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 --> 00:00:15.480 practical ways. Hey, good morning, good morning. We talk a 4 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:20.199 good morning, good morning to you and you and this 5 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:21.239 is incredible. 6 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:23.800 Yes, on a Friday, I lost a bonus. I lost 7 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:26.280 my snap that was a bonus. Good morning. 8 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.320 Yeah. And by the way, the reason why I lost 9 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:30.199 my snaps is I stopped. I started way too high. 10 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:33.520 I was like, good morning, good morning. I was way 11 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:35.719 up there. So anyways, I was like, oh my goodness, 12 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:38.759 good job, good job. Hey, welcome to the Bible guys. 13 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.799 And whenever you're listening in the day, we appreciate you 14 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:45.159 tuning in. Today, we are actually wrapping up our very 15 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:46.679 long series on God's promises. 16 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:49.759 That's right, and there's more, by the way, it's just 17 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:50.799 we're done talking about it. 18 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:54.079 Well, we're done with our series. That's right, because you know, 19 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:58.479 you can never really finish exhaustively the topic of God's 20 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:03.719 promise that it's correct. You can go on internally that's correct, infinitively. 21 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:04.640 That is correct also. 22 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:07.719 So but we're wrapping up today and it's going to 23 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:10.519 be in First John chapter three. But before we do 24 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:12.799 we have a very special segment. 25 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:21.120 Yes, well, this is a special Christmas Babylon B segment. Yes, right. 26 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:23.879 If you don't know, Babylon B is parody website, they're 27 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:24.519 very funny. 28 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:25.000 Yep. 29 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.319 And this one is twenty three gifts the wise Men 30 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:30.079 should have brought instead. 31 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:33.000 Yeah. Now, by the way, I don't know if you 32 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:33.879 can trump gold. 33 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:35.120 Yeah, gold's pretty good. 34 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:35.439 Yeah. 35 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:37.400 Frankensinson mur well, we'll see. 36 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:37.840 Yeah. 37 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:40.920 But in their day those were very expensive items. But 38 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.280 this is sponsored by Convoy of Hope, so I don't 39 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:47.239 think this was written by the Babylon B people. It 40 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:49.560 was written by the Convoy of Hope. But anyways, it 41 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.760 says the wise men may have done well to find 42 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.840 the first Christ Child or find the Christ Child, but 43 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:59.280 to be frank, the gifts they gave left something to 44 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.359 be desired. Here are twenty three other gifts the wise 45 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.959 men should have brought instead. The first one was a 46 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:10.360 groupon for a spa day. Everybody could have really used it. 47 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.560 I would imagine that they really couldn't. 48 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:15.680 Like, this would be great, right, get out of that barn, 49 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.479 ye go have a spa day. Number two. I don't 50 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.280 understand this one pointed stick to poke the little drummer 51 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.199 boy with would have been Mary's favorite. 52 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:25.520 I don't understand that either. 53 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.840 I don't either a pointed stick to point. 54 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:30.639 The poke a little drummer boy with. 55 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:32.879 I don't think there was actually a little drummer boy. 56 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.840 Oh there wasn't. Yeah, but would have been Mary's favorite. 57 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:41.039 Number Three is starlink really would have helped find the 58 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:43.680 way back home. That's starlink would be great. 59 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:44.719 Yeah. 60 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:45.960 Have you used starlink at all? 61 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:47.759 I have not. Have you seen that exact kind of 62 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:48.199 like on. 63 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:52.240 Star Starlink is the is the all the satellites that 64 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.680 Elon Musk put in the sky Internet anywhere? Now? Oh, 65 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:57.280 it's like eight satellites. 66 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:57.840 Oh wow. 67 00:02:57.919 --> 00:02:58.840 Have you used starlink? 68 00:02:58.960 --> 00:02:59.240 I have not. 69 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.960 It's amazing. Have you seen the Starlink satellites going across 70 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:02.280 the sky. 71 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:02.599 No. 72 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:05.400 Sometimes when they launched the release like a bunch of 73 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.159 them at one time up in the in space, and 74 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:09.960 then they'll get in a line and they'd be like 75 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:11.639 ten or fifteen of them just going across the sky 76 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.479 and people think they're seeing UFOs. Yeah, yeah, because they're 77 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:17.560 in a perfect line. My wife and I we went 78 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:23.639 we were camping last summer and it was during one 79 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:26.879 of the meteor showers. I love meteor showers. And so 80 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.120 we were camping in we were in a place that's 81 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.439 really dark, and so we went out to go watch 82 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:35.680 meteors and then we were like what is that? Right? 83 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:37.919 And there's this line of like these ten going straight 84 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.360 across the sky all at one time. And yeah, so 85 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:43.520 anyway starlink they would would have helped find their way 86 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.039 back home. Bitcoin would have been super helpful. Can you 87 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:47.240 imagine what would be worth? Now? 88 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:52.520 That is a funny statement right there. That's a funny statement, right. Yeah. 89 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.000 Bigcoin's been a little bit of a slide. You can 90 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:54.680 get a bargain right now. 91 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:56.759 Yeah, Sir Mary and Joseph could have just been sitting 92 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:57.520 there coating. 93 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:00.800 In the cave and there getting big Coin Number five 94 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.599 Parents Guide for Raising God Made Flesh I could have 95 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:04.199 come in handy. 96 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:04.520 Yeah. 97 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:06.479 Yeah, I mean nobody had ever done that one before. 98 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:09.240 Yeah, what to expect when you're expecting the Son of God. 99 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.759 Mormon castrole. Everyone loves a Mormon castle. 100 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:16.639 I don't even know what that is. 101 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:19.040 Yeah, I don't know. Is it like a Baptist cast role? 102 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:20.720 I guess, I don't know. 103 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:24.560 I don't understand a white noise machine, so much more 104 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:25.639 practical than Frankinson. 105 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:26.519 Oh, I agree with that. 106 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.360 White noise machines are great cows. Yeah, how about a 107 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:35.279 Savior of the Universe onesie, Oh my goodness, opportunity right there. 108 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:37.439 Can you imagine open up? 109 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:38.480 Oh, look at you. 110 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:41.480 The Savior of the Universe one. 111 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:44.199 This one's super practical. A baby toy shape like a 112 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:48.439 Roku remote for Jesus to play with. Nothing. Babies love more. Yeah, 113 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:53.040 little remote, fake remotes or fake cell phones, they love them. 114 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:56.759 Or keys yeah, or keys? Yeah, a Nintendo we It 115 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:58.800 would have been a lot of fun. Yeah, it would 116 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:01.040 have been fun. An Amazon gift card. You can never 117 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:02.079 go wrong with this one. 118 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.600 Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, if you. 119 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.000 Don't know what else to do, went in doubt, get 120 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:09.319 an Amazon cars that's true. Yeah. A subscription to the 121 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.120 Babylon b Joseph would have been a huge fan. We 122 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:12.680 just know it. 123 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.360 Wow, there's a there's a claim. 124 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.759 Uh baby GPS tracker. It's helpful for those temple wanderings. 125 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:22.240 But if you don't know, they lost Jesus when he 126 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:27.120 was they literally lost God. Mary, you had one job, 127 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.480 but he wandered off. Keep track, Keep track of the 128 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:35.240 Son of God for me. They lost, So yeah, a 129 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:38.759 baby GPS tracker would have been helpful. Uh A lamp 130 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:41.160 shape like a like a woman's leg, that'd be classic. 131 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:42.800 Wow, that is certainly classic. 132 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.439 That's from the movie. It's from a lot of movies, 133 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:46.519 just from the Christmas Story. 134 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:47.199 Oh Christmas? 135 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:52.680 Yeah yeah, uh uh what's a bob stroller? 136 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:54.560 Bobb stroller? 137 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:57.759 Bob stroller, bob stroler. Travel could have been so much easier. Yeah, 138 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.839 I don't know. Uh, a body pillowlp would have hated it, 139 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:05.319 but too bad? Uh seventeen a plastic waiting pool. Never 140 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:06.839 too early, start walking on water. 141 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:10.639 Ah, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. 142 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.839 That's a good one. Uh. The joel Ostine Inspiration Cube. 143 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.040 It helped the Holy Family live their best life. Now, 144 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:19.639 whoa huh. 145 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:22.319 That is I'm not sure whether that was like, like, 146 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.439 is that a did they really? Did? They really think 147 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:27.920 it's a good thing? The cube. I don't know, because 148 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:29.680 because it sounds like a dig a little. 149 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:31.519 Bit, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, okay, yeah, 150 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:34.000 it just the best life. Now I'm gonna I choose 151 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:34.959 to believe the best, not the worst. 152 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.319 Chris Okay, well you know he did write a book 153 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:38.360 called Your Best Life Now. 154 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:45.399 Yeah, the hit Christian board game Settlers of Yeah, what 155 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:46.360 a gym that one was. 156 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:50.000 Oh that's funny. I do not know. 157 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:55.240 Okay, uh, Alexis with a giant bow on top mercan't compete. No, 158 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:56.519 it got home way quicker. 159 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:58.079 Yeah, that could have been a good commercial, right there. 160 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.600 Yeah yeah, yeah, offered to clean manure out of the stables. Seriously, 161 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.720 it's pretty basically yeah with the table saw. Maybe the 162 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:05.720 carpenter's dream. 163 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:06.519 Can you imagine? 164 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:11.879 Yeah? And last, but not least, Lego Hogwarts. Everyone wants 165 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:12.959 a Lego Hogwarts. 166 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:14.319 Unbelievable. 167 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.519 So too bad, Wise man, you missed your chance with 168 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:17.680 these amazing gift ideas. 169 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.560 I can't believe of the of the twenty three gifts, 170 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:24.399 Lego Hogwarts is actually in there. 171 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.399 I think the plastic wading pool was the best, Yeah, 172 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:31.519 by far? Or the GPS. Yeah, yeah, that was a 173 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:32.160 rough list. 174 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:33.680 It was a rough list. Yeah. 175 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:36.879 Usually Babylon B is top shelf, guys, I feel like 176 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:37.680 you mailed it in. 177 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.360 Well. I still don't understand a couple of them. The 178 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:43.680 Bob thing, I don't know what that is pointed stick 179 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.279 for the little drummer boy yeah, it's kind of funny. Yeah, 180 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:48.040 you know, because, by the way, I'm one of the 181 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:54.439 very few people ever that actually very strongly dislikes the 182 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.600 Little Drummer Boy song Oh wife, Oh do you really 183 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.639 guys really very strongly dislike repetitive? 184 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:02.399 It gets old? Yeah, yeah, I mean. 185 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:04.920 It's the same line over and over and over and over, 186 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.560 and it's like, I don't get it. It's like, but 187 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.720 some people hear and they're like, oh, it's so beautiful. 188 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.480 Rapp a pump pump. I'm like, I saw I saw 189 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.600 TikTok the other day with Greg Gibbs, his son Gabe Gibbs, 190 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.279 and he was talking about how musicians like to draw 191 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.079 it out and go wrap a pump pump. It's hilarious. 192 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:29.759 It's really one that's funny. Well, I don't have a transition. 193 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.759 I can't think of anything to get us too well 194 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:34.039 First John three to two. 195 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:34.759 Well, I'll say you. 196 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:37.320 I wanted to say, we're gonna read First John three two. 197 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:45.200 No, I was gonna say, uh, introducing great ideas around 198 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:51.080 Jesus is exactly what First John does. Yes, because that's 199 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:51.840 what the article was. 200 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.600 Okay, Yeah, that's true, all right, kind of. 201 00:08:54.759 --> 00:09:01.519 Yeah, sort of Yeah, brought new idea is for life. 202 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.840 Okay, an alternative to the way you've been going. 203 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:04.399 That's right. 204 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:07.039 Okay, that was rough. 205 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:10.039 The whole thing was rough. Yeah, so sorry. 206 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:13.480 It's the day after Christmas. Right, We're all exhausted, we're 207 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.639 wiped out. So this is the best we can do. 208 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.440 And if you don't like it, Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. 209 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:24.320 Right, and I'll poke you with a stick, appointed stick 210 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.639 if you don't like that, no reason whatever. 211 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:31.720 Here we go, so he says in First John chapter three, 212 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:35.639 verse one, see how very much our father loves us, 213 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:37.840 for he calls us as children, and that is what 214 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.159 we are. But the people who belong to this world 215 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:42.919 don't recognize that we are God's children because they don't 216 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.799 know him. Dear friends, we are already God's children. But 217 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:48.519 He has not yet shown us what we will be 218 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:51.440 like when Christ appears. But we do know that we 219 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:53.879 will be like him, for we will see Him as 220 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:58.000 he really is. And all who have this eager expectation 221 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:00.799 will keep themselves pure, just as He is pure. Everyone 222 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:02.879 who sins is breaking God's law, for all sin is 223 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.320 contrary to the law of God. You know that Jesus 224 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:06.840 came to take away our sins, and there is no 225 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:09.399 sin in him. Anyone who continues to live in him 226 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:11.840 will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does 227 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.840 not know him or understand who he is. Dear children, 228 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.360 don't let anyone deceive you about this. When people do 229 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:19.279 what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even 230 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:21.799 as Christ is righteous. But when people keep on sinning, 231 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:23.960 it shows that they belong to the devil, who's been 232 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.080 sinning since the beginning. But the son of God came 233 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:29.320 to destroy the works of the devil. Those who've been 234 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:31.679 born into God's families do not make a practice of 235 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:35.120 sinning because God's life is in them. So they can't 236 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:37.279 keep on sinning because they are children of God. So 237 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.919 now we can tell who are children of God and 238 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:42.000 who are children of the devil. Anyone who does not 239 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.600 live righteously and does not love other believers, does not love, 240 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:47.720 does not belong to God. This is the message you've 241 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:50.480 heard from the beginning. We should love one another. 242 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:55.519 Remember that old song love one another? Yeah yeah, yeah, 243 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:57.480 yeah yeah, love one another. 244 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:59.960 I remember that one We get to love one another? 245 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:06.759 Yeah. So so first John three two actually first shown 246 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:11.480 three to one actually is a verse that we quoted 247 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:15.000 last Sunday, which would be like fourteen days or thirteen 248 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:20.080 days ago in the sermon. Yes, and then the next 249 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:21.919 part of the Christmas series, which is coming up this 250 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:26.759 Sunday for us, Yes, I reused that same verse, right, 251 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.639 because the verse that I quoted from the NIV says, 252 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:36.120 see how much love that the Father has lavished on us? Yes, right, 253 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:38.840 and we're talking about the prodigal Son. And see people 254 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.039 will have already heard this, so it doesn't matter, correct 255 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:45.080 for the podcast people. But so the idea, and you're gonna, 256 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:46.799 I think you're gonna love this. But do you know 257 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:50.320 what the word prodigal actually means? The definition of the 258 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:50.879 word prodigal? 259 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:52.080 Uh what? 260 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.480 At first, you may be tempted to think it means wayward, right, 261 00:11:55.759 --> 00:12:00.200 but it's not. It means excessive, or lavish or or 262 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:05.759 wasteful even right, wasteful right, Okay. So, so the point 263 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:08.440 of the Prodigal Son for Sunday is a different angle 264 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:11.200 than we've ever done. And what we're saying is it 265 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.519 should be called the prodigal Father because of his lavish 266 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:16.320 love for us, because that's the point of the parable. 267 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:17.039 Right. 268 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:19.960 So, so it's the it is. It is the the 269 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.679 son was wasteful and lavish and is living in the 270 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.919 wrong way. But it's actually the prodigal father who lavishes 271 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:29.799 his love on us, right, and and it's and it's 272 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.080 and it's excessive. Right, that's really the definition of the 273 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:36.360 word prodigal. So that's this Sunday. So I'm very excited 274 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.200 about it, as you can tell. 275 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:40.360 Very excited. Yes, yes, it'd be super great. 276 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.600 Yes. So all that to say is that first John 277 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.639 three is really about I guess you can say it's 278 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:51.960 really about love, right, Yes, it's about the God's love 279 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:52.799 that he has for us. 280 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:55.120 So people are going to read some of those If 281 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:58.840 you sin, then you're really not a believer. You have 282 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.960 to take that in the context of the way John's 283 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:06.440 writing about it. He's not really writing a theological treatise 284 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:10.679 on sin. He's commenting on either your for God or 285 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.679 you're against God. Your forehm, you're against him. When we 286 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:16.559 get into the Book of Romans talking about God's grace, 287 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.240 Paul says, sometimes I do the things I don't want 288 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.320 to do. Sometimes I don't do the things I want 289 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:26.799 to do. But thank God, you know, only Jesus can 290 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:29.279 save me. And there's no condemnation for those who are 291 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:33.120 in Christ Jesus. So what John is talking about is 292 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:36.720 the outward side. Man, if you're claiming that you're a 293 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:39.639 follower of Jesus, but you keep living like the world, 294 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:42.360 you're probably not a follower of Jesus. That's what he's 295 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:46.519 talking about. He's not talking about a sinful event. He's 296 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.039 talking about the trajectory of your life. If you just 297 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:53.360 keep on living like you always lived, if you don't 298 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:57.519 make any changes, if God doesn't do anything different in you, 299 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:59.320 you're always going to be the same person. And if 300 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:01.159 you're the same person and then you weren't really saved, 301 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:02.080 that's what he's saying. 302 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:03.720 Yeah, well, and the reason why we know that is 303 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:06.480 because the Bible is its own best commentary. So if 304 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:09.120 you take every verse about getting to Heaven, every verse 305 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.919 about salvation or being in Christ or being a Christian 306 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.279 or being in the family of God, and you stack 307 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:21.799 up every single verse of the context of that is 308 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:26.679 definitely congruent to every other promise because you can't contradict 309 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.639 the Bible can't contradict itself. So it's not as if 310 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.879 you can sin and then all of a sudden behave 311 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:36.399 yourself out of God's care or just being excommunicated from 312 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.639 heaven right based on your good deeds, because everywhere else 313 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:42.320 in the Bible it says there is absolutely nothing you 314 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:45.360 can do to obtain salvation. There's nothing you can do 315 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:49.399 to lose your salvation because salvation is not dependent on 316 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:53.320 your behavior, which, by the way, is the third point 317 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.320 of this weekend. There you go, because it says that 318 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.639 both sons, the prodigal son and the older son, thought 319 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:04.799 that the father's love was defined by their actions, right right, 320 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:07.440 because because the first son said, oh, my goodness, look 321 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:09.720 what I did. I'm no longer worthy, you called your son, 322 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:14.559 and the second son said, uh, you know, hey, uh 323 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:17.960 you know, you know I've always done this, therefore you 324 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.799 should do this for me. And in God's response, but 325 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:24.919 the father's response to both sons is the same, right 326 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.679 lavish love. But he runs to both sons anyway all 327 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.600 that to say, that is exactly what we see here, 328 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:33.759 and I love by the way, in verse number two, 329 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.240 which is our key verse, that he says, dear friends, 330 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:40.519 we already we are already God's children, but he has 331 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:43.480 not yet shown us what we will be like when 332 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:47.279 Christ appears, but we do not know what that, but 333 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.320 we do know that we will be like him, for 334 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.159 we will see him as he really is. And the 335 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.039 idea that we will be like Christ when he appears 336 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:59.480 is saying that like we will actually no matter how 337 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:02.360 hard we try, we will even be more sinless. It 338 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:08.720 reminds me of my Bible college professor who says he 339 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:12.080 used to say he used to talk like this, and 340 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:14.480 he said, well, we could never be sinless, but we 341 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:16.759 can sin less. 342 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.879 That's right, That's what he said, you can. There's a 343 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:21.919 great note in the Life Application Study Bible. IM always 344 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.399 telling everybody get a life application study Bible. We had 345 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:27.159 a lady come into the office this week her son 346 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.279 just got baptized. God's really been doing amazing things at 347 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.559 Heritage Church and we just baptized what ninety three more 348 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:36.480 people this last weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just incredible. 349 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:39.440 We've seen over eight hundred people follow Lord and believers 350 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:43.399 baptism this year sixteen eight sixteen. It's just phenomenal. Your 351 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.480 God's just doing we're trying to see out of his way. 352 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:47.720 So we're not saying at the brag, we're just we're 353 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.919 God's doing something special something God's doing a revival, I 354 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:53.440 think here, and we get to be a part of it. 355 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:53.879 It's amazing. 356 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.039 Well yeah, it's almost scary and humble. Yeah, well it's 357 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:00.120 definitely humble, but it's almost scary. It's like, okay, how 358 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:01.720 can we steward what God is doing? 359 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:05.720 But I had a mom come in and she said, hey, 360 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:09.039 I want to get a Bible for my teenage son, 361 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:12.200 and I'd like something that will help explain it, because 362 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:14.640 sometimes it's hard to understand a little bit, you know, 363 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:16.920 when you're reading it. For it. The first time, I said, 364 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:19.000 here and I gave her. I gave her one just 365 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:20.319 like this. It was in a brand new box. I 366 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:21.680 gave her one just like this, and I said, hey, 367 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:24.480 you can have this. Give it to him. And a 368 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.119 new Living Translation is written in like an eighth or 369 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.559 ninth grade reading level. It's not terribly complex, it's pretty simple. 370 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.200 It's conversational. Yes, And I said, and then these notes 371 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.279 just really help you understand. And I showed her how 372 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:37.400 the notes work. She's like, oh, maybe this would be 373 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:39.559 good for him. I think so. So anyways, I think 374 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:41.920 anybody can can use this. But if you look at 375 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:46.279 the notes for first John three, two and three. It 376 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:50.079 says believing in Christ begins the process of becoming more 377 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:52.519 and more like him, just like the Bible says in 378 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:54.319 Romans eight twenty nine. That's God's plan. It's for us 379 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:57.920 to be like his son right. And this process continues 380 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.039 until we see Christ face to faith like he mentions 381 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:06.200 in one Corinthians chapter thirteen, and then here in Philippians 382 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.160 three twenty one, and then here we'll see him as 383 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:12.799 he is right. And we don't know exactly how we'll 384 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.200 be like him, but we do know that we will 385 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:19.920 have eternal, resurrected bodies. Right then, these be perfect bodies. 386 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:25.119 There'll be no problems, no right we will be free 387 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:28.599 from sin, will be free from pain. We'll have much 388 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:31.880 more understanding than we do now on earth. Knowing our 389 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:35.400 ultimate destiny motivates us to keep morally pure and free 390 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:37.480 from the corruption of sin. It also gives us hope 391 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:39.599 as we struggle with sin, because we know that one 392 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:43.079 day will be totally sinless like Jesus. God purifies us, 393 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.839 but we must also take steps to remain pure and 394 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.079 Paul talks about it. Fir Timothy five, James talks about it, 395 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:51.680 and James four eight Peter talks about it. And first 396 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:54.400 Peter one this idea that he makes us clean and 397 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.960 then we work to stay clean, right, those two things together, 398 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.960 And every time we resist a temptation or turn from sin, 399 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.559 we become more like Jesus. Right, So it's less about 400 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:05.720 the shame of it and more of every time I 401 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:08.119