Bible Bibs and a Prayer Season 3 Episode 53

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

Singer: David's laughing like a one man

Singer: band, talking disco bellbottom

Singer: flares and a little bit of

Singer: scripture to say your prayers in

Singer: the past.

Singer: It's the present.

Singer: It's the holy.

Singer: Sit back and join us.

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Singer: Beams 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.

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Singer: Come on and listen to Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: What's up everyone?

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 in the whole wide world and welcome to

Brother Jim: your daily start.

Brother Jim: Hopefully this is your go to space to wake up, to become

Brother Jim: informed, focused, and ready for the day ahead.

Brother Jim: Whether you're sipping coffee,

Brother Jim: heading out the door, or easing

Brother Jim: into your morning routine, we've

Brother Jim: got just what you need quick

Brother Jim: insights, a little inspiration,

Brother Jim: and a clear look at what matters

Brother Jim: today.

Brother Jim: Let's let's let's make this morning count.

Brother Jim: Speaking of that, folks, if a parsley farmer got sued, can

Brother Jim: they garnish his wages?

Brother Jim: Even David was slow on that one.

Brother Jim: That must've really bombed.

Brother Jim: Hey, let you and I thank God for another day.

Brother Jim: We didn't have to set the alarm for.

Brother Jim: Because we're already awake and we are blessed.

Brother Jim: My name is Brother Jim, one half of the dynamic duo here on Bible

Brother Jim: bibs and a prayer by day, a pastor of Roxford Church.

Brother Jim: And by night I want to be funny

Brother Jim: guy as my wife, beautiful wife,

Brother Jim: Keri says, you're not really

Brother Jim: that funny.

Brother Jim: You're just funny looking.

Brother Jim: And I have to agree with her on that one.

Brother Jim: Welcome to the show.

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

Brother Jim: And now, before I go to the big introduction, I want to

Brother Jim: introduce our new member of the team, Mr. Dan.

Brother Jim: Yes, our new big old rooster to go with Ida Lee.

Brother Jim: David, we're going to have a

Brother Jim: barnyard before we know it,

Brother Jim: brother.

David: I'm telling you.

Brother Jim: Yes, I want to get an exotic animal, though.

Brother Jim: I'm thinking an alligator.

Brother Jim: Giraffe, something like that.

David: Got a bearskin rug on the floor.

David: Bearskin.

David: Oh.

Brother Jim: You find me napping on that one, brother?

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Let us know what you'd like to see.

Brother Jim: To join us down here on the farm.

Brother Jim: Or. You know what?

Brother Jim: I got my Bigfoot hat on today.

Brother Jim: David still out there looking for that man?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I told my grandson Dawson, he comes over, we're going to go

Brother Jim: out and set a trap for him.

Brother Jim: So Lord only knows what will happen there.

Brother Jim: But you know what?

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

Brother Jim: I am joined by the one and only person who thinks just one more

Brother Jim: episode is a personality trait.

Brother Jim: This man brings the jokes, the

Brother Jim: chaos, and just enough

Brother Jim: questionable opinions to keep

Brother Jim: things interesting.

Brother Jim: If there's a tangent to go on, he will find it.

Brother Jim: If there's a snack nearby, it is already gone.

Brother Jim: Give it up.

Brother Jim: For my partner in podcasting

Brother Jim: crime, a face that only a mother

Brother Jim: could love.

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

Brother Jim: Plus one of my very best friends in the whole wide world.

Brother Jim: Good morning, my friend.

David: Good morning.

David: How are we doing?

Brother Jim: Oh. We're doing.

Brother Jim: How was life in Keenerville?

David: It's all right.

David: I'm getting over a cold.

David: Trying to get over a cold.

David: It was the weirdest cold I've ever had.

David: So it came on, like, a little bit.

David: Well, first of all, the family was sick a couple of weeks ago

David: and I made it through.

David: I'm like, yes, I'm not going to get sick.

David: And then two weeks later I got it.

David: I spoke too soon.

David: Yep.

David: Spoke too soon.

Brother Jim: Could it be?

Brother Jim: Could it be all that cake you've been consuming?

David: Well, it probably added some

David: contributing contributing

David: factors.

Brother Jim: Is the cake all gone?

David: The cake, cake, cake is gone.

Brother Jim: Finished off.

Brother Jim: And now we're heading into Easter.

Brother Jim: So.

Brother Jim: Leftovers.

Brother Jim: Yes yes yes yes, that good old Easter dinner.

Brother Jim: Ham and maybe barbecue.

Brother Jim: I don't know, I think we've

Brother Jim: asked before, but let us know

Brother Jim: now.

Brother Jim: What's your traditional go to meal at Easter?

David: Well, they have the standard,

David: you know, ham and and some

David: turkey sometimes.

David: But turkey I'm a I'm a big ham guy for Easter.

David: That's what I like.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Yeah. Now of course with

Brother Jim: our new friends, I don't want to

Brother Jim: mention too much, you know, ham

Brother Jim: chicken.

Brother Jim: You know, I can tell you this

Brother Jim: Brother Jim ain't going the

Brother Jim: vegetarian route.

Brother Jim: That's never going to happen there.

Brother Jim: Having a tofu hamburger or something?

Brother Jim: No. How about you guys?

Brother Jim: What's going on for Easter?

Brother Jim: Hey, this Saturday coming up,

Brother Jim: we've got our big Easter egg

Brother Jim: hunt over at the Family Life

Brother Jim: Center.

Brother Jim: Two p m. Great time for the family.

Brother Jim: A lot of activities focused on Jesus.

Brother Jim: And of course, at the end, we.

Brother Jim: Oh, we've got a ton of prizes, David.

Brother Jim: Everybody gets a prize they get

Brother Jim: to pick from, and they always

Brother Jim: have some cool stuff to give

Brother Jim: out.

Brother Jim: Plus our big old Easter egg hunt.

Brother Jim: Uh, I'm not sure what the age limit is on that one, but just

Brother Jim: bring your kids and we're going to have a good time.

Brother Jim: Um, I wanted to tell the kids,

Brother Jim: but I figured I'd get booed this

Brother Jim: Sunday morning.

Brother Jim: Anybody finds a rock and there's.

Brother Jim: That's a special prize.

Brother Jim: Because I thought about taking

Brother Jim: the candy and putting rocks in

Brother Jim: it.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: So but, uh, hey, if you had a

Brother Jim: slingshot, that'd be a good

Brother Jim: present.

Brother Jim: There you go.

Brother Jim: You know?

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: But, uh, again, uh, any, uh, big

Brother Jim: plans for the upcoming Holy

Brother Jim: Week?

David: No, not that I know of.

David: Just the standard.

David: You know, you said we got the

David: big Easter egg hunt this

David: weekend, But.

Brother Jim: You.

David: Know, the family usually does

David: one during the Easter dinner on

David: Sunday.

Brother Jim: So yeah, I was looking.

Brother Jim: We don't put a lot of emphasis on gifts, but with

Brother Jim: grandchildren, that's a whole different story, you know?

David: Right.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Ran down to rural King because he loves tractors and holy cow,

Brother Jim: the prices of toy tractors.

David: Oh yeah, that brooder stuff.

David: Oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: Even the plastic which I tried it at Christmas.

Brother Jim: I always get him a nice metal tractor to put up, have a

Brother Jim: collection of tractors.

Brother Jim: So I usually then get him a, the plastic stuff, those metal ones.

Brother Jim: David a little Farmall H uh, it's a special.

Brother Jim: Oh, I don't know, something special on it.

Brother Jim: It was over one hundred and some dollars.

Brother Jim: Holy cow.

Brother Jim: That's just a little Farmall H. Which.

Brother Jim: Great American tractor right there.

Brother Jim: Brother Jim's got one himself.

Brother Jim: Real deal.

Brother Jim: But, uh, yeah, it's like now Christmas time.

Brother Jim: You usually found a pretty good deal.

Brother Jim: You know, buy one fifty percent.

Brother Jim: Yeah, that's not bad, but.

Brother Jim: Holy cow.

David: At over one hundred dollars, they're not a toy at that point.

David: They're a collector's item.

Brother Jim: Exactly. That's what I told my daughter.

Brother Jim: These go up on a box.

Brother Jim: Keep them in the box and they go

Brother Jim: up on a shelf because we'll get

Brother Jim: him stuff to play with out in

Brother Jim: the dirt.

Brother Jim: But, uh.

Brother Jim: Yes, but, uh, no. Hard to believe Easter is here along

Brother Jim: with all this crazy weather.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: One minute you got your shorts and tank top.

Brother Jim: On the next minute, folks, you got your coat in the furnace,

Brother Jim: back up to seventy.

Brother Jim: Whatever you keep it at, it's

Brother Jim: like, come on, Ohio, what is

Brother Jim: going on?

Brother Jim: Uh, I heard a couple people

Brother Jim: rumbling and grumbling because

Brother Jim: they just came back from down

Brother Jim: south.

Brother Jim: Fly in and hello, welcome back to Ohio.

Brother Jim: Thirty degrees.

Brother Jim: Uh, but hey, we're getting there.

Brother Jim: Have you mowed anymore?

David: I have mowed twice total, and

David: I'm working on putting a video

David: together for opening opening

David: season.

David: Yes, yes.

David: So I've got the footage.

David: I've just got to put it together.

David: But, uh, did my second mow this weekend.

Brother Jim: I got a little bit more in, uh, still just the sticks, limbs

Brother Jim: everywhere, Everywhere, man, if I had a dollar for every stick

Brother Jim: and limb I was picking up, I might be able to buy myself a

Brother Jim: nice steak dinner.

Brother Jim: There you go.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So, uh.

Brother Jim: But hey, how about you guys?

Brother Jim: What's going on in your world?

Brother Jim: Let us know.

Brother Jim: Miss Pegg.

Brother Jim: Abraham, how you doing?

Brother Jim: Number one fan out there, miss Ida Lee.

Brother Jim: Also a number one fan.

Brother Jim: Uh, let us know.

Brother Jim: We'd love to hear from you.

Brother Jim: Uh, you come across any good dad jokes lately?

Brother Jim: David?

David: I have, and, uh, as a matter of fact, my boss.

David: I was eating lunch the other

David: day, and my boss came looking

David: for me.

David: He said, where have you been?

David: I've been looking for you all morning.

David: I said, well, good employees are hard to find.

Brother Jim: Ah, boom.

Brother Jim: Bingo, baby, I like that.

Brother Jim: That was good.

Brother Jim: That blew away the parsley one, I'll tell you that.

Brother Jim: Uh, hey, and if you folks got any good dad jokes or any good

Brother Jim: jokes, shoot em in.

Brother Jim: We'd love to have them, because it's hard to believe.

Brother Jim: It is hard to keep this humorous side going here.

Brother Jim: You know, we it's a struggle

Brother Jim: sometimes to find good jokes out

Brother Jim: there.

Brother Jim: So, uh, but again, let us

Brother Jim: remember another sunrise,

Brother Jim: another chance to shine, a

Brother Jim: chance to show the whole world

Brother Jim: and everyone around that you,

Brother Jim: you, my friend, are one special

Brother Jim: person.

Brother Jim: And that you.

Brother Jim: We all.

Brother Jim: We've been blessed.

Brother Jim: You, David and myself, along with our two crew members here.

Brother Jim: I wonder if we get little shirts that says staff on them.

David: They make shirts for chickens and pigs.

Brother Jim: Yeah, that'd be all right.

Brother Jim: But you know what?

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

Brother Jim: Uh, whether you're driving, working, or just starting your

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

Brother Jim: We are live.

Brother Jim: And even with all the aches and pains, we are blessed.

Brother Jim: And I did hear David.

Brother Jim: I just met a nice young man

Brother Jim: today, came in to church and he

Brother Jim: was listening to Bible bibs and

Brother Jim: prayers.

Brother Jim: Oh, he decided to come to church.

David: And he has to say he came anyway.

David: Huh?

David: Yeah.

David: Wow.

Brother Jim: Yeah. It's amazing.

Brother Jim: I was like, man, okay, I was going to ask if you want an

Brother Jim: autograph, but I thought that might be a bit much.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah. And then the other another

Brother Jim: young man, uh, this dude, he's

Brother Jim: rocking it.

Brother Jim: Uh. I'm sorry my memory's so bad, but he's got, uh.

Brother Jim: He's got the full Joe dirt mullet going.

Brother Jim: Nice.

Brother Jim: It is.

Brother Jim: Nice.

Brother Jim: And, uh, t four C, which, uh, we had Buffy scheduled.

Brother Jim: She's the director of T four C two.

Brother Jim: Come on.

Brother Jim: We had to, uh, backdate that a little bit, but we had a

Brother Jim: breakfast over there the other day to help raise money.

Brother Jim: And, uh, he dressed up as the Easter Bunny and that poor guy.

Brother Jim: By the time he got out of the

Brother Jim: the costume, it looked like

Brother Jim: there had been a massacre of

Brother Jim: rabbits.

Brother Jim: There was white fuzz everywhere.

Brother Jim: So, uh, don't worry, we weren't, uh, massacre masked.

Brother Jim: We weren't taking out the, uh, rabbits, so, uh.

Brother Jim: Yes, but.

Brother Jim: So come on and join Mr. David and I, as we say.

Brother Jim: Thank you, Lord, for another day of opportunity.

Brother Jim: Just waiting for you and I to make our mark.

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

Brother Jim: Come on, everybody, let's spit it out.

Brother Jim: What do.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Gone out of our mouths and hey, guess what?

Brother Jim: I want to remind you something, Dave.

Brother Jim: And I want to remind you that you are not alone.

Brother Jim: Why?

Brother Jim: Well, we are glad you asked.

Brother Jim: Jesus and Jesus alone rejoice that you are alive.

Brother Jim: And when you look in that

Brother Jim: mirror, remember you are

Brother Jim: beautiful.

Brother Jim: You matter in this world and

Brother Jim: most of all, oh my goodness, you

Brother Jim: are loved.

Brother Jim: Now Linda and Marian were

Brother Jim: comparing notes on the

Brother Jim: difficulties of running a small

Brother Jim: business.

Brother Jim: I started a new business last year.

Brother Jim: Linda said, I insist that each of my employees take at least a

Brother Jim: week off every three months.

Brother Jim: Why in the world would you do that?

Brother Jim: Marlon asked, or Marian asked.

Brother Jim: It's the best way I know of to learn which ones I can do

Brother Jim: without, Linda said.

Brother Jim: Excuse me.

Brother Jim: Wow, I got a jump on.

David: That.

Brother Jim: one.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I.

Brother Jim: Thought that was pretty good, huh?

Brother Jim: Maybe that's why I didn't get a call back a couple times.

Brother Jim: It just keeps staying off.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: Our thought of the day every time you forgive Of every time

Brother Jim: you forgive, you disappoint the devil, Mr. Rick Warren.

Brother Jim: Now, last week, on Thursday, we

Brother Jim: started talking about who was

Brother Jim: Satan?

Brother Jim: Who is Satan?

Brother Jim: Do you believe in Satan?

Brother Jim: Do you wonder who he is?

Brother Jim: Now we started jumping into that

Brother Jim: just a little bit, touching the

Brother Jim: surface.

Brother Jim: Another name used in which Bible in the Bible, which is the

Brother Jim: devil, which means accuser.

Brother Jim: Just kind of bringing us up to date a little bit here.

Brother Jim: Satan accuses people and tries

Brother Jim: to bring condemnation and

Brother Jim: discouragement.

Brother Jim: Oh yes he does.

Brother Jim: He does it to everybody.

Brother Jim: In first Peter five eight, the

Brother Jim: Bible warns us, be sober, be

Brother Jim: vigilant, because your adversary

Brother Jim: the devil, walks about you like

Brother Jim: a roaring lion seeking whom he

Brother Jim: may devour.

Brother Jim: This shows us that Satan is very active.

Brother Jim: Oh yes, he's active in our world today.

Brother Jim: And a lot of people, I'm afraid.

Brother Jim: I hate to say it, but we're just too blind to see it.

Brother Jim: True, David.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I mean, he's everywhere.

Brother Jim: And he's even in our churches,

Brother Jim: from schools, churches, our

Brother Jim: homes, society.

Brother Jim: He is everywhere.

Brother Jim: He's always looking for ways to

Brother Jim: lead people into sin and away

Brother Jim: from God.

Brother Jim: Satan is the father of lies.

Brother Jim: Jesus spoke directly about Satan's character in John eight,

Brother Jim: verse forty four.

Brother Jim: You are of your father, the devil, and the desires of your

Brother Jim: father you want to do.

Brother Jim: He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in

Brother Jim: the truth, because there is no truth in him.

Brother Jim: When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources.

Brother Jim: For is he a liar and the father of it?

Brother Jim: Now in John eight forty four, Jesus said that Satan is the

Brother Jim: father of lies.

Brother Jim: From the very beginning, Satan has used deception.

Brother Jim: What's the thing about David?

Brother Jim: How are we deceived this day and age?

David: I mean, the first thing that comes to my mind is AI.

David: I mean, there's nothing about AI that's real, but it looks real.

Brother Jim: It's hard. Yeah. Is this.

Brother Jim: What am I really watching?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I've worn my mom about that because she's all new to this.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And she's like, I don't understand.

Brother Jim: Look at this.

Brother Jim: I'm like, yeah, mom, it's AI.

Brother Jim: You gotta look down at the bottom most of the time this was

Brother Jim: AI created for your entertainment or whatever.

David: If they leave it on there though, because they can take

David: that off and then you've got to really dig in hard.

Brother Jim: You gotta really.

Brother Jim: Yeah. It's crazy.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And it's just going to keep getting better and better.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: Uh, yeah.

Brother Jim: So through how about our technology?

Brother Jim: We can say that.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: How about our entertainment?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Entertainment.

Brother Jim: That's.

Brother Jim: That's huge.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Music, movies, TV shows.

Brother Jim: Uh, what we watch on reels, YouTube.

Brother Jim: I mean, it's all right there to help us.

Brother Jim: Help us fall into temptation, fall into sin.

Brother Jim: I mean, online gambling, betting.

Brother Jim: I mean, that's a but it makes it look so easy, right?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

David: It's easy to lose money.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Yeah. I'm losing at the pump every day.

David: Right?

Brother Jim: Yeah. So, uh, uh, deception he uses quite well.

Brother Jim: If we go back to the story of

Brother Jim: Adam and Eve, the temptation

Brother Jim: that they faced in the Garden of

Brother Jim: Eden.

Brother Jim: Satan twisted God's words and

Brother Jim: caused doubt, leading them into

Brother Jim: disobedience.

Brother Jim: And, you know, I always think of

Brother Jim: the little devil on this, like

Brother Jim: in the old cartoons, the little

Brother Jim: devil on this one, the little

Brother Jim: angel on this one, you know, and

Brother Jim: it is it's it's like a constant

Brother Jim: battle sometimes of temptation,

Brother Jim: temptation, temptation.

Brother Jim: Now, temptation is not the sin until we act upon it.

Brother Jim: But I mean, that's where we

Brother Jim: gotta put on the armor of God

Brother Jim: for protection each and every

Brother Jim: day.

Brother Jim: Because Satan, his demons, they love to attack.

Brother Jim: Now I still, I think Dave and I

Brother Jim: both agree that if you're just

Brother Jim: kind of one of those quiet

Brother Jim: people that don't cause a fuss

Brother Jim: and muss, you know, oh, I go to

Brother Jim: church, but you ain't doing

Brother Jim: nothing.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Is he really going to mess with you that much?

David: I don't think so.

Brother Jim: I personally don't think he really.

Brother Jim: Because he's got you.

Brother Jim: Exactly.

Brother Jim: He's got you right where he wants you.

Brother Jim: Now, that's not saying life will not happen.

Brother Jim: Bad things will not happen.

Brother Jim: But especially on the spiritual

Brother Jim: side, if you're quiet and just

Brother Jim: checklist Christian kind of

Brother Jim: person.

Brother Jim: Yeah, but it seems like, man,

Brother Jim: when things start to go well,

Brother Jim: you're moving and grooving for

Brother Jim: Jesus, man.

Brother Jim: Seems like things kind of pop up a little bit more.

Brother Jim: Yeah, a little bit more on the irritation side.

Brother Jim: And that is still how Satan works today.

Brother Jim: He plans thoughts such as God doesn't care about you.

Brother Jim: Sin is not really that serious.

Brother Jim: You can handle life without God.

Brother Jim: Those are those are some big ones there.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: Uh, I mean, there's still times.

Brother Jim: There's a lot of times.

Brother Jim: Let's be honest.

Brother Jim: I never even give God a second

Brother Jim: thought on some of the decisions

Brother Jim: I make.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But like we just talked Sunday is your whole body, your mind,

Brother Jim: heart and soul.

Brother Jim: Does it belong to Jesus?

Brother Jim: And again, now it's picking those little things.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: I think that's for me, one of the things in your journey.

Brother Jim: It's the little things now.

Brother Jim: Uh, I know we've said this like by, you know, like purchasing

Brother Jim: items, just go and purchase it.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Before.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: God, what's your will here?

Brother Jim: Where do you want me to go to get this?

Brother Jim: Now, some people might be

Brother Jim: thinking, dude, what are you

Brother Jim: talking about?

Brother Jim: Just go buy it.

Brother Jim: Maybe God's got something better for you.

Brother Jim: Yeah, but we don't ask.

Brother Jim: Sin isn't really that serious.

Brother Jim: Well, do we classify sin, David?

David: We do.

Brother Jim: Oh, yes. Our Mount Rushmore sin, as I like to call.

David: That's right.

Brother Jim: Yes. What we put up there.

Brother Jim: But it's okay.

Brother Jim: It's okay.

Brother Jim: And how about being honest?

Brother Jim: Do we tend to hold on to some of our sin, those ones that are

Brother Jim: just so darn enjoyable?

Brother Jim: Oh, but Brother Jim, I don't do it all the time.

Brother Jim: How about you?

Brother Jim: Is there some stuff you like to

Brother Jim: hold on to or you keep in the

Brother Jim: back closet so nobody knows

Brother Jim: about?

Brother Jim: Honest question.

Brother Jim: Uh, but again, it's just, uh, man, he he can spin it.

Brother Jim: Can he?

Brother Jim: The devil can spin it.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: And, uh, and I've seen in this walk, this calling how we do

Brother Jim: love to categorize sin.

Brother Jim: And, uh, That's a bad thing to do.

Brother Jim: But these are lies meant to pull people away from the truth.

Brother Jim: Satan tempts and tries to destroy.

Brother Jim: Satan also tempts people to sin.

Brother Jim: Even Jesus.

Brother Jim: Yes, Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness as recorded in

Brother Jim: Matthew chapter four.

Brother Jim: Satan tried.

Brother Jim: He tried to tempt Jesus with power.

Brother Jim: Oh yeah.

Brother Jim: How about a little pride?

Brother Jim: Sprinkle on that and short cuts.

Brother Jim: Everybody loves a good shortcut, don't they, David?

David: Absolutely.

David: Especially us.

Brother Jim: Guys. Yes. Shortcuts.

Brother Jim: I'm not talking about your your, uh, you know, when you're

Brother Jim: hopping in your car and putting on your, uh, you know where you

Brother Jim: want to go there.

Brother Jim: I'm talking about your life because sometimes that takes

Brother Jim: hard work, doesn't it?

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: To get what you want to get where God wants you to be.

Brother Jim: And yeah, sometimes we're looking for shortcuts.

Brother Jim: Uh, but Jesus resisted him.

Brother Jim: That's the key word.

Brother Jim: Jesus resisted him using the words of God.

Brother Jim: This teaches teaches you and I an important lesson.

Brother Jim: God's word is our weapon against temptation.

Brother Jim: Satan wants to destroy our faith.

Brother Jim: He wants to destroy our relationships, and he wants to

Brother Jim: destroy our lives.

Brother Jim: But temptation, as I said earlier, it's.

Brother Jim: It itself is not a sin.

Brother Jim: Giving into it is.

Brother Jim: Well, Jim, what do you mean?

Brother Jim: What are temptations, David?

Brother Jim: We face good guys.

Brother Jim: Us good guys.

David: I mean, temptations of the flesh

David: are all around us every day,

David: right?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

David: I mean, that's hard to avoid.

Brother Jim: How about the temple, brother?

Brother Jim: How about the temple?

Brother Jim: Our temple?

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: What are we putting in?

Brother Jim: How are we taking care of our temple?

Brother Jim: Yeah, well, Jim, I know there's no. Well, Jim about it because I

Brother Jim: am guilty as charged.

Brother Jim: You know, I was thinking of that the other day.

Brother Jim: What am I doing?

Brother Jim: You know, Dave and I was talking before the show here, and it's

Brother Jim: so hard because it seems like you're on the right path.

Brother Jim: You're doing well, taking care of yourself.

Brother Jim: And before you know it, and I

Brother Jim: told David, for me, I think it's

Brother Jim: stress.

Brother Jim: You fall into those not so healthy choices in life.

Brother Jim: You know, I said my pop

Brother Jim: consumption again is

Brother Jim: skyrocketed.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Why?

Brother Jim: It's it's maybe it's like your morning coffee.

Brother Jim: How many of us now, I'm not a coffee drinker, but how many of

Brother Jim: us have to have that cup of coffee in the morning?

Brother Jim: No, I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with coffee, but

Brother Jim: if we're going to start splitting hairs, it's a

Brother Jim: stimulant, isn't it?

Brother Jim: And one cup.

Brother Jim: That's cool.

Brother Jim: But what happens when you got two?

Brother Jim: Three?

Brother Jim: You're drinking the whole pot before dinner or lunch.

Brother Jim: Yeah, that could be a problem.

Brother Jim: No different than me chugging down the old Sunkist here.

Brother Jim: One hundred and fifty calories.

Brother Jim: And let's see.

Brother Jim: Oh, sugar.

Brother Jim: Sugar, sugar.

Brother Jim: Total sugar, forty one grams.

Brother Jim: Now, I don't know how many grams

Brother Jim: of sugar we're supposed to have

Brother Jim: a day, David, but I'm guessing

Brother Jim: one can probably puts me over

Brother Jim: the limit.

David: At least puts you close.

David: Close?

Brother Jim: Yes, yes.

Brother Jim: And again, I like, you know, moderation.

Brother Jim: If you like your ice cream.

Brother Jim: Hey, Easter's coming up, you know, have a piece of pie.

Brother Jim: Maybe two.

Brother Jim: Treat yourself.

Brother Jim: But again, what are we putting in?

Brother Jim: Because what happens when we start doing it every day?

Brother Jim: That's where you know, and you

Brother Jim: start thinking of all the

Brother Jim: things, especially our food

Brother Jim: today, what we're putting in our

Brother Jim: body.

Brother Jim: Uh, getting the appropriate sleep.

Brother Jim: That's where David, the good old reels comes in.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: How many of us and I'm just

Brother Jim: bringing this up, are guilty of

Brother Jim: sitting there at night watching

Brother Jim: videos instead of putting the

Brother Jim: phone?

Brother Jim: I think they say go dark an hour before you go to sleep.

Brother Jim: You know, shut your phone off.

Brother Jim: I sleep with my phone right next to me.

Brother Jim: David.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Now one, that's our we don't

Brother Jim: have a home line now, but still

Brother Jim: it's you.

Brother Jim: Wake up.

Brother Jim: I seems like three o'clock, four o'clock.

Brother Jim: You wake up.

Brother Jim: Uh, see what the weather's looking like, then, you know?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And before you know it, you've blown two hours and you want to

Brother Jim: go back to sleep, and it's time to get up.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: Are you giving your body the proper rest?

Brother Jim: So again, these little temptations that, uh, those to

Brother Jim: me are the big ones.

Brother Jim: Now it's trying to hone it down and get a smooth polish.

Brother Jim: And there's still a lot of ruts, you know, that fine work is

Brother Jim: where it's at now.

Brother Jim: Yeah, but with God's help, we can resist.

Brother Jim: Satan is powerful, but not equal to God.

Brother Jim: No, sir.

Brother Jim: He's not.

Brother Jim: Sometimes people think of Satan as if he were equal to God.

Brother Jim: But no, that is a big old fat lie.

Brother Jim: It's not true.

Brother Jim: Satan is not equal to God.

Brother Jim: Satan is a created being and God is the creator of everything.

Brother Jim: But it was Satan's pride, Satan's choice, just like ours,

Brother Jim: to rebel, to rebel.

Brother Jim: Satan's power is limited.

Brother Jim: The Bible reminds us in James four seven therefore submit to

Brother Jim: God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Brother Jim: Yes, he will flee from you.

Brother Jim: Notice what that verse says when we submit, that means giving it

Brother Jim: to God and resist the devil.

Brother Jim: He must flee.

Brother Jim: That means believers are not helpless.

Brother Jim: But are we a little bit lazy sometimes, David?

David: Only sometimes.

David: Yeah. A lot.

Brother Jim: I am.

Brother Jim: I'm still doing it.

Brother Jim: You know, I got I suffer from

Brother Jim: the knucklehead syndrome, you

Brother Jim: know?

Brother Jim: But the greatest truth for Christians is that Jesus Christ

Brother Jim: has already defeated Satan.

Brother Jim: Yes he has.

Brother Jim: Through his death and resurrection, Jesus broke the

Brother Jim: power of sin and darkness.

Brother Jim: Colossians two verse fifteen.

Brother Jim: Having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a public

Brother Jim: spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

Brother Jim: The Bible teaches that Christ

Brother Jim: triumphed over the powers of

Brother Jim: evil, and one day Satan will be

Brother Jim: completely defeated.

Brother Jim: In revelation twenty, we see that Satan's final destiny is

Brother Jim: judgment just like ours.

Brother Jim: Evil will not win.

Brother Jim: God will.

Brother Jim: We know that as believers in

Brother Jim: Christ, we know that it's from

Brother Jim: His Word.

Brother Jim: But how should Christians respond?

Brother Jim: Knowing who Satan is should not make us afraid.

Brother Jim: Instead, it should make us alert

Brother Jim: and be prepared, alert and being

Brother Jim: prepared.

Brother Jim: So let me ask you something, friends.

Brother Jim: Are you alert of the devil?

Brother Jim: Satan's tricks and are you prepared for it?

Brother Jim: Christians, you and I can stand strong by staying close to God

Brother Jim: through prayer, reading, and obeying the Bible.

Brother Jim: His word surrounding.

Brother Jim: Here's a big one surrounding ourselves with other believers.

Brother Jim: Does that make a difference, David?

David: Absolutely.

David: It does.

Brother Jim: Yeah. What's that old saying?

Brother Jim: Hang out with dogs and you're bound.

David: To get fleas.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: And it's true.

Brother Jim: Now, I have noticed you just

Brother Jim: it's part of that transformation

Brother Jim: process.

Brother Jim: You start to gravitate away.

Brother Jim: I still love my friends, but I

Brother Jim: have more in common with fellow

Brother Jim: believers.

Brother Jim: You know, not saying I don't

Brother Jim: like to get the hey, buddy, how

Brother Jim: you doing?

Brother Jim: You know?

Brother Jim: But yeah, it's surrounding ourselves with other believers.

Brother Jim: And have you found David, when

Brother Jim: you surround yourself with

Brother Jim: negative people and it's easy, I

Brother Jim: do it.

Brother Jim: I fall into that negativity,

Brother Jim: boy, before you know it, you're

Brother Jim: negative too.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: It's And that's a self for me because poor David here, he

Brother Jim: hears so much of me complaining.

Brother Jim: You know my frustration, which I think it's healthy to have

Brother Jim: somebody you can vent to, but yet I don't want to be that guy

Brother Jim: that makes David feel.

Brother Jim: Or my Miss Ida or Dan here feel all man.

Brother Jim: What's there to live for?

Brother Jim: Geez.

Brother Jim: No, you got to surround yourselves with upbeat people,

Brother Jim: believers in Christ.

Brother Jim: Ones who are jolly.

Brother Jim: Who would you rather hang out with?

Brother Jim: A Karen or a, you know, like a Susie, that man, it's just fun

Brother Jim: to be around, right?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Resisting temptation.

Brother Jim: Quickly trusting in the power of Jesus Christ.

Brother Jim: When we walk with God, we do not fight alone.

Brother Jim: So who is Satan?

Brother Jim: He's a fallen angel who rebelled against God.

Brother Jim: He is the adversary who deceives and tempts.

Brother Jim: But again, he is not all

Brother Jim: powerful and he is not

Brother Jim: victorious.

Brother Jim: Jesus Christ has already overcome him.

Brother Jim: Therefore, let us stay faithful,

Brother Jim: stay watchful and stay close to

Brother Jim: God.

Brother Jim: When we stand with Christ, we stand on the side that has

Brother Jim: already already has the victory in their win column.

Brother Jim: Amen.

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

Brother Jim: Tuesday, March thirtieth, twenty twenty six.

Brother Jim: Mr. David, my friend, closing

Brother Jim: thoughts or comments for this

Brother Jim: little segment.

David: Had an interesting thought that I had always been told.

David: It's pretty simple, but I think we need reminded that the devil

David: doesn't know your thoughts.

David: He doesn't know what you're thinking.

David: He can't know what you're thinking.

David: He only knows what you say out loud.

David: Yes.

Brother Jim: Very true.

David: So, you know if it's in your head, either keep it that way or

David: get it out.

David: But don't you know, don't speak it because you're speaking

David: something and he can.

David: Ah.

David: Okay.

David: All right, I see.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Very true.

Brother Jim: And I'm bad about talking to myself, you know, and yeah,

Brother Jim: letting the cat out of the bag, if you will.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And, uh, he hit it on the head there.

Brother Jim: Uh, but again, if we're in

Brother Jim: constant worship, constant

Brother Jim: prayer.

Brother Jim: What's coming out of your mouth is going to be a whole lot

Brother Jim: better and doesn't give him that opening, you know?

Brother Jim: Alrighty, maybe you've got some comments or segments.

Brother Jim: Let us know.

Brother Jim: We'd love to hear from you.

Brother Jim: How do you deal with temptation?

Brother Jim: How do you deal fighting Satan?

Brother Jim: If you need a prayer request, if you need help, let us know.

Brother Jim: We will gladly pray for you, our

Brother Jim: friends, as we close, please

Brother Jim: remember you.

Brother Jim: Yes, you have meaning.

Brother Jim: You have value and most of all you are loved.

Brother Jim: May God continue to bless you.

Brother Jim: And just as well, may you and I

Brother Jim: continue to thank our Lord above

Brother Jim: for our blessings each and every

Brother Jim: day.

Brother Jim: And if we meet again, 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.

Brother Jim: Miss Ida Lee, Mr. Dan the

Brother Jim: Chicken Man, and myself this

Brother Jim: morning here on Bible bibs and

Brother Jim: prayer.

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

Brother Jim: Out.