Addicted To Cars

Welcome to the Christian Car Guy radio show talk show dedicated to helping Christians buy and sell cars by the book the blue book. Now the orange book, but by God's book, the Bible called the Christie car guy with your questions. 18663421 866-34-TRUTH 7884 is being a Christian have to do with buying a car you're about to find out. Here's your host Robbie Gilmore new study out reveals that old car smell could save your life. That's right I said old car smell. You can't make this stuff if it could save your life. I am I'm absolutely serious, just as I thought Bob the cash for clunkers program was a secret system conspiracy to kill off the American people in my never-ending in my never-ending search for truth justice and the American way.

I came across this information, I would consider a male in the coffin of new-car buyers everywhere February 2012 healthy stuff.org released information on over 200 of most popular 2011, 2012 model vehicles. They were tested for chemicals that off gas from parts such as steering wheel, dashboard, armrest and seeds and these chemicals contribute to new-car smell and a variety of acute and long term health concerns. Naturally we want to cover this amazing story. But seriously, are you addicted are you there is a question are you addicted to new-car smell are always driving an SUV or do you always have to have a minivan. Are you a slave to car fashion, always in search of the new thing the latest and greatest. If you're like me and sometime you may have become a victim to this kind of slavery. Maybe it was closer golf equipment. In my case it was fishing with. I had to have the latest and greatest values to go to sporting goods section of any store I went to, and I would just stare at the fishing all man looked at that when I was going to catch the big or how about when your kid do you remember when the Christmas toy addition of the Sears catalog came out. I mean I had a guy would just sit at that thing and stare and thinking, but as hard as it may be to admit your own weakness.

Paul turned on the lights, really, when he said he would boast in his weakness because Jesus strength is made perfect in our weakness. That concept is so profound that I may never fully grasp it, but I ask you this morning who would like to boast about their weakness. Of course were talking of this sort of greed, 866-348-7884 and, of course, if you've got the weakness and tell us if you're on the other side to how was Jesus strength is made perfect through your weakness, whether that was new-car as maybe as new computers, new close, here's your chance to boast about your weakness.

866-348-7884 or maybe, like me, you're now asking God to help you with one my thorn in the flesh honestly is talkshow host envy when I see another talk show… Here is what I see another talkshow get five or six more affiliates more stations to carry the show. Honestly, it burns deep down inside. Now I'm I am asking God to help me with it and I I know it's in, and I know that God bless another talkshow but I'm I suppose God has left that burning in me to remain so, I would continue to seek him for comfort. So we need some answers today in a Christian card shown here's your chance to boast about your weakness in God's strength. 866-348-7884 please call us we'd love to hear your testimony in here to help us out this morning. Our very own King of old car smell. Our Christian junkyard guy Bob Young welcome Bob, great to be here this morning, brother and as you were reading that end, I go into that and made me think so many people don't want things for their sale so much as well. Thanks for maybe their wives and our or our kids how many of us have affluenza for our kids, you know, we suffer from the urge to give them more than we had in an and just really struggle with it because affluenza we did a 30 hour famine at the church this year and it was a great thing, and in there. We had a video and it was about affluenza.

The young lady who was just terribly upset because her mother's BMW didn't have heated front seat and there and she was upset because the three had count on her sheets was less than her friends thread count and you know that is affluenza affluenza. I but there's so many people that you know just have the desire of of just a little more little better are just just never take the time to realize how good we actually had a very handling. We got Bob help us out this morning but we also have our Christian oil guy Mike Westwood. He's down there in San Antonio this morning. Welcome Mike good. Oh, I got that out the video that I can't take credit for them and I struggled with him.

He sidetracked and I really struggle with my mind in the bucket.

Now I understand that when all 22 well and working to talk about that because guess what coming up in our appraisal by the real back book. That's where we search the Bible for hidden treasure crowd for discernment, lift up our voice for understanding the question for many of us is how do we get on the other side of this addiction. This, in this. Maybe it's unforgiveness in your life.

Maybe you can find a way to forgive somebody this thing the Holy Spirit you know how it goes this thing the Holy Spirit keeps reminding you hey Robbie heaven, we had this discussion before and sometimes I think I may be at the 70×7. Hello, it could be the last time, but I love the way that God often teaches me something in his word I came across something this week that made absolutely no sense to me in on how you read it it makes no sense anymore read a number times and you're still clueless. Then I get the impression I'm not supposed to pass this one by then the Holy Spirit starts to leave me and all the sudden plan. My mind is engulfed in wonder seriously in worship. I'll think about it for weeks after after you get one of these revelations in his word delete the original.

You had no idea what in the world. This man, and that was what happened to me this week in Isaiah 1027 and I read it for you. Here's what left me out in the cold somewhere it says in there in that day there burden will be lifted from your shoulders. Excuse me in that day, the burden will be lifted from your shoulders. There yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because you've grown so fat, what what what that mean well I get to share what I learned about this passage and I think it's can be helpful for all of us who deal with some of these things, and that's coming up at the end of the show in our appraisal by the real black book. I'm Robbie Gilmore, the Christian card I 35 years the retail automobile business, but more importantly your brother in Christ Christian card I show is change the way people look at their cars and need to be paid for no debt and that you know this whole new-car everything good can get you in that situation, watching people buy cars for 35 years and a lot of times they had Avenue in every two years at Avenue one you know any time that the warty when I got to get a new car and that leads to all sorts of issues. Cars need tender loving care and they need a name like old red you think about it. You see tractors a bit on the element since the 40s there still running.

Why do you think truth is if you maintain a cart last as long as you do. And cars need to be safe and driven safely. Wear your seatbelt right. It's amazing how many people lose their life every week because are not wearing a seatbelt and don't speed if you truly following Jesus right. Bob is the one in the right is Lane red you would not be blowing by its estimated Americans way are wasting. They really are there wasting 200 million gallons of gas a week on speeding the course. This is a live show today. We want to hear your story. We want to hear your testimony, new-car or other addictions. What weaknesses would you like to boast about, and how is Jesus strength made perfect through that because we have lines open. We want hear from you. 866-348-7884 is always it's all her website Christian card. I.com this Bob I know you wanted time and some people may think it has to be a new car but some of us are pretty weak. For equipment, how to get into that a little bit later that the that is my weakness equipment that you make money with it seems that the moral of the draw for me.

Old car smell could save your life. Right, Bob, and it's all there Christian Car Guy.com as well as Jesus's labor of love and you know how we this ministry is providing free car repair labor for single moms and widows across the country.

That's an amazing examples of that this week when we come back we got Doug in Burlington's hold on with this but we need to hear from you. What's your weakness. You like to boast about this morning 866-348-7884 we got a lot of the stuff about you Carl car smell its outcome and ashes.

When we returned was so much more. The first are you dictated new-car smell or one of those folks and parts get a little bit old. I got a trade. How can I get through this. Maybe you're a recovering new-car attic. That's, you know, maybe you've already recovered you can share your secret on how you got through that we would love to hear anyone this morning who want to boast about that, weakness, 866-348-7884 course meal was take any of your car questions anything you may have with love to hear from you. 866-348-7884. Again, if you're concerned about this new-car smell situation and I know I was immediately when I read it, you could go to Christian Car Guy.com and there get all sorts of answers. I do want to say couple of things that whenever you hear Sean you go man I wish I heard the end of that show. Whatever the situation may be missed.

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We want to we got Doug is in Burlington Doug drama Christian card I show the morning what you got force here are over hundred thousand miles but that car and eight 353 and she found she got really excited.

Not your kid will really only got 18,000 miles on it right. Actually we went down and not made a deal with this person bought it and I tried everything in the world get this thing to work that it just didn't feel right anything like that in Fremont later going ahead and spelling it, and the witness really started coming in releasing this toy that I was keeping in my possession that whenever I would stay yeah the car and know it is not worth keeping a toy and it is just more, you're kidding. Really you're getting rid of your spelling thing and I was able to witness for the Lord because the Lord really had for me at that point so in his strength. He ended up being able to allow me to witness to others that you know you really need to think about how many and how much materialistic thing that you have, and I was able to identify with your oil got to college and I ended up well now that I got my doctorate, I would be more successful list at the other end small college asking the question, why am I here what's going on. Well, I advised a Christian group there and the Lord keeps reminding me on a fairly regular basis. Now that you're here for me and that I get to witness to these kids and let them know what the truth is sometimes get saved and it's just been a real blessing just realized I've got you where you want and on and when I allow God to do it that just let go. I really don't understand that you trust you because you got all thing in control so I can't tell you how much I appreciate you bless my listeners. Without this morning there. All of us. We have toys that the wow what a witness it could be if we could let go of them. Thank you.God bless you and appreciate you guys thank you thank you. What is your you know freedom. Store your testimony or maybe or something struggling with what an opportunity to boast in our weaknesses, and you know that's what I've noticed throughout my life that you know people can't relate to a Christian is perfect. The don't have any problems, but quite often when I share my struggles and people are likely wait, what's this this this guy has struggles and in the end, and it's okay for me to share. That was one of the greatest tools I ever had when I started working with the youth because you can sit there and slap in the head with the Bible and expect them to listen but you go ahead and confess the wrongdoing to your life and and you can captivate you know, can this really catch their attention to sit and listen in and so many times in our artist had at least one of them has learned something from the mistakes I confessed in the it was a proud moment or anything because I was turning loose of that, but I'm glad that God gave his strength to do it because you I made a bunch of mistakes going that if one of those kids can miss one of those stones that I stumbled over is just a great thing and you know, I was honored to be there at your father's funeral. Not long ago and you know our power comes from our testimony that when Bob admitted. These are the things that were going in my life.

But God but God and that was the deal that was the power of what you said at your at your dad's funeral and I know Mike you're experiencing that power in God's life and in your life right now. Orange and struggling right now with finding and seeing so many think that difficult and go with it.

Struggling getting me to court so bring that path and there is the deal. But I do have some summer I'm going with all this and that is there are so many people in night when I taught car salesman. I'm ashamed to say this but this true. When I taught car salesman and I don't want to know how many hundreds I've trained over the years. One of the things I told him is when you see somebody come up in a car that is complete, key what their driving will tell you what you can sell them you will never trade anybody down effectively what you do is you trade them up a little bit you see that they drove in in that Chevelle Chevrolet you know and you shall sell and the Chevelle SS if they drove up in the Cadillac you know Della Johnson you sell the Cadillac brome if they drove up into whatever it was that they drove up in because now they pictured that they've arrived at whatever level that is they feel like they've arrived at the easiest sale in the car business is to take what somebody's driving and up it in the course of manufacturers figure that out in a thousand years ago whenever it was the way they revolutionized Detroit was to come out with a new model year, every year you think this was you know what might be behind the fact that you get a new model in 2012 versus 2011 will. The idea is to make your car obsolete and you don't think that Apple is figure that out with the latest iPhone in the in the whatever it is they've got coming out, they might lead very quickly if that is. But it's all it's all it you know. Now I'm at this level and and it's an attempt to bring you into bondage and it's amazing how this plays out in our own lives and we know that we fall right into it. So we got a lot more we want to talk about on this subject, and we want to hear your testimony on how your weakness was made perfect in his strength out of that happen. We love to hear from you. 866-348-7884. Would love to hear your testimony. It dishonors God and I just blesses me know in the latest and greatest. As Bob would say affluenza might be your addiction. God is allowed in your life so that his strength could show up in your weakness.

It's an amazing concept in its beautifully played out in the lives of Christians if we will simply humble ourselves and realize while you know that the Holy Spirit is knocked on my door here about 99 times and it might be that I need some help here and that struggle is what work giving an opportunity to post today about your weaknesses and we can see maybe how God can do that 866348788486634 truth we have Janine and Louisville, Kentucky, Janine, your MasterCard. How are you I'm wonderful. What if you got force. Well, I would like to boast about my weakness. Sometimes I feel the Lord contact Erin but a lot lately because I marry a Christian who catches sometimes are there Christian's heart harshly when it comes to money I don't have a whole lot of money but when I see Christian you are envious with people with a lot of money actually disturbed me and I don't sometimes know how to get past that struggle if I'm following you. When you see somebody else that really they see the Christian with money in the end they really are envious you find yourself like man get over that is that why am I correct like the way you yes I'm a Christian who live within her means and doesn't make that much money.

Not that I'm better than anybody else to make that clear that I see a lot of Christians I know I want what they have and I'm thinking and they're very envious of rich people and and I don't get it's an interesting thing because with that situation. Those rich people have got a lot more answers, more than we do right. I think they forget that they that delegate will have to answer to the Lord as much as we do. If you're envious or whatever and that's it that's it that's an interesting one that really is and you know II probably suffer from that myself. Janine and her sometimes I'll see other people say you know how come I can have a house like this. How come I can have that and I'm like you know this is not hands-free but exactly you know, I guess it is. I try to process that you known this just my thought on it is that God is allowing them on opportunity like me to have a thorn in the flesh I ride in my corner I had to quit being judgmental, poor people who are envious and I am poor might help you however that that that's what you know when we find ourselves on the same playing field with others that we feel like you know that they could see what we see, but not always the case and yeah I just heard Chuck Swindoll say this and I'll know if you had it on your network, but it was so funny is like I could understand so well God's God's will for my wife but I can understand God's will for my life. It is so easy for me to see the little speck in my neighbors I and I got this branch and dries out.

I got a law God gave to me. Thanks for taking my call.

I appreciate it and thank you for listening out there and Louisville. I think that's that's a great station there affiliate since I got silly that's that's a great one out there. We appreciate them so much will my cubit lesson in attentively well know Bob you had some you wanted to mention right before the song he played it and there the Chevrolet's not getting right the two and brought back a memory for me because the ever since I was young even before I had drivers license Corvette just have a Corvette and I had the opportunity a while. Several years ago.

Obtain a Corvette that needed some work and I started to work on. I started work on. We worked and I had this fiction that extend and and got it decent, but you know the issues Arising everything in the family. I think were my equipment in the comes from is from.

I got rid of the Corvette and an old record to obtain my first rollback that were in bed that night. That's a vehicle us a check we can hollow a car on the back on the bed and then another one behind it so I could haul junk more efficiently that I got rid of something that was eaten and got got me something that can help feed me and I and and that led to additional slavery.

Michael you got another slavery.

The Corvette you go into another one equipment. I'm just anything that can help us do our work more efficiently in and be more profitable, we could benefits that were what made you want to boast about today.

We would love to hear from you. 866-348-7884 866-34-TRUTH for the digitally gifted again. How cool is it that God gives us the stuff to work on so that we could go basically back to the good Shepherd in the courtroom to get to that in our appraisal by the real black book that Mike I know you got some thoughts force down here in San Antonio, Texas making a lot on like that and it at that.

I haven't and it's because I wouldn't do more work for the Lord way to prevent that's you know that's a fascinating one. I run in the concept myself all the time. I am asking God I know, I know you got something bigger for me it's got to be bigger is got to be more amazing is going to be something like you and see if you can get this one right here. We had with that struggle because I was struggling because I didn't do another another commercial for charger R. Christian commercial for the message to send out with the on the football game and it just was tearing me up. Not that the restaurant one night with one of the neighbors and says I'm really torn up because I didn't I didn't make any message for the church and she reached over and speck me on the head and the way she always this sets me straight, and she said maybe God what many for different commercial and that other one played in the Super Bowl wave.

It was so amazing I agree Mike. We got Rick in Ogden, Utah. He's got some force Ricky when we lost Rick. Rick I hope you call back in 866-34-TRUTH 87884. Would love to hear you know what you had for us.

You know I'm up move on to our appraisal by the real black book.

Just because you know it's so appropriate to what were talking about today and you know, as we mentioned at the beginning of the show.

This little phrase about a black book. If you're listening for the first time. That's where we search the Bible for hidden treasure. Cry out for discernment, lift up your voice for understanding my gun lobby while you talk about this today and I know that so many folks date they struggle. I struggle we all struggle with these different kinds of sins that we follow ourselves into were trying to find a way out how to get out how to get out and I came across this passage this week and Isaiah that he first made absolutely no sense to me. And, if you heard me quoted at the beginning it may have made no sense to you maybe know exactly what it meant, but I didn't understand but here's the passage it's Isaiah 1027 and to set up a little bit what happened was that Isaiah was prophesying and he was talking about what was can happen when Sennacherib was in a, the hundred and 85,000 Syrian soldiers on Hezekiah and he was talk about these people down laying down on you, it wasn't to be pleasant but good news is going to take care of the remnant and what he then prophesies to the remnant is in that day there burden will be lifted from your shoulders. Their burden being the Assyrians that would have been slavery in that day there burden will be lifted from your shoulders. There yoke from your neck yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat well man, I'm a tell you I was just want my world because I got fat there yoke is to be broken. It didn't make a lot of sense. And then I went to the King James version looked at that translation.

It said because of their anointing because of your anointing you break the yoke and now is really lost.

How is some Hebrew word translated in the King James anoint fat over there in the NIV. By the way and let RSV and everywhere else is is translated fat and I was just totally in the weeds and so I know I'm okay. I got some here I gotta stick here until I see what the Holy Spirit has Ray must really have something for me and then all of a sudden I got this picture and actually to extent comes on the 23rd Psalm because you know it says in the 23rd Psalm advertisement familiar, it says the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

That means you not get fat meanings are gonna get. He makes me lie down in green pastures and he leads me beside still waters.

He restores muscle Austin I started to get this picture of this ox that has his little yoke put on but as he feeds in the green pasture and he sleeps beside the still water, and God keeps feed them and he gets to be a egotist bigamist little bitty yoke that's around his neck. No problem man that's that's breaking off because this thing is you know it's it's a beast in this yolks, break off because you become fat will fat to a cow owner is a good thing you know it's not to me it's like you're out of shape. You're losing it out but that is and what God was saying here. The when you take anointed to mean that this person here if you're USDA choice. You get the Goodpaster man and God's view your Bob, you are USDA choice and so you get the green pasture and you get the still waters. So if you'll do what Paul said in Philippians 48 recent remember. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if these if there is any virtue, if there is anything praiseworthy worthy meditate on those things, he that's the good brass if you'll keep your mind focused on God's word on testifying about it. You don't spend time with other believers.

Spend time in church spend time in prayer, spend time with the Lord of all, you know it's in his arms.

Guess what you are going to go for strong and fat and even though you hadn't no way out of that I can think of a lot of the sin that the Lord has allowed me he is basically work through in my life.

He did it through a continual diet of green pastures still waters. You know nothing about is you got stronger that thing you thought you would never unload you you became a beast and you broke that yoke off your neck and you became a slick fat ox. I've been kind was the word compared to an ox and sometimes the other in today that the Aiken County kids widget. At first I had no clue where you are going with the bed that maybe it's all the sin that I piled up through my life.

And then the unit without that that had them disqualify me from being able to work with young people or or to testify are Micah send out a message for church or anything.

I kinda thought all that it disqualify me for that.

But then, maybe through God just he built me up and then showed me that hey EA, uniquely qualifies you to speak because from where you been, you can shine a light on this for the young people in that's right because you know if your a car salesman of all things. Like me and and I immediately say will you know I'm nothing really, but a car salesman God you know worked through in whatever situation you know, look where I was in liquid, but what you're doing is you're boasting in his strength and his but that that strength when it gets down in your man. You become a sleek, big enough strong are you are you farming Mike is that not cool when we lusting that you forget about when you're running extra things you have your that I know from your cancer diagnosis about a year for five months ago and you I had that in my life as well. It was it was her like through my it was interesting thing for me Mike after my cancer and after my bout in a wheelchair for couple years I was asked to speak at churches all over the place. In this case it was because my bodily weakness got an interesting thing but nonetheless people can relate to somebody who's been really really sick to me at the church struggling year, thinking maybe I might make it go viral story when we get back about the video and made and how was my reluctance and my progressive nation, God turned RI we got one more segment for you. This is your chance to post about your weakness.

We'd love to hear from you. We really, really good. 866487884. How is Jesus strength is made perfect through your weakness will will will will will will will be turning you into a animal that they can break this in the continued to listen for his voice feed at the green pastures and lie beside the still waters.

He could rest you get strength you get is love, and with that, even though you may have a really got a few involve really sore authorities thing is really in there is been working on me for a long time.

Mike was talking about the video for the church in the you know I got selected to be on the evangelism committee a few years back in got all excited and because I had little experience with the bars as we got pumped was going to do a commercial for the church and went to the Council meeting and asked permission to do it and it just fell asleep.put on the back burner never did it never did. We got a new preacher.

He came in and preached one Sunday about bright ideas with no action. I limped at a church that day. Went home, sit down my pen and paper and in 20 minutes. The exact words that come out on the on that are on the commercial for the church or on paper, not a scratch Martin anytime I write.

Sometimes I scratch at some write a check for me to write all of that down.

This really felt like I was right there with me and and it was his message on the paper and that he just flat out my bet that that's how that happened.

It was procrastination and then a preacher waking me up about my from procrastination that I got to tell the rest of the story that if you remember this Bob. Bob called me and told me he done this video and so I immediately put it up a Christian car guy.com, not realizing he wanted to save it for the Super Bowl thought, but I I just posted it there and the next Monday. I look at my website and it's gone viral is going crazy and I'm like what the world happened and I you know you can.

It shows links and so you can tell through the statistics. A Google what was causing people to go to your website and it turned out, I posted this article 2 years ago about this guy that had this Rolls-Royce that was.

He had bought new and had his whole life and he was the world's oldest living car owners are Micah or for whatever reason, some poke some big blog in Europe had picked up this article that I that I posted and translated it in Austrian and all the link in the things sent everybody back to my website and I didn't go to the post of the guy with the with the old car they came to see Bob's video I got to the homepage. All these Austrian people guess what they saw Bob talking about why you don't need coming to what you need to go to church with the idea behind the ad was that. Don't wait till you need a mechanic to go. You know to go to the shop or warehouse is just some people think you need to get straight now get your life straightened out before you go to church. You know it, but if you cars break you don't wait for it to fix itself. You take it to the mechanic say but then the law of the Los Angeles Times picked up the story out Austria. They didn't pick up for my website. They picked it up out Austria translated it back in English and then posted the link again to all the people that will deliver in the Los Angeles Times. They link back to Christian Cartwright not again to that article about the Rolls-Royce but when they got there.

Guess what they saw Bob's video and why they need to go to church and so that's how you know Mike when you when you go to make a video and if you want to go viral.

I'm thinking God's got everything to do with and we don't have a clue. It was just me feeling the preacher punch me and I stepped on Montel and I limped out of there and just in no time.

We was there there you go.

When you put it action you know God cannot steer a parked car. So if you want to get moving that you might be amazed at where he takes you. It's an amazing thing. Well, we want to thank you for listening. Christian Cartwright show today. Certainly Mike and Bob for joining us all our great affiliates which were very thankful to have. We want to thank Stu Epperson our boss from the vision to air the show. My new producer is mad in and Beth Angelo in the wings feel standby. We appreciate them so much and we want to ask that you, you know, go to our website. Christian Cartwright I, Jesus later love you know a single mom or widow somebody that desperately needs car repair that's available for them@cargo.com you know what I always say, slow down. Jesus walked everywhere he went and got it all done in 33 years. And remember, the sheep of Jesus's pastors get the good stuff they get that feed on listening to the TruthNetwork.com