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 --> 00:00:15.279 practical ways. Hey, everybody, good morning or evening or afternoon, 4 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:17.920 A good day, Yes, but we want to welcome you 5 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.640 to the Bible Guys, and we have a riveting segment 6 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:21.440 for you today. 7 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:22.760 We're so glad you're with us. 8 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:23.600 We really are. 9 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:25.199 Yeah, that is true. It's true. 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:27.719 It is what drives us to drive to the podcast 11 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.120 studio and continue to make these podcasts. 12 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:34.479 In a blizzard, it wasn't quite a blizzard, but it 13 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:36.119 wasn't We got a couple inches of snow. 14 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:38.359 Well, people think it's a blizzard. 15 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:39.960 Anywhere else in the country. It's a blizzard. 16 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:42.960 Yes, it'd shut down Atlanta and no doubt that's right, 17 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.600 no doubt we got we got a nice two inch dusting. 18 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:48.240 It's snowing in dustin Florida. 19 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:52.640 I saw that. Yeah crazy Louisiana. Yeah, we have friends 20 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:55.320 in Louisiana. They got eight inches of snow. 21 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:56.679 Holy Christmas. 22 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:58.560 She sent a message with my wife last night. 23 00:00:58.600 --> 00:00:58.840 Wow. 24 00:00:59.079 --> 00:00:59.399 Crazy. 25 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:00.719 Yeah, that isn't neat. 26 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:06.079 So congratulations everybody on your snow. Yeah global warming, yeah exactly. 27 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:10.959 So Hey, this is one of our favorite segments, is it. Yeah, Well, 28 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.000 it's it's the one that's the only one that has 29 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:13.760 its own. 30 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:17.920 See I see, yeah, which is mail bags. 31 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:19.200 There you go, yep. 32 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:23.200 And so mail bags is when basically anybody just simply 33 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:27.439 writes in and then Desiree pretty much sifts through them 34 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.359 and then decides to let us answer one of them. 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My question is, what's something you've 47 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:09.400 tried to do but completely failed at basketball? Really? Yes, 48 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:10.439 you're not good at basketball. 49 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:15.919 I think I mentioned this before, But my older brothers, Chucky, Donnie, Tommy, 50 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:17.960 they were into basketball. 51 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:21.639 But when we were little, our older. 52 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:24.360 Brothers, particularly Chucking Donnie, used to beat us up a lot, 53 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.520 and we didn't like them. So there was a space 54 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.560 between Tommy and between Tommy and Jimmy, so Jimmy and Chrissy, 55 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:35.639 which is us. We rebelled against anything our older brothers did. 56 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:38.840 So they grew up watching the Cleveland Browns games. Yep, 57 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.360 so we didn't watch the Cleveland Browns games. They liked 58 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.199 Star Trek together. We didn't like Star Trek. Right later on, 59 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.479 I came around on that one. I came around on 60 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:51.479 the Browns too, But basketball I just avoided. I just 61 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:53.360 avoided because they loved it, and then we were like, no, 62 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:55.879 we're not going to play it. I actually played my 63 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:59.520 first driveway pick up basketball game in my life with friends. 64 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.719 I was eighteen years old. Oh wow, isn't that crazy? 65 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.240 So completely Yeah, didn't didn't touch it. 66 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:06.680 So basketball is not your thing. 67 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:07.599 So when I. 68 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.319 Become a youth pastor, I thought, oh no, I need 69 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.800 to learn. So I trained for months. I had a 70 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:15.479 person show me the ropes, and so I practiced and 71 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.879 practiced and practiced at our health club and went. 72 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:20.039 Up and down the court, learned how to do a layup, learn. 73 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.680 How to shoot and not very good, but still learned 74 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:26.840 it until I when I've got to be decent at it, 75 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:29.439 I decided I hate this game. 76 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.360 I hate it. I was given court side seats for 77 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:35.240 the Atlanta Hawks. 78 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:35.520 Wow. 79 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:39.439 My feet were literally on the court right and. 80 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:42.919 I was sitting there watching the game, and about midway 81 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:44.919 through the game, I'm like, I'm ready to go home, 82 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:47.919 Like that's how much I don't even enjoy watching it. 83 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:48.159 Wow. 84 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:52.520 Here's another one. The Detroit Pistons wanted me to become 85 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.319 their chaplain. And so I don't know how this might 86 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:58.560 have been, like twenty thirteen or fourteen or fifteen, somewhere 87 00:03:58.560 --> 00:03:59.000 around there. 88 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:00.240 I got a phone call and. 89 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:01.719 I didn't even like you guys. 90 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.039 Well, they called and said, would you consider being the 91 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:05.360 chaplain for the Detroit Pistons. 92 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:07.159 And so I had a choice. 93 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:09.919 And I actually talked to my son, who with time, 94 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:11.759 was in high school and said, Dad, you have to 95 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:12.080 do this. 96 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:12.560 This is great. 97 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:15.240 We can get tickets and you know all the players, 98 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:16.519 and you'd be able to hang out just like Dave 99 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:19.480 Wilson does with the Lions. And I said, this is 100 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:21.240 not fair to the Pistons. 101 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:25.079 Like I literally loathe all basketball. 102 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.319 Why would I why would I try to relate to 103 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:31.000 people who I don't even like what they do for 104 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:31.399 a living. 105 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.560 So I said no because of it? Wow, So there, 106 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.560 it is so basketball. 107 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:42.079 But like, if the Detroit Opera House called and wanted 108 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:46.519 you to be the chaplain for all their Broadway shows, that'd. 109 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:47.079 Be very difficult. 110 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:52.120 It would be difficult, but I would probably not have 111 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:52.839 the time for that. 112 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:57.720 First of all, I'd be busy. I'm not sure I 113 00:04:57.759 --> 00:04:58.279 would do that. 114 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:03.079 So basket ball is your thing? Not your thing? You yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 115 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.000 I tried and I completely fell out. 116 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:10.279 For me, it's the DIY stuff. Okay, I am horrible 117 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.079 at it and it makes me so frustrating because I 118 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:15.839 loved basketball, love it. I'm terrible at it. I love it, 119 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:22.959 love basketball, but DIY stuff. In my mind, I look 120 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:26.759 at a thing and go, that'll be super easy, right, 121 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:29.240 and the people that I know are really good at it. 122 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.759 I think I should be good at it. Then other 123 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:32.680 people get this stuff. 124 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:34.199 You try and tell me he's better than me. 125 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:37.560 I know, I know. I'm like, come on, man, this 126 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:40.959 so I think I can do that, and I promise 127 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.439 you now. My kids are like, Dad, put the tools down, right, 128 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.800 It's just I don't know. I wind up making fifteen 129 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:51.199 trips to home depot. I cut everything too short or 130 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:54.920 too long. I never get it done. I start it, 131 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:59.560 I can't finish it. What the concept in my mind 132 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:02.639 does work out, but I have no fallback plan for 133 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:07.680 another way. Almost all the time I have to invite 134 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:09.759 somebody to come and help me. To the point where like, 135 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:13.319 I'm horrible at painting for crying out loud. If I paint, 136 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.720 we should tear up all the carpet and remove any 137 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.879 cabinets or anything. I can paint like an empty room, 138 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:22.680 but if there's anything in it, I'm going to ruin 139 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:24.879 every bit of clothes. I'm gonna walk around paint on 140 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:26.920 me for a week. It's just and I don't do 141 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.600 it on purpose. It's that way about everything I do. 142 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.319 I ruined tools. I look at this, see that scar? Yeah, 143 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:37.279 I almost cut my finger off a saw. I was 144 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.720 explaining to my son how not to use a saw 145 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:42.279 when I cut my finger all the way to the bone. 146 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:42.720 Wow. 147 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.879 Right, it's just so I want to be a DIY guy. 148 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.160 My wife wants me to be a DIY guy, and 149 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:49.839 I'm just not. 150 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:50.560 Wow. 151 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:55.439 Yeah, I didn't grow up being a DIY person. My 152 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:59.160 dad was not that way. But somewhere along the way 153 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:03.279 I started to explore as a homeowner and just started 154 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:04.000 diving into it. 155 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:08.720 And I think I would classify myself as fairly decent. 156 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.959 I would say I would say eighty five percent of 157 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:15.879 all the projects around the house I do. 158 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.160 If I was ever like super super rich, yeah, I 159 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:24.519 would probably have. But single right, I'd probably have to 160 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:31.959 live in a hotel Jesse, because I just I can't 161 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.360 think somebody's gonna have to bring me stuff and fix stuff. 162 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:36.680 And j that movie Two Week Notice with Hugh Grant 163 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.319 and Center Bullock where he's a rich guy Wide Enterprises 164 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.800 and he lives on the top of a hotel that 165 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:44.680 he owns on the suite and he says. 166 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:46.240 My life is very much like Monopoly. 167 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:52.560 I don't want to be snooty. I just am completely 168 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:56.360 inapt when it comes to maintenance. Yeah, that's terairrible. I 169 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:00.759 want to be that guy. Well, thanks for bringing up misery, Sarah, Yeah, 170 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:05.079 no kidding, just making us feel less than a. 171 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.079 Recall with your audience. The things you're really the things 172 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:10.040 you're really bad at. 173 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:13.199 Right, a loser. 174 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:14.959 Recall? 175 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:20.800 No, No, I get it, Sarah, sometimes we talk like 176 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:23.079 superheroes all the time, and so it's nice to know 177 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:24.040 that we're not. 178 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:27.360 Yes, well we don't do we talk like superheroes? 179 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:31.600 Oh, I would imagine that is. I mean, you can dance. 180 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:35.000 Stop it, you know the Bible stopt stop it. 181 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:35.519 Yeah. 182 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:37.960 First of all, I can't even really sing, and and 183 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:39.759 I actually cannot dance at all. 184 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:42.240 That's the other thing I just love. That's the other 185 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:43.480 thing I can't. 186 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:44.480 That's it. I like music. 187 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.039 If she wants to know, here's the bonus material for 188 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:51.799 that one. I can't dance neither. Yeah. Yeah, terrible. Okay, 189 00:08:52.000 --> 00:09:00.879 So speaking of not being able to dance, what levers d. 190 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:04.960 Because their legs are gonna fall off. 191 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:10.000 Because they have terrible transits. That may be the worst 192 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:13.000 transition we've ever done. 193 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.799 Oh no, it's hard to d. 194 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:28.320 Wow, that's that's by far the worst transition. I think 195 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:30.240 we may have just peaked. 196 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:33.000 That's the best one we've ever had. 197 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:38.120 Oh no. So anyways, if if you're a lepard and 198 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.799 you're listening, we're not making fun. We're not laughing at you. 199 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:41.720 We're laughing with you. 200 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:45.960 All right, because I don't think we meant to. But 201 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:49.519 I think terrible Yeah, okay, okay. 202 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:52.080 Oh, I can't even see now, my eyes are full 203 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:57.440 of te Okay. So in Second King's chapter seven, it says, 204 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.759 now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the 205 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:01.720 end truths of the City Gate. 206 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.200 By the way, this is actually one of my favorite stories. 207 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:05.840 Absolutely, I love this story. 208 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:06.679 It's really great. 209 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.240 You gave me an outline one time to preach. Oh 210 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.879 yeah about this, Yes, oh, it's fantastic. Yeah yeah. Since 211 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.360 why should we sit here waiting to die? They asked 212 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:19.039 each other. We will starve if we stay here, but 213 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.080 with the famine in the city, we'll starve if we 214 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:23.200 go back there, so we might as well go out 215 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.200 and surrender to the Aramean army. And if they let 216 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:27.399 us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, 217 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.720 we should have died anyway. So at twilight they set 218 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:33.080 out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they 219 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:34.879 came to the edge of the camp, no one was there, 220 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:37.360 for the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear 221 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.759 the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses, 222 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:42.480 and the sounds of a great army approaching. The King 223 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.559 of Israel has hired the Hittites and the Egyptians to 224 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:47.200 attack us, they cried to one another. So they panicked 225 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:50.320 and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, 226 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.039 and everything else as they fled for their lives. When 227 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:55.840 the lepers arrived at the edge of the camp, they 228 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:59.080 went into one tent after another, eating and drinking wine, 229 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:01.639 and they carried off so over in gold and clothing 230 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:03.799 and hit it. Finally, they said to each other, this 231 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:05.919 is not right. This is a day of good news, 232 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.799 and we aren't sharing it with anyone. If we wait 233 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:12.000 until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. Come on, 234 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:14.159 let's go back and tell the people at the palace. 235 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:15.879 And so they went back to the city and told 236 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.200 the gatekeepers what had happened. We went out to the 237 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:20.159 air man camp, they said, and no one was there. 238 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:22.120 The horses and donkeys were tethered, and the tents were 239 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:24.559 all in order, but there wasn't a single person around. 240 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.799 Then the gatekeeper shouted the news to the people in 241 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:29.320 the palace. The king got out of bed in the 242 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:31.279 middle of the night and told his officers, I know 243 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:33.440 what has happened. The air Mans know we are starving, 244 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.279 so they have left their camp and have hidden in 245 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:37.600 the fields. They're expecting us to leave the city, and 246 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.159 then they will take us alive and capture the city. 247 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.600 One of his officers replied, we'd better send out scouts 248 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:45.639 to check this out. Let them take five of the 249 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:48.919 remaining horses. If something happens to them, it will be 250 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:50.840 no worse than if they stay here and die with 251 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:54.440 the rest of us. So two chariots with horses were prepared. 252 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.000 The king sent scouts to see what had happened to 253 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.559 the Aramean army. They went all the way to the 254 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.360 Jordan River, following a trail of clothing and equipment that 255 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:04.480 the air Maans had thrown away, and their mad rushed 256 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:07.440 to the escape. The scouts returned to the king about 257 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:11.200 The scouts returned and told the king about it. Then 258 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.039 the people of Samaria rushed out and plunder the Aramean camp. 259 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:16.480 So it was true that five courts of choice flower 260 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:18.799 were sold that day for one piece of silver, and 261 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:20.960 ten courts of barley grain were sold for one piece 262 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.799 of silver, just as the lord had promised. The king 263 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:26.120 appointed his officer to control the traffic at the gate, 264 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.360 but he was knocked down and trampled to death as 265 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.399 the people rushed out. So everything happened exactly as the 266 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:33.200 Man of God had predicted. When the king came to 267 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:35.840 his house, the man of God had said, to the king, 268 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:37.600 by this time tomorrow, and the market is the sama 269 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.559 of five courts a choice flower becausts one piece of silver, 270 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:42.720 and ten courts of barley of grain will cost one 271 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.120 piece of silver. King's officer had replied, that couldn't happen 272 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:48.279 even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven, And 273 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:50.360 the Man of God had said, you will see it 274 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:52.039 happen with your own eyes, but you won't be able 275 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.039 to eat any of it. So it was for the 276 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:57.840 people trampled into death at the gate. Wow. 277 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.519 Yeah, so you have it there, you go, of all, 278 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.879 how desperate and starving and close to death do you 279 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:06.159 have to be to trample the king and not even 280 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:07.440 have any consistent. 281 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.679 This was the king's officer. They got trampled to death. 282 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:11.519 Oh, the king's officer. 283 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:16.039 Okay, but still, I mean, you know, my guess is 284 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.919 several months before that they would have feared the king's officer. 285 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:23.399 Right, and now they're just plowing right over. 286 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:26.960 Yeah yeah, yeah, and okay, so this is just an 287 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:29.919 unbelievable way to start a story. It says, four lepers 288 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:32.000 are sitting outside the entrance to the city gates. 289 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:34.639 Well, first of all, if you are in a city 290 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:35.200 or in. 291 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.039 Any community in those days and you had leprosy, you 292 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:43.600 were exiled from the city, right. And so oftentimes lepers 293 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.799 were outside of the city gates as beggars, right. And 294 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:48.639 so do you remember in the New Testament when when 295 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:50.720 the lepers were in the caves and they shadowed out, Oh, 296 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.440 son of David, have mercy on us. And so they 297 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.799 were often that way. They were sort of excommunicated, and 298 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:58.360 you know, leprosy was contagious. 299 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:00.559 And so these four lepers are sitting outside. 300 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.559 They were banned by law from being inside or around 301 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:04.879 people or touching other people. 302 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:07.039 Yes, and so that's why they're there. 303 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.320 And then and they basically contemplate their options, and they 304 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:14.080 come up with three really bad options. They said, Hey, 305 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:20.080 let's go surrender to the what do they call the Armenians, Amians. 306 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.240 Let's go strender to them, because we have three bad options. 307 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:26.759 Either number one, we just sit here and just die. 308 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:29.720 Number two, we go into the city and we die. 309 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:33.679 Or number three, we go to them and we surrender 310 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:38.000 and we might die, or the only chance is maybe 311 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:40.679 they'll feed us, maybe they'll maybe they'll take us as prisoners. Right, 312 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.720 so they're considering three really bad options, but the third 313 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:47.360 option has the only glimmer of hope, and so then 314 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:50.279 they they then they they're the ones. And I love 315 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:54.919 this because they discovered this hidden treasure. So can you 316 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.519 even imagine the desperation of like the walls of Samaria 317 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.240 that are shut up? And you know, besieging a city 318 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:05.039 was a strategy and it's still a strategy today. Strategy today, Right, 319 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.720 you just surround the city and you stop all the 320 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.320 export and all the import of a city so that 321 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:13.120 they only have finite resources, and then you just wait 322 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:17.440 it out then, And because you're supposed to wait it out, consequently, 323 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:21.039 that means that the people besieging have to have supplies 324 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:24.159 to outweight the people inside the city, right, which means 325 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:27.320 that they have a ton of supplies. They have basically 326 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.960 brought their whole kingdom around the city just to capture 327 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:34.679 the city. And so you can't even we can't even 328 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:40.559 imagine the amount of goods and sheep and horses and 329 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:44.919 food and money and commerce and clothing and tents, and 330 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:45.200 I mean. 331 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:48.080 It would have been incomprehensible for four lepers to show 332 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.399 up and all this stuff there. Yes, so God scares 333 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.000 off all the airmans. Yes, they all take off, they run. 334 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.559 These lepers show up and go where is everybody? 335 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.519 Right? So can you imagine the amount of wealth and 336 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.440 food and everything else? And so uh so there's only 337 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:07.840 four of them, and uh and so as you can imagine, uh, 338 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.559 you know, they're eating to their hearts content, they're sleeping, 339 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:12.480 they're enjoying riches and jewels and crowns. 340 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.000 You went into one ten after another, eating and drinking wine. 341 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.200 They carried off silver and gold and clothing. 342 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.240 And yes, yes, and they're they're they're burying it, right, 343 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:20.799 they're burying it. 344 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:22.480 Did you ever when you were a little kid, do 345 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:24.519 you ever have kind of fantasy getting locked in the 346 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:26.480 mall overnight? 347 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.360 I don't think I've ever thought of that specifically. 348 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.519 I used to think about that, How cool would it 349 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.000 be to get locked in this mall and then just 350 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.240 have free reign of everything in this mall all night long? Yeah? Yeah, 351 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:38.480 right right, that's kind of the. 352 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.159 Yeah, you know, the End of the World movies are 353 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:41.399 like that. 354 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the zombie movies got everything, they're trapped 355 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:44.840 in them all. 356 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:45.120 Yeah. 357 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:50.360 But anyway, Uh, the point, the point is, so, by 358 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:52.960 the way, that isn't that a typical response. You're using 359 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:55.440 your imagination. I'm referring to a movie. 360 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:58.440 Well, I grew up with books and you grew up 361 00:16:58.440 --> 00:16:58.840 with the movies. 362 00:16:58.919 --> 00:16:59.720 That's right, that's right. 363 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:05.640 So anyway, the point is is that there's this realization, 364 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:10.640 there's this coming to themselves moment where they say, we're 365 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:11.559 not doing what is right. 366 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:14.759 This is not right. We have good news that needs 367 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:15.000 to be. 368 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:16.359 Shared, and we're not sharing it. 369 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:19.440 We're not sharing it because there's literally a whole city 370 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:20.920 of people who. 371 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:21.400 Are not us. 372 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:25.160 There are other people, right, and they're the people that 373 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:27.720 you know, outcast us from the city. They are the 374 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.960 people that didn't let us in, right, But they are 375 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:32.759 also the people that they beg from, and I'm sure 376 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:35.920 that they received things from. So in other words, what 377 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:39.400 I'm saying is is that they had compassion on people 378 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.720 even though they were excommunity from the city, and they said, 379 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:46.519 these people deserve to hear this good news. And so 380 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:49.880 the outline that I wrote for you was about evangelism. 381 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:53.880 It was about sharing the good news of Christ, because 382 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:56.839 you know, there are people around the world that don't 383 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:01.200 know yet the name of Jesus. They don't know that 384 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:04.200 Jesus died for them on the cross and rose again 385 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.279 from them to pay their sins. There are people around 386 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:10.160 the world that don't know that God loves them radically, 387 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:13.279 not because of the hoops they jump through, but in 388 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:17.400 spite of their sins. And so you know, we, just 389 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:20.799 like the four Lepers, have this wealth of knowledge. We 390 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:24.759 have this great information and just this revelation that they have. 391 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:26.960 They come to themselves and say, we are not doing 392 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.200 what is right. We have this great store of wealth 393 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:36.519 and life literally life literally right like food, water, it's life. 394 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:40.759 And so we need to go back to the city and. 395 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:42.839 We need to share this good news so that they 396 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.400 can enjoy and have the benefits of life. 397 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:46.599 And that's us. 398 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.319 We have the good news of Christ, right, and so 399 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:52.920 we need to go back and we need to tell 400 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:55.200 as many people as we can about this good news 401 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:57.480