WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:15.119 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys career. 4 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:16.199 My name is Tom. 5 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.719 Yeah, and we today are your Bible Guys because Jeff 6 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:21.199 is out of the town with Chad. 7 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:23.679 He's off serving Jesus and Morocco. 8 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:28.679 Oh, I'm not kidding, even Morocco, which is great, but 9 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:30.519 he really is truly on a missions trip that is 10 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.320 not a vacation for him. But anyway, he was not 11 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:36.159 available today. So what we're doing is having a different 12 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:39.560 guest every day of the week, which is really fun. 13 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:42.560 And today we have Pastor Tom Blount. 14 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.039 It's great to be here. I'm excited just to be 15 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:46.920 in the same room with the Bible Guys. 16 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:47.320 Stop. 17 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:49.960 So I was hoping you would sing for me today. 18 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:52.880 Really, Oh my gosh, my. 19 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:54.159 Wife and I love that. 20 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:54.880 Do you really? 21 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.520 Good morning? Mon Oh you do it? 22 00:00:57.600 --> 00:00:59.960 Good to go, go go, come on. 23 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.119 Good moaning, good morning. 24 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.719 We talked the whole night through good moaning, good moaning 25 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:08.519 to you. 26 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.840 Hey, this is a privilege for me, gay, No, I'm 27 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.799 not kidding, because Jeff doesn't sing that and you sang it. 28 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.680 I got him to do it a little bit amazing. 29 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:21.079 I'm not as good as you, but no, no. 30 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:22.519 No, listen, now I know how Jeff feels. 31 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:23.120 That is pretty. 32 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:24.799 You did awesome. 33 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:26.079 Yeah, I know. 34 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:26.560 How to snap. 35 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:28.159 It's hot in here, by the way. 36 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:29.599 It is. It is, which is why I have a 37 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:30.319 T shirt. 38 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:33.799 On you anyways, But it's great. Man. 39 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:37.519 Hey listen, First of all, thank you for that. That 40 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.079 was a privilege. I forgot to tell people what you do. 41 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:43.840 You have been for a long time now our main 42 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:47.359 pastor of our Inly City campus for Heritage Church. 43 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:50.959 Yeah, we're gonna actually be there this September. Eight years 44 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.280 eight years we helped start the campus, but then we 45 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:55.400 went and served another place for a little time. 46 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.519 But yeah, eight years. So we're excited. 47 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:02.120 So tell our listeners who perhaps are in you know, 48 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:04.640 a driving distance away from your campus, what's happening on 49 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:05.400 April twenty fourth. 50 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.680 April twenty fourth, we're going to have the Bible Guys Live, 51 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:10.240 which is which is seven o'clock. 52 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:12.039 Jeff and myself, Jeff. 53 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:12.639 And you will be there. 54 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:14.719 There's only gonna be two hundred tickets, so you'll have 55 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.159 to get online. I think it's Heritage Church dot com 56 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:20.159 slash events and you can reserve a ticket. Anybody's invited, 57 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.759 and I know a lot of the listeners who watch 58 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.879 on the podcast or maybe listen in their car, they'll 59 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:26.599 want to come out and see. 60 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:28.080 It's going to be a fun time little snacks. 61 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:31.280 Yeah, we'll actually do an actual Bible Guys episode at 62 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:32.840 the Bible Guy yea, it's it's going to be straight 63 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:34.960 Bible Guys episode and then we're gonna do other stuff too, 64 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.840 So it'll be a lot of fun and if you 65 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:39.759 you know, if you care about that sort of thing 66 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.639 and you want to come out and see us live 67 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:44.319 Bible Guys Live event. It's the first one we've ever 68 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:49.240 really technically promoted with with through this venue. Right, we've 69 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.680 never advertised the Bible Guys Live event on this podcast. 70 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:54.840 We thought it would be a great time because you 71 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:57.080 guys are just we're just finishing up with the Bible 72 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.560 Guys in the study of First Timothy in groups. 73 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:02.800 Yeah yeah cool, Yeah, that's really great. 74 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:05.159 And so you're you're people of your church are going 75 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:08.199 to come out because it's sort of the culmination of 76 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:08.680 a group. 77 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.000 Study, yeah study. 78 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:12.360 But it's an open invitation because it's just going to 79 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:16.000 be this random fun time. Uh. We're all we're really 80 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:18.319 going to be doing is just you know, getting together 81 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.280 and just encouraging people and doing bibba guy study. 82 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:21.879 That's gonna be a baba guys. Lie. 83 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:25.199 Okay, So now that we've promoted that, let's jump into 84 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:29.599 our segment. Uh, Thomas, this is what Desiree has written 85 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.759 for you. I call this the Crazy Questions. Thomas the 86 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.840 pastor of our Ina City campus and the coolest motorcycle 87 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:40.080 rider out there. So here's today's question. Yes, if you 88 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:43.560 could only use one type of transportation for the rest 89 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.919 of your life, but it had to be completely impractical, 90 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:49.199 what would it be? What a crazy question? 91 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:51.479 Man, that's crazy, I got you know. 92 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.800 Oh that's I wish you could be my motorcycle because 93 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:57.719 we're getting ready to do a trip out west. 94 00:03:58.240 --> 00:03:58.800 What it can be? 95 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:02.879 Because that is technical impractical as you're well, practical in 96 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.639 winter in Michigan. Yeah, true, maybe not so much. 97 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:09.039 I kind of thought about a unicycle because when I 98 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:10.639 was a kid, I wanted to ride a unicycle. 99 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:11.400 That'd be kind of it. 100 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:12.719 Have you ever ridden a unicycle? 101 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:15.240 I tried in the basement, kept crashing in and all 102 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:15.520 the time. 103 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.800 Can you imagine going to the grocery store in your unicycle? 104 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:23.000 I actually thought about a hot air balloon. Can you 105 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:24.240 imagine having that view? 106 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:26.800 It does say your only source of. 107 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.839 It's only only and that's why. Yeah, man, that's tough. 108 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:33.600 I'll just say a unicycle because if it's my only 109 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:35.680 form of transportation, then sooner or later I have to 110 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:37.360 learn how to ride or I got to walk. 111 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:39.519 Well and all that, But then your whole life would 112 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:45.360 be probably confined in the city right that you would 113 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:49.480 never make it down for another Bible guys, never never, never, 114 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:51.519 because you're not going to ride forty five minutes in 115 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:53.560 a car. How long would that be on a unicycle? Oh? 116 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:55.399 God, for me that don't know how to ride, it 117 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:57.000 be carried it on my shoulder. 118 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:01.160 Three days, maybe three days for me at least. 119 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:03.399 Oh man, that is I don't know. I guess I'll 120 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:06.319 say a unicycle. But I actually thought about a red 121 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:08.279 wagon that somebody had to pull me in the rest 122 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:08.800 of my life. 123 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:10.160 Who are you going deep on us now? 124 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.959 Red wagon, radio flyer, red wagon? 125 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.600 Wow, look at you pulling off the memories. 126 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.399 Right there telling you, Yeah, I think it'd be fun. 127 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:21.600 Yeah, thank you for entertaining us. 128 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:22.480 That was a thrill. 129 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.120 I'll bet, I'll bet, I'll bet the listeners are just 130 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.000 gonna well shock that on a star. 131 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:30.439 Don't you love knowing? Right now your wife's at home? 132 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:31.839 When did she listen to Bible? 133 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:32.079 Guys? 134 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.040 And we will know she'll listen to it if she's 135 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:37.399 cleaned the house. But we watch it at night together. 136 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:38.319 Do you really? 137 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:40.240 We watch it at night together and we love it. 138 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:43.920 You guys do a great job. I've learned a lot, which. 139 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:46.199 Means right now you're at home at night watching this 140 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:46.800 with your wife. 141 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:47.480 Oh that's right. 142 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:49.680 To yourself, Hi, how you doing? 143 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:51.399 No, No, I said, say to yourself. 144 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:58.959 Oh hey Tom, how you doing? Buddy? I wish I 145 00:05:58.959 --> 00:05:59.920 could say hi to my mom? 146 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:02.639 But you did the right thing. 147 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:02.920 You said. 148 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:04.959 How did Judy first? That was the right thing. 149 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.240 You know she's taught me. Well did you. 150 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:12.079 Like doing buddy? 151 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.519 Hey? I got to tell you something though. We just 152 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.879 are getting ready to pick up a new car for Judy. 153 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:21.240 Yes, and she heard you in an episode that you 154 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:22.240 name all your cars. 155 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.000 She wants you to drive her car. That's crazy to 156 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:25.439 name it. 157 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.759 I'm looking forward to that. That would be a privilege 158 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.519 for me, Thanks right. My brother Chucky has me named 159 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.160 all of his cars. I've named all infect her. Whole 160 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.360 family names all of our cars. 161 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:36.079 Crazy. 162 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.199 So I've had like thirty cars if you consider all 163 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:42.759 the cars for my kids even and I was a 164 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:44.839 part of all the namings of them back when I 165 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.879 was sixteen up until now we've had I can name 166 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.199 you all of my cars, all their names. 167 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:52.439 I don't know if I could remember the cars I drove. 168 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:54.240 I did. My first car was a Chavette. 169 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.079 You could have paddled it like the flintstones because the 170 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:00.240 floorboards are rusted out. That was crazy, Yeah, buddy, it 171 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:01.959 was crazy. 172 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:03.600 Did you know the part of that song says with 173 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:05.439 the courtesy of Fred's two Feet. 174 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:07.600 Did you know that does say that? Yeah? 175 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:10.199 Yeah, yeah, because people don't really know that line of. 176 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:11.959 The courtesy of Fred's two Feet. 177 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.240 Yeah yeah, that's that's the line and the song that 178 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:14.879 nobody gets. 179 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:17.399 Wow, and you remember everything? 180 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.079 No, I do, not kidding me. All right, Hey, listen, 181 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:23.120 that's our time. We're at seven minutes, so let's move 182 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:31.959 into actual things. You know, speaking of feet. 183 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.240 That's a great transition. 184 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:39.120 We are about to walk through Psalm forty four. That's 185 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:40.560 a terrible, terrible shit. 186 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:42.800 I was trying to figure out one, but I just 187 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:44.600 couldn't do it, because you guys, when you do them, 188 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:45.120 they're bad. 189 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:46.839 When I said the word feet, I didn't even know 190 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:48.959 how I was going to use that, but I said. 191 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.319 Walk through to Psalm forty four. 192 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:52.720 I'm sort of proud myself, so. 193 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.560 Well, uh you want me to read, Uh, sure, I'll 194 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:59.839 read and do the best I can in Psalms forty four. So, 195 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:03.279 oh God, we have heard it with our own ears. 196 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:06.319 Our ancestors have told us of all you did in 197 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.480 their days and days long ago. You drove out the 198 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:12.360 pagan nation by your power and gave all the land 199 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:16.120 to your ancestors. To our ancestors, you crush their enemies, 200 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.600 their enemies, and set their ancestors free. They did not 201 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:23.920 conquer the land with their swords. It was not their 202 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:27.240 own strong arm that gave them victory. It was your 203 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:30.600 right hand and strong arm and the blinding light from 204 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:31.959 your face that helped them. 205 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:33.360 For you love them. 206 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:36.840 You are my king and my God. You command victories 207 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:41.039 for Israel. Only by your power can we push back 208 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:41.879 our enemies. 209 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:43.480 Only in the name. 210 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.080 Can we trample our foes. I do not trust in 211 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:48.799 my bow. I do not count on my sword to 212 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.559 save me. You are the one who gives us victory 213 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:57.960 over our enemies. You grace, disgrace, You disgrace those who 214 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.679 hate us. Oh God, we give you glory to you 215 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.240 all day long, and constantly praise your name. But now 216 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.360 you have tossed us aside in dishonor. You no longer 217 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:11.600 lead our armies to battle. You make us retreat from 218 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:14.799 our enemies and allow those who hate us to plunder 219 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:18.000 our land. You have butchered us like sheep and scattered 220 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:22.120 us among the nations. You sold your precious people for pittance, 221 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.200 making nothing on the sale. You let our neighbors mock us. 222 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.679 We are an object of scorn and derision to those 223 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:33.240 around us. You have made us the butt of their jokes, 224 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.360 and they shake their heads at us and scorn. We 225 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:42.279 can't escape the constant humiliation. Shame is written across our faces. 226 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.960 All we hear are the taunts of our markers. All 227 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.120 we see is our vengeful enemies. All this has happened 228 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:54.639 though we have not forgotten you. We have not violated 229 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.159 your covenant. Our hearts have not deserted you. We have 230 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:02.000 not strayed from your path. Yet you have crushed us 231 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:05.519 in the jackals desert home. You have covered us with 232 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.799 darkness and death. If we had forgotten the name of 233 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.399 our God or spread our hands in prayer to foreign 234 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:15.679 God's God would surely have known it, for he knows 235 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.960 the secrets of every heart. But for your sake, we 236 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.120 are killed. Every day, We are being slaughtered like sheep. 237 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:25.840 Wake up, Oh Lord, why do you sleep? Get up? 238 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:30.279 Do not reject forever us forever? Why do you look 239 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:34.159 the other way? Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression. 240 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.879 Collapse in the dust line, face down in the dirt, 241 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:43.679 Rise up, Help us, ransom us from our unfailing for 242 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:45.120 your unfailing love. 243 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.240 Yeah, that's crazy. There you go, there, you go, there 244 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:51.639 it is there, it is. 245 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:53.399 That is a crazy chapter. 246 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:56.240 It is. And so the context for that I'd love 247 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:00.440 to read from the note on some forty four application 248 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.039 to study Bible that says, this is a plea for 249 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:08.200 victory by the battle. Weary and defeated, when it seems 250 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.360 that God has let you down, don't despair. Instead, remember 251 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:15.559 God's past deliverance and be confident that He will restore you. 252 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.799 The author are the descendants of Korra, the Temple Assistance, 253 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:27.840 and and so yeah, it is a absolute desperate writing, 254 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:32.240 right because he said, he's saying, we are being defeated. Uh, 255 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:34.919 to the point to where they're mocking us. We're getting mocked, 256 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:38.120 We're getting ridiculed. We are we are like in the 257 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:42.320 jaws of jackals. We are at our lowest point. And God, 258 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:45.320 you have allowed this. We have we are faithful. God, 259 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:48.840 Please give us this victory. Why have you forgotten us? 260 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:56.480 And so they're praying, excuse me, they're praying for this victory. 261 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.759 It's amazing because like you just said, I mean, here 262 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:03.840 they are. They're saying, God, you know our hearts because 263 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:06.159 if you think about it, in the Old Testament times, 264 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:09.039 it always seems to have a pattern that flows that 265 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:12.240 when we are obedient to God and faithful to God 266 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:16.159 and have faith in God, he delivers them. 267 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:18.080 He fights the battles for them. 268 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:21.240 And they even said, we're not trusting in our own strength, 269 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:22.519 we're not trusting our bows. 270 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:23.519 We trust in you. 271 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:27.600 And so it's almost like we're examining our hearts and 272 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:30.200 we didn't really do anything wrong. What's going on here? 273 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.679 And I think that relates to us in our own lives? 274 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:34.799 What did I do to deserve? What's going on? 275 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:35.440 Right? 276 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:40.039 Let me read you another note too. It says this 277 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:43.000 psalm may have been sung at an occasion like the 278 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.039 one in Second Chronicles, chapter twenty, where the faithful Jehosephat 279 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.840 was surrounded by enemies and the Levites saying to the 280 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:53.440 Lord before the battle. So let's keep in mind that 281 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:57.039 psalms were always sung to music, which is why you 282 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:00.919 didn't say interlude. But there's a selah right after verse 283 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.360 number eight, which I wouldn't have said it either. But 284 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.720 the reason pause, Yeah, that's the reason why that's in 285 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.559 there is because that's a pause in the song. So, 286 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:16.039 believe it or not, this crazy wording in this chapter 287 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.080 was actually a song. 288 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.879 Actually, Yeah, it's actually interesting if I could just say this, 289 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.799 In those first eight verses, it's almost as if Israel's 290 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:29.600 looking back to the history and actually talking about the 291 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.360 very facts and how God has delivered them and the 292 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.519 forces by which he delivered them. 293 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:36.399 And then they almost pause, like. 294 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.159 Look, we're talking about this history, and then all of 295 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.440 a sudden, bang, we're in this helpless situation. 296 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.120 Yeah, because that's what verse nine starts with. But now 297 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:46.919 but now yeah, yeah, yeah. 298 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.879 Yeah, so so yeah, you are the king, you are there, 299 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:54.639 You are a god. You command victories over Israel. We 300 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:56.919 do not put our trust in our own selves or 301 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:02.440 our weapons. This other note said as and some forty 302 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.399 four one through three says you drove out the Pagan 303 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:09.279 nations refers to the conquest of Canaan, the promised land 304 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.320 described in the Book of Joshua, God gave us, who 305 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:15.879 gave the land to the Israelites. They were supposed to 306 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:19.440 enter and drive out anyone who was wicked and opposed 307 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:23.879 to God. Israel was told not to settle the land 308 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.120 and to be a witness to the world to God's 309 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:31.000 power and love. Surrounded by enemies, the Psalms writer remembered 310 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.679 what God had done for his people and took heart 311 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.519 we can have the same confidence in God when we 312 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:37.399 feel attacked. 313 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:39.679 But I mean, from. 314 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:43.399 Verse nine on to your point, it is definitely a 315 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:44.240 desperate prayer. 316 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:48.240 Hey Lord, wake up, Lord, don't reject us. 317 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.200 And we talked about this, I think yesterday because some 318 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:57.639 of the same discouragements happened in well, I don't know 319 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:59.519 if it was yesterday the day before in our podcast, 320 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:02.879 but one of the songs that we wrote read was 321 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:06.440 about discouragement and uh, and it's and it's okay to 322 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:07.320 be discouraged. 323 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:11.159 And so even though these are strong words, why has 324 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:14.279 God abandoned us? Forever? Has he rejected us? And all 325 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:15.000 these different. 326 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:18.399 Types of things? Uh, keep in mind that the God 327 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:23.879 has allowed the author to express all of these feelings. 328 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:28.000 And yet you know we're not condemned for it. Right, 329 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.000 So we think God has gone? You know you know 330 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:33.919 what I'm I was I wasn't gonna say this. I 331 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.440 almost made reference to it yesterday. But so we're this Easter, 332 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:43.320 we're teaching on Thomas. Okay, so not you, not you. 333 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:46.799 You put your hand to your jest me. It's all 334 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:51.639 about you, buddy, But doubting Thomas, right, and you know what, 335 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:54.039 you know what I just I think I think maybe 336 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.840 I've seen this before in the scriptures, but never before 337 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.480 has it become so vibrant and prominent. So think about this. 338 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:04.639 So if you know the story of the Bible, you know, 339 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:07.759 en I'm doing some cross referencing here. But so Jesus 340 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.600 appears to the ten disciples, Jesus is gone, Thomas is 341 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.879 not in the room. So there's ten left and along 342 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:17.159 with the women and who else he else was in there. 343 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.559 But Jesus appears to the other ten disciples. They see him, 344 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.759 they interact with him, they talk with him, and so 345 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:26.799 they're absolutely convinced that Jesus has risen from the grave, 346 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:28.600 and not on that. But he appears in their room, 347 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:32.399 a locked room, and then it says it goes out 348 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:34.879 of its way to say Thomas was not there. And 349 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.840 then Thomas comes back. They all say, Jesus has risen 350 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:39.480 from the grave. And what does he say. 351 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.480 I'm not going to believe it till I see it, right. 352 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:43.120 Which is our theme. 353 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:45.320 I believe when I see it, And he says he 354 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:47.080 but he says something very specific. 355 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.720 He says, not only not only do I have see. 356 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:54.120 For myself, I have to personally touch his wounds and 357 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:58.360 his hands and his side. Right. And he was all 358 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:00.919 alone when he said this, right, Jesus was. And then 359 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:04.200 it says Jesus didn't appear to him until eight days later. 360 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.599 Eight days later, and then Jesus appears in the room. 361 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.240 And the first thing he says out loud, he said, Thomas, 362 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:16.119 come and touch the wounds in my hands and my side, 363 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:21.519 which means this, and Thomas's lowest point, when he was 364 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:26.799 doubting the most, when he was literally throwing conditions out there. Hey, God, 365 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:28.720 show me a sign. I'm not going to believe it 366 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.359 until my prayers answered this way. I'm not going to 367 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:33.759 believe it until God shows up in such a miraculous way. 368 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:38.000 At our lowest point, we don't think that God's listening. 369 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:43.680 And yet Jesus responded to Thomas's direct doubts, and guess 370 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.200 what he didn't do. He didn't condemn him, he didn't 371 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:49.160 yell at him, he didn't address the fact that he doubted. 372 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:50.759 All he really. 373 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:53.799 Said is he said, blessed or you that you've seen 374 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:56.400 me and you believe, But blessed are those in the 375 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:00.759 future us who believe it and don't see. 376 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:01.720 Right. 377 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.880 So Jesus meets Thomas where he is, He meets him 378 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.759 in his doubts. He meets him and never condemns him. 379 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:12.720 But it's proof. So listen, you know what that means 380 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:15.480 for us. That means that, like if we are to 381 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:19.759 feel the same way as the Psalmist and we're saying 382 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:24.680 crazy things, wake up, Lord, why do you sleep? I 383 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:29.119 mean that's a pretty serious accusation, right, do not reject 384 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.559 us forever? Why do you look the other way? Why 385 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:34.920 do you ignore our suffering? These are feelings that they 386 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:40.559 have in the midst of fear and defeat, probably wondering 387 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:43.880 if God is even listening. And yet what we know 388 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:48.279 is every part about God is God. Nothing escapes him. 389 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:48.759 No. 390 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.599 God. God knows your fears, he knows your doubts, he 391 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.119 knows your discouragement right now, and so if you think 392 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:57.400 that he's not listening. 393 00:18:57.839 --> 00:18:58.279 He is. 394 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:02.359 Yeah, I have to say that the way this passage 395 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:04.279 seems to unfold to me, and I love what you 396 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:09.480 said because we would say God's after you and angry 397 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:12.200 at you, because you even would say are you sleeping? 398 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:14.559 Like I don't have to prove myself to you. But 399 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:16.960 the bottom line is when you really look at they 400 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.839 did rehearse the history of all that went on there. 401 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:22.839