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 --> 00:00:13.759 practical ways. Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Bible Guys. Welcome back. 4 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:15.880 If you're a frequent listener. 5 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:18.120 Yeah, this is gonna be an exciting episode. 6 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:21.600 It is. I have a strong feeling that it's going 7 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:22.440 to be the greatest. 8 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:26.280 I love reading through both first and two. Timothy. Yeah, yeah, 9 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:29.000 I think they're really good. And that's where're at today. Yes, 10 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:30.239 we are, Timothy, today. 11 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:32.039 We are. And I'm a big fan of that. 12 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:34.960 Big fan. You stole that from me twice this week. 13 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:38.439 So before we get into that, Desiree has something that 14 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:40.880 I'm really nervous about. I just read it three seconds ago, 15 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:44.119 and it's called name that Praise Song and it says this. 16 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:49.479 It says Jeff will read lyrics dramatically, dramatically or out 17 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:52.479 of context to see if Chris can guess the name 18 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:56.359 of the song. Bonus points for knowing the artists. Oooh wow. 19 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:58.399 I just told her because she's in the room. I said, 20 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:01.399 I'm very bad at this. I'm very bad. I don't 21 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.840 know Christian praise songs unless they're extremely popular. 22 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:08.560 Yeah, you'll know most of these, okay. But here's the 23 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:12.519 hard thing is I have I have a twist on 24 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:14.680 every one of these. Okay, of how I have to 25 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:15.159 say it? 26 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:16.920 Oh, she's telling you how to say it. 27 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.000 Yes, So this twist is I have to read it 28 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:20.159 in a robot voice. 29 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:21.480 She wars. 30 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:26.200 Okay, all right, here we go. How many are there? Five? 31 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:26.680 Five? 32 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:28.359 Okay, so this one's in a robot. 33 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:30.760 If I get two of these, I'll be pleased. Three 34 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:31.599 is really playing? 35 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:33.719 Okay, you give and take away? 36 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:37.959 Okay, this happened to be in my era in the nineties, right, 37 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.760 So that's Matt Redmond, you give and take away? Now 38 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:45.280 that's also I have a Bible game app or not 39 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.920 an app, but an actual like PlayStation two Bible game 40 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.239 that we play all the time. And that is the 41 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:56.560 song on one of our Bible challenges. 42 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:58.280 Okay, Redmond, and what's the song? 43 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:00.680 Lessed be the name Lord? 44 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:02.599 Okay, there you go. Well you got that one. 45 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:04.359 Blessed be his name? 46 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.879 Here you go. Okay, so you're. 47 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:07.879 One for one for one. 48 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:09.719 I'm happy anxiety should go away. 49 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.680 But unless it's the nineties and on my bibble game, 50 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:14.240 who knows what? 51 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:14.919 Here we go. 52 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.639 I have to whisper this like it's a secret. 53 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:20.520 Okay, I'm no longer a slave to fear. 54 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.360 Oh well, this is pretty easy. Also, right, no longer slaves? 55 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:25.960 Okay? 56 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:28.319 Is that Hillsong United? 57 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:28.759 Nope? 58 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:33.919 Okay, bonus points had said, right, yeah, it's just no 59 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:38.879 longer slaves, no longer slaves? Is it Bethel? 60 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:39.520 Bethel? 61 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:40.560 Yes, it is Bethel? 62 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:40.960 There you go? 63 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:43.319 Do I still get it? I get bonus points? Desiree, 64 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:43.800 I don't know. 65 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:44.400 Does she get half? 66 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:45.439 She said, thumbs up? 67 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:47.800 He should get half a bonus point because we already 68 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.719 had to say no once. Okay, Hey the fact that 69 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:54.039 I'm two No, you're three and a half points? Yeah, 70 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:57.439 all right, okay, okay on only two questions. Here's another one. 71 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.719 This one I have to I have to madic soap 72 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:01.439 opera reading. 73 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.199 Okay, how do I do that? 74 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:08.159 Where feet may fall and fear surround me? 75 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:12.520 That was a great dramatic so far from reading, Jeb, 76 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:15.840 it was really you know that one? I like it. 77 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.520 I have zero clue on this one. Zero. I'm not 78 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:20.120 even close. 79 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:24.960 Yeah, where feet may fail and fear surround me? 80 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:28.879 You sound like Dorothy and the Visit of oz Dear. 81 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.520 You don't know that one. It was Oceans. 82 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:33.039 That was Ocean. 83 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:33.439 Yeah. 84 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:39.319 Yeah, Where Feet May Fail is a subtitle to Oceans. Yeah, 85 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:40.039 it's by Hillsong. 86 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:42.280 You know, is that on the Bridge or something? Is 87 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:43.000 that obscure? 88 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.520 Well, obscure because it's the subtitle of the song. 89 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:50.599 Well guess what. They were famous for being obscure with subtitles. 90 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:51.479 Okay, here we go? 91 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:55.639 Ready kidding? I made that? Yeah, I'm mad. That is 92 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:56.719 not a popular phrase. 93 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:58.159 Okay, here we go. 94 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:02.080 I wonder if anybody else got that. Our listeners they 95 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:02.400 beat it. 96 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:07.800 They knew they did. Yeah, oh yeah, because they're good Christians. Okay, yeah, okay, 97 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:09.199 here we go. Are you ready for the next one? 98 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:09.520 Yes? 99 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:10.960 All right? I have to say this one like a 100 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.960 sports announcer. Yes, this is how I Fight my Battles. 101 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:19.759 That's a heck of a sports announcer there. That's like 102 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:21.199 that's like a world series. 103 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:23.480 Hold run right, I know that's what I was doing. 104 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:27.519 This is how I Fight my battles. That is that 105 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:29.879 is Isn't that the name of the song, How I 106 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:30.639 Fight My Battles. 107 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:33.000 It's the subtitle fight my battles. 108 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:34.839 Fight my Battles? Is that? Michael Dibbi Smith? 109 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:38.079 Yes, it is, So you got that, but you just 110 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:39.920 need the title fight. 111 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.160 This is how I fight my battles. I don't know. Surrounded, 112 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.240 it's called surrounded, surrounded. I would never would have got 113 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:50.879 you could have. You could have threatened me and my family, 114 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:54.279 and I would have never come up with that title. Okay, 115 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:56.519 But I got the subtitles, so I got. 116 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:58.399 You get a half a point for a subtitle. 117 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:59.839 But I did get bonus points for the artist. 118 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:01.399 Yeah, you got the bonus point. 119 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.199 I would have never been Okay, Ever, so. 120 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:08.079 I think you're like it, uh like four and a 121 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.519 half points now out of four questions because you didn't 122 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:12.720 get any points on the last one. 123 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:14.759 But I got bonus points, which is why I'm up 124 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:15.439 at the point. 125 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:16.079 That's true. 126 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:16.600 That's true. 127 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:19.160 Yeah, okay, all right, okay, ready, yes, And then here's 128 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:20.600 the lyric for the last one. And I have to 129 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:22.079 sing it like a country ballad. 130 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:28.680 Nice? Oh no, nice, Jeff, And you better sing too well. 131 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:30.000 If I sing it, then you'll know it. 132 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.160 No, well, sing it like a country. 133 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:34.279 Ballad like I can't if I can't make up another 134 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:35.839 if I sing it, I can't make us. 135 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:37.040 Sing it to another country tune. 136 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:38.839 I can't sing it to another country tune. 137 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:40.920 It doesn't. It doesn't fit to another country tune. 138 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:41.560 Sure it does. 139 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:44.879 I could do it. 140 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:46.240 I could talk it like a cowboy. 141 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.560 All right, just do that, Just do that, all right, 142 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:50.240 because this one's too easy. 143 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:51.839 All right, give it a country accent. 144 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:55.079 I'll raise a Hallelujah in the presence of my enemies. 145 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:58.639 Oh this is so easy. Uh, it's raised a hallelujah? 146 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:00.519 Is name of the song? Huh, because that's what the lyrics. 147 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:01.199 Just that's right. 148 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:02.959 Yeah, rais a hell. 149 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:06.759 Friends of my enemies? 150 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:07.600 If I sung it? 151 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:10.959 Yeah, yeah, yeah? Is that now? Is that Hillsong? 152 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:11.639 No? 153 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:14.639 I want? I want? I want this to be hillsong. 154 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:16.839 It's not sorry I said hill song twice. 155 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:17.439 Yes you did. 156 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:22.040 Rais a hallelujah? Who sings that? Rais a hell? 157 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:26.519 I don't know. It's a tough one. 158 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:28.839 That's Bethel. Also, Oh that's awesome. 159 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:32.199 There you go. Yeah, okay, okay, well I think you 160 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:34.800 have finished up. You got one point there? Okay, so 161 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:36.920 you five and a half points out of five questions. 162 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:37.759 That's pretty good. 163 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.319 That's good potential ten points. 164 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:42.360 I thought I was gonna I was gonna fail miserably. 165 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:46.240 So I'm I'm thankful that you chose good popular songs. 166 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:46.639 She did. 167 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:49.120 Isn't that great? You know what else is really good 168 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:51.720 and popular? Second Timothy Chapter one. 169 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:53.959 We've given up on transitions. 170 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:55.160 Oh yeah, we have? We have. 171 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:56.279 We sort of have, haven't we. 172 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:57.480 Yeah, I'm afraid we have. 173 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:00.000 I think we need to put more thought into them. 174 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:02.920 Okay, all right, all right, from now on, that's your job. 175 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.560 Okay, all right? Is it my job the transitions? 176 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:06.040 I don't know. 177 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:06.920 You just assign that. 178 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.439 It feels like it. Yeah, if you're wanting to put 179 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:12.480 some thought into it. Oh, I clearly, people tell I'm 180 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:13.480 not putting any thought into this. 181 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:16.639 Okay, Well, you know what, before we start next podcast, 182 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.920 I'm going to already decide my transition, okay, all right, 183 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:22.680 and I'll make it a decent one because these have 184 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:26.040 been pretty weak, okay, because all we say is, hey, 185 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:28.160 that was fun. You know what else is fun? 186 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:28.519 Yeah? 187 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:29.839 I know that's all we said. 188 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:33.079 But people know. Okay. So we are in second Crinthia 189 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:36.480 or tewod Timothy chapter one, and I really like this. 190 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:39.800 There's a lot of neat elements in this chapter. So 191 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:41.560 I'm just gonna read the whole thing. It's only seventeen verses. 192 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:43.600 It is neat, It is neat. Do you use the 193 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:44.040 word neat? 194 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:45.800 Sometimes I use it. 195 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.480 What I always think of neat, I always think of needo. 196 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.000 I always think of nifty gifty in the office when 197 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.120 he goes, it's a nifty gifty. It is a nifty gift. 198 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:57.079 That's right, Andrew Bernard. 199 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.560 Here we go. This letter is from Paul, chosen by 200 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:02.519 the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus. 201 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:05.439 I have been sent out to tell others about the 202 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:08.319 life he haest promised through faith in Jesus Christ. I 203 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.120 am writing to Timothy, my dear son. May God, the 204 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.279 Father in Christ, Jesus our Lord, give you grace, mercy 205 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:17.839 and peace. Timothy, I thank God for you, the God 206 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:20.800 I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors 207 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:23.720 did night and day. I constantly remember you in my prayers. 208 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:25.959 I long to see you again, for I remember your 209 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:28.519 tears as we parted, and I will be filled with 210 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:31.800 joy when we are together again. I remember your genuine faith, 211 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.360 for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother 212 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:37.159 Lois and your mother Eunus, and I know that same 213 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.159 faith continues strong in you. This is why I remind 214 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.639 you to fan into flames the spiritual gift of God 215 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.440 gave you when I laid my hands on you. For 216 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:48.919 God has not given us the spirit of fear and timidity, 217 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:52.679 but of power, love, and self discipline. So never be 218 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.759 ashamed to tell others about our Lord, and don't be 219 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.120 ashamed to me either, even though I am in prison 220 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.720 for him. With the strength God gives you, be ready 221 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:01.440 to see suffer with me for the sake of the 222 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:04.080 good News. For God saved us and called us to 223 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.399 live a holy life. He did this not because we 224 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.320 deserved it, but because that was His plan from before 225 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.679 the beginning of time, to show us his grace through 226 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.279 Christ Jesus. And now He has made all of his plan, 227 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:17.320 all of this plain to us by appearing. By the 228 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:20.399 appearing of Christ Jesus, our Savior, he broke the power 229 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:23.360 of death and illuminated the way to life and immortality 230 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:25.639 through the good News. And God chose me to be 231 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:28.399 a preacher and apostle and a teacher of this good news. 232 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:30.759 That's why I'm suffering here in prison. But I'm not 233 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:33.080 ashamed of it, for I know the one in whom 234 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.320 I trust, and I am sure that he is able 235 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.679 to guard what I have entrusted to him until the 236 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:40.879 day of his return. Hold on to the pattern of 237 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:44.919 wholesome teaching you learned from me, a pattern shaped by 238 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:47.200 the faith and love that you have in Christ Jesus, 239 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.000 through the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us, 240 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.759 Carefully guard the precious truth that has been entrusted to you. 241 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:55.159 As you know, everyone from the province of Asia has 242 00:09:55.200 --> 00:10:01.080 deserted me, even Fi Jealous and Hermogenes. Those guys, oh 243 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.639 fight jealous and homogenies that homogenies homogenies. May the Lord 244 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:10.200 show special kindness to Anessa, Forrest and all his family 245 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.720 because he often visited and encouraged me. He was never 246 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:15.120 ashamed of me because I was in chains. When he 247 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:17.639 came to Rome. He searched everywhere until he found me. 248 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.039 Made the Lord show in special kindness on the day 249 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:22.279 of Christ's return. And you know very well how health 250 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:27.159 he was in Ephesus. So he's connecting with Timothy. He 251 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.120 calls him his dear son. Of course we know Paul 252 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:33.200 wasn't married. This wasn't his son, but he was his 253 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.759 son in the faith right he viewed him. Yeah, and 254 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:37.240 then he said Hey, remember what is like when we 255 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:39.720 were traveling. Remember this guy Ananessa Forest, He's great. Remember 256 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:41.320 how helpfully he was in he came and helped me. 257 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:42.080 He wasn't embarrassed. 258 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:43.759 I was in jail and he searched it. 259 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:46.600 Apparently he's a very good investigator because he said he 260 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:49.480 came to Rome and he searched everywhere until he found me. 261 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.399 How about that that was a big city then, But 262 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:55.600 that fi jealous and homogenies. Man, every time I those 263 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:57.000 bums didn't in Paul. 264 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:01.600 Now, is this Paul's final farewell? Was this like in 265 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.440 his capturing in Rome? Did he die after this? 266 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:04.879 It wasn't long after this? 267 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:05.240 Yeah? 268 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:08.799 Yeah, because because it says he's in Rome. Yeah, that's 269 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:09.279 where he died. 270 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.080 Yeah. He wrote a bunch of books back to back 271 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:14.879 to back to back. So he wrote Philip Philippines then 272 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:17.519 and you know the Thessalon Nike in books and yep. 273 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:23.759 So so yeah, so Paul basically says that the main 274 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:25.000 verse of the promise. 275 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.879 Of this first last this is his last letter. 276 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:29.440 It is it is? This is it? So this is 277 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:32.320 sixty eight a d. Because that's when he died. Wow, 278 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:36.720 and he got beheaded and then he was buried underneath 279 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:38.679 the sweets the catacombs. 280 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:39.120 There you go. 281 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.919 No, but the verse that we're actually focusing on is 282 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.799 verse seven. Price says, for God has not given us 283 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:50.039 a spirit of fear in timidity, but of power, love, 284 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:55.159 and self discipline. Think about those three dynamics, power, love, 285 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:58.159 and self discipline. Right, Yeah, Power to do whatever you want, 286 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.440 because God is great love, all in the context of 287 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.519 love and self discipline. 288 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:04.080 But not the power to do what if you want, 289 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:05.360 power to do whatever you need to do. 290 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:07.559 Well, I knew, I knew it as soon as I 291 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:07.919 said it. 292 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.639 I wanted to be clear. Yeah, but everybody's gonna be like, man, 293 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.120 I love it when Chris talks no, no, no, no. 294 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.360 What I was what I was gonna say is do 295 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.320 whatever you want, but the self discipline to do only 296 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:19.879 when God wants. 297 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:20.279 That's right. 298 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:22.879 There you go, Yeah, because I was trying to man, well, 299 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:23.919 I was trying to say three. 300 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.320 Say that again, say that again. That that is really 301 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:26.679 good though. 302 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:28.919 Yeah, so I said, I said three dynamics, Yeah, the 303 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:30.960 power to do whatever you want, the love because everything 304 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:32.960 is the context of love, but the selb discipline only 305 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.879 to do what God wants. Right, So, so I mean, 306 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:37.720 think about it. We do have the power to do 307 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:41.360 a lot of things, but to have number one love 308 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:43.600 and then number two self discipline, those are those are 309 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:47.039 the lenses to filter those powers, right, I mean, think 310 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.039 about it. You know, it's like everything we have to 311 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.759 do has to be through love. Jesus said, people are 312 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:54.399 gonna know that your my disciples if you love one another. 313 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:57.000 So everything has to be in the context of love. 314 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.399 When I was preaching on Sunday, I was speaking with 315 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:02.120 my wife by way, and we were at the Stony 316 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:04.799 Creek campus of Heritage Church in case you're wondering if 317 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:08.440 you're not a part of Michigan or our church, but anyway, 318 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:10.799 we have a Stony Creek campus in Stoney Creek High School. 319 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.559 And I was talking about love, right, and I was 320 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:16.399 talking about how that everything we have to do is 321 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.000 has to be through the filter of love. And I said, 322 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:21.159 and guess what I said. When you type in caps, 323 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.919 chances are that's not in love. Whenever you post something 324 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:27.519 and you're typing in caps, all you really consider you 325 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:30.279 want to do is make a point, right, I said, 326 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:32.720 But it's got to be in love. Unless you're doing 327 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:34.720 it in love, then make any sense take it down. 328 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:38.080 And I can't say that enough, right, because in this 329 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:42.200 day and age, it seems like social media is the worst. 330 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:47.759 It's the worst, it's awful, and Christians are really bad. 331 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.159 A lot of Christians are really bad. And so it's like, 332 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:53.279 you know something. 333 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:55.039 Oh, they're behaving like the world. They're not behaving like 334 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:57.799 christ if they're misbehaving on. 335 00:13:57.759 --> 00:13:58.519 Social media like that. 336 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.320 Yeah. Yeah, So there's this idea, and we've talked about 337 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:07.159 it before, the kiaism concept in Eastern thinking, particularly for 338 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:12.879 the Hebrews within Hebrew, the Hebrew language, Hebrew thought process 339 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.960 where the center is the axis that gives power to 340 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:19.960 the outsides, right, is a part of that. That's not 341 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.080 everything that has to do with the kiahism, but there 342 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:26.559 is this centrality in the logical process for you and me, 343 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:29.919 we would start with the weakest thing and get to 344 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:32.799 the biggest thing. Or you start with the biggest thing 345 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:34.559 and then support it with all the weaker things. 346 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:34.759 Right. 347 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.960 So the logical progression that a Western thinker would have 348 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:41.679 is usually building an argument or starting with the with 349 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.960 the end in mind and then proving it right. But 350 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.240 for them, a lot of times they would put the 351 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:49.639 most important thing if they're going to put a list. 352 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.279 They put the most important thing in the middle, and 353 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.360 then they'll balance it off. So you'll notice there's three 354 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:59.399 things here, right, Power and discipline, Yes, right, So love 355 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:01.919 is what gives you the power to do everything that 356 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.200 you need to do. Uh, it's it should be the engine. 357 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:08.080 It's self discipline is what gives you the character to 358 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.320 do everything you need to do. Right, those two things. 359 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.080 But it's only in love self discipline. Without love, you're 360 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:16.080 just going to be miserable all the time, right, right, 361 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:20.120 You're just you're just gonna be miserable. And you've been around. 362 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:21.320 People who have a lot of discipline, but you don't 363 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:23.440 want to be around them, sure, right, they're just jerks. 364 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.559 Well, I mean the Book of James says Judge that 365 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:28.399 without love, it's like banging a gong or a symbol. 366 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.679 It's like tripping into a drum set. Right, there's no beautiful. 367 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:32.600 Met first thirteen? 368 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.200 Yeah, yeahyeah, yeah yeah? And then what did I say? 369 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:36.519 What was that? I don't know if I said the 370 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:38.039 Book of James something like that. 371 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:40.039 It's first Corinthen's thirteen, fourth through set, and I know 372 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:43.720 the verse. I know the Bible jets I'm a Bible guy. 373 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.720 Yeah. But so this idea then, or the other side 374 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:51.799 of it, which was what was the first one, Uh, 375 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:57.360 power power, right? Power without love turns into abuse, sure, right. 376 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:04.360 Self discipline without love turns into judgmentalism. Right. But if 377 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:07.159 love is at the center, then you have a love 378 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:10.000 based power. You're going to use that for others and 379 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:11.600 you're going to do everything. God will give you all 380 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.320 the power you need. The Spirit will give you all 381 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.679 the power you need to do everything that needs to. 382 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:16.399 Be done for others. 383 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:20.000 Right. And then on the other side, if you have 384 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:24.879 God based power in your life combined with self discipline, 385 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:26.840 you're going to be able to make it through, not 386 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:29.279 be judgmental towards others, but you're going to make it 387 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:30.879 through and be able to do whatever it needs to 388 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:33.679 be done. And so those two things hinge off of 389 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.879 the power. Without it, it becomes you're just a miserable person. 390 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:40.840 You're too powerful and you hurt other people, or you're 391 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.840 so self disciplined, judgmental and kind of a jerk towards people. 392 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:46.799 But those things together, that's what he's saying. You know, 393 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:50.480 I learned this passage in the King James, and I 394 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:53.279 love verse twelve. The end of verse twelve, he says, 395 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:55.840 in the King James, for I know whom I have believed, 396 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:58.240 and am persuaded that he is able to keep that 397 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:02.320 which I've committed to him against that day, right. And 398 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:04.799 I love it because he's telling, you know, Timothy, this 399 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.319 young man that was his mentee, Paul's his mentor. Hey, look, 400 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.240 I'm in prison. Things are tough, but you know what, 401 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:13.039