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 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:12.960 Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Bible guys. 5 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:16.640 We are smack in the middle of a story, an 6 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:18.039 epic story of Esther. 7 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:20.199 And today there's a bad guy named Hayman. 8 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:25.239 Yes, and he's plattin ham Haman's don't don't don't yep. 9 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:25.519 Yes. 10 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:31.839 But before that, Yes, we have a strong commitment on 11 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:34.840 this show, yes, to bring the most important news and 12 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.320 special interest information to our listeners all today. This one 13 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.039 is specifically for the men in particular. 14 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:45.359 And uh, well it's a warning to the men. 15 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:46.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 16 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:50.560 And there's a new trend and we just want to 17 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:51.679 caution you about it. 18 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:53.119 Right here we go. 19 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.920 Babylon b is where we get our news from. It's 20 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.000 the most trustworthy news we can find out on the internet. 21 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.640 It's a satire website, it says, wife beginning to suspect 22 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:08.000 husband's thoughtful relevant responses to her texts might be AI generated. 23 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:09.920 It's so good they're catching on, guys. 24 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:10.400 Yes. 25 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:14.560 According to sources, local wife Sue Page is beginning to 26 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:17.200 suspect that her husband's thoughtful and relevant responses to her 27 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:21.239 text might be AI generated quote. I first became suspicious 28 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:23.120 when I asked him what movie he wanted to see 29 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:25.239 for date night, and he replied back with an entire 30 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:28.200 list of movies, their ratings, and a brief synopsis of each. 31 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.799 Page said, no one talks like that. What confronted Her 32 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:34.040 husband reportedly said he would need a minute to think. 33 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.280 He then came back several minutes later with a prepared response. 34 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:39.239 He claimed to have typed out so that he could 35 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:42.519 organize his thoughts. He read, sweetheart, I'm sorry you feel 36 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:45.040 somethings off. I've just been trying to be more thoughtful 37 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.079 than my replies, maybe overthinking it a bit. I'm just 38 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:49.920 trying to say the right thing because I care so 39 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.879 much about you. How can I make you feel more connected? 40 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:55.239 Would you like some ideas to help us grow in 41 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:56.319 our relational closeness? 42 00:01:56.359 --> 00:02:00.719 Would you like would you like some ideas? That is funny? 43 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:05.439 She s said the husband totally genuine. When Page continued 44 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.120 to suspect AI had generated the statement, her husband again 45 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:10.639 excused himself, saying he needed time to think and put 46 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:13.919 his thoughts together. At publishing time, Sue Paige had decided 47 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.400 to outsource dinner to AI. 48 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:20.479 That's funny, that's great. Yea. 49 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:24.800 So so hey, if you've never used AI, I have 50 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:25.319 to tell you. 51 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:27.280 For those people who haven't jumped on the bandwagon. 52 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:31.080 Uh, there, it's pretty It's pretty useful at times, isn't it. 53 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:31.840 It's pretty amazing. 54 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:34.520 Yeah, it's pretty amazing. I use it a lot, not 55 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.759 not to generate ideas ideas, but I like to use 56 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.319 it like as a research assistant, and then to help 57 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.840 correct grammar, yes, and shorten up what I type. 58 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:48.639 Yeah, and oftentimes, So my brother works for Creation Magazine 59 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:53.960 to say this, and uh, in fact, one of your 60 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:58.159 old time colleagues came in and he gets the Creation magazine, 61 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:02.000 you know, the pub and he had he had. 62 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:04.240 Said, hey, does your brother work at this place? 63 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:05.840 Oh? He said why and he goes Because he goes 64 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:07.719 there's a photo of them, and he goes and that's 65 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:08.960 aw zar bon And I thought. 66 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:12.000 It has to be how are the right right? 67 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:12.240 Right? 68 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.800 Well, they're not very many and uh and so anyway, 69 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:16.439 so I said, yeah, that's my brother. Anyway. 70 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:17.919 So the point is is that. 71 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.599 He called me and said that they're writers because it's 72 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:25.199 a science magazine, so their writers are very sophisticated, and 73 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:27.680 so they're but they're trying to reach a younger audience. 74 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:29.759 And so he says, he goes, he goes. The problem is, 75 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:30.879 he is, you know, I'm. 76 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:33.120 Trying to make videos that are more captivating and have 77 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:35.159 humor and everything else. He goes, But that's not just 78 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.000 the problem. The problem is the writings and so and 79 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:39.520 so I said, so what are you going to do? 80 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:41.280 And he goes. Honestly, he goes, I. 81 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:44.680 Took the entire article, and these articles are very long, 82 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.479 he goes, And I just copied and pasted it, threw 83 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.879 it in AI and said, hey, make this article that 84 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.479 has written for fifty year olds, make it more relevant for. 85 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:54.080 Twenty year olds. 86 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:57.800 And he said And within three seconds, this you know, 87 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:01.680 fifteen page article, right, he's comes out and it's like 88 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:04.039 this long, you know, this is Tate whatever, this big 89 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:08.960 paper and he said, uh, it's amazing, right, And so 90 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:11.199 AI is pretty darn wonderful. 91 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:13.080 It's pretty powerful, but I'll get you in trouble if 92 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:13.800 you're trying to use it. 93 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:15.000 And communicating with your wife. 94 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:18.920 That's that's the danger there. So we thought, since we're 95 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:21.560 talking about this the dynamics a husband and wife over 96 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:22.600 the last couple of days. 97 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:24.800 Yes, right, King getting mad at this queen. 98 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:26.040 Is that the transition? 99 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.279 Then we thought that we would, you know, warn our people, 100 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.000 because there's other warnings that need to be happening. 101 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:32.519 In today's there. 102 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:36.160 It is in today's passage there it is right because. 103 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:37.199 Haman is plotting. 104 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:41.399 Hayman is plotting that that is that is good. And 105 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:44.720 by the way, uh, this is Can I read. 106 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:45.519 This real quick please? 107 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.720 Before chapter three? It says Mordecai Esther's uncle. Oh look, 108 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:51.879 see he is his uncle. You said he was his cousin, 109 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:52.639 said cousin. 110 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:57.240 Yeah, it said uncle, and yesterday okay, Mordecai had adopted 111 00:04:57.279 --> 00:04:58.439 his younger cousin, Esther. 112 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.720 Oh so maybe he was both. Maybe she was technically 113 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.800 a cousin and then he became an uncle. Huh. 114 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:09.240 But anyway, it says Mordecai, Esther's uncle, refused to bow 115 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.040 down to Haman. With everyone else, Mordecai would only bow 116 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:12.519 to God. 117 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:14.360 Haman was infuriated. 118 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:16.680 Oh, I'm sorry, you're telling the story. 119 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:18.439 I am, but that's I'm so sorry. 120 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:21.439 I thought this was going to summarize some backstory, but 121 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:23.120 it's actually skipping ahead. 122 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:24.800 Okay, Sorry, go ahead, okay. 123 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.360 So in Ester chapter three, well, now I'm excited to 124 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:32.040 hear how this is going to turn out right. Sometime later, 125 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:37.879 King Xerxes promoted Haman, son of Hamadatha the Agagite, but 126 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.319 whatever over all the other nobles, making him the most 127 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.800 powerful official in the empire. All the officials, all the 128 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.240 king's officials would bow down before Hayman to show him 129 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:50.199 respect whenever he passed by, or so the king had commanded, 130 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.600 but Mordecai refused to bow down or show him respect. 131 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.480 Then the palace officials that the king's gate asked Mordecai, 132 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:59.600 why are you disobeying the king's command? They spoke to 133 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:01.720 him day after day, but still he refused to comply 134 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:04.279 with the order. So they spoke to Haman about this 135 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:08.079 to see if he would tolerate Mordechai's conduct, since Mordechai 136 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.639 had told them he was a Jew. When Haman saw 137 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.079 that Mordechai would not bow down or show him respect, 138 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:16.439 he was filled with rage. He had learned of Mordechai's nationality, 139 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:18.279 so he decided it was not enough to lay hands 140 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:20.720 on Mordechai alone. Instead, he looked for a way to 141 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.800 destroy all the Jews throughout the entire Empire of Xerxes. 142 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.240 So in the month of April, during the twelfth year 143 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.439 of King xerxes reign, lots were cast in Haman's presence. 144 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.360 The lots were called piram to determine the best day 145 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.759 and month to take action, and the day selected was 146 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:35.519 March seventh. 147 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:36.519 Nearly a year. 148 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:39.680 Later, then Haman approached King Xerxes and said, there is 149 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.120 a certain race of people scattered through all the provinces 150 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.800 of the empire. Keep themselves separate from everyone else. The 151 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:46.720 laws are different from those of any other people, and 152 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:48.800 they refuse to obey the laws of the king. So 153 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.000 it's not the king's It's not in the king's interest 154 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:53.360 to let them live. If it pleased, the King issue 155 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:55.879 decreed that they'd be destroyed, and I will give ten 156 00:06:55.959 --> 00:07:00.360 thousand large sacks of silver to the government administrators to 157 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:04.240 be deposited in the royal treasury. The king agreed, confirming 158 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.040 his decision by removing his signet ring from his finger 159 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:09.959 and giving it to Haman, son of Hamadatha. 160 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:11.360 The Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. 161 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:13.879 The king said, the money and the people are both 162 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.319 yours to do with as you see fit. So on 163 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:19.240 April seventeenth, the king's secretaries were summoned and the decree 164 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:22.000 was written exactly as Haman dictated. It was sent to 165 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.879 the king's highest officers, the governors of the respective provinces, 166 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.279 and the nobles of each province in their own scripts 167 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:29.839 and languages. The decree was written in the name of 168 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:33.319 King's Exerxes and sealed the King's signet ring. Dispatches were 169 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.959 sent by swift messengers into all the provinces of the Empire, 170 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:38.920 giving all ordered that all Jews young and old, including 171 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.600 women and children, must be killed, slaughtered, and annihilated on 172 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:45.079 a single day. This was scheduled to happen on March 173 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:47.879 seventh of the next year. The property of the Jews 174 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.360 would be given to those who killed them. A copy 175 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:52.480 of this decree was to be issued as law in 176 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:55.600 every province and proclaimed to all peoples, so that they 177 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:57.920 would be ready to do their duty on the appointed day. 178 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.120 At the King's command, the decree went out by swift messengers. 179 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.680 It is also proclaimed in the fortress of Susa, and 180 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:06.399 the King and Haman sat down to drink, But the 181 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:08.319 city of Susa fell into confusion. 182 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:11.000 M HM that's terrible. 183 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.600 Yeah, it is actually like this is this ring's up 184 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.279 there with one of the worst. You know. It reminds 185 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.720 me of Herod when he ordered all the children, male 186 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:25.319 children two years and younger to be slaughtered. 187 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:27.600 This is this is even worse. 188 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:31.360 This is a genocide, genocide, full on genocide every Jew 189 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:32.039 in the kingdom. 190 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:36.679 Right and uh and by the way, what a guy 191 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:37.480 Haman is? 192 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:39.799 Haman's worse than Xerxes. 193 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:44.480 Right, So Xerxes is, uh, you know, obviously the most 194 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:48.480 responsible because he decides to say, hey, whatever you want. 195 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:50.960 That's what it feels like to me. It takes off 196 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:52.120 his ring. It's like, I'm not. 197 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:54.720 Even gonna bother to read the uh, you know, the 198 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.559 signet stamping laws that I should, you know, be responsible for. 199 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.519 I'm sure to give it to you. Here's my just 200 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:02.840 use it as a seal for whatever you come up with. 201 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.759 Right, gives him the ring and says, you stamp it's 202 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:09.120 a blank check. Yes, it's a blank check. Yeah, and 203 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.639 he says, yeah, I agree, I agree. And all he 204 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.720 really is listening to is a sales pitch, and the 205 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:17.440 sales pitches is, hey, there's a group of rebellious people 206 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:19.360 that don't want to listen to you at all. Shouldn't 207 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:23.360 we kill him? That sounds right to me? Ye, kill him? 208 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.279 And uh and so yeah, it's it's a pretty horrible thing, 209 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:26.799 this Hayman. 210 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.960 And uh, you know, so it's pretty clear here, even 211 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.159 though it doesn't say, it's pretty clear. 212 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.720 Here that what I started to read. 213 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:38.759 Remember that summary that almost gave everything away if you 214 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.960 go back and read it now, it says Mordecai, Esther's uncle, 215 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.879 refused to bow down to Hayman with everybody else, he 216 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:46.639 would only bow to God. 217 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:49.519 What does that sound like? Sounds like shadrack me shaking 218 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:52.639 a bend again? Same thing, right, he was a Jew? 219 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:56.720 Yeah, and so there's a reason why the verse actually 220 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.919 says and verse number h four where it says, uh, 221 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:06.279 Mordecai's conduct since Mordecai told them he was a Jew. 222 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.279 So the only reason why Mordecai would have ever told 223 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:12.919 them he was a Jew is because he's defending why 224 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:16.639 he's not bowing down to Haman, right, and so yeah, 225 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.960 it doesn't say so specifically, but we are left to 226 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:24.200 believe that that's exactly the reason why, which, by the way, 227 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:29.240 also connects to Hayman's explanation that says their rules are 228 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:32.960 different than everybody else's rules. Right, they refuse to bow down. 229 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:36.120 So it's very obvious that Mordecai is a man of 230 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.559 faith and that he refuses to bow down to anybody 231 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:40.759 who isn't God. 232 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:46.639 So I think it's interesting. I just looked up. I thought, hey, 233 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:51.000 there's a connection here that Agagite. Right, Remember Hayman is 234 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:52.320 an Agagite. 235 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:54.120 So remember king a gag. 236 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.919 It sounds like popeyegg. 237 00:10:55.879 --> 00:11:00.840 Yeah, remember King a gag of the Amalekites. Saul was 238 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.360 supposed to wipe them out. Oh wow, that's the same thing. 239 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:05.759 Come on, stop it. 240 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:07.600 Yes, I was just sit there. 241 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:10.120 Thinking a gag egga guites a g So I looked 242 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:13.039 it up. Yeah, that's that's that's true. So think about 243 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:13.679 that for a minute. 244 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:15.600 So Saul would have done what he was supposed to do, 245 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.279 and Esther wouldn't have in this prediction. 246 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:25.679 So so the Amalekites hated the Jews in general. This 247 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.799 is why it escalated from I hate that guy to 248 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.320 oh he's a Jew. I hate all of them. And 249 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:33.960 now it dawns and I've got all the power. I'm 250 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:35.879 number two in the kingdom, the most part kingdom in 251 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.720 the world. Let's just exterminate all of them. So it 252 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.600 elevated from that, think about what would have happened. 253 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:42.320 There's so many things. 254 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:46.600 We look at politics, We look at powerful people and 255 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.840 events in history as just being one off events, things 256 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.440 that happened. But do you understand Saul should have wiped 257 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:56.840 them out, That's what God said, and he didn't. Samuel 258 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:01.440 comes and and and kills a gag, but he doesn't. 259 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.519 They didn't wipe out the Amalekites. So now here we 260 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:08.799 are all this time later, and Haman hates the Jews 261 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:11.919 because of what they had done, a gag being a 262 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:17.360 member of his family. If now, if Haman if his 263 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:19.679 plan to exterminate all the Jews, you understand, this is 264 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.279 all the Jews in the entire kingdom of Serxes. That 265 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:24.960 means all the Jews that were in Israel too, in Palestine, 266 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:26.399 all of them. 267 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:29.120 If that had happened, because in the entire kingdom is 268 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:29.879 what he said, then. 269 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.840 God's plan for the Messiah coming from the Jewish people 270 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:38.639 could not have happened. Right, So we look at him 271 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:41.360 as all one off events in history, and it's the 272 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:46.679 forces of good and evil always manipulating and moving and 273 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:49.399 moving towards the cross. 274 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:51.000 That's that's what's happening here. 275 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:55.240 Again, if Saul had done what he was supposed to do, 276 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:58.440 then it wouldn't you know. Saul lost his kingdom over 277 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.279 this one. Remember he's said, oh, I thought I'd bring 278 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:03.879 all the sheep back, then, all the goats back his 279 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.799 big sacrifices for God. And we talked about this, I 280 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.360 don't know months ago, and I thought I'd bring King 281 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.200 Agaga and some of the others back in where we're 282 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.240 going to embarrass him in front of the kingdom. And 283 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:17.399 Samuel was like, God told you to wipe them out, 284 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:20.039 don't leave anything, don't even leave the donkeys, right, that's 285 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:20.679 what God said. 286 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:23.240 And and you didn't do it. 287 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.519 And so now the kingdom is going to leave your 288 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:29.039 kingdom and it's going to become the kingdom of David. Right, 289 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.720 That's that's what happens. It's going to leave your family 290 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:34.440 no more. You're gonna is your son will not be 291 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:36.279 the king. There'll be a new king in Israel. He 292 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:38.879 lost his kingdom over the fact that he didn't defeat 293 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:45.039 the aggag and the Malakites. Now it's the the tide 294 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:47.759 has turned. Now instead of God wiping out the Meleekites, 295 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:51.000 it's the Malakites want to wipe out Agagites want to 296 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.360 wipe out the Jews, and if they did, they would 297 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:57.639 have destroyed the Son of David becoming the Messiah. 298 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:01.360 So the sermon Manyman's probably in there, but one of 299 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:05.879 the sermons could be that we don't have to understand 300 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.440 everything that God understands. 301 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:09.039 Right, So when God asked. 302 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:12.480 Playing checkers, God's playing like four D chess right right. 303 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.600 Right, star trek chess. Yeah, yeah, so, uh wow, I 304 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:17.320 can't believe I pulled that one out. 305 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:17.840 That was awesome. 306 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:19.080 It was yeah, it was amazing. 307 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:23.960 The uh what I was going to say is is 308 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:28.080 that many times we want to understand the why, and 309 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.080 so God will ask us to do something, and sometimes 310 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:34.039 we're just like, I don't really quite understand. What's not 311 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:36.759 necessarily our job to understand. It's our job to just 312 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.039 determine whether or not the Holy Spirit is asking us 313 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.120 to do something. Right, like it reminds me of every 314 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:44.399 day that time when we pulled off the freeway, my 315 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:45.960 wife wanted to give a bunch of money to the 316 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.440 guy on the edge of the freeway. Everyday that I 317 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:52.000 don't think so my wife. So we're in Atlanta. We 318 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.399 pull off and we see a guy with a cardboard 319 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.000 sign and he says he's got you know, he's got 320 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:00.720 you know, he's wanting to help. And so I take 321 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:03.200 a left hand turn to go home and my wife says, 322 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:05.759 turn the car around and give me all the money 323 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:06.519 you have in your wallet. 324 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:08.759 And this is back in the nineties. I had like 325 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:12.200 eighty dollars in my wallet, so that might have been 326 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:12.879 like four. 327 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:16.080 Hundred bucks today, right, And I said, I said, I'm 328 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:17.200 not going to give you all the money I have 329 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:17.679 my wallet. 330 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:18.600 So I turned around. 331 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:20.600 I gave her twenty dollars and she goes, that's not 332 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:22.720 what I said. She goes, I said, give me all 333 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.000 the money in your wallet, please, And you know, she 334 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:27.919 was very kind about it, right, she was, but this 335 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:29.320 is this is what I feel like God wants us 336 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:33.320 to do. And I said, okay, everybody calmed down, Okay, 337 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:36.360 there's no way I'm giving you all this money. And 338 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:39.559 she's like, I really believe that we're supposed to give 339 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:44.639 this to this person. And listen, my wife has the 340 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:48.519 gift of giving, which is her number one gift. So 341 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:51.799 she gives away everything and she loves it, and that 342 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:53.559 to her is better than anything. 343 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:56.679 But at the same time, I. 344 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:00.159 Mean, I give but that's not my gift, right, But 345 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.360 at the same time, the more important thing is she says, 346 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:03.799 this is what I feel like God wants me to do. 347 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:06.639 That's the important thing, right. So she feel like that's 348 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:09.120 what God wants her to do. I can't question that. 349 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:11.639 So I'm like, I don't want to do this, but 350 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.000 I'm like, so I just reluctantly give her all eighty 351 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:16.120 dollars and she gets out and she prays with this 352 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:18.840 person and gives them this money and you know, and 353 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:21.159 all this kind of stuff. And I'm thinking to myself, 354 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:24.039 like I can't believe that just happened. So I pulled away, 355 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:26.039 and she's like, that's the right thing to do. God 356 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:27.360 told us to do that. And I'm like, no, God 357 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.200 told you to do it, right, Like, you better speak 358 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:31.600 louder next time for me to hear it. 359 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:37.960 YEA, yeah, right, Liz, Yes, give away everything that Chris has. 360 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:39.039 Right, right? 361 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.759 Yes, yes, how about. 362 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.120 Next time, God just say Liz, give away everything you 363 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:45.759 have that that's say. 364 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:46.200 It the Lord. 365 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:47.840 So anyway, the point. 366 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:49.639 Is there's my shoes, here's my jacket. 367 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:51.360 Yeah, well, that wasn't her struggle. 368 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:52.080 It's my sandwich. 369 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:55.919 Right, that wasn't her struggle that day. It was my struggle. 370 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:58.919 And I wanted to know, like, come on, like, is 371 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:02.440 this person really going to use this, you know, for 372 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:03.320 the right reasons? 373 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:04.880 Is this person going to you. 374 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.279 Know, is there a need here that costs eighty dollars 375 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:09.359 that I'm unaware of? Is there a medical need? But 376 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.119 it's not my job to understand. The only job I 377 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:14.680 have is to determine is this from God? 378 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:15.200 Or is it not? 379 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:17.440 And if it is, then I better do it. And 380 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:20.079 such as the case was sold, right, So I had 381 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.519 no idea was at stake. He had no idea that, 382 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:26.640 you know, years later this was gonna. 383 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:26.880 He knew the clear word of God. 384 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:28.000 Right, that's all. 385 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:29.960 That's a word of God. There's a note in here. 386 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.319 As I was as you were talking, I realized that 387 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:34.519 it was in here the clear word of God was 388 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.599 destroy the Amalekites and erase their memory from under heaven. 389 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:40.880 And it was because they hunted down and killed the 390 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:44.240 weak and the poor and the sickly on the backside 391 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:46.960 of the people of Israel. As they were leaving Egypt. 392 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:49.720 Remember they were leaving Egypt, they were going out into 393 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:52.359 the wilderness. Yes, And the Amalekites just swooped down and 394 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.799 they didn't square off of fight against the fighting men. 395 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.519 They came and they killed all the sick and the elderly. 396 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:01.680 And God said, that's a particularly wicked idea, and I 397 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.079 want them all gone because they as a people, they 398 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:06.799 will never get better. And here we are a thousand 399 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:11.440 years later, and they're calling for the extermination of all Jews. 400 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.400 Right, because Hayman clearly is an awful human being. Right, 401 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:19.799