WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.879 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a couple of friends talk 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:12.199 about the Bible in fun in practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to 3 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:16.559 the Bible Guys. I am Chris and I'm Jeff, and we together make 4 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:20.920 up the Bible Guys man, and we talk about the Bible and fun and 5 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:24.160 practical ways. There you go. You know, who, how clever? 6 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:29.039 There are people who actually don't believe that the Bible is fun. But actually 7 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:34.439 that's us were the Bible guys. I don't believe we're fun. No, 8 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:39.560 but seriously, don't you believe that Jesus was fun? Sure? Yeah, 9 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:43.320 I do think I believe he laughed. I believe he cut up with his 10 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:47.679 disciples absolutely. Yeah. So anyway, so we are fun as well. 11 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:51.640 And today we're going to start off with a very fun segment. And what 12 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:56.119 is the segment? Yeah, this segment is who said it? It says 13 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.359 Chris. You're going to read these quotes from the Bible and see if Jeff 14 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:03.680 can correctly guess who said each quote. So you want to race. That's 15 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:07.400 going to make me look so bad? Well, you know it is? 16 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:08.560 Okay, okay, is this going to be? Is this going to be 17 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:14.040 like a listener race. Yeah, let's try that. So I'm gonna time. 18 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:15.120 Don't skip on the points, dude, last time. You're going to 19 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:18.680 give like a thousand points. No, no, no, there's going to 20 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:23.599 be one hundred thousand points. Whoa. This is a big game per question 21 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:29.239 game. So if they get the answer before I do or okay, or 22 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:32.840 if they just get the answer and you don't and I don't, Yes, 23 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:34.719 okay, one hundred thousand points. Okay, So who's who said this? 24 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:40.599 Aready? You have to understand the character? Character? How can a man 25 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:42.920 be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his 26 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:49.040 mother's womb? That's Nicodemus three? Yes, so I guess a thousand points? 27 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.599 Well guess what you finished before I was even done with the quote. 28 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:53.640 I know that's a good. Well, I'm trying to get these points. 29 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.239 Yeah that's really good. Hopefully Uh well, I was going to say hopefully, 30 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:00.799 but no, I bet you know what he beat you out there? 31 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.799 Here we go. Number two? What have I done to you that you 32 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:09.240 have struck me these three times? Bal donkey? Yes, yes, yes, 33 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:14.919 that's really good. And I don't remember what passage that is. Judge 34 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.439 judges yes, that's what I thought. How about this one? I think 35 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:25.039 maybe you ready? Huh? This is John whom I beheaded. He has 36 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:30.599 been raised from the dead Herod, Herod. Yes, that is correct, 37 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:36.120 King, King, King Herod. I like to finally call him, Yes, 38 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:42.000 oh kingly forever. Number four. This is the one that's kind of 39 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:50.319 tough. Look you have mocked me and told me lies what. Look you 40 00:02:50.360 --> 00:03:00.240 have mocked me and told me lies man alive. That sounds like Delilah. 41 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:06.800 It is Delilah? Is it? And ironically his girlfriend? Ironically, I 42 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:12.240 just wrote this message last night. I was writing for upcoming message in a 43 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.120 couple of weeks and I just finished this writing about Samson and Delilah, and 44 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:19.319 so I literally just read this first last night. Pretty crazy, okay. 45 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:23.360 And then finally I have nothing to do with that man, for I have 46 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.759 suffered many things today in a dream because of him. Uh A pilot's wife. 47 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:34.719 Pilot's wife. You are five for five for five five thousand points. 48 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:38.039 That might be the most points ever won in any in a game on the 49 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:42.639 Bible. Guys. Yes, wow, so we're making history today. I'd 50 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.599 like to thank everybody in my life that's helped me get to this point, 51 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:49.319 however, there's probably somebody out there that got Delilah before you, because you 52 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.159 took along till I took a long time on Pilot too. Well, Pilot's 53 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:57.800 wife not as long as Delilah. Yeah, okay, both of those you 54 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.639 get very good. Five for five. I'll take five hundred thousand points. 55 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.080 Well, we are gonna is there like a trophy or something? Am I 56 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:05.840 gonna get a T shirt? Hang on? Can I get like hanger saying 57 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:11.120 how we go? Okay? I was hoping maybe there'd be like a gift 58 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:16.680 certificate to Golden Corral or something. Golden Corral. Wow, you pulled that 59 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:20.920 out of the eighties. Yeah, there you go. A sizzler Ponderosa. 60 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:26.519 Oh I love Ponderosa. When I was a kid, I loved ponder Yeah. 61 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.160 Okay, well, hey that makes me happy. So I keep my 62 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.040 Bible guys. Uh hang official Bible cla Bible Guys fan club card. Hang 63 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:39.120 on, Bennigan's Steak and Ale. Yeah I remember Benigans. I don't remember. 64 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:41.040 I never went to Steak and Ale, I don't think. But yeah, 65 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:44.519 let's try to think of other ones that were gone. Okay, so 66 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:47.000 hey, we're launching a Genesis chapter sixteen, verses one through sixteen. We're 67 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:53.120 in our series called Milestones of the Old Testament. Do we rest on milestones? 68 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.600 I think so? Yeah, Okay, that feels good to me today. 69 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.879 It does. That's what we're calling it today. Okay, So in 70 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.800 we're going to talk about Abraham and Sarah. Are Abram and SARAHI and the 71 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:09.800 birth of their first son? Okay, Now you remember we talked a couple 72 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:15.079 days ago about how Abram was nervous and he lied to the Pharaoh and about 73 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:18.319 his wife. Yes, but then you know, God said, hey, 74 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.720 you know, Abram, I'm going to make you a great man. I'm 75 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:25.720 going to make your family great, and I'm from your family. I'm going 76 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:28.920 to bless the world. But at this point they didn't have any kids, 77 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.319 right, so no kids, and he's old and he's getting older, and 78 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:39.879 so the chances of Abram and Sarah having babies is in their minds almost gone. 79 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:43.759 And so here's what it says in Genesis sixteen. This is really a 80 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:46.319 weird story to be in the Bible. That's one of the reasons why you 81 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:48.600 know the Bible's true, because if you were making up a religion, you 82 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:53.319 wouldn't write stuff like this right. So here's what says. Now. Sarah, 83 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:57.240 Abram's wife had not been able to bear children for him, but she 84 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:00.120 had an Egyptian servant named Hagar. So Sarah I said to Abram, the 85 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.639 Lord has prevented me from having children, Go and sleep with my servant. 86 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:08.720 Perhaps I can have children through her. And Abram agreed with Sarah's proposal. 87 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:12.079 So Sarah, Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian servant, and gave her 88 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.839 to Abram as a wife. This happened ten years after Abram had settled in 89 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:18.839 the land of Canaan. So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar. She became 90 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:23.160 pregnant, but when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her 91 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:27.079 mistress Sarah with contempt. Then Sarah I said to Abram, this is all 92 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.399 your fault. I put my servant into your arms, but now that she's 93 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.639 pregnant, she treats me with contempt. The Lord will show who's wrong, 94 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:38.160 you or me. Abram replied, look, she's your servant, so deal 95 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.759 with her as you see fit. Then Sarah I treated Hagar so harshly that 96 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:46.199 she finally ran away. The angel the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of 97 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:48.959 water in the wilderness along the road to shore. The angel said to her, 98 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:53.759 Hagar, Sarah's servant, where have you come from? Where are you 99 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:57.600 going? I'm running away from my mistress Sarah, she replied. The Angel 100 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.800 of the Lord said to her, return to your mistress, submit to her 101 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:02.959 authority. And then he added, I will give you more descendants than you 102 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.560 can count. And the angel also said, you are now pregnant and will 103 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:10.040 give birth to a son, and you are to name him Ishmael, which 104 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:14.519 means God hears. For the Lord has heard your cry of distress. The 105 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.839 son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey. 106 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.319 He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. 107 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:25.519 Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives. Therefore, 108 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:28.480 Hagar used another name to refer to the Lord who has spoken to her. 109 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:30.839 She said, you are the god who sees me. She also said, 110 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:35.399 have I truly seen the one who sees me? So that well was 111 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:40.600 named beer lehai Roi, which means well of the living one who sees me. 112 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:44.600 He can still be found near Kadish and burried. So Hagar gave Abraham 113 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:47.680 a son, and Abram named him Ishmael. Abram was eighty six years old 114 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:55.319 when Ishmael was born. Wow, well there you go. So we all 115 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:59.639 know it's the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and the god 116 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:03.920 of jail Jacob. So the famous name is Isaac. But here some people 117 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.680 that I've met and had conversations with, they really don't realize that Abram's firstborn 118 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.959 is Ishmael. That's correct. Now, what's really interesting about this is, 119 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:18.439 you know, when I went over to Israel and when I went into Bethlene 120 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:24.399 Bible College, and we sat down and we sat down with both Palestinians and 121 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:31.360 also with Jews, and they were giving their perspective of their modern day conflict, 122 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.279 right, and they tied it all the way back. And what's really 123 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:37.840 interesting is is that over there you sort of learn, you know, you're 124 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:43.159 in the middle also of the world of Muslims. Right. So Jerusalem, 125 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.960 for a lot of people who don't know, it is the capital. It 126 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:54.000 is the epicenter of three of the major world religions, right right of Judaism, 127 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:01.200 you know, Jews City Jews. It's the capital of the three monotheistic 128 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.960 religions. Oh yeah, monotheistic. Yeah, yeah, that's right. So 129 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.679 Judaism, so all the Jews that live there, they don't believe in Jesus, 130 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:15.639 they believe in the Old Testament. And then Christianity, which is, 131 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:20.159 you know, the Christians who believed that Jesus was the Messiah who showed up 132 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:26.519 and obviously you know, lived and died in Jewusalem. And then about what 133 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:31.360 fifteen hundred years later, fourteen six hundred, six hundred years, six hundred 134 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:37.120 and thirty something years after Jesus, okay, was Islam. Yeah, yeah, 135 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:43.799 Mohammed, Mohammed, So the prophet Mohammed. Muslims believed that the prophet 136 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:48.399 Muhammad was directly related to Ishmael Ishmael. Yeah, And of course Judaism, 137 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:56.240 the Jewish lineage is traced back directly to Isaac, and so does Christianity then 138 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.600 for Jesus, right, and so this conflict has been going on. These 139 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:07.360 two brothers, Ishmael and Isaac have been fighting for well now four thousand years, 140 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.759 four thousand years. Yeah. Yeah, it's so unbelievably simple if if 141 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.039 you look at it that way, it's like, look look at this promise 142 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:16.639 from the Angel who says he's going to be a wild man, and he's 143 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.679 going to be openly aggressive for his neighbors, to all his neighbors. And 144 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:26.840 then, and if you look at Muslims and Jews in the same you know, 145 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.159 fighting over the same capital, right, the same piece of real estate 146 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:35.600 Jerusalem and Jerusalem in fact, isn't the Dome of the Rock exactly where the 147 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.200 Temple it sits on the same foundation as the Temple? Yeah, yeah, 148 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.879 So the Temple Mount was a giant complex where the Holy of Holies would have 149 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:48.120 sat. Is maybe just off from where the Dome of the Rock sits, 150 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:50.399 but yeah, it's all in that same complex where the Temple was. Yeah. 151 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:56.480 And so in history, the Muslims took advantage of the fact that the 152 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:01.879 Temple was destroyed and they sort of took over the land and they yeah, 153 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.279 it was at the end of the Crusades that they take in that spot and 154 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:09.960 and uh, and then and then took advantage of that and and and have 155 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:13.879 the rightful claim of of of that piece of land. Actually, that's really 156 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:20.159 the big debate is they currently they currently control it. Well, I was 157 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:22.279 going to say they believe they have the rightful less sure, sure, but 158 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.759 Ishmael was not the father of Islam. Right, Ishmael was the father of 159 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:33.159 most of those Arabic nations right in the Middle East, and then out of 160 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.360 that came eventually one of his ancestors, about six hundred years after Jesus, 161 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:43.000 the prophet Muhammad that founded Islam. So yeah, this is really astounding that 162 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:48.120 that God, that the Angel of the Lord had said to Hagar, listen, 163 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:50.600 you know, he's going to be a wild man. He's going to 164 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.879 be constantly in battle. But man, there's going to be a big family 165 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:56.879 that comes from him. And it's true in the same way that God had 166 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.960 said, there'll be a big family that comes from the one, you know, 167 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:05.440 from Abram and Sarah's child. So here you have a lack of faith 168 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:18.879 right right in SARAHI And they own a person. She's Egyptian, probably came 169 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.320 from when Pharaoh gave them wealth and servants and all this kind of stuff. 170 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:28.120 But Sarah felt like she owned Hagar to the point that she that if Hagar 171 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.600 had a baby, it was Sarah's baby. Right. That's kind of the 172 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:37.240 and and that concept has existed in human history for thousands of years. Anyways, 173 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.639 the idea of a servant, you know, being a surrogate mother for 174 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.600 a person. But anyways, the Bible doesn't say it's right. The Bible 175 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:50.639 just tells it the way it is right, right, and that's what happened. 176 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:56.279 But this lack of faith in this moment has changed human history, right, 177 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:03.240 right. You think how many social conflicts, how many political conflicts, 178 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:11.799 how many wars have been fought between Ishmael and Isaac, right and for thousands 179 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:15.320 of years, and it's all all goes back to this one sinful moment, 180 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.840 right. And you know it's interesting too because so there's a lot of people 181 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:26.360 that I know who you know, they trust in God's promises. They they 182 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:30.600 want you know, blessings, they want results, They pray for a result. 183 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.240 And sometimes it's not unreasonable requests, you know, like hey, God, 184 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:37.919 just please supply me a job. You know, God, please please 185 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:43.519 just you know, help me to do this or this or that. Hey 186 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.559 I pray for this person to accept Christ, you know, I mean, 187 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:52.440 these are not unreasonable requests. And sometimes when circumstances build up and time goes 188 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.320 on and there's distance and time, people start to get discouraged and they say 189 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:00.840 God hasn't spoken, God hasn't worked, God is not there, God doesn't 190 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:05.360 care and these are all emotions, right, I mean we're talking years here. 191 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.279 The reason why Sarah I believed that God hasn't given her children, or 192 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.399 that your the Lord has prevented her having children is because she was old. 193 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.240 She was old at this point and she's like, well, there's just no 194 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.559 way. And so, you know, not realizing that God trumps all odds, 195 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.200 right, right, God, God is able to do whatever, regardless 196 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.440 of circumstances. She realized that it was going to still be another thirteen more 197 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.440 years before God actually did it right. Right, God was just waiting until 198 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.000 it was only God that could have done this, right, that's what he's 199 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.320 doing. God was going to get all the glory for this miracle. And 200 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:41.519 she was impatient in waiting, and so is Abram. I mean, you 201 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:45.799 have to say they both were, because if Abram really believed God, he 202 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.759 wouldn't have gone down that path either. So they both kind of they just 203 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.519 took it into, you know, matters in her own hands. I think 204 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:56.600 sometimes, you know, we just have to simply wait, and that is 205 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:01.159 so contrary to our nature, especially in our culture today, when everything happens 206 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:07.440 so quickly. This is funny, uh, I got I started found myself 207 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:09.159 getting frustrated. You ever have one of those days where you just feel like 208 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:13.080 you're probably gonna have a bad day. Have you ever have you just woke 209 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:16.440 up knowing this is probably going to be a bad day. For whatever reason, 210 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.879 I just kind of had this. I don't know if I woke up 211 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.679 on the wrong side of the bed whatever. So you know my morning habit. 212 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.039 I like to pull in and grab a sausage MG muffin or a sausage 213 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:33.320 biscuit or something and McDonald's And so I pull in and I could just see 214 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:37.639 the lady in front of me as she's pulling up to the drive through is 215 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:39.679 driving a little too slow. And then have you ever gotten behind somebody in 216 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:43.360 the drive through? And they look at the menu like it's the first time 217 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:48.440 they've ever been to McDonald's, rights, as if anybody another menu vasure. 218 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.279 She says, Oh, gee, I wonder what they serve? Right? 219 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.519 So she's looking, hello, can I take your welcome McDonald's? Can I 220 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.279 take your order? Right? And she's like, hang on just a minute, 221 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:00.519 I'm thinking, and she's just looking, Okay, it's various versions of 222 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.879 eggs, bread, and two meats, three meats, right if you take 223 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.240 the Canadian bacon. That's it. It's not super complex, and they're gonna 224 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:11.639 give you a fried potato out the window, so just pick one, right, 225 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:18.559 And so she took so long, and I just feel myself like almost 226 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:25.279 saying bad words under my breath. So I'm getting more and more and more 227 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:30.720 upset. The other lane was blocked off. Finally she pulls up. I 228 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:36.080 pull up and I looked at my clock and it was three minutes. Three 229 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:41.440 minutes. It just felt like forever. It felt so long, it was. 230 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:42.679 It took her three minutes to figure out what her order was, This 231 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:45.080 poor old lady, you know. Then she it took another minute, I 232 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.759 think, to drive up to the window. She was just probably shouldn't have 233 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:51.759 been driving, but you know, just just been moving and instead of me 234 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:55.639 being patients and patients in three minutes, I kind of started losing my temper 235 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.919 three minutes, right, and I thought, what is wrong with me that 236 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.400 I can't just wait? And so then when I find myself praying for a 237 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:08.960 thing, you know, praying for somebody, praying for God to intervene in 238 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:14.200 a way, and I don't get my answer in three days, I start 239 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:18.319 getting impatient. If I don't get my answer in three months, three years. 240 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:23.799 I just you know, and hear Abram was waiting for decades, decades 241 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:27.599 for this promise to come, And so it's easy for us to look down 242 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:33.519 on them. This idea of a servant having a baby for her mistress was 243 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:37.720 a culturally acceptable thing. It's not morally acceptable, but it was culturally acceptable. 244 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.480 You can understand how they would have done that kind of thing. But 245 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:45.039 they were waiting for decades for an answer to prayer. And I can't wait 246 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.519 three minutes to drive up for my order in McDonald's. So it's hard for 247 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:52.319 me to judge him, to judge either one of them too hard on this 248 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:55.920 one, even though it was wrong what they did, certainly. And here 249 00:17:55.960 --> 00:18:00.000 the world suffers on an almost monthly basis, there's some kind of violence happening 250 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.200 in the Middle East between Abraham's sons. Yeah. And by the way, 251 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.920 that reminds me of I. I went to the ATM yesterday and I had 252 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.680 two transactions. I put my card in, did a transaction, and then 253 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:14.839 you know, you know how long it takes to do a transaction. It's 254 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:17.799 probably a couple of minutes. Yeah, sure, And then the car comes 255 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:21.079 back out, But then I had another account that I had to put something 256 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:22.759 in, so I put my second card in, and then the car behind 257 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:29.279 me beaped, pulled, pulled out and screamed, pulled out and went around 258 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:32.240 the bank to the walk up teller to the walk up because there's a drive 259 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:36.240 through a walk up and they just couldn't believe that I had two transactions. 260 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:38.000 That's right, there's a I was just like, dude, come on, 261 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:41.240 we should do a segment what made the person behind Chris mad this week? 262 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.519 Right? Right? Because I was like, I was like, good gravy. 263 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:48.079 I mean, like, there's no more live tellers anymore. Yeah, 264 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:52.319 right, we have to do our transactions through ATMs for the most part. 265 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:57.599 So yeah, so here they are. Sometimes God answered. God's expectation is 266 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:02.400 that we wait. It's not that God is saying no. Sometimes God's saying 267 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:04.720 not yet, and He has his purposes. And so if we can just 268 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:10.240 accept that when God chooses to answer, it'll be at the best time, 269 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:14.200 with the best solution for his purposes. And if we can understand that it's 270 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:18.000 not about us, it's about him, then you know, we can have 271 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:21.680 a lot more peace in it. There's so many times like I think in 272 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:25.960 the Book of Psalms, the Bible says, be still and know that I 273 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.200 am God right, And there's so many of those moments. Wait on the 274 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.759 Lord in the deuce season, He'll lift you up. There's there's so many 275 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:40.279 things like that that you know. There's another sermon in here altogether about the 276 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:47.720 creation of you know, it says that Abram had sexual relations with Hagar and 277 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:49.759 you know, and then all of a sudden what ends up happening is the 278 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:56.079 feelings begin to change. Right, So there's something in there that tells us 279 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:00.839 that that's how we know that that is designed for a marriage relationship. Because 280 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:07.200 as much as people try to detach their hearts and look at it as a 281 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.680 physical act and not like a soul to soul act, right, the reason 282 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:15.759 why there was a treating of contempt is because it wasn't just an act of 283 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.240 like, oh, I'm a servant, I'm going to provide a child and 284 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:22.799 that's the end of it. No, there was an intimate relationship. There 285 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.599 was a connection with you know, the way that God designed man and woman 286 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.519 to have children together. And then and therefore there's you know, there's like 287 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:34.799 an attraction, there's a there's a loyalty, there's feelings, there's jealousy, 288 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:37.920 there's all sorts of things that are that are mixed up in there. And 289 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:44.000 the sermon is is that, hello, it's because that none of that was 290 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.799 meant to be a physical transaction, and it's certainly not meant to be a 291 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:52.079 monetary transaction. That's exactly right, right it is. It is designed for 292 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:56.559 those feelings, It is designed for those interactions. And the reason why you 293 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:00.720 watch so many movies, and there's movies built on this. In fact, 294 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.279 I just read an article this morning about it. Uh you know, uh 295 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:08.960 uh it was a movie with Justin Timberlake and Male Cunis, uh, just 296 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:14.359 friends with benefits and and uh and at the time it broke up their marriage, 297 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:18.559 or it broke it broke them up for a time. Jessica Biel she 298 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.519 she actually wanted to read for that part because she didn't want her husband to 299 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:26.799 be or maybe it was the boyfriend at the time, you know, to 300 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:29.960 to to play in that movie with somebody because they were gonna they were gonna 301 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:33.519 have feelings for each other, and of course they did. And what's so 302 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:38.200 interesting is is that ironically the movie itself was a movie about somebody who wanted 303 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:41.160 it to be platonic, but they couldn't help themselves and they fell in love. 304 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.319 Right, and so it's like it's like, it's because guys, let's 305 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:51.279 wake up here. It's because God designed it for marriage, for relationships for 306 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:53.640 all time. Right, we can't get around it, That's right. And 307 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:57.119 then I think one of the beautiful things is even as a result of the 308 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:02.759 sin, God eventually shows back up with Abram, but he meets Hagar in 309 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:07.640 her distress, and she recognizes, hey, God sees me, even this 310 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.160 woman that committed sin with some guy that wasn't her husband and she's carrying a 311 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:15.640 child that was not the promised one. God says, hey, I haven't 312 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.319 forgot about you. And she recognized that that this Holy One sees me. 313 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.200 Well, imagine, if you're Hagar or Hagar or whoever you want to say 314 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:26.759 it, imagine if you're heard, you probably lived your whole entire life without 315 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:29.839 feeling seen. Oh sure, right, and then and all of a sudden, 316 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:33.200 you know you're the one now who has Abram's child, and that's a 317 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:36.799 pretty big deal. And then and then you're thinking, Hey, why are 318 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:38.799 you still treating me like this? Lowly servant who's not being seen. All 319 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:44.319 these emotions and then God reaches out and understands and sees her. It's no 320 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:48.160 wonder why she thought that the baby would make her be seen. That was 321 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:51.680 what was causing trouble in the tent, you know, in Abram's house, 322 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:55.400 and instead it was her distress that God shows up, and that's when she 323 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:59.200 finally really felt seen. I think we try to use all kinds of things 324 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:02.400 in our life to to give us what we're really wanting, and what she 325 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:06.559 wanted was to be seen by God and then she finally was right. So 326 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:11.240 that's awesome. Well, hey, that's a that's a some good applications there. 327 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:14.279 So hopefully we will see you next time as we pick up the series 328 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:18.279 on the Bible guys. H m hmmm h