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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.800 Buckle up, folks, Wow, buckle up. I'm feeling it today. Okay, 5 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:16.640 it's gonna be a good one. 6 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.399 Jeff is raring to go. Yesterday you got rouled up? 7 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:20.519 Yes man, oh man. 8 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:22.719 Yeah. So we're we're in the middle of a series, 9 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:26.120 ladies and gentlemen. Uh, what if Jesus had a podcast, 10 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:28.760 he would be talking about, most likely some of his 11 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:29.839 most famous sayings. 12 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:30.440 Yeah, that's right. 13 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:32.600 We're just taking his most famous sayings and pretending like 14 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:33.479 it's his podcast. 15 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:35.679 That's right, that's right. So that's what we're doing. And 16 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.240 before we get into that, we have a segment that 17 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.479 Desiree has pieced together that's actually something I don't think 18 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:42.960 we've ever done. 19 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:47.200 Yeah, so that today is it's a dad joke showdown, 20 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:49.479 but we're putting a little twist on it. So instead 21 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:55.039 of using preapproved, professionally awful dad jokes that Desiree usually 22 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:55.719 gives us what. 23 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.359 She wanted us to do, she asked us to She 24 00:00:58.399 --> 00:00:59.200 gives us great ones. 25 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:00.119 Sometimes she told them. 26 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.520 To each of us to ask chat GPT for the 27 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:05.959 worst dead jokes that could possibly generate. 28 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:07.799 And then find the absolute worst one. 29 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.439 So essentially, what she's doing is she's outsourcing the. 30 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:12.480 Cringe, outsourcing the cringe. 31 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:14.040 There you go, all right, here we go. It's a 32 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:15.439 race to the bottom right here? Are you ready? 33 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.040 There? It is? Do it all right? Why can't you 34 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.560 give Elsa a balloon? I don't know, because she'll let 35 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:22.799 it go. 36 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.560 Let it go. Yeah, it's terrible, and it's terrible. 37 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:27.400 It's really bad. 38 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:31.640 Okay, why did the tomato turn red? Why because it's 39 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:32.760 the salad dressing. 40 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.760 Oh, that's actually decent. 41 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:37.760 That's a good one. 42 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.079 I'm giving you the worst ones in me too. Okay, 43 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:43.359 did you hear about the restaurant on the moon? No 44 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:45.000 great food, no atmosphere. 45 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:50.799 That's a good one. Okay. What do you call a 46 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:57.480 fish wearing a bow tie? What sophisticated? That's a rough one. 47 00:01:57.640 --> 00:01:59.439 I used to play piano by ear, but now I 48 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:00.000 use my hand. 49 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:03.799 I got that one too, did you? Yes? 50 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:06.319 Wow, I used to play the piano by ear, but 51 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:07.920 now I use my hands like a normal person. 52 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:08.800 That's what I said. 53 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:09.800 Yeah, I get another one. 54 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:14.039 That's really GPT is doubling up well, hey, that's okay, okay, 55 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:14.520 all right. 56 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.439 Why don't skeletons fight each other? I've heard this one before. 57 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:20.319 Oh they have no guts. 58 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:21.159 I didn't have the guts. 59 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.479 Yeah, you've heard this one too before. Why did the 60 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.439 golfer bring two pairs of pants? I don't know, because 61 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:28.360 you get a hole in one? 62 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.800 Okay, okay, okay. I told my wife she was drawing 63 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:35.439 her eyebrows too high. She looks surprised. 64 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:37.240 That's the one that was you got one? I was 65 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:37.759 going to read you this. 66 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:39.599 Oh wow, yeah, it sent that way. 67 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:43.479 Now this one I actually liked. Okay, Yes, what's orange 68 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:46.800 and sounds like a parrot? I don't know a carrot? 69 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:54.560 Okay, stupid? Okay? Why didn't I know that one? How 70 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:57.360 do you organize a space party your planet? 71 00:02:57.560 --> 00:02:58.479 Yeah? Was that on yours? 72 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:02.240 Too? Yes? Oh wow, so so chet GPT doubled up? 73 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:02.599 Yes? 74 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:07.400 Okay, How about this one? I only know twenty five 75 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:11.439 letters of the alphabet. I don't know why. 76 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.919 That's a good one. That's really good act. Why don't 77 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:16.879 eggs tell jokes? 78 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:18.520 Why? 79 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:21.599 Because they'd crack each other up and scramble the punchline. 80 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.759 That's a rough, that's rough. That is rough. Okay, this 81 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:29.560 is a bad one. Okay. Why did the math book 82 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:36.599 look sad? I don't know. It had too many problems. 83 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:39.039 If they made a movie that you'd cry at it 84 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.960 would I yeah, animated half. 85 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:47.719 Books, so many problems, Billy, there you go. Uh what 86 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:49.080 did the oceans say to the beach? 87 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:51.680 I don't know nothing. 88 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:52.439 It just waved. 89 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:56.360 Oh wow, what do you call what do you call 90 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:58.159 a cheese that isn't yours? 91 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:01.800 Not to cheese? 92 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.599 My last one is why did the scarecrow win an award? 93 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:07.039 Why? 94 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:08.840 Because he was outstanding in his field? 95 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:10.759 Wow? 96 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.879 That's a rough Okay, Well I have one more. I 97 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:15.319 have one more. Did you hear about the guy who 98 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.839 invented life savers? He made a mint? So there you go. 99 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:20.680 That's all tan of mine. 100 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.279 Hey, I actually have my own that my daughter told 101 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.519 me that that I've not used on the air before. 102 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:27.759 I actually liked this one. 103 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:28.199 Okay. 104 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.079 Did you hear about the weasel who walked into a bar? 105 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:35.120 A weasel walks into a bar and the bartender says, wow, 106 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:38.279 we don't get many weasels in here. What would you 107 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.160 like to drink? Pop? Goes the weasel. 108 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:49.759 No, it's great, that's terrible. Okay, well if you groaned, 109 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.920 we did our job. Yeah, that was that was what 110 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:56.759 I think. That was her goal today was just was 111 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:00.480 to create as many like just please stop kind. 112 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:02.439 Of groans right as possible. 113 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.199 And so, hey, you're welcome everybody. But those were really 114 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:08.680 really bad dad jokes. 115 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:10.759 So and by the way, so I need to work 116 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:11.000 at it. 117 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:13.199 Some dad jokes are great. Yeah, I still like my 118 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:13.879 Harry Potter one. 119 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:15.920 Yeah, that was a good one. Yep, we need to 120 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.360 work at this more. You know what else needs more workers? 121 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:24.839 Oh really, wow, that's so good. 122 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:27.240 Yeah, Jesus said he needs more workers in the field 123 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:28.399 because the harvest is ready. 124 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:29.920 They're just enough workers. 125 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.319 You know. That's a great quote. Yeah, yeah, Jesus said it, 126 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:35.079 and today we're gonna talk about it. 127 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:39.560 I'm a big fan, big fan, So so we're doing 128 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.360 this podcast as if Jesus were taking famous comments he 129 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:46.480 made and say, hey, that's the theme for his podcast 130 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.079 for the day. And so here in Luke, chapter ten, 131 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:49.720 I was. 132 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:51.240 Wondering why you said, you know, we get to work 133 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:52.079 on this more. I'm like, what. 134 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:55.639 That's so trying to get there, I can think. 135 00:05:57.519 --> 00:05:59.160 So, if you're a newer listener, we're always trying to 136 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:03.519 think of the worst possible transitions from the goofy segment 137 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.399 into the things. So in Luke chapter ten, we'll just 138 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:07.639 read one through ten. 139 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:10.639 I believe one through twenty. Ooh, yep, good. 140 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.680 So it says the Lord now chose seventy two other disciples. Hey, 141 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:17.399 remember yesterday we talked about twelve, and then there were 142 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:19.360 one hundred and twenty. Now there's seventy two. So the 143 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:22.240 Lord chose them. Yep, Lord chose seventy two other disciples 144 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:24.920 and sent them ahead in pairs to all the towns 145 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:27.680 and places that he planned to visit. These were his 146 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.439 instructions to them. The harvest is great, but the workers 147 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.839 are few. So pray to the Lord who is in 148 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:34.720 charge of the harvest, and ask him to send more 149 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:37.199 workers into his field. Now go and remember that I 150 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.800 am sending you out as lambs among wolves. Don't take 151 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:41.839 any money with you, or a traveler's bag, nor an 152 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:44.279 extra pair of sandals, and don't stop to greet anyone 153 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:47.199 on the road. Whenever you enter someone's home, first say 154 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.199 may God's peace be on this house. If those who 155 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:52.439 live there are peaceful, the blessing will stand. If they 156 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:55.319 are not the blessing will return to you. Don't move 157 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:57.879 around from home to home. Stay in one place, eating 158 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:01.240 and drinking what they provide. Don't hesitate to accept hospitality, 159 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:02.759 because those who work. 160 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:03.319 Deserve their pay. 161 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:05.800 If you enter a town and it welcomes you, eat 162 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.199 whatever is set before you, heal the sick, and tell 163 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:11.720 them the Kingdom of God is near near you now. 164 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.399 But if a town refuses to welcome you, go out 165 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.000 into its streets and say, we wipe even the dust 166 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:18.879 of your town from our feet, to show that we 167 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:21.720 have abandoned you to your fate. And know this the 168 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:24.519 Kingdom of God is near. I assure you, even wicked 169 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:26.600 Sodom would be better off than such a town on 170 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:31.399 Judgment Day. What sorrow awaits you, Corsine and bethseta for 171 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:33.399 if the miracles I did in you had been done 172 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:35.720 in the wicked Tire and Sidon, their people would have 173 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:39.199 repented of their sins long ago, clothing themselves in burlap 174 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.000 and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse. Yes, 175 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:44.199 Tire and Sidon will be better off on Judgment Day 176 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.399 than you. And you people of Capernaum. Will you be 177 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:49.720 honored in heaven? No, you will go down to the 178 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:50.879 place of the dead. 179 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:51.600 Wow. 180 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.839 Then he said to the disciples, anyone who accepts your 181 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.360 message is also accepting me, And anyone who rejects you 182 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.639 is rejecting me. And anyone who rejects me is rejecting 183 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.800 God who sent me. When the seventy two disciples return, 184 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:04.959 they joyfully reported him. 185 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:05.199 Lord. 186 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:08.079 Even the demons obey us when we use your name. Yes, 187 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:11.759 he told them, I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. Look, 188 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:14.360 I've given you authority over all the power of the enemy, 189 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:16.199 and you can walk them on snakes and scorpions and 190 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:19.720 crush them. Nothing will injure you. But don't rejoice because 191 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:20.720 evil spirits obey. 192 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:21.120 You. 193 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:25.879 Rejoice because your names are registered in heaven. There you go, man, 194 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:27.399 that is. 195 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:31.120 Such an obscure and overlooked verse. Don't rejoice because evil 196 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:35.480 spirits obey, you, rejoice because your names are registered in heaven. 197 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:39.360 In other words, like as mighty as God is in 198 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.559 our lives and all the great miracles that He does 199 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:46.639 in us and through us, don't take pride in the 200 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.559 fact that God uses you for great things. Right, You 201 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:53.480 don't have pride in that right. Right, It's just like 202 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:56.679 it's a gentle reminder that you know, tells us like, 203 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:03.320 for instance, a little weird to reflect on this, but 204 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:08.039 in this context, everybody knows our spirit. So we just 205 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:10.879 had a baptism day on a Sunday. 206 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:12.519 Morning, and it was so much fun. 207 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.919 We experienced something that very few people on this earth 208 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:19.720 get to experience. Right, So our church baptized two hundred 209 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:20.919 and what was it, fifty. 210 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:22.720 Four, two hundred and fifty four people, two hundred and 211 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:24.759 fifty four people. That was our Sterling Heights campus. The 212 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:27.360 other two campuses have baptisms coming up in a couple 213 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:27.639 of weeks. 214 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:30.559 Yeah, yeah, yeah, So so our one campus baptized two 215 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:36.440 fifty four people. And excuse me, And so what is 216 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:42.360 the average church they convert they experience brand new Christians baptism? 217 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:44.039 What was the average church baptized a year? 218 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:48.200 Oh boy, I saw that stat rate before one of 219 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.840 our staff meetings here recently, because I looked it up again. 220 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:56.240 They the average church averages one point five new believers 221 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.480 that are not already at tenders of the church, meaning 222 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:04.080 most churches baptized the children of people who attend the church. Right, 223 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:08.519 and then the average church baptizes less than two non. 224 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.639 Believers a year, right, who just you know, walking in from. 225 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:12.519 All from outside? 226 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:16.080 Right, and so, so all that to say, and they 227 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.600 don't baptize non believers. They're baptized people who gave the 228 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:20.159 life to crisis result of the ministry. 229 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.120 Now they baptized them. Yeah, they were non believers right 230 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:22.799 from outside. 231 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.320 Yeah. So anyway, all that to say this, yeah. 232 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:27.600 I think it's the average church baptizes less than five 233 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.200 people a year, but I don't remember what it is. 234 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:30.279 I'll look it up, let me ask. 235 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:33.679 So all that to say, like you and I, because 236 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:36.879 of our you know, knowledge, because you measure everything, sure, right, 237 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.399 we're able to understand that. Wow, what a great privilege. Right, 238 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:44.360 So a verse like this reminds us, Hey, don't rejoice 239 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:47.799 because God does great things. Right, there's no there's no 240 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:50.639 there's no pride. I want you to take in that, right, 241 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:52.799 That's how I read that. That's right, that's right. 242 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:54.159 And what do you say you didn't do it? 243 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.120 Hey? You want to you want to get excited over something, 244 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.720 Get excited over the fact that guess what your name 245 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:03.879 is registered in heaven? Like there's the miracle, right, right, 246 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.360 that's the miracle. You could brag on That's the miracle 247 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.679 you can find pride in. That's the miracle you should 248 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:12.120 brag about, not the other things that God uses you 249 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:14.879 for and get, you know, let you experience. That's the 250 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.080 way that I take that because that is translatable in 251 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.320 my you know, in my life. Because after all, think 252 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:23.919 about it, he's talking to the seventy two who are 253 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.159 going out and doing incredible things. Hey, you're gonna be 254 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:30.360 able to walk up on snakes and you're gonna be impenetrable, 255 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.159 right right, nobody's gonna harm you because I'm sending you 256 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:38.080 out as these incredible you know, people on mission who 257 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.240 are gonna go from town to town and you're gonna 258 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:42.559 do incredible things. You're gonna heal people, You're gonna heal 259 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:44.759 the sick. Right, You're gonna do all these great things. 260 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:47.399 But the only thing you should really take pride in 261 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:49.360 is the fact that God has saved your soul. 262 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:52.080 They were like, Jesus Man, we were casting out demons 263 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:52.519 in your name. 264 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:54.919 This is awesome, and he just goes, yeah, I saw 265 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:56.000 Satan fall from heaven. 266 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.200 Just side note. 267 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:02.799 Yeah right, it wasn't you, But it was the power 268 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:05.080 of my name that did it. That's what he's saying there, 269 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.960 which is is so funny, But we get excited about 270 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.200 those things. Sometimes you ever get around people who get 271 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:12.840 like super spooky, it's all they want to talk about, 272 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.399 is like demons and miracles and stuff. 273 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:15.559 All the time. 274 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:18.240 Right, And this is what Jesus is saying, is, hey, 275 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.000 there's more important things than that this idea. Rejoice that 276 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:23.840 your name is registered in heaven. I wonder if our 277 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.120 listeners knew that there are multiple times in the Bible 278 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.440 that talks about this book where our names are registered. 279 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.399 The Lamb's Book of Life is what it's called, and 280 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.519 it says those whose names were found in the Book 281 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.639 of Life entered into heaven, and those whose name was 282 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:38.480 not found written in the Book of Life was cast 283 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:41.960 into outer darkness. Right yeah, and it talks about that 284 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:44.840 second death is what it's talking about, talking about eternity 285 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.919 without Christ and hell. So the Lamb's Book of Life, 286 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:49.759 that's really it is. If your name is in it, 287 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.559 you're on your way. If your name's not in it, 288 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:55.840 you're not. And that's what he's he's making a big 289 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.840 deal about. So do you think that when somebody trusts 290 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:01.320 crist that's when their name goes in. 291 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:04.799 Yes, yeah, me too, me too. Yeah. 292 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.039 So anyways, I just looked it up, by the way, 293 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.840 a minute ago. It says that large churches average thirty 294 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:15.559 eight baptisms per year, medium churches average twenty two, small 295 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:20.559 churches average eleven, and very small churches average four baptisms. Now, 296 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:23.000 the average church in America is only sixty nine people. 297 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:26.840 And then it says thousands of churches see no baptisms 298 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.519 in a year. Right, so it looks like the average 299 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:34.600 on average, larger churches baptized more people obviously just because 300 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:38.000 they have more people. But the small churches typically it's 301 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.919 about four is what the average church in America. 302 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:43.200 And we have the potential to see probably upwards of 303 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:44.639 maybe what six or seven hundred. 304 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:46.440 Yeah, I think we will baptize over six hundred this 305 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:48.240 year for sure. Yeah, we're heading in that direction. 306 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:49.279 But which is wonderful. 307 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:49.559 Yeah. 308 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:51.840 So you see God do something special and then you go, oh, 309 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.799 look what we did, and Jesus, hey, Jesus, we cast 310 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:57.399 our demons the name. Yeah, I saw Satan fall from heaven. 311 00:13:57.639 --> 00:13:57.840 Yeah. 312 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:59.960 So he just has a great way of putting in perspective. 313 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:03.200 But you cast out a demon out of some drunkard 314 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.840 in town. I was there when we cast Satan out 315 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:07.240 of Heaven. 316 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:10.399 Yeah yeah, and I did it. I did it. 317 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:11.279 Yeah right. 318 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:15.360 That's just such an amazing, amazing turn on these guys. 319 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:17.840 It's cool, but one interesting. Let's go back to the 320 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:19.080 beginning of it. I think it's really great. 321 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.759 Cho when you said, before we get away from this thought, 322 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:24.480 you said, have you ever been around somebody who's like 323 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.360 super spooky? Oh? Yeah, and they all they want to 324 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.080 do is talk about spooky things. I remember one time 325 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:32.080 when I was in youth ministry, I set up a 326 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.759 sound system in the fellowship Paul, and we had this 327 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.399 big event, and it had a bad cable, right, it 328 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.600 had a bad cable, and sometimes it would work and 329 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:41.600 sometimes it wouldn't. And I said, I said, man, we 330 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.759 need to pray this thing works. And so the church 331 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:50.000 secretary or whatever the you know, administrative assistant comes over 332 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.360 and she puts her hand on the soundboard and she goes, 333 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:57.360 I pray the sound demons come out of this board, 334 00:14:57.399 --> 00:14:59.960 and the demons would be cast out of this soundboard. 335 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.240 I'm like, okay, I'm pretty sure that it's just a 336 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.159 bad cable, But okay, if that's the way you want 337 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:07.279 to if that's the way you want to pray. 338 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.200 Yeah, yep, anyway, I just if the devil's gonna get 339 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.000 into anything, he'll get into the sound, saystem I'll tell 340 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.039 you that, or he'll pinch a baby in the service, 341 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:16.440 right right, those are those are the two things he 342 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.200 loves to do. Anyways, So Jesus is sending these seventy 343 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.440 two out. That's sometimes a surprise to people that didn't realize. 344 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:26.799 They thought it was just twelve disciples. The twelve were 345 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:29.159 like his inner circle, and then his inner inner circle 346 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:32.480 was Peter, James and John. Right, so but he has 347 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.279 he chooses these other seventy two, and I love it. 348 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.919 He sends them ahead in pairs to all the towns 349 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.879 and places he planned to visit. So these teams were Hey, 350 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:44.039 by the way, Jesus is coming. Do you ever wonder 351 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:47.600 why the crowds are so big? Jesus planned for big crowds, right, 352 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:48.559 that's what's happening. 353 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:49.080 Right. 354 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:51.039 So every once in a while, you know, you and 355 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:54.759 I will get criticized for working hard to figure out 356 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:56.919 how to capture people's attention, how to draw a crowd, 357 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:00.679 all these things. It's not a mystery. While why Jesus 358 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:04.720 crowds are so big. One he was taking sack lunches 359 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.000 and feeding thousands of people at a pop, right, and 360 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:09.919 he was raising dead people back to life. Those two 361 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:11.320 things will draw crowd. 362 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:12.360 That'll draw crowd. 363 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.759 But then if you want to maximize that and don't 364 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.440 want to lose out on the momentum, you go recruit 365 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:19.759 seventy two of your other disciples and say, hey, I'm 366 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:21.679 going to go to these ten towns. Go and tell 367 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:24.360 him I'm coming. That's what he did. 368 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:27.360 And then did you hear about that guy that fed 369 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.039 everybody with a sack lunch? Yeah, you hear about that 370 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.159 guy that raised the people from the dead. Yeah, he's 371 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:33.720 coming here. 372 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:36.879 And then do miracles in his name, yes, and make 373 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:38.120 sure that he gets the credit. 374 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:40.120 That's right in Jesus name, right right. 375 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:43.080 And so so this is why the crowds kept getting 376 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:46.000 bigger and bigger. Is Jesus planned to have bigger crowds. Now, 377 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.200 it was exhausting. We saw this a couple different times. 378 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:49.919 We'd have to leave the crowd. He'd go out and 379 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:51.440 get on a boat or whatever. 380 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:52.679 You know, and leave. 381 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:54.799 But he was sending the subject and I think a 382 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:57.360 lot of people have never thought about how intentional Jesus 383 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.440 was about getting the good news to as men people 384 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.720 as possible in that short little window of time that 385 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:03.679 he was doing ministry. 386 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.640 He was so intentional that he knew whether or not 387 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:10.960 it was the time, right, he says, all, my time 388 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:13.519 is not yet come. Sometimes he would reveal himself as 389 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:15.599 the Messiah and say, well, don't tell anybody just yet, 390 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:17.599 you know, don't, don't don't go to the highways and 391 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:19.720 the hedges, you know, kind of thing. And then and 392 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:22.480 then when he wanted it to happen, then it happened. 393 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:27.960 So so all that to say, think about how absolutely 394 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:33.160 incredible his intentionality was, right right, I mean his first miracle. 395 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.759 Remember what he told his mother it's not my time yet, yeah, right, 396 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:39.839 So he he knew exactly when he wanted his message 397 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:42.279 to go out, yes, which is yeah, which is great. 398 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:44.400 So then he sends him out two by two, which 399 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.759 I love. I love the fact that he's not saying, 400 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:50.000 go do this alone. God, God always wants us to 401 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.799