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3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
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11. 0:32Well, good evening, everybody.
12. 0:34Alex McFarland here is so honored that you're listening,
13. 0:37and I am sitting in for attorney and pastor,
14. 0:40broadcaster Abe Hamilton III.
15. 0:42And it's a great honor always to sit in
16. 0:45on the American Family Radio Network.
17. 0:47My regular show that you may be familiar with
18. 0:50is called Exploring the Word.
19. 0:51We are heard live five days a week, Monday through Friday.
20. 0:55And that's a Bible teaching show.
21. 0:56I have a great privilege whenever attorney Abe Hamilton asked me to sit in for him like today.
22. 1:04We try to bring guests that we know will inspire you. Incredible stories of what God has done in
23. 1:10the lives of great people and today is just one of those days. I'll introduce a very special friend
24. 1:15in just a moment. But in that intro, you might have heard Abe Hamilton say that we are Christ's
25. 1:22ambassadors. Do you know that's really true in 2 Corinthians 5 verse 20? God's word says this,
26. 1:282 Corinthians 5 20, we are therefore Christ ambassadors. As though God were making his appeal
27. 1:36through us, we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. I love how the old King James
28. 1:43renders that. It says, we beseech you in Christ's stead. In other words, if Jesus were here,
29. 1:50He would say exactly what I'm saying to you, that God loves you, you can know God personally,
30. 1:57and Christ Jesus gave his life that we could be forgiven. And so we're going to talk about this and
31. 2:03how you, yes, you, dear friend, you can be an ambassador for Jesus, you can be a witness for Christ.
32. 2:10I love this subject, and I'll say this, then I will bring our guest on when I was 21,
33. 2:15and I was a college student and I got saved. Right away I was concerned for my
34. 2:21buddies at college because as far as I knew none of them knew the Lord. That was
35. 2:26pretty much true and I was very shy. I felt very inadequate but I had to do my
36. 2:32best to try and get my friends to respond to the gospel. And little did I
37. 2:38know that would be God's call on my life and to this day now more than 35 years
38. 2:44later. I really still have one driving priority in my life that people hear the gospel and be saved.
39. 2:52And that's the heartbeat also of my guest Barry Maguire. We've worked together and had him on the
40. 2:59radio a number of times. He has become a close personal friend. He more than anybody I know,
41. 3:05I mean he's like a living Billy Graham in that this man lives and breathes to see people get saved.
42. 3:12And when it comes to sharing the gospel, and I don't say this lightly, but he's an expert.
43. 3:17I mean, he really is. And he's trained more people in evangelism. He's influenced so many,
44. 3:22myself included. He's with us now to talk about the gospel and how God can use our lives to share it.
45. 3:29It's Barry Maguire. Welcome to the show, Barry.
46. 3:33Thank you, Alex. And I had to laugh because I'm an introvert. I get to get out of here. I get
47. 3:40share my faith because I don't have the personality. Like he said, going to the world, all you,
48. 3:45who have an outgoing personality, of course he didn't say that. I was an introvert. I hid
49. 3:51behind my wife, literally, in situations where I didn't know people and I waited. She's never
50. 3:57known a stranger. You don't care. And once she would start the conversation, I'd pop out and say,
51. 4:02I'm her husband, you know. It was the same thing for me. I felt compelled to share my faith.
52. 4:09And it forced me to start talking to people. Even my business didn't do that. It was sharing my
53. 4:15faith that forced me, compelled me to start speaking. Because I knew that's what God wanted me to do.
54. 4:20And it was forced to begin with. Now it's just the joy that the most fun you and I both have is
55. 4:27talking to people about Jesus. So, it gets a lot easier. But even if you're an introvert, folks,
56. 4:34that's not excuse and the scripture that comes to mind is that we've been called we've been
57. 4:39justified to God. What's what's that we've been rheumans five one justified by faith we have peace
58. 4:49with God. Well I think about we what's the great verse I had it it's it's a one we've been we've been
59. 4:58justified to God who Jesus Christ and called to the ministry of it's not the word justification what
60. 5:03What is the word reconciliation reconciliation?
61. 5:07Yeah, we're reconcilers.
62. 5:09That's what we're called to do.
63. 5:10Number one fact, that's what the entirety of our life is about.
64. 5:13After we're saved, it's to be reconciled to reconcile people to God,
65. 5:18through the ministry, to our understanding of Jesus Christ.
66. 5:22And your joy.
67. 5:23What a joy.
68. 5:24And you know, folks, in all sincerity, when Barry says he was an introvert,
69. 5:31I really relate.
70. 5:32I mean, I have been very introverted,
71. 5:35but what brought me out of my shell for God's glory,
72. 5:39I just knew the guys, my college,
73. 5:43root friends and all that, they needed Jesus.
74. 5:47And I thought like I might be in a position to share Jesus,
75. 5:51and I couldn't stay silent.
76. 5:54Do you relate to that very?
77. 5:57Exactly, exactly, nothing else word.
78. 6:00My business, my own business left me as an introvert.
79. 6:04But when I saw people lost, they're probably going to stay lost unless I say something,
80. 6:08them might not be anybody in their life.
81. 6:10That's true today.
82. 6:11As so few of us that are sharing our faith, they were surrounded by people who lost, like
83. 6:1790% of people around us every day are lost.
84. 6:19And they're going to stay lost unless we tell them God loves them.
85. 6:23And they're not going to church.
86. 6:25They're only hope is us.
87. 6:26Indeed.
88. 6:27So, you mentioned your business and I want to talk about that because you and your wife
89. 6:34Karen have done such a great job at living for the Lord and committing your work to Christ.
90. 6:42And folks were talking with Bear McGuire and I'm a car guy.
91. 6:46Have been since I was a little kid, you know, I would save up 99 cents so I could buy a Hot
92. 6:51Will Carr. Well, Maguire's Car Wax, which is the most renowned name in Car Wax. I remember
93. 7:01Berry down in rural North Carolina. I bought a 66 Ford for $250 and I went up to the hardware
94. 7:12store and I bought a burgundy bottle of Maguire's Car Wax. I really did. I was 16 years old.
95. 7:19If you would tell people about the story of your family business, it's beautiful.
96. 7:26Well, I'm blessed.
97. 7:30I'm not a first generation Christian.
98. 7:31It actually goes back multiple generations on both sides of my family.
99. 7:36My grandfather, Frank McGuire, Jr.
100. 7:38Stearmogwires in 1901, loved the Lord.
101. 7:42I actually have a book.
102. 7:43I think I should it to you, Alex.
103. 7:46on deep theology that he's written on every page of it.
104. 7:52You know, this is my grandfather,
105. 7:53and I knew him as I was a youngster,
106. 7:56and he prayed and God led him into creating a polish,
107. 8:02and he was not a chemist.
108. 8:04He was selling furniture polish,
109. 8:06and he couldn't find a polish
110. 8:08that actually created a perfect finish on black,
111. 8:11lacquer furniture, so he prayed,
112. 8:13God, can you help me with this?
113. 8:14and he did, and he was in Evansville, Indiana,
114. 8:18and over half of the horses carriage manufacturers
115. 8:20were in Indiana, the state of Indiana.
116. 8:23They're all painted with black lacquer,
117. 8:24and as God would lead it without his permission,
118. 8:28they started taking his furniture polish
119. 8:30and putting it on their carriages,
120. 8:31and it became a carriage of polish.
121. 8:35And one thing led to another, and now I'm very proud
122. 8:39the fact that IndyCar guy, if you ask them
123. 8:41why is McGuire's car wax, my squire's polishes so popular, what do they do that nobody else can do?
124. 8:48They'll tell you they create a perfect finish on black paint. The very same passion that my
125. 8:57granddad had in 1901 here in 2026, we are living in his legacy and doing exactly what he did then.
126. 9:05So I'm honored my granddad.
127. 9:08I'm very proud of that guy.
128. 9:09I got to him and have him about it.
129. 9:11But I've seen true to the course
130. 9:13that God put him on and it served us pretty well
131. 9:16in the area of ministry.
132. 9:18Amen, amen.
133. 9:20Well, listen, I want to get to evangelism,
134. 9:24but I have to tell you this.
135. 9:26My wife and I went to a car show Saturday a week ago.
136. 9:30There was a for charity, there was a car show
137. 9:32in Greensboro, North Carolina.
138. 9:34and we got there and there was a well over 100 cars,
139. 9:38their muscle cars and some tea bucket,
140. 9:41hot rods and different things.
141. 9:43And as we were walking around,
142. 9:46all everybody had two or three or four Maguire's products.
143. 9:52And they were detailing their cars,
144. 9:55getting their cars perfect.
145. 9:56And I thought, I know that guy.
146. 9:59Look, I know that guy.
147. 10:00It was pretty cool.
148. 10:02It is amazing. We are the car guys car wax. I folks in car guys from the very beginning
149. 10:09when that term wasn't even a term and retailers paid no attention to us. And now it's, in
150. 10:15fact the matter is, if you're not a car guy, you're not even thinking about waxing your
151. 10:18car today. Car guys consume about 85% of all the car wax. And that has been our focus of
152. 10:24the years of greatest show car perfect paint finish. And God's been very good to us in
153. 10:28that. But who that I mean, he'll take anything folks, he'll take
154. 10:33everything and uses your pulpit. I mean, he's taking
155. 10:36time to go figure I pedal car wax and it's been my part on a
156. 10:42global basis to proclaim his name to share him everywhere I go. And
157. 10:46the more I've done that, the more he's blessed by business. And
158. 10:49the more I realize I'm shining for Jesus, I'm not I'm not God
159. 10:53doesn't necessarily care about shiny cars. You're just like
160. 10:56getting people into heaven when you use whatever is in your hand to get people to Jesus and
161. 11:03get them into heaven, then he'll bless whatever is in your hand. I don't care if you're an athlete
162. 11:08or a lawyer or a plumber or a housewife or whatever, whatever you do, if you use your
163. 11:13place, you're in your mission field right now. If you use it every moment of every day
164. 11:18to seize every opportunity to move everybody every day closer to Jesus, it sounds simple
165. 11:24And it is, it really is.
166. 11:26And then you end up really kind of praying without ceasing, without even thinking about
167. 11:31it because you're just continually thinking about where everybody around you at any given time
168. 11:36are in their walk with the Lord.
169. 11:38And in most cases, they're lost.
170. 11:40And again, folks are going to stay lost unless we speak up and we love them.
171. 11:45We don't point out differences.
172. 11:46We don't condemn them.
173. 11:47We just love them.
174. 11:48He said, they'll know your way to say, well, buy your love.
175. 11:51And you said earlier, I don't train anybody.
176. 11:54You don't have to be trained to love on people.
177. 11:57Well, amen.
178. 11:59Amen.
179. 12:00You know, Matthew 6, verse 33 says, seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and
180. 12:06all these other things will be added to Him.
181. 12:10That really is the priority, isn't it?
182. 12:12For a born-again Christian, Jesus and walking with the Lord, representing the Lord, that's
183. 12:19got to be the priority, isn't it?
184. 12:22It is the priority.
185. 12:25It is the priority of life.
186. 12:27If we just did what he told us to do, life becomes simple.
187. 12:31First, I have been there for several decades.
188. 12:33I don't see it with pride.
189. 12:35I'm just saying his proof that the scripture actually works.
190. 12:39I did a podcast last week with Butch Wilmore Berry's first name.
191. 12:44I liked his name, but he goes by Butch Wilmore.
192. 12:47And he was the astronaut that got trapped in space last year for nine months.
193. 12:52He went up for 12 days.
194. 12:53He was up there for nine months.
195. 12:54Goodness.
196. 12:55And he lives for the Lord and I actually had a friend
197. 12:59connect me with him.
198. 13:01And so we spent a couple of days with each other last week.
199. 13:05And we're immediately one.
200. 13:07What he was saying, we were just soul mates.
201. 13:11And on the podcast, we went through that a little bit.
202. 13:16And I related to a conversation,
203. 13:19really an interview I did with a lady
204. 13:21in Fresno, California, the church had a lot of faith shares.
205. 13:25I was interviewing them and she's my age.
206. 13:29A very poor, had just gone through heart surgery
207. 13:31but was determined she wanted to come
208. 13:33and talk to me on camera about face sharing.
209. 13:36And I finally said to her, I think I'm in the way.
210. 13:39Could you just look at that camera and share your heart?
211. 13:42She says, I'm glad, yes, I'll do that.
212. 13:45As she talked for about a half an hour,
213. 13:47as she talked, I wept because this lady was saying exactly what I've experienced.
214. 13:58And I've never told anybody because they don't want to brag.
215. 14:01But I haven't had fear.
216. 14:03I haven't had anxiety.
217. 14:04I haven't had depression.
218. 14:05I haven't had any of that for years because I just want to honor God.
219. 14:09And when you honor God, if you seek you first, give me my God, everything else works.
220. 14:15when you realize it's true.
221. 14:18Amen.
222. 14:19And I think he bothered almost,
223. 14:22why is it that this lady in a
224. 14:24decidedly different life than me
225. 14:26in Fresno, California, was identical
226. 14:29with me, okay?
227. 14:32And then I'm talking to Butch Wilmore
228. 14:34and as he's talking about no fear
229. 14:37and all joy and loving no matter
230. 14:39what happens if he's trapped in space,
231. 14:41it's God's in it and it's a joyful time.
232. 14:44it by choosing it.
233. 14:46Very whole about that.
234. 14:47Forgive me.
235. 14:48We got to pull out for a quick break.
236. 14:49Hold that thought.
237. 14:50Okay.
238. 14:51Folks, Alex McPherland here.
239. 14:52We're talking with our very special guest, Barry McGuire.
240. 14:55The joy of the Lord can be yours.
241. 14:57Stay tuned.
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251. 15:40Welcome back to the American Family Radio Network Alex McCralland here. Always a
252. 15:46privilege to talk with Barry Maguire. And frankly, every time Barry and I talk, man, I just feel uplifted
253. 15:53for days and days. And he really, you should be so fortunate folks as to get to be friends with
254. 16:00Barry Maguire. He is, he and his wife both are the personification of joy, joy in the Lord. And
255. 16:09listen, it doesn't mean everything's been perfect. In this world, things come along. But when you've
256. 16:15You've got Jesus and you know His Word.
257. 16:18And folks, let me just say you can absolutely depend on the promises of God's Word.
258. 16:25And we'll talk about that, but you can have joy at all times.
259. 16:29Now some days are good, some days are hard, we have mountaintops, and if you're like the
260. 16:36rest of us folks, life will take you through some, probably some deep valleys.
261. 16:40But when you know, I think about John 1028, Jesus said that we are in His hands.
262. 16:47And John 1028, nothing can pluck us out of His hand.
263. 16:53That realization, that confidence, there is joy in that.
264. 16:57And my friend Barry McGuire, he is a joyful brother in the Lord.
265. 17:01Barry, before the break, you were talking about a woman you had on your podcast and you had
266. 17:07just a great kinship and a great joy. Continue your story if you would, brother.
267. 17:14You know, you don't need me. You've got, you and I are so light. I'm just repeating what you say.
268. 17:23I'm affirming what you say with your life and with your ministry or your radio ministry.
269. 17:28But this is a Pratio experience, quite frankly. This Black Lady grew up very poor,
270. 17:36Fresno, California, I'm having her speak to camera talking about her love for the Lord and how she
271. 17:41shares her faith. And as she was sharing, I, I, I, I, wept because she was saying what I feel to my
272. 17:51core that I've never shared with people because I don't want to offend people where they think I'm
273. 17:55a space cadet, but I don't have any fear. I never lose my joy. I trust I have joy every day. I have
274. 18:05that and she was expressing that same thing and I thought how is this lady in a
275. 18:10decidedly different environment than me speak exactly the same feelings the
276. 18:17innermost feelings I have a piece with God and so I'm interviewing now Butch Wilmore
277. 18:24the astronaut that was stuck in space for nine months last year he was going he
278. 18:29went up for 12 days against I for nine months as he was talking about the piece
279. 18:33He starts saying the same thing that I thought is amazing, the pureness.
280. 18:41When we just do what God tells us to do, it's a very same thing and it occurred to me that
281. 18:48we try to get closer to God and the closer we get to God, the closer we get to each other.
282. 18:55until, I mean, you could be lost in space,
283. 18:59or you could be this lady with the no means
284. 19:02to speak of old age and a heart problem in Fresno,
285. 19:05or you could very much have had a self-scarway.
286. 19:07Decidedly, three, decided different people,
287. 19:10all having oneness in Christ,
288. 19:14and all having this total peace and joy.
289. 19:20John 15 and 11 says, when you bear fruit, my joy,
290. 19:23I mean, with you and your joy will remain full.
291. 19:27You want to have joy every day?
292. 19:29I discovered that in 1973.
293. 19:34I'm 53 years into having joy every day, having no fear.
294. 19:41Never having a bad day, bad things happen.
295. 19:44I lost my 49 years.
296. 19:45This is not academic for me, folks.
297. 19:47I lost my 49-year-old daughter, the most precious person
298. 19:51in the world to be after my wife and a prolific face share.
299. 19:54I lost her for a hundred years of age.
300. 19:57I was in the hospital and the doctors gave up
301. 19:59and I see you, they said we can't save you.
302. 20:03I had a joint venture part, I found the next one,
303. 20:05they're gonna throw me out of my own business.
304. 20:08I've seen it, I've faced the devil, I've faced trials.
305. 20:12I'll match it with the trials, I've faced,
306. 20:16but I've never lost my joy.
307. 20:18You know why?
308. 20:19Because I'm for him.
309. 20:21I live for his purpose.
310. 20:23and we live for His purpose.
311. 20:25Romans 8, it says that, when you live for my,
312. 20:28when you love me and live for my purpose,
313. 20:30everything works for good, right?
314. 20:32Amen.
315. 20:33Purpose, it's purpose to seek and save the lost,
316. 20:37to love your neighbor as yourself.
317. 20:38It's so simple, folks.
318. 20:40And when that's the driving force of your life,
319. 20:42every day it doesn't matter what happens,
320. 20:45God uses it and you always have,
321. 20:49I mean, if you're not,
322. 20:51If you haven't gotten into the shed, you're missing the part of being a Christian.
323. 20:56It's incredible.
324. 20:57Barry, let me ask you this, because no doubt many people listening would say, I want that.
325. 21:06Man, that joy, that confidence, that unshakable trust, I sure wish I had that in my life.
326. 21:14So I've got a couple of questions, one of which is this for the Christian listening,
327. 21:19Barry, they say, I want that confidence that Barry and Karen Maguire have.
328. 21:26How do they move to that place, Barry?
329. 21:30That's what started sharing our faith, quite frankly.
330. 21:341973, our two little girls were dedicated to the church, to the Lord, we're giving sacrificial
331. 21:41for a time, our money, everything.
332. 21:43And we had no joy.
333. 21:45We were dry.
334. 21:46We were actually nipping each other and carrying that star.
335. 21:48I said, there's something wrong here.
336. 21:50So we started praying specifically for joy.
337. 21:53We prayed, God give us joy.
338. 21:55That was the focus of our prayers.
339. 21:59And we ended up going to a luncheon.
340. 22:01It was the 50th anniversary of our church.
341. 22:04And the speaker was a guy named Herb Ellingwood.
342. 22:06He was the legal affairs secretary.
343. 22:08I give my age away now, 1973.
344. 22:11He was the legal affairs secretary for Governor Reagan.
345. 22:15And I was sat right beside him at the speaker's table, okay?
346. 22:20If they had table and for an hour, I mean, God did this.
347. 22:23I didn't even have any responsibilities that day.
348. 22:25And the pastor put me right beside him.
349. 22:28And for an hour straight, he didn't eat his food.
350. 22:32He didn't talk to anybody else.
351. 22:33He didn't talk about Governor Reagan, Ronald Reagan.
352. 22:36He just talked about one story after another
353. 22:39about how much fun he was to have sharing his faith.
354. 22:44And I walked away from that encounter and tears,
355. 22:46I said, that's the joy I want.
356. 22:48There may be some people saying that today,
357. 22:50as you just said, that's the joy I want.
358. 22:52And we talked and we said, okay, we're gonna start doing it
359. 22:55today.
360. 22:57And we ended up coming up with this term,
361. 22:59we move everybody every day closer.
362. 23:01She's not just one a day, everybody,
363. 23:04but the world around us is lost.
364. 23:06You just start loving everybody.
365. 23:08And you know what, when you do that,
366. 23:09he blushes everything else.
367. 23:11We ended up being the number one selling carwax
368. 23:13because I'm smart, because I'm a great marker.
369. 23:16Oh, are you kidding me?
370. 23:18I could not have possibly done that.
371. 23:20I didn't have a clue what I was doing.
372. 23:22I said, God, I could trust you with my whole heart
373. 23:25because I don't have any intelligence.
374. 23:28But in the process, when you make that,
375. 23:30he says, you know, when they ask him,
376. 23:32what's the most important thing to do?
377. 23:35He said the same thing, he says in Romans 8.28.
378. 23:37He says, which is the most important command,
379. 23:42but love me with all your heart, mind, and soul.
380. 23:44And the second is liken unto it the same.
381. 23:47If you love me, you love your neighbor as yourself.
382. 23:50That's everybody around us, folks, everybody you're with
383. 23:53every day.
384. 23:54And if you love them as you love yourself,
385. 23:56you're as concerned for their salvation as you are your own.
386. 23:59And that changes everything in your life,
387. 24:02your language, what you're looking at, what you laugh at,
388. 24:05everything you wanna do, everything you do,
389. 24:07you wanna bring glory to God,
390. 24:09You want them to see Jesus through you.
391. 24:13And when you do that, his joy comes in
392. 24:15and you have joy even in the worst of your moments.
393. 24:18You know, God's there, he's in it.
394. 24:21And it's God's promise, it's so simple.
395. 24:25And yet there's the one thing,
396. 24:27don't want to do to one thing, Satan doesn't want you to do.
397. 24:30And he puts fear in you.
398. 24:32That's his number one tool against you.
399. 24:34He puts fear, you know, I can't do it.
400. 24:36all these million reasons why you can't share your faith.
401. 24:40We have a place on our website, most frequent excuses.
402. 24:43Okay, I'm very good.
403. 24:45I'm not, I don't know, I haven't traded,
404. 24:48and we blow them out of the water.
405. 24:50He just said go and love on people.
406. 24:53That's all you have, folks, it's so simple.
407. 24:56It's so simple.
408. 24:57Change everything.
409. 24:59The Voice You're Hearing, folks, is Barry Maguire,
410. 25:01and two websites, listen carefully,
411. 25:04IgniteAmerica.com and then seekingGod.org, seekingGod.org and people will hear the gospel.
412. 25:13I'm going to talk more about this, but while we're at this point, I want to ask you
413. 25:18and thank you for the practical wisdom and your own journey with the Lord, Barry.
414. 25:25How, as a Christian, how can a person hear the Holy Spirit more consistently?
415. 25:30I'm going to need your back to forgive you, but it's true.
416. 25:39When you just live for him, when he, you do one thing, he's only asked us to do one thing,
417. 25:44love on the people around us.
418. 25:46And when he, when we do that, we come close to him and he speaks through us.
419. 25:53Let me give you how the idea, this is how it works every time I've been doing for 50
420. 25:57years, never fails.
421. 25:58I love on people.
422. 26:00I love, I love it.
423. 26:01I don't wait for this last night.
424. 26:02She was cantankerous and I just started joking
425. 26:04when I got her laughing.
426. 26:06You know, and all of a sudden we're having a good time.
427. 26:08All of a sudden finally I came to the tights
428. 26:10or something I could pray for you about.
429. 26:13And she opened it up and she shared
430. 26:15and we prayed at the end she gave me a hug
431. 26:19and I gave her our Seeking God card.
432. 26:20We have these cards as SeekingGod.org, you care?
433. 26:23You can get them from us free of charge.
434. 26:25And I gave that to her and I walked away
435. 26:27not just having moved her closer to God
436. 26:29but giving her a pathway to actually frame the center's prayer.
437. 26:33It's just so easy when you, very specifically,
438. 26:38let me give you a critical verse.
439. 26:41You love on somebody, you love on everybody.
440. 26:45They were, everybody starving for love,
441. 26:47so they will open up.
442. 26:48When you mention God while you're loving them
443. 26:50in a non-offensive way,
444. 26:52you might say something like,
445. 26:54well that must break God's heart.
446. 26:56Or boy, God saved your bacon on that one.
447. 26:59It is not.
448. 27:00It is not.
449. 27:01It does not offend them, but lets them know your Christian.
450. 27:05Once they know that, do you know the world is seeking God right now?
451. 27:08The entire world, everybody, once and over God, and they don't know who to ask, and all
452. 27:15of a sudden, here's this nice person I just met in the line at Starbucks, and they know
453. 27:19God and they will open up folks.
454. 27:22I'll guarantee you within five minutes, they'll open up and they'll tell you something that
455. 27:28reveals where they are. Oh God couldn't possibly love me. Whatever he says. You don't have to
456. 27:33prepare for an answer. This is the best part. You don't have to prepare because the Holy Spirit
457. 27:38gives you the words to say. This is supernatural. This is where the supernatural. You want to come
458. 27:42close to the Holy Spirit? Trust him on this. Luke 12 says, the Holy Spirit, Luke 12, look it up.
459. 27:49The Holy Spirit will give you the words to say. And when they ask and they reveal something,
460. 27:55He'll give you the words to say, He'll give you a script you haven't heard in years and you're
461. 28:00quoting and forbade them. And at that moment, folks, at that moment you realize God has you
462. 28:07exactly right where He wants you right at that moment. And He's orchestrated that conversation.
463. 28:13He's put that conversation together wherever it might be. It could be on the street, wherever.
464. 28:20And He's given you the words to say, and the person in front of you is changing in front of your
465. 28:25that's intimacy with God and you can have that multiple times every day. It's there for the
466. 28:35offing and when you do that, he takes everything else in your life and makes it work for good.
467. 28:41Wow. He really does.
468. 28:43You mentioned Luke 1212. I'm going to read it. Jesus says, for the Holy Spirit will teach
469. 28:51you in that very hour what you ought to say.
470. 28:55I've experienced that.
471. 28:57That's a true promise of God, isn't it?
472. 29:00Powerful.
473. 29:01And you deal when you know God's speaking.
474. 29:03I mean, I've been a car wax folks.
475. 29:05I'm not an academic.
476. 29:06I'm a terrible student.
477. 29:08I'm not a pastor.
478. 29:10I'm talking from real life.
479. 29:11I'm just a layman that I'm in my 80s.
480. 29:15And I say, I brag about nothing except the scriptures actually work.
481. 29:20Amen.
482. 29:21work and live them through the worst of circumstances.
483. 29:26And he's given me joy all the way through because I don't, when I'm in the hospital dying and
484. 29:31they gave up on me, I didn't know if I was going to die or not.
485. 29:34I said, God, if I'm going to die and I'm trying to lead as many people to you as I possibly
486. 29:39can, became a game for me.
487. 29:41And I began looking up for who's the next first to come to that door.
488. 29:47And when I had a hospital, I counted 23 different doctors and nurses that I administered too,
489. 29:53not to count all my friends because they don't expect you to be laughing and having joy when
490. 29:58you're dying.
491. 29:59They don't expect that.
492. 30:01That is really true.
493. 30:03That is really true.
494. 30:05And in the passing of my dad, we were able to share the gospel with several people at the
495. 30:12hospital. And you know, literally my wife, my mother, my sister and I, we were in a hospital room.
496. 30:19My dad, his body was on the bed. He had just passed away. And yeah, I mean, of course we were
497. 30:25sad, but my dad was born again Christian. I know we'll see him again. And a couple of the, you know,
498. 30:32staff at the hospital came in to console us. And but we had joy because we knew he was with the Lord.
499. 30:42But I got to say this about witnessing to people that, folks, don't be afraid, don't be apprehensive,
500. 30:51and I'll tell you why. For one thing, God has called us to do this. He's promised to be with us,
501. 30:57like Luke 1212. He's promised to give us the words we need. But here's the reality I've found,
502. 31:02Barry, and I'd love for you to speak to it. While we're talking about sharing Jesus with somebody,
503. 31:09the people we meet probably have been in their heart seeking God and waiting on somebody to talk
504. 31:17to them. I've had this many times when I would try to steer the conversation towards Jesus.
505. 31:22People would say, do you know, I've just been thinking about this. In my heart, I've said,
506. 31:29God, how do I find you? And so, folks, you and I are sharing, but people all around us are seeking.
507. 31:37Because everybody is, we've been sharing our faith,
508. 31:41caring about sharing our faith every day since 1973, okay?
509. 31:45So it's 53 years.
510. 31:47It's always been easier than people thought because when I first started, I was stressing
511. 31:54and I had to have the right words, I get the points down.
512. 31:56If I just stopped all that and just started loving, I'd be able to change everything.
513. 32:00But we've been doing that all these years.
514. 32:03It's always been easy.
515. 32:04But I get to tell you, I think, I almost put it to when Charlie Kirk was killed.
516. 32:11It shook the world.
517. 32:13Hold that for a moment.
518. 32:14Folks, when we come back, we're going to talk about our mutual friend, Charlie Kirk,
519. 32:19and what God is doing even in the aftermath of that tragedy.
520. 32:22Bear McGuire, our very special guest on AFR tonight.
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535. 33:45Welcome back to the program. Alex McFarland here. We're going to resume our conversation with
536. 33:49Barry McGuire in just a moment. But if you happen to be hearing this, today is June 19th,
537. 33:56tomorrow is June 20th. If you are in the mid-Atlantic region tomorrow night, June 20th,
538. 34:04we will be in North Myrtle Beach. This is part of our Revive US tour. We're all over the country.
539. 34:10Next month I'll be in Texas. But June 20th, which if you happen to be near North Myrtle Beach,
540. 34:17very well known the Greg Roles Legacy Theater. We have rented this venue many times.
541. 34:24We've had a lot of great speakers there and we've got a number of events, but tomorrow night,
542. 34:287 p.m. it's a free event. It's open. The public is invited. We've got forever forgiven a fantastic
543. 34:35praise band. We've got some custom videos that we are going to show that have never been shown
544. 34:41anywhere about the spiritual needs of our nation. Then I'll be giving a message, but there will be
545. 34:47open mic Q&A. And so we would love for you to come. The website is just AlexMcFarlane.com.
546. 34:53AlexMcFarlane.com and our very special guest Barry Maguire, two websites, take note if you would,
547. 35:00and you will be inspired, you'll be motivated. You'll want to get out there and be a world
548. 35:05changer, just like Barry Maguire is, but igniteamerica.com. And then seekinggod.org,
549. 35:13which incidentally, if you're trying to witness to somebody and share Jesus, just refer them to
550. 35:19the website, seekinggod.org.
551. 35:22Barry, I always like to say to people,
552. 35:25this is a little tagline we use,
553. 35:27but I'll say, Jesus is as close by as a prayer.
554. 35:31Just if you're not even sure,
555. 35:33just say, Lord Jesus revealed yourself to me.
556. 35:38And I found out people, almost universally,
557. 35:42people are interested in Jesus really, aren't they?
558. 35:46Absolutely, I would read before the break.
559. 35:50I think Charlie Kirk, as tragic as it was, it impacted the whole world.
560. 35:57And the most godless now are interested in God.
561. 36:01They're wondering, what's going on?
562. 36:07And those that seem to be the farthest from God need him the most.
563. 36:13And here and I, we run to the people that are the ones, you know, those are hurting the world most hurt people the most.
564. 36:22And I run to people, I have some water in people that don't look like me.
565. 36:25And they think I'm an old white guy oppressor, you know, I love you guys.
566. 36:32They don't know what to do with you.
567. 36:34But yes, everybody, you can just presume that everybody around you is looking for God.
568. 36:39And I don't care if they just been protesting, lying, and shouting, or whatever, on an individual
569. 36:44basis, they just want to know where God is.
570. 36:48Where is He?
571. 36:49What makes sense?
572. 36:50And we have the answer.
573. 36:52We carry this precious gift around the clay pots of our ordinary lives.
574. 36:56That's in the book, The Message.
575. 36:57I love that.
576. 36:58Right?
577. 36:59But we have this great opportunity right now.
578. 37:03We have the answer.
579. 37:05And it's so simple.
580. 37:06Amen.
581. 37:07Let me encourage everybody for one thing
582. 37:10Be willing to make time when these gospel opportunities
583. 37:15Come right in front of you and I'll give an example in just a moment
584. 37:19But in your car folks get some gospel booklets
585. 37:23Or or some you know the Billy Graham ministry has a little booklet called peace with God and they'll send you some of these for free
586. 37:31We've given them out in tons of places.
587. 37:34Barry has a card on SeekingGod.org,
588. 37:38a little kind of a business card size thing, don't you Barry?
589. 37:42Right, and it's available free of charge.
590. 37:44Let's go to our website, IgniteAmerica.com,
591. 37:48and we'll send you a package of these cards.
592. 37:50They don't promote our ministry.
593. 37:52You can't give us money.
594. 37:54You don't have to tell us who you are when you opt in.
595. 37:59and there is no passwords.
596. 38:01It's just immediate ministry to those who hand this card out to
597. 38:05that will lead them to Jesus Christ so effortlessly.
598. 38:09It's so much fun.
599. 38:10So rather than leaving people in the Lord,
600. 38:12you have these conversations several times a day
601. 38:14and you walk away rather than leaving them in the Lord,
602. 38:17you've whet their appetite
603. 38:18that you give them this card seekinggod.org
604. 38:21and quite frankly folks,
605. 38:22and now we've even don't know the Lord yet.
606. 38:25And I would encourage you right now, go to seekinggod.org.
607. 38:29and it will give you all the scriptural pathway
608. 38:31and they're saying how much God loves you
609. 38:33as much as he's ever loved any,
610. 38:35he's never loved any more than you.
611. 38:37He's never loved you.
612. 38:38He knows what you're gonna say before you say it.
613. 38:42And he still loves you.
614. 38:43And as this one desire to spend eternity with him,
615. 38:46wow, can you believe that?
616. 38:48I mean, it's incredible.
617. 38:50Amen.
618. 38:51It is.
619. 38:52And Barry, I know you would agree,
620. 38:55The most precious thing in your life will be your relationship with Jesus.
621. 39:01Folks, if you're listing, you think, you know, what are these guys for real?
622. 39:06Well, Jesus is for real.
623. 39:08And I will tell you more than money, more than achievements, more than anything you've ever
624. 39:15quested after to know that the Lord Jesus, He loves you.
625. 39:21He will never betray you.
626. 39:23He is the friend who sticks closer than a brother.
627. 39:27For me, I've been a believer about 36 years,
628. 39:30and Barry, since 1973, the most precious, most cherished,
629. 39:38most wonderful thing you'll ever experience
630. 39:41is your relationship with Jesus Christ.
631. 39:44And like we say, he's as close by as a prayer.
632. 39:48I would go even further.
633. 39:50It is the Russia with God, but the fulfillment,
634. 39:53the joy comes when we share our faith.
635. 39:57Amen.
636. 39:58You might think that he wants to share our faith
637. 40:01to win the loss.
638. 40:02That's secondary, folks.
639. 40:03It's actually secondary.
640. 40:05His first reason is to reach you,
641. 40:08to ignite you, to fill you with joy.
642. 40:10If you go to Isaiah 43, 10,
643. 40:13this powerful message,
644. 40:15it's the only place they'd tell you about by a guy
645. 40:16where he says why.
646. 40:18He tells you for Genesis,
647. 40:19the relation he tells you to go,
648. 40:21proclaim the good news.
649. 40:23But at night, they have 43, 10, this is what he says.
650. 40:26Let's say it to the Lord.
651. 40:28I pointed by witness so that you will believe.
652. 40:33What?
653. 40:34So that you will believe.
654. 40:36Because in the sharing of your faith,
655. 40:38the Holy Spirit is usually you and speaking through you
656. 40:41and you have intimacy with God,
657. 40:43and that ignites your life.
658. 40:45In fact, I wrote a book.
659. 40:47You might find it, you go on Amazon
660. 40:49and it's entitled Ignites Your Life.
661. 40:52It's an Amazon bestseller and it tells 50 years of doing this.
662. 40:57And it's plus my life.
663. 40:58It's not really about my life.
664. 41:00It's about how my life responded to the promise God gives us
665. 41:05that when we live for Him, He'll make everything our lives
666. 41:08work together for good.
667. 41:09And that will ignite your life.
668. 41:11If you go to Amazon, don't look at reviews.
669. 41:14You got hundreds of, they're all five-star reviews
670. 41:16that they all say, I never shared my faith before ever.
671. 41:20And now I'm sharing my faith every day
672. 41:22I'm having a ball of having the time of my life doing it. You're missing out folks. This is what being a Christian is all about.
673. 41:30You know, I'm gonna read that. This is so powerful. We mentioned Luke 12 12 and I would encourage you to ponder on that verse.
674. 41:37But this is Isaiah 43 10 that Barry
675. 41:41Reference and God's Word says this, you are my witnesses as the Lord and my servant whom I have chosen that you may know
676. 41:49and believe me and understand that I am he before me.
677. 41:54There was no God formed nor shall there be after me.
678. 41:58You know, Barry, there's so much in here.
679. 41:59I have to say I've never heard this before right now
680. 42:03that we're his witnesses that we may believe that that's
681. 42:09powerful that.
682. 42:11No, it doesn't say so that you'll believe more.
683. 42:14It says this is how you believe.
684. 42:17This is it.
685. 42:18This is how you believe.
686. 42:19I point you so you will understand and know that I am God.
687. 42:25Folks, if you're not doing this,
688. 42:26you're missing out on the joy,
689. 42:29the relationship, the intimacy with Jesus Christ
690. 42:31and having his Holy Spirit speaking through you.
691. 42:34This is what life's all about.
692. 42:35Indeed.
693. 42:37Indeed.
694. 42:38Hey, I've got to tell you this.
695. 42:39I want you to comment on it.
696. 42:41Just shortly after COVID,
697. 42:44so we're talking about four or five years ago,
698. 42:47but life way did a study of 20 to,
699. 42:52people that were roughly early 20s to late 30s,
700. 42:56of people that had no church background whatsoever.
701. 43:00And they said, 86% said,
702. 43:04I would strongly consider going to church
703. 43:08if somebody invited me.
704. 43:10I want to say something.
705. 43:10Just invited.
706. 43:11Yeah, 86% of people with no church background,
707. 43:15quote, they would strongly consider going to a church service if somebody invited them.
708. 43:22Now that's almost nine out of 10. I'll take those odds.
709. 43:27Absolutely. But we should not need you to say, well, I'll share my faith by inviting somebody to
710. 43:31church. No, no, you minister to them immediately. You can't expect somebody 30 minutes serving to
711. 43:36get saved. Your job is to lead them, move them closer to Jesus. So when they get to church,
712. 43:42They're ready for whatever your pastor has to say to them.
713. 43:45And by the way, let me just check.
714. 43:48Gen Ziers, I think Gen Ziers are the only hope
715. 43:50for America globally.
716. 43:53They're so open to truth.
717. 43:54They're looking for truth.
718. 43:56God is the truth.
719. 43:57Jesus, when they understand that he's the truth
720. 43:59and they can actually have a relationship with truth
721. 44:03with the Holy God and they can have purpose
722. 44:06and they want purpose.
723. 44:07They want to make a difference.
724. 44:08They're tired of the hypocrisy
725. 44:10and the empty sermons and the failings,
726. 44:12they're tired of all that.
727. 44:13They want truth and this is truth,
728. 44:16this is balanced, a bone solid truth.
729. 44:20When they realize that they can actually be used
730. 44:22have purpose every day sharing their faith,
731. 44:24and it ignites them.
732. 44:26They've really done it.
733. 44:27So the Gen Zears, man, I'm having a blast
734. 44:30as an 83 year old guy talking to Gen Zears
735. 44:33and they're more receptive than older folk
736. 44:36because they want to make a difference.
737. 44:38They're primed and ready for action.
738. 44:41And I think they're the great hope for America.
739. 44:44Indeed.
740. 44:45Indeed.
741. 44:46Indeed.
742. 44:47They really are.
743. 44:48They're spiritually hungry.
744. 44:49God is moving.
745. 44:50I've got to tell you something.
746. 44:51So there's a gas station near our house where I go in to get gas quite a bit.
747. 44:58And the man that runs this convenience store is originally from India.
748. 45:02He was a Hindu, but he was not really devout.
749. 45:06He had the red dot on his forehead. So about two months ago, he asked me, he said, what do you do?
750. 45:12He said, I see you come and go and you'll be gone a week or two weeks. And I told him that I, you know,
751. 45:19was a Christian speaker. And so we're talking about that. And I could tell that he was interested.
752. 45:25So I gave him a little gospel booklet. And every time I would go in there, I would try to share more.
753. 45:30Well, one week ago my wife and I went on a Saturday night and it was probably about 830
754. 45:37or quarter of nine and I just felt led and I knew in my heart this was his day and we went
755. 45:44in there.
756. 45:45There's like nobody there much and I said, hey, let's resume our conversation.
757. 45:52Well, I asked permission because he was in his workplace.
758. 45:56You know this.
759. 45:57said, can we talk about the gospel? Well, he prayed to accept Christ right there in his
760. 46:02store. It was fantastic. And we shared some things with him and I gave him a Bible. So
761. 46:10I went back just a couple of days ago and he was so full of joy, gave me a hug. The red
762. 46:16dot is gone and he's growing in the Lord. Twenty-two years old. I thought he was older
763. 46:24that. But, and I thought about you, Barry, because I thought Barry Maguire would try to lead this
764. 46:31guy to Christ, and he came to the Lord. Oh, man. And what has that done for your life?
765. 46:40What has that done to you personally? No, you've got you.
766. 46:44It gives me joy, and I give God the glory. Absolutely.
767. 46:50But you know, I figured out 50 years ago, when I get to heaven, it's not going to matter
768. 46:55how many bottles of car wax I sold.
769. 46:57That is not going to be an issue.
770. 46:59I worked long and hard.
771. 47:01I worked 12 hour days for 30 years.
772. 47:03Yeah, I did that.
773. 47:05But I knew even when I was doing that, that was temporary.
774. 47:08It was all going to go away.
775. 47:09I love cars.
776. 47:10I'm a car guy.
777. 47:11I'm a beach guy.
778. 47:12I'm at the beach right now.
779. 47:13I have all the normal patients, but I know all this is going to go away in a moment and
780. 47:17perhaps sooner than we can even imagine.
781. 47:19And then we're glory.
782. 47:21And the only thing that's gonna matter folks,
783. 47:23if you're a Christian, the only thing that's gonna matter
784. 47:25when we're in heaven is how many people aren't having
785. 47:28because of our influence.
786. 47:30Yes, amen.
787. 47:31Think about it.
788. 47:32How many people are there?
789. 47:34And Paul said to the Thessalonians,
790. 47:36what would be my glory?
791. 47:37What would be my reward, my crown,
792. 47:39when I see Jesus face to face.
793. 47:41And then he turns to his people and he says,
794. 47:43it's you.
795. 47:45Those of you I've led to the Lord will be my glory, my reward, my
796. 47:48crown in heaven for eternity.
797. 47:50Whoa.
798. 47:52So you haven't done it yet.
799. 47:54It's you got plenty of time left.
800. 47:56You get a lot of people that have it be.
801. 47:57We're running out of time.
802. 47:58We just say, let's get as many people in heaven as we possibly can
803. 48:01before we run out of time.
804. 48:03And it's it's it's it's like the gun lap and when the athletes are
805. 48:07running that last lap of the race and the gun goes off and the camera goes
806. 48:11into the front runners and you can see the sinews, the muscles, the strain.
807. 48:15Everything they can to win the gold.
808. 48:17Folks, that's where we need to be.
809. 48:19If you're a Christian, that's where we need to be,
810. 48:21to do everything we can to get everybody possible
811. 48:25into having before that trumpet sounds.
812. 48:28Thank you, Barry McGuire.
813. 48:29God bless you, man.
814. 48:31What an inspiration you are to so many, myself included.
815. 48:35Igniteamerica.com, seekinggod.org is the website.
816. 48:40And by the way, folks, let me just say this in closing.
817. 48:42If you want to make sure that you have Jesus in your life pray today, Jesus is listening,
818. 48:48Jesus is calling you.
819. 48:50It's no accident you've heard this radio show, and John 637 Christ said, the one who comes
820. 48:55to me, I will in no way reject.
821. 48:58Remember, Jesus is as close by as a prayer.
822. 49:01God bless you, thanks for listening, and tell somebody about Christ.
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824. 49:14Family Association or American Family Radio.