WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.200 Hey, everybody, we're the Bible guys, and if you're just 2 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:05.320 tuning in recently, just know that we are showing a 3 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:07.120 little bit of reruns for a few months, and then 4 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.839 we'll be back bigger and better than ever on August 5 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:13.519 thirty first, because behind the scenes, we're taking a hiatus 6 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:14.720 to do some very important things. 7 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:18.399 Yeah, we're building building out a new studio and we've 8 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:21.399 got some new structure. Super excited about it. So August 9 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.359 thirty first, brand new content. But in the meantime, enjoy 10 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:25.440 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:30.000 So, Jeff, Today we're receiving Paul's final instructions as he 12 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.640 finally wraps up his letter to the Church of Rome. 13 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:34.439 Yeah, he's been wrapping this thing up for a while, 14 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:37.280 hasn't he. So this is a good preacher. We love 15 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:39.520 to just close and close and close. And that's what 16 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:43.079 he's saying, Paul, that's right. So he's Chris and I'm Jeff, 17 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:46.679 and we're the Bible guys. 18 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.960 So Jeff, Yes, today we're supposed to be doing a draft. 19 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.000 I like I like it when we do these drafts. 20 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:04.359 Too, So it's uh, I'm just gonna read it how 21 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:04.760 it's written. 22 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:06.560 It says today, we're going to do a draft list 23 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:10.640 of your top tier favorite actors. Think that if they're 24 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.200 in a movie, then you're going to go and see 25 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:16.519 it just because of the actors. Do rock paper scissors 26 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:18.920 to see who gets the first pick, and then go 27 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:20.879 until you each have five actors. 28 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.840 Oh five, okay, just for the sake of just being 29 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:24.599 on the. 30 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.400 Top of our brains, just for to make it easier, 31 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:29.079 let's just pick male actors. 32 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.200 Okay, just the top male actors. Okay, just because I can't. 33 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:34.319 I can't. My brain can't work that hard. Okay. 34 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:39.879 So one shoot one two three shoot Ready one two three. 35 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:48.239 Shoot one two three, shoot one two three shoot. 36 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:48.239 Yes, yes, okay. 37 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:52.359 So my first one would be My favorite actor is 38 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:53.519 Harrison Ford. 39 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:57.560 Okay, that's good. My favorite actor is Tom Hanks. 40 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:58.359 Oh really? 41 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:03.200 Yes? Yeah, makes believe it or not. I always am 42 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:06.840 curious every time I see John Krasinski in a in 43 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:08.479 a movie or a TV show or something. 44 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:09.400 I really like him. 45 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:12.400 Yeah, okay, My second one is Tom Cruise. 46 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:15.560 I thought you said Tom Cruise was your first one, 47 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.879 Tom Hanks. You said Tom Cruise first. 48 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:18.800 I did not. 49 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:20.960 I'm almost positive you did. 50 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:25.439 We can roll the everybody who's listening is laughing because they. 51 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:26.520 You said Tom Hanks first. 52 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:28.439 I read it. I read it. 53 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:30.840 Yeah, yeah, I don't think you said it right. I'm 54 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.840 gonna go back with him later. Okay, so my number three. 55 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:36.680 Hey, by the way, I'm now speaking to Jeff listening later. 56 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:37.759 Got you. 57 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:41.280 That's not true. We didn't roll it back yet. 58 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:44.599 No, I know. I'm talking to you like a week 59 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:44.879 from now. 60 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:49.039 Yeah, yeah, okay, well we'll see, okay, let me see. 61 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:53.319 Let me see. Who's the guy who did the Born series, 62 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.240 Mad Dame Mad Damon, Yeah. 63 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:58.039 Matt Damon. Okay, Uh, he's on my list as well. 64 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:00.400 I'm gonna say Denzel. 65 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:04.960 Oh I love Denzel oh Man. Okay, so what are 66 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:05.919 we at now? Number three? 67 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.199 Number four? So number four? 68 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:15.919 Uh, anytime I see who, I want to watch that movie? Ah, dude, 69 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:21.599 I don't watch movies often enough to know. Uh, well, 70 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.319 we're doing a lot of action movies, aren't we, So 71 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:26.439 we should change Kevin Costner. 72 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:28.240 Yeah, he's on the back end. 73 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:30.400 But yeah, but you know all time, like like I 74 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:33.439 like to draft day, hey, like some of those machines machine. 75 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:35.400 He's doing a thing on Yellowstone. 76 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:36.719 Now called Yellowstone. 77 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:41.560 It's in Yellowstone Park. Oh he's yes, he's narrated Yellowstone 78 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:42.719 I think that'd be right off your head. 79 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:43.800 Thought you're talking about the TV show. 80 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:49.800 Oh no, okay, okay. So my other, my fourth one 81 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:51.280 would be Paul Rudd. 82 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:53.439 Oh that's a good one. 83 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:53.840 I love. 84 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.840 Yeah, Paul Rudd, he's good. Let me see. 85 00:03:58.159 --> 00:03:59.719 And then this is the last man. 86 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.000 So this is the last one. 87 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:05.960 Out of all of the people. See, I would have 88 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:12.719 done Tom Hanks. Uh, let me see. I can't think 89 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:13.840 of it. I can't think of one. 90 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.160 How about if I give you four or five, you 91 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:20.879 can choose, probably Robert de Niro, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, 92 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.680 Leonardo DiCaprio, Jacky Nicholson, Will Smith. 93 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:32.639 Actually Jack Black. Jack Black's the one I'm gonna pick 94 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:33.959 for my fifth draft choice. 95 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:35.759 Oh gosh, that's so great. 96 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.040 After I read like the greatest actors of all time, 97 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:43.959 you're like Jack Black in the moment, all right, out 98 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.959 of that remaining because I wrote down like ten actors 99 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.079 that I liked, I'm and I have this list, by 100 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:53.879 the way, from something else. I'm gonna say that the 101 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.120 one I'm gonna choose is very hard. But I'm actually 102 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:57.720 gonna say Will Smith. 103 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.279 Oh wow, yeah, Will Smith. So he's my fifth. 104 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:03.319 I'm going to take one big step back from you. 105 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:04.600 Stay out of arms reach. 106 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:07.720 I don't mimic his slab pay well. 107 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:09.000 I don't know. I'm just afraid. 108 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:11.759 Now. Christian is great. 109 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:12.839 He's a good actor. 110 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:14.399 Yeah, yes, very good. 111 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:17.480 Well today we're going to wrap up the Book of 112 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:20.439 Romans in the letter that Paul is writing to the 113 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:23.680 church he's never been to and he's giving final instructions. 114 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:28.319 Okay, so well let's just pick up here because remember 115 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:30.279 yesterday we talked about how he's not taking shots at 116 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:34.240 other Christians, right, right, But he does say this, and 117 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:35.920 then this is why we stopped, he says. And now 118 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.160 I make one more appeal, My dear brothers and sisters, 119 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.759 watch out for people who cause divisions and upset people's 120 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:44.279 faith by teaching things contrary to what you've been taught. 121 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.800 Stay away from them. Such people are not serving Christ, 122 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.639 our Lord. They are serving their own personal interests. By 123 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.839 smooth talk and glowing words, they deceive innocent people. But 124 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:55.920 everyone knows that you are obedient to the Lord, and 125 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:58.439 this makes me very happy. I want you to be 126 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:01.720 wise and doing right and to stay innocent. Of any wrong. 127 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:04.920 The God of Peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. 128 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.360 May the grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. Timothy, 129 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:12.079 my fellow worker, sends you his greetings, as do Lucius, 130 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:16.759 Jason Suscipator, and my fellow Jews. I Tertius, the one 131 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.240 writing this letter for Paul, send my greetings too, is 132 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:20.199 one of the Lord's followers. 133 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:21.360 I love that he slipped that in. 134 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:25.000 I love it in between Paul sentences, Yeah. 135 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.279 Exactly, I'm going to say I too. He's never mentioned me, 136 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:29.360 he never even said my name. I'm gonna let you 137 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.319 know I'm writing there for you. Gais says hello to you. 138 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:34.560 He's my host and also serves as host to the 139 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:38.040 whole church. Erastus, the city Treasurer, sends you his greetings, 140 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:42.120 and so does our brother Cordus. Now all glory to God, 141 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.040 who's able to make you strong. Just as my good 142 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.279 News says this message about Jesus, Christ has revealed his 143 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:51.839 plan for you gentiles, a plan kept secret from the 144 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:55.160 beginning of time. But now, as the Prophet's foretold and 145 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:57.959 as the eternal God is commanded, this message is made 146 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.959 known to all gentiles everywhere, so that they too might 147 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.720 believe and obey him. All glory to the only Wise 148 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:05.959 God through Jesus Christ forever. 149 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:06.519 Amen. 150 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:07.519 Amen. 151 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:08.920 I love that. 152 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.639 So there's some some belief or some indication that Paul 153 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.439 had a lot of trouble with his eyesight, and so 154 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.279 he used writers because if you remember in some of 155 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:21.800 the other epistles that he uh said or that he 156 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:24.720 wrote at the end, he'd say, hey, now you can 157 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:26.879 see I'm signing this in my own handwriting. 158 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:27.639 Look how big it is? 159 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:27.839 Right. 160 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:30.319 He mentioned that a couple of times Galatians. Yeah, that 161 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:32.759 he's signing with his own hand and his big So 162 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.759 I love how the Book of Romans ends. It's just 163 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:37.959 and I think the Holy Spirit just allowed it. It's 164 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:43.680 a giggle in the Bible where what's the name Gaeish goes, 165 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:45.240 I'm signing. 166 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.360 My name too, I can't read it. 167 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:49.199 That's so funny. 168 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:50.600 It's just the best. 169 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:54.680 Yeah. And uh and so the beginning, the beginning, and of. 170 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:59.079 Course Paul's covered this topic and so many other parts 171 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:00.680 of his you know, the other book that he's written. 172 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.600 But he talks about false teachers. He talks about. 173 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:06.519 Those teaching contrary to what you know, and he says, 174 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.120 stay away from them. So there's no there's not a 175 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:12.040 new thought to say stay away from false teachers. 176 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:13.800 But then I love how. 177 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:15.800 He expands and says, such people are not serving Christ, 178 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:19.560 our Lord, and they are serving their own personal interests 179 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:23.600 by smooth talking, glowing words that deceive innocent people. 180 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:25.959 And you know, it's. 181 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:30.920 Interesting how there are people who not just preachers, not 182 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.919 just famous people, not just people with titles, right, you know, 183 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.360 I mean, obviously people with titles who try to manipulate 184 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:38.639 and say send your money in and all these different 185 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:39.519 things that we've. 186 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:40.720 Seen in the past. 187 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.759 But even I think there's a group of Christians I 188 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:48.399 think that seem to somehow. 189 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:50.720 I don't know how to say this. 190 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:54.000 I should have thought more before I spoke, But have 191 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.480 you ever met a person who seems to leverage Christianity 192 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:02.200 to make themselves look better? Like they come and they 193 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.279 play church and they play godly and they make themselves 194 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:05.799 look better. 195 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:08.399 And it just sort of reminds me of that group 196 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:11.919 of people too. They don't really love God somebody, they 197 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:13.000 love how they look when. 198 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:17.879 They're you're saying, somebody who's clearly pursuing celebrity Christianity, Yeah, maybe. 199 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:20.120 That's a good way to say, look at me, pay 200 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.960 attention to me. And I know that's not the warning, 201 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:23.679 that's not the warning. 202 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:26.200 He's warnering false doctrine. 203 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.440 But there are Christians or people who claim to be Christians, 204 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:32.320 who are really very self centered. 205 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:34.000 And that's what I thought of what you said through 206 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:38.440 smooth talk and selfishness and deceitfulness. I thought, you know, 207 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:43.120 there really is a subculture of every once in a while, 208 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.440 you'll run into that type of person. And I think 209 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:49.840 that it's important to realize that there are broken people 210 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:52.679 that walk into churches, right, And so when you run 211 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:53.600 into somebody like that. 212 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:56.799 It doesn't mean the church is bad, right, And it also. 213 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:59.840 Doesn't mean that whenever you see a bad preacher who 214 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.879 teaches false doctrine and tries to get monetary gain, it 215 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.879 doesn't mean that the whole church is bad. It just 216 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:10.159 means that, listen, this world is filled with broken people. Yeah, 217 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:11.960 and you and I are going to make mistakes. 218 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:16.279 There's bad school teachers, there's bad coaches, there's bad politicians, 219 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:21.679 there's bad bakers, there's bad chefs. That's right, right, And 220 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:24.440 yet that doesn't turn us off from going back to 221 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:26.600 a baker. I'm going to stop and have another donut 222 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:28.679 when I want one, You know what I mean, Just 223 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:30.639 because there are some bad people out in the world 224 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.080 doesn't give us the justifications just totally shut off the world. 225 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:36.480 But that's a word that I think a lot of 226 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:37.679 people probably need to hear. 227 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:43.679 Yeah, but he is telling us here, where's it, he says, 228 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:53.360 He's telling us to them to be careful about being wise. 229 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:53.960 Oh yeah, yeah. 230 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.559 Here in verse nineteen, he says, but everyone knows that 231 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.840 you're obedient to Lord. This makes me very happy. I 232 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:01.639 want you to be why in doing right and to 233 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.320 stay innocent of any wrong right. And this should be 234 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:07.200 our goal. A lot of us we want to be 235 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:10.120 wise on all the bad and the evil stuff. Why 236 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:12.480 do we get sucked to the bad headlines in the news? 237 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:14.799 Why do we get sucked into the bad stories and 238 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.559 the bad podcasts, you know, and all the murder and 239 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.559 all the rape and all of the bad things that 240 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:22.960 are happening in the world. And he said, man, that's 241 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:25.159 just our nature. Our nature is to move towards all 242 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.440 the bad headlines. And he said, listen, what I want 243 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.240 you to be someone should be innocent, man, You run 244 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:31.159 towards innocence. 245 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.480 Keep your mind clean and pure, don't. 246 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:36.360 Get distracted by all these bad things, and instead focus 247 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.399 on those things that are good. And then he says, 248 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:41.559 the God of peace right will soon crush, stating on 249 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:41.879 his feet. 250 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:42.639 So, hey, the. 251 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:45.960 God of peace, he'll give you peace when you choose innocence. 252 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:49.639 You choose keep an innocent mind, and God will crush. 253 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:49.960 The evil one. 254 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.759 That's what he's saying, right, And so you know, we 255 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.120 don't have to run around constantly diving headfirst into all 256 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.240 the bad that's going on in the world. Instead, lets 257 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:02.320 us bee innocence as much as possible. We don't have 258 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:04.039 to be informed on that and let God deal with 259 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:04.559 it instead. 260 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:06.840 Yeah, and I think that it's also really cool that 261 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:10.279 Paul uses the word wise to be wise. So you 262 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:13.600 know that the word wisdom in the Bible that in 263 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:15.919 the Old Testament they refer to wisdom as. 264 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:17.320 A her as a personality. 265 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:17.600 Yeah. 266 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:21.000 Yeah, it says whoever gains wisdom and finds her has 267 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:22.240 has done a great thing. 268 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.120 So wisdom is held up. 269 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:29.120 As something that is to be desired above almost anything else. 270 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.480 And to use wisdom is something that is just unbelievable. 271 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:36.480 And I remember hearing a story actually hang on a 272 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:39.919 sermon series. And by the way, when I went down, 273 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.240 so I lived in Georgia and I drove forty five 274 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:47.000 minutes north and I went to Andy Stanley's church, North 275 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:49.960 Point Church. And it was actually originally the series was 276 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:53.600 called Don't Be a Fool and had like a Jester's 277 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:55.480 hat and all the people in the parking lot had 278 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.759 jester hats, right, But then it eventually when it got released, 279 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:00.919 they said that was a negative thing, and so they 280 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:02.960 changed it to what is the wise thing to do? 281 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:05.600 And the whole series was based on asking that question. 282 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.039 So think about this the next time you're in a 283 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:11.080 situation where you're wondering whether or not it's a. 284 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:12.320 Good idea to do A or B. 285 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:14.840 You're like, should I do A or should I be 286 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:18.120 safe and do B? Just ask yourself, Okay, what's the 287 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:21.919 wise thing to do? And wisdom will dictate the answer. 288 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.679 A lot of times. It doesn't have to be Oh 289 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:26.799 is there reverse for that? You know what I mean? 290 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.000 What it could be is like asking that question brings 291 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:32.120 about everything. 292 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:33.039 It's all encompassing. 293 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:36.440 It brings about godly principle, it brings about earthly consequence, 294 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:40.080 it brings about just practicality. It also brings about commandments, 295 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:42.399 it brings about just about everything, and just say, what 296 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:45.080 is the wise thing to do? I think that wisdom 297 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:49.480 is something to be desired. After all, Remember when God 298 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.399 asked Solomon and said, I'll give you one thing, what 299 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:52.879 do you want? 300 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:55.720 Like a magic genie? Right? Think about that? 301 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:58.159 If God whether the one like a genie that says, 302 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.360 what would you desire us all? 303 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:01.240 And says wisdom? 304 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:05.600 And God says, because you have asked for this, I'm 305 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.679 going to make you the wisest man who's ever lived. 306 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.840 And nobody before you and nobody after you will ever 307 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.279 ever be as wise as you. 308 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:15.759 And I'll give you all the other things. I'll give 309 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:17.519 you peace in your land, I'll give you wealth, I'll 310 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:19.759 give you right I sparre to all those other things, 311 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:22.519 because that's where all that comes from, is from wisdom. Right, 312 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:23.360 So God gave it to him. 313 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:24.399 Yeah, it's pretty amazing. 314 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:25.360 Yeah, it's really interesting. 315 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:29.639 So there isn't an issue here. I think that we 316 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:30.360 should bring up. 317 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:35.960 Some Christians run around pointing out the problems in everybody else, 318 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:41.600 and Paul warns against that, and some Christians have exactly 319 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.720 the flip side. Oh, everybody's wonderful. Everything's wonderful. We just 320 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:48.399 accept everything right. And Paul kind of splits the difference here, 321 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.039 and so Paul just spent a chapter and a half saying, man, 322 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.399 you guys are great, My friends are great. All the 323 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:56.600 stuff that's going on, and the Kingdom of God is great, 324 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:58.440 all the churches are greeting you. 325 00:14:58.679 --> 00:14:59.720 This is all great. 326 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:04.279 And then he pauses and says, oh, hey, by the way, 327 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:06.679 be really careful because there's some bad guys out there too. 328 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:10.200 So Paul isn't on the side of everybody's bad. He 329 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:13.320 spends way more time in all of his letters complimenting 330 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:17.240 and saying good about all the godly people than he 331 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:20.080 does anything bad. But he's not on the other side 332 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.679 where everything is good and that there's nothing to watch 333 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.440 out for. And so he is saying, even in your 334 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.879 Christian world, the world that you're living in, there are 335 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.200 people who are false teachers, and you got to watch 336 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:34.120 out for that false teaching. And the only way that 337 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:36.559 you can really do that is to know what is true. 338 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:40.320 You don't study falsehood to know what's false, because there's 339 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:44.360 so many ways to make something false. You study truth, right, 340 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:48.000 and because falsehood is always a deviation from the truth. 341 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:51.639 As a matter of fact, it's almost like falsehood's not 342 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:52.120 a thing. 343 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:53.720 Truth is. 344 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.360 And then falsehood is a reflection of a bad reflection 345 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.960 of a truth, right right, right, And so so you 346 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.799 study the truth, you get the best way to know 347 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:08.399 what is false is to spend a substantial amount of 348 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.759 time in the truth. And then the Bible says that 349 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.879 God will use this Holy Spirit to teach you what 350 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.519 is true. And then God also uses other believers around 351 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:23.039 you to remind you of what is true. So the believers, 352 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.759 your pastors, your other leaders, your other Christian friends that 353 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.399 are also astute at knowing what is true in scripture, 354 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:33.039 they can remind you of what is true. The Holy 355 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:36.080 Spirit convinces you of what is true, and God's word 356 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:39.360 is true. And so that's where if we spend our 357 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:42.360 time there, then we don't have to worry about studying 358 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:44.919 all the falsehoods. We can clearly know what is true 359 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:45.519 from God's word. 360 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:47.799 Yeah, you know what that you know, that reminds me 361 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.159 of earlier when you said, Paul spent so many chapters 362 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:55.519 saying these are good people. You know, everything's good, but 363 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:58.360 you know the strong warning is beware of the bad 364 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:00.960 but it had to be there because it's a danger. 365 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.000 But yet that wasn't the heart of the focus. 366 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:05.119 That's like verses I think five verses. 367 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:06.880 So you know what it reminds me of is that 368 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.799 think about football. So you love football? I love football. 369 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.640 Can you imagine if two football teams playing against each 370 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.160 other on the on the field spent all their time 371 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.720 concentrating on the penalties you're right, as opposed to as 372 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:23.920 opposed to, like, okay. 373 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:26.759 Let's make sure not to do the penalties guys, right, right, But. 374 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:32.559 That will free us up to having a fantastic, joyful, meaningful, 375 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.200 wonderful experience of playing this game that we all know 376 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:35.519 and love. 377 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:37.720 So you focus on the heart of the game. 378 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:40.079 You can't win a game if the only thing you 379 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.640 do is practice not committing a penalty. Right. 380 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.559 You have to have plays so to move the ball. 381 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:47.839 That's how you win the game. 382 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:51.000 So the Christians, the Christians who are walking around just 383 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:54.119 pointing out everything bad, they're like, really bad refs that 384 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:56.160 won't allow the players to play the game right. 385 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.559 And you know it's so funny. 386 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.240 Nobody nobody gets at the end of a game and says, 387 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:03.880 oh man, I'll tell you what, man, it was so 388 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:06.119 good how we didn't commit past. 389 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:09.480 Interference exactly, like did you see that one play? Man? 390 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:12.359 We didn't commit past interference. And it reminds me of 391 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:14.640 the church that I grew up in. Honestly, it felt 392 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:16.759 like it felt like everything was about. 393 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:18.480 You better not, you better not, you better not, you 394 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:20.839 better not. Watch out, don't do this. You kind of 395 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:23.519 did that. Oh you hit it toward that. Don't do that. 396 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:25.880 It's so evil and it's it's like I spent so 397 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:30.799 much time in that denomination just talking about the rules 398 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:34.880 and the heaviness and the evil and the you're such 399 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:37.799 a loser, and it's like, yeah, you sure you ran 400 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.519 ten yards, you know, but if you were better, you 401 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:41.480