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not pay attention to them.
Andy over here is quite curious.
So he just asks a simple question.
Who's Mark?
I was like, you know what?
I actually don't know who Mark is.
I have a cousin named Mark.
I never thought of that.
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there is a gospel written by a
guy we don't know much about.
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to that in just a few minutes.
But for now, we're reading from A.W.
Tozer for the Christian leader.
Excuse me for May 21 or 20.
For some people say 21st.
I say May 21.
I say it's first.
The title is Making an Accommodation.
The reference for A.W.
is Mark 1438 that says,
Watch ye and pray lest ye
enter into temptation.
The spirit truly is ready,
but the flesh is weak.
That reminds me of my
trainer at another UFC gym story.
Reminds me of my opportunity
today to share the gospel with him.
Awesome.
Yeah.
A.W.
says in this devotional, he says,
I am having a hard time
trying to comprehend what
has happened to sound Bible teaching.
Mic drop.
What has happened to
preaching on Christian
discipleship and our daily
department in the spiritual life?
We are making an accommodation.
We're offering a take-it-easy,
Pollyanna-type approach
that does not seem ever to
have heard of total
commitment to one who is
our Lord and Savior.
I regret that more and more
Christian believers are
being drawn into a hazy,
fuzzy kind of teaching that
assures everyone who has
ever accepted Christ that
he or she has nothing more
to be concerned about.
He is okay and he will
always be okay because
Christ will be returning
before things get too tough.
Then all of us will wear our
crowns and God will see
that we have cities to rule over.
If that concept is accurate,
why did our Lord take the
stern and unpopular
position that Christian
believers should be engaged
in watching and praying?
I ask you, Lord,
help me to watch and pray faithfully.
Help me to boldly accept the
challenge of total
commitment and never to
make an accommodation to
people to make them comfortable.
Amen.
What do you think?
Similar theme that we've had, right?
I think it's interesting he
brings up this concept of
total commitment.
Again,
he's just reiterating exactly what
we see in churches today,
that it is not a total commitment.
It is buy your fire insurance,
you'll be fine, go about your business.
And it's interesting that...
It is,
I had a discussion with a friend of
mine who had a similar kind
of road to Damascus experience as me.
Like the faith came suddenly,
came suddenly and intensely.
And we were talking about
how difficult it is to understand.
I'm getting more and more,
the more time I spend with
you and our community,
the more I'm getting in
touch with this Jesus in
name only community.
phenomena that you all are
the culturally Christian
people go through in this country.
But like,
we kept talking about how did it start?
Like, how does it happen?
How do you go from what's in here to that?
Like, how could you,
how could you read it and be like, oh,
I just,
I just have to believe unto him
and I shall be saved and I'm done.
How do we get?
And my summation is people
are not actually reading the book.
They're just being fed pieces of the book.
And when the pieces that
they're being fed are cut
and pasted from the Bible
and the rest of it's just
nurse Jesus coming out of
that person's brain.
Yeah.
Then that's how we ended up with this.
I'm sorry to say,
but retarded interpretation
of what it means to be a Christ follower.
because it's literally
nothing like what it means
to be a Christ follower.
And as a consequence,
we're fighting an uphill
battle trying to get people
to go back to the basics
that are in the Bible.
Because people just say, oh,
you're excessive.
Oh, you're too, like,
why are you so extreme?
You guys are just extreme.
Right, extremists.
Yeah, you're extremists.
And it's because you're broken.
Right.
There's something wrong with you.
That's why you have to take
it to an extreme.
Why do you care if boys are
in girls' bathrooms?
Why do you care if men are
competing against girls in girls' sports?
Well, okay,
so this is what I did at the
gym the other day.
There's this girl in the gym, and,
you know, I am not that bad of a prude.
I really don't think I'm that bad,
you know?
I understand...
the male and female attraction in a gym.
But this girl had on a top,
she was first of all,
a double D and had on a top
that only encompassed half of her
We were breasts, half.
And she kept jumping.
Okay, so she takes her sweatshirt off.
We're in the free weight section.
Okay,
so we're not even in the main section.
The free weight section is 95% men.
So it's literally me and her
and one other girl.
The rest are guys.
And she takes off her sweatshirt,
starts jumping up and down.
And like the entire free
weight room could not do
anything but stare at her.
Like it was it was so over the top.
It was just like everybody
was like glued like this.
And I go.
So I sat there and I tried
not to pay attention.
I tried to ignore it and I
got really annoyed.
And I went to the manager and I said,
listen.
I don't want to be difficult,
but I just think there's
got to be a line.
There's got to be like,
tell me there's a line somewhere.
Like if she took the top off,
then would you intercede?
But like,
it just seems that there's got to
be standards,
but we've let go of so many
of those standards in just
about everything that when
you try to impose standards,
you look like a weirdo.
Just let her enjoy herself.
She's,
but she's enjoying herself in my space.
You know what I mean?
I hear you.
I'm just being the other,
these people that they,
they look at me like I'm crazy.
Like, like again, like, isn't it funny?
You have to start the sentence,
even on a Christian podcast
that I don't want to be a prude.
I'm not prude.
Yeah.
Like you shouldn't have to,
you shouldn't have to preface that.
Right.
Like there's a,
there's a decency standard.
You think a moral standard,
but there isn't because we
don't all have public.
I mean, in public, in public.
Yeah.
And and I said that the reason because,
you know, most or they would say, well,
just don't look.
And I so what I tried to
explain was that it's fine
for me not to look.
But the problem is the rest
of the gym is all staring.
So it just makes it uncomfortable.
It's almost like the air got
thick in that room.
um and I just I don't know I
just thought that I just
didn't want to partake I
didn't want to have to be
in a space and partake with
the object even if she
didn't care the
objectification of this
young woman there she's too
dumb to realize that she's
being objectified um then
the rest of us should try
to save her I early 20s yeah
So she's not like... She's not 12.
No.
I was just thinking maybe
she was older and just like, hey,
this is my last chance to
try to land somebody.
So I'm going to just put it all out there.
No, she's a good college kid.
Working out with a trainer.
The trainer didn't say.
Yeah, the trainer didn't say.
That's what also pissed me off.
So when I went to the manager, I was like,
and she's with one of your trainers.
One of your employees.
Who would have been,
who should have been like, well, okay,
let's leave that sweatshirt
on or let's grab a tank top.
Yeah, I mean, there's I talked about this.
I sent a long email to our
superintendent about some
years ago about standards
and about culture.
Yeah.
Each one of these schools
should start with whatever
you want to have as the
culture of the school
district and set that standard,
that culture.
And it's up to the business.
like you were saying, to say,
what's the standard?
What's the culture here?
Is this a strip club or is
this a place where families
can come and work out and
not feel uncomfortable?
I know in my business,
Falco Canine Academy,
I had these rules that I'd
read off to every one of my customers.
And I said,
because I didn't want people
kicking their dogs.
I know this seems,
it's kind of the same thing.
Why would I have to tell
people not to kick their dog?
Why would I have to tell
people not to throw their
dog across the field?
And the reason you have to
do that is because that's what people do.
They lose their minds.
And so even at the beginning,
I had to preface like, listen,
these rules are in place
because this has happened.
I had a police officer shut
his dog in the door of his
patrol car like three times
as the dog was trying to get in.
He was so mad at his dog.
But we've lost that.
We've lost a...
There's no bar anymore.
There's no just a cultural
standard any longer.
It's just how crazy can you
be standard and how
inappropriate can you be standard?
And, of course, social media, I think,
has had a huge part of that.
Yes, that's if they can see it online,
why can't they just go out
and do it out in public?
Or maybe if I go out and do it in public,
somebody will take a video
of me and then I'll be well
known and be famous.
But it's I love to keep up with the Bible,
but it is it is that we
need more of this.
You need to pay.
This is this is sets the standard.
You have to actually read it, though.
Yeah.
But this.
Yeah.
You have to read it because
when you read it, it'll set the standard.
I know that my standards
have changed or my the
culture that I want around
me has changed.
Sure.
And I mean, we talk about alcohol,
not having that in the
house because we have a
culture now in this home
that doesn't include alcohol.
And we can go on.
But it's the same thing with
clothing with our kids.
We try to maintain a standard.
They often don't follow it.
Yeah.
But we're trying to like you
just put some clothes on.
Yeah.
Go back to the house.
Yeah.
You did that the other day.
Yeah.
We just say no.
No.
Go back in.
Put something on.
Yeah.
You don't have anything on now.
Oh my gosh.
So then this leads us to the
church where again, again,
if it's going to start somewhere,
at least it should start in
the church with that.
That's the one thing that
should not be lowering its standard.
Oh,
and it's the one thing that has lowered
the standard.
And so my friend was wondering how, like,
how do people, uh,
he was referring to his roommate.
Who's kind of like, um,
getting high on the weekends
and then saying, you know,
I want to come to church
with you on Sunday.
And he's like,
You don't,
you cannot come to church with me.
Like you need to decide what
side of this fence you're on.
And I said that, you know,
but that's so indicative of
where the church is at.
People cheat on their spouses.
And I'm not talking about
engaging in sin and repenting.
I'm talking about habitually
cheating on your spouse or
habitually getting drunk
and then going to church on Sunday.
Like there is no sense of conviction,
no sense of the Lord sees,
no sense of the Lord's
commandments and call to
holiness or righteousness.
And it's just a free for all.
And we're trying to figure
out why do they want to come to church?
So he's like, I don't understand why.
And I was like, well,
that's easy because Jesus
is the love magnet.
So people are saying, you've heard enough.
So people have heard
culturally enough that if
you don't believe in Jesus,
you're going to hell.
So it's easy to convince people,
I'm going to go to hell.
I mean, this is not only fire insurance,
but in case he exists and there is a hell,
I might as well believe in
it and hedge my bets.
which doesn't really lead to
any commitment.
Right.
In terms of this devotional
total commitment.
It's absolutely no commitment.
It's just, okay,
I can accept this argument.
I can accept that Jesus was amazing.
The world basically knows
that Jesus was amazing.
I've heard that once saved, always saved.
Right.
You know, so it's easy peasy.
He's my savior, but he's not my Lord.
If it's easy peasy,
you're not doing it right.
Yeah.
If it's easy peasy,
you're not doing it right.
Absolutely.
Just like you the other day going, wait,
why would he want us to
share in his suffering?
That's the gospel.
You know, if you're not suffering,
then you're not doing something right.
Yes.
So true.
OK,
so our friends are saying hi to each
other.
Yeah, yeah.
And Carrie,
Corrine wants to know the bell.
Did you mention the bell on YouTube?
You're watching on Facebook,
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One of the two.
Same thing going on today.
Exactly.
Hello, Kelly.
And many reading don't
really know how to read to be Berians.
Is that a typo?
Because it's capitalized.
It was the definition, Carrie.
Yes.
And Corian says yes.
We're so low.
So low.
Absolutely.
Carrie says.
Not saved if you're just
hedging your bets.
Yeah, exactly.
How many will come to him and say, Lord,
Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name?
Didn't we heal the sick?
And he'll say, get away from me,
you workers of iniquity.
So they will have a rude
awakening when they meet
the Lord because he will say,
I did not know you.
Right?
Yeah, I know.
God forbid.
I know you.
Isn't that good enough?
I know you are.
What would cause him to say,
I did not know you?
So if you attended church every Sunday,
but yet he could still say that,
what is that saying?
I was just going into a building.
Right.
And he was in the restroom on occasion.
Meeting a couple of friends.
Hey,
you want to go have breakfast afterwards?
We're going to have a couple
of margaritas.
And it's funny because you think about it,
if you talk about the
sermons after with some people,
they're not hearing it even.
Because people like Pastor
Bob and Pastor Jack are
constantly telling you to
pursue holiness.
Constantly asking you,
are you sure you're saved?
Are you sure?
Are you 100% certain of
where you go when you die?
No, I hope, I think, I'm guessing.
You should be 100% certain.
And if you do not have 100% certainty,
then you should be concerned.
And if you do not feel the
Holy Spirit convicting you
or working in you to do
things that you are not
able to do in your own strength,
you should also be concerned.
First time I heard Pastor Jack talk about,
you know,
very famous Christians like singers,
worship singers or famous
pastors that have been
known or written books that
that suddenly are no longer
they no longer.
believe in god or they've uh
you know lost their whole
church because of because
of some shenanigans yeah
the first time I heard him
talk about that and say
well it's it's a there's a
really strong possibility
that they were never saved
and that I go oh wow that
that was that was big that
that caused me to think right
Okay.
If these guys,
even guys that read their books, you know,
and followed some of their teachings.
So crazy.
That they could have done
all that and not been born
again or truly saved.
Because it's a racket.
Yeah.
It becomes like Tony Robbins.
You know,
they easily could be invested in
Christianity as a business.
I preach because it makes me money.
Not because I believe it.
How many professors teach
Christianity that don't believe?
Yeah.
You know?
We've seen them.
Same thing.
Wow.
Corinne says she's concerned.
It's early on, Kareem.
You shouldn't be concerned about yourself.
You should be concerned about other people,
maybe.
Kelly, I like this.
I love this.
I heard someone say,
it's not enough to say you know the Lord.
The question is, does the Lord know you?
Amen.
That is good.
Well, 1% concerned.
That's too much.
I feel pretty strongly that
he knows who I am because
he's talked to me so much.
So what do you mean pretty strongly?
I'm just saying.
I am sure that he knows me.
He does know who I am.
He's talked to me so often.
Well then, that should be enough.
It is.
Amen.
It is now.
I think he was like, you know,
questioning me early on.
You were questioning him?
I stand at the door and knock.
Whoever opens the door,
I shall dine with him.
Most of the time he's
standing at the door knocking.
Yeah.
Let's hear what the Bible
has to say in Mark 14.
So we're praying in the
garden of Gethsemane.
And then they came to a
place which was named Gethsemane.
And he said to his disciples,
sit here while I pray.
And he took Peter, James,
and John with him.
And he began to be troubled
and deeply distressed.
Then he said to them,
my soul is exceedingly sorrowful,
even to death.
Stay here and watch.
He went a little farther and
fell on the ground and
prayed that if it were possible,
the hour might pass from him.
And he said, Abba, Father,
all things are possible for you.
Take this cup away from me.
Nevertheless, not what I will,
but what you will.
Then he came and found them
sleeping and said to Peter, Simon,
are you sleeping?
Could you not watch one hour?
Watch and pray lest you
enter into temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
Watch and pray.
That phrase is repeated
several times in the Bible,
mimicking an Old Testament
concept of being watchmen on the wall,
where we are to watch.
Watch for the Lord's return.
Watch for the sign of the end of days.
To be vigilant,
to be able to watch and to
stay prayerful requires us
to be sober and vigilant,
as Peter tells us.
And this other one,
the other time it's
mentioned is in Luke 21, where it says,
where the Lord's talking
about the end of days.
And he says, truly, I tell you,
this generation will not
pass until these things have happened.
Heaven and earth will pass,
but my words will never pass away.
Be careful or your hearts
will be weighed down with carousing,
drunkenness, and the anxieties of life.
And that day will close on
you suddenly like a trap.
so it's not just us that say
it all the time God says it
all the time yeah and then
36 he goes on and says be
always on the watch and
pray that you may be able
to escape all that is about
to happen and that you may
be able to stand before the
son of man how are you
going to be able to stand
if you want to hide your
face you know like Adam and
Eve did in the garden as
soon as they ate the apple
they're running for fig leaves
Or leaves, whatever they are.
People say they're not things.
Whatever.
Why are they hiding from God?
Like,
why would they hear God's footsteps
and the Lord and God call out, Adam,
where are you?
You know, because shame makes us hide.
And we just,
we have to be vigilant or we
won't be on our guard and
we won't be able to see
these things coming.
Got questions says Jesus's
disciples today must also watch and pray.
We're so easily distracted by the world,
our fleshly needs and our
desires and the schemes of the enemy.
When we take our eyes from
Jesus and his soon return,
Our values begin to shift.
Our attention wanders.
And soon we are living like
the world and bearing
little fruit for God's kingdom.
He warned us we must be
ready at any moment to
stand before him and give
an account of our lives.
That's good, isn't it?
I'm sorry.
I was thinking about
something just before you read that.
You mentioned that that's
not from the Bible.
That's from... Got Questions.
That website called Got Questions.
Yeah.
That's a good website.
Oh, yeah.
Pastor Jack refers to it all the time.
It's really good.
Especially the part about
taking our eyes on Jesus.
Well, yeah,
but he warned us that we must
be ready at any moment.
Absolutely.
Always be ready.
Wow.
So did we learn enough about
Mark for you to talk about it?
Why?
I believed,
because Mark had his own book
in the Bible,
that he must be this very
famous person that everybody knew.
Well, apparently,
we are not 1,000% sure that
it was Mark who wrote the book,
though a majority of
commentators think it was.
It is apparently possibly Mary's son.
Mary,
where they had Passover before Jesus
was crucified.
But he makes further
appearances in the book of
Acts with Paul and Barnabas.
He accompanies them.
And then apparently there's
some disagreement between him and Paul.
He separates.
But then towards the end of Paul's life,
he starts to make reference
again to Mark.
So we don't know if he was present.
So there's some kind of strange story,
I don't know how accurate it is,
about him being in Gethsemane,
wrapped in a sheet,
watching from afar and then ran away.
And so the question is,
how well did he actually know Jesus?
Because he wasn't one of the
original disciples.
You know,
something that said that that may
have been just a way of
saying that he was there.
He was right.
Just by saying, oh, yeah,
I was in a sheet.
It got pulled off me.
I was running back home naked.
Right.
Added to the story.
Right.
As some people can do just
to make it sound like or
make people believe that
they were somehow a part of that period.
Yes.
And Corrine saying Mary's son, not Mary,
mother of Jesus, the other Mary.
Got questions.
Yes.
It's got questions.org.
It's a really awesome website.
So you literally just type
questions in there and get answers.
This is the link for where
we were just reading from.
But of course,
if you click on the logo and
type any question you want
upper left-hand corner,
it'll take you to the homepage.
So, yeah, so this mark is just like some,
not a character it was a
character of that period
that just kind of comes in
and out of of the stories
right um it is not there's
not a lot said about him no
but he got a whole book of
the bible I know it's very
cool how did that happen
I'm shocked there's not a
and I gotta say that the book
Never ceases to amaze me.
There is an Andrew in the Bible.
There is.
It was actually Pastor Bob
that called my attention to
the names that are the
Apostle Paul references.
And he's like,
can you imagine what you did
to earn getting a specific
reference in the Bible by
name to a person?
Some of them were not good,
but some of them were good.
And it's just and I used I
used to gloss over the names.
And now I sit and I think
about it and I'm like, wow,
why are you mentioned by name?
What is the wisdom behind that?
What did you do that God
wants us to remember?
It was it was I learned that
from Pastor Bob.
Nice.
Yeah.
And Corrine's asking Mary Magdalene.
You know, Corrine,
there's a little
controversy over how many
Marys there were.
So some people say the
stories of Mary are all one Mary,
Mary Magdalene.
And then other commentators
say there was more than one Mary,
not counting Jesus's mother.
A popular name.
Yeah,
so I'm not going to say for sure
which Mary it was.
But the Mary whose house
they were at in Passover
does not seem to be it was
Mary Magdalene's house,
but I don't know for sure.
Poor Mark.
And there's Mary's sister Martha, right?
There's Mary's sister Martha, too.
There's a lot of Marys.
Yeah.
Yeah,
so I had a. I think I'm only going to
reference this because I
try to tell you it'll be a
very long story,
but I have this friend who's my trainer.
Yes.
Who often talks that he
wants to have a relationship with Jesus.
And then two days later,
he's in Vegas at a rave.
My friend's going through the same thing.
Bro, come on.
Get it together.
But today was a little bit
different because he had
gone to this three-day rave
in the desert where it's camping.
Then you go to some after
parties that start at 5 a.m.
and go on until 11 a.m.
And then the next day,
the rave at the campground starts again.
Um,
the shenanigans that he told me about
sounds like complete hell to me.
Sounds like hell.
He's got his, he's got a son.
Um, and, um, and just what he, he, he, he,
there's so much of the story.
He didn't have his ID.
He had to sneak in.
He got chased down by security.
I mean, a whole bunch of stuff.
I can't even tell you at
some point he was so worn
out from his shenanigans of three days.
that uh he called his
girlfriend this girl that
he really likes that he not
the one from before this I
think it's a new one okay
that he called her she
lives here in locally you
know somewhere in this area
and uh said I need you to
come uh pick me up from
where where is it in vegas
vegas okay so she goes I'll
be right there shops in her
car drives there finds him
And he gets in the car and
she looks at him and she goes,
are you okay?
Do I need to take you to the hospital?
Because he's so gaunt and his face is so,
like his eyes are all
sunken from three days of
alcohol and sun and that kind of stuff.
So like I said,
and there's even more to the story.
So he drives him home and, you know,
I see him today.
He got home yesterday.
And he goes, Andy, I'm done.
I'm really done this time.
I go, bro,
you said that the last time you
went to Vegas,
which was only like a month ago.
He goes, no, this is it.
He goes,
I realized that I can't do this anymore.
And he says,
because I think I just I need
you to before we leave,
I need you to pray for me.
And for sure.
And and that was at the
beginning of our workout.
So it's about 50 minutes as
our workout as we are leaving.
This is the same guy.
Not too long ago,
I may have mentioned on the
show that he didn't show up.
You know, right.
He was late.
And I and I just took him
aside in front of Kelly and
everybody and said, hey, listen, do deep.
You got to show up.
Yes.
And so as we're walking from
one place where we're
working out to another,
he comes across another one
of his clients like me.
And he goes to give her a high five.
And she goes, no, get out of here.
Like to him, like right in front of me.
We all know each other.
She's another person that
was to come to our church,
our home church.
And he goes and he goes like
he like was shocked for a minute.
And he goes, where were you?
I show up and you're not here.
Same thing I told him a
couple of weeks ago.
And so he got a ration from her.
And I said and I said and I
looked at her and I said, tell him.
I said, I've tried to tell him.
And we kind of all beat up
on him for a second.
And he could tell he's like
some I feel like finally,
maybe that he may be willing to change.
And so we're going to pray
for Nick tonight.
He's going to be on my prayer list.
But before I left,
he started to walk away and I said,
get back here.
I said, I'm going to,
I'm going to pray over you.
He goes, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so, you know, it's like this,
he has one foot in and one foot out.
But I grabbed him and he put
his arms on my shoulders
and right there in the
middle of the gym with that
kind of music that's going on.
Prayed out loud about, you know, just said,
yeah,
I just wanted God to give
him the strength of David
to take on this monster.
He's taking on the giant
that he needs to defeat.
And his girlfriend, Amanda, I said,
give her the strength of Ruth.
She has the ability to lead an army.
And it's going to take a
woman like that to lead him
away from his demonic past.
So let's hope.
Somebody asked about Burning Man.
I didn't know this was in Vegas.
Burning Man's in Nevada, I think,
isn't it?
I don't know.
Vegas, Nevada, same thing, no?
I mean, Arizona, sorry.
Arizona.
Adam crossed over.
He was in Las Vegas, Nevada.
I think Burning Man is in Arizona,
if I'm not mistaken.
So let's hope.
Amen.
He just, yeah, oh my gosh.
I think he's finally hit it.
And then, of course, I said,
make this man someone that
his son can be proud of.
His son is six or seven years old.
I said, you need somebody to look up to.
And right now, you're not that person.
Amen.
We're going to pray for him.
Let's hope.
And Carrie says,
last night I was supposed to tell a story,
but we got in the weeds about kimchi.
I don't remember.
Oh, no.
I thought I told my story
about my friend and his
friend being one foot in
and one foot out.
It's funny.
We just know a lot of people like that.
And I think it's part of the
great separation,
the falling away that's occurring.
It's just this separation
that's happening between
sheeps and goats and wheats and tare.
And it's just the Lord's
sifting us like wheat.
And people are falling to
one side or another.
And my friend, the girl had said to him,
well, will you go to like that?
What Nick does,
will you go to a rave with me?
And he's like, no,
I'm not going to rave with you.
Like it's really satanic where
you're trying to bring
somebody towards the Lord,
but not only their flesh,
but the demonic oppression
is trying to pull you away from the Lord.
So it's often said when you
try to be a lifeguard,
be careful you do not drown
because trying to rescue
these kind of people can be very,
very dangerous because
often they try to pull you
down with them first.
Consciously or subconsciously?
Both.
Because, you know,
it's interesting because
when you say consciously
versus subconsciously,
is a demonic influence
conscious or subconscious?
You know, some people,
like we talk about hearing
the Lord's voice.
Some people hear the enemy's
voice and think it's their own.
Awesome.
Yeah.
So they're encouraging you
to do something that's
clearly wrong because their
voice is telling them to do it.
So that's what they say.
Test the spirits.
Make sure the voice you're
listening to is of God and
not of the enemy.
Carrie's hoping she's gotten
too old to get into trouble.
Yeah.
At some point,
at some point you would expect.
Yeah.
let's hope that he's reached
that uh nick has reached
that point yeah I don't
know I mean you see lots of
people who are you know 60s
70s and still partying like
it's 1999 that is so true
yeah so true uh yeah I just
I just witnessed that not
too long what do you mean
Just being out and about on my travels,
being in like, you know,
because I eat at these restaurants,
bar restaurants and things like that.
And just older people in
their 50s and they're just sloppy,
slobbering over each other, just like,
come on.
And they're loud.
We were saying that.
What were we saying that?
Oh, we were in Palm Springs.
Oh, that's where it was.
That's where it was.
We were in the pool.
And those people there, you know,
just so unattractive.
severely overweight, burnt, drunk, loud.
You know, you're just like,
you are just a heart attack
waiting to happen.
One part of the pool,
just hours of drinking,
and then we show up the
next day at the pool,
and they are in that very same spot,
doing the very same thing.
Like, yeah.
How?
Why?
Then they leave this mess
over the whole side of the pool.
I cleaned up their mess.
Just so I wouldn't have to look at it.
You're so nice.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, it was Palm Springs.
Yes.
Gosh,
it seems like a month ago that we
were in Palm Springs.
I don't know why.
All right.
So we have Nick to pray for.
Anybody else that we didn't
get any prayer requests on this show?
It helps me to remember God sees.
Amen.
Absolutely.
Because we're not doing it
because our spouse sees.
We have to do it because the Lord sees.
That's the only thing that'll keep us,
that'll make our crooked path straight.
For sure.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's hit it.
Thank you, Lord,
for this opportunity to
worship you in spirit and in truth.
Thank you for the
opportunity to have
fellowship with our
brothers and sisters in Christ, Lord.
You have made us the church, one body,
a hand and a foot and an eye and a leg.
Every part is as equal as the other,
and all are important to you, Lord.
Help us to love one another
as you have commanded us to do so,
to love you,
to love God with all of our heart, mind,
and strength,
and to love each other as well, Lord.
It is not always easy,
but allow us to be a
blessing to others and not just...
seek to know you for ourselves,
but to be a blessing to others.
And however,
we may be able to gift others
with either words of wisdom
or with kindness, with generosity,
support, whatever it may be, Lord,
with prayer.
And we'd like to lift up our friends today,
those that are suffering from illnesses,
Lord,
you know them each and every one of
them by name.
We ask for your healing hand
to be upon them.
And for Nick, our friend, Lord,
to come to Saving Faith in Christ,
to give up his old ways,
to put the old man to rest.
and to become a new creation, Lord.
We pray that for all of our
loved ones that are far from you, Lord,
that have not yet met you.
And those that have met you, Lord,
that have walked away or
just are not walking in
right relationship, Lord,
we ask that you call them
back to your divine presence.
We love you.
We ask all things,
expect all things for the
sake of the blood in the name of your son,
Jesus Christ.
Amen.
That's beautiful, Schnutz.
Thank you.
All right.
My friends, our friends.
There we go.
Sorry.
We love you.
God bless you.