December 10, 2025 • 17 mins
We trace the bold claim of Romans 8 and Galatians 4—that we are heirs with Christ—and show how that identity reshapes favor, repentance, and everyday courage. Stories from Turkey, a Manhattan boardroom, and our family bring the theology down to the street level.
• heir identity reframes favor from earning to belonging
• public devotion as a mirror for quiet faith
• behavior as the Christian uniform
• Romans 8 and Galatians 4 as anchors
• repentance as coming home, not shame
• living favored amid closed doors and delays
• practical rhythms to practice praise and presence
• noon prayer, daily Scripture, quiet public prayer
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SPEAKER_00 (00:24):
Welcome.
Welcome to the Buddy BeforeJunior show.
Quick favor right out of thegates, folks.
Please hit subscribe or followwherever you're listening.
And pretty please share theepisode with one person, just
one.
It helps scroll the episode, andthat's a blessing more than you
can possibly ever imagine.
It's disclosure time, folks.
I'm not a biblical expert, not amaster's in theology.
(00:47):
I'm a guy learning Jesus in realtime.
I'm in a Jesus gym and I'msharing my workouts.
Folks, sometimes I'm sore, somedays I'm strong, but most days
I'm weak, but it keeps showingup.
So verify whatever you hear fromme, read it yourself.
I'll put the description belowin the show notes, and we can
(01:07):
learn this together.
All right.
Today we're staying in one lane.
Heirs favor repentance.
We're tying these together, andI'm going to tie it to last
week's episode.
Other topics that you've beenDMing me about, we're going to
cover, which include spiritualwarfare, Islam, politics.
(01:28):
We're going to get to all thatand hit those soon.
Be patient.
Today's identity.
Let me start by saying this.
Gang, I am pumped up.
What a week and a word I've had.
I've had a challenging weekpersonally.
I had a great conversation thismorning with my spiritual
director.
And once again, I'm just blownout of the water.
(01:51):
I'm blown away by how God tieseverything together.
The Bible is mind-blowing.
And man, what hit me again thisweek hit me just as hard as when
it hit me the first time.
Ready?
We're heirs.
(02:13):
We're heirs to the throne.
The throne of thrones.
And if that's true, then favormakes sense.
And repentance makes sense.
And the way we live matters.
Quick recap, folks.
(02:33):
Let me just we're gonna unpackthat.
Stay right there.
Quick recap for anyone joining.
My wife and I took an emptynursery tour to Europe.
We ended up in Turkey, walkedinto a mosque, and I got hit by
what I call the spiritualsledgehammer, conviction,
embarrassment.
Not because I doubted Jesus, butbecause I realized how quiet
(02:53):
I've been about him compared toeverything else that I'm loud
about.
And what challenged me in Turkeywas seeing public devotion of
the Muslim face, of their faith,lived out loud in the public
sphere, uniforms, call toprayer, devotion, in the
streets, no apology.
(03:15):
And that same moment in Turkeyreminded me of something that
happened years ago at my Jewishclients in Manhattan.
They'd pause work, ask us toleave a meeting, rabbis would
come in, and I'd watch theirdevotion in a marketplace.
Like it was the most normalthing in the world, everyday
occurrence.
And that conviction sparked mywife and I back then to get to
(03:36):
church and learn about ourfaith.
And Turkey did the same thing.
And so I called these my twobookends.
Different faiths don't change mytheology, but their devotion
exposed something in me, howquiet my faith had become, even
between those bookends.
What I realized is thisChristians don't really have
(04:00):
uniforms.
We don't have this visiblemarker in public.
Our uniform is our behavior.
And that's where repentance gotreal for me.
Because if my behavior doesn'tshow Christ, then who knows who
I belong to?
Now, here's what hit me thisweek.
(04:24):
We're not just forgiven, we'renot just saved.
The New Testament says somethingwild.
This is insane.
It says we're heirs to thethrone, sons and daughters of
God.
Let me anchor this biblically.
(04:45):
Romans eight specifically saysthe Spirit Himself testifies
with our spirit that we areGod's children.
Now, if we are children, thenwe're heirs.
Heirs of God and co-heirs ofChrist.
(05:06):
Galatians four.
So you are no longer slaves, butGod's child.
And since you are his child, Godhas made you also an heir.
(05:26):
What?
Man, that breaks the guiltreligion right there.
No more apologizing for favor.
Because God's heirs don't livelike slaves.
God's heirs don't live fromguilt.
God's heirs don't try to earn.
(05:47):
God's heirs, we're as God'sheirs, we're supposed to live
from belonging.
And when that clicked in me, itrewired how I thought about
favor.
And I got reminded of that againthis week.
Let me tell you a personal storyand why this is so personal to
(06:09):
me and how it clicked.
When I first started doing ordigging into scripture, I would
hear my Christian friends thatintroduced me into the Bible
and/or I was studying withseniority over me.
Man, I got this interview.
I don't know how I'm gonna doit.
I got this client I'm workingon.
I hope I land it.
(06:29):
I'm not sure if I qualify for A,B, or C.
And I respond probably toobluntly.
Wait, aren't you a practicingChristian?
Like as I'm hanging on to myBible.
And they would respond, yeah.
Well then aren't you favored?
If God opens the door, you walkthrough it.
If he closes, he's got somethingbetter.
(06:53):
And as I kept saying that tothem, God kind of turned the
mirror back on me.
He does this.
He turned the mirror on me.
Because I realized something.
I lived like I was favored inbusiness, but not in my personal
life.
Catholic guilt had trained me tothink I don't deserve favor.
(07:17):
I should expect the shortfall.
Somebody else probably deservesthe good thing more than me.
But scripture, folks, taught mesomething completely different.
This air.
I'm an heir.
Not because I'm special, butbecause Jesus is.
(07:39):
Let me give you a picture of anair identity.
I'm 14 years old.
I get into this fight.
I know it's not godly.
I got no fight.
I'm downstairs at the CivicCenter by the bathrooms in
Glen's Falls, New York, at theAdirondack hockey team.
Red Wings.
It's 14.
(08:03):
Security breaks the fight up,grabs me, looks at my shirt,
sees EP Foy's logo, my dad'srestaurant, on my shirt.
Wait, are you Buddy's son?
And I said, Yes, I am, sir.
And he looks right at me andsays, What are you doing?
Your father would be disgusted,but I'm not going to throw you
out of here.
(08:23):
You can thank your dad for that.
You two get back to your seatsand tell your father I said
hello.
Folks, I got favor in thatmoment because of who I belonged
to.
I want to say that again.
I got favor in that momentbecause of who I belonged to.
Not because I deserved it, notbecause I earned it, but because
(08:46):
of my father's name, because ofhis restaurant.
So when I read Romans 8 andGalatians 4, man, how much more
favor do we have as heirs of theFather, the creator of the
universe, the Alpha and theOmega?
(09:06):
That's air identity.
That's what the New Testament issaying to me and you.
Now, this got real for me duringa six-week freedom course a year
ago.
We met once a week, workingthrough material, three hours a
session, my wife and I and sixother couples.
(09:28):
And we hit that section, beingheirs of Christ or being heirs
with Christ.
And I remember coming out of myskin, like somebody turned the
lights on in my soul.
And I said to the group, wellpassionately, if this is true,
what are we waiting for?
This changes everything.
(09:51):
I even said something crazy likewe should be pulling people over
in a highway and just tellingthem that they're heirs.
Like I was freaking out.
And I meant it.
That's what air identity does toyou.
It lights you up.
But then the enemy gets us.
We're heirs to the throne of thecreator of the universe, but
(10:12):
then the enemy gets to us.
Life happens.
You get busy.
He got me busy.
He got me distracted.
My restaurant had some problems.
I had to go fix these things,and noise distracted me.
I drift it.
Then I'd get fired up again.
(10:34):
Then I'd fall back to the grindagain.
Fired up again, then busy again,and over and over.
Until Turkey.
Turkey woke me up again.
That spiritual sledgehammermoment was God saying, buddy,
enough.
You're an heir.
(10:54):
Start living like it.
And that's why I'm talking aboutit here every week to live it,
to practice it, to remember it,to be in a pattern of it.
And that's where repentanceconnects.
We talked about repentance lastweek, and here's the link.
Repentance is how errors comehome.
(11:19):
Favor is what heirs live from.
Repentance starts in a heart, itshows up in our behavior.
We can't receive an inheritanceif we never come home, if we
never pivot back.
Repentance is not guilt to keepus from home.
(11:40):
It's not punishment to keep usfrom what we have, what we're
heirs to.
It's not shame on us.
It's shame off of us.
Because Jesus Christ, Jesus,excuse me, Jesus Christ already
paid for it.
I say that again, somebodyexcited, talking fast, because
(12:02):
Jesus Christ already paid forit.
The enemy wants you to forgetyou're an heir.
He wants you to live like aslave, busy, fearful,
apologetic, quiet, guilty.
I go through these patterns.
But when you remember who youare, when you remember who you
(12:25):
belong to, favor stops beingtheory.
Living from favor isn't alwayseasy.
(12:46):
I've watched my daughter thisyear, one of the most spiritual
people in our house, get deniedover and over and over again.
Denied from colleges.
She checked all the boxes for,heartbroken from her boyfriend,
overlooked by a coach despitebeing a five-year varsity
athlete.
(13:07):
And I'm sitting here trying toremind her, God's favor is on
you, daughter.
God's plan is bigger than this.
But I'm also wrestling in realtime.
What's going on, God?
Because God's favor doesn't meanevery door opens.
(13:29):
Favor means God is with you inthe process.
Favor means he's not wastingyour pain.
Favor means he's writing yourstory even when you can't see it
yet.
It's hard.
That's workout level faith rightthere, folks.
(13:52):
If you're being attacked, ifyou're second guessing yourself,
if things just aren't going yourway, if you feel less than, if
you feel like you don't deservesomething, you do.
You are better.
(14:13):
You are favored.
So a practical takeaway.
When you face that door, whenyou face that challenge, don't
say, I hope I'm favored.
Say, I am favored, I am an heir,and I trust God with the
outcome.
If the door opens, folks, and itturns to your favor, remember
(14:39):
who gave it to you and praisehim.
Practice praise.
Don't forget where it came from.
If the door closes, praise him.
If it gets harder, praise him.
Because he's still guiding hisheirs.
Because we're his heirs.
Praise him because we receive asheirs.
(15:01):
I'm not teaching from a thronehere.
I'm learning in real time fromthe road with no shoes on.
Favor is real.
Living it is a workout, but it'sworth it.
So here's your Jesus gymassignment.
(15:22):
For this week, three simplesteps.
Set your alarm for noon.
When it goes off, stop and thankGod for one thing, then pray for
somebody.
Open your Bible daily.
One verse counts, one paragraphcounts.
Just show up.
(15:42):
Pray naturally in public.
Start with your meal.
Quietly, confidently.
Don't hide it.
We do these things.
We start living like heirs.
And favor stops being the sermonword and starts being a daily
(16:03):
reality.
Folks, thank you for listening.
If this hits you, share it withone person.
Let's grow this kingdomtogether.
Don't take debate.
And a shout out.
And I want to thank two people.
Thank you.
You know who you are.
Thank you for your encouragementthis week.
I appreciate the text message.
(16:25):
It helped me question what I'mdoing.
Gang, don't take debate.
Have a great week.
We'll see you next week.
Welcome.
Welcome to the Buddy BeforeJunior show.
Quick favor right out of thegates, folks.
Please hit subscribe or followwherever you're listening.
And pretty please share theepisode with one person, just
one.
It helps scroll the episode, andthat's a blessing more than you
can possibly ever imagine.
It's disclosure time, folks.
I'm not a biblical expert, not amaster's in theology.
(00:47):
I'm a guy learning Jesus in realtime.
I'm in a Jesus gym and I'msharing my workouts.
Folks, sometimes I'm sore, somedays I'm strong, but most days
I'm weak, but it keeps showingup.
So verify whatever you hear fromme, read it yourself.
I'll put the description belowin the show notes, and we can
(01:07):
learn this together.
All right.
Today we're staying in one lane.
Heirs favor repentance.
We're tying these together, andI'm going to tie it to last
week's episode.
Other topics that you've beenDMing me about, we're going to
cover, which include spiritualwarfare, Islam, politics.
(01:28):
We're going to get to all thatand hit those soon.
Be patient.
Today's identity.
Let me start by saying this.
Gang, I am pumped up.
What a week and a word I've had.
I've had a challenging weekpersonally.
I had a great conversation thismorning with my spiritual
director.
And once again, I'm just blownout of the water.
(01:51):
I'm blown away by how God tieseverything together.
The Bible is mind-blowing.
And man, what hit me again thisweek hit me just as hard as when
it hit me the first time.
Ready?
We're heirs.
(02:13):
We're heirs to the throne.
The throne of thrones.
And if that's true, then favormakes sense.
And repentance makes sense.
And the way we live matters.
Quick recap, folks.
(02:33):
Let me just we're gonna unpackthat.
Stay right there.
Quick recap for anyone joining.
My wife and I took an emptynursery tour to Europe.
We ended up in Turkey, walkedinto a mosque, and I got hit by
what I call the spiritualsledgehammer, conviction,
embarrassment.
Not because I doubted Jesus, butbecause I realized how quiet
(02:53):
I've been about him compared toeverything else that I'm loud
about.
And what challenged me in Turkeywas seeing public devotion of
the Muslim face, of their faith,lived out loud in the public
sphere, uniforms, call toprayer, devotion, in the
streets, no apology.
(03:15):
And that same moment in Turkeyreminded me of something that
happened years ago at my Jewishclients in Manhattan.
They'd pause work, ask us toleave a meeting, rabbis would
come in, and I'd watch theirdevotion in a marketplace.
Like it was the most normalthing in the world, everyday
occurrence.
And that conviction sparked mywife and I back then to get to
(03:36):
church and learn about ourfaith.
And Turkey did the same thing.
And so I called these my twobookends.
Different faiths don't change mytheology, but their devotion
exposed something in me, howquiet my faith had become, even
between those bookends.
What I realized is thisChristians don't really have
(04:00):
uniforms.
We don't have this visiblemarker in public.
Our uniform is our behavior.
And that's where repentance gotreal for me.
Because if my behavior doesn'tshow Christ, then who knows who
I belong to?
Now, here's what hit me thisweek.
(04:24):
We're not just forgiven, we'renot just saved.
The New Testament says somethingwild.
This is insane.
It says we're heirs to thethrone, sons and daughters of
God.
Let me anchor this biblically.
(04:45):
Romans eight specifically saysthe Spirit Himself testifies
with our spirit that we areGod's children.
Now, if we are children, thenwe're heirs.
Heirs of God and co-heirs ofChrist.
(05:06):
Galatians four.
So you are no longer slaves, butGod's child.
And since you are his child, Godhas made you also an heir.
(05:26):
What?
Man, that breaks the guiltreligion right there.
No more apologizing for favor.
Because God's heirs don't livelike slaves.
God's heirs don't live fromguilt.
God's heirs don't try to earn.
(05:47):
God's heirs, we're as God'sheirs, we're supposed to live
from belonging.
And when that clicked in me, itrewired how I thought about
favor.
And I got reminded of that againthis week.
Let me tell you a personal storyand why this is so personal to
(06:09):
me and how it clicked.
When I first started doing ordigging into scripture, I would
hear my Christian friends thatintroduced me into the Bible
and/or I was studying withseniority over me.
Man, I got this interview.
I don't know how I'm gonna doit.
I got this client I'm workingon.
I hope I land it.
(06:29):
I'm not sure if I qualify for A,B, or C.
And I respond probably toobluntly.
Wait, aren't you a practicingChristian?
Like as I'm hanging on to myBible.
And they would respond, yeah.
Well then aren't you favored?
If God opens the door, you walkthrough it.
If he closes, he's got somethingbetter.
(06:53):
And as I kept saying that tothem, God kind of turned the
mirror back on me.
He does this.
He turned the mirror on me.
Because I realized something.
I lived like I was favored inbusiness, but not in my personal
life.
Catholic guilt had trained me tothink I don't deserve favor.
(07:17):
I should expect the shortfall.
Somebody else probably deservesthe good thing more than me.
But scripture, folks, taught mesomething completely different.
This air.
I'm an heir.
Not because I'm special, butbecause Jesus is.
(07:39):
Let me give you a picture of anair identity.
I'm 14 years old.
I get into this fight.
I know it's not godly.
I got no fight.
I'm downstairs at the CivicCenter by the bathrooms in
Glen's Falls, New York, at theAdirondack hockey team.
Red Wings.
It's 14.
(08:03):
Security breaks the fight up,grabs me, looks at my shirt,
sees EP Foy's logo, my dad'srestaurant, on my shirt.
Wait, are you Buddy's son?
And I said, Yes, I am, sir.
And he looks right at me andsays, What are you doing?
Your father would be disgusted,but I'm not going to throw you
out of here.
(08:23):
You can thank your dad for that.
You two get back to your seatsand tell your father I said
hello.
Folks, I got favor in thatmoment because of who I belonged
to.
I want to say that again.
I got favor in that momentbecause of who I belonged to.
Not because I deserved it, notbecause I earned it, but because
(08:46):
of my father's name, because ofhis restaurant.
So when I read Romans 8 andGalatians 4, man, how much more
favor do we have as heirs of theFather, the creator of the
universe, the Alpha and theOmega?
(09:06):
That's air identity.
That's what the New Testament issaying to me and you.
Now, this got real for me duringa six-week freedom course a year
ago.
We met once a week, workingthrough material, three hours a
session, my wife and I and sixother couples.
(09:28):
And we hit that section, beingheirs of Christ or being heirs
with Christ.
And I remember coming out of myskin, like somebody turned the
lights on in my soul.
And I said to the group, wellpassionately, if this is true,
what are we waiting for?
This changes everything.
(09:51):
I even said something crazy likewe should be pulling people over
in a highway and just tellingthem that they're heirs.
Like I was freaking out.
And I meant it.
That's what air identity does toyou.
It lights you up.
But then the enemy gets us.
We're heirs to the throne of thecreator of the universe, but
(10:12):
then the enemy gets to us.
Life happens.
You get busy.
He got me busy.
He got me distracted.
My restaurant had some problems.
I had to go fix these things,and noise distracted me.
I drift it.
Then I'd get fired up again.
(10:34):
Then I'd fall back to the grindagain.
Fired up again, then busy again,and over and over.
Until Turkey.
Turkey woke me up again.
That spiritual sledgehammermoment was God saying, buddy,
enough.
You're an heir.
(10:54):
Start living like it.
And that's why I'm talking aboutit here every week to live it,
to practice it, to remember it,to be in a pattern of it.
And that's where repentanceconnects.
We talked about repentance lastweek, and here's the link.
Repentance is how errors comehome.
(11:19):
Favor is what heirs live from.
Repentance starts in a heart, itshows up in our behavior.
We can't receive an inheritanceif we never come home, if we
never pivot back.
Repentance is not guilt to keepus from home.
(11:40):
It's not punishment to keep usfrom what we have, what we're
heirs to.
It's not shame on us.
It's shame off of us.
Because Jesus Christ, Jesus,excuse me, Jesus Christ already
paid for it.
I say that again, somebodyexcited, talking fast, because
(12:02):
Jesus Christ already paid forit.
The enemy wants you to forgetyou're an heir.
He wants you to live like aslave, busy, fearful,
apologetic, quiet, guilty.
I go through these patterns.
But when you remember who youare, when you remember who you
(12:25):
belong to, favor stops beingtheory.
Living from favor isn't alwayseasy.
(12:46):
I've watched my daughter thisyear, one of the most spiritual
people in our house, get deniedover and over and over again.
Denied from colleges.
She checked all the boxes for,heartbroken from her boyfriend,
overlooked by a coach despitebeing a five-year varsity
athlete.
(13:07):
And I'm sitting here trying toremind her, God's favor is on
you, daughter.
God's plan is bigger than this.
But I'm also wrestling in realtime.
What's going on, God?
Because God's favor doesn't meanevery door opens.
(13:29):
Favor means God is with you inthe process.
Favor means he's not wastingyour pain.
Favor means he's writing yourstory even when you can't see it
yet.
It's hard.
That's workout level faith rightthere, folks.
(13:52):
If you're being attacked, ifyou're second guessing yourself,
if things just aren't going yourway, if you feel less than, if
you feel like you don't deservesomething, you do.
You are better.
(14:13):
You are favored.
So a practical takeaway.
When you face that door, whenyou face that challenge, don't
say, I hope I'm favored.
Say, I am favored, I am an heir,and I trust God with the
outcome.
If the door opens, folks, and itturns to your favor, remember
(14:39):
who gave it to you and praisehim.
Practice praise.
Don't forget where it came from.
If the door closes, praise him.
If it gets harder, praise him.
Because he's still guiding hisheirs.
Because we're his heirs.
Praise him because we receive asheirs.
(15:01):
I'm not teaching from a thronehere.
I'm learning in real time fromthe road with no shoes on.
Favor is real.
Living it is a workout, but it'sworth it.
So here's your Jesus gymassignment.
(15:22):
For this week, three simplesteps.
Set your alarm for noon.
When it goes off, stop and thankGod for one thing, then pray for
somebody.
Open your Bible daily.
One verse counts, one paragraphcounts.
Just show up.
(15:42):
Pray naturally in public.
Start with your meal.
Quietly, confidently.
Don't hide it.
We do these things.
We start living like heirs.
And favor stops being the sermonword and starts being a daily
(16:03):
reality.
Folks, thank you for listening.
If this hits you, share it withone person.
Let's grow this kingdomtogether.
Don't take debate.
And a shout out.
And I want to thank two people.
Thank you.
You know who you are.
Thank you for your encouragementthis week.
I appreciate the text message.
(16:25):
It helped me question what I'mdoing.
Gang, don't take debate.
Have a great week.
We'll see you next week.
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