WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:13.720 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. I'm 4 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:16.199 Kyle and this is Chris Yes, and today we are 5 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:18.960 your Bible Guys because Jeff is out of town across 6 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:21.640 the world doing great work with the Timothy Initiative and 7 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:25.719 which you can google and learn about. But today we're 8 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:30.679 actually in the third day of the second week of 9 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:34.159 a series, the brand new series that we're talking about, 10 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:38.200 Dangerous Prayers, and today is actually the theme of this 11 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:41.399 week is surrender, Prayers of Surrender, which is pretty crazy. 12 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:44.079 That's been great, Yeah, it's been great. And then so 13 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:46.280 today before we get into that, we have a brand 14 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.600 new segment and this is pretty crazy. I don't think 15 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:50.960 I've ever done this segment Like this. Desire is coming 16 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:52.560 up with new ideas all the time, and this one's 17 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:54.119 called Advice Booth. 18 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:57.479 Okay, so yeah, what we're gonna do here is we're 19 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:59.799 each going to give each other advice on a topic 20 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.719 and then we're gonna let the listeners vote. So I'm 21 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.799 assuming that's gonna be through YouTube. Correct if you're watching 22 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:07.879 on YouTube or even if you're listening on Spotify. 23 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:10.079 Or who knows that nobody will do it, Kyle, Oh, 24 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.359 I bet they will, but I but I hope they. 25 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:14.640 I hope you take just a second and respond to us, 26 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:17.680 because we love seeing feedback and I read. 27 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:19.239 I know you do too. I read the comments. I 28 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:20.760 love seeing this stuff, so this will be a chance 29 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:22.879 to get people's responses. 30 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:24.159 You know that I actually don't read the comments. 31 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.319 You don't know, do they always talk about I don't 32 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:28.599 even I don't even have it on my phone YouTube. 33 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:33.439 Listen since I've done a fab this is the episode 34 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:35.879 seven seventy three, and then HG Daily we did one 35 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:38.120 hundred and fifty episodes, so we've done like a thousand 36 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:41.040 episodes and I don't think I've ever once read a 37 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:41.680 single comment. 38 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:44.560 Oh okay, well they're usually pretty favorable. I like you 39 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:44.879 a lot. 40 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.480 Well that's cool, but but I probably need to. I 41 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:51.760 probably need to. I probably should. But Jeff reads a lot. 42 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.959 Yeah, and so he tells you almost to like me spoilt. Yes, 43 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.439 all right, so now for this, you guys comments, let 44 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:00.480 us know who you think you gave it a better advice? Okay, 45 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.519 so advice booth. Here's the first one. How do you 46 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:06.599 stop hitting snooze in the morning? Give people some invites? Chris, Well, 47 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:07.000 I don't know. 48 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.199 I don't know how you do it. But if I 49 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.000 if that was my goal, if my goal is to 50 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:15.879 not hit snooze, then my life hack is I would 51 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.360 take whatever the alarm is and I would put it 52 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:22.400 far from the bed forced me to get out of 53 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:22.639 the bed. 54 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:24.719 Yeah, that was Is that what you're gonna say? See, 55 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.000 we didn't talk about this beforehand, and so I was 56 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:29.120 worried we're going to steal each other's Hey. 57 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.639 But that that is that is the I mean, isn't 58 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:32.879 that the best one? 59 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:34.800 Yes? Which shows yourself to get up. 60 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:36.400 Which shows that you and I are both intelligent. 61 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:37.240 Yes, exactly. 62 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:39.439 So you put it way across the room, so you 63 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:42.360 literally have to get up, yes, And so it's like 64 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.039 that that way, you're not gonna hit snooze at all. 65 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:45.319 Yes, And that's only if. 66 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:48.560 You have a promised snooze. So my daughter, God bless her, 67 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.639 we love her so much, Tory, she's so great. But 68 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:53.400 she'll set like six alarms on the horn. 69 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:55.159 Oh wow, right, my daughters do that too. 70 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:57.439 Yeah, And so it's like it's like, oh, seven thirty 71 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:00.400 seven thirty five, seven forty seven forty five, So she 72 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:03.719 knows that she can hit uh, you know, off or 73 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:06.719 snooze or whatever. And uh and I'm just thinking, why 74 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:08.319 do you even want to play that game? 75 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:10.479 So I had a season of life. I cannot remember 76 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:12.199 the year, but it was not that one maybe within 77 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.039 the last ten years where I went probably a year 78 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.479 or two where I would snooze for an hour and 79 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:19.000 ten every morning. I would set my alarm early, and 80 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:20.560 I knew that I had up until this time, so 81 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.479 be an hour. For some reason, it was this weird thing. 82 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:24.680 I enjoyed doing it. Okay, so since you stole what 83 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:26.319 I think is great advice, I'm going to give a 84 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:30.080 second potential option, which is to make your ring tone 85 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:33.000 so annoying and so loud that you don't want to 86 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:34.680 hear it again. That could be an o pack. 87 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:38.439 Give us an example, Kyle. Yeah, like what like like 88 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:39.560 like a song? 89 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:42.120 Oh, I don't know about a song? Yeah, I pick 90 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:43.240 a song, Okay, Okay. 91 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:44.919 It would be anything girly for you. 92 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:46.879 Shoot, yeah, I don't know. I think you'd have to. 93 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:48.719 Be like Friday Friday. 94 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:49.280 Yeah, what's that? 95 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:49.520 Uh? 96 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.560 Was I persue, saying, the song, uh, something like something 97 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.560 black Rebecca Black, Friday, Yeah Friday, be up there. It 98 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.680 may be a show tune. 99 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:00.639 Yeah, oh, showtunes would do it for that would do it? No? No, 100 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:02.840 I'd lay there and be like the show too. 101 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:04.520 Yeah, let's keep this time. But I think that could 102 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:06.680 be a good hack. Right, is put whatever the ring 103 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:09.120 tone is, or a song that's so annoying that it 104 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:10.719 forces you to get up because you don't want to 105 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:11.560 hear that ring tone again? 106 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:17.040 Okay, all right, good advice yep. And number two, number two, 107 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:20.279 what is the ultimate life hack for getting free food? 108 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:22.959 What a question? What is the ultimate life hack for 109 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.000 getting free food? You know what? I thought about this 110 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.759 for two seconds before we started filming, and I thought, 111 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:30.920 the only ideas that I can come up with are 112 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:32.000 all bad ideas. 113 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:34.399 Yeah, good, then share your best bad idea. 114 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:36.600 Well, for instance, like I would never do any of 115 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.560 these things willingly because they're they're they're wrong, right, because 116 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:42.639 I can't think of a life hack to get free 117 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.079 food in an honest way, right, like, like, how could 118 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.079 you honestly get free food in an honest way? 119 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.160 I think an app would be an option. Do you 120 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:53.319 ever do food apps. No, no, okay. So for example, 121 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:55.680 I have friends of mine who are big into like 122 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:57.560 the McDonald's app if they you know, I know that 123 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.279 may not be everyone's Fortepe, but Taco Bell, McDonald there's 124 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:02.079 apps that allows you to get a lot of free food. 125 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:06.040 Yeah really, yeah, okay, all right, that's one honest way 126 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:06.800 you could do it, all right. 127 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:07.959 But that means you have to spend a bunch of 128 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:08.560 money and then you. 129 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.720 Get Sometimes sometimes they'll just be going there and it'll 130 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:12.800 be like with your ordernay, you get free French fries. 131 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.079 So free food, okay, all right, So that that is 132 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:17.000 sort of a hack. 133 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:19.360 Yes, okay, a way that you would say is a 134 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:20.079 bad advice. 135 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:22.800 Okay there, Yes, Well, let me tell you. Let me 136 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:24.879 tell you a story. When I was in the eighties, 137 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.079 it was like it was like mid eighties, and there 138 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:29.920 was a really fancy restaurant our area called the Brown Derby. Okay, 139 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.480 And and and so we we Jeff and I and 140 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:34.839 my buddy would go in and we'd sit down, and 141 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:38.680 they bring us fresh bread and uh with and we'd say, 142 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:41.319 we just want waters, okay, And so they give us 143 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.319 ice water, and then we would sit down and we 144 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:45.480 would do the loaf of bread, eat bread and butter, 145 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:47.360 and it was so good. It was just this massive 146 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:49.360 piece of bread. And then they come over and they say, 147 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:50.519 what are you going to order? They say, oh, we 148 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:51.199 just want the bread. 149 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:53.319 There you go, that's a good life hack. 150 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.160 And then and then they go what do you mean. 151 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:57.839 I'm like, well, we just want the bread. So they 152 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:00.000 brought us over another loaf of bread. They're like, well, 153 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.399 well you have to order something. I'm like, no, we don't. 154 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.199 It's free. It's free bread. So can you please bring 155 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:07.279 us more free bread? 156 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:07.759 Yeah? 157 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:10.079 And we were sort of like, you know, sort of 158 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.240 like you know, telling the waiter like, uh, I think 159 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.720 you're I think you're obligated to bring us bread. So 160 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.360 the waiter agrees, so he brings us more bread, so 161 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:19.680 he literally waits on us. We go through like three 162 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:22.920 whole loaves of bread and butter like like wonderful bread, 163 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.680 drink the water, and then walk out without pan of dime. 164 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:26.399 Wow. 165 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.079 Now we only did that like three times. Yeah, before 166 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:33.240 the management somehow caught on because apparently enough waiters complained. 167 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:35.399 And then the fourth time we went in there, we 168 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:39.160 sat down and they recognized us and they said, uh. 169 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:40.800 There's a charge for bread, okay. 170 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:42.680 And they said it's like four ninety five or something 171 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.160 if you're not getting anything else. And I was like, oh, 172 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.560 they caught on, gotcha, gotcha, But that was my life act. 173 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:50.160 But I got It's not a terrible concept when you 174 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:52.160 consider the fact there's a lot of restaurants out there 175 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:54.639 that will almost fill you up before the food comes, right. 176 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.560 I think of like Texas Roadhouse is one, yeah, I'll back, 177 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:59.879 or what's one place down roadhouse? 178 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:01.680 Uh don Horns, Yes. 179 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:04.319 Long Horns takeout. That is great bread before you even 180 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:04.800 get the food. 181 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.120 So yeah, a lot of Mexican restaurants do free chips 182 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:07.399 and saws. 183 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:09.879 Yes, and there's my meal arrived. I'm like, I'm halfway 184 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:11.680 full before the food even got here. So all right, 185 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:13.199 that is a good life hacked. I'm gonna go with 186 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:18.439 I'm gonna go with terrible advice. But I'll just say 187 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:20.519 because you, well, I guess yours is kind of like, oh. 188 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:22.759 Mine's terrible. Yea, yeah, I would never do that today. Yes, 189 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:24.279 it's bad advice. I would say the way that was 190 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:26.079 before I was a Christian, Oh that was that was 191 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:26.399 b C. 192 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.920 Yeah, mine, I would say is terrible advice, just for anybody, 193 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:30.639 Christian or non Christian, is just to put it all 194 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.439 on a credit card. Oh, just put a credit card. 195 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.959 Not free. Ultimately that's more expensive. 196 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:38.720 You're gonna be paying for it. Yeah yeah, yeah, seven 197 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.519 percent interest on the long run. No, but but for real, 198 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:43.399 i'd say the app you just say seven. 199 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:44.680 Percent, isn't that what it is? No? 200 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:46.279 No, No, they're a twenty five Okay, sorry. 201 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.040 I was gonna say, like seven percent of the sales tax? 202 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.319 Yeah, okay. So I to just one thing about I Actually, 203 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.160 when I use my credit card, I try to pay 204 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.800 it off. And I think popest people should try to write. 205 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:57.319 Oh you're gonna you're gonna you have to throw that. 206 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:59.319 In there, yes, because honestly, I didn't even know how much. 207 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:00.360 How much are they used it? 208 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.519 Well, it depends, it depends. I was just gonna say, 209 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:06.160 if you have a seven percent interest on your credit card, 210 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:06.800 that's a good card. 211 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:07.120 That's good. 212 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:08.199 Okay, I'd say hang on to that. 213 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:11.199 Okay, yeah, good right, that's all right. So yeah, get 214 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:12.920 some apps. Get them. Actually, do do you ever eat 215 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:15.160 like McDonald's, even for like breakfast or anything? You don't 216 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:16.160 strike me as a fast you know. 217 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.079 You know what's so funny is I will I will 218 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:20.959 do McDonald's and I'm good for like a year. Yeah, 219 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.120 and then and then it'll be literally a year later 220 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:25.839 before I go through. And it's almost always breakfast. 221 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:27.399 Yeah, I'm a little bit I'm in the same boat. 222 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:29.319 But but I do know that a couple of years 223 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:30.879 ago because when I'll go with my friends to a 224 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.440 golf outing, there's always McDonald's in town that we stop at. 225 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:35.159 So I have the app and actually does have a 226 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:38.080 good deal. So there's my life hack. Get the McDonald's out. 227 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.279 All right. Well there you go. All right, Well, I'll 228 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:43.720 tell you what that was. That was difficult. It was 229 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.200 difficult to come up with those kinds of answers, right, 230 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:48.639 and you know what else is difficult. 231 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:49.559 What's difficult. 232 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.399 The teaching is about forgiveness and faith that we're about 233 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.679 to unpack. And Luke, chapter number seven. 234 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:56.399 I'll just say, you're doing a great job this week 235 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:57.240 with the transitions. 236 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.279 Well, you know what, good I've taken all three of 237 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:00.919 them as we were on the third day. 238 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:02.519 Yeah, So for. 239 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:05.039 The remainder of the week, I'm now announcing to our 240 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.240 listeners you're you're responsible for the next two. 241 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.639 Okay, sounds good. All right, that's difficult, you know, it's 242 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:12.879 difficult what we're about to. 243 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.039 No, no, no, no, I've already done that. 244 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:19.639 All right, Luke seventeen, verses one through six. The section 245 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:23.320 here says it's Jesus talking about forgiveness and faith, says 246 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:27.159 in verse one and seventeen, Chapter seventeen. One day, Jesus 247 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:30.360 said to his disciples, there will always be temptations to sin, 248 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:34.159 But what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting. 249 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:36.679 It would be better to be thrown into the sea 250 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.559 with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause 251 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:42.240 one of these little ones to fall into sin. So 252 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:47.039 watch yourselves. If another believer sins, rebuke that person. Then 253 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:50.600 if there is repentance, forgive. Even if that person wrongs 254 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:53.480 you seven times a day, and each time turns again 255 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:57.759 and asks forgiveness, you must forgive. The apostles said to 256 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:00.519 the Lord, show us how to increase our faith. The 257 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.639 Lord answered, if you had faith even as small as 258 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.720 a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 259 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.480 may you be uprooted and thrown into the sea, and 260 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:11.639 it would obey you. Man. 261 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:12.879 Is that it? Yeah? 262 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:14.240 There one through six. 263 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:17.559 Yep. Okay, So the dangerous prayer then, is just that 264 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:18.480 simple sentence. 265 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:19.080 Right. 266 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.679 The apostles said, to the Lord, show us how to 267 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.720 increase our faith. And they said that, of course, in 268 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.919 light of the really hard teaching. Yes, now you know 269 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:31.279 what's so interesting. You and I live post Jesus, right, 270 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.600 I mean you were two thousand years post Jesus. And 271 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.519 so the concept of loving one another and loving your 272 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:40.919 enemies is something that we've grown up with for generations, 273 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.000 and so it's not unusual. It's not mind blowing to 274 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:49.480 hear love your enemies. But isn't it odd and strange 275 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:53.399 and almost mind blowing? You think about when Jesus said 276 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:56.360 a new commandment, I give to you love one another. 277 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:00.840 It was a brand new thought, which is why Jesus 278 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:04.080 often said, you've heard it said an eye for an eye, 279 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:05.879 a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you 280 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.720 love your enemies, forgive those that persecute you. Right, And 281 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.279 it's it's just like this, this brand new thought. In 282 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:15.399 the Old Testament, when you grew up, things were like 283 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:20.159 pretty ruthless, in fact, very ruthless. The world was so 284 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:23.759 harsh and even even the standard you know, there was 285 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:27.440 no government a lot of times necessarily, and so there 286 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.559 would be there's there's social law, there's there's there's there's 287 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:34.159 you know, the ability to take revenge that you were 288 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.240 within your right a lot of times. You know, think 289 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:39.360 about the wild wild West, only only worse than that, 290 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.720 right where it's like you were allowed to it was justified. Right. 291 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:45.639 I remember watching a movie, an old Western, where somebody 292 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.039 shot somebody down and then and then everybody was standing 293 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.960 around watching it, and and and he says, he goes, 294 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.559 you saw it. He provoked it. You saw it, and 295 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:55.759 that was the only thing he needed, apparently, right, He's like, 296 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.559 everybody here witnessed it, he provoked it. And I was like, oh, 297 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.799 apparently that's okay, right, you know, killing somebody in the 298 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:04.360 streets within the wild blah West is okay. 299 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:06.240 Because because everybody saw it and can say, yeah. 300 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:08.440 Everybody can say you were justified in what you were saying. Right. 301 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:12.639 So the idea, the idea that Jesus would come along 302 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.320 in Luke chapter seventeen right here and say, okay, ready 303 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:19.759 for this. Somebody is going to offend you seven times 304 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:24.240 and you are probably you have probably grown up either 305 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.080 teaching you know, that your parents, or you're even your priest, 306 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:31.360 or your your pharisee, your local leader has taught you 307 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:34.399 to either hate them or to shun them, or to 308 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:38.519 excommunicate them, or to even get revenge on them. But 309 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.320 I'm here to tell you you are to forgive them. Yeah, 310 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.960 even if they offend you seven times every single days. 311 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.559 This revolutionary idea. And I think for me, I don't 312 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.639 the thing that stands out right before that it talks 313 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:53.600 about he says of another believer sins, rebuke that person. 314 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:54.879 I don't know about you, but when you hear that 315 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:57.200 word rebuke, it's not It's not like a hot word. 316 00:12:57.200 --> 00:12:58.759 You know a lot of times like rebuke, you're kind 317 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:02.039 of like, oh. But the point it makes in the 318 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:04.080 notes here in this Bible is here. It says Luke 319 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.440 about three through fourth says, to rebuke does not mean 320 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:09.559 to point out every sin we see. It means to 321 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:13.080 bring sin to a person's attention with the purpose of 322 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.840 restoring that person's relationship with God and with fellow humans. 323 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:18.279 So that says, when you feel you must rebuke another 324 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:21.399 Christian for sin, check your attitudes before you speak. Do 325 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:23.840 you love that person? Are you willing to forgive. Unless 326 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.399 rebuke is tied to forgiveness, it will not help the 327 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:29.360 sinning person. I love that. If it's not tied to forgiveness, 328 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:31.200 it will not help the sinning person. So I think 329 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:33.399 what he's saying is, if you're going to go rebuke somebody, 330 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:35.039 it's not a bad thing. That's a good thing. Even 331 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.000 if you're receiving rebuke, it can be a good thing. 332 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:39.039 But you have to really check your heart. If your 333 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:44.759 goal is to find mutual reconciliation to eventually lead to forgiveness. 334 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:47.320 If your goal is not that, then you're not going 335 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:48.960 to help the person and your heart's in the wrong place. 336 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:50.200 I think that's great. 337 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:52.440 Yeah, and a lot of Christians, a lot of Christians 338 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:55.840 miss this. Yeah, you know, one of the worst stories 339 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:59.200 that I've ever heard in my entire life. And I'm 340 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:01.039 serious when I say that it's one of the worst 341 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:02.679 stories I've ever heard in my entire life. It was 342 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.120 actually by one of our staff members, and she said 343 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:07.279 that she grew up in a real conservative church, and 344 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:10.320 conservative meaning like you know, they're all about rules and 345 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.320 you know, focusing on these sort of legalistic kind of things. 346 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:17.759 And she said that one time the pastor was standing 347 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:20.120 by the door. And this was, you know, and probably 348 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.799 in the late seventies or something, right back when hippies 349 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:24.919 and all those kinds of things. And this kid had 350 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.399 walked into church and he was coming to church, but 351 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:30.480 he had long hair. And the pastor said, boy, you're 352 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:32.600 not coming to my church with that long hair. You 353 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:34.320 turn around and go get a haircut. And when you 354 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:37.039 get a haircut, then you're welcome to my church. I 355 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:40.639 promise you when I say, I have a physical, visceral 356 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:44.240 reaction just telling that story. Right, so you know, that 357 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:47.399 guy's eternity, you know, could be at stake. He could 358 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:49.639 have walked away from God and everything else. Right, the 359 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:53.759 damage that that causes not only to that man's eternity, 360 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.759 but also maybe all of his legacy and his generations. 361 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:59.120 And I'm not saying God still can't reach that boy, 362 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:03.879 but I am saying that I personally know the hundreds 363 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:08.840 of stories that have kept people away from God for 364 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:13.720 years and sometimes even permanently, right because of things like that, and. 365 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:16.799 Well, and then that person the pastor might have referenced, 366 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.360 you know, and whatsover. It's it's a proverb about an 367 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:23.320 open rebuke. Yes, like, but people take that out of context, right, 368 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:25.519 That's exactly that was my point. Rebuke you I'm gonna, 369 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:27.440 I'm gonna. And it's like no if your heart is 370 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:28.399 not yeah, so. 371 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:30.279 Sorry, yeah no, no, no, go ahead, good finish. 372 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:31.639 I just I was just thinking about that. I think 373 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:34.240 that oftentimes people see the rebuke thing and it does 374 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:37.159 have a negative connotation because of the fact that it's 375 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:43.279 been used as as a justification for unkind or ungodly 376 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:47.039 or or hurtful words that are said and unproductive. Yes, exactly. 377 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:49.279 So it's like it's like rebuke. Think about the purpose 378 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.919 of rebuke. So the purpose of rebuke is directly tied 379 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:55.639 to restoration, repentance, restoration, and everything else. So the purpose 380 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:58.000 of rebuke is not for the sake of rebuke. Right. 381 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:01.200 So it's like to all the Christians who type in caps, 382 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:05.679 it's like, that's not the purpose of you know, your platform. 383 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.399 The purpose of your platform is for the purpose for 384 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:10.919 somebody else to be, you know, to come to Christ. 385 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:13.799 So I think of it about as effective as this. 386 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:16.200 And I actually said this literally, I just said this. 387 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:21.480 So last Sunday I actually had the privilege of going 388 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:24.759 to the away Lions game. Okay, so we were in 389 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:27.360 Green Bay, the Lions did not do very well. No, 390 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:29.840 in fact, it was that part of the trip was 391 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:34.240 pretty darn discouraging. However, the trip itself to Green Bay 392 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.039 was pretty awesome. And as we were walking through Green Bay, 393 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:38.519 and by the way, what a wonderful place to be, 394 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:41.639 I just have to publicly say wow to the people 395 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:44.120 of green Bay. Just best best stadium in the United 396 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:48.120 States of America. Best people, I'm not kidding, not even 397 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.320 close in my mind. Well, just an unbelievable, over the 398 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:55.759 top experience. So good job green Bay. But anyway, doesn't 399 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:58.639 make me like the team anym though, but good job 400 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.720 green Bay. So anyway, as I'm walking through, uh, this 401 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:04.000