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 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:16.320 Good morning, good morning. We talked the whole night through. 5 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:17.120 Good morning. 6 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.519 Good morning to you. 7 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:21.000 Man. 8 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.199 Hey, it's Tuesday, and I did last week on Wednesday, 9 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:25.160 so I figured why not. 10 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:27.440 Do it on to you? Just made our switching it 11 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:30.679 up you. Good morning everybody. I'm Chris, this is Jeff. 12 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:33.280 We're the Bible Guys, and we are in a brand 13 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:36.520 new series talking about the prayers of the Bible and 14 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:37.920 some of them even being dangerous. 15 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:40.759 Well, all of these are dangerous prayers. Okay, so all 16 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:43.039 of these are we double dog Dare you to pray 17 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.600 these prayers? That's that's where they are. Have you ever 18 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:48.799 been is that in the Bible? Are you susceptible to 19 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.399 double dog theres? I used to be a little bit. 20 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:57.439 Yeah yet yeah, but I mean like we we would Yeah, 21 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:00.679 there was actually a thing in our little friend group 22 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.679 where we would we would sort of reserve the double 23 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:05.480 dog theres and we were only allowed so many months, 24 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:08.480 so many so many a month. But then if you 25 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:11.319 used it, then you used it all right then, and 26 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:12.879 then the other person was sort of obligated. 27 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:16.400 Okay, right, so that's so that these are the kind 28 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:18.799 of prayers we dare you to pray them. Yeah, that's 29 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:20.000 that's kind of how we're praying. 30 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.480 Well, before we dive into that, we have a segment, 31 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:26.560 and today is the famous dead Joke competition, So we're 32 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:28.959 going to decide whether or not you have the best 33 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:30.439 batch or whether I do. 34 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:32.640 Yeah, I just read the first one just now. 35 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:33.680 I actually think. 36 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:37.959 That desiree uh used this one twice. I think I've 37 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:40.599 used I think I've read this before you. Yeah, I 38 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:44.040 think I think maybe she she likes this one when 39 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:46.680 she was when she was googling at her chat remember it. 40 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:48.480 Okay, here's my first one. 41 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:52.079 I'm terrified of elevators, so I'm taking steps to avoid them. 42 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:53.680 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard that one. 43 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:54.400 We've heard that one. 44 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:55.239 That's a good one though. 45 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:55.959 It is very good. 46 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.760 It's a good one. It's better than this one. 47 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:58.280 Okay. 48 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:02.040 I told my computer I needed a break. Now it 49 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:03.799 won't stop sending me KitKat ads. 50 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:07.719 Oh that is actually downright awful. 51 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:10.479 It is one to nothing. 52 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:12.000 Yeah for sure, it is. 53 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:12.599 Yeah. 54 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:13.360 Okay, here we go. 55 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:18.039 I asked the librarian if the library books. Oops, sorry, 56 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:20.199 let me start over. I asked the librarian if the 57 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:25.400 library had books on paranoia. She whispered, they're right behind you. 58 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:30.000 That's a good one. 59 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:30.840 It's really good. 60 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:39.240 That's a good one. That would have been a great 61 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.840 thirty second skit. Yeah, I mean that's a good like 62 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:47.439 TikTok it's a right little scary music. 63 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:49.039 That's really funny. 64 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.639 Oh, that'd be awesome. Okay, let me see. I tried 65 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.400 to write a joke about a broken pencil, but it 66 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:01.960 had no point. Oh yeah, okay, it's nothing nothing at 67 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:02.599 this point. 68 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:02.840 Here we go. 69 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:05.960 I used to be a velcrow salesman, but I couldn't 70 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:06.599 stick with it. 71 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.479 Okay, it's better than this one. I used to be 72 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:12.599 a shoe salesman until I got the boot. 73 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.560 Oh actually, I like yours of slightly better. 74 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:18.159 I like you, Okay, all right? 75 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:24.000 Number four okay, so it's it's two to wiro and one. Okay, 76 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:25.000 so we'll call it a tie. 77 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.479 Okay, number four? 78 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:32.159 Uh, what do you call a factory that makes okay products? 79 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:39.360 A satisfactory. 80 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.080 I like it. That's a good one. I like it 81 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:43.080 very clever. I think so too, very clever. I tried 82 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:45.719 to start a business selling mirrors. It's something I could 83 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:46.840 really see myself doing. 84 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:48.120 Oh that's good. 85 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.360 I like that. Okay, that's going, But yours is better 86 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.879 satisfactory that one. If she'd given that to me in 87 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:54.960 the previous one, yeah, I would have gotten a point. 88 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:59.280 But you're you're satisfactory way better. Here we go beyond satisfactory. 89 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:01.960 I got hidden head with a can of soda. Luckily 90 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:02.960 it was a soft drink. 91 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.199 Oh yeah, was that number five? 92 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:07.120 Yeah, it was number five. 93 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:10.159 I tried to organize a hide and seek tournament, but 94 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:11.479 good players are hard to find. 95 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.000 Oh that's a pretty yod. 96 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.079 It's a good one. Okay, I'm winning that one. Yeah, 97 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.160 so it's three one and one. That's how it worked out. 98 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:19.959 So I win. 99 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:22.560 Yeah, you win. Yeah, you're the winner. You're the best. 100 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:27.600 You're the best at the dead joke competition that she wrote. 101 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:29.040 That's right, that's what we read. 102 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:29.720 I was lucky. 103 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:32.000 I was lucky enough to receive luck of the draw. 104 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:33.079 Yeah, I was loucky. 105 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:35.879 It's like car. It's like cards, yati or whatever. If 106 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:38.279 you're playing the ever play a game that requires no 107 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:39.040 skill whatsoever? 108 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:39.720 Yes, I hate it. 109 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:42.319 Like YACHTSI is like a game where it just doesn't 110 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.000 even matter. You just roll and whatever happens happens. 111 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:46.800 Yeah, but we love Yatzi. 112 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:50.279 Yeah, we played at our family all the time. We 113 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:53.720 still play Yatsi when we do game night was like Yasi. 114 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:56.160 And then we have this thing called YACHTI Free for All. 115 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.000 It's like a version of YACHTI that's really complex. That's 116 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.160 actually spices it pretty much and it does require a 117 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:01.800 little bit of skill. 118 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:03.680 Well okay, yeah, sounds good. 119 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.399 Yeah. 120 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:11.879 Well, yesterday, kicking off this new series of dangerous prayers, 121 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:13.879 we talked about dangerous prayers. God searched me. 122 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:15.240 Wait a minute, there's no transition. 123 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.199 Do you have a transition for this one? 124 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:22.040 I was going to say, no, I don't, actually don't. 125 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:24.040 You just ignored it. 126 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:26.839 I just ignored it. Yep, all right, well I had 127 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:28.199 I was going to do a good transition today. 128 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:28.879 Okay, how about this. 129 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:33.560 Some of those jokes made me sad. 130 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:34.439 Yeah, some of them. 131 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:39.240 Some of them were stinky, yes, right, yeah, And when 132 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.279 your sin stinks up the room, it makes you sad. 133 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.079 And that's the prayer of So I'm fifty. 134 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.720 One, okay, So yeah that was a rough one. Rough. 135 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:50.600 That's why I was just going to say yesterday. 136 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:51.279 Well, you said stink. 137 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:52.879 You changed the direction I was just going to go 138 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:53.279 with sad. 139 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:55.519 Well, the title of the day is when your sins. 140 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.040 I know, but I was going with a sad angle. 141 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.319 I'm sorry, that's all right, Okay. 142 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:02.519 I think you stunck my transition up with your stink. 143 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.839 Okay. So yesterday we talked about praying prayers that ruin 144 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.639 your comfort. Particularly, God, show me if there's anything that 145 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:11.800 needs to be changed in my life. Really, yep, search 146 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:16.439 me and know me, show me. And today it goes 147 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:19.519 further because in Psalm fifty one, David is confessing his 148 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:25.360 sin with Bethsheba, and it's a powerful prayer. So I'll 149 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:27.000 just read it. Here's what it says. In Psalm fifty one, 150 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.759 he says, have mercy on me, Oh God, because of 151 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.439 your unfailing love, because of your great compassion, blot out 152 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:38.079 the stain of my sins. Wash me clean from my guilt, 153 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:42.279 Purify me from my sin, for I recognize my rebellion. 154 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:45.279 It haunts me day and night against you and you alone. 155 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:48.040 Have I sinned? I've done what is evil in your sight. 156 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.959 You'll be proved right in what you say and your 157 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.319 judgment against me is just for I was born a sinner, yes, 158 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:56.959 from the moment my mother conceived me. But you desire 159 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:01.000 honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there. Purify 160 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.439 me from my sins and I will be clean. Wash 161 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.079 me and I will be whiter than snow. Oh, give 162 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:09.000 me back my joy again. You've broken me. Now let 163 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.319 me rejoice. Don't keep looking at my sins. Remove the 164 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.600 stain of my guilt. Create me a clean heart, Oh God, 165 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.680 renew a loyal spirit within me. Do not banish me 166 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:21.639 from your presence. Do not take your holy spirit from me. 167 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:25.519 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Make me 168 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:26.600 willing to obey you. 169 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:31.199 Yeah, that's awesome, you know there. 170 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:34.600 I think that Psalm fifty one is one of the 171 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:39.360 most powerful psalms in all of the Book of Psalms. 172 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:41.319 And there's one hundred and fifty of them. 173 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.040 Yeah, one hundred and fifty psalms. Yeah, and the biggest 174 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:44.720 book in the Bible. 175 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:49.199 And I think that I think that it's really a 176 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:56.839 there's a hang on a second, where is the versus? 177 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.839 Yeah, So people. 178 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.079 Always focus on the creating me a clean heart of God, which, 179 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.879 by the way, is also a song yes, right, you 180 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.600 know a lot, a lot of these songs. Obviously the 181 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:12.279 psalms were songs, there you go. But I'm talking about 182 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:15.360 modern day songs. Yes, right, So I know, remember yesterday 183 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.639 I referred to the fact that created me a clean heart. 184 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:21.879 I actually knew two versions of that song, right, I 185 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:23.279 liked one way more than the other. 186 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:25.720 But but I sing it all the. 187 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:30.040 Time, right, creating me a clean heart, Oh God, that 188 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:34.639 I might serve you, created me a clean heart, O God, 189 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.279 that I might be renewed, So feel me and heal 190 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:40.120 me and. 191 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:41.759 Bring me back to you. 192 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:44.879 Created me a clean heart, O God, that I might 193 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:45.879 serve you. 194 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:49.759 That's that's a song. Yeah. And then and then then 195 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:52.600 today I should have sung that yesterday. Well that no, 196 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.600 that's that's that's today's today. 197 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.960 That's what good news. We sang it today. 198 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:00.679 Yeah, yeah, because I know two verse this song too. 199 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:04.120 But even though the people go to this song, this 200 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:06.279 this verse a lot, creating me a clean heart of God, 201 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:09.399 do not banish me from your presence, Do not take 202 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:12.960 your Holy Spirit from me. I like verses sixteen and 203 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:17.519 seventeen better. Oh really, yeah, I do, because I think 204 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:23.759 that I think that the concept of this is a 205 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.200 is a life lesson for all of us, because he says, 206 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:29.159 you do not you do not desire sacrifice, or else 207 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:31.279 I would offer one you don't want to burn, offering 208 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.240 the sacrifices you desire a broken spirit. You will not 209 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.000 reject a broken and repentant heart, O God. And so 210 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:42.720 the reason why I like that concept is because God 211 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:46.279 wants your repentance and your heart more than anything else. 212 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.200 And so there are people who try to say, you know, 213 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:51.200 like David, he said, you know, he says he could 214 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:53.559 have probably offered the sacrifices of a thousand rams of 215 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.120 the snap of a finger. Right, Hey, I'm gonna I'm 216 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:58.039 gonna give this. You know, I'm gonna write this big check. 217 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.320 I'm gonna make this donation, right, I'm gonna I'm going 218 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:00.840 to give the. 219 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:01.559 Idea of penance. 220 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:03.360 Yeah, I'm gonna try it. Yeah, I'm gonna try to 221 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.600 make up for it by saying, you know, all of 222 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.759 these repetitive prayers, or I'm going to you know. 223 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:11.799 Give this money, give this money, whatever it is. 224 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.480 And it's like no, no, no, no, you can do that, 225 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:18.360 but God doesn't want sacrifice or else. David says, I 226 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.279 give it, but that's not what God wants. So David 227 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:24.120 knows what God wants. David had all the power to 228 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:28.360 do whatever he wanted to do. He was rich, he 229 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:30.720 could have done all the good in the world. But 230 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:33.840 what he was acknowledging here is that God, I would 231 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:36.039 do all those things. But I know that's not what 232 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:39.039 you want. You want one thing. You want a broken 233 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:42.360 and contrite heart, a repentant heart, and these things you 234 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:45.399 want not despised. So I think it's an acknowledgment that 235 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.360 there's only one thing that God requires in these moments. 236 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:50.519 Now, I like to create in me a clean heart 237 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:51.120 of God. I love it. 238 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.600 It's obviously phenomenal. Right, But I think somebody should write 239 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:56.080 a song about sixteen seventeen. 240 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:57.480 Maybe I'll do that. 241 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:02.000 Being broken in spirit, yeah, broken, repentant heart. 242 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:04.519 Yeah, the fact that God only wants one thing, and 243 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:05.960 that is your repented heart. 244 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:09.759 Yeah. And repent heart isn't I'm sorry, repent heart is. 245 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:12.360 I'm stopping it and I'm turning to you. 246 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.120 Yes. He's a desire to turn yeah. 247 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:15.399 Yeah. 248 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:17.440 Repent means literally to turn the other way. 249 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:23.960 So this this comes after Nathan has confronted David, So 250 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:27.360 David has had an affair with Bethsheba. Bethsheba was the 251 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.159 wife of one of David's mighty Men, one of David's 252 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:35.799 special forces, guys Uriah, and then she gets pregnant, and 253 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.320 so David makes sure that Uriah is killed in battle 254 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:41.639 so that then he can marry. 255 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.679 After he tries to cover it up another way. 256 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:45.600 Right, can come home and sleep with his wife. And 257 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:49.120 so it was. It was just a crazy little season 258 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:51.519 in David's life, and it winds up defining a big 259 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:58.159 chunk of the rest of his life. So he his 260 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:03.000 his concern are just to hide and to cover his reputation. 261 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:06.279 And then Nathan shows up. He's a prophet of God. 262 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.320 God sent Nathan to go and correct David, and he 263 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.559 tells me the story. Hey, there's this rich man who 264 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:14.840 lives next door to a poor man. Rich man has 265 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.320 a guest come over, and the rich man had so 266 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:21.679 many sheep, but he goes over and he gets the 267 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:24.159 sheep of the poor man. And this poor man loved 268 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:26.720 this sheep, had she and he took care of the sheep, 269 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:28.879 and the sheep lived in his home and he fed him. 270 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.799 He just had his one lamb, and he loved that lamb. 271 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:33.759 But the rich man went and got that one poor 272 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.000 man's lamb. He said, he's one of his many many lambs. 273 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.159 He goes and kills that poor man's lamb and feeds him. 274 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.720 And he asked David, what do you think should be 275 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:44.000 done to that guy? Well, David was a shepherd as 276 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:46.639 a young man, so this was a perfect story. Yeah, 277 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:49.360 And David is so ticked off, he said they should 278 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:50.639 hunt down that guy killing. 279 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:51.720 Yeah. 280 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:54.720 And then Nathan says, well, you're the man right right, 281 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.080 you're the king man. You have anything you want, you 282 00:12:57.159 --> 00:12:59.080 have any woman you want, but you went and took 283 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.519 the one wife of a poor man who is loyal 284 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:06.480 to your right. And so then judgment came. The baby died, 285 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:11.360 bestI was pregnant, the baby died, all those things, and 286 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:14.039 it was a difficult time in David's life. And it's 287 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:17.559 from that confrontation somebody who cared enough and had the 288 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.399 courage to confront David with his sin, that David comes 289 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.679 and praise this prayer and his first statement is have 290 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:27.759 mercy on me, right, God, I don't deserve you to 291 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:31.279 forgive me, but you have great compassion. And then he says, 292 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:34.360 wash me clean of my guilt, blot out the stain 293 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.159 of my sins that blot out you know, back in 294 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:40.320 that day, they would when they wrote with ink, they 295 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.639 would you know, dip the pen in the ink, write it, 296 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:44.919 and if there was a mistake, you try to blot 297 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:47.360 it out. It was kind of a try to pull 298 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:49.399 the ink back up off of the parchment or off 299 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.639 the paper with a blotter. It was the closest thing 300 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.279 to an eraser that you and I would use today. Right, 301 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.120 that's what they're trying to do. And he says, God, 302 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:58.519 but you know, have you ever used a blotter? It 303 00:13:58.600 --> 00:13:59.559 never makes it right. 304 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.120 Yeah, well I've bloughted out different things, just probably not 305 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:02.720 in parchment. 306 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:07.039 Yeah, you can still see, right. But he's like, hey, 307 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:08.919 clean it up as much as possible. Would you clean 308 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:13.240 it up? And he says, creating me a new heart? 309 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:15.279 And so it's interesting at first he says, would you 310 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:18.279 just cover it? Then he's like, could you blot it up? 311 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.200 Maybe get rid of as much of it as possible, 312 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:21.799 And then finally says, would you make a new one. 313 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:24.559 There's kind of a progression to his prayer here, God, 314 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.360 I have no hope of my life ever turning around 315 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:30.600 unless you make a new life in me, because I'll 316 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.679 go do this again. Probably I'm what kind of a sinner? 317 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:35.480 Am I? This is kind of where he's coming at. 318 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:37.879 What was I doing? Why did I do this? And God, 319 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:40.000 you know I'm a wicked person. Would you forgive me 320 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:43.480 for this? And then he's repenting of his sin, not 321 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:46.480 just that he he acknowledges I was born a sinner 322 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:48.840 and I sin, but that's not an excuse. And he's 323 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.440 asking God to forgive his sin and to make him 324 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:54.240 a new person. And then, like you said, he also 325 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:56.799 the one thing that we didn't talk about verse thirteen, 326 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:00.080 fourteen fifteen, He says, God, then if you fix me 327 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.039 and change me, I'm not going to just use this 328 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:04.519 story for me. I'm going to use it to then 329 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.919 I'll teach your ways to rebels. Right, I'll use my 330 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:10.279 I'm not going to waste this story. I'll use my story, 331 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:13.279 this broken story, for others to maybe warn them and 332 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.559 unseal my lips that my mouth may praise you. Right, 333 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:18.120 he's saying, my actions are going to be different as 334 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:20.559 a result of the fact that you begin to change me. 335 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.799 And then he says, you know, I understand that God 336 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:27.600 you know, sacrifices are required for sin. He ends verse 337 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.639 nineteen says, you'll be pleased with sacrifices offered in the 338 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:34.639 right spirit. Right, So the sacrifices are required for the sin, 339 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.720 but they mean nothing without the heart. And so that's 340 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:41.559 what David is trying to extend to God is my 341 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:45.440 heart is all for you. And so I think that 342 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.200 that's the issue. Is first the heart has to turn 343 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:51.159 towards God. Then the behaviors will start to turn towards God. 344 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.679 Because when your heart turns towards God, your want tos 345 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.200 start to move towards God, and your feelings, your emotions 346 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:00.120 start to move that way, and those things ten to 347 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.279 drive your behaviors. And so as you're saying and then 348 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:06.759 all the other things, you know, the faith based stuff, 349 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:09.039 I'm supposed to be doing. Those please you. Then when 350 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:10.879 my heart is right, But when my heart's not for you, you 351 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.120 don't care about the ritual. Ritual doesn't matter. 352 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.200 Yeah, yeah, And you know this is the sin where 353 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:20.759 David says, my sin is ever before me, and so 354 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:24.159 you know, this was a public sin. And the thing 355 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:27.120 even though that we just briefly mentioned, Nathan, I think 356 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.559 one of the most powerful things about this whole story. 357 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:31.399 And even when you read this prayer, you have to 358 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.840 you know, sort of you know, receive it in that context. 359 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:35.200 Right. 360 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:41.960 Nathan actually pointed out David's sin publicly as well. Did 361 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.600 you know it was in the courtyard with the kingdom? 362 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.279 And so think about like it, what does that phrase 363 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:51.799 the emperor's emperor has no. 364 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:52.519 Clothes or something. 365 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.039 Yeah, and nobody wants to tell the emperor is no clothes. 366 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.639 It's the same thing. It's the idea that like, David 367 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.919 has done this thing, and every everybody knows that. Everybody 368 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.680 knows that that he is supposed to be our spiritual leader. 369 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:07.599 He is the guy, he's a man after God's own heart. 370 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.440 He is a godly man. But he is also the king, 371 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.880 and so other kings we fear because of the wickedness. 372 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:16.839 David is supposed to be king that we don't fear, 373 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:19.400 you know, because of wickedness. And yet he's done this 374 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:22.079 wicked thing, but nobody wants to say anything and fear 375 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:22.559 that he's going. 376 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:23.920 To kill him, like the messengers. 377 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.279 Right, and then all of a sudden Nathan comes along 378 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:29.880 and he's the prophet of God. Think about the courage 379 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:34.200 that Nathan had the assignment that God gave to Nathan 380 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:38.200 is to go and confront David. Well, you know, think 381 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.119 about it. It's like, you're the guy who's going to 382 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:44.119 confront Nathan or David publicly in front of everybody and 383 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:46.720 point it out, knowing that he has the power to 384 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:48.559 kill you, and he has a history of killing people 385 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:51.359 who bring bad news. And so when he looks at 386 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.680 him and he says, you are the man, you know 387 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:56.839 you know, Hey, this man should be killed, Well, guess who. 388 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:57.480 Guess who it is. 389 00:17:57.559 --> 00:17:59.240 You're the man. You're the man of the story. You're 390 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.960 the one who did this. And then then he decrees 391 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.079 and then he actually lays out judgment in front of everybody, 392 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:09.799 And I just think to myself in that moment, we 393 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:13.440 also can use that as a life lesson for us, 394 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:16.200 because we also have a choice, don't we When people 395 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:20.440 confront us, When people approach us in love and they say, hey, 396 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:24.319 I'm gonna I'm gonna confront you about something. I'm gonna 397 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:27.720 confront you about something that I noticed in your life 398 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.279 that isn't you know, right, and whether it's right or wrong, 399 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:34.720 you know that that's that's for a discussion to decide. 400 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.359 That's for God's word to decide. But your reaction is everything, 401 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:40.960