WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:13.279 Good morning, Vietnam. 5 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:16.519 I don't know that. That's how this show starts. Did 6 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:20.640 you ever see that movie with Rovin Williams. Yes, I'm 7 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:22.519 aware of it. I'm not sure i've ever seen it. 8 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:24.960 Yeah. Yeah, he did it very obnoxiously. I did it 9 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:31.600 very quickly. He shuts it out. Good. Okay, So, but no, 10 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.439 we are not in Vietnam. Although if you're listening and 11 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:35.880 you're from Vietnam, welcome. 12 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:38.119 Yeah. I don't know if we've had any listeners from Vietnam, 13 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:38.560 but we might. 14 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:39.320 Yeah, we might. 15 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:41.039 Yeah, who knows, I don't know. 16 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:41.560 We should check. 17 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:42.240 That'll look it up. 18 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:43.679 Oh yeah, you want to look it up. 19 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:45.799 Now, let me see. Let's kee keep going, keep going. 20 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:48.640 So, hey, listen, we first of all want to welcome 21 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:50.920 you to the Bible guys. And we are Christ and 22 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.399 Jeff and we are starting a segment now and it 23 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.079 is called sports team draft lists. 24 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:00.560 Okay, and here's how she how she wrote it. 25 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:03.240 She said, it's Super Bowl weekend, so let's do a 26 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.079 draft list of your all time favorite sports teams do 27 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.400 rock paper scissors to see who gets the first draft 28 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.959 pick and then go into you each have five teams. 29 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:15.439 Five teams, which, by the way, because we're filming this 30 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:17.879 a few weeks before the Super Bowl, who do you 31 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:19.359 think is going to be in the Super Bowl? Wuldn't 32 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:21.760 that be fun? Because everybody when they hear this, they're 33 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.560 going to know, Yeah, I don't know, Chiefs. 34 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:25.920 I hope not. 35 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:26.640 I hope not. 36 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:28.040 I hope it's the Bills. 37 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:28.519 Bills. 38 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:29.560 Yeah, that's what I'm hoping. 39 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:32.519 And then who else on the other side, Well, it's. 40 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.719 Either going to be the Eagles or the Commanders. Yeah, 41 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:36.519 so pick, I think it'd be interesting to watch the 42 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.480 Commanders play against the Bills. I think the Bills will 43 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:38.879 kill him. 44 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:42.480 But you think so, Yeah, yeah, I do. 45 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:46.120 I do think the Bills are gonna make it. I do. 46 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:50.480 And I think it's going to be the Eagles versus 47 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:51.480 the Bills. 48 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:52.640 Okay, that's what I think. 49 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.760 That's what you think, And I pray to the Lord above. 50 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.599 Oh no, that's. 51 00:01:57.640 --> 00:01:59.519 Because he cares, he cares about football games. 52 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.560 That the Chiefs do not make it. That's just my 53 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.640 selfish prok that that will probably not be honored. 54 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.000 Well, he's up there thinking, I wonder who I'm going 55 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:11.159 to make win the Super Bowl this year. He's just 56 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:12.599 not he's contemplated. 57 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:13.879 He's not caring. Do we have Vietnam? 58 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.319 So I don't have record on the on the YouTube 59 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:18.719 thing that we have anybody from Vietnam. But let me 60 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:19.840 let me go over to the podcast. 61 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:24.520 Okay, so we have to do rock paper Scissors and 62 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:28.120 we're going to uh uh And by the way, uh 63 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.599 do you believe that? Do you believe the whole like 64 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.960 NFL rigged referees protecting mahomes? 65 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:34.680 Do you believe all that? 66 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.840 I think it's natural for people to be big fans 67 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:41.400 of things, yep, right, and it's hard to not let 68 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:46.639 your fandom cause you to be slightly biased. But I 69 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:47.840 don't think it's rigged. 70 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.840 Yeah, I don't think it's rigged, but I do think 71 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:57.319 it's unfair, unfair, unfair. Correct, Well, life's not fair, Chris. 72 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:01.599 Well, that is definitely true for sure. Yeah. 73 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.680 I don't see any in Vietnam. Okay, we have we 74 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.479 have a bunch in the area, but not. 75 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:12.400 Give me another country. Hang on, hang on, this is Spain. 76 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.280 We have we have twenty four from Spain. Okay, So you're. 77 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:20.479 Ready in the last month, ready, good morning Spain, Taiwan. 78 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:22.479 Taiwan's on, Singapore is on that. 79 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:23.560 I've already chosen Spain. 80 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:24.400 Okay, okay, Spain? 81 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:24.680 Was it? 82 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:25.360 Spain? Was it? 83 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:25.759 Okay? 84 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:26.960 All right, we gotta do rock paper sits. 85 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:29.400 We had one hundred and thirty one last month from Taiwan. 86 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:31.800 Oh that's really cool. Yeah, al ready. 87 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:35.560 Rock paper scissors yep, one two three shoo oh shoot 88 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:39.240 we get both had scissors one two three? Shoot oh 89 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:40.919 I had rock Okay. 90 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:41.360 I did papers. 91 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:42.719 It's me first, it's your first. 92 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:45.680 Okay, well, obviously I'm gonna go straight forward. The Lions 93 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:46.400 this year. 94 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.360 Twenty twenty four to twenty five Lions. 95 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:51.800 That's correct, that is that is my first show. 96 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:52.960 All time favorite team. 97 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.280 It said, name five of your most favorite teams. 98 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:58.199 Okay, but this is your favorite team, number one, number one. 99 00:03:58.280 --> 00:03:59.759 It's probably actually it's probably number one. 100 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:03.520 Yeah, okay, okay. I think of all the teams that 101 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:07.759 I've ever been obsessed with, there's a couple. One it 102 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:10.639 would be the eighty four Tigers. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah 103 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.000 when they won the World Series. Yeah for sure, Yeah, 104 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:15.360 that was I was obsessed with them. I was only thirteen. 105 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:16.240 That's great. 106 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.199 It was a huge, huge season for me. 107 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:23.279 So in like fashion, I'm going to choose the nineteen 108 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:26.079 ninety five Atlanta Braves. 109 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.800 Really were you living in Atlanta at the time. 110 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:32.000 I was, Yeah, And in fact, I went to I 111 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.519 went to that World Series. I was a World Series game. 112 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:35.800 Wow. How many good team? 113 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:36.759 How many people can say that? 114 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:41.040 Hundreds of thousands? Yeah, right, but not billions? 115 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:45.160 Not billions, Okay, and they actually defeated the Indians. And 116 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.879 I'm from just south of Cleveland, so I was a 117 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:52.319 little torn. But I never had total allegiance to Cleveland. 118 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:54.279 But because I lived in Atlanta at the time and 119 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.600 I went to constantly, I went to Braves games. I 120 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.639 remember Greg Maddox and Smolts and all the those guys. 121 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.120 I sat there and watched them and they won. I 122 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:05.000 was there at Game six. 123 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:08.279 So my whole life growing up, I can remember when 124 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:10.800 I was I was about six years old. My dad's 125 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.040 a big was a big sports guy. Loves sports. He 126 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:16.000 still does love sports. He loves college sports, he loves 127 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.399 pro sports. But my dad has a very strong sense 128 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:23.600 of loyalty. So it's We're from Michigan, so we only 129 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:27.759 root for Michigan teams. Wow, right, that's it. So I 130 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:29.360 was like five or six, I'm like, which ones do 131 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:30.759 we like? And he would point out, we like the 132 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:32.240 ones in the blue and the gray. We like the 133 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:33.879 ones in the blue and the red. We like the 134 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:36.360 ones in the you know, navy blue and white. That's 135 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.959 so it was a maze and blue. Right. So I 136 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:43.959 only my favorite teams are only Michigan teams, Like I 137 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:47.959 don't have everybody else's our enemy right in my mind. 138 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.040 My whole life has been that way. So I would 139 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:54.120 say my second favorite team that I got obsessed with 140 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:58.920 was the eighty nine to ninety Pistons. 141 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:00.920 Okay, bad boys, yep. 142 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.120 Yeah, so Isaiah Thomas, Bill AMBIERR. Yeah, were and all 143 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:04.480 those guys. 144 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:05.839 Yeah, that's awesome, Joe do Mars. 145 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.240 They just because they were so mean to everybody else, 146 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:14.120 and they dethroned Larry Bird's rain and Magic Johnson's reign both. 147 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:14.720 Wow. 148 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.560 Right after that, neither one of them really dominated. They 149 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:19.920 were great players after that, but up till then, we 150 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.079 could never defeat them, and then after that we ushered 151 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:23.560 in the Jordan era after that. 152 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:28.759 Right right, right, right, Okay, I'm gonna choose the the 153 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:34.839 nineteen eighty seven nineteen eighty eight Cleveland Browns. Wow, where 154 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:38.000 they were in the AFC Championship. Yeah, it's commonly known 155 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:38.639 as the fumble. 156 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:40.360 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 157 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:41.120 They fumbled on. 158 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.040 Like the two two yard line, Oh my gosh. 159 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:48.480 Against the Denver Broncos yep and el Way just it 160 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:49.360 was the drive. 161 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:51.120 Then the fumble yep, yep, ye wow. 162 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:54.040 So so anyway, but that those were great days, right, 163 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:56.519 I mean, Browns almost. 164 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:59.120 Almost made it. Yep. That was like us last year. 165 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:00.839 We almost made it to the Super Bowl last year. 166 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.480 Bernie Cozar Yeah wow, oh wow, I haven't heard that 167 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:07.680 name in forever, but yeah, you're right. Okay, So then 168 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:12.000 I think my next favorite team, my third favorite team 169 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:22.519 would be I would say probably the twenty twelve Detroit Tigers. Okay, right, 170 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:23.920 they went to the World Series. They lost in the 171 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:26.920 World Series, but man, what a what a run there, 172 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:31.079 you know with Verlander and it's such a great team. 173 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:31.920 That's awesome. 174 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:35.040 Miguel Cabrera, right those guys. 175 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:38.439 Yeah, okay, I'm going to choose the nineteen ninety eight 176 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.240 in nineteen ninety nine Atlanta Falcons. 177 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:43.639 Oh wow, are you still in Atlanta? Then? 178 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:45.720 Yes, yeah. 179 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:47.639 I was in Atlanta till two thousand and four. 180 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:50.800 Ok So they went to the Super. 181 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:54.839 Bowl that year and they lost, but they went and 182 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.800 they played the Broncos again. So the Browns lost against 183 00:07:58.839 --> 00:07:59.399 the Broncos. 184 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:01.319 Awkwards loss against the Broncos. 185 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:02.399 You hate the Broncos. 186 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:03.480 I hate the Broncos. 187 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:04.199 Hate the Broncos. 188 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:07.160 And somebody on our staff is from Denver and that's thirteam, 189 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.360 favorite team, and I can't stand the Broncos. 190 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:10.600 Yep, and you know who you are. 191 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:12.720 But I went, I went to go speak at a 192 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.560 church up in Denver, and I remember being there and 193 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:17.839 I saw a commercial by John Elway and he owns 194 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.759 car dealerships. Now yeah, and he looked at the car 195 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.639 he pulled up, look at the camera and he goes, 196 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:26.399 Elway has the car for you. And then he points, 197 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.839 he points, he points, Anyway, go ahead. 198 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:33.639 Last one, okay, last one? Okay. I would say I 199 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:39.559 loved playing on Landmark Baptist Temple softball team with my dad. 200 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:42.519 Oh yeah, that would be my Yeah, Okay. We won 201 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:45.519 a lot of games. I turned. I think my dad 202 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:49.000 and I and my brother combined turned. We were trying 203 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.480 to add it up. It's five or six double plays 204 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:53.639 nice together, and that's kind of neat when you get 205 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:54.759 through that with your brother, your dad. 206 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:56.840 Hey, by the way, we were supposed to be five each. 207 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:57.679 Weely four each. 208 00:08:57.799 --> 00:08:58.879 That's okay. We're running long. 209 00:08:59.000 --> 00:08:59.879 I know we're running long. 210 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:02.519 But I have to say that I did win the 211 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:05.960 championship of my baseball team, the nineteen eighty five Briggs 212 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:07.799 and Jones team beat Ohio Carpet. 213 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:09.480 Oh and so we did. 214 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.279 Want a rivalry, by the way, I mean this in 215 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.840 the storied This is a storied rivalry. 216 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:16.919 Yes, and so I did. I did win that. 217 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:18.440 So wow, how did you do? 218 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:20.159 We won the championship? 219 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:20.360 Yeah? 220 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:21.399 Yeah, yeah that season. 221 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:22.120 Yeah, that season. 222 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.080 That's pretty impressive. Were you amazing in the game? 223 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.279 No, I missed the game. They probably won because I 224 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.360 wasn't there. But I brought them all the way. 225 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:30.519 To the year. 226 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:32.440 You got him there, You got him there. 227 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:34.799 My dad told me I could either go on vacation 228 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:36.200 with him and. 229 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.799 Missed the chance to win, or stay behind and then 230 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:42.759 missed the vacation, the family vacation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 231 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.360 and then possibly not go to the championship. So I 232 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.440 chose to go on vacation, and then they won any 233 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:49.159 they won it without me. 234 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:51.679 Well good you got him there though, Thank goodness. 235 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:52.080 But I got him there. 236 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:54.799 Thank you, Chris, You're welcome. Speaking of getting us there, 237 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:56.960 Chris third base, you got us all the way to 238 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:01.080 the healing of Nayman aried us all the way to 239 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:01.600 this moment. 240 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:03.919 It again successful. 241 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:07.919 Terrible Second Kings, Chapter five, verse one through nineteen says 242 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:10.799 the King of Aram had great admiration for naming the 243 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:14.360 commander of his army, because through him the Lord had 244 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:18.480 given Aram great victories. But though Naman was a mighty warrior, 245 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:22.480 he suffered from leprosy. At this time, Aramean raiders had 246 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.360 invaded the land of Israel, and among their captives was 247 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:27.879 a young girl who had been given to nam his 248 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:30.120 wife as a maid. One day, the girl said to 249 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:31.960 her mistress, I wish my master would go to see 250 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:34.559 the prophet in Samaria. He would heal him of his leprosy. 251 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:37.039 So Naman told the king what the young girl from 252 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.720 Israel had said, Go and visit the prophet. The King 253 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:41.639 of Aram told him, I will send a letter of 254 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:44.159 introduction for you to take to the King of Israel. 255 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.399 So Nama started out carrying as gifts seven hundred fifty 256 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.120 pounds of silver, one hundred fifty pounds of gold, and 257 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.720 ten sets of clothing. The letter to the King of 258 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.399 Israel said, with this letter, I present my servant Naman. 259 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:57.279 I want you to heal him of his leprosy. When 260 00:10:57.279 --> 00:10:58.960 the King of Israel read the letter, he tore his 261 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.399 clothes and Dismayn said, this man sends me a leopard 262 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.720 to heal am I God that I can give life 263 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.840 and take it away. I can see that he's just 264 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:08.279 trying to pick a fight with me. But when Elijah, 265 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:09.840 the man of God, heard that the King of Israel 266 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:11.799 had torn his clothes and dismay, he sent this message 267 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.000 to him, Why are you so upset? Send name it 268 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:16.639 to me and he will learn that there is a 269 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:19.600 true prophet here in Israel. So Namon went with his 270 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:22.279 horses and chariots and waited at the door of Elisia's house. 271 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.000 But Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message, 272 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.960 go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan river, 273 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:30.559 and then your skin will be restored and you'll be 274 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:34.080 healed of your leprosy. But Naman became angry and stalked 275 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.399 away I thought he would certainly come out to meet me, 276 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.799 he said, I expected him to wave his hand over 277 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:41.559 the leprosy and call in the name of the Lord 278 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.399 is God and heal me. Aren't the rivers of Damascus, 279 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:48.600 the Abana, and the far par better than any of 280 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.279 the rivers of Israel, Why shouldn't I wash in them 281 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:53.159 and be healed? So name In turned and went away 282 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:56.120 in a rage. But his officers tried to reason with him, 283 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:57.720 and said, Sir, if the prophet had told you to 284 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.639 do something very difficult, wouldn't you have done it? So 285 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:02.559 you should certainly obey him when he says, simply go 286 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:05.399 and wash and be cured. So Naman went down to 287 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.759 the Jordan river and dipped himself seven times as the 288 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:10.440 Man of God had instructed, and his skin became as 289 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.559 healthy as the skin of a young child, and he 290 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.879 was healed. Then name And and his entire party went back 291 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:17.919 to find the Man of God, and they stood before him. 292 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:20.559 Namon said, now I know that there is no God 293 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.399 in all the world except in Israel, So please accept 294 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:25.840 a gift from your servant. But Elisha replied, as surely 295 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:27.360 as the Lord lives whom I serve, I will not 296 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:30.279 accept any gifts. And though Namon urged him to take 297 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.639 the gift, Elisha refused. Then Namon said, all right, but 298 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:35.559 please allow me to load two of my mules with 299 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:37.799 earth from this place, and I will take it back 300 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:40.480 home with me. From now on, I will never again 301 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:43.320 offer burnt offerings or sacrifices to any other god except 302 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.159 the Lord. However, may the Lord pardon me in this 303 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:48.480 one thing. When my master, the King, goes into the 304 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:51.720 temple of the Roman of the god Reiman to worship 305 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:53.639 there and leans on my arm, may the Lord pardon 306 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:56.360 me when I bow to go in peace? Elisha said, 307 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:57.840 So Naman started home again. 308 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.960 Well, wow, there you go. Yeah. 309 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:06.639 And so he's acknowledging that he's gonna have to go home. 310 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:09.320 And because he's under the authority of his king, he's 311 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.960 going to bow to a false god. He says, he's 312 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:13.799 gonna lean on my arm, he's going to require me 313 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:16.759 to bow and uh. And he says, so, I'm probably 314 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:17.879 gonna have to bow there. 315 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:19.080 Out of respect for the king. 316 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:21.639 Out of respect for the king, So please pardon me. 317 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.240 And then and then Elijah, by the way, the Bible 318 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:28.799 just says go in peace. It doesn't say he pardons right, 319 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:29.879 there is no pardon. 320 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:34.960 Yeah, yeah, I wonder how that? Yeah, how that is? 321 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:41.519 It's interesting, isn't it? How? You know? Uh? His reaction 322 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:44.679 is puzzling to me, right is it because? Is it 323 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:48.240 because you know he wanted to see Elisha in person? 324 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.480 That's probably it, isn't it. His reaction is, I'm not 325 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:55.639 going to do go go dip myself. He said, I 326 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:57.559 wanted the prophet to come out and at least meet me. 327 00:13:57.600 --> 00:13:59.919 I travel all this way, and you sent a servant. 328 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:02.759 It's a respect thing, right, he's a commander. 329 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.759 Right, And then you're only sending me to the to 330 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:06.879 the this nasty old muddy river. 331 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:09.320 Right. I get rivers at home that are better. 332 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:12.000 Right it, Come and meet me as an equal, yeah 333 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:17.240 right right, that's his thing. And then yep, this is dumb, right, right, 334 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:18.960 this is dumb. 335 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:19.360 Right. 336 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:19.639 Yeah. 337 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:22.600 You I expected you to wave a magic wand that's 338 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:23.039 what he's said. 339 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:24.039 I expect you. 340 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:28.080 To wave over me in this miraculous, unbelievable, dramatic miracle. 341 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:29.639 I've got this in my head. How I want you 342 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:30.759 to do it and God to do it? 343 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:31.799 Yeah? Yeah. 344 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.960 But at the same time, he says, oh, I can 345 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.960 just go and simply wash. And then then the advice 346 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.200 is what did he say? But the officers tried to 347 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:43.120 rease with them, so it was it was really the 348 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.519 officers who were the voice of reason. 349 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:45.759 Here. 350 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:47.799 Listen, if you told you to do a million push ups, 351 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:49.080 would you done a million push ups? 352 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:49.440 Right? 353 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:51.279 If you told you to climb the tallest mountain, would 354 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:52.360 you have climb the tallest mountain? 355 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:52.720 Right? 356 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.120 Right? You would have done hard things? 357 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:54.759 Right? 358 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:57.000 Try it right? 359 00:14:57.639 --> 00:14:58.399 Do this easy thing? 360 00:14:58.480 --> 00:14:58.639 Yeah? 361 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:00.960 Yeah, So he did it, and it's as soft as 362 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:02.000 as a young child. 363 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:04.080 He was healed. That's pretty amazing. 364 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:08.320 And have you ever heard if you'd only dipped himself 365 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:10.919 six times, it wouldn't have happened. Do you hear any 366 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:11.519 preaching on that? 367 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:12.120 Huh? 368 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:15.600 Yeah? So when I was a teenager of Zetti Youth 369 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.559 Conference and a pretty famous preacher preached this message and 370 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.960 it had seven points and each of them was you know, 371 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.039 and I don't remember the whole message. I just remember 372 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.600 it was the seventh time it was complete obedience. It 373 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.039 wasn't partial obedience. He didn't get healed for walking in 374 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:31.639 the water. He didn't get healed for going down the 375 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:34.679 second time. Yeah, it was you know, it took seven times. 376 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:36.879 And so you talk about coming up out of the water, 377 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:41.200 and nothing is different. Nothing was different at three, nothing 378 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:45.159 was different at four. Everybody standing on the bank watching 379 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:48.320 to see. And there's an expectation that maybe you'd be 380 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.360 a little bit better at this time than last time. 381 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:50.639 Right. 382 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:52.799 Washing is a progressive thing. 383 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:54.759 Yeah, yeah, And so you'd think it'd be better, and 384 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:57.360 it wasn't. It wasn't better. So now it's getting embarrassing. 385 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:01.080 This idiot didn't come out and treat you like a man. 386 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:03.840 He didn't give you any respect. And now you're in 387 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:06.519 this muddy and if you've seen the Jordan River, it's 388 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:10.480 a muddy river. And we did baptisms in the in 389 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:15.519 the Jordan River and it was gross, right, and so 390 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:19.080 it's this muddy river, all this stuff. He's right, the 391 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:23.960 beauty near Damascus in those rivers, versus this one. Number five, 392 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:27.720 he comes out of the water, Nothing is different. Number six, 393 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.840 he comes out of the water. Nothing is different. But 394 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:35.679 it's God's it's complete obedience to God's word is what 395 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.440 brings the miracles, right, complete obedience to what God said. 396 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.759 And there was a humility in it. He was it 397 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.039 was his own pride that was offended that Elisha wouldn't 398 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:47.440 come out. It was his own pride that was offended 399 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.360 that he had to go dip himself seven times in 400 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:55.559 this dirty Jewish water, right, it was it was his 401 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:57.799