Chadd Wright
Appearances
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1009 | The Military Knows Exactly What's Going On with the Mystery Drones
No, I haven't either. Drones wasn't a big thing. It was kind of coming about after I had done Got Out.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
And Al, you made the point of how the evil one will kind of wage war against us in terms of on that physical side, our health, right? Well, what is the evil one's ultimate goal? It's to kill you. It's to kill you, right? So he wants you out of here, right?
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Because he knows if he can take you out of the equation, that's less that you can be used in the kingdom, you know, for the work that you've been given to do. And so I've just never thought about that before in terms of a spiritual attack, how, you know, addiction to food and sugar and an unhealthy lifestyle can Yeah, you can view it in that way, and you've got to wage the war on that front.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Yeah, I think about it quite often. And by the way, we were fortunate enough to interview my brother Zach on our podcast, and he laid out this whole doctrine of the eternal life beginning now for the believer in long form and so beautifully. Yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Zach, you are just on to something there that has impacted me and really changed my perspective on the time that I have here on this earth as a follower of Christ. And man, I just pray that the Lord continues to use you to put that message out because it's a message that the church needs to hear. everywhere, and especially here in America. This isn't just us in survival mode.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Man, this is us thriving. Our eternal life began the moment we received the gift of salvation, and we are walking in that power through this life, man. And that message has changed my perspective, Zach.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
I love you so much for that. But as far as spiritual warfare, you know... And the thing is, a lot of Christians might be listening to this, and it's hard to understand because, you know, we live in a country where our lives can be pretty cushy, right? And we're thinking about spiritual warfare. What is all this talk about spiritual warfare?
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
You know, I've got, you know, even our problems that we have here in this country, are pretty silly. I mean, they're a big deal to us, but they're pretty silly problems for the most part, right? So what is the battle for every believer, the battle that every believer can identify with? It's the battle between the remnant
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
of the old man, that because you are still on this earth, there is a remnant of flesh. And the warfare is the battle between that remnant of your flesh and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit in you.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
And, you know, I read Romans 12 and most of my speaking is off of Romans 12. Do not be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed. Literally go through a metamorphosis. by the renewal of your mind. And when I speak on that, I have to wonder how many Christians are out there in the audience thinking, well, why do I need to renew my mind? It's because you are in a fight.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
And the fight is between that remnant of your fallen man and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit. And it's a daily battle for us to... to put that remnant to death as much as we possibly can. And now, this is not for salvation. This is fighting the good fight. This isn't salvation. We're saved by grace through faith and faith alone.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
But to me, that is the daily battle and the spiritual warfare aspect. It doesn't always play out in the same type of experience that I had overseas, right? That's what we want. We want to experience something like that because it's this confirmation that, okay, this is real. I mean, you sense the realness of it. Yeah. You know, that experience that I had
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
I don't attribute that experience I had to the work of Satan because Satan is way smarter than that. Satan would have never orchestrated that experience because he's smart enough to know that that's going to probably put me on a different course, right? And so, you know, you think about how smart the enemy is. He... Should you fear Satan? That's a question that I struggle with.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Yes.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Yeah, that's good, Jace. That's good. Isn't it funny how we can read these specific scriptures and kind of misinterpret them for years and years and years, and then it just doesn't quite make sense? When something in scripture doesn't make sense, it's because you're not understanding it right. Well, exactly.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Just back to your original question on the Ephesians, you know, and spiritual warfare, I just think it's, you know, don't always... Because you can get carried away with spiritual warfare, too. You know, you see people that their entire ministry just revolves around that one single, you know, aspect of Scripture, and you get carried away with it, you know, but... But there is a battle.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
It doesn't always look like what you think it's going to look like. And the battle is the forces of evil. Basically playing to that remnant of your fallen man, I think, and trying to manipulate the mind into succumbing to that. Now, I don't believe in this battle that's being waged, and I don't know about you guys, but I don't believe that...
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
there is any force of evil or the evil one that can actually create a scenario where the... child of God can lose their salvation. I don't believe that. I think if we could lose our salvation, if it was ours to lose, we would darn sure lose it. And so that's another thing, when we talk about spiritual warfare,
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
I think so many Christians are out there going through life, and they hear about this spiritual warfare, and they get scared in a sense of, I might lose this battle and therefore lose my salvation. And so that's another important thing that I think should be discussed in terms of this conversation, is Satan is not powerful enough to come in and basically...
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Oh, yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
You know what that is? It's that little thing you got sitting on the corner of the table right there for 90% of people. Yeah. That's that foot hole that's liable to make you tap.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
I noticed this the other day. I'll share a little part of recently. Obviously, I'm connected in the fitness world, and a lot of the pages and stuff on Instagram are fitness pages, right? And by the standards of the world, it is not wrong for a female athlete to post these pictures of themselves that really don't leave much... for the imagination.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
I mean, if you follow fitness content, you are going to see some stuff from female athletes, and I'm a man and I like women, and by the standards of the world, that's not an issue.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
But just to talk about how something like that gives the devil a foothold, as I scrolled through Instagram, I realized I was seeing these photos of these female athletes, and by the world standard, there's nothing wrong with it. And I realized I liked it. Yeah. I mean, you hit one, and then you see the little dots across the bottom, and you're like, oh, she's posted a bunch of pictures.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Let me swipe through these real quick. But then what ends up happening, if you don't nip that in the butt, what ends up happening, you go out into public, and a glance becomes a gaze in real life. Yeah. Right. And then what ends up, it progresses from there.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Praise the Lord for that, man.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Well, I tell you, I appreciate that. I don't accept it because I'm going to tell you, Phil, man, there's not words that can express how thankful I am for Phil, even though I've never met him. uh he has been such an impactful force in my life and just a steady calm voice of of truth man yeah and i've gotten so much from that man and and i've never met him never will meet him yeah but
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Well, you'll meet him one day. Well, I'll meet him one day. Yeah. Apart from this earth. But I'm going to tell you. Yeah. I mean, I don't accept that compliment because I look at him as like, you know.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
You don't worry about all that. I just want to encourage every one of my brothers and sisters out there to today reflect upon what Jesus Christ said on the cross right before he gave up the ghost. It is finished, man. It is finished. We're talking about the spiritual warfare, all this stuff. Look, reflect upon that. It is finished. Praise the Lord for that, man.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
That's not on you, Zach. That's my man, Jay Stone. I learned so much about Jay Stone this weekend, you know, good and bad. I thought I knew Jay, but until we had the hunting hell week this week, you know, we have hell week in SEAL training, and for some reason, that's so Navy SEALs, we got to make everything hard, even hunting. And so we wanted to plan a hunt, and I said, well, May...
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Cocoon hunting, squirrel hunting, backwater, mosquitoes, heat, day, night, snakes. This is the hunting hell week. We had about 15 students to begin with, and we dwindled down the last hunt to four.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Yeah, yeah. And we had about the same attrition rate as SEAL training. We went from 15 to 4.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
Well, we had the dog, you know, and that makes squirrel hunting so much better when you've got that dog to show you where they're at. And, you know, you're moving, you're steady moving. But we killed a bunch. We took a mess over to Si. We took Si a whole pan of squirrels yesterday. That's his favorite thing to eat. Oh, he loves it.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
It is funny that here we've come down here to Louisiana, drove eight hours to do some hunting, And by the last hunt, there wasn't a single member of the hunting party from Louisiana. We had three Georgia boys and a Florida boy out there running... A North Florida boy from Lake City, from what I hear, right? Running around a cornfield last night.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
We had no idea where we were, where the water was, but we had a buggy to hunt out of and a dog out there running a coon, and we made it happen. So... And Al, I want to congratulate you, man, because I know a lot of people are listening to this on audio and they can't see we only have half of Al. Where's the rest of you? I mean, I am so proud of you, man.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
And I can appreciate the amount of discipline that it has probably taken you and mental fortitude. to to not only just begin that journey, but to stick with it to the point that you have to feel so much better now, man.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
No, and it's amazing too, man, when you consider how much our physical body and our mind, we call it our soul, our mind, will, and emotions, and our spirit, they're all so interconnected in so many different ways. And you know, we don't do the best job as the church in terms of holding each other accountable to our physical health, right?
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
And when we can improve our physical health by discipline, by doing the things we know we should do, it does have a major positive impact on what we are doing. able to accomplish as an ambassador for Christ out in the world. Not only the image that we portray in this physical world, but we just feel better. We have more energy. We have more drive.
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
I think our mind is clear when we read the word, when we read scripture, when we pray, our mind is clear to, to, to, you know, receive what the Lord has for us in his word. Yeah. It's just all connected. And I would challenge every, uh,
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Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
follower of Christ who's listening to this show, if you need to lose a little weight, get out and move your body, put in the work, and it's going to make a positive impact in the kingdom. It's definitely not everything, right?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1089 | A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Fighting Demons, Distraction & Spiritual Decay
I'm not saying we should get to the point where we are worshiping our bodies and idolizing our physical fitness and our health, but it will make a tremendous impact, I believe.