WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:18.280 You're going to do that? 5 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:20.559 Well, that didn't go very well. 6 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:23.519 Good morning, Yeah, good morning. I thought it was going 7 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:25.760 to be better. I thought you were able to hear 8 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:30.519 me more. But no, you know, the problem was these microphones. 9 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.399 Are so small and it was too much. 10 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:32.359 Yeah, there's too much. 11 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.159 Yeah, yeah, I should have lifted up. I could probably 12 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:38.240 do it better. Can you gargle and like sort of 13 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:38.920 talk and sync? 14 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:44.799 I don't know, I'm not going to do it. 15 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:49.039 Hey, there you go. It's not better. 16 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:51.079 Okay, at least you can sort of hear it, all. 17 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:54.079 Right, all right, that was awful for those who are 18 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:54.840 definitely listening. 19 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:56.880 There's anybody else still listening right? 20 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:57.399 Correct? 21 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:58.520 Today is a big day. 22 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:02.399 It is a big day because Absolute is going to 23 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:03.840 have a big conflict. 24 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:06.120 That's exactly right. You'll give it away and we're not 25 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:07.319 going to give it away a big secrets. 26 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:09.719 So before we get into that, we have watch segment 27 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:11.480 real quick that is called one Must Go. 28 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:14.959 We should come up with that one must Go something 29 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:15.359 like that. 30 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:18.120 Yeah, it should it should be like what was the 31 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:19.000 big fighting. 32 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:20.280 Game, finish him. 33 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:24.319 To combat. Yeah, that's what we need. We need a 34 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:25.480 Mortal Kombat kind of a voice. 35 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:31.239 Or we could do one must go, We do that. 36 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:33.719 That's up that all right? Which one of you are 37 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:35.879 keeping and which one has to go away forever? So 38 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:37.200 what we're saying is this. 39 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:39.959 Is for the world, for the whole world forever. Yes, 40 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:42.920 for the whole It literally says go away forever for everybody. 41 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:44.200 No, it doesn't say everybody. 42 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:44.920 No, it's just for me. 43 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:46.519 No for now. 44 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.200 See, that's where the content ones are you keeping? And 45 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:51.879 which one has to go away forever? 46 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:53.840 Okay, well this changes the rules. So is it for 47 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:54.680 us or is it for the world? 48 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.200 I think it's for everybody. We're in charge of the world, 49 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.159 whatever we make. Okay, the whole world off? 50 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:00.480 All right? 51 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:04.280 Number one, Oh my goodness, the smell of fresh cookies 52 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:07.040 goes away forever or the relaxing sound of rain. 53 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:09.800 I bet I know which one you choose. 54 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:18.479 I I would have to, as much as I hate 55 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:21.080 to say this, the smell of cookies has to go away. 56 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:23.719 Really, I would have thought that you would keep. 57 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.360 No, because rain is universal. Not everybody gets cookies around 58 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:31.000 the world, but everybody. 59 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:33.560 Has the relaxing sound of rain, right, I mean, think 60 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:33.840 about it. 61 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.240 So your choice for the world, that's what I say. 62 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:40.919 Once again. No, I mean, but it's your compassion on everybody. Yes, 63 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:45.240 your love. Yes, people don't it's not what you want 64 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:45.919 to keep. 65 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:48.080 Don't you know by now, Jeff, That's all I think 66 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:48.960 about is others. 67 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:54.879 Others. Oh yeah, that's it. Okay, Okay. I was going 68 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.039 to say, I'll keep the fresh smell of cookies and 69 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:57.639 get rid of. 70 00:02:57.599 --> 00:02:59.960 Relaxing rain just because you like that smell. 71 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:04.039 Smell is very powerful scent. 72 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:08.599 So sound sense a sense okay. 73 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:11.400 Although I will say one of my favorite sounds in 74 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:13.680 the world is the sound of rain on a tent. 75 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:15.319 I love it. 76 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:21.840 Okay, not a tent for me, but maybe on a roof. 77 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:23.960 Well, there's something about being in your sleeping bag on 78 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:27.199 your cot and it's raining outside but you're dry inside, 79 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.520 and alls you have is like a half a millimeter 80 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.960 between you and that rain. It's great. 81 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:37.919 H Or in your nice cozy bed and you hear 82 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:39.120 the rain on your rooftop. 83 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:41.800 The rooftop. Yeah, that's okay if you're on the second floor. 84 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:42.840 All right, here we go. 85 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:43.520 Number two. 86 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:47.439 What goes away forever? Social media or reality TV? 87 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:50.439 Both? Please? 88 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:51.759 Yeah, no doubt? 89 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:58.280 Yeah, I picked one though, go which one? Yep? Which one? 90 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:01.240 Do I hate more? Reality Tv? I hate worse than. 91 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:04.000 Yeah, I agree with that. I agree with that. 92 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:06.479 There's almost nothing redemptive in reality TV. 93 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:09.240 Yeah, but there is something redemptive on social media. 94 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:11.199 A little bit, a little bit on occasion. Yep. 95 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.439 Okay, number three? What goes away forever? Jeff? Board games 96 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:19.560 or video games? Man, this is this is this is 97 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:20.079 it and home. 98 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:22.199 But she's just she's mean today. 99 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:23.160 Yeah, that's right. 100 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.399 She woke up on the wrong side of the event 101 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:29.639 and decided Desi rae decided she's just going to ruin 102 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:33.439 our lives. Board games or video games? Yeah, I think 103 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:37.199 board games have to go your video game? 104 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:39.720 No, But again I'm thinking for the world. 105 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.360 For the world, yeah, becacause everybody has video games. Nobody 106 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:44.360 has the. 107 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:48.399 Future of gaming gaming or video games. Yes, right, So 108 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.120 so the future of gaming is not board games. 109 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:53.680 Well that's a huge sacrifice, people, because Chris and his 110 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:55.480 family have game night. 111 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:56.399 Yeah that's right. 112 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:57.879 Yeah, so that's a big one. 113 00:04:58.079 --> 00:04:59.920 So again, once again, I'm thinking about the chef. 114 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.399 So do we we love board games too, but yeah, 115 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.480 board games are great. We like party games more than 116 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:05.920 board games, I think a little bit more. 117 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.839 Yeah, okay, all right, before what goes away forever? Jeff? 118 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:15.000 Road trips or plane flights for domestic trips. 119 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:17.439 Plane flights? 120 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:19.639 Really? 121 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:22.519 Yeah, I love road trips. It's because I'm on a 122 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:25.639 plane all the time. That's probably why, right, Although you 123 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.439 don't get to go as far, So I wonder is 124 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.560 it practical or is it for enjoyment? Enjoyment road trips? Practically, 125 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:37.399 I would rather fly to La than Yeah, you know, 126 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:40.040 I'd like to do like Route sixty six. That'd be 127 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.879 fun to do once once, But the other ninety five 128 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:45.759 times I've had to fly to the West Coast i'd 129 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.959 rather so once again, I'm going to road I choose 130 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:49.399 road trip. 131 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.120 I'm going to read this question as if it just 132 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:56.360 goes away forever, not not like semi but total. So 133 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:58.399 I'm going to say road trips have to go away 134 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:01.959 because because come on, right. 135 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.199 So here's your problem. Now, how long does a road 136 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:06.360 trip have to be before it's a road trip? How 137 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:07.240 would you have gotten here? 138 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:09.800 Hey, let's let's go to a dairy queen road trip? 139 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:13.000 So how would you have gotten to the studio today 140 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:14.439 without any road trips? 141 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:15.319 Uh? 142 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.519 Yeah, how would you get to the office. 143 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.639 Yeah, so I would say, I would say, there's a 144 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.319 condition on my choice, which is we would have to 145 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:25.879 define what road trips are. 146 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:30.639 Yeah, I think it's road trips are uh, trips on roads? 147 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:33.800 No, that's not it's not a trip. 148 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:36.839 Well so flight, it's not a train. Flights are flights 149 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:37.240 in plane. 150 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.519 I get news for you right to the studio. You 151 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:41.639 weren't taking a road trip? 152 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:44.000 I was. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't know, I 153 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:45.160 didn't walk through the woods. 154 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:46.279 Define the word trip. 155 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:52.240 It's a traveling, it's it's the building of travel t s. Well, 156 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:56.399 so same thing with flight plane flights. A plane flight 157 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:01.480 is a flight on a plane, transition, it's a trip 158 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.279 on the road. I just think you're not able to 159 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:07.240 go anywhere if you get rid of road trips. All right, anyways, 160 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:09.759 go ahead. I disagree people. This is this is this 161 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.560 is pretty much Chris andized life's worry about nothing. 162 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.959 Can I just can I just add that the whole 163 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.839 world would be better placed if we just had star 164 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:17.600 trek beam. 165 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:18.839 It would everywhere. 166 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:21.160 Yes, beat me up, Scottie, Yeah, okay, all right, And 167 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:25.399 then finally number five, early morning meetings or late night meetings, 168 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:26.959 something has to go away forever. 169 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:33.720 I don't know the problem with late night meetings for 170 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:35.879 me is I get so repped up it's going to 171 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:37.800 take me an hour or two to go to sleep 172 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:40.160 after the meeting. Yeah, because I just I get really, 173 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:42.360 my brain is going a million miles an hour. I'm 174 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:45.639 very excited about good meetings, but I hate early morning 175 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:46.160 meetings too. 176 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:50.279 Yeah, So I'm gonna definitely say, without question, late night 177 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:54.360 meetings go away forever. Really, yeah, because out without question, 178 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:55.560 there's not even a question. 179 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:55.800 You know. 180 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.399 Here's the reason why. Because if early morning meetings went away, 181 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:04.120 that would mean late night meetings would have to be 182 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:04.839 more of an option. 183 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.319 And in my life, late night meetings are so rare 184 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:13.319 that I hate them like more than life itself. And 185 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.399 uh and I think I hate them way more than 186 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:17.600 I hate early morning meetings. 187 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:19.160 Okay, all right, well you know what I'm going to 188 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:20.839 go with you on that one? Okay, Okay, you and 189 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.000 I are together on that one. Yes, we are not 190 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:25.360 together on road trips versus plane flights. 191 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:29.120 Yes, because we define road trips the semantics and. 192 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:31.720 We're not we're not together on cookies in rain. 193 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:34.919 Cookies and rain. Well, you know, I just trying to 194 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:35.960 think of everybody, you know. 195 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:40.360 Who else was not together? Absolum and David, we're not together. 196 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:48.200 It is the perfect say he nailed it. That's so great. 197 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:50.000 That's terrible, it's terrible. 198 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.879 It's where we are real radio pros. Let me tell 199 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:54.879 you that. 200 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:59.480 Speaking of road trips is about to go on. 201 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:00.159 A really. 202 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:08.440 So if you're tuning in with us, David and Absolom 203 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:12.360 have been squaring off. Absolom, his son, is the heir 204 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.279 to the throne. He has decided, after maneuvering for about 205 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.200 eight years or so, to pull off a coup. Attempt 206 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:21.360 to pull off a coup against his father. His father 207 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:25.120 runs out into the fleas, out into the desert, into 208 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:28.559 the wilderness with his armies and his people, and because 209 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:32.440 he doesn't want to fight Absolom. And finally it looks 210 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:36.279 like now, Absolom, we just read about how David's praying 211 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.200 even though I'm surrounded by ten thousand men. So now 212 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:43.279 he feels surrounded. This isn't was it? Psalm three? Surrounded 213 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.720 by ten thousand men? And then here we are in 214 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:49.759 Second Samuel, chapter eighteen, and it says this in verse one. 215 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.519 David now mustered the men who were with him and 216 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.399 appointed generals and captains to lead them. He sent the 217 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:57.960 troops out in three groups, placing one group under Joe Abb, 218 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.919 one under Joeb's brother Abishai, son of Zuruyah, and one 219 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:05.120 under Itai, the man from Gath. The king told his troops, 220 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.039 I'm going out with you, but as men objected strongly, 221 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:10.720 you must not go, they urged him. If we have 222 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:12.960 to turn and run, and even if half of us die, 223 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:15.679 it'll make no difference to Absalom's troops. They will be 224 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.759 looking only for you. You are worth ten thousand of us, 225 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:20.399 and it is better that you stay here in the 226 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:23.200 town and send help if we need it. If you 227 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.159 think that's the best plan, I'll do it, the king answered. 228 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:27.600 So he stood alongside the gate of the town as 229 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:30.039 all the troops marched out in groups of hundreds and 230 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.000 of thousands. Can you imagine, let's se you think of 231 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:36.759 that lord of the rings and thousands. And the king 232 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:39.240 gave his command to Joe Abb Abishai and ida, I, 233 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.919 for my sake deal gently with young Absalom. And all 234 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:45.320 the troops heard the king give this order to his commanders. 235 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.639 So the battle began in the force of Ephraim, and 236 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:51.720 the Israelite troops were beaten back by David's men. There 237 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.399 was a great slaughter that day, and twenty thousand men 238 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.879 laid down their lives. The battle raged all across the countryside, 239 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:00.639 and more men died because of the force than were 240 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:04.000 killed by the sword. During the battle, Absolom happened to 241 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:06.759 come upon some of David's men. He tried to escape 242 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:08.960 on his mule, but as he rode beneath the thick 243 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.559 branches of a great tree, his hair got caught in 244 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.320 the tree. His mule kept going and left him dangling 245 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.759 in the air. One of David's men saw what had 246 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.600 happened and told Joeab I saw Absalom dangling from a tree. 247 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:24.159 What Joeb demanded? You saw him there and didn't kill him. 248 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:26.879 I would have rewarded you with ten pieces of silver 249 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.679 in a hero's belt. I would not kill the king's 250 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:31.759 son for even a thousand pieces of silver. The man 251 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.240 replied to Joeb. We all heard the king say to 252 00:11:34.279 --> 00:11:37.360 you and Abishei and Idi, for my sake, please spare 253 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.639 young Absalom, and if I had betrayed the king by 254 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:41.720 killing his son, and the king would certainly find out 255 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:44.360 who did it. You yourself would be the first to abandon me. 256 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:47.279 Enough of this nonsense, Joeab said, and then he took 257 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.840 three daggers and plunged them into Absolom's heart as he 258 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:53.080 dangled still alive in the great tree. Ten of Joeb's 259 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:56.440 young armor bearers then surrounded Absolom and killed him. Then 260 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.480 Joab blew the rams horn and his men returned from 261 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.440 chasing the army of Israel. They threw Absolom's body into 262 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:04.080 a deep pit in the forest and piled a great 263 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:06.559 heap of stones over it, and all Israel fled to 264 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:10.360 their homes. During his lifetime, Absolom had built a monument 265 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.759 to himself in the King's valley, for he said, I 266 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:15.559 have no son to carry on my name. He named 267 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.440 the monument after himself, and it is known as the 268 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:22.720 as Absolom's Monument to this day. 269 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:23.120 Yuck. 270 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.879 Well, there you go, three daggers into his chest. And 271 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:30.720 it actually says three daggers into his heart, but as 272 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.879 he dangled still alive in the tree. And then it 273 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:37.240 says ten of Joev's young armor bearers then surrounded absoloin 274 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.080 and killed them, which means, okay, number one, number one, 275 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:41.639 think about this. 276 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:42.720 It's a pretty rough way to go. 277 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:47.159 Well, well, listen before that, remember, remember we talked about 278 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:50.399 a few I think last week sometime that his hair weighed. 279 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:51.559 Five pounds, five pounds of hair. 280 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:53.759 Five pounds of hair two. 281 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.519 Hundred shekels is what five pounds. 282 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.600 So he's got this long flowing hair. 283 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.440 We talked about Rapunzel or Crystal Gale or somebody where 284 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:03.000 it just must have been ridiculous. 285 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:06.759 I mentioned Troy Palomalo, by the way, the NFL Hall 286 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:08.840 of Famers, so I think you mentioned. 287 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.279 Well, let's face it, women have long hair, mostly correct 288 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.639 mostly and apparently so anyway. So so think here's what 289 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:23.240 I'm trying to say. To dangle from your hair, has 290 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:26.399 anybody ever grabbed your hair and try to lift you up? 291 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:28.960 Even when they grab you. I've been in a fight before. 292 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.320 Where somebody's which is a terrible thing to say, but 293 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:33.399 somebody's grabbed my hair and like even pulled me by 294 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:36.919 my hair. Uh, even even to pull you and just 295 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.039 direct you when you're able to take the pressure off 296 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.440 and use your legs. But to dangle buy your hair 297 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:45.399 what it means. And by the way, he dangled long 298 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.840 enough for somebody to see him and then go tell 299 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.559 Joebright and then for them to travel back to the tree. 300 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.759 Through a battle. You know, he escaped across the battlefield 301 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.240 get to the general, and the general has to get 302 00:13:58.279 --> 00:13:59.559 back with his arms. 303 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:02.759 It's like he's daggling from the tree for like an hour, 304 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:05.639 probably right, or at least at least twenty minutes. 305 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:07.960 This is one of those moments where Absolm's thinking, I 306 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:12.000 should have carried a pocket knife, right, just kind of 307 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:14.480 yeah with the heck r Apparently apparently he did have 308 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:15.960 a sword, he didn't have something. 309 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.559 Oh yeah, I guess so well either way. So let's 310 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.320 not overlook the fact that the forest was apparently brutal, 311 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:25.960 so we can get to that in a minute. But 312 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:30.039 so maybe perhaps his hair, being so large, just had 313 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.399 tangled up in such a way to where he couldn't 314 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:32.919 get it out. 315 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.480 So my grandfather was friends with Jacques Cousteau, if you 316 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.360 remember the Great Underwater. You're telling me that before we am, 317 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.440 And my grandfather, when he was older, grew his hair 318 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:45.639 real long, so he had really long haired, always wearing 319 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.559 a ponytail, and then he was an explorer, scuba diver, 320 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:51.360 pretty pretty well known explorer. He was one of the 321 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:56.879 early developers of scuba. And so he was in a 322 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.720 cave of coral and this is right before he got married. 323 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:01.799 He got he remarried again when he was seventy, so 324 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.559 he must have been like sixty eight or sixty nine, 325 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:06.720 and he got stuck in a cave. His hair got 326 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:09.120 stuck in coral and he couldn't get it out, and 327 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:12.399 he had just noticed on his dive watch that it 328 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:14.279 was time to go up. He's about out of air. 329 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:16.480 So he's swimming through this coral cave. You gotta be 330 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:18.200 really careful in coral caves. You can't touch him, but 331 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:21.960 sometimes they'll slice your shoe brutal. And he was in 332 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.039 a high pressure place, so it was really deep water. 333 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:27.559 And he's going through this coral cave and he gets 334 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:29.960 his hair stuck in the coral and he can't get 335 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.639 it out. And so we would go months not see him. 336 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:34.399 Because he was an adventure he'd travel all around the 337 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:36.279 world do all kinds of crazy stuff, and so we 338 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:37.960 just never knew who he was. And then he wouldn't 339 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:39.879 ever call. He'd just show up. He'd just show up 340 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:41.519 at the house. He'd stop what we were doing, hang 341 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:44.320 out with Grandpa for a while. Kind of this eccentric 342 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:47.200 old guy. So he shows up one day, his hair's 343 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:49.080 all gone right. I'm like, what happened. He's like, oh, 344 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:50.360 I got stuck in a cave and had to cut 345 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:53.240 my hair off, and so he used his diving knife 346 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:55.399 to cut his own hair. So every time I read 347 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:57.360 this passage and I'm like, dude, he just had should 348 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.000 have had a knife, right. If he didn had a knife, 349 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.799 he cut his own hair. But that's why, that's why 350 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:05.120 you should go prepared. Boys and girls was not a 351 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:05.639 boy show. 352 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:09.039 There you go, you could do this whole entire sermon. 353 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:11.480 I'll just be prepared, just be prepared. And he wasn't 354 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:13.360 prepared to be prepared. 355 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:16.519 What he certainly wasn't a boy scout. That's what you 356 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:17.200 can tell you. 357 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:18.919 Well. And then and so then he hangs there, So 358 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:19.639 that's brutal. 359 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:24.519 And then then job sticks three knives, not one, not two, 360 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:26.159 three right into his heart. 361 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.279 But somehow he still lives. And then ten people have 362 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:31.919 to surround him and then what stab him until he dies. 363 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:34.679 I mean, this is brutal. It is brutal, and then 364 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:35.720 they throw rocks on him. 365 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:40.200 Yeah, corpse, But it's it's really amazing when finally David, 366 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:42.759 you know, Absolom pushes this fight. 367 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.919 Hey, by the way, and then Job says, that will 368 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:47.080 teach you for burning my field. 369 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:51.360 Yeah, that's the truth. He didn't say it here, but 370 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:54.000 you know he was thinking it. You'll punk get rid 371 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.679 of this guy Field, That's right. So these are hard men, 372 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.679 and these are extraordinarily hard times, and so the Bible 373 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:05.839 is just recounting what happened. But it's pretty phenomenal that 374 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:10.839 this guy comes up against David, his own son, and 375 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:13.720 David retreats. He doesn't want to fight him. David is 376 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:17.720 willing to abandon his throne and leave his palace and 377 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.200 go back out into the desert where he had lived 378 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:24.000 for so long. He would rather suffer the struggle and 379 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.920 the difficulty of living in the wilderness than the privilege 380 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:30.880 and the power of sitting on the throne in order 381 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.359 to not have to fight his own son. Yeah, but 382 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.440 we know clearly David can rout his son at any moment. 383 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.960 David is so far beyond Ebsolom, so Absolom is out 384 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.680 over his skis right. He thinks he's better than he is. 385 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.079 He thinks he's more capable than he is because he's 386 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.640 able to with a silver tongue win over a few 387 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.160 key advisors and leaders. He thinks he's better. He just 388 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.480 totally underestimates his dad. And he decides he's going to go, 389 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:58.920 and David decides, I'm just not going to fight him. 390 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:02.960 But here David is surrounded by ten thousand men. He goes, okay, right, 391 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.720 now's the time we're gonna we're gonna have to square off. 392 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:07.519 I don't want to, and so he begs him, please 393 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:08.880 be gentle with my son. 394 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:11.119 He has hundreds of thousands of men. 395 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:14.799 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I mean in his prayer in Ps. 396 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.400 Three ten thousand, but we know here it's hundreds of 397 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:21.079 thousands of men, right, yeah, well it's hundreds and thousands. 398 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.359 It says, oh, it doesn't say a hundred, It doesn't 399 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.000 say hundreds of thousands. 400 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:29.160 It says hundreds and thousands of men, is what it says. 401 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:30.119