WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.240 practical ways. Jeff, I am blessed and highly favored. How 4 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:13.759 are you today? 5 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:14.640 I am doing great. 6 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:17.120 Yeah. The reason why I'm blessed in highly favored is 7 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:20.960 yesterday's podcast. We were Matthew seven and then this podcast, 8 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:23.320 which happens, you know, right after we record right in 9 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:25.440 a row the next day. The next day. So I 10 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.320 actually took my Bible and I just flipped and it 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:30.480 went directly to the page. 12 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.320 Yeah, that's exactly right. So you are blessed and highly favored. 13 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:35.679 Yes, yes, I turned to the exact page. 14 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:37.759 So if that's how you want to use today's blessings, 15 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:38.520 go ahead. 16 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:42.159 No, that starts. That is the tip of the iceberg. 17 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:43.799 What if that's the only one you're getting today? 18 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.920 Now? Are you kidding? Are you kidd I'm blessed sitting 19 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:49.280 next to you, Jeff, I'm blessing. 20 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:50.920 Right now, both of them. Then you got both your 21 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:54.960 blessings already five minutes into the day. 22 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:59.200 Here, Wow, the day I'm all used up. Well, Hey, 23 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:01.960 welcome to the guys. I'm Christ this is Jeff, and 24 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.400 we are excited that you've joined us. Today, we are 25 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:07.159 in a series what if Jesus had a podcast covering 26 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.719 the famous sayings of Jesus? And today is this is 27 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:13.200 the saying called do you want to leave too? 28 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:17.079 That's a pretty that's oh, this is a big story. 29 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:18.439 That's a big, big question. 30 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:19.480 Yeah. Yeah. 31 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:21.959 But before we get into that, we have a segment 32 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:25.519 by Desiree and it's one of my favorite segments, Who's 33 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:26.400 most likely? 34 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:27.599 Who's most likely? 35 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.400 I like these because it just forces us to pick. 36 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.560 We should have like a who's most likely likely? 37 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.359 I like you think everything is that voice with you? Though? Yeah? 38 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:40.079 I know, yeah, it's like you like Stomp the pastor 39 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.480 Yesterday everything. 40 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.359 Every commercial I would do would always sound like a 41 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:48.840 truck pull right right, a monster truck. 42 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.640 Sound like a movie trailer in the world where people 43 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:55.120 are most likely to do things? 44 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:58.200 So who's most likely? 45 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:00.599 Yeah? So anyway, I like the would you rather? And 46 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:02.640 I like the Who's most likely because it forced you 47 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:05.000 to pick a choice. Yes, so here's the first one. 48 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:09.159 Who's most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse with style? 49 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:10.719 Oh? 50 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:11.520 Yeah, that'd be you. 51 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.800 I don't know with style? You have better style than me. 52 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.319 I might have the style part, but I don't have 53 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:23.639 any guns. Well there's that, and you have multiple guns, 54 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.919 well yeah, and so I and not not to mention, 55 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.840 you have more survival skills, uh, in the outdoors, and 56 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.520 I'm assuming that you're gonna have to run. You're not 57 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:37.080 going to be you know, bolted up in your gun room, right, 58 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.639 you probably have to be on the go, right, walking 59 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:42.719 dead and such out in the wood, yes. 60 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:46.800 Yeah, or growing food, yeah, finding something? Yeah. Who's most 61 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:49.400 likely to crash a wedding and give a toast? That 62 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.080 is definitely you? Well I used to, did you used to? 63 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:54.800 Yeah? So this is the honest, goodness truth, Me and 64 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.960 my buddy Jeff Miller, who you know who's listening right now? 65 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:02.439 By the way, Hi Jeff, Hi Jeff. We invented the 66 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:08.280 movie Wedding Crashers. We invented that concept when we were teenagers, fifteen. 67 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.120 Years before the movie because nobody else was even doing it. 68 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.080 Well I'm sure they were, but I remember. 69 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.680 You just came up with the idea on your own. O. 70 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:17.800 That's right. We didn't read about it. We didn't hear 71 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:22.039 about it. We just said hey, and because my girlfriend 72 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:24.800 was working at a place that did weddings and so 73 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:27.639 at the time, and so I remember literally one night 74 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:30.520 in particular where Jeff says, hey, get dressed up, we're 75 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.120 going out, and so he actually invited Julie, I invited Sharon. 76 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:36.400 We all got dressed up. I was in a suit. 77 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:38.800 I was only sixteen. We picked him up and they're like, hey, 78 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:40.360 where are we going? We're going out to fancy dinner. 79 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:42.919 We went to the Mayrinight Center on Meridian Road and 80 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.319 there's a there's three weddings happening, and so we went 81 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:50.080 from wedding reception to wedding reception to wedding reception. And 82 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.000 in Youngstown they're really big, you know, weddings with big 83 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.520 Italian families with all these great food, right, and we 84 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:59.000 were going there. We would dance and Jeff literally caught 85 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.240 the garter. No, he caught the garter in a mafia wedding. 86 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.120 It was a mafia wedding. And then he put the 87 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.639 garter on the brine. Oh no, and then they asked 88 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:08.159 who are you and we had to run through the 89 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:11.840 kitchen and we had to run out and escape crazy. 90 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:13.120 Did you guys give a toast? 91 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:15.199 No, we didn't give a toast, Okay, but I've done 92 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:16.040 everything but the toast. 93 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:16.439 There you go. 94 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:22.240 I let a congo line in a dance. Yes, I 95 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:24.319 let a congo line, which is great. 96 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:26.600 This is this is the difference between the two of us. 97 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:28.360 Yes, yeah, most likely, yep. 98 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:31.800 This is why I don't mind talking about obeying the 99 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:36.319 laws of God and why you only only depend on 100 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:37.319 the grace and mercy of. 101 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:42.120 Say that is not why I would argue to say 102 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:51.639 those things are not connected whatsoever. But but yeah, real breakers. 103 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:52.879 Crazy man, Yeah for sure. Okay, who's most likely to 104 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:56.600 deliver a TED talk that accidentally goes viral? That's going 105 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:58.959 to be you us. Oh yeah, you're a way better 106 00:04:58.959 --> 00:04:59.480 speaker than me. 107 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:04.680 Yep, but you have you're the content guy. How about this? 108 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.839 How about this? You would help me develop the content 109 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:09.759 of a TED talk that I might deliver. 110 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.480 I wouldn't. I'm too busy. You would do it. You're 111 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:15.000 on your own. 112 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:15.879 Good luck with that. 113 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:16.879 You're going to do great. 114 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.040 I appreciate you saying that, though I'm I'm not. 115 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:21.879 Sure that's true, But no, I have no doubt. 116 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:25.079 All right. Number four, who's most likely to turn a 117 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:30.199 five minute story into an epic trilogy? That is definitely both. 118 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:30.759 Of us, both of us. 119 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:32.959 That's going to say, yeah, but I honestly think you 120 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:33.920 have the slight edge. 121 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:37.199 Oh yeah, I will take a story and make it 122 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:37.759 much longer. 123 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:39.800 Yeah, I would take you have a slight edge. But 124 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:41.120 by the way, I would say barely. 125 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:43.560 But when when we start telling stories, what happens is 126 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.120 I tell a story and then you go that's nothing. 127 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:49.800 And then you tell the story and I go, that's nothing. 128 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:52.480 So that's how we would get the trilogy, would be 129 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:53.040 both of us. 130 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:56.759 That's funny. That is really funny. Well, we are definitely 131 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:57.319 like that. 132 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:57.879 Yeah. 133 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.560 So if we're at a dinner, oh man, it's dangerous. 134 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:01.920 We just did this. We did this. 135 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.360 Yeah, we sort of went back and forth, didn't we. Yeah, 136 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:05.079 that's that's sort of. 137 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:06.519 We had a dinner at my house. We had some 138 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:08.720 other friends over, and you and I got to telling 139 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:10.279 stories and and. 140 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:11.439 It turned into it that's nothing. 141 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:11.920 Yeah yeah. 142 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:12.199 Yeah. 143 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.560 So then we had to kind of change shift gears 144 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.120 a little bit and get it back to the people 145 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:17.519 that were And it. 146 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:19.399 Was so obvious. I'm like, hell, so do you guys 147 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:19.920 own a boat? 148 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:21.639 Yeah? 149 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:25.560 I was like, so, so talk about yourselves a little bit. 150 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.319 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look how awesome. We are. By the way, 151 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:29.920 do you do anything interesting? 152 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:39.720 I know that, I know that. I don't mean it 153 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:41.920 that way, but that is probably how it comes across. 154 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.319 It's probably across, all right, go ahead. Number five. 155 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.120 Who's most likely to win an argument using Shakespeare quotes? 156 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:51.560 Well, you just you just read them. 157 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:53.480 I was just reading some Shakespeare quotes. 158 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:56.279 Too literally, right before we started recording. 159 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:59.120 I kept typing in different quotes to just make sure, 160 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:01.600 like the lady doth protest too much? 161 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:03.839 And yes those kinds, yes, yes, so that be you. 162 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:06.680 It was that when much ado about nothing. One of 163 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:10.240 the quotes was I will eat his heart in the marketplace. 164 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.360 Yes, yes, he's going to devour that guy publicly. 165 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:18.240 Yeah, that was great. And then the one from Julius Caesar. 166 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:21.040 Oh, I remember you just quoted it. You said a 167 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:25.160 coward dies many deaths, but the valiants only die once. 168 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:26.600 That's right, It's great. 169 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:27.680 Isn't that a great quote? 170 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:31.439 It's a great So that's great. So yeah, so that's you. 171 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:33.040 But anyways, you win Number five. 172 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:38.720 I have the of Julius Caesar of Shakespeare in a 173 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.800 leather bound book on my shelves. I had to read 174 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:44.160 a lot of Shakespeare in high school. That's great, and 175 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:46.879 re reading Shakespeare in the King James Bible. They were 176 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.160 both written in the sixteen hundreds and so it's very 177 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:50.800 very similar. We grew up to King James Bible. So 178 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:53.199 reading Shakespeare was easy. You know that these and the 179 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:55.240 dows wasn't a hard thing. Really, it was easy to 180 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:56.079 kind of track along. 181 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:59.920 I read Shakespeare through a mediator called cliff. 182 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:02.480 Cliffs Notes. 183 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.199 Yes, cliffs notes, just. 184 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:08.199 A quick summary. Yeah, and now it's chet GTP chet 185 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:10.519 gbt A summarize Julius Caesar for me. 186 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:13.079 Yeah, and then read it to me. Yes, yeah, out 187 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:17.040 I sleep, Yeah, oh mercy, Okay, So hey, we're gonna 188 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:20.560 move on to our sigma or to our scripture for today. 189 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:22.879 So we're gonna leave that conversation. 190 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:24.120 Woh, there it is. 191 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.079 U huh, there it is, and go to another conversation. 192 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:29.120 And do you think we'll leave that one too? 193 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:32.960 Uh? Well that's the question Jesus is gonna ask, do 194 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.759 you want to leave too? Yes, there's the terrible transition. 195 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:40.159 It was horrible. Yes, So we're gonna read quite a 196 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:44.600 few verses here, but this is a really powerful story. 197 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:46.879 In verse twenty five, it says they found him on 198 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:47.799 the other side of the lake. 199 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.840 John chapter six, John chapter six, Yes, you didn't say 200 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:51.679 John six. 201 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:53.919 John six, verse twenty five through sixty nine. 202 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:54.799 Sorry, go ahead. Yes. 203 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:57.320 They found him on the other side of the lake 204 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:00.960 and ask Rabbi, when did you get here. Jesus replied, 205 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:02.480 I tell you the truth. You want to be with 206 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:04.840 me because I fed you, not because you understood the 207 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:08.480 miraculous science. But don't be so concerned about perishable things 208 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.759 like food. Spend your energy seeking the eternal life that 209 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.240 the son of Man can give you. For God, the 210 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:17.399 Father has given me the seal of his approval. They replied, 211 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.480 we want to perform God's works too, What should we do? 212 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.480 Jesus told them this is the only work God wants 213 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.200 from you. Believe in the one he has sent. They answered, 214 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.080 show us a miraculous sign. If you want us to 215 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:32.480 believe in you, what can you do? After all, our 216 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.799 ancestors ate mana while they journeyed through the wilderness. Scriptures 217 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.720 say Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jesus said, 218 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.120 I tell you the truth. Moses didn't give you bread 219 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:44.200 from heaven. My Father did, and now he offers you 220 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.080 the true bread from heaven. The true bread of God 221 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:49.120 is the one who comes down from heaven and gives 222 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:52.240 life to the world. Sir, they said, give us that 223 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.840 bread every day. Jesus replied, I am the bread of life. 224 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.919 Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever 225 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.559 believes in me will never be thirsty. But you haven't 226 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.600 believed to me, even though you've seen me. However, those 227 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:06.279 the Father has given me will come to me, and 228 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.559 I will never reject them. For I have come down 229 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:11.799 from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, 230 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:13.960 not to do my own will. And this is the 231 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.480 will of God that I should not lose even one 232 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:18.519 of all those he has given me, but that I 233 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:20.840 should raise them up at the last day. For it 234 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.200 is my father's will that all who see his son 235 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:26.039 and believe in him should have eternal life. I will 236 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:29.039 raise them up that last day. Then the people began 237 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.200 to murmur and disagreement because he had said, I am 238 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:33.960 the Bread that came down from heaven. They said, isn't 239 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:36.399 this Jesus, the son of Joseph. We know his father 240 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.360 and mother. How can he say I came down from heaven. 241 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:42.120 But Jesus replied, stop complaining, about what I said, For 242 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.039 no one can come to me unless the Father who 243 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:46.279 sent me draws them to me. And at the last 244 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:48.720 day I will raise them up. As it is written 245 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:51.120 in the scriptures, they will all be taught by God. 246 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:53.720 Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him 247 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.759 comes to me. Not that anyone has ever seen the Father. 248 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.799 Only I, who was sent from God, have seen him. 249 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:04.519 I tell you the truth. Anyone who believes has eternal life. Yes, 250 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:06.720 I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate man 251 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:09.399 in the wilderness, but they all died. Anyone who eats 252 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.120 the bread from Heaven, whoever, however, will never die. I 253 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:15.360 am the living bread that came down from Heaven. Anyone 254 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:17.960 who eats this bread will live forever. And this bread, 255 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.840 which I will offer so the world may live, is 256 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.120 my flesh. When the people began arguing with each other 257 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:26.360 about what he meant, how can this man give us 258 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.120 his flesh to eat, they asked, Jesus said again, I 259 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:30.879 tell you the truth. Unless you eat the flesh of 260 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:32.519 the Sun of Man and drink his blood, you cannot 261 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:35.320 have eternal life within you. But anyone who eats my 262 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.399 flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I 263 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:40.679 will raise up that person at the last day. For 264 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:43.080 my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 265 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:45.720 Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains 266 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.519 in me, and I in him. I live because of 267 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.960 the Living Father, who sent me in the same way, 268 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.320 anyone who feeds on me will live because of me. 269 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:55.759 I am the true Bread that came down from heaven. 270 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:58.360 Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your 271 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.000 ancestors did, even though they the man of but will 272 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.200 live forever. He said these things while he was teaching 273 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:07.799 in the synagogue in Capernaum. Many of his disciples said, 274 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.120 this is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it. 275 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.279 Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining, so he 276 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:16.320 said to them, does this offend you, then, what will 277 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:18.080 you think if you see the Son of Man ascend 278 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:21.879 to heaven again. The spirit alone gives eternal life. Human 279 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:25.240 effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken 280 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.440 to you are spirit and life. But some of you 281 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:30.000 do not believe me. For Jesus knew from the beginning 282 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:32.480 which ones didn't believe, and he knew who would betray him. 283 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.080 Then he said, that is why I said that people 284 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.120 can't come to me unless the Father gives them to me. 285 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.639 At this point, many of his disciples turned away and 286 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:42.559 deserted him. Then Jesus turned to the twelve and asked, 287 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:45.919 are you also going to leave? Simon Peter said, Lord, 288 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:48.600 to whom would we go? You have the words that 289 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.679 give eternal life. We believe and we know that you 290 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:52.960 are the Holy One of God. 291 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.480 I love that question, Lord, to whom shall we go? 292 00:12:58.879 --> 00:12:59.159 Yeah? 293 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:01.399 You have the words of a life. It reminds me 294 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:03.320 of the Old Testament scripture is what God is as 295 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:06.600 great as our God? You know? To whom shall we run? To? 296 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:10.440 Right those concepts? He looks and says, do you want 297 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:13.840 to leave too? And that is the title of the segment. 298 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.919 That's the famous phrase, That's the famous question. And I 299 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:19.799 love their answer And their answer is where else are 300 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:23.279 we going to go? Get point to one God that 301 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:27.279 is greater than you. Your words hold eternal life. Do 302 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.960 you want to leave too? And what Jesus is asking 303 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:35.679 is actually an extremely relevant question because whenever there is 304 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:40.879 a truth that offends, then then the question is, Okay, 305 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.720 are you going to love me, believe me, follow me enough? 306 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:47.360 To continue on or are you going to get offended 307 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:51.039 and leave? Think about how many Christians you know they're 308 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:54.559 in for all the they're in for all the you know, 309 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:57.320 they do the Bible buffet, they love all the happy truths. 310 00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:59.679 And then you know they take what they want and 311 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.039 then right, and then you say. 312 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:03.720 Like this and this and this, I just don't like. 313 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:05.639 That or that, right, right, right? And then and then 314 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:06.360 you haven't. 315 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:07.679 Read the Bible with an eraser in your hand. 316 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:09.480 Yeah, And then you have a verse that says remain 317 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:11.919 sexually pure, and they go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, not 318 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.279 that one. I don't want any of that. I'll pass 319 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.600 on that. And and it's like, hey, does this offend you? 320 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:19.279 Are you gonna do? You want to leave? Also? Right? 321 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:22.039 And so the and there's a couple of different things 322 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:25.559 about this passage number one. He says some of the 323 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:29.159 disciples turned and left, and on the on the surface, 324 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:32.519 people may think he was referring to the twelve disciples, right, 325 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.279 But then he says he turned to the twelve, which 326 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:36.519 means the twelve are still there, right. And the word 327 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:40.679 disciple is actually used for anybody who's a follower of 328 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:44.279 Jesus so sometimes there may be hundreds of followers, and 329 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:48.360 he referred to the crowds the followers as disciples. That's 330 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.799 why you and I could be referred to as disciples, 331 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:55.080 but the twelve were actually the title was apostles. So 332 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:58.480 so not every disciple is an apostle, but yet every 333 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.279 apostle is a disciple. 334 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:00.559 That's correct. 335 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:03.960 So so it's it's a little confusing sometimes because sometimes 336 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.799 he'll say the twelve disciples because they were disciples. 337 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:10.000 Well they started off his disciples. They weren't apostles until. 338 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.200 Until later on, right right, but they were the twelve 339 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:14.240 in this case, there was twelve capital T right right. 340 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:18.480 So anyway, that was something that stood out to me. 341 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.559 And and then I have a lot to say here, 342 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:24.399 go ahead. I used to work for a guy that 343 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:28.759 he used to quote this verse all the time, and 344 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:30.320 and I and I believe that he used to use 345 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:32.720 that out of context. And consequently a lot of the 346 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:34.960 staff used to quote it and use it out of 347 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.399 context all the time. Where Jesus looked at the disciples 348 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:41.600 and said, the only thing that God requires of you 349 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:44.200 the work, the only work of God that you require 350 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:47.320 to do is to believe. Oh right, Remember that, and 351 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.200 he says, he says that that's the only work, because 352 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.440 because what did he say? The disciples said, hey, uh, 353 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:54.600 we want to do many great works in your name, 354 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.159 right right, and so and then Jesus goes, hey, hey, 355 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.600 there's one thing only that's required of you. You ready 356 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:05.480 believe now the way that I take this, and by 357 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:06.879 the way, I don't just take it as in my 358 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:12.120 own interpretation. You take that scripture and you combine it 359 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.200 with every other scripture that Jesus talks about of what 360 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:17.879 is required of the follower of Christ. And so the 361 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:21.440 Bible is its own best commentary. So my old boss 362 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:25.159 used to say, hey, the only thing required is just 363 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.960 to believe. That's it. You don't have to do anything else. 364 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.120 And all of a sudden, it was translated, is in 365 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:32.799 like you don't have to do anything, right, like, as 366 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:35.879 long as you believe, you know, it's almost like as 367 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:39.519 a Christian, you're not required to evangelize, you're not required 368 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:41.840 to do this, you're not required to obey, you're not 369 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:43.759 required to do it. He used to say, it's the 370 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:46.399 only thing that's really required. And I'd say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 371 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:49.320 that is not how Jesus meant it. What he is 372 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:53.960 saying is if a person truly believes, then everything else 373 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.759 will naturally come. Because if you don't believe, you're not 374 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:59.600 going to act right. So if you believe the chair 375 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:02.559 is going to hold you, then you're gonna sit. But 376 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:05.000 if you don't believe the church is gonna hold you, 377 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:08.480 you don't sit. So belief is the only thing that's required, 378 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:12.680 true belief, because if you have true belief, everything else 379 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.720 comes later. And what Jesus was saying is, listen, you 380 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.720 want to know the only special ingredient that you have 381 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.640 to have, it's true belief. And once you believe truly, 382 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.680 I won't have to talk to you to doing anything right. 383 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.400 You'll just naturally do all the things that you believe 384 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.960 are true. You believe, you'll have the right perspective, you 385 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:35.920 have the right faith, you have the right you know 386 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:39.960 the priorities, you'll have everything in place because the only 387 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:43.559 thing that's required belief. Because what happens the rest of 388 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:46.359 the chapters, he said he knew who didn't believe, and 389 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.319 he knew who believed. He knew that some would walk away, 390 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:52.039 he knew that some would follow. He knew their hearts. 391 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.319 And so he's saying, the only thing that's required is belief, 392 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:57.559 But that does not exempt. 393 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:58.759 Us belief in the one he sent. 394 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.119 Yes, I believe in God or. 395 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:05.000 Believe in Christ? Yeah, the one that God the Father sent? 396 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:09.119 Yes, yes, yes, yes, And anyway, all that to say, 397 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:12.599 I just if you've ever heard somebody say, hey, the 398 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:14.519 only thing that's required for me is belief to get 399 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.680 off my back, that is not an application to what 400 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:18.599 Jesus was trying to say. 401 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:21.160