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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general,

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brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church

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live every Monday night at 6PM

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central

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And welcome back this week. It is really

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great to have everyone,

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and nice to be back. We just got

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back from, some of us got back from

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a little mission trip this weekend, and that

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was

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real nice getting to help brother John Mays

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out over at, Eastside Baptist in Douglas, Georgia.

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Six hour drive and worth every minute every

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time because, man, they have they have such

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a great congregation down there, great group of

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people, and it's so nice to get to

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go see them. It's almost like, you know,

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not even it's like driving six hours just

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to show back up at home. Yeah.

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Love it every year.

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So super excited about that and and getting

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back from it. I know I I feel,

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aside from being absolutely completely exhausted because South

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Georgia is hot Yes. Hot hot and very

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humid. Yes. It is. So getting back home

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was nice and, but I definitely miss getting

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to see them. I love getting to see

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brother John, sister Karen, and and their kids

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every year.

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That was that was great. Had you know,

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we don't get to see them very often,

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so it's good when we get to visit

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with them. Amen.

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And, brother Dennis. Hey. How you doing tonight?

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Doing alright. You're I was just curious. Is,

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is John wearing a lot a lot of

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red and black lately and and shouting go

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dogs? I hadn't heard him say that yet,

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you know, because he probably he probably changed

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right into his right elbow shirt from the

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moment I pulled into the parking lot because

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he got, well, here.

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Now now he did say that he is

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partial to red and black already. So, you

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I bought a bright red car up before

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he left. I had to say something. And

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he's and he's got a red truck. So

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How you doing, brother Brian? Doing great. Doing

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great. Course, playing catch up today, you know,

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after being off a couple days last week.

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but the mission trip was great. We enjoyed

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it. And,

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fixing to here in the next week or

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two, start playing the next year's, and we're

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gonna we're gonna really plan this one out,

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get get ready to go, and, and and

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mark us down a place in a week

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and and looking forward to that. So Awesome.

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do next year. I know we're talking about

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all kinds of different

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options and,

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that that would be, whatever we do is

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gonna be great. Yeah. And, I know god

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god is gonna bless when we go and

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we do things for him. Yeah. I know.

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Tonight, we're actually gonna be discussing,

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how to study

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study study the Bible. Right? We're not gonna

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be talking about how to study for school.

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Oh, well, it could be homework. How to

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study the Bible. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's

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a great homework. I think that's a great

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topic because one of the things I've been

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seeing a a lot of over the last

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couple of months and, it seems to have

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ramped up here lately is a lot of

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people

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really, really like to take little chunks

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and, quote things,

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if if if not just misquote,

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out of context. Yeah. Sure. And they quote

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it and try to try to use that

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to prove whatever point it is they're trying

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to prove. And and this is let me

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be very clear. I'm not talking about, you

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know, one group of people over another. They

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are all everybody does this online.

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they'll take a little snippet and say, see,

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god said. And it's like, well, yeah.

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He's not talking about the same thing you're

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talking about there, or

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you missed, like, four chapters before that that

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spent building up to that little quote that

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you you decided to drop in. Yeah. You're

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not careful. Church people do the same thing.

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Website. Yeah. Well, as oddly enough, I think

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most of the people I see doing it

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are church people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To fit

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their agenda, what they're trying to push. Mhmm.

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You know? Yeah. A lot of people were

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just flat out trying to make god in

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their own image. Yeah. Right? Kinda pick out

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and choose different things. That's it. That's their

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point. That's right. Yeah. It's it's dangerous. Dangerous.

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You know, you kinda get set to heart

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of, of what, don't take the lord's name

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in vain really means. It does that. Yeah.

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Not so much a cuss word that he's

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talking about. He's talking about misrepresenting who god

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did. That's That's exactly right. And we can

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be we can we can do that so

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easily if we're not careful. We can Yeah.

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Twist things around,

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make it and sometimes we've got good intentions

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in it. Right. And, you know, but but

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we need to be clear on

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being able to back up what we say.

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Careful. Yeah. Yeah. Carefully handle it. Mhmm. Well,

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and it it goes so far so much

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beyond just backing it up. You you when

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you study, you're you're taking the time to

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take the scripture in context

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in you're understanding the cultural context of the

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time it's written. I mean, that's a good

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thing to take a take a minute and

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look at when you go to study and

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you go to really dig deep into something

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know, for example, is making references to things.

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Which one of the letters is it that

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he he, you know, just opens it up

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talking about not being lukewarm, and he's and

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he's describing it. And the city that he

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was writing to, you know, they had the

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springs that wrote Oh, yeah. That's in Revelation.

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Revelation chapter three. You know, and the church

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the church the church of Laodicea, wasn't it?

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writing you know, god was giving that to

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the church of Laodicea, and he was saying,

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you know, don't be lukewarm.

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have to understand the context of the hot

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springs that were up the mountain from him.

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get the water, it's nice and warm. And

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then as you would come down or I'm

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sorry. It was cold. And then as you

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would come down the mountain, it would it

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would get hotter and hotter and hotter as

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you got closer to that seashore and closer

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down there to that area where it was

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real hot. And, you know, halfway down, you

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know, it's this lukewarm mess that you don't

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wanna be drinking. You don't wanna put it

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you get to the bottom, it's it's just

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hot. Yeah. And he's like, you know, pick

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hot or cold. Don't be that group in

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the middle that you just wanna spit out

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because it's gross. And It's a big hazard

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to this whole thing is that people today,

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you know, because they're trying to fit it

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into their own lives and their own things,

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is they'll interject our present culture into something

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that happened five thousand years ago. And you

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gotta be careful about that stuff. Yeah. Well,

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and that doesn't work. No. No. People weren't

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the same then. You know, it wasn't loose

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and we didn't they didn't have computers, you

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know, they they memorized stuff and and they

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were really strict about how they relayed that

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information. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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when we sit down and we take a

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look at this stuff, how how how do

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we do it? How do we make sense

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of it and make it make sense? Well,

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you gotta do, right? Just memorize it. God

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will reveal it to you. Yeah. Yeah. You

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know, just as you go.

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Number one, if you are

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if you're out there

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and maybe you don't go to church and

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maybe you're not saved, you know, you never

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accepted Christ as your lord and savior.

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So how do I study the Bible if

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I'm not saved? Right?

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I would recommend to you to start out

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in the book of John,

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read the book of Romans.

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are pivotal,

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pivotal to, to who Christ is and and

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what he's done for us and

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and and his reconciliation,

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to bring us back to God,

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those those types of things. I think those

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are two the whole Bible. No don't don't

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get me wrong. Yeah. And don't, mis misinterpret

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what I'm saying. The whole Bible is important

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and it's all God's word. Those are those

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two books that I think that I recommend

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to to eight new Christians too. But but

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someone who says, hey, you know, I don't

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really go to church, but I wanna read

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the Bible.

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And the reason I tell you that, I'm

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just gonna be upfront and honest with you.

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I believe the Holy Spirit will deal with

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make a decision. That's right. From there.

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that's the number one thing to really understand

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in the Bible, isn't it? Because the Holy

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that lives in our heart begins to reveal

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things to us. Now that doesn't mean that

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we just throw the Bible open and say,

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okay. Holy spirit, tell me what this is

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and, you know, try to try to draw

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our own interpretation. There's there's a lot of

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ways there's a lot of ways to study.

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Right. Absolutely. I think everybody's a little bit

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unique in how to do it. Right? And

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to great lengths to to to show us

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who Jesus claimed to be. Yeah. Yeah. That

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he claimed to be God. He claimed to

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be Yahweh, the the great I am. Amen.

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Right? Amen. And in Romans to me, man,

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is just like the pinnacle of the whole

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thing. It's it's where

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the entire context of the Bible, what what

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God's doing across the span of time, it

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just brings everything together. That's where most of

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our doctrine comes from in

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He really does a good job explaining it.

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And he does he goes, you know, deep

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theological stuff of the first, you know, several

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chapters until he gets up to about chapter

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be doing that. But

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this book,

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and it's hard to grasp it at first,

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but this entire book has a context

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of, you know, it starts out with Genesis

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ends with Revelation. It tells one story. Yeah,

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yeah. And there's a lot of stuff in

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between. Yeah, sure. But to get John and

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Romans and if you can just read those

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over and over, just read them over and

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over, you know, read it all the way

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through. And and at some point, you're gonna

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stop and go, what does that mean? You'll

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start studying. That's right. That's right. Right. It

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it's really good to have a a a

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Bible,

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that that is topical.

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It's really good to have a Bible that's

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got, it's a study Bible, especially when you

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first start out. You know?

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The life application study Bible is a really

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good one. You know, it's got some general,

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commentary

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on the verses that you're gonna read. It's

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not gonna go in-depth. It's not gonna go

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in deep deep theological

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realms that it's gonna blow your mind or

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you're not gonna be able to retain, especially

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if you're just starting in to study in

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the bible,

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but it's good. It it'll give Yeah. It

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is. It'll give you some good some good

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places, and and it'll give you some references

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to other

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scripture for you to go to. That was

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one of the things that, my dad, I

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remember,

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I had bought the first Bible that I

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bought. I bought him a new Bible,

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I don't know, probably about

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about ten years before he passed away. And

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and, his old Bible did not have any

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references in it really as as far as

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that. Of course, he was you know, he

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always studied, but he loved he would just

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he would just open his Bible. He would

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start reading, and he would chase every reference

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in it. I mean, he would just he

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would just chase them down wherever it took

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him and where it took him to if

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it took him to Genesis to,

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Timothy to Timothy to Matthew to Matthew to,

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you know, wherever he would just he would

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just chase them down. And he said he

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told me one time, he said, I love

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this Bible. I love just Yeah. Digging in

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and and and finding out that all the

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pieces are connected together. It's a puzzle. Right?

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Yeah. They are. Yeah. They are. And and

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I I guess that's where,

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the the kind of Bible you choose, right?

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Yeah.

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I'm,

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I love King James, but I can't read

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it. Yeah. I just can't read it. Yeah.

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You know, I read the New American Standard,

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which is supposed to be a very literal

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translation, and I'm kinda falling out of love

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with it too. But Yeah. But, I used

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to love the New King James. Yeah. It

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it kept the same format as King James.

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It's a very accurate translations. And there there

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are there are some really good translations out

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there, and there's some really bad ones. Oh,

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there is. Yeah. We gotta kinda watch out

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for that. Right? Super careful with that. Yeah.

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A couple that I like,

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the, the King James is what I I

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preach out of in our church, and and,

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mainly because that's what most everybody's got, you

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know. And so and I and I do

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study from the King James too, but the

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New King James is good.

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You know, it's it still holds true to

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the, to the to the text and and

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those things.

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The English standard version, I think we've talked

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about that on here before, that a few

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of those Bibles,

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the,

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the HCSB. There's there's several that are are

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word for word

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translations from the Greek and Hebrew. And, and

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those are the ones I really like, you

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know, that that that that they broke it

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down and they didn't leave any text out

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or context. I'll tell you tell you one

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that I really use a lot when I'm

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studying, like like preparing for a sermon or

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or Sunday school is a New Living Translation.

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Mhmm. That Bible is so easy to read,

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and it Yeah. It just nails it. Right.

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Nails it just better where I've seen in

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inside of my wife reads that, and she

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loves it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and,

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you can step on a lot of toes,

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especially in the area that we live in.

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But the truth the truth is,

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you know, people get so tore up and

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say, oh, you know, well,

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I I I want to stick with the

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original text, the King James version. Well, guess

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what? That's not the original text. That's not

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even close. You got to go back to

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the Greek and Hebrew. Yeah. You got to,

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you you know, you can't you can't place

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that on there.

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If you go to Japan, guess what? And

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there's a translation there. If you're Japanese,

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you're not gonna get to King James. Right?

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If you're Chinese, you're not gonna get to

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King James. If you're, you know, if you

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come from Spain or Mexico or whatever, you're

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not gonna get that's it's gonna be the

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translation that's in your language. Yeah. And, but

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but it it's good to find those translations

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that are word for word translations from the

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Greek and Hebrew that that will break it

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down where you can understand it and, and

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bring it to life. Yeah. Yeah. Amen. Yep.

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I'll tell you one that I've been,

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reading from recently, and I I haven't quite

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made a decision as to whether or not

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I I really like it that much yet,

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but it's the, New English translation. Mhmm. And

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what they did with it, it's a, it's

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a dynamic equivalence,

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translation. So they they

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sometimes will kind of reorient a few words

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and phrases just to make things a little

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bit clearer rather than the word for word

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translation.

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But it is a a from scratch, like,

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they actually went back to the the texts,

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in Hebrew and in Greek and in Aramaic

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and things like that rather than go into,

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like, the,

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the King James or some of these others

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that that are revisions of original ones.

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And, but it's it's on about a middle

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school

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grade reading list. Yeah. Yeah. And, and and

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the really cool thing on that, it's free.

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Yes. It's not a bible that you have

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to you don't have to spend any money.

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You can literally go online, download it for

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free. It is totally free. It's sponsored by

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the,

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Biblical Studies Foundation.

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It's published by Biblical Studies Press.

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It was published in 02/2001, and they have

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over if you get the annotated version, 60,000

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translators notes

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of this is why we translated this this

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way, this is why we and you can

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actually get all of those notes with it

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if you really wanna study it and learn

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that stuff. So if you're interested in how

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they come up with some of that, that

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one's kinda interesting because I have read some

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of the translator and I'm like, that's kinda

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neat where they I tell you, man, there's

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just awesome awesome Bible apps out there. Me

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and my wife, do daily readings

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on an app called Life Life Bible. I

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think it's called Life Bible. And it's got,

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it's got I don't know how many different

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versions of Bible in there. And you can

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just flip back and forth between them. Yeah.

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Yeah. Right? And you can read this version,

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that version, this version, that version, compare them

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all and get the truth out of it.

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Oh, yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Just ring it

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out. That's yeah. And and that's like the

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YouVersion app too. It's it's like that. You

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know, you can switch back and forth. I

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love it because when I'm making notes,

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and I make a lot of notes on

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my phone. Sometimes I do it on my

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computer. Sometimes I write them down, but I

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I make a lot of I've got so

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I've got most of my messages that I

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preach on my phone. And and I can

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pull it up on my notes and boom,

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there it is. You know? And and, but

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but I'll copy and paste.

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Sometimes when I'm up there preaching, just to

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keep the flow going, I'll I'll read my

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text from,

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from my Bible to to begin with. But

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if I'm referencing if I'm gonna make any

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other references,

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then I've usually copied and pasted from from

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the YouVersion app onto my,

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notes. And, you know, it's right there with

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me, so I can I can move from

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there? Say another another fantastic one is, Bible

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hub free. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've got that

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one too. And, this has got an interlinear

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interlinear bible in it, which is just amazing.

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It's it's got links to the to all

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of the the concordance,

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notes and everything. And it reads I mean,

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it is exactly word for word. Yeah. So

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if you're reading, for instance, Joshua one out

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of the interlinear bible, I'm a start at

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verse six.

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Be strong and of good courage for you

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shall devise an inheritance to people. This is

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reading right to left. Yeah. Yeah.

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Because it's Hebrew. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. And you go to the Greek

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and it's it's in the new testament and

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it's it's pretty hard to read. But once

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you kinda get the hang of of each

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word, because the sentence structure is not the

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same in Greek as it is in English.

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That's right. Right. Put verbs and nouns in

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different places, you know? Yeah. And it's it's

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kinda confusing at first, but when you get

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the hang of it, it's like, oh, man.

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That's cool. It is. It is. You can

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look up every word you want to just

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by the click. Yeah. I I mentioned a

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few weeks ago, I think, the TLV version,

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the the tree of life version. It is

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a messianic

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Jewish Bible. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

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And I really like it too. I I

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I tend to to go,

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to go to it, but it it brings

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a lot of the text into,

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into the Greek and Hebrew words. It it

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uses Yahshua in the place of of God

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or in place of Christ, you know,

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or Yahweh in place of God, those kinds

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of things. And and it's really it gets

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into the text from a Jewish

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aspect, you know, from from a Christian Jewish

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aspect. So they and and it's a word

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for word translation also. Yeah.

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But Yeah. But, you know, you know, apps

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are apps are awesome, but, man, you can't

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beat paper. No. No. I I got I

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got marks all over this thing. I've been

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so intimate about There should be. Yes. Just

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just holding it in your hand.

523
00:18:46,430 --> 00:18:47,630
Uh-huh. I I you know, and I'm not

524
00:18:47,630 --> 00:18:50,109
down in anybody that doesn't if they come

525
00:18:50,109 --> 00:18:52,130
to to church and you use your phone

526
00:18:52,349 --> 00:18:54,349
in our church, that's okay. You know, as

527
00:18:54,349 --> 00:18:55,549
long as you got the word of God

528
00:18:55,549 --> 00:18:56,849
in your hand, that's good.

529
00:18:57,710 --> 00:19:00,174
But but I encourage you to to grab

530
00:19:00,174 --> 00:19:02,255
a hold of a Bible. Yeah. Just, like

531
00:19:02,255 --> 00:19:04,015
I said, just hold it in your hand

532
00:19:04,015 --> 00:19:05,775
and read it. You know? There are tons

533
00:19:05,775 --> 00:19:08,035
of studying it, man. Just just Yeah. Yes.

534
00:19:08,095 --> 00:19:09,474
It's okay. Margins.

535
00:19:09,775 --> 00:19:11,695
It's okay. Yeah. How's about play? There's tons

536
00:19:11,695 --> 00:19:14,069
of study Bibles out there that have special

537
00:19:14,069 --> 00:19:15,750
margins where they have room for you to

538
00:19:15,750 --> 00:19:17,450
take notes and write in and make

539
00:19:17,750 --> 00:19:19,369
make notes as you go through.

540
00:19:19,750 --> 00:19:20,069
And,

541
00:19:20,630 --> 00:19:23,289
and now I've I've always been one that,

542
00:19:23,349 --> 00:19:24,710
you know, I'll write in my Bible and

543
00:19:24,710 --> 00:19:27,349
underline things and highlight stuff, but I I

544
00:19:27,349 --> 00:19:27,849
always

545
00:19:28,414 --> 00:19:30,275
like having something that I can

546
00:19:31,054 --> 00:19:31,554
continually

547
00:19:31,934 --> 00:19:34,734
refresh and and every few years start from,

548
00:19:34,734 --> 00:19:36,515
you know, where I have the old reference.

549
00:19:36,734 --> 00:19:38,174
And one of the things I found that

550
00:19:38,174 --> 00:19:39,534
they've done now, and they have it in

551
00:19:39,534 --> 00:19:40,710
King James and

552
00:19:41,190 --> 00:19:42,970
the the NET as well,

553
00:19:43,349 --> 00:19:45,509
is the remark it's called the remarkable bible,

554
00:19:45,509 --> 00:19:47,690
and they made it for the remarkable tablets.

555
00:19:48,069 --> 00:19:50,149
But it works just fine on your iPad.

556
00:19:50,149 --> 00:19:52,069
It works just fine on any other tablet,

557
00:19:52,069 --> 00:19:54,069
and you can just sit and highlight and

558
00:19:54,069 --> 00:19:56,585
mark and and they got room for annotations

559
00:19:56,644 --> 00:19:58,085
on the sides. You should get like a

560
00:19:58,085 --> 00:19:58,904
nerd sketch.

561
00:19:59,525 --> 00:20:00,025
Kinda.

562
00:20:00,404 --> 00:20:02,005
I mean, you go through and mark that

563
00:20:02,005 --> 00:20:04,005
thing up. And because it's a digital file,

564
00:20:04,005 --> 00:20:06,085
you just save that copy when you fill

565
00:20:06,085 --> 00:20:07,285
up a bunch of pages in it, and

566
00:20:07,285 --> 00:20:08,644
you go, oh, I'm needing to make more

567
00:20:08,644 --> 00:20:10,599
notes over that. Yeah. Save that copy, get

568
00:20:10,599 --> 00:20:11,720
me a new copy on there and I'm

569
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:13,799
ready. I I see, I I get into

570
00:20:13,799 --> 00:20:15,799
the paper bible because I'll be trying to

571
00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:17,160
think of a verse or something. I'm like,

572
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:18,839
I know what's in that book. And I'll

573
00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:20,200
start looking through that book and I I

574
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,615
know what's on that side of the book.

575
00:20:21,855 --> 00:20:23,615
I know what's down on the bottom. Yeah.

576
00:20:23,615 --> 00:20:25,375
You know? Yeah. You you just find it

577
00:20:25,375 --> 00:20:26,974
that way. You just remember where it's at.

578
00:20:26,974 --> 00:20:28,974
This this particular Bible that I've got in

579
00:20:28,974 --> 00:20:30,815
my hand right now, I've got a lot.

580
00:20:30,815 --> 00:20:32,434
Of course, I've got Bibles everywhere

581
00:20:32,734 --> 00:20:34,619
and and, I I don't have as many

582
00:20:34,619 --> 00:20:36,220
notes in this Bible as I do some

583
00:20:36,220 --> 00:20:37,500
of the Bibles that I preach out of.

584
00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:38,539
Yeah. It's like the one you talked about

585
00:20:38,539 --> 00:20:40,859
last week. Yeah. Yeah. But Yeah. But this

586
00:20:40,859 --> 00:20:42,960
one this one is from,

587
00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:45,019
my mom and dad gave this one to

588
00:20:45,019 --> 00:20:47,680
me on 12/25/1986.

589
00:20:48,234 --> 00:20:50,075
And and so I've had this bible for

590
00:20:50,075 --> 00:20:50,734
a while.

591
00:20:51,355 --> 00:20:53,674
Yeah. What year were you born, Tyler? '85.

592
00:20:53,674 --> 00:20:54,954
So yeah. I tell you the most I

593
00:20:54,954 --> 00:20:55,534
was a

594
00:20:55,914 --> 00:20:57,194
year old. Yeah. Yeah. You were a year

595
00:20:57,194 --> 00:20:59,755
old. Wait. You said that was December '26.

596
00:20:59,755 --> 00:21:01,140
So yes. I was a year old. Yeah.

597
00:21:01,460 --> 00:21:02,500
So but,

598
00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:04,900
but, you know, I I've got I've got

599
00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:07,160
things written in here from when I was,

600
00:21:07,859 --> 00:21:10,500
you know, 11, 12 years old. And and,

601
00:21:11,619 --> 00:21:13,940
looking back on it, I've seen I've seen

602
00:21:13,940 --> 00:21:15,460
one in here just a minute ago from

603
00:21:15,460 --> 00:21:16,184
a sermon that,

604
00:21:16,825 --> 00:21:19,545
that, brother Benny Hatfield, a guy that used

605
00:21:19,545 --> 00:21:20,424
to be a a,

606
00:21:20,985 --> 00:21:22,985
he was a jail ministry. He was in

607
00:21:22,985 --> 00:21:25,325
jail ministry big. He used to do revivals

608
00:21:25,465 --> 00:21:27,065
all over the place, and he he was

609
00:21:27,144 --> 00:21:28,505
he came to our church for a long

610
00:21:28,505 --> 00:21:29,005
time.

611
00:21:29,785 --> 00:21:31,901
But but a lot of our old preachers

612
00:21:31,901 --> 00:21:33,996
and stuff, I would I would write down

613
00:21:33,996 --> 00:21:36,091
their their sermons and make notes in here.

614
00:21:36,091 --> 00:21:38,186
So I've had this thing forever since I

615
00:21:38,186 --> 00:21:40,282
was a kid. I will tell you another

616
00:21:40,282 --> 00:21:42,377
advantage to having a paper bible. I never

617
00:21:42,377 --> 00:21:44,384
knew that my grandmother on my dad's side

618
00:21:44,384 --> 00:21:46,225
ever looked at the bible, studied it that

619
00:21:46,225 --> 00:21:48,065
much. I mean, she just Yeah. I mean,

620
00:21:48,065 --> 00:21:49,585
she really she was so sick by the

621
00:21:49,585 --> 00:21:50,945
time I came along. She never really came

622
00:21:50,945 --> 00:21:52,865
to church very often because she just she

623
00:21:52,865 --> 00:21:54,884
was hurting all the time, couldn't get out.

624
00:21:55,025 --> 00:21:56,865
My whole life, that's just how she was.

625
00:21:56,865 --> 00:21:58,805
She didn't really go anywhere, didn't do anything.

626
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:00,380
After she

627
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,400
died, the bible, she always kept sitting in

628
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:04,920
there next to her bed. Yeah. We get

629
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,059
to thumbing through it.

630
00:22:06,839 --> 00:22:08,299
Oh, man. She had notes.

631
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,414
Mhmm. She had verses underlined. She had preached

632
00:22:11,734 --> 00:22:13,815
this this pastor on this Sunday Yeah. At

633
00:22:13,815 --> 00:22:16,455
this church Yeah. And just and had stuff

634
00:22:16,455 --> 00:22:18,295
marked all over the place. Go here. Look

635
00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:20,795
at this. Reference that. Had her own references

636
00:22:20,855 --> 00:22:22,234
in places, and I went,

637
00:22:22,695 --> 00:22:24,450
I never knew she even knew how to

638
00:22:24,690 --> 00:22:26,609
do any of this. Yeah. Yeah. And I

639
00:22:26,609 --> 00:22:28,690
mean, man, that would talk about a legacy.

640
00:22:28,690 --> 00:22:31,490
Yeah. Amen. Amen. Never knew. Never knew. I

641
00:22:31,490 --> 00:22:33,250
mean, that that that little old lady was

642
00:22:33,250 --> 00:22:35,029
scared every time it thundered.

643
00:22:36,369 --> 00:22:38,454
Never knew. Yeah. But every night, I mean,

644
00:22:38,454 --> 00:22:39,974
she would have notes in there about praying

645
00:22:39,974 --> 00:22:43,255
for this person, praying these this scripture Yeah.

646
00:22:43,335 --> 00:22:45,414
Or this thing that's going on. And we're

647
00:22:45,414 --> 00:22:46,954
like That's awesome.

648
00:22:47,255 --> 00:22:49,654
Goodness. And, hey, that's something to leave down

649
00:22:49,654 --> 00:22:51,115
for your kids, your grandkids.

650
00:22:51,580 --> 00:22:54,299
Yeah. Yeah. And the digital, hang on. To

651
00:22:54,299 --> 00:22:55,759
give them a just be deleted.

652
00:22:57,420 --> 00:22:57,920
Yeah.

653
00:22:58,299 --> 00:23:00,299
Yeah. Yeah. Lord might tell you to hand

654
00:23:00,299 --> 00:23:02,140
it to somebody else. That's right. But my

655
00:23:02,220 --> 00:23:04,700
and my wife is, she's she's good about

656
00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:05,740
writing stuff down.

657
00:23:06,539 --> 00:23:07,119
She's got

658
00:23:07,474 --> 00:23:09,315
probably every sermon I've ever preached in her

659
00:23:09,315 --> 00:23:10,914
Bibles. You know? She I know she's got

660
00:23:10,914 --> 00:23:12,434
a newer one now than she had when

661
00:23:12,434 --> 00:23:13,974
I first started preaching, but,

662
00:23:14,355 --> 00:23:16,515
but she she she makes pretty good notes.

663
00:23:16,515 --> 00:23:18,115
You know? She's got I don't know how

664
00:23:18,115 --> 00:23:20,909
many notebooks she's filled up during sermons and

665
00:23:21,230 --> 00:23:24,190
Man. Notes she's taken. So but, but, yeah.

666
00:23:24,190 --> 00:23:25,789
I find I can't do that. I I

667
00:23:25,789 --> 00:23:28,509
I end up concentrating on writing and I

668
00:23:28,509 --> 00:23:30,669
miss I'll make sure. Yeah. Yeah. When I'm

669
00:23:30,669 --> 00:23:32,109
when I'm listening to the preacher, I'm just

670
00:23:32,109 --> 00:23:33,855
listening to the preacher. You know? Yeah. Yeah.

671
00:23:33,934 --> 00:23:36,515
Yeah. But I generally start out writing.

672
00:23:37,214 --> 00:23:38,115
Yeah. Yeah.

673
00:23:38,414 --> 00:23:40,174
Well, I've noticed you make good notes. So

674
00:23:40,174 --> 00:23:42,414
Tyler can Tyler writes pretty he he was

675
00:23:42,414 --> 00:23:44,174
probably pretty good in class. I've I've He

676
00:23:44,174 --> 00:23:46,194
did and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

677
00:23:47,839 --> 00:23:49,359
I I did not have myself on camera

678
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,299
there. I was shaking my head rather vigorously.

679
00:23:51,519 --> 00:23:53,619
I was not a good note taker.

680
00:23:54,279 --> 00:23:54,779
That

681
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,380
is something I have learned. Yeah.

682
00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:58,380
Yeah.

683
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,774
Yeah. But so so studying,

684
00:24:01,234 --> 00:24:03,474
as I didn't say earlier, it's it's different

685
00:24:03,474 --> 00:24:05,875
for everybody. It's, you know, everybody's got their

686
00:24:05,875 --> 00:24:06,694
own styles.

687
00:24:09,474 --> 00:24:12,514
Be careful when you study not to take

688
00:24:12,514 --> 00:24:14,434
verses out of context. And what I mean

689
00:24:14,434 --> 00:24:15,335
by that is,

690
00:24:15,789 --> 00:24:17,789
because some of you, we assume that people

691
00:24:17,789 --> 00:24:19,470
know what that means, to take a verse

692
00:24:19,470 --> 00:24:21,970
out of context. But we can we can

693
00:24:22,190 --> 00:24:24,190
grab our bibles, we can open it up,

694
00:24:24,190 --> 00:24:26,190
we can point to a verse, and we

695
00:24:26,190 --> 00:24:28,670
can read that verse. And and that one

696
00:24:28,670 --> 00:24:30,529
verse, as it stands alone,

697
00:24:31,174 --> 00:24:32,615
may not make a whole lot of sense

698
00:24:32,615 --> 00:24:34,294
to us or we might try to make

699
00:24:34,294 --> 00:24:36,454
it make sense and make it into something

700
00:24:36,454 --> 00:24:38,775
that it's not. And so it's important that

701
00:24:38,775 --> 00:24:40,394
you read chapters, right?

702
00:24:40,775 --> 00:24:42,375
It doesn't matter that you read the whole

703
00:24:42,375 --> 00:24:43,755
chapter in one night.

704
00:24:44,134 --> 00:24:46,529
I I would I would urge you to

705
00:24:46,529 --> 00:24:48,470
not try to speed read the bible,

706
00:24:49,250 --> 00:24:50,049
but to,

707
00:24:50,369 --> 00:24:53,089
to read through it and and meditate on

708
00:24:53,089 --> 00:24:55,650
it and study it, but but keep it

709
00:24:55,650 --> 00:24:57,890
in the context. It is Right. And even

710
00:24:57,890 --> 00:25:00,309
chapters sometimes, really, just a whole,

711
00:25:00,904 --> 00:25:03,464
once you've read that whole book Yeah. Go

712
00:25:03,464 --> 00:25:05,224
back and read that book again and go

713
00:25:05,224 --> 00:25:07,005
back and make notes then because,

714
00:25:07,784 --> 00:25:11,065
chapters were made after the Bible was was

715
00:25:11,065 --> 00:25:12,845
translated and written down.

716
00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:15,359
And it's good to have chapters because it

717
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,200
it gives us a breaking point. It gives

718
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,319
us a a a place to say, I'm

719
00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:22,000
gonna read the chapter three tonight or I'm

720
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,919
gonna read the chapter four tonight or when

721
00:25:23,919 --> 00:25:26,179
I'm in Wednesday night bible study and work

722
00:25:26,455 --> 00:25:27,975
and and and from one week to the

723
00:25:27,975 --> 00:25:30,134
next, because sometimes we don't get very far.

724
00:25:30,134 --> 00:25:31,734
I'll say, where were we last week? You

725
00:25:31,734 --> 00:25:33,494
know, and we're in chapter three and verse

726
00:25:33,494 --> 00:25:35,654
two. So the chapters and verses I was

727
00:25:35,654 --> 00:25:37,275
still there. Are 37.

728
00:25:37,654 --> 00:25:40,134
They're good. That's good stuff. But but we

729
00:25:40,134 --> 00:25:41,035
need to,

730
00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:43,200
we need to to make sure that that

731
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:44,880
is in context, and we're not just pulling

732
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,559
it out because that's not that's how a

733
00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:48,180
lot of false religions can start. Yeah.

734
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,580
Big time. Absolutely. One of the most popular,

735
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,039
right, Matthew seven one, do not judge since

736
00:25:53,039 --> 00:25:54,559
you do not be judged. Oh, yeah. People

737
00:25:54,559 --> 00:25:56,400
love to throw that around Yeah. Without making

738
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,535
a judgment. Right. Exactly. They're saying it. Right?

739
00:25:58,535 --> 00:26:00,615
Exactly. Yeah. We gotta make judgments to get

740
00:26:00,615 --> 00:26:02,535
by in this world. Sure. Yeah. You don't

741
00:26:02,535 --> 00:26:03,894
wanna pull out in front of a semi,

742
00:26:03,894 --> 00:26:05,734
you're making a judgment. That's right. That's right.

743
00:26:05,734 --> 00:26:08,055
Yeah. Right. Well, and the Bible urges us

744
00:26:08,055 --> 00:26:08,555
to

745
00:26:09,174 --> 00:26:11,119
not make a haste judgment

746
00:26:11,580 --> 00:26:13,980
with our own issues and problems letting them

747
00:26:13,980 --> 00:26:15,500
get in the way. Right? Right. Don't be

748
00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:17,420
a hypocrite. Don't be a hypocrite. Get your

749
00:26:17,580 --> 00:26:19,580
listen. Get your stuff straight first before you

750
00:26:19,580 --> 00:26:21,420
start talking about this guy's over here. And

751
00:26:21,420 --> 00:26:23,100
it's it's one thing to inspect the fruit

752
00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:25,833
of some of someone and to Yeah. To

753
00:26:25,833 --> 00:26:27,840
judge like that. It's another thing to attempt

754
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,847
to pass judgment. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And and

755
00:26:29,847 --> 00:26:32,105
that you know, again, you put it in

756
00:26:32,105 --> 00:26:34,112
context, like, oh, it's talking about don't do

757
00:26:34,112 --> 00:26:36,119
god's job. Right. Right. Yeah. That's it. Because

758
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,039
he's the judge. And he he he passes

759
00:26:38,039 --> 00:26:40,460
the position. Yeah. That's perfect. What it means.

760
00:26:40,519 --> 00:26:42,359
It's don't do that. But to but to

761
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,119
point and I'm and I get I'm being

762
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,700
careful when I say point out things, but,

763
00:26:47,799 --> 00:26:49,720
but there's so many things that God's already

764
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,305
judged. Right? I mean, you know what I'm

765
00:26:51,305 --> 00:26:53,945
saying to you? Like, look, I'm not telling

766
00:26:53,945 --> 00:26:55,545
you this is wrong. God said this is

767
00:26:55,545 --> 00:26:57,244
wrong. Right. I mean, you

768
00:26:57,625 --> 00:26:58,125
know,

769
00:26:58,505 --> 00:27:00,184
you may talk to somebody that says, oh,

770
00:27:00,184 --> 00:27:01,704
that's not really a stumbling block for me,

771
00:27:01,704 --> 00:27:03,625
but God says, hey. This is this is

772
00:27:03,625 --> 00:27:05,509
wrong because it is a stumbling block. And

773
00:27:05,509 --> 00:27:07,109
so we gotta be careful in that. And

774
00:27:07,109 --> 00:27:09,349
I think too when we, when we talk

775
00:27:09,349 --> 00:27:10,089
about judgment,

776
00:27:10,789 --> 00:27:12,390
I think we need to look more Christian

777
00:27:12,390 --> 00:27:14,630
to Christian than we do Christian to lost

778
00:27:14,630 --> 00:27:17,454
person. Yeah. Because, you know, a lost person

779
00:27:17,454 --> 00:27:19,134
does what a lost person does. They they

780
00:27:19,134 --> 00:27:21,134
they don't understand the Bible. They don't read

781
00:27:21,134 --> 00:27:23,534
the Bible. They're not gonna follow it. And

782
00:27:23,534 --> 00:27:26,095
so until they really know Christ Jesus and

783
00:27:26,095 --> 00:27:27,554
we reach them with the gospel,

784
00:27:28,575 --> 00:27:30,494
then and, you know, we got we got

785
00:27:30,494 --> 00:27:32,099
to be careful. Yeah. And they're the ones

786
00:27:32,099 --> 00:27:34,839
that most likely misuse that verse. Yeah. Absolutely.

787
00:27:35,140 --> 00:27:37,380
Absolutely. Because they know that God's judged them.

788
00:27:37,380 --> 00:27:39,619
Somewhere in their conscience, they know they're wrong.

789
00:27:39,619 --> 00:27:41,619
Yeah. Yeah. Right? And they know that God's

790
00:27:41,619 --> 00:27:43,619
judging them. That's right. That's right. It's coming

791
00:27:43,619 --> 00:27:45,755
through somebody. It is. That's right. It is.

792
00:27:45,755 --> 00:27:47,934
Well and and that's why I love what,

793
00:27:48,234 --> 00:27:49,515
I can't remember who it was I saw

794
00:27:49,515 --> 00:27:51,434
on on YouTube was talking about. He he

795
00:27:51,434 --> 00:27:52,474
was going to read a verse and he

796
00:27:52,474 --> 00:27:54,154
said, now hang on. So before I read

797
00:27:54,154 --> 00:27:54,654
this

798
00:27:55,275 --> 00:27:57,454
Yeah. He said, you should never

799
00:27:57,914 --> 00:27:58,974
just go and read

800
00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:01,700
a verse. He said, at the very least,

801
00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:03,700
you need to read three or four verses

802
00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:05,859
before and three or four verses after. He

803
00:28:05,859 --> 00:28:06,679
said, preferably,

804
00:28:06,980 --> 00:28:09,859
you read the chapter before, the chapter with

805
00:28:09,859 --> 00:28:12,315
the verse, and the chapter after to get

806
00:28:12,474 --> 00:28:15,034
the entire context of what you're looking at.

807
00:28:15,034 --> 00:28:16,174
Yeah. And I thought,

808
00:28:16,634 --> 00:28:18,554
man, that is a brilliant way to to

809
00:28:18,554 --> 00:28:19,054
to

810
00:28:19,754 --> 00:28:20,974
to look at that because

811
00:28:21,595 --> 00:28:24,394
that's exactly how it flows. It's not and

812
00:28:24,394 --> 00:28:25,754
as you said, when it was originally written

813
00:28:25,835 --> 00:28:28,039
I mean, goodness. Paul wrote letters. Yeah. I

814
00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:29,720
mean, there were pages and pages of a

815
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,119
single letter That's true. Preaching to a church.

816
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,119
Man, these were run on sentences. They really

817
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:34,940
were. Yeah.

818
00:28:35,559 --> 00:28:37,580
They really were. And and and Paul

819
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,785
Paul, when he wrote things, would start out

820
00:28:41,105 --> 00:28:42,325
covering one thing

821
00:28:42,705 --> 00:28:45,664
and he might, I mean, sometimes even as

822
00:28:45,664 --> 00:28:47,345
our bible is broke up in the in

823
00:28:47,345 --> 00:28:48,644
the chapters and verses,

824
00:28:48,945 --> 00:28:51,585
he might switch gears just boom like that.

825
00:28:51,585 --> 00:28:53,789
Like, okay. I'm I'm talking about the you

826
00:28:53,789 --> 00:28:56,430
know, excuse me. I'm starting out talking about

827
00:28:56,430 --> 00:28:58,590
love. I'm starting out talking about loving your

828
00:28:58,590 --> 00:28:59,730
brother, forgiving,

829
00:29:00,269 --> 00:29:01,870
all these things. And then Paul might all

830
00:29:01,870 --> 00:29:04,029
of a sudden switch to, you know, you

831
00:29:04,029 --> 00:29:05,950
you bunch of heathens doing this, this, and

832
00:29:05,950 --> 00:29:06,450
this.

833
00:29:07,470 --> 00:29:09,765
Yeah. But but I mean, you know, he

834
00:29:09,765 --> 00:29:11,445
he those those were things that the Lord

835
00:29:11,445 --> 00:29:13,285
were putting on his heart, that he felt

836
00:29:13,285 --> 00:29:15,365
like he needed to cover. They were things

837
00:29:15,365 --> 00:29:18,105
that, you know, when when he writes,

838
00:29:18,724 --> 00:29:19,705
when he writes,

839
00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:23,305
first and second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians,

840
00:29:24,130 --> 00:29:26,450
although all those all those books that he

841
00:29:26,450 --> 00:29:27,669
wrote to the churches,

842
00:29:28,529 --> 00:29:30,769
and they they were instructions for them and

843
00:29:30,769 --> 00:29:33,089
they and he was also covering things that

844
00:29:33,089 --> 00:29:35,250
that were issues and problems that were going

845
00:29:35,250 --> 00:29:38,130
on because what happened was is these people

846
00:29:38,130 --> 00:29:40,105
were not used to Christianity. Right. You know,

847
00:29:40,105 --> 00:29:41,565
they they were used to

848
00:29:42,184 --> 00:29:44,045
they were used to all of the,

849
00:29:44,664 --> 00:29:45,724
the pomp and circumstance.

850
00:29:46,025 --> 00:29:47,625
They were used to all the rules. They

851
00:29:47,625 --> 00:29:49,625
were used to all these things. And now

852
00:29:49,625 --> 00:29:52,105
Christ comes along and he says, yes. This

853
00:29:52,105 --> 00:29:54,345
is true, but I'm fulfilling this in this

854
00:29:54,345 --> 00:29:55,460
way. Right?

855
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,480
Not necessarily and be careful because Christ didn't

856
00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,220
come to

857
00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:02,159
to change what God had already written. He

858
00:30:02,159 --> 00:30:04,159
come to fulfill what God had already written.

859
00:30:04,159 --> 00:30:06,419
Yeah. And and so we have to understand

860
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:07,140
that too.

861
00:30:07,465 --> 00:30:09,625
But looking at the perspective, looking at the

862
00:30:09,625 --> 00:30:11,945
writer, looking at the audience, those are all

863
00:30:11,945 --> 00:30:14,424
good things. And a lot of Bibles, especially

864
00:30:14,424 --> 00:30:16,585
those study Bibles that I talked about, a

865
00:30:16,585 --> 00:30:18,345
lot of those study Bibles will give you

866
00:30:18,345 --> 00:30:20,190
before you start that that book,

867
00:30:20,589 --> 00:30:22,450
they'll give you a little bit about, okay,

868
00:30:22,589 --> 00:30:24,049
this was written by Paul,

869
00:30:24,909 --> 00:30:26,589
this was when he was in prison, this

870
00:30:26,589 --> 00:30:28,450
is what was going on at the time.

871
00:30:28,509 --> 00:30:31,149
So you get some insight to Yeah. What

872
00:30:31,149 --> 00:30:33,069
it was and and it makes the bible

873
00:30:33,069 --> 00:30:34,589
come alive too. And I think that's why

874
00:30:34,589 --> 00:30:35,654
I recommend somebody

875
00:30:37,575 --> 00:30:37,638
just read it straight through. Like, take take

876
00:30:37,638 --> 00:30:38,695
the letters of Paul, and that's something that

877
00:30:38,695 --> 00:30:40,055
that right after I was saved, that's where

878
00:30:40,055 --> 00:30:40,875
I just kinda,

879
00:30:41,335 --> 00:30:43,095
I drifted to. It was just all of

880
00:30:43,095 --> 00:30:45,335
Paul's letter. They're they're short short reading. Yeah.

881
00:30:45,335 --> 00:30:47,494
Remember four, five, six chapters. Yeah. Right. You

882
00:30:47,494 --> 00:30:48,910
can read them in in fifteen, twenty, less

883
00:30:48,910 --> 00:30:50,750
than thirty minutes. Yeah. Sure. Read it through

884
00:30:50,750 --> 00:30:52,190
and you get the feel for the whole

885
00:30:52,190 --> 00:30:54,109
letter. That's right. Right. You get the whole

886
00:30:54,109 --> 00:30:55,789
feel for the whole context. And there's some

887
00:30:55,789 --> 00:30:57,309
of these letters like like like,

888
00:30:57,789 --> 00:30:59,789
like Hebrews. Yeah. If you don't do that,

889
00:30:59,789 --> 00:31:01,390
you won't understand a lick of it. That's

890
00:31:01,390 --> 00:31:03,315
right. Right. You got to understand the whole

891
00:31:03,315 --> 00:31:05,315
scene he's laying out here because he's talking

892
00:31:05,315 --> 00:31:07,714
in a specific way to specific people and

893
00:31:07,714 --> 00:31:09,394
and people take that out of context and

894
00:31:09,394 --> 00:31:10,914
use it to mean all kinds of different

895
00:31:10,914 --> 00:31:13,875
things. That's right. That's right. But but again,

896
00:31:13,875 --> 00:31:15,954
it goes back to this whole book has

897
00:31:15,954 --> 00:31:17,875
a context of what God's doing, why he's

898
00:31:17,875 --> 00:31:18,615
doing it.

899
00:31:18,940 --> 00:31:19,759
Yeah. Absolutely.

900
00:31:20,059 --> 00:31:20,220
Absolutely.

901
00:31:21,420 --> 00:31:22,980
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,

902
00:31:23,420 --> 00:31:24,240
four different

903
00:31:24,539 --> 00:31:25,900
aspects or four different,

904
00:31:27,660 --> 00:31:29,740
looks on on what each one of them

905
00:31:29,740 --> 00:31:31,900
seem. Right? Now they all make sense. They

906
00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:34,154
all blend together. They all they all, you

907
00:31:34,154 --> 00:31:36,315
know, are are different part, but it's almost

908
00:31:36,315 --> 00:31:38,234
like well, I think we talked about this

909
00:31:38,234 --> 00:31:38,734
before.

910
00:31:39,035 --> 00:31:40,955
You see four people pull up on a

911
00:31:40,955 --> 00:31:43,195
on a car wreck and and Yeah. You

912
00:31:43,195 --> 00:31:45,115
know, maybe all four of those people seen

913
00:31:45,115 --> 00:31:46,875
it happen. Well, this guy says, well, there

914
00:31:46,875 --> 00:31:48,394
was a red car coming from this way.

915
00:31:48,394 --> 00:31:50,025
There's a blue car coming from this way.

916
00:31:50,025 --> 00:31:52,065
And then the other guy says, yeah. And

917
00:31:52,065 --> 00:31:54,105
I've seen that blue car run the red

918
00:31:54,105 --> 00:31:56,144
light, and I've seen that red car trying

919
00:31:56,144 --> 00:31:58,440
to stop. You know? And all the so

920
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,480
so they're they're riding from their their perspective

921
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,085
from what they've seen. And they're true accounts.

922
00:32:03,224 --> 00:32:06,265
Right? Their true accounts. And and and and

923
00:32:06,265 --> 00:32:08,664
as we said before, John is is writing

924
00:32:08,664 --> 00:32:10,825
about the deity of Christ. Right? He said

925
00:32:10,825 --> 00:32:13,144
about who he is. Christ is God in

926
00:32:13,144 --> 00:32:14,045
human flesh.

927
00:32:14,664 --> 00:32:17,190
You know, so and then and, what Luke,

928
00:32:17,509 --> 00:32:19,990
is writing from from a king's perspective. So

929
00:32:19,990 --> 00:32:22,629
it's just it just depends on what, what

930
00:32:22,629 --> 00:32:25,029
book you're reading from what perspective they're looking

931
00:32:25,029 --> 00:32:26,869
at God and who or Christ and who

932
00:32:26,869 --> 00:32:28,389
he is. So Yeah. And and you put

933
00:32:28,389 --> 00:32:30,149
them all together because he's all those things

934
00:32:30,149 --> 00:32:32,704
in one. Right. Right. It's not just love.

935
00:32:32,704 --> 00:32:35,585
No. No. Right? No. Try reading Revelation. The

936
00:32:35,585 --> 00:32:37,505
end of Revelation, you'll see he's a mighty

937
00:32:37,505 --> 00:32:39,264
warrior. Yes. He is. And he's coming back

938
00:32:39,264 --> 00:32:41,744
to to kill his enemies. Yeah. Yeah. What

939
00:32:41,744 --> 00:32:43,940
do you do with that? Right. Right. Absolutely.

940
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,480
Absolutely. You can't you can't say, well, he's

941
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,399
just a little lamb who doesn't carry any

942
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,079
Yeah. No. He's gonna come back as a

943
00:32:50,079 --> 00:32:52,399
naked baby. Yeah. No. Nope. He's not. Coming

944
00:32:52,399 --> 00:32:54,079
back on a wild horse with a horde.

945
00:32:54,079 --> 00:32:56,579
That's right. That's right. Amen. It's

946
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,384
so it's so important, man, to understand the

947
00:32:59,384 --> 00:33:02,184
whole the whole picture. Right. Right. Yeah. We

948
00:33:02,184 --> 00:33:04,184
got Genesis that lays out Adam and Eve

949
00:33:04,184 --> 00:33:05,944
sinning, you know, and that's when death entered

950
00:33:05,944 --> 00:33:08,024
the world. And this is a a big,

951
00:33:08,024 --> 00:33:10,605
big strike against somebody trying to consolidate,

952
00:33:11,384 --> 00:33:11,865
like,

953
00:33:12,345 --> 00:33:13,619
creation with evolution.

954
00:33:14,019 --> 00:33:16,420
Yes. Yes. There wasn't millions of years of

955
00:33:16,420 --> 00:33:18,259
life and death, and then Adam and Eve

956
00:33:18,259 --> 00:33:19,619
came on the scene, then there was death,

957
00:33:19,619 --> 00:33:21,460
and that's the first death. Right. That don't

958
00:33:21,460 --> 00:33:22,900
it don't work out for me. No. It's

959
00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:24,819
the first death. Right. And if he's God,

960
00:33:24,819 --> 00:33:26,179
he can make it in six days. Amen.

961
00:33:26,179 --> 00:33:27,240
And find out. Absolutely.

962
00:33:28,714 --> 00:33:31,035
And and when he made when he made

963
00:33:31,035 --> 00:33:31,535
earth,

964
00:33:31,914 --> 00:33:34,315
he made things that would sustain themselves, right?

965
00:33:34,315 --> 00:33:36,154
Right. Adam and Eve wasn't a baby when

966
00:33:36,154 --> 00:33:38,555
he made them a man, he made her

967
00:33:38,555 --> 00:33:39,055
woman,

968
00:33:39,755 --> 00:33:41,890
they were they were able to walk, to

969
00:33:41,890 --> 00:33:43,650
talk, to think, to do all the things

970
00:33:43,650 --> 00:33:46,210
that they and then from there, they produced

971
00:33:46,210 --> 00:33:47,349
babies. Right.

972
00:33:47,970 --> 00:33:50,369
Trees that were created, right? You got to

973
00:33:50,369 --> 00:33:52,369
think about that. The the trees that were

974
00:33:52,369 --> 00:33:55,410
created, they weren't just little sapling plants. He

975
00:33:55,410 --> 00:33:57,724
made he made trees that were He made

976
00:33:57,724 --> 00:33:59,505
the chicken. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

977
00:34:00,125 --> 00:34:01,884
What's the first, a chicken or an egg?

978
00:34:01,884 --> 00:34:03,345
Well, chicken. But

979
00:34:03,964 --> 00:34:06,044
but but when you he made creation, he

980
00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:08,444
created things that would sustain themselves. Yeah. And

981
00:34:08,444 --> 00:34:11,840
then from there, they reproduce. From there, they

982
00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:13,280
multiplied. They populated.

983
00:34:14,380 --> 00:34:16,860
And so you get that picture when you

984
00:34:16,860 --> 00:34:18,780
read the book of Genesis, when you when

985
00:34:18,780 --> 00:34:20,559
you see it as a whole.

986
00:34:21,420 --> 00:34:21,920
And,

987
00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:24,619
you know, there's we could get into a

988
00:34:24,619 --> 00:34:26,775
lot of a lot of different things with,

989
00:34:27,014 --> 00:34:28,934
with the whole new earth and and, you

990
00:34:28,934 --> 00:34:31,574
know, how old, creation is and all those

991
00:34:31,574 --> 00:34:33,815
things. Personally, I just want to tell you,

992
00:34:33,815 --> 00:34:34,315
I

993
00:34:34,934 --> 00:34:37,014
I would I would if we look from

994
00:34:37,014 --> 00:34:40,074
Genesis to the flood and from the flood

995
00:34:40,135 --> 00:34:40,635
to,

996
00:34:41,469 --> 00:34:43,390
you know, to the new testament. I mean,

997
00:34:43,390 --> 00:34:45,230
you if you look at it biblically like

998
00:34:45,230 --> 00:34:47,469
that, you're looking at about a six thousand,

999
00:34:47,469 --> 00:34:49,550
six to seven thousand year timeline. Right. Yeah.

1000
00:34:49,550 --> 00:34:52,030
And there's some some overwhelming evidence coming out

1001
00:34:52,030 --> 00:34:54,750
about a worldwide global flood Yeah. That did

1002
00:34:54,750 --> 00:34:57,114
what it did and carved out Grand Canyon

1003
00:34:57,114 --> 00:34:58,795
and Yes. Places like that when it drained

1004
00:34:58,795 --> 00:35:00,474
off. Yes. I mean, you look at the

1005
00:35:00,635 --> 00:35:02,635
some of this creation research museum and some

1006
00:35:02,635 --> 00:35:04,474
of these places like that have a ton

1007
00:35:04,474 --> 00:35:06,875
of evidence on this stuff. Amen. Yeah. Yeah.

1008
00:35:06,875 --> 00:35:08,394
We we can't ignore it, you know, and

1009
00:35:08,474 --> 00:35:11,030
No. Make well, that's not science. Yeah.

1010
00:35:11,329 --> 00:35:13,969
Science has never disproven the bible. No. And

1011
00:35:13,969 --> 00:35:16,869
because God created science. He did. He did.

1012
00:35:17,090 --> 00:35:18,849
Yeah. And and if you'll if you'll wait

1013
00:35:18,849 --> 00:35:20,929
long enough, the stuff that they're not really

1014
00:35:20,929 --> 00:35:22,849
doing right now, that that it'll end up

1015
00:35:22,849 --> 00:35:23,349
proving.

1016
00:35:24,155 --> 00:35:25,835
Okay. Okay. Wait a minute. There was a

1017
00:35:25,835 --> 00:35:28,255
fluid. Okay. Wait a minute. It did cover

1018
00:35:28,315 --> 00:35:29,675
this and it covered that. I mean, when

1019
00:35:29,675 --> 00:35:31,775
you start when you start finding fossils,

1020
00:35:32,394 --> 00:35:33,994
on top of, you know,

1021
00:35:34,394 --> 00:35:36,714
highest mountain points and peaks in the world,

1022
00:35:36,714 --> 00:35:39,650
then you know something happened. Something weird. Yeah.

1023
00:35:39,650 --> 00:35:41,650
It's not weird happened. Well, that's the funny

1024
00:35:41,650 --> 00:35:42,389
thing because,

1025
00:35:43,250 --> 00:35:45,429
I think and this is a problem with

1026
00:35:46,210 --> 00:35:47,809
most most people in the world that just

1027
00:35:47,809 --> 00:35:50,210
wanna say science, science, science. It's because they

1028
00:35:50,210 --> 00:35:52,630
don't understand. Science is the search

1029
00:35:53,065 --> 00:35:55,704
for how. Mhmm. It is not it does

1030
00:35:55,704 --> 00:35:56,525
not definitively

1031
00:35:57,465 --> 00:35:59,545
explain the how. Right. It comes up with

1032
00:35:59,545 --> 00:36:02,425
a plausible explanation that can then be tested

1033
00:36:02,425 --> 00:36:04,985
and done experiments run. And then after lots

1034
00:36:04,985 --> 00:36:07,170
of time, you can either discard, okay, that

1035
00:36:07,170 --> 00:36:09,569
doesn't work. Well, you find, hey, that absolutely

1036
00:36:09,569 --> 00:36:11,809
does work. And that there's the mechanism. And

1037
00:36:11,809 --> 00:36:14,929
it's like and some somewhere along the line,

1038
00:36:14,929 --> 00:36:16,609
these scientists started thinking, well, if we can

1039
00:36:16,609 --> 00:36:18,210
explain how, that means that we don't need

1040
00:36:18,210 --> 00:36:19,269
God. And it's like,

1041
00:36:19,914 --> 00:36:21,674
because you figured out how he did something,

1042
00:36:21,674 --> 00:36:23,275
that means he didn't do it. Yeah. Yeah.

1043
00:36:23,275 --> 00:36:24,954
That that just doesn't make sense. That's like

1044
00:36:24,954 --> 00:36:26,954
saying, you know, again, if you walk if

1045
00:36:26,954 --> 00:36:28,795
you're walking through the woods and you find

1046
00:36:28,795 --> 00:36:29,295
a,

1047
00:36:29,994 --> 00:36:32,554
beautiful Swiss Swiss watch that's,

1048
00:36:32,954 --> 00:36:35,489
you know, very clearly somebody had to sit

1049
00:36:35,489 --> 00:36:37,429
down and put this together and cut the

1050
00:36:37,730 --> 00:36:38,210
the,

1051
00:36:38,610 --> 00:36:40,369
gears on it and and to make it

1052
00:36:40,369 --> 00:36:41,730
work right and to get all of that

1053
00:36:41,730 --> 00:36:43,010
in there. And, I mean, if you've ever

1054
00:36:43,010 --> 00:36:44,610
seen a mechanical watch, man, those things are

1055
00:36:44,610 --> 00:36:46,949
complicated. Man. Yeah. I remember even from Amoebas.

1056
00:36:47,010 --> 00:36:48,530
Right? Yeah. And and I have a lot

1057
00:36:48,530 --> 00:36:50,684
of strikes. You're not gonna look at that

1058
00:36:50,684 --> 00:36:52,525
and say, well, that just sprang up out

1059
00:36:52,525 --> 00:36:54,204
of the dirt. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, oh,

1060
00:36:54,204 --> 00:36:56,765
somebody made that watch and dropped it. Somebody's

1061
00:36:56,765 --> 00:36:58,684
trying hard to explain away from god and

1062
00:36:58,684 --> 00:37:00,445
that and that's where the debate that's where

1063
00:37:00,445 --> 00:37:01,805
it all boils down to. There's a god

1064
00:37:01,805 --> 00:37:03,880
or there's not a god. And and what

1065
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,880
what kills me is during COVID, everybody's talking

1066
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,119
about science is settled. The science is science

1067
00:37:08,119 --> 00:37:10,840
ain't ever settled. No. Never. There's constantly exploring

1068
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,360
and finding new stuff. That's right. That's your

1069
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,039
You know, and having to revise what they've

1070
00:37:14,039 --> 00:37:14,780
already found

1071
00:37:15,079 --> 00:37:16,599
to fit what they just found. That's right.

1072
00:37:16,599 --> 00:37:18,885
That's right. Proving itself wrong, proving itself right

1073
00:37:18,885 --> 00:37:19,385
sometimes.

1074
00:37:20,244 --> 00:37:21,945
I know we read this all the time.

1075
00:37:22,085 --> 00:37:24,824
I'm on this on on our podcast, but,

1076
00:37:25,525 --> 00:37:27,065
second Timothy two fifteen,

1077
00:37:27,525 --> 00:37:30,265
why should you study? Right? Study to show

1078
00:37:30,324 --> 00:37:34,010
thyself approved. Yeah. Approved for who? For man?

1079
00:37:34,010 --> 00:37:36,750
For me? For my wife? For my preacher?

1080
00:37:36,889 --> 00:37:40,030
No. Study to show yourself approved unto god.

1081
00:37:40,329 --> 00:37:41,630
Yeah. A workman

1082
00:37:42,250 --> 00:37:44,750
for him that needeth not be ashamed,

1083
00:37:45,224 --> 00:37:47,065
rightly dividing the word of truth. And that's

1084
00:37:47,065 --> 00:37:48,744
that's the big thing on why you should

1085
00:37:48,744 --> 00:37:51,465
study. Yeah. Because you wanna rightly divide this.

1086
00:37:51,465 --> 00:37:53,785
You don't wanna Yeah. Mess anything up. You

1087
00:37:53,785 --> 00:37:56,105
don't wanna lead anybody astray. You don't wanna

1088
00:37:56,184 --> 00:37:56,825
you don't want to,

1089
00:37:57,769 --> 00:37:59,949
to to say something out of false pretenses

1090
00:38:00,010 --> 00:38:01,769
or something that you just dreamed up out

1091
00:38:01,769 --> 00:38:02,429
of the Bible.

1092
00:38:03,369 --> 00:38:06,089
Dig into it and study it. I I

1093
00:38:06,089 --> 00:38:07,949
would urge you to to,

1094
00:38:08,570 --> 00:38:11,675
get in some Bible studies. Absolutely. Sunday school

1095
00:38:11,675 --> 00:38:14,235
is so good, so important. I I, you

1096
00:38:14,235 --> 00:38:16,414
know, I I can remember growing up,

1097
00:38:17,355 --> 00:38:19,775
the church really pushed Sunday school,

1098
00:38:20,474 --> 00:38:22,715
and and we would have, you know, try

1099
00:38:22,715 --> 00:38:25,559
to have record highs each year. And and

1100
00:38:25,559 --> 00:38:27,000
and, of course, sometimes that can get a

1101
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,340
little bit, you know, man

1102
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:30,140
man

1103
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:31,260
trying to,

1104
00:38:32,119 --> 00:38:34,360
to create something. We you know, we do

1105
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,280
we do a thing at our church that,

1106
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,360
that you get Sunday school award if you

1107
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,605
don't miss Sunday school, And that's good, but

1108
00:38:40,664 --> 00:38:42,505
make sure you're coming for the right reason.

1109
00:38:42,505 --> 00:38:43,864
Yeah. Make sure you're coming for the right

1110
00:38:43,864 --> 00:38:46,344
reason. But those small group atmospheres like Sunday

1111
00:38:46,344 --> 00:38:46,844
school

1112
00:38:47,704 --> 00:38:50,585
are wonderful to study, to ask questions, to

1113
00:38:50,585 --> 00:38:52,025
stop. It doesn't matter if you don't get

1114
00:38:52,025 --> 00:38:53,769
all the way through your lesson. And and

1115
00:38:53,769 --> 00:38:55,930
I would encourage this. I would encourage you

1116
00:38:55,930 --> 00:38:58,170
you you guys that teach Sunday school out

1117
00:38:58,170 --> 00:38:58,670
there.

1118
00:38:58,970 --> 00:39:00,809
Look, I I know I know you got

1119
00:39:00,809 --> 00:39:02,970
a hour or you got forty five minutes

1120
00:39:02,970 --> 00:39:04,970
or sometimes you got thirty minutes depending on

1121
00:39:04,970 --> 00:39:06,890
how much questions and things you're being asked

1122
00:39:06,890 --> 00:39:08,414
and prayer requests and all those things,

1123
00:39:08,974 --> 00:39:11,135
but don't try to just rush through your

1124
00:39:11,135 --> 00:39:12,735
lesson just so you can get through it

1125
00:39:12,735 --> 00:39:14,574
to the to the next. If those guys

1126
00:39:14,574 --> 00:39:16,335
got questions and then you need to chase

1127
00:39:16,335 --> 00:39:18,255
a rabbit and it's a godly rabbit, let

1128
00:39:18,255 --> 00:39:20,429
it go for it. Ace it. Chase it.

1129
00:39:20,510 --> 00:39:23,630
Answer those hard questions. Discuss those those tough

1130
00:39:23,630 --> 00:39:26,109
things. Let it be a place where people

1131
00:39:26,109 --> 00:39:27,650
feel like that they can be

1132
00:39:27,949 --> 00:39:29,489
real, that they can be,

1133
00:39:30,030 --> 00:39:32,190
themselves, that they don't have to feel foolish

1134
00:39:32,190 --> 00:39:35,230
for asking questions. Because 99%

1135
00:39:35,230 --> 00:39:37,454
of the time, 99.9999%

1136
00:39:37,454 --> 00:39:38,194
of the time,

1137
00:39:38,654 --> 00:39:40,034
they're not the only person

1138
00:39:40,574 --> 00:39:42,974
that that's thinking that. Right? There there there's

1139
00:39:42,974 --> 00:39:44,894
somebody else in there that's got the same

1140
00:39:44,894 --> 00:39:46,894
type question. Yeah. And and we we deal

1141
00:39:46,894 --> 00:39:48,894
with a when if your church has Wednesday

1142
00:39:48,894 --> 00:39:49,934
night bible study,

1143
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,639
get in there. Join in. Just study ahead

1144
00:39:53,639 --> 00:39:56,199
and and ask those tough questions. Make your

1145
00:39:56,199 --> 00:39:59,000
preacher study. Make your make your Sunday school

1146
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,400
teacher study. It it it's better for them.

1147
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,179
I was gonna say if you've ever

1148
00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:07,095
thought that, man, preachers really need to be

1149
00:40:07,095 --> 00:40:08,934
taking questions and answering it, you know when

1150
00:40:08,934 --> 00:40:10,775
that is? That's not on Sunday morning. That's

1151
00:40:10,775 --> 00:40:12,375
that's Wednesday night. Yeah. You can hear that.

1152
00:40:12,375 --> 00:40:12,875
That's

1153
00:40:13,335 --> 00:40:16,055
that's that's these these services that are meant

1154
00:40:16,055 --> 00:40:18,469
for study, that are meant for, you know,

1155
00:40:18,469 --> 00:40:20,389
a a smaller group. But, you know, it's

1156
00:40:20,389 --> 00:40:22,710
not for Sunday morning. And I've I've heard

1157
00:40:22,710 --> 00:40:24,389
people say several times, well, you know, if

1158
00:40:24,389 --> 00:40:26,150
preachers would just take question, like, go to

1159
00:40:26,150 --> 00:40:27,829
Sunday night go to a Wednesday night service

1160
00:40:27,829 --> 00:40:29,509
or even a Sunday night service at Watkins.

1161
00:40:29,509 --> 00:40:31,269
It wouldn't it wouldn't fix anything, man. Because

1162
00:40:31,269 --> 00:40:33,375
I was telling my Sunday school class Sunday,

1163
00:40:33,594 --> 00:40:35,114
you know, when we we go through the

1164
00:40:35,114 --> 00:40:36,795
Bible, we just go verse by verse through

1165
00:40:36,795 --> 00:40:38,474
the Bible, and we stop wherever we stop.

1166
00:40:38,474 --> 00:40:39,934
Right? Yeah. And it's awesome.

1167
00:40:40,474 --> 00:40:42,394
We got 10 men in there chasing rabbits

1168
00:40:42,394 --> 00:40:44,234
sometimes. Yeah. And we all get a blessing

1169
00:40:44,234 --> 00:40:45,549
out of it, I think. But I was

1170
00:40:45,549 --> 00:40:46,989
telling them that I was that kid in

1171
00:40:46,989 --> 00:40:49,230
school that I was I was shy and

1172
00:40:49,230 --> 00:40:51,389
I'm still an introvert, but I was shy

1173
00:40:51,389 --> 00:40:53,710
enough in school where I just would not

1174
00:40:53,710 --> 00:40:55,309
ask a question. I would not use my

1175
00:40:55,309 --> 00:40:56,829
hand asking a question. I was sitting there

1176
00:40:56,829 --> 00:40:58,829
hoping this other kid would do it. Yeah.

1177
00:40:58,829 --> 00:41:00,325
Right? And a Sunday morning would be the

1178
00:41:00,325 --> 00:41:01,765
same way. You'd have a bunch of people

1179
00:41:01,765 --> 00:41:03,684
in there that that wouldn't ask the question

1180
00:41:03,684 --> 00:41:04,265
at all.

1181
00:41:05,125 --> 00:41:06,565
And I think I was I was a

1182
00:41:06,565 --> 00:41:09,065
lot like you in some aspects. I was

1183
00:41:09,125 --> 00:41:10,344
I wasn't shy,

1184
00:41:10,805 --> 00:41:12,405
but I didn't want I didn't want to

1185
00:41:12,405 --> 00:41:14,570
sound stupid, you know? And and I had

1186
00:41:14,570 --> 00:41:16,570
that in my head. And and and I

1187
00:41:16,570 --> 00:41:18,030
say I wasn't shy because

1188
00:41:18,329 --> 00:41:21,230
I may go off on something else stupid,

1189
00:41:21,289 --> 00:41:23,130
like, to make somebody laugh or to make

1190
00:41:23,289 --> 00:41:24,650
like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah.

1191
00:41:24,650 --> 00:41:26,489
I was I was terrible about that, but

1192
00:41:26,489 --> 00:41:28,484
but a lot of times, it was a

1193
00:41:28,484 --> 00:41:31,045
it was a distraction from what I really

1194
00:41:31,045 --> 00:41:32,964
wanted to say, you know. And and I

1195
00:41:32,964 --> 00:41:34,484
wish somebody else would ask this, or I

1196
00:41:34,484 --> 00:41:36,085
wish somebody else would say this, you know.

1197
00:41:36,085 --> 00:41:37,525
And I I used that as an introduction.

1198
00:41:37,525 --> 00:41:39,364
We started first Peter, and I said, the

1199
00:41:39,364 --> 00:41:41,125
the kid that would always ask the question

1200
00:41:41,125 --> 00:41:43,670
was Peter. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I was just

1201
00:41:43,829 --> 00:41:45,349
I mean, he he didn't care if it

1202
00:41:45,349 --> 00:41:46,789
stuck his foot in his mouth. He didn't

1203
00:41:46,789 --> 00:41:49,190
care? No. No. And and, man, he dove

1204
00:41:49,190 --> 00:41:51,510
in both feet every time. Yeah. Yeah. He

1205
00:41:51,510 --> 00:41:53,750
he never hesitated. He's just like, yep. I'm

1206
00:41:53,750 --> 00:41:56,170
I'm I am all in on this. Whatever

1207
00:41:56,285 --> 00:41:57,825
whatever it was. I mean and,

1208
00:41:58,684 --> 00:42:00,204
you know, honestly, I think if he if

1209
00:42:00,204 --> 00:42:01,885
he was alive today, he'd be diagnosed with

1210
00:42:01,885 --> 00:42:02,385
ADHD.

1211
00:42:02,765 --> 00:42:04,844
Yeah. It was just whatever whim hit him.

1212
00:42:04,844 --> 00:42:06,204
He was just like, let's do it. And

1213
00:42:06,204 --> 00:42:08,699
I'm like, good lord, man. Come. That's Yes.

1214
00:42:09,019 --> 00:42:11,339
That's another thing about studying the Bible. You

1215
00:42:11,339 --> 00:42:14,539
can learn the personalities of these guys. Right.

1216
00:42:14,539 --> 00:42:16,780
Yeah. That that's I mean, that's great. When

1217
00:42:16,780 --> 00:42:18,940
you get when you dig in, yeah, you

1218
00:42:18,940 --> 00:42:20,940
you learn their writing style and you see

1219
00:42:20,940 --> 00:42:23,019
there's some differences in their writing styles and

1220
00:42:23,019 --> 00:42:24,934
the way they the way they wrote things,

1221
00:42:25,394 --> 00:42:27,414
but you you begin to learn their personalities,

1222
00:42:27,474 --> 00:42:28,994
you know, Paul, we know was,

1223
00:42:29,795 --> 00:42:32,755
a guy who was he was extreme. Whatever

1224
00:42:32,755 --> 00:42:34,355
he done, he was a fireball. He was

1225
00:42:34,355 --> 00:42:36,035
he was, you know, he was gonna go

1226
00:42:36,035 --> 00:42:39,039
after a 100% and I we had a,

1227
00:42:39,739 --> 00:42:41,920
when we were in Sunday school yesterday,

1228
00:42:42,539 --> 00:42:43,760
at John's church,

1229
00:42:44,380 --> 00:42:46,699
we we had a a question come up,

1230
00:42:47,019 --> 00:42:48,559
and I can't remember exactly.

1231
00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:51,595
I can't remember. Oh, it's a this lady

1232
00:42:51,595 --> 00:42:52,974
was saying, you know, my personality

1233
00:42:53,275 --> 00:42:55,535
is is just kinda like, you know,

1234
00:42:56,875 --> 00:42:59,035
I I I have a temper sometimes, and

1235
00:42:59,035 --> 00:43:00,715
I and I go off on people, and

1236
00:43:00,715 --> 00:43:02,235
I you know, and I and I you

1237
00:43:02,235 --> 00:43:04,155
know, she was she was kinda stirred about

1238
00:43:04,155 --> 00:43:05,920
that, and and she was but she's really

1239
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,599
sincere and wanting to dig in and wanting

1240
00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:09,440
to learn, you know, and and, and I

1241
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,039
told her, I said, hey. God will use

1242
00:43:11,039 --> 00:43:13,860
that personality that you've got for his glory

1243
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,840
if you let him. Put that in his

1244
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,840
hands and let him mold you in the

1245
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,599
world he wants you to be because he

1246
00:43:19,599 --> 00:43:21,684
made you like that. He made Paul the

1247
00:43:21,684 --> 00:43:23,684
way Paul was. Paul was just using it

1248
00:43:23,684 --> 00:43:25,045
going the wrong way. Well, and I started

1249
00:43:25,045 --> 00:43:26,724
to say, you look at Paul and his

1250
00:43:26,724 --> 00:43:29,045
personality. You get Peter and his personality. Why

1251
00:43:29,045 --> 00:43:30,484
do you think the two of them clashed?

1252
00:43:30,484 --> 00:43:32,774
Yeah. After the fact, I mean, the two

1253
00:43:32,774 --> 00:43:34,542
of them had a tendency to kinda butt

1254
00:43:34,542 --> 00:43:36,311
heads a little bit when they were going

1255
00:43:36,311 --> 00:43:38,079
along. They were still going for the same

1256
00:43:38,079 --> 00:43:39,848
goal. They were still working for the same

1257
00:43:39,848 --> 00:43:41,617
reason, but the two of them were kinda

1258
00:43:41,617 --> 00:43:43,385
kinda butt a little bit because they had

1259
00:43:43,385 --> 00:43:45,153
these very abrasive, very abrupt, very just all

1260
00:43:45,153 --> 00:43:48,255
in, 100% let's go personalities. Yeah. Yeah. And

1261
00:43:48,255 --> 00:43:49,394
they kinda drug everybody.

1262
00:43:50,014 --> 00:43:51,295
And and then and then look at a

1263
00:43:51,295 --> 00:43:53,695
guy like John, he's like, man, he loves

1264
00:43:53,695 --> 00:43:56,014
me. Oh, yes. Yeah. I love that he

1265
00:43:56,014 --> 00:43:57,775
loves me. Yeah. You know? He's like he's

1266
00:43:57,775 --> 00:44:00,130
like mister Mello. Or he, you know, loves

1267
00:44:00,130 --> 00:44:00,630
me.

1268
00:44:01,730 --> 00:44:03,730
He really is. Yeah. And then Well, then

1269
00:44:03,730 --> 00:44:05,030
you look at the other John,

1270
00:44:06,289 --> 00:44:07,969
you know? Yeah. Him and his brother were

1271
00:44:07,969 --> 00:44:09,829
were out there causing just just,

1272
00:44:10,130 --> 00:44:12,449
you know, absolutely raising Cain every time they

1273
00:44:12,449 --> 00:44:13,890
went anywhere. It's like, hey, guys. Can y'all

1274
00:44:13,890 --> 00:44:14,744
can y'all just kinda

1275
00:44:15,625 --> 00:44:17,785
settle down? Yeah. Well, I and and James,

1276
00:44:17,785 --> 00:44:19,144
man, I feel like when I read James,

1277
00:44:19,144 --> 00:44:20,985
I think he's about to smack me. Yeah.

1278
00:44:20,985 --> 00:44:22,445
Yes. Yeah. Dude.

1279
00:44:22,905 --> 00:44:25,305
Yeah. He didn't grow up with Jesus in

1280
00:44:25,305 --> 00:44:27,144
his house, didn't he? I mean, you know,

1281
00:44:27,144 --> 00:44:29,420
this is the brother of Jesus. But, you

1282
00:44:29,420 --> 00:44:31,099
know, those are things that you like. Can't

1283
00:44:31,099 --> 00:44:33,099
you be like your brother? Man, that had

1284
00:44:33,099 --> 00:44:34,400
to sting. Yeah. Yeah.

1285
00:44:35,579 --> 00:44:37,980
Yeah. We'll never have any new one for

1286
00:44:37,980 --> 00:44:39,199
you, Gaurav. But

1287
00:44:41,914 --> 00:44:43,675
but, you know, but you've got all the

1288
00:44:43,755 --> 00:44:45,835
you got all these different characters, and and

1289
00:44:45,835 --> 00:44:46,494
I love,

1290
00:44:47,034 --> 00:44:49,034
there's there's a there's a book. I think

1291
00:44:49,034 --> 00:44:51,994
it's called, 12 Ordinary Men out there, and

1292
00:44:51,994 --> 00:44:54,210
it and it talks about, it talks about

1293
00:44:54,289 --> 00:44:57,089
really, some of the personalities of these disciples,

1294
00:44:57,089 --> 00:44:58,949
you know, and and how they were just

1295
00:44:59,250 --> 00:45:01,570
regular guys like we are. They made mistakes.

1296
00:45:01,570 --> 00:45:04,050
They messed up. They, you know, they were

1297
00:45:04,050 --> 00:45:06,449
they were, they were some characters, man. I

1298
00:45:06,449 --> 00:45:06,949
mean,

1299
00:45:07,474 --> 00:45:09,255
you had fishermen, you had,

1300
00:45:09,715 --> 00:45:11,875
you had doctors, you had, you know, all

1301
00:45:11,875 --> 00:45:14,215
these different guys from all these different backgrounds,

1302
00:45:15,074 --> 00:45:17,074
and and and but they were when it

1303
00:45:17,074 --> 00:45:18,515
come right down to it, they were people

1304
00:45:18,515 --> 00:45:20,914
just like us. Yeah. And and and and

1305
00:45:20,914 --> 00:45:22,695
god called them. He didn't,

1306
00:45:25,230 --> 00:45:27,650
though those guys these 12 disciples

1307
00:45:28,670 --> 00:45:30,690
were the guys that didn't make the cut.

1308
00:45:31,070 --> 00:45:34,110
Right? It was it was the it was

1309
00:45:34,110 --> 00:45:34,349
the,

1310
00:45:35,894 --> 00:45:36,554
the desire

1311
00:45:37,094 --> 00:45:40,155
and the hope of every young Jewish man,

1312
00:45:41,015 --> 00:45:43,335
to to become a rabbi or or for

1313
00:45:43,335 --> 00:45:45,494
at least for the most part. And and

1314
00:45:45,494 --> 00:45:48,295
these rabbis, these guys these are the guys

1315
00:45:48,295 --> 00:45:51,329
that that that memorized the Pentateuch, that memorized

1316
00:45:51,469 --> 00:45:53,549
the the the those first five books of

1317
00:45:53,549 --> 00:45:55,949
the bible and and and could quote you

1318
00:45:55,949 --> 00:45:58,109
word by word by word by word and

1319
00:45:58,109 --> 00:45:59,869
studied and they had to they

1320
00:46:00,349 --> 00:46:02,510
I've I've read studies where they said that

1321
00:46:02,510 --> 00:46:04,594
some of these guys, they would start teaching

1322
00:46:04,594 --> 00:46:07,175
their children at three or four years old

1323
00:46:07,474 --> 00:46:10,275
how to how to learn and resuscitate and

1324
00:46:10,275 --> 00:46:11,574
and and and just,

1325
00:46:12,355 --> 00:46:13,815
soak in the word of God.

1326
00:46:14,355 --> 00:46:15,954
And so they would grow up, and if

1327
00:46:15,954 --> 00:46:17,635
they were able to make the cut, if

1328
00:46:17,635 --> 00:46:20,079
they were able to have it all memorized

1329
00:46:20,219 --> 00:46:22,140
and spit it all out and make it

1330
00:46:22,140 --> 00:46:23,119
all make sense,

1331
00:46:23,500 --> 00:46:25,659
then then they could they were on that

1332
00:46:25,659 --> 00:46:28,300
road to become rabbi. These guys these guys

1333
00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:29,440
were guys that had

1334
00:46:29,739 --> 00:46:31,674
they didn't make it. They they were they

1335
00:46:31,674 --> 00:46:33,114
had to go back to their regular jobs

1336
00:46:33,114 --> 00:46:35,114
to their family business, you know, to go

1337
00:46:35,114 --> 00:46:36,815
fish and whatever it was.

1338
00:46:37,514 --> 00:46:39,514
But God said, look. This is not what

1339
00:46:39,514 --> 00:46:41,594
it's all about. You know? You know, the

1340
00:46:41,594 --> 00:46:44,090
whole memorization thing, the the,

1341
00:46:44,390 --> 00:46:46,789
the the phariseitical things that that, you know,

1342
00:46:46,789 --> 00:46:48,230
that they come up with, and and they

1343
00:46:48,230 --> 00:46:49,430
say, you know, we gotta do it like

1344
00:46:49,430 --> 00:46:50,970
this, this, this, and this, and this.

1345
00:46:51,349 --> 00:46:53,030
You know, Jesus just blew that stuff out

1346
00:46:53,030 --> 00:46:54,070
of the water. Yeah. And that's the thing

1347
00:46:54,070 --> 00:46:55,989
with memorization. And and I I I love

1348
00:46:55,989 --> 00:46:58,215
memorization, and I've memorized parts of the Bible.

1349
00:46:58,295 --> 00:47:00,775
Yeah. But it's important to understand it. Understand

1350
00:47:00,775 --> 00:47:02,775
it. Understand it. Yeah. It's one thing to

1351
00:47:02,775 --> 00:47:04,215
be able to spit it out. Yeah. And

1352
00:47:04,215 --> 00:47:05,735
there's some preachers out there that I am

1353
00:47:05,735 --> 00:47:07,575
so impressed with because I can't do it.

1354
00:47:07,575 --> 00:47:09,175
I mean, I I there's just that I

1355
00:47:09,175 --> 00:47:12,695
remember. Yeah. But but, you know, James Little,

1356
00:47:12,695 --> 00:47:13,679
one of those guys that,

1357
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,159
I grew up with it. Now she's calling

1358
00:47:16,159 --> 00:47:17,519
to preach when I was at Mount Carmel,

1359
00:47:17,519 --> 00:47:18,420
was just a kid.

1360
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:20,159
James can get up there and he can

1361
00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:21,940
preach and he can quote just

1362
00:47:22,319 --> 00:47:24,719
flat chapters. I mean, it's just he stayed

1363
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:26,579
in the word of God. He studied.

1364
00:47:26,964 --> 00:47:29,844
They're still self approved. You know? But yeah.

1365
00:47:29,844 --> 00:47:30,505
You know, I

1366
00:47:30,885 --> 00:47:33,784
I can usually remember the gist of passages,

1367
00:47:34,005 --> 00:47:36,565
and and I have the the general shape

1368
00:47:36,565 --> 00:47:38,005
of it. Yeah. And that's about as far

1369
00:47:38,005 --> 00:47:39,605
as my brain can go because when I

1370
00:47:39,605 --> 00:47:41,489
start getting down to rote memorization, I just

1371
00:47:41,489 --> 00:47:43,030
I lose it every time. Yeah.

1372
00:47:44,130 --> 00:47:45,329
But I was gonna say, you know, you're

1373
00:47:45,329 --> 00:47:47,489
talking about how the disciples were, and that

1374
00:47:47,489 --> 00:47:49,010
always takes me back to that song we

1375
00:47:49,010 --> 00:47:49,909
do in the choir.

1376
00:47:50,289 --> 00:47:52,449
You do with them nobody from casting crowns.

1377
00:47:52,449 --> 00:47:54,195
Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean Yeah.

1378
00:47:54,275 --> 00:47:56,035
You know, he did. He took 12 outsiders.

1379
00:47:56,035 --> 00:47:57,875
These were guys that they they thought they

1380
00:47:57,875 --> 00:47:59,954
were gonna be, you know, in serving in

1381
00:47:59,954 --> 00:48:01,235
the temple. They thought that's what they were

1382
00:48:01,235 --> 00:48:02,594
gonna do, and that's what they all wanted

1383
00:48:02,594 --> 00:48:03,954
to do. And then it turned out, no.

1384
00:48:03,954 --> 00:48:06,114
You're gonna go fish. You're gonna go be

1385
00:48:06,114 --> 00:48:08,210
a tax collector. Yeah. You're gonna

1386
00:48:08,590 --> 00:48:10,590
go work over here. You're gonna go, you

1387
00:48:10,590 --> 00:48:12,349
know, work on tents. You're gonna go work

1388
00:48:12,349 --> 00:48:13,869
in your father's house. You're gonna go do

1389
00:48:13,869 --> 00:48:15,710
this. And it's like and then Jesus comes

1390
00:48:15,710 --> 00:48:18,210
along and goes, hey, you outcast. Mhmm. Hey,

1391
00:48:18,349 --> 00:48:21,070
you that everybody said was not good enough.

1392
00:48:21,070 --> 00:48:23,045
Yeah. Come over here. I got something for

1393
00:48:23,045 --> 00:48:24,344
you. Change the world.

1394
00:48:24,644 --> 00:48:27,304
And then, oh, yeah, flipped the world

1395
00:48:27,684 --> 00:48:30,085
upside down. Went in there and started talking.

1396
00:48:30,085 --> 00:48:32,005
And, I mean, goodness, even the rabbis, you

1397
00:48:32,005 --> 00:48:34,085
know, they were all debating constantly on what

1398
00:48:34,085 --> 00:48:35,530
are we gonna do about this guy? He's

1399
00:48:35,530 --> 00:48:37,289
on here. He's he's basically taking all of

1400
00:48:37,289 --> 00:48:39,210
our power away. Yeah. All of our authority.

1401
00:48:39,210 --> 00:48:40,730
He's tearing it up. He's throwing it out

1402
00:48:40,730 --> 00:48:42,809
the door. And the one of them that

1403
00:48:42,809 --> 00:48:44,590
goes, well, I'm gonna go talk to him.

1404
00:48:44,890 --> 00:48:46,329
Yeah. What did he do? He had a

1405
00:48:46,329 --> 00:48:48,195
conversation with him, comes back, goes, that guy's

1406
00:48:48,195 --> 00:48:49,635
the real deal. Yeah. Boys, we need to

1407
00:48:49,635 --> 00:48:51,075
leave him alone. Yeah. We need to start

1408
00:48:51,075 --> 00:48:53,414
doing what he said because he is something

1409
00:48:53,555 --> 00:48:55,795
special. He had me up on that, you

1410
00:48:55,795 --> 00:48:56,295
know,

1411
00:48:56,914 --> 00:48:58,355
in in the night, and I was standing

1412
00:48:58,355 --> 00:49:00,355
there and I questioned him all night long.

1413
00:49:00,355 --> 00:49:02,035
And he had an answer for everything and

1414
00:49:02,035 --> 00:49:03,609
they were right. And he could tell me

1415
00:49:03,609 --> 00:49:04,889
in the scripture where it was and he

1416
00:49:04,889 --> 00:49:06,570
could tell me in the in our history

1417
00:49:06,570 --> 00:49:07,690
where it was and he could tell me

1418
00:49:07,690 --> 00:49:09,609
where God revealed this to us and I

1419
00:49:09,609 --> 00:49:11,050
don't know what to do with it, boys.

1420
00:49:11,050 --> 00:49:12,190
Yeah. It's that mechanical

1421
00:49:12,489 --> 00:49:12,989
memorization

1422
00:49:13,289 --> 00:49:16,329
knowledge that that came to the conclusion that

1423
00:49:16,329 --> 00:49:17,625
they needed to kill somebody.

1424
00:49:18,025 --> 00:49:19,864
Yeah. Yes. Yeah, it was. It was. How

1425
00:49:19,864 --> 00:49:21,385
did it get there? You know, I've always

1426
00:49:21,385 --> 00:49:21,885
wondered,

1427
00:49:22,425 --> 00:49:24,264
because that was that was Nicodemus. It was

1428
00:49:24,264 --> 00:49:25,784
the name of the Yeah, yeah. He actually

1429
00:49:25,784 --> 00:49:27,465
helped take Jesus off the cliff. I have

1430
00:49:27,465 --> 00:49:28,744
to wonder if he didn't stand there and

1431
00:49:28,744 --> 00:49:29,784
while they're saying, All right, we're going to

1432
00:49:29,784 --> 00:49:30,985
go have him killed, he's going, Do you

1433
00:49:30,985 --> 00:49:32,909
understand what you're doing, guys? Do you understand

1434
00:49:34,510 --> 00:49:36,109
You can't do this. You don't understand. He's

1435
00:49:36,109 --> 00:49:38,190
the one. He is the son of god.

1436
00:49:38,190 --> 00:49:40,609
He is god. You are trying to murder

1437
00:49:40,670 --> 00:49:42,929
god. What do you think you're doing, boys?

1438
00:49:43,150 --> 00:49:44,510
And they went, you don't know what you're

1439
00:49:44,510 --> 00:49:46,109
talking about, old man. Yeah. Because you know

1440
00:49:46,109 --> 00:49:47,784
that's what they said to him. Yeah. I

1441
00:49:47,784 --> 00:49:48,824
just looked at him and went, you don't

1442
00:49:48,824 --> 00:49:50,824
know. Mhmm. And that's one of those things.

1443
00:49:50,824 --> 00:49:53,144
You don't get this stuff just going to

1444
00:49:53,144 --> 00:49:55,224
church and watching movies about it and listening

1445
00:49:55,224 --> 00:49:56,664
to audio books about it. You gotta get

1446
00:49:56,664 --> 00:49:58,264
in there and study. Yeah. And when you

1447
00:49:58,264 --> 00:49:59,784
read it and you realize what some of

1448
00:49:59,784 --> 00:50:02,505
these people went through. And and and study

1449
00:50:02,505 --> 00:50:03,005
prayerfully.

1450
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,760
Yes. Yeah. That's right. That's just so critical

1451
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,440
to ask God to show you. Ask God

1452
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:08,880
to give you wisdom. He said he'll give

1453
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,800
you wisdom if you ask. Mhmm. Right? Just

1454
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:12,559
believe you're you're you're gonna get it and

1455
00:50:12,559 --> 00:50:14,480
he'll give you wisdom. Amen. Man, what about

1456
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,079
you? One of the things that I've taken

1457
00:50:16,079 --> 00:50:16,640
to doing,

1458
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:18,885
Father's Day, we had those little

1459
00:50:19,284 --> 00:50:21,525
the the little devotionals Mhmm. That we got.

1460
00:50:21,525 --> 00:50:22,885
And one of the things I've taken to

1461
00:50:22,885 --> 00:50:24,965
doing is just I found it's great way

1462
00:50:24,965 --> 00:50:26,965
to kick off into something to to study.

1463
00:50:26,965 --> 00:50:28,724
It is. You just grab it. It's it's

1464
00:50:28,724 --> 00:50:30,885
just one it's one little verse or set

1465
00:50:30,885 --> 00:50:32,565
of verses per day. And the one I

1466
00:50:32,565 --> 00:50:34,005
got is the 365

1467
00:50:34,005 --> 00:50:35,780
day. It's just one, you know, one one

1468
00:50:35,780 --> 00:50:37,219
for every day of the year. You just

1469
00:50:37,219 --> 00:50:38,900
open it up, and I literally have. I've

1470
00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:40,340
gotten to where every morning, I sit down,

1471
00:50:40,340 --> 00:50:41,619
open it up, I go through the one

1472
00:50:41,619 --> 00:50:43,059
that's there. And then that night, I go

1473
00:50:43,059 --> 00:50:44,099
through it again, and then I pick up

1474
00:50:44,099 --> 00:50:45,460
the bible, and I start with that, and

1475
00:50:45,460 --> 00:50:47,219
then just keep going. See, that that puts

1476
00:50:47,219 --> 00:50:48,579
you in the habit. And I like what

1477
00:50:48,579 --> 00:50:49,960
you're saying you're doing because,

1478
00:50:50,875 --> 00:50:52,494
you know, devotion alone

1479
00:50:52,954 --> 00:50:55,275
is not really enough. The longer you study,

1480
00:50:55,275 --> 00:50:56,795
the longer you get into the word of

1481
00:50:56,795 --> 00:50:58,474
God. Yes. The more that you need to

1482
00:50:58,474 --> 00:50:59,914
get into the meat of it, the more

1483
00:50:59,914 --> 00:51:01,195
you need to break it down and study

1484
00:51:01,195 --> 00:51:02,875
it and, you know, and and really grab

1485
00:51:02,875 --> 00:51:04,735
it, grab a hold of it. But devotion,

1486
00:51:04,795 --> 00:51:07,809
those devotional books are are wonderful for anybody

1487
00:51:07,809 --> 00:51:10,769
for how great it is. But but but

1488
00:51:10,769 --> 00:51:12,630
to go from there and say, okay. Now,

1489
00:51:12,769 --> 00:51:14,710
okay. This is what this devotional said.

1490
00:51:15,250 --> 00:51:16,929
Let me find that and see what's in

1491
00:51:16,929 --> 00:51:19,065
front of it and behind it, beside it.

1492
00:51:19,304 --> 00:51:21,144
What's it talking about? Where was it at?

1493
00:51:21,144 --> 00:51:23,224
You know, what's going on here? It is

1494
00:51:23,224 --> 00:51:24,045
a great

1495
00:51:24,344 --> 00:51:26,105
it is a great way to start your

1496
00:51:26,105 --> 00:51:27,784
day. Yeah. Yeah. Just to pick one of

1497
00:51:27,784 --> 00:51:29,144
those up and you go through and it's

1498
00:51:29,144 --> 00:51:30,505
like, okay. It kinda gets you in that

1499
00:51:30,505 --> 00:51:32,519
mindset. Yeah. And then at night before you

1500
00:51:32,519 --> 00:51:34,199
go to bed, sit down, read it again,

1501
00:51:34,199 --> 00:51:36,199
remind yourself what was that verse that it

1502
00:51:36,199 --> 00:51:38,039
it gave me today. Yeah. Yeah. And then

1503
00:51:38,039 --> 00:51:39,960
go to the scripture with that verse and

1504
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,039
start reading everything around it and start diving

1505
00:51:42,039 --> 00:51:42,860
into it. And

1506
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,864
that that's kept me on my toes and

1507
00:51:44,864 --> 00:51:46,545
got me in studying a lot more than

1508
00:51:46,545 --> 00:51:48,304
than just about anything else that's been able

1509
00:51:48,304 --> 00:51:49,664
to really keep me on it because I'm

1510
00:51:49,664 --> 00:51:51,184
like, it gives me something new to look

1511
00:51:51,184 --> 00:51:53,364
at every day that's different. That's not some,

1512
00:51:53,505 --> 00:51:55,744
you know, long, you know, six day study

1513
00:51:55,744 --> 00:51:57,344
that I'm gonna get halfway through and then

1514
00:51:57,344 --> 00:51:58,545
have something come up and then I don't

1515
00:51:58,625 --> 00:51:59,679
and then I can't remember where I was

1516
00:51:59,679 --> 00:52:02,079
at. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think and we

1517
00:52:02,079 --> 00:52:03,840
can get to I I've I've done it

1518
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:05,599
before. I'm like, okay. I gotta do this.

1519
00:52:05,599 --> 00:52:07,039
I gotta do this. I gotta do this.

1520
00:52:07,039 --> 00:52:07,539
But,

1521
00:52:08,079 --> 00:52:10,239
you know, it it is good to to,

1522
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:12,719
to have some structure like that, to have

1523
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,105
that to have that devotional that being laid

1524
00:52:15,105 --> 00:52:17,105
out there and and to have structure to

1525
00:52:17,105 --> 00:52:18,704
get okay. I'm I'm gonna read this today.

1526
00:52:18,704 --> 00:52:19,744
I'm gonna read this tomorrow. I'm gonna read

1527
00:52:19,744 --> 00:52:21,425
this tomorrow. I will say the one that

1528
00:52:21,425 --> 00:52:22,785
the one that I've got there is zero

1529
00:52:22,785 --> 00:52:24,545
structure. It is all over the place. I

1530
00:52:24,545 --> 00:52:26,480
love it. Yeah. Yeah. Goes from here to

1531
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,280
there to there. But but, you know, it's

1532
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:30,960
it's how we talked about before. There has

1533
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,739
to be we we can

1534
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,699
I don't wanna say this lightly? I mean,

1535
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,440
it is a spiritual thing to read the

1536
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,039
word of God. It is it is the

1537
00:52:39,039 --> 00:52:41,255
holy spirit that that leads you, guides you,

1538
00:52:41,255 --> 00:52:41,755
directs

1539
00:52:42,135 --> 00:52:44,215
you, teaches you, opens up things to you,

1540
00:52:44,215 --> 00:52:46,055
reveals things to you that are already there,

1541
00:52:46,055 --> 00:52:47,735
not new things, but things that are already

1542
00:52:47,735 --> 00:52:50,215
there. Right. But there's also discipline in it

1543
00:52:50,215 --> 00:52:51,755
too. There's also a discipline

1544
00:52:52,055 --> 00:52:53,340
that has to be,

1545
00:52:54,460 --> 00:52:56,059
that that we need to grab a hold

1546
00:52:56,059 --> 00:52:57,420
of the word of God and say, okay,

1547
00:52:57,420 --> 00:52:58,940
you know, maybe I don't feel like it

1548
00:52:58,940 --> 00:53:00,539
tonight. Right. But I'm gonna pick it up

1549
00:53:00,539 --> 00:53:02,860
anyway. Right. It's spiritual warfare. Hey, really. Right.

1550
00:53:02,860 --> 00:53:05,019
Right. You gotta battle that stuff. Yeah. And

1551
00:53:05,019 --> 00:53:06,764
I I I when I'm doing a devotion,

1552
00:53:06,764 --> 00:53:08,005
I like to try to be careful about

1553
00:53:08,125 --> 00:53:09,644
because there are times I can read that

1554
00:53:09,644 --> 00:53:11,244
devotion and I see the scripture verse up

1555
00:53:11,244 --> 00:53:12,525
there and I don't read the scripture verse

1556
00:53:12,525 --> 00:53:14,045
and I read the devotional and think, well,

1557
00:53:14,045 --> 00:53:15,804
I read something about the Bible. I'll get

1558
00:53:15,804 --> 00:53:18,764
something good. Yeah. Yeah. Nope. Read the Bible

1559
00:53:18,764 --> 00:53:20,980
with it. Right? You gotta read the scripture

1560
00:53:20,980 --> 00:53:22,579
along with it. Because like you said, the

1561
00:53:22,579 --> 00:53:24,500
Bible is what's alive. Mhmm. The Bible is

1562
00:53:24,500 --> 00:53:26,260
the one that's that's really speaking to your

1563
00:53:26,260 --> 00:53:28,420
heart because the one that wrote this book

1564
00:53:28,420 --> 00:53:29,779
is living inside of me. That's right. And

1565
00:53:29,779 --> 00:53:31,940
he'll explain it. That's right. Said might take

1566
00:53:31,940 --> 00:53:33,864
years on some other. Right? I mean, you

1567
00:53:33,864 --> 00:53:35,385
can you can go through a passage you've

1568
00:53:35,385 --> 00:53:37,644
read a 100 times and and just kinda

1569
00:53:37,945 --> 00:53:39,625
skimmed over it, you know, to get nothing

1570
00:53:39,625 --> 00:53:41,065
else. And all of a sudden, a light

1571
00:53:41,065 --> 00:53:43,385
comes on. Yeah. Amen. Boom. It hits you

1572
00:53:43,385 --> 00:53:45,144
in the face. That's what that means. Yeah.

1573
00:53:45,144 --> 00:53:47,400
Mhmm. Yeah. And you start piecing that puzzle

1574
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:49,639
together. That's right. Well, and and I think

1575
00:53:49,639 --> 00:53:50,859
people a lot of times,

1576
00:53:53,639 --> 00:53:54,219
they overestimate

1577
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:56,760
how much time it takes to sit down

1578
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:58,760
and study. Mhmm. You don't have to spend

1579
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,695
two, three, four hours a day. Right. Sometimes,

1580
00:54:01,695 --> 00:54:03,775
if all you have is ten minutes, sit

1581
00:54:03,775 --> 00:54:05,295
down and take the ten minutes and do

1582
00:54:05,295 --> 00:54:08,335
it. That that I mean, it's enough. It's

1583
00:54:08,335 --> 00:54:09,635
enough to get in there

1584
00:54:10,175 --> 00:54:13,635
and and go for again, it's more than

1585
00:54:13,695 --> 00:54:16,175
a verse. I'm reading the verses around it.

1586
00:54:16,175 --> 00:54:17,429
I'm going out to the chapter. I'm going

1587
00:54:17,429 --> 00:54:19,829
out to the chapters around. And how far

1588
00:54:19,829 --> 00:54:21,349
out you go is just how much time

1589
00:54:21,349 --> 00:54:22,869
do you have. Yeah. If you don't have

1590
00:54:22,869 --> 00:54:24,469
enough time to go and read four or

1591
00:54:24,469 --> 00:54:27,109
five chapters, okay. Great. Start with the verse

1592
00:54:27,109 --> 00:54:29,429
that you picked. Again, those daily devotionals are

1593
00:54:29,429 --> 00:54:30,675
great to go. Hey. That scripture, I'm just

1594
00:54:30,675 --> 00:54:32,275
gonna go look it up. Yeah. And then

1595
00:54:32,275 --> 00:54:33,795
go through four or five verses around it

1596
00:54:33,795 --> 00:54:35,235
and take ten minutes to read that. And

1597
00:54:35,235 --> 00:54:36,594
then and sit and think about it. You

1598
00:54:36,594 --> 00:54:38,355
know, I appreciate I appreciate the message on

1599
00:54:38,355 --> 00:54:40,055
a Editate on it. Yesterday.

1600
00:54:40,515 --> 00:54:42,675
And and, Joshua one eight said, this book

1601
00:54:42,675 --> 00:54:44,219
of the law shall not depart from your

1602
00:54:44,219 --> 00:54:46,139
mouth, but you shall meditate on it day

1603
00:54:46,139 --> 00:54:47,659
and night so that you may be careful

1604
00:54:47,659 --> 00:54:49,179
to do according to all that's written in

1605
00:54:49,179 --> 00:54:50,780
it. For then, you will make your way

1606
00:54:50,780 --> 00:54:52,960
prosperous and then you will have success. And

1607
00:54:53,179 --> 00:54:55,179
that's all Joshua had, man, was the first

1608
00:54:55,179 --> 00:54:56,954
five books. Yeah. Look how much we got.

1609
00:54:57,035 --> 00:54:58,875
That's right. We know we know so much

1610
00:54:58,875 --> 00:55:01,195
more than he did. We got we got

1611
00:55:01,195 --> 00:55:03,675
Jesus gospel, man. We got it. Yeah. We

1612
00:55:03,675 --> 00:55:05,835
got the other Joshua. That's right. The other

1613
00:55:05,835 --> 00:55:06,335
Joshua.

1614
00:55:06,635 --> 00:55:08,974
We got the picture start to finish. Yeah.

1615
00:55:09,515 --> 00:55:11,195
Oh, man. Yeah. I I I heard you

1616
00:55:11,195 --> 00:55:12,929
say that Sunday and I I just, yeah,

1617
00:55:12,929 --> 00:55:14,289
we were sitting in that was when we

1618
00:55:14,289 --> 00:55:15,889
were sitting over at the restaurant, and I

1619
00:55:15,889 --> 00:55:18,050
bounced out when you said that. Yeah. And

1620
00:55:18,050 --> 00:55:19,569
thank you, by the way. Thank you. Oh,

1621
00:55:19,569 --> 00:55:20,230
you're welcome.

1622
00:55:20,609 --> 00:55:22,929
I I It was awesome. Yeah. I appreciate

1623
00:55:22,929 --> 00:55:25,329
you and appreciate, your preaching and your word,

1624
00:55:26,335 --> 00:55:28,815
and, I can always count on on Dennis

1625
00:55:28,815 --> 00:55:29,954
if I'm not here

1626
00:55:30,255 --> 00:55:32,494
or or if I am here, but, but

1627
00:55:32,494 --> 00:55:34,414
I appreciate that. Thank you for sharing the

1628
00:55:34,414 --> 00:55:35,775
word of God and You're welcome. And we've

1629
00:55:35,775 --> 00:55:37,934
all Pleasure. Yeah. And and, man, we just,

1630
00:55:38,869 --> 00:55:40,869
just opening up his word. I love to

1631
00:55:40,869 --> 00:55:42,869
get preached too. You know? I love to

1632
00:55:42,869 --> 00:55:44,809
I love to listen. I love to hear,

1633
00:55:45,269 --> 00:55:47,269
because sometimes, I, you know, I'm I'm just

1634
00:55:47,349 --> 00:55:49,190
I'm always up there, and I'm always preaching,

1635
00:55:49,190 --> 00:55:50,710
but it's good just to sit back and

1636
00:55:50,710 --> 00:55:52,905
get preached to. To get fed. Yeah. Yeah.

1637
00:55:52,905 --> 00:55:54,744
You really do. You really do. I I

1638
00:55:54,744 --> 00:55:55,945
listen to stuff all the time.

1639
00:55:56,905 --> 00:55:58,105
A lot a lot I've got a lot

1640
00:55:58,105 --> 00:55:59,945
of favorite preachers that I'll listen to or

1641
00:55:59,945 --> 00:56:02,025
a few a handful. I'm lucky. I don't

1642
00:56:02,025 --> 00:56:03,785
mean to interrupt, but, did you see John

1643
00:56:03,785 --> 00:56:06,489
MacArthur has got pneumonia and he's he's, they're

1644
00:56:06,489 --> 00:56:07,690
not giving him much to you? I think

1645
00:56:07,690 --> 00:56:09,610
his health was terrible right now, but I

1646
00:56:09,610 --> 00:56:10,809
did not say that. Yeah. Yeah. I did

1647
00:56:10,809 --> 00:56:12,349
not say that. Yeah.

1648
00:56:13,769 --> 00:56:16,010
But he's 86 or 88. He's getting up.

1649
00:56:16,010 --> 00:56:17,849
He's on up there. He is. He's not

1650
00:56:17,849 --> 00:56:19,309
exactly a spring chicken anymore.

1651
00:56:19,610 --> 00:56:20,110
No.

1652
00:56:20,434 --> 00:56:21,954
He he is he has been he has

1653
00:56:21,954 --> 00:56:24,034
been preaching a long time and has a

1654
00:56:24,034 --> 00:56:24,534
lot

1655
00:56:25,074 --> 00:56:25,574
of

1656
00:56:25,875 --> 00:56:26,375
insight.

1657
00:56:26,994 --> 00:56:28,994
Absolutely. He really does. And we've talked about

1658
00:56:28,994 --> 00:56:30,914
it before. We don't line up on on

1659
00:56:30,914 --> 00:56:31,815
some of the Calvinism,

1660
00:56:32,514 --> 00:56:35,329
type stuff. But but if you and that's

1661
00:56:35,329 --> 00:56:38,070
another thing too. You can listen to men

1662
00:56:38,450 --> 00:56:41,670
that you may not agree with a 110%

1663
00:56:42,050 --> 00:56:42,789
if you're

1664
00:56:43,570 --> 00:56:45,650
if you've grown enough in the word to

1665
00:56:45,650 --> 00:56:47,525
to say, okay. I can I you know,

1666
00:56:47,525 --> 00:56:49,764
I I mean, even commentaries, and we've talked

1667
00:56:49,764 --> 00:56:51,364
about some of these things we're talking about

1668
00:56:51,364 --> 00:56:53,605
tonight before, little bits and pieces here and

1669
00:56:53,605 --> 00:56:54,105
there?

1670
00:56:54,565 --> 00:56:56,984
Commentaries are great. I love Jay Vernon McGee.

1671
00:56:57,284 --> 00:56:59,364
Yeah. You know, I there I may run

1672
00:56:59,364 --> 00:57:01,280
across something to say. I don't know if

1673
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,039
I really look at that same way he

1674
00:57:03,039 --> 00:57:03,859
does exactly.

1675
00:57:04,159 --> 00:57:06,159
Not not that he's not, a whole lot

1676
00:57:06,159 --> 00:57:08,159
more brilliant than I am, but but, you

1677
00:57:08,159 --> 00:57:10,480
know, there's there's just those things sometimes that

1678
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,239
you don't have to line up with everything,

1679
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:12,739
but

1680
00:57:13,144 --> 00:57:15,065
but there's some brilliant men out there who

1681
00:57:15,065 --> 00:57:16,824
have broke the text down, who have who

1682
00:57:16,824 --> 00:57:18,444
have who have looked at it,

1683
00:57:18,984 --> 00:57:21,944
seven ways to Sunday and and and can

1684
00:57:21,944 --> 00:57:24,105
just bring light to it. The benefit of

1685
00:57:24,105 --> 00:57:25,464
living in 2025.

1686
00:57:25,464 --> 00:57:27,420
Right? We've got all these trustworthy preachers that

1687
00:57:27,420 --> 00:57:28,859
have come before. That's right. We can lean

1688
00:57:28,859 --> 00:57:30,619
on to understand it even better. That's right.

1689
00:57:30,619 --> 00:57:32,380
That's right. And and people in Mountain View

1690
00:57:32,380 --> 00:57:33,659
Baptist ought to be coming to you and

1691
00:57:33,659 --> 00:57:35,019
say, is there somebody I can listen to

1692
00:57:35,019 --> 00:57:36,400
through the week? Right? Absolutely.

1693
00:57:36,859 --> 00:57:38,864
Just to just to get fed more.

1694
00:57:39,505 --> 00:57:41,184
And and when you when you listen to

1695
00:57:41,184 --> 00:57:42,945
these people, when you listen to those guys,

1696
00:57:42,945 --> 00:57:44,324
when you when you hear the,

1697
00:57:44,945 --> 00:57:46,565
or when you read these commentaries

1698
00:57:47,105 --> 00:57:48,965
and and it and something says,

1699
00:57:49,505 --> 00:57:50,164
I don't

1700
00:57:50,465 --> 00:57:52,190
that that feels weird. I don't know if

1701
00:57:52,190 --> 00:57:53,730
that, you know, if I exactly

1702
00:57:54,190 --> 00:57:56,989
is that right? Yeah. Search that out. That's

1703
00:57:56,989 --> 00:57:58,829
right. Right? It may be right. So because

1704
00:57:58,829 --> 00:58:01,010
I know there's been a lot of times,

1705
00:58:01,309 --> 00:58:03,549
you know, growing up and and hearing things

1706
00:58:03,549 --> 00:58:05,744
preached one way or taught one way that

1707
00:58:05,905 --> 00:58:07,445
may not have necessarily

1708
00:58:07,744 --> 00:58:10,325
been exactly right. And and you hear it

1709
00:58:10,545 --> 00:58:12,465
and and see it and read it in

1710
00:58:12,465 --> 00:58:14,065
its context, and you go back to the

1711
00:58:14,065 --> 00:58:15,345
word of God, and you go back to

1712
00:58:15,345 --> 00:58:17,505
the, to the commentary, or you might read

1713
00:58:17,505 --> 00:58:19,265
two or three commentaries and get and put

1714
00:58:19,265 --> 00:58:21,139
it together and say, okay. Holy Spirit,

1715
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,199
show me what's real here. Yeah. And don't

1716
00:58:23,199 --> 00:58:25,679
just listen to anybody. Yes. Because, man, there's

1717
00:58:25,679 --> 00:58:28,000
some No. Garletons out there. Oh my goodness.

1718
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:29,679
That that'll just tears they'll take you in

1719
00:58:29,679 --> 00:58:31,199
the weeds, man. But They wait. But there's

1720
00:58:31,199 --> 00:58:33,715
some solid guys like J Vernon J Vernon

1721
00:58:33,715 --> 00:58:36,114
McGee, you said. Mhmm. And, John MacArthur is

1722
00:58:36,114 --> 00:58:38,275
one of them. Sure. Like Charles Stanley, the

1723
00:58:38,275 --> 00:58:39,315
late Charles Stanley.

1724
00:58:40,275 --> 00:58:42,195
Just all kinds of guys. Billy Graham, if

1725
00:58:42,195 --> 00:58:44,114
you just wanna hear the the the solid

1726
00:58:44,114 --> 00:58:46,019
gospel Oh, yeah. Buddy. He he just just

1727
00:58:46,019 --> 00:58:47,699
nailed it every week in, week out. Yeah.

1728
00:58:48,019 --> 00:58:49,940
I mean, I've got I've got some,

1729
00:58:50,500 --> 00:58:53,159
I've got some commentary from Dallas Theological Seminary,

1730
00:58:53,219 --> 00:58:55,059
and there's some things that I don't agree

1731
00:58:55,059 --> 00:58:56,900
with, but there's a lot of things that

1732
00:58:56,900 --> 00:58:58,820
are spot on on Yeah. You know, with

1733
00:58:58,820 --> 00:58:59,140
those

1734
00:58:59,699 --> 00:59:01,559
and and so, you know, just

1735
00:59:01,965 --> 00:59:04,204
just just fall in love with the word

1736
00:59:04,204 --> 00:59:06,704
of God Yeah. And and know that it's,

1737
00:59:07,244 --> 00:59:09,405
gosh, it's food for your soul. Yeah. It

1738
00:59:09,405 --> 00:59:12,525
is. It feeds you. Yeah. No. If you're

1739
00:59:12,525 --> 00:59:14,684
in this area, by the way, 88.9

1740
00:59:14,684 --> 00:59:16,190
out of Chattanooga. Yeah. Radio.

1741
00:59:16,489 --> 00:59:18,289
It's all that stuff. Those guys have Really?

1742
00:59:18,570 --> 00:59:19,150
Just a lot

1743
00:59:19,690 --> 00:59:22,170
of solid, solid teachers and and preachers, and

1744
00:59:22,170 --> 00:59:22,989
they are on

1745
00:59:23,289 --> 00:59:25,789
twenty four hours a day. They've got somebody.

1746
00:59:25,849 --> 00:59:28,010
When you start listening to somebody when you

1747
00:59:28,010 --> 00:59:29,355
listen to people like,

1748
00:59:29,914 --> 00:59:32,795
Jay Verne McGear, John MacArthur, or, you know,

1749
00:59:32,795 --> 00:59:34,795
and there's some some more modern day guys

1750
00:59:34,795 --> 00:59:36,894
that are great and they're brilliant too, but,

1751
00:59:38,715 --> 00:59:41,594
Jeff Laborgue, I love love listening to Jeff

1752
00:59:41,594 --> 00:59:43,275
Laborgue. He is so good at breaking down

1753
00:59:43,275 --> 00:59:44,175
the word and,

1754
00:59:44,780 --> 00:59:46,059
but there's a lot of guys out there

1755
00:59:46,059 --> 00:59:46,960
that'll sensationalize

1756
00:59:47,260 --> 00:59:49,019
the word too. Yeah. Oh, yes. And that's

1757
00:59:49,019 --> 00:59:51,199
what I think you're talking about. They you

1758
00:59:51,820 --> 00:59:53,179
you you you pick up these guys and

1759
00:59:53,179 --> 00:59:55,019
they start trying to make it something that

1760
00:59:55,019 --> 00:59:56,539
it's not or it has to be all

1761
00:59:56,539 --> 00:59:58,139
hyped up when it doesn't have to be

1762
00:59:58,139 --> 00:59:58,880
hyped up.

1763
00:59:59,304 --> 01:00:01,545
Be careful. I'm thinking I'm thinking big bands

1764
01:00:01,545 --> 01:00:04,445
and stages and lights and Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1765
01:00:04,505 --> 01:00:06,425
All the smoke and stuff, and some pretty

1766
01:00:06,425 --> 01:00:08,184
boy comes out in his pretty boy clothes.

1767
01:00:08,184 --> 01:00:10,744
Yeah. Yeah. Hardly quote scripture and talk for

1768
01:00:10,744 --> 01:00:12,480
thirty minutes. Right? And hey, if he if

1769
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,579
he's preaching the word of God, hey, whatever.

1770
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:16,239
That's fine. But if he's but if it's

1771
01:00:16,239 --> 01:00:18,320
if it's all about entertainment, if all all

1772
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:19,140
about sensationalism

1773
01:00:19,519 --> 01:00:20,000
Yeah.

1774
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,640
You better you better back I get really

1775
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:24,960
nervous and usually the key for me when

1776
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,434
I'm when I'm considering somebody to listen to

1777
01:00:27,914 --> 01:00:29,275
is how many times do they open the

1778
01:00:29,275 --> 01:00:29,775
scripture

1779
01:00:30,315 --> 01:00:32,494
in each of their whatever talks they're giving?

1780
01:00:32,555 --> 01:00:34,414
And if the answer is they open with

1781
01:00:34,635 --> 01:00:35,614
a verse

1782
01:00:36,715 --> 01:00:39,515
and never give anything else, they never reference

1783
01:00:39,515 --> 01:00:42,199
other verses, They never now I and I

1784
01:00:42,199 --> 01:00:44,679
understand sometimes you give a verse and then

1785
01:00:44,679 --> 01:00:46,440
everything after that, you're having to just reference

1786
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:48,199
and you're saying in this, in this, in

1787
01:00:48,199 --> 01:00:50,519
this. But you're making the references even if

1788
01:00:50,519 --> 01:00:51,719
you don't have time to go in and

1789
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:52,920
read them in order to get to all

1790
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:54,519
your people. Yeah. I'll be you have I

1791
01:00:54,519 --> 01:00:56,065
mean, we have time we have to control

1792
01:00:56,065 --> 01:00:58,505
our time sometimes. I'll be a 100% honest

1793
01:00:58,505 --> 01:01:01,565
with you. I there there has been in

1794
01:01:02,105 --> 01:01:04,424
in nineteen years of preaching, almost twenty years

1795
01:01:04,424 --> 01:01:05,005
of preaching,

1796
01:01:05,784 --> 01:01:08,344
there has been very few messages that I've

1797
01:01:08,344 --> 01:01:10,424
made out of one verse. Now there have

1798
01:01:10,424 --> 01:01:12,279
been a few. No. Right. But there have

1799
01:01:12,279 --> 01:01:14,539
been a few, but very seldom

1800
01:01:15,319 --> 01:01:17,239
am I able to just take one verse

1801
01:01:17,239 --> 01:01:18,219
because there's just

1802
01:01:18,679 --> 01:01:21,000
I'm I'm like, well, that's good, but now

1803
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:22,679
I gotta go back here and I gotta

1804
01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:23,639
go back here. Yeah. I gotta back it

1805
01:01:23,639 --> 01:01:25,239
up. You know, a reference to it. You

1806
01:01:25,239 --> 01:01:26,744
know? I mean, it's just like the first

1807
01:01:26,744 --> 01:01:27,244
Samuel,

1808
01:01:27,944 --> 01:01:28,844
message of

1809
01:01:29,224 --> 01:01:30,045
chapter seven.

1810
01:01:30,664 --> 01:01:32,105
I gotta give a little background of what

1811
01:01:32,105 --> 01:01:34,684
was going on up until chapter seven. Was

1812
01:01:34,744 --> 01:01:36,605
spreading the whole time. It did.

1813
01:01:37,224 --> 01:01:38,664
Yeah. He had he had to holler a

1814
01:01:38,664 --> 01:01:40,260
little bit. Yeah. We had to smell the

1815
01:01:40,260 --> 01:01:41,460
sound when someone went out. We had to

1816
01:01:41,460 --> 01:01:42,920
hang up and go out. So

1817
01:01:44,660 --> 01:01:47,059
but, you know In a Baptist don't know.

1818
01:01:47,059 --> 01:01:48,820
Yeah. Yeah. I did. But but I do.

1819
01:01:48,820 --> 01:01:51,320
I always tell people Apostal. I love

1820
01:01:51,780 --> 01:01:52,280
it.

1821
01:01:53,344 --> 01:01:54,944
I always tell people, though, I'm like, if

1822
01:01:54,944 --> 01:01:57,105
you're going to if you're wondering if you

1823
01:01:57,105 --> 01:01:58,625
should listen to somebody, if you're wondering if

1824
01:01:58,625 --> 01:02:00,704
you should should pay attention to what they're

1825
01:02:00,704 --> 01:02:02,324
saying, go and look.

1826
01:02:02,625 --> 01:02:05,424
Don't listen to necessarily what they say. Look

1827
01:02:05,424 --> 01:02:07,025
at how much of the scripture. And, again,

1828
01:02:07,025 --> 01:02:09,045
don't go based on one sermon.

1829
01:02:10,190 --> 01:02:12,510
Watch four or five sermons. Listen to four

1830
01:02:12,510 --> 01:02:14,670
or five. Better yet, get the transcript if

1831
01:02:14,670 --> 01:02:16,269
you've got it so you can read what

1832
01:02:16,269 --> 01:02:18,029
they said Yeah. Instead of just listening to

1833
01:02:18,029 --> 01:02:19,710
them because sometimes you'll hear what you wanna

1834
01:02:19,710 --> 01:02:21,069
hear. Oh, yeah. Kinda hard to do that

1835
01:02:21,069 --> 01:02:22,670
when you're reading it. Yeah. Yeah. Because when

1836
01:02:22,670 --> 01:02:23,894
you've got it actually laid out in front

1837
01:02:23,894 --> 01:02:25,295
of you as a transcript, you can go,

1838
01:02:25,295 --> 01:02:27,694
okay. Scripture reference here. Scripture reference here. Reference

1839
01:02:27,694 --> 01:02:28,914
reference reference reference.

1840
01:02:29,295 --> 01:02:30,114
And then

1841
01:02:30,414 --> 01:02:32,014
you can go back and say, okay. Let

1842
01:02:32,014 --> 01:02:34,014
me open up the scripture reference. Does it

1843
01:02:34,014 --> 01:02:36,414
say what they say it said? Yeah. And

1844
01:02:36,494 --> 01:02:38,789
okay. Well, maybe they're using a different translation.

1845
01:02:38,849 --> 01:02:41,109
Maybe it it comes across a little bit.

1846
01:02:41,170 --> 01:02:43,569
Okay. Fine. Go get two different translations and

1847
01:02:43,569 --> 01:02:45,409
compare it. Get your app out, man. Just

1848
01:02:45,489 --> 01:02:48,530
Yeah. Pop between them. So tell yourself fruit.

1849
01:02:48,530 --> 01:02:50,690
You will find out very quickly. And a

1850
01:02:50,690 --> 01:02:51,750
lot of these people,

1851
01:02:52,244 --> 01:02:54,404
the the Joel Osteins of the world, the

1852
01:02:54,404 --> 01:02:57,525
the, Motivational speakers. Yeah. They're they're very good

1853
01:02:57,525 --> 01:02:59,045
at motivating you, and they're very good at

1854
01:02:59,045 --> 01:03:01,284
making you feel good. What's the old guy's

1855
01:03:01,284 --> 01:03:03,284
name that's been on TV for a hundred

1856
01:03:03,284 --> 01:03:05,724
years? Benny Hinn. Oh, yeah. Benny Hinn. But

1857
01:03:05,764 --> 01:03:07,639
I was thinking of you got your,

1858
01:03:08,819 --> 01:03:10,099
I know who you're talking about. You know

1859
01:03:10,099 --> 01:03:11,539
exactly what I'm talking about. He's been around

1860
01:03:11,539 --> 01:03:14,019
for Kendall's been open. You know? And I

1861
01:03:14,019 --> 01:03:15,539
mean, he gets up there and he can

1862
01:03:15,539 --> 01:03:16,039
he

1863
01:03:16,339 --> 01:03:17,239
can absolutely

1864
01:03:18,579 --> 01:03:20,980
get a crowd going. Mhmm. You know? He

1865
01:03:20,980 --> 01:03:22,905
can really just get people just, oh, man.

1866
01:03:22,905 --> 01:03:24,265
They're fired up, and they're ready to go

1867
01:03:24,265 --> 01:03:25,545
out and take on hell with a water

1868
01:03:25,545 --> 01:03:26,744
pistol. It's like, do you even know what

1869
01:03:26,744 --> 01:03:28,824
you're doing, though? But, you know I mean,

1870
01:03:28,824 --> 01:03:30,585
they don't have a clue what what fighting

1871
01:03:30,744 --> 01:03:32,265
what taking a stand against Satan is. They

1872
01:03:32,265 --> 01:03:34,265
don't have a clue because he never actually

1873
01:03:34,265 --> 01:03:36,265
said, here's what we're standing against. He just

1874
01:03:36,265 --> 01:03:37,889
got them all excited over nothing. And I'm

1875
01:03:37,889 --> 01:03:40,530
like And their messages are Oh, shallow. Oh,

1876
01:03:40,530 --> 01:03:43,010
man. Oh, yeah. Shallow. God. I'll take over

1877
01:03:43,010 --> 01:03:45,730
what we're dropping names. Jesse Duplantis. Yeah. Yeah.

1878
01:03:45,730 --> 01:03:48,069
That's another one there. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

1879
01:03:48,849 --> 01:03:50,684
Yeah. Go out. And and I normally, I

1880
01:03:50,684 --> 01:03:51,805
don't want to throw,

1881
01:03:52,364 --> 01:03:54,525
pastor's names under the bus, you know, especially

1882
01:03:54,525 --> 01:03:56,445
because I like what you need to. But

1883
01:03:56,525 --> 01:03:58,385
Yeah. Yeah. But when they're when they're

1884
01:03:58,844 --> 01:03:59,985
when they're so

1885
01:04:00,285 --> 01:04:00,785
publicly

1886
01:04:01,244 --> 01:04:01,744
False.

1887
01:04:02,285 --> 01:04:05,049
Being false and punting against Christ and coming

1888
01:04:05,049 --> 01:04:06,569
against what Christ said to do and what

1889
01:04:06,569 --> 01:04:08,409
Christ said to this is how you need

1890
01:04:08,409 --> 01:04:09,609
to live and this is what you need

1891
01:04:09,609 --> 01:04:11,690
to do, and they're ripping people off. Mhmm.

1892
01:04:11,690 --> 01:04:12,889
At the end of the day, they're taking

1893
01:04:12,889 --> 01:04:14,889
money from from little old grannies that Yeah.

1894
01:04:14,969 --> 01:04:16,809
That can't afford it. And me your credit

1895
01:04:16,809 --> 01:04:19,449
card. Yeah. You know? Exactly. And it's like,

1896
01:04:19,449 --> 01:04:19,949
goodness.

1897
01:04:20,569 --> 01:04:22,144
So So when I when I call them

1898
01:04:22,144 --> 01:04:23,824
out, I'm not doing it because of anything,

1899
01:04:23,824 --> 01:04:25,585
any kinda hate or any kinda anger at

1900
01:04:25,585 --> 01:04:27,664
them. It's I I love them. Yeah. You

1901
01:04:27,664 --> 01:04:29,025
know, the thing the truth is I love

1902
01:04:29,025 --> 01:04:30,385
these guys, and I want them I would

1903
01:04:30,385 --> 01:04:32,144
love to see them come to Christ, and

1904
01:04:32,144 --> 01:04:33,585
I would love to see them get

1905
01:04:34,065 --> 01:04:35,980
if they are saved, get back where they

1906
01:04:35,980 --> 01:04:37,739
need to be and realize that's how I'm

1907
01:04:37,739 --> 01:04:39,180
that's not how I'm supposed to be living.

1908
01:04:39,180 --> 01:04:40,380
Yeah. I need to get back where I

1909
01:04:40,380 --> 01:04:42,140
need to be. Yeah. Yeah. But I I

1910
01:04:42,140 --> 01:04:43,900
suspect it's exactly what you said that they're

1911
01:04:43,980 --> 01:04:45,660
they have nothing of Christ in them because

1912
01:04:45,660 --> 01:04:47,594
I've not seen the fruits. Yeah. Something or,

1913
01:04:47,594 --> 01:04:49,934
you know, something bad has had to happen

1914
01:04:49,994 --> 01:04:52,155
along the way for them to if they're

1915
01:04:52,155 --> 01:04:52,655
saved,

1916
01:04:53,275 --> 01:04:55,195
for them to get that far down the

1917
01:04:55,195 --> 01:04:57,355
road and not have any conviction and not

1918
01:04:57,355 --> 01:04:59,614
come back and have a ministry that lasts,

1919
01:04:59,809 --> 01:05:01,889
you know, thirty years. I I don't know.

1920
01:05:01,889 --> 01:05:04,130
It's hard it's hard to say, but, you

1921
01:05:04,130 --> 01:05:06,789
know, I I can't see their hearts, but,

1922
01:05:07,730 --> 01:05:09,809
I I can hear their preaching. I I

1923
01:05:09,809 --> 01:05:11,090
can hear what they say. And I hear

1924
01:05:11,090 --> 01:05:12,530
what they Yeah. And the world hears it

1925
01:05:12,530 --> 01:05:13,554
too. You know, I don't know if I

1926
01:05:13,554 --> 01:05:15,155
told this on here or not before, but

1927
01:05:15,155 --> 01:05:16,434
but, when I was back when I was

1928
01:05:16,434 --> 01:05:18,215
traveling a lot for work, I was in

1929
01:05:18,594 --> 01:05:20,934
an airport next to Chicago Midway Airport

1930
01:05:21,315 --> 01:05:22,914
and it's not a good place to be

1931
01:05:22,914 --> 01:05:24,914
by the way. But it was like 04:00

1932
01:05:24,914 --> 01:05:26,195
in the morning. I was catching an early

1933
01:05:26,195 --> 01:05:27,875
morning flight out of there, and I'm standing

1934
01:05:27,875 --> 01:05:29,380
in the lobby waiting on the shuttle bus

1935
01:05:29,380 --> 01:05:31,539
to come. And and there's probably five or

1936
01:05:31,539 --> 01:05:33,300
six other people standing there waiting with me.

1937
01:05:33,300 --> 01:05:35,139
And on a television in the lobby of

1938
01:05:35,139 --> 01:05:35,880
that hotel,

1939
01:05:36,179 --> 01:05:38,579
they've got this this this guy. I don't

1940
01:05:38,579 --> 01:05:40,420
care. I wish I could remember his name,

1941
01:05:40,579 --> 01:05:42,805
but, he's on here talking about planting a

1942
01:05:42,805 --> 01:05:45,144
seed. Just give me a credit card number.

1943
01:05:45,285 --> 01:05:48,405
God will double he will press down, shaking,

1944
01:05:48,405 --> 01:05:50,325
and spilling over, you know. Oh, yeah. All

1945
01:05:50,325 --> 01:05:52,485
this stuff. And I'm sitting there just completely

1946
01:05:52,485 --> 01:05:55,170
embarrassed. Yeah. Yeah. This guy ain't saying nothing

1947
01:05:55,170 --> 01:05:57,329
about Jesus Christ. He ain't saying nothing about

1948
01:05:57,329 --> 01:05:59,170
the gospel. He Yeah. He ain't using his

1949
01:05:59,170 --> 01:06:00,849
Bible. He's just talking about give me some

1950
01:06:00,849 --> 01:06:03,489
money. Mhmm. And this is the word that

1951
01:06:03,489 --> 01:06:05,010
the world gets out of that. It is.

1952
01:06:05,010 --> 01:06:06,735
It is. Yeah. And and there's

1953
01:06:07,215 --> 01:06:09,535
so Jesus. There's so much shallowness in in

1954
01:06:09,695 --> 01:06:12,114
that that we seize on Facebook, you know,

1955
01:06:12,494 --> 01:06:15,135
share this, share that you love Jesus. If

1956
01:06:15,135 --> 01:06:17,775
you do share this, you know, or or

1957
01:06:17,775 --> 01:06:19,695
or and you're gonna be blessed, you know,

1958
01:06:19,695 --> 01:06:21,760
with a a big gift over the next

1959
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,920
ten days or something. Yeah. Some goofy like

1960
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:26,339
that. And people sharing it all the time.

1961
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:28,000
And I don't mean this ugly, but they

1962
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:29,839
share it out of ignorance. They mean well.

1963
01:06:29,839 --> 01:06:31,920
They think, hey. Okay. Yeah. You know, I

1964
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:33,914
I know God is good, and I know

1965
01:06:33,914 --> 01:06:35,594
he can bless me. So maybe if I

1966
01:06:35,594 --> 01:06:38,075
do share this, don't don't get into those

1967
01:06:38,075 --> 01:06:41,114
things. Yeah. Study to show yourself approved. Get

1968
01:06:41,114 --> 01:06:42,954
into the word of God. Look at the

1969
01:06:42,954 --> 01:06:45,855
truth of it. Know that that that your,

1970
01:06:47,989 --> 01:06:50,630
your riches are not here. Right? You're you're

1971
01:06:50,630 --> 01:06:51,130
you're

1972
01:06:51,429 --> 01:06:53,289
looking at something that is to come.

1973
01:06:53,909 --> 01:06:56,789
We are we are working for, we're not

1974
01:06:56,789 --> 01:06:58,809
working for our salvation, but we're,

1975
01:06:59,109 --> 01:07:01,510
we're we're we're putting things up in the

1976
01:07:01,510 --> 01:07:03,885
right place. Right? Yeah. Not we're not gathering

1977
01:07:03,885 --> 01:07:06,065
things that are gonna burn up one day,

1978
01:07:06,125 --> 01:07:08,204
but we're gathering riches that are gonna last

1979
01:07:08,204 --> 01:07:09,905
throughout eternity. Amen. Amen.

1980
01:07:10,284 --> 01:07:11,565
And and yeah. And and, you know, I

1981
01:07:11,565 --> 01:07:13,485
love that example from Facebook. If you see

1982
01:07:13,485 --> 01:07:14,465
those kind of things,

1983
01:07:15,485 --> 01:07:17,650
you know, honestly, just go out and just

1984
01:07:17,650 --> 01:07:19,890
post, I love Jesus. Yeah. Don't post the

1985
01:07:19,890 --> 01:07:21,250
rest of it. It says, do this and

1986
01:07:21,250 --> 01:07:22,690
you'll be blessed. What Yeah. You you really

1987
01:07:22,690 --> 01:07:24,289
want a blessing? Just go out and say,

1988
01:07:24,289 --> 01:07:26,050
I love Jesus. Yeah. That's all you gotta

1989
01:07:26,050 --> 01:07:27,409
say. That's all you gotta post. Yeah. And

1990
01:07:27,409 --> 01:07:28,769
you know what? It's not gonna get nearly

1991
01:07:28,769 --> 01:07:30,195
as many views. It's not gonna get nearly

1992
01:07:30,195 --> 01:07:31,954
as many people looking at it, but you're

1993
01:07:31,954 --> 01:07:33,875
not out there spreading the idea that, well,

1994
01:07:33,875 --> 01:07:36,035
if you do this one thing, God's gonna

1995
01:07:36,035 --> 01:07:37,894
bless you. Yeah. Yeah. Because

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01:07:38,675 --> 01:07:40,595
it just it may it breaks my heart.

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01:07:40,595 --> 01:07:42,835
That that's the honest truth. It breaks my

1998
01:07:42,835 --> 01:07:44,355
heart when I see these people doing this.

1999
01:07:44,355 --> 01:07:46,029
And I I one of the guys I

2000
01:07:46,029 --> 01:07:48,769
watch on, you know, YouTube a lot, he's

2001
01:07:49,230 --> 01:07:51,150
recently been going in and he's talking to,

2002
01:07:51,150 --> 01:07:53,230
like, people that have been involved with this

2003
01:07:53,230 --> 01:07:55,069
stuff for many, many years and have finally

2004
01:07:55,069 --> 01:07:55,889
started realizing,

2005
01:07:56,349 --> 01:07:57,630
hey, I don't need to be involved with

2006
01:07:57,630 --> 01:07:59,224
this. This is bad. Yeah. And he's talking

2007
01:07:59,224 --> 01:08:00,425
to some people that are coming out of

2008
01:08:00,425 --> 01:08:01,244
these these,

2009
01:08:02,025 --> 01:08:03,644
pseudo Christian cults.

2010
01:08:04,344 --> 01:08:06,184
And he's he's been sitting down with them,

2011
01:08:06,184 --> 01:08:08,105
and and one day he said, y'all he

2012
01:08:08,105 --> 01:08:10,184
said, I'm not doing this because I want

2013
01:08:10,184 --> 01:08:12,184
anything to come down on these people because

2014
01:08:12,184 --> 01:08:14,019
I'm trying to come come out and fight

2015
01:08:14,019 --> 01:08:15,960
these people or anything like that. He said,

2016
01:08:16,260 --> 01:08:18,359
it's just breaking my heart to watch people

2017
01:08:18,819 --> 01:08:20,659
abuse the word of god this way, and

2018
01:08:20,659 --> 01:08:22,340
it's breaking my heart to know that these

2019
01:08:22,340 --> 01:08:25,139
people Yeah. Are abusing what Christ gave us

2020
01:08:25,139 --> 01:08:27,114
and the freedom he gave us. Yeah. He

2021
01:08:27,114 --> 01:08:28,954
said, we're free. We we don't have any

2022
01:08:28,954 --> 01:08:30,715
chains on us anymore. That's what the message

2023
01:08:30,715 --> 01:08:32,715
we should be telling people not. That's right.

2024
01:08:32,715 --> 01:08:34,574
Pain yourself a different way.

2025
01:08:35,034 --> 01:08:36,795
And and when he said that, I thought,

2026
01:08:36,795 --> 01:08:38,434
man, that that that's exactly it. It's just

2027
01:08:38,554 --> 01:08:40,600
it breaks my heart. So when you see

2028
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:42,920
those things, do the chase the scripture down.

2029
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:44,680
Do the references. See if what they say

2030
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:45,340
is true.

2031
01:08:46,039 --> 01:08:47,640
And I will say this, there was a

2032
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:49,020
local church around here,

2033
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:51,960
and I won't call their name because, their

2034
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:53,479
heart's in the right place, and they I

2035
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:55,555
know because I had a conversation with them.

2036
01:08:55,555 --> 01:08:57,074
They really and truly didn't mean anything of

2037
01:08:57,074 --> 01:08:57,574
it.

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01:08:57,954 --> 01:09:00,695
Every single time they took up the offering,

2039
01:09:00,755 --> 01:09:01,574
every Sunday,

2040
01:09:01,954 --> 01:09:03,175
prove me now in this.

2041
01:09:03,875 --> 01:09:05,555
If you'll just give, you know, and and

2042
01:09:05,555 --> 01:09:07,170
there is. There's scripture that says prove god.

2043
01:09:07,170 --> 01:09:08,689
You know, give your tithings to god, and

2044
01:09:08,689 --> 01:09:09,890
he will he will take care of you

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from there. You know, there's scripture that says

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that. And but they said it every single

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Sunday. As soon as they started passing that

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off and played around, I'm like, y'all

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no. No. No. No. Yeah. No. No. No.

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No. Because let me tell you something. There's

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some old lady sitting out here that's got

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just enough money to pay her bills, and

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she's about to drop it in that offering

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plate because you told her god's gonna take

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care of it.

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What happens when god intended for her to

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use her common sense and go home and

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pay them bills? Right. And then next time

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she has some money coming here and give

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it to you, what happens then? Are y'all

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gonna go take care of it? Well, of

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course not. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, guys,

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don't don't don't you gotta be careful about

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that.

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And you prayerfully

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prayerfully

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give, but realize that it's not on us

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to convince people to give, and it's not

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on us to convince people to do that.

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So chase the scripture down, read what it

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says,

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read it in context,

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study it, study it, study it, study it,

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study it, study it. When you see these

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things on TV, on the radio, hear it

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01:10:05,319 --> 01:10:06,779
on the radio, you see it online.

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I promise,

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a very, very large percentage of these people

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01:10:12,039 --> 01:10:13,899
have put it on Facebook or YouTube

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and there's a transcript.

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Now you may have a little trouble getting

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01:10:17,295 --> 01:10:19,135
to it, but there's a transcript there somewhere

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that you can download and you can go

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01:10:20,574 --> 01:10:22,255
look at and read what they said so

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you can wrap your head around it. Yeah.

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And that brings us, I think, pretty much

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done for tonight.

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And we really appreciate everybody joining us. We

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really appreciate, everybody listening. I know some people

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will listen tomorrow morning, and we do appreciate

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that as well.

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And we are definitely praying for God to

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move this week and to go out and

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01:10:40,639 --> 01:10:42,099
to to just

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01:10:42,454 --> 01:10:44,135
keep this fire going and keep it keep

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01:10:44,135 --> 01:10:45,114
it going and

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01:10:46,135 --> 01:10:47,914
and bring people to him

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through through that prayerful study and that prayerful

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01:10:50,694 --> 01:10:52,534
time with him. I mean Amen. You know,

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if all you get if all you have

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01:10:54,215 --> 01:10:56,055
time for every day is ten minutes, sit

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down and take it. Yeah. He'll use it.

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01:10:58,050 --> 01:11:01,329
Yep. Brother Dennis, will you dismiss us tonight?

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Yep. Father, thank you. Thank you for this

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time we've had with these brothers. Father, I

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pray your blessings on each of them.

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Father, bless the work of their hands.

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Give them wisdom. Father, bless their families and

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their homes.

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Father, thank you for everyone listening tonight. Father,

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I pray that something we've said has has

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hit a heart in a certain way, in

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a way that only your Holy Spirit can

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01:11:22,015 --> 01:11:22,515
hit.

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Father, I thank you for your word. It's

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01:11:24,975 --> 01:11:27,229
something we cherish that we take for granted

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01:11:27,229 --> 01:11:29,150
all too often and forgive us for that,

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01:11:29,150 --> 01:11:31,789
Lord, that we don't take it, seriously enough

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sometimes.

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But we know, father, that that

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01:11:35,229 --> 01:11:36,590
at at your heart, you love us and

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01:11:36,590 --> 01:11:38,350
you want a relationship with us. And this

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01:11:38,350 --> 01:11:40,030
is the way we can hear you and

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01:11:40,030 --> 01:11:41,654
we have to be able to hear you

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01:11:41,895 --> 01:11:43,274
in order to know you.

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01:11:43,654 --> 01:11:45,414
Father, help us to hear you more, and

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01:11:45,414 --> 01:11:47,255
give us a hunger and thirst for it.

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In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen.

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Special thank you to Carter Pridmore,

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01:11:58,390 --> 01:12:00,489
Brian Harris, Waverly Henderson,

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01:12:00,869 --> 01:12:03,989
Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Partain for our

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theme song, Truth Set Me Free.

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I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

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We hope you can join us live next

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Monday at 6PM central.

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Thank you for listening.