Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

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There was a time that I was in the grocery store and I was at a point in my life where I was in between jobs and I didn’t have a lot of money, and I was kind of struggling, and I walked into a store and there was these kids that were

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trying to find money to buy a couple of Gatorades. They didn’t have a lot of money on them, and so and I did, I had like, five bucks, and so what I did is I offered to pay for their Gatorades. And they were, I say, kids. They were only a couple years younger than I was, and one of them looked at me and said, My dad says I don’t take handouts from anybody. This isn’t a handout, man. I’m just trying to buy you a Gatorade gets hot outside.

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He goes, why you doing this? And I said, because Jesus loves you.

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He loves me. He gave our life, His life for us, and because of that reason, and I, it came out of me so fast. I am not the type of person that is. That’s the first thing that I’m going to say, but I just went for it. I just said it that the reason I’m buying you a Gatorade is because Jesus loves you. He wanted absolutely nothing to do with it, but it was the person and the kid that was standing right behind him,

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tears streaming down his face just from hearing the words that Jesus loved him.

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I said, Hey, bud, what’s wrong, man? I didn’t mean to make you cry or anything like that. He goes, nah.

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He said,

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My dad is a preacher, and he

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I don’t want nothing to do with God man. I’m so sick and tired of hearing people say that Jesus loves me.

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I walked up to him, I said, but you know that he does, because if you didn’t know that, you wouldn’t be crying right now,

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though you would have no emotion toward but you know that he’s real, I said, so right now, in this moment, you need to recommit yourself to God, and

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I’m going to do it with you.

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And that cashier was like, oh my God, what’s going on? And this kid is crying, and his buddy’s like, This is crazy. His buddy walks out of the store, and me and that kid, we sat there, and we sit with the sinner’s prayer together.

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Never seen him since, but I do know that in that moment when he looked up at me,

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That, that, that, that bitterness that I saw in his eyes wasn’t there anymore. It was like for the very first time, he had actually experienced the love of Jesus.

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And really isn’t that our goal as Christians, even to other Christians that say they’re Christians, or might be going through the motions, or may have been grown up in church, if we do not take on the great commission as a lifestyle to go therefore into all the world and preaching the gospel, not preaching at people, but let your lifestyle be a sermon to people that the love of Jesus oozes out of every part of who we are,

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if he can hang on a cross and spill every drop of blood for us, if he can be bruised and broken and bloody and die on an old rugged cross, and he’s buried for three days,

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but then on that third day, all of Heaven erupted with Praise as that stone rolls away and he walked out. He did that for us.

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And to be honest with you, how dare I keep that type of good news to myself? How dare I be selfish with the joy and the peace and the rest that comes with knowing who Jesus is.

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Now you may be at work, you may be in a grocery store, you may just be driving down the road and you see the person in the car next to you, who knows what’s going to trigger you, but I promise you, if you will yield yourself to the Holy Spirit, those doors will open, and all you have to do is walk through and walk through in the love of Jesus and share the gospel.