WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:13.560 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:14.640 It's good to be here. 5 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:17.079 My name is Chris and this is Jeff and we 6 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:19.879 are your hosts for this podcast. 7 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:21.239 And we're gonna do the best we can. We're not 8 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:22.719 gonna mail it in. This is the last one we 9 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:23.199 have this week. 10 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:23.960 Let's get ready. 11 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.519 We're going to do the best we can on this. 12 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:27.640 Wee all right, all right. We are in the middle 13 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:31.320 of a series about dangerous prayers, and today it is 14 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:35.960 faith doubt and the Dad who prayed both. How about that. 15 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.119 That's a good that's a good title. That'll preach man. 16 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:41.960 But before we get through that, we have all segment. 17 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:45.079 The most important segment of our show every time. Our 18 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:47.359 fans love it more than anything else. We did one 19 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:49.079 last week. Yeah, we're gonna do it again. 20 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:50.039 It's pretty crazy. 21 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:54.880 What made Chris mad this week? And for longtime listeners, 22 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:57.560 if you don't know, Chris isn't just a man raging 23 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:00.600 all day every day. No, Chris is a man who 24 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.599 finds himself offended on behalf of all of the rest 25 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.760 of humanity, yes, for the poor performance of others. 26 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.959 And so with that being in the back of our. 27 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:14.040 Minds, Well, that's assuming that I'm mad at a person. Okay, okay, 28 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:16.359 So because I sometimes I get mad at things and 29 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:18.359 today is actually not, I'm not mad at a person. 30 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:19.519 Well, you might be. 31 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.879 Tempted to say that I'm mad at I'm just mad 32 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:24.879 at the way that things are. Somebody might say, well, 33 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:28.200 wait a minute, maybe are you mad at God? No, 34 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:30.439 I'm not mad at God today, and am I mad 35 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.439 at mankind? I don't think I'm mad at mankind. I 36 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:38.000 think I'm just mad that the dynamics that I'm about 37 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:39.799 to complain about just exist. 38 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.560 Oh okay, so this is a this is your negative 39 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:45.760 side of Jerry Seinfeld's. 40 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.640 What's up with that? Yeah, that's right, Okay, that's right. 41 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:48.159 Okay. 42 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.760 I am angry that the human body is so fragile 43 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:58.200 and that the smallest thing can take you down. Think 44 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.959 about it, so, you know, think about your entire body 45 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.439 and a splinter. Yes, a single splinter can take you down. 46 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.240 Right, it can hurt. It doesn't take me down, but 47 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:10.240 it aggravates you. 48 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:12.840 It can depending on the splinter aggravates you. But it 49 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:16.479 definitely aggravates you, right, and it'll it'll, it'll put you out, it'll, it'll, 50 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:19.000 it'll prevent you from doing everything that you want to do. 51 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.680 And uh, and so the human body. Think about how 52 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:26.439 many things that mankind has invented that can kill the 53 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:29.680 human Oh yeah, right, it is so easy. 54 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:32.080 We are on a razor's edge of life all the time, 55 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:33.080 all the time. 56 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:36.080 Every time we get in our car, on the razor's 57 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.280 edge of life. Yes, there are things. 58 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.599 We're hurtling down the road at seventy miles an hour 59 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:43.599 in a in a mollow metal box, right. 60 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.759 Yes, and and and so think about how many things 61 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:49.159 can cut you even I mean just the skin is 62 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:53.919 so I could get hurt. Now, fall off off. 63 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.520 Bite your own tongue with your own teeth. 64 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:02.800 Yes, yes, yes, yes, you feel like you've been shot, right, 65 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:11.960 don't you. You bite your own tongue, and you can't 66 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:14.199 for just a split second, can't figure out what just happened? 67 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:16.000 Yeah, right, what just happened? 68 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:17.039 Right? Right? 69 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:17.800 Yeah? 70 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:22.960 The human body is so fragile. This is it, that's right. 71 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:25.879 So that's the reason why I'm saying, like I'm not 72 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:28.360 mad at God for making us fragile. So it's I 73 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.039 don't think. I don't think my anger is at God, 74 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:32.560 and I don't think I'm also mad at mankind for 75 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:36.280 inventing vehicles and metal things that can slice the right right, 76 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:38.800 you know, like but like I said, like if I 77 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:42.280 had an accident and and this, uh, this this chair 78 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:46.039 on wheels where to just flip, I can have a concussion, right, 79 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:47.759 And it's like it's like if I hit my head 80 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:48.280 on the stage. 81 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:51.759 So it's like, so, what is the current fragility that you're. 82 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:53.439 I cracked a molar? 83 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.960 You cracked? I think, I think so. I think so, 84 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:56.879 But it's hurting. 85 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.240 It's hurting, and I think, uh, and so what happens 86 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:01.599 is I've actually cracked. I think I grind my teeth. 87 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.039 In fact, I know I do, and the doctor gave 88 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:06.719 me one of those things that I don't wear, and 89 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:07.479 it's my fault. 90 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.120 But I've cracked lost everybody that the doctors have given 91 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:11.280 those two don't wear them. 92 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.080 Yeah, I know it's really difficult for me to sleep. 93 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.480 I know I can get used to it. But the 94 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:20.319 uh so, I've cracked two molars in the past, and 95 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:22.399 and so I know the pain of cracking a molar 96 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:25.160 and then you know, of course it's just removal extraction, 97 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:27.199 and then you have to get implants and it's a 98 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:27.720 big deal. 99 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:28.040 Right. 100 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:32.920 But I think I cracked my third molar, uh just 101 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:37.160 yesterday because I was eating something and and I and 102 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.160 I hit it and I heard like a and I 103 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.319 felt a tremendous amount of pain. I thought, I think 104 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:44.399 it's a hairline fracture because it doesn't hurt as bad 105 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.720 today because because some other ones were actually like wide open, 106 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:51.040 loose kind of tooth. But anyway, but I'm thinking to myself, 107 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.639 ge whiz, like how many nerve endings are in your mouth? 108 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:58.399 And it's like just a toothache can just like kill somebody. 109 00:04:58.959 --> 00:04:59.160 I know. 110 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:00.720 The question I'm gonna ask want to get to heaven 111 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:02.920 is why the nerve endings in our teeth? 112 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:04.360 Right right? 113 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:08.879 That feels like a bad idea to me. Some some 114 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:11.720 angel is up there going watch this. He's in there. 115 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:13.680 He's got his big thick glasses on. You know those 116 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:15.560 guys that work on micro chips and stuff. 117 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.399 He's got those big guy fix and story. He's watch 118 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.600 this and he's just wiring every tooth. 119 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:24.600 Yeah right, they touched that one baby, they're just gonna 120 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:27.959 go off with because that's the other one is no toothache. 121 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:32.079 And suddenly like you feel like again you got shot 122 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.120 in the face, right right. You can't figure out what 123 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:34.759 happened man? 124 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:35.160 Yeah? 125 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.360 Yeah, although, were you implying that angels made mankind? 126 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:40.600 Designing? Yeah? 127 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:41.240 Designing? 128 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.279 What if what if God delegated a bunch of the 129 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:44.000 design stuff? 130 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:44.959 Oh delegation? 131 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.079 Yeah, yeah, so he's delegating all these all right, guys, 132 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:48.920 I want you to design teeth and I want you 133 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:49.800 to design what. 134 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:52.160 Doesn't it say that God formed man from the dust 135 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.560 of the ground. Yeah, so you think that it was 136 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.560 a complex, long. 137 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:00.279 Design, well, like uh, like the Renaissance painter. In the 138 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:05.360 Renaissance sculptors would have teams of people. They would design things, 139 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:07.279 and then teams of people would help make the models 140 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:10.439 before they actually went and made the thing, because they 141 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:12.639 only have one shot at that chunk of marble. So 142 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:14.879 they practice on all these on all these on all 143 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:16.319 these these these other things. 144 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:17.800 So maybe maybe I don't know. 145 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:19.360 It's it's like, it reminds me of. 146 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.199 It wouldn't diminish God that if he used others to 147 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:25.399 It reminds you would it would it would it was 148 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:26.319 the perfect creator. 149 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:28.480 Yeah, I was just gonna say, I was gonna say, 150 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.160 I was gonna say, like you picture you picture painted 151 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.199 a picture of like do you ever see endgame game? Yes, 152 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:39.199 Marbles game, Yeah, where where Vision is up in Wakanda 153 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:42.279 and they're trying to remove the mindstone from him and 154 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.519 and and uh and so all those lights show everything 155 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:47.439 and she's like, brother, there's a trill, there's at least 156 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:51.519 a trillion connections, and she's removing every wire by by 157 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.759 by hand. That these are the nerve endings in our teeth. 158 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.959 Right, that's exactly right. It'd be terrible, so any terrible terrible. Yeh. 159 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:03.560 So I am angry at the fact that the human 160 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:08.439 body is actually no match for almost everything that exists. 161 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.399 We are the most fragile thing ever, and I you 162 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:13.399 know what, I'm angry about it. 163 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:14.240 You're angry about it. 164 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:14.920 I'm angry. 165 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:16.920 Well, thank you, Chris, right now, I'm angry for my tooth. 166 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:20.399 You're showing compassion, yeah, in a way, yes, showing compassion 167 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:22.120 to all of humanity for our fragility. 168 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:25.680 Yes, I wish we were like, you know, like more 169 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.839 resilient and we had like an armor that could resist 170 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:29.600 so many things, and. 171 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.879 Yet we are resilient. That's what's weird. People live through 172 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.560 the most bizarre things and you die from the weirdest things. 173 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:38.000 It's true, It's it's weird. 174 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:42.120 But anyways, well, thank you Chris for that. You want 175 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:48.639 to talk about a struggle and resilience. This guy in 176 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.360 Mark chapter in Mark chapter nine. We've talked about this 177 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:55.639 passage a couple of times. It's one of my favorite 178 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:01.079 passages in the Bible, of interactions of humans. 179 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:02.079 With Jesus, you know, people with Jesus. 180 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:05.560 You know what, though, I'm actually convinced that every passage 181 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:06.879 is one of your favorites. 182 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:07.399 But this one is. 183 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.399 This one is particularly I'm fond of because of the idea, 184 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:12.519 the idea, do. 185 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:14.160 You know what I'm introduced here? You know why I 186 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:15.639 say that of this Why because I say it all 187 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:15.920 the time. 188 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:19.399 Well, yes, but even more so when you say it. 189 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.800 I tried to take note of it. So I'm like, oh, 190 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:24.360 he likes this one. And then I'll be like, well, okay, 191 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.639 I remember your favorite passage, and then you'll say it again. 192 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:32.799 I'm like, oh, he likes these two, And now I'm like, oh. 193 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:32.919 He likes these thirty three thousand verses. 194 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:36.000 Yeah, I'm like, I just I'm this is this is 195 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.039 one of my favorite I use this a lot when 196 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:41.039 I'm sharing the gospel. Yeah, because people struggle with how 197 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:42.159 much faith is enough faith? 198 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:43.279 Yeah yeah, yeah. 199 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:45.879 So today the idea is faith doubt and the Dad 200 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:46.600 who prayed both. 201 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:48.120 So here's what it says. 202 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.720 In Mark, chapter nine, verse fourteen says when they returned 203 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.320 to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd surrounding them, 204 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.279 and some teachers of religious law were arguing with them. 205 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:00.679 And when the crowd saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with 206 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:02.960 awe and they ran to greet him. What is all 207 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:05.919 this arguing about, Jesus asked, Am I the right spot? 208 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:07.080 I am, Yeah, You're in the right spot. 209 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:07.320 Yeah. 210 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:09.360 One of the men in the crowd spoke up and said, teacher, 211 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:11.279 I brought my son so you could heal him. He's 212 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:13.840 possessed by an evil spirit that won't let him talk. 213 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:17.600 And whenever this spirit seizes him, it throws him violently 214 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:19.759 to the ground, and then he foams at the mouth 215 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:22.360 and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. And so I 216 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.639 asked your disciples to cast out the evil spirit. But 217 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.480 they couldn't do it. Jesus said to them, you faithless people, 218 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:30.879 how long must I be with you? How long must 219 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:32.600 I put up with you? Bring the boy to me? 220 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.279 And so they brought the boy. But when the evil 221 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.440 spirit saw Jesus, that threw the child into a violent convulsion, 222 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.519 and he fell to the ground, writhing and foaming at 223 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:43.159 the mouth. How long has this been happening, Jesus asked 224 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.759 the boy's father. He replied, since he was a little boy. 225 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:48.519 The spirit often throws him into the fire into water, 226 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:51.240 trying to kill him. Have mercy on us and help 227 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.639 us if you can. What do you mean if I can, 228 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:57.960 Jesus asked, Anything is possible if a person believes. The 229 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.720 father instantly cried out, I do believe. But helped me 230 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:07.399 overcome my unbelief. And when Jesus saw that the crowd 231 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:10.919 of onlookers was growing, he rebuked the evil spirit. Listen, 232 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.360 you spirit that makes this boy unable to hear and speak. 233 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:15.399 He said, I command you to come out of this 234 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:19.039 child and never again enter him. Then the spirit screamed 235 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:21.679 and threw the boy into another violent convulsion and left him, 236 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:24.360 and the boy appeared to be dead. A murmur ran 237 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:27.200 through the crowd as people said, he's dead, But Jesus 238 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.559 took him by the hand and helped him to his feet, 239 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:32.320 and he stood up. Afterward, when Jesus was alone in 240 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:34.200 the house with his disciples, they asked him, why couldn't 241 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:36.480 we cast out that evil spirit? And Jesus replied, this 242 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:39.840 kind can be cast out only by prayer. Remember when 243 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:42.559 we talked about this a while ago. Yes, only by prayer, prayer, fasting. 244 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:44.799 Yeah, and guess what you did, the same thing that 245 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.480 you did before. When you read it, do you know 246 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:50.720 what I'm about to say? No, When you read it's 247 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:55.120 so funny. When you read this verse, you it says, so, 248 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:57.600 here's what the verse says. It says, the boy appeared 249 00:10:57.600 --> 00:10:59.840 to be dead. A murmur ran through the crowd, as 250 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:02.600 the people said, he's dead, but Jesus took him by 251 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.039 the hand and helped him on his feet feet, and 252 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:08.840 he stood up. And here's how you read it. You said, 253 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:11.879 the boy appeared to be dead, a murmur ran through 254 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:17.240 the crowd, and the people said he's dead. So Jesus 255 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:18.120 took him by the hand. 256 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.480 And I was like, I was like, so I didn't 257 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:22.519 realize that. 258 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:24.120 I know, And you didn't realize it last time. 259 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:26.440 The story, Man, this is good story. 260 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:29.879 You're right there with it. Man, it says, it says, 261 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:33.039 it's a murmur right, He's dead. Pass it on. 262 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:35.480 When you're reading, do you do you see the story? 263 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.679 Oh? Are you kidding me? Did you even ask me that? 264 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:39.960 I see everything? 265 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:40.679 Right? 266 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:44.279 My mind's eye just goes to everything, every reaction, every 267 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:48.279 facial expression. Which is why I see life as a movie. Right. 268 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:52.080 I see zoom in's, I hear scores. I hear scores 269 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:53.000 underneath the story. 270 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:56.480 When when I watch movies on the screen, I like them. 271 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.200 But when I watch a movie on the screenel like 272 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:03.399 I'm sitting outside of this really cool story. I feel 273 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:04.960 like I'm in a theater. I don't feel like I'm 274 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:05.519 in the movie. 275 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:06.399 Are you kidding me? 276 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:08.200 But when I read, that's the opposite of me. When 277 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.159 I read, I feel like I'm in the story. 278 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:12.399 You know what, Probably it's because I grew up that 279 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.279 to you, I was going to say, probably go to 280 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:15.120 movies when I was a kid. 281 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:17.960 And you know what, we could all go to the 282 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.519 counselor and he could probably explain this, right, the part 283 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:24.200 of the brain or the developmental years and and all 284 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:27.000 that stuff. You're what is that hippocampus whatever is that called? 285 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:30.759 But anyway, but it's a it really is it. I 286 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.480 learned about this in counseling a long time ago when 287 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:39.039 we talked about the strength of your experiences during those 288 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:42.000 formative years, especially in your brain and U and I 289 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:46.159 will bet you that it's just that your experience was 290 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.519 such because you know, the bottom mine is. I also 291 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:51.480 think that way about books, right, because you know, you 292 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:54.559 read a good book, and especially if it's like nonfiction or. 293 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:56.600 You were a big comic book guy, so you're reading 294 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:57.519 books with pictures. 295 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:01.159 Yeah, I say those are visuals, right, yeah, so those, 296 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.120 you know, didn't require my imagination as much. 297 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:07.320 You still had to read it though, if you're going 298 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:09.600 to take in the story, yeah, for sure read it. 299 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:11.960 And certainly well, I mean I read books too, but 300 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:15.480 the ratio between movies and reading for me as a 301 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:19.960 kid was like one hundred to one, right, I mean 302 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:21.000 it was always. 303 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:23.960 More me too, but it was the other way around, right. 304 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:26.879 Exactly, That's what I'm saying. And so I'm saying, I 305 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.879 bet you it's just that's what your brain it was 306 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:34.799 developed that way, because I can't imagine being in a 307 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:37.639 really great movie and not feeling like you're in the movie. 308 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:42.120 When my dad died, he left me his entire Louis Lamore, Yeah, 309 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:45.600 Cowboy book collection. It's one hundred and ten novels or 310 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:46.200 something like that. 311 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:47.519 He had the whole set. 312 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:49.960 And so I've just started at the beginning of the 313 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:51.879 second series I started. So I've always got one of 314 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:53.279 my nightstand I'll read for a little bit, for a 315 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:56.000 little bit, And yeah, it's amazing because I grew up 316 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.840 reading all that stuff, you know, and you just imagine 317 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.639 in your head, you know. Also, that's what happened on 318 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:03.480 that story. Yeah, that's what I was, just in the 319 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:04.600 middle of the story, in the moment. 320 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:07.120 Yeah, well in the uh. And by the way, that 321 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:11.919 probably explains a lot about even the art that we 322 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.480 talk about, right, we talk about videos and all these 323 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:17.919 kinds of things. Whereas I always find myself in the story, 324 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:19.960 which is why I cry, right, I could. I could 325 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:23.279 watch a thirty second clip and be completely immersed. I 326 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:27.120 am in that clip and I will literally cry based 327 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.240 on the emotion that's being conveyed, and I think, Wow, 328 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:33.120 they did their job right, they drew me in. I 329 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:36.039 was I was feeling everything that that person was feeling. 330 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:39.240 And that's I get caught up in it because. 331 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:42.559 I'll tear up on occasion. Sure, sure that that'll happen, 332 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:45.559 but it's not. I don't throw myself at a movie. 333 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:46.279 Most of the time. 334 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.279 When I approach a movie, I approach it like I'm 335 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:49.480 sitting in a theater and it's. 336 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:49.799 On the screen. 337 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.960 Yeah, well, I cried during Aspirin commercials. 338 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:55.600 So yeah, so anyways, Hey, let's cry about this guy's son. 339 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:57.120 Yeah for sure, probably get to that part. 340 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:01.240 Yeah, right, so so you know this guy we again, 341 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:04.519 we just talked. It feels like we just talked about it, right, 342 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:10.240 But I love how Jesus is asking questions like, what 343 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:13.200 is this all? What is this arguing about? Now? I 344 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.000 think Jesus knew what the arguing was about, right, I 345 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:17.360 believe that he knew. 346 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.200 This feels more like a parent walk in the room. 347 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:23.279 What's going on in here? That's what it feels like. 348 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.159 Right, right, right, right? And and he says, you faithless people, 349 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:30.200 how long must I be with you? How long lest 350 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:32.159 I put up with you? Bring the board to me? 351 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:37.960 That that is amazing. How Jesus responds to the fact 352 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.480 that the disciples couldn't cast out the evil spirit, right, 353 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:43.960 because Jesus has told them time and time again. We 354 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.519 didn't talk about this last time, but Jesus has told 355 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.639 them time and time again, if you have the faith 356 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.200 of a mustard seed, you can move mountains, You could 357 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:53.399 do great things, right, you can? You can? And he 358 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.279 says you faithless people. Now, do you think he was 359 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.639 talking to disciples or do you think he was talking 360 00:15:58.639 --> 00:15:59.519 to the people. 361 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.320 Bring the boy to him disciples? 362 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:03.559 Yeah? I think so too. 363 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.279 Yeah, I think that he's talking to the disciples. Yeah. 364 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.919 And that's interesting, isn't it. So think about that because 365 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:12.759 we didn't camp on this last time. So when Jesus 366 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:16.840 tells us to believe and have trust, don't you think 367 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:22.279 that that applies to for instance, let's just say somebody 368 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:25.320 is having a hard time giving financially, right, yes, and 369 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.480 yet they have seen God provide in the past. Don't 370 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:31.279 you think that Jesus would show up and say, you 371 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.399 faithless people, how much more do I have to do 372 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:35.960 in your life to prove that I'm going to take 373 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:36.360 care of you? 374 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:41.440 Right? Yeah? I good point, you know what I mean? 375 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:46.600 Yes, I think sometimes we try to rely on Yesterday's 376 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:50.759 victories and think, well, I was ready for that battle before, so. 377 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:52.399 I'm ready for all battles forever now. 378 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:58.200 Because the Disciples two pages before cast out demons in 379 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:02.799 chapter six, So they did cast out demons before. Now 380 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.359 they can't cast this demon out. So I think sometimes 381 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.279 we're a tempted to think that religious experience took me 382 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.839 to a new level, and now that's my permanent level. 383 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:16.720 And if we're not constantly maintaining and building, we don't 384 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:20.119 stay where we're at spiritually. We slide back. And in 385 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.960 the Baptist world we are backsliders, right right, So you 386 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:28.079 automatically slide back from where you were at sparsely with God, 387 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:31.160 if you're not actively leaning in and moving towards him, 388 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:36.240 you don't just maintain. This is true in relationships too. 389 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:39.279 It's true in your marriage. Your marriage does not go stagnant. 390 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:42.400 Your marriage goes backwards if you're not moving forward. Sure, right, 391 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:46.759 in most things, it's not just a flatline. 392 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:49.000 You achieve a level, and now that's the new level. 393 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:50.000 You slip backwards. 394 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.240 And so the Disciples we're out casting out demons and 395 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.039 sharing the gospel in chapter six and now here in 396 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:58.160 chapter nine they can't cast out this demon. So sometimes 397 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:00.720 you can rely on a previous experience in your life, 398 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.720 a previous mountaintop moment, and think you're still that guy. 399 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.039 Remember when Samson got up and shook himself off, was ready, 400 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:08.440 and then found out he didn't have any. 401 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:09.440