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This is the Truth Network. Thank you for listening. Welcome to the Christian Car Guy radio show I say this calls for action and now nip it in the bud nip it in the bud you got to nip it in the bud My hope is within your heart Morning by morning you go before me this I know Morning by morning today on the Christian Car Guy show I always tickle myself Bob because the morning I'm referring to is M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G morning by morning and that's M-O-R-I in other words morning in the morning so to speak. Are you following me Bob? I'm getting there. I'm getting there.
You always bring it full circle. I'm getting there. I'm getting there.
I'm getting there. You know what is it about your own sin nature that you struggle with that you can't seem to I'll just put it my own terms you know what is it that Robbie can't get over like that and as you mourn that in the morning you talk to God about it. You know hopefully you got a quiet time hopefully you're pushing in your relationship with Christ and if so you know what is it because it's pretty easy to pick out somebody else's sin but it's really helpful because you can't do much about theirs to find this back in your own eye or the log as the case may be so you know the idea today as I was hoping you would call in with where is it that you just man I cannot get over this eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four here's some easy examples right I mean you know pray without ceasing huh.
You know we've been working on it for a lot of years and we made progress sometimes and sometimes you know. But just you know do you mourn that and morning by morning or here's the one that really in other words this is the one that really is I was thinking about it this morning time and time again if you read and you may know I love the hundred nineteen Psalm one of my favorite things in all the Bible. And verse one sixty five is beyond challenging to me because what it says is great peace have they that love thy law and nothing shall offend them right did you hear that nothing does that mean in Greek Hebrew whatever you however you want to translate it nothing is not and not times not in other words there's nothing. That offends people that love by law with the law is equal to Jesus which is equal to the word which is equal to a lot of things so if you love Jesus what's supposed to offend you nothing nothing nothing nothing not a single and so here's a couple tests for you. If you think you're good at this and I I'll be the first person to admit I struggle like give me fifteen minutes on the road okay especially in heavy traffic and. I understand that you may not react to your fact that you're offended but it just this starts at the fact that you're even offended right like that person just cut you out that person just did that that person went by you at two hundred miles an hour that motorcycle was and something rises up inside you right. I don't react to it like I used to but I still get offended.
Right right. And so there's an interesting thing it's a it's an offer that Jesus is giving you when in Matthew you know five four when he says. You know blessed are those who mourn in other words if you say hey I think this is a problem here I think that I can't overcome this I can't do this without you I need your help here God then only then. You know can you be comforted so with that mind where you know just be truthful eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four and if I'm really really really truthful there's something that's more difficult than drive around in my car.
It's being around the people that I really really love. You know if I'm really truthful there nobody can can as easily and as quickly offend me as my wife like all she has to do is say did you wash your hands. And I may not react to it but you know it's I always feel like the the seven dwarfs you know in that statement.
You know because when Snow White asked the seven dwarfs when they wanted to eat you know if you washed your hands and they said recently. I've always you know that it just that's just one example of the many things that if you really love someone or your kids right or your parents like man they just. The slightest glimpse the slightest anything and you're offended right now you may not react to it I'm not talking about. You know the fruit of what you do as a result of being offended but you know what rose up in your heart and the opportunity that Jesus is giving us here. In Matthew 5 4 is to mourn that so we need your calls 8 6 6 3 4 8 7 8 8 4 8 6 6 3 4 truth especially if you got that thing like zipper merging you know my friend Harold.
He cannot deal with you know that you're supposed to let those people in the ones that you know the lane closed ahead you know and you've been going two miles an hour for the last 20 minutes and this person comes buzzing by on the right right and they want in. Zipper merging 8 6 6 3 4 8 7 8 8 4 so in the intro you heard the project of love which is morning by morning right and they're talking about. Morning by morning not em or you are in by your morning but I nonetheless I used it and then Matt Mar Lord I need you right because if you're going to mourn.
I mean that's the deal we cannot there's no way. Right then I'm going to do some of this stuff without his help. And then you got Justin Gambino which is the song Justin Gambino was on our show a few weeks ago. And his song the father's heart. And that idea of being in the father's heart and we talked about it Bob and I did just a minute ago.
Like. Have you ever considered that nothing you do offends God. Yeah when you said that while ago you locked me how was he not offended by some of my horrific actions of the past and probably a horrific action this morning.
I don't know what I don't remember one specifically but I can think back and just how could God not have been offended by the things I did because you know and this is a bit challenging to think about. But ultimately challenging because he is perfect peace. Right. In fact when you look at this verse and nothing will offend you it's in the shin section of the hundred nineteen song which has to do with Shalom which is peace.
All right. And this idea that God is completely holy. And the bad news is if you get near him with your shenanigans you know. Post toasties I mean they fry his holiness does not allow your sin to take part so he has to turn his face which is the last thing in the world he wants to do. But he doesn't turn his face because he's offended he's turned his face so that he does not hurt you.
Yeah he doesn't want you to be one of Aaron's sons. And what he what he's doing is he's showing you grace OK and that's the beauty of this when you when you study this idea in Hebrew of both of you know of mourning and then of comfort you'll find that grace is a gigantic. Antitude antidote antidote however you want to say that grace is what you need if what if what you're doing.
Is struggling in that sin and you're mourning it what you what you need is somebody to love you so much. Here's the example it's like your kids right. You love them so much that.
You're going to try to find a way to help them in spite of all the shenanigans however that works that's grace. And interestingly Noah spelled backwards is comfort. I mean comfort is Noah's name means comfort and spelled backwards it means grace. And so they're almost interchangeable in the way that they work. And the idea of comfort. Is God has such faith in you beyond he just knows you didn't know what you were doing.
But by the same token. If you're not paying attention and you're not mourning then he can't come in there and help you so. How about you what is your struggle eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four we'll be right back. You're listening to the truth network and truth network dot com. Morning by morning today on the Christian car guys show where do you find yourself mourning your struggles things that you can't seem to overcome. Just sometimes simple things eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four eight six six three four truth especially those traffic. Like man if you're offended according to Psalm 119 verse 165 great peace have they that love thy law and nothing.
Nothing will offend them. So you know we were talking during the break. And I want to spend a little time on these words in Hebrew and I would really really really love to hear your call but I think it's really helpful for me to dig into the words. So the first word and clearly you know Bob as I was thinking about this show and it was actually my wife she she lost her mother about a year or so ago and she has been in mourning. I mean you see it. I mean this is deep sadness right. This is a deep place and she can't she doesn't have control over it and she doesn't really know what to do with it. I remember when I was in deep mourning over my father like you think that you have some control over yourself.
But something will hit you and you will just ball. You'll just begin to cry and weep and you don't seem to have any control over that or I remember one time you know I live in his house because I inherited his house. And so I was in his closet in his closet.
You know it's still it's my house but it's still his closet. And all of a sudden I was absolutely furious at him that he didn't take care of better care for care of himself. I had no control over it. I knew that part of grief is anger and I knew part of what I was going through was grief but that didn't change the fact that I was mourning and I didn't really have any real control over it.
And so I needed what? Comfort. And so interestingly when you look deeply at the word mourning, right? Because blessed are those who mourn. Interesting, right?
Something that you really don't necessarily have control over. If you're in mourning, if you really are, right? And so the word in Hebrew it's an aleph and I'm going to use this as what the show is brought to you by this word aleph bet lamed. So aleph bet you've probably heard before because you've heard people go Abba father.
Well you can hear the A and the B sound. Abba. That's father. Well that's the first two letters in the word mourn. Think about it. Abba.
Right? You've heard it. So A aleph bet and then there's this lamed and this lamed is loving, learning, teaching.
It's all these different kind of things. But when you put a bet and a lamed together you know the word means not. And so when you think about the original mourning that took place, the very first time anything mourned, was when Adam sinned. And what happened there was this broken relationship between the father and the son. And that broken relationship, Adam immediately went into a place that he'd never been, he went into mourning. And he desperately needed the father, but there was no way back without Jesus.
Right? In other words, it's fascinating to me that Adam's problem was solved by Jesus, but if Adam didn't know he had a problem he doesn't get a solution. So blessed are those who mourn, for they can be comforted. But if you don't know you've got a problem, then God can't come in and give you the solution. It's just like my issue with being offended, right? If I don't know I have a problem, God can't come in and comfort me.
Wow. It's deep, brother, and I'm still reaching, but I'm not quite there. Alright, well that's aleph bet lamed is the word to mourn. And to me it's like being fatherless. So mourning is seeking comfort? Right, mourning is actually an extent being without the relationship to God.
Because if you really, really, really, really believed, you know God—you don't need to be offended by that. God's going to handle that situation. God's going to handle that situation. God's going to control this. It's all coming together. The president will be who the president—who God wants the president to be, I can assure you. I can assure you if you read the Bible you're going to find out who wins in the end.
I know what's going to happen if we really, really, really believe. But it's a matter of you're mourning a relationship. In other words, when you lost your son, which I hate to use that as an example because I know how bad it hurts, but what you really are missing out in was you wanted him to be there.
You wanted to see your grandchild. You wanted to enjoy life with him for the next 40 years. But the truth is you're going to enjoy life with him for the next millennia.
Right? That's what I hold on to. And I used to think it would be forever before I saw him. But 10 years—10 years have gone by.
So I've come to the realization that he and I will be back together in no time at all. And I don't know if I told you a story. A friend sent me a picture. And it's a kid holding up a fish. And I was looking at the picture and looking at the picture. And I had to look for a while before I realized that the kid holding up the fish standing beside of me was Rob, my son. And I didn't immediately recognize the picture.
You know, I had forgotten. I had let the bad ending steal my precious memories from me. And it tore me up. It tore me up so bad that I had let— you know, we had a rough go in the latter parts of his life. Very rough go. We had some great moments, but we had some very difficult moments.
But I had let those difficult moments steal the precious memories of some of the joyous times we had together. Morning by morning, where do you fall in on this? Your questions or comments, we'd love to hear from you. 866, this is a live show.
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It's absolute, you know, beyond genius if you analyze what he just said and you really, really think about it. It has everything to do with what we're talking about is mourning, M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G, that idea of grief, mourning by mourning. Because, blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Do you know you got a problem? I mean, are you mourning that issue because, you know, you can't handle it without God? And therein lies the issue that we talked about. It's a broken relationship with a father that causes the grief, I can assure you.
Because if you really, really, really believed that God was your father, then that makes you essentially the crown prince. And, you know, what in the world are you worried about? But nonetheless, we'll just go into the word, since we spent some time breaking down the word mourn, we're going to spend some time. The other word that is going to bring the second half of the show, since we brought the first half of the show by the idea of Aleph Bet Lamed, which is the word mourn.
Now we're going to spend some time on comfort, which is nun, het, mem. Okay, so the nun, that letter nun, it is very much connected to the idea of faith, or light, right? And so when you have faith, you get a light, by the way. And so when you get this idea of faith, that's a critical aspect of being comforted. Because if you don't believe, you know, you're in trouble immediately, okay?
But what do you have faith in? And the word comfort, again, Noah is the beginning of the word comfort. That nun, het, is the word Noah, all right? Now what was—Noah showed up to comfort his people.
That was what he was going to do. And the idea of the het is a marriage. It's a union. So if you have faith in your union with God, then that is interestingly grace spelled backwards, okay?
This is going to take you a minute, but I'll get you there, okay? So grace is a het first, right? In other words, I'm married to God, and he knows that, because I'm in Christ, and so we're married. Well, the nun afterwards is saying he has—because he knows we're married, he has faith in me. And that much—like you have faith in your kid.
Like, I know this is not the real person that's in front of me. There's a real person inside that needs to come out, and he just doesn't know what he's doing. Like Jesus said to those guys at the cross, you know, forgive them, Lord.
But they don't know what they're doing. He knew what was inside of him, and he knew the potential of this, because they were his kids, right? So when Jesus has faith in you in spite of your shenanigans, like he did Gideon. Gideon down there throwing the wheat and the winepress because he was scared to death. He comes in and says, mighty warrior. Why did he say that to him? Because he knew inside of Gideon was a mighty warrior, even though right now he was acting like a big chicken.
Okay? That's grace. Grace sees the potential, and because he loves his union with you, and he has faith in you. In other words, that faith in you is what is the beginning of the word comfort, is grace.
And you hear what Matt Maher was talking about, right? That his grace is why he needs it, because he's got faith in me, okay? Well, the word comfort is Noah, that idea of faith in our marriage with Jesus. But then it ends with the letter Mem, which is Jesus, okay? So when you think about that, when you put the two words together, Aleph, Bet, Lamed is like no father, okay? The father's not there, and that's a broken relationship.
So what fixes that relationship is the Mem at the end of comfort. So faith in your marriage because of Jesus, right? Jesus' blood is what gets you on the other side of the morning. You see what I'm saying? Because of your lack of your relationship with the father, you need the Jesus' blood in order to get back into that perfect marriage that is going to be the solution to what you really need in order to not be offended by anything.
Like really, really, if you really, really, really believed that you were prince, that God was your father, then what in the world? So you're held up a few minutes. You're higher than President Trump in the scheme of things. Everything's going to be fine.
Time is not. You're going to be fine. You've got all the resources you possibly need.
You're going to be fine. What really needs to happen is that poor person that doesn't know that needs to know that, so we need to be praying to them and helping them and all that stuff. The challenge is deep inside of Robbie, do I wake up every morning really mourning those things so he can come in and comfort me and reinforce my position in him? Did I make any sense, Bob?
I am very lost. Instead of reinforce, it may be reinvent, because for me, you're so deep when you go to speak and what you've just said, and it takes me a while. I have to really marinate and ponder and ponder, but you always bring it full circle for me. So I'm hoping, I've got my friend Mike here in Dayton, Ohio. He's got a story, and stories are what usually actually can give us some context for it, so hopefully Mike has got us here. Mike, you're on the Christian Car Guys show.
What you got for us? Thank you, sir. Have I confused you completely?
No, you haven't, and I've been really contemplating what you've been saying. I always wanted not to be a grumpy old man. I'm talking about, I've got gray hair, I've got gray beard, and I don't want to go around being grumpy because everybody offends me. Just this morning, I hold the door open for this guy, and he doesn't even say thank you, which is offend me right away. And I said, Jesus loves you, as he walks by. And I know that wasn't the right thing to do, but it helped me get over it fast. It was healing for you. Jesus loves you.
He looked at me like a weirdo, which is probably understandable. I've been thinking about, you know, we're cracked vessels. We have a sin nature, and every day we need to deny ourselves and uplift ourselves and get a bit more and more every day a closer relationship with God. And just by listening to you talk about mourning and the Hebrew words, you know, our cracked vessels, we need to refill them, re-understand God's grace, re-understand God's faith, understanding the Bible, being led by God, you know what I mean?
Oh, I couldn't, Mike. You know, the idea of his, you know, his— We're a work in progress. Right. In other words, his grace is made perfect through our weakness. In other words, if we didn't have cracks, we wouldn't— Robbie would, you know, be off and running without Jesus anywhere, but it's those cracks that make me deeply need him. Right? And if I didn't realize, oh my goodness, this is just— I've been, you know, the Bible's there to transform our minds to give us an idea what the standard looks like. Like, what?
I'm not supposed to be offended by anything? What? What?
Or I'm supposed to pray without ceasing? What? You know, all these things that really, really, really challenge me, that tell me how desperately I need Jesus in my life and his sanctification is, you know, and obviously the salvation got me there, but if I'm going to get to the point where I'm not a grumpy old man, I love what you said.
Right? Then something has to change deep inside there, and only Jesus can do that, because clearly, and it takes nothing for me to be off and running. It's just—it's crazy. Stu Laverson said the other—about six months ago, I haven't heard him say it again, but what can you do with him and not for him? You know, I really love what he's saying there. He's really saying, do it with Christ and not just for Christ. You know, I said that to my mom, and she says, well, you want to do things for God? I said, yeah, but you want to do things for God with him? And, you know, really, that really hit my heart. You know, I really understood that we need to do things with Christ.
That way we have patience, all the love, all those beatitudes, I guess they're called, and then we fix our cracked vessel, you know what I mean? That's beautiful. I absolutely love your story. You were doing something good. The man doesn't acknowledge it, and the next thing you know, I'm off and running.
Yeah. And so, you know, every day, I don't know about you, but I keep the day inside because it's minute by minute. I've got to get here and got to get there, and then the next morning I sit there and I kind of review, like, man, where was I yesterday?
What was going on, and why did I do this? And the car analogy always works really good here for me because when I turn the key on in the morning, are all sorts of lights flashing, right? I got the check engine light on in anger, and I got the check engine light in, you know, hunger and all the... All the pressures, love.
All that stuff running. Thanks, Mike. We'll be right back with a whole lot more Christian Car Guyship. Morning by morning today on the Christian Car Guy Show, and the idea of, you know, if you're in the morning, you're getting up and you give yourself time, which I love to do, to really ponder with God, not for God, but, you know, I like to spend time with him and review, you know, where we're at, what we're doing, what do we got for today.
And also just kind of hang out in his arms. So, Bob, if I haven't freaked you out already, here you go. God's put on my heart to share this story, and this is really what kind of inspired the whole thing that I was talking about today. That part of my morning routine is I do a lot of what I call my daily prayer, where I actually do the Lord's Prayer, and I thank him for lots of things, and I praise him, and I try to spend some time just thanking the Holy Spirit and hugging the Holy Spirit and asking the Holy Spirit to, you know, all the people praying for me, which I so appreciate all those out there praying for me, our ministries and those kind of things. And I try to get in line with that, and then I ask for a ride to heaven, okay? And sort of this big bird, I call it netzer, that's a Hebrew word for eagle, but anyway, this big bird and I, we hang out most mornings, and I take a ride, because Solomon, when he was raised in his throne, interestingly, he was raised, an animal would take him up there, and so I let this bird give me a ride to heaven. And usually, most mornings, and this has gone on for years, Bob, he drops me, and I kind of like, I don't know if you've ever seen that scene in Goonies when they're riding the water and going all over the place and have a fun ride, I usually have a fun ride all the way down into God's hand, and then I spend time in God's hand reviewing things like what we just talked about. Well, Wednesday of this week, when, you know, netzer flew me into God's heart, I don't know how to explain this, and understand that I'm not astro-projecting or anything, I'm spending time with God completely, and it's all I want, I don't want any other voice, I don't want to spend time with any other nothing, I just want to hear God, be with God, whatever. And I'm telling you, that is where he took me, and it shocked me. I was like, what? And he goes, Robbie, I wanted to see where we really are. I wanted you to see you're in my heart.
Now, just grasp that one a second, okay? Like, that's where you really are. I mean, that's as biblical as it can be. You're in, I'm in you. If you look in the high priestly prayer that Jesus prayed in John 17, spend some time there, because what he says is, I in me and you, I mean, I in God and you in me, my prayer is that they would be like us, that I would be in them and they would be in me. And so if Jesus is in your heart, guess where you are? You are in his heart, for real. Now, if you're for real in his heart, that, Bob, is how I, somehow or another, can begin to understand how I might not be offended by things that went on around me, because, wait a minute, for real, I'm in God's heart. And so the music that you heard today, you heard me, you know, that I'm in your heart, you heard that from Justin Gambino.
That was in his song. But that's, you know, I actually got to experience it, and I think you can too, if you really pray and ask God to experience it. Being in his heart, what does that feel like?
There's a lot of other people in there, like you. Just when I think that I'm completely lost, absolutely unfindable, you always bring it around, and I'm starting to get a glimpse of what's happening. There's been so many things going on that I'm concerned about so many people, dear friends and everything, and I wake up, and I'm like, well, what do I need to do first today? And what do I need to do second?
What do I need to do third? And yesterday it just got to a point where I was like a little overwhelmed with scheduling, and instead of just walking through the day and letting God lead me, I was trying to schedule it. And then there was, it became apparent that scheduling was off the charts, wasn't going to happen, not doable, and I just walked through the day, and we were led in a perfect way to a really, really great day. And you lose me a lot, but it always, you or God or somebody finds me and gives me, I know it's not the vast understanding of everything that you have, but I leave here with an understanding of your principle message. I don't have the in-depth understanding, but if I can get the gist and then let God fill in the cracks later on, it always, you know. Well, it works both ways, Bob. It's just like what you just said was so profound.
It's unbelievable for me. I don't know about anybody else listening, but I don't know how many times, and my wife will tell you, Robbie knows, like, he's looking at his watch 47 times an hour. Just stay on schedule, huh? And it drives her, you know, I offend her with that, I can assure you. She has a watch, you know, she just knows when I do it, and she goes, you're always, you know, you're worried about, you know, because you have to be here and you have to be there and you have to be here and you have to be there. You do have a very full schedule.
Profoundly so. But I love what you said, you know, and it was, you know, I had a text this morning, you know, like 15, 20 minutes before the show, and it was somebody that said, you know, you don't know me, my name's Timothy, I have a car emergency, can you call me? And I was like, man, I don't have time to call. You know, I just don't have time. I'm like, what?
I'm checking my schedule, I don't have time. And thankfully, you know, I went in and checked with God. You know, I did that prayer without ceasing at least for a minute, and I was like, God, what do we do here?
What do we do with this? And he says, well, are you the Pharisee that walked by on the other side of the road when this guy was hurting? Or it doesn't matter about your show. You call, you know, so I called him and I was able to pray with him. You know, I was really grateful that God gave me that, and it didn't hurt my schedule at all. I had plenty of time, didn't I? You were there when I got here.
He was the ultimate scheduler. And it's just a challenge by challenge, minute by minute. But you're right, and man, that's another place, another thing I need to be mourning by is me arranging my schedule, right, and being offended when stuff doesn't, oh my goodness. I think that that could be part of the reason that God put my wife in my life. Amen. Oh, hey. Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. Well, yesterday I had three things that were lining up to be happening right at five o'clock. And I'm like, that's a bit heavy for five o'clock. But then just all of a sudden, somebody called and said, hey, can we do this at three? And then somebody else called, and can we do this at six? And boom, it just, it ended up being the perfect schedule when I turned loose of it, and just we'll see what happens.
All right. Well, again, we're just grateful that you listened today, and we pray you certainly got some information that will help you chase after God, because He clearly is the hero of the story. We want to remind you that, of course, the Christian Carguy ministry is the Jesus labor love, car repair labor for single moms, widows, and families in crisis. It's at ChristianCarguy.com, as well as all our podcasts and other resources. But that particular one, you know, pray for that. And again, if you share with somebody that's got car problems or whatever, you know, that's what we're there for. ChristianCarguy.com. Remember, slow down. Jesus walked everywhere He went and got it all done in 33 years. Wow.
