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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:13.839 Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in for another episode of 5 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:14.919 The Bible Guys. 6 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.559 Sing us a song, Chris, good Morning. I knew that's 7 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:24.120 what you'd say, talk thrown nut through good morning. Good 8 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:27.760 morning to you and you and you and you. 9 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:30.519 Wow, well that's the end of You're saying it for 10 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:32.799 all of us, not just one of us. 11 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:35.200 That's correct. Wow, because I said. 12 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.640 That's because it's all three listeners, is me and two others. 13 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:45.759 Yeah, yeah, that's right. That's so funny. Oh that's great. Yes, well, hey, 14 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:47.640 thanks Jeff for requesting me singing. 15 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:50.840 That was magnificent. And people have been waiting. I mean 16 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:52.520 we've we've gotten pretty deep into the week. 17 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:54.240 Yes, well we're at Wednesday. 18 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:56.280 I know, that's what I'm saying. And so this is 19 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:58.640 this is uh yes. 20 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:02.560 So hey, today we're going to start off with a 21 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.680 brand new segment that I've never heard of. Desiree just 22 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:11.599 decided to make something up called hypothetical Hilarity. Here are 23 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:16.879 some wild and ridiculous hypothetical situations to discuss. They must 24 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:20.480 decide on a course of action or solve the problem 25 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:24.920 and in the most outlandish way possible. So is the 26 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.920 assignment just to answer the question or is the assignment 27 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:33.280 to answer the question in a crazy, unexpected way. 28 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:37.560 I'm not sure, but let's just let's go for it, Chris. Okay, 29 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.000 all right, let's go for it because the rules are 30 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:43.319 are Yes, you want to read in the most outlandish 31 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:44.400 way possible? 32 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:45.599 Do you want to read the first one? 33 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:48.799 If your pet suddenly grew to the size of a 34 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:53.040 small car, would you let it drive you around or 35 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.719 turn it into a social media influencer? 36 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:01.599 Yes? Both depends is your petiphish because I. 37 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:05.159 Don't know what what? What is your pet? It's your pet, Chris, Oh, 38 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.599 my pets, it's literally says your pet. 39 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:09.879 Oh so this isn't just the listeners pets. 40 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:13.120 No, so since the listeners can't speak on the podcast, 41 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:13.960 they just have to listen. 42 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:16.520 Oh geez, ready to be fine. So this is a 43 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:17.599 question for me. 44 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:21.199 If your pet suddenly grew to the size of a 45 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.280 small car. Yes, not a big car, a small car. 46 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:26.039 I get it. 47 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:28.479 Okay, okay, would you yes? 48 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:30.000 Okay? 49 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.759 Fine, Okay, Well then I wasn't receiving it that way, 50 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:35.039 so you always see Jeff. That shows you how un 51 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:38.199 selfish I am. I always think of others. Yes, I 52 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.759 don't think of me. I think of others first. 53 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.120 I think it's that you don't pay attention to the words. 54 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:45.360 That's what I think. 55 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:49.039 What a terrible response to that, What a terrible response. 56 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:50.439 I think you wanted to take a credit where it 57 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:51.479 doesn't belong this time. 58 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:53.840 So uh okay. 59 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:56.120 So if my cats, I have two cats, You have 60 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.520 two cats currently, if they're. 61 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.120 Looking for others, so if you can help them, no, 62 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:02.400 I do, because they're down three. 63 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.840 Now, if my cat, one. 64 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.360 Of my cats rude to be the size of a car, 65 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:09.680 would I let it drive me around? 66 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.240 I think I would do both. I would definitely ride 67 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:13.759 on that thing. 68 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:16.080 It doesn't say would you ride on it? 69 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.599 Well, drive me around? Oh wait a minute, are you 70 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.240 saying that that question means? 71 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:22.759 The way that it's worded is that it's actually going 72 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:26.840 to be the driver instead of you. I know that's 73 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:29.080 what I'm saying, but the wording, I think the intent 74 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:31.199 is different than the wording. That's all I'm saying. Right, 75 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:33.599 there's a there's a little lawyer that lives in my 76 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:35.240 head and the words matter. 77 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.360 Yeah, because what she was meaning was use it. 78 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.360 Would you ride it around? Ride around on it? 79 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:42.919 Like a YEA, Well, I'm going to go with the intent, Jeff, Okay, 80 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:45.479 I'm not going to be you know, one of those guys. 81 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.800 I'm just saying, desert needs to use words on purpose. 82 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:49.919 And would you let it drive you around? Is a 83 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:54.439 totally different picture across. That's a different word picture. We've 84 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:58.240 already your size of a car now is in the 85 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:00.599 driver's seat of your pickup truck driving down the road. 86 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.400 That's what Hey, we already picked on desiret yesterday for 87 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:03.879 the jokes. 88 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.120 No, that's right, No, no, we picked on the people 89 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:07.439 who sent them, sent those jokes. 90 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:09.319 In ultimately we ended up doing that. 91 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:12.520 Yet we're picking a lot of people this week. So 92 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:14.879 if you haven't been offended yet, we have two more days. 93 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:18.040 That's right. Just give us a that's right for this week? 94 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:18.839 Okay, all right? 95 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:21.279 So I would say yes for both, honestly. 96 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.079 So you would you would you would let your cat 97 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.519 drive you around? Yes, But you'd also be if you've 98 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:27.879 got a cat the size of the car, you got 99 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:29.120 to put it on the internet. 100 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.240 Of course, Yeah, and you'd be rich. I'd have to 101 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:31.959 quit my job. 102 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:36.920 Just yeah, and what a noble what a noble cause 103 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.920 look at the size of my cat as opposed to 104 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:52.639 you know, twenty people to Jesus for eternity, that's. 105 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:58.240 What it would be. Quit your job. Okay, that's really funny. 106 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.000 If you had to be stuck in an elevator with 107 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.319 one celebrity, yes, and you're more focused on celebrities than me, 108 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:07.279 so this would be good. Yes, but you couldn't talk. Yes, 109 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:08.240 who would it be? 110 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:18.800 And why Bob Ross? Because I couldn't talk, which means right, 111 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.639 and he would teach me and I would sit there 112 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:25.120 for hours and as long as we had canvases. 113 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.480 Right, uh, you know in the elevator. 114 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.839 Once again, the words say, but you couldn't talk, correct, 115 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:35.879 he could write, which means like I could listen even 116 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.920 if he didn't, even if he didn't have a canvas. 117 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:42.680 He could just talk and just teach me how to paint, 118 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.600 which would be great. I'd love to listen to that guy. 119 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.720 I think it would be. I don't know he's not 120 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:53.360 TV anymore, but I think he's dead actually, okay, well. 121 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:58.399 Old as Bob Ross. I didn't get Siri. How old 122 00:05:58.439 --> 00:05:59.120 is Ross died? 123 00:05:59.199 --> 00:05:59.839 July fourth. 124 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.360 Uh huh, he died. 125 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:04.480 They're interrupted. 126 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:06.959 Yeah, he died. You were talking, that's the problem. 127 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:09.920 Chris and Siri were interrupting each other. That's pretty amazing. 128 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:11.360 You were talking when I was talking. 129 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:12.240 Yeah, I'm sorry. 130 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.879 So so he died. So can I still choose him? 131 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:16.480 Sure? 132 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:17.040 All right? 133 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:20.600 Yeah? Yeah, because it said any celebrity, right, one celebrity? Okay, okay, 134 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:25.360 I would pick maybe Da Vinci. 135 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:29.120 Oh that's why you said I can choose Bob Ross 136 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.000 because you wanted to go back into the archives. 137 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:31.199 Yeah. 138 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.600 Yeah, well he's the original renaissance man and I'm very 139 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.800 intrigued by that. Okay, yeah, yeah. Or the other one 140 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.439 that was thinking is Mark Twain. Oh I think Mark 141 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:42.439 Twain to be a neat one. He'd be a jerk though, 142 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:50.199 Why he's hysterically funny he was. Yeah, but in your opinion, 143 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:51.600 Mark Twain to be a jerk. 144 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:53.480 Can you pick up a skeleton hand and move it? Yeah? 145 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:55.839 Yeah? Yeah, Well I mean you picked up Bob Ross. 146 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.839 Hey listen, Uh. 147 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.560 Why would Mark Twain be a jerk? Well, because he's 148 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.240 an American treasure. To be honest, you're not going to 149 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:06.000 like this answer. 150 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.519 Actually probably, I am not none of my listeners are 151 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:09.240 gonna like this answer. 152 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.040 I don't think so, maybe you shouldn't give it. 153 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:16.319 In an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation, Captain 154 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:21.319 Picard and Data, we're in the holiday, yes, and they 155 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:27.759 decided to create Mark Twain who ended up being a jerk. Okay, well, 156 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.959 but they were basing off his character, like his personality 157 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:34.279 and it's like being snippy, right and uh and so 158 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.519 I in mind, I see I see Mark Twain in 159 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:39.720 my mind played out. 160 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:40.240 By this actor. 161 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.199 All right, now we have to ask, because you just 162 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:45.319 took it to the space age. Everything. 163 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:47.959 All I did was tell you the reason why was 164 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:54.600 Mark Twain a jerk? Oh? That's so subjective, check gipt. 165 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:55.600 He's not going to answer that. 166 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:00.279 Mark Twain was famously witty and known for for his 167 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:01.279 biting humor. 168 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:02.680 Oh sarcasm. 169 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:05.639 But but opinions on whether he was a jerk are 170 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:11.639 mixed and widely subjective. He was humorous and sarcastic. He 171 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:17.360 critiqued authority, and he was very demanding, in particular with 172 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:21.480 his family and friends. He's he struggled with financial issues 173 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:27.480 and put stress on relationships or sometimes intense personality and wow, 174 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:31.240 he had complexity. I think and compassion. 175 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:34.799 I think if you looked up Webster's definition for a jerk. 176 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:39.759 It sounds like me. This sounds like me. Complexity and compassion. 177 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:43.039 Hey, you said nobody else said he's. 178 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:47.840 A little stressful on everybody else, constantly critiquing authority with 179 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.679 humor and sarcasm. That's I think he'd be great to. 180 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:52.240 Hang out with, you know, Forrest Gump when he says 181 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:53.720 and that's all I have to say about that. 182 00:08:55.799 --> 00:09:00.919 There you go, Okaye, Betinos, everything that's so funny. Okay, 183 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.679 well we should move on from here. This next thing 184 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:05.559 for those of you who hung on this long and 185 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:08.879 we're waiting for us to get to the Bible, so 186 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:10.759 that Hey, that segment wound up being more interesting. I 187 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:12.720 thought it was gonna be Yeah, me too, Yeah yeah, okay. 188 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:15.279 You know, speaking of segments being better than you thought 189 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:17.799 they were going to be, this is a psalm about 190 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:21.360 a king that is the best king. In fact, it 191 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:26.840 actually says the perfect king. So that segment was almost perfect, 192 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:28.200 but this psalm. 193 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:30.480 Is more perfect, is more perfect? Wow? 194 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:33.960 Okay, it was the worst cheese segment so so far. 195 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:37.480 If you if you're new, we've been trying to have 196 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:39.799 cheesy segues from our goofy segment. 197 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:41.080 I'm sorry, I said segment. 198 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:43.039 From our goofy segments into our thing. And that was 199 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:45.279 That was about as cheesy as it gets. So we 200 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.519 were reading Psalm seventy two and this is Most of 201 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:53.200 the psalms were written by David, Solomon's father, who was 202 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.679 a great king, but a few of them were written 203 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:59.320 by Solomon. And this one, Psalm seventy two, is it will. 204 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.080 Read the theme because because it supports my cheesy segue, 205 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:03.559 it says the perfect King. 206 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.159 I was going to read it. Okay, good, Yes, it 207 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:09.600 was written as a prayer and this is the end 208 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.840 of the Book of Psalms was divided into five books, 209 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:13.600 and this is the end of I think book two. 210 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:18.879 And David had prayed these prayers and so either this 211 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:24.000 is Solomon praying about the king or it's more likely 212 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:27.080 that Solomon is recounting a prayer that David prayed for 213 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:28.840 his son. Is what it seems like. 214 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:30.799 He Do you think this had music to it? 215 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.440 Oh? Absolutely all of the psalms did because they were singable. Okay, yeah, yeah. 216 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:36.759 So anyways, we know Solomon wrote it. We think it's 217 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:39.840 likely that he was writing what his dad prayed for him. 218 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.000 But it says here the theme is the perfect King. 219 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.960 In this psalm, a king asks God to help his 220 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:49.600 son rule the nation justly and wisely. It looks forward 221 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:52.200 to the endless reign of the Messiah, who alone can 222 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.159 rule with perfect justice, and whose citizens will enjoy perfect peace. 223 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.879 Which is pretty awesome. The perfect King, the perfect. 224 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.200 King, so he go. Psalm seventy two says, give your 225 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.799 love of justice to the King, Oh God, help him 226 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.200 judge your people in the right way. Let the poor 227 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.120 always be treated fairly. May the mountains yield prosperity for all, 228 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.039 and may the hills be fruitful. Help him to defend 229 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.039 the poor, to rescue the children of the needy, and 230 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.799 to crush their oppressors. May they fear you as long 231 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:23.320 as the sun shines, as long as the moon remains 232 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:26.919 in the sky. Yes, forever, May the King's rule be refreshing, 233 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:29.919 like spring rain on freshly cut grass, like the showers 234 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:34.120 that water the earth. May all the godly flourish during 235 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:37.200 his reign. May there be abundant prosperity until the moon 236 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:39.720 is no more. May he rain from sea to sea, 237 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:42.000 and from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth. 238 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:45.399 Desert nomads will bow before him. His enemies will fall 239 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.279 before him in the dust. The western kings of Tarsish 240 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.320 and other distant lands will bring him tribute. The eastern 241 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:54.759 kings of Sheba and Siba will bring him gifts. All 242 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:57.200 kings will bow before him, and all nations will serve him. 243 00:11:57.600 --> 00:11:59.639 He will rescue the poor when they cry to him. 244 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.879 He will help the oppressed who have no one to 245 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.600 defend him. He feels pity for the weak and the needy, 246 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:06.919 and he will rescue them. He will redeem them from 247 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.519 oppression and violence, for their lives are precious to him. 248 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:12.440 Long live the King. May the gold of Sheba be 249 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.039 given to him. May the people always pray for him 250 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.519 and bless him all day long. May there be abundant 251 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:20.799 grain throughout the land, flourishing even on the hilltops. May 252 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.360 the fruit trees flourish like the trees of Lebanon, and 253 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:25.879 may the people thrive like grass in a field. May 254 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:29.039 the King's name endure forever. May it continue as long 255 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.879 as the sun shines. May all nations be blessed through 256 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:34.799 him and bring him praise. Praise the Lord God, the 257 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:38.320 God of Israel, who alone does such wonderful things. Praise 258 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.240 his glorious name forever. Let the whole earth be filled 259 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:42.960 with His glory. Amen and Amen. 260 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:46.679 And then it wils and then it says this ends 261 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:48.679 the prayers of David's son of Jesse. 262 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:49.519 That's correct. 263 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:51.120 Wow. 264 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.679 So there's a note here in our life application study Bible, 265 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:58.039 which is a Bible that we recommend. 266 00:12:58.159 --> 00:12:58.960 Oh yeah, we love it. 267 00:12:59.120 --> 00:12:59.519 We love it. 268 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:01.639 Get yourself a good study Bible. 269 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:04.799 Yes, And it says, what qualities do we want most 270 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:07.759 in our leaders? God desires all who rule under him 271 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:09.600 to be just and righteous. 272 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:10.840 Think of how the world will. 273 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.799 Change if leaders would commit That's the thought, isn't it 274 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:15.799 themselves to these two qualities? 275 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:17.840 Pray fore and righteousness? 276 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:18.759 Right, Pray for. 277 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:20.759 Leaders that you hear about them on the news. Ask 278 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:23.039 God to help them see and then it just blah 279 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:23.559 blah blah blah. 280 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:25.879 Help them see their need for him. Yeah, ask God 281 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:28.039 to help them lead with justice and righteousness. 282 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:29.279 Yeah, which is really great. 283 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:33.480 Yeah. Yeah, So that's what Paul tells us in on Timothy. 284 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.080 There's a note there, right, pray for our kings, Pray 285 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.080 for our leaders. Yeah. 286 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:41.000 By the way, as you were reading through this, I 287 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.360 mean Obviously I've read the Bible before, I've read Psalm 288 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.159 seventy two before, but I think it's been a while 289 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.759 since I've paid attention specifically to this particular psalm, And 290 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:56.360 my thinking was sort of wandering, thinking, I wonder if 291 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.320 he wrote this when he before he was king, or 292 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.960 do you think that it's we're addressing this now because 293 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.200 chronologically it's supposed to be after he was king. 294 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:10.240 Yeah, so I think this is he wrote it after 295 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:14.799 he was king, I think. But what I understand it 296 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.799 Psalm seventy two is it seems like he's remembering the 297 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:21.399 prayer that his father prayed for him. He's realizing that 298 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:25.000 God gave him all that his father prayed for. It 299 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:27.879 prays for wisdom. He prays that his son will care 300 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.159 for the poor, that the whole nation will prosper before him, 301 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:35.039 that the world will will, that the enemies will submit, 302 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.960 that the rest of the world will bring him tribute. 303 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:40.759 Even it mentioned Sheba a couple times, what the queen 304 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.480 Sheba does. I think a lot of theologians believe that 305 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:48.919 Psalm seventy two is Solomon realizing the blessing in his 306 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.200 life was passed to him from his father. And the 307 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.639 prayers of his father, and that he has realized these 308 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:55.360 things to be true. 309 00:14:55.519 --> 00:15:00.840 So if that's the case, then that means that David. 310 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:06.360 Would have spoken this into his son prophetically, prophetically and saying, like. 311 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.559 One day, pray over his son this way. 312 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:10.639 The Queen of Sheba will give you gold. 313 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:11.159 Yeah. 314 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:14.039 And so he's remembering as the Queen of Sheba, which 315 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.480 we read and yes Day's podcast comes and gives him 316 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.080 were two podcasts ago where the Queen of Sheba comes 317 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.080 and gives him what was it five hundred. 318 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.720 Yeah, three and three hundred and something billion dollars? Yeah, 319 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:29.200 or a million million dollars. She gave me nine thousand 320 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.440 tons of gold, yeah, And I looked that up. Let 321 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:34.200 me let me find out nine billion or something. No, no, no, 322 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:37.159 this was three hundred and something. 323 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.440 Yeah. Well, whatever it was, I made a joke and three. 324 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.440 Hundred and forty three million dollars. 325 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:43.759 Yeah. 326 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.600 So the bottom line is is, you know, it could 327 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:49.360 be that here he's finally seeing it all come to fruition, 328 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:52.559 and then he's going back and saying, son of a gun, 329 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:54.639 my father prayed this over. I remember when I was 330 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.399 nine years old. I remember when he spoke over me, 331 00:15:57.720 --> 00:15:59.720 and he said, one day this is going to happen, 332 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:00.320 and it. 333 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:01.840 Could be maybe the catalyst. 334 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:05.840 If this is true, If this is Solomon who's praying 335 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:10.000 and remembering a prayer that his father prayed for him 336 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:15.960 with so many specifics, then that would be an incredible thing, right. 337 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:18.720 You know, we pray over our kids all the time, 338 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:23.000 and when God answers the prayers and it actually comes 339 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.320 to fruition, it's like there's nothing better, is it, right, 340 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:26.120 There's nothing better. 341 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.600 I've had conversations with my mom and my dad about 342 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.519 how they prayed over me, and I'm not going to 343 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:35.879 get into specifics, but so many of those things have 344 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.960 come true in my life. You know, I'm fifty three now, 345 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:40.840 but my mom and dad you know, began praying over 346 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:44.519 me when I was eight, and they pray for me often, 347 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.600 and many of those things have come true, and not 348 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:49.519 long ago, I don't know, a year or two ago. 349 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.960 My mom and I were talking about that and how God. 350 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.080 She feels like God has answered so many of her 351 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:57.679 prayers in that. So it's a really humbling thing. So 352 00:16:57.799 --> 00:16:59.759 I think that you kind of pick it up because 353 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:02.200 he is saying, you know, as you read it made 354 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:04.200 the King's name never passed from the earth and all 355 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.000 these things. It sounds like a big deal, But that's 356 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:08.720 him remembering that's what his father prayed for him. But 357 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:13.680 then Solomon seems to have written these last verses, praise 358 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:19.079 the Lord God of Israel, who alone does such wonderful things. Right, right, 359 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.799 So this is Solomon at his very best, saying, my 360 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:28.279 dad prayed these things over me, But praise God, right, 361 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:30.039 the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does 362 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:32.599 such wonderful They praise his glorious name forever. But the 363 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:36.160 whole earth be filled with his glory, right, amen and amen. 364 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:40.039 And so there there's a humility that Solomon is expressing 365 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:42.400 here that my dad praied these things, and look, God 366 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:45.839 gave us this. Yeah, and really, God's the one that 367 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:46.799 should get all the glory. 368 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:51.839 So my daughter is married and she lives in Saint Pete, Florida. 369 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.160 And a few years back, five years ago or so, 370 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:01.359 my son in law took me out to a restaurant 371 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:06.839 to ask my permission for him to ask Sarah to 372 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:07.240 marry him. 373 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:12.359 So, you know, and gosh, that moment was pretty surreal. 374 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:12.599 You know. 375 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:15.240 I remember what we ordered, I remember where we sat, 376 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.839 I remember what restaurant it was, and he sat there 377 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:21.039 and just talked about you know, he just had his 378 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:27.440 speech all prepared, and he was crying, and afterwards he 379 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:29.119 sort of said, hey, I love your daughter all these 380 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:32.079 different things. And then when he get done, he says, Okay, 381 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:35.200 I'm done crying. I promise no more crying. And then 382 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:37.799 I said, let me tell you a story, because it 383 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.319 was my turn to respond and say yes, right, And 384 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:46.599 I said, the day that Sarah was born, nineteen ninety four, 385 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.400 this is how long ago it was. I said, we 386 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.200 brought her home from the hospital, and I described the 387 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:55.240 nursery and I said, and my wife and I later 388 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:59.160 in her crib. I said, and that in that very moment, 389 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:02.599 we got our knees and we prayed, and we went 390 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:06.680 through this laundry list of things that we prayed for her. 391 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:07.240 In her life. 392 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.079 Among them was the very first time that we prayed 393 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:16.839 for her future husband, and we prayed for her future 394 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:22.079 husband her entire life, and we prayed that God would 395 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:24.519 send her somebody who and we just listed all these 396 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:27.799 different things. And I explained all this to him and 397 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:34.240 I said, so, I said, this moment is the answer, 398 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:36.960 and I believe that God has sent you to her. 399 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:39.599 I believe you have the answer to these prayers. I said, 400 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:43.400 We've been praying for for you before you, before we 401 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:46.279