"No Perfect People Allowed"

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,000 This is Jimmy Nanette and of course Chevy is with us and he is hanging out with us. 2 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:36,000 He is super excited. He's asleep. That's what I mean. This is him excited. 3 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Last week he wouldn't even get in my lap. I know he was having a moment. 4 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,000 He's totally chilled out. He got super excited. So for those of you 5 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,500 don't know and it's funny because people want to know well what does it look like 6 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:56,840 where y'all do your show? Like it's not this fancy studio. It's my, well it's kind 7 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:01,520 of a studio I guess. I've got your office slash studio. Five, six, seven, eight 8 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:07,080 guitars hanging around. Hanging and how many are in the closet? Only a few. A few. 9 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:15,600 Not enough. Every guitar player will tell you. I had to move you out of my closet. Not enough. You moved cases in our closet. I was not happy about that. 10 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,240 I'm not gonna put them in the attic because the glue it ruins the 11 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:24,520 cases. The heat. Well you know what? You need to find a place. You married a musician. I know it. 12 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:37,520 Wait are you regretting it now? I love it but. Though these three decades later. Take up a lot of space. Three decades later. 30 years of wow. Right. 13 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:49,520 Those are your words. Whoa whoa whoa. It's alright. Wow. Okay. Speaking of. Ouch. That's gonna leave a mark. Let's talk about the wedding. The wedding. First of all we want to welcome our listeners. Oh I guess we need to do that. 14 00:01:49,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Wait we're Jimmy and Annette and Chevy of course our dog and he's on the last podcast cover and I'll put a picture of him up on our website. So you can find us at livingupinadownworld.com. 15 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:16,520 And our heart in this whole thing is to help you live up in a down world. The world's crazy. I don't know if you've noticed lately. It's getting worse. It's insanity out there. It is. And yet because of Christ in us the hope of glory we have the potential, the ability, the empowerment 16 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:31,520 to live up in a down world. That's what we're about. The whole thing is about that. Live life to the full. Come on. John 10. You better preach girl. I know. John 10 10. Jesus said this. I've come that you may have life and life to the full. Life abundant. 17 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:46,520 And so that's our heart. We chose to live like that. Exactly. It's a choice. You have to make the choice to live above your circumstances not below them. You are so preaching right now. I love it. You're hot when you do that. I'm not going to lie. 18 00:02:46,520 --> 00:03:03,520 Honey, let's keep going with the podcast. The wedding. So this is big news. We got to do our youngest child's wedding. I've had the privilege of course and it's always right there with me. It's Jimmy and Annette. Never Jimmy or Annette. 19 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:25,520 And we have together have done officiated all three of our kids weddings. Well when you've been in the ministry 40 years. I mean it makes sense. I know Chris and Casey. We got to do their wedding way way back. 90 no 2000 I believe. Was it about 2000. I think so. 20 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:38,520 A long time ago. A long time ago. We did their wedding and then we got to do Mark and Alicia's wedding what two years ago. Two years ago. Time is passing and I have a gap year with COVID. It throws me completely off. I know. Well and everything kind of revolves around COVID. 21 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:55,520 So yeah pre-COVID after COVID. Oh my God. Then you got a gap year that you can't account for. It's crazy. So anyway and so we did that in Tennessee and outside of Nashville which is totally cool. That's where they live. And then this week this weekend on Saturday. Just tell us. 22 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:10,520 Our youngest daughter Faith married Brandon. Brandon is a great guy. We're super happy. We love Brandon. Brandon is an Okie from Oklahoma City but we're going to love him anyway. Oh my goodness. Wow. We're not going to hold that against him. 23 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:27,520 I know. Others in Texas Oklahoma thing. Everybody knows that. That's more around college football than anything. But anyway we're thrilled to have Brandon in our family and it was a beautiful wedding. People came up to you and said this was one of the best weddings they've ever been to. 24 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:42,520 Tell them why. That was really sweet. Tell them why. Well I didn't even tell you I was going to do this. No you didn't. You surprised me. So here's the cool thing. Not only was I officiating the wedding which I do a lot of these. I mean I've done tons of weddings through the years. I lost count. 25 00:04:42,520 --> 00:05:02,520 And I love doing them actually. But this time not only did I officiate but I got to give away my daughter. Which you did with Alicia as well. I know. This one was a little bit different. Well it was a little bit different because she's the youngest. And it kind of came to me the morning of. On Saturday morning. 26 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:19,520 I got a meltdown moment. I got up. I cried like a baby. It's very early. So I had not cried any tears this whole thing because really the week leading up to the wedding. We're moving. Oh my gosh. We moved them on Wednesday. So I mean my back was sore. I was tired. 27 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:37,520 And then I was working in between all that and getting ready for Sunday. And it was just like one of those convergence weeks. We keep having those. Have you noticed that lately? They're happening a lot. I keep thinking we're going to rest next week. No wait. No not maybe next. No. Anyway it's not happening and I'm OK. I'm good with it. 28 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:57,520 But anyway so we moved them. So it was a crazy week. I got up very very early Saturday morning and was going back over the wedding. I sort of rewrote the vows and different pieces to really personalize it for Brandon and Faith. And I was in my office by myself. A cup of coffee and Chevy. Where was I? 29 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:10,520 What do you think? OK I was in bed. You were sawing logs. So you were in bed. Chevy was in here with me. And I was topping through some of that and I started crying. I mean it was just. It hit me hard. 30 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:26,520 Daddy watching and knowing their little baby girl. It's the last one. It's the last one is getting married. Maybe those were tears of joy. No I'm just saying. I think so. They were. It's a mixed bag right? Yes. I mean because it is kind of a big accomplishment when you have three children and your last one's getting married. 31 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:55,520 It's it's a it's kind of like you come across the finish line in a sense. But also just because she's adopted and we've had such a she's been such a miracle child all along the way. Man it just overwhelmed me. And I sat here as I was trying to type my eyes got fuzzy. I couldn't even see my computer screen. I was like oh here it comes. And I was sort of wrecked the rest of the morning. And then when you got up to officiate. Oh my goodness. So I was like. 32 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:25,520 Oh my goodness. So here's what here's how it goes. So how do you officiate a wedding and walk your daughter down the aisle. I had to be. It's really comical. So what did I walk yelling at her faith. Are you there. Just like what. Well because she was supposed to go up the stairs. I couldn't see her. Would she. Hey we're family right. She doesn't need to be seen yet till you go. I know but I know she's back there. So well anyway all that aside all the silliness aside. So I walked Brandon and I walked in like you. 33 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:44,880 Normally would in a wedding where the pastor or the officiant walks in with with the groom. And so we were standing there. And then since I'm also the daddy I just walked straight down the aisle. Everybody's looking at me like where's where's Pastor Jimmy going down the aisle. And then I walk up the back stairs and you told everybody I'm going to go get my daughter. 34 00:07:44,880 --> 00:08:14,880 Nobody does that. But you got her and it was all family and friends. There was intimate and small which she wanted it that way. We could have invited the whole church and probably packed the house. Yeah she really wanted a small element. So I went and got her. We walked back and as I'm walking her down it's hitting me. It's like here we go again. Did you know what you were about to say to everybody. Not totally but I thought through just a little bit so I didn't have like a plan speech or anything like that. So I walk in. I walk in. 35 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:30,880 I walk up and I'm standing where the father stands with the bride and normally you say who gives this bride and marriage and you say you're her mother and I. So I'm standing there and I said normally I would say that. And then I said but I want to say some things to you. 36 00:08:30,880 --> 00:09:00,800 Boy you did. And she was standing there going what is he going to say. She said she was she had a little bit of a hard time because she does not like to be the center of attention. It's her wedding. She's that well. She's that way. But she said she was trying to keep from crying because she didn't want to mess up her makeup. I saw her tearing up. And what I did is I talked about about the power of identity the power of covenant and marriage. And I just talked about her adoption talked about her adoption. I talked about how she. 37 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:15,880 She's special. She really was a miracle child to us. Now as I'm doing this her birth mother who is our oldest daughter there's a big beautiful story about that which we've told that in one of the episodes early episode or fourth podcast. 38 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:42,880 We're number 18 by the way. You believe that 18. So anyway I'm telling the story and I looked down at Alicia our oldest daughter and she is crying and I'm like don't do this over. I said Alicia you're killing me. I started crying. I lost it. Then the whole church was crying. A lot of people cried. So what happened though. Another special thing is there we had a men. We were hosting a men's retreat at the church in the room next door to the wedding. 39 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:57,880 And we were hosting a men's retreat at the wedding. And Tommy Hayes Todd Wilman were hosting this and leading this and they were talking about covenant in relationships but particularly in marriage. It was geared towards marriage and intimate relationships. 40 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:13,880 And we were actually been talking about that on Friday night all Saturday morning. Tommy and Todd and I talked the day before and they said what if we bring would it be OK to bring the men into the wedding ceremony. I said absolutely. I would love to have them. 41 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:34,880 The seat fillers are good anyway. It is but it was really special. It was very special. Man you see all these guys come in in t-shirts shorts and flip flops. 30 men. They had 30 men at this and they had been talking about covenant marriage relationship and guess what I talked about covenant marriage and they got to see it in a wedding ceremony. 42 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:49,880 They were crying. A lot of them were really teared up and crying. You said something that was really powerful. You talked about the Ephesians 5 scripture. Yeah. Oh my goodness. I feel like it was really important to unpack that. 43 00:10:49,880 --> 00:11:06,880 Yes. So for those of you listening first of all we welcome you to the show. We just so appreciate you and we're doing this for you. We want to encourage you. So I want to unpack something very brief. This will take but a moment. But it didn't take but a moment in the ceremony. 44 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:26,880 But it's probably the most powerful thing I've ever heard in a wedding ceremony. So there's a scripture passage and churches through the years. I'm not I don't want to bash on churches at all. I'm a pastor. I pastor a church. But there has been some some bad things that have happened through the years. Bad teaching. 45 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:46,880 Erroneous teaching context is king. So you all who are listening I mean I'm all about the context. So I never try to just lift things out of scripture without talking about the setting the historical setting the historical context because that's primary first then secondary is the application for us. 46 00:11:46,880 --> 00:12:02,880 We sometimes flip that around. We just take scriptures out of context. It's called very dangerous. It's called Isagesis is what it is. It's a term. There's exegesis which is you're studying the scripture. I said Jesus means you isolate one scripture out of context which is dangerous. 47 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:23,880 It's split churches. It's split marriages. It's caused trauma set up full doctrines on erroneous teachings and build the domination error. So this passage here is one that has bothered me for years because I've heard it done so terribly that I wanted to kind of just set the record straight on this. 48 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:41,880 It really helped those men too that were there for that for the retreat. And here it is. It's in Ephesians chapter five. And typically even even the Bible division. So just so you know when you read a new Bible if you go to the store buy a Bible in the new international version. 49 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:56,880 New King James whatever whatever version there's always these little breaks in there and then they'll have headings like I'm looking at the NIV and it says wives and husbands. The problem is they did the break in the wrong spot in the Greek language the way that New Testament was written. 50 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:13,880 There is no punctuation. There's only context. All the punctuation you see in the Bible the paragraph breaks and breaks have all been added after the fact. And that's only because from our Western mindset we have to have we have to do it for our own grammar our own English. 51 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:27,880 So when you read the Bible you need to sometimes think think like an Easterner and realize there are no paragraph breaks no exclamation points context does all of that. 52 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:48,880 So the by a lot of the modern translations have added a break in there between verse 21 verse 22. That's wrong. Verse 21 says here's where we usually start and you'll hear this preached with boldness wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord and every woman in the place goes into trauma. 53 00:13:48,880 --> 00:14:01,880 She's triggered. She's like yeah man that's just so hard that didn't even make sense. And then it says for the husband is the head of the wife and it sounds intense and it sounds very patriarchal. It's all about the man. 54 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:12,880 Exactly. However well let me go to the next part. Did you go down to verse 25 and it says this husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. 55 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:32,880 The problem is we don't unpack that verse right. And we also miss something up front. The passage actually starts earlier and and you can go to verse 21 one passage up from the break that's man made and it says this submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 56 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:49,880 This is talking about equal submission me submitting to you and that preferring you. And that's literally what it means is to prefer you and you submitting to me. When we do that mutually it says submit to one another out of reverence submit mutually is what that literally means. 57 00:14:49,880 --> 00:15:04,880 We do it together and when we do it together. Oh my gosh that's like an engine running on all eight cylinders. It's running like it's supposed to. Back in the day we'd say it's an engine that's balanced and blueprinted that means it runs and its top peak performance. 58 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:21,880 That's how a relationship is supposed to be submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Then it says wives it gives instruction to the wives to submit what has been done. This has been so abused because it's been taken and used as a weapon against women. 59 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:35,880 Sure has and it's beaten down women into this idea you must submit and I've actually heard of men saying in a fight or in a scuffle with their wife or just in counseling with you saying they're not submitting to me. 60 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:45,880 She's supposed to submit to me and I'm like dude you're a jerk. I wouldn't submit to you in a million years. I mean come on. So but here's the thing. That's not what it says something different. 61 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:53,880 It actually puts the weight on the men not the women. The women have the easy part submit to your husband as you would to Christ. 62 00:15:53,880 --> 00:16:07,880 Okay. The harder part is what the men have to do. Here's what the men's role is. Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. 63 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:25,880 What did Jesus do for the church. He died. He died on a cross. He took nails in his hand nail through his feet a spear in his side spit on abused a crown of thorns not only placed on his head but beat into his head into his skull. 64 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:46,880 And he died a bloody horrible. He took forty nine lashes beaten to a bloody pulp literally for the church. And that is the requirement. The man has to die. All the woman has to do is submit and it's easy to submit to a man who has died. 65 00:16:46,880 --> 00:17:01,880 His selfishness should do a marriage flesh series. You're right. I should do. We should do it. We need to unpack that for the church together. And you may be out there listening and maybe even you were in a church that taught taught it the other way. 66 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:12,880 It's all about the woman submitting to the man even if he's a dork. And I'm telling you that is off. It's not biblical. It's not Jesus and it's not God's heart. 67 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:31,880 It says submit one to another. It's mutual mutual mutual. But yes and out of reverence out of reverence out of all for Christ. So that's what I shared with the with the folks that were there which was life changing for sound to Brandon and faith. 68 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:46,880 Yeah you're right. It was a game changer. I had a lot of a lot of people and men come to me and say I never heard this before. And they and now that you've had the sort of the it's like you get a lens for it and now you see it and go oh my gosh that's exactly what it says. 69 00:17:46,880 --> 00:18:05,880 Well we counseled a couple last week who remain unnamed precious couple that we love dearly love. And I shared that with him and he came to me and said Pastor Jimmy that that is a game changer for me. I was raised in a church that taught where is all male and dominant. 70 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:20,880 The wife is supposed to submit and keep her place in the home. And he said I was taught wrong. I was taught wrong. I said you know how hard it is though to just make that switch. He said he actually got depressed. I mean not clinically depressed situationally. 71 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:37,880 He said it really hit me hard and I realize how I've been. And so hopefully this is going to be a real help for him as well. Maybe for you listening it'll be a help for you. I mean and that I can tell people this but you tell them I mean do I help you make the bed. 72 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:52,880 Every day. Do I help you with dishes. Every day. Do I help you with laundry. No I don't do laundry. I'm terrible. You bring the laundry to me though. I do that part of it but you're good with the machine and stuff. I'll mess stuff up. You fold it with me. You do everything with me. 73 00:18:52,880 --> 00:19:19,880 It's because of verse 24. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. That's it. And what does it do? It makes us have an amazing marriage where we're living up in a down world for real. For real. And we've been through a lot. We've shared some of our stories. Not all of them but we've shared some of our stories. We've been through some rough stuff. We've been fired. We've been rejected. I mean it's abandoned. It's just a lot. 74 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:47,880 However we've been able to overcome not because we're amazing but because God's amazing. That's right. Because we read the Bible and go wait what does it really say? Not how has it been taught by some man who didn't know what he was talking about. So anyway we hope that's helpful for you. Beautiful wedding. Oh my gosh. And then we had ladies from our church that stepped up to the plate. Cooked an amazing meal for everybody. We went back and had that. Is somebody texting you? No I'm just. My phone was going out and I'm trying to get it to work. 75 00:19:47,880 --> 00:20:17,880 My phone was going out and I'm trying to keep the show notes in front of me. Keep this on task here. These show notes are for Adam Curry. He told Tina don't talk about the show notes on the show and she's like next show note. It's so funny. She's like well you know here's the next one. And I told Tina I said I love you talking about the show notes. We need to know what we're talking about. We don't want to keep this on track. Exactly. I do want to say just big kudos to Tommy Hayes. 76 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:33,880 And Todd Wilman for leading our men in that retreat. Jason Banks was supposed to be a part of that. He literally fell off a scaffold and broke his femur and his wrist the day before the retreat started. He was painting a two story home on the outside. 77 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:55,880 What I heard I heard that it skidded off of the sidewalk and it tipped over. But actually what it was he had said his ladder on one side to go down it and he forgot he stepped off thinking was stepping onto his ladder and he fell. He literally stepped off of it. I think he hung his legs in the scaffold. That's what snapped the femur. 78 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:15,880 I know. He was supposed to also be a part of leading that. So you know prayers out to Jason Banks. We just wanted to get well. Quick recovery. He's strong. He's young. He's fiery. He's going to be good. And then also we had one of our pastors sing a song. 79 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:37,880 Jeff Weiner. It was so beautiful. You know the name of the song? Oh gosh. You would ask me that. I know. I was trying to remember the name of it. He and his wife were watching a Hallmark movie and a song came on I think at a wedding scene and she said this is the song you should sing for Faith because he was going to sing an old song. 80 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:55,880 He's going to do the classic There is Love. It's a classic from way back. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful relevant song. What he did was he took the song from Hallmark, listened to it, rehearsed it, never had sang it before, never heard of it and then changed some of the words to fit their wedding. 81 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:11,880 Beautiful. He did it with an acoustic guitar. Jeff is a phenomenal singer, a great worship leader. He's got one of those. Adam Curry says man he would be a hit machine. He's got a record voice. He's got that voice. A radio voice. Yeah radio voice. He's got it. 82 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:39,880 We don't want him to know that. We need to keep him as our worship leader. So Jeff, he can't go anywhere. We love Pastor Jeff. So he sang and played. It was absolutely beautiful. Then what did we do after that? We ate this amazing meal. Then we brought the whole crew, all the young people that are Faith's friends and our kids. We had Mark and Alicia. We flew them in from Nashville to be a part. So good having them. God I love those guys. They're doing great. 83 00:22:39,880 --> 00:23:07,880 Tina was the photographer. When I asked her, it was just going to be in our backyard. She was going to take a few pictures. She was like sure I'll do it. Then when we moved it to the church and it became a bigger affair, she was like, you really want me to do this? I'm not a professional. She, every picture she took, now I haven't seen the pictures, but the way she was taking the pictures, she literally looked like a professional. She did. She looked like the real deal. I'm sure they're amazing. She's prancing around just like a total miracle. 84 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:35,880 I said you may have a side gig here. She's probably going, no. Adam put her to work. They're going weekly now. Big news for Hurrying the Keeper. They're going to a weekly podcast and they're going to do it live. Okay, they're brave. I'm all in. I know you want to do that, but twice we've had to cut. Only two times. 85 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:43,880 Cut the show. Start all over because we said things that we were like, we probably shouldn't have said that on there. 86 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:55,880 Yeah, we want to be careful with things. I don't know if I'm ready for that. I'm ready. I know. I'm not sure. We'll go to school on them. We've done everything else. We'll go to school on them on everything. Right? 87 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:23,880 They came over afterwards. They were part of our family. The whole day and evening. It was just beautiful. It was. We literally leftovers. We sat around the kitchen. We had some great food. Adam got to tell his amazing stories. MTV stories. That was hilarious. My oldest daughter, Alicia, was on Cloud 9. She was giddy listening to Adam because he knows all the bands that she grew up with. 88 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:37,880 He's interviewed Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Prince, the Scorpions, Def Leppard. He was the guy on MTV in the 80s and 90s. Those stories are great. 89 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:47,880 I was just getting a kick out of how giddy she was. Do you think she was a little starstruck? I think so. She had a little fangirl thing going. 90 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:56,880 I get it. I was starstruck the first time I met him. When we had dinner. I just didn't say anything. I was trying to keep my composure. 91 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:03,880 You're hilarious because you had a crush on him in the 80s. I had a crush on him. What do I say? You did. Every woman had a crush on him that watched MTV. 92 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:18,880 What's funny is Alicia was watching MTV with me. When I said, who are our friends now? Adam Curry and Tina. She's like, what? Literally. 93 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:27,880 She went online and showed her a picture. I said, go online and look at this picture. She goes, oh my gosh. I watched that with you. 94 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:34,880 When I see Adam Curry, I see my best friend. I know. I see Tina as my best friend. I just see my best friend. 95 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:46,880 He's genuinely one of the kindest individuals I've ever met. So is Tina. He's got the heart. Both of them. You put two of the kindest people you've ever met together. 96 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:55,880 That's a dynamic duo. Guess what we're about to do. Big announcement. Nice segue. I know. You did that like a pro. I'm trying. 97 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:02,880 Wow. I'm proud of you. More texts? No, I'm trying to keep losing. Tina texting you. No, not yet. 98 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:09,880 So big announcement. Do you want to make the big announcement? How did we roll it out? When they were over at our house. No, we were at their house. 99 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:18,880 On Wednesday, we ended up hanging out all afternoon. You and I had an idea. We did. We had a brainstorm. We had a brainstorm. 100 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:29,880 We said, what do you think it would look like if we all had a crossover show at some point? So I brought it up to them. I said, we have... 101 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:36,880 I was shy about bringing it up. I didn't want to be pretentious at all. I know. You were afraid they would go, no, that might not work. 102 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:44,880 I was thinking how much fun that would be. Right. But you didn't know how they would feel. So I brought it up. Adam said, I know what you're going to say. I know what you're going to say. 103 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:56,880 He said, I know what you're going to say because it's what Tina and I have been talking about. When we brought it up, let's have a crossover show. He said that's exactly what I want to do. 104 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:02,880 I was like, what? This is a God thing. It is. It's going to be fun. So, Curry and the Keeper, Living Up in a Down World. I'm going to ask... 105 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:12,880 Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to give Adam my file for Living Up in a Down World, the music. I'm going to say, make a mashup. Put them together. I think that would be really cool. 106 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:21,880 So anyway, that's the big announcement. We all chatted about it. We are all in. It will just be a one-time deal. But I don't know. We'll probably do it every now and then. 107 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:30,880 So we'll probably go to his studio. He's got the better equipment. He's a lot more professional than we are. He's got a real studio. We have a mock studio, a wannabe studio. 108 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:39,880 So we're going to go to his place and we'll plug in all four microphones. We'll sit down. We're going to talk about our faith journey, talk about our life journeys, and just talk about our friendship. 109 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:46,880 But also just talk about what we think God's up to in terms of living up in a down world, Curry and the Keeper. We just feel like God is... 110 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,880 Tell me it's not going to be live. 111 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,880 I'm not... 112 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,880 Okay, I'm hoping that it's not live at this point. 113 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,880 I'll let you talk to Adam about that. 114 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,880 I will. I will talk to Adam. 115 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:01,880 You know, they really are an interesting couple. They've lived an interesting life. 116 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:02,880 I know. 117 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,880 Tina said, no, not me. Mine is just... 118 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,880 I grew up in West Texas around motorcycles and hot rods and football. 119 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,880 And I grew up in Odessa, Texas. Come on. Really? 120 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:20,880 The only thing that is known in Odessa is Friday Night Lights. 121 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:21,880 Football. 122 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,880 Football came from there. I was there when... 123 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,880 It's huge. They were a power. 124 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:28,880 Yes. 125 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:29,880 It was a big deal. 126 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,880 Not so much now, but anyway. 127 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:37,880 So, yeah. So that's it. We're going to do a crossover show where we're going to do a show together. 128 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,880 And I'm telling you, it'll be a chat fest. I can tell you. We're all talkers, right? 129 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:43,880 What are you doing? 130 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,880 I'm looking at the next note. So I'm ready for it. 131 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,880 You keep looking down at your phone. 132 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:48,880 No, quit. No, no. Seriously. 133 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:49,880 Are you texting Tina again? 134 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,880 No, I'm not. She's going to show me a picture of her rug she got in, but it's not here yet. 135 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,880 Wow. Big news. There's a big news. 136 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,880 So anyway, that's going to be cool. 137 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:58,880 And this week... 138 00:28:58,880 --> 00:28:59,880 I'm super excited. 139 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:06,880 Yes. You got a call from the office of... What is it? What do you call it? 140 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,880 I've got a note here. It is from the secretary of the Senate. 141 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:15,880 Secretary of the Senate. You got asked to open up in prayer this Thursday. 142 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,880 And so we'll be driving to Austin for you to do that. 143 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,880 Yeah. So during the House and Senate sessions, which they're in session right now, they invite different people. 144 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,880 You have to be... You can't just ask to do it. 145 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,880 Somebody from the Senate has to put your name in a line. 146 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:31,880 But we have no idea. 147 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:32,880 We don't know who did it. 148 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,880 This is your second time to do this, but we have no clue. 149 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,880 And they had to find you because you were part of Oak Hills. 150 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,880 Yeah, we were with Oak Hills. Now we're Bridge Church. 151 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,880 I have no idea who put your name in the head. 152 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,880 I don't either. I don't know who... Before we thought it was someone on the House side, but he's not even there now. 153 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,880 And so anyway, pretty cool. I'm going to go and so on. 154 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,880 I'll open the Senate session in prayer. You have to pre-write your prayer. 155 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:57,880 They got to approve it. 156 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,880 I mean, they got to make sure you're politically correct. 157 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,880 I'm totally cool with that. 158 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,880 And so anyway, I'm looking forward to it. 159 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:05,880 It's an honor. It really is an honor. 160 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:12,880 Yeah, I mean, it really is. And two, I mean, I just... I believe in praying and I believe in the power of prayer. 161 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,880 And so I do. I believe that God will be on that prayer. 162 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,880 And I sort of wrote it all out and sent it to them. 163 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,880 So hopefully they'll send it back. 164 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:21,880 This is a big week. 165 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:22,880 Okay, so we just... 166 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:23,880 It is a big week. 167 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,880 We had a wedding on Saturday. We had church on Sunday, and that was amazing. 168 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,880 Talking about Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac. 169 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,880 Yeah, the series is called No Perfect People Allowed. 170 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,880 It was great. And then now you're at the Senate on Thursday. 171 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,880 And then Saturday, you get to do a meet-up. 172 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:41,880 Oh, I'm so pumped. 173 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,880 I know. I told Adam and Tina what an honor it was for you to be asked to go. 174 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:47,880 Oh, I'm stoked about it. I'm stoked about it. 175 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,880 Adam knows I don't like to do things on Saturday, and neither does he because we're both prepping. 176 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,880 I'm prepping for church. He's prepping for his show, No Agenda. 177 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,880 So we get it. We get each other. 178 00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,880 But he was like, hey, I'm going to invite you to this. 179 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:01,880 And it's okay to say no. 180 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:06,880 He said, there's going to be a meet-up for No Agenda in Austin on Saturday. 181 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:07,880 Would you want to go with me? 182 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,880 I said, dude, I'm in. I mean, he is really? 183 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,880 He said, I said, no, I'm serious. 184 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,880 I would love to meet. 185 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:19,880 Because what's happened is Tina and Adam have talked about us so much on their show 186 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:24,880 that a lot of those that follow Curry and the Keeper, and many that follow No Agenda as well, 187 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,880 have listened to our podcast. 188 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,880 And so we feel like we're sort of a part of the family. 189 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,880 We're sort of like the stepchildren or the adopted kids or whatever. 190 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:34,880 The adopted kids. 191 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:35,880 We're the adopted kids. 192 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,880 And so we feel like we're a part of that family. 193 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:42,880 And I was like, I would be honored to meet people at a meet-up. 194 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,880 And Tina typically goes with them. 195 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,880 And she said the next time they have one, they wanted us all to go. 196 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:49,880 Oh, that would be awesome. 197 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,880 Because she's leaving for New York on Wednesday. 198 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,880 She's not going to be flying back in until Saturday. 199 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:55,880 So I'm going to go to San Antonio. 200 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:56,880 Can you believe it? 201 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,880 Which is a big deal for you to go drive to San Antonio and pick her up. 202 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:00,880 Drive to San Antonio and pick her up. 203 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:01,880 Because you love her. 204 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:02,880 I do. 205 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:03,880 It's a love thing. 206 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,880 Because I do not enjoy driving in San Antonio. 207 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,880 When you told me that, I was like, you wouldn't do that for me. 208 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:08,880 But you would do it for Tina. 209 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:09,880 I would. 210 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:10,880 I would tell you to leave your car there. 211 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:11,880 I would tell her. 212 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,880 Maybe Uber or something. 213 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:13,880 I would. 214 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:14,880 Anyway, yeah. 215 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:15,880 So I am really. 216 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,880 So if any of you are listening that are part of the Gitmo Nation, No Agenda World, and 217 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:26,880 Curry and the Keeper, I, man, I'm looking forward to meeting folks in Austin with Adam. 218 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,880 So I'm just going to be tagging along and having fun. 219 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:29,880 See, this could just be your show. 220 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:30,880 Don't read me. 221 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,880 Don't you ever do that. 222 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,880 It's you, me, and Chevy. 223 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:34,880 Oh, gosh. 224 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:35,880 It could be you and Chevy. 225 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,880 So my sister-in-law, Patty Pruitt in Lubbock, Texas, wrote today, said, hey, I want to 226 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,880 give you some feedback on the show. 227 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:43,880 It was really cool what she wrote. 228 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:44,880 Super sweet. 229 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:50,880 And, but she said, I've never heard Chevy do or say or bark or anything. 230 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:51,880 Nothing. 231 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,880 Because he doesn't do that unless someone's walking him. 232 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:54,880 But we should. 233 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:55,880 She said poke him or something. 234 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,880 I said, if I poked him, he'd just roll over on his back so we could scratch his belly. 235 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:00,880 I mean, that's Chevy. 236 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:01,880 So right now, he's literally. 237 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:02,880 You can't make him do anything. 238 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:03,880 He's totally. 239 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:04,880 He's a big fluff ball right now. 240 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,880 He's getting a haircut this week. 241 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:07,880 So anyway, yeah. 242 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:08,880 So that's a big Saturday. 243 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:09,880 It is a big week. 244 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:10,880 I got that. 245 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,880 And, man, I'm just so honored to do that. 246 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,880 And then you have to preach again Sunday. 247 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:15,880 Get to preach. 248 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:16,880 Are you going to preach on Sunday? 249 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:17,880 I'm not sure yet. 250 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,880 Man, there's so many great characters. 251 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:21,880 No, no. 252 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:22,880 I don't know in the Bible. 253 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:23,880 Yeah, don't say characters. 254 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,880 People in the Bible are not cartoon characters. 255 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,880 There's so many interesting people in the Bible. 256 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:32,880 And just so those of you that are listening, I think if you're looking for a sermon series, 257 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:39,880 I mean, if you want to listen to some preaching that's not preachy, go to bridgefbg.com. 258 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,880 All of our messages are there. 259 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:42,880 You can go to YouTube. 260 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,880 We're all the same stuffs there. 261 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,880 But I'm doing a series called No Perfect People Allowed. 262 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:52,880 And the whole point of it is to help people understand that God uses us in the middle 263 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:53,880 of our messed up lives. 264 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:59,880 A lot of times our biggest mess ups are how God uses us to help other people. 265 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:00,880 Talk about that. 266 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:01,880 That is huge. 267 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:02,880 Yes. 268 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:08,880 If you learned from them, you've grown from your mistakes, you see that it's something 269 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,880 that can help other people to keep them from making those same mistakes. 270 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,880 Because you've been there, done that, got the t-shirt. 271 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:15,880 Yes. 272 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,880 So it was a great message. 273 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,880 I love the grafting in. 274 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,880 That was a good illustration. 275 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:23,880 There's a couple of pieces there. 276 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:30,880 First of all, I've started all the sermons in this series with Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. 277 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:31,880 And I have the whole congregation do it. 278 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:32,880 We all do it together. 279 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,880 Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. 280 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,880 Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. 281 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:44,880 All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Mr. or Mrs. Humpty Dumpty together again. 282 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,880 And then I say, but God can. 283 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,880 And that's the thing is that it's true. 284 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,880 No men can sometimes come back. 285 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,880 No people, no person can come back and fix us. 286 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,880 We can't even fix ourselves. 287 00:34:58,880 --> 00:34:59,880 We need help. 288 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,880 And that help comes in the form of Jesus Christ. 289 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:09,880 And so He's here to walk with us and help us and love us on our worst day and in our darkest moments. 290 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,880 And I want to encourage you, He will never love you any less on your worst day and your worst moment, 291 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:21,880 in the middle of your worst decision, than He does on your best day on the mountaintop in your most epic, glorious moment. 292 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,880 He loves you the same because He's a good Father. 293 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,880 That's right. 294 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:30,880 And so I want to encourage you in that because that's been kind of the core message of this, 295 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,880 is to help people understand because a lot of people don't feel like they can be used by God. 296 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,880 Right, because they've made too many mistakes. 297 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:38,880 But look at Abraham. 298 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,880 OK, you talked about Abraham. 299 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,880 OK, he made a huge mistake when God told him that he was… 300 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,880 Yeah, he went and slept with somebody. 301 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:53,880 He was going to bear a son, or Sarah was going to bear a son, and nothing was happening for 25 years. 302 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,880 And so she says, here, just take my maiden. 303 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,880 Go sleep with my servant. 304 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,880 And have a son with her. 305 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:01,880 They both messed up. 306 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,880 And he just goes, OK, and goes on. 307 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,880 He's like a dude, just, oh, you're telling me to have sex with her? 308 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,880 OK, I'll do that. 309 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:08,880 Oh my gosh. 310 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,880 Well, yeah, anybody would do that if their wife said, yes. 311 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,880 Oh my gosh, yeah, it was a massive mistake. 312 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:13,880 But who is He? 313 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,880 The Father of all nations. 314 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:16,880 I know, He became that. 315 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:17,880 Yes. 316 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,880 So God did not derail His destiny. 317 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:20,880 He didn't derail His destiny. 318 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:27,880 That's what's so important for people to understand is they feel like, oh, I made mistakes, so now I'm unworthy. 319 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,880 And it's still not perfect. 320 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:30,880 Oh my gosh. 321 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:31,880 Well, neither are we. 322 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:40,880 Well, here's what I told our folks, and I say this to anybody, that the day that only perfect people are allowed to be in a church will be the day there'll never be another church again. 323 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:41,880 Right. 324 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:42,880 That's true. 325 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:43,880 They won't exist. 326 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:44,880 No. 327 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:45,880 Including me. 328 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:46,880 Exactly. 329 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:47,880 I'm out. 330 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:48,880 All of us are. 331 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:49,880 So I want to encourage you. 332 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,880 And if you think this is something that might help you, it is helping our people. 333 00:36:54,880 --> 00:37:02,880 I mean, just people are coming to me and saying, this is so helping me because I just felt like I was disqualified, like I wasn't good enough. 334 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,880 And that goes for your worship. 335 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,880 Sometimes people won't worship in a worship service because they feel like I'm unworthy. 336 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:09,880 Unworthy. 337 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,880 Not even worthy to worship God because He's perfect and I'm not. 338 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:13,880 Well, welcome to the human race. 339 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:14,880 You're in the club. 340 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,880 I worship God out of gratitude. 341 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:17,880 Oh, man. 342 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:18,880 Where we are now. 343 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,880 It's like, God, thank you. 344 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,880 Thank you for bringing me out of the miry clay. 345 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,880 I'm just like, my prayers are gratitude. 346 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,880 I don't hardly pray for anything anymore. 347 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:29,880 I pray for people, but it's really short. 348 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,880 But for yourself, you're not praying, you're just thanking. 349 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:33,880 Thank you, thank you, thank you. 350 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:34,880 For your mercy. 351 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:44,880 If we could change our prayer from thank you or from help me, I need this, I want this, to thank you for this, this, this. 352 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:45,880 Oh, my goodness. 353 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,880 That changes everything. 354 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,880 This girl is on fire. 355 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:50,880 You're on fire. 356 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:51,880 I love it. 357 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,880 We do live a life of gratitude. 358 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:55,880 Doesn't mean everything's always perfect. 359 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:56,880 Oh, no. 360 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:02,880 But we try to look at the positive things that have happened in our life or are happening or will happen. 361 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:03,880 That's right. 362 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:15,880 Because if you put your mind on those things that can happen, those great things that can happen, that it doesn't look like it's going to happen, but you make your eyes see the best in something, it will happen. 363 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,880 Colossians 3.2, set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 364 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:21,880 There is good coming. 365 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,880 It's right around the corner for you if you'll just hold on. 366 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:25,880 Right. 367 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:26,880 Literally. 368 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,880 Sometimes it is a hold on. 369 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:29,880 It is. 370 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:30,880 It's hang on for the ride. 371 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:31,880 We've had a hold on for years. 372 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,880 Oh, we've had to strap our seat belts in and hang on. 373 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:34,880 God still came through. 374 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:35,880 And continues to. 375 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:36,880 Because we were faithful. 376 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:37,880 That's the key. 377 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:38,880 We didn't quit. 378 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:39,880 We didn't quit. 379 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:40,880 We didn't quit. 380 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,880 Man, if there's anything we have to credit to our lives. 381 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:44,880 We have tenacity. 382 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,880 Tenacity, persistence, endurance. 383 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,880 We just don't quit. 384 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:49,880 We're stubborn. 385 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:50,880 And that's not a bad thing. 386 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,880 No, I think that's a good characteristic to have. 387 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,880 Because we knew God wouldn't quit. 388 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:57,880 So we couldn't quit. 389 00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:58,880 No doubt. 390 00:38:58,880 --> 00:38:59,880 We trust Him. 391 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:00,880 We did. 392 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:01,880 Yeah. 393 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:02,880 Still do. 394 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:03,880 Huge. 395 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:04,880 Trust is massive. 396 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:05,880 So yeah, I don't know where I'm going to go next. 397 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,880 I'm kind of leaning towards David. 398 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,880 Well, I was going to say you need to do David. 399 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,880 Because this new song we're doing talks about David and Goliath. 400 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:14,880 Oh, it does. 401 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,880 And so if we're singing that song this week as well, which we always do. 402 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:18,880 I love his story. 403 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,880 Then you need to use that. 404 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:21,880 Yeah. 405 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,880 I had a guy who has a prophetic edge. 406 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,880 I mean, he just really hears God's voice. 407 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,880 And he said, you're such a David. 408 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,880 Because I've got the poet side of me. 409 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,880 I'm a tinder, but I'm also a warrior. 410 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:33,880 I'm a fighter. 411 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,880 So it's like, I was like. 412 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,880 I was told I was Joan of Arc. 413 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,880 That's huge. 414 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:41,880 Your compliment might be better than mine. 415 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,880 Because David, that's a massive failure. 416 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:44,880 It's pretty accurate. 417 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:45,880 Well, we all have. 418 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,880 Lay it out there. 419 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,880 Let's just lay it out there. 420 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,880 It's true. 421 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,880 Well, you have had some massive failures. 422 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:54,880 Indeed, I have. 423 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:55,880 Oh, but God. 424 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:56,880 We all have. 425 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:57,880 But God. 426 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,880 So when we tell our story, just for you that are listening, maybe you're new or newer. 427 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,880 We always, we tell our gory stuff. 428 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:05,880 We tell the hard things. 429 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,880 We tell the failures. 430 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,880 We tell of our embarrassments, our shame from the past. 431 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:11,880 We don't live there anymore. 432 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,880 But we tell that. 433 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,880 But we always end with a but God. 434 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,880 But God, He didn't let us down. 435 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,880 He hung with us through it all. 436 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,880 And He didn't let us down. 437 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,880 He stayed with us. 438 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:25,880 And He loved us. 439 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,880 He says He'll never leave us or forsake us. 440 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,880 We're the ones who leave. 441 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,880 And we say, but God was not there. 442 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:32,880 Now we left. 443 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:33,880 We moved. 444 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,880 He never, never leaves us. 445 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,880 It's always one step back, family. 446 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,880 I always say if you swim out to an island, it's 12 miles. 447 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,880 If you swim back, how far is it? 448 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:44,880 12 miles. 449 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,880 But when you fall from God or walk away, it feels like 12 miles, 450 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,880 but it's literally one step. 451 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:51,880 It's called repentance. 452 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,880 That's where you simply turn around. 453 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,880 You don't have to backtrack 12 miles. 454 00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,880 You turn around and He's right there because He never left you. 455 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,880 He never forsake you. 456 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:03,880 He's there, literally. 457 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:04,880 Exactly. 458 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:05,880 More text? 459 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:06,880 No, just checking. 460 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:07,880 How's Chevy? 461 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:08,880 Oh my gosh. 462 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:09,880 How's Chevy over there? 463 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:10,880 At least he's... 464 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,880 Oh, you just woke him up. 465 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:13,880 I did. 466 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:14,880 Hey buddy. 467 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:19,880 I wish I could get him to bark or something, but I can't. 468 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,880 So yeah, so that's been our week. 469 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,880 We got a lot going on, fun stuff happening, exciting things happening with Curry and the 470 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:26,880 Keeper. 471 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,880 I'm super pumped about that. 472 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,880 And then our big announcement is we're going to start going live, right? 473 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,880 No, I'm not ready for that. 474 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:35,880 I want to stream. 475 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,880 I love the spontaneity of it. 476 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,880 I mean, we never hit pause anyway. 477 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:40,880 We just keep going. 478 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,880 But see, we already do it basically. 479 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:44,880 We'll see. 480 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,880 Let's just see. 481 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,880 So a couple of things I just want to encourage our people. 482 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,880 First of all, I want to thank all of you who've been writing in, those of you who've been 483 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,880 sending us Satoshis on Fountain and Cast-O-Matic and others. 484 00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,880 First of all, Fountain, man, what a great platform for listening to podcasts. 485 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,880 I want to encourage you to download the Fountain app. 486 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:04,880 It's super simple to find. 487 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:11,880 Go under your iOS or your Android store and just type in Fountain podcast and it'll pull 488 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:12,880 up. 489 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:13,880 Pull up that. 490 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,880 You can literally earn Satoshis, which is Bitcoin, tiny Bitcoin. 491 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,880 You can earn them just by listening. 492 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,880 You can listen to us there and then you can bless those Satoshis forward and support. 493 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:29,880 And I do want you to know we're able to, particularly through Fountain, and we're setting up PayPal 494 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:30,880 as well for our website. 495 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,880 We haven't done that yet, but we're in the process of it. 496 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:34,880 But it helps. 497 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:35,880 It helps to have support. 498 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,880 We put a lot into this. 499 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:38,880 We care about you. 500 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:39,880 We're writing. 501 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:40,880 I'll write you back. 502 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:45,880 If you ever write us, we want to correspond with you and help you and encourage you. 503 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,880 And so whatever we can do to do that, we're all in with that. 504 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,880 And so I'm noticing my time is running short here. 505 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,880 So we'll see if I can run out. 506 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,880 So we're going to land the plane right here. 507 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:57,880 We love you. 508 00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:02,880 Till next week, have an amazing week on purpose, living up in a down world. 509 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:04,880 Anything to say to that on the way out? 510 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,880 Thank you so much for all your support. 511 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:07,880 We love you. 512 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:33,880 You're amazing.