car without an open it without keys.
So I'm standing there kind
of trying to swipe it.
And this same guy is in a
Tesla pulls up next to me and he's like,
Oh,
are you having trouble with these new
keys?
He's like, my car works the same way.
You want me to help you?
And I was like, no, no, no.
Thank you.
It's great.
I'll figure it out.
It's easy.
And I was like, no, thanks.
And he's like, are you sure?
He's like,
I'll pull over and I'll help you.
And I'm like, no, no, no.
It's OK.
I'm fine.
Thanks.
And he drives off.
But now he says hello to me
every time he's in the gym.
That was his opening.
Exactly.
But he's driving a Tesla.
But you understand,
it's the way people throw a hook.
Does he wear little short shorts too?
No.
He does not.
But I don't tell her I was
with my beautiful wife.
Yes.
I will.
But it's just a way Jezebel's...
Hook their victims.
Because now you're talking about,
I didn't see her today.
Now I've got to go talk to her.
What if she's got an arm broken?
You're now going to the gym
looking for her.
No,
I'm not going to the gym looking for her.
I said I didn't see her at the gym.
I didn't go there looking for her.
I go to the gym like I go to
the gym every day.
But you're looking for her.
No.
You looked for her.
I did not look for her.
You said she wasn't at the gym today.
I didn't see her.
So you looked for her.
Hey, go up, sister,
to the gym and tell her you
be your own bodyguard.
It can't be Jesus.
That's what I told him.
I said, I ate like a dog.
I'm going to go mark my tree.
I'm coming with him to the
gym just to mark my
territory because we go to
two different gyms.
So, yes, I fully agree with that.
They are testing the waters.
Yes, exactly.
Lucky for us,
Kevin is not on this broadcast.
This wasn't the discussion I
was expecting.
Really?
What did you think?
They would say I was crazy?
Of course she came to you
because you were safe.
You exude what?
Safety?
Yeah.
It's like the lady at the
school board meeting.
She came to me and said, hey,
can you walk me to the car?
Because these guys are going to kill me.
Because you were with the perpetrators.
So she thought you were the
safest of the perpetrators
to protect her from the
other perpetrators.
She asked for my help.
That's how I felt.
It was the same thing.
No, it was against women.
She was looking for
protection against women
and said she had talked to the staff.
Either she's completely
bonkers and goes around
imagining like she's
schizophrenic and she just
goes around talking like
our friend that came to
Bible study and goes around
telling people that she's
seeing little green men or
she's looking for an entree.
I took it.
differently I took it that
she wasn't sure that she
was actually being harassed
that she goes this is very
odd and I don't know you
look like a dude I'm a
christian man and you look
like some guy with lots of
discernment yes oh my god
you were so yes you're so
egomaniacal that you would believe that
You're so easy to catch.
Throw a couple compliments
at you and you're finished.
Oh, Lord.
Carrie, I love this.
Look at Carrie.
Andy, didn't she say,
how can Samson be so dumb?
That's right there.
Hey, dumb is spelled D-U-M-B, by the way,
Carrie.
You forgot a letter.
Oh.
With temptation,
God always provides a means of escape.
Your wife shall take care of it.
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Yes.
Oh, my goodness.
That was a good laugh.
It was.
It was a good laugh.
But in all seriousness,
something very serious.
I'm telling you.
Oh, my gosh.
Can we pray?
Yes.
Pray for sanity.
bad eyes dumb thumbs oh he
was he was just trying to
poke holes in the argument
yeah uh any other any other
prayer requests that we uh
can add specifically carrie
I definitely remember um
your son and his roommate
muhammad jeremy what about
give the gospel of jesus
you have any prayer requests
And we have Carrie.
We know her surgery and Eddie deflect.
Yeah, exactly.
Your friend Kevin didn't
come to your rescue tonight.
No.
Where are my men?
Okay.
Dear Lord, thank you.
Thank you for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
May you put on us, on our lives,
on our testimony, Lord,
that people will look at us
and say that they had been with Jesus.
Whether we are learned or unlearned, Lord,
may
Just our speech,
our actions be a testimony
of our walk with you, Lord,
that we choose to glorify
you in all that we do,
that we offer ourselves as
a living sacrifice,
that we pick up our cross
and we carry it.
You have promised eternity
in your presence, Lord,
and this life is but a vapor.
So may we spend it honoring you.
We're so grateful to be of service to you,
Lord,
and we lift up your sons and
daughters here tonight,
those that are listening
now and those that will listen later on,
Lord, that need your healing hand,
that are suffering from a
variety of different ailments, Lord,
whether it's cataract, eye problems,
other kinds of eye ailments, arthritis,
pain in their bodies, cancer,
surviving cancer.
Lord,
there's so many conditions that your
sons and daughters are suffering from,
Lord, and they need your healing hand.
And we ask that your healing
hand to rest on them,
to restore them and bring
complete healing.
We also ask that you encamp
your protection,
your warring angels around our homes,
Lord,
that you will give us peace and joy
in the midst of a storm.
in the midst of chaos
outside in our nation and
around the world, Lord,
that you will protect our
homes and protect our
families and provide us the
peace and joy that comes
from knowing you and for
having blood on our altar, Lord,
that death will pass us by.
We also pray for Jeremy as
he's living in Abu Dhabi in
the foreign country and
Muhammad and all the people
that he comes into contact with.
uh,
with Lord may continue to be salt and
light in their lives and
leading them to saving faith in Christ.
We love you, Lord.
We're grateful for all that you do it.
And through us,
it's in the mighty name of
Jesus that we ask all things.
Amen.
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