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 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:14.240 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. Here we are. 5 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:15.519 We appreciate you. 6 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:17.600 Oh man, we're so excited to be here. I'm Jeff. 7 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:20.920 This is Chris, Yes, that's me, and we are starting 8 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:22.399 with a segment right off the bat. 9 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:24.960 Why did they say right off the bat? Just it's 10 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:25.320 gonna be a. 11 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:28.280 Base starting starting with a segment right off the bat? 12 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:30.359 Well, you know they say right off the bat, it's 13 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:33.640 gonna be a baseball. Yeah, okay, so right off the 14 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:41.600 bat with a social media minute. So these are people 15 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.200 that have written in and I'd like to read number three. 16 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:45.520 So I'm gonna red number one and three. 17 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:50.159 Okay, okay, and uh these were chosen for us. 18 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:55.439 We didn't, Yes, yes, correct, that always picks everything. So 19 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:57.759 number one it says this is from Nick p. 20 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:00.439 I didn't read these yet, I know I didn't, really. 21 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.519 Nick, Yeah, and so Nick says, knowing your schedules, I 22 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.400 really commend you guys for sticking with the podcast all this. 23 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.599 This is a very thoughtful comment. It's always fresh, entertaining, 24 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:13.719 and most importantly spiritually enriching. 25 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:14.879 Thank you, guys. 26 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.000 Oh that's cool. It's a very nice comment, really nice thing. 27 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:20.719 Yeah, he's really trying to say, Hey, I know it's tough, 28 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:21.799 but thank you so much. 29 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.799 Yeah, so so Nick wrote that one in. Yes, this 30 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:27.680 other one, the next one's written by a Nan mouse 31 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.640 mouse man. 32 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:33.200 Yes it really is. 33 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:38.079 Oh anonymous anonymous? Okay, okay, since congratulations on your five 34 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:40.959 hundredth episode of the Bible guys. Thank you so very 35 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.079 much for the time you've all invested in sharing the 36 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:45.159 Word of God with us and then giving your insight 37 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:46.959 and teaching on what the passage says and how to 38 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.799 apply it to our lives. Great job, Jeff and Kris 39 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:56.280 and all of them. You're wanting to skip over, and 40 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.040 I didn't skip over. And Chris, great job Jeff and 41 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.400 Chris and all of them behind the scenes people responsible 42 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.439 for the podcast. Looking forward to the next five hundred episodes. 43 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:09.080 I'm so very grateful. May God continue to bless you. 44 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:10.639 This is what you were wanting to do, you said, 45 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:17.280 great job Jeff and Chris for all that's very funny, 46 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:21.199 all right, And then this one is I believe it's 47 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:22.319 probably from my wife. 48 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.280 It is from liz Z is what it says. 49 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.879 Yeah, I don't know how many Lizzy's we have listening, 50 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:30.199 but there's a high probability. Yes, it's probably my wife 51 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:30.800 from your Bride. 52 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:35.240 She says, this is my most favorite every weekday. Oh, 53 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:38.639 it's definitely my wife. I truly miss it each weekend. 54 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:41.080 She's already told us that. And I'm married to one 55 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:41.599 of these guys. 56 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:43.680 Oh, there it is. Thanks, that's my wife. 57 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:47.360 I've learned so much and grown in my faith. Congratulations 58 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:48.800 on five hundred episodes. 59 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:52.319 Nice, that's very nice. Thank you Liz for writing again, sweetheart. 60 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:53.400 That was very nice. 61 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:55.039 Yes, I appreciate that very much. 62 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:57.919 And the anonymous one was probably my mom. She just 63 00:02:57.960 --> 00:02:58.800 didn't want to admit it. 64 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:03.400 Right right, right, Well, and it was your mom, she 65 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:04.400 would say, great job. 66 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:05.159 Chris and Jeff. 67 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:12.240 Yeah, that's true. Thanks for carry and Jeff along. Chris, Well, 68 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.080 that's really nice. I'm always amazed that people write so 69 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:15.800 many nice things. 70 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.400 And yeah, and I very much appreciate it. 71 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.719 Yeah. This week we had one of our fans, a 72 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:25.280 little girl. How old was she? Oh? 73 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, she came up and you're talking about 74 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:29.039 at the volunteer one on one meeting. 75 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:33.800 Yeah, yeah, she was probably six, and. 76 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.639 She brought us these little pictures that she made right 77 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:37.919 to the Bible guys. Yes, so you got one and 78 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:39.159 I got when I put it in my office. 79 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:39.879 That's so great. 80 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.479 It's really great, really cool, it's amazing. I just can't 81 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.800 hardly believe it. Well, thank you, God's blessed us because 82 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:47.800 of you guys listening all the time. So thank you 83 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:48.240 so much. 84 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:49.240 Yes, thank you. 85 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.400 And today we're going to be launching right in to 86 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:55.759 a second or the to the scripture. But before we do, 87 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:59.159 we just want to remind everybody to like us and 88 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:00.919 to share and subscribe. 89 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.080 I think last week, in fact, actually it was this morning. 90 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:05.800 I woke up this morning and I listened to the 91 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:08.599 Bible Guys on my way to recording the Bibble guys and. 92 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:10.080 Whatever is airing this morning. 93 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:15.039 You had said that statistic we're forty eight percent of people, 94 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.959 yeah something, have not subscribed, and you explained how it 95 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:21.439 helps our algorithms to put in other people's feet. 96 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:22.319 So I'm just. 97 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.920 Reminded today, Yeah, it helps us get the word out, yes, 98 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.560 to remind everybody else to subscribe. 99 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:29.639 So great. That's the one way you can partner with. 100 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:31.360 Us, Yes, help us do it. So I appreciate that 101 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:31.839 very much. 102 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:36.480 Okay, well, we are going to deviate from what's on 103 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.439 our show sheet. Yes, every once in a while we 104 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:41.360 do this, and then we have to go to apologize 105 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.680 to des on this. But we came across the fact 106 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:48.040 that we were skipping two chunks that I think are 107 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.360 kind of important, one of them just because it's so cool. Yeah, 108 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:55.199 and that's today's episode and then tomorrow it's a real 109 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:57.839 pivotal moment, and so we have to deal with that 110 00:04:57.839 --> 00:04:58.920 as well in it's life. 111 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.160 And just to remind everybody, the goal for this whole 112 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.319 series is to hit the milestones of the Old Testament. 113 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.120 So therefore we're not going verse by verse, right, we're 114 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.040 going chunk by chunk, just sort of hitting the highlights. 115 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.560 And so we realized we were skipping over a highlight 116 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:14.160 that we wanted. 117 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:14.439 To talk about. 118 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.480 And I think originally we were thinking more general with 119 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:19.519 regard to the highlights, and then we keep coming up 120 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:22.639 to stories we don't want to miss telling. And so 121 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:25.879 even though she was following this planet, we were following 122 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:27.560 this planet was supposed to be way more general and 123 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.879 just big chunks throughout the Throughout the thing, we keep 124 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:32.600 coming up to these things like today's story. We just 125 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.000 don't want to skip telling today's story. 126 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.199 It reminds me of Steve Martin in that really super 127 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:38.160 old movie. Did you ever see The Jerk in nineteen 128 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:38.680 seventy nine? 129 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:40.360 I think so. At the very end of the movie, 130 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:43.240 he goes, I don't need anything else, and he just said, 131 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:43.920 I just need this. 132 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:47.720 Chair, this paddle ball, this thermos, and I don't need 133 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:49.839 nothing else. And he walked by something he goes, I 134 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.519 need this, and then he picks up a laugh, you know, 135 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.240 and he walks down the street and he's like, I 136 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.319 need this, and he keeps on picking things. 137 00:05:57.800 --> 00:05:58.639 And that's us. 138 00:05:58.680 --> 00:05:59.079 That's us. 139 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:00.800 That's us. 140 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:01.759 It's not dead. It's us. 141 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:02.600 Yeah, that's right. 142 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:05.160 So we're gonna read Second Samuel chapter twenty three, and 143 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:09.079 we're going to pick up in verse eight. If you remember, 144 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:13.480 up to this point, king David was Saul is dead. 145 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:17.720 Now David was chosen to be king of Judah and 146 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:22.480 a couple of outlying little villages. And then Ishboshev was 147 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:27.480 Saul's son, and Abner, who was Saul's general, jumps in 148 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.399 and elevates him and he winds up becoming king of 149 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.720 the rest of Israel. And so this lasts for several years, 150 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.079 and during that time there's still conflict now between David 151 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.839 and Ishbosheth and Abner's armies. 152 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:42.079 Yeah, and Judah and Israel. 153 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:46.480 Yeah. So here's what happens. David continues to rise, and 154 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.800 as he rises, his mighty men begin to rally around him, 155 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:53.040 and he has like these special forces fighters. And so 156 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:54.279 this is why we wanted to talk about it. 157 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:56.319 Yeah. Yeah, And by the way, this is one of 158 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.920 the greatest, my most favorite story in the Bible, not 159 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.600 even kidding. This story that you're about to read is 160 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:04.800 one of my very favorites in the entire Old Testamony. 161 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.040 It's it's incredible. So we'll read. We'll start two Samuel, 162 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:10.399 Chapter twenty three, Verse eight. It says, these are the 163 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:15.079 names of David's mightiest warriors. The first was Jeshowa josh 164 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:20.079 Oban yeah good, the Hackmannite, who was leader of the three, 165 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.199 the three mightiest warriors among David's men. He once used 166 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:25.279 a spear to kill eight hundred enemy warriors in a 167 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:30.199 single battle. That's next in rank among the three was 168 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:34.240 Eliezer's son of Doda I a descendant of Ahoah. Once, 169 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.240 Eliezer and David stood together against the Philistines when the 170 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:40.920 entire Israelite army had fled. He killed Philistines until his 171 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.160 hand was too tired to lift his sword, and the 172 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.639 Lord gave him a great victory that day. The rest 173 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:47.439 of the army did not return until it was time 174 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.079 to collect the plunder. Next in rank was sham a 175 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:54.000 son of Aggi from Harar. One time, the Philistines gathered 176 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.439 in Lehigh and attacked the Israelites in a feel full 177 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.360 of lentils. The Israelite army fled, but sham I held 178 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:01.759 his ground in the field and beat back the Philistines. 179 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:05.639 So the Lord brought about a great victory. Once during 180 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.879 the harvest, when David was at the Cave of Adullam, 181 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:11.199 the Philistine army was camped in the valley of Rafaeum. 182 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.720 The three who were among the thirty, an elite group 183 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.240 among David's fighting men, went down to meet him there. 184 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:18.800 David was staying in a stronghold at the time, and 185 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:23.079 the Philistine attachment had occupied the town of Bethlehem. David 186 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.199 remarked longingly to his men, Oh, how I'd love some 187 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.120 of that good water from the well by the gate 188 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.360 in Bethlehem. So the three broke through the Philistine lines, 189 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.759 drew some water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem, 190 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.039 brought it back to David, but he refused to drink it. Instead, 191 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.000 he poured it out as an offering to the Lord. 192 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:41.960 The Lord forbid that I should drink this, He exclaimed, 193 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.399 This water is as precious as the blood of these 194 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:46.440 men who risked their lives to bring it to me. 195 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:48.559 And so David did not drink it. And these are 196 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.279 examples of the exploits of the three. And then if 197 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.200 you keep going there verse eighteen, it says Abishai, son 198 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:59.080 of Zuruyah, the brother of joeab was the leader of 199 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.480 the thirty. He once used his spear to kill three 200 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:03.639 hundred enemy warriors in a single battle. It was by 201 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:06.320 such feats that he became as famous as the Three. 202 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:09.200 Abishai was the most famous of the thirty and was 203 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.120 their commander, though he was not one of the three. 204 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.120 It was also benaia A son of Jehoida, a valiant 205 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:18.279 warrior from Kabzil. He did many heroic deeds, which included 206 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:21.480 killing two champions of Moab. Another time, on a snowy day, 207 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.039 he chased the lion down into a pit and killed it. 208 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:26.799 Once armed only with the club, he killed a great 209 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.279 Egyptian warrior who was armed with a spirit. Benaiah wrenched 210 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:32.240 the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with it. 211 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:34.759 Theeds like these made bena as famous as the Three 212 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:37.559 Mightiest Warriors. He was more honored than the other members 213 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.600 of the thirty, though he was not one of the three, 214 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.039 and David made him captain of the bodyguard. Yeah, these 215 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.320 are some tough guys. You think these are some tough guys. 216 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.799 Yeah, so, so many things in this whole passage about 217 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:53.759 the three and the you know, the thirty, and that 218 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:57.320 is the first that stands out to me always is 219 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:01.200 every single one of these would make a fantastic movie. 220 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:03.200 Yeah, exactly, you're reading this as a movie. 221 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.919 Oh yeah, I mean another version, you know, it says 222 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:07.720 that he was too tired to lift the sword, but 223 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:12.000 another version actually says his hand was frozen to the sword, right, 224 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:14.679 which means it's a really cold day. So he goes 225 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:19.720 down and he actually, what does it say? He killed 226 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:25.120 the entire Philistine army and they fled and another guy 227 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:30.000 kills eight hundred warriors with a single spear right now, 228 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:32.879 I mean, you know, how many is too many? You 229 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:37.519 remember the princess bride, right, the princess bride. How many 230 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:38.120 guards are there? 231 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.519 Thirty? At my best? I cannot take so many, you know. 232 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.360 And so it's like, you know, they're considering thirty eight hundred? 233 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:48.559 Are you kidding me? Right? So, I mean, but the 234 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:49.399 Bible doesn't lie. 235 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:52.399 So if you ever wonder how many eight hundred people 236 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:59.000 were in a standard basketball gym on the basketball floor, yes, 237 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:01.039 if you set up chairs with people's knees to the 238 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:02.559 back of the chair in front of them, you can't 239 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:05.720 fit eight hundred people on a basketball floor. Yeah right, yeah, 240 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:07.960 so think about it. That's a lot of people. 241 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:08.720 Oh my goodness. 242 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:15.519 You know, you ever exaggerated story sometimes where you're going 243 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:17.120 down the road and it's like thirty miles an hour 244 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.559 and you're like, dude, I was going like fifty, right, 245 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:22.279 and so you know, but not even really sort of 246 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:25.759 meaning to maybe you thought, you you know, we're going fifty. 247 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.200 But God doesn't exaggerate. So if God says eight hundred, 248 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.759 that means it's eight hundred. It's factual, and I just 249 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.480 cannot even imagine the movie that would make for one. 250 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.919 Guy to just it's just bodies flinging everywhere. 251 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:45.559 Like neo neo, and mister Anderson's right, And anyway, the 252 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:50.279 bottom line is is these guys all were epic warriors, 253 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:54.360 and think about it, they did things here that are 254 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:59.120 just as impressive as David's stand against Caliath. 255 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.679 Yeah, right, and that's kind of what's being highlighted here. Yes, 256 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:05.919 these guys are unbelievable talking about the three, and they're 257 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:07.720 talking about two guys that are outside the three but 258 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:09.799 as famous as the three, which. 259 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.000 Means it's an encouragement for us that we should strive 260 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.639 to hang around people who will sharpen our character. In 261 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.639 this case, these warriors, you know, they were attracted to 262 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.799 David because you know, David was brave. David was a 263 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:27.600 man of faith, unbelievable faith, and so these men stepped 264 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:29.519 out in faith, believing that God would be with them 265 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.919 in battle as well. You know, nobody shall defy the 266 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:36.559 army of the King of Israel and the or the 267 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:41.440 you know, the Lord's army, and so anyway, it's just 268 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:42.600 it's just an unbelievable thing. 269 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:44.120 So anyway, all of. 270 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:46.320 These things, and by the way, Ben and Ayah whatever 271 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:48.919 his name is here Ben Ayah, Uh. 272 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:50.000 He's got an honorable mention. 273 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:52.519 And he's only the guy who went down into a 274 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:54.600 snowy pit and killed a lion. 275 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.200 It says there was also so we already talked about 276 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:00.639 the cool guys, but hey, we should mention Ben Ayah. 277 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:02.559 You know, we have time. 278 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:05.039 He was more famous than the thirty. He didn't quite 279 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.799 make the three, but you know he. 280 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.320 Did many heroic deeds. By the way, he. 281 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:11.960 Took on a guy with a spirit of the club, 282 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.320 he killed the lion and the snowy pit, that snowy pit? 283 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:19.159 Are you kidding me? And so anyway, it's just pretty great. Now. 284 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:21.360 The other thing that stands out to me is the 285 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:25.080 story about the well. And uh, you know, we we 286 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:28.600 all have the food of our youth, oh right, and 287 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.519 ratituy it was the it was the food critics, Uh, 288 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.919 ratitui dish right. And for me, it's it's handled ice 289 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:37.080 cream in Youngstown, Ohio. 290 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:39.440 That's it. It takes you back to being a kid. 291 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.320 Yes, but but David is like, I know that well, 292 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:44.600 it's the well I grew up in. 293 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:46.440 It's it's in Bethlehem. 294 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:48.919 I grew up in the well, the well I grew 295 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.399 up with. What did I say in Yeah, it's early. 296 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:55.919 It's the well I grew up with. Well, I meant you, 297 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:58.200 it's the town I grew up there. 298 00:13:58.240 --> 00:13:59.960 It was. It was really incredible. There was a crowd 299 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.399 all around, helicopters, there was the TV things hanging upside 300 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:03.960 down in the well. 301 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:08.200 For yeah, it's the town he grew up in, right, Okay, yeah, definitely. 302 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:12.399 And uh so you know when they dug wells back then, 303 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:14.200 if you know, in order to go deep, they had 304 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:17.600 to go very very wide wells. So like if you've 305 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:19.799 ever been to did you guys stop at when you 306 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:24.159 were in Israel? Did you stop at Jacob's Well? We didn't, Okay. 307 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:27.440 So it's interesting because think of like a soda bottle, 308 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:31.159 like a two liter of soda okay or pop whatever 309 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:31.799 you wanna call it. 310 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:33.600 So it's really really wide. 311 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.480 And then it goes into like this tiny little, uh 312 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:38.919 you know, nozzle where you pour the soda out, so 313 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.000 it's you know, super small, like it'll fit a penny 314 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:42.840 in it. But then you know, but then when when 315 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:44.720 you go down a little ways, it goes wide well. 316 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.279 That's what they did with Jacob's well. So Jacob's well 317 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:50.120 they probably had you know, dozens of men digging it, 318 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:53.320 you know, it was probably honestly, uh, it's as big 319 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:55.759 it was as the circumference was like this room the 320 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:57.679 size of this room. But then they would build a 321 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:59.840 cap on it, and the well itself would only have 322 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:02.279 a small little hole, right, so if you shine a 323 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:03.840 light in there, you're like, wow, look how big this 324 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.600 thing is. Well, in the case with the well at Bethlehem, 325 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.440 it was a massive well, like just almost the same size, 326 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.879 but they had three little openings. So there was three 327 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.320 little openings of this well, but the same well. That 328 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:23.120 makes sense, So then three different people could get water 329 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:24.879 from the same well at the same time. 330 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:27.600 From these three openings. So we had the choice when we. 331 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:31.039 Were on tour in Israel and we only had time 332 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:33.399 to go see one thing, and they said we can 333 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.159 go either go see the field where Gideon defeated. 334 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:39.679 The army, or we can go to the. 335 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:42.879 Well at Bethlehem. And I was the only guy on 336 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:45.679 the bus who sort of perked up, and I go, 337 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:49.519 what the well at Bethlehem were the three you know, 338 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:52.519 fought off the Philistines, and they got a cup of 339 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.120 water and they're fighting with one arm and they're holding 340 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.159 a cup of water or a canteen of water in 341 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:59.600 the other arm, and they go back and. 342 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.159 Are you kidding? Just to give their king some water, 343 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:04.919 just because he said he wanted some. I'm like, let's 344 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:05.440 go there. 345 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:08.799 And I was the only one, and everybody else wanted 346 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:11.360 to go see the field Borghinion was and I said, 347 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.000 that's fine, so I conceded. And then the leader of 348 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:16.600 the trip came up to me and said, you know, 349 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.440 even though you were the only one, we all saw 350 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.279 how excited you were, and so we all conceded. We're 351 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:24.480 going to go to the well, which was really fun. 352 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:27.720 So I got to take a picture and it was closed. 353 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:29.440 You couldn't you couldn't drink from it because the well 354 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:33.399 is spoiled, so so but I got the camera and 355 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:35.399 I put it down there and I took a picture 356 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:35.840 of it. 357 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:39.039 And I just thought, wow, this is where it happened. 358 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.600 And then for David to pour out a drink offering 359 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:46.279 to the lord and he think about how much he 360 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.240 wanted that water, and then they go get it. 361 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.279 If I were the warriors, I'd be mad you know, 362 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:55.200 I mean if I wasn't spiritual, you know, he's pouring 363 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:55.440 it out. 364 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.159 Oh thanks for this, But I'm going to pour it 365 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.840 out of like what I just risked my life for 366 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:03.639 that to fourteen people, right yeah, and. 367 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:06.200 So but he pours it out because he's so grateful 368 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:07.519 to him. 369 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:11.240 Yes, right at that moment. Nobody deserves that kind of 370 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:13.640 love of loyalty, right right, we're gonna pour it out. 371 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:15.000 We're gonna give it to God instead. 372 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:17.400 Well, think about think about in this moment, think about 373 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:19.759 all the things, the earthly things that you've ever wanted, 374 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:23.359 you know, all these things that you strive for, and 375 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:27.160 in that moment to recognize that God is the provider 376 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:29.640 of those things. Sometimes that's a hard thing to do 377 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.359 for us, right you know, Like you know, we strive 378 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:35.000 to get the promotion. We get the promotion, and we 379 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:39.759 think to ourselves, wow, we earned that. And yet what 380 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:43.880 David's doing here, as David is stopping and saying, I 381 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:48.480 directly acknowledge that it is God who has blessed me 382 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:51.680 with these relationships that I do not deserve. And so God, 383 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:53.400 I pour this out the thing that I want the 384 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:57.079 most in this moment, I'm parched, my mouth's dry. I 385 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:00.319 longed for this water and I'm watching it poor get 386 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:02.920 poured out before me on the ground. Because God, that's 387 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:05.799 how much I love you. You're more important than even 388 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:07.359 this glass of water that I wanted. 389 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:11.279 Yeah, that's incredible. So the Bible goes on after we're 390 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.839 done with this passage, goes on and names twenty six 391 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:18.559 other tough guys, right that are part of this part 392 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.880 of this group, a group of thirty and then you know, 393 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:24.759 so there's thirty one men named total. So there's the 394 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:28.119 leader of the thirty he's not, and then there's the three, 395 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:31.720 and then there's you know, these these other guys, twenty 396 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:34.400 seven others. So it's just really astounding. And the thing 397 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:39.559 that strikes me so much about these guys one, it's 398 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:42.160 incredibly gruesome. These are gruesome stories. We have to admit 399 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.079 that eight hundred dudes get wiped out at once. 400 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:45.599 Oh yeah, that's pretty gruesome. Yep. 401 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:49.680