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 --> 00:00:13.279 practical ways. Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in once again 4 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:15.599 to the Bible Guys. I am Chris and I'm Kyle, 5 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:18.800 and today we're your Bible Guys because Jeff is on 6 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:21.239 this mission across the world helping people get to know 7 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:24.760 Jesus to the Timothy Initiative, and we are in the 8 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:28.320 middle of a series called Dangerous Prayers, ran about surrendered 9 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:31.359 and you know, this whole week has been quite a journey, right. 10 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:35.520 So it's been Isaiah in heaven talking about, you know, 11 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:40.560 send me God, and then we talked about Moses who says, okay, God, 12 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.520 show me your glory. You know, I want your presence 13 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:45.960 to be with me. What a dangerous prayer, right, to 14 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:49.039 desire God's glory more than anything else. And then yesterday 15 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:51.880 we talked about the disciples who are faced with a 16 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:54.640 really hard truth, who say, God, help us to increase 17 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:57.520 our faith. Right, so think about that, you know, send 18 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.159 me on whatever mission you want. God, help me to 19 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.159 know your presence more than anything else. And God increased 20 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:06.040 my faith so that I can do what you asked 21 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:09.200 me to do. Those are three dangerous prayers, and today 22 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:13.640 we're actually talking about the prayer that Paul prayed about 23 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:15.920 the thorn in his flesh. What is known as the thorn. 24 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.480 I've always hated that phrase. I've always hated it. 25 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:20.879 Really. 26 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:23.280 Yeah, I don't know, because it's not a literal thorn. Yeah, 27 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.599 I don't know. It's just for some reason, when we 28 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:29.079 when we attach things to you know, it's just become 29 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:29.840 known as the thorn. 30 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:30.879 What is it? 31 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:32.640 Yet, it's like it's like he never you know, I 32 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.200 guess a translation referred to as the thorn. That's that's 33 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:38.040 why where the name came from. Yeah, but anyway, all right. 34 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:39.359 So before we even get into that, we're going to 35 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:41.560 be playing this game. It's guess the word. And I'm 36 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:43.560 gonna be the host of this game. And I don't 37 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:46.319 know if you know this, but people call me the 38 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:48.319 king of catchphrase. 39 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:50.359 Apparently, because that's what that's what that's how this is Rich. 40 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.879 That's right, wrote this game and ord this made this 41 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:54.840 and she knows that if she's been to my house 42 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:57.760 a few times in which we've played the game catchphrase. 43 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:00.799 And I'll be honest, although I am good at catchphrase. 44 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:02.879 My wife, I have to minute. She'll she may not 45 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:04.719 listen to this podcast right now for this day, but 46 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:06.920 she is definitely better than me. Kristen. Yeah, she's not 47 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.639 a competitive person at all, but for some reason catchphrase, 48 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.639 she gets very competitive. She's good queen, She's the queen. Yep. 49 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:13.039 All right. 50 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:14.319 So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get I'm 51 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:15.199 gonna have a word. 52 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:17.000 And by the way, this is sort of like taboo. 53 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:20.319 And if you're listening online, if you're watching online on video, 54 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:22.240 what we're going to try to do, hopefully is put 55 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.680 all the forbidden words on the screen so that you 56 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:26.759 can watch along with us and make sure that Kyle 57 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.840 doesn't make a blunder. Yes, so watch yourself, monitor yourself. 58 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.080 I'll be careful. So basically, there's a word that I 59 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:34.520 want Chris to say, but I have to avoid saying 60 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.240 these other words that you're going to see on this 61 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:38.360 The audience should race me, all right, So we'll go 62 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:43.360 number one. Yes, this word is something you will eat 63 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:46.599 in Apple. Nope, it's something you may get at doat 64 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.199 Francesca's probably a basic thing on the menu. 65 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:50.159 Lasagna. 66 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.639 Nope, it's even more basic than that lapasta. Nope, it's 67 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.840 similar to the saphistic part of that. Yes, I can't 68 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:00.680 say those words. Nope. It's it's like basic man, it's chef. Yep, 69 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:01.719 there you go. Boom, spehetty. 70 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:02.319 Okay. 71 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:03.879 Number two, this one is gonna be tough. 72 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.000 Okay, No, No, you can't move on yet. You gotta 73 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:07.599 tell us the words that you are not allowed to say. 74 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:12.199 I couldn't say pasta, noodles, Italian sauce, or meatballs. 75 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.719 Now, by the way, once I say the words, you're 76 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.840 allowed to say that, okay. So if I was like 77 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:20.159 I said pasta, you can say what's another word for 78 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:21.400 past There you go, you could say that. 79 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:22.439 There you go. 80 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:23.000 All right. 81 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:24.280 Our next one, this one's gonna be a tough one. 82 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:28.439 All right. So this maybe somebody is a magician and 83 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:32.319 they would do this. They will, no, they would shoot. 84 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:38.319 It's one word and it's something where they're uh teleport Nope, 85 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.479 shoot a word. I almost just said, okay, So they're 86 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:46.120 making you think something that isn't actually there an illusion. Boom, 87 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.639 that's the word illusion. Nice work, all right. So the 88 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:55.159 words I couldn't say were magic, trick, deception, mirage, or fake. Wow. 89 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:56.680 So good job. Do you I know that's kind of hard. 90 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:57.919 That was tough. 91 00:03:58.039 --> 00:03:59.960 Yeah, so I said, magician, I don't know, hopefully I 92 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:01.120 in the past, I don't. 93 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.439 Know how I would say illusion. 94 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:04.479 Yeah, it's tough. 95 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:06.599 Yeah. A lot of times the way I approach this 96 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:08.599 game is I try to go at a different angle. Yeah, 97 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:10.680 and I say, like, it's like, what's that movie with 98 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.840 you know, the Illusionist? So yeah, cut it down illusion. Yeah. 99 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:16.560 So that's even like for the spaghetti One's why I 100 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:18.480 went with Duffern Chessca's. Cana know you like the place, 101 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:19.920 but okay, this next one is can. 102 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:22.519 Be brewal although I do like daffern Chesca's, but you 103 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:24.079 know it beats it. 104 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.199 Oh yeah, it's it's my spot. 105 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:28.720 It's number one for sure. 106 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:32.120 Nice all right. So third one here, I got a 107 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.920 word here where basically you can fall into it. You 108 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:41.040 may see this on a beach, a pit. It's more 109 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:43.879 in movies. Something you might see in movies, and it's 110 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:47.240 something where you end up falling into it and it's 111 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:50.319 really hard to get out of this thing. You may 112 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.920 see like Indiana Jones, you know, like an Indiana Jones 113 00:04:53.959 --> 00:05:00.279 type thing where they are quick sand yes, boom okay, 114 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.480 couldn't say sink, No, sink. You can't say sink. You 115 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:07.920 can't say trap, desert, mud or struggle. 116 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:12.680 Okay, because sink would have given yes. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. 117 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.959 Yep. Okay, all right. Fourth one, all right, oh, here 118 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:17.279 we go, give me a moment here. I gotta look 119 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:17.839 at these ones here. 120 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:21.879 Okay, this is hard, Yeah, these are these are decently tough. 121 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:26.360 Yes, okay. Fourth one is it's it's an attribute that 122 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:34.680 somebody may have character nom mm, integrity, thank you, get 123 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.839 me go, Oh my gosh, this is tough. Okay. It's 124 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:39.399 also something in that. 125 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:41.480 Thank you you're. 126 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.160 Uh, it's something that may go out at your home. 127 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:44.199 Electricity. 128 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:46.519 Uh, that is one of the words. It's electricity. 129 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:47.439 But what is power? 130 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.800 Power? Thank you? Attribute somebody may have as I went 131 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:54.959 wrong on that west So it's strength, energy, electricity, control, 132 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:57.319 and authority. So it did a good job of locking it. 133 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.439 But once you said electricity, that was great, okay. 134 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:01.160 And and the word was power. 135 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:02.560 Yeah, power. That's why I said it's something you can 136 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:04.240 lose in a home. You said electricity, where does it 137 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:04.600 come from? 138 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.759 I would have said, like the old he Man cartoon says, 139 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:09.439 I have the blank. 140 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:11.079 Yeah, okay, I need to do a better job of 141 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:14.480 looking at it. Yeah, pop culture things. Okay, all right, 142 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.680 here we go this next one. Yea, it's not it's 143 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:19.959 the opposite of white as far black colors. Okay, that's 144 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:22.720 the first word. And then this is something you would 145 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:25.879 fall into, black pit. Nope, something else you'd fall into. 146 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:26.639 You got it? 147 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:27.639 Black ditch? 148 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:30.319 Oh my, yes, no, it's it's a black hole. 149 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:32.240 There it is. Yeah. 150 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:34.079 Well I didn't even say anything. You just got there 151 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:38.720 right so that the words were uh, space, gravity, galaxy, 152 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:42.240 universe or suck. So for you, I feel like when 153 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:45.319 I went with your your strategy of opposite of white black, 154 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:46.759 there you go. So you gotta dude, that was good. 155 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:49.000 Do you get all five? Next work? 156 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:52.759 All right? All right? So speaking question is did the 157 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:53.519 fans beat me? 158 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.519 Did the fans beat you? Yees? So I guess let 159 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:57.160 us know. I meant we mentioned this a couple of 160 00:06:57.199 --> 00:06:58.800 days ago. We love to read your comments. I don't 161 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:00.480 know if you know what's but his comments. You're yes, 162 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:02.759 she comments all the times, very encouraging words. So maybe 163 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:04.360 if anything, just that could be a reason to start 164 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:06.680 reading the comments. Let us know if you beat us 165 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:08.920 in that game you beat Chris and that game beat me. 166 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.000 I guess I once thought I was the king of catchphrase. 167 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:11.680 That was tough, though. 168 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:15.120 I bet you my good friends Maria and Craig Brown, 169 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.480 dear friends of ours. Yeah, I bet you that they're 170 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.000 going to comment because I mentioned the restaurant that they 171 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.519 always take us to, Leciouse. Yes, and they're going to comment. 172 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.519 And oh my goodness, Yes, Maria Craig say hi. If 173 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:28.519 you're listening to this, yes, say say hi. And that's 174 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:28.959 all you have to do. 175 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:32.040 Just say. Then everybody else tune in to see Marie 176 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:35.839 and Craig say hi. Yes, So everybody engage. Everybody writes something. 177 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:37.560 Yeah, let us know. I mean, that's so that's their 178 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:38.959 favorite spot, is Luciano's right? 179 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:39.319 Oh yeah? 180 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:40.959 Okay, So here's what I want to do, just because 181 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:43.199 I want to hear on that comment. Let us know 182 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:45.040 what your favorite local restaurant is. It might be nice 183 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:47.319 to show some love to local fun spots, you know, 184 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:48.839 local spots, local restaurants. 185 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:49.240 Nice. 186 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.879 All right, So clearly that was not a weakness of 187 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.000 yours or mine that game, right, you'd say that was 188 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.079 a strength of yours? Right? 189 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:57.279 Yeah? Oh good? 190 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:59.120 But Josh, some people. This kind of thing may be 191 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:02.000 a weakness, and today we're actually going to talk about 192 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:05.120 turning your weakness into a strength. Whow as we lean 193 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:06.639 into Second Corinthians twelve. 194 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:08.959 That's good, that's good. Right, you took the assignment seriously? 195 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:10.439 Yeah, yeah, you really did well. 196 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:11.199 Good. 197 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:12.920 But I saw weakness and I was like, oh that 198 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:14.439 was good. That was the strength of yours. Because if 199 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:15.959 you would have said I'm not really that good at that, 200 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.319 that would have been my segue. But anyways, you are good. 201 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:20.680 And today we're going to be reading in Second Corinthians 202 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:24.079 in chapter twelve, and as Chris mentioned earlier, it's about dangerous, 203 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.560 dangerous prayers of surrender. Second Corinthians. You good if I 204 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:32.799 start yep? All right? Twelve one through ten says this, 205 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:36.320 this boasting is Paul speaking. This boasting will do no good, 206 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:39.480 but I must go on. I will reluctantly tell about 207 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.919 the visions and revelations from the Lord. I was caught 208 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.840 up to the Third Heaven fourteen years ago. Whether I 209 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:47.919 was in my body or out of my body, I 210 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.639 don't know. Only God knows. Yes, only God knows whether 211 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:52.759 I was in my body or outside my body. But 212 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:54.960 I do know that I was caught up to paradise 213 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:58.480 and heard things so astounding that they can astounding that 214 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.399 they cannot be expressed in words. Things no human is 215 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.840 allowed to tell. That experience is worth boasting about, but 216 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.360 I'm not gonna do it. I will boast only about 217 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:10.000 my weaknesses. If I wanted to boast, I would be 218 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:12.279 no fool in doing so, because I would be telling 219 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:15.320 the truth. But I won't do it because I don't 220 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:17.200 want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can 221 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:20.639 see in my life or hear in my message, even 222 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:23.919 though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So 223 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.159 to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a 224 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:29.480 thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment 225 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:33.360 me and keep me from becoming proud. Three different times 226 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.799 I beg the Lord to take it away. Each time 227 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:39.720 he said, my grace is all you need. My power 228 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.519 works best in weakness. So now I'm glad to boast 229 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:45.399 about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ can 230 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.000 work through me. That's why I take pleasure in my 231 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:52.320 weaknesses and the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I 232 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.399 suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I 233 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:56.159 am strong. 234 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:56.960 Man. 235 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:58.399 That's I love this. 236 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.559 It's one of the most found on paradoxical statements in 237 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.039 the Bible. You know, they always say, like you know, 238 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.200 in order to be exalted, you have to be humble, 239 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:11.200 in order to be last, in order to be first, 240 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.440 you have to be last. You know, the most powerful 241 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:17.240 direction is not up and down, and you know, goodness, 242 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:19.679 there's so many other ones, but you know, in order 243 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:21.799 to live, I have to die, right, I mean, there's 244 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:25.759 so many different opposite kind of things, and this is 245 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:27.960 probably one of the most powerful. He says for when 246 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.200 I am weak, that I am strong, because the reason 247 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.720 why it's powerful is because the concept is deeper than most. Right. 248 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:39.039 So it's like what he's really saying is he's saying 249 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:43.399 that there's a human part of yourself and you're gifted, right, 250 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.279 You're gifted in all sorts of strong ways. You have 251 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:49.320 all these gifts that you know that that allow you 252 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:51.960 to progress in this world. And you know, being a 253 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.080 good talker, a good communicator, a good persuasive person, a 254 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:58.519 good relational person, right, all these different things, your your 255 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:03.120 wisdom and all these different things. But whenever you operate 256 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:06.559 in your own strengths. It's it's less of a spotlight 257 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:09.919 on God's power in your life. So you could say that, 258 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.600 you know, a really talented person could operate in their 259 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.440 own strength and be like even a pastor or a leader. 260 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:19.320 We've certainly seen those the share of those kinds of 261 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:22.000 people right where it's like, wow, they're just a phenomenal, 262 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.440 charismatic leader, but it seems like it's all them and 263 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.559 it's nothing about the power of God. And then sometimes, 264 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:34.000 not often, i should say not the majority. It is often, 265 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:37.519 but not the majority. But oftentimes we'll see a pastor 266 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.480 fall and we'll say, well, that's because it was he 267 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:42.440 was operating in his own strengths, he was operating in 268 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:45.480 it was all about him, right, or you know whoever. 269 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:48.399 So I think that I think that this concept is 270 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:51.039 so deep because what it's saying is it's saying that 271 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:56.159 whenever you're deficient, you have no choice but to rely 272 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.879 on the power of God in your life. And it's like, well, God, 273 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.759 I'm in capable. It's like Gideon, right, It's like I'm 274 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:04.720 incapable of doing these things, and God's like, perfect, You're 275 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.039 exactly where I want you to be, and you're like, 276 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.240 what do you mean, Well, God, I can't do this perfect. 277 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:12.399 David goes out there to fight Goliath. You know, I 278 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:15.080 can't put on Saw's armor perfect. Now you're gonna see 279 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:17.840 God's strength come through because there's no way you could 280 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:22.200 defeat Golias like this, right, I mean, come on, I 281 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:23.679 mean he was a good shot with the slang, but 282 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:26.679 that hadn't been gotten right. And so it's like, it's like, 283 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:29.960 that's what it means. It means Paul is saying, like 284 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:32.759 I have I am. So you think about Paul Man. 285 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:36.080 It's credentials. Think about Paul. There was nobody that could 286 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:39.240 have boasted more than Paul. Yes, and and and yet 287 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.399 what he's saying is is he's saying, there's this thing 288 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:44.840 in my life and and and uh, and it's just 289 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.200 there to remind me that I have to stay humble, 290 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.159 right because because if this thing weren't there, I probably 291 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:51.720 wouldn't rely on God as much as I do. 292 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:54.519 Yeah, So would you say the dangerous prayer here would 293 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:56.559 be the fact that he prayed three times for the 294 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:00.000 Lord to take the flesh or the thorn away. Yeah. 295 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.600 And then God's response was that my grace is enough. 296 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:05.720 I think it says in this translation I've always heard 297 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:07.879 is that my grace is sufficient for you. You've probably heard 298 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:13.440 that before and IV translation translations, sufficient is defined as enough. 299 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:15.399 And I don't know why, I've always loved that that 300 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.519 that that word that's saying, my grace is sufficient sufficient. 301 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:20.159 So here it says, is all you need. 302 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:22.720 All you need? Okay, I love that is my grace 303 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:25.200 is all you need. Whenever you know he's saying, he said, hey, 304 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:26.480 take this away from me. Hey, just you know, my 305 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:29.399 grace is enough. You don't need anything more or anything less. 306 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.080 This is what I got for you. I love that, 307 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.519 But I think for me that you agree with you. 308 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.879 I love the fact that he's talking about boasting in 309 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.440 the things that you're weak at, because when you're weak, 310 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.759 then he has made strong. And it's a reminder, yeah, 311 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:42.639 for all of us, or anybody really here who maybe 312 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.320 is going through something that maybe it's a sickness, maybe 313 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:47.360 it's an illness, maybe it's something in your life. I 314 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.279 don't know about you, but I think it's powerful to 315 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:51.320 pray and ask God. We should be praying, we should 316 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:53.799 be praying for healing over things. But you and I 317 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:57.639 both have seen a fair share of prayers that you're 318 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.399 just asking God's will to be done right, You're just praying. 319 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:02.480 And oftentimes I think one of the problems is that 320 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:05.960 sometimes we start to attach people's faith or lack of 321 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:08.879 faith into that healing. But we see here, here's Paul, 322 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:10.519 who is like the most faith right, he's the most 323 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:13.799 God following person. Yet God didn't take away that sickness, 324 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:15.919 that ailment, that illness, whatever it may be, that thorn 325 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:17.559 in his flesh. God said, don't worry about it, rely 326 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.399 on me. Just a fun story that just I don't 327 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.000 know if I've ever shared this story with you, but 328 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:25.080 there's one time, many years ago the youth group I 329 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:28.039 was leading, there's a big group of students and leaders 330 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.360 that went to a concert for a well known worship 331 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:33.519 group in the country. They're a well known traveling worship group. 332 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:35.519 But they also had their known to do like healings 333 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.279 at the end of the service. And so we had 334 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:40.639 a bunch of students and adult leaders who went out 335 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:43.519 there with these with to see this worship concert and 336 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.080 at the end there was a healing part of the 337 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:48.159 service where they told people that if you just had 338 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.039 enough faith, enough faith small as a mustard seed. God 339 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:52.759 will heal you of whatever it is, but you just 340 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.759 have to take the step. And so we had a 341 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:58.440 person actually who is maybe a junior, who actually drove 342 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.360 himself checked this out. He drove himself an hour to 343 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:02.919 get there. To this account, he everybody else drove together. 344 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:05.559 He had been running to something he had. He has 345 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.639 serious eyesight issues. If only he had faith, then God 346 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:10.960 would heal him. So what he did is he broke 347 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:13.519 his glasses that he needed to see, broke him in 348 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.799 half walk to the altar, could barely see. And God 349 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.159 did not take that from God did not heal his 350 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:22.360 his eyesight right there. And then his mom called me 351 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.639 the next day devastated because for one her son had 352 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:29.000 to drive in this condition where he could barely see. 353 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:30.519 He is on the road driving an hour away. I 354 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:32.679 didn't know about this until the next day, and then 355 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.879 also came home feeling extremely discouraged that his his what 356 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.919 he has perceived lack of faith because God clearly didn't 357 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:40.919 heal him. I remember just thinking, man. 358 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:43.080 And that's the danger we can blame ourselves. Well, my faith, 359 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:44.120 my faith was. 360 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:46.440 Percent And I think this is always a reminder for 361 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:48.840 me that like maybe it's not like I think we 362 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.120 should pray for healing. Maybe we should one hundred percent 363 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.559 we should pray him. Believe that God can heal us 364 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:56.320 and will if if he so desires. But the same 365 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:58.320 time trusting in what Paul is saying here that like 366 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:00.519 his grace is still enough. And I don't know if 367 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:02.320 you've had his stories like that where you've winnessed people 368 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.639 who like man, it must be my lack of faith 369 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.799 that God didn't heal this thing. And it's sad, yeah 370 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:08.200 it is. 371 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.720 And again the sad part is in the fact that 372 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:17.799 we sometimes take God's word and we say, well, we're 373 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:19.960 able to name it and claim it because the choice 374 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.960 is up to us, when when actually, in every single 375 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.279 time that God says, hey, if you have enough faith 376 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.080 ask this will be done. It'll be done. But what 377 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:31.000 God always does is he always throws it under the 378 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:35.559 umbrella that it's God. God is the one doing the miracle, 379 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:38.759 and so therefore it has to align with God's will. Right, 380 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:42.799 So it is if God chooses right, and so so yes, 381 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:45.600 we can have move we can move mountains, we can 382 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.600 see mountains moved with incredible faith. We can see mulberry 383 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.840 trees cast into the sea. We can see all these 384 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:55.039 different things, you know, with the size of a mustard. See. 385 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:57.759 But that's if God wills it. Right. So God is 386 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.879 able and we are able. Period, that's the end of 387 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:05.880 that sentence. Right. We can do this with faith under 388 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:09.160 the umbrella of if God wills it. Because after all, 389 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:11.319 if it were just a name it and claim it 390 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:14.400 kind of a thing, then Paul's foreign in his flesh 391 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.799 would have been gone. Yep. So Paul has enough, certainly 392 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.799 has enough faith. I mean, if anybody has the quality 393 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.519 of faith, and you know who makes the cut, it's 394 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.839 going to be Paul, right, So you know, Paul, Paul 395 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:31.640 is a guy in Act chapter nine where Jesus appeared 396 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:35.279 in front of him, He's the only apostle that is, 397 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:39.119 you know, to be categorized with the other twelve apostles, right, 398 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:41.480 He's the only other parstle that Jesus came down and 399 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:44.039 hand picked. And he did so after he died and 400 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.680 rose again, he came back down to the earth to 401 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:48.480