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So the question today on Truth Talk Live is what's one thing? That Only hard work and diligence could teach you. What's that one thing? that you learned Through hard work and diligence, and only that could teach your course. I'm here with Dr.
Date the word. Carson keeps track of all these calendar things for us. And of course, you might imagine that. From what I understand, were you there when Grover Cleveland found now? Robbie!
That must have been you were there when Chester Arthur saw them have the first Labor Day Parade in New York City. They had a parade. It was in 1890. 92, 82, and then 94, Grover, Cleveland. Yeah, there you go.
Labor Day. But Okay. You know, we celebrate labor in this country and that's uh you know, 'cause Considering there's a lot of holidays that don't have that much background to them, um, Fourth of July does, but nonetheless, Labor Day is coming up, and when you think about it, you know, I don't know. if you're like me, and I imagine you are, that your father came up in a generation that came out of the depression. Yes.
And oh, did they appreciate a job when they had one, right? Yes. And they worked as unto the Lord. I mean, they worked hard. And so.
Yeah. My dad had his list of things that you were going to do. And you know, when summer came and you thought it was vacation. Yeah, I think I got up earlier on Saturday than I did on the weekdays going to school. And Thanksgiving break meant a big work project.
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So we got Bucksman already calling us in Ohio. In Dayton, Ohio, the home of hard work. That's a true thing. That is funny, Robbie. Dayton, Ohio is the home of the Wright brothers.
So when you look up in the sky and you see something flying, and it's not one of God's birds or animals like that. Think of Dayton, Ohio, because Yeah. That is their hometown, and they learn how to fly. And uh you can even visit their their bike shop where they got the airplane. Or you could come to North Carolina where this first in flight state.
Yeah. Now you're picking a fight, Delmar. You're picking a fight, Delmar. Just kidding, just kidding. And I couldn't help but note.
But anyway, yeah. And though, it's so funny that people don't know that, yeah, there's that little contention between the Carolina and then the Dayton, Ohio region, but. But yeah. But yeah, I had a story for, um I'm actually in Kentucky, guys. I'm around from the bus mobile in Kentucky.
And I'm on my way back from a wonderful fishing trip that I took with a dear brother of ours. His name's Norm Davis. And what what I gotta know, and I know Doc wants to know, what kind of fish were you fishing for? Oh, whatever would bite the hook. I love it.
So, and what bit the hook? Yeah. Sounds like a Labor Day adventure. Mostly white baths. Really?
I like white bass. Those are fun. Oh, it's oh my gosh, guys.
So, Norm, this is what Norm does. We we pull him out of the out of Lake Kentucky. And he's minutes from his house.
So we take them straight from the water to the fry daddy, and oh my gosh, is it good? Yeah it is. Yeah, it is. I could eat some white bass. I wouldn't the ark sounds like You know, Buckman needs to invite us on these adventures.
Don't tease me. Both of you are openly invited. She brings a lot of men on men's outs. I guarantee you, Doc loves to fish. He does.
He shows me pictures. Yeah, we do. We do.
So, I know you called in on work, so go for it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so um in close to where Norm lives Here's he was in Aurora for about three hours away is the um The Lincoln Uh memorial f National Lincoln Memorial. Hard. Of his first place.
Right, in Kentucky. And in nineteen oh nine. President Roosevelt, Teddy, the former rough rider of Roosevelt, not FDR, Franklin, but his dad. uh commissioned the local Kentuckians To build this magnificent concrete edifice. over the uh cabinet that President Lincoln was born in.
And it's in a town called Hodginville and I highly recommend Especially if you're a sixteenth President fan like I am. Uh President Lincoln. And anyway. The building itself, guys, looks like a Corinthian temple. And In those days, they had a builder, you know, a mason.
that could build the columns and everything like the Greeks did. Yeah. So They found what they think, and there's a whole controversy about the actual cabin. But they built this gigantic concrete. edifice around What they think was uh Abraham Lincoln's Birth cabin.
And guys, it's just a little tiny It looks like 12 by 14 more space inside this little cabin, and that's where Nancy supposedly gave birth. to uh Abraham Lincoln. And but I won't get into the controversial story about that being Lincoln's birthplace or not. But the edifice itself is magnificent. And at the right hand corner of this edifice is a is a a cornerstone that is engraved with the numbers 1909.
And so Um The president Commissioned the local Kentuckians and those who would give. to build this have edifice. On the 100th birthday Uh Um President Lincoln. He was born in February of eighteen oh nine.
So 100 years later. Since Teddy Roosevelt was such a big fan of the 14th president, 16th president, rather 16th president, he built this gigantic edifice. And oh, Robbie, Dr. Carson, you gotta see this thing in reality. It's so majestic, it's so amazing.
And I thought, wow, you know, if they have that. uh ability to build You know, such a magnificent structure in the nineteen hundreds, how much more? can rebuild today with our modern technology. And it made me think of building our faith. And with the advent of the Internet, How much we can learn on biblical history, of what you know, the Greek.
And the Hebrew of our holy scriptures. And how much more would our faith? in God's Eve if we would just do the research on why Paul said what he said. Why Jesus? said what he said, where they all were, what was going on in the culture of these ancient times.
And so I just wanted to add that to our Labor Day discussion because it's If we would put our mind to it, gentlemen, And empowered by the Holy Spirit. We can move mountains and we can build amazing, amazing structures in ourselves. For God's purpose, that all the world may see that God is God, the God of the the heavens and the earth. Through our diligent labor. And that's all I got, gentlemen.
Well, I love it. Building up your faith. Um It 2 Timothy 2.15 says, study. To show yourself approved. And the man that discipled me.
He stressed that word. that this is something you gotta be diligent about. This isn't something you just go half-hearted. Wholehearted study, good word, build up our faith, labor. to know the Lord.
Awesome. We'll be right back with your calls. 866-348-7884. Thank you, Boxman. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com.
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So Isaiah 10, 27, I'm going to. leapfrog or whatever on what Bucksman was talking about, that hard work. Hard work in the scriptures. Yes. Well, there's an interesting way that you can interpret Isaiah 10:27.
To give you a little backdrop on Isaiah 10, 27, what's happened is the king of Assyria, Sennacherib, you might call him.
Some people call him Sennacherib, whatever you want to call him.
Okay, he was a bad guy and obviously had taken away the ten drives, was on his way to wipe out Hezekiah and the boys in Judah. But God had another plan, right? And interestingly, if you look in Isaiah 10, 27, God is doing this prophecy through Isaiah about Sennacherib. And he says, It shall come to pass in that day that his burden will be taken from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed because of Here's the big question mark.
Some translations will say because of his fat neck.
Some translations will say because of the anointing oil.
Okay. The word is shaman in Hebrew, and the idea of that is amazing. In one idea that I think is really beyond cool, on the idea of what Bucksman talked about. It's kind of the idea of the midnight oil. that those who are diligently looking in the Scriptures With the oil of the lights are building their faith And really when you think about what happened with Hezekiah laying out the letter Isaiah coming, in other words, it was their faith which came through what?
Hearing and hearing by the word of God, right? That made all the difference when the time came. And it wasn't Boom. You know, think about it. It was 185,000 Assyrians were killed by one angel, okay?
Now, that wasn't anything that the Jews did in their own strength, but there was a great deal of work. that went into building that faith. And so for those of you who work diligently seeking the Scripture, I mean, that's really encouraging to me, that it's one way to interpret Isaiah 10, 27 is because of the oil. And the oil that made the lamps burnt in the temple, you may know the menorahs run on all this oil. And that's the oil that that is that that it mentions there, it's kinda cool.
Had you ever heard that, Doc? No, I'm learning from you. You always learn from you always.
So. I know you had that situation.
Well, I'm lucky to be around so many amazing people. That that came from Ram Iheim Eisen, who I get a chance to talk to all the time. And I learn so many things from you, and I get a chance to share them with people. um that God gives us a chance to talk to about it, but You know, what I think about this, as I was talking about with my father, and again, I'm dying for your stories at 866-348-7884. One year, he decided that he was going to terrace the backyard.
Without the use of a bulldozer, he was going to use sun power. And he had two suns, he had two shovels. Yeah. Where is I mean, you had to see he wanted like this it had to be sixty yards wide that he wanted to go down the middle of the backyard that would take the water away from the back of the house. And it was he wanted this big terrace.
And Oh my go, I I'll never forget Every morning, you know, getting up at 7, 8 o'clock, whatever time you're talking about in the summer, and then grabbing hold of that shovel. At and seven o'clock in the morning, Robbie?
Well, it was co it's summer now.
Well, I would think you'd be getting up at 4 a.m. in the morning, Bobby.
Well, back then I wasn't studying the word. I should have been. I would have had enough faith to get out of this deal. But anyway, somewhere in Michigan, there is still this house with this beautifully terraced backyard that if I looked at it, I'd think about how many hours of work my dad had me and my brother do that. Um But you know what it did?
It really did. When you stood back and you looked at it after you put all that work into it. It was, you felt like Tim the Toolman, like, oh, man, I have what it takes. Look what that, look what we did. I mean, it was so amazing that the sense of accomplishment and the sense of.
you know, identity of with that look, you you actually can do stuff. Yeah. There's something about I think about construction. You're talking laying out the terrace there, but at the end of a day, you're able to look and see something that's been completed. Um but the hard work and and uh I I grew up with a grandfather and a father that just believed you got up early and you worked hard.
They didn't know anything about 8 to 5 or 9 to 5. It was sun up to sundown, a little past sundown many times. Uh but the question, why do we have to work so hard? And one time, based on your question, Robbie, As we were working in the sweet potato patch. Yeah.
Why have we got to work so hard? And Grendel said. These sweet potatoes taste a lot better than snowballs. Yeah. Point well made, Bren Danny.
Dig the sweet potatoes, get them up, get them in the shed. or eat snowballs this winter. And so you you work hard so you have something to eat. And you've experienced that right from somebody who probably knew all too well what those snowballs tasted like in the winter during the Depression. you know, and it was amazing to watch My mother was a master.
Right. What I would call diligence, right? That. Spoiled milk, what are you talking about? That's pancake batter right there.
There was, you know, fat that came off the bacon. Everything had its use. There was nothing. That was wasted. We raised hogs Usually we killed them around Thanksgiving.
That was a good Thanksgiving project. And uh someone said, the only thing you throw away on the hog is the squeal. Yeah. So every part had to be broken down. I just like dealing with the hams and the shoulder and getting that good bacon, but no, there were other parts that I was supposed to take care of as well so that we could have that to eat.
Well, we know you've man, I I have heard so many stories about tobacco barns in this part of the country.
So many stories about, you know, if people and I I know the people in Dayton know about tasseling corn. Right? Yes. I know that they know what. I know that some of you have experienced really, really, really hard work.
And You know, why do you think What do you think? God left that out there for us to take part in. What is the. What what did you learn through all those things that you had a chance to do? 866-348-7884.
And so why celebrate it? No. Why have a Labor Day? Uh and clearly Um Like you said, it started to clear back in. 1894, New York City, they had a big parade.
And uh Is it um Is work a curse, Robbie? No, obviously it came before the fall. I mean, in our work, there's a curse. But work itself is not a curse. It's how we view it.
And Colossians 3, 23 says, Whatsoever you do, do as unto the Lord. You know, right now I'm here, you're here. We're not doing this for a paycheck, we're doing this as unto the Lord. We want to be pleasing to him. I do want Stu to be pleased, but I'm doing this as unto the Lord.
And whether I was in the back of barn, working at a slaughterhouse, whether I was preaching a sermon, it all needs to be under that canopy of Colossians 3.23, whatsoever you're doing, do it as unto the Lord. Yeah, I was. working in parts departments for that. I'll tell a story when I come back about unloading Anifreeze. I will never ever forget.
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We are headed towards Labor Day. And the celebration weekend. Yeah, celebration of what God allowed us to take part in, to be his junior partners. Uh in so many different ways. Um How neat.
And I don't think he wants to have us do stuff for him. I like what Stu says. He wants us to do stuff with him. And so whatever that work may be, you know, oh my goodness. And and I interviewed this m Author yesterday.
His name was Sean. I'm trying to remember its last name. His book was addicted to Jesus. And I loved that. Yeah.
Like. How fun to work With Jesus, whatever you're doing. When I was unloading all that antifreeze, believe me, I was working at a parts department in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and You know, they took this whole tractor trailer, it was full of antifreeze, and every single box. you know, that had 12 gallons of Which was, you know. one gallon at seven or eight pounds.
They just do the math on how much a box of antifreeze weighed. And this entire truck was full of it from front to back. And there comes this truck and it just stopped. And he unhooked the trailer and he goes, Here you go. And not only did I have to unload that interferese.
I had to put it in a warehouse that was upstairs. Oh wow. And I had to walk every single case, every single box of that stuff up those stairs. And I'm not seeing a forklift in your future here. But man I was a beast after that.
So we got Mike is in Dayton, Ohio. Mike, you're on Truth Talk Live. Good afternoon, my friend.
Well get up from there again. I got a problem with uh too much work. Um I uh I I take on way too much project. uh way too much thing. And I need to do more.
and listening to God who say, uh should I take that on? And uh I don't hesitate to say yes.
Okay. Um And maybe that's my downfall. Uh I hate it. Make a a choice. I need to say, God, should I take this along or should I not take this on?
Oh, God, should I do this or not do this? Instead of saying, I see a need, Especially if it's in construction or at the church or as something I can do. Physically Um I say yes, I can do that.
Okay. And um Sometimes that If you ask my wife, I never finish a project at home. Uh-oh. I got plenty of them. I got plenty of them.
And uh But I'm d I'm getting better. Um because Because I've been into word harder. like Bucksman said earlier, but I only got a little bit of Bucksman. 'Cause I seemed in a little late. Um Okay.
uh getting into word is is helps you to have a balance. And having a balance is um huge. And so you walked right into Doc's question that he've hit me with a couple days ago. Which doc do you want to ask your this is the big question and I think you ought to ask Mike 'cause it's the perfect question to ask Mike. is the one about has hard work Ever hurt anyone.
Mike has hard work. ever hurt anyone. And that answer is yes, in case you're wondering. And you really and you really don't think that you cu they could. You know what I mean?
And And it it it it does. You want to please people, you want to please man, you want to please, you want to please God. You know? Yeah. Mike I and then uh Yeah, you want to really ask God and say, God, what do you want me to do?
instead of Just doing it, you know what I mean? I heard this and I kind of. took it as something I could really apply to my life. Um I heard this saying Um I used to think I should never take a vacation. because the devil never takes a vacation.
And then I remembered the devil is not my role model. Jesus took a nap in the afternoon. He went sailing and took a nap.
So why aren't I going sailing in the afternoon and taking a nap? Jesus is the one who tells his disciples to come apart and rest. God Himself is the one who said, Work six days, and on the seventh, Rest. God is for us resting. Which Labor Day, by the way, is just saying.
A day to rest. You're not supposed to labor on Labor Day, but my dad never got that memo. Mine didn't either. I never. I actually never had a Labor Day off until I came to, until I came to work for Truth Broadcasting, never in my life.
Because in the car business, it just didn't. Yeah. You've got to make hay while the sun shines. That's it. That's a proverb about the wise man does that.
Uh Mike, one of the hardest working men in the Bible. Nehemiah. Not only did Nehemiah work hard, We find that The people had a mind to work. But we also find Just giving you a little scripture to Think through as you have to make decisions. One of the b One of our great examples of saying no is Nehemiah.
When he was being asked to do things, he said no. He was quick to say, No, I'm not doing that. No, I'm not doing that. And so you don't have to say yes to everything. I had a professor tell us one time, the need does not necessitate the call.
And that was good advice. Because yeah, we can end up working ourselves, overworking ourselves, overworking to be rich, overworking ourselves to the point we don't have any time for our family. And um You got to find that balance, and that's a big word for Labor Day. How's the balance going as you evaluate your labor? Yeah, I you know, my problem, honestly.
Yeah, and Stu. You know Had his big announcement for his wonderful new book, Thanksgiving. We had a luncheon today, it was amazing. And he said this, and it just grabbed me. He said, You know, when you look at a group picture, who's the first person you go looking for?
How did I look at that picture? You know, I'm looking at me, and I'm like, oh man, is that convicting? I'm like, oh, my goodness. And and unfortunately when it came to work for much, much, much of my life. That one.
Was what that was a group picture, and I was looking for Robbie. And I was looking to make a name for myself. And, and, I, I, and I'm, Undoubtedly, to the extent to a cost of my family. Not, you know, we're married and I have wonderful, lovely kids that we all love each other, but nonetheless, there was. life that could have been had that would have been a lot different had I Chosen what God had in certain choices to make, whether to work certain hours or to do certain things that I didn't choose, and it was because of that guy in the picture.
That's kind of scary, isn't it, Mike? Yes it is in um You know, if you ever notice, if you take selfies, you know, you always think you're selfie and you're the first person in line, you know what I mean? And that's the whole reason why you take 'em, is because you you you want to see yourself, you know, and um Really, you want to do things for God and with God, like you said earlier. And And it's hard to take yourself out of the picture when you're taking a selfie, you know what I mean? And And when you'd say.
Well, it wouldn't be a selfie, then it would be another thee. It'd be a good picture, probably. I wonder what you call it, Doc, when it's not you or not in the picture. It's other thee? Other thee.
Yeah. Yeah. The book of Ecclesiastes. You know, the book of Ecclesiastes addresses a lot of issues of life. And we think about how Solomon, with the wives and with the wine, the wealth.
But one of the things that he found was He worked all this time. and it didn't bring any value. Because it wasn't It was just vanity because he was just working for work's sake. And then he gets to the end and he says, fear the Lord. That's the beginning of wisdom.
And now that he's fearing the Lord, you get Proverbs and you get all these wonderful verses about the dignity of work. If it's not being done for the Lord and under the Lord and with the Lord, all of a sudden you do, you find work to be one of the worst things you are ever a part of. you know it starts singing a song. Take this job and shove it or something. Not whistle you while you work.
Not whistle while you're working. All right, I know what you're thinking out there. Come on, 866-348-7884. 866-348-7884. The question at hand, Mike, that I would love for you to answer.
Because I know you work with your own hands. And I know that God has taught you some amazing things. with projects that perhaps you thought you couldn't do. Because from hard work, right? Yeah.
And, um, yeah. Um God has shown me how to make excellent cabinets that nobody else makes. Yeah. And um I don't even advertise. Um I don't put my name out there.
I don't have a cabinet display. I uh Uh I don't have anything really. I have a a shop in a warehouse that You would never know it was there. Yeah, um I'm I'm I'm glad. that got every day.
that um I have worked. Yeah, it sounds like more than you can do. You got more than I could do. And um It's hard to uh Is marked. You know, it's uh it's it's difficult not to be there all the time to help to make the money, you know what I mean?
Yeah. And to balance your time and your effort, it's not easy. Because it's so gratification, the gratification of making a cabinet. or making things is is so cool. If you watched any videos or YouTube videos or how to do s how to do stuff.
And then you go and do it, and you do it yourself, it's just awful, right? It gives you that sense of like, man, oh. There's something about the completion of that project. Oh, I got to tell you, I'll never forget it. I rebuilt the engine in my riding lawnmower.
Yeah. When I cranked that thing and it started, I just stood there in awe, like, oh, look what I did.
Now, listeners, if you want to know the difference between Robbie Dillmore and Buene Carson, I would have bought a new lawnmower. At the time, I didn't have the money to buy a new lawnmower. My insurance joke, man, I'll never forget it. It was so cool. Anyway.
What's your story? We would love to hear it. 866-348-7884. Thank you so much, Mike. God bless.
Have a great Labor Day. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. It is coming on Labor Day, and because of that, we are celebrating work here at the Truth Network. To say and had to throw that in there. And we would love to know: you know, what's one thing that only hard work and diligence could teach you?
And honestly, You know, when you think about some of that stuff, you grow in faith that God will help you do things that you never thought you could do. Yes. Yes. Whether that's schoolwork, right? I mean, you you may have had that test you never thought, right?
And you prayed and I and you studied. Yeah. In some cases.
Well, as a former head of school, I told students: do not just pray that God will reveal the answer. You want to pray that he brings back to the mind what you have studied. There you go. 866-348. 7884-866-348 Seven, eight, eight, four.
Right. What what is Your comment on the whole concept of Labor Day celebrating it, you know, and you know, from my standpoint, You know, and I look in the the history of my family Um You know, ancient Del Moores from way back that were actually on the Chamung Canal in New York State. And, you know, they hold, they hauled bricks. up and down this canal. And there was the Dilmore Hotel that was at the in veteran New York that you can still see.
Um it's amazing to me. And the and I and I just celebrate the fact that these people Man, they worked. No. That it was It was serious. But then clearly You know, the beauty of it, because I can see from so many things that are still in existence down there.
was their fame. And so, you know, they had a chance to do all that before we came along.
Well, you go back, there's a prayer Jesus teaches us to pray, give us this day, a day, the bread.
Well the idea that prayer is that work would be provided. That you would have an opportunity like Ruth to find a place to glean. And that you from there you get your daily bread. And um I I think Labor Day gives us a great opportunity to reflect. on the value of work, the things that we get to be a part of, that again, we're not just getting up going to work because I got to, but I want to, and I'm part of something.
And I never know completely all that I'm a part of, but I am something that's, I'm a part of something that's bigger than me. Because I'm his workmanship. And listeners, you're his workmanship. And many times you go to work, so I like to say it this way, so you can witness while working. And some of you might be in a bad place right now as far as the work, but you're the light.
In that place. And Stu, I think, told a story about a guy that went to See the professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, Howard Hendricks. And he said, Professor, I got to find a new place to work. And he said, Well, what's the deal? He said, I'm around 500 lost people every day, and they use filthy language and they tell dirty jokes.
I'm the only Christian there, and I got to find another place to work. Dr. Hendricks said, hold on, son. You've got 500 people to witness to. Not many people get those kind of opportunities.
Now you show up and you be the light in that place. And Robbie, you were witness to while you were working. And it made all the difference in your life because someone, while you were not living for the Lord, told you about the Lord. And that's one way we have to be kind of reflecting on how is God using my work?
so that I can be a witness for him. Right, because in it work. You ever really some of the closest relationships that you may have. In your life, especially if you're lost. Because lost people don't have a lot of really great friends out there, because they don't.
You know, they're looking for people to talk to, that kind of thing.
So we know you have ideas along these lines. We know you have that hard work story. We would love to hear it. And who knows who you might encourage by telling it.
So you call us 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. And You know, yeah. I know that You have an understanding I don't have. Of You know, dairy farmers that are up, you know, I've heard all these stories over the years. You've got to get up and you've got to milk.
You know, what's that like? Yeah. Well, I didn't grow up on a dairy farm. I grew up on a beef farm, which is a big difference because that dairy farm you do every day, twice a day. And I was just with the man the other night at a church service and as we were talking, he was telling about how as he grew up They had eighty five cows to milk.
twice a day. and they didn't have the milkers at milkers. How do I say that word right? Milkers. Yes.
At that at the at that time. And and uh I guess he had like twenty cows that he had to milk and then others would It's like, oh my goodness. I only had two when I was growing up that I had to. How long does it take to milk a cow? About a half hour.
It depends on how many. How many cows you're going to Well, I guess I'd be thinking about it. That's 10 hours a million. Let me think about that.
Well, no, you you probably ought to be able to milk a cow in twenty minutes.
Now the the Uh you got you gotta have strong hands three an hour. Yeah. Yeah. Twenty cows twice a day. Yes.
Oh my gosh.
Well again, that's these dairy farmers are some of the most uh committed. But now with the milkers, it's it's a lot easier. I was at a farm where the guy was milking three hundred cows an hour. You just had to have somebody hook those milkers up to the cow. That's utterly dangerous.
Or utterly exciting in how you look at it. That's some work, man. I'm telling you. But yeah, and it's just like it doesn't you know you don't get a day off from that. It's got to happen every day.
But I also like as we reflect on labor, hard work, there is the hard work of hands. But bro, we got a lot of listeners right now. They've been working today with their hits. And you think of these people who have to do a lot of thinking.
Solving problems and the accountants out there. I bet there's a verse coming. I can feel it. I don't know if there is one. I just know that.
Maybe they told me something about. You told me earlier, yesterday maybe. That Oh.
Well, do you see a man who excels in his work? He'll stand before kings, and you've got to be able to have... have the ability to give uh great advice. And um you said something about the the You told me this yesterday. Oh, much studying that make one weary.
Ecclesiastes 12 through 11. Yes, yes. Much studying. And I always gave that to students. As we got close to Christmas or Thanksgiving, when they're going home, and I said, guys, when y'all get home, tell your parents you need to get some rest.
And they're going to go, all you've been doing is studying. And you say, Ecclesiastes 12:11. It's wearing me out, mom and dad. It's wearing me out. And it does.
You think about your pastor. He only works on Sunday. No, that's the performance, if you will, like an athlete. They're now putting on display all the work that they've been doing behind the scenes. And a good pastor is working very, very, very hard studying.
to pull out the richness of the scriptures. Yeah, beautifully, and and you know this because you do it as well as I. That it is the joy of joys because and it's the same way with a radio show you know you're doing at the end of the week. I've known for years I was doing a Christian Carga show.
So I as soon as I finish one, I'm preparing for the next. And God is Giving me like this lesson plan. And it's amazing. But when you're working with the Lord, you never worked a day in your life from my perspective. Like, man, this is how fun.
You know, and I'm sure that's what Adam experienced, right? That he's out there naming animals. Bring 'em, bring 'em, let me let me see that hippopotamus. I'll come up with something. You know it Yeah.
The the work he did there had to be very fulfilling, no doubt about that. Yeah, because he was hanging out with God. And we get to, too. And as my friend who wrote Addicted to Jesus, I love that. I was reading a book one time, Robbie, where this guy said, as you're trying to figure out.
what you're going to be doing with your life. It'd be really good if you had at least one job. Did you absolutely hate it? And for him, it was being a door-to-door salesman. And he did it for a whole summer.
And he goes, There's got to be something better in life than this. And he would go on to have a a career in advertising. But doing the door-to-door wasn't it. And I knew one day when I was working in the slaughterhouse. I don't think I want to do this the rest of my life.
The worst job I ever had. That's fascinating. That would have been a great topic. A service advisor in a car dealership. All day long, you're telling people what they do not want to hear.
Your car is broken, and it's going to cost you a lot of money. These are not happy people. They're not saying, gee, Robbie, thank you for calling me. That isn't what's going on. Those poor folks that have those jobs, that is one tough, if there's a job I do not want when it comes to, that was the worst job I ever had.
Because, man, you could. It was just, you're telling people all the time bad news. And I, you know, my heart goes out to doctors and other people that, like, yeah, you're in the business of delivering people stuff they don't, they know. Yeah. It's not easy.
No. But God gives them a way to do it.
So, as we're heading to Labor Day weekend. Thank you. For hard work. Thank you for all that are doing it with your hands and your head, and being vessels in the hand of the Lord to do his work. Amen.
Amen. And you guys have a great Labor Day weekend and... We'll look forward to what Mike has coming. And oh, we got Peter Rosenberg tomorrow. Stay tuned.
God bless you. Yeah.
