Ron + Hope: Unfiltered - Enemies

Okay, introduce us, baby.

Hello, it's Ron and Hope Unfiltered. Ron's drinking his drink again. This is typical. He always takes a drink of something. You tried to take a drink and it was shut.

Introduce us, baby.

I did. I said it's Ron and Hope Unfiltered. Real Ron. Raw, relevant.

It's the only time we get to come in here and act like this, isn't it?

No, we live like this.

Well, we don't live like this in front of everybody. We live like this at home.

Well, that's real.

But it's fun living like this, ain't it?

Ron? You're making the chair make a weird noise. Be still. Ah. So add wiggly.

It's hard to sit for 30 minutes. I'm usually up walking around.

I let Zayden, our grandson, listen to our podcast.

He wanted to know about it, what our podcast was.

Yeah.

And he's staying with us this week on the west coast.

You are interrupting me.

Go ahead. I'm sorry.

And so he was listening, wanted to listen to it. So I turned on one about us, our dating, us getting engaged. He was cracking up, he was laughing so hard. Then he looked at me and said, why is man man laughing so hard? I said, because man man thinks he's funny. Man man thinks he's funny.

Well, that ain't our topic today. But I do make up funny stories to them.

You do?

Tell what I told Remy. You tell them. I told Remy.

I can't remember which ones.

You floating on a mat in the pool and a Cody attacked you in the swimming pool?

Yes. This is what he told our four year old granddaughter. He said I was floating.

She was captivated.

On a float. He said, rem, Gigi was floating on the pool on a float. And this coyote, he said a coyote jumped in the water and was trying to attack Gigi.

Busting out the door, got him.

But I just bam with my forearm.

She was like choked him in the water.

Yeah. She said, really?

And then I told Aria that I had to shoot a zebra on our front porch. I said, it was. It wouldn't leave our house alone. And she just sits right there and stares at me.

No, she looks at me. Aria looks at me and goes, gigi is man man telling the truth.

What is it they used to say, the boys? When I would make up stories, they would say, is he cheating or something.

They would ask, are you cheating me?

Yes, you're cheating me? Something like that. It was real cute. I've always made up stories like that. Always. Since we were little, our kids would just sit there on the bunk bed, tell me another one. And I'd just start making stuff up. And they thought it was the greatest thing. And I got good lyrics, don't I?

You do. You can make up songs like. But you know what? They're not always good songs, right?

What do you mean by that?

Because you take the Lord's songs, you take like praise and worship, and you turn around and you sing them to me, but you put some bad lyrics in it.

Baby, they're marriage lyrics.

They're not g regular.

They're marriage lyrics. They're between me and you. And they're good and they're spontaneous. And why do you laugh?

Cause they're funny. They're really funny. You got a lot in that brain of yours.

We're going to talk about enemies. Don't leave, because I am. I'm right in the middle of a series on it that I am getting tremendous, tremendous feedback from. And here's the thing. I didn't come in here to re preach it. I want to come in here to talk about it on Sunday. I'm teaching. I got the word of God and I'm teaching what the word of God says concerning enemies. And no different this week.

The fact of the matter is we all have things that come against us.

Yeah. But coming back now, just talking, like, over our lifetime, the major thread that runs through my teaching is this. Basically, your friends. There's three things. Friends comfort you. Your family humbles you.

They sure do.

Family keeps you humble. But here's what people don't understand. Your enemies advance you, they promote you. Enemies always announce new seasons. Enemies always announce new doors. We hate enemies. Now, when I say enemy, any difficulty, any fight, any battle, there's different analogies for them. In the Bible, we talk about the giant you gotta sway. Trouble, the mountain you gotta go. Tribulation, the storm you've gotta go. It doesn't matter the label you tag on it. The fact is that wind that's blowing in your face, that is trying to keep you out of that. Next. And I'm not a next preacher all the time because there's so many people preaching. Next. Nobody's enjoying now, right? And we've learned a lot about being present in the moment you're in. We learned the hard way, but trying to maximize and make the most and enjoy every moment. If it's a word, if it's a look, if it's a touch, if it's just taking a deep breath and taking it all in. Being, being present in the moment and not always having your mind a million miles away. But the fact is, God does let us walk through doors, and God does guard our life. Excuse me, guide our life with seasons. The Bible says everything's perfect in its time, which means it can be very imperfect if it's out of time. And so I just wanted me and you to talk about maybe over our life. You know, the things in our life were literally, when this happened, it promoted us. When this happened, it promoted us. Because that's the overriding theme in the Bible. I haven't even got the scripture. I hate to use it, because it's one of the climactic scriptures I want to end out this series with. But the Bible says, you know, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make thine enemies. Your footstool. Footstool, meaning elevation, elevates your life, meaning the enemy causes you to reach something that without it you couldn't have reached. I tell people all the time, you saw my grandmother, both my grandmothers were tiny, honestly. But Grandma Bessie was just a short little woman who cooked all the time. All she did was cook. She lived to cook. And she had this pantry, and they would can food. And I mean, it went up. That pantry must have been 8, 10 foot tall. And she was a tiny woman. And if she couldn't get me in there to reach something for her, she had this stool. What does a stool do? It helps you reach a level that without it, you could not have reached.

So good.

That is the nature of an enemy. I don't like them. You don't like them.

And truthfully, we try to avoid them.

We try to avoid them. But, Paul, you know my opening scripture. There's a great and effective door open for me, but there are many adversaries. In other words, adversaries announce doors. When your next enemy is announced, your next door is announced. When your next door is announced, your next enemy is.

Yeah.

So all these things go hand in hand and hope kind of early on. Nobody taught us that. And so you get weary in well doing. Galatians 5. Do not grow weary in well doing. For in due season you shall reap if you faint, not if you faint.

Not if you don't give up.

Okay, what causes people to faint? I'll tell you what causes Ron Carpenter to faint. What causes Ron Carpenter to faint is if I'm fighting, and I don't know.

What I'm fighting for, or if the fight just goes on long on and.

On and on and On. Because my understanding of a fight is they were not meant to be long. They were meant to be short and intense. And so I just wanted to talk about some things in our life. This is totally unscripted. I don't even know what analogies I'm going to draw up, but I know I've had many of them. But the fact is, can you think of. Can you think of any time that you would like to share with the people where there was something that came against your life? I know your biggest one. You wrote a book about it.

Yeah.

All of a sudden, something that came to destroy you. Made me better, Gave you the greatest impact and made you the better. Best person that you've ever been.

And not necessarily that what I went through or what I did made me better and gave me. It's my response to it. I think that is so key. Ron, when you have battles, when you have trauma, when you have trouble, when you have trial, they're designed to make you give up. That's the enemy's design.

Now, I want to go off and preach right here, but I'm let you finish.

The design of the enemy is to make you lose your focus. Because we are all. The Bible says, Hebrews 12. We are running a race, and we are supposed to run it with endurance, keeping our eyes on Jesus. That is the goal.

The author and finisher.

The author, finisher of this race, of this faith. But the enemy comes to distract you, to take your eyes off of Jesus so that you stumble.

That's where I'm going this weekend. That's in this week's message, that you.

Stumble in the race. He doesn't want you to finish. So all of these troubles, that's why they come. So it's always our response to the trouble. It's not that the actual affair or the sickness or the bankruptcy or. Those are not the things that make you better. It's that God, Romans 8:28, uses those things for his glory and for our good. It's always about our response. You know, though a righteous man falls seven times, he gets back up.

Righteous man is not a man who never falls.

Yeah.

What makes him righteous is that he keeps getting up.

Yes, you keep.

That's the righteousness part. Yeah. A lot of people think righteousness is you don't fall. Righteousness is you don't stay down.

Yeah. You know, real talk. We had our podcast last week with her and her book is, you gotta get up, you better get back up. And that's the whole goal. It's not that you never have trouble, not that you never have trials, but it's that you get back up, you dust yourself off, and you keep going.

Yep. I've told people I don't know if I can prove this to be true, but it is my experience and experience of a lot of others that I've counseled, I believe life is about 10% trouble and about 90%. How you respond, how you respond, what.

Do you do with it.

Yep. And I tell people most of the time, whenever, real trouble. And I don't mean you burned your toast or your tires flat. That ain't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about gut wrenching, you know, intestinal tract stopping, you know, trouble.

Yeah.

I mean, this thing is defining moment. This thing is designed to take. That's where I was going. That most of the time, when you see trouble like that, that's not just a door and it's not just an enemy. There's enemies in doors, little ones all over the place. Those are defining moments.

It is.

And if you're facing something right now where you know, I'm leaving him tomorrow.

Yeah.

Okay. You're in a defining moment, honey. Choose wisely. You're in a defining moment. Well, mom and dad won't let me see this guy. I'm gonna run off and get married. You're in a defining moment. Okay. These are the kind of things, you know, you've been doing the marijuana, but now they've handed you next level stuff. You're in a defining moment because these are the things that change the trajectory of life. Life is mostly made up of little things you do habitually, but you'll have defining moments that usually can be just one action or one decision that can really set the next five, 10 or longer years of your life. And those are the ones where I tell God, God, don't let me miss it. When we expanded to the west co, you know, I had a family meeting that was a big deal. I don't know if a lot of people know how big a deal that was, but we had been building, building, building. And for the first time in our life, we weren't building right. And we should have been.

Breathing, enjoying.

And then that opportunity comes and to the most unreached area nation. And I had a family meeting about it, and everybody in the family gave me the go ahead. But then I remember going off and just riding around with God. I said, God, I'm about to turn 50 years old. This will determine who my son meets and marries.

Right.

This will determine Destination and where kids go to schools and who they will. I said, God, I'm in a defining moment. I cannot mess this up. And so I just pray for those right now that are in defining moments that, Lord, you would just give them the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of revelation. This is what I hear the Lord saying to give you the inner witness to know what to do. Not necessarily to know what to do because you talk to a lot of smart people, but the inner witness led by your peace. Yes, the inner witness that you will know what to do. I speak that over all of my brothers and sisters in Jesus name, amen. But there's no doubt, you know, people say when there's tragedy, you know, people try to profit off of it. The fact is you would have much rather have kept, you know, some of the things you went through quiet. You didn't really want the whole world to know your junk.

And we toiled over that.

We sure did. It was a long time before that book was written. After, you know, we went through our stuff. But there's no doubt that that journey that I think was that the prophetic word was. It was meant to take me and you both out, right? It wasn't meant to harm us, it was meant to take us out. There's no doubt that you are now having an impact with that book and on those subjects and helping women who have suffered some of the same things you have that you would have never.

Had, never.

Understand, that she would have never had that open door. You would have never had that opportunity had that giant not have been fought in that.

And I wouldn't be spiritually, emotionally the person I am today either. I mean, my pylons go deep. I am a whole another person. You are from going through that tough, terrible situation and traumatic years and hurtful years in my family and my marriage and raising kids and hurting church people. Just God, God redeems. He is a redeemer. He is a redeemer. If we will embrace the process, if we will say, God, I know this came to harm me, but Lord, I submit to your way and your process. Lord, I know you want to take it. I know you want to use it for my good and for your glory. And it's not painless. It's very painful going through process and facing enemies. And, you know, God is such a good father. He is. You know, those of us who have kids, there are times in our child rearing years where we have to spank our kids, where we have to punish our kids, where we have to Keep away things from our kids where we have to inflict pain, consequences on our kids.

Why?

Because we love them. Because we see a better life for them. We have to allow that to happen because we love them. He's the same way. He's our father and he loves us so much that sometimes he has to stand back and say, okay, this has got to hit your life because I know what's best for you.

So what you're saying is you're bringing a new dynamic to it, the battle. Okay, here's a new door, there's a new enemy standing in front of it. And that battle is preparing you for what's behind the door. So it's growing you up to make you ready to possess what's behind the door. And that was Jacob and Israel. You know, Jacob's name was chained to Israel, with which we had the 12 tribes of Israel. But it was really out of the loins of Jacob. But Jacob was a liar and a deceiver and a trickster. And that's what his name meant, was Trick. I remember what, 20 years ago I had a series called, they call me Trick. And I went through the life of Jacob right there and what did God do? Wrestled him. God engaged him in a wrestling match and gave him a long term limp.

Sure did.

Out of that evidence, in other words, gave him something that would never leave his life. Not so good. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it's not so good. So God hit him in the hip with long term evidence. But to bring about the change, because Jacob did not have the character to be the father of the 12 tribes.

Of Israel, he had to get him there.

So he engaged him in this battle and that battle created something in him where he could possess his promise. And so if you got a door and you're sitting there looking at it saying, this next enemy. I don't even know if I even want to try to get this door open because this looks so daunting. God will do something in the battle that will prepare you to possess what's behind the curtains.

And it's not painless. I don't know where we got this theology that when you become a Christian, you're going to tiptoe through the tulips and life's going to be painless and you're never going to have trials and days and nights of crying and weeping and aching in your soul. I don't know where we got that theology. Yes, every good and perfect gift does come from, from the Father of Lights.

He's also a father Sometimes hardship is a gift.

Yes. You know that song, Sometimes blessings come through raindrops, it comes through tears.

Yep. I think times when I stopped getting in the way of my kids pain, that was a gift.

Yeah.

Because the gift, that was the gift that made them grow up. As long as I kept intercepting it, some parent needed to hear that. As long as you keep intercepting the pain designed to bring change. God builds pain into the process of disobedience and God builds blessing into the process of obedience. And if they get the blessing when they obey, but parents intercept the pain of disobedience, then they never feel anything that makes them want to change. So it's difficult to change behavior when there are no consequences to the behavior.

This is so good.

And so another thing that I want to share and this is going to sound so menial, but it wasn't menial at the time. I know most of you that's listening may not be in ministry as employed by ministry, but there's something called the 200 barrier. 90% of all churches, I think that's higher now, never get past 200. I was from a denomination where the average size church at that time, I don't know now had 77 members. So you know, evidently God had greater impact prepared for us. We didn't know how much, but he wanted our platform to be larger than that. But we didn't know. And I know the church you came from too wasn't much more than that. And I remember we came to that place and I realized what the 200 barrier was. The 200 barrier is this. I will have a one on one relationship with my pastor or I will leave and go to church where I can. So that's why in the south in particular, where there's a lot of community, there's so many little churches and they're.

Usually family churches everywhere.

And it's because I have direct access. My dad pastored churches. The parsonage was on the church property. And I remember if people wanted to talk to my daddy, they would come out of church. And we'd been in church for hours and, and just walk into our yard, you know, and just. You didn't care? No, didn't care. And so there were no boundaries there. And we come up at Redemption where you and I had grown it to 200. Well, what has happened is you have maxed out the 200 barrier, is the minister has maxed out his ability to have single relationships.

Yeah. You can only have so many. I don't even know how you do 200.

You got to basically pastor through other people, which means this hope. It means drawing lines of separation.

Yeah.

It means what Jethro told Moses. You can't pastor all these people. Moses find you, find you captains of tens, fifties, hundreds and thousands. Let the smaller matter come to them. Let the bigger ones come to you. Then he had 70 elders that he took, and he said, Moses put his spirit upon them. So it's people now. You get a group of leaders, you impart, and you raise up and you give them responsibility. I knew I can stay, you know, kind of comfortable, make a living, bless the people, have great services right here, or I can really shake. I saw that thing standing in front of that door, like, come on.

Because you knew everybody wasn't going to like it.

Exactly. Right. So I got.

Because that whole group of people, we'd been doing cookouts.

Oh, you go on vacation, you go to mountains, you go to lake.

You knew everybody by name.

Come over in the backyard, we'll grill some hamburgers. That's the way we had gotten to 200. And people don't want to lose that. No, but here's the thing. I've lost more people from growing than anything else.

Right. Right.

I've had more people leave us telling me the church is getting too big.

I'm like, how can we help that?

And the word of God says, it's not my will that any should perish, but all would come to repentance. I don't understand that.

And I got to talk about that a second, about people getting mad because the church is big or dis. Mega churches or big churches. I mean, do you think we pay these people to come? We don't. I mean, they just come. We can't make people come.

Well, it's like they come because they want to come. All year long, four to 800 people a week have been getting saved through what we do. And you still got people that complain and hate on. I don't understand how you hate on that.

Right. People are coming to Jesus. People's lives are changing.

I mean, you know, I just don't understand. Do big churches have their problems? You better believe they do. Are they hard to manage? Unbelievably hard to manage. That's. Oh, I've shaved off all this gray hair.

But it's like they get mad at the pastor because the pastor has a big church. We can't help. We have a big church. People are just coming.

Here's where I'm going. That. So we went and got a group of people we thought were care pastor, eldership material. We taught them everything we knew. I mean, I taught them how to do hospital visits.

Right.

I taught them where to touch, where not to touch, where to sit. We taught them everything that we did. We taught them. I brought them up in front of the church, announced to the church we were going to this model. And I got a standing over, everybody clap. Because what I've always said, every vision is celebrated till it's implemented. You need to type that one in. Every vision is celebrated till it's implemented. Because every person that heard me say, you know, if you go to the hospital now, brother and Sister Smith will be showing up instead of me. You know what everybody out there is hearing, Yay. That will be for everybody.

Except me.

Except me.

Pastor's going to come see you.

But if I call pastor and I'm in the hospital, he's still going to come. And here's what I tell people. If you put your new system in and implement it and then break it and violate it, throw it away, because the system's no good anymore. And so here was my. There's a big door for me to move from hundreds to thousands.

Yeah.

And this door right here, 90%, 9 out of every 10 churches never get.

Past it because they're not willing to change their structure.

And so we implement it. And what happens? They start calling me, they get mad and I say, I can't come, I'm not coming.

This is our structure, this is how we operate.

I can't do your cousins, fathers, and.

It'S not cause we don't love you.

I can't come to your cousins, fathers, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts and do their funion surgery. I can't do it. You know, and then they wonder why you don't have a word on Sunday. You know, because you've been running, you know, 14 hours a day on the road trying to make sure you see everybody. You just can't do it.

But you do have to have pastors in place. If you can't do it. We set up a structure to have pastors in place.

And we have that structure to today we have now hundreds probably care pastors and elders. But here's my thing. We lost people.

Yeah, they didn't like it.

We lost people. And it was painful because it's people we did life with and it was people we had invested in. And here's what they say, here's another part of the pain. They don't understand what you're doing. I am trying to take the biblical Model and allow us to grow and reach more people for Jesus. This is what I heard. And it was so painful. Oh, he thinks he's something now. Listen, listen. I remember when he was humble. Wow. I remember, you know, when we used to go out and eat. But you can't. You can't get near him no more. He's got security. You can't. And I started hearing all those things by people that I really, really cared about. And it's like they really don't understand when I. It's not. It's not about, you know, me thinking I'm something I'm not. It's trying to restructure the church for the next season. This season has finished. Look, another season is opening up. But there's a great adversary. The great adversary. Am I going to make a change? I know 30% of those people are going to hate and they're going to walk out the door. And they did. One of them was the biggest giver that we had in the church and walked right out the door. When I started making some of these changes, he really got more mad that I wouldn't do church on Sunday night.

Right. I remember that.

And he walked out the door. What constant pressure. And I believe it was the test of God. Are you going to obey the voice of God? Are you going to obey the pleasings of me?

Are you going to be distracted? Are you going to keep your eyes on Jesus?

But you know what we found out, and it's happened all the way till today. God subtracts.

Pruning. He prunes.

God subtracts and then he don't add. He subtracts. He multiplies.

Yes, he does.

So you will lose a little bit when you shift for the next season and get a lot. So those of you that are looking at it saying, I can't make this change. They'll walk. Let them walk. Because on the other side of that, there is a whole new harvest. And what I had to realize is God, God, when I get before heaven, is going to ask me, did I steward the ministry? He's not going to ask me, did I keep a friend?

Yeah, it's true.

But in his. I always have to steward the whole. That was my. That's one of the things that I remember standing in front of my next. I knew that was the key from moving us forward. And I said, I'm going to lose a lot of friends. Let me tell you another thing. I'm giving away some of my message stuff. But the footstool thing, I'm Going to break that down and preach it. But here's one. Another one to end on. Most people would say in Jesus's circle, who was his enemy? He had one person sitting there the whole time, Judas, that was going to sell him out.

That's what they would say.

Jesus looked at Judas and said, my friend. Most people thought Peter was his friend because he's going to cut ears off. He's going to do whatever he has to do. And Jesus looked at Peter and called him a devil.

Yeah. But looked at Judas and said, friend.

Judas, Peter said, I will not let you go and be persecuted. I will not let you go to cross. I'll go to prison and I die. And I will die with you. I will not let this happen. And Jesus said, get thee behind me, Satan.

Yeah, okay.

I can't imagine how that made Peter feel, but he spun on him and said that. We would usually say Peter was his best friend because he was so committed to him. And we usually say Judas was his biggest enemy. But Jesus was here to go to the cross and purchase salvation for all mankind. He was the Lamb to take away the sin of the world. So Peter said, I'm going to stop your purpose from happening just because I.

Don'T want you to go through pain.

Judas sold him out and moved purpose forward. Yes, put him into the right hands to take him to the right place, to put him on the right cross so that the price could be paid that let me and you sit here today and be saved.

So pain is for purpose.

Pain is for purpose. And your enemy is your friend, according to Jesus.

Why?

Because they promote you. Jesus could not have gotten to the chief priests, the elders, and handed over to the Roman government had he not been sold out.

Yeah, yeah.

Your enemy's promotion.

But what you do, it's all for purpose. Everything. If you will look at your trouble and say, God, use this to prune me. God, use this to shape me. God, use this as sandpaper to knock off my rough edges. Lord, make me more like you. Make me more like you. You got to see your pain. God don't miss anything and he don't waste anything. I have learned that about Jesus in all these years of serving him. Nothing is wasted in your life when it comes to serving Jesus. He will take all things and work them together. He works them, he weaves them. He plaits them. He is the master weaver of your life. So don't throw your hands up when you feel like all hell is coming against you. I want you to throw your hands up and say, I surrender. Don't throw your hands up and say I give up. Throw your hands up and say, I surrender. God to your way, to your purpose for my life. Even if it's painful.

There comes a time I haven't spoken this on west coast yet. I think I did on the east coast where Moses kept talking to the people and Moses kept talking to God. Pharaoh's chasing him. Here's the Red Sea. Promised land's on the other side. But I got this sea. I really got an enemy in front of me and enemy behind me. So they could hear the hoofbeats coming of the cavalry. And they got a red sea sitting right there in front of them. And he's standing there between the two and they're advancing. And God said, quit talking to me. Stretch out your staff. There comes a time, this almost sounds like when you got to quit talking to people about your problem and you got to even quit praying about your problem and go do something about your problem. In other words, God was looking at Moses saying, do something. You keep coming here and talking to me. Stretch out your staff. And whenever Moses finished talking to the people and it's amazing what he said to the people, be courageous. And he went to God, he said, these people are going to kill us. You know, it's amazing how we talk to God versus how we talk to people. It's not like a preacher. But then God said, quit talking to me. Stretch out your staff.

Do something.

And there is going to be very little winning in your life if at some time or another you don't take action.

Right.

So you do pray and you do make sure you're prepared. Prepared to guide you on, prepared spiritually. But sometime or another you got to move because faith without works is dead. Is dead. Being alone is what the Bible says. So what I have already preached. It's so true. Hope I feel like I got a prophetic word. I'm going to share it. This is not really meant to be ministry, but I just, I feel something prophetic right here. I'm just talking about Israel and Pharaoh. The Bible says God hardened Pharaoh's heart. In other words, that word harden right there means whatever he was going to do, God caused him to do it faster. And some of you that's had a long drawn out battle and it seems like it's getting worse. It could be that God is hardening the heart of your taskmaster so that whatever is going to happen to promote you is going to happen more quickly. That's good happened. Some of you Saying the battle has intensified on my life, Pastor Ron, and I'm already tired to begin with, and it's getting worse and it's draining me. Let me tell you something. God hardened Pharaoh's heart because God was tired of playing around. Let's get this thing over with. It's time for my people to go to promised land. But you're the one that's going to put them there. Because without Pharaoh, we wouldn't know about a Moses or a promised land. Without Goliath, David never would have went to the throne. And the list goes on and on and on. How enemies promote you, enemies promote you. So your advancement is at hand only when you go. Half hour. We done gone over that. Any last statements you want to make on that?

No, it's just so good. It's so encouraging. You know, a lot of people these days don't. They don't want to talk about trouble. They want to just be positive. Positive, positive affirmations. And all of that's true. I say what God says about me too. But you have to come out of the sky sometime and you have to be real. And you have to. You know, I am struggling. I'm struggling with this. I got this trouble. And I think it's so encouraging, you know, for us to come on here and help people through their struggle. That, yes, you're gonna have struggle. We all have struggle. But you gotta get up, you gotta keep walking, you gotta keep saying the right thing, and you gotta keep fighting the good fight of faith.

You know, as I'm sitting here watching and listening to you talk, the only thing I can think about is my favorite color.

Pink.

Yep.

We gotta go. We gotta go.

I like pink lipstick and little jewels on the jacket. I do. I do A little bit right here. Where? A little bit on you.

Right here on my eyes.

Yes.

I love you, Ryan.

I know you do. You'd have to live with me, wouldn't you, guys? You're the best. Please. What all we need them to do to make this algorithm go crazy, we need them to do it.

Well, if you're watching. If you're watching on YouTube, you need.

To share it, but you need to subscribe. What about the platforms? Yeah.

Okay. If you are on Apple and Spotify, you need to download these. You need to down. Go back and download all of them.

That makes sense.

Just take time and go download all of them.

Do this.

It just. It just makes it just snowball.

You know what it is? It's like you're evangelizing.

Yes.

It's like you're evangelizing and somebody who is going through hell hoping I pop up on their screen and is talking about the importance of enemies and all of a sudden they sit there 15, 20 minutes and listen. They got tears running down their cheeks. This makes sense. They accept Christ as their savior or they get the will to keep fighting. That's what you have done. It's an evangelistic tool.

Share it with your friends.

Subscribe it, like it, share it. Do whatever you need to do.

All your friends, put it on your Facebook, put it on your Instagram. Tell everybody to go download Ron and hope unfiltered.

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Really? Anywhere? And it's also myredemption cc. Whether it's church or my personal, it's on there. I would love for you to have it. If you feel like the season that we have defined such a great book.

Everybody needs this book. We love you.

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