WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.000 practical ways. Hey, good morning everybody, or good afternoon or 4 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:14.160 good evening or good night. 5 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:17.960 We're back. How about that we are And it's Friday, 6 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:19.199 Jeff oh man, it's so good. 7 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.320 Yes, it's a good day for most people because it's 8 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:23.879 their last day of work and they're looking forward to 9 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:24.359 the weekends. 10 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:25.679 Yeah, Friday is amazing. 11 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:28.760 But I mentioned this just the other day. You and 12 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.079 I view weekends differently than most people. Our friends would 13 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:33.079 think like work. 14 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:34.600 Week, and then we can well, we have Saturday and 15 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:36.880 Sunday services. Yeah we're preaching one of those. 16 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, so's it's more like us. It's more 17 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:41.200 like it's almost backwards. 18 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:43.920 Back in the old days when we did Saturday services, 19 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.039 I preached on Saturday two times and then two or 20 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:50.520 three times on Sunday. Yeah that was so hard. But 21 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:53.200 now it's I'll preach one and you preach the other. 22 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.880 So yes, and that's that's Yeah, it is way better. 23 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.200 Thank God for Chris star Ball. That's all I can say. 24 00:00:58.240 --> 00:00:59.200 Oh, that's the application. 25 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:01.920 You go right there, take it? Okay, Well you know 26 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:05.280 our longtime listeners. If you're a new listener, this is 27 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:07.519 going to be a special moment for you. Yeah, for 28 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:12.040 our longtime listeners know how important good news is. Uh. 29 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:14.239 And then we scour the internet. 30 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:18.680 And we assess every news channel and every news source, 31 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:20.040 and we picked we think is. 32 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.120 The most reliable and I think the most reliable, the 33 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:28.480 most useful news source on the planet, with almost no 34 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:32.599 close second placer is the Babylon. 35 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.680 B Yes, which is a satire news source. 36 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.959 Yes, and it feels about as legit as all the others. 37 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.799 So everyone's while, we'll bring you some real news and 38 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:45.719 other things, and sometimes we bring you a special interest points. 39 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:49.760 And this one strikes particularly close to home for several 40 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.239 reasons for you, especially for me. So this one is 41 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.680 man replaces personality with new smoker, which is hious. October 42 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:00.480 twenty first, beautiful Utah. 43 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.920 And I love this picture this guy looking at the camera. 44 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:07.120 Local man James Larson made a significant life change after 45 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.560 deciding to replace his entire personality with his affection for 46 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.599 his newly purchased smoker. Have I shown you my smoker? 47 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.759 Larson asked no one in particular, that smoker's a great smoker, 48 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:19.719 you can smoke fish, bacon, chicken, hot dogs. Some people 49 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:21.680 say you can't smoke corn bread on there, but nope, 50 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:24.840 you can smoke corn bread too. Larson spent the better 51 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.120 part of Tuesday afternoon telling anyone who would listen about 52 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:30.479 the features of his new smoker and how he planned 53 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.199 to smoke this year's Thanksgiving turkey, which I'm working on 54 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:33.639 right now. 55 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:35.039 That's hilarious. 56 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.360 I'm going to use an injection basing system because brining 57 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:41.840 is what peasants do. Larson continued, Hey, look, my mom's calling. 58 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:43.280 I bet you'd like to hear about my methods for 59 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:45.240 cleaning the racks and what sort of woodchips I'm using 60 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:49.159 the sixteen hour brisket I've got going right now. Larson's wife, Jenny, 61 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.199 said she was getting a little tired of the smoker talk, 62 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:54.039 but admitted to humoring her husband because he'd been cooking 63 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.479 so many more meals lately. I want to tell him 64 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:58.240 he needs to talk about something else, but I haven't 65 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.879 had to make dinner in two weeks, so I'm just 66 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:03.080 gonna ride this gravy t as long as I can't, 67 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:05.840 she said, and I mean that literally. James told me 68 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:07.919 he's trying to figure out to smoke a literal greed 69 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:13.840 gravy train whatever that is. Wow publishing time, Larson could 70 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.159 be seen quietly singing to a smoker and covering it 71 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.400 with a blanket on the cold night, a move that 72 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.000 concerned his family, but they said they'd wait until after 73 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.479 he finished the next batch of ribs to bring it up. 74 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.719 So what did I do? Just before this episode? 75 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:30.840 You told me all about your brand new smoke, my 76 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:34.039 brand new smoker, and you said, you said it could 77 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:36.080 be the best thing since you got married. 78 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:37.919 You should even better than my kids. 79 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.000 Even you're better than the day you had your kids. 80 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:42.120 That's so funny. 81 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.120 This is so funny, And that I read the article. 82 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:47.719 Oh my gosh, that's funny stuff. You know what I 83 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:50.360 think we should do, Chris? We should do We should 84 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:51.319 do over your house. 85 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.120 We should do like to smoke something for desert. 86 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:55.520 Yeah, exactly, that'd be fun. 87 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:59.439 Yeah, but we should do Bible Guys episode on your porch. 88 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:01.520 You and me. We should do a cooking show on 89 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:02.080 my porch. 90 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:04.080 You and Chad can on me. 91 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:04.879 I think it'd be fun. 92 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:06.080 You and Chad could pull it off. 93 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:08.000 It would be fun. I could be teaching you how 94 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.159 to griddle or grill. I've got a griddle, I've got 95 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.360 a pizza stone, I've got a smoke, I've got a grill. 96 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:17.959 Oh yeah. If I'm the if I'm the novice and 97 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.759 I'm there to learn, yeah, I could represent the viewers, 98 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:23.759 the viewers to tune in, who say, show me how 99 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:24.319 to do stuff? 100 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:26.279 Yeah, because because you don't do a ton of cooking 101 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.839 hardly any I love it. I love cooking because it's 102 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:30.920 so different from everything else I do. 103 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.959 So so here here's here's a confession. And whenever I 104 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:36.560 say this, everybody is actually shocked at this. In fact, 105 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:40.439 you may not even remember this because it's so against 106 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.680 who you are as a person. But when we first 107 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:46.720 got married, Liz did all the cooking, and she worked 108 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.000 the day shift and I worked the night shift. Okay, 109 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:51.959 so we had this grill, this very tiny grill, outside 110 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:56.279 of our dorm at Baptist Broba College. And because she 111 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:58.839 prepared one hundred percent of everything for the first year 112 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.920 that we were together, she began to grill. And so 113 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:03.399 she did a one hundred percent of all the grilling 114 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.519 because I was gone, literally, And so what ended up 115 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:09.800 happening was we moved into our new little apartment of 116 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:13.839 efficiency apartment, and then she just continued to grill. And 117 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:15.720 then it got to the place to where I just 118 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:18.839 wasn't even having to grill, and so she took over 119 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:20.800 the grilling. And our marriage it just started that way 120 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.839 because of our jobs. And now she one hundred. 121 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:25.000 Percent of the stuff life. 122 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:29.160 No, no, I love it because she goes out and 123 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:30.959 makes everything and brings it in and I eat it. 124 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:31.959 Yeah, you love it? 125 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:34.680 Yeah, okay, and so don't. I don't miss it at all. 126 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.639 So people, obviously guys are like, hey, do you ever 127 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.360 grill this? You ever grill this? I'm like, I don't grill. Wow, 128 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:42.199 I don't. My wife does all the grilling. 129 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:44.079 But when you come to my house and you can 130 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:45.120 smell the smoke. 131 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:48.720 Oh, it's it's awesome. Now, by the way, I've grilled before. 132 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:50.879 I mean it's not like I've never done it. I've 133 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:55.879 grilled and I'm decent at it. But honestly, my wife 134 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:57.759 is so good at it. I'm just like, why. 135 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:59.639 Every once in a while, every once in a while, 136 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:03.079 just being nice, Liz will bring me gifts from like 137 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.120 if you guys have been up north or something, Yeah, 138 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:08.759 a little specialty stories. She'll bring me some sauces or something. 139 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:11.839 Everyone and I always know that's from Liz. It's it's like, uh, 140 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.079 you know, grillers know each other. We we just we 141 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.720 have that look and we got the usually smoky eyes. 142 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:18.240 Our eyes are ye. 143 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:19.000 That's funny. 144 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.399 That's awesome, man. Yeah, well we should do it. I 145 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:24.199 think we should do like the Jeff and Chris Cooking Show. Okay, 146 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:25.800 wouldn't it be fun? Oh yeah, of. 147 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:28.759 Course, yeah, anything anything like that would be fun. Sure. 148 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.199 Well it's fun for me because even as you're explaining, 149 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.920 like for the podcast, before we started filming, you were 150 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:35.920 explaining what you were making. 151 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:39.399 Oh yeah, I was totally enthralled. I made on my griddle. 152 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:41.439 I was telling you I have this new griddle. And 153 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:44.800 so I made cheese steaks, and then I made for lunch, 154 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:50.680 and then I made some uh garlic garlic, but steak 155 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:54.199 bites from from uh Delmonico steaks. They were so good. 156 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.720 Yeah, potatoes and so and so. When I hear that 157 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:58.360 I don't want to grill, I think, Jeff, I want 158 00:06:58.399 --> 00:06:59.079 you to make that fetish. 159 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:02.000 I yeah, what are you doing sitting around here? Get 160 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:07.000 out there? Yeah that's correat. So anyways, did you think 161 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:08.000 of a of a transfer? 162 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:08.800 I forgot? 163 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.439 Did you forget to look at it? I did so, 164 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:13.519 So we're in a quandary if you're a new listener, 165 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:16.079 we're in a quandary because for a while we worked 166 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.120 really hard at having give me a second transitions, and 167 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:22.040 then we got so bad at it. We started targeting 168 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:26.000 having the worst possible transition out of the chit chat 169 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.360 part of the thing and into I got it conversation. 170 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:29.839 I got it. 171 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.319 So now Chris is trying to transition back to meaningful transitions. 172 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:35.639 Yeah, so here's what I would say. I would say, 173 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:40.600 I bet you that you give Bonnie a lot of 174 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.519 peace because she knows that when you step up to 175 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.040 that grill, even if you have important guests, even even 176 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:50.240 the most important guests, if Liz and I were coming over, Yes, 177 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:53.199 she would feel the most important, That's correct. She would 178 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:57.480 feel at peace because she just knows you've you've got this. Yes, 179 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.720 if it's if it's on the grill, you've got it, 180 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:01.839 and they get Let me tell you something. It reminds 181 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.920 me of Psalm chapter twenty nine, verse eleven, where God 182 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.279 promises to give his people peace along with power. 183 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:10.120 That's a good one. 184 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:10.639 Yeah. 185 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:11.560 Yeah, And by the. 186 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.879 Way, that that's a true statement. I bet you when 187 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:17.800 you get to the grill, body feels complete peace because 188 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.959 you have important people over, you have people from the 189 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:21.920 church over. Sometimes it's an important meeting. 190 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:22.160 Yeap. 191 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:23.120 You have things to accomplish. 192 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:24.839 We do a lot, and she's probably have a bunch 193 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:27.720 of people from the church coming over. Some of our 194 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:29.480 leaders are coming over. Yeah. Nine. 195 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:31.480 And she always thinks they're gonna love this. 196 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:32.360 It's gonna be good. 197 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:33.120 It's gonna be good. 198 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.720 So I had to name my grill on my app. Oh, 199 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:37.720 so I knew what grill I was operating. So I 200 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:39.200 got a couple of my ground on my app. Yeah, 201 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:41.080 and so my new ones called Holy Smokes. 202 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.039 Of course. Of course, what else would it be. 203 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:48.600 Exactly, Yeah, here we go. Anyways, we're in Psalm chapter 204 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.120 twenty nine, and it says, Honor the Lord, you heavenly beings. 205 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:55.159 Honor the Lord for his glory and strength. Honor the 206 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:57.919 Lord for the glory of his name. Worship the Lord 207 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:00.639 in the splendor of his holiness. The voice of the 208 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:04.519 Lord echoes above the sea. The God of Glory thunders. 209 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.919 The Lord thunders over the mighty sea. The voice of 210 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:09.919 the Lord is powerful, and the voice of the Lord 211 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.200 is majestic. The voice of the Lord splits the mighty cedars. 212 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.440 The Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon's 213 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:19.519 mountains skip like a calf. He makes Mount Herman leap 214 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:22.200 like a young wild ox. The voice of the Lord 215 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.799 strikes with bolts of lightning. The voice of the Lord 216 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.720 makes the barren wilderness quake, and the Lord shakes the 217 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:31.440 wilderness of Kadish. The voice of the Lord twists mighty 218 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.879 oaks and strips the forced bear in his temple. Everyone 219 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:39.120 shouts glory. The Lord rules over the floodwaters. The Lord 220 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.960 reigns his king forever. And the Lord gives his people's strength, 221 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:45.279 and the Lord blesses them with peace. So there you go. 222 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:48.519 That's it. So Verse number eleven is our verse that 223 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.639 we're focusing on. The Lord gives his people's strength, the 224 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:55.159 Lord blesses them with peace. This is a psalm of David, 225 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.919 and David is starting the chapter by talking about honoring God. 226 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.080 Honor God and everything in his glory and his strength 227 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:06.159 and his might. He's the God of thunder. He rolls 228 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:09.399 over the mighty sea. His voice is powerful, his voice 229 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:12.960 can do very specific things. Yes, right, I mean, I 230 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:14.960 mean like even mentions Mount Hermon, which, by the way, 231 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:15.639 is in Lebanon. 232 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:17.080 Yes, it's a modernity Lebanon. 233 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:19.120 I love the fact that that is a real place 234 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:21.799 and here it is what seven hundred Well, I don't 235 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:26.120 know when Songs was written. It would have been three 236 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:29.279 thousand years ago, a thousand years really, so it was 237 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:33.000 written before well yeah, yeah, but I'm saying songs was 238 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.600 written before Isaiah then yes, okay, So so anyway, and 239 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:40.320 here he is mentioning, you know a real place, you know, 240 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:44.360 Mount Hermon. And by the way, Mount Hermon is so high, 241 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.039 even though it's in the Middle East, it has snow 242 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:49.240 on us. Yes, it's so incredibly. 243 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:51.360 Have you been in Lebanon. 244 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:52.120 I have not. 245 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:55.480 I was just just there several months ago with my wife. 246 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:58.919 But where where Jesus Smith? The woman at the well, 247 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:01.759 I did drink from that well and they said that 248 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.120 it was from the snow caps of Mountain Hermit. 249 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:06.919 That's yeah, yeah, yeah, which which was unbelievable, isn't it neat? 250 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:08.600 It was it was ice cold. 251 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:11.559 Well. The reason why, I mean we the listeners might go, 252 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:14.240 why are you guys talking about this. Here's why, because 253 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:19.759 your faith is rooted in real place and in a 254 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.399 real person. That's right, right, It's important. Your faith is 255 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:27.840 not some esoteric concept or some philosophy that you're trying 256 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:30.879 to live by. It's rooted in a real place with 257 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:37.039 a historical book that tells us about the real Jesus Christ, 258 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.240 who was a real person who lived in a real time, 259 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:39.799 in real place. 260 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.639 Yea, And our entire event or our entire faith is 261 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:45.919 based on an event that is grounded in history, which 262 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.840 is the death, Beryl and resurrection of Jesus Christ and 263 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:52.279 h you know, the ultimate action of dying for sins, 264 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:55.759 paying for sins, and then proving he has power versins. 265 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:57.960 Right. So then when I read this passage, and I 266 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.919 remember thinking about this before, you know, after the flood, 267 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.279 with Noah's flood, God put the rainbow in the sky 268 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:05.960 and he said, hey, every time you see the rainbow, 269 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:08.279 you can remember that I will never flood the earth again. Yeah, 270 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:09.200 which is his problem. 271 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.320 Which is incredible, which, by the way, you'd be surprised 272 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:14.000 how many people I talked to don't realize that that 273 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:16.639 is what the rainbow means. You know, they see the 274 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:18.679 rainbow in the sky. They're all pretty after a rain. 275 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:23.360 It's consistently after a rain because in Genesis chapter nine, 276 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:27.360 God said I will never again destroy In other words, hey, 277 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.519 it's gonna stop raining, right, it's raining. 278 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:30.279 Oh no, it's raining. 279 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:31.879 But don't worry. It's gonna stop. 280 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:33.679 That's right. And so God says, when you see the 281 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:37.679 see the rainbow, just remember I'm you know, I'm not 282 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:40.519 gonna destroy the earth again with a flood. And then 283 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.039 he starts off saying, honor God, right, honor the Lord 284 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:45.799 for the glory of his name. And then he begins 285 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:48.600 to unpack the power of his voice. When you hear 286 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:52.879 the echo of the echo, or the noise of the sea, 287 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:55.440 let that remind you of God. If you live near 288 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.840 an ocean and you hear the roll the waves rolling in, 289 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:02.600 they say, when you hear the thunder, let it remind 290 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.480 you of the glory and the power of God. Right, 291 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.320 that's what he's talking about. And then he unpacks the 292 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:13.559 idea the Lord splits mighty cedars when major storms blow through, 293 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.559 Just let it. Let it remind you. That's just a 294 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.679 small glimpse at the power of God. He talks about 295 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:24.879 the the the barren wilderness, quake and in the mountain 296 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.879 of Mount Hermon shaking and leaping. You know, earthquakes should 297 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:31.240 remind you of the power of God. These are all 298 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.200 just minor blips compared to God's incredible power. And he said, 299 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:40.679 whenever natural forces happen every time, if that's possible on 300 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.200 this planet, just think how incredibly powerful the creator of 301 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:48.080 this planet is. Right, He's the creator that made this 302 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:50.879 world possible to have that storm, or to have that earthquake, 303 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:53.559 or to have you know, the rolling of the waves 304 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.519 and carving a way. I was just watching some video 305 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:00.519 of a bunch of houses there was last two weeks 306 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:04.159 ago along the outer banks as the storm was coming in, 307 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:06.519 and a whole bunch of houses just crashed into the 308 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:09.399 ocean because hey, all these rich people decided to want 309 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.200 to build their house there. But you cannot stop the ways, 310 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.320 can't do it, right, It's really amazing. 311 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:16.600 Yeah, the glory of God in the power of the earth, 312 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:19.600 and you know, just in all the you know, the 313 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:22.399 majesty of the ocean, I mean just the ocean alone, right, 314 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:25.679 you have to respect it. And it reminds me of 315 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:28.879 did I were you there on a Sunday when I 316 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.759 shared when I prayed in front of like one hundred 317 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:33.840 thousand people on that one day. 318 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:34.000 Thing. 319 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:37.399 Well, what I didn't share was the night before it 320 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.240 had come through, like a monsoon. 321 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:40.799 Had come through camping. 322 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:44.320 Yeah, we're all camping in tents, and so it was 323 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:48.000 lightning right above us and it was scary. Right, Well, 324 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.879 two things are my favorite things, getting wet and then you. 325 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:51.960 Know you hate being wet. 326 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:55.120 I hate hate. And so we were soaked to the bone. 327 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:57.519 Everything we almost soaked. It was like taking our luggage 328 00:14:57.559 --> 00:14:59.279 and throwing it at a lake and then pulling it up, 329 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.279 And that's what our luggage was like. I'm not lying, 330 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:05.159 So anyway, the point is is that you know, we're 331 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.519 all super scared. One kid, you get hit by lightning. 332 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:08.879 It was terrible. 333 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:10.519 I mean like it was just it was just awful. 334 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:11.919 It was just like this months it was like the 335 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:14.399 biggest storm ever and we're right below it. But anyway, 336 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.840 so the next day we all get up, the sunshining, 337 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:19.159 and then a helicopter flies above. We all know it's 338 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:23.240 Louis Giglio, right, he's flying above taking footage. And then 339 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.440 finally the day starts, we're still a nasty, soaking wet 340 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.200 with rashes everywhere and everything else. And he stands up 341 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.919 on stage, dry as a bone, coming from his hotel. 342 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:33.960 And he stands up there and the first thing he 343 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:36.960 says to one hundred thousand students who'd been suffering all 344 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:41.440 night long, and he goes, God displayed his mighty glory 345 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:43.919 last night. I'm like, I want to say, shut up, 346 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.720 shut up. You were at a hotel room and you 347 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:50.480 were not out of here suffering and. 348 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:51.679 Ready to die. 349 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:54.879 You know. But he is right, though, he is right, 350 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.600 because that is God's glory. God is God's glory is 351 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:02.080 displayed in the mountains and the sea, and the thunder 352 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:05.960 and the lightning and the monsoons even right, Yeah, it 353 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.399 is God who creates. You know, we never even talked 354 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:13.000 about it. But yesterday's podcast he said he places them. 355 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:15.720 Was it yesterday, No, it was two days ago in 356 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:18.519 Isaiah where he says he puts all the stars in 357 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:21.080 the sky and he knows them by he mentions them 358 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:24.799 by Nate. And then he says, then have confidence that 359 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:27.559 God knows you. Don't say that he's not going to 360 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:31.279 care for you because God, I mean talk about glory. 361 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:36.120 So then this there's a note in my life. You 362 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.559 should get a life application study Bible or a good 363 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:41.720 study Bible, but love the life application study Bibles. We 364 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.080 always are reading from the New Living Translation, So if 365 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:47.799 you get one, that might be great. But there's a 366 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:50.279 note here that says the cedars of Lebanon were large 367 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:52.840 trees that could grow to one hundred and twenty feet 368 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:57.440 tall and thirty feet in circumference. Thirty feet, dude, that 369 00:16:57.559 --> 00:16:59.480 takes like five or six of us to reach to 370 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:02.000 old hands reach all around it, right, yeah, huge, And 371 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:05.480 a voice that could split the cedars of Lebanon would 372 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:08.759 be a truly powerful voice, only the voice of God. 373 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:12.039 Even the most impressive parts of nature are under God's 374 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:15.599 complete control, which I love. It also mentions here. 375 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:19.599 That's a thirteen story building, by. 376 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:23.440 The way, Yes, yeah, yeah, lightning. He talks about that. 377 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.359 He talks about the voice of the Lord twists mighty 378 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:30.680 oaks and strips the forest's bear. He's talking about tornadoes. 379 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.480 So this idea that even the most impressive parts of 380 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.960 nature are under God's complete control. They have to submit 381 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:39.960 to God. God's voices like that, and people go, man, 382 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:41.839 I wish I could hear God's voice, wouldn't it be amazing? 383 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.440 Hear God's voice. What's amazing is he gave us his word. Right, 384 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:49.119 we have the power. So that kind of power, we 385 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:53.920 don't even think the pause to crack open. And you know, 386 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:55.960 we're just like man, if only I could have the 387 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:58.759 power God in my life. He gave you his word, 388 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:03.000 and it tells us how powerful his voices. Right, And 389 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:04.880 the point of a voice is not to make noise. 390 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.720 The point of the voice is to communicate, right, right, 391 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:12.200 And he's communicated with you. He's given you sixty six books, 392 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:14.759 and he's pointed you in the direction of Jesus. And 393 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:19.319 let you know that he is the conductor of the 394 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:22.119 symphony of time and we're living in it, and he 395 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:24.920 has all the power and he has all the ability. 396 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:29.599 And then it's in that context when even nature is 397 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:33.480 only an echo of his voice. It says that God 398 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:38.039 gives his people strength and that Lord blesses them with peace. 399 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.319 So it's interesting he talks about storms, he talks about 400 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.160 natural natural events, but then he ends it with that 401 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:47.720