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It's time now to get the hell out of your life. A weekly broadcast with real people sharing real struggles and offering real hope. Today's show will encourage, inspire and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope. Now let's join our host, ron Myers. The promoter.

Ron Meyers: 0:21

Hello my friends, it is so good to be with you today. Another inspirational show for you. Scotty McLeod joins me from Alabama and friends, what a story. You're going to be encouraged, empowered and inspired. Scotty told me something that I love God takes the cross and makes it a plus, from homelessness and addiction to running a ministry that transforms lives. Scotty McLeod, his journey shows how rock bottom can become the foundation for an extraordinary life of service. Scotty McLeod, thank you for taking time to share your story with the listeners. So, scotty, what's your?

Scotty McLeod: 1:08

When I . As I grew a little older, I gave my life 10 years old, I gave my heart to Jesus. I was young. I got off the path. So I come from a long line of preachers. Actually they were all Southern Baptists, and until my dad, who was a Baptist, too, Baptist but he went off in a little bit of a different direction.

Scotty McLeod: 1:31

But there and I got into the world, I got to doing drugs, drinking, and at one time I ended up homeless and I was on bottom and there was hell in my life and that hell just kept piling up and piling up and piling up until finally I gave up and surrendered and when I did it was the greatest thing could have possibly happened. So my dad had started a ministry the name of the ministry is Broken Stone Ministries and there's been a lot of shoot offs from that and one of those is called Our Father's Arms and we have two homes for men and we have a free medical clinic located in Jacksonville, alabama, and my dad was building all this up, ended up with a music hall, had Christian artists on there. It's called Duggar Mountain Music Hall. It played public television and actually like 80 stations across the world, and it's just been one thing after another. How God has blessed this and kept it all going.

Scotty McLeod: 2:30

So in the back of my mind. Even when I was living wild and in my sin, I knew God had a plan. So I found out my dad had an aneurysm and they said it was inoperable. So I started going to church with him and then God just started working on me, a little bit at a time, and when I'd go to family dinner I'd say something about Jesus and I'd say, daddy, turn and look at me, say, daddy knew he was about to pass and I had told myself that, ah, he could have had this for years, you know. But daddy knew better than that. And he comes to my house and he brings me his Bible and my granddad's Bible and I thought, well, that's cool, you know. And then he leaves and within a week he had a stroke and passed preaching a graveside service. He went down right there beside the grave while he was consoling the family and I was thinking, wow, that's amazing, you know that God would allow him to go serving. And I was thinking, wow, that's amazing, you know that God would allow him to go serving. And I was sitting. It was hard on me, you know.

Scotty McLeod: 3:31

The first week or two I was in a fog and then it dawned on me that daddy had told me 15 years before that that when he passed a friend of his in Tennessee had some stuff for me.

Scotty McLeod: 3:43

So I got in touch with a friend in Tennessee and I drove up there and the friend gave me a bunch of teaching tapes, teaching CDs and tapes, and he gave me a DVD. And I wasn't sure what the DVD was, but when I got back I put it in the DVD player. And there's a little funeral home close to here. It's called KL Brown's Funeral Home and daddy would always preach funerals for people that didn't have money. They could always call daddy and he would come in there and do it. So all of a sudden the camera comes in the front door at KL Brown and there's this music playing like funeral music. The camera comes in and it goes to the coffin and a preacher in a suit opens the coffin and then daddy sits up in the coffin and a preacher in a suit opens the coffin and then daddy sits up in the coffin and starts talking about how awesome it is to be in heaven.

Ron Meyers: 4:29

Wow, well, I bet you did. I bet you did a little two-step, you'll. You see that on the dvd and you see your dad pop up out of a coffin I did did.

Scotty McLeod: 4:44

At first I started crying and then I started shouting, you know, and we ended up playing that it is Celebration of Life and when they first opened it was during COVID, but there was a lot of people there. When the coffin first opened, everybody went ah. But then, when he smiled and started talking about heaven, everybody started cheering and it was amazing and I know he hadn't gone too far.

Ron Meyers: 5:07

What did he tell the audience about heaven?

Scotty McLeod: 5:10

As always, we try to keep our focus completely on Jesus. He just started talking about how great it is We'll see everybody again, and he had a song called Christians Never Say Goodbye. Just so long, for a little while, and he was quoting that song and just talking about the love of Jesus. And you know, 1 Corinthians 13, 8 tells us love never fails and that's just the motto he lived by and that's the motto we're living by Now. Sometimes I think he's still here with us.

Scotty McLeod: 5:42

You know, I started going to the juvenile detention center close to here and playing and singing songs for the kids down there and daddy had went down there and done it years ago and they called us in at Christmas and they were going to give us this little award and certificate. You know, and it was all the day I go, at night and all the daytime. People were the ones giving out the certificates. So I'm sitting there and they're calling people were the ones giving out the certificates. So I'm sitting there and they're calling people up and they're asking their name. You know, they're calling the name out and the person goes up and gets their award and they call my dad's name out and I look at my friend and my friend looks at me and they call daddy's name out again and I go get his award. You know it's those little God blinks. You know God talks to you and if you're looking, you know it's those little God blinks. You know God talks to you and if you're looking you can hear it?

Ron Meyers: 6:25

He sure does. So you've picked up the mantle of his legacy of, in my Father's Arms, your ministry. So you're running the show now, right?

Scotty McLeod: 6:35

I'm one of them, my mother and my cousin. There's several of us that work with the ministry and, you know, through the years there's been a constant flow of healthy community coming through to work with the guys, the guys who have either been in prison or on drugs or on the street. And God just keeps sending the right people at the right time and it's just amazing to watch what he does. You know, we've never had a fundraiser or asked for money at all, wow. And God's just kept supplying the money and the funds to keep it going and he can close it down anytime he wants to. You know, we're not a it's not like we're out trying to make money or anything like that, matter of fact. We're all most of us are volunteers, but he just keeps supplying the funds.

Scotty McLeod: 7:19

You know, when I first took over the part I'm taking, I took over I was praying to God and I was thinking, lord, do you want to keep it going without Daddy here? And I was nervous and I was fearful, and that fear will, it'll, completely mess you up. So the first thing God did, I asked him for a sign and the first thing he did was he, almost immediately he pulled some resources from us and I was thinking, lord, do you want to shut it down? But in my heart I knew he didn't. And then I went and played and sang up in Tennessee at a retreat and when I got back from the retreat there was enough money to keep it going for a few more months. So it was just God put it on somebody's heart and there it was.

Ron Meyers: 8:00

Wow, god's never late and he's never early. But he's always on time, isn't he? That's right, god's never late and he's never early, but he's always on time, isn't he?

Scotty McLeod: 8:05

That's right. It's an uncomfortable piece. You know you got to trust him and if you trust him you can walk in peace and joy. But if you're trusting in yourself, it's never going to work.

Ron Meyers: 8:21

Well, scotty, it is obvious your love, the calling on your life to love the hell out of other people. It is contagious Right now. We have a lot of struggling people in this world, don't we?

Scotty McLeod: 8:30

It's amazing how many there are. You know used to back in the 90s, when we first started the men's homes, you know there was people that had problems and there were people that were struggling, but now it has touched every family. Like every family you talk to, there has been a member of that family that has suffered on account of drugs or you know different reasons. And God came and he said hey, you know, I'll bless you, even despite what you've been through or whatever you've done, it does not matter, I love you and I came to make a way for you. And, man, when somebody gets a grasp of that how much Jesus loves them, it turns everything around.

Ron Meyers: 9:11

And I'm sure you've seen so many stories and people's lives change. Can you give an example of maybe one of your favorite? I know they're all your favorite, but is there one that really stands out of somebody that just went from a lot of hell in their life to you know? Whatever?

Scotty McLeod: 9:28

Yes, sir, I'll tell you back. You know, in the very beginning I was telling myself you know, well, maybe God doesn't want me to do this. You know how the enemy will send out. And a fellow walked up to my house on foot and he was yellow and I had met him years before, 25 years before, and he was a stocky guy and he was shriveled up to nothing, he was yellow, His eyes were yellow, he was jaundiced, and he asked me for a ride and I gave him a ride and I went home and I was praying about it and I felt like God was telling me that I was going to see this fellow again. So I was coming home, a way.

Scotty McLeod: 10:05

I do not usually come home, maybe a month later, and I come around the curve and there's that guy standing on the side of the road and I stopped and I said are you doing okay, man? And he said no. And I said do you need a ride? And he said I do. And he got in the car and I started taking him to town, wherever it was. He told me he wanted to go and I asked him. I said, friend, have you ever decided to try to get help or have you ever wanted to get help. And he started crying and he said if I only had a chance. And I said well, God can give you a chance Would you consider coming and staying with us at our father's arms? And he teared up and he said, please. And I took him back to the lawnmower shed. He had been living in the lawnmower shed, didn't have power, there was just a bunch of junk in there. We got what little bit he had. We took him out to our father's arms.

Scotty McLeod: 10:55

He was telling me about how his kids told him, told him they didn't want anything to do with him anymore. Come to find out, my wife had taught his daughter in Sunday school and knew her. So this is amazing. This is amazing. So I go to the house one day and I say, hey, man, you want to go ride with me to my house? And he's like sure. But what I didn't tell him was that his daughter knew how good he'd been doing and how he put some weight back on and his color had come back.

Scotty McLeod: 11:25

And we were riding back to my house and I seen her van, his daughter's van, sitting at the house. My wife had lined it up where she was, at our house and she was waiting on him to come and see her, but I didn't tell him that what was about to happen. So we get to the house. I got a split level house. He walks up the stairs. They see each other and they run and hug each other and start crying. That's been over two years ago and they're on the phone 30 minutes to an hour every day. I mean, that's what God does. He restores families.

Ron Meyers: 11:57

You know I just get goosebumps when you say that story. You know, obviously you are the man to take over what your father has done. You have a love and a passion that I can just hear it in your voice, Scotty, and somebody right now is listening and can relate to the story you just told, but they have no hope. They don't think it can ever happen to them. Would you give that listener some hope right now?

Scotty McLeod: 12:22

God is bigger than.

Scotty McLeod: 12:24

God is bigger than the Big bang. He's bigger than the big bomb. He's bigger than all our problems. God is bigger than and you just got to let him love you. Get yourself out of the way. It never was about us anyway. It's about him. And when we surrender our kingdom over to him and we start living in his kingdom, then he starts speaking to us and our life starts transforming and we become a light to other people. We're no longer in darkness and he just loves us. He loves the hell out of us.

Ron Meyers: 12:59

He sure does. He sure does, scotty, and while you are, I am excited about your ministry. I'm excited that I have the pleasure, the honor to talk to someone like you that is in the trenches and you've learned from a legacy of grandfathers, fathers, and your mom and all these people around you, and you just love the hell out of people. And isn't that all Jesus wants us to do? Because, if was it, love brings a person to repentance. It's the love that draws people to Christ.

Scotty McLeod: 13:29

Yes, sir, and actually you know you have to be attitudes. Blessed are the poor in spirit, Blessed are the poor. Blessed are those when they mourn and it turns everything the world thinks upside down. So God uses the bad. He takes the cross and he makes it a plus. He takes the cross and he makes it a plus. He takes a minus and he makes it a plus. When bad things happen to us, if they bring us back to God, then they're the greatest thing that ever could have happened to us. I never would have made it. I had to go through all that, the drugs, the jail, you know. I had to go through that to be able to get to a point to where I was willing to surrender to God. Those bad things can be good. He uses them for the good. Romans 8, 28.

Ron Meyers: 14:16

Yeah, he sure does. For the listeners out there, tell them how they could find some information about Our Father's Arms.

Scotty McLeod: 14:24

Our Father's Arms is in Jacksonville, alabama. We're on Facebook. We're actually. We have a website that we're going to be updating pretty soon. Or you can write us at 45 Pinewood Street, jacksonville, alabama, 36265. Or you can write us at 389 Dogwood Lane, jacksonville, alabama, 36265.

Ron Meyers: 14:46

That's amazing, and it made me think that there might be somebody out there now that just wants to send a card or some encouragement to some of the folks that are there, and I'm sure you would love to have things like that right Amen.

Scotty McLeod: 15:00

Well, that'd be wonderful.

Ron Meyers: 15:01

Hey, scotty, tell us about your international ministry. You are doing work all over the world.

Scotty McLeod: 15:07

Yes, there's a preacher from Southampton, england, named Vic Jacobson and back in the 80s when my dad first turned his life around, vic was coming to this little country church once a year by the house and daddy was fired up for Jesus, you know.

Scotty McLeod: 15:23

So he started calling Vic long distance over in England and Vic was kind of his mentor and anyway, you know, daddy wrote these songs and daddy's songs have played in England, ukraine. But Vic and Daddy's friendship blossomed and Vic ran a ministry out of Ukraine and England called Hope. Now, well, vic knows all these people in Ukraine, so Daddy starts going over there and sharing and ministering to the people in Ukraine and him and Vic started working together. So when Daddy passed away, vic and him and Vic started working together. So when Daddy passed away, vic called me and Vic became my mentor and we've ended up going to visit Ukraine before the war, visiting the orphanages there, and now we raise money to send the families of wounded soldiers and we still have a little church here by the house. They helped build a church in Ukraine, cherkassy, ukraine, and we just got stuff going all over God's hand's all in it.

Ron Meyers: 16:20

God's on the move, Scotty. The name of the show is Get the Hell Out of your Life, and I want to ask you how do you get the hell out of your life?

Scotty McLeod: 16:30

By surrendering all that you have, all that you are and all that you hope to be into the arms of our loving Lord and Savior, jesus Christ.

Ron Meyers: 16:40

Amen. Now, as we conclude our conversation, would you close us out in a prayer to the listeners listening?

Scotty McLeod: 16:48

Yes, sir, I would, Lord, thank you for all you've done for us. Thank you for loving us in spite of all we've done. Thank you for loving us in spite of the sin that's in us. Lord, Thank you for loving the hell out of us. Lord, we thank you, we love you and we praise you In Jesus' name, amen.

Ron Meyers: 17:12

When I return my commentary. Jesus wants his reputation back.

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I think there are a lot of people that are sitting in churches right now, or maybe sitting in coffee shops, that have a story to tell of what God's done in their life, but they're never going to get the pulpit, they're never going to get a microphone, they're never going to get an opportunity to share their story with the world. Well, that's where we come in. We will interview these people and we will have the platform in place and share their story in film and in written material across the world. And so I got pills that were once again laced with fentanyl and Xanax and I blacked out while I was driving my truck down the interstate.

Scotty McLeod: 18:08

I've seen so many people that have been set free.

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You know that's just surrendered, you know, surrendered to God, God's way, God's direction. Life with Jesus is better than what I could have ever expected it to be.

Ron Meyers: 18:21

You know I have peace. We will be a voice for the silent that say hey, let me tell my story of what God's done for me.

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Here's a refreshing word for you today from Galatians, chapter 2, 20. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, the life I live in the body. I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Jesus wants his reputation back.

Ron Meyers: 19:29

That is the title of my commentary today. Reputation Back. That is the title of my commentary today. I once told an atheist that I believe you are an atheist because nobody has really ever told you about the true character and nature of Jesus, and he said that could be true. You see, friends, we live in a world where Jesus is often misrepresented and the truth about what he did on the cross is distorted. So Jesus wants his reputation back.

Ron Meyers: 19:55

At the heart of Jesus' mission was the intention to reveal the nature of God as a loving, relational and gracious God. The cross stands as the ultimate testament to this truth, a symbol of sacrifice that transcends human understanding. Yet in many circles, this message has been overshadowed by legalism, fear and a portrayal of Jesus as an angry judge rather than a loving, compassionate Savior. This misrepresentation distorts the beauty, the awesome beauty, of the gospel and creates barriers that prevent individuals from experiencing the fullness of his love. Jesus does not want us to live in guilt or shame. Rather, he invites us into a relationship marked by his extravagant grace and freedom. His finished work on the cross signifies that the debt of sin has been paid, offering us a pathway to reconciliation with God and to suggest that Jesus is mad at us is to undermine the very essence of his sacrifice and the depth of his love. Instead, we are encouraged to see him as the one who embraces us in our brokenness, offering restoration and hope.

Ron Meyers: 21:08

This intimate relationship that Jesus desires with each of us is characterized by trust and vulnerability. He longs for us to approach him not as distant subjects bound by rules, but as beloved children, welcomed into his presence, inviting us to share our hearts with him, to seek his guidance and to experience the unspeakable joy of walking in fellowship with him. This relationship is not I repeat, is not contingent upon our performance, but is rooted in his grace, which is sufficient for all our needs. As we reflect on what it means for Jesus to reclaim his reputation, we are called to embody his love in our actions and interactions. We must strive to communicate the truth of the gospel with clarity and compassion, ensuring that those around us see the Jesus who loves unconditionally and desires a personal relationship with them. This means breaking down the barriers of judgment and condemnation that have been erected in his name and replacing them with the messages of hope, forgiveness, acceptance and grace.

Ron Meyers: 22:26

So, in conclusion, today I want you to think about this Jesus wants his reputation back, not as a distant deity demanding perfection, but as a loving Savior who will meet you where you are, and he invites you each and every day into a transformative relationship. He wants us to understand that we are not defined by our failures or shortcomings, but by his unfailing love and grace. So let's embrace this truth and share it with the world, allowing the true character of Jesus to shine brightly through our lives. In doing so, we not only honor his sacrifice, but also invite others to experience the freedom and intimacy that come from knowing him. And when we let our shine in this dark world and we tell people why we have the hope in us that is playing our part in helping to restore the reputation of Jesus.

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