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I've always wanted to have one of these. Okay, let's see. I'm walking down a long hallway with lots of doors. Eh, it's a bit cliche, but I'll play along.
Alright, let's see. What's behind door number one? Daddy out! What's up?
Well, I'm glad you're here. Um, some business came up I got to handle. So we're going to have to put our trip on hold. You understand? Yeah. Yeah, that's cool.
Just for a couple of weeks. I understand. Look, I'll call you next week and we'll iron out the details, okay? Yeah, yeah. It was great seeing you, son. You too, Lou.
I'm sorry. You know, if there was something that I could do... Hey, you know what? You ain't got to do nothing, Uncle Phil. Ain't like I'm still five years old, you know? Ain't like I'm going to be sitting up every night asking my mom, when's Daddy coming home, you know?
Who needs him? Hey, he wasn't there to teach me how to shoot my first basket, but I learned, didn't I? Hey, I got a pretty good attitude, didn't I, Uncle Phil?
Yeah, you did. Got through my first day without him, right? I learned how to drive.
I learned how to shave. I learned how to fight without him. I had 14 great birthdays without him. He never even sent me a card. I ain't need him then and I don't need him now.
Well... You know what, Uncle Phil? I'm going to get through college without him. I'm going to get a great job without him. I'm going to marry me a beautiful honey. And I'm going to have me a whole bunch of kids. I'm going to be a better father than he ever was.
How come he don't want me, man? Okay, so now there's a sign on the door. It says, Abandonment.
Ooh, okay, this is one of those dreams where I'm supposed to learn something. Alright, well, let's see. Let's try this door. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I did not sign up for singing. Speaking of sign, there's one on this door too. This one says, Mistreatment. Abandonment and Mistreatment.
Yeah, I got nothing. Next door, please. Consider yourself at home.
Consider yourself one of the family. I've taken to you so strong. It's clear we're going to get along. And the sign on this door says, Acceptance. Okay, so we have three doors, three orphan situations. Okay, Dream, I think I smell what you're cooking.
Oh, now look at that. The hallway's different now. Just one door left. Sloth, you're going to live with me now. I'm going to take care of you. Because I love you. I love you, Joe. Oh, I love you, Sloth. And the sign on this door says, Sonship. What an interesting dream.
Might make a good episode of The Joyride. I didn't take what you were saying at any point to downplay people that didn't have parents growing up, right? Technically, if our parents have passed away, we're orphans.
They're no longer in our life. And no, that's not the same as being a young kid or being in a foster, and we never compare that. But I think that you were just saying it to give relevance to that we all have felt that way. Yeah, well, I didn't make the distinction, I guess is.
I just don't want to diminish that in any way, because that's a whole other level that I can't even imagine. I mean, my dad never had his dad in his life. I think he saw him two or three times. That's a way big difference than me losing my dad in my adolescence, which was at a very important time. But I still talked to my dad regularly. I didn't see him.
He was out in a different state. He had a presence in my life, but it was a distant presence. But I can't even imagine never knowing my father or whatever. We've heard, like I said last show, we've had guys at our boot camps talk about that. And guys that have really found the Lord, it's in God's grace where he's just raising that fatherlessness in them to come to him.
And even then, sometimes you hear the stories. We don't know what's available to us as being adopted by God. We read it in the Scripture, but until we receive it practically, it doesn't have as much relevance in our lives.
Yeah, and when you're talking about Scripture, really the orphan spirit entered in in the Garden of Eden, right? Because at some point Adam knows what he's supposed to do. He knows what he's been instructed to do. He knows what the right thing to do is, and he chooses otherwise. I choose beyond, and I make a choice independent of God, opposite of God, in that. And so the orphan spirit's born into mankind. He didn't operate in a father that was used to stepping in and being there for his son or whatever.
He didn't step in to prevent Eve from sinning. So we get into our first clip, which is yours, Art, if you'd like to tell us a little bit about the clip and anything you want to share with it. Okay, yes. Well, I would say first of all, I think that God intended for me to share this clip because it just kind of fell into my lap this morning. I was looking at our messages and seeing that we didn't have a lot of speakers here tonight.
And I looked back at the topic and said, I can't come up with anything on that. And then I opened my Facebook, and I saw this song, a couple of girls are singing. I think they're called the Church Sisters. They're singing a song, and they're telling about their daddy who was not religious. And apparently their mom was, and apparently they were. That was, to them, they were spiritually orphaned. But we'll go ahead and play the clip now. That he would not be.
He'd swear his voice. Yes, some days were spent. Well, to borrow Rodney's phrase, I will say that as a parent, you have to show up. You have to be there. You have to work at it. It's often not an easy job. Sometimes you make mistakes, you think you're doing right, and it turns out that you did the wrong thing. But you have to be there. You have to show up. Right, Rodney?
Unfortunately, it's not easy, but you do in any situation. Yeah. I can say from my own experience, there was a man who was in our church, the church I went to when I was a child. I'm not talking about Harold here. Harold was there. So from the guys on Masculine Journey, I'm Keith, and we'll see you down the road. This is the Truth Network.
