The Day Before Thanksgiving

It's the day before Thanksgiving today show will bless you encourage you will make you count stage for the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH index 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown, let me begin today's broadcast by thanking each and every one of you who's prayed for me and my family with the passing of my mom who was praying yesterday during the funeral service and who took the time to listen to my one hour tribute to my mom on the Aaron read what I posted. Thank you for the many kind words you sent.

Thank you for writing that you are inspired and interiors listening and what can I say thank you for being friends and partners and coworkers together in the gospel from the bottom of my heart this is Michael Brown. It is the day before Thanksgiving and we are live on the line of fire want today's broadcast account is that is the day before Thanksgiving course when every broadcast account, but especially the day after my mom's funeral. Now back in the studio live all the more do I want today's broadcast account. What is your Scripture with you that I believe is can edify you and help you and encourage you and equip you to live a life pleasing to God and a life that will be a blessing to many others, and it struck me at the funeral service yesterday here.

My mom was buried in the grave next to my dad. I had been there for many many years. My dad passed away in 1977. Quite suddenly, at the age of 63 would see them early in the evening and that he was caught in the middle of the night and of course is very different. Losing a loved one that you know has limited time and is is weak and frail, and short-term memory, very bad, but you still spend special times with them and still bring joy to that person's life that you know their time assure the year you're confident that there be with the Lord. So when they when they passed away at 94 it's something very different, but I was always there at the gravesite and now's the first time my mom and dad very side-by-side, and I trust together in God's presence and it'll II was thinking about serious thoughts, but the meaning of life, but the meaning of death and and once the funeral service was over we had our tears we had our laughs with a small family gathering there. The Rabbi did a great job as well. Once so once I was done and we we through the dirt on him on the coffin as is the Jewish custom of the customer and some others religions and expressions as well, but when I walked away. My thoughts were not heavy thoughts. My thoughts were, sees life sees life sees every moment of life. Obviously, our days are all in God's hands.

We can't boast about tomorrow, but at the age of 61. I realize I'm still just a kid full of youthful energy and zeal in and in figure envision and Nancy up about three and 62. She is a few months older than me got married all the Roberts is a three and half months older than the so she's about to turn 62 ever work with young or are the grandkids. Another is about becoming teenagers settle mean three out of the four teenagers of the youngest just turned 10 women there still at the beginning of the amazing lives, have for them or our kids in their 30s or 40s kids and and and and sons in law and I just felt man I want to live every moment to the full. Of course always thought that the all the more sees life take advantage of the opportunities you have. Yes, we live this life in light of the world to come.

Jewish tradition says that that this world is the vestibule to the world to come.

But this world is very important. This world is what we have right now so limit to the full sees the time with your family and friends and enjoy the blessings of life and then live a life that makes sense in the light of eternity. Seven.

All is said and done, you will have regret will have pain no way she can go back and began to be full of Thanksgiving, giving thanks to God will talk about the importance of that back and up. I got an important question for you about to open the phone lines to the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you for joining us on this day before Thanksgiving. We are coming away alive today. His phone number call 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH 87884 I want to ask you a question, get your feedback, which is always of use to us and importance to us want to give you question you can reply to in a moment also to share something very important with your special needs.

You can help us with a little later in the broadcast again.

I want to give you some scriptural perspectives that will help you have a spirit of thanksgiving want to talk about the dangers of grumbling and complaining and the positive power in God of the spirit of thanksgiving even outside of the Lord. There were things that were just principles and and being a grumbling, a complainer versus a thankful person that has an effect on you. Even if you don't believe in God will talk about a bunch of different things.

Here's my question for you first and then I want to encourage you with the Scriptures, if you listen to the broadcast regularly. What is it that you appreciate most about the line of fire. If you listen regularly. This will help us just as we pray and we we do our best to honor the Lord and to serve you. What do you appreciate most about the line of fire. Is it our Friday broadcast. You've got questions, we've got answers.

Is it our thoroughly Jewish Thursday broadcast refocus on his related issues. Is it our willingness to take on controversial issues of the day in which a hearing on the news were gonna talk about is it weighing on political issues.

Is it our opening the Scriptures will have different guests on talk about things candidly. If your regular listener. Just let us know of don't have to have a lot to say but let us know.

Give us a call 866-34-TRUTH 87884 commission regularly what you most appreciate about the broadcast. Why do you listen will will be glad to know that we did some online surveys about the materials that we have been and what bring the most blessing to to you, our listeners and those that connect with us on on websites and things like that. So we've we have asked is about the articles we write that have been a blessing to you is it the is it the videos we produce is that the radio broadcast is books that we put out to be done that I want that on the air. If your regular listener. What in particular has been the greatest blessed you are or why do you listen what you listen. It's good for us to know it's helpful. First, on the one hand we do our best to please the Lord, and do it. We feel he wants us to do for the good of our listening audience. It's also good for us to know how were doing in our assignment. How were doing in helping you so give us a call if you got a minute and just let us know what it is that is the greatest blessing to you about the broadcast right particular show we do, how we do it equipping you in a certain way that's good and helpful for us to know and enhance it something you can do given thanksgiving to God because any good that comes out of this is to the glory of the Lord. We can give thanks together 8663 for 87884. Listen to Ephesians 5 all rights therefore be imitators of God is dearly loved children and walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God but sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of him on you as is proper for Saints coarse and foolish talking, or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks we should being known as imitators of God, and is, those who walk in love, as the Messiah. We should be known as people who are morally pure, sexually pure whose words are life-giving and out of our lips. This should not be coarse and foolish talking a crew jog joking, but rather giving thanks giving thanks that's what we should be known for. I preached a message years back. I appreciate a few times over the years but not for many years and it was on grumbling and complaining grumbling and complaining and when you look in the book of numbers, you realize that what caused Israel to fall in the wilderness was not idolatry and was not sexual morality.

All those things were wicked and were judged by God. But remember, they committed idolatry and sexual morality at Mount Sinai immediately after the revelation of God from Mount Sinai. They they committed wicked acts there in God judge them, and yet it was still forward march to the promised land use their will is ultimately their rebellion when they said we can't take the land the rebellion and unbelief in what we can do it that that's what that's what caused them to die in the wilderness yes but but what led to it. If you look in Numbers chapter 11 there grumbling and comply complaining about their food provision and that's a cost impact will magnesium really we were slaves and he was so impressed grumbling and complaining, it's agitated. It's like scratching your fingernails on a chalkboard. Wonder how it sounds to God and then Numbers 12 Erin and Miriam, as I am thousand grumbling and complaining and then 13 chapter. The goal of the promised land and is spirit of grumbling complaint is completely antithetical to the spirit of faith completely antithetical to a spirit of faith, and when you're grumbling and complaining, you're not can be infinitely going.

We can't do. All I have been better to not remove it inside and what happens than the dying moments, grumbling yours and complainers open the door to unbelief which leads to rebellion grumbles and complainers never make a quality faith decision to address and overcome present problems and obstacles by the power of the Spirit in word grumbles and complainers are unthankful and unappreciative appraisers worshipers faith builders joy getters spirit movers and blessing increases praise brings God's presence grumbling chases away. Praise lifts us up grumbling brings us down yet.

Something to think about.

On this day before Thanksgiving, 86634 again asking the question, why listen to the broadcast.

What you most appreciate the broadcast. This is so important for us to know and understand as we strategize and pray about use of funds and and how to best serve out those gods called us to serve. We appreciate your feedback so I'm gonna take calls right up until 4 PM Eastern standard Time.

That means even if you're not listening on the radio can still: 866-34-TRUTH of got one line open right now so do your best to get it will start with our friend Frank in Staten Island.

Thanks for calling the line of fire. Thank you very much Michael and God bless you are you are or you would express but fear could go are you writing about what may be quick about what was 10 years ago next month right before Christmas and I know the situation. I did and I also related to you what you said about your father years ago. They were great. My dog I think the good though I don't think the very heart and Michael and the cold light. Thank you Frank. I appreciate it and I appreciate you having having used as a devoted Catholic listener and we have many things in common in many perspectives of different I appreciate you having his listener having you as a listener and appreciate your kind words today and may you live a life that that that brings pride and joy, your mom and dad to it and thanks for always calling in representing your position eloquently as well as I do appreciate that Frank, thanks so much for taking the time to do this right, friends, we come back I'm going go straight to your calls and hear from as many of you as I canceled hold on through the break. I do appreciate you taking the time to call and let me say this, I give attributes about Bob yesterday and she was one proud Bob thought the whole world view.

Her so while my sister and nephew told his story yesterday. The had brought her into see a doctor one time and he came out he was an Indian Sikh, so the turbine all of that because I go speak it in every year, only 1.3 billion presented close at all. Jill, my son Michael. He speaks of India, she thought, because he visited the study must've known me only 1.3 billion people in Asia sure you must know my son Michael is my mom. I was so glad to honor her. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown in a matter what's going on in your life. Find something to be thankful for. Even if the only thing you can thank you thankful for is who God is and his goodness. Even if you don't feel like you're experiencing it. If you having trouble with the person go before God and find something good about that person to thank God for Paul writes in Ephesians 5 that we should be speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making music from our hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks for everything to God the father and therefore Lord Jesus the Messiah. While 866-34-TRUTH were asking why you listen to the broadcast what it is that most blesses you on the broadcast that it's good for us to know helpful for us to know and were family.

I love to get feedback from your listening audience. We go to Robin in Chesterfield, Virginia. Welcome to the line of fire. Thank you on ClickBank night Arlotta, not on on that night about your broadcast it not only a national event but worldwide event in your brain a biblical perspective like that. Sometimes I just haven't found anyone, and a lot of time here. The I buy a lot of the book and are extremely helpful and a blessing to me and on the other night. I'm sorry about your mom and I had a comfort that she thought the Lord that I went to ask my mother was a Christian I was with her when she made her profession of faith and not that she was right in life when she made that she was never really able to read the Bible, look at the church that there were times she would just cry out and playing a black thank you David week gave that while when it towards the end of her line. She was terrified. She went to sleep at night.

She was up every 1545 minutes crime trust account you want us to sleep whether it was wearing a down card count was horrible and I always have the comfort that I would have the grace of God that came that to be frank with you after out, mom and how she died. I'm afraid of death because you I think you would stand for her and I don't know why you know, writing is I yeah III hate the fact sheet she went through that and thank you for your kind words. I hate the fact she went through that we had really really pray that my mom would would go quickly and wouldn't suffer, and that is what happened. A shoe she didn't want to die. You know should she even though she was confined to her bed and she didn't want to die, but I would say this Robin it's it's it's painful that your mom went through that it's over. Though she's in the presence of the Lord. She's rejoicing and I would I would pray to the Lord, that whatever it is in you, that's creating a fear of the same thing that was in her that God would get to the root of that and give you assurance there something there must've been something in your mom that cause that fear and that you never able to deal with get to the root of ask God to help you get to the root of that and then you can when it's time to go. You can be ready to go joyfully as so many saints of God have done know it's their time and they leave this world go straight to the arms of the Lord to make God's grace removes that fear of rooted and give you confidence as you get ready in the years to come, to meet your maker may be so.

Thank you Robin for calling 866-34-TRUTH of life and death waiting waiting waiting issues. Everything I do without doing ministry I do and in light of that reality. Reality of eternity. The reality of life and death so that we do we do seriously with joy. But seriously, before the Lord, we go to Sherry and Boston, Massachusetts. Thanks for calling the line of fire around trying to speak with you the first time ever on the radio got the quick you. I was crying because I would catch, and if I give you little perspective about two or three years ago I would look into the Christian radio station I came across your program and to be quite honest with a lot. I felt a lot of conviction listening to you that may not. Kind of like that project I would, I would convicted so initially I would just kinda turn it off and and and. But then I always found myself drawn back to listening because I just felt like I get really appreciated the way that you spoke. I really appreciated the way that you broke things down and connected them biblically on any man who actually called spoke at my church one and I would like to make you actually gave about my mom, my brother Danny struggled with, sexuality actually right around the time that your air pump came out great. Coming to her no good now as an adult and that no election and it was really difficult. I can't do anything. Young men like being on the debate club called 11. I like the book but there happened next weekend if I would point Mexican on Mexico and a lot of their family are undocumented, yelled struggle in our household because we knew, but biblical from a Christian perspective of what the think that we Lord that you note Donald Trump going to be the boat that we should pat bike from their perspective and the feeling that that know it would look into your everyday lightning you really like just kinda way. That and not just jump right that you know you know, kinda laid out like let's get to chat about it what you bet.

I kinda reiterated that after the election is in charge felt the Lord, you know that there people would be watching out non-Christian men in high school about a hat that bear witness would be kinda watched on that day, how they would react to it articulated and felt very wound up while felt admin filter call my Naugatuck like you have a lot of people but I could find a day.

It started with me. Can you I got my coat that that's truth that feels uncomfortable to me and then you have now, I got a van. I pick up kids from school I leave at 2 o'clock I get a lip and a little bit before I get to kick a man though I didn't drink, you will thank you Sherry. That's a meaningful and and so glad to hear the way you kids been raised in Woody. What a unique position they're in right now to glorify Jesus. So thanks for being a regular listener.

Thanks for the call and and I don't know the details, but I do remember giving that book to you tomorrow for your brother. May the Lord touch him in jail.

Thanks so much hate friends when people's of what they do and have a mom what you want flowers or said hey I just reach out to level reach out to Loveland hug love one little or how much you care about them so that's what I've asked for.

We can ask for donations to or ministry or anything like that. We mom our mamas to be remembered for who she was and I want you to to reach out and be a blessing to Loveland and in memory of my mom so totally separate level. As we come to the end of the year. We do have some major pressing needs including our radial bills and other things ready for interview list two weeks and these always supported a trip if you could help us year-end tax deductible. One time been a blessing to you which you stand with us, go to the website and start to brown the Lord. Cascade your browser click on donate together. It's making big it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker, and Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 86643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you for joining us on the line of fire. For thank full for the love of God that broke into my life and can transform the in 1971 from a heroin shooting LSD using rebel to a child of God. So my cousin Angie for the first time in many years. Yesterday at my mom's funeral and he was a hippie before I was a hippie he was.

He was a real pioneer. You know those days. Long hair get you beat up on a subway or something and sister construction site of a just was not popular in many circles in and of so when he became a hippie before this years older than me before I did my family six weeks: JC through Jewish and so thought long hair. It's like Jesus Christ did and but she got concerned when he saw me going from the hippie psychedelic drugs and I kinda thing to shooting drugs.

He actually got concerned. He said seriously as Rose glad you went the way of the Lord. So is so great to reconnect with him. And if you got family. Haven't seen in a while. Reach out to him. She got older, love ones. Your your call probably means more to them than you realize. If you have got broken relationships to which you can't amend them. You'll be glad they'll be glad in the small of Lord will be on a cause of God of reconciliation. 866-34-TRUTH 7884 if you just tuning in. My question to our radial listeners is what you listen to the broadcast. How have we been a blessing to you were asking to better understand what we do that is most effective seek to please the Lord.

We seek to do broadcast that we believe will honor him and beat you your good but it's always great to hear back from you to know why you listen to the broadcast 866-34-TRUTH of the Scotus Sarah in Rockville, Maryland, thanks for calling the line of fire. Tell the truth about why your path I want.

I can rely on your honor, I never hello way with people or collar never in the first woman that you talk to you about her mother that God, not with her on.

I predict that the block became quick. Only the creek that I gave it to the bacchanal he would say everybody wants to go to got a guide for life that the thing about Trump.

I appreciated that you didn't go off on him before.

I think he regretted it to be under real attack now and I'm married to an expert if the conservative and about her and love, and you realize that that one constant of about Mexican he wasn't talking about talking about the one you generate thing about all of them that right away, you know I normally get on worldwide, maybe even a wide take on like it Sarah. I appreciate that.

Maybe we can add that to our notes to our description of the show, not just worldwide coverage with galaxy why that's that's wonderful, Sarah, and thank you for thank you for the kind words and it's great to hear your your husband's perspective to write character how you are very very good Like I do, but I know about that.Dave 100 weekly, sexuality, and I believe now yeah you know what happened. Sarah is in the 60s sexual evolution age of discovery which rebellion it's just become the norm in the culture. Hey, thanks again for the kind words are on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown listen to the words of Scripture Philippians 46. Don't worry about anything but in everything through prayer and petition with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God always add in thanksgiving to your praying, it will change your attitude will change your perspective, you begin to put your eyes on the goodness of God, you begin to remember the great things God has done in the past, you begin to get a different perspective on your present circumstances and before you know it. Before you know if you are you are literally joyful. Where is before you started praying you were discouraged and hopeless white because you turned your attention from that which was hopeless and difficult and painful in itself and turned her attention to the living God, whose presence is fullness of joy in his presence is eternal hope this is Michael Bragg listening to the modifier the day before Thanksgiving, 866342. Let's go to Norma in Silver Spring, Maryland. Welcome to the line of fire and recovering the creek turn chair directly to the radio. Eric I think you like. You are very unique on the radio. You can a wonderfully back back down to earth on sleeper pick out a new text Internet every night on last year I got got in a chaotic night appreciate even more Rewrite at coming on on a tradition not in any way on to rash. I need to capture and I can't get the contact you could buy plastic well on welfare capture.

I'm not on your collar Ontario on Friday.

I started out there listening to John.

The contractor and a lick when he went to cut going off on the Holy Spirit and on. I like having come down to kind eternal talking and be in the next can't hurry to pilot and mechanic and got your book I think I cannot at current I buy you talk about it, and really helped me a lot in making the link on the Norma that that brings great joy to my heart all all the things that you share it and I'm so glad the Lord brought you to himself at the age of 62 and that we we've been there for a good part of the journey with you and add your love our brother John MacArthur and have differences about the things of the spirit and so glad we were able to encourage you to to keep on keeping on with the five the spirit. So again, thank you, thank you for calling and that's that's very meaningful and helpful.

Have a but of less Thanksgiving, 866-348-7884 just getting your feedback as to why you listen to the show we know what we do.

Why we do it, but it's also so helpful for us as a team and for me individually to know what ministers to you know if we thought we were cooking up delicious food and nobody likes the taste and nobody found it nutritious. What are we what we might want to reevaluate the menu but if we really believe we've got a good menu. Get some good cooks in the kitchen and then we hear from you. Yeah the food is nutritious and the taste good, then that encourages us in and it's also good to know, hate it when we go to your restaurant for this meal we weekly arrest or for that meal.

If you get my analogy hits the day before Thanksgiving we can use a food analogy, let's go to Cardell in the Bronx, New York.

Thank you for calling the line of fire Michael Dr. Rucker.

Well, yes, love, and clear.

Okay you will give you market your condolences on your mom's appropriate tribute. Good luck not having on your mom.

But to be very thoughtfully but shared about your mom. Very much appreciated.

You touched me and I just wanted to share that with you but luckily your partner? The Bible program.

I enjoy your insights on current event, report the political right appreciated your prepare for Christian perspective. I also enjoyed your mechanic take on the event a good birthday. Not a real and you study of the whole, and I particularly appreciate your humble bird on the go to differ with you and you're not understanding and very Christlike manner in which you want to give her an opinion you cannot you just wish we could do Dr. John MacArthur. I looked the doctor authorized appreciated perspective and I don't agree with you all perspective you are and nor do I need you, but I think will I know about� Don't be on the glory of the board beloved sent. Thank you, Sue, thanks for the kind words about about what your mom and thanks for your encouraging words about the broadcast. That means a lot to us.

And yes, the KB great state of rejoicing a test. MacArthur silos will have together in the presence of God with every amazing I think of that.

So thank you thank you very much for the call. Very meaningful. Thanks, 8663 freight 7884. Let's go there on an arm in Reading, Massachusetts. Welcome to the modifier. How are you Michael Brown doing very well thank you I think before your life and all the teaching, regularly to show it line of fire and one of my highlight was the theft of your John about a month or two month ago and do I add to my people that can now Karen despite a little bit over different secondary issues, but we can agree on the primary issues open the Bible. I met you Dr. Michael Brown, 1999 that the caller yesterday that during the Brownsville revival.

We would like to have several million people pass through those doors and a five year period and in my officious development of crime. The best human community that was a pocket infected by about the broader revival in even the biggest churches are prospering in. And even though some people say that the revival gone and stuff like that Bailey can feed a reflection of what the move of God. It happened on those days so I'm just thankful for your life in an Altair question. The main reason I like your choice, but the gringa prospectus. Your humble and you can declare with people. I would often expect to understanding that I like, let's call it that we can be on the same have been. Thank you Dr. the site.

Thank you for this very kind words and speaking of the browser revival, which began father said 95. The phenomenon of the revival in one building and spreading out from there around the world get that that began to wane. 99. Certainly, 2000, wane some school supplies.

The church was healthy and you say what's lesson fruit will that is the lasting fruit that our brother was just talking about that many touched 20 years ago or 15 years ago are burning bright today, many who were touched by someone touched in the revival of burning bright today we have grads from the school of ministry that began in the revival and that continues to this day bearing fruit around the world and they planted schools and now the graduates from those schools are going out to do missions work in the surrounding countries where they live in Asia and Africa in Europe so we're we're seeing that amazing ongoing fruit to this day, and ministries that were birthed out of the revival Icar school and church missions organization continue to move forward. By the grace of God continue to bear fruit to this moment. So yes, the revival continues bearing fruit around the world, to the glory of God.

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So the Scriptures say in Hebrew, bathed at the cover at the America honor your father and your mother and the Hebrew word for honor. Yes it does mean honor it can mean in a different context. It it has to do with weightiness it. It has to do it. The related routes form with the glory and presence of God. It can refer to the mass accumulation of stuff someone has always is having its weighty if you've heard about the color of old the glory of God. That's the same root cub aid call vote cub aid honor call vote. Lori Kevin Ed heavy so you get this picture on the one hand it's it's timeout treating with respect, treating with honor and with reference it in a lot of our Western culture the way kids talk to their parents would be completely unheard of in other parts the world completely unheard of you other ways the kids can be mistreated on the parts 2, with the lack of respect for elders, the lack of respect for authority.

That's common in the western parts of Europe is is unknown in other parts the world and other cultures.

That's why biblical law if it if a child cursed mother or father struck by the father. They can be put to death it was that extreme. It was that much of a night of oven unexpected extraordinary above and beyond active absolute effrontery and again there are there are cultures where parents with kids still have to live certain ways to honor the desires of their aged parents again. There's a freedom we have in the West that can be positive, but it can be negative as well. And part of what's negative is our lack of respect. Lack of honor for the elderly and our elders lack of respect. Lack of honor for our parents and even for authority figures in general. How much more those who nurture us and care for us to see, you don't know my mother you don't know my father, I understand this to your parents and and even if you have grievances or issues. There is a way to deal with it that is hollering and respectful here just in earthly authority figure if it's a police officer that pulled me over and I felt I was pulled over unjustly and unfairly at Lisandro my life is not being threatened or anything like that. I still would deal with that officer respectfully and even if I felt I had to fight it in course I would deal with it with respect for the law will all the more those that that nurtured us and raised us. We should treat with respect what our girls were little they want to see home alone and and I think that was the movie they said all their friends were saying it was never not really keen on it so we find a second look will get the video without video form and will watch it together on the condition that we can stop it periodically and talk about basic fine is one of see it and he stopped it periodically is it what you think about the way that the siblings 37.

All that's not good what you think about the way the kids talk to parents, bad daddy. They just want to go out of the blue but they were they recognized they recognize how inappropriate is this this is normal in our world, and I imagine if I watched a lot of sitcoms and things like that. I see stuff even worse. So I want to encourage you something about my mom and dad's memory to honor your mother and father but not just by being respectful, not just treating them as they deserve to be treated as mother and father again, even if they're not good parents and the ways they still have a place of mom and dad and therefore are treated with a certain respect you differ with them in a way that's different than you differ with your your your your siblings or your your neighborhood friends. But there's another way to honor which is to live a life that brings joy to them to live a life so that they look good, because the way you live. All that's rose and eight cents per mom and dad said that that's rose in Abe's son you want to be always in trouble again.

All the reservoirs for the seventh time. All he's is behind on his alimony payments, and any just got thrown in jail is arose in Abe's son all kids went on a crime spree all that that got its own nasty and mean to every body mistreats okay that's rose in Abe's son that he wanted to be all that's that's rose in Abe's son that and you know when when I when I was at the funeral service yesterday. I message everyone you know my mom soprano sister and me and soprano the grandkids. She started running the world.

Maybe your mentioned this, but health care giver would come into her room and they'd be walking out walking I call you Dr. Brown all relisted your regular should she thought I was super famous there that the whole world. We listen to the radio show. She was always promoting she knew what time it was all in her old age. It just as the amazingly one of the things she forgot she remember that and I thought how appropriate that right now through the radio until in the whole world about my mom and and giving her honor through the things I've written that are now being read by people around the world because of the amazing reach of Internet and I thought that that would bring a smile to her face that her son that she thinks the world. Those fixedly you know 10 times bigger that I could ever be that that I get to to magnify her as a great mom. Love you mom affirming mom before the world. It's so so live a life that would make your parents proud and if they didn't know the Lord in the light of eternity. Live a life that they would say while made the right choices did honor us even though we didn't see it.

He friends my bottom line today, Thanksgiving is around the corner reach out to family member show the love bring honor to mom. It's the day before Thanksgiving today show will bless you encourage it will make it count stage for the line of fire with your host activist and author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH. That's 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown yeah I'm just sitting scrolling through some of the many many comments.

The hundreds, probably thousands of comments that have come in from folks who have who have been sending their condolences have been reaching out after the passing of my mom last Friday morning and in the funeral service yesterday so again as we welcome any new listeners right now. Thank you so much for being part of the broadcast and should be part of the family and for expressing your kind words you condolences.

It's it's just it's a fascinating thing live talk radio is different than other forms of media because you develop a relationship with people now through social media. You know I can I can post something I can tweet out your on my way to the funeral service to you know, missing my mom and dad and things like that, or you can post a picture my mom from decades ago and and and people can respondent so it's it's not just like being a media personality, whatever that is is a matter of having a relationship with a much much much bigger family.

And I said this again, but it's appropriate to say again today have said before its appropriate sake. And today that I will often run into someone that I know I don't know walking through an airport.

I'm walking out of the store on approached by someone and it is. I don't mean a church service from ministering in this are ready in a relationship and maybe they know me for years, but I mean just some other place and some will come up to me and the look they have on their face is the look of someone that is a long time friend or family member. You know what I'm saying. All may I carefully was I was senior so that Catholic right except have no idea who they are, but that's how they're looking at me and I know they didn't tell me I know what they didn't tell me I listen to radio show all the time. That's what because we built that relationship without seeing each other face-to-face and is something that I feel just as you feel it is not is not put on. If after prerecorded show. For some reason think men will be there live for my listeners. We periodically felt fine overseas so will have a guest house. I love it because we got five to discuss how something ought out on the be there talking to everyone. So thank you again for reaching out for your kind words. I've said it earlier. The first of the broadcast.

Down the second hours.

Many of you just tuning in on say to get if you listen to my podcast. You get to hear.

We said a bunch of times over the two hours of the podcasts. Thank you for your kind words and you know I didn't realize until I saw the news that yesterday was the anniversary of the assassination of Pres. Kennedy and and it reminds you that every day people are dying.

Some suddenly, unexpectedly, some after living on a very full life, like my mom 94 years and and in the same day yesterday. How many babies were born life-and-death. It's this ongoing cycle but but don't just be part of a cycle that takes over and you become part of this machine of common goat no-no you got life. It's different than animal life. It's different than plant life.

It's it's different than anything else other beings other creation experiences we've got an incredible opportunity to build relationships with got incredible opportunity to help people get incredible opportunity to to show what God can do through a yielded life. Wow what God can do through life yielded to him.

Find out about this great experiment of what your life could mean and how it could be used for the Lord will you have breath live for the Lord. And if you've wasted years go to him and say God, I'm so sorry for years of wasted. Forgive me wash me clean through the blood of Jesus to be a fresh new start friends. The years ahead to make up for the years behind file. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the minor fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown on this day before Thanksgiving. I want to look at symbols in the word about grumbling, complaining versus giving thanks and praise to God. The differences in attitude.

The difference in fruit that is born want talk about that in a moment of also for all of our listeners in North Carolina one way and from moment on the gubernatorial elections. The controversy of accounting and things like that one away and just briefly on that and I got a question for you with. We got some very touching and and helpful responses in the first hour will open us up now in the second hour while you listen to this broadcast. We are doing our best to serve you, equip you be a blessing to you. What is it that most blesses you about the broadcast. While you listen this on a regular basis. If you been listening as often as you can.

Over the years.

What he listened. What is it that is most helpful to is it our coverage of political and cultural issues. Is it our willingness to entertain diverse viewpoints.

Is it our teaching from the Scriptures as it are thoroughly Jewish Thursday Jewish prospectuses that are a Q&A on Fridays. Is it knowing that was happening in the world is going to be addressed from a Christian perspective here about what is most helpful to it's helpful for us to know again that we pray we do our best to honor the Lord and use this broadcast to the fall we have to raise money to be on the air and thank you for all of your support to help us beyond the year, but this is a mission for us. This is a calling and it's good for us to know what helps you what blesses you again it's not a matter of us try to be all things to all people, was of God called us to to be an Italian restaurant and you love Chinese food bowl will recommend a good Chinese place down the down the block, but we won't try to make Chinese a time.

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On the flipside, if if our mission was to provide ethnic food for everyone in the community. You said yeah, but what about the Thai people, Indonesians we have big communities. The cook their food that's helpful to know the self knows also what is it that helps you the most about the broadcast. While you listen, you don't have to go on at length, but it where we're interested in hearing feedback from you. It's helpful as we pray and and as we seek to serve and if if we feel were doing something well, that's helpful and we really lead into that and you call and say you know this is so helpful when you do thus and such.

That's a confirmation of further confirmation to keep plugging away to keep raising the funds to keep doing what we do give the minister to you through the radio to all of you listening live in your car is in computers for your work and others listing a podcast online afterwards. Thanks been part of her audience. These are very precious words of Luke. Thank you for posting this week was listening to the broadcast yesterday as I gave tribute to my mom is a godless today. Michael had a hard time listening to this at work and I crying along with you. Enjoys remembered her pressuring her stories. Thank you, and in so many of the kind words were posted, but I just notice that one so so hopefully you listening at work and not crying today but thank you that's that's so meaningful to me, 866-348-7884 is the number to call right North Carolina voting.

I just want to take a moment on that because it is such a hot political issue and I first want to talk about perspectives all right. I'm not taking calls on this issue right nudging general Bible questions, but just if you are away and and share while you listen to the broadcast what it is that is of greatest help to you. That's great for us to know. Again, the medical 866-34-TRUTH eight 784 all right I was just listening to commentary on reports that supporters of Hillary Clinton continued to push for some type of recount through her reevaluating things are getting people electoral college to vote differently in an what comes from my meatless ridiculous. That's bogus sore losers face the fact that you lost the election. It's all over. Grow up. Move on as I can to change minnows the kind of emotions.

I have just in the natural all right if if I'm honest, this may seem wrong, it's over MoveOn now when it comes to North Carolina and the dispute about ballot counting between Gov. Cory and Treas. Roy Cooper was with Roy Cooper up what listen 10,000 votes. When all is said and done right now I want to see every Calgary vote or something. So it other words, your your sympathies can cloud your perspective. Now I think I think there's a lot more evidence of so to be there on a North Carolina then there is evidence that something was done wrong to give you election for Donald Trump.

Okay, I don't see evidence for that at all. I but I do see evidence in North Carolina, but I just want to be candid that when people say Hillary Clinton really wanted to be another vote or something or or not another vote for the recount door or push the Department of Justice looking for something. Come on, so every once in the subject North Carolina I'm saying that all B recount or a remote with a cover remoteness of the like that. That's what is possible recount certainly as possible so maybe it's my perspective. Maybe it's my bias. Maybe it's that I voted for Donald Trump with reservation but with hope. I voted for Donald Trump and I voted for Gov. McCrory with with more confidence and in that respect of, but in any case, it could be. My perspective is is slanted and that's why I think of one wave of the last election. Another about the local election. This mechanic with but as of family values here in North Carolina has has reminded us Democratic funded pack called Bladen County improvement Association pack milled hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots that were witnessed and signed by the same people. Gov. Chris Rob protested over 50 counties insisting some votes have come from individuals or deceased felons vote multiple times incidents have led the scimitar center for long freedom to file a federal lawsuit requesting a restraining order on Sandy ballots via center registration. Those incidents have led Gov. McCrory to file for an official recount of family values there, also points out that aim higher. Now and see the group. Planned Parenthood was called collaborating with was actually a project of an organization called the noncitizens for particular schools. The stenosis's particular schools is your donated about 1,000,000 1/2 dollars to organization called North Korea from his first North Carolina from his first bent over $2,670,000 target Republican members of North Carolina Gen. assembly with almost half are going towards opposing Supreme Court Justice Bob Edmonds is gone from his first also donated nearly 500,000 Planned Parenthood action pack North Carolina say what's the issue well. All these groups that were working with Planned Parenthood collaborating with Planned Parenthood and pouring all this money were also in this. According to W BTV so respected media here in in Charlotte which is one of the main media outlets and in North Carolina. Radio and TV in there on your side investigation of they uncovered political group affiliate with Planned Parenthood posing as an anti-tolls group, it appears that if government produces. He didn't lose because of HB two he lost because he was outspent by opponents of HB two and others. He was outspent 21 million to 13 million something like that so finance would be less than 10,000 votes for Smith � he have a crushing victory right that's self-evident.

That's how advertising works but there were controversies with with him and Duke energy and a history there and controversies with him and and was Route 77 memento tollroad. So if if he loses it� For one of those other things but because others were reelected who were strong proponents of HB two is not a mandate against HB two by the voters, North Carolina no matter how people transmit this on the case and seems not to be the case with Gov. McCrory.

From what I understand was unpopular about other issues as well with others other issues. HB two would not have sunk him. Despite all of the national bullying against the city North Carolina but here you have groups apparently affiliate or group apparently filled it with Planned Parenthood poses an anti-tolls group so hey vote vote for Roy Cooper. He's against the tolls. Gov. McCrory was for the tolls and actually there working for Planned Parenthood and their part of a larger antifamily coalition costs of family first and antifamily coalition that's coming against HB two and and and bathroom privacy and gender distinctions and things like that so here's here's what you agree to prayer. Pray for right let the truth come to light house that let the truth come to light North Carolina yeah Veracruz outspent special-interest groups in the outside that's that's what happened. That's that's politics but let the vote County fair and honest and righteous and whoever wins, they when we support them. As Gov., whether we like their policies are not still support them as governor. Can we agree to pray for that North Carolina God, your will be done.

Bring truth to light, expose darkness, to be true. Vote count and I thought and hate in the nation as a whole will direct the number five. It's the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown of your voice and more cultural and spiritual revolution.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown welcome welcome to the line of fire.

This is Michael Brown 866-34-TRUTH 7884 is the number to call again. The simple question we put out and took a lot of calls in the first hour will take more calls before the show is out today what you listen to the broadcast.

If you been a regular listener.

Many above fast fast fast fast fast fast fast fast vast majority of all who listened. Never call the broadcast is like shows of listen to for years in the car never called those broadcasts ever maybe one or two out of beetle in decades, but give us a call. They let us know why you listen what is that helps you the most about the broadcast. What is it that blesses you the most about the broadcast is so helpful for us to hear this and and it helps us as we pray and evaluate how we can serve how we can best be a blessing to you his number to call 86634268663487884 as today is the day before Thanksgiving. Let me take a few minutes to remind you of what the word of God says, and to remind you of our call to be givers of thanks. Paul wrote this in Philippians chapter 2 and forth.

We could learn to live by this Allies would be radically transformed Philippians 214.

The context is how we should have the mind of the Messiah humbling ourselves as he did, and how we should recognize God's work in our lives work out our salvation with fear and trembling, and then he says this, Philippians 214 do everything without grumbling and arguing who you say that Dr. Brown what is that word everything mean and in Greek, well, everything. Tanta all things. Everything do everything with out grumbling, arguing, complaining and arguing efficiently to spiteful a little Yiddish is him little Jewish expression. Do everything without fetching or arguing all that sweet treachery yet it's the Jewish way of saying it stopped fetching a ready do everything without murmuring that division sanction Syriac translation there was complaining and arguing.

Do everything without grumbling or arguing everything without grumbling or disputing through all things are complaining and disputing loud and clear. Yes, Lord, we got it when you do instead, be thankful and grateful speak words of life. It is amazing how you can just have a certain perspective where your to speak differently to a situation and that's can be your attitude and also pulses do everything I grumbling in arguing so that you may be blameless and sure children of God were faultless of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world is that saying that we can't be blameless and pure in our conduct. If we do things with grumbling and arguing complaining ye out. Yes ma'am yes sir. Terms were more conduct treasurer moral purity in terms of the fruit of the spirit our lives if we are grumbling yours and complainers and arguers now ground on how one is that only they have Ryland and in the best the best compliment you give is not bad bad blood in his letter, and that the ring on the spirit and the flesh you not glorifying the Lord nothing mature.

In fact roaming complaint is kind of babyish don't you associate that you expected from an adult to you from teenager that often react like that because were in/ugly yet that if I talk like that the whole broadcasts I would have zero. Listen, I know I haven't zero listeners in a hurry.

I'm sure our engineers are call screeners are producer the baby they go somewhere else and do something else for good reason.

Let's be those who give thanks. Let's be those who glorify the let's be those who look for hope in life in the midst of darkness, 86634 getting your feedback today this day before Thanksgiving him while you listen to the broadcast, how it is that we are help to you. We go to Lynette in Long Island. Welcome to the long fought a lot of fire. Dr. Brown and Graham happy Thanksgiving to you and uncle grant that you opened up the line on topic today I get to publicly failed it because my ankle fire that I think know that 11 people to be Christian, and all those simultaneously very highly educated and and know how to love the Lord our God with all of our heartfelt mind and strength because I think that the enemy always want to camp that to check our brains and at the door and Nathan and Tom that being a Christian and being an intelligent person, an inanimate I can't get her to think that the same time I love that about ministry all of you ministry and that you directly and another thing I learned that it it's so wonderful to regularly hear the truth. I never thought I would be living in a Japan at birth time talked about buying the truth is not telling late fee, no important but nowadays it is very difficult to actually hear true people who speak the truth that I called ugly name Frank Bacon expand and liars, and and another thing.

And people who cannot live. I know Austin lifted up being in the right at the company is so refreshing about this ministry. Hearing the truth about the Bible hearing the truth about Israel on hearing the truth about that you hearing the truth about God's perspective on pain and it it it it fell refreshing and don't need it that is a long list of dialect. Thank you, like everybody else and and that that mean paying off now is that you encourage prayer and you encourage Tom moving on to holiness and maturity and in all of your list, not back, everybody has to be exactly like you think that everything late you do anything like that that you lift up cry and you lift up the learn and you encourage everybody including top to to accomplish. So I sat high on the net that sensitizes you. I'm so gratified to listen to and it would to God truth to be shouted from the mountain tops for all the world to hear by this truth all around the world. Thank you for your kind words. It's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 86643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown is the day before Thanksgiving and we want to give thanks to God. We want to honor the Lord we want to be people of Thanksgiving as a welcome committee listeners just turning in and out to the broadcast is a done over the last hour and 1/2. Thank you for your many kind words. You words of love and condolence and the passing of our mom last Friday in the funeral yesterday.

Thank you for the Congressman my mom thank you for the kind words about my tribute to my mom. Adjuster converts to be in the family.

Your prayers and I'm like a broken record over this, but I don't think I can say too much if you got a broken relationship of the love will do what you can to repair and if you've neglected a love one, you say will how do I know if I've neglected a loved one how how how can I be sure well just think like this if they were to leave this world now would you say oh I wish I while I could've spent more time all I can't believe I follow. Boy did I think I told my love them, you know, if you can. It if you have some kind of guilt yeah I know there's things in life things in the past. You can go back and fix but you can do your best to redeem what you've done to hurt a loved one by honoring them and loving them and making them proud and some silica reached out yeah they just if could shut the door, pray for them and pray for God's blessing on them. If you have to humble yourself and reach out just because you've closed the door to someone reopen it. Life is to short life is too short to allow relationships to be broken one of my friends always point out relationships with the meaning of life and Jesus said in John 17 three as he praised his father. This is eternal life. Notice he doesn't say this is the way to eternal life, the path to eternal life.

The formula for eternal life.

This is eternal life, that they may know you the only true God and Jesus the Messiah, whom you sent eternal life consists in a relationship with God and his son Jesus life is bound up in relationships. You say I am all alone right now. Hey, although more than can God be there for you in such a deep and extraordinary way that he meets every single one of your needs while it's true it's real and I just feel to do the stuff father for those that feel alone and forsaken.

Give them a token of your love, especially as it's painful during the Thanksgiving and holiday season. Give them a token of your love.

May someone reach out to them, or may they feel the depth of your love and presence within not in right relationship with you.

God show them the way open to humble themselves and receive your love and grace and forgiveness will today I want to give you some scriptural principles about Thanksgiving talk about the negative effects of grumbling and complaining and take your calls. We've got some very encouraging and insightful and helpful calls of the last hour and 1/2 and I want to do this in the next 25 minutes or so. The broadcast that we come back on him.

So the break room was straight to the phones but here's number to call 866-34-TRUTH's 866-34-TRUTH 87884 if you listen to this broadcast on a regular basis as often as you can.

If you listen for number of years. What is it that blesses you about the broadcast. Why do you listen how we have helped to you on this broadcast. We really pray and seek to do our best to be a blessing to you, but what is it about this broadcast that's important to you is are thoroughly Jewish Thursday Jewish perspective. This is the wide range of questions we we take on the Bible. Is it dealing with contemporary political cultural issues. Is it just being a source of encouragement and hope she was it the way we handle controversies. It's helpful for us to know what is a blessing to us.

We pray and ask God how to serve your people. Best give us a call 866-34-TRUTH right back to light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you thank you for being part of our radio broadcasts. Can I remind you that gremlins and complainers open the door to unbelief which leads to rebellion the gremlins and complainers never make a quality faith decision to address and overcome present problems and obstacles by the power of the spirit and the work that gremlins and complainers are unthankful and unappreciative the gremlins and complainers of fall finders and tear down rather than build up the grumbles and complainers are joyless, and therefore question the joy of others. They project their own misery on others. The grimace complainers never content with the president that with the present. Yesterday was always better today needs to change course, they quickly forget their attitudes yesterday when yesterday was today. Grimace complainers Ashley qualifies fools. According to the moral status of Proverbs grumbles and complainers are face killers, joy, Steelers spirit crunchers in blessing to ministers, appraisers and worshipers. Those who give thanks. Our faith builders, joy, gutters, spirit movers and blessing increases praise brings God's presence grumbling chases away.

Praise lifts us up grumbling brings us down the word calls us to be thankful and is God's people no matter what were going through. We have every reason to be thankful and you know in God's sight. Lack of thankfulness stands out is notable in the eyes of heaven. Member Luke 17 verses 11 through 19 the healing of the 10 lepers right and and nine Galway healed their field as they go only one comes back to give thanks lack of thankfulness stands out Jesus word where the other nine were the other nine and and John praying high when the great prayer warriors in church history has a season of of not breaking through in prayer and in an and in his results in soul winning.

He does not see people coming to the Lord and he got to the point we had covenant with the Lord. When the ministry started there, go months, years, announcing a conference he got to the point of leaving one person's Lord every day and personal witness got to the point of leaving for people to the Lord everyday and personal witness and what it wouldn't happen.

He would go, Lord, Lord, what standing in the way. But when Roy invariably gobs and lack of thankfulness lack of thankfulness. What a difference. Thanksgiving makes Colossians chapter 1 Paul writes this is part of his prayer for the Colossians servers not for this reason also since the day we heard this about your faith, your love for the Lord. We have a star praying for you were asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the father whose enable you to share in the saints inheritance in the light that's that's what we are to be characterized by Thanksgiving rather than grumbling and complaining. Hey, friends, or phone lines are open 866-3487 84 if this show has been a blessing to be been a regular listener. You listen as often as you can while you listen wizard about the broadcast that helps you the most is helpful for us to know this is well will start in High Point, North Carolina Sandy, welcome to the line of fire. Hey every recount like you cared about your and what it meant you were online about that you only get one mom and her let out one matter and and and. Sorry for you, let you know we see it that the black and white, and violet patient today really really down or up to come by and are not turning around.

Adam, when you click Bal Barksdale and scale turnaround and you always have a word with me and make bearing on. I'm thinking about birthday Donald on account of any kind with the bank and I'm learning so much about being God cursed and, if not all about it all about God and he got my back and I say years ago I went Out Divorce Tractable Back Alley, Jesus Christ, and the only one never let me down only man never look at me funny. Trip and I felt thankful I have been in my line up the check today and I wondered if other countries that don't think it American family wanted to let many Denglish that I don't have time for thankful we have that we are so blasted the nation and you always think it's great. I love that halibut Lynette that she was paying it all for me to eat it bring out the trait and found it not good. The left met that word to use the credit check we Hudson Gretchen yell integrates the great Yiddish word yet Jewish expressions. In fact, there's a whole book about Jewish culture Mansa Colborne success that yes it so often and often that can be something in it Judaism. If your religious do you pray prayers of thanksgiving all the time through the day and and and whatever comes your way you want to be thankful for. But there is something our culture is found in every culture. A certain level you can play vegans are good enough, and the others.

He is Yiddish word for express threats, stop all the kvetch what's with the stretching already. So Sandy, thank you for the kind words and yeah on your worst day don't know stay down, turn the broadcast on will will encourage you. Thank you so much for the call 866-348-7884. All right, I know this is Marty in London, Canada, one of our grads hate welcome to the line of fire.

Thanks for calling. Hey Dr. Brown to actually connect with the eye current broadcast on Canadian and you after the call and and let you know wireless. I'd say first of all, Dr. Brown, because I know you that under your teaching in. I know you to be a man of truth and absolutely man of the word I say when I when I hear the things that you say I take it to heart, because I know where coming from. I don't know a lot about the political things that are going on in the world.

A lot of the cultural things that are out there.

I hear in a bit of news here and there but when I turn on your front.

I know that I'm getting here something that there that balance. You don't just give one-sided view. Do you have your moral standard than your epic don't you don't, waver from that. But you also share real.I remember listening to you in class bend and something would happen and you would. Is it true you know already that the wind moving things around you coming out I'm talking about, you know know if the reality of looking at what really is true and very informative for me. You know, I would say the thing that really opened my eye recently was, you know, just everything going on with the election at night. I tuned in a number of time.

I believe you had landfall now are you definitely made reference to him and I and another gentleman about another prophetic word and think the fire it anointing and different things and I would say Dr. Granik heart Ray more than ever for your country. It also caused me to be repentant about not praying for my own prime minister here in Canada and it really opened my eyes to the important of upgrading and you know if my people who are called by my name, and you know I was in America during the election and you know you could literally walk the land around an election polling station there and you know we saw incredible thing and it through prayer and it through good information and yeah so that's why I listen and offer Dr. Brown authority to hear your compacting Great Bend and concrete encouraged to you and the date. Thank you Nancy thanks thanks so much and your family have a lasting legacy in China. We served over the years and of course with your family.

Ongoing recent Canada elsewhere just so during the break. A very kind note that you sent in from for you and your husband so so thanks thanks for the kind words. Thanks for the condolences and you know since you served overseas Chinese when these countries. On the one hand can have great poverty. On the other hand great wealth with such a vast country and even of the gospel spreading their gives you perspective of the needs of the world and and how how privileged we can be in North America how much we can have and so important for us to say Lord we need to shine as a light and you know, having lived overseas the influence. America can have for better or worse salt. Thank you for the call for the kind words and let's let's really pray for our nation and many many ways. As America goes, that's how the world goes as America goes into the world, ghosted in terms of influencing things that are big here become big elsewhere that it can be for that critical time to pray for a nation.

Thank you.

Call the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice aboard cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thanks for joining us on the line of fire, 866487884 make it to a few more calls if one away and why use it to the broadcast how the broadcast is been a blessing to you that is great for us to hear and know as we seek to serve you in the best way that we possibly can. Yeah just just sent a map that shows what Americans are most thankful for in every state. This is on mother Jones.com and let's just see here from right so the highest percentage with with folks of most thankful for. Overall friends and family than health, family and friends. The cousin talk out of her job, husband, children roof over my head life music yeah you think this is be the case right and how does it break down. Is there anything really super interesting who's writing here Ben Dreyfus to be the most disheartening is Kentucky where people are grateful for their work-family there probably a lot of magicians in Ohio and Alaska who don't do it for the run anyway just having fun with the with the math here, but the southern part of the country that are especially thankful for the rain that you can understand that a little bit better of anyway.

A spirit of thanksgiving brings life on the north, south, most thankful for salvation isn't that revealing all of her greatness is in North and South Carolina. What you think of that very interesting, very interesting. All right a few more thoughts on giving thanks in the importance of it and then some closing thoughts on the day after my mom's funeral and again I may take the caller to 866-34-TRUTH 87884 the number to call the word of God. I will remind you calls us to be thankful. Ephesians 5 a few times. Philippians 4 Colossians 1 this is what we are is being prayed for us. What what what Paul writes in Colossians chapter 2. Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walking him, rooted and built up in him and established in the face just as you were taught, all overflowing with gratitude over flowing with gratitude for salvation for who God is present in your life you say you don't know what's happened in my life. We are in a mess. Finances. Finances have completely crumbled really kicked out of her home.

We got a kid that's in chronic pain can sleep at night would send you can imagine how difficult life is for some of you out there been through my own hardships Nancy Spencer on hardships with so many of you been to things indescribably more difficult than anything I've lived through. And yet in the midst of it, remains good in the midst of it.

He remains worthy of praise, and if somehow you say got another praise you for your goodness to matter how much pain I meant and I praise you for your goodness that was happening around me, so they begin to see his faithfulness and suddenly begin to see how he can take hopeless situations and turn them around the things that were meant to destroy instead are things that bring life it's reality friends it's it's reality it's not just words being spoken that the atmosphere changes as Paul and Silas would happen if there is really fog and the lowest dungeon in the jail in Philippi. When they begin to praise God at midnight literally the jail doors swing open.

Colossians 3 with the message about the Messiah reading verse 16 and 17, with the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another. The wisdom of singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

Whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father through him.

So do things with gratitude in your hearts to God, giving thanks to God the father through him and then Colossians 4 to devote yourselves to prayer. Stay alert in it with thanksgiving and then first Thessalonians 1st Thessalonians chapter 5, Paul continues this theme, I just want to bathe you in Scripture to bathe you in the word of God for moment rejoice always for 16 to 18 of first this loan is five pray constantly give thanks in everything for this is God's will for you in Messiah Jesus, not everything that happens is good, but in everything that happens, God remains good and in everything that happens, God can work for the good things that many things themselves are negative, bad, terrible destructive but God remains good and so in the midst of it. We give thanks to him we give thanks to him for everything he does and we acknowledge that in the worst things God can redeem them for the good this is. This is the will of God for us so let's be thankful not just add Thanksgiving. Let's be thankful let's let's remember the goodness of God every day of the year and yet broken record. Mike Browning assayed again this is a time to reach out to family that you separated from. I just feel there are some of you who are separated from your kids you had a dispute, they were walking in the Lord.

They got rebellion. They did something to hurt you and you push them away and I'm sure they've they've done their share of pushing away as well. Humble yourself, pray, see if there's a way to reach out fear. The parents of either the elders. As Paul said to the Corinthians that children will start for parents for parents for children that's what parents do see if there's a way to reach out. Maybe put them out the moment of anger and and they don't want anything to do with you right now. Find a way to get the notes them and say hello if you please forgive me for push you away your store kid.

We love you and and maybe you're the child in in that equation, and maybe you've turned in against her parents are hardhearted. Maybe they've sinned against you humble yourself where ever the offenses. If you send humble yourself and ask for forgiveness if you feel they sinned against you. Say hey I still love you and I want to have a relationship.

Don't don't let the sun go down without reaching out to let the holiday season pass to the reaching out. I'm so so glad that my dad died suddenly in 1977 and his grace arrested yesterday. I'm so glad that he knew much I loved. And of course I knew to the depths of our being how much you love me and I'm so glad that my mom knew how much I loved her and of course to the depths of our being on the how much you love me. I don't have to live with this thing hanging over me for years to come. Oh, I wish.

Oh, I wish I'd been there.

Oh, I wish I show love or wish I done the proud so I would encourage you to list this holiday season pass without make things right over today go by without acting on a prompting.

The Lord may be giving you. Let's have a beautiful Thanksgiving and let's think of those that they don't have. Let's reach out to them and be a blessing. During this time of the year.

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