Christian Car Guy - Where Do You Lodge?

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Angela, how could you do this? Oh, right. I'm responsible because I'm in charge of the party planning committee. Well, you are the one in charge me for something we offer got.

Let's not blame it for something we all forgot. We deserve a Christmas party.

Well, then why do we get some liquor?

I don't have these many cupcakes, mini cupcakes in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake. Honestly, where does it end? People.

Welcome to the Christian Car Guy Radio Show. I say this call for action now bit in the bud.

Yep. In the bud. Got a little bit in the back.

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Today's Christian car guys show. Where do you lodge? Do you lodge at the Murmurs Motel? Or, you know, I call that Hotel California because, you know, there's plenty of room at the hotel. And of course, you could check out anytime you want, but you can never leave the Murmurs Motel. You just ask old dates there from numbers. You know, when the ground opened up and he got swallowed. He got plenty of time in the hotel. But the opposite, the other place you could possibly lodge when you look at this particular passage in in the Old Testament is you could lodge at the Trusters Tabernacle. And from what I understand, Bob, it's an infinite star resort, not five. All the stars you could ever want. You get those. When you when you when you go to the Trusters Tabernacle, just saying. Out. I don't know if you ever noticed that, which is fascinated while I was on vacation and of course, you're thinking about where you're staying and all these things. And by the way, thank you for my wonderful, just amazing fill in hosts. I heard some of those shenanigans. So anyway, I loved it. So but anyway, well, I was just lodging all over the place. Well, God just happened to take me to this. Interesting word. And so if you look up the word murmur like, you know, when the Israelites were complaining because they didn't have any water murmur, murmur, murmur. Well, that word in Hebrew is the exact same word as lodge. Like, when you spend the night somewhere, you are literally murmuring that the word is probably pronounced loon. But anyway, it if you look at it and I've got it at Christian Karg, ICOM, the Strongs number and all that, but I mean, literally the word is the same as that word. And so then I thought, well, that's interesting because even in English you've probably heard people say that they were going to lodge a complaint. Now, as you begin to process that, I have spent a lot of time on this word and I've figured out all the philosophical reasons why these come together. But I'm not going to go into all that because it just confused. Now, I want to do that. I'm just going to say, let's look at the practical aspect of this. Like, I don't know if you're like me, but when you get upset and you and you check into the Murmurs Lodge Murmur Motel Jeron on us, your brain starts running scripts on why you should be upset and what you should tell people because you're so upset if you get like, you know, I should've told him this and I should have told him that. Are, you know, are you going to every single time they do this, you know, and you get all these things that just run in your mind.

And next time this comes out, this is exactly what Unworn murmured to them.

And so you can't help but think that there's something to this. I've taken up residence. I have checked in, but I don't know that I can leave this particular place.

I am, and I think that's amazing.

It was really amazing how quick I connected with what you were talking about on a personal level this morning. We have a new puppy at the house and I necessarily didn't, you know, not necessarily was I wanting a puppy, but I loved it.

Brad did. And I finally succumb.

And sometimes I find myself murmuring about the puppy and how much it's changed my life. But there's so much joy and there's a whole lot of positive aspects.

And that's exactly where my mind with this morning when you first mentioned that, and I must admit, I have murmured significantly about the puppy.

All right, and here's a practical car aspect to this that I guess most people would know unless they were Chrysler dealers. But I was a Chrysler dealer for some time and and they had this thing called a lemon law. All right. You're familiar with it. And and so somebody could did you have some problem with a car which might you could say they were murmuring. We had to buy the thing back. I mean, that's which had to do even though it was fixed or whatever, after so many repair attempts, you had to buy back. And so because I was running a fairly large Chrysler store when we were here in Winston-Salem, we used to do this, you know, at least once or twice a month. And so would you buy these cars back? Well, then eventually you've got to sell them to somebody else. And I always found it fascinating that never in the history now. When you sold it to the next person, it was greatly reduced in price. And they were told that it was a lemon and they were told that this was it. It was all disclosed. But I never, ever, not one time. And we're talking about selling two of these cars a month. I never, ever had the second owner complain about the things that the first owner had or even have one sixteenth of the problems with the car. And so you couldn't help to come to the conclusion.

Somebody bought a car they didn't really want or need.

No, I think they had checked into the murder hotel and they didn't even know they did, you know, because how many times I'm not finding fault with the people, I do the same stuff. Right. I get frustrated with a vacuum cleaner. I get frustrated with the dish. Oh, the septic tank.

While I was on vacation at the place last hour.

Oh, at my house.

You know, the alarms going off because the pump thing can't work. I'm just. Oh, man. So you get the picture. You get the picture of checking into the Murmur Motel. So guess what? God has another plan that I talked about. Right. It's the. Trusters Tabernacle.

And so, very interestingly, from my perspective, anyway, the first time you find the word trust used, the way that it's normally used in the Psalms and in the Bible is actually Boaz speaking to Ruth in the Book of Ruth. And, you know, this is David's great grandparents. Right. And so when we see this, the. Boaz is seeing what Ruth has done, hanging out with her mother in law and all that stuff and coming back to Israel, and so Boaz says to Ruth, the Lord recompense you for. With a full reward.

The Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. Now. When you look at that, she is going to a place to she's lodging. She's she is lodging in a place of I trust God with my septic tank.

I trust God with this. Whatever the situation is, she is she has found her place under the wings and this place of trust. And when you look at the word trust in Hebrew, as you might imagine, I've done it very much is a tabernacle. It's very much a place where you relate to God. So I want to share this fairly long story, but it so illustrates the point. And my hope is that when this fire is off, something a new where you remember where Jesus literally pulled you out of the Murmurs Motel and put you into the Trusters Tabernacle. And here's what happened. So you may know that in 1996, I had lymphoma, cancer and. It was pretty scary, and so we thought, you know, all those things are going to happen, the Lord healed me. But after my last chemotherapy treatment, we went on a Jeep, Damiri, to celebrate. And the last day, the Jeep jamboree, I was getting a root beer for my son and at the back of the jeep and the person uphill from me had left their jeep out of gear and and came down and crushed me, almost caused me to lose my left leg. And you may have heard me tell their story many times on the air. I have, but I've never told much about the Murmur motel that happened afterwards because the result you had a little something to murmur about their brother. Yeah. The result was two years of one year of being in a wheelchair, but two years and being in a cast. It was all the way up my leg right up to the very top of my leg to the bottom of the leg. And so I actually ended up with my leg. I used to call it my Save the Children leg. It looked at it. It was like, oh, it just all you could see were the bones, Bob, because it had sat there in that cast for two years because they really had to. I won't go in those go details. But the point was that I was in a wheelchair, but I was spent a great deal of time just in bed where I couldn't do anything. And anybody who knows me knows that Robbie can't sit around and do nothing.

I had found myself straight in the Murmurs Hotel, and I'm going to tell you how God rescued me when we come back. And we want to hear your story and get ready to call in at eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four eight, six, six, three, four. Truth. We'll be right back.

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Angela, how could you do this? Oh, right. I'm responsible because I'm in charge of the party planning committee. Well, you are the one in charge. Let me for something.

We offer God. Let's not blame her for something we all forgot.

We deserve a Christmas party. Well, then why do we get some liquor?

Don't these mini cupcakes, mini cupcakes in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake. Honestly, where does it end? People.

All righty, airwaves saying today at the Christian car, guys murmurs Lodge or the Trusters Tabernacle, which I understand is an infinite star resort. So when we left, our hero and Bob asked me to explain some things. So apparently I didn't make it as clear as I could have. What had happened was back in those days, Jeeps had locking hubs and we'd pulled over to the side of the road on a Jeep Camry, which is a whole bunch of jeeps going off road and outside of Asheville, North Carolina. And we are on a hill when they did that. So most people would have engaged the emergency brake or at least put their car in park. But the person that was uphill from us, unfortunately, made that mistake where he didn't. And his jeep went on, rolled down the hill and crushed me between the two. And what made it worse was he had a tubular bumper and Jeep Wranglers had a flat bumper. So it was kind of like a ball and pastel on my. Fibular reticular, whatever that thing, you know, because I don't even have the one bone anymore. They took that one and it went away and the other one was just pulverized. And so what they actually had to do was let it heal completely. And my leg kind of made a dogleg to the right. And so they had to go in and take some bone out of my hip and re break it and fix it. And all this process took two years in bed. Okay, I'm in the middle of my career in the automobile business and all sorts of other things that were pressures at the time. And there I was. And believe me when I tell you I was a baby Christian, I, I'd come to Christ in 93. I had, of course, survived the cancer. So I had everything to be thankful for. I survived the accident. I had everything to be thankful for. Yet no doubt I was a murmur with all sorts of the things that I could see where I wasn't trusting God with the outcome at the time. However, let me tell you about the rescue, OK? And I don't take any credit for this whatsoever. He it was his idea. He thought of it and he completely rescued me. And this is how he beat it. While you're in bed, right, to watch a movie, so I'm watch the movie Braveheart. Yeah. Well, it's particularly strong if your name's Robert Bruce, right. And so we had this thing hit me right in the heart. And as I was just trying to express to God how cool I thought this movie was, he says, or Robby, I want you to write a screenplay.

Sure. You know, I want you to write a screenplay while I'm a not a writer, B, not a screenplay writer, I'm a car dealer. OK. But this is this is what God says. I want you to write a screenplay, and I want to base it on the full armor of God. So this Greenbay that I began to write was called the full armor and what God Knew.

Was that this was going to be some phenomenal time of intimacy with him because, number one, I didn't know how to write a screenplay. Number two, I had no storyline. And so I began to get the storyline from him, like where we go and what are we doing? You know, you're putting on the breastplate of righteousness. You're putting on the helmet of salvation and doing all this. And this little boy in the story was being abused by his mother, actually. And God was fixing them up with the full armor. It was really cool storyline in my young friends to our person who isn't the time his late 20s used to come by my. Room in the hospital or either at my house, and he would read my screenplay and he would just go, Oh man, Robbie, this is so cool. And it was very encouraging. But as God began to give because I didn't have the storyline, you see, he knew that this would be essentially. The Trust Tabernacle that I'm with him getting my next line of the story so that I wasn't doing nothing. I was writing, I you know, I could use a laptop at the time and I wrote the screenplay, went got the software, very fancy software to write a screenplay.

And this thing was elaborate and I.

Until I got out of bed, I probably wrote the first 80 pages of that and the entire storyline I got from him, an efficient six. And it was just a neat story. But during the time of the story, the little boy had become blind. And God said clearly to me that a little boy needs to be blind. He needs to be blinded by his mother's abuse. And I'm like, really? Why are we doing that? He wouldn't tell me. Nor would he tell me the end of the story. And I knew I didn't have the end of the story. So I just kept asking him the end of the story.

Well, right after the two year process, I got out of the wheelchair in October of 2000 of excuse me, nineteen ninety seven.

They fired me in December, right, because they were just essentially waiting until I got out of all the medical stuff before they did what they were going to do, which was to bring the owner's nephew into the run, the store. But I had I had built this store. I thought this store was my you know, I could go into great length of what that did to my heart.

And so guess what? Now, I had a new position of not being able to do anything of it and have a job anymore. And so I literally I went out into the woods and I would sit up in a tree. And ask God what the rest of the story was. And when he revealed to me, I'll never, ever forget it. You know, here's a Shangai.

Why the little boy had to be blind because his own child was gonna be trapped in a house, that the power was out and Berger was trying to get him, and because he was blind, he had an advantage in this house in order to save his own child from an abuser. I mean, it was like the like I did not see the end of this story common. It was like beyond beautiful. I was like, oh, my goodness, this is so neat to see how God worked through this whole story.

So.

As you may know, I ended up with the Chrysler store in Mocksville. You know, that that that was, you know, God had a lot for me in my Pickar business career, passed what was going on there.

But interestingly, when I got done with a screenplay, of course, I went through, I Googled everything you could do on how to get somebody to do a screenplay because I thought this thing needed to be a movie and it needed to be had like Hollywood movie and it needed to have special effects and all sorts of stuff. And so the idea was that you're supposed to find an agent and the special agents that do screenplays, and the only way you would ever get the thing into a movie is you've got to find an agent. And so I go through all this.

In a research to find the best agents in the Hollywood and whatever, and I send them all out these letters, I told you it's gonna be a long story. So when we come back, you're going to find out what happened with the agents because one agent actually wanted to read the screenplay. And I was couldn't be more excited, as I said, my screenplay out to be read by Hollywood to see if my screenplay would someday become a movie. Hear the rest of that story. And I want to hear yours when we come back.

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Great show. Yes. This place is a sty.

Murmurs Motel Hotel California today on the Christian car guys show or to Trusters Tabernacle, you have a choice. We all do on where we're going to launch today or in any given minute. We can choose to lodge any place. When we left our hero this time, he'd just been fired. It didn't have a job. And so I. At thought I, you know, had a lot to murmur about, and I ran scripts, let me tell you, scripts were being run in. But there was this other situation. Then I had this screenplay that had never been finished and God had started to outline to me what the.

What the what the actual storyline was supposed to be and why that this little boy had been blind in the story. Which just I it was just a beautiful story. It was just. A place where I had to trust God for the next line because I didn't know what the story was. And so it was just a beautiful thing of innocent intimacy between me and him during a time where I was obviously going through a lot of stuff.

Well, I send the screenplay often, and when I sent the screenplay off, I put my official really cool name, Robert Bruce Delmore Junior on the from the screenplay, and I sent it off and to the to the agent. And I didn't really think much more about it because we were starting this new adventure with a new dealership. And I was doing all this stuff for one day, not long now, two months probably after I'd sent it out. I get this phone call. Is this Robert Bruce still more junior? You know, I'm not used to anybody.

Go ahead, please.

It might be my mind is just racing. Who would call me Rob? Oh, and it hit me. It's my age.

I said yes. And he said, well. I've read this screenplay, the full armor, and I have to tell you, that is the most disturbing piece of literature I have ever read. He said. I'm pretty sure it be burned. But at least it needs to be ripped up and thrown in the trash. Do you mind if I do that?

I'm not kidding you, but this was this is exactly what this man said to me.

Wow.

He candy coated is a little there. He did. He did not. And so there I was.

And I can remember, like the time I've been studying as a CIA when he, you know, just laid out all his complaints before God and laid him down there on, you know, what was going on. And so I just took that whole thing, wrote it out, what I was experiencing with the screenplay and what I've experienced with all this and and just wrote it off and just gave it to God. I sit. Here you go. I don't understand. And and at the time. I did not.

What did he explain what his beef was with your screenplay? I knew what it was. He clearly wasn't a Christian.

And I mean, this thing was like loaded with stuff that, you know, he wasn't willing to deal with it.

It was the form. It was like efficient. Six come to life. And this kid was being saved. And and he was fine in his way. And he was disturbed. I get it. I'm fine with it, you know. And I was.

So I wrote all that out and went on my car business trail that eventually led to the Christian car guys show. I would not have been able to see this if God hadn't showed it to me while I was on vacation, OK? I now see something. I did not see before. He had pulled me out of the Murmur Hotel and he had me in a place for that. It was two and a half, three year period of time.

Or I was either in the hospital, I was wherever, and he had given me this project that he clearly had given me. To work on to learn how to trust him in order to be a creative person. And so you may wonder that, you know, if you show up here at the station any Saturday morning, somewhere early, five or 6:00 or o'clock in the morning, you see I'm here. Why am I here? Because God never gives me the end of the story. He never tells me what the show is completely about until Saturday morning. And so this morning, I was here at the crack of dawn like Private Benjamin there, because he had finally given me the last pieces of the puzzle. So what he was doing back then, his he was training me how to be the Christian car guy. Right. And by the way, I write screenplays all the time. I had the full armor still sitting there. And some day it may be a Christian car guy theater episode, but think about how the how he's allowed me to enjoy being a screenplay writer, because I do it every you know, every time you hear a Christian car guy theater episode, that's that's what's going on. And guess who gives me the storyline, of course, in the case of John Bunyan. He had it before I did. So.

The thing of it is, is while I was there.

In intimacy with him, allowing trusting him to give me the rest of the story, you see, he had rescued me from Hotel California from.

That's pretty amazing, brother. There's so many times in my life that God has rescued me. And. The thing that really comes to my mind is, is when he placed Laurie in my life and we met and we were seeing each other and.

She had two two boys, still the butt. And I wasn't sure that I wanted to be hanging out with somebody. Oh, the little one, so little. And Jeremy's eight years younger than his older brother. And it's it was just pretty.

It was hard for me to understand. And I didn't really appreciate or or want that in my life. I murmured about that. And God put her out of my life really quick. And gay may struggle after struggle after struggle. In my quest to find the right person. And then one day it became this crystal clear that, hey, God had placed a good woman in my life and I let her get away. And so my whole life became about getting her back.

And that was a very difficult thing. But he brought her back into my life and. And I had the ultimate appreciation of her and the caliber of woman she was. From that point on.

But I just thought, oh, you know, she's got kids and and I don't need. But I had a son, too.

And they had they all three of them did very well together in the big picture.

And but it was just something that I had my mind set on that it was for sure, not for me because of the little ones, the extra kids and everything. And now, you know, with Rob being gone, I'm so grateful.

And even before Jeremy and I have always been really close. Sheldon, our relationship is at an all time high right now.

And we've just you know, we've built a great family unit. And I'm so grateful that God led me in that direction, especially after losing Rob. It just. He prepared me.

You know, I think the fire at work and everything was part of my preparation and trust in God and and following him and letting him lead the way, because after that, I didn't know what to do. I didn't have nothing but a big pile of ashes, a little bit of concrete. And some people there was wanting to work in and get paid at the end of the week.

And, you know, I had plenty of chances to marmor them. But. There was no time for murmuring at that time, and I was just. Try to figure out the best thing today. And.

And we pray every morning. We pray every afternoon for we left and we started flying the Christian flag shortly after. After the fire. And it was just. An opportunity to trust and to check in at the Chester Tabernacle. And if I had hadn't, I can't say the result would have been anywhere near the same.

Out of that time, there's a story that's definitely worth repeating is I had in the same timeframe, you know, Bob had been on my show maybe a year and a half, two years at the point of the fire. And Bob had done a commercial about.

How to be how to use God as a mechanic. You remember that commercial? Oh, yeah. For the church. Right. If you had done a commercial that ran under one of nine, you pull its advertising. But it was about you need to come to church because Jesus is the ultimate mechanic.

And when you got a problem in your life, the master mechanic. Right.

So Bob had done this commercial and he did a YouTube video of it and he sent it to me. Well, coincidentally, in God's timing, this was right after the FA.

I had written an article, I had actually copied a article about this guy who had this Packard that was he had bought it when it was new and he was the oldest living person of a car that was over so many years. I forget exactly what it was, but it was a pretty unique article on cars. And it had gotten picked up from my Web site over to Germany. Yeah, Germany, this this this big blogger over in Germany picked up this article and sent a link to the Christian car guy. But rather than linking that article, he linked my Web site, which everybody came to Bob's mechanic commercial.

And there were millions of views of Bob's YouTube. And the reason was because once people came to see this old car, what they got to see was God was their mechanic. I don't know who was supposed to get that message, Bob, but I'll never, ever, ever forget it.

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Always shock.

So we do have a choice, Bob.

The Trusters Tabernacle that I want to thank you for bringing up that commercialized. It had not even entered my mind that I did that years ago in a really long time.

And that was a very, very, very special time in my life. And it it's it was really great for you to bring that up today. And I'm sure it was in your time in every thing.

Now, you mentioned that. I just remembered the incident. I went. I've always thought that was just really. Wow, that got pulled that off. But I need to mention that The Cure's coming up at one o'clock if you're on the truth network. If not, you can listen to the cure on the podcast that they have and they're going to have a cowboy preacher try Robertson on there. It's going to be live so you can call and talk to the cowboy himself. A better life in tune with the earth.

That's all coming up today at one o'clock on the Truth Radio Network. But you know the thing I can't help but note, Bob, in all of us when you think about it. The word trust in Hebrew. You know, I'm like, I'm trying to spell it, but David used it 27 times in the song.

The words used three times before David got a hold of it. And then he went on to use it twice. And second, Samuel and he used it twenty seven times in the Psalms. And so is this word that obviously, if there was anybody who had a chance to murmur when Saul was chasing him and all the shenanigans that he'd lived through and you think about it, he clearly understood that, that God had rescued him.

And and if you think about it, my guess is God was giving him these songs to write. Just like he he gives us different ways to find intimacy with him. And whatever project that he gives us. And similarly, you know, in my life, when I think about those times, he rescued me by giving me a project of intimacy. Now, I once interviewed not long after I started my full time work in radio. I interviewed this missionary and she had spent 10 years on her first 10 years in the field with her kids separated from her. She had to put him like in a in a school for that or I mean, for the missionary kids witnessing to a tribe. And their first convert, after all these years, got murdered. And I looked at her and I went, you're kidding me. Like, you went through all that. And then your convert got murdered and I couldn't even do any more work with this tribe that you originally started out with. And she said that's exactly what happened. But let me tell you, Robbie, those 10 years.

God was training me.

So that when I went on to the next tribe, I knew exactly and I've never forgotten that. But until this morning, I hadn't put it together that the reason why this screenplay thing was not about the screenplay. God had me write the screenplay to get me out of the murmur and put me into a place of trust with him and whatever, and he was training me for something that I would continue to value as one of my favorite things. Who's waiting on God to finish the story?

It's so amazing because. You know, the the thing that you just mentioned, the commercial we did for a forced. I'd got asked to be on the Evangelism Committee. And we'd been, you know. Trying to reach out and and John speak out for God and. One Sunday morning in church, it just really was laid on me heavy. And I have just 30 seconds ago, I remembered this part of it because I went home after church, went downstairs and in 20 minutes in one riding in a matter time, I have to tear up some stuff and why a bit and murmur.

But in one writing, I read that commercial just it has flowed out in and just do you go to church in how some people think they have to get their life straightened out before they can get a church. But when you karge broke, you don't, you don't wait for it to fix itself. You take it to a mechanic. And I invited people to meet the master mechanical life. And this commercial was brought to you by this message was brought to you by Oak Forest. And and it was just. Such a really, really, really strong thing and took it and sure showed it to the people in the committee. And what do you think? And because all the advertising we do, we'll be able to get it there have a discounted rate. And there were some generous people at church and a couple of businesses that thought that message need to go out. And it went out a lot. I mean, like a lot and. And a lot. Yeah. The Web site. And it was just I had forgotten. So I had so completely forgotten about that until you mentioned it while ago.

And God's in here just dumping me and throwing bits and pieces out of my head. They're really.

And Clay in Raleigh. He's got a story he's been hung on forever for so. Clay, we got a couple minutes for you to share. What and what have you got for us today?

Well, brother, I will say it's forever. But, you know, it's an interesting story, I'm not not sure if I got to share this with you or anybody else and especially you. I'm going to share part of, you know, a deeper part of this tomorrow when I get to hear you preach, when you head make your make your way this way tomorrow. But several years ago, I went through something that I didn't expect to go through. And just so you know, it's more than a murmur. You actually act I get creative myself because I was thinking, OK. He's playing Hotel California, OK? It could be a hotel happening or it could be an awakening awareness, because when certain things are going on with us, you know, at some point we get we're made awake and we're made aware of what's going on. So anyway, next week will be 10 years ago that I was experiencing something and I didn't know what to think. And I don't want to gross anybody out on the radio, but just imagine yourself going to the bathroom and being in there for a considerable amount of time. And it's a struggle. And after you're done, you recognize something that you've never seen before. Well, I had to go to see a doctor about this. And the long and the short story of this is that I have told people and I truly believe that the Lord was in there, says where the doctors were, the nurses were because, you know, I was not I you kind of remind me of me because, you know, you're you're you'd like to be active. Well, I like to be active, too, because, I mean, certain things that you need to get done well, because of what took place in August of 2010, hours out of commission for eight months. And so what it was, is that I had several procedures leading up to the major surgery that was going to have and the doctor that did the couple three, the procedures leading up to what was to happen, told me he separated his thumb and his index finger. No more than like a quarter of an inch and said I was close to having the infection that I could have had. Give him a colon wall. He pulled 27 polyps out of me. And one was 97 percent infected. The other was 93 percent.

When I had you only have about 30 seconds, so you've got to get us to the point where you're OK. OK.

Well, the interesting thing is that you you're made aware and the Lord brings you awake as to what happened in your life to realize, you know, because I was. OK. Make them make make the story complete. Ours was separate your thumb to your index finger. About a quarter of an inch.

And that's how close I was having colon cancer. And it made me aware and awake of the overall situation because, you know, God does have a poignant path for our lives. So sometimes we say, well, maybe not. I don't need to be on it yet. But when we get we know the book of Hebrews talks about that we drift, fall or turn away from him. And when that happens, you know, you're not sure what to think.

You know, maybe it was. We've got to go. Clay, I'm sorry, but thank you for sharing that. That's awesome. And we will see you tomorrow at Peace Church in DERM. So God bless. And we got to go. So, Bob, thank you.

Wow. Thank you, brother. It's an honor every time.

And remember, slow down. Jesus walked everywhere he went. Got it all done in 33 years. And don't forget, the podcast is at Christian Kirk ICOM. Thank you for listening today.

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