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 --> 00:00:13.679 practical ways. Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in for another episode. 4 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:17.719 Another great episode is gonna be epic, epic episode. Yeah, 5 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.359 I believe so, me do. In fact, we have a 6 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:23.359 great scripture for today. This one's really great, Jeff. 7 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:24.440 The good one was one of my favorites. 8 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:27.160 Yes, And we're talking about eternal life this week, and 9 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:29.800 today we're looking at John ten twenty eight. 10 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:30.519 Wow. 11 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:33.359 Right. I don't normally quote John ten twenty eight when 12 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:36.079 I give the Plan of Salvation. Yeah, but we're going 13 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:37.439 to talk about that through today. 14 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:38.399 But it's in our arsenal. 15 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:40.799 It is in the arsenal a lot. There's a lot 16 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:41.560 in the arsenal. 17 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:42.560 Jeff, I've used it before. 18 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.520 Yeah, yeah, I have a ream of bullets. 19 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:47.359 Yeah, yep. 20 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:49.119 Which, by the way, did you know that's where the 21 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.039 phrase the whole nine yards comes from? 22 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:55.000 It is the whole yeah, the bullets, Yeah, because I'm 23 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.039 the belt. Yeah, the whole belt. The bullets is nine years. 24 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.960 Belt of bullets in World War One was twenty seven 25 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.479 be long. And so when they emptied a whole ream 26 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:05.760 of bullets into an enemy, they'd say, we gave him 27 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.400 the whole nine yards. And so people when you ask 28 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:10.239 them today, they'd say, oh, is it a football term? 29 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.040 Nobody knows And isn't that funny how we still use phrase? 30 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:14.680 Isn't that amazing? Yep? I love it. 31 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:18.159 So today we're getting into that, but before we do, 32 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:21.359 we have a segment by Desiree, who says, today's segment 33 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:22.599 is the draft list. 34 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:23.920 Draft lists are always fun. 35 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:26.480 Yeah, it's as many people say that Christmas time is 36 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:27.719 the best time of the year. So today we're going 37 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:29.439 to do a draft list on the best things in 38 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.400 life in general, not necessarily related to Christmas. So she's 39 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:35.400 talking about enjoyable things, right, they could be simple pleasures 40 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:37.799 of life. Yes, do rock paper scissors? Who gets the 41 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:41.159 first pick? And do it until you have five things each? Okay, 42 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:42.439 so rock paper scissors is ready? 43 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:42.840 Yes? 44 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:43.920 Ready? One? 45 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:44.239 Two? 46 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:44.599 Three? 47 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.879 Shoot? Oh what yes? I got rock? He got scissors? 48 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.120 Did you know I read I read an article on 49 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:52.760 how to win rock paper scissors? 50 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:53.319 Of course you did. 51 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.120 I did just recently. Yeah, oh yeah, I think I 52 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:58.040 think I might have saved it. You did it because 53 00:01:58.079 --> 00:01:59.560 you know, because I always lose to you. 54 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.280 Yeah, so what's the strategy. 55 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:04.920 I'm not telling you. I can't tell you because then 56 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.120 you go back to beating me again. Okay, okay, so 57 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:10.599 I went so the first one, I think, and we're 58 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:14.400 talking about just life, simple pleasures, the right, Is that 59 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:16.159 what we're talking about. Yeah, it's not like, you know, 60 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:18.599 the best things in life, the most enjoyable things. 61 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:21.719 Because if I were to be literal, the best things 62 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:24.039 in life are like relationships. Yeah, yeah, you have a 63 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.360 good character, and we're not going for that. We're we're 64 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:27.639 doing more like simple pleasures. 65 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:29.560 Yeah, like some of our favorite These are a few 66 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:31.520 of my favorite things. Yeah, okay, that's. 67 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:34.599 Right, papers and strengths. These are a few of. 68 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:38.240 My favorite things. Okay, so I think and that's Christmasy. 69 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.680 Oh yeah, so I would say I think one of 70 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:43.599 my favorite and we were just talking about this, by 71 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:47.960 the way, I think one of my favorite things is laughing, 72 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:55.599 particularly as a result of clever, dry wit is my favorite. 73 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.439 I love and even just a little biting, but clever 74 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:02.199 and dry. I love that kind of hum. So you're 75 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:04.639 not doing like a I'm not a slapstick guy, no, no, No. 76 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:06.240 What I'm saying is you're choosing. 77 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.639 That's one of my favorite things, just laughing comedy stuff. 78 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.400 Yeah, but I's thinking more like sausage McMuffin. 79 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:15.759 Sure that's coming. Leave me alone, Okay, leave. 80 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.520 Me alone, Leave me alone? All right? 81 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:18.159 All right. 82 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:21.080 So I'm gonna do my first draft list and say, 83 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.080 and I hate to say this, but again simple pleasures. 84 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:29.039 There is a moment in the movie Theater when I'm 85 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:32.599 in an Imax theater when if you remember, if you 86 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:34.960 go to the Imax theater, it starts off by going 87 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:39.560 ten nine eight, And the moment that eight hits, it 88 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:45.000 breaks into the Imax thing, right, yes, and then it says, 89 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:48.080 don't watch a movie be a part of one. When 90 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.039 it breaks into that, I look over at my kids, 91 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.759 and I make a joke every time and they laugh. 92 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.319 Now they look at me because I get this face. 93 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.879 I go like this because it's what I said. I said, 94 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.639 I'm so happy. Yeah, I say, I always say I'm 95 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.159 so happy. I love being in an Imax theater movie. 96 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:10.919 And one of my favorite moments is when it turns 97 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:12.759 from that to eight. 98 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:14.599 Eight is the is the moment. 99 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:16.000 And by the way, I don't think I've ever said 100 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.160 that out lot. Wow, outside of my family. 101 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:19.399 Now we know about you, Chris. 102 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.680 Yeah, so I think that is one of my simple pleasures. Ye, 103 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.000 that is a favorite moment for me. I'm so happy. Yes, 104 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:26.839 that's what I always say. 105 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:32.319 I think My next one is I I love when 106 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.480 I nail it on the grill or on the barbecue 107 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:35.360 or something. I love it. 108 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.759 Oh yeah, sure of course you do love it. Yeah, 109 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:42.120 and and and specifically not when you not when somebody 110 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:43.040 else nails it, and you. 111 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:44.839 Eat when I nail it, when you nail Yeah, when 112 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:45.720 I nail Yeah, that's great. 113 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:46.319 That's a good one. 114 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:48.160 Right now, I'm in the middle of developing my own 115 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:53.519 barbecue sauce and my own rub, and I'm getting close. 116 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:55.319 Maybe this weekend I'll finish it. 117 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:57.879 So I'm going to go abroad here and I'm going 118 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:03.160 to say, uh, I love new restaurants, and I love 119 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:06.800 the experience of a restaurant, not just a food, me too, 120 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:10.319 ambiance me too, Right, So when I discover a new 121 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.920 restaurant that I love is great. Yeah, like Holy Cow. 122 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:18.040 In fact, so, just a couple of days ago, we 123 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:20.879 decided to make an overnight trip down to downtown Detroit 124 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:25.839 to go to the Amy Grand concert. Michael W. Smith 125 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:28.759 cc wins and we brought the Wilson's with us, David A. Wilson, 126 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:32.720 and I said, let's have dinner at London Chop House, 127 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:37.920 which is super fancy, and uh, Liz and Anne and Dave, 128 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.040 all three of them had never been. And Dave actually said, 129 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:44.360 that's one of the best restaurants I've ever been to 130 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.240 in my life. He actually said that, and he's been 131 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:48.959 to a lot of restaurants, has been in my house. 132 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:49.560 What the heck? 133 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:52.279 Yeah, right right, right, But but but but it was 134 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.600 so fun for all for me to watch them to 135 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:57.120 discover a brand new restaurants. 136 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:01.079 Fun. Yeah. I think one of my favorite favorite things 137 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:06.879 is uh, being with family. And this is one thing 138 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.600 you're supposed to say inanimate object, but but but it's true. 139 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.160 It's the being with family and all the buzz and 140 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:15.959 the noise and the laughter and the jokes and the 141 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:18.600 you know, all that kind of stuff. I love it. 142 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.079 So whether it's like sitting around the table at Thanksgiving 143 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:24.000 or everybody playing a game around the table, or just 144 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:27.879 the noise in the house, I enjoy enjoy that. 145 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:32.959 Yeah. Okay, I'm going to say zar ball game night. 146 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:35.199 Oh yeah, so we we. 147 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:38.160 Have epic yeah, epic. We we have always had a tradition, 148 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:40.120 and in fact, we haven't had one in quite a while. 149 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:43.120 So Liz, I know you're listening. So let's plan a 150 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.920 zar ball game night. It's overdue. But we will basically 151 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:48.680 have board games and we'll say hey, is zarbill game night, 152 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.839 and sometimes we'll invite people over. Sometimes there's guests, but 153 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:55.199 board games for us are a high value. 154 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.839 Yeah, I'm gonna this is weird because it's going to 155 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:00.759 be expressed. Is your fifth this is my fifth one. 156 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:04.319 I'm going to express it in two ways. I love 157 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:09.040 a good book, yep. I love sitting in my tree stand, 158 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:12.560 and those two things feel very different. But what it 159 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.839 is is both of those. I'm completely alone in my 160 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:22.240 own head, okay, right, undisturbed in my own head, thinking right. 161 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:24.800 I love that. So the hunting part of it is 162 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:29.240 just the result and the excuse, But it's the being 163 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:33.199 alone in the tree stand, the being alone lost in 164 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.040 a book love. I like that a lot because I'm 165 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:37.680 rarely ever alone. 166 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:40.560 Now, you're an extrovert. No, you're an introvert. 167 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.279 I know I'm an extrovert mildly. Yeah, yeah, I'm like 168 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:47.240 a six on the extroverted side, so pretty pretty low. 169 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:50.199 Pretty low, okay, yeah, because there's what like twenty three 170 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:51.560 to twenty four possible. 171 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:53.439 Points, yeah, something like that. Okay, yeah, but I am 172 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.759 on the extroverted side. I just get exhausted by people. 173 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:00.680 Well, my wife technically is introverted, but she functions like 174 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:05.199 an extrovert. Oh right, so she will, she will go 175 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:06.600 out with the best of them, right, I mean at 176 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:08.720 a party, you'd never know, but then she comes home 177 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:12.079 and collapses. Right, So she's but she's barely under the 178 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:13.360 introverted scale. 179 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:15.360 Yeah. I on the other side, just barely on the 180 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:16.279 extroverty side. 181 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:18.839 Okay, because sitting alone is because. 182 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:20.560 You're twenty seven out of twenty six points, aren't you? 183 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.000 Yes? Yeah, Well, and I may be more introverted now, 184 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.360 you know, it sort of changing to get older. But 185 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.639 at one time when I, I mean from years and 186 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:30.720 years and years, I would take it over and over again, 187 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:34.480 and I was one hundred percent extraversion was zero percent interview. 188 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:37.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the idea like a laboratory tree, 189 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.679 just waggertail waggertail wagger tails, run around and make sure 190 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:40.799 somebody's gonna pat you on the head. 191 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:43.080 Yeah, well, I mean the idea of being alone in 192 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:45.320 a tree stand as Wow, it's just I love. It's 193 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:46.120 mind blowing to me. 194 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:53.759 I have a very rich thought life. I do. I'll 195 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.639 drive for an hour without the radio line, just thinking 196 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.399 I do. That's funny to you. 197 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:08.000 I don't know why it shouldn't be. Should you shouldn't be? 198 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:13.519 All right, buddy? My fifth one, I don't. 199 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.039 Know why we're at nine minutes, but my last one 200 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:18.440 is going to. 201 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:24.519 Be uh, I gotta pick one quickly. I'm gonna say 202 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:25.399 my wife's wedding soup. 203 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:27.840 Oh, yes, it's Britanne. I want to put that on 204 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:31.840 my list too, because Liz's wedding soup is incredible with 205 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.000 the little meatballs in it. Yeah. Yeah, she makes your 206 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:38.679 own broth, doesn't see. Yes, love's good? Okay, Well, talking 207 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.519 about love? John talks about love a lot of times. 208 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:42.559 He does in the Bible. 209 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:44.840 Yeah he does. Yeah, chapter ten. 210 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:46.919 So I thought we'd read it from John chapter ten. 211 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:47.679 Doesn't that sound good? 212 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:47.919 Yes? 213 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:48.759 Does he talk about love? 214 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:51.600 And normally our segments ago about eight minutes, right, seven 215 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:53.240 seven minutes? Sorry about that. 216 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.200 I don't think he talks about love in this passage, 217 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:58.639 but he does talk a lot about love. So anyways, 218 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.039 our promise to is I give them eternal life and 219 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.559 they will never perish. So I just thought we could read. 220 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:07.919 In John ten, verse twenty two, it says it was 221 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:10.559 now winter and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time 222 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.360 of Hanukah, the festival of dedication. He was in the 223 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.039 temple walking through the section known as so this is about 224 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.440 this time of year. Oh yeah, for sure, yeah, read 225 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:18.840 about this. 226 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:19.200 Time of year. 227 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:19.639 How cool? 228 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:20.600 That is really cool. 229 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:22.440 Yeah. He was in the temple walking through the section 230 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.799 known as Solomon's Colonnade. The people surrounded him and asked, 231 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:27.480 how long are you going to keep us in suspense? 232 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:30.919 If you're the Messiah? Tell us plainly, and Jesus replied, 233 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.559 I have already told you, and you don't believe me. 234 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.600 The proof is the work I do in my father's name. 235 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:38.960 But you don't believe me because you're not my sheep. 236 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.200 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, 237 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.879 and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and 238 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.519 they will never perish. No one can snatch them away 239 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:48.960 from me, for my father has given them to me, 240 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.919 and he's more powerful than anyone else. No one can 241 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:54.879 snatch them from the Father's hand. The Father and I 242 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:57.799 are one. Once again, the people picked up stones to 243 00:10:57.879 --> 00:10:59.840 kill him, and Jesus said, at my father's direction, I've 244 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:02.120 done many good works for which one are you going 245 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:04.919 to stone me? They replied, we're stoning you, not for 246 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.240 any good work, but for blasphemy. You, a mere man, 247 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:11.360 claimed to be God. Jesus replied, it is written in 248 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:14.039 your own scriptures that God said to certain leaders of 249 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:16.759 the people. I say you are God's and you know 250 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:19.919 that the scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people 251 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:22.720 who received God's message were called God's, why do you 252 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:25.120 call it blasphemy when I say I'm the son of God? 253 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.919 After all, the Father set me apart and set me 254 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.200 into this world. Don't believe me unless they carry out 255 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:33.320 my father's work. But if I do his work, believe 256 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:35.840 in the evidence of the miraculous works I've done. Even 257 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.279 if you don't believe me, then you will know and 258 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:40.480 understand that the Father is in me and I am 259 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:43.120 in the Father. Once again, they tried to arrest him, 260 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.639 but he got away and left them. He went beyond 261 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:48.360 the Jordan River, near the place where where John was 262 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.799 first baptizing and stayed there a while, and many followed him. 263 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.919 John didn't perform miraculous signs, they remarked to one another, 264 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.399 but everything he said about this man has come true, 265 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:00.000 and many who were there believed in Jesus. 266 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.639 That's an amazing passage. In fact, I'm not sure that 267 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:08.399 I've actually preached, you know how. You know how you 268 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.000 always like read a passage and you think, how many 269 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:14.080 sermons have I constructed from this passage? Right? And over 270 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:16.360 the years, you know, when you're in ministry thirty something years, 271 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:18.159 you're like, how many times have I included this in 272 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:21.360 a sermon? You know, I'm not sure that there's too 273 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:24.799 many times. I think I think there were probably a 274 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:27.600 few times where I was walking through the Gospels, right, 275 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.799 So I've done it in Bible studies, and I've certainly 276 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:34.240 read through it in devotional books, and I think but 277 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:38.679 I think probably, and I think I've referenced right, especially 278 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:42.240 our key verse for today, I've referenced it for certain, 279 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:47.159 But actually talking about the actual event, the whole actual event, 280 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.759 this is a pretty intense event. 281 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:51.480 It is. 282 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.720 I mean, Jesus is plainly saying I'm the Son of God, 283 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:59.320 and they're like, we're we're going to stone you. 284 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:01.679 They heard it as you and I read it, and 285 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:03.360 it's because we're reading it in the English a little bit. 286 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.399 But he's like, I've already told you. You don't believe me. 287 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.399 He didn't say yes, I am the Messiah, right, he said, 288 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.279 and I proved it by what I did, And they 289 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.600 took that to mean yes, I'm the son of God. Right. 290 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.000 I don't know that. When I read those words specifically, 291 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:21.080 I go he just claimed to be the other than 292 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:22.320 saying the Father and I are one. 293 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:25.080 Right. But he did say in verse twenty eight, I 294 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.600 give them eternal life and they will never perish, so 295 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.600 no one can snatch them away from me, For my 296 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.120 father has given them to me, and he's more powerful 297 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.440 than anyone else, so no one can snatch them from 298 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:39.919 my father's hand. And my father, the Father and I 299 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:41.399 are one. Oh. He did say the Father and I 300 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:41.679 are one. 301 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:44.519 Yeah yeah, verse three yeah yeah. And they take it 302 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:47.159 to go, all right, we're going to kill this guy, right, right. 303 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.039 He didn't emphatically say absolutely right. 304 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.039 He did not say I am the Messiah, right, I 305 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.639 am the promised one to fulfill the prophecies which have 306 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:56.600 been discussed. 307 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.080 For him to say the Father and I are one 308 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:01.159 was enough. They heard it. The say if you've seen me, 309 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:04.440 you've seen the Father, which he says in another passage. 310 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:09.159 Right, And in the garden getsementy, he says, I am remember, 311 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:12.720 and they say, are you Jesus of Nazareth And he says, 312 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:16.919 I am and and some translations in English translated as 313 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:22.200 I am he. But it really was Jesus quoting you know, 314 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:27.519 God in the form of God announcing his name to 315 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.240 Moses when he says, tell them, I Am has sent me. 316 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.480 Oh yeah, yeah, the Great Ia. 317 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:36.519 So so yeah. So Jesus definitely has claimed to be, 318 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:39.919 you know, one with the Father in many different ways. 319 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:44.720 But yeah, you're right, the Messiah. It's interesting because you 320 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:48.879 know another I just read this, but in fact it was, oh, 321 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.559 it was last night. I was writing the Christmas Message 322 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.919 last night and and coming across the scripture where it 323 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.159 says he came to his own people, and his own 324 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:00.919 people did not believe him to receive him. Right, So 325 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:05.080 Jesus was Jewish. And it's so ironic and strange and 326 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:09.200 weird for me to even think that Jesus was a 327 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:12.679 Jewish person. And yet when you think about people who 328 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:17.399 are Jewish today, they believe the entire Old Testament, but 329 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.759 they're still waiting for a Messiah. 330 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.720 Right, yes, for the most part, Yeah, that's right. 331 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:26.279 For the most part, they don't believe that Jesus was 332 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:29.320 the son of God, that's right. So they'll adhere to 333 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:32.960 the entire Old Testament, but they're still looking for the Messiah. 334 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.919 And what's so interesting is many people may not know 335 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:41.919 this or not, but there are many people today right 336 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:46.120 now that a large Jewish population will say, I think 337 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:47.320 it's him, He's the Messiah. 338 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:50.440 Yes, they do. Well, there's signs all over Israel of 339 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:54.559 different got different rabbis claiming to be the Messiah or 340 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:57.200 you know, and it's funny. They put like stickers on 341 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:00.759 the back of road signs and stuff. Did you see those. Yeah, 342 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.759 there's always a new rabbi. Yeah, I've seen the billboards 343 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:05.799 that they think maybe this might be the new Messiah, 344 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:08.519 right yeah. Yeah, and they're disappointed when their family is not. 345 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.799 But yeah, and it's and it's can you even imagine? Uh, 346 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:16.360 just it's just amazing. Now there's an organization. You remember 347 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:18.960 having an organization at your church at one time called 348 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:19.480 Jews for. 349 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:21.919 Jesus I know about Jews for Jesus. 350 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.480 Yeah, okay, you don't have them. So we had them 351 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:27.799 come in several times, but five times I think I've 352 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:31.120 seen this ministry come into our church and present, and 353 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:32.480 a lot of times what they do is they'll do 354 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:36.279 the Passover supper. Sure, those do the Passover meal and uh, 355 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:39.120 and they'll compare all the symbolism of the Old Testament 356 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:41.600 and how Jesus was the one who fulfilled the prophecies, 357 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.279 and especially as it relates to uh, you know the 358 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.440 uh you know, the Passover meal that Jesus gave right 359 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:52.840 and and and obviously the uh you know Jesus connecting 360 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:54.759 the dots and saying this is my blood this you know, 361 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:58.000 this is my body broken for you. So anyway, all 362 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:01.919 of that to say, I remember learning as a young 363 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:06.039 man that you know, here's a group of people who 364 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.079 didn't believe that he's the Messiah. But yet there are 365 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:10.480 people who are Jewish who say, no, we do believe 366 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:13.200 that Jesus is the one that came fulfill all the prophecies. 367 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:16.839 And I think it's I don't know why, but is 368 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:21.319 it because Jesus rebuked the Pharisee so much, you know, 369 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:25.599 Jewish people, you know, they looked at their rabbis still today, right, 370 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:30.359 And Jesus came along and he rebuked the Pharisees and 371 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:34.160 the Jewish leaders, and he rebuked them so much that 372 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:38.400 he was sort of condemning them. And then, you know, 373 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.279 he did say that his own people didn't receive him, 374 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.160 and he sort of made that, you know, statement, which 375 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:47.079 was true. I almost wonder if that was the tidle 376 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:50.279 wave that set an entire group of people saying, like, 377 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:51.599 we rebuke this, we. 378 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:54.319 Were anytime you square off against power, power is going 379 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:56.960 to consolidate and try to crush you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 380 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:01.920 So I think it's interesting this it mentions. Let's cover 381 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:03.400 a couple of things. First of all, I don't know 382 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:08.160 how many people know what Hankkah is. So Hanakkah is 383 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:11.240 a Jewish holiday that coincides with the same time of 384 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:16.960 year as Christmas. It was the celebration of Judas Maccabeus 385 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:25.279 re cleansing the temple and re establishing sacrifices after Antiochus 386 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:31.599 Epiphanies had defiled the the altar by sacrificing a pig 387 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:35.920 on it in the like one sixty BC or something. 388 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.680 Somebody could have threatened my family with a gun, and 389 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:42.759 I have never been able to come up with all 390 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:45.359 of that information. Did you just look up? 391 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:48.759 There's a note here that reminds me of it. But yeah, yeah, 392 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.880 so I knew Hanikkah was so, I just I've forgotten 393 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:57.680 the one sixties. So but yeah, Antiochus Epiphanies had had 394 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:02.839 rated Jerusalem and then and so this would have been 395 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.119 one sixties. It would have been the Greeks, right and BC. 396 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.960 So he comes through and sacrificed the pig. He defiled 397 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.519 the altar in the temple, sacrifices a pig on it, 398 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.480 and then for a long time nobody would do sacrifices 399 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:20.359 there because they've been defiled. And then Judas makebais this 400 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:27.279 isn't that gap between Malachi and Matthew. Yeah, that four 401 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.240