WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:02.160 Well, Jeff, today we're going to talk about when you 2 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:04.679 crack an egg. That big yellow thing in the center 3 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:05.400 is called yolk. 4 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:08.599 That is not what we're talking about today. No, no, 5 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:11.880 we're not, but good try. So he's Chris and I'm 6 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:13.080 Jeff and we're the Bible Guys. 7 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:29.120 So Jeff, all right, Chris, we have a segment today. 8 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:31.600 Okay, and what is that segment? Chris? 9 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:34.880 Well, I think we're going to tackle what made Chris 10 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:36.159 Man today excellent? 11 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.399 So this is, you know, everybody's favorite the fan Favorites 12 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:43.439 when they vote this year at the Fan Favorites Awards 13 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:46.200 that we're going to have You're good at. This segment's 14 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:48.439 gonna win it. It's going to be favorite segment. 15 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:52.600 The Podcast Awards. I'm sure they have podcasts. 16 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:54.960 Well, it's probably going to be the Bible Guys Podcast. 17 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.359 Awards, right like the Dundees. 18 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:03.759 That's right. So so anyways, we were curious what made 19 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:05.599 Chris mad this week? 20 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:09.719 Okay? So I have something okay, really. 21 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:12.400 And really and it is astounding. 22 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:16.480 It's this. So I'm a movie watcher. I like movies, yes, 23 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:17.799 and here's what I believe. 24 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:21.959 When you want to show somebody a movie, when they 25 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.920 look at their phone and they're not watching the movie. 26 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.760 It is the most irritating thing on the planet. 27 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:29.120 So you're you're watching the movie and you want them 28 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:30.200 to participate with you. 29 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:30.799 Yeah. 30 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:33.079 Like, for instance, I watch a movie and I think 31 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.040 it's like a ten out of ten, and I'm like, 32 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:39.040 this movie is emotional, it is phenomenal, it is man, 33 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:41.359 it just the experience of it is so great. And 34 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:43.400 then I'll play it and then like, for instance, not 35 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:45.760 naming any names. I won't point out which kid does 36 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:48.040 this often, but Torri is the one who does it, 37 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:49.200 and you. 38 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.239 Never say names. It's your youngest daughter, right. 39 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.480 It's the one that's that's the age of no anyway. 40 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:00.200 So the point is is that she's on her phone constantly. 41 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:02.959 Now I am a person that does. I am on 42 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:06.000 my phone too, but not during movies. I'm not on 43 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.080 the on my phone, right, has your limits? 44 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:10.319 I have my list? Yeah. 45 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.280 So anyway, so what happens is I'm watching this movie 46 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:15.759 and I'm thinking, I'm watching the facial expressions, and I'm 47 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:18.680 watching the mood and the tension that's being created, and 48 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:20.680 I'm like, you know, just the things that sort of 49 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:22.759 aren't said, as well as the things that are being said, 50 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:25.120 and you sort of feel things that I look over 51 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.599 and she's on her phone texting, and I'm like, you 52 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.759 didn't even watch the movie, and she was I'm listening. 53 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.680 I'm like, no, you didn't even you didn't even understand. 54 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:35.919 It doesn't count, does it. 55 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.080 You know it doesn't count because you're not really experiencing 56 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:38.439 the movie. 57 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:42.960 You can't multitask emotions, right, right, that's true. So yeah, 58 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:44.639 so anyway, I'm with you on that one. 59 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.960 Yeah, so so more importantly, not just on your phone 60 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.800 during a movie, but especially when you want someone to 61 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.800 experience the greatness that's right, that you want them to 62 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:54.639 experience that's right. 63 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:56.319 No, I'm agreeing with you on that. I'm just going 64 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:58.120 to throw an extra one in there. This isn't what 65 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.840 made Jeff mad this week, but it drives me nuts 66 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:05.319 when we all go, hey, you want to watch a movie. Sure, 67 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:09.039 and it's like nine o'clock, and then we get all 68 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:11.520 of our snacks together, we get everything all around, and 69 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:14.719 then just as we're all sitting down, we find the movie. 70 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:17.319 We rent the movie, we're ready to watch it. Then 71 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:20.240 all of a sudden, you know, the other adult in 72 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.319 our house that's not a child. All of our children 73 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:25.759 will say, oh, hang on a min I'm. 74 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.639 Not gonna mention any names, but it's not male. 75 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:31.680 Oh that reminds me I need to paint these three 76 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.360 rooms and fix the car real quick, mow the lawn, 77 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:36.280 and then you know, two and a half hours later, 78 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.080 that just happened last night, and I'm down there losing hilarious, 79 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:42.199 losing my mind over that. I don't understand how we 80 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.159 can say, yeah, let's watch a movie, and what they 81 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.479 mean is three hours from now, let's watch a movie. 82 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:47.960 Wow. Yeah. 83 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.319 So I think I'm with you on that because I 84 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:52.639 think I'm the one that's most eager to watch a movie, 85 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:56.080 you know, but you're not a movie guy, which means like, 86 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:58.560 if you're going to commit to it, this is yeah, 87 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:00.000 it's it's like a rare bird sighting. 88 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.479 Well, I think I think you watch movies for entertainment 89 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.159 and I watch movies for amusement. There's a big deft 90 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:09.319 between those two. What right? What so amused? 91 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:10.280 What did you just say? 92 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:14.840 Amusement? Ah means none, muse means thought. I watch movies 93 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:17.639 and stuff like that that turn off my brain. But 94 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.519 you watch movies for the entertainment value to engage emotionally 95 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:24.160 and to be there in that story and all that 96 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:26.040 kind of stuff. I don't do it. I watch it 97 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:27.279 mostly just to turn my brain off. 98 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.560 Wow, well I've learned something today. I would have not. 99 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:34.000 I would have not differentiated those two words in that way. 100 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:37.639 Oh wow yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, Well, I'm glad that 101 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:42.160 we had this little linguistic conversation. So I think we've 102 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:44.079 wasted enough of our listeners time. 103 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:46.639 It's about normal. It's for four minutes. 104 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.240 We're always wasting about that much time. 105 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:49.480 Yeah, for sure. 106 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:53.040 Okay, So we are in two Corinthion's chapter six, and 107 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.279 we're back in the in the new year, twenty twenty three. Yeah, 108 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:01.360 and this is I think a very appropriate challenge for 109 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:03.560 us as we're heading into the new year, just thinking 110 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:06.639 what are our priorities, what are the relationships that we're 111 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:08.720 going to engage in, what are the things we're going 112 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:10.399 to do, where we're going to go? How are we 113 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:12.600 going to think for twenty twenty three? I think this 114 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.240 chapter is a great passage for us to kind of 115 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.360 wrestle with because there's some things to wrestle with in 116 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:19.600 this passage. So it's not very long. We're going to 117 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:23.079 read verse fourteen here through the end of chapter six, 118 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:26.439 and then the first four verses of chapter seven. He says, 119 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:29.600 don't team up with those who are unbelievers. How can 120 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.720 righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live 121 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.519 with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and 122 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.240 the devil? How can a believer be a partner with 123 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.120 an unbeliever? And what union can there be between God's 124 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:43.600 temple and idols? For we are the temple of the 125 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:46.079 Living God. As God said, I will live in them 126 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.000 and walk among them, and I will be their God, 127 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:51.279 and they will be my people. Therefore, come out from 128 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:54.240 among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. 129 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.000 Don't touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you, 130 00:05:57.360 --> 00:05:59.079 and I will be your father, and you will be 131 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.240 my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Because we 132 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.360 have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from 133 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:08.160 everything that can defile our body and our spirit, and 134 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.120 let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God. 135 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:13.720 Please open your hearts to us. We've not done wrong 136 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:17.360 to anyone, nor let anyone astray, nor taken advantage of everyone. 137 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:19.959 I'm not saying this to condemn you. I said before 138 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:21.519 that you are in our hearts and we live or 139 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.639 die together with you. I have the highest confidence in you, 140 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:27.240 and I take great pride in you. You have greatly 141 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.040 encouraged me and made me happy despite all your troubles. 142 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.560 So it's interesting how he ends. He's ending saying, listen, 143 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.279 I'm not judging you. I'm not angry at you. I'm 144 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.240 just challenging you in this topic. 145 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.279 Yeah, when he says we live and die together with you, 146 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:44.959 that's actually the quote that's where a bad Boy's well 147 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.399 Will Smith got his line when he says we ride together, 148 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:50.439 we die together, bad boys for life? 149 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:51.120 Is it really? 150 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:51.600 No, it's not. 151 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:52.399 I don't think it is. 152 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:52.959 No, it's not. 153 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:54.959 Okay anyways, just like. 154 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:56.920 The yoke wasn't what we're talking about today. 155 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:01.279 Yeah, that's right. Well, the yoke that you were talking 156 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:04.720 about y O l K Yeah, yolk. Yes, Yes, it's 157 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:06.800 different than y O K yeah. 158 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.959 And that's and that's what really this translation the NLC 159 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:13.199 doesn't include the yoke. 160 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:17.600 Well, right, yes, so the yoke would be what it 161 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:20.279 translates is don't team up with those who are unbelievers. 162 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:24.600 And when we read the words team up. We're thinking sports, right, 163 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:31.040 we're thinking basketball, football, baseball, right, soccer, hockey. But for them, 164 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:33.319 what they're thinking is a team of horses or a 165 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:37.600 team of oxen or right. And so in this situation, 166 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.680 then the yoke y o k e. Is how you 167 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.199 would hook up two horses, two draft horses, or two 168 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:45.639 oxen to pull a heavy load. 169 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:49.000 Yeah, and it's a it's a really big wooden brace 170 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.319 really yeah, that that that sort of aligns them. And 171 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.199 if you have one ox for instance, that's really strong, 172 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.920 and then you mismatch them terribly. 173 00:07:58.079 --> 00:07:58.279 Yeah. 174 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:00.120 And you put a skinny little ox right now. 175 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:02.279 Next tom or a donkey or something or a donkey. 176 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.839 Or something like this, then what's gonna happen is your 177 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:06.120 plow is gonna run in circles. 178 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:08.160 That's right, right, And so it's just it's just that 179 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:10.279 poor donkey's not gonna be able to keep up or 180 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:11.480 skinny oxygen. 181 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.759 Well, and they're both gonna get hurt usually, right, right, 182 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:16.519 So they need to the way that the yoke sits in. 183 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:19.160 And you've probably seen those. It's a big beam that 184 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.079 goes you know, is made to sit over their their 185 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:25.040 necks and leans in on their chest and rate at 186 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.360 their shoulders. There's usually a hook or something that comes 187 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.040 down underneath like this, and they'd strap in and then 188 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.480 the straps would be attached to the back that then 189 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:34.480 would allow them to pull the plow or to pull 190 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:38.720 the wagon or whatever. And if if it's off kilter, 191 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.600 if it's not even, and if it's not squared up, 192 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:45.000 they'll both wind up cutting cutting themselves. The donkey will 193 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.440 be getting choked out because he's you know, because there's 194 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:48.879 so much power and it's so much higher on the 195 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:53.320 other side, and so both animals wind up getting wounded. Uh, 196 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:56.519 no work really gets done. It becomes incredibly ineffective to 197 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:58.799 have them dead. So that's what he's saying. Don't team 198 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:00.879 up with those who arend believers. Don't get yoked up 199 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:04.240 hooked up to somebody who's you know, not a believer. 200 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.679 Yeah, and so you know, in one in one sense, 201 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.440 this is something where if somebody, for instance, let me 202 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.600 just create like a hypothetical for instance, Okay, so somebody's 203 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.399 dating somebody and they're there and by the way, this 204 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:19.639 is this is good for you know, he's talking about 205 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:22.759 a business sense right here, but you know, like being 206 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:23.679 partners with somebody. 207 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:25.919 Uh, but it's also relationships. 208 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:28.200 It's it's all sorts of relationships, whether it's business, whether 209 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:30.919 it's romantic, whether it's a marriage, whatever it is, it's 210 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:34.000 it's applicable. But if you're dating somebody, for instance, let's 211 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.360 say a girl is dating a boy and the boy 212 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.559 is not a Christian typically right, and the girl is 213 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:41.519 because you know, the girls go to church and the 214 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.639 boys down right, so uh and so then and they 215 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.879 have completely fundamental different beliefs. 216 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:47.480 Uh. 217 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.960 The girl believes in God and believes in Jesus and 218 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.320 let's just say the boy is atheist. 219 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:53.559 Or something like this. 220 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.360 Well, then they fall in love because other than that 221 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:58.320 there they have everything else in common. 222 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.399 And then what ends up happening is they get married. Well, 223 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:02.360 I mean if you if. 224 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:06.799 You live anywhere near church world, then then you understand that, 225 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:08.799 like when it comes time for them to have kids, 226 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.360 then there's a fundamental, massive argument that always happens. And 227 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:17.080 you can interview on the street people who who generally 228 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.080 go to church and try to say, like, have you 229 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:21.159 ever had an argument on how to raise your kids? 230 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:22.240 Where to take them? 231 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:24.799 I mean, I'm telling you it's it's way more common 232 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.639 than it isn't. It's like, oh, yeah, yeah, she's this, 233 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:30.200 I'm this. We have no idea, so we just decided 234 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.840 to compromise and do this. But what's worse is is 235 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:38.000 that when you live a lifestyle that's unequally yoked right 236 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:40.200 when you when you when you like, for instance, the 237 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:43.039 wife says, hey, I want to give this money to 238 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:45.879 this organization or to this church or to or to 239 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.559 this family down the street, and I want to help them, 240 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:50.759 And then and then the husband's not on board with 241 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.759 it or something or vice versa, right, because it just 242 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.639 creates all sorts of problems when you're spiritually at different places. 243 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:01.200 Yeah, I think it's naive for people to think that 244 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:06.720 that you can blend to people who have diametrically opposed 245 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:11.639 or even I think neutral worldviews what appears to be 246 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:15.519 neutral worldviews. Right, So being a Christian should, if you 247 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:20.080 read Paul clearly, should affect every area of your life. 248 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.440 It should affect how you live your life. It should 249 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.399 affect what you value. It should affect how you use 250 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.519 your money. It should affect your sexuality. It should affect 251 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.519 your relationships. It should affect the way that you do business. 252 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.120 It should affect every single thing, the kind of entertainment 253 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.240 that you pay attention to, all those things that it 254 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:40.600 should affect how you spend your time, It should affect everything. 255 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.080 Paul tells us to think on those things that are eternal, 256 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.120 not on those things that are temporal. But for somebody 257 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:47.679 who doesn't even believe in God, or somebody who is agnostic, 258 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:50.360 or somebody who doesn't really have a deep faith, they're 259 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:53.120 not thinking on things eternal. They're thinking on things that 260 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:55.080 are temporal. And so there's always going to be this 261 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:58.960 tug of war with regard to priorities, and it becomes 262 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:04.440 incredibly differ dificult to compromise your faith and at the 263 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:07.960 same time have a meaningful faith. Right, And so this 264 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:09.960 is the warning that he's having. And by the way, 265 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:12.440 it's it's not just business. I think it's any kind 266 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.279 of binding relationship, right, So anything that would have a 267 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.000 contract or an oath or a vow connected to it. 268 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.919 He's saying, hey, you know, you need to avoid those things. 269 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:22.080 Don't team up with them. 270 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.399 Yeah, And and I don't think it's I don't think 271 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:25.480 it's very hard. 272 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.120 To build a case for this. Actually, I actually think. 273 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:33.759 That everybody probably knows somebody who have had differences in 274 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:37.039 this area because you're right, it's not just faith. It's 275 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.919 not just like, hey, I'm Protestant and you're something else, 276 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:41.600 or you know, it's not it's not just that. 277 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:43.120 It's about how you live your life. 278 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.080 It's about just like you said, it's it's it's one 279 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:48.879 of the things about Christianity is that you know, you're 280 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:51.960 supposed to center your life around the things of God. 281 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.559 In fact, we just had a Christmas service that sort of. 282 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:55.279 Talked about that. 283 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.200 That's right, how how we live life upside down? And 284 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.039 Jesus comes along and says, no, no, no, the last shall 285 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.639 be first, and you're like, what, you know, don't humble, 286 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.679 don't don't exalt yourself, humble yourself. And you're like, what 287 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.120 and so, if the world decided to go one way 288 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.000 and you decided to go another way, it's just very 289 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.919 very difficult. So so and and and the key is 290 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.600 this is don't do it at the beginning. So I 291 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.720 remember my daughter, my daughter who is married now and 292 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:25.080 she lives in Saint Petersburg, Florida. When she was dating, uh, 293 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:28.960 you know, back in like late high school, early college. 294 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.679 I was so impressed because. 295 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.320 I remember she wouldn't even go out on a date 296 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:38.279 if that person wasn't a potential match, like long term 297 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:41.120 for her, which is hilarious, instead of just saying like, oh, 298 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:42.679 I'm going to go out and have a date just 299 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:43.240 to have fun. 300 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:46.600 Oh very wise, yeah, very wise. 301 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.879 I was so impressed and so and I remember one 302 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.159 time it was a coach of a high school and 303 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.720 and this guy liked her, and she was and she 304 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:57.840 was he was a little bit older than her, and 305 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.639 and and he asked her out. And we were all 306 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.159 we all knew this coach, and we were all just shocked. 307 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.360 We were just like what this coach reached out to 308 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:05.440 her and date. 309 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:07.639 Well, you know, he's sort of well known in that 310 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.799 little area. And so there was other people around her saying, like, 311 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.919 got with this coach, I mean, you know, he's you 312 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.879 know this and that. And my daughter says, well, no, 313 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.600 because we don't line up in these like six areas. 314 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:21.639 And so she didn't even go out on the date. 315 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:23.879 And I thought it was hilarious. I thought, honey, I'm 316 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:25.039 so proud of you. 317 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.240 You know, well, in our culture is so here in 318 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:32.240 the West, particularly in the US, we typically don't marry people. 319 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:36.399 We don't date, right, Right, So if you if you 320 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:40.600 are discriminating with regard to your dating decisions, you can 321 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:44.480 avoid the long term struggles and heartbreak. Because for you 322 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:46.360 and me, you know, you said you think pretty much 323 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.960 everybody knows somebody that's unequally yoked. That may or may 324 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.279 not be true. They just might not recognize it. Whereas 325 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:53.720 you and I, so much of the marriage counseling we've 326 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:58.440 had to do is that specifically, not that they're incompatible. 327 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.039 That's not what we're saying, right, That's a whole other issue. Right, 328 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.759 What we're talking about is fundamentally what they've built their 329 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:08.600 life on is not compatible. Built your life on faith, 330 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:10.759 or built your life on humanism, or built your life 331 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.639 on agnosticism, or built your life on just neutrality. Those 332 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:18.320 are all very very different. So the foundation, it can't 333 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:22.200 sustain the house if if it's all kinds of different foundations, right, 334 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.399 And so then you're gonna raise your your kids differently, 335 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:26.960 and I already talked about that, all your money, all 336 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:30.360 those things is very very different. It becomes incredibly difficult. 337 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.799 So this is true in business, This is true in 338 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:38.159 with regard to the people that you're really, really, really 339 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:42.080 doing life with, you know, and I've known a lot 340 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:46.759 of Christians who you know, have made later on come 341 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:49.360 back and tell me the bad decisions they made happened 342 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:52.039 in the context of their old buddies wanted to go 343 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.120 do this thing or go to this old place and whatever. 344 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:56.600 And you know, start off, oh, I didn't intend to drink. 345 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:57.799 I was just gonna have a coke, and they were 346 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:59.480 gonna do their thing. But then it gets all wild 347 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.559 next thing, you know, coming and confessing something that they 348 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.200 wish they hadn't done. And I've heard that over and 349 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:07.480 over and over again. You know. The couple of weeks ago, 350 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:14.639 we read a passage that says, bad connections corrupt good morals, 351 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:18.000 remember that, or bad relationships, And that's true. And so 352 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:19.639 this is the warning that he's giving us. But then 353 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:21.960 he goes on and he says, you know, what kind 354 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.399 of partnership can light and dark have together? What kind 355 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:28.399 of you know, Christ and the devil. This is what 356 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:32.879 he's talking about, is there's a fundamental difference between light 357 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:35.360 and dark, between good and evil, between Christ and the devil. 358 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.200 And he says there is between believers and non believers. 359 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:42.559 So this is not justification for us to hate believer unbelievers, 360 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:46.879 or to hurt them. But they he is saying, here, 361 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:51.799 be very very careful with your relationships, your long term, 362 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:55.320 contractual or vow based relationships with them, because it's going 363 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.159 to change your effectiveness and your ability to serve the Lord. 364 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.159 And then God is really kind of connecting this to 365 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.080 our relationship with him. You know, I'll be like a father, 366 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:05.480 you'll be like my children to me. But he's saying, 367 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:07.440 you've got to come out from among them and be separate. 368 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.200 You got to don't touch the unclean things that they do. 369 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.559 Don't do the things the world does. And so many 370 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:15.279 Christians want to say, oh, well, you know, grace, people sin, 371 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.759 God forgives, it's okay, we're going to act just like 372 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:21.559 the world. And Paul say, no, stop because God said, listen, 373 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:24.279 avoid those things, stay away from those things. It's not 374 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:26.200 that we go, oh, Grace is there, so we can 375 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:28.160 keep doing what ever we want to do. He's saying, 376 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:31.279 because grace is there, stop doing those things. Come away 377 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:33.160 from it. And God says, hey, listen, I'll be a 378 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.680 father to you. You be my children. You don't have 379 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:39.079 to tarnish yourself or make yourself dirty. Now that you're clean. 380 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:40.119 Yeah. 381 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:41.960 And then also I just want to go and point 382 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.559 out the fact that Paul once again he's a master 383 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:49.319 visual aid person. He uses visual aids, and he says, Okay, 384 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.759 let's talk about this. There's a big difference between God's 385 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.599 temple and false idols, right, So think about the visual 386 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:59.519 of that if you lived in that time and you 387 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:02.039 understand that, like, you know, there's a there's a church 388 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:05.000 that that's you know, God, and then there's all these 389 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:10.039 different gods, you know, all these crazy ridiculous you know, polytheism, 390 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:13.599 believing in many gods. That that was the culture. And so, 391 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:16.559 you know, religion was actually quite prevalent. It was just 392 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:18.200 that they believed in Greek gods. 393 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.359 And things like this. And so he's saying, like, you know, 394 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:21.359 the difference. 395 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:25.359 Between God's temple and false idols, they're massively different. 396 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:28.240 He says, well, you are God's temple. That's the difference, right, 397 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:30.400 you know, because you know, for we. 398 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.359 Are the temple of the Living God, which, by the way, 399 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:36.440 is really cool because you know, if you think about us, 400 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:41.640 we've heard that analogy before, but in the first century, Uh, 401 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:45.599