WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:13.000 practical ways. Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in and thanks 4 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:15.439 for being a part of the Bible Guys. If you're 5 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:17.600 a long time listener, we just want to say thank 6 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.160 you for coming and visiting us. You're amazing every day. 7 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:24.600 You are amazing people. They keep coming back. It's the 8 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:25.640 only reason we keep doing it. 9 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.320 No, it's true. It's true. So and share it with 10 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:30.359 other people too. By the way, if you want to 11 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:32.960 share a link, or maybe if you like a particular podcast, 12 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.079 hit forward and post it or do something you know, 13 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:40.200 post hyper put a hyperlink, because you know the Bible 14 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:43.960 Guys dot com you know is you know we could 15 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:45.359 always use more people listening. 16 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.039 Yes, absolutely, well, we just want to help as many 17 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:48.759 people as possible. 18 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:49.079 That's right. 19 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:50.479 And it seems like whatever it is that you love 20 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:52.439 about the Bible Guys, probably some of your friends would 21 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:56.200 love the same thing. And we regularly have people say, oh, man, 22 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:57.759 you know, I feel like I can understand the Bible. 23 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.719 I can track along. It's understanding and that's what we're 24 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:02.320 trying to do. And it's practical, right, Yeah, we have 25 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.120 a little bit of fun doing it so well. 26 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:07.439 Speaking of fun, Jeff, we have a segment that Desiree 27 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:10.680 put together, and it's actually I think we've only done 28 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.920 this once one other time. It's called rapid fire Roulette, okay, 29 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.719 and it says Jeff will ask us rapid series of unexpected, 30 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:21.599 hilarious questions while Chris answers as quickly as possible within 31 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:24.760 thirty seconds, no repeats, no overthinking. 32 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:28.319 Okay, So I'm gonna how many seconds do we have? 33 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:30.640 Well, it says. 34 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:34.439 Within thirty seconds. I no, I'm sure to. 35 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.400 Answer the question within thirty seconds, but I'm gonna try 36 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:37.439 to do it within ten seconds. 37 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:39.719 Okay, ready, yep, it is cereal soup. 38 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:40.680 No? 39 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:47.280 Why why because it's not soup? Okay, because it's milk 40 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:52.239 and sugar. Yeah yeah, okay, a lot of curries use milk. Anyways, 41 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:54.280 what's the most suspicious vegetable? 42 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:56.439 Tomatoes? 43 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.480 If David fought Goliath? Now, what weapon would he use? 44 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:12.080 Oh? I can't overthink this. Uh uh SPI. 45 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:16.080 Pulls that's the weapon. Yeah, he chove a stone four 46 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:18.960 thousand years ago, but he's gonna do that three thousand 47 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:23.800 years ago. Okay, Uh, what snack thinks it's better than 48 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:24.120 it is? 49 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.680 Oh, pudding pudding? 50 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:28.319 Really yeah? 51 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:32.000 Putting especially uh like like like jello pudding. 52 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.240 Wow? Okay. What's the most aggressive condiment? 53 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.599 Uh? Horse tradish? 54 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:40.080 What food smells like regret? 55 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:45.360 Uh? Uh pickled pig's feet? 56 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:52.560 Okay, I get thirty seconds to laugh? 57 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:55.280 Is that not true? 58 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.879 Probably? Yes, that's true. Uh is a dog of sandwich? 59 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:03.919 Yes? Question mark? 60 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:05.120 Or is it something else? 61 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:07.240 I think it's a sandwich, I really do. 62 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:08.080 Yeah. 63 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:11.479 I mean it's it's meat between between you know, bread, 64 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:12.879 only just in a creative. 65 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:16.400 Way, right, I think so? Yeah, Okay, I think it's 66 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:20.439 a sandwich. What's the worst plague Egypt didn't get? 67 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:25.840 Oh uh bamboo under a fingernails. 68 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:31.800 Let my people go, or everybody's gonna get a Chinese 69 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.879 bamboo torture. That's right? Is that it? Really? 70 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:34.560 Yeah? Sure? 71 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:39.000 Wow? Wow? What? Uh? What object in your house would 72 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:39.599 snitch on you? 73 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:47.199 What object in my house would snitch on me? My TV? 74 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:49.960 Just just talking about the hours that I waste. 75 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:54.960 What's the least relaxing relaxing activity. 76 00:03:55.159 --> 00:04:06.719 The least relaxing relaxing activity, Oh, she whish cleaning the garage? 77 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:10.360 Is that relaxing to you. Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, 78 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:13.400 that makes sense to me. You like things in order? Yeah, okay, 79 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:19.040 what church song needs to be retired? O? 80 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.319 Uh see, I'm not good at church song titles, to 81 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:29.000 be honest with you. But but better as one day 82 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.920 in your courts is already retired. But when that thing 83 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:38.480 was popular, I hated, And if anybody ever decides to 84 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:41.319 bring it back, I'm like, dear God, no I had. 85 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:44.720 I had an instrumental thing playing at my house a 86 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:47.319 couple of weeks ago, and it was just playing through 87 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.560 the house. I like to do that sometimes, and that 88 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:51.319 song comes up and I just skip. 89 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:53.519 I could stand. 90 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:55.600 Who makes an instrumental of a song that only has 91 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:56.639 three notes? Right? 92 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.399 Yeah? Yeah? But just the lyrics in general? 93 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:01.600 Okay? Well, would your inner voice be named. 94 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:03.519 Vinnie? 95 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:13.600 Vinnie? Uh uh, I'm not gonna ask that one. Uh. 96 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:15.560 What item would make a terrible hat? 97 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.199 Uh? A cat? 98 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:20.519 Okay? Wow? 99 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:21.319 A live cat? 100 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.240 A live cat would not make a good hat. 101 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.480 It's correct, Okay, it says no, it says no thinking. 102 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:27.079 That's right. 103 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:28.360 I didn't think about. 104 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.319 That all right. What smell means this church has been 105 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:30.879 here a while? 106 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:32.120 Uh? 107 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:36.199 Mildew mild. That's true. That it's true. Oh yeah, you 108 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.199 ever walk into church, it smells like an old folks home. 109 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:42.360 Dude, that was half the churches growing up, half the 110 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.560 churches growing up. We're all old, nasty, small churches. 111 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.279 Mm hmmm. Uh. What thing in your office is silently 112 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:49.839 judging you? 113 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:56.959 M Oh, you're not gonna like the answer. I have 114 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:03.959 a display of international things, and I used to travel 115 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.279 the world, and now I don't go anywhere except for 116 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:10.079 one place, and I have regret about that, and. 117 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:11.040 So that judges you. 118 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:11.360 Yeah. 119 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:12.319 Oh, we got to do that more. 120 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:16.079 Yeah, it says to me, look a, you used to 121 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.680 care about the rest of the world. I feel that 122 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:19.240 way all the time. 123 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:21.800 Really, yeah, all right, Wow, we got to change that. 124 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:22.519 Yeah. 125 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:24.879 Well, there you go. That's a good one. Yep, all right, 126 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:25.959 we'll end with one more. 127 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:26.360 Yep. 128 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.079 Ready, what food would be a terrible roommate? 129 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:36.160 Oh? What food? The terrible roommate? Indian food? All Indian food. 130 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:41.600 Okay, you just yeah, the most populous planet on the 131 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:44.720 most populous nation on the planet. You just tacked them 132 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:45.120 all off. 133 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:49.959 That's right, that's right. Yeah. So I remember when I 134 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:52.000 first moved here in two thousand and four, I had 135 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:59.120 a good friend Dan, and Dan was Indian and his 136 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:03.319 wife was more Indian than he was. And they said, 137 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:05.480 you've never had Indian food, and I said no, And 138 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:07.439 he says, well, there's a plaza right next to your house. 139 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:10.160 Come and meet me there. And I said okay. And 140 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:11.759 at the time, I was wearing a suit because I 141 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:14.079 had done a funeral. So I had done a funeral. 142 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:17.000 And then I met him there and we went inside 143 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:21.439 and spent two hours and ate Indian food. And then 144 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:24.399 I came out and I realized I immediately had to 145 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.360 take that suit to the dry cleaners because my suit 146 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.759 smelled like curry curry, and it's like it was so 147 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:32.560 strong that when I walked in through the door, my 148 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:38.800 wife goes, oh, oh, what where were you? And I said, 149 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:41.319 I was at this Indian restaurant. She says, take that off, 150 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.600 throw it in the back of your truck. And I realized, 151 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.360 holy cow, Like, what kind of food is so strong? 152 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:52.399 When you're talking about a good one? 153 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:55.800 But but but anyway, I thought to myself, what kind 154 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:59.240 of restaurant it's so strong that that you have to 155 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.360 dry clean your food every time you. 156 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:05.199 Go in, it clean your clothes. Yeh, me too. You 157 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:06.959 don't have to do you like Indian food? 158 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:08.680 Yes, I actually did like it. 159 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:09.399 I do like it. 160 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:10.360 Yeah, I liked it. 161 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:13.639 Yeah, it's an acquired taste for me. But now you know, 162 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:16.279 I eat any food all the time, so I really 163 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:19.040 decided to like it. There's an Indian restaurant not far 164 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.680 from my house called Pink Garlic, and his family is 165 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.120 from India. But then he has a bunch of restaurants 166 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:28.079 in London and opened one here in our area. And 167 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:34.759 I love their food and uh mango, lassie, those are fantastic. 168 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:38.960 I love tandory chicken, I love I love any of 169 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:40.440 the the curries. 170 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:43.639 And but you have to admit that's a good one 171 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:44.080 to choose. 172 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:47.000 It is very very strong smells that were not accustomed to. 173 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:48.960 Yeah, so my, but. 174 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:50.559 They come here and they wouldn't like the smell of 175 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:51.720 fried chicken in your house. 176 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.919 Right. So my mother tells me the story that my 177 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:58.679 my grandmother, who's who's passed, came over on the boat 178 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:04.120 from Italy when she was When she first moved here, 179 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.159 she got an apartment and then she lived there for 180 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.559 years and she loved it. And then there was a 181 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.039 lady who moved in next door who was Indian, and 182 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:17.080 because she had so much, she cooked Indian food and 183 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.320 it was the smell was so strong. She moved. Oh, 184 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:23.399 she said, my mom had to move. Oh, yeah, because 185 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:24.000 it was so strong. 186 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:27.240 It's just surprising combinations of flavors. My wife and I 187 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:31.759 were in Delhi last summer and we went to the 188 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:35.440 spice market there where they sell all the spices wholesale, 189 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.919 and it's an entire I don't know, six blocks of 190 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.799 just jillions of spice shops and guys running up and 191 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:45.840 down the street. And it just was so strong and pungent, 192 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:48.639 and it was hot that day and it was amazing. 193 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.080 I've got like a million pictures. We bought some spices 194 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:54.080 and bought a bunch of I bought some tea in 195 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:59.399 one of the shops, and we bought some Gara masala 196 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.000 and some different different spices for to come home and 197 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:06.320 cook with. And it was amazing, just incredible, just this 198 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.159 behive of activity. 199 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:09.960 That's awesome. 200 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.279 Well, that was a good one. I enjoyed that one, 201 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:18.000 so we I don't have any transition. Well, I asked 202 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:20.039 you do you like Indian food? And you said yes. 203 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:22.320 And you know, the Bible says, let you yes, be yes, 204 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:24.759 and you're no be known. It is where it is, 205 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:26.120 there it is there, you go. 206 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:29.240 I spoke the truth. 207 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:31.399 About that's right. Well, that's the whole premise behind that. 208 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:33.879 That game right is just to get you to be 209 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:35.240 honest about your opinions. 210 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:35.799 There it is. 211 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.000 And so in Matthew chapter five, Jesus says, blessed are 212 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:41.799 the pure in heart. And then throughout the rest of 213 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:43.960 the sermon on them out five, six and seven, he 214 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:47.679 talks about different things that hint at a pure heart, 215 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.240 and one of them. So yesterday we talked about what 216 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.000 our eyes are looking at, right, that kind of thing, 217 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.679 and lust and those things. And today in verse thirty 218 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:01.519 three he talks about our words, and he says, you've 219 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:03.279 also heard that your ancestors were told you must not 220 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:05.279 break your vows. You must carry out the vows you 221 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.080 make to the Lord. But I say, do not make 222 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.679 any vows. To not say by Heaven, because heaven is 223 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:12.919 God's thrown And don't say by earth, because the earth 224 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:16.039 is his footstool. And don't say by Jerusalem, for Jerusalem 225 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:17.840 is the city of the Great King. Do not even 226 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:19.759 say by my head, for you can't turn one hair 227 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:22.039 white or black, just say as simple yes I will 228 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.960 or no I won't. Anything beyond this is from the 229 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:26.279 evil one. 230 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:26.759 Yeah? 231 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:27.480 Is that something? 232 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:32.519 Yeah? Yeah, that's interesting. How yours is an NLT, Yeah, 233 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:35.879 and mine's an NLT. But sometimes the translations are older 234 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.039 versions of it or young or newer. But like there 235 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.240 was like five different things that were a little bit different. 236 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:43.799 Interesting. Yeah, did it say just as simple yes I 237 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:52.159 will or no I won't. They'll be in the last verse. 238 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:52.879 Simple yes I will or no I won't. Then it 239 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.759 says anything beyond this is from the evil one. 240 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:59.120 You said anything anything beyond this is from the evil one. 241 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.000 Oh m, interesting, I thought I thought I heard you 242 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:05.440 said something different. Yeah, huh uh. Yeah, so there there 243 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.039 was a couple in there. I'm not going to go 244 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:08.200 try to compare. 245 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:09.759 But yeah, but the main idea is your yes this 246 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.120 should mean yes, and your nose should mean no. And 247 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.000 you should be a man of your word. You sation 248 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:15.240 in the. 249 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:17.679 Book of James talks about this as well. Right, he says, 250 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:21.120 out of the same fountains should not come bitter water 251 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:24.279 and sweetwater. Right, yeah, he said, so, so therefore, let 252 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:27.720 your yaba, let your nabyn, let's your yesbs, let's your 253 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.799 let's your no, be no, and so do not swear 254 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.600 by anything. And so I I actually took this literally, 255 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.000 and I still do think it means to be literal 256 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.200 because I was just watching what was it? It was 257 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:47.120 Infinity Wars, remember Avengers Infinity Wars where Gomora asks Quill 258 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.159 to she says, hey, I know things, so you know 259 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.840 promised that What a terrible thing to bring up. But 260 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.480 she says, promised to kill me if the never captures me. 261 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.120 But then she but then he goes, well, and then 262 00:12:58.159 --> 00:12:59.879 she puts his hand, she puts her hand over and 263 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:02.000 she says, swear by your mother. 264 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:03.440 Oh wow. 265 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:06.559 And then he goes, okay, I promise. And that was 266 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:08.919 the thing that she knew that he was going to 267 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.679 keep his word because he swore by his dead mother, right. 268 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:16.480 And And I sometimes think to myself, like, if if 269 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.840 you're a person, I think that things like that are okay, 270 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:20.759 I really do. I think that things like that are 271 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:23.480 sometimes okay. But that's I don't think that's the heart 272 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.600 of what Jesus was talking about. I think what he's 273 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:30.559 saying is if you have developed a reputation that where 274 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:36.000 nobody believes you unless you say, okay, say Christian promise. Right, 275 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:38.879 It's like it's like, oh yeah, yeah, that's true. Okay, yeah, 276 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.679 Christian promise. Yeah, that's true. If you've developed a reputation 277 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:45.440 to where you people cannot take you at your word, 278 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.639 to where they have to actually say, okay, you have 279 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:50.320 to say Christian promise, because we used to say that 280 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:51.639 Christian promise. We used to say that. 281 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:54.240 In that silly Yeah, I never I've never heard of that. 282 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.080 Oh yeah, well I think it's something we made up. 283 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:59.159 But but or they say, you know, swear, swear, swear, 284 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.799 swear to God. That's would be the more common thing, right, 285 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:02.440 swear to God. 286 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:03.840 And he says, don't do that. 287 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.120 He says, don't do that. But if you're a person 288 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:10.519 who who your word is not good enough, then then 289 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:12.399 that he's saying, like you, you shouldn't have to be 290 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:14.919 a person that has to swear by heaven or earth right, 291 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:17.559 or say Christian promise, or swear to God, or swear 292 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:20.639 by your mother because your regular word is not good enough, 293 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:23.799 because it's all about the heart's intent, right, So it's 294 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.759 it's not a cardinal sin to swear by your mother, 295 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:30.799 dead mother, and that's not a cardinal sin, and I 296 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:32.879 think that that's okay to do. I don't think that's 297 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:35.360 the sin part. I think the sin part is is 298 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:39.000 if you if your word cannot be trusted, then Jesus 299 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.639 is saying, then you shouldn't be a person that has 300 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:44.399 to swear by other things. Just be a person who 301 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:45.919 has integrity in their word. 302 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:46.399 Right. 303 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:52.360 So God is not against vows, right because in Leviticus, 304 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:55.919 in Numbers and Deuteronomy he spells out if you make 305 00:14:55.960 --> 00:15:01.159 a vow, you have to keep it right. But we 306 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:05.759 try to get overly emphatic because we've developed a relationship 307 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:08.840 of breaking or a reputation of breaking our vows. So 308 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:11.200 then we get overly emphatic, and it's that I swear 309 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.919 to God, I swear to my dead mother or whatever. 310 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.600 And Jesus is saying, don't do that. Just don't do it. 311 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:22.000 There's don't give anybody a reason to believe you're not 312 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:23.399 going to keep your word. Be a man of your word, 313 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:24.840 be a woman of your word. Just just do what 314 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:27.200 you're gonna do. Yes should mean yes, No should mean no. 315 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.440 And the more words somebody starts putting behind a thing, 316 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:34.200 usually the more intent they have of getting out of 317 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:39.320 it in some way. The Book of Proverbs says in 318 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.960 a multi there's no shortage of sin in a multitude 319 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:46.720 of words. Right. You ever notice my grandfather used to 320 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:52.200 I've told a story a few different times, but in Elba, Michigan, 321 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:54.799 there used to be a general store and the men 322 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:57.320 during the all the farmers in the area would go 323 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.159 down to the general store, sit around, play checkers on 324 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.639 the pickle barrels. They had like three pickle barrels, and 325 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.600 they play checkers on the top of the pickle barrels, 326 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:05.840 and they get all the business done. All right, we're 327 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:08.440 gonna plant the Hey. Great, if you plant, you know, 328 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:11.759 eighty acres of Hey, I'll buy twenty five acres of that. Hey, 329 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.919 they work all that out. I'll be handshake. Right. When 330 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:19.159 my grandfather's name was Fenton. When Fenton Avery Forrester shook 331 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:20.799 your hand and said I'll buy it, it was a 332 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:23.600 done deal. Guys say I'm going to rent a tractor. 333 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.080 I'm gonna rent a combine because they didn't own combines. 334 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.679 I'm gonna rent a combine for two weeks, and that'll 335 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:31.559 pay for a third of the costs. And two other 336 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:33.120 guys step and say I'll do a third. I'll do 337 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:35.080 a third. Okay, good, I'll go put the deposit down 338 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:38.480 and they shake their hand. They would do huge amounts 339 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:43.840 of business just with men shaking hands and agreeing. Right. 340 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.559 It's like jeremyguire, my word is stronger than oak. Yeah, 341 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:47.559 then he violated it. 342 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:52.879 Yeah, exactly. Now. The other side of it is, we've 343 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:58.279 had agreements where all of a sudden, some property owners, 344 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:00.519 somebody comes in and they've got they've got stack of 345 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:02.799 papers this bak and we got initial here, here, here, here, 346 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:04.319 and here and here and here and there and there 347 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:06.160 and sign here and sign here and sign there and 348 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:11.119 initial this and initial that, and sure enough, later on 349 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:15.519 you find out there's twenty loopholes that advantage the person 350 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:17.920 who needed me an initial here, initial there, sign here, 351 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.200 sign there. There's a reason why I don't qualify for 352 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:21.759 what I thought I got, but there's a reason why 353 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:26.160 that guy gets more. Right. So, this is what Jesus 354 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:34.160 is saying is, don't develop this reputation that more words 355 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:36.920 are gonna guarantee a thing, because they don't. Don't go 356 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:39.279 around guarantee and stuff. Just let your yes b yes, 357 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:41.359 and your no be no. And if you have to 358 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:43.319 say I swear to God, Well, then listen. Either that 359 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:45.920 person doesn't trust you to begin with, you shouldn't be 360 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.799 going down that road, or you don't have a reputation 361 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:50.839 that's good enough. You need to repair your reputation. And 362 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:53.200 the only way you can do that is actually making 363 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:57.839 yes b yes, and actually making nob no right. 364 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.160 Right, Yeah, Yeah, it's really good. And I think that, Uh, 365 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.559 I hope, I hope this is true. But I hope 366 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:06.039 that I've worked on this enough to where I told you. 367 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.240 For some reason, this has always jumped out in my mind. 368 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:10.880 And uh, and so we stopped. We stopped doing the 369 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:13.759 whole like Christian promise thing, and we actually told each 370 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:15.799 other we're like the Bible says not to do that. 371 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:18.640 If you're going to say yes, just just let your 372 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:20.920 yes be yes, let your no be no. And I 373 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.559 think I've tried really hard my whole life, uh uh 374 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.519 to be that kind of person. So I think my 375 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:28.559 family definitely knows. 376 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:28.920 Right. 377 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.319 So if I say yes, they're like, Okay, it's a 378 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:34.640 done deal. I think they think that. And if I 379 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:36.920 say no, my family thinks, okay, it's a done deal. 380 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:40.839 And and I and I, uh, gosh, I mean what 381 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:42.200 else do you have at the end of at the 382 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:43.960 end of your life, you know you have a good name. 383 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.319 We just talked about that on Sunday, right, Sunday was 384 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:50.519 all about character. A good name is to be chosen over, 385 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:55.160 you know, riches or gold, great riches or gold. And uh, 386 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.960 you know I've already mentioned two movies. It's also Entangled, 387 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:01.799 remember where remember that cartoon Entangled Disney where Flynn Ryder 388 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.480 she says, once I make a promise, I always keep 389 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:09.519 that promise. And she introduces that concept to Flyn Wrider 390 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:11.559 at the beginning, and then at the end of the 391 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:13.640 movie she says, if you just let me heal him, 392 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:17.200 I'll never try to escape from you. And she said, 393 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:19.160 I promise. And as soon as she said I promise, 394 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:25.640 the wicked Villain Lady is like okay, And she knew 395 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:28.799 that she could trust it because she said the word 396 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:32.559 I promise. Right, regardless of whether you use the word promise 397 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:35.839 or not, it's just this idea that she has this 398 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:38.480 reputation of saying, as soon as I say something, you 399 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:41.640 know it's going to happen. And I think that there's 400 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:46.319 an integrity piece of that that is more valuable than 401 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:49.720