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 --> 00:00:13.759 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:14.400 Here we are. 5 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:17.879 We are right here where we always are, in the 6 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:21.440 studio that is owned by a friend of ours who. 7 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:23.160 Are the headquarters of the Bible guys. 8 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:26.719 That's what it is. That's and other businesses in this 9 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.160 in the shopping center that's funny, or in this what 10 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:31.399 is it called industrial boning? 11 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:32.679 I guess the Ivory Tower. 12 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.920 Yes, well that's exactly what it is, Mount Olympus, what ticnic. 13 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:37.399 Something like that is. 14 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:39.960 Yes. Hey, we're going to launch into a segment that 15 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:43.960 Desi Rae has put together. And this segment is great 16 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.759 only depending on the material. Yes, right, it's completely but 17 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:52.399 it's important. It is important. It is a dad joke competition, 18 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:57.039 and the competition is we're going to decide which joke 19 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:57.479 is better. 20 00:00:57.600 --> 00:00:59.840 Okay, here we go. Yep, are you going to go? 21 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:00.840 For sure? Am I going to go first? 22 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:01.159 Ahead? 23 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:07.680 If there were a pill to cure prostant procrastination, Okay, 24 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:09.920 let me try it again. If there were a pill 25 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:15.359 to cure procrastination, I would probably take it tomorrow. Yeah, 26 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:16.879 that's a rough one. There's a rough one. 27 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:18.120 Even if you had delivered that. 28 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:20.719 Yeah, yeah, it would have been a rough Yep, it 29 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:21.840 came out poorly. 30 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.239 Yeah, well that's okay because it was rough. Anyways, how 31 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:27.079 about this one. Did you hear about the fight at 32 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:28.480 the fish and chip shop? 33 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:29.000 No? 34 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:33.519 Five fish got battered and a bunch of chips were assaulted. 35 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.200 Oh now, okay, so I won that one. 36 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:40.359 Yeah yeah, okay, okay, okay. Some people have trouble sleeping, 37 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.359 but I can do it with my eyes closed. Wow, 38 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:45.560 I like that. 39 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:48.799 Yeah, okay, it's not horrible. 40 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:51.000 Yeah, it's not horrible. It's not horrible. Okay, okay. 41 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.079 How about this one? Ready? Batman once forgot to pay 42 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:56.159 his electric bill. It was a dark night. 43 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.920 Oh okay. I don't know. Do you like better the 44 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:01.159 dark night? One dark night? 45 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.359 But I say that I'm winning here. 46 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.519 I like the eyes closed. Okay, Well, you're the voter. 47 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.039 You're the voter. You get to do it what I've 48 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:13.759 been voter. Okay, I've opened three birthday cards and I'm 49 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.439 already one hundred and fifty bucks up. I love being 50 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:17.039 a mailman. 51 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:19.319 That is great. 52 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:21.039 I like that. 53 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:26.560 I like that a lot. That's really good. We should, 54 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:27.960 you know, we should do we should call to We 55 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:30.319 should call Tori and tell her that one. She'd she'd 56 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:32.520 love it. I'm gonna try to remember that. Okay, here 57 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:38.319 we go. What do you call a group of anxious dinosaurs? 58 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:40.360 I don't know, nervous reres. 59 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:46.520 Nervous res. I like the mail better. Okay, I'm gonna 60 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:47.960 say two to one now, now, why. 61 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.960 Couldn't Why couldn't the mailman one go against the dark 62 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:53.080 Knight one? I don't know why, because because that was 63 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:54.199 the nervous Wrex. Is funny. 64 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:58.000 That's a funny one, okay, Okay. I was up super 65 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:00.199 early this morning and I started wondering what time the 66 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:02.159 sun would rise, and then it dawned on me. 67 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:10.400 What did I like that one? And then that's really good? Okay? 68 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.719 How about this one? I received the flyer on anger 69 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:18.919 Management the other day. I lost it. 70 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.000 That's a good one. 71 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:26.319 I liked it, Okay, I liked it all right? 72 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:28.280 Okay, So which one one? That one? 73 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:32.439 Oh? What was yours? Wins? 74 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:32.840 Okay? 75 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:34.199 Yeah? I like mine? 76 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.240 Okay, but I think don wins. I think we're too 77 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:41.599 all right. This one's clever, Okay, this one's clever. Will 78 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:46.000 glass Coffins be a success? Remains to be seen. 79 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:49.240 Remains to be seen. 80 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:52.759 Very clever, Yes, very clever. 81 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:53.840 Yeah I liked it. 82 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:55.680 Yeah, but you had it's clever. 83 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:56.560 You have to think about that. 84 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:58.639 Nobody wants to think about dad jokes. 85 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:02.400 Yeah. Hey, uh, this is the one that wraps it up. 86 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:06.680 Here we go. Nine months isn't really that long. But 87 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:10.879 for some it can feel like a maternity. 88 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:17.199 Yes, that's true. Okay, So which is it then? So 89 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:20.279 I was almost going to call it a tie. That 90 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:22.160 one felt like a tie to me. I thought the 91 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:23.199 maternity was fine. 92 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.720 Well, considering that you somehow assigned me to be the voter, 93 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:29.639 which we've never done before. You're the voter, Well, then 94 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:30.759 I will vote a tie. 95 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:32.199 Okay tie? Oh, yes, there you go. 96 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:33.199 H I will vote a tie. 97 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:34.480 Okay, good job, Dez. 98 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:35.839 That's really great. 99 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:37.399 Okay, it's five and five. 100 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.759 I'm gonna I really like the mailman joke. I'm gonna 101 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.279 have to remember that to pass on. 102 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:45.639 So I opened up three birthday cards today and I'm 103 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:47.040 already one hundred fifty bucks up. 104 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:56.600 Man, So good, all right, Ecclesiastes. 105 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:58.199 I don't even have a transition for this one. I 106 00:04:58.199 --> 00:04:58.519 don't know. 107 00:04:58.600 --> 00:04:59.879 I always forget the transition. 108 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.680 Okay, I have nothing nothing. 109 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:09.000 Speaking of funny. There is literally nothing funny at all about. 110 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:13.759 Oh I got speaking of Coffins. This entire section is 111 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:15.199 about death comes to all. 112 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:20.199 Ooh, that's what the chapters are. It is yeah, okay. 113 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:23.079 Yeah, so we just finished class. Coffin's joke Yeah leads 114 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:28.079 right into what a great transition remains? 115 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:30.439 Why that's why you are who you are? 116 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.120 Yep, yep, that's it. It's the one thing I'm good at. 117 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.720 If you're wondering why see transitions. 118 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:39.360 How is Jeff? Jeff? That's why is it? 119 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:39.800 Right here? 120 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.079 Under pressure, he comes up with the clutch transitions. 121 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:47.560 Ecclesiastes nine is where we're at. Verses one through twelve 122 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:51.040 says this too, I carefully explored. Even though the actions 123 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:53.439 of godly and wise people are in God's hands, no 124 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:56.439 one knows whether God will show them favor. The same 125 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.680 destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether righteous or wicked, good or bad, 126 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:06.560 ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive 127 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.160 the same treatment as sinners, and people who make promises 128 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.160 to God are treated like people who don't It seems 129 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.680 so tragic that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. 130 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.279 That is why people are not more careful to be good. Instead, 131 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.879 they choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. 132 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:25.240 There's nothing ahead but death anyway own, there is hope 133 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.360 only for the living. As they say, it's better to 134 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:32.879 live dog, better, as they say, it's better to be 135 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.680 a live dog than a dead lion. The living at 136 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:38.959 least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. 137 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:42.199 They have no further reward, nor are they remembered. Whatever 138 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:44.920 they did in their lifetime, loving, hating, and being is 139 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:48.639 all long gone. They no longer play a part in 140 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.639 anything here on earth. So go ahead, eat your food 141 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:53.680 with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, 142 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.319 for God approves of this. Wear fine clothes with a 143 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.399 splash of cologne. Live happily with the woman you love 144 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.639 through all them meaningless days of life that God has 145 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:04.319 given you under the sun. The wife gives the wife 146 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:07.279 God gives you is your reward for all your earthly toil. 147 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.319 Whatever you do, do well, for when you go to 148 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:12.279 the grave, there will be no work or planning, or 149 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.720 knowledge or wisdom. I have observed something else under the sun. 150 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:18.240 The fastest runner doesn't always win the race, and the 151 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.920 strongest warrior doesn't always win the battle. The whys sometimes 152 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.319 go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy, and 153 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:28.560 those who are educated don't always lead successful lives. It 154 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.240 is all decided by chance, by being in the right 155 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.079 place at the right time. People can never predict when 156 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:36.920 hard times might come. Like fish in a net or 157 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.600 birds in a trap, people are caught by a sudden tragedy. 158 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:47.360 Yeah, this is perhaps the most depressing of the four 159 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:49.839 chapters this week, don't. 160 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:53.519 You think you think so? I don't know, there's some 161 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:58.600 pretty I mean, it's not like he's been super super happy. 162 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:03.319 Yeah, but he goes into this whole like it almost 163 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.639 sounds like what he's saying is maybe maybe you shouldn't 164 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.600 even try to be careful for being good, because you're 165 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:14.959 gonna end up with the same fit anyway, what's the point? Yeah, right, 166 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:16.600 And I don't think he's really said that in the 167 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.040 other four chapters that we've covered, So for me, that 168 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.120 sounds way more depressing because now when you're talking about 169 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.199 vanity and you're talking about futility, and you know death 170 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.720 comes for everybody, well, that's that's one thing. But then 171 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.480 when you say so, it doesn't matter, Yeah, you know, 172 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:35.759 whether whether morality good or bad. 173 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:38.840 Well, I think it's interesting because Solomon doesn't seem to 174 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:41.000 have in any of his writings. He doesn't seem to 175 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.759 have a sense of eternity other than God has placed 176 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.279 eternity in the hearts of men, meaning he understands that 177 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:48.840 people desire eternity, but he doesn't seem to have any 178 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:53.159 any consequence or any sense of consequence after death. Right, 179 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:57.159 And with that perspective, his view is the natural way 180 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:00.519 to see things. Right, there's nothing after there's nothing to 181 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.559 live for after death. Only live for now. But it 182 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:08.360 changes for those who understand, Hey, these seventy or eighty 183 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:10.799 years are just dress rehearsal for life. So when you 184 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:14.399 read this, you're reading you're reading when you read Solomon's 185 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:17.080 perspective on you only have one life and then it's over, 186 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.039 and then nothing else exists afterwards. This is how most 187 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.720 people live their life. No wonder they make bad choices, 188 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:27.360 no wonder they are hopeless. And Paul says, we grieve, 189 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:29.720 but not as those who have no hope when we 190 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:33.919 think about death right. So when we have the hope 191 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:38.120 of eternity. It totally changes our perspective. We're preparing now. 192 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:41.240 This is dress rehearsal for eternity. So when you read 193 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:43.960 Solomon's writing, Solomon is writing like somebody who has no 194 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.720 concept of heaven. He has no concept of anything after. 195 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:50.320 And so of course he's miserable because I did all 196 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.519 this work and it didn't matter. I lived and I worked, 197 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:56.759 and I planned and I accumulated, and none of it matters. 198 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.240 And I didn't really do anything good with my life. 199 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.639 That's kind of how he's feeling. But if you live 200 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:04.720 a life preparing for eternity, then you have all the 201 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:08.559 benefit of a good life in this life, plus hope 202 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:12.120 for a better life in eternity. And so when I 203 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:13.600 read it, I just I think it's sad that he 204 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:15.519 doesn't have a sense of heaven at all. 205 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:19.600 Yeah, it certainly doesn't seem that way, it doesn't, huh. Yeah. Otherwise, 206 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:25.039 you know, there's no other way to say. How could 207 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.440 you say that there's no consequences of choosing bad or good? Right, 208 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:32.080 if it's not connected to beyond death, then then yeah. 209 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:33.639 Yeah, if you get away with it, you get away 210 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:35.320 with it. That's kind of what he's saying here, if 211 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.240 there's nothing after this life, you get away with something, 212 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:38.919 you get away with it. 213 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.440 And hey, so let me be the guy to say 214 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:48.159 that that is unusual. Right. Solomon was raised by his 215 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.759 mom and his dad, who believed in God so much, 216 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:55.200 where they trained him differently than this. So now again, 217 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.759 he didn't say death ends everything and there's nothing afterwards. 218 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.879 He didn't say that. It's just that that's the way 219 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:04.200 that he's acting, that's the way that he's that's the 220 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:06.679 way he's writing. Right, So he didn't he didn't say 221 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.480 he didn't make a definitive statement that says when you die, 222 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:10.200 nothing happens. 223 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.279 Well, he keeps, he keeps saying things like verse five. 224 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:15.320 The living at least know they'll die, but the dead 225 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:19.799 know nothing, right, he said, he said, he said that 226 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:23.080 kind of thing many times, that kind of implying there's 227 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:26.600 nothing after this life. It's kind of how he's said. 228 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:29.279 I didn't read it that way. I think what I 229 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.759 was reading it as is he was. I was reading 230 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:35.879 it as not necessarily eternity, because I mean, it can 231 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:38.240 be read that way, but I was reading it as 232 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:42.159 he's talking about life. It's the stress is on the 233 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:45.480 life part. In other words, like, once you die, then 234 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.120 your life is over, and so it doesn't mean anything 235 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:51.120 after you die. So therefore let's concentrate on the you know, 236 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:55.279 conclusions of life. So I wasn't reading it as you know, 237 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:57.120 he's concentrating on what's after death. 238 00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.639 He's just saying, No, he clearly doesn't think there is 239 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:00.559 anything after death. 240 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.000 Well, it seems that way sometimes, right, That's what I'm saying. 241 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:06.360 I think he references that probably half dozen times to 242 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:08.600 the Book of Ecclesiastes, that after you die you don't 243 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:11.600 know anything. It's all over, and so because of that, 244 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.559 there's a hopelessness here. That's that's what I'm saying. The 245 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:17.840 difference between our listeners who are followers of Jesus who 246 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.919 know that there's there's reward and eternity after this life. 247 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.840 We live our life with a totally different perspective than 248 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:26.799 a guy who has no concept thinks that, Okay, I 249 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.399 lived my eighty years and now I'm dying and there's 250 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:32.679 no point I'm gonna lose everything, no wonder, He's spiraling 251 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:36.799 there's no hope, right, And that's that's the difference between 252 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:42.080 Solomon's view and you know, a godly Christian's view. Is 253 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:45.799 that so the other one that I was gonna mention, 254 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:47.639 And I think this is interesting, he said, I've observed 255 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.639 something else Verse eleven Under the Sun. The fastest runner 256 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:52.799 doesn't always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn't 257 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.960 always win the win the battle. The whys sometimes go hungry, 258 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.960 and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. Those who are 259 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:02.120 educated don't always lead successful lives. It's all decided by chance, 260 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:04.480 by being in the right place at the right time. 261 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:09.320 He's like, Hey, sometimes in a fight, the weaker fighter 262 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:14.720 wins by luck. Sometimes the fastest runner doesn't win, the 263 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:17.000 slower runner wins, and it just turns out to be 264 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:21.080 a lucky thing that happens or whatever. And just being 265 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:22.759 in the right place the right time. Hey, there's a 266 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:24.200 lot to be said about being in the right place 267 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.279 at the right time. There really is. There's a lot 268 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:28.080 to be said about that. But I think you can 269 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:30.200 kind of manipulate a little bit of that. It can 270 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.759 make sure you're in the right place around the right people. 271 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:35.600 You either are right now or soon shall be. Just 272 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:37.440 like the crowd you run with. If you want to 273 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:39.559 do a thing or be a thing, you need to get. 274 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:42.120 You need one to develop skills that get you around 275 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:44.279 those people, and then you need to get in there. 276 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:47.159 Arnold Palmer is famous for saying, the more I practice, 277 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:47.879 the luckier I get. 278 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:50.440 That's so much right. 279 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.600 There's something that Thomas Jefferson had a phrase similar to that. 280 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:59.480 The more prepared I am, the luckier I get. Samuel Goldwyn, 281 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.480 you know, the famous movie producer, had a saying very similar. 282 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:06.039 All three of them have independent sayings, but they're very 283 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:10.200 very similar. The more I practice, Arnold Palmer said, the 284 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:12.919 luckier I get. There is something to that. Hey, a 285 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:18.080 guy who practices every swing with every club at every 286 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.480 distance is going to get more holes in one than 287 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:22.320 I'm going to get. Right. 288 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.840 Yeah, I'm having a brain fart. The uh I was trying. 289 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:27.399 I was trying to think of the as a technical 290 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:28.320 term on the Bible guys. 291 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.600 Yes, I was trying to think of the who's the 292 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:34.000 Kinsman Redeemer that we covered bo ass yeah, bo as 293 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.480 in his fields. Uh. That was that was an example 294 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.240 of trying to manipulate being at the right place of 295 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:38.679 the right show. 296 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.039 She put herself in the right place in the right time, 297 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.559 and then that gave opportunity. You know, I think that 298 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:47.360 there's there's something to that going to the right schools, 299 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.759 being around the right people when you want an opportunity 300 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.159 to get in front of Probably one of the greatest 301 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:56.720 moments of my life to discover this principle. I was 302 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.919 working my way through college. I had lost my sky 303 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.000 warship because I got kicked out of school. Remember I've 304 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:04.759 told that start for pranks. So now I'm at a 305 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:06.879 new school. I don't have a full ride scholarship. So 306 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:09.159 how's a poor kid go through school? Right? Got work? 307 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:11.600 So I was working forty plus hours a week, and 308 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:17.919 I was working at UPS in Chicago. And UPS is 309 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:21.159 a great company. I really loved the company. My boss 310 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:24.720 was a nightmare to work for. And I just got 311 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:26.679 to the point where I was getting you know, I'm 312 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.039 barely sleeping. It's an hour away from where I'm staying 313 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.480 in the dorms, and so I'm driving ten hours a 314 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:38.039 week or more. I'm working forty hours a week. I'm 315 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:42.320 taking twenty credits. I was just I was exhausted, and 316 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:44.639 this part of my life was the only part of 317 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:47.200 my life I could control. Was my job, right, And 318 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:49.080 so I decided I'm going to go find a different job. 319 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:52.320 So I called in two days, called off, and I 320 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:55.159 started going through Chicago trying to find a job. Put 321 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.360 on a suit and tie my second day. First day 322 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:00.960 I went just casual clothes. Second day, suit and tie. 323 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.639 I go downtown and I start going to hotels, and 324 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:06.960 I decided I didn't want to work in CD hotels. 325 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:08.559 I thought, you know what if you're going to work 326 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:11.679 in Chicago, work on Michigan Avenue, work on Magnificent Mile. 327 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:14.440 So I decided, I want to work in the fanciest 328 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.600 place in all of Chicago, and I want to be 329 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.159 in service. I want to learn how to do service work. 330 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:24.200 So I decided I was going to go every hotel, Intercontinental, Marriott, Highatt, 331 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.720 all of them that's up and down there, the drake 332 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:28.600 at the end of the street, all that kind stuff. 333 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:30.600 I went to all of them, and the last hotel 334 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:32.840 I was in because they had these little timeslots when 335 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:34.960 you can put in applications. Last hotel I was in 336 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:36.799 was in Marriott, and it was me and a friend 337 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.960 of mine. We're both wearing suits. There's probably fifty people 338 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.679 filling out applications. Because they had one day a week 339 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.600 they'd accept applications. Nine hundred employees worked in our building, 340 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:50.120 and so I'm filling things out and this young guy 341 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:52.600 walks in. He's wearing a suit. He walks in behind 342 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:55.679 the counter. He's clearly into a manager of some kind. 343 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.159 And we make got contact and I nod and I 344 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.000 got up on purpose. I said, excuse me, can you 345 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:04.200 help me for a minute? And my brain is scrambling, 346 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:06.400 just trying to think of a question, and I went, 347 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:08.960 am I supposed to write? Like? Like? I go by 348 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:12.119 the name Jeff, but my legal name's Jeffrey. So on 349 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.240 an application do I do? Do I do Jeffrey or Jeff? 350 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:16.000 He goes, oh, your name's Jeff, said, what do you 351 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.160 want to apply for? I said, I want to apply 352 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:21.279 for the best manager in this building to try to 353 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:23.799 help him get his work done. And he goes, hey, 354 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:25.480 why don't you come back here with me? And he 355 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.559 pulls me back, so suit and tie, nice haircut, and 356 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:31.279 I put myself in front of that manager. Clearly he 357 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:33.920 was just surveying who was out there. He winds up 358 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.759 hiring me, and Tom Pontel wanted up being a brilliant manager. 359 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:39.160 I made all kinds of money. I learned a ton 360 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:42.400 of things. And it was in that moment I decided 361 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:45.319 I'm going to be I'm going to get myself in 362 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:47.559 front of that guy. Now I can't control his response. 363 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:50.000 He might have blown me off, but dude, that was 364 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.000 It was incredibly lucky in that moment, right. But it 365 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.240 was because I was dressed right. And that's what he 366 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:56.839 told me, he said, I looked out across the room, 367 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:59.920 went there's nobody in here. I want to hire everybody, 368 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:03.759 I mean, and you know, almost house coats and slippers, 369 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:04.960 you know what I mean. It's kind of that look 370 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:07.519 everybody in the room. And then there's two guys sitting 371 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:10.440 in the room wearing suits. He hired us both, but 372 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:12.119 he hired my buddy. He said, Hey, is that other 373 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:14.079 guy in a suit with you? As he yah and 374 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:16.599 he said, are you guys roommates? I said yeah, he said, 375 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:19.039 bringing back, so he came with me. He got the 376 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:21.079 job because I had the guts to go up and 377 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:23.400 get in front of that boss in that moment, right. 378 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:25.799 And so there is something to that. It's not always 379 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:29.480 the fastest, it's not always the strongest, but it is 380 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:32.160 the person being in the right place at the right time. 381 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.839 But it's not always chance, right, you can kind of 382 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:39.000 get yourself in the right places. So the more I practice, 383 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:39.720 the luckier I get. 384 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:43.359 Yeah, you know, he just throws this thing at the 385 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:45.200 end of the chapter of the sentence that says people 386 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:47.440 can never predict when hard times might come, like a 387 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.720 fish in a net or a bird in a trap, 388 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.480 people are caught by sudden tragedy. Holy cow, is that 389 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:53.240 a statement or what? 390 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:53.799 Yeah? 391 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:55.920 Right, I mean, there's really nothing to say about that. 392 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:57.039 I just wanted to point. 393 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:58.839 It out, like sometimes bad things happen. 394 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.480 Sometimes bad things happened. Yeah, and he's talking. It's really 395 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:05.680 a continuation of this thought about you know, chance just 396 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:10.839 sort of happens, right, Just things come and things go. Yeah, 397 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:12.519 that's interesting. 398 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:17.119 And that's okay, yep. Right. We live in a broken world. 399 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:22.160 We forget, even as Christians, we forget that this world 400 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.680 is cursed and everything in it right is cursed by sin. 401 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:33.039