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 --> 00:00:16.000 practical ways. Well, hello everybody, and welcome to the five 4 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:18.000 hundredth episode. 5 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:22.000 Let's prefects, let's put effects on the post. 6 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:25.399 Editor post editing, Let's do a crowd cheer song, Hong Kong, 7 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:32.280 Hong Kong. So yes, today is the five hundredth episode. 8 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:33.399 That is pretty incredible. 9 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:35.799 Yes, And uh, I don't know that I ever want 10 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:37.119 to do five hundred any things with you. 11 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.600 Well, thank you for that. Thank you. 12 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.840 Well, actually, actually what I meant to say was I 13 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.479 don't know that we ever anticipated getting the five hundred episodes. 14 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:49.000 Oh that's what I meant. Yeah, words words matter, don't they? 15 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:50.280 Words? 16 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:54.000 Words, words matter. What we mean is we we just 17 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:56.200 started off like it's supposed to be like a what 18 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.000 a eight week devotion what was. 19 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.560 Back during COVID Yeah yeah, And it. 20 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.119 Was actually post COVID sort of like second COVID wave 21 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.120 where we were going to do small groups when people 22 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:10.200 were still fearful of meeting and homes. So we actually 23 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:12.599 did a podcast segment that was only supposed to last 24 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:13.120 what like a. 25 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:16.439 Month, yeah something, And we called it HC Daily. 26 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:20.760 So on our Bible Guys website bibleguys dot com, if 27 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:22.920 you go back, you'll have access to HC. 28 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:25.280 One hundred and something episodes of HD Daily. 29 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:28.239 Yeah, because people liked it and we continued it on 30 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:32.040 and then after, you know, after a couple one hundred 31 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:35.159 episodes or one hundred something episodes, we decided to rebrand it. 32 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:38.000 Yes, so, and then that's been five hundred episodes ago. 33 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:41.120 Yeah, five hundred episodes ago of Yeah. 34 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:43.480 So the Bible Guy, So, how many episodes per year? 35 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:46.439 So it's what it's twenty per month. 36 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.319 Twenty per month, right, twenty something, yeah, twenty one, twenty. 37 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:51.560 One per month and then times that, so that's two 38 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:52.480 hundred something episodes. 39 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:53.959 So this is over two and a half years. 40 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.480 Yeah, it was September. I think the first episode of 41 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.840 The Bible Guys was September nineteenth, twenty twenty two. 42 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:01.000 Wow. 43 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.000 Yeah, okay, wow, that's what it was. Yeah. So a gun, 44 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:04.680 isn't it neat? 45 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:05.879 That's pretty nifty. 46 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:07.359 So I was doing a little bit of math. 47 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:09.479 Yeah, this is our segment, by the way. Yeah, our 48 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:11.719 segment is reflecting on five hundred episodes. 49 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:13.479 I was I was doing a little bit of math, 50 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:17.080 excuse me. And we've had three hundred and forty five thousand, 51 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.919 eight hundred and thirteen streams right times that people have 52 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:23.919 listened to us, which is kind of cool. Yeah, right, 53 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:28.319 we've had what was the other one that I looked up? 54 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:34.439 Seventy five thousand hours of listening? Wow, And so so 55 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.439 our listeners, our listeners said no, no, no, no, no, 56 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:40.000 not of recording, so we only record, you know, twenty 57 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:43.199 two minutes, twenty five minutes. But because of the three 58 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:47.840 hundred and forty something thousand streams, our listeners have spent 59 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:51.319 seventy five thousand hours listening to the Bible. 60 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:53.199 Guys, oh, I guess not any. 61 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:56.960 Individual listener, but collectively all the listeners have listened seventy 62 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:59.919 five thousand hours. Gotcha, right? Isn't that kind of neat? 63 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:00.879 Yeah, it's very neat. 64 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:03.680 And then here's another one. You ever wonder how many 65 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:04.639 unique listeners? 66 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.639 Yes, I love all the time. 67 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.039 Yeah, let me let me see if it might not 68 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:12.599 do the math, No, listen, it's too big, it won't 69 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:17.159 do the math. But on a monthly basis, just on YouTube, 70 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:21.919 it's it's a couple thousand listeners. And then the same 71 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:27.639 thing on on you know, all of the podcasting platforms 72 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.280 Spotify and all those. It's a couple thousand a month 73 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:34.360 unique listeners, so you're looking force four thousand, five thousand 74 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.280 unique listeners a month is what you have there. That's 75 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.039 kind of fun, but I did this. This is kind 76 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:45.400 of neat. So obviously the US is our top listening country. 77 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.800 But what do you think is our number two? Oh goodness, 78 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.960 give me, give me like the top five besides the 79 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.599 US Africa. Well, there's lots of countries in Africa. 80 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.039 Oh yeah, okay, so Kenya, Kenya. 81 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:02.960 Is on there. Yeah, Kenya is on the top twenty 82 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:08.599 five list. Yeah, Tanzania is Tanzania on here? It would 83 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:09.960 seem like it because we've got a lot of friends 84 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:12.879 in Tanzania. Your friends don't listen to us? What the 85 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:17.040 heck I'm gonna have to complain. Yeah. No, our number 86 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.079 one I can't even begin to guess. Our number one 87 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:23.000 African country is Zambia. 88 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:25.079 Have you been to Zambia? 89 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:29.600 No, but I have friends in Zambia. Yeah, holy cow. Yeah. 90 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:31.920 So our number one country outside of the US is 91 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:35.759 the UK. Oh that's nice and very substantial, by the way. 92 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:39.480 And then Canada thanks for Canada, your our neighbors, for 93 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:43.279 crying out loud, right, and the UK beat you. But 94 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:45.079 then here's one Slovakia. 95 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.000 You're yelling at Canada, the Canada the nicest people on 96 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:48.480 the planet. 97 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:52.680 No, they're not nice enough, that's all I'm saying. Slovakia 98 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.959 is number four. Slovakia. Yeah, have you been I've never 99 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:57.800 been to Slovakia? 100 00:04:57.959 --> 00:04:58.920 No? Wow? 101 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.000 And then New Zealand. Which have you been in New Zealand? 102 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:03.360 No? 103 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:05.920 But I really would love to go, like a lot. 104 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:08.360 Of listening from New Zealand. And then there's Zambia, as 105 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:13.720 I mentioned, Then Japan, Australia, India, Singapore, Kenya, Philippines, Mexico, 106 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.879 South Africa, the US Virgin Islands. I've got friends there, 107 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:25.360 I've been there, Spain, Taiwan, Germany, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Dominican Republic, Israel, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, 108 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:28.279 and then three hundred and eighty three other places. But 109 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:33.360 that's the three eighties. There aren't three hundred and eighty 110 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.360 three countries, right, So it's just gonna be little territories 111 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:38.079 in towns and cities and stuff like that. But yeah, 112 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:42.920 isn't it crazy? So here's another funny one. There's all 113 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:48.720 these things that measure. You know, if you're on charts, 114 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:51.800 you ever hear like somebody, you know, Taylor Swift releases 115 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:54.839 a song, it's number one on the Billboard charts. Whatever. Okay, 116 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:58.639 well they have podcast charts like that too, so only 117 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.319 for the podcast side, not the YouTube side. We've charted 118 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:09.480 in Hungry We charted in Uganda. Wow, we charted most recently. 119 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.160 What was the place that was? I just saw? Let 120 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.519 me let me look it up. We charted in Zambia. 121 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:19.639 We charted in Singapore, and then I just got one 122 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.279 this week. Let me see what the thing was this 123 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:23.160 week that came up. 124 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.480 And just in case you're wondering why he has all 125 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.240 these facts is because he's tied to all this, he 126 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.160 has it on his phone. Whenever I have to get facts, 127 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:36.920 I don't. I'm too dumb to have it on my phone, 128 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:41.600 so I have to either email desiree or you know, 129 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:43.000 figure it out other ways. 130 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:47.600 So this one shows that we charted in Taiwan this week. 131 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:52.160 This week we're number one twenty three in Christianity. Wow 132 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:54.040 in Taiwan. Isn't that funny? 133 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.560 It's it's actually pretty humbling and incredible and you know 134 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:00.680 what it makes me. It makes me want to do 135 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.800 better and try harder and prepare more. Yeah, it really does, 136 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:08.399 because I appreciate those who are listening, but that actually 137 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:15.399 feels like more responsibility, and therefore we should do everything 138 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.319 we can to make it a better experience. Yeah, because 139 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:22.759 if people are listening and you know, Japan, you know, 140 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:24.879 good gosh man, thank you. 141 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.879 Right and for us, you know, it's incredibly humbling because 142 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.199 ninety percent of the places on that list we haven't 143 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:35.399 been to right, right, which means friends are sharing with friends, 144 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.240 are sharing with friends, they're posting their liking their It 145 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:41.959 shows up on your feed, whether you know, if you're 146 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.639 on Facebook or on you know, Instagram or something. You go, hey, 147 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.120 I really liked this episode, and you share a link, 148 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:50.879 or hey I like this s thumbs up or you 149 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.040 leave a comment, and it winds up through all those 150 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:56.120 weird algorithms that all these companies use. It puts you 151 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:59.879 and your opinions on your friends pages, and then somebody 152 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.639 makes it with them to a military base in Germany, 153 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.560 and then they share it with their friends and that's 154 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:07.120 it just goes around the world that way, and you 155 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:10.160 and I haven't done anything to do to push it 156 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:13.000 the way it just happens. And so that means that 157 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.120 you are sharing with your friends and family. And so yeah, 158 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.120 if you ever wonder, you know, when we say like 159 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.839 it or thumbs up or share it, if it matters. 160 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:24.600 This thing spread all over the world from us deciding 161 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:29.480 to do a six week daily devotional. Yeah right, and yeah, 162 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:32.519 so it's it's incredibly humbling, and you are the ones 163 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.200 that are driving it, not us. We're just putting out content, 164 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:37.840 but the listeners are the ones that are driving this 165 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:39.480 sing around world. So keep it up, man, Thank you, 166 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:40.759 thank you so much. Thank you. 167 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:43.440 Yeah, that's great and and and you know, some of 168 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.600 its content, some of it's h you know, goofy segments. 169 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.799 Yeah, yeah, that's probably what it is. What's making us 170 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.440 famous is what made Chris mad this week. People keep 171 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:53.919 coming back over and over and over again. 172 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:54.639 Nobody cares. 173 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.600 Yeah, So, do you have a favorite moment? 174 00:08:58.679 --> 00:08:59.440 A favorite moment? 175 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:04.320 Honestly, it's the clip that we played at church one time. 176 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:08.519 We asked Desiree to piece together a little promo, remember that, 177 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:12.480 to promote the babble guys, and uh, and she put 178 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:16.240 together a little clip and it was when uh, Uh, 179 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.679 it's when I laughed at that request because it was 180 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:24.840 a callback member. It was would you rather uh barbecue 181 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.879 with the rock or if would you rather get ice cream? 182 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:31.200 Exact up r yea and and it struck me so funny. 183 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:33.000 That I just laughed. And it was one of those 184 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:33.840 air laughs. 185 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.519 Where I was like, guess, and I'm telling you it 186 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:38.519 was just the hardest that I've laughed on the show. 187 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.120 And that to me stands out because nothing has hit 188 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:43.519 me harder than that I've laughed. 189 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:44.720 It was such a surprise. 190 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:47.799 It was so funny to me because it's just a 191 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:49.799 running joke that that just caught me. 192 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:51.159 Caught me in the right way. 193 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:56.600 So I think some of my favorite things are I 194 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:58.799 love it when you when you sing good morning to us. 195 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.360 Oh yeah, yeah, I think it's so funny. I laugh 196 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.399 every time. I don't know why it is so funny. Yeah, 197 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:06.960 there's a lot of those things. We have a good time. 198 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.360 And then, quite honestly, I feel like we've had some 199 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:15.120 really interesting conversations about the Bible. Right for certain, we 200 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:17.720 don't rehearse it, we don't pre write what we're going 201 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:20.559 to say. We're just a couple guys looking at what's 202 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:22.879 on the page, and talking from the fact that we've 203 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:25.639 been students of the Bible for thirty forty years, right, 204 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:30.639 And I think from this perspective, anybody who decides that 205 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:32.360 they're going to become a student of the Bible. If 206 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:35.080 you know our listeners, you're reading the Bible, listening to 207 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.919 the Bible five days a week, you're becoming a student, 208 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.279 and you know, being able to look at the page 209 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:44.759 and asking what does this passage say about God? What 210 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:47.320 does it say about people? What's it say to me? 211 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.440 Is there something I should avoid? Is there something I 212 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.120 should copy or emulate in my life? Is there some 213 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:56.679 promise God's giving? Is there some law He's mentioning, or 214 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:59.360 some better way to live? You ask just a few cute, 215 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.679 key questions, and anybody can look at most of the 216 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.679 passages we've looked at and draw something out of it. 217 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:07.600 Then with a good study Bible. That's why we're always 218 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.799 making a big deal about the life afpcation about good 219 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:13.399 study Bible. There's always these thought provoking little ideas. And 220 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.799 I think anybody can have a conversation like this right 221 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:19.919 right at your level and where you've been. It might 222 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.240 not be a forty year, mature conversation, but it can 223 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:27.600 be a meaningful discovery, Bible discovery kind of conversation with 224 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:30.200 your friends. And so, you know, hopefully some people are 225 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.840 taking this and deciding, hey, let's meet on Tuesdays and 226 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.360 at Starbucks and yeah, read the Bible and talk about 227 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:38.120 it with friends. 228 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:41.320 And let me encourage you out there. I've run in recently, 229 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:43.320 I've run into some people who are pretty young in 230 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:48.080 their faith. And just because you're a person who loves 231 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:51.159 knowledge and you love to acquire knowledge, and you're and 232 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.679 you're just you know, you're you're geeked up about the Bible. 233 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:57.320 You're really passionate about it. That does not equal It 234 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:01.480 is not congruent too wisdom right right, like like, please, 235 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.840 let's all and our discussions be humble and say, you know, 236 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.960 that's interesting. I think this is correct, but let me look, 237 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:09.320 let me look it up, and let me find out. 238 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:13.679 Because I've recently, I've just recently done this. I've had 239 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.039 conversations with somebody who you know, just you know, their 240 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:19.000 question maybe two years or something, and uh and and 241 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:21.879 and there's discussions in my living room, in my living room, 242 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.720 and somebody will speak up and before I'm able to, 243 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:25.840 you know, because you know, you don't want to be 244 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:27.679 the guy with all the answers. So you sit back 245 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.799 and you watch the conversation and then this then this 246 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:33.960 young person will interject and say, well, that's because of this. 247 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:37.559 And I'm thinking to myself, that is so dangerous because 248 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.639 what you just said is not even close to the case. 249 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.399 And uh and and uh, and you're passing it off 250 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:44.480 like it's gospel. 251 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:48.200 And what's what's what's worse is that person next to 252 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.200 you is going to shake her head and. 253 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:51.600 Believe you, you know. 254 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:53.559 And so I'm like, I'm like, well, and so I 255 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:55.519 try to gently come in and say, hey, you know 256 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:58.320 that we probably need to take a posture of that's 257 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:00.919 a good question. Uh, let me go ahead and look 258 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:03.240 into that, because what you're saying are true, Like you're 259 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:06.759 quoting verses and you're getting them right, but the application 260 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.480 of those verses are entirely wrong, right right. 261 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.080 And so you and I've had times in the podcast 262 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:14.759 where we weren't exactly in alignment on a thought. 263 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:15.120 Yeah. 264 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.960 Sure, but it's possible to be gentlemen, right right. It's 265 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:21.399 possiblely to me, ladies and gentlemen, even when we're disagreeing 266 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:23.200 or when we're not on the same page, and then 267 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:25.559 it's possible to be humble and go, oh, maybe maybe 268 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:27.799 I'm not right, or allow the other person to point 269 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.399 a thing out, and you know, just kind of back 270 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:33.879 up from choosing to fight over a thing and pretend 271 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:38.000 like we know everything. You know, the Apostle Paul said, 272 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.320 a little knowledge puffs up, right, just a little, right, 273 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:43.000 So as you begin to get a little bit of 274 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:45.039 Bible and you start feeling like you want to argue 275 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:47.360 about the Bible all the time just to understand, that's 276 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.240 because you carry a little knowledge. What I've discovered is 277 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:53.320 and you probably have to. So I've been a believer 278 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:59.840 for forty five years. Yeah, right, and you know, deeply 279 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:06.159 embedded in scripture for basically that entire time. And uh, 280 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:09.799 the longer you're in the word, the less confident you 281 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.440 are about understanding and knowing everything. I feel like there's 282 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:17.279 so much more I don't know yet, right, But it's 283 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:19.080 the it's when you get a little bit of knowledge, 284 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:21.879 you just start getting a little bit You Ever, when 285 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:23.639 your kids were learning how to drive, did they ever 286 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:25.480 suddenly start correcting how you drive? 287 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:27.240 Right? 288 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.759 Right? Your kid with the learners. Permit, Dad, you can't 289 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:35.559 make that turn right, use your blinker right. 290 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:38.159 I've got this son, I've been doing this for quite 291 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:38.559 a while. 292 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:44.360 Yeah, I've made it home safely before, so without without 293 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:47.960 your back seat advice. Right. So there is something to that. 294 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:49.720 When we get a little bit of knowledge, we start 295 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:52.440 feeling like we've got all the knowledge, and so we 296 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.480 just have to be careful with that. I wouldn't use 297 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.559 that as a warning to not engage in good Bible conversation. 298 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:00.679 I'm just saying to be humble and go, hey, I 299 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:02.480 might be wrong, and let's go find somebody who has 300 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:04.559 an answer, right, and you and you bump it up 301 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:06.919 a level to the believers that have been walking with 302 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:07.679 the Lord longer than you. 303 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.679 And the more mature you get, even if you absolutely 304 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:13.799 know the answer. Uh, sometimes I'll say, yeah, I'm pretty 305 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:15.799 sure this is correct. You know, let's let's look it 306 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:18.159 up together. Yeah right, And you know so that I 307 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.960 don't like dominate the other person, right. So it's it's 308 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:23.240 just it's just the more mature and the more you get, 309 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:25.759 the older you get. That's why that's why most old 310 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:28.600 people are pretty humble, and they'll say, you know, they'll 311 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:30.200 have a ton of wisdom and I'm not. 312 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:32.039 I'm not going to be when I get old, I'm 313 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:33.960 going to be like the cockiest guy. 314 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:37.480 Oh so you know another word has not change. 315 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:46.759 Yeah, little punks. So so the other thing too is 316 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.600 to always remember. And I think our listeners will pick 317 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:52.480 up on this a lot. You and I cross reference 318 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.360 a lot. Sure, so we'll say, oh, that reminds me 319 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:58.240 of you know, the Bible says over here and over there. 320 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.840 The Bible is its own best common ter. So while 321 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.480 I love life, application study Bible. And you know, I'm 322 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:06.679 telling everybody all the time, or get a good study Bible. 323 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:09.480 And then there's all these cross references, you know in 324 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:13.200 the margins that'll say, hey, this verse has a thing 325 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:17.879 over here. That consistent cross referencing helps too, because what 326 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:20.679 you don't want to do is develop a strong opinion 327 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:25.039 about averse. Right, Right, it's the consistent message of the 328 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.000 whole Bible. And that's the power of scripture. Right. It's 329 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:32.679 forty authors spread over fifteen hundred years, writing this cohesive book, 330 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:36.159 and that tells us how to know God and how 331 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:41.200 to live. And so the Bible is always going to 332 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:44.440 be consistent with itself, and rarely will God ever give 333 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:46.559 if ever, I don't know that I can think of 334 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:51.679 a doctrine a major thing worth dividing over. Really, you're 335 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:55.159 literally crossing the lines of heresy if you believe opposite. 336 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:56.960 I can't think of anything in the Bible that's built 337 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:00.600 around one passage or one verse. Yeah, right, If you 338 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.359 want to fight about one verse, that's probably an immature 339 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:06.319 way to look at it. Right. So if you have 340 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:08.400 a few guidelines on how to have a conversation, I 341 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:13.400 think people can have really meaningful, fulfilling and disciple building 342 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:18.240 relationships with your friends in a way like this, just 343 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:21.079 like this, right, And so I think that the studio 344 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:23.000 with two microphones, Yeah that's right. Well, you don't need 345 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:25.480 a studio. You can be sitting in a Starbucks or whatever. So, 346 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:26.799 I mean, we only have a couple of minutes. I 347 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:28.400 don't even think we're going to get into the reading 348 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:35.000 totally today. But about the Bible, what is the biggest 349 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:39.559 verse or thought that you have with regard to Okay, 350 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:41.839 this is why God's word matters so much to me? 351 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:45.480 Oh wow, this is why God's word matters so much 352 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:51.720 to me as a Bible guy, as a Bible. Guy, Well, 353 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:54.160 I mean my first thought went for, you know, my 354 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:58.039 life verse, but that isn't necessarily about the Bible. It's 355 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:01.480 about my love for God, right, my faithfulness, my dedication 356 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:04.079 One Corinthians fifteen fifty eight is my life first, by 357 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:06.839 the way, So yeah, I remember I was that in 358 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:11.279 the King James version. Be states that unmovable, unmovable. 359 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:12.240 Always abounding in the work of the Lord. 360 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:12.759 That's right. 361 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.160 You know it too, for as much as you know 362 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:16.680 that you're working the Lord of Son, ever be in 363 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.279 vain and so that that's my drive. But when it 364 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.960 comes to the Bible, I would just say that it's 365 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:27.880 because God says that number one, his word will never 366 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:30.920 return to him void. Yeah right, So it's never it's 367 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:31.559 never going to be. 368 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:33.559 It's never wasted, it's never empty. 369 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:33.880 Yeah. 370 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.960 But it's probably the verse in One Timothy where it 371 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:41.640 says that it is profitable for Timothy twond Timothy, it's 372 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:47.640 profitable for what is it teaching correcting, rebuking, and training 373 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:51.079 in righteousness, so that the man of God may be 374 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:52.000 thoroughly equipped. 375 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:53.279 Right, So go ahead read it. 376 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:59.599 Yeah, So it says all scripture is God breathed, God 377 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:05.720 breathed is useful for teaching, for rebuking. Yeah, three sixteen. 378 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:11.920 All scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, 379 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:15.160 and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God 380 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.200 may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. It is, right, 381 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:22.720 that's second Timothy three sixteen and seventeen. 382 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:23.440 Yeah, that's great. 383 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.359 So that idea all scripture is God breathed, that these 384 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:31.640 aren't just words about God. Right. I don't believe that 385 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:34.680 this book contains the word of God. I believe that 386 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:38.160 this book is the word of words of God, right. 387 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:38.319 Right. 388 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:40.039 There's a difference between it this. But there's a lot 389 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:41.920 of theologians that would say, oh, I think, you know, 390 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:44.960 this book contains God's worst. There's a lot of factual issues, 391 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.160 there's a lot of you know, doctrinal issues. It's imperfect whatever. 392 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:51.920 I don't believe that. I believe that this this book 393 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:54.480 is the word of God to humanity. 394 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:55.160 Right. 395 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:57.359 So, and that's what the Bible claims. By the way, 396 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.319 all scripture is God breathed. It comes literally from the 397 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:02.759 breath of God, the mouth of God, and it's useful 398 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:05.160 to teach us. Right. So, there's lots of learning we 399 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.880 can learn, we can be taught how to live rebuking 400 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:13.920 and correcting those are rebuking is is very strong correction, 401 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:17.559