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Introducing first, from Lithuania, he weighs 123 kilos, the Russian nightmare, Nikita Kolod. Now, the devil's nightmare. Welcome back to another episode of It's Time to Man Up. Happy Thanksgiving.

I mean, it's just around the corner. And you know, anytime we come up to a special holiday like Thanksgiving, I like to throw a special show out there. Sometimes I like to include a special individual with me on the show. And of course, today, and you've heard him in the past, but it's always great to include him on shows like this. And with me today in studio is really the man of the hour who really is too sweet to be sour. And he really, if you get to know this man, Robbie Dilmore, you're going to quickly find out he is way too sweet to be sour.

Robbie, welcome back to the Man Up show. I am, I'm telling you what, I've been looking forward to this since last Thanksgiving. So I mean, it's turkey time. It is turkey time. And, and, you know, so for the listeners out there, well, hey, like, what's your favorite thing about Thanksgiving? My favorite? Well, you know what a potpourri that is, obviously.

I could go a lot of directions, right? I have this dressing that my mother made as far as the food is concerned, right? So there is a big idea of food. But you know, certainly one of the neat things, obviously, is Psalm 100. And I don't know if you knew this, but the word Thanksgiving in Hebrew, you're going to love this and you're probably never going to forget it now, is ta-da. Is that Russian? It sounds kind of Russian, Robbie. Oh, it's Hebrew. Ta-da. Like, and I'm pretty sure that when God, you know, had that first Thanksgiving, you know, on the Mayflower and all that stuff, they were all going ta-da. I mean, it's really cool when I think about that word. Wow.

Well, he kind of threw me off on that one. Because I like want to throw my hands out like, hey, ta-da, I'm here. There's a reason you want to do that. We'll get that. Why that's in at some point, if you want me to, I'll go through that word and hands are involved. Hands are involved.

They are. Well, OK, hold on. So, of course, you know, you're listening out there right now and you're thinking when we say the word Thanksgiving or the Thanksgiving holiday, I want you to think about what first comes to mind for you. Now, certainly for me, Rob, so food does play a factor in that. You know, I think about turkey. I think about the dressing. I think about potatoes and gravy and corn. You know, mashed potatoes, of course, you know, and pumpkin pie and whipped cream on top, you know, and cranberries. And yeah, and I don't know, everybody's a fan of cranberries, but but I for one.

Oh, my wife makes these cranberry bars that are out of this world. And sometime I got to tell you about my sugar free pumpkin pie I made one time. Sugar free pumpkin pie. I was making the pumpkin pie because my wife was busy and I forgot the sugar. So it was not intentional.

The kids were sitting around the table going, Mom. Something's unusual about this pumpkin pie. Yeah, it was sugar free.

Sugar free pumpkin pie. Well, hey, well, before we go any further, we're going to dive back into this. But for those of you who maybe don't know Robbie Dilmore, man, he is a man who wears many, many hats. Not only does he produce the man up show and and Q&A questions and answers with with Koloff.

But Robbie, I mean, the Christian car guy masculine journey. You host a number of shows of your own. You wear a lot of hats. Tell tell tell folks. Yeah.

That's all you do. I am so thrilled. You know that God continues to give me opportunities to take part in the stuff he's doing. Right. And so the Christian car guy show was my entry way into this.

And he's put that on over 100 radio stations across the country. Very fun. And then I get to do Kingdom Pursuit.

Those are both live shows have been on for about 18 years. And then, you know, Landon Rescue, that team that goes around the world, like the team that rescues folks out of sex trafficking, extracts people out of Afghanistan under persecution, just amazing stuff. And I have to pinch myself at times that I get a chance to in any way help what God's doing along those lines. And then masculine journey is not unlike man camp, you know, and you've been to that. And and I get to be one of the co hosts of that.

And and also finishing well for geezers like me that are trying to figure out, you know, how do we do Social Security and that kind of thing. And what kind of man, what God has taught me in working with Hans Shile and that show as well. So and then all the other shows that I get a chance to produce like yours. Really fun.

Really fun. Yeah, I hear a truth raid. And of course, in you have your own boot camp. I got man camp. You got boot camp, which I've been to boot camp and advanced boot camp.

I wanted to advance. God's kingdom is advancing, not retreating. Right. A lot of people go, hey, tell me about that retreat you got. I'm like, yeah, man camp is not a retreat.

Man camp is an empowerment and encouraging, equipping men to advance the kingdom of God, advance their own life and journey, personal journey with Jesus. And then and then advance their family's life. Right.

And and ultimately advance the kingdom. But so, yeah, you got you got your own boot camp, too, though. Yeah, we do. We do. And actually, November 16th through the 19th. It's just happened.

Right. We just missed it. We missed it. We missed it. But we had another one coming up in April.

So let me know the dates on that every spring and every fall. Right. It's like man camp, just like man camp. And and of course, you've been a part of man camp. You have you have now staffed man camp and got to. So you've got to experience it going through man camp yourself. Then you felt prompted to the Lord to come back and staff one. And I think it's so important that to get a sense of the wonder of what God is.

There's an outdoors aspect for men of that. And then like when you go to Royston, Georgia, and you have like a whole week. Right. And people say, well, I don't have a week. Oh, yes, you do. You've got a week. And to chase after the heart of God for a week in that environment with other men chasing after God. What an opportunity. I mean, you know, it's like the carpe diem of your life.

I don't I have I have never seen anybody come from man camp or boot camp. Have you that said, man, I hate I took those four days off. Well, that was a waste of time, right? No, because they're going to get there. Now, some are going to get more than others.

Let's just be straight up about it. I mean, I like to say you're going to get out of it what you put into it, of course. But to your point, typically there are testimonies and stories that come out, whether it's the healing of of their own relationship with the Lord or or the restoration of a marriage. The healing of relationships between fathers and sons and fathers and daughters. And of course, we've had fathers and sons attend man camp and husbands and wives. Yeah. And, you know, man, generations. But think how cool it is.

And I never put it together and actually told us right this minute that every year we both celebrate a year where we've had two camps. So we come into Thanksgiving and we can think of the harvest, you know, that God has given us over this year. You know, the different faces that show up of the men's lives that we got to interact with, not just on. You know, we're so grateful for those we get to interact with on the radio. But when I get to meet him in person. Right.

And you actually get to give him a man hug. Right. Right. And that kind of thing. You know what? There's a lot to be thankful for. There is a lot to be thankful for. And I want to say this, you know, as you're listening and Robbie sharing all the different things, all the different hats he wears, including a pastoral hat.

He pastors a church as well, in addition to everything else and being a husband and a father and grandfather. Oh, yeah. Just like you. How many grandchildren? Five.

Five grandchildren. And so a lot to be thankful for. Right. But I want to encourage you listening out there. You know, you may be listening to the radio show, the man up radio show. If you don't have the truth radio app on your phone.

I'm going to encourage you right now, because obviously, you know, your shows are shows there on Saturdays. Right. Typically. Right. But hey, maybe it's somebody's listening on Wednesday and they missed it. But if they have the truth radio app, they can go back to the archives and pick up tons of podcasts and radio shows and programs and all that. Right. It's all on demand, just like Netflix, only Christian content. OK. And you can whenever you got time, we got we got content. There you go.

Truth radio app. So so back to Thanksgiving, I guess this is the Thanksgiving special. Right. So that you mentioned Psalm 100. And so I thought, why I need to pull it up in the very first thing I read is a psalm of Thanksgiving. Shout with joy to the Lord. All the earth worship the Lord with gladness come before him singing with joy. Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us and we are his we are his people.

The sheep of his pasture enter his gates with Thanksgiving. Go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name, for the Lord is good.

His unfailing love continues forever and his faithfulness continues to each generation. What a great psalm, Robbie. It literally blows my mind when you dig into all that's in that particular psalm. You know, a lot of people think of that the verse that says, you know, make a joyful noise unto the Lord.

That's where this is. That's where that comes from is the beginning of of Psalm 100. But to dive in, as promised, the word to the as the word Thanksgiving starts with a T. So does the word to the in Hebrew. And that letter, you might remember the letter, the word Dan.

In Hebrew is. The idea of judgment. That, you know, Daniel, the Book of Daniel, Daniel is God is my judge. You can hear the L on the end of Dan.

Dan is the judge. It was the tribe. It judged this way.

It's really cool. They were the last tribe that left out in the Hebrew camp. Right. There were 12 of them. And their job was to kind of pick up the straights. Most importantly, their job was to pick up the people that got lost. Right. You think we're headed now, you know, across the wilderness.

How what? Who made sure that everybody was along? Like, you know, in Jesus, they forgot him. You know, but it was like that as they were traveling through the desert. Right. And whose job was that?

It was Dan, because that that were a judgment has to do with we're missing somebody. You know, no man left behind. You know, what does that mean to our military services? What does that mean to you? Well, fascinatingly, that that letter top is the last letter in the Hebrew alphabet. The T sound that you hear in Thanksgiving or you hear in today is the last letter.

And it is literally made up of the two letters of a dollar and a nun, which is Dan, which which is giving you the idea. If you look at the last verse in one hundred nineteen song, the last this is beautiful, the last verse in one hundred nineteen Psalm after, you know, one hundred and seventy two verses. Here it comes. It says we like sheep have gone astray. Seek thy servant because I forget not my commandments. Why?

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You can give monthly, annually or one time. God bless you for making a difference around the world. to make sure this Thanksgiving that there's no man left behind. Yeah. Whose life can we impact? You know, you mentioned a table popped in my head, Robbie, as you were talking about, you know, the tribes of Israel, the 12 tribes, of course. And I'm sure you've seen this illustration.

Maybe somebody out there listening who who's never seen a visual illustration of this. But what immediately popped in my head and just how just how detailed God is, is is he gave very specific instructions as to which tribe was to be on the east of the tabernacle. Right.

And the north and the south. And what's amazing is when you see that visualization of that, it ends up the shape of a cross. Right.

The camp ends up being the shape of a cross when the when all of the tribes are in position around the tabernacle. Right. And but so anyway, and that's the whole the whole deal.

The cross was there so that no man would get left behind. Right. Right. That's right.

So I mean, from salvation to Jesus sacrifice on the cross, given you and I and all those listening out there and all those in the world, the opportunity with thanksgiving in their hearts to come to the foot of the cross and accept Christ as their Lord and Savior so that they're not left behind, that they're included into eternal life. Right. Yeah, I heard this in C.S.

Lewis's book, The Great Divorce. He described hell as a place where you are so far gone, you can't even remember God. You can't remember a thing about God. I mean, can you imagine a place so horrible that not only is there no love, not only is there no peace, no patience, no kindness, no goodness, no faithfulness, no gentleness, no self-control anywhere going on. But worse than that, man, there is no memory of it.

That is a place that I couldn't imagine wishing on anyone. And we have been given this precious, precious opportunity to at this point in time and this season give thanks that God not only saved us, but obviously all those that you are aware of that you got to take part in this year and whatever little seed you sowed or whatever little thing that you got to take part in, how cool is that. So what I'm hearing you say, as you're sharing, is that Thanksgiving, which we celebrate once a year, Thanksgiving is much broader than just a turkey dinner, than food.

The Dallas Cowboys versus who? Right, fill in the blank, right? That's even expanded. They've even expanded the number of games on Thanksgiving. But it's much more broad than just a meal or a gathering, certainly an opportunity to gather together as family, right? So does your family, let me ask you this, does your family, so you get together, is this the whole family or is much of the family get together? Well, you know, now that they all have their own families, there's ones that may not be there, but they try.

And sometimes they got to go to the other side of the fence, however that works, and I'm glad they do. Because obviously that's got to be part of it. But yes, we're definitely going to be there. As many as possible will gather together. Is there anything special, any kind of, if you want to use the word, if I use the word tradition, that you guys do as a family on Thanksgiving day? Oh, there's numbers.

There's numbers of them. I won't go, but I will tell you, for my youngest daughter Mariah, it is absolutely tradition. I don't care how stuffed and how sleepy everybody is, we will watch the movie Elf after dinner.

That will happen. We have the DVD and everybody will watch and will laugh once again on the world's greatest cup of coffee. The movie Elf. So that is one of, on my end, we do take some time and give everyone that's gathered together the opportunity to, whether it's go around the table as we actually kind of wrap up our meal together, or at least at some point as we're gathered together, what we're thankful for this prior year. And for you out there, I don't know what traditions you might have, or maybe you're not able to gather together for whatever reason. I mean, they could be in the military, right, Robbie? Overseas.

I mean, the Madam Shills listened in, latest count, 92 different countries, so they might be overseas. Some of those don't even have turkeys. Don't even have turkey, right? Turkey is not an option, right? What is an option? Is ham, I guess?

Is that another option? Not too many of those in Israel. Well, you got a point. You got a point. So for those who maybe can't gather together with their families, what might you encourage them with, Robbie, as we approach Thanksgiving?

What might you encourage that individual? Maybe they're by themselves. Maybe they don't even have any family left surviving.

What would you say? Well, I think, you know, obviously, if you're in Christ, according to Mark chapter 10, verse 30, that happens to be my birthday, 10, 30. Nice. We all get a hundred mothers, a hundred brothers, a hundred sisters in this life, and I bet you got them, if you really sit down and start to count. And so take those brothers, those sisters, and however that works in your life, you can text them, you can call them, whatever you want. Throw some love their way and help them to feel like God is remembering them on Thanksgiving, right? And what it means to people to hear, you know, you reflect God. And so when you show up in their lives to wish them, you know, a thankful, you know, like, man, I am so grateful that God gave you as one of my best friends. And that means a lot when you hear it from somebody that you're really close to. So they could, they could, they could reach out, like you said, email, text, call somebody and, and just wish them a happy Thanksgiving. And, and, you know, I'm reminded of, there's the scripture that, that says, he who has friends must show himself friendly.

Right. And for the person out there says, well, I just, I don't have any friends. I just don't, I don't have any family left. I don't have any friends left. Well, my encouragement is, is he who has friends must show himself friendly. So maybe you make the first move. Maybe you don't wait for somebody to knock on your door and say, hey, can I be your friend?

Maybe you step out, you know, take, take, take a risk, step out. And maybe it begins with a complete stranger, but show yourself friendly to somebody else. And the more people you do that with, ultimately the more friends you might have. You know, it blows my mind that, that, that I have people in my church that I don't know well, but they'll, they'll reach out and all of a sudden share with something, you know, I'll get a text, I'll get a phone call from them when they really want me included in their life somehow. And what an honor that is, right? Like, and, and so, you know, I can tell you a friend you have, if you don't have any other one, you go to, you know, whatever, ChristianCarguy.com, my email, my phone number there. I, you know, I always take all my calls.

I take all my emails that I can find that don't go into junk or whatever. And if you don't got one, you got me. Well, and I want to encourage, of course, there's a rich history of Thanksgiving here in America, right? And didn't really delve into any, any of the history before. I'm sure you're familiar with a lot of it, or maybe you listen to...

I knew this was coming. Well, well, well, you know, what can I say? There, there is a lot, there is a lot of history there. We're not going to be able to cover it all today. But, but, you know, I sense the direction of the show today is, is really emphasizing more of just having a heart of Thanksgiving as we move into this Thanksgiving holiday here over, over the next, in the next few days. But I want to encourage people, and I'm going to ask you to do the same thing, Robbie.

But I want to encourage you out there in Listening Land, get out a sheet of paper and a pen or a pencil, a dry use, a sharpie or something. And I want to challenge you to sit down to set a few minutes aside and write down every single thing that you're thankful for. What would you challenge people with, Robbie, to do on this Thanksgiving? Yeah, I mean, wow, that would be quite a project, an absolutely amazing thing. But on the same token, what's wrong with, you know, approaching somebody you maybe never really had a chance to get with before and asking them like, man, when you really think about it, what could I help you be thankful for?

What happened really good in your life? And let them share with you. You know, because again, it's a matter of us all being together as brothers and sisters. And I love the idea of gathering. That's what, that's, that's a big part of Thanksgiving. Any ideas? So we'll throw this one. Good, good, good.

I didn't want to come without it and I need something. What was the year that the Plymouth colonists and the Indians first gathered for an autumn harvest feast, which became later known as the first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies? Any idea? 1657.

What is it? 1657. Well, you're in the right century.

According to my research anyway, 1621. Missed it by 30 years. But you were close. You were close.

You were close. So, so, so Thanksgiving in America goes all the way back to the 1600s. So a long time we've been celebrating Thanksgiving here in America. And, you know, we celebrate so beautifully. I am so grateful for all those that we stand on their shoulders, right, of being able to do this. Every year of my life, it's been a big holiday.

One of my favorites. And for the very reason, like, oh my goodness, we get to thank God. Yeah. And just in our closing minutes here, I want to say we celebrate Thanksgiving officially in America one day a year.

But Robbie, can people be thankful every day of the year? Ta-da. I want to throw my hands out. Oh, you didn't get the opportunity to share what the hands meant. Can you in 30 seconds share what the hands mean? And the letter dalit in the duh sound of ta-duh is your hands. Yeah. You know, that's the God, God's hands are yids. You hear the D?

That's a dalit. There you go. And you throw your hands up when you're saying thank you, God.

Woo. Thank you, Lord. Go read Psalm 100 on, maybe read that to your family on this Thanksgiving day. Or share it with a friend. Or share it with a complete stranger. But can we encourage you as we approach Thanksgiving to be thankful every single day, not just one day a year.

And see if your life journey doesn't take on a different approach. Robbie, Christian, car guy, Robbie Dilmore, thanks for joining me again on this special show. Oh, so I always love it. I'm getting hungry though. Have we stirred up your appetite out there?

Okay, put your list together. What are you going to have this Thanksgiving holiday? Hey, make sure even if you can't be with family or friends, I'm reminded of the reach out and touch somebody new.

Something like that. Hey, God bless you. Go out and live a God filled, God blessed day today and make this Thanksgiving your best one ever. This podcast is made possible by the grace of God and your faithful prayers, support and generous gifts. May God bless you for your continual contributions. Go to Koloff.net and donate today.

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