[Music] Welcome to Call to Freedom with Barber Car Mag. This is Jimmy Lakey and I’m delighted that you are joining us for this half hour. You can reach Call to Freedom at box 370-367 Denver, Colorado, 802-37 or by going to the website at www.freedomstreet.org. If you want to leave a message or order a word-powered daily reading Bible Guide or a Freedom Street Express newsletter, you can call us toll-free at 1-877-917-7256 and leave your name and address including your zip code. If you want to talk to Barbara right now, she is expecting your call. You may call that same toll-free number 1-877-917-7256 to speak to her. And now, let’s join Barbara in the studio. Thank you Jimmy Lacy. God bless you. Oh, it’s so good to have a person who does the intro and the outro that you know that he knows the Lord Jesus. It’s wonderful. Oh, and blessed are the merciful. For they will be shown mercy. Today I am layered. Yep, I’m layered. When you live in Colorado, you layer. So in case the sun comes out and it gets warm, you can just tear off the layers. But that wind is coming down from the mountains and it is cold. Whoa, it is really cold. But I’m grateful. I’m grateful for the beautiful. When the winds blowing, the mountains are just absolutely gorgeous. And I remember a time when Darren said when he lived in Kansas, he said, “I had to get back to Colorado.” He was born in Durango. And so he said, “I had to get back to Colorado. I missed those mountains so much.” So they moved back to Johnstown and then Fort Collins and then on and on. But he loved Durango. He loved the wonderful mountains of Colorado. And that man showed me more of Colorado than I had ever seen before. And I met him, let’s see, at 45 when I was 45. So before that, I hadn’t gone much around Colorado at all. He really showed me. He was kind of a tourist guide for me in those days. These last days, friend, are characterized by frequency and intensity. And so we got a fast in our seat belts and hold on because it’s going to be more intense. These last days, but also the frequency of events is going to cut in 24 hours. You’re going to see so much change that it will almost send your mind spinning. But just hang on. God is for you. He is with you. He’s so hold on. He will sustain you. He will uphold you. You are blessed to dispense for in him you live and move and have your being. And I’m so grateful that called a freedom can come to you live almost every day. Friday, we do encore shows with Darren. But every day of the week, Monday through Thursday, we’re alive. And I’m so grateful. It’s just a blessing to be able to let you know what’s going on in this world. And so you can be prayed up. And I’m going to be doing that today asking you for prayer. And also you can go to freedom street dot org and donate there to call to freedom. If it’s blessing you, you can also listen to the radio shows by hitting radio show clicking radio show. 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It was Darren Carmack Barbara Carmack at freedom street dot org and you can order that way and also donate online that way or you can just mail five dollars or ten dollars for that order to call to freedom box 370367 Denver Colorado 80237. And our memory verse for this week is Ezekiel 11 verse 19 through let’s see 9 through 18 through 20 in the living. I just want to start out a little bit. I’m going to explain a little bit about what was happening to Israel at the time because it’s got so much to do with what’s going on now. So we go back in history to learn about what’s going on in the present and here in the living translation Ezekiel 11 18 through 20 and remember Ezekiel was during the second deportation of the Jewish people into Babylon. The first deportation was during Daniel’s day and that’s why I have Daniel before Ezekiel in our Bible reading. And Ezekiel is seeing all kinds of visions he’s taken out of his captivity into places where he’s seeing marvelous visions but here in Ezekiel 11 18 through 20 says when the people return to their homeland. They will remove every trace of their vile images and detestable idols and I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. It sounds like second Corinthians 517 doesn’t it? I will take away their stony stubborn heart and give them a tender responsive heart. So they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people and I will be their God. I want to give you a little background about the state of Israel at the time of the Lord because it’s got such a redemptive message of turning the hearts of stone into hearts of flesh. And you may see people in your life loved ones relative sons daughters husbands wives who say and you say to yourself they’re never going to change. Don’t say that never. Don’t say never get that never out of your life because God is a God who can redeem. He can change something within 24 hours. Don’t you know that even from the election? I mean he does things so well. Oh my goodness. He’s such a good God. I could go on and on and on for this half hour. I have so much to say. Ezekiel 11 13 through 25 is the story that is behind all this that God is saying we’re going to get a new heart. So grateful for that new heart. I was a sinner and Jesus gave me a new spirit and a new heart. Praise the Lord. Ezekiel 11 13 through 25 in the message translation. And Ezekiel is saying even while I was preaching and he was preaching even in captivity. See we can preach praise the Lord. We’ve got freedom of speech here in this country. We aren’t held down by rules and regulations and I believe as President Trump is going to appoint people to the new board of FCC. We’re going to see more freedom of speech and less repressive and oppressive things going on. So Palataya died and he was a leader during Josiah’s reign. And in the process after Josiah, Palataya, he backslid. I guess that’s a good word for it because we’ve seen people backslide. Excuse me, backslide. They’ve known Jesus and they get all lukewarm and they just decide that they don’t want to serve Jesus anymore. That’s a backslidden soul. So Ezekiel says, I fell down face to the ground and prayed loudly, oh master God. Will you completely wipe out what’s left of Israel and the answer from God came back son of man, your brothers. I mean the whole people of Israel who are in exile with you are the people of whom the citizens of Jerusalem are saying, well they’re out of this country far from God. This land is being been given to us to own. See when something happens then other people take over in explaining what’s happening. Well, tell them is this says God, this is your message from God the master true. I sent you to the far country and scattered you through other lands. All the same I’ve provided you a temporary sanctuary in the countries where you’ve gone. It’s really true that even through all the kings that Daniel lived through and Ezekiel here God told them to have families, build homes, have crops. So they were in Babylon captive, but it wasn’t at all like Egypt when they were in Egypt and sorely oppressed. So provide you a temporary sanctuary and I will gather you back from those countries and lands where you’ve been scattered and give you back the land of Israel 1948. You’ll come back and clean house throughout all the rotten images and obscene idols. I’ll give you a new heart and I’ll put a new spirit in you. I’ll cut out your hearts of stone and replace it with red blooded firm muscled heart. Then you’ll obey my statues and be careful to obey my commands. You’ll be my people, not be your God, but not those who are self-willed and addicted to their rotten images and obscene idols. I’ll see that they’re paid in full for what they’ve done. And then the cherubim spread their wings with the wheels beside them and took Ezekiel out from the mountain where he was and they carried him back into the exile in Babylon. So God must have transported him to a mountain in Israel near Jerusalem. Wow, that’s amazing. And then the vision left me. I told the exiles everything that God had shown me. There has been a time of mourning and now we see a time of rejoicing. That happens, folks. It’s happened here in Ezekiel. It happened in many places in the Old Testament where they were mourning. They were crying and even during Jesus’ time. But now there’s a rejoicing going on. I want to read Jeremiah 31, 13 through 17. Then the young women will rejoice in the dance and the young men in the old together. For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow. I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance and my people will be satisfied with my goodness. Declare is the Lord. I like that. I really love that. The late Scottish preacher, Alexander White, observed that we all tend to hang heavy weights on the thinnest wires. You’ve got what? Heavy weights on the thinnest wires. He meant Alexander meant that we hang all our hope and all our happiness on fragile things that easily and quickly can be taken from us. We don’t just hope and hope for a spouse or a friend or someone we can lean on and depend on because they might be gone. They might be gone in an instant. And fragile things that can be taken from us. Health, children, jobs, homes and possessions. And that’s so true. These are all good blessings from the Lord, but they’re inadequate as a foundation for lasting joy because they’re also uncertain and transitory. While any major loss is emotionally painful, it’s crucial that we learn how to work through such losses biblically because we’re all going to face them. And in Peter, he indicates that it is precisely in times of suffering that the devil seeks to destroy our faith. He roams about like a lion seeking whom he may destroy. And I hope you don’t have any open door to the enemy. I’ve seen many believers who are wiped out spiritually because they didn’t know how to face suffering biblically. For instance, some have mistaken notions that because they believe in Jesus, he will protect them from major suffering. When tragedy hits, they feel that God has abandoned them. Others were taught to claim healing by faith. When that didn’t work, they were told that they didn’t have enough faith. And then they got bitter and angry towards God. And it wasn’t God at all. It was their perception of what they needed to do to receive their healing. Others have been under the impression that it is unspearial to grieve or to shed tears. So they tried to smile and say, “Praise the Lord around other Christians, but they were dying inside.” And you’ve heard them when you ask, “Well, how are you? Oh, I’m just fine.” And inside, they are grieving. They are in turmoil. So we need to kind of do an x-ray into their soul and say, “Is there something that I can pray with you about?” And they will probably tell you if you aren’t real honest and merciful towards them and gracious. As we’ve read through the Gospels this year, we see Jesus preparing the disciples for the overwhelming sorrow that they would experience in the next few hours. As they watched him be arrested, mocked, scourged, and crucified, their world would come crashing down around them. Can you imagine? They had all their hopes and staked all their future on their belief that Jesus was the promised Messiah of Israel. He was going to sit on the throne and he was going to rule. It didn’t happen that way. The previous Sunday, their hopes were high as Jesus wrote into Jerusalem to the Hosanas of the crowd. But now everything that they had hoped for came to a sudden shocking end as they watched their Lord suffer and die. Jesus prepares them and us for suffering by teaching that the risen Lord Jesus will turn our sorrows into lasting joy as we look to him in faith and prayer. As I quoted yesterday on the broadcast, I quoted Corey Ten Boom’s words, “You look within, get depressed, look without, be distressed, and look to Jesus and be at rest.” Some in the church are praying for revival. I want to say to you, we’re in revival. So wake up and join the celebration and the victory God has given us. God has destroyed in two weeks’ time. God has destroyed the woke era and brought about a celebration of joy. I’m so grateful. In the mornings I just have a smile on and I have a smile on all day. Just the other night, as I watched President Trump walk into that jammed Madison Square Garden, the UFC Wrestling Championship with all his entourage, I saw the crowd go wild for this new hope for our country. But what came next? Oh, it’s the most exciting moment of that night. And it wasn’t just seeing Donald Trump. But it was John Jones who was now the new champion, a big brute of a guy. John Jones told thousands in that arena who were shouting about Trump. Well, I want to thank my Lord Jesus Christ for this win. He is the reason I am here tonight. Oh, and the roar. Now these were people that were not accustomed to being in church folks. They were not accustomed to doing any of the stuff that we do as a denomination or a religion. No. They were hearing from a man they deeply admired, admired who said, “Jesus Christ is my Savior and He’s my Lord.” Oh, that’s revival folks. That’s revival. The windows of heaven are open. The blessings are falling. I hope you’re aware of all this. It is a good time to give thanks to the God of heaven who brought all this about. And with all this excitement and all this celebration comes a warning. And I was kind of hesitant today whether to give this warning or not. It’s like Holy Spirit says, “Go for it because I had notes.” I had written down notes yesterday and earlier this morning and he said, “I want you to do those later, but I want you to give this warning.” Well, during this Wonderman, I want to make you aware of gathering of wolves and please pray for Wisdom and Understanding for President Trump and his entourage as they will be taking advice from those who are learned and wise in government transition. And now they’re showing their two faced response to this election. For instance, if I hope that none of you watch Morning Joe from MSNBC, but these two, a team of a married couple, decided to call President Trump in March of 2020. And he agreed to that. Now, President Trump has been the kind of person to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. He’s that kind of guy that does that because he’s been really wise in his decision making. But these two went to Mar-a-Lago and they had just two weeks before the gentleman in this couple had called Trump a Nazi. And so now they want to befriend him. And so, you know, with the key line pie in front of them, they were talking politics. Now, they were trying to get an audience with President Trump. And then Cory Booker, who called Donald Trump every name imaginable, now wants a voice on conservative newscasts. And just this morning, and I don’t like to name names, but I need to say that our governor, Colorado Governor, joined in by saying that Robert Kennedy would be a good pick for HHS Chief. I want to remind you that it was Jared Polis and his far left committee, legal committee, who first brought charges against Jack Phillips in 2012. And folks, he hasn’t changed his ideologies or his agenda. So our prayers go up to God to protect our newly elected president and his cabinet that they will not be hoodwinked into anything that is against their plans into anybody with anybody who is against them or has been against him. And I know that there’s going to be changes. People are going to come to know the Lord in this revival that we’re having, but I pray that we will be aware very much aware of what’s going on. And pray no weapon formed against Donald Trump and his cabinet shall stand. And every tongue that comes against him, trying to control or manipulate will be condemned by God’s followers because we have our vindication from the you Lord. And I thank you Lord for hearing us and hearing our prayer. And friend, as you’re listening, I pray that you will say Isaiah 54, 17 every day for our newly elected president. Thank you for hearing our prayer today, Lord. It’s a wonderful thing to know that we can look to Jesus. We can look to our Lord, look to God for answers. And he will protect. He will put a shield around it. I love Psalm 18, the Psalm that David wrote, I love you Lord, my God, my strength, my solid rock, my fortress, deliverer, and whom I take refuge. You are my shield of faith, the horn of my salvation. I mean, he just was telling God who he was. I call upon you for you are my God and worthy of praise. Psalm 18 verse 1 and 2. Oh, beautiful Psalm. Let’s keep our eyes on Jesus. Here’s John. Oh, so are you weary and troubled. No lie in the darkness you see. There’s light for a look at the Savior. And life more abundant and free. Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look for in His wonderful face. And the things of earth will grow strange with you in the light of His glory and grace. Through death into life everlasting. He passed and we follow Him there. For us in no more earth dominion. For more than others we are. And your eyes upon Jesus. Look for in His wonderful face. And the things of earth will grow strange with you in the light of His glory. And the things of earth will grow strange with you in the light of His glory and grace. Oh, one of these days I’m going to be sitting and listening to him play the piano and sing. Oh, praise the Lord in person. Oh, thank you Lord for John Wells. There were I want to tell you there must be this we must excuse me. I’m trying to get my words formed here. We must be discrete in sharing our treasures with people who are questionable. We need to really develop relationship before we let people into our hearts and you just can’t trust everybody my friend. In fact, God says to Jeremiah in verse in Jeremiah 17 the heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick. Who can understand it? I the Lord search the hearts. So we think we know somebody and we trust somebody and then they do a number on us. Well, there were kings in the Old Testament were they were so greatly blessed and then they showed foreign rulers and wicked and ungodly dictators their treasuries. And we don’t want this to happen in this for this time in America Isaiah 39 verse one through eight in the message says sometime later King Maradok Balodon of Babylon. He was the king who had was in charge of all the captives. He had heard that has a guy had been sick and was now well. You’ve got to watch those times has a guy received the messengers warmly he took them on a tour of his royal precincts proudly showing them all his treasures silver gold spices expensive oils all his weapons. Everything out on display there was nothing in his house or kingdom that has a guy didn’t show them. Do you know that in Afghanistan they just had a parade this last weekend and they paraded all of the equipment and the weapons and the and the vehicles that had been left when we left Afghanistan. They had a parade thirty eight billion dollars worth of our weapons and our vehicles and our tanks and our things that we left there. So later the prophet Isaiah showed up and he said what were these men up to what did they say and what did they say and where did they come from and has a guy said they came from a long way off from Babylon and what did they see in your palace everything. Oh, I’m sure has a guy just you know he couldn’t believe that this king this godly king who had gotten so blessed by God he’d been healed of a horrible disease I showed them the works I opened all the doors and impressed them with it all. Then Isaiah said to his a cahia now listen to this message from the god of hosts I have to warn you this time is coming the time is coming when everything in this palace along with everything your ancestors accumulated before you will be hauled off to Babylon God says that there will be nothing left nothing. And not only your things but your sons some of your sons will be taken into exile ending up as unix in the palace of the king of Babylon that servants that cannot cannot have children any longer any longer their unix. Oh so this happened to has a cahia happened to many kings that backslid they just went backwards and they were they wanted to impress people by all that they had well we pray for Donald Trump and all his appointees that they will have wisdom from God as to whom they will be friend and whom they will keep away from their wonderful designated offices that they have God bless you today as you’ve been listening and I hope that you will pray that there will be wisdom. And I hope that there will be wisdom and understanding among the Trump administration as we go forward and celebrate this wonderful revival we are in God bless you and keep you and take joy. 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