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 --> 00:00:14.679 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to Friday's version of The 4 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:15.359 Bible Guys. 5 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:16.399 Today's Friday. 6 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:17.800 That's amazing it is. 7 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:19.000 Why is it amazing? 8 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:20.440 Because we made it the whole week. 9 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:21.239 Oh there you go. 10 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:23.359 Yeah, we got all the way through it, the whole thing, 11 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:24.519 man oh man. 12 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:25.359 For those of us who made it. 13 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:29.719 Yes, So this is everybody's favorite segment because it's Friday, 14 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:32.799 is it? Yes, everybody's favorite segment. I just had a 15 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:33.479 meeting yesterday. 16 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:36.600 Did you hear the way that Desiree wrote it? She goes? 17 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:39.840 You asked, you asked, we listened, we acted. It's Friday, 18 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:41.200 and we're back with your favorite segment. 19 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:43.960 Just mad this Well I had a meeting yesterday, Yeah, 20 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.840 and with some folks and they're really regular listeners to 21 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:52.359 the podcast, and they said that what made Chris mad 22 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:54.920 this week is their their favorite segment. 23 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:56.000 Well, thank you for that. 24 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:00.280 Okay, So here's what I did before we get into 25 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.759 what made Chris mad this week. I you know, I 26 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:07.599 love AI love it, and so I asked AI knowing 27 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.439 Chris Arball has a penchant for hyperbole, answer the question 28 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.879 what made Chris mad this week? And it sort of 29 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:19.879 knows me, and yeah, it's amazing. So people, I'm telling you, 30 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:24.480 I've taken message outlines before and asked chat gpt to 31 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:28.120 give us a transcript in Chris Zarba's voice. And it 32 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.280 starts off the way you start off. It's got a 33 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:31.400 ton of you've read it before. 34 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.280 I've read actual actual phrases. 35 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:38.599 Like I use yes, So so AI is really really 36 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.239 intrigued by you and your personality. If we do it 37 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:43.079 for me, it doesn't, it doesn't do it uses more 38 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:46.239 Bible verses. That's that's the only difference between how it 39 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:47.920 does it for me and does it for you. Mine 40 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.879 is less personable than yours and uses more Bible verses, 41 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.400 but yours is way more engaging and way more applicable. 42 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:59.200 Right, we can't use too many Bible verses, Jeff. 43 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:01.359 That's right, that's right. But that's the only difference. And 44 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:03.480 I wasn't saying that to brag other than I am 45 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:06.439 a Bible guy. But beyond that, it's the only like 46 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:08.840 it's like, it doesn't have my voice, it just has 47 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:10.120 my attitude. 48 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:12.199 The Bible guy and his companion named Chris, but. 49 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:14.719 It writes it writes, well, I'm pretty sure yesterday you 50 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:16.039 said it was you. 51 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:16.759 You're the companion. 52 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:17.280 Yeah. 53 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.719 So anyways, here's what I said. I asked it, knowing 54 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:21.879 that Chris Arball has a pension for hyperbole. Answer the 55 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:24.439 question what made Chris mad this week? Yep, it reasoned 56 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:26.639 for a couple of seconds, and this said. It all 57 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.919 started when someone dared misplaced Chris's meticulously sharpened pencils by 58 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:30.960 a mere two millimeters? 59 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:33.360 Do you or don't you have OCD a little bit? 60 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:34.599 That is hilarious? 61 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:35.439 Huh? 62 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:36.479 How did you even know that? 63 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:36.879 I know? 64 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:39.879 Of course, in classic Chris fanhion, the fashion the minor 65 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:43.840 offence got described as the single most catastrophic organizational apocalypse 66 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:52.639 in stationary history. From there, every trivial annoyance snowballed. Someone 67 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:56.680 used there instead of there. In an email, a Brista 68 00:02:56.719 --> 00:03:00.719 added whipped cream to his latte unrequested, and even mentioned 69 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:03.120 the coworker who spoke at normal volume while Chris was 70 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:04.080 clearly trying to drink. 71 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:08.639 Is you know what my drink is? And I bet 72 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:09.479 that was a lucky yes. 73 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:14.319 Yet No, you've already talked about Barrista's and serving before. Okay, yeah, yeah, 74 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:19.039 so it knows and so you know you basically, every 75 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:21.759 each tiny misstep quickly got promoted to a crisis of 76 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:24.520 epic proportions, and before you knew it, Chris was convinced 77 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.000 the universe and conspired to rob him of every ounce 78 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:28.719 of peace, every. 79 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:29.240 Ounce of piece. 80 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:34.280 It knows you talk about hypers. I'm saying that's pretty extreme. 81 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.400 So anyways, so okay, all right, well okay, so what 82 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:38.280 made you mad this week? 83 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:38.599 Chris? 84 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:39.639 It comes down to one. 85 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:41.800 Thing, and this is the thing that everybody can relate to. 86 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:45.560 And I think that everybody I'm mad on behalf of 87 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:46.080 all folks. 88 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:48.479 Thank you, Thank you, Chris. We wouldn't have even thought 89 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:51.039 to be mad, but thank you for doing it for us. 90 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:53.400 Okay, tell me you have not experienced this. 91 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:57.479 It is when you try to get your broken car 92 00:03:57.639 --> 00:03:59.759 to perform for the mechanic and make that noise and 93 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.360 it will not do it right, right, right, So it 94 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:04.400 makes the noise, It makes the noise, It makes the noise, 95 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:06.439 and then you pull up to the mechanic and you're like, 96 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:07.800 it's making this noise and then and then all. 97 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:08.680 Of a sudden, it runs perfect. 98 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:09.639 You know what I'm talking about. 99 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.439 Okay, So this happened to me just like a few 100 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:13.919 days ago. 101 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.879 So so my son, he's in the middle of buying 102 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.800 a car right now, a truck, and so we're sort 103 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:23.600 of using this really really old car that I had 104 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:26.000 bought Sarah, and it's just sort of sticking around on 105 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.000 the driveway. It's a two thousand and eight Ford Focus 106 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:30.879 Get like two hundred thousand miles on. It's just pretty 107 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:34.439 pathetic anyway. But this this this thing, Fernando is his name, 108 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:35.160 by the way. 109 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:35.480 The car. 110 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:36.160 Yeah, I name car. 111 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:36.920 Name is Fernando. 112 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:38.759 You don't know I name all my car I didn't 113 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:41.160 know that. You really didn't know. I name all my cars. 114 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:43.920 I've named every car that I've ever had since I've 115 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:45.519 since I've been driving. 116 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:46.120 Wow. 117 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.000 Yeah, and even your dealership cars, Uh no, you don't 118 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.240 you know car that I owned, the ones that you own, Okay. 119 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:55.319 And in the dealership cars that I'm in, they're all 120 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:56.120 John Doe. 121 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.279 All John Doe, Yeah, every John Doe. Yep. 122 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:01.959 So because because I knew that, I knew i'd be 123 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:05.600 switching cars anyway, So all my brothers name all their cars. 124 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.800 All my family names the cars. All my kids named 125 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:09.120 the cars. 126 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:12.439 So Fernando thousand miles. 127 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:15.439 It's kind of a but he sold Shanaia. 128 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:15.360 Ok. 129 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.680 So I gets old and so so he so he 130 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:22.439 puts all his work tools into Fernando and it's just 131 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:26.000 a small, dinky, little Ford Focus and uh So, anyway, 132 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:27.959 he gets out there and it's like remember the remember 133 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:32.600 last week, uh during uh it was like literally like 134 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.560 negative five degrees outside. So he gets out there like 135 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.879 four in the morning and he goes to start Fernando and. 136 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:41.720 No, no, no, no, no, no, it's the crank. 137 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:43.959 So it's like it's like the what do you call it, 138 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.120 like the tethers or whatever. It's the it's the it's 139 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.360 the where your keys go in. So it's not it's 140 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:51.240 not the actual starter. It's that it actually won't catch. 141 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:53.879 So and sometimes if you push up and push in 142 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:56.680 it'll it'll start. But at the first couple of clicks, 143 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:58.120 you know, the battery comes on, but it won't. It 144 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.519 won't it won't crank. So and it's been this way 145 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.240 for like three years. We've never fixed it. So so 146 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:04.839 Steven's like you just have to push and push and 147 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:06.519 then he starts it. So he goes out there at 148 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:08.920 four in the morning. It doesn't start well. His car's 149 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:11.040 parked behind my car, and so I said, well, just 150 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:12.639 take my truck and he goes, I can't do it 151 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:16.000 because fans behind behind that, and I said, okay. 152 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:18.079 So it's four. So I literally get up and in 153 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:18.759 my robe. 154 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:23.199 So I literally am in my you know, underwear, put 155 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:26.079 my robe on, and I put boots on. So I 156 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:30.720 am freezing beyond belief and I am pushing the car 157 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:33.680 but he's but he's late now. So I'm like, come 158 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:35.199 help me, and he's like, I'm late. I gotta get 159 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:36.680 this thing. So it runs back in the house. He's 160 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.879 trying to get ready and then I'm pushing this car 161 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:42.439 out to the middle of the road in just a 162 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:45.160 robe and it is just I'm the coldest I've ever 163 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.879 been in my life. So then it sits there for 164 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:48.600 like three days. 165 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:49.279 I got there. 166 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:50.920 Every day I try to crank, it doesn't crank, and 167 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:53.040 I'm like, fine, I get this thing, toad. I got 168 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:55.680 Triple A. So I called Triple A and they say, hey, 169 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.319 we'll be there. I got to pay extra money because 170 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:59.800 it's beyond the miles my mechanic, so they finally sh 171 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:01.000 up after waiting. 172 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:02.079 Like two hours. 173 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:04.000 So I figured I'll go out there and I'll brush 174 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:05.959 it off for the mechanic. So I go out there 175 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.759 and I want to brush off the snow, and so 176 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:10.800 I think, oh, maybe i'll do is just I'll turn 177 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.120 on the ignition. Just the winter wipers will help me, right, 178 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:18.000 So I turn it on and it cranks yep. And 179 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.399 so then I take it to the mechanic and he says, 180 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:22.800 what do you mean it's starting fine? 181 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.560 And I said, are you kidding me? 182 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:30.079 For the last three years, when I put the ignition 183 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.399 in there and I turn it, without fail, it does 184 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:36.959 not crank like like, it doesn't do anything. And he said, 185 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.439 I'm telling you right now that I'm putting the key 186 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.079 in and I'm turning it every so gently, and every 187 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:43.920 single time it starts right up. 188 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:46.319 Well, are you kidding me? 189 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.160 So did he replace it? Anyways? He still has it, 190 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.160 still has it, So he's just just telling just tell. 191 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:57.120 Him keep it until you find it, like right like, But. 192 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:59.879 But does it happen for the doctor to where you 193 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:01.920 take your kids to the doctor they're so sick, But 194 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:03.279 by the time you get to the doctor, it's the 195 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:04.079 adrenaline rush. 196 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:06.879 They feel great. Doctor asks how you feeling? I feel fine? 197 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:07.079 Right? 198 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.079 They just talkative and all that kind of stuff. 199 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.079 When that happens, is that funny? 200 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.120 But I'm mad on behalf of every time the car 201 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.079 doesn't perform for the mechanic for the world. 202 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.319 That's right, and the car knows what it's doing. That's 203 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:20.519 the cars of America. 204 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:25.560 That's right. When when when you are are not functioning. 205 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:28.959 Right, you need to show that off for the hashtag 206 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:30.600 night writer, night writer doo doo? 207 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:32.600 Yeah is real? 208 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:34.279 Okay? 209 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:41.320 Talking about failing to learn from uh. 210 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:42.000 The anger of the owner? 211 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:48.600 That was rough. That was by far. You're worship Israel. 212 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:52.159 Israel is failing to learn their lessons from God. 213 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:58.279 Who's the owner of h Yeah. 214 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:58.799 I don't know, man. Okay. 215 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:01.360 So so here's that's my favorite phrase in the Book 216 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:01.960 of Amos. 217 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.559 I'll say it the Lord I crank and nothing happens. 218 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.159 All right, We're going to read literally in this next 219 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:10.279 sentence is my favorite sentence in all of the Book 220 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:12.720 of Amos, all the Book of Amous, the whole Book 221 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.519 of Amos Amos chapter four. He says, listen to me, 222 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:21.879 you fat cows living in Samaria whoa, wow, isn't it great? 223 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:23.000 That is amazing. 224 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:24.720 God's kind of ticked off. 225 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:27.480 Remember he just said earlier, you know, your family's the 226 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:28.840 only family I've ever been intimate with. 227 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.279 Yeah, and now he's like, you bunch of fat cows. 228 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.440 Hey. By the way, there's that. There's a note. 229 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.639 I know we normally don't interrupt the reading, but it 230 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:40.639 says Israel's wealthy women were called fat cows, pampered, sleek, 231 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:44.279 and well see Psalm Chapter twenty two, verse twelve. Excuse me, 232 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:47.960 well fed? These women selfishly pursued, or excuse me, push 233 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:51.519 their husbands to oppress I can't read the uh to 234 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:55.679 oppress the helpless in order to support their lavish lifestyles. 235 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.639 Be careful not to desire material possessions so much that 236 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:00.840 you were willing to oppress others and just please got 237 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:01.360 to get them. 238 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.320 So they were literally referred to fat house Psalm twenty two, 239 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:05.960 verse twelve. 240 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:06.799 Oh you gotta look it up. 241 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:09.279 Look up Psalm twenty two twelve. So I'll read this 242 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:10.919 and then you can get to it. So let me go. 243 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:13.639 Listen to me, you fat cows living in some area, 244 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.200 You women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, 245 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:18.600 and who are always calling to your husband's bring us 246 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.840 another drink. The Sovereign Lord has sworn by this, This 247 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.480 by his holiness. The time will come when you will 248 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.080 be led away with hooks in your noses, every last 249 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:28.799 one of you be dragged away like a fish on 250 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:30.919 a hook. You'll be let out through the ruins of 251 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.440 the wall, and you'll be thrown from your fortresses, says 252 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:33.799 the Lord. 253 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:35.000 Go ahead and offer. 254 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.480 Sacrifices to the idols at Bethel, keep on disobeying at Gilgal. 255 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:41.879 Offer sacrifices each morning, and bring your ties every three days, 256 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:45.720 present your bread made with yeast as an offering for Thanksgiving. 257 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:48.960 Then give your extra voluntary offering so you can brag 258 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:51.039 about it everywhere. This is the kind of thing you 259 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:54.000 Israelites love to do, says the Sovereign Lord. I brought 260 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.519 hunger to every city and famine to every town, but 261 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.480 still you would not return to me, says the Lord. 262 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.080 I kept the rain from fall when your crops needed 263 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:03.399 it the most, and I sent rain on one town, 264 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:05.879 but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, 265 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:08.960 while another field withered away. People staggered from town to 266 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.480 town looking for water, but there was never enough. But 267 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.559 still you would not return to me, says the Lord. 268 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.559 I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew 269 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:19.360 locus devoured all your fig and olive trees, but you 270 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:21.399 still would not return to me, says the Lord. I 271 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:23.320 sent plgus on you, like the plagues I sent on 272 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:25.919 Egypt long ago. I killed your young men in war 273 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.279 and led all your horses away. The stench of death 274 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:30.360 filled the air, but still you would not return to me, 275 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:32.600 says the Lord. I destroyed some of your cities, as 276 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:36.000 I destroyed Sadomighemora. Those of you who survived were like 277 00:11:36.039 --> 00:11:38.279 the charred sticks pulled from a fire. But still you 278 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:41.039 would not return to me, says the Lord. Therefore, I 279 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.639 will bring upon you all the dads. Is that all 280 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.679 the disasters I have announced. Prepare to meet your God 281 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.360 in judgment, you people of Israel. For the Lord is 282 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.320 the one who shaped the mountains, stirs up the winds, 283 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.159 and reveals his thoughts to mankind. He turns the light 284 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.519 of dawn into darkness and treads on the heights of 285 00:11:57.559 --> 00:12:01.919 the earth. The Lord, god of Heaven's armies, is his knee. 286 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:06.559 Woh yeah. Once again, he's not messing around. 287 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:10.320 No, No, you know what's interesting is I thought we 288 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:12.399 were doing the highlights of the Old Testament. 289 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.360 I thought we were too, but we're getting amos straight up. 290 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:16.240 Straight up Amos. 291 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:18.639 Yeah, And to be honest, it's a little bit more 292 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.360 of the same now now today is obviously a little different. 293 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:24.840 Right, So it's you know, so. 294 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.960 Chapter two was God's announcing judgment on all of the 295 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.639 different you know, chapters one and two he's announcing the 296 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:37.480 judgment on different places, and then he includes Israel, and 297 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:40.159 then all of a sudden, he goes on mostly about Israel. 298 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:47.360 He expresses his you know, disappointment, his anger, his patience, 299 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:50.840 you know. And then also, you know, doesn't it say 300 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.240 that God's a jealous god? 301 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:52.639 Right? 302 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:54.919 That God admits that he's jealous. Good. 303 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.840 Right, Not in a bad kind of way, no, but 304 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:01.080 in a committed kind of way, right, right, the way 305 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.000 that a husband would not want his wife cheating on 306 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:07.440 him with another person, or a wife wouldn't want her 307 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:09.679 husband cheating on her with another person. 308 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:11.440 That's it's that kind of. 309 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:14.120 It's the appropriate kind of jealousy. 310 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:14.679 Yeah. 311 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:21.039 And then and then so this chapter, sorry about. 312 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:23.080 The Yeah, that's okay, you're yawning at yourself. It doesn't 313 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:23.759 make me feel bad. 314 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:26.159 Yeah, oh, that's right, because you're not talking. 315 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:31.720 Usually when I'm talking. This time, you're boring yourself today. 316 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.879 Yeah right, I'm yawning in the middle of my sentence. 317 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.600 But but now it's now it's just God, uh, just 318 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:43.279 going on about Israel's, Israel's failure to learn. And uh, 319 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.720 you know, I've had this speech before with my kids. 320 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:47.960 By the way, have you ever had a speech where 321 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.679 it's like it's like, I just I don't know what 322 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.559 else to do. I don't know what else to try. 323 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:56.960 You know, I've I've taught, I've I've done everything I know, 324 00:13:57.200 --> 00:13:59.240 I did everything that I've known how to do, and 325 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:02.720 and yet you just simply won't you know, respond, you know, 326 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:03.960 or obey or whatever. 327 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:08.080 So it's going to get hard, right right, right, so's 328 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:10.960 the that's the note for Ams four six through thirteen. 329 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:18.320 It says, no matter how God warned the people through famine, drought, blight, locusts, plagues, war, 330 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:21.799 they still ignored him. Because the Israelites didn't get the message, 331 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:24.120 they would have to meet God face to face in judgment. 332 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.559 That's the scary one, right, Yeah, No, longer could they 333 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:30.960 ignore God, they would have to face the one that 334 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:32.919 they had rejected, the one that they had refused to 335 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:34.879 obey when he commanded them to care for the poor. 336 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.200 One day, each of us will meet God face to 337 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.320 face to give account for what we've done or refuse 338 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:39.639 to do. 339 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:41.679 Are you prepared to meet him? 340 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.639 You know that I think of that that we were 341 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.159 just talking recently about this, I still think this'd be 342 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:49.440 a good idea. I'm really intrigued with the idea of 343 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:52.159 taking some of the great messages that were preached during 344 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:55.799 the Great Awakenings in the first grade Awakening, second Grade Awakening, 345 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.559 George Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, some of these great 346 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:03.840 messages about about how God deals with his people, how 347 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.399 Hell is real, Heaven is real, judgment is real, opportunity 348 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:10.679 to serve God, blessings are real, all these things, you know, 349 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:12.759 because they're they're in the Old English, and so a 350 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:14.679 lot of times when you read those they don't make 351 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.279 So you know, if we just kind of updated them 352 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:20.919 with the modern language, but go back and reintroduce, you know, 353 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:22.639 these newer. 354 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.279 Generations to that language. 355 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:27.200 Because I could read those back when I was a kid. 356 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.720 Can read because I grew up reading the King James Bible, 357 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:31.879 so did you, right, grew up reading the King James. 358 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.919 So so you know this Shakespearean level English. So to 359 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:42.679 have that sophisticated seventeen hundred's English in preaching, wasn't that 360 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:43.320 weird to us? 361 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:43.679 We could? 362 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.360 We could, But now I think this generation has no 363 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:48.639 concept of that old English hardly. 364 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:50.159 So I'd love to go back and grab some of 365 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:51.080 those old messages. 366 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.440 But there's there's a great famous message Jonathan dwi was 367 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:56.120 preached sinners in the hands of an angry God. 368 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:59.000 Right, I remember reading in my freshman year of high school. 369 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.279 Yeah, I can remember a famous preacher judgment Days coming 370 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.360 right as another one some of these great messages that 371 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:09.480 were just rocked America at the time, going. 372 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.559 And it's not just God hates you and He's going 373 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:13.600 to judge you. That wasn't it. 374 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:17.000 It was God is is. He mentions here multiple times, 375 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:21.559 he's a roaring lion. I'm roaring from Jerusalem trying to 376 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:25.480 get your attention right, And and so God is, God 377 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:29.639 is merciful. He's this is what Jonah was mad at 378 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.080 him about. You're so compassionate, You're so merciful. Right, you're 379 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.279 so full of unending love for people. Right, he's mad 380 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:38.919 about that. But the other side is God is a 381 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:42.480 roaring lion. God is there is a limit to him 382 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:46.480 saying I'm gonna I'm gonna stop you from going any 383 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:49.039 further with the evil that you're choosing to do or 384 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:51.440 the bad choice you're gonna do, and that that judgment 385 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:52.200 also comes. 386 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:53.799 So God is love and God is just. 387 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.120 He's both, and so a lot of times we get 388 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:57.799 hung up on the love and mercy side and we 389 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:01.840 forget his justice, and then we're surprised. We're surprised when 390 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:05.079 things fall apart in life, and then we want to 391 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:07.720 blame everybody else instead of finally coming to the conclusion 392 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.319 these things are happening because I'm choosing to not obey God. 393 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:13.799 God says, how many famlinies do I have to send? 394 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:15.960 How much blake do I have? How often do I 395 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:16.960 have to send locusts? 396 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:19.400 War Guys, what do you think I'm doing. 397 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.119 I'm doing everything I can to get your attention, and 398 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:25.880 you refuse to believe that this is my way of 399 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:28.240 getting your attention. So all right, we're going to go 400 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:30.640 face to face on this one and I think that 401 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.440