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 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:16.640 Hey, good morning everybody. Oh talent, yes, wow? Did you 5 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:17.600 ever do that low ranger? 6 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:19.239 Yes? 7 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:22.640 Yes, so glad. 8 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:24.800 I want to the Bible guys. 9 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:28.120 I'm Chris. This is Jeff and we are here today. 10 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:30.000 And clearly he's the most talented of the two of us. 11 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.679 Are yes and uh and Seymour movies and the better 12 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:39.640 looking and what what else can draw better? 13 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:46.039 Come on, man? Feel good? That doesn't feel good? 14 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:50.880 Stage one time? 15 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.039 We're on stage one time and I first got hired, 16 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:57.479 and you know, he gives me a hard time, like 17 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.000 behind the scenes all the time the time, and I'm 18 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:02.560 my love language we're on the stage or I said 19 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.040 something like, oh BODYE want to marry you or something 20 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:07.599 and he goes, oh, that was hurtful, Chris. 21 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.599 So anyway, and I was like what I was like, 22 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:12.920 you're going to take the high road. 23 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:17.079 Sometimes it's fun because you know, I've developed that that 24 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:19.519 reputation that just dig and dig and dig everybody that 25 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:21.799 I love. I just kind of poked fun at and 26 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.400 you know, don't take myself too seriously and whatever. 27 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.480 So yeah, well you did it publicly, but. 28 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.400 On that one, on that one, what what I like 29 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:31.719 to do on occasion is because that reputation is dig 30 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.319 dig dig dig dig. Then when I have a sense 31 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:37.640 that somebody's working hard to dig at me, sometimes I'll 32 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:39.760 just give it to you. And it's like pulling the 33 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:41.840 rug out from under me because you're expecting this two 34 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:43.640 way banter thing, and say you go oh, and then 35 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:45.280 everybody goes, oh, poor Chap. 36 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:50.920 Right, Chris, why is he so mean? He's let's take 37 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:51.439 all these things. 38 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:53.879 He's better at Monday and he woke up all grumpy. 39 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.840 All right, Well, hey, there's segment today that says, it's 40 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:57.319 really good. 41 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.959 I'm so good, I'm super good at move. 42 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:06.799 There's a segment that says winter stories. This is what 43 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:07.480 Desiree wrote. 44 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:10.280 She said, now that Thanksgiving is behind us, we've officially 45 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:13.120 entered December, we can talk about Christmas. Tell us a 46 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.159 funny story about Christmas, or about a time when Christmas 47 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:16.759 preparations went horribly wrong. 48 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:19.520 Hey, do you allow Christmas music before Thanksgiving? 49 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:19.960 Yes? 50 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.919 I love Christmas music, but I don't allow Christmas decorations. 51 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:26.800 Don't allow it. Yes, it's forbidden. You're the lion tamer 52 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.599 in your cage. Well you forbid. Well, here's the thing, 53 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:31.400 the women in your house to put up Christmas. 54 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:35.120 No Thanksgiving music. So I like to think that. 55 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.599 That Christmas kind of worship music. 56 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.800 But yeah, oh jeez, that's that's all. 57 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:42.439 That Christmas is that Christian music stuff that's all the time, 58 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:43.960 whenever you get in Liz's car. 59 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:49.520 Yeah right, that's right, it is. It is. Christmas music 60 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:51.919 sets the tone for Thanksgiving. 61 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:55.439 For Thanksgiving? Yes for me, Oh okay. 62 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:57.000 Yeah, I think it's it. It feels holidays. 63 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.120 Yeah, we kind of have a family thing where we 64 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:03.120 really resist turning on Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving. 65 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:04.599 Yeah. 66 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:05.759 I do that with my lights. 67 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.599 With your lights, lights, lights can't be turned on Christmas tree, 68 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:10.639 you can't go up before then. 69 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:13.280 Okay, so all right, so here you go. So we're 70 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:14.240 telling winter stories. 71 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:16.520 Yeah, so I got one real quick, Okay, go ahead. 72 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:24.680 My my mom made ravioli every Christmas, or mannicotti or spaghetti. 73 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:26.719 I never knew, by the way that people didn't do 74 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:30.039 this because my whole, my whole town and Youngstown is 75 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:32.759 all Italian. I mean, it's really like heavy Italian you 76 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.680 can make Italian jokes from the from the stage and people, 77 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:36.599 the whole crowd. 78 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:36.719 Is a lot. 79 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:40.400 Didn't you ever watch Christmas movies? You never noticed that? 80 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:42.719 It was always like roast ham and turkey. It wasn't 81 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.759 Manicotti and I as nice. 82 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.240 Movies as you watch. Dude. I guess I just because 83 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:50.719 like movies are your north star. It never paid attention. 84 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.759 I never paid attention to those things. Okay, so I 85 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.400 guess I just never understood it's a. 86 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:58.120 Wonderful life and they're all sitting there on there eating 87 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:00.199 their lasagna, is right. 88 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.560 Yeah, that's that's it's a ridiculous thought. It is a 89 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.240 ridiculous thought. But I was only eighteen. I went to 90 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.639 college and we were sharing like favorite meals, and I 91 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:10.719 was like, doesn't everybody have what are you talking about? 92 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.120 And I said those are those are? Those are Thanksgiving items? 93 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.560 And they're like, yeah, they're both. And I was like, oh, 94 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.519 I had no idea. So anyway, my mom made homemade 95 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:20.959 ravioli and we're talking like with. 96 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:21.720 Flour and water. 97 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.240 It was like a one day, twenty four hour like 98 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.439 labor of love. And she made this three pound bowl 99 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.160 and you know, she put the ravioli in there, and 100 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:34.360 then a layer of sauce, another reveoli, layer, sauce, layer sauce. 101 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.439 Then she put cheese on it. This is massive bowl. 102 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.639 She sits in the middle of the table. She's let's 103 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:40.600 let's go down stairs and grab everybody. So we go 104 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:43.199 downstairs to the big family room area, gathering area. 105 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:44.759 Hey, everybody, dinner served. 106 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.360 We come back upstairs and my dog is standing on 107 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:51.920 the table with a snout and the raviolis and he's 108 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.040 been eating for like six seven minutes. 109 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:54.800 That's fantastic. 110 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:57.079 He is going to town like this lively, good guy, 111 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.480 and it must have been good. Oh my gosh, he 112 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.920 got through an entire layer. Of course, my mom busted 113 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.879 out crying. We all laughed, and then we realized it 114 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.680 wasn't funny. And then my mom had no choice but 115 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.680 to scrape off the first layer and then to add 116 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:16.199 more sauce than and we ate it. 117 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:18.360 Okay, we all ate it. Yeah, Well you can't waste 118 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:20.240 you know, three days worth of work. Yeah. 119 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:21.959 So wow, there you go. 120 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:23.279 That's something. 121 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:24.480 That's my Christmas story. 122 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.519 That is really something. Yeah. 123 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:28.839 So it seems to me like if you're ever looking 124 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.519 for a new Christmas theme for you know, because you're 125 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:33.800 part of the creative team looking for Yeah yeah, yeah, 126 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.439 you could do like a very Mafia Christmas. 127 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:38.040 Oh yeah, Mafia Christmas. 128 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:40.839 Sure, yeah, yeah you have. 129 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.160 You know I've had a Mafia Christmas story. 130 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:44.959 I bet you do tell us that one. 131 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.639 No, No, we're at a time. Okay, I'll do it 132 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:48.199 tomorrow maybe. 133 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:49.639 Yeah. Uh my. 134 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:54.040 My worst Christmas story is and I've told this before, 135 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:56.720 I started have to tell it again, but we got 136 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:59.600 married over Christmas break and my junior year in college, 137 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.439 wife and I did and so we had to move 138 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.160 down to Indiana from Michigan, and we borrowed a really 139 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:09.120 terrible rental truck and it broke down on Christmas Day 140 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:10.879 driving home, that is, and so. 141 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.680 We our Christmas. Our very first Christmas dinner together was 142 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.920 speedway hot dogs, Doritos and Mountain dew. 143 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:21.360 That is horribly sad. 144 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:24.680 Yeah yeah, yeah, that was our We sat in the speedway. 145 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:25.319 Wow. 146 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:27.839 And that's what we are waiting for. Somebody coming help us. 147 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:28.680 Now here's the question. 148 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.279 And I'll tell you you haul's not available on Christmas Day, 149 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:32.800 right right now. 150 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:33.439 Here's the question. 151 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:37.759 Have you ever recreated the speedway event on Christmas? 152 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:37.959 No? 153 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.120 It was it was horrific enough that you know, the 154 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:46.000 PTSD is just now calming down. But okay, so we're 155 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.000 gonna we're gonna try to avoid it if we can. 156 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:49.319 That's so funny. 157 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:53.360 Yeah, well, speaking of PTSD. 158 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.319 Wow, okay, go. 159 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:07.720 Ahead, we are reliving the repetitiveness of Solomon's wise teachings. 160 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:10.480 Oh that was a terrible transition. 161 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:12.759 That's actually pretty brilliant. I didn't know where you were 162 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:17.000 going with that, because we're talking about wisdom again. 163 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah's exactly. So this whole week we're just in. 164 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:23.639 What we're trying to do for our listeners is really 165 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:29.120 kind of download how incredibly practical the Bible is, particularly 166 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:30.399 in the Book of Proverbs with. 167 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:31.519 Regard to every day living. 168 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.959 So everything he talks about here, because sometimes preachers talk 169 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.360 and it's all this ethereal stuff, heaven and eternity and 170 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.839 Holy Spirit and angels and all these things, and it 171 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.240 feels like the whole faith idea is out there somewhere, right, 172 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.959 it's this mystical thing. And Solomon approaches faith as being 173 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:54.319 an everyday whether you're banking or building a house, or 174 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:58.319 parenting your children, or dealing with a crazy neighbor or 175 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:02.720 that's how he approaches Faith is just practical wisdom every day. 176 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:04.319 That's great, and so that's what it's all about. 177 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:07.759 So I don't know that that's PTSD, but reliving over 178 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:08.439 and over and over again. 179 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:10.800 Yes, here we are, So we are. 180 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:14.920 In Proverbs, chapter twelve and verse one says, to learn, 181 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:17.000 you must love discipline. 182 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.959 It is stupid to hate correction. Wow. 183 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.240 The Lord approves of those who are good, but he 184 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:28.000 condemns those who plan wickedness. Wickedness never brings stability, but 185 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.639 the godly have deep roots. A worthy wife is a 186 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.120 crown for her husband, but a disgraceful woman is like 187 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.120 a cancer in his bones. The plans of the godly 188 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:40.720 are just. The advice of the wicked is treacherous. The 189 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.279 words of the wicked are like a murderous ambush, But 190 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.399 the words of the godly save lives. The wicked die 191 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.879 and disappear, but the family of the godly stands firm. 192 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:53.879 A sensible person wins admiration, but a warped mind is despised. 193 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.279 Better to be an ordinary person with a servant than 194 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:00.919 to be self important but have no food. The godly 195 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.799 care for their animals, but the wicked are always cruel. 196 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.679 A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person 197 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.799 who chases fantasies has no sense. Thieves are jealous of 198 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:14.039 each other's loot, but the godly are well rooted and 199 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:17.399 bear their own fruit. The wicked are trapped by their 200 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:21.279 own words, but the godly escape such trouble. Wise words 201 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:26.000 bring many benefits, and hard work brings rewards. Fools think 202 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.600 their own way is right, but the wise listen to others. 203 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.159 A fool is quick tempered, but a wise man stays 204 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:36.600 calm when insulted. An honest witness tells the truth, a 205 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:41.039 false witness tells lies. Some people make cutting remarks, but 206 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.840 the words of the wise bring healing. Truthful words stand 207 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:48.799 the test of time, but lies are soon exposed. Deceit 208 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.360 fills hearts that are plotting evil, and joy fills hearts 209 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:55.679 that are planning peace. No harm comes to the godly, 210 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.639 but the wicked have their fill of trouble. The Lord 211 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.440 detests lying lips, but he delights in those who tell 212 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.799 the truth. The wise don't make a show of their knowledge, 213 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:09.799 but fools broadcast their foolishness. Work hard and become a leader. 214 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:14.279 Be lazy, become a slave. Worry weighs a person down, 215 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:19.360 and encouraging word cheers a person up. The godly give 216 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.879 good advice to their friends that wicked lead them astray. 217 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:25.000 Lazy people don't even cook the game they catch, but 218 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.320 the diligent make use of everything they find. The way 219 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.639 of the Godly leads to life. That path does not 220 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:32.399 lead to death. 221 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:35.720 Were you go? Hey, every one of them just a 222 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:36.360 little nugget. 223 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:38.679 You know, what stands out as one of the themes 224 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:41.600 here is that you're created to work hard. 225 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:43.440 Yeah, over and over and over again. 226 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:43.879 Yeah. 227 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:45.200 He refers to hard work. 228 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:49.360 Yes, yeah, and that is you know, it's interesting because 229 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:53.879 when God made Adam, you know, and then eventually Eve, 230 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:57.480 he gave Adam an assignment, and that is to tend 231 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:58.080 to the garden. 232 00:10:58.440 --> 00:10:59.080 Right. 233 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.000 So Adam was. 234 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:08.799 Obviously created with a purpose in mind, and one of 235 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:11.879 the purposes obviously, I mean obviously the ultimate purpose of relationship, 236 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:16.240 but the other one is, you know, it brings meaning 237 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:19.279 to his own life as much as it does helping 238 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:22.720 the garden. Right. So I think I think it's interesting 239 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.679 how it talks about hard work over and over because 240 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:29.240 some people view hard work as a curse, and they 241 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:32.639 would say, oh, hard work is a curse from the fall. 242 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:37.039 It's a curse from sin, right, so is it? So 243 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:42.919 here's the question. The question is, is now that Solomon 244 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:47.440 is you know, hundreds of years actually how many years 245 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:47.919 since Adam? 246 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:51.480 Probably thousands of years, probably him lean years, So a 247 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:54.919 couple of thousand years removed from Adam? Is God? 248 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:58.799 Is Solomon talking about hard work being a blessing because 249 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.399 they're under the curse or would it have been this 250 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:02.320 way always? 251 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:03.440 That's a good question. 252 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:08.720 Well, God blesses hard, God blesses work. That's why he 253 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:10.799 gave it to him. We view work as a bad thing, 254 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:14.080 but it was a gift to humanity, gave humanity purpose. Right, 255 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.159 But then under the curse, work becomes a drudgery because 256 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.559 it's so difficult. But Solomon doesn't really refer to the 257 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:26.679 difficulty of work. Working hard and difficult worker two different things, right? 258 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:29.159 Oh yeah, working hard and difficult work er two different things. 259 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:29.399 Right. 260 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:30.360 That's a good statement. 261 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:30.639 Right. 262 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:35.120 So being diligent is what Solomon is talking about, which 263 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:38.080 is really extraordinary when you think of when we think 264 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:38.559 of a king. 265 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:40.519 When you were growing up thinking, man. 266 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:42.039 If I could ever be a king, what you thought 267 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:44.080 was it was going to be pleasure all the time, 268 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.600 super easy. Just sit on your throne, make cool decisions, 269 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.480 be super rich, have whatever you want, go on vacations. 270 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:53.480 And Solomon doesn't really approach being a king that way. 271 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:55.919 Solomon approaches being a king is I'm a servant of 272 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:57.399 the people, and I have to work hard. And by 273 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:01.200 the way, hard work pays off. If the king works hard, 274 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.639 everybody else would work hard. If you're working hard, you're 275 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:05.279 going to prosper. If you don't work hard, you're going 276 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:08.320 to struggle. And then of course in their day. You know, 277 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.200 a lot of our work in our society today, unless 278 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.039 you're like in construction or farming or being a mechanic 279 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:18.240 or something, most of the work that we do in 280 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:22.799 the US now is indoors office stuff and it's easy 281 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.360 to kind of go. I don't know if my work 282 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.919 really matters. But when you're a farmer, you have to 283 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.440 be diligent and plow your field at the right time. 284 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.200 You have to be diligent and get the rocks out 285 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:35.440 of the field so the plows can roll easy. You've 286 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:37.279 got to be diligent and dig your trenches so the 287 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:38.879 water drains well off of your field. 288 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:39.759 You've got to be diligent. 289 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:42.480 Plant the seeds at the right time, pull the weeds 290 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:45.559 at the right time, fertilize at the right time, harvest 291 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.799 at the right time. There's a diligence to farming, and 292 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:52.039 every little bit of work you do, you very quickly 293 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.480 see the results of it, whereas you know when you're 294 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:58.360 pushing paper in an office sometimes it might feel like right. 295 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.200 And so what he's saying is diligence. It's not the 296 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.679 physical work. It's the diligence of the work that will 297 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:06.039 always pay off. And if you're a diligent worker, a 298 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:09.279 conscientious worker, you put in the time, you do the 299 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:12.080 hard work. You're not just mailing it in, he says, 300 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:15.080 you're going to be successful. And so sometimes he's saying, 301 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:17.200 hard work is how you're going to be promoted. Right, 302 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:19.200 you're going to be a slave. If you just mail 303 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:22.039 it in. Hard work, you're gonna be promoted. Those are 304 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:23.759 all things we tell our kids when they start getting 305 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.559 jobs the first time. Yes, hey, hey, you step up, 306 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.559 you go the extra mile, you do the extra thing, 307 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:31.200 you think of good solutions, you jump in and volunteer 308 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:32.759 to do the hard work nobody else wants to do. 309 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:35.080 You're going to get promoted. That's exactly what Salom is 310 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:35.720 saying there. 311 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.720 Right, Yeah, So we were talking about this very briefly 312 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:40.159 in the parking lot when we were walking up here. 313 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:43.360 But so my son is in the trades, right, So 314 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.919 he's studying to be an electrician and he works hard, 315 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:50.480 so physically hard every day. Right, it's physical and it's 316 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:52.799 hard in his body. Well, I had bought this bed 317 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.120 at Ikia like literally fifteen years ago, and so this 318 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.799 nasty old bed that he's been sleeping and he comes 319 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.000 home and he's like, Dad, He's like. 320 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:03.840 This bit is broken. 321 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:06.519 He's like, I can't sleep more than a couple hours 322 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:09.120 a night. I'm twisting, I'm turning, I'm sore. He's like 323 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:12.759 this is awful and uh. And so anyway, he wants 324 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:14.720 to go out and buy a bed because he's made 325 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:16.840 a bunch of money and he's got some savings and 326 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:18.159 so he wants to go out there, and you know, 327 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:19.960 he's working hard. So he says, I have to have 328 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:22.639 a good night's rest, So I said, son, Bed salesmen 329 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.679 are like car salesman, right, sometimes not always, but like. 330 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.440 This one, this one's gonna be even better. 331 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.440 Right right, right? Right? I said. I said, they'll get you, man, 332 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.799 they'll get you. And so my son's like okay. 333 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:34.279 And so I trained him, training to train him because 334 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:36.080 I got sales background, and so I'm like, I'm like, 335 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:37.399 I'm like, here's what they're going to say, here's what 336 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:39.360 they're gonna do. I was like, beware of this, don't 337 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.440 do this, commit to this. Make up your mind about this. 338 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.240 So he goes, uh without me, because you know, he 339 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:48.120 had to go without me. I was going somewhere and 340 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.600 and he calls me and goes, Dad, don't be mad. 341 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.399 It wasn't the salesman fault, he goes, but it was me. 342 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:54.519 He goes, He goes. 343 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.879 He tried to sell me. I'm the other one he goes, 344 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:59.039 and he goes. I just thought to myself, I want 345 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:00.720 I want a. 346 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:02.000 Good bed, the best bed. 347 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:05.759 He bought the most expensive thing that was literally in 348 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:06.159 the store. 349 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.919 I'm not even kidding. It was ridiculous. 350 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:10.759 Is he sleeping well? 351 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:12.639 He seeks like a king? 352 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:17.559 Yeah, okay, working hard, but he's so he loves his bed, 353 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:19.120 loves it, and so. 354 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:19.720 Good for him. 355 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:20.440 He's worked hard. 356 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:21.960 Yeah, hard work pays off. 357 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:23.480 That's right. So now he sleeps like a king. 358 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:25.279 If he wasn't working hard. 359 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:28.279 He would never even sleep on the bed you bought him. 360 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:30.519 There's that's right. 361 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:34.039 So, you know, my wife and I we were in 362 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:36.080 Europe this past summer. I had a whole bunch of 363 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.159 Delta miles from traveling, you know, so we cash those 364 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.799 in and we went to so we spent an inordinate 365 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:44.240 amount of time in castles. That's what you do, yes, right, 366 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.279 you go from castle, castle, palace to palace, cathedral to cathedral. 367 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:48.919 That's essentially your trip through Europe. 368 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.240 And so we were in Vienna, and you know, that's 369 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.200 the capital of what was one of the largest empires 370 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:00.159 in modern history, was the Habsburg uh Empire. And so 371 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:04.480 Emperor Franz Joseph was famous for his work ethic and 372 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:06.480 so it was really amazing because we're walking through this 373 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:12.160 massive palace, a choonburune palace in Habsburg, I mean in Vienna. 374 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.720 And I was struck by how many workspaces he had. 375 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.880 He had a work desk in his bedroom. His bedroom 376 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:22.160 was very very simple bedroom. You'd think an emperor would 377 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:25.599 have this crazy ornate thing. His wife Catherine, you know, 378 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:28.240 she's pretty famous. A bunch of others, they had some 379 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:30.680 really magnificent stuff, and the palace itself is magnificent, but 380 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.880 his room was relatively simply. Had a nice chair, he 381 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:36.240 had a little wardrobe, he had a wash basin, he 382 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.519 had a bed, and he had a desk and then 383 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.279 an assistance desk next to it, just in case. 384 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:47.359 Right. Then the room next to his bedroom was a 385 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:50.119 little like dining room, and then the room next to 386 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.440 that was another significant office. Then he also had another 387 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:55.920 big like presentation office. When all the people had come 388 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.119 into generals or whatever, he had these workrooms. So he 389 00:17:58.160 --> 00:17:59.920 had these three offices, and they said that he would 390 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.240 begin his day every day at four o'clock. He rarely 391 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.119 finished his day before ten o'clock as an emperor. And 392 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:09.559 there were a lot of quotes on this tour we 393 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:09.839 were taking. 394 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:13.119 They had all these quotes of him saying that if 395 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:17.839 God gives you great opportunity, it also was a great responsibility. 396 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:19.759 And so I love my people. 397 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:21.920 Sounds like spider qu yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, And. 398 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:25.359 He said, I love my people enough that I should 399 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:27.680 give my people. They've given me so much. I should 400 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.400 give my people everything I can. And so he did, 401 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.160