WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.160 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:05.919 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:07.000 practical ways. 4 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:15.880 Good Morning, good morning, we talk home through good morning 5 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:19.640 and Chris, good morning to you and you and you 6 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:20.480 you said, get. 7 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:24.440 It Chris, Yeah, bring it home, Bring it home, Chris, 8 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:26.199 that's so funny. 9 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:27.800 Hey, it's pretty early. 10 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:30.440 It's a Tuesday for me to do that. But good 11 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:32.759 morning everyone, and welcome to the Bible guys. Man. 12 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:34.679 It's so good to be here. I'm Jeff and this 13 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:38.159 is Chris. Yes, and it's going to be amazing today. 14 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:39.119 Yes, and we're. 15 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.560 Talking about one of Jesus's very famous sayings, I Am 16 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:43.799 going to prepare. 17 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:46.840 A place for you, a place for you, talking about heaven. 18 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:47.359 Okay. 19 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:50.119 But by the way, before we do that, Desiree has 20 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:52.359 written us a segment that is sort of based. 21 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:53.039 On our scripture today. 22 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:54.200 Okay, and so. 23 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:55.840 Here's what she says. She says. 24 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:59.280 Today's episode dives into John fourteen, where Jesus says, I'm 25 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:02.479 going to prepare place for you. So let's imagine what 26 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:06.840 kind of places we'd love to live if we had 27 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.640 zero responsibilities holding us back. Start with rock, paper scissors, 28 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:13.480 to decide who gets the first draft pick. Take turns 29 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:17.599 until each person has five locations. So writing, rock, paper, scissors? 30 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:20.079 Ready, one, two, three shoots? 31 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:25.159 This is I never beat you. No, you went for 32 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:28.959 paper and I did scissors. Yes, usually I do rock, 33 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:30.120 and that's why you went paper. 34 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.359 Well, I tell you, which is why I tried to 35 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:32.879 shake it up. 36 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:36.040 Oh man, Okay, so I get to go first. Yes, 37 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:40.200 places I would love to live. I really like where 38 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:45.840 I live. I like, I like our home, but places 39 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:46.640 I would like to live. 40 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.000 And I'm assuming she's meaning like, not in Michigan. 41 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:51.760 Not in Michigan. Okay, So Michigan's pretty great. 42 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:54.480 Although I mean, can up North be a thing? Yeah? 43 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:55.599 Yeah, yeah, I guess you could. 44 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.680 Whatever you want, says Okay. By the way, we have 45 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:00.959 to be and today. 46 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:02.040 Yeah yeah, we had extra. 47 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:03.000 Yeah. 48 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.359 What's funny is she after the last episode yesterday we 49 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.319 were harassing her the whole time about skippings and verses. 50 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:10.520 She's like, I just put in there what you guys 51 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:12.960 told me to put in. So we made that list. 52 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:13.719 Yeah. 53 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:18.319 So anyways, favorite place, the place that we'd love to live. 54 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:20.400 You know what, I think one of the prettiest places 55 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:24.680 I've ever been was in the Austrian Alps. 56 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:26.120 Wow. 57 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:30.319 Yeah, stunningly beautiful, stunningly beautiful. My wife and I went 58 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:33.639 to now Schremstein Castle right there on the border of 59 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:39.479 Austrian Germany. It's actually yeah, it'd be fine. Yeah, but 60 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.120 that's the castle that Cinderella Castle was. 61 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:43.719 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. 62 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:45.800 Well we stayed. We didn't stay in Germany. We stayed 63 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:48.560 across the border, just a few miles away in Austria, 64 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.759 in this valley, and it was just magnificent. Yeah, really beautiful. 65 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:57.240 Well, you've traveled extensively more than me, so I'm going 66 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:00.639 to say this last Sunday. Last Sunday, we had two 67 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:03.599 people in our lobby and they said, oh, they're visiting 68 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:05.680 here today. This is the first time here. And I said, 69 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:08.680 where are you from? And they said Milan, Milan, oh yeah. 70 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.199 And I said what I said, you're from Milan. And 71 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.120 I said, I said, so, how's how are the states? 72 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:14.919 They go It's. 73 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:16.800 Okay, it's ok and I said, and I said, and 74 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:18.840 I think they listened to the Bible, guys, so if 75 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:19.599 you're listening. 76 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:20.800 Today, hello from Milan. 77 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:23.919 But anyway, I said, you know, you live in one 78 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:25.560 of the those beautiful places of the world and they 79 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:25.960 both go. 80 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.719 We know Italy is beautiful. 81 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:31.560 Yes, so that is my first place. It's going to be. 82 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:32.719 Italy, Italy. Where in Italy? 83 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:37.439 You know what I'm not Unfortunately, I'm not knowledgeable enough 84 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:37.960 to pick one. 85 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:44.159 So I'm going to go with Milan. Yeah, I I 86 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:45.360 wish I traveled. 87 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:48.439 Milan is kind of the Detroit of No, I'm joking. 88 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:51.479 I was going to say, what of it is working? 89 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:52.280 It's booming. 90 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:54.879 Yeah, it's a big workings. Yeah, there's a lot of 91 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:56.599 manufacturing and things for clothing. 92 00:03:58.199 --> 00:03:58.400 Yeah. 93 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:04.000 I love Rome rome is and yeah, I like that. 94 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:07.639 Let me see think the next one that I would 95 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:08.840 like to live. So how many are we doing? 96 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:10.000 We're doing five? Five? 97 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:15.120 Oh my goodness, we got a hustle. I love visiting Sri Lanka. 98 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.079 I really like. I really like Sri Lanka. Yeah, it's 99 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:22.560 kind of it's all of the culture and excitement and 100 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.319 all those kinds of things of India. It's just smaller 101 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:28.600 and less crowded and way cleaner, that kind of thing. 102 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:30.560 The food is great, all that stuff, but it's like 103 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.519 a garden paradise. They struggle that the government struggles, the 104 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.360 economy struggles, but the place is just beautiful right there 105 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.879 on the Indian Ocean, and jungles and and tigers and 106 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:45.480 elephants and whales out in the ocean. It's just it's phenomenal. Okay. 107 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:49.199 Yeah, So I'm gonna go the second one, and I'm 108 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.720 going to say I wouldn't mind living in London. 109 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:57.000 Oh, London is expensive. It is expensive, but it's a 110 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.399 cool city. Yeah. During the summer, during the during the 111 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.199 rest of the year is just gray. It's just gray 112 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:04.720 and wet. You gotta have an umbrellas for everything. Yeah, 113 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:08.079 that's true. Okay. Uh, if it weren't for the communism, 114 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:09.839 I love Havana, Cuba. 115 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:11.839 Yeah, man, you picked a good one. 116 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:15.360 Havana is fabulous. I love the city, I love the people. 117 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:17.720 I love everything about Cuba. I'm just not a big 118 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.800 fan of the communism, right right right. 119 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:28.800 I could actually see a day maybe where I would 120 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.279 have a place, not permanently, but a place perhaps in 121 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:33.160 the Dominican Republic. 122 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:35.639 Dominican. Yeah, Dominican is beautiful too, isn't it. 123 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:36.920 Yeah, it's very beautiful. 124 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.279 I think one of my other favorite places in the 125 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:48.360 world is Morocco. Specifically, I loved the Medina in Marrakesh. 126 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:51.000 Oh wow, yeah yeah, but the mountains there, the desert, 127 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.079 everything is just it's such a cool culture, cool place. 128 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:56.560 Okay, all right, so right this is number four, right, yeah, 129 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:57.560 all right, number four. 130 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.959 I'm going to say the Maldives. Yeah. 131 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.439 Yeah, I was in the Maldives for an hour. Yeah. 132 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:06.360 They didn't even let us get off the plane. Oh wow, 133 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:07.879 yeah yeah, yeah, it's just a layover. 134 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:10.639 I'm gonna go on the record and say that would 135 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.720 be like paradise every day. 136 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:18.360 Yeah wow. So I'm really conflicted, really really really really conflicted. 137 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:21.120 One of my favorite countries in the world is Ecuador. 138 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:24.519 I love Ecuador, love everything about it. You've got the 139 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.519 Ocean to the west. It's a small country. You got 140 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:29.959 the ocean to the west, You've got the Andes Mountains 141 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.079 in the middle, you got the Amazon Jungle to the east. 142 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:36.399 What a cool country, right, just phenomenal. So either I'm 143 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:42.360 gonna double dip here, either I would choose Ecuador, or yeah, 144 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:43.759 you know what I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna leave with 145 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:46.480 that Ecuador. I would say, let's just to say, Ecuador. 146 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:47.079 You're not gonna cheat. 147 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:48.240 Yeah, no, no, no, okay. 148 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:51.560 And then for my fifth one, I'm going to say 149 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:54.120 anywhere my kids end up living. 150 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:56.160 Oh how sweet is that? 151 00:06:56.399 --> 00:07:01.439 Yeah? So, I currently my daughter lives in floor Orida. St. 152 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:05.079 Petersburg, Florida, which is people love, right, I'm not sure 153 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.759 I would love to live there, like if like, if 154 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.439 my daughter weren't there, I'm not sure I would say, oh, 155 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:12.720 I want to live there as my primary residence. 156 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:14.879 I don't think I would actually, to be quite. 157 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:19.720 Honest, sorry people listening in Florida. But but if for 158 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:23.279 some reason my kids gravitate toward another part of the 159 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.639 country and they're together, then that's. 160 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:27.480 The spot I'm gonna choose. 161 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.920 So the States probably, the state's very likely. The way 162 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.199 your family is very likely, the States. I'm gonna squeeze 163 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:40.600 one more in Zanzibar like sand beaches, beautiful, amazing, You. 164 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.560 Couldn't do it, you couldn't. 165 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.920 Well, East Africa. I love East Africa in general, love it. 166 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.399 And then the island of Zanzibar is just amazing, so 167 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:50.000 so exotic. 168 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:52.360 Now I've been to, haven't I been? Is that near that? 169 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:52.720 Yeah? 170 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.240 Yeah, you went to because you went on a on 171 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:59.399 a blue blue safari with chat out in the ocean, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 172 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.040 I did Snorkeling and Zanzibar. Yeah, h yeah, it was. 173 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:06.639 It was beautiful. Yeah, okay, there you go, Chris cool Man, 174 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.240 oh Man, Well we got it all worked out. Now, Hey, 175 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:10.439 do you think when we go to heaven do you 176 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:11.800 think that we'll be able to do all those kinds 177 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:15.959 of things? I do? Actually, I do too, Yeah, I 178 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:16.319 do too. 179 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.120 And you know, speaking of heaven, Jesus talks about it, 180 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.879 and yeah, speaking places, Jesus is preparing places. 181 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:25.519 Yeah. 182 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:27.079 Yeah, in John chapter fourteen. 183 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:31.079 Well, we're going to read John fourteen one through like fourteen, 184 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:32.799 I think is what we're going to do here. Okay, 185 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.799 So Jesus says, don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust 186 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.840 in God, trust also in me. There is more than 187 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.360 enough room in my father's home. If this were not so, 188 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:44.240 what I have told you that I'm going to prepare 189 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:47.080 a place for you. When everything is ready, I will 190 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.080 come and get you so that you will always be 191 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:51.120 with me where I am. And you know the way 192 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:54.639 to where I'm going. No, we don't know, Lord Thomas said, 193 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:56.679 we have no idea where you're going, So how can 194 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:59.440 we know the way. Jesus told him, I am the 195 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:02.440 way the truth and the life. No one can come 196 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:05.639 to the Father except through me. If you had only, 197 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:07.960 if you had really known me, you would know who 198 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.960 my father is. From now on, you do know him 199 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.679 and have seen him, Philip said, Lord, show us the 200 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.879 Father and we will be satisfied. Jesus replied, have I 201 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:18.519 been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you 202 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:21.039 still don't know who I am. Anyone who has seen 203 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:24.039 me has seen the Father, So why are you asking 204 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:27.039 me to show him to you. Don't you believe that 205 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:28.639 I am in the Father and the Father is in me. 206 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:30.840 The words I speak are not my own, but my Father, 207 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.519 who lives in me, does his work through me. Just 208 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:35.159 believe that I am in the Father and the Father 209 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.480 is in me, or at least believe because of the 210 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.799 work you've seen me. Do I tell you the truth. 211 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:41.679 Anyone who believes in me will do the same works 212 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.840 I have done, and even greater works, because I am 213 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:45.879 going to be with the Father. You can ask for 214 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:47.279 anything in my name, and I will do it so 215 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:49.679 that the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes, 216 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:51.639 ask me for anything in my name, and I will 217 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:54.200 do it. Well, there you go. 218 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:59.480 Yeah, I have heard that passage by the way, talked 219 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:04.159 about in many a counseling sessions where Hey, all I 220 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:05.960 have to do is ask for anything, and God's going 221 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:09.960 to do it right in his name. So I want 222 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.519 a maserati. I want a maserati in Jesus name. 223 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:16.440 Right. Did you ever see that? 224 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:18.879 What's that movie with Adam Sandler where he's at the 225 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:21.879 hotel with the kids and and he goes for free. 226 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:24.240 Remember, no, you don't know that one. 227 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:26.519 Anyway, I don't know the name. 228 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:31.080 But anyway, the point is is that that that is 229 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:31.519 how it. 230 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:36.200 Reads on the surface, doesn't it. It reads like but 231 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:36.799 you have. 232 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:38.679 To read it carefully though, because it says you can 233 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:40.919 ask anything in my name and I will do it 234 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.720 so that the son of Man can bring here it 235 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:48.039 is glory to the Father, right, So you know you're 236 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.080 maserati may not bring glory to the Father. So clearly 237 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.120 what God is talking about is God is talking about 238 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.919 in his will, right, So bringing glory to the Father 239 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:02.679 is is is uh pishing God's agenda forward, bringing his 240 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:05.840 glory with you know, his name being renown and known. 241 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:08.840 You know, there are things in our lives that we 242 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:13.159 have to understand. You know, sometimes we pray and sometimes 243 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.360 they align with the will of the Father and God, 244 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:17.440 and sometimes their lateral. 245 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:19.279 I believe this is true too. I believe God's will 246 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:20.360 is lateral. Sometimes. 247 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:22.879 I believe that you know, either he can do a 248 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:25.879 thing or he cannot do a thing. And I think 249 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:28.240 that sometimes we pray and God's like, Okay, I'm gonna 250 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.519 grant this, because the fervent prayer of a righteous person. 251 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.720 Avails much right, right, And so you pray and you ask. 252 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:39.120 In God's name, and sometimes it just happens, but clearly 253 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.879 it's it's it's the things we pray for that God 254 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:45.440 chooses to grant that are in his will, and don't 255 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:46.080 conflict with it. 256 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.519 There's kind of this idea in Bible study. You have 257 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:53.519 to remember who is speaking and who it's written for 258 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:57.159 or two right, the original listeners. It's written for you too, 259 00:11:57.480 --> 00:11:59.759 but the original listeners. So this is a Middle Eastern 260 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:02.519 my mind set. It's how they think, and and you 261 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:05.759 and I sometimes can be more a little not just 262 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.679 you and I, but Western thinkers can sometimes miss a 263 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:12.679 thing because we tend to be very linear. We tend 264 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:16.440 to have A leads to him, and B builds upon 265 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:20.159 A and then C builds upon B right a and 266 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:23.000 B right, and so we kind of stack a thing 267 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.399 so that the big idea is at the end usually right, 268 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:28.720 or sometimes we'll give the big idea at the beginning, 269 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.720 then unpack the whole thing, build out the argument, and 270 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:33.639 then say proof right there, right, that's what we do. 271 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:36.360 Whereas in the in the Middle Eastern culture a lot 272 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:38.960 of times mindset, a lot of times, the biggest idea 273 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:42.440 is the middle idea, and then the other the other ideas, 274 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:46.559 the outlying ideas, oftentimes are the ones explaining how and 275 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:49.879 what the middle idea, how it functions. So the middle 276 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:53.120 idea is so that the son can bring glory to 277 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:55.799 the father. That's the big that's that's the middle idea. 278 00:12:57.720 --> 00:12:59.879 But he's or you can ask anything in my name, 279 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.480 I will do it. That's the middle idea. I'm sorry, 280 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:04.759 that's that's the middle idea. That's the oh my goodness, 281 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:07.679 that's the one that surprises you. Usually the surprises in 282 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:09.840 the middle of Middle Eastern thinking. It's gonna be in 283 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:12.080 the middle, say a big thing, surprise you in the middle, 284 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:14.519 and then finish it on the end. So the big, 285 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:17.200 the surprising piece that you read here is you can 286 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:18.879 pray for anything in my name, and I'll do it 287 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:24.039 what my soariety, baby, right, that's it, right, But you 288 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:27.360 go before it and after it, and it explains the 289 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:33.159 surprise in the middle always, so before it, it's anybody 290 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:36.039 who who believes in me will do the same things 291 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:40.279 I've done, and even greater. So guess what the expectation is. 292 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:42.919 You're going to do what Jesus did, then you can 293 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:45.600 have what Jesus Had's that's what he's saying, right. You 294 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.759 have to be living a life for others, being a 295 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:51.799 blessing to others, bringing the Gospel to others on the 296 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.399 mission that God sends you on. This isn't and. 297 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:56.720 By the way, that also assumes that you have the 298 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.039 heart of Jesus as well, that's right, which means you're gonna. 299 00:13:58.799 --> 00:13:59.519 Want with Jesus want. 300 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:01.600 But what you did and what you don't find anywhere 301 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.159 in any of the gospels is Jesus hitting God up 302 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:07.840 from Masarati, right, right, So if you pray the way 303 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:10.320 Jesus prayed, if your priorities are Jesus prayer. 304 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:12.720 Would have been pretty cool though, like a Maserati in 305 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.080 first century, right. 306 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:18.960 That would have gotten people's attention. Right, So, The surprise 307 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:20.799 statement is you can pray for it. You can ask 308 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.399 for anything in my name and I'll do it. Before 309 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.519 it is you have to be on the same mission. 310 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:28.559 I'm on doing what I do and greater. 311 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.000 He wouldn't have had any gasoline, right. 312 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:34.000 Yeah, that's true. Well he's he he made why not 313 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:42.000 of water? But then the backside of it is so 314 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:44.919 the son kim ring glory to the Father. Those are 315 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:48.039 the two things. So when you're asking God to bless you, 316 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.720 is it because you're on the exact same mission Jesus 317 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.039 was on to seeking to say that which is lost 318 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.799 to uh speak truth to people, to point them to 319 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:02.240 the light, to bring healing and hope and feeding and 320 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:05.399 and and all those things that Jesus brought. 321 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.600 We stopped at fourteen, but the very next verses, if 322 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.879 you love me, you obey my commandments, ask ask and 323 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:13.519 I will and I will ask the Father, and he 324 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:17.039 will give you another advocate who will never leave you. 325 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:19.360 You're talking about the Holy Spirit being with you and 326 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:19.639 in you. 327 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:23.159 And so anytime you find a big surprising statement, oh 328 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:26.000 my gosh, I just hit the lottery with this Bible verse. Yep, 329 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:27.960 you might need to read the ones before it and 330 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.360 the ones after it right to figure it out. That's 331 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:32.360 what he's doing there. But man, I love this because 332 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.000 he starts off. I think it's funny Chris. Whenever we 333 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.879 do these podcasts, yep, whatever the last thing we read 334 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:41.600 is the first thing you talk about. Yeah, right, And 335 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:42.960 I always want to go to the first thing. 336 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.320 I think it's coincidence because because in this case, the 337 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:48.240 last thing you read was the most striking. 338 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.759 Well, what going to heaven isn't striking. 339 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:54.639 I'm not talking about I'm talking about the well known. 340 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:57.840 I'm talking about the misinterpret And so I think it's 341 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:59.559 funny because you almost always want to start at the 342 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:01.399 end whatever the last thing we read, and I always 343 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:02.559 want to start at the beginning. I want to go 344 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:04.159 back to let's go all the way back to the beginning. 345 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:05.879 I think it's more accurate to say I often don't 346 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:06.639 care that we started. 347 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.039 Well, it's even more accurate to say you usually start 348 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:11.440 at the end. 349 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.840 Okay, Hey, you want to warn something fun. 350 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:14.919 Yeah, I want something. 351 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:15.879 Fun, so at the very beginning. 352 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:18.440 So to go back to the beginning is his very 353 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:20.879 first comment in verse one is don't let your hearts 354 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.639 be troubled and trusting God and also in me. 355 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:24.320 Right. 356 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:28.399 So another version that you might have at home would 357 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.440 be do not let your hearts be troubled and do 358 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:31.360 not be afraid. 359 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:32.240 Right. 360 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.039 So isn't it interesting how Jesus is here he is 361 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:38.559 wrapping up his ministry John fourteen. At least, you know, 362 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:41.879 there's not too many other chapters here in John. It's 363 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:45.879 only in the mid low twenties here, And so Jesus is, 364 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.840 you know, sort of like already established his ministry. He's 365 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.559 talking about heaven and he's talking about a place that 366 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.360 he is going to go soon. And as he's talking 367 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:58.840 about this heaven place, he couples it in this chapter 368 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.039 with the don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. It's a 369 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.200 real place. I'm going to prepare a place for you. 370 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:06.880 And you know, it's one of the best things at 371 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:07.759 the end of the chapter. 372 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:08.440 We didn't read it. 373 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.079 But at the end of the chapter, as he's talking about, 374 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.839 you know, these scary things, he says, I'm leaving in 375 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:17.039 verse twenty seven, I'm leaving you with a gift, peace 376 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:20.599 of mind and heart. And the peace I give is 377 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.519 a gift the world cannot give. And then he says, 378 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:28.359 do not be troubled or afraid. So I use those 379 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:32.480 verses at funerals. And so I say, here's Jesus talking 380 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:34.960 about heaven, right, I'm preparing a place for you. Don't 381 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:38.079 be afraid, don't be troubled, don't be afraid. Like when 382 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:40.559 we all get to heaven, we're going to realize how 383 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:44.160 much there's nothing to fear if you've trusted in Christ 384 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:47.000 and you've put your faith in trust in Him. When 385 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.559 we get to heaven, we're going to realize, oh no, 386 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:51.920 I'm afraid to die. You're not going to be afraid, right, 387 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:55.039 And and so this is what Jesus is trying to do. 388 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:58.480 He's describing heaven, and he's saying, don't be afraid for 389 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.920 those of us who've lost a loved one and we 390 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.079 try to picture them and life without them, and you know, 391 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.480 oh no, and all these different kinds of fears and 392 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.640 what you know, Jesus says, listen, I'm going to leave 393 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.279 this world eventually, but I'm going to give you a gift. 394 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:14.480 And this is what I pray for people. I say, 395 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:16.440 I'm going to pray that God gives you the peace. 396 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.279 That doesn't make any sense. And then he says don't 397 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:21.680 let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid. 398 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:23.960 It's very comforting, and. 399 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:25.519 I love the fact he says, when everything's ready, I'm 400 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:27.319 going to come and get you, Yeah, so that you 401 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.759