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 --> 00:00:16.960 practical ways. Hey, good morning, good morning, we talk through 4 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:20.879 good morning, Good morning to you and you and you 5 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:25.000 in the morning, in the morning. Love to stay up 6 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:29.039 late in the morning in the morning with you. Hey, 7 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:31.039 how about that? Wow, little bonus, got it? 8 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:34.280 We got bonus material material there. Man, that's we should 9 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:35.960 charge extra for this this episode. 10 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.000 That's right. Hey, you just got to raise Yes, so 11 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:42.280 did you. That's awesome. Yeah, we went from nothing to 12 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:43.399 plus nothing. 13 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:45.520 Actually you're saying just enough now we probably have to 14 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:46.280 pay royalties. 15 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:49.759 Oh no, say you in the rain. That's funny. 16 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:52.840 Hey, well, good morning and welcome to the Bible guys. 17 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.159 We are in the middle of a series about God's promises. 18 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:56.600 Man, I'm so glad they're all here. 19 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.479 Everybody, everybody's here, they're all tuned in today. 20 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.240 Just the multitudes people. 21 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:06.000 There are thousands. That's pretty that's pretty help. Like I hope. 22 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.959 I mean, it's not like David Ann Wilson's podcast. I 23 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.319 always think of that like four million a month or something. 24 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.079 Yeah, but you know, if I had a better sidekick, Yeah, 25 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:16.480 Dave has ann. 26 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:16.840 Yeah. 27 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.920 So it's a it's all It's all about you. It's 28 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:19.439 all about you. 29 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:24.159 If you had a better sidekick. It's Batman and Robin 30 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:29.359 who wants to be Robin the boy Wonder with the 31 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:34.000 green shoes and the shorts. 32 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:35.200 Woa man. 33 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:35.640 Ye. 34 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:41.400 So anyway we are before we dive into Psalm chapter 35 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.640 ninety one talking about God's protection. We are going to 36 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.239 have a segment actually that we just did a whole 37 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:48.680 week on this called stump the pastor. 38 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:50.599 Yeah, that was a fun one. I'd like to do 39 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:50.920 that again. 40 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:51.560 It was a good week. 41 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:52.519 Yeah, it was really like it. 42 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.359 Yeah. And so this one comes from Jony p Yes, 43 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.799 which which we've we've had questions before from Joe. 44 00:01:57.959 --> 00:01:59.879 Yes. Joni leaves comments often. 45 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:01.480 Yeah. So here's what Jonie says. 46 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:04.519 She's hi Joni, Hi Jonny, and she's a super fan. 47 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:08.599 Yes, yeah, she's awesome. So Jonie says, I've heard y'all. 48 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:11.479 Does she's y'all? Is she Southern y'all? 49 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:14.840 She said y'all. Yeah, Okay, I have. 50 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.080 A tendency to want to read it now like I'm 51 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:20.240 in Georgia because I lived in Atlanta, Yes, ten years 52 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:25.400 I heard y'all talk about your different spiritual gifts and 53 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:30.840 how oh no, and okay, fine, I want to do it. 54 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.639 You need some sweet tea, you're some sweet Okay, fine, 55 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:35.520 I'll do it normal. 56 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:35.960 Okay. 57 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:39.439 I heard y'all talk about your different spiritual gifts. So 58 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.639 how can anyone be sent to Hell if they are 59 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:47.599 pre wired to not believe in something they cannot see? 60 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:51.159 So she's saying if a person is pre wired to 61 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:54.439 be a skeptic, or if somebody is pre wired to 62 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:57.080 not have faith, if they don't have the gift of 63 00:02:57.199 --> 00:02:59.159 faith or something I guess is what she's implying. 64 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:01.759 Yeah, I think we have to kind of be a 65 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:05.360 little bit of a I think I have to fill 66 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:07.240 in some of the gaps on the question. 67 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:08.120 Well, let me read it again. 68 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:10.639 I heard you all talk about your different spiritual gifts. So, 69 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:13.719 and because she's saying y'all, I think she's referring to 70 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:17.319 my gift of faith? Yes, okay, So how can anyone 71 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:19.800 be said to Hell if they are pre wired to 72 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:22.039 not believe something they cannot see. 73 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:26.479 Let's first of all, Jny, great question. Yeah, let's unpack 74 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:31.360 it in kind of the order. The main issue here, well, 75 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.680 the main issue is why would anybody go to Hell. 76 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:37.400 But first of all, let's get over to the where 77 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:39.400 it seems to be confusing to the two of us, 78 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:44.599 because yeah is particularly with regard to the confusion of 79 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:48.919 spiritual gifts. So describe the spiritual gifts idea. 80 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.800 Well, the spiritual gifts idea is, we believe that every 81 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.680 Christian when they receive the Holy Spirit. First of all, 82 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:59.120 you receive the Holy Spirit when you become a Christian, 83 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:02.879 when you turn your life over to God, when you surrender, 84 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.599 when you repent and you trust in Christ, then the 85 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.719 Holy Spirit becomes alive. You house the Holy Spirit, and 86 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:13.919 the Spirit gives us power. And along with power, God 87 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:18.560 equips us. Phesian chapter four tells us that He gives 88 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.560 us everything we need for a good spiritual life. And 89 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:25.879 among those things the Bible talks elsewhere, also actually in 90 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.240 Ephesians as well, where it talks about every Christian having 91 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:32.680 a spiritual gift. So I believe every spiritual every Christian 92 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.600 has at least one spiritual gift, and I think that 93 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:40.000 many of us are wired to have many. And so basically, 94 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.839 people have a propensity to lean in one way or 95 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.639 the other. People are they gravitate toward they're just an 96 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:52.720 incredible teacher, or they're an incredible evangelist, or they're an 97 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:55.879 incredible person of serving. They have the gift of serving 98 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.759 and helps, or they have the gift of wisdom or 99 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:03.480 discernment or now or you know all the different. 100 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.480 Spirits leadership, generosity. Yeah, there's a lot of those. You 101 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:11.160 can find the lists. There's three lists of spiritual gifts, 102 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:15.759 primary lists, and then there's a few other spiritual gifts. 103 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:22.879 Romans chapter twelve as a list. First, Corinthians chapter eleven 104 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.120 and twelve and fourteen kind of all talk about gifts 105 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:32.199 in different ways, and then in Ephesians it gives a 106 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.639 list of spiritual gifts. And so there's about twenty six 107 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.839 depends on how you view gifts, twenty six, twenty seven, 108 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:44.920 twenty eight spiritual gifts, and God supernaturally gives those to 109 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.360 you so that you can fulfill the mission He has 110 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:50.120 designed for you in his kingdom, rights for his glory, 111 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:53.480 it's for the advancements advancements of the kingdom. So one 112 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:56.639 of those spiritual gifts is the spiritual gift of faith, 113 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:02.959 which is different from what theologians would call selvific faith. 114 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:05.639 Selvific faith is the kind of faith that takes to 115 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.879 be saved, to have your sins forgiven, to place your 116 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.639 faith and trust in Jesus Christ. So the gift of faith, 117 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.160 the spiritual gift of faith, is this belief that God's 118 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:19.079 gonna work things out, this belief that God promised he 119 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:22.360 would and he can and he will. That's a different thing. 120 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.079 Having faith that God's going to heal, having faith that 121 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:28.160 God's going to provide the resources, Having faith that God 122 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:31.360 is going to solve this problem is different. Then it's 123 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:35.480 a totally different kind of faith from selvivific faith, the 124 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:38.839 faith that takes to be able to have your sins 125 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:39.959 forgiven and be and do. 126 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.519 You believe that every person has the ability to have 127 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:44.199 selvific faith. 128 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.959 So this question, why would anybody who doesn't have the 129 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.360 spiritual gift of faith ever go to Hell? Well, that's 130 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.439 a different issue completely. It's not about the spiritual gift 131 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:01.160 of faith. God gives spiritual gifts, but God does not 132 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:06.279 force the will. And when it comes to salvation, placing 133 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:10.639 your faith in Christ, it's a surrender thing. And that's 134 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:15.439 a will issue, not a spiritual gift of I believe 135 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.920 God's going to work miracles. That's a totally different thing. 136 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.759 So what if she didn't necessarily mean the absence of 137 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:22.800 the spiritual gifts of faith, And what if she was 138 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:26.160 just referring to somebody being pre wired to not believe, 139 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:28.920 as somebody who is a radical skeptic. 140 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:37.759 Yeah, I would say God doesn't. So Romans Chapter one 141 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:42.160 tells us that God has given us the universe, and 142 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:47.240 all of creation points to a creator. God has given logic, 143 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:52.519 he's given scripture, he's given testimony and miracles. He's given 144 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:56.600 all these things. And God would say, listen, the evidence 145 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:02.959 is there, and it doesn't require some stickle move of faith. 146 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:06.920 It's just a surrender of the will God. You're God, 147 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:10.079 and I'm not right. And that's not on God, that's 148 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:11.199 on the person. Right. 149 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.360 So, no matter how skeptical a person is, that person 150 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.920 usually when you're skeptical, you're analytical anyway, right, right, And 151 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:22.800 so you're you're more cerebral, and you're you know, analytic 152 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:26.639 and intellectual, and so you know you can reason yourself 153 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:28.720 to the point to where you know you're like, Okay, 154 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:30.319 I need to investigate this for myself. 155 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:36.559 Yeah. So God may wire our personalities different, but God 156 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:40.960 did not wire our will against him anybody's will against him. 157 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:45.600 And so even Ecclesiastes says that God has planted eternity 158 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:49.200 in the hearts of humanity, right, And so this is 159 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.720 why people are so revolted by death. When you're around 160 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.720 a dead body at a funeral or something, there's this 161 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:56.600 You go up there and you're sad, and at the 162 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:59.679 same time you're revolted by this idea of death. Right. 163 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:02.440 And it's because we know that we were made for 164 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:06.840 something more. We know it, and God placed that in us. 165 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:10.519 And so these are two different issues. And then God's 166 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:12.759 plan never was for anybody to go to hell. The 167 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:15.200 Bible says that the hell is for the devil and 168 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.399 his angels, right, but those whose name was not found 169 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:20.519 written in the Lamb's book of life will also be 170 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:24.039 cast there. And so really it is a surrender issue. 171 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:31.320 Whosoever will may come. Jesus said, right, anyone whosoever calls 172 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:34.600 upon the name of the Lord will be saved. That's it. 173 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:36.320 And he's not willing that any should perish. 174 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.679 Yeah, And so this is why he says in Roman's 175 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:40.840 ten nine, he said, you have to believe in your 176 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:44.399 heart and confess with your mouth. Jesus's Lord. Literally, there's 177 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:46.919 this surrender that I'm not the king anymore. You are 178 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.879 the king, right, And that's a different thing than just 179 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:54.080 the spiritual gift of faith that everything's going to work out. 180 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:55.879 Okay, yep, Well that's good. 181 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:00.279 That's a good question and certainly worth talking about. And 182 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.360 you know what else is worth talking about? 183 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.679 What's Yeah, that's a good one. Hey. Some ninety one 184 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:08.080 is one of my favorite psalms. 185 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:13.840 Stop stop Yeah. 186 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:15.759 This one's written by anonymous. Yeah, we don't know who 187 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.440 the author is, No, we do not. Yeah. So some 188 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.960 of the songs were written by David. Some of them 189 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.799 are written by Asaff, who is David's number one worship leader. Hey, 190 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:27.159 some are written by Moses. 191 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:29.320 I feel guilty because that was such a weak transition, 192 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:30.519 and I promised to do. 193 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:31.759 You want you want to do another one? 194 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:32.399 I want to do another one? 195 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:32.919 Try another one. 196 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:34.120 Okay, I'll say this all right. 197 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:39.039 I'll say I love I love that question because it 198 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:42.720 forces somebody to think about spiritual things beyond what we 199 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:47.039 can see, and that's exactly what our promise verse does 200 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:47.759 for us today. 201 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:49.759 Man, that's good, Chris, how about that? Yep? 202 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:51.039 That that felt like it. 203 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.759 Had some, so we're giving mulligans on this on the podcast. 204 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:56.080 Now you know what today we do. 205 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:58.080 Okay, okay, good, going to pick up the ball. 206 00:10:58.159 --> 00:10:59.080 I've got a mulligan. 207 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:02.679 Swing it again, yes, okay, okay, yeah. Well, here we are. 208 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:05.799 In a Psalm ninety one, it says those who live 209 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.200 in the shelter are the most high, will find rest 210 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:11.240 in the shadow of the Almighty. This I declare about 211 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:14.039 the Lord. He alone is my refuge, my place of safety. 212 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.720 He is my God, and I trust him, for he 213 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.759 will rescue you from every trap and protect you from 214 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:22.879 every deadly disease. He will cover you with his feathers, 215 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:26.519 he will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises 216 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:29.240 are your armor and protection. Do not be afraid of 217 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.559 the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies 218 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.240 in the day. Do not dread the disease stalks in darkness, 219 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:38.440 nor the disaster that strikes at midday. Though a thousand 220 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:41.320 fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, 221 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.960 these evils will not touch you. Just open your eyes 222 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.440 and see how the wicked are punished. If you make 223 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:50.639 the Lord your refuge, if you make the most high 224 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:53.919 your shelter, no evil will conquer you, No plague will 225 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:56.639 come near your home. For he will order his angels 226 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:59.360 to protect you wherever you go. They will hold you 227 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:01.639 up with their head hands, so you won't even hurt 228 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:04.440 your foot on a stone. You will trample upon lions 229 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:06.679 and cobras, and you will crush fierce lions and serpents 230 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:09.120 under your feet. The Lord says, I will rescue those 231 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.759 who love me, and I will protect those who trust 232 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.559 in my name. When they call me, I will answer. 233 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:16.960 I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue 234 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.440 and honor them. I will reward them with a long 235 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:21.039 life and give them my salvation. 236 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:22.399 That's awesome. 237 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.320 Well, there you go. I told just one of my favorites. 238 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:26.639 Those who live in the shelter the most high will 239 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:29.000 find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. What a 240 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:32.360 great verse, that verse. It's one of my favorites. 241 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:34.559 Yep, you're a big fan, big fan. 242 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:38.559 But verse eleven is the one that we're concentrating on today. Oh, 243 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:41.679 for he will order his angels to protect you wherever 244 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:42.320 you go. 245 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:45.000 And where did we hear that before? Chris? 246 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:49.279 Yeah, that is the verse that the Devil himself quoted 247 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:51.759 to Jesus, that's right, for they will hold you up 248 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:54.919 with their hands, and so you won't even hurt your 249 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:56.240 foot on a stone. 250 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:56.679 Right. 251 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:01.159 So, when when Satan was tempting Gus to jump off 252 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:04.639 a big high place at the top of the temple, 253 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.039 he said, hey, just do that, and then the angels 254 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.960 will come down and save you, because after all, here's 255 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.159 the promise of God. And then he quoted his verse 256 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.279 for he will order his angels to protect you wherever 257 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:15.559 you go. 258 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:17.039 They will hold you up with. 259 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:18.720 Their hands so that you won't even hurt your foot 260 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.679 on a stone. Now, it's so interesting because sometimes we'll 261 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.159 read an Old Testament verse and we know we'll read 262 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:29.080 it like wondering about the context of the verse, and 263 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:33.480 we'll wonder about like whether or not that verse applies 264 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.960 to us today, right, And yet what we understand is 265 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:43.039 the devil knows that Jesus himself can claim that verse 266 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:47.480 that has written about God's protection. Right, so that will 267 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.559 protect you by sending his angels. 268 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:49.960 Right. 269 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.440 So that is something that Jesus could have banked on 270 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:54.879 had he jumped off of that high place. 271 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:59.120 So both Jesus and Satan knew that this verse. 272 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:03.120 Was written thousands of years ago, and yet was completely 273 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:06.399 applicable to that day. 274 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:09.279 Sure well, if you really are the son of God, 275 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.759 God's already set yeh, He'll protect you with his angels, right, 276 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:15.440 not just talking about the Son of God, but any 277 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:16.080 of his people. 278 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:16.679 Right. 279 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:18.279 And so then if you're really a son of God, 280 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.399 surely you can muster the angels to protect you, right, 281 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:25.120 that's what he's saying there. Yeah, that's amazing. So there's 282 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:27.919 this really great note here the Life Application Study Bible, 283 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:31.840 and it says one of the functions of angels is 284 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.720 to watch over believers, like in Hebrews one fourteen. There 285 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:39.240 are examples of guardian angels and scriptures in one Kings 286 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.919 chapter nineteen and Daniel six Remember the Angel came and 287 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:47.159 protected Daniel Matthew eighteen Luke sixteen, Acts twelve, although there 288 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:50.080 is no indication that God assigns one angel to every believer. 289 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:52.759 So your little guardian angel on your shoulder, right. 290 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:54.799 You look about the kind of angel that I get. 291 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.480 That that's what is it. 292 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.159 It's a wonderful, wonder our life. 293 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.240 Yeah, you look about the kind of angel I get. 294 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:03.039 That's so funny. 295 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:06.360 It says angels can also be God's messengers like in 296 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:09.320 Matthew chapter two when he shows up to Mary. Right, 297 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.759 angels are not visible except on special occasions when they 298 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.120 show up and then they make themselves visible. It says 299 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:20.879 we are not to worship angels or become preoccupied with them. 300 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:25.000 They're God's servants, actively present and at work in the 301 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:27.639 world in the words of Psalm one nineteen. That's what 302 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:30.840 Satan quoted here, Right, It's comforting to know that God 303 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.279 and his servants watch over us even in times of 304 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:35.919 great stress and fear, which is what David's highlighting here. 305 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:38.759 This wasn't about Jesus. It was just about God's people 306 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:42.320 and that God will protect God's angels, protect them God's. 307 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.279 Which which is why I think it's so fascinating that 308 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:45.440 Satan quo to Jesus. 309 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.559 Yes, that's right, Yeah, it's really good. 310 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:52.279 Yeah, So it is interesting this entire you know, idea 311 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:57.759 of angels. Again, we we've mentioned this before, but we 312 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:01.519 believe that there is a spiritual war. There's a spiritual 313 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:05.039 realm that where a battle is being taken, you know, 314 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:07.600 that's taking place all the time. I didn't say that 315 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:12.279 very well. There's a spiritual realm where battles are being waged, 316 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:17.120 waged right now, even maybe perhaps even in this room 317 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:20.919 right So, and we believe that God has an agenda, 318 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:24.399 Satan has an agenda, and we believe that there are 319 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:26.840 angels that are fighting on our behalf all the time. 320 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:29.080 And so, you know, we hear it in culture today. 321 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.279 Somebody will come out unscathed with something and somebody say, who, man, 322 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:34.360 the angels are looking. 323 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:35.279 Out for you. 324 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.919 You know, I've had moments in my life where I've 325 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:42.840 had things happen where it was absolutely unexplainable. I fell 326 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:46.279 off of a two story ladder all the way up 327 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:52.600 on the second story on a cement driveway, completely fell 328 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:56.039 off my ladder, landed on my back, hit my head, 329 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:01.080 and got up and shook myself off and walked away 330 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:01.399 from it. 331 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:02.320 Wow. 332 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.480 Yeah, it was the strangest. 333 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:11.799 You hit your head. Yes, it explained a lot. No, 334 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:13.960 But but you think that was God's angels protecting you. 335 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:17.599 I can't explain it otherwise. I because you know, my 336 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:20.480 my my friend, and my coworker and even my father 337 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:23.440 in law came and the ladder was still up. I 338 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.519 mean it was extended all the way up, and I 339 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:27.200 was painting underneath. 340 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:28.519 The loft and I was. 341 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:33.119 I was two stories high on this barn, and I said, 342 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:35.680 I leaned back because there was a wasp that fell 343 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:35.960 on me. 344 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.920 And I leaned back like this, and I. 345 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.640 Completely went free falling and landed straight on my back 346 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:47.640 and that and and just and just got up and 347 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.440 didn't feel a bump on my head, didn't feel anything else. 348 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.880 How does a person do that, Jeff, I do And 349 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:54.799 so I'm like, I'm like that. And even back then, 350 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:57.039 I said that was a miracle of God. I cannot 351 00:17:57.079 --> 00:17:59.279 explain how I just got up. 352 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.400 You are invincible until God's done, until God's done with you. 353 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:05.839 God had a plan, I guess so, but I I 354 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:08.839 really can't explain how that happened. And there have been 355 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:11.319 other times. There have been other times where I'm just like, 356 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:13.279 I don't understand how that happened. 357 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:14.720 But I got away with it. 358 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:17.599 Your guardian Angel comes home and goes, who, there's a 359 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:21.359 rough day? You know? There? You ever you remember the 360 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.319 remember that than Clarence, Remember the what was it? The 361 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:29.759 Hannah Barbara cartoons, like the Looney Tunes, Remember when the 362 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:32.359 the sheep dogs are checking out, punching out the other. 363 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:36.160 More than rough exactly. 364 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.559 I can just imagine your angel crossing, you know, punching out, 365 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:41.839 the next one's punching in. Going there's a rough day 366 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.680 to day. This calm fell off. He had a wasp 367 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:47.640 flying around his that he fell off the thing, landing 368 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:50.400 on his back. I could barely catch him and keep 369 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:51.079 an eye on him. 370 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:53.119 Yeah, I mean I've had I've had things like that happen, 371 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.960 and I have no other conclusion other than I have 372 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.240 to believe there's an angel. And I told you already 373 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:00.599 had an angel experience. I believe there was an angel experience. 374 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:02.880 I believe that God talked me about it, which is 375 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:07.680 a crazy story. And so yeah, I actually, really truly 376 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:11.240 there is nothing that could happen in this world, seriously nothing, 377 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:14.759 you know, God forbid that a tragedy come my way, 378 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:19.079 and you know, and the worst things happen in my life. 379 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:19.920 But even if. 380 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:23.200 They do, I think I will go to the grave 381 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:25.759 and nothing can convince me that God is not real 382 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:29.519 and that angels are real because of my experiences. 383 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:33.440 I like that. Yeah, and then I love the you know, 384 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:38.000 so there's the heel order as angels protect you, and 385 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.319 so God's paying attention. And then God's leveraging is his 386 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:43.200 resources to be able to do whatever needs to be 387 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:46.200 done to hold you up with their hands, right, so 388 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:48.640 you won't even hurt a foot on your stone. But 389 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:51.400 then fourteen through sixteen, the Lord says, I will rescue 390 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:55.680 those who love me. So as promises are not just generic, 391 00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:00.240 they're conditional. Right, I will rescue those who love me. 392 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:05.000 I will protect those who trust in my name. And 393 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:07.319 we know that Jesus name is above every name. Right, 394 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:11.759 so when they call on me, I will answer. I 395 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:14.119 will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and 396 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:16.759 honor them. I will reward them with a long life 397 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:21.359 and give them my salvation. Who just anybody know those 398 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:24.200 who love me and trust in my name. Then he 399 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:27.799 also will be with us in trouble. He'll also hear 400 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:30.960 us when we call. He'll also rescue and honor us. 401 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:33.359