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December 22, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
Barry Meguiar delivers a joyful message and timely reminder that Christmas is a divine opportunity to share Jesus—and that every believer can reach their world with courage and love.
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0:01 Welcome. This is Ignite Kingdom Talk. Make the marketplace the miracle place.0:09 Guys, Barry McGuire, he's he's the president, of Maguires Incorporated and founder of Ignite America. He's known for his contagious enthusiasm and deep love for Jesus.0:21 You're gonna you're gonna hear that. You're gonna sense that. Barry has spent decades inspiring believers to live out bold everyday faith. After growing his family0:33 company into a global leader in the car care, he now dedicates his life to equipping Christians to share the gospel with, a joyful confidence. And0:45 and, guys, I the first time that I met Barry, it it was kind of a funny story because it was at NRB. And when I got there, you0:56 know, I I that was I think it was I think it was our first time, Dez, that that we were, that we were doing it. And so we go there and there is Ignite banners1:09 everywhere. And we're there and, of course, we're ignite, and people would come up and say, wow. You did a really good job of marketing. And, of course, me, I'm in sales, so I just go, yeah. Hey. Yeah. We we I think we1:20 did a really good job. A lot of hard work and effort. You know, I'm joking, but I'm I'm well, then then then then I I don't remember who it was. Maybe it was Katie at at the time,1:32 Barry, but I had a podcast lined up with Barry. And and I knew Barry McGuire, and and and I'd met you at at the, at at the car thing in,1:44 Phoenix 1 time. Didn't didn't. I I just I shook your hand. I we didn't sit there and have a conversation or anything. But at the Barrett Jackson, that's that's that's where it was at the first time I'd met you.
1:56 But, so I didn't put the 2 together. And so there he comes. He's doing this podcast. And I'm realizing, okay, this is the Ignite guy who has all the Ignite stuff all over the place. And
2:08 so I told him I I I really appreciated him, spending all that money on on, Ignite.
2:14 We're doing our best for you.
2:15 That's right. That's right. So but, Barry, here's here's the thing. And and, guys, I think you're gonna you're you're gonna you're gonna, love this guy as much as, Des and I do and and his his wife.
2:28 But, Barry, here we are in December, and and it is it really is my favorite my favorite time, my favorite season. Just knowing that knowing that our lord and savior
2:40 you know, god's up there in heaven, and he sends his only son. And I love Christmas. I love the I love the Christmas lights, and you guys know me. I got, you know, 20 trees or 18 trees here in the
2:51 house. But knowing that I mean, it's that's kinda goofy. That's kinda weird, but at the same time, knowing all along,
3:03 God sends his only son knowing that Easter is coming, knowing what his son was put on earth for. It's just it's it's unbelievable
3:15 the love that our father has for us. And and but, Barry, here we are end of the year, you know, coming towards the end of the year. Everyone on
3:27 this call is either a business owner, an entrepreneur, business leaders. And, Barry, I love your story. And and, guys, you need to you need
3:39 to you need to go get and, Barry, I want you to talk about your book and where to get the book. I love the book. Des gave it away, and I I I was gonna grab a hold of it before we got on the call. She gives all the
3:51 good books away. It's like, where's that book? Well, I gave it to so and so. I was like, ugh. But, but yet at the same time, what what as business owners, business leaders, what what are we
4:03 missing today? What are we missing? Where should we be as believers? Especially, Barry, here's my thing. If we're not if we look back a year
4:14 ago today, and we're no better off than where we were a year from now a a year ago, what are we what are we doing wrong? What do we need to change before going into this
4:26 new year?
4:29 Wow. That's that's a that's a great question, and I have 1000000 answers. I'll try to pick 1. First off, I'm with you. I love Christmas. This year, I broke my own rule and put up
4:41 our decorations 2 weeks early. I've never done that before. I've always been bothered by people doing I'll just get Thanksgiving over with first, so we had ours out before Thanksgiving. I love Christmas.
4:54 I'm a lifelong, I'm a lifer, you know, for the little. I was in in 1 of the Christmas plays where, you know, he lifted me up in his shoulder, and I ended the play where I say, God bless
5:06 us everywhere. I mean, I raised Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, all that then. And, I I I love Christmas. I love Santa Claus. I I listened to Gene
5:18 Autry today, and he he he was in the Christmas parade in Hollywood Boulevard when he wrote the song. And and nobody was looking at him because Santa Claus was right behind him. And he was expecting all this adulation,
5:30 and and they were all cheering for Santa Claus. They went home and he wrote the song of, here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus right down to Santa Claus. I mentioned that only because he said, thank the Lord
5:42 from heaven above. Santa Claus comes tonight. He actually puts the 2 together. He's thanking God for Santa Claus. God's and everything. And, Monday night, we
5:54 had a great, time, last week. We had Reggie Smith who who, leads the directs the the Gaither vocal band and his wife, Lady Love. We
6:05 flew them out from Nashville. And their favorite pianist is in Florida. We flew him out. And we had 70 people in our living room. And when I sent the invite out, I didn't mention anything about a
6:17 party. I said, we're inviting you to an evening of worship and praise, blending Christmas carols with worship choruses as we honor God.
6:29 And, I must say that because we put it on, but it was 1 of the most special nights of our lives. And I think for everybody, there was no 1 eye anywhere. And we talked about the words that are in
6:41 these songs. We sing them so easily. It's if all of us can do that. We can sing it with joy, and happiness. Silent night is is as much
6:53 as here comes Santa Claus. But these songs go back hundreds of years and have been preserved in miracles. If you wanna get, to get inspired, read the miracles
7:04 behind these songs. But the fact of the matter is that you pointed out, this is an epic. I enjoy I enjoy everything about Christmas,
7:17 but life changed. Mankind changed when Jesus came to Earth, and the heavens rejoice. Yeah. Wow. That 1 line, God
7:28 and center reconciled. That's what it's about. If he had not come to Earth, we could not have possibly been reconciled to God except for Jesus. Amen. And we can go through as Christians, and
7:40 we can go through Christmas and celebrate about the way all of our heathen friends do. And and not use this moment. I I I Charlie Kirk and I were good friends. And and when we lost him, I couldn't
7:52 even stand up. I was destroyed. By the next day, I I went over to Jack Kids when I passed. By the way, if you wanna pass a really melds
8:04 together prophecy, scripture, the word of God, like Chuck Smith would preach it, and body politic and bring it all together. Jack Hibbs, I can't reach out when she knows.
8:16 I recommend him highly because he, boy, he lays it on the line. But, you you put it all together, you realize what's going on here. And we have this moment
8:27 because of because of Charlie, I was about to say, I went to Jack the next night. We're at a bunk together. So why is it that my my grief is already being overcome by the euphoria of the fact that
8:39 revival has been ignited worldwide. People all over the world are are asking about God now. I've been sharing my faith, Gary and I both for every day for 50 years. This is our 40 ninth year, technically.
8:52 Started in 19 76. And, and I can tell you it's never been easier. You just slightly mentioned God and people open up. They wanna know. And and what we're we're we're
9:04 missing a lot of us is there's a whole thing about evangelism being something that's difficult and hard, and and I don't wanna be persecuted. Bless them. There are those who are persecuted for my sake. I don't wanna be
9:16 persecuted. And I don't have the words to say, and I I I don't I don't I don't know scripture. We have we have a whole list of
9:28 most frequent excuses on our website, and we destroy them with scripture. He he didn't say go in the world all you who are gifted.
9:41 He said go in the world all you who who memorize scripture. And and and suddenly, he didn't say go into the world and read your Bible or go into the world and and
9:53 pray. He didn't say go into the world and help little ladies across the street or fight abortion or stop human trafficking. Yes. We do all
10:05 those things. More scriptures on helping the poor than anything else in the Bible, but that has nothing to do with redemption. If we're doing it just to rescue people, it's meaningless.
10:17 We're saving millions of babies from being on board, but what then? If they're just left to the to to the norm, 90 percent of them will go to hell. No. I take that back. They will not go to hell
10:29 because god's they're before the age of credibility. They're gonna go right to heaven. What I'm saying is if they're allowed if if they're aborted, they're right to heaven. Alright? If they're allowed to live and
10:41 they're not raised in the nurture of the Lord, 90 percent of the time, they're lost. We we need to value everything we're doing in our lives by is it getting anybody into heaven?
10:53 I've stopped going to Boston DC. I've played those games in the White House. OB, look at me, you know, with all these I went to events. I won't mention them, but they were the only great speakers. I'm running shoulders,
11:05 and I'm on Mar a Lago. What good is that? Not 1 of them are thinking about souls. I I I spoke, a few months ago at
11:17 the Christian lawmakers association, and I said to them, you're not Christian lawmakers. They all look at each other like, what? I had I had every
11:29 eyeball. You're not Christian law I'm telling you. I love the name of your organization. I love your leadership. You love God. I love what you're doing, but you're not Christian lawmakers. Christian is not an adjective.
11:43 It's who you are. You're a Christian. You're a lawmaker Christian. And lawmakers, you're into the darkest place in the planet just about. Washington DC, there's governors and
11:55 senators and reps and and whatever. I said, you're doing battle every day, but if you're if you're a god as your battle to win that issue, having no regard for the people on the other
12:07 side of that issue, what are you doing it for? You have the opportunity to reach people who are totally lost on the other side of the aisle, and they'll come over and they'll start they'll start supporting you in your
12:19 interest. You'll be like minded because the the skills will be taken off the rise. We have to stop hating people. The people out there around us that are doing the horrible things and supporting the ridiculous
12:31 legislation. And just in your common talk and probably even in your families, and they're just they're not evil. Most of I mean, some are, some are given over. That's not my
12:43 job to decide who that is. But for the most part, if they're not evil, they're lost. They're lost. And they're gonna stay lost unless
12:54 somebody, unless you and I, unless we tell them there's a god who loves them. And there's nothing more important on the on our life and our life. That's it. It's it's about leading people to
13:06 Jesus, and we're running out of time. 90 percent of the people around us every day are lost. Do you understand that? They're lost.
13:20 I I have I've only missed 3 Rose Bowl games since 19 49. And every year just for the kickoff, I look at all these fans and they're yelling and screaming and all the
13:32 windshield. I look at 90 percent of them were headed for hell. I I can't save all them. I can't save the world. You can't save the world, but you can save your world. And
13:44 you focus on your world. Stop stressing over the things that you can't change. Yeah. I watch Fox News. I keep up with all of it. I know what Trump said yesterday. I follow all this stuff, but I have no
13:55 worries. It's it's actually the worst it gets the closer we get to the rapture. I mean, it's coming. And every time you hear the bad news, they've done something else. It's just outrageous. We all hear these things. They
14:06 say, oh my god. What's going on? Oh, Jesus is closer now than it has ever been. If you ever say, oh, you believe in the rapture? I mean, you sit back and relax.
14:18 Oh, I'm going to the rapture. I got a face. No. If the rapture's coming, we're running out of time. I I liken it to the to the the Olympics in
14:30 that when they're running track and and you hear and all of a sudden the gun sound. Bam. You hear the echo of the gun throughout the stadium. And they
14:42 zoom in on the runners, and they're just you've seen we've all seen the stage, and they're just killing their own the rippling of the muscles. They're just everything they can possibly do when the goals. We're in the
14:53 last lap, folks. We're in the last lap. So if you would say, well, how do you reconcile that with your Christian I mean, with your business? I mean, you grew this business,
15:05 but how do they have anything to do with each other? I have 1 life. That's all I have. I just have 1 life. And after 80 years of doing this all my life, I
15:17 figured out that serving god is really quite simple. He made it simple. We've made sharing our faith so difficult. You gotta
15:29 memorize this. You gotta have these I did that way back when. And, I mean, I'm thankful for the programs. Don't get me wrong. Godly people, and they have won millions of fear of the Lord.
15:40 Please. Please. Please. I honor them. I know the leadership. I went through those programs. They impacted my life. But most people don't go through evangelism programs and use it as an excuse. I I'm not trained. That's
15:52 1 of the most common excuses. I'm not trained, so that's for somebody else who's been trained. No. No. No. Go in the world. All you who are trained. No. That that's not what he said. You know what he
16:04 said was, though, know you're my disciple by your love. Can you love on people? Oh, boy. Yeah. I can do that. That's it. Done deal. He does the
16:16 rest. What? If if you follow him, he said, and and everything I do is scripturally based. This is not Barry McGuire coming up with a new idea that makes it simple. Shortcut. No.
16:28 Jesus gave us the shortcut. These are his words. Let me give you his words. You know them. Well, let me put them together in a way maybe you haven't put them in that way so you can understand and clear them. Then I'll
16:39 then I'll give some application in business as time time allows. They said, do you love me? If if you love me, keep my commandments. Right? We know that. So
16:51 then they said, teacher, what what's the most important commandment? What what what what's I've I've been you got a lot of commandments here. What's the most important, buddy? You know what he said. I love me and love
17:02 your neighbor as yourself. But then they went on to say, here's the exciting part. He said, that's all I ask of you. He he said, if you do that, you'll complete everything in the law.
17:14 What? Are you telling me I don't have to satisfy 10 commandments or hundreds of laws? I just have to do 2? Wow. That's that's not like a
17:25 pretty good deal for me. Well, let's go back and look at that again. Maybe I need maybe they have a little more importance here. Love you. I got that. Love you with all my heart, soul, and mind. First off, let me say,
17:37 whatever you love, you talk about. Whatever you're excited about, you talk about. I had a I had a hamburger 2 days ago at
17:49 a place. I it was like the best hamburger I've ever had in my life. You know how many people I've told about that hamburger in the last 2 days? I am excited about that hamburger, man. I'm building that restaurant
18:00 business. I'm excited. I'm excited about Jesus. Folks, if you're I mean, I'm not saying you're not going to have but if if you're not telling people about Jesus every day, you're not
18:12 excited about Jesus. And I'm gonna tell you how you could change that real easily. You get you get my message. If you're excited about Jesus, you're gonna talk about Jesus.
18:24 It just it just happens that way. You can't stop it. You're you're excited. You talk about whatever you're excited about. The charges pulled off a great game last night over the Eagles. Wow.
18:35 That was that was exciting. I'll be telling a lot of you, John, a lot of you this next week about what what happened again. I'm not a fanatic and just, you know, I'm a real person. I I
18:47 love sports. I definitely love cars, cool cars. I love making cars shiny. I'm right now in my apartment in Newport Beach and I I I am a I'm a California living in Arizona. We
18:59 moved to Arizona, but I still keep my base here. I'm a beach bum more than anything else. But I know that supersede all that, it's all gonna go away. At the end of the day, what's life
19:11 about? That's really what it is, isn't it? We all have influence. I I talked to Karen this morning. I said, you know, it's an amazing technology. I could sit in my little office here
19:23 in Newport Beach and and talk to a a crowd of business people, And I just the technology is is is wonderful. It really is. I'm so honored
19:35 to be here today. I really am. And so he says, love your neighbor as yourself. So so what does that mean? When you love
19:47 your neighbor as yourself, you you're as concerned get this. You're as concerned for their salvation, and your neighbor is everybody, obviously. It's not it's all about your neighbor next door. It's how much your
19:57 neighbor everybody everybody you influence. When you love them as much as yourself, you're concerned for their salvation as you are your own. Okay? Now
20:09 why does that compel you to satisfy the entire law? I'll tell you why. If that is really your thought and and you realize that their salvation, everybody in
20:21 the store, in the line at Starbucks, in the office, in the boardroom, in the sales presentation, on the tennis court, in the restaurant, that their salvation is important in yours, that you're
20:33 in you realize you're in full time ministry. Do you realize that everything you say do? You can't get away from this, folks. Everything you say do is moving. Everybody watch you at any moment
20:45 further or closer to God. When when bad news comes and some foul words come out of your mouth or excitement or wouldn't
20:56 wouldn't in the game, or are you getting mad or you're saying stuff about that politician or what whatever. The the words, the demeanor, the the the indulgences.
21:12 I you you you can drink and go to heaven. Forgive me, this small group. I wouldn't say it in a large group. But let me tell you, do you really think you're gonna lead people closer to Jesus with that drink in your hand?
21:24 Is that really causing them to come closer to Jesus? And if they see you drink, they say, well, Barry's a drinker, so I can drink and then they can't tolerate it well and they kill somebody. That's
21:36 on me. These colors are a life of righteousness, holiness, pureness. We can't get there. It's a goal to strive for. But but the the point
21:48 point be is that we need to represent him as as best we can. And when we realize that it changes everything and all of a sudden we're not doing those kinds of things are not even attracted to us
21:59 anymore. Because our focus is not on I gotta fulfill the law so god love me more. He loves you. He loves you as much now as he ever will help you. It's not about that. It's
22:11 about moving everybody every day closer to Jesus. You wanna do everything you possibly can and everybody watch you in any profile. I don't care where you are. I speak in secular places often. I never
22:23 speak without mentioning him. I never do anything about mentioning him. If I deny him, he's gonna deny me. I don't want that. So they're reconciling the 2 together. All of a sudden, now, well,
22:35 how does that start to work? Karen and I were seasoned Christians giving sacrificially of time and money, have all our lives. But in the early years of our marriage, I'm going back to
22:47 now 19 73, and we realized we didn't have any joy. We we were doing everything, but we were so tired. We were nipping at
22:59 each other. It's like, what what happened to joy? We should be having joy here. We should be having fun. It's like we're wearing ourselves out trying to get god to bless us, do our favor. That's
23:11 so stupid. He's he's so forgiving, so patient with us, Sydney. It's amazing. About 3 weeks later, I was
23:22 sitting next to a guy. He was a legal affairs secretary for governor Reagan, her Ballywood. He was the speaker, and I sat next to him for an hour before he spoke. He I wanted to hear about Reagan.
23:34 He didn't ever mention Reagan. He talked to me for an hour laughing and crying and laughing and crying. And and even last night, you know what happened last night? I was I was
23:46 stunned. And I and I walked away from that. I said, god, that's what I want. I want that joy. I mean, that's what I want. So, Carrie, I talked on the way home, and that
23:58 night, and we started the next day and say, okay. We're gonna start moving in. He's not he's not going through a list. He's just loving on people. It wasn't long before it may be 2 or 3 weeks, and we were
24:10 laughing 1 day and all of a sudden realized, hey. We have we have joy. And we've had it ever since. We've had bad things happen, but nothing don't let anything rob you of
24:22 your joy. Happiness? Yes. You're happy about this. You're not happy about that. We get joy. It has to do with Christmas. It has to do with the son of God coming to Earth, saving me a wretch. I don't
24:34 deserve anything. He's done that for me. So how do we do how do we do that on a on a regular basis every moment? How do you move everybody every day closer to Jesus? And this whole idea of find
24:46 somebody today to witness to. Okay. Let's see. Out of all the people I gotta be with today that are on their way to hell, I gotta find 1. And
24:58 how do I pick the right 1? And how about all the rest of them? I guess I just let them go to hell. We're running out of time, and there's not very many of us. We need
25:10 to touch as many people as we possibly can. So if we all get our act together and we start moving everybody every day closer to Jesus, if we all start we could ignite revival. There's 30000000 of us. We could
25:22 ignite America's revival in 30 days if we wanted to. We Christians, about 30, 35000000 of us are born again believers. Can you believe that? In all of America, why is it that we have this gift?
25:34 You get drawn to your knees. Why why am I? I'm not smart. I'm not special. I'm saved and redeemed. I'm all with heaven, and I'm gonna keep that
25:46 to myself. I don't think so. So it's exciting thing in my life. I mean, I like I love I I I love my life, but they all dwarf like a bird. I'm on my way to heaven. I
25:57 mean, joint heirs. Can you imagine joint heirs not just in heaven, not on those friends? I mean, joint heirs with Jesus Christ. Is it possible?
26:11 So you love on people. Just love on them. Here's the formula that happen every time. I don't care where you are in all the types of places I mentioned earlier. You just love on people. But
26:22 you mentioned God, so they know that love is coming from God. K. Christians are really good at doing good. Do you know that most evangelicals think that being a good person is
26:34 sharing their faith? Do you know that? Read the statistics. More than half evangelicals think being good. Well, if you if being good gets you to heaven, why did he die on the cross? What what was Jesus all about? I
26:46 mean, it's absurd, obviously. We have this I I love it in the messages. It says we have this precious gift we carry around in the in the
26:58 clay pots of our ordinary lives. So we love on people. And in that conversation, I can give you 1000000 stories. But you say so. You just find a way to get god in the
27:10 car seat without offending them. You don't wanna offend them. You know? Who would like get away from me? They tell you stories that that must just break god's heart. I can't imagine how he's hurting right along with
27:22 you. Boy, god really loves you. He saved you from that. Boy, isn't god good? Look at this day. God thank you, god. You just say things that and all of a sudden they understand. You know if you do that and that only,
27:34 boom. 100 percent of the time, they will come back to you and say, well, where's God in this? Or where's God in that? Or why would God do that? They'll come back to you. More
27:46 times than not, they'll say, well, he can't love me. I hear that more than any other. Oh, yeah. He loves you. I was on the plane, and Karen and I got separated. God is God would have it. And the gal next to me saw
27:58 my bible, thought I was a preacher. I said, no. I'm a businessman that loves God. She said, well, god can't love me. I said, of course, she said, no. No. No. I'm in a relationship with a girl. He must just hate me. I
28:10 broke out laughing. She did not expect that. I said, boy, you don't know God very well. You know, we take faith sharing so seriously. We're gonna scare
28:22 everybody away. And even the countenance on our face, if we have this joy, it should be apparent. People should want to talk to us. I I I watch people that are I know we're Christians that walk around with a
28:34 scowl in their face like the weight of the world to their shoulder. What the and that person gonna tell me how great it is to be a Christian? I don't think so. The joy of the Lord is our strength. We realize God's using
28:45 us every moment. I might be dead with him in a moment. And I want everything in my life to bring people to God through me. When he loves us, he's salvationing us. Well, get this.
28:57 When he loves you, he's salvationing you. His love is 1000 percent about bringing you into heaven, bringing you to him for eternity. Understand that. And when you love people other when you're every time you're talking
29:09 to somebody else, that's there's nothing secular in our lives. Nothing. Everything in our lives is is spiritual. And when he was speaking to me, his love say his salvation people through you.
29:22 And everything you do, I don't care if you're a sportsman or where you're at. When you do that, his love draws people to him through you. And you do that by letting people know that God's in you. Then if you don't
29:34 have the answer to the question, why don't I don't wanna be embarrassed. I want the answer to you don't have to have the answer to the question. Do you know the Holy Spirit promises to give you the words to say? Luke 12
29:44 12. The Holy Spirit will give you the words to say when you need them. That's the most exciting if you haven't experienced that yet, that's supernatural. And once you experience
29:56 it, you'll be you'll be thirsty for it. You'll be an addict. You'll want it more and more. He gives you the words that say he'll bring up a scripture you haven't thought of for years. And and you share that with
30:08 them. And at that moment, folks and and I know a lot of you are there. I don't wanna put you in a position. I don't think you know what I'm talking about. But for all of us, you guys are on the same page. When you do
30:18 that, you realize, god, you're right where god wants you to be right that moment. You're right there, and he's using you, and he's giving you the words to say that's intimacy with God.
30:32 There's no other way to have that kind of intimacy with God where he's speaking through you. The Holy Spirit's speaking through you, and the life in front of you is being changed. Wow. That's what look. That's that's
30:43 living. And you can do that at all times. I give you a a a backstory real quick. When we're a tiny little company and nobody really had much respect for us, I was trying to get into all the big box stores,
30:55 big retailers. I couldn't get there. I was turned down so much. I keep telling people, I have a sore nose with this all times. Door slammed with my face. But you know what? I didn't let it bother me, and here's why.
31:07 I went into those meetings, and my goal was not to sell them car wax. My goal was to move closer to Jesus.
31:21 My goal is to be closer to Jesus. And when they end up telling me no, I would keep on loving them and smiling and say, I have so much respect for you, and I wanna earn your respect, and I'm gonna come back. And I'm
31:32 listening I've listened to everything you've been saying to me today. I'm gonna go back and put that into practice, and I'm gonna work real hard. And someday, I hope to come back and and you give me a difference. In the
31:42 meantime, God God bless you. Huge respect for you. And go to like, I never told anybody I know before they love me back. What's that all? Alright. I it it was it was
31:54 like sports. You know why I did that? Because there's a great scripture that I think is the most the second most important scripture in the bible. I do. You may not ever hear why y'all say
32:06 that, but that I think most people don't follow the scripture. They don't really realize what the scripture is saying. It's the 1 we all know. That's the 1 about all things work together for good. Oh, yeah. Oh, not
32:16 working all together for good for for me. It must be somebody else. I mean, even he didn't know that. Oh, John. Oh, don't worry about it. All things work together for you. That's not what it says, folks.
32:29 They don't work together for good for most people. But he says, I will. This is promised to you, each 1 of you. I promise for now until you get to heaven, I'll make everything.
32:43 I'll make everything, the smallest of things, everything. That's everything. I'll make everything work together for good if you do 2 things. If you love me and and you love your neighbor as yourself.
32:55 It didn't say it that way, but it means the same thing. It said repeat repeat of what he said earlier. But this time, when Paul writes it, it's it's with a promise. It's the most luxurious promise. And for now
33:07 until you get to heaven, he's gonna make everything in your life work together for good. After John 3 16, I don't know of another scripture that that gives you that kind of a bonus. Are you kidding me? I'll make
33:18 everything the bad stuff. I'll make it all work together for good. When you love me and you and you live for my purpose. Okay. Okay. So what's God's purpose? Let's see.
33:30 Pretty easy, he told us. I came to seek and save the lost. I came to love my neighbor as myself. I came to seek and save the lost. That's our goal. And when
33:42 that is our goal in the boardroom, on the tennis court, you follow me, At every moment, loving our neighbors are so be conserve their salvation and and living for his
33:53 purpose to seek and save the lost, every single 1 of them. When you live in that zone, everything changes and you become, I say, invincible. I don't mean that in a
34:05 braggy way. I just mean that god our god is able to protect me from everything. The the worst of things are starting to go to go run through. So I'll I'll jump to, a couple
34:17 of the challenges in my life to give you the payoff. Okay? My my my business was complicated that it was 3 brothers, that it was,
34:30 but the older brother died, and then my dad passed away. And it was me having half the business and the other business half of his owned by a godless half brother of my dad and his 2
34:42 sons who, none of them ever waxed a car. They had no passion. They couldn't read a balance sheet, and they're just full of anger. And they were they owned half my business.
34:56 What I went through for 30 years of these people tormenting me, 1 of them tried to kill me. So they finally sold to a joint venture partner. I call them a joint vulture
35:07 partner. And, after 5 years, they decided I found out the next morning they're gonna throw me out of my business. I I was 65 years old at the time. I
35:19 couldn't start over. It's my life's work. It's what I'm known for. It's it's my reputation. It's my testimony. What word is God now? What have you? Where is God
35:31 now? Everybody always has joy. Where's his joy now? Is he gonna be smiling now? Yeah. You bet. So that was the next morning. You would think that that'd
35:43 be the most horrible night of my life, but I had been seasoned for a lot of years of going through bad things and realizing God would use them for good, and he always did. And that once you get that, you get to where you
35:54 realize nothing. There's nothing can touch you. And so that night, before I went to sleep, I said, God, I ask you for nothing. Literally, my prayer was like a 2 minute prayer. When I'm
36:06 speaking in large groups, I have to say, so why would all night pacing back and forth, God help me. God help me. I need your help. Praise god. That's actually confessing lack of faith.
36:18 I just said to god, I ask you for nothing, god, because of 2 things. The same 2 things. They're always the same 2 things. You know I live for your purpose. It's not a gray area. That's what I do. That's what drives me
36:30 all day long. And I know you keep your word, and you always have, and you'll make it good. And so I went to sleep that night, and with all that hanging over me as God hears my
36:42 voice right now, I went right to sleep. I didn't toss and turn. I never woke up. I woke up the morning fresh, and I went to that conference call meeting in my in my attorney's
36:54 office. We each took it in our own offices. And, he he God reversed that, protected me, reversed it in about 8 minutes to the point where
37:06 my joint venture partners were cussing me, GEDs and that. It was on a conference call, so they couldn't see me. I'm I'm laughing. And God on the phone, I just said, god, you're so good.
37:18 I was toast. I had nothing, but I had you, and and that's all I need. Why did I have that conference? Because I live every day. I
37:29 live every day moving everybody every day closer to Jesus. It's so easy, and it's so fun. I'll give you 1 last scripture, and then we'll bring up for questions and answers if we have a COVID. It's left here. This is
37:41 this is incredible. My faith explodes because I'm sharing my faith. I know that. Every every time I share my faith, I walk away. I'm I'm more blessed than the other
37:53 person. I I'll give you a quick example. You may have heard Dave Dravecky, the the pitcher for the giants who lost his
38:05 arm is now just fabulous minister of God. I went to meet him. And a friend of mine, a mutual friend, knew him, and he arranged a lunch down in Chandler, Tempe somewhere. We drove from
38:16 Scottsdale down. And, they knew I like barbecue, so we went to a barbecue down there. And, Dave couldn't be available till 1 30. So we got there. It was an empty parking lot. And, I never
38:28 been there before. I wasn't driving. My friend was driving. He had a he had 100 places he could've parked. They have big huge parking lot for a lot of other stores or whatever. He pulls up right in front of another car,
38:38 and the and the hood was open. So so I get out, and and I wonder if the hood open that might be in a I want to see opportunities. Exactly. I'm looking for a witness. Oh, how can I jump into
38:50 a conversation? That's what's fun. And here again, he's a black guy, and he's got a tank top on, tattoos, dreadlocks. He's got a great big, what I'd call a sparkle's bottle, but it'd be a big bottle of water that you put
39:02 on top of a water cooler, if you know what I mean. He's carrying this out, and he's got his cap off the radiator. I said, hi. I I what's going on? Can I help you? He said, no. No. I'm fine. IShow more
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