Christian Car Guy Theater 54

And now time for Christian Car Guy Theater with today's episode, A Plymouth Progress, Part 6. A Plymouth Progress is purposefully and completely based on John Bunyan's classic, The Pilgrim's Progress. Today's episode six is at christiancarguy.com, both as a podcast with episodes one through five, so you can easily catch up with a series. Also, you can find a follow-along original book for today's episode. And more importantly, the scripture references that go along with today's episode, which help greatly in the interpretation of A Plymouth Progress.

Call it christiancarguy.com. So Plymouth Valiant turned off the exit to go to the Lexus Legalities house for help. But behold, when he was got now hard by the hill, it seemed so high and also that the side of it was next to the wayside, and it did hang over so much that Valiant was afraid to drive further. Lest the hill should fall on his roof. Wherefore, he came to a stop and knew not what to do. Also, his burden now seemed heavier to him than while he was in his way. There came also flashes of fire out of the hill that made Valiant afraid that he should be burned.

Here, therefore, he skip and miss and did shimmy for fear. And now he began to be sorry that he'd taken Wagoneer Worldly Wiseman's counsel. And with that, he saw the Edsel evangelist coming to meet him. At the sight also of him, he also began to blush for shame.

So Edsel drew nearer and nearer and coming up to him, he looked upon him with a severe and dreadful countenance. That means he looked scary and thus began to reason with Valiant. What are you doing here, Valiant? Valiant knew not what to answer.

Wherefore, at present, he stood speechless before him. Art not thou the Plymouth that I found crying without the walls of the City of Destruction? Yes, dear sir. I am the Sedan. Did I not direct thee the way to the narrow turnpike?

Yes, dear sir. How is it then that thou hath so quickly took this exit? For thou art now out of the way. Why, I met with a Jeep Wagoneer so soon as I got over the mega-mud puddle of despond, who persuaded me that I might in the village before me find a Sedan that could take this burden off my rack.

What was he? He looked to me like an upscale SUV and talked much to me and got me at least to yield. So I came hither and took this exit.

But when I beheld this hill and how it hangs over the way, I suddenly made a stand lest it should fall on my roof. What said that SUV to you? Why, he asked me whither I was going and I told him. And what said he then?

He asked me if I had a family and I said yes. But I said I am so loaded with a burden that is on my rack that I cannot take pleasure in them as formerly. And what said he then? He bid me with speed to get rid of my burden and I told him it was ease that I sought. And said I, I am therefore going to yonder turnpike to receive further direction how I might get to the place of deliverance. So he said that he would show me a better way and short will direct you to a Sedan's garage that hath skill to take off these burdens. So I believed him and turned out that way into this. But when I came to this place and beheld things as they are, I stopped for fear as I said of danger.

But now I know not what to do. Then idle here a little that I may show thee the words of God. See that ye refuse not him who speaketh, for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. For he says, Now the just shall live by faith, but if any Sedan draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Thou art the car that art driving into this misery, thou hast begun to reject the counsel of the Most High, and to draw back thy tires from the way of peace, even almost to the hazarding of thy car crusher. Then Valian's engine comes off as dead.

Woe is me, for I am undone. At the sight of which, Edsel Evangelist revved his engine. All manner of sin and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto cars. Be not faithless, but believing.

Then did Valian again a little revive, and start it up, though shimmying as at first before Edsel. Give more earnest heed to the things that I shall tell thee of. I will now show thee who it was that deluded thee, and who it was also to whom he sent thee.

The SUV that met thee is one Wagoneer worldly wise man. And rightly is he so called, partly because he savoureth only the doctrine of this world. Therefore he always drives to the town of morality, to church.

And partly because he loveth that doctrine best, for it saveth him best from the cross. And because he is of this carnal temper, therefore he seeketh to prevent my ways, though my ways are right. Now, there are three things in this man's counsel that thou must utterly hate.

Number one, his turning me off to this exit. Number two, his laboring to render the cross disgusting to thee. And number three, his setting thy wheels in that way that leadeth unto the administration of the car crusher.

Please forgive me, forgive me, and if I might beg your pardon kind sir, couldest thou goest a little slower? First, thou must hate his turning thee off this exit, yea, and thine own consenting thereto, because this is to reject the counsel of God, for the sake of the counsel of the Wagoneer worldly wise man. The Lord says, Strive to enter at the narrow turnpike, the gate to which I send thee. For narrow is the gate which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. From this little turnpike, and from the way thereto, hath this wicked man turned thee away from going, to the bringing of the almost to destruction. Hate, therefore, his turning thee off at this exit, and hate thyself for hearkening to him.

O my good Ebsle, I do, I do. Secondly, thou must hate his laboring to render the cross disgusting unto thee, for thou art to prefer it before the treasures in Egypt. Besides, the king of glory hath told thee, that he that will save his life shall lose it, and he that comes after the king of glory, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. I say therefore, for anyone to labor to persuade thee that the cross shall be thy death is wrong. Without the cross, the truth hath said, thou canst not have eternal life. Therefore, that doctrine of Wagoneer worldly wise man, thou must hate. I thinkest I understand, that by choosing the way Wagoneer told me, I thought that may have that way would be less treacherous, and perhaps save my life, but I was in fact about to lose my life, is that right?

Precisely, yes. And then thirdly, thou must hate his setting of thy tires in the way that leadeth to the car crusher, and for this thou must consider to whom he sent thee, and also how unable that person was to deliver thee from thy burden. He to whom thou wast sent for ease, being by name Lexus Legality, is the son of the bondwoman, which now is, and is in bondage with her children, and is in a mystery, this Sinai, which thou hast feared will fall on thy roof. The bondwoman and her children teach that by their morality they need not the cross, and they are in eternal error.

Now, if she with her children are in bondage, how canst thou expect by them to be made free? Tune in soon for the next exciting episode of A Plymouth's Progress. Now, here's Danny Dipstick and Randy Radiator to review today's episode. Randy, I think that Wagoneer was like Tom Cruise, who told his dentist you can't handle the tooth. Exactly, Danny.

You can't handle the tooth. You know, Danny, the straight and narrow is always very hard. Straight in this way also means narrow, like the stretch of Gibraltar, where there's just a narrow strip of water to stay on. If you go off on either side, your ship will crash into the rocks. Oh boy, and I can't swim.

You know, Danny, I have a feeling this whole Plymouth Progress will show us how to stay on that narrow path to heaven. Randy, speaking of straight, I once tried on a straight jacket. I'm not surprised. Well, that explains a lot. Randy, I couldn't pull it off. I'm sure you couldn't pull it off. Say goodbye, Danny. See you later, Radiator.