WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to the Bible guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:07.559 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:13.359 Hey, good morning everybody. We're the Bible guys. 5 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:14.599 Yes, yes we are. 6 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:17.679 Yes, that is who we are. And today we're going 7 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:19.640 to start out with a segment. Oh. 8 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:21.480 I thought I was going to be listening to an 9 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:22.519 episode of This Old. 10 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:25.519 House, right, but it actually says you're listening to the 11 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:28.079 Bibble to the Bible guys. That's right, a podcast where 12 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:30.600 a couple of friends talk about the Bible and fun 13 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:36.679 and practical ways. So anyway, Desiree put together a segment 14 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:37.600 called Stump the. 15 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:38.799 Pastor and Dump the Pastor. 16 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:39.439 These are fun. 17 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:40.280 These are fun. 18 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:41.280 Man, you like stump the Pastors? 19 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:42.520 I do. I like it a lot. 20 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.200 I think that people probably wish for more of them, 21 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:46.240 depending on the question. 22 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.159 So the day that we're shooting this episode, I'm with 23 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:51.640 our Young Adults Ministry. 24 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:51.880 Yeah. 25 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:55.640 Yeah, and a big part of the event tonight we're cooking. 26 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:57.880 Yeah, they're going to do questions. 27 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.479 But it's open form Q and A. It's literally you 28 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.280 can ask any question, right, Yeah. Do you like that? 29 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:04.319 Do you like the open forum? 30 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:05.640 I think it's great. 31 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:09.120 I think that there are times where somebody will ask 32 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:13.040 you a question that requires a very long answer, and 33 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:13.760 and it's usual. 34 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:17.519 You don't like long answers. I like long answers. 35 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:24.840 I just think that, like sometimes the questions, the multitude 36 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:28.159 of questions is what's interesting to me, not necessary, not 37 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:32.640 necessarily a twenty minute answer to one question that ten 38 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.120 percent of the room is interested, That's all I was 39 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:34.719 trying to say. 40 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:36.159 So when they ask questions that. 41 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:39.640 Require a really long discussion, I'm like, oh, I would 42 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:41.840 have preferred to have ten more other questions. 43 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:43.359 Oh yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, I like 44 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:45.400 the long ones because I think one of the arguments 45 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:48.640 is a lot of times, you know, for people who 46 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:51.920 struggle with the church or struggle with faith, they'll say, well, 47 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:53.480 you know, I used to go to church, and then 48 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:55.760 when I had questions, they were like, just believe it 49 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:56.599 because it's in the Bible. 50 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:57.519 Yeah. 51 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.840 Right, Well that's not a bad answer, or it's not 52 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:03.319 a wrong answer, it's just a bad answer, right. So 53 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:05.359 I love it when when we can just go, okay, 54 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:06.879 there's a reason less you're going to ask a question 55 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:08.120 to take a long time. You guys want to take 56 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:08.919 a long time on this one. 57 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.439 Yes, okay, And so what I do, what I've what 58 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:13.520 I've done, I've only done it once actually, But what 59 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:15.439 I've what I've done is I've been in those situations 60 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:19.400 where I've said, hey, uh, I probably assume there's about 61 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:21.560 ten people in this crowd that are interested in this answer. 62 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:23.680 I was like, so, after we're done and we dismiss, 63 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:25.719 I'm gonna be right over here in this corner. I'll 64 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:27.759 give the long answer to the to anybody who wants 65 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.080 to listen, because they want to waste the crowds time. 66 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:32.360 So and it turns out there was like five people 67 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:35.120 and they were riveted, you know, by the answer. But 68 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:36.319 I just didn't feel like, you know. 69 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:36.879 Not me. 70 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:39.719 Everybody's getting it. Everybody's getting it's open for him. 71 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:40.479 Yeah, that's right. 72 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.840 And by the way, that's how you manage and control 73 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.919 open form. Yes, that's rights wax ally coin on this stuff. 74 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:48.680 That's not going to get you eaten alive. 75 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:49.560 That's true. 76 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:52.680 Okay. So anyways, here we go stump the pastor. 77 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.520 Yep, this is this is from Tim R. 78 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:55.199 Hi Tim R. 79 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:57.800 Yes, and he wrote in a question her you can 80 00:02:58.039 --> 00:02:59.400 Tim Nope, it's Tim R. 81 00:02:59.520 --> 00:02:59.879 Kim R. 82 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:01.319 Timmy Tim. 83 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:06.319 Uh hey, he actually wrote in uh something that anybody 84 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:07.919 can write in and you you want to, you want 85 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.879 to email us email us at info at the Bible 86 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:13.080 guys dot com with any of your questions and we 87 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.439 might use them in the future episode. Tim writes this, 88 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:20.719 if big extravagant miracles were regular occurrence in the early church, 89 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:25.120 why don't we see them as frequently as today or 90 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:26.000 frequently today? 91 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:27.719 Well, God fell asleep. 92 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:29.560 God is in the restroom. 93 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:30.439 He's not paying attention. 94 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.000 That's what That's what Elija said. 95 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.520 That's what I just said that when he was haunting 96 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.680 the prophets of Ail. 97 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:38.719 Is God in the restroom? Uh. 98 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:42.599 That's a great question, Tim, because we do see miracles 99 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.560 today for sure. But the big extravagant miracles is what 100 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:48.800 he said, right, which is take up your bed and 101 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:50.199 walk kind of miracles. Right. 102 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:53.439 Uh. You know your daughter's not dead, she's only sleeping, 103 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:54.159 that's right. Right. 104 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:59.120 So, so so where are they today? So I got 105 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:03.560 to tell you something. It's an interesting thing for me. Uh. 106 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.520 You and I both just went to a conference by 107 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:11.120 the Timothy Initiative in Florida, and it's interesting to me 108 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:12.360 how you. 109 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:15.120 Which is a church planting movement all around the world. Yes, 110 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:17.839 in the least reached people groups around the world. 111 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:20.800 Yes, and and and and I have a tendency to 112 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:24.240 be around some of those things. And you always hear 113 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:28.480 of extravagant miracles around the world. So you always hear 114 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:32.720 of like, for instance, when we were there, Uh, these 115 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:36.240 people who I believe in and know personally and trust 116 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.720 stand up there. And there was this one one Indian 117 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:44.959 pastor who shared a story Reggie about a guy who 118 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.680 became a Christian but he couldn't read and uh and 119 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:52.279 he and he prayed that God would uh uh you know, 120 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.319 give him the ability to read and uh and he 121 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.839 prayed for a long time, and everybody knew in the 122 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.079 village that he number one one grew up not being 123 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:03.680 able to read. And number two, they also knew that 124 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:06.120 he had been praying this prayer and he was praying 125 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:10.759 this audacious, radical prayer of he just wanted God to 126 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:12.079 give him this ability to read. 127 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:14.439 And they actually have it on video. 128 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.079 They showed it on video where he actually picked up 129 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:20.240 the Bible and one day just started reading. 130 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:22.879 Yeah, but only the Bible, but only the Bible. 131 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:25.639 Can't read anything else, can't read a newspaper, can't read 132 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.839 anything else, and this and this Indian pastor, Reggie, was 133 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:30.920 just you know, shouting this thing. 134 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:31.319 And then. 135 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:34.839 And then and all of a sudden he shows this 136 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:36.560 video and this. You know, here's this guy sitting in 137 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:39.639 this plastic chair in this dusty old room and he's 138 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:44.279 reading this Bible. And then all of a sudden, ninety 139 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.680 eight percent of the village became Christians because of the miracle, 140 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:49.879 the extravagant miracle. 141 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:50.360 That God did. 142 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:53.680 And so you and I hear of these miracles, and 143 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:56.279 so as being a skeptic, and I don't think people 144 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:59.800 truly understand the word skeptic because when I say I'm 145 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:03.600 ask people think, oh, okay, yeah, I have my doubts too, 146 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:04.040 And I'm. 147 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:05.199 Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 148 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:08.000 No, that's not what a skeptic is. A skeptic is 149 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:13.079 I don't believe you. I flat out do not believe 150 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.879 that sentence. That is what a skeptic is. Until you 151 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:20.079 prove to me that that is true. I don't believe it. 152 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:24.839 And so, because I'm a skeptic at heart, there's always 153 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.920 something in me that goes come on right. It's not 154 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:31.040 that I doubt God in fact, ironically, when I take 155 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.120 my spiritual gift test, you know what, My number one 156 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:34.240 spiritual gift is faith. 157 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:34.720 Faith. 158 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:37.920 So it's like it's like it's like I'm a skeptic. 159 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:40.439 God made me a you know why am I a 160 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:42.519 skeptic God? But at the same time, I have faith. 161 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.680 So when it comes to me serving God, faith is 162 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:47.399 just it comes to the surface immediately. 163 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:50.199 But when it comes to you. 164 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:52.720 Know, hearing other people around the world going I just 165 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:53.519 started to read, I. 166 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.800 Go, come on, And I don't know why I'm that way, 167 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:56.519 but I sure am. 168 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:57.879 Well you saw the video of that one. 169 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:59.680 Well not only that, but here's the thing you have 170 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:04.439 to have to ask yourself, do I believe that this 171 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:06.120 person is trying to lie? 172 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:08.920 And what do they have to gain to lie? And 173 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:10.720 and you know, and. 174 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:14.279 Here are they creating a lie? Where here's this man 175 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.639 who just becomes a Christian. He's known throughout the village 176 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:17.800 of not being able to read, and then all of 177 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:20.600 a sudden I see him reading. It's like he would 178 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:24.160 have to have a lifetime, quite literally, a lifetime of 179 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:27.439 pulling that prank, right, And so then you're just sort 180 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:29.360 of forced to look at the evidence to go it 181 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.800 is a miracle, and it's an extravagant one, and it 182 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:32.879 happens around the world. 183 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:36.199 So I had a professor who was a missionary. He 184 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.920 was in his eighties, in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety, 185 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:41.439 he was in his late eighties. So he was a 186 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:45.319 missionary in those explorer missionary times. Yes, in the twenties 187 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:46.959 and thirties. Right, Yeah, it's really really. 188 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:49.680 Where the missionary gave up their lives and talked to cannibals. 189 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:52.360 Well back when you got on a boat, right and 190 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.360 went to where you were going, right, that's where. And 191 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:57.759 he always was in places where there had never been 192 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.439 the gospel. And so somebody, a student asked the same 193 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.240 question in one of the classes. 194 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.120 So the same question, we're the same same. 195 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:07.199 Question tim is asking here, right, And that is I 196 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.199 read the Book of Acts. It's miracles all the time. Which, 197 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:12.759 by the way, there's about sixteen or seventeen miracles depending 198 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.560 on how you count them, maybe twenty miracles in the 199 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:21.079 twenty six chapters of the Book of Acts. So they're 200 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.879 recorded because they're so out of the ordinary, just to 201 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:28.079 point that out, by the way. But anyways, doctor Champlain said, 202 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:31.040 so when the student said, you know, why don't we 203 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:34.919 see miracles today? He said, Oh, where the Gospel is 204 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.080 moving for the first time, it's still always only miracles. 205 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:43.919 That's what's happening all the time. He said, if you're 206 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.120 living a life that needs miracles, God will give you miracles. Right. 207 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:51.480 But what you think is you're asking for miracles to 208 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:54.360 make your personal life better. But God, if you read 209 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:57.039 the Bible, miracles are always happening on the front lines 210 00:08:57.080 --> 00:08:59.039 of where the Gospel is moving. So if you need 211 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:00.879 miracles and want miracle in your life, you need to 212 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:02.559 be on the front line of the move of the Gospel. 213 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:05.879 So God's agenda for miracles is to further his word 214 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:07.960 so that people would not go to hell and go 215 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:08.320 to Heaven. 216 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:10.320 That's right, Yeah, that's right. And so that that's the 217 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.600 story Reggie told, or bekaylay Shenko told the same story. Right, 218 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:17.159 he's the vice president of a similar story. He's vice 219 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:19.240 president of the crew in charge of church planting around 220 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:22.200 the world. And it's the story of his father who 221 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:25.720 I mean Bekaylay and his father served the witch doctor, 222 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.919 most powerful witch doctor in Ethiopia and on top of 223 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.919 the mountain's that's what they did. And then Bekaylay's father 224 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:34.440 became a Christian, began to beg God to teach him 225 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:36.799 how to read because he couldn't read. And then God 226 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:40.200 miraculously gave an ability to read. And now in their 227 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:42.559 tribe of over a million people, ninety eight percent of 228 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.600 the people are Christians, over a million, over a million, 229 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:49.360 that's yeah. Yeah, they're building the largest cross in Africa 230 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:52.159 on the mountain where that witch doctor. 231 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:54.559 Used to be Wowah used to be. 232 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:57.440 You know, called down lightning from the sky. It was 233 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.200 pretty pretty incredible, right, So it's neat stuff. Well, there's 234 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.799 lots of those. I mean, I've heard of people, you know, 235 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.919 being given their sight back. I've known of people that 236 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.600 were completely unable to walk that God restored their strength 237 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.440 in order to be able to get to the next village. 238 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:14.720 And I've seen people that it just so many stories. 239 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.799 I've heard so many stories and I met so many 240 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:20.480 people where it was the first move of the gospel 241 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:22.480 in that village or the first move of the Gospel 242 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:28.039 in that tribe. And God did miraculous things. So God 243 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.960 does miracles for his purposes, and what we want is 244 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.279 God to do miracles for our purposes. Well, when you 245 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.039 align your purpose. In God's purpose, you'll see miracles. But 246 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.480 when it's your purpose apart from God's purpose, well you 247 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.159 may or may not, because God's going to say, I 248 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.279 gave you my word, and I gave you the wisdom 249 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:48.120 of the word. You know, yeah, work it out well. 250 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:51.679 When I traveled in Africa and I went to with 251 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.320 Julius Morgre and we went up to the regions of 252 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.240 the Pocot and he wanted me to preach under this 253 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:59.799 tree this tree church, and the pastor Solomon I met. 254 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:01.720 Sulomon said, hey, by the way, these men are going 255 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.120 to heckle you, and remember this story, and anyway, I'm 256 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:06.279 not going to retell the whole story. 257 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.039 But the men came to Christ that day, which was amazing. 258 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:10.960 But when he said they're going. 259 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:14.840 To heckle you, he told me the backstory, and he 260 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.000 told it as if it were just an average every 261 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.759 day Tuesday, he said, yeah, he said, they came out 262 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:22.919 tried to kill me. I was injured to where I 263 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:25.639 couldn't even move to go to the hospital, and we 264 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:28.360 were in the tent and these men who left me 265 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:30.519 to die under this tree, thought I was dead. But 266 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:32.360 the women rescued me, dragged me back to the tent, 267 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:34.759 and they did so because he was bringing the gospel 268 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:37.240 to that village, that's what he was doing. And so 269 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:39.279 then all of a sudden, the men came into the 270 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.559 tent where he was being protected by the women. 271 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:42.480 And the men. 272 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:46.039 The elders of that village laid down offerings of sugar 273 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.360 bags of sugar, and said, we feel as if we 274 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:54.159 have angered your God, because God miraculously caused all of 275 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:57.960 our sheep to go blind. And so all of the 276 00:11:58.039 --> 00:11:59.080 sheep imagine. 277 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.840 You know me there are village right, there's one hundreds, 278 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:03.559 especially among the pocuts, because that's what they are, is 279 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:04.159 they're herders. 280 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:06.960 Yes, yeah, yeah, So he said, all of our sheep 281 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.399 went blind. They're all blind. Think about that. And he 282 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:13.320 goes and so he goes, and this happened right after we, 283 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.200 you know, tried to kill you. And they said, so 284 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:19.799 we bring this offering of sugar to you, uh, and 285 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.039 and that we want you to accept and forgive us. 286 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.759 And he said, I'll forgive you on one condition that 287 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:29.159 that I am able to uh plant a church here, 288 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.440 and that I have a tree. I have a church 289 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:35.639 underneath the tree that you left me under that that 290 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:37.879 that that you want to kill me, and and they said, 291 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:40.080 we have to talk about this, and they left. They 292 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.240 went back, had a meeting, came back and said, okay, 293 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:44.639 we'll let you have church under one condition, as long 294 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:47.399 as the men attend and we're able to navigate and 295 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.039 monitor everything that you're saying to our to our village, 296 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:50.519 to our women. 297 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.679 And he's like, uh so, then, so the condition is 298 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:55.879 you attend the church. 299 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.000 He's like done, And he said then, and then here's 300 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.639 the best part. And he says, and then right after that, 301 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:05.399 all the sheep were going to regain their sight. 302 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:08.799 Now come on, now, he told me this. I was there. 303 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:11.399 I was literally spoken the church there. 304 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:12.440 I spoke in the church. 305 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:15.960 And then when I spoke, all I said was is 306 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.759 that the Gospel is not proven with just words, It's 307 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:22.080 proven with sacrifice. And I talked about how Julius Morgart 308 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.480 sacrifice his life. I talked about how our team was 309 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:26.799 there to figure out how to get them water, which 310 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:29.080 means that love is proved not with action or not 311 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:30.240 with words, but just action. 312 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.600 And then I used Pastor Solomon as an example. 313 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:36.320 Right, you know, he says he loves you, but guess 314 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:37.759 what he does because of these actions. 315 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:39.519 And then I used the cross. 316 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:42.799 Right, and then Jesus love does and then all of 317 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:44.519 a sudden the men came up and they all turned 318 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:45.120 their lives over. 319 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.159 And here I am lucky enough to, you. 320 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:51.120 Know, reap the harvest of all the watering that Solomon did, right, 321 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:52.919 and then all of a sudden they all come to 322 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:58.080 Christ underneath that tree, and I'm just like, this is miraculous. 323 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:00.399 And I guess I ended up did telling the whole story, 324 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:03.879 just not in great detail. But so the only part 325 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:06.559 that I left out was before every church service, they 326 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:10.039 all had tea, and Solomon would walk around with that 327 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:10.399 bag of. 328 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.519 Sugar, sugar and spread, and he would. 329 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.679 Put it in everybody's tea and he'd say, the sweet 330 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:17.320 forgiveness of God, the sweet forgiveness of God. 331 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:18.960 That's powerful. 332 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:20.000 Makes me want to cry. 333 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.279 So those kind of miracles happen all the time, every 334 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:25.679 day at the cutting edge of where the gospel is spreading. 335 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:27.679 So you want more miracles in the life, get a 336 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:30.039 part of that, right, And we have the benefit of 337 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.480 being a part of that. God does other miracles. I mean, 338 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:35.200 I've prayed over people that the doctors said there's no 339 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.080 hope he's going to die this afternoon. That one of 340 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:40.000 the guys. He's on our safety team, And this was 341 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:42.600 ten years ago, right, and he's up and walking around, 342 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:44.200 And I don't think this guy's ever going to die. 343 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:46.799 It seems like he just it's like the energizer bunny. Now. 344 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:50.200 So I've been around lots of really incredible miracles. We 345 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:52.279 played prayed for a tornado one time, and God gave 346 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.879 us a tornado seven days later tore down a building 347 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:57.759 we needed torn down. Oh that's right, right, that's a 348 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:01.000 whole other story. I've been around incredible miracles that God does. 349 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:04.519 Those are are few and far between, but they're always 350 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.759 in alignment with His purposes, not just with our appetites 351 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:09.919 or what we want. Right, and so that would be 352 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.440 it so great question, Tim. Let me encourage you to 353 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.759 get involved with organizations and things and places that where 354 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:18.399 miracles are happening. That's that's what you want to be 355 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:22.120 part of, yep, because that's where God's working. Instead of 356 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:24.559 asking God to work in me, I want to work 357 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.120 on what God's doing. Yeah, right, that's what I want. 358 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:29.919 Well, we took extra time for that, but now we're 359 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:31.960 going to launch End of Proverbs chapter thirteen. 360 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:35.720 This is good. Yeah, so the reason why we took 361 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.519 time on that one is because this is more of 362 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.879 the same, and you're going to notice the same themes. 363 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:42.919 Yeah, in these right that that was a fantastic stump 364 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:43.200 the past. 365 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:44.200 Your corredulous question. 366 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:45.000 Here you go. 367 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:49.039 A wise child accept us, accepts a parent's discipline. A 368 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.919 mocker refuses to listen to correction. Wise words will win 369 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.399 you a good meal, but treacherous people have an appetite 370 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:58.279 for violence. Those who control their tongue will have a 371 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:03.279 long life. Opening your mind mouth can ruin everything. That's 372 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:08.639 a good that's good marriage counseling, right there. Yeah, lazy 373 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.159 people want much but get little, but those who work 374 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:15.120 hard will prosper. That verse three, those who control their 375 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:16.679 tongue will have a long life. Opening your mouth can 376 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:22.399 ruin everything. These genes make my yeah, make me look fat. 377 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:29.679 Yeah right right, well, actually, yes, right right, so funny. Anyways, 378 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.399 I'm sorry, that's how my brain works. Lazy people want 379 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:36.039 much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper. 380 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:39.639 There's that hard work theme again. The godly hate lies man. 381 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.080 There's his honesty theme again. The wicked cause shame and disgrace. 382 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:46.759 Godliness guards the path of the blameless, but the evil 383 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:50.159 are misled by sin. Some who are poor pretend to 384 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.559 be rich, Others who are rich pretend to be poor. 385 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:55.360 The rich can pay a ransom for their lives, but 386 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.720 the poor won't even get threatened. The life of the 387 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:00.799 godly is full of light and joy, but the light 388 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:04.640 of the wicked will be snuffed out. Pride leads to conflict. 389 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:10.000 Those who take advice are wise. Wealth from get rich 390 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:14.440 quick schemes quickly disappears. Wealth from hard work grows over time. 391 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:19.000 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled 392 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.400 is a tree of life. People who despise advice are 393 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:25.480 asking for trouble. Those who respect the command will succeed. 394 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:28.640 The instruction of the wise is like a life giving fountain, 395 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:31.279 and those who accept it avoid the snares of death. 396 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:35.000 A person with good sense is respected, a treacherous person 397 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:38.720 is headed for destruction. Wise people think before they act. 398 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:43.160 Fools don't even brag about their foolishness. An unreliable messenger 399 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:47.000 stumbles into trouble, but a reliable messenger brings healing. If 400 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.680 you ignore criticism, you'll end in poverty and disgrace. If 401 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.640