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Yes, you can. But you ain't alone. I'm right here with you. I've been here all along. Welcome to the Christian Car Guy radio show.

I say this calls for action and now. Right here with you today on the Christian Car Guy show. Yeah, right here with you. And, you know, he's been here all along, Bob. I mean, I love that clip.

It's from the movie Bagger Vance or the Legend of Bagger Vance. And, well, there's a lot of story that goes into that. But if we only knew, right, that Jesus lives in eternity. So all time is with him. And he was there every moment of every single second that you've been on this earth. And so the question today really is, he's been right here with you. Sometimes we have eyes to see him.

Other times we don't. So when was your first Easter? In other words, after the resurrection, he appeared to Peter, and he appeared to James, his brother. But when did he appear to you?

Right? What was your appearance? Or, you know, your first one?

Or maybe even exciting. When was your last one? And so, you know, if you've got that, we would love to talk to you. That's the idea of the Christian Car Guy show is we love to hear your testimonies of when God did something in your life. 866-348-7884, 86634 truth, and that, you know, here with you is the song by Wells that you heard right after you heard Bagger Vance. So Bob, I know you've got a story, right? When was he right there with you? Well, brother, when you first asked me, I kind of drew a blank. And because I couldn't, you know, definitely say the first time. And then you mentioned that you had spoke last Sunday at a church in Asheboro, I believe you said.

Yeah. And I spoke last Sunday at our church, and I did the children's service. It's a short service, and I had no idea what I was going to talk about.

And it was just kind of laid on me to speak about a certain thing. And years ago, I was working at AT&T Second Shift, and they called us. It was snowing profusely that day, and they called us from work and said, you know, don't come to work today.

We're going to, you know, call off Second Shift for snow reasons. And so I went to this convenience store real close by and got some bread and this and that and a gallon of milk. And so we'd have stuff at the house there. And when I got back out to my truck, the seatbelt had slid down. It was an older Toyota truck, and the seatbelts would slide down behind the seat occasionally. And I was like, well, I'm just going right up here. I was less than, you know, a mile from the house.

So I didn't bother with getting the seatbelt out and sticking it back through the seat and headed home. And I didn't get very far. And a lady and a Chrysler New Yorker. And in the mid 80s, they were a good size vehicle. All of a sudden, I see her rear end come out into my lane, and she had lost control of her vehicle. And the passenger door hit me a square in the front end as you can possibly hit.

And here Bob has on no seatbelts. We hit so hard it busted the drinks I had in the vehicle. They were spraying all in the vehicle, busted a gallon of milk, knocked my boot off, cracked my kneecap, my head hit the windshield, it bent the steering wheel up five to six inches from the windshield. I mean, just split my chin up and cracked a kneecap. Just a pretty severe incident.

I mean, it was just right. But, you know, during that, I was just, you know, I was concerned about this and that and the other and having to direct traffic and it's all a really big blur. But, you know, it just, I didn't have my seatbelt on, and I would have been in much better shape if I had my seatbelt on. And last week, after I told them that story, you know, when God was obviously there to keep me from getting killed, I should have, you know, very easily could have died.

They were like, looking at me like, well, what's that got to do with Easter? I said, well, when Jesus hung on that cross and died, he became our seatbelts to protect us from our sins. And if we'll remember to, you know, click our seatbelts, our Jesus belts, every morning, we'll be protected from our sin.

We won't be protected from harm or this or that, but our souls will be protected from our sin. And it was just, you know, that is a Christian car guy solution to the Easter. You get to see folks out in the congregation. What's this got to do with Easter ball? I said, you may be sitting there thinking now, what does that got to do with Easter ball? I says, well, you know, my stories, they tend to come full circle.

It just takes me a while to get there. So what you're actually saying is, is you are preparing for the message in its own way, right? Jesus gave you that insight about the seatbelt, right?

About the seatbelt. And that's what he does, man. He gives you these unbelievable pictures of how your story fits into his story and how cool, you know, that I'm never ever going to forget that story.

So I need to tell you also that you can call in with your story, 866-348-7884. And coming up in the last segment of today's show, we've got the 27th episode of a Plymouth Progress and how fun because Edsel Evangelist is going to come share with Faithful and Plymouth Valiant about what's going to happen in Vanity Fair. In other words, he's going to give them a prophecy and it ain't going to be pretty. And so that's coming up in the last segment of today's show. And I'm sure you've wondered all along, you know, Robbie, what is this show brought to you? I know there's supposed to be a Hebrew letter.

Well, you know, I just wanted to get Bob's story out there early because that was just too good. So today's Christian Car Guys show is brought to you by the Hebrew letter Shin. And I don't know if you've ever thought about that letter much, but it looks like fire. But it's the second letter in Jesus's name. So if you've heard the word, Yeshua, that sound is a shin. It's the same shin that's in the beginning of the word peace, shalom, or it's in the beginning of the word Sunday, or I mean Saturday, I guess Shabbat. That would be, you know, that whole idea of this unbelievable peace.

And it comes through a lot of purification. And so it's kind of neat that it's Jesus's second name. But here's the thing I want you to think about. And maybe if you want a fun Bible drill, if you go, Robbie gave me this and go do it, okay, whatever Bible app you use, and I prefer the Blue Letter Bible app, if you just put in third day, right, just type in third day and do a search of where all it's in the Bible that something happened on the third day, because you might remember that Jesus on the road to Emmaus, you know, he told the disciples, you know, that he had to be raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures. Well, see all what's happened on the third day prior to Jesus's resurrection, and all you have to do is type in third. Don't do it like me, I put in a three, an R-D, that didn't work. You have to type it out. It shows how ignorant I am.

No abbreviations, huh? It has to be T-H-I-R-D day. And one of the most spectacular to me is, you know, that it was the third day that God appeared to the Jews at Mount Sinai. They had told them to get ready because on the third day God's going to show up. Well, just saying, it's a hint of what's going to happen.

And so, you know, very fun. I've got a really cool story coming up in the next segment, but none of those stories compare if you don't share yours, so you call us, 866-348-7884 is the number to call in. And give us your Easter appearance. Maybe it was your first one, maybe it was the one that just happened this week. You know, whatever it was, we would love to hear it. Because again, as people hear your story, just like you heard Bob's story of Jesus, the seatbelt.

As only heard on the Christian Car Gasha. You know, so many people could be encouraged by yours. And so we would love to hear it.

866-348-7884. Well, we got a break coming. And when we come back, oh, we got a story for you.

Oh, we got a story for you coming from Kentucky. So stay tuned. A whole lot more coming at you. This is the Truth Network. I can't.

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I've been here all alone. We're right here with you today on the Christian Car Guys show. The idea being, you know, when was your Easter? When did Jesus appear to you? Or when was He right there with you? And you were able to recognize that. Well, very, very fun. A couple, three weeks ago, we had a boot camp.

You know, those who know me well know that I do that with Masculine Journey. And we had a boot camp. And I got a chance for the first time ever, Bob, to baptize somebody right in the lake. And actually, I happen to have, his name is Robthe, and his sister, whose name is Stephanie Seaton, is actually on the phone with me right now. So welcome, Stephanie. Hello. How fun to have you on the show today. Well, thank you for having me. Well, your husband Joshua relayed a story to me at the campfire that night at the boot camp that is one of the most incredible things I've heard.

I've heard a lot of neat stuff that God's done, but your story is so spectacular of when God was right there with you, and you got to see it. But there's a couple pieces to this story. One of them was when you were really young, and you were driving a, was it a Rhino?

Tell me a little bit about that. Yeah, so it's called a Rhino. It's an ATV. It's like a side-by-side, like a four-wheeler, but side-by-side.

Right. So we were down Lake Cumberland, and this is in 2012. And there was a, like a log or rock sticking out into the road. Well, by the time that I was able to steer around it, the back tire got caught on the rock and flipped us. So whenever it flipped, the ATV completely threw me out of it, and it landed directly on my pelvis.

And, you know, when that happened, I didn't feel any pain. I just knew that I was on the ground, and I needed to get myself up, because I figured, oh, we just wrecked. And I looked around, and I didn't see Josh anywhere.

So, who's my husband? And so I just was trying to push myself up, and then I saw Josh, and he said, don't move. Don't move.

Just stay right there. And I remember him kneeling down next to me, and he was praying. Well, then I kind of went out. I didn't know, like, what happened after that. The next thing I remember, I was laying on my back, and there was, you know, ambulance, and my dad was there, and he was just looking over me. And they were putting, like, a neck brace on me, and they were air carrying me.

So I remember getting in the airplane, or getting in the helicopter. Stephanie, I just wanted to ask you, because there's a bit of an echo. Do you happen to have a radio on, or is your phone on speaker?

No to both. Okay, well, no worries. You're sounding great. Keep going. So they were going to airlift you, like, whoa.

Okay, go ahead. Yes, so I remember being in the helicopter, and I looked out of the doors, but I couldn't turn my neck too much, because of that neck brace. And I remember looking at my dad, and I was just like, Dad, I love you. And I said, you know, tell Josh that I love him. And I didn't know that Josh was right there, you know, listening.

And so, you know, that was going to be a really long trip for them, because they had to drive to UK, which is in Lexington. You know, they had to all drive together while I was being air cared there. So yeah, I mean, it was, I had no idea, but that was going to be the moment that changed my life forever. I knew that I was dying.

But I didn't, I didn't give in, you know, like, I remember just fighting to stay awake, fighting to stay conscious. And, but I, I was dying, I knew I was. So, you know, hearing like, what my dad and my mom and, you know, Josh all have to say, after the fact, so I was in a nine hour surgery. And they said that my pelvis was completely shattered. So it was so shattered that it had like, the bone fragments had lacerated through my bladder is lacerated through my urethra, my vaginal wall, it had, like when the bone fragments that were in my spine, my whole hip was, you know, completely like up into like my stomach area. It was, you know, it was just really bad. And they, you know, were telling the doctors and the doctors and nurses were telling my family, you know, we don't know if she's gonna make it.

Because it's just so bad. And there's two things I want to mention that I didn't mention about the actual scene of the accident. Josh, you know, I was laying under this big machine, he ran over, and he picked this machine completely off of me, and rolled it over the hill. So like, the strength that, you know, now I know, looking back that the Lord had given him in that moment, to get that, I mean, it had to have been a 2000 pound machine, you know, on top of me, he pulled it completely off of me, you know. So I know that the Lord was there.

He was there with us. And there was that. And the other thing is, they were already thinking that I wasn't going to make it before they even put me in the helicopter, because I had so much blood coming out of like my pelvis area. And so they figured that I had sliced open my aorta, which there's no way to, you know, stop that bleeding, so I would have just bled out. So now, fast forwarding, you know, to the healing, they were telling me that my pelvis was so shattered, it was, it was going to be like, I would never walk again. And I would never be able to hold a child in my pelvis because of how shattered it was. Now, whenever I came to, you know, I started to realize, you know, just how loved I was through all of the people praying for me, all of the people showing up, all of the cards, all of the gifts.

And I know that it was the Holy Spirit speaking through those people telling me it was love. Well, I hate to stop you again, Stephanie, but we got to go to a break. Okay. And so for those listening, let me just tell you, this is only one half of an absolutely phenomenal story of Jesus showing up, and you've got to hold on to your seatbelts on the second part of it. So we're going to have more from Stephanie and more from you if you'd like. Again, we've got one more segment coming. Christian Car Guy will be right back. This is the Truth Network. I can't.

Yes, you can. But you ain't alone. I'm right here with you. I've been here all alone. I'm right here with you today on The Christian Car Guy, and I've been right here with you all along. And we left our hero, Stephanie.

Wow. She was in the hospital with a horribly broken pelvis to the point that it looked like she wouldn't walk nor ever have children. And, wow, I know it was a long, long time on the road to recovery from that, right, Stephanie? Stephanie, are you still with me? Yes, I am. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah, we can now.

Yes. Yes, it was a long journey to recovery, but it all led me to our Savior Jesus. And, you know, whenever I was being told all that horrible news in my family is being told all that horrible news, you know, I knew that that wasn't the truth.

That's not the truth that the Lord had for me, because He kept whispering just such encouragement and love and grace, you know, to me that I was going to overcome this. And so it was after, you know, I got out of the hospital that I started going to church with Josh. You know, we met when we were 15. So, you know, he was my best friend. And so he started going to church with Josh and his family.

And, you know, we went every week. And I was, my whole intention was, you know what, God was with me. I want to know about God. And so that's why I went to church. And in 2012, I was baptized. I received Jesus as, you know, my Lord and Savior. And, you know, there was several years of, you know, sanctification that I was going through, you know, after that, you know, my life didn't just immediately change. But I welcome the Lord into my heart. And He, you know, has just done, just done a work in us. Josh and I, you know, we are now married.

We got married in 2017. And, like, I guess I should mention before, whenever they were telling me that I'd never walk, I knew I was going to walk. And I remember, you know, laying on my hospital bed down in the basement at my dad and step in my mom's house. And I got up, and I started walking to my dad. And I just remember, like, his eyes, excuse me, sorry, I'm trying not to get emotional. Oh, yeah, I can imagine. If I were your dad, I would just, my mind would be blown. And I know your dad, because he was at the boot camp too.

And he's somewhat of an emotional man. So I can imagine what he went through when he saw his daughter walking. And then, not terribly long, well, I guess, you know, from my standpoint, not terribly long, you know, you guys actually have children.

Yes, yes. So I taught myself how to walk with the Lord's guidance. And then in 2019, we conceived our daughter Grace. And we knew what her name was going to be, because it was by God's grace that we were able to have her.

And I held her, and she was, you know, healthy and perfect, and the pregnancy was perfect. And then three years later, we had our son Caleb. And so now we have our Grace, and we have our Caleb. And we are just so grateful. And we're so, just so grateful for the Lord's provisions in all of this, you know. Yeah, but as you talked about, there is that sanctification process that we all go through. And so you think, well, I gave my heart to Jesus. Life's going to be just, but it wasn't that way at all, because the second accident is the one that I really, just blows my mind what happened there, so. Yeah, so in 2015, so before the kids, before we were married, we were still living in sin, because we were living together, and we were not married.

But we were trying to fit God's truth into our little own box. And so we were up in the mountains of Pennsylvania this night, and we had, we were driving home. It was late at night.

It had to have been like 10 30. And we had missed the stop sign. I was driving. Josh was in the passenger seat, and there was a stop sign that we missed, and we had went flying over like an embankment, just this, like a really, you know, straight drop down. Like a mountain, right? Yeah, yes, it was like a mountain. I mean, it was just so steep.

And I remember, you know, us flipping, and I remember that sensation of the the tires sliding and then flipping. And then right whenever, you know, everything stopped moving, I pushed my... Do you know how many times the car flipped? So, you know, I wasn't counting, but it was, it was several.

I mean, I would say, I, you know, I really don't know. I mean, several times. I probably... At least four or five, probably, right? Four or five, maybe seven, you know, because we just kept going. And I just remember, boom, boom, boom, you know, as we were going. And so we were down at the bottom, you know, the car finally stopped moving. And I was just, you know, stunned with what just had happened.

And I remember pushing open my door, kind of like tumbling out of the car. And it was dark. It was raining. It was like, you couldn't see anything up in those mountains.

There's not much lighting at all. And I remember looking like down at the ground, and I was like, Oh my goodness, there's, there's feet. There's someone's feet there. And I, my eyes continued to be raised to a person. It was a man, but I did not notice the man's face.

I didn't notice the man's hands. I just saw his body and I heard his voice and he said, are you okay? And I said, yes, yes, I'm okay. And he said, let's get you to the top of the, you know, let's get you to the top. And, um, you know, I, I got Josh's hand and him and I were starting our way up this mountain with this man. And when we got to the top of the road, the ambulance was pulling in. I looked to my right to see that man and he was gone. He was no longer there.

And, you know, from that moment, the ambulance was, you know, getting our attention, getting us into the ambulance, you know, trying to make sure we were okay. And we never even were able to, nobody else was there with us, you know, but that man was there and I didn't know that. Let's clarify for our listeners, like, oh my goodness, this story, like you're in a, you go over this embankment really literally of almost a mountain and you go down to the bottom of this. So you're in the field that's in literally the middle of nowhere at like, it was late at night, like it was late at night, like 10, 30, 11 o'clock at night.

So here at the bottom of the hill, somehow miraculously, there's this man. And from what Josh told me, the roof of the car was down on the front seats. Like there was no place for you guys to even be in the car. No, no, there wasn't.

And we left without any bruises or we did have some bruises on like the like shoulders, but that was it. You know, we didn't have any cuts, any kind of sign that we were just... And so then there was this man, just happened to be at the bottom, just happened to be at the bottom of this mountain. In the rain. In the rain. Yeah, always in the rain.

And he walks here. And then did you guys call the ambulance or from my understanding? No. The ambulance was just miraculously there. Just there. And I'll tell you, you know, if you, you know, were familiar with this area, there's nothing up there. I mean, it's, there's nothing, it's black. It's, you know, it was in the middle of the night, it was raining actually a huge snowstorm was coming in. So that we didn't know about until later.

But so everyone was off the road. I mean, I don't even know how the ambulance got notified to be there and how they got there so quick. You know, I don't know.

I have no idea. Yeah, well, I think we do. I think we do. And so really cool from that, God got your attention. Yes, he did. He got our attention. He got our attention.

That's right. And, you know, we decided that our time in Pennsylvania, you know, that season that we were in, that whole learning experience that we were, why we were there, because we were living there at the time, we decided it's time to go home. And it's time to establish ourselves in the roots of Jesus and the truth of Jesus. And it's time to really start our life, you know, and start our ministry together. Wow, I hate we're almost out of time, but there's one little other piece of this. We only got one minute left. And unfortunately, however, we have a Christian car guy theater episode coming up.

So we just got a few more, you know, a little short time to go. But then, was it your brother? Somebody said that they were in a Bible study or something. And they said that you guys had seen an angel that didn't even know you.

Listen, oh my goodness, it was my sister-in-law, so Josh's sister. She was in Meyer, and she was shopping, just going about her business. And some random person she's never seen in her life comes up and is like, hey, you know, just like acting like he knows her. And she's like, you know, hello. And he said, hey, you know, I know a lot about you. And he said something on the lines of, you have a, wasn't someone really close to you in some kind of car accident? And they saw an angel that night. And she just turned around like, who are you?

What are you talking about? And it wasn't until later that night, she knew, oh my goodness, that was, you know, confirmation that they saw an angel that night. Well, Stephanie, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you sharing this a powerful, powerful message and appreciate Josh. And I certainly appreciate your brother, Rob, who I got a chance to baptize myself. It's so wonderful what God has done in your family as a result of all this work.

So thank you for being faithful right now. Coming up, Christian Car Guy Theater. Now when Plymouth Valiant and Fury Faithful had almost passed through the wilderness, Faithful chance to look back and saw one driving after them. And he knew who it was. Oh, look, who comes yonder? It is my good friend Edsel Evangelist.

Aye. Yes, and my good friend too. For it was he who sent me on my way to the gate.

Now was Edsel Evangelist come up to them and he honked. Peace be with you dearly, beloved. And peace be to your helpers.

Welcome. Welcome, my good Edsel Evangelist. Seeing you again brings to mind all your past kindness and your faithful labor done for our eternal good. And a thousand times welcome, oh sweet evangelist.

You have no idea how desirable your company is to us poor Plymouth's. How has it fared with you, my friends, since the time of our last parting? What have you met with? And how have you behaved yourselves? Then Valiant and Faithful told him of all the things that had happened to them in the way.

And how with what difficulty they arrived at this place. I am glad. Not that you have met with trials, but that you have been victors.

And for that, you have, despite your many weaknesses, continued in the way to this very day. I say, right glad am I of this thing, and for mine own sake and yours. I have sowed and you have reaped. And the day is coming when both he that sowed and they that reaped shall rejoice together.

That is, if you have not, that is, if you hold out. For in due season you shall reap if you faint not. The crown is before you, and it is an incorruptible one.

So run that you may obtain it. Some there be that set out for this crown, and after they have gone far for it, another comes in and takes it from them. Hold fast, therefore, to what you have.

Let no sedan take your crown. You are not yet out of the gunshot of the devil. You have not resisted onto death in your striving against sin. Let the kingdom of God always be before you and behave steadfastly concerning things that are invisible. Let nothing that is on this side of the other world get within you. And above all, look well to your own hearts and to the lusts thereof.

Set your faces like a flint. You have all the power in heaven and earth on your side. Well, thank you, Edsel. Let us speak further of our help the rest of the way, for we know you are a prophet and can tell us of things that might happen, and also how we may resist and overcome them.

Yes, dear Edsel, do tell us. My sons, you have heard in the words of the truth of the gospel that you must, through many tribulations, enter the kingdom of heaven, and again that in every city bonds and afflictions await you, and therefore you cannot expect that you should go long on your Plymouthage journey without bonds and afflictions in some sort or other. You have discovered the truth of these testimonies in the struggles you have already endured, and more will immediately follow.

For now, as you see, you are almost out of this wilderness. And we'll very soon see the town you will enter next on your journey. In that town, you will be set upon by enemies who will be determined to kill you and who will succeed. You can be sure that one or both of you must seal his testimony with blood. So be faithful unto death, and the king will give you a crown of life.

The one who dies there, although his death will be unnatural and perhaps very painful, will be better off than his companion, not only because he will arrive at the celestial city sooner, but also because he will escape many of the miseries that the other will meet with on the rest of his journey. So when you come to the town and this happens to you, fulfilling what I have told you, then remember me and the things that I have spoken to you about. What is the name of this town, Edsel? The name of that town is Vanity, and in the town there is a year-round market called Vanity Fair. It bears its name because the town that hosts the fair is only concerned with things that are unimportant and vain. All that is bought and sold at the fair is likewise vain and worthless.

What was the origin of it, Edsel? This fair is no newly erected business, but a thing of ancient standing. Almost five thousand years ago, there were Plymouths driving to the celestial city as you two are. Then Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion with their companions, perceiving by the road that the Plymouths made that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, so they conspired to set up a fair. A fair wherein should be sold all sorts of Vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore, at this fair are all such vain merchandise sold all year long, such as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, performance, titles, kingdoms, countries, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as prostitutes, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and whatnot.

And moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen juggling, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind. Tune in soon for the next exciting adventure in the Plymouths, Progress. Now here's Danny Dipstick and Randy Radiator to review today's episode. Randy, I remember going to the fair and passing out on the Ferris wheel.

They told me it was gonna be a long time before I came around. Yeah, Danny. No wonder, Danny. You were worried about getting that tattoo of a Ferris wheel on your arm, and you would have been fair skinned. See what I did there?

You got a tattoo at the fair. Oh boy. But seriously, Danny, it sounds like valiant and faithful are headed into a life and death situation. I wonder if I would follow Christ to my death. That takes a whole heart set on God alone. Oh boy.

And it would appear that the previous tests they endured were to get their hearts right for this one. You know, Danny, I think you passed out on the Ferris wheel because you had five deep fried Twinkies. Oh boy.

That's what I have all the time when I go to the fair. Say goodbye, Danny. See you later, Radiator. I can't thank you enough for joining us today on The Christian Car Guy Show.

How fun is that? Christian Car Guy Theater. You can find out all about it at the cast and crew page at christiancarguy.com. And I would point out that it's just a spectacular performance by Alan Johnson in today's episode as he played most faithful and Edsel Evangelist. So how cool is that? As well as Jesse Cordy, always amazing, and Brian Havik as Randy Radiator. You can also find out all about the Jesus labor love at christiancarguy.com. Now remember, slow down. Jesus walked everywhere he went, did it all in 33 years, and now he's right here with you. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com.