Seeking a Life of Love & Truth: Rev Run & Justine Simmons and Matt Brown
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Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We’re able to share our hearts and to love others because God chose to love us first. Today’s guests, Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons of RUN-D.M.C. and his wife Justine, along with evangelist and founder of Think Eternity Matt Brown share how they’ve learned to develop qualities of pure, selfless love and how this love has profoundly changed their lives. When he was at the height of his music career, Rev Run couldn’t ignore the void inside him, and it wasn’t until he discovered Jesus that he finally felt whole. He and Justine share their marriage secrets and what it takes to make a relationship work (spoiler alert: put God first!). There’s one nagging thought that keeps Matt Brown up at night: how will the world ever feel God’s love if Christians don’t accurately represent it? If we want to experience the full love that God has for each of us and spread that love to others, we need to set our intentions of seeking that love daily.
Links, Products and Resources Mentioned:
Jesus Calling book
Jesus Calling for Kids, Girls Edition devotional
Becoming Mrs. Lewis book
Rev Run & Justine Simmons
Old School Love: And Why It Works book
Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons
God, Can You Hear Me? Children’s book
Rolling Stone Magazine
Matt Brown
Truth Plus Love: The Jesus Way to Influence book
Interview Quotes:
”It's just funny how you can visualize and set your intentions, and things just come to pass.” - Rev Run
“There's this void that success and money can't fill.” - Rev Run
“You’d think that making hit records or money or cars or fame or people saying, "Oh, you're the greatest," people praising you for making your music would do it. But actually, when you start praising God, that's when you get happy.” - Rev Run
“I love [my husband] so much, but I love God more.” - Justine Simmons
“Spending and dedicating time with God leads to a better hearing ear.” - Rev Run
“Enjoying each other's company is probably a big part of staying together.” - Rev Run
“God has a way of making it clear to us where He wants us to go and what He wants us to do. . . . To grow in the Lord, and to reflect God to the world around us, we need both truth and love.” - Matt Brown
“How is the world supposed to see the grace of God if the people of God are not gracious?” - Matt Brown
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| 0:00.0 | We make it our business to try to make the other person happy. |
| 0:07.0 | I want him to be happy, he wants me to be happy, so we're kind of almost looking out, |
| 0:12.0 | like, is he okay, Is she okay? You know? |
| 0:15.0 | So we look out for each other so that helps. That helps a lot. |
| 0:20.0 | Instead of fighting and being against each other, we're trying to help each other. |
| 0:23.7 | Instead of selfish with selfless. |
| 0:26.1 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. This week's guests discuss all the qualities that embody |
| 0:32.0 | love from patience to |
| 0:33.7 | sacrifice to acceptance and how we can love others because God first loved us. |
| 0:38.2 | Entertainers and authors Rev Ron and Justin Simmons and |
| 0:41.8 | evangelist Matt Brown. |
| 0:47.0 | When he founded the Rap Group Run DMC, Joey Simmons, as he was known then, |
| 0:51.0 | had no idea the group would become so successful, topping charts and eventually landing the group into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
| 0:58.0 | But more than any of the success he had in his |
| 1:05.0 | wife, wife of 25 years Justine and his family more than anything else. |
| 1:10.0 | Rev Run and Justine talk about how Rev Run found God at the height of his rap career, the power of setting intentions, and why old school love works so well. |
| 1:19.0 | My name is Joseph Rev Run Simmons. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm from the rap group run DMC. |
| 1:25.4 | I've also done many reality shows with my family and I'm here with my wife Justine. |
| 1:32.2 | Hi my name wife Justine. |
| 1:50.0 | Hi, my name is Justine Simmons and I'm a mom, a wife, and my husband and I also put out a book, Old School Love and Why It Works, and I also have a children's book called God, Can You Hear Me? Well, for me growing up, I I really sang a lot so I think I thought I was going to be like this |
| 1:57.6 | big singer that's what I thought because me and my friends, we sang a lot. |
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