WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:13.480 practical ways. Hey, everybody, we'll do the bob Guys. We 4 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:16.120 are Chris and Jeff, and I'll let you guess who's who. 5 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.679 Well, let me see. I'm gonna guess I'm Jeff. 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:22.760 Yes, yes, okay, anything you I met them? 7 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:26.640 Oh, okay, you made eye contact with me. 8 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:29.800 I'm gonna let you guys who too? I think I'm Jeff. 9 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.399 I'm pretty Wait if something has changed, am I Chris? 10 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:32.880 I don't know. 11 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:36.719 You can be so lucky. Hey, so anyway, welcome to 12 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.960 the Bible Guys. 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I actually had, uh, my brother, 25 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.920 one of my one of my brothers said, if you're 26 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:14.760 friends with my ex wife, I want you to unfriend 27 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.079 me right now. I was like, I was like, oh, 28 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:19.159 when people throw those. 29 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:21.640 Yeah, yeah, well that's it. Then if you're not a 30 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.599 listener of the Bible, guys, unfund me right now, link 31 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:28.159 and follow. That might be a little harsh, It might 32 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.560 be harsh, but something of whatever you feel is the 33 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:32.280 best way to get by the way I can trust you. 34 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:35.640 I called my brother and said, take that down. You 35 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:37.480 cannot you cannot ask that. 36 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:40.840 I can understand this, the the frustration. It's hurt people. 37 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.519 And to do those things hurt people. Well, hey, uh 38 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:47.680 you know that our are one of our commitments. Our 39 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:50.000 longtime listeners know one of our commitments is to bring 40 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:55.040 the finest news and the finest commentary that we can bring. 41 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:58.000 And we scour the Internet and we keep coming back 42 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:01.560 to the Babylon b one of the great sources of 43 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:05.680 Internet facts and truths. Yes, if you don't know, Babylon 44 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.680 Bee's a satire website, very very funny, and this one 45 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:10.400 really hits close to home for you for me. 46 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:11.240 Absolutely. 47 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:14.520 So the title is twelve funny and this is post Christmas. 48 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.719 We're still kind of in the holiday season. Sure, families 49 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:19.800 are still kind of doing some stuff together, acting like 50 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:24.159 they like each other. Year's resolution, we're gonna have We're 51 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.039 gonna have family, more family time this year. 52 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:30.800 Yeah, yes, hopefully right. I'm pausing because technically today on 53 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.240 the filming date, it's the twenty ninth of December. But 54 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.039 they're gonna hear this like mid yeah. 55 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:39.599 Yeah, sure, yeah, but still it's New Year's resolution, more 56 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.280 time with the family, probably for some people. Yes, So 57 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:45.719 here it is twelve fun activities that are less likely 58 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.280 to destroy your family than Monopoly. There it is, And 59 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:51.759 you are obsessed with Monopoly? 60 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.800 Yeah, Monopoly is by far my favorite game. 61 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:56.960 Like how many games of Monopoly have you played in 62 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:57.479 your life? 63 00:02:57.479 --> 00:02:57.919 Thousands? 64 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:02.000 Thousands? How many of you won? Thousands? Pretty good? So 65 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:05.560 you know every single Monopoly spot? I do you know 66 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:06.879 how much they're worth? 67 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:09.960 With every house and I wouldn't say every house, but 68 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:13.520 if you name if you name a property and you 69 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:15.479 can even give me a number or a color, and 70 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.080 I could name you the property, I can tell you 71 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.879 a lot of information about property So Saint James Place 72 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:25.719 is the orange property, right, It is four from go, 73 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:28.840 and Saint James Place is one hundred and eighty dollars 74 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:32.520 to purchase. It is one hundred dollars a house, fifteen 75 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:36.319 hundred dollars for hotels, and Saint James Place will give 76 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:40.520 you five hundred and fifty dollars income with hotel with 77 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:44.479 the hotel and six hundred. Oh no, I'm wrong, I'm wrong. 78 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.960 I'm sorry. It's nine hundred and fifty dollars than one thousand, 79 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:52.479 because the thousand is the most expensive orange. So nice. 80 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.879 I thought Saint James Place was purple right around the corner. 81 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:58.919 No, you're thinking of you're thinking of Saint Charles. 82 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.400 Saint Charles all your right, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 83 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:04.439 good job. Yeah, thanks so so, and you can do 84 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:07.400 that with virtually every spot on the tape on the board, yes, 85 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:10.080 just about yeah yeah yeah. And then you have a 86 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:12.039 speed version of this that you and your buddies play. 87 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:14.120 We do. Yeah, so you sit through a whole game 88 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.720 in an hour, but just over an hour, hour and 89 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:19.279 ten minutes we would start. There'll be five of us, 90 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:22.680 by the way, five so what not like two or three? Five? 91 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:25.079 Of us and and the speed version is simply this 92 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.560 when I rolled, and I you know, moved my piece 93 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:30.439 and then I did the transaction with the bank. By 94 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.000 the time I did the transaction, it was my turn again. 95 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.519 Wow, because you guys, the guys are just going around 96 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:37.360 the thing. Yeah, I'd rolled, And there's a lot of 97 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.480 trust that everybody's being honest. Money. 98 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.439 Well, when you when you've played so much, you actually can. 99 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:43.720 Pay attention everybody. 100 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:45.680 So everybody's moving at one time, and I could see 101 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.000 all five people transacting. 102 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:47.519 Wow. 103 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:48.680 So that's that's the way it was. 104 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:56.079 Wow. So people like you make Monopoly dangerous to your family, yes, 105 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.319 and so this might be useful to countless families have 106 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.120 been destroyed by games of Monopoly grown awry. Don't let 107 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:03.639 that happen to you. As a public service, the Babylon 108 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.279 b has come up with the following list of fun 109 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:09.480 activities that are less likely to destroy your family. Number one, 110 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:12.040 give your kids medieval weapons and tell them the winner 111 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.040 gets twenty roebucks. Wow, that can only be one survivor. 112 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.240 That's less. That's let's less destruct less destructive yesday. 113 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:22.399 Number two, hide and seek in the Old Swinging Axe Factory. 114 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:26.959 The old Oh yeah, old fact, Yes, and adventure no 115 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:27.879 one will ever forget. 116 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:30.879 Number three play game was sorry? And every time you 117 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.680 send your kids pawns back to the start, you yell 118 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:37.920 in your face. Suck up. Adversity makes kids stronger. 119 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:38.519 That's so good. 120 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.319 Number four acting out classic Bible stories. Oh Nan Lot 121 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.920 and his daughters e Hud and King Eglon. So many favorites. 122 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:48.360 Wow? 123 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:53.079 Okay. How about number five? A Somalian food eating contest. 124 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.800 Whoever keeps it all down the longest becomes mayor of Minneapolis. 125 00:05:57.480 --> 00:05:58.000 Wow? 126 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:03.879 No, wow, that's terrible. Okay, here we go for it. 127 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:08.519 Lure your brother into a field and kill him. That's 128 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:13.720 number six. It's especially satisfying if God accepted your brother's 129 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.600 sacrifice but not yours. 130 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:18.560 And by the way, that's less destructive. 131 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:22.560 And monopoly, that's right, less destructive. Number seven Russian roulette. 132 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:28.040 Kids need to be introduced to the classic class. This 133 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:32.720 is terrible. Number eight Storm Area fifty one is a family. 134 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:35.879 It's heavily guarded, but just imagine the adrenaline rus. 135 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:37.759 Wow, these are funny. 136 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:45.639 Number nine family speedboat trip transporting cocaine from Venezuela. Oh no, terrible, 137 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:49.160 that's get us some trouble. This is how you know 138 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:51.319 we don't read these things before we get to them. 139 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:52.279 This is hilarious. 140 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:55.279 Yeah, this is If everyone somehow lives through it, they'll 141 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:56.800 have an amazing story to tell for the rest of 142 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.279 their lives. Number ten taking turns playing William Tell and 143 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:04.639 shooting apples off each other's heads. When see how many 144 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:09.680 successful shots family can strained together before tragedy striking okay. 145 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.800 Number eleven play a game of diplomacy where the winner 146 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:17.959 gets the full inheritance raising steaks. Raising steaks makes every 147 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.879 game better. And then number twelve an exciting game a 148 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:24.560 Guess which kid is adopted? Oh, it's a secret identity 149 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:26.959 party game where one child learns they aren't related to 150 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.480 everyone else by blood. It's fun for the whole family. 151 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.399 With so many fun activities listed above, you'll have no 152 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:35.160 need to put your family harmony at risk with the 153 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:38.519 dangerous game of Monopoly. What other family activities was you suggest? 154 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:39.639 Point them in the comments? 155 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.879 It's so good, dude, that's terrible. 156 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:45.360 All right, We're gonna get some hate mail on a 157 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.920 couple of those. You know that, right? Yes, okay, thanks 158 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:48.920 Dez for that one. 159 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:53.079 You know, Speaking of games, Jesus wasn't playing around when 160 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:58.199 we when he listed all the beatitudes? 161 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.920 Yeah, yeah, And which beatitude are we reading today? 162 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.319 I think it's the same one, Meek, right, is it? 163 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:06.879 Meek? Still? 164 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:07.399 Yeah? 165 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:13.800 Okay? Well. In Matthew chapter five, verse forty three through 166 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:16.519 forty eight, here's what Jesus says. 167 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:19.399 He I just wanted to confirm that I was correct, 168 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:20.199 and you nailed it. 169 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.720 I was you nailed it, Yeah, I just Saint James place. 170 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:24.519 Yeah, yeah, I was just I was wanting to make 171 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.000 sure that I didn't misquote it. But I'm relieved that I. 172 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:28.959 Nailed That's awesome. 173 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:29.800 Yeah. 174 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:34.000 In Matthew chapter five, verse thirty forty three, he says, 175 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.799 you have heard the law says love your neighbor and 176 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:40.679 hate your enemy. But I say love your enemies, pray 177 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:43.639 for those who persecute you, and in that way you'll 178 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.039 be acting as true children of your father in heaven, 179 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.480 For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and 180 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.799 the good, and he sends rain on the just and 181 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.200 the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, 182 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:57.519 what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors 183 00:08:57.559 --> 00:08:59.960 do that much? If you're kind only to your friends. 184 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.480 How are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that? 185 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.200 But you are to be perfect, even as your father 186 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:09.000 in heaven is perfect. Yeah, there you go. 187 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.279 Yeah, I love your enemies is a very very difficult thing. 188 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.879 For my least favorite. I'm always telling you, yep, how 189 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:18.200 I am always telling you. Oh, that's one of my 190 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:21.440 favorite verses. This is one of my least favorites. I 191 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.360 don't care for this one. Come on, man, I love 192 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.159 my enemies. How about tolerate your enemies? 193 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:32.759 Right? Right? And so you just to be clear, it's 194 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:34.440 your least favorite because you don't want to do it. 195 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:37.159 That's right, right, That's right, that's the reason least favorite. 196 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.200 Yeah. And in this way, you'll be acting as true 197 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.120 children of your father in heaven. For he gives sunlight 198 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.159 on the evil and the in the good, and he 199 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:48.360 sends rain on theust and the unjust. Did you ever 200 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:52.919 hear Wesley quote that verse? Wesley Woods loves to quote 201 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.159 this verse. How and he's talking about God's fairness, you know, 202 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:58.799 Oh yeah, And he says, hey, God gives rain on 203 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.080 the just and the unjust. I've heard him say that 204 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:04.200 so many times. And uh and again we just sort 205 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:07.279 of talked about this yesterday, where when Jesus was talking 206 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:11.879 about love, he was introducing, you know, this new commandment, 207 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:13.960 you know, when Jesus comes along. You know, there are 208 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.919 some people that actually say that love your or love 209 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:21.600 one another was actually a summary of the two greatest commandments, right, 210 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:23.759 you know they say they say that it could be 211 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:27.080 looked at as Jesus saying like, hey, the two greatest 212 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:29.240 comandments in the Old Testament, or love the Lord your 213 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:30.919 God with all your heart, soul, mind's strength, love your 214 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.840 neighbor as yourself. And then hey, a new commandment I 215 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.879 give to you love one another. And uh, you know, 216 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.399 just the idea of loving God and loving others just 217 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:44.240 in that one verse. But either way, Jesus is uh, 218 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:49.600 you know, bringing both truth and grace, both dynamics to 219 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:53.519 the equation. And so the God who and I've always 220 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:57.200 and I've always said this God is the same yesterday, 221 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:00.960 today and forever, right right, So nothing changes about God's 222 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:05.000 view of sin, nothing changes about how he feels about 223 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:11.279 you know, injustice or sinful things. Right, God's punishment for sin, 224 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.080 his bar for sin, his attitude towards sin, all of 225 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.519 it is the same. The only difference is is his 226 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:24.159 reaction toward our sin changes because of Jesus Christ, because 227 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.639 you know, after all, the payment for sin had to 228 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:32.080 be dealt with in a different way before Jesus than 229 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:35.279 after Jesus. Right, So Jesus comes and dies on the cross, 230 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.159 so to get to Heaven we no longer have to, 231 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:40.399 you know, go through the things that we went through. 232 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.480 Now we just lean on and believe in and trust 233 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:47.799 in the sacrifice that Jesus already paid. So it is 234 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:52.519 the idea that Jesus has come to bring us both 235 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:57.120 truth and grace is just an unbelievable concept that God. 236 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:02.039 Once we are Christians, we sin and then God forgives 237 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.720 us every single time. Yeah right, I mean, just you know, 238 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:06.600 there's a reason why God's grace is called. 239 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:10.039 Amazing, right, and God gives that grace even before we're 240 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:15.840 Christians in the common grace areas, which is this where 241 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:17.799 he says he causes a terrain on the just and 242 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:20.679 the unjust. That's exactly right, and that's called common grace. 243 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:23.759 Where he gives that grace where air is available to 244 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.639 all the people. Right, whether you're a follower of Jesus 245 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:30.000 or not, Food, water should be available to all the people. 246 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.320 You know, every perfect gift comes from the Father above. 247 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:40.120 God deals justly with all of his with all the people. 248 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:46.320 God is kind to all of his creation, David says 249 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:51.679 in in the Book of Psalms, Paul quotes this where 250 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.720 he says, you know, God causes it terrain on everybody. 251 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.519 So this common grace, which is like, why do the 252 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:01.320 wicked prosper? That's right, Hey, life happened, and God isn't 253 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:05.360 always intervening and punishing every chance he gets to punish 254 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.720 and blessing some and not blessing others. Right, So he 255 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:12.440 set the laws of nature in order, and the laws 256 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.879 of nature provide a certain amount of common grace that 257 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:19.919 everybody has access or should have access to, you know, 258 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:25.480 err for instance. And so that's different than what we 259 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.000 would call preveniant grace, which is where God then begins 260 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:33.480 to intercede specifically with you, trying to capture your attention 261 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:36.799 and capture your heart and bring you to Jesus. That's 262 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:39.159 how the work of the Holy Spirit in you. It's 263 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:40.960 a different kind of grace, but that's the grace that 264 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:45.000 precedes salvation that God begins to bring to us. So 265 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:48.559 there's multiple graces that God extends. But here he's saying, 266 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:58.240 Jesus is saying that love each other, and this shows 267 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.879 how God also, he says, in that way, you will 268 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.440 be acting as true children of your Father in heaven, 269 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:08.080 because God also gives grace to people who don't deserve it. Right. 270 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:09.639 He's not even talking about believers here. 271 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.759 Oh yeah, you're right, because because he said rain on right. 272 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:16.840 So he's just saying you should treat whether whether your 273 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:21.879 enemy is a Christian or not, you when you choose 274 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:24.519 to love your neighbor or love your enemy, and do 275 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.960 good to your enemy and pray for your enemy. He said, 276 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:32.279 it's just like you acting like your father, who gives 277 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:35.080 grace to everybody who doesn't deserve it. Right. 278 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:38.120 Otherwise he'd be he'd be smiting the wicked all over 279 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:39.919 the world all the time, all the time. 280 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.039 All the time. Yeah, yeah, so I really love this. 281 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:48.240 I hate it, but I love it. He says, you've 282 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.200 heard the law says love your neighbor. Jesus said that 283 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.799 love your neighbor as yourself and hate your enemy. Jesus 284 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:00.320 didn't say that, but that's that's what that they take. 285 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:04.919 The love your neighbor, which is a quote from Leviticus nineteen, 286 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:08.919 and they would add to it, well, if he says 287 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:10.679 love your neighbor, that means we can hate our enemy. 288 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:15.159 They added, you can hate your enemy. You can see 289 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:17.879 that even how it's written. You have heard the law 290 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:22.840 that says, quote, love your neighbor, end quote, and hate 291 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:25.679 your enemy. And but that's not in the quotes. 292 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:28.000 Right, you've heard it said with along that. 293 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:33.720 Yeah, so the rabbis would have taught that when God 294 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.759 doesn't say a thing, he means something else. So what 295 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:41.559 he said was love your neighbor. He doesn't say anything 296 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.799 after that, so that means he must mean it's okay 297 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:48.120 to hate your enemies. They put a flip side on 298 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:52.080 the on something. God didn't put a flip side on sideay, 299 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.559 side B Sideay, love your neighbor, side B. Go ahead 300 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.159 and hate your enemy. Right. But he doesn't say that. Right, 301 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:01.000 that's not what God says, So they misquote, and so 302 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:05.919 Jesus goes, but I say love your enemies and pray 303 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:08.639 for those who persecute you. In another passage, I think 304 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:13.159 it's in Luke chapter ten, he says love your enemies, 305 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:15.519 pray for your enemies, and then he says do good 306 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.639 to your enemies. It's the same message. Yeah, it's the 307 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:22.759 same messages as this one in Luke chapter ten, and 308 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.720 he says, do good to your enemies. And the dude, 309 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:26.639 that's a whole other level. 310 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.200 That's a whole other level because love can be interpreted 311 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:29.840 as an emotion. 312 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.200 Oh yeah, okay, I don't hate my enemies. That must 313 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:36.559 mean I love them, right, right, I'm such a good Christian. 314 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:38.519 But you but that's unprovable. 315 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:41.320 Yeah. But the thing is is love is not proved 316 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:44.480 with words, right, It's proven by action. And so we've 317 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:48.720 taught this a million times. When Jesus says love the poor, 318 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:53.440 he doesn't mean emotionally, right, he means go and serve them, 319 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:57.159 because he you know, he definitely describes in his word 320 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:00.919 over and over and over how love is proven with action, 321 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:04.720 right and and and so yeah, loving is an action word. 322 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:07.640 It's a verb. And so, uh, the only way to 323 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.680 prove your love is to show it by action. So, 324 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.359 you know, loving your enemies means that other people have 325 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.680 to see and your enemies therefore have to see, and 326 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:20.839 that can that could include your reactions to them, you know, 327 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:24.400 by by not responding with such hatred in your in 328 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:27.200 your response to them, showing love through your words, or 329 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.839 showing love through your attitude, and certainly showing love through 330 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:35.720 serving them. So have you ever like on a modern 331 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:37.839 day example, can you think of I mean not that 332 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:40.640 I want you to mention your enemies in the microphone. 333 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:42.759 But oh I was just about ready to list them all. 334 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:44.079 That's so funny. 335 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:45.640 Well we only have just a few more minutes. 336 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:47.920 But uh, there you go. You don't have enough time. 337 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.200 But but can you think of a modern day example 338 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:56.759 of someone that you would probably consider an enemy where 339 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.839 you have done something to go over and above to 340 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:07.759 express love and Christian Christian love? Can you think of something? Yeah, 341 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.599 let me think I can think of something by text? 342 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.920 Can you sure? No? I can't, Oh you can't, No, no, no. 343 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.799 Somebody texted me something and I felt like I have 344 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:23.079 the right to respond and say what are you thinking? 345 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:28.880 Like like the last time we texted, we talked about 346 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:31.400 how this is not correct, You've done me wrong, right, 347 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:35.200 Like that's our last conversation. It was years ago, right, 348 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:37.240 And then all of a sudden, out of the blue, 349 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:40.960 they texted, and I'm like, I have every right to 350 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:47.440 express you know, let's talk, let's talk about the injustice 351 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:50.559 that was done right, but instead I responded in kindness. 352 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:53.160 And actually, you're the one that told me to do that, 353 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:56.079 you said, you said, be vague, you said, but but 354 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.079 be kind, And that way, nobody can ever say anything 355 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:00.240 against my care. 356 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:00.680 Yeah. 357 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:00.960 Right. 358 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:09.200 I had recently somebody that I felt like I knew 359 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:14.000 well that really came after me and my family in 360 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:21.039 a shocking way, shocking way, incomprehensible way, like if I 361 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:23.720 was going to write a horror story kind of situation 362 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.359 and the failure of a relationship kind of thing, that 363 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:30.240 this is something I would write. And it was just 364 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:36.799 so devastating and very vitriolic and an incredibly divisive and 365 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:41.640 I just realized, you know the phrase, and we've taught 366 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:45.359 this before, hurt people, hurt people. I realized, Okay, there's 367 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.160 a lot of pain back there that I don't totally comprehend. 368 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:51.400 And for whatever reason, every time before I talk to 369 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:53.279 this person, I'd pray, God just give me wisdom and 370 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:57.920 discernment and a heart like Jesus. And so instead of 371 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:02.400 going after this person and trying to argue you every point, 372 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:05.000 I really felt like the Lord just kept leading me 373 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.519 to be kind as much as possible and try to 374 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:10.720 work for them. So I would before we would end 375 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:13.319 any conversation and say, well, let me know what can 376 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:16.000 I do for you? Or if they made some demand 377 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:18.279 or some request, I would say, you know what, I'm 378 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:19.480 going to do the best I can to try to 379 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.400 figure out how to make that happen. And every single 380 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:26.079 thing they asked for except one, every single thing that 381 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:28.319 they asked for, I found a way to make happen 382 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:32.720 by leveraging my relationships with other people who they were 383 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:36.839 also offended by, right right in order to be able 384 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:39.960 to work for their benefit in that situation. And I 385 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.720 mentioned to this person, listen, I'm praying for you, praying 386 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:47.319 for your family and alls we got paid to us. 387 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:52.359 I think was negative and hurtful, but my conscience is 388 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.119 clear and knowing that I didn't say anything negative or 389 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:59.240 hurtful back. And the one thing I couldn't give them, 390 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:02.480 I just couldn't give them, But I gave them everything 391 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:06.920 else I could, And I did good when I didn't 392 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:10.440 have to, right, I went beyond when I didn't have to, 393 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:13.000 and I tried to encourage and lead my family do 394 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:15.279 the same. And on the front end, my family didn't 395 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:17.599 want to do the same. On the front end, people 396 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:19.640 in my family wanted to punish back in the way 397 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:22.960 that they were being punished right. But now on the 398 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.079 back side of this, people are walking with a relatively 399 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:28.839 clear conscience and knowing, Hey, we did the best we could, 400 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:31.079 and not only that, we've left the door open now 401 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:34.680