New Self Ministries returns with a powerful episode diving into biblical principles, exploring how to apply scripture to daily life. The discussion encourages listeners to deepen their faith and embrace transformation through Christ.
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and how to apply it to your life.
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Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation.
Old things have passed away.
Behold, all things have become new.
Well, welcome back to
New Self Ministries.
It's been a while.
Dude, it's been seven
grueling months of...
Hold on to your horses.
Yeah.
(laughs) Yeah, of like, man, I really
feel like we need to get back
into this, but life.
Yes.
Be life and changes and God being God.
And it's been a journey.
I can't wait for us to be
able to have a couple episodes
where we unpack the things that have
happened in my life,
happened in your life
in the past seven months,
past two years, past, you know,
just to even hear our testimony.
I'm sure the people would love to hear
who they're listening to,
how they get to where they're at.
Absolutely.
We got a lot of stuff planned.
We got some special guests coming in.
Yeah, we're gonna do some testimonies,
do some, just do what we've been doing
with just breaking down scripture,
whatever the Lord puts on our heart,
breaking down, you know,
ideas and religious thought
and just making it for the simple man,
because that's all we
are, is two simple dudes.
(both laughing)
You know, the one thing,
we just recorded an episode coming up
and it is gonna be good.
It was a great, great conversation.
It was a doozy.
It was a doozy one.
It was a great conversation.
And so I look forward
to you guys seeing that.
So that is kind of like
your little cliffhanger
to where you'll be like,
oh man, how you gonna be telling me that?
They didn't tell me
nothing on that first episode.
How you gonna tell me that
and then make me wait
a whole nother week?
Yeah.
Might even make a wait two
weeks, what do you think?
I think we've made them wait long enough.
Seven months. Seven months.
We'll give you something.
Yeah, there's been a lot of things.
God has moved in our lives.
God has changed a lot of things around.
I'm a pastor now.
He's leading worship now.
I wouldn't say leading.
We're leading worship now.
(laughing)
Like there's been a lot of things
that we never thought
would be that have become.
And all glory to God, man.
Like it has been such a fantastic ride
and I cannot wait to see
where he leads us in this.
Like you said, we just finished recording
a pretty spectacular episode.
And you called me out and said,
oh, he called me at nine o'clock
and said, here's the subject.
And let the Holy Spirit ride, man.
And that's what we're all about.
We just love saying, hey,
let's see what God's gonna do.
And then we prepare and point you guys
in the right direction,
point us in the right direction.
That's why I try and teach
from a pulpit every week.
Cause I'm just a dude
pointing people to another dude
who can save their soul.
And I get it wrong and I get it right.
And I put in that effort.
That's another cliffhanger for next week.
Yeah, I don't put in that effort.
(laughing) Well, it's good times.
It's great.
We got a lot of stuff that
we're going to be going through.
And it's really all about
Jesus when you break it down.
I mean, this whole
book is all about Jesus.
So we are going to
start doing more episodes
and we're gonna, like I said,
we've got other people coming in
that we're just gonna
talk about their testimony.
How did Jesus transform their lives?
How did that become a new self?
A new self.
And that's what the
whole basis is of this
is how to be your new self.
And how does scripture apply
to you to be your new self?
What is the truth of the matter?
Not so much of what is my truth?
What do I think it says?
What do we think it says?
It's what it says.
And we're gonna
unpack it and break it down
and we're gonna hit subjects
that many people don't wanna hit.
And they're like,
"That's a scary subject.
"I don't wanna talk about that."
That's a punch in the gut subject.
I don't wanna talk about that.
I didn't wanna hear that.
Yeah, I didn't wanna hear that.
Just this past Sunday,
we're talking about
where your treasure is.
And one of our members
spoke up and was like,
"This isn't very encouraging."
(laughing) She meant to, you know, in a good way,
but sometimes it's not
all about encouragement.
Sometimes there is
that conviction involved
and we hope to hit
those subjects and be bold.
It's called truth.
It's called truth.
And sometimes truth
will kick you in the teeth.
Yes, it will.
And again, it's not our truth.
It's his truth.
And it's his word.
And we're just gonna be stewards of it.
Before we started, we said,
and that's what this
podcast is all about.
It's not about us, it's about him.
Bringing glory to his
name, seeing him on every page.
And ultimately, as John the Baptist said,
"He must increase, I must decrease."
And that's all we're about is
decreasing for his increase.
And hopefully you guys
come along for the ride.
Absolutely.
So I hope y'all are ready.
It's gonna be an amazing season two.
Yeah.
(laughing)
Season 1.3, something like that.
1.3.
1.3.
1.3.
We're gonna have a great time.
We're really gonna praise the Lord
through this whole thing.
We're gonna be in prayer.
If you have anything that
you need any prayers for,
leave a comment, let us know,
because we will
actively be praying for you.
And if there's any subjects that you feel
that your church doesn't cover,
or the podcasts that
you listen to don't cover,
or that you just want a
little more information about,
put it in the comments.
We'd love to tackle
what you guys wanna hear.
That's something I've
always gotten in trouble for that
in the different
ministries I've worked in.
I love a good survey.
I love a good survey.
Because I wanna know what you guys want.
I wanna know what the
people that I'm walking with
and shepherding with, what they need.
What better way than a
great survey with some questions
and make it as simple as possible.
Because at the end of the day,
people are more apt to write it down
than to say it out loud.
So write it down.
Write a comment to us and say,
"Hey, I'd love to really hear this.
Send us a private message,
and we'll do it that way as well."
But let us know what you guys wanna hear
and what you guys want covered.
And I love talking all
through things, scriptures,
so nothing's gonna deter me.
And that's the key
point to this whole thing
is that what you're gonna
get is nothing but scripture.
Is nothing but the Bible,
nothing but the Holy
Spirit moving through us.
Because I can tell you,
before we even press the record,
before we even turn on the light,
before we even walk into this room,
we have already had our
prayer time with each other,
for each other.
We have done our studies,
we have done our research,
and the Holy Spirit has
really moved in our lives
and really showed us what it is
that He wants to talk about.
That's right.
When we get here, let me tell you,
we can have all the words written down
on this piece of paper that we want to,
like little notes and
little bullet points.
But I'm telling you,
I can't tell you how
many times we get in here,
especially with the last conversation,
that I didn't even
get to use half of these
because God, the Holy Spirit moved
and was actually
guiding the conversation.
He wanted us to
completely different scriptures.
I've got a bunch written down too,
and without us even
talking to each other,
I'm just looking across the pages
and there's a lot of similar scriptures
that we thought of,
but again, we didn't even cover them.
We went to whole new routes
and whole new discussions.
And that's the beautiful
thing about the Holy Spirit.
I'm limited to only five
beautifuls in episodes,
so he's so one of them.
(laughing)
That's the great thing here is like,
when you submit and surrender
and let the Holy Spirit do its work
and just be ready and willing
to let that conversation go that way,
and it's gonna be good.
Like we said,
if there's anything that
you want to see or hear,
or you need more information about,
even like with big
words like sanctification,
that was one that we
identified here recently.
If you want to know what that word means
and what it does, leave
a comment, let us know,
and we'll break up to that.
We'll show you what it does.
Yeah.
We gotta show you what it does.
We'll show you what it does.
But anyway, thank you
so much for joining us,
and hang tight,
because we have a very good episode
coming up next week,
and it's gonna be great.
How about we do this?
We've let them along quite a bit.
Let's drop it sooner than next week.
All right, well keep your eyes open.
We'll--
We'll be a double punch,
this one and the next one.
Yeah, I'll post this video,
and then the next day or so,
I'll have the good one posted.
That'll be good.
Yeah, and so get ready.
All right, well thank
you so much for joining us.
Thank you for being here,
and we hope God just
blesses you in whatever you do.
Yeah, and "Buggle Up
Buttercup" could be a ride.
It's gonna be fun.
I'm excited, it's gonna be laughing.
I cried a couple times just
about in the last episode.
My tears are gonna be joy,
there's gonna be dancing.
I don't know about
dancing, I don't like dancing,
but we're gonna glorify the
Lord in all that we do, so.
I really like David.
Yeah.
(laughing)
I'm coming.
Until next time, man, God bless you,
and we'll see you then.
God bless you.
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