Hebrews ~ Everything Starts with Jesus: Body Matters - Audio
This episode appears to contain dynamically inserted ads. Transcript timestamps may be approximate.
Carter is going to share, if you want to sit for just a minute, he's going to share his testimony. Hello, everybody. My name is Carter Gibbs. I'm coming to our church here now for just over two years. And I just want to tell you that I love it here. My kids, Gage and Kaikea. They come along too. Oh, there I am. Okay. So, I'd like to start off with a prayer if we may, okay? Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for being the true and only God. Thank you for being our God. Thank you for being the God of the Bible. And thank you for your spirit that's among us and within us, Lord. Please have this be to the glory of you. For I'm sharing my exchange that I had. We love you. In Jesus' name, Amen. Do we get photos? All right, so I'm an avid motorcycle rider and my son has become one. And he and I, we ride as often as we can. We typically, we ride at racetracks. And this particular day on 6/10 of this year, Gage and I chose to ride at Paris Raceway. We'd never been there before. Never been to Paris. Don't know what it's about. We get there early. I drive a truck in a trailer. And the young lady says for us to go park over, find a stretch of off to the side where the fence is. So, I do. We're one of the first people there. Gage and I are getting dressed. We're getting ready to go. And of course, he's super excited. He gets on the track. He's one of the first guys on the track as I'm still stretching out. Trying to get my oldness up there to go right, right? Okay. And I'm watching the track now where we camp at or where we park. I'm about 50 to 60 feet away from a left hand turn right in front of us. And so, at that time, I'm watching a handful of guys come through and I see these three guys coming at me. And then I sit down and the one guy crashes. The two guys that were behind him stopped. It was a slow speed crash. Not a big deal, right? Well, I stood up and I looked at the angle of that rider that was down. And I knew something was wrong and I immediately ran there. Once I got there, I noticed that his positioning of his head to his body was wrong. And so, what I did was I went into immediate action. I told the one rider, "Call 911 right now." And I told the other rider, "Go get the on-site EMT. We need them now." The good news is, is that they were watching us from the tower. The EMT was already on his way there. What I did was I knelt down in the corner. His face was down in his chest. I lifted him up and I noticed his neck and I noticed his coloration. At about that time, that EMT had gotten there and he said, "Hey, you're flipping him over. I got this, hold his neck, do this, do that." The EMT then took over. But I knew exactly what was going on here. I secured his head, didn't move his neck, and his color was a purple peanut butter color. His neck and his face. And that's a really bad sign, guys. It's really, really bad. Any EMTs in here or anyone can tell you that that's just, it's bad. So what we did was we cut away his strap, pulled his helmet off, and then the EMT and I switched. I was holding his head. Now I'm cutting off his chest protector and his jersey and the EMT is holding his head. We then go into compressions and he goes in the mouth to mouth. From there, we flipped back over. We changed spots and I was holding his head and the EMT then was doing chest compressions. At this time, there were probably 20, 25 riders around us, including my son. He was watching us in action. When we turned him over, the man went from the color that he was into blue and he turned to ash. We checked for pulse. There was no pulse. We continued CPR, continued chest compressions. There was nothing there. And so I just put my forehead on his and I said, "God, you will be done. But if you could bring this guy back, please bring this guy back for him to be a part of your kingdom or an ongoing part of your kingdom." And he began to gurgle and he coughed and he gurgled. And it still took us an additional probably three or four minutes to work with this gentleman. He wasn't really there, but he was breathing. And his skin color came back. It was miraculous. What I saw, the skin color that was ash from blue to ash became bright pink so fast and I could see it rushing up. And it was awesome and that was an opportunity for this man to have another chance at life.
Transcription truncated.
Jesus shared in our humanity so that by His death He might break the power of him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil - and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.