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This is the Truth Network. Coming to you from an entrenched barricade deep in the heart of central North Carolina, Masculine Journey After Hours. A time to go deeper and be more transparent on the topic covered on this week's broadcast. So sit back and join us on this adventure. The Masculine Journey After Hours starts here, now. Welcome to Masculine Journey After Hours and we are in the middle of a shame fest right now. Now we're not. We're in the middle of breaking shame.

That's what we're trying to do. We are, we've been doing a series and Rodney, if you'd help us with the series, it's been a series, it's been a pillar series. Yeah, that's the old masculine journey term for a series of anything. It's pillars.

Because the original series that you guys did on the pillars of the masculine journey was a pillar series. It started with four and ended with like 45. It was a lot. It's still going today. It's still going. We're still trying to do it.

Never ending. So we started off with week one with unforgiveness, which is the tools of the enemy, tools of the enemy. Yep. And our toolbox of the enemy. What you brought up.

I like that too. And then we went to agreements, which was to get into the vows and the bitter roots that are caused there within the agreements. Then we get into busyness. Got so busy, we forgot what we were talking about. That's why I actually have it on my phone now so we can remember. And then we went into condemnation.

Then we took a week off and did father's day. And then we jumped back in with neglect, marginalization, which kind of leads into the orphan spirit, which ties in very much again with shame. And if you're seeing a pattern here, like, hey, these blend into each other, these kind of complement each other with the enemy. And that's what he does with them. He's like, Oh, if I can hit you with a little of this, a little of that, and I can just keep you right where you're at.

That's what I'm going to do. Yeah, I think I'm gonna change what we call it. It's the enemy's like a paint kit. Right? Well, you sent you a painter. Yeah, you need all these different colors to make the picture appear.

Right. And so he uses them all against us very, very well. Yeah, he paints a canopy of all kinds of different things that are all they're aimed to do is keep you away. Satan's palette. Satan's palette.

Now we're good in there. Oh, it sounds like a pillar. Sounds like someplace in Vegas. I don't know.

I'm not really sure. Don't go there. If you see that on the moniker, don't go.

Not the place I want to visit. Andy, do you want to say something? No? Okay.

You're just looking at me. I just want to. Well, I have a clip. I'll go ahead and talk about mine and then we'll come back in a little bit later.

We'll play Danny's. This is from a show, a thing on YouTube called the Butterfly Circus. We've talked about it on the air quite a few times. It's a great 20 minute little movie by an independent film company that is not a Christian based film company. That's the coolest thing, but it tells the story of God's redemption, especially through shame. Going from shame into calling and identity into freedom. That's the story.

I hope I'm not ruining it for you, but it's so worth watching. What we're going to pick up is at the very beginning of the show, you have a master of ceremonies, a guy that runs a circus that's about redemption, healing, restoration. And he comes to another circus that he sees a sideshow and so he walks into the sideshow and when he walks in this particular room, a guy's introducing one of the people that's in the sideshow. And this person is, in real life, does not have any arms, doesn't have any legs.

He has one little foot thing that he's able to get around and do stuff, but it's truly who he is. But listen to how this person talks about him in the sideshow. Not the good master ceremony, but the carnival barker. And so we'll go ahead and play it. And now, ladies and gentlemen, gather in. A perversion of nature. A man, if you could even call him that, whom God himself has turned his back upon.

I give you the limbless man. Look at that. I left all that laughter in intentionally from that clip because, yeah, it's horrible what that person's saying at the beginning. You know, perversion of nature.

A man, if you can call him that, who God himself has turned his back upon. I mean, that would be hard enough to take. But then you hear initially there's a little bit of shock.

Maybe there's going to be some compassion. And then it goes completely the opposite way. And the video actually gets worse from there when you're watching it. And that's how the enemy uses others to cement that story in.

I don't think any of us could not have to think back to a playground incident at some point where we weren't the person that was being laughed at. And the shame that you feel on that. And just a lifetime of the enemy trying to pile on more and more evidence that you are that shame person. You are that sin.

You are that hand you've been dealt in life instead of who you really are in God. And so for me, that's a very powerful one on shame just because it really hits at the core and it even attacks God's integrity in the midst of it. Because the enemy doesn't leave God out of the equation.

That's one of his go-tos. Where was God when all this happened? Where was God when you were molested? When this happened, where was God? Why didn't God save you when the kids were picking on you? So it's an attack against you and also against your savior that's going to help you get out of it.

He just tries to lock you down and cement you in there. Like Robby, we were just talking in the break between shows, like, oh man, Robby's like, oh, I've got lots of shame. You want me to share some shame?

I got all kinds of things to share. And if you start thinking about it, it's like, where did you hide? Where was it that you were just hiding something? It's like, oh, there was shame.

Because that's why you hid it, because you're naked and you were wanting to hide. And Robby had the banana pants story. And I'm like, you know, I just reminded him, I was like, man, when I was, it was just one of those things.

I mean, he uses the smallest things. I had the high water pants because I'm like, okay, I was a little taller. I didn't quite, my pants were older. I didn't care. But then when you got picked on, I got called a name. Oh, I just remember feeling like, oh my gosh, I'm such a loser. I keep my pants aren't even.