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 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:13.320 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:18.039 And today is Friday, Friday, f y Friday t G 6 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:20.519 I F yes, yes, And so this is Kyle. 7 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:23.399 Kyle, this is your last day with us. You've been 8 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:25.359 with us all week. Yes, thank you so much for 9 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:26.199 being part of it. 10 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:28.559 I hope I get the invite back, you know, but 11 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:30.960 maybe next time it'll be so far. Maybe next time 12 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:33.479 it'll be the Bible Guys with Chris and Kyle instead 13 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:34.520 of with Kyle and Chris. 14 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:36.799 Maybe I'll get the money and says the sign above 15 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.719 us says with Kyle and Chris, which you know, Hey, 16 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:43.039 that's fine. Yes, I'm all about helping those of the 17 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:43.679 next generation. 18 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:44.920 Look at you. 19 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:45.240 Yes. 20 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.399 So we're gonna start with a segment for the Desiree 21 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:52.079 put together for us, and it is who is most likely. 22 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:54.320 I'm used to doing this with Jeff. 23 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:58.479 So in order for us to uh have consensus on this, 24 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:00.479 we'd have to know each other really well. So we 25 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.640 know each other sort of kind of right, So we're 26 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:05.400 gonna have to do our best. The goal of this 27 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:09.120 is to say really quickly, who's most likely to do this? 28 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:09.680 All right? 29 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:11.719 And then hey, you know what, if anybody, even people 30 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:13.200 want to throw stuff on YouTube, I feel like this 31 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:15.680 is the opportunity if you're watching on YouTube or whatever, 32 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:17.680 just to just to throw your thoughts in there too. 33 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:19.000 Trash talk us if you want. 34 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:21.280 Trash talk us. Yep, all right, so we'll we'll every 35 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:22.840 other one. Ready, I'll do the first one, all right. 36 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.280 Number one, who's most likely to have a secret identity 37 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:28.159 as a superhero in their mind? 38 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:29.120 I would say you. 39 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:31.159 I'd say me too, tell me why. 40 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:36.280 I just think you have a really big imagination. Yep, 41 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.400 and I think that's a really good trait. But I 42 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.920 think your imagination, I think you are very creative, and yeah, 43 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:44.239 I think that's why you'd have a super I think 44 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:46.000 you probably could describe what the name like. And you're 45 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.239 also very particular, very detailed, Whereas I think I have 46 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:52.040 a good imagination, but it's like it's not quite to 47 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:53.519 the level that yours is. So I think this one 48 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:53.920 will be you. 49 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.239 Yeah. Well, and then and then you've left. 50 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.400 I think what you said is true, but it's also 51 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:01.120 you've left out the biggest part, which is I grew 52 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.280 up as a comic book nerd. 53 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:04.319 Oh okay, yeah, yeah. 54 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:08.199 So my brother Jimmy was the comics nerd in the family. 55 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:09.479 He's the one who draws, right. 56 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:13.199 Yes, yes, And so consequently all of us read all 57 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:15.639 the comic books that he would get, and so I 58 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:18.800 was sort of like one level removed from a true 59 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.120 comic book nerd. Right, but I consider myself combook nerd. 60 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:23.400 H Okay, yep, all right. 61 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:26.199 Second one is who's most likely to be overly competitive 62 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:29.000 in a casual setting. I would actually say, I think 63 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.560 we're both probably a little too competitive. I have I'm 64 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:33.280 going to go with me on this one because I 65 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.599 have had too many instances, okay, where I in casual 66 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:38.280 settings have gotten a little too competitive. 67 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:41.039 I would say, ten years ago, I would probably rival you, 68 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:44.520 but I would also actually probably slightly give the nod 69 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.319 to you, only because you've matured. 70 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:49.039 I'll be there ten years Yeah. 71 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.120 No, it's probably true you sort of care less, you. 72 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:55.960 Know what I mean, your competitiveness and not in everything 73 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:00.199 like if we're playing a game of like volleyball, I'm 74 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:02.800 going to be right there with y. Yeah yeah, yeah, 75 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:06.759 But in things that are less important. I'm just like, 76 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:07.800 I don't really care. 77 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:08.159 Doesn't many? 78 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:08.560 Yeah. 79 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.840 I Actually is funny because we had our because I'm 80 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.159 a campus pastor at our Stony Creek campus that just 81 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:14.400 opened a couple of months ago. 82 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:14.639 Shout out. 83 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:18.639 But the youth pastor from our from our main campus, 84 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.400 Connor Meat, actually came out and spoke at our first 85 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:22.360 every youth event which we had last night, which was great. 86 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:22.680 Yeah. 87 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:24.639 By the way, forty two students showed up. Eighteen of 88 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.360 them had never been to Heritage before. That wasn't that amazing? 89 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.879 Sixty something people with all our volunteers and everybody there 90 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:33.599 was a great event, great kickoff. But Connor, in his 91 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.159 uh message, shared a couple of stories of times where 92 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.520 I was overly competitive to him just to mess with me. 93 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:40.199 One of them being him being like a seventh or 94 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.000 eighth grader and we were playing a flag football thing 95 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.800 and he alleges that I tackled him. I remember it differently, 96 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:49.120 but either way, alleges that I tackled. 97 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:50.120 Either way, that's awesome. 98 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.639 Okay, Number three, who's most likely to accidentally join a 99 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:55.000 cult because they were cured? 100 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:58.879 Oh, I'm gonna dude, this is a tough one. 101 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:00.879 I'm gonna probably go with me on this one, Okay, 102 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.240 although I don't think that's very probable. Yeah, we had 103 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.159 to choose one of them, right, Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna 104 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:11.199 choose me only because of one reason. I could be 105 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:17.399 sometimes blissfully unaware of things. Okay, okay, And so although 106 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.879 I don't think I've ever been unaware of a cult, 107 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:21.759 but I think. 108 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:23.040 The only thing is I mean, and I agree. I 109 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:24.639 think it might be you a slight edge of me, 110 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:27.480 But I think you and I both are like kind 111 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.160 of like skeptical. Yeah, so I think it would be 112 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:31.160 tough to sell us both. 113 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:33.879 Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. Yes, all right. 114 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:37.279 Fourth one who's most likely to invent a ridiculous game 115 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:40.399 for their friends? That's an easy answer. That's you, Chris 116 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:43.160 arm that's for sure. And it's funny because even some 117 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:45.240 of these I'm like, among my group of friends who 118 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:47.480 I grew up with, we still hang out, our wives 119 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:49.600 get along like I am that guy because it's the 120 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:51.079 youth pastor and me is like, come up with a 121 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:53.160 game like I am that guy. But I think you 122 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.399 actually operate like that on a normal basis. 123 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:59.959 Oh, you have no idea actually actually who's most like 124 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:01.720 to invent a ridiculous game for their friends. 125 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:04.639 I do this currently all the time. 126 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:06.519 So I don't know if you know this or not, 127 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.959 but we have a you know, the tzar Ba Annual. 128 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:10.480 Golf out photos. 129 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:15.639 Our whole family invents golf ridiculous things for golf, right, So, like, 130 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.319 for instance, uh, you know, on the back nine. 131 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:19.519 I'll just give you one example. 132 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:21.959 There was the pirate hole where you had to play 133 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.879 that particular hole with an eye patch, which really messed 134 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:28.439 up your depth perception. And then when you're on the green, 135 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.319 if you say one word outside of pirate sayings, you're 136 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:34.639 you have a stroke penalty. So you could only talk 137 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.120 pirate on the green, so you have to say it 138 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:41.399 was like six phrases like very bury treasure I made there, 139 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:45.920 she blows, you know, things like that or right, and 140 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.680 that was it and and so anyway, so yeah, I 141 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:50.959 mean we do that stuff all the time continually in 142 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.680 my family's fun all right, right, And then the last 143 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.319 one is who's most likely to end up with an 144 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:59.319 unusual pet like a tarantula? 145 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.160 Be honest, I think I would, and I think that 146 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:03.959 one may be me. And it actually has nothing to 147 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.360 do with me has to do with my kids. Yes, 148 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.439 they'm there are still at that phase where any animal 149 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:13.040 we see, and even my wife, honestly, she's brought animals 150 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:14.920 home that I'm like, are you kidding me? Is this 151 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:15.720 is this our new? 152 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:17.000 Is this our life? Yeah? 153 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.720 I would have definitely leaned more towards you, only because 154 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:22.920 your kids are younger. 155 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:23.319 Yes. 156 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.600 And it's funny because people ask me this all the 157 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:28.399 time that we have bunnies, we have like a dog, 158 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:30.680 we've had animals. They're like, oh, are you how did 159 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:32.439 you end up with that? And I'm like they're like, oh, 160 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:34.000 you don't want a bunny. I'm like, no, we don't. 161 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:35.759 This would be our last bunny. And then they're like 162 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:37.439 how many of you had? I'm like we've had five? 163 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:40.399 Like how I'm like I don't know. Somehow they just 164 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.879 keep showing up at our house. So whenever people ask like, Kyle, 165 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.040 do you like having pets, I'm like, I don't mind it, 166 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.079 but somehow I keep having more and more pets, it 167 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.040 seems like every year. So blame my youngest, who is 168 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:53.600 a huge has a ton of empathy for every animal. 169 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.000 So that's really great. 170 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:58.279 Well, hey, that was fun. Yes, that was fun. 171 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:02.399 And you know what, we actually didn't have a disagreement. 172 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:03.160 Yeah, disagreement. 173 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:04.360 I think we're on the same page. 174 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:06.480 We had a consensus the whole time. 175 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.720 Yep, all right, should we get into us Psalm. 176 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:13.240 Did I almost said we consensused, We consensused. Yes, we 177 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:14.120 had a consensus. 178 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:15.839 Hey, you cut, you cut to the chase. It's it's 179 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:18.079 twenty twenty four. That's how we text, right, just cut 180 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:21.199 to the chase. True, all right, Psalm eighteen. So we're 181 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:22.000 wrapping up this week. 182 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:23.839 You just let auto correct take care of. 183 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:25.959 Yes, exactly, That's what I do. And sometimes I talk 184 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:28.000 to text, which I know you do as well. And 185 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:32.399 I sometimes when you reread your auto text, it's you're like, 186 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:34.360 I cannot believe I just said this. I'm embarrassed. Ye, 187 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:36.839 all right, back to this. So Psalm eighteen, we're in 188 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:40.000 the final uh uh verse or section of verses of 189 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.120 this week. And throughout this week we've been talking about 190 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.800 David and some of the struggles he's gone through. Is 191 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.519 he's been been, you know, back into the throne after 192 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:51.319 Abslom had kind of taken over, and so we're in 193 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.360 Psalm eighteen where he's kind of crying out to God. 194 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.439 The theme here says that gratitude for deliverance and victory 195 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:59.000 the only shirt. Uh yeah, the only sure way to 196 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.519 be delivered from surrounding evil is to call upon God 197 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:04.759 for help and strength. So that's the context behind what 198 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.920 we're going to be reading in the psalms. As Chris 199 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:10.040 mentioned a couple of days ago, David is the writer 200 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:12.759 of the most of the psalms, and then these ones 201 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.360 we've read this week in particular. So I'm gonna read 202 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:16.720 thirty verses today. 203 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:18.600 And by the way, this one he actually wrote for 204 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:19.680 a choir director. 205 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.600 Yes, that's awesome, that's neat. Yeah, So for the choir director, 206 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:26.040 a psalm of David the servant of the Lord. He 207 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:27.879 sang this song to the Lord on the day of 208 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:30.040 the Lord rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul. 209 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.679 He's saying this, I love you, Lord, You are my strength. 210 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:36.799 The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. 211 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.159 My God is my rock in whom I find protection. 212 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.039 He is my shield, the power that saves me and 213 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:46.759 my place of safety. I called on the Lord, who 214 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:49.840 is worthy of praise, and he saved me from my enemies. 215 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:53.879 The ropes of Death entangled me. Floods of destruction swept 216 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:57.240 over me. The grave wrapt that's rope around me. Death 217 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:58.960 laid a trap in my path, which, by the way, 218 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.279 this is amazing. We should just next three thirty worship 219 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.159 song off of this. But in my distress, I cried 220 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:06.240 out to the Lord. Yes, I prayed to my God 221 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:09.639 for help. He heard me from his sanctuary. My cry 222 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:12.480 to him, My cry to him reached his ears. Then 223 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:15.600 the earth quaked and trembled. The foundations of the mountain shook. 224 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:19.480 They quaked because of his anger. Smoke poured from his nostrils. 225 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:22.000 Now here would be an epic song. Smoke poured from 226 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.399 his nostrils. Fierce flames leaped from his mouth. Glowing coals 227 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:29.360 blazed forth from him. He opened the heavens and came down. 228 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:32.679 Dark storm clouds were beneath his feet. Mounted on a 229 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.759 mighty angelic being, he flew soaring on the wings of 230 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.360 the wind. He shrouded himself in darkness, darkness, veiling his 231 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.159 approach with dark rain clouds. Thick clouds shielded the brightness 232 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:47.679 around him and rained down hail and burning coals. The 233 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.679 Lord thundered from heaven, the voice the most high resounded 234 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:53.600 amid the hail and burning coals. He shot his arrows 235 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.480 and scattered his enemies. His lightning flashed, and they were 236 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.360 greatly confused. Then at your command, O Lord, had the 237 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:02.240 blast of your breath. The bottom of the sea se 238 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:04.960 could be seen. The foundations of the earth were laid bare. 239 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.080 He reached down from heaven and rescued me. He drew 240 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.919 me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my 241 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.159 powerful enemies, from those who hated me and were too 242 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:16.600 strong for me. They attacked me in a moment when 243 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.240 I was in distressed, but the Lord supported me. He 244 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:23.000 led me to a place of safety. He rescued me 245 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:26.080 because he delights in me. The Lord rewarded me for 246 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:30.159 doing right. He restored me because of my innocence. For 247 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:32.120 I have kept the ways of the Lord. I have 248 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:34.720 not turned from my God to follow evil. I have 249 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:38.200 followed all his regulations. I have never abandoned his decrees. 250 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:42.159 I am blameless before God. I've kept myself from sin. 251 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:44.919 The Lord rewarded me for doing right. He has seen 252 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:48.320 my innocence. To the faithful, you show yourself faithful to 253 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.159 those with integrity. You show integrity to the prayer you 254 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:55.000 show yourself pure, but to the wicked, you show yourself hostile. 255 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:59.039 You rescue the humble, but you humiliate the proud. You 256 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:02.200 laid a lamp for me. The Lord, my God lights 257 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:04.799 up my darkness and your strength. I can crush an 258 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:07.759 army with my God. I can scale any wall that's epic. 259 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.279 And then that we're closed with this these last two verses. 260 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:14.039 God's way is perfect, All the Lord's promises proved true. 261 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.559 He is a shield for all who look to him 262 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:21.000 for protection. For who is God except the Lord who? 263 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:23.200 But our God is a solid rock. 264 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:24.240 It's good. 265 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.960 Wow. Well, so here's here's the main question that's on 266 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:32.440 everybody's mind. Is this an event or is this a vision? 267 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:33.799 What happened here? 268 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:34.360 Yeah? 269 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.039 I know, it's very interesting because it feels like you're 270 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:37.600 reading like the Book of Daniel or. 271 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:38.159 You're reading a. 272 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.960 Yeah yeah, yeah, And it's and it's really interesting because 273 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:47.759 I've come across this psalm obviously several times throughout my lifetime, 274 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:53.519 and I'm not sure that I know anybody who has 275 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:58.120 taken a strong stance on whether or not this actually 276 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:00.720 happened or whether or not this was a vision. But 277 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:05.000 I would definitely say most of which I've heard scholars 278 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:08.879 talk about, is this is a metaphor, like, in other words, 279 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.679 David again, there's no proof, right, and we can get 280 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.840 to heaven and all be wrong, right, But most scholars 281 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:21.039 belief I think that this is a way for David 282 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:26.480 to describe how God swoops in and delivers him, in 283 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.639 this case, from the enemies of Saul, right because it's 284 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:33.480 written in the Bible that he sang the song to 285 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.320 the Lord on the day the Lord rescued him from 286 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.320 all his enemies and from Saul. Right now, when we 287 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.759 read about how God rescued him from Saul, we don't 288 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:47.399 read about God coming in the clouds. We don't read 289 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.080 about an actual event of like and then you're, you know, 290 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:54.559 like Elijah on the top of Mount Carmel, you know 291 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:58.360 where God where Elijah calls for fire and all of 292 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.799 a sudden, God demonstrates him self with fire. Like, that's 293 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:06.159 not what happened when God delivered David from Saul. So 294 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:11.240 most people would say, uh, this is David describing God 295 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:14.720 in power and saying, you know, fire blew. 296 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:15.480 From his nostrils. 297 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:19.039 Well, come on, I mean, there's there's no other time 298 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:21.360 in scripture where God is compared to like a. 299 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:24.039 Dragon dragon yet right, yes, I. 300 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:25.840 Mean I guess there is, you know, I mean there's 301 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:29.080 a bunch of weird looking beasts and revelation right and 302 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:32.440 in Daniel. But but but but not a literal dragon 303 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:36.600 with fire breathing out of his nose and so uh 304 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:40.120 you know, cold blazed from his eyes and. 305 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:44.039 It rained down coal. You know, he comes down in. 306 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:48.840 The clouds and uh, you know, but again it can 307 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.799 feel like uh, God doing miracles. 308 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:56.840 Now let me let me, let me say this. Have 309 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:58.240 you ever been around. 310 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:02.600 A miracle where you prayed for something and something miraculously happened, 311 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.919 or God shows up in a mighty way to where 312 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:10.600 it feels as if God himself has just miraculously swept 313 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:13.600 down and he was right there physically. 314 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:15.840 Right, I've seen that happen. 315 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:19.360 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I mean I've shared it before 316 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.679 on the Bible guys. In fact, probably not even to 317 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.200 you know. It was actually just recently. But the time 318 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:30.080 where we ran over that cow and then there was 319 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.200 and then there was a guy who spoke Swahili talking 320 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.600 to a guy who only spoke pocot, and then there 321 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:37.639 was an injured cow on the side of the road 322 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:40.919 that was dying, and the and the driver who spoke 323 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:44.240 Swaheli came over, who spoke English, because he spoke English, 324 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:48.120 but those guy who spoke pocot didn't speak English. And 325 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:50.600 the guy came over the driver and said, stay in 326 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.600 the car. These guys will kill you. And then and 327 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:55.559 then we just sprayed and said, God, send us a miracle. 328 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.840 So here's five white guys who are missionaries sort of 329 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:02.039 in the car, and here we are, you know, the 330 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:05.519 ones who ran over the cow. And we actually thought 331 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:08.080 to ourselves, God, if you don't send us a miracle, 332 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.240 we're going to be smoke. We're gonna be dust. We're 333 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:11.600 gonna be killed right here in the middle of this 334 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:14.919 field somewhere. And then what we get done praying? And 335 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.960 then in the distance the smoke. We see the smoke. 336 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:20.799 And we had not seen a single vehicle in seven 337 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:24.000 full days, not one vehicle. And here comes a motorcycle 338 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.200 guy stops, knocks on the window and says, hey, can 339 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:31.039 I be of assistance. Turns out he's a veterinarian who 340 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:34.399 speaks English, Swahili and Pokon. 341 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:37.200 So he literally walks over. 342 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.559 Invests you know, you know, he tends to the cow 343 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:43.039 and then communicates to all of us and then we 344 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:43.480 solve it. 345 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.039 We ended up buying the cow. You know. 346 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.240 Anyway, the guy, the guy who was selling the cow 347 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:51.120 whose cow we ran over, he needed the money because 348 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.360 his mom was sick, and we ended up giving him 349 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:55.120 more than it was worth and then we let him 350 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:56.679 keep the cow, so then he had the meat of 351 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.360 the cow. So then he was like crying because now 352 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:02.679 this guy was about to kill us, now has money 353 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:04.440 for his mom for medicine, and he. 354 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:04.919 Has the cow. 355 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:10.159 Meet all because God sent us a veterinarian who spoke, 356 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.360 who spoke, by the way, the only three languages that 357 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:15.679 were barriers between us. 358 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:17.200 Yeah, I mean it was crazy. 359 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.320 Yeah, So I gotta just because I want to. I 360 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:21.320 want to tack onto this because I have a story. 361 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.039 I think you'll you'll enjoy this because you've been in 362 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:23.960 Tanzania before. 363 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:24.440 Yeah. 364 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:27.679 I went to Tanzania in May on a Timothy Initiative 365 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.799 vision trip. And it's it's related because it speaks to 366 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:32.840 God providing the right person, which is kind of what 367 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.759 you're talking about, God providing in these ways. But a 368 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:37.600 friend of mine, when he knew I was going to Tanzania, 369 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:40.000 he said his last experience. He's a pastor, local pastor 370 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:41.559 in the area. He went there and he said he 371 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.360 just saw crazy things. I was like, well, what type 372 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:45.639 of crazy things? He said that one time he went in, 373 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:47.360 he was brought as a pastor and a few other 374 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:50.039 staff members of his brought into this home with this 375 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:52.639 woman who had been big the same claiming she was 376 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:55.519 possessed by the devil. Demon possessed and in that area 377 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.360 there's a lot of witchcraft and things like that. They 378 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:59.960 opened the door up to a lot of spiritual attack 379 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:03.320 there in certain parts of these villages. So they go 380 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:05.000 visit this home, and he said he knew from the 381 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:06.799 moment he walked in there was a there was a 382 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.319 dark spiritual force in this place. There was definitely demonic 383 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.960 activity going on. So then sure enough, this this this, 384 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:17.000 this person is speaking and they would would like their 385 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:20.240 voice would change, like slipping between her and then this 386 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.079 demon like deeper to whatever. And they were having this 387 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.240 conversation back and forth, and he's like, I have never 388 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.960 seen this ever. He's like, in my thirty five years 389 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.000 on this planet. Yes, so like the voice is changing. Well, 390 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:34.359 then sure enough, his coworker, who's an American spoke up 391 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:37.559 boldly and started rebuking the demon in the name of 392 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:40.200 Jesus and just going like going on right and then 393 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:41.880 and then they hear the voice like voice of this 394 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.119 the devil talking back, voice getting deeper. There's this stuff happened. Well, 395 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.119 then sure enough they end up praying for this woman. 396 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:50.440 They all walk out of the house and they're like, 397 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:54.680 that was absolutely, like insane. They're applauding this girl who's 398 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:56.599 with them, who normally isn't bold like that, but she's like, 399 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:58.160 I was filled with the Holy Spirit. I just started 400 00:17:58.160 --> 00:17:59.319 rebuking the demon. 401 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:00.200