WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:15.480 Good morning everybody. It is Friday, and what else? Fourth 5 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:15.960 of July? 6 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.399 Sure, we blow up stuff to celebrate peace. 7 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:23.879 Hey, guess what right now? Right now, I am at. 8 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.039 The airport are well, while we're doing this, we will 9 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:27.839 this is going to be aired. 10 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:28.640 Yeah, where are you going? 11 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:31.320 I'm actually flying on the fourth of July, which is 12 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.439 crazy to the Dominican Republic. 13 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:34.719 I'm taking my son over there. 14 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:38.079 Yeah, I man, I'm going to Uh, he's gonna come 15 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.159 look at the ministry over there with Anti sex Draftking 16 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:42.399 transform one transform one. 17 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:44.960 Yeah, fantastic, which is so cool. Yeah that is cool. 18 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:46.560 Good for you. Yeah, I hope you guys have a 19 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:47.039 safe trimp. 20 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.759 And so I told Liz, I said, hey, because we're 21 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:53.399 leaving on the fourth of July, we need to view 22 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:57.719 all of our fireworks beforehand, right, Okay, So I need 23 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.280 to make sure that I see a firework show. So 24 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:02.439 I think we might go back to Greenfield Village. 25 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:05.359 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah with the Troit Symphony. Yeah, I 26 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:07.719 love it. I played I played in fifteen of those. 27 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:08.840 Yeah, it's great. 28 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:11.760 I love it. I thought it was great. It was 29 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.400 the symphony and then you had the fireworks show afterwards. 30 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:15.120 I thought it was great. 31 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:17.959 It's one of my favorites. The fireworks show is not 32 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:20.480 the best fireworks show, but when you put it all together, 33 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.519 it's great. I thought it's always great. Usually about ten 34 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.120 thousand and fifteen thousand people there. 35 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:26.799 Yeah, it's definitely crowded. 36 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:28.439 I think we're going to go. We're going to go 37 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.680 back there. If you've never been Greenfield Village, you should go. 38 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:33.799 It's the largest outdoor museum in the world. 39 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:34.560 Yes, it is. 40 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.599 You know, that's really on Henry Ford's old property, his 41 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:38.159 oldest state. 42 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:38.599 Yeah. 43 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.200 That's really awesome and it's pretty fantastic. So, yeah, that's cool. 44 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.439 So Des wants us to do it, says Happy Fourth 45 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:47.719 of July. It's story Time. That's the name of the segment, 46 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:48.239 story Time. 47 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:48.719 It's fun. 48 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.680 Happy Fourth of July. As guys, you two must have 49 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.079 some crazy experiences with fireworks. Yeah, tell some of your 50 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:56.920 favorite Fourth of July stories. 51 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:58.480 Okay, I have one. 52 00:01:58.799 --> 00:01:59.079 Tell me. 53 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:03.560 So. When I was sixteen, I was on a double 54 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.120 date with my best buddy Jeff Miller. 55 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:09.400 And I was dating Sharon and he was dating Julie. 56 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:10.719 So the four of us were riding around in my 57 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.439 nineteen seventy seven chavette and we pulled over and we 58 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:18.319 bought fireworks. And you know how it is like, so 59 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:20.639 Jeff's at his table buying whatever he wants to buy, 60 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.080 Sharon's at her table buying, and I'm at my table. 61 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.520 So all of us just grab what we think is great. 62 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:29.840 We get together and we start, you know, driving, and 63 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.560 somebody says like, hey, let's pull over and let's you know, 64 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:35.520 blow a few of these off. Well, I reached into 65 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.840 the bag and it was like Jeff's bag, and I 66 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:43.159 pulled out what I thought was a smoke bomb. Have 67 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:44.080 you ever had a smoke bomb? 68 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:44.599 Yes? 69 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:46.800 So smoke bomb is round, yeah. 70 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:47.759 And it's just like a it looks like a like 71 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.680 a red cherry or like a super rubber bull, right, 72 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:51.120 and it. 73 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:54.280 Has a long wick in it, and all it does 74 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:55.599 is where. 75 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:58.280 The wick is. When the wick goes in, it blows 76 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:02.439 out smoke. So you could hold a smoke bomb, right, 77 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.199 you could actually light it. It goes in and then 78 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.400 you know, then then the smoke blows out, and so 79 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:09.280 you can just walk around with a smoke bomb. Now, 80 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:10.439 I don't recommend. 81 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:11.800 It should not that you should not do that. 82 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.919 It is it gets hot and uh and and it's 83 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.800 dangerous and uh, you definitely don't want to do that, 84 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:23.800 especially if if what I'm about to tell you happens. Okay, 85 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:25.919 because I was not holding a smoke bom. I was 86 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:32.080 holding a cherry bomb, which is half the strength of. 87 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.439 An M eight. 88 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.000 AM eight is a quarter stick of dynamite, right right, 89 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:38.280 So this is like half the strength of an M eight. 90 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.360 So this has the ability to blow. 91 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:47.199 Up your fingers, all your fingers right now, if you 92 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.879 hold a firecracker in your palm of your hand and 93 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.439 you blow it off, you just have a burnt hand. 94 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:56.400 But if you were to enclose a firecracker, you blow 95 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:00.319 off your fingers. Okay, I was, and this is much much, 96 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.199 much greater than a firecracker. I was holding it like 97 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.960 a like I would hold this coffee cup like this, right, 98 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.280 I was holding it like this, so they were touching 99 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:11.719 all of my fingers, but I wasn't then closing it. Right, 100 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:14.960 So I'm holding this eighth of a stick of dynamite. 101 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.079 I blow it and I go, hey, everybody, look at this, 102 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:19.600 and it goes off, boom, and it just blows up. 103 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:22.319 I do not know how to this day, other than 104 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:25.120 the angels of God, the grace of God, the mercy 105 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:25.600 of God. 106 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:27.399 I should have. 107 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.240 No fingers on my right hand. I really shouldn't because 108 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:33.639 that is so powerful. But this thing blew and actually 109 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.959 a piece of it hit my eyelid, and thank God, 110 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:39.920 I closed my eyelid because it hit my eyelid and 111 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:44.639 my entire eye immediately swelled up and it burned, and 112 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:48.279 it was white and puffy like I'd experienced a third 113 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.439 degree burn. Right, So it hits my eye, I closed 114 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:55.560 my eye. I barely save my eyeball and somehow I 115 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.279 don't hurt any of my hand, even though my hand 116 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.600 felt numb. And so immediately when it goes off, I 117 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.079 fall down to the ground, I you know, writhe in pain. 118 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.000 And then and then they take me to the emergency 119 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:10.639 room and it turns out. 120 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:11.399 That I was spared. 121 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:14.399 Well, don't let this happen to you, kids, right, do 122 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:18.279 not don't do it. Don't do it. What's the best 123 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:20.079 fireworks show you've ever been to? 124 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:21.879 Probably? 125 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:24.079 Stone Mountain, Georgia, Stone Mountain, Georgia. 126 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:25.360 Yeah, Stone Mountain Georgia. 127 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:26.959 We we used to. 128 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.800 Go there, right, we used to well, I mean it's 129 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:35.360 turned into one, but we've we definitely used to spend 130 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.480 multiple and when I made multiple at least ten ten 131 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:42.639 Fourth of July, well, let's just say at least seven, 132 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:44.319 I think seven out of the ten years that we 133 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.079 lived there, I think we went to Stone Mountain, Georgia, 134 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:49.879 and it was it's just an unbelievable thing. There's ten 135 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.000 thousand people, same thing. But they do a laser show 136 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.120 on the side of the mountain and u and with fireworks, 137 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.879 and it's by far the best environment I've ever been in. 138 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:01.439 We did a number of years ago. We were in 139 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:04.040 New York City for Fourth of July. Oh, and so 140 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:07.120 we went down sat on the Hudson River and watched 141 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.120 all the bar just shoot off fireworks with the Statue 142 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:11.639 of Liberty behind it. Wow, that was kind of cool. 143 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:16.079 Yeah, that winds Statue of Liberty, Yeah, which is the 144 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:17.120 symbol of our freedom. 145 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:18.680 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. 146 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.920 Yeah, that's pretty interesting. Did you also know that the 147 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:27.160 fireworks in the airs they were created to represent the 148 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:30.319 bombs bursting in air like in our nationally Yeah. Yeah, 149 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:32.160 when they said, you know, the bombs bursting of. 150 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:35.519 The Chinese a thousand years ago, thought we should make 151 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:36.720 these things blow up. 152 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:38.000 No no, no, no, no. 153 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.120 What I'm the Americans write their song. 154 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:44.319 What I'm saying is when the Fourth of July happened 155 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.959 and when fireworks were attached to it on its very 156 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:48.800 first fourth of July. 157 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:51.279 I see this statement was made, you can google this. 158 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:53.920 I don't know who was seventeen seventy six. Would that 159 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.000 be as our founding forefathers? 160 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:57.199 Right? 161 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:58.879 Sure, But whenever fireworks came. 162 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:02.879 Onto the scene, the statement was made that it reminded 163 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:05.519 them of the bombs bursting and air giving proofs of 164 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:06.680 the night that our flyer was still there. 165 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:11.720 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, well so the uh yeah, it 166 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:14.480 probably would have been after seventeen seventy six, for that 167 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.240 song was written in eighteen twelve. 168 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.399 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, fireworks. 169 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.240 It would have been in the early history of our country. 170 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:23.439 Fireworks probably came many years later. 171 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:26.399 Yeah right. Fireworks always been popular. I mean Gandalf was 172 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:31.439 shooting them off with the with the Hobbits, so they've 173 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:35.600 been around a while, sure for sure. Well cool, Well, 174 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.199 I hope everybody has an amazing Wait. 175 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:39.680 A minute, you didn't have an amazing story. 176 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:41.040 Yeah, I told you that I got to watch the 177 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.360 fireworks with the Do you want me to tell firework story? 178 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.279 Well, I mean I had an actual story. Yeah, R 179 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:47.639 at a time, R at a time. 180 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:48.879 Now you took up all the time. 181 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.519 No, you Instead you asked me what was my favorite 182 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:52.279 fireworks venue? 183 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:52.560 Oh? 184 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.360 Okay, you could have told an actual story. 185 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:56.720 It's okay, here's the fireworks I love. Is this right here? 186 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:57.360 That's it? 187 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:58.120 That's what I love. 188 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:05.920 Come on, Jeff, hey, you know speaking of friction and fireworks. 189 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.680 Works explosive statements. 190 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.079 Yes, explosive statements. 191 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.480 There was another explosive statement given by Jesus, go and 192 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:15.399 sell everything you have, which I reference to. 193 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:17.759 Your reference yesterday. Thanks for ruining it for us today. 194 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.160 No, it was a prelude. 195 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:19.639 Prelude. 196 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:22.240 It was a previous sneak peek in the world sneak 197 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:24.680 Jesus asks you to sell everything you have. 198 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.600 Yeaheah, it was a trailer. I have a cough today, 199 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:29.399 Sorry about that. 200 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.440 Yeah, well, hey, listen, today is going to be an 201 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:34.320 incredible challenging day as well. 202 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:37.519 Luke eighteen, verse number eighteen. 203 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:40.240 And here's what it says. Once a religious leader asked 204 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.360 Jesus this question, good teacher, what should I do to 205 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:46.679 inherit eternal life? Why do you call me good? Jesus 206 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:49.519 asked him. Only God is truly good. But to answer 207 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:52.279 your question, you know the commandments. You must not commit adultery, 208 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.559 you must not murder, you must not seal, you must 209 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.559 not testify falsely, honor your father and mother. Man replied, 210 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:01.759 I've obeyed all these commands. I was young. When Jesus 211 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:04.279 heard this answer, he said, there is still one thing 212 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:08.399 you haven't done. Sell all your possessions, give the money 213 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:10.600 to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. 214 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:13.840 Then come follow me. But when the man heard this, 215 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.320 he became very sad, for he was very rich. When 216 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:20.679 Jesus saw this, he said, how hard it is for 217 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:22.679 the rich to enter the kingdom of God. In fact, 218 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:24.320 it's easier for a camel to go through the eye 219 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:27.159 of a needle than for a rich person to enter 220 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.799 the kingdom of heaven. Those who heard this said, then 221 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.559 who in the world can be saved? He replied, what 222 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.440 is impossible for people is possible with God. Peter said, 223 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:41.000 We've left our homes to follow you. Yes, Jesus replied, 224 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:42.720 and I assure you that everyone who's given up house 225 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.120 or wife, or brothers or parents or children for the 226 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.279 sake of the Kingdom of God will be repaid many 227 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:50.399 times over in this life and will have eternal life 228 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:53.360 in the world to come. Wow. 229 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:58.159 So yesterday I referenced that Jesus quoted the two Greatest 230 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.279 Commandments when in this story. 231 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:02.399 Yes, but it was not the case, is it? 232 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.799 Well it was it was in I think the Matthew 233 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:05.559 six version. 234 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:08.240 Yeah, yeah, oh oh, is that right? Okay, So so 235 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:09.440 it was probably ac quording me. 236 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:10.919 So let me go check it real quick. Ok it 237 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.879 wouldn't it be in Matthew six. Let me see, Yeah, 238 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:14.759 the rich young ruler. 239 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:16.960 M h yeah, that's a good. 240 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:18.799 Let me let me check for you real quick. 241 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.519 Well, while you're doing that, let me read a note 242 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:25.840 from the Ryrie Study Bible. Excuse me, this is the 243 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:29.240 quest This is the Quest Study Bible. I did ryriy 244 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.919 last time. So the question is this, what did Jesus 245 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:35.279 mean by a camel going through the eye of a needle? 246 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:38.519 And it says this. Some have dealt with this verse 247 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.279 ingenuous ingenuous ways. They suggest that the world that the 248 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.720 word camel should have been translated a rope, or that 249 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:49.080 the eye of a needle was a nickname for the 250 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:54.240 low u after hours gate of the Wall of Jerusalem. Uh, 251 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:58.639 it probably better. However, it's probably better, however, to see 252 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:06.240 this hyperbole, a figure of speech that exaggerates for emphasis. 253 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.399 Jesus's point is that some things on earth can prevent 254 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:12.720 us from entering the Kingdom of God. His impossible example 255 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:15.840 was meant to raise a note of alarm. Wealth can 256 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:21.000 be dangerous to our spiritual lives. Now I've heard that, 257 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:23.039 by the way, that that the gate the eye of 258 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:25.120 a needle was referring to a gate in Jerusalem. 259 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:26.080 Yeah, you've heard that. 260 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:29.759 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there was a large gate that 261 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:36.000 was one of the main gates into Jerusalem, and they 262 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.840 would close it at night, but it was one of 263 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.720 the main trade route gates, so they would close it 264 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:45.840 at night. So then if traders were coming in late, 265 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.679 there was a smaller door that would open, and it 266 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:53.480 was mostly for just human traffic. And they called it 267 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:55.399 the eye of the needle because you had the big 268 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:58.200 the big gate, and then you had the little door 269 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:00.960 built into the little gate into the big gate, and 270 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:05.960 so people would come through that and traditionally people believe 271 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.759 that that's what Jesus was talking about, because sometimes if 272 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:12.519 a camel came, you know, a caravan came, or a 273 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.600 guy came, and it was late, but they needed to 274 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.720 get into the city, they'd open the door. They'd have 275 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.000 to unload everything off the camel, and then camel we 276 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.320 have to get on his knees and scoot through, barely 277 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:24.320 had enough room to make it through. And you've been 278 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:26.840 around camel's enough, you know, they're really grumpy animals, and 279 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:29.360 you know, just all the complaining, all this stuff. It 280 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.480 was a very difficult thing. You could do it, but 281 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:33.919 it's very difficult. So some people would say that's what 282 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:37.000 Jesus was talking about there, but certainly he's using hyperbole 283 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:39.600 to for sure, Yeah, to make a big deal about it. 284 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:41.519 Do you know that I almost said hyper bowl. 285 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:45.399 Hyperbole when I read Epitome of hyper Epotome of hyper Bowl. 286 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.440 That is so funny, which is Brian Reagan's. 287 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:50.759 One of his comedy comedy special comedy specials. 288 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:54.320 Yeah, because he was talking about the epitome of hyperbole 289 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:56.840 and he calls it the epitome of hyper bowl. 290 00:12:57.200 --> 00:12:59.559 It's really funny. So did you look that up? 291 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.440 Yeah, So I'm looking for the he loved him Yep. 292 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:06.279 Didn't find it yet, Nope. 293 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:09.519 So it would probably be the Mark chapter ten one. 294 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:12.600 You know you can google it, Yeah, I could have yep. 295 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.559 Or I can use the cross references in the Bible 296 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:15.200 read in front of me. 297 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:17.320 Oh yeah, sure. Yeah. Teach people how to do it. 298 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:18.919 Do it the old fashioned. 299 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.279 Way, because it shows you there, how'd you. 300 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:21.600 Earn your money the old fashioned way? 301 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:25.799 I earned it? I earned it? Yes, those were the 302 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.759 old Uh so yeah, it's in Mark chapter ten where 303 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:31.440 he says, looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love 304 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:33.759 for him. Yes, right, and that's there. 305 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.879 Did he say adultery or did he say greatest commandments? 306 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:38.159 Uh? 307 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.919 Yeah, he gave the commandments, which is what adultery and 308 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:42.159 all that. 309 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:44.720 Yeah, okay, so. 310 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:45.399 He didn't summarize the commandments. 311 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:45.879 That's great. 312 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:50.639 Okay, all right, well, either way, we talked about this before, 313 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.159 where it says a certain ruler asked him, good teacher, 314 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:57.200 what must I do to inherit eternal life? And the 315 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:59.480 thing that always perplexed me is Jesus says, why do 316 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:03.600 you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 317 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.720 Do you think that's a lesson? That Jesus sort of 318 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:09.480 perceived in this man's heart because he already thought of 319 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:12.799 himself as perfect, He already thought of himself as being 320 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:16.480 qualified for, you know, the kingdom of Heaven. 321 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.200 I think he was asking, are you acknowledging that I'm God? Oh? 322 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:21.120 You think that's what it is? 323 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:23.480 Yeah, yeah, you're equating me with God? Is that what 324 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.039 you're doing? Huh, That's that's what I think he's doing. 325 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:27.600 Huh. That's interesting. 326 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:31.399 Yeah, yeah, son of a gone. I've never heard anybody 327 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:34.240 say that. So that's a good that's a good take 328 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:34.480 on it. 329 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:35.840 Yeah. 330 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:38.440 You know, sometimes I you're amazed. 331 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.039 Sometimes you're amazed at how I look at the Bible. 332 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:44.279 No, no, although, yes, but that's not what I was 333 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:49.720 thinking of this. Oh okay, Sometimes I get I get 334 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:54.759 a little frustrated that the Bible isn't more self explanatory. 335 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:57.919 You know how Jesus always says for those who have 336 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.600 ears to hear, let them hear right. And sometimes what 337 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.440 he did was he even back then, he acknowledged the 338 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:09.600 fact that he delivered truths that were in parables, and 339 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:13.159 some of them were like hard to understand, and he 340 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:17.799 never I shouldn't say never, he rarely said this is 341 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:18.720 what I'm talking about. 342 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:19.000 Right. 343 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:20.759 They went to him and said, explain the sower and 344 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:23.399 the seed. They didn't understand, and he's like, are. 345 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:23.919 You so dull? 346 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:25.960 And then what he say, Okay, let me break it 347 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:29.639 down for you. Right, the rocky path, the soil, you know, 348 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:33.320 the thorns, and he literally explained everything. 349 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:35.519 But sometimes he didn't do that right. 350 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:37.559 Just just like the other day we were talking about, 351 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:40.320 you know, the flesh and the blood, right, drink it. 352 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:40.559 You know. 353 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:43.799 It's just like, sometimes I get a little flustered that 354 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.799 the Bible isn't just a little more self explanatory because 355 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:49.639 it says, well, what do you mean by that, good teacher? 356 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:50.519 Why do you call me good? 357 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:53.879 I almost wish that Jesus would have explained why did 358 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:54.360 he say that? 359 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:56.919 I think it's interesting. I just just read the note 360 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.120 in the Life Application Study Bible, yeah about that, and 361 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.080 it says Jesus response, the leader who came to him 362 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:05.399 and called him good teacher was in essence, do you 363 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:08.639 know who I am? Undoubtedly the man did not catch 364 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:11.519 the implications of Jesus reply that the man was correct 365 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.120 and calling him good because Jesus truly is God. Yeah, 366 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:18.159 so that's that's their take on it also, which is interesting. 367 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:21.080 Yeah, so you have the same take as. 368 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:22.639 Yeah, I could have written these all the Scotts. I 369 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.360 could have written all. 370 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:25.200 The scholars of the Bible. 371 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:28.840 I told you that that our longtime listeners are like, no, 372 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:30.320 you couldn't, Jeff, Yeah. 373 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:32.679 I told you about that when I was at Billy Graham, 374 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:34.720 when I was at the Crusade, and. 375 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:35.919 You had the same answers. 376 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:38.120 I had the same answer as Billy Graham. So we 377 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:41.279 were in ten seconds. We were at what do you 378 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.399 call those promise keepers? Remember back in the day, I 379 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:48.720 was at the Atlanta So the Atlanta Fulton County Stadium 380 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:53.440 was just huge and sixty thousand people, And so the 381 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.240 coach asked, if you want to be known for one thing, 382 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:58.000 what could it be. We broke up in a group 383 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:01.600 of like twenty and every my said something different and 384 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:03.320 and and my pastor said, I want to be known 385 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:05.519 as an evangelist, and I thought, well, that's good. And 386 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:06.960 then my worship leader said I want to be known 387 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:09.839 as a worship person. I thought, man, that's good, but 388 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:12.319 like it doesn't feel encompassing enough. And so finally when 389 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:14.119 it hit me, I thought I got it. I want 390 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.680 to be found faithful because that encompasses every aspect of life. 391 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:18.920 And when I get to the end of my life, 392 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:21.000 I want to be found faithful in my marriage because 393 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:22.559 you know, I come from a family that wasn't. 394 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:24.480 I want to be found faithful in. 395 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:26.480 My walk with Christ because so many of my friends weren't. 396 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:28.480 I want to be found faithful in every area of 397 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:31.079 my life. And he says, okay, what were the answers, 398 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.240 and he had everybody shot him out and I didn't 399 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:34.720 hear the word faithful at all. And I thought, I 400 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.519 think I like my answer the best. And then Billy 401 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:39.400