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The heart of every man craves a great adventure, but life is In the past, we've had people that have a topic, and then they don't show up for the show, right? Darrell Bock Yep. We've had that a lot. Dr. Darrell Bock Yeah. Yeah. And I've been a part of that.
There have been times, not recently, but there have been times that I've thrown out a topic and then not shown up for the show for one reason or another, but I don't think we've had someone from overseas on the team suggest a topic when he knew he wasn't even going to be here. Darrell Bock And then we actually run with it. Dr. Darrell Bock Yeah. Darrell Bock That's what's really kind of this big shock. Dr. Darrell Bock And the more surprising thing is it was Jim's topic, and we ran with it from overseas.
So yeah. Darrell Bock That is all around. Dr. Darrell Bock He must be having a good trip. Darrell Bock Yeah. Darrell Bock It must be a great topic. Dr. Darrell Bock It is a great topic.
And so I'm going to ask my friend Robby to help us set us up with the topic, because it is Holy Week. Dr. Darrell Bock It's actually Easter Eve. Dr. Darrell Bock It is Easter Eve. That's right.
Dr. Darrell Bock Yeah. It's pretty fun. I love the whole idea of what that is. And as we think about Holy Week, right, and of course, my boss' book, The Last Words of Jesus, one of the most intriguing or thought-provoking was, my God, my God, why dost thou forsake me? Of course, he's quoting the 22nd Psalm, however, it would appear that that was a real cry from his heart. And theologically, you may be going, you know, what would it be like when you've experienced your father, your entire existence, whatever that is, because he's from infinity, and all of a sudden now, he doesn't have that relationship, because his father had to turn his back on him. And none of us have ever faced anything like that, and Jesus knew that he would have to. And so interestingly, I've heard it said that that is the cry of the human spirit, is my God, my God, why dost thou forsake me? And so, you know, it's one of those explorations that we have that as a result of what happened on Easter and as a result of the resurrection, none of us ever have to face that. But however, it doesn't keep us from feeling like it's going on, and, you know, when in your life, the topic is actually when do you feel like God has forsaken you, when in fact, it turned out to be something just spectacular that he was actually building in your testimony or in your faith in the whole situation.
So there's a topic. Darrell Bock Yeah, and if you're not, forsaken is not a word that, you know, you use that often. You know, Jim had thrown out the word abandoned.
You know, when you felt abandoned, when you felt left alone, you know, whatever word kind of strikes you when you feel lonely, right, without God, right, that I'm on my own. Darrell Bock Right. Darrell Bock Right. Darrell Bock To an extent, you know, Andy's orphan spirit is at play, right, and the same kind of thing that we, you know, you guys talked about last week.
Darrell Bock Yeah, exactly. And so, Robby, you actually have the first clip. Robert Chisholm Yes, I do, and I love this clip of Sam Noseman. Sam, you know, it's kind of like a Jim topic. Sam doesn't just go, oh, goody, because it's from the movie Top Gun 2, and it's remarkable to me. One of my favorite scenes in a movie probably of the whole, you know, turn of the century was Top Gun 1, and the scene was that, you might remember, that Maverick, who is, you know, the Tom Cruise character, has lost his, you know, backup, or his navigator in the plane, whose name was Goose, and after that, he's so rattled, he can no longer really have the faith in himself and toward a gauge in battle, and so the whole big question is, they're going into this battle against these Russian MiGs, is will Maverick engage? And he doesn't engage, he doesn't engage, and all of a sudden, he says the famous line in the movie, talk to me, Goose, and all of a sudden, Maverick engages, goes down, shoots down two MiGs, you know, they win, you know, the battle, and all that's real exciting. Well, that's a picture of my life to a great extent, and many times, I was too afraid to engage in something I knew I needed to, you know, open wars upon you, whether you risk it or not, and Maverick wasn't risking it, and the lesson from the masculine journey is you gotta risk it. Well, this is more like the second situation that I face all the time. In the second one, he now has taken on Goose, who was the man that died, unfortunately, that caused him to not being able to engage.
His son is named Rooster, and his son – Darrell Bock His real name's not Rooster, but – Darrell Bock Yeah, his whatever, call name, you know, as far as an airplane's concerned, is Rooster, and so Rooster is very, very upset, really blames Tom Cruise slash Maverick on his father's death. And so all throughout the movie, they're trying to resolve this conflict between the two of them, where you can tell they really love each other, but they really hate each other, you know. It's one of those things. I'm sure you've got relationships like that, and it's quite difficult. They are constantly trying to figure out a way to resolve this. They don't get it done, and they find themselves in this plane, in this back in a F-14, even though now we're in the age of F-18s and all sorts of other fancy warfare, they're stuck in the old plane like Goose, actually, his dad lost his life in. And in this particular scene, they've lost everything. In other words, they've used up all their bullets, they've used up all their – you know, they have no more missiles, they don't have any flares as their protection, and you can hear them begin to lose these things, and now they're running out of answers. And if they didn't feel forsaken, you know, it's pretty obvious that, like, I've got nothing. I've got nothing.
I've got nothing. Although they're totally engaged, and they've given every single thing they have, you know, to avoid this other plane, they make this steep climb, and Maverick tells them to eject, which you'll hear in the clip, and Rooster, the son, tries to pull the same thing that literally killed his dad. The eject button is what killed his father.
He can't get that to work. And so there they are in this plane. You can't eject out of it. It's fixed to get hit by a missile, right?
And the guy is going to let that missile go. And now it's very interesting. How many times in your life did you do every possible thing you could think yourself to solve your problem? And when it all didn't work, who do I blame?
I'm talking about Robby Dylan Moore. I'm not talking about you. But when it all doesn't work, it's God. He's abandoned me. It's God.
All the stuff that I tried on my own, you know, to do, and it's clear that God has abandoned me. And that's where I believe Maverick and Rooster find themselves at this particular moment in time. And if you'll go ahead and play the clip, you'll get the picture. Will is this guy, he's on our nose, we're out of ammo, smoke in the air, rooster flares. That was close. We're out of flares, Mav. He's already on us. This is not good. We took another hit.
No, no, no, no, no. We can't take much more of this. We can't outrun this guy. We got to eject.
We need altitude. Pull the ejection handles the second I tell you, there's no other way. Eject, eject, eject, pull the handle, eject. It's not working. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is your savior speaking.
Please fasten your seatbelts, return your tray tables till they're locked in upright positions and prepare for landing. Yes, he is, especially in that particular scene, right? It's a fascinating thing what Tom Cruise says there, the Maverick character, he says, I'm sorry, goose. In other words, he's apologizing to the same goose that he got the help from as if this is the Holy Spirit.
And now we're interestingly apologizing that, of course, what? Maverick couldn't do it. No, he couldn't do it. And in so many situations in our lives, we can't do it. Well, this is Easter, and Easter was painted, the picture was painted 2,500 years before Easter in that Moses was the deliverer at this point in time. And Moses was going to institute the Passover, which was a picture of the firstborn dying, which is a picture of Easter in so many different ways as it's been celebrated this week. And in that story is a picture of our own salvation to some extent.
In Exodus 6, you know, it's fascinating to me that the six is the number of man, and it's Exodus 6, 6 and 7. Moses is exactly like, he's just like Maverick in this picture, right? He's gone to get Pharaoh to talk to him, and of course he's done the stick trick with the snake and all that stuff. That didn't seem to impress Pharaoh all that much. You know, he's tried to talk to the Israelites, and they're just having to make more bricks. They don't want to hear from him.
They're giving him no respect, right? Aaron isn't helping him out a lot. He seems to have tried every single thing, and he's sure that God has abandoned with him, and in Exodus 6, 5, he tells God about all that, and then God doesn't say, oh, Moses, I'm sorry, that didn't work so good, or, you know, I'm really sorry those people aren't listening to you. That isn't what God says at all. And Exodus 6, 6 is one of the strongest statements you will find in the Scripture as far as I'm concerned because he will blast him, Moses, with seven I will statements. He doesn't say, Moses, you will. He says, Moses, I will take you out from under bondage. I will rescue you from slavery. He says, I will redeem you, and I will take you to be my people. And he goes on to say, I will give you an inheritance, and I will be a god to you. And all these things that he says, there isn't one of these you will. There isn't a, like, you will do this, Maverick.
Like you're going to get this done. But the picture of that scene to me is so many times, how many – as Robby has tried this, this, this, this, God's abandoned me, and all of a sudden, kablammo, God blows it out of the sky, and this is your Savior speaking, right? And there's the deal that is really teaching me in the season that I'm in, is Robby let Jesus take the wheel and trust and have faith. He will. This isn't stuff you can do, Robby.
Why do you keep trying to do it? I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will.
I will. That's very good. Way to open the show, Robby. That's good. Even with a clip from Top Gun. Yeah, yeah, that's good.
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Welcome back to Masculine Journey that's Riley Clemons and this song I'm gonna read the lyrics she sings very clearly but I want to I want to read it to you because I don't know if anyone if they're very honest hasn't felt this way at least once you know but probably multiple times in their life sometimes I feel like I'm alone a bit too broken unseen unknown sometimes the doubt starts creeping in so come remind me once again and so she's calling out to God to remind her of something and we're gonna get back to the clip here in a second but that's where I often forget when I'm at that place where I feel alone I feel broken you know I feel unseen unknown I forget to turn to God and say you know remind me once again you know you guys know one of my favorite songs from boot camp is Jason Gray's remind me who I am you know because it is it's songs like that that speak to my heart because I try to do what maverick does you know in that clip that you described so well Robby is I try to take so much on right you know and God makes us to come through if you've listened to the show for you know very long at all you know that we do have what it takes to come through but that doesn't mean to do it alone you know we're not Rambo that's not the movie we're in you know you know we're more band of brothers with with God as a leader right that's that's really what we're talking about is is taking it to him and saying okay you know God remind me once again and so I'm gonna play a little bit more of that song and the part you just heard and then I'm gonna play you know the response of what God responds to her she sings about and I'll read that to you when we're done but we'll go ahead and play that sometimes I feel like I'm alone a bit too broken unseen unknown sometimes the doubt starts creeping in so come remind me once again I am so the response you heard that what I read before but so the response that she hears back from God is I am believed in I'm held on to don't have to wonder who I belong to I'm always wanted always known and always treasured it's true I am loved by you and honestly when you think about it for me and I can only speak for me that all the things that I stress and I worry about if I would just focus on the truth of that more than what I'm worried about most of that goes away the song was sent to me I've been really struggling with some anxiety stuff and I'll probably talk about that more in the next show maybe well maybe I won't don't know it depends where God leads me but my son Caleb sent me this sent me this song and another song that I'll use in the the next or in our after hours show from Riley Clemons but they've both spoken to my heart in ways that's just been amazing you know that God's been using the music of this artist to really speak to my heart in a place that I really need to hear that there are times that I'm so focused on things other than God right I'm focused on the the worries of the world the worries of you know making bill payments or whatever health or whatever you just name the list you know we have worries none of us lack having worries right but do we let those worries consume us or do we turn to the source of life that's going to help us get through it right maybe we are battling up against the end of everything that we know how to do we're not battling against the end of everything God knows how to do right and that's the key is is giving it to him and letting him get through it and and I fail to do that so many times when I feel alone right long long ago I quit feeling abandoned by God I don't think that I could ever say that because he's done so much in my life that I don't feel like they were I could even say those words that he's abandoned me but there are times that I know that I feel alone and I think that's because I've turned away and went in a different direction and looking to him right he's still there he's still around me he's still after me he's still pursuing me but you know I can be like those monkeys and have my ears covered my eyes covered my mouth covered if you know I'm not careful and yeah whatever they're called what can't see you guys know what those are Robby you know what they are don't you no evil here no thank you no thank you I knew somebody would it's called school yeah yeah it is it is but for me it's just that song's been instrumental this week is helping me focus on realizing at the end of the day no matter what else happens I'm loved by God I'm seen I'm known I matter to him and that really at the end of the day is all that matters to me when everything else seems to be a challenge at times anyway yeah anyone else got anything they'd like to add well if you're talking about like you said abandoned from God it's so easy to feel that way and get into that especially like before I was a believer I think back about well what's different and I look back at my life and I just remember how much tragedy was in my life and what went on and how I thought about it because how I thought about it was oh this is horrible oh my gosh I just wanted to just kill myself just wanted to die there were so many things that were just so bad I'm on this side of believing it's just oh that's not that bad that's not it just it was just dramatic effect differently than where we were was that all these things that I was worried about and worried about day in and day out and I was how am I going to overcome this or come overcome that just turned on the other side I'm like oh it's not that big of a deal when you're in God with God things look so different than when you're just without anything without anybody you I didn't go around thinking about well should I be in God or not it was just that's just the way my life was that's just the way my head worked and being in Christ is just completely different to where you actually can understand oh these are the things are going on and then reading the bible and understanding more about it I'm nowhere near where Robby's at but it's just but you you read it and you start to understand there's so many perspectives and things start to become much clearer and you're like oh all that stuff I thought about all that stuff I worried about it's just not that important and I've been able to put those on the shelf or put them somewhere where it's like okay they're okay they're out there but now I hardly ever even think about them they're just away from me and I've got problems and concerns still today that you know I can't get rid of or I haven't gotten rid of or they'll pop back up but so much less and able just to see where God is at what he's doing and with me in me in my head especially because that's the thing they just I can just go about anywhere and start thinking about the wrong things at the wrong time and it's just nice to have that all kind of get cleared up a little bit and start thinking rightly you know since tomorrow's Easter you know there were two Miriams they're actually two Marys is what you usually hear that in Matthew 28 that show up at the tomb early that morning and that stone has been rolled away right but they don't necessarily get it you know but the angel tells them go run and tell the disciples he's risen from the dead so they take off running right and then Jesus shows up like they felt pretty abandoned on their way to the tomb that day they felt pretty alone I imagine and then all of a sudden Jesus shows up in the middle of the road and he says rejoice and what did they do they hit the ground and they grab his feet and they worship him right and when you think about it all the Bible knowledge all the whatever you possibly could want wouldn't become close to the fact of grabbing a hold of who he really is like they're like this is God and you can really grab hold of him and and again the scripture is God so as you grab hold of some of it you get a little bit of it but that's nothing like there's nothing like actually grabbing hold of the feet of Jesus or whatever other knowledge you have and then you got the real thing and the real thing and the real thing whether that's a word you got on what your new name is whether that was a word you got on some breakthrough that you needed that in a struggle that you had that that moment that that you had a hold of his feet right you you got the whole deal like that's the amazing thing about it is like man that's what Easter is about is is the stone gets stone gets rolled away and you get to see oh my gosh it's God yeah that's what builds in us right each one of us individually builds that story of what you're going to talk about exactly that's your that they were two witnesses that showed up there so the testimony of those two Mariams away you go that's cool isn't it yeah Rodney thank you for that Robby Rodney you said something about you know you're able to put it on the shelf for me my putting it on the shelf looks different I shove it down and just say I'm just not going to deal with it right now well the problem with that there's a difference between for me in doing that and giving it to God in situations where I have no control and Harold reminded me of this before the show in situations where I have no control I've become very good about giving those to God because I have no control over them you know certain things with family that I have no impact on other than just love them as well as I can I can't control a whole lot of it and so I absolutely have to give that to God but it's those other things that I try to hold on to that make me feel alone is because I just refuse to probably give them to God soon enough they were saying that yeah or the whole time I should be giving it to God not soon enough you know from day one how much of it could you get I give a little bit but I don't give all of it I keep a little bit and I it just becomes that that negative habit that we just will not give things away yeah I you know I think we we do want to feel like we can come through and we can again with God right that's the whole purpose of it is and so maybe some of that abandonment that you feel maybe some of that forsakenness that you feel maybe whatever you want to call it that I'm alone I'm in this all by myself you know I'm a lone wolf whatever orphan spirit as our buddy Andy would say right maybe a lot of that is the time just to look in the mirror and say God honestly I'm trying to be you and and not letting God be God and me but not be God you know and just giving those things to him fully and completely and say look I'll do what I can do in it with your guidance I'm not stepping away from it I'm just letting you lead and so let's let him lead this week and let's let him love on us this week and let's remember what Easter was about it was about God paying it all that we could have a life and leave it have an abundant life let's go out and try to grab some of it this week and and let God love on you and love on others and 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