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In chains I was bound,

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I was a madman on the run.

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wandered.

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I was running from the sun.

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But truth found me there.

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It was in my darkest eye.

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I traded my black heart for joy. For

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something real, something with power.

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Welcome to Tell Welcome

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to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast about

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faith, current events, and life in general, brought

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to you from Mountain View Baptist Church live

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every Monday night at 6PM

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central time.

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And welcome back this week. It is,

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great to be back.

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We're running a tidbit late tonight, but that's

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alright.

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Life

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life gets to catch up with us sometimes.

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Well, I guess we'll kick that one off

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then, brother Brian. How are you doing tonight?

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I've been awesome. Doing good.

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Just, you know, work work work and run

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a little bit late today, but, hey. Coming

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here on two wheels. Two wheels. Yep. That's

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right. Hey. Best way to travel around town.

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That's all I've ever known.

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Brother Dennis, how about you? You doing alright?

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Good. Doing good, man. Yeah. Yeah. I've been,

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I I get to deal with a lot

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of tariff issues at work, so that's always,

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you know, just so much fun. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah. It's changing about every three days now.

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Yeah. I got I got a customer change

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their price three days and forty eight hours.

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it's like,

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just wait.

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Just wait a few days. Yeah. Slow down.

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Let let's see what it's gonna do and

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then decide on your price. Yeah. Yeah.

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Oh, man. Well, we are, we're gonna have

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a I think an interesting conversation, not an

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Yes. That I'm definitely looking forward to.

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I'll kick off with a little bit of,

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saw the most amazing social media post.

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Apparently, some some pro choice people

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some pro choice people really no. You're good,

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Dennis.

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Some pro choice people really thought that they

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had a great point on, the pro lifers.

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it was probably the most fantastic post I'd

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ever seen because it's the best point I've

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ever seen made. And by that, I mean,

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it's the easiest to debunk I've ever seen.

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And it was, well, you can freeze an

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embryo,

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but if you freeze a baby, that would

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be murder.

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well, you know, that's genius, but,

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there does come a point where you can't

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freeze Emprio and expect to have it be

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viable Yeah. Afterward. And I and some I

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will say somebody on the pro pro life

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side did post and say, well, you can't

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freeze a a fertilized egg. It just doesn't

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work that way. And I'm like, okay. Hold

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on. You don't you stop.

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This is that's how fertility treatments work. Stop.

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that. But, yeah, I did. I and I

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actually posted the the question of the person,

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and I just said, well, at what point

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can't you? Because there is a point where

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you you can't, and it's no longer viable.

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once it reaches that point, that that would

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be considered murder. Hey. I'm all for it.

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are we going to this level? Why why

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are we going to this depths to explain

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stuff like this? Yeah. It's crazy. Stuff we

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should not be playing. Well, it's absolutely crazy.

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They would justify everything that they want to

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do. They're gonna do it. They want it

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they really want it to be perfectly

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allowed all the way up until, you know,

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thirty seconds after you've given birth or more.

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wanna get them on both ends of the

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spectrum, don't they? Yeah. They really do. And

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but I did. I asked that question, and

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the person was like, wait. Wait. What? And

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I said, yeah. Let's make it I I

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think you're exactly right. We should go with

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your idea. We'll make it law that once

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you can no longer freeze the embryo, you're

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no longer allowed to have an abortion. So

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whatever point that is, is that I think

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that's about six, eight weeks. Is that about

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right? Maybe ten weeks. We'll go with ten

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weeks. I like that. I'll give you a

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little extra time. And, oh, man, that person

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started backpedaling. So that's not what I meant.

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That's not what I meant. Have you seen

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the spark of life? That little video? Oh,

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I have. And it's amazing. Not a That's

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awesome. It is. That's amazing. That's awesome. It's

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not like That's a snowstorm of a human

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being right there. Yes. It absolutely is. And

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it's just it it was mind boggling to

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me though that that that was literally all

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over social media all weekend.

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it slide, and I'm like, oh, well, you

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gotta ask the question at what point because

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there's a point where that's not viable. So

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if you wanna go that route, hey. We'll

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be right behind you because that's still better

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than what we have half the laws in

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The US right now.

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You know, I mean, it may not be

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all the way at the moment of conception,

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but we're getting a lot closer.

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years ago. They said, look, any argument you

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can make

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that isn't conception

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can be applied to somebody when they're 20,

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can be applied to somebody when they're 40,

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can be applied to somebody when they're 80

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or 90. And it was interesting because the

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person that said that they were on a

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college campus, and the college person said, well,

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yeah, I do think that even, you know,

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if get old enough and it was the

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same argument that, you know, Brian just said,

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it's, you know, they're all for euthanasia once

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you reach a certain point. And I'm like

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That's legal. A lot of countries. Yeah. And

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I did like Canada. I I did have

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to I I don't remember if it was

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Ben Spear. It was one of those guys

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that, you know, went around to college campuses

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a few years ago and was before they

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got kicked off and basically threatened to the

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point they couldn't do it anymore. And he

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just said, careful because you're really getting close

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to making it where we could just kill

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you right now, and and you're saying you

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would have no problem with it. And the

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guy goes,

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oh. Yeah.

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They they like to dig into quality of

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life and all this other just fringe stuff.

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It's like, it's life. It's life. Life is

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life and we we have a we have

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a reason to defend it. So You may

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have. That's a fun one. If you guys

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have been seeing that one on social media,

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just just just the you can shut it

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down real quick. Well, at what point doesn't

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it work and, are you willing to make

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that law? Because the answer is always no.

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Because they want that option to be available

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all the way until, you know, the kid's

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12 years old, which granted as a parent,

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we we do have some empathy there when

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they hit about 14, 15, and you're like,

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okay. Is it too late?

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You won't eat them in the head. But,

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but you know, as Christian parents, we also

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understand that God has given us the restraint

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that we won't strangle them at that age.

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That's right.

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So tonight, we are discussing the different ways

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to study

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and the different styles of preaching. Yeah. I

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believe is where we're going with this. So,

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yeah, that that that is a a fun

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subject to discuss. It's a very interesting conversation

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on how you study and how you get

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into the word. Yeah. Because there are different

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ways of doing it. There's there's,

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different methods that people use. Sure. And,

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yeah. Just just hearing the different options that

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are out there and kind of thinking it

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through sometimes is useful because

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if you don't have a good study plan

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and and you're trying to figure out where

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do I start, how do I do it,

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well this is a good way to do

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it. You can start with a conversation like

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this and then go, oh okay I can

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apply that and here's how we can go.

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I mean I just I was thinking today

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you know there's

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I don't know that there's one

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perfect way to study God's word. You know,

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I I don't I don't know that anybody's

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got the corner market on it.

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through the years, I've had to learn to

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I started out, like, I don't want any

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noise, I don't want any background, I don't

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want anything going on behind me, I gotta

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have complete quiet, but that's impossible when you're,

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when you've got like three women around all

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the time. So,

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it's it's not it's not gonna happen. I

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mean, it's just not gonna happen. I'm talking

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about the girls, you know, Nicole would never,

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she never says a lot. She's very quiet.

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you know, but I I realized pretty quick

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gonna have to learn to do this and

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where my desk is now at home,

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unless I come to the church, to my

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study here to church,

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where my desk is at home, it's kind

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of an open area upstairs,

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you know, and so anyway, so there might

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be I've learned to drown things out and

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I've learned to to to just focus and

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study,

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but, you know, I I don't know about

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Dennis, but I have

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when I'm getting when I'm preparing for a

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message, if if I'm and and we got

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different types of study too. I mean, you

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got personal Bible study that you need to

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continue. If you're a preacher and and Yeah.

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your only study of the Bible, you know.

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I know that time sometimes is a factor,

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but make sure to get in some personal

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study and some things that God just needs

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to speak to your heart

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individually.

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but when I'm preparing for a sermon,

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and and and I'm sitting down, man, it

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it it takes

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I hear these preachers talking about, you know,

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studying for fourteen, fifteen hours

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a day and and and, man, that's that's

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great, you know, if you've got time to

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do that.

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usually when I'm preparing for a message, there

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is several hours that's put into it. There's

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several hours put into it. There's there's several

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hours of research and study,

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in his word and and through prayer and

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through,

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different commentaries and different things. Because I wanna

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I wanna look at other opinions, see what

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other people have to say, what the Lord

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has spoke to their hearts. You gotta be

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really careful

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what you study, what commentaries you get, you

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know, make sure things are lined up biblically

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and right. But,

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but when I study,

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a lot of times

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I dig into it and and I'm just,

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okay, I'm thinking, you know, Lord, you know,

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give me a topic this week, you know,

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or give me a thought in my mind.

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And sometimes there will be a thought just

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come to my mind and then I can

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dive into it and I can start studying

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and things start coming pretty quick and and

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you know, the more I study, the more

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I write.

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And then there's those times where I just

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dive in and start studying, I start reading,

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you know? Yeah. And, and, and then, and

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praying and waiting.

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There's a lot of that sometimes,

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I'm studying

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and, and I'm like, okay, you know, I'm

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not seeing where it is you want me

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to go yet. You're telling me some things

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along the way and you're showing some things

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to me along the way, but I'm not

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there yet. So I'll stop. I'll just sometimes

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I'll just push it away. I'll back up.

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Yeah. And and and I'll pray. And, you

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know, Lord, okay. You know, let me let

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me let me get clear my head,

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you speak to my heart. And sometimes when

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I'm getting ready for a message, I'll do

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that four or five times and there'll be

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hours that'll go by

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just sitting there, at my desk sitting there,

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you know,

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praying and and going back to studying and

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praying and going back to studying.

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And I don't know about you, but most

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of the time is when it finally clicks,

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when the Lord says, here it is, this

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is what this is this is the text,

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this is the this is the thing, this

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is what I want you to do, then

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it really begins to flow then. Yeah.

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But yeah, I mean, it's what about you?

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Well, I've when I was preaching every week,

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it was, I tried to have

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next Sunday's sermon

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brewing on Sunday night, the Yeah. The Sunday

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night before Yeah. Or the Monday before. Right.

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And I would a lot of times, I

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would just be praying about it and thinking

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about it and just letting it simmer for

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a couple of days Yeah. You know, before

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even crack the Bible open. And well, I

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might I might have a scripture verse that

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really sticks out to me. I've looked at

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that. Yeah. Before I start really start preparing

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stuff, it's probably Wednesday or Thursday, you know.

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Yeah. And I start writing some stuff down

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and I'll I'll practice it and preach to

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the cats or the wall or something, you

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know, and and,

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just just keep tuning it until the next

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Sunday. But sometimes sometimes you don't have it.

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No. Until

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Friday. Yeah. And like Yeah.

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Or even Saturday sometimes. Yeah. I've been there.

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I've been there. We're we're you know, and

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and I'm the same way. I kinda, you

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know,

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you get you you get Sunday out of

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the way. And usually, it's Yeah. Monday. I

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just clear my head and Monday, those are

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I start thinking I start I try to

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look too, you know, because there's things that

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God might wanna tell us during the week

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that that might be a subject that he

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wants us to preach on or something that

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may happen to us

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along the way. We've gotta be aware of

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those things too. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll tell

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you that some of the easiest stuff are

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not easy, but, it

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was easier. As far as preparation was was,

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in one church I was at, I went

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through the book of Romans. Yeah. I just

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went through the whole book. You know, I

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just did German, like chunk of scripture, chunk

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of scripture, and just just went all the

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way through it. And that made preparing a

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lot easier. Yeah. And and there's nothing wrong

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with well, you know, I've done I haven't

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done a lot of series preaching through the

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years, but I have done some. And and

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it it does make it I'm if the

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Lord gives that to me, I wanna thank

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you. Because I can stay on You know,

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it's coming up. I can stay on this

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subject, you know. Yeah. And it it does

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make it easier, you know, because you're not

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you're not panicking during a week. But but

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Well, it feels like when you're going through,

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especially the the stuff that Paul wrote, it's

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like, hey, look. I already have sermon notes.

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Yeah. Because he has he has commentary that

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he throws in there and things

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like you've already

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No. Applying it a lot of times is

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really hard. Yeah. You know? Yeah. The application.

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Making and making people,

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fit it into their lives, you know? Right.

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Yes. Yeah. Absolutely.

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And and we know that it's relevant to

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today, to everything that we're going through today,

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but but like you said, you gotta consider

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the audience, you gotta consider the people, there's

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there's things to that goes into it and

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pray, Lord, give me something like you said

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that that will

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it'll grab a hold of them. This these

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these people that I'm that I'm preaching to

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and let it be for them. Yeah. And

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it may not be

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it may be one person that's for that

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day, you know, it's not always for the

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whole congregation and and and so the Lord

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may use that, but yeah. And plus as

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a pastor here, you've got your finger on

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the pulse. Right? You you know what we

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probably need to hear right now. But based

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on just what's going on in general around

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us. Yeah. In this community or or what?

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Or the world. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because if

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people are,

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you know what people are distraught about, you

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know what people are are are worried about

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and having worries about and and and those

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types of things. And so you wanna speak

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to those things biblically week after week so

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that they can get some peace and comfort

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in that. And so that they can apply

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and take it out to a lost and

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dying world team. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. So I I kinda miss doing it

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every week, but, but Sunday school Sunday school

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is going. I'm prepared for that and, man,

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I don't do it near enough.

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But that's where it that's where I fall

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back on

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years of it. Yeah, sure. Right. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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And that's why it's so important to stay

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in it. Like you were saying the other

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day, how many of you have found your

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sermon Sunday? Like, how many of you read

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your Bible every day this week? Yeah. Yeah.

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Good. Yeah. You asked not to show hands,

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which I'm glad you did.

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But but, that's where that comes in. Yeah.

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You you get a you get a firm

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foundation, a solid foundation, and you and and

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as you're studying for a sermon, stuff pops

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up out of your mind from another sermon.

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That's right. And that's where the study. That's

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where being in season and out of season

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comes in, you know. I mean, it's not

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it's not that you always got a

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I mean, if you preach long enough, you

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can you've got a sermon somewhere in your

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back pocket. Yeah. But I mean, but you

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can, you can build upon something, you know,

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but

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it all goes back to study to show

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thyself approved, you know, and because,

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and we'll get to the styles of preaching

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here in just a minute, but,

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but I I've heard of and know of,

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and I'm not I'm not trying to, tear

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anybody down, but preachers just get up there

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and they don't study during the week. They

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throw up their Bible and they start shouting

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some verses and screaming some things

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and talking about being saved and going to

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hell and and you know, all those things

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have to be preached on and all those

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things have to be talked about, but they

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also need to be,

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decent and in order in a place where

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God has prepared for them. And so that's

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that's where study and preparation comes in. Yeah.

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I'll go over my notes, I'll go over

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my,

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my notes that I've made, you know, whether

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it's for, you know, preaching on Sunday or

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whether it's Wednesday night Bible study.

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I love Bible study. I love teaching Bible

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study. It's one of my favorite things because

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I just love the discussion.

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You know, I just I feed off of

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that. But,

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but being prepared for those and and it's

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it's just staying in God's word Yeah. Constantly.

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And again, I'm not saying, hey, look at

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Brian, he does it right, and he does

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it all because I don't, you know, I'm

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not always where I need to be. I'm

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not always studying as much as I should

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be.

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But but to be ill prepared and stand

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in the pulpit Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. Is

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not good. Yeah. And these guys these guys

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jump up there and say, well, the spirit's

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gonna give me a message when I get

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there. And and they claim this huffing and

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puffing and all this blustering they're doing is

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the Holy Spirit. Yeah. Buddy, that ain't the

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Holy Spirit. No. That's that's your pride getting

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into it. I see it. I see it.

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They didn't wanna prepare. And and I tell

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you what, nothing nothing will will will

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grow you quite like teaching somebody else about

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the Bible. Yeah. Or preaching a message. Amen.

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The way you you because like you said,

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you don't wanna get up there and go,

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I don't say. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

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It's it's embarrassing. Yeah. And and you really

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need to know what you're talking about. That's

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right. That's right. Well, and there's, you know,

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there's something to be said for the

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what do they call it? The inductive bible

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study where you just sit down and you're

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just reading. You're just you're just taking it

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in and there there is something to be

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said for that. Now I I always tell

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people, I'm like, look. You if you're studying

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something,

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make sure you know where you're headed with

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it.

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But

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there is something absolutely from just just pick

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a section and start reading it. Yeah. Yeah.

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Read it over and over and over and

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go through go through you know, I I

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always tell young men especially, go through start

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00:18:09,190 --> 00:18:11,429
with Proverbs. Go to Proverbs and go through

526
00:18:11,429 --> 00:18:13,769
the entire book of Proverbs every month. Yeah.

527
00:18:13,990 --> 00:18:16,835
And because there's tons of advice in there

528
00:18:16,835 --> 00:18:18,835
for us as men, there's tons of advice

529
00:18:18,835 --> 00:18:20,434
for all Christians, but a lot of it

530
00:18:20,434 --> 00:18:22,994
is very much tailored and and explicitly directed

531
00:18:22,994 --> 00:18:24,914
at us. Like, go read that. Go read

532
00:18:24,914 --> 00:18:27,494
Proverbs. Read Ecclesiastes. Read these books

533
00:18:27,795 --> 00:18:28,695
that were written

534
00:18:29,429 --> 00:18:32,309
with a purpose. And, you know, there's something

535
00:18:32,309 --> 00:18:33,750
to be said for that where you just

536
00:18:33,829 --> 00:18:36,149
you take it in and it's there. Sure.

537
00:18:36,149 --> 00:18:37,589
Because if you're empty and you don't have

538
00:18:37,589 --> 00:18:39,349
anything there, then when it comes time to

539
00:18:39,349 --> 00:18:40,789
do something, you don't know where to start.

540
00:18:40,789 --> 00:18:42,835
You're just grasping at straws. And I think

541
00:18:42,835 --> 00:18:44,194
maybe a lot of these a lot of

542
00:18:44,194 --> 00:18:44,694
times,

543
00:18:45,154 --> 00:18:46,934
people that that tend to

544
00:18:48,355 --> 00:18:50,355
and, again, I'm not knocking them, but they'll

545
00:18:50,595 --> 00:18:52,115
you know, when I hear somebody say, well,

546
00:18:52,115 --> 00:18:53,474
I'm just gonna let God lead me wherever

547
00:18:53,474 --> 00:18:55,669
he leads me, I'm like, well, that's wonderful

548
00:18:55,730 --> 00:18:57,329
and I hope you're being prayerful about it

549
00:18:57,329 --> 00:18:58,929
and I hope you're doing it. But now

550
00:18:58,929 --> 00:19:01,329
I kinda am am nervous that you haven't

551
00:19:01,329 --> 00:19:02,849
actually picked your bible up in about a

552
00:19:02,849 --> 00:19:04,529
month. I'm gonna be honest with you. If

553
00:19:04,529 --> 00:19:06,210
I and I've heard this said from the

554
00:19:06,210 --> 00:19:08,069
pulpit several times before,

555
00:19:09,224 --> 00:19:10,585
the preacher get up there and I just

556
00:19:10,585 --> 00:19:11,805
ain't got anything today.

557
00:19:14,744 --> 00:19:16,505
Well, what have you been doing all week?

558
00:19:16,505 --> 00:19:18,585
Let's sing another hymn. What well, yeah. What

559
00:19:18,585 --> 00:19:20,904
what you've been called today? And and, you

560
00:19:20,904 --> 00:19:23,384
know, and look, there's there's times, I mean,

561
00:19:23,384 --> 00:19:24,799
I I think we all should always should

562
00:19:24,799 --> 00:19:26,240
let the spirit lead and here at our

563
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,720
church, we now there's been Sundays where I

564
00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:30,080
haven't got to preach and those have been

565
00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,000
some of the best Sundays we've ever had,

566
00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,400
you know, and God leads in testimony and

567
00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,960
song and worship and we need that, we

568
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,720
need that, right? So we gotta be willing

569
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,055
to to let the spirit move, but but

570
00:19:41,055 --> 00:19:42,575
just to get up and say that, I

571
00:19:42,575 --> 00:19:44,575
I don't I ain't got anything today. I

572
00:19:44,575 --> 00:19:47,134
got nothing. I got nothing. The lord didn't

573
00:19:47,134 --> 00:19:48,974
give me anything. I don't don't don't blame

574
00:19:48,974 --> 00:19:51,375
that on him. Right. Yeah. Because he called

575
00:19:51,375 --> 00:19:53,394
you to pastor this church. And so

576
00:19:53,759 --> 00:19:55,599
if he called you to pastor this church,

577
00:19:55,599 --> 00:19:57,279
I don't see him letting you stand in

578
00:19:57,279 --> 00:19:57,859
the pulpit

579
00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,960
and leave you with nothing, right? I have

580
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:01,460
been

581
00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,259
worried right up to the gun before

582
00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,279
and not settled on some things, but when

583
00:20:07,279 --> 00:20:08,960
I, but the Lord give me what I

584
00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:10,454
stand in need need of and it comes

585
00:20:10,454 --> 00:20:10,954
from

586
00:20:11,255 --> 00:20:13,654
what I've studied, right, from what I've studied.

587
00:20:13,654 --> 00:20:15,894
So yeah. And I've I've I've seen times

588
00:20:15,894 --> 00:20:18,134
too where I didn't have anything. And so,

589
00:20:18,134 --> 00:20:19,894
you know, Peter getting out of the boat,

590
00:20:19,894 --> 00:20:21,815
I just picked something out Right. And got

591
00:20:21,815 --> 00:20:23,429
forth through it. Sure he did because it's

592
00:20:23,429 --> 00:20:26,069
his word. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So and

593
00:20:26,069 --> 00:20:28,309
and and sometimes he wants us to just

594
00:20:28,309 --> 00:20:30,069
put in the work because any of this

595
00:20:30,069 --> 00:20:31,289
will work. Absolutely.

596
00:20:31,589 --> 00:20:33,829
It's all profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for

597
00:20:33,829 --> 00:20:35,529
correction. Maybe not song of Solomon.

598
00:20:35,909 --> 00:20:36,884
Yeah. Yeah. You know.

599
00:20:38,644 --> 00:20:40,404
But we're talking we're talking to the married

600
00:20:40,404 --> 00:20:42,184
couples this Sunday. Yeah. Yeah.

601
00:20:43,125 --> 00:20:45,365
But you know, Dennis and I are coming

602
00:20:45,365 --> 00:20:48,164
from preachers' points of view here. But just

603
00:20:48,164 --> 00:20:50,085
in your general study time, you know, you

604
00:20:50,085 --> 00:20:51,609
say, okay. What about what about this? What

605
00:20:51,609 --> 00:20:52,809
if I'm not a preacher? What if I'm

606
00:20:52,809 --> 00:20:54,669
not teaching a Bible study class?

607
00:20:55,049 --> 00:20:56,650
And and I I'm not Tyler, pick a

608
00:20:56,650 --> 00:20:58,650
book out, pick a pick a chapter out

609
00:20:58,650 --> 00:21:01,049
and begin to begin to read that, begin

610
00:21:01,049 --> 00:21:03,069
to, you know, it it it's not osmosis,

611
00:21:03,210 --> 00:21:04,569
right? You keep sitting on top of your

612
00:21:04,569 --> 00:21:06,705
head and soak it in like that, But

613
00:21:07,005 --> 00:21:09,164
but take the time to read and pray.

614
00:21:09,164 --> 00:21:10,384
Pray. Lord,

615
00:21:11,325 --> 00:21:13,805
show me. Show me what you yeah. Open

616
00:21:13,805 --> 00:21:15,325
my eyes and let me see with your

617
00:21:15,325 --> 00:21:17,325
eyes. Let me let me take in what

618
00:21:17,325 --> 00:21:19,150
you want me to take in and and

619
00:21:19,150 --> 00:21:21,390
and going in especially if you're if you're

620
00:21:21,390 --> 00:21:23,970
a new Christian. Open open the book of

621
00:21:24,029 --> 00:21:24,529
John,

622
00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:26,910
you know read it and then go to

623
00:21:26,910 --> 00:21:28,910
Romans and and read it you know or

624
00:21:28,910 --> 00:21:31,410
or if you haven't been saved I especially

625
00:21:31,950 --> 00:21:33,970
encourage you to read those those two books.

626
00:21:34,585 --> 00:21:37,945
Absolutely. And and so start studying those, start

627
00:21:37,945 --> 00:21:39,005
putting those together,

628
00:21:39,545 --> 00:21:41,545
and letting the Lord give you what you

629
00:21:41,545 --> 00:21:43,144
stand in need of. Right? You don't have

630
00:21:43,144 --> 00:21:44,985
to be a Bible scholar. And we we've

631
00:21:44,985 --> 00:21:47,579
said it before in in other environments that

632
00:21:48,299 --> 00:21:49,899
if you have a, you know, maybe you

633
00:21:49,899 --> 00:21:51,339
work a job where you're driving a lot

634
00:21:51,339 --> 00:21:53,179
or where you're not in a position where

635
00:21:53,179 --> 00:21:54,460
you have just hours a day that you

636
00:21:54,460 --> 00:21:56,079
can read, but you're on the road.

637
00:21:56,859 --> 00:21:59,200
For for me, I am on the road

638
00:21:59,259 --> 00:22:01,179
two hours every single day going back and

639
00:22:01,179 --> 00:22:03,595
forth to work. And generally speaking, I do

640
00:22:03,595 --> 00:22:05,194
an audio book while I'm driving. Yeah. Back

641
00:22:05,194 --> 00:22:06,795
and forth to work. I'll I'll throw in

642
00:22:06,795 --> 00:22:07,694
an audio book.

643
00:22:08,394 --> 00:22:10,634
One of those things sometimes is, hey, pick

644
00:22:10,634 --> 00:22:13,434
up and there are thousands of recordings of

645
00:22:13,434 --> 00:22:15,549
people reading the scripture together. Yeah. And there's

646
00:22:15,549 --> 00:22:17,230
a ton of them for free. Yeah. You

647
00:22:17,230 --> 00:22:18,990
don't have to pay anything. Yeah. You can

648
00:22:18,990 --> 00:22:20,830
go on YouTube and find people and and

649
00:22:20,830 --> 00:22:23,309
maybe it's not your preferred translation or whatever.

650
00:22:23,309 --> 00:22:24,049
But, hey,

651
00:22:24,910 --> 00:22:26,589
if it's by if it's scripture and it's

652
00:22:26,589 --> 00:22:28,349
not something that's just way out there and

653
00:22:28,349 --> 00:22:29,595
they're not adding their own

654
00:22:29,994 --> 00:22:32,154
commentary to it, go for it. Listen to

655
00:22:32,154 --> 00:22:34,394
them. That's interesting too because, I've I've run

656
00:22:34,394 --> 00:22:37,615
into men, especially men, who hate to read.

657
00:22:37,674 --> 00:22:39,835
My dad was that way. Yeah. Just hated

658
00:22:39,835 --> 00:22:41,434
to pick up a book and read. Right.

659
00:22:41,434 --> 00:22:42,759
And Mhmm. You know, we got so many

660
00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:45,079
resources though. Chill. Listen to it. Absolutely. And

661
00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:46,759
that's another reason we go to church, you

662
00:22:46,759 --> 00:22:48,599
know, because when people didn't even have Bibles,

663
00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:50,059
they went to church to hear the scripture.

664
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:50,700
I think

665
00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:53,319
there's a stigma that if I can't read

666
00:22:53,319 --> 00:22:54,519
it or I don't like to read it,

667
00:22:54,519 --> 00:22:56,119
then I'm just not gonna do anything with

668
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,705
it. Yeah. There's nothing absolutely wrong with with

669
00:22:58,705 --> 00:23:00,705
like like Tyler said, just, you know, go

670
00:23:00,705 --> 00:23:02,384
to your go to your app on your

671
00:23:02,384 --> 00:23:04,625
phone, your bible app, and 99%

672
00:23:04,625 --> 00:23:06,065
of all the bible apps, if not a

673
00:23:06,065 --> 00:23:06,805
%,

674
00:23:07,105 --> 00:23:09,745
all have, a voice reading on there Mhmm.

675
00:23:09,985 --> 00:23:11,345
That that you can go to and you

676
00:23:11,345 --> 00:23:13,470
can hear you can hear the word and

677
00:23:13,470 --> 00:23:13,830
and,

678
00:23:14,309 --> 00:23:15,990
man, if you just catch part of it

679
00:23:15,990 --> 00:23:17,509
here and there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know?

680
00:23:17,509 --> 00:23:19,590
Yeah. It's just just doing its work. Yeah.

681
00:23:19,590 --> 00:23:21,109
I guarantee you. It won't go out void

682
00:23:21,109 --> 00:23:22,869
with it. No. You won't. You won't walk

683
00:23:22,869 --> 00:23:25,130
away feeling dirty. I guarantee you.

684
00:23:25,875 --> 00:23:26,375
And

685
00:23:26,674 --> 00:23:28,835
I think, you know, what I've always said

686
00:23:28,835 --> 00:23:31,015
is that if you don't know,

687
00:23:31,795 --> 00:23:33,634
what to do with the Bible, just pick

688
00:23:33,634 --> 00:23:35,414
it up and read it. Amen. You know?

689
00:23:35,414 --> 00:23:36,255
And if

690
00:23:36,674 --> 00:23:39,555
especially, man, in my past when I got

691
00:23:39,555 --> 00:23:41,960
first got saved, I just became this fan

692
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,139
of the Apostle Paul and I started just

693
00:23:45,399 --> 00:23:45,899
devouring

694
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:46,940
his letters.

695
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,019
And I learned so much about

696
00:23:49,319 --> 00:23:50,059
what Christianity

697
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,259
is and what it's about, what it's for,

698
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,805
how it worked out. And it's I I

699
00:23:55,805 --> 00:23:58,525
recommend to somebody picking up Ephesians. It's six

700
00:23:58,525 --> 00:23:59,805
chapters. You can read it in less thirty

701
00:23:59,805 --> 00:24:02,045
minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Read it. And I guarantee

702
00:24:02,045 --> 00:24:03,325
you, at some point, you're gonna have a

703
00:24:03,325 --> 00:24:05,964
question you're gonna start digging. Yeah. Absolutely. Right.

704
00:24:05,964 --> 00:24:08,509
Absolutely. What does that mean? And think that's

705
00:24:08,589 --> 00:24:10,289
yeah, and then you're gonna get a hunger

706
00:24:10,349 --> 00:24:12,369
to to go, you know,

707
00:24:12,829 --> 00:24:14,829
to all the other churches that Paul wrote

708
00:24:14,829 --> 00:24:17,390
to, right? Yeah. The church at Colossae, the

709
00:24:17,390 --> 00:24:17,710
the,

710
00:24:18,269 --> 00:24:18,769
Galatians.

711
00:24:19,309 --> 00:24:21,484
Yeah. That one. Yeah. I mean, you know,

712
00:24:21,484 --> 00:24:23,744
the so Absolutely. Absolutely.

713
00:24:24,125 --> 00:24:24,865
Yeah. Yeah.

714
00:24:25,325 --> 00:24:26,865
I got over it or something.

715
00:24:27,565 --> 00:24:29,904
But but and then there's nothing wrong with,

716
00:24:30,444 --> 00:24:32,284
also, I looked at if I'm driving a

717
00:24:32,284 --> 00:24:34,144
lot in here lately, you know,

718
00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:37,000
I may be driving thirty, forty minutes at

719
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,920
a time here and there, and I'll pop

720
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:39,420
in,

721
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,279
my favorite preacher, you know, like Dennis Murphy

722
00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:45,000
or somebody like that. And and I'll listen

723
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,400
to them. I'll listen to them and grow

724
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,000
from them. I mean, I'm just I I

725
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:50,654
but, you know, you you listen to those

726
00:24:50,654 --> 00:24:53,075
guys that that you know are are solid,

727
00:24:53,134 --> 00:24:54,894
that you know that that they're gonna they're

728
00:24:54,894 --> 00:24:57,375
gonna speak Jesus and you and you learn

729
00:24:57,375 --> 00:25:00,174
from Absolutely. From them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Man,

730
00:25:00,174 --> 00:25:01,695
my my big one when I first got

731
00:25:01,695 --> 00:25:03,615
saved was Charles Stanley. Oh, absolutely. I just

732
00:25:03,615 --> 00:25:05,549
listened to him all the time in Moody

733
00:25:05,549 --> 00:25:07,630
radio. Yeah. And he was I got such

734
00:25:07,630 --> 00:25:09,950
a solid grounding from his teaching. Yeah. Because

735
00:25:09,950 --> 00:25:11,309
it was just right out of the bible.

736
00:25:11,309 --> 00:25:13,069
Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, it was straight by

737
00:25:13,149 --> 00:25:15,549
It's expository preaching. Yeah. And that's and that's

738
00:25:15,549 --> 00:25:17,089
what, you know, we'll talk about.

739
00:25:17,714 --> 00:25:19,954
And if you have, like, Sirius radio or

740
00:25:19,954 --> 00:25:21,394
XM, maybe you have the trial in your

741
00:25:21,394 --> 00:25:22,755
car, if you have a newer car or

742
00:25:22,755 --> 00:25:24,275
you just went ahead and did like I

743
00:25:24,275 --> 00:25:26,035
did and bought it because you listened to

744
00:25:26,035 --> 00:25:26,855
enough stuff,

745
00:25:27,315 --> 00:25:27,974
the message,

746
00:25:29,075 --> 00:25:30,674
they're famous for their music. They have tons

747
00:25:30,674 --> 00:25:33,150
of Christian music. They have an entire channel

748
00:25:33,609 --> 00:25:36,349
that is focused on the family. Yeah. Sermons

749
00:25:36,410 --> 00:25:38,809
and doing family talk and talking through things

750
00:25:38,809 --> 00:25:41,690
and having discussions and Oh, yeah. And sermons.

751
00:25:41,690 --> 00:25:43,369
And they have a Billy Graham channel on

752
00:25:43,369 --> 00:25:45,464
there that is nothing but Billy Graham sermons.

753
00:25:45,464 --> 00:25:47,224
Oh, that's good stuff too. It is. I

754
00:25:47,224 --> 00:25:49,944
mean Yeah. And goodness. Look, I know, you

755
00:25:49,944 --> 00:25:50,444
know,

756
00:25:51,144 --> 00:25:52,684
brother Graham has been gone

757
00:25:53,065 --> 00:25:54,984
many, many years now. I mean, he's been

758
00:25:54,984 --> 00:25:55,964
gone for a while.

759
00:25:56,825 --> 00:25:59,400
Every single sermon of his I have ever

760
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,880
seen is just as much applicable today as

761
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:02,460
it was

762
00:26:02,839 --> 00:26:04,680
thirty, forty years ago when he preached it.

763
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,279
That's all I got saved right there, man.

764
00:26:06,279 --> 00:26:06,779
Evangelism

765
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,759
Yeah. Show on television. Praise the lord for

766
00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:11,259
that.

767
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,720
Absolutely. And then we and we've got,

768
00:26:14,585 --> 00:26:16,505
got commentaries out there that you if you

769
00:26:16,505 --> 00:26:18,184
if you do like to read, I love

770
00:26:18,184 --> 00:26:19,785
my commentaries. I've got a lot of different

771
00:26:19,785 --> 00:26:20,285
ones.

772
00:26:20,825 --> 00:26:22,424
I've got a whole set of J. Vernon

773
00:26:22,424 --> 00:26:24,125
McGee commentaries. I've got,

774
00:26:24,585 --> 00:26:26,585
Hey. He's a dandy dude. He's a dandy.

775
00:26:26,585 --> 00:26:28,265
He's a mess. He's a mess to listen

776
00:26:28,265 --> 00:26:30,369
to. Oh, he's a very listen to some

777
00:26:30,369 --> 00:26:31,589
of his stuff. Yeah.

778
00:26:31,890 --> 00:26:33,169
He's got that draw all the way. He

779
00:26:33,169 --> 00:26:34,630
does. He can put you in.

780
00:26:35,730 --> 00:26:36,049
But,

781
00:26:36,529 --> 00:26:38,710
but there's there's so many different ones

782
00:26:39,169 --> 00:26:40,710
out there that are good.

783
00:26:41,169 --> 00:26:42,690
A lot of people ask me, okay, if

784
00:26:42,690 --> 00:26:45,095
I'm a new Christian and I want a

785
00:26:45,095 --> 00:26:45,595
commentary,

786
00:26:46,054 --> 00:26:47,194
what's a good one?

787
00:26:47,734 --> 00:26:49,894
I remember one of the first commentaries that

788
00:26:49,894 --> 00:26:51,894
I ever bought was called the bible knowledge

789
00:26:51,894 --> 00:26:53,494
commentary. I believe that was the name of

790
00:26:53,494 --> 00:26:56,714
it, and, I've never found anything,

791
00:26:57,734 --> 00:27:00,690
in it that that was off kilter, you

792
00:27:00,690 --> 00:27:02,450
know, I mean, that was way out there.

793
00:27:02,450 --> 00:27:02,950
So,

794
00:27:03,330 --> 00:27:06,450
I really enjoyed it. Now, as I as

795
00:27:06,450 --> 00:27:08,450
I grew in the Lord and I still

796
00:27:08,529 --> 00:27:10,049
not that I don't still use it and

797
00:27:10,049 --> 00:27:12,595
it's not still helpful, but like sometimes you'll

798
00:27:12,595 --> 00:27:13,255
come to

799
00:27:13,634 --> 00:27:14,694
some of those verses

800
00:27:15,075 --> 00:27:17,234
that you okay now what in the world

801
00:27:17,234 --> 00:27:19,554
is he talking about here? And then you

802
00:27:19,554 --> 00:27:21,634
go to that commentary and they're saying, what

803
00:27:21,634 --> 00:27:23,394
in the world is he talking about? So

804
00:27:23,394 --> 00:27:25,130
they just skip to the next verse, you

805
00:27:25,130 --> 00:27:27,289
know? Yeah. You see that sometimes, they don't

806
00:27:27,289 --> 00:27:29,369
go into depth explaining some of these things

807
00:27:29,369 --> 00:27:31,450
that you, you know, at some point in

808
00:27:31,450 --> 00:27:33,130
time, you need an answer for and you

809
00:27:33,130 --> 00:27:34,890
need to to give someone else an answer

810
00:27:34,890 --> 00:27:36,569
for. Yeah. I've got a set of Holman.

811
00:27:36,569 --> 00:27:38,250
I think it's called Holman, it's based on

812
00:27:38,250 --> 00:27:40,034
NIV. And it's a little bit hit or

813
00:27:40,034 --> 00:27:41,954
miss sometimes, you know. I've got the whole

814
00:27:41,954 --> 00:27:43,575
New Testament series in Daniel,

815
00:27:43,954 --> 00:27:46,034
but and it's so handy when I'm preparing

816
00:27:46,034 --> 00:27:48,934
like like in Hebrews for Sunday school. Right.

817
00:27:49,154 --> 00:27:50,835
I go that as a second source, right?

818
00:27:50,835 --> 00:27:51,954
I read it and I pray over it,

819
00:27:51,954 --> 00:27:53,654
and then I look at this this commentary,

820
00:27:53,990 --> 00:27:55,990
verse by verse. Yeah. And sometimes they're like,

821
00:27:56,789 --> 00:27:58,549
but I got I got one from them

822
00:27:58,549 --> 00:28:00,150
on Revelation. It's like, I don't think I'm

823
00:28:00,150 --> 00:28:02,869
about throwing it away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not

824
00:28:02,869 --> 00:28:04,710
not what it not what it makes to

825
00:28:04,710 --> 00:28:07,555
be. No offense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, but

826
00:28:07,555 --> 00:28:09,075
that like you said, that it's awesome. And

827
00:28:09,075 --> 00:28:10,434
I remember when I first got saved, I

828
00:28:10,434 --> 00:28:12,275
was buying books all over the place. And

829
00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:14,515
I bought this Bible dictionary. Yeah. It's it's

830
00:28:14,515 --> 00:28:16,674
just like a kinda like an encyclopedia. It's

831
00:28:16,674 --> 00:28:18,994
one book. Right. And just any subject you

832
00:28:18,994 --> 00:28:20,539
look up, any word, you can look it

833
00:28:20,539 --> 00:28:22,259
up and it's got this long article about

834
00:28:22,259 --> 00:28:24,259
it. Yeah. I wore that thing out. I

835
00:28:24,259 --> 00:28:26,099
may not highlight it all over that thing.

836
00:28:26,099 --> 00:28:27,779
I still got it at home. It's it's

837
00:28:27,779 --> 00:28:30,179
an awesome book. Yeah. And and and then,

838
00:28:30,740 --> 00:28:31,400
you know,

839
00:28:31,859 --> 00:28:33,460
the deeper you get into it and the

840
00:28:33,460 --> 00:28:34,839
more you get into it,

841
00:28:35,215 --> 00:28:37,055
the more you're gonna look for those different

842
00:28:37,055 --> 00:28:39,615
books and those different commentaries that that, you

843
00:28:39,615 --> 00:28:42,195
know, maybe answer the questions that you want

844
00:28:42,255 --> 00:28:44,595
that you want to to have answered. So,

845
00:28:45,215 --> 00:28:47,015
I I love I I love,

846
00:28:47,455 --> 00:28:47,955
my,

847
00:28:48,735 --> 00:28:50,035
my Hebrew and Greek

848
00:28:51,369 --> 00:28:51,869
translation.

849
00:28:52,250 --> 00:28:54,250
Yeah. You know, that that you can look

850
00:28:54,250 --> 00:28:56,410
up any word in the Bible Yeah. And

851
00:28:56,410 --> 00:28:58,650
and you can you can find it. Right?

852
00:28:59,210 --> 00:29:00,809
This is what this means in Hebrew. This

853
00:29:00,809 --> 00:29:02,269
is what this means in Greek.

854
00:29:02,945 --> 00:29:04,785
So that's I'll tell you an awesome app

855
00:29:04,785 --> 00:29:06,144
that I use a lot. When when you're

856
00:29:06,144 --> 00:29:07,984
doing your Bible study, I'm not texting anybody.

857
00:29:07,984 --> 00:29:09,345
I'm looking at my Bible. Oh, I know.

858
00:29:09,345 --> 00:29:10,005
Yeah. Yeah.

859
00:29:10,545 --> 00:29:12,545
I'm just looking at my phone going Yeah.

860
00:29:12,545 --> 00:29:15,345
But it's, it's interlinear Bible, and it's in

861
00:29:15,345 --> 00:29:17,740
an app called Bible hub. Yeah. Yeah. And

862
00:29:17,740 --> 00:29:19,599
it it literally has the Greek.

863
00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:20,960
It has a concordance.

864
00:29:21,259 --> 00:29:22,859
You can press on that link and it

865
00:29:22,859 --> 00:29:24,539
shows you what each word means in the

866
00:29:24,539 --> 00:29:25,039
Greek

867
00:29:25,339 --> 00:29:27,740
and it has the English translation below it.

868
00:29:27,740 --> 00:29:29,660
And it's really, really odd to read it.

869
00:29:29,660 --> 00:29:31,179
If you just read the English version of

870
00:29:31,179 --> 00:29:32,904
it like Mark, It's just open to Mark

871
00:29:32,904 --> 00:29:34,744
10 verse one right now. It says, and

872
00:29:34,744 --> 00:29:37,144
from there having risen up he comes into

873
00:29:37,144 --> 00:29:40,045
the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan.

874
00:29:40,345 --> 00:29:42,105
You know, it's just out of order. Right.

875
00:29:42,105 --> 00:29:44,744
Right. It's literal. Literal. And, I've got a

876
00:29:44,744 --> 00:29:47,369
Strong's Concordance app too. I've got I've got

877
00:29:47,369 --> 00:29:50,089
a couple of Strong's Concordance books. They're really,

878
00:29:50,089 --> 00:29:52,250
really thick, but but I love my IOP

879
00:29:52,250 --> 00:29:54,650
because you can just type in any word

880
00:29:54,650 --> 00:29:56,410
and then boom. You know, you say that,

881
00:29:56,410 --> 00:29:57,930
right? That's that's kind of the way this

882
00:29:57,930 --> 00:29:59,450
one is, has the Strong's number up there

883
00:29:59,450 --> 00:30:00,970
and it goes into them. Yeah. To the

884
00:30:00,970 --> 00:30:03,025
lexicon. Right. With y'all. Yeah. You know, you

885
00:30:03,184 --> 00:30:05,505
it's free. You mentioned that my dad literally

886
00:30:05,505 --> 00:30:06,005
has,

887
00:30:06,865 --> 00:30:08,484
in his library in there,

888
00:30:10,384 --> 00:30:11,125
at the house,

889
00:30:11,505 --> 00:30:13,984
a strong strong concordance that he's pretty much

890
00:30:13,984 --> 00:30:16,065
wore out. I mean, the thing is literally

891
00:30:16,065 --> 00:30:17,744
the back cover starting to fall off of

892
00:30:17,744 --> 00:30:19,210
it. And then sitting right on top of

893
00:30:19,210 --> 00:30:20,490
it is the Bible dictionary. I think he

894
00:30:20,490 --> 00:30:22,329
got them both the same time. I remember

895
00:30:22,329 --> 00:30:23,529
when he when they showed up at the

896
00:30:23,529 --> 00:30:25,289
house when I was a kid, and that's

897
00:30:25,289 --> 00:30:26,809
that's how he studied for his Sunday school

898
00:30:26,809 --> 00:30:28,329
lessons. Yeah. He'd be sitting there and he'd

899
00:30:28,329 --> 00:30:29,929
he'd have the concordance out on one side,

900
00:30:29,929 --> 00:30:31,210
the dictionary out on the other side of

901
00:30:31,210 --> 00:30:32,569
the Sunday school lesson out in front of

902
00:30:32,569 --> 00:30:33,994
the Bible in in the middle of it.

903
00:30:33,994 --> 00:30:35,515
No. You go so much from doing that.

904
00:30:35,515 --> 00:30:37,115
You really do. So much. You really do.

905
00:30:37,115 --> 00:30:39,934
You start to understand instead of knowing. Absolutely.

906
00:30:40,475 --> 00:30:40,975
Absolutely.

907
00:30:41,515 --> 00:30:42,875
Absolutely. And it's

908
00:30:43,595 --> 00:30:44,795
and like you say, it's one of those

909
00:30:44,795 --> 00:30:47,275
things. There's I I think the reason really

910
00:30:47,275 --> 00:30:49,160
and truly a lot of us tend to

911
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:50,759
not go and read the scripture and a

912
00:30:50,759 --> 00:30:52,599
lot of us tend to avoid like we

913
00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:55,079
say, there's so many ways to get to

914
00:30:55,079 --> 00:30:58,119
it on your phone. There's Bible apps. The

915
00:30:58,119 --> 00:31:00,359
the YouVersion Bible app is it's free. It's

916
00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:02,295
on your phone. You can go to bible.com.

917
00:31:02,295 --> 00:31:03,654
It's right there. You can get all these

918
00:31:03,654 --> 00:31:05,035
different translations, everything.

919
00:31:05,414 --> 00:31:05,975
You can get

920
00:31:06,535 --> 00:31:07,975
it has the audio reading. You can just

921
00:31:07,975 --> 00:31:09,494
push play, and it'll just start reading it

922
00:31:09,494 --> 00:31:10,855
to you. I I think those are usually,

923
00:31:10,855 --> 00:31:13,095
like, sometimes they depending on the translation, it

924
00:31:13,095 --> 00:31:14,315
may be computer generated,

925
00:31:14,740 --> 00:31:16,039
you know, the audio.

926
00:31:16,339 --> 00:31:17,619
But a lot of times, it's like a

927
00:31:17,619 --> 00:31:20,039
professional person sat down and and read

928
00:31:20,339 --> 00:31:21,940
this section and recorded it for them, and

929
00:31:21,940 --> 00:31:23,059
they put that in the app. And it

930
00:31:23,059 --> 00:31:24,980
just follows right along. We bought one, and,

931
00:31:25,220 --> 00:31:26,659
Diane had it on her phone. And it

932
00:31:26,659 --> 00:31:29,474
had, like, background noises and all kinds of

933
00:31:29,794 --> 00:31:32,134
everything. Theatrical, you know, it was like seagulls

934
00:31:32,194 --> 00:31:34,194
in the background and part of it. And

935
00:31:34,194 --> 00:31:36,535
so, there's really no excuse for not

936
00:31:36,914 --> 00:31:38,595
getting the word and not being able to

937
00:31:38,595 --> 00:31:39,414
absorb it.

938
00:31:39,875 --> 00:31:40,914
But you know, at the end of the

939
00:31:40,914 --> 00:31:42,214
day, it's convicting.

940
00:31:43,430 --> 00:31:45,450
It it is it is absolutely,

941
00:31:46,069 --> 00:31:48,009
without a doubt, one of the most convicting

942
00:31:48,150 --> 00:31:48,650
things

943
00:31:49,109 --> 00:31:50,950
in my life and in my experiences when

944
00:31:50,950 --> 00:31:52,150
I sit down and I start reading, I

945
00:31:52,150 --> 00:31:53,690
go, oh, I've done that.

946
00:31:55,054 --> 00:31:56,894
Or I haven't done that. Or I haven't

947
00:31:56,894 --> 00:31:59,794
done that. Yeah. I was doing that yesterday.

948
00:32:00,575 --> 00:32:02,414
I think I'm gonna flip to another oh,

949
00:32:02,414 --> 00:32:04,914
it's here again. Talking about don't do that.

950
00:32:05,054 --> 00:32:07,535
Right. And and hey, what about kids? I

951
00:32:07,535 --> 00:32:09,054
know I know that when my kids were

952
00:32:09,054 --> 00:32:10,740
little, we had several little,

953
00:32:11,140 --> 00:32:13,220
Bible story books and stuff like that, that

954
00:32:13,220 --> 00:32:15,859
we read to them constantly. And, and, and,

955
00:32:15,859 --> 00:32:18,279
you know, the the Noah's Ark, the,

956
00:32:18,980 --> 00:32:21,059
you know, the Adam and Eve story and

957
00:32:21,059 --> 00:32:23,480
all those things that, that that we've learned,

958
00:32:23,644 --> 00:32:25,325
that most of us learn when we're kids,

959
00:32:25,325 --> 00:32:27,345
those things are not being learned and taught.

960
00:32:27,804 --> 00:32:30,125
Right. Right. So good to read those stories

961
00:32:30,125 --> 00:32:31,724
to them, make sure you find one that's

962
00:32:31,724 --> 00:32:32,224
not

963
00:32:32,845 --> 00:32:35,085
out there somewhere, but, I'll tell you a

964
00:32:35,085 --> 00:32:35,724
good one,

965
00:32:36,125 --> 00:32:39,049
the action bible, the action bible. That's right.

966
00:32:39,049 --> 00:32:39,369
Yeah.

967
00:32:40,170 --> 00:32:42,009
Love that thing, man. We when we had

968
00:32:42,009 --> 00:32:44,090
our little store, we sold tons of those

969
00:32:44,090 --> 00:32:44,590
things,

970
00:32:45,289 --> 00:32:48,490
and, and young man at church, he's he's

971
00:32:48,490 --> 00:32:50,410
read through his like twice and now he's

972
00:32:50,410 --> 00:32:52,734
got an action bible bible. They but they

973
00:32:52,734 --> 00:32:54,654
start out with the action bible it's like

974
00:32:54,654 --> 00:32:57,774
an animated series Mhmm. And it's written out

975
00:32:57,774 --> 00:33:00,355
almost like a comic book but, but it's

976
00:33:00,494 --> 00:33:02,575
I have read through that thing several times

977
00:33:02,575 --> 00:33:04,650
and I've found nothing in there that's that's

978
00:33:04,970 --> 00:33:07,450
off kilter somewhere so so safe and sound

979
00:33:07,450 --> 00:33:09,049
but that's called the action bible if you

980
00:33:09,049 --> 00:33:10,410
want to look that up you can you

981
00:33:10,410 --> 00:33:11,710
can order those online.

982
00:33:12,490 --> 00:33:14,570
Sometimes they even have them at Walmart, I

983
00:33:14,570 --> 00:33:16,089
don't know if they've got those in in

984
00:33:16,089 --> 00:33:18,535
stock right now but you can read if

985
00:33:18,535 --> 00:33:20,375
your child can't read yet, read it to

986
00:33:20,375 --> 00:33:22,455
them. Read it read it over them, right?

987
00:33:22,455 --> 00:33:24,615
Pour them to God over them. That's rough.

988
00:33:24,934 --> 00:33:27,335
And that's the as men especially, that's what

989
00:33:27,335 --> 00:33:29,015
we're supposed to do with our families, right?

990
00:33:29,015 --> 00:33:30,215
Yeah. You know, one of the ones I

991
00:33:30,215 --> 00:33:32,455
grew up with was those blue bible story

992
00:33:32,455 --> 00:33:32,940
books.

993
00:33:33,259 --> 00:33:34,779
Yeah. And you know, and then it just

994
00:33:34,779 --> 00:33:35,599
goes through

995
00:33:36,059 --> 00:33:38,059
the whole bible and now those are expensive.

996
00:33:38,059 --> 00:33:39,419
If you try to get those, they're the

997
00:33:39,419 --> 00:33:40,779
Adventist or the ones that put that out,

998
00:33:40,779 --> 00:33:42,220
the Seventh day Adventist. The ones that are

999
00:33:42,220 --> 00:33:44,220
in the doctor's office. Uh-huh. Yeah. They have

1000
00:33:44,220 --> 00:33:46,299
demos of them, preview books set out in

1001
00:33:46,299 --> 00:33:48,075
the doctor, but it's a full series. It's

1002
00:33:48,075 --> 00:33:48,974
the size of an

1003
00:33:49,355 --> 00:33:50,634
encyclopedia. Uh-huh. Like, if you get it, it's

1004
00:33:50,634 --> 00:33:51,615
like a full encyclopedia,

1005
00:33:52,315 --> 00:33:54,095
biblical, but it's made for

1006
00:33:54,954 --> 00:33:56,255
young ish kids,

1007
00:33:57,274 --> 00:33:58,794
and they update it they go through and

1008
00:33:58,794 --> 00:34:00,714
they update it about every five or ten

1009
00:34:00,714 --> 00:34:02,759
years or so. So, you know, if if

1010
00:34:02,759 --> 00:34:04,539
if you want something that's good that

1011
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,799
that really doesn't feel for kids like reading

1012
00:34:07,799 --> 00:34:09,880
the Bible, I highly recommend those. I've I've

1013
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,039
never run into anything like you would expect

1014
00:34:12,039 --> 00:34:14,119
it to have some of their core teachings

1015
00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:15,974
really worked. They they kind of avoid all

1016
00:34:15,974 --> 00:34:18,214
that because Yeah. They that's one thing I'll

1017
00:34:18,214 --> 00:34:20,855
say, if you've ever talked with any Adventist

1018
00:34:20,855 --> 00:34:22,934
that go out and they're they're actually the

1019
00:34:22,934 --> 00:34:23,434
evangelist

1020
00:34:23,894 --> 00:34:26,295
group and not the core group that's just

1021
00:34:26,295 --> 00:34:28,394
just having a conversation but they're the evangelist,

1022
00:34:28,750 --> 00:34:30,430
They're very careful to leave a lot of

1023
00:34:30,430 --> 00:34:33,410
their their specific teachings away because their goal

1024
00:34:33,789 --> 00:34:35,869
and, man, talk about putting us to shame.

1025
00:34:35,869 --> 00:34:37,469
Their goal is we just wanna speak see

1026
00:34:37,469 --> 00:34:39,309
people saved. Yeah. We just want people to

1027
00:34:39,309 --> 00:34:40,989
come Christ. And and if you don't end

1028
00:34:40,989 --> 00:34:42,510
up coming to church with us, we we

1029
00:34:42,510 --> 00:34:45,545
disagree with you. Yeah. But Yeah. Yeah. As

1030
00:34:45,545 --> 00:34:47,545
long as you're saved. Like, that's their only

1031
00:34:47,545 --> 00:34:49,464
goal. And so they they they have all

1032
00:34:49,464 --> 00:34:51,404
these fantastic resources. Them,

1033
00:34:52,184 --> 00:34:54,264
there's some other groups out there, that are

1034
00:34:54,264 --> 00:34:55,085
kinda nondenominational

1035
00:34:55,464 --> 00:34:57,570
that do stuff similar, but theirs is I've

1036
00:34:57,570 --> 00:34:59,650
always loved those and I've I've I've seen

1037
00:34:59,650 --> 00:35:01,590
them throughout the years as they've been updated.

1038
00:35:01,890 --> 00:35:03,570
And it just makes things so clear and

1039
00:35:03,570 --> 00:35:05,329
so easy to understand. And it's like reading

1040
00:35:05,329 --> 00:35:06,849
a story. Like say, it's not like sitting

1041
00:35:06,849 --> 00:35:08,369
there. You don't have the chapter and verse.

1042
00:35:08,369 --> 00:35:10,050
It's just here's the story of Adam and

1043
00:35:10,050 --> 00:35:11,489
Eve. Here's the story of creation. Here's the

1044
00:35:11,489 --> 00:35:13,315
story of Cain and Abel. And Well, now

1045
00:35:13,315 --> 00:35:15,315
here's a kicker. Here's a big surprise to

1046
00:35:15,315 --> 00:35:16,614
everybody. Guess what?

1047
00:35:16,914 --> 00:35:19,795
The first Bible did not have chapters in

1048
00:35:19,795 --> 00:35:22,375
it. Yeah. Or verses in it. And you

1049
00:35:22,434 --> 00:35:24,275
know. I don't think it had punctuation. And

1050
00:35:24,275 --> 00:35:26,319
it and probably not. Probably not. But it

1051
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,679
but you'll notice, you know, you'll notice in

1052
00:35:28,679 --> 00:35:29,579
a lot of chapters,

1053
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,059
especially in the New Testament, you'll notice,

1054
00:35:32,519 --> 00:35:34,059
you'll notice a lot of chapters

1055
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:34,940
flowing

1056
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,719
into the next chapter. Now Yeah. Why they

1057
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,719
decided to break it up when they broke

1058
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,320
it up, I don't know because it seems

1059
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,255
like they should they should definitely go together,

1060
00:35:44,255 --> 00:35:45,775
you know. And it's just one and two

1061
00:35:45,775 --> 00:35:48,894
or the it's big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1062
00:35:48,894 --> 00:35:49,394
Because

1063
00:35:50,014 --> 00:35:51,775
that's where people say, well, it's two different

1064
00:35:51,775 --> 00:35:53,375
stories and, you know, it's not. Oh, it's

1065
00:35:53,375 --> 00:35:55,054
not. It's in more detail. It's in more

1066
00:35:55,054 --> 00:35:57,250
detail than this next chapter. So, yeah. I

1067
00:35:57,250 --> 00:35:59,269
think the chapters and verses sometimes

1068
00:35:59,570 --> 00:36:01,329
can it's good for us to break it

1069
00:36:01,329 --> 00:36:02,930
up to know where we've got to to

1070
00:36:02,930 --> 00:36:04,769
know where we're right. To know where we're

1071
00:36:04,769 --> 00:36:06,849
getting because I mean, it's like on in

1072
00:36:06,849 --> 00:36:09,090
bible study on on Wednesday night, you know,

1073
00:36:09,090 --> 00:36:10,610
I've got to have it because sometimes I'm

1074
00:36:10,610 --> 00:36:12,105
like, where'd to get to? To get to

1075
00:36:12,105 --> 00:36:13,804
23 or 24?

1076
00:36:13,864 --> 00:36:14,525
You know,

1077
00:36:14,824 --> 00:36:16,264
I count on those that mark And the

1078
00:36:16,264 --> 00:36:18,344
thing that people that you have to remember,

1079
00:36:18,344 --> 00:36:19,644
at the end of the day,

1080
00:36:20,025 --> 00:36:21,784
the chapters are just like chapters in any

1081
00:36:21,784 --> 00:36:24,045
book. Yeah. They're they're not independent

1082
00:36:25,224 --> 00:36:27,760
chunks. Right. They're this is how much we

1083
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,599
think you can read in a single setting.

1084
00:36:29,599 --> 00:36:31,440
And if you approach it that way now

1085
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,679
granted, Psalms kinda breaks that, the the book

1086
00:36:33,679 --> 00:36:35,619
of Psalms, because those are individual

1087
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,639
Psalms. Right. And each Psalm got its own

1088
00:36:38,639 --> 00:36:40,239
chapter, and that's why one of them is,

1089
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,105
what, like a 20

1090
00:36:42,105 --> 00:36:43,885
something verses. Wow.

1091
00:36:44,184 --> 00:36:46,264
Yeah. That's a song. And that's something that's

1092
00:36:46,264 --> 00:36:48,264
something too. A lot of times at the

1093
00:36:48,264 --> 00:36:50,025
start of these chapters, it'll start with the

1094
00:36:50,025 --> 00:36:53,065
word therefore. Yeah. Right. Don't ignore the chapter

1095
00:36:53,065 --> 00:36:55,625
before. That's right. It's leading you into the

1096
00:36:55,625 --> 00:36:58,550
next chapter. It's connecting it to the chapter

1097
00:36:58,550 --> 00:37:01,610
before. Yeah. Yeah. There therefore and unto.

1098
00:37:02,070 --> 00:37:02,890
It's there

1099
00:37:03,269 --> 00:37:04,630
for you to go back and look at

1100
00:37:04,630 --> 00:37:06,550
the previous chapter. That's right. Amen. I like

1101
00:37:06,550 --> 00:37:08,969
that. I like that. That's right. Absolutely.

1102
00:37:09,824 --> 00:37:10,324
Absolutely.

1103
00:37:11,025 --> 00:37:12,625
Yeah. And and that's one of the things

1104
00:37:12,625 --> 00:37:13,605
too. It it's

1105
00:37:13,905 --> 00:37:15,045
at the end of the day,

1106
00:37:15,585 --> 00:37:18,244
the Bible start finish is all one story.

1107
00:37:18,465 --> 00:37:20,005
Yeah. It's all one

1108
00:37:20,625 --> 00:37:21,125
one

1109
00:37:21,860 --> 00:37:22,360
theme,

1110
00:37:22,820 --> 00:37:25,000
one direction, one set of instructions

1111
00:37:26,579 --> 00:37:28,579
happening over the course of, you know, a

1112
00:37:28,579 --> 00:37:30,679
few thousand years. Right. Yeah.

1113
00:37:31,460 --> 00:37:33,780
Yeah. Yeah. So let's speak to the preachers

1114
00:37:33,780 --> 00:37:34,760
for just a minute

1115
00:37:35,635 --> 00:37:35,715
and,

1116
00:37:36,434 --> 00:37:37,575
and types of preaching,

1117
00:37:39,235 --> 00:37:39,735
because,

1118
00:37:40,515 --> 00:37:42,434
I don't know about you, but, and I

1119
00:37:42,434 --> 00:37:43,715
may have said this on here before, but

1120
00:37:43,715 --> 00:37:45,394
I can remember when God called me to

1121
00:37:45,394 --> 00:37:47,474
preach, I was like, okay, what kind of

1122
00:37:47,474 --> 00:37:49,155
preacher am I gonna be? Am I gonna

1123
00:37:49,155 --> 00:37:50,914
be like this guy? Am I gonna be

1124
00:37:50,914 --> 00:37:53,282
this guy? Am I gonna be a Billy

1125
00:37:53,282 --> 00:37:55,480
Graham? Am I gonna be a, you know,

1126
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,677
MacArthur? Am I, what am I gonna be

1127
00:37:57,677 --> 00:38:00,150
like? You know, what am I gonna what's

1128
00:38:00,150 --> 00:38:02,621
my preaching style? And I would say, first

1129
00:38:02,621 --> 00:38:04,545
of all, especially to our young preachers,

1130
00:38:05,184 --> 00:38:07,344
be who God's called you to be. Yeah.

1131
00:38:07,344 --> 00:38:08,164
Don't try

1132
00:38:08,625 --> 00:38:11,264
to mimic someone else, but just be who

1133
00:38:11,264 --> 00:38:12,864
God's called you to be.

1134
00:38:13,664 --> 00:38:16,405
Because it's important. What you're doing is important.

1135
00:38:16,545 --> 00:38:19,599
Yeah. And, couple of verses that I that

1136
00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:20,320
I thought of,

1137
00:38:21,039 --> 00:38:23,300
first Corinthians one eighteen and nineteen,

1138
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,360
for the preaching of the cross is to

1139
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,980
them that perish foolishness,

1140
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,940
but unto us which are saved,

1141
00:38:30,335 --> 00:38:32,335
it is the power of God. For it

1142
00:38:32,335 --> 00:38:33,934
is written, I will destroy the wisdom of

1143
00:38:33,934 --> 00:38:35,234
the wise and will bring

1144
00:38:35,614 --> 00:38:38,335
to nothing the understanding of the prudent. And

1145
00:38:38,335 --> 00:38:39,954
then Romans chapter 10,

1146
00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:44,255
for whosoever is called upon the name of

1147
00:38:44,255 --> 00:38:45,714
the Lord shall be saved.

1148
00:38:46,130 --> 00:38:47,969
How then shall they call on him whom

1149
00:38:47,969 --> 00:38:49,809
they have not believed and how shall they

1150
00:38:49,809 --> 00:38:50,309
believe

1151
00:38:50,690 --> 00:38:52,769
in him whom they have not heard? And

1152
00:38:52,769 --> 00:38:54,530
how shall they, how shall they hear without

1153
00:38:54,530 --> 00:38:55,190
a preacher?

1154
00:38:55,489 --> 00:38:57,650
And how shall they preach except they be

1155
00:38:57,650 --> 00:39:00,034
sent? As it is written, how beautiful are

1156
00:39:00,034 --> 00:39:01,635
the feet of them that preach the gospel

1157
00:39:01,635 --> 00:39:03,954
of peace and bring glad tidings of good

1158
00:39:03,954 --> 00:39:06,034
things. But they have not all obeyed the

1159
00:39:06,034 --> 00:39:07,574
gospel for Isaiah saith,

1160
00:39:07,954 --> 00:39:10,295
Lord, who hath believed our report?

1161
00:39:10,674 --> 00:39:12,614
So then faith comes by hearing

1162
00:39:13,199 --> 00:39:15,460
and hearing by the word of God.

1163
00:39:15,839 --> 00:39:16,239
That's your

1164
00:39:17,039 --> 00:39:18,719
that's what ties it all in, right? I

1165
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,119
don't care how you preach, if you're, you

1166
00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:22,739
might be a screamer or sweater,

1167
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,780
almost gonna die or, but,

1168
00:39:26,159 --> 00:39:26,659
but

1169
00:39:27,005 --> 00:39:30,285
if you're preaching the word of God and

1170
00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:31,164
and it's,

1171
00:39:31,724 --> 00:39:33,805
and you're preaching it because you studied it,

1172
00:39:33,805 --> 00:39:35,905
because you've shown yourself approved,

1173
00:39:37,005 --> 00:39:39,030
but but we can get into to different,

1174
00:39:39,510 --> 00:39:40,010
expository

1175
00:39:40,390 --> 00:39:43,110
preaching, topical preaching, narrative preaching. Those are the

1176
00:39:43,110 --> 00:39:43,610
three

1177
00:39:44,390 --> 00:39:45,289
most common,

1178
00:39:46,949 --> 00:39:49,050
types of preaching that are out there. Yeah.

1179
00:39:49,190 --> 00:39:50,869
Yeah. That says something to you. You know,

1180
00:39:50,869 --> 00:39:52,630
I think I think every young preacher falls

1181
00:39:52,630 --> 00:39:54,384
into that trap of they got their favorite

1182
00:39:54,384 --> 00:39:55,824
preacher and they wanna be just like them.

1183
00:39:55,824 --> 00:39:57,984
Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And and like you said,

1184
00:39:57,984 --> 00:40:00,384
you know, if if, if, if God needed

1185
00:40:00,384 --> 00:40:02,384
two Billy Grahams, he'd have made two Billy

1186
00:40:02,384 --> 00:40:04,464
Grahams. That's right. Two Charles Stanley's and two

1187
00:40:04,464 --> 00:40:06,144
J Vernon McGee's. You know? That's it. I

1188
00:40:06,144 --> 00:40:08,280
see it. He he made you. That's it.

1189
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,119
Right? He made you. And and And you'll

1190
00:40:10,119 --> 00:40:12,840
find yourself falling miserably short of trying to

1191
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,000
be somebody else. Yeah. Yeah. You just You

1192
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,160
just never measure up. No. No. I I

1193
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,660
couldn't begin to start preaching like Tony Evans.

1194
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,764
Oh my god. Yeah. Just Floyd. He's

1195
00:40:22,545 --> 00:40:24,144
He don't ever get behind the pulpit, and

1196
00:40:24,144 --> 00:40:26,144
he just rattles it off, you know. Yeah.

1197
00:40:26,144 --> 00:40:27,664
I can't do it. I gotta stay behind

1198
00:40:27,664 --> 00:40:29,184
the pulpit. I got my notes, and hopefully,

1199
00:40:29,184 --> 00:40:31,284
I don't get stuck in them. Yeah. But

1200
00:40:31,985 --> 00:40:33,125
Yep. I'm

1201
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,119
I'm a walker, you know, I'm gonna I'm

1202
00:40:35,119 --> 00:40:36,640
gonna get behind the pulpit then I'm gonna

1203
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,000
walk and then I'm gonna come up I

1204
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,519
might come up the aisle, you know, and

1205
00:40:39,519 --> 00:40:40,019
but,

1206
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:42,160
you know, it's just I don't know, I

1207
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,380
just gotta move sometimes,

1208
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:45,760
in the midst of it and,

1209
00:40:46,295 --> 00:40:47,735
and when I move, it helps me,

1210
00:40:48,215 --> 00:40:49,894
it helps me not get stuck in my

1211
00:40:49,894 --> 00:40:51,735
notes. Yeah. I've done that before and I

1212
00:40:51,735 --> 00:40:53,195
think I've talked about it on here.

1213
00:40:53,575 --> 00:40:55,575
It was probably, I don't know, it was

1214
00:40:55,575 --> 00:40:57,255
one of my first few sermons that I

1215
00:40:57,255 --> 00:40:57,755
preached.

1216
00:40:58,855 --> 00:41:01,530
And, and man, I thought the Lord was

1217
00:41:01,530 --> 00:41:04,489
just moving and and the first sermon I

1218
00:41:04,489 --> 00:41:05,230
ever preached,

1219
00:41:05,690 --> 00:41:06,570
was was,

1220
00:41:07,130 --> 00:41:09,130
at Union Hill Baptist Church and and it

1221
00:41:09,130 --> 00:41:09,869
was about,

1222
00:41:10,809 --> 00:41:11,309
probably,

1223
00:41:11,610 --> 00:41:13,369
I don't know, thirty five or forty minutes

1224
00:41:13,369 --> 00:41:14,650
long and they were like, my gosh, this

1225
00:41:14,650 --> 00:41:16,224
is the first message you've ever preached and

1226
00:41:16,224 --> 00:41:18,484
you're gonna be let long winded. Oh, boy.

1227
00:41:19,184 --> 00:41:19,684
But,

1228
00:41:20,065 --> 00:41:20,885
but, you know,

1229
00:41:21,344 --> 00:41:22,304
I I don't know. I I

1230
00:41:23,105 --> 00:41:23,684
that that

1231
00:41:24,065 --> 00:41:24,804
one message,

1232
00:41:25,184 --> 00:41:26,724
I had preached I had a,

1233
00:41:27,264 --> 00:41:29,309
preacher that knew me and and he asked

1234
00:41:29,309 --> 00:41:31,070
me to come preach one Sunday morning, you

1235
00:41:31,070 --> 00:41:31,550
know, just,

1236
00:41:32,110 --> 00:41:33,710
to share in the pulpit with me to

1237
00:41:33,710 --> 00:41:35,630
help me grow and and I can remember

1238
00:41:35,630 --> 00:41:37,230
I wrote all these notes and had all

1239
00:41:37,230 --> 00:41:38,769
these things I wanted to say.

1240
00:41:39,309 --> 00:41:41,630
Yeah. And and I I didn't wanna miss

1241
00:41:41,630 --> 00:41:43,570
any of them. Yeah. And so I got

1242
00:41:43,684 --> 00:41:45,764
stuck in it. Man, I really got stuck

1243
00:41:45,764 --> 00:41:47,525
in it. And I just it was almost

1244
00:41:47,525 --> 00:41:48,724
like I kept my head down the whole

1245
00:41:48,724 --> 00:41:49,844
time and I was just like I was

1246
00:41:49,844 --> 00:41:51,144
reading the book the whole time.

1247
00:41:51,764 --> 00:41:54,164
And oh man, I I felt terrible after

1248
00:41:54,164 --> 00:41:55,844
that. I told I told my wife, I

1249
00:41:55,844 --> 00:41:57,844
said, boy, did I stink that up. Well,

1250
00:41:57,844 --> 00:41:59,579
you know, there there's something to be said

1251
00:41:59,660 --> 00:42:02,380
for for those notes, though. Sure. God's working

1252
00:42:02,380 --> 00:42:05,099
through you preparing those things. Yeah. But man,

1253
00:42:05,099 --> 00:42:07,019
you can do too many. The first sermon

1254
00:42:07,019 --> 00:42:08,700
I ever did, I had five pages of

1255
00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,460
the worst bullet points you've ever seen in

1256
00:42:10,460 --> 00:42:12,460
your life. And I got snuck in them

1257
00:42:12,460 --> 00:42:14,414
things. They moved in it. Yeah.

1258
00:42:14,894 --> 00:42:17,135
Yeah. Despite me. Yeah. You know, and I

1259
00:42:17,135 --> 00:42:18,735
know that if I have a long time

1260
00:42:18,735 --> 00:42:20,974
off of not preaching and then preach again,

1261
00:42:20,974 --> 00:42:23,135
I tend to have too many notes. Yeah.

1262
00:42:23,135 --> 00:42:25,054
Oh, yeah. Unless it's something I just really,

1263
00:42:25,054 --> 00:42:27,135
really know and it's I'm really passionate about,

1264
00:42:27,135 --> 00:42:29,630
I can just talk. Right. But I

1265
00:42:29,929 --> 00:42:32,089
I I kinda lock up sometimes, go, what

1266
00:42:32,089 --> 00:42:34,010
was I gonna say next? Yeah. Yeah. I

1267
00:42:34,010 --> 00:42:35,609
do that on here too. So Well, we

1268
00:42:35,609 --> 00:42:36,989
all do. We all do.

1269
00:42:37,449 --> 00:42:39,869
I I lose words in my head sometimes.

1270
00:42:40,010 --> 00:42:42,489
So I'm like, I just had a lot

1271
00:42:42,489 --> 00:42:43,789
a lot of stroke. But,

1272
00:42:45,655 --> 00:42:47,655
but, you know, we've got we've got all

1273
00:42:47,655 --> 00:42:49,974
these different types of of of preaching, but

1274
00:42:49,974 --> 00:42:51,994
like I said, three three main types. Expository

1275
00:42:52,295 --> 00:42:54,315
preaching focuses on unpacking,

1276
00:42:55,175 --> 00:42:57,974
the meaning of a specific bible text. And

1277
00:42:57,974 --> 00:42:59,434
and I would say overall,

1278
00:42:59,799 --> 00:43:02,599
I'm probably an expository preacher. You probably are

1279
00:43:02,599 --> 00:43:03,099
too,

1280
00:43:03,639 --> 00:43:06,519
overall. There's times that I that I will,

1281
00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:08,779
you know, use a narrative or,

1282
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,719
or something like that. But, but for the

1283
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,554
most part, I take a a text and

1284
00:43:14,554 --> 00:43:16,635
and dig into it and break it down

1285
00:43:16,635 --> 00:43:17,135
and,

1286
00:43:17,994 --> 00:43:19,674
you know, and then just let the Lord

1287
00:43:19,674 --> 00:43:21,594
lead in it. But, So that's probably one

1288
00:43:21,594 --> 00:43:23,755
of the most common styles It is. Of

1289
00:43:23,755 --> 00:43:25,914
of preaching that I hear is people you

1290
00:43:25,914 --> 00:43:28,029
you get a section and that's where we're

1291
00:43:28,029 --> 00:43:30,029
headed. Yeah. Yeah. I had a,

1292
00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:32,750
I had a a preacher tell me one

1293
00:43:32,750 --> 00:43:34,909
time, he said, he said, you know, he

1294
00:43:34,909 --> 00:43:37,389
said, you can't just do that expository preaching.

1295
00:43:37,389 --> 00:43:39,389
He said he said, you you just get

1296
00:43:39,389 --> 00:43:41,474
in there and and he said, you you

1297
00:43:41,474 --> 00:43:43,555
stay in one place and and he said

1298
00:43:43,555 --> 00:43:44,295
it's just,

1299
00:43:45,635 --> 00:43:47,315
people you lose people. And I was like,

1300
00:43:47,315 --> 00:43:49,635
no. You don't lose them if if if

1301
00:43:49,635 --> 00:43:51,974
you're preaching the text and you're and you're,

1302
00:43:52,195 --> 00:43:54,275
because the word of God is interesting. Right?

1303
00:43:54,275 --> 00:43:56,449
I mean, you know, and and in itself.

1304
00:43:56,590 --> 00:43:58,989
So, so, yeah, I I love expository. The

1305
00:43:58,989 --> 00:44:00,590
idea is you're wringing the truth out of

1306
00:44:00,590 --> 00:44:02,510
that thing. That's it. And applying it. And

1307
00:44:02,510 --> 00:44:04,829
applying it, like you said before. Yeah. So,

1308
00:44:04,829 --> 00:44:07,070
yeah, expository preaching. And I've seen a I've

1309
00:44:07,070 --> 00:44:09,090
seen a young preacher get up one time

1310
00:44:09,150 --> 00:44:11,144
in, one of the churches that the group

1311
00:44:11,144 --> 00:44:12,744
used to go and sing at, and it

1312
00:44:12,744 --> 00:44:14,285
was one of his first times preaching.

1313
00:44:14,664 --> 00:44:15,164
And

1314
00:44:15,465 --> 00:44:17,164
there wasn't a whole lot of explanation.

1315
00:44:17,545 --> 00:44:19,224
Yeah. He's like, yeah, I mean, it was

1316
00:44:19,224 --> 00:44:21,385
it was almost an hour. We went through

1317
00:44:21,385 --> 00:44:24,640
about 25, 30 verses. Hold on. Because he

1318
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,980
was just he was just reading it. Yeah.

1319
00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:29,780
It was enough. Yeah. It was I mean,

1320
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,760
he but he, you know, he bounced around

1321
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,920
dumb and referenced other verses and referenced other

1322
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:35,920
stuff, but it wasn't there wasn't a whole

1323
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,235
lot of extra

1324
00:44:37,695 --> 00:44:39,934
commentary. Yeah. But those songs can stand on

1325
00:44:39,934 --> 00:44:41,375
its own. Yeah. I mean, he would he

1326
00:44:41,375 --> 00:44:42,735
would add in a little commentary here and

1327
00:44:42,735 --> 00:44:44,095
there, but it was it was it was

1328
00:44:44,095 --> 00:44:45,855
very, very focused, and it was, like, I

1329
00:44:45,855 --> 00:44:47,375
I think it was maybe the second sermon

1330
00:44:47,375 --> 00:44:49,775
he'd ever breathe. Yeah. But I get it.

1331
00:44:49,775 --> 00:44:51,690
Man, he I mean, it it was like,

1332
00:44:51,690 --> 00:44:53,609
I thought yeah. Yeah. And and I've heard

1333
00:44:53,609 --> 00:44:55,449
I've heard people say that like you have

1334
00:44:55,449 --> 00:44:56,889
before. It's like, oh, you can't do that

1335
00:44:56,889 --> 00:44:58,809
all the time. And it's like Thank you.

1336
00:44:58,889 --> 00:45:00,809
That kid just held everybody's attention for forty

1337
00:45:00,809 --> 00:45:02,650
five minutes without any of us batting an

1338
00:45:02,650 --> 00:45:04,125
eye. Yeah. Yeah.

1339
00:45:04,764 --> 00:45:06,684
Yeah. And and then you got so you

1340
00:45:06,684 --> 00:45:07,824
got topical preaching,

1341
00:45:09,005 --> 00:45:11,565
you know, that's well, Sunday, I I I

1342
00:45:11,565 --> 00:45:13,324
was on a certain topic, you know, on

1343
00:45:13,324 --> 00:45:15,824
a certain You need narration. Yeah.

1344
00:45:17,159 --> 00:45:19,799
And so, yeah, but it's it's it's needed.

1345
00:45:19,799 --> 00:45:21,960
Right? And and there's nothing like,

1346
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,500
I you remember those sermons where there's,

1347
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,880
you know, maybe they've got a and people

1348
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,719
who don't you know, these are proper anything,

1349
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,704
but, man, I can I can I remember

1350
00:45:31,704 --> 00:45:34,525
sermons where people have used specific things or

1351
00:45:34,585 --> 00:45:36,905
talked about specific they are very effective and

1352
00:45:36,905 --> 00:45:39,065
you remember those sermons? I remember I had

1353
00:45:39,065 --> 00:45:41,065
a pastor a long time ago is, right

1354
00:45:41,065 --> 00:45:42,905
after I started going back to church. You

1355
00:45:42,905 --> 00:45:45,164
know, Ryan was was just real little.

1356
00:45:45,599 --> 00:45:48,239
And this pastor, he was really good. And,

1357
00:45:48,559 --> 00:45:51,059
he was telling the story about judging others.

1358
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,539
And, he comes up with this big cardboard

1359
00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:55,039
tube and says, what are you doing with

1360
00:45:55,039 --> 00:45:56,340
a log in your eye?

1361
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,914
You know? Yeah. Yeah. And I remember that

1362
00:45:58,914 --> 00:46:01,074
to this day. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Because he's

1363
00:46:01,074 --> 00:46:02,674
stuck that big old thing in his eye.

1364
00:46:02,674 --> 00:46:03,554
Yeah. Yeah.

1365
00:46:04,355 --> 00:46:06,114
I I've done I've done one on the

1366
00:46:06,114 --> 00:46:08,514
on the the floating ax before, you know,

1367
00:46:08,514 --> 00:46:10,194
and I had people tell me before, I

1368
00:46:10,194 --> 00:46:12,670
remember that sermon, you know. I mean, not

1369
00:46:12,670 --> 00:46:14,110
that I preached it worth the flip. They

1370
00:46:14,110 --> 00:46:15,949
remember I had an axe out there and,

1371
00:46:15,949 --> 00:46:18,110
you know, and and and Yeah. Use that

1372
00:46:18,110 --> 00:46:20,210
narrative or use that, that,

1373
00:46:21,309 --> 00:46:23,550
that axe as as a as a prop

1374
00:46:23,550 --> 00:46:25,150
to say, okay. Here here's what we were

1375
00:46:25,150 --> 00:46:26,684
dealing with. Yeah. I pulled out a sword

1376
00:46:26,684 --> 00:46:28,465
here one time. Yeah. Yeah.

1377
00:46:29,325 --> 00:46:29,825
Yeah.

1378
00:46:30,204 --> 00:46:32,065
Yeah. I thought it was good. Absolutely.

1379
00:46:32,525 --> 00:46:34,925
I didn't hurt anybody. None. Didn't hurt myself

1380
00:46:34,925 --> 00:46:36,144
either. Yeah. I'm there.

1381
00:46:37,565 --> 00:46:39,405
But yeah. So there you know, and there

1382
00:46:39,485 --> 00:46:39,805
there's

1383
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,800
I mean, some preachers are very loud, some

1384
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,300
preachers are very quiet, some are soft spoken,

1385
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,760
some preachers are more like teachers,

1386
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,260
than they are Some are more like cerebral

1387
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:51,940
or emotional. Yeah.

1388
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,719
Yeah. Just a huge There's a lot in

1389
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:55,460
there, but,

1390
00:46:55,934 --> 00:46:57,795
again, it all goes back to

1391
00:46:58,255 --> 00:47:01,155
study, to show that self approved. Make those

1392
00:47:01,454 --> 00:47:04,175
make those notes. Make those, I I you

1393
00:47:04,175 --> 00:47:06,574
know, I've heard, I heard John MacArthur say

1394
00:47:06,574 --> 00:47:06,894
that,

1395
00:47:07,454 --> 00:47:10,335
that he he handwrites all his notes with

1396
00:47:10,335 --> 00:47:10,835
a,

1397
00:47:12,949 --> 00:47:14,949
like, not a calligraphy pen, but a fountain

1398
00:47:14,949 --> 00:47:17,190
pen. It's a fountain pen. Wow. And and

1399
00:47:17,190 --> 00:47:17,690
and

1400
00:47:18,069 --> 00:47:19,909
so that when he runs out, he has

1401
00:47:19,909 --> 00:47:21,510
to refill it and he can stop and

1402
00:47:21,510 --> 00:47:23,954
he can think about it and then refill,

1403
00:47:24,035 --> 00:47:26,035
He refills it himself and then he starts

1404
00:47:26,035 --> 00:47:28,675
writing with that fountain pen again. Wow. And

1405
00:47:28,675 --> 00:47:29,175
and,

1406
00:47:29,715 --> 00:47:31,474
he said he said, I make my notes

1407
00:47:31,474 --> 00:47:34,695
on on he he makes a a draft,

1408
00:47:35,075 --> 00:47:37,960
you know, and then, and then he'll he'll

1409
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,640
mark that up, and then he'll do another

1410
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,160
one. And he usually says he goes through

1411
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:41,980
about three,

1412
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,019
three drafts before he has his final

1413
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:47,320
He's like writing books, man. Yeah. Because I

1414
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:48,840
you just read one of his I've read

1415
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,280
one of his transcripts from one of his

1416
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:51,800
sermons one time. It was like reading a

1417
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,545
book. Yeah. I mean, it was like proper

1418
00:47:53,605 --> 00:47:55,285
grammar all the way through this thing. I

1419
00:47:55,285 --> 00:47:56,125
mean, just just

1420
00:47:56,565 --> 00:47:58,105
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.

1421
00:47:59,204 --> 00:48:00,805
Right. Yeah. It comes from But he's not.

1422
00:48:00,805 --> 00:48:02,965
It comes from that English part degree. He's

1423
00:48:02,965 --> 00:48:04,005
probably got it too.

1424
00:48:04,485 --> 00:48:04,985
But,

1425
00:48:05,605 --> 00:48:06,889
you know, and

1426
00:48:07,269 --> 00:48:08,469
and like I said, there's there's just so

1427
00:48:08,469 --> 00:48:10,569
many. I I usually I've got where,

1428
00:48:12,069 --> 00:48:13,589
I have I used to type them out

1429
00:48:13,589 --> 00:48:14,969
on the computer all the time,

1430
00:48:15,349 --> 00:48:17,349
but most of the time I study and

1431
00:48:17,349 --> 00:48:19,349
I've got my notes on my phone and

1432
00:48:19,349 --> 00:48:20,869
I'll and I start typing on my phone

1433
00:48:20,869 --> 00:48:22,505
because it's just right here and and I

1434
00:48:22,505 --> 00:48:23,864
can save it in there, and I can

1435
00:48:23,864 --> 00:48:24,985
print it off in there, and I print

1436
00:48:24,985 --> 00:48:26,744
off my notes. So I use that a

1437
00:48:26,744 --> 00:48:28,684
lot, and, and I can probably

1438
00:48:29,065 --> 00:48:29,885
I can probably,

1439
00:48:30,744 --> 00:48:32,425
type with my thumbs on the phone quicker

1440
00:48:32,425 --> 00:48:34,025
than I can type with Not bad. I

1441
00:48:34,025 --> 00:48:35,805
can't do it. Computer. I don't know.

1442
00:48:36,585 --> 00:48:37,965
I blast it with typos,

1443
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,839
man. Well, thank goodness for, for autocorrect and

1444
00:48:41,839 --> 00:48:43,359
things like that. Yeah, just be careful with

1445
00:48:43,359 --> 00:48:45,359
that. But sometimes, that will autocorrect you in

1446
00:48:45,359 --> 00:48:46,559
a place that you don't want it to

1447
00:48:46,559 --> 00:48:47,460
go. Yeah. Yeah.

1448
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,014
That word's not supposed to be. Go back

1449
00:48:51,014 --> 00:48:52,454
and read your notes later and you're like,

1450
00:48:52,454 --> 00:48:54,954
why did I type that now? Yeah.

1451
00:48:55,655 --> 00:48:56,714
This was gibberish.

1452
00:48:59,494 --> 00:49:01,335
Yeah. One of one of our chaplains had

1453
00:49:01,335 --> 00:49:03,494
made a note one time and and, it

1454
00:49:03,494 --> 00:49:05,579
auto corrected it because he was he was

1455
00:49:05,579 --> 00:49:08,440
using voice messaging. Oh, those are bad. And,

1456
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,019
I Especially with a southern accent. Yeah. Yeah.

1457
00:49:11,019 --> 00:49:12,380
I won't tell I won't say on here

1458
00:49:12,380 --> 00:49:13,920
what it ended up saying, and

1459
00:49:14,300 --> 00:49:16,059
he he sent it in before he stated

1460
00:49:16,059 --> 00:49:16,559
it.

1461
00:49:20,065 --> 00:49:22,224
Oh, man. But but, you know, like I

1462
00:49:22,224 --> 00:49:22,625
said,

1463
00:49:23,265 --> 00:49:24,704
you you got a lot of people that

1464
00:49:24,704 --> 00:49:26,465
are blast a preacher because, you know, well,

1465
00:49:26,465 --> 00:49:27,985
this one's too loud and this one's not

1466
00:49:27,985 --> 00:49:30,305
loud enough and this one's too excited and

1467
00:49:30,305 --> 00:49:32,405
this one's not excited enough, but,

1468
00:49:33,530 --> 00:49:34,909
you know, be careful,

1469
00:49:35,610 --> 00:49:37,130
what you say about that man of God

1470
00:49:37,130 --> 00:49:39,289
and and and what do you, you know,

1471
00:49:39,289 --> 00:49:40,190
if he's not

1472
00:49:40,570 --> 00:49:42,250
if he's not what you think he needs

1473
00:49:42,250 --> 00:49:43,610
to be, maybe you should be praying for

1474
00:49:43,610 --> 00:49:45,050
him or maybe you should be praying for

1475
00:49:45,050 --> 00:49:45,405
you.

1476
00:49:46,204 --> 00:49:48,125
Absolutely. Absolutely. Because that man has a burden

1477
00:49:48,125 --> 00:49:50,204
on him. Yeah. You know, it it's heavy.

1478
00:49:50,204 --> 00:49:51,724
Yeah. It's heavy. I know when you when

1479
00:49:51,724 --> 00:49:53,485
you've asked me to preach, it's like suddenly

1480
00:49:53,485 --> 00:49:54,684
I've got I feel like a weight on

1481
00:49:54,684 --> 00:49:56,844
my shoulders. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh, this is

1482
00:49:57,244 --> 00:49:59,425
because you're you're you're talking to his

1483
00:49:59,799 --> 00:50:02,519
sheep. Right. Yeah. Right? And don't say anything

1484
00:50:02,519 --> 00:50:03,980
wrong with him because

1485
00:50:04,359 --> 00:50:06,679
in essence, at the true heart of taking

1486
00:50:06,679 --> 00:50:08,440
the Lord's name in vain is saying something

1487
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,159
wrong about him. Right. That's right. That's right.

1488
00:50:11,159 --> 00:50:13,684
Yeah. And man, it's there's a burden on

1489
00:50:13,684 --> 00:50:14,965
preachers and and we do need to be

1490
00:50:14,965 --> 00:50:16,965
careful how we criticize. Yeah. Absolutely. And it

1491
00:50:16,965 --> 00:50:19,364
does. It it it takes all styles and

1492
00:50:19,364 --> 00:50:21,525
all types and all kinds as far as

1493
00:50:21,525 --> 00:50:23,545
the way sermons and stuff are preached.

1494
00:50:23,925 --> 00:50:26,469
My the only thing I ever tell people

1495
00:50:26,469 --> 00:50:28,230
when I if I hear somebody complaining about

1496
00:50:28,230 --> 00:50:29,590
a pastor or something like that, I'm like,

1497
00:50:29,590 --> 00:50:31,829
Look, the only time you ever really need

1498
00:50:31,829 --> 00:50:33,750
to say anything about somebody that's preacher is

1499
00:50:33,750 --> 00:50:35,130
if you've got somebody truly

1500
00:50:35,510 --> 00:50:37,710
grifting off people. Who was it? Was it

1501
00:50:38,070 --> 00:50:39,694
was it it was about him? It's about

1502
00:50:39,694 --> 00:50:41,614
him. I'm sure it was awful. I'm not

1503
00:50:41,614 --> 00:50:43,534
sure. But, you know, I tell people I'm

1504
00:50:43,534 --> 00:50:45,614
like, you know, it's one thing to call

1505
00:50:45,614 --> 00:50:48,094
out a pastor of a church or something

1506
00:50:48,094 --> 00:50:50,494
somewhere if they are straight up just scamming

1507
00:50:50,494 --> 00:50:53,329
people. Yeah. Yeah. That's one thing. But if

1508
00:50:53,329 --> 00:50:55,022
you're if you're only the phone bill. Yeah.

1509
00:50:55,022 --> 00:50:56,456
You you gotta call that out. You gotta

1510
00:50:56,456 --> 00:50:57,889
speak about that. But if your your complaint

1511
00:50:57,889 --> 00:50:59,250
is, well, they just they get up and

1512
00:50:59,250 --> 00:51:00,929
they're just so loud and it just really

1513
00:51:00,929 --> 00:51:02,449
bothers me. I'm like, oh. How they held

1514
00:51:02,449 --> 00:51:04,369
us five minutes over and I missed lunch?

1515
00:51:04,369 --> 00:51:06,875
Yeah. Yeah. It's like, okay. Chill out. I

1516
00:51:06,875 --> 00:51:08,394
will. I used to go to church with

1517
00:51:08,394 --> 00:51:09,375
the lady that,

1518
00:51:09,914 --> 00:51:11,215
that at 12:00,

1519
00:51:11,675 --> 00:51:14,315
I don't care if Jesus was in there

1520
00:51:14,315 --> 00:51:15,454
baptizing people

1521
00:51:15,835 --> 00:51:18,239
and and and anointing them with oil.

1522
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,880
At 12:00, she had to go cook supper

1523
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:22,480
for because all her kids were coming over

1524
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,239
that didn't go to church, and so she

1525
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:25,920
had to go cook supper for them. So

1526
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,019
so she's out. Just 12:00.

1527
00:51:28,079 --> 00:51:30,255
God, honey. It wasn't here. It wasn't here,

1528
00:51:30,335 --> 00:51:32,335
But she was gone. You could I mean,

1529
00:51:32,335 --> 00:51:34,574
I'm serious. I've seen some people filling the

1530
00:51:34,574 --> 00:51:36,335
altar up and the Lord just moving and

1531
00:51:36,335 --> 00:51:38,094
you see her, like, grab her Bible, grab

1532
00:51:38,094 --> 00:51:39,934
her book, like, it's time for me to

1533
00:51:39,934 --> 00:51:41,534
go. At church I used to go to

1534
00:51:41,534 --> 00:51:43,775
at about 12:00, you'd start hearing little alarms

1535
00:51:43,775 --> 00:51:46,250
going out. Well All over the building. Oh

1536
00:51:46,250 --> 00:51:47,630
my goodness. Well, yeah.

1537
00:51:47,929 --> 00:51:49,449
Yeah. And then the church I grew up

1538
00:51:49,449 --> 00:51:50,969
in had a clock in the back, and

1539
00:51:50,969 --> 00:51:52,409
I think this one probably used to have

1540
00:51:52,409 --> 00:51:53,929
a clock in the back. It probably wasn't

1541
00:51:53,929 --> 00:51:55,309
time, but but,

1542
00:51:56,329 --> 00:51:58,909
many many years ago, we had a pastor

1543
00:51:58,969 --> 00:51:59,449
that was,

1544
00:52:00,704 --> 00:52:03,025
very good at making sure at 12:00 we

1545
00:52:03,025 --> 00:52:04,864
were out. Yeah. But that's because that was

1546
00:52:04,864 --> 00:52:06,945
his thing. Oh, it's it's lunchtime. Okay. We're

1547
00:52:06,945 --> 00:52:09,184
done. Yeah. Yeah. Gotta beat the Baptist to

1548
00:52:09,184 --> 00:52:12,144
the restaurant. Yeah. Yeah. And so That was

1549
00:52:12,144 --> 00:52:14,289
before my time, but I've heard stories about

1550
00:52:14,289 --> 00:52:16,369
how he would, he he would tend to

1551
00:52:16,369 --> 00:52:18,449
cut things short because, oh, nope. 12:00. We're

1552
00:52:18,449 --> 00:52:18,949
done.

1553
00:52:19,329 --> 00:52:20,630
Get out. Yep.

1554
00:52:21,010 --> 00:52:22,929
I try not to chase rabbits. I probably

1555
00:52:22,929 --> 00:52:24,690
do sometimes, but, I mean, you know, you

1556
00:52:24,690 --> 00:52:26,724
could you can tell when you're losing them.

1557
00:52:26,724 --> 00:52:28,244
Let's just you go ahead and do an

1558
00:52:28,244 --> 00:52:29,065
altar call.

1559
00:52:29,605 --> 00:52:30,105
Yeah.

1560
00:52:30,485 --> 00:52:31,684
Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead and wrap

1561
00:52:31,684 --> 00:52:33,445
it up. Okay. You look up and everybody's

1562
00:52:33,445 --> 00:52:35,445
eyes are glazed over. You got somebody sitting

1563
00:52:35,445 --> 00:52:37,440
on the seat down here. But now listen.

1564
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,159
I have said before from the pulpit, y'all

1565
00:52:40,159 --> 00:52:41,679
sang an hour, so I'm about to preach

1566
00:52:41,679 --> 00:52:42,420
an hour.

1567
00:52:44,159 --> 00:52:46,079
And if it's one you've heard before, well,

1568
00:52:46,079 --> 00:52:48,420
you've heard those songs before too. That's right.

1569
00:52:49,894 --> 00:52:52,295
That's right. And that's another thing, you know,

1570
00:52:52,295 --> 00:52:53,414
I think, you know,

1571
00:52:53,815 --> 00:52:54,315
especially

1572
00:52:54,855 --> 00:52:56,454
young preachers are all of course, they may

1573
00:52:56,454 --> 00:52:58,375
not have a whole lot of sermons that

1574
00:52:58,375 --> 00:53:00,934
they've preached before, but but you know what?

1575
00:53:00,934 --> 00:53:03,434
I mean, if God says preach this again

1576
00:53:03,494 --> 00:53:05,275
and it's something you've preached before,

1577
00:53:05,690 --> 00:53:07,210
if it was good enough the first time,

1578
00:53:07,210 --> 00:53:09,309
it's good enough to preach it again. Right?

1579
00:53:09,530 --> 00:53:11,369
Yeah. Hey. And and he was gonna beat

1580
00:53:11,369 --> 00:53:13,130
somebody that hadn't heard it. Oh, man. These

1581
00:53:13,130 --> 00:53:15,130
these guys that preach revival when they preach

1582
00:53:15,130 --> 00:53:17,309
these awesome messages and they're just like

1583
00:53:17,925 --> 00:53:19,525
fired up, like, where did he come up

1584
00:53:19,525 --> 00:53:20,805
from that? Well, you go to the next

1585
00:53:20,805 --> 00:53:21,733
revival that he preached. He's done it. He's

1586
00:53:21,733 --> 00:53:22,085
done it. He's done it. He's done it.

1587
00:53:22,085 --> 00:53:23,704
He's done it. He's done it.

1588
00:53:24,164 --> 00:53:26,405
And he's perfected that message, you know. He's

1589
00:53:26,405 --> 00:53:28,724
got this he's got this little hole about

1590
00:53:28,724 --> 00:53:30,805
10 messages as he preaches all over the

1591
00:53:30,805 --> 00:53:33,349
place, you know. And so, but but, hey,

1592
00:53:33,349 --> 00:53:35,030
I thank God for them too. But it's,

1593
00:53:35,030 --> 00:53:37,030
you know, it's effective here. It's effective at

1594
00:53:37,030 --> 00:53:38,949
the next Mhmm. Place that they go to.

1595
00:53:38,949 --> 00:53:41,430
So You know, that they, Jesus told the

1596
00:53:41,430 --> 00:53:43,269
same stories that the town he went to.

1597
00:53:43,269 --> 00:53:45,610
Sure did. Sure did. Oh, yeah. I mean,

1598
00:53:45,795 --> 00:53:47,474
the only reason we have that's why when

1599
00:53:47,474 --> 00:53:49,074
you look, there's not like just tons and

1600
00:53:49,074 --> 00:53:50,914
tons and tons of stories that he recorded

1601
00:53:50,914 --> 00:53:52,755
as having talked about. Yeah. It's because I

1602
00:53:52,755 --> 00:53:55,494
guarantee you, the disciples got those stories so

1603
00:53:55,554 --> 00:53:58,355
so close and so exactly told the same

1604
00:53:58,355 --> 00:54:00,320
in every book because they had heard it

1605
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:01,300
about 50 times.

1606
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,159
Yeah. They could quote it. God, he he

1607
00:54:04,159 --> 00:54:05,760
preached to those two guys on the road

1608
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,840
to Emmaus the whole entire time that they

1609
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,239
were gone. And, I mean, he it says

1610
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,559
he expounded on the Bible. Yeah. Can you

1611
00:54:12,559 --> 00:54:14,739
imagine Jesus expounded on the Bible?

1612
00:54:15,054 --> 00:54:16,835
And I and and I'm listen.

1613
00:54:17,135 --> 00:54:19,534
Yeah. Guess what? It wasn't in King James

1614
00:54:19,534 --> 00:54:21,454
when he spoke to those guys, but, you

1615
00:54:21,454 --> 00:54:22,434
know It was ESV.

1616
00:54:22,735 --> 00:54:24,994
Yeah. It was ESV that he spoke in.

1617
00:54:26,735 --> 00:54:28,730
But he he spoke he spoke, you know,

1618
00:54:28,730 --> 00:54:30,409
whether it was Hebrew or Aramaic or what

1619
00:54:30,409 --> 00:54:32,429
he was speaking probably at that time, but,

1620
00:54:32,889 --> 00:54:34,809
but man, can you imagine him telling the

1621
00:54:34,809 --> 00:54:37,289
stories? Because he was there. Yeah. So this

1622
00:54:37,289 --> 00:54:38,510
is so Adam,

1623
00:54:38,889 --> 00:54:41,549
when he and Eve and she and

1624
00:54:42,614 --> 00:54:43,974
I mean, you know, he was able to

1625
00:54:43,974 --> 00:54:46,054
just narrate the whole thing, and those guys

1626
00:54:46,054 --> 00:54:48,934
were like, this dude knows what he's talking

1627
00:54:48,934 --> 00:54:50,934
about. Wonder who he is. And and he

1628
00:54:50,934 --> 00:54:52,614
probably told it in, like, third person. He's

1629
00:54:52,614 --> 00:54:54,934
got and then I told Abraham. Yeah. Yeah.

1630
00:54:54,934 --> 00:54:56,155
Then I told David.

1631
00:54:57,140 --> 00:54:58,180
What? And then all of a sudden And

1632
00:54:58,180 --> 00:54:59,780
then David said And then all of a

1633
00:54:59,780 --> 00:55:01,380
sudden, they invite him in their house, and

1634
00:55:01,380 --> 00:55:02,039
it's like,

1635
00:55:02,660 --> 00:55:04,840
oh, that's Jesus. Oh, man.

1636
00:55:05,780 --> 00:55:07,619
Ain't that interesting, though? They broke bread with

1637
00:55:07,619 --> 00:55:09,380
him. Yeah. And they did they didn't know

1638
00:55:09,380 --> 00:55:10,980
who he was until they invited him in.

1639
00:55:10,980 --> 00:55:12,945
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it broke the

1640
00:55:12,945 --> 00:55:15,105
bread. It just disappeared, didn't he? Yeah. Well,

1641
00:55:15,105 --> 00:55:17,025
he he left after that, but, you know,

1642
00:55:17,025 --> 00:55:19,664
and actually, he actually took the part as

1643
00:55:19,664 --> 00:55:22,065
as the host. So they invited him into

1644
00:55:22,065 --> 00:55:24,465
their house and then it says he began

1645
00:55:24,465 --> 00:55:26,385
to break bread with them. He served them

1646
00:55:26,545 --> 00:55:28,760
Yeah. In their house. Ain't that that's some

1647
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:30,679
there's something about breaking bread with other people.

1648
00:55:30,679 --> 00:55:32,619
Isn't it? Yeah. It's just something about it.

1649
00:55:32,679 --> 00:55:35,079
And that's, you know, the communion. Yeah. Yeah.

1650
00:55:35,079 --> 00:55:36,539
Yeah. And you know, people,

1651
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:39,079
I mean, you hear it all the time.

1652
00:55:39,079 --> 00:55:41,324
The Lord's knocking on your heart's door. He's

1653
00:55:41,324 --> 00:55:42,925
a gentleman. We hear that all the time

1654
00:55:42,925 --> 00:55:44,525
and but he really is because he was

1655
00:55:44,525 --> 00:55:46,204
to those two guys who said I must

1656
00:55:46,204 --> 00:55:47,964
needs to go on. You know, he said

1657
00:55:47,964 --> 00:55:49,405
I got to go on down the road.

1658
00:55:49,405 --> 00:55:50,764
I gotta get back. And they said, hey,

1659
00:55:50,764 --> 00:55:53,085
it's late. Why don't you just stay here

1660
00:55:53,085 --> 00:55:54,545
with us? Yeah. And he's like,

1661
00:55:54,869 --> 00:55:56,230
if you want me to, that's what we'll

1662
00:55:56,230 --> 00:55:58,009
do. And they broke bread with him and

1663
00:55:58,069 --> 00:56:00,230
they're like, woah. And their eyes were open.

1664
00:56:00,230 --> 00:56:02,009
And their hearts were burning. Yes.

1665
00:56:02,549 --> 00:56:05,349
Oh, man. What an awesome story. What awesome

1666
00:56:05,349 --> 00:56:07,429
story. Well, and and I love that detail

1667
00:56:07,429 --> 00:56:09,829
about how he suddenly stepped up as the

1668
00:56:09,829 --> 00:56:10,329
servant,

1669
00:56:10,684 --> 00:56:12,204
which he he did from day one. I

1670
00:56:12,204 --> 00:56:13,885
mean, when you look at every time all

1671
00:56:13,885 --> 00:56:16,445
of his interactions, he's always in that role

1672
00:56:16,445 --> 00:56:18,605
of the servant. The greatest is the servant.

1673
00:56:18,605 --> 00:56:20,684
And he was always doing that. But not

1674
00:56:20,684 --> 00:56:23,025
only that, in that day, in that culture,

1675
00:56:23,085 --> 00:56:24,925
that meant he was stepping up as though

1676
00:56:24,925 --> 00:56:27,239
he were the master of the house. Yeah.

1677
00:56:27,539 --> 00:56:29,460
Yeah. Yeah. The these people had no clue

1678
00:56:29,460 --> 00:56:30,660
who he was. They invite him in, and

1679
00:56:30,660 --> 00:56:31,860
all of a sudden, he starts picking the

1680
00:56:31,860 --> 00:56:33,559
bread up. Yeah. And they're thinking,

1681
00:56:34,099 --> 00:56:36,180
you you know at some point the thought

1682
00:56:36,180 --> 00:56:38,260
for even if it was just a fleeting

1683
00:56:38,260 --> 00:56:40,360
say, who does he think he is?

1684
00:56:40,684 --> 00:56:43,005
Well, they're grabbing my bread and then he

1685
00:56:43,005 --> 00:56:45,324
breaks it and he starts serving it out

1686
00:56:45,324 --> 00:56:46,364
and he starts putting it on the table

1687
00:56:46,364 --> 00:56:48,525
and it was just like all the and

1688
00:56:48,525 --> 00:56:50,445
they go, oh, I know who that is.

1689
00:56:50,445 --> 00:56:52,445
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, it was

1690
00:56:52,445 --> 00:56:54,605
custom for them to wash the feet of

1691
00:56:54,605 --> 00:56:55,664
the person who,

1692
00:56:56,139 --> 00:56:57,739
the guest that you had coming into your

1693
00:56:57,739 --> 00:56:59,500
house and then and what's he doing? He's

1694
00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:01,340
washing their feet. Yeah. You know, I mean,

1695
00:57:01,340 --> 00:57:03,739
it's anyway, but that's what we're supposed to

1696
00:57:03,739 --> 00:57:05,739
be, servants and And Yeah. And that has

1697
00:57:05,739 --> 00:57:08,059
such a a beautiful meaning to it because

1698
00:57:08,059 --> 00:57:09,420
it is. Not only does he own the

1699
00:57:09,420 --> 00:57:11,280
house, it's his house anyway. Yeah.

1700
00:57:11,954 --> 00:57:14,355
Once we invite him in, it's his. So

1701
00:57:14,355 --> 00:57:16,434
so stop trying to run the place. Let

1702
00:57:16,434 --> 00:57:17,974
him run it. It's his house

1703
00:57:18,355 --> 00:57:20,755
and he's gonna serve. He he he came

1704
00:57:20,755 --> 00:57:23,075
to serve and told us many, many times

1705
00:57:23,075 --> 00:57:25,155
over and over that that was his purpose

1706
00:57:25,155 --> 00:57:25,655
and

1707
00:57:26,010 --> 00:57:28,510
somehow people still get that part wrong. Yeah.

1708
00:57:28,730 --> 00:57:31,210
That's right. Amen. And the whole point of

1709
00:57:31,210 --> 00:57:33,289
serving was to show us. Yeah. Show us

1710
00:57:33,289 --> 00:57:34,650
who he was and show us what we're

1711
00:57:34,969 --> 00:57:37,070
what we're supposed to do. That's right. Amen.

1712
00:57:37,849 --> 00:57:40,409
So here's my whole piece of advice for

1713
00:57:40,409 --> 00:57:41,230
Bible study.

1714
00:57:41,655 --> 00:57:42,875
Just start reading it.

1715
00:57:43,494 --> 00:57:44,934
Just read it. Dig into it. Let the

1716
00:57:44,934 --> 00:57:47,414
Holy Spirit lead. Yep. If you read it,

1717
00:57:47,414 --> 00:57:50,454
I guarantee you're gonna study. Yep. Amen. You'll

1718
00:57:50,454 --> 00:57:51,755
get something out of it.

1719
00:57:52,614 --> 00:57:54,795
And pick out Man, you know,

1720
00:57:55,655 --> 00:57:56,429
I'm a Paul

1721
00:57:56,909 --> 00:57:57,969
a Paul guy.

1722
00:57:58,349 --> 00:58:00,190
But you can learn so much from his

1723
00:58:00,190 --> 00:58:01,949
letters from Romans all the way to what

1724
00:58:01,949 --> 00:58:03,969
is it? Is it Titus or

1725
00:58:04,349 --> 00:58:04,849
whatever?

1726
00:58:05,789 --> 00:58:09,869
But man, like Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, those

1727
00:58:09,869 --> 00:58:10,275
books,

1728
00:58:10,755 --> 00:58:13,554
Romans especially, that's that's like the gospel according

1729
00:58:13,554 --> 00:58:15,954
to Paul. Yeah. And read what he was

1730
00:58:15,954 --> 00:58:18,434
called from to what he's called to and

1731
00:58:18,434 --> 00:58:20,355
know that no matter where you've been, no

1732
00:58:20,355 --> 00:58:22,514
matter what you've done in your life, that

1733
00:58:22,514 --> 00:58:24,355
you're not too far. You're not out of

1734
00:58:24,355 --> 00:58:26,659
his arm reach. Right? He can bring you

1735
00:58:26,659 --> 00:58:28,199
in. He can use you,

1736
00:58:28,739 --> 00:58:30,359
no matter who you are. Absolutely.

1737
00:58:30,739 --> 00:58:33,319
Yeah. Man, that's that's, that's encouraging

1738
00:58:33,779 --> 00:58:34,679
Yeah. To me.

1739
00:58:34,980 --> 00:58:37,619
It is. Amen. Amen. And we are. We're

1740
00:58:37,619 --> 00:58:39,924
call we're called to go and tell. Yeah.

1741
00:58:39,924 --> 00:58:41,605
We're called to take the word and spread

1742
00:58:41,605 --> 00:58:43,364
it as far as wide as we can.

1743
00:58:43,364 --> 00:58:44,664
Spread all the mountain.

1744
00:58:45,125 --> 00:58:46,424
We'll do it as our heels

1745
00:58:47,364 --> 00:58:47,864
everywhere.

1746
00:58:48,724 --> 00:58:50,484
That's it. That's it. And and we are

1747
00:58:50,644 --> 00:58:52,210
far, guys. But I mean, that's, you know,

1748
00:58:52,210 --> 00:58:53,969
that's the thing. We're that's what we're called

1749
00:58:53,969 --> 00:58:56,230
to do and that's where we,

1750
00:58:57,170 --> 00:58:58,769
we we as Christians tend to, I think,

1751
00:58:58,769 --> 00:59:00,289
drop the ball way too much today is

1752
00:59:00,289 --> 00:59:02,230
that that we wanna go out and

1753
00:59:02,530 --> 00:59:04,289
talk about the love of Jesus, talk about

1754
00:59:04,289 --> 00:59:05,570
how much he cares for us. We don't

1755
00:59:05,570 --> 00:59:07,315
wanna tell people. Mhmm. We don't want to

1756
00:59:07,315 --> 00:59:09,715
tell them about him and about exactly who

1757
00:59:09,715 --> 00:59:11,235
he is and that's why there's so much

1758
00:59:11,235 --> 00:59:14,035
confusion about who Christ is. Because they you're

1759
00:59:14,035 --> 00:59:15,554
not picking up the words, you're not reading

1760
00:59:15,554 --> 00:59:17,315
what he said. Yes, he went into the

1761
00:59:17,315 --> 00:59:18,835
home of the sinners and then he said,

1762
00:59:18,835 --> 00:59:20,619
okay, Now leave the sin and come and

1763
00:59:20,619 --> 00:59:22,860
follow me. Yeah. He went into the people

1764
00:59:22,860 --> 00:59:23,920
who were who were

1765
00:59:24,300 --> 00:59:26,460
turned away from God and said, okay. Leave

1766
00:59:26,460 --> 00:59:26,960
that.

1767
00:59:27,500 --> 00:59:30,139
Follow me. Yeah. Leave that. Follow me. Sell

1768
00:59:30,139 --> 00:59:31,980
all you have and come follow me. And

1769
00:59:31,980 --> 00:59:34,195
I mean, every time he does this, he's

1770
00:59:34,195 --> 00:59:35,255
calling people out.

1771
00:59:36,034 --> 00:59:37,715
And it's right there. It's so plain. It's

1772
00:59:37,715 --> 00:59:39,954
so easy to read. And at the end

1773
00:59:39,954 --> 00:59:40,994
of the day, the only way you can

1774
00:59:40,994 --> 00:59:42,355
know it, the only way you can really

1775
00:59:42,355 --> 00:59:44,994
internalize and understand it, read it. That's right.

1776
00:59:44,994 --> 00:59:46,835
Easy to read is an important thing here

1777
00:59:46,835 --> 00:59:47,655
too, I think.

1778
00:59:48,190 --> 00:59:50,289
And I don't I don't make anybody mad.

1779
00:59:50,590 --> 00:59:52,269
But get you a Bible version that you

1780
00:59:52,269 --> 00:59:54,510
can read Yeah. And understand. You know, there's

1781
00:59:54,510 --> 00:59:56,750
some good ones. There's ESV. There's New American

1782
00:59:56,750 --> 00:59:59,390
Standard. Yeah. There's New King James, which is

1783
00:59:59,390 --> 01:00:00,369
really good. Yeah.

1784
01:00:01,150 --> 01:00:02,985
King James ain't the only one there is.

1785
01:00:03,144 --> 01:00:06,025
Oh, I agree. I agree. Yeah. Yeah. Modern

1786
01:00:06,025 --> 01:00:07,625
English is it it makes it so much

1787
01:00:07,625 --> 01:00:09,144
easier. My my wife reads,

1788
01:00:09,785 --> 01:00:12,425
was it New Living Translation and it's a

1789
01:00:12,425 --> 01:00:13,244
huge paraphrase,

1790
01:00:13,625 --> 01:00:16,599
but it's really accurate. Yeah. Amen. Amen. But

1791
01:00:16,599 --> 01:00:18,039
that's the main thing. Just make sure it's

1792
01:00:18,039 --> 01:00:19,719
accurate. Talk to somebody if you don't know.

1793
01:00:19,719 --> 01:00:20,539
Get some advice

1794
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,000
from somebody like the ESV and some of

1795
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,239
those translations. It's a word for word translation

1796
01:00:25,239 --> 01:00:27,659
from the Greek and Hebrew. So, you know,

1797
01:00:28,039 --> 01:00:30,039
yeah. Most most of the translations that are

1798
01:00:30,039 --> 01:00:31,474
out there are at

1799
01:00:31,775 --> 01:00:33,934
the English translations. The vast majority of them.

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Now there are, like, paraphrases

1801
01:00:36,175 --> 01:00:38,095
and there are some translations. You got some

1802
01:00:38,095 --> 01:00:40,335
Essays Bible. It's not really, I would say,

1803
01:00:40,335 --> 01:00:42,414
meant to be a Yeah. Right. There are

1804
01:00:42,414 --> 01:00:44,015
some things that are that are designed to

1805
01:00:44,015 --> 01:00:46,559
be, like, quick summaries of the scripture and

1806
01:00:46,559 --> 01:00:48,559
might wanna stay away from those, but stay

1807
01:00:48,719 --> 01:00:51,119
there's some main lines Yeah. That you're safe

1808
01:00:51,119 --> 01:00:53,199
with. They've they've been around for a little

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01:00:53,199 --> 01:00:55,519
while. Read more than one. Compare them. Yeah.

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01:00:55,519 --> 01:00:57,440
Pick them up, compare them, read them, study

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01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,025
them. It's the only way you can know

1812
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for sure. And

1813
01:01:00,464 --> 01:01:01,744
at the end of the day, I'll be

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01:01:01,744 --> 01:01:03,664
perfectly honest. I I've read through even a

1815
01:01:03,664 --> 01:01:05,284
lot of the newer stuff and

1816
01:01:05,585 --> 01:01:07,344
about all they do, you know, they might

1817
01:01:07,344 --> 01:01:08,565
have a little bit

1818
01:01:08,864 --> 01:01:11,744
where you'll see some Catholic theology that's been

1819
01:01:11,744 --> 01:01:12,809
dropped in a couple of places where

1820
01:01:14,410 --> 01:01:16,329
verses, the order of them has been changed

1821
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just enough to hint at, but it doesn't

1822
01:01:17,930 --> 01:01:18,430
actually

1823
01:01:19,130 --> 01:01:21,230
change the meaning of what's being said. Yeah.

1824
01:01:21,849 --> 01:01:23,369
Don't get so caught up in the exact

1825
01:01:23,449 --> 01:01:26,090
again, this is all translated from Greek. It's

1826
01:01:26,090 --> 01:01:28,724
translated from Hebrew. It's translated from Aramaic.

1827
01:01:30,545 --> 01:01:31,045
Sometimes,

1828
01:01:31,344 --> 01:01:33,585
you know, you can reorder these some of

1829
01:01:33,585 --> 01:01:35,664
these, phrases and some of the ordering of

1830
01:01:35,664 --> 01:01:38,065
the words Yeah. 20 different ways. It doesn't

1831
01:01:38,065 --> 01:01:40,224
change the underlying meaning of what's being said.

1832
01:01:40,224 --> 01:01:42,929
Yeah. It may hint at something differently, but

1833
01:01:43,329 --> 01:01:45,170
unless you're going back to the original and,

1834
01:01:45,409 --> 01:01:47,409
the most of us either don't have access

1835
01:01:47,409 --> 01:01:48,690
to it or can't read it even if

1836
01:01:48,690 --> 01:01:50,230
we did. That's right. Yeah.

1837
01:01:50,690 --> 01:01:52,289
And don't don't let people tell you that

1838
01:01:52,289 --> 01:01:53,650
that's not the case or that you gotta

1839
01:01:53,650 --> 01:01:55,750
have a specific translation. Yeah. You don't.

1840
01:01:57,364 --> 01:01:59,224
But I think that's a fantastic

1841
01:01:59,605 --> 01:02:01,545
spot to leave on tonight. Study.

1842
01:02:01,844 --> 01:02:02,984
Study, study, study.

1843
01:02:03,525 --> 01:02:04,025
Read.

1844
01:02:04,565 --> 01:02:06,824
Hunger. Just get a hunger. Amen.

1845
01:02:07,204 --> 01:02:10,590
And let's go tell people about Christ. And

1846
01:02:10,590 --> 01:02:12,590
don't live without being disciplined too because you

1847
01:02:12,590 --> 01:02:14,430
need Yes, right. We need we've got to

1848
01:02:14,430 --> 01:02:16,910
have discipline in it too and in that

1849
01:02:16,910 --> 01:02:19,250
discipline I think you'll grow a hunger.

1850
01:02:19,789 --> 01:02:20,369
Mhmm. Yeah.

1851
01:02:20,750 --> 01:02:21,570
I really do.

1852
01:02:22,829 --> 01:02:25,275
And on that note, Brother Brian, why don't

1853
01:02:25,275 --> 01:02:27,194
you dismiss us tonight? And we'll see everybody

1854
01:02:27,194 --> 01:02:29,674
about, talk to you guys again next week.

1855
01:02:29,674 --> 01:02:31,994
So looking forward to it. Amen. Lord, we

1856
01:02:31,994 --> 01:02:33,674
love you and, God, we're thankful for this

1857
01:02:33,674 --> 01:02:35,135
time. Thankful for,

1858
01:02:35,835 --> 01:02:36,574
the gathering

1859
01:02:36,954 --> 01:02:38,255
of friends to,

1860
01:02:38,739 --> 01:02:39,940
to talk, to,

1861
01:02:40,340 --> 01:02:41,559
discuss your word.

1862
01:02:41,860 --> 01:02:43,460
And, lord, I know we don't have it

1863
01:02:43,460 --> 01:02:44,820
all right. I know I don't have it

1864
01:02:44,820 --> 01:02:46,680
all right, but I just pray

1865
01:02:47,059 --> 01:02:48,500
that, god, that you would give us and

1866
01:02:48,500 --> 01:02:50,019
lead us and guide us through your holy

1867
01:02:50,019 --> 01:02:50,420
spirit,

1868
01:02:51,219 --> 01:02:53,539
how we study, when we study, what we

1869
01:02:53,539 --> 01:02:54,039
study.

1870
01:02:54,565 --> 01:02:56,885
Lord, did that you just lead us in

1871
01:02:56,885 --> 01:02:59,125
that and thankful that your word, there's nothing

1872
01:02:59,125 --> 01:03:00,804
that we could open in it and it'd

1873
01:03:00,804 --> 01:03:01,465
be wrong,

1874
01:03:02,005 --> 01:03:03,525
that we can open it up and we

1875
01:03:03,525 --> 01:03:05,445
can grow from it and we can learn

1876
01:03:05,445 --> 01:03:07,364
from it. I pray for new Christians out

1877
01:03:07,364 --> 01:03:09,220
there who are trying to study that you

1878
01:03:09,220 --> 01:03:10,579
would just put a fire in their bones

1879
01:03:10,579 --> 01:03:13,059
and their heart would just desire to to

1880
01:03:13,059 --> 01:03:14,920
know more about you. I pray for,

1881
01:03:15,380 --> 01:03:17,140
Christians who have been saved for years and

1882
01:03:17,140 --> 01:03:19,539
years that maybe you need to renew or

1883
01:03:19,539 --> 01:03:21,675
rekindle a fire in them to,

1884
01:03:22,074 --> 01:03:24,315
to study your word and and, God, to

1885
01:03:24,315 --> 01:03:26,875
just expound on it, Lord God, while they

1886
01:03:26,875 --> 01:03:27,375
study.

1887
01:03:27,994 --> 01:03:29,135
Lord, we thank you

1888
01:03:29,594 --> 01:03:31,695
for the Holy Spirit that gives us understanding,

1889
01:03:32,554 --> 01:03:34,554
and I thank you, Lord God, for the

1890
01:03:34,554 --> 01:03:35,054
word,

1891
01:03:35,639 --> 01:03:37,480
that will not go out void. Lord, we

1892
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:39,480
just praise you and thank you in Jesus'

1893
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:40,460
name. Amen.

1894
01:03:42,359 --> 01:03:44,299
Special thank you to Carter Pridmore,

1895
01:03:44,599 --> 01:03:46,699
Brian Harris, Waverly Henderson,

1896
01:03:47,079 --> 01:03:50,199
Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Bartain for our

1897
01:03:50,199 --> 01:03:52,085
theme song, truth Set Me Free.

1898
01:03:52,465 --> 01:03:54,885
I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

1899
01:03:55,264 --> 01:03:57,264
We hope you can join us live next

1900
01:03:57,264 --> 01:03:58,885
Monday at 6PM central.

1901
01:03:59,264 --> 01:04:01,984
Thank you for listening. But truth found me

1902
01:04:01,984 --> 01:04:02,484
there.

1903
01:04:03,184 --> 01:04:05,445
It was in my darkest eye.

1904
01:04:05,984 --> 01:04:08,730
I traded my black heart for joy, for

1905
01:04:08,730 --> 01:04:11,390
something real, something with power.

1906
01:04:13,449 --> 01:04:15,710
Truth set me free.

1907
01:04:16,329 --> 01:04:17,550
Truth came

1908
01:04:17,849 --> 01:04:18,590
to me.

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01:04:19,130 --> 01:04:19,664
I once