Ignite with Barry Meguiar Podcast

Speaker 1  00:00
Hi everybody! Welcome back to Ignite. I’m with the famous, the one, and early George Janko. You reaching, boy, you’re reaching massive crowds now with the George Janko show. Yes, and Bella beside you, she’s awesome.

Speaker 2  00:17
Yeah, she’s amazing.

Speaker 1  00:18
You are you’re you’re a pair. You really are.

Speaker 2  00:20
Thank you.

Speaker 1  00:20
But if you want to know more about the background and so forth, go to this is part B of a two-part session. I don’t. We may. Who knows? We might do a third. Say, go to the first part, and you get to understand a lot of the personalized stuff and where George has come from, and such an interesting story how God had your heart from even like when you’re a three-year-old, and you would lay on your back and look of a god. Yeah, I mean, how many three-year-olds do that?

Speaker 2  00:45
Third grade.

Speaker 1  00:46
Third, third grader. How many third graders do that? I mean, it’s just it’s it’s, it’s not very many. You know, but you just reminded me. My point was God had your heart then. He knew what you’re going to be doing now, before the foundation of the world, right? Yeah, he’s always known that, but he knew that when you’re a third grader, and you were a work in progress all this time. Look at how he’s led your life and all the experiences to get you to where that you have the maturity that you have now, still having the personality and having fun, but with the depth of knowledge. I mean, it’s all melded together to make you who you are today. That great.

Speaker 2  01:25
Yeah, praise God. You reminded me something. The first time I ever preached the Gospel, and I just remembered this recently too. But you reminded me of it. I was, I think, the fifth or sixth grade, but it was elementary school, and there was this Romanian kid.

Speaker 1  01:42
No, wait, wait! You said the first time you ever preached.

Speaker 2  01:45
No, like explained the Gospel to him.

Speaker 1  01:50
Explained the Gospel. Ok, so fifth grade, the first time you explained the Gospel

Speaker 2  01:52
Yeah, because there was this kid that saw me always praying on the bus, and so he asked me. He goes like, “Who are you talking to?” Well, I remember I didn’t have any friends, so I was talking to each other. So I was like talking to my only friend I got.

Speaker 1  02:05
You grow, you had this growth spurt in recent years, but God had your heart as a as a third grader.

Speaker 2  02:11
Well, God told me when I was a kid that I was going to be where I’m at right now. I had dreams about this before. Wow. Oh yeah, many times. Oh my. Even my mom, like they, they told me that I was like legit like that that they, they put they told me I was retarded they put me in a special ed class, and my mom would cry but she would always wipe her tears and be like no the Lord has like he, he’s gonna be an entertainer he’s already been chosen for this so but they used to pull me out of school third fourth grade as well to confirm it my mom my dad my sister all of them they were by the way, not audibly. They weren’t like George’s. They were just kind of like, he’s either gonna make it as an entertainer, or this kid’s homeless. You know what I mean? Like, but we believe in God, so we think that’s gonna be his entertaining. But I was anyway. So I’m sitting on the bus and I’m just talking to myself, and well, not me. I’m talking to God, right? And this kid comes up to me and he goes, “Hey man, like who you talking to?” And I was like, “Oh, I’m talking to Jesus”, and he was just like, Oh yeah, “what are you talking about?” And I was like, “Well, I’m Christian”, and he was like, “Oh, I’m I’m Roman Catholic”. He’s like, “I think”, because remember we’re young, we’re babies, yeah. And I was like, “Oh nice”, I was like, “You have a Bible?” And it was just like, “No”, and I was like, “Oh, dude, you should have a Bible”, because I just at the time got this child’s Bible, like one with like pictures and stuff. And I was like, “Don’t read your mom’s”. That’s too much. Like that. I was like, “You need the pictures”. And so he was like, “I don’t. I didn’t know they make that”. So we’re sitting there on the whole bus, and I just remember the next fifth grade. They were done fifth or sixth grade. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, got it. I remember he the next day, or like maybe a few days later. It was a long time ago, so forgive me. But eventually, he gets back on the bus and he’s rushing to me, and he sits next to me on the back of the bus and he goes, “Look, and he pulls out of his backpack a Bible. Come on. And I look at him and I just remember, Barry. I swear. I promise this. He pulls out the Bible and there was something in me that was so much joy, and I just remembered being like, “Oh, this is like a big deal. What just happened?” And I don’t, and nobody was telling me exactly because I was young, you know. In my brain, I didn’t even know that other people didn’t know about Jesus, because I’m in a household where my mom’s like, “It’s either you left Jesus or you die”. Like you know what I mean? Like so, when I saw him pull it out and the light in his eyes, like he was so excited and happy, I was just kind of like, “Oh, this is a very special deal”. And then, okay, I’ll tell you this other one. This is because, by the way, I’m always saying this because he wants me to say this. I usually try not to. I like to keep this between.

Speaker 1  04:38
No, no. I mean, this is you can’t do necessarily or easy as easy at your show, but you can do it on our show.

Speaker 2  04:44
I appreciate that. When I was in that special ed class, and there’s attendant, she would she wasn’t even a teacher, she was a guard. Mrs. Love, by the way, shout out! I swear, I wish I could meet her again. That she gave me so much hope, and so how fun. Is her name was Mrs. Love?

Speaker 1  05:01
Isn’t that something?

Speaker 2  05:03
Mrs. Love

Speaker 1  05:04
Wherever she is, Lord, bless her, and all that she did to impact you.

Speaker 2  05:09
Also, if Mrs. Love, you watch this, please reach out to me. I would love to meet you.

Speaker 1  05:13
Sometimes they do. That’ll do that. What’s wrong? Everyone’s they, they actually. She’s literally core memories. He can orchestrate that and make that happen.

Speaker 2  05:22

Yeah, hey Lord, make that happen. But Mrs. Love asked me and everybody in class, where do you see yourself in your future? Like where, like when you die, and it was such a deep question. When you die, what is what do you want to get done? Now everybody was just talking about, oh, I want my mom to be like this I want my dad to be like this but in my brain because I’m a Christian remember I was like oh I’m gonna meet God when I die, so I sat in class just sitting there thinking about it thinking about it thinking about it and this seems very arrogant what I’m about to say but remember I was young I sat across from her she goes what do you would like what do you want to get done I was like, when I die, I pray that when I meet Jesus, that I turn around and as far as the eyes can see, all those people came because I introduced them to Jesus. And she looked at me and she goes, “That’s what you want? And I was like, “Yeah, yeah. Could there? And she was so confused by it.

Speaker 1  06:18
Could there be any greater there is no greater vision than you could have.

Speaker 2  06:23
So recently, I had, I had me and my friend we did a baptism for the first time, and 1,500 people showed up. Right, so I’m baptizing people. Oh my goodness! And I start sobbing while I’m baptizing because I’m baptizing somebody, and then this girl comes up to me. We’re hours in. My back is on fire, and she comes up to me to ask me if I need a break. And she goes, “Are you sure you don’t need a break?” I was like, “No, no, I gotta keep going”. Like I, like I’m in live energy. Like I gotta keep going. And she, she looks me in my eyes and she goes, “Well, let me know if you’re okay because as far as I can see, she goes, “I can’t see the ending of this line”, and I looked at her and I time traveled back to when I was a child, and I was like, “Oh my God!” He like honored my, my request to him, and so it was. That was recently, and that was probably no, no, it is. It was the greatest day of my life. Oh, yeah. Wow. It beat my wedding, poor girl. My wife was upset about it. But it’s-I got baptized on my wedding, by the way.

Speaker 1  07:27
On your wedding? Yes. I didn’t know about this.

Speaker 2  07:29
I grew up in a church where they baptized me as a baby.

Speaker 1  07:31
Okay.

Speaker 2  07:31
And with all respect, in my relationship with the Lord, I when I was reading the Gospel, the baptism is like a proposal. So in my brain, I started laughing. Like, what would I do if my wife was like, like I m,y my wife got dragged into a rope? Like, “Hey, you’re gonna marry this guy”, you know what I mean? Like, it takes away the love of like me being like, no, I want you for myself. Like, not because my mom like pulled my ear and brought you here. And so, I was like, no, it’s in my heart. I want to get baptized. Now, listen to this. I had a friend, not even atheist. I think he was the Antichrist. Like he would like every time I’d eat a cheeseburger at In-N-Out, he would whisper in my ear, like pretend like you’re praying. He’d be like, “I give you permission, my child”. And so he would mock Jesus all the time. If I got introduced to a guy named Jose, he’d be like, “Hey, look, your prayer answered”. Like he was just always mocking me, but I just loved him. I just always and so my prayer for him was I said Lord I don’t know how it’s possible but I want him to enter the kingdom before me, I go I know you can make it work right and so my, my mom was upset that I wasn’t getting married in the church that I grew up in, but she asked me one request she goes hey your best friend is your best man, and I-that’s my final straw with you. He cannot be your best man if he’s not a man of God, because who is there gonna hold you accountable in your matrimony between you and Jesus in your life? And this man doesn’t even acknowledge 1/3 of your relationship. And so I called him up, and my eyes were like kind of watering because he’s-he’s my brother. It’s not even like my best friend. And I said, hey man, like I, I have argued with my mom about this, but this has kind of been on my heart. Like I think she’s right on this one. And then he goes, well, would it help if it nobody? He goes, would it help if recently I’ve been wanting to get baptized, and I literally go, “Dude, you can’t”. And I start making jokes because I’m a comic. I’m like, “Bro, you’re gonna bring us both to hell”. You can’t sign a fake relationship with God. I go, “Cause my mom’s gonna be my ass, and then I’m gonna have to deal with it with my father in heaven”. So I was like, “Dude, just like, just be the second guy. I mean, I won’t even give a main guy. Like, the second guy will be you. I’ll have the main guy. So he starts laughing. He pulls out his Bible. He’s like, “No, dude, I I’ve been calling out to God, and I think if there is a God, I think He’s Jesus Christ”. And I was just like, “What I mean, I cried, bro. I cried and bathed in my tears. Then Cliff and Stewart. I don’t know if you guys know who Clifford Stewart is. Michael Nolan’s does, but, so I’m with Clifford Stewart, and I ask, “Hey, could you baptize my best friend?” And he goes, “Yeah”. And I was like, “What the heck? Could you baptize me?” Like, I want to get baptized again. So now we’re in. So we’re in the wedding.

Speaker 1  10:12
Come on.

Speaker 2  10:13
The water’s right here. The things right here. Before I meet my wife, we get into the water, and I’m sitting. I’m crying. Wait. And then ready for this? This all my prayers from since I was a kid. Flashbacks of me begging Jesus since I was a child. Please let him go into the kingdom first. Please let him go into the kingdom first. As I’m thinking this in my head, all of a sudden they start they baptize him first into the water. I get goosebumps still, and I’ll go, Oh my God, oh my God, he, he got in there first.

Speaker 1  10:42
Before you.

Speaker 2  10:43
And then I went in there.

Speaker 1  10:44
Oh my! Yeah, goodness.

Speaker 2  10:46
Yeah, that was a that was a great second best day of my life.

Speaker 1  10:48
Story.

Speaker 2  10:49
Yeah,

Speaker 1  10:50
it’s a continuum, isn’t it? And, and, and whatever’s happening today may not we may not see the results of that today. Yeah, we want results now, but it may be. I mean, you know, for me, it’s sometimes decades later before you see the results. I want to tell folks today. There was one that I led a guy to the Lord who was dying in a hospice bed in about 12 minutes, and I had him prayed the prayer over again with his own words, so he knew it, understand it. He’s on his way to heaven. I said, “We’re going to be in heaven together now”. Okay, he was laughing. He died about a week later, took 12 minutes. I actually no, it took 50 years. I’ve been sharing with him with no response for 50 years, and he never once asked a question or reaffirmed in any way. He just I would change the subject and go different. 50 years.

Speaker 2  11:40
Yeah, that’s crazy. You know, me and my friends we used to always joke about like you know Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on the doors and just like trying to shake the door. Hey, let me talk to your household. You know what I mean? Like, and we’re like, get away from us. You know, and we and even as Christians, we’re like, dude, that’s lame. Why do you do it? But I can’t tell you how many times I see them knocking on the door. I go, that should be us. Why are we not going to our neighbors and telling people.

Speaker 1  12:01
Yeah, their obedience. Karen and I did that.

Speaker 2  12:03
Yeah, you guys look Mormon though. Yeah, exactly. You guys are in Utah, just “ding, ding, ding…”

Speaker 1  12:11
Absolutely. And no, our church, our Nazarene church, First Church Nazarene, Detroit. They had one of those classes, and we went. We didn’t want to, and they had us out in the neighborhood, in in Detroit, in dark neighborhoods at night. You can’t do that today, but back the mindset was different then. But they would actually, I would knock at the door and say, “I hope there’s nobody home”. That’s what I was actually thinking. Then they know that. Oops.

Speaker 2  12:40
So what, what is the what’s the separation between like forcing and, and let because you know how they say it’s the Holy Spirit that lets it the seed grow in your heart right? I got a funny story to tell you. Have you ever played God before? Not played Him, but tried to become God to somebody else.

Speaker 1  12:56
No, no, no.

Speaker 2  12:57
So,when I was young and stupid, I assumed to myself. I said, “You know what I could do?” I could trick this man into being a Christian. I go, “But it’s not a big deal, right?” I mean, the mob does it for good reasons. The government does it for you.

Speaker 1  13:10
Oh, you were serious?

Speaker 2  13:11
Oh, this is, this is a real situation. My buddy comes up to me, and he goes, “Hey, George”. And by the way, my, my neighborhood friends. When I this is probably middle school, maybe high. No, this is high school. High school, I had like of like Colin, his name was Colin, and Ryan, Haley, Olivia. They were my neighborhood friends. They were the only ones that put up with me, honestly, because I just showed up at their house. Like I’m not gonna lie, like they had no choice. Yeah, I’m showing up. I got it. And so, one of them was they would always show up to my house to have dinner, even when I’m not there. That’s how close we were. Like I’m close with his mom and dad, love them. He’s close to my mom and dad, love them. And one day he came with waters in the eyes because he knows how faithful we are to the Lord. And he’s like, I just don’t want to lie to you, man. He goes, This is crap. He’s like, “I don’t believe this shit. Like I don’t”. He’s like, I can’t. He and then he starts, he starts mocking it, and he’s like, “Dude, like, like science is where it’s really at”. And I looked at him, and I weeped in the shower for hours, man. And then afterwards, I got up and I was like, “I got it”. And my mom’s sitting on the couch watching Joyce Myers, and she was just like, “George, just let Jesus do what he needs to do. Just chill, pray for him”. I go, mom.

Speaker 1  14:23
How long ago was this?

Speaker 2  14:24
Oh, I was like 15-16, years old. This is like 17 years ago.

Speaker 1  14:28
Just time it for a second, because you just did a podcast with Joyce Myers.

Speaker 2  14:32
Yes. Oh yeah, Joyce Myers is the reason I had a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1  14:36
That, that doing a podcast that that interview, which is brilliant.

Speaker 2  14:40
Is the only one I was nervous about.

Speaker 1  14:41
That, that had to be. I mean, with all the history,

Speaker 2  14:44
I had to cut out moments of the podcast because I just kept crying.

Speaker 1  14:47
Really?

Speaker 2  14:48
Oh, I was so emotional. I was so emotional because I can’t tell you how many. Think about it. When we go to the source of the water, right? Yeah. We go to somebody who preaches it to you. Joyce is the only one who let me know who Jesus Christ was. No other human being on this earth. Let me know who Jesus Christ was besides Joyce Myers. She was the only one who read me the Gospel. She’s so real. Oh my God! Oh my God! I, I sat down with her for 30 minutes and I literally just looked up at God. I said, if I could do a quarter of what she’s done on this earth,

Speaker 1  15:15
Oh unbelievable!

Speaker 2  15:16
I would do tremendous amount.

Speaker 1  15:17
Unbelievable.

Speaker 2  15:20
Okay, so listen. So okay, back to so my mom was like, “Listen to Joyce, man. You’re not listening to Joyce”. And I was like, “I got it”. And I told God, I said, “God, hang back. I got this”. Remember, I’m in the special ed class, so I’m bringing that type of talent to my spiritual side. So I go.

Speaker 1  15:34
You do know this is not the normal. No, of course not. You know what it was? God was teaching me about preaching. Yeah, yeah, he was

Speaker 2  15:40
He’s teaching me about preaching, so I go up to him, and he was all about signs and wonders, right? So I was like, good, I’ll manipulate this crap that he likes, point it to Jesus, and then everything will clear out.

Speaker 1  15:51
Yeah. So we’re the means justifies the end.

Speaker 2  15:55
Yes. Yeah. So we go to this event. Like one of his friends had this thing, and he invited me to it. So I’m sitting there, and this is kid smoking pot in the in the back of the thing, and I was like, okay, I got this guy in my mind. And in school, I used to have these rosaries that were made out of like it was like fabric. It wasn’t like chains. It was like a fabric rosary. And anytime somebody would come up to me like, yo, I really like that, I’d give it to them because it was like a couple cents. So I just always give it to them so they could walk out, and it’s just like my fun little way of giving people gifts. So I wore that, and so I see this guy, my buddies, me and him were talking. He goes into the bathroom, and so I go up to the guy, pull out cash, I go, “Yo, here’s $100”. I go, “When this dude comes out, I want you to walk up to him and be like, Yo, I love this cross, right? It’s whoa, man, this cross is crazy, right?” He’s like, he’s sitting there looking at me high. He’s like, “Yeah, all right, man, I’ll do that”. And it might be, it wasn’t even like 100 bucks; it was like 20 bucks. I overexaggerated that. I’m so sorry, yeah, but in my brain it was 100 bucks at the time, right? So I hand him 20 bucks. My friend goes out of the bathroom and I say, “Hey, you know what? I was thinking about this sign thing, and I think God could use it”. He’s like, “Really?” And I go, “Yeah. You know what? How about we set one up for him?” And he’s like, “Okay. So I put my cross around his neck, and I said, “If anybody comes up to you and compliments your cross, Jesus exists, and you got to submit your life and worship Him”. So he looks at me. He goes, “Dude, that’s such a good idea, man. I can’t provide him to think about this”. This pothead, 10 minutes later, comes up and goes, “Whoa, man! I was sitting over there, dude. And I couldn’t notice, but your cross is awesome”. So my buddy turns to me. He’s like, “Oh my god, he’s real. Oh my god!” And, and then this is where I told him. I say, hey, but you got to be like me, and you have to give him the cross. So my buddy reaches the groove of the cross, and the guy goes, no, no, no, man, I don’t want that crap. He goes, I’m into science, and then he just starts talking about everything that Colin has been thinking about recently, and he looks at me, goes, “That’s the sign, man. He goes, Christ for sure doesn’t exist”, and I was like, Oh my God! I pushed him in the wrong direction. So I go home and I start crying my eyes out, crying my eyes out, and I was like, Oh my God! Like that’s it. Like I ruined it. And so I go to my mom. I was like, “Hey, Mom, I, I, I like there was fire and I just dumped gasoline on it. I think I lost my friend”. And my mom goes, “You have no say in this. She goes, You’re the messenger, not the savior”. She goes, “So why don’t you get on your knees and go ask God to clean up your mess?” And so I go to God and I and I pray. Maybe seven months later, he gets in a car accident. A drunk, drunk driver hit him. Somebody hit him or put him off the line, or I don’t know exactly what happened. When I got the news, I rushed over and I rushed over. I couldn’t find him. Couldn’t find him. And then I turn over and I see him looking at. He runs up and he grabs me, and he goes, “When my car was spinning, he goes, Jesus was holding me the whole time”.

Speaker 1  18:58
Whoa!

Speaker 2  18:59
Ad he goes, “I don’t know how to explain this? He goes, but while he was holding me, he goes. All I kept thinking is he’s only holding me because you’re praying for me”. Until this day, this man’s after God’s heart like crazy. Like, like he went above and beyond. Like he was annoying me at some point. You come and he’s like, “Have you read this verse?” I go, buddy, “I didn’t do this so we could do this all the time”. He would write sticky notes all over his house. He became more of a Christian than me. Started annoying me. I kind of try to put him back at his old lane. I was like…

Speaker 1  19:25
His word never returns void. Yeah, that’s such a strong statement that you may walk away and think it’s a total failure or a mess or whatever, but God’s word just keeps moving and working. We have no idea that because it’s living, it’s God. He’s the word.

Speaker 2  19:42
Well, we are the sowers, not the growers. That’s what I’ve literally like. And by the way, Pastor Luke kind of helped me with that because I would get so anxious that people weren’t hearing me that I was like, “All right, if this guy doesn’t hear me, I have to beat him up”. Like, there’s no way I’m not. Like, if he does, and it’s very conquer mindset. You know what I mean? Like, other religious have that. Like, it’s either you bow and knee, or we’ll kill you, type of thing, and, and that it’s a poison, but that doesn’t come from Jesus. That comes from the devil.

Speaker 1  20:05
You think?

Speaker 2  20:06
Yeah, yeah. And so I went up to I went to Pastor Luke one day. I was like, “Hey, man, if like if I keep getting into these arguments with my family, and like”, and he stops me right there. He goes, “Hey, hey. He goes, You’re putting too much on you. He goes, You’re putting the world in your hand. He goes, You’re you’re not the you don’t. The Holy Spirit does that”.

Speaker 1  20:23
It’s not your responsibility.

Speaker 2  20:24
Yeah, and you know it’s so funny. More people came to Christ through me when I was way more calm and peaceful. It’s kind of like a car salesman. If you go up to him, he’s like, well, you know this more than anybody. If you go up to somebody and you push your products on them, they’re like, “Buddy, get off of me”. You know what I mean? Yeah. But if you’re like, “No, no, no, my stuff’s the best”. You, you don’t you don’t want it. Don’t worry about it. And it kind of naturally just pulls in.

Speaker 1  20:44
I, I just fall back on the don’t argue with a fool, and I find that most people that want to argue actually really want to argue are in for the argument, and they don’t want an answer anyway. So I was the biggest fool. There’s too many people that are soft, that are that are hurting, that are searching.

Speaker 2  21:04
Yeah,

Speaker 1  21:05
I can’t get to them all. So why should I use up my time trying to argue with somebody in the scripture? Don’t argue with a fool. You know, you don’t cast your pearls before swine. So just…

Speaker 2  21:14
What happens when you love a fool?

Speaker 1  21:16
Well, you knew love them. Oh yeah. No, no. But what happens if you

Speaker 2  21:19
No, no. But what happens if you like? You just you’re, you’re absolutely in love, but this person that you’re in love with is a fool. What do you do?

Speaker 1  21:24
Well,

Speaker 2  21:25
You just like say, “Hey, all right, buddy, piss off”. Like I already tried, because a lot of people tell me this. Like they’ll be like, “No, I dust my feet and leave”, and they’re and they get so quick to use that Bible verse, and then I go, “Buddy, like, what if Jesus had that heart with us?” You know what I mean? Like, yeah, I am, and I’ll use myself as an example.

Speaker 1  21:40
Yeah,

Speaker 2  21:41
God doesn’t have to tell me 100 times. He has to tell me 100,000 times. Like I am brain dead without Jesus. So, like, at what point do we dust our feet with somebody?

Speaker 1  21:50
Yeah, yeah. A knee jerk is that I won’t give a name, but I do have a Jewish friend, and, and I love him to death. You know, just the setup of that was he is the most foul guy I know he has words of vulgarity that I never even heard before, and he’s just angry.

Speaker 2  22:07
Yeah.

Speaker 1  22:07
And he’s gotten mad at me for talking about the Lord. You know,

Speaker 2  22:10
Yeah.

Speaker 1  22:11
So I back off. I still talk to him about the Lord, and he said horrible things. I just love him to death, and I just the more he hates back, he doesn’t hate me. He loves me. I know he actually loves me, but it’s this knee-jerk reaction to the message he doesn’t want to hear. You know…

Speaker 2  22:29
He’s watching this. He’s like, “No, I hate you”.

Speaker 1  22:31
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I just, I just, I’m overwhelming him with love, and my prayer is anybody that knows the relationship, and I have a number of people praying for him as well, is that he’ll do what a lot of folks have done? I’ve led a lot of people to the Lord when they’re dying. They don’t hear about it, but when they’re dying, all of a sudden they have an epiphany. Maybe I should talk to Barry, you know. And so that’s, that’s fine. I’m praying that I’m still happy with him. But love conquers all. It’s all about love, just unending. There’s no, there’s no container, no way to contain it. Just love on them, and, and allow God. It’s not. That’s all my responsibility. I can’t get him saved.

Speaker 2  23:13
How does a man stop becoming a fool?

Speaker 1  23:17
How does a man stop becoming a fool? Hmm. I, I, well. well, how does a man? I’m trying to think of a good answer to that one. You got an answer. You tell me the answer, then I’ll agree with it.

Speaker 2  23:31
I was reading Proverbs. Okay. And I realized when I’m writing down, I was like, oh, I’m I’m not the good guy in this book. I’m I’m the I’m the dumb guy. Yeah. And so I kind of surrendered myself, and then verses started popping out to me, and there was one. And I pray this kind of sticks with somebody, man. If you catch yourself being offended a lot, you’re a fool.

Speaker 1  23:48
Oh wow!

Speaker 2  23:49
And I think that’s where I had to kind of naturally grab. I got I got easily offended. Like if, if I didn’t like the way somebody would say something, or I would assume. And what happens is the devil loves to latch onto this because now your imagination is starting to pretend what he’s saying. Now for 15 minutes, I’m in my imagination pretending to argue with this guy, and this guy doesn’t even think I exist. Like he, and so I sat there and I said, “Lord, I’m a fool. I just get offended for no reason”. And one day, this guy said something to me that really offended me. Now my dad raised me beating up gangbangers at a liquor store. So as soon as this guy disrespected me, I was like, “Oh, I’m gonna have to walk away with his teeth in my pocket. There’s no way I’m gonna let him do this in front of my wife like that”. And immediately, I was about to do it. That I remembered that Bible verse.

Speaker 1  24:32
You were, you were working. We’re always a working problem. I’m still am. I’m under construction. You show up. I’m the guy that everybody yells at on Scottsdale. They’re still working on this road. Me too.

Speaker 2  24:41
Yeah. So I sat there and I said, “Hold on, hold on! I just got offended. I just got offended. This is good practice. All right, Lord, help me not be offended”. And so I took a second, and not audibly, but the Lord whispered, “He goes, why are you at the center of your universe?”

Speaker 1  24:54
He goes, “This is about.” That’s why you’re offended.

Speaker 2  24:57
Yes, because I was like, “How dare you treat me this way?” Because I immediately said, “Hey, hey, do you know who I am? Do you know what I’m about? Do you know this? Do you know that about me?” And then God said, “Did you ever consider him?” So I took myself out. I said, “Okay, what if he was this way because of this? Or what if he was this? Or what if he was that?” And so I started realizing, “Oh, I should serve him. This is the guy that I should wash his feet.” You know what I was at the time? The disciples in the upper room, being like, I ain’t washing anybody’s feet, dude. Like, you know, you gotta wash my feet, dude. And so finally, when I started washing his feet, I saw his eyes. He became way more peaceful with me. Yeah. And so I realized I was like, oh, only a fool is offended. I thought he was dumb, but the truth is, it was me. It was a donkey telling another donkey, “Hey, man, you’re stupid.”

Speaker 1  25:39
Jesus, all the agony. He’s he in him everything was created. Man who he created is judging him and now driving nails in his hands, and he says, “Forgive them to his God”, God his Father, Heavenly Father. Forgive them. They know not what they do. When people are on that side. They don’t know. They’re just lost. They’re not evil. They’re lost. Can I can I ask you? Can I ask you a conspiracy thing? Yeah, sure.

Speaker 2  26:09
Because me and him at dinner, and I was we were like talking about hell is eternal, about dinosaurs, all these things, and he and he was just like, no, I don’t agree with you on any of this. And by the way, not a lot of people do, but it was just my pondering thought. I got a new pondering thought. I want to…

Speaker 1  26:21
No, but, but I love. See, those conversations are fun. It’s not about salvation. We’re on our way to heaven. We’re going. We’re glorifying God. We love God, whatever. But there’s always that little points about it. You know, is is the rapture next week or is it 100 years from now? All that it’s fun conversation. But the root, root of it all is He saved us. He loves us. We’re going to heaven. We’re spending Turing together. A billion years from now, we’ll be hanging out. Can you believe that?

Speaker 2  26:47
I think about that all the time.

Speaker 1  26:49
I mean, It’s mind-boggling.

Speaker 2  26:52
What was I saying? I was. I was…

Speaker 1  26:53
I’m trying to distract you so you won’t.

Speaker 2  26:56
Oh, the conspiracy. Okay. So check this out. In the beginning, oh yeah, you’re trying to get me not to…

Speaker 1  26:59
I’m trying to get you. No, no, okay. Goodbye, folks.

Speaker 2  27:03
No, no, no. We’ve still got four minutes. In Genesis, it says that it, it was created for him through him.

Speaker 1  27:09
Yes. Right. Yes.

Speaker 2  27:12
I got this image in my…

Speaker 1  27:14
You’re not supposed to stump the host, you know, but it’s okay.

Speaker 2  27:19
I’m used to it. Okay. All right. The thought, okay. Adam and Eve walked with Jesus on the in the in the garden, right? Because if they’re walking with God, I’m assuming it’s His flesh form, and it’s Jesus. This is my thought process.

Speaker 1  27:32
Yeah, I would agree.

Speaker 2  27:33
In the beginning was darkness, right? But also it says in the Gospel that everything was created for Him, through Him,

Speaker 1  27:39
Through Him. Yep.

Speaker 2  27:41
This is my that’s big. This is my brain, and I want somebody to correct me if I’m wrong, but I I have a feeling I picture God dropping Himself in an atmosphere of darkness, and just literally walking around. And when He was saying, “Let there be light”, it wasn’t like a spirit of voice. It was literally Him in a video game in darkness, and just looking around and being like, I want mountains there, I want light here, and he’s walking around and he’s creating things.

Speaker 1  28:05
Can you imagine?

Speaker 2  28:06
So think about this. It’s like a video game. So this guy came up to me, goes, “Well, why did this tree says it’s been here for thousands of years?” Okay, but if we were in a video game and we dropped ourselves down, would we be like, “Yeah, plant that tree there and wait a couple billion years until it grows?” Or would God be like, no, “I want this to be sized at this age and at this time”. Does that make sense? Does any because Adam was born at an adult.

Speaker 1  28:30
Yep.

Speaker 2  28:31
He was predestined as an adult. Yes. So why do they get so confused when these mountains were pre-aged? Yeah.

Speaker 1  28:36
Yeah.

Speaker 2  28:36
Does that make sense? Does that make sense?

Speaker 1  28:39
We, we, we, we have no idea.

Speaker 2  28:40
We got to knock on people’s doors and talk about this.

Speaker 1  28:43
No, no, it’s true. I don’t waste much time with it because it’s not about salvation. But at the same time, whatever they find in archeological studies, God could have made it that way. He could. He, he can do anything. He if he wants to make it as Adam as an adult, or he wants to make that ground like it’s 5 million years old. He can do that. That’s what I think.

Speaker 2  29:03
So also, do you believe in aliens?

Speaker 1  29:04
In what?

Speaker 2  29:05
Do you believe in aliens?

Speaker 1  29:06
I believe in I believe in the supernatural being demonic. That’s what I believe in.

Speaker 2  29:11
I believe that there’s no way God was around for trillions of years and was like can’t touch anything until humans are made. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I think he was creating all the time. When I look up at space and there’s like oh this is infinite. And scientists are like, how could God be real when this just keeps growing? I’m like, this just proves that God’s still creating things, dude. Like, what are we talking about here?

Speaker 1  29:29
The scriptures are full of demonic activity, particularly in the last days, signs and wonders and all that kind of stuff. I don’t go over there because I don’t because anyway, it’s particularly into that they just want to be into it or argue it. I don’t care about. Do you know God loves you? That’s the most important thing. And you know, I’m not going to debate with this or that. I do know it. If, if, if there was an alien force, okay, it would be in Scripture. It’d be in Bible prophecy. The Bible is true. It’s absolute truth.

Speaker 2  29:57
Yeah, but it does talk about spirituality as other than that.

Speaker 1  30:00
That’s demonic activity. So that explains. What about angels? Yeah. Oh, we have angels around us all the time. You have guardian angels. You know, we have guardian angels looking after you.

Speaker 2  30:07
Let’s talk about that. What was he doing half of my life? Was he sleeping or something like that?

Speaker 1  30:14
We’re out of time.

Speaker 2  30:15
All right. I’m getting kicked out. His producers are like, “Get him out. He’s getting into conspiracies”

Speaker 2  30:23
No, we are gonna do part C and we are going to talk about is hell forever?.

Speaker 1  30:27
Let’s see. We’re gonna talk. We can have some fun.

Speaker 2  30:31
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1  30:32
Last story. Last great story. Any last party words you want to give those folks out there watching?

Speaker 2  30:38
I’ll give you one. The reason I don’t stress about my work is because just like the plants that we reap and sow, if your business doesn’t grow, it’s not about you. It’s about who’s managing it. One day when I started getting brand deals, I was in LA and I was struggling, and I needed brand deals. I got a brand manager, and he sees me and he goes, “Hey man, you got to take Jesus out of your bio”. And I was like, “What?” He’s like he goes. “It’s not a religious thing, man. He goes, and I love that you love Jesus. He goes, but when I’m pitching you, he goes, and people see that they’re gonna think that, hey, man, we don’t want to be working with religion or politics. Has nothing to do with it. It’s it’s it’s nothing to do with religion or politics. It’s just business”. Even my dad, Middle Eastern man, goes, “Hey, he’s right, man. Get the relief. Worship Jesus by yourself. Make the money, man, and then give Jesus the money”. And so I looked at my dad’s info. I looked at their info, and I was like, “Yo, I’m gonna, I’m gonna, I’m gonna talk to you later. I’m gonna talk to you tomorrow. I’ll pray about it”. But I knew what I was gonna do. I just didn’t want to punch him through the phone.

Speaker 3  31:34
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2  31:35
So I asked God. I said, “God, you got to give me patience, man.

Speaker 1  31:38
This is pure George. This is pure George.

Speaker 2  31:40
So I go up to him and I’m a firecracker. My mom raised me, right? Really? Yeah. So I’m kind of heated that he asked me that because in my brain I’m like, bro, how stupid are you? That’s like me going up to him and be like, did you get that yarmulke off your head, bro? What you talking to me? It’s like, dude, that’s there’s the big no-nos. You know what I mean? Like you don’t do that. And so he comes up to me, goes, “Yo, so what’d you think?” And I said, “Nah, I’m me to remove Jesus from my business, and that’s impossible. My business is Jesus”, and I go “Even though I don’t do it for business, but I do everything here is to honor Him”. And by the way, which is really funny because my skits were super like not Christian at all. And so he goes, “All right, man”, and I’ll never forget this. He goes, “All right, but don’t come crying to me if I can’t get you a brand deal”. And I looked at him and I said, “Hey, man, you have no idea who provides. You think you provide, but it’s my Lord who provides”. So my mom weeps to me on the phone, and she goes, “That’s when I knew you became a man”. She goes, “That’s how I knew I did a good job as a mother”. And she goes, “And I got to tell you something. When I wept to the Lord and I thanked Him, He told me that he was gonna bless you, and I just want to let you know you’re about to be blessed”. Now this is a true story. I have the contracts and I documented it.

Speaker 2  32:48
Seven days in a row. From that day, I got seven brand deals in a row. Seven days in a row…

Speaker 1  32:54
From that day?

Speaker 2  32:55
Made more money than I made in all the years that I ever lived. And the guy comes up to me, goes, “Whose God is yours, man? I gotta work with your God”. And I was like, “Dude, yeah”, but yeah, praise God. That was the day that I I told the Lord. I said, “You know what? I’m never gonna chase money”. And it was that day. I never chased money. Money chases.

Speaker 1  33:14
He wants to bless you. Yeah, but only if you keep him first, and and you realize your comedy is about him. It’s about bringing people to him. Carwax. It doesn’t matter what you do. Even a stupid company like car wax. Seriously, you work on car wax, but you see your business car wax is your pulpit to tell people about Jesus, and he blesses the car wax company. We have all this success, but I don’t glory in that success. I just marvel at I think what it is like for me gives to us that we have influence for for Jesus.

Speaker 2  33:42
If you had a, if he’s our dad and he’s our real dad, would he give us anything that we would end up worshiping more than him? No. So I always tell people, I was like, it’s not your business that’s struggling; it’s your mindset and heart position towards God. If you changed the way that you looked at money and made it honorable to God, he would give you wisdom to produce more money. I see people making money in the craziest way possible because they were bestowed wisdom. As soon as I made it a promise to God and an actual decision, and I can’t hold my own promises, I asked God to help me hold my promises. I said, “Help me not worship money because it’s so easy to, because it’s either God’s going to help me in the situation or I have to step up and do it myself with my new God cash, and so I told God, I said, “Yo, you’re you’re my God”. As soon as I as soon as I put my posture there, I never worry about money another day in my life. Yeah, I truly I never have, and so a lot of people have these books and they have these. I a lot of my friends they make money off of teaching people business, but you know it’s so sad, and it breaks my heart. I know what their life looks like, and I’m like, you have no business teaching men how to lead. Yeah, you can’t lead your household.

Speaker 1  34:46
So what if they become a big business? What, what, what? So what?

Speaker 2  34:52
I go, you have a huge house, but your kids don’t talk to you. Yeah, you don’t know where your wife is. Why are you teaching these other men how to become men? So I mean, listen, you could. Ask God for everything, but a lot of us don’t realize that we ask God to speed up what’s killing us.

Speaker 1  35:07
Okay, focus on them. Just, just talk right to them. Give them that message.

Speaker 2  35:12
Hey, listen to me. You know the people from LA. They’re like, I can’t stand this guy at all. Listen, listen. Come back for part C. We’re gonna be talking about angels, or is the government actually sending UFOs towards us? All right, come here real quick. Don’t forget to sign up to the Daily Wire. We just cloned Michael. All right, next up is Ben Shapiro. We’ll see you guys later.

Speaker 1  35:38
I can’t add anything to that. I don’t think you should. I think you should end right there. Thank you, Lord.