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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:13.919 Hey, everybody, my name's Chris. This is Jeff, and we 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.879 are the Bible Guy the Bubble Guys. I like that. 6 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:20.679 That's good the voice the Bubble Guys. Yeah, let me 7 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.199 go so. And by the way, you could get that 8 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:24.199 rasp there, I heard it. 9 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:25.559 Yeah, I can put it there. 10 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:26.320 Yeah. 11 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:31.480 Well, hey, listen, today we are excited because Desiree has 12 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:36.439 given us the opportunity, the ability to read a news article. 13 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:38.439 And we love giving the most reliable news. 14 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:41.119 Yeah, from only the most reliable sources. That's right, which 15 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:42.960 for us is the Babylon Beat. 16 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:44.039 Yes, she don't know. 17 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:48.359 It's a satire website, very funny stuff. And today, says 18 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:52.479 Instagram algorithm, since his wife tired in bed, ready to 19 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:53.119 buy whatever. 20 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:54.799 And by the way, you can't. 21 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:56.920 See it, but there's a picture of this woman lying 22 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.439 in bed on the phone. The glow is on her 23 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:01.560 screen and he's got a smile on her face. 24 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:03.960 That's right, because she's ready to buy whatever. 25 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:04.560 Oh right. 26 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:09.480 Salt Lake City, Utah. The algorithm that dictates ads on Instagram. 27 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:12.519 Sprang into action. As Rachel Myers settled into bed, the app, 28 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:15.319 sensing she was tired and ready to buy literally anything 29 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:16.159 put in front of her. 30 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:16.959 So funny. 31 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.879 Instagram has worked for years attempting to discover precisely when 32 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.040 a wife is at both her most exhausted and most comfortable, 33 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:24.000 and then to strike. 34 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:26.280 Do you believe that's true? I do believe that's true, 35 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:28.560 because that is incredibly smart. 36 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:29.799 I think so. 37 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:32.400 Oh those pants are cute and they're on sale, and 38 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.079 if I give them my email addressed, they'll take ten 39 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:37.599 percent off my order. Meyers said, her eyes barely open. Wow, 40 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.079 look at those gardening gloves. I definitely need those. And 41 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.159 this lady has an ergonomic mouse. Oh how about this 42 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:47.280 matching apron bonnet? Combo bonnets are making a comeback, Oh, added, 43 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.079 though ostensibly checking Instagram to see what a couple friends 44 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:55.359 had posted. Only minutes later, Myers had loaded seventy three 45 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:58.760 new items into her online cart. My goodness quote, the 46 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:02.120 algorithm is truly amazing. If if at times it right, 47 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:06.040 wives will buy literally anything, said Instagram software engineered David Khan. 48 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:08.800 They'll buy dog food even though they don't own the dog. 49 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:13.280 The defenses to the bank account are Zilch during that 50 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:17.360 little window before she falls asleep. At publicly publishing time, 51 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:19.960 Maya's husband had quietly pulled his wife's phone out of 52 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:22.599 her hand as she fell asleep, quickly canceling her order 53 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.159 for a jumbo ant farm. 54 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:29.639 That is so funny, so funny. Yeah, that's really good. 55 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:31.680 I told my wife one time, I said, she told 56 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:34.680 me she got some stuff. We've had a run since 57 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:37.159 we moved into our new house where the Amazon guy 58 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:38.159 comes like every day. 59 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:39.159 Yeah, every day. 60 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:41.159 That's that's me, every day, no matter what. Yeah, and 61 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.240 so I'm not kidding. Yeah, no, I'm not kidding. Yeah, 62 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.520 it's it's sometimes five six packages this day. 63 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:47.360 Part of your family. 64 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:48.439 What's that? 65 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:49.919 Is the Amazon guy part of your family? 66 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:52.400 Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah. We just them, we know them. 67 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.400 Backyard barbecue. Yeah yeah. So uh. 68 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:57.960 I told my wife, I said, why do we keep 69 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.360 it on these packages? Getting some really good after Christmas sales, 70 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:03.479 really good. We're saving a lot of money, I said, 71 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:07.080 I can't afford to save this much money, right right right. 72 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.520 So, by the way, let me let me be clear. 73 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:14.879 My wife doesn't order extravagant things. She orders like deodorant 74 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.439 or you know what, I mean, or just. 75 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:19.400 Just saves a trip to the store, that's right. 76 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.439 Like paper towels come in Amazon packages, right, So like 77 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:24.360 you know, I don't want people to misinterpret like she's 78 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:27.639 not a shopper, like like like hey, I bought this 79 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:30.879 diamond ring and like this thing that this woman has 80 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.080 in the ad of bonds and things that is not her. 81 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:36.680 She just swipes to do her grocery shopping. 82 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.879 A lot of time, I saw a light sweat start 83 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:41.120 breaking out on your brow after you mentioned that five 84 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:42.719 packages a day come to your house, and you thought, 85 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:44.680 I need to make sure everybody knows my wife's not 86 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:45.319 wasting money. 87 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.199 Oh no, no, no, no, she doesn't. She doesn't do that. 88 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.080 And by the way, she'll even tell me, because I'll 89 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:53.960 come home and I will literally complain and I'll go, 90 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.400 there's five packages, and then she'll open them up and 91 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.759 she's like, paper towels, really, And I said, why do 92 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.159 you buy paper towels that? Why don't just grab my 93 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:04.120 Kroger And she says, believe it or not, it's cheaper. 94 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.240 And by the way, that is incredibly hard to believe 95 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:12.159 it's cheaper. So how is that even possible that it's cheaper? 96 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:16.240 And it's because Amazon is a conglomerate, right, So it's 97 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:19.920 like it's like, that's how big Amazon is where somehow 98 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:23.839 you can buy a regular item through Amazon and have it. 99 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:25.759 By the way, delivered to your house the next day 100 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.800 or that day or that day, and somehow you save 101 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:29.480 forty cents. 102 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:29.879 Yeah. 103 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:32.120 Figure, how was AIDM possible? 104 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:32.879 I don't know. 105 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:34.439 Yeah, so it's pretty it's pretty crazy. 106 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:35.319 I saw that packaging. 107 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:37.680 We're cutting down a million trees so we can save 108 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:38.240 forty cents. 109 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.120 But that's okay, right right, It's not good for the world. 110 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.360 But you know, I had a guy who worked at 111 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:44.759 our church. 112 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.720 His name was Carl and he was the communications director 113 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.160 and he's in charge of all printing, and people all 114 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:52.560 used to, you know, approach him about like all the 115 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:54.680 paper that he's wasting, you know, all the trees that 116 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:57.920 he's cutting down. And he used to say, you know 117 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.000 that trees are replaceable product. 118 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:01.519 Yeah, you see, to plant more trees. 119 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:03.319 He's like you know that, people, He goes, We're not 120 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:05.560 going to run out of trees. He's like, there's no 121 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:07.240 way that we can run out of trees. He says, 122 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:09.160 if you think about how many sheets of paper come. 123 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:11.680 From a tree. He's like, there's no danger in running 124 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:12.199 out of trees. 125 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.319 We just have to Where it gets bad is where 126 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:17.040 we're burning them, and then we're not replanting, right, right, 127 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:23.279 right right, So anyways, talking about planting, Oh, today Amos 128 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:25.639 has a vision of ripe. 129 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.759 Fruit which is planted on a tree. 130 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.279 Well, trees get planted and then rose trees. 131 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:33.680 Yeah, yeah, well you should have said speaking of trees. 132 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:35.920 Speaking of trees, that's what you should speaking of trees. Yes, 133 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:37.959 you almost had it, almost, but. 134 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:38.680 You should plant it. 135 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:41.800 Yeah, yeah, speaking of planting and trees. And try it again, 136 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:44.399 speaking of planting trees. 137 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:49.000 There it is there you go. Yes, that's terrible. So 138 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:50.199 we are in the book of Amos. 139 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:54.360 Yes, everybody's famous Amos, Yes, his favorite book. 140 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:57.519 And this is a vision another vision, say God has 141 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.519 given only this is a vision of ripe fruit. 142 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.639 And uh. And apparently we're walking through every bit. 143 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.079 Of Amos, every bit, every bit, every bit. 144 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:05.680 But that's okay. 145 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:07.600 Yeah, Hey, I'm going to guess most of our listeners 146 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:09.720 have never read every bit of Amos. 147 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:12.319 Well, I would say that's true. Think about it. 148 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:14.079 I think most Christians don't spend a ton of time 149 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:14.680 in Amos. 150 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:15.319 That's correct. 151 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:17.399 And by the way, I'm a Christian and I'm a 152 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:21.120 pastor for decades, and it's I have to confess, it's 153 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:22.759 been a while since I've read through the book of Amos. 154 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:23.240 Well, here we are. 155 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:26.079 Every verse good. But I have done it before. Yes, 156 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:29.399 but you but you implied that I have not. 157 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:33.120 I did not. I did not you joke. I just said, 158 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.480 you joke. I have a few favorite verses in the books. 159 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:38.000 Well, I read it, Chrish. 160 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.879 Yeah, yeah, it's amazing how much of the Bible you 161 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:46.639 know when you read it, right, Okay, Amos Chapter eight, 162 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.240 Verse one says, then the Sovereign Lord showed me another vision. 163 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:52.839 In it, I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit. 164 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:55.040 What do you see, Amos, he asked, I replied, a 165 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:57.399 basket full of ripe fruit. Then the Lord said, like 166 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:00.399 this fruit Israel is ripe for punishment. I will not 167 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.160 delay their punishment again. And that day the singing and 168 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.879 the temple will turn to whaling. Dead bodies will be 169 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.759 scattered everywhere. They will be carried off of the city 170 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.439 in silence, out of the city in silence. I the 171 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:14.399 Sovereign Lord, have spoken. Listen to this, you who rob 172 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:16.720 the poor and trample down the needy. You can't wait 173 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.519 for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious 174 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:20.519 festivals to end so you can get back to cheating 175 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.720 the helpless. You measure out grain with dishonest measures and 176 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:27.160 cheat the buyer with discount or dishonest scales. You mix 177 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:29.519 the grain you sell with chaff swept from the floor. 178 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.480 Then you enslave poor people for one piece of silver 179 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.600 or a pair of sandals. Now the Lord has sworn 180 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.680 his oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel. 181 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:41.519 I will never forget the wicked things you've done. The 182 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.000 earth will tremble for your deeds, and everyone will mourn. 183 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.439 The ground will rise like the Nile river at flood time. 184 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:49.399 It'll heave up and then sink again. And that day, 185 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:51.199 says the Sovereign Lord, I will make the sun go 186 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.160 down at noon and darken the earth while it is 187 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:56.439 stilled day. And I'll turn your celebrations into times of morning, 188 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:59.319 and you're singing into weeping. You will wear funeral clothes 189 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:01.240 and shave your head to show your sorrow, as if 190 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:04.000 your only son had died. How very bitter that day 191 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:07.399 will be. The time is surely coming says the sovereign Lord. 192 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:08.920 When I will send a famine on the land, not 193 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:11.160 a famine of bread or water, but of hearing the 194 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:14.319 words of the Lord, people will stagger from sea to sea, 195 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:15.199 and wander from. 196 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:16.959 Border to border, searching for the word of the Lord. 197 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.720 But they will not find it. Beautiful girls and strong 198 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.240 men will grow faint in that day, thirsting for the 199 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.959 Lord's word. Those who swear by the shameful idols of Samaria, 200 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.120 who take odes in the name of the God of 201 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.040 Dan and make bows in the name of the God 202 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.879 of Beersheba, they will all fall down, never to rise again. 203 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:35.240 Is that it? 204 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.720 Yeah, that's it for sure. Wow, So there you go. 205 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.639 Well, there it is another vision and a very strong warning, 206 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:50.080 and some of the same some of the same references, right, 207 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:52.960 like enslaved people for one piece of silver or a 208 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.639 pair of sandals. Right, that's been mentioned before, Cheating the 209 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:01.279 buyer with dishonest scales, that's been mentioned before, religious festivals, 210 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:04.799 cheating the helpless, dishonest measures. 211 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.039 So again just a reiteration. Right. 212 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:12.320 There's a note in our Life Application Study Bible on 213 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.159 these verses, and it says these merchants were keeping the 214 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:18.759 religious festivals, but not with the right spirit. They couldn't 215 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:21.519 wait for the holy days and Sabbaths to be over 216 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.000 so they can go back to making money. Their real 217 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.279 interest was enriching themselves, even if that mean cheating. And 218 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:31.879 then parenthesis says short changing the quantity while boosting the 219 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:34.600 price or even selling chaff as wheat. 220 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:35.120 Wow. 221 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.279 And by the way, chaff is the bad part of wheat, 222 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:42.240 right yeah, uh, the unusable part. Do you take a 223 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.080 day to rest and worship God at least one day 224 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.600 a week or is it making Is making money more 225 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:51.279 important to you? There's a sermon? Is making money more 226 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.840 important to you than anything else? When you give your 227 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:54.600 time to God? 228 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:57.799 Is your heart and worship or is your only religion 229 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.159 only affront for an to go practices? So that's small 230 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.240 writing right there. I'm starting to need my glasses. 231 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:06.159 You know. 232 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:12.360 The uh that sermon right there is? Is that? Uh uh? 233 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:15.840 You know? The Sabbath day is included in that little sermon? 234 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:16.080 Right? 235 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.960 So? Do you remember there was a song a long 236 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:24.000 time ago by Rascal Flats where where it talked about 237 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:25.720 Sunday used to be a day of rest? 238 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:27.080 Do you remember. 239 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:29.480 You don't remember the song? 240 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:32.919 I see maybe baby sitting on the poet drinking and 241 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:35.720 ie cold cher Kaluk where everything is. 242 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:37.399 Black and white, da dada. 243 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.600 Anyway, uh so he so he's talking about the good 244 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:44.000 old days, that's what he's saying. And in that song 245 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:45.840 he says, Sunday used to be a day of rest 246 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:47.080 and now it's now it's a day. 247 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:47.759 Of making more money. 248 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:49.200 And it's like, and. 249 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.559 I thought that was so interesting that Rascal Flats is 250 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:53.799 talking about the good old days and he had What 251 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.080 he's really doing is is just sort of including right 252 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:59.799 here this this passage that Sunday. People used to respect Sunday. 253 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:01.559 They used to say, nope, we're not going to make 254 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.679 Sunday a day of working. Sunday's a day of rest. 255 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.279 And even in the olden days in our lifetime, right, 256 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:11.559 we've seen it. Are in our fathers probably grew up 257 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:13.320 with the mentality that nobody's going. 258 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.440 To work on Sunday, and yet now they do. Yeah, 259 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:17.200 it's interesting. 260 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:19.919 Yeah, well, if you look at it, I think that 261 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.000 there's you knows as you go through all these judgments, 262 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:25.879 obviously he's already been frustrated with the fact that you know, 263 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:31.159 they they're selling slaves and there they're abusing the poor 264 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:34.080 and all these things. So, like you said, he's covered 265 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:38.399 these things. But I think God drives home. When God 266 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:41.039 repeats a thing, it's because he's trying to drive home 267 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:42.679 what a big deal it is. Right, So if he 268 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:46.519 repeats himself, he's not just stuttering. Right, It's not like, oh, 269 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:48.080 did I did say this or not? Well, let me 270 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:48.559 say it again? 271 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:48.799 Right? 272 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:49.919 Did I say that last service? 273 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:50.159 Yeah? 274 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:54.240 Yeah, exactly. So he's saying it on purpose. And when 275 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:59.399 you look at all of these things, how how bad 276 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:03.080 this judgment is? Right, there's going to be dead bodies 277 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:06.639 scattered everywhere. You're going to be carried out of the 278 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:09.559 city in silence. You're going to be hauled away. The 279 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:10.480 punishment's coming. 280 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:11.639 I'm not going to delay. 281 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:14.159 So really, the singing is gonna stop and it's just 282 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:17.799 going to be dead bodies. That that's pretty horrific description, right, Sure, 283 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.159 then you read and find out why because you said 284 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.279 you were selling twelve ounces and you only sold eleven. 285 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:28.440 You said you said you were going to loan at 286 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.360 a good interest rate, and you loaned an abusive interest rate. 287 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.720 You said you were selling one thing, but you you know, 288 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:40.039 you watered down the product right. That's and you're skipping 289 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:44.519 the Sabbath day. So we think God brings judgment for 290 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:46.759 big stuff, murder, adultery. 291 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:47.639 Right. 292 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:51.320 God's saying, if you claim you're selling twelve ounces, sell 293 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:54.600 twelve ounces, right, or you're ripping off the poor, right, 294 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.159 And I hate that, hate it, yeah, he loads it. 295 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:02.200 Right. If if you're if you're saying that you're going. 296 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:09.399 To uh sell a specific product, sell that product. God 297 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.200 hates dishonesty, and he's saying, there's going to be dead 298 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.159 bodies everywhere over your bad business practices. Yeah right, So 299 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:20.879 earlier he goes, I'm so sick of you're fake worship. 300 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:21.960 So don't you. 301 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:28.320 Understand Sunday and Monday are the same to God? Right, God, 302 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.399 God expects the guy you're pretending to be on Sunday 303 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.720 to be the real guy you are on Monday. That's 304 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:36.360 that's what he's expecting. And he's not talking to religious 305 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:39.440 leaders here. He's talking to businessmen and business women, that's 306 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:41.759 what he's talking to. And he's using a shepherd and 307 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:43.559 a farmer to come and talk to him about it. 308 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:48.440 These are everyday normal people. This isn't Saint Amos, This 309 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.120 isn't Saint Chris Sarba. 310 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:51.960 Right, Sat, Jeff Forest. 311 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:52.240 That's right. 312 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.639 This is this is a normal guy talking to business 313 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:58.480 people about how God views everyday life. 314 00:13:58.600 --> 00:13:59.200 Yeah, that's good. 315 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:01.679 And when he says cheat the buyer with just on 316 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:04.480 a scales, you're talking about the scales of justice where 317 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:06.240 one thing's supposed to weigh exactly the other. 318 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:07.600 You know, you you weigh out. 319 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:10.080 Uh, not the scales justice. These are business skills. 320 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.120 Oh well, something like the skills. 321 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.639 Yeah, we're going to use the yeah, yeah. 322 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:18.080 Something something similar, right, They weren't exactly the scales of justice, 323 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.799 but yeah, a similar mechanism where they would have it would. 324 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:24.200 Be balanced on the top and then you'd have a 325 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.720 specific weight on one side worth of value, that's right, 326 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:29.639 and then you put the grain or the the metal 327 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:32.360 or whatever you're buying on the other side and way, yeah. 328 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:33.159 Yeah whatever. Yeah. 329 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:34.919 And then and then they would do that, they would 330 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:38.960 they would cheat it by removing right, and they would 331 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:39.399 say it's. 332 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:40.320 A certain round, but it's really not. 333 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:42.320 So what they would do is they would so let's 334 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.720 say you have we're going to buy it by the ounce, 335 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:46.960 and we would have weights on the one side that 336 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:50.440 would be one ounce, you know, five ounces ten ounces. 337 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.360 So if it was something I'm weighing to where I'm 338 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:55.480 going to have to pay you and I'm going controlling, 339 00:14:55.519 --> 00:15:00.320 sometimes I would would drill out the inside, hollow out 340 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.519 and make it lighter by a few ounces, right, so 341 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:04.600 that way i'd pay less. 342 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:06.120 But if it was. 343 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:09.000 From my advantage where I'm charging you, then i would 344 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:12.159 have a different set of fake weights, where I'd drill 345 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:13.879 it out and put lead inside and make it just 346 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:17.279 a little heavier. So then that way I'm able to 347 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:19.879 charge you more all you bought. You know, you bought night. 348 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:22.840 So you ever go to the butcher shop. Have you 349 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:24.360 ever noticed you go to the butcher shop, say hey, 350 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.519 I need three pounds of salmon, and they give you 351 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:27.960 three point five pounds of salmon? 352 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:30.159 Right, right? That's what? Is that enough? 353 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:32.960 And I always go, yeah, that's fine. But that's kind 354 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.759 of the idea was what you think you're buying versus 355 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:38.360 what they actually sell you are different things, right, And 356 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:40.919 I'm not saying that's a dishonest thing because I'm letting 357 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.120 it happen in that moment. But what they were doing 358 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:47.200 is they were sneaking. They were always ripping everybody off. 359 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:49.879 At least the butcher's calling it for what it is. 360 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:51.279 Pounds that good. 361 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:55.440 Yeah, yeah, but that's maybe the closest thing that anybody 362 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.600 our listeners have had to this, right. But what they 363 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:00.840 were doing was they were skiwing. Have two sets of 364 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.080 weights they'd have, they'd have and they'd be. 365 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:04.159 Either heavier or live. 366 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.320 It's like loaded dice, we're paying what yeah? Right, So so. 367 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:09.679 You know the the old trick of you know, loaded 368 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:11.720 dice means no matter what you do, it's always going 369 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.600 to roll a seven or whatever it is, right, So yeah, 370 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:15.240 it's and. 371 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:17.519 By the way, loaded dice is also in the Bible, 372 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:18.320 loaded dice. 373 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:18.679 Right. 374 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:22.200 So this is this idea of being people of integrity 375 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.200 all the time, giving, giving the product that you say 376 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:29.840 you're giving, giving the the service that you're claiming, your 377 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:32.159 serving those of you that have the ability to build. 378 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.000 Maybe you're a CPA or an attorney or something. If 379 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.840 you charge for half an hour, you better to have 380 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.080 done a half hours worth of work. Right in God's 381 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:42.039 mind or judgment's coming, that's kind of his attitude about it. 382 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:42.480 Right. 383 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:46.720 If you're if you're charging or you're billing right now, 384 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:50.159 you know there's all this auditing happening in our federal government, 385 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:52.840 right with Doge and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, sure, 386 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:54.639 I'm not passing judgment one way or the other on 387 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:58.480 whether or not that's all a great idea. But the 388 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:00.519 federal government and by the way, the state to Michigan, 389 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:04.079 they don't get audited, right, So so all of a sudden, 390 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.799 they're being audited now and they're finding out there's billions 391 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:12.200 of dollars worth of waste, dishonest decisions, yep, bad waste 392 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:16.680 or horrifically bad management. Right, So it's dishonesty or bad management. 393 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.079 Either way, it's time to fix it, right, Billions and 394 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:21.319 billions of dollars of this stuff. That kind of stuff 395 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:24.160 makes God sick when there's people who go, oh, well, 396 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:27.319 it's just you know, tax money, it's just whatever. 397 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.519 God's like, No, you be faithful. 398 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:33.240 It's expected of a man who's a steward to be 399 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.000 found faithful. That's what God says, It's required of them. 400 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:39.400 And so this unfaithfulness with regard to how we do 401 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:43.519