Picture Of A Lying Car Salesman

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I say this calls for action and now nip it in the bud. I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine. I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine. I loaded 16 tons of number 9 coal and the straw boss said, well, to bless my soul, you load 16 tons. What do you get?

Another day older and deeper in depth. Saint Peter, don't you call me cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store. I was the picture of a lying car salesman today on the Christian Car Guy show, which by the way, if you go to christiancarguy.com and you look for the picture of a lying car salesman, guess who's there, Bob?

It's me. So picture of a lying car salesman today. And you know, you may have noticed in that introduction there, one of the all time classic movies, if you're a car salesman is used cars and Kurt Russell there was talking about the quietest engine you've ever heard.

Yellow primer when the car was covered, it was a taxi cab, you know, that was painted over just some great stuff if you're a car salesman. But anyway, and then you have of course, Whale of a Tail by Kirk Douglas in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. You might remember him singing that, but this is a whale of a tail because with lying, we get an interesting picture of the king of pride, which is described for us in Job 41. And in Job 41, that's God's gives us, he's giving Job a beautiful description of Leviathan, which is in fact Satan in so many different ways. And certainly the picture of a liar and certainly the king of pride.

So we got all these different things we get to do with Tennessee Ernie Ford, but you might've noticed he was loading 16 tons, right? And just, I guess to kind of set this up, Job has got a problem. He knows about God, but he has never met God. He doesn't know, he doesn't really know God, but he's been worshiping him most of his life. And then all of a sudden Satan goes wild as we know and takes out his kids and his family and all this other stuff goes on. And Job's got a lot of questions.

I bet you got questions. I got a lot of questions, but actually what happens is God gets a miraculous conversion in Job by explaining to Job some of the things he does not have a clue about. And one of the things he doesn't have a clue about is Leviathan. In fact, the description of Leviathan is Job chapter 41.

Well, you'll see Job's conversion right after God talks to him about Leviathan, because all of a sudden Job sees something he can't get done. And so I'm going to set up this story. Again, we'll get to Robbie lying and we'll get to a lot of things here in a minute, but you know, years ago I wanted to dig a tunnel to China.

I was probably fourth grade, Bob. Did you ever want to dig a tunnel to China? That's where Tennessee Ernie Ford's, he's digging right here, you might notice. And so I loaded 16 tons.

In your little red wagon. Yeah, I was digging, digging, digging. And we've got down about four feet.

I mean, this was a nice hole. We got down about four feet and this was in Naperville, Illinois. We came across this huge boulder.

It was gigantic. I mean, as big around as we had the whole, you know, so here we have this huge boulder and if we're going to get to China, we got to move this boulder that's in the hole. You know, four or five of us neighborhood boys were digging. We go get a pitchfork to dig underneath it. We take, you know, pulleys that we have and try to lift it out. You know, all these different things we're going to do to move this stone, which actually won't move.

It won't merge nothing. Now, one of my friends had traveled to a nearby state. Don't try this at home, kids, please. And had come across some things we used to play with back then called M-80s. They were thumb removers. And M-80s were really powerful firecrackers.

I haven't seen one in years, but man, when they went, they went. And so I was told that one M-80 was a quarter of a stick of dynamite. And so we added it up and we figured we needed about eight of them. And we tied all these, if you could picture it, wicks together and lit that baby and ran like you never saw anything in your life. And, you know, we got about to the front street of the house. And when this thing went off, I mean, the whole neighborhood shook.

It was a boom like you hadn't heard. And so we were sure, you know, because firecrackers ran illegal in Illinois at the time. So we were sure we were busted. You know, we're going to jail. You know what, Bob? We finally, after about an hour or so, made our way back to our hole to hopefully see the rock had been removed.

Sitting over here on the side. That was our picture. All that was was dirt all over our backyard. And the rock had not been moved. Now, here comes the part of the story I wish it happened.

Okay. What I wish had happened is my dad would have come out there and said, son, did you try everything to move this stone? And I would have said, yeah, we dug. We got pulleys.

We got, you know, we used them eighties. We did everything we possibly could do to move that stone. And my dad would have said something very wise like, no, you didn't do everything you could to move that stone. And I would have said, huh? And he said, he would have said, you didn't ask for help. You didn't ask for me to do it. So here you have this situation with Satan.

Okay. I'm hoping this story sinks in a little bit. When you think you've tried everything you can to not tell lies and everything that you cannot to believe lies and all that other stuff, there comes a point where, guess what? We have to ask for help. You see, there are things that we can't do. And that's the beauty of Christianity, right? So other religions go do, do, do, do, do, but Christianity says done.

We cannot get rid of our sin. But Job found out, as I did at some point in my life, that, yeah, I can take on Satan if I have help, right? Because if you read the rest of Job 41, you're going to see that, oh my goodness, I mean, this thing is something to reckon with.

Absolutely something to reckon with that really I don't think until this week I ever really completely saw all the picture of what it is I'm reckoning with. However, I'm no longer afraid of it because, beautifully, in Job 41, he not only tells Job what he's dealing with, but he also shows what's going to happen to him in the end. He tells him the end of the story. So, as I was looking at this in Job chapter 41, which we're going to go through, it does give Satan's job description.

And his job description has to do with these pot sherds or these big sharp spikes that are on his belly. And with that, he goes through the mire. Now, you may know that mire, you know, it's kind of at the bottom of a pond. If you've ever, like, back when I lived in the mountains in Colorado, you know, all the topsoil of the mountains would come down through the rain, and it would gather in these ponds. And if you stepped into one of those ponds, you would go up to your waist and mire, okay? But when you think about what that mire was, it was rotting material, right?

It's nasty. And all the animal feces that washed down. All the, everything that was rotting, you're right in the mire, okay? And so, when I looked at this in Hebrew, I was like, okay, so Satan is stirring up what? We'll say mire.

That's a nice way to put it. So, Satan's job is to stir up this mire. So, I started to look at it mire in Hebrew, and you know what I found? It was two baskets of goodness, right? Because there's two tubs, which are baskets of goodness, but it's hidden goodness. You can't see it, but it's full of goodness.

And then there was this yud, which is kind of like this worship. And I'm like, how in the world could two baskets of goodness come out of mire? And I just started to think about Joseph and how he said, what you meant for evil, God meant for good.

And I started to look at mire in a whole new way. And so, actually, in today's show, what I'm going to ask you to do is call in and tell us, your two baskets of mire. Your two baskets of goodness. From something you thought was the worst possible thing that Satan, whatever he did, right? He stirred up in your life, or told you a lie, and you bought it.

Then all of a sudden, you got baskets of goodness. 866-348-7884, 866-34-TRUTH. The picture of a lying car salesman. We got so much, much to talk about. We need your calls.

866-348-7884. We'll be right back. And the picture of a lying car salesman today. As we're looking at a picture of what Satan is and what he does, and I'm hoping that you begin to see where I'm headed, Bob. These two baskets of goodness, right?

So, what I'm talking about, some of the worst lies that you can tell are the ones you tell yourself, right? Absolutely. Right? I can remember when I had cancer. It didn't look like two baskets of goodness, okay?

It just didn't. You know, when I got crushed by the Jeep shortly thereafter, when I look back in the year 1996 in my own life, it looked like anything but two baskets of goodness. However, it was a forging of my relationship with God that I wouldn't trade for anything, because I had nowhere to go with all that, except right there, and to begin to walk with God in a way that I had not come anywhere close to prior to that. And actually, when I look at my life today, it never would have happened without those two baskets of goodness. So, I had the basket of cancer, and I had the basket of the Jeep accident that came together, and oh my goodness. The fertile ground which the seeds were planted in, huh?

Exactly, exactly. So, we would love your two baskets of goodness, 866-348-7884, 866-34-TRUTH. Bob, you got a basket?

Brother, I've got baskets and baskets and baskets. And you kind of threw me this morning when you presented this, and you started talking about how we had to ask for help sometimes. And that's where I struggle. It's just admitting that I need help. You know, I thought I was in control.

You know, I'm supposed to be in control. I'm not supposed to need help. And that's the biggest lie I ever told myself, is that I absolutely need help. And God made it very crystal clear in my life that I needed help. And a big part of the help I got is when He placed Lori and my wife in my life. And it's just, you know, when I'm smart enough to seek counsel with her and seek counsel with God, my stuff goes a whole lot better. But I got in such a habit of being in control for 20 years, and I was the final word.

And it's not like that anymore. And I struggle every now and then. And it causes a lot of conflict in me not to be in control. And I have to remember that a lot of times when I'm not in control, things do go pretty well. Well, it's kind of cool when I really think about this. Satan has literally got these pot shirts on his belly where he's stirring up stuff all the time.

And it's like when he stirs it up, your check engine light should come on and say, you know, you're stirred up for a reason. There's some goodness that you have not oxidized. There's some goodness that you have not realized what you've got and the power that is in that. Because if you think about a swamp, right, if you let it go through years and years and compression and all that stuff, what does it become? Oil. There's a phenomenal amount of power in rotting material, okay?

And whether it's through growing plants or exploding through gasoline that just took us all to work today, you know, there you go. You've got all this power. It's two baskets of goodness, I can assure you. But when you step in it and it pulls your shoe off, it doesn't seem like goodness, you know? Then you have to stick your hand down in there and try to get your shoe back out or a walk home. I mean, this happened to me several times when we were kids. You go through it first, you're the light one.

And, you know, I'd be the one trying to get my shoe out of the muck in the mire. There you go. We got Scott Barton's on the road. He's got maybe some baskets of goodness for us, I hope. Scott, you're on the Christian Car Guys show. Of course, if you don't know, Scott is our labor of love, Jesus' labor of love volunteer that does all these calls for us and stuff. But what you got for us, Scott? Good morning, Robbie.

Love the show. Thank you. Yeah, you were talking about our trials and our mire that we step in. And recently I had a little trial of my own. And a metaphor that I like to use is recently I just fell and I broke my ankle.

And I asked God to use it as a blessing and for me to learn and to witness to others. And through my job as a patient advocate in an ED and healthcare setting, my job is to go in and put patients at ease and make them laugh and pray with them and witness and tend to their needs. And when I walk in there with my broken ankle, the first thing I when I go in a room, I try to elevate the mood and I say, well, how are you doing?

So many people, of course, mostly male, would say, doing better than you. So it's kind of a diversion. And then so they would ask me what happened and I'd go into my story of what happened and how I fell. And of course, the story kept getting better and better every time I rehearsed it. So I used that minor setback. And I'm, of course, I'm healing now.

And I'm walking without a boot and everything. But I thank God for using that mire, that trial to uplift others. So that's my metaphorical fire. There you go. Well, there you go. I love it. Thank you, Scott.

That's a great way to kick us off. I appreciate your call very much. God bless.

Thank you, Scott. So, you know, again, you've got those baskets. They're right there at your mind. And you can bless others that perhaps are dealing with a basket right now to think that, wow, there is some hidden goodness in this. You might be shocked.

866-348-7884, 86634, true. So actually, what kicked this off for me this week, God had me look at the passage in Genesis where Noah walked with God. And I started to study that word walked. And I realized that it was God was sharing his heart and his plans with Noah. Like, hey, it's going to rain. And Noah was like, what's rain?

You know, because he didn't have any clue. You know, well, hey, it's going to be 40, you know. And you can imagine this discussion. But God, you know, saw that Noah was righteous in his generation, and he began to share what he's doing.

And so it's really a cool picture of that rock story of like, how cool would it be for God to actually share with you why that two baskets of mire is currently in your life? So we need your call. 866-348-7884, 86634, true.

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Kick her over. Isn't that the quietest engine you've ever heard in your life? Yes, the picture of a lying car salesman, right? And what I was talking about was the lies I tell myself about stuff that I think is the worst thing that possibly happened. God could not be in control here. Clearly, this couldn't happen if, you know, and those lies are, right, baskets of goodness that I've yet to uncover. And, you know, it's interesting. I was telling you about, I was walking with God, and then he started to show me again, rethinking, you know, Proverbs 4 33, excuse me, 23 through 24, where it says, guard your heart above all else, right?

Because out of it well springs light. Well, the next line, it says, keep away from perverse lips and lying tongues. Well, I started thinking, man, these lies I'm telling myself. If I want to guard my heart, one of the things I can't do is start telling myself, oh, you're just a bonehead.

You know, a lot of the things I tell myself are clearly lies. And really straight from the pride king himself, you know, which we'll get more into that in a minute. But we got Angie is in Greenville, South Carolina. She's got her Meyer story for us. Angie, you're on a Christian Car Guys show.

Good morning. Angie? You're almost there.

She might've gone into, can you hear me, Angie? Yeah. Okay. Tell us about your story.

If you might want to turn off your radio in the background, cause there's a delay and it will confuse you. Okay. Sorry. Yes, I had in 2005, no, 2015, I had a really, really tough year. My son was getting into some things he shouldn't have been. I was having a really hard time with my job that year and lo and behold, something that I never in a million years imagined would happen. My husband had an affair and to be honest, I can look at that now and see how God has blessed us. Our marriage was restored. I've never been closer to him in my life. And so even though that was the hardest thing I've ever experienced in my life, it was also the time in my life when God became so real and he's been real to me ever since in such a huge way.

It's just, you know, anytime now I have something that, you know, I think, cause I told myself, Oh, that'll never happen to me. And, you know, now when, when things happen, I just automatically go, okay, God, you're in charge and you've got the S and, you know, it's changed my whole life and, you know, something that Satan wanted to be for evil. He wanted it to be the destruction of my family.

And God used it for good. And, it's just such a blessing for him to move in your life that way. That is really, really, really powerful Angie. Thanks for sharing that. Wow. Thank you.

God bless y'all. You know, that just shows you the power of what happens when we uncover these baskets. Like there's tons of power in that story. If you just heard what Angie said, you're like me, you're going, Oh my goodness, how good is God?

Because I can imagine that it was, well, you know, I've been in a marriage that somebody cheated on me, so I've not my current one, but my previous one. And it just rips your heart out. And it's so beautiful that God made himself real like never before. So thank you, Angie. I'm so grateful. You're welcome. God bless. Have a great day. God bless you guys. Thank you. Thank you, dear. So, wow. We need your story.

866-348-7884. You can see the power of the testimony that's in that when we uncover the stuff that we think is rotting away inside of us, and the lies that we've thought about are actually all kinds of goodness, right? Well, my story, well, one of my stories, the life I was leading was horrible. I mean, I had periods in my life where I was completely out of control and I was just reckless. And there was just not much positivity in my life.

And I was just, you know, carrying on and just living the wild life and just thought that was absolutely the way things needed to be and had to be and were going to be for me. And I just, you know, it was just not a good life at all. And then later in life, when things settled down and calmed down and I was doing a lot better, you know, and things were a little more stable, you know, I got asked about helping with kids at church. Many of you have heard this story, if you've been with us before.

But I'm like, do you know what a double scoop of poop my life was just a few years ago? And I was convinced that there was nothing, I had nothing to share with people or kids or young people and that they would be making a big mistake to put somebody like me around their kids. And I just knew there was just nothing I had to offer them. And these people were crazy. And I just knew that there was nothing we're crazy for, for asking me to be a part of their children's lives. And God reached down and slapped me in the head and just, you know, like, hey, that poop at double scoop of poop, you think we're gonna put some seeds in that and we're gonna have, you're gonna help some young people steer clear of the things that you wallowed through and lost your shoe in and all the mire that you went through.

There's good in that mire, Bob, and you're gonna share it with these kids. And although I was not the most theological person, I couldn't quote them a whole lot of scripture. I could quote them a whole lot of life. And hopefully some of the young people that we were associated with for so long, hopefully some of them, their life was changed. And maybe they saw some of the stumbling blocks that I had tripped over and lost my shoe in and I love what you said, you know, the first time you ever told that story. And it stayed in down in my soul. I can quote it exactly right.

So say at one time in your words, because, you know, only Bob Young can say this the way you say it. Well, God just showed me that the things that I thought disqualified me from working with young people had uniquely qualified me to work with young people. Who better to talk to them about the poop you can step in than somebody that stepped in all of it and tracked it around over on the carpet. To quote the scripture that goes with that, if you look at 2 Corinthians 1, it said, the God of all comfort, right, comforts us with all comfort that we might comfort others with the comfort that we were comforted with. In other words, the stuff we've stepped in or the stuff that came into our life that looked like a terrible disaster, my own recovery from cancer or the car accident, whatever. Our testimonies about that are really our power.

I mean, that's how we comfort others. So we got Laura is in Raleigh, North Carolina. Laura, you're on the Christian Car Guy show. Good morning.

Oh, no, I'm on. Good morning. How are you? I am excited to hear your story. Oh, I guess I'll go back to as far as that was my saying to many different people was that what the devil means for bad, the Lord can use for good.

And then later on, I found that it was similar Romans 828 to me. One thing in 2005 was very rough. I lost my mom, you know, even my cat, you know, and some other things, medical things. But then in 2017, my brother passed away in not a great way. But anyway, and I was very close to him, and I didn't ever think I could get through it. And I have, and only through the strength of the Lord.

And, you know, still kind of is painful at times. But he was a nut. He was a funny man. But anyway, he's I know where he is now. But he's got me through. There's just no doubt in my mind.

There's no way I could have done it. And, you know, I just just take comfort in him. And I just thank you so much for what you folks do.

I listen to truth radio, leave it on all the time. Thank you. So if I'm not here, the cattle here.

You got a new cat, then I'm glad to hear that. I'll come home and go. Anyway, I'll let you go. But thank you so much.

Thank you for your story, Laura. Yeah, yeah, you know. Yeah. God bless. Oh, that's so wonderful. And I, I'm sure, Bob, you can relate to it, because, you know, losing your son. Absolutely. And she said in not a great way.

I'm not sure how her brother passed. But it was definitely not a great way that my son left here. But I was able to give people some comfort through my story and that story. We got so much more. We need yours. 866-348-7884.

We'll be right back. Isn't that the quietest engine you've ever heard in your life? So today's show, the picture of a lying car salesman. And I do want to share some other things from Job chapter 49 that I think are very, very instructional about liars.

Especially my own lies, okay? So don't—I know where I started with this was like I was guarding my heart from all that was going on in the media and all those lies that were being told. And I realized that in some ways, those are two baskets of goodness in that I think more people are praying for this country than perhaps have ever prayed. And more people are saying, God, I can't move this rock.

And so what an opportunity we have. So as we look at this picture God gives us of Satan and what he does in verse 12, it says, I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. Which means, essentially, liars look good, man. And so when you hear Kurt Russell talk about that engine, it sure sounds quiet. I mean, it sounds good. And unfortunately, the lies that are really the most dangerous to me are those lies that I think I look good.

And I'll tell lies to myself about how I look good. And so rather than being honest with God and honest about my need, you know, I'm missing out on the opportunity for him to lift a rock out of my hole. I mean, you see the situation, but there's a beautiful thing that comes at the very end of the chapter. It says, he beholdeth all things. He's talking about Satan here.

God's talking about Satan. He says, he beholdeth all high things, and he is the king of the children of pride. Now that word pride there is the only time you'll see that in the Bible. It's only in the book of Job. The first time it's translated is as a lion. But here it's pride. And when you break that word down, it's really, really helpful. Because it said he perceives high things. But when you look at that word pride, it has to do with making life out of your own self-righteousness.

And, you know, that's that do, do, do, do, do versus the done, right? And so I think, and when you think about who did Jesus struggle with the most? Who were the, who were the, they looked good. They were in the, you know, temple, the Pharisees and the satchel. They looked so religious.

They tied, and they were all, we're just, yeah, we got the high place on our head and all that stuff. Well, I can just tell you that those of us who worship God, those of us who spend time with God get it pretty easy that we start thinking we did that. Completely my own doing. However that looks.

And so I begin to not only share with people that are looking at me that this glass looks, I mean that this bowl looks pretty good on the outside. But what's even worse is I begin to not allow Satan to do his job. When he stirs up that stuff inside of me, I don't need to look good.

I need to decide what is being stirred up. And why did God allow this? Now I'm not saying that God wants evil, but God does want you to pay attention to the check engine light in your brain.

Like going, something is not right with the way I'm feeling here. And one of the things that's clearly not right, and the biggest lie that he uncovers in the book of Job right here, I think, is that this is not going to work out for good. But if you listen to what God says about him in the fourth and fifth and sixth verses, it's so beautiful, it says, and he's talking to Job, but he's also telling you what he's going to do with Satan. He says, can you make a covenant with him? Will you take him as a servant forever? In other words, Satan is God's servant forever. And then he says, will you play with him like a bird? Will you chain him for your maidens? Well, you see, at the end of the book of Revelation, if you think about it, what does God do? He chains Satan for his bride. Who's his bride?

We are. He's telling Job, look, I'm fixing to chain this guy for you, but it's going to be a few years. And then the best is yet to come, because in the sixth verse, he says, shall your companions make a banquet of him?

Okay? What is he saying? The wedding supper of the lamb, if you go look at it in Revelation 19, what are we going to do? We are going to devour the flesh of those that hated God.

You see, he's going to make a banquet out of Satan. It's just, it is what's going to happen. And so the lie that I cannot, in other words, is I'm getting all concerned about what's happening in the country and all this stuff.

I'm lying to myself about who wins this deal? God has been in control. Yeah, stirring is going on.

I couldn't say that any clearer. Stirring is going on. However, there are two baskets of goodness in that stirring, if we search for them, Bob. And how we respond to the stirring.

That's where I've been having trouble. There's been a few things stirred recently, and I have not responded appropriately to the stirring that's gone on in my life. And because I didn't realize that there is two baskets of goodness in the stirring, and I just saw it as stirring, and sometimes when you stir the mire, it has a foul smell, and you get a little whiff of that, and you don't realize that you don't realize that there's goodness available to me if I just seek counsel and figure it all out instead of just my reaction, instead of my response. One of my biggest, biggest heartbreaks was when my middle daughter was 17. She fell in love with a guy who wanted to drop out of school. She was in a Christian school.

I'm like, what are you talking about? It became obvious that they did need to get married, and she got pregnant very shortly thereafter, which absolutely I was like, oh. And then she divorced.

She had no high school education. Now we got a little baby, da-da-da-da, but can I tell you? Oh, is that two baskets of goodness, and then some. My granddaughter, Lila, have you not heard me talk about me?

This is one of the joys, absolute joys of my life. And all what? My daughter, because of being a single mom, she got her college totally, went back, became a nurse. She's an operating nurse at Baptist Hospital, has her degree. All sorts of neat stuff that I see in her life. And then those two baskets of goodness in my granddaughter are more than unbelievable.

It's like, I can't even imagine my life without Lila. But at the time, I thought, God, are you not paying attention here? This stuff is messing up bad. See, you just wasn't paying attention, huh?

It's hard to have that vision, though, when things are, when you're, what's the old saying? When you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember you came to drain the swamp. I hadn't heard that, Bob, but that's a Bobism right there. You can use that one. I actually got that somewhere else.

That's not an original. Yeah, I think we're experiencing that in so many different ways. So yes, so I, as you know, I have really, really been thinking about how beautiful this is. And I hope you go read Job 41 and then see Job's reaction after God gives him this whole explanation of Satan. And I want you to think about one other thing that he shares about Satan's eyes.

And interestingly, he uses their eyelids, which is a sign for the star of the morning. Well, Satan is the star of the morning, okay? And there's a kind of light that's in Satan's eyes that is described here that is looking for the bad, right? But the kind of light that God puts in your eyes, because if you have bad light, your life is completely dark because you're out there looking for the bad. But if you're looking for God, you're going to look up. I think I've been guilty of looking for the bad and stuff lately. And I got to change that because there's goodness in everything.

If we just change our outlook just a tad. Thank you for having me here today, brother. I really enjoyed it. It's always remember, slow down. Jesus walked everywhere he went.

Got it all done in 33 years. Look up while you're at it and look for something good. Find your baskets, man. This week, it's going to be fun. Thanks for listening to the Christian Car God show. This is the truth network.