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 --> 00:00:14.240 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible guys. 4 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:15.720 Wow, you're feeling spunky today. 5 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:17.559 Well, you know what, it's a brand new day, Jeff 6 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:18.480 and a brand new Chris. 7 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:21.160 Yeah, brand new Chris. Oh good? This son of you interesting? 8 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:23.719 You know he makes mercies new every day. 9 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:25.800 Yeah, who does the new Chris? 10 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:26.600 No the Lord? 11 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.719 Oh? Okay for Chris, okay, excellent. 12 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.280 Yeah. So anyway, today we're in the middle of a series. Well, 13 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.119 the whole series is the promises of God laid out 14 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:39.960 in different contexts, and so today we're actually the whole 15 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:42.039 week is we're covering verses on God's power. 16 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:43.640 Yeahs our line. 17 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:44.560 Yeah, it's really good. 18 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:45.880 It's a good one. I've enjoyed it so far. 19 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:48.039 I have very much. So I'm a big fan. 20 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:51.880 You stole that from me, Yes, of course I did. 21 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:53.520 I trademarked that, so you owe me money now. 22 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.079 Imitation is the best form of flatter Jeff, are you no? 23 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:56.479 Thank you? 24 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.240 How do you imitate me in any way? You tried? 25 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:00.719 You said the way of us balloons. 26 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:02.880 I tried to tried to earlier this week. 27 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:04.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I shot you down. 28 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:06.920 It didn't work, I know, Yeah, terrible. 29 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:11.640 Sorry about that. Hey, So Desiree has a segment and 30 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:15.840 and this segment is very popular and it's called mail Bad. 31 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:18.200 Oh do it ready? 32 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:19.560 Mail Bad? 33 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:21.439 There you go pretty good. 34 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.120 So little harmony there, Jeff, That's what I was trying 35 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:26.760 to do. And so it says this, Jeff, this is 36 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:31.239 a question for you. Have you seen Veggietails Lord of 37 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.200 the Beans? Yes, more question mark. Yes, my wife and 38 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.640 I both grew up on vegetails, but neither of us 39 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:38.840 had heard of this Lord of the Ring spin off, 40 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:40.040 so we had to watch it. 41 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.200 Let me just say, when Larry the Cucumber is your photo, 42 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:45.760 the bagins photo, bagans it's going to be a good one. Yeah, 43 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:49.480 for sure, it's awesome. And then not to play spoiler alert, 44 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:54.400 but watching a talking asparagus wrestle with Destiny is pretty incredible. 45 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:58.079 And then he and then he says, also, do you 46 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:01.040 have any suggestions for good shows? Us content to teach 47 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:05.000 our toddler about the Bible, and Jesus not sure if vegietail. 48 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.240 Vegietails is still valid in twenty twenty five. This is 49 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.520 from Zach B, which we forgot to say. Hi, Zac B. 50 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.680 Yeah, I don't know, Zach, Hi Zach B. We're so 51 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.120 glad that you're listening and that you sent in this question. 52 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:23.199 That's great. I don't know if a talking cucumber and 53 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.919 a talking tomato and talking asparagus isn't relevant in twenty 54 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.039 twenty five, was it relevant in nineteen ninety five? 55 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:32.599 Yeah? 56 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:38.599 Well right, I mean three year old toddler's tastes elevated 57 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.680 so much. Yeah, that an old Bob and Larry show 58 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:42.439 isn't going to work. 59 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:44.960 Well, maybe he's referring to the animation is so bad 60 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:46.800 now the kids are pretty judgmental. 61 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.479 Sure, sure, maybe maybe yeah, yeah, Although I don't know 62 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:52.319 three year olds. 63 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.400 I have to be honest. I saw an episode the 64 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:56.879 other day. By the other day, I mean like four 65 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.719 months ago, and I certainly enjoyed. 66 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.680 It, watched it. Yeah, Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't pass 67 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:05.560 over to skip over it just because it's old. I'd 68 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:07.599 use it again. But I think there are some other ones. 69 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.759 Because you and I we saw this question right before. 70 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.800 We don't always do a bunch of study, but I 71 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.319 just wanted to make sure on a couple of things, 72 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:20.520 because like my kids grew up watching the uh you 73 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:21.879 know what was the one that came from Focus on 74 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:23.360 the Family? Do you remember that one? 75 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:27.960 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's talking about 76 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:28.599 but no, I don't know that. 77 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:30.800 Yeah. So they watched a couple and then you had 78 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.599 the Nest Entertainment. My kids had those two. 79 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:34.800 Yep, yep. It started out as Family Entertainment, then went 80 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:35.719 to Nest Entertainment. 81 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:39.360 Yeah. And it was a former Disney ye cartoonist. 82 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:41.400 He worked on the Black Cauldron. 83 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:44.919 And uh and yeah they did a nice job. And 84 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:47.199 though those are all VHS tapes, right, yep, yep. But 85 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:51.560 so the the one that I've downloaded a while back 86 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:53.960 and used with my grandson one time. A few times 87 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:57.759 my daughter was using it is the same U version 88 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.240 app that we always read commended to Christians to download 89 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.159 on your phone or on your iPad or something, which, 90 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:05.120 by the way, they're coming up on a billion downloads 91 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.439 this month on that app. Right, it's the most downloaded 92 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:11.120 Bible app in the world, is you Version, And they're 93 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.400 coming up on a billion and this month, the month 94 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:15.639 of October is the month of the Bible. So that's 95 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:17.160 kind of a neat thing to be a part of that. 96 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.639 And we're big fans of the Bible. Highly recommend it. 97 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:27.199 It's a muth read so so best seller, best seller 98 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:32.600 of all time. But that You Version company that it's 99 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.920 actually a church ministry from Life Church. They have a 100 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.360 kids app and it's I just pulled it up here 101 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:46.079 just a second ago. It's the Bible Adventure by Life 102 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.639 Kids in You Version, right, is what they call that, 103 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.959 and so it's it's an app. It's Bible app for kids. 104 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.319 So if you just search Bible app for kids, it'll 105 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.560 pull it up. It'll be from Life Church from You Version. 106 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.759 I think that's great. They say it's targeted for three 107 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:03.319 to twelve year olds, and so you just kind of 108 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.360 to filter through and find what's appropriate, age appropriate for 109 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:08.519 your kids. And there's some videos in there, and I 110 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.600 remember doing Joan and the Whale with my grandson and 111 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.480 a couple others. And then the other one that we 112 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:17.319 just spent some time looking at is Superbook Kids. That's 113 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:19.519 also an app. You can get it online. Both of 114 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:21.879 those are available just on their website, but if you 115 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:23.439 go to the app, you can get the app. And 116 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.600 super Book Kids has a whole bunch of short form 117 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:31.839 cartoons and the premises. These kids are traveling with kind 118 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:34.560 of a professor guy and a robot through time and 119 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:36.439 they're popping into all these different. 120 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.639 Which is so cool. It's a little robot back in 121 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:39.240 Bible times. 122 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:41.519 Yeah yeah, yeah, And they're popping into these Bible stories 123 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:45.399 and watching the widow dropping in her two mites kind 124 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:47.680 of moment, those kinds of things. It's really really neat. 125 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:52.399 It's pretty captivating. I love those two and they're pretty good. 126 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.079 There's others out there, but those would be two good starters. 127 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.839 Okay, so I will give you a dollar if you 128 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:59.920 can do the next line of this you ready, Yes, 129 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:11.360 if you like to talk with tomatoes, if a squash 130 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:16.639 can make you smile, if you like to waltz with 131 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:24.120 potatoes up and down the produce. Yes, and we have 132 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.000 a shell for you. That is great. 133 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:29.120 There you go. I couldn't remember it. 134 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.879 Yeah. I don't owe you a dollar because you missed day, 135 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:35.360 all right, because I'm a cheap because he's cheap. Well, hey, 136 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.360 that is a great question, Zach. Thanks for writing in, 137 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:42.000 and hope very good can take those suggestions. And I 138 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:43.839 still think that you should give vegetails a shot. 139 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:45.680 I think so too, and add those other two. They're 140 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:47.959 pretty good. And and I want to commend you man 141 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:50.720 to pass your faith on to your children. Yep. It's 142 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:54.399 one of those things Book of Deuteronomy. God says when 143 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:55.959 you get up in the morning, when you lay down 144 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:57.959 at night, when you walk along the way, when you 145 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.839 sit down at the meals, constant, be downloading God's ways 146 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:05.720 in God's truth to your children. Right it's a twenty 147 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:09.000 four hour day thing. Be passing it on. And listen, 148 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:10.920 here's what I know. You might feel like, oh, it's 149 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:12.439 a little silly, or I don't want to drive it 150 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:14.759 down their throat. There's somebody who's going to stay up 151 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.279 until two or three o'clock this morning trying to figure 152 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:19.759 out a way to sell all of the world's garbage 153 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:21.800 to your kids. And they're going to do it day 154 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:23.519 after day after day after day after day. They're going 155 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:25.279 to do it just for money. They're going to pervert 156 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:28.600 your kids. So be diligent, lean into it. And when 157 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:30.680 you can find tools like what you're looking for right now, 158 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.000 whether you're talking about the veggietails thing or the super 159 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.920 book thing or whatever, use them. Use them. And get 160 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.319 your kids loving them. I think it's important. 161 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:41.879 That's great, so good job. 162 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:43.240 Wow, way to go down. 163 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:44.879 I'll tell you what that was A. That was a 164 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.920 I love. I love being reminded of vegetails. It's just 165 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.920 such a great, great thing. You know what else I love? 166 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:53.920 What do you love Isaiah? Chapter foury Oh, me too, 167 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.160 I really do. Yeah, yeah, I love this. I love 168 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.839 this passage that we're about to read Versus eighteen through 169 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:04.199 the end of passage. And it's actually I have a 170 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:08.399 story behind first number thirty Oh good, Yeah, yeah I do. 171 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:13.759 I have thirty one, so excellent, thirty one forty thirty one? 172 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.399 Oh yeah, yeah, well I guess. I guess it's thirty 173 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:16.959 to thirty one. 174 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.439 Oh I claim thirty one. Hey you get thirty? 175 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:20.160 I claim both? 176 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:23.279 No, you didn't, ye thirty Okay. Anyways, here we go. 177 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:25.120 Albs for everybody, Jeff, Yeah, DIBs. 178 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:29.480 Here we go, DIBs. To whom can you compare God? 179 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.200 What image can you find to resemble him? Can he 180 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.720 be compared to an idol formed in a mold overlaid 181 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:38.480 with gold and decorated with silver chains? Or if people 182 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:40.960 are too poor for that, they might at least choose 183 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:43.919 wood that won't decay, and a skilled craftsman to carbon 184 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:47.840 image that won't fall down. Haven't you heard? Don't you understand? 185 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.720 Are you deaf to the words of God, the words 186 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:53.480 he gave before the world began? Are you so ignorant? 187 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.600 God sits above the circle of the earth. The people 188 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:59.919 below seem like grasshoppers to him. He spreads out the 189 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:02.360 heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them. 190 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:05.440 He judges the great people of the world and brings 191 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.919 them all to nothing. They hardly get started, barely taking root, 192 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:10.720 when the wind blows on them, and they wither, and 193 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:13.799 the wind carries them off like chaff. To whom will 194 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.559 you compare me? Who's my equal? Asks the Holy One? 195 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:20.159 Look up into the heavens, who created all the stars? 196 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.320 He brings them out like an army, one after another, 197 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:27.279 calling each by its name. Because of his great power 198 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.960 and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing. Oh Jacob, 199 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:33.840 how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles? 200 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.600 Oh Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights? 201 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:41.399 Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord 202 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.200 is the everlasting God, the creator of all the earth. 203 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:47.360 He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure 204 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:50.039 the depths of his understanding. He gives power to the 205 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:53.240 weak and strength to the powerless. Even the youths will 206 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:56.360 become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. 207 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.240 But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. 208 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.399 They will so or high on wings like eagles. They 209 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.879 will run and not grow weary, and they will walk 210 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.600 and not faint. Bam Isaiah forty thirty one. 211 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.600 Yep. And so my story is is that was my verse. 212 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:15.200 I was going to make it my life verse. You know, 213 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:17.320 I was going to say that's my life verse. But 214 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:20.159 I didn't. I end up choosing first Crientiens, fifteen fifty eight. 215 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:23.440 But it was it was a good candidate. It was 216 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:26.639 a good candidate. It gave a good presentation. But the 217 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:30.799 reason why solicited you is because you consider us for 218 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:36.000 your life verse. I mean, how did this work that you? Yeah, 219 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.320 so like make a list. I'm trying to hate that one, 220 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.279 trying it and I okay, yeah, I'm just curious how 221 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:42.840 your brain works. 222 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:47.039 Here comes So my wife, who is my girlfriend back then. 223 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:50.039 Should still be your girlfriend? By the way, Oh she is? 224 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.639 Well you know, okay, sure, I still date her, but sorry, Liz, 225 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.519 she's my wife. So she she gave me a bookmark 226 00:10:57.200 --> 00:11:00.399 with Isaiah chapter forty, and who knows, it might have 227 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.720 just been thirty one, but I think it was thirty 228 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.600 thirty one. And then I had a card on my 229 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.200 desk of that same verse. And then I had a 230 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:14.519 key chain, and so for a very very long time 231 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.279 it was a big, huge eagle keychain that was all 232 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:19.679 my keys, I bet you. From when I was sixteen 233 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.919 till probably through my second year of college, I had 234 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.759 that key chain. And then when that broke, I got 235 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:29.720 another key chain with that same verse on it. And 236 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.720 so I just always have had that verse around me. 237 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.919 And I remember hearing a message one time by a 238 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:40.200 good friend of mine who actually said when it says 239 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:42.120 wait upon the Lord, and he said, renew your strength, 240 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.279 and he said, I'd like to take a little liberty 241 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.039 with that word weight, and so he announced that he 242 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.799 was taking liberty. But he said, there are two ways 243 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:53.360 to wait on God. One is God's timing to wait 244 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:56.360 patiently on him, But another one is to wait upon 245 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:59.240 him as a waiter would wait upon a person to 246 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:01.919 serve him. He said, So he goes while you're waiting 247 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.639 on God. Wait on God. Wait on God while you're 248 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:07.320 waiting on God. And he said, so serve him and 249 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:09.639 wait patiently. I thought that that was super cool. 250 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:14.399 Yes, so that comes from the King James. So the 251 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:16.480 Passenger of the day said, those who trust in the 252 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:19.519 Lord will find new strength. But the King James says, 253 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.559 but they that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. 254 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.120 They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall 255 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.200 run and not be weary, and they shall walk and 256 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.440 not faint. That was the first short time I went 257 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.679 to a Christian school, and that was our school verse 258 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:36.480 and we were the eagles. Oh cool, yeah, asked, So 259 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:38.360 we had to say it every day when we say 260 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:41.200 the pledge to allegiance. Oh really, yeah yeah, And then 261 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:46.039 there was a song that we did. Yeah so yeah, 262 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.000 So that idea I've heard that before, to wait and 263 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:51.159 wait the two different versions of that. But it's a 264 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:54.840 trust thing. Most of the other translations translated those who 265 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.519 trust in the Lord. And what that's saying is, you 266 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.639 know when even even when they're when God doesn't seem 267 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:06.000 to be in a hurry, we still trust him. There's 268 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:10.600 a book of proverbs, right, lean out on your own understandings, 269 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:12.960 but in all your ways acknowledge him. He shall direct 270 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.120 your paths. And trusting the Lord kind of an idea 271 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.519 with all your heart lean not to your understanding. And 272 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.159 so this trust isn't just a belief that everything's gonna 273 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.480 work out. Okay, it's not just some anomaloust faith thing. 274 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:29.919 It's you know, oh, I'm just I just have faith. 275 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:30.559 What does that mean? 276 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:31.000 Right? 277 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:34.159 Right? Or I'm just trusting God's gonna work it out. 278 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:37.519 But rather there's forward movement in the Book of Proverbs 279 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.879 when it talks about trusting the Lord. And that's kind 280 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:42.840 of what your friend was admitting to that, Hey, I'm 281 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:45.279 taking some liberties. But the reality is there's an action 282 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:49.200 involved with trust. It's you know, I can remember my daughter. 283 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:51.320 We used to have some stairs and when she was little. 284 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:53.679 I'd go up, She's three years old or whatever, and 285 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:56.679 I put my hands up safe jump, jump, I'll catch it. Jump, 286 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:58.960 And she could tell me all the day long she 287 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.679 trusted me. She can tell me all day long, she 288 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.120 believed me. She'd tell me all day long she has 289 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.799 faith in me. And all those things are vague and 290 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:09.480 none of those are actually real until she actually jumped 291 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:11.399 off the stairs and let me catch her right right. 292 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:14.399 And that's the idea here is those who trust in 293 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:16.240 the Lord. If you look at the other one, trust 294 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.039 the Lord with all your heart and lean out on 295 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.519 your own understandings in all your ways, acknowledge him, and 296 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.960 he will direct your paths. There's forward movement with that, 297 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:31.159 not just a faker anomalous, you know, weird belief, mystical belief, 298 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.840 but it's a god. I'm going to move forward trusting you. 299 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:39.120 So I like this idea that it's indicating perseverance and 300 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:41.720 strength and move forward just like you said. Yeah, because 301 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:45.039 he says he will renew their strength. Sore high like 302 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:49.320 wings on wings like eagles. They were run and that weird. 303 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.600 They were walking out faint. I remember going repelling in 304 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.480 the mountains of Tennessee and we climbed up like, I 305 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:58.799 don't know, two hundred feet in the air, so and 306 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:04.240 we were repelling down a mountain and below us there 307 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:07.120 was eagles soaring, and we were higher than the eagles, 308 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:09.600 and it was a great big canyon, you know, in 309 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.000 the middle of these mountains, and just you know, the 310 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.159 squawking eagle that just echoed throughout the canyon and there 311 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:18.519 he is soaring below us and we're sort of above him. 312 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.600 And I just thought to myself, like, what a majestic 313 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:27.320 creature obviously right, one of the most majestic. And you know, 314 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.759 and when it says here, you know they was sore. 315 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:34.240 You was sore. High on wings like eagles, you will 316 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.799 run in acro wear, you will walking on faint the 317 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:41.960 idea that an eagle soars effortlessly, you know, and he just, 318 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:43.759 you know, sort of just leaned this way, lean this way, 319 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:45.960 and just depend on the wind and just that up 320 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:49.039 uplifting whatever it is the aerodynamics on his wings, and 321 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.039 he just sort of effortlessly flies and it says you're 322 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.080 gonna run and acuro wear, you're gonna walking out fate. 323 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:57.039 And I thought to myself, God gives you strength when 324 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.879 you have none, you know, it's that whole like sec 325 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.000 can wind or you know, endurance that you didn't know 326 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:06.679 you had all because you're trusting God, which means it's 327 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:12.480 not just physical, it's spiritual, it's emotional, it's everything else. God, 328 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.080 I'll just give your strength and move on whatever it 329 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:16.240 is that you're facing. 330 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:19.840 Those thermals that the eagles will catch, you know, coming 331 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:23.000 off the heat and that when it's rising, they'll hit 332 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:25.399 those and then they'll fly inside that go up. Have 333 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:27.879 you ever ridden in a small helicopter I have. 334 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:28.200 Yeah. 335 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:32.200 Yeah, So if you ever go and a friend of 336 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.799 mine had one. And if you're ever going over like 337 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:40.039 farmland and then suddenly hit a forest, there's so much 338 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:43.440 energy warmth in that forest. All of a sudden, it'll 339 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:45.519 push you up and then when you come back out 340 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:49.240 over top of the farmland, you'll drop again. And it 341 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:51.879 was really surprising. We would move sometimes it felt like 342 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:54.399 maybe eight ten feet just as soon as you would 343 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:57.159 hit that thermal spot. And so those eagles, that's one 344 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.879 of the things that's why eagles just are able to 345 00:16:59.919 --> 00:17:02.960 go lied. Or if you ever watch hawks fly, same thing. 346 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:08.160 Sometimes the buzzards, when you see the big buzzers out 347 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.480 there flying, they're they're looking for those spots where the 348 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.319 heat is rising and then they get in that and 349 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.920 they just and it lifts them and so there's far 350 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:20.359 less energy. You watch a chickadee and it's just fast, 351 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:25.319 fast wings, fast wings, fast wings. Right. You watch a hummingbird, fast, fast, fast, 352 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.079 and they consume so many calories for their body weight. 353 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.759 They go through so much energy to get from one 354 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:35.119 place another. Hey, flying's cool, but the eagles or a 355 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:37.880 hawk when they hit that that thermal, that thermal lists 356 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:40.000 them up and they're not burning energy. They're just riding 357 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:41.440 that thermal. All they have to do is kind of 358 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.200 steer a little bit. And I was on a balloon 359 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.279 one time. I just took my wife and some friends 360 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:50.279 on a balloon ride. We were in Egypt. We went 361 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:53.680 up over the Valley of the Kings where they found 362 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:55.519 King Tuttom. It was kind of neat right along the 363 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:59.440 Now River in Luxor. But the first time I went 364 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.480 on a ballon ride was in Meanmar along the Irrawady River. 365 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.440 And we went right along the edge of the jungle 366 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:06.559 for a while, and then the guy says, hey, you 367 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:08.200 want to go up high. We're like yeah. He said, 368 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.200 I can take you fifteen thousand feet. I'm like sure, Well, man, 369 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:13.519 there's a big difference between being one hundred feet off 370 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:17.880 the ground and fifteen thousand feet. And he said with 371 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:19.680 his he said, I don't have enough gas. I can't 372 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:22.440 get out up there. But he said he's always paying 373 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.680 attention to where the thermals are when it's cooler, when 374 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:29.319 it's warmer, he feels the balloon go up and down, 375 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:31.960 and then he feels he can feel the wind drafts 376 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.000 going side to side. So that's all he has to 377 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:35.720 do is figure out how to steer back over there. 378 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.440 And that's what it was able to elevate us super high. 379 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:40.440 So he used gas. But he couldn't have gotten us 380 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:42.839 that high if he wasn't finding those thermals. And that's 381 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.079 what I think about here, is when you have the 382 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.319 little chickadee and he's working so hard to go from 383 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:50.400 spot to spot to spot to spot, and then you 384 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.640 look at that eagle and he's trusting in the fact 385 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:56.160 that this heat is going to rise and lift him. 386 00:18:56.440 --> 00:18:57.960 This is what God's saying is you can do all 387 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.960 the work yourself you want to, right, That's what young 388 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.480 men tend to do. Just muscle it up, work hard, right, 389 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:07.319 And he says even use though become weak and tired, 390 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.960 young man will fall in exhaustion. We wonder why we're 391 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:13.799 worn out by life, It's because we're doing it the 392 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.599 hard way. We're doing it the way everybody else does it. 393 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:18.599 We're just hustling, we're working hard. And I'm not saying you 394 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:21.200 shouldn't work hard and do those things. But if we 395 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:24.279 would trust God's way and we would go his direction, 396 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.680 then you soar high on wings like eagles. Now eagles 397 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.519 are powerful, but they could never fly like they fly 398 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:32.400 if it weren't for the fact that they were relying 399 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.400 on those thermals to lift them. And that's what he's 400 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:36.519 talking about, is that's what God does. When you place 401 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:40.160