WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.040 Well, today, Paul's gonna button it up. 2 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:05.120 He's wrapping up the Book of Galatians, and there's a 3 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:06.960 couple of quick challenges. It's one of those things where 4 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:09.160 it's like sent and sentence, sentence, sentence, sentence. Each of 5 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:10.759 these is a big idea saying, don't forget this, don't 6 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:12.679 forget this, don't forget this. You ever have a conversation 7 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:14.640 like that, I do. Well, that's what it's all about today. 8 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:29.079 He's Chris, I'm Jeff. We're the Bible guys. Okay, Chris. 9 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.880 So people are very interested in you, and this has 10 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:35.840 come up so many times, these kinds of things they do. 11 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.240 They love asking you questions and for we have this 12 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:43.159 show sheet here and our assistants, the ones that help 13 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:45.920 us put this together. Here's the question that keeps coming 14 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:49.479 in is, Chris, what's your most embarrassing story? 15 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:51.640 My most embarrassing story? 16 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.960 Wow, Well, I have a you know, I've told these before, 17 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:57.280 so I have them on the top of my brain. 18 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:00.200 So I have sort of a church embarrassing story, and 19 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.960 then I have sort of like a non church embarrassing story. 20 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:03.679 Which one you want to hear? 21 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:07.719 Do you have a lot of embarrassing stories? I would imagine, 22 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.599 but after a while you get so used to it. 23 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:13.480 After a while, you get so used to being embarrassed. 24 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:14.599 It's not embarrassing anywhere. 25 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.719 So the first the first one, it's pretty tame. It's 26 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:18.519 the church story. 27 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:20.680 It is this is your Sunday school answer. 28 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:22.760 Yes, this is my Sunday school answer. 29 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.959 So I read through Zikias and the Sycamore Tree, the 30 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:28.640 story where Jesus comes by and said. 31 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:29.519 Zachis you come down. 32 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:31.159 I read through it, and then for the rest of 33 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:35.359 the message, I referred to Zachias as Nicodemus, the whole message, 34 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:37.159 the whole message, and nobody correct. 35 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.719 Nicodemus, you come down. I'm glad your house. 36 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.959 And so I talked about Nicodemus. Was this Nicodemus, you know, 37 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.560 he paid back, and the entire time, and we're talking 38 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:49.159 like a thirty minute of saying Nicodemus. And then at 39 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.439 the end, Travis Lloyd, this is this, you know, big 40 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:54.680 old Burley guy. He's like, hey man, he goes, that 41 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:55.280 was really good. 42 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:57.879 That was really good, and great, he goes, but it 43 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.079 wasn't Nicodemus. 44 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.719 And I realized that in front of all my church family, 45 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:04.799 which was a Sunday night in a Baptist church of 46 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.840 about maybe eighty people on a Sunday night that I 47 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:09.560 had just blown it. 48 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:11.800 So that was my first church Sunday school answer. 49 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:14.759 My regular answer is, I remember when I was in 50 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:20.560 college and I was working at a autosh You know, 51 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:22.520 you pull in and you get the car wash, and 52 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:24.319 sometimes there's a salesman there that sort. 53 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.800 Of upgrades your car wash. 54 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.120 Well, that was my job. So they pulled in, they 55 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:30.800 were in line, and I walked over and I was 56 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.400 trying to make small talk and be friendly and courteous, 57 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:35.280 and I was trying to upgrade this wash of this 58 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:39.400 woman who's sitting there. And then at the end, I said, so, 59 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:43.719 when's the baby do? And she looks down at her stomach, 60 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.199 which is a big, old round stomach, and she goes, 61 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.000 what baby, what are you talking about? And then she 62 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.240 looks down and she realized her stomach was big. 63 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.000 Oh no, And she looked up at me, and I literally. 64 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.800 Just looked at her, turned around and walked away. I 65 00:02:56.919 --> 00:02:59.960 never apologized. I never did anything because I was young. 66 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.919 Oh and so I as a matter of fact, I'm 67 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:04.240 not sure what I would do today. I mean, I 68 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:05.400 can't believe. Well, first of all, we. 69 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:06.000 Don't say it. 70 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.960 I wouldn't do it right, right, right, But I said, 71 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:09.960 when's the baby doo? She says, what baby? And then 72 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:11.599 she looked down and looked at me, and I just 73 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:13.319 turned around and walked away. And I never went back 74 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:15.199 to her car. So I sent another sales one to 75 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:17.039 her car to follow up. 76 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:18.800 Oh my goodness, that's a good way to get a 77 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:19.879 broken nose these days. 78 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:23.520 Oh well, you know you ever hear Brian Rigging the comedian. 79 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:25.080 Yes, he says, he's one of my favorite comedians. 80 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:26.840 So he says, the only time you should ever assume 81 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:28.840 a woman is pregnant is when you see the child 82 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:30.639 emerging out of her body. 83 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.400 The rest of the time, never missed, don't ask, and 84 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.599 don't right. So, so what we learned there is that 85 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.479 you usually are wrong about the things you're teaching from 86 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.520 the Bible. That's not what said that you're constantly upselling 87 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:48.000 people and pointing out, pointing out embarrassing things in their lives. 88 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:49.520 And we also what we just learned. 89 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.039 And we've just also learned that you believe the best 90 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.080 in everyone. 91 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:55.039 Oh no, no, not at all. 92 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:57.240 Good job, John accused of me of that. Way to go. 93 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.520 Okay, well, thank you for sharing. This is we love 94 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.120 learning more and more and more about the enigma that 95 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:07.120 is Chris Sarba and so that enigma that was very exciting. 96 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.879 Well good. So we're wrapping up in the Book of Galatians, 97 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.759 and if you remember, Paul is writing to the Galatians 98 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:17.720 because there's this controversy that some of the Judaizers had 99 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.240 been coming in and saying you have to convert to 100 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:22.759 being a Jew before you can become a Christian, because 101 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:25.759 Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. And so one of the 102 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:29.720 main ones was a circumcision, which you know, I can 103 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:33.199 imagine from a promotional standpoint, that really made it difficult 104 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:37.600 to reach a lot of people. But the idea being 105 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:39.759 you have to convert to one religion before you can 106 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:44.240 follow Jesus, and Paul is saying this isn't necessary. Jesus 107 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:47.000 is for all people, Jews and Gentiles, and you don't 108 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.759 have to convert or become like somebody else in order 109 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:51.839 for you to become a follower of Christ. It's all 110 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:53.439 about faith, not the works. 111 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.959 Right, And just to remind our listeners, were actually walking 112 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:02.279 through the Book of Acts and an actual chronologically, he 113 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.399 wrote Galatians somewhere right around Acts between fourteen and fifteen, 114 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:06.839 about fifteen years. 115 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:08.319 After he became a Christian, Which is. 116 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:12.120 Why we're sort of pausing an Acts because we're chronologically 117 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:14.079 saying this happened next Yeah. 118 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:18.000 And this is sometimes forty eight AD, so just to 119 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:22.519 you know, fifteen years after Jesus, eighteen years after Jesus died, 120 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.879 and this is that right after their first trip missionary 121 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:31.639 trip anyway trip. Okay, so there's the little history lesson 122 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:33.319 for the day. Let's get into what the Bible says 123 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:35.959 in Galatians chapter six. We'll just start in verse one. 124 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:38.560 It says, Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is 125 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:42.519 overcome by sin, you, who are godly, should gently and 126 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:45.600 humbly help that person back onto the right path, and 127 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:48.480 be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself. 128 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:51.279 Share each other's burdens, and in this way obey the 129 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.639 law of Christ. If you think you're too important to 130 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:56.920 help someone, you're only fooling yourself. You're not that important. 131 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.600 I think that's so funny. Careful attention to your own work, 132 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:05.120 for then you'll get the satisfaction of a job. Well done, 133 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.279 and you won't need to compare yourself to anyone else, 134 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.639 for we are each responsible for our own conduct. Those 135 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.199 who are taught the word of God should provide for 136 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:17.120 their teachers, sharing all good things with them. Don't be misled. 137 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:19.600 You cannot mock the justice of God. You will always 138 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.800 harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy 139 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:25.560 their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from 140 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:28.160 that sinful nature. But those who live to please the 141 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.720 spirit will harvest everlasting life from the spirit. So let's 142 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:33.879 not get tired of doing what is good. At just 143 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:36.480 the right time, we will reap a harvest the blessing 144 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:39.720 if we don't give up. Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, 145 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.600 we should do good to everyone, especially to those in 146 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.560 the family of faith. And then he wraps things up. 147 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.399 He says, notice what large letters I use as I 148 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:51.639 write these closing words in my own handwriting. Those who 149 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:53.800 are trying to force you to be circumcised want to 150 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:56.639 look good to others. They don't want to be persecuted 151 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.720 for teaching that the Cross of Christ only alone can say. 152 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.160 And even those who advocate circumcision don't keep the whole 153 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:05.600 law themselves. They only want you to be circumcised so 154 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:08.199 they can boast about it and claim you as their disciples. 155 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:11.519 As for me, may I never boast about anything except 156 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.519 the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, 157 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.480 my interest in this world has been crucified, and the 158 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.199 world's interest in me has also died. It doesn't matter 159 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:22.480 whether we have been circumcised or not. What counts as 160 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.079 whether we've been transformed into a new creation. May God's 161 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.079 peace and mercy be upon all who live by this principle. 162 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.240 They are now the new people of God. From now on. 163 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:34.759 Don't let anyone trouble me with these things, For I 164 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:36.680 bear on my body the scars that show I belong 165 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.639 to Jesus. Dear brothers and sisters, May the grace of 166 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.879 our Lord Jesus Christ be with you your spirit. Amen. 167 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:43.680 Amen. 168 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:45.639 I love how he ends up saying, from now and 169 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:47.639 don't let anybody trouble with me. He says, it's done. 170 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:48.560 I'm not talking about this. 171 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:52.879 Again, right, you know, let me address before we because 172 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.839 there's a lot to unpack here, but before we address 173 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.720 anything else. It's a little weird to hear him make 174 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:01.240 such a big deal about circumcis vision because in our culture, 175 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.879 you know that usually happens with most people who are 176 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:07.279 born in the United States of America. When they're born, 177 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:10.120 there's a little surgery that happens to the males. And 178 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.079 so for adults to be writing this back and forth 179 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:16.000 within the church and making it seem like a big 180 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.839 deal is sort of a little weird. But think of 181 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:20.600 it this way. Here's and tell me if you think 182 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:23.959 this is a good comparison. So I do a lot 183 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:27.120 of funerals, and I will get to the place where 184 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.240 I ask about the deceased and tell me about her 185 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:31.319 or him, And then I'll say, so. 186 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:32.240 Let me ask you a question. 187 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.919 Have you ever had a conversation with them about their faith? 188 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.399 They believe in God or go to church? And I 189 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:41.919 would tell you nine times out of ten they'll say, well, 190 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:42.799 i'll tell you what. 191 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.240 They didn't go to any organized religion. 192 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.559 And I thought to myself, like, well, that's not really 193 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.720 what I was hoping to hear it. But I didn't 194 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:52.799 ask you about going to church. I asked you about 195 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:55.679 whether they believed in God, right, because we all know 196 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:57.120 they going to church doesn't get you to heaven. 197 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.360 Right. But I'm telling you. Nine times out of ten, 198 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:00.559 those are the answers. 199 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:04.080 They will say, well, they weren't really religious. And then 200 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:05.679 when I say, well, do they believe in God? Oh? 201 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:08.519 Yeah, you know. And I'm not saying that everybody does. 202 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:10.679 I'm saying normally, when they call a pastor, that's usually 203 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:12.720 the answer, right. Otherwise they wouldn't. 204 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:13.240 Call a pastor. That's right. 205 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:14.320 Right, So when they call a. 206 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.600 Pastor and they call him in, there's for it's for 207 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.759 a good reason. So they'll say, yeah, absolutely, they believe 208 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:21.600 in God. In fact, they prayed, they had a Bible 209 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.799 by their bed, they always wore a cross around their neck. 210 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:27.240 But yet they hung up on this idea that they 211 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.120 didn't go to church. And so I thought, I think 212 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:35.279 the modern day equivalent to this conversation about circumcision is 213 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:41.159 about rules, right, because circumcision was nothing more than sort 214 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:44.039 of a rule to obey to seem godly. 215 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:46.840 And so I think he could have filled the sin 216 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:51.120 and said, I've been talking about infant baptism right, right, Oh, 217 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.600 it's infant baptism where it's not either your baptized when 218 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:55.200 your baby, or you're not in your way to heaven. Right. 219 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:57.440 They could have been that thing or because for the Jews, 220 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:00.879 circumcision was the symbol that you had converted, right, your 221 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.120 whole family. It could have been any of those things 222 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:04.480 that we look at now. 223 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.000 Taking communion, it could it could have been you know, 224 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.919 obviously good deeds. Well, I've tried to obey the ten commandments. 225 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:12.440 So that's sort of like a thing confirmation at twelve. 226 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:15.559 Yes, because because what it is it's about, it's about 227 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:19.000 obeying the law in order to prove that you are 228 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.200 in a class that is approved by God and so 229 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:25.080 and so don't get hung up our listeners, I'm saying 230 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.000 on the fact that he's talking about circumcision, because really 231 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:33.639 it's just because that wasn't common over uh in the 232 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:38.000 Midwest or in the mid Middle East as it is today, 233 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:42.639 and so circumcision actually was less popular, right, So that 234 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:44.000 that's why it's. 235 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:47.080 Still globally is today now I think the majority of 236 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:50.120 people are still not But in the West the majority 237 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.919 would be yes, right, yes, particularly in the US. Europe 238 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:55.919 is less and less, but the idea being it seems 239 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:57.960 common to us. And so this is an odd argument, 240 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:00.759 whereas what he's taught really talking about the rules. 241 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.720 Of the religion that's exactly right, right, So. 242 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:07.000 What he's trying to say is there are no specific 243 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.960 rules you have to keep in order to go to heaven. 244 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:14.279 Now he does talk, and I think this is really 245 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:18.360 important in the passage we just finished, verse seven, don't 246 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:20.440 be misled. You cannot mock the justice of God. You 247 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:22.840 will always harvest what you plant. And then he said, 248 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.240 those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature 249 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:27.960 will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But 250 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:30.759 those who live to please the spirit will harvest everlasting 251 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:34.080 life from the spirit. So he's differentiating between. He spends 252 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:38.519 the whole book differentiating between following the rules in order 253 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:40.720 to get to heaven or get God to approve of you, 254 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:44.720 and salvation by faith. But then he pauses and before 255 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:46.639 he end goes, now, let's not make a mistake here. 256 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.759 If you live for the flesh, you will have all 257 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.080 of the natural death and decay that comes from the flesh. 258 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:53.879 So of course you need to live in the spirit. 259 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:56.240 And he spent a big part of chapter five explaining 260 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:57.440 what it means to live in the spirit, the fruit 261 00:11:57.480 --> 00:11:59.840 of the spirit, those kinds of things. So he's saying, 262 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:03.440 you're going to harvest what you sew. But that's not 263 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.639 so you can go to heaven and that's the consequences. 264 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:08.320 So let's explain what harvest and sewing is. 265 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:11.799 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well sewing just means planting sow, not 266 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:15.639 s e w. Right, right, So he says, so you're 267 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.000 going to harvest what you plant, just like a farmer 268 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:20.639 puts seed in the ground and you know, cultivates it 269 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:23.720 in months later or weeks later. You know, you get 270 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:25.240 way more back than what you plan it. 271 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.200 And also what he's saying is if you plant radishes, 272 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:28.159 you're not going to get pairs. 273 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:30.360 That's right, that's right. Well, I think the note in 274 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:32.720 the Life Application Bible says it would certainly be a 275 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:36.200 surprise if you planted corn and pumpkins came up, right, right, 276 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:39.000 you'd be surprised by that. So, so there is the 277 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:44.240 common in our culture. There's a common idea of karma. Right, 278 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.399 what goes around comes around, karma, karma, karma, comma karma, 279 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:51.600 right kind of thing, kama kma kama. Yeah, you're born 280 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:55.799 in the eighties or you're a boy of the eighties, right, So, 281 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:58.399 so karma is a big conversation. A lot of people 282 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:02.840 have that's a Hindu con except the Biblical view would 283 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:06.559 be the things that you plant naturally would come back 284 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:08.799 in a harvest much greater than what you planted. 285 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:12.159 Yeah, well, it's it's interesting because a lot of what 286 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:15.960 we believe is natural without God is actually natural because 287 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.759 of God. So when people say, oh, I believe in karma, 288 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:21.120 well I do too, It's just not called karma. 289 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:22.480 It's a biblical principle. 290 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:24.960 It's not the forces of the universe, right right, make 291 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:28.200 it's it's God, the laws of God. 292 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:32.320 Yeah, and so karma isn't necessarily a bad thing. The 293 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:34.679 only bad part about it is that they say it's 294 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.120 a universe because they'll say, oh, if you put that 295 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:39.399 energy out into the universe, that energy is going to 296 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:42.080 come back. It's that same negative energy. Well, actually that's 297 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:45.440 completely true because it says what you sow. 298 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:45.879 You're going to reap. 299 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:48.240 Right, And do you remember the old English version, the 300 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:50.840 King James version, Do not be deceived, for God is 301 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:51.919 not mocked. 302 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.799 That He also so if planted. 303 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.759 But anyway, the bottom line is is that is a 304 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:05.559 great verse to memorize because it is sort of like karma. 305 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:09.159 The only difference is it's a biblical principle that God promises, 306 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:13.480 and so if we are to you know, uh, invest in, 307 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:17.879 give our energy, to spend time doing all the things 308 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:22.639 that are wrong and negative, you know, and sinful, then 309 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:25.159 the consequences of those things are gonna be things that 310 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:28.759 consume and surround our life. However, if we if we 311 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:33.440 spend all of our time being kind, you know, showing love, forgiveness, 312 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:37.360 doing godly things, then our life will be surrounded with 313 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:42.039 the fruits and the return of our behavior. So it 314 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:47.480 really is karma, but it's not karma, it's it's. 315 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:49.159 What you put out there comes back to the idea 316 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:52.679 of karma within Hinduism, Hinduism meaning everything is God and 317 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:55.519 God is in everything. Right, that would that would be 318 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:00.519 Then then the idea being your energy is either your 319 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:05.120 putting it is your life force is connected in the universe, 320 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.799 and you put out the negative and that life force, 321 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.600 negative energy will come back to you someday. That is 322 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:13.720 not true, that that is a false concept. So the 323 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.200 part we're agreeing with the idea of the idea of 324 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.120 karma for a Westerner, yes, is not that the idea 325 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.480 is what you put out there comes back. The difference 326 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:23.720 would be the way God made it. These are the 327 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:28.159 laws of the universe. Like the law of gravity. We 328 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.799 wouldn't say, be careful about putting your energy too far 329 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:33.840 over the edge of the building, because then your energy 330 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:35.480 is going to fall and hit the ground. We wouldn't 331 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.399 say that, right, It's just the natural law that God 332 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:44.000 created of gravity, And this would be this law of 333 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:47.840 planting and harvesting is a law that God put out there. 334 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.279 So in contrast to energy going and energy coming back 335 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:53.279 and we're all connected in the universe, that's not a 336 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:56.559 true statement and it's not biblical. What is biblical is 337 00:15:56.799 --> 00:15:59.360 God established certain laws, and one of those laws is 338 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:00.840 what you plan you harvest. 339 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:04.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I shouldn't say it. I shouldn't 340 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:05.399 say it is karma. It's karma, like. 341 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:08.519 It's yeah, yeah, principle right, the principal people people would 342 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:10.960 would gravitate towards the wrong version of it. The right 343 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:11.960 version is what you plan is. 344 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:13.240 But I don't think. 345 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:16.000 I don't think I really quite understood what the true 346 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:19.240 definition of karma was until you said that God is everything. 347 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:21.759 God is in everything, and you put the energy back 348 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:22.960 into those things, they give it back. 349 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:25.440 I was just thinking, luck. 350 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:27.440 I think I think most people are that way in 351 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:29.919 the West. It's just you know, I've been in enough 352 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:31.679 Hindu temples and been a part of that kind of 353 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:33.919 stuff around the rest of I think, Okay, let's differentiate 354 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:36.399 because it's the third third largest religion in the world, 355 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.759 so it has a big impact on our on our Saturday. 356 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:44.399 So this idea, you cannot mock the justice of God. Right, 357 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:47.840 So we love to talk about the love of God. 358 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:48.679 God is love. 359 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:49.320 I love it. 360 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.559 Love, oh love, love, love of love, Mercy, mercy, mercy, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace. 361 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:55.159 Those are all incredibly important. 362 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:57.600 My wife's listening, putting on her makeup. Love Love, There 363 00:16:57.639 --> 00:16:59.240 you go, because that's our saying. We say that, there 364 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:08.319 you go. That's so sweet, it is. So anyways, we 365 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.400 talk a lot about the God is love, and sometimes 366 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:13.079 we forget God is also just. 367 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:16.960 God is just. God doesn't wink at our sin. Our 368 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:22.720 sin killed God. God satisfied his own justice by sacrificing 369 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.759 himself so that we could have forgiveness for our sins. 370 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:29.839 Because he loved us, his love and his justice had 371 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.200 to both be met, and he did that by sacrificing himself. 372 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.880 Is the only answer. So this idea of God being just. 373 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.599 We shouldn't be shocked when we plant a bunch of 374 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:43.039 negative things. I shouldn't be shocked if I've lived my 375 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.119 entire life drinking like a fish, and then all of 376 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.240 a sudden, in my later years, the doctor comes and 377 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:49.640 tells me I have serhosis as a liver. That's not 378 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:54.000 God being mean, right, that's the natural force. Not the 379 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.319 natural force, the natural law that God has put in 380 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:59.640 place that if you abuse your liver, your liver eventually 381 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:00.440 is going to fail you. 382 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:01.720 It's just science. 383 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.799 Yeah, it's right, it's the same thing. So we shouldn't 384 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:07.559 be surprised if we've been very promiscuous. We shouldn't be 385 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.880 surprised if we come home with a disease. Right, if 386 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.319 we fool around on our spouse, we shouldn't be surprised 387 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.599 that we're going to have our marriage fail. But on 388 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:21.039 the other side, he also says God's justice. God is just, 389 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.960 So if you are wise with your money, you shouldn't 390 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.000 be surprised that you have plenty when it comes time 391 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:31.960 to retire. If you are are generous to others, God says, 392 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:34.759 God will be generous to you. You shouldn't be surprised 393 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:38.359 by that. So God's justice, God will always do the 394 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:40.559 right thing always, and we shouldn't be surprised by that. 395 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:42.920 What we plant is what we're going to harvest. The 396 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:44.640 good news is you plan a little, you get way 397 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:45.039 more back. 398 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.880 Well, this Life Application Bible has a little chart that 399 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:49.799 I want to just sort. 400 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:50.079 Of read through. 401 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:53.880