“GRACE LIFE SPECIAL – Women’s Strong Rescue: Then and Now (Mimi)Triumph Through Adversity (Inky)”

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Welcome to today’s broadcast.
Now, hasn’t it been an amazing week?
We’ve been going through the sessions from Grace Life Conference 2023, diving into the grace that was made available to us through Christ Jesus.
Now today, we’re going to see the message from the last 2 grace life 2023 speakers, Doctor Mimi Hadad and Inkei Johnson.
Now Mimi is up first.
She spoke at the women’s session and is best known for her profound teaching on biblical equality.
Now, men, you need to hear this too.
She gives new revelation to what god meant when he said he would make a helper for man in the form of a woman.
Watch this.
And so from Genesis to Revelation, we find women who gave moral spiritual, physical, and intellectual leadership despite human prejudice.
This is so much the case that I’m gonna pose a challenge to you right now, find one woman in the Bible who did what was right in god’s eyes and who was completely submissive to male culture.
She ain’t there. She ain’t there.
I mean, think about this.
We have 2 books in the old Bible, Esther and Ruth, named after women.
Doesn’t happen in the ancient world.
In fact, sociologists and anthropologists are scratching their heads about so much in the Bible.
Esther and Ruth is one example.
In the male centered world, Esther challenged her husband, who was a king?
That could have happened. Right.
And Ruth and Naomi traveled to find their kinsmen deem or Boaz, and and and roof initiates romantic overtures very much outside the standard of its demand who does the asking.
But then you have the song of songs, woman who has some romantic interest, and she’s not gonna be quiet about it.
They’re behaving like people, like human beings.
I think there’s the Proverbs 31 woman, right, we don’t even know about her husband.
Her name and her achievements celebrated in the gates of Jerusalem.
So people coming in inside it’s sort of like, I mean, it’s like social media or what used to be newspapers, right?
You walk through the city. There she is. The Proverbs 31 woman.
Outstanding leader in Israel, terrific businesswoman.
We think of Jay Allen, we’re gonna talk about some of these women later.
But these women were, um, not only human, but they had such extraordinary courage when you consider what they did.
And that’s how god introduces women in the next slide, Genesis too.
Now, the only not good in a perfect world, and this is straight from the Bible, is Adam’s aloneness.
Adam cannot really complete the divine commission of tending to the garden without an etzerconnecto in Hebrew, which means a strong rescuer.
Now our English Bible, mostly run by met mailed translation teams until recently, and I’m happy to say CBE has its own.
They translated this amazing Hebrew word as help.
It means it comes from 2 root words to be strong and to rescue.
This is why we have Esther. This is why we have roof.
And this is why we have the other women you will meet.
Now they translated it this way, and it’s used this word at, sir, is used 21 times in the old testament most often for god rescue of Israel.
I lift up my eyes to the hill where my atzer comes.
My rescuer, the maker of heaven and earth, Now that’s not to say that women are more divine than men, but god realized for them to complete their work representing God in the world, the 2 of them had to work together.
And this is really what the Humanitarians are saying to us today.
Unless you have women working beside men in every corner of the world, unethical practices rise.
Productivity goes down.
You are needed at the leadership tables in every field You weren’t created to be a subordinate.
You were created because your moral rescue is needed in businesses today.
Your moral rescue is needed in science and medicine and law. In law.
Because we see things men don’t because we’re granular and cannot leave ourselves in the backroom.
We’re needed at those not because we’re striding and want power and need control, but because we recognize it without us, the projects don’t go as well.
Now, not only so god says, okay, Adam, the loan’s bad.
Neat Etzer. What happens next? He goes to okay. Go to sleep. He rests.
The rest we talked about yesterday.
He rests and she is taken out of his side because and and when he wakes up and meets her and says, Oh, I like your hair.
He wakes up and sees her And it’s the first human words in the Bible.
The first human words we have in the Bible in Genesis At last, this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.
I’ll call you woman because you’re from me.
It it is a dec declaration of their unity, their oneness of substance created in god’s image, for moral decision making and created from his body to share that one flesh relationship of marriage and to work beside him in the garden.
If you go to Christian, uh, you look for a good Christian book.
It’s always about marriage and these sorts of things often they talk about our differences, but the Bible celebrates their similarities.
Their oneness of substance because they have one project together to govern the world in god as god’s representatives.
And this is so beautiful. And you wonder why it didn’t last.
Adam and Eve rebel against god.
Each of them make a distinct decision on their own that they will eat of that one thing in a world of total bliss and total provision, just one thing they can’t do.
Then they do it. They were deceived He was deceived by the serpent.
And this, an animated bad choice, And this rebellion creates a disharmony and a rupture in their relationship with god, one another, themselves and the rest of the garden.
It is a chaos that sets in, and god says, woman your desire will be for your man, and he will rule over you.
And the tragic thing in my opinion about this is that in a falling world, the one we live in now, this dominance, which some churches say is biblical, It’s part of the sin.
It wasn’t god’s recommendation. It wasn’t the way they lived in a perfect world.
It is part of the falling world, which Jesus came to upend.
But when we think of it as the norm, what does that do?
When we say it’s how it should be, We are diminishing a woman, women created in god’s image.
What’s the lander that is? She was created in god’s image for shared governance.
It kind of puts a cloak over woman what she’s supposed to be The second that happens in the very same, uh, chapter, at verse later, God said, I am going to fix this.
I’m going to send a redeemer.
And the woman will bear Dutch child, the Christ.
It’s the Holy Spirit and a Woman, and has so junior truth, man ain’t have nothing to do with it.
Okay. So, dear, manning had nothing to What was lost?
Through Eve was supremely provided through the Holy Spirit and Mary.
And it’s such a beautiful truth.
So despite their sin, god redeems humanity, Christ will come through a woman.
She will bear the child, and he will crush evil.
And this, this, uh, Christ will crush the Serpent’s head And woman will be free once again.
Listen. What did I tell you?
That was so powerful. Women are strong rescuers, and they work alongside us men to bring the balance, dude.
I know Tapp has been my strong rescuer on many occasions personally and professional.
Now next up is Inke Johnson.
He is a former college football player who was headed to the NFL.
Before he was seriously injured during a game.
He spoke to the men about how to triumph through adversity. His testimony is so powerful.
Let’s take a look.
I come into my junior year, I was a projected top 30 draft pick as a corner.
Had my paperwork from the league. Come out first football game, execute, get the victory.
Everything is going great. 2nd game plan against Air Force, fourth quarter of the game, 2 minutes left, game is basically over.
We break the huddle Jarrod Mayo called quarter’s coverage.
As we’re walking back to our position, I say, bro, I hope they throw the ball my way.
Man, I can make this tackle. We get ready for the game.
In Florida next week, we can go ahead and close this chapter. Place starts to unfold.
Quarterback is dropping back, tapping the ball, looking in my direction. I’m looking at him.
He releases it to a receiver. He catches it. I go to make a routine tackle.
Something I knew how to do 10, 20, 30 different ways. I’ve been doing since I was a kid.
At the point of contact as soon as I hit him.
Seem as if every breath in my body left. My body went completely limp.
I fell to the ground. I blacked out. I never experienced anything like that before.
When my eyes opened, my teammates ran over to me and they said, ain’t get up, this rock.
Let’s go. I said, I can’t. I said, what you mean you can’t, man?
You’re a captain. You always get up. You go, you nurse your injury after the game.
I said, I can’t move.
There’s a shock going from the crown of my head to the bottom of my feet.
I couldn’t feel anything. One of the scariest moments of my life, a shock eventually left but it stayed in my right arm of hand.
Remember they brought the spine board out. They put me on the spine board.
They’re willing me off the field. We get to the ambulance. My father is standing there.
I say to my father, pops. I got him, right? I put it on him, right?
He said, yeah, son, but I think you got the worst part of this.
They give me to the hospital.
They said, Ingo, take you over, run a couple tests, put you in the room, Chevy thing will be fine as ball.
Things happen. They take me. They run their test. They put me in a room. My mother comes in.
Mom old school, man, tough as nails, comes in the room, cracks a joke, kiss me on my forehead, says, and you’ll be fine.
This ball, things happen. You’ll be good. She goes to exit the room.
I watch her exit the room and she makes a left.
When she makes a left, I flip my head back to the left.
And when I flipped my head back to the left, I remember seeing the lead doctor.
He was running in my direction and he was screaming. And he was saying, guys, guys, get in here.
We gotta rush this kid. Back to emergency surgery, he’s about to die.
And I remember saying to him, Like, die? You tell me, like, die.
Wait for me to die? Like, man, what happened?
He said, when we looked at the test, we noticed you ruptured your subclavian artery, your main artery, and you’re bleeding internally.
He said, we gotta rush you back and take the main vein out of your left leg, plug it into your chest in order to save your life.
He said, oh, I guarantee you You won’t be alive in the morning. You’ll bleed out.
I said,
let’s go. And the next morning I woke up, I had 6 incisions down my left eye, one incision across the left side of my neck, one across the right, twice through my right ribs, cut out my right pack, bottom of my arm pit to the bottom of my hand, 350 staples in my body, they had bandaged me from my neck down to my knees.
It said when we went in to repair the artery, we noticed you had torn the nerves and you break your plexus.
I said, what’s that? They said it’s the nerve roots that come from your spine, that controls shoulder arm hand fingers.
And so think about it this way, ink, when you plug something into a wall, that’s how to break your plexus goes into the spine.
But once you rupture him, it can’t go back in.
It says, so we hate to inform you, man, but the goal is to get you to ADL.
I said, what’s ADL? They said assisted daily living.
They said, if we can get you to a point with your right arm that you can go to a grocery store, and put a bag under your arm, that’ll be a plus for us.
Game of football probably done. And I’m in the moment like no way.
By god, man, I’ve been working for this a long time, man.
Like, let me make it, get the contract, help my family, damn, weak it.
My god, we’re right here. My mother and my father at the hospital.
Now my whole life, my mother, really despise my father.
Like, even when they were trying to transfer me to schools, they couldn’t really be in the same room or the same environment.
For too long. It was like a rockwile landed to Wildwile. My mother was a rockwile.
I don’t know how it be.
My pot might look in and see me and see my mother. You’re like, well, I’m a catch y’all.
It ain’t It ain’t coming in there. Right?
He couldn’t it couldn’t be in the same environment.
And for the first time in a long time, My mother and my father was in the same room.
Like, the foolishness was cut out. Right? That’s the beauty of adversity and opposition sometimes.
It trims the fat. Right? That’s why my favorite quote is King’s quote
that says, you judge the true character and caliber of a person, not by what he’s saying in times of comfort and convenience, you judge the true character and caliber of
a person by what he’s saying in times of challenge and controversy. Right?
The great thing about adversity and opposition, it trims the fat.
And so at the time, they didn’t know if there was gonna have to amputate my arm didn’t know if there’s gonna have to amputate the back.
They didn’t know any of that.
And we’re sitting in the room, and I’m lying on the edge of my bed, and I’m sitting there, and I got my head to the ceiling.
And my mother is lying on a little cot, and my father is lying on the floor, looking up at the ceiling, And I heard my father say Ruby is my mother’s name.
He said, I’m sorry.
He said, you did a great job raising that boy.
And my mother started crying. I was like, God, what you doing, boy?
This is a miracle ready. Go, what you doing?
Then my father says, Inc, I’m gonna come and stay with you, man, for the next 30 days, or however long you need me.
It’s how ever long you need me, man.
I hadn’t been under the same roof as my father, probably more than 2 days.
And so I’m a drop everything in Atlanta, and I’m a come and stay and dedicate all my attention and energy to helping you, son.
Whatever you need. This was big for me.
And every single day, I would keep up with my same routine.
I would go to discipleship I’ll go to rehab for my own.
I’ll go to my different classes, and my father would be with me.
So I had a mother that came up just to preface it.
I had a mother that was crazy about god.
In church Sunday, Monday, whenever they were let in, she ain’t there.
My father, he ain’t really wanna hear that.
Because he had a mother that he lost as a teenager.
And then he had me when he was sixteen. And his mother was all he ever had.
And so when he lost his mother, and then some happens to his son who was at the time prize possession.
My son gonna make it. My guy, this is my dude, ain’t gonna do it.
And then something happens, it’s almost a shot to the ego.
And every single day, he would take me to everything except discipleship he would never go in.
Would stand outside of the room. I’ll be like, pop. You wanna come in and hear the word?
Nah. I ain’t gonna cool. I’m just gonna stand out of you.
And every single night, me and my roommates, we were routine. We were athletes.
And so from the time we came on campus to the time we left, we were routine.
Wake up a certain time, work out a certain time, go to class and certain we were routine.
And so even when my father came in the house and was still a certain level of routine, we would pray around the same time.
I’m talking about every single day.
And my father was with me until one day, he went into the training room, and I’m talking about my father, 63, 250.
And I literally watched the stress of the moment take him down to where my father was literally walking around and he was humpback.
From the adversity, opposition, and stress of the moment.
I watched when he walked in our door, walked up strong, upright.
Then I watched him halfway through the journey of the 1st month and my father’s back was leaning over.
And when I would go get rehab on my arm, he would go in and sit on the training table and he would say, man, can I get a heat pack on my back?
It would put a heat pack on his back.
They would stretch him until one day he laid on the table.
He was like, man, can I get a heat pack on my back?
They put a heat pack on his back. He took that one off. He said, can I get another one?
They said, we’re not sure if you need another. He was like, please give me another one.
My back is tight. They put another one on his back. They took that one up.
He said, can I please get another one? They put another one on his back.
And when they pulled it up, I’ll never forget some of his skin came with it.
Because he was carrying a burden that wasn’t here to carry in the first place.
He was fighting a battle that wasn’t here as the fight in the first place.
And every single night, my father was circling around and he would go rooms.
He would go to Ramon’s room. Hey, Ramon. You need something. Ramon said, no, I’ll pop some good.
Hey, Mayor. You need something. No, I’ll pop some good. Hey, ink. You need something. No.
Pop some good. And on 29th day, I’ll never forget. He coming around doing his rounds Hey, Ramon.
You good? Yeah. Pop some good. Mayor, you good? Yeah. Pop some good. I’m on the side of my bed.
I’m on my knee. I grew up my grandma. Right?
My grandma just get on the side of the bed and pray.
I’m on the side of the bed and I’m about to pray.
My father walks in So he said, ain’t you good? I said, yes, sir. I’m good.
And he goes to walk off. And he comes back in the door frame.
He said, your ain’t. I was like, yes, sir.
He said, man, You know that god you pray to?
I was like, yes, sir. So you know that god I take you to discipleship about?
I was like, yes, sir.
He said, man, if that god can help you handle this situation, the way you handling it, he said something I want to give my life to Christ.
And my father got saved.
My father had a wife and 2 daughters. A household got corrected.
And so cats come up to me every single week, man, And they say to me, hey, ink, if you could change what happened to you, would you change it?
Hey, Inc,
you said you would never change what happened to you.
If you could be in an NFL right now, making 1,000,000 of dollars, like, you wouldn’t change that?
Like, man, you gotta paralyze right on my head. What about the atrophy?
I’m like, man, I wouldn’t change it for nothing in the world.
And they always say to me why?
I’m like, bro, if I had to put it on a scale, and wait NFL contract.
My father’s salvation We got the
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