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 --> 00:00:13.000 practical ways. Hey, everybody, thank you for tuning in for 4 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:14.720 another episode of The Bible. 5 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:17.760 Man, Chris. When I was coming in today, I was thinking, 6 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:21.399 we're gonna give these guys the best we can possibly 7 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:24.120 give them today on a Thursday. Are you thinking. 8 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.280 Of Thursday's recording? 9 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:25.960 Sure? 10 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:31.359 Okay, sure, perhaps you think in general you're thinking I 11 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:33.880 was thinking in general, okay, that we are going to 12 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.479 give them the best podcast effort we can give them. Okay, 13 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:39.399 all right, man, Well I'll tell you what this is 14 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:40.079 gonna be a good one. 15 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.640 I'm just gonna strive for above mediocrity. I'm gonna let 16 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:44.799 you carry it about that. 17 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:55.640 Okay again, So thanks, all right again. So here'sousn So 18 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.280 you know, we only bring the finest. 19 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.920 News to our absolutely and to our. 20 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.959 Listeners, and you know sometimes we bring special interest things. 21 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:06.920 And this is kind of a little bit of news 22 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:08.799 and a little bit of special interest. It comes from 23 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:12.719 the finest, most reliable sources. We comb the Internet, and 24 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:15.400 we keep coming back to the Babylon b Yes for 25 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.040 the best information. So today's article that we're going to 26 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:22.319 read for you is man buys new TV so he 27 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:27.480 can watch NFL refs blow calls and stunning four K resolution. 28 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.040 Which which, by the way, is very applicable because the 29 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:32.799 Lions fans just played the Chiefs. 30 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:36.519 For Lions fans in general. But oh yeah right, yeah, yeah, general, yeah, 31 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:40.239 but for considering they just played the Chiefs here recently. Yes, 32 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:43.120 here's what goes new Bronfels, Texas. One super fans dream 33 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:45.719 of seeing his team play in high definition came true 34 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:48.159 this weekend as a local man bought a new TV 35 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:51.519 so he could watch NFL referees blow calls and stunning 36 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:55.359 four K resolution. Derek Johnson upgraded his home entertainment system 37 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:59.400 over the weekend, including a seventy inch OLED television that 38 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:02.439 finally allowed him to see the officiating crew totally botch 39 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:05.480 every penalty call in the forty nine Ers game. I 40 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:09.000 can now see every horrible officiating error in the crystal 41 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:12.439 clear detail, Johnson said after the refs made another completely 42 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:15.319 bogus holding call. Gone to the days when I would 43 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.199 be stuck trying to figure out what the refs were 44 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.439 looking at on my standard definition TV. Now I can 45 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:24.000 see them ruin games every week in four K. A 46 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:27.280 lifelong Niners fan, Johnson was excited to now see his 47 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:31.560 team fail miserably thanks to egregiously boned calls by inept referees, 48 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.439 every bad pass interference call, every down by contact ruling 49 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:38.879 on a clear fumble. I can see it all now, 50 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:41.319 he said. Before I just had a sneaking suspicion that 51 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.319 they were making all of these mistakes. Now I can 52 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.680 see it just like I was sitting in the front row. 53 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:49.000 It adds a whole new dimension to watching my favorite 54 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.879 team get completely re weekend and weekend. 55 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:52.360 Wow. 56 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:56.000 At publishing time, Derek Johnson had smashed his brand new 57 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:58.520 four K TV after throwing one of his wife's decorative 58 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:01.240 fall pumpkins at it in anger due to the refs 59 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:03.080 missing a blatant roughing the passer call. 60 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:05.400 Wow, that's so good. 61 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:07.639 Ah, that's fantastic, so good. 62 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.439 So he buys this new TV and all you can 63 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:11.840 see is, you know, the bad rest and then he 64 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:15.360 smashes it right right well, because after all, now he's 65 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:18.000 now he has reason to be angry, right with crystal clarity. 66 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:20.800 Okay, so Chris, do you think that they're blowing these calls? 67 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.599 On purpose. You know what I have. It's an epidemic, 68 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:25.039 isn't it. 69 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:29.520 I have a hard time believing the entire organization of 70 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:37.039 the NFL is instructing referees to to to to sway 71 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.960 the games, Okay, like in other words, like the conspiracy 72 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.439 theory is it's the entire organization right now. The very 73 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:48.639 much lesser theory is that maybe somebody is getting paid 74 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:52.120 under the table, and there's you know, there's certain referees 75 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.879 that are getting paid, which, by the way, on you 76 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.879 know now with AI that the things that come up 77 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:00.520 after the games are hilarious, right because they make they 78 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.319 make people say things that they didn't say. 79 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:04.159 You're right, So like, uh. 80 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:06.800 So the coach, coach Campbell's in the locker room and 81 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:08.680 he's saying like stuff, and I'm like, that's not what 82 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:11.319 he said, right, but but AI makes it seem like it. 83 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:11.879 Right. 84 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:14.719 But anyway, what ends up happening is the referee is 85 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.959 just about to call Golf's touchdown back and and then 86 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:19.839 there's a chief fan that walks up to him and 87 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:24.720 he's holding a card reader and he goes boop, he 88 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.480 hits the card and then the referee looks down and 89 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:31.000 he goes, thank you, No, no touchdown, we're calling it back. 90 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:33.680 I just And then there's another AI meme where he 91 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:35.639 had a duffle bag full of money and he comes 92 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.079 and he lays it down and he goes, he kisses. 93 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:40.439 Him, he kisses the referee, and he goes. He goes 94 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:47.040 pass interference. He's hilarious. Okay, Well, all I know is 95 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:51.360 if the game goes our way, yeah, then I never 96 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:55.360 see any bad calls. But if the game goes against me, 97 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:57.839 I want to gently push back in that and say, 98 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:58.639 oh no, I'm just saying. 99 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.600 As a fan, as I do see all the things 100 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:04.120 that go away, I always think to ourselves, ooh, that 101 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.480 car went our way and it shouldn't have. Yeah, Like, 102 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.319 I always think that all the time. 103 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:11.319 I'm such a good fan that I think I agree 104 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.279 with the refs when they go our way, and when 105 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:16.639 they go that's right, that's right. We should get away 106 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:16.959 with that. 107 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.079 People have gotten away with it, which by the way, 108 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:20.560 is true. 109 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:25.680 But but yeah, yeah, so uh anyways, that was a 110 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.680 I thought, really really useful thing talking about blown calls 111 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:31.600 and all those kinds of things. 112 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:33.600 Yeah, you know what else is useful? 113 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:37.439 You know who also takes good care of their their fans. 114 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:41.399 God, God takes care of his fans. 115 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:45.120 Yeah, that's right. So in Romans chapter eight, Hey, this 116 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:50.600 is oftentimes one of those misquoted version miss misquoted or 117 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:54.920 misunderstood or frustrating passages. So I thought i'd start reading 118 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:59.600 in Matthew eight eighteen. If you don't mind, you know 119 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:04.000 what I allow that. Yes, so there's a lot that 120 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:09.079 he's already talking about beforehand with regard to the living 121 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.639 life in the spirit of God. There's now therefore no 122 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:15.480 condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus all this stuff. 123 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:19.079 But then you get to verse eighteen. It says, yet 124 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:24.160 what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory 125 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.680 He will reveal to us later. So as difficult as 126 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:31.639 this life is, it's nothing compared to how great eternity 127 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:35.560 is going to be. For all creation is waiting eagerly 128 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:37.959 for that future day when God will reveal who his 129 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:42.120 children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected 130 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.600 to God's curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks 131 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.439 forward to the day when it will join God's children 132 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:53.720 in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know 133 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.519 that all creation has been groaning as in the pains 134 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:59.040 of childbirth right up to the present time. And we 135 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.839 believers also, even though we have the Holy Spirit within 136 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.560 us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long 137 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:07.240 for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. 138 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:10.160 We too wait with eager hope for the day when 139 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.839 God will give us our full rights as as adopted children, 140 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:16.759 including the new bodies He's promised us. We were given 141 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:19.759 this hope, and we were saved. If we already have something, 142 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:21.680 we don't need to hope for it. But if we 143 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:23.959 look forward to something we don't yet have, we must 144 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.319 wait patiently confidently, and the Holy Spirit helps us in 145 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:31.439 our weakness. For example, we don't know what God wants 146 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:33.600 us to pray for, but the Holy Spirit prays for 147 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.240 us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And 148 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.199 the Father, who knows all hearts, knows what the Spirit 149 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:41.839 is saying. For the Spirit pleads for us believers in 150 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.959 harmony with God's own will. And we know that God 151 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.519 causes everything to work together for the good of those 152 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.199 who love God and are called according to His purpose 153 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:52.759 for them. For God knew his people in advance, and 154 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.639 he chosen to become like his son, so this son 155 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:58.079 would be the firstborn among many brothers. And having chosen them, 156 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:00.519 he called them to come to him, and having them, 157 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.560 he gave them right standing with himself. And having given 158 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.040 them right standing, he gave them his glory. What shall 159 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:10.000 we say about such wonderful things disease? If God is 160 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:12.920 for us, who can ever be against us? Since He 161 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.720 did not spare even his own son, but gave him 162 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:19.439 up for us, all, won't he also give us everything? Else? 163 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.439 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his 164 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:25.319 own no one, For God himself has given us right 165 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.920 standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one? 166 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:31.319 For Christ. Jesus died for us and was raised to 167 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.639 life for us, And he's sitting in the right place, 168 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:36.559 in the place of honor that God's right hand, pleading 169 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:40.000 for us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? 170 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.320 Doesn't mean he no longer loves us. If we have 171 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.919 trouble or calamity, or persecuted or hungry, or destitute, or 172 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.679 in danger or threatened with death. As a scripture's sake, 173 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:51.679 say for your sake, we're killed every day. We were 174 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:55.840 being slaughtered like sheep No, despite all these things, overwhelming 175 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.519 victory is ours through Christ Jesus, who loved us. I'm 176 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.200 going to keep go. Yeah, they go. And I am 177 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.960 convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. 178 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:08.919 Neither death nor life, No neither angels nor demons, neither 179 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:12.159 our fears for today, nor are worries about tomorrow. Not 180 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:14.759 even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. 181 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.120 No power in the sky above or in the earth below. Indeed, 182 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:21.240 nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate 183 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.200 us from the love of God that is revealed in 184 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.759 Christ Jesus, our Lord. Well there you go. Now there's 185 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:28.840 a bunch of promises in there. Buddy. Now you ready 186 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:30.000 for this, Go for it. 187 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.879 This is in my top five. 188 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:35.120 Yeah, it's one of my. 189 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:38.639 Best passages, my favorite passage, favorite passage. Yeah, so I 190 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:42.399 would say from from verse thirty five to the end 191 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.639 of that chapter, which is what verse thirty thirty nine, 192 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:49.200 thirty nine, Yeah, so thirty five through thirty nine, it 193 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.679 is one of the most powerful. In fact, whenever I 194 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:55.279 read it, which is often, I actually say this is 195 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.720 first of all, it's the most common question I think 196 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:03.279 in the Bible. Can can you know can can about 197 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.360 God's love? Does that love us? Right? It's to do 198 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:08.120 with God's love? You know, it's the most common topic 199 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.559 I should say in the Bible. And then it's the 200 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:14.559 strongest answer to any given question in all of the scripture. 201 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.799 So I would say the only thing that rivals it 202 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.960 would be when God, at least in my mind, unless 203 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:23.759 you can come up with something I'm not thinking of. 204 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.039 But remember when God answered job and job and Job 205 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:29.840 was talking in but it really wasn't like a singular question. 206 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.000 This is a single question. Can anything ever separate us 207 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.600 from Christ love? That's the question? And then all of 208 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.519 a sudden, the next four verses is the like some 209 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:40.200 of the strongest language ever. 210 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.960 Let me be clear. Nope, nothing, yeah, nothing. Let me 211 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.840 clarify what nothing means. Not that and not that and 212 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:47.240 that thing. 213 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:49.159 He says, no power in the sky and the earth 214 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:53.360 below right, nothing indeed will ever be able to separate 215 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:55.799 us from the love of God through Christ, Jesus, our Lord. 216 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.480 You know it's just it's just so strong and so yeah. 217 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.919 When when God answered job, I think that he answered strongly. 218 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:05.720 You know who made the deaf, who made the dumb? 219 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:08.279 You know who created the ocean who totally can only 220 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:10.720 go this far right, which we just sang on Sunday, 221 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.360 by the way, And so anyway, I think that that 222 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:14.840 was a strong answer, but I don't think it was 223 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.679 a direct question that was asked that Job had. Jordan's 224 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:23.000 was was did Job plainly say why? Right? Like? You know, 225 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:27.519 he more so complained to God and then God was 226 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.840 addressing the complaint right right? Whereas like whereas this is 227 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:32.799 an answer to a question. So anyway, I think I think 228 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:35.639 this is the strongest answer to any question in the Bible. 229 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.240 But that really isn't the promise though, right, The promise 230 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.600 we're looking at today isn't the promise we're looking at today. 231 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.600 Yeah, the promise we're looking at today is he who 232 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.600 did not spare his own son, Well he not also 233 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:49.480 give us everything that we need. 234 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:54.080 Yeah, so there's there's the promise of provision. In other words, 235 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:55.159 God gave everything. 236 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.639 If God was willing to give everything, including his own son, 237 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:00.559 how hard is it for him to make sure you 238 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:01.360 have what you need? 239 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:01.840 Right? 240 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.440 Right? It's he already did the hard work. This is 241 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.279 this is light work compared to your big problem today? 242 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:10.039 Is light work compared to what He's already done for you. Yeah, 243 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.360 and so he can do it yeah yeah. 244 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.080 Well and it's and again this is one of these 245 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:17.120 promises that talk about the nature of God. Right, So 246 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:19.639 the nature of God is a God who's giving, which, 247 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:23.000 by the way, it's worth saying that that, you know, 248 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:25.159 we are created in the likeness of God. We're creating 249 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.799 the image of God, and so we're created to give 250 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.039 our lives away. So that literally was the sermon on Sunday, 251 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:31.320 wasn't it. 252 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:31.840 That's right. 253 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.159 Yeah, we talked about how the fact that you know, 254 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:38.120 we all admire people who are generous, we all admire 255 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.759 people who give, and in fact, it's it's some of 256 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.480 the strongest admiration that we have for a human to 257 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:46.080 be able to say, at the end of their life, man, 258 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:48.919 they thought of everybody else before they thought of themselves. 259 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:51.480 And the reason why that's in you. We made the 260 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:53.840 case and say, the reason why we thought think that 261 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.000 that is in you and in me is because that 262 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.399 is the nature of God in you and the story 263 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.080 of God in you. Right. So God has placed that 264 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:04.720 within you. It's built in whether you're a Christian or not, 265 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:07.120 or whether you believe in God or claim to be 266 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.759 an atheist like it or not, we all believe who 267 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.519 are Christians that you, even as an atheist, you still 268 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:17.120 are created in the image of God. You have God's 269 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:20.799 nature in you that needs to come alive in Christ. 270 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:25.000 But it's still there. Your tendencies or you know, human tendencies, 271 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:29.120 and then you have spiritual tendencies, and you're attracted to 272 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:32.799 the story of God that is alive in you. And 273 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:34.720 so I think that I think that that is exactly 274 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:38.039 why we admire people who are selfless, because we are 275 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:39.039 created to be selfless. 276 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:47.559 Yeah. So this passage begins with Paul acknowledging life is hard, right, Hey, 277 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:51.240 things are tough. What we're suffering right now is nothing 278 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:54.399 compared to the glory of what God's promised. And then 279 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:57.720 a lot of people will ask why did bad things happen? Right, 280 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:01.759 And Paul's acknowledging that part of it. Hey, whether you're 281 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.360 a Christian or not a Christian, life is really hard, right. 282 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.519 You're gonna have moments when it's pretty great, maybe years 283 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:12.360 that are pretty great. Yeah, those moments when my granddaughter 284 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:14.600 came running to me, jumped up on my lap, and 285 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:17.600 the first time they both my grandkids call me jeepy 286 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:20.200 for some reason and jump up on my lap and 287 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.879 she goes gep and she just looked at me so intensely, 288 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:24.840 and then she jumped out and ran away again. That 289 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.159 delight in that moment is just amazing, you know what 290 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:29.960 I mean. It's just so much fun. And so there's 291 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.240 these really incredible beautiful sunset I was out in my 292 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:35.159 tree stand in the woods hunting a couple days ago, 293 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:39.639 and that beautiful fall sunsets, when the leaves are turning, 294 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.279 It's just bright blue sky, a little storm in the background, 295 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:46.639 beautiful sunset, geese flying through the air. I could hear 296 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:50.720 a great horned owl was hooting not far away from me, 297 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:53.200 and all of a sudden, coyote started howling all around me. 298 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:54.799 It was just really intense night, right. 299 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:57.519 And sounds like a scene in the Three Amigosh. 300 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:00.000 Yeah, yeah, it was just so incredible. Right. 301 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:01.679 So you have these You're welcome, Chad. 302 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:07.080 You have these amazing moments in life that make us 303 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.320 long for paradise and for perfection. 304 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:12.600 I agree with that. 305 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:15.000 Topia, I agree with that. And then we have to leave. 306 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:16.200 You got to get out of your tree stand. You 307 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:20.240 got to come home from your vacation, right, and you're hit. 308 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.360 Just keep on kids, keep disobeying, you know what I mean, 309 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:26.960 screaming in the back of all that kind of stuff. 310 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.879 And and so it's built in us to desire paradise 311 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.919 and perfection. And then Paul says, but hey, the promise 312 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:40.000 we're looking for is exactly what God's promised. That's exactly 313 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:44.039 what your heart desires, right, it's that perfection. But in between, 314 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:48.399 what's going on? And he says, well, the whole world, 315 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.639 against its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse. 316 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.559 God says, if you sin, you'll die. And you know 317 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:59.639 he made humanity is the crown jewel of creation. So 318 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:04.679 when when we sin, everything broke, everything broke. It all 319 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:08.279 pivoted from it's designed to keep you alive too. Now 320 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.519 it's trying to have you ever been to Texas. Everything 321 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:13.519 in Texas is trying to kill you. Everything in Africa. 322 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:17.279 You've been on the bush with me before, we've been together, 323 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:19.000 and well, I guess I was out in the bush 324 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:21.679 with you on that trip, wasn't it. But everything's trying 325 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:23.720 to kill you, man. The bugs are trying to kill you. 326 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:26.120 The plants are trying to kill you. The heat's trying 327 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:28.600 to kill you. The rocks, the sides of the mountains, 328 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.480 everything serpents. So yes, snakes are trying to kill you. 329 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.879 And so he says, what happened was the world broke 330 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:39.120 under the curse that was placed on humanity because of 331 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:41.759 our sin. And he says, but with eager hope, the 332 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.039 creation looks forward to the day. This is all of 333 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:48.200 creation is looking forward to the day when it'll join 334 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:52.120 God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. There's 335 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:53.879 going to be a day when there'll be no more death, 336 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.879 just like there was at the beginning in perfection. We 337 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:02.639 have this echo off action in paradise in eternity that 338 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.160 we still long for today, all of creation does. And 339 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.359 he says, for we know that all creation has been groaning, 340 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:10.839 as in the pains of childbirth, right up to the 341 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.160 present time. And so and he says, even we believers 342 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:17.480 also grown, even though we have a holy Spirit with 343 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:21.559 us as a foretaste of future glory. Right, so we 344 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:24.160 even we long for our bodies to be released from 345 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:27.319 this this sin and suffering. And so we wait with 346 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.240 an eager hope. So we also are living in a 347 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:36.279 broken world, and so bad things happen, But because of Christ, 348 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.680 we have hope for eternity, and he will have a solution. 349 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.119 He has a he had he bring us back to 350 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:45.160 the garden, back to paradise that we've always longed for. 351 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:47.720 So you know how the garden when Sin entered into 352 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:51.359 the world. One of the things that God specifically mentions 353 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.759 is you're gonna have to work for your food now. Yeah, right, So, 354 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:56.799 so no longer is everything going to be perfect. So 355 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.519 I equate that to weeds, right, we are a part 356 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:01.200 of that curse. 357 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:04.759 Right, hard hard ground weeds. Yeah, like like labor, low production. 358 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.920 Yeah, and so so I definitely look forward to the 359 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.759 time when all landscaping will have no weeds. Yeah, great, 360 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:14.720 with no weed block, no weed block needed, that's right. 361 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.240 But let me ask you this question. Based on the 362 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:20.920 fact that there's gonna be no more even even creation 363 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:24.559 itself is looking forward to no more death. Does that 364 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:27.799 mean do you think that leaves will no longer turn 365 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:30.799 colors and die? Will they always just be green? 366 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:35.960 Well, you would have to have that leaf be a 367 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:39.880 living entity. And it's not. It's a part, but. 368 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:41.759 It says here creation is looking forward. 369 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:43.960 To Yeah, but the tree is the living entity. The 370 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:46.839 leaf is just a part of the tree. Okay, yeah, yeah, 371 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:48.960 Otherwise you'd have to believe that hair would never fall 372 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.839 off your head, that fingernails would never need to be clipped. 373 00:18:52.359 --> 00:19:00.000 You make a good point, and I will concede to it. 374 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.799 It felt, that felt unbelievably fulfilling. Of course you did. 375 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:04.920 It always does for you. 376 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:10.599 That's so good. So anyways, even Paul acknowledges this is 377 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:12.720 Saint Paul. We think of him as being like super 378 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:15.880 Christian Paul. Right, And even he says, hey, listen, it's 379 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:18.079 hard for all of us. Life is hard. We shouldn't 380 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:21.319 be surprised by it. We're all going through it saved 381 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:25.039 and unsaved together. Life is difficult because the world is broken. 382 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:28.519 The difference is you and I don't have to be 383 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:32.400 depressed by it because Jesus has a solution for it. Right, 384 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:34.559 And so then people go, well, then why are we 385 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:38.680 living in this curse? How mean is that? Well, Peter 386 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:43.640 tells us God isn't being lazy right the way that 387 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:44.960 you would measure laziness the city. 388 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:46.680 Otherwise, why wouldn't you come back sooner? 389 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:50.720 Right? Instead, it says he's being patient so that no 390 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:53.799 one would perish, but that everyone would have a chance 391 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:56.519 to come back to him in repentance. Right, And so 392 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:58.799 God's allowing time to play out, even though it's a 393 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:01.440 broken time. He's allowing it to play out so that 394 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:04.000 everybody that should be born will be born, and that 395 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:06.799 everybody will have an opportunity to hear the gospel and 396 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.480 turn to Him in faith. And so the solution to 397 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:14.720 the broken world around us isn't just isn't only more 398 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:20.519 food lines, more bags of rice, more wells. The solution 399 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:23.359 is we need to get more Jesus everywhere, and he 400 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.200 begins to restore what is broken and what is lost. 401 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:28.880