01-29-2025 part 2: The Battle for Our Perception of God: Overcoming Lies with Truth

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And now for something completely different.

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Here's what's coming up this hour on today's Experience.

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It's wild and wonderful.

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What's gonna happen?

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We have no idea.

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Let's sit back and enjoy the ride.

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Can I get a wowser Bowser Wednesday Because God is in charge of this crazy bus called the Christian Journey, First Wednesdays have been set aside most often for me sharing classics Today I'm going to share something with you that is more difficult for me to share.

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While it is still an important teaching, it also creates some vulnerabilities for me because I'm going to share about my upbringing.

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This is not so much a testimony as much as an acknowledgement of the very struggles I had with my parental units.

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Next, it's also important to note that while we are learning about who God is, from the moment we surrender our hearts, acknowledging our foolishness and turning our face to Jesus, we also are engaged in a form of warfare.

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If the enemy, also known as Satan or the devil, who is the accuser of the brethren, can distort our perception of God, he will.

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And finally, the key to this lesson is understanding that God's truth prevails.

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Listen against our past, present and even our future.

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Often we have emotional baggage and feelings connected to this whole faith process.

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But ironically, that's actually a contradiction in terms because feelings and emotional baggage are not faith.

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What we need to do is utilize God's truth to separate ourselves from the darker moments and recognize that in Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world, there is no darkness, but only light and love.

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David Spoon's life has been an experience.

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While growing up in a Jewish family, he made a wrong turn towards drug abuse.

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Then David Spoon found Jesus Christ and his life completely changed.

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The more he studied the Gospel, the more he wanted to share his experiences with others.

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After 35 years of ministry, David discovered a new path of service.

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He joined KAAM and this radio program began.

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You're about to hear the David Spoon Experience.

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Welcome to the David Spoon Experience.

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Local, national and heavenly talk.

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Here's what else we're looking at during the show.

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Lessons for surviving, living and prevailing politics, entertainment and current events, personal revelations, spiritual observations, my life's insanities, and oy vey, so much more.

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Now remember, it's not professional radio and I hesitate to do this, but I must do this because we need to verify that it's not professional radio.

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So we are going to talk to our very own Jamming Jacob, who is also the Mighty Mouse of professional radio.

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Our very own jamming Jacob.

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Jammin Jagis.

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Jammin Jacob is the David Spoon Experience professional radio?

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No, it is not.

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David.

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And are you here to save the day?

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Yes.

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Yes, I am.

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I'm here to save the day and to say, we are not professional radio.

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Here I come to save the day.

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Good job, Mighty Mouse of professional radio.

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Bottom line is, it's just radio, and we just want to know how you're doing.

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That's all right.

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You're thinking, wow, is that important?

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Yeah, it's important to take care of one another, bless one another, do good to all men, especially those of the household of God.

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Loving on each other, protecting each other, helping each other, caring about each other.

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Yeah, it's important.

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So what we want to do is encourage you.

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If you want to reach out to us by email, you can do that.

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Talking to Jammin Jacob is like waking up and feeling like you got a great night's sleep.

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Thank you, David.

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Happy Wednesday.

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Happy Wednesday to you, my friend.

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All going well?

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All things good?

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Yes.

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I did get a great night's sleep last night.

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Oh, that's very, very good.

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I would check and say the same, but little birdie had a little bit of a tummy ache and Noelle was really exhausted because Noelle's in the.

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She's in the season now, so remember, she's a floral manager.

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Right, Tom.

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Dumb.

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So the last time she was a floor manager in Tom Thumb at the store in Rowlett, she did over a million dollars in business in that year.

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Okay, so just to give you an idea, think about that.

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So you're talking about, what, like, 80 plus grand a month, right?

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Well, not exactly.

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It's more like 60, except for on Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.

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Yikes.

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So she's doing her whole buildup, 68 plus hours this week, next week, and the follow all the way up to.

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Yeah, right.

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It's starting to warm up a little bit.

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We're getting close to spring.

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Yeah.

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So now whenever anything happens, I get up so that she can keep sleeping and burt was like, hey, ruff, ruff, ruff.

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My stomach hurts.

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Ruff, ruff.

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So I had to get up at 1 in the morning and at 3 in the morning.

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But that's not the point.

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The point is, at least she got to sleep.

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That's the good part.

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All right, here's the bottom line.

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The bottom line is, you know why.

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You can call us, you know why, you can text us, you know why.

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You can email us.

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You know why?

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It gets super simple.

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If you've got a praise report, bring it.

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We want to hear it.

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If you've got a prayer request, bring it.

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We want to hear it because we want to join you in it.

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It's just that simple.

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If you've got something you want to share, bring it.

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If you've got an answer to trivia.

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Ooh, got an answer to trivia?

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Let's see if you got this one.

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Here we go.

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What animal did Samson use to set the Philistines fields on fire?

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On fire.

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What animals did Samson use to set the Philistine fields on fire?

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Was it lions, tigers, bears or foxes?

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Lions, tigers, bears or foxes.

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What animal did Samson use to set the Philistines field on fire?

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Your answer is In Judges, chapter 15, verses 3 through 5.

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Good catch, Al.

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Judges 15, 3, 5.

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What animals did Samson use to set the Philistines field on fire?

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Was it lions, tigers or bears or foxes?

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That's the question.

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If you think you know the answer, you can reach out to us.

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You can send an email davidemusincreased.org we do have somebody on the line.

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Is that correct?

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Do they want to answer the trivia question?

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They do.

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Let's send them on through.

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Knock, knock.

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This is David.

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Who am I talking to?

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What TikTok killed a radio star?

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This is your little brother.

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What's going on, little brother?

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It's a good call because I got Samson as the trivia question.

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See, that's good timing.

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All right, let me hit you up on the question, then.

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Tell me what's happening.

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Let's go first on the question.

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What animals did Samson use to set the Philistines field on fire?

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Was it lions, tigers and bears or foxes?

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I think it wasn't the CNN or msnbc.

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I'll go with the fox.

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That is correct, Amundo.

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But I want to give credit to Al, because I did lions and tigers and bears.

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And then I was going to say, oh, my But I had to insert foxes.

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So lions and tigers and bears.

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Oh, my.

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You know, from the other.

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Okay.

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That's from the wizard of Oz.

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Okay.

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Anyhow, what's happening, brother?

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Good job on that, Triv.

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What's taking place with you?

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Lord is good and just.

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Yeah.

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Thanking for his covering and his shalom on our life.

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So how's your wife feeling?

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Oh, she's getting better.

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Another day I took her to the hospital, to her doctor and discovered that she had some ear infection as well.

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So she put her on antibiotics.

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So, like within next day she started feeling better, so.

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Oh, good.

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Improving.

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That's great.

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That's great news.

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Great news.

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I got an ear.

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When I got an ear infection, I stopped, stood up and I fell straight down.

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I lost my equilibrium.

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It was so weird.

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It was just like, bam.

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Like, oh, that's not good.

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Yeah, well, it was causing too much headache to her.

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On and off.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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All right, well, I'm going to pray over your blessing.

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Anything in particular do you want to?

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Just ask the Lord to bless you.

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Pray for the health blessing and also the same blessing that you are seeking.

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Okay, you got it.

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I know what you're saying.

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Let's do it.

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Let's pray.

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Father, we come before you right now.

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We lift up our brother Samson.

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We thank you for him.

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We ask you to bless him.

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We ask you to encourage him.

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Lift him and fill his heart full of joy and full of your presence and anointing.

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Fill him so much with you.

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He just recognizes everything else is reduced in size because nothing compares to you.

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Bless him in that capacity.

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Lord, he needs some openings to take place from a financial aspect.

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And he needs some good health situations for different elements.

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And we are asking not just for your healing power and there would be prosperousness in the healing realm, but in his actual financial situation that you would open up doors for him and even enable him to give so that in that giving he can just be blessed because he's able to.

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Father, we ask you to pour it out upon him and let him testify to it.

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A special blessing for him and let him know it's from you.

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We lift up our brethren.

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We ask for your favor in his life.

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In Jesus name.

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Amen and Amen.

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Amen.

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I have a quick question for you.

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You probably know that which biblical character was the fastest runner in the race?

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I know that answer, but I'm going to let you tell us because I feel like you saying it is better.

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And then if you get buzzed, I don't have to get buzzed on it.

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Who was It.

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I think it was Adam because he was the first in the human race.

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He was the first in the human race.

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That is correct.

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Very good, brother.

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Thank you, brother.

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Praying for you and your family.

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Thank you, bro.

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Sorry.

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What's the update of your daughter that concerned that was there that we prayed for?

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We're still waiting.

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Believe it or not, they were supposed to answer her two weeks ago.

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I talked to her just two days ago, and she's like, they're still waiting.

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And I'm like, okay, well, don't.

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Just stay steady.

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But we believe that this stay angel situation is gonna work in her favor.

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Initially they said not a chance.

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Now they're saying it's like a 95% they will.

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So we're just waiting.

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It will be 100%.

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In Jesus name.

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In Jesus name.

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I'm with you in that a hundredfold.

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All right, Michael.

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Thank you, brother.

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God bless you.

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God bless you too.

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Bye bye.

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Bye bye.

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All right.

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Okay.

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So there is so much to cover.

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And I gotta be really careful how I cover this.

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Cause I have to also.

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I get vulnerable when I talk to you.

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Gu.

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We're gonna do our DNA, okay?

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And then I'm gonna open up a little.

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So I want you to be prepared for that.

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It's gonna be a little different than norm, which is like the norm.

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Because everything we do is different than whatever.

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We don't even have a norm.

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In fact, I don't think that we even know a norm.

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Anyway.

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Let's do DNA.

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It.

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Being a normal is the norm.

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That's right.

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Abnormal is the norm.

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Or you go back to young Frankenstein.

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What's the brain's name?

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Abby.

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Abby something.

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Abby what?

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Abby normal.

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All right.

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Anyway, so here we go.

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D.

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Draw closer to the Lord daily.

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Because if you don't, you're hurting yourself.

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Why would you do that?

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Don't.

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I mean, spend time with the Lord.

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He'll help you in everything.

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In all of it.

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All of it.

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There's nothing that does not get resolved when God is at the center.

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That's it.

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Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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That's what we want in our lives.

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That's what Jesus taught us.

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To pray, by the way.

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D Draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

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Don't be ashamed of what he had to say.

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Jesus is called the Word of God.

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In the beginning was the Word.

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The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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That's John 1:1 connecting Genesis 1:1.

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In the beginning, God and then Connecting everything in the New Testament, you just see it as the very last two verses in the new New Testament.

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Talk about Jesus.

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It's like it's all connected to Jesus.

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Never be ashamed of what he had to say.

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Never be ashamed of his truth.

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Never be ashamed of his declarations or his works.

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And when they try to shame you or get you, just do this.

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I don't receive it.

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I know.

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That's crazy.

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What?

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Yeah, don't receive it.

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Don't let it be put on you.

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Never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

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God created the universe.

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The dude can write a book.

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Thanks.

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And then a.

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Always be ready.

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To serve.

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Just ready to go, man.

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Ready to do it right now, wherever you are.

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If somebody sends you a text, an email, somebody calls you, something's going on, somebody needs your help.

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Ready to be the vehicle of God's grace and mercy.

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That grace and mercy does not mean that you never say anything tough.

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It's just being a vehicle of God's grace and mercy.

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You live for him.

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In fact, in one portion, Paul says, in my life, which is Christ.

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And it's like, that's our life.

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So always ready to honor him, to say, do be whatever.

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Here am I, Lord.

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D Draw closer to the Lord daily.

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And never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

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A.

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Always be ready to serve.

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Okay, folks, let's just get into it.

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So many people know that I was born and raised in a Jewish household.

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And in my upbringing, there was a lot of.

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What's the word I'm looking for?

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Drug use.

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When I became a teenager.

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So you guys have heard me talk about that.

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And in my family, it was a little bit different because my dad and my family that I came from.

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Loaded.

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If you ever heard Ron White do his commercial or do his routine, it's like they were loaded.

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Our family came in: 1919

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They built hospitals, they built office buildings, they built complexes.

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I mean, we're talking about serious, serious construction.

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Serious, serious stuff.

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And so that's the kind of family I grew up in, was very, very wealthy.

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And unfortunately, that in our particular family, it was not filled with a high level of morality.

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While they were very committed to the Jewish culture, they were not necessarily committed to the biblical commands of being faithful.

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And my father had many people in his life that were beyond my mom on a regular basis, kind of rotating him in and out.

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So when I grew up, my dad had already disconnected from the family.

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That's what I grew up with.

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So it's a very fair.

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It's not even accusatory.

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And yes, I prayed for my father a thousand times.

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Yes, we talked 10,000 times.

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I had very limited father touch.

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I had very little connection to my dad as I was growing up.

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Is that why I got involved in drugs?

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I have no idea.

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But I had limited contact.

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I had limited exposure to my dad, and I did not have limited exposure to my mom.

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She was phenomenal.

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She was like, I still think she's one of the greatest moms ever.

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But my dad was very absent.

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So when I became a Christian and got my introduction to Christianity, and here was my introduction when my brother had talked to me five, six, seven days in a row, couple hours every night, you know, going on and going on.

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And in my testimony, you find out that one time he brings up comic books.

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Good and evil.

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The most powerful, the most evil kind of resonated with me.

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I'm like, all right, I'm into that.

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I can go with that.

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So we go over to his house and he goes through the four spiritual laws.

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For those that don't know, he goes through the Romans road.

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He goes through all the basics.

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And then it ultimately comes down for me is like the first verse that gets into the system is the John 3:16.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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Okay, that's awesome.

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Except for me, understanding God as a father made my Christianity challenging because my dad was not close.

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And that impacted how I perceived and received God as father.

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There was nothing that anybody could say about that.

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You can't change it.

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God changed that.

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He became my daddy after I went through some of this process.

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But in the introduction part, when God is declared as the Father and Jesus is the Son, my brain didn't associate that on a great level.

David Spoon: 00:19:19

It associated that on a disappointing level.

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So that's my introduction to Christianity.

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Forget even the bad stuff at the church, which was bad by itself.

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I'm talking about at the very core, at the very beginning.

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I couldn't make the connections because my dad wasn't there for me as a dad.

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And then seeing God is a father seemed bizarre.

David Spoon: 00:19:47

Right?

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Okay, hold that thought.

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We'll take a short break.

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There's a lot to cover.

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Let's take a short break and then come back.

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You're listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on Kaam 770, the truth station here in Texas.

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Can I blow your mind?

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You know, I did this with you before, but on a different text.

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I love this text.

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You will love this text because you.

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And I are sci fi people.

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You'll love this.

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I mean, this is one of those.

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Oh, goodness gracious, it's so good.

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First Samuel: 23:10

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First Samuel: 23:10

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Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

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First Samuel: 23:10

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Then David said, o Lord God of Israel, your servant has heard for certain that Saul is seeking to come to destroy the city on my account.

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Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand?

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Will Saul come down just as your servant has heard?

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O Lord God of Israel, I pray tell your servant.

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And the Lord said, he will come down.

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Then David said, will the men surrender me and my men to the hand of Saul?

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And the Lord said, they will surrender you.

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I love this portion.

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Because people, we think in these boxes and we force God into our theology and say he must conform here, which is just insanity by itself.

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Here's a situation where David hears that Saul is coming down to try and get him, and he's asking, will the people of the city surrender me?

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I've helped them, I've defended them, I've given them some deliverance.

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Is Saul going to come in and change their mind and they're going to give me up?

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And the Lord says, yeah, that's going to happen.

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Now if you read the rest of the passage in 1st Samuel 23, David leaves.

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So he is not surrendered to Saul by the men of the city.

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But what I want you to catch is this.

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God knew what the outcome was going to be if David stayed and what the outcome was going to be if David left.

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In other words, God knew the alternate universe or the alternate pathway that was taking place.

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We've talked about this before.

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It's one of those cool thoughts where we don't think of it in these terms.

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But remember, David says to God, hey, are they going to give me up?

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And the Lord's like, yeah, they're going.

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To give you up.

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That's what's going to happen.

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So you need to make a decision and go a different direction so we can have a different outcome.

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And it's like God knew what the outcome was if they gave him up.

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And God knew what the outcome was if he left.

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God knew what it would be if he went left or right.

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If we went west, east, north or south.

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God knew what the outcome was going to be, no matter what.

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Because God is omniscient.

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He knows all things, which means he knows every alternate route.

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You're here when I need you the most.

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When I need you the most.

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Welcome back to the David Spoon Experience.

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Thank you for joining us here at Kaam 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

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That's Ka Men 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

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Trying to make sure everybody keeps their Bible skills sharp.

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How many chapters Does Micah have?

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3, 5, 7, or 9.

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How many chapters does the book of Micah have?

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3, 5,.

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7, or 9.

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Or send an email davidemousincrease.org how many chapters does Micah have?

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Is it 3, 5, 7, or nine?

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That's the question.

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What we're going to do is go right back into this teaching.

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Okay.

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Don't worry about calling and interrupting or whatever the case may be, because this is a story I know pretty well.

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That's kind of a nice way to say it.

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Okay, well, it's my story, so I should probably know it.

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So John 3:16.

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Can't beat that.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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If you want the King James.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever should believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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It's very straightforward.

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You have to continually believe.

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You can't believe for one second, then never believe again.

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That's not what it says.

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It says continually believe.

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The grace doesn't change.

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Your belief has to stay consistent and the grace stays consistent.

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It's pretty straightforward there.

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And if you don't continue to believe, you never really believed in the first place.

David Spoon: 00:25:12

But backing that up, when I said yes to Christianity and it was God is the Father, I was having some issues.

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That doesn't mean that it's like you might think, well, you can do this.

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Stop.

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I was having issues.

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I'm not talking about any of that other stuff and why I was having issues is simple.

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And I'm gonna speak right to it without going down that thing.

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Our image of God is tied to earthly people.

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I'm just going to say that people are like, oh, no, it's not.

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Yes, it is.

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That doesn't mean it's the right image.

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I'm just simply saying for many people who have authority figures in their lives, God's image is tied to that.

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That's not even bizarre.

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That's like, yep, that makes sense.

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It can be fathers, by the way.

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It can be mothers.

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Nobody's saying it's right or wrong.

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Just I'm telling you what people do.

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It can be pastors, it can be other authority figures.

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It could be teachers, it could be scholars.

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It could be many things.

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It could be siblings.

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It could be any of that.

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That's not the issue.

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Again, the issue is here.

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As I'm developing in my Christianity and going forward, I'm finding out that there's a struggle, and the struggle is getting the association between God as my Father and my actual father.

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And I'm going to read a verse, and this will make you.

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This will help you understand exactly where I'm going with this.

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John: 10:10

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The thief comes only that he might steal and kill and destroy.

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I have come that they may have life and have it more abundantly.

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Jesus is talking about the thief, making reference to Satan, who, by the way, operates in stealth.

David Spoon: 00:27:12

A thief operates in stealth.

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All you got to do is think for a second.

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We had the stealth fighter.

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What did the stealth fighter avoid?

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It avoided radar.

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That's why it was a stealth fighter.

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That means it was outside of the radar.

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Well, that's how Satan operates outside of the radar.

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And he comes that he can steal, that he can kill, and that he can destroy.

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He's doing whatever he can to muck it up.

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That's his position.

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That's what he's doing.

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And so as I moved forward in my faith and in my Christian positioning, those challenges came to the forefront.

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And what was critical.

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Listen to what I'm going to say.

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This is just going to.

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I really want you to hear this.

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What was critical for me, what was absolutely essential, was to make the severance, the break the disconnect between my Father and the Heavenly Father in order to understand who God really is.

David Spoon: 00:28:26

So what I'm trying to say is that when you're going through that process, it's not a bizarre or anything.

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You're going through spiritual warfare.

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The enemy is trying to taint the image of God.

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Because if the image of God is tainted, your faith is reduced, your approach is reduced, your expectation is reduced, your whole Christian walk is reduced.

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And that's what he's trying to do.

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And what he was trying to do was merge my dad with our heavenly father.

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And what God wants us to do is use biblical truth to give us our understanding or identity of who God is.

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That's the big difference.

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And what the enemy does is he tries to portray God in all of these different images that are demeaning.

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When it turns out as you read the scripture, you find out God is the perfect parent.

David Spoon: 00:29:28

The perfect parent not even the way that I would think a perfect parent should be because I'm tainted.

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He's the perfect parent that doesn't get driven off the right path by circumstances, by people, by anything else.

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He's the perfect parent always.

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And as you reveal and you get into the word of God, the truth of God's fatherhood and the truth of his parenting become more and more evident.

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And what the enemy tries to do is make every negative connection you have apply to God.

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And what we have to do as Bible believing born again Christians, as disconnect the lies with the biblical truth of the fatherhood of God.

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And if you have had a father that was distant and then you're having a hard time making the connection, you need to see where the scripture talks about how God promises to always be with us.

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Not just in the New Testament, by the way.

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So I'm just telling you right now, we're talking the Old Testament too, that God is with us, that he makes the commitment to us, that he wanted to fellowship with us and be a part of everything we do.

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And that he loves us and that we don't go through one thing in life that he's not fully aware of.

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Hey, guess what?

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In my upbringing, that was not the case with me and my dad, but it is the case with me and my heavenly dad.

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He knows every single nuance, moment, everything.

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He knows when I don't like something.

David Spoon: 00:31:09

He knows when I get frustrated.

David Spoon: 00:31:11

He knows when I get miffed.

David Spoon: 00:31:12

He knows when I want to, you know, scream and yell.

David Spoon: 00:31:14

He knows when I want to laugh.

David Spoon: 00:31:16

He knows when I'm happy.

David Spoon: 00:31:16

He knows when I'm sad.

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He knows everything and he loves me through it.

David Spoon: 00:31:27

Listen to what Jesus.

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This is just blow your mind.

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This is some really important stuff for some of you.

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Listen.

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And Jeanette, I am getting your texts.

David Spoon: 00:31:35

Listen.

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Jesus said in John: 17:26

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Hold on.

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I'm going to, in one verse, destroy every.

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I'm going to just unravel every lie that Satan's told about anybody that you've connected to God.

David Spoon: 00:32:02

Jesus says this.

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I've made them.

David Spoon: 00:32:08

Made known to them your name.

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And I will continue to do that.

David Spoon: 00:32:13

That the love which you have loved me may be in them.

David Spoon: 00:32:19

The same love that God the Father has for Jesus is the same love that God the Father has for you.

David Spoon: 00:32:30

That the love with which you have loved me may be in them.

David Spoon: 00:32:39

What you trying to tell me that God loves me that much?

David Spoon: 00:32:44

Yes, that was all part of the mission.

David Spoon: 00:32:48

That's all the things that got lost in the garden.

David Spoon: 00:32:52

That's what the running away from God's presence did.

David Spoon: 00:32:56

It polluted everything.

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And Jesus says, I want them to know that the love which you have for me might be in them.

David Spoon: 00:33:10

God loves me like he loves Jesus.

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Really.

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But I'm terrible.

David Spoon: 00:33:17

I'm unfaithful.

David Spoon: 00:33:19

I have bad words and bad thoughts and bad this and bad this bad.

David Spoon: 00:33:24

Ah, but the perfect parent is perfect for his kids.

David Spoon: 00:33:31

Listen, this is important for some of you.

David Spoon: 00:33:33

You need to seize this truth.

David Spoon: 00:33:35

You need to hang on to this.

David Spoon: 00:33:37

The devil is the one who's trying to pervert your image of God.

David Spoon: 00:33:44

Don't let him.

David Spoon: 00:33:46

Don't tie it to authority figures, past or whatever.

David Spoon: 00:33:50

Don't tie it to any of that.

David Spoon: 00:33:52

Don't do it.

David Spoon: 00:33:55

Get the image of God from his words, from the life of Jesus, who's the exact representation.

David Spoon: 00:34:06

Get it from the one who says he knows every hair on your head, every number.

David Spoon: 00:34:12

I've got a message for you.

David Spoon: 00:34:13

I'm not even sure sometimes my dad knew the color of my hair, but my heavenly father knows every single number of the hairs on my head.

David Spoon: 00:34:25

That's a dad who loves me.

David Spoon: 00:34:29

That's a dad who will never abandon me.

David Spoon: 00:34:33

He will never cheat on me.

David Spoon: 00:34:35

He will never leave us.

David Spoon: 00:34:37

He will never nothing.

David Spoon: 00:34:39

Oh, he'll discipline.

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Because true love does discipline.

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But he does it for my sake, not for pride's sake.

David Spoon: 00:34:47

You see that difference right there?

David Spoon: 00:34:50

I want you to hear it.

David Spoon: 00:34:51

I want you to know it.

David Spoon: 00:34:54

The devil is trying to steal the truthful image of God.

David Spoon: 00:34:59

You need to use the truth to break the power of the lie and get the right understanding of who your dad is.

David Spoon: 00:35:12

Catching that?

David Spoon: 00:35:14

Are you catching that?

David Spoon: 00:35:16

Wow, that's some serious stuff, isn't it?

David Spoon: 00:35:18

Wow, like, mind blowing, right?

David Spoon: 00:35:21

Yep, yep.

David Spoon: 00:35:22

I told you it'd be a little different.

David Spoon: 00:35:24

All right, take a deep breath.

David Spoon: 00:35:25

I got another whole thing to go.

David Spoon: 00:35:27

On this.

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Real quickly.

David Spoon: 00:35:28

How many chapters does Micah have?

David Spoon: 00:35:30

Is it 3, 5, 7, or 9?

David Spoon: 00:35:32

And the answer is 7.

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It might have been a while since you've read it.

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And if you guessed, that's okay.

David Spoon: 00:35:39

The answer is seven.

David Spoon: 00:35:40

All right, we'll take a break, and then we'll come back.

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You're listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on Kaam 770, the truth station here in Texas.

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Short break.

Another Caller: 00:35:52

Hey, there.

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It's amazing, Jennifer.

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And I am helping out the David Spoon Experience.

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As you may know, I basically run the KAAM radio station.

David Spoon: 00:36:00

Amazing.

Jennifer: 00:36:01

And Dr.

Jennifer: 00:36:02

Dave is looking for a few good people to join and become repertoire representatives, ambassadors and stewards of this here radio ministry.

Jennifer: 00:36:10

Now, you may be thinking, well, I'd love to get involved, but I'm not very qualified for ministerial positions.

Jennifer: 00:36:19

Well, the truth is that because you are a child of our Heavenly Father, that you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and you seek to live by the power of the Holy Spirit, you have all you need to be a part of this ministry.

Jennifer: 00:36:32

But, Jennifer, don't I need to be perfect?

Jennifer: 00:36:37

No, just go to hemustincrease.org.

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that's hemustincreased.org.

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click on the three lines at the top right of the website, and then click on the Ambassador's Initiative link.

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Just fill out the form and we will reach out to you.

Jennifer: 00:36:51

But sorry, no parking tickets will be paid for you as an ambassador through this position.

Jennifer: 00:36:56

You.

Jennifer: 00:36:57

You are on your own with that.

Another Caller: 00:36:59

What is the David Spoon Experience?

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You say, I'll put it to you like this.

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Do you love a good joke?

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That's pretty bad.

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What do you call an animal that doesn't practice what it preaches?

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A hippocrypotamus.

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Come on.

Another Caller: 00:37:16

Do you love being able to ask questions, comments, or having someone to pray for you?

David Spoon: 00:37:20

Do you have an opinion, a comment, a thought, or a question?

David Spoon: 00:37:23

We don't want it to die of loneliness.

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We want it to have a chance.

Another Caller: 00:37:26

And last but not least, do you love some trivia?

David Spoon: 00:37:30

All right, we got our trivia question.

David Spoon: 00:37:32

Who made clothes out of leaves that were sewed together?

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Somebody want to answer the trivia question?

David Spoon: 00:37:36

Okay, hold on, hold on.

David Spoon: 00:37:38

Here I go.

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This is David.

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Who am I talking to?

David Spoon: 00:37:43

We're talking to Mary.

David Spoon: 00:37:44

This is Al.

David Spoon: 00:37:45

This is Brother Ace.

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This is Eric.

David Spoon: 00:37:47

This is Deborah.

Another Caller: 00:37:49

Now, if that doesn't make you curious, maybe you should tune in and check it out.

Another Caller: 00:37:53

For yourself.

David Spoon: 00:37:54

Think of me as the big brother that won't go away.

David Spoon: 00:37:58

That's me.

Another Caller: 00:37:59

Tune in to the David Spoon experience weekdays at 1:30pm on 770 Kaam.

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What is the David Spoon Experience?

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Website hemustincrease.org he mustincrease.org email David at he must increase Facebook.

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There you go.

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So check it out.

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There is.

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I put something new up there and now I can't even remember what it is.

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I don't know.

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They've been getting older.

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I don't know.

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All I know is I worked out today and I was telling t it was terrible.

David Spoon: 00:38:38

You know how you work out and then you come back and you're supposed to feel good or whatever.

David Spoon: 00:38:42

That didn't happen.

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Just so you can know.

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I think the people in the gym were worried that I was gonna keel over.

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It's like, oh, what's wrong with that guy?

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Welcome back to the David Spoon Experience.

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Thank you for joining us here at Kaam 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

David Spoon: 00:39:08

That's Ka Amen.

David Spoon: 00:39:09

770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

David Spoon: 00:39:12

Texas.

David Spoon: 00:39:13

Now.

David Spoon: 00:39:14

On the hills or the heels?

David Spoon: 00:39:17

I said on the hills.

David Spoon: 00:39:18

It was supposed to be on the heels.

David Spoon: 00:39:19

That was just so bad.

David Spoon: 00:39:22

On the heels of that last trivia question, which I'm not going to repeat, neither are you.

David Spoon: 00:39:28

That is that last trivia question.

David Spoon: 00:39:30

There is a key there in what this trivia question is.

David Spoon: 00:39:35

How about that?

David Spoon: 00:39:36

his mother that he had stolen: 1100

David Spoon: 00:39:48

his mother that he had stolen: 1100

David Spoon: 00:40:04

Your reference point, Judges 171 2.

David Spoon: 00:40:09

So there is a reference point.

David Spoon: 00:40:10

Judges 17, 1 2.

David Spoon: 00:40:13

d to his Mother he had stolen: 1100

David Spoon: 00:40:18

Was it David, Micah, Jonah, or Esau?

David Spoon: 00:40:23

And it is on the heels of their very last trivia question.

David Spoon: 00:40:30

So you should be able to pick that up pretty quickly.

David Spoon: 00:40:34

In the meantime, I'm going to send you up to the website.

David Spoon: 00:40:36

Here's the deal.

David Spoon: 00:40:37

If you can give, that's awesome.

David Spoon: 00:40:39

If you can't, that's awesome.

David Spoon: 00:40:42

We trust that you will do your best and we will do our best, and we will all be the best before the Lord.

David Spoon: 00:40:48

That's all we can ask.

David Spoon: 00:40:49

But don't hesitate to check out the website and stuff like that.

David Spoon: 00:40:52

There's a lot of cool stuff on there.

David Spoon: 00:40:54

Go to hemustincrease.org Prayer request hemosincrease.org Praise report.

David Spoon: 00:41:03

He mustincrease.org Looking to give to this ministry.

Guest: 00:41:06

He must increase.org Confused by what's happening right now.

Guest: 00:41:10

He must increase.org he must increase.org.

David Spoon: 00:41:20

They'Re moving in herds.

David Spoon: 00:41:24

They do move in herds.

David Spoon: 00:41:27

Is it true that almost every one of our sound things is a movie?

David Spoon: 00:41:32

It sure seems that way, doesn't it?

Jacob: 00:41:33

Or a funny commercial.

David Spoon: 00:41:35

Yeah, or a funny commercial.

David Spoon: 00:41:36

Or a cartoon.

Jacob: 00:41:37

Yes, yes, cartoon.

David Spoon: 00:41:38

We have some of those cartoons are very important, folks.

David Spoon: 00:41:41

I know you don't think so, but you're wrong.

David Spoon: 00:41:43

They are very important to some of us.

David Spoon: 00:41:46

They're very, very important.

David Spoon: 00:41:47

Not to everybody.

David Spoon: 00:41:48

Okay?

David Spoon: 00:41:49

All right, so your trivia question before we.

David Spoon: 00:41:51

I've already told you.

David Spoon: 00:41:52

d to his mother he had stolen: 1100

David Spoon: 00:42:02

Was it David?

David Spoon: 00:42:03

Was it Micah?

David Spoon: 00:42:04

Was it Jonah?

David Spoon: 00:42:05

Or Esau?

David Spoon: 00:42:07

On the heels of the previous trivia question.

David Spoon: 00:42:10

t you can just look at judges: 1712

David Spoon: 00:42:13

I do want to do this one little bit on history.

David Spoon: 00:42:17

So let's do this.

David Spoon: 00:42:18

Lets go live faith in the past.

David Spoon: 00:42:23

Let's go live faith in the past.

David Spoon: 00:42:28

I can tell I'm in a different kind of mood because everything is like getting to me.

David Spoon: 00:42:32

So I can tell I'm opening up myself emotionally because of all these things that I'm looking at.

David Spoon: 00:42:36

For example, on this day in: 1959

David Spoon: 00:42:41

ey movies that were made from: 1975

David Spoon: 00:42:51

These movies were made before people became a bunch of whining babies.

David Spoon: 00:42:58

You can't tell me that's not funny.

David Spoon: 00:42:59

I don't care what anybody's.

David Spoon: 00:43:00

That's hilarious.

David Spoon: 00:43:01

Right?

David Spoon: 00:43:01

Because all these like, this could offend people.

David Spoon: 00:43:03

Blah, blah, blah.

David Spoon: 00:43:04

And it's like.

Jacob: 00:43:05

And Disney will eventually do a live action remake because they're doing them with all the movies.

Jacob: 00:43:09

All they do is Lion King doing it.

Jacob: 00:43:11

Snow White.

David Spoon: 00:43:12

Yeah.

David Spoon: 00:43:12

And they're, they're ruining everybody.

David Spoon: 00:43:14

But I think that thing for Babylon B was cool.

David Spoon: 00:43:15

Classic.

David Spoon: 00:43:16

This was before we were a bunch of whiny babies.

David Spoon: 00:43:20

All right.

David Spoon: 00:43:20

Anyway, I just think that's hilarious.

David Spoon: 00:43:22

All right.

David Spoon: 00:43:22

The other thing I thought was fascinating, this is, I think, interesting.

David Spoon: 00:43:26

On this day in: 1886

David Spoon: 00:43:32

People did not know that before it Was a crank, wasn't a gas thing.

David Spoon: 00:43:36

All right.

David Spoon: 00:43:36

Other couple things.

David Spoon: 00:43:37

National Corn Chip Day.

David Spoon: 00:43:39

Okay, that's good, right?

David Spoon: 00:43:40

We like that.

David Spoon: 00:43:41

National Puzzle Day.

David Spoon: 00:43:43

On my kitchen table right now is the puzzle that September and Noelle and her dad are working on is a 2,000 piece puzzle.

David Spoon: 00:43:54

And they've got about 300 pieces done.

David Spoon: 00:43:56

So the entire table is unusable.

David Spoon: 00:43:58

They left.

David Spoon: 00:43:59

Right.

David Spoon: 00:43:59

p to Noel to finish the other: 1700

Jacob: 00:44:03

So how long has it been there on the table?

David Spoon: 00:44:05

Well, okay, so they've been gone a while.

David Spoon: 00:44:07

I'm saying maybe sometime in April or May.

David Spoon: 00:44:10

I'll get the table back.

David Spoon: 00:44:12

Maybe.

David Spoon: 00:44:13

All right.

David Spoon: 00:44:14

And then I thought this was hilarious, but you have to understand why it's funny.

David Spoon: 00:44:19

It's Curmudgeon's Day.

David Spoon: 00:44:21

Curmudgeon is a cantankerous, difficult, bad tempered person who's usually an older man.

David Spoon: 00:44:27

This really comes out of a direct connection to WC Fields.

David Spoon: 00:44:30

Okay, so those that don't know WC Fields, I'll give you this one thing and you'll get it.

David Spoon: 00:44:34

Ready?

David Spoon: 00:44:35

Ready.

David Spoon: 00:44:36

Get away from me, kid.

David Spoon: 00:44:37

You bother me.

David Spoon: 00:44:38

Okay, that's great.

David Spoon: 00:44:42

All right.

David Spoon: 00:44:43

Your trivia question, straightforward.

David Spoon: 00:44:45

If you want to answer it, you can call.

David Spoon: 00:44:46

If not, I'm going to go back into it.

David Spoon: 00:44:48

d to his mother he had stolen: 1100

David Spoon: 00:44:55

David, Micah, Jonah, or Esau.

David Spoon: 00:44:58

Judges 17:1 2 is your one opportunity to get in there.

David Spoon: 00:45:03

So let's get back to this element in regards to what I'm talking to.

David Spoon: 00:45:07

And as you can tell, I'm kind of moving all over the place.

David Spoon: 00:45:09

And I'm doing it on purpose to kind of protect myself, but also to try and be vulnerable for all you and make sure that we all kind of get what's going on.

David Spoon: 00:45:17

Basically my upbringing was a very limited father touch.

David Spoon: 00:45:20

So in my introduction to Christianity, I had some difficulty understanding God as a father.

David Spoon: 00:45:26

Our image of God is often tied, if not always tied, to earthly people.

David Spoon: 00:45:30

Fathers, mothers, pastors, authority figures.

David Spoon: 00:45:32

Whatever the case may be, could be siblings that we look up.

David Spoon: 00:45:35

Whatever the case may be, the devil takes advantage of that.

David Spoon: 00:45:39

In John: 10:10

David Spoon: 00:45:44

Jesus has come that he might give life and life more abundant.

David Spoon: 00:45:47

That life more abundant is the restoration of the true image of God, as well as a hundred other things, specifically our positioning with God.

David Spoon: 00:45:57

So he demonstrates that love.

David Spoon: 00:46:00

hen he makes it clear in John: 17:26

David Spoon: 00:46:06

I want that to be in them.

David Spoon: 00:46:08

That's the kind of love that God has for us.

David Spoon: 00:46:11

So we have often heard people say, and I'm going to show you where it is, that, well, if you were the only person that sinned, would Jesus have died for you?

David Spoon: 00:46:21

There's an actual answer to that, and we're going to get to that.

David Spoon: 00:46:24

First, we're going to let the person who give them a chance to.

David Spoon: 00:46:29

If it's staying along the sink, we'll give him a chance to talk because we don't want to veri too far away.

David Spoon: 00:46:35

So I'm going to let Jacob let me know what he thinks one way or another, and then we're going to talk about the reality check.

David Spoon: 00:46:41

There are two tools that you and I need to use to understand that love, and we're going to nail that down.

David Spoon: 00:46:50

I don't want it to be misunderstood.

David Spoon: 00:46:51

So do we have somebody that wants to answer the trivia question?

David Spoon: 00:46:54

Yes.

David Spoon: 00:46:54

Okay.

David Spoon: 00:46:55

They gonna fire right in.

David Spoon: 00:46:56

Let's go ahead and send him on through.

David Spoon: 00:46:59

Knock, knock.

David Spoon: 00:47:00

This is David.

David Spoon: 00:47:00

Who am I talking to?

Shell: 00:47:03

Good afternoon.

Shell: 00:47:04

It's Shell.

David Spoon: 00:47:05

Hey, Shell, how are ya?

Shell: 00:47:07

I'm doing good.

Shell: 00:47:08

Doing real good.

David Spoon: 00:47:09

I'm glad.

David Spoon: 00:47:10

I'm glad to hear that.

David Spoon: 00:47:11

Been praying for you, for your job situation.

David Spoon: 00:47:13

I want everybody to hear that Shell's looking for some opportunities, and we need to be praying for our brother.

David Spoon: 00:47:19

He could be your February buddy.

David Spoon: 00:47:20

I'm just encouraging people.

David Spoon: 00:47:22

Right.

Shell: 00:47:23

My boss actually said that I'm eligible to start applying within, which is a surprise.

Shell: 00:47:29

It's about a month before I thought I was available to do that.

David Spoon: 00:47:33

Wow.

David Spoon: 00:47:34

Wow.

Shell: 00:47:37

I call that a beginning of answer to prayer.

David Spoon: 00:47:41

That's right.

David Spoon: 00:47:41

That's right.

David Spoon: 00:47:42

Step one.

David Spoon: 00:47:42

Right?

David Spoon: 00:47:43

Step one.

David Spoon: 00:47:43

You got to.

David Spoon: 00:47:44

Before you get step two, you got to take step one.

David Spoon: 00:47:46

That's right.

David Spoon: 00:47:47

Well, that's excellent.

David Spoon: 00:47:48

We're going to pray over that when I'm done talking to you, because I just want to pray for that opportunity to be wide open.

David Spoon: 00:47:53

Are you ready for the triv?

Shell: 00:47:55

I guess so.

David Spoon: 00:47:56

Okay.

David Spoon: 00:47:59

Try to sound less encouraged.

David Spoon: 00:48:03

All right.

David Spoon: 00:48:04

ssed to his mom he had stolen: 1100

David Spoon: 00:48:07

Was it David, Micah, Jonah, or Esau?

Shell: 00:48:11

That would be my friend Micah.

David Spoon: 00:48:14

Micah is correctable now.

David Spoon: 00:48:17

You are right, sir.

David Spoon: 00:48:20

He did.

David Spoon: 00:48:21

He confessed because her mom.

David Spoon: 00:48:22

Mom put a curse on whoever stole it.

David Spoon: 00:48:24

It's like, mom, I did.

David Spoon: 00:48:25

She's like, oh, okay, never mind.

Shell: 00:48:28

You can't hold anything back from your mom ever.

David Spoon: 00:48:30

Yeah, you got to Tell her.

David Spoon: 00:48:31

She knows anyway.

David Spoon: 00:48:32

That's pretty funny you should say that.

David Spoon: 00:48:35

All right, so I'm going to pray for you.

David Spoon: 00:48:37

That anything else we can cover you with in prayer?

Shell: 00:48:41

I'll give you a little prayer praise report.

David Spoon: 00:48:43

Sure.

Shell: 00:48:45

My son who moved to Houston, long story.

Shell: 00:48:50

Things are finally clearing up and getting better for him.

Shell: 00:48:54

He struggled his, I guess you want to call it, fiance left him a week after they got there, so he's just on an island by himself.

Shell: 00:49:03

But he's getting better and doing better.

David Spoon: 00:49:05

That's good.

David Spoon: 00:49:06

The recovery is important.

David Spoon: 00:49:08

And so that's another person people can be praying for is Shel's son.

David Spoon: 00:49:12

You can be praying for him as well.

David Spoon: 00:49:14

You don't have to know all the details.

David Spoon: 00:49:15

You just pray them up, mention them before the Lord.

David Spoon: 00:49:17

That the Lord will give him full recovery, full restoration.

David Spoon: 00:49:20

That's a good thing, right?

David Spoon: 00:49:21

Okay, let me pray over you just for your opportunity real fast.

David Spoon: 00:49:25

Father, I come before you, I lift up my brother Sheltay and I ask you, Lord, he's got some opportunities that appear to be presenting themselves.

David Spoon: 00:49:31

I pray that you would give him a spirit of wisdom and what direction to go.

David Spoon: 00:49:35

Give him that peace of mind that Paul's talking about if he's supposed to move that way or no peace of mind if he's not supposed to move that way.

David Spoon: 00:49:42

Just give him that sense, that connection with you, to be in partnership with you, so that the openings can be something that he does in concert with his relationship with you and that you would bless him in that and encourage him in that.

David Spoon: 00:49:57

And he doesn't have to be afraid.

David Spoon: 00:49:58

He's not, but doesn't have to be afraid or over concerned.

David Spoon: 00:50:01

You're going to do it with him and you're going to bless him in it and watch over his son and bring him fully back.

David Spoon: 00:50:06

Lord, we pray that in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

David Spoon: 00:50:10

Amen and Amen.

David Spoon: 00:50:12

Amen, Amen, my brother.

Shell: 00:50:15

I will keep praying for you, my friend, and you have a continued blessed day and blessed show.

David Spoon: 00:50:21

Thank you, my brother.

David Spoon: 00:50:22

God bless you.

Shell: 00:50:24

God bless you.

David Spoon: 00:50:24

Bye bye bye.

David Spoon: 00:50:26

All right, Great call.

David Spoon: 00:50:27

Excellent job by Shel.

David Spoon: 00:50:29

All right, so listen to this passage in Galatians 2:20.

David Spoon: 00:50:32

I love this because when you get into the theology things, these are the kind of itty bitty details that kind of people will miss that good theology brings out.

David Spoon: 00:50:43

Not all theology is good theology.

David Spoon: 00:50:45

Some theology is not that brilliant.

David Spoon: 00:50:46

But Galatians 2:20 says this.

David Spoon: 00:50:48

Paul says, I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live But Christ lives in me, the life I now live in the Body.

David Spoon: 00:50:58

I live by faith in the Son of God.

David Spoon: 00:51:02

Listen, who loved me and gave himself for me.

David Spoon: 00:51:12

And what people miss is they're like, well, you know, he did that for everybody, so on and so forth.

David Spoon: 00:51:17

This is a Galatians 2:20, a superb verse for you to use for the personalization.

David Spoon: 00:51:23

When Paul is writing his theology, he does this a couple of times in his theology.

David Spoon: 00:51:28

And most of you know Philippians 4:19.

David Spoon: 00:51:31

But my God shall supply all your needs.

David Spoon: 00:51:34

You know that because you're thinking, yeah, I need to have my needs supplied.

David Spoon: 00:51:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.

David Spoon: 00:51:37

I really do that.

David Spoon: 00:51:38

And you understand that.

David Spoon: 00:51:39

You don't have any problem with that.

David Spoon: 00:51:40

But here Paul is talking about the me factor in relationship to the crucifixion.

David Spoon: 00:51:48

He says, I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live.

David Spoon: 00:51:52

But Christ lives in me.

David Spoon: 00:51:54

The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

David Spoon: 00:52:05

It's a very personalized application to the crucifixion.

David Spoon: 00:52:12

This is what's great when you get into these studies.

David Spoon: 00:52:14

This is Galatians 2:20.

David Spoon: 00:52:16

So if you were the only person that blew it, would he have died for you?

David Spoon: 00:52:19

Yes.

David Spoon: 00:52:22

And that's exactly what Paul's communicating.

David Spoon: 00:52:24

He loved me and he gave himself for me.

David Spoon: 00:52:29

Yes, he gave himself for others.

David Spoon: 00:52:31

But Paul can recognize it.

David Spoon: 00:52:32

See, it states it clearly.

David Spoon: 00:52:34

He gave himself for me because he loves me.

David Spoon: 00:52:41

See what he says, he loved who loved me and gave himself for me.

David Spoon: 00:52:47

That's just a beautiful, beautiful connection.

David Spoon: 00:52:50

So even if it were an individual love.

David Spoon: 00:52:52

Yes, even if you're the only one.

David Spoon: 00:52:53

But here's the key, and we just got to make it super easy without, you know, let's not get overly complex.

David Spoon: 00:52:58

We already know.

David Spoon: 00:53:00

We already know that God loves us way past what we're thinking, way, way different, way beyond the methods that we've been giving him credit for.

David Spoon: 00:53:11

Because, face it, we don't always have the most brilliant, I don't know what I'm looking for applications.

David Spoon: 00:53:17

That's a nice way to say it.

David Spoon: 00:53:19

And we know that the truth of God, Genesis 11, Revelation 22, 21, the image of God is the place where we get the definitive of who God is and how he loves us.

David Spoon: 00:53:30

And in the life of Jesus Christ, who is the exact representation according to Hebrews Chapter one, verse three.

David Spoon: 00:53:38

And isn't that amazing?

David Spoon: 00:53:40

It's the Father, it's the Son, the Father's revealed through the Word, the Father's revealed through the son and Romans 5:5.

David Spoon: 00:53:48

Hope does not disappoint us because God has poured out his love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit whom He has given us.

David Spoon: 00:54:05

This is yet another place, another point.

David Spoon: 00:54:09

We get the love of God, the knowledge of that love through his written word.

David Spoon: 00:54:13

We get the knowledge of that love through the very life of Jesus Christ.

David Spoon: 00:54:17

And we get the knowledge of that love through the Holy Spirit who lives inside of us.

David Spoon: 00:54:23

That's why grieving, Ephesians 4:30.

David Spoon: 00:54:27

Grieve not the Holy Spirit.

David Spoon: 00:54:29

That's why making sad the Holy Spirit.

David Spoon: 00:54:30

Bad idea.

David Spoon: 00:54:32

That's why quenching, shutting down the flow of the Holy Spirit.

David Spoon: 00:54:36

1 Thessalonians 5:19.

David Spoon: 00:54:37

That's why it's a bad idea.

David Spoon: 00:54:38

Why?

David Spoon: 00:54:39

Because it closes the valve of love that God is pouring into us.

David Spoon: 00:54:45

And what's amazing about this revelation is that that love comes from the Holy Spirit, pouring it out into our hearts from Jesus Christ and the life that he reflects, and from the Father who makes it clear from Genesis 1:1 to.

David Spoon: 00:55:00

To Revelation: 22:21

David Spoon: 00:55:04

So we get the witness in the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

David Spoon: 00:55:08

And that love is a perfect love.

David Spoon: 00:55:14

The place of our twisted love is all because of the sin of mankind.

David Spoon: 00:55:25

And what God does is.

David Spoon: 00:55:26

Makes it clear.

David Spoon: 00:55:28

His love is real.

David Spoon: 00:55:30

His love is pure.

David Spoon: 00:55:34

His love is for each one of us.

David Spoon: 00:55:37

So we need to do this huge thing.

David Spoon: 00:55:40

Ready.

David Spoon: 00:55:40

Get ready.

David Spoon: 00:55:41

We need to believe God's word.

David Spoon: 00:55:44

We need to look at the life of Jesus Christ.

David Spoon: 00:55:48

And we need to stop grieving and quenching the Holy Spirit so that we can operate more in the love that God actually has for us.

David Spoon: 00:55:57

I will make one statement that's not theologically correct, but I still stand by it.

David Spoon: 00:56:02

And that is, if we knew that full love, I think, in this body because of sin, we would explode like a firecracker.

David Spoon: 00:56:12

No, it doesn't say that, but I just get that sense.

David Spoon: 00:56:16

God loves you so much more than you know.

David Spoon: 00:56:20

He loves me so much more than I know.

David Spoon: 00:56:24

And he will never stop loving us.

David Spoon: 00:56:29

That is what's going to be great about eternity.

David Spoon: 00:56:33

Yowza.

David Spoon: 00:56:34

That's right.

David Spoon: 00:56:35

Yowza.

David Spoon: 00:56:36

All right, folks, you've been listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on KWAM 770, the true station here in Texas.

David Spoon: 00:56:42

22 and a half hour break, then we'll come back.

David Spoon: 00:56:44

More insanity with spoonanity.

David Spoon: 00:56:45

Talk to you then.

Narrator: 00:57:01

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