242. The Warrior's Response to Tragedy: After The Loss of Charlie Kirk

No man plans for tragedy—but every man will face it.
The question is not if but how you’ll respond when life blindsides you.

In this episode of The Impossible Life Podcast, Garrett and Nick take on the heavy reality of loss, heartbreak, and the unexpected trials that test our faith. Sparked by the recent tragedy with Charlie Kirk, this conversation goes deep into how Warriors respond when faced with tragedy.

You'll learn what a warrior is, what defines his pursuit of destiny, and why Jesus is the ultimate example of a warrior. We also look at mission focus and the need to understand what's really at stake in your life. There is a lot of reaction to the loss of Charlie Kirk. While his tragic death sparked this episode, this is an episode to guide you through any tragedy so you can stand strong, stay connected to purpose, and continue to follow Jesus even in the darkest times.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Tragedy is extreme loss. Something terrible has happened, and that
is terrible. It is terrible that a woman lost her
husband and the two children lost their father. What is
not What I don't consider terrible, is that someone died
for their faith. What I don't consider terrible or tragic
is that someone died for truth because this has been
happening for a long time. People dying for truth. This

(00:23):
has been happening for a long time, people dying for
what they believe.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
That's impossible.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Let me tell you what I believe.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
What's your weakness is not your technique. Don't think you
of know you the Impossible Life Podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I mean, yes, sitting on a winning lot of sects,
an idea that is fully formed, fully understood.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
That sticks. This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick
and I are attempting to live impossible lives. What we
know is that nothing is impossible. So instead of using
impossible as an excuse to not try, we'll use the
pursuit of impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's

(01:09):
never been done before, that just means it's unexplored. If
they tell you it's too hard, it's just waiting to
be simplified impossible as a default label used by uncourageous
people unwilling to take a risk. The real truth is
this the solution to any impossible task starts with this question,

(01:31):
if I had to, what would it take?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
What would it take?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life podcast. I'm
your co host next Surface, and I'm looking across as
a man whose first confirmed knockout was of a low
level male nurse after he was circumcised on the day
he was born.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's right, friends, Garret Nuckleback, a man who came out
of the womb battle Ready, do you remember that or
was that just instinctive?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah? I'm black that all right?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well I did you?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Okay, Well, hey, you know, I'm glad that you stuck
it to that guy, because you know that hurts I
can imagine. Anyways, Yeah, so today's episode, I was proud
of that one. I just I thought it was funny,
but whatever, Okay, anyways, Yeah, so today today we're looking
at a what I've called this internally, and I don't
know if this will be the final title. Is a
warrior's response to tragedy, and obviously, if you're living in

(02:24):
America and even if you're not, because I know I've
been messaging with friends around the world. We're recording this
four days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and there's been
a lot of reaction to it. And we're not a
current events podcast. Like I remember when we first started this,
you said very clearly to me, You're like, we will
never we will never say anything that doesn't hold up
for all of time. And I was like, there went
like ninety eight percent of my ideas for what.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I thought we should talk about.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
But that was because I didn't have an understanding of principles,
and so I understand that now from a much different place.
But I say all that to say, like, we're not
a current events podcast. But here's what's going to happen
in life. You're going to have pain, You're going to
have adversity. There's going to be things that don't go
the way that you plan. And when those things don't
go plan, we say that they're tragic. When someone dies
before we think that they're supposed to die in our

(03:09):
mind because we have this timeline, we call that a tragedy.
And these things are going to happen, and so like
you need to have an understanding and a thought process
of how to approach this. And I think you, in particular, Garrett,
brings such a unique perspective having truly been you know,
I mean, you are a warrior you and I would
think most people would agree with that, because in every

(03:31):
sense of the word, whether you're looking at it spiritually
or whether they're looking at it from an actual like
physical warr you've done it right to the most extreme level.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
And so I want to I.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Want to share your perspective with people because I think
it's one that men need to have. I'll say men
and women that they need to have because what I've
seen a lot, and I'll just speak from my own experience.
I got a text from my best friend saying, like,
Charlie Kirk's dead. I can't believe it. And I was
literally pastor Josh and I were fifteen minutes away from
recording the podcast we released last Thursday, and.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
It just popped my bubble.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Man.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
I felt so incredibly deflated, like I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I looked.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
I then went and watched the video, which is you know,
it's shocking that you can watch that in so many
different angles, but that's the world we live in today,
and as I was looking at this, man, I just
was I just I just felt deflated. Like of course
we did the podcast we focused in because there's you know,
you don't you don't stop because of something something hard happens.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
But I just felt so deflated.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And since then, I've seen so many different responses, and
you know, there's been I don't even want to talk
about people who are on the opposite side and think
this is somehow they're celebrating this, but there's been a
lot of reaction from people from mourning tears. Some people
are saying like this changes everything, you know, now it's
okay to attack people like this. And when I was
looking at this, I've really just prayed like I always do,

(04:47):
and I just my prayers are not I would say,
they're not the kind of things that you hear where
you're like, wow, that was a really great prayer. I
just talked to God very honestly, and I just said
to him, I said, Lord, Charlie's life was clearly so
full of purpose, but this death feels so meaningless, like
to it just does not feel like the you know
that I was just being honest with him, and I Uh,
the Holy spirituals guided me to look up what happened

(05:09):
to the twelve Disciples, because when Garrett and I were
prepping for this, what I said was, I said, righteous
men have died literally since the beginning of time. We
had righteous Able was the fourth person on the in
the history of the timeline of the Bible, and he
got murdered by his brother. And it's we I think
we can look past this because we have, especially in America,
if you're most I mean, I know most of our

(05:31):
listeners in America, we have a very good life. People
live to what's seventy eight, seventy nine years old, you
have your grandkids, maybe some retirement. Like we have a
very normal timeline for how things are supposed to go. Why,
I just want to read this real quick, and I'll
be very quick. I want you to realize if you
are I say this all the time. I feel like
we get caught up in our own story, our own

(05:53):
family lineage. And I really hope that if you're out there,
that you have a thought process that you were part
of a greater lineage than whatever your last name is.
You were part of the spiritual lineage truly from the
beginning of time, from Adam to David to Jesus, right,
and so on and so forth in all the disciples,
Like that is the lineage that we carry. And if
you're not thinking that way, understand the family that you're

(06:14):
a part of. We are literally we're God's kids, as
you so rightly put it. Gee, God has no grandchildren,
so we are all God. If we're God's children, were
all part of the same family. Well, here's how your
family members. Some of the most famous family members died.
These are the twelve Disciples, or I should say eleven
because we know what happened with Judas. Peter crucified upside
down in Rome at his own request because he didn't

(06:35):
feel worthy to die the same way as Jesus. Andrew
crucified on an X shaped cross. James, the first Apostle, martyred.
He was beheaded by Herod Agrippa in Jerusalem. John he's
the only one to believe to have died a natural
death of old age, and obviously he was exiled to
the island of Patmos. Philip tradition says he was crucified
or stoned in modern day Turkey.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Choose from those two options. Barthol and you.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Ancient accounts for some say he was flayed alive, which
is literally getting in your chest cavity, split open, and
beheaded in Armenia. Others that he was crucified upside down.
Either way awful. Matthew reportedly killed by the sword in Ethiopia,
although some say he was burned or stoned like these
are your options. Thomas speared to death in India while
preaching the Gospel. James tradition says he was pushed off

(07:21):
the temple pinnacle in Jerusalem and then beaten to death
with a fuller's club. Thaddeus club to death in Persia,
Simon the Zealot crucified in Persia, or others say he
was sown in half, and Matthias the one that was
chosen to replace Judas, he was stoned and then beheaded
in Jerusalem once again. And so I sit there and
I look at this, and I go, man, this is
the spiritual heritage in the history that we have. And

(07:44):
what I felt the Holy Spirit was saying to me
is if we're only to hope for this life, it's
like Peter said, or like Paul said, then we're to
be pitied more than anybody else. So if it's just
about this life, if we don't have an eternal perspective,
then none of what we're doing makes sense because why
would you go to that kind of death, or why
would you live sacrificially and be ridiculed and stand for
something when it's really like, well it didn't really do

(08:05):
you any good. Well, clearly that's not what we're about.
And so I wanted to set that tone for everybody
today because I want us to remember. I think it's
so important that we remember what the story is and
what's actually happening in life, because we can get so
distracted with all the day to day And I'm not
criticizing anybody, nor am I, because I'd bet stoning myself
at that point. We all get distracted. We all have

(08:26):
things that are going to take our attention, that will
try and keep us from remembering. But we need to
remember we are we are running an eternal race, and
we are part of something so much bigger. So with
all that said, gee, I want to dive into the
warrior's mindset. But before we do, we you and I
talk about this privately. Sheep's Sheep and Wolves, And we
had Colonel Grossman on episode one sixty five. And I

(08:47):
think this is so important because it's such a good
picture of understanding society, and because when something like that
happens with Charlie, what happens is people go, oh, my gosh,
like it kind of like I can't believe there's someone
out there that would do so something like that, Like
it violates so much of what our normal, everyday routine is.
And I think the sheep Lieutenant Colonel Grossman, yeah, talks

(09:07):
about it.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
You haven't listened to that episode, you must go back
and listen to it, because Colonel Grossman, it's his concept.
He's he's the one who teaches this. Colonel Grossman teaches
at West Point his book, or he did at the time.
His book is read by most military officers, all special operators,

(09:28):
and he teaches this understanding. It's a great analogy for
this is what most of life is. Most people are
cheap and it's not sheep and the cultural political you know,
stupid followers. Yeah definition, you know, his definition of sheep
is normal, productive, non violent members of society. Sheep are

(09:49):
sheep are interesting mammals, and that they don't have sharp teeth,
they have no clause, right, Like, there's you know some
animals that really don't have much defense, right, and sheep
are one of them. They can't even kick that hard, right,
Like all that, they're just food And that's what his
definition of a sheep is. Just you know, productive, non
violent members of society, okay, And that's the majority of people.

(10:12):
Vast majority of people on the planet are fit in
that category. Then there are the wolves, and the wolves
are those who prey upon others, right a feast upon others.
The wolves eat sheep. And then there's a third and
there's the sheep dog. The sheep dog stands in between
the sheep and the wolves. But here's the thing. A

(10:32):
lot of sheep don't like sheep dogs. It's because sheep
dogs have teeth, they have claws, they're violent, just like wolves.
The only difference is their nature. Sheep dogs are the
only ones standing in between sheep and wolves. Sheep dog
don't have a lot of necessary regard for the sheep's

(10:53):
opinions or for the sheep's feelings. But the sheep dog
knows that it is his job to protect the sheep
from the wolves. And that's who he's paying attention to.
You know, a sheep dog might and this is just
digging into the analogy a little bit, a sheep dog
might make a sheep uncomfortable. A sheep dog might treat
a sheep in a way that, you know, hurt that

(11:14):
sheep's feelings. But he is most concerned with there are
wolves out there, and I can't let them get to
these sheep. And so a lot of people's response this week,
I think, or initial reaction. And again this is not
there's not a shot at anybody, but it's a nonviolent
response right to a very violent interaction. What when things

(11:35):
like this happen, it reminds people the way I said
it it mighty men. Is it pops a lot of
people's bubble, right there's For most people, there were two
reactions this week, the loss of a hero of faith
and a political hero, but also that their bubble got burst.
And because sheep like to pretend sheep don't like sheep

(11:56):
dogs and sheep don't like wolves either, because for most
of a sheep's life, it is just grazing the fields, right,
there's not that's the normal life of a sheep, and
sheep like to pretend that wolves don't exist. When a
wolf does come and take a sheep, they all just run.
They don't go back for him. They just forget that
person was ever there, right, because they all they know

(12:19):
is like, well, I just like to graze on grass
and I want to keep my normal life. And so
sheep don't like to talk about wolves because there's nothing
that sheep can do about wolves. And so when something
like this happens, it bursts people's bubble and they realize
we live in a violent, terrible world. And when people
like Charlie die, I feel like there can be someone

(12:42):
somewhat of a sheep response, which is, oh, this is
you know, this is so terrible, this is so tragic.
What are we going to do? It would be as
if the sheep got a little bit close to the
sheep dog and just we're just starting to like one
of their own, and then you see a sheep dog
killed by the wolves. That's what's exactly what Charlie was.
Charlie was a sheep dog. He fought for truth, he

(13:03):
fought for faith, he fought for religious liberty, he fought
for political action. And when someone like that dies, it
shocks people, and oftentimes you can have a tearful response
to it like, man, why did this happen? But what
sheep dog, sheep dogs know is that violence is required.

(13:24):
This is the nasty part of life. Sheep want to
believe that violence isn't a part of life. Sheep dog
know that it is. Oftentimes we like to see the
wolves get killed, but sometimes the sheep dog get killed
as well.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, and that's and when we were talking about this
because so many people, I mean, you talked about people
people's reactions for crying or whatever it would be. You
saw a lot of big reaction on social media. And
I harken back to like nine to eleven as far
as when people something like this happens, people talk about
will never will never forget?

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Will you know, they make big declarative statements.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think oftentimes from a place of emotion, and I
understand that, but I what you said was that thought
is you said a lot of people respond from a
good place because they just don't know what to do, right,
because like you feel this indignation, like man, I've got
to do something because this is this is shocking, But
you don't know what to do. So people just end
up going to social media and kind of dumping feelings

(14:16):
or you know, dumping their feelings to other people, and
then it once that fades, it's kind of like it
just becomes i don't know, like maybe a pinpoint in
the map of their life where they're like, man, that
was a horrible thing, and like that really made me think,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Most people are trying to like, how do I process
my process my emotions? When I was on the when
I was on the battlefield, and if someone on my
team is killed or I'm shot, I wasn't thinking, man,
how do I process this? How do how do I
need to personally deal with this? It was my last thought,
My my most important thought was what do I need

(14:51):
to do right now? What does the mission require of me?
When you make it about you? And and and that
seems like harsh, like wow, like okay, a hero died.
Like I'm just responding to that. I'm not I'm not
saying that people are bad or wrong or even weak
for that. But what I am saying is that the
warriors response is what do we need to do? I

(15:13):
shared this a mighty men. But there's a memory that
I have that this week brought me back to, because
you know what, here's what is tragic. What is tragic
is that a woman lost her husband and two children
lost their father. That is tragic because what is tragedy.
Tragedy is extreme loss. Something terrible has happened, and that

(15:34):
is terrible. It is terrible that a woman lost her
husband and the two children lost their father. What is
not What I don't consider terrible is that someone died
for their faith. What I don't consider terrible or tragic
is that someone died for truth because this has been
happening for a long time, people dying for truth. This
has been happening for a long time, people dying for

(15:55):
what they believe. And I was brought back to a
memory this week of a guy's funeral that I was
at in the seal teams. And I went to multiple
guy's funerals, and this one particular man's funeral. At the
end of the funeral, there's a you know, we'll go
up and we'll take the trident off our chest, and

(16:17):
you know, we all line up to do this, and
this man's mother was just sobbing uncontrollably, and it, I mean,
it's something I'll remember till the day that I die,
and like you could like it was hitting all of us, honestly,
and this master chief turned around and looked at all
of us, and he says, you don't shed one tear

(16:38):
right Like she gets to cry, You don't get to cry.
You have a job to do, right right. You go
up there and you look strong for this woman because
she wants to know that strong men are going to
go out there and continue her son's legacy. Not that
you feel sad like she does. You have a job
to do. And like that. It just snapped everyone too,
And I think that's a great remind Like, so that's

(17:00):
you know, I'm sad for Erica. I'm sad for Charlie's children.
I'm not sad that Charlie died as a hero for
his faith. That is something to be It's the same
way that I felt every at every funeral that I
was at, like so much honor for these men, so
much reverence and respect for the price that they paid.
And what I was also reminded of is, you know,
I shared a legacy with these men. I didn't give

(17:22):
my life for this country, but I share a legacy
with many men who did. And every single one of
the men that I served with were willing to do
the exact same thing. And so the only thing that
should shock you is if you find yourself amongst ranks
like what would have been here's a different reaction. What
if I had been at that funeral and I start

(17:43):
thinking like, oh god, what if this happened to me. No,
every single man that I was at that funeral with
they said, I would pay the same price. And if
that's not your reaction to what happened to Charlie this week,
it's a wake up call for you, and that's where
your bubbles burst. But if you can at least say that,
then you should live.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
So.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Right, for the rest of us after those funerals, except
for the men who were the pallbearers, the men who
were very close to the family, the rest of the
hundreds of us that were at that funeral, we went
back to work and we probably did a second workout
that day at the end of the day, right, because
there was a there's a duty for us to do.
And so just understand, divide what's happened. Yes, it is

(18:26):
tragic that Charlie's life was cut short, but Charlie lived
an incredibly meaningful life. A tragedy and this is what
you know most of what this podcast is addressing. I'm
addressing what I think the tragedy is most of the
time on this podcast, and it's men who lived empty,
unfulfilled lives. And that's the exact opposite of what Charlie did.
So all we can do is hats off, round of applause, honor,

(18:51):
and take a knee for Charlie for the great.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Life that he lived.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
It's the opposite of what we're typically addressing on this podcast.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, well said G So I want to. I want it.
We're gonna get.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Into some specifics of the warriors of reaction and the
mindset for pursuing destiny. But we use the term warrior,
and I feel like we need to define it a
little bit because it's in our in our culture. It
might have been we have shirts that say warrior on
them and we have different things like that. I think
it's used more in our culture at our church. I
don't feel like the term warrior is thrown around like

(19:24):
you think about warrior. People will be like, oh, yeah,
this guy's a warrior, and they'll it'll be sports like
he's a UFC fighter. He's like this, you know football
player that can like take a beating.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah. The other the other there's UFC, and then the
other fight league is is Bellator, right, which is you know,
it's also the name of my construction company. But Bellator
is Latin for a warrior, right, okay, and that's it's
warrior or fighter okay, And that's what most people equate
like Warrior two is assaulter, someone who can do violence.

(19:53):
Yeah right, which is why Colonel Grossman's distinction is so
important because he he separates the two. Sheep dog and
wolves are both people who can do violence, yes right.
I've known that about myself since I was little. I
see it in my oldest she has. You know, I
struggled with friends from the time I was like five

(20:15):
to eight or nine because I was just like too aggressive.
I would have friends like I would go play with
friends and they wouldn't want to play with me, not
because I was mean spirited, but because I was extremely
aggressive and violent and like. But by the time I
was like nine or ten, I was like, all right,
if I want to have like any friends in life,
I might need to nature this ability within myself. And

(20:35):
the difference between sheep dog and wolves. They're both violent creatures,
but the sheep dog. The warrior fights for a different purpose.
And this is the distinction of what a warrior is.
A warrior is not someone who can do violence violence.
A warrior is someone who fights for others. You fight
for something greater than yourself. You've heard me talk about this.

(20:57):
One of the things that I found in every candidate
who made through Hell week, I asked them, how did
you do it? And they told a story of something
that wasn't them And I asked any of the men,
every man that I talked to that quit they told
a story about themselves. Warriors fight for others. Warriors are sacrificial.
Warriors are extremely mission focused. Just like I said, like

(21:20):
when I was on the battlefield, I wasn't thinking like,
oh man, how do I process my pain? How do
I process this situation now? When I was on the battlefield,
the only question was what do I need to do next?
The only question is like, what does the mission require
of me? And if you have signed up for the
Kingdom assignment for the Kingdom mission? What we live in
this pretend bubble world of America, which is like a

(21:43):
few hundred year blip in the history where things are
going really well, even in a world like this week
where one of our you know, Christian heroes is killed,
We've got it pretty good. This is the one when
was the last one? Right? And you can the fact
that the fact that you have to think about that
tells you how great of a time we live in.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
But for most of history, people like us were killed
all of the time. Right, it was just another week
like oh, who got murdered for their faith this week? Right,
that's not the world that we live in. But if
you find yourself amongst the ranks of people who truly
want to fight for kingdom, you should look at Charlie's
life and say, you know, I'd be willing to do

(22:24):
the same.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, very good. Now what you assumed there, and you
said it.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
You talked about how when you're on the battlefield and
something happens, you're going what's required you is because you
know you're on a mission, you have a mission focus,
and you understand like you're focused on the right things
and understand why you're doing what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
And that's what I was talking about.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Where we can get so distracted with things and not
remember the story of what's actually happening.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
When we were preparing. You gave a great scripture.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
You said, Jesus was the ultimate example of having mission focus,
of understanding why I was here, and it's John five nineteen.
He said, very truly, I tell you, the son can
do nothing by himself. He can only do what he
sees his father doing, because whatever the father does, the
son also does.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
He Jesus was never like.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
He lived his entire life on kingdom, assigned his entire life.
He says, I'm here to do the work that my
father sent me to do.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Now, when you have that context like that, this is
what you see. Before he went to the cross, he
even spoke to his father, his father, this is a
terrible thing you're asking me to do. Yeah, you know,
if if it could pass for me, let it be so.
But not not my will, but yours be done. Yeah,
he was. His question is what's required of me? It's
what that question is. He's like, is this really required?

(23:33):
If it's not required of me, please don't ask me
to do it. But if this is required of me,
I'll do it.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
So you had that mission focus, which you know we've emphasized,
but he also had an understanding of what was at stake.
Can you tell you told a story about whenever you
walked into Team three as the new guy for the
first time, what you saw. And I think this paints
the picture because I said before this, understand the family
you're a part of. When I read about James and
Peter and John and all these disciples, and now you know,
add anybody in there for the history of time, understand

(24:00):
that that's part of your family. This is not like
some guys that you're like, oh, that was tough for them,
that's what you're a part of.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yes, similar to like being at one of those funerals
the first time I walked into Seal Team three. Now
all of the you know, there's a lot of legacy
all over the Seal compound there. We've talked about it
once before. And here there's a giant rock, like literally
a giant rock that is a tribute to Michael montsur
and it's like an unliftable rock. You know, the rock

(24:26):
would probably weigh four five thousand pounds, would take a
massive forklift to lift it. And then you know there's
a plaque on there that says the secret to Buds
is under this rock. But the rock is the rock
has Michael Monsur's name inscribed on it's The compound is
full of tributes to Seals who have died serving, but

(24:47):
it was it was different the first moment I walked
into Seal Team three, walked into my platoon space is
basically like the office for the platoon that I had joined,
And all around the ceiling in this office, we're just
a bunch of picture frames. The entire like you know,
where the wall meets the ceiling up at the top.
All around the ceiling was just picture frames, and these

(25:07):
are picture frames of men who have given their life
fighting for this country. And it was all the Seal community.
It wasn't there's a lot of people from other communities
who have given their life. It was all the Seals
who have died fighting for this country. And it just
kind of makes things a little a little bit more
perspective when you realize, like, man, this is the job
that I just signed up for. This is the team
that I just became a part of. Some of the

(25:29):
people who were whose pictures were on that wall had
worked in the very same room that I was working in.
Like I'm sitting in the seat of some of these
people who, like years ago this person sat in the
seat that I'm sitting in now and he died serving
for this country. And so that gives you a different
perspective of the job that you're in. And I think,
like I said, I think a lot of people's bubble

(25:50):
gets burst when things like this happen because they don't
realize the office that.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
They work in. Yeah, very good.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, And that was the thing, is that we can
get to the point where we like the point of
our life is to live to eighty years old and
have retirement, and that that's really what we kind of
without realizing, we make that sort of our guiding light, like, well,
you know, I've got to go do this meeting, I've
got to go do that, meaning because if I don't
have retirement, Like and we don't think through it that clearly,
but like we're doing all these things, it's like, what

(26:16):
do you really are you are you trying to make
sure you have enough in your retirement to pass down
to your kids? Is that the point of your life
when you die.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
The mission and the Seal teams is to serve. Yeah,
to do as you're asked, right, to do what's required
of you. That may mean die, Yeah, you don't want you.
But it's not oh well, I want to work here.
I just don't want to do that. Right, You don't
get to choose that. Yeah, you're either all the way
in or you're or you're removed from the program. And
I think a lot of people get this, like pick

(26:43):
and choose mentality with their faith of like, well I
want to serve God or don't want to do it
that way?

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, I mean you said it so well that Charlie
died a hero because he ran his race and he
I mean, like you said, we can look at him
and go, okay, man, none of us saw that coming.
But man to live right up into the.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
End he lived. So what for for all of us?
If I think, if you're listening to this podcast, you
can say, like, I want to live a full life. Yes,
I want to hear well done, good and faithful servant.
You don't hear that because you made it to seventy five.
Now some of us may make it to seventy five,
may make it to ninety or one hundred, and you

(27:19):
serve God all the way to the end, and you
hear well done, good and faithful servant. At the end
of a long life, good for you. What a gift
that'll be right, and you'll just be so grateful the
whole time. And I hope you're tendered in wisdom for
every extra year that God gives you. But whether it's
thirty years or it's one hundred years, you're going to die, right,
We've talked about this before. The only question is what

(27:41):
are you going to die for? And it is just
like my I think about my friend Charlie Keating is
the same like I look at his life with such
respect and reverence because he died doing exactly what it is.
There's no question now what like when someone dies in
a car accident, it's terrible, right, It's like, man, how
do we deal with this? Like and especially when someone

(28:04):
dies in a car accident, maybe their life wasn't going
in the direction that it should have been going. There's
no question for for Charlie, for Charlie Kirk, that he
was doing exactly what he died on his battlefield.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, legit.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
So nothing but honor and greatness for what Charlie did
with his life. And yes you can say his life
was cut short, that's not for us to say.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Right, Yeah, that's that's true. Submission to God, what you
just said right there is that it's not for us
to say the potter, the piece of clay does not
get the look at the potter. It says in both
Isaiah and the Apostle Paul close.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
This is a this is a it's a hard thing
to wrestle with. Okay. So God has relationship with each
of us individually. But when you when you when you
look at the Old Testament, God started with Abraham, but
then God developed a relationship with a people, not just
a person. And so God has relationship with all of us.

(28:56):
And so this is one of the like we talked
about great great help and context understanding on This is
the podcast we did a few episodes ago on both
understanding how God is both things. God has both a
relationship with you and a relationship with his people. And
God's plan is not centered around me. It's not centered
around Nick. It's not centered around you listening to this podcast.

(29:18):
God's plan is not centered around it. And so sometimes
right like, what you think the plan should be isn't
what God thinks the plan is. And the only way
that we this is you know, when I was in
the military, I had commanders and it's like your plan sucks.
I don't like your plan. I have a way better
plan than that. But I didn't get to choose. I
got to submit and I got to follow the plan.

(29:41):
And if we're thinking anything like, like, God, this is
so terrible, God, why did you let this happen? Is
that really what you think happened? That God's like, ah, shoot,
wasn't paying attention. It's not what happened. Right, God allowed this.
He allowed it to happen. And we don't know the
reason that God allowed it to happen, but he did.

(30:01):
And if the creator of the universe allowed it to happen,
then it must be the right thing. Yeah, yeah, well
said so.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Just to reiterate, because I do want to move into
the warrior's mindset and the reaction to the warrior's destiny,
and just to say, we said, what is a warrior?
We said he has mission focus, he has an understanding
of what's at stake. And you highlighted the first thing
you said was you said he loves. He battles for others.
And you know, we didn't reference this, but it John
fifteen thirteen, which is greater love has no one than

(30:29):
this to lay down one's life for one's friends. Jesus
was the ultimate warrior. He's the ultimate example of what
a warrior is. So if you're wondering what is a warrior,
look at Christ. Like Jesus fought for other people. He
was there very mission focused. He you know, if you're
looking at what we talked about in sheep talk, he
did not mind upsetting people with what he said because
he ran his race until the end. And so I

(30:49):
just want to be real clear on what a warrior
is because I think it's.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
You can put you can string a few scriptures together
there and and start to see how, like man, this
is one of the most wonderful things that you could do,
is to give your life, yeah, for your faith, because
Bible says without love, you have nothing. Yeah, and it
says the greatest love you can have is to lay
down your life for your friends.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
So good, all right, Well I want to dive into
this g but real quick. I was reminded and I
said it earlier. Nine to eleven was like the last
time I think I felt like I felt on Wednesday,
where I just had to stop and go like man,
like I'll used to, I won't forget where I was
on nine eleven. I won't forget where I was whenever
I heard about Charlie Kirk's passing and you did something.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, for most of us, we were, you know, in school,
or for some of you wiser listeners, you were past
the age of in college when nine to eleven happened.
But for all of us, unless you're really young and
you don't remember, for all of us who were old enough,
we remember exactly where we were when we heard about
the Twin Towers being struck. And just like with Charlie's life,

(31:47):
you'll you'll remember where you were till the day you die.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Like I was at it.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I was in San Francisco recording something, and I walked
out of the recording studio and looked at my phone
and just saw the worst news and over one hundred
text messages. I'll never forget, like I remember exactly where
I was in that studio, just staring at my phone
in disbelief and when moments like this happened. And I'm
not necessarily just comparing Charlie Kirk's life to nine to eleven,

(32:13):
because thousands of people died in nine to eleven and
it shifted this country into the Global war on terror,
which we fought for over twenty years. I'm not necessarily
doing a direct comparison here, but they are similar and
that there are moments that will shift you. And when
moments like this happened, you know, this week with my team,
you know, Charlie died on the tenth, the day after
nine to eleven. This week with my team at Union,

(32:38):
we hadn't gotten the chance to Chris and our flagpole yet.
We just moved into our building and I'd been saving
my flag folded in my office, had been saving it
for the right moment, and I felt like this was
the right moment, obviously, and we went outside. I called
everyone outside. I said, we're going to put the flag up,
and I did a quick flag raising ceremony, raised the
flag up and obviously brought it back to half mass.

(33:00):
We did the Pledge of Allegiance and then just gave
some quick comments and we talked about how when moments
like this happen. There were a lot of people the
day after nine to eleven, you know, They've been working
at Morgan Stanley on Wall Street for fifteen years, and
the next day they quit their job and enlisted in
the Marine Corps. They realize like I'm going in the

(33:21):
wrong direct, my life is serving the wrong purpose. This
is not what I'm supposed to be doing. And when
moments like this happened, you either it is either massive
assurance I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing
and I need to run even harder, or when moments
like this happen, it's a wake up call for you
and you're like, what have I been doing with myself?
It's like those It's like when you're driving in your
car and you just like it's like, where was I

(33:44):
the last five minutes? It's like, how am I still
alive right now? I wasn't even paying attention while I
was driving. You just have these wake up moments. This
is either a encouragement to you, like I'm doing exactly
what I'm supposed to be doing, or this is a
wake up call for you.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah that's so good.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
All right man? Well I want to get into this,
so gee, let's kick into it. This is the warrior's destiny,
how to be the light in a world of darkness.
This is what a warrior has that allows him to
have this mindset, this reaction to tragedy, right, and.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
What was the number one ge.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah, so this is you know, everything that we've been
talking about up to this point on this episode. I'm
trying to give people the right mindset. This is how
you should respond to these things. It is it's a
strength that God gives us, and God wants us to
be a warrior. God doesn't want you to just sit
there and cry like a child right at every terrible

(34:32):
thing that's happened to you. He wants you to have
a kingdom response and a warrior's response and to know
that like He's victorious, yes, right, and me sitting here
sobbing about Oh God, why would you let this happen?
That's not the victorious God? Right right, God is victorious.
That is the end. And so here's just a couple things,
like three key things that will help you with this

(34:53):
warrior's mindset. Help you think the way to be someone
like Charlie and to be someone that will respond, like
we're talking about today, that when this happens amongst your ranks,
you could say to yourself, I would I'd be willing
to do the same. Right. So Number one is absolute faith.
This is a this is a concept I think on

(35:13):
a lot and I can't say I've perfectly articulated it yet,
and so we'll just continue to talk about it. Absolute
faith doesn't mean zero doubt. I love the story in
the Bible the Roman man says to Jesus, says, Jesus,
I believe, help me in my own belief, right, that's all.
Like he said, look, I'll take the next step, right,

(35:35):
But also understanding I didn't. He didn't have full faith.
It's not perfect faith, but it's absolute faith. Absolute faith
is you being willing to step over the river and
go into the promised land. Absolute faith as you saying,
here's the faith that I do have, and I'm going
to plant my life on this, and I'm not going

(35:58):
to let myself be shaken. It's easy to have faith
when you're up by thirty points. It's easy to have
faith when you keep knocking the enemy down. It's very
difficult to have faith when your house burns down. It
is very difficult to have faith when you lose your job.
It's very difficult to lose faith on the seventh miss

(36:18):
on the seventh miscarriage. It's easy to lose faith when
these bad things just keep happening to you over and
over and over again. Absolute faith is saying, regardless of
these things that have happened, regardless of what's going on
around me, here's where I'm going to stake myself. Here's
where I'm going to plant myself in the ground. It's
a decision that you have to make to not waiver.

(36:41):
And I love the scripture in Romans talking. I don't
remember the verse forgive me, but it's in Romans talking
about Abraham, and it says that Abraham had assurance all
the way till the end. Right. And this is not
with past context of like Abraham had already received the promise.

(37:05):
This is Abraham saying that he had assurance even before
the things that God had promised came true.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Yeah, that's Romans four eighteen through twenty two. And he
said that he was as good as dead.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, and that's the Apolicle we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Read the verse, all right, I will get that for you.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Hold on, I was not prepared for that. Oh they
all read it. Give me a seck here, all right.
So Romans four eighteen through twenty two, it says against
all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the
father of many nations. Just as it had been said
to him, so shall your offspring be without weakening in
his faith. He faced the fact that his body was

(37:42):
as good as dead since he was about one hundred
years old, and that Sarah's womb.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Was also dead.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise
of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave
glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power
to do what he had promised.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, fully persuaded. There's what I was talking about. Yeah.
In the UH, either in the NIV or in the
Inn ASB it says, fully assured, it's the same thing, like,
fully persuaded, fully assured, fully believing that God's going to
do what he said He's going to do. And this
is just remember for Abraham, over twenty years he's waiting
for God's promise to come true. That's really where the

(38:17):
test is in your life. And you've got to decide.
Abraham had to decide, right, Am I going to stick
to you know? I met God? Is Abraham? I met
God in the desert twenty years ago? Am I? Am
I going to stay true to that? Or Am I
going to waiver and this is this is what it
means to be a warrior. That you don't waiver when
it's hard, that you choose to not be shaken, that

(38:39):
you choose you know, Oh, it's it's difficult, the road
ahead looks tough, it's not going the way that I
want it to go. Maybe I should turn back. That's
not the heart of a warrior. And so this is
what absolute faith is. It's not perfect faith, it's not
the lack of doubt, but it's you saying, I'm going
to stand my ground. I'm going to hold onto my
faith in the face of discourage them, I'm going to

(39:01):
hold onto my faith even when I get pushed, even
when I face trouble, even when people like Charlie Kirk die,
when my life is split in half, when the most
terrible things that I can think of happened to me,
I'm going to stand strong. I'm going to stand in
my faith. That's what absolute faith is. Yeah, And what
do you have to have for that?

Speaker 3 (39:20):
You have to be okay with uncertainty, because what will
mess you up is if you think that everything's going
to go to your plan, and then the moment something happens,
you're like, well, I guess that wasn't meant to be.
And this is such a man, This is such a
heart issue. I didn't plan on sharing this, but I
remember my son is now in kindergarten, but when he
was in preschool, I was actually at your house preparing
for a podcast, and my wife sent me a video

(39:41):
you'll remember, and she's like, I'm in front of Elijah's
preschool and this is what I see. And she sent
me what no parent wants to see, which was the
SWAT team stacking up getting ready to go into my
son's school. Aka why did and they all have their guns?
Why do they do that? Because there's somebody in there
that's dangerous. And I had this moment where I was just,
you know, I'm like any person, I'm like, oh my god.
Like my first thought is I want to run down

(40:01):
there and like do something about it, but that wouldn't
be helpful. I show Garrett the video, I'm like, is
there anything you notice here? Because like he knows, you know,
way more obviously than me about this sort of stuff.
I'm hoping he's going, oh, you know, they're not that
concerned because their guns are Like I was just hoping
for anything and you were very straight and said, yeah,
it looks like they're getting ready to go in. I'm like, okay,
And I remember in that moment what was going on

(40:23):
inside me is one, I have an absolute repulse, like
a gag reflex to fear, so I was not going
to let fear grip me. But it for a second,
it tried to put its fingers around my throat. And
what I came back to is I was like, you
know what, man, because what do you do to as
a parent. You play out the scenarios. What if there's
an active shooter that goes in and does the worst
thing and takes my child's life, which is what no
parent wants to spend their time thinking about. And what

(40:45):
gave me peace in that moment is I just said
I was like, God's in control, and if that happened,
then then it's not what I want and it's not
what I would ever be. But that's clearly what God
knew was going to happen, and there's a reason for it,
and so I just had it came down to me
just going, Okay, you're in control and I'm not. And
that's a really really hard like I'm saying it here
in a couple seconds on a podcast, and it sounds

(41:06):
really simple, but from a hard place to say, God,
if this goes all the way I don't want, you
are still good. I will credit his wife, Erica Kirk,
Charlie's wife, her speech that she gave talking about the
goodness of God, any post that she's put out talking
about the goodness of God. I love that you talk
about a warrior's response to remember what's true whenever everything
else has been shaken. And you see what stands up

(41:28):
is that you fall back on the nature of God
and go, you know what, I know He's good. This
is not how I would define good, But guess what,
I'm not God. And that is a hard place to
be in. But if you want that warrior's mindset of
absolute faith, there has to be a release of the
things that you feel so certain about, the things that
you need to be happy, the things that you need
to feel a certain way, or the timeline that you
have and say, you know what, Lord, my life is

(41:49):
in your hands. I am the lump of clay on
the wheel. You are the potter. Shape me, mold me here,
I am use me. That's the attitude, and you're going
to have to deal with uncertainty. So if you need
to know all the time, I'm telling you you'll miss it.
You will not know. Certainty is part of the plan.
And as long as you're okay with that and you
trust in the one who holds the plan, you're going
to be good. But if you need to grip it,
there's some pain ahead for you. So I just wanted

(42:11):
to highlight that because I think uncertainty is so big.
So that's absolute faith to you.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
What's next?

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Number two is and again this is how to have
this warrior's mindset. Number two is daily readiness. This is
you know, I do the best I can to push
this and create this in our culture at Mighty men.
You know, only get one day a week to spend
time together. But I do all that I can to
create this culture and mighty man, and I do as

(42:38):
much as I can to broadcast this message here on
the podcast. And it's that you have to choose every
day to prepare. Choose every day to keep the mission
in mind and not wait until bad things happen to
start getting ready. This is Luke Chapter twelve, verse thirty five.
Be prepared and keep your lamps lit. You are also

(43:00):
to be like people who are waiting for their master
when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they
may immediately open the door for him when he comes
and knocks. You have to be like people who are
standing ready at the door, not like, oh man, this
terrible thing happened. What do I need to start doing? Right?
You've heard it before. How I wouldn't say I ridiculed,

(43:25):
but I certainly had disdain for all the people during
COVID who were texting me like, oh man, we got
to start getting ready, Like, bro, your goose is cooked right,
Like you should have been ready when this happened. This
isn't the time to start getting ready. And this is
how you've got to live your entire life. This and
this is what Jesus is saying, This is what your
commander is saying. Stand ready, be prepared. Know that what's coming.

(43:50):
It's going to show up one day and you don't
know the day that it's going to show up. It's
like Bruce Lee talked about. He said, if you knew,
you didn't know when, but if you knew that what
was coming for you was a fight to the death,
that you would have to fight for your life. How
would you train? He said, So, why don't you train
that way? Right? And this is the way that you've

(44:11):
got to live and act spiritually, because if you don't, right,
if you know, Bruce Lee is saying, hey, you know what,
I'm going to live that way because I don't know.
I don't know if a fight to the death is
coming for me. So if you don't live that way,
you know what you're what you're saying is I hope
it doesn't happen to me, exactly. And if you live
this way spiritually, what you're saying is and also what

(44:33):
you're telling God is don't choose me. I'm not ready, right,
don't call on me. I just want to keep my
head down. And that is what the sheep is. They
keep their head down and they hope that they don't
get called upon. They keep their head down, and they
hope that when the wolves come it's not them. The
right response, the right response is to say, you know what,
I hope this never comes, but if they do, I'll

(44:54):
be ready.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
I mean, I think about a guy like you, and
I have a few other friends like this as well.
Now because of the way that we live, you have
a go bag, Like if something happened, you would be like, oh,
I got to go find where was that? Where was
that helmet? Or where where's my weapon at? Where's my
where's my mat? Like you guys live knowing that when something,
when some crisis comes to your door, it's not going
to give you a telegram first and say hey, we're

(45:16):
on our way.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
It's just going to show up.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
And you've got I mean, if you talk to any operator,
anybody who's been trained at a high level, this speed
and readiness at which you guys can prepare from everything
from a mat you know, swapping a mag while you're
actually in a gunfight to anything else is massive.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Depending on what clothes I'm wearing. Yeah, I need about
sixty seconds there you go to be ready to drive
right out the door, right, and I'm ready to respond
to anything in my home at a second's notice, right.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
And Yeah, we won't get into the practice of that,
but I know that for a fact. And but I
just think about that from it from a spiritual standpoint
and from a life standpoint. What does this thought process
look like? If something happens, do you need to like
stop like you said and process it or are You're like, okay, great,
Like let's like, like you said, what next, what's required
of me right now? That is the preparation mentalities that

(46:04):
you're not like surprised by pain, You're not surprised when
things go wrong, problems, challenges, difficulty, adversity, tragedy.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
It's not like, oh my gosh, why is this man?
This is horrible? Nope, okay, great, here we go. Check,
ready to go.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I want to give a second context to daily readiness here. Okay,
So what we're talking about the first side of daily
readiness here is like train daily physically, trained daily spiritually.
Why should you train physically because if you don't have
and this I won't go into well maybe we'll do
this on another episode. We did talk about it on

(46:40):
the Colonel Grossman episode. But around weapons as a Christian,
Oh yeah, that you should be trained, you should be capable.
That the disciples did have a sword. Jesus said, just
it's not the time for that, right, but that you
should be capable. So you should train physically, you should
train spiritually, be capable. But let me give you this
second side, the second con text of daily readiness that

(47:03):
comes from James Chapter four, verse fourteen. Yet you do
not know what your life will be like tomorrow, for
you are just a vapor that appears for a little
while and then vanishes away. Okay, so one side of
daily readiness is I need to be like training continually.
The second side of daily readiness is today's the day.
Today matters, and today might be the day that I die,

(47:26):
and I'm ready for that. That's the second side of
daily readiness. It's what James is saying. You don't know
what your life's going to be like tomorrow. But as
long as it's still today, encourage your brothers. That's what
the word says. And as long as it's still today,
as long as you still have breath in your lungs,
as long as your heart is still beating. That that
means God has a plan for you. And that plan

(47:47):
may be from now until this afternoon. But as long
as God has a plan for you, you live that
way and you use it to the fullest.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah, very very good. All right, So we got absolute faith,
we got daily readiness. And by the way, I just
want to put a pin here. I do want to
do that episode because we had a listener from France
that reached out and asked us that exact question, because
if you know anything about what's going on in France,
there's a lot going on from the standpoint of just
they've they've allowed a lot of people into their country particularly.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
And we'll get to it.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
So I want to do that episode, all right, So
Absolute Faith, Daily Radius.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
What's number three?

Speaker 1 (48:17):
G number three? And this wraps up the first two.
And again this is not a perfect picture, but this
is just a summarization and just a podcast addressing what
is a lifelong issue of what does it mean to
live a full life? A podcast addressing a lifelong issue
of what does it mean to be a warrior? So

(48:37):
don't think that this is everything, but to summarize it shortly,
the third point is total surrender. God's plan for your
life is that you would give everything you have to
Him and I want you to just have this understanding
about your life. Okay, we talked about this recently on
the podcast, and I think we were talking about it
and Giant Killers recently as well. And it's that the

(49:01):
word says that God has more than you can ask,
think or imagine. I feel like I've already seen, I've
you know, It's like I can't see all of that,
but I've already experienced some of that in my life.
You know, from where I was fifteen years ago until now,
I had no idea, right I couldn't have imagined that
I'd be where I am today. I can't imagine where

(49:21):
I'll be fifteen years from now. But to get to
where I was fifteen years ago to where I am now,
it's been God's hand on my life, and it's been
my own personal faithfulness of just saying, you know what,
I don't know what it is. I know God's got
a great plan for me, so I better live that way.
Right like we talk, you may I know what your
purpose is, but live purposefully, live as if what you're

(49:45):
doing today is so important and that every it will
require every bit that you have to get ready for
the moments that come that is coming. I've talked before
about how I love the moment from Sandlot at the
end of the movie is you just realize, like Benning,
the jet's been preparing his whole life for this pickle.
And that's how I feel in my own life. My
pickle hasn't come yet, but I'm preparing my whole life

(50:08):
for the moment that God's preparing me for. And here's
how I want you to think about total surrender. There's
a couple sides to this as well. And the first
part is that you need to give everything you have
for your destiny because God has a great plan for
your life. And anywhere that you back up anywhere you say,
you know, that's more than I'd be willing to give.
That's harder than I'm willing to experience. I don't want

(50:31):
it to be. I just want to serve God and
just do this thing I don't want to do. You know,
why are you asking me to do this? Why are
you asking me to do that? Any area in your
life where you feel that way, where you're not willing
to overcome your physical self, you're not willing to overcome
your emotions, you're not willing to grow in a certain
area of your marriage. You just have this attitude that says, oh,

(50:53):
it's okay, it'll be fine. I don't have to deal
with that. God will forgive me. Any area that you're
doing that, you're missing your destiny because it says that
God has more than you could ask, thank or imagine.
And the warrior right, you know why, Charlie lived a
great life, and why Charlie's death is a victory is
because he lived his whole life that way. From the

(51:14):
time that he was in high school, he was preparing
for this moment. He didn't know this is what it
was going to be, but he's been working his way
towards this moment to live a great life and to
give all that he had. If Charlie had not been
someone who could die victoriously, he wouldn't be he wouldn't
have been who he was. I'm saying, he's the type
of person that gave his all, and you've got to

(51:35):
give your all. Maybe you're not supposed to be well
known or some political figure, but let me tell you,
most assuredly, your life matters, and God wants to do
something great with your life. But if you're not willing
to give all that you have, you'll miss it.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Gee.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
You talked about in like Luke nine to twenty three
about taking up your cross daily.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
And just how you have to quit holding on to
what you want.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
And I know we've highlighted that again, but I'm reemphasizing
it so much because of what you just said. To
really pour it all out man, like, you sent me
a reel this week, and I love that you sent
me this a reel from Buds, and like, I feel
very honored that I get to be like, I have
so much respect for the Seals.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
I am not tough by association.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
I don't have any cool points because I happen to
spend a lot of times in the Navy Seal but
I have so much respect for that culture. And in
this reel, I'll tell you I'll post it to our
Instagram at some point this week so other people can
see it as well. These are guys in Buds talking
about how they thought they had given everything they had
because they you guys have to go one hundred percent
all the time in Buds, and then whenever you think
you don't have any.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
More, you give some more.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
And these guys were talking about the moment they realized
they tapped into more and they got to the point
where they're like, I'll just go until I die, and like,
I've not experienced that, but man, like, the thought of
that and the gift that you've had of experiencing that
is what you're saying to people.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
There's so much more in you than you think is there.
And unless you're willing to really give all that you have.
You should see this as the true tragedy. And like
I said, that's what this podcast is about. The true
tragedy of your life is that you wouldn't live up
to everything that God's created you for. The true tragedy
of your life is saying, you know what, this is

(53:15):
enough for me. I don't want all of it. What
I want for every single person, what I want that
you would get from this podcast that every Monday, every
Thursday that you're tuning in, you're saying, God, I want
more of your ways in my life. You're saying God,
I want to give my all to you. I want
to walk and pursue you absolutely, not meaning that I
don't have any doubts, but meaning that I'll bet everything

(53:36):
on you. Let every single day, my moments, every second
that I have, I'm thinking about you. I'm preparing for you.
I want to do all that I can to become
who You've created created me to be, and ultimately, God,
I'm going to give you my all.

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