WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.199 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible guys. 4 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:14.119 It's good to be here. 5 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:17.239 It is. It's very good, Jeff. In fact, it's so 6 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:21.440 good that I wish I were nowhere. 7 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:25.079 Else, only here, only here, only here, with with all 8 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.160 of our listeners, and with all of our listeners stright 9 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.760 just riding along in their car with the Lord. Yes. 10 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:31.160 Oh, how do you know they're in the car? 11 00:00:31.239 --> 00:00:34.799 I don't know. I don't know. Uh, sitting on the couch. 12 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:36.799 Do you think most people listen in the morning. 13 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:37.439 I don't know. 14 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:38.439 You have no idea? 15 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:38.679 I have? 16 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:39.600 You know where to track that? 17 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:41.359 Yeah? There is. I can look it up. You keep 18 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:43.039 talking and all you can look it up right now? 19 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:43.719 Look it up right now? 20 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:45.079 Wow. I wonder if anybody's curious? 21 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:45.439 Yeah? 22 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:47.560 Are they more like? Why are you wasting our time? 23 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:52.200 Thirty seconds I could have gotten back from my life. 24 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:54.880 Did you ever watch something and say I just wasted 25 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:55.920 three minutes of my life. 26 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:00.560 Yes, so I've listened to podcasts before, But. 27 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:01.679 Up there it is. 28 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.400 Let's see right while you're doing that, keep going. 29 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.120 Let me just go ahead and say we're in a theme. 30 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:09.719 This week we're talking about God's promises, and this week 31 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:13.879 we're focusing God's provision. And today we're gonna go ahead 32 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.480 and talk about Psalm twenty three, which is a very 33 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:19.319 very very famous passage of scripture. Yes, a lot of 34 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:22.599 people have this memorized. And before we do, we have 35 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.040 a segment called Who's most Likely? Okay, all right, so 36 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:27.879 it's Who's most likely and we're supposed to read it 37 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.879 and then decide whether it's Chris or Jeff. 38 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:36.680 Excellent. Yeah, so here you go. Look at Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 39 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:41.319 it looks like they watch us mostly mostly in the evenings. 40 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:43.480 Holy Christmas, you see that. 41 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:47.200 Yeah, after lunch people are watching us. In the middle 42 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:48.799 of the day at work. It looks like. 43 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:53.159 We're at home at Thursday at home people. Wow. 44 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:54.959 Yeah, yeah, isn't that amazing? 45 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:56.719 No, is there any more? Graft is a slide. 46 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:58.879 Let me see how it goes? 47 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.719 No, that's it, huh yeah, but it goes all the 48 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:04.560 way to like at the end there. Yeah. So wow. 49 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:07.359 So you know, we have a lot of evening people 50 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:10.280 after six pm, but we've got a bunch of two, 51 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:13.039 three and four o'clockers too. Yeah, Friday, and then we've 52 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:15.479 got a ton of just regular morning people Friday mornings. 53 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:17.680 Huh, there's more people that watch us in the mornings. 54 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:19.599 We have lots of So the episodes come out at 55 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:21.479 like six am, right, sure, isn't it when they come out, 56 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:23.159 and so we have a lot in the morning. But 57 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:25.479 it's surprising how dense it is right there in that 58 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:28.199 four five o'clock people are listening to us on the 59 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:28.879 way home from work. 60 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:31.240 Five six, seven. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. 61 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:35.080 Man. Well, well, then, good afternoon, good afternoon. 62 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.400 Yes, that's funny. Do you ever see Spirited with Will Ferrell? 63 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:41.400 And yes, Ryan and he says, good afternoon, good afternoon. 64 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:43.319 He says, oh that was that was a doozy back 65 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:47.680 in the day. Okay, So who's most likely here go 66 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:50.319 Jeff number one? Okay, who's most likely to start a 67 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:52.319 story and forget how it ends halfway through? 68 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:57.199 Not me? I do it regularly. You're a story guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 69 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:59.599 and then I'm a storyteller. But I get I get 70 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:01.879 in the as on all the details and then forget 71 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:02.560 where I was going. 72 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:06.680 That's so funny. Yeah, I agree you, I don't. I 73 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.439 usually now, I'd done that with jokes before, where I'll 74 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:11.680 started joking I said, oh, I remember this joke, and 75 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.240 then then I'll start, Hey, there was this guy, and 76 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:14.360 then I said, I go, wait a minute, let me 77 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:16.639 stop here, let me let me make sure I got 78 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:18.599 this right. I did that the other day. I've done 79 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:20.879 that with jokes before. All right, Number two. 80 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:23.840 Who's most likely to text someone while standing right next 81 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:24.599 to them? 82 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.120 I did it in DLT when I was talking to 83 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:27.680 Dave Wilson. 84 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:28.800 I was going to say, I think it's you. 85 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:29.919 Yeah, I think so too. 86 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.080 Yeah, yeah, you You are very dialed into your phone. 87 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.759 You're on your phone too much all the time, and 88 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:37.719 very much. And by the way, do you do you're 89 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:39.879 connected to text text immediately. 90 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:43.199 I'm going to give you props on this. So, so 91 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.879 you are very polite to me when you probably could 92 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:52.599 probably tell me, hey, listen, I need you to put 93 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:56.080 your phone down. You're very tolerant, very polite, because I do. 94 00:03:56.199 --> 00:04:01.120 I abuse it meetings sometimes and and I should just 95 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:01.719 put it away. 96 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.360 So and it's not that I have good manners or anything. 97 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:07.240 It's just I hate having a leash. Yeah, and I 98 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:10.000 feel like texting is a little bit of a leash 99 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.879 listen to me right now, as opposed to, Hey, when 100 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:14.879 you're done doing what you're doing, would you give me 101 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:18.560 some attention just instead, it's everybody has this insistence that 102 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:21.079 you apply right now. So I just don't ever for 103 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:23.079 anybody make a promise I'm going to reply to a 104 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:24.920 text right away, and so I get to it when 105 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:26.519 it's my next time. But I also just put my 106 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:28.920 phone down if I'm in a meeting. I don't always 107 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:29.920 be I'm not always up there. 108 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:32.920 Yeah, several hours before you even pick it up. 109 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:35.879 Yeah, I just avoid not paying attention to it. So okay, 110 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:37.560 it's just because that leash, all right. 111 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.560 So that's me number three. Who's most likely to say 112 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.480 you too to a waiter who says, enjoy your meal. 113 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:44.399 I've done it. 114 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:49.439 I kid you not. This just happened. This just happened 115 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:53.279 to me. I went to the airport and I was 116 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.720 getting Chick fil A breakfast, oh huh. And I went 117 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.360 through the line and she gave me the bag and 118 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:01.439 she said, enjoy your food. I said you doo. Yeah, 119 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:03.959 And I said I mean thank you, and I walked away. 120 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:07.360 Yeah, that's funny. Brian Reagan has that you. 121 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.959 Yes, you do enjoy your movie. You too the next 122 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:12.560 time you see a movie. 123 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:17.680 If you're read to have a chance too. It was 124 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:19.800 most likely to open the fridge, star inside, and then 125 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:22.240 close it with no plan. That is me, just did it, 126 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:24.839 Just did it? Just did it? Yep. Open the frigerator 127 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:27.040 and I'm standing there and it dawns me. I don't 128 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:28.959 know why I'm looking in the fridge. I just was 129 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:30.959 walking past and they open the fridge looking. 130 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.600 Yeah, well you have a fancy fridge where you can 131 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:35.439 see what's inside. 132 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:38.240 Yeah, on my phone right now. Yeah, I can see 133 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:39.920 what's on my fridge right now. 134 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:40.360 In your fridge. 135 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:40.720 Yeah. 136 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:42.920 And by the way, just to be clear, you inherited 137 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:43.360 that fridge. 138 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:45.480 Yeah, when we bought the house, it came with it. 139 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.920 Yeah. So you didn't seek this feature. This, this feature 140 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:51.360 fell upon you. No. 141 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:54.040 But now that I have it, I. 142 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:55.759 Don't understand why anybody would need ye. 143 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:58.160 I don't know why anybody other than other than hey. 144 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:59.879 I'm at Kroger. Do we have milk? 145 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.040 That's what happens sometimes, is that then. 146 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.120 Sometimes you have containers or you can't see really yeah, 147 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:07.399 you're like it looks like we have milk, but I 148 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:09.120 didn't know that. We can't just tell that it's half 149 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:10.199 an inch of milk. 150 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.040 Yeah, you can. 151 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:13.759 Look at fridge. 152 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.079 Yeah, so right now my fridge is telling me that 153 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:19.160 the door is closed, which is really good, and then 154 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.519 I can turn it up and down. Yeah. See, there's 155 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:23.639 everything in my fridge. So I got some salad there 156 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:28.120 that needs to be fixed. We have some it's in there. 157 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.040 There's some hot dogs down there. I can't believe we're 158 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:30.720 got eggs. 159 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.560 I can't believe we're using people's minutes for the it's 160 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:38.319 but it's fascinating. I can't I can't turn away. 161 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.759 I can't look at it. What's having the look? You 162 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.040 know we could we could do a live cam from 163 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.560 our listeners. Yeah, just so they can watch what's in 164 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:49.399 my fridge all day every day and then you see 165 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:50.680 how many times the doors go open. 166 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.600 Okay, number five here and this is the last. Okay, Okay, 167 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:57.000 who's most likely to leave the house and realize halfway 168 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:58.839 they forgot their keys again? 169 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:04.680 Yeah? I do it, do you? Yeah? I'm a forgetful person. 170 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:08.560 Yeah, I do forget things. But by the way, keys, 171 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.240 I only have car keys. I don't have any other keys. 172 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:13.800 So I can't forget my keys because I can't start 173 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.600 my car without my keys, right, I don't have keys 174 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:17.160 for anything else. 175 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:20.879 Yeah, so I forget stuff all the time. 176 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.879 Yeah, I do forget things. So there's plenty of times 177 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:26.639 where I'll be like bye, guys, and I'll leave, and 178 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:29.879 then three minutes later, the door opens and they don't 179 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:32.680 even ask, they don't say, hey, Dad, is that you. 180 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:35.680 They're just like, oh, you forgot something, right, run in 181 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:37.240 and grab something, and then go back out. 182 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.800 So I went out to my truck. This just just happened. 183 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:43.240 When out my truck, same thing. I can't start my 184 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:44.199 truck without my keys. 185 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:44.720 Yeah. 186 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:46.759 I go out and it's really really bright, and I 187 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:51.160 have light colored eyes, right, so bluish eyes. So and 188 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.639 then I had some trouble a number of years ago, 189 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.879 and some really affected by outdoor light. Bright outdoor light. 190 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.079 So walk out and I'm squinting. I'm get my sunglasses 191 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:03.240 and so I jump up in the truck. See my sunglasses. 192 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:05.279 They're not there. And then I realized, oh, I don't 193 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:06.879 have my keys. So I run in the house. I 194 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:08.680 run all the way upstairs, all the way down the 195 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:12.399 hallway to our bedroom. I run in, I grab my sunglasses, 196 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:13.600 run all the way back down and get back in 197 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.040 the truck, go to start the truck. Don't have my keys. 198 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.519 I just told myself I need to get my key right, 199 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:19.639 and then they said I had to run all the 200 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:21.399 way back upstairs. So it just happened. 201 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:22.319 That's double level. 202 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:23.319 This just happened. 203 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.199 Yeah, that's a new level there. 204 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:28.319 Yeah, so I think you win me that one for sure. Okay, Well, hey, 205 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:30.560 that's just a little bit about us, that's it in 206 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:35.480 case you were curious. Yes, yes, yes, so talking about curious, 207 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.559 I don't know. I don't have anything something about me. 208 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:42.279 I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this. Uh, you know, 209 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:44.840 the only thing more fascinating than what's in your fridge? 210 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:45.639 What's that saw? 211 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:51.799 I'm twenty three? No, well it is bad transition. 212 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.559 Oh that's a terrible transition. Yeah. That's what we're always 213 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:56.679 trying to do is have the worst possible transition. 214 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:58.960 Oh how about this one? How about this one? Okay, 215 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.600 there's only six verses, and so I'm twenty three, and 216 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.399 each one of them stand on their own like different ingredients, 217 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:07.960 just like in. 218 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:08.840 Your in my fridge. 219 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.840 Yeah yeah, okay, that was worse. 220 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:13.000 Yeah, that was terrible. 221 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:13.519 It was terrible. 222 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.320 Hey, can I tell you about something? I guess you're 223 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:17.799 just just had some people over at our house the 224 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.480 other day, you know, Yes, And I decided to grill 225 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.799 for them. Yes, And I was going to I've got 226 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.440 you've been in my office. In my house, I have yeah, 227 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:30.639 forty fifty cookbooks that just weird, so I like reading recipes. 228 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:32.759 I could not find what I wanted to make for them, 229 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:34.399 and I was I kept thinking in my mind, I 230 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:36.879 want to make something for fall. Yeah, I couldn't think 231 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:38.759 of anything, couldn't think anything. All of a sudden, I 232 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:42.679 had this brain explosion and I'm all excited, and I 233 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:45.759 decided I was going to make and I didn't have 234 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:49.559 a recipe for it. I was going to make a cider, 235 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:58.879 a cider braised or what's marinated? A cider marinated chicken breasts. 236 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:01.679 And then I started digging in. I finally come up 237 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:04.679 with this recipe for cider and sage and all this 238 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:07.480 stuff is really really good. And then I went to sleep, 239 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:09.480 and I was really proud of myself. And while I 240 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:11.279 was sleeping, I thought, you know what I should do. 241 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.200 I should smoke those on a cedar plank. So they 242 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:20.519 were smoked cider and sage chicken. 243 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:21.360 Breast chicken bread. 244 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:24.320 They were so good, yes, very much. Fall. I wouldn't 245 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:25.519 want it in the spring, but it was so good 246 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.679 for fall, and those things were in my fridge. So 247 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.440 that's what was in there. Full circle, here we go. 248 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:35.759 Let's get the song. Twenty three. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Psalm 249 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:40.120 twenty three is probably, as far as chapters go, the 250 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:43.759 most famous chapter and one of them. Yeah. Yeah. There's 251 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:46.960 so many favorites, but Psalm twenty three is probably most 252 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:48.600 famous chapter in the Bible, don't you think. 253 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:51.279 I definitely think so. Yeah, yeah, because it's a whole chapter. 254 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:54.679 It's only six verses, and people have heard it mostly 255 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:55.399 at funerals. 256 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:58.360 Yeah, that's right, and most people have heard it King James, 257 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.799 that's right, right, yep. So in the King James it says, 258 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.440 the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He 259 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.639 maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth 260 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.679 me beside still waters, He restoreth my soul. He leadeth 261 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:14.879 me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. And yea, 262 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:17.399 though I walked through the valley of the shadow of death, 263 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.919 I will fear no evil. For thou art with me, 264 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.440 thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest 265 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.200 a table before me in the midst of in the 266 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:28.360 presence of mine enemies. Now annoying is my head with 267 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:32.240 oil my cup runneth over. Surely, goodness and mercy shall 268 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.200 follow me all the days of my life, and I 269 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.639 will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. So 270 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:39.360 that's the King, James. 271 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:43.240 So, I was so fascinated by Psalm twenty three that 272 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:47.480 I read this book called Shepherd's Guide or Shepherd's View 273 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:50.240 whatever it's called Psalm twenty three, and the whole book 274 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:51.399 broke down every verse. Oh. 275 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:52.559 I had somebody give me that book. 276 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:55.720 Yeah. Yeah, it was a small book. Yeah, And I 277 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.879 was so fascinated with it that it says, oh, every 278 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:02.000 shepherd knows this, Every shepherd knows this, Every shepherd knows this. 279 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:04.679 And I left to myself, do they though, because I'm 280 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.600 a skeptic and so uh, And I was fascinated with 281 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:10.200 the applications of all these things. I mean, they're they're 282 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.080 so insightful that every time I mentioned them, even reference 283 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:17.120 mentioned them, people go no way, right, And so, but 284 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:19.720 then when I was in Israel, we were driving from 285 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:21.759 the north to the south. We're coming from Nazareth down 286 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:24.120 to Jerusalem, and then there's like a stretch there where 287 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.240 it's like it's it starts to get more barren. Right, 288 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:29.919 So there's like it's it's it's it's greener up north 289 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:33.320 northern Israel, it is greener, and then as you come 290 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:35.639 down it gets it gets more barren, which means you 291 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.240 have to go down into the valleys to get the grass. Right. 292 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:43.759 And so anyway, so I'm walking riding down this road 293 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.360 and I see a shepherd and I said, pull over, 294 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:49.399 pull over. So they pulled over. We flagged this guy down, 295 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:51.519 convinced them that we weren't going to harm him. And 296 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:54.519 then I just said, hey, here's a Bible. And I said, 297 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:56.279 I don't know if you're a Christian or not, but 298 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:58.480 I said, let me just show you Psalomon. He said, 299 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:00.879 I'm familiar with this. And I said, I just have 300 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:05.399 a question. I said, does every shepherd have a rod, 301 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:11.159 a staff, and a cup? And he showed me everything. 302 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.159 He said, here's here's the rod, here's the staff. And 303 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:17.480 he had a bag on his on his like a 304 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:19.600 satchel thing, and he opened the bag and he had 305 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:22.000 actually it was like a you know, in my mind 306 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:23.639 it's a goblet. It's the it's the Riders of the 307 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:24.279 Arc goblet. 308 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:24.799 Right. 309 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:26.559 But but he had a he had a flip cup 310 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:29.639 like this, right, hit a cup and it's made for medicine. 311 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:33.120 Did you know that? Oh? So, so every shepherd when 312 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:34.919 they when they take there, some of some of them 313 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.720 will if the herd's big enough, what they'll do is 314 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:39.960 they can only graze in a spot long enough, right, 315 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:42.679 So they if they can't overgraze on a spot. And 316 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:45.639 if you overgraze a spot, that spot will be dead 317 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:46.120 for a year. 318 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:49.320 Yeah, because sheep grab and pull up by the roots. Yes, 319 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.600 cow's bite grass off at the top, but the sheep 320 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:53.440 will pull it up by the roots. If you overgraze, 321 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:54.480 it won't ever grow back. 322 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:57.519 So what happens is a person with a big, huge herd, 323 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.799 what they'll do is they'll actually go on a journey. 324 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.600 And and if it's a big enough you know, herd, 325 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:05.919 and it's a big enough journey and it's scarce enough, 326 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:08.440 they can go on a year's journey. They'll they'll literally 327 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:10.759 go away from their home and they'll take care of 328 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:12.799 the sheep and they'll be in different sectors before they 329 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:14.600 make their way all the way back home. And so 330 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:17.039 what happens is every shepherd, if they go, you know, 331 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:19.559 just for a week or a month or whatever, they 332 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.759 try to take just enough medicine with them on the journey. 333 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:26.679 And then what ends up happening is when a sheep 334 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.240 does need something and a sheep is sick, or oil 335 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.000 or whatever it is for their head or whatever, they 336 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.240 pull out and they try to think to themselves, I 337 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:38.200 wonder how many sheep are going to get sick. So 338 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:41.320 what they do is they always apply in scarcity. It's 339 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:44.639 always minimum amount, always because they say, I don't know, 340 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:46.279 I don't know what I don't know what this journey 341 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:47.840 is going to bring, so I'm gonna I'm not going 342 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.000 to overuse. I'm gonna give just enough. So the idea 343 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:56.519 of a cup that a shepherd has is always minimum provision. Always. 344 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:01.799 And so when David, who grew up as a shepherd, says, yeah, 345 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:05.720 I get emotional thinking about it. He says, my cup overflows. 346 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:09.519 In other words, there's no minimum, there's nothing held back, 347 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.799 right because the Lord is my shepherd. 348 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:13.879 Got everything I need from all that. 349 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.200 I need, I have all that I want and so 350 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:19.799 and so so each one, each of these verses carries 351 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:23.799 this huge shepherd truth and it's like, wow, we don't 352 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:25.720 we don't because we didn't you know, we don't raise 353 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:29.799 as shepherds. So so we don't understand how rich this is. 354 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:32.279 And there's only a few I mean, you think about it. 355 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:36.120 You know, God carries the theme of clay in the 356 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:38.679 potter's hand right all the way from the Old Testament 357 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:41.399 Jeremiah all the way to Romans right, So it's a 358 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.360 theme that goes throughout the Bible. And of course you 359 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:47.639 know the comparisons are just deep and rich and wide, right, 360 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.240 and then and then I would say, this is the 361 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:55.639 other strong theme. We're we're shepherds. Jesus says, I'm the gate, 362 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.200 I'm the shepherd. They know my voice. You know. The 363 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:00.879 Pastords called a shepherd, right, the sheep or the flock. 364 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:04.320 I mean, it's a rich comparison. And uh and it's 365 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:05.480 and it's a great comparison. 366 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:07.919 So what is the job of the sheep? 367 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:11.879 The job of the sheep, Well, the job of the 368 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.639 sheep is to live and be taken care of and 369 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:17.639 then provide wool I guess, right, but to give back 370 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:18.519 to the shepherd, right. 371 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:23.039 Produce produce purpose that either you're going to produce wool 372 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:28.799 or food milk, right, So yeah, but that the job 373 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:32.000 of the sheep is to produce. So the shepherd's job 374 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:39.519 is to provide the environment to be able to help 375 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:46.480 the sheep produce everything that needs to be produced. So leading, protecting, feeding, 376 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:50.679 all those things, those are tasks. They're not the purpose 377 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.200 of the shepherd. They're the tasks of the shepherd because 378 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:56.320 his purpose is to help the sheep produce for the king, right, 379 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:59.519 And that's our job as pastors. A lot of people think, 380 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:01.200 you know, they they think of their pastor as like 381 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:04.680 their personal family. Chaplain right, you know, I need you 382 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:06.119 to lead me and needs you to feed me. I 383 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:07.720 need you to protect me spiritually. I need you to 384 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:10.799 take care of me. And those are tasks that we have. 385 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:13.920 But our primary purpose is to help the sheep in 386 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:16.839 the church produce for God's kingdom. That's great, right for 387 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:20.599 the king. So anyways, this the Lord is my shepherd, right, 388 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.400 and I have nothing that I need. The promise is 389 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:25.920 that that's the promise. Is I have all that I need? 390 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:26.480 That's right? 391 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:29.119 Now? Hey, check it out this book. It started out 392 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:33.640 with that sentence, and it said, you know who owns 393 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:36.720 the sheep based on the quality of sheep. So this 394 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:39.160 shepherd talked about like like they all know this. If 395 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:42.039 they see a scrawny sheep filled with thistles and and 396 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:44.960 all these kinds of things, they're like, oh, that belongs. 397 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:46.440 To that guy, right, because he doesn't take every he. 398 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:48.519 Didn't take care of sheep. And sometimes there's a brand 399 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:51.359 on a sheep, and so they'll know sometimes there's a tag, 400 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:54.079 and if the tag is a certain color, right, And 401 00:17:54.720 --> 00:18:00.119