For One Brief Shining Moment

Each evening from December before you, every person is living in a today on the Christian Car Guy that may sound a little bit gloomy but were not home yet so you know I been thinking about this all week and I want to turn that thing around today a little bit and look at it with some hope and with some joy for one brief, shining moment it was known as Camelot.

You know when was yours. When was that shining moment in your life that changed everything, and my mother but you there was a brief, shining moment in your life when there was one I've got Jim with me today Christian with benchmark on sales and you have one in your life.

I'll bet there are several of you have had the will of had moments that were bright and shining, and I've had moments that were not as bright and shining but but certainly you I like to look back on the bright and shining moments me to be to you and just think about it. It kinda changed everything for Henry Ford. At one point time you had a brief, shining moment that decided bicycles work for him at all if you know this is true, David Buick had a patent on the poor submit made toilets was a fair phenomenally wealthy over toilet patch.

We are forever made the first Buick you know that's kind of fascinating but he had a brief, shining moment and all of a sudden everything changed what I understand with me if that for a minute and in John Eldridge teaches this and I think it's so powerful when you begin to dig into it that all the great stories get their power from the gospel. Bryant think about it.

Think about the story of Camelot. What happened King Arthur right when he was our three had to pull the sword from a stone. He was the only person he was the chosen one. It was the prophecy that there's this one person that could pull the sword well in Revelation right is never just one person who can open the scroll where you think they get the stuff right where did the power come from the the great stories will see when you take this scene that I do another so-called masculine journey, and in this week Rodney, one of our good guys was doing a show on patterns of faithfulness and he took the scene from the movie Excalibur and as I heard it. I know I'm still a little bit of the show for this week in order to use this clip but as I heard this clip I realized how clearly the brief, shining moment was for Arthur's night here when he gets knocked off his horse. So now what you think about St. Paul for minute on the road to Damascus.

It was not a horse. But if we take this particular character in the story of Excalibur. He is very upset because King Arthur is King because he didn't come through the you know he didn't get parasitical training.

He didn't even learn how to be a Pharisee. He didn't know all the stuff before you cut it. He was a squire Bryant and any wasn't a night which was a big deal to these guys and so this guy wins.

When Arthur pulls out the sword is like put it back in there you're not. You can't be the guy right and so he starts to vitamin E becomes an enemy and he was hunting people down at sound familiar this office and in the here we have this scene Emma playfully were Arthur jumps off a bridge to knock this guy off his horse and you'll hear the scream as he knocks me off the horse, but then what you don't see is he eats eat.

The guy screams. I'm not going to serve you.

If you're a squire and he says you're right.

I'm not a knight and he takes out Excalibur and he hands it to the guidances night me, which obviously the guy could chop off his head, but that that is what happens what happens. I want to listen to me tonight.

You like me tonight. I can offer you mercy and justice duty. I was solemnly obtained as night 19.

I never sold rise cannot isolate regions of the cottage is I don't. So as you listen that scene I watch the can think about your own story. That's where were going with this but thought the guys name is Yuri.

And so when he says keep it your hands. That's actually I'm trying to think about the wizard in the story of King Arthur Merlin it's Merlin that saying to your audience. Keep it anything keep Excalibur because of your king if you want to be king. What urines did you get to keep the sort but see what happens here right now how many of us want to be king on the same we get knocked off her horse and this guy hands in the sword and he says tonight me and then he sees something. This is the brief, shining moment he saw something in Arthur's eyes he saw something that said this is the guy. This is the real king, and he and he says King Arthur and Israel's loyalty to so the question is for you, but I want to call in and share with me is when did that happen in your life when was your brief, shining moment that changed everything because all the sudden change in your following the King of Kings life changes in drastic ways and I want to call in it. 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH and yes this has to do with cars will get all that in a minute but right now wants to think about your faith and I'll share my story. See, I for years. As you might imagine.

All I wanted to do was sell cars and to be king in my world. You had to sell our cars.

I was the general manager, out of all in Chapel Hill and you know I kept my job only if I could sell a lot of cars and so I studied did everything I could possibly think of to figure out how to sell more cars so I bought of tape set back then on cassettes of the power of positive thinking by Norman Vincent Buick cost me about 100 bucks because I figured I need a positive attitude and order sell more cars you wouldn't think that night and well get Ruth Lewis to the said the first thing the guy says is if you want a positive mental attitude. You need to get up an hour early every morning and read your Bible and I'm like what the heck I'm gonna realize the know this is my guide is going to church to print out. There's no faith in you know and I'm like what moral you talking about get up an hour early and read the Bible, but you know I'd spent 100 bucks on this tape set and if this is what it's going to take okay I think I have one of those that somebody gave me years ago and so I found my old Bible to capture one of those things away still had it for my don't have any moves and I get up in our Illini since oh by the way, got a pray and ask the Holy Spirit to tell you what it means, which turned out to be sorta critical because it took me a lot to figure out what moral it means. And so I faithfully did that and I started reading Genesis and that's good him a lot of stories and they're very good. My attention that I got in the Exodus, which sound that started out good but then you start talking about fat around the kidneys and man making all the sacrifices and and I'm losing mask and non-praying God, you got to show me what this is.

If you're if there is a God. The I have no clue why am reading this in order to sell more cars we see the Bible is canonized because is true… Cannonballs can knock you off your horse so I get to the book of Job, you know, I figured it was gonna be about patients right because that's what you for all your life.

The patients of Joe and so as I start reading this and God allows Satan to kill this guy's kids and take always property I mean to say no way to sell cars here. God, I mean I'm just, you know, this is what I'm in the Bible doing and on budget. I was on my high horse and find out how I got knocked off your when we come back to Satan so much more.

Christian Cardoso story follows 866348788 in the morning is today show one brief, shining moment, and I'm wondering if you can remember yours and you can. We would love to hear it 866-348-7884 and the reason why think you know Richard Burton put this very well in the beginning of the shareholder. He said each evening from December December before you drift to sleep upon your caught. Think back on all the details that you remember of Camelot, meaning the kingdom. Ask every person if he is heard the story and tell it strong and clear.

If he is not. Think about what what that is, that the gospel right there witnessing God made it really is that once there was a fleeting wisp of glory called Camelot client which was in a brief, shining moment in that shining moment was Jesus on earth on the cross and how that worked out your life well so I can finish up my story so you can call in with yours because I'm seeing that the lines are lit up here and is 866-34-TRUTH 87884. But here's the in the mind so I get to Job. I am really trying to figure out how you sell cars from Satan's illness guy's kids taken his land, his wife telling him curse God and die and then just add insult to injury, these friends show up and you go through chapter after not just think about this from a heathen's perspective right I'm reading these chapters of these clowns telling Job all this stuff man and I am just I am ready to explode. And then God shows up as you recall the end of the book of Job and God doesn't answer anybody's questions. Either way, I love this.

I just love it doesn't answer anybody's questions, he just turns to Job out of the whirlwind and he says hey Job no pull yourself up for your by your bootstraps here. I got a few questions for you now realize it. Here's Robbie and all of a sudden I realize a God's asking me.

I got a few questions for you Robbie, can you make it snow now show me I'm in. I'll be impressed bring the tide in just one time right can you stick a hook in a moment whatever the heck of all of this is that I'm like what and that was my shining moment. You see, I realized all my goodness, I can't make it rain. I can't even begin that you know the end, all these things are way out of my league and I realized what God was telling Job is if you can't do all these things, what makes you think you understand you not and I realize that his heart was good.

Somehow, in that and it helped me to accept Jesus as my Savior. In other words, that was, he knocked me off my high horse because I thought I was God.

In this case of I guess his name is Yuri and he thought he was kidding right. But when he really looked into the eyes of the King he news.

He won the game. Well, you get a good look at the Bible that I can assure you you will figure it out that you are not King but we have Sarah and Port Orchard to get the stories going. You got a call with yours. 866-348-7884 is a member calling share 866-34-TRUTH we have Sarah is in Sarah Little Linda hello Sarah Linda, and in okay now I got really excited. You know I carried a brief moment. Start with one that backed by first liquid plant.

I couldn't read in the first grade because I had so many nightmares about that in their faith that it could candidate is that that lady in the neighborhood offered to teach me to carry.

Otherwise, they would go in effect at great and she led me to the Lord and all that was the guiding moment and and and I and went on with John. After that, and I'm in the cool that what Satan meant for evil terrorizes so that she couldn't sleep that guy God used it for good. That his neighbor would lead you to Christ and give you some defense against that that that is a bright shining moment in this and another guiding old and I give God lastly but that night I good guy. I don't have that I had a bit later militant than my mother was mad at God. They didn't have a church experience. That I had a wonderful lot. The child no one had a friend with me and then I kinda like the layout. When I got into secondary school and things went wrong, and so on and so forth. And then I IIOIII really get that out very well when I went to college. In fact, I found that I was smart and I live. So I took every course that could and at that where I had a heart nature bit. I was a major that the I took all those limitary course you know Rick commandery court that they think I was and I had still is really about a minute left in the segments in your last one. Okay now I your car guy kill and I picked up the down thing like that but this past week.

You know I I all bent over and I used the area I will a locker date.

Wheeler and I get when I go to church like I I you know I say will buy my motorcycle.

You know I don't have a Harley. I will gladly cannot get so bent over and I would take laughter and song my get up and go and and the Lord of glory. And last weekend I really felt I was the leaning Tower of the gift could be big defendant. The way I frantically I that's Sarah Linda's re-signing moment. What about yours. We need to call in and share 866-34-TRUTH 87884866 through 34 truth we get Susan in Winston-Salem. I got Jim Christian here from Edgemont autosales we need your story 866-34-TRUTH 784 each evening from December before you will attain those that you, ask every person is once there was a spot. This can help it stay on with the rhyme. We are talking about one brief, shining moment today on the Christian card I show my cohost Jim Christian here is with benchmark autosales in Winston-Salem and we are talking during the break that man were there.

There are brief shining moments that happen every single day. If we could just see how God interacted and and I knew you're at the option went on Thursday, others in it and I know I've had this happen, where for some reason, God kinda says by that car and you like. I don't buy that kind of car, but you bought a Honda pilot like that will about a Honda pilot that I had not thoroughly checked out before him, which I'd never do. Except this time, clearly I didn't and I have no idea what call me to buy but I bought it I love it. I drove it home to get to my mechanic to have the reconditioned and course the maintenance bill was astronomically high because I hadn't checked it out, but would it is a great courts going to make somebody a great car and see what III think about all the cars are part of the auction over all those years and I just have to sense of somewhere somebody was praying that God would get in the car and so in order for that. God sets all the stuff and emotionally put something on your heart to buy a car that unbeknownst to you will meet somebody else's need.

I was telling Jim a story about this Dakota one time and I didn't realize it at didn't have factory air conditioning that had no air conditioning installed in it at all and I was just beside myself thinking I've made the worst mistake of my life. I bought this Dakota without air conditioning and I go back to the parts department.

I'm trying remember the name of that old parts guy. He was so much fun. It was a great guy and I was like man I just made the worst mistake I bought a Dakota without any air conditioner and he said what year is it I forget.

It was like 91 or whatever and he said oh I have had this air conditioner on the shelf for you and praying that God would get rid of this air conditioner for us was a chance to email so we have Nancy as a bright shining moment for us in Everett, Washington Nancy are on the Christian card I show morning and how much I really mean it with an expired I got you have Pamela with sharing the powerful insight oscillates with that being at available at all certain running and an authentic life may shining moment I undertake and I work letting your interpretation part of my life and I was really in tune with different cars and identification and then when they know what they did but they didn't do. Anyway, I just need to know I'm not. I could care less about RJ except I try to get me to work but I think will be click out a pension plan that driving through a parking right in a particular and I frequent and indicates Christine my it with a Interstate 8 couldn't meant that in our emblem anyway yeah it was beautiful ever had a well and my brief, shining moment. I may develop in a Christian home and are here to hear God's word here. Principle of you have to think you very shortly really and fell and also I got it for granted that what he believed relation with the way that I show you creation. If you can't first the people that think about that out of Canaanite background and I reject that not detected. And then I I'm I'm fairly funny and I was trying to look at the church and one Communion at the counter with a faint pay out. If you're not part of the family of God in Christ through the back in your pocket you know nobody like you. Between you and God. And we might be faithful now.

I grew up in church I went to confirmation. Sure, I'm a member of the family.

The next time we did Communion again….And he said the article 40 to Put in your pocket into your life you get fretting about a member of the family.LOL it was like if you were talking about politics. Acute Christian I'm to me. I'm not the person anyway it with things like onto my literally felt nice dark night phenomenal and Nancy will now I'm just listening just want to explode on I man you made my day right there. I've heard a lot of salvation stories.

I've never heard one in communion, but I mean how cool is that I mean is like in you can imagine, you can imagine what happened to me.

Oh I bet a lot of listeners from now on.

The next communion service, they go to their going to remember your story because just like Richard Burton said right you stalled it strong and clear.

I mean the end and that story has phenomenal power Nancy. God bless you and thank you so much for our Internet shining moment. Wow, you made my welcome, and thank you for doing thank you godless bun. My all right we have Susan II bypassed or accidentally is still there with the Susan. I hope she'll come back inside.

I meant to go to her next initiate was in the next order and I messed up but anyway Susan, I hope to call back. We really want to hear your stories 866-34-TRUTH 878-848-6634 trees we have Keith is in high point, Keith. You have a bright online. I'm so glad you called. Well I'm glad I was able to go but a whole lot of Johnny moment I have 30 years but wanted to speak about long I've been at 2007 and I had a serious medical payment came upon me aortic arch aneurysm in the called event. But anyway I got out of the hospital. When I woke up in 1/2 block all old Vermont go about. I've always believed the Lord to bleed. Been fighting for years and been courting. I walk around with anyway.

I get home from the hospital is walking and looking good. I'll find a bank like that of your inner this is a bunch of garbage had no meaning to glimpses outside moment Trey flounced here about thinking about God save me from realized mama moment will you know would know Jesus died for it was after monopolization when I realized how serious and real years to go we think though you would just boldly assert we save this handbag that handled me thinking that you know it all is buying them up.

I have no and Jesus feel bad for me I just blew my mind and the been thinking about it ever slants about like a layup and by God save me from a friends neuron. You understand, but it was after monopolization is like another lawyer got pulled from dollars is mind blowing off, I assume other operations in will you know God will give you more God and the so I friend Steve that was awesome, awesome. We need your stories.

We know you got it is powerful, 866-348-7884 November I am finally we have Susan back a ride to Newark. Susan I feel so bad I couldn't take you in the right order, but I'm so excited the first shall be like oh well. So tell us about your story is also downright testimony about it, but I was born mentally retarded and I could not tell for six years and start my mom always took me to psychiatrist and whatever and cute.

She played the piano and organ and she would always go to church take me to church and my dad and Oliver score cared for an entire, but when it was time for me to go to church go to school season was time for me to start school. She went to my dad. She can walk or she cannot start school.

A simple Virginia do something and we had prayer meetings in the Holman with regard to prayer meetings as well as go to church that my mother was very, very well registered and bright Christian woman in the fight that was my diagonal turtle in my current threat, he would get into it. Prayer meeting and networking evangelist in town. Ron and Don Johnson. I'll never forget and one said to me, can I pray for you and I shook my head because I couldn't tell it here but I couldn't help answer case and everybody bear at the prayer meeting more or less began crying for Susan. So they all began praying and all of a sudden I saw the brightest light filled the room and I said I see a light and from then on I was healed and I could go to school and so I just thank God for that moment I would put most brightest light in the light of Christ. But obviously that I fell and fell on him. Have a wonderful beautiful testimony in that can imagine my life if I had not gotten healed. I can imagine.

I can imagine you and says hello, my goodness, tell me about that. Yeah you got saved and then I got saved royally.

517 and Pharaoh the Holy Spirit that filled the Holy Spirit begins to turn in a frying in the spirit for about 30 minutes to an hour at my grandmother's. I'll and my grandmother was and grandparents were great Christians on both sides and but anyway I got say and then then all the pre-rancher for the Jesus to his hands what opening the well so Terrence and I'm curious you're six years old.

Do you recall going back to that. I mean you had to be a lot of people in church that knew that you called Harry you doing and I couldn't answer them because I was too slow to formulate a sentence from their question. My was just so backward just to swallow it. Couldn't hear them, but it couldn't answer them. It was just way to slow it was like my own site. People travel at 55.

It was a mind going about 10 or 15 miles an hour Tesla/name of Susan, my brothers and sisters with my brothers and sisters would testify that this is that my fourth grade teacher told my mother he will never get out elementary school admin the ins and she thought she did.

She really thought that they needed to put me in a special school and that I was retarded. All these things and say and and then and really I was. I was terrified most people realize this but I was to go into places to do things I one time I thought my sister was to pull my eyes out because I would not go put gas in the gas can she was so mad at me but I was terrified to go anywhere and so yeah then you know I so here when Gartner big part of my daughter called me to do the Christian car guy so we had quite a discussion on like are yet to the Navy. Do you know your time here. I met let me let me read is awesome around a bit for to glory down the wise golf, God help them. Here's your mission Susan asked every person that they've heard the story and tell them strong and clear.

If they have not tell a list of glory called Camelot Susan, you are a woman. Thank you. I hope I get to know and I am releasing city so I don't know about me on all of them from their sins or God bless. I love the Lord I thank you. You called.

That's amazing and know we think about all the bright shining moments really there out there every single day. People been praying and God has you in this time and place for such a time as this right in the end you have the sense that I'm supposed to do something or the sense I'm supposed be part of something and you don't really understand it. It's so easily could be bright shining moment. Let's pray right I mean is that as we just heard from our hero there. Well almost every day in the Jesus labor love. I get a chance to pray. I need to talk about that we have the ministry for single moms widows and families in crisis called the Jesus labor love. It's for Christian car guy show course if you go to Christian car guy.com you find out all about the Jesus labor love apply for help or you can apply the to help with the people that need the help or you can pray for that applicant's or you can even donate because we often like this week. Several times we are in need of money that was supplied by listeners and some cases lately because of my dad's funeral. We did Jesus labor leavens to the flowers of thank you thank you thank you for all the people that did that so just yesterday that the slate may monitor and and she her daughter had wrecked her car and you know I thought maybe we could get a trays body shop Jerry, you know, my God, he can fix it. She sent me a picture I sent it to Jerry. Jerry was overwhelmed the mazelike Robbie out.

I don't know you know what we can do with this and all the sudden Jerry set Robbie what about benchmark auto sales would best thing that she could do and just think about the inspiration hear more. That really came from because I'm overwhelmed he's overwhelmed. We've Artie prayed. By the way that we can help Monica and then all of a sudden Jerry says we need to center to center the benchmark because there she could trade in the car.

She'll just little bit of money on it and hopefully we can get her in another car, but see I find it more than fascinating to me that God is orchestrated all this stuff in the Jesus labor love the people to help the people that need help and I will tell you that it's been my experience at the people that helped almost got more out of it than the people he got the help people is automated dollars you know is better to give than receive. So we got that. I want to mention that we got a car show, Douglasville, Georgia last week and last Saturday of the month.

You know we've done that for three years now. It's a big deal except that outside of Atlanta. You can find out about that a Christian car guy.com the course. We had a new episode of Christian car guy theater hopefully come out next week you can get all the podcast previous shows I have to do now is just look at your phone and say hey Siri I want to listen Christian card I podcast improvement play, or you can say Alexa at all Alexis I want hear the Christian card I podcast and you could hear the show dear Susan story and Nancy store all the stories we heard today. I got to do is ask Lex. She's therefore Jim thank you for bringing all of this today as you Robbie thank you for all those who called in with amazing stories. I remember ask every person that they've heard the story until it strong and clear. If they have not