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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:17.160 Good morning, good morning we talk. Oh dude, good morning, 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.039 good morning to you. 6 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:21.839 I think what I love about is you just get 7 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:23.280 into it. You go for it. 8 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:29.600 You don't just go halfway. No, that's right, you are genuinelys. 9 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:31.679 Nothing with me, good morning. Yes, Well it's singing. I'm 10 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:33.520 meaning every word that I'm saying. 11 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:34.280 Good morning to you. 12 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:35.520 Yeah, it's deep. 13 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.640 And I think I think singing in the rains where 14 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:41.479 that comes from? And uh uh he says nothing could 15 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.399 be grander than being Louisiana or something like that. 16 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.119 And I was always mess up the line. Yeah, I 17 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:48.759 should probably look it up on it. 18 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.640 Yeah, working well, thank you, Thank you, Chris. You're welcome 19 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:53.560 for a weekly dose of good morning. 20 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:59.520 Did you know that Gene Kelly uh didn't like Debbie 21 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:02.920 Reynolds and uh and know what was your name? 22 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:04.200 Was it Debbie Reynolds? 23 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.840 Okay, probably yeah it. 24 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:08.439 Was Debbie Renalds. 25 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:12.280 Yeah, and uh and and uh he treated her poorly 26 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:14.120 and said that she wasn't good enough to be in 27 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.920 that movie and uh and said that she couldn't dance 28 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.400 and and and publicly ridiculed her and actually made her 29 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:21.359 life horrible. 30 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:21.879 Wow. 31 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:23.280 And back then it was sort. 32 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:25.959 Of a loud yeah and uh and and uh actually 33 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:27.879 like prevent her for getting jobs in the future and 34 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:29.560 things like this. And do you know that at the 35 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.280 end of gen Kelly's life, he said, it's the thing 36 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:34.719 that he regrets about his life the most was how 37 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:35.400 he treated her. 38 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:38.519 Wow. Good, I'm glad he came to that concludion me too. 39 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:39.239 Good for him. 40 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:40.959 Yeah, but sure didn't help poor Debbie. 41 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.239 Yeah, there's one way to avoid regrets, which is be 42 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:45.040 a nicer person. 43 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:46.079 That there you go. 44 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:51.200 Okay, well, uh, for our long time listeners, you know, 45 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:54.680 we only bring the finest news, yes, and the most 46 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:59.959 important news from the finest sources. We scour the internet 47 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:04.319 to find the finest sources of news. And now this 48 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:08.000 is super relevant today, this one from the Babylon B. 49 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:10.560 We think it's the finest news source on the planet. 50 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:12.479 Yes, well, it's more reliable than all the other. 51 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:13.120 Ones, that's right. 52 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.240 And if you don't know, Babylon B is a satire website, 53 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:17.280 very funny. 54 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:20.000 You should look it up sometime. But here's the headline. 55 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:23.759 Gen Z upset about TikTok band for four point three seconds, 56 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:26.319 which is the maximum amount of time they can focus 57 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:30.680 on something. Thanks to TikTok, very clever us. After the 58 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:32.960 US Supreme Court upheld the band on the Chinese social 59 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.280 media platform TikTok, gen Z managed to stay upset about 60 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.759 the band for a full four point three seconds, which 61 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:41.439 is the maximum amount of time they can focus on anything. 62 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:44.719 Thanks to TikTok, the nation braced for a groundswell of 63 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:48.319 outrage from millions of TikTok users, but the outrage died 64 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.120 out almost as soon as it began. 65 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:51.240 Quote. 66 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:56.319 I'm furious. I'm outraged about this. I'm hey, look, Nintendo 67 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:59.479 switch to is coming out, said Maverick Dixon, a former 68 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:03.400 gen Z TikTok user. I can't believe they would Yo, 69 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:08.400 look at this Instagram, battie. This violates my freedom of bro. 70 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.120 These cargo jeans are busting no cap. 71 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:13.000 But we were what were we talking about again? 72 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.520 I go, oh, well, that is so funny. 73 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:18.520 Dixon then released some nervous energy by making weird noises 74 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.000 and doing a dancing made up for the hot news Chinese. 75 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.039 App Red Book. Yeah, it seems like gen. 76 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.759 Z is really already moved on to the next thing, 77 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:30.479 said millennial social media expert Ryan's dark Nerve. I asked 78 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:32.439 ten kids about it this morning. They couldn't remember what 79 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:37.000 TikTok was. Frankly, I'm starting to forget myself. Oh shoot, 80 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.240 Elon just caught another rocket booster. 81 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:39.599 Out of the air. 82 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:41.800 Sweet, oh my goodness. 83 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.560 At publishing time, gen Z had found themselves outraged by 84 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.680 something else, but no one could remember what it was. 85 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:50.159 Wow, that is awful. 86 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:55.159 Yet and yet there's something It's only funny because it's 87 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:56.159 it's true. 88 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:58.879 That's right, that's right. You know what. 89 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:04.080 I've had more exposure to working with gen Z on 90 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:07.680 our staff that I've had in the past, and I 91 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:10.800 have to tell you, uh, you know, there's there's there's 92 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:13.120 obviously a lot of great things about gen Z. 93 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:17.720 Yes, absolutely, absolutely, but they sort of well. 94 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:19.000 They're the ones that are going to change the world. 95 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:19.480 I believe that. 96 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.240 Yeah, yep, when they get focused on Jesus and change 97 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.120 the world, they're going to do it. 98 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:28.000 Yes, Okay, thanks for putting a damper on my NEXTSS. 99 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:29.120 That's okay. 100 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:30.519 But what I was going to say is I was 101 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.399 going to say there's a lot of truth to that. Like, 102 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.399 you know, obviously we can't stereotype. We can't say that every. 103 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:39.000 Gen we can. We can, and it's funny. I love it. 104 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:44.160 You should try it sometimes, can we do? 105 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:45.600 It's so funny y. 106 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:47.800 Stereotypes are amazing. 107 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:50.279 But stereotypes do exist for a reason. And I tell 108 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.240 you it is just pretty crazy. Like the exposure I've 109 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:56.040 had to that generation is like that is almost hard 110 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.279 to believe. It's really quiet, it's really wild. 111 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.160 Well, you become a product of what's handed to you. 112 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.160 Sure right, and sure yeah, So then you find a 113 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.360 way out once you realize some of these things are 114 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:07.839 dead ends. And then you said to find your way out 115 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:09.199 of that and. 116 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:09.399 Make a new life. 117 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:10.360 There you go. 118 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:15.319 So there's a new sheriff in town, just like there's 119 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.720 a new app for the TikTok grievers. 120 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:19.879 Is there a new app? 121 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:20.120 Yeah? 122 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:20.360 Yeah. 123 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.480 They went with Red Book or something, which literally is 124 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.000 a communist thing modeled after the little Red Book that 125 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:30.480 Mao required all the communists to carry in they're in 126 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:31.279 the revolution. 127 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:32.720 There's no way that that. 128 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:35.439 I promise you it's true. I promise you it's true. 129 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.519 That was the alternate was all these kids went over 130 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:40.639 and downloaded red book. 131 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:44.680 Yeah that is that doesn't seem like a fire's moved. 132 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.000 That's an app Yeah yeah, And then they found out 133 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:50.519 how censored it is. It's hysterical, hysterical, But then now 134 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:52.639 it's back on. It was shut down for like what 135 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:53.480 ten minutes. 136 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:54.399 Or something, It was like fourteen hours. 137 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:56.839 Oh my gosh. 138 00:05:57.480 --> 00:05:59.399 You would have thought the gen zs in my house 139 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.399 they were going to die, like die. They were curled 140 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:03.720 up in the corner fetal position. 141 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:05.040 That's funny. 142 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:10.920 Yeah, wilting like fading. We kept bringing food and water. 143 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:11.680 They didn't want it. 144 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:13.199 That's so good. 145 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:15.759 The life wasn't worth living anymore. 146 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:17.800 So just like there was a new app, there's a 147 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:18.759 new sheriff in town. 148 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.759 There's a new sheriff in town, Jay who is anointed 149 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:27.680 king of Israel. Dun dun dam, there's a new appropriate king. 150 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:30.639 Wow, I don't know. I'm trying. 151 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.560 Yeah, okay, So here's what it says in Second King's 152 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.160 chapter nine, verse one, and we're going to read through 153 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.639 verse twenty or through thirteen. Meanwhile, Elisha, the prophet had 154 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.040 summoned a member of the group of prophets get ready 155 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.240 to travel. He told him, and take this flask of 156 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.839 olive oil with you, and go to Raymoth, Gilead. Find 157 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:51.199 jay Whu, son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, Call him 158 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:53.279 into a private room away from his friends, and pour 159 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:55.560 the oil over his head. Say to him, this is 160 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:57.600 what the Lord says, I annoint you to be the 161 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:00.600 king over Israel. Then open the door and run for 162 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.639 your life. So the young prophet did as he was told, 163 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:06.319 went to Raymouth, Gilead, and when he arrived there he 164 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.199 found Jehu sitting around with the other army officers. I 165 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.600 have a message for you, commander, he said, For which 166 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.319 one of us Jehu asked for you, commander, he replied. 167 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:19.240 So Jehu left the others and went into the house. 168 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.560 Then the young Prophet poured the oil over Jehu's head 169 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.040 and said, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, 170 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:27.600 I anoint you king over the Lord's people Israel. You 171 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:30.639 are to destroy the family of Ahab, your master. In 172 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.160 this way, I will avenge the murder of my prophets 173 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.720 and all the Lord's servants who were killed by Jezebel. 174 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:38.560 The entire family of Ahab must be wiped out. I 175 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.079 will destroy every one of his male descendants, slave and 176 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:44.000 free alike anywhere in Israel. I will destroy the family 177 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.199 of Ahab as I destroyed the families of Jereboam son 178 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:49.639 of Kneebak, and of Baasha, son of Ahijah. Dogs will 179 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:52.560 eat Ahab's wife Jezebel at the plot of land in Jezreel, 180 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:55.240 and no one will bury her. Then the young prophet 181 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:58.399 opened the door and ran. Jaehu went back to the 182 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:00.759 fellow officers, and one of them asked him, what did 183 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.800 that madman want? Is everything all right? You know how 184 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.519 a man like that battles on? Jay Hue replied, you're 185 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:08.839 hiding something. They said, tell us, so j Hu told them. 186 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:10.839 He said to me, this is what the Lord says. 187 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:13.560 I've annoying you to be king over Israel. Then they 188 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.360 quickly spread out their cloaks on the bear steps and 189 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:22.120 blew the ramsworns, shouting, jay Hugh is king. Wow. 190 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.040 Well there you go, there you go, jay Hugh's the king. 191 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:26.240 Wow. 192 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:30.120 So can you even imagine, I mean, just because the 193 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.639 prophet shows up, uh, you know, they're just taking it 194 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:35.919 right at his words. So think about the weight that 195 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:38.000 the prophet carries. Uh. 196 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:40.200 You know, if everybody who. 197 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:44.399 By the way, these are these are competent military men, these. 198 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:45.799 Are officers, right right. 199 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:47.919 And then and it's just because the off, you know, 200 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.960 the prophet said you're the next king. 201 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:52.960 This is what's going to happen, and all. 202 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:55.639 Of a sudden, everybody in the room, including Jahu the commander, 203 00:08:55.919 --> 00:09:01.080 and including everybody else, they immediately accept it, which then 204 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.600 goes to show you that in those days, the prophets 205 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:08.360 spoke on behalf of God. They witnessed God's miracles to 206 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:11.200 such a degree that they had no doubt that what 207 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:13.159 God said was the truth. 208 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:15.120 That's right, isn't credible? 209 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.080 I mean that alone is amazing about this past. 210 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:21.759 This just exactly how God said it would happen. Yeah. 211 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.000 Yeah, and so so then he and by the way, 212 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.799 running for your life, I don't understand that part. 213 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:32.279 Well, he just started a coup, so there's that, but 214 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:33.240 he hadn't started yet. 215 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.080 Yeah, yeah, well he needed to hear him get home. Yeah, 216 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.080 I just think it's funny. Run for your life, right, yeah, 217 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:40.879 open the door and run for your life. 218 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:43.320 Well, I mean he did give him a pretty wicked assignment. Yeah, 219 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:44.759 speaking of wicked. 220 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.720 Yeah, So, so there's a thing that we haven't really 221 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:51.240 talked about. 222 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.159 Yet in both. 223 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:57.639 Uh northern Israel, Samaria right that that area, and then 224 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:03.879 also in the south down near the Red Sea, there 225 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.200 are these clusters of prophets, like in Jericho. Remember there's 226 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:09.240 a cluster of prophets in Jericho. There's a cluster of 227 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:13.440 prophets in Bethel. And historically we know those were like schools. 228 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:16.399 They were like schools or groups almost like you and 229 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:19.639 I would think of a monastery, now sure where clusters 230 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:21.759 of of of monks. 231 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:22.080 Would come together. 232 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.200 These guys were kind of the same way that they would. 233 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:26.240 They would gather together, and they would work together, they 234 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.960 would learn from each other, they would study God's word together, 235 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:33.480 they'd encourage one another. And so this is probably Elisha 236 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:37.440 either was the head of one or he was, you know, 237 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:40.759 certainly influential because he was the primary prophet in Israel. 238 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:43.720 But there's he's not the only one, right, there's many 239 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:45.919 prophits in Israel. He's the leader of the prophets, and 240 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.399 so in this situation, he sends him in for you, Chris, 241 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.240 I'm trying to think of an analogy Hogwarts for instance. 242 00:10:53.799 --> 00:11:03.679 Wow, right, but I get it, now, slow down, professor. 243 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:12.600 You use one syllable words. But so they had these 244 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:14.720 schools and he seems to be the leader of it. 245 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:16.879 And so at this point he's getting to be an 246 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:19.320 old man anyways. And then so he's not going to 247 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:22.480 do any of the running. Right, That's that's where I 248 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:24.000 was going. But he's not going to do any running. 249 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:26.279 He sends one of these young men to go and 250 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:28.440 send this mess which, by the way, hasn't he done 251 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.399 this a couple of times where Elisha sends some young 252 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:32.320 guy to go do a thing. 253 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:34.720 Well, it seems like Elijah did that. 254 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:38.720 Go lay this staff on this kid's face. 255 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:39.039 Yeah. 256 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:44.200 Yeah, it's almost like, uh, they really truly did. I mean, 257 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:48.120 think about the number of times where the prophet spoke 258 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:52.120 something and just passed it on through messengers. It's actually 259 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:55.639 quite often, which is interesting, isn't it. 260 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:58.480 Well, I think it's an indicator that God rarely ever 261 00:11:58.519 --> 00:11:59.600 works just one leader. 262 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:01.480 It always takes a team. 263 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.039 Well that's really good, And that's that's so we think 264 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:04.480 of Paul. 265 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:05.360 He changed the world. 266 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:08.559 But every letter Paul writes just about he mentions the 267 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.799 ten people that are with him on this journey, right right, hey, 268 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:15.080 and uh, you know, Luke greets you and Timothy greets 269 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:17.919 you and right and all these things, and he mentions 270 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:20.000 all the other people that had served with him, and hey, 271 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:21.919 send some of these people to help me. So we 272 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.559 think of Paul Moses, we think of Moses, but it 273 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:29.799 was he also had Aaron and her and Joshua and 274 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:33.399 Jethro and Jethro. He had these teams of people. These 275 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.480 It was a group of leaders. And I think it's 276 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:38.279 really important that we we don't just think God only 277 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.039 uses one person. And your role on a team is 278 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:43.440 super important. Even if you're not the Moses, even if 279 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:47.159 you're not the Elisha, your role is super super important 280 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:48.440 because that's how God works. 281 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:49.200 He works in teams. 282 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:52.000 Well you know, I mean it's actually a picture of 283 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.919 you know, God designing the church, right and Corinthians. That says, 284 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.639 you know that we are all one members of one body. 285 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.039 And then you know the comparison to the human body, 286 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:03.759 and says the eye as a function, the hand as 287 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:05.360 a function, the here is a function, the feet of 288 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:07.879 a function. And one can't say they're more important than 289 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:09.440 the other. And they all need each other. They all 290 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.679 have different gifts and they all have different functions, but 291 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.360 it's one body. And so he compares it to the 292 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.159 body of Christ and and and it's and it's it's 293 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:19.360 a message that says, you know, being a part of 294 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:23.320 that team, uh is necessary. We every part is necessary. 295 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.480 And and some are you know, featured more than others. Right, 296 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:29.639 some are highlighted more than others. He even talks about that, right, 297 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:31.879 dishonorable parts and honorable parts and things like that. 298 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.639 And by the way, that's a good sermon right there. 299 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:37.440 But you know what is also a great. 300 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:42.360 Sermon is that sometimes we think only the pastor can 301 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:46.600 perform this function, right, and yet isn't it amazing how 302 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:49.720 the how the miracles can come through a servant, right, 303 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:52.720 not a servant, but an assistant. 304 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:54.200 I'm not sure if he's a servant or not. 305 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:57.080 Well, the first one he sent, the sent the one 306 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:59.720 servant with the staff, that was a servant. That wasn't 307 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.879 a okay in this when he's sending a young prophet. 308 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:05.679 Yeah, and so and so you know, and here these 309 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:09.679 guys are carrying the same authority as as Elisha is 310 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.720 telling them that they can have. Because you know, we 311 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.600 have to understand that it's not just the pastor or 312 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:20.960 the spiritual leader. God equips everybody right, So every Christian, 313 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.559 every Christian has available to them the power of the 314 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:26.759 Holy Spirit. Right, it's the same power, it's the same blessing, 315 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.720 it's the same uh you know, gift gift mix. 316 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:31.480 It's everything. 317 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:34.679 Now, there's different talents, of course, right, there's human talents, 318 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:37.240 and there's there's there's a measuring of of of of 319 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.600 those things, I'm sure, But in terms of God's power 320 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:44.919 and his promises and everything else, every Christian is equipped. 321 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:48.440 And there's the priesthood of every believer where you are 322 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:51.519 just as qualified and you are just as gifted to 323 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:56.360 uh be the man or woman of God as as 324 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:57.759 you know, your spiritual leader. 325 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:00.600 Yeah. So so this. 326 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:08.039 Young man going in having the courage, it takes a 327 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.159 certain amount of guts to do that. And there's a 328 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:16.200 thing recently, I had a meeting with some pretty prominent 329 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:21.679 faith leaders in our community. Right, famous guys built great churches, 330 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.720 and for a number of years in Southeast Michigan, there 331 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:33.840 was this very robust network of church leaders and pastors cooperating. 332 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:34.679 Together doing some really great things. 333 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.120 And then over the years here as these guys have 334 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:44.639 retired or changed their roles in their primary areas or whatever, 335 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.000 some of that the network and cooperation has slowed down 336 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:51.000 a little bit, So we kind of convene this group 337 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.039 to say, hey, how do we rebuild this? This is important. 338 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.600 It was really useful to me. Well, you know, when 339 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:58.919 I showed up in the area as a pastor, I 340 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:01.440 was thirty four at the time, and I didn't have 341 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:03.879 a tribe, and all of a sudden, these guys. 342 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:04.840 Brought me in. 343 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:10.639 But beyond that, we were doing something special across denominational lines, right, 344 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:12.799 it was, it was regional, it was a big thing. 345 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:14.960 It was really amazing. So we're talking about how do 346 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:17.240 we rebuild that? And the guys got super excited. They 347 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.840 full of vision, just imagining. But you're talking guys late sixties, 348 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:24.240 early seventies sitting at the table. So there was me, 349 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:27.480 I'm fifty three, and Chad Asmond he's not fifty three, he's, 350 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:29.879 you know, in his forties. We're the two youngest guys 351 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:33.919 at the table. And as we got excited about how 352 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:36.120 do we recombine all of our networks and how do 353 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.720 we you know, help develop and train, start and strengthen 354 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.039 churches together all this kind of stuff, one of the guys, 355 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:46.559 very wisely at the end, said this is great, and 356 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:48.720 I think we should do it unless But I don't 357 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:50.279 think we should do it unless we come up with 358 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:53.080 a plan to hand it to the next generation. This 359 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:56.399 is where we failed ten years ago, is we didn't 360 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:57.879 have a plan to hand it off. We all just 361 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:01.440 carried it. So even Jeff can't be the guy who's 362 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:03.799 running this thing six or seven years from now. We 363 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:06.279 have to have a plan. So we started talking about it. 364 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.680 And you know, I think you've heard this before. Most 365 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:13.319 people have the how to train or develop a future leader. 366 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.039 Is there's kind of it's a quadrant, right, leadership quadrant? 367 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:22.920 So I do you watch? And then I do you help? 368 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:28.960 And then you do I help, and then finally you 369 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:30.200 do I watch? 370 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:30.680 Right? 371 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:34.079 Was Elishah capable of making this announcement? 372 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.559 Yes, even in his advanced age. This is a guy 373 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.559 who rolled up his coat, smacked the river, and the 374 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:43.880 river dried so he could walk across. 375 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:44.519 Right. 376 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:47.920 I'm sure he could have gone and delivered this, But 377 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.519 in this moment, this is that I'm going to send 378 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:52.960 you out. I'm going to trust you to be able 379 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:54.799 to do this thing. So I don't think this is 380 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:57.559 the So he was a prophet, he wasn't a student. 381 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.559 He's a young prophet. So here's a guy who's gone 382 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:02.960 through the development, the training. He certainly has a calling 383 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.440 on his life. I doubt this is his very first 384 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:09.839 time to ever do anything spiritual. But this is the 385 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:12.200 time where Alishis says, I'm going to send you. You go 386 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:14.240 by yourself. I don't need to do this one. And 387 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:19.680 there's something powerful about a leader having raised up others 388 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.720 to be able to send them. The sign of success, 389 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:25.640 I think is not the older I get now, the 390 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:27.720 more I think this is true, it's not what I achieve, 391 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:30.319 it's what I set up to go beyond me. 392 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:31.680 Right. 393 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:36.000 And so, hey, Israel's going to need profits after Alisha's gone, 394 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:37.960 And here's a capable young man. You can go and 395 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:42.720 speak very dangerous words to very powerful people, right, And. 396 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.240 That's what he's doing. I love what he's doing here. 397 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:46.119 It's really really wise. 398 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:47.599 I think it's important for us to learn how to 399 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:49.720 do that with our own kids, the other young people 400 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.880 in our life. Yes, so full circle back to our 401 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:55.119