"I Give Up!"

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,200 This is Jimmy Nanette and we... 2 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,600 Well, I always have to mention Mr. Chevy because he's with us. 3 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:33,600 He is this time. 4 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,960 He was not with us last week because... 5 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:37,520 We were in Florida. 6 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:38,520 What were we doing in Florida? 7 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:39,520 Oh my gosh. 8 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:40,520 What were we not doing in Florida? 9 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,000 Having the time of our life. 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,160 It was so much fun. 11 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:45,160 I'm really... 12 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:46,960 I was sad to come back home. 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:48,960 I begged you to stay. 14 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:50,480 Honestly, no, I was too. 15 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:51,480 I felt the same way. 16 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:52,480 No, no, no. 17 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:53,480 But I just... 18 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:54,480 I'm Mr. Responsible here. 19 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:55,760 I felt like we needed to get back. 20 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:56,760 Why? 21 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:57,760 So we could sit here? 22 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:58,760 Mr. Chevy. 23 00:00:58,760 --> 00:00:59,760 Oh my gosh. 24 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,400 Chevy was doing great with Faith. 25 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:03,640 Very, very good. 26 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,400 Now, I really wanted a few more days. 27 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,720 I know, but you always do that on trips. 28 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:09,720 You always beg for more. 29 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:10,720 It's like... 30 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:11,720 What can I say? 31 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:12,720 No, we got to get back to real life. 32 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,720 But we're not in real life yet. 33 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,720 We're still in solitude. 34 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,320 Well, and to Choo-ching and we didn't have reservations and blah, blah, blah. 35 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:22,320 There's a lot. 36 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:23,320 A lot of reasons, obviously. 37 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:24,320 Okay. 38 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:25,320 Next time. 39 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:26,320 I'm doing two weeks. 40 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:33,080 Okay, so before I sound like I'm just party pooper over here, I want to welcome our guests. 41 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,240 Those that are listening, this is show number 32. 42 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,040 Yeah, you got it. 43 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,040 Can you believe it? 44 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:41,040 32 episodes. 45 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,120 That just sounds like a lot. 46 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,560 It feels like we just started last week. 47 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:46,880 It doesn't to me. 48 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:47,880 It doesn't? 49 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:48,880 No. 50 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,840 It feels like they've been doing this for years because you're such a pro. 51 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:51,840 That's why. 52 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:52,840 Right. 53 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:53,840 I am a pro. 54 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:54,840 You've got the best voice. 55 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:55,840 Oh, here we go. 56 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:56,840 I'm in the world. 57 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,120 Okay, let's go ahead and talk about what we're going to talk about. 58 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:00,120 Keep eating the mic. 59 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:01,120 That will help. 60 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:02,120 I'm eating the mic. 61 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:03,120 Oh my gosh. 62 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,120 We're back in our bouncy room. 63 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:12,000 Actually, last week when we took our road caster with us, Adam listened to the show. 64 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,760 It was the best sound we've ever had. 65 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,200 Adam, the pod father and our executive producer, Curry. 66 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,200 We had what? 67 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,960 Towel, wood, floors, no blankets hanging up. 68 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:23,960 We were in a kitchen. 69 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:24,960 A kitchen. 70 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:25,960 Okay. 71 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:26,960 In a condo. 72 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:28,240 There was noise outside. 73 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,240 It was shocking. 74 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,040 Of course, we were on the beach, so there's the beach outside and there's people playing 75 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,600 music and vehicles going up and down the beach. 76 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,840 We were like, oh, there's no telling what's going to happen. 77 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,320 It came off really well. 78 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:40,320 It was way better. 79 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,000 The road caster performed. 80 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,680 Way better than I thought it would be because he complained. 81 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,680 Well, I don't want to say the word complain. 82 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:48,680 No, he pointed out. 83 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,680 He points out quite a bit of our issues. 84 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,080 That's why I pay him so much. 85 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,320 We're in our office, our studio, but not there. 86 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,180 This doesn't make sense. 87 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:01,180 We're good to go. 88 00:03:01,180 --> 00:03:02,180 Hopefully. 89 00:03:02,180 --> 00:03:04,680 I think a lot of it was me back in too far off the mic creating. 90 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:05,680 Who knows? 91 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,160 Anyway, we'll see how it goes today. 92 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,160 I'm sure we'll hear from you. 93 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,680 I guess I am the pro and you're not. 94 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,480 You know, there's a lot of truth in that. 95 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,280 By the way, speaking of Adam and Tina Curry. 96 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:15,280 I know. 97 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:16,280 Oh, here we go again. 98 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:17,280 Where are they right now? 99 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,960 Where we were supposed to be with them in Italy, but that's okay. 100 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:23,560 Next year, we're going to Japan. 101 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:24,560 All of us. 102 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:25,560 Yeah, we're looking at it. 103 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:26,560 We're looking at it. 104 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:27,560 I think it'll be an exciting trip. 105 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,600 I had a friend that Evan Archulette went to Japan with his family. 106 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,320 No, just with Memily, his wife. 107 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:33,320 Oh, I didn't know. 108 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,920 Yeah, it was just them. 109 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,400 He came back and he said, I would move there. 110 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,360 I would move there tomorrow. 111 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,800 Now, obviously, he went as a tourist. 112 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:49,040 He didn't know the whole culture, but from a tourist American perspective, what he liked 113 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:54,760 was how peaceful it was and how clean and orderly it was, which that fits right in with 114 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:55,760 Evan's mindset. 115 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,960 For sure, it's his personality. 116 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,040 But I would like to experience that cleanliness. 117 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,040 He said peace. 118 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,040 Peace. 119 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:04,040 Yes, yes. 120 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:08,240 There's just a, they really, as a culture, they strive for that. 121 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:09,880 I strive for that. 122 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:10,880 How do you strive for peace? 123 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,300 You know, you lean into, you receive, you accept. 124 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:16,520 So apparently, it was very impactful for him. 125 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,840 So that kind of inspired me of saying, you know, I would like to explore. 126 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:22,480 We've talked about it with Currys. 127 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:23,480 We may do it. 128 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:24,480 Yeah. 129 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:25,960 She wants to come back and start planning it. 130 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:31,800 You know, if we did that, then we might could do a crossover podcast there in front of Japan. 131 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,200 Oh, that's a good idea. 132 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:34,800 That would be fun. 133 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:40,120 So last week, Panama Beach, Panama City Beach, we worked out how many days? 134 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,440 I mean, so we're on a carnivore journey and we're also, so we're in the middle of our 135 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:45,440 sabbatical. 136 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,240 Maybe we're further, we're on the other half of our sabbatical. 137 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,280 We have a week from Sunday. 138 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:51,760 A week from next Sunday. 139 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:53,840 So we've still got a couple of weeks. 140 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:58,720 And we've been focusing on our mind, our body, and our spirit. 141 00:04:58,720 --> 00:04:59,720 Exactly. 142 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,400 Spent the first few weeks really dialing in on the spiritual side of things. 143 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,480 Now, we didn't abandon the spirit to go focus on the others. 144 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:07,480 Right. 145 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,280 It's foundations and layers. 146 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:15,360 And so we focused on the spirit, really got some rhythms, some healthy, healthy devotional 147 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,040 rhythms where we both have our times in the morning. 148 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,040 We come back and what did you learn? 149 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:22,040 What's God speaking? 150 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,440 Sometimes we're texting each other from each end of the house going, oh my gosh, this quote's 151 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,520 amazing from, you know, whatever. 152 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,680 So when we came back together, that's amazing. 153 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,120 So we got our rhythm set in. 154 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,920 Then we went to focus on the body, on the physical, which we kind of started anyway 155 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:44,160 right at the beginning because we re-embraced our keto, our ketogenic diet journey, which 156 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:45,240 we did for years. 157 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,720 And then we, after COVID, totally botched that. 158 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:49,720 Yes. 159 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:50,720 Which most people did. 160 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:51,720 It's really sad. 161 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:52,720 Yeah, it was hard. 162 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,200 I've seen a lot of videos and people who said, I just fell apart during COVID because of 163 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,400 these lockdowns. 164 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,280 That's all I'm going to say about that so I don't get on our rant. 165 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:04,280 So anyway, that's not this show. 166 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:05,440 No, that's not this show. 167 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,000 We're living up in a down world. 168 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,360 But we do realize it's a down world. 169 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,720 Especially now. 170 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,560 So then we focus on the body. 171 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:18,160 So we started our keto journey and wow, just already we were like, it feels good to feel 172 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:19,160 good again. 173 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,800 Feels good to be eating right again. 174 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,160 Then we switched to carnivore. 175 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:25,880 We upped our game. 176 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:26,880 A little bit. 177 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:31,280 I would say more keto-for because we added fruit. 178 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:33,840 Ketovore sounds like your keto, but a little more. 179 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:36,640 We're actually more carnivore with a tiny bit of keto. 180 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:42,960 Just a tiny bit, which is just fruit because keto consists of vegetable salads. 181 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:43,960 Berries. 182 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:44,960 Berries, yeah. 183 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:45,960 Basic fruits. 184 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:54,160 And we're only incorporating maybe about one serving of fruit a day or every few days. 185 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:55,160 Right. 186 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,160 It just depends. 187 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,800 But we're really, really drilling down on the meat. 188 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,680 And that has been... So share your experience. 189 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:07,880 It was really hard because on the carnivore diet, you're supposed to eat a lot of fat. 190 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,880 And I was one that grew up with you don't eat the fat. 191 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:12,880 Everybody grew up that. 192 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:13,880 Yes. 193 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:14,880 And I was... 194 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:15,880 Well, I was all told fat will make you fat. 195 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:16,880 Exactly. 196 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:17,880 Or give you a heart attack. 197 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,880 I even went through a time in my life where I did everything low fat. 198 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,480 Well, not the carnivore diet. 199 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,280 You do everything with high fat. 200 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,240 That's why it's okay to do cheese, heavy cream. 201 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,480 But they want butter. 202 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,040 Lots of butter. 203 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:38,240 But your meat, you need to eat the highest fat content meat you can eat. 204 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:43,600 So now when we go into order meat from Smokey's Barbecue over in Bernie, by the way, I would 205 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,240 give a high triple thumbs up. 206 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,120 If I had three thumbs, they would all be up. 207 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:49,120 I only have two. 208 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:50,800 But if I had three, all three would be up. 209 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,200 It was phenomenal. 210 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,560 The guy running that place, I don't know who he is, but he was amazing. 211 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,200 We went in and said, we just want to order meat. 212 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:01,280 He's like, you came to the right place. 213 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,560 I mean, he was like, what do you want? 214 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:04,880 So he hooked us up. 215 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:05,880 He hooked us up. 216 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:06,880 So we had lots of meat. 217 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:07,880 Wow. 218 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,040 I said, I want marbled fatty cuts. 219 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,520 He said, no problem. 220 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:12,520 Boy. 221 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:18,400 But at the very beginning of this, eating this heavy meat was very hard on me and I 222 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:19,400 was nauseated. 223 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,120 It was hard on me too, our stomachs. 224 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:22,400 Not as much as me. 225 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:23,440 True, true. 226 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:24,800 It was very hard. 227 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,920 And I think I was telling Tina after a couple of weeks, I was like, I don't know if I can 228 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:29,920 continue doing this. 229 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:30,920 Yeah, I remember. 230 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:36,080 And then I hit this threshold and I don't know what happened. 231 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,520 I think it was about the middle of our time in Panama City Beach. 232 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,000 No, it was at the beginning. 233 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Oh, early on. 234 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Okay. 235 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,360 It was right before we got there. 236 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,040 Oh, I'm thinking when all the energy kicked in and we were like, whoa. 237 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:50,320 I didn't feel full. 238 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:51,720 I didn't feel heavy. 239 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:52,720 Gotcha. 240 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:58,120 Then the energy kicked in in Panama City like unbelievable energy. 241 00:08:58,120 --> 00:08:59,120 Both of us. 242 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,200 And her and I, we would walk in our neighborhood and I didn't have any energy to walk and I 243 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,120 was having to really strive to walk. 244 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,360 When she gets back, it's going to brutalize her. 245 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,200 Yeah, but the heat is too much right now. 246 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,200 Right, but what I'm saying is you're on fire right now with energy. 247 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,160 The energy level has really gone. 248 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:24,320 And I would never have, I mean, in my mind, I can't comprehend eating fat and getting 249 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:25,620 thinner, too. 250 00:09:25,620 --> 00:09:27,240 It doesn't make sense. 251 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,160 And we're definitely getting thinner. 252 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:33,720 I mean, I just went back and pulled all my old clothes out and started wearing them. 253 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:34,720 Awesome, too. 254 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,680 Wow, some really cool stuff. 255 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:38,640 Yeah, so it's amazing. 256 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,280 But it's not just about that, but it is about feeling. 257 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:42,280 It's about health and feeling good. 258 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,280 But I felt really good on keto. 259 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:45,280 Yeah, I did too. 260 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:46,280 Yeah. 261 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:52,440 And I don't know if this is different than that because of going through that couple 262 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,280 of weeks time when it was so bad. 263 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:56,880 Now I don't remember how great I felt on keto, but anyway. 264 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,160 Yeah, it's kind of hard to remember back. 265 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:03,800 Yeah, and I'm still leaning that I could go either way. 266 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,600 And I don't want to go off of ketovor no matter what. 267 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:13,680 For me, I'm sticking with carnivore because I've never felt better in my life. 268 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:15,640 And I had hypertension. 269 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,640 I was on blood pressure medicine and I took a risk. 270 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,500 I said, you know what, I'm going to go off this medication because I'm trying to get 271 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:27,480 off every supplement, every kind of medication. 272 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:28,480 I went off of it. 273 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:29,480 We've been checking your... 274 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,560 Dr. Jason Pete, here's this. 275 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:32,560 You did what? 276 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:34,880 So we've been checking your blood pressure every day. 277 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:35,880 Every day. 278 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:40,520 I did it incrementally until we went to Panama City Beach and I literally stopped my blood 279 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:45,400 pressure medicine because I literally had faith that this was going to work because 280 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:51,480 I've been really digging into the science of this and our bodies and I was confident 281 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,480 that it would work. 282 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:56,960 So while we were there, it was like 140 over 70 something or 80. 283 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:58,040 It's still a little high. 284 00:10:58,040 --> 00:10:59,040 Little high. 285 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,400 But according to Dr. Ken Berry, that's really not high. 286 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,360 Those standards were set at a different time. 287 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:10,640 Well, it was 120 over 60 and now he's saying 140 over 80 is the new standard. 288 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,320 I'm not sure if that's correct, but that's what he says. 289 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:17,960 So we went along and I was bouncing around 140 on the top and you were a little nervous, 290 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,880 but I was like, no, no, I feel good about this because I have never felt better. 291 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,760 I've never had more energy. 292 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,480 I mean, brain fog gone. 293 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:29,480 I mean, it's... 294 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,520 But today, it was in the 120s. 295 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:38,080 Today, we got back and this is the first time I've checked it since we got back from vacation 296 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,080 and yeah, 120s. 297 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,080 It was like 120 over 72. 298 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,080 Yes. 299 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:44,080 Perfect. 300 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,080 I mean, literally perfect. 301 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,080 It's been complete my... 302 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,520 How long have you been off your medication? 303 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,080 About two weeks now at least. 304 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:51,600 I think it's been longer than that. 305 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,640 Maybe a little long because I started phasing it out. 306 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,900 I was doing it every other day. 307 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:58,680 So I was weaning off of it because I did read about it. 308 00:11:58,680 --> 00:11:59,680 I did my research. 309 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:04,080 I made sure I didn't do anything stupid and it said I could go off my Ulsa Martin, which 310 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,920 is for cholesterol, which I'm so not worried about now. 311 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:12,640 And then it was the other was, you might want to wean off of that, consult your doctor, 312 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:13,640 blah, blah, blah. 313 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,680 And so I did wean off of it and then I went cold turkey. 314 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:18,680 I said, I'm done. 315 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:24,200 So I didn't even bring it with me on the trip on purpose so that I would kind of write it 316 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,200 out. 317 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,220 Anyway, all that to say is my hypertension is gone. 318 00:12:28,220 --> 00:12:31,240 It's been completely reversed and healed. 319 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,000 Glory to God and thank you, carnivore diet. 320 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,120 This is the thing. 321 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,880 We're not just doing diets randomly. 322 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:42,160 We're literally asking the Lord, show us what's good for us because what's good for us is 323 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,520 not always good for other people. 324 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:49,480 And you have to determine what's best for your body and for, you know, good point because 325 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:54,040 everybody is different and some people can't tolerate just meat. 326 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,680 So thank you for saying that. 327 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:00,960 So I would agree with you and say we're not telling people they should do it. 328 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:02,840 You need to do your own research. 329 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,320 And what and what are your goals? 330 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,040 My goal was not to lose weight. 331 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,760 Well, you wanted a few pounds a little bit, but I knew that would come whether we did 332 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,160 keto or whatever that that would come off. 333 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:19,080 I knew that was going to happen, but it wasn't the ultimate goal was not primary. 334 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,760 Primary was health, overall health, getting rid of what's called visceral fat, which is 335 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,560 the fat around your organs, which is the dangerous fat. 336 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:29,840 The fat on your thighs is not dangerous. 337 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,880 The fat around your liver. 338 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,880 It's actually healthy. 339 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:34,880 Right. 340 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:39,800 It's actually God's gift to in case of famine, it's a primal thing. 341 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:40,800 Exactly. 342 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,560 Our ancestors had to store up fat for lean times. 343 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:47,200 It's different now, so we don't have to do that. 344 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,660 But that's why our bodies do that and respond that way. 345 00:13:50,660 --> 00:13:55,840 So getting rid of that visceral fat is the healthiest thing you can do. 346 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,880 And ketogenic diet is great for that. 347 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:00,700 Carnivore diet is great for that. 348 00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:04,360 We did keto is great, but I wanted to up the game. 349 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,240 What I don't go for it. 350 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,040 What I found out when I was doing the low fat diet years and years ago is they would 351 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:11,360 add extra sugar. 352 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:16,760 So you're you're you're eating low fat products, but they're adding especially if you're eating 353 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,160 a lot of processed stuff, which is so bad for you anyway. 354 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,800 They're adding sugar and taking out the fat. 355 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,800 Yes, they really have. 356 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,880 Introducing totally against low fat diets. 357 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:30,880 Yeah. 358 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,360 Well, and for us, we're not doing any processed food at all. 359 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,000 No, I mean, and that was the thing with the ketogenic diet that we were doing. 360 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,760 We were adding all these Atkins, Slim Fast, all these bars, bread, keto bread. 361 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,280 There's no such thing. 362 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:46,280 They're all still processed. 363 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,200 Let me say this again. 364 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:54,160 The food industry has completely contaminated the ketogenic diet by introducing all these 365 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:55,800 processed snacks. 366 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:56,800 Yes. 367 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,960 Peanut butter cups and clusters. 368 00:14:58,960 --> 00:14:59,960 Does sound good. 369 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:02,840 But anyway, I digress. 370 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:08,760 All that it's fully processed and it will it will completely derail your ketogenic is 371 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:09,760 not pure diet. 372 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:17,200 Which is why when we tried keto back on a year ago and we were buying all that stuff, 373 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,280 we didn't do that the first time we started buying all that because, hey, this is available 374 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:22,280 now. 375 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,560 And I was doing workout supplements. 376 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:30,400 I was doing Spark from Avicare, which is full of sugar and caffeine, all that stuff. 377 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:35,640 So yeah, all those things we were doing, all these supplements was actually detrimental 378 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:36,640 to what we were trying to do. 379 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,440 So we're completely off all of those. 380 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:40,440 No sugar. 381 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,200 I don't remember the last time we had sugar unless it was accidental. 382 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:44,920 Yeah, I don't think so. 383 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:45,920 Literally nothing. 384 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:50,480 I guess it was just when we ate out at Panama City Beach, if any of the restaurants added 385 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,440 sugar to any of the meat. 386 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,480 Sometimes bacon's got sugar added. 387 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:56,360 We were very careful about even dying bacon. 388 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,120 We talked to each of the waiters and waitresses and said, this is what we're doing and this 389 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,120 is what we want. 390 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:02,120 And they were great. 391 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:03,120 Yes. 392 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaking of that, let's move off of that onto the favor factor. 393 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:12,920 So we prayed before our trip, we prayed for Adam and Tina as they went on their trip to 394 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:19,440 Amsterdam, Italy, Spain, no, Amsterdam, Spain, Italy. 395 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:20,440 They're in Italy now. 396 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:21,440 And they're going back to Amsterdam. 397 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,280 They're going back to Amsterdam to spend time with his family. 398 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:25,280 But we prayed for them. 399 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:26,280 We prayed for ourselves. 400 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:27,760 We asked the Lord for favor. 401 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:35,800 Lord, would you grant favor with every clerk, every attendant, every ticket agent, every 402 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,680 airline, every steward or stewardess? 403 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:45,120 I mean, just we asked God for favor, so we moved in what's called, and those of you 404 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,320 listening, listen to this, heads up on this. 405 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,040 We moved in the spirit of appeal. 406 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:50,680 Father, we appeal to you. 407 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:52,240 Would you grant us favor? 408 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:53,880 It's a question. 409 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:54,880 Would you? 410 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:55,880 Would you? 411 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:56,880 Would you? 412 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,080 After that, we moved on to declaration. 413 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,720 And that's where we moved from appeal to declaration. 414 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,080 Now prayer of declaration is just what it sounds like. 415 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:10,640 We declare favor over our lives, who declare the favor of God on us according to God's 416 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,960 word in Psalm 30 verse 5. 417 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:18,360 Psalm 5 says He surrounds you with favor as like a shield. 418 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:23,620 Psalm 30 verse 5 is, "'Anger lasts for a moment, but his favor lasts for a lifetime.'" 419 00:17:23,620 --> 00:17:26,400 So we declared God's word over us. 420 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,040 His word is His will. 421 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:32,080 So when you declare His word, you're declaring His will over your life. 422 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,520 It means His desire, which I love that. 423 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:42,440 His desire, which means His will for us is what He desires for us. 424 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:43,440 Isn't that beautiful? 425 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:44,440 Yes. 426 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:45,440 I love that. 427 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,000 I just heard that this week. 428 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,000 I want to encourage you in your prayer life, take both approaches. 429 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,620 Come in the spirit of appeal. 430 00:17:53,620 --> 00:17:56,080 Come in the spirit of declaration. 431 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:58,160 Appeal means you're asking. 432 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,160 Father would you? 433 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,160 Don't say, Father, I just ask you to. 434 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,520 It doesn't make sense. 435 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,240 Father would you? 436 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,960 Then you move into the place of declaration because you now know you have the word of 437 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:09,960 God on it. 438 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,400 When you have the word on it, you can be quite clear. 439 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:18,880 I declare in the name of Jesus that favor will go before us. 440 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,900 It's exactly what happened. 441 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:24,840 From the moment we left our home to the moment we came back, it was unbelievable. 442 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,880 How many cool conversations did we have with waiters and waitresses? 443 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,320 I mean, everybody, we ran into them. 444 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:32,320 Even our waiter. 445 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:33,320 And locals. 446 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:34,320 Locals there in Florida. 447 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,920 Our waiter at that really nice seafood place. 448 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:37,920 Captain Anderson's. 449 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:38,920 Wow. 450 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:39,920 That was amazing. 451 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:40,920 Shane. 452 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:41,920 Yeah. 453 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:43,600 He said, his family's from Bernie. 454 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:44,600 We're like, what? 455 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:46,280 He goes, do you know where Bernie is? 456 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,200 Yes, we do all of our shopping there. 457 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,160 We go to the gym there. 458 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,280 We're 20 minutes from Bernie. 459 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:53,640 I was pretty shocked at that. 460 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,480 He was such a neat young man. 461 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:56,480 He was very respectful. 462 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:57,480 He was so great. 463 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,000 We kept hanging out at our table, even though the place was crushed because it's one of 464 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,040 the most, it's like top 10 in Florida for seafood. 465 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:06,040 Wonderful. 466 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,160 And he was just hanging out and standing at our table. 467 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,960 Our food was getting cold at one point because he was just hanging out with us. 468 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:14,440 But I loved every second. 469 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,240 I kept thinking, this is the favor factor. 470 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,580 This is God. 471 00:19:19,580 --> 00:19:21,360 He's drawn to us for a reason. 472 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:24,800 Not because we're amazing, but because God in us is amazing. 473 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,080 And that happened everywhere. 474 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,040 So let me tell you a miracle that happened. 475 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,040 TSA? 476 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:34,440 Hey, I'm telling you, my Bible says miracles happen, according to Pastor Eddie Freeman. 477 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,400 My Bible says the same thing. 478 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,000 Miracles still happen. 479 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,000 TSA. 480 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 All right. 481 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,720 Just the very letters TSA puts the fear of God in people. 482 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,240 I mean, just like, you know, it's almost like saying the DMV. 483 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:47,240 That's another adult. 484 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:48,240 Oh, gosh. 485 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:49,240 That's for sure. 486 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:50,240 Please. 487 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:54,280 So we're at Panama City Beach Airport, which is a small airport. 488 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,640 It reminded me of that show, Wings. 489 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:57,640 Yes. 490 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:58,640 I loved it. 491 00:19:58,640 --> 00:19:59,640 Everybody was nice. 492 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:00,640 Oh, it was so sweet. 493 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,680 Doing our baggage, doing our tickets. 494 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,680 And he was the pilot as well. 495 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:05,680 I'm kidding. 496 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,000 But it was a small airport. 497 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,840 But we go to International, which is shocking. 498 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:11,840 Nice airport. 499 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:12,840 We go through TSA. 500 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,440 I have to unpack everything. 501 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,600 I had four iPads. 502 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,120 No, three iPads. 503 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:21,640 You had mine too. 504 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:23,200 A laptop computer. 505 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:28,360 Three iPads, a laptop, and the Roadcaster Duo, which is what we're doing the podcast 506 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:29,360 through. 507 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:30,520 It's the equipment, all the microphone. 508 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,720 I had to unpack all of that out of my backpack. 509 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:33,720 I had my backpack. 510 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,360 My backpack weighed 70 pounds. 511 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:37,360 And it's not even that big. 512 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:39,740 But anyway, we got it all in there. 513 00:20:39,740 --> 00:20:42,400 And I'm like, do I have to unpack everything? 514 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:47,000 We didn't have to do that in Austin, which was great. 515 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,120 So I unpack everything. 516 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:55,080 And my phone, get everything repacked because it took a minute for me to get everything 517 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,080 back together. 518 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,080 And you know how it is in those lines. 519 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:58,080 You don't want to err. 520 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,440 But there weren't that many people there. 521 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:00,440 So it wasn't that bad. 522 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,240 But anyway, we get up to our gate. 523 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,240 I feel my pocket. 524 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,760 And I'm like, my phone's not in my pocket. 525 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,840 Oh, it's in my backpack. 526 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,280 I go through my backpack. 527 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:11,280 It's not there. 528 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,040 And I realize I left it in one of those bins. 529 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,000 Which anybody could have picked up. 530 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,440 Not only was that my phone. 531 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,020 It was credit cards and my driver's license. 532 00:21:22,020 --> 00:21:26,320 So I'd be more twerp about some of that than I would my phone. 533 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,360 You can replace the phone. 534 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:33,440 But anyway, so I was actually very calm about it. 535 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:34,920 I was quite shocked. 536 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:35,920 I decided not to panic. 537 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:37,600 Because you're a calm person. 538 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,680 But still, that's pretty unnerving. 539 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:41,760 It was. 540 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:42,760 And I got up. 541 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,880 I walked back to, which wasn't very far. 542 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,240 It's a small airport. 543 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:47,240 Hallelujah. 544 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,960 It's not the FW or Chicago or O'Hare. 545 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,480 So I walked back. 546 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:53,480 And I walked right through. 547 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,080 It says, do not enter. 548 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,000 To go back in, I walked right in and right up to the TSA agents. 549 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,980 And they're like, could we help you? 550 00:22:00,980 --> 00:22:02,140 They were nice. 551 00:22:02,140 --> 00:22:03,140 But could we help you? 552 00:22:03,140 --> 00:22:05,040 I said, I left my phone. 553 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,000 And I said, are you sure it's here and it's not in your backpack? 554 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,780 I said, we checked our find my phone. 555 00:22:12,780 --> 00:22:13,780 It's right here. 556 00:22:13,780 --> 00:22:15,200 No, but you went back twice. 557 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:16,200 The first time. 558 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,640 They said, come back and check your backpack one more time. 559 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,120 I humored them, went back, checked the backpack, came back with find my phone. 560 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:25,600 I said, because my wife had the phone, you had the phone. 561 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,000 I told them that. 562 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,040 And they went into action. 563 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,520 They tore that place apart. 564 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,280 And then she said, just call it. 565 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:35,920 And you said, well, yeah, I don't have the ringer on. 566 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,960 She goes, I'll hear the vibration. 567 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,200 She turned off the fans. 568 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,200 So there were fans. 569 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,280 The airport was hot because it's hot everywhere in the world right now. 570 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,360 The world's on fire right now. 571 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:50,240 She turned off all the fans in that area, which was, I was like, this is amazing. 572 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,240 And she was so gracious. 573 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,520 And she's all right, everybody be quiet for a minute. 574 00:22:54,520 --> 00:23:02,680 I mean, she told the whole six TSA agents to shut up and shut down all the machines. 575 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,080 And they said, call it. 576 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,920 So we called it and she said, I hear something. 577 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:12,840 They tore, they went through Ben after Ben after Ben and tore that place apart and found 578 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,800 it and she goes, I got it and she was so excited. 579 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,800 They all started clapping. 580 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:18,800 What? 581 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:19,800 Okay. 582 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,800 Don't tell me there's not still miracles. 583 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:27,120 Adam has a real hard time with TSA, but they had a good experience too. 584 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:28,120 So that's true. 585 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:29,120 We had a great experience. 586 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:30,120 They give a bad rap, but you know what? 587 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:32,160 Because they have a hard job. 588 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:33,160 They do. 589 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,160 They do. 590 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,960 People are jerks flying right now. 591 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:36,960 They are. 592 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:37,960 I know I said that was very direct. 593 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,200 But God had his favor on you. 594 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,200 And I just think that. 595 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:46,320 But first, you know what, when you first went back down to look for it and I was still sitting 596 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,600 there, I was just going, really God? 597 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:49,600 Everything has been wonderful. 598 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,600 Everything. 599 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,600 This is not the way I want to end my trip. 600 00:23:53,600 --> 00:24:00,520 So I began to pray and I didn't even think about find my phone app on my phone until 601 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,320 you came back and you said, hey. 602 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,360 Hey, find my phone. 603 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,960 Because you're always checking up on me where I'm at. 604 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:07,960 Yeah. 605 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:08,960 That's true. 606 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,760 But God is so good. 607 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,600 Oh, God is good. 608 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,080 I'm just saying those TSA agents were great and they were fun. 609 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,840 And I got to tell you, I was so blessed by that. 610 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,240 And I just said, I cannot thank you enough for your attitudes. 611 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,880 I just went past Oralon. 612 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,120 I'm a practically loved. 613 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,080 I mean, it was crazy. 614 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,960 I've never seen that in an airport before. 615 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:32,960 I haven't either. 616 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,440 And it was so the favor of God. 617 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:36,440 A lot of times. 618 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,440 That's why when I came back, I was so happy. 619 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,440 Right. 620 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,080 I told you, we found it. 621 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,800 But not only did we find it, these people were amazing. 622 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,680 They've been over backwards to take care of me. 623 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:53,440 So yay for the TSA agents in the Panama City Beach Airport. 624 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,240 Which I want to go back as soon as we can. 625 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:57,240 We're going to go back. 626 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:58,240 That was such a good experience. 627 00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,240 Okay. 628 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,280 The trip was, I'm going to dare I say it, use a word that some Christians get weird 629 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:04,280 about. 630 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,280 It was magical. 631 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:06,280 It really was. 632 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:07,280 It was enchanted. 633 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:13,280 But I felt the peace of God, the favor of God. 634 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,920 I can't even explain. 635 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,560 And not only that, just such a love for you. 636 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,620 Us getting away together. 637 00:25:21,620 --> 00:25:23,600 Even though we've been here every day. 638 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,600 We have, but it's home. 639 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:25,600 It's a little different. 640 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,960 There's something special about going away together. 641 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,600 And I just, I'm already in love with you. 642 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:34,880 I already love you. 643 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:35,940 I'm in love with you. 644 00:25:35,940 --> 00:25:40,200 Would I, if you could even say that I re-fell in love with you. 645 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,200 That sounds weird. 646 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,720 I don't know what words to use, honestly. 647 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,480 But literally it was one of my favorite times in our 30 years of marriage. 648 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,320 Why do you think I asked if we could stay a few more days? 649 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,320 I didn't want that. 650 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,320 I get it. 651 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,320 I so get it. 652 00:25:55,320 --> 00:26:01,880 Well, because I do know once we get back in the groove a week from Sunday, it's, you know. 653 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:02,880 Game on, right? 654 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:03,880 Yes. 655 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:04,880 Yeah, we're back in. 656 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,640 But we're not the same people. 657 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:07,640 No, no. 658 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:14,160 God has done such a work in us that we will go back into our work life joyfully, by the 659 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:15,160 way. 660 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,720 I am getting excited about it because I know we're not the same people we were. 661 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:25,760 God has done such a deep work in us and I'm forever grateful. 662 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:26,760 Forever grateful. 663 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:27,760 I am too. 664 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,640 We're very blessed to have a board and staff. 665 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:31,640 We have a board of directors. 666 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:32,640 That are so... 667 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:33,640 Supportive. 668 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,640 Supportive of us. 669 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:36,640 Loving. 670 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:44,040 And want the best for us because they know that they'll get the best of us if we take 671 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,160 care of our temple. 672 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,160 That is true. 673 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:48,160 And take care of our marriage and our family. 674 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,360 It's kind of like when your parents are healthy, the family's healthy. 675 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:57,480 What's odd is we haven't hardly talked to faith except through text. 676 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,400 Our own daughter, our youngest daughter who's on staff at our church. 677 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,800 There's two times in seven weeks, six weeks. 678 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,800 Hardly just here and there. 679 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:11,040 But it's just because with her working at the church, we're really... 680 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:19,720 We're trying to be kind of separate from the church as much as we can and not get sucked 681 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,160 into it because we can. 682 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,400 Because our minds go there. 683 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,680 Once your mind goes there, it's hard to disengage. 684 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,680 And so... 685 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,200 But we do think about the people a lot. 686 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,200 We talk about them. 687 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,200 We miss. 688 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,960 I saw Amy when we went to the... 689 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:33,960 Cleaners today. 690 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,920 She'll be here and she'll hear that she loves our podcast. 691 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,880 Amy, we love you so much. 692 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,680 Amy Moore, she works at the cleaners and we had to go pick up our bedding. 693 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,760 And I so enjoyed talking to Amy. 694 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:46,760 I did too. 695 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,240 It was like, one of our people. 696 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:49,520 I literally felt that. 697 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,760 I didn't say anything to you, but I noticed that we just stayed there a long time until 698 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:54,760 car pulled up. 699 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:55,760 I know. 700 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:56,760 I keep looking to see if there were cars behind us. 701 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,760 Nobody was behind us because I think God wanted us to. 702 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,200 I talked to one of our church members that we love. 703 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,200 It was funny. 704 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:03,200 It was almost like we're desperate. 705 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,880 Oh my gosh, a real conversation with a church person. 706 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,440 I was like, ah, so good to see you. 707 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:15,360 But anyway, we love Amy so much and thank you, Amy, for listening to our podcast. 708 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,400 Just good to see you today. 709 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:18,400 Can't wait to see the church. 710 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,320 This is going to be a family reunion when we go back. 711 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,320 I know. 712 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,280 Well, I've had many dreams this week about going back. 713 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,280 It's freaky. 714 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,280 I know. 715 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,920 Why are we dreaming about this? 716 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,440 Because it's coming up really fast. 717 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,440 It's coming fast. 718 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,440 Fast, yes. 719 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,400 I don't have a lot of spiritual dreams. 720 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:35,400 I have freaky. 721 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:36,400 It's weird. 722 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,680 But when you do, you remember them. 723 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,440 When I do, I remember and I've been having some dreams. 724 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,280 Some of them are a little frightening and demonic and I know where that's coming from. 725 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,960 I know the source of all that. 726 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,880 A dark enemy hates what we've done. 727 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,640 He hates that we didn't take a sabbatical. 728 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,640 We received the gift of sabbatical and he hates that. 729 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,240 We haven't squandered it and we've worked through it. 730 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,360 All right. 731 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,360 We've gone on and on, but we're full. 732 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,360 Our tanks are full. 733 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:12,880 Pastor Eddie Freeman from Gateway Church in Southlake has been our coach and mentor through 734 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:13,880 this. 735 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,120 Although once we started, he's like, hands off. 736 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,120 Don't even text me. 737 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,120 I don't want to hear from you for two months. 738 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,160 You had to text him to ask him if he could preach. 739 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,720 You're not even supposed to be thinking about this. 740 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,760 It's coming up soon and you do need someone to fill the pulpit. 741 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:31,360 We've reached at our church twice and some little information gets through from time 742 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:37,400 to time and people have loved him and adored him as we do. 743 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,200 He has coached and mentored us well through this. 744 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,720 He set us up for success. 745 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:49,560 He's been meeting with our staff, which I love because they can draw some nuggets from 746 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,080 him that he... Because we're part of the Gateway Church's 747 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:59,280 network and he's just come in and really carried the load for us. 748 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,480 So thankful, Pastor Eddie and a dear brother and a dear friend. 749 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:10,080 I want to switch gears for the last part of the show and I want to talk a little bit about 750 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,040 some of the things we've been learning, some of our learnings within this. 751 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:19,520 A while back, I even said it in a message, maybe in the last message or two that I preached 752 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:24,640 before we started the sabbatical, which was now what, six weeks ago, however long it's 753 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:25,640 been. 754 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:31,580 It was basically a declaration and it was a declaration that I give up. 755 00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:34,880 It's not often as a Christian you go, I just give up. 756 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,320 That sounds very defeating. 757 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,480 It sounds like, oh my gosh, he's not going to make it. 758 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,800 But really, I want to talk about the fact that I've given up and here's what I've given 759 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:44,800 up. 760 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,140 I've shared this on here before so I won't be laborious on this, but I want to give some 761 00:30:48,140 --> 00:30:50,160 scripture background. 762 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,960 So for those of you listening, I want to share this with you. 763 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:59,320 It's just three learnings that we're getting out of the sabbatical, although there's millions 764 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,600 of them at this point. 765 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,600 But here it is. 766 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:02,600 It's a declaration. 767 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,080 I give up my right to be offended. 768 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,260 Now I shared this on a couple broadcasts, so I mean this isn't brand new, but I want 769 00:31:10,260 --> 00:31:15,880 to reiterate because I'm the kind of guy that I don't get anything the first or second time. 770 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,920 I need repetition. 771 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:18,920 Most of us do. 772 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:26,760 And I remember hearing, we were watching a show called Holy Ghost or something by Darren 773 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,200 ... I'm trying to remember. 774 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,800 You know who I'm talking about. 775 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,560 And he was interviewing Michael W. Smith. 776 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,280 And Michael W. Smith made a couple of statements, but he said one of the things he's endeavored 777 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:43,640 to do for the rest of his life is that he is endeavored to never be offended again. 778 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,760 This is a guy who's been in the music business for 30, 40 years. 779 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,520 And he's saying, I am endeavoring to never be offended again. 780 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,080 I thought he said that on the Jesus movie. 781 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,080 It was one of those. 782 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,080 I mean, it was that. 783 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,660 It was in that same vein. 784 00:31:59,660 --> 00:32:06,440 And so we heard Pastor Bill Johnson, who we have high respect, high honor for, say this. 785 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,240 He says, I gave up my right to be offended. 786 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,680 And so I just morphed that into my own wording. 787 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,100 I give up my right to be offended. 788 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:19,600 And I have to keep that in front of me. 789 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,280 So I want to give a couple of scriptures on that and then we'll move on because I want 790 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,000 you to hear a couple of others. 791 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,680 Matthew 13, 21, listen to this. 792 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:32,600 Yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. 793 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:40,440 And when tribulation or persecution arises or offense arises on account of the word, 794 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:41,960 immediately he falls away. 795 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,120 Remember, that's the context of the four soils. 796 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:50,760 And he's saying that whenever persecution arises, immediately he falls away. 797 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,000 And that's so true. 798 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,400 Sometimes we're doing really good and then offense comes and it just takes us out. 799 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,160 Tanks us. 800 00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,160 Knocks us off. 801 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:00,160 It does. 802 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,160 It does. 803 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,160 It does. 804 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,160 Because we end up... 805 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,160 And it eats at you. 806 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,320 I was going to say, what do we do with it? 807 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:07,320 Yes. 808 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:13,200 And it causes so much stress in our bodies and then we start eating improperly. 809 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,720 We start thinking improperly. 810 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,200 Our minds go crazy. 811 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,200 We spin out. 812 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,200 We spin out. 813 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,200 And we spin up. 814 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,200 Yeah. 815 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,440 Another verse, Matthew 18, 21, I love this. 816 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,560 Then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me and 817 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,200 I forgive him? 818 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:37,920 As many as seven times, Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but 77 times. 819 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:38,920 And what he's acting... 820 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,800 He didn't even say he's asked for forgiveness, did it? 821 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:46,200 So he's like, if a brother sins against me this many times, what do I do? 822 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,680 He says, you forgive him, period. 823 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,760 And actually, 77 times is a perfect number and it literally means infinity. 824 00:33:54,760 --> 00:34:03,400 So there is no limit to our extending grace, mercy, forgiveness to others. 825 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:10,600 Another scripture, last one, Ephesians 4.31, 32, let all bitterness and wrath and anger 826 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:15,520 and clamor and slander be put away from you along with all malice. 827 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:25,240 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you. 828 00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:26,240 There it is. 829 00:34:26,240 --> 00:34:29,280 I give up my right to be offended. 830 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:37,240 And here's the thing, family, I mean, anyone who's been wronged, there'll be 15 people 831 00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:44,200 as you walk away from the cross of Jesus Christ, as you leave, as you move away, there'll be 832 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:49,760 15 or 20 people patting you on the back saying, you have every right to be offended. 833 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:54,000 And the only reason why we tell people about our offense is we want to get them on our 834 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,200 side so they can see we're right and they're wrong. 835 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:58,800 It's called validation. 836 00:34:58,800 --> 00:34:59,800 Exactly. 837 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,360 And it's wrong. 838 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,040 And that's where I want to really grow as a Christian. 839 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,040 It's all about the flesh, right? 840 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,040 Yes. 841 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,920 So what we're doing, and I want to encourage you to do this, make this declaration. 842 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,800 I would write this down. 843 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,320 I give up my right to be offended. 844 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,720 Now at first, you go, well, if I say that, I'm afraid I'm going to be tested. 845 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:22,720 You're going to be tested anyway. 846 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:23,720 Oh, you'll be tested. 847 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:26,040 No, no matter what, because we live in a fallen world. 848 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,040 Bingo. 849 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,040 We live in a down world. 850 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,040 We're living up in a down world. 851 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,280 So one of the ways we live up in this down world... 852 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,880 Is do the opposite of what the world does. 853 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:34,880 Exactly. 854 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:35,880 Bingo. 855 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,480 That's what I'm telling you. 856 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:38,480 Awesome. 857 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,480 All right. 858 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:40,480 Second declaration. 859 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,880 So that was one we've already talked about, but I feel like it's good to bring it back 860 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,040 up just as a reminder. 861 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:52,080 But another declaration is this, number two, I give up my right to withhold encouragement. 862 00:35:52,080 --> 00:36:00,760 How many times have you had this inkling, we call them God taps, a God pause moment 863 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,360 where you feel like, I should reach out to so-and-so. 864 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,160 I haven't heard from so-and-so in a while. 865 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:07,800 I hope they're okay. 866 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:08,840 I should text them. 867 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:09,840 I should call them. 868 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:10,840 Whatever. 869 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,840 I should email. 870 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:12,840 Whatever. 871 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:13,840 But we don't do it. 872 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:18,120 And in our mind, we justify that we sort of did because we thought about them. 873 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,120 But good wishes and good thoughts and good intentions don't do anything. 874 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,120 And you never know. 875 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:27,360 That person may have needed what you had to say right then, and you could have given up 876 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:28,560 that opportunity. 877 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:34,200 I reached out to somebody just this morning with something that was on my heart, an encouragement. 878 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,720 I reached out to them. 879 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:39,640 They wrote me back almost immediately and said, thank you. 880 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,960 I've been going through a difficult, rough, was their words. 881 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,520 I've been going through a rough time. 882 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,280 This is timely. 883 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:52,200 And that was a confirmation from the Lord, you heard me. 884 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,120 And so I've been trying to be very mindful of that. 885 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,120 I've limited my reach right now simply because we're on sabbaticals. 886 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,920 So I'm not like just blasting out texts and emails. 887 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:07,960 But I have a handful of people that are in my orbit that I continue to reach out to and 888 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,280 encourage. 889 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,440 Dear friend of mine, Mark Barry, I'm so excited for Mark. 890 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:14,440 Mark went in. 891 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:15,440 Mark's my age. 892 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:20,160 We were both guitar players in a rock band, a Christian rock band in college back at Howard 893 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,480 Payne University back in the mid-80s. 894 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,520 We both were dueling lead guitar players. 895 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,320 We wrote a lot of music together, had a lot of fun just touring and playing music. 896 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,200 And we've stayed friends, close friends. 897 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,640 He lives in Phoenix, Arizona. 898 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,240 And he was diagnosed. 899 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:41,240 He went in and he had his colonoscopy, you know, we're both 61. 900 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:42,800 And it came back bad. 901 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,800 They said, you've got, we've removed polyps. 902 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,240 We think there may be a problem. 903 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:50,600 Went in to an oncologist who did the test. 904 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:56,380 They came back and said it was cancerous and that they may need to look at radiation or 905 00:37:56,380 --> 00:37:57,640 what's the other one? 906 00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:58,640 Chemo. 907 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,480 And so they were talking about what to do. 908 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,280 They removed these polyps at the time. 909 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,520 They also disconnected his colon and did some... 910 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,680 Yeah, he's had a bag and all that stuff. 911 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:10,680 Colostomy. 912 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:11,680 That. 913 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,600 So he's having to deal with that right now. 914 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,240 And this dude is like an entrepreneur. 915 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:16,240 He's got businesses. 916 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:18,720 He's an amazing guy. 917 00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:22,720 And all of a sudden he's like incapacitated because of this. 918 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:26,640 And they're saying, so they did all the blood work and I've been walking with him and texting 919 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,920 him every other day saying, give me an update, Mark, how are things? 920 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:30,920 How are you feeling? 921 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,140 How's your heart through this? 922 00:38:32,140 --> 00:38:33,140 He has been doing great. 923 00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:34,140 He's been praying. 924 00:38:34,140 --> 00:38:36,480 I've been praying with him. 925 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,880 He just wrote me back today. 926 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,160 Can I read the text? 927 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,160 Sure. 928 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,440 Even said, please share this story. 929 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,760 I want people to know how good God is. 930 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,200 He said, good morning, bro. 931 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,200 Thank you for that. 932 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:50,200 It's something I sent this morning. 933 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:51,200 Encouragement. 934 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,760 Again, I gave up my right to withhold encouragement. 935 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,920 He said, that's sermon material right there. 936 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,760 He said, I would appreciate your prayers this afternoon because I have an appointment 937 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,360 at 2 p.m. to go over my blood work. 938 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,600 If it comes back clean, then I won't need any kind of treatment. 939 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:05,600 Thank you again. 940 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,360 I hope you all are doing well, blah, blah, blah. 941 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,840 And he says, I just had my doctor's appointment. 942 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,400 This is later today to go over my blood work, which is a determining factor if I was going 943 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:16,580 to need treatment or not. 944 00:39:16,580 --> 00:39:18,680 And they said that my blood work was clean. 945 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:19,680 Wow. 946 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:20,680 So thank you, Jesus. 947 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:21,680 Jesus. 948 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:22,680 Wow. 949 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,440 And I said, I have been praying for you and boom, there it is. 950 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:27,920 I'm so happy for you, brother. 951 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,560 Now you can move forward and leave this behind. 952 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:36,040 He said, yes, and I would love it if you could use my testimony in a sermon sometime. 953 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,040 Wow. 954 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:42,480 The fact that I was diagnosed and completely clean within five weeks is nothing short of 955 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,480 a miracle. 956 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:44,480 Miracle. 957 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:45,480 God is awesome. 958 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,440 I want to thank you and your wife for your prayers. 959 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:49,440 Wow. 960 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:55,480 And he's got a corrective surgery on September 7th to take care of that colostomy and get 961 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,080 everything back and he'll be back to normal. 962 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,080 So praise God. 963 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,080 Wow. 964 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,080 Go. 965 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:03,080 Yay, Jesus. 966 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:04,080 Yay, God. 967 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,800 And yeah, just one of those things. 968 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,840 And so again, I've just chosen not to withhold encouragement. 969 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,520 And so I've been reaching out to people. 970 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:19,040 First Thessalonians 5 11, therefore encourage one another and build one another up. 971 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:20,560 I love that. 972 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:21,560 Yes. 973 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,440 Encourage one, build each other. 974 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,720 The word encourage literally means to inspire courage. 975 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:30,720 So when we encourage someone, it inspires courage within them. 976 00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:33,240 Hebrews 10 24 and 25. 977 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:39,700 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to 978 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:45,640 meet together as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another. 979 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,020 And all the more as you see the day drawing near. 980 00:40:49,020 --> 00:40:50,680 We talked about this earlier today. 981 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:55,760 We feel like, and we're listening to a lot of great teachers who believe we're in the 982 00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,560 last of the last days. 983 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:05,120 I'm not ever going to try to calculate times, seasons, or so to speak, but yet Jesus said, 984 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,120 be aware, be mindful. 985 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:08,120 Be vigilant. 986 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,120 Yeah. 987 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,560 Keep your eyes open. 988 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:15,020 And so encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day drawing near. 989 00:41:15,020 --> 00:41:20,040 So the last one, and I want some comments from you on this because this has really been 990 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,560 powerful for me. 991 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:26,400 We heard this was spawned by some of what we've been listening to, what we've been growing 992 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,000 through during our sabbatical. 993 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,280 Number three. 994 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,720 So that last one was I give up my right to withhold encouragement. 995 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:34,720 Number three is this. 996 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:35,720 I want to encourage you. 997 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:36,720 You should write this down. 998 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:39,880 I give up my right to not take responsibility. 999 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:40,880 All right. 1000 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,120 You got to think through that. 1001 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,880 This is a thinker a little bit. 1002 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:49,480 I give up my right to not take responsibility. 1003 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:55,360 You know, the word responsibility, you can hyphenate the word response-ability. 1004 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,920 Think about that for a second. 1005 00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:58,920 Response-ability. 1006 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:07,960 And what it is, what responsibility is, it's the God-given ability to respond in a Christ-like 1007 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:08,960 and biblical manner. 1008 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,160 I want to read that again because I think that's important. 1009 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:19,760 Responsibility, the God-given ability to respond in a Christ-like and biblical manner. 1010 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:25,080 As followers of Christ, we've been given, we've been empowered and given the ability 1011 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:32,000 to respond rightly, to respond biblically, to respond as Christ would respond because 1012 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,080 Christ in us, the hope of glory lives. 1013 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:40,200 And so I give up my right to not take responsibility. 1014 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,200 Here's another way to say it. 1015 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:50,300 I have the ability to respond to injustice, sin, unrighteousness, and immorality. 1016 00:42:50,300 --> 00:42:57,720 What I'm not talking about is jumping on your computer and crushing everything out there 1017 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:05,040 on social media or getting your opinion out there in a sea of opinions because it's just 1018 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,040 more noise. 1019 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,700 It's more static. 1020 00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:09,160 It goes nowhere. 1021 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:17,400 I'm talking about to intelligently address real issues, not by reacting, but by responding. 1022 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,800 When we react, we're in the flesh. 1023 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,200 When we respond, we can be in the Spirit. 1024 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:23,200 Does that make sense? 1025 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,280 Does that sound, does that resonate with you? 1026 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:40,840 Now, yeah, absolutely, because I think it's hard because we tend to, when we see injustice 1027 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:49,520 in some way, we tend to react to the situation instead of respond rightly. 1028 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:55,000 And so it's where, it's like what our moms used to say, put your thinking caps on. 1029 00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:02,600 Well, put your thinking caps on before you speak and say something intelligibly and not 1030 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,320 just say something that's from the flesh. 1031 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:11,000 And what would, I mean, God, I mean, Jesus, I mean, he was in the temple. 1032 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,840 He was upset because they were gambling in the temple. 1033 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,920 And he responded rightly. 1034 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:22,520 I mean, he was angry, but he didn't sin. 1035 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:23,520 There's a difference. 1036 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:24,520 He didn't react. 1037 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:25,520 He responded. 1038 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:26,520 He responded. 1039 00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:36,960 And, but I do believe that we are so quick to react and we don't think before we respond 1040 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,680 so much of the times, especially as Christians. 1041 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:40,680 What are our values? 1042 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:41,680 What are our values? 1043 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:42,680 What are God's values? 1044 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:47,000 Are our values lining up with God's values? 1045 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,880 And are we using honey? 1046 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:51,880 You know what I'm saying? 1047 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:52,880 Yes, yes. 1048 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:58,000 I know that saying you, you know it. 1049 00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,000 Come on. 1050 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,800 You know what I'm saying? 1051 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:03,800 Yeah. 1052 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:04,800 Honey attracts. 1053 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:05,800 I know. 1054 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,960 I can't think of what it is, but you know what I'm saying. 1055 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:21,200 It's, it's, don't come in the spirit of this aberration where you're just a boring things. 1056 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,280 It's the way you come. 1057 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,920 Coming in anger, coming in indignation. 1058 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:26,920 Indignation. 1059 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:27,920 Yes. 1060 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:28,920 Wrath. 1061 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,680 It's a, it's a whole different spirit that you come in. 1062 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,160 It's a spirit of love. 1063 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:34,160 Yes. 1064 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:40,000 I'm going to take, I'm going to, I'm going to take my ability to respond and I'm going 1065 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:48,240 to speak into a situation that is, has to do with sin, unrighteousness, injustice, or 1066 00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:49,560 immorality. 1067 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:55,080 What's happened is for Christians, we've been marginalized and silenced because we're 1068 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,320 not out there beating some kind of drum, but it's time. 1069 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:04,000 I talked about this in a sermon right before the sabbatical called Take a Stand. 1070 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,680 There's going to be another sermon called I Give Up. 1071 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:13,860 I'm giving up my right to not take responsibility. 1072 00:46:13,860 --> 00:46:18,400 So when we take responsibility, a lot of times when we, okay, think about how we say it. 1073 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:23,680 Oh man, that person took responsibility for what they said, or they're a responsible 1074 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,520 person because they show up on time. 1075 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:34,760 But to truly take responsibility means I act upon the enablement of the Holy Spirit and 1076 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:44,420 the God-given ability to speak into, not react, but to respond well, to think well, to respond 1077 00:46:44,420 --> 00:46:51,960 intelligently and spiritually and biblically into a situation which means government, big 1078 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:58,560 tech, big pharma, everything that's going on in our world, education, food industry, 1079 00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:04,600 all the things that are spinning out right now, government, local, state, federal, we 1080 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,320 need to be showing up at meetings. 1081 00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,960 We need to be responding, not reacting. 1082 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:13,960 We need to be responding because we've been given the ability to do so. 1083 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:20,500 So I give up my right to not take responsibility, which means it's time to take a stand, stand 1084 00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:29,320 up and say what needs to be said in love, in love, not in anger, not in protest, but 1085 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:30,320 in love. 1086 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:31,320 Exactly. 1087 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:36,760 And that is what you're talking about where honey will get you a lot further than vinegar. 1088 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:37,760 Exactly. 1089 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:38,760 There you go, honey. 1090 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:39,760 But what is that saying? 1091 00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:40,760 I can't remember the saying. 1092 00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:41,760 I can't remember the exact saying. 1093 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,600 You can tell us what we're completely botching here. 1094 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:45,960 Sure, I was told that as a child. 1095 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,280 But I know exactly what you're saying. 1096 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,560 You're going to attract a lot more with honey than you will with vinegar. 1097 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,760 A lot more flies or whatever. 1098 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,200 I think that's due with flies. 1099 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,200 Gross. 1100 00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:00,720 So anyway, a couple scriptures here, Ephesians 5-11, listen to this, take no part in the 1101 00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:06,040 unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 1102 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:07,040 Boom. 1103 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:11,480 You know, as you're talking about this, this is what Steve Berger, this is his... 1104 00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:12,920 Oh, Pastor Steve. 1105 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:18,880 His whole passion right now is exactly what you're saying. 1106 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,280 It's exposing the darkness and speaking up intelligently. 1107 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,600 And he is really taking a stand. 1108 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:30,560 And he said it's time for churches, for pastors to stand up and not acquiesce to the culture 1109 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,840 and become like everybody else. 1110 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:37,840 We have got to be set apart from the culture because we're Christians. 1111 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,640 We're supposed to be set apart. 1112 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,800 We're not supposed to look like everybody else. 1113 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:46,920 What I'm really thankful for is we have a group of parents, moms here in our community 1114 00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:52,760 at Fredericksburg, Texas, who are standing up and they're getting castigated in the newspaper, 1115 00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:53,760 getting castigated by... 1116 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,640 Anyway, I'm not even going to go into details. 1117 00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,320 That it's worldly people. 1118 00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:58,560 It's people who... 1119 00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:04,600 But some people say they're Christians, but it has to do with pornography in the libraries. 1120 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:05,600 That's just part of it. 1121 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,960 There's a lot broader stroke than that. 1122 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:09,680 But that's one thing. 1123 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:15,440 And I'm so proud of Tracy and Tara and that group of women, Andrea and others who have 1124 00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,240 stepped up, Jeannie. 1125 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:18,240 Yeah. 1126 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:19,240 Yeah. 1127 00:49:19,240 --> 00:49:20,240 Nancy. 1128 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:21,240 Nancy. 1129 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:24,040 I mean, so many have stepped up and said, enough's enough. 1130 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,400 We're tired of what you're feeding our children. 1131 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,800 You know what's interesting is some of these people that are standing up don't even have 1132 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,120 children and may have never had children. 1133 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,680 And yet their heart for the next generation. 1134 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,680 It's not even about just barking. 1135 00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,640 It's about taking responsibility. 1136 00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,040 They're taking their ability to respond and we're running with it. 1137 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:45,880 I'm just so proud of them. 1138 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,240 So the next scripture, listen to it. 1139 00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:49,760 So they're exposing them, the deeds of darkness. 1140 00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,600 Listen to this, James chapter 4 verse 17. 1141 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:58,320 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. 1142 00:49:58,320 --> 00:49:59,320 Wow. 1143 00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,720 Wow and ouch. 1144 00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:02,720 How many times... 1145 00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:04,440 I'm just going to be real transparent here. 1146 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:12,840 Have I sat silent in a meeting or in a group or in a situation only because I didn't want 1147 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:14,720 to be the outsider. 1148 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:20,400 I didn't want to be the one guy who says, I don't agree with this. 1149 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,680 But you stay silent because you want people to like you. 1150 00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,320 I'm too nice. 1151 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:26,320 People pleaser. 1152 00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:27,320 Too nice. 1153 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:28,320 Instead of going, you know what? 1154 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:29,320 This isn't right. 1155 00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:35,280 And here's the thing, really again, what God's teaching me through the sabbatical is there's 1156 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:41,920 a time to speak up and a time and you can do it and you can speak the truth in love. 1157 00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,440 And that's really our heart. 1158 00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,000 And that's my desire. 1159 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:51,760 And so coming back into the world out of this hibernation of two months, I will not be the 1160 00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:52,760 same person. 1161 00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,760 I already know that. 1162 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,920 And so anyway, these scriptures have really impacted me. 1163 00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,880 Here's another one, the last one. 1164 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,800 This is Matthew 5 13. 1165 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,040 You are the salt of the earth. 1166 00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,280 I was about to use the word salt. 1167 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:08,280 Oh yes. 1168 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:09,280 You are the salt. 1169 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:10,280 Definitely. 1170 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:11,280 We love salt, don't we? 1171 00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,960 Being on the carnivore diet where you have a new love affair with salt. 1172 00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:14,960 Okay, let's go back. 1173 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,920 You are the salt of the earth. 1174 00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,400 You are the light of the world. 1175 00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:25,720 Let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory 1176 00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:28,280 to your Father who is in heaven. 1177 00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,880 I love that passage. 1178 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:36,800 Where to be salt, salt seasons, it preserves, but they've got a little sting to it sometimes. 1179 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:41,120 I mean, speak the truth in love. 1180 00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:43,480 Take response ability. 1181 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,640 I hope you'll never read that word the same again. 1182 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,320 I hope you'll never define that word the same again. 1183 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:59,680 You have been given by God an ability to respond well and to respond in a responsible way, if 1184 00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:04,800 that sounds funny, double negative there, but that's what it's about. 1185 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,280 So anyway, I hope you're encouraged. 1186 00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:08,280 Are you encouraged in that? 1187 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:09,280 I'm encouraged. 1188 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:10,280 Is Chevy encouraged? 1189 00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:11,280 That's what I really want to know. 1190 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:12,280 He's been asleep the whole time. 1191 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,240 He's crashed out in your lap again. 1192 00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:16,680 So as we land the plane, I've got some thanks to say. 1193 00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:22,120 You've had such a great response and I want to pull some of these up and say thank you 1194 00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:23,760 to some of our dear friends. 1195 00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,960 In fact, I'll just read some of these comments. 1196 00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,880 I'm going to start down here with Skippy. 1197 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,800 Skippy, this is on Fountain Rites. 1198 00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,280 Wow, not only do you set... 1199 00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:36,280 No, wait. 1200 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:41,440 He says keep it going, exclamation point, and a striper boost of all things. 1201 00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,160 So I've got to do a striper boost. 1202 00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:49,160 Thank you Adam, the Podfather Curry for the file, the striper file. 1203 00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,360 By the way, I loved striper back in the day. 1204 00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:52,360 I know you do. 1205 00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:53,680 So yeah, good guitar player. 1206 00:52:53,680 --> 00:53:02,960 So and then Adam, the Podfather Curry comes in with another striper boost of 77,777 sats. 1207 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:11,240 He says, wow, not only do you sound wonderfully peaceful and rested, that's my favorite compliment. 1208 00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:12,240 It was. 1209 00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:13,520 That made me feel good. 1210 00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,320 We were really up. 1211 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:17,320 We had a lot of energy. 1212 00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:21,720 We thought we had a lot of energy, but yet we were very rested and very peaceful. 1213 00:53:21,720 --> 00:53:27,160 He says the sound quality of this remote recording is outstanding in all caps, which makes me 1214 00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,200 super happy. 1215 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:33,960 Congrats on another great episode and love from Amsterdam, because they were in Amsterdam 1216 00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:34,960 waiting for it. 1217 00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:35,960 So I have to just do this. 1218 00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:36,960 I love these pads. 1219 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:37,960 I know you do. 1220 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:38,960 I know. 1221 00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:39,960 Good guitar player. 1222 00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:50,720 From a user who did not put their name in here, it says, so happy you got away heading 1223 00:53:50,720 --> 00:53:56,560 to see, oh wait, this has got to be, this has got to be Julie Hipple. 1224 00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:57,560 What? 1225 00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:58,560 Get that right. 1226 00:53:58,560 --> 00:53:59,560 Hold on. 1227 00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:00,880 I have no idea what you're saying. 1228 00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,320 It's somebody from our church. 1229 00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,280 So happy you got away heading to Seaside with my daughter tomorrow for a few days. 1230 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:07,280 Julie Herbert? 1231 00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:08,280 Yes. 1232 00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:09,280 Thank you, Hipple. 1233 00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:10,280 I'm not sure who Herbert is. 1234 00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:11,280 Sorry, Julie. 1235 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,480 So yeah, but it's not on this particular. 1236 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,520 And she gave a thousand sets and we are so thankful for that. 1237 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:18,640 Thank you for doing that. 1238 00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,680 And I hope you had a wonderful time with your daughter. 1239 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:22,680 Seaside? 1240 00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:23,680 Is that what she said? 1241 00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:24,680 Yeah, Seaside. 1242 00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:25,680 That's Destin. 1243 00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,000 Yeah, right down the street, right? 1244 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,400 From where we were. 1245 00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:29,400 Beautiful. 1246 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:30,400 Somebody named The Keeper. 1247 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:31,400 Who could that be? 1248 00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:32,880 I wonder who that is. 1249 00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:33,880 Tina Curry. 1250 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:34,880 Tina. 1251 00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:36,280 They're coming back this weekend. 1252 00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:37,280 I know. 1253 00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:38,280 We miss them. 1254 00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:39,280 We miss them. 1255 00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,320 I miss them and I miss Phoebe. 1256 00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:46,080 And so I'm ready for the Currys to be home and my little girlfriend, Phoebe. 1257 00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:47,080 She's not that little. 1258 00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,320 She's like 118 pounds, but she's still my girl. 1259 00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:51,800 So anyway, I miss them. 1260 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:52,800 We miss them. 1261 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,400 And we've been getting tons of pictures. 1262 00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:56,400 Every day we're talking. 1263 00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:57,400 Wow. 1264 00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,880 We have not missed a day ever. 1265 00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:01,840 It's hard to not have the spirit of envy. 1266 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,160 But anyway, 25,000 sets. 1267 00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:06,760 Thank you, Tina. 1268 00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:10,340 She says this, you have the remote location recording down. 1269 00:55:10,340 --> 00:55:11,340 No excuses. 1270 00:55:11,340 --> 00:55:15,240 The road caster must always be packed on recording days. 1271 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:16,640 Another great podcast. 1272 00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:17,640 Love you too. 1273 00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:18,640 And what do we say? 1274 00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:19,640 We love you back. 1275 00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:20,640 We'll be back. 1276 00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:21,640 Love you more. 1277 00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,720 And then the last one was, Jessie wrote this. 1278 00:55:24,720 --> 00:55:25,720 Jessi Workshop. 1279 00:55:25,720 --> 00:55:30,000 Try, oh, this is, you're going to love this. 1280 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,080 Must have heard our carnivore conversation. 1281 00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,120 Try making a liver jerky. 1282 00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:36,120 No, thank you. 1283 00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:37,120 You love liver. 1284 00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:38,120 I don't. 1285 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:39,120 I wrote Jessie back. 1286 00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:43,560 She said, I think from Miss Annette, that'll be a, Dame Annette, that'll be a hard no. 1287 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:44,560 No. 1288 00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:46,400 Try making liver jerky. 1289 00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,200 We slice ours up, season with salt, pepper, garlic, and dehydrate it. 1290 00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,520 If you don't like it, they also make great dog treats. 1291 00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,280 Sheffy would probably love it. 1292 00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,560 The smell alone would do me in. 1293 00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,120 Speaking of food, we need to land the plane on this. 1294 00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,800 I do have one, a couple of letters. 1295 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:04,800 Beautiful. 1296 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,240 Just a couple of beautiful things. 1297 00:56:06,240 --> 00:56:08,040 So let me, let me find this. 1298 00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:09,400 This, I love this. 1299 00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:13,240 This is from one of our dear, dear, dear friends. 1300 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:15,880 Peggy, Peggy Layden. 1301 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:17,760 Peggy, we love you so much. 1302 00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:18,760 She wrote this. 1303 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:19,760 Hi guys. 1304 00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,000 So glad to hear that you are at the beach and enjoying it. 1305 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:23,920 The majesty and the ripples. 1306 00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:28,400 Also, just wanted to encourage you that I think you made a good decision to not travel 1307 00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:30,160 abroad during your sabbatical. 1308 00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:34,200 That made me feel better because I was feeling kind of ganged upon. 1309 00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,440 That kind of travel is a lot. 1310 00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:39,120 Love that you are getting lots of deep rest. 1311 00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,880 Can't wait to hear what pours from your teaching, Jimmy. 1312 00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:43,880 Me too. 1313 00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:44,880 I can't wait to get back. 1314 00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:45,880 I can't either. 1315 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:46,880 I'm kind of trumpling it a bit. 1316 00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:47,880 I know you are. 1317 00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:48,880 Obviously. 1318 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:52,960 And then we had some, also we had quite a few new people sign up for, to subscribe to 1319 00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:53,960 our newsletter. 1320 00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:54,960 Yes, to our newsletter. 1321 00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,720 So those of you listening, subscribe to our newsletter. 1322 00:56:56,720 --> 00:56:58,720 Go to livingupandadownworld.com. 1323 00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:00,720 Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. 1324 00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:02,200 What's Sheffy doing? 1325 00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:03,200 No, he's funny. 1326 00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:05,800 He's so chill. 1327 00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,040 Subscribe to our newsletter. 1328 00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:12,720 I put it out every Sunday so that you are reminded that on Monday we will release our 1329 00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:14,720 podcast. 1330 00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:21,000 And then also we got another just a cool, I love this guy, David Wicker, Sir Bia's Grace. 1331 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:22,480 Oh, yes. 1332 00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:25,880 So pleased to hear you had a favored vacation in our home state. 1333 00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,040 I didn't realize he was from Florida. 1334 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,120 Looking forward to hearing all about it. 1335 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,160 I'm an episode behind. 1336 00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:33,160 Not for show. 1337 00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:34,160 I'm going to share below. 1338 00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:35,280 So listen to what he says. 1339 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,600 We had a great sermon today. 1340 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:38,600 James 4. 1341 00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:43,920 Brother Jimmy, James, the book of James, and your promotion of giving up my right to be 1342 00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:48,960 offended and call to encourage go hand in hand. 1343 00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,680 The God who spoke in that Old Testament is the same one speaking today. 1344 00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:53,680 Yes. 1345 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,040 Stole that from you as well to work over here in North Florida. 1346 00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,000 The message is clear. 1347 00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:03,440 Always really working on praying for those that I'm not in agreement with. 1348 00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,240 KTLD, keep the lid down. 1349 00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:07,880 I love that. 1350 00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:09,640 And then buckets leaking. 1351 00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:10,640 Absolutely. 1352 00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:11,800 It's a rippling. 1353 00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:12,800 Let's go. 1354 00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,320 I so love that. 1355 00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:15,320 Thank you, David. 1356 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:16,320 We love you, man. 1357 00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:17,440 I'll write you back. 1358 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:21,800 I hadn't had a chance to do that today, but listen, we got steaks to cook out because 1359 00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:23,840 we're in carnivore lion version. 1360 00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:24,840 It's getting late. 1361 00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:25,840 I'm hungry. 1362 00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:26,840 Yes. 1363 00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,200 I do want to say how much we love and appreciate all of you. 1364 00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,240 Thank you so much, everybody, for tuning in. 1365 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:56,480 And we will see you next week on living up in a down world. 1366 00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:04,240 Bye. 1367 00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:32,240 Bye.