Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, definitely for children of
Speaker 1: all ages. Welcome to another edition of Let's Get Biblical
Speaker 1: with your host, a man formerly in the entertainment realm
Speaker 1: of over twenty years as a stand up comedian and actor,
Speaker 1: now Turney vangelist for Christ.
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Speaker 2: We are in the middle of our thirty days spiritual
Speaker 2: boot camp here in December. It's a great way to
Speaker 2: get you guys going, especially with all the holidays around us.
Speaker 2: The Hubbub and we want to start our days out
Speaker 2: with just something good and positive. Well, it's based off
Speaker 2: the book by the Grahams, William Franklin and of course
Speaker 2: the legendary Billy Graham, and they give you a little
Speaker 2: bit of a warm up, which is a verse we'll
Speaker 2: go over, and we'll go over the workout, and then
Speaker 2: we'll close with some prayer, which is you know, of course,
Speaker 2: our cool down. So hopefully you guys are enjoying the show.
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Speaker 2: the warm up. We're going to be in Matthew chapter
Speaker 2: seven and verse twenty four today and again if you're
Speaker 2: a believer, believer, maybe an atheist, maybe someone with those
Speaker 2: long white haired wisdom hairs on your face and other
Speaker 2: parts of your body, yeah, we're not going to go there.
Speaker 2: But maybe you're in that walk in your life. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. We have a phrase around here for everybody.
Speaker 2: That phrase is I dare you, I dare you to
Speaker 2: stick around. I dare you to grow your faith. I agree,
Speaker 2: you start your faith right here with the power of testimony, transparency,
Speaker 2: and of course in hopes of transformation. Let's go, guys,
Speaker 2: Matthew chapter seven and verse twenty four this morning, and
Speaker 2: we're in our warm up. And it states everyone then
Speaker 2: who hears these words of mine and does them, will
Speaker 2: be like a wise man who built his house on
Speaker 2: the rock. You ever built a house, You ever seen
Speaker 2: anybody built houses? You got to have a firm foundation, right,
Speaker 2: And that's the first thing we always hear when we're
Speaker 2: walking in faith. We need a firm foundation. We need concrete,
Speaker 2: we need rebar. And I'm not a big construction guy. Okay,
Speaker 2: I was a pretty good lego builder back in the day.
Speaker 2: But other than that, you know, I can't build a
Speaker 2: house without maybe chat GPT or a construct construction workers
Speaker 2: help out there, or an architect. See. I can't even
Speaker 2: get the right words of the people building your houses, right,
Speaker 2: So I better contact someone before I try to build
Speaker 2: my own, right. But we've got to have a firm foundation,
Speaker 2: And that's what Matthew is saying here in chapter seven
Speaker 2: and verse twenty four. We got to build our foundations
Speaker 2: on the rock, because when you build it on sand,
Speaker 2: or if you build it anywhere else, just like in
Speaker 2: the Bible, it's gonna just kind of fall through. It's
Speaker 2: not going to last. Well, what does William Graham have
Speaker 2: to say today in our workout of our thirty day
Speaker 2: spiritual Workout of Matthew Chapter seven, verse twenty four. Well
Speaker 2: he has a nice little story for us today, and
Speaker 2: he says, I have a colleague who recently built a
Speaker 2: deck on his house. He diligently figured out his budget,
Speaker 2: planned his design, ordered the lumber, and waited for the
Speaker 2: day when the truck would pull up with all these materials.
Speaker 2: He enlisted the help of friends and family to start
Speaker 2: digging posts and holes, mix concrete, and build the frame.
Speaker 2: Everything went according to his plan until his friends had
Speaker 2: gone and he was left alone to secure the deck planks. Well,
Speaker 2: only then did he look a little more closely at
Speaker 2: the lumber, and he realized that all the wood was wet, twisted,
Speaker 2: and warped. Boards about sixteen feet long would be bent
Speaker 2: several inches in the middle. His deck was going to
Speaker 2: be a chaotic mess. And some of you builders out
Speaker 2: there already going, oh, my goodness, he's got all these
Speaker 2: planks and they're twisted and nasty. How's he going to finish?
Speaker 2: I don't know how I would do it, But William
Speaker 2: goes on saying that a funny thing happened though. As
Speaker 2: he began to screw the boards into place, he realized
Speaker 2: that there was a lot of flexibility. Over the course
Speaker 2: of the sixteen feet He could push the pieces into place.
Speaker 2: He could screw them in tight. Even if the board
Speaker 2: naturally wanted to bow outward, he could force it inward
Speaker 2: and secure it, and once it was secure, it would
Speaker 2: naturally conform for the rest of the deck. As you
Speaker 2: can see here, you and I are very much like
Speaker 2: these boards, according to William Franklin or William Graham, Franklin's brother. First,
Speaker 2: when we are not anchored, we are twisting and turning
Speaker 2: with no clear direction. We're like the crowd in Matthew nine,
Speaker 2: verse thirty six. But when Jesus saw the multitudes, he
Speaker 2: was moved with compassion for them, because they were very
Speaker 2: weary and scattered. Like sheep having no shepherd. We're hopeless
Speaker 2: and helpless, apt to follow whatever path feels right at
Speaker 2: the moment, and it can leave us literally figuratively broken.
Speaker 2: See have you ever gone your path? We talked about
Speaker 2: this on the Live a little bit earlier on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Have you ever tried to go your own way? Your
Speaker 2: own path? What happens? Sometimes you don't always get to
Speaker 2: that finish line right, and you get so close and
Speaker 2: then the Lord's like, no, I don't want you doing that.
Speaker 2: Go take a left, take a right. Look up, you're
Speaker 2: going that way. And you're like, but I'm right. And
Speaker 2: we tend to fight, so we tend to get a
Speaker 2: little twisted, Like those boards talked about in this story
Speaker 2: were twisted and mangled. That's our soul inside, battling when
Speaker 2: we shouldn't really be battling. When we allow Jesus to
Speaker 2: conform our paths and make our paths straight, that's when
Speaker 2: the world opens up for us. Now it's not all
Speaker 2: rainbow Sunshine's kittens, marshmallow shooting out your dairy air. It's not.
Speaker 2: When you become a christ follower, it's not. It's a
Speaker 2: little harder. So you're like, Katie, then why should I follow?
Speaker 2: Then why should I do it? Anything worth working for
Speaker 2: is worth having? Think about it. You have a job, right,
Speaker 2: you get paid very well, maybe you don't get buried
Speaker 2: very well, and maybe you need to find a different path.
Speaker 2: Maybe have a relationship you've been sewing into for a
Speaker 2: very long time. You've worked hard at that relationship. You
Speaker 2: worked hard at that job, You worked hard at that
Speaker 2: six pack you got underneath your shirt, you worked hard
Speaker 2: at eating at Denny's. I'm kidding. It's a joke. It's
Speaker 2: a joke. It's a joke. But whatever it is, you're
Speaker 2: working hard toward to accomplish a goal. It's worth going after.
Speaker 2: So why wouldn't you do the same with the Lord?
Speaker 2: He is your ultimate tag team partner. He is going
Speaker 2: to tag you in. He's going to do all that
Speaker 2: you do and continue to go. That's what he does. No, Gomez,
Speaker 2: I actually work from home and I run a business,
Speaker 2: so and we actually it's funny. We're commenting right now
Speaker 2: on TikTok Live right now as well. Gomez. No, I
Speaker 2: am fortunate that the Lord has blessed me as a
Speaker 2: stand up comedian to start a business with my wife
Speaker 2: and I and we can homeschool our children. We can
Speaker 2: also bring the gospel to everybody and everywhere. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm very thankful for, especially in this week of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: But let's move on here in our workout, you know.
Speaker 2: William Graham goes on to saying, second, we need to
Speaker 2: be aware where our hearts are anchored and how that
Speaker 2: affects us spiritually. Romans twelve two says, do not be
Speaker 2: conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing
Speaker 2: of your mind, that you may prove what is good
Speaker 2: and acceptable and perfect for God. I love this because
Speaker 2: I try to think about this every day. I try
Speaker 2: not to conform to the ways of this world. Sometimes
Speaker 2: when I'm on TikTok Live, we have people that come
Speaker 2: into our live and have crafts comments, and I will
Speaker 2: not conform to those comments. I'll just pray for those
Speaker 2: who just do not know you, Lord. I pray for
Speaker 2: prepare your protection. I pray for your love. I pray
Speaker 2: for your empathy to guide us and cloak us like
Speaker 2: a good father would do. Not conform to the ways
Speaker 2: of this world. This world is crazy right now. It
Speaker 2: wants you to be divided. The reason why it wants
Speaker 2: you to divide because that is the opposition. He loves
Speaker 2: his vision and deception. But the Lord wants to make
Speaker 2: your crooked paths straight, or we could even go back
Speaker 2: to how we started this program with Matthew chapter seven,
Speaker 2: verse twenty four. Everyone, then, who hears these words of
Speaker 2: mine and does them, will be like a wise man
Speaker 2: who built his house on the rock. So if you're
Speaker 2: conforming to the ways of the world, are you going
Speaker 2: on and building your house on rock? No, you're building
Speaker 2: according to the world. And guess what it will falter.
Speaker 2: He goes on saying, if we claim to be followers
Speaker 2: of Jesus but are anchored to the things of this world,
Speaker 2: just like I said, we will ultimately conform to the
Speaker 2: sin which is so easily that it ensnares us, which
Speaker 2: is in Hebrews chapter twelve, verse one. But if we
Speaker 2: are anchored to the word of God, secure in his
Speaker 2: presence and in prayer, we will be transformed and renewed,
Speaker 2: conformed into him his image. Now I know what some
Speaker 2: of you guys out there are saying, Well, what is
Speaker 2: God's image? Love, kindness, empathy, power, respect, This is God's image.
Speaker 2: We get so caught up in oh, well, did Jesus
Speaker 2: look this way and Jesus looked that way? It doesn't
Speaker 2: matter because in the Bible it says he is light
Speaker 2: and guess what, when we're up there in heaven, we
Speaker 2: are light as well. We are just cloaked in this
Speaker 2: meat carcass we call human form. But we go on
Speaker 2: to close here and he says, today, examine your own
Speaker 2: priorities and make sure that your heart is anchored in
Speaker 2: the one who saves. As we conclude day three of
Speaker 2: our workout here on, let's get biblical of the thirty
Speaker 2: day spiritual Biblical workout or boot camp I like to
Speaker 2: call it. Let's close in a cool down in prayer.
Speaker 2: That prayer is, Dear God, we come to you in
Speaker 2: the precious name of Jesus Lord, help me anchor my
Speaker 2: heart and my mind in your world. Align my promises
Speaker 2: with your promises daily and with what you want with me.
Speaker 2: I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen. So as
Speaker 2: we got through day three here of our spiritual workout,
Speaker 2: we're going to try to bring you all thirty days,
Speaker 2: and we are up to day three here in the
Speaker 2: month of December. They're just little devotionals to get you
Speaker 2: going on with your day. If you'd like to be
Speaker 2: ahead like everybody else in the class, you can join
Speaker 2: us on TikTok At podcaster KD. And you know the
Speaker 2: great thing about this workout this morning was it had
Speaker 2: a mixture of everything. We've got to build our foundation
Speaker 2: on the Rock, which is Jesus, not the actual Dwayne
Speaker 2: the Rock Johnson, because we don't want to smell what
Speaker 2: he's cooking anymore. We just want to want to smell
Speaker 2: what Jesus is given right. And also it goes on
Speaker 2: to not being conforming of the ways of the world,
Speaker 2: and over the next couple of days that may come
Speaker 2: up several times because that is the major foundation, is
Speaker 2: to not be conformed of the ways of this world.
Speaker 2: And as we get ready to conclude this show, guys,
Speaker 2: I want to say thank you for listening on our
Speaker 2: podcast affiliates, whether it's Speaker, Spotify, Apple, iTunes, and more.
Speaker 2: It has been awesome here in twenty twenty five to
Speaker 2: see the response for this podcast. We're just starting things
Speaker 2: out with our podcast on TikTok, so we're starting to
Speaker 2: learn that new stream as well. But the main goal
Speaker 2: is to keep you grounded in Christ. And these episodes
Speaker 2: are not just for you, They're for me because when
Speaker 2: I read these devotionals, it opens up my heart to God.
Speaker 2: I know I needed to hear this this morning. Hopefully
Speaker 2: you guys needed to hear this wherever you may be
Speaker 2: listening to. But maybe you're a non believer right now
Speaker 2: and you're sitting there wondering what this is all about,
Speaker 2: and you're like, Katie, I don't I just don't know.
Speaker 2: You know, I enjoy your program. I enjoy listening. I
Speaker 2: enjoy some of the funny things you say. I enjoy
Speaker 2: some of the wisdom that you're giving. That's not my wisdom,
Speaker 2: that's the Lord's wisdom. That's from the good old bibl
Speaker 2: E the Basic Constructions before Leaving Earth Manual. And you
Speaker 2: may be sitting there like those boards we talked about
Speaker 2: in our workout today, kind of twisted and conformed, and
Speaker 2: you're starting to feel some tightening in areas that are
Speaker 2: straightening out in your life, and now you want that
Speaker 2: full board to be straight This is your opportunity. Jesus
Speaker 2: is calling for you right now and literally knocking on
Speaker 2: the door. That's not Jesus, that was me, by the way,
Speaker 2: but you get the idea. But this is your opportunity
Speaker 2: right now. I'll ask for you. It's just to close
Speaker 2: your eyes. You may have never prayed before and it's
Speaker 2: starting to feel weird inside. Right now, You're starting to
Speaker 2: get this tingling like I don't know about this man.
Speaker 2: This is some mumbo jumbo, right well, this is not
Speaker 2: some Hogwarts Lord of the Ring stuff. This is just
Speaker 2: the ultimate Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ, calling out to
Speaker 2: all of us right now in prayer. Open up your hands,
Speaker 2: close your eyes, bow your heads, and repeat after me,
Speaker 2: Dear God, I'm a sinner. I sin daily, and I
Speaker 2: fall short of the glory of God. I stumble. But
Speaker 2: for some reason I do not fall. I know that
Speaker 2: reason is you. I believe that you were born, that
Speaker 2: you died, and you were raised on the third day.
Speaker 2: You were raised on the third day for your victory
Speaker 2: and mine. Dear God, wash away my sins. Cleanse me
Speaker 2: of all that I've been doing, Make me new again,
Speaker 2: Make me become a follower of Jesus. Jesus become my
Speaker 2: personal Lord and savior today, save me, cleanse me. We
Speaker 2: love you, and I will follow you to the ends
Speaker 2: of my days. Your name in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Speaker 2: If you repeated that, Welcome to the Kingdom. You are
Speaker 2: now part of a very exclusive club. You are a VIP.
Speaker 2: Where do we go from there. Well, how about open
Speaker 2: up the Bible. I don't know how to read it, Katie. Well,
Speaker 2: guess what. Starting in January, we're going to have a
Speaker 2: boot camp on reading the Bible. But if you want
Speaker 2: to jump start, go ahead and start in the Book
Speaker 2: of Proverbs. Today is a certain day, say it's the
Speaker 2: third or the fourth. You start in that chapter of Proverbs,
Speaker 2: and then you follow it each day after that there's
Speaker 2: thirty one Proverbs almost to align with thirty one almost
Speaker 2: days and every month, and you continue to do it
Speaker 2: over and over again. When you continue to pray and read,
Speaker 2: He'll lead you in the direction you need to go. Next.
Speaker 2: I would say, start in the book of the New Testament.
Speaker 2: You want to know who Jesus is, so why not
Speaker 2: learn from his disciples. That's the best way to do it.
Speaker 2: When you get up the Revelation, though, if you want
Speaker 2: a tiptoe through those tulips, ahead, But I'm going to
Speaker 2: tell you right now it might scare the but Jesus
Speaker 2: out of you for a little bit, and maybe that's
Speaker 2: a good thing. But in the meantime, go to Proverbs
Speaker 2: and then start in the New Testament. Continue to support
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Speaker 2: guys again. That concludes another day of spiritual boot Camp,
Speaker 2: Day three. Get ready for day four because we will
Speaker 2: be in that Book of Revelation until next time. Guys,
Speaker 2: God bless y'all, and welcome to the Kingdom. Take care.