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 --> 00:00:14.000 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible guys. 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.760 Oh that was exciting. Yeah, A little tappy tap, a 5 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:18.399 little bit of percussion. Yeah. 6 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:22.120 You know what I realized. I realized that I am 7 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:23.440 impressed with tap dancing. 8 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:30.039 Really, that was not what I was expecting my day 9 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:35.600 to begin today with. You know something, Let's let's make 10 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.039 sure this is relevant for the youngsters today. 11 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:42.479 I really enjoyed tap dancing. I didn't say enjoy I 12 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.000 said I'm impressed. Impressed with impressing. I do enjoy it, 13 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.240 but not not doing it. I'm seeing it. 14 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:49.479 You watched too many old musicals. 15 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:53.000 I went to Broadway show on Sunday and there was 16 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.200 a there was a bit inside the show and uh. 17 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:01.399 And I went to see Mean Girls and Intown Detroit 18 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.079 and there was this guy and he was a bigger guy. 19 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:06.760 He was actually quite big, and he moved. Have you 20 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.280 ever seen a bigger guy who moves like an athlete? 21 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:12.079 This guy like move like football players. 22 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:15.400 You know what I mean, right, like like I don't 23 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.359 mean bigger as in life, so big football players. 24 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:23.159 No, they are not moving like athletes. Big dancers on stage, 25 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.040 they move like athletes. Is that the message you're sending. 26 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:28.959 I'm saying they used to be an athlete. 27 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:32.959 As opposed to big football players who are currently athletes. 28 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:38.079 Dude, if you're talking about linemen, linemen don't have like 29 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:38.879 a wide range. 30 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.319 All I'm saying is a guy singing and dancing on 31 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:43.599 stage who looks like an athlete is different from an 32 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.640 actual big app Okay, but go ahead. I'm sorry. I 33 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:47.560 feel like I derailed you. 34 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:50.840 I have met lineman who could barely walk, but they 35 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:54.079 do their job because they weighed three hundred and fifty pounds. Okay, anyway, 36 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:55.760 this guy, but this guy can dance very big. But 37 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:57.840 the big guy and couldn't dance, but he was a 38 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.319 light on his feet. Yes much so okay, anyway, So 39 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.000 you started tap dancing, and I was like, this is 40 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:06.799 amazing because you don't really see tap dancing in today's 41 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:07.319 day and age. 42 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:07.920 No. 43 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:09.800 No, And I was like, when I did this, you're impressed. 44 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:11.360 When I went like that, I thought of. 45 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:13.240 Tap dancing, You're impressed with tap dancing. 46 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:15.159 I actually am okay, very much. 47 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:17.800 The wonderful mind of Zar ba. There you have it. 48 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:20.840 Folks, Hey man, you've never had that. 49 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:22.960 Thought, I don't think so. 50 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:24.599 Have you ever seen tap dancing? 51 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:25.319 Absolutely? 52 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:27.319 And you never think, wow, that's impressive. 53 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:29.879 Always think who took the time to learn that skill? 54 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:33.639 You know how long it took to develop that skill? 55 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:36.120 And in what world did his parents? 56 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:36.879 Hey? 57 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.319 Son, you know, if you work real hard, you could 58 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:43.479 be a dentist, or a lawyer or a doctor. No, Mom, I. 59 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:44.080 Figured it out. 60 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.000 I want. I know what I want to spend my 61 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.479 life doing. I want to sing and dance. Not only 62 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:51.680 sing and dance, I want to tap dance. 63 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:52.360 Stop. 64 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.080 And they're like, chase your dream son. 65 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:58.000 Wow. 66 00:02:58.039 --> 00:02:59.800 So when I watched tap dancing, always think who took 67 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:00.719 them to learn that? 68 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:06.560 Oh that's really funny. That's really funny. But anyways, anyway. 69 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:09.319 Okay, but when I watch Aligneman play football, I'm like. 70 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:14.080 Okay, this is art. I have a fear. I have 71 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:16.960 a feeling this conversation will never go my way. 72 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:24.159 Well, anyways, no matter what I do, it's not gonna 73 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.039 go big three hundred fifty pounds line. And I'm like, 74 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:28.719 what an artist? That's time well spent? 75 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:30.879 All right, here we go, all right? 76 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:34.400 Anyways, have dancing. It's one of your favorite things. 77 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:37.599 Relevant. Yes, I didn't say one of my favorite things. 78 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:44.400 I said, okay, so anyways, sorry this is. 79 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.159 Let me just read, but doesn't right, there's no transition. 80 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:49.919 We are officially less than two weeks away from Christmas. 81 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.919 So let's do a draft list to our favorite activities. 82 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:55.000 You walk, paper scissors to find out who gets the 83 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.960 first draft pick and go into you have five activities. 84 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.000 We're going to do this quick because we got to hustle. 85 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:01.879 We got a hustle. Ready, w what did you do? Shoot? Ready? 86 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:02.120 One? 87 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:02.439 Two? 88 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:05.719 Three? Shoots? Oh? I was scissors. He was Rocky West. 89 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:07.439 I was because I was on a roll there for 90 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:07.719 a while. 91 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:10.080 I do. All right, here's my first one. My first 92 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:14.560 one is there's there seems to never be a Christmas 93 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:17.759 that has passed in my family where we do not 94 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.879 either drive through a lighting show or walk through a 95 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:22.600 lighting show. Yeah. 96 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:24.000 That's one of my wife's favorite things. We do it 97 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:24.319 all the time. 98 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:25.480 Yeah, yeah, that's my. 99 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.319 First favorite thing. Okay, one of my favorite things. I 100 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:31.560 love helping pass out presents. I love it. Oh yeah, yeah, 101 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:34.639 it's fun. The delight of that running around, digging through 102 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:36.680 the pile trying to figure out who's for who and 103 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:38.839 shaking it going out and remember what's in here? Yeah, 104 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:40.160 you know that kind of stuff that's fun. 105 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:44.560 My number two is going to be I grew up 106 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:48.240 observing a lot of the Italian traditions because I'm fifty 107 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:52.639 percent Italian, but I didn't ever grow up. You know, 108 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.160 I'm also fifty percent German, and so the German piece 109 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:57.600 of me didn't. We didn't really do a lot of 110 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:02.199 German traditions, right. But the one German tradition that I 111 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:05.560 do and every year my kids absolutely love it, is 112 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:09.439 there's a pickle. It's called something. Oh, I can't believe 113 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:13.680 it's grishwins gershon. 114 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:15.839 I'm gonna have to look at it. 115 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.079 Anyway, The point is is that we thank you, you 116 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:22.639 do it, Okay, I got there, so anyway, The point 117 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.480 is is that we open all the presents and then 118 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:27.560 we have an extra present, and the person who gets 119 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.240 the extra present has to find the pickle on the ornament. 120 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:33.040 That's an ornament pickle. So the kids will leave and 121 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:35.319 then we'll literally it's green so it looks like the tree, 122 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:37.560 and I'll hide the pickle somewhere in the tree. Then 123 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:39.600 we say go, they all run back in and they 124 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:42.839 just race to find the pickle the gir and whoever 125 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:44.240 finds the gurk on first gets. 126 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:47.920 That's a good one. That's a fun little tradition. I 127 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:51.120 like to help do the cooking. Oh yeah, nice, So 128 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:52.920 whatever the big meal is, I like to help do 129 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:56.160 the cooking. I like the smells of Christmas Thanksgiving. Yeah. 130 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:58.639 Like the third. 131 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:02.560 One is we always order Christmas pajamas. We do it 132 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.000 on Christmas Eve and then we take pictures. 133 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.600 Yeah, my wife always does that for the kids too. Yeah, 134 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:07.439 there's always. 135 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:08.639 So that's that's my third. 136 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:15.800 Okay for me, I think I don't know, boy, I'm 137 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.920 out of things for Christmas Christmas music. I like, we 138 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:22.360 like the Christmas music, like Christmas Day Christmas music. Okay, 139 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.079 all right after Thanksgiving. I don't think you should be 140 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:26.800 listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving. 141 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.600 Yeah, well, I'd stop it. The only thing I allow, 142 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.800 okay before Thanksgiving is music because I think that music 143 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:38.079 sort of has taken over Thanksgivings listening. 144 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:42.120 He's listening to thanks Christmas music and tap dancing before Thanksgiving? 145 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:47.040 Yes, yes, well I mean in this Thanksgiving I did. Anyway, 146 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.920 here's my fourth one. My fourth one is when I 147 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:59.040 was little, my father, in order to help us clean up, 148 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:03.720 he would he would pretend that a trash bag was 149 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:07.160 I don't know why, but he would call it a monkey, 150 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:09.240 even though it looks like if you're going to use 151 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.720 it as a mouth, it's more like a hippopotamus or something, right, 152 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:13.879 I don't know why, but he would say, feed the monkey, 153 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.879 and and and we would. We would run around with 154 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:19.959 all the Christmas wrappers, right, because you know, everybody wraps 155 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.240 and pick it. So so in order to keep a 156 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:26.600 clean house. As we unwrapped, he would say, feed the monkey. 157 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:29.920 And he's a and that's what I do with my kids. 158 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:33.839 So if I don't do it, everybody's radically disappointed. So 159 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:36.439 I hold the trash bag and I say feed the monkey, 160 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.560 and then they throw it, throw it over. And when 161 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:39.879 I do. 162 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:42.600 That, that's that's fun. It is fun, all right. So 163 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.240 that was three? Was that four piece? That's four for me, 164 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:47.839 four for you? So I have to have one more. 165 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:49.439 No, no, we're supposed to five. 166 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:50.680 Oh it doesn't say five. 167 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:51.240 It does. 168 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.399 It's a draft list of your favorite Christmas activities. Oh 169 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.040 until you two, you have five activities? Okay, So my 170 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:04.279 fifth one would the leftovers. I love like the leftovers 171 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:05.920 going up making leftovers. 172 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:07.800 Well, it's not your fifth one's your fourth one, but. 173 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:08.319 That's my fourth one. 174 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:09.720 We ended it fourth. Okay, we'll do four. 175 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.839 Okay for four love leftovers Christmas leftover. 176 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:14.560 Because we talked half the time about that, Dan. 177 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:17.439 Well, I didn't bring it up. I did not bring 178 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:17.759 it up. 179 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:21.920 Yeah. And then honorable mention for me is reading Luke 180 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:26.920 chapter two, going to Ohio afterwards the next day. 181 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:33.600 Oh and then can you hold your breath that whole time? Yeah? Well, okay, 182 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:38.159 that's it. Honorable mentioned for me would be Christmas services. 183 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:40.799 So for thirty something years, just doing a good jillion 184 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:41.639 Christmas services. 185 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:43.600 Yeah, sure. Okay. 186 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:48.039 We are in Proverbs chapter twenty and Solomon is continuing 187 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:51.000 his one liners with regard to why's living. How to 188 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.480 live a wise life? So he says in verse one, 189 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:58.360 wine produces mockers, alcohol leads to brawls. Those led astray 190 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.879 by drink cannot be wise. The king's fury is like 191 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:04.960 a lion's roar. To rouse his anger is to risk 192 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.159 your life. Avoiding a fight is a mark of honor. 193 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:12.120 Only fools insist on coraling those too lazy to plow 194 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.759 in the right season will have no food at the harvest. 195 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:18.559 Though good advice lies deep within the heart, a person 196 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:22.120 with understanding will draw it out. Many will say they 197 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.240 are loyal friends, But who can find one who is 198 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:28.559 truly reliable? The godly walk with integrity. Blest are their 199 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.840 children who follow them. When a king sits in judgment, 200 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.679 he weighs all the evidence, distinguishing the bad from the good. 201 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:37.519 Who can say, I have cleansed my heart, and I 202 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:42.399 am peer and free from sin? False weights and unequal measures. 203 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:47.320 The Lord detests double standards of every kind. Even children 204 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:49.440 are known by the way they act, whether they conduct, 205 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:52.080 whether their conduct is pure, and whether it is right. 206 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.200 Ears to hear and eyes to see both are gifts 207 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:59.080 from the Lord. If you love sleep, you will end 208 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.519 in poverty. Keep your eyes open and there will be 209 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:05.240 plenty to eat. The buyer haggles over the price, saying 210 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:08.919 it's worthless, and then brags about getting a bargain. Wise 211 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:12.440 words are more valuable than much gold, and many rubies 212 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.480 get security from someone who guarantees the stranger's debt. Get 213 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:20.120 a deposit if he does it for foreigners, Stolen bread 214 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.440 tastes sweet, but it turns to gravel in the mouth. 215 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:27.039 Plans succeed through good counsel. Don't go to war without 216 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:32.240 wise advice. A gossip goes around telling secrets, so don't 217 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:36.080 hang around with chatterers. If you insult your father a mother, 218 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:40.120 your light will be snuffed out in total darkness. And 219 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:42.759 inheritance obtained too early in life is not a blessing 220 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:46.399 in the end. Don't say I will get even for 221 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.759 this wrong. Wait for the Lord and handle the matter. 222 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:53.159 Wait for the Lord to handle the matter right. Wait 223 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.279 for the Lord and handle the matter is very different 224 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.399 than wait for the Lord to handle the matter. The 225 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:02.399 Lord detests double standards, not pleased by dishonest scales. The 226 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.320 Lord directs our steps, So why try to understand everything 227 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.000 along the way. Don't trap yourself by making a rash 228 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:12.279 promise to God and only later counting the cost. A 229 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:15.080 wise king scatters the wicked like wheat, and then runs 230 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:19.519 his threshing wheel over them. The Lord's light penetrates the 231 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:24.919 human spirit, exposing every hidden motive. Unfailing love and faithfulness 232 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:27.759 protect the king. His throne is made secure through love. 233 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.080 The glory of the young is their strength. The gray 234 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:34.840 hair of experience is the splendor of the old. Physical 235 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:42.200 punishment cleanses away evil. Such discipline purifies the heart. Oh yeah, well, 236 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:42.600 there you go. 237 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:49.320 Physical punishment cleanses away evil, physical punishment. Wow, did you 238 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.279 know that there's actually a verse that says, you know, 239 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:55.600 you know, you remember the big debate as a young 240 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:57.480 parent to spank or not to spank. 241 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.200 It wasn't a debate for us, but I understand. 242 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:02.279 That the debate either for us. But what I'm saying 243 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:05.000 is there is a debate, right, Okay, yes there is 244 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:08.039 a debate in elsewhere. But did you know there's actually 245 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.240 a verse that says, spank your child, he won't die. 246 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.960 There's a verse that actually says that. Absolutely, it's hilarious. 247 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:20.399 But there's a difference between So there's a place where 248 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.879 God designed you're not going to die if you get 249 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:28.200 spanked there. But that's not beating the body, right right, right, right, 250 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:30.879 So there's a when you spank on the place that 251 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.399 has the most cushioning on the entire body, that's just 252 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:37.399 getting a kids attention, as opposed to you know, beating 253 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.879 their ribs, hitting them in the back, you know, all over. 254 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.440 Beating a child is different than yeah, you know, swats 255 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.240 on the rear, right, yeah, you know. 256 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.679 By the way, so I was, I was spanked as 257 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.240 a kid, and uh and then also we we did 258 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:54.519 we did spankings, not very often, but we did. But 259 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.120 do you know that one we did it for sport. 260 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:01.159 I'm joking somebody. One of the things that my this. 261 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.000 We were bored Fridays, we didn't have anything to do, 262 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:04.759 we were poor, so we just spanked our kids. 263 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.720 That's so funny. And of course you're joking once again. 264 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.320 But you know what my wife would always say. She'd say, hey, 265 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.440 you know, if we're going to discipline our children in 266 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:16.200 this way, she goes, what we're going to do is 267 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:19.120 we're going to hug them afterwards. You ever did that? Yeah, 268 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:20.799 so we did is we did spanking and then and 269 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:23.399 afterwards it was always an embrace with and I love 270 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:26.080 you and here's the reason why and everything else. So 271 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:29.879 it was always like, uh, it was always a discipline 272 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.480 that everybody you know that the kids hated obviously, but 273 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:35.840 at the same time, there's nothing they could have done 274 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:37.519 to misunderstand it. 275 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:40.639 Yeah. Yeah, my wife and I we we we worked 276 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:44.960 hard to never discipline in anger. Yeah, right, so go 277 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:47.559 to your room. It's coming kind of a thing while 278 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:50.080 we calm down or whatever. And then oftentimes I can 279 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.759 remember multiple times, you know, really having kind of a 280 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.639 broken heart about the situation and say, you know that, 281 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:00.200 and have to remind myself that this is I my 282 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.519 child enough to correct my child. And so especially when 283 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:06.639 they're very young, when they're younger, you know, not when 284 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.320 they're fifteen, that's a different thing at that point. But 285 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:11.399 when you have a young child one, it doesn't take 286 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:16.960 as much exertion and it doesn't take as much physical right, 287 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.399 a couple of swats because that child, what you want 288 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:23.279 to do is bend that child's will back to yours. Right, 289 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:25.879 so there will is bent away from you. And so 290 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.639 then this that's the phrase there that this fun is. 291 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.919 You know, physical punishment cleanses away evil. Such discipline piers 292 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.799 of purifies heart. It's about recapturing their heart. There are 293 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:39.399 consequences to bad behavior, but I love you, right, and 294 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:41.159 so I'm not going to let you go down that path. 295 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.679 And what I think we have in a society day 296 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.320 because of that debate about you know, disciplining our children 297 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:51.080 in years past, we have a society of people who 298 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:53.639 don't really believe that there's consequences to their bad behavior. 299 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:57.960 But if you are around a child who was biblically disciplined, 300 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.919 I'm not saying abused discipline. Most of those children and 301 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:03.679 most of those adults have a strong sense that there 302 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:06.360 are consequences to bad behavior, right, And and so what 303 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.320 you're trying to do is like that verse we read 304 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:10.559 the other day where Solomon said a couple of days 305 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:15.600 ago where sounds the discipline your children early because you 306 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.120 know you're going to run out of opportunities to correct them. 307 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:21.279 And that's that's what it's hope, Yeah, while there's still hope. Yeah, 308 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.080 And that's really the idea, is that you're not abusing them, 309 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:25.879 you're just moving their heart back to yours. 310 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.039 Yeah. Another thing that stands out for me is there's 311 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.279 a lot of verses in this chapter about honesty, right, 312 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.720 Oh yeah, yeah, there's there's there's a lot that talks 313 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:42.440 about you know, false weights and measures, dishonest scales, stolen 314 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:44.600 bread that tastes sweet but it turns to gravel in 315 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:46.679 the mouth. But what a heck of a what a 316 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:49.639 heck of a word picture that is, Yeah, that's true. 317 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.320 Stolen bread tastes sweet, but it turns to gravel in 318 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.360 the mouth, and and and that would be like the 319 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:03.039 instant gratification of obtaining something in a bad way, eventually 320 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:08.879 turning to what misery right, turning to you know, guilt right, 321 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:12.960 and then maybe even consequences right, but gravel in your mouth? 322 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:18.120 Holy cow? What a picture from sweet bread to grovel right? 323 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:22.399 Wow? So you know, the verse four always gets my attention. 324 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:24.519 With those too lazy to plow in the right season, 325 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:26.600 I'll have no food in the harvest. There's an order 326 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.679 to life. Yeah, you do things in the right way, 327 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:31.320 in the right order, and you can. 328 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:32.600 Expect a good harvest. 329 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.600 A lot of times people get things out of order 330 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:37.960 and then are surprised that either they're harvesting the wrong 331 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.080 thing or that there wasn't anything there for them when 332 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:43.679 it was time. Right. And so you have to have 333 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:46.440 the wherewithal, you have to have the energy, And a 334 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:49.919 lot of times I'll have young people looking for advice 335 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:51.639 on I just don't even know what I'm going to 336 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:53.039 do with my life. I don't even know where I'm 337 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:54.360 going to go in life. I don't know what I 338 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:56.159 want out of life. And I'm like, well, then you 339 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.480 need to learn a few things. You need to learn 340 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.399 a strong work ethic. You need to learn integrity, need 341 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:03.679 to learn to walk with God, how to pray, how 342 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:06.960 to study the Bible. And then always say you need 343 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:10.000 some basic business ideas and you need some good customer service. 344 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:12.119 So if you don't know anything else, do those five 345 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:16.839 things right. And what you're doing is you're plowing today, right, right, 346 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:19.119 So all you're doing is preparing the field today. That's 347 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.839 what plowing is. So plowing is not planting. Plowing is 348 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.279 not fertilizing. Plowing is not pulling the weeds and making 349 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:28.160 sure that the plants grow well or giving them good 350 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.400 sunshine and good rain. Plowing is not harvesting. Plowing is 351 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:35.599 just preparing the field, getting it ready to be able 352 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:38.279 to receive everything else that's going to be necessary. And 353 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:40.960 there is a natural time in your life when you're 354 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:43.559 young like that, you know, as you're coming into adulthood, 355 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:46.680 where there are just basic things that every field needs, 356 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.599 and so you need those things. Learn to walk with God, 357 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:51.559 Learn to have a we're good work ethic, Learn to 358 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:54.480 have integrity and do the right thing. Learn some basic 359 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:57.640 business concepts. You know how to balance your books, whatever, 360 00:17:58.079 --> 00:17:59.880 how to manage money and then learn good. 361 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:00.559 Custom my service. 362 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.039 Those things will carry you through in any direction in 363 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:05.799 your life later. So plow the field today, you'll be 364 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:06.880 able to have a harvest later. 365 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:10.799 That's great. Hey, there's another verse here that says the 366 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:13.880 buyer haggles over the price, saying it's worthless. And I 367 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:17.279 love egs about getting a bargain. I got a funny story. 368 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.680 When I was in college, I bought you remember Chevy Barrettas. Yes, yeah, 369 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:23.960 I bought a Chevy Barretta and I let the oil 370 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:27.200 run out and ruined the engine, and my father in 371 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:30.480 law paid for and installed a brand new engine, went 372 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:32.079 to the junk yard, you know, had somebody to do 373 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:34.359 it for him obviously, and throw this engine in and 374 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:36.559 then he bought me this, you know. So I had 375 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:39.119 this car at nineteen eighty eight, Chevy Barretta in the 376 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:42.400 early nineties, but the engine was was newer, it had 377 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.359 less miles, so it turned out that it was pretty good. 378 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:47.880 So anyway, I took it to my first church, had 379 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.720 it for like six or seven years, this Chevy Barretta, 380 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:53.000 and it came time where my father in law, who 381 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:54.960 at the time doesn't anymore. But at the time, he 382 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:57.079 had a ton of money and he was, you know, 383 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.480 just being generous with us. Wanted to give us a car. 384 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:01.799 He said, hey, he goes, just go ahead and turn 385 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:04.200 around and sell that Baretta for whatever you can get 386 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:06.000 it for, and then give me the money and I'll 387 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.200 give you this. You know, this brand new Buick Electra 388 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:10.839 is what he gave us. And I was like, okay, 389 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:13.240 and it was new or whatever. So anyway, so I 390 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:18.160 go to the head deacon of my church and his 391 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:20.720 son was also like a student of mine who is 392 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:23.200 now in Bible College, and he goes, hey, I want 393 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:27.720 to buy this car for my son. And now knowing 394 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:30.200 that my in laws had a ton of money, I 395 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.319 decided on my own to do something that I shouldn't 396 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:36.680 have done. The car's worth like fifty five hundred. I said, oh, 397 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:39.160 you can have it for four grant. I should have 398 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:41.559 done that, right, I should have tried to get a 399 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:43.680 good deal, right, But I was, you know, I was thinking, hey, 400 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:45.359 my fun in law won't care, right, he's got a 401 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:47.960