Inspiration Station: "A Mature Me"

Mature individuals make thoughtful decisions that not only enhance their lives but also uplift their communities. Join us as we share personal reflections and insights on the transformative journey toward maturity and purpose. Through exploring the duality of the good kingdom of God and the evil kingdom marked by darkness and competition, we reveal how spiritual growth and understanding one’s purpose can prevent the misuse of authority and privilege. Drawing from biblical reflections, we discuss the profound impact of relationships intended by God, highlighting the significance of moving beyond basic teachings for spiritual maturity.

Dive into the heart of personal and societal growth as we emphasize the active application of God's word to achieve true maturity. A mature outlook enriches not only individual lives but also the broader community, steering us away from the chaos caused by immaturity. Through introspective discussions, we explore how finger-pointing can hinder development, stressing the importance of self-awareness and alignment with religious values. By examining passages from James, Corinthians, Hebrews, and Luke, we shed light on the essence of controlling one’s tongue, understanding right from wrong, and living a life of purpose free from worldly distractions.

As we wrap up this enlightening episode, we turn our attention to lighter fare with our Sports Talk and Weekly Updates segment. Gratitude fills the air as we thank you for tuning in and invite sports enthusiasts to catch Thursday night football. Engaging conversations on sports, life, and family await, with music to enjoy and inspiration to carry you through the day. Let us journey together toward maturity, growth, and transformation, guided by the teachings of God.

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Chapters

• 0:09 Embracing Maturity and Purpose
• 13:42 Understanding the Kingdom and Maturity
• 26:43 Cultivating Maturity Through God's Word
• 33:45 Sports Talk and Weekly Updates

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:09

Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life. Wherever you are and however you're listening to, the Call Me, mr U, the podcast and the Inspiration Station. We thank you so much for your support. Thank you for listening and tuning in to us. We're so excited. I'm personally super excited about this. I've been working on some projects to kind of grow our brand a little bit and kind of branch out to some new territory. So this is a little bit of a new thing for us. We always had the teachings and the inspirational messages going forth. It's not really a new thing, but there is a new aspect to this. So I'm excited about all of this. Glad you guys are here with us. If you're listening to us for the first time and you are audio listener, you can find us on Apple Podcasts there and you can subscribe to our show and listen to us. We do the laundry, jogging, working out. I've heard all kinds of stories. But thank you for tuning in there Apple Podcasts where you can follow and subscribe to our show. If you're just listening period, you already subscribed already and you want to listen on the platform of your choice Amazon Music, spotify, iheartradio, pando I use all of those and they're fantastic platforms. You can hear our podcast wherever you enjoy your podcast no limits, we're everywhere. As far as the video aspect of things, our YouTube channel, youtubecom, at theycallmemisteryou. You can find us there. Please continue to keep watching and listening to us. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel. They help us out. They really help us out going forward and building our platform and creating some momentum for the brand that we're trying to build here. So hit the subscribe button on the YouTube channel. That'd be awesome as well.

Speaker 1: 2:12

I want to talk to you guys about a topic that is near and dear to my heart, not because I've mastered it, not because it's something I think is a cool thing to talk about or teach. It's because I struggle with it, like you guys do as well, and I feel like everything that we talked about over the past four plus seasons of this podcast is an attempt by me to try to make this personable, these topics that are tough to deal with. Make it more personable, make it something that you can relate to, something. Maybe you can learn from my experiences, from my bad habits, what I've done wrong, maybe to help you get better in your life, because, at the end of the day. We call ourselves the all-purpose pod for an all-purpose life for a reason Because we want us to be the best possible people that we can be in this world, in society, in our neighborhoods, in our communities, even in our families. I want to be the best that I can be for my people. I want you to do the same thing for yours as well. So everything that we learned here is to help us both grow. So, not preaching at you, not talking at you. I'm learning this, I'm growing this. Maybe you can help me and we can help each other.

Speaker 1: 3:15

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Speaker 1: 3:41

The topic today is about maturity. Now, that is something that I think makes some folks cringe, because they've heard it maybe in a negative space and it's something that kind of brings some bad thoughts to mind. But I want to try to kill some of the myths around that Mature people make mature decisions. Mature people embrace growth. Mature people actually make the environment and the atmosphere that they're in better than it was before they got there. That's what mature people do and if you look around you whether it be social media, whatever area you want to look into I'm sure you're going to see it the same way. I can see it with my own eyes. You're going to see people who are immature and look at the damage that they cause. Look at the destruction they leave in their wake because they're not mature. They say whatever's on their mind, they do whatever they feel, they respond hastily without thinking things through, and you see the damage it does to relationships, the damage it does to connections and family dynamics. You see the damage it causes in the political realm. You see the damage it causes in every aspect of life, how people get hurt because people who haven't grown in a personal, professional, emotional, spiritual, psychological in any way excuse me they create damaging situations, they create chaos because they're not mature.

Speaker 1: 5:19

If you don't think maturity is important in your life, you look around you and ask me that again. Tell me that you don't see that it's that important. And for me, a mature me is the best possible outcome for myself. I aspire to that. I don't have it down pat, I'm not even saying that at all. You know what I'm saying. But I really believe that if you don't get mature, if you don't embrace maturity in every aspect of your life and grow into that, you find yourself being immature and that means unproductive, that means ineffective, that means that you are not functioning in the level of purpose that you were made to. I try to encourage you guys about this stuff all the time because I really believe in it and I believe in you. The more mature you are, the more that you recognize your place in this big old crazy world, the more value you bring to lives of those around you and the world that you change. If you're talking about, go change the world. That's what we're talking about. If you're mature, if you're walking in maturity or at least striving for it in every conceivable way, your environment is better and people around you benefit from the decisions that you make. If you're not mature, obviously you can see from examples around us that if you're not mature people are finding it detrimental in their life and in the atmosphere because of the decisions that an immature person can make. Hope that makes sense.

Speaker 1: 6:41

We're moving through it a little bit, but if you've asked yourself let me ask you this question here If you've asked yourself what your part is in the larger picture, do you struggle with the idea of purpose and destiny? Do you know what you're fighting for and is it even worth it? Is it even worth fighting for? I'm going to try to answer some of those questions and maybe promote some helpful thought for the future. So join us on this journey where we kill some myths and pick up some tools for our everyday life.

Speaker 1: 7:08

I want to start off with a question that gets asked a good bit. I'm probably going to be answering a lot of questions that I get from people. But what or who is the church? Now, if you do want to define it from dictionary and Merriam-Webster, I know what you're going to see there. I've already looked at it. But if you're looking for the answer, to be a physical building is true, but it's inefficient as far as the information. It's not enough to explain what it means to be the church. That's why I group around this. Maybe you have as well People who are I'll just call them scandalous, I'll call them scoundrels. I group around them and when they walk into the church they feel like that was the place for them to kind of get clean for a little bit and kind of have an escape from their regular life and they can go back into it after they leave the building.

Speaker 1: 7:56

Because they elevated the building as being the church, as being the standard, as being a standard, but it was never the way that God intended it originally. If you look through Scripture you'll see there was never about the building. Matter of fact, he never gave much credence to buildings or temples whatsoever. It was always about the people, their heart posture, what they brought to the table, the sacrifices they made in their life. He always emphasized that in Scripture. It's not hyperbole, it's constant from Genesis all the way to Revelations. So the emphasis is not ever to be on the building.

Speaker 1: 8:32

I know people who go to church on Easter and on Christmas and you won't see them. Otherwise They'll be dressed to the nines but you'll never see them again because the emphasis is on trying to satisfy some kind of religious need, some kind of religious dictate. You know what. I came to church. I did my part. God should be blessing me now because I did my part, because I showed up. But God's emphasis is always going to be on the who, not the what. It's not the building, but it's the people in it, the people who represent him, the people who are supposed to be a body of believers. So if you were looking at some answers to what it means to be the church, I got two scriptures that I believe will help you out with that. If you're not inclined, maybe you can just try to follow us and I answer any questions on the back end, if you have any for me.

Speaker 1: 9:20

But Acts 2, 42 to 47, it talks about how the apostles devoted themselves to teaching and fellowship and the breaking of bread and prayers. And what it talks about in Acts 2, 42 to 47 is that all who are believers were together and they had all things in common. That's a picture of what the church is supposed to look like. They sold their possessions and belongings and distributed all their proceeds to each other as it was needed in the community. It took care of the community or communal need they had. It took care of that as a group, as a team, as a community, as a family. That's what the church is supposed to look like in modern day times.

Speaker 1: 9:52

We're seeing some of that because of the tragedies going on, with Hurricane Helene in the aftermath. What we're seeing now is people who are rallying together, bringing things from everywhere. It's not about race, it's not about ethnicity, it's not about income. People just bring whatever they can bring to help supply the need. That's a little small microcosm of what a church is supposed to look like. So that's Acts 2, 42 and 47. Ephesians 2, 19 to 22 is also a good place to look. It's also about being a fellow citizen, being a member of the household of God. That's what the church's picture should look like. We're growing together by being joined together and walking together under the banner of who we say has commissioned us to be who we are. We're not strangers anymore, we're not aliens. We're fellow citizens in God, in the household of God in Christ. So those are just a small microcosm of what it means to be the church. I know that has a bad connotation out there now, where the church has dropped the balls on some things they haven't shown up in areas that have shown up in. They've got quiet when it should be vocal. I fully attest to that. I know it's true. I'm not trying to deny it. We just know that that's how the church is supposed to look, not what we've been seeing in today's times recently. That's the area for us to be working on as a church. I hope we are working on that for the sake of all those who are sitting and watching and waiting for us to step up and do our job. Hopefully they'll see that in days and weeks and months and years soon to come.

Speaker 1: 11:27

But what is kingdom? Another question I get Is there more than one kingdom? Which one do I belong to? Who do I support? Well, I know a lot of people who are free agents in a sense. They only care about their own situation. They're not concerned about the impact on other people. They don't care if they change lives, they don't care if they make lives worse. They just care about their own situation. They're full and no more. Maybe you know somebody like that. I know plenty that feel that way. What is kingdom? It's defined as the governing influence of a king over his territory, impacting it with his personal will, purpose and intent, producing a culture, value, morals and lifestyle that reflect the king's desires and nature for his citizens. Long answer, but the short of it is that the kingdom is supposed to be the citizens benefiting from the standard set by the king, bottom line. So is there more than one kingdom? Absolutely, there are two kingdoms, excuse me. One is destined to fall and the other one relies to prominence. Two passages in scripture right here to answer those questions, and then we'll keep on moving.

Speaker 1: 12:34

Look at the Our Father prayer, matthew 6, verse 9 to 13. You know it very well. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, whose kingdom, our Father's kingdom. And we talk about give us a day, our daily bread and forgiving our debts, and it moves on into being led not into temptation but delivered from evil. But the bottom line there is that first verse Whose kingdom, our Father's kingdom. So that's one kingdom and we ask him for his kingdom to be on earth the same way that it is in heaven. That means that we're not trying to take heaven to earth, which is what? Taking earth to heaven, excuse me, which is what kind of the religious set, kind of do they want to be able to escape from this world, escape from all the bad things that are happening. And that's what religion does. It tries to take earth to heaven and try to swap it around. But the way God wants it is. He wants heaven to earth. That's why we say, our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth where we are, as it is in heaven, where he is. I hope that makes sense. That's one kingdom we see.

Speaker 1: 13:42

In the other kingdom, in Matthew 4 and 8, very, very short passages we talked about the devil who took Jesus to a very high mountain during a time where he's being tempted, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and all their splendor and said if you bow down and worship me, I'll give you all of this. That's another kingdom. See, the devil doesn't have access to giving anybody the kingdom of God because he's not a part of that. So that's why, in common sense, we know good and evil lives. And it is present among us. We can see it in every aspect of life. So it's not really a mystery. I'm not breaking any news here, but the devil tried to show him the kingdom of the world, so obviously that's a lot of kingdoms to show, but that's the second kingdom. There's a good kingdom, the kingdom of our father, and there's an evil kingdom that's run on darkness. It's run on competition, it's run on depravity. It's run on all the things that you hate so much that you talk about on social media. Just know that all the things you see that you don't like so much, they all come from either one or the other kingdom. Hope that makes sense. We can flesh it out at a later date.

Speaker 1: 14:52

I want to take a little bit of time to get into this and then get out of here as you get back to your day. But whenever you hear about the Garden of Eden, the Adam and Eve account and situation in Scripture in the book of Genesis, you hear a lot of different things. Right now it's usually a fodder for a stand-up comedy routine or some kind of network TV skit and it's become a joke of some sort. But what I want to tell you about this is that the garden experience was supposed to be a blueprint. The bottom line is it's supposed to be a blueprint, not for men to tell you why, what to do, or why some husband tell you messed up, or if it wasn't for this woman that you gave me God, my life would be better. None of that stuff is what we're talking about. What I want you to understand is that the entire intent was for it to be replicated. That means the experience in the garden was supposed to be replicated. That means that what you saw there, in the relationship aspect especially, is what God wants to replicate. That's what he always wanted to replicate.

Speaker 1: 15:48

I had an episode I think I shared it in season two or season three, I'm not sure. Maybe you guys that follow our show can help me out with that for me, but season two or season three, it was always about the garden, I think is the name of it. But the whole point in that episode is the same point I'm making right now that the Lord's intention was always about the relationship. It wasn't about the trees that have the fruit of good and evil on it. That was never the point, the important point about the garden. It wasn't about Adam naming animals and giving them purpose. That wasn't the whole point. It wasn't even about Adam and Eve just being there, you know, living their best life. The whole point of this was that it's supposed to be about the relationship. I want to emphasize that, because most of what we talk about is about relationship, because it's important to me and I hope it's really important to you. It was always about the relationship.

Speaker 1: 16:39

The garden experience in its totality was always about the relationship. A lot did happen. Legal authority was transferred from one person to another. In that instance, the door to life and death was open and closed in that space. Those things are true, but it was always about the relationship, and I think that one of the reasons why maturity plays such a big part is because we don't recognize what we have, we don't recognize who we are, and in maturity you do recognize all of those things. That's why maturity is so important, because if you don't recognize who you are, you make decisions that are not best for you or for those around you.

Speaker 1: 17:17

Our mentor, duty department mentor I mentioned him so many times on this show and I'm grateful to do that because he's impacted our lives to a great degree. He's no longer with us, dr miles monroe. I wanted to share that with you because he made he made a point and one of his favorite quotes I love so much. He was saying without understanding the purpose of a thing, abuse is inevitable, and it's been attributed to him. Without understanding the purpose of a thing, abuse is inevitable. So if you don't know who you are, if you don't understand who you are, who you belong to, what your purpose is for being here in this big old crazy world, you'll abuse your privilege, you'll abuse your authority, you'll abuse your rights and privileges and your benefits and you'll abuse the opportunity you have as you're living and moving and breathing just like we are. You'll abuse it and that's a tragedy. The garden experience, the whole point of that, was relationship.

Speaker 1: 18:10

Look at Hebrews 6 and 1. It talks about maturity and it kind of explains why maturity is important. I'm trying to do my best here, but this will do a better job of explaining it. Hebrews 6 and 1 reads so let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again and let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don't need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. Another version says, with this in mind, we should stop going over the elementary truths about Christ and move on to topics for more mature people. We shouldn't repeat the basics about turning away from the useless things we did and the basics about faith in God. See, there's nothing wrong with foundational things and understanding the basics.

Speaker 1: 18:54

I think in this day and time that we're in, a lot of us could benefit from going back to the basics. We forgot something. We forgot about the Ten Commandments, we forgot about loving our neighbor and things like that. It would be great to go back to those things and get those things straight with ourselves. But we can't stay in a place where we're always in the basics, we're always unable to move on into the more mature, more advanced areas. And this passage of scripture and the apostle Paul talks about this a lot throughout the New Testament he's always talking about advancing into the areas of maturity, growing and not staying stagnant in the basics or in the elementary or even in like Hebo said, in the elementary truths about Christ, what we know. We should be able to move past that part. We can't be in elementary Sunday school when we're supposed to be in adult Sunday school. We can't be at a place where we're talking about things that a three, four, five-year-old should be learning, and we're in our 30s and 40s and 50s and we're not able to comprehend it yet. That just can't work.

Speaker 1: 20:37

So I am kind of challenging you guys that are listening to us, the same way I'm challenging myself. We got to get past the elementary stuff, man. We got to get past all the basic stuff, man. Why are we still fighting the same fight about stuff that we should have already conquered by now? Why are we still trying to figure out how to love our brother?

Speaker 1: 20:57

Yeah, I think you can love your family real good People who are in your household. It's easy to love them. You're for no more right. But can you love your brother who doesn't look like you, who doesn't talk like you, who doesn't come from where you come from, who can't relate to your upbringing? Can you love them? Can you love your brother who you don't know that well, who you may be talking to on social media? They may not have all of the views that you have and the same feelings about things that you have Can you love them the same way? We've got to get past the elementary basic stuff and Hebrews 6 and 1 is a great place to kind of get into that.

Speaker 1: 21:25

But I love this because we get so much deeper into this and I feel as though we need to understand the point of maturity. Why do we even thinking about maturity? Why is it even a matter? Is it a matter of the God? Does he care? Why should we care? Ephesians 4, 11 and 15 is a great place to look at that. It talks about the gifts that Christ gave to the church, and you guys probably are very familiar with this passage of the script. If you're not, you probably will be today. It talks about the apostles and the prophets, the evangelists and the pastors and the teachers and the responsibility to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.

Speaker 1: 22:03

Now here's where maturity comes in. I think it's verse 12. It says this will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard. Check it out, meas. Measuring up to the full and complete standard. Check it out. Measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won't be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people talk try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth, and I stopped at 14. I want you to catch something there.

Speaker 1: 22:37

Now, if you have children, you get why this makes sense. Children can have a blow up and fall out in the aisles at walmart or wherever hobby lobby, whatever, even chicken filet, wherever you, wherever your children are, where you are, they can have a full-blown tantrum and it can be embarrassing to you, it might even tick you. But children are prone to being mature. Because they're children, they don't have a concept of what it means to be unified, to teach, to share, to be generous and kind to others, to be compassionate. They're just children. We do the best we can in teaching that, but they don't understand that concept. We're teaching it, we're moving towards it with them. It takes time. I've had daughters and grandchildren I had to teach that with. I understand that. I feel what you feel, but they shouldn't supposed to be immature because they haven't learned it, haven't grown yet.

Speaker 1: 23:28

You in your 30s, in your 40s, in your 50s, why are you still acting that way? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but maybe you can help me understand. Why aren't we mature to the point where we are not throwing tantrums and falling out? I mean, have you ever seen a 60 or 70 year old person throw a tantrum. Unfortunately, my eyes were able to behold that in my life and I'm not through with what I saw as a matter of fact as a manufacturer. Scarring to see something like that. It's sad, but it's definitely it leaves a mark. To see somebody that age, who probably have children and grandchildren of their own, have a full-blown tension because the checkout person didn't do this right or the price didn't match the price on the item they bought, I mean I can't believe what I've seen, but this is a real thing and we got to think about that kind of stuff now we got to really think about maturity. Are we on the path to maturity? Are we missing the mark completely? Are we not even trying?

Speaker 1: 24:26

Maturity should be important to us because this is why, so we won't be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. That's why we need to be walking in maturity, so that we're not tossed every time a new wind blows, a new idea, a new concept, a new religion, a new everything. We won't get caught up in those false teachings. We'll get caught up and be influenced by people who are trying to trick us, to get something out of us to try to deceive us and take us off the path of maturity we need to be on, and in this passage of scripture in Ephesians 4, 11 and 15, you see a link between maturity and unity. Those are as part of the process. If you're mature and you're unified, you're in the right place, you're in the right space, you're functioning according to the right standard, and we got to do that. So there's areas in your life in your family, in your marriage, in your relationships with a significant other, in your professional responsibilities, at work, in your local ministry where maturity is required. There's no place that you can't utilize maturity. Maturity is not important everywhere. Anything they got to do with you is important, and you know.

Speaker 1: 25:29

There's another passage that I love this. It's a tough one to hear and I'm going to read the whole thing out because it's that impactful, but I want you to listen to it with a heart. If you consider yourself a believer or not, or if you call yourself a Christian or you walk at any level of faith or you're a heathen, this is still for you. But listen to. This is James, chapter one, verses 19 and 26. Check this out. It says understand this, my dear brothers and sisters, you must all be quick to listen and slow to speak, and slow to get angry. That's a sign of maturity Quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to get angry. How do you deal with conflict resolution? Are you a mature person? When it's time for a conflict or when you're being accused of something, are you a person that is mature or do you have an immature response?

Speaker 1: 26:16

It goes on to read human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires. Hear that, so get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives Doesn't mean point fingers at somebody else. It says take care of you, so get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives. In a humbly, humbly, accept the word God has planted in your heart, for it is the power, or it has the power, to save your souls. It's deep and it's powerful. It talks about personal responsibility. That comes with maturity.

Speaker 1: 26:43

If you're finger-pointing, which is the trademark of the generation that we're in right now, everybody's pointing fingers at each other and saying who should do this, who needs to fix that? If they change this, are our lives going to be better if they do this and that kind of law, are things going to be a whole lot better than what they are right now A whole lot of finger pointing but it's saying that the power to save your soul, to save your life, is found in the word of God and that's what's planted in your heart. So it goes on. As we don't just listen to God's word, you must do what it says. Don't just listen to God's word. Do what it actually says, otherwise you are only fooling yourself.

Speaker 1: 27:20

Wow, if you listen to the word and don't obey it, it's like glancing at your face in the mirror. You see yourself, you walk away and forget what you look like. If you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, which is the word of God, again, if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. If you claim to be religious but don't control your tongue, you're fooling yourself and your religion is worthless. Man, I'd love to stay there all the rest of this whole day because it's that good. Maybe I will, but not online, not on air, not live, but I might stay there for the rest of the day because it's that good.

Speaker 1: 27:54

James 1, 19 to 26. That's a new living translation, in case you guys are following that, james chapter one, verse 19 to 26,. New living translation. I love that, but what I think is challenging here is that it makes you look at yourself like it says in the mirror and it makes you think about who you are, how you treated people, how you responded when you've been in conflict or some kind of a challenge in some way. And it makes you look at if you mature and that's a great image, it's a great barometer to see if you're actually in a mature space like you say you are, like you think you are, if you are a person that's religious and you have certain morals and values.

Speaker 1: 28:32

Do you look down on other people? Are you able to take criticism when someone says you know what? You're not acting? The way the word of God that you claim that you follow is saying Can you handle that without attacking? Can you handle that without tearing somebody down and speaking word curses against somebody who's challenging you to be and exemplify who you say you are?

Speaker 1: 28:56

That's just one area where we can definitely stand and go, but as a whole, generally speaking to our audience, there's so much that we can do, but I know that we can't do anything without God's word. It's in us. We have the power to help ourselves, to grow ourselves, to develop ourselves. But if we think it's all about us and we think all we can do is the things that people are talking about around us and we don't want to deal with the blemishes, what we see, the pride, the arrogance, the ego, the self-hatred, the hatred of other people, the contempt of us to other people who don't look like us, who don't talk like us, contempt of us to other people who don't look like us, who don't talk like us. If we look at it that way and we just forget how we look, we're just doomed to be in a place where we just make what we do worthless and render it valueless.

Speaker 1: 29:47

I want to just encourage you guys there with that. But there's some passages I want to close out with, to leave you with this Just your idea. I want you to understand that God cares about your maturity. That's the purpose for passing these scriptures on to you. I want you to understand he cares about your maturity, he cares about how you act, he cares about how you treat other people, he cares about how you function, he cares about how much you're growing personally, he cares about how you're growing professionally and emotionally and spiritually and psychologically. He cares about all of those things.

Speaker 1: 30:18

I'm going to share a few of these and we go ahead and get out of here. First, corinthians 14 and 20. Don't be challenged in your understanding of these things, dear brothers and sisters. Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature in understanding matters of this kind. Hebrews 5 and 14. Solid food is for those who are mature, who, through training, have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong. Second, corinthians 13 and 11. Finally, brothers, rejoice, become mature, be encouraged, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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And Luke 18, excuse me. Luke 8 and 14, excuse me, luke, chapter 8, verse 14. It talks about the parable of the soul, which you guys may be familiar with. As for the seed that fell among thorns. These are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches and pleasures of life and produce no mature fruit. My goodness, did you hear that? Are you choked with worries and riches and worry about the pleasures of this life? Is that your goal? Is that what you strive for every day? Because in Luke 8 and 14, we see that it produces no mature fruit. Nothing great comes out of it, nothing of value comes out of it. And who doesn't want to live a life of value? And who doesn't want to live a life of value? Who doesn't want to live a life of purpose? Excuse me, I just want to encourage you guys today, because I know that this is not easy stuff to hear, it's not easy stuff to deal with, but I promise you I'm going through some things and I guess, if you, if you want to use that as a model, check out, if you want to use that as a model, check out our podcast.

Speaker 1: 31:55

I'm not going to promote that because of this episode, but check out what I've talked about, check out the stories that I've shared, the ways that I've kind of gone into, you know, in an aspect of my life and shared the things I've grown through. I mean, it's literally my whole life is on paper there and I really have seen a lot of things and had to deal with a lot of challenges and had to deal with a lot of had a lot of come to Jesus meetings, let me put it like that. So I want you to encourage you to check those stories out, check out the account, check the episodes out. They're going to help you out, because I'm positive that you dealt with some of the same thing, maybe even more so.

Speaker 1: 32:32

I've heard your comments and questions from me, I can see that there's definitely some values come from the episodes for you and I hope this one does the same thing wherever you are and however you're here in the all-purpose pod for an all-purpose life and your inspiration station. Thank you again for making us a part of your week and making us a part of your life. We definitely appreciate the privilege to speak to you guys today. I hope you love what you heard today and it's been of value to you.

Speaker 1: 32:59

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Speaker 1: 33:45

Enjoy all the episodes that are out there right now and ones that are coming up within the next seven days or so. But thank you again. And, of course, if you are a big fan of sports, we'll be on tonight, thursday, at 7 o'clock, that Thursday night thing. We'll be on Thursday night football. So look forward to hearing from you guys and seeing your thoughts on the world of sports and life and family. We'll talk about it all. Have a great day, enjoy the music. And we're out of here. You