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Oh, it's so good. I went

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At least a little bit. A little bit. It's

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It can be a real unnerving

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What do you mean?

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Wasn't it Yogi Berra who said, when you come to

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a Y on the road, take it?

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Yeah. Okay.

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And the question is, what's it? Do I go

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left or right here. Right. And so

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the Yogi Berra moment is oh,

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boy. Lord, what do you have me doing here? And

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I think. There's

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like me. That

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have finally come to the end of themselves,

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really received Jesus Christ as

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Savior and Lord. And in

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my theology, you can't separate those.

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There was a lot of discussion about that years ago.

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Can you be saved and then go live as you like?

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My contention is that's

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bad theology. I think

4:35

the preponderance of Scripture

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yeah, we're we're in trouble

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morally. And what's interesting is

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se, as with a scripture,

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We got a culture watch moment for you coming

7:01

up here. As psychologist Jonathan Hite

7:03

was on a PBS special. I

7:06

was fascinated by what this

7:08

guy had to say. I do not know what

7:11

he claims with regard to the deity

7:13

of Jesus, or whether he's a Christ follower.

7:15

I suspect probably not.

7:18

But he was interviewed

7:20

about gender dysphoria

7:23

and all this transgenderism

7:25

that seems to be gaining

7:27

some steam now. It's still touching

7:29

just a fraction of our culture, but

7:32

it's beginning to decimate Gen

7:34

Z and really

7:36

undermine. What

7:39

many sociologists believe could

7:41

be the undermining of Western civilization.

7:44

Now, the challenge here is

7:47

that we're talking to a culture that's post-Christian.

7:49

And so they don't have a Bible in hand

7:51

and a newspaper in the other. They got a newspaper

7:54

and peer pressure in the other hand, and

7:56

that's all we got. But the power

7:59

of peer pressure and how he illustrated this was

8:01

profound coming up here in a moment.

8:04

Some of you know, people that are struggling

8:06

with their sexuality, you know, people that

8:08

are, uh, maybe standing

8:10

strong in the defense of transgenderism.

8:14

Well, what's really going on here?

8:17

And even from a secular worldview,

8:19

from a secular psychologist's point of

8:21

view, what in the world is going on here? This

8:24

stuff was quite fascinating. We're going to read some

8:26

excerpts, and then we

8:28

are going to feature, even in this half hour,

8:30

a young lady who. She

8:33

has transitioned. And

8:37

the story of her transitioning

8:40

and where it's left her is

8:42

heartbreaking. But

8:45

I think it's time that

8:47

we be at least aware. Number

8:49

one. Number two.

8:51

Then resisting angry evangelicalism

8:54

but championing

8:57

the life that is found in Jesus Christ.

8:59

Because make no mistake about it. These

9:01

kids are looking for something, right, Ali?

9:03

No question.

9:05

I mean, they're looking for something. They're

9:08

looking for something. We're going to break it down for

9:10

you guys. Good

9:12

Monday morning. Live in

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a world with the empty

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You're listening to Carl and crew. Morning.

9:28

All right, I'm going to break this down for you.

9:30

This is a culture watch story that we've

9:32

got here. Jonathan Haidt

9:35

is a psychologist. He was featured

9:37

on a PBS special of.

9:40

The last name of the interviewer

9:42

is Hoover. She's pretty popular. I've

9:44

seen her quite a bit. Anyway, PBS special

9:47

called Firing Line. Right? Yes. Okay.

9:49

Uh. Boy,

9:52

this is an eye opener and a half. And I'm

9:54

going to read you some excerpts of this

9:56

interview, and then we're going to break it down.

9:58

We're going to talk about this. We're going to talk

10:00

about this whole transgender phenomenon

10:03

and what's going on. So

10:06

he was citing some research by Nicholas

10:08

Christakis and James

10:10

Fowler, where they looked at this gigantic

10:13

amount of health data that came out of this

10:15

Framingham Heart Study. And

10:17

it's this data that proved

10:20

a few things. So let me quote here. Just

10:22

pick up the article. If one person

10:24

takes up smoking, their friends are more likely

10:26

to take up smoking. But actually

10:28

so are their friends friends and

10:31

even friends friends friends.

10:34

So data proves

10:36

that behavior is

10:38

contagious. Okay. So

10:41

he goes on. So the things we do

10:44

spread out through social

10:46

network, we affect each other. Now

10:48

it turns out when you're looking at emotions,

10:51

girls and women, when they study

10:53

women, when a woman is depressed,

10:56

that spreads out to her network.

10:58

Now this isn't just his opinion. There's that

11:00

good dad on this. And the

11:03

numbers don't lie. He goes

11:05

on. Whereas when a man is depressed,

11:08

it doesn't. And by

11:10

the way, I was watching this and I chuckled. I thought, yeah,

11:12

that's right. When a dude's depressed,

11:15

I want to tell you ladies about how dudes

11:17

operate. We don't take on the dudes

11:19

depression. We just don't do that.

11:21

That's it's interesting. And the difference in

11:23

wiring.

11:24

Yeah. I mean, it's just the way

11:26

men and women are wired differently. Women

11:29

are way better at feeling

11:31

pain of people, I'll grant

11:33

you that way. Better at it.

11:37

Yeah. That's why we need them

11:39

so bad in our life, gentlemen. A little

11:41

parenthetical thought there, but we go

11:44

on. Quoting again

11:46

from Jonathan Hite, women

11:49

talk about their feelings. They're more

11:51

connected in that way. Girls are connecting

11:53

on social media where it just turns out

11:55

in many communities, and that

11:57

I'm quoting his words. So sometimes

11:59

these aren't these are kind of broken up sentences.

12:02

They're. In many communities,

12:04

the more anxious and depressed you are,

12:06

the more you get support. That's

12:09

true, isn't it?

12:10

Yeah, I think that's you're seeing this

12:12

a lot on social media.

12:15

He goes on, the more extreme your symptoms,

12:18

the more you get likes and followers.

12:21

Well, this is a feed the beast moment

12:24

in this. This can be dangerous. Back to him,

12:27

you know. Of course it's good. It's

12:30

good to destigmatize, destigmatize

12:33

social mental illness. We

12:36

don't want people to be ashamed,

12:38

but boy is

12:40

it a terrible idea to

12:43

valorize it. Now

12:45

what a great word. When I heard this, when

12:47

he spoke it, I thought, man, I got to get that word in my

12:49

vocabulary because we

12:51

are valorize using things.

12:55

That are not things of valor. But

12:58

it's happening. He goes on to

13:00

tell young people, you know what? The

13:03

more you have this, the more popular you'll be

13:05

and the more support you'll get.

13:07

Which is, and I've seen

13:09

this to be true. You know, there's

13:12

a trend on social media where people

13:14

will kind of film themselves

13:16

in an emotional moment, like they're actually

13:19

have a phone up and you'll see

13:21

them crying and kind of processing

13:23

in real time whatever's causing them the pain.

13:25

And it's almost like kind of when you're driving

13:28

by on the expressway to super

13:30

Di talks about game delay, where

13:32

it's like this, uh, this you

13:34

can't quite look away. So there

13:37

and there's a response. People

13:39

kind of show up with words of support

13:41

and and lots of affirmation and lots

13:44

of clicks. And it increases

13:46

the algorithm. You get seen more.

13:49

And so it's this it is sort

13:51

of a valorization of really

13:53

sad things anxiety, depression.

13:56

It's crazy. Jonathan Hite goes on,

13:58

he says, excuse me. And

14:00

so you get this explosion, not just

14:02

of anxiety. Anxiety is in part,

14:04

I think, spreads socio genetically.

14:07

It's called from social causes,

14:10

not from internal causes. But

14:12

we get it for dissociative

14:15

identity disorder. And it

14:17

seems to be the case for gender dysphoria

14:20

as well. Now he goes

14:22

on to explain what's happening with these young girls

14:24

in their tweens. Because

14:26

it happens in clusters of girls. It

14:28

happens in clusters of girl girls

14:30

who had no previous gender dysphoria

14:32

when they were young. So it's very different

14:35

from the kinds of gender dysphoria cases

14:37

that we've known about for decades, which he would call

14:39

the one offs here and there. I

14:41

mean, it is a real thing. But what

14:43

happened, especially when girls got

14:45

what is YouTube is a broken

14:48

up sentence here, YouTube and Instagram.

14:51

And by the way, now TikTok, he says and he says

14:53

especially TikTok girls

14:55

just, you know, girls get sucked into

14:58

these vortexes

15:00

that take on each other's purported

15:03

mental illnesses. Now,

15:06

Jonathan Haidt does not claim

15:08

to be a Christian. I don't know where

15:10

he stands with God. But

15:12

he's looking at this huge set of data

15:14

and he's explaining. Much

15:17

like we had when I was in high school. You

15:19

had to wear clutter, boots, big old hiking

15:21

boots and bell bottoms, or you were not in.

15:24

Whether you like them or not, you had

15:26

to go along for that ride. Well, the stakes

15:28

are just higher now, Ali and.

15:30

You and you see this play out. I

15:32

remember one of my kids coming

15:34

home and mentioning that there were quite a few

15:36

of the girls in the grade

15:38

who were kind of all experimenting with their

15:40

pronouns, and then all of a sudden they were

15:42

cutting their hair and there was a cluster of them.

15:44

They were all friends. They hung out together,

15:47

they sat together at the lunch table, and they were all

15:49

kind of taking on this same sort

15:51

of gender dysphoria at the same

15:53

time, almost as if

15:55

you when you see girls walking down the street and they're all

15:57

wearing the same type of outfit, they're all doing

15:59

the jeans in the same kind of shirt and the same kind of sneakers.

16:02

This group was all doing the the gender

16:04

switch thing, and it was like, how

16:07

can we not even entertain

16:09

the possibility that there is a social

16:11

contagion at work here?

16:13

How can we not even entertain

16:16

the possibility that there's a social

16:18

contagion at work here? Boom.

16:23

Triple boom, Ali. That's

16:25

the point. Well, coming up here in a couple

16:27

of minutes. Her name's Chloe Cole.

16:30

She won't be with us today,

16:33

but I want to get her on here. She's

16:35

19 years old and she has a Wikipedia

16:37

page for all the wrong reasons. Now.

16:41

God's doing a great work in her life.

16:44

And I got to believe God is in the middle of

16:46

this. But

16:48

you've got to hear what happened to this

16:50

girl and why. She is a champion

16:54

of helping

16:56

parents and little girls

16:58

understand that this gender

17:00

dysphoria is. What did you just call

17:02

it.

17:03

A social contagion, a social.

17:05

Contagion, almost more than anything

17:07

else. We'll break down Chloe's story.

17:10

Chloe. Cole. Hang

17:12

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17:24

Psychologist Jonathan Hite

17:26

was on a PBS special.

17:29

He was dealing with gender dysphoria,

17:31

and he was explaining from a data set

17:34

a gigantic health data

17:36

set from the. Framingham

17:40

Heart Study. The

17:42

study from Fowler and Christakis,

17:45

and they have this data,

17:47

humongous set of data that proves

17:49

that girls in particular,

17:52

are more inclined

17:55

to get on board with

17:57

things that are popularized among

18:00

their peers. I guess that's a good way to put

18:02

it. Sadly enough,

18:04

depression, anxiety. And

18:06

you're you set it, Alli. I've seen

18:08

these TikToks, little clips where these girls

18:10

and guys, but predominantly

18:13

women, young girls will get on and

18:15

they'll just real time stream their

18:17

emotions and what it's all about.

18:19

Yeah. And there'll be lots

18:21

of tears and sort of this

18:23

processing of of pain

18:26

and emotion in real time. And

18:28

it's like you're, you're getting a window into

18:30

something that used to be pretty

18:32

private, and now it's kind of being put

18:34

on display and often and even celebrated

18:37

in a way that it reinforces, like, well, let me

18:39

have a moment like that so that I can have

18:41

people say nice things about

18:44

me and click on my videos and,

18:46

and follow me and care about me.

18:48

I mean, this need to have people see

18:50

you has led to mass shootings.

18:53

Oh, yeah.

18:54

I mean this need to be seen.

18:56

This need to be heard is real. Now

18:58

we know who the answer is. His name is

19:00

Jesus. And you might say, well, that's too

19:03

simple. No, it's actually not. If Jesus

19:05

followers could begin to be aware of what's going

19:07

on in our society, and you're

19:09

going to see here in a moment, really get a grip

19:11

on what our kids are seeing because height

19:13

said it, he said. Social media, YouTube,

19:16

Instagram and now TikTok is

19:18

feeding. An

19:20

unhealthy appetite in a big way.

19:23

Now, a great example

19:25

of this is a precious young woman

19:27

named Chloe Cole. I've never met this girl.

19:29

I can't wait to meet her or at least interviewer

19:32

someday. She

19:34

was at an open air debate, and I saw I

19:37

first got introduced to her and

19:39

I was blown away at

19:41

how she stood strong for

19:43

her day transitioning. So her

19:45

backstory is this she

19:48

was diagnosed with gender

19:50

dysphoria at nine years of

19:52

age and treated by Kaiser

19:54

Permanente. Yes, your health care provider.

19:58

In San Francisco Bay area between

20:00

the ages of 13 and 17. Now,

20:02

Chloe says she was a tomboy. I

20:05

know I

20:07

got there tomboy. Tomboys are some of the

20:09

greatest girls out there. They're

20:12

awesome. I played catch with Carol constantly

20:15

up on, uh, the

20:17

out on the street in front of her folks home,

20:19

and she had a mean curveball. She

20:21

could throw that thing. It was awesome. But

20:25

what happened with Chloe is

20:27

that she began to get

20:30

hammered with Instagram.

20:33

And other social media feeds.

20:36

Combined with a sexual

20:39

assault that happened on her life,

20:41

she started entertaining

20:43

the idea. That

20:45

she could be a boy. She

20:48

began transitioning at 12 years

20:50

of age. And

20:54

by the age of 13 she was on puberty.

20:56

Blocker. Lupron. A

20:59

month later, she started testosterone

21:01

injections. Those

21:03

continued on for two years. Guys, we're

21:05

talking 13, 14, 15 years of

21:07

age here. That's what we're talking about. Chloe

21:12

Cole then had a double mastectomy

21:15

at the age of 15.

21:17

Can we get our heads around that for a moment?

21:21

A double mastectomy at

21:23

the age of 15. What's the

21:25

stuff you can't do as a 15 year

21:27

old in this world?

21:28

You can't drive. You can't vote.

21:30

You can't consume alcohol.

21:32

You can't do a lot of stuff you can't make.

21:34

You can't sign forms for yourself,

21:38

for anything, for anything. You have to have

21:40

a parent who signs off on

21:42

field trips. Exactly.

21:47

I think I was in that age bracket that

21:49

getting parents signing off for field trips. I

21:51

remember when that happened at our elementary school

21:53

and it was like new. It was like, what? What

21:56

do you mean? You gotta have parents sign off? I was

21:58

in that age bracket when they first signed and start

22:00

signing off kids for field trips. But no,

22:03

Chloe's going in for double mastectomy.

22:09

I have a lot of thoughts in my mind that can't

22:12

come out of my lips.

22:13

Well, because you think about all the things that

22:15

we limit by age,

22:17

it's because we understand

22:19

that there is a maturity that

22:21

you have to get to before

22:23

you can make important decisions, like

22:26

who to vote for, like who

22:28

to in a lot of places, who you can

22:30

consent. We even

22:32

have laws around consent because we understand

22:34

that children are not in

22:36

the position to make lasting,

22:39

permanent decisions about things,

22:42

so we don't let them.

22:44

Yeah. You know. Science

22:47

proves that a brain isn't fully formed until

22:49

23, 24, 25 years

22:51

old, and Allie and I. Hands

22:53

in the air. We've lived through those years.

22:56

We agree.

22:57

Yes.

22:58

Brains aren't fully formed. So

23:03

Chloe, bless her heart. I

23:05

think at the age of 17,

23:07

18, she's 19 years old now.

23:10

Born in 2004. Boom! Crew.

23:14

She's a kid. She

23:16

decided she had been duped.

23:20

By social media, and

23:22

there was no one that stood in front of the train.

23:28

She's careful to protect her parents. I

23:30

don't know what's going on with that whole scene.

23:34

But she is quick to jump in front of

23:36

the train for other girls and go, hold on here

23:38

a second. They

23:40

offered her reconstructive surgery and she

23:42

declined it. Ali. I don't

23:45

know the backstory behind that, but

23:47

she did ask the doctors, can

23:49

I have babies? They

23:52

said you. Good chance

23:54

you're sterile from all the drugs

23:56

that you've taken. Now.

24:01

We get it? There's

24:04

adults that are going to make choices.

24:07

But for crying out loud, America!

24:11

And Christians. For crying

24:13

out loud, you got France outlawing

24:16

any kind of therapies

24:18

for gender transition for

24:20

kids? I think up to 21. Sweden,

24:22

my homeland, was the first

24:25

country to introduce all these therapies

24:27

and they have now outlawed them. But

24:31

you think we can learn from the other side of the pond?

24:33

No, we're screaming right past them

24:35

now. We got tourism where you can go

24:37

without getting parents

24:39

permission or parents even knowing this

24:41

stuff. Now, in states around the United States

24:44

of America. And I don't even know where we stand right

24:46

here in Illinois on this topic, but I know where

24:48

California does. So

24:51

what are we to do as Christ followers?

24:55

Well, we can't become angry

24:57

evangelicals because no one's ever

24:59

been won over or loved on

25:01

through anger. The anger

25:03

of man does not achieve the righteousness of

25:05

God. Have you ever noticed how that works?

25:07

I have noticed that. That getting

25:09

angry. There's a righteous anger.

25:12

Yeah, but that's not how

25:14

we relate to the unbelieving

25:16

world.

25:17

No, and it's not how we relate to people.

25:19

We're called to love and extend mercy.

25:21

But there comes a point in time when we've got

25:23

to we've got to do something. Now

25:26

here's the first line for

25:28

sure. Notice what

25:30

fed this beast? Instagram

25:33

YouTube TikTok.

25:36

Notice, not Facebook, by the way.

25:38

That's an old people's domain now,

25:41

but it's. It's

25:44

incumbent on parents. The reason

25:47

I'm passionate to bring this before you today

25:49

is parents. Grandparents. We

25:51

gotta. We gotta wise up here.

25:54

We've gotta get control

25:56

of what in the world our kids are getting inundated

25:59

with. They're getting more

26:01

from TikTok. On

26:04

a Monday. Then they get from

26:06

40 Sundays and

26:09

we've got to get our hands around this beast.

26:13

Whether it's number 1 or

26:15

100. Take that step with Jesus

26:17

today. You're listening to Carl

26:19

and Crew mornings.

26:20

We got a bold question for you right

26:22

now. And this is going to apply

26:24

to a small sliver of people. But make

26:26

no mistake about it, we've had call ins on

26:28

Freedom Fridays and at other times where people

26:31

were had sexual identity

26:33

issues, sexual confusion

26:36

with regard to homosexuality,

26:38

and God turned it around. And we're curious

26:40

if we could talk to you on air. We'd love to.

26:43

What turned it around? I

26:45

know it's the grace and power of God.

26:49

But how? How were

26:51

people involved in that? Where

26:53

did people mess it up? How

26:56

did we get it right? Want

26:59

you to call right now. I know

27:01

you're like, shoot, I wasn't planning on this today,

27:03

Carl.

27:04

And we we won't. If you would like to stay

27:06

anonymous, that's totally fine. If you.

27:08

We don't need lots of details.

27:10

Just want to really hear your as much

27:13

of your story as you feel comfortable sharing.

27:14

(312) 274-9624

27:18

okay, I want to give a banner ad for something here.

27:21

As God would have it totally providential.

27:23

Ali interviewed someone for this

27:25

week's snapshot testimony, and I'm

27:27

going to give you a link here in a moment. They're going to go out by

27:30

the droves because this was

27:32

powerful interview you had.

27:33

It really was. I interviewed a young woman

27:35

named Jada. She is a college basketball

27:38

player since March Madness, a very

27:40

fitting. And she recently

27:42

went public with her decision to follow Christ

27:44

and for her generation. That was an Instagram post,

27:47

and that's how I first heard about her story. She

27:49

said that she had made a commitment to

27:51

follow Christ, and then she said, I want

27:53

to share a little bit more about what's going on.

27:55

She talked about some mental health struggles,

27:58

surviving a suicide attempt, and

28:00

now finding peace in Christ.

28:02

And so I reached out to her and set up

28:04

some time for us to talk and recorded

28:07

this podcast, and she shared one thing

28:09

she shared that she hadn't shared online was

28:11

that she had struggled with homosexuality for

28:13

a lot of years, and she started

28:15

to through high school and then college,

28:18

and she started to change kind of her identity

28:20

in order to fit this new image

28:22

of who she thought she needed to be.

28:24

So she fed that identity.

28:25

Absolutely. So she changed her hair

28:28

and she changed kind of how she looked to

28:30

really lean in to this identity

28:32

in her homosexual preferences.

28:35

Now, you asked her a story about her background.

28:38

Did it surprise you a little bit?

28:39

It really did. So just in the course of the conversation,

28:42

I said, hey, you know what? Tell me a little bit about

28:44

your did you have any kind of faith background?

28:46

Did you hear about God at all growing up,

28:49

not knowing at all how she'd answer. And she

28:51

goes, actually, I was a I'm a pastor's

28:53

kid. That one stopped

28:55

me in my tracks a little bit, she goes. I grew

28:57

up my probably heard more sermons than

28:59

I could even count, you know, maybe

29:01

got baptized when I was probably a baby,

29:04

she goes. But none of it really

29:06

meant anything to me. And I kind

29:08

of probed a little bit deeper to find out why

29:10

what what had caused her to kind of reject

29:13

the faith of her parents, even though she'd

29:15

grown up in it. And she said, you know what?

29:18

I really didn't understand? Grace

29:21

never heard about Grace. That

29:24

was the thing that really most

29:26

caused her to let it go in

29:29

one ear and out the other.

29:32

How much of that is a boom

29:34

for what we do here every morning?

29:36

It was it was so enlightening

29:38

to hear such an honest testimony.

29:41

I mean, and she's only she's been a believer

29:43

now since August of last

29:45

year, so she's still new in the faith.

29:48

But because I believe

29:50

that those seeds are planted early,

29:52

even though she doesn't think she

29:55

recalls any of it, her maturity

29:58

is light years beyond

30:00

what you would expect. Someone who had just really

30:02

accepted Christ in August because there were seeds

30:05

that were deposited that I believe are

30:07

not wasted, even though she felt like

30:09

it meant nothing at the time.

30:10

I agree 100%. What

30:14

an amazing story. And I want you to get this, and I

30:16

want you to spread it around. And by the

30:18

way, I do believe that there are people

30:20

that need to hear this story. They

30:22

might be young. Allie says there's nothing too

30:24

graphic that a kid can't handle. The truth is,

30:26

our kids are exposed to stuff like we can't imagine

30:29

they really are.

30:30

And she's very honest about it. And

30:32

she she talks about now understanding

30:34

grace. And when it comes to her sexuality,

30:36

she, she gave her life to Christ,

30:38

understanding that it's going to be God who

30:40

has to change me. So she had

30:42

always thought, because she didn't understand grace,

30:45

I got to try to figure out and fix

30:47

myself. And now she understands.

30:49

No, I'm going to come as I am. And

30:52

she's already seeing God begin to change

30:54

her from the inside out, which she was

30:56

powerless to do before.

30:57

Beautiful text the word snap, get this

30:59

story and spread it far and wide. And I'm asking

31:01

everyone that's got anyone

31:04

in their sphere of influence. Maybe

31:06

you want to be encouraged, but maybe

31:08

you've got someone in your sphere of influence that you

31:10

want to get this hope into

31:12

their life. Text the

31:14

word snap right now to (312) 274-9624

31:19

snap. Snap

31:22

to (312) 274-9624

31:26

and hear Jada's story. Wow, what a cool

31:28

thing, huh?

31:29

Such a wonderful young woman.

31:31

Discipleship to start your day.

31:33

You're listening to Carl and crew

31:35

mornings.

31:37

You know, if someone never shows up, it's possible

31:39

they don't exist. We've

31:41

all had those situations where you hear about

31:43

someone and they never show up.

31:46

Who is this person? It's this phantom

31:48

person. I had a buddy in high school

31:50

that claimed that he went to a roller rink. Got

31:52

into the little snowball skate.

31:56

You remember the snowball skate thing

31:58

where it's like all the boys are on one

32:00

side of the arena, and the girls are on the other side,

32:03

and sometimes it's the girls take off

32:05

and they've got to go find a boy to go skate with.

32:08

Sometimes it's the boys that take off, and

32:10

they got to go find a girl to skate with.

32:12

I don't, I don't know, I mean, I did

32:14

grow up going to Skate Land and we did

32:16

something like that. Yeah, we might have

32:18

called.

32:18

They have the disco ball going around and they

32:20

kind of slowed the music down. It's kind of.

32:23

I wasn't very good on roller skates, but.

32:25

You were more focused on staying upright.

32:28

Let me not fall.

32:29

In that hunk of burning love on

32:31

the other side.

32:31

Rink.

32:34

Well, these guys are diligent about this girl. And we're

32:36

like, you know what, dude? We've

32:39

been hearing about her for months, but

32:41

if she doesn't show up, she doesn't exist.

32:43

Now. She never did show up. I'm

32:47

not calling the guy a liar. She

32:49

lived across town, supposedly. But

32:53

boy, it would be easy to discount Jesus

32:55

Christ if he rose from the dead. Never showed up.

32:58

Very true.

32:59

How would you know it?

33:00

It's like if a tree falls in the forest

33:04

and nobody's there to hear it or doesn't make

33:06

a sound.

33:07

There's a few different hypotheses

33:09

about what happened at the resurrection that try

33:12

to undermine it. Coming up in a minute and a half, I'm going

33:14

to give you those, and we're going to talk about four

33:16

great appearances that Jesus made

33:18

and all four of them combined. By the end

33:20

of the week. You're going to realize this. They

33:23

encapsulate every need

33:25

that you have in your life. And

33:28

God showed up to four

33:30

individuals or groups of people in

33:32

a way that captures, oh my

33:34

goodness, he cares about me and

33:37

you and all of us. Hang

33:39

on.

33:40

Need a wake up call. We can

33:42

help with that. You're listening to Carl

33:44

and crew mornings?

33:46

Yeah. You just text us here, and

33:48

allies volunteer to call everyone. No, we

33:50

don't do Wake-Up calls. That way we.

33:52

Do.

33:52

Not just Allie being zany.

33:54

That's what wakes this up in the morning. Uh,

33:58

yeah. Zany Ali sort of been calling

34:00

you while you've been on R&R. How was your R&R?

34:02

It was.

34:02

Good. It was good.

34:03

Y'all rested?

34:04

Had good spring break.

34:05

You must have, because you look way

34:08

younger. You look spry, healthy,

34:10

happy.

34:11

Oh.

34:11

Thank you. We're about to get you back to ground

34:13

zero again. Here.

34:15

A little extra sleep. We'll do that for you.

34:18

So there's some hypotheses about

34:20

what happened to Jesus when he came up out of the grave.

34:22

The conspiracy hypothesis is

34:25

that the disciples ripped off his

34:27

body, stole it. And

34:30

hit it. The problem

34:33

is, why in the world would they give

34:35

their lives defending a fabrication?

34:38

It's got a big problem attached to it.

34:41

That's the most predominant

34:43

hypothesis out there. There's a couple more

34:45

parent death hypotheses. I'll

34:48

get into that in the wrong tomb hypothesis.

34:50

But the hypotheses

34:53

of conspiracy. Is,

34:56

at face value, goofy when

34:58

you realize 11 out of the 12 disciples.

35:02

Died for Jesus. They

35:05

were killed. They were murdered for being

35:07

Christ followers. Thereby

35:10

confirming what Jesus says in John 13.

35:13

Excuse me, John 14 when he says, the world

35:15

hates me, the world's going to hate you. Hang

35:18

on, buckle up. It's going

35:20

to get rough out there. So

35:23

William Lane Craig is a great scholar, and he

35:25

wrote this about the conspiracy hypothesis.

35:28

He says if your favorite Messiah

35:30

got himself crucified,

35:33

then you either went home or else you got

35:35

yourself a new Messiah. But

35:38

the idea of stealing Jesus's corpse

35:41

and saying that God had raised him from the dead

35:43

is hardly one that would have entered the minds

35:45

of the disciples, especially when they're about

35:47

to die for that lie. It just

35:49

doesn't make any sense. William Lane, Craig's

35:52

smart dude. I love how he broke

35:54

it down. Find yourself another

35:56

messiah. I mean, if

35:58

yours up and dies, what are you going

36:00

to do? I mean, and we've seen this

36:02

over and over again. It's the same guys that say

36:05

we've got the day or the time. Even though

36:07

Scripture is clear that you won't know the day or the hour.

36:10

Oh, we got to pin down. We know when Jesus is coming

36:12

back and he doesn't show up there up on

36:14

the hill burning incense. He doesn't show up.

36:16

They walk down the hill. What do they do? They

36:18

go back and get another date and

36:21

they aim at that one. We

36:23

miscalculated. Yeah.

36:26

So it's crazy. The

36:28

apparent death hypothesis

36:30

is that Jesus

36:32

wasn't dead. He

36:35

was injured severely. And

36:37

then he got up out of that grave. And that

36:39

this. Not

36:42

almost mortally wounded. Man.

36:44

God, man. Rolled

36:48

a one and a half tone stunner stone

36:50

away when he got out of his shroud

36:53

and deep perfumed.

36:57

You know, you got essential oils

36:59

essentially dripping all over this guy,

37:01

and he's enshrouded in cloth. And they

37:03

say he got out of that and rolled the stone

37:05

away. It doesn't make any sense at all. Mainly

37:08

because Romans

37:10

were really good at killing people.

37:13

They didn't leave people half dead. No.

37:17

No. And that that

37:19

stone that was blocking the entrance

37:21

to the tomb was so fortified

37:23

because they wanted to prevent any

37:26

sort of stunt, this.

37:27

Very thing.

37:28

That would make it look like he actually

37:30

did rise from the dead as he

37:32

said he would. And so they took

37:34

great effort to make sure that

37:36

that wasn't even possible. Right.

37:39

And then the wrong tomb hypothesis,

37:41

that's that Joseph of Arimathea

37:43

somehow did not have a standout.

37:46

The grave of Jesus wasn't

37:49

the grave of Jesus. That's the hypothesis.

37:52

Which is. Hard

37:56

to imagine in really hard to talk yourself

37:59

into when you understand that Joseph of

38:01

Arimathea gave up a rich

38:03

man's tomb. For

38:06

a man who was poor in the eyes of the world,

38:09

it would have been a very noted

38:11

tomb. Mary

38:13

of Magdala. I'm going

38:15

to talk about her in a moment. Very rich woman.

38:18

Jesus cast seven demons out of her. She

38:21

was very grateful for the grace and power of Jesus

38:23

Christ. But she knew exactly

38:26

where to go. She wasn't mistaken.

38:28

No, she knew exactly where she

38:30

was going. So coming up here a minute

38:32

and a half, we're going to break down for

38:34

you. Some

38:37

of the appearances that Jesus had.

38:39

There are four appearances that Jesus

38:41

wants to make in your life and you're saying, oh good,

38:43

I get all for you, will. Monday,

38:45

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

38:48

So you got to listen all week.

38:49

Yeah. Listen all week.

38:50

The show cast.

38:52

So God wants to minister

38:55

to you in your

38:57

tears. You know what

38:59

I believe? I believe there's plenty of people

39:01

listening that have cried in the last few days.

39:03

Or maybe this morning. But

39:05

God wants to minister to you there. And we're going

39:07

to explain that right from

39:10

the Gospel of John coming up.

39:13

Going from believers of Jesus

39:15

to followers of Jesus. You're

39:18

listening to Carl and Crew mornings.

39:21

Be on alert, boom! Crew. It

39:23

is April 1st. My

39:26

son from Miami who's

39:29

got a tech company that has just taken off

39:31

gangbusters character. He

39:33

just texted me this morning. Hey,

39:35

dad, if you get a call from Mitch Lawrence,

39:38

that's my legal defense attorney. Got

39:42

arrested last night. Don't worry. Call

39:44

you soon. Come

39:47

on. I want to get my kid on air right now

39:49

and say, you think I'm falling for that?

39:51

Now, if I hadn't just thought April

39:54

1st, you.

39:55

Might have had a little moment of panic.

39:56

A little hiccup, a little moment. Knucklehead

40:00

kid. These adult kids.

40:02

All you adult kids, Ali. All y'all.

40:05

You're all knuckleheads.

40:07

Thank you.

40:08

You're welcome. Okay, let's

40:10

talk about appearances of Jesus. Isn't it great

40:12

that he showed up?

40:13

Yes. Showing. Well,

40:15

when you think about. And this is why it's so important

40:17

when we share the gospel. Jesus.

40:20

Yes. Jesus went to the cross and died

40:22

for our sins. And so often

40:24

we we forget the most

40:26

important part. The resurrection

40:29

is what really makes the story.

40:32

But if you notice that

40:34

that we emphasize that Jesus died for our sins,

40:36

which is really important. Yeah, but if he

40:38

didn't show up.

40:40

We got trouble in River city. Yes.

40:43

I told our church yesterday, if he didn't, if

40:45

he didn't show up, we

40:47

might as well get a bowling league going here.

40:49

Well, because the resurrection is what changes everything.

40:52

Yeah.

40:55

I also told them bowling leagues are horrible, so

40:57

can you imagine doing that?

40:58

Yeah, well, side note.

41:01

I don't know, I like bowling. I

41:04

just don't think I could do it every Sunday. So

41:06

here we find in John 20

41:08

and 21 for appearances.

41:11

This is no I. I'm

41:13

absolutely convinced that

41:15

there is intentionality from God,

41:17

our father, the son and the Holy Spirit to highlight

41:19

these appearances. So

41:22

Mary Magdalene is the first

41:24

person to go to the tomb.

41:27

Now she's appreciative. She's

41:30

from Magdala. She

41:32

was Mary of Magdala.

41:35

And by the way, you might say, wow, that sounds significant.

41:37

It is. She was loaded. She

41:40

was. She was a

41:42

rich woman who probably underwrote

41:44

a lot of the ministry of the early

41:47

disciples, no question about it. But

41:50

she was so grateful to Jesus because

41:52

she had been delivered from not one,

41:54

not two, not three, but seven

41:57

demons by Jesus. So

41:59

she was grateful for all that he had done.

42:02

Imagine what she felt like when he

42:04

went to the grave. There

42:06

was still a lot of confusion in the early disciples

42:08

about what in the world does all this mean? I

42:11

mean, there was clear statements

42:13

from Jesus that he would rise in three days,

42:16

but it's hard to almost believe that

42:18

even. Sure. I mean, come on. What

42:20

do you mean? You're going to rise in three days

42:23

and she goes to the tomb. And the way the story

42:25

goes is that she was

42:27

weeping. Pick

42:30

it up in verse 15. And

42:32

Jesus said to her, woman, why are you weeping?

42:35

Whom are you seeking? Supposing

42:38

him to be the gardener. Which

42:40

is really funny. I get a kick out of this stuff,

42:42

man. Supposing she

42:45

saw she didn't even see a weed whacker

42:47

in his hand. Right. But she's just supposing

42:49

it.

42:50

Must be the gardener.

42:50

Must be the gardener. She said

42:53

to him, sir, if you have carried him

42:55

away, tell me where you have laid him,

42:57

and I will take him away. Jesus

43:00

said to her, Mary.

43:03

Now something happened. He

43:06

must have referred to her. It

43:08

must have been the lilt in his voice, the

43:11

annunciation of

43:13

remembrance of when those demons were

43:15

being cast out something. Because just with

43:17

now, with one word, Mary.

43:19

First off, the gardener wouldn't have known who she

43:21

was. Right. You got to deduce

43:23

that the gardener wouldn't have known Mary

43:26

from Tina. So he says,

43:29

Mary. She

43:31

turned. Don't you know? She snapped

43:33

her head around, look straight at him, and

43:36

said to him in Aramaic. Rabona.

43:40

Which means teacher. There

43:44

is an appearance that Jesus

43:46

made 2000 years ago,

43:49

and he's making to this day.

43:52

Jesus is showing up

43:55

in the tears of people.

44:01

Our God is not unaware. You

44:04

know, one of the things that I shared yesterday with our

44:06

church at 180 Chicago and the burbs

44:09

location was.

44:13

You know, I'm not a big crier.

44:15

Just. I get brokenhearted over

44:17

the grace of God. I'm not broken hearted. I

44:19

get overwhelmed, broken up,

44:21

broken up. There you go. Thank you. Ali,

44:24

it's good to have you back here fixing my sentences.

44:27

I get you got it.

44:30

I get broken up over the grace of God. I do,

44:32

and I cry about that. Uh,

44:35

a week or so ago. A few days ago, I forget what

44:37

it was exactly. I told my wife I was having

44:39

a day that just not not

44:41

nothing was falling down, but

44:43

nothing was going great. And I told her, I said,

44:46

you ever wanted to cry but couldn't.

44:49

She goes, well, I think so.

44:52

I said, I've got one of those moments right now. I want

44:54

to cry, but I can't. Yeah, but

44:57

there was a time when I cried because

44:59

I could and I needed to,

45:01

and Jesus was there for me. And I'm not

45:03

going to break all these details down except

45:06

to tell you this boom crew. Jesus

45:10

met this cocaine

45:13

addled. Whiskey

45:15

drinking. Life

45:18

of the party, but dead inside, young

45:20

man. And one of the most powerful

45:22

ways. It's

45:25

a bummer when you've gotten your

45:27

when you're starting to party so hard

45:29

that you no longer party with people. The

45:31

party needs to start going even

45:33

alone. That's a horrible place

45:36

to be. When you're trying

45:38

to intoxicate your soul with something.

45:42

And you're not letting Jesus do it. And

45:45

I'm driving down the road in Anchorage, Alaska, just

45:47

driving down the road. And. Before

45:51

Jesus said, are you done yet? He saw

45:53

my tears. And

45:56

I was. I

45:59

was not only gainfully employed. I

46:01

was making. Bucks

46:04

2000 week after taxes back

46:06

in 19 early 80s.

46:09

It was a lot of cheddar. Yeah. After

46:11

taxes. Single man. That

46:14

was a lot of cheddar. And

46:17

that was back in that day. I wonder what cost. I wonder

46:19

what that would translate to today. It's got to be

46:21

three grand a month. Oh, at least a week

46:23

after taxes.

46:24

Probably over more than.

46:26

3 or 4, something like that. But

46:28

it was a lot of money back then. Money

46:32

couldn't buy it. Cocaine

46:34

couldn't fill it. Crown

46:36

Royal couldn't fill it. But

46:40

when I cried. Jesus showed

46:42

up. And

46:45

all I want to tell you today is that

46:47

this is Monday. This Monday.

46:50

Raymond. And

46:54

Jesus is showing up all over

46:56

the world today, and you know what he's doing.

47:00

If you've got tears, he

47:02

wants to wipe them up. He wants

47:04

to put a hug around your shoulder right now

47:07

because he cares. He

47:11

met with Mary of Magdala

47:13

in a way that.

47:16

Rocked her world.

47:18

Gave her peace. And

47:22

he can do the same for you. What

47:28

caused his tears today, Ali?

47:29

Oh, I mean, there's tears of

47:31

loss. There's tears of frustration.

47:34

There's tears of. Disappointment.

47:38

There's tears of

47:41

expectations that weren't meant met.

47:43

Tears of regret. Yeah.

47:46

Yeah. They go on and on, don't they?

47:48

On and on. I mean, can

47:50

you really number the reasons why someone

47:52

might shed tears?

47:55

So I don't know where you're at today.

47:57

But if you've got tears. I

48:05

want you to pray for him, ally. Right now. Yeah.

48:09

Lord, thank you that you show up and

48:11

you meet us in our deepest point of need.

48:14

When tears are shed, then

48:16

we are most aware of our brokenness

48:19

and our pain and our need.

48:21

Thank you that you're right there

48:23

and that you call us

48:25

by name, that you know us intimately.

48:28

Just as you called out Mary,

48:31

Lord, your sheep, recognize your voice. Help

48:33

us to recognize your voice today. Lord,

48:35

help us to look to you in our

48:37

pain, Lord. To not

48:39

silence the voice of the Holy

48:41

Spirit. Yeah, but to allow

48:44

you to minister to us

48:46

and those painful, painful

48:48

places. Thank you that you show up.

48:51

Yes. We're so grateful. I

48:53

pray for the person who just needs to

48:55

hear that, just needs to be reminded

48:58

that they would reach out to you knowing

49:00

that you are as close as the mention of your

49:02

name. In Jesus name, Amen.

49:05

Amen.

49:06

So I got a question for you. What's

49:10

making you cry?

49:13

Whoa!

49:14

What's making you cry? I

49:17

can't have you give us a paragraph

49:19

or even a sentence. You

49:22

got to talk to us in soundbites so that we can

49:24

read these crazy things. We love you guys,

49:26

but you just need to know our machine doesn't

49:28

have the capacity to breed a bunch.

49:32

But if you could put down and sometimes

49:34

it's good to be able to encapsulate it, isn't

49:36

it? Yeah. Just kind of.

49:38

Boil it down.

49:39

Boil it down, boil

49:41

it down to what's making you cry.

49:44

What's making you cry? I'm

49:46

not even going to prime the pump. You've

49:49

got him fresh on your heart. Text him to us right

49:51

now. We'll read out a few of those

49:53

and we'll pray over. Because

49:56

the resurrected Jesus

49:58

is meeting folks in

50:00

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50:19

days, this is maybe a

50:21

tough question. But what

50:23

makes you cry? 312274962

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We'll shout him out. Um. Sometimes

50:38

there's. An

50:40

opportunity for us to pray, then we know.

50:42

Whoa, I'm not alone in this thing. Another big

50:44

value in this. But

50:48

we've got a lot of responses pouring in here.

50:50

Oh my goodness, the wickedness of humanity.

50:53

Prodigal kids. A

50:55

daughter, um, unsaved

50:57

adult children. We're going to have a lot of that here

50:59

as I'm thumbing through these. Watching

51:02

my husband's health deteriorate. My

51:05

son's gender confusion. Weeping

51:09

tears. Joy over the mercy of God. Angry

51:14

rejection of Jesus by close

51:16

friend. It makes me cry. My husband's

51:19

addiction to alcohol affects

51:21

the whole family. Makes me cry. This is powerful.

51:24

Can you pick it up from there?

51:25

Yeah. Family discord that's

51:27

broken my heart for 30 years.

51:29

Chronic pain in an adult daughter.

51:32

Uh, an interesting one here. The need to

51:34

kill sin before I take a ministry

51:36

opportunity. Making me cry

51:38

out to God. Consequences of

51:40

past adultery. An

51:43

eating disorder. The death of

51:45

a of a of a boyfriend.

51:47

Our youngest child is an atheist.

51:50

Um, I got choked up. This one says reading

51:53

revelation. This was a good

51:55

a good cry. Uh

51:58

oh. Wow. This one. Uh, I'm an ordained

52:00

elder, and I miss the close relationship

52:02

with Jesus.

52:04

Hmm.

52:06

God through his

52:08

son Jesus. Is

52:11

wanting to show up in your life today.

52:13

In your tears. And

52:16

so, father, we just rally around our friends, don't we?

52:18

Yeah, we just rally around them right now. Now,

52:20

when we say father. Son,

52:23

Holy Spirit, come in, minister to these folks.

52:26

In their tears. What

52:30

makes them cry. Lord.

52:33

You won't leave them alone, will you? So

52:36

I pray, Lord, that every person listening

52:38

to us right now that is made to cry

52:40

over some heartache, heartbreak

52:43

in their life, Lord, that they would take

52:46

it to you. And

52:49

that they, like Mary

52:52

of Magdala, would say.

52:55

Jesus. Teacher.

52:59

That they'd be able to say, Holy

53:02

Spirit, comforter. And

53:05

find real peace in that. I

53:08

thank you that the tomb is empty. Praise

53:11

the name of our God. And

53:14

we just pray, Lord, mop up tears.

53:19

To your glory. In Jesus

53:21

name, Amen. A few

53:23

more. They're coming in now. Lack of unity

53:25

in a church. My

53:27

marriage. People

53:30

who don't know Christ. I'm with you, my

53:32

bride. And I say all the time, how can the world can

53:34

you go through this life not knowing God?

53:36

How in the cat hair

53:38

can you make it? Not

53:41

having family that hurts.

53:45

My daughter living the homosexual lifestyle.

53:48

Wayward loved ones. That's

53:50

tough. Loss of wife and

53:52

two brothers in 20 2122,

53:55

respectively. I'm sorry. And

53:57

the list goes on and on here. Ali.

54:01

A lot of loneliness, depression.

54:04

Crying over. I've seen this a couple times

54:07

that the lack of unity within the body of

54:09

Christ. Wow.

54:12

Empty churches. Alcoholism

54:15

in a child. Missing

54:17

my parents, this one says. Man.

54:22

So we lean in to Jesus

54:25

today.

54:26

Learning to follow Jesus each and

54:28

every day. We're crawling through the

54:30

mornings.

54:31

You know, there's.

54:32

Even more hope than that. Sometimes

54:35

you're thinking, yeah, I just gotta hold on.

54:37

But what if I told you Jesus was here to

54:39

take over you? If

54:42

someone never showed up, there's a good possibility

54:45

they don't exist. But

54:47

boy did Jesus show up. The Gospel

54:49

of John has four appearances

54:52

that Jesus makes into

54:54

your life today. Not just then,

54:56

but now. And these are

54:58

so incredibly relevant. Her

55:00

name is Mary of Magdala. She

55:04

was weeping outside the tomb of Jesus.

55:08

She saw two angels. Sitting

55:11

where the body of Jesus had lain. One

55:13

on the head, one on the feet. They

55:15

said to her, woman, why are you weeping? She

55:17

said to them, they've taken away my lord,

55:19

and I do not know where they have laid him.

55:23

Having said this, she turned around.

55:27

And she saw Jesus standing, but she

55:29

did not know that it was Jesus. Verse

55:32

15 of chapter 20 says, Jesus

55:34

said to her woman. Why

55:37

are you weeping? Whom

55:40

are you seeking? Supposing

55:43

him to be the gardener, which

55:45

is a little bit of levity in the

55:47

middle of all this. The

55:50

gardener just.

55:51

Assumed.

55:53

Did he have a squirt can or roundup

55:55

in his hand? I mean, no, I don't know what's going

55:57

on. She just assumed. She

56:00

said to him, sir, if

56:03

you have carried him away, tell me where

56:05

you have laid him, and I will take him away.

56:08

Then Jesus said to her, Mary.

56:13

Now. She knew the gardener

56:15

didn't know her name. She could have been Tina.

56:18

She's Mary. Jesus

56:21

said to her, Mary, and she turned.

56:23

Don't you know? She whipped her head around.

56:26

She knew that voice. She

56:29

turned and said to him in Aramaic, which

56:32

means teacher. And she would have

56:34

said, Raban I.

56:37

Don't. Can't you hear it?

56:39

You know, and I don't know why, but this makes

56:41

me think of you ever as

56:43

a kid. You ever get separated from your parents

56:45

and like, a.

56:46

Oh, yeah.

56:47

A store or a shopping mall, and,

56:49

like, you want nothing more

56:51

than to hear that voice, that familiar,

56:53

safe voice. Say your name.

56:55

Because that means that you're safe, that you're

56:57

protected, that you're reunited,

56:59

that you're not kind of in that lost, helpless

57:02

state. There's nothing more comforting as a kid

57:04

than to hear your parents

57:06

say your name.

57:08

Yeah. Instant

57:11

story that comes to my mind. I mean, jcpenney's

57:13

with my mom and dad. I'm a little guy,

57:16

and I was curious. That's why

57:18

I like the book Curious George. He was my kind

57:20

of guy.

57:20

Yeah. Why does that not surprise me?

57:23

All right, now, peanut gallery. Hold off for

57:25

a second, so I go, I

57:28

see these buttons way

57:30

down at the bottom of where the escalator

57:33

kind of handrails feed back

57:35

into the system. Oh, and there's

57:37

these buttons down there. And I

57:39

got on my hands and knees and scooted

57:42

way up under there, and I pushed

57:44

a big red button, and

57:46

I shut down all the escalators

57:49

in all three levels. Oh, no.

57:51

Of Penney's department store?

57:55

No. I got up from there and I

57:57

didn't know how to get it turned back on, and

58:00

I freaked and I

58:02

went and I stood about 20ft

58:04

away in the hallmark card section,

58:06

just crying because I didn't

58:09

know what was going to happen to me. A

58:11

manager comes around the corner. Young

58:14

man. Did you shut down the escalators?

58:19

Yes, boy.

58:22

And then here comes mom. And

58:25

here comes dad. And they were both

58:28

embarrassed. And they

58:30

felt for me. And

58:32

they got over their embarrassment. I saw all

58:34

this happen right before my very eyes and

58:36

they said, we'll take care of this. Can you get that thing

58:38

turned back on? He says, I got it. He's

58:40

chuckling at this point, but

58:43

I'm crying. There's

58:45

my mom stand there and there's my dad, and he put his

58:47

big old mitt around me. He

58:49

said, Karl, Karl. Don't

58:52

be hitting those buttons anymore. But you're

58:54

okay. And I'm like,

58:56

oh no, no, dad, the world

58:58

is just ended for me. Isn't

59:01

that weird how that feels?

59:02

Oh, but that the

59:04

hearing your dad. Oh.

59:06

You know. So I just think that part

59:09

of the story is so special. Because

59:11

when he said her name, she knew his voice.

59:14

She knew his.

59:15

Voice, instantly knew who it was.

59:17

And and there was that sigh of relief

59:19

of. I'm safe.

59:22

Yeah. He's here for

59:24

a bony. Phew.

59:28

Now, why is this so important? Because

59:32

one of the appearances Jesus wants to

59:34

make in your life is in your tears.

59:37

So what he wants to do. Do

59:42

you know that real men cry, by the way? They're beefcake.

59:44

Yep. Real men cry. And

59:48

God wants to meet you in your

59:51

tears. Today.

59:55

I mean, we asked you guys what

59:58

makes you cry? There's

1:00:07

so much going on

1:00:09

in the lives of people that listen here to

1:00:11

our morning show list

1:00:13

goes on. My son's addictions, Satan's

1:00:16

hold on my children. My

1:00:18

son is in the Marines. The

1:00:22

demise of our culture and country.

1:00:24

Loneliness. Mental

1:00:29

illness in the family. Can't

1:00:32

even shed tears anymore. This person says

1:00:34

they're numb. And

1:00:36

the list goes on and on and on.

1:00:39

And there's usually about 5 or 6

1:00:41

themes about what makes us cry. And they're just

1:00:43

repeated over and over again. And here's

1:00:45

what I need you to know. Jesus

1:00:48

wants to show up in your tears

1:00:50

today.

1:00:52

Ain't that good news, Allie?

1:00:53

Great news. It's great news.

1:00:57

Would you pray for those? Who

1:01:00

are crying over something today. Ali.

1:01:04

Lord, we thank you that you

1:01:06

have proven track record of

1:01:09

not turning away from us in our worst

1:01:11

moments. But Lord, that you,

1:01:14

your eyes are full of compassion,

1:01:17

that you delight in us.

1:01:19

So, Lord, I pray. That

1:01:22

for the person who's crying even

1:01:24

right now, Lord, that you would meet them,

1:01:26

meet them in their tears, show

1:01:29

up in their tears. Thank

1:01:32

you that you comfort that you are

1:01:34

near to the brokenhearted, and that you save those

1:01:36

who are crushed in spirit. Yea, I pray

1:01:38

that you would do that today across Chicagoland

1:01:40

and beyond. Thank you that

1:01:43

we have this story.

1:01:45

It's not just a story. It's a

1:01:47

recording of what actually happened.

1:01:49

Yes. Thank you that you care

1:01:52

that much about us. That you call

1:01:54

us by name, that you meet us

1:01:56

in our tears, that you extend

1:01:58

a hand. We're so

1:02:00

grateful. So I pray that

1:02:02

over everyone listening today,

1:02:05

in Jesus name, Amen. Amen.

1:02:16

Hey, this is Carl with Carl and crew, and I'm so

1:02:18

grateful that you listen to this show cast.

1:02:20

Thank you mostly for being part of the boom

1:02:22

crew as we help you take your next

1:02:25

step with Jesus. You're a huge encouragement

1:02:27

to us. We'll be here again live every

1:02:29

weekday morning from 5 to 9

1:02:32

a.m.. Godspeed.