Tim Tebow EXCLUSIVE: Health Secrets, Trafficking Crisis, & John 3:16 Miracle

33:25And I mean, it was I mean, does it blow your mind to think about? And I want to get back to this. But like now that I'm bringing that up, I mean, just the not coincidence of John 316, 316 passing hours. I mean, you've, you, you've saw it. I mean, that's absolutely crazy. It is crazy. It's so cool. And you know, my favorite stories are God's stories. Once you could have never written. And when I wore that in the national championship and 94 million people Googled it. And then three years later to the date of when I wore it, we're playing the Steelers in the playoffs and, and we win this crazy game and in overtime and an 80 yard touchdown.

34:01And then I'm getting ready to do the press conference and I'm told what just happened and I'm blown away. And I know there's several times that I've told that story and, you know, to crowds and people cheer and they clap for it. And I say, I didn't have the same response you did because my first response was shame and guilt that I thought that night was about a game. I thought it was about proving the doubters wrong or the critics wrong and God and that moment was reminding me no isn't it's never just about a game it's always more than that I remember going to do the press conference right after and answering questions about the game but there's these reporters that want to ask about all these things 316 yards and 31.6 and yards per completion and 3.16 and your yards per rush and the time of possession is 31.6 and the ratings for the night are 31.6 and you know it's a number one training thing all over the world all these social medias and everything that's happening and and i love it i'm so grateful for that but it also so grateful that i had no idea that god used something that i just thought was kind of in the past and he's like you think that i did it then and i'm done like you have no idea what i'm doing and it was such a reminder that god's ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts and we have no idea what he's doing but also i knew my heart that night was not for the things of eternity and the things of god it was it was about pride and ego and i proved the doubt was wrong and all of this and then god's using that reminding me and there's all these reporters that are over to the side and they want to ask the question so they're kind of like hey tell me all of these things adding up to 316 right like man that's a really big coincidence And I was like, well, you could believe that it's a really big coincidence, or we could believe that we serve a really big God.

35:53Yeah, that's so powerful. And it's just such a reminder to me that we really do. Yeah. I remember being blown away. It was sort of crazy. And I think about how Jesus talks about this is like, listen, I'm going to create a divide. I'm going to create a divide. And I think about you being one of those people early on that was the most outspoken Christian athlete I'd ever seen. and you went from winning this playoff game, again, winning the Heisman Trophy before all of this success, to the next couple years, basically NFL teams, and I felt like there was this sort of, I mean, I could kind of sense this sort of spiritual thing going on where it kind of feels like you were being denied what the rightful place you should have been in the NFL with your incredible skill set.

36:41How did it impact your faith? How did you deal with, even identity-wise, going through that sort of your time in the NFL and all those challenges? Well, I think first answer, there just should have been some areas that I just played better in, and that would have been helpful. But I also view it as an opportunity that God taught me so much. I think God teaches in the highs, but I also think he teaches a lot in the lows. And too many times, unfortunately, I live the roller coaster with the rest of the world of my life, the highs and the lows, versus of actually having my identity planted firmly in Christ.

37:29and even though I know the truth, it wasn't where I was placing my identity. Too many days and too many times my identity was in all these other things, in the highs or the lows. And if you do that, your life is going to be a roller coaster. Your emotions and your joy and your peace, it's going to be a roller coaster because you're putting on number one your circumstances rather than your Savior. But when our Savior is always on the throne and our circumstances are beneath that. And I'm not saying we can't have joy in our circumstances. I'm not saying there's not grief or there's not mourning.

38:06But even in the midst of those, and it reminds me of John 16, 33, the night before Jesus goes to the cross, he tells his disciples, for in me you have peace, in the world you are going to have trials or tribulation, but take heart, choose courage, I have overcome the world. Right? Like we know where there's peace. We know there's going to be trials and tribulations, but you get to constantly look back at the cross and know that I've overcome the world and that is our identity that's why we get to that's why Hebrews tells us we have this hope that is an anchor for our soul firm and secure we know that when Jesus defeated sin and death on the cross that it will never be undone or outdone that it is true and we can hold fast to those promises and that can be our identity that we hold on to and that gives us a hope that's not like the world And my favorite definition of the biblical form of hope is to look forward with confidence, expectation, and anticipation.

39:02We get to do that because it's based on the promises of God. We get to look forward with confidence because when we look back, we get to see the cross and the finished work of the cross. And when Jesus said to Telestai, it is finished or paid in full. That counts for us as believers. And then we get to have an expectation that our God isn't just done, but he's still working. That our God is still at work in us and through us and in the world. and then we get to have an anticipation, an anticipation that our best days are ahead of us. Why? Because heaven's ahead of us. So we get to actually look forward with the confidence, not based on our circumstances, based on our Savior, an anticipation that's based on hope that God is still at work, and then an anticipation that, man, we're citizens of heaven.

39:44That's our identity. When I pull out my ID, it says Timothy Richard Tebow in the state of Florida, and there's an expiration date, that's not what my spiritual ID says. My spiritual ID says son of the king, king of the world who will forever reign. My spiritual ID, there's no expiration date. And it doesn't say Florida. It says heaven. Like that's the identity that we're supposed to have, that we're supposed to live with. You know, I'm so grateful. One of the things that my parents did for us is they celebrated our spiritual birthdays, the day that we accepted Christ. Oh, wow. More so than they ever did our actual physical birthdays.

40:19and I loved it because it ingrained such a truth remember this day remember this moment remember this decision you know one of the things that is as a non-negotiable for us at our foundation and our companies and our family is our fifth non-negotiable wants to remember or do not forget and why we say that is because when you look at Deuteronomy 22 times I believe that Moses reminds the Israelites to remember or do not forget what God has done and they had been rescued out of egypt they're in the red sea party all of these amazing things that god has done they saw his love and his compassion and they saw him show up time and time again but then they're into a place and their circumstances they don't really like and so we're just kind of going to forget what god has done and they're they're viewing their circumstances more than they're viewing their love of god and the faithfulness of god and it changes everything and so for us we want to strive to have that mindset to really remember god's faithfulness do not forget god's faithfulness regardless of our circumstances because we do have hard circumstances look at what's taking place around the world i mean look at what's happening to christians being killed in nigeria right now and around the world different places all those that are being martyred for their faith it is but yeah there's a hope even in the sucky circumstances yeah you know I I was sharing right before we started filming I had this um this spinal infection that left me unable to walk for a year and the hardest thing through that whole time was I mean when I would focus on my diagnosis because the doctor told me he said you're gonna be permanently disabled wow and he said the best case scenario is you're gonna have chronic terrible pain the rest of your life those were his exact words what he told me and I had to if I would focus on that or even go online because I thought I thought okay I'm gonna do my own research and see hey what what are the outcomes if you've got this osteomyelitis and infection around your spinal cord and I thought okay let me look it up because he's not giving me the he's just giving me the worst case diagnosis and I started looking up stuff online I thought oh I feel even worse and then and I and I felt I'd never felt hopelessness or despair before, but I did for about 48 hours until I finally fixed my eyes back on Jesus.

42:39And I thought, he's the great physician. He's the miracle worker. And I just need to live with hope. That's what he calls me to do. That's what I'm called to do. And so I just started focusing on that. And I was full of so much hope, so much joy, so much excitement, knowing God is working a miracle in me right now. But it's just where we're shifting our focus. It's It's like if I focus here, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, despair, joy, hope. That's right. So, yeah. It just can't help when you say that. I can't help but think of Hebrews, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despised the shame, finished the race, sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, fixing our eyes, a locked focus.

43:23And when we do that, everything changes. Yeah, it's so powerful. Well, I'd love for you to walk us through. This is a two-part question. One would be, and I'd love for you to get practical here. What are practical things people can do? Number one, how does somebody practically on a daily basis build their identity? And number two, how does somebody practically find their purpose and live that out? It's a really good, deep question. Can I start with the purpose one first? Yeah, let's do that. So I've gotten asked this a lot. And I first always want to say, I don't know exactly. but one of the things that i've thought of to try to encourage people in this is what's your mindset what's your skill set what's your heart set what's your where set and when you look at all of that where god has placed you what he's given you what he's let you borrow as a skill set what has he pricked your heart for and what has he how has he developed your mind let you see let you think What problems can you solve?

44:23And when you add all of that up and you give it to God, all of those different sets, I believe God turns it into a super set. That's so good. But where has God placed you? What has he pricked your heart for? What has he opened your eyes for? You see, for me, when I look at and trying to discover my purpose in life over and over and over and over and over again, God has opened my eyes and pricked my heart for those that are suffering for those that have been looked past or beyond or through or viewed as less than or insignificant or cursed and I really believe that he opened my eyes to these encounters and he pricked my heart not because he was saying I just want you to be aware of this no because I want you to step in and do something about it I love them as much as I love you but what are you going to do about it It's not enough to feel something.

45:16There's a lot of people that feel something, but I want you to do something. What are you going to do? And that's why if we leave and we walk down the street, you could see someone that is hurting or someone that is homeless or someone that has been hurt or afflicted. And we could have sympathy or empathy, but you could have that on the other side of the street. But you can't have compassion from the other side of the street. Compassion is up close and personal. and in the Greek it's the word splagnizomai which means to be moved from your most inward parts and eight times I believe in scriptures used to talk about Jesus that he saw people hurting enough compassion splagnizomai to be moved from his most inward parts that's not comfortable it's uncomfortable yeah it is a pain but then he he met there he cared for them and he met their needs in the same way we are called not just to have sympathy or empathy but we are called to have compassion and i really believe another good definition of the modern day how we should talk about is to care so much for someone you're willing to suffer with them yeah and a lot of times people don't really always like that because it makes us uncomfortable but maybe when we have compassion we could help someone that is uncomfortable maybe one day be comfortable if we are willing to get uncomfortable but we live in a society that's so easy to seek and choose and want comfort yeah to want security but i really believe when we choose comfort and security we miss so much meaning purpose and significance and really it's the only way to grow like i think about the times in my life when i look back and i'm like well i really grew like i'm more like christ now i'm more compassionate i'm more it it's it's been times where i'm like this is where i've been changing the most i've been the most uncomfortable i've been doing things that are out in the ordinary well think about how god has made us to grow and adapt think about when we lift weights there you go you're uncomfortable you tear down and it grows back bigger i do the same way with our faith muscle and i believe the same way and understanding what god's called us to do is listen god can do whatever whenever however he wants like you know i he can do that i i just don't always see him do it in certain ways i don't hear a lot of testimonies of people are like man i was on netflix and i believe god called me to something incredible while i was watching netflix but I hear all the time, all the time, my whole life, people on mission trips or they were a part of a service project and they were like, man, when I was out there, you know, God did something in my heart.

47:42He did something to me. I couldn't even explain it. I just knew I wanted more of it. That's right. I don't know why God chooses to do it that way, but I believe that he uses that a lot. And maybe part of it is because you're willing to get uncomfortable. You're willing to take a step of faith. You're willing to care about someone else. You're willing to seek outside your own goals ambitions and dreams and to care for someone most of the time that can't do anything for you and i just see so many times god show up in those moments and impact people yeah you know one of the things i think about too is is that there's this sort of idea or definition of success today that's around hey you got a lot of fame you got so many social followers you got so much money and so i think people kind of latch on to that i remember uh looking at some statistic around like Gen Z.

48:27And when I was a kid, and probably pretty similar with you, it's like, what do you want to be when you grow up? Fireman, astronaut, doctor, president. Everybody says the same things. But today, it's a social media influencer is the number one thing. And you think, well, why do you want to be a social media influencer? Well, people see, oh, well, that means you're popular. And people want to be like, people want to be popular. And so versus if you have this biblical mindset. It's, you know, Jesus is like set at the end of the table, not at the head of the table. And it's just such a different mindset of understanding.

49:02No, I went and took the trash out for the neighbor. I went and I went on a mission trip. I donated to somebody. I just, I act with compassion. That's success. Those are crowns in heaven. Jordan Rubin, a good friend of mine, we've talked about this quite often. We have some, there's this man named Charles Mully, and he's got this amazing, amazing orphanage in Kenya that he's built. And so anyways, we just talked about a number of people like that. Heidi Baker is another friend of ours. And just looking at what they've done, we're like, man, they've got a lot of crowns in heaven. I mean, they've got such a great eternal perspective.

49:35And C.S. Lewis says this, the people that do the most in this life are the people that think the most about the next life. You know, and I think those sort of mindsets are incredibly powerful. You know, I want to go back because I'd love to share you to share anything practical on identity um are there and i'll share this for myself you know i found i think i my identity changes the most when i read the bible and read scriptures and meditate on them and how it impacts me in terms of god's um who god says i am yes but probably even more than that when i'm spending around spending time around um righteous virtuous people that model christ like when i see them and see what they do it makes me want to do like i'm convicted it's contagious yeah and when you're around those people you you want to be around them more you want to to look at the hope that they have that they hold on to you want to look at the meaning and the purpose and the significance and um and the passion that they have it's contagious but i just want to mention something that you uh just saying about about being a servant and what success looks like and I can't help but be reminded of scripture.

50:47The greatest among you will be a servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled. Whoever humbles himself will be exalted. We know that the greatest is King Jesus. He humbled himself, took on the form of flesh, as a bondservant being made in the likeness of men. He humbled himself to the point of death, even death on the cross. And when we talk about what striving for greatness is, it's about caring for others. It's about being a servant and ultimately it's having an eternal perspective on the things that really matter. Because we think in our society what is great is the, you know, the goat, the greatest of all time.

51:25Or it is success or it is money or it is fame. And go back to your point of influencers. Man, I can't tell you how many times I've fallen in that trap as a people pleaser because of the wanting people to like you. and I just you know when you look at social medias what's on all of them a like button and so it perpetuates this I want to be liked I want to be liked I want to have more people like me and I thought about this quite a few years ago what if we change the like button to a respect button what would happen what would we try to post what would we share how would we try to go about loving, caring, influencing people.

52:12And it's been a big shift for me and a big challenge. And it's one I constantly have to work on is trying to choose to earn respect versus gain likes because likes are fickle. They come and go, you share something, talk to someone and you say something they like, well, I'm like you. You say one thing they disagree with, I unfollow, I dislike, Like, I don't like you versus the respect. It's harder to gain, but it lasts so much longer. Wow. Like when you earn people's respect, when you work for it, then when you come to a disagreement, they might disagree. They might not like something, but they still have respect for you.

52:52I can't tell you how many, honestly, heroes of mine, I disagree with something, but I still have such an immense respect. We can have great conversations. We can be iron that sharpens iron even though we disagree on something. Disagreement is okay. I actually believe that many times it can be a good thing because we can sharpen one another with disagreements. But it doesn't mean we devalue people because of disagreements. And right now we're in a society when we disagree, we devalue. You are less than because you don't have the same opinion, political or faith-based or society-based or whatever it is.

53:30we devalue people. And when we devalue people based on your opinion, we're saying that your value only came from your opinion to start with. Yeah. I mean, I think that's incredibly profound. This is one of the things I'm going to walk away with that you shared today. I think that's so wise because I think that anytime I post now, I'm going to be more conscious of, is this advancing God's kingdom? And is this something, I'm going to think about the respect button. I think that's, I think it's powerful. You know, I had, this is, we're a few weeks out from this, Charlie Kirk being assassinated. And I was posting to pray for him and a number of things.

54:04And I lost like 10 ,000 followers in a real short period of time. But I kept posting because I really knew that I needed to talk about it. I just felt led to talk about it. I'm curious for yourself, did that impact you in any way? Have any impact on you in terms of when you - Crushed me. Yeah. I was heartbroken from it. I was heartbroken from the assassination for what Erica and their family had to go through and is going through, from their loved ones, from friends, from just the thought of, man, kids one day and other friends and loved ones can just go back and watch that video. and but I also believe that we serve a God that is working all things together for good to those that love him and are called according to his purpose and I believe that Charlie and Erica and their family were called according to his purpose and love God yeah somehow somehow even though we don't know and we can't see it we serve a God that's somehow working all of this together for good it doesn't mean all things are good yeah but he's working this tragedy this evil together for good somehow and then you see all these people go to church the next weekends and you see all these people that are are praying and and and that is so incredible but i would say another thing that broke my heart was then seeing certain people celebrate oh yeah what took place And that would take me back to the same conversation we just had, that you were celebrating a young man's death because you had a difference of opinion, which means his value to the world was based or devalued either way based on his opinion, not his true God-given worth.

56:03Yeah. And it's heartbreaking to see people celebrate that. And that shouldn't ever be the case regardless of our agreements or disagreements, but regardless of our political stances, regardless of our faith-based stances, we should know that every single person has a worth and a value that is priceless because it was priceless to God because God gave his life for you and for me. like and so i i just i i'm not sure out of all of that what i've been heartbroken by most yeah charlie if it's the family but man i have to say watching erica and how she's handled it it has um been such an encouragement and an influence and had an impact on me and my wife and I can't even imagine what she's going through, what she's been through.

57:00But the hope through it, the resilience, absolutely incredible. Yeah, you know, the thing that I feel like I was struck by the most is I saw this post. The first time it popped up on my feed, this is really soon after, a picture of him and Erica with their two kids, holding their two kids. And I just wept. And it's been rare for me to cry for somebody I'd never met before. But I just thought, and part of it was probably, like we have kids almost the same age and I've got two little kids. I've got a one-year-old. He had a one-year-old. I have a five-year-old. I think he had a three-year-old and just thinking, wow, that, you know, if that was me or Chelsea or, you know, just growing up without a dad, you know?

57:37So I think for me, you know, just, it really just hit me and it became personal. You know, the other thing that I was convicted by, and this is something that I just so admire about you. And I'm even convicted just through our conversation here is, is, but having that same heart for anyone that dies. They're having that same heart for kids that are Israeli or Palestinian or Iranian or whatever. And so, and that's what's so amazing about Jesus. I mean, his heart broke for everybody, you know, it's just, you know, and he wanted to heal everybody. You know, we read the stories about, you know, the Samaritans or the woman at the well or people who, and, and, you know, he, he cared for them too.

58:15The blind, the beggars, those with leprosy, He went to the least, the last, and the lost. When we look at Jesus' publicly recorded miracles, over 60 % were for those who were afflicted, and over 70 % were for those who we'd categorize as the MVP, the most vulnerable people. And he had a heart for those that were overlooked. And, you know, Scripture tells us that God is near to the brokenhearted. When I think about that, God's near to the brokenhearted means I want to be too. Yeah. I don't want to spend my life, I spend way too much chasing the wrong things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life being far from the brokenhearted, being afraid of the tough, the crisis, conflict, or chaos.

58:58I want to be in those places. I want to be in the hardest places because I know that our God shows up in the darkness. And when darkness and light meet, light wins every single time. And we know that God is near the brokenhearted. And man, I believe that should be a stirring and an urgency in our hearts to be there too. Yeah, that's so powerful. As a doctor and a dad, I'm always looking for simple natural habits to keep my family healthy. And one of my favorites is Manucora Manuka honey. And it's not just any honey. This is the real deal. It's raw. It's never processed. and the jar I use has an MGO rating of 850 plus, the highest I've ever seen.

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1:01:06I've got an audience that also wants to be healthy, wants to honor God with their bodies. Walk me through how maybe when you were younger or even a professional athlete or a college athlete, How did your thoughts about your physical health, how does it change between then and now? It's always been super important to me, although my actions for it have drastically changed as I've been striving to learn more and grow and adapt. I mean, when I was in college, they were telling us to carb load, you know, and so I was eating. I was doing what I thought was good, but now I think is pretty terrible. and some of the stuff that I was eating.

1:01:47But I've been very convicted and really felt almost a responsibility with it as well. I was, I can't remember if it was eighth, ninth grade, something like that. I put a box of Cocoa Pebbles in mom's grocery bag at Publix. And we get in the line and a young boy that was younger than me but was watching me in sports and he said look look dad and my mom's right and we're right in front he said look dad you know t-bo eats cocoa pebbles i'm gonna go get cocoa pebbles and it's crushing it's crushing to me and how wow you it's a bad influence and when i was 15 uh i haven't had of soft drink since um and just tried to make certain um decisions that i believe were best now a lot of that has changed yeah in learning and growing and um so i i really believe um in in stewardship and how stewardship is not just a financial thing it's not just our actions i also believe a big part of it is our bodies yeah um and i believe that when we we look at scripture and the word for stewardship is oikonomia.

1:03:10And the picture that scripture paints of that is that we're housekeepers, house managers. And when the master of the house, when the owner of the house shows back up, did we have everything in place? Did we take care of the house? And that's every area of our life that is in our actions. It's in our mind. It's in our bodies. It's in our temples. It's in our giving. It's in all of these areas of our life. And too many times we just kind of focus on a few of them versus really focus on all of them. And I think our bodies are a massive part because when we talk about running this race that God has for us and the purpose that God has for us and trying to show up with the right mindset, heart posture, all of this, how could we actually do it to the best of our ability to be the best stewards if we're not putting the right fuel in our body?

1:03:59If our mind is cloudy because we're putting junk, if our body is lackadaisical because we don't have the energy. I don't just believe it's for performance. It's for stewardship that changes our performance. Right. And that is so important. How could we say, God, I want to run this race all out. But if I'm not going to put the fuel in my body to go run the race. Yeah, that's so good. It's it's it's silly to me. And we also just don't talk about it a lot. Yeah, we just don't. Well, I think about growing up. So being real involved with church is like I went to church on Sunday, then Sunday school, then Wednesday nights, then, you know.

1:04:30Oh, yeah. And but church potlucks. I mean, historically. have been the worst, the absolute worst. Like it is. And I will say, you know, I mean, I know we've got some mutual friends like Craig Groeschel. I think about guys like Stephen Furnick. There are more pastors. This was not the case 20, 30 years ago. We got some buff pastors, you know, Craig Groeschel recently. And he incredibly fit for his age. So impressive. So I think pastors now more than ever are aware. However, it still needs to get better. I even think about, you know, we're called to be a light of the world and salt of the earth.

1:05:04And I think part of that is we should be shining in all areas. We should be shining in our careers and our health and all these things. Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all of your might. I believe that applies to every category that we live in. And one of my very sweet friends that we get to do ministry with, someone that I look up to so much, is a man that has put his life on the line for our country so many times and has taken a lot of wounds for our country to keep us free and has been blown up and has been shot at and has been hurt many times. And we got to partner on an awesome operation for dozens of special needs kids to get them out of an area where they're about to be overrun and get them into a location that was safe for them.

1:05:58And in this operation, this friend of mine, one of his wounds got infected really, really badly. And so he gets back to the States, and the doctor's saying, we might have to amputate your leg. And I hear, and I call him, I FaceTime him. I remember where I am. I'm in Colorado, and I'm getting ready to do a talk, and I get this news, and I walk into a private room, and I call him, and I FaceTime him. And I said, man, I am so sorry that you're going through this. And, man, I'm so sorry that there's a chance that they have to amputate your leg. And he's looking at me in the hospital bed. And he said, thank you so much, Demi.

1:06:36But to be honest, it wasn't mine anyways. God just let me borrow it for a little while, talking about his leg. And if I have to lose it, there wouldn't be a better way to lose it than doing this. That's powerful. That's what stewardship looks like. Yeah. Yeah. I want to continue the health conversation, but I do want to jump to something that I have been so inspired that I know you've been by as well is helping rescue victims of sex trafficking. I remember having this conversation with people quite a few years ago when I told them the statistics around how bad it was, and they said, that can't be true.

1:07:19In the United States, that can't be true. Talk to me a little bit about sort of what those current statistics are around sex trafficking and what you are trying to do about it and how we can support you in that. Well, we're trying to do anything and everything to fight on all these battlefronts. And when we talk about the trafficking or exploitation or abuse of people, it is rampant around the world. And so many times we just think it's over there, but it's not. It's here in our communities and the nicest communities in America. And it is at a rampant rate. You know, this year there will be around 400 million people around the world that are abused or exploited.

1:07:57You have over 50 million people that are trapped in human trafficking in one way or another. 50 million? Over 50 million. Wow. And that's a, you know, in the best experts guess, it's probably a low estimation. And there are more people that are being trafficked or exploited than probably ever in history. and then when we look at it here in in the the the states and people say well that's just happening over there but it's not when we talk about um those that are are sharing and distributing on the peer-to-peer networks the abuse of of boys and girls um like we used to trade baseball carts they're trading this material we're third worst in the world it's china russia us and then italy when we talk about the the buying of live stream rape of of boys and girls we're the number one buyer in the world wow i mean this is unbelievable it is in in our opinion it's one of the worst evils in the world yeah um and i think it's also important that we distinguish between exploitation and trafficking because primarily for trafficking it is done for profit now obviously those that are buyers are doing it for pleasure but in the exploitation space that is primarily done for pleasure um and kind of usually get thrown into the same lump together but it is one of the worst evils that we're trying to fight on every battlefront whether that is in policy and legislation whether it's to be able to safeguard as many as possible it's long-term restoration it is in labor trafficking sex trafficking organ harvesting forced marriages you know all of these areas and it's so nuanced and different whether we talk about technology and the sextortion and the grooming and the luring of boys and girls which is rampant you're just you know it's such a a vast area of battlefronts that we got to have more people stepping on on different ones and this is where we got to build up more technology that can fight we got to have more people on the line we got to have more safe homes around the country and around the world you know one of the the latest studies that I've seen is that every day there are about 25 ,000 people enter into the world of trafficking and only 500 exit.

1:10:15It is a battle that there are wins in, but we are losing every day. Wow. Well, I think for, I think this goes back to a conversation we were having earlier where it's really uncomfortable to, to talk about. It's uncomfortable for sometimes for people to face that reality. But I think for, you know, people out there, and you can share more than I'm about to share on what people can do. But I think being able to post online and bring awareness, I think being able to give whenever you can, what the Lord leads you to give. I know Chelsea and I have two organizations in particular that we've given to just regularly to support this cause.

1:10:58But I know that this is something, again, I think it's uncomfortable for people because it's just such a great tragedy. But what are some things people can do? Anything? Well, I think start by understanding the threats that when your kids go online. One of the examples I would give is if you were going to take your two kids to a playground, would you do it if you knew that there were hundreds of offenders walking around that playground looking for kids? No. There's no chance. No. Every time that we go on the internet, it's not much different. Yeah. There are people that are looking to groom, to lure, to exploit.

1:11:45I just want to say this. I have someone I met. He's kind of a friend I had met, and this happened to his daughter this this guy I mean he's he's a multi-millionaire very successful Christian family his daughter posted a picture of herself wearing a little less clothing on Instagram and then somebody somehow like got some of the files and then manipulated her and then went down this whole path of and let her into this so this is happening to you know this isn't This isn't rare. This is happening to a staggering amount of families and kids. And I believe it was in 2024 that Meta took down, I believe it was 74 ,000 accounts on Meta from Nigeria alone that were trying to groom or sextort.

1:12:39Oh, wow. American boys and girls. Yeah. 74 ,000 accounts in one year alone just on Meta. so we gotta understand that the mass of this like this is one of the greatest evils in the world that is taking place and it's not over there it is right here it is it is being done right here we hard for me to share but just a few days ago we had a an incredible survivor we um that had just been beaten with a rake um so bad that it's broken a lot of different bones in her face and um and the level of evil right and that's honestly why such a big part of the heart of look again right yeah like is to really see the value and worth that look at how we are exploiting one another how we are abusing one another how we are taking advantage of one another and some people say, well, I don't do that.

1:13:38Yeah, but how many times did we just walk past when we could stand in the gap? You know, we serve a king that didn't walk past. He didn't look by. He didn't just go and sit at the head of table. No, he went to those that are hurting when everybody is saying, like, why would you go and help those with leprosy? Like, this is crazy. Like, what are you doing? And yet he's going out of his way to help those. He's gone out of those way that are hurting. And that's what we're called to do as well in their darkest hour of need. And that's the mission that we try to live out every day. Well, you know, one of the things that I'm really excited for people to get your book look again, because I think that one thing that happens is when you see and you are able to start seeing yourself in a certain light and you have more value and you understand that Christ died for you, then it does something to you where maybe you start seeing people differently.

1:14:30That's right. There's another, again, I love C.S. Lewis. He has a quote that I'm not going to say the whole thing is a little bit long, but he's like, if we could really see people in their spiritual form, we would just be blown away if we could see their potential, if we could see their God-given nature, if we could see that sort of spirituality of who they actually are. He says something like, we would sort of like shudder, just we would be so blown away by them. And so I think when we're able to understand we're here, Christ died for us, our value and our worth, and then we see the worth and value in others.

1:15:02That's right. It works both ways. Which is the heart of it. When we understand our worth and value and then I see other people, there's something that's going to happen. I can't help but then see it in them. And now when I see people with infinite value and worth suffering, I will have to be compelled to do something. I can't sit there and be idle by. I have to respond. And that's why, as mentioned earlier about the challenge, We are challenged to respond. How will we respond? How will we respond to those that are suffering? How will we respond to those that are in need? When we really realize that it is our job, and I believe our mandate, to respond and care for those in their darkest hour of need, what will we do?

1:15:46And when you really realize your worth and you realize their worth, how could I walk by? I was thinking of talking about this with some of our team last night. we're just talking about examples of it and i thought of one i thought you know what like if you dropped a penny and you said hey timmy i just dropped a penny where's the penny at like i'd you know probably be like josh why do you care like come on it's just yeah yeah yeah but if you you dropped your wife's diamond ring and you said hey timmy i dropped my wife's diamond ring i don't know it's in the seat cushion or sitting it down you know we would get down and we would we would pull everything apart and we wouldn't care about the couches because this that ring is so valuable it's so valuable because it costs more but it's more valuable because it's priceless to you and her yeah right it's such meaning with it yeah except right now we view people more as pennies than we do more priceless than the diamond ring wow what if we viewed people was what if we really did view people as more valuable, more important than the things that we hold precious, like a diamond ring or all of these other things that we think are worth so much, but in the grand scheme, they're going to be worth nothing.

1:17:03Yeah, that's so good. You know, I think about, you know, when I first opened my practice, functional medicine practice, I had, you know, the conditions that were growing the fastest statistically were childhood obesity, childhood diabetes, type 2 diabetes. They were just growing so high. But today, if I look at the last five or seven years, it's a lot of mental health and identity issues, I think, are really worse than they've ever been. And I think that this sort of is aligned with that. And that's another thing I just want to say about your new book, Look Again, is part of the subtitle, it's finding your identity, finding your purpose, and finding your true meaning, your own value.

1:17:45And I think that every single person can benefit from building a stronger identity, building a stronger purpose and finding true meaning in life. And I want to encourage people to get the book. It's called Look Again. It's in bookstores nationwide. You can go on amazon.com, just go on Amazon and look up Look Again, Tim Tebow. It's his new book. But again, I think for you to grow, I think for you to be physically healthier, this is so important in your mind, there's a mind-body connection that is so, so critical for your health. And I think even for you learning more, how can you find your purpose and use that for serving others?

1:18:22Tim covers all of those topics here in the book, so I want to encourage you to look again. I do have a few more health questions. I love it. Yeah, we have. Yeah, so we can have just a little bit more here, and then we'll wrap up. So I would love for you to share. I'm going to have a few of these types of questions. Yeah, we sort of didn't answer. We got on a tangent from that. We had to talk health. But these things are meaningful, so I'm glad we did. I love it. What is your daily eating plan look like? Like what does breakfast look like? What does lunch look like? Dinner, dessert? Like what does that look like for you?

1:18:47I love it. So for many years, I was on a keto-ish diet. Yeah. A little bit different, closer to like a modified Atkins type diet. And the reason it's different is because my protein intake was higher than a lot of those on keto, but still very much ketone adapted using fat for fuel. Yeah. And so I've been, you know, pretty high fat, pretty high protein, very low carbs and sugar. And I, but then it's not just that. Then it's also trying to find those that are as clean and organic and fresh and trying to get rid of as many pesticides, parasites, as clean. and like with, you know, milk and stuff going A2.

1:19:40Yeah, wow. And so many different changes that we've been learning and kind of growing and adapting to then adding to that. It's, you know, red light therapy, infrared saunas, PEMF mats, IV therapy. You're all in on the functional medicine. I love that. I totally love it. I totally believe in it. I'm a dieharder, and I believe so much of it. Yeah, same here. So walk me through, what does a typical breakfast, lunch, and dinner look like for you? Oh, clean eggs and a lot of them to start. Very high. I probably had like probably eight before I came over here to see you today. And probably not Rocky style.

1:20:21You probably cooked it up, but I bet maybe you've done that a few times. Yeah. Unfortunately, I have because when I was young, I loved Rocky, and so I tried to do what Rocky did. and probably threw up a few times from that. But I love eggs. They're one of the closest things to the perfect protein for us. And I'm such a big fan of eggs. I love clean meat. I love being able to have the A2, kefir, yogurt, Always Greek. There's some different brands that we found. that we love like Painter Sisters is an awesome one. I love them. I think they're Icelandic yogurt, it's awesome. I also, when we're in South Africa, they have like double cream yogurt and you can like taste how fresh this is.

1:21:15I'm like this is so good. So I love having honey with some berries and yogurt together, I crush that. It's one of my favorite things. I like Bulletproof coffees, we put a lot of protein in it. A lot of butter in there. Butter. Different ones that just won't affect my stomach as much. Yeah. We've done ghee many times. Sometimes when I'll be overseas and I can't, I know I'm, you know, it's just risky to eat certain foods depending on what country I'm in. I'll take a big thing of ghee and I'll just have some coffee and mix it and I'll take protein powder. And I've done that for days. I've actually done it close to a week one time without the majority of my food protein powder because I was just so nervous about some places we were eating.

1:21:59Oh, yeah. So my buddy, Jordan, my cousin's an evangelist in Pakistan and India. And they went on a trip over there and he was super health conscious. And Jordan had Crohn's and colitis in the past. So he's very careful with what he eats. And I'm like, what did you eat over there? He's like, I didn't. He's like, I packed bentonite clay and crackers and protein and bars. And I pretty much ate that the whole trip because I was trying to be careful. And I know that can be a challenge when traveling. Totally. Have you found a good bar that's actually healthy for you? I mean, most of the time when I do bars, I will do bars that are like date nuts or something like that.

1:22:35I mean, but, but honestly, I don't do many bars. It's so hard to find them that are actually healthy. It's just so much easier to have a powder. But if you have a good one, please let me know. I'd love to find a good bar to bring. Yeah. I'm trying to think if there are, I mean, ones that are higher protein. There's one called, I want to say it's even called like, it's not, I think that's a tequila, but it's like a mezcal or something like that. It's a little bit better. There's a brand, I think it has like a Mexican name on the bar. I'll share some with you later and then I'll share here on YouTube and for everybody to check out as well.

1:23:06How about supplements? What do you take for supplements? Multivitamins and a lot of different ones that I mix in there too, vitamin D, K2, creatine. I wish I took that when I was playing sports, but I was terrified because all's a myth. Oh, you're going to tear a hamstring or something when it's just irritating. But we're constantly on creatine. That makes a really big difference. The IVs on top of that, I really like them even more. We do a lot of glutathione, magnesium, vitamin C. so many different IVs. When my new clinic opens up here in Nashville in January, we'll have you in. We'll get you IVs, hyperbaric, red light, all the things.

1:23:55The NAD. Yeah, NAD plus. Yeah. That's not always the most comfortable when you get that NAD. No, you feel a little nauseous. What's the precursor to that too? N-acetyl. Oh, for NAD? Yeah, the IV of it. I'm trying to think of what. Niagen. Oh, Niagen. That's a brand, but you can take those orally too, Niagen. Yeah, I've done that some. Like those. Man, you're into it. You're honoring Romans 12.1, right? I mean, your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, so you're doing everything you can. We're trying. I want to constantly learn. We got a cold plunge too. Awesome. Amazing. I love getting in and just whatever we can do to be a little bit more focused, a little bit healthier, run and live out this purpose a little bit more.

1:24:48I think that it is so important. I really believe, especially as believers, like there's a higher standard of how we should take care of our bodies. Not for the vanity of it, for the purpose of it. So that when we say, you know, when scripture tells us to run, we're not walking. We're not jogging. we're actually getting rid of the sin and the weight that so easily entangles us so we can run with endurance. You know, when I think about you, Tim, you know, run to win the race really comes to mind in terms of a Bible verse, because you've done this not only in your NFL career, in your football career, but also in watching you broadcast and watching how you go after victims and helping people.

1:25:32So I'm so grateful for you and just the amazing ministry you have and the purpose that you're living out. And I would encourage you, everybody, to check out Tim's new book. It's called Look Again. And this is really a book about look again, look at yourself again, and find your true identity. Find your purpose in life. And this book is going to help fill you with giving your life more meaning and significance. It's incredibly powerful. It's in bookstores nationwide as well. Tim, thanks so much for coming on today. It's my pleasure, man. Thank you so much. It's been a blessing. Appreciate you, man.

1:26:01It's been a blessing. Thanks, everybody, for listening and watching. and I want to encourage you to subscribe if you're not subscribed. By the way, one of the top things you can do to support the show is subscribe and share. There are millions and millions of people that don't know the truth about living with purpose, living with identity and many of the things that Tim has shared. So I want to encourage you to share this and if you're watching on YouTube, what's that biggest piece of wisdom that Tim shared that you're going to walk away with and take action with today? Thanks everybody for watching and listening.

1:26:33Thank you, Tim Tebow, for coming on the show today. And we'll see you on the next episode.

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