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March 10, 2018 1:39 pm
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Will dry you Christian Car Guy radio show rolled down the on the Christian car guys show are you treating the symptoms or the cause or cure that it may sound, are you treating the symptoms or the cause. My 10-year-old daughter drove to Birmingham last weekend and she sent me a text that now dad wants to get it was a video actually met with technology today is kind of amazing. It was a video of her – light blinking at her that was telling her car was overheating and surgery followed my advice to you anytime you get one of those red lights. It means pullover there something drastic going on you run your car, so she followed my advice pulled over and checked her coolant was low course.
Her solution was just add: everything is good to be fine well driving from Birmingham Alabama to Winston-Salem North Carolina with a coolant leak just adding coolant was treating the symptom not the cause. No father who knew anything about cars would be able to rest until he knew the cause that they were treating the symptom only could she could end up stuck on the side of the road so on today show. We want to discuss some symptoms and some causes, but we would love to have your input on something so Jasper let's play some time to play to find my defect or race that I like that hubbub name that is all that yes get ready to call him at 848-7884 and I will tell you had a time that you will be mainly actual car noise. Sometimes people get confused and think of some other noise but I assure you this is a noise that a car is making in your job if you choose to accept it is to try to figure out what is making this noise and what is the symptom that you are experiencing is you hear this and get ready to call it 866-34-TRUTH 87884 and if you can tell us what it is. Jasper don't want to win now.
When a book from Christian Car Guy rightfully interesting wonderful books, fresh from the national religious broadcaster convention amazing books I have to do is call in a name. This noise so we're going to get 866-348-7884 is a number to call in and I can see we got people calling him already. That's good. But Jasper and we had to play the noise he's handled technical difficulty to get that noise but were to get to it in a minute and when you do that we comply every once while the computer decides to play its own noises and so Jasper struggling with that so symptoms on today show and if you have a symptom. Perhaps you could call us at 866-348-7884 and on today show are also going to give you some updates on the Jesus labor love. That's car repair labor for single moms widows and families in crisis. So Jasper tells me that the noises ready and so here we go here's a noise noise is 866-34-TRUTH 87884 is a number to call in and when 866-348-7884. Maybe you have some other symptom that you want to discuss with us.
We'd love to help you out with that. And so, as I mentioned Morgan have some updates in the car repair labor for single moms widows and families in crisis and I was Tennessee week before last I came back to whole list of folks that needed help and an opportunity to speak with a lot of people out there some updates. I have one story input number just come to grieve my heart.
I would love to share that with you and in the meantime we got people calling in 866-34-TRUTH 87884 name that noise our website.
Christian car guy.com you can always go there and you can find their podcasts of our previous shows Christian car guy theater. The car show cruise calendars updated from March now you can check all that out Christian car guy.com as well as this whole discussion today on treating symptoms or treating causes.
What's up with all that we got all that and even our appraisal by the real black book that's coming up the end of the show right in our last segment we got appraisal by the real black but that's where we search the Bible for hidden treasure crap from servant lift up our voice for understanding, well, you might've guessed. If you know me well it simmers to similarly our spiritual life. Exhibit symptoms over eating bad temper or overspending are all symptoms of what a deeper spiritual problem.
So today and I when we go there. Are you treating your are you are you opening the hood on your spiritual life and check in on their see what may be going on with that so we will be getting to all that but right now we got William in Raleigh so we can take William here on the Christian car guys show good morning William, do you want to try to play name that noise would pick all wheel bearing well is play the noise one more time Jasper so that everybody can hear it. William is saying a wheel bearing which were to save it in a when this was actually recorded. It may have been a wheel bearing Jasper to commence mother information. Right now, so he's gonna play this in a second force there may have been a wheel bearing that was singing at the same time that you're here in this other noise William so I will give you the organist send out the book but Jasper play that noise again for certificate. All right, there it was name that noise 866-34-TRUTH 87884. William, if you got me symptoms that you try to correct where you wish you got to the cause, might yes. Well, there is a there is a noise in my rear tail like a like a wheel bearing in the rear and I've been told by Dr. like this is not he will bury and they don't have no idea what is and I assume they've rotated the tires absolutely dollars rotated UM zone put new tires on and still you got the wolf will flip like dark noise.
They say no that replace the drive. The drive train wanted to call the powertrain module and how it was at Lexus removed rightfully. It's for God is full so you got a lot of components back there that could possibly be that so they replayed that replace the driveshaft really yes wow those are the ones that Lexuses is is definitely struggling with, you know. Recently, Maeve heard that my wife length Raleigh's problems. She kept on have these incidents where she would not be able to walk or talk and and I was going throw the stuff and we were at the hospital here locally and we tried in trauma. How many times he went this hospital try to determine what the problem my mother-in-law got sick in them. Texas and my wife ended up in the emergency room down there. And guess what, they figured it out that it was one of her medications. It was actually kind of poisoning or and so I say that to say this William you might try another Lexus to if you're out of town sometime does give them a note unit tryout of fresh air somebody that it hadn't seen it before, because that's a lot of times a second opinion is what works that make sense all right but I'm glad I'm glad your wife is all let me tell you we had two weeks without one, and we are just praising God for all the prayers and everything that's going on with that William, God bless you, thank you for calling today and for all right we got George is in Gastonia, North Carolina George Ron King George.
We got Rada's and George can cause back in 866-34-TRUTH 87884 got Rada in Chapel Hill Raleigh right name that noise you wanted you here in all right go for it will you know that's interesting.
You're the second person today to mention wheel bearing and as I told Ms. William there could be a wheel bearing this particular car that was in the noise that I was trying to get the sounds but I'm about to send out the book is we don't know for sure there might be wheel bearing, but I thought God bless you rapidly come back got a lot more mundane that noise and more simply because God bless you. Thanks for calling 866-34-TRUTH 87884 calling down are you treating the symptom are the cause today on the Christian car guys show were digging into those symptoms as we talked my daughters radiator leak that was kind of freaking me out when she was in Birmingham over last weekend and she had to get back to Winston-Salem and so she was saying that I just need to add: before. Oh no, no, no, we go to find out why that coolant leaking. It's a long way from Birmingham to Winston-Salem and so will give you more that storyboard plan name that noise. We got George in Gastonia.
Hopefully this time we were gonna get them on Georgie with this this morning. All right, let's play that noise one more time. Jasper said George you get a good shot at it here just tuning in plan name that noise you George in Gastonia.
That's noise that we've got today he could win a book from the truth.
Christian car guy proud prize vault George what you think that noises it.
That's that's a tire noise and boy, I don't want to know how much money is spent across this country and people trying to figure out tire noises would you have a small tire store and I know that noise is it is so well since I got you, and you have a tire store. George tell us how many times people drive treating the symptoms of tire noise. It really they got an alignment problem. They've got balancing problems they got suspension problems share a little bit with our listeners what you experience there is a tire store that you like and in that I don't do alignment, but a lot of times that's what it is like shock.
I have a good friend down the road and invited him we work together and it is frustrating at times, people coming to pick your brain which I happily can you George God bless you and your exactly right. Your winter today on the procedure component. God bless. All right, we got Charles is in Washington and Charles Jan must've thought that was a tire noises well we get some nosecone and again if you got a symptom that you'd want to cover with us today or something like that you would like to discuss. We would love free to call at 866-348-7884 866-34-TRUTH reason why I chose tires is one of those symptoms not because this morning is one of our Jesus labor love applicants that we had this week. As I mentioned, if you listen your show before you know the Jesus labor.
Love this car repair help for single moms widows and families in crisis. And so I came back to quite a list this week as I called this lady.
She was really struggling with a car that had a bad vibration and it had this noise similar to what you just heard in a course everybody told her it was the tires so we made arrangements to get it looked at.
And as it turned out there were many components in yeah the tires were ruined by the components in the front suspension because the ball joints were bad.
Actually, the upper control arms were bad. They are the steering linkages were bad and all these things. It was only a 2007 car but actually the estimate to repair this court's $2900 and and what she was experience was simply just a vibration and starch is still driving the car, but it was even close to being safe because the front components and you know you we play that nip it in the butt all the on the Christian car guys show because when suspension components begin to where they wear each other out and and is there bumping and playing along. All those things that not only were not your tires there wearing out the other suspension components, but the real challenge to the Spickler story was that she had not had the car, but a few months and she had bought it from what I would call a buy here pay here locked. That's where these people.
They advertise that you can finance the car for you right there when there's the challenges she's making these huge payments on the car that literally to fix it.
Based on the estimate that we got would cost more money than to replace the car or way more money than she paid for the car.
Yet here she was in this car that should literally we didn't have the money to fix it. She still making payments on it and as you might imagine the people that sold it to her won't answer the phone. Which brings me to this really difficult situation.
I read an article this week that Americans are running up more card debt than ever before. More than $1 trillion in card and so is this debt goes out like that and people that get in the situations don't buy a car from one of these lots that really it's almost like usually if you saw all the fees and all the things that they do an ape and they put it in.
Unfortunately, here's this person really couldn't afford you know that the situation to begin with, will you add all these repairs and you got a really difficult situation and so this is this is one of those things where I just continue to pray that God would help us do you wisdom up before we go buy a car, especially if we have limited credit that we really think through the process of what people may be doing to us when we go to one of these buy here pay here places because really they often take quite advantage of poor people, and they often put them in situations that now and what she can do. She does have the money to fix the car sheet the car is not safe to drive in all these things are coming along so be in prayer for Jesus labor love and and again we thank you for your contributions.
Also, later in the summer sure about a window that was in Iowa that spoke with this week in her story wanted to share that with you but right now I got Carol is in Des Moines and she's got a comment for us Carol you're on the Christian car guys show the morning quite well thank you church is terrible and I know nothing about a car and I stopped and turned to Cara and I waved like an banter back and check check turn the car on the night I tried again started up again and again the night following the mind if I drank it. I can hear their cat town and started with you for all women who know nothing about cars or bad back window open so you make no time calling everybody. Thank you Carol. That's that is a great experience and wondered what was this relate is what we meant to find ourselves in that As well.
Thank you for calling and that really messes me. God bless you. I have a need is in Washington state when we come back. She wants to play name that noise. We would love your call 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH so much more?
I show I wrote down treating the symptom, or the car on the trip car – and speaking of symptoms and causes of if you find yourself in church tomorrow and it's everybody's in Artie been there and you like missed the service you are there symptom is that your way late because being that you did not set your you didn't spring forward the date the mind is the night that we are going to spring forward and reset our clocks for daylight savings times in many places across the country. Not every place most places hearing my voice need to reset your clock tonight so there is a symptom in a cause, but we gotta mean is in Washington state. She wants to play name that noise Anita here on the Christian car crash of the morning morning I had my radio turned down. I think I got the night that I was thinking I don't I don't just regulated superfast you know I love that answer. Anita and I it could very possibly be that that not only was the tires that were making the noise. But there I was with my car does that sometimes and now that we have computers, you know the have oxygen sensors in all these different sensors that tell the engine how to run and when those things get a little out of whack. They can run the idol up in your to sit there at the stoplight wondering why in the world is my idol running way of the tricksters that I have experienced.
If it just went when my car started now and when it first starts us to choke.
So is Trento is trying to warm it up and and that's how that goes well your winter and so will get your book Anita, thanks for calling into the right thing.
So much for your program of God bless you. Bye-bye. What we are going to get to some spiritual symptoms and causes, but we got to get to these car ones because you know as I mentioned that I know a lot of people may be wondering.
Robbie did your daughter make it back.
Yes she did but because was actually a plastic fitting. That's gonna cost like $200 to get it all completely repaired so when you've got low fluids, low oil, low transmission fluid low power steering fluid low brake fluid.
Those are symptoms you know those aren't the cause of in.
In other words, none of those things are supposed to be low. So if you're low on coolant something is broken and that's is leaking. If you're low on oil. There something this brokenness leaking. If you're low on Freon you know again that those things are not supposed to drip out so will Frampton's flows out of the gas but in all those things low on brake fluids, real scary one, but that one actually can go lower, just as your brakes begin to wear out, and so when you see your brake fluid drop down like that that that may actually be a symptom of your brakes wearing out, along with other things but again, the idea being that these are symptoms tires as we talked about in of the tires about cops or they are making this horrible noise and all those things they could be symptoms of other problems in the car and in the challenges if you just treat the symptom put more fluid in it. It leaks out you go over he blew a head gasket.
The next thing you know how we got up $2000 repair instead of a $200 repair and those kind of things happen all the time so as we talk about in a nip it in the bud but also wanted to talk about this from another standpoint, that when I went to the service advisor school years ago they taught us something called the three C's and I'll maybe get complicated on you, but I think it's helpful to know that the reason why they gave us these, which was complaint causing correction and I think those are words we all can understand. The complaint is actually the symptom so is it is a person with writing service or if you're communicating your service advisor. Some people would come in and rather than tell me what their complaint as they would say Robbie I needed to know Robbie, I think I need a fuel pump now. If I'm a bad service advisor. I don't try to determine what that symptom is I just do what they say. Just do a tuneup. Well, little did I know that there car was skipping her. There was a reason that they wanted the tuneup so it's really important when you're talking to a service advisor to give them the actual symptoms. Symptoms are good to know you know I'm running low on coolant. My car is making this will pop up noise what is it that you're actually experiencing rather than trying to diagnose it yourself and then begin the fuel pump.
You don't need or tuneup you don't need or those other things you you you share with your service advisor. One of the symptoms that you are experiencing it. I imagine it's similar with the doctor.
Given your symptoms, it's up to him to diagnose the issue. If you if he is a trustworthy mechanic. You know those are things that become part of the issue so when you are dealing with that service advisor. Think about the three season of giving your complaint. These are the things I'm experiencing I'm hearing this knock them.
I'm on experiencing this that something seems wrong and then when you when you pick up the car. That's when the other two C's commitment. What was the cost, you know, why was obviously my daughter, why is it that my car was leaking.
The fluid and and so that you can rest at night that you found the smoking gun. This is what the problem was that was leading to the symptoms that you are experiencing what was the cause. What was it that actually was the problem with the car and then what did you do to correct the fence. I've signified they did really creative things to correct those problems, and so was going to critical that you understand from my standpoint, it would be really helpful if people follow those three C's when it came to car repair. In other words, when I'm picking up my car I want to know what did you find was the cause of the problem and how did you correct the problem and again that might lead to parts and all sorts of other things but you know that's part of the whole service experience. Well, again, we get a chance to do this every week on their Jesus labor love if you go to Christian Car Guy.com you'll see there that with a wonderful Jesus labor love where we have car repair for single moms widows and families in crisis and you can see the Christian car care centers that help with that. Which by the way, chips in Louisville Kentucky really helped us out this week, as did the bills auto clinic here in Winston-Salem and and a national tire and battery in in Raleigh. We've got people all over that are just helping out every single week and East Main all auto in Radford, Virginia that they've come through for me three or four times with situations that just remarkable people that honestly care about their customers that you know have Christian principles and try to help people is really good and LMS part of Jesus labor 11.
We show those things well I did want to share this other historian, it's in Des Moines, Iowa and extra actually Dexter Iowa which I had not heard of but here was a lady in again one of those situations where her car overheated and when that light starts to flash and it's red, it's critical to pull over as fast as you can because when a car overheats it will be moments before you either correct the head or below the head gasket. So if of the life that I see time and time and time again in the Jesus labor love is that overheating light came on and they didn't, I thought, why can I can make it to the gas station I can do this know you can't win that light is red, it means over. It's a serious situation well. Unfortunately, that led to a blown head gasket on this particular vehicle which made it possibly unrepairable. Interestingly, she has a family member that may have an engine that we can may use, or it may be that we need a car donation in Iowa so I say that to say in anywhere in this country. If you've got a car that sitting out there that you don't know what to do with and you say legitimate you know I could get a tax deduction by just donating it to the Jesus labor level.
Yes, you can if you go to Christian Car Guy.com there you see at our website Jesus labor love. There's a number of things there that you can check obviously, we would love for you to donate your prayers the biggest things is if God can connect with us and were moving the kingdom forward MMS number one in our book by far and away but then clearly we could use help in making the phone calls we could use help in financial resources. We could use help with people donating cars and and there's all sorts of different ways that you can connect to that ministry if you like cars gave you that gifting in whatever way shape or form. You know this is a deep thing I II think all the time that were kind of the middleman that God is got somebody in every town in this country.
That's a mom a family in crisis and same God help me fix my car got. I don't know what to do with the situation the same time there somebody in that town. The spring God use my gifts. How can I move the kingdom forward, and so Jesus labor love just kind of puts those two things together exceeds the person that's praying for the need over there and that person that has these gifts to share over here and you put them together and it's amazing that when that when when when that when it happens that God is glorified, the kingdoms move forward and in one of the neat things and I say this every time, but it on and never ceases to amaze me how you get a chance to pray with the applicant's know when they call in and they fill out a repair and every single time you can tell that God touches the situation in God is doing stuff in all of our lives. Widows try to figure out you know how we can connect to them how we can connect to them almost kind of thing so again Christian Car Guy.com you can find all those connections, the Jesus labor love if you heard a past episode or something you want to listen to podcast those are all their Christian Car Guy.com and I don't want to leave out Christian Car Guy and theater, which was designed we would love love love to have younger listeners join in Christian radio and begin to give them a love for the Lord and the love for he felt this kind of entertainment on Saturday morning is a sympathy card I theaters there.
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What about these symptoms for spiritual five patent on the Christian Car Guy as we been talking about.
If you want to know about that about cars we have articled their Christian Car Guy.com. I urge you to go there and check that out, but this is the last leg of the show where we do our appraisal by the real black but that's where we search the Bible for treasure crowd for understanding and interestingly, your spiritual life may exhibit symptoms as well and it's may be overeating or a bad temper or overspending. There also to sin that we can fall into that are symptoms of a deeper spiritual problem and so you treat the symptoms without ever looking under the hood and eventually like my daughter's car, you may find yourself broke down on the side of the road. Well, I'm preaching to the choir because I'm in my own life. Obviously you run into that in this week. I really found myself there where I was just I knew that something wasn't wrong wasn't right. Excuse me. I knew that something wasn't right, but I really couldn't put my finger on what it was. I just was feeling anxiety that I normally don't feel and you may know that I have this daily prayer that I do and and I that I love to do and it's a Christian Car Guy.com as well in the daily prayer and as I was praying that I asked Jesus show me what it is that where is my struggle what might what's going on here at and interestingly he said to me this particular case. He said Robbie you need to worship me, you need to love on me and I was interesting thing okay so I was obedient and I did and I started looking for some way to worship and I started listening to different hymns and I couldn't find one that I really felt was hit the mark for worship and I kept trying. I kept trying and I finally found this Irish him which you just heard at the beginning of the intro.
It's be thou my vision and as I was starting to listen to it.
Of course I love the sound of it being Irish in that it gives you that whole brave heart for you especially if you drivers like I but then I didn't understand the words and so II looked at the lyrics and I thought what I got to figure this out in the way these words go is, be thou my vision which you know you're asking God to be the divisional Lord of my heart. I can understand that but that really got me and said not be all else to me and I and I actually just looked up the word, not even though I know it means nothing because all times out, is nothing but I really had to sit there and think about that and I think that's what Jesus wanted me to go was nothing else is supposed to mean to me, but him and and then he says save that thou art in other words, nothing else but you Lord. And then I love this thou my best thought by day or by night. I mean, isn't he really isn't he your best thought by day or by night, waking or sleeping by presence. My light. Then he says, be thou my wisdom and now my true word, I mean isn't Jesus my wisdom is me my true word I ever with the thou with me Lord, thou my great father arrived by true son Diane my dwelling and I with the one I was like well yeah this is me I'm I'm right there with you, and then came this part which just kind of really signed my heart and this is be thou my battlefield. What a cool concept.
I don't know how I hadn't really just put him out there as my shield for all that was going on in my life right now that I hadn't and so was iced as I saying that verse, I was like oh wow, be thou my battlefield my sword for the fight in this also spoke to my situation. Be thou my dignity. In other words, what I was really going through his eyes really began to process this as I felt other people weren't giving and I would wait a minute, he's my dignity. He's my delight and I was like, oh, there is right there I see you have found my symptom is is that here's the because it was it was a concern over my own dignity and thou my delight, thou my shows sheltered by my high tower raised thou me heavenward a power of my power and I love this. It goes on to take on other symptoms that I was experiencing riches, I heed not more man's empty praise. I mean how many times are we looking for accolades somewhere that we shouldn't, thou mine inheritance now and always. I mean if I just realize he's the inherent timing of this song is like wow this this can thou endow only first in my heart hi King of heaven my treasure thou art, and then corset it gets to the crescendo here were hi King of heaven.
My victory one may I reach heaven's joys.
Oh bright heaven son part of my own heart whatever befall still be my vision or ruler of all.
In other words wow how wonderful is it that God gave me this no asking what I need you to worship and it took me really the better part of an hour or so to even find the place where I could worship when I finally finally got there. As I realized that he was this and he was that and he was meeting all these needs and I could see that and so want to play that song is identity, itinerary and completeness for you. So enjoy this.
Be thou my vision as we in the Christian Car Guy show that way today with the in a way she and and and and and the and and