WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.640 practical ways. Well, good morning, good morning, assuming that you're 4 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:16.760 watching in the morning. Yeah, I guess true course most 5 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:17.160 people do. 6 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:23.239 Or happy afternoon or goody, goody, goody, or good night sleep. 7 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:25.480 Remember that video that we did. 8 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:28.120 Oh yeah, you were great in that. Go back to 9 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:30.480 twenty nineteen and watch that or not because they may 10 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:30.960 not want to. 11 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.039 October of twenty twenty, twenty twenty. 12 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:33.960 That's right, that's when you started. 13 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:36.520 I forgot Actually it might have been actually in November 14 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.320 actually because it was relational vampire relational lampires. Yeah, some 15 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:40.359 good news, yep. 16 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:43.200 Jeff standalone then Relationship Press did a great job on 17 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:44.119 that man with great acting. 18 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:46.679 Hey, so my name is Chris. This is Kyle. We 19 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.359 are the Bible Guys today because Jeff is out of 20 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.759 town and we've been had we had we've had a 21 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:53.320 great discussion on great Yes. 22 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.200 Yeah, we're Jesus and the Outsiders. 23 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:59.880 Jesus and the Outsiders, and we're talking about famous sayings 24 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:02.600 of Jesus. In the past, we've described it as what 25 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:05.000 if Jesus had a podcast, he would actually talk about 26 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:07.959 his famous sayings, but really it's it's a series about 27 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.079 the famous sayings of Jesus. And today he's going to 28 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.400 be talking about how the first shall be last. But 29 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:16.760 before we do that, we have a segment that I'm 30 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:20.239 very fond of Would you rather? Because it asks a 31 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:23.560 ridiculous question and it forces you to make a choice 32 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:24.640 between two bad choices. 33 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:25.359 Gotcha? 34 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:26.680 All right? You want to read the first one? Sure? 35 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:28.920 All right, here we go, Chris. Yes, would you rather 36 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.840 have a pet lama that follows you everywhere? Or a 37 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:36.480 parrot that constantly roasts you? 38 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:41.760 You know what? I think that people would get sick 39 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:46.480 of the lama because lama spit, they smell right, and 40 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.079 they're very large. So if I'm going through like a 41 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.200 rotating door in New. 42 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:54.000 York, that'd be tough with the lama, right, that's how 43 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:54.480 you lose it. 44 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.640 But the parrot, But the parrot could be on your shoulder, right, 45 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:02.319 and parrots it would have actually be humorous. Yes, and 46 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:05.480 even though it get irritating, I would enjoy it very much. 47 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:08.159 Yeah. I would say that the llama might make you 48 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:10.360 some friends to start, people who want to be aroun 49 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:12.080 because the lama is following you. But I feel like 50 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.520 the parrot keeps friends around for a while. 51 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:16.800 Yeah. I mean it's just been like, hey, that guy 52 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:18.919 with the parrot that constantly, Yeah, that's good. It's like, oh, 53 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:20.280 I can't wait to get the guy in the room. 54 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:21.919 Right, yep, as long as you don't have too much 55 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.719 of that gred percent, eventually you're like, okay, we got 56 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:26.800 so the parrot. Yeah, I'm gona agree with the parrot. 57 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:27.599 I feel like the lama. 58 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:29.360 Yeah again, I feel like people think it was super 59 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:30.919 cute until it's not. That's for sure. 60 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:32.719 Yep. Okay, so parrots for both of them. Right. 61 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:35.800 Would you rather have a vacuum that sings show tunes 62 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.280 or a fridge that judges your snack choices? 63 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:39.039 What was that? 64 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:41.319 I tapped you because I realized you're to read that 65 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:42.360 one as my bad. Sorry. 66 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:44.479 I thought you were tapping me because they said show tunes. 67 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.319 No no, no, no, that bad because you started speaking 68 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:49.280 and I was like, oh h I anologizing, Hey, dude. 69 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.560 I totally thought that's what Jeff would have done. Jeffould 70 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:55.360 have said show tunes no definite all right here? 71 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:57.759 Would you rather have a vacuum that sings show tunes, 72 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.000 or a fridge that judges your snack choice. 73 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.159 Well, there's no comparison here. You would have to loathe 74 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:06.680 show toots right. First of all, how often do you 75 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:08.599 run your vacuum? Yeah? And for how long? 76 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:09.639 My wife every day? Yeah? 77 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:11.400 Okay, right, but for how long though? 78 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:13.520 Twenty minutes max? 79 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:18.400 Fifteen? Yeah, fifteen? Probably right? And so and it's hopefully 80 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:21.000 it's pleasant, Hopefully they're not off key, right, Hopefully the 81 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.319 vacuum doors had a saying yes, right, yes? Or at 82 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.719 fridge that judges your could you imagine. 83 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:26.719 That'd be kind of funny, though, every. 84 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.840 Time you go into the fridge it's judging you. 85 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:33.240 Last and last. It's like a motivational thing. You're like, 86 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:34.960 You're like, I want that fridge is going to when 87 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:36.759 I pull that food out there. It was a tactic 88 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.800 for only some right get shamed. 89 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:42.800 I would say, like, for instance, I'm thinking, once again, 90 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:44.800 since I've already brought up Jeff, I would say that 91 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:47.639 Jeff would laugh at the judging because he and I 92 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:50.120 are the same personality. We sort of love that. You know, 93 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:51.919 he roast his brothers all the time, that sort of 94 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:54.319 his love language, and he and I roast each other so, 95 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.280 and he wrote you heroes everybody right, So he would 96 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.039 laugh and he wouldn't mind it it uh and you 97 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:02.280 would ignore it, yeah right. 98 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:03.000 Yeah, that's what we do. 99 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:07.439 You just ignore one, any good one. But most people 100 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.400 aren't like us. Most people would be like feeling bad. 101 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:13.400 Like my wife, Yeah, she would be like, oh mine too, way, 102 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:15.680 like I will pay you to get rid of these fridgs. 103 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:20.839 So and I like show tunes, so I would definitely 104 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:23.199 definitely say the vacuum that sings shows. Yeah. 105 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:24.959 I would say that the fridge does not bother me 106 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.639 that much because I do think it could be funny slash, yeah, motivational, 107 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:30.680 but I don't see that. And the negative with the 108 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:32.720 vacuum that sing show tunes, I don't see the negative 109 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:36.079 at all. Oh I would look forward to yeah, yeah, 110 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:36.439 there you go. 111 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:39.680 Yep. I just I can't even imagine I'd look forward 112 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:41.000 to it. I'd be like, oh, yeah, that's not bad. 113 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:41.680 Let me vacuum. 114 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:42.360 It's not a bad one. 115 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:43.800 All you do. The windows I was not a bad 116 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:45.639 one at all. All right, let me read number three 117 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.639 and four? Right, yeah you gottam all right, there we 118 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:51.480 got number three. Would you rather only eat with chopsticks 119 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:54.879 or only eat with a tiny spoon. That's rough. 120 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:58.600 Okay, So because I do not, I'm embarrassed at this. 121 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:00.480 I do not know how to use oop sticks. 122 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:01.439 I could say. 123 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:04.120 Well, the other thing too about me is I am 124 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.079 I do struggle with patience. I'm not saying impatient, but 125 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.519 I struggle with patience. So whenever it comes to chopsticks, 126 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:11.000 it just feels like I'm like, I'm just gonna grab 127 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:12.319 before I come, grab a spoon and just get this 128 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:12.680 over with. 129 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:16.199 Yeah, you know what, I love chopsticks. I love them. 130 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.199 I love them. Yeah, I've learned to eat noodles with chopsticks. Really, 131 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:22.319 so I could I could actually eat like put tie 132 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:26.240 with chop sticks. Obviously with soup you have to have 133 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.199 a spoon. Yeah right, so it's not a universal thing. 134 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.519 And this is saying only eat with chopsticks, you'd have 135 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:33.360 to drink your soup. 136 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:36.439 Right. And also I would say I probably should learn 137 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:38.879 how to use chopsticks because could you imagine eating soup 138 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.800 with a tiny spoon? That would be like for impatient people, 139 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:42.480 that would be. 140 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:44.439 Maybe the worst. Well, to be honest with you, a 141 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.319 tiny spoon with steak, Oh, it wouldn't be good either. 142 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:47.560 Yeah. 143 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:49.959 No, right, so I'd rather use chopsticks for steaks. 144 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:52.120 Oh, I'd use my hands if I had those options. 145 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:54.600 Oh yeah, well but all as you were allowed to 146 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:56.680 use a knife. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's saying, 147 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:59.160 you know, I'm assuming eating things bring up to your mouth. 148 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:00.879 Yeah right, so you can cut it. 149 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.759 Yeah, I'd go chopsticks for that reason, although i'd have 150 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:04.120 to learn. 151 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:06.560 So yeah. So I'm going to say Shop six two 152 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:10.279 because I like them. And how could a billion Chinese 153 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:12.759 people be wrong? Right, that's true. 154 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:13.680 Come on, they know what they're doing. 155 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:14.360 They know what they're doing. 156 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.360 They're smarter than they can't be wrong. That's right. 157 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.079 By the way, that's a movie club, Come on, Michael, 158 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.160 how can a billion Chinese people be wrong? What's it from? 159 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:27.639 It's from the Lost Boys? Oh okay, throwbacks. It's actually 160 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:28.720 a movie about vampires. 161 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.360 Okay, I'm true, right something like that. 162 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:34.800 Acknowledge that? Yeah, yeah, but no, no, it was wasn't. 163 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.959 The famous actor or actors in there, no, believe it 164 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:38.199 or not. 165 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:40.920 The main star was a no name guy. But it 166 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:43.279 did have some famous people in it. The kids were 167 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.519 short of famous. Okay, So anyway, all right, Number four 168 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:51.160 would you oh Keith Sutherland? Okay, so that was the vampire. 169 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:54.160 Keith for Otherland, Yeah, from twenty four that's right, legendary show. 170 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.079 Yeah he was young then. Anyway. Number four, would you 171 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:03.279 rather be stuck in a room with fifty Would you 172 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:08.120 rather be stuck in a room with fifty clapping robots? 173 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:14.480 Or one mime who won't break or who won't break 174 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.040 eye contact? Are you kidding me? This is the most 175 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:18.959 random question. 176 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:21.160 One mime who won't because you didn't get through that, 177 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.399 one mime who won't break eye contact? 178 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:25.879 So stuck in a room, right, but how stuck in. 179 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:27.560 The r Yeah, let's throw a number out there. 180 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:29.519 Let's say twenty four hours. 181 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:32.600 Yeah, twenty four hours, fifty clapping robots or one mime 182 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:33.720 who won't break kaikn. 183 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:36.360 I'd have to choose the mime, yeah, I mean only 184 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.160 because fifty clapping robots, I'm assuming they're metal. Yeah, I'm 185 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.360 assuming because the room is I mean it's not going 186 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:43.959 to be acoustically treated, yeah, which means like my ears 187 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:47.360 will be bleeding. Yes, right, so I'd have to choose 188 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:47.959 the mime. Yeah. 189 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:50.720 I think the mime's uncomfortable, like very uncomfortable, like I'm 190 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.439 not going to get pass effect that is odd, right, 191 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.240 and just be staring at it like that would be weird. 192 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:56.920 But I would say that, Yeah, the annoyance after a 193 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:59.199 while of the robots, I'd have to choose the mime 194 00:07:59.240 --> 00:07:59.560 as well. 195 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:01.279 Yeah, fifty clapping robots. 196 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:03.319 Wow, just as a funny site. 197 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.240 That is a wild question. It is, it is all right, 198 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:07.720 We'll give you the right, last one, last one. 199 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:10.360 Would you rather be known as the person who always 200 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:14.040 has a snack but never shares or the one who 201 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:15.199 laughs like a dolphin? 202 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:17.319 Again? Pretty random? 203 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:19.120 Wow, these are random. 204 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.800 I would definitely rather be known as the person who 205 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:24.600 laughs like a dolphin. It's not even a question really, 206 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.560 because it's saying. It's saying very specifically here that your 207 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:32.519 reputation is a person who never shares. Yes, and that's unacceptable. Yeah, 208 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.679 so it is as unacceptable as laughing as a dolphin 209 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:38.720 is in public. I would much rather choose that and 210 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:40.320 then be able to try to explain that a way 211 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:42.320 as I'm sorry, it's the way that I laugh, as 212 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.039 opposed to having a bad reputation of a person who 213 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:45.600 ever shares. 214 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:47.399 Yeah, you've hearn meet people like that who you'd say, 215 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:49.200 like thirty type of people that always has a snack 216 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:50.120 but would never share it. 217 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:55.559 Um G whiz, that's a great question. I'm I'm not 218 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:58.039 sure that I can peg that on a single person. 219 00:08:58.159 --> 00:08:59.799 Yeah. Probably. We don't want to use any names either. 220 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:01.840 He's curious because when I read the description, I was. 221 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.600 Like, huh, well, I mean, I wouldn't say their name anyway, 222 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:09.039 But I'm not sure I really know somebody who's that selfish, 223 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:09.440 do you. 224 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:13.000 I there has been people in my life. There was 225 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:14.720 one person in particular. I remember we go on these 226 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:17.679 like like golf outings and be a bunch of people together, 227 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.480 and this one person would like have his own like 228 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.480 like cooler and it was like his own thing. 229 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:23.279 Yeah you know. 230 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:24.639 It was just like it was no, no, no, don't touch 231 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:25.279 that's his stuff. 232 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:27.480 It was like oh yeah, all right, yeah yeah, go man, 233 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:29.200 come on to pullen, give me, hit me the co 234 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:34.120 now get your own jeez. Yes. Anyway, So, hey, what 235 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.480 a great segment that was, And we went too long 236 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:38.720 on that. Would you rather so we're gonna go right 237 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.120 into Matthew chapter twenty. 238 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.279 Here's a bad transition. Would you rather play that game 239 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:44.840 again or would you rather get into the Bible. 240 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:47.320 Ooh, that's it. I forgot the transition. 241 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:48.240 Yeah, what would you rather do? 242 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:50.000 I would rather Kyle get into the Bible. 243 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:53.639 Let's do it then? Perfect, all right, Matthew, Chapter twenty, 244 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:57.639 starting in verse one, we're going through verse sixteen. It's 245 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:00.159 it's the title here is. Jesus tells the parable the 246 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.759 vineyard workers. Says this for the Kingdom of Heaven is 247 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:06.519 like the landowner who went out early one morning to 248 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:09.200 hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay the 249 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.759 normal daily wage and sent them out to work. At 250 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:13.720 nine o'clock in the morning, he was passing through the 251 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:17.879 marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing, so 252 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.159 he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever 253 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:21.639 was right at the end of the day. So they 254 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:23.759 went to work in the vineyard at noon, and again 255 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:25.919 at three o'clock. He did the same thing. At five 256 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:28.039 o'clock that afternoon, he was in town again and saw 257 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:31.200 some more people standing around. He asked them, why haven't 258 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:34.879 you been working today? They replied because no one hired us. 259 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.320 The land owner told them, then go out and join 260 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:41.440 the others in my vineyard. That evening, he told the 261 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:44.080 foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning 262 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:46.720 with the last workers first. When those hired at five 263 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:50.639 o'clock were paid, each received a full day's wage. When 264 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.320 those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed 265 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:57.360 they would receive more, but they too were paid a 266 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:00.559 full day's wage. When they received their pay, they protested 267 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.240 to the owner, those people worked only one hour, and 268 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:05.720 yet you paid them just as much as you paid us, 269 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:09.600 who worked all day in the scorching heat. He answered 270 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:12.559 one of them, friend, I haven't been unfair. Didn't you 271 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:15.919 agree to work all day for the usual wage? Take 272 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.480 your money and go. I wanted to pay this last 273 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.200 worker the same as you. Is it again the law 274 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:22.000 for me to do? 275 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:22.440 Oh? 276 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:24.600 Sorry? Is it against the law for me to do 277 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:27.720 what I want with my money? Should you be jealous 278 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:29.879 because I am kind to others who I love that? 279 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:32.279 Should you be jealous because I am kind to others? 280 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:35.320 Then it says so those who are last now will 281 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.039 be first then, and those who are first will be last. 282 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:41.639 Did you know, by the way, that this was my 283 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:43.879 very first message at Hardon? No? 284 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:44.399 No, wow? 285 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.240 Yeah, So we were just talking about that. We were 286 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.679 saying the Vampire's member. Oh yeah, so I got hired. 287 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.679 October eleventh was my first message twenty twenty. We were 288 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:57.759 in a series called Some Good News Yeah, and I 289 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:02.360 preached this passage. And the point is that the question 290 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:04.480 of the title, the title of the message was is 291 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:08.600 God fair? Remember? And then the answer, based on this 292 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:14.399 passage was God is not fair? Right? God is not fair. Now, 293 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:16.799 first of all, when people hear that concept, before I 294 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:18.960 give the rest of them of the title or the 295 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:22.480 rest of the point, I should say, people might have 296 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.639 a problem with that. What do you mean God's not fair? Well, 297 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.720 fairness ended in the garden of Eden. Right, God is 298 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:31.080 not fair at all. Fairness, by the way, is something 299 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:33.200 that we all want. We all want our coaches to 300 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.440 be fair. We want our teachers to be fair, we 301 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:37.840 want parenting to be fair, we want our bosses to 302 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.000 be fair. And yet at the same time, fairness can 303 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:46.200 be a thing that is, you know, not a good thing. 304 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.600 For instance, like, hey, they got to raise and I didn't. 305 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.519 That's not fair. Actually it is, they produced and you didn't. 306 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:55.559 They're talented and you're not. It's like there are some 307 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.639 things where it's like fairness is not what is demanded. 308 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:00.799 Not every kid is going to be on the field 309 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:03.399 at all times, right, at all plays the NFL. If 310 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:05.480 everybody got the same amount of time playing, it would 311 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.200 be more like it wouldn't exist. Right, Yeah, it was 312 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:07.600 all fair. 313 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.000 Yeah. So so fairness isn't always a high value. And 314 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.879 to be honest with you, it isn't always a great night. Right. 315 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.399 So as people demand fairness for the sake of fairness 316 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.519 is it's it's not a great concept. So the question 317 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.159 is is God fair? And and and the answer is 318 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:25.320 absolutely not, and then and then and then the extension 319 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:29.320 to that answer is He's incredibly unfair in our favor 320 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:32.759 or to our favor. Both are grammatically correct, but God 321 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:36.639 is unfair to our favor in our favor. So, in 322 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:39.919 other words, he if we gabble, we deserved. If you 323 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:43.399 wanted God to be fair, then we'd all be in hell, right. 324 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:45.639 And it's like, it's like, we don't want God to 325 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:47.159 be fair. The last thing you want is for God 326 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:51.159 to be fair, because God gives to us that which 327 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:56.320 we don't deserve, and that's called grace. Yep, right, the unmerited, 328 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:01.240 unwarranted and unmerited favor of God. But God, God decides 329 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:02.960 to not give us what we do deserve, which is 330 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:06.559 called mercy. So he holds back right, mercy that spares 331 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:10.799 us and grace that favors us. And so the thing 332 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:15.320 I love about this is really that concept, the concept 333 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:18.240 that God doesn't even apologize. No, you know what it is. 334 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:22.600 It's the it's the no explanation explanation. Right. So they're like, hey, 335 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.399 I demand an explanation. How did you give those guys 336 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.120 who only worked one hour all this money? And he says, 337 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:32.080 I don't have to even answer you, right, I could 338 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.879 do what I want with my own money. And by 339 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:35.840 the way, I'm not unfair to you. Take your money 340 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.279 and go your way. I've been I've been very fair 341 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:40.759 to you because here's the wage we agreed upon him. 342 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:44.240 He doesn't even pretend to say why he did what 343 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:45.960 he did. He said, I can do what I want. 344 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:47.919 Yeah, and I read it twice there. But I like 345 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:49.759 when he turns it on him said, should you be 346 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:51.440 jealous because I am kind to others? 347 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:51.960 Right? 348 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:54.879 That's like that's a but I know for me, Like 349 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:59.759 just in this New Living Translation Bible, the Chronological Life 350 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:01.799 Out Vacation Study Bible, here's a couple of points on 351 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:03.679 there that they that they bring up is that this 352 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:07.759 parable speaks especially to those who feel superior because of heritage, 353 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:11.440 position or having spent so much time with Christ, and 354 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:13.840 to new believers. It's a reassurance of God's grace. And 355 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.360 then as it goes down, it says, I love this part. 356 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:18.159 It says, many people we don't expect to see in 357 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:21.399 the Kingdom of Heaven will be there. The criminal who 358 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:23.879 repented as he was dying, will be there, along with 359 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.279 people who have believed and served God for many years. 360 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:30.000 Do you resent God's gracious acceptance of the despise, the 361 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.799 outcast and the sinners who have turned to Him for forgiveness? 362 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:35.200 Have you been Have you ever been jealous of what 363 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.039 God has given to another person? Instead, focus on God's 364 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:42.039 gracious benefits to you and be thankful for what you have, 365 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:43.759 Oh man. 366 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:46.480 And and now if you if you want to break 367 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:49.879 down the hermaeutics of this passage and go word by word, 368 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:53.600 and there's obviously there's a there's a study that could 369 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:57.519 you know, reveal a lot, but even just uh, phrase 370 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:00.720 by phrase also right, so phrase by phrase, what you 371 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.600 realize is that Jesus is a master story of them 372 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:06.919 because he sets the precedents and he says he hired 373 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:09.440 him at the beginning of the day. Well, first of all, 374 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:13.799 the Jewish calendar is different than our calendar, so we 375 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:16.039 have midnight to midnight is a day, but in the 376 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:18.639 Jewish calendar it was six am to six am. And 377 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:21.919 the reason why is they called the sun. You know, 378 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:25.639 the time of the sun it was day, and the 379 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.919 time of the you know, all through the night was evening, 380 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:32.159 and so twenty four hour period began with sunrise and 381 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.480 it ended, you know, at sunrise. So anyway, all that 382 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:38.080 to say, that's the reason why some of your versions 383 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.720 in the Bible may say on the third hour, on 384 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:43.320 the sixth hour, on the ninth hour, right on the 385 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:46.600 eleventh hour, because what they're doing is they're taking it 386 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:51.159 from six am. But this version translates for us. This 387 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.799 version says nine am, noon, and then five pm. And 388 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:57.519 then we know that the day ended when the sun 389 00:16:57.559 --> 00:16:59.919 went down, because they said this man only worked one out, 390 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.120 which means that the shift was a twelve hour shift. 391 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.000 So we literally know that. So Jesus is a master 392 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.720 storyteller because he says these guys agreed to twelve hours, 393 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.279 and he agreed them to pay a denarius denarius was 394 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:19.279 actually determined in the book of Deuteronomy, or maybe it's Leviticus, 395 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:25.599 one of those two as affair day's wage. It was 396 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:29.880 also the same wage that a Roman would get working 397 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:33.559 for the whole day. So denarius was a very fair thing. 398 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.200 So imagine the first century listeners. They're like, Okay, once 399 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:39.680 upon a time, there's a guy who owns a vineyard, 400 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:41.680 and this guy agrees to work for all day and 401 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.480