1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Don't get down when you're seeing the worst, 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,000 cause the last will be the first. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,000 What a day I'm telling you, 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 all things will be new. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Living up in a down world. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Yeah we're living, yeah we're living, 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 living up in a down world. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Oh! 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 This is Jimmy Internet and we are coming to you from 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 the heart of the Texas Hill Country, 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Fredericksburg, Texas and the Bridge Studios. 12 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 And we have a special guest with us today. 13 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,000 We sure do. 14 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Who's here? 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Mr. Chevy. 16 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Mr. Chevy is here and he's like almost asleep. 17 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,000 He was so excited to get in our car and drive over here. 18 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 I know cause you said, do you want to go? 19 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 And he knew. 20 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,000 And he perked up. 21 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 He was like ready roll. 22 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 He was like oh. 23 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,000 He's tired today though. 24 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,000 He had a dramatic day. 25 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,000 I know. 26 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 I was going to say traumatic but dramatic. 27 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Because he got groomed today. 28 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Beauty salon, yeah. 29 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Beauty salon day. 30 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,000 That's never traumatic for me. 31 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,000 That's always my best day. 32 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 But he's a guy. 33 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Ever. 34 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,000 He's a dude. 35 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Well but you know he does like to be beheaded. 36 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,000 So I'm sure he loves when they use that razor. 37 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 He actually does act like he loves it. 38 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 I mean when I carry him in there he's like super excited. 39 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,000 They must treat him very well. 40 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,000 I'm sure. 41 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Cause they all call him Mr. Chevy. 42 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,000 So they all know him. 43 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,000 So it's funny. 44 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 He makes friends everywhere he goes. 45 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,000 He does. 46 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,000 He's a good dog. 47 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Yeah. 48 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,000 So I'm glad he's with us. 49 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 How are you doing today? 50 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,000 I'm good. 51 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 It's been a crazy day I guess. 52 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,000 I don't know. 53 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:43,000 I don't know how to feel today because we're on our little short sabbatical for a month. 54 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 And I'm like I started I've worked. 55 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,000 And then I told Tina she goes well hopefully you won't you know be working too much. 56 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 I'm like I know. 57 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,000 I can't stop. 58 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 So I did a little bit of work. 59 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,000 But we did a little bit of play and we got in the pool for a little while and just enjoyed 60 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 ourselves. 61 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,000 I'm kind of relaxed. 62 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,000 It's super hot here. 63 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 I think I'm the heat. 64 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,000 That's what it is. 65 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:12,000 But we're relaxed too because it is nice knowing that we can sort of do this reboot. 66 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 We're calling it a sabbatical reboot or reset. 67 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 It's like we're doing it every year. 68 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 But we're only doing it the month of June. 69 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Half the amount of time. 70 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 And we're not as disconnected as we were in our first big one. 71 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 We changed our phone numbers. 72 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 I can't change our phone numbers. 73 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 No we're not doing that again. 74 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 That was wild. 75 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 But we needed to do that. 76 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 No it was good. 77 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,000 And so we've maintained where we don't not everybody has our phone number. 78 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 So it's good. 79 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 But we need to be a little bit more available because Pastor Brian is on his own for the 80 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,000 first time. 81 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Well Pastor Russ is here. 82 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Thank goodness. 83 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 And Pastor Jeff. 84 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 They're holding it down. 85 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 I'm not worried about them at all. 86 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 So we've got some plans. 87 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 We had a really first of all this is show number 69. 88 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Oh wow. 89 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 So we're moving right along. 90 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 But yeah we had a great week last week. 91 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Let's kind of bring folks up to speed. 92 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,000 We weren't going to start our vacation slash sabbatical till July 1st. 93 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 But we got blessed with a trip from the Holbrooks. 94 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Michael and Jill. 95 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 To Colorado for a week. 96 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 They won it in an auction and gave it to us. 97 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 And Tina and Curry were supposed to go with this. 98 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Tina and Curry. 99 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Tina and Curry. 100 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Sorry. 101 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Yeah. 102 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Hello. 103 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Tina and Adam Curry. 104 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 We're supposed to go with this and couldn't last minute. 105 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 But we ended up going and it was wonderful. 106 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 It was I loved breathing in the Colorado mountain air. 107 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 That was beautiful. 108 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 8,000 feet. 109 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,000 That's the altitude there. 110 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 And we stayed in Avalon. 111 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 No. 112 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Avon. 113 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Avon. 114 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Which is like what five miles down. 115 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,000 I mean just a little. 116 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Ten minutes from Vail. 117 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 From Vail. 118 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 We spent most of our time in Vail. 119 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Yeah. 120 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Once we found Lion's Head Village and Vail Village we just hung out. 121 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 I know exactly where I want to stay next year when we go. 122 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 It's beautiful there. 123 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,000 I mean. 124 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,000 I was shocked. 125 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,000 The whole area. 126 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 That whole valley. 127 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 I didn't know it was a valley. 128 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 So it's a mountain valley. 129 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,000 And it's got sheer mountains on each side. 130 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 And it's absolutely stunning. 131 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 I've driven through there but I was a kid. 132 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Probably didn't appreciate what you appreciate now. 133 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Or just didn't remember it because we drove all over Colorado many, many years. 134 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 I mean that was our main vacation spot. 135 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 So anyway it was great and the weather was amazing. 136 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 It was like in the 70s and 80s. 137 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 The mornings were super crisp and cool. 138 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:44,000 The only thing is that was really hard on us a few days was no air conditioning in our condo. 139 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Yeah. 140 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000 What's up with that? 141 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 I know. 142 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 I've never done that. 143 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 People don't do that I guess. 144 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Well at 8,000 feet you don't really have to have it. 145 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 But the knots were warmer than normal. 146 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 That's true. 147 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,000 So I was like can we handle this? 148 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Well thank goodness I found a box fan. 149 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Oh there's a box fan in the closet. 150 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,000 That's why. 151 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Yes. 152 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 And that's kind of saved the day. 153 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 And that kind of scared me when we first got there. 154 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I thought oh no we can't stay. 155 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,000 There's no air conditioning. 156 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 We put our air down to 64 and not here in Texas. 157 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,000 We like it cold. 158 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Even in the winter we do that. 159 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 We run air conditioning year round. 160 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 We run it year round because we like it cool. 161 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000 And so that was a challenge but we made it work. 162 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 You know and when we first got there we were kind of iffy. 163 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 We were like I don't know. 164 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:40,000 I think it just it caught it came on very quickly because we were working so hard and pedal to the metal and running and gunning. 165 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 And then it was like you know just boom time to go. 166 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 And I think it kind of caught us off guard. 167 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,000 So we weren't as excited about it because we were so running and running and running. 168 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 And then when we got there we even talked about maybe maybe come back early. 169 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Maybe we shouldn't stay the whole time. 170 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:03,000 And then we woke up the next morning and it was like the Holy Spirit spoke to both of us and said you need to relax. 171 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Enjoy this gift. 172 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Enjoy it. 173 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 And I'm telling you we did. 174 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Boy it was so good. 175 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 We just shifted our mindset. 176 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 And literally it was like what are we going to do today? 177 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Let's go do something fun. 178 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Let's go eat somewhere fun. 179 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,000 The bed was the most comfortable. 180 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 The bed was amazing. 181 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 The condo hotel bed I've ever slept in. 182 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 It literally felt like I was in my own bed. 183 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 And it was a big big condo too. 184 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 It was huge. 185 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Two bedroom two bath but big. 186 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Lots of space so. 187 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 And it just turned out great. 188 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 I mean you know there was a place to work out. 189 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 We were able to you know just stay physical. 190 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Yes. 191 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 And of course lots of good like breakfast places. 192 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 There's a lot of good places to eat around there. 193 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:48,000 I think the biggest challenge for us was the food was so expensive there because we wanted 194 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:54,000 to go have a nice breakfast and by the time we left our bill was $80 for a breakfast. 195 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 It was crazy. 196 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Yeah. 197 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 And that was kind of I was shocked. 198 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 I felt like we were in Fredericksburg. 199 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Yeah but it feels no it's worse than Fredericksburg. 200 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 It's more like Southern California. 201 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,000 They definitely get you. 202 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 But I was a little bit shocked about the cost of eating. 203 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 But it was so good. 204 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,000 And as carnivores we did have our moments where we were like let's get that pancake. 205 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Yeah. 206 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Let's enjoy this. 207 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,000 We're on vacation. 208 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 We're on vacation. 209 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 So we can't do that now that we're on real vacation. 210 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,000 No way. 211 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 No way. 212 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 We had to come back and go no we can't do that. 213 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 We've been full on. 214 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Yeah. 215 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Because we're coming up on our one year carnivore. 216 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Yes. 217 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 On July 4th of all days. 218 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Yes. 219 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Because last year it's when we started our Ketivore journey. 220 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Yes. 221 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 And three weeks into it we shifted to full on carnivore. 222 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 So it's all the same thing. 223 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 But we thought well let's just deviate. 224 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Because usually when we go out of town we don't deviate from our eating. 225 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 No we're very committed. 226 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 But we decided it's been a year let's kind of celebrate. 227 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,000 And we were good until we decided to have Mexican food. 228 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Oh that was not good. 229 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 And I will never do that again. 230 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Not good. 231 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 That was a total reminder of why we're eating like this. 232 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000 We're doing it. 233 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 And what it did to my body in terms of how sluggish I felt. 234 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 How lethargic I felt. 235 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I just it was like a blanket. 236 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Yes. 237 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 A hot blanket got placed over me. 238 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,000 I felt even emotionally I felt down. 239 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,000 I was like this is not good. 240 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Well you just can't have gluten. 241 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 No. 242 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Not good. 243 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 I really do believe you have a gluten allergy. 244 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:26,000 And you know how you test that is by elimination. 245 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Right. 246 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Died elimination. 247 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Right. 248 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 And then you add things back in. 249 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 And as soon as we started adding that in. 250 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Boom. 251 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 You're sick. 252 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 I felt so good all year long. 253 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 We've only like every once in a while we'll have a piece of sourdough bread at a steakhouse 254 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,000 or something. 255 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Just to have something with butter on it. 256 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 But that's rare. 257 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Very rare. 258 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 And it doesn't ever bother me. 259 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:52,000 But this just eating a full on tamales enchiladas with rice and beans and chips. 260 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 I did the whole full meal deal. 261 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Oh man. 262 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 And then we got on the plane the next day. 263 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 But we said okay. 264 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 I chatted pretty good. 265 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000 I was alright. 266 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,000 We came back and said okay strict carnivore. 267 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 And we have been strict. 268 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Oh we've been hardcore since we got back. 269 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 And feel so much better. 270 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Oh my gosh. 271 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Literally I turned in like a day. 272 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 I know. 273 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Once we got right back on my body said oh thank you very much. 274 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,000 That's the beauty of this way of eating is you can just flip the switch. 275 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Go back and it doesn't take as long to recover. 276 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Almost instantaneous for me. 277 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 So I feel great. 278 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 We just had steak. 279 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 So it's in the evening. 280 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 We used to record earlier in the day. 281 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 But since we're here at the studio after hours. 282 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 We wanted to wait until everybody was gone. 283 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 So we could come up here. 284 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:43,000 But I'm going to change the subject because I want to go to Sunday and what happened on Sunday. 285 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Because you were supposed to preach your last sermon for the month. 286 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,000 And we're in a series called Beyond Red and Blue. 287 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:58,000 And last few weeks before you were scheduled to preach you said I want to bring you to the 288 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 studio. 289 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,000 And you said I want to bring Colby Wiltsie in and let him share a story. 290 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 And you brought him in. 291 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 And oh my gosh. 292 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,000 That was so eye opening. 293 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,000 I could hear audible just like what? 294 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:20,000 I mean like the things he accomplished but the things he found out that was going on in 295 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Corpus Christi which is actually going on in most towns here. 296 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 It's corruption. 297 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 It's corruption. 298 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 And he. 299 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,000 George Soros backed DA's and judges. 300 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000 And yeah. 301 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,000 I mean dark stuff. 302 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 But I didn't want to hear. 303 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,000 I knew you knew his whole story which is why you brought him in. 304 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 But I wanted to hear it from him. 305 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 And so you had just told me bits and pieces of one little story. 306 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 But he opened up with. 307 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000 He had many stories. 308 00:10:52,000 --> 00:11:01,000 And I was shocked at what one man can do when you put your mind to it and you say I'm going 309 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 to research. 310 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 We're going to uncover everything we can. 311 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:10,000 And he got on with an organization called Citizens Defending Freedom as a director. 312 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 And it's changed his life. 313 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 He started as a local director. 314 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Yes. 315 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 And then he's now the director over all the Texas chapters. 316 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 And these are all over Texas. 317 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 And Citizens Defending Freedom there. 318 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Their goal is to train equip people there. 319 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:33,000 They deal with election integrity corruption and really trying to return our state and 320 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 our nation back to its founding documents. 321 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 How we started this thing which is based on God's word. 322 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 It's faith based great organization. 323 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Highly recommend you check it out. 324 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 I actually have the interview. 325 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 So instead of doing a sermon. 326 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 I love the way you did it. 327 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000 He's not a preacher. 328 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 So I had this idea while we were in Colorado when you first invited him. 329 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,000 He thought he was going to have to preach and he's like I've never preached before he told Naomi services. 330 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 And so we kind of flipped it and decided to do interview style. 331 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 And that was wonderful. 332 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 It was like you were sitting there doing a podcast with them. 333 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,000 It was like and that's exactly what it was like. 334 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:17,000 And it came up because we were in Colorado and I was thinking about it. 335 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,000 And I just felt like I'm putting a lot of pressure on this guy. 336 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 He's never preached before in a pulpit per se. 337 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 And that's not fair. 338 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 So I thought his story is so good. 339 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:35,000 I want to set him up so he could really T way I put is I'm going to tease the ball up for you so you can really, really hit it. 340 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 And so we did it. 341 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 We did it podcast style. 342 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:45,000 You can see that you can go to bridge FBG dot com our website and just go scroll halfway down the page. 343 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 And it's right there or you can go to YouTube. 344 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000 We're on YouTube at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas. 345 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Make sure you put Texas on the end of that or you'll end up in Virginia. 346 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 It's definitely worth listening to. 347 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Yeah. 348 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 It's from June 30th. 349 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,000 It is worth listening to. 350 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I think the message part of it starts at about 45 minutes in. 351 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 So you can skip that front if you want to. 352 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Yeah. 353 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Skip the music and all that. 354 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Go right to that. 355 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Yeah. 356 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:18,000 So we were sitting on chairs and we both had microphones and I did a little intro just talking about salt and light. 357 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Jesus said you're the salt of the world. 358 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000 You're the salt. 359 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000 You know, you're salt and light. 360 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Light of the world, salt of the earth. 361 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,000 And we're to go in and be salt and light. 362 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,000 That's what we're called to do. 363 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:33,000 So I kicked it off with that and then I had him share his story and it was compelling. 364 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Oh, my God. 365 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Powerful. 366 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 So I also have that link on our newsletter. 367 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Oh, OK. 368 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:46,000 You can sign up for our newsletter by going to livingupandadownworld.com and it just says newsletter. 369 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,000 You just click on it. 370 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 Give us your email address. 371 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 We'll get these out to you. 372 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 And so the link is also there. 373 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,000 And I have a whole section on Colby and Sarah, his wife. 374 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Amazing young lady. 375 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Powerhouse in God. 376 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,000 You and her are like sisters from another mother. 377 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 I know. 378 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 It's crazy. 379 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 And me and Colby are like brothers from another mother. 380 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Although she could be my youngest daughter. 381 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 She's young. 382 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000 They're young. 383 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,000 But we just hit it off and we had such a great time just being with. 384 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,000 And I really think I believe he has more stories to tell. 385 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 And I would love to bring both of them back. 386 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Yes. 387 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:24,000 And her be able to share because I think she has a lot to say. 388 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Well, my idea of I mentioned this to them while they were here is for you and me and to be in chairs or on stools and them to be on stools. 389 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Everybody. 390 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Oh, I love that. 391 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:41,000 And we all have a conversation about what does it mean to say our family is going to get in the arena? 392 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Our family is going to engage culture because as children of God, as sons and daughters, our responsibility is to engage the culture and to take the gospel into the hard and heavy places as well as the easy places. 393 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 But it's being Christian isn't about being at church all the time. 394 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 It's about what are you doing Monday through Saturday? 395 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Exactly. 396 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,000 When you're out there at work where you live, work and play. 397 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:21,000 And so I think it'd be great because I think I want to hear her perspective on what was it like when your husband was didn't know he was being filmed ended up on the on the evening news that went viral and all these people started coming against him and lying about you. 398 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:29,000 How do you how do you as a as a wife getting a hold of his phone number and calling and harassing and just it was bad. 399 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 And he's they're young. 400 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:39,000 He didn't even tell this part, but he they had to get 24 hour protection for days and days because the threats from the gangs, the bandidos. 401 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 But it didn't stop him. 402 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,000 No, that's what I love. 403 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Stop it all persevered through the persecution. 404 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Yeah, but he did what he and all of us are called to do. 405 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 And that's bring the gospel. 406 00:15:51,000 --> 00:16:05,000 And they came out victorious on the other side, not only spiritually, but practically in real world terms where the D.A. that was crooked and running cartels out of his office had he resigned under pressure. 407 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 And because they they outed him with all the stuff he was doing illegally. 408 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:21,000 And the beautiful part of that story, a part of it is, is that the general who was a part of the cartels, he went to church and he ended up going to a church where a Liberty pastor was preaching. 409 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:34,000 We say Liberty pastor, we mean a patriotic pastor talks about America and he got radically saved and started going back to the groups, his lieutenants and sharing Jesus and sharing his testimony. 410 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:41,000 And they started getting revival broke out among the cartels and the gangs there in Corpus Christi. 411 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 I think he's snoring. 412 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,000 I was going, are you snorting? 413 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 I think they give him drugs when they give him a haircut. 414 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000 I'm pretty sure. 415 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 I wish they'd give me drugs when I got a haircut. 416 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 So you don't have to endure. 417 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Don't be so anxious. 418 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:01,000 But the thing is, is, you know, he he is willing to get out there. 419 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,000 He was not, he wasn't a politician. 420 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,000 He wasn't in city government at all. 421 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,000 He was not a pastor. 422 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Still isn't, but I think he is, but he's not. 423 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 He's got it. 424 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,000 He doesn't have the title. 425 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 He was just an oil and gas person. 426 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Engineer. 427 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Engineer. 428 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,000 And God called him out of that. 429 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:36,000 And he heard about this ministry, Citizens Defending Freedom, and decided to apply for it and said, God, I don't even know what to do. 430 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 I don't know. 431 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 This year, this is all going to be you. 432 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,000 And God has just radically changed Corpus Christi. 433 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,000 And he's just ran with it. 434 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,000 They got the school board flipped with Christian and godly people on there. 435 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000 A majority of Christians on there. 436 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,000 They got majority Christians on the city council. 437 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 And then there's another council, the library council. 438 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:04,000 I mean, every all of the power centers of the community now have godly people in there making decisions and writing policy. 439 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 I know I was like, wow. 440 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:13,000 But what he did, he gave us a blueprint and offered to help us in our own community. 441 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 And that's what they do. 442 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,000 That's that's what his job is, is to help others do this. 443 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:30,000 And even even on the legal side of things, they have attorneys on retainer that if you ever have to deal with threats from the ACLU and others that would that would try to threaten you. 444 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 They they've got your back. 445 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,000 They've got your back. 446 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 So anyway, it's good news. 447 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:47,000 It's like, you know, it's been a really kind of a good week legally for like, obviously, with what happened with Trump and then the beginning of the week with the or or last week with the debacle of a debate. 448 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 That was embarrassing. 449 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,000 Yeah, which we didn't watch because we were on a plane. 450 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Yeah, I couldn't have I could have watched it anyway. 451 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Either way. 452 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,000 And yeah, sad. 453 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,000 It's tragic, actually. 454 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,000 You know, I was reading a quote by Ronald Reagan. 455 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Can I share this? 456 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:16,000 And the reason I want to say it is because, you know, Ronald Reagan was kind of the last great statesman that as a as a president, he carried himself presidentially. 457 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 And so listen to this. 458 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 This is from Ronald Reagan. 459 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:32,000 He says, Of the many influences that have shaped the United States of America into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible. 460 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:45,000 The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the founding fathers abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual rights, which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings. 461 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. 462 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,000 President Ronald Reagan, 40th president United States. 463 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 What a statement. 464 00:19:54,000 --> 00:20:02,000 And what I love about President Reagan, you know, he he held the Bible in high regard and high esteem, and he often touted its value and virtue. 465 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 And he was the last president to really. 466 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,000 He really was. 467 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:13,000 He really was with such esteem and to have such a there was a dignity about him. 468 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Whenever I even go back and you can go on YouTube and watch watch him. 469 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,000 And whenever I see a speech by him, I feel comforted. 470 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,000 I feel safe. 471 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,000 I feel like this is a man who's in control. 472 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:36,000 And when I mean that in the right way and in a healthy way, who is secure and who he is and who is God is and God give us more Ronald Reagan's. 473 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 I mean, we need it. 474 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000 And and I'm not knocking on Trump or even Biden either. 475 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:47,000 I mean, it's just we're in a different season of our nation and our world. 476 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000 And we we need I'm not going to say we need a hero. 477 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,000 We just need a man of God to step up and lead. 478 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:59,000 And anyway, I'm hoping I'm hoping God sends that person. 479 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:04,000 And in the meantime, I love what Rick Green says about voting. 480 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:10,000 He says, if you wait to vote until a perfect person is in office, you'll never vote. 481 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,000 And until Jesus is on the ballot, you're going to be stuck with the lesser two evils. 482 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,000 So get out and vote. 483 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Whatever you do, don't not vote. 484 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Get out there and participate in the process. 485 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Even if you think it's rigged, even if you don't trust the system, get out there because the numbers do matter. 486 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:33,000 The law of averages can overwhelm if the body of Christ got out and voted. 487 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:39,000 We could literally vote any president and we want if we would get together on the same page. 488 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,000 But again, the enemy's chaos is the weapon. 489 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:52,000 It's just as important to vote locally, though, because we can't change what's happening in big government. 490 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 We can in our cities. 491 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:03,000 And that's really important to get to know who the candidates are and what they stand for and what their record is for what they stand for. 492 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:14,000 And not just say, you know, with their mouth what they believe, but are they actually proving that out in what they've done in the past? 493 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,000 And I think that's really, really important for us to get involved locally. 494 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,000 There's a website called I voter. 495 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 I voter dot voter guide dot com. 496 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000 I just looked it up because I just read about it. 497 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,000 And it it's how to find out what people are voting for. 498 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:39,000 It's voter guidelines assigned to regions and areas so you can find out what's being voted on in your area, your region, your representatives. 499 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,000 And another thing today, I set up an email. 500 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 I'm going to write my representative again. 501 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 I'm going to make it a habit to write my chip. 502 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Chip Roy. Yeah, I'm going to write him again. 503 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Last time I wrote him, it was about the border issue. 504 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:59,000 I was I hadn't decided which direction I'm going to go with it, but I want to encourage him and what he's doing because he's strong. 505 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 He's he's he's going after some stuff. 506 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,000 And so I want to encourage it. 507 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:07,000 It's more encouraging him and cheering him on than it is, you know, saying I need you to do this or whatever. 508 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 I'm just writing to say, keep running the race. 509 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Stay the course. 510 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 And we need to write our representatives. 511 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 We need to they need to know our names. 512 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:19,000 They need to they need to know who we are because we're the ones who put them in office. 513 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,000 And once they're in office, they need to hear from us. 514 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 And it does matter. 515 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,000 It absolutely matters. 516 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,000 So just encourage you to engage at that level. 517 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:32,000 But yeah, thank you for bringing up Colby, Colby, Wiltsie, Sarah, his wife. 518 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 We had a great weekend with them. 519 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Great people. 520 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,000 And so in love with Jesus, they are they are full on. 521 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:44,000 You know, I think, you know, as we were driving to church on Sunday morning, I made a comment. 522 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:54,000 I was little, you know, Laurie McClellan, who is our administrator right now, she lost her father last week suddenly. 523 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,000 And it was devastating to her and her family. 524 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:04,000 And so all week, I just had this heaviness on my heart for them. 525 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:13,000 And so as we were coming into Sunday and I knew what Colby was speaking, I was like, I don't want to forget that there are still people out there hurting 526 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:25,000 and that not everything is about what's going on with culture, but what what's happening in culture is affecting every area of everybody's life right now. 527 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:32,000 And but I but I was I was a little bit concerned and I thought, I hope this it doesn't go too far. 528 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:39,000 And it doesn't feel like we had church, that it's very politically charged and not godly. 529 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:46,000 And oh, my gosh, he so surprised me with the word that came out of his mouth, the scriptures, the Bible. 530 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:58,000 He preached. It was as if I was listening to a very seasoned preacher up there just talking about his testimony of how he was able to get things changed 531 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000 around to what God wants in government. 532 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,000 But it was so moving for me. 533 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,000 So when I left, I was like, God, you had this plan the whole time. 534 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Here I am kind of worried, like like Martha, you know, make it sure everything is done. 535 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:24,000 And I'm, you know, running around around the house, just checking on everything else and forgetting that Jesus is still on the throne 536 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000 and that no matter what, he's going to be high and lifted up in church. 537 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:43,000 He was high and lifted up, if anything, it was more so than just a sermon because he gave true facts and testimony of what he did and what we can do and how I, you know, 538 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:48,000 I think the hardest thing is, is watching people come to church. 539 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 I'm not I'm going to make a broad statement. 540 00:25:50,000 --> 00:26:01,000 This isn't just our church because we have such an amazing church, but broad statement that we have so many people come to church and then on Monday, they live a different life. 541 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:07,000 They go into the office. They might get in on course jesting, joking. 542 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:16,000 They might get in on the just worldly things that are not pleasing to God. 543 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,000 And that is not what God wants. 544 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:31,000 He wants us to live a life for him and turn this world around to where we're walking in holiness and godliness and not having these compartmentalized lives. 545 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:43,000 And I felt like he just the way he brought the word, it was so it was moving because he's doing what what has been in my heart. 546 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:55,000 And I want to see the church as as a as a whole literally walking out what we're supposed to be doing in this world. 547 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,000 We're not of this world. We're in it, but we're not to be of this world. 548 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:07,000 And that's why we can't go along with the way the world, the way the media, the way Hollywood, 549 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:21,000 the way the politicians are telling us to to act in this world and to watch in this world and to to where in this world and to just respond to the world. 550 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:27,000 We're supposed to be salt and light. It's like you said, that's who we're supposed to be. 551 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:33,000 We're supposed to be the ones that people look up to because we're standing up for something bigger. 552 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:39,000 And Colby, he he just what do you say? He hit it out of the park. 553 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Is that what you're saying? Yes, knock it out of the park. It's a grand slam. It was beautiful. 554 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,000 It was totally the gospel. Totally. We encourage you to go listen to it. 555 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:55,000 You can watch it again on YouTube. Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas. 556 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:02,000 You can do that on YouTube and you'll go right to it. Start about 45 minutes in where I introduce and we just sit down on chairs, both of us. 557 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,000 We're having a conversation in front of the church and I just kept teeing it up for him to. 558 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:12,000 It's literally like watching a podcast. Yeah, yeah, it is. YouTube podcast on a church platform. 559 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 But it was so powerful. We'll have Colby and Sarah back because we have more to talk about. 560 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:30,000 And there are more stories to share. But go and listen to their God story of how God through them and using him turned a city around a city of three hundred thousand plus people around. 561 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,000 It's a border town. It's down on the coast, almost a border town right in close to the valley. 562 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:41,000 And there's some hard things going on down there because of the of our open borders right now. 563 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:48,000 A lot of crime and drugs and drug trafficking and sex trafficking. And they're shutting this stuff down. 564 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:53,000 Well, let me say it this way. God's doing it through them. He's using them. And that's all he wants. He wants us. 565 00:28:53,000 --> 00:29:03,000 And what Colby's saying is that you don't have to be a preacher or a theologian. You don't have to be a politician or law enforcement or first responder or military. 566 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Just suit up and show up. That was really what his message was. Yes, it really was. Suit up and show up. 567 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,000 And it may be that you're just there to pray. Exactly. And not even out loud. 568 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:18,000 It may be you're just your presence because you carry the presence of Jesus Christ in you. 569 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:24,000 You're a believer. Your presence needs to be there and you're praying under your breath at the city council meeting. 570 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000 You're talking about a city council meeting or school board or shack meeting. Yes. 571 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000 And we're going to be going into that starting in August and September. 572 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000 You and I are going to start attending some of these meetings on a regular basis. 573 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:39,000 And our primary goal is not to go there and be belligerent. No, we don't want to be combative. 574 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:44,000 That's not us. We're not there to cause chaos. We're there to bring peace. 575 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:49,000 So we're going to go in and probably long before we say anything, although you know how God works, 576 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,000 we're going to be there. We represent nearly 800 to 1,000 voters here in our city. 577 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,000 That's a lot of voters, especially in a city our size. 578 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,000 As we go in there we're going to be lacing the atmosphere with prayer. 579 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,000 That's my goal is to go intercede. And if anything happens out of that, great. 580 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,000 But really our presence is there to pray. Yes, because if God tells you to open up your mouth, you will. 581 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,000 I will. But that's not the whole purpose. 582 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000 And it's representing. We're representing Christ wherever we go. 583 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,000 The scripture says that we are his ambassadors as though he were pleading through us. 584 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,000 And so when we show up, Jesus shows up. And so that's what we're going to do. 585 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000 We're going to bring the presence of God. We're encouraging. 586 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:36,000 And that's really why I brought Colby in, why I brought Rick Green in from the Patriot Academy and Brad Stein, God's comic. 587 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:46,000 The reason I brought all these people in was because they're mobilizing the church to go into their community and be salt and light. 588 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:51,000 In other words, taking the gospel into a practical world way. 589 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,000 Because a lot of people are so spiritually minded they don't do anything. They're just spiritual. 590 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000 They just go from one revival meeting to another. 591 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,000 A conference or whatever. But they're not affecting their community. 592 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:10,000 Yeah, there's no real world impact. If we're just impacting each other and it's like playing badmitting with one another. 593 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:15,000 We're just hitting the thing over the net back and forth. 594 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:22,000 And when we're supposed to be out in the world being salt and light, Jesus said, go there for and make disciples of all the nations. 595 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:28,000 We're woefully behind on that because we have capitulated and we've stepped away from the public square. 596 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,000 So that our voice is now marginalized and we're not saying anything. 597 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:38,000 So it's time to reactivate, step back up to the plate, suit up, show up. 598 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,000 And then whatever God wants to do, He'll do. But He can't use you if you're not there. 599 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,000 It's like Isaiah 6, here am I, send me. 600 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000 And that's one of my favorite passages right there. 601 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,000 That is what God wants. He just wants us to be willing and obedient. 602 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 He said, if you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land. 603 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:02,000 And that's what He wants. He didn't make us robots to where we own. 604 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000 We have a will and we have a choice. 605 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:12,000 But Christians are, we're not using what God's given us to be a voice for Him. 606 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,000 And we need to be a voice for Christ. We have to be a voice for Christ. 607 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000 The greatest weapon we have is prayer. 608 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,000 When we pray in an atmosphere, it changes the atmosphere. 609 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000 You may not see the change. You may not see the shift. 610 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000 It's like being on an ocean and there's a doldrum that happens. 611 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000 You think, well, there's no current, there's no wind, 612 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000 but you don't even know it, but you're being moved along 613 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:38,000 because there's a current that you can't see under the water that's moving you along. 614 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000 And it's the same way when we pray in a meeting in a given environment, 615 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000 we may not see movement, but there is movement happening. 616 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000 That's why we walk by faith and not by sight. 617 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,000 And I want to encourage you, wherever you live, in whatever country you're in, 618 00:32:52,000 --> 00:33:03,000 you have to evaluate and estimate what is my role for being a change agent in my country 619 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,000 because there's so many different kinds of government styles. 620 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:12,000 This podcast goes all over the world, literally, into the East, into Asia, into Europe. 621 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000 It goes everywhere, South America. 622 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,000 And so it's not always just American here that we're talking about. 623 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:24,000 And anybody that has a pulse and a computer can see that the world is on fire. 624 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000 The world is burning right now. 625 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000 And we need believers. 626 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,000 We need those who love Jesus, filled with His Holy Spirit, 627 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:37,000 and are willing to get out in the arena, first of all, to pray. 628 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:44,000 Jesus, not Jesus, but through the prophet, we read in 2 Chronicles 7-14, 629 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:51,000 if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face 630 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:56,000 and turn from their wicked ways, turn from our wicked ways, He says, 631 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:01,000 I will hear from heaven, I will forgive your sin, and I will heal your land. 632 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,000 Can you imagine what could happen if the church really walked that verse out? 633 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,000 So we need to humble ourselves. We need to pray. We need to seek His face. 634 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,000 Why not do that in a city council meeting? 635 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000 Why not do that on a legislative floor in the balcony? 636 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:22,000 You can go to your state legislature, you can go to your state capitol during session 637 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,000 and sit in the balcony and pray and believe that your prayers 638 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,000 are actually shifting things down on that floor because they are. 639 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Well, and I think too, I think we lack courage. 640 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,000 You know what the Bible talks about, people that are cowards. 641 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:43,000 And we need to, if we don't have courage, then we need to pray for courage. 642 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,000 Absolutely. 643 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:51,000 The courage to be able to step out and to allow God to use us wherever He wants to use us. 644 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,000 And not everybody is supposed to go to city council or the school board. 645 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,000 Exactly, I agree. 646 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,000 But it may be just in their home. Act like a Christian in your home. 647 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:05,000 Can you imagine what would happen if we turned off the TV and acted like a Christian? 648 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:11,000 I'm not talking about any TV, but some of the shows that we watch like you and I did, 649 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,000 just act like a Christian, pray with your family. 650 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,000 Yeah, with just the attitude, I want to please God. 651 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000 I want to honor God. 652 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,000 I just want to honor Him with my behavior, with my decisions, 653 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:29,000 even the nuanced micro choices that we make all through the day. 654 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:34,000 You know, is what I'm doing honoring Him right now or is this just all about me? 655 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000 And that's just that. 656 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:43,000 But if we would do that, but now take that outside the church, take it outside of your house. 657 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000 What does that look like at the workplace? 658 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,000 What does it look like where you play, where you hobby, whatever your hobby may be? 659 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,000 We all have hobbies and stuff we like to do. 660 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:57,000 What would it look like if you carried the fruit of the Spirit into your hobby place? 661 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:03,000 Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, chillness, faithfulness, and self-control. 662 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,000 What would it look like if you showed up like that? 663 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000 I mean, what would it look like if you didn't get in on the gossip? 664 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000 If you just refused to gossip, you refused to bash other people. 665 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,000 And you say, you know what, I don't want to hear this and you walk away. 666 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Or are we afraid of being persecuted? 667 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,000 Yeah, so good Annette. 668 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,000 We can be change agents and difference makers right where we live. 669 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000 We don't have to go to Washington. 670 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000 You don't have to go to your nation's capital or your state capital. 671 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:34,000 You can go where you live, where your sphere of influence is. 672 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,000 And you can suit up and show up right there and make a difference. 673 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,000 Can I get an amen? 674 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,000 Amen. 675 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,000 That was good. 676 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,000 Hey, appreciate Adam Curry, our dear friend Adam. 677 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,000 He sent us a striper boost, so I got to do a striper boost. 678 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,000 And a PayPal. 679 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,000 And a PayPal, man. 680 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000 I mean, that's even more than that. 681 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,000 That's even better. 682 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,000 We appreciate you, Adam, just for loving on us and just always supporting us. 683 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Family, we operate on a value for value platform here. 684 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:08,000 And all that means is if what we're doing is adding value to you and helping you, 685 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000 well, you can add value back to us. 686 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000 You can do it through boosting us, through boostograms. 687 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000 You can do it through leaving a review on our website, seeing us an email, 688 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,000 just to let us know you're listening, you're out there and what we do matters. 689 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000 You are both shaking your heads at the same time. 690 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000 That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. 691 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,000 What, the dog in the... 692 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000 Yes. 693 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000 You were nodding at me and he was too. 694 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000 Thank you, Chevy, for affirming. 695 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,000 But anyway, that's value for value. 696 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000 So, I mean, value can be in a million different things. 697 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000 It's not just about money and resources. 698 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,000 It's about your gift of time or your gift of giving a word of encouragement. 699 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,000 How many times have I thought about or have you thought about it? 700 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000 I should encourage somebody and then you get busy and you forget to do it. 701 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000 And in your mind, you think you did it, but you never did. 702 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,000 You didn't release it to them, so it didn't show value to them. 703 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000 But anyway, those are just some ways that you can show value. 704 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000 Do sign up for our newsletter. 705 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:59,000 Go to livingupinadownworld.com and sign up for our newsletter. 706 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,000 We're well over 200 that get our newsletter now. 707 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,000 Every time we do a podcast, right before that, we send out that newsletter. 708 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,000 That way you know it's coming. 709 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000 And we always try to throw a bunch of pics and personal stuff. 710 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000 I put a ton of pictures in this one today from our little trip. 711 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,000 But anyway, hey, we love you guys and we love doing life with you guys. 712 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000 Do you have anything last minute? 713 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,000 Just what a pleasure it was to get to do our podcast today. 714 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000 It is. It's good to be back today. 715 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,000 Hey, you're beautiful. 716 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,000 I forgot to say at the beginning of the show, you're stunning. 717 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,000 Thank you. 718 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,000 You're welcome. 719 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000 And so are you, Shevi, because you're all gussied up. 720 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000 He's looking up at you. 721 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000 He's pretty. 722 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,000 What about me? He's actually prettier than I am today. 723 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000 Hey, folks, we love you. 724 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000 We want you to live up in a down world. 725 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,000 Go out there and make a difference. 726 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000 Suit up and show up. 727 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,000 God bless you. We love you.