WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:13.039 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:13.720 Good to be back. 5 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:16.440 Thanks for tuning in. It's it's you know what, Jeff 6 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:18.879 tuning in. I don't want to be here today, you don't. 7 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:21.920 I'm just kidding. Remember said that it's good to be here? 8 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:26.480 Yeah, like I don't want to be here A news flash. 9 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:28.719 That was only like thirty minutes ago. Forty minutes ago. 10 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:32.600 Well, yeah for us. Actually no, it's longer than that. Yeah, 11 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:35.039 but no, no, for real, it is always good to 12 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:37.240 be here with you. Thanks for tuning in, And if 13 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.520 it's your first time, hopefully you'll be able to go 14 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:42.679 back and watch what eight hundred episodes? 15 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.439 Everybody makes bad choices if this is your first time. 16 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.920 That's right, that's right. Wait wait wait too long? Yeah exactly, 17 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:51.679 But hopefully we have a lot more in the future. Absolutely, 18 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:53.520 Bible Guys are going away anytime soon. 19 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:55.600 You right. We have almost a thousand episodes. 20 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.039 Yeah, so that'd be pretty cool. Yeah, go back and 21 00:00:58.039 --> 00:00:58.520 watch them all. 22 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:01.119 Yeah, can you imagine? Men? I wonder how many people 23 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:02.840 just are binging the Bible Guys right now. 24 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:07.159 Yeah, they ain't get enough of that. Forget Stranger Things, 25 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:09.719 right it's the Bible Guys. 26 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:11.400 Listening to nine and some odd episodes of The Bible Guys. 27 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.200 That's funny. Hey, well, today we are actually going to 28 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.599 dive into a new beatitude in our series about Beatitudes. 29 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.000 But before we do, Desiree wants us to play the 30 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:24.280 very classic would you rather? 31 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:25.359 These are so much fun? 32 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:28.840 They are? Okay, I like it because we get to decide. 33 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:30.799 It's sort of like I get to know you, like 34 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:34.200 which one would Christian Jeff rather do? Right? So people 35 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:38.120 know you getting to know all about you or something 36 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:38.359 like that. 37 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:42.480 Yeah, okay, So I'm particularly excited about the first one 38 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:44.359 because I'm not sure if they could peg you on 39 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:48.480 this one. Okay, would you rather rock a mullet or 40 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:50.439 a perm? Yeah? 41 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:51.920 I think I know the answer to that. 42 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:54.640 All through the eighties, which one did you want? Did 43 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:56.519 you want the did you want the perm or did 44 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:57.319 you want the mullet. 45 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:00.519 Let's be clear, in the eighties I had a oh 46 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.599 did you have a mullet? Not strong, but it was 47 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.760 it was definitely a mullet over the collar. Oh, it's definitely. 48 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:09.879 I remember brushing it up like I would brush it up. 49 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.560 So yeah, yeah, I bet you it was. I bet 50 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:13.400 it was that long. 51 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:18.199 Okay, wow, I then over the ears yeah yeah, okay. 52 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:19.520 Yeah I had I definitely had a mullet. 53 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:21.240 Yeah yeah. So it was a business in the front, 54 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:21.840 party in the back. 55 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:23.960 Yep, that's right. So what about you? 56 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.039 Well, I wasn't allowed to have a mullet or a perm. 57 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:31.599 Right right, Oh that's why you asked it that way. 58 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:34.719 Yeah, did I want a mullet? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, which 59 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:36.919 one did you? Which one did you rather have? 60 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:37.360 Yeah? 61 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.879 I had, I had had the mullet. Did you want 62 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:40.599 a perm? 63 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.520 No? You kidding me? 64 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:45.479 I think those were a little earlier. Guys. Guys had 65 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:46.360 those before us. 66 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:49.680 Well, and perms. Perms really weren't that popular in guys. 67 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.919 They're still popular ladies, obviously, but they really, they really 68 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:54.800 weren't that popular. 69 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.560 Okay, here's another good one. Would you rather be a 70 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.759 kid until you turn You never chose one? You never 71 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.639 chose me from mullet mullet? Okay, yeah, my grandson has 72 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:04.080 a mullet. 73 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:04.759 Yeah yeah, I know. 74 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.719 It's so funny. Would you rather be a kid until 75 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.439 you turn fifty or have the appearance of a thirty 76 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:11.840 year old from your first birthday. 77 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:16.639 Oh, and she's meaning not in kid at heart, she's 78 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.280 meaning actual gay kid physically physically. 79 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.039 You turned fifty, or have the appearance of a thirty 80 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:22.479 old from you. 81 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.360 First What depends is your entire of life extended that way? 82 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:27.199 Do you live to be three hundred? I don't know, 83 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.000 or or are you just all of a sudden becoming 84 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:31.560 a daughter at fifty and die at the same time. 85 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:34.759 I don't know, because that would be terrible. Well, you 86 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:36.759 go through life in your thirties forties trying to run 87 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.280 a business, and you're six look like you're six years old. 88 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.039 Well, I don't know. I like the idea looking thirty 89 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:45.560 because now that I'm past thirty, Yeah right, I'd still 90 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.960 be looking thirty, right, yeah. 91 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:50.159 Yeah, I'd say, I'd say thirty. 92 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:51.360 Yeah. Is that a good one? 93 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:58.360 I thought about he's an angry Ooh yeah. 94 00:03:57.319 --> 00:03:59.520 Yep, so funny Peter Dinklin. 95 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.800 Yeah, I think, uh yeah, thirty from the first birthday. 96 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.639 There was a show about that Robin Williams was old. 97 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:09.000 He was born like an adult. 98 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:10.719 Look, okay, looking old? 99 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:15.120 Do you remember that? Was that bisonennial man. Maybe oh 100 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:16.800 he was a robot and bono man. 101 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:19.519 I don't know. Huh, you'll think of it or chat, 102 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.360 I'll call you yep, right, okay. Would you rather have 103 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:25.160 the same song stuck in your head forever or have 104 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:26.519 the same dream every night? 105 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.240 Same song in my head? Her, same dream every night? Well, 106 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:35.800 I guess it depends on the dream. I had a 107 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:37.199 dream last night out. 108 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:41.800 Are boring you, ChRI Yes? That what we were just yawning? Yeah, 109 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:43.839 like the lights question. 110 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:47.480 I had a dream last night that scared the fire 111 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:50.439 at him. Oh yeah, yeah, it was really bad. Like 112 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.319 I I dreamt that my house was invaded by spiders 113 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:56.160 to such a degree to where there were so many 114 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:57.879 spiders you couldn't run up and down the stairs and 115 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:58.560 get away from him. 116 00:04:58.600 --> 00:04:59.879 Oh wow, like like. 117 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.759 Like the but the quantity of them prevented you from 118 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:04.240 running through the stairs. 119 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:06.079 So you know, I lived that in real life, but 120 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:10.720 not in the house. So I took back. My boys 121 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:16.240 were four and two and we went camping in Big 122 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.600 Ben National Park, and which is in the bootheel of Texas. 123 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:22.600 If you're thinking about the bottom of Texas along the 124 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:24.920 Rio Grand it's in the bootthill park. It's nine hundred 125 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:25.920 and some thousand acres. 126 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:26.600 It's huge. 127 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:30.120 We were camping up in the mountains and I heard 128 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:35.279 on our tent and I woke up and our entire tent, 129 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:39.879 underneath our rainfly was covered with trantulas, like the whole 130 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:43.439 thing covered translas. So I didn't realize it, but we 131 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.319 were there. The transulas migrate in that area, they migrate 132 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.759 back and forth, and this was a migration season, and 133 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.720 so we were driving down out of the mountains to go. 134 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:55.040 That makes me want to go camping so much more. 135 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.120 We were, you know, driving out into the desert. We 136 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.319 were going down to the Rio Grande, and we came 137 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:05.519 upon a big migration and it was like a moving 138 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.480 blanket across the road, and my tires on my car 139 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:09.120 was slipping. 140 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:10.959 You ran over them. 141 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:13.839 I couldn't get past where I was going. So I 142 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:18.319 just drove through this whole blanket of spiders, like millions 143 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.279 of spiders. I'm not talking. It was probably a quarter 144 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.920 mile just of a blanket across the road of spiders 145 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:23.680 going across the road. 146 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:28.600 And so you took out hundreds of thousands of spiders. Wow. 147 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:31.199 Well, I was in it before I realized what was 148 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:32.879 going on and then all of a sudden, my tires 149 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:33.800 are slipping. 150 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.199 The black ice. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah in the 151 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.759 middle of the text make crazy in the summer. Wow, 152 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:43.720 that's that is wild, dude. Yeah, I imagine there are 153 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:47.519 majority of people have like goosebumps. Just listen to that. 154 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:50.279 Yeah, I mean so so you don't watch that dream 155 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:50.680 every now. 156 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.720 The tenth thing, Yeah, the tenth thing that I want 157 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.319 to die just thinking about that. 158 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.759 I had a big tent. It was a ten by. 159 00:06:58.800 --> 00:06:59.879 My wife would die. 160 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.879 By fourteen tent and my entire roof was just all covered. 161 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:05.519 My wife would cease to exist. 162 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:07.160 And you know, in those tents like that, when you 163 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:09.079 have a nice rain fly over top, the whole top 164 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:11.879 of the tent itself is see through, so you can 165 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:13.680 see through it. You know, you take the rain fly 166 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:15.639 off and look at the stars at night. Well, it 167 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.399 got cold the night before, so I put the rainfly on, 168 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:21.079 so the thank goodness, you could see. Well, no, they 169 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.519 all came up underneath the rainfly, so I could see 170 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.240 them on the sea through part the window on the 171 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:29.079 whole twelve foot by foot. 172 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:30.160 Would you have to do? Wait it out? 173 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:31.920 Yeah, they just left. They were going in the morning 174 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:32.560 I went back to sleep. 175 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:36.360 I can't believe you just said that. 176 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:40.000 You watch this stream every night, so you're gonna choose 177 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:40.839 the song every dy, I'm. 178 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:41.399 Gonna choose the song. 179 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.959 Yeah, if I could choose my dream, I might choose 180 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:47.480 the dream thing because getting the song stuck in your 181 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.399 head forever drive me nuts. Okay? Would you rather live 182 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.879 in an amusement park or a zoo? Ooh that's a 183 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:55.000 good one. 184 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.759 I mean, I mean you have to think long term here, right, 185 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:01.680 not not just short term. Yeah, So I think long 186 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:06.199 term i'd have to pick a zoo. Me too, Yeah, 187 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.240 I think on the short term, it'd be an amusement park, 188 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:12.560 no doubt. I love amusement parks, and I love everything 189 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:15.399 about them. It doesn't even matter what kind of amusement park. 190 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:17.399 It could be the kind of carnival in a parking lot, 191 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:19.879 it could be Cedar Point, it could be all of them. 192 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:25.879 I love every bit of it. But long term, I mean, 193 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:27.680 if I'm gonna live there, I'm gonna say hi to 194 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:29.959 you know, Jojo the Kangaroo. 195 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:36.200 Having an entire complex of pets, yeah, is different than yes, 196 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:37.799 the same rollercoaster every day? 197 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:39.960 Yeah, because you would you would literally get to know 198 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:41.000 every single animal. 199 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.720 Yeah. Would you rather go backstage with your favorite band 200 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:46.720 or be an extra on your favorite TV show? 201 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:50.919 Depends on the extra like an extra like having a line. 202 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:54.120 I don't know, extra like like that's me for a 203 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.000 millisecond in the background and it's blurred out. 204 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:00.919 Yeah, I don't know. So I have a friend who 205 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:02.799 is an extra in lots of movies and he got 206 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:04.840 to be in a movie with Meryl Streep. Oh nice, Yeah, 207 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:06.759 and he was he was in a couple of scenes. 208 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:10.200 Huh yeah, yeah, yeah, he was a waiter. Wow, they 209 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:12.279 cut his line. He had a line and they cut it. 210 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:17.879 I would say, backstage, well, and again backstage? Does that 211 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:20.919 mean just like meet and greed for ten seconds, taking 212 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:21.720 photo and leaves. 213 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.879 She doesn't say, dude, Let's say that both of these 214 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.440 are your wildest dream come true, hanging out with them 215 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:29.600 and then they ask you to go out on the 216 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:32.480 bus and hang out, or you get to have a 217 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:36.039 talking part in your favorite TV show, hang out with 218 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:37.240 the entire cast. 219 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:43.559 Of h I honestly would say, I'd have to say, 220 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:44.840 I'm in. I want to be an extra on my 221 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:45.440 favorite TV show. 222 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.120 I always thought, so, Yeah, that's what I thought. 223 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:48.200 You'd pick because it lives in infamy. 224 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.720 Yeah, it lives forever. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, well good job, man. Yeah, 225 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:55.519 I think I would pick the extra on the TV 226 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:56.000 show too. 227 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:57.799 Yeah yeah, yeah, good. 228 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:00.840 Question, because because the backstage stuff always feels awkward to me. 229 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:01.759 Oh does it? 230 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.480 Yeah? Hi, this guy's this guy's exhausted. He just finished 231 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:08.039 his big show. Yeah, he's tired, he's hungry, he wants 232 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.480 to go get on the bus. Right, you're like, oh, man, 233 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:15.799 you sang my favorite song. You remember that time? Remember 234 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:17.080 the time you sang that song? 235 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:23.639 It was my Favorite's just so awkward, remember that time 236 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:28.840 you say, remember like like forty minutes ago, Because because 237 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.879 everyboy's gonna say the same thing, You're amazing, You're my favorite, right, 238 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:33.639 That's why I paid three hundred. 239 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:37.120 Bucks for this, right right? But yeah, anyways, that's so funny. 240 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:40.559 Yeah, they're probably and they're probably so tired of I mean, like, 241 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:44.320 you know, think about it, if you have super fans, Uh, 242 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:46.600 when when would you really be super interested in a 243 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:49.320 super fan? I mean, Taylor Swift seems to be, but 244 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:52.240 she sort of chooses those right. Every now and now 245 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:55.039 and again, she'll meet with somebody, but other than that. 246 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:57.720 I don't know a single fan that's like, so please 247 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:58.159 tell me. 248 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:00.519 More yeah, you know, yeah yeah. 249 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:02.039 Or you know, or a single artist that would say 250 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:02.840 that to a fan, you know. 251 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.759 Right, So I don't know anyways. Yeah, so I choose 252 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.360 to be an extra on a TV show. Well, hey, uh, 253 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:12.120 talk about extra Did you know that Jesus didn't just 254 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:14.039 give one or two beatitudes? He gave a whole bunch 255 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:14.639 of extras? 256 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:17.919 Did he really? Are these extras? Are we now moving 257 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:18.679 into the extras? 258 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:19.000 Jeff? 259 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:20.919 He's the leftover. 260 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.639 Versus number five. We've already covered the first four. Yea, 261 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:26.039 Now this is number five? 262 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:27.039 Is the leftovers? 263 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.159 No, I didn't say leftovers, he said extra extras. It's 264 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:31.320 not the same as leftover. 265 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:32.080 I'll give you grace. 266 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.759 Okay, Yes, it's even more of the same good stories, 267 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:42.360 even more so. In uh Matthew, chapter five, the fifth 268 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:45.399 beatitude says, Blessed are the merciful, for they will be 269 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:46.320 shown mercy. 270 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:48.720 That's it. 271 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:49.279 That's it. 272 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:54.360 Blessed are those who are merciful, They will be shown mercy. Yeah. Well, hey, 273 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:55.440 let's let's talk about it. 274 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:57.840 Okay. So the first thing is good idea. Since we've 275 00:11:57.840 --> 00:11:59.600 got a podcast, the first idea. 276 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:01.840 The first idea is, let's talk about what mercy is 277 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.360 and what it is not. Okay, right, So mercy is 278 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.279 not weakness, right. Mercy is not ignoring sin. It's not 279 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:15.679 sentimental tolerance. Biblically, mercy means compassion and action. Right. So 280 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:19.200 it's it's love that moves towards suffering. It responds to guilt. 281 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:23.399 It's kindness that costs something. In scripture, mercy always involves 282 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:25.399 seeing distress and choosing to act. 283 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:26.120 Wow. 284 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:28.919 Right, So because you know, when it says show mercy 285 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:34.120 on him, it's not referring to an emotion, right, because 286 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:39.159 you can say, you can say like, oh I feel merciful. Well, 287 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:42.120 that's not the same. When Jesus says show love to 288 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:45.519 your neighbor, he's not referring to an emotion of love. 289 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:50.320 He says, love your neighbor means giving him your cloak 290 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:52.639 or you're you know, giving him what is needful for 291 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:55.440 the body. Right. He says, you know, hey, if you 292 00:12:55.480 --> 00:13:00.639 see somebody who's daily destitute, in need of food and uh, 293 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.000 and then you don't give him those things, The Book 294 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.519 of James says, then then how can the love of 295 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.120 God be in you? Because when he says love your neighbor, 296 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:11.399 he means love in action. And so when he says 297 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:18.279 blessed to those who are merciful, merciful means mercy in action, right, 298 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.879 not those who are filled with the emotion of wanting 299 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:22.759 to be merciful. 300 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.159 That's powerful, right, Yeah, I mean that's. 301 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:30.679 That's that's really a very big distinction because now now 302 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:32.720 when you read it and it says blessed to those 303 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:37.080 who are merciful, he's saying blessed to those who act 304 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:40.759 mercifully to those around them. 305 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:45.279 I've always uh, when it comes to God's mercy, at 306 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:49.000 its core, God's mercy is when he chooses not to 307 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.960 give us what we do deserve, right, right, And and 308 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.480 that is a part of it for us when we're 309 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:57.919 when we extend mercy, we're tempted to measure should we 310 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.399 or shouldn't we, right based on whether or not does 311 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:05.840 this person deserve my mercy or not? And God just 312 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.679 chooses out of love. Love drives him to mercy, and 313 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:12.000 so he's not taking a consideration whether we deserve it 314 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:15.039 or not. He just extends it, right, And that's a 315 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:19.919 pretty powerful thing. So then if it's if I'm supposed 316 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:22.799 to be. My character is supposed to becoming more and 317 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.320 more and more like Jesus. Then that's one of the things, 318 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:29.759 is I stop measuring whether a person deserves mercy and 319 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:33.080 I give it because I'm choosing love in the same 320 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:38.039 way that God has done the same for me. Right, Huh, 321 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:38.799 that's good. 322 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:42.480 When I think of mercy, I'm so sorry I have 323 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:45.919 to interrupt this regularly scheduled program to tell you that 324 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:48.639 there isn't a single time I don't think that I 325 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:51.720 hear the word mercy where I don't think of the 326 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:56.279 end of a movie where the villain gets what he 327 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:00.799 deserves and he's taking his last breath, right, and then 328 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:04.840 he says, what happened to your mercy? And then the 329 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:10.240 guy says, I'm a count, not a saint, and so 330 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:13.480 I will give you. I will buy you lunch tomorrow 331 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:15.759 if you can tell me what movie that came for 332 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:19.720 Annie Crystal. Yes, because I said count. Yes, that's right. 333 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.559 It is the kind of money Crystal. He says, mercy 334 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:22.960 for none. 335 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:27.120 I remember that. Yes, I remember that scene. Yes, Jim favorite. 336 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.120 It is my favorite of all time, of all time, 337 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:32.159 of all time, because it has everything in us. 338 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:44.879 So I can remember I was nineteen twenty twenty, and 339 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.639 I felt like the world was falling down around me. 340 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:53.279 The group of Christians that I was connected to in 341 00:15:53.360 --> 00:16:01.080 Bible College had a lot of anger and pretty aggressive 342 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:07.720 and I kind of got caught in it, caught up 343 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:14.559 by it, and then paid the price where their wrath 344 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:16.519 was coming down on me. And I didn't feel like 345 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:18.960 I deserved it. And you know, I'm just kind of reeling. 346 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.600 This is that first great crisis as a young adult faith. 347 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.840 And I think everybody goes through crisis of faith, and 348 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.440 you're deciding in my following manner? Am I following Jesus? 349 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:32.159 And so I lived at the time in northwest Indiana. 350 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.679 And now there's an Indiana National Lake shore right there 351 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:40.960 the dunes, and it's a beautiful National park, but back 352 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.360 then it wasn't National park yet. So I went up 353 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:46.000 there and there's a sand dune it's a couple hundred 354 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:48.399 feet high called Mount Baldy, and I climbed Mount Baldy 355 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.080 and I went out and sat just looking at Lake Michigan, 356 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.440 and I had some music with me, and I was 357 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:58.559 just trying to recenter, and I had a Bible with me, 358 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.360 and I'm just like flipping through trying to figure out. 359 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:04.200 You ever have one of those times you just don't 360 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.559 even know where to read? You know, I'm a Bible 361 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:09.599 college student. I'd already read through the Bible ten times, 362 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:13.000 probably by the time I was twenty years old, but 363 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:15.240 I just didn't know. I couldn't know where to read. 364 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:18.519 And I opened up to Micah chapter six, verse eight, 365 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:21.920 and I started at the beginning of chapter six. But 366 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:25.559 when you get to verse eight, he says, no, oh, man, 367 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:29.799 the Lord has told you what is good, and this 368 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.759 is what he requires of you, to do what's right, 369 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.960 to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. 370 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:37.759 So I'm trying to figure out what am I supposed 371 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.640 to do, and I'm like praying to God, I don't 372 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:43.200 know what to do with my life. I don't know 373 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:45.880 what to do with this situation. I feel like I'm 374 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.400 being persecuted to some extent. But I also know I 375 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.039 brought some of this on myself and frustrated, and I 376 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:53.519 just don't feel like I make anybody happy. I remember 377 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:55.240 kind of I was complaining to God about I can't 378 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:57.359 make anybody happy, and then God goes, let me tell 379 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.680 you the only thing I really require of you is 380 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.119 that you do what's right, love mercy, and walk humbly 381 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:05.759 with your God. And that kind of has become a 382 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:10.799 guiding It's almost my north star, that verse. It's one 383 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:12.519 of my north stars when I don't know what else 384 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:16.519 to do, do the right thing, right, walk humbly with God, 385 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.920 and show mercy to others. And that's uh. I don't 386 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:23.400 always I don't always master that, but it is interesting 387 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.200 that this idea of showing mercy is one of the 388 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:27.880 three things God says, Hey, if you don't know what 389 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:31.599 else to do, just walk humbly with God. Right, do 390 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:36.839 live as well as you can live righteously and show mercy. 391 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:39.119 Do you know that song Michael six eight? 392 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:45.799 I know the one that Stephen Cutch Chapman did say it. Oh, 393 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.599 I can't sing it like that. That's crazy good good, yeah. 394 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:52.440 Yeah. The one I learned was King James version where 395 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.039 there's an echo. Right, he has shown thee, he has 396 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:55.640 shown thee. 397 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:58.799 Oh man, Oh yeah, yeah. What is good? 398 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:02.720 And what the Lord of the he goes but to 399 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:05.400 do justly, But to do justly, and to love mercy, 400 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:08.880 and to love mercy, and to comely with my God. 401 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:10.279