Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

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Well, while I have your attention for a couple of moments. I want to share with you a story that happened short time ago.

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I’m actually a construction worker. I’m in underground construction I work for the local labor union around here, and

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we were putting in

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big pipe, I think it was like 24 inch RCP pipe, which is concrete pipe. You put it in the ground, all kinds of work, and we’re putting in a manhole, and it just kept falling apart, kept falling apart, kept falling apart, kept falling but didn’t matter what we did. Didn’t matter how the concrete was formed. If we made it more wet, if we put added calcium to it, didn’t matter what we did. We could not get the concrete to work. And I was down in this deep, 15-foot hole with this other guy, and he was cussing and ran and raving and getting mad and screaming and yelling. But then he stopped and looked at me and he said something. He goes, You never really do get mad, do you

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said, I used to

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quite a bit. I used to be a

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very angry young man. He goes, well, why were you so mad all the time? I said, well, I grew up in church, and I saw the good side and the bad side of it. But then one day, I stopped encountering church, and I encountered my savior, Jesus Christ.

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He goes on, don’t talk to me about that stuff. I said, hey, man, you opened the door to it.

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And so I continued to share my faith with him. And in

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that moment, it wasn’t that he got down on his knees and lifted his hands and cried out to God and was saved. But

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for a bearded, tattooed up, gnarly construction worker to get tears in his eyes and look at me

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and say, I don’t know about everything that you’re saying,

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but I do know I wouldn’t like to be mad so often,

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I said, well, the only way that happens is through Jesus.

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And he just looked at me, said,

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okay, and we went right back to work.

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And it wasn’t that I left the moment feeling like some great, powerful Christian, because it wasn’t this amazing experience that happened, but at the same time, it was one of the most amazing experiences that I had ever had. I got to share with somebody that looked intimidating

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with confidence. I got to share with him the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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I got to share with him the love that Christ had for him. And it didn’t matter his past, it didn’t matter what he looked like, it didn’t matter how many tattoos, it didn’t even matter that he showed up that morning smelling like weed and booze,

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but that Jesus loved him and could fix anything in him that was broken

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from addiction to anger problems. We went back to work and we finished the manhole. We got it done. We left and we went on.

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I don’t know exactly where he’s at today, but I do know

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that by the help and the grace of the Holy Spirit, that there was a seed planted in that man’s life that day, and I do know that His Word will never return void.

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So I trust and I believe that that seed has been germinated, and now he’s, he’s, but he’s a believer, and he’s a follower of Christ.

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I believe that.