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 --> 00:00:16.120 practical ways. Good morning, good morning. We talked the whole 4 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:19.879 net through. Good morning, Good morning to you and you 5 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.960 and you man. It's only Tuesday, I know, and I 6 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:24.199 did it last time on Tuesday. 7 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:26.160 I think is this a new Tuesday tradition? 8 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.039 Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. Maybe maybe, Jeff, whatever, 9 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:31.519 I feel like, fantabulous. 10 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:35.439 Yes, today is a good morning, assuming that you're listening 11 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:37.240 in the morning. That's probably not the case for a lot. 12 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.520 Good evening, good evening, oh wow, or you could do 13 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:40.920 good night. 14 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:43.320 Yeah, well evening has two. 15 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.079 Solos afternoon, good afternoon. 16 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:51.679 Oh yeah, good afternoon, good afternoon. So yeah, hey, welcome 17 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:54.280 to the Bible Guys. I'm Chris, this is Jeff and 18 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:57.240 we are your hosts to this podcast. 19 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.079 Oh boy, and I can only imagine how excited our 20 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:02.359 listeners are today. Oh yeah, because we have a very 21 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:02.960 special segment. 22 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:03.880 They're on the edge of the sheet. 23 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:05.719 Yes, this is one of those get to know Chris 24 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:07.120 and Jeff even better segments. 25 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.760 Yeah, and it's called Who's most likely Yes, and it 26 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:12.840 usually gives us two. Really, well, no, no, this is choice. 27 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:15.680 This is not would you rather? This is this is fun. 28 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:16.680 This is just fun. Yeah. 29 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:18.560 Yeah, just just get to know us better. 30 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:21.359 It's a preference thing, is yeah. Yeah, okay, all right. 31 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:23.799 Well Number one says, who's most likely to eat cake 32 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.480 for breakfast and call it self care? 33 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:27.719 That's could be you. 34 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:29.719 I don't really like cake. 35 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:31.519 I know you don't like cake, but you like self care. 36 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:34.560 I'll eat the cake and you call it self care. 37 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.879 That's because exactly answer, I will eat cake for breakfast. 38 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.640 Yeah, I won't eat cake most of the time for anything. 39 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:43.640 You're right, you're not a cake person. 40 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:44.480 I'm not a cake person. 41 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:46.159 You're not really a dessert person. 42 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:46.719 No, I'm not. 43 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.959 And one of the most horrific things is you're not 44 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:50.000 really a chocolate person. 45 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:50.640 I know, I know. 46 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:52.439 So when you bring the chocolate, just bring it to me. 47 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:54.480 So we had a staff meeting you you weren't here 48 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:58.280 and at the church and they were doing birthdays, and 49 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:03.480 so they brought in these really apparently these phenomenal cupcakes. Right, So, 50 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:05.640 so I think it was your wife probably that ordered him, 51 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.439 or somebody else, maybe Debbie. But but but they ordered 52 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:12.199 these incredible cupcakes and they're like, everybody, go get the cupcakes, 53 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.159 and everybody's oh man, they're in line. They just love it. 54 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.400 I'm just like I didn't. I did. I did not 55 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:20.560 want to touch that with the ten football. I'm just 56 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:21.120 not that way. 57 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.759 Yeah. Who's most likely to get mistaken for a celebrity? 58 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:27.479 Oh geez, I don't know. 59 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:28.240 I don't know. 60 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:30.800 I don't know. I mean, what would either one of 61 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.759 us be likely to I don't think I've ever been 62 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.319 mistaken for celebrity, although when I was younger, I sort 63 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:37.400 of looked like Ralph Machio. 64 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:40.319 Yeah, yeah, you did, you did? 65 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:45.120 Yeah, So I I just played my wedding for everybody 66 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:46.479 under fifty rough. 67 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.400 Machio was a karate kid, right. 68 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.520 Right right, Well, hey now he's back with Cobra Coppy. 69 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:52.759 Yeah so even though our young listeners know who he is, 70 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:54.000 they just don't know his name. 71 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:56.560 Yeah, but you don't look like him anymore, no. 72 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:59.680 No, yeah, but but anyway, I just played their wedding 73 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:03.520 video on Sunday and it was me at twenty one. 74 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:05.560 Oh yeah, and it was my Ralf Machio look. 75 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:06.080 Yeah. 76 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:10.199 So if I have a beard, people will sometimes say 77 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:13.680 I look like Ted Cruz, which is funny. And if 78 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:16.840 I'm forty pounds thinner, people will sometimes say I look 79 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:19.520 like if my hair is right, looked like Robin Williams. 80 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:21.439 Oh really yeah, those would be the two things. 81 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:21.879 But he's dead. 82 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:22.759 He's dead. Yeah. 83 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:24.560 Hey, oh, by the way, I do. When I was 84 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.080 a little heavier, I did get mistaken a lot for 85 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:29.960 Mojo in the morning. Oh really, yeah for real? 86 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:31.039 Okay, yeah, okay. 87 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:32.479 In fact, I was actually at. 88 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:34.520 A place in Birmingham who's a radio guy. And there's 89 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.039 a radio guy in the area and has a recipe voice. 90 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:41.360 Yes, And when I was in Birmingham, this lady swore 91 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:43.680 up and down. She's like, oh my goodness, it's you. 92 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:45.919 And I thought that maybe she was a Bible guy fan. 93 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:48.439 Oh and come to find out, I figured it out 94 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:50.840 like five minutes of the conversation. She thinks I'm Mojo. 95 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:55.240 That's funny, Okay. Who's most likely to hike to a 96 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:57.240 volcano just to say they did that? 97 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:58.039 Definitely be you. 98 00:03:58.199 --> 00:03:58.520 That's me. 99 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:03.319 Yeah, although I get to be honest, i'd love it too. 100 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:07.039 I would love it, but it says most likely, yeah, right, 101 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:08.319 and you edged me out. 102 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.400 In that area, I would say, just to say they did. 103 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:14.039 Yeah, I mean you know no. So okay, number four. 104 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.600 Who's most likely to say I'm just resting my eyes 105 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:24.000 and fall asleep instantly? Hmm, Well you're an instant sleep guy. 106 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:28.120 Yeah, but I'm not. I'm not a fall asleep I'm 107 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:29.000 just resting my eyes. 108 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:31.680 That probably be me. 109 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:33.720 I don't know do you take do you take like 110 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:35.519 quick naps or do you fall asleep in meetings? 111 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:36.879 Umm? Not? 112 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:38.040 You just yawned. 113 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:42.360 But I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. When 114 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.399 I hit forty, something happened to me. I became my 115 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:48.800 mom because my mom can fall asleep anywhere, like in. 116 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:49.519 Church or whatever. 117 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:54.040 And I when I hit forty, I started falling asleep 118 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:57.000 in movies. And I don't know what it is. But 119 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:58.639 if I go to my family knows. If I go 120 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:02.120 to a movie that's like after nine pm, there's a 121 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:04.839 really good chance, no matter what the movie is, I 122 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:05.519 will fall asleep. 123 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:10.240 Wow and chairs, yeah, popcorn. 124 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:13.560 Yeah, don't know what it is. So I'm gonna say 125 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:14.240 me on this one. 126 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.120 But you need to go to the Dolby theaters, which 127 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:18.319 the whole theater shakes. 128 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.480 Listen to me when I tell you this. Captain America 129 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:26.160 Civil War. It was one of the most anticipated movies 130 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.720 for me in my household. In the heat of marvel. 131 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.720 We just were on the pinnacle of interest and we 132 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.000 were waiting for it, and we got there. It was 133 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.800 a nine something movie, and I'm in the theater thinking 134 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:38.600 to myself, this is one of the coolest things I've 135 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:40.959 ever seen. And I missed the last ten minutes because 136 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:41.480 I fell asleep. 137 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:43.839 You fell asleep, Okay, well. 138 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:46.279 Yeah, and so I had to I had to wait 139 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:47.959 until like the next day. I had to go back 140 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:50.240 and see it because I'm just thinking, what does the 141 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:50.839 matter with me? 142 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:53.759 Yeah, so you had to go back and see it, 143 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:55.439 of course for the last ten minutes. 144 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:58.079 Well, I probably saw it four times in the theater. 145 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.879 Okay, wow, okay, well that's ventsive nat buddy. 146 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:04.519 Yes, Who's most likely to solve a Rubic's cube while blindfolded? 147 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:09.879 I mean, I suppose me. 148 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:11.560 Do you know? How can you do? 149 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.839 You know how to solve I have seen videos where 150 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.399 all you have to do is this one pattern and 151 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:20.720 apparently it's that's all you have to know. It's just 152 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:24.360 a single pattern. And uh, and so I could I 153 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:25.439 think I could learn it. 154 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.480 I could learn it, but I don't know how to 155 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:28.439 do it. I've seen it too. 156 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.560 Yeah. Yeah, so I'm gonna go with me because it 157 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.879 seems like trivial and silly, and I'm more likely to 158 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.480 do things like that, Okay, things that don't matter, things 159 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:40.120 that don't matter. 160 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:41.720 That's that seems important. 161 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:47.480 Yeah, you never know, you never know. Well, its way, 162 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.279 you know, you might be in like some kind of 163 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:53.720 a mission impossible moment and the only way to defuse 164 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.560 the bomb is to solve this rubics. 165 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:57.079 Yeah, maybe blindfolded. 166 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:02.240 Maybe I think that it'd be a silly skilled to master, 167 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:07.720 because nobody does. It's a silly skill to master. 168 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:08.959 You're just gonna rest your eyes next. 169 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.720 Yeah, I'm just gonna risk my eyes for me. But 170 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.040 but but yeah, I think I would master a silly skill, 171 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:15.319 I think. 172 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:15.839 Oh wow. 173 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.720 Yeah, so I liked Rubik's Cube back when they were out, 174 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:21.240 you know popular. 175 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:23.360 Oh yeah, I didn't want to learn a pattern. I 176 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:24.199 wanted to figure it out. 177 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:26.480 Oh did you? I used to take the stickers off 178 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:29.519 and then just like say look what. 179 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:31.720 I did, except everybody can see that they. 180 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:33.839 Were Yeah, they were peeled off, like the corners were 181 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:38.639 like all messed up. So yeah, you know that that 182 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:43.639 segment was given to us by Desiree. Yes, and you 183 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.120 know what Jesus said, what if you ask, he'll be 184 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:51.040 given to you. You said make them back? 185 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.199 Oh she asked, she asked us those questions. 186 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:56.560 No, I'm saying she gave us that segment. 187 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:57.720 She gave us the segment. 188 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.759 And you know what it says, He'll give us stuff Jesus. 189 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:04.199 Oh, I see, because Jesus it's rough. Dude. 190 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:05.480 Yeah, you should make it bad. 191 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:05.800 Thank you. 192 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:06.879 So I was trying to. 193 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.920 Make it possible transition, Yes, and you nailed. You should 194 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:11.920 get a trophy. 195 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.519 Last week I made a good transition or Yesterdady. 196 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:17.839 At the twenty twenty five Bible Guys Awards show. 197 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:19.160 Oh yeah, you're. 198 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.480 Probably gonna get the trophy for first. 199 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:25.120 Person possible transition. I don't know, dude, you had some 200 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:25.839 pretty bad one. 201 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:27.199 That was a bad one. 202 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:30.000 Okay, Well, we are in Matthew chapter seven and we're 203 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.440 just reading only a few verses here today. Matthew chapter 204 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:37.000 seven versus seven through eleven. Wow, all right, we can 205 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:37.600 get a big gold. 206 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:39.240 What did you say? 207 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:41.120 Seven eleven? Big gold? 208 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:44.600 Oh? Big hop. It's one of my favorite lines in 209 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:47.240 Dumb and dumber. Did you know that was improft? No, 210 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:49.480 he comes out of seven eleven and these two guys 211 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:52.000 were standing there that were not a part of the script. 212 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:54.399 They were literally just walking in the seven eleven and 213 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.919 Jim Carrey walks out and he goes, hey, big golf. Huh. 214 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:03.759 Well he just walks away and they and they loved 215 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:05.600 it so much they kept it in Okay, and it's 216 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.960 one of my favorite lines. It is so funny. 217 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.360 Well, here we go, Jesus says, keep on asking and 218 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.919 you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking 219 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.919 and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door 220 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:23.600 will be open to you. For everyone who asks receives, 221 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.440 everyone who seeks finds, and to everyone who knocks, the 222 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.960 door will be opened. Your parents, if your children ask 223 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:31.200 for a loave of bread, do you give them a 224 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.279 stone instead? If they ask for a fish, do you 225 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:34.039 give them a snake? 226 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:35.320 Of course not so. 227 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:37.799 If you sinful people know how to give good gifts 228 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.559 to your children, how much more will your heavenly father 229 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:44.279 give good gifts to those who ask him? 230 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:46.840 Yeah? So did I ever tell you? Did I ever 231 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.080 tell you that sometimes I get angry that God isn't 232 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.200 more clear? Yes? 233 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:53.240 You've mentioned that before. 234 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:55.120 Yeah, I mean, angry is nothing ang word. 235 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:56.960 It'll put out, Yeah, they'll put out. 236 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.080 I I just so I love God, and I love 237 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:04.840 God's word, and I love the scripture, and I love, 238 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.120 you know, being a teacher and trying to make things, 239 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:14.840 you know, simple and clear, and sometimes I there's a 240 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:18.279 part of me I'm just being honest where I'm like, God, 241 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.440 couldn't you have said that just a little more clear? 242 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.480 Because on the surface, it seems like what you're saying 243 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:28.480 is that I can pray God give me a million dollars, 244 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.360 and you're gonna give me a million dollars. Right on 245 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.159 the surface, it seems like it's like, hey, if you ask, 246 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.600 then I'm gonna give it to you. Right, And does 247 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.559 he say, does he give any stipulation? Right there? You know, 248 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:47.000 let's let's read it again. Keep on asking and you'll 249 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:51.639 receive what you ask for. Oh, right, a ferrari actually 250 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:56.879 a maserati, right, like why not? Right? Keep on seeking 251 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.399 and you'll find it. Keep on knocking. The door be 252 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:03.159 opened for everyone who asks, it says everyone. Yeah, right, 253 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:06.000 you're gonna you're gonna receive everyone who seeks. We'll find it. 254 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.000 Everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. And then 255 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:12.360 he goes on to talk about the comparison of parents 256 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:14.960 giving children good gifts and then or having the father 257 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:17.960 giving us good gifts. So there's a part of me 258 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:24.200 that says, I just wish that God would have said 259 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:32.559 side note right or caveat or hey, don't forget right, 260 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.720 because because that's what we're about to say, right, Yeah, 261 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:36.519 we're about to say all those things. We're about to say, 262 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:38.080 side note, caveat, don't forget. 263 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:43.639 Yeah, well I would say he did, but it's a 264 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.519 little less evident to a Western thinker than it is 265 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:49.039 to an Eastern minded thinker. 266 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.120 Because because of all the words around. 267 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:53.399 It, because of all the words around it. And Matthew five, 268 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:55.960 six and seven are what we call the Sermon on 269 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:59.120 the mounta. There are no verses, there are no chapters. 270 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.480 When Jesus is just giving, he doesn't say and then 271 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:03.639 verse twenty seven, I think you. 272 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.240 Should know, right, he doesn't do that. 273 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:10.600 So he's just preaching a message exactly. And now for 274 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:14.039 chapter seven, as if we finished chapter six, now we're 275 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:15.960 moving on. But that's how we tend to think of 276 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:19.000 it is we think of it in chapters and verses, 277 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.080 and he's not. And so you have to remember that 278 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:26.240 that the the Middle Eastern and the Eastern mindset in 279 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:29.720 the way that they will communicate sometimes is groupings of 280 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:34.480 ideas that go back and revisit a previous idea, right, 281 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:38.519 and and they're centered. What's in the center usually is 282 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:41.320 is the point, and then everything on the outsides of 283 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:44.960 the center are reinforcing or another angle for that. So 284 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.120 if you take this this triad here where he says 285 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.720 keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking, what's 286 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.320 the center? What's the primary meaning? Keep seeking God? 287 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:57.120 Yeah, seeking God. 288 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:57.799 That that's the middle. 289 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:00.840 That's the middle one, right, And so the asking and 290 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.879 the knocking are about persistence. The fact that this says 291 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:08.879 keep on in most translations it just says asking, you 292 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:10.799 will receive, seek, and you. 293 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:13.000 Will find knocking the door will be open unto you. Right. 294 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.320 But New Living Translations is a little bit more specific 295 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:18.519 on this one. Keep on because it's a it's the 296 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:24.080 act of the continual act of asking and seeking and knocking. 297 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.720 So it's the relationship is the point, and what God's 298 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:30.679 wanting is so, hey, those of you that are are 299 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.200 adult parents or those of you that are are parents 300 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.919 of teenagers. You just want your teenager to communicate with 301 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.919 you once. No, you want them communicate with you regularly 302 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:42.720 and often. You're young adults, you want them How come 303 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:44.120 you never call me anymore? And they're like, what do 304 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:45.720 you mean? I called you three weeks ago? And you're like, 305 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:47.600 I want you to call me every day, right, every 306 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:47.960 other day? 307 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:48.080 Right? 308 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:49.240 I want you to call me often. 309 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.080 This is what God is trying to say, is he said, 310 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:55.919 it's the it's a continual relationship. Keep knocking, keep asking, 311 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.039 because I want you to keep seeking me. 312 00:13:58.159 --> 00:13:58.919 That that's the point. 313 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.600 But then when you go to the others, He's already 314 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.399 talked about don't store up treasures on earth right where 315 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:09.200 mas and rust, moths and rust do corrupt, he said, 316 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:12.080 Instead store treasures in heaven. So he's already talking. He's 317 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.879 already talked about materialism. He's already taught us to pray 318 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:17.679 our father heart in heaven. How be your name, your kingdom, Come, 319 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:19.720 Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 320 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.600 So he's already kind of told us what it means 321 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.559 to have a relationship with him and what our priorities 322 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:27.919 should be. Our priority should be shifting from earthly selfish 323 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:33.559 priorities to godly kingdom priorities. Right, He's already done that, 324 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:36.159 and so I don't think that the listener would have 325 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.679 heard these verses out of context of what he said 326 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:40.879 in the first century, in the first century when he 327 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.879 was preaching the message. But because we love to read 328 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:48.679 six verses or five verses at a time, then we go, Wow, 329 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.159 I just found this. I can ask for maserati, and 330 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.320 he's promised to give it to me, right, And that's 331 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:54.000 not what happened. 332 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.559 My Maserati does one eighty five. 333 00:14:58.759 --> 00:14:59.960 Yeah, so does that make sense? 334 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:02.639 So if you take the whole message as a whole, 335 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:05.840 he's already talked about materialism, he's already talked about selfishness, 336 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:08.320 he's already talked about the importance of God's kingdom. He's 337 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.159 already ended seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and 338 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:12.639 all the other things that we added to you. So 339 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.279 he's already set things in priority. And then this is 340 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.559 just kind of a callback to that because he's talking 341 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:22.639 in groupings of ideas. And now after he got done 342 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:27.879 talking about fasting and prayer and he talks about worry, 343 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.399 he talks about then he pauses and in verse seven 344 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.360 one through six, he talks about not judging other people 345 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:38.559 or being judgmental. He pivots back to this, the real 346 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:41.720 goal is to keep seeking God. And so in that 347 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.159 context is this prayer thing. But we take it. If 348 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:47.440 we ask anything, we can get whatever we want. Yeah, yeah, 349 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:48.759 because we're not taking in context. 350 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.720 Yeah. And so the caveat that I was referring to 351 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:53.879 is one of the things that we always say, which 352 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:57.000 is the Bible is its own best commentary. So you know, 353 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:01.159 we have to ask for things according to God's will, 354 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.679 and so you know, it's it's not as if you know, 355 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:06.720 all of us don't have requests that are that are 356 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:08.679 in God's will. We all do, but we have a 357 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:11.120 lot of requests also that aren't in God's will. And 358 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:13.799 so if it aligns with God's will and then you know, 359 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:17.360 and God is willing to allow it, then you know, 360 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:21.399 I do believe that God's will can be persuaded because 361 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.399 there are other parts of the Bible. You remember the 362 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:27.399 remember the illustration where Jesus says, this is how the 363 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:31.120 Kingdom of Heaven is. A man is lying there and 364 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.279 then the guy knocks on the door and he says, hey, 365 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:35.080 give up, get up and give us give me a 366 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:36.720 piece of bread, because I have a neighbor coming and 367 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:38.600 I don't have enough bread. And he says, go away, 368 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:41.799 we're sleeping. But because he knocks and he's persistent, and 369 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:46.320 he says, because of his bold persistency, he said, he'll 370 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:48.480 get up and he'll give the man what he wants. 371 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.080 And then Jesus said, so pray that way. And so 372 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:55.399 it's like what And so that story tells us that 373 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:59.679 God can be moved by prayer, right, which also supports 374 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:03.720 with Jane says, which is, prayer matters, it avails much, 375 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:07.200 it's effective, right, and that and that prayer, prayer makes 376 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.680 a difference, and so so we do know that and 377 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.440 so but we also have to realize praying according to 378 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:16.480 God's will and whatever God would all want. 379 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:18.119 Well, we know that there's times in the Bible God 380 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:20.000 changed his mind. Yes, yeah. 381 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:20.880 Uh. 382 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.400 In the story of Moses with the Israelites, God finally 383 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.799 he's so mad at the is They're just complaining all 384 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:32.160 the time, complaining. They begin rebelling against God and God says, Moses, 385 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:35.079 get out of my way. I'm going to wipe them 386 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:37.279 off the face of the earth. And then I'm going 387 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:39.880 to keep my promise to Abraham through you. I'm gonna 388 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.920 make your family be the family that fulfills the promised Abraham. 389 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:48.160 And Moses begs God, please don't do it. He says, 390 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:50.559 you know you didn't bring him out here just to 391 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:53.119 wipe them out. What are you gonna How are we 392 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:56.240 going to answer all of the enemies who hate you 393 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.079 and hate God's people when they say that was your 394 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:01.240 purpose was to bring him in the desert to kill them. 395 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:04.559 It's going to be bad for your reputation all these things. 396 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:07.279 Please don't do any And he begs God not to 397 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:09.880 wipe out Israel. He pleads for them, and the Bible 398 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:11.440 says that God changed his mind. A matter of fact, 399 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:13.839 King James says, and God repented of the evil he 400 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:16.880 thought to do against the people of Israel. Isn't that amazing? 401 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:20.599