Starve The Sumo: How to Kill What's Trying to Kill You | 349

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jerrad shares the burden of watching good men fall. Not because they wanted to, but because they fed something that eventually took over. He talks about hidden addictions, quiet compromises, and the kind of decisions that seem small until they’re not. He tells the story of what it means to let sin grow, how it steals joy and freedom, and what it looks like to cut it out before it cuts you down. This is about finishing well, not through willpower, but by starving what’s trying to take you out.

Tune in to hear why your future depends on what you feed today.

What You’ll Hear:

Why moral failure doesn’t start big
How compromise grows into control
What the Bible says about desire, sin, and death
Why your habits shape the legacy your kids will remember
How to starve what’s killing you instead of trying to manage it
The difference between salvation and discipleship
What Jesus meant when He said to cut it off
Why finishing well requires sacrifice, not just intention

Episode Resources:

James 1:15, Romans 12:1–2, Matthew 5:29–30
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0:47.7	The other day I was watching this documentary. I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen it but I think it was
0:52.0	on Netflix but it's called Free Solo.
0:59.6	And it's about this guy who decides he wants to look at the biggest mountains in the world.
1:01.0	Then he wants to go climb them.
1:06.3	And where you and I just drive by and we go, neat, El Capitan, that's a big mountain.
1:07.4	He goes, you know what?
1:14.7	I think I'm going to climb that thing. But he doesn't do it with a rope and a belay or he doesn't do it in a charted path where he's going to be safe if he falls. He doesn't grab anything with him. He takes like a bag of that, you know, powder stuff. And then he
1:20.4	just goes and he climbs it. Just when I watch it, it makes my stomach hurt. Like, I don't know if you guys are big heights people, but
1:27.6	yeah boy is not. And I just sat there thinking, what does it take for a dude to think that
1:34.0	that is something they want to do with their life? And they show in the documentary, there's
1:38.2	actually something wrong with his brain. Like his fear sensor doesn't work very well. But
1:42.3	that's all to say. I was talking about this with
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