WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:15.720 Hey everybody, it's Monday morning and we are The Bible Guys. Yes, 5 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:18.559 we have platinum edition with Wesley Woods today. 6 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:19.679 Back again, You're. 7 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:23.079 Back again, bud yep. Jeff is not available. 8 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:26.280 So we are in the green room of Heritage Church 9 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:29.039 flows who are watching a video and we're sort of 10 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:32.079 hopping around until we find our permanent home, which is coming. 11 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.479 But as of right now, we are. If you're listening 12 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:37.920 and you don't watch video, then you don't care about 13 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:40.600 any Yeah, they're like, what. 14 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:41.039 Are you talking? 15 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:42.759 Yeah, that's right. Well, hey listen. 16 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.320 We're in the middle of a series. It's called The 17 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:48.000 Promises of God, and it's all in different contexts, and 18 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:52.439 this week's theme is God's guidance and wisdom. So before 19 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:56.399 we dive into that, we have a hot takes showdown. 20 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:58.399 And so every once in a while, this is what 21 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:02.640 desireeble to do. She'll say, uh, well, she'll want us 22 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:06.439 to argue really and defend our position. But if we 23 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:10.799 think if we agree, it's it's probably less compelling, right, Okay, 24 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.280 But as we enter Thanksgiving week, she says, let's do 25 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.319 a hot take showdown focusing on Thanksgiving dinner. 26 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:21.799 Pick a side, no middle ground, Okay, okay, so here's 27 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:22.280 the hot take. 28 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:23.560 You ready, I'm ready for it. 29 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:25.319 Stuffing is overrated. 30 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:31.560 I agree, really, I agree. So I didn't really grow 31 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:35.000 up eating stuffing, really, so I didn't. So for like 32 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:39.640 a Thanksgiving meal, we would have dressing, which is a 33 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:42.799 little different than stuffing. Is kind of in the same family, 34 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:43.159 but a. 35 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:45.200 Little different dressings like gooier right. 36 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:49.319 No, it's more firm. It's a little more firm where 37 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:52.319 I kind of feel like stuffing is more crumbly, if 38 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:53.000 that makes sense. 39 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.519 Huh. This is all sorts of stuffing. 40 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:59.840 And yeah, and I could guess it depends on who 41 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:03.200 made it and where, Like I would imagine stuffing in 42 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:06.040 the South is very different from stuffing in like New 43 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:06.959 Hampshire or something. 44 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:10.400 Yeah. 45 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:11.199 Yeah, you know. 46 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:13.759 The funny thing is I grew up with my mom 47 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:18.159 making stovetop even you know, even at Thanksgiving, and you know, 48 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:20.280 it's really hard to beat stove top. Yeah, and so 49 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.159 I thought, man, stuffing is the best, the best. I 50 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:26.639 love stuffing. And then I did go down south. I 51 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.199 lived in Atlanta for ten years. Yeah, and I actually 52 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.680 had stuffing that was homemade, but to be honest, like 53 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.199 it was just as good in a lot of ways. 54 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:40.360 And then I've tried stuffing that's like not good at all. Yeah, 55 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:42.960 I've had homemade stuffing that's like, this is stuffing. This 56 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:49.319 is like gooey, bland kind of stuff. So I don't know, man, 57 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:52.199 I'm gonna say stuffing is not overrated. 58 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:54.080 But I like stovetop the best. 59 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:57.360 Oh that's interesting. Yeah, I like stove It's good. Yeah, 60 00:02:57.400 --> 00:02:58.639 but not for Thanksgiven though. 61 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:00.199 Do you remember the. 62 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:05.680 Old commercials they said we're having turkey and stuffing, and 63 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.360 then and then and then the mom says it's stovetop 64 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:10.439 and then the kid goes stovetop. 65 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:14.479 I'm staying Yeah, that's that was the line. 66 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:17.879 So all right here, here's here's the next hot take. Okay, 67 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:21.560 turkey isn't the star of the meal. 68 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.599 Oh that's a tough one right there. 69 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:25.439 Yeah. 70 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.360 So I think people associate Thanksgiving with turkey. I mean, 71 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.080 I think that's a given here in America, but I 72 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.240 would I don't know. I gotta give it up for 73 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.120 the side dishes. Yeah, yeah, you know, like all the 74 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.919 other sides that go along with it. So that's a 75 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:43.919 tough one. So I definitely think you got probably gotta 76 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:44.520 have turkey. 77 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:48.280 But well, turkey is definitely everything centered around turkey. 78 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:48.199 Yeah. 79 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:50.520 But I think what she's meaning here is like, what 80 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.120 do what does everybody get most excited about? 81 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:55.800 You know, they're like, oh, the green. 82 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:58.840 Bean cast role, or the sweet potato cast role, or 83 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.199 or you know, the mashed potatoes that are homemade. Like, 84 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.560 what do people get most excited about? I would probably 85 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:07.919 say istar, yeah. 86 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:09.800 I think so, but that this is tricky, so I 87 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:12.280 would I would throw a curveball in this and say 88 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:13.000 the macaroni. 89 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:15.000 Oh yeah. 90 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.000 So but here's the thing with macaroni, and this is 91 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.439 a hot button topic right here, is do you make 92 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.000 macaroni on the stove or do you bake it like 93 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.079 on top of the stove or baked. I'm a baked guy. 94 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.439 It's got to be baked in the oven Southern style. 95 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:34.759 Yeah. Well, Gordon Ramsay might say both. 96 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.759 Yeah. Yeah, I know. So Debbie, who's at Heritage Church 97 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:42.800 where we are at, she likes the very gooey yeah 98 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:44.680 kind of, And I'm like that's a hard no. 99 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:49.639 Wow, wow, Well I'm gonna say that turkey is the 100 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:54.560 star of the meale. And and it's because I like 101 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:58.000 my cranberry sauce. Yeah, and uh and so I like 102 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.800 the gravy, the cranberry sauce and on the perfect bite 103 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:06.199 for me is turkey with everything complimentive. 104 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:07.879 With you're one of those people you take the fork 105 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:09.439 and you got to get a little bit of everything. 106 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:12.160 Yes, so I'll take I'll take like a bite of 107 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:16.480 turkey with mashed potatoes and corn and gravy, or turkey 108 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:19.839 and cranberry and all the above. So yeah, I say 109 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:20.720 turkey is the start. 110 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.560 You can't go wrong with Thanksgiving meals. 111 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:27.120 It's really good, you can't. Yeah. So hey, what about that? 112 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:27.319 Was? 113 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.240 That was a pretty cool discussion. And I wonder if 114 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.199 are you having family over? I wonder if I was 115 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.240 about to say, I wonder if most people are having 116 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:38.800 like family over for Thanksgiving. 117 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:41.680 So we're hosting it this year? Oh wow, Yeah, but 118 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:45.959 we're hosting it smart. We're getting all the food catered. Wow. 119 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:48.519 So this we've never done that before. 120 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:49.120 Wow. 121 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:52.279 That is mind blowing. 122 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:56.160 Yeah, I mean it's probably gonna be wonderful. 123 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:57.759 And who are you gonna get catered? 124 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.720 It's a small like it's not family owned, but a 125 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:05.199 smaller restaurant in Farmington. Okay, they're going to do all 126 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:06.800 the food for us, So. 127 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.439 Well, good for you. So one and done, baby. 128 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.959 Well, typically happens is you spend the day before you're 129 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.680 cooking all day, You're king all day. We're like, we're 130 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:17.920 not doing that this year. We're just so. 131 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.319 I've got a good friend who always goes and watches 132 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:25.240 the Lions. Oh yeah, you know downtown Detroit. So they 133 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.040 their tradition is they. 134 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:28.279 Don't have Thanksgiving meal. 135 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:28.759 Oh okay. 136 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:30.399 Now, now they're a younger couple. 137 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.120 They don't really have like a lot of family and 138 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.800 so they don't have any kids, so it's just them. 139 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:39.160 Yeah right, but guess what they do for Thanksgiving? Every 140 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:39.920 Thanksgiving meal? 141 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:40.759 What's that? 142 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:45.360 Bob Evans apparently serves a really great Thanksgiving meal. 143 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.720 Now I do know you can do the catering thing 144 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:49.240 from them, like for things. 145 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:52.000 Yeah, so on Thanksgiving they go to Bob Evans. 146 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:55.399 Wow, that is something that's their tradition. Yeah, if it works, 147 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:56.639 and then Lions. 148 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:58.480 And then Lions, Yeah, watch the Lions loose. 149 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:01.759 Now, this is super year. That's right, it's happening. 150 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:02.279 It is. 151 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:05.120 This is the year it's gonna happen a believer, Yes 152 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:07.399 I am, And then next year I'll be saying the 153 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:07.879 same thing. 154 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:09.240 That's right, that's right. 155 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.199 Well, hey, that's great. So hey, we're gonna go ahead 156 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:16.759 and read today. Oh I should say, you know what, Wesley, 157 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:18.600 that segment was a tasty treat. 158 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.000 Yes, and you know what, you know. 159 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.360 What else is a tasty treat? Psalm Chapter twenty five. 160 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:28.800 There are there are bits of there are bits of 161 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:33.199 nourishing treats that are sprinkled all the way through the chapter. 162 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.040 I feel like after that when we need it, like a. 163 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.199 Yeah, no doubt. 164 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:40.839 But we're gonna be reading the whole chapter, but focusing 165 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:41.800 on verse number nine. 166 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:43.600 Okay, are you are the reader? 167 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:44.240 I will read? 168 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:44.759 Okay. 169 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:48.639 So this is Psalm five, reading out of the New 170 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:52.920 Living Translation. It says, Oh Lord, I give my life 171 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.240 to you. I trust in you, my God. Do not 172 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.639 let me be disgraced or let my enemies rejoice in 173 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:02.920 my feet. No one who trusts in you will ever 174 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.800 be disgraced. But disgrace comes to those who try to 175 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:11.199 deceive others. Show me the right path, O, Lord, point 176 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.920 out the road for me to follow. Lead me by 177 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.680 your truth and teach me. For you are the God 178 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.160 who saves me. All day long. I put my hope 179 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.839 in you. Remember, o Lord, your compassion and unfailing love 180 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:28.639 which you have shown from long ages past. Do not 181 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:32.480 remember the rebellious sins of my youth. Remember me in 182 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:36.039 the light of your unfailing love, for you are merciful, 183 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.240 O Lord. The Lord is good and does what is right. 184 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.240 He shows the proper path to those who go astray. 185 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:47.240 He leads the humble in doing right, teaching them his way. 186 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:52.000 The Lord leads with unfailing love and faithfulness all who 187 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:55.960 keep his covenant and obey his demands. For the honor 188 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.559 of your name, O Lord, forgive my many many sins. 189 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.720 Who are those who fear the Lord. He will show 190 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.799 them the path they should choose. They will live in prosperity, 191 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:10.840 and their children will inherit the land. The Lord is 192 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:13.559 a friend to those who fear him. He teaches them 193 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.960 his covenant. My eyes are always on the Lord, for 194 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.639 he rescues me from the traps of my enemies. Turn 195 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:23.519 to me and have mercy, for I am alone and 196 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:28.080 in deep distress. My problems go from bad to worse. Oh, 197 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.559 save me from them. All feel my pain and see 198 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.480 my trouble. Forgive all my sins. See how my enemies 199 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:38.320 I have, See how many enemies I have, and how 200 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:42.759 viciously they hate me. Protect me, rescue my life from them. 201 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:45.799 Do not let me be disgraced. For in you I 202 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:50.080 take refuge. May integrity and honesty protect me, for I 203 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:54.759 put my hope in you. Oh God, ransom Israel from 204 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:55.879 all its troubles. 205 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:59.919 Well there you go. Yeah, so this is a psalm 206 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:00.639 of David. 207 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.720 And just keep in mind that the psalms all were 208 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:07.600 put to music and so and it's hard to believe 209 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:09.799 that something like that could be put to music, but 210 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.759 David was definitely the musician, and he was the poet, 211 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.480 and somehow he made a really good song. 212 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:16.639 Out of that. 213 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:24.080 But but yeah, so David is very often a person 214 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:28.679 who just you know, if you think about David's assignment, right, So, 215 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:32.879 David's assignment in life was to push back on enemies 216 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:36.360 and conquer and defeat them, those who blasphemed against God, 217 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.679 those who you know, God was sort of done with, 218 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:44.039 and and and and and David was never on the offense. 219 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:46.799 He was never you know, it was never commanded, Hey, 220 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.799 go destroy the city. It was always more about enemies 221 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.240 attacking him, and then what he would do is God 222 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:55.159 would give him the victory and then the Kingdom of 223 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.360 Israel would expand and continue to expand as God. 224 00:10:59.039 --> 00:10:59.200 You know. 225 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:04.120 So David constantly had enemies surrounding him, plotting against him, 226 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:05.960 and so a lot of times when you read through 227 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.159 the Psalms, you're like, holy cow, how many enemies did. 228 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:08.519 This guy have? 229 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:11.440 Yeah, And that's the thing I love about psalm when 230 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:15.519 you read through them. Read through the Psalms, it's interesting 231 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:20.000 how it looks like David has an emotional rollercoaster ride, yes, 232 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.919 which is so relevant and relatable today. Like you read 233 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.559 through it and it's like one chapter, you know, or 234 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:29.840 verse God is great and wonderful, the next chapter, Oh, 235 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.320 let the birds pick at my dead's skin, And it's 236 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.720 like how the verse? But I love that because it's 237 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:38.120 real and that's how we feel sometimes. 238 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:40.080 Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah, yeah. 239 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:44.320 And so the verse that we're camping on on God's promises, 240 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:47.240 because again the theme is God's wisdom and guidance, right, 241 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:51.279 So it's really verses eight and nine. It's verse nine 242 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:52.480 is what the highlighted verses. 243 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:53.320 But I'm want to read eight. 244 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:55.960 Also again it says the Lord is good and does 245 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:59.360 what it's right. He shows the proper path to those 246 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:02.399 who goes ray, and then verse nine says he leads 247 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:07.399 the humble and doing right, teaching them his way. So 248 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:09.879 the first thing that stands out to me is that 249 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:14.559 it is that it begins with humility. Right, God's guidance 250 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:20.600 begins with humility, And humility isn't necessarily it's not making 251 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:26.200 yourself feel less. It's actually emptying yourself. It's emptying your will. 252 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:31.320 It's emptying your resolve and your decisions. It's it's really surrendering, really, 253 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:34.279 isn't it. And that's what humility is. It's it's it's 254 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:38.559 the absence of yourself. And so sometimes humility can look like, 255 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:44.679 excuse me, putting others before yourself, and that that is 256 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.720 definitely true, you know, like if I'm with you, you know, 257 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:50.919 and I'm humble, I allow you to, you know, get 258 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:54.200 the spotlight more than me. That that's humility. But when 259 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.039 it comes to humility with the Lord, uh, what it 260 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:00.919 really is is it's the absence of your will versus 261 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:03.799 his will. It's the emptying of yourself. And so I 262 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.799 think that's important because it says he leads the humble 263 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:11.440 and doing right, teaching them his way. And I think 264 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:15.080 the prerequisite is to say, God, not my ways, but 265 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:15.799 show me yours. 266 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:16.879 Yeah, don't you think? 267 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:20.360 Yeah? No, that's awesome. When I first looked at verse eight, 268 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:24.480 I got hung up on just the first part of 269 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:28.399 that verse where it says the Lord is good. And 270 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:31.240 I love that part, just to know that the Lord 271 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:34.000 is good. Maybe there's someone watching right now and you're 272 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:37.039 going through a very tough time in your life and 273 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:39.840 you're thinking, where is God right now? God? Do you 274 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:42.480 see my pain the hurt when I'm going through the 275 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:45.320 chaos in my life? And I just want that person 276 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:50.039 to know that the Lord is good. The Bible doesn't 277 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:53.399 say we would always understand, and there are many things 278 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.080 that happened in my life that I didn't understand, and 279 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:59.759 maybe only when I get to Heaven will I fully understand. 280 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.759 But the confidence we have is that the Lord is 281 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.360 good no matter what you're going through in your life. 282 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:08.879 So I love that part right there. And then the 283 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:12.840 Lord is good and does what is right, and that's 284 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.840 something to think about I can think of. And I 285 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:19.240 shared this story before of how my prayer to God 286 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:22.120 was I wanted to do full time ministry and I 287 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:24.720 was in the corporate world. So my prayer God, I 288 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.799 want to do full time ministry. So you know what happened, Chris. 289 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:33.840 My job downsized and they let me go, and I'm like, okay, Lord, 290 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:37.360 My prayer was I want to do full time ministry, 291 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:40.000 not lose my job. That was not part of this 292 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:44.919 prayer equation, but in me losing my job, and I 293 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.000 don't have time to go through the whole story. A 294 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:51.720 series of events led to me getting here at Heritage Church. 295 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:56.399 But had I not lost my job, I may have 296 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:00.879 very well never come to Heritage Church. So the Lord 297 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.559 is good and does what is right, but what is 298 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:06.960 right isn't always. The Bible says that my ways are 299 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:09.679 not your ways, my thoughts are not your thoughts. So 300 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:12.200 God will always do what is right, but it may 301 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:14.120 not make sense in the time. And I think that's 302 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:15.519 important for us to remember that. 303 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:16.600 Yeah. 304 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.679 And it also says he leads the humble in doing right, 305 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:22.879 not he leads the humble in doing. 306 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:25.360 What's easy or doing what you want to do right. 307 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:28.600 Yeah, Yeah, And that's important because I think a lot 308 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:31.159 of times you know, some you know, we think that 309 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:32.120 God should. 310 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:33.200 Make our pads easier. 311 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:35.759 It's like, hey, when I sign up to follow God, 312 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.200 he should, you know, take away my pain. 313 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.919 Or or everything is just beautiful. 314 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:43.799 Or yeah, at least make things clearer or you know, 315 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:48.080 or take away that the opposition in my life or 316 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:48.840 the enemies. 317 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:50.000 Just like David was praying. 318 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:53.080 And it's just important to know that it doesn't say 319 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:55.639 that he'll guide us in doing what is easy. He'll 320 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:58.120 guide us in doing what is right. And so you 321 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:00.000 may be going through a tough time and thinking, God, 322 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.919 just take the pain away. Yeah, but we'll never know 323 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:05.399 the side of eternity, you know, the purpose of pain. 324 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:07.879 Sometimes the purpose of pain is from God, I think. 325 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:11.200 And then sometimes pain just comes about because. 326 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:12.320 We live in a broken world. 327 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:15.159 Yeah, right, like life is hard. Yeah, and in the 328 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.399 Bible says that we're in Romans eight, we're under the 329 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:20.320 bondage and decay of sin, and we're under the curse 330 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:24.200 of the law. And so sometimes you know, it just 331 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:27.720 doesn't translate into what is easy, but it's always in 332 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:31.840 He'll lead us into doing right, doing what is right. 333 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:34.519 When you just shared that, I thought about the verse 334 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:36.720 that talks about how it rains on the just and 335 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:40.679 the unjust. Yeah, sometimes stuff just happens, right, you know 336 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:43.559 how sometimes I feel like as Christians we try to 337 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:48.200 make everything deep or spiritual, like everything that happens there's 338 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:52.720 some deep spirit Sometimes stuff just happens. You know, you're 339 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:54.960 driving down the street and you hit a pothole. That 340 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:57.440 wasn't the devil trying to take out your car, right, 341 00:16:57.679 --> 00:16:59.840 just was a pothole. Right, So I think we have 342 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:04.240 to remember that that just because we follow God doesn't mean, 343 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:07.079 like you said, everything's just going to be wonderful and beautiful, 344 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.880 but it rains on the just and the unjust. Sometimes 345 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.519 things just happen in life and there's no deep spiritual 346 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:14.720 significance behind it. 347 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:18.680 That's exactly correct, yea. And sometimes we could over spiritualize things. Yeah. 348 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:20.119 Have you ever met somebody that way? 349 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:25.640 When you just saying that, I think of my wife's 350 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:31.799 sister's friend. Yeah, everything is spiritual, yes, Like literally the 351 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.839 waitress could drop a spoon at the restaurant. There's some 352 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:40.279 deep spiritual things. It's like she just dropped the spoon. 353 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.039 That's it, right, right, there's nothing deep about this. 354 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:43.440 Yeah. 355 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:47.279 Yeah, there are people who over spiritualize so many things, 356 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:50.039 and it's like, it's like, come on, man, not everything 357 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:50.599 is that way. 358 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:51.400 Yeah. 359 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:53.920 I remember one time we were having trouble with the 360 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:57.200 sound system in my small church, and I remember the 361 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:01.880 administry of assistant came up and she says, I pray 362 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.119 that the demons will come out of the sound system. 363 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.079 I'm like, I'm pretty sure it isn't the demons. I'm 364 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:10.359 pretty sure it's this knob. It's like and I tweaked 365 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:13.240 the knob and then everything got better, and I'm like, 366 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:14.920 I'm like, I'm like, I don't know why you went 367 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:18.240 spiritual there, but it's just a knowledge of the sound 368 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:24.039 system and that button was the problem right there. You know, 369 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:26.519 here's another thing. There's a lot of sermons in just 370 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:28.759 this one verse, right, So it says he leads the 371 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:31.880 humble in doing right, teaching them his way. It just 372 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:36.039 it dawns on me that it's a reminder that God's 373 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:41.119 guidance is personal because it says it teaches them his ways. 374 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:46.000 So it doesn't say it doesn't say he teaches a way, right, 375 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:48.519 he teaches you know, the formula of the way. 376 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:49.119 Right. 377 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:52.960 It says he teaches them those who are humble, he 378 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:56.279 teaches them, which means that that you know, sometimes in life, 379 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:02.279 you know God's advice, in God's direction, and in God's promises, 380 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:05.920 they're they're totally personal, and so it's a promise that 381 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.960 God knows us. He teaches them, meaning he'll meet you 382 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.359 right where you're at. He'll meet you in your circumstance. 383 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:16.960 He'll meet you, you know what, what emotions that you're 384 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.799 going through. You may feel like maybe another person might 385 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:23.640 handle it differently, but God will meet you in your anxiety, 386 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:26.640 He'll meet you in your concerns. He'll meet you, you know, 387 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:31.799 and whatever circumstance you find yourself in, just know that 388 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:35.400 God's going to be personal to you. 389 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:35.920 Yeah. 390 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:36.240 Yeah. 391 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:40.880 Along with that, Chris, there's probably someone here listening or 392 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:44.920 watching in their thinking, I'm too far away from God. 393 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:48.839 I'm too lost, I'm too far gone. I've made too 394 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.599 many mistakes. And I love how in verse eight, the 395 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:56.440 second half it says he shows the proper path to 396 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:01.039 those who go astray. So even are those that have 397 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:04.839 gone astray, God is still thinking about those people. And 398 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:08.039 I absolutely love that. It's not just I'll show the 399 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.160 proper path to those who are mine. He's saying, I'll 400 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.279 show the proper path to even those who have gone astray, 401 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:17.359