This is the Truth Network. Now, The Devil's Nightmare. Welcome back to another episode of It's Time to Man Up. Welcome back to Man Up Show, yours truly, your host, Nikita Kulov, The Devil's Nightmare. Hey, when you think about national holidays, of course there are quite a few in America now, but in particular today, Labor Day. What do you think about when you think about Labor Day?
Do you have to labor on Labor Day, or do you get a break and not labor on Labor Day? With me today in studio, it's always a privilege to have this man of God with me, and speaking of host, I mean from the Christian Car Guy, to Kingdom Pursuits, and a thousand other shows that he's a part of, the legendary Robbie Dilmore. Robbie, welcome to The Man Up Show.
Welcome back to The Man Up Show. As always, these holiday events are one of the highlights of my year, and they really are. I love, love, love to share this with my fellow man of God, but also you're a big above of history, and it really makes me think, which I like to do, and actually ponder God's word and things like that, so I'm looking forward to what you may have for us today, and I'm sure there are some questions coming at me that I will not know the answer to. Well, possibly, and I too am looking forward. It's not that I don't like to have you on just regular Man Up Shows, because I do, but you're such a plethora of knowledge of your own that to pull you in on special shows or special holidays is just always fun and a blessing for me as well. And may I mention as well, I'd like to mention too, that Robbie and his lovely bride, Tammy, are now part of the Koloff for Christ prayer team.
The Lord years ago had put it on my heart to develop this prayer covering, and I can't take full credit for it. I have to say I was spurred on by the first time I toured the Billy Graham Library, Robbie, with my dad actually. Really? Yeah, a number of years ago. And after walking through and touring through that, which by the way, if you're not familiar with the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, it's not where you get a library card and you go check your books in and out, and people can kind of get misled by the name of it, right? There aren't many libraries with a talking cow. With a talking cow, Betsy, Betsy the talking cow, no less. Now they have newly renovated it though.
They shut it down for, I think, six, nine months or something like that, and I have yet to tour the renovation, but I understand it's pretty state of the art. And anyway, all that said, I'm getting off subject here, getting off track here. All that to say, touring through that is what initially prompted me when I saw the covering, the prayer covering that Reverend Graham had for his ministry over all those years. And then, how about the results? What about the results of what God can do through one man? One man's labor, Ravi. Yeah, one man's labor, but all those people laboring through prayer.
With him, alongside of him. Right, and literally hundreds of thousands, just at the library, come to Christ after coming through the library, and they still have a prayer team, obviously, praying. And you go into, you know, the gospel's the main deal.
Right. So his ministry lives on, even though, and I love the quote. I don't know if it was a quote I saw or a clip I heard or something at one time when he said, one day, you're going to hear that Billy Graham died.
Don't you believe it for a moment. I'll be more alive than ever. And I'm like, man, I love that. He's like, I'll be in heaven with Jesus. But all that to say, although he's physically no longer with us, man, his labor of love, since we're talking about Labor Day today, his labor of love continues to transform lives as you're mentioning, right? Right, and the renovations that you're talking about, a lot of them have to do with showing the funeral, his death, what happened through that and how God used that, again, to reach people for the gospel.
So many people, right, through his labor, but also all those with the Billy Graham Association, there's a whole lot, there's an army. And of course, the whole church is a vision of that whole idea. Yeah.
Yeah. And I actually had the opportunity to both meet and interview for the Man Up show and for Q&A with Koloff, Ben Graham, one of the Graham downline, part of the Graham legacy, Ben Graham, and what a fascinating story he has and how film producer, director, actors, whole family acts and movies and shows, and of course, a powerful ministry and just all kinds of stuff that Ben Graham is doing, laboring, laboring for the Lord. And so that legacy continues.
So I just want to encourage you listening out. If you've never been to Charlotte, North Carolina, to the Billy Graham Library, I implore you to put onto your bucket list, the Billy Graham Library and all that to say that that's where my prayer covering idea in a sense kind of came from, and seeing all the covering he had. And you know, Robbie, I thought I reminded of this as well. One of the things prior to going into a town for those massive crusades that he did, a year prior, people began to pray in and for that town and for that crusade before he ever even showed up. Talk about the power of prayer, right? So thank you, you and your bride, your lovely bride, Tammy, for agreeing to be a part of the Koloff for Christ prayer team.
Same thing. It's an honor. It means so much. And I'm grateful to have so many, just a number of couples that are part of that and committed to that and it makes a world of difference. I really sense to say I have a better understanding of how important it was to Reverend Graham and now have a better understanding of what that means to have that prayer covering. So anyway, yeah, so all that to say, but take a minute, because some may not be familiar with the legendary Robbie Dilmore. Most, yeah.
You know, I mean they may, but they may not be. I mentioned some of the shows, but tell our listeners, what's Robbie Dilmore involved in? What are you laboring in? That's a good, you know, because I actually have the Jesus labor of love.
Okay. As part of the Christian car guy show, I guess almost 15 years ago now, God put it on my heart that because almost all the emails and the phone calls I got were for single moms and widows and I thought, well, that's strange. I thought I'd get questions from men, but no, no, I got them all and I began to pray through that. Like God was telling me that these people don't have a man in their life to help them with their car, whatever that might look like. And so as I was coming back from a national religious broadcasters convention, I was praying God, wait, I know you want something more out of the Christian car guy show.
What does that look like? Well, give me a vision, which has a lot to do with labor and give me a vision for what that might be. And as I'm listening to Christian radio coming across out of Knoxville, actually, I hear this ministry out of a church that's got it for, that they would send teams for their single moms and widows in their congregation. And on the first Saturday of the month, these teams would go in and, you know, help cuddle hedge or fix a door or whatever it is that this single mom or widow did. And it birthed the idea of like, man, what God, what if we had for the Christian car guy show, a ministry that came on the first of every month, first weekend of every month that single moms or widows could come into these repair facilities across the country that were all connected to the Christian car guy and get free car repair, you know, they would bring the parts and they would get free labor.
What would that, that might look like? And so God said, oh, that, you know, there you go, that, and, and, and the first thing I did was call, actually, I called the Greenville station I was on to just see, because I knew all my friends would do it just because I said to do it, I didn't want it to get a fresh idea. And so I called the repair center I'd never heard before and I said, what would you think about the first Saturday of every month, you know, having single moms and widows come in and you just give the labor, if they bring the parts, would that be something you'd be interested in?
Donate the labor. Right. Come on. Okay. And what he said was, you know, Robbie, you can't out give God that I've been looking for something. That's exactly what I've been looking for.
I want to do that. You know, and that, and thus with that, you know, I formed a board. We find it formed a 501 C three, the Jesus labor with again, being the idea of labor of love and man, you know, we, we created it at the Christian car guy website where people can go in there and fill out an application.
And I can tell you literally maybe thousands of stories, how God has helped single moms, widows, and families in crisis across the country with the Jesus labor love. And it's, and then it became, you know, where people would, we found out quickly that people's cars don't break down on the first Saturday of the month, but they need help all the time. And so we developed, you know, a program for everybody. And then, you know, we, we began to see that some of the cars we couldn't fix or wouldn't be prudent. So people started donating cars to us. And so we give away a number of cars every year that are donated to us, what we get repaired.
And so God's just really made that an opportunity to labor, like just blows my mind every, almost every day. Okay. Got that something.
Okay. So you said, so you said I could give you a thousand stories, um, pick out one of your favorites or one that just kind of pops in your head and share with our listeners just a praise report. Sure, I'll give it this amazing story that, you know, I had this national battery company come on the Christian car guy show and he, he heard about the Jesus labor love and he said, oh yeah, we want to support you. And you know, next time you need a battery for one of these single moms, you just let me know. So it wasn't, you know, 10 days later I had a case in Utah where I needed a battery for this lady and I call them and they're like, oh, I'm sorry, we don't have a distribution center in Utah.
You know, when you're closer to home, which this battery companies in Texas. And so it wasn't like a week before Christmas, I get this lady, she's wrecked her car. She thought she had insurance, but a lot of people, when they let their insurance lapse, they don't realize that the single coverage insurance that the bank puts on your car that you pay a stupid amount of money for doesn't actually cover you.
It just covers them. If the car becomes a total loss, when she thought she had insurance through that, okay, she'd wrecked her car. It crushed the battery, the fender was on the tire. She couldn't get to work, but she had to make payments on the car. It was almost Christmas.
Her kids got nothing. And it was a really tragic case. And so I called the battery company and I said, okay, we got one right.
It's for your back door. You know, they're in Fort Worth. This late, this, I mean this car, they're in Dallas, this lady was in Fort Worth. I was like this. And they say, no, I'm sorry, we just can't help right now. And I'm like, are you kidding me?
This is late. Are you kidding me? And so I started screaming at God, like I'm mad at God.
And you know me well enough to know, you're pretty easy going, it takes a lot to ruffle your feathers. Let me just say that. So I'm like, God, what in the world?
I mean, how in the world? And he says, Robbie, if you're so interested in this situation, why don't you help the lady? Right. Okay. And I said, well, like silver and gold have my none.
But you know, I, and I really didn't in that, at that time in my life, I didn't have anything, but I did have labor. I said, well, I'll find somebody to help this lady. So I Googled where she was in Fort Worth and look for any body shop that might be within, you know, working distance of this lady. So I get the very first one that I call, right. And I call and I'm like, I get this lady answers the phone. I said, you know, hi, my name's Robbie Dillmore.
I'm with the Jesus Labor Love. We help single moms and widows, you know, with car repair that are in a crisis. And I said, I've got this lady in your area. And she needs to admit lady says, well, I can't help. You're going to have to talk to the owner. I said, okay.
So she transferred me. I get him on the owner and the owner, same thing. I'm with the Jesus Labor Love and the guy goes, I'll never forget as long as I live because I didn't know where he was coming from. He said, so do you mean to tell me that you talk about Jesus Christ on the radio?
Pretty good impression, Robbie. Okay. And I was like, well, yeah, cause I didn't know if that meant I was fixed to get blasted or if he was going to be, you know, receptive to that. Well, yes, sir. That's, that's what I talk about. But you know, this is more about helping single moms and he goes, so tell me what you got, you know? And I'm, and so I just tell him the story, this lady, exactly what I just told you. And he goes, son, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm going to fix that car and I'm going to fix it today. And I would say, well, sir, you know, I used to be in the body shop business too, amongst my many other things that car business. I was like, you know, you don't repair a fender on a tire and a crushed battery, you know, this isn't something I said, well, give yourself a few days, you know, no, I'm going to have it done today.
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Go to www.kolof.net and donate today. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Well, man, it wasn't three hours later. This lady calls me, right? Yeah. And he goes out to her house, himself personally, right?
And he pulls the fender up off her tire, he puts a battery in the car, repairs the tire and the wheel and all that stuff. This lady is driving that car that day. That day. Wow. I'll never ever forget it as long as I ever lived.
Like, God, I don't, you know, you just don't know until you ask. Right. And then, but I think the message, the moral of that story for those listening out there and listening land is you do have to put action in, so a labor, you have to put some labor towards some effort into whatever it is, right? So that's a pretty amazing story. And now you made a reference, so we have to at least say, so people are writing out, well, how can I find out more about that? So how can they, how can they find out more about what's the website or, oh, if you go to christiancarguy.com, that's my main website and there you'll see there's great big apply for help, Jesus, labor, love, or donate to the Jesus labor lover, pray for the Jesus labor.
It's all there. Donate a car to the Jesus labor love. If you go to christiancarguy.com, you'll see these big banners for that because actually that's probably why most people come to the website and then they just simply, if you need help, you just simply fill out an application and we have volunteers who will call you within a day or two and we help people all over the country.
God provide, we're just like the ultimate middleman, Nikita, it's amazing. So why do you think Robby, so you know, of course you open the show talking about a lot of national holidays and you just gave an incredible example of how you have labored, how you have modeled the labor of love for the single moms and through the car show through the Christian Car Guy show and many other things that you do. I mean, in addition to running Truth Radio Network, in my view, you're pastoring and you're laboring behind the pulpit on Sundays as well over in Ashboro, North Carolina, you're doing that. And of course, husband, dad, granddad, yeah, big time. So granddad and so you're doing a lot to labor.
Why do you think, what would have been the reason, why did America say, hey, let's have a national holiday called Labor Day? What's your thoughts? That's my first question for you, but just gathering your thoughts on that. I actually have a huge answer. Okay.
Okay. That, you know, the idea of where there's no vision that people perish is beyond huge. And you know, they wrote a book, Napoleon Hill, it was called Think and Grow Rich. Have you read it? Years ago.
Yeah. And in that book, he says that the secret to Andrew Carnegie's millions is written into every chapter of this book. And it's not going to tell you what it is plainly, but if you read it enough that when your mind is ready, you will receive this secret.
When the student is ready, the teacher will show up. And, and so I read that book. That was a genius idea because I read that book probably five or six or seven, I don't know how many times, but I had to, I have to isolate what that was.
What was Andrew Carnegie's secret to millions? And that same secret is very, very, very biblical. And it's very, very much included in Jesus's name.
The last letter of his name, Yeshua, is the Hebrew letter I in and has to do with vision. Okay. Like where there was no vision that people perish. So the best way to explain this idea is to tell one story out of that book and won't take but a minute.
Okay. Charles Schwab was the head of, of like his steel mills and he, you know, over hundreds of them that were across the country or 50, however many it was. And they had one mill that was the least like the bottom of the wrong producer of steel.
And so Charles Schwab is going to fix this problem by giving these people a vision. And so what he does is he waits till the changing of the shifts and the shifts are going to change between four and five o'clock. And so he goes in there, you know, at about three, like Lombardi time, about quarter to four and he's waiting and the guys are coming off shift and as they're coming off shift, he says to the guys, how many pourings of steel did you make? And they said six. And so he takes a piece of chalk, right? This big shop floor, you can see it, it's concrete, right? And he takes his chalk and he writes a great big six right in the middle of the shop floor and he walks out and so you can imagine this is, this guy's the head of every, you know, and so everybody goes like, what is that?
You know, here comes the other shift, right? Those people are leaving. They come in.
What is that? What is that big six? Oh, well Charles Schwab was just here, man, and he asked how many steel pourings we had last night. We wrote down six.
Well, guess how many pourings they made? Like they weren't going to make five or, you know, whatever they had. And so they made seven. Well, next thing you know, eight, right?
And you could imagine every shift coming on. What is that number? Oh, that number is how many pourings. All of a sudden everybody got the same vision.
Like what are we here to do? Pour steel. And within a month, that was the number one steel plant in all of Andrew Carnegie's why?
Because all of a sudden everybody had the same vision, just like in Babylon, the reason that God confused the language and he said, if these people are in agreement, they can do anything. And so when America works together on a common vision, like what would happen in world war two, and you know, as a historian that when America, when they woke up America and everybody started working on the same team and they're like, we're going to build tanks. Let me tell you, we build some tank. We're going to build ships. We're going to build guns. We're going to build bullets. We're going to, yeah, we're going to labor together.
We're going to labor together. And so, yeah. And so this country, if we could get on the same team, on the same page, and even more importantly, the church, if we could get the church on the same team, on the same page, and you know what I'm talking about. So much. I do know what you're talking about.
There's so much we could do together. And for those who don't know or not familiar with thinking grow rich Napoleon Hill, if my memory serves me well, he interviewed over the course of 20 years, not just Charles Schwab and Andrew Carnegie, but men of success over a period of 20 years to find out what the common denominator was to their success through all of their labor. And so, so yeah, if you're not familiar with that and you've never read it, you might want to check that out.
Well, that's a great story, certainly, and a great resource for people in terms of improving their own labor and labor of love and whatever they might be doing. Well, is there a particular day of the year that we typically celebrate that, Robby, or is it an easy one for you, I think? If I'm not mistaken, it's the first weekend in September. That usually falls on a Monday. Boom, you are correct.
Ding, ding, ding, you are the winner, winner. Chicken dinner. You get the chicken dinner, Robby, and that's right, it's always the first weekend in September. And some make a three-day weekend out of it. Now the reality is, even though it celebrates a workforce and labor, some, because of America, how awake we are, some things never close. So some people have to actually work on Labor Day and labor, while others maybe get to go out for the last hurrah for the summer, maybe. Isn't it kind of like the tail end of summer, last celebration or something, in a way, people go off boating and all that kind of stuff? Right after that, you can't wear white shoes.
And what? You remember after Labor Day, back in the day, when we had white belts? Oh, yeah, the white, like, okay, put all your white away, and then you've got to wear colors for the fall and the winter, right? And I had somebody tell me that recently, I was wearing a pair of white pants, and I had a pair of white Sperrys on, and somebody was like, dude, you're out of season.
I'm like, I'm in season year-round, just for the record, so take that to the bank right there. Any other thoughts? What can we encourage somebody with out there who is either in the labor force, or maybe they're hopeful, or maybe they don't have a job, Robbie, and they're not able.
What are some other ways that they can labor, and the word volunteer comes to mind? What would you say in our closing minute or two here? Yeah, the thing that occurs to me that God gave me the idea to volunteer at a nursing – or I actually do a devotion every Thursday morning. That's where I was this morning. And there's all these lonely people, and all you have to do is show up, man. And I bring jokes or talk about Jesus in some way, shape, or form.
I've done it for years and years. But man, there's lots of different ways to share the love of God, and I guarantee you there is a nursing home of assisted living, something not far from you, not at all. Soup kitchen, something, right? Something where – and to that point, let me encourage you out there, and hopefully you've been encouraged by Robbie and some of his stories today.
He's a man, like he said, he could tell a thousand and one stories or more. But maybe you're not laboring, right? Maybe you're out of work right now or you're looking for a job. I just want to encourage you, consider volunteering somewhere and put some labor into that, and you never know. As the Lord sees you willingly going to volunteer, maybe you're not making a nickel, but you never know what kind of a really miracle that could be.
You know a guy that you interviewed him. He started out doing that, and God gave him a whole – right? Gave him a whole vision, gave him a ministry and a whole vision. And yeah, so I just want to encourage you on this celebration, this weekend of labor, wherever you're at, whether you've got a full-time job, part-time job, don't have any job. There's lots of ways we can labor and display our labor of love.
Right, Robbie, last thoughts. I think that God, if you think about what his first commandments were to Adam, right, obviously be fruitful and multiply that. That was one part of it, but then it was to tend the garden, right? Tend the garden. And to keep it. And so God is all about labor, and he labored for six days so he could rest on the seventh.
Right? And so when you're supposed to labor, labor. But don't forget, man, there's got to be a Sabbath.
That brings up a valid point here in closing is make sure – let me just reemphasize what Robbie just said. He labored, God labored for six days, and then he rested on day seven. As much as we are called to work and God has gifted us with many different gifts and talents and ways that we can labor, let's make sure we're also getting that weekly day of rest so that we can be even more productive and more effective on those other six days.
Right, Robbie? Yeah, Sabbath is huge. It is. It's a big deal.
That could be a whole show in and of itself. In fact, maybe I need to have you back sometime, Robbie, and we're going to talk about that seventh day, that day of rest. I hope this weekend you're able to, whether you have to work this weekend or you get to rest this weekend, that you have enjoyed the show today, enjoyed our conversation today. And I just want to say a big thank you as I try to remember to do week in and week out. As all of you are so faithful to tune in to the Man Up show, spread the word. Spread the word around. Encourage people to go on Truth Radio, download the Truth app. Spread the word on all of the wonderful podcasts and all the wonderful shows that air day in and day out with a labor of love. Robbie Dilmore, Christian Kargai, thank you for being a part of the show today. Some fun as always.
As always. And go out today. Have a great challenge on this weekend of rest.
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