God’s Power Over Wrong Choices: Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase and WWE’s Marc Mero
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Former WWE wrestlers Ted DiBiase and Marc Mero learned just how powerful our choices could be: they can either leave us empty, or allow us to be used by God for His good. Wrestling fans may know Ted DiBiase as “The Million Dollar Man,” but today, we get a look at the man behind the persona. Ted looks back on how his father, who was also a wrestler, influenced Ted to pursue the sport he loved. As Ted rose through the ranks and became a world-famous wrestler, he reveals how he got caught up in a destructive lifestyle that led him to the brink of losing everything that really mattered to him. A talented athlete from an early age, Marc Mero always had dreams of being in professional sports. As he acquired all the things he had dreamed of since he was a little boy—fame, wealth, status—he quickly realized his choices had consequences. After he recognized he’d been dreaming of the wrong things, Marc took a long, hard look at what he was living for.
Links, Products and Resources Mentioned:
Jesus Calling devotional by Sarah Young
Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Interview Quotes:
“But before you can commit your life to Christ, you have to surrender it first. And you're either all in or you're not in.” - Ted DiBiase
“Be a leader, not a follower. Be the head, not the tail. If you're willing to sacrifice, if you're willing to pay the price, you can be anything you want to be in life.” - Mike DiBiase, Ted’s father
“I had been so faithful to my convictions until God gave me what I wanted.” - Ted DiBiase
“I want to tear up and cry because of the realization that there's a God that big who could love me that much.” - Ted DiBiase
“I'm at the height of my career. I've got everything I ever dreamed, I ever wanted. Plus I've got this unbelievable wife and these three beautiful children, but I have no character. I have no integrity. I don't have the stuff that counts. And wow, that was a wakeup call.” - Ted DiBiase
“God, I don't know where we're going. All I know is this: I don't ever want to feel like this again. I don't ever want to feel this lost, this low. I know You have a plan for me, and I know You’ll help me figure it out. . . . You take the helm of the ship. . . . I'm giving You my world to take care of.” - Ted DiBiase
“You always want to be a part of things. You always want to be liked. You want to be a good teammate or a good person. And I think because I wasn't good at first in sports, it made me work that much harder.” - Marc Mero
“I often tell kids that failure's not aiming high and missing. Failure's aiming too low and hitting. And I just say, ‘Dream big, aim high.’” - Marc Mero
“When you realize it's you that has to change, everything around you starts to change.” - Marc Mero
“We all go through hard times. We all go through storms in life. . . . Don't give up because I promise you, after every storm, the sun will eventually shine brighter than you could ever imagine.” - Marc Mero
“Many people are guilty of just being too hard on themselves. And when you're hard on yourself, you have to learn to love and value yourself because you can't give away what you don't have.” - Marc Mero
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| 0:00.0 | We talk about committing our life to Christ. Before you can commit your life to Christ, |
| 0:07.4 | you have to surrender it first. And you're either all in or you're not in. You're either totally in or you're not in. You know, it's a total commitment. |
| 0:18.4 | He has got to become the number one priority and the number one relationship in your life. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Today's guests are two men who have learned about the power of choices |
| 0:31.0 | because choices can either leave us empty or allow us to be used by God for |
| 0:35.1 | his good. |
| 0:37.0 | Former W.W.E. Wrestlers Ted DiBiazzi and Mark Miro. |
| 0:42.4 | Wrestling fans may know Ted Diyazzi as the million dollar man, but today we get a look at the |
| 0:47.5 | man behind the persona. |
| 0:49.8 | Ted looks back on how his father, who was also a wrestler, influenced him to pursue the sport he loved. |
| 0:56.3 | As Ted rose through the ranks and became a world famous wrestler, he reveals how he got caught |
| 1:00.6 | up in a destructive lifestyle that led him to the brink of losing everything |
| 1:04.4 | that really mattered to him. |
| 1:06.3 | Hi everybody, I'm Ted DiBiasi, better known to some of you, if you're a wrestling fan, |
| 1:11.9 | as the million-dollar man of the world wrestling |
| 1:13.6 | entertainment. |
| 1:14.6 | I had a wrestling career that spanned it some 19 years actively and another six years |
| 1:20.3 | behind the scenes as a manager commentator. So a 25 year career for the last 18 almost |
| 1:27.9 | 19 years I've been in full-time evangelism. I'm a father, a husband, and most of all a follower of Jesus Christ. |
| 1:37.4 | My biological father's name was Ted Wills. He was a professional singer and he and I can't remember what year they married but I was two years old when they divorced and when they divorced I went back to southern |
| 1:56.0 | Arizona where my grandparents had moved from Nebraska. This is my mother's |
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