197. These Are A Few Of My Favorite IFB Things - A Thanksgiving Special

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Grace lit the flame, now I'm puffing peace, cigars and victory justified, released. For freedom, he set me free. Not for chains, not for guilt, not for Pharisee. Grace lit the flame, now I'm puffing peace, cigars and victory justified, released. Let grace begin. For freedom, you've got me free, not for change, not for guilt, not for Pharisee. Grace lit the flame, now I'm puffing you. Now here are your hosts, James Seyfried and Brett Martin. Well, welcome back to the For Freedom podcast. We're so thankful that you're here listening to us this week. This is Thanksgiving time. It's a time for turkey and dressing and cranberry sauce. And I'm going to start this out before we get into our subject. You said something. I got a apology right there. Is it dressing or is it stuffing? It's cornbread dressing, man. Oh, my goodness. I'm a stuffing. I call it stuffing. Me and my sister-in-law, we get into it every year at Thanksgiving because it's stuffing. And she brings stuffing. And she says, no, it's dressing because it's made a certain way. And she goes through this whole long diatribe of if it's made from this, it's called dressing. If it's made from this, it's called stuffing. And what she's making is dressing. And I look at her and I say, no, no, it's all stuffing. It is wonderful stovetop stuffing. I love it all, but I'm going to call it stuffing. Well, I'll tell you why that is. It's because, you know, North Carolina is still considered the South, but you're a lot closer to Yankee land than I am. Okay. Okay. You know, that's what it's called. It's dressing the South and stuffing is the North. Is that what it is? Yeah. And so you're kind of in that intermediary, you know, area where it's either or. But listen. Dear listener, it's stuffing. Comment on this episode. Let us know if it's stuffing. If it's dressing, comment on it. Let us know if it's dressing. Maybe Brett will put a poll out on social media or something. And is it coming? We're going to have to poll that. Well, here's the thing. Do you stuffing or dressing? Do you do the cranberry sauce? Heck no. Cranberry sauce is for the birds, man. I think that if I see cranberry sauce come to my house, I open the dumpster up outside and immediately dump it into the dumpster. Let me tell you my position. I was like you. I was like, no cranberry sauce. Throw that in the road. But get rid of it. But then I accidentally tried it and it's not that bad. Accidentally tried it. I accidentally tried it. Like, I don't like it on its own. But, man, you get just a little bit. You mix it up in that dressing or stuffing and makes it a little bit sweeter. It's kind of a sweet, savory thing. It's not that bad. It's not that bad. But I used to be like you. It was a no-go. I'm never going to accidentally try stuffing. Because if it's at my house, one, it's not coming into my house. And, two, if I see it at someone else's house, it's like a brick wall is built around it because it's not touching anything on my plate. Okay. So here's what I want to ask you. I want you to give me, because I didn't tell you about this before. This is in the moment. I want you to give me two Thanksgiving mains for meats that you like your favorite. I want you to give me two sides, like your top two sides. And then I want you to give me two desserts. And then we'll go back and forth. All right. We'll start with the meats. I'll give you about two meats. Got to have either smoked or deep-fried turkey. Got to have one more on that. Deep-fried is one of mine. Yeah. Deep-fried, fantastic. My brother smoked a turkey last year. Oh, my goodness. It was fantastic. So either smoked or deep-fried. Don't put it in the oven. Don't do that mess there. It's either got to be smoked or it's got to be deep-fried. It's going to be fantastic. My other one, because that's turkey, it's got to be one of them. My other one lately. This one may be people may get, maybe they're going to tell me, hey, that's not a Thanksgiving meal. Brisket. Brisket on Thanksgiving. Oh, my goodness. My brother-in-law, he makes some great smoked brisket. My father-in-law, he's got a smoker. He's been smoking some brisket lately. Man, brisket, it's out of this world. So brisket and turkey, those two things, got to have them on Thanksgiving. So here's mine. My first one, of course, is deep-fried turkey. And you got to have, you know, down the south, we got something called a Cajun injector. And, you know, put that garlic and that spice. And, you know, the commercial is Cajun injector. Put all the taste in the right place. And so you got to have some Cajun-injected deep-fried turkey. And then number two, my mom's family would always make this homemade fried chicken. And every Thanksgiving, it's homemade. It's, I mean, he cut the, my Uncle Rick, he cuts the chicken. He batters it himself. He cooks it in a little electric deep-fried skillet. Oh, it's so great every year. And so I would have to say fried turkey and homemade fried chicken. Love it. You lead us off. Sides, where are you at, man? Two sides. My number one side is my wife makes hash brown casserole. And I love me some hash. Now, commercially, the best hash brown casserole you're going to find, I think, is Cracker Barrel. Yeah, we agree, Cracker Barrel. And to me, my wife's is just as good or better. This hash brown casserole is something that I make her, I make her make it every year. I have to have at least once a year. And my other thing, I'm a deviled egg guy. I could smash a whole tray of deviled eggs. I love me. And I don't care if the pickle, if the relish is dill. I don't care if it's sweet. If it's deviled eggs, you put it on there. You put a little paprika on top. Give it some color. I love me some deviled eggs. I always have. Yeah. 100% I'm with you on the deviled eggs. Deviled eggs is my number one idea when it comes to Thanksgiving. We've got some ladies in our church. They make some smacking deviled eggs. Oh, it's so good. Nothing beats my mom's deviled eggs. I don't know how she does it. I don't know if it's just the special love that she puts into it because she knows I'm going to eat them. But she typically makes just a tray just for me to eat. And then my two boys, they'll smack on some deviled eggs as well. They love them. Now, I will say, nothing beats my mom's deviled eggs. No one will ever beat my mom's deviled eggs. Last year, my father-in-law made brisket deviled eggs. He took deviled egg sauce, took the Jack Daniel's barbecue brisket, warmed it up, got it hot, mixed it in with the deviled egg mixture, and then piped it into the deviled eggs, made it just like that. I'm not going to lie. It was one of the best deviled eggs I've ever put in my mouth. It's fantastic. So I'm hoping he makes it for Thanksgiving. It's going to be a great time. The thing that I have gotten enjoyed with Thanksgiving lately is, this is so crazy, Brett, broccoli salad. Me and my wife, we make a broccoli salad. It's got the bacon. It's got the mayonnaise dressing in it that you mix up with the sugar and the vinegar. It's got the sunflower seeds. It's got the crispiness of the broccoli itself. When I make it, because I'm the one that cuts everything else and makes it, I pull out a portion of it and put it in its own container because my wife and my mother-in-law and my family, they like it with onions, and I don't like raw onions at all. And so then they chop up the onions and they throw it in there. But I have my own container with my own broccoli salad. You give me some brisket and some turkey and broccoli salad and deviled eggs and a football game on with a cigar beside me, I'm really close to heaven in that moment. I mean, it's getting real close because we're about to get to desserts. That's where heaven really begins to happen for us. Exactly. All right, now you do two desserts and I'll finish. All right, two desserts. I'm basic, plain Jane. Really, there's got to be three desserts. But if I'm doing two desserts, if I've got to pick two, top two desserts, I'm doing pecan pie. And now mine may change here because I'm about to make that pecan combo that I thought I was making it for Thanksgiving for my dad's house. So pecan pie is my number one go-to. If I see it there, I've got to have it. Number two is sweet potato casserole with the Ruth Chris style pecans, butter, brown sugar, top on it. That's just delightful that you just got to dig into. I am. My number one is pecan pie. You cannot beat that goo, that ooey gooey goodness in the middle of a pecan pie. I'm really not sure how people make it. I'm not sure if that's like the juice inside of a pecan. I don't know where it comes from. You juice pecan pie. But I tell you, I absolutely love me some pecan pie. If I'm on a diet and you've got a whole table of desserts and I can only get one slice of one thing, it's going to be a slice of pecan pie every time. My number two is I love me. Like, my honorable, what would your honorable mention be? My honorable mention would be pumpkin pie because I love pumpkin or sweet potato pie. One of those two would be, that was the third, like I was debating in my head. And as I'm looking at the dessert table, I'm realizing I would pick a sweet potato casserole over a pumpkin pie or a sweet potato pie. I can't tell the difference between the two. They're the exact same in my mind. And so that's sort of where I'm at. My honorable mention is banana pudding. I love me some bananas. I like jello banana pudding. I like homemade banana, warm banana pudding, which is really good. But I would have to say my second dessert over banana pudding would be bread pudding. It's a good, sweet bread pudding. I mean, I like the kinds where you can see that it was, they just took the bread out of the loaf, you know, out of the package and put it in there. Yeah, they just put the bread in there and made it. I love me some bread pudding. If it's there, I'm going to get that too. And that is Thanksgiving. Man, I'm getting hungry. I love it, man. I love all of it. All right. So we want to do something different today. It's Thanksgiving day. Hey, you're with your family. You may not be listening to this on Thanksgiving day. Maybe you're traveling and you've got your kids in the car with you. And you're like, you know what? Let's listen to these crazy guys talk on their podcast. I make my kids endure listening to podcasts when they're in the car with me. So we've entitled this. The, the, these are a few of my favorite IFB things. And so we're going to talk through our top five as me and Brett have been mulling over our IFB upbringing. Um, you know, there's some things that we can appreciate about our past. Um, I just preached a message, uh, this last year or this last week here on our Sunday night service called the people that remember. And I think it's important to remember that where we came from the past, uh, the good, the bad, and the ugly. And we've talked about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the IFB a lot on this episode, uh, on this last series with the fundamentalism, the, the past, the fundamentalism, the future of fundamentalism, the figures that we've looked at. Uh, but today we want to look and sort of digest sort of our things that we appreciate about our upbringing, the things that, that made us who we are. So we've given our top five. I've put down my top five. Brett's given his top five. We're going to start at the bottom of our list. Number five, working our way up. We're going to each go back and forth. Tell us our favorite, maybe expound upon it a little bit. Give you some context. So Brett, I'll start, uh, number five, the fifth thing. And it was tough just to put five. Cause I really, as I got to write this list down, uh, there was a lot of things that I appreciate about my upbringing that I appreciate about my pastors and about the IFB, um, uh, more so than what I realized. And so it's good to do that every once in a while. But number five for me was the view and the connection that the IFB had to missions and mission organizations. Uh, so I went on my very first mission trip at 17 down to Peru. Uh, I recently got to do a chapel where I talked about all the mission trips that I went on. And I realized that the vast majority of my mission trips were connected to IFB missionaries. Even when I became an SBC guy, uh, I still was going down and visiting IFB missionaries, taking groups down to see them because, uh, I had these connections that I had made 10, 15, 20 years ago. Um, and just the view and the love that I have for missions, the love that I have to tell people about Jesus, uh, comes from the IFB and the model that they put forward, uh, in my life growing up. Um, I would have to say my number five of one of my favorite things that I took away from the IFB is a kind of like my, my heritage is strong preaching, like my preaching style. Um, listen, you've got some great, awesome preachers in the SBC and some other churches, modern churches. Um, but man, some of these people in SBC, they don't know what it's like to get an IFB preacher up there. I mean, listen, you, you take away the legalistic standards and the personal preferences. You take away the high B horse preaching and the pet peeve preaching. And you insert an expository preaching, expository preaching into that style. And let me tell you something. You had some IFB preachers that could suck the corn, man. I mean, the dudes could preach. I mean, it's bold, it's authoritative, it's passionate, it's straightforward. Or I was thinking the other day about Tony Hudson, you know, if you were to take out all the bad stuff and they got all the, you know, the, the, the personal preference driven, ego driven preaching. I mean, the dude is a good orator. I mean, he's really getting what he does. He may only have 10 minutes of, of what he has to say, but in those 10 minutes, he's gonna, he's gonna pontificate greatly on what he does. Exactly. And you know, most IFB preachers, there's no sermon prep. They don't know how, I wasn't used to use a commentary at Howes Anderson. You know, but the, but the style of get up and confidence in the pulpit, the unapologetic, unapologetic stance, humor, it's a really good tool to use in preaching. And I'm thankful that I've been able to take the good parts of that style and, you know, you know, insert the good parts. And listen, let me tell you something. I'm, I'm not God's gift to preach in there. Preachers around me that can preach me under the table. But it just, from my personal experience, I'm telling you this, I, I've been able to take the good parts of that preaching style and get up and preach. And, you know, you know, you preach like that. And some of these Southern Baptist churches, people come up and say, Oh, I've never heard anybody preach like that before. And, uh, you know, you know, you know, you got the good sayings, like you put that on top of your head, your tongue will beat your brains out trying to get to it and stuff like that. You know, it was all shut the corn stuff. And so, um, you know, we are just really, I'm, I'm really thankful that I've been able to take that, bring that preaching style. Yeah. Brett, why don't you go to number four, but before you do that, uh, when I got to the church where I met, they came up to me, I had a man come up to me who was 93 years old and, uh, he was born and raised in the church. He pulled me aside and he said, young man, he said, we haven't had preaching like that in this church for 50 years. He said, they just weren't used to energetic, applicational preaching, expository preaching. Um, it was just really shallow in the way of their preaching. And so, uh, I was like, well, Hey, I appreciate it. And I had to ask him, what do you mean by that? And then he told me, you know, just your excitement and your zeal for the, for the love of Jesus was great. Um, all right. Number four, you go to Brett. Number four, I'll go. I'll call you. Number four. This is an, this is one that's, uh, I'm going to turn a negative into a positive here and it's learning what not to replicate as a pastor. And I know we're doing positive things and all the rest that I have are positive. It's kind of like the one negative that I have, but you know, I learned not to try to control people with fear and intimidation. You know, there's a difference between, uh, leading with guilt and leading with grace. There's a difference between shepherding people and the manipulating people, trying to control them. You know, and looking back, my pastor, he would just get up and, you know, hindsight, he would just preach the same message over and over and just attach a different scripture to it. Um, but he would always preach on the same thing. It was the same three sermons over and over. And it was good church on time, dresses on women, King James Bible, tiger 10%. And he would just, you know, rinse and repeat with a new scripture, you know, and even today I hear preachers preach a message that aren't IFD. They're just like, you know, they're non-denominational Southern Baptist and a preacher get up and they preach something that doesn't have anything to do with the scripture that they're preaching on. And I just cringe, you know, I learned that, you know, uh, that means, uh, I saw so many preachers have a subject they want to preach on and they take two words out of the verse and then they close their Bible and they, they riff for 50 minutes. And, uh, you know, IP preachers would use, you know, a platform to humiliate somebody, you know, there's a difference between preaching at people and preaching for people. Um, and so that, that kind of, I did learn what not to do in that respect. And I am thankful for that. Yeah. My number four is the love for the word of God. Um, they held the scripture to a high standard. Now it may have been a preferential standard of the King James, uh, but it was to a high standard, right? The love of scripture was preeminent in what they did. They preached from the world, from the Bible. They preached the love for the word. Um, and, uh, for me, it built into vital DNA, the love for the word of God. And I, I tell people that just two weeks ago I had a meeting or I was at a really God ordained moment for me to share the gospel. I never even had my Bible there with me, but I was able to expound scripture and stories and ideas from scripture because it had just been drilled into me to know scripture that way. And so the love of scripture that they have, the high view of scripture is something that I appreciate that I was taught. My number three is the value of commitment and faithfulness that I got from the IFB. Yeah. And I believe the one thing that I was taught was faithfulness. And that is like showing up faithfulness. Um, when I tell you that I was there every time the door was open, I was there every time the door was open. You know, uh, whatever can be said about whatever you want to say about the movement, the folks showed up. If you're in the IFB and IFB church, the doors are open. You showed up, you know, I'll tell you as a Southern Baptist pastor, and you, maybe you can attest to this. I have a lot of people, a lot of trouble getting people, getting people to show up sometimes, you know, but in the IFB movement, people showed up. Now, once again, you got to take that with a grain of salt. You know, you can't run yourself ragged. You can't burn yourself out. There were days when I was at the church every single day of a seven day week. And, you know, that's as a teenager and as a layman. And, and, but, you know, they did take faithfulness, um, and being involved. It was a priority for them. And, and I, I, I translated that into my secular life because I learned what it meant to show up and be dependable. And, you know, one of the reasons why my last secular job, you know, once again, I'm not trying to ring my own bell. I'm just giving you a practical example. Uh, you know, my last secular job, I got promoted and they almost made me president of the company. Not because I was anything special, because I was the only guy that would show up. But everybody else would call in sick and, and not go in. And I, I would only call in sick when I was, I was actually sick. And that was rare. I would just show up for work every day on time and nobody else at my job was doing that. And that's why I got the promotion. And I honestly believe I learned that in the IFB for better or worse. That's where it came from. Exactly right. I agree with it. I can attest to that as well. Uh, my number three, we'll go to my number three. Now, my number three is my love for ministry and people, uh, being under brother Eric for those four years, he modeled for me, man, what it meant to love people and be there for people. Um, how to do ministry, how to, uh, be with someone when they're going through hard times, uh, and just the love of ministry and to want to be around ministry. Um, and do the things of what God has called us to do. Uh, so for me, just being there and being in ministry and the love of what they had shown and modeled was so vital for me as a young preacher boy. Number two, a passion for evangelism, uh, passion for evangelism. If there's one thing that the IFB churches are passionate about, they're passionate about soul winning, they're passionate about personal witnessing. Now, you have to divorce that from the easy believism. You have to divorce that from the one, two, three, pray after me and bring it to real true discipleship. However, in my experience, what I found is Southern Baptist, they don't have a lot of experience going up to strangers and talking about the gospel or going up to a door. You don't know and, and knocking on it. And that's kind of the one thing that where I am now really don't have a problem with it because I learned about it in the IFB. The IFB taught me to do that as a young age. I'm, I'm 13, 14 years. I'm knocking on strangers doors, talking to them. I didn't say I've always wanted to do that when I was coming up in the IFB. Um, but, um, you know, I, and I'm not saying that door to door evangelism is the only way to do that. In fact, there are other, probably better ways of reaching people, but I don't have a problem talking to strangers about the gospel because, you know, the Lord lays on my heart to do that because I learned to do that at a young age. Like the Romans road. I know the Romans road by heart. You know, I can quote it in my sleep with my eyes closed backwards. It's going to come out King James, but it's in there. And, and how to transition a conversation to the gospel. Now I will say that going to New Orleans seminary, you know, has done a lot of good for me in the area of evangelism. It's expanded. It's improved. It's gave me a better understanding of evangelism that I got in the IFB, but those seeds came from the IFB movement. You know, I think in that regard, as far as evangelism goes, I was able to spit out the bones or the bad practices and keep all the good stuff. Yeah. Yeah. That's really good. Uh, my number two is, uh, last two are pretty personal to me, uh, my wife and my family. So my wife was reaching the IFB, uh, the bus ministry and, uh, the Lord allowed me to go to Arkansas for college, which is where my wife was at. If it wasn't for the IFB, I wouldn't have my wife and I wouldn't have the kids that I have. I'm sure I would have kids, uh, but I'm sure they wouldn't be the way they are now. And, uh, so just the, uh, the, the structure that it brought to my family, uh, was beneficial. Uh, but also just, you know, I look back and I, I, every time I see brother Eric, uh, I tell him, thank you. Thank you for reaching my wife. Thank you for the love for hot springs because he didn't have to go to hot springs. He didn't have to plant a church there. He could have went somewhere else and there's no telling where my wife would have ended up. Um, and if we would have ever come together, no, we wouldn't have. Uh, so it's because of him following the Lord and doing what he believed was right in that time. I brought my family. So it's, it's hard for me to, uh, sometimes be critical of champion and Eric because of that, because, uh, there's so much good that has come out of what he did. Now there's so, so much bad as well, uh, but so much good as far as my wife, my family, where we're at today. And so I'm thankful for that. My number one is a deep reverence for scripture, you know, and you, you've already hit on this for years of all the things that were messed up about the IFB. The one thing that the IFB taught you was to love your Bible. I came away with a reverence and respect for, for scripture. I knew so much of the Bible. Uh, they would make us memorize chapters in our Christian school. I'd memorize a different chapter a month. And so much of that Bible is still hidden in my heart. It's still there. Um, you know, we, we, we say this all the time, you know, when we quote it, it's going to be King James, but bless God it's in there. And I'm, I'm happy for that. Um, I am so thankful for that. I'm trying to instill that in my children. Now, once again, we have to divorce that from idolizing the Bible. You know, my pastor taught us that if you put the Bible on the ground, it's a sin. If you put anything on the Bible, it's a sin. Some people say, don't write in your Bible. Don't highlight in your Bible. Uh, I know some people in the IFB that, you know, when they're, that when their Bible gets worn out, they won't even, they won't even throw it away. They have this ritual where they burn it or they're, or they bury it. Um, you know, it, it, it's a bad habit in the IFB to use the Bible as a lucky charm. You know, have it on, I always have it on your, your dashboard or your coffee table, carry it with you everywhere you go. Go on to Walmart, carry the Bible like a sword. So people can see that you have it and been through all that. Uh, the, the, the old King James is more inspired than the Hebrew and the Greek, you know, all that stuff. You know, that's kind of getting off on a tangent. Uh, but what I want to get back to is once you divorce all that stuff from it, I grew up in an environment where the Bible mattered, where scripture was important, where the Bible, it needed to be opened. It needed to be read. It needed to be honored. It needed to be preached. And I still have that. And I am so incredibly thankful for it. Love it. My last and number one, last but not least is my salvation. So my mom and dad, when they got married, they were not in church. Uh, my mom did not get saved until I was a teenager in high school or in middle school. Um, and so for me, uh, my family being in church ultimately happened because of the IFB. Uh, someone worked with my dad, Rick Hildebrand, who invited him to church. They lived right beside the church. Uh, the church began loving on them and brought them to church. My mom was already pregnant with my oldest sister. Um, so she walks into the church eight months pregnant. They shower her with gifts. They began loving on her and showing her what a community looks like, uh, which involved me being born in the church. Um, and so without the IFB, uh, there would be a void of salvation. Uh, the, the void of the love of the Lord that was not there. Um, and ultimately the pastors that preach salvation on a faithful basis so that I could hear it. Not a watered down message, but a message of faithfulness, a message of salvation that Jesus loves us, that heaven is real. Hell is hot. Turn and believe and repent of your sin, uh, was what I was taught. And so I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful that I have salvation, uh, in Jesus and then no other person, but in him alone. And I'm thankful for the bringing of salvation in my life through the IFB. So that's our, our sort of our top five things that we're thankful for in the IFB. I know oftentimes we can, we can go over some things and sometimes broad brush with a, with a bad idea. Uh, but we want to sort of share some of our favorite IFB things, uh, that have impacted our life. And you know what, James, you know, I don't know about you, but I think I can smell my wife taking the turkey out of the oven. Let's go, baby. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. I'm ready to smash some of that pecan pie. I'm ready to light up a cigar with my family. It's going to be a great time. Uh, thank you guys for listening today. Uh, I know it's a holiday season and, uh, we hope you enjoy your time with your family. We hope you enjoy your time with, if you're with the church family, maybe you, uh, do an outreach on Thanksgiving. I know Eric and, and gospel light they do, which has been, in fact, for me, I didn't even mention this, uh, Brett, but they typically feed hundreds and thousands of people on Thanksgiving day. That morning they get there, they make food, they make to go boxes. They open up their facility. People come in, they run buses, they pick up people, they bring people to the church in cars. They take them to, to houses. Uh, when we were there just a couple of years ago, I called Eric and I said, Hey, I want to deliver, uh, 30 meals. Uh, give me 30 names. And so I showed up, they had 30 names there, 30 boxes of food. We went out, we took it to some neighborhoods. You know, here's a family of five that wanted meals. And so we gave them Thanksgiving meal. Uh, it was just the way that they've been doing it for years. They feed hundreds of thousands of people. Um, and so it's a great opportunity for what they do. So maybe you're doing that, uh, and you're enjoying listening today. Uh, but I hope you have enjoyed it today. Uh, and, uh, as always like share, subscribe to our podcast. And, uh, we're thankful that for five years, the Lord has allowed us to do this and, uh, talk through just some things that we have been going through in our life. So until next time, to God be the glory, great things he has done. I found my new name, found that good grace, found that healing, and the tears fell down my face when I found my beginning that has no ending. I found that second chance, found my best friend, found my forgiveness, found my happiness. I've been singing ever since, found my freedom in you. 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