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Now, the Devil's Nightmare. Welcome back to another episode of It's Time to Man Up. Well, if there was a man that epitomizes success, it's the man that sits before me today. I'm talking about the host of the Christian Car Guy and Masculine Journey. That airs on Truth Radio around the world at 10 a.m. to 12 noon Eastern each Saturday. Produces a variety of other shows on the Truth Network. A pastor runs a boot camp, serves at man camp, is a husband, a father, and a grandfather.

But most important, he's a man of God and a lover of Jesus. Of course, if you hadn't figured it out by now, I'm talking about the one and only, one and only, excuse me, Robbie Dilmore. Robbie, great to have you on the Man Up show today.

Oh, it's obvious. It's one of my favorite things to do. Spend more time with you. Well, you know, and a lot of times, and I appreciate you coming aboard today. You know, a lot of times we co-host, we've co-hosted a number of shows and had a wonderful time doing that. But I just felt prompted in my heart, not for you to co-host, but just for me to interview you, for you just to be on the Man Up show and be interviewed. What an honor, but I don't get any questions like how many times.

Our holiday specials, you know. I can't guarantee that because usually if you're not familiar with the shows that Robbie and I have co-hosted on the Man Up show before, and I've been a guest on his show, on The Christian Car Guy, and I think Masculine Journey as well. And so yeah, I'm a history guy, I'm a researcher, so a lot of times I try to throw a little curve ball at Robbie and ask him a question that he may or may not know the answer to.

But no, today I just felt glad. I'm like, let's just talk, let's just have a conversation and let's just first talk about how long you've been with Truth Radio Network. Are you the longest standing employee since Stu Epperson, the founder, launched this thing many years ago? Well Anita Dean is technically the longest standing employee.

She is on the light, not necessarily on the truth, but from a truth broadcasting standpoint, she would be the oldest employee. But as far as a quote unquote truth employee, I would suppose I am, but I actually go back to the founding of the Truth Network and that Stu was one of my best friends for many years prior to him starting the Truth Network. And actually when he had the idea to have a teaching and talk station in Winston-Salem, he came to me. I was one of the original sponsors because the dealership I owned at the time, you know, we sponsored the Truth Network and sponsored my pastor, Dr. Mark Quartz, with a show called Share Life that still airs to this day. And he's been with the Lord for probably 15, 20 years.

Wow. Well, because messages can be timeless, right? Reverend Billy Graham. You can watch a message of Reverend Graham's from 1959 and it'd still be relevant because it's the word of God, right?

So it can still be relevant today. Oh, he is and it is and it's a beautiful medium. I'm so honored that I get to be part of it. But yes, I've been part of Truth Network since it was Truth Network. Well, and speaking of one of the first sponsors, I know we were at lunch recently and I think you had said, which speaks to, I guess the word loyalty comes to mind. You know, you said you've known Stu Epperson long before he ever even launched Truth Radio Network and he approached you to be one of the first sponsors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but like you advertised on the network for like seven years and you mentioned being in car sales and of course you were promoting your car lot, but if I'm not mistaken, you never had one sale, but it never prevented you from monthly playing your advertisement and supporting the show, right?

Am I correct? Yeah, I supported the Truth Network across the whole network from the day it went on the air in 1998 and yeah, I was more than proud to do that because I felt like, man, this thing is getting the Bible out and you know that the word of God doesn't come back void and so, you know, if that's going out, what better could you invest in? So that always seemed wonderful to me, but it is true that I never sold a car and then one day, obviously, not obviously, but in 2006 when God called me to do the Christian Car Guy show, which is quite a story in all of itself, but when that happened, you know, I told Stu I wanted to drop all my advertising. I didn't want to anymore do that because I thought it would be a conflict of interest because I wanted my show to be holy to help people, you know, with their cars and those kind of things and fascinatingly, as soon as I started doing the Christian Car Guy show in 2006, see, we all went on the air in 98, they went on the air, but in 2006, within two weeks of me doing the show, I started selling three cars a week, but without mentioning once, West Side Chrysler Dodge Jeep or the fact that I sold cars or anything like that, it was just God's way of winking at me, but also to show me, you know, the power of what he was doing. Well, and here's my takeaway on that and for those of you out there in Listening Land, so you were sowing, sowing, sowing, sowing, sowing all those years and the Bible says, you know, some people say, well, you reap what you sow. I had a mentor by the name of Jim Rohn who used to always say, that's not true, you actually reap more than you sow.

You might sow one apple seed, but you're not just going to get one apple in return, you're going to get who knows how many apples full of seeds, right? So the point there being the fact that you then began to sell two or three cars a week, in my mind, Robbie, is like, yeah, you said the Lord winking at you, but also you, again, being faithful to invest in Stu's vision, which you said this at lunchtime too, and for those out there listening, hey, we're always, by the way, just a little side note, you know, if you're a business owner or you just have a desire to want to sponsor a show, whether it's Christian Car Guy, The Masculine Journey, The Man Up Show, hello, and be a sponsor, advertiser of your business, here's the key thing you said, my key takeaway from what you said at lunch that day, that the people who typically come aboard, really they come aboard not so much, obviously we're going to promote their product or promote their service, and so that message is going to get out there, but more importantly, you said they really kind of buy into your vision or Truth Network's vision and passion, and want to get the word of God out there, and get God's message out there, that in one sense, overshadows whatever payback or return on investment they may get, is that accurate, fair to say? It's so cool, Nikit, it really is, and I never would have guessed, you know, what I invested then I've taken back, gotten back, you name it, any way you want to measure it, oh my gosh, what God has blessed me with, I have sown the wind and I have reaped a whirlwind of blessing, I mean seriously, but just a couple stories that I think really illustrate it is, you know, just recently, okay, we had a listener that contacted the network, was struggling, had stage four lymphoma, and needed prayer and that kind of thing, and Michael said, well it sounds like he needs a pastor, Robbie, why don't you contact him, you know, and so I started texting him, honestly he didn't answer my texts, tried calling him, he didn't answer my calls, but you know, about three weeks later I get a text, like man, I'm sorry I didn't respond, but you know, I love the network, I'm so thankful that you contacted me and I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate that you take the time to love on me and it really means a lot, and you know, it was a nice little text, so I tried calling him again, didn't answer, tried texting him again, no response, and I thought well, okay, you know, God, whatever you're doing, well, about a week ago, two weeks ago, Wednesday night, I'm trying to pick up the youth and I'm about lost out in the Randolph County, you know, when the boondocks try to find the kids, and all of a sudden I get a text from this listener and says, man, God has put it on my heart, I have to be baptized, I desperately need to be baptized, how much does it cost? Wow. And I said, well you're in luck, buddy, I said this Sunday, all you can dunk for free.

I love it. I said if you're willing to drive to Ashboro, buddy, I said we're going to have a baptism just for you. And so I set it up for, you know, our service is at 11 o'clock, I was going to do the baptism right at the very beginning, I said please, please, please, and you being a Lombardi guy kind of time, you would understand, I said you've got to show up 15 minutes early, because I got to, you know, talk to you about your testimony, and I got to go through some things with you to make sure you had to do it, and all that, you know, please, if you want to make 1030, that would be even better. Well, you know, Sunday morning, in your past, in your mind, you're trying to organize this service, and 1030 comes, he's not there, 1045 comes, he's not there, 10 minutes, you know, 5 minutes, 11 o'clock, he's not there. I text him, I'm like, are you coming?

On your way. And all of a sudden I get this, and our address is on Urari Street in Ashboro, 831 Urari Street, and he says, Robbie, I'm in the Urari National Park, which is a long way. He said, it says I'm 30 minutes away, and I'm thinking, if you're in the Urari National Forest, man, dude, you're for like 20 minutes, I said, but you come on, you are going down when you get here, buddy.

Yeah, right. So I asked one of our ushers out there, I said, do you wait? I said, well, he gets here, because he's going to be worried to come in that late. I said, do you welcome him? Usher him right in. I don't care when, what, he's coming in. So man, sure enough, I'm finishing up the sermon, and I'm like, man, what am I going to do? And here he comes.

Wow. Here he comes, and it's a beautiful thing to show. I'm just thinking the courage, this guy's never, he doesn't know me.

He's never seen me face to face. He does nothing, no, this congregation at all. Really, obviously, you know, new to the church experience based on the fact he was wondering how much it costs, and he had the courage to walk in there. Okay, so, but I had told my wife, I said, knowing my church, if I say there's a baptism, I said, as soon as I go back towards a baptism, well, somebody is going to be standing there, in their swim trunks and a towel wanting to be baptized, and it always happens. And sure enough, there was another young man there waiting to get baptized. And then, you know, in comes this listener, and he's going to get baptized. And the Holy Spirit said to me, and I love the way you follow spirit, Nick, and I do too, and the Holy Spirit says, why don't you ask him if after the service you can anoint him with oil and lay hands on him, since I too had lymphoma, right?

And that was an instrumental thing in how I was healed through my lymphoma. And so I said, would that be okay with you? And he said, oh, I would love that. And so, it's funny, he said, would you mind holding me down for a good while, because I feel like there's a lot that needed to get done.

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What an honor it always is. And I know you get a kick out of that, too, to see what God's going to do there. And so the part that I don't want to miss out on, one of the blessings of Truth Network, right?

Because this guy came from the Truth Network. All this happened as a result of that ministry, and what God was doing in his life. And so we, you know, I went and dried off, changed pants, you know, before I was going to go annoying him with oil. He walks into the sanctuary dripping, soaking, and it's just dripping off him, but it don't matter, man. So I come up there and I was like, okay, anybody wants to, you know, I mean the deacons, if they want to come lay hands on this gentleman and everybody, you know, and man, the whole church, like every, like if you could see this movement of the Spirit, like, oh my soul, like it was a miracle. It was an absolute miracle. And not only that they all came, but you had to hear the prayer.

I mean, it was absolutely phenomenal. And the part that I knew the Holy Spirit was all over it was the crying and the sobbing and the tears. And it was just, it was, if you didn't come away from that feeling, God, I don't even know you, just an amazing thing. And so, you know, all those years that I invested in the truth, whatever that looks like, oh my goodness, have I reaped to see God's hand. You know, it wasn't just in that man's life. It was in everybody at the church's life that day, or, you know, or, you know, countless other things I could tell you.

Yeah, it just illustrates the power of, you know, some people, you know, whether it's radio, podcasting, whatever it is, the power of the airwaves, right, that prompted and led him eventually for you guys to meet face to face. You know, take a minute, Rob, you mentioned, because that's another powerful story that you're a cancer survivor. You mentioned the lymphoma. How long ago was that? And that's quite a miracle story in and of itself. How long ago was that?

And then just give a little snapshot. That's kind of cool when you think about it. The truth broadcasting went on the air in 1998. I was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1996. And again, Stu was one of my good friends at the point in time, one of the people praying for me then. But nonetheless, I had what was called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, which this particular type they labeled as killer cell lymphoma.

And when my sister worked at the University of Michigan Hospital at the time, and she was so helpful, she says, there's never been two people with this particular kind of cancer in the US, and neither one of them lived past a couple months. Come on, wow. So it had my full attention.

I would say, and anyone's attention, but yes. And the way it presented itself was I had tumors in my skin that were just flat. They didn't hurt. And there were literally hundreds of them, hundreds of these on my arms and my legs and all over my midsection and all sorts, just all these tumors. And I sort of looked like a freak, okay?

From my own standpoint, I was, you know, whatever I had, it didn't look good. And so I was back in my office. I still worked at the dealership.

This was in Winston-Salem at the time. And one day we're working, and a pastor by the name of Richard Little came in, wonderful, wonderful man of God. And he says to my finance manager, the Lord told me there was somebody here that needs to be healed.

And Joe Balls, my finance manager says, oh, that's gotta be Robbie Dilmore. He's back in his office. He's got lymphoma.

They think he could be dying. And so here comes this now. Understand, I came to Christ in 1991, not terribly far from when you did. And so, and I had not, like I'd gone to Calvary Baptist Church and a little conservative, I had not really experienced, you know, anointing of oil.

Laying out of hands. James 5, 16, by the way, for those of you out there in listening land, James chapter five, verse 15, 14, 15, 16. So anyway, so yeah. I'm sure that was a little foreign to you, so to speak. Oh, extremely.

I really thought, man, this guy's nuts. But it's okay. I mean, he's here. He's praying over me. He says the Lord sent him.

I'm good with that. Like you do whatever you need to do, but this is weird. And so he did that. And such a wonderful spirited man, you know. And all I know is this was on a Friday. Yeah. And he prayed and anointed me and I felt something like, man, something happened here.

Yeah. You knew, you knew that you knew. Explain it, but you knew something happened. Something happened. But of course, a lot of people are praying and who knows how God does it. I'm sure Pastor Little would tell you that it was God that healed me. And however he worked at work.

Right. And so that was a Friday. Monday morning, I was supposed to start my chemotherapy treatment. And when I woke up, now understand this was pretty visible that I had cancer. It wasn't like, I wonder if I have cancer, you would see it everywhere. I mean, every single tumor, they were all gone.

Every one of them. And in fact, I can remember them taking all kinds of pictures and they went in and did biopsies to see what in the world happened because they'd never seen anything. Couldn't explain it.

We can, but doctors couldn't explain it. And so it's what the biopsies told them was essentially the cancer turned on itself and ate itself. And imagine that was very miraculous. So 1996, so almost 30 years ago that that had happened and it just did encouragement. I wanted Robin to share some of that story with you as an encouragement to you, whether you have a loved one that's maybe sick and ill or going through something and or you yourself are. And God is still in the miracle working business. And at the end of the day, I've had lots of friends and family. In fact, just had a call the other day from one of my spiritual mentors, spiritual fathers who just lost his brother and was tore up about it, obviously as he should be. But we both agreed at the end of the day, his brother's no longer suffering.

He got his ultimate healing in that particular case. So Robbie, there's a million stories I know you have and you could tell. And of course, I want to encourage people, if you're not familiar with the Christian Car Guy show, don't be misled by the title. Robbie was in the car business and Robbie loves Christ, hence the Christian Car Guy, but it's not about selling cars and all that. I'll keep it kind of in suspense. You go listen to the show because the format of the show will be, I think, a complete surprise to you when you hear the show. And of course, Masculine Journey kind of speaks for itself.

Multiple hats. I mentioned in the introduction, you're currently pastor in church over in Asheboro, North Carolina. But let's talk for a couple of minutes.

We've just got a few minutes left here. Take a minute, talk about your boot camp that you run. And of course, you come and serve on Manned Camp and people have heard lots of conversations about that. But what do you guys do at the boot camp?

Who can come and what's that all about? Yeah, that's an amazing thing for those who might be familiar with John Eldridge's book, Wild at Heart. He began realizing that it's the heart, which you teach so well, especially for men. Well, it's actually for everybody.

But a lot of men are not so free to get into their heart, right? To open that up. And so I was so blessed to get invited to one of these, actually with my connection with Truth Broadcasting, that they were advertising their boot camp. And so they didn't get a lot of people to come to that boot camp. And so I always say it was a mercy date, like I'm going to come to their boot camp because they spent money with us and I want them to have at least somebody. Right.

I'll go represent. And I really didn't expect to have all that kind of experience, but not unlike you with your first Manned Camp experience or that type of experience. Like, oh my goodness, I had no idea what God had for me there, what an impact it would have in changing my life, especially changing my life when it came to addictions, to sin that I was involved in.

You know, a lot of stuff that a lot of people aren't free to mention, but I'll just say it was sexual stuff. And it was inappropriate, especially for a man of God, especially for somebody that was in ministry. And like, oh my goodness, like the changes in my life, the changes in my ministry, especially the changes in my relationship with God told me, man, what God has done for me through these boot camps, I would be so honored to take part in helping any other man to be able to do. And so, you know, certainly that led to, I guess we started those 2011, so many, many years of doing boot camps, and we still do one like we do Manned Camp.

One in the spring, one in the fall. And then Nick came on board and I came to Manned Camp in the spring of whatever it was, 2021, I think. Yeah, it was. And then I got a chance to, you know, come staff.

And that ended up being more than amazing. And so I'm really, really excited because I'm going to be back this fall at Manned Camp as well. And again, the idea is here you got a week. You know, let me just say that the thing I love about Manned Camp is that you have more days to chase after the heart of God and spend time alone with him.

Just, it's amazing. And he's the one that's going to change the heart and the heart is what we're going to own after. So just to recap, so you go to that boot camp, God heals you, sets you free of different addictions and things, you know, bondages, things you were in bondage to. He sets you free, you come back, you compile a group of men together and now you host these boot camps in North Carolina. What's the website if they wanted to get more information on the boot camp? Masculine Journey radio or just masculinejourney.com or you can go to masculinejourneyradio.com, either one, he'll get you there.

Masculinejourney.com. And that's a little shorter in its duration than the Manned Camp itself, which you want more information on that, go to coloff.net and you can click over to the link there for the Manned Camp. And you have been instrumental, I wanted to come experience boot camp for myself, just, you know, not take all the hats off and just receive and it was incredible. And then you did an advanced boot camp and I wanted to go to that as well, so I set that time aside. It was incredible encounter. And I have since done 80 plus of these camps that I have facilitated since 2006 at different parts of the country.

We currently do it now in Georgia. Lex Luger, one of my former wrestling buddies, is a partner, you might say, with me, does some of the teachings and of course, you as one of the staff and ministers and teachers have been just so valuable to be a great, we're grateful to have you a part of it. And then to see what you're doing through boot camp. If you're a woman out there with a special man in your life, I just want to encourage you, ideally send them to both. When I say send, give them your blessing. Don't browbeat them, don't get the stick out and just encourage them, ladies. Encourage them to consider one or the other or both. You know, one can be a starting point and the other can just add on, right?

Any last thoughts, Robbie, to our audience? The idea of the wilderness, men, you know, God did some amazing work in 40 years, right? With the Israelites in the wilderness. And the idea, the key idea to me of both man camp and boot camp is yes, there's people giving talks. But the real deal is, you know, you're given very specific times to go take some things to God in prayer and you're given instructions on how to begin to hear the voice of God and how to begin to really enter further into that relationship with God. And if somebody can come out of one of those camps with an improved relationship with God, then mission accomplished. Like God will do what he needs to do in your life. But, you know, we all have to push into that place of holiness, which is actually a wonderful place to be.

Yeah, our, you know, we have things we're going to do at camp, but our, as a staff, at either one, the overall arching goal is to stay out of God's way and let God do what he does best. And that's change and transform the heart of a man. And so I just want to encourage you, if this conversation today, whether it's Robbie's testimonies and stories of how his life has changed, you know, or talking about boot camp or man camp. And again, if you're a man out there, and something we've said today has piqued your interest, go to masculinejourney.com, correct?

Masculinejourney.com, coloft.net. Check out, you'll see, you'll get information, but more than anything, if God's tugging on your heart to set that time aside and go and participate, you're going to be a part of that. And if you're a part of that, you're going to be a part of that. And if you're a part of that, if you're a part of that, and go and participate in one of those, I feel confident, very confident to say, you will, as Robbie made reference to, you will encounter, you'll encounter Jesus and your family, or even if you're single, you'll go home and you really won't even have to say a word.

People will see changes in you. Last thought, we've got a few seconds left. Last thought to our audience, Robbie. We've got a few seconds left. I got nothing. I left you speechless.

I had something and it totally went away right before you said it. Well, all right, so no worries. So, I'll wrap up by saying, as I did on the introduction, so obviously we talked a lot about ministries and stories, but husband, father, grandfather, man of God, lover of Jesus, you've probably already gathered the fact that Robbie is a lover of Jesus. And so, grateful to have you on today, Robbie Dilmore. Oh, it's always a blast, thank you. Thank you, and be sure to go check out, seriously, go check out The Christian Car Guy, go check out Masculine Journey, those shows. There's so much more he does at Truth Network. And be sure, if you don't have the Truth app, then go to your app store, download the Truth app.

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