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 --> 00:00:14.320 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. We 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.480 have a great episode of planned for you today. 5 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:19.039 Man, it's going to be so exciting. 6 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:21.480 And today the reason why you're excited and so am 7 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:26.679 I is because today technically marks our second birthday. Birthday. Yes, yeah, 8 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:28.879 the Bible Guys is two years old. 9 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:33.280 Oh aren't we cute? Aren't we cute? Yeah, we're so cute. 10 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:34.280 Yeah, that's right. 11 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:36.079 Does this mean we're going into our terrible twos? 12 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:37.679 I was just gonna say the same thing I was 13 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:41.479 gonna say, that's terrible twos. So Desiree put a segment 14 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:45.399 together called Birthday Edition. Okay, she says, for a segment today, 15 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:48.920 let's talk about your favorite birthday celebrations. Choose three of 16 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:53.159 your top birthday celebrations. I already know my three. 17 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:54.799 Okay, go ahead, I'll give us one. 18 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:56.719 I'll give you the first one. First one is my 19 00:00:56.799 --> 00:01:00.000 fiftieth birthday that you were there. It was a surprise 20 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.280 birthday party, and technically it was the only time in 21 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:09.159 my entire life that anybody has ever surprised me for anything. 22 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:12.439 What No, no, no, not you never had a surprise. 23 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:14.799 No, I've never I've had like jump out of the 24 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:17.879 woods and scare me surprise, you know, like I've had 25 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.959 those surprises. But so I'm a surprised person where I 26 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:26.840 plan delightful surprises for my family often, and that is 27 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:31.239 still stands as the only time anybody's surprised me for 28 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:33.760 like a party, for a party, yeah, okay, or like 29 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:36.680 a trip or something like that. Yeah, yeah, I think 30 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:40.560 I think my wife has done probably smaller things in 31 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:41.120 the past. 32 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:45.159 Yeah, Like she's listening, so she knows I'm accurate, Liz, 33 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:47.480 she knows I'm being accurate. 34 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:51.239 She has done things like, hey, h don't plan anything. 35 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:52.519 We're going somewhere for the weekend. 36 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:53.599 Well that's a surprise. 37 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:56.480 No, no, no, no, no surprise is holy cow. I did 38 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:59.959 not know that any of this was happening. I thought 39 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:03.319 we were going over Crystal Bell's house just to have 40 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.079 a normal dinner. I didn't know it was a surprise party. 41 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:08.280 That's what I'm talking about. That's different than saying don't 42 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:10.240 go anywhere. We're going somewhere this weekend, that that's not 43 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:12.840 a surprise. That's just a fun little thing. 44 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:16.240 That's a surprise. If she doesn't tell you where you're going, Okay, 45 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:18.199 then how can I just seems like you're not thankful 46 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:24.000 for the little surprise. You only want big surprises. From 47 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:27.120 this conversation, he despises the little surprises. 48 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.360 Well, then let you modify my claim and say it's 49 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.599 my only true, big reaction of being surprised. 50 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:40.039 Ever. Yes, wow, he lived fifty years, Yes to that moment. Yes, 51 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:43.560 I stumble through life mostly, so everything is a surprise 52 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:43.840 to me. 53 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:45.719 There you go first. 54 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:50.599 As far as birthday celebrations, Yeah, that's what the question is. 55 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:56.080 My fifth birthday? Uh, I only invited girls to my 56 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:56.800 birthday party? 57 00:02:57.560 --> 00:02:57.840 Wow? 58 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:01.120 Yeah? And we went out for ice cream? Wow, Farrels 59 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:02.360 remember Farrell's ice cream? 60 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:03.840 Do you remember I was not around then? 61 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:05.879 Oh? Okay you went around then? Yes, you were. You're 62 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:06.400 older than me. 63 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:08.520 I was living in Youngstown, Ohio. 64 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.599 Okay, okay, you guys didn't have a Farrels downe where 65 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:11.520 you were in Okay? 66 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:13.639 Now, yeah, we had handles, which is better. 67 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:16.520 So it was me and a bunch of girls at 68 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:18.840 my fifth birthday party. Have an ice cream? 69 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:20.520 That sounds great? 70 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:21.280 Fun? 71 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:25.080 Yeah? All right. My second choice is when I surprised 72 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.719 my daughter Tory going to Disney World. At the time, 73 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.080 my wife was going somewhere. 74 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.240 So you never get surprises, but you oh, I. 75 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:36.919 Know, my wife was going to England to be with 76 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:40.800 Sarah because you know, Sarah was studying abroad at the time, 77 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:45.680 and then Stephen was going to Haiti, and so the 78 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:49.159 only two people left in the house were uh no, yeah, 79 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:51.039 because Sarah was in England, it was me and Tory. 80 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.479 So I decided to put a huge surprise party for 81 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.199 her and treat her to Disney World and so and 82 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:02.039 that was over my birthday as well. Wow, so that 83 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:03.199 was my second choice. 84 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:08.840 My sixteenth birthday, we invited we had a really big 85 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:12.960 youth group in a big church and we invited everybody 86 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:15.360 over to my house. You know, we had big chunk 87 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:18.839 of property. My parents really put it on and so nice. 88 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:21.680 I know, we had like one hundred and something teenagers 89 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:23.560 come over for my birthday party. That was a fun 90 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:24.680 that's cool. 91 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:28.040 Yeah, well it says three celebrations. So my third choice 92 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:33.480 is my my ninth year old birthday because I was 93 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.240 born on April fourth, and my brother Jim, who's just 94 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:38.439 a year and a week older than me, was born 95 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:43.319 on March twenty fifth, and so they would combine our birthdays, which, 96 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.480 in retrospect is a terrible idea. Terrible, right. I never 97 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.199 got my own party, never got my own cake. It 98 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:50.759 was always shared, right, man, Just a terrible idea. 99 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:53.360 You just sound miserable. You were fifty years old before 100 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.040 you ever had a surprise, and then you had to 101 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:56.040 share all your birthdays? 102 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:56.720 Are you ere? 103 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.240 This sounds so sad to me. You're selling your own story. 104 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.720 I'm listening. Listen to the joy between the play horrible. 105 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:05.000 I'm so sorry for you. 106 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:10.480 Okay, Comma. My ninth slash tenth birthday party with my 107 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:15.160 brother jim was very sweet, and looking back, I was saying, like, 108 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:18.600 I always hated sharing my birthday, but now that I'm older, 109 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.160 I like the fact that Jimmy and I share our birthdays. 110 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.800 Oh so I look back with fondness. And the reason 111 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:28.079 why I chose my ninth one is because I remember it, 112 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:29.920 first of all, and second of all, it was the 113 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.319 year before my mom and dad get divorced, so sort 114 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:33.199 of the last year. 115 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.279 Last year that we did that, we did that whole thing. 116 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:41.399 Oh sweet, I would say my last one is I 117 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:45.079 think my last themed birthday party. Yeah, I was like 118 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.439 ten or eleven, that's not true, and it was kind 119 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.000 of a well it was kind of a Star Wars thing. 120 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:53.959 But on my fiftieth birthday, there it is. My wife 121 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:58.079 surprised me and we had an Indiana Jones seemed birthday party. Yes, yeah, 122 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:00.519 so that was super and. 123 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:02.120 I was there for that. Yeah, and so that's why 124 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:02.240 it was. 125 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.160 It was almost forty years between themed birthday parties. But 126 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:05.920 it was great. 127 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:11.519 That's awesome. Not good for you. So hey, I think 128 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:14.800 that if my wife would have chosen a theme for 129 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:18.920 my fiftieth well, actually, now that I don't know what 130 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:20.680 it would be, I'm not sure. 131 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:25.000 Well, the way you've been telling all your stories today, 132 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:27.079 never any surprises had to show it. It'd be like 133 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:28.120 a sad clown thing. 134 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:40.160 I think Sellophae, mister sell of fame, to save my name. Anyway, No, 135 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.000 she would probably, honestly, probably. 136 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:45.240 Make it a movie themed movie. 137 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.399 Yeah, just movies in general, movies like superheroes. 138 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:50.920 Probably. She probably just thinks of you as a superhero. 139 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:52.759 Anyways, when we were back, we were on we were 140 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:54.680 on my porch. I'll show us real quick. We were 141 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.319 back on my back porch, you know, watching the birds. 142 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:00.600 That's what old people do now, yeah, and uh and 143 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.600 uh and we were talking started. 144 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:08.680 Talking about and that's what's next. If you're watching birds already, Oh, 145 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:09.279 that's next. 146 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.000 We're totally watching birds. And we were in the back 147 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.959 porch and I said, uh, I said something about John 148 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:19.360 Travolta and and I said, you do know that? Uh that? 149 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:21.920 And I just talked about pulp fiction, and I said, 150 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.199 you know, Quentin Tarantino resurrected John Travolta. I said, there's 151 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:27.639 a story behind that dance they did with Uma Thurman. 152 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:29.160 And I said, let me tell the whole context of 153 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:30.800 the story. And I told the whole story, and I 154 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.279 said it was John Travolta that actually, you know, said no, 155 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:36.240 let me, let me show you how they would dance, 156 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.360 and I said, became like this huge thing. And then 157 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:40.839 then the whole world was like, wow, John Travolta is cool, 158 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:42.439 even though we had aucastam. And I told her this 159 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:44.199 whole thing, and I'm excited about it right because it 160 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:45.759 was like so cool. It was like the resurrection of 161 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:49.439 John Travolta after people had outcast them. The entire time. 162 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:52.279 She's just staring at me. She's not even listening to 163 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:56.480 my story, and she goes, you know, Chris, I do 164 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:59.199 believe that God has you in ministry. This is her 165 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:02.360 response to my own Thurman John Travoltel story. She goes, 166 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.519 but if you wouldn't have gone in the ministry, I 167 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.040 have to believe that you would have been some sort 168 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.680 of a movie critic or director or something like this, 169 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.800 probably because I just because I just love great stories. 170 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:15.680 But yet that's what we do. 171 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.160 There you go. We tell the greatest story ever. 172 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.680 That's right on our weekend service. We creatively and artistically and 173 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.480 meaningfully tell the greatest story ever. 174 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.000 So, h Liz, if you ever try to think of 175 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:32.159 a good theme for a birthday party for Chris, I 176 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:35.759 think Greatest Showman is what I should be, because I mean, 177 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:38.399 what more do you want? I like singing and dancing, 178 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:41.360 and Zach Effron we just all in the same birthday party. 179 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.960 And Hugh Jackman Wolverine I like him too. 180 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.559 Yeah, so that's it's got it all right there for 181 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:50.080 you singing dancing. 182 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.759 Yeah, it's Greatest Showman was one of the best musicals ever. 183 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:56.399 There you go, So that'll be Chris's and I mean 184 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:00.279 Indiana Jones for me, Greatest Showman for you. Yes, seems 185 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.919 about right it sort of us Okay, here we go, 186 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:08.919 Psalm chapter one oh one. Again, the background on this 187 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:12.679 is just a touch murky. It seems to be early 188 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:18.279 in David's life, perhaps towards uh rate about now in 189 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:21.080 the storyline that we're telling, where it's just before he 190 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:25.639 becomes king or early as king, somewhere in that area. 191 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:30.440 He was a leader, he was pursuing God, uh, and 192 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:34.559 he desired greatness. But in God's context, right, that's that's 193 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:38.600 what he's praying for and leaning into, and he views 194 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:42.200 greatness as being godly. And so this seems to be 195 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.080 right about this time, either just before he becomes king 196 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.639 or just after book a Psalm, Book of Psalms, chapter 197 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:49.679 one oh one. 198 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.080 Hey, by the way, this is also very appropriate that 199 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:55.799 we're going into this because just last podcast yesterday, we 200 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.480 talked about, you know, statements about his life of wanting 201 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:02.360 to pursue God, a man being after God's own heart. 202 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:06.080 And this is a perfect psalm, you know, representing all 203 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:09.039 the many psalms that he wrote that are pretty similar 204 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:12.720 to this about him wanting to live a blameless life. 205 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:15.720 Because he almost had blood on his hands, right, right, 206 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:18.679 So it's kind of interesting that we're reading it here. 207 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:21.120 So in Psalm one O one, it says, I will 208 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:23.519 sing of your love and justice. Lord. I will praise 209 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:26.200 you with songs. I will be careful to live a 210 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:29.080 blameless life. When will you come to help me? I 211 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:31.360 will lead a life of integrity in my own home. 212 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.039 I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. 213 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.279 I hate all who deal crookedly. I will have nothing 214 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:41.159 to do with them. I will reject perverse ideas and 215 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.279 stay away from every evil. I will not tolerate people 216 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.960 who slander their neighbors, and I will not endure conceit 217 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:49.759 and pride. I will search for faithful people to be 218 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:52.759 my companions. Only those who are above reproach will be 219 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.639 allowed to serve me. I will not allow deceivers to 220 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:58.159 serve in my house, and liars will not stay in 221 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.159 my presence. My daily time ask will be to ferret 222 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.519 out the wicked and free the city of the Lord 223 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.679 from their grip. Wow that's great, pretty committed. 224 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:11.000 Yeah, what a great line. He says, I will lead 225 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.960 a life of integrity in my own home. You know, 226 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:18.759 in wanting to live a blameless life. You know. Uh, 227 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:23.360 integrity is something that you know. I I remember one 228 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:25.799 one time I preached the message called the Rise of 229 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:32.039 Personal Integrity and uh, and it was all about uh, well, 230 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:35.799 it was technically about Daniel and and and basically what 231 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.039 I what I basically said was in this message, the 232 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:42.279 heart of it was something about when something is missing, 233 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.639 integrity is the one universal thing that can rise up 234 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:48.759 to fill in the gap. So for in other words, 235 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.480 like if you if your minus accountability in your life, 236 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:53.679 and all of a sudden there's nobody around, and so 237 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.600 you think about like, for instance, Daniel chapter three, he's 238 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:58.519 ripped from his home and all of a sudden he 239 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.200 gets thrown or Daniel won. Then you want where he 240 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.759 gets thrown, you know, captured by the Babylonians and uh, 241 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:06.639 and all of a sudden there's no accountability. You know, 242 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:09.240 there's there's no parents, right, there's no parents around, right. 243 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:12.399 So in the absence of accountability, what what what rises 244 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:15.440 up to the surface integrity? So what does he say, Hey, 245 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:17.840 I will not defile myself with the portion of the 246 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:20.559 King's meat, right, uh, in the in the portion of 247 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:23.320 the wine and everything else. And then then I was like, Hey, 248 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.919 what else is he missing? Well, he's also missing, you know, 249 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.399 and you know all these different things. And then but integrity, 250 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:31.159 if you think about it, it's sort of like own 251 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:33.360 negative blood, what kind of bloody yet? 252 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:34.559 I don't know what. 253 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:37.960 Have you had, like twenty two sets of stitches in 254 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.879 your life? Yeah, And so that kind of person being 255 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.679 in the hospital doesn't know their own blood type. 256 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:44.879 I don't. I don't know my blood. 257 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:46.080 You just don't want to be public. 258 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:46.960 No, I don't know my blood. 259 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:48.000 You don't want to say it outloud. 260 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:48.840 I don't know my blood. 261 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:49.960 I have a negative. 262 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:50.600 I don't know. 263 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:56.480 Okay, So I'm O positive okkay? But own negative and 264 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:58.720 oh positive, by the way, can can be uh. I 265 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:00.879 can donate the blood to several different types of people. 266 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:02.399 Good, well, I'll just keep you around. 267 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.600 There you go. But oh negative people are the universal 268 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.759 blood and oh negative can donate blood to anybody. So 269 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.120 if you if your own negative, chances are you get 270 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:15.840 Red Cross. The Red Cross is bugging the fire out 271 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.480 of you right saying please donate your blood as often 272 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.480 as you can, because they don't have to worry about 273 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:24.480 what do we have in stock? Oh negative rises up 274 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.440 and just you're able to any deficiency. Oh negative. 275 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:28.759 Wow. 276 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:32.519 And by the way that we're talking about the uh uh, 277 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:35.919 the proteins in your blood, we're talking about all the 278 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.440 different things that are needed specifically for every blood type, 279 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:42.200 it's all contained and oh negative. And that's the way 280 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:44.879 I feel like integrity is integrity is the one thing. 281 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:48.559 It's the universal donor that could rise up whatever you lack, 282 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.519 whatever's deficient in your life. Integrity takes care of all 283 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:56.000 of it, right, because that's what it is. When who 284 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:59.919 are you when nobody's looking? Right, That's that's David's sort 285 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:03.000 of David's motto, Right, you know who is he when 286 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:05.960 nobody's looking? And and you know what it is, it's 287 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:09.600 a person who praise that he has integrity. I would 288 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:12.320 be a man of integrity all of my life. And 289 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:12.919 in my home. 290 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:15.480 Yeah, in my home is the is the I think 291 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:19.240 the key there because that's you know, people, it's easy 292 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.399 to put on a good face out in public. It's 293 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:25.000 easy to be on your best behavior when you know 294 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:27.799 people are watching. It's who are you when nobody's watching? 295 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:30.200 Is right the key? And in your own home, and 296 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:32.600 that's that's where a lot of our failures happen is 297 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:35.919 at home, not not out in public, and so that's 298 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:38.960 that's huge. I think it's interesting he's talking about I'll 299 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.480 sing of your love and justice, Lord, I'll praise you 300 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.919 with songs. So in the context of his God, I 301 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:47.559 want to honor you with my life. I want to 302 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:49.759 be blameless with my life. I don't want a bunch 303 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:54.519 of wicked people around me. He starts off with art, right, 304 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:57.360 because art reflects the heart. The kind of music we 305 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:59.960 listen to really speaks to what we are on the inside. 306 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.919 You know, if all of your music and all of 307 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:06.159 your art that you're taking in, all the movies that 308 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:11.000 you're taking in our violence or sex or whatever, that's 309 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:14.600 really where your heart is. Your preferred art reflects what's 310 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:16.720 really in your heart. And so he's saying, God, I 311 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:18.399 want to be a blameless person. I'm gonna start off 312 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:21.919 worshiping you. Right, those two things are directly connected. A 313 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:24.639 lot of times people think, oh, well, you know it's 314 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:28.000 I'm not really a gangster, but I like gangster music, 315 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:32.039 or I'm not really you know, an alcoholic chasing skirts, 316 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:35.120 but I just like alcoholic chasing skirts songs, right, And 317 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:41.000 those aren't the same, right, it's not. I'm telling you, 318 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:43.879 as your heart and mind lean, that's the kind of 319 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:46.159 art that you're going to be attracted to. And so 320 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:52.200 if you find yourself rejecting art and music that pulls 321 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:55.480 you towards God, and instead you're pursuing more and more 322 00:15:55.639 --> 00:16:00.000 art and music and things that are pursuing the flesh, 323 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:02.799 there's something in you right now that is leaning towards 324 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:04.240 the flesh and not towards the spirit. 325 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:08.399 Right. Well, it's very clear that you're influenced by whatever 326 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.679 comes in. So whatever you read, whatever you watch, whatever 327 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.080 kind of books you read, whatever kind of movies you watch. 328 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:18.440 You know, my son, I made the mistake of this 329 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:21.600 is not in the same vein, but it sort of is. 330 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:24.720 I made the mistake of letting him watch like shark 331 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:28.360 movies when he was really too young to watch shark movies. 332 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:30.879 And I don't know why, but I just thought, like, oh, 333 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.000 shark movies. You know, he's my only son. I got 334 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.120 two daughters, I got one son. Come on, son, let's 335 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:37.840 sit down and watch a shark movie. And now he 336 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:43.200 is just definitely, definitely, definitely afraid of the water. And 337 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:47.559 and you know, it's just you're going to be influenced 338 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:52.000 by what comes in on, even on even the smallest level. 339 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.679 So yeah, look you're talking about you know, if you 340 00:16:55.759 --> 00:16:58.440 listen to you know, we're so old. We can actually 341 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:00.799 sit here. We're fifty something, right, so we can say, oh, 342 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:03.840 those that darn rap music, you know, we can say 343 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.880 things like that. But it is true that if you 344 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:09.079 sit under that influence and that's all you listen to, 345 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:13.680 your whole mentality is going to gravitate towards that mentality 346 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:16.480 because that's what you listen to and revere. 347 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:21.519 Yeah, I had a friend, an acquaintance who wanted to 348 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.400 talk about their mental health issues just a little bit. 349 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:26.839 And I wouldn't say we were talking on a clinical 350 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:31.200 level of talking more about their life was getting really 351 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:35.160 really heavy, right, And as we began to talk through, 352 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:40.319 she quoted the lyrics to a couple of songs that 353 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:42.720 really were speaking to her in the moment, and they 354 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:46.480 were like I want to kill myself kind of songs, right, 355 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:53.359 And I'm like, are you understanding? So you are leaning 356 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:56.279 in a negative place, but the art that you're letting 357 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.440 speak to you is already there. It's already in a 358 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:02.200 bad place. You need to go the other way. Run 359 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:06.759 from that, right, you run from that because it art 360 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.279 sucks you in. It pulls you towards the thing that 361 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:15.200 it's highlighting. And have you ever been in art gallery? 362 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:18.920 We were down in Detroit, the DA Detroit Institute of Art. 363 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:19.319 Yeah. 364 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.480 Yeah, and there's a big painting on the wall, this 365 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.119 big painting and the lightest fantastic. I forget who the 366 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:28.400 artist is. It's one of those light artists from back 367 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:31.240 in the Renaissance, and it's one of those that I 368 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:33.519 just I found myself. We were across the room and 369 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.559 I just kept getting closer and closer and closer and 370 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:39.400 closer to it, which is exactly what that painting was 371 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:42.480 designed to do. Right the way the light was coming down, 372 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:46.240 it pulls you into a point on this giant painting. 373 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.640 It's pulling you there, and I wanted to see the detail. 374 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.440 There's more detail, right, So the details in the darkness 375 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.519 was kind of vague. You were aware that they were there, 376 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:00.440 but you were being pulled into this the what the 377 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:02.920 artist really wanted you to focus on. And that's what 378 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:05.559 art does is whatever the focus is, it pulls you 379 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.400 into that thing and you become more and more and 380 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:10.279 more and more and more of what you're taking in. 381 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:12.640 And so he starts off that way. This is how 382 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.519 he says, God, I want to live a life of integrity. 383 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.519 And he starts off with songs, and then he says, 384 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:21.480 I'm going to refuse to even look at anything vileent, vulgar. 385 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:25.359 I hate people who are dealing crookedly. I'm not going 386 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.759 to have anything to do with them. I'm going to 387 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:31.079 reject perverse ideas. I'm going to stay away from every evil. 388 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:33.839 I'm not going to tolerate people who are lying about 389 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.720 their neighbors. I'm not going to endure, conceit or price. 390 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:39.319 What he's saying is I'm choosing completely and totally to 391 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:42.440 reject everything that's going to challenge my integrity. 392 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:45.200 And by the way, people people are pretty tolerating in 393 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:50.000 this in this culture. Yeah, toleration seems to be something 394 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.440 that you know, we're like, well, culture demands it, and 395 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:53.839 so therefore we have to tolerate. 396 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:56.799 But I'm rejecting it completely. 397 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.880 Says I will not tolerate people who slander their neighbors, 398 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.119 going to tolerate bad culture, you know, negative things. 399 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:06.279 I'll have nothing to do with people who deal crookedly. 400 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:08.319 Oh well, you know that's just how my my industry 401 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:12.079