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 --> 00:00:16.879 practical ways. Good morning, good morning, we talked through good morning, 4 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:19.280 Good morning to you. 5 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:21.839 You just made so many of the Chris starbof fans 6 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:26.920 so happy, the fans of it. They have been fasting, right, 7 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:29.600 they have gone weeks without you singing this. 8 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:31.359 No, two weeks ago, I say it. 9 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:43.439 That's weeks, Chris. 10 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:39.439 Because math is math, Chris. 11 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:44.920 There's a little bit called an at the end multiple 12 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.560 All right, well, good morning or good afternoon or good evening. 13 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.320 That just sounded like the Truman Show. My name is Chris, 14 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:53.439 This is Jeff, and we are the Bible Guys. There 15 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:56.840 we go, and whether you're listening online or watching, we 16 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:58.920 are here today and we're glad to be with you. 17 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.320 And we're making the leap into the Book of Joshua 18 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:02.039 or Judges. 19 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:02.600 Judges. 20 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:05.319 Yes, so we finished up Joshua. Yes, there's so much 21 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:07.480 we could have covered, but we're taking the highlight now. 22 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:08.920 There's a lot of details, and then. 23 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.519 We're jumping off into the Book of Judges. And this 24 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:13.959 book is one of the most frustrating books in the 25 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:14.480 whole Bible. 26 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.519 It really is, because it's just about it's like the 27 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:21.439 worst it's humanity pastor well, it's just it's humanity. 28 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:22.840 Over and over and over and over and again. But hey, 29 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:23.840 we'll get into that in a minute. 30 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:24.120 Yeah. 31 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:27.000 Anyways, well, hey, we're going to do something we've never 32 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:29.879 done before. This segment is sounds like a brand new one, 33 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.560 and this array is calling it wrong answers only. 34 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:35.760 Wrong answers only Let me read how. 35 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:38.280 Because mine's written slightly different than yours. It says Chris 36 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:42.040 is going to ask Jeff five random questions and Jeff 37 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:46.719 is going to respond with intentionally incorrect answers. For example, 38 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.680 how do you cook a steak? And then Jeff would 39 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:50.920 say something like put it in the microwave for thirty seconds. 40 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.159 So the goal is, let's see how off the wall 41 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:54.040 Jeff can be. 42 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:57.519 Okay, yeah, hey, have you ever played that game that 43 00:01:57.680 --> 00:01:58.519 escalated Quickly? 44 00:01:58.799 --> 00:01:58.959 No? 45 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:02.280 Never, it's a table game that's similar to this. Yeah yeah, yeah, 46 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:02.840 really fun. 47 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:03.879 Okay, that's fun. 48 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:06.159 And by the way, I've not thought about a single question, 49 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:07.599 and you've not thought about a single answer. 50 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:08.520 Certainly not right. 51 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.159 Yeah, So I'm literally going to just shoot from the hip. 52 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:12.879 And I just have to think of the most off 53 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.159 the wall answer. But it's a lot of pressure. Yes, okay, 54 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:17.159 uncomfortable with this, all. 55 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:17.719 Right, so here we go. 56 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:22.599 So, what is the best thing to compliment? Peanut butter 57 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:24.400 on a sandwich sardines. 58 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:28.599 That's pretty good. Yeah, you get that very quick. It's 59 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.000 good peanut butter and sardines. 60 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.840 Butter and sardines. Actually the salty with the salty and 61 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:33.680 sweet might be good. 62 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:34.159 Yeah. 63 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:34.840 Maybe I don't know. 64 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:36.800 So so okay, all right. 65 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:37.199 I'm not a sartin. 66 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:38.159 I'll give it to you. 67 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:39.599 Okay, all right, So. 68 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:45.199 How do you how do you change a flat tire? 69 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.759 I call somebody, I call my mom. 70 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:52.520 That's better, that's. 71 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.960 How Yeah. I'm not allowed to say she's twenty one. 72 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:00.759 Okay, she's twenty one. That's bundy. 73 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:03.759 My mom would kill me if I said her agent 74 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:06.919 yoh yeah, executed. 75 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:08.360 All right. So how about this one? 76 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:15.000 Uh, what is the best anniversary gift to buy your wife? 77 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:18.159 A scale? Wow? 78 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:20.919 Yeah? 79 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.800 Scale would yeah, yeah, yeah, should be really appreciative, one 80 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:26.599 of those ones that sends right to your phone so 81 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.240 she can just kind of keeping all right, that's. 82 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:36.840 Good, all right, this one, what is the most polite 83 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:39.639 thing that you can do while in India. 84 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:44.120 The most polite thing to do in India culturally, start 85 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:44.960 sweeping the streets. 86 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:48.879 By the way, that's. 87 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:52.719 Really funny if you've been to India, it's really funny 88 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:54.240 because there's tragedy. 89 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.879 All right, I got well, yeah. 90 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:00.840 Yeah, it's really bad. And you could have gone a 91 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:02.840 lot of different ways on that one. All right, Number 92 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:03.439 five here, I. 93 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.280 Was gonna say, make a hamburger, but that would be 94 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:06.400 super inappropriate. 95 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:10.439 Yeah, okay, how about this one ready? What's your favorite 96 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:12.520 part of being a pastor? 97 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:18.519 All the kind statements that are made? Yeah, yeah, No, 98 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:25.040 my favorite part of being a pastor power, Yeah, dictatorial power. 99 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:30.879 I'm going it to get rich and be powerful, really important. 100 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:31.839 That's right, darn it. 101 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:35.560 That's that's so great. That was a different type of game. 102 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:36.639 Yeah that was hard. 103 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:37.560 Yeah, it was hard. 104 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:38.519 Okay, Yeah, I was. 105 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:39.160 I was. 106 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:40.920 I was as I was asking the questions, I was 107 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.519 feeling for you, but you came up with good answers. 108 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:51.040 Good job, okay, all right, so okay, wrong, all right, okay, okay, 109 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:57.839 all right, combo at the beginning of Princess Pride Princes, Yeah. 110 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:01.160 That's that's me. When we're traveling I just I put 111 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.720 things in pockets, but I forget which pocket, So then 112 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:06.040 I stand up and I'm like Paton all the time. Okay, 113 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:08.040 all right, and I've gotten to the point now. And 114 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:09.839 you know you're getting old when you do this when 115 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.000 you stand up and go oh when you stand up right, 116 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.040 and then so you go when you stand up and 117 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.079 they go, okay, all right? Do I have everything in 118 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.319 your podcasts and stuff? That's how I feel all the 119 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:20.759 time now. 120 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.920 By the way, Peter Folk's Columba's real name is Peter Folk. 121 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.639 Peter Folk, and they filmed a movie in Youngstown back 122 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:31.279 in the seventies. It was called All the Marbles. It 123 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:33.639 was not a great movie. I did not recommend watching it. However, 124 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:38.360 I mention it only because they went to Idoor Park. 125 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:41.959 And Idoor Park was an amusement park in Youngstown, which 126 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:44.639 you would never expect there to be an amusement park 127 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.040 in Youngstown, right, But for a long time it was very, 128 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.439 very very popular, went from like the eight late eighteen 129 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:52.639 hundreds to something like this. Well, my brother Jim is 130 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:55.439 obsessed with the history of Idoor Park and we used 131 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:57.319 to go as kids, and then it burned down in 132 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:58.759 the eighties and then they close it down. 133 00:05:58.839 --> 00:05:59.360 Everything else. 134 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.319 Well, in Youngstown today, when you go in for the 135 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:06.240 Campo Fair, there's always a remnant under a tent of 136 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:11.560 all these cool memorabilia of idoor park stuff. Well, apparently 137 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:16.360 somebody had auctioned off. It was a grapeig fire. Somebody 138 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:20.360 had auctioned off the remnants of the carousel that obviously 139 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:23.279 was like the feature of the park. And some lady 140 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:27.600 bought it and she spent eleven million dollars restoring it, 141 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:32.720 like literally scraping off each horse by itself, then repainting it, 142 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:37.279 and then they put it up in New York, in Brooklyn, 143 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.959 New York, and it's in the big glass cage. Now, 144 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:44.079 that was an old Youngstown idoor Park carousel. 145 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:45.800 So now did you get to see it when you 146 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:47.639 were You wrote it? You wrote it. 147 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:49.319 So we took the ferry all the way over to 148 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:51.920 Brooklyn just to ride it. And they have a special 149 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.519 book from Youngstown that only people from Youngstown can sign. 150 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.560 Oh cool, So they brought it out. We signed it, 151 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:00.639 and my father who's eighty five, hasn't ridden this. 152 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:01.839 In like sixty years. 153 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.519 Yeah cool, and he says, And so we're standing there 154 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:06.680 in line. My brother Jim knows everything there is to 155 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:11.319 know about this this carousel, and and my father says, okay, 156 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.160 I get the palamino. And my brother says, what do 157 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.199 you mean, Because we're first in line, we got there 158 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.560 a little bit late. And my dad says, well, there's 159 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.800 only two palaminos, and I always ride the palaminos. And 160 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:23.720 so my brother Jim, of course, you know, looks around. 161 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:24.240 He goes, oh, my. 162 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.879 Goodness, he's right, there's only two palaminos. And my dad says, yes, 163 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:30.519 that's what I ride. So the gate opens, my dad 164 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.480 runs over, sits down on this palamino and he leans 165 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.519 over to the horse and he goes, I remember. 166 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:39.000 You, you're such a good boy. 167 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:44.120 You're a good pallamino. That's as hilarious. That's great. 168 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:45.920 There you go, bonus material right there. 169 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.399 There you go. That was worth every penny. 170 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:49.319 All because of Peter Falk. 171 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:51.000 There you go because of Peter fulk yep. 172 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:53.600 Okay, oh okay, all. 173 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.600 Right, okay. So we're in Judges now, and here is 174 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.720 the theme we are going to read I don't know, 175 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.759 fifteen verses or something. And what you're going to discover 176 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.959 is this is the theme of the whole rest of 177 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:07.800 We could just read these few verses and be done 178 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:08.199 with the book. 179 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:11.279 Yes, because it's the same over and over again. Yes, 180 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:13.360 which is why we described it as humanity. 181 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:19.920 That's right. So God says to the people, Hey, you 182 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.879 need to be running the you know, you need to 183 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:25.839 continue to finish the job that Joshua didn't quite finish yet. 184 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:27.920 Drive out the rest of the people. Obey me. If you don't, 185 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:30.040 they're always going to be a problem to you. So 186 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.279 the people of Israel they settle down. Now they've got 187 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:35.320 their homes, they've got their their vineyards, they have their 188 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:39.320 you know, olive groves, they've got everything, and they just 189 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.039 kind of settle down, and they don't want to keep pushing. 190 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.279 They don't want to keep fighting. So they leave all 191 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:50.240 these pagans in their country. And then they start getting 192 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.039 tempted to live like the pagans live. And so here's 193 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:55.679 what happens and Judges chapter two, it says after that 194 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.440 generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge 195 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:01.960 the Lord or remember the mighty things he'd done for Israel. 196 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:05.000 The Israelites did evil in the Lord's sight and served 197 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.960 the images of bail. They abandoned the Lord, the god 198 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:10.159 of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. 199 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:12.639 They went after other gods, worshiping the gods of the 200 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:15.480 people around them, and they angered the Lord. They abandoned 201 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:17.960 the Lord to serve bail and the images of Ashtith. 202 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:21.679 This made the Lord burn with anger against Israel, so 203 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:24.559 he handed them over to raiders who stole their possessions. 204 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.120 He turned them over to their enemies all around, and 205 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:29.679 they were no longer able to resist them. Every time 206 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:32.279 Israel went out to battle, the Lord fought against them, 207 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.000 causing them to be defeated, just as he had warned, 208 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.399 and the people were in great distress. Then the Lord 209 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.399 raised up judges to rescue the Israelites from their attackers. 210 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:44.320 Yet Israel did not listen to the judges, but prostituted 211 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:48.320 themselves by worshiping other gods. How quickly they turned away 212 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:50.240 from the path of their ancestors, who had walked in 213 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:53.159 obedience to the Lord's commands. Whenever the Lord raised up 214 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.759 a judge over Israel, he was with that judge and 215 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:58.799 rescued the people from their enemies throughout the judge's lifetime. 216 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.559 For the Lord took peace honest people who were burdened 217 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:04.200 by oppression and suffering. But when the Judge died, the 218 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:07.000 people returned to their corrupt ways, behaving worse than those 219 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:09.840 who had lived before them. They went after other gods, 220 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.440 serving and worshiping them, and they refused to give up 221 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:17.360 their evil practices and their stubborn ways. So the Lord 222 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:20.120 burned with anger against Israel. He said, because these people 223 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.919 have violated my covenant which I made with their ancestors, 224 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:24.919 and ignored my commands, I will no longer drive out 225 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:29.279 the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died. I 226 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:31.200 did this to test Israel, to see whether or not 227 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:32.639 they would follow the ways of the Lord as their 228 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.600 ancestors did. That's why the Lord left those nations in place. 229 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:38.159 He did not quickly drive them out or allow Joshua 230 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:39.240 to conquer them all. 231 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:42.240 So there you go, There you go. 232 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.320 That's my favorite signature phrase. 233 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.600 Yes, that is it, and mine is by the way, 234 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:51.120 by the way. Yeah, I always say by the way, 235 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:56.240 by the way. Well, I mean it is interesting, how 236 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.519 you know, if we try to learn thing from this 237 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:04.600 in our own lives, it is that life lessons do 238 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:06.240 get lost between generations. 239 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:08.080 Right, don't you wouldn't you agree with that? 240 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:08.559 That's correct. 241 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.480 So it's it's uh, you know, we we we always 242 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.840 seem to make the mistake for somebody to have a 243 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.240 godly legacy to carry on from generation to generation and generation, 244 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:21.840 Uh haven't don't you find that that's actually pretty difficult? 245 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:23.720 Yes, you know, for a family to. 246 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:25.960 Say, oh, my grandfather served the Lord, my father served 247 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:27.759 the Lord, and I've served the Lord. It's a pretty 248 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:30.600 rare thing, I think, And I think that I think 249 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:34.200 that sometimes you rebel against I think it's the humanity, 250 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.679 like you said, to rebel against your parents' nature and 251 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:40.600 when you grow up and sometimes you're in a pastor's 252 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:41.919 you know, household. 253 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.080 That's why I used to fear so. 254 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.600 Badly my kids growing up as a p K as 255 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:50.720 they refer to them to pastors kid, because I just 256 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:53.159 thought to myself, geez, the last thing I want is 257 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:56.519 to have kids that rebel against God, rebel against church, 258 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.519 hate church, don't want to go to church. And man, 259 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:03.279 that was a big fearful, you know thing for me. Yeah, 260 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.519 and so thank God, Yeah, it's a hard three of 261 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.039 our kids want to go to church and love God. 262 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:10.080 Yeah, it's a hard thing for kids to, you know, 263 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.279 be pastors' kids. They grow up in a fish bowl. 264 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.919 Everybody knows them. I remember, David, my middle son, was 265 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.759 ten years old. We grocery store, everywhere we go, everywhere 266 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:20.480 we went that day, somebody stopped me and wanted to 267 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.320 talk to me. And then it had happened over the 268 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:26.000 course of you know, a few weeks. We were up 269 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.039 in Macinawe and somebody stops me in a store in 270 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.360 Macinawe on Macan Island. We're out riding bicycles and people 271 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:34.039 turn around and come back and catch us and want 272 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.039 to stop and talk. Right, So it's just one of 273 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:38.039 those kind of It was like a month of that. 274 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:40.639 Every place we went, somebody stopped us. So we're in 275 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:42.759 a grocery store. Finally somebody stops me. And when it's 276 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:46.200 all done, my middle son says, Dad, are we famous? Yeah? 277 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.799 And I made a joke to him and his older brother. 278 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.639 I said, hey, everywhere we go, somebody knows us, and 279 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:55.879 everybody's watching you. And that was a mistake, right, I 280 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.480 was trying to make a joke. You better be good, right, 281 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:02.600 that's it, But they took it the other way, right, 282 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:05.159 that there's that there's a level that they have to 283 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.320 live at a higher level than everybody else and all 284 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.000 of their friends, because there's always somebody trying to bust them. 285 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:11.919 That's how they took it, right, they're always that's at 286 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.480 age you need ten, twelve years old. Everybody's everybody's after 287 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:16.720 after ten and twelve year old boys bust them, right, 288 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:18.799 you're in trouble, right, Yeah, that kind of thing. And 289 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:20.159 it was hard, you know, so I had to come 290 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:23.240 back and kind of backpedal from that statement over the 291 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:24.840 next few months ago. Hey, no, I was I was 292 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:27.919 just joking, right, But they felt the pressure of that 293 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:28.440 for sure. 294 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:29.159 Yeah. 295 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:33.320 You know, I don't think I ever made those kind 296 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.200 of comments to my kids, because you know, what I 297 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.960 want into ministry. I was fearful of two things. Do 298 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.120 you remember the average length of stay that a pastor 299 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:46.000 usually is at a church before they move on? 300 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:47.639 Yeah, just under five years? 301 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:48.480 Oh really? 302 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:48.759 Yeah? 303 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:51.159 Okay, well maybe it was a youth pastor's stat when 304 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:53.399 I when I when I was entering in the ministry 305 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:54.360 as a youth pastor. 306 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.480 Eighteen months it was eighteen months, yeah. 307 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:58.039 The average, And I thought to myself, I can't even 308 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.240 imagine moving to a city, having kids start to have friends, 309 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:03.759 and then all of a sudden, you know, for some reason, 310 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:05.799 because of my job, I'm going to move to another 311 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.360 city and just uproot my kids. And because I'm the 312 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:11.879 opposite of that, I'm wired the opposite of that. And 313 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:13.679 by the way, I've only lived in two homes. I've 314 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.879 been a pastor for thirty two years, and I was 315 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:19.240 in one home in Atlanta for ten and a half years, 316 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:21.720 and I'm in this home that I'm living in for 317 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:22.559 twenty years. 318 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:24.120 So that's good. 319 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.919 But I didn't want to go into ministry because I 320 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.279 didn't want to move my kids around and because I 321 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:33.720 was so fearful of my kids hating God and church 322 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:34.679 because they were peks. 323 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:38.559 Yeah, I just everything about my home. 324 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:42.480 So along these lines this passage, it's natural for kids 325 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:45.799 to push back against how they were raised. Right, and 326 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.519 so this is why in Deuteronomy, the passage we read 327 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:51.360 in Deuteronomy six, teach them when you're walking along the way, 328 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:53.799 teaching when you sit down at dinner, teaching them when 329 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:55.399 they're going to bed at night, when they wake up 330 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:58.720 in the morning. Right, just make it always, and then 331 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:01.240 you know, Joshua, we read other day for me and 332 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:02.799 my house. We're going to serve the Lord. He just 333 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:05.519 made it a point you have to really focus on 334 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:12.120 passing on the biblical truths and the biblical values that 335 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:15.559 you have because it's easy to drift. And all the 336 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.480 time it was one generation. Yeah, right. I think about 337 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:25.320 this though in human nature. When our founding fathers here 338 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:29.440 in America, they're in Philadelphia, they come out and, hey, 339 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.039 mister Franklin, what have you given us, since we're giving 340 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:34.480 you a republic if you can keep it right? Right, 341 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:38.159 Reagan reminded us it's every single generation has to fight 342 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:42.919 for freedom, right, because we forget we every So you've 343 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:44.879 seen probably it's been on social media quite a bit, 344 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:48.440 but it talks about strong men make good times right. 345 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:53.679 Good times make weak men. Weak men make bad times right. 346 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.279 And there's a truth to that. Right, when you have 347 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.480 to fight for a thing. You know, our World War 348 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:00.960 two generation, man, they stood for freedom because they saw 349 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:04.639 we almost lost it. And now you know Philadelphia this 350 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:07.600 couple last week you had hundreds of people marching through 351 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:11.639 the streets of Philadelphia with communist flags in a parade. Yeah, 352 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.399 communist flags. I'm not talking about literally communists, you know, 353 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:19.960 hammer and sickle flags on the streets where they gave 354 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:22.159 us a republic right. 355 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.960 And and that desecrated the liberty bell. 356 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:29.799 Well, that was that desecration was in It was a 357 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.879 model bell in Washington, d C. It wasn't. 358 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:34.759 Oh, okay, I didn't know that. I just sat it 359 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:36.559 on social media. I assumed it was the liberty Bell. 360 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:38.440 No, it was that that was at the train station 361 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:42.360 in Washington, d C. But anyways, that the idea being, 362 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.200 you know, a generation that doesn't have to fight for 363 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.080 freedom tends to get freedom away. The generation has to 364 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:50.519 fight for freedom tends to hang on to it dearly 365 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.679 and loves it right. And then the generation that lives 366 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.720 in between, we just kind of take it for granted 367 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:58.759 and we forget and we don't pass on to the 368 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:02.039 next generation how incredibly important freedom was, because it's just 369 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:05.079 a natural thing we deserve. We've always had it, right, 370 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:06.599 you have to hang on. And it's kind of the 371 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:09.119 same thing with regard to faith. If we would think 372 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:12.400 of the same thing in our faith. You know, if 373 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:14.799 you grew up around faith, you grew up in a 374 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:16.960 family that, yeah, we go to church Christmas in Easter. 375 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:20.359 Most of the time. What happens is we inoculate our 376 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:24.240 children from real faith. We give them just enough Jesus, 377 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.720 just enough Bible, just enough church that we inoculate them 378 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:28.519 from the real thing. 379 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:29.440 Right. 380 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.039 But the person who lived in a godless life and 381 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.359 then God rescues them and they feel the power of 382 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.000 being forgiven and the power of God's grace and mercy, 383 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:43.799 and they've lived out the transformation that God. They tend 384 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:47.000 to be all in whatever it takes. You know. That 385 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.799 was my dad. My dad lived like a pagan for 386 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:53.119 forty years and then he became a believer when he 387 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:56.240 was forty years old. Jesus transformed and my dad jumped 388 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:59.519 in with both feet. He was all in, right, and 389 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:02.240 he worked so hard to pass that on to the 390 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:04.440 rest of us, and thank God he did. But now 391 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:06.640 I wonder have I passed it on as strongly to 392 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:09.240 my children as my dad passed on to us. Right? 393 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:12.039 And then what about my grandchildren, my great grandchildren. It's 394 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:15.559 just a natural fade. Every generation has to work very 395 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:19.599 hard to make God and the things of God's center 396 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:22.240 instead of a part of our life. And what they 397 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.599 did is they the one generation dies, the next generation goes, hey, 398 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.319 this is pretty great. Well, let's be honest, there's comparison 399 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:31.599 here in the Life Application Study Bible between worshiping God 400 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:33.799 and worshiping idols. Did you see that? 401 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:34.079