This episode of the David Spoon Experience explores the profound faith of Abraham as he is called by God to leave everything familiar behind and embark on a journey to an unknown land. Dr. Dave also gives a nod to Brother Ace, who is now hanging out with Jesus. David Spoon delves into the significance of Abraham's unwavering trust in God's promises, highlighting that true faith often requires stepping into the unknown without a clear destination. The discussion emphasizes the importance of leaving one's comfort zone, relatives, and even the safety of home in pursuit of God's calling. Alongside biblical insights, David shares personal reflections on his own journey of faith and the challenges that come with it. This episode serves as an encouragement for listeners to embrace their own faith journeys and trust in God's guidance, even when the path ahead is unclear.

Takeaways:

• The journey of Abraham reflects our own spiritual journeys, filled with uncertainty and faith.
• God's call to Abraham emphasizes the importance of leaving behind familiar comforts for the unknown.
• Abraham's faith is a model for us, showing that trusting God leads to blessings.
• The story of Jonah teaches us about the consequences of disobedience and God's mercy.
• Faith pleases God, and we must step out of our comfort zones to follow Him.
• The promises made to Abraham are also extended to us, connecting us to God's plan.

David Spoon brings listeners on an enlightening journey through the early chapters of Genesis, focusing specifically on the life of Abraham and the profound faith that God required of him. The discussion begins with the biblical narrative of Terah, Abraham's father, and their family's departure from Ur of the Chaldeans. This travels to Haran, where they settled before reaching the promised land of Canaan. Spoon draws powerful parallels between Abraham's journey and the listener's personal faith journeys, emphasizing that often we embark on paths without fully knowing where they lead. The core message is about trusting God despite uncertainty and the importance of seizing the promises of faith, even when circumstances appear daunting or impossible. Spoon's personal anecdotes enrich the narrative, showing how faith can lead to transformative experiences, urging listeners to reflect on their own challenges and the ways God might be calling them to step out in faith.

As the conversation unfolds, Spoon highlights the significance of God's covenant promises to Abraham, illustrating that despite Abraham and Sarah's inability to have children, God’s promise to make them the father of a great nation was not contingent on their circumstances but rather on His divine will. This idea resonates deeply, encouraging listeners to recognize that God often calls us to trust His plans, even when they seem far-fetched or beyond our understanding. Spoon’s vibrant storytelling and heartfelt reflections serve as a reminder of the faithfulness of God and the extraordinary things that can happen when we dare to believe in His promises.

The episode also touches on the theme of community and connectedness—how our journeys of faith are intertwined with others and how we can support one another. Spoon emphasizes the role of prayer, community support, and sharing experiences as vital elements in nurturing faith. He invites listeners to engage with the show, offering opportunities for prayer requests and sharing praise reports, fostering a sense of belonging and spiritual family. Overall, this episode is a rich exploration of faith, obedience, and the promises of God, leaving listeners inspired to seek a deeper relationship with the Divine and embrace the unknown paths ahead.

And now for something completely different.

Here's what's coming up this hour on today's experience.

It's marvelous, monumental, most fascinating, massively mind bending Monday as we join our hearts and minds as one, drawing closer to the King of Kings and glorifying his name.

First, starting off in Genesis 11, we're going to examine verse 31 where Terah takes his son Abram and his daughter in law Sarai and his grandson Lot and departs from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan.

But on their journey, they stop before reaching Canaan and ended up settling in a village called Haran.

It is here in Haran that Terah, Abraham's father, dies.

This departure from the Ur of the Chaldeans was what the Lord wanted for their family.

But they had not yet reached the destination that God had promised.

This is very much like what happens to you and me.

Out of something into something else.

Haven't quite arrived yet.

Next, in Genesis 12, beginning at verse one, we find God giving Abraham a separate command.

It's a most amazing command.

Please keep in mind that Abraham had no Bible, no church, no group or fellowship of counselors.

And the Lord tells Abraham to leave.

Wow.

Finally, verse 2 of chapter 12 in Genesis begins with great promises.

The first is that God promises Abraham he will become the father of a great nation.

Right away we must understand that Abraham and Sarah, they couldn't have children.

Abraham and Sari couldn't have kids.

So this was going to be a very interesting experience from the start.

And Abraham by faith would seize these promises.

How are we doing in seizing the promises?

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Then David Spoon found Jesus Christ and his life completely changed.

The more he studied the Gospel, the more he wanted to share his experiences with others.

After 35 years of ministry, David discovered a new path of service.

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Now, we've been telling you for quite some time, typically Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays, that it's not professional radio.

So just to verify that it's not professional radio, we're going to check with the jury foreman of professional radio.

Now he knows why that's funny.

The jury foreman of professional radio, our very own Jam and Jacob.

Jam and Jacob is the David Spoon Experience Professional radio.

No, it is not, David.

And that's a good one.

That's.

I like that one.

That's a good one.

That was pretty clever, huh?

All right, here's the bottom line.

The bottom line is not professional radio.

It's radio.

Take it easy.

Take a deep breath.

It's cool.

It's fine.

Here.

Here's what we want to know.

We want to know how you're doing, what you think.

David must increase dot org.

That, by the way, is our email.

And it works.

Which is by grace.

David must increase.org you can also text us.

You can also call us.

Oh, my.

It's a telephone.

No way.

Yeah, and it works.

Talking to Jammin Jacob is like knowing that your spiritual radio family has your back.

That's nice.

Thank you, David.

Happy Monday.

Happy Monday to you, my friend.

We will get into Jake's take in a little while.

We got some other things that we need to do prior.

It's good to have you on board, especially as the jury foreman of professional radio.

That's always good.

Bottom line to this whole thing is I'm going to try and say bottom line less than I normally do in our show and just tell you that there are reasons to reach out to us.

You can email us, text us or call us because it could be for a praise report.

Now, I'll just ask this and I'll do it in a semi manipulative way.

Okay.

So I'm telling you ahead of time, I'm doing it in a semi manipulative way.

Ready?

Here's the praise report opportunity.

Has God done anything in your life in the last week that you can point to and say thank you for?

And do you want to share that?

Well, you can.

That's what we're talking about.

Because it glorifies the Lord, it strengthens it in your own life, plus it blesses other people.

A little bit of manipulation in that.

I'd say you can do it for a prayer request because we'll pray about it.

Bring it before the Lord.

So we already prayed for finances and people along Those lines, we're going to be praying for some friend's health as well as a wayward son that's not doing well.

We all can relate to that.

We'll do that in just a little bit.

But it can be that a prayer request, something going on.

It can be just a scripture.

The Lord's put on your heart just giving this scripture and he keeps bringing it to you and it keeps ministering to you and maybe that will minister to other people.

Additionally, it could be something along the lines of a trivia question and answer.

So here we go.

We already established this.

Jonah went to preach against Nineveh.

But instead of going to Nineveh, Jonah went where?

Jonah, chapter one, verse three.

God told him, go to Nineveh.

But he had a little bit of a rebellious streak in him.

You know, even prophets have that going on.

And he went to a different city.

Where did he go?

A hint might be somewhat connected to a guy named Saul, but we'll leave that there.

I'm talking about New Testament Saul.

Jonah decided to go to which city instead of nineveh.

Jonah, chapter one, verse three.

Or you can send an email.

David, David must increase.org get that?

Got that?

Cool.

All right.

So I want to make sure you understand these opportunities.

I also want you guys to understand something, okay?

We will do in this ministry our best that we can do continually to be a blessing.

We want not just to bless you, we want you to be a blessing to us.

And I'm not just talking about money, I'm talking about prayers and things of that nature.

We will only do the best that we can do before the Lord.

But it's up to the Lord.

I want to make this so clear.

People keep thinking that they do the ministry.

There's not one minister that has ever done one thing that has not been enabled by God to do it.

And that's why no flesh will glory in his presence.

That's why even when you have great success in work, in life and relationships, in anything, it is a grace and a gift.

Nobody is entitled.

In fact, after our first 10,000 sins, we were all entitled to be zapped into non existence.

But God's mercy is greater and I just want you to remember that.

So when you're doing Things or things are happening for you.

You're getting blessed by a ministry.

Something's happening.

All of that points to one place, the Lord.

The Lord gets the glory.

Get that?

No other is entitled.

Right?

Okay, cool.

All right, your trivia question.

Jonah decided to go to which city instead of Nineveh.

We do have somebody on the line ready to answer a trivia question.

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

And a fine.

Good afternoon to you, David.

This is jd.

Hello, jd.

How are you, my brother?

I only hurt myself a little bit.

Thanksgiving.

So it was good.

Only a little bit of wounding, huh?

Yes, sir.

That's a great one, brother.

Very, very, very good.

All right, here we go.

You ready for this?

Yes, sir.

All right.

Jonah decided.

God said, okay, Jonah, go to Nineveh.

Jonah said, sure.

And then he went to a different city.

Jonah, 13, what was the city that he went to?

The only thing I can come up with with your clue would be Tarsus.

That is correct, if I know.

Good clue.

So it could be Taris, or it could be Tar.

It's like, that's fine.

That's where Paul came out of.

That's kind of an interesting thing.

And it's funny because if you understand it from a geographical point of view, it's kind of like this.

Maybe this is a good way to say it.

God said, hey, Jonah.

Yeah.

I want you to go to Dallas.

And Jonah went, okay.

And then he went to Houston.

See, that's kind of how that went.

And that's the wrong direction, dude.

You're going the wrong way.

Right?

It's like, yeah.

No, no.

You're not listening, are you, Jonah?

Okay, Jonah, we'll see what happens.

But Jonah did get the message, didn't he?

Amazing.

Yeah.

And we're going to do more on Jonah.

That's why it's really rather funny.

But you're doing pretty well overall, brother.

Yes, yes.

Thank you very, very much.

Awesome.

Thank you, sir.

I like hearing that.

I like it.

When people need prayer, I'm for it.

When people are doing well, I'm for it, too.

I like that, too.

See what I'm saying?

It's good to hear.

Yes, sir.

You're a blessing, brother.

We appreciate you.

And you, too, sir.

Thank you.

God bless.

Bye.

Bye.

All right, so excellent call by jd.

Phenomenal.

Phenomenal.

All right, so I'm going to take a little bit of extra time.

I'm going to pray for people that have wayward children, and you might have felt it more.

So this Thanksgiving or some people might have.

And we're going to pray for them, plus a specific family somebody has called in for a request.

And then I'm going to do a teaching.

And in the teaching, I'm going to share some sad news.

So I want you to just hang out with me and don't go anywhere.

But let's go to the Lord in prayer for people that are having a struggle physically, but then also having a struggle, because sometimes family members are more prodigal than we want them to be.

Get it?

Let's pray.

Father, we come before you right now and we thank you and we praise you.

Your graciousness, like we said, it's just.

It's past us, Lord, your kindness is past us.

Your goodness exceeds us, and we are deeply, deeply thankful.

And, Lord, many of us, myself included, have children that are along those prodigal, rebellious lines, and it hurts us.

They're adult children, but they're still our kids.

And it's like they go out to spend their inheritance and live wildly.

And, Lord, we're just broken for them.

We want them to do so much better.

We want them to draw close to you.

We want them to know you.

And sometimes that it really affects us as parents.

It causes problems for us emotionally and physically.

So first and foremost, I want to pray for the parents that have stuff going on that their health would not be subject to those disappointments, that there would not be that connection.

But instead, you would be Jehovah Rapha, the God that heals.

And you bring healing mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional to us parents, mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally.

And, Lord, as we look at that story of the prodigal, it dawned on the prodigal that he was heading in the wrong direction.

You gave him that revelation, Lord, in the story, so to speak.

Well, we're just asking you to give our kids who are prodigal the revelation, the illumination that they would come to their senses and they would come home primarily first to you.

We lift them up before you and pray for grace and mercy and kindness for the parents, for healing for the parents, and for hope.

And we pray for redemption and restoration for the prodigals.

Help us in this, Lord, as only you can.

Only you can in our earth.

Lord, let your will be done.

Let your kingdom come.

We pray in Jesus name.

Amen and Amen.

Okay, now I want to get into this teaching, and then I got to share something, and I told Jacob I didn't know how this was going to go.

We're just going to kind of roll with it.

So let me start off real quickly.

This is coming out of Genesis chapter 11.

It's picking up basically in verse 31 says Terah took his son Abram and his daughter in law Sarai and their grandson Lot, which was Haran's son, and left Ur of Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan.

But they stopped instead at the village of Haran and settled there.

Verse 32.

Terah lived for 205 years and he died while he was still in Haran.

So just from a practical biblical point of view, you have Terah taking Abraham and Sarah and Lot, they leave the Ur of Chaldeans, they go to the land of Canaan, but they stopped in the journey.

And then they settled in Haran for a while.

And Terah, Abraham's father, died.

This is what the Lord wanted, the departure from the Ur of the Chaldees to go to the next place.

That's what the Lord wanted for their family.

But they had not yet reached the destination of the promised land.

They're still in journey.

Did you hear what I just said?

They've not yet reached the destination of the Promised land.

They're still in journey.

Well, we have one of our very own that has followed Terah, our very own.

Brother Ace on Friday passed away into the hands of Jesus.

He passed away and he prayed for the Lord to take him.

He prayed for the grace of God to surround him and for him to be in the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

And the Lord said yes on Friday.

Now, for those that know Brother Ace from the show, Brother Ace has been listening to the show for over.

The show has been over five and a half years old.

He's been listening for over five years and calling in.

And when we do a replay and it acknowledges him, I'll bring that up that it was him.

Here's what I want you to know.

Brother Ace is doing so much better than we are.

And I have this weird sense or confidence that Brother Ace is getting a chance to meet somebody that I also love who's up there.

And many people, I should say, but some who are closer to me than others.

So Pastor Ray and Brother Ace, I have a feeling have met and are blessing one another by grace, I suspect.

I'm not dropping theology here.

I'm just sharing my hope in my heart.

Now, tomorrow, Brother Ace, they're having a service for him and it's at the Miles Cemetery at 2:00pm in Miles, Texas.

So if you're interested, this is being coordinated by a group called Harper Funeral Homes.

And he's having a.

It's basically, it's a graveside service and it'll be tomorrow at 2pm and if you want more information, you want to look up Miles Cemetery in Miles, Texas.

And William Roser was going to be doing the officiating.

And this is coordinated by Harper Funeral Home.

So if you need that again, send me a text, send me an email.

I'll send it out to you.

It'll be tomorrow at 2:00 for those that may want to attend.

But we remember Brother Ace as a phenomenal brother and we are blessed that he is more blessed than we are.

He was a great brother here on earth.

I have no doubt he's impressing people in heaven to a degree.

You know what I'm talking about.

In the very bottom of the thing they wrote for Brother Ace, well done, my good and faithful servant, until we meet again.

And I, I can say a wholehearted amen to that, Brother Ace.

We will see you as soon as we can.

All right, folks, we're gonna take our break and then come back.

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The deterioration of the ecosystem or creation itself is definitely the result of man.

You say, well, how can you say that?

Well, Romans, chapter 8, verse 19 through 21.

I just read the scriptures, I don't need anything else.

The Bible says this.

The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.

For the creation was subjected to frustration not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it in hope that the creation itself would be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Creation itself is longing for the redemption that comes through Jesus Christ.

And until that takes place, it is on a collision course down.

The result of the ecosystem or creation itself crashing is a result of man's sin in the garden.

So when they say, oh well, it's not man made.

Oh yes it is, of course it's man made.

It's because we messed up in the garden.

But I wasn't with Adam and Eve.

You were in the person of Adam and Eve.

And if you want me to use it, you are in the life giving force of Adam and Eve.

And if you want me to really say it, you were in the loins of Adam and Eve.

You were there too.

They stuck their fist up to God and said nope.

And God went, okie dokie.

Here's the result.

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Yet another Jonah trivia question.

What?

Another one?

Yes.

Let's see if you guys can get this one.

This is a classic and you should know this one.

What was Jonah doing on the ship during the storm?

He got on a ship heading in the opposite direction.

While he was on the ship he was doing something.

When the storm hit the boat, it was something similar to Jesus as to what Jesus was doing on a boat.

Jonah, chapter 15.

What was Jonah doing on the ship?

What?

During the storm, when the storm hit.

It is something similar that Jesus did when he was on a boat.

There's your Clue, Jonah, chapter one, verse five.

If you think you know the answer.

David must increase.org okay, now, having that before you, I'm just giving you that again.

Jonah was doing something on the ship during the storm.

So he's on a boat.

He's heading away from the Lord.

The storm comes.

What was Jonah doing?

Hmm.

Interesting.

And it turns out to be the same thing that Jesus did when he was on the boat.

Jonah, chapter one, verse five.

In the meantime, we will do our DNA.

D stands for Draw closer to the Lord daily.

So unlike eating dinner, Thanksgiving dinner, one day a year, which is how some of you have your devotions, daily, happens to mean every day.

So I want to set this up.

We've already talked about this.

So I want to set this up in a unique way.

Every day that you actually breathe.

Every day that you actually breathe, that's daily.

That's how often you should spend time with the Lord.

Every day that you breathe.

If you don't breathe an entire day, then you'll be with the Lord.

But if you breathe, if you breathe in that day, you should spend some time with the Lord.

Get it?

Okay.

D.

Draw closer to the Lord daily.

N.

Never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

I've got a story that I'm going to share tomorrow.

It's in the realm of real estate.

Aunt Deb will appreciate it.

I'm not going to share it yet today, but let's put it this way.

Dr.

Dave has been saying for a long time they're going to try and make the Bible hate speech.

When you hear this story that happened out of Virginia, it will blow your mind.

They are trying to make people ashamed of the word of God.

Never be ashamed.

Jesus said, if you're ashamed of me or my words, I will be ashamed of you.

When I come in glory with the holy angels, I'm just like, whoa, I don't want Jesus ashamed of me ever.

I do stupid things.

I got that.

But some things I can stand firm in, and that's to never be ashamed of Jesus or his word.

So D, Draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

A.

Always be ready.

To serve.

To serve.

Always be ready to serve.

Just ready.

You're ready for the Lord, whatever he's got in mind, you're ready.

Somebody's knocking at the door, you're ready to open it.

That's the imagery that we should have with the Lord.

If the Lord knocks, we're ready to open, we're ready to respond.

We're on it.

We're not so self consumed that we can't be used by The Lord.

That's the key.

Not so self consumed, ready to minister to other people, to situations.

Could be prayer.

Could be a smile, could be a message.

Communication.

Could be anything.

Anything and everything doesn't matter.

We're ready to respond to the Lord.

Here am I.

Send me D.

Draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

A Always be ready to serve.

Okay?

That is our DNA.

All right, so here's a couple things that I'm going to ask you guys, if you will please bear with me, and that is I need prayer.

I've been asking you guys to pray for me, for wisdom.

I also have a few minor health issues.

You can probably tell in my throat, it's a little dry.

So I've got that.

Plus another thing that I'm going to the doctor for later on.

So please be in prayer for me.

That would be greatly appreciated.

In the meantime, if you can answer the trivia question, that would be cool.

Jonah, when he was on the boat going the wrong direction.

He was doing something.

He was doing something on the boat going the wrong direction.

Jonah, chapter one, verse five.

It turns out it's the same thing Jesus did when he was on the boat.

What is it that Jonah was doing?

Jonah, chapter one, verse five, if you think you know.

Okay, now I'm only going to tease this for a little bit, and then I'll give you the answer to the trivia and you'll know why.

We are in Genesis, chapter 12, verse 1.

Now we're going from Genesis chapter 12:1 to Revelation 50, and it's going to be a whole nother process.

Up to this point, we've been looking at sin and sinfulness and redemption and the flood and judgment and different things.

Now God is moving this to an individual process as he is establishing the nation of Israel, which is the apple of his eye.

Genesis, chapter 12, verse 1.

Then the Lord told Abraham, leave your country, your relatives and your father's house and go to the land that I will show you.

What I think I'm going to need a rainbow for confirmation to do anything like that.

God, where is it in the scripture?

Oh, wait, Abraham didn't have a Bible.

Wow.

You getting that?

I want you to see what happens.

This is a level of commitment that is all about faith because Abraham had no idea where he was going.

Do you know every second you know everything you're going to do.

Do you know where you're going?

Sometimes you have to just go in faith, trusting.

But, Dave, I don't have as much control exactly how the Lord loves it.

Because then you're more dependent on him.

You getting that?

I just want to make sure you catch that.

Super important, okay?

Super important.

All right.

Now, I don't know if we have somebody for the trivia or not, do we?

We do have somebody for trivia.

We're going to give them a chance.

So we'll send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hello, David.

This is Stephen.

Hello, Stephen.

How are you, sir?

I'm asleep, but I'm trying to wake up.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

That's an excellent job, brother.

At first I thought you were going to drop.

I'm still recovering from Thanksgiving dinner.

But then when you said that and I realized where we were at, it was like, aha.

He was sleep.

He's taking a nap.

He's sleeping.

That's one thing that Jonah had in common with Jesus.

Rough waters.

I'm gonna take a nap.

If you could suffer me just a little bit.

Yes.

I have a terrible joke to share.

You do?

Is it really terrible?

Because that's good.

I need a good, terrible joke.

What do you.

I mean, I'm for it.

What do you got for me?

Well, there was an old baseball player who.

He played baseball all his life, and that was.

Seemed to be the most important thing for him here on Earth.

He was knowing he was, you know, go to heaven one of these days.

But.

Yeah, your radio.

You're backing up on your radio.

Turn your.

Turn your radio down real quick.

Oh, my radio's not on.

Okay, well, then we just got some feedback.

Okay, go ahead.

One day he had a dream and saw his best friend who had passed a few earlier.

Few years earlier.

And he said, I only have one question for you.

Is there baseball in heaven?

And his friend answered, I've got good news and bad news.

The good news is, there is baseball in heaven.

The bad news is you're pitching Saturday.

There you go.

There it is.

Okay.

Hey.

Excellent, excellent joke.

Excellent, excellent joke.

The good news is, yes, there is the bad news.

You start Saturday.

Excellent job, brother.

Very, very strong.

I love it.

You have a blessed day.

You too, brother.

God bless you.

Come on.

That's a great joke right there.

Good news.

Yeah.

There's baseball, bad news.

You start on Saturday.

You're pitching on Saturday.

All right, we'll take our break and then we'll come back you're listening to the David Smith Experience right here on KAM 770, the true stationary, Texas.

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This is the kind of high priest we need.

Holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

He doesn't need to offer sacrifices every day as high priests do, first for their own sins and then those of the people.

He did this once for all when he offered himself.

Now watch this.

Oh, boy, this is so unbelievable.

Jesus is a unique kind of priest.

He is your high priest.

He is so unique.

And you think, why?

What is it that makes Jesus unique?

And you already know, well, it's because he's born from the Holy Spirit and he's born from Mary.

So he's fully man, fully God.

And it's like, okay, I get that part.

But there's something else that we miss quite often, and that is Jesus is undefiled, separated from sinners.

And verse 27 says, he doesn't need to offer sacrifices every day like the high priests do, first for their own sins.

So let me explain this to you.

When priests or petitioners or people are praying on your behalf, every human being has to deal with their own set of sins.

It doesn't matter if it's the high priest of Israel.

It doesn't matter if it's the high priest.

One year, 20 years later, 40 years later, there is something that takes place.

It's the same dynamic that takes place when you spend time with the Lord and you come before the Lord and you thank him and you recognize the grace of God enables you to stand.

Because apart from that, the grace, apart from the mercy, apart from the love that comes from the Lord in the redeeming work from Jesus Christ that you receive by faith, that he gives by grace.

Apart from that, you're a mess.

And so when you come before the Lord, you're like, lord, you know, please forgive me.

Please don't be mad.

Please, you know, don't chasten.

David said it great.

Don't chasten me in your hot displeasure.

I don't want to get you irritated.

Na da da da.

You see, when Jesus comes and petitions for us, he doesn't have to go through that.

He doesn't have to be centered on himself to be forgiven, because there's nothing for him to be forgiven.

He's sinless.

He doesn't need to offer sacrifices for what he's done or for any of the lacking that he would have if he was a regular human priest.

So when Jesus comes on our behalf, there's nothing.

Get this, get this.

Here it is.

There's nothing distracting him in his life.

He is only focused on our well being.

Oh, welcome back to the David Spoon Experience.

Thank you for joining us here at KAM 770, the truth station here in Texas.

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Got another trivia question, another Jonah question.

Get your brains ready.

This is sharpening the brain time.

Here we go.

What happened when Jonah was thrown overboard?

What happened?

Don't go too far in advance.

What's the first thing that happened when Jonah was tossed overboard?

When?

Let's just say his head just hit the water.

What happened immediately at that moment?

Make sure that you look it up because it's easy to get this wrong.

Jonah 1, chapter 1, verse 15.

What's the immediate thing that happened when Jonah was tossed?

That is the question.

David must increase.org so I'm asking for the most immediate thing that happened when Jonah was tossed overboard.

What happened immediately?

I mean as in like as soon as he's out of the boat, maybe even before he hit the water.

Who knows?

Jonah 1:15 is your reference point.

Before we do any of that, I am going to send you to the website again.

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He must increase.org confused by what's happening right now.

He must increase.org he must increase.org it's just so happy.

It's happy, you know, like if something happens to you, I'm going to.

If I have to say something to you, I'm going to play that music in the background, whatever it is, so that you're just smiling whenever, no matter what I say.

How about that?

That's funny.

Bad news.

You're going to be working on an even older board.

But before I tell you that, I'll just have that music playing in the background.

You'll be like, okay, sure, great.

That's great.

It's my official theme song.

There you go.

That's great.

All right, so the question, a question, the question.

What happened immediately when Jonah was thrown overboard?

Somewhere between being thrown overboard and maybe hitting into the water, what happened to him?

Jonah, chapter one, verse 15.

We do have somebody that is ready to answer the trivia question.

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hello, David, this is Curtis.

Happy Monday, my brother.

Hey, Curtis.

How are you, brother?

Man, I'm doing just fine.

Out driving around town, enjoying this beautiful weather and listening to my favorite show.

It's a nice thing for you to say, Kirst.

I really do appreciate it.

Sometimes the show's better than others, but I love it that you listen to all of them.

It's just great to have people who do that.

And I really appreciate it.

So you're a blessing in that way.

Do you have a nice Thanksgiving, by the way?

Man, I did.

I probably gained five to seven pounds.

If I had to get it.

Alright, so you just said it's okay to be honest here.

Out of all that stuff, what was your favorite thing that you ate?

Oh, man, you know, it's a toss up between mashed potatoes and all the pies.

Notice he said all the pies.

That's good.

Yeah, yeah, that's a great one.

All right, so here's our Triv question.

All right, so Jonah was thrown overboard.

Now, even before he hit the water, something happened.

What happened when Jonah was tossed overboard?

I believe the minute he hit the water, the raging sea grew calm.

That is correct.

Of a no.

And again, the parallel with Jesus is amazing.

I mean, he's sleeping.

Jesus was sleeping in the storm.

Then Jesus gets up and calms the storm.

When he gets tossed off the ship, then the storm stops, it's like, that's a pretty cool thing.

And remember Jesus said, you're not getting any sign.

But the thing that happened with Jonah, which is the other stuff, but I'm just saying it's very cool, that connection.

But it's still amazing that even as a prophet, he was sleeping.

They throw him overboard saying, oh, don't get mad at us, Lord.

Here he goes.

What an answer from the Lord.

Like, wow.

Yeah, that's great, Great, great, great job.

One of my favorite stories in the Bible, for sure.

Absolutely, Absolutely.

Absolutely.

All right.

Excellent job, my brother.

Phenomenal.

I really appreciate it.

I appreciate you too, David.

I hope you.

Hope you have a blessed day, my friend.

You and Jacob both.

All right.

Thank you, bro.

Bye.

Bye.

Thank you, David.

Bye.

All right, Great job.

Of course.

Just a wonderful, great calls today.

Thank you, guys.

I really appreciate it very much.

Okay, so before we do anything else, we do have to do this.

And some people are going to be happy.

Actually, even Sergio is going to be happy.

We're gonna do Jake's take.

All right, Jake, it is your take.

What do you got for us?

Well, David, Thanksgiving morning, the Detroit Lions took on the Chicago Bears in a closer game than I expected.

I don't know.

I think we both played the Lions.

Correct.

Correct.

Yeah, we both picked the Lions, but I thought the Lions went by more.

They ended up winning 23 to 20 and what looked like for a little bit, it would be an easy win.

But the Bears came back and made it a close game.

And did you see the ending?

Yes, yes, I did.

Yes, I did.

The wonderful time management ending?

I did.

I did see that.

And I gotta tell you, in the last two minutes, I kept thinking, don't be the Lions of old.

Don't be the Lions of old.

Don't be the Lions of old.

Because it just falling apart and letting it be close.

Like, what are you guys doing?

I mean, that with the clock management for the Bears, that was.

That was really unique.

Yeah, the lines of old were slowly rearing their head.

They were peeking out behind the curtain.

But then the Chicago Bears, which just like the Lions a lot of their history, have not been great, the Chicago Bears went ahead and reared their head and said, hey, we're still the Bear, so we'll find a way to mess this up.

That's right.

The lines went close.

Grasping.

That's right.

Gasping the victory out of the jaws of defeat.

Something like that.

All right, so that was a good win there.

We called that.

And then what happened in the other game then?

The Dallas Cowboys also won later that day, beating the New York Giants.

And that was.

Overall, it wasn't as close of a game towards the end, but I thought the Giants actually competed better than I thought they would because I knew the Giants weren't a great team.

But that one was kind of a.

You watch it and you say, yeah, both teams aren't great, but hey, the Cowboys got another win.

That's right.

That's.

And that's two in a row for them, isn't it?

That's like two wins in a row if they didn't win the week before.

Yeah, they're on a win streak right now.

Yeah.

And after.

After really falling behind, they're starting to pick it back up.

So, yeah, we'll see if the Cowboys can keep it going.

And yeah, the Cowboys and Lions both on a big winning streak.

And you mentioned the Lions, right?

Have a tough game coming up.

They have.

Yeah.

What's coming up is Detroit in Green Bay on a Thursday night.

And that is not good.

That would be a great game.

I'm ready to watch that game.

That'll be good.

That is going to be a good game.

You're right.

Excellent job, sir.

Once again from Jake's take.

Congratulations on that.

All right, let me do a little bit of Boy, I don't know if we're going to hear a chance to break.

I don't know what we should do here.

I'm just going to do a little bit of teaching.

So just hang in there.

I mean, that's really the thing.

And I might take a breath and just do history.

We'll see how that goes.

But here's something I want you to catch.

And we left off on this 12:1 Genesis 12:1 and where we said Then the Lord told Abraham, leave your country, your relatives and your father's house and go to the land.

I will show you.

So this text is exceedingly important because, well, for many reasons.

But keep in mind, Abraham had no Bible, no church, no group, no fellowship.

He had no places to counsel.

This is the Lord telling Abraham to leave.

Now, I want you to understand something.

He's told to leave three different ways.

And listen to what this says, because this shows you the depth that God has called Abraham to.

And his response.

First he says, leave the country.

Then he tells him, after he leaves the country, he says, leave the country.

Leave your relatives.

And then he takes it a step further and says, leave your father's house.

I want you to catch that.

It's kind of one of those cool things in scripture.

It's progressive.

Leave your country.

Okay, out.

Time to go out.

You're gone.

Leave your relatives.

That's that security blanket, what we typically will have.

And then the ultimate security blanket, your very home.

Leave that, too.

Leave all of that and go to a land that I will show you.

So what God requires is Abraham to leave everything he knew and to follow God.

Now listen to why I'm saying that.

He's told to leave the country.

He's told to leave his relatives.

He's told to leave his father's house to go someplace he's never seen.

And to say yes is to have faith that God is not only telling him to go somewhere, but that God has a plan.

And there are times in our Christian walk where The Lord wants us to do this Abraham thing.

In fact, if you look at Galatians 3:9 and Galatians 3:29 and pretty much all of Galatians 4, we find out that we're closely connected to Abraham as heirs of the same promise he received.

And we're connected to him by his faith.

Because it is at this moment, right here in Genesis 12:1 and 2, that the faith is being required, requested.

God is saying, okay, you're going to leave your familiar surroundings of the country.

You're going to also leave your relatives, which is like your first level of safety net.

And you're going to leave your father's house, which is the last level of safety net.

And you're going to go somewhere you've never been before.

And if we're not willing to step out in faith like Abraham did, then we won't see this new land that God has.

And God calls Abraham to leave everything he knew and follow him.

You know, it's not the rich young ruler, it's deeper if you think about it, because he's got to leave.

Not just his financial, not just that, it's just everything he knew of comfort.

God's going, no, we're going to go over here.

And what God says to him and what I don't want to miss and what I don't want to fail in teaching you is this.

It's even more mind blowing than the universe.

He tells him to leave the land and he's going to show them where to go.

This means that Abraham did not know where he was going.

I've got to stress that it means Abraham had never seen where he was going.

It wasn't like he had a vision of the place in the same context that we think he was going somewhere, that he didn't know where it was.

He only knew this, that God was the one leading him.

He didn't have anything else, no idea where the journey, where he was going, where he was going to be led to.

He didn't know where he was going to, but he know who he knew him, who was leading him.

So he said, yes, now that is faith.

Leave your country, leave your relatives.

Remember, especially back then, the relatives wasn't like it is today.

It wasn't the nuclear family, right?

And it's like, and leave your father's house, this place that you found the most comfort.

Leave it all.

I'm going to show you somewhere to go and you've never been there.

Follow me.

So in response to God, Abraham says, yes, and this is so Similar to you and I needing to say yes when the Lord is trying to lead us on a journey to places unknown.

Like, we don't even know where it's going to go.

You know, we had a little bit of that.

Not to the level that Abraham did, but we had a little bit of that when we came out to Texas.

We had no idea.

I'm writing in my.

In my school thing, leaving this, leaving this, leaving this, no job, a little bit of money.

Da, da, da, da, da.

No problem.

Because we know Jesus.

It's like there has to be this part of us that is just willing to take this radical and just crazy step of faith and say yes.

And people are like, well, no, societally it would be like this.

And societally, it should be like this.

Abraham was told to leave the society to journey with God.

Now the question that's going to drop on you and I, Are we willing to do what the Lord wants to do, wants us to do, and go where he wants us to go, even if we're not familiar?

Are we willing to say, yes?

Yes, he's our Savior, but is Jesus our Lord?

That now we're getting.

Ooh, that's.

Wow, Dave.

Right?

Because that's the genuineness of our faith.

That's why when you get into this chapter 12, it's.

It's almost like this whole different vibe takes place in the book of Genesis.

You see what God is doing?

He's pulling Abraham out somewhere where he's never been to a place he's never been to.

And wait till we get to this next part.

It's even more amazing, which is hard to believe that it can be more amazing.

But this is what God requires of you and I to journey by faith.

You could not hear one single thing I said this entire show, except for this.

Leave your.

Leave your country, leave your relatives, leave your father's house.

I'm going to show you a place you've never been.

I want you to go there.

Yes, Lord.

That's the response that God wants from us.

Why?

Because that's faith.

Why?

Because faith pleases God.

And he knows.

He knows what he was doing when he chose you.

He knows and he knows.

Sometimes it's harder to make that journey to the.

God's not like on there going, oh, he knows, but he still wants us to trust him to take that step forward.

Wow.

Now listen to this.

Incredible.

You think that was.

Wait, this is not.

Then in the next verse, listen to what he says.

So he says, then the Lord said to Abraham, leave your country.

Your relatives and your father's house and go to the land that I will show you.

I will cause you to become the father of a great nation.

I will bless you and make you famous.

And I will make you a blessing to others.

And I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.

And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.

Now, what I want you to pick up on right away is God tells him this wild thing.

I'm going to cause you to become the father of a great nation.

And I will bless you and make you famous.

First of all, when God makes somebody famous, it's famous forever.

When the world makes somebody famous, it's famous until the next news cycle is over.

But when God does it, it's eternal.

But that's not the thing I want you to catch.

God tells Abraham, you got to remember verse 30 of Genesis 11, she couldn't have any children.

And God comes down and goes, I'm going to make you the father of many, many, many, many people.

Now you have to recognize Abraham is already processing.

He can't have kids with Sarah.

God is telling him the impossible is going to happen because I'm leading you into this place and you don't know how it's going to go about, but I'm going to do it.

And it's sure as can be.

And the miracle will come about.

And you are not only going to be the father of many nations, but I am going to make you famous.

And you will be a blessing to others.

Do you want to be a blessing to others?

Step in faith with the Lord and he will show people.

He will show people his power through your life.

And you will be a blessing to others.

You will be powerful to others.

You will be an example.

God's saying, okay, I'm going to cause you to become the father of a great nation.

Well, that's impossible.

My wife can't have kids.

And I'm not only going to do that, I'm going to cause you to be famous.

I'm going to bless you.

I'm going to make you famous in all the world.

Wow.

Nobody knows me.

I'm going to a place nobody knows of me.

How could I possibly ever become famous?

That too would be a miracle.

And then I'm going to make you a blessing to others.

And he doesn't even know how that's going to happen because he doesn't know any others.

And then God says, I'm going to bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you.

Which is God's way of saying, I'm going to stand by you no matter what.

I am going to be your backup.

And if somebody comes after you, it's like coming after me.

And God is telling Abraham, you are going to be the apple of my eye.

I am going to protect you.

I am going to watch over you.

And if they come against you, they're going to pay.

Now think of this.

You're an heir of the promises that God made to Abraham.

You're an heir of those same promises.

Read Galatians 3.

9.

Read Galatians 3.

29.

You get to enjoy that too.

Wow.

And we see the power of faith unfold in the connection between humanity and divinity.

Get it?

All right, quick reminder.

I'm not replying to any texts until after 4:30 because I have a doctor's appointment.

And in the meantime, I hope that was a blessing for you.

You have been listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on KAM 770, the truth station here in Texas.

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