
The Comradery Chronicles
Joshua and Pastor Mike Ferland undertake an epic road trip along the East Coast in which they reflect on the declining spiritual state of America.

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Caption transcript for “The Comradery Chronicles”
- 00:01 ♪♪♪ Joshua Colson: Hey, everybody, I'm Joshua. Caleb Colson: And I'm Caleb.
- 00:11 Joshua: We are brothers. Caleb: The Bearded Bible Brothers, and we're getting
- 00:13 ready to return to Israel this fall for an amazing trip where
- 00:16 we're going to teach about the first century church
- 00:19 in the Book of Acts.
- 00:20 Jews and Gentiles made the [phone ringing].
- 00:23 Oh man.
- 00:24 Joshua: Why do you always leave your phone on in the middle
- 00:26 of filming?
- 00:27 Caleb: This is important, that rocket attacks
- 00:29 against Israel from Iran.
- 00:31 Look, they shut down the Tel Aviv airport.
- 00:32 Look at all those red.
- 00:34 Joshua: That's not just an attack, that's like the
- 00:35 whole country.
- 00:36 Caleb: It's--what do you expect?
- 00:38 They, they're hated, I mean.
- 00:39 Joshua: You gotta be able to turn it off to film.
- 00:41 Caleb: I'm starting to feel like I've been praying and God's
- 00:45 speaking to me that maybe we shouldn't go back to Israel
- 00:47 this fall.
- 00:49 Joshua: Okay, hold on, mister ever since I got stuck in my
- 00:51 first war and now I want to be in all the wars, "I'm afraid to
- 00:55 go back now because there's a little bit of rocket fire?
- 00:57 There's a couple of rockets here and there, and now
- 00:59 I don't want to go?"
- 01:00 Caleb: I'm not afraid, but I feel like this message that
- 01:02 we're about to teach is so important.
- 01:05 It requires a fresh perspective.
- 01:06 Who says that we have to teach it from the Bible lands?
- 01:09 This is kosher versus non-kosher,
- 01:10 Jews versus Gentiles, I mean.
- 01:12 Joshua: You did, you said we have to film from the Bible.
- 01:15 Caleb: I have an idea, a fresh perspective, something that
- 01:18 people aren't gonna expect from the Bearded Bible Brothers,
- 01:21 come on.
- 01:23 Joshua: Here's the deal.
- 01:24 The real problem is every time somebody tries to solve a
- 01:27 solution, it says they break bread.
- 01:29 If the two groups sat down and had bacon together, everything
- 01:32 would be fixed.
- 01:34 Caleb: I think that God wants us to go to the most unsuspecting
- 01:37 group of people that's literally inundated with the most unkosher
- 01:42 environment known to man.
- 01:44 You know who I'm talking about.
- 01:45 Joshua: Stop, we're not going to Burning Man.
- 01:48 We can't even show that on this show.
- 01:50 We'd have to have everything black barred, wouldn't even
- 01:51 make sense.
- 01:53 Caleb: I'm talking about Maynards.
- 01:54 Mike Ferland: Did somebody say the godfather of Maine?
- 01:56 [cheering]
- 01:59 Hold me, hold me.
- 02:02 Joshua: I missed you so much.
- 02:03 Mike: I missed you guys.
- 02:04 Joshua: I love Maine, and I love you even more than Maine.
- 02:09 Joshua: I'm pulling into the airport, why?
- 02:11 Because I'm picking up my good friend and brother, Pastor Mike.
- 02:16 Mike: What's going on?
- 02:18 Joshua: I have prayed for years to go somewhere where I don't
- 02:21 have to eat house pets, where it's not 127 degrees, where I
- 02:24 can actually use 2-3 ply paper to clean my body, the way God
- 02:28 intended me to, instead of having to shake everybody's
- 02:31 hand right-handed.
- 02:32 Maine is my place.
- 02:34 It's about to be my time.
- 02:36 I've waited my whole life for this.
- 02:38 Caleb: It isn't enough for us to teach about becoming fishers
- 02:42 of men.
- 02:43 Yeshua sent out his disciples who were kosher to catch the
- 02:46 kosher fish.
- 02:47 It's time for us to talk about the unclean, the lobsters.
- 02:53 That's right, we're gonna become "The Lobstermen."
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- 03:06 Caleb: Josh, where'd you go?
- 03:08 Joshua: [cackling]
- 03:10 Mike: He runs faster than a turkey on turkey season.
- 03:13 Caleb: You know, Josh, we don't even depart for another
- 03:15 five days.
- 03:16 Joshua: That's right, you're not leaving for five days.
- 03:19 I, however, have a date in four hours with 16 lobsters covered
- 03:24 in melted non-kosher butter.
- 03:25 I'll see you losers later.
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- 03:30 Joshua: Go ahead and put that in.
- 03:31 That should be enough butter.
- 03:33 If we need to stop along the way to get more.
- 03:35 Mike: Josh, I packed clothes.
- 03:38 Joshua: You don't even eat lobster, I totally forgot.
- 03:40 Okay, we're gonna have to swing by the store and get a bunch of
- 03:42 butter on the way there.
- 03:44 Mike: Okay.
- 03:45 Joshua: Hey, everybody, I bet you're wondering, why are these
- 03:48 young men dressed in shirts adorned with bearded lobsters
- 03:51 that look as though they've been in rabbi training since they
- 03:54 were small, little baby lobsters?
- 03:56 That's because we are headed to film an epic series known as
- 04:00 "The Lobstermen."
- 04:02 Now, I know, lobsters aren't kosher, what could we possibly
- 04:05 be doing?
- 04:06 I'm glad you asked.
- 04:07 You see, Yeshua called them to be fishers of men, us, right?
- 04:11 But there was a specific fisherman who was actually
- 04:15 fishing for lobsters, the unkosher, and that's what this
- 04:18 series is all about, Rabbi Shaulul going out there and
- 04:22 bringing in the lobsters to Yeshua.
- 04:25 But as we go along the way, we often talk about missions and
- 04:29 outreach to other countries.
- 04:31 Let's go somewhere else and talk about the Gospel of Yeshua, but
- 04:33 we don't often talk about our own backyard here in America.
- 04:37 Now, America as a nation was founded on godly principles.
- 04:40 It was founded by men who came to establish a godly nation.
- 04:44 But here we are almost 250 years later, and what exactly is the
- 04:48 heartbeat of this country?
- 04:50 Mike and I wanna find out.
- 04:52 We're gonna go on a 2,000-mile journey across this nation to
- 04:56 see exactly what's happening along the way.
- 04:59 Mike: You know, Josh, those men and those families that came
- 05:01 across the seas to come to this land, they came here to have
- 05:05 religious freedom.
- 05:06 They came here to worship God as they saw fit.
- 05:08 They were running away from an oppressive government who said,
- 05:11 "This is the only way you can worship God, this is the only
- 05:13 church we can have."
- 05:15 They were coming here as an opportunity to be like, "God, we
- 05:19 wanna go where you want us to go, we wanna be able to, to
- 05:22 share your Word, we wanna bring it to all of the world."
- 05:25 But you know what?
- 05:26 I think over the last 250 years, that heart, that fire might have
- 05:33 dimmed some.
- 05:34 Joshua: It can be easy to get caught up in the daily rut and
- 05:36 make assumption about what's going on in life or you can get
- 05:40 in a van, and you can drive 2,000 miles over the course of a
- 05:43 week, and you can stop and find out for yourself.
- 05:45 Come on with us as we check out the heartbeat of America and see
- 05:49 exactly what's going on.
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- 05:58 Joshua: Awesome.
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- 06:13 Joshua: The median path, 815 miles.
- 06:16 There was a whole half a day, it was literally a path that took
- 06:20 you 943 miles to get through it.
- 06:23 But here's the deal, as I can see right in front of me the
- 06:26 border of Arkansas.
- 06:27 Mike: Ar-Kansas.
- 06:29 Joshua: What's Ar-Kansas?
- 06:30 Mike: Isn't it called Ar-Kansas?
- 06:32 A-R-K-A-N-S-A-S, Ar-Kansas.
- 06:35 Joshua: So we're pulling into Ar-Kansas right now.
- 06:39 Mikey, have you ever been there before?
- 06:40 Mike: I've never been to Ar-Kansas before.
- 06:42 This is a checklist item for me.
- 06:47 Joshua: We're talking about the gathering together of people
- 06:50 that believe in Yeshua.
- 06:52 Mike: If they were to ask Jesus what the number one purpose of
- 06:57 the church is, he might also say evangelism.
- 07:02 But then if he were to be asked, "Whose job is it to evangelize?”
- 07:07 then he might say, "Everyone."
- 07:10 Joshua: You.
- 07:11 Funny how you point your finger at the camera and it goes right
- 07:13 back at your face.
- 07:15 I love everybody, but we've gotten into this ideal in the
- 07:19 body of Christ that we have partitioned off giftings and
- 07:23 callings to where we're not responsible for the most base
- 07:28 foundational requirement of believing in Yeshua, which is
- 07:33 spreading the news of Yeshua to every person on this earth, when
- 07:38 we share our testimony of how we came to faith, and at any point
- 07:43 you share the ideal, I chose him because I realized that the
- 07:46 opposite was going to be eternal separation and that I realized
- 07:51 this love was so great that I had to have a relationship with
- 07:54 him for eternity, and when you realize that that level of love
- 07:59 that he exhibited for you, he exhibited for every
- 08:03 other person.
- 08:05 But yet, you have deemed in your heart that you're not called or
- 08:09 designed to share that.
- 08:11 Where's the desperation of the same love that he had that is
- 08:14 supposed to be beating in your heart to go out and ensure that
- 08:18 everybody else who doesn't know or who has rejected, doesn't
- 08:22 have that opportunity to be faced with the decision to
- 08:27 either reject the greatest level of all time or to accept it and
- 08:30 prevent eternal separation from it from all of eternity.
- 08:34 The point is church, getting together with other people,
- 08:39 going to the synagogue, listening to the rabbi,
- 08:42 the pastor.
- 08:43 His responsibility is what God's called him and ordained him
- 08:46 to do.
- 08:48 It's not your place to define what pastor's job is.
- 08:51 It's your place to listen to the Holy Spirit and what he's
- 08:55 telling you to do and to do it.
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- 09:21 Joshua: I'm really excited.
- 09:22 It's the world's first kosher pork rib dry-rub Memphis style.
- 09:29 Wait, no, no pork can be kosher.
- 09:36 Are you sure?
- 09:37 [laughs maniacally]
- 09:39 ♪♪♪
- 09:43 Joshua: What do we have, Michael?
- 09:45 Mike: We're in Nashville, yeehaw!
- 09:49 Joshua: We're here, and we're gonna sleep, or at least try.
- 09:53 ♪♪♪
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- 10:02 Joshua: We are here in the streets of Nashville, looking
- 10:07 for some breakfast.
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- 10:18 Joshua: Mike flew in safely.
- 10:22 Joshua: Michael, never more was there a power move
- 10:26 than what we just saw.
- 10:27 Mike: Hey, you know, I don't have time to wait for
- 10:29 traffic lights.
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- 10:46 Joshua: This keto donut is so good!
- 10:49 Mike: Yeah, keto.
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- 10:59 Joshua: Hey, it says Cohen.
- 11:00 Is that a Jewish synagogue next to it?
- 11:03 Joshua: Mike and I don't have a lot of time to see all the
- 11:06 things here in Nashville, definitely not on foot.
- 11:09 So we're gonna rent some scooters and go check
- 11:11 out everything.
- 11:14 Mike: How do I do it?
- 11:15 Oh, there it is, forward.
- 11:22 We're gonna see so many things.
- 11:23 Joshua: We’re going to see so many things.
- 11:25 Mike: You ready?
- 11:27 Come on, come on.
- 11:29 Joshua: We're paying by the minute, Mikey.
- 11:30 Mike: I am aware.
- 11:35 Joshua: We're waiving to the capitol?
- 11:37 Mike: Waiving to the capitol.
- 11:38 Joshua: Yes, awesome.
- 11:40 Hey, let's go find some of those churches
- 11:41 we saw earlier last night.
- 11:42 Mike: Okay.
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- 11:54 Mike: We're gonna find it.
- 11:57 Joshua: Almost at that church, I think it's just up ahead, the
- 11:59 one from 1814, the building was built.
- 12:03 Mike: What?
- 12:04 Joshua: I know, check it out.
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- 12:20 Joshua: Wow, you know, we just pulled
- 12:23 into Nashville last night, and we got up this morning,
- 12:26 and we realized when we were going
- 12:28 through the downtown area that there's actually no shortage
- 12:31 of church buildings.
- 12:33 This congregation started in 1785, but this building was
- 12:37 built in 1814.
- 12:38 That's 209 years this church building's been here.
- 12:42 Mike: I mean, there's this lineage of all of the ministry
- 12:46 that's taken place at this location since 1785.
- 12:52 Joshua: So you think about how long this body of Christ has
- 12:56 been going on, but where is it today?
- 13:00 If you go to their website, you're gonna see a picture of
- 13:02 this same church building brandishing an LGBTQ flag with a
- 13:06 message saying, "All are welcome," but when you read
- 13:09 through their statement of faith, do you actually see
- 13:12 anything that talks about repentance or Jesus?
- 13:16 So what do we know?
- 13:17 We know everybody says, the Bible says, "You can't forsake
- 13:21 the gathering of believers."
- 13:22 They have to go to church.
- 13:24 But we want to talk about what is the church really?
- 13:27 We know you've heard this before.
- 13:28 But we gotta get on the road
- 13:30 because we're still heading to Maine, so.
- 13:32 Joshua: 1 Corinthians 6:19 tells us that our physical bodies are
- 13:35 now the temple of the Holy Spirit.
- 13:37 If that's the case, then the church isn't really the
- 13:40 building, but we're the church in the car right now.
- 13:43 We're on this road trip.
- 13:45 That's the church, not just where we meet together.
- 13:47 Joshua: Well, it's the end of another day.
- 13:49 I don't remember how many days it is.
- 13:52 We're in Virginia?
- 13:54 Mike: I think so.
- 13:56 Joshua: Lexington, Virginia, it's beautiful, it's 31
- 13:58 degrees outside.
- 13:59 We just had sushi, which I love.
- 14:03 And we have a few more hours 'cause we're heading to Maine.
- 14:10 Mike: Josh.
- 14:11 Joshua: No, really?
- 14:14 There really are churches everywhere, all over the place,
- 14:16 go figure.
- 14:19 Mike: So, statistically, Barna did research and asked
- 14:23 churchgoers what the number one purpose or like the most
- 14:28 important thing for a church to do is, and the vast majority of
- 14:32 people said that the most important thing for a church to
- 14:35 do was to meet their needs and the needs of their family.
- 14:40 Evangelism, sharing about Jesus, was third.
- 14:45 Joshua: Whoa, you see that?
- 14:47 Mike: Oh, look at there, there's a sign.
- 14:49 Joshua: Bethlehem?
- 14:51 I've never been to Bethle--you can't go in Israel,
- 14:54 not unless you're--
- 14:56 Mike: You think we might find something there?
- 15:00 Joshua: I think we need to go look, let's go.
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- 15:17 Joshua: Where is it at?
- 15:19 Mike: Is that a?
- 15:22 Joshua: Oh my gosh, look what we found.
- 15:25 Okay, I thought it was the real manger.
- 15:28 Because we're in Bethlehem, I thought maybe that was the real
- 15:30 baby Jesus.
- 15:31 Mike: Those did look real, real still.
- 15:35 Joshua: Because we would have had to go back in time because
- 15:37 he grew up and then died and went to heaven.
- 15:41 It's not the real manger.
- 15:43 Let's keep looking.
- 15:47 [excited mumbling]
- 15:51 Joshua: I knew it, I knew I was home.
- 15:56 Joshua: That was absolutely no help at all.
- 15:58 I'm pretty sure they have no idea what the real meaning
- 15:59 of Christmas is.
- 16:01 Let’s go try the hotel.
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- 16:16 Joshua: Hi, how are you?
- 16:18 receptionist: Good, how are you?
- 16:19 Joshua: Do y'all have any rooms for tonight?
- 16:20 receptionist: We are sold out.
- 16:22 Joshua: Like, not even a room?
- 16:25 Anything out back maybe?
- 16:26 Mike: Manger, stable?
- 16:28 receptionist: I got, got that one up there.
- 16:32 Joshua: Right, thank you.
- 16:35 Joshua: Wow, when I think of there being no room in the inn
- 16:38 for Joseph and Mary, I had no idea that it could have been
- 16:40 this big.
- 16:42 This is the little hotel in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
- 16:43 Now, all this noise, all this hubbub, it seems very similar,
- 16:48 right, to the original Christmas story, right?
- 16:51 Everyone was coming to Bethlehem for the census, so it was
- 16:53 probably like this but with less cars.
- 16:56 Mike: Probably, yeah, probably a few less cars.
- 16:57 Joshua: More camels.
- 16:58 But when you look around this town, you see all kinds
- 17:01 of marketing.
- 17:02 What are they trying to sell us?
- 17:03 Everything, the idea of Christmas, right?
- 17:06 Mike: It's Christmas city.
- 17:08 Joshua: Christmas City, trees, and garland, and all these
- 17:11 things that if you buy into this idea, this is what Christmas is.
- 17:16 We kind of live in a time and a day or age where the marketing
- 17:19 tries to tell us everything that we believe in.
- 17:22 But when we get to church, we also see that that happens
- 17:24 as well.
- 17:26 They try to market the length of our services, how the sets go,
- 17:29 when the Holy Spirit is supposed to show up, but that's not what
- 17:33 Jesus did.
- 17:34 What did Jesus do when he was talking to his disciples about
- 17:36 how he decided how he spoke to people?
- 17:38 Mike: He said that he would only do what the Father sent him
- 17:41 to do.
- 17:43 Joshua: Only say what the Father told him to say.
- 17:46 It's interesting because you think of Yeshua, he's the Son
- 17:48 of God.
- 17:49 We know that, right?
- 17:51 So we think, he came, he just knew what to say and do, but he
- 17:53 taught the disciples that he couldn't do anything unless he
- 17:56 stopped, and communed, and prayed with his Father about
- 18:00 what he was supposed to do.
- 18:02 It's too easy to get caught up today in the idea of self.
- 18:05 I know me, right?
- 18:07 It's about my self-truth.
- 18:08 That's the only thing that matters.
- 18:11 But we were called to live and do like Yeshua did, and if Jesus
- 18:16 himself had to ask his Dad about what to say and do, it's very
- 18:19 possible that we're gonna get lost and be living a complete
- 18:23 marketing nonsense if we're not taking the time to do the same.
- 18:28 We have to stop and not get caught up in the flow.
- 18:32 We get on our knees and make sure that our relationship with
- 18:35 the Father is close enough that we can hear what we're supposed
- 18:38 to say and what we're supposed to do.
- 18:40 Mike: And every day, not just this season,
- 18:42 every day.
- 18:45 Joshua: Bigger question now, God, how are we
- 18:47 gonna get out of this town?
- 18:48 Because the traffic is really bad.
- 18:50 It was crazy.
- 18:52 [horses clopping]
- 18:56 Joshua: I see another one.
- 18:58 Mike: We’ll get another one off the list.
- 18:59 Joshua: What is it?
- 19:01 Mike: It's New York.
- 19:02 Joshua: New York?
- 19:03 Oh, I like New York.
- 19:06 Joshua: What's that one?
- 19:08 Mike: C, Connect.
- 19:09 Joshua: Connecticut, Connecticut, Connecticut,
- 19:12 Connecticut, oh, okay.
- 19:14 Joshua: Mike, Mike, don't look, don't look.
- 19:17 You already know.
- 19:20 It's Massachusetts.
- 19:23 Hey, shouldn't Maine be the next state?
- 19:26 Mike: No, I think there's, there's one more in between us.
- 19:30 Joshua: What's, what's left between Massachusetts and Maine?
- 19:33 Mike: It's like a little tiny bit of New Hampshire.
- 19:36 Joshua: Oh, New Hamp--aren't you only in New Hampshire for like
- 19:38 six seconds?
- 19:39 Mike: 7 1/2.
- 19:40 Joshua: 7 1/2 seconds?
- 19:42 Oh, there it is.
- 19:44 Hey, New Hampshire.
- 19:45 Mike: Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, welcome to Maine!
- 19:54 Joshua: I'm sorry, what?
- 19:55 Mike: Yes sir, we're in Maine there, guy.
- 19:57 Joshua: Oh my goodness, Maynard Mike?
- 19:59 Mike: Yes sir, welcome, how are you doing?
- 20:01 Joshua: I forgot that as soon as we crossed the border, the
- 20:03 mother tongue comes back.
- 20:05 Mike: It’s wicked important, you know what I mean?
- 20:09 Joshua: Oh my goodness, I'm so excited, we're back in Maine!
- 20:13 What's happening?
- 20:15 Mike: We are home, we are in Maine.
- 20:17 We're at mi casa.
- 20:20 Joshua: Yes, we made it from Texas to Maine driving, pretty
- 20:28 freaking awesome.
- 20:36 Joshua: I love Maine.
- 20:38 I believe God loves Maine as well.
- 20:40 Why do I love Maine?
- 20:41 For so many reasons.
- 20:43 But today, what I thought was going to be a vacation has
- 20:45 become an opportunity to come to speak at Medomak High School,
- 20:49 not to be confused with Meadowmack.
- 20:50 This is the alma mater of some good people that I love, Michael
- 20:54 Ferland being one of them.
- 20:56 And how cool to be able to go to speak at Pastor Mike's high
- 21:01 school, to talk about Israel and to talk about Yeshua.
- 21:05 So excited, I don't think I've ever spoke at a public
- 21:08 school before.
- 21:09 Let's go check it out.
- 21:11 Joshua: Me and my brother are hosts of a messianic Jewish
- 21:13 program that's been on the air since 1978.
- 21:16 I did not start hosting in 1978.
- 21:18 That would make me way older than I am.
- 21:20 But my brother and I are the hosts now.
- 21:21 The original host passed in 2006.
- 21:24 And the show is a messianic Jewish program, which means that
- 21:28 we are Jewish by heritage but we do believe that Jesus is
- 21:31 the Messiah.
- 21:33 And if you know anything about Jewish people, they do not
- 21:35 believe that Jesus was the Messiah that the Old Testament
- 21:38 prophesied about.
- 21:39 They believe he still hasn't come yet.
- 21:41 The Bible says, "Without faith it's impossible to please God."
- 21:44 People say, "Well, what does that mean?"
- 21:46 It means that he wants you to trust him that he's your Dad and
- 21:51 that a good dad wants to take care of his kiddos, right?
- 21:54 And so when he makes you a promise, which he has throughout
- 21:56 the Bible, about how he wants all these good things for you,
- 22:00 whether it's Jeremiah 29:11 that says, "'I know the plans I have
- 22:03 for you,’ says the Lord, 'plans for hope and a future.’"
- 22:06 In Matthew 6, he talks about,
- 22:07 he says look at Creation, look at birds,
- 22:10 listen to that cool monitor, look at all this stuff,
- 22:13 if I do all of this stuff and I care about all that, how much
- 22:15 more do I care about you?
- 22:16 He has all these promises.
- 22:18 So when he says, "Without faith it's impossible to please him,"
- 22:19 he's just saying, "I just want you to trust me."
- 22:21 And it's easy to get caught up, thinking, "I'm only 15, 16, 17,
- 22:24 18 years old, and one day I'm gonna be the adult.
- 22:28 When I become the adult, then I'll handle whatever the adult
- 22:30 stuff is."
- 22:31 Y'all have social media, you have so many things, you could
- 22:33 literally communicate with anybody on the planet, which
- 22:36 means that you can curate a profile or an experience online
- 22:42 that is worthless.
- 22:43 You could be mean, you could lie, you could do all kinds
- 22:46 of things.
- 22:47 But you could also be an example.
- 22:49 And all I'm asking y’all guys to think about today is what I'm
- 22:51 sure every adult who talks to you asks you to think about is
- 22:54 that life is gonna be bigger than just this moment in front
- 22:56 of you right now.
- 22:57 But the moment you have in front of you right now is a moment
- 22:59 that you've been given to make a difference, and it can be
- 23:02 for good.
- 23:04 I'm not saying you can't ever have fun, you can't be silly,
- 23:06 this and that.
- 23:07 I'm probably one of the sillier adults that exists on this
- 23:09 planet, and those ridiculous parts of my personality have
- 23:13 been used to be able to love on people that wouldn't listen to a
- 23:15 regular stodgy person.
- 23:18 But I asked, I said, "Use me."
- 23:20 And man, when I look back, he sure has, and God is so amazing
- 23:24 in that.
- 23:26 If you do right or you do wrong, he loves you nonetheless, and
- 23:29 you've heard all that.
- 23:31 The devil wants you to feel shame and feel bad about your
- 23:34 stuff, right?
- 23:36 So when you do what's wrong and you don't do what's right, he
- 23:37 gets you in this nice spiral saying, "Well, I keep messing
- 23:41 up, so there's no point in trying anymore,"
- 23:42 and he gets you to give up.
- 23:45 But God says, "No, whether you've messed up a thousand
- 23:47 times or you've messed up one time, I love you, and I care
- 23:51 about you, and you have the same value in my eyes today as you
- 23:54 did before you did any of that."
- 23:55 He wants to use you right now just like if you were Billy
- 23:58 Graham or just like if you were the pastor of a massive church
- 24:01 or whatever, if you’re a president one day, he wants to
- 24:04 use you now.
- 24:05 And the steps to get to where you're gonna be here start
- 24:09 right now.
- 24:11 You were not created to be on this planet just for you.
- 24:13 You weren't created to get just money for yourself, just fame
- 24:17 for yourself, just a significant other.
- 24:21 You were created for how you would impact somebody
- 24:23 else's life.
- 24:25 And the first prayer, the prayer that I started praying when I
- 24:28 was y'all's age was, "Whose life do you want me to impact today?
- 24:33 Show me."
- 24:35 Because the only thing in life that's gonna ever be rewarding
- 24:38 is when you realize that he made you to be his example to a
- 24:45 certain group of people.
- 24:47 And all y'all's friends, and the people you know, and the people
- 24:49 that God's designed you to reach, I'll probably never be
- 24:52 able to meet.
- 24:53 That means no matter how good or bad I am at talking about Jesus
- 24:56 or this or that, I'll have no influence on them, but you will.
- 24:59 ♪♪♪
- 25:05 Joshua: But sometimes in life, you start off with a destination
- 25:08 in mind.
- 25:10 You have all the training, you have all the best interests, you
- 25:12 begin down this road, but along the way, you don't necessarily
- 25:16 set specific guidelines on your path.
- 25:20 And this guy, who's a navigation expert because this man is also
- 25:25 a veteran.
- 25:27 Mike: In navigation, they have this thing that’s called the 1
- 25:29 in 60 rule.
- 25:30 And so for every 60 miles that you travel, if you're as much as
- 25:34 just 1 degree off, in 60 miles that puts you 1 mile off course.
- 25:40 And if you imagine, if you were to travel around the whole world
- 25:45 just 1 degree off, and say you're aiming for, I don't know,
- 25:49 Washington D.C., you would end up, just 1 degree off course
- 25:53 from the start, you would end up in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- 25:58 Joshua: I don't have a map in front of me, but I'm willing to
- 26:00 suggest the difference between Washington D.C.
- 26:02 and Cincinnati is a chasm of hours.
- 26:05 Mike: Yes, over 500 miles.
- 26:06 Joshua: The point is, 1 degree is not a huge margin of error.
- 26:10 It's one day you're walking with the Lord, you're talking with
- 26:13 him, you've made him your focus, you're asking the Holy Spirit on
- 26:17 a daily basis, "What, what should I do today?"
- 26:20 But then the next day you don't.
- 26:22 And in life, when we get off more than 1 degree at a time, I
- 26:25 feel we start off with all of this promise, and we wake up one
- 26:28 day, and there's nothing but Atlantic Ocean behind you, and
- 26:31 it's beautiful, maybe, or maybe you end up in a place that's not
- 26:34 so beautiful.
- 26:35 But you're asking God, "Why did you do this to me?"
- 26:37 You may not be doing anything wrong, but are you listening to
- 26:41 the source of what is right?
- 26:43 Are you asking and communing on a daily basis with your Father
- 26:47 in heaven, who knows the plans that he has for you and has
- 26:51 projected every step out, when all he asks you to do is be
- 26:53 obedient and listen?
- 26:55 Mike: And the great thing about God is that in navigation world,
- 27:00 we get off course, it takes a lot of correction to get back,
- 27:04 but with God, we can't be too far off course for him to bring
- 27:10 us back on course.
- 27:11 But it requires us just turning to him, not us.
- 27:15 Joshua: It's amazing.
- 27:16 Like you said, we don't have to do any work, we just
- 27:18 have say, "Help," be willing.
- 27:20 But our prayer for you in watching this is that you stop
- 27:24 where you're at right now and you ask God,
- 27:26 "Am I on the right path?
- 27:28 Is today's course the course you have set for me the optimal
- 27:31 course to get me where you had planned before I even took my
- 27:35 first steps on this planet?"
- 27:37 Not out of condemnation, only out of the desire that all of us
- 27:40 should have, which is to be in his perfect will, to be
- 27:44 effective today at who he's called and designed us to be.
- 27:48 So that if He did call you and designed you
- 27:50 to arrive here at Stonington,
- 27:51 because we believe we're supposed to be
- 27:52 here in Stonington
- 27:54 so that we can talk to you today about that path
- 27:55 that he has for you.
- 28:00 Caleb: Did you know the Bearded Bible Brothers is an outreach of
- 28:02 Zola Levitt Ministries?
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- 28:27 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.