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866-34 TRUTH, 866-348-7884. I did something kind of different this week. I saved a calf. I live out here in Montana, up in the Rockies, and we have a partnership we have with some local ranchers where we'll put some cows. On the property out here.
This is um um place that my father-in-law and mother-in-law bought many, many years ago. Gracie and I live out here now and and we put some cows out here. to help with the grazing to get the grass down and uh it gives them a place to put their cows for a a while so they can hay down in the valley and you know summer feeding and so forth. And I've got several up here and I was supposed to go and Get some minerals to put out there. The rancher asked me if I'd do it, and I went down there and they were closed.
So I was going to go on Monday and I got back up to the house and I thought, oh, I forgot those minerals.
So I went back down and got them. I'm glad I did. I wasn't planning on going up and checking on em. But I went up there and we had opened up a gate uh two gates for them to get to a little area where they could graze that down a little bit more and that's where we put the minerals.
Well, evidently one of the calves decided to wander off from the herd. And don't get ahead of me, but that's pretty much my Christian life. I saw a lot of parallels in this one. And he went down the fence. The rest of them just mosey back down to where they're supposed to be, but he was separated, and so he went down the fence and found a gate.
that he could squeeze through and get to join them, except he couldn't squeeze through them. He was a little too chunky. Which is what you want in a cow, by the way. But he was just a little bit bigger. He wasn't fat.
He was just a cow. But he he went through this thing and got stuck. And the gate was right there at his hip. And I don't know how long he'd been there. And if I hadn't gone up there that day, well, we have predators out here.
Um mountain lions. In fact, last year, no kidding, I saw a wolf. And I was looking at the window and I saw it loping across the pasture. At first, I thought it was just a big dog, and I thought, well, whose dog is up there going up towards the mountains? And then I realized what it was, and I went out.
This is in the winter, and I went out on the next day on the snowmobile to see the tracks. And man, the stride of this thing was amazing. But we have mountain lines out here. I've seen them. And uh you We sometimes they'll get in the barn.
We have all kinds of wildlife.
Well, this cow. Uh this this poor young calf was getting ready to be uh a buffet. And there's a mountain line that I'm sure that within A matter of hours would have been down there because it was late afternoon and would have been, you know, thinking the mountain lion would have been thinking that, hey, I'm at the Golden Corral here, baby. And so. It was kind of pitiful.
And he I don't I he wasn't crying too much when I got there, but so I think he just kind of worn himself out. The problem is it was so tight I had to end up uh fortunately I had a pair of um wire cutters in in the machine and and so I was able to cut that thing. It took a bit of doing. to release him and then he just kind of eventually he bounded off and he he struggled a little bit but I I think he was just worn out. And he was just, you know, he didn't have a whole lot of fight left up in him.
And I was afraid that his hip or his leg was broken or something like that, that he'd hurt himself. But he ambled off and joined the rest of them. Didn't so much as say thank you. But I couldn't help but as I watched this thing, I thought, you know, that's my Christian walk. Uh I get you know distracted, getting over places I didn't need to be.
Try to get back to everybody else, and then I end up getting stuck and helpless, and you can get picked off. How many of us are like that? How many of you all can look at your own life and your own Christian journey and see, oh, that's me. And we have a Savior who comes along and And says, you know what, I I'm looking after you. I'm looking after you.
Now get back where you're supposed to be. And I don't know if that's that's a paraphrase, a speculation, if you will, of what Jesus may say. You ever get the feeling that Jesus rolls his eyes at us? I've always wondered: does he do that? I mean, I know that that God is loving and patient and so forth, but There are times I I I I gotta think he's rolling his eyes.
I was rolling my eyes at that calf and I was thinking, you know, what have you done? And I I'm going to ask you when we when we get to have it. Was there a significant amount of eye-rolling in my life as you watched me stumble through this and try to squeeze through a gate and get stuck and everything else? and I would imagine there would be. But aren't you grateful?
that we have a Savior. Who is the Great Shepherd? And uh I saw a uh there's a Clip that makes its way around on social media periodically. And I've had it sent to me, and it shows this guy pulling this sheep that had gotten stuck in this little ditch. And he worked to pull him out by his back legs and get him out of there.
And then the sheep bounded off and rushed off and leapt over the ditch and went right back into it again. And I thought, that's my life. And there was another one. I love livestock. I mean, I'm around ranches and so forth out here all the time.
And so you see so much of the imagery that you read about in scripture. I see it played out. There's another one I saw where they had taken a young cult. trying to train him and they had put a halter on him and then they tied him to a donkey. And Um it may have been a mule, but I think it was just a donkey.
The donkey wasn't going anywhere. But that colt was jumping around. He was trying to get away from this donkey, trying to twist himself out of this thing. And he wasn't, you know, it wasn't going to go anywhere. And that donkey just stood there just as non-plussed, didn't care.
He just wasn't excited, just stood there. And that colt was trying to drag him and twist around and everything else. And I thought, boy, that's us as believers, isn't it? Or at least that's me. It may not be you, but it's me.
And Jesus just, he's not going to get, he's going to go at his pace. Take my yoke. upon you. It's easy. Unless you fight him.
Now I I don't know about you. But maybe some of you have fought the halter, if you will. And I know I have. And all you do is just get a chafed neck. And Jesus and take money or go at my pace.
Don't don't look to the world. Don't be conformed to this world. Look beyond this. See something from the kingdom perspective. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
Do you feel like there's a lot of movement now, certainly in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk and all these things? And we're getting out there and we're trying to make ourselves a Christian nation. Do you see that there's, did any of you feel there's a difference between this whole Christian nationalism thing? Versus What scripture talks about is the the kingdom of God. Do you see a difference in that?
I do. It strikes me as kind of odd. I see a lot of people posting things like Christ is king, Christ is king, Christ is king. And I don't disagree with that he's king, but I don't see a lot of people posting that Christ is Lord. Do you see that?
Have you noticed that? Or is it just me? Is this just a cork?
Well, I have a lot of cork. Yeah. But I've been watching some of these things unfold and there's a lot of fervor. But I wonder if we're trying to see things from God's viewpoint. And that poor little colt, he he He wasn't quite getting the picture yet until that donkey he realized that donkey wasn't going anywhere.
And finally, the colt stood still. And I see so much of this. throughout Scripture that speaks to where we are today, that we we flail around Until we realize that we're going to be under submission to Christ and we're going to go at his pace. at his time. Remember that little old chorus In His time, in His time, He makes all things beautiful in His time.
That Kairos thing going. He knows what he's doing. And we're so busy trying to push God, to try to get God to do what we're going to do, or try to squeeze through a gate here, or get out of this particular crack, and we can't do it. We can't do it. And as long as we stay with him, We're not going to get in a mess like that.
It was just another week in Montana, and I saw that and I thought. Maybe I'm not the only one who could relate to a calf being stuck in the fence and having to depend on somebody to come out and rescue him. If that resonates with you and you want to share it, 866-34-TRUTH-86-348-242-348-348 7884. This is Peter Rosenberger. This is Truth Talk Live.
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Glad to be with you, 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348. 7884. If you want to be a part of the program, if you have a livestock story. Of your spiritual walk, of what it looks like. You know, we say the Bible refers to us as sheep.
And uh there are a lot of sheep out here, and you see them and they're Um they're everything that you think they are. If you haven't been around a lot of sheep, I don't know if you've been around a lot of sheep, but if you haven't, they're exactly what you think they are. And And you get a picture of why we're compared to them. One time I saw a cluster of they had the rancher had taken them out of a pasture. And the way the sheep eat, they eat the ground down to like the dirt.
I mean, they were really. decimate a field if you don't move them around. And Uh goats are the same way. And but they took him out of this one paddock where they had eaten everything down and they put them in this new field. It was just right across the street, the well, the dirt road.
Um we we're pretty rural out here. And in that new place... There was lush green grass everywhere. I mean it was beautiful, grey grass. But all the sheep were scared.
Or wanting to get back into the familiar place, and they all clustered in the corner where they had trampled everything. It was just dirt.
So they're all just huddled by the corner. not wanting to go out to where all the grass is, and they had to be driven out to where the good grass is. And that, you know, again, reminds me. How many times Scripture refers to us as sheep? And I don't know how compliment it is that Scripture's saying that about us as a species.
because they're they're not real bright animals. But Here we are. We got our first snow this week. And I know that's Kind of odd for a lot of the country because it's still nice weather everywhere else and it comes and goes with us. It didn't stick around very long, and we've been seeing it on the peaks.
uh for several weeks. We love snow up here. Um and and Gracie particularly loves snow. Um they're Some people, I mean, a lot of people come to Montana to ski and they love the winter sports and all that kind of stuff, and that's great. And then a lot of the locals just roll with it.
I mean, it's just part of life. and you don't you don't fight it But there are a lot of people who have moved here, particularly after COVID. They left wherever they were and came here. And then they get upset because there's snow. And I'm thinking.
When did it become a secret that there was snow in Montana? You know, um summer is about Three or four weeks, and then the rest of the time it's winter. I've had three feet of snow on our deck. the first week of May. All right, just to give you an idea what it's like out here sometimes.
But then again, we've also had very nice days, you know, in January. We went one time in January with no snow. But Gracie loves snow. And she prays for it. I mean, all the time.
And um For her, it's more than just beauty and just the... excitement of winter and so forth. The snow covers the scars. on the ground, particularly we've had a pretty rough fire season out here. And and so you get a lot of scarred areas where the fire was.
And the snow covers all that. And when she looks out at those white hills, and and the mountains and so forth. She thinks of her own scars. And she's talked about this a lot. Um She, you know, she lives with so much pain and she's had nearly a hundred surgeries and all the survival that she's gone through.
And she looks at that snow and she says, you know, it's like Greece. It covers everything that's burned and broken. And then she she often adds, you know, not just the land or my body, but all that's been scarred by sin, too. And you can just see it on her face. She'll say, one day it's all going to be healed.
And there won't be any scars left. The only scars. that we're going to see in heaven will be his. You know, that's the best information I have about that: is that we'll have new bodies, but his scars are still there. They were there after his resurrection.
And there'll be a testimony for all eternity of what he did. And you can't help but think of Isaiah 1:18. I think though your sins are like scarlet. They shall be as white as snow. What do you what do you think about when you hear that?
How many of you all have been there where you knew your sins were like scarlet? And what that does to you to hear that phrase, that they're going to be white as snow, when we come to Christ. in repentance, Though your sins be as scarlet, what does that do to you? What does that do to you? 866-34-TRUTH.
866-348-7884. You know, the. When the summer crowds leave here, we get a lot of tourists because we're kind of a pass-through town, our little town. It's a tiny town, but it's from Glacier. And then you pass through on your way to West Yellowstone.
go to the west entrance of Yellowstone National Park. But the whole valley seems to kind of exhale the uh um The forest w takes on that stillness that that winter brings. And for us Snow does mean something different than just going to winter. It's the end of the fire season, and then the land is resting. beneath that.
beneath that snow. 'Cause Lane's had a it's it's had a rough summer. I watched a lightning strike from our deck. and I watched it hit. It's about you can where we are, we're up a little bit higher and you can see it down in the valley.
And I saw it hit on this hill about nine miles away. And then it you know, within 24 hours it burned 3,500 acres.
So the snow heals it and um You know, We spent all that time in Denver. I spent all of winter and all of spring in in Denver, outside of Denver in Aurora, um at a hospital there with Gracie. And I noti I couldn't help but notice the difference. People there fought the snow. They hurried through it, tried to keep life moving.
And snow was something to be scraped off or often cursed. And in the bustle of Denver, winter was something We survived. But here It's different. where we are. It we we let it fall, we let it heal, we let it do its work.
We know that the more snow we have up in the high country, the more water we're going to have in the spring. when the snow melt, and the runoff for livestock and for irrigation and so forth. And when there's a new blanket I it it it is it hushes everything. And I've gone out in the mountains. I've gone outside.
I want you to think about it. I've been outside. After a new snow. There's no traffic? No birds?
No wind? No Um No anything, no planes, anything. It's Completely Quiet. Outside. You ever been around that?
You ever had that kind of silence where it's just completely quiet? Quiet. Outside. And it just hushes. And for some people, that's pretty unsettling.
But for me, it's soul satisfying. And uh and it restores to have that kind of quiet and we rarely get quiet moments, do we? We got a lot of stuff going on, a lot of noise pollution. And um our lives are filled with phones, alarm schedules and you know, all kinds of responsibility that we gotta do. But when God sends a pause, even Even if it's just a morning.
It's worth noticing. Do you take time For stillness. The snow reminds me. That the healing doesn't always come through effort.
Sometimes it comes through the stillness and the grace that covers every scar. And I've said, I've got a new book out. It's called A Caregiver's Companion. And these are quotes I've said over the years, and I marry it with a scripture or a hymn stanza. And one that comes to mind is Take time for stillness.
or make time for illness. Take time for stillness. or make time for illness. Do you take time for stillness? We'll talk more about that when we come back.
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We're going to be right back. Truth told me. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger.
Glad to be with you, 866-34-TRUTH. 866-348-7884. If you want to be a part of the program, I've started doing a new column. every week on The Blaze, TheBlaze.com, and it's for family caregivers. And they've given me a weekly column to talk about this.
This is what I do. I mean, I see this vast need that we have And in our country, do you know that we got 65 million Americans? Right now we are serving as a family caregiver. 65 million Americans. And m you may be one of them.
You may have done this yourself. You may have. struggled with this, you may be doing it right now. Taking care of an aging parent or a special needs child. Maybe you got somebody in your family that's got mental illness.
Maybe you got somebody in your family who's an addict. who's an alcoholic. Um I had a um a friend of mine call me the other day. and she is really struggling. with her parents.
And Her father is taking care of her mother, and her father's like 93. And her mother's not in great health. She's a little bit younger than her father, but her father is physically in good shape, but mentally he's not, but he's also very Very, very cantankerous, and he doesn't want to stop driving. He's forgetting things, and he's responsible for her mother.
So it's a pretty dicey situation, but he's very, very belligerent about giving up.
Some of his Power. And and I get that. I mean, none of us are going to enjoy that moment when it hits. And perhaps you've been there. where you've had to take the keys from some one.
Um, you we saw what happened. when you don't do that. for the last four years in the White House. And this is not a political statement. You like Trump, you like Biden, you like whatever you want, but there is no question that Biden was impaired.
And you kind of wonder why his wife didn't step in and say, Hey, Maybe this is a good idea for us to go ahead and go into the sunset here. This is not a healthy situation. And you you saw that this their son was dealing with addiction issues. Maybe the public eye is not a very good place for that. Maybe we could Pull back.
But people don't know what to do. They get they get disoriented in this. and and this fog of caregivers. Fear, obligation, and guilt is what I call it. And people make terrible decisions.
They feel Guilty, and they don't want to say anything. You know, I don't want to say anything to my father. He gets mad at me, and then I feel I'm afraid of that. And then he gets behind the wheel, and then he hurts somebody. Joe Biden led in an awful lot of people into this country who have hurt people.
The s the stakes are pretty high.
So what are we to do about it? What can we do about it?
Well It starts with at least having a conversation about it. May not be able to help it on a national level, but we can help it on a local level. We can help it with our neighbor. We can help it with our family. And that's what I'm writing about.
And um I want to Encourage you to go out and read it. You can see it at my Substack page, caregiver.substack.com, because I'll be putting it out there a couple days after it posts at the Blaze, and I'll have one each week. And I'm going to continue to write about these things because we're going into the season. November is National Caregiver Awareness Month. But for the next several months, it's a brutal time for caregivers.
The holidays are tough. I mean, think about how many of you ever have had a Thanksgiving meal when you got your family together and it just went south. that it just gets uncomfortable. And imagine dealing with that with a chronic illness where it may be Someone's last Thanksgiving. Everybody's trying to, you know, cram everything in because this may be Mama's last time.
You ever been there? A lot of people are struggling with that, and then caregivers are trying very hard to make it work. For a loved one, okay. This may be my dad's last one, so we got to make this special. We got to do this, we got to do this, we got to do this.
And it becomes a sense of obligation, that fear, obligation, and guilt. Every time you start saying things like, I got to, I have to, I must, I should have, I'm supposed to. You're under obligation. And it's a terrible Taskmaster, and it takes seconds to turn that into resentment. And that's no way to live.
It's no way to live.
So what do we do about it? How do we deal with this? And this is what I write about. This is what I talk about. I've been doing this for 40 years.
And and I've I've made I've forgotten more mistakes than most people are going to make. When you've done it as long as I have, that's kind of you've had ample time to mess this up. But here's what I've learned from it, and here's where the scriptures that I've learned that sustain me and walk me through this. And I want to be able to extend that now to others. I have a stewardship responsibility of that.
Scripture says it very clearly. comfort one another with the same comfort you yourself have received from the God of all comfort.
Well, think about that for a minute. What comforts me? I've been taking care of a disabled woman with severe disabilities for 40 years. I watch a woman suffering. every day.
What comforts Gracie? that we can extend to someone else. You say, well, comfort, you know, pain medication.
Well, you can't extend that to someone else. The scripture must be talking about something different. What does comfort us? I ask you, what comforts you, Christian? What strengthens you when you're faced with brutal things that don't change?
What equips you to keep going? What equips you to stand firm? What equips you to endure? Scripture talks an awful lot about endurance and perseverance and fortitude. But see, we have a culture of churches that talk about you're going to get your breakthrough.
This is a step up. For God is going to do something. He's going to show up. I was at a church one time and they said, Tell your neighbor, he's going to show up. And every time somebody came up to me and said, he's going to show up, I looked at him and I said, he already has.
Because that kind of Um Drivel. is a is a bit Lacking. I I've tested every one of these slogans out in in the ER, in the ICU, in the late watches of the night, and none of that stuff holds up. Stu most of the stuff you see on television, it doesn't hold up. Those guys just blather forth.
I call it the Blab It and Grab It Crowd. And then I see people on television, and they're praying, and they said, you know, someone's being healed right now of a headache or something like that. I'm like, come on. Is that the best you can offer? You have an international platform and you're sitting there on a beautiful television set and this is what you're saying to people?
Really? you know Does that not seem lacking to you? I mean, what do you think about that? And I I I I look at the I I I do get frustrated and angry with some of those people. You know, back to the livestock things.
You know, they put donkeys in with. goats and sheep. You know, you put a donkey in there with them because donkeys have a natural aversion to canines.
So, if a coyote comes around, or fox, or something like that, even potentially a wolf. They um they they'll they'll fight him off. And they'll make a racket and they'll fight him off. But then nothing's better than a good, you know, dog to get out there and and protect your the herd. Are we sheep dog for the suffering among us?
Are we functioning like that? Are we great P and Es? Um for the for the Those who suffer. Or are we allowing them to be picked off by the coyotes? Like that calf that I had in there, those mountain lions are going to come up and do what they're going to do.
That calf is vulnerable. It's been cut off from the herd. It's stuck. It can't get anywhere. And, and.
you know, if if we don't step in and help with others, they're at the mercy of of predators.
Well, how much of that's going on in the church? How much is that going on in the the the Christian community, the culture. And that's what I write about. And I hope you'll go out to my Substack page, caregiver.substack.com. You can subscribe to it.
I have a ton of stuff out there available. And I'd love to. I'd love to share that with you, and maybe you can share it with some others that you know. If you don't know what to say to a caregiver, don't worry about it. I do.
And share that. Let's go to Mike in Graham, North Carolina. Mike. Welcome to the program. How are you doing?
I'm doing great. I hope you are. Just precious. I'm just doing precious. What's on your heart and mind?
Yeah, I wanted to make a comment on something that you were saying, and I want to say, and I just heard you for about the last two minutes, so I apologize if I missed something, but. I do feel like there's a ditch on two sides. when it comes to what you were saying, the Blab It and Grab It, Um and I think on one side of the ditch And I've met people like this who say that everybody needs to be healed every single time. And if it doesn't happen, then you didn't have enough faith. And not only you didn't have enough faith, you did something wrong.
It certainly wasn't God. And I've seen that go in a really bad direction. And I've seen that on the one side.
Now the other side that I've seen is where people, because they've had a bad experience And they prayed for something and it didn't happen, was where they don't want to have faith for anything at all. And so I've seen both of it, man. I've prayed for people and I have seen miraculous healings that only God could do. I've had miraculous answers to prayers. And I've seen immediate healings where people were literally healed of something.
Like, you know, and I've been healed of stuff before myself. And I remember at one point when I was praying for people, and all these people were getting healed, the guy on the internet called messaged me. He said, You know, I want you to pray for me. And he wasn't getting healed. And so I drove all the way up to Pennsylvania.
And the guy was dying of cancer, and I prayed for him, and I was believing 100% that he was going to get healed. And then a few days later he died, but What I found out afterwards is he said, me coming up. To pray for him in Pennsylvania, even though he died. That's what he was praying to God for. That I cared enough to drive up and to pray for him.
So I just wanted to share that. I think that's a great thing to share. And I am, you know, the topic of healing is a very sensitive one. And we're told to pray for people who are sick. And I can't imagine that God would ask us to pray for people if He didn't intend on doing anything.
But he's also going to allow, as Johnny Erickson Tata says, he allows what he hates to achieve what he loves. And I talk with Johnny quite a bit. And then I live with somebody who is missing both legs and has had almost a hundred surgeries. And so But I hear people talking about I've seen miraculous healings. you know, it's an interesting Place that I live in, and it causes you to dig deeper.
One of the things my father used to say, and when things went awry in his life, He was never suspicious of God, but he was always suspicious of himself. Right. And just because we don't understand something, and these people that want to put on people that they don't have enough faith. They don't say that to me anymore. They used to say it too when I was younger and I didn't have the vocabulary vocabulary to respond.
Now I have a vocabulary and a second degree black belt.
So I'd respond a little but because that kind of stuff just is is infuriating to hear. But, you know, I really appreciate you taking the time to call on this, Mike. I wanted to get your call and squeeze it in there. And it's a tough subject. But you know what?
We are called to minister to these people and speak the truth of the gospel and point them to Christ, the great healer. And one day. One day we're going to run and not grow weary. And that is the promise. And that's Truth Talk Live.
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This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you, 866-34-TRUTH. eight six six 348-7884. We just heard that commercial from Dr. R.C.
Sproh about the sovereignty of God, that whatever. He ordains whatever comes to pass, he ordains it. Forty Two years ago. November My wife slammed into a concrete abutment. and forever altered her life.
Now my question to you is, Did God ordain that? Good question, isn't it? And that is um You know, when you live with something like what we live with, and you've spent an awful lot of time searching through the scriptures. And you realize if there is one Errant molecule. that is outside of his sovereignty.
that is outside of his decree We're all toast. But there's not. If he is Lord at all, Then he's Lord of all. And see, this is what I've been following with this whole Christ as King movement. All these people get excited, they want to get out there and start running to battle, and they think they're at Helm's Deep and Lord of the Rings, and they're the Rohirim, the charge of the Rohirrim, and they're going to do this.
But You know, if Jesus wanted to do that. And he told that to Peter. Peter picked up his sword at Gethsemane, and he said, Peter, that. Y y you don't understand. If I wanted to my Father would send, you know, legions of angels.
But he didn't come to do that. He came to suffer. He came to die. And I see a lot of people in our culture that really, really, really want that crown. And they want that that throne.
But Jesus offered a cross. And that makes people uncomfortable. Jesus said, He didn't say, take up your crown and follow me. He didn't say, take up your throne and follow me. He didn't say, take up your checkbook and follow me.
He said, Take up your cross. Pick up your cross. Do you hear that? Ought a lot of the airwaves coming out of these big pulpits? When you turn on Sunday morning television or whatever, and you see these.
Big, big. Churches, pulpits. Ornate pulpits, by the way, and big pulpits. They don't mean that they're giving you truth. You know Big platforms don't don't necessarily mean big truth.
Wait we did you know that the White House has an office of faith? It's headed up by Paula White. I gotta ask you a question.
Alright, this is just this is just between you and me, okay?
So don't you don't have to tell anybody else what I'm about to tell you. But I got to ask you a question. If we have an office of faith, And you've got Paula White is running this thing, who Yes. Tall or white. Why is the President Out there musing publicly about going to heaven.
all the time. Have you noticed that he does this a lot? I don't know if I'm gonna go to heaven. Don't know it. This may get me in.
I don't know. I don't know. Why is he even having this conversation in public when you have an office of faith? of somebody who reports to him supposedly. who somebody who is an evangelical leader Why didn't she just pick up the phone and call him and say, Mr.
President's Pretty easy to know. Trust in the Lord. Put your faith in your hope. in the atoning work of Christ and the righteousness that he imputed to us. The redemption of Christ.
That's it. That I belong, body and soul. Because I ask you what comforts me. In the last block, I ask you that. What comforts me?
What comforts me goes back to fifteen sixty three in the Heidelberg Catechism when it said, My only comfort in life and death is that I belong, body and soul, to my Lord Jesus Christ. That's it. Luther said, The body they may kill, God's truth abideth still. That's the comfort I have. Knowing that everything in this world, I go back to what I said about the snow in the earlier block, that all this stuff, all this sin, all this scarring, all this brokenness, all this stuff, Gracie's missing legs, her broken body, all of this stuff.
will be restored. Through his unimaginable grace. And his mercy. And we trust him until then. We don't understand it, don't particularly like it.
Do you know I've offered my consulting services to the Almighty? on many occasions. You know, he hadn't taken me up on it one time.
So, I'm telling you that just because somebody has a big pulpit or a big platform doesn't mean that they're giving you life-giving truth. Evidently the office of faith from the White House Doesn't have much to offer to The guy that set it up. 'Cause he's out there talking about if he's gonna go to heaven or not. You know, our brothers and sisters in Nigeria are being slaughtered. And the Pope's got a pretty big pulpit.
But he's out there blessing a block of ice for climate change. How many do you think those people that are so They're just it what's horrendous what's going on in Nigeria. And how many of you think that they think climate change is the existential threat? Do you think they're worried about climate change? They're fleeing for their lives.
They got a bigger existential threat. They're being butchered. Because they're Christians. Do you see how sometimes we just check our brains at the door? And we just go through these Crazy things that we say as a culture of churchy Christians with speaking Christianese.
But does it have substance? Will it sustain people in the midst? of their heartache. Will it sustain? I had a guy that reached out to me that listened to my show while he was in prison.
And he it's a train wreck. His life is he's out on parole. He's got a, it's just, I won't give you all the details, but it's just a train wreck. But he listened to me while he was in prison. And so he reached out to me now that he's out on parole, and I gave him four copies.
Concrete steps that he can do, and he's taken them, and he is getting to solid ground where he can catch his breath a little bit. And he really wants to serve the Lord. He wants to he but he's he's he it's a train wreck. It's a hot mess. But which of us are not hot messes?
If we think little of our sin, then we're going to think little of our Savior. And I'll leave you with this today. Sin is a much bigger problem than we think it is. Not just sin, Our sin. And if we think little of our sin, we're going to think little of our Saviour.
This is the invitation to the church. to go out and share the great news of the gospel. How can we have Good news. if we don't first tell the bad news. And the bad news is Sin is a much bigger problem than we think it is.
And we're not Better than this person, or whatever. This whole culture we have of. trying to be good and trying to thank the Lord that I'm not like that guy. We're all like that guy. We are that guy.
Dr. Diane Langberg wrote a great book. I'd recommend you reading it. It's called Suffering in the Heart of God. And she says, one of the most.
terrible words in the English language is they. They When we say, well, they did such and such, well, they did such and such, like somehow their choices are inferior to ours. And she said there is no they. There is only us. the only one who can say they is him and He became like us so that we can be with Him.
is a message worth telling people. There is no they, they're just us. We're all fallen short of the glory of God. And if you miss heaven by an inch, or miss it by a mile, what does it matter? You are not going to be with them, and there are going to be many that cry out, Lord, Lord, you know.
I did this in your name. I did this in your name. He said, I didn't know you. Can you imagine The horror of that moment The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord And this is the incentive for us to go out and share this, proclaim the kingdom of God, His redemptive work. This is what we do.
as believers. We shout it with everything we have. We go into the heartache of people's lives. We go in with that clarity of thought. to minister the gospel to them.
in their suffering, not to tell them if they had enough faith they'd be healed, but to tell them about a greater Suffering. They they have been spared from by the redemptive work of Christ. Let me tell you something, my wife will be the first to tell you. There is something far worse. that she's been saved from.
then both of her legs being amputated and almost a hundred surgeries and forty two years of chronic pain. She said there's something far worse. And I don't know why he's allowed her to suffer this way. She doesn't know why, and neither do you. But she's willing to trust him because she understands more daily of the cross.
And the more we see Christ keep our eyes fixed on Him. It doesn't matter what we're standing on. Peter could stand on water. My wife will stand on prosthetic legs. We help people we put prosthetic limbs on people in Africa.
through our ministry at Stanley with hope. And you know what happens when we take them by the hand and we stand them up? And I say to them, Silver and gold have I none but such as I have I give in the name of Jesus stand up and walk and they do. And they go walking and leaping and praising God. That leg will not serve them when they have to face their Savior.
That is a temporary help in this broken, fallen world. But the message of the gospel. will stand for all eternity. And that is. Truth.
Top. Laugh. This is Peter Rosenberger. PeterRosenberger.com. I really appreciate the time I had with you today.
I look forward to seeing you next week. We'll see you next time. Truth talk line.
