WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.720 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 --> 00:00:13.400 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of The 4 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:16.719 Bible Guys. Here we are, we are right here, great here, 5 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.960 and we are excited once again because we believe that 6 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:22.039 the Bible is exciting. 7 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:24.359 It is it is. Yeah, so we're going to talk 8 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:25.640 about it in fun and practical ways. 9 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:29.359 There you go. You remember you remember when that one 10 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.079 guy said he thought for a very long time that 11 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:35.039 it was fun, fun in practical ways. 12 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:38.880 Yeah, impractical. Yeah, yeah, you thought we were talking about 13 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:43.159 fun and impractical ways about the Bible, which may speak 14 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.679 more to his view of how we do this podcast. 15 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.960 So that's really funny. Hey, I was just told yesterday 16 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:55.240 that by a friend, John Borgland, who is now attending 17 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:00.600 our new campus, the Shelby Campus or no, the Stony. 18 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:04.239 Rochester Hills in Rochester Hills. Oh it's in Rochester Hills. 19 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:06.879 I thought it was in Shelby. No, Shelby, I know 20 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.560 it's Stony Creek. Stony Creek High School is in Rochester Hills. 21 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:14.079 Oh okay, but anyway, the Point Church, yeah, no doubt. 22 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.159 But anyway, I was just informed by John that he 23 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:20.879 is now a daily listener of the Bible guests. Oh good, well, 24 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:23.680 welcome John. Yeah, and his wife Betsy. 25 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:24.840 Okay, and Betsy. 26 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.319 And by the way, just real quick trivia. When I 27 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.879 first moved to Michigan in two thousand and four, I 28 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.079 moved a month before my wife did, and I had 29 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.079 nowhere to stay, and I had they had to find 30 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:36.879 somewhere for me to stay. So I stayed in John's basement. 31 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:39.840 Oh wow, and he had five kids. Wow at the time, 32 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:42.400 five boys. And I was in his basement for a month. 33 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:44.599 Okay, so then he had six boys. 34 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.879 Right, he had six boys. That's right, that's right. 35 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:50.120 Wow. Anyway, Okay, Well, so here we go. It says 36 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:52.439 we haven't done this segment in a while, so we 37 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.640 need to make sure that we really the two of us, 38 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:58.400 really know each other. Well, okay, so I'm supposed to 39 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:02.359 ask you five questions yep, about myself and see if 40 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:03.280 you know the quick answer. 41 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:06.000 Well, it's kind of a catch twenty two because then 42 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:08.639 now you're searching for things that you think I won't know. 43 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:10.199 Well, no, no, I'm I was searching for things I 44 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:12.680 thought you probably did know that I've said before. 45 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:14.680 So if I don't know them, then I'm really bad. 46 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:15.560 Yeah yeah, yeah. 47 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:17.840 Okay, well thanks for that. Thanks for that intro. 48 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:22.919 These are things you probably don't know. Okay, okay, what 49 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:24.199 village was I born in? 50 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.479 Village? Well, it's it's it's. 51 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.680 No, no, no, I'm sorry. I wasn't born in the village. 52 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:32.120 What village did I grew up in? 53 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:33.560 Sorry? Is it LaPier? 54 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:35.879 No, that's the town I was born in. 55 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:39.199 Okay, So there's a village. Wait a minute, I know this. 56 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.240 I know this. You said this before, because I don't 57 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:43.960 understand it. 58 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.840 It's where it's it's the island where Napoleon was banished. 59 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:47.759 Elba. 60 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:49.800 There you go, Elba, Yeah, Elba, there you go. 61 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:53.280 Oh, so have begun. So, so explain that to me. 62 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:55.599 So there's a village in a town. 63 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:59.400 So there's the city of LaPier in the county of LaPier. 64 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.400 But I lived eleven miles outside of the city of LaPier, 65 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:04.960 in the county of LaPier, in the village of Elba. 66 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.520 Oh my goodness, gracious. Yeah, okay, all right, very good. 67 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:11.680 That's a good one. Yeah, okay, So you know I 68 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:14.520 like to grill. Yes, yeah, it's one of my favorite things. 69 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.960 To do. What's my favorite kind of meat to grill? 70 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:20.000 Favor kind of meat? 71 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:20.800 Yeah? 72 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:28.039 Oh wow, Okay, that's just tough. I'm not sure I 73 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:31.120 know this, but I am going to say steak. 74 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:32.800 Hmmm, pork. 75 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:39.439 I was gonna say. 76 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:39.199 Loud, yeah, that's okay. 77 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.199 That's a good one, because because barbecue is your favorite. 78 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.319 Yeah, I love it. I love it, yep, I love 79 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:50.319 I love it. Okay, so there's two. How many brothers 80 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:51.199 and sisters do I have? 81 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:53.080 Oh? 82 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:56.560 Wow, this is this is really I'll just say siblings. 83 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:57.360 How about siblings? 84 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:04.000 Siblings total? I know for a fact you have well 85 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:07.240 I shouldn't say fact, you have at least three, So 86 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:08.879 I'm gonna say I'm going to say three. 87 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:15.520 Okay, I have ten siblings. Wait are these every step 88 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:19.519 I have four? Yeah? Yeah, so I'm I'm only my 89 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.720 mom's right, uh and my my biological fathers. That's it. 90 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:26.800 But I have ten step siblings. 91 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:30.000 Do you know? I'm not I'm not sure I've ever 92 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.879 heard that before. Really yeah, yeah, no, I'm I mean, 93 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.639 I'm trying to register my brain. I just mentioned to 94 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:38.879 you that John Borgland had five kids. Yeah, right, so 95 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:41.240 five boys is like, wow, that's a lot. 96 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:43.079 I grew up in five boys right. 97 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:44.800 To hear the word ten. 98 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:46.680 Right, and then I would be the I'm the eleventh, 99 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:48.480 I'm you know, so. 100 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:50.639 I would make a total So to hear the word 101 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:51.399 eleven then. 102 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:53.240 Yeah, so it was kind of one of those yours 103 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.240 mine and ours right is kind of one of those 104 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:55.800 those deals. 105 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.879 I think that would register my brain, so I won't 106 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:03.360 forget that. Yeah, eleven, it's astounding. Yeah, it's truly astounding. 107 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:04.560 Isn't that crazy? 108 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:08.680 And by the way, I should have known that four 109 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:11.240 years in. I should know that. And by the way, 110 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:13.720 how many bathrooms did you have? 111 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:16.920 One? I grew up in an eight hundred square foot 112 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:21.279 house with eleven. No, no, eleven, so that the most 113 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:25.240 we had, like three or four. 114 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:27.120 Okay, so it's constantly shifting. 115 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:28.120 Yeah, it's always shifting. 116 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.000 Yeah, okay, all right. Wow. Bonnie's at home listening right now. 117 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:36.279 She's like, she's like, oh. 118 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.199 And Liz is going come on, Chris, Yeah, yeah, so 119 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:37.519 what's that? 120 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:38.360 I know these things? 121 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.040 That's three, So I need to give you one more, 122 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.040 don't I? 123 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:41.600 Uh? 124 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.040 Oh, okay, I think I said this one time maybe 125 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:51.759 on the podcast. I'm actually or in conversation, do you 126 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:53.040 know what my first car was. 127 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:58.000 Now, I think you told me a story about like 128 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.680 driving home and breaking down at Christmas or something. Car. 129 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:04.439 Well, no, but yeah, that's a that's a story that happened. 130 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:04.800 That was. 131 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.480 That was our on our honeymoon. 132 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:11.920 Okay, well that's what that's probably that was your car. Yeah, 133 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:13.959 try to think of whether or not you told me 134 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:15.879 a story about what your first car was. I don't 135 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:18.560 think you have, but I'm going to take a guess. 136 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.800 I'm going to say that your first car was a Chavette. 137 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.839 It was not. No, I never got a Chavette. My 138 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.319 first car was a Buick Skylark. It was it was 139 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.319 like a tan Buicks car. I know. That's why. That's 140 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:33.040 why I said it. I remember that you. 141 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:35.120 You mentioned that was my first car. I would have 142 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:35.519 remembered that. 143 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:40.120 I wouldn't, so I didn't want it. So I had 144 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:42.879 I had a a moped and I was fine with that. 145 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:44.720 I was able to go to work do all those things, 146 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:48.000 you know. And my sister wanted me to take uh 147 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:50.319 this Skylark and she was going to give it to me. 148 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.360 I didn't want it, so I don't want it. And 149 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:54.199 then she's like, if you come and get it today. 150 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.839 I'll give you a full tank of gas. And I 151 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:59.720 was like, I really don't. As my second oldest sister, 152 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:01.399 I said, I just I don't want to don't want 153 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:02.959 to pay insurance, I don't want to take care of it. 154 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:05.639 I'm not a mechanic. And she's like, no, it runs 155 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:07.399 really good. Just coming get it. And then she goes, okay, 156 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:09.920 i'll give you a full tank of guess and fifty bucks. 157 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.120 So my sister filled the tank of guests and gave 158 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:13.439 me fifty bucks to take this car. 159 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.519 Wow, she want to get rid of it. 160 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:19.160 They were moving. They used to live in Troy and 161 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:20.920 they were moving. They sold their businesses and they were 162 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:23.120 moving to Ohio and she wanted me to take the car. 163 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:27.439 How were you at the time, Like seventeen? Wow, okay, 164 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:29.959 that's funny. Okay, well it's just I remember that you 165 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:31.199 had a Skylark. That's why I was. 166 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:33.079 I was over that entire get Yeah. 167 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:33.720 Yeah, that's all right. 168 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:33.839 Now. 169 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:36.560 I still feel loved by you, Chris, because you wanted 170 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.160 to know and that's what's important. 171 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.800 Yeah, well that is true. That is true. So eleven 172 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.079 siblings total buick Skylark pork, which I by the way. 173 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:46.600 I think I. 174 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.240 Knew I have ten siblings. I'm I make That's why 175 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:50.680 I said. 176 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:55.439 Yeah yeah. And then and then what was the other one? 177 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:59.600 Elba elba elba elba Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So my 178 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:04.360 old oldest sister and my youngest brother are over thirty 179 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:05.279 years apart. 180 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:06.079 That's crazy. 181 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:08.439 Ye isn't that crazy. I'm twenty years older than my 182 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:09.439 youngest brother. 183 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.399 That is super crazy. 184 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.480 Amazing. Okay, here we go, we're going to jump into this. 185 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:18.959 This is very exciting. This is there's so much intrigue 186 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.800 in the next two days, right, it's it's a very 187 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:28.199 big thing. Before these things happened, David had wanted to 188 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:31.759 begin building the temple for God. Remember yep, and we're 189 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:33.039 not reading this, and God. 190 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:35.639 Said no, no, because there's too much blood in your hands. 191 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.320 That's right, you're a killer, that's right. And so I'm 192 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:39.679 not going to have you build my temple, but I 193 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.480 will let your air build my temple. And so instead, 194 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.759 David collected all the stuff. He began to reach out 195 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:49.399 and get as much of the stuff as he could. Yeah. 196 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:54.480 So he began to get the wood and the stone 197 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.120 and all these things. He began to set up the 198 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:00.519 priests and he began to set up the music and 199 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:02.679 began to set up a lot of the structure, even 200 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.679 though he wasn't allowed to build the temple. And then 201 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.120 he's coming kind of towards the end of his life. 202 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.559 He's an old man, and that's where we pick up 203 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:15.879 is he's about to die, and then we're going to 204 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.320 look into the succession. So we're going to read first 205 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:21.960 King's chapter one, and we're going to read through verse 206 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.919 twenty seven. It says King David was now very old, 207 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.080 and no matter how many blankets covered, and he cannot 208 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:29.279 keep you warm. So his advisors told him, let us 209 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:30.960 find a young virgin to wait on you and look 210 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:32.799 after you, my lord, and she will lie in your 211 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:35.240 arms and keep you warm. And so they searched throughout 212 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.039 the land of Israel for a beautiful girl, and they 213 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.879 found Abishag from Shunam and brought her to the king. 214 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.000 The girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the 215 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:44.840 king and took care of him, but the king had 216 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:48.399 no sexual relations with her. About that time, David's son 217 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.279 Ada Nija, whose mother was Hagath, began boasting, I will 218 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.200 make myself king. So he provided himself with chariots and 219 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:57.360 chariot tears, and recruited fifty men to run in front 220 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:00.840 of him, just like Absolom did right yep. Now, his father, 221 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:04.200 King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even 222 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:07.600 by asking him, why are you doing that. Adamnijah had 223 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:10.639 been born next after Absalom, and he was very handsome. 224 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:13.759 Ada and Nijah took joe Abs son of Zuriah, and 225 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.279 Abiathar the priest into his confidence, and they agreed to 226 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:19.960 help him become king. So Zadok the priest Benaiah son 227 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:24.799 of Jehoeida, and Nathan the prophet shimii Reyi, and David's 228 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.840 personal bodyguard refused to support Adamaija. Adanijah went to the 229 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:32.639 stone of Zolath near the spring of Angrogol, where he 230 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:35.240 sacrificed sheep and cattle and fat and calves. And he 231 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.720 invited all his brothers, the other sons of King David, 232 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:40.120 and all the royal officials of Judah. But he did 233 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:42.720 not invite Nathan the prophet or ben Ayah, or the 234 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:46.720 king's bodyguard or his brother Solomon. Then Nathan went to Bathsheba, 235 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.600 Solomon's mother, and asked her, haven't you heard that Hageth's 236 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:52.240 son Adanija has made himself king and our Lord David 237 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.399 doesn't even know about it. If you want to save 238 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.399 your own life in the life of your son Solomon, 239 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.000 follow my advice. Go at once to King David and 240 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.120 say to my lord the King, don't you make a 241 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.519 vow and say to me your son Solomon? Or didn't 242 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:05.399 you make a vow and say to me your son 243 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:07.399 Solomon will surely be the next king and will sit 244 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:10.399 on my throne? Why then, has ad Andaija become king? 245 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.080 And while you are still talking with him, I will 246 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.759 come and confirm everything you've said. So Bathsheba went into 247 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:18.720 the king's bedroom and he was very old now, and 248 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:22.639 Abhishak was taking care of him. Bathsheba bowed down before 249 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.799 the king. What can I do for you, he asked, 250 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:27.440 She replied, my lord, you made a vow before the 251 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:29.519 Lord your God when you said to me your son 252 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:31.600 Solomon will surely be the next king and I will 253 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.960 sit on my throne. But instead Adanija has made himself king, 254 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:37.759 and my lord the King does not even know about it. 255 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:40.600 He has sacrificed many cattle and fat, and cabs and sheep, 256 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.360 and he's invited all the king's sons to attend the celebration. 257 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:45.720 He also invited Abiathar the priest and Joe Abb, the 258 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.360 commander of the army, but he did not invite your 259 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.039 servant Solomon. And now, my lord the king, all Israel 260 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:54.159 is waiting for you to announce who will become king 261 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.799 after you. If you do not act, my son Solomon 262 00:11:56.840 --> 00:11:58.919 and I will be treated as criminals as soon as 263 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.360 my lord the king has died. While she was still 264 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:03.480 speaking with the king, Nathan the Prophet arrived. The king's 265 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:05.799 officials told him, Nathan the Prophet is here to see you. 266 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:08.200 Nathan went in and bowed before the king with his 267 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:10.840 face to the ground. Nathan asked, my lord the King, 268 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:12.960 have you decided that Ada and Nija will be the 269 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:15.720 next king and that he will sit on your throne? Today? 270 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.399 He has sacrificed many cattle, fat and calves and sheep, 271 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.559 and he's invited all the king's sons attend the celebration. 272 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:23.559 He also invited the commanders of the army and Abiathar 273 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:26.320 the priest. They're feasting and drinking with him and shouting 274 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:30.120 long lean, long live King ad Inaijah. But he did 275 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:32.559 not invite me or Zadok the priest, or ben a 276 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.240 Ayah or your servant Solomon. Has my lord the king 277 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:37.200 really done this without letting any of his officials know 278 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:40.039 who would be the next king? And that's where we end, 279 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:41.759 because tomorrow we find out what happens. 280 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:45.000 Don't don't don't. And well, first of all, that's a 281 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:47.200 long passage and a very good story. 282 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:47.720 Yes it is. 283 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:51.039 It's a cliffhanger of a kind of a thing. And 284 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:55.039 by the way, this is very much like a Game 285 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:59.000 of Thrones, Yeah, the type thing happening, because you could 286 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:02.679 only imagine, you know, he's doing the same thing that 287 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:05.600 his brother did, right, just pretending to be king when 288 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.879 he's not king. Just hey, hire fifty bodyguards that run 289 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:10.799 in front of him, and then just go out and 290 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:14.399 just start announcing that you're king. And you could imagine 291 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:15.799 back in the day, all you really had to do 292 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.279 is persuade the people. As long as you persuade the 293 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:22.840 people who didn't know any better, then all of a sudden, I'm. 294 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.480 Still pretty much back in today's day, Isn't it just 295 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:26.080 persuade the people who don't know any better? 296 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:30.480 You are correct? I mean again, this is being recorded 297 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:35.120 before our election. And I mean, you know, it's like 298 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.080 you see commercials and you're like, unless you really know, 299 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:39.639 why wouldn't you believe that. 300 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.799 I literally had somebody come and ask me and say, hey, 301 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.039 who are you going to vote for? Because you and 302 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:49.639 I are shooting this before the election? Correct, And I said, wow, 303 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:52.720 I don't ever tell anybody who I vote for. And 304 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:54.759 this person said, if you made me a list, I'll 305 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:57.879 just vote the way you vote. And I was like what, 306 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.759 and the lady said, I just don't even know. Yeah, 307 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:03.080 I don't know any of this stuff. I don't know 308 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:04.679 these people. I don't know anything about them. I've never 309 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:06.080 met ay these people. I don't know anything about this. 310 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:09.799 And so I wonder how many people just check boxes 311 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:12.919 on the things. Sure, I didn't know anything, they do 312 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:15.600 any research or nothing. They just you know. Yeah, so 313 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:17.720 it's pretty easy to fool the people. 314 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:21.120 Well, did you ever see the movie with Michael Douglas 315 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.679 the American President? No? Well, an At Benning, Oh my goodness, 316 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:27.080 you would love this movie. I'm not even kidding. Okay, 317 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:31.559 it's great. But anyway, during this speech, Michael J. Fox 318 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.840 back then, you know, he was still able to act 319 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.879 in things and anyway, Michael J. Fox was his advisor 320 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:41.159 to Michael Douglas, and he's and he'd get this big speech, 321 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:42.840 and what he was trying to say is he was 322 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:46.320 trying to say to the leader, to his president, hey, 323 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.639 please provide some leadership. And the comment that he used 324 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.919 is he said, mister president, and he said, people are 325 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.840 so desperate for leadership they will crawl through the desert 326 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.240 just for a glass of water. And he said they'll 327 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:05.120 drink the sand. And then Michael J. Fox looks back 328 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:10.240 and says, he says, hey, he is. What you don't 329 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:14.200 realize is people drink the sand not because they're thirsty, 330 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:17.799 but because they don't know the difference. Well, and it 331 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:20.240 was just a comment that is exactly like what we're 332 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:22.720 saying now. And he's and he's like, yeah, you're right. 333 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:26.600 I forget the guy's name in the movie, but he says, 334 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.120 you're right. He says they'll drink the sand, but not 335 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:32.840 because they're thirsty for real knowledge, they'll drink it just 336 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:35.360 because they have no idea what they're drinking. And it 337 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:37.480 was just it was just this comment that you know, 338 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.000 sort of shines light and says, yeah, that's sort of 339 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.279 the way it is. Well, that's I mean, think about it, 340 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:45.399 how many thousands of years ago did this take place? 341 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:49.399 And as much as as much as has changed, so 342 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:51.720 much has remained the same, and not much has changed. 343 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:53.600 You just have more technology. We're not any smarter. 344 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:55.200 No, that's right, right, that's right. 345 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.039 So I will say this, just to clarify for some 346 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:00.879 of the surprise, I refused to give this person my 347 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:03.720 my voting list, right, I said, hey, go look at 348 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.440 some of this material. Right, as I said, here's here's 349 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:08.399 where you can find some answers. But I wouldn't I 350 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.480 wouldn't tell. So anyways, here you have David. He's so 351 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.759 old he can't even regulate his own body temperature. So 352 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:21.080 he has a nurse maid. He's not it's not an 353 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:23.000 intimacy thing, but he has a nurse maid who helps 354 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.000 take care of him Lewis And uh, well, no, her 355 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:27.679 name is Abas Shagg, the. 356 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.360 Guy's name in the movie, Michael J. Fox's character of Lewis. 357 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:32.120 I thought you were saying Louis was the nurse maid 358 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:38.559 keeping him warm. Just ki, her name is Abshag. But sorry, yeah, so, 359 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:42.559 and then, uh so, basically that's letting you know he's 360 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:44.399 so old at this point, he can't regulate his own 361 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.279 body temperature. He's he's on his last legs. He's about 362 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:51.320 to die, this great warrior. And adam Ija rises up 363 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:52.840 man and he's like, man, I'm going to go get 364 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:54.879 this thing. I'm going to take it. He sees a 365 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:57.240 weak moment in David's life and he decides he's going 366 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.200 to do the same thing that Abslom did, but this 367 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:01.840 time he's not going to be able to fight because 368 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:05.480 he doesn't have the strength to do it. But it's 369 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:07.559 interesting to me. There's a couple of quick things. One 370 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:12.079 ada Nija invites the people who agree with him, and 371 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.160 he does not invite any feedback from the people who don't. 372 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:16.480 Right. 373 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.559 Right, And there's a lot of danger when you and 374 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:22.720 I both know, and most of our listeners know. It's 375 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:25.960 already been brought out on social media that they give 376 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:28.799 you more of what you want. The algorithms give you 377 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.440 more of what they know you are. They don't give 378 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:34.759 you hardly any opposing views. The opposing views they give 379 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:36.079 you are the ones you're going to get the maddest 380 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:39.279 about to drive you more towards your opinion already, right, 381 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:42.119 But they don't give. And so what's happening is we 382 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:46.400 start living if we're not careful. We only watch certain news, 383 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:49.119 we only read certain articles, we only pay attention to 384 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.839 certain social media. We start isolating ourselves from anybody who's 385 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:54.920 different from us or thinks different from us, and we 386 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:58.920 start to live in this echo chamber that reaffirms every 387 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.640 thought and opinion that we have have. And this is 388 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:04.000 what you find an at a night you're doing is 389 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:07.279 he's not listening to the Man of God, Nathan, right, 390 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:07.680 he's not. 391 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:08.119 You know. 392 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:10.319 Alls he got was a soldier. He got a soldier 393 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:12.400 and a couple of priests to come along with him. 394 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:14.599 But he didn't get the most important people in the 395 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:17.200 in the in the kingdom because he didn't want to 396 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:18.920 hear what they wanted, what they were going to say. Yeah, 397 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.039 he wanted affirmation for his opinion rather than to find 398 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:24.079 out what's the best thing to do or what's the truth. Right, 399 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:26.200 that's a temptation for us as humans. 400 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:28.720 I had a person on staff on my previous staff 401 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:31.440