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 --> 00:00:18.039 practical ways. Good morning, good morning, we talk thing that through. 4 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:22.519 Good morning, Good morning to you and you. 5 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:25.280 Good job, thank you, thank you. Man. I just had 6 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:27.280 to sing long a little bit, did you? I did? 7 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:27.760 You did? 8 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:28.519 It was so much. 9 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.280 You know, we did say last week that you can sing. 10 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:33.439 And people want to hear you, Jeff, there is a 11 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.640 longing for people who want to hear you sing. 12 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:38.320 Well, then we're just gonna leave that right here. We 13 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.560 go sometimes sometimes and sometimes that longing is better than 14 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:43.560 the actual you know, wanting a thing is better than 15 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:47.280 actually getting it. Sometimes, Come on, you you can sing? Yeah, 16 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:48.799 what did Shakespeare say about longing? 17 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:50.640 Weren't you a worship leader at your church? 18 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:53.920 I was fifteen years fifteen years. I have a degree 19 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:56.159 in music, and so I'm the only person on her 20 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:57.439 staff that has a degree in music. 21 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.960 Wait, our worship leader trade doesn't have a degree in music. 22 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:04.640 No, I'm not what does he have a degree in? 23 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:06.400 I don't know, not music. 24 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.319 Wow, he's just a great singer. Yeah, he's a singer 25 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.079 and a really good Christian. He has a degree in life. 26 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:15.000 He's a better worship leader than me by far. So 27 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.079 here's a question. So when you were a worship leader, 28 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:19.000 you sang, yeah. 29 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:20.359 A little bit, a little bit. 30 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.359 He was also a trumpet player, but you weren't the 31 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:24.079 primary singer. 32 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:25.439 Oh yeah, I was the primary singer. 33 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:28.079 Yeah, okay, So you're just trying to avoid it. 34 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:35.799 Yeah, that's no things are gone and the new things 35 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.239 have come, trying to avoid saying that. 36 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:41.079 Yeah. So I so I at my first church, I 37 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:42.439 was the worst leader for three years. 38 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:42.719 Yeah. 39 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:44.519 Yeah, and the reason why I was there seven and 40 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:45.000 a half years. 41 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.319 But but the they kept on, you know, toying around 42 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:50.519 with like paying a guy part time, and and then 43 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:52.599 we kept on losing guys. There was a really small 44 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:54.599 church and paid him a hundred bucks a week and 45 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:55.879 that kind of thing. So it was just it was 46 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:59.120 just hard to maintain worship leader, right, and it's a 47 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:02.719 small church, you know, limited people. So so the last 48 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:04.599 three years he asked me to step in and then 49 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:06.920 I guess, you know, he didn't have to pay anybody, 50 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:08.719 and I get I did a good job, I guess, 51 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:10.840 so he just let me carry the load and work. 52 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:11.240 Twice as hard. 53 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:12.240 People love it when you sing. 54 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:16.759 Well, I don't play an instrument, and I don't read music, 55 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:18.400 and I have no degree in music. 56 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.479 So you know, I was leading worship in the old 57 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.520 Baptist churches. So it was you know, Victory and Jesus 58 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:29.039 and playing my trumpet, you know. So I would play 59 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:31.319 along a lot, so i'd get the song started. I'd 60 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.000 play along a lot, do all that kind of stuff. 61 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:37.680 So it was yeah, yeah, but I've been I've been 62 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:41.000 lead pastored longer than I was a worship leader. 63 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:42.560 Right, how long you've been a lead pastor? 64 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:45.280 Eighteen years? It'll be nineteen in just a couple weeks, okay, 65 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:48.800 So yeah, it's my old life in my new life. 66 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:49.879 I got you. I got you. 67 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.319 Somebody asked me, They're like, hey, why don't you ever 68 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:55.680 sing a solo at church or whatever? Because I did 69 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:57.840 sing one? Remember that one? That one that I sang. 70 00:02:57.879 --> 00:02:59.400 It was it was a funny kind of a song. 71 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:04.479 But I said, I said why would I? Why would I? 72 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:07.000 I said, I could barely keep a tune. And I said, 73 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.199 we have all these great singers that are phenomenal, right, 74 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:12.599 like in my old church. I understand why because I 75 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:13.520 was the best one there. 76 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:16.240 I have a very strong feeling about just a statement, 77 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.319 isn't it. Beware of worship leaders who sing, who preach, 78 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:23.800 and preachers who sing. There you go, yeah, yeah, okay, 79 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:24.479 all right? 80 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:25.520 And why is that. 81 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.039 Usually preachers who want to sing all the time. There's 82 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:32.479 a little bit of a look at me. And it's 83 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.800 the same thing with the singers who want to then 84 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:39.479 just educate you and and preach at you whatever. So 85 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:43.400 I really don't like the Jeff show. Right, So man, 86 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:45.520 let's let's let those that are gifted and have been 87 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:48.159 preparing and working hard at it, let them do that, 88 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:49.479 and then I'm going to come out with the thing 89 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:52.599 that I prepared for. But for me to prepare to 90 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.879 do both when there's highly skilled people around, yeah, so 91 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:57.639 I just try to leave it alone. I try to go. 92 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:59.560 I love it, but I try to leave alone as 93 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.120 much as I wouldn't mind it. If Trey found some 94 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:04.400 brass stuff and decided you wanted to add some brass 95 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:05.960 into a song or something like that, you know, that'd 96 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:07.719 be fun to do. It take me several weeks, have 97 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:09.840 probably a couple of months to get back in shape. Yeah, 98 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:11.560 it takes me years to get back to where I 99 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:13.639 was right, But it'd be fun to play play a 100 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:16.120 little something. But yeah, that's it. That's the only reason 101 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:17.920 I just I want to stay in my lane. My 102 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:20.439 lane right now is teaching gotcha? 103 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:21.639 All right? Very cool? 104 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.759 Yell A little side message for those who are wondering. 105 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:29.360 Yeah. Yeah, So so today we are doing a guess 106 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.480 the word. It's kind of like taboo, you know, yep, 107 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:34.680 And I'm going to give you some clues to see 108 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:37.319 if you can guess the word without me saying any 109 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:40.560 of the italicized words. So I have five words that 110 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:41.839 I'm not allowed to say. 111 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:45.000 Okay, and if you're watching on video as opposed to listening, 112 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.519 hopefully Desiree and the crew will put the words that 113 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:50.319 you are not allowed to say on the screen. 114 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:50.839 That's right. 115 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:51.519 Okay. 116 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:54.120 So in the first one, the first one, the first 117 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.240 word is this Amos is warning the people that God 118 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:59.639 is going to bring what judgment? There you go, judgment. 119 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:03.319 I was allowed to say decision, court, opinion, law, or verdict. 120 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.519 All right, okay, I'll get that pretty quickly. 121 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.639 Yes, that's right. You pick it and eat it? 122 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:09.120 Apple? 123 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.600 Oh almost, yes, their fruit? There you go. I wasn't 124 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:16.959 allowed to say food, tree, sweet plant, or apple, Okay, 125 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:25.040 that's right, that's okay. Uh. In the old days, after 126 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:27.720 a convicting message, we would go down to. 127 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:29.959 The river to your baptized. 128 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.040 No no, no, no no, we go down there to pray. Uh. 129 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.000 The pastor will be up at the front. Oh, the altar, 130 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:36.319 the alter. 131 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:39.240 Yes, yes, right. 132 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:42.759 So I wasn't gonna say religious ceremony, church sacrifice or worship. 133 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:45.639 Okay, Oh man, I should have got that. 134 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.600 Okay, I said the river to your baptized. 135 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:51.959 You said olden days, and I was My mind went 136 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:54.120 with ye yeah yeah all the way back. 137 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:58.680 Okay, I stacked some wood and I light a match. 138 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:03.360 Oh fire, there you go, flames, hot, burned, smoke and heat. 139 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:04.160 I wasn't allowed to. 140 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:06.800 Say, is there is there like a oh? Is this 141 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.480 is this indicative of what we're about to read today? 142 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:09.920 I think so? 143 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:10.879 Yeah, I think so too. 144 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:18.240 And then I need glasses because this is getting worse. 145 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:22.079 Vision vision there you go, eyes, sight, see, future, and dream. 146 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:23.079 You nailed it? 147 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:26.079 And how many points? 148 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.879 Well you got five there? So uh you got five 149 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:30.560 extra points. 150 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:35.240 That's the make up for ROST week where you're like 151 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:37.920 you have one hundred thousand points each question. 152 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:39.000 Now I got five points. 153 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:42.959 You got five points. All right, so man, you add 154 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.600 up last week and this week you have like one 155 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:49.680 point one million, three hundred thousand and five points. 156 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:53.240 That's so funny. That's really funny. 157 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:54.199 Yeah, there you go. 158 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:55.120 That's great. 159 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.560 That's fantastic. Well, speaking of judgment and visions and fire, 160 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:05.480 oh wow that transition, yea, as Amos is bringing it 161 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:09.079 in this Yeah wow, and fruit I guess. Yeah, Well, 162 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.759 when you're gonna talk about a plumb line when. 163 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.920 The game, when the game is built around the passage, 164 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:15.360 it's easy. 165 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:19.040 Yeah, that was an easy one. Thanks for that. So 166 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:26.000 this is a really interesting passage to me, uh, this 167 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:27.839 one and the next one. So he's going to talk 168 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:29.639 about fire, he's gonna talk about plumb line, he's gonna 169 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:31.639 talk about locus, he's gonna talk about fruit, He's can 170 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:34.800 talk about an altar. Right. He thinks these are all visions. Yeah, 171 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:41.519 these are really interesting visions. I love how Amos decides 172 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.759 to deal with these things. So we're reading in Ams 173 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:48.079 chapter seven and it says Sovereign Lord, the Sovereign Lord 174 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:50.600 showed me a vision. I saw him preparing to send 175 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.399 a vast swarm of locusts over the land. And this 176 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.439 was after the king's share had been harvested from the fields, 177 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.319 and as the main crop was coming up, in my vision, 178 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.000 the locusts every green plant in sight. And then I said, 179 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:05.360 oh Lord, oh Sovereign Lord, please forgive us, or we 180 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:08.680 will not survive, for Israel is too small. So the 181 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:11.480 Lord relented from his plan. I will not do it, 182 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.439 he said. Then the Sovereign Lord showed me another vision. 183 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:16.600 I saw him preparing to punish his people with a 184 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.920 great fire. The fire had burned up the depths of 185 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:20.800 the sea and was devouring the entire land. And then 186 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:23.199 I said, oh, Sovereign Lord, please stop, or we will 187 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:26.120 not survive, for Israel is too small. Then the Lord 188 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.759 relented from this plan too. I'll not do that either, 189 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.639 said the Sovereign Lord. Then he showed me another vision. 190 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.399 I saw the Lord standing beside a wall that had 191 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:35.919 been built using a plumb line, and he was using 192 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:38.120 a plumb line to see if it was still straight. 193 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.039 The Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see, 194 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.879 I answered, A plumb line. The Lord replied, I will 195 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.120 test my people with this plumb line. I will no 196 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:49.200 longer ignore all their sins, the pagan shrines of your 197 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.240 ancestors will be ruined and the temples of Israel be destroyed. 198 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:54.320 I will bring the dynasty of King Jereboam to a 199 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:58.639 sudden end. Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a 200 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.039 message to Jereboam, King of is Is. Amos is hatching 201 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.240 a plot against you right here on your own very doorstep. 202 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.679 What he is doing is intolerable, or what he is 203 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:10.519 saying is intolerable. He is saying jerobol and will soon 204 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:12.320 be killed and the people of Israel be sent away 205 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:16.360 into exile. Then Amaziah sent orders to Amos, get out 206 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.360 of here, you prophet. Go on back to the land 207 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:21.120 of Judah and earn your living by prophesying there. Don't 208 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.639 bother us with your prophecies here in Bethel. This is 209 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:26.480 the king sanctuary and the national place of worship. But 210 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.399 Amos replied, I am not a professional prophet, and I 211 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:31.799 was never trained to be one. I'm just a shepherd 212 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:34.919 take care of sycamore fig trees. But the Lord called 213 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:36.639 me away from my flock and told me go and 214 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:40.000 prophesy to my people Israel. Now, then listen to this 215 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.879 message from the Lord. You say, don't prophesy against Israel. 216 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:45.200 Stop preaching against my people. But this is what the 217 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.919 Lord says. Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, 218 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:50.320 and your sons and daughters will be killed, your land 219 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.279 will be divided up, and you yourself will die in 220 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.200 a foreign land, and the people of Israel will certainly 221 00:09:54.200 --> 00:10:00.399 become captives in exile far from their homeland. WHOA, Yeah, 222 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:01.320 that's a rough one. 223 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.360 Yeah, and well there, and we're talking about he's giving 224 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.320 this message to a king to the king, and that 225 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:12.759 is a pretty strong thing to say, which means like 226 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:17.440 he really truly has confidence that this is from God. 227 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:20.559 So so he is like, well, God, if you're if 228 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:22.399 you're having me say this, I guess I'm just going 229 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:25.639 to say it. Think about the fear. I mean, you 230 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:27.559 and I can't even comprehend it. We don't know the 231 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:30.639 culture of kings, right, we don't know that. You know, 232 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.000 what did you say before you kept on referencing months ago? 233 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:37.799 You said that like King David used to kill messengers. 234 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:38.960 Yeah he killed a couple of them. 235 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:40.080 Yeah, I killed a couple of them. 236 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:42.399 And so it's like, if you go before a king, 237 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:44.600 like you don't really know how the king is going 238 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:45.000 to react. 239 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:47.919 You know, the story of Esther is pretty famous. 240 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:48.559 Uh. 241 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.120 You know, every time we preach Esther, we talk about 242 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:54.519 how Esther went before the king and h if and 243 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.799 if he didn't reach out his scepter and accept her, 244 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:00.480 then she wasn't even allowed to live. 245 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:02.519 She was she was the queen, but she could be 246 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:04.879 executed if the art Exerxes didn't the. 247 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:09.080 Right because because she walked in unannounced, without an appointment. So, 248 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.840 I mean, the kings, you know, were pretty absolute authority, 249 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.519 absolute authority, right, And so I think about all the 250 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:19.039 times when when a prophet or a man of God 251 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.200 has confronted a king. You know, remember Nathan when he 252 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:25.919 confronted David. You know, we just referenced Esther, right, who 253 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:28.360 God just used she was a queen and then and 254 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:32.240 here we have this, you know, and then Elijah. I mean, goodness, 255 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:34.399 I mean just the list goes on and on and on, right, 256 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:35.960 I mean, just about every prophets. 257 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.799 The boldness of a prophet, yeah, is unbelievable. There's a 258 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.399 note for verse seven that says prophets like Amos were 259 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:45.600 often seen as traders and conspirators because they spoke out 260 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.000 against the king and his advisers, questioning their authority and 261 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.159 exposing their sin. The kings often saw the prophets as 262 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:54.200 enemies rather than as God's spokesmen who were really trying 263 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:57.840 to help them in the nation. Yeah, you know, sometimes 264 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:00.639 I've had this happen. I've had people get mad at me. 265 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.120 They come in and ask for advice, right right, come 266 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:07.440 in and ask for some advice, some guidance, whatever. And 267 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:10.720 then I'll say, can I can I speak bluntly, just 268 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:12.919 tell you what the Bible says. Yes, that's why I'm here, okay. 269 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.840 And then you tell them stop doing this. What you're 270 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.519 doing is wicked. And then they get mad at. 271 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.919 You, right as if you wrote the Bible. 272 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.000 Yes, And then they tell their friends pastor Jeff's so judgmental, 273 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.000 And I'm like, I didn't write it right, and I'm 274 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:30.039 not being judgmental. I asked you, can I tell you 275 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:32.000 the truth from the Bible, and you said yes, you 276 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:33.679 wanted me to tell you the truth from the Bible. 277 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:35.399 Then when I tell you the truth from the Bible, 278 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.600 then I'm being judgmental, right. And God, All's God is 279 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.879 doing with his prophets is saying, wake up, dangers coming 280 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.720 because of your bad behavior. If the king had heard him, right, 281 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:54.320 if Amazia had heard Amos and listened, he would have 282 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.120 avoided all of these horrible things, right, and so it was. 283 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.279 It was a blessing from God that he sent amous. 284 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:04.600 But sometimes when we're living in our sin, we don't 285 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:05.600 want to hear the truth. 286 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:09.080 Yeah, there's a note from a life application study Bible, 287 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:11.000 which we love, by the way, and it said that 288 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.840 people had no appetite for God's word when profits like 289 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:17.360 Amos brought it. Because of their apathy, God said that 290 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:19.480 he would take away even the opportunity. 291 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:19.639 To hear his word. 292 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:23.720 We have God's word the Bible, but still we still 293 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:26.879 look everywhere except in scripture to answer life's problems. 294 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:28.000 That's exactly what you just said. 295 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.919 You can help them by directing them to the Bible, 296 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:35.000 showing them the parts that speak into the special needs 297 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:35.720 and questions. 298 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:37.080 God's word is available to us. 299 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:40.879 Let us show people, let us help people. 300 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.720 Nope, oh yeah, let us help people know it. 301 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.720 I don't know why I couldn't comprehend that before a 302 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:49.320 time comes when they cannot find it. 303 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.039 So, yes, before they can't find it. 304 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:55.679 That's right there you go. So, yeah, that's exactly what 305 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:58.519 you just said. And yeah, I've definitely had that too. 306 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:02.240 I've had my share of people who get mad. And 307 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:07.720 uh recently I made a comment from the stage and 308 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:10.159 I didn't mean to say it flippantly, but I said 309 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:13.519 it flippantly. But but all I was really trying to 310 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.240 do in my heart was just make reference to what 311 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.559 the Bible says, right, you know, it's like, this is 312 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.440 what God says, and so I made it. You know, 313 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:23.480 it's spoken to it, you know, a controversial issue and 314 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:25.440 and people said, oh, you just didn't take time to 315 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:27.559 explain it, you know, because it's such a sensitive issue 316 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.639 in society today. Uh. Well, I wasn't trying to treat 317 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:32.840 it with flippancy. I really wasn't. I felt really bad 318 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:34.559 about it, I told you, right, Ye, I felt bad 319 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:37.399 about it because, uh, I don't want to I don't 320 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:42.360 want to ever disrespect people's sensitive. 321 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:42.879 Issues in their lives. 322 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.519 Right. So, like, you know, if somebody, uh you know, 323 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.399 votes a certain way, or somebody has a preference of 324 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:50.559 what they believe the Bible says and doesn't say, or 325 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:53.480 whatever it is, all these all these hot topics in 326 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:56.559 society today, right Like like I like, I know what 327 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.559 the Bible says in a lot of these areas and uh, 328 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:02.720 and I unapologetically will stand up and say this is 329 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:04.960 what the Bible says, right, I didn't write it. 330 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:08.240 Well, there's a little peek into the reality of being 331 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:11.559 a pastor, you know, speak a public speaker from stage. 332 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:11.960 Yep. 333 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.000 So you and I on a weekend, we'll say fifteen 334 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:19.120 thousand words every message, and then you preached four messages 335 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:24.840 that Sunday, right, right, right, So you probably said fifty 336 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:25.960 ten thousand. 337 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:27.919 No when I when I write a message, I thought 338 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:29.159 it was twenty two hundred one. 339 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.039 Yeah, but you don't. You say way more than what 340 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:33.840 you write. You think it's that much works? I bet 341 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:34.720 it's at least ten thousands. 342 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:36.879 You're trying to say. Are you trying to say I ramble? 343 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:37.200 No? 344 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.639 No, no, no, no, no, no, no no, that's what it's like. 345 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:41.919 Well, if you know what if the Hostpery is convicting you, Chris. 346 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:46.399 But let's say you say ten thousand words, but it's 347 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.320 either is ten thousand words on Sunday. Right, You're saying 348 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.399 way more words than everybody else in the room. Right, 349 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:57.480 And so things come out in ways we don't always 350 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:01.600 necessarily mean for them, right, And so on occasion we'll 351 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:03.480 make a little mistake here there. And so you know, 352 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.200 you and I were always working on we have meetings 353 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:09.480 in between services to make it better, meeting, right, and 354 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:11.240 we're always trying to figure out how to refine a 355 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:12.879 thing or to make it make it a little bit better. 356 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:16.120 On occasion, though, we say a thing that is true, 357 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:18.960 but we say it in a way that people can't 358 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:23.679 swallow it, right, They just can't take it in. And 359 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.039 so that's one of the challenges for us is to 360 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:28.279 make sure that we bring God's word in a way 361 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:33.279 that is prophetic and respectful, but direct and clear. Right. 362 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:35.840 But on occasion we'll say it in a way that 363 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:39.000 comes off a little bit more flippant or whatever. And 364 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.759 sometimes that can just be our own slight discomfort with 365 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:46.799 the topic. Sure, right, it's slightly discomfort uncomfortable, and so 366 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.879 so you and me both will use humor to kind 367 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:51.960 of cover up when we're not comfortable with the thing. 368 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:55.200 And so sometimes we'll say a thing a little less 369 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:58.440 delicate than we could have. But it's because of our 370 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:01.360 own discomfort. That's why when you read these prophets like this, 371 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:04.039 and this dude walks right up and goes, let me 372 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:06.799 tell you king, you're telling me to quit telling you 373 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.039 what God has to say. Your wife's going to be prostitute, 374 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.079 your kids are going to all get killed. How about that? 375 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:12.160 Right? 376 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.640 I'm guessing he didn't make a joke there, right, right, right? 377 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:18.039 And so there is a lot of difficulty in being 378 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:19.920 And this is why even you and me we look 379 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:21.960 at this. We're public speakers all the time, We're bringing 380 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:24.160 God's word all the time. But the boldness of these 381 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.640 prophets going in front of a king who could execute 382 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:28.839 them is the next level. Think about that. 383 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:29.599 I don't know if. 384 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.519 People really take the time to think about this, but 385 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:34.720 like think about the idea that God created the church 386 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.759 and that God wants people to give to the church, right, 387 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:40.839 so like you know, to give their money, yeah, right, 388 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:43.240 And the standard that God set in the Old Testament 389 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:46.880 was a tithe and so we use that standard, you know, 390 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:50.759 that's what we say. Hey, there's a standard that we use, 391 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.640 and so we talk about that. Well, think about this. 392 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:57.119 If a person makes you know, three hundred thousand dollars, 393 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:00.839 like a really rich person, right, the word of God 394 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:05.200 suggests that they should you know, you could argue and 395 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:09.279 say commands thirty thousand dollars. And so then then it's 396 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:10.519 like you sign up to be a preacher and all 397 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:12.039 of a sudden, it's like, Okay, go ahead and stand 398 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:17.160 up on stage and say something that translates to that 399 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:20.359 person that they have to write a check over the 400 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:21.279 course of a year. 401 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.880