Don't Panic and Slam on the Brakes!

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What happens is a man uphill from you gets out of his Jeep and fails to set his emergency brake and of course I didn't know that I went around the back of my Jeep. I was getting my son a root beer and I heard the crack of tires on gravel and all the sudden rush.

I was crushed between the two jeeps now as I fell to the ground. I realized after they pulled the jeeps offer manage these when I fell I realized that I had a leg that was in a gigantic compound fracture my bone come through now able to get a handle is therefore lower. So sorts of things going on all the sudden I was ham for dinner that night. Didn't matter. All sorts of things that matter and the example I wanted to talk about today is had that guy said his emergency brake, heady, apply the pressure on that panel than those cables would cause those breaks to engage only when the rake started to move a little bit what he did not realize the guy who could've said his emergency brake that would've altered my life forever.

Was that when he did not send his emergency brake and his anchor did not hold what the effect was in my life because I was laying on the ground bleeding free to go on in shock. Just finishing my chemotherapy. All the sudden it set my anchor. You see, in order to set an anchor about anchor yet to give it a quick jerk and the and the. The points of the anchor dig into the sea bottom or that jerk as I went to the ground and cried out to Jesus set my anchor, it set the anchor for the rest my life. I would simply not be here today talking to you on the radio. Had that not set my anchor because Jesus came to my rescue than it is been to my rescue.

Many many times since.

But that was when the anchor sat, and similar to your breaks in your car and anchor works that way. So working to talk about breaks today that shortly. But I would love to hear when did God.

Set your anchor. When did Jesus come to your rescue. I need to tell you that it was over an hour before the image could get in there and I got a hug from Jesus that they like the witchhunt never forget the warmth that that the pain was gone. When the medics got there and hit me with the morphine.

I didn't feel any different because I was already taken care of because my anchor. It helped and I would love to hear your story. When did God.

Set your anchor. I know what happened to you. I want here at 866-34-TRUTH 87884. Yes, that time you're about to go over the cliff and let God break stopped and the anchor was set and you know it will always hold the encouragement you could be to someone racing out of control today, your story could touch then please call 866-34-TRUTH 878 849 were always close to be prepared to give the reason for the hope that's NS. I'll bet God.

Set your anchor at some point and I would love to hear 866-34-TRUTH 87884 and yes we are to be talk about breaks and you get to that, but we also have our Christian insurance guy here was Bill Nixon and Bill.

What if you got breaks, it's important to take care a hazardous car maintenance problems for many reasons. One reason is that it can cause a bad accident in injure somebody else.

Another is that you can be sued for more money. If your car is in an accident and it's discovered the break should have been fixed and you knew it had wound some important information you need to know about maintaining economy talk about that is far as breaks, but it's also the first Saturday of the year which is the first Saturday of every month we talk about the Jesus labor of love free car repair labor for single moms widows and families in crisis. And again, the Lord is giving us two very special needs in the ladies are numeric or said access to some extent. I am in describe those needs to you little bit later and they are praying that they can get some additional help is a sure need it, and working to be get into that in just a minute, but we appreciate you guys call in with your setting. The anchor story 866-34-TRUTH 878-848-6634 truth we have. Shelley is in Utah she's gonna anchor story for failure on Christian card I show them on wetsuit. What would happen with you Shelley back in 1975. I little Mormon girl Mormon like my only night and then worked very strict from a lot of you at one point it out around my neck and later in the product or marrying me on my hat. One of those experiences. They call near-death experiences where I went left my phone at when I felt I couldn't bear in my mind I get let me look like a fair when I left there I can raise my children. Then he backed off and I like able to get my children in the car and out of the speculation that the violence went on from 1975, 1980. No one in the Mormon church.

My family cared ever about what was happening or my children and 1980 and Carol. Now 14 and isolated, alone, treated like dirtbike alarm in my neighborhood that always gave cold through provided on slick color. I went back to school in Connecticut grants that card and social work. I therefore like 330. And I am not like sauce mascots given you the truth radio network to listen to any time were so thankful that you have him as a resource and that he set your ankle that is a powerful story not God bless you Shelley I appreciate I'm sure there's a lot of folks out here and pray that God would continue to heal you from those horrendous blows. Thank you God bless you, thank you so much for calling in today we have David is in Louisville, Kentucky, David here on the low I just cut off David Louisville, Kentucky. Please call back. David, I cut them off. Please call us at 866-34-TRUTH 878-848-6634 truth, we would love to get you back in and hear what David story was.

Sometimes I get the fat fingers and they just go across the keys and they do that but you know it, Bill. One of the things that when it comes to these breaks is that these new brake systems that we now have analog brake system stability control most, things are radically changing the death toll United States as people have safer breaks and so one of the questions that we ask is what how what's our role in these new brake systems in the ABS system in the in the stability system what is it that we do what we need to do different working to get into those little bit what is it change the way you drive because some of the things that we were taught as youngsters is what you drive before analog breaks is different than the way you drive with antilock brakes and so we want to talk about those as well. If you're just tuning in one alarm I listen to your list of the Christian card I radio show we talk about how cars could be brought into the platform for using cars is a platform to Christ and the people's lives and we do have David back and he says please don't forget answer David you are the Christian card I show from Louisville that you for calling in and for calling back all right. Thank you, but keep your now with not exactly sure what you're looking for is for you anchor in, but I will give you a testimony. I will go to my will start about 67 years old, about four years ago I would far away from the Lord.

I've been a Christian for a long time. Good man. I was doing. Thank you. Nobody would expect me to do, but I will.

And then I'll one day change in the data. I can feel it out.

I'm I'm starting to like all David I'm not not to touch the but we've got to go to a break in force because my fat fingers something, but we are to get you back if you please just hang on force through the break and come back working here. The rest of David's asking right here and we need to hear your story. When God set your emergency liquidity pull on your anchor and set it 866-348-7884, God anchor when did he set your emergency brake were talking breaks today on the Christian guard.

I sure would love to hear your story.

866-34-TRUTH 87884 is a number to call in and share we have David still in Louisville Kentucky wouldn't hang up on you, David so said by all means share.

How did God.

Set your anchor are about four years ago, the Lord, and I start to change an inch out of me.

I couldn't explain it started like an adult woman with a little baby. I go over like an old grandma good carryover ignited carry-on like that you know now, I didn't know what will start listen to Christian radio got into it by accident had been less know Rush Limbaugh got started. Now when I start thinking there was this program that preacher this one that finally you got got all their placement. Do you guys well anyway thank you again Jeanette sent me and I knew it I went home one day and I told my wife I said honey.

Have you been praying for me and people will think out. She said that what you thought well NH.brother.

I mean I can't get enough of the babbler kink in the dirt and NH happened not been a Christian for years, but you couldn't hold it so if you want to call that an anchor Lord. He said it he said breaks all me real quick about me did I have been grossly breached their body as the evening to drive throughout preach it out a little bit away in such a wonderful story and you been doing a lot of things wrong some bad things that will be like shooting somebody will not. Anyway, I'm no light that's basically my story about the thing I love about that story in a way your wife was praying those links on the chain and and in the one by one, the chain gets forged and then something happens. The anchor sets and away you go. And it changes everything. God bless you David, I appreciate you so much. I got a question for you, and they would break, but I got a question about notable all right well I'll be. We got an 06 Volvo and it's got 117,000 miles on it. We could go change, but thank those who eject all in it full-court low at where is my will going not Lincoln is not coming out the exhaust. How many miles did since you check to it for no change right now right now there's an but it saves the change oil every 7500 miles, which surprised me but we do that, so the last time you checked the oil was 75 miles. Well, it wouldn't have but noticed it was. Well anyway I forgotten all about you know in this language full-court low in the light don't come on stalemate now. One time he got shalom when I first noticed a couple years ago and but no light comes on.

Well, thank you to the model and the people and they don't know what's wrong with it. Now did get online and I've seen that this is incredibly common problem going to full-court you all between all changes well.

My wife's scar was similar, and it was a Dodson was not to some that has to do with Volvo.

There's these things are all tolerances. In other words, when they manufacture the piston and then they manufacture the block this. Both have a certain no thousands. Tolerance will sometimes in the manufacturing process. The piston cylinder is a little bit bigger than the rings that are being manufactured to go into it. And even though there within tolerances. As far as the specs on the thing they still will consume a bit of oil but consuming a bit of oil if it doesn't follow the plugs is not a bad thing. However Europe you're the poster child for everybody who doesn't check their oil whenever they put gas in their car because it really from most manufacture standpoint it's normal for a car if it's not consuming more than a quart of oil every thousand miles of yours did for quotes ports and 70 506,000 that would quote unquote be considered normal, but essentially it's burning it but it's burning it at such a low rate you would never see and it but it's just a matter of really at least every other time you check you bit you fill up with gas.

David, I would check the oil and and my my wife's car went went went 250,000 miles if she had needed a different kind of vehicle I would've kept going because actually that little bit. Oil consumption is not a bad thing because it keeps rather oil newer.

If you continue to put the other courts in like you should well let and I don't think much about it just keeps on it to great car. However, I've never explained just got a problem with other vehicle.it's not nearly 1/2000.

See, because it's when the tolerance happened the way you got the smaller piston rings with the bigger piston it's it's one of those things that the manufacture consistent normal. You could buy another thousand cars not get this one, but when it does happen. What you have to do is the general rule, you know, since your wife is driving the car just put it on your calendar somewhere or every couple months enabling me to get her to pray for you to check your oil in the world will not come on that grab hold on the bottom of it because I really like this is controlled by pressure, not by level and so as long as there's plenty of pressure in the system, the light will not come on. But if it ever does.

That means you gotta pull over the side of the road because it needs well desperately but yeah oil or oil light is controlled by pressure, not by level, but God bless you David you been awesome – another break and I got another youth going to push the button because you're too much fun will be right back stage in college here anchor story 866-34-TRUTH made a fool a way the Christian car guys show. We would love to hear your story, 866-348-7884 866-34-TRUTH we are going to talk about breaks got some insurance tips for your and we have some Jesus labor love needs to get to in a few minutes, but first we gotta finish up with David.

David you got one more thing in the and I'm excited to help if I can a problem.

I can even put the ring all and I think it's what I have more time talking. I got up hoping there is an official character. 866-34-TRUTH talk 678-848-6634 truth. He waited for years to talk to me, John, and so we have a weakness.

I hope he had been wait that long to pay.

Anyway, we have this ministry, the gods blessed us with and often it gets a little bit overwhelming and so were turning to the anchor that it's the Jesus labor love car repair labor usually for single moms and widows in an we have these requests that come in all the time and we do our best to meet the needs but occasionally as happened last month and now is happen to us again. We don't have funds readily available to help people that are in need of something in excess of what we can get donated labor wise and so last month we went on and and and share these needs with our listeners and asked for people to send in to the Jesus labor love ministry very Christian car guy.com, Inc. of the website and find out all about Jesus labor love it. Christian car guy.com and now we have a special button where you can donate if you want us to help supply these particular needs. If God's put it on your heart to help them and since I didn't know what else to do or where to turn. I just thought I would throw it out there to the listeners and if God puts in on your heart help these ladies, I would be so blessed to to take part in whatever I can do to help. So here are the ones that we have this month that I want to share with your first what we have Kyra green she is in Raleigh, North Carolina, and what she is saying here is, I would like to ask for help getting four tires for my car. I'm not able to get my tags because my tires will not pass inspection. I'm a single mom who has an autistic adult at home.

I've been without a job for two years and four months. My daughter's been paying all my bills since February this year and this is a hardship for her because she has her own home and bills to pay a been able to get a job because of special hours and I need to work 93. That is because my son is in a day program, and being that I know I Robbie Gilmore teach special needs ministry. I understand the kind of pressure that puts on a single parent have an autistic son at home here. She says I would appreciate all the help you can give I have used my retirement money and that is why my daughter is helping me. I know that God is able to do all things and that nothing is impossible to God. God is healed me from kidney failure which happened last year. I know that God is faithful God bless you and whatever you're able to do to help Kyra green again in Raleigh now if that touched your heart. We would ask you to go Jesus labor love if you don't have web access, you can just send a check because we don't have any administration costs at all.

Whatever you supply and you can even doubt designating the Kyra were not talk about totally in a minute either one of those will send every single penny to these causes. We have no administration.

Everything is volunteer when it comes to Jesus labor love and the addresses Jesus labor of love 238 sorrow SAU RA Sorrow Ln. in Winston-Salem, NC 27107 second one is Tommy Lee Lebron and she's in liberty South Carolina and Connie Lee. She says I am death. I have finally gotten a job that actually starts Monday for her, but I currently have very little financial income. My family cannot help and I need my car to drive to work.

I start Monday. It's a 25 mile distance.

I do not feel safe driving the car and its condition. It needs a rear tire. The cords are actually shining through that tire and rear control arm is bent and or heater core is leaking into the front seat so she needs the heater core. She needs a tire she needs a rear control arm and again. Her name is Tommy Lee Lebron Tio and IL EE if God is put it on your heart help either of these ladies. Again, you designate the money completely to either one of them, or to both of them however you want to do it. If the Jesus labor of love 238 Sorrow Ln., Winston-Salem, NC 27107 God met the needs that we had last month and I'm praying that God will do that again as as he's put this on our hearts here to share these needs as they come in for us but also we don't want to have the plan for future needs right bill because when you don't take care of things like your brakes which were to get to in a minute or you don't set your anchor. You can run in the other situation I was talking to a gentleman one time who'd been driving by Baptist Hospital child stepped up from behind a parked car. He didn't stop he ended up in court his insurance company which they are representing them and they ended up right in the check and they got up and they left the courtroom and he had to go hire is an attorney. What happens which your company pays all the Amana insurance not have was because a little familiar with the story. He only had $25,000 worth of coverage and so his insurance company said while working to give you the 25,000. We said now are out of here and now they were soon obviously for great deal more than that. If you've ever applied for a loan to the bank.

One of the questions is are you in litigation, we couldn't take out a loan he didn't have much equity went to his family to try and get the money to pull together the money Nate needed to prepay the attorneys and then at the end of the trial. He added another $200,000 without.

He couldn't file bankruptcy and each told the judge that he just didn't have the money to pay it. He says will sign these papers and will garnish your wages will keep 50% of your future paycheck is I'm not going to sign those papers.

The judge says will that's fine but will hold you in contempt of court. You can sit in jail until you're ready to sign the papers. Point being in if you don't have enough insurance to cover the problem that you get into you still responsible for that amount of money and a lot of times a little bit more liability insurance is just a few extra dollars, which a lot of times you don't hear about when you call one 800 and and it's something that you would set a little bit earlier that in maintaining your car itself is we want to talk about these brake systems, and in one of the things that I came across when I was appraising car time after time after time after time was here. They have these wonderfully systems analog braking system stability control that are saving literally millions of lives and people drive around the light on and and so let's say that your ABS light is on and you get an accident that your analog breaks could have saved the situation.

If that other attorney found out your ABS light was on deal with that make you want any time you don't do what a reasonable prudent person would do you make the settlement substantially larger site.

It very easy for that other attorney to check with wherever your car ended up or they just can ask it was the ready service that needed to be done in your car was the brake light set in those circumstances. If you're texting and driving will. You've got tires that needed to been changed, or your driving. Would you brake lights in think about sit in the jury, wouldn't you assign a lot more play that person. That's not doing those reasonable things if they happen to run over a child crying and in the area now and is retouched by the beginning of the show. One little thing like somebody runs out in front of you or somebody doesn't set the emergency brake and everybody's life changes almost immediately forever at there's nothing the same.

In my case I had two years of surgery ahead of me. I had lots of time in a wheelchair. Didn't get to play basketball with my son.

Those were some of the tough things but the good thing was that it jerked on my anchors were talking about, and God set my anchor to where my faith came in, but had somebody done something reasonable like set the emergency brake things would not have gotten to the place where they did and so with these brake systems it's it's extremely important when you have ABS or you have stability control when those lights come on their yellow lights. It doesn't mean you know we talk about this on the show often that if there's a red light comes on like my friend David if the red oil light comes on, you need to pull your car over to the side of the road and especially the temperature light. I cannot tell you how many people how many cars we have the Jesus labor levitated just pullover rather than try for the red light on oil plant temperature, light or oil light or brake light. You know what to say all kinds of things. But even if the yellow light is on that same it's a caution you don't have to pull over the side room which lead to get it checked right when we get back we got were hoping to have your story you're calling it 866-34-TRUTH 7884. We do have some more brake issues that we gotta talk about and then how about that anchor hole we got all that and will say this will God. When did your anchor hold.

We would love to hear your story. The reason that you have that hope within you. You call us 866-34-TRUTH 87884.

The Holy Spirit been prompting me to call and tell your story to could be somebody going through some similar right now they need your encouragement and please call and share how God set your anchor 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH and as you may know that passage in Hebrews 6 which says which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast in which enter within that within the veil. Let Miller talk about is the veil that was torn into that that that holy of holies is where that anchor is resistance is resting there in the mercy seat were Jesus in your heart. I mean is this is an amazing thing. This particular anchor and when it sets then it's able to do a lot of amazing things well. As we been talking about on this show. Interestingly, like the brakes on the boat happen to be an anchor the brakes on a car and they have brake shoes and they have material that is usually like asbestos that's got a lot of friction that they can press up against the rotor and they create a lot of friction and there's a lot of tension and quite often in our spiritual life.

I don't know if you noticed but there's a lot of friction and there's a lot of tension and we need something to grab a hold well. One of the things that that just on the practical aspect of God mentions the Christian car guy is that when you know that your brakes or start you start to hear the scrape scrape scraping of those kind of things. Those are routers that are wearing out. You can pay me now you can pay me later. It'll be a lot more expensive if you wait too long to fix your brakes because you end up destroying the rotor, but more than that your partner life and everybody around you family in jeopardy. Another thing that a lot of people don't really realize that when you go telling something vehicles have tolling specifications and the weakest link on most vehicles. But when it comes to their towing is there brakes and so when you think lights got plenty of engine. The tower it's got plenty of transmission it's got plenty of cooling almost things are fine but if you can't stop that big rig you're talking about. Well, especially since most of his times of people take him up in the mountains and here they come down the mountain road. Well, if you want to try that truck runway ramp sometime you know that's right. Brakes are critical thing when you're thinking about towing and and so you know that's something that you got a figure in to the whole equation of towing so you know that's nothing in the other thing I wanted to mention today since were on the whole subject brakes and the new systems and operating systems and stability control they change some of the rules that we were taught and might like David you know it was on earlier in my age group and in buildings on with me today. You are probably taught that you never break in a curve well with analog breaks your find a break in a curve because you're not can escape. So in fact you need to break in a curve.

If that something runs out in front of you or whatever with analog breaks which new cars all have those is standard equipment. Nowadays are analog or they have stability control when you're in that curve.

Feel free to have a panic stop because it won't skid also. The other thing that you were told, probably when I was driving. It was that you always steer in the direction of the skid was stability control on your car is going to cause you not so don't be concerned about where you're going to steer other than where you want to go, since some of these rules change bill will not everybody knows whether they had any luck, brakes, Raleigh.

Well here's a simple easy easy swimmer of the check is that if you turn your admission don't turn the car on all the all the lights come on in the – to show you what warning lights you may have hit one of those warning lights as ABS then then you have analog brake system or if you have a you can again check your owners manual, but the government mandated that cars have ABS, I must say it was in the late 80s, so most cars have ABS again. You know on slamming the rights of a curve you don't have ABS and if you drive an empty car but even old red and 95 Dodge Dakota that it is. It had analog brakes on the rear and so you know they're being the situation with screech out of control so again be familiar with your car owners manuals are a wonderful thing. Easy to get on the Internet and and know your car and know what you do and what you don't do because things are changed over the years and things are just not necessarily the same but brakes on those things that could be a matter of life and death and the last thing I want to bring out because it made such an impact in my life is this this thing is called an emergency brake. It's also called a parking brake.

I know of at least three separate situations where people were run over because they were not killed. In my case, I just had two years of hospitalization because of parking brake, not set but a lot of people are killed. So if you're on a hill that parking brake is a wonderful device they have it there for a reason. It also takes pressure off your transmission. If you set enough you're on a really steep hill in your put it in park then that the parking part of your transmission is under a lot of pressure.

If you set your emergency brake.

It takes pressure off of the. The parking dog it's in the transmission system so I know that I don't want to go that complicated, but the but the situation is that those parking brakes save lives and you don't have to do a breakdance because your car is running down the road backwards. You know when you're trying to catch it. That's what I call a breakdance bill and that's what happens when you don't such a bright blood beyond all that, right as my friend David said the his wife was praying that God would set his anchor and the more I thought about how God set my anchor and I talked rather that beginning in show that as I studied the Bible as I listen to the word of God as I grow my faith by going to church and being with other believers and I pray one by one. I am forging chains at the chains of sin and forging chain a chain that that is to that anchor that holds when you meet somebody of faith and they get into a real emergency situation.

You can immediately watch that anchor set and the reason it set so well is at home and if you're familiar with the boat anchor.

But you are bill OES you gotta have about a 10 foot chain on that boat anchor so that it weights down the end of it so it will set properly. You know she does have an anchor rope. The anchor won't set properly because that weight of the chain actually holds down the end of the anchor so that the the teeth of the anchor will grab into the bottom of the seat and so in order to have a good ship anchor. You gotta have several feet of chain will how you forge that chain and I know you do this bill because I know you well is what your forging me in prayer, what your forging as you study the word of God and as you increase your day-to-day relationship in prayer which is looking at me like Robbie one in the world, now I know you do that to and so as you look at 2015 were all start out new and what is it that you can do to forge a few more links on that chain so that when God gives it up real quick pull like he may do when that car runs out in front of your whatever that anchor will set and you'll be something that other people can go with that guy right what is after all this because God will make you a spectacle with your anchor set and people one and how is it that you got through that. That way, and you will be quick to tell him look, I have an anchor and an it is Jesus Christ. And this is how is that I pray that you will be doing that in 2015. Remember our Jesus labor love ladies you can go to Christian car guy.com and click on the donate button there and it will show you exactly how to mail those checks out and were excited to see what God will do for them this week.

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