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 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:18.000 Good morning morning, there you talk, dude. 5 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:21.640 That's awesome. 6 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:23.320 Heay, good morning everybody. 7 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.559 We're Christian Jeff and we're the Bible Guys, and we 8 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:29.960 are sitting here just waiting for the recording to start 9 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.439 because we just want to be with you so badly today. 10 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:34.719 So excited. And this is one of our favorite segments 11 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.280 that we love. We love these. Now we have not 12 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:40.119 read these, at least I have not. Have you read them? 13 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:44.920 So desiree, our faithful assistant. 14 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:47.399 She signed us of the boss. 15 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:48.920 That's right. We just do what she tells us to 16 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:52.520 do exactly. That's right. She hassigned us these five dad 17 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:54.799 jokes since dad joke competition. Yes, so I have not 18 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:57.840 read mine and you haven't read yours, but let's jump in. Okay, 19 00:00:57.880 --> 00:00:59.719 let's do it grouping. You go first. 20 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.359 Number one, Here we go. I knew a guy who 21 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:07.599 was arrested for stealing hay. Unfortunately he couldn't make bail. 22 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.560 I like a good hay bail joke. That's great. I'm 23 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:14.599 gonna laugh it that way. 24 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:17.920 That's good. I like that. Oh okay, I'm a fan. Yeah. 25 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:19.319 Did you ever do any Hay Bailey? 26 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:19.959 No? 27 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:23.239 Never, Oh boy, I did too much of it. Okay. 28 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.040 My cell phone accidentally took a ten minute video of 29 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:29.560 my shoes yesterday. It was some pretty good footage. 30 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.959 Oh that's pretty good. Actually, that's funny. 31 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:35.719 Have you ever done that? 32 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:36.640 Yeah? 33 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:38.879 Just walk around on your phone recording? 34 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.280 Yes, yes, and I'm not sure about my feet, but yes, 35 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:46.319 all right, here we go. You should always fear a 36 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:50.680 pirate duck. He has the power to unleash the quacken. 37 00:01:54.280 --> 00:02:00.439 That is the strangest joke ever. A pirate duck, unleash 38 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:01.280 the quacking. 39 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.120 Unleash, unleash the kracking. 40 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:05.319 There you go. 41 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:06.799 What's the movie? 42 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:12.039 Uh? I don't remember something about the kracking. 43 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:13.800 It's a Clash of the Titans. 44 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.039 Clash of the Titans. Yes, right. Why should you never 45 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:20.400 take sides in an argument at the dinner table? Trick question? 46 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:22.439 It's the perfect time to take sides because no one's 47 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:23.879 paying attention. Bringked upperware? 48 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:29.520 Oh my, oh my word, how random? 49 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.120 I think it goes to find random dad. 50 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:35.080 I like that one. That's a good one. 51 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:36.960 Yeah, that's good. That's a good one. All right, here 52 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:39.639 we go. Okay, who's winning so far? I think it's 53 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:40.120 pretty tir. 54 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:42.120 I don't know. Yeah, they're kind of tied. Okay, they're 55 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:43.159 all kind of so random. 56 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:43.639 All right. 57 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:45.800 I went to the aquarium this weekend, but I didn't 58 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:48.560 stay long. There's something fishy about that place. O. 59 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:51.520 That one's rough, that's really rough. 60 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:53.599 That was the roughest one. I just let's vote for 61 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:54.840 the roughest one. That's it. 62 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.400 I just went down underneath tie. 63 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.639 My dad told me a joke about boxing. I guess 64 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:05.039 I missed the punchline. That's rough too, that was rough. 65 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:09.120 Man three. Number three for both of us was wow, boy. 66 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:11.280 I gotta be honest with you, though. Mine's worse. Something 67 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.719 about that place. Here we go. 68 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:17.879 What do you call a sheep who can sing and dance? 69 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:24.199 I don't know, lady baba. Oh no, that is worse 70 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:29.639 than the punchline joke. Oh no, Hey, these were great 71 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:30.759 at the beginning. 72 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:34.840 First four, okay, first two, I thought the first yeah, yeah, 73 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:37.360 year two and my two. You think swimming with sharks 74 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:40.680 is expensive? Swinging swimming sharks cost me an arm on 75 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:41.039 a leg. 76 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:43.199 That's rough too. 77 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.479 Man. We're four good ones, four bad ones. 78 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:47.199 Yep, that's right. 79 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.800 Okay, right, all right, okay, here we go. 80 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:52.280 Whoever has the best of these because of the number 81 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:55.080 number five, it's like ty ty ty tie okay, and 82 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:55.919 then who ever wins this? 83 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.680 Okay, okay, here we go. So you're number five against 84 00:03:58.719 --> 00:03:59.400 my number five. 85 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:06.000 I'd like to shout out, wait, oh wow, Okay, here 86 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.759 we go. I'd like to shout out sidewalks for keeping 87 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:10.719 me off the streets. 88 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:15.439 That's clever. I'd like to give a shout out to 89 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.399 sidewalks taking me out, it. 90 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:18.920 Says, I'd like to shout out sidewalk. 91 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.120 Yeah, it'd be like i'd like to give Yeah, I 92 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:24.399 just I just read it, like it. Okay, my number 93 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:28.199 five is I like telling dad jokes sometimes, he laughs. 94 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.360 Okay, I think yours. You like mine? 95 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.600 Yeah, I was gonna like yours keeping off the streets. Okay, 96 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:36.160 Well that's good. 97 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:37.439 I like telling dad jokes. 98 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:39.800 Okay. I feel like it just came to a full 99 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:40.839 on tie today. 100 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:42.240 Okay, Well let's do for that. 101 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:44.240 All right, that's what we're gonna both say. 102 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:47.600 Vote okay and desiree, thank you for that roller coaster 103 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.240 of a journey, maybe on purpose. 104 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:52.120 Yes, ties and lows and then bring us back to 105 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:52.600 the middle. 106 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:55.040 She's making it, you know, with somebody who knows. Maybe 107 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.279 she's using Ai who knows. But here's what she's doing. 108 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.399 She's like, Oh, this is gonna be hilariou these are 109 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.399 going to be so bad. Yes, I want to see 110 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:03.040 Jeff's reaction. 111 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:04.120 Bad dad jokes. 112 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:07.560 Great there, well, speaking of. 113 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:15.800 Dads, yes, God the father is setting in motion something 114 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:16.439 for his son. 115 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:17.040 Wow. 116 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.240 In Isaiah chapter. 117 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.720 Forty, okay, actually, wait a minute, that's not today, that's 118 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:23.279 fifty three. 119 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:28.800 Yeah, Isaiah forty is not speaking of dads. My dad's 120 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.199 better than your dad. The ultimate chapter is probably Isaiah forty. 121 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.680 Oh yes, oh, there you go the hole my dad, 122 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:37.519 your dad. My dad's better than your dad. My dad's 123 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:39.319 tough and your dad. My dad's big and your dad. Yeah, 124 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:41.120 well that's kind of what's happening here, just a little 125 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:42.839 bit in Isaiah chapter forty. 126 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:44.240 All right, so I got there. 127 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.680 Let's pick up with Isaiah forty and we're going to 128 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:50.920 go Isaiah forty twelve through thirty one. Now, at this 129 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.040 point we're coming towards the end of Isaiah's life in 130 00:05:54.079 --> 00:06:00.120 his ministry, and uh, he's for telling the events of 131 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.439 what it's going to be like after Judah is carried 132 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:07.040 off by Assyria, and how God is going to begin 133 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.120 because prior to this he's been talking, Hey, God's bringing 134 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:11.959 judgment on you, and you're going to be hauled away. 135 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:16.279 Assyrians are going to defeat you, and the Babylonians are 136 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.399 going to wipe you out coming later. Right, That's what 137 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:23.920 Micah tell us about. But then once that happens, Isaiah 138 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.279 starts writing about the fact that God hasn't forgotten about you, right, right, 139 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:29.600 And God's going to love you and take care of you. 140 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:31.720 And so by the time you get to Isaiah chapter forty, 141 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.279 in verse twelve, it says, who else has held the 142 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:37.240 oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens 143 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.000 with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth, 144 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:42.399 or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale? 145 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.120 Who's able to advise the spirit of the Lord? Who 146 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.959 knows enough to give him advice or teach him? Has 147 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:52.120 the Lord ever needed anyone's advice? Does he need instruction 148 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.439 about what is good? Does someone teach him what is 149 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.519 right or show him the path of justice? No, For 150 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.680 all the nations of the world are but a drop 151 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.959 in the They are nothing more than dust on the scales. 152 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:05.000 He picks up the whole earth as though it were 153 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:08.720 a grain of sand. All the wood and Lebanon's forces, 154 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.000 and all Lebanon's animals would not be enough to make 155 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.920 a burnt offering worthy of our God. The nations of 156 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.480 the world are nothing to him. In his eyes, They 157 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:20.120 count for less than nothing, mere emptiness and froth. To 158 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:23.040 whom can you compare God? What image can you find 159 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:25.639 to resemble him? Can he be compared to an idol 160 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:27.920 formed in a mold overlaid with gold and covered with 161 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:31.240 silver chains? Or if the people were too poor for that, 162 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:34.160 they might at least choose wood that won't decay and 163 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:36.720 a skilled craftsman to carve an image that won't fall down. 164 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:40.199 Haven't you heard? Don't you understand? Are you deaf to 165 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.480 the words of God, the words he gave before the 166 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.480 world began? Are you so ignorant? God sits above the 167 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:49.040 circle of the earth. The people below seem like grasshoppers 168 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.319 to him. He spreads out the heavens like a curtain 169 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:54.000 and makes his tent from them. He judges the great 170 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.439 people of the world and brings them all to nothing. 171 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.560 They hardly get started, barely taking root. When he blows 172 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.439 on them, they wither. The wind carries them off like chaff. 173 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:06.040 To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal? 174 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:09.199 Asks the Holy One? Look up into the heavens, who 175 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:12.199 created all the stars. He brings them out like an army, 176 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:14.680 one after another, calling each by its name. Because of 177 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:18.040 his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one 178 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:21.439 is missing. Oh Jacob, how can you say the Lord 179 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:23.600 does not see your troubles? Oh Israel, how can you 180 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.600 say God ignores your rights? Have you never heard? Have 181 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:29.959 you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the 182 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.000 creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. 183 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.840 No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He 184 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.720 gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. 185 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.879 Even the youths will become weak and tired, and young 186 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:44.840 men will fall in exhaustion. But those who trust in 187 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.519 the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high 188 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:50.639 on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary, 189 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:52.440 and they will walk and not faint. 190 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:59.879 Yeah, so, Isaiah forty thirty one. For many, many years 191 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:04.159 was my verse. It wasn't my life verse, but it 192 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.039 was like a verse that I always kept in. 193 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:08.440 My little bookmark in my Bible. I had it on 194 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:12.120 my keychain, I had it on a little card on 195 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:15.919 my mirror. I just loved that verse, and still do obviously. 196 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.039 But after a while, you know, you're like, Okay, come on, 197 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:20.639 enough of Isaiah forty thirty one. 198 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.279 Wow, you know so, yeah, sick of it? 199 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:25.480 Yeah, I'm sick of that verse. Yeah. 200 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:28.919 Wow, obviously, but God's left it in the Bible for 201 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:30.519 twenty seven hundred years. 202 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:32.840 Yeah it's important, yeah, a little bit. 203 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.320 But anyway, Isaiah forty thirty one is obviously a very popular. 204 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.480 Uh verse, but those who trust in the Lord will 205 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:44.200 find new strength. They were sore, high on wings like eagles. 206 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.120 They were running oku weary they walk and not faint. 207 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.960 Uh and uh those who trust in the Lord. Now 208 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.360 another version would say those who wait on the Lord. 209 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:56.840 Right. And the version that I learned was weight on 210 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:57.240 the Lord. 211 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:01.360 And what's interesting about that is that there were two 212 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:04.679 interpretations or definitions of the word wait. 213 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:05.720 Did you know this? 214 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:11.440 The original language could be interpreted as weights as waiting 215 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:14.159 and timing, but I could also be wait, as in 216 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:17.639 a waiter waits on you, right. So it's so I 217 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:21.039 thought I found that very interesting because those who wait 218 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:22.720 upon the Lord shall renew their strength. 219 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:23.879 Uh it. 220 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:27.639 You know, we don't really know how you know, the 221 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.840 writer interpreted it. Maybe the writer wanted both meetings to 222 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:33.720 be true. But you know, as you wait on the 223 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:36.000 Lord and it's timing, the best thing to do is 224 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.039 to serve the Lord, right, right, So so I think 225 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:39.559 about that. 226 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.639 With keep serving while you're waiting, Yes, keep waiting while 227 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:43.120 you're waiting. 228 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:47.159 Yes, wait wait while you wait, right because because it's like, 229 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.399 you know, we we wonder about. 230 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.960 God's timing so much of the time in our lives, and. 231 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.480 We're waiting for him to, you know, whatever whatever it 232 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:56.120 is that we're praying for, whatever it is that we're 233 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:59.600 waiting for, you know, unfolding. There's a lot of people 234 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.639 they questioned God's timing. They're like, God, what you know, 235 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.639 this isn't the timing. My life right now is playing 236 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:08.120 out in different timing than I wanted it to be 237 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:10.399 played out. So what should I do? And so great 238 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.399 advice is wait on the Lord. He's not going to 239 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.720 let you down. He's going to bring about, you know, 240 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:20.399 great things when he brings it about. So instead of 241 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.960 just being impatient, just continue to serve him and wait 242 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.840 on him as we wait on him. And what great advice. 243 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:32.399 Yeah, that that idea of waiting and waiting, you know, 244 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:36.159 the serving side of waiting and then the patient's side 245 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:40.279 of waiting, I think is incredibly difficult for us. But 246 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:43.399 there was this idea. I can remember. I had a 247 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.639 professor who challenged me. I think it was in my 248 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:52.720 I repeated my sophomore year in college because I left. 249 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:54.159 I got kicked out of one school and had to 250 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.879 go to another school. So I had to remake some 251 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:00.480 classes that didn't transfer between the two schools. And it 252 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:02.480 was a prank. I thought it was funny. They didn't 253 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:05.799 but anyways cost me a lot, cost me a scholarship, 254 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.559 all those things. I've told that story before. But so 255 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.000 I was redoing some classes. I had a professor who 256 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:14.519 challenged me, and he said, listen, there's two ways to 257 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:17.639 look at your preparation. You can think that you are 258 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:20.639 preparing to eventually go into ministry, or you can prepare 259 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:23.799 while you're in ministry. And he said, I think that 260 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:25.679 the best way for you to live your life is 261 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:28.399 to start. Because you know you're tempted to think of 262 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.480 yourself as a student, and as a student, then your 263 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.360 free time, the way that you're doing your life, you're 264 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:38.159 not taking your ministry seriously, and that might be, you know, 265 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:41.960 part of your thing. So be in ministry while you're 266 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:46.360 preparing for ministry, right, And which is great advice, right, 267 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.480 be the man while you're trying to become the man 268 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:51.120 is kind of the idea, right, act like the person 269 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:52.720 you want to be, right someday. 270 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:56.240 And so if you're practicing to be a chef, cook, yeah, 271 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:58.159 that's right, just continue. 272 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:01.279 To don't just read books about cooking, right whatever, don't 273 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:04.720 just sit in classes about cooking. Become a cook, right, cook. 274 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.080 And it's kind of the same here that if you 275 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.720 want to serve the Lord someday, if you want God's 276 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.600 blessing on your life someday, start living like you're serving 277 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:15.840 the Lord today and living in God's blessing today. Right. 278 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.240 That's that's kind of the flip side of those two things, 279 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.240 because he said, hey, listen, in real life, how it 280 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:26.879 works out. Even young people when they are hitting a 281 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.120 wall emotionally or spiritually, they lose their strength. Even young 282 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.759 people run out of gas at a certain point. And 283 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:35.440 he said but you need to wait on the Lord. 284 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:37.399 You need to be trusting the Lord, you need to 285 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.240 be serving the Lord. And when you're doing those things, 286 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.759 the both sides of that waiting on the Lord, he said, 287 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:45.840 that's when God's going to give you the wings to soar. 288 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.159 And so we tend to think, God, I need you 289 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:51.840 to do a miracle and then I'll serve you. And 290 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:53.960 God's like, do it, serve me and I'll do a 291 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:56.440 miracle in you, right, and that's when you're going to 292 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:56.960 really soar. 293 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:58.039 Yeah, that's great. 294 00:13:58.080 --> 00:13:59.600 I love it. I love that whole thing. And by 295 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:01.879 the way, hey, the way that Isaiah just spent the 296 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:05.360 last twenty nine verses telling us how great God is. Yeah, 297 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:07.080 he seems like he's worth serving, don't you think? 298 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.399 Oh yeah, sure, big fan, big fan, big fan, big fan. 299 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:16.720 So do you not think of Maybe you don't. But 300 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:18.960 I can't get the song on my mind because my 301 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:23.840 redeemer lives. Oh yeah, yeah yeah. So the verse twelve 302 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.639 is where you started. Who else has held the ocean 303 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:29.159 in his hands? That's one of the lines in the song. 304 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:33.120 Right, no, my redeem. 305 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:34.600 There you go. 306 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:36.559 It's that song, right, People love it when you sing 307 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.360 and well, I'm just saying that's the song, right, So 308 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:47.000 and so the verses in there are just amazing, and 309 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:50.759 they're just great verses. Who has held the oceans in 310 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.200 his hands? In other words, what that chapter is saying 311 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:57.200 is it's saying, go ahead, pick a god, Pick a 312 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.720 god that exists among the earth that is greater than 313 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:01.360 our because there is none. 314 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:03.759 There's there's no offering that you can make. 315 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:07.600 You can burn every tree on the planet and every nation, 316 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:08.720 it won't be big enough. 317 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.480 Right, He's held the oceans in his hands. He spoke 318 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:16.960 before creation. Right, Are you deaf? Are you dumb? That's 319 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:21.279 what it says. Have you not heard? And the picture 320 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:22.759 is unbelievable. 321 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.759 He calls the stars out like an army, and it's 322 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:30.279 a vast army of infinity, and he knows every single 323 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:32.039 one of them and calls them by name. 324 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:33.720 It's like, who can do that? 325 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.240 We are still not able to see all the stars? 326 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:36.919 No? 327 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:39.279 Right, right, We're still looking out trying to be able 328 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:42.159 to yes, and God just marches them out like his army, 329 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:43.120 naming them by name. 330 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:45.639 Now, did I tell you? Did I ever tell you that? 331 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:51.559 Luis Giglio gave me the perspective about life on other planets. 332 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:54.879 I know it sounds random, but it's not. 333 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:59.320 He gave me the perspective that forever changed my thinking. 334 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:03.120 So what people always say is their life and other planets, 335 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:06.320 and there's been no proof, even though the government, you know, 336 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:09.159 had a couple of guys recently sit on some you know, 337 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.919 testimony witnesses and said, yeah, there's evidence of something, and 338 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:14.360 you know whatever, I don't know. 339 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:15.080 Whatever do you. 340 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:16.440 Watch so many YouTube videos? 341 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.360 Well that was sort of a national thing. That was 342 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:22.519 sort of a national thing, right anyway. So the point 343 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.639 is is that whenever you consider life and other planets, 344 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.080 I think the argument is is there room in the 345 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.559 Bible for life and other planets? Now, it does say 346 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.399 in Genesis chapter one that God created the planets and 347 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.919 the hosts of them plural, So I think there's room 348 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.559 for that. But until I see an alien, you know, 349 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:47.759 in the flesh, I'm not going to believe it. I'm 350 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:48.480 just not going to do it. 351 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:50.000 So then people always. 352 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.279 Say, well, wait a minute, there has to be you're 353 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.360 sort of a fool if you think that this entire 354 00:16:55.440 --> 00:17:00.960 universe exists and life doesn't exist outside of this world, 355 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:03.840 And it's sort of a big controversy, how can God 356 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:07.880 create or how can it be created without life? It'd 357 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.160 be so self centered to think we're the only things 358 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:10.640 that exist. 359 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:11.839 That's just ludicrous. 360 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:14.200 And so Lui Gigli at one time addressed this entire 361 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:19.079 argument by saying this, what if God created the universe 362 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:23.160 to demonstrate his greatness, just to remind us of how 363 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:26.200 big he is and how small we are? Because, after all, 364 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.000 that's what God did. God in his creation, even on 365 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.640 the planet, has demonstrated how big he is and how 366 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:35.839 small we are. So what if God created the universe 367 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:39.920 because how big can he have to create something to 368 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.079 demonstrate his greatness? I mean, the universe still wouldn't be 369 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:46.160 big enough to demonstrate his greatness, right, So what if 370 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:51.119 it's one big billboard to show us that we are 371 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.519 his prized creation and that He is just so vast 372 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:56.359 and to remind us how much. 373 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.119 We are in need of and are dependent upon him. 374 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:02.519 And if you think of the creation that way, it 375 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:03.960 makes sense, doesn't it. 376 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.559 Well, yeah, Romans tells us that there there's multiple places 377 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:08.759 in the Bible that say the heavens declare the glory 378 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:12.480 of the Lord. That's literally, the heavens are and it 379 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:14.400 was talking about the heavens is talking about space. It's 380 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.880 not talking about the place heaven is talking about heavens. 381 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:21.920 It's talking about space. All of creation is there as 382 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.480 a billboard that God exists. That's right, That's that's what 383 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:24.960 it's about. 384 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:27.079 And did you did you also catch that it says 385 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:28.119 the circle of the earth? 386 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:28.880 Yes? 387 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.000 Do you think that that's uh, that's a nod to science. 388 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:38.039 Before well in in Columbus's day and a couple of 389 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:41.000 those other scientists from that time. This was one of 390 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.279 the passages they pointed to against the Catholic Church saying 391 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:46.920 that they believe the world was round. Was this, There's 392 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:47.839 there's another one, but. 393 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:50.319 This is this is when the Catholic Church thought flat. 394 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:53.079 I thought I thought it was flat at the Yeah, yep, 395 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:55.480 so that was that I would push back on the 396 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:58.000 on the use of the hosts of them? Oh yeah, 397 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:00.240 yeah yeah. So so the Bible in the King James. 398 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:01.960 So it's the King James that uses the word hosts. 399 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:05.839 It also calls the God the lord of hosts. It's 400 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:09.279 a military term, just like this one where it says 401 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:11.519