Bible Bibs and a Prayer Season 3 Episode 63

Singer: Brother Jim's got the mic in hand.

Singer: David's laughing like a one man band talking disco, bell bottom

Singer: flares and a little bit of scripture to say your prayers.

Singer: Yes, it's the past, it's the present.

Singer: It's the Holy.

Singer: Sit back and join us.

Singer: Bible bids and a prayer.

Singer: Bible bids and a prayer.

Singer: We're keeping it real.

Singer: From the red, white and blue to the spinning wheel.

Singer: It's stories and Devotion.

Singer: Good vibes to share.

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Brother Jim: Well baby, what is up everyone?

Brother Jim: Guess what?

Brother Jim: It is time, my friends.

Brother Jim: Time for Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Good morning family.

Brother Jim: Good morning friends and good morning to the whole wide world.

Brother Jim: Welcome to your daily start as well as your local funny farm.

Brother Jim: Oh yeah.

Brother Jim: Wherever you are, we are glad you are joining David and myself

Brother Jim: along with the barnyard here.

Brother Jim: The dynamic duo is here.

Brother Jim: We are loud and proud, and we

Brother Jim: like to believe that this is

Brother Jim: your go to space to wake up each

Brother Jim: morning to stay informed,

Brother Jim: focused and ready for the day

Brother Jim: ahead.

Brother Jim: Plus a little madness, chaos, and offbeat humor.

Brother Jim: We got it all right here on Bible bibs and prayers.

Brother Jim: So don't you go anywhere.

Brother Jim: Whether you're sipping coffee, running out the door with no

Brother Jim: time to spare or easing into your morning routine, we've got

Brother Jim: just what you need.

Brother Jim: Quick insights, a little inspiration, and a clear look at

Brother Jim: what matters today.

Brother Jim: Let us help make this morning count.

Brother Jim: Speaking of that.

Brother Jim: Hey folks, I wondered why the

Brother Jim: frisbees kept getting bigger and

Brother Jim: bigger.

Brother Jim: Then it hit me.

Brother Jim: How about it?

Brother Jim: First off, let's you and I thank God for another day.

Brother Jim: We did not have to set the alarm for because.

Brother Jim: Glad you asked.

Brother Jim: We're already awake.

Brother Jim: We are up and moving and we are blessed.

Brother Jim: And in case you didn't know, my name is Brother Jim, one half of

Brother Jim: the dynamic duo here on Bible Bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: As I like to say, I might be a

Brother Jim: legend in my own mind, a hero

Brother Jim: and absolutely no one else's

Brother Jim: story.

Brother Jim: Welcome to the show.

Brother Jim: Let's turn this into a conversation from a conversation

Brother Jim: into an experience.

Brother Jim: Boy.

Brother Jim: My hat is crooked there.

Brother Jim: Wow.

Brother Jim: Allow me to say, before you get

Brother Jim: too serious, before we get too

Brother Jim: serious and start sounding like

Brother Jim: we've got everything figured

Brother Jim: out.

Brother Jim: I want to bring my co-host in.

Brother Jim: He is living proof that God can

Brother Jim: use imperfect people, because

Brother Jim: otherwise neither of us would be

Brother Jim: here today.

Brother Jim: And now, the moment you've all been waiting for.

Brother Jim: Some churches have worship leaders.

Brother Jim: Some have musicians.

Brother Jim: We've got them.

Brother Jim: And then we have one special dude at Rockford Church who

Brother Jim: keeps everything interesting.

Brother Jim: A man who has promised to be on his best behavior.

Brother Jim: So we'll see how long that will last.

Brother Jim: Give it up, ladies and gentlemen, for my partner in

Brother Jim: podcasting crime, a face that only a mother could love.

Brother Jim: The one, the only, Mr. David Keener.

Brother Jim: Plus, he's one of my best friends in the whole wide world.

Brother Jim: What is going on today, David?

David: Oh, good morning sir.

David: I might not be a musician, but I can play a mean CD player.

Brother Jim: So what's a CD?

Brother Jim: Oh, what is up in Kernersville?

David: Oh, not too much.

David: Not too much.

David: Um, you know, I was recently selected.

David: This is not a joke.

David: By the way.

David: I was recently selected for jury duty.

Brother Jim: Oh.

David: Yes. Got that coming up here in a couple of weeks.

Brother Jim: Guilty. Guilty.

Brother Jim: Guilty.

David: So we'll see how.

David: The Chair We'll see how that goes.

David: But yeah, I've never served in forty in forty six years.

David: I've never served before.

Brother Jim: So I, uh.

Brother Jim: Well, I think I shared that with you.

Brother Jim: I never have and, uh, first time I ever used the pastor get out

Brother Jim: of jail free card.

Brother Jim: So wrote a nice little letter to the magistrate and said, please,

Brother Jim: oh please, brother Jim's got people to take care of.

Brother Jim: They bought it.

Brother Jim: No, seriously.

Brother Jim: But you have to call in, don't you, to see?

David: I do, well, I don't know.

David: I had to fill out a questionnaire.

David: They sent me this questionnaire that I had to do.

David: So you know, I did that.

David: And.

David: Well, I don't I don't know what the process is like.

David: I don't know.

Brother Jim: I think you have to call in if I remember right.

David: Well, they have it on the website.

David: You can because I've been kind of looking into it.

Brother Jim: Yeah. You're more of a techie.

David: Guy last you know, last thing I want to do is not show up when

David: I'm supposed to be there and end up in the slammer.

David: But, uh, you know, look, they got it on the website, but I

David: don't know, like, do I?

David: Is there a chance of being

David: eliminated before it ever

David: starts?

David: Do you have to go and then, you know.

David: Yeah.

David: I don't know how this works.

Brother Jim: I think they have to interview you.

Brother Jim: And I think it depends on what type of case it is.

David: Well, that's if they even have cases because like I said, I've

David: been watching all this week and I think they cancelled the

David: juries every single day.

David: They didn't even come in once.

David: So.

Brother Jim: Yeah. I don't know how well

Brother Jim: you'd look in, uh, stripes, if

Brother Jim: you know.

David: What I mean.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Somehow the Three Stooges comes to mind right here, you know?

Brother Jim: Uh, how was the weekend?

David: It was good.

David: Too short, as usual, but, uh.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I gotta tell you, coming

Brother Jim: back to work here after being

Brother Jim: off.

David: Off?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes, I did get some things accomplished.

David: I was gonna ask you if you got any nonsense while you were off.

Brother Jim: Yeah, some good start on a lot of things, but, uh.

Brother Jim: Yeah, working on that farmer's tan, of course.

Brother Jim: Thank you, Lord, for Ohio weather.

Brother Jim: One minute I'm getting

Brother Jim: sunburned, the next minute I'm

Brother Jim: freezing.

Brother Jim: It's like, what is going on, you know?

Brother Jim: And, uh, of course, while I was off, the first week had still

Brother Jim: things to take care of, but it was break down central, which

Brother Jim: maybe if I would take care of my stuff and winterize, it might

Brother Jim: not have that.

David: Wouldn't have those problems.

Brother Jim: Yeah. But. Oh, started mowing right off the bat with the zero

Brother Jim: turn and I slice a tire.

Brother Jim: Oh, yes.

Brother Jim: Break the the price of belts.

Brother Jim: Unbelievable.

Brother Jim: Which, you know, it's just.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Well, the other day I hooked the Steiner popped the belt.

Brother Jim: I'm like, seriously?

Brother Jim: And it's got.

Brother Jim: You got to take the whole mower deck off to put the belt on.

Brother Jim: If you're putting a new belt on.

David: Who designed that.

Brother Jim: I don't know.

Brother Jim: Luckily I didn't have since the

Brother Jim: belt was still good, I thought I

Brother Jim: was okay.

Brother Jim: So it slips off again.

Brother Jim: So I whip out the old, uh,

Brother Jim: Google and make sure I'm doing

Brother Jim: it right.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I didn't have all the.

Brother Jim: I was one little part off.

Brother Jim: No wonder it was slipping.

Brother Jim: So. And then I broke the belt anyway.

Brother Jim: So down the road.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Forty five bucks at Napa for a new belt.

David: Ouch.

Brother Jim: Well, the other one for the zero

Brother Jim: turn last year, that was one

Brother Jim: hundred and twenty for the drive

Brother Jim: belt.

Brother Jim: So, yeah, it's.

Brother Jim: Good grief.

Brother Jim: And then the price of gas because I use a lot of gas

Brother Jim: mowing and all that.

Brother Jim: So yeah.

Brother Jim: How many gas cans you got.

David: I've got well, I've got a straight gas one.

David: I've got a thirty to one thirty or forty to one.

David: Anyway I got three.

David: But two of them have different mixtures of gas oil in them.

Brother Jim: I think I got about fifteen seriously.

Brother Jim: I'm like well at Rural King, they got those ones for twenty

Brother Jim: bucks, like the NASCAR style ones for twenty bucks.

Brother Jim: Those are great.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I keep buying them over

Brother Jim: the years, plus all the old

Brother Jim: ones.

Brother Jim: And it's like, good golly, Jim, how many gas cans can a man own?

David: Well, more than fifteen.

Brother Jim: Yeah, exactly.

Brother Jim: And you know, I my nephew gets

Brother Jim: on me all the time, but anymore

Brother Jim: I just buy the cans already

Brother Jim: pre-mixed.

Brother Jim: Get them at Rural King and that.

Brother Jim: And that's not a shout out to rural King or Lowe's, but it's

Brother Jim: just so much more.

Brother Jim: And I'm just lazy.

Brother Jim: It's so much more convenient, you know, instead of filling up

Brother Jim: a gas can and mixing it.

David: So I just got away from all my two cycle stuff because the two

David: cycle stuff was always the stuff that would never run when you

David: needed it to.

David: Yeah.

David: So I said, the heck with it.

David: I went all battery for that two cycle stuff and my gas, my mower

David: takes straight gas.

David: So no issue there.

Brother Jim: But yeah, well, uh, and again, not doing proper care, I got one

Brother Jim: of them little tillers and that's a running son of a gun.

Brother Jim: Carburetor.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So what do I do?

Brother Jim: I go to Lowe's, and I'm hoping

Brother Jim: to get, like, a little cheap

Brother Jim: one.

Brother Jim: Yeah, well, they only have two

Brother Jim: in stock, two different

Brother Jim: varieties.

Brother Jim: So if I signed up for a contractor's card, I got twenty,

Brother Jim: twenty, twenty five percent off.

Brother Jim: Hey, he's like dude, just use it and then cancel your card.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Okay.

Brother Jim: You're talking my lingo.

Brother Jim: There you go.

Brother Jim: All I need is another credit card.

Brother Jim: And I didn't tell the wife either, so.

Brother Jim: Oh, man.

Brother Jim: You.

Brother Jim: Have you come across any good

Brother Jim: dad jokes lately while I've been

Brother Jim: out?

David: Well, I wasn't I wasn't easy for me to say.

David: I was in for a surgery the other

David: day, and I asked the surgeon, I

David: said, can I try doing my own

David: anesthesia?

David: He said, knock yourself out.

Brother Jim: Again, the Three Stooges come to mind.

Brother Jim: I just watched that clip where

Brother Jim: they were pretending to be

Brother Jim: dentists.

Brother Jim: Yeah, and they gotta knock him out.

Brother Jim: Curly grabs the mallet and boom, he's out.

Brother Jim: So, uh.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Like I said, we can't guarantee

Brother Jim: the humor's good, but at least

Brother Jim: we try.

Brother Jim: Let us remember.

Brother Jim: Another sunrise.

Brother Jim: Another chance to shine.

Brother Jim: A chance to show.

Brother Jim: Come on, spread em out.

Brother Jim: Stretch them out.

Brother Jim: The whole wide world and everyone around you.

Brother Jim: That you are one special person.

Brother Jim: We have been blessed.

Brother Jim: You, David, and myself, along with the barnyard crew.

Brother Jim: Especially miss old Ida Lee.

Brother Jim: Here.

Brother Jim: How you doing, girl?

Brother Jim: Let you and I thank God for another blessed day.

Brother Jim: Whether you are driving, working, or just starting your

Brother Jim: morning coffee, we are glad you are here with us.

Brother Jim: Let us have you know what?

Brother Jim: Let's.

Brother Jim: Let's have and show some gratitude today.

Brother Jim: Remember how a thankful heart

Brother Jim: changes the way we see God,

Brother Jim: others, and even our challenges

Brother Jim: if we allow gratitude in our

Brother Jim: life.

Brother Jim: So come on, come on, come on, my friends.

Brother Jim: Enjoy Mr. David and myself as we say.

Brother Jim: Thank you, Lord, for another day

Brother Jim: of opportunity just waiting for

Brother Jim: you and I to go out and make our

Brother Jim: mark.

Brother Jim: Find that good in life and forget the bad.

Brother Jim: Come on, hot toys.

Brother Jim: Spit it out.

Brother Jim: There we go.

Brother Jim: Here on Bible bibs in a prayer

Brother Jim: we admit life gets weird, gets

Brother Jim: hard.

Brother Jim: But we also talk about why you

Brother Jim: are never actually facing life

Brother Jim: solo.

Brother Jim: It is not a solo trip because we have Jesus.

Brother Jim: Yes, we do rejoice that you are alive.

Brother Jim: You are a creation and hopefully you are a child of God because

Brother Jim: there is a difference.

Brother Jim: When you look in that mirror, remember you are beautiful.

Brother Jim: You are beautiful.

Brother Jim: No matter.

Brother Jim: No matter what you think in the mirror, you're beautiful and you

Brother Jim: matter in this world.

Brother Jim: And most of all, as we say here, oh my goodness, you are loved.

Brother Jim: Now someone in our neighborhood put a huge sofa out by the curb

Brother Jim: for trash collection.

Brother Jim: Since it was in good shape, many

Brother Jim: motorists slowed down for a

Brother Jim: look, but when they saw how

Brother Jim: enormous it was, They would

Brother Jim: leave.

Brother Jim: Eventually a compact car pulled up.

Brother Jim: Two men got out and I said, this is what I've got.

Brother Jim: I've got to see this, I thought.

Brother Jim: They removed the cushions, turned the sofa upside down and

Brother Jim: shook it hard.

Brother Jim: Then they picked up all the

Brother Jim: coins that tumbled out and drove

Brother Jim: off.

David: Smart man.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Why didn't I think of that?

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: Our thought of the day as we

Brother Jim: continue in our talk of

Brother Jim: salvation.

Brother Jim: If you go back, maybe tune your mind up a little bit.

Brother Jim: We were talking about salvation.

Brother Jim: But why salvation so important?

Brother Jim: Well, here's the thought of the day.

Brother Jim: Hell is the greatest monument to human freedom.

Brother Jim: Ooh, C.S.

Brother Jim: Lewis.

Brother Jim: So let me ask you, my friends, do you believe in heaven?

Brother Jim: Do you believe in hell?

Brother Jim: Now, if we think about the rich

Brother Jim: man and Lazarus, this is coming

Brother Jim: from Luke sixteen nineteen to

Brother Jim: thirty one.

Brother Jim: There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen

Brother Jim: and lived in luxury every day.

Brother Jim: At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with

Brother Jim: sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table?

Brother Jim: Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Brother Jim: The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him

Brother Jim: to Abraham's side.

Brother Jim: The rich man also died and was

Brother Jim: buried in Hades, where he was in

Brother Jim: torment.

Brother Jim: He looked up and saw Abraham far away.

Brother Jim: With Lazarus by his side.

Brother Jim: He called to him, Father

Brother Jim: Abraham, have pity on me, and

Brother Jim: send Lazarus to dip the tip of

Brother Jim: his finger in water and cool my

Brother Jim: tongue, because I am in agony in

Brother Jim: this fire.

Brother Jim: But Abraham replied, son,

Brother Jim: remember that in your lifetime

Brother Jim: you received your good things

Brother Jim: while Lazarus received bad

Brother Jim: things.

Brother Jim: But now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Brother Jim: And besides all this, between us and you, a great chasm has been

Brother Jim: set in place so that those who want to go from here to you

Brother Jim: cannot, nor can anyone cross over there to us.

Brother Jim: He answered, then I beg you,

Brother Jim: father, send Lazarus to my

Brother Jim: family, for I have five

Brother Jim: brothers.

Brother Jim: Let him warn them, so that they will not also come into this

Brother Jim: place of torment.

Brother Jim: Abraham replied, they have Moses and the prophets.

Brother Jim: Let them listen to them.

Brother Jim: No, Father Abraham, he said, but if someone from the dead goes to

Brother Jim: them, they will repent.

Brother Jim: He said to him, if they do not listen to Moses and the

Brother Jim: prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises

Brother Jim: from the dead.

Brother Jim: So today I want to ask you a

Brother Jim: simple but serious question

Brother Jim: again.

Brother Jim: Do you believe in heaven?

Brother Jim: Do you believe in hell, David?

Brother Jim: Do you believe in heaven?

Brother Jim: Do you believe in hell?

David: Yeah, yeah I do.

David: And you know, if somebody says, I believe in heaven, but I don't

David: believe in hell.

David: I don't believe.

Brother Jim: God would.

David: Send us. Right. Well, I mean, if you believe in one, you kind of

David: have to believe in the other.

David: It's kind of like if you believe in God, you you have to believe

David: in the devil.

David: It's just the way it is.

Brother Jim: So friends watching, do you believe in heaven?

Brother Jim: Do you believe in hell?

Brother Jim: And as David said, you know, we hear that a lot.

Brother Jim: Well, what kind of God would send.

Brother Jim: Let me stop you right there.

Brother Jim: God does not send anybody to hell.

Brother Jim: We ourselves send ourselves to hell.

Brother Jim: Free will, my friends, free will.

Brother Jim: Now, in Luke sixteen, Jesus tells us about a rich man and a

Brother Jim: beggar named Lazarus.

Brother Jim: As we just discussed after

Brother Jim: death, their destinies are

Brother Jim: completely different.

Brother Jim: Lazarus is comforted in the

Brother Jim: presence of God and the rich

Brother Jim: man.

Brother Jim: Ooh, all that money, all that good stuff he had.

Brother Jim: He is now in torment.

Brother Jim: This is just not a story to entertain us.

Brother Jim: No, no, no. It is a warning from Jesus about eternity.

Brother Jim: Number one.

Brother Jim: Heaven and hell are real.

Brother Jim: Jesus spoke more about eternal

Brother Jim: destination than almost anything

Brother Jim: else.

Brother Jim: Heaven is real and hell is real.

Brother Jim: One eternal life with God.

Brother Jim: The other is eternal.

Brother Jim: And here we go.

Brother Jim: We think about what do you think of hell, David?

Brother Jim: What's the worldly view on hell?

Brother Jim: Or even Christians?

Brother Jim: What has society painted?

Brother Jim: I'm putting you on the spot.

David: Yeah. You are.

David: I'm not really sure how to say that a different way.

Brother Jim: Well, okay.

Brother Jim: I can't help but think of cartoons.

David: Okay.

Brother Jim: Good old Yosemite Sam from Bugs Bunny.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I remember a couple times he descended into hell.

Brother Jim: And we see the pitchfork.

Brother Jim: We see the horns, we see the fire.

David: Gotcha.

Brother Jim: The little demons running around, right?

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: You know, and it never dawned on to me until a couple years ago.

Brother Jim: Separation.

Brother Jim: Complete separation from God.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Because here on earth, you still have opportunity.

Brother Jim: God, the Holy Spirit is present, right?

Brother Jim: So if you believe in a Trinity, God the Father and the Holy

Brother Jim: Spirit, the Holy Ghost.

Brother Jim: So think about that.

Brother Jim: No God, no chance.

Brother Jim: No second chance, no mulligan.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: One is eternal life with God, which I'll take any day.

Brother Jim: And the other is eternal separation from him.

Brother Jim: Oh, Jim, come on now.

Brother Jim: I'm going to be die.

Brother Jim: I'd rather be in hell with all my buddies.

Brother Jim: True.

Brother Jim: We hear that?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Oh, Jim, we're going to have a big bonfire.

Brother Jim: We're going to be partying down.

Brother Jim: No no no no.

David: You might think that, but that's not going to be the case.

Brother Jim: Not going to be the case.

Brother Jim: Scripture does not present them

Brother Jim: as ideas or symbols, but as real

Brother Jim: realities.

Brother Jim: Say that word with me.

Brother Jim: Reality number two.

Brother Jim: Our choices matter.

Brother Jim: Now.

Brother Jim: David, let me ask you, does Jesus care about your past?

Brother Jim: Uh, does he care about what you did prior to.

David: As soon as I figure out the

David: buttons here, I'm messing this

David: all up.

David: I mean, not once you ask for forgiveness.

David: No, he forgets it.

Brother Jim: Completely forgiven.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And to me, he doesn't care about your past.

Brother Jim: He cares about this moment.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: And tomorrow, the future.

Brother Jim: Will you cry out?

Brother Jim: Will you repent?

Brother Jim: Or better yet, let me start saying I need Jesus in my life.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And then repent and ask for his

Brother Jim: forgiveness and ask for

Brother Jim: salvation.

Brother Jim: Now the rich man, he was living high on the hog, right?

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: Driving his Lexus B, I don't

Brother Jim: know any fancy cars other than

Brother Jim: Lexus Beamer's.

Brother Jim: Mercedes.

Brother Jim: You know, however you want to

Brother Jim: see it eating the the best of

Brother Jim: foods.

Brother Jim: Now you know I'm joking about what he was driving.

Brother Jim: But again, in today's age, our

Brother Jim: society drives that, do they

Brother Jim: not?

David: Right.

Brother Jim: The lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Brother Jim: I can't imitate that dude, but, you know.

Brother Jim: Uh, but number two, our choices matter.

Brother Jim: Now.

Brother Jim: The rich man in the story waited too long.

Brother Jim: He had opportunities.

Brother Jim: He was warned, but he ignored them.

Brother Jim: Eternity, my friends, is not decided after death.

Brother Jim: It is shaped by what we do with Christ in this life.

Brother Jim: Today.

Brother Jim: Tomorrow.

Brother Jim: Uh. I hit the wrong button.

Brother Jim: David.

David: I'll tell you.

David: We're just hitting wrong buttons all over the place.

David: I'm blacking the screen out.

Brother Jim: We're off a little bit, and, uh, boom.

David: You give us a week off, and this is what happens.

Brother Jim: What happens?

Brother Jim: Sorry, folks, we're getting right back to it again.

Brother Jim: As I said, eternity is not decided after death.

Brother Jim: It is shaped by what we do with Christ in this life.

Brother Jim: Second Corinthians six two says, for he says, in the time of my

Brother Jim: favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.

Brother Jim: I tell you now, this is the time of God's favor.

Brother Jim: Now is the day of salvation.

Brother Jim: Not tomorrow, not later.

Brother Jim: Now.

Brother Jim: Number three, God's heart is for salvation, not condemnation.

Brother Jim: Uh, John seventeen or John three sixteen.

Brother Jim: We all know so well, but John three seventeen, Jesus didn't

Brother Jim: come to condemn the world.

Brother Jim: He came to save the world.

Brother Jim: God does not delight in anyone being lost.

Brother Jim: Now, as I just mentioned, John three sixteen reminds us that

Brother Jim: God loved the world so much that he sent his son so that whoever

Brother Jim: believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Brother Jim: Jesus came to rescue us from our sin and bring us into eternal

Brother Jim: life with him.

Brother Jim: Do we understand that?

Brother Jim: I hope you do.

Brother Jim: The call.

Brother Jim: This call is urgent.

Brother Jim: The reality of heaven and hell should wake you up spiritually.

Brother Jim: Think about a big old earthquake.

Brother Jim: Thank God we really don't have them in Ohio that much.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: But, uh, think of them poor souls out in California.

Brother Jim: What?

Brother Jim: They go through San Francisco and all that?

Brother Jim: Yeah, that's going to shake you up a little bit.

Brother Jim: It should move us.

Brother Jim: Take our faith seriously.

Brother Jim: And I'm sorry.

Brother Jim: Here we go.

Brother Jim: How many of us take our faith seriously this day and age?

Brother Jim: Because why?

Brother Jim: We are too busy.

Brother Jim: Number one time, time, time and all the entertainment.

Brother Jim: All the things.

Brother Jim: But Brother Jim, I got reels to watch.

Brother Jim: Brother Jim, I gotta update my TikTok.

Brother Jim: I don't know if you update your TikTok or not, David, but, you

Brother Jim: know, uh, my profile pictures.

Brother Jim: You know who if I had a camera here.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: Smile, man.

Brother Jim: We'll get one right here.

Brother Jim: A little Italy.

Brother Jim: You know, the monkeys too grumpy to get a picture today.

Brother Jim: Take our faith.

Brother Jim: Take your faith seriously.

Brother Jim: Share Christ with others.

Brother Jim: Live ready for eternity.

Brother Jim: Now, David, to me we cannot comprehend eternity, can we?

Brother Jim: I don't think our human mind.

Brother Jim: I've tried.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I'm not saying much with my mind but can't comprehend it.

Brother Jim: No, no. Forever.

Brother Jim: Say that word with me forever.

Brother Jim: And if you're not in heaven, then you're in hell.

Brother Jim: And who wants to be in hell forever?

Brother Jim: We do not know how much time we have.

Brother Jim: How true that is here in this life right now.

Brother Jim: But we do know this.

Brother Jim: Eternity is certain.

Brother Jim: So I ask again, do you believe

Brother Jim: in heaven and do you believe in

Brother Jim: hell?

Brother Jim: And if you don't, why not?

Brother Jim: And here's the thing I'm going to throw at you.

Brother Jim: Just for argument's sake, let's

Brother Jim: just say heaven and God is not

Brother Jim: real.

Brother Jim: When you really die, there is nothing.

Brother Jim: Versus a Christian.

Brother Jim: Okay.

Brother Jim: What, are we out?

Brother Jim: David?

David: Well, nothing.

Brother Jim: Nothing?

Brother Jim: Nothing at all.

Brother Jim: Not out.

Brother Jim: Anything.

Brother Jim: But.

Brother Jim: And there's that big old.

Brother Jim: But if we're.

Brother Jim: If it's real and you don't have Christ as your Lord and Savior,

Brother Jim: you're not going to heaven.

Brother Jim: This is as good as it gets, my friends.

Brother Jim: This life I just heard the other day, someone said, oh, well,

Brother Jim: heaven's here now.

Brother Jim: Well, explain this to me.

Brother Jim: Why am I bald?

Brother Jim: Why is the body breaking down?

Brother Jim: Uh. If this is heaven now, we got gypped.

Brother Jim: True, David.

David: That's for sure.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Yeah. Where's my six pack at?

Brother Jim: Uh, but no, this isn't heaven.

Brother Jim: One day it will be the New Jerusalem.

Brother Jim: When it's all said and done.

Brother Jim: But for now, our faith will carry us through our faith.

Brother Jim: So if we truly believe it, it

Brother Jim: will change how we live, how we

Brother Jim: love, and how we share the

Brother Jim: gospel.

Brother Jim: Have you shared the gospel this week with anybody?

Brother Jim: MM. Good question.

Brother Jim: I'll let you chew on that one.

Brother Jim: But today is the day to make sure our lives are right with

Brother Jim: God through Jesus Christ.

Brother Jim: If you got questions you don't understand or you question it,

Brother Jim: give us a call.

Brother Jim: Email us, comment.

Brother Jim: My friends, let me say that one more time.

Brother Jim: Today is the day to make sure

Brother Jim: your life, your life is right,

Brother Jim: right, right with God through

Brother Jim: Jesus Christ.

Brother Jim: Amen.

Brother Jim: Well, my friends, that just about does it for this.

Brother Jim: Tuesday, May twelve, twenty twenty six.

Brother Jim: Mr. David, my friend, any

Brother Jim: closing thoughts or comments for

Brother Jim: this segment?

David: You know, while you were talking about hell and how it's the

David: absence of Jesus, you know, a thought came to my mind, uh,

David: Pastor Mooney, God rest his soul, used to tell a story from

David: when he was a younger preacher.

David: He was coming back from Florida,

David: he was going through one of the

David: tunnels that you go through

David: there on seventy seven, and as

David: soon as he hit that tunnel, he

David: just had this overwhelming,

David: like, doom.

David: And like, he thought he was going to die.

David: He didn't think he was gonna make it through the tunnel.

David: And he didn't have any fear of tunnels or anything like that.

David: And he got out the other side and it lifted.

David: And he asked God.

David: He said, God, what in the world was that?

David: He said, when you entered that

David: tunnel, one of the saints that

David: had been praying for you for

David: years for your ministry passed

David: away, really?

David: And in that time he said, I raised up somebody else in the

David: time it took you to get to the other side of that tunnel.

David: I was like, there's kind of an example of when you don't have,

David: you know, when God is absent or there's not that prayer.

David: I mean, there's a war out there, folks.

David: There's a spiritual war out there.

Brother Jim: That I've been through the battles.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I've been through it.

Brother Jim: If you want to talk about that, I'll be more than happy to share

Brother Jim: my testimony with you on that, because I've been in the

Brother Jim: darkness like a lot of you and, uh, you know, get a little just

Brother Jim: a just a taste of it.

Brother Jim: Go in your bedroom at night or

Brother Jim: in a room where you have no

Brother Jim: light.

Brother Jim: Make sure your lights are shut off.

Brother Jim: A little freaky, isn't it?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Now add everything else.

Brother Jim: And again, it's not even come close.

Brother Jim: But yeah, you know, when you can't see where you're going,

Brother Jim: it's a little.

Brother Jim: And I could see where the tunnel, you know.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: What if that tunnel had blacked out?

Brother Jim: No lights and you're stuck in there.

Brother Jim: That would be.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So, our friends, as we close, please remember you.

Brother Jim: Yes, you have meaning.

Brother Jim: You have value.

Brother Jim: And most of all, you are loved.

Brother Jim: May God continue to bless you just as well.

Brother Jim: May you and I continue to thank our Lord above for all of our

Brother Jim: blessings each and every day.

Brother Jim: And if we meet again, then well, then we will smile and rejoice.

Brother Jim: And if not, then this parting was well made.

Brother Jim: Thank you for joining David and

Brother Jim: myself here on Bible bibs and a

Brother Jim: prayer.

Brother Jim: This is the big guy, Brother Jim, out.