WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:14.960 Hey, good morning everybody. My name is Chris. This is 5 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:16.440 Jeff Forrester Man. 6 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:19.359 We're so excited to be here. Are we the Bible Guys? 7 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:21.480 We are the Bible Guys. That's right, and so we 8 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:23.960 want to welcome you to the podcast. And by the way, 9 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:27.960 we have five hundred plus episodes that you can go 10 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:29.239 back and watch. 11 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:30.519 If this is your first time. 12 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:35.479 Tuning in, Man, you can drown yourself in Bible Guys episodes. 13 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:36.119 That's right. 14 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:38.079 And by the way, not just watch, but listen. I 15 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:39.159 keep on saying watch, but. 16 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:42.320 Yeah, hey, I wonder. So we averaged like twenty five 17 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:49.000 minutes an episode ish times five hundred divided by sixty, 18 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:51.960 it's two hundred and eight and a half hours. 19 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:55.880 Wow, two hundred and eight hours. Yeah, that's a lot 20 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:56.159 of hours. 21 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.359 That's a lot of hours. That's like ten straight days 22 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.320 and divided by eight hours. Let's say if you listen 23 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.040 to eight hours a day, you go twenty six days. 24 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:06.640 That means twenty six days eight hours a day. 25 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.120 That means I've sat here and listened to you talk 26 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:13.480 just go on and on for what. I wonder a 27 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:16.439 percentage of those two hundred eight hours that you were 28 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:25.239 talking versus me. It's really funny to think about if 29 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:26.879 you add up the minutes, like what would it be? 30 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:29.280 What we should do is take all of the episodes 31 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:31.120 and drop them into AI and ask them a bunch 32 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:33.799 of questions like that, how many words Jeff say versus? 33 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:34.840 How many words did Chris say? 34 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:36.359 That would be interesting? 35 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:39.200 Actually, how many meaningful things did Jeff say versus? How 36 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:40.480 many meaningful things? 37 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.840 AI is going to discurbine what is meaningful? I don't 38 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:46.760 think so, because. 39 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.920 How many movie references that are about. 40 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:50.760 Make versus that would be interesting, wouldn't it? 41 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:51.439 That would be great? 42 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:53.879 Well, you know, like yesterday I said no, two days 43 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:55.840 ago I said on the podcast, I go in the world, 44 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.599 and then I just went on, right, that's a movie reference. 45 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:00.319 And yet nobody would know A I know. 46 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:01.480 That AI knows everything. 47 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:05.640 No AI does. I'm not you're right, this is not okay, 48 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:07.799 This is not what I robot. 49 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:08.800 Yeah not yet. 50 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:11.560 This is not all those other ones the age of Ultron. 51 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.680 These are We've not arrived there. So if you are 52 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.000 a new listener today and this is your first time. 53 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:19.520 It doesn't get any better than what just happened there. 54 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:21.120 So if you're looking for something. 55 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:24.520 Better, right, we have some other good podcasts. 56 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:28.039 You've hit the peak, Ladies and Gentlemen goes down from there. 57 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:30.400 But it is fun. We've got people all around the 58 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.240 world that listen, thousands and thousands of people and what 59 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.800 is it now, eighty ninety country something like that. But 60 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:41.719 it's really fun to find out where our listeners are from. 61 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:45.840 And so Desiree, she's the one that really does most 62 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.879 of the work on this podcast. By the way, she 63 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:50.680 every once in a while will do one of these 64 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.400 segments saying, where are our listeners from? Because it's fun 65 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:54.639 to see where the listeners are from. 66 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:55.199 Hey, I just. 67 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.919 Yawned, and did you know that somebody approached me in 68 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:00.439 the lobby at our church on Sunday? She goes, Hey, 69 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:01.400 I just want to let you know I love the 70 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:03.360 Bibble guys, And she said, and I want to let 71 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:05.479 you know also I count your yawns. 72 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.599 Yeah, well there was one yep. 73 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:11.400 And by the way, I've said this a couple of times, 74 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:13.319 but why do I yawn all the time? 75 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.039 Because you're bored? No, because it's dark. 76 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:17.280 Low lighting. 77 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:18.879 Low lighting makes you tells me. 78 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.919 To yawn immediately, Yes, immediately. If I go into a 79 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:24.319 low lighting environment, I yawn immediately. 80 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:24.599 Yes. 81 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:25.560 Go ahead. 82 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:30.840 So today we're going to highlight a whole country, is 83 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:32.639 what she says. But I think I think she meant 84 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:33.319 a whole city. 85 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.560 Yeah, because the answer down here is a city. 86 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.199 That's correct. So the first one, hey, it will give 87 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.840 you four clues. The first one German chocolate cake originated 88 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.120 here in nineteen fifty seven. That's all I need to 89 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:43.960 know to love the city. 90 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:45.120 It sounds like Germany. 91 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:46.319 German chocolate cake. 92 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:50.520 Yeah, but so if it's not Germany, then I call farce. 93 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:53.759 It's not. But I know there's a lot of Germans 94 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:57.039 that live in this city. Wow, yeah, totally cake. And 95 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:59.159 there were a lot of German cowboys back in the day. 96 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.199 Were not sure there were no they were not sure. 97 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.039 There were all right, bunch of a bunch of cattlemen 98 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:09.520 out out in that part of the country where German. 99 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:12.120 Guy walks up, you know, chi ching ch ching, chit 100 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:13.960 chink with his little six shoes and he. 101 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:15.560 Goes Venus Knitzer. 102 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:20.199 I don't think so anyway. Number two, it is the 103 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:21.680 birthplace of seven eleven. 104 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:25.759 What yeah, so German chocolate cake and big gulps. 105 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:28.839 What more do you need big gulps? Huh yeah, Well 106 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:29.439 see you. 107 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:35.319 Later, Okay, Varney, our favorite big purple dinosaur was created here. 108 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:38.279 I don't know about our favorite. 109 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:41.199 Yeah. I don't know about that one either. I love you. 110 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:42.839 Yeah, he was big back in the day. 111 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:43.240 Yes. 112 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:47.040 And then finally number four. It holds the largest state 113 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:50.680 fair in the United States, drawing over two million visitors 114 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:51.360 every year. 115 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:54.480 What. This is great because state fairs are amazing. You 116 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.000 know what? Because you can get anything to eat on 117 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:04.560 a stick. It's right, you can, man, That's why state Hey, 118 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.680 I'm not joking. Well, we should say where it's at 119 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:09.759 and then I'll tell you my yes state first, and it. 120 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.680 Is Dallas, Texas. 121 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:18.000 Hey, everybody in Dallas. We are so glad that you're here. Yes, listening? Thanks, 122 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:21.079 y'all tuning in? Yep? So, hey, let us know where 123 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.319 you're from, Yes, tell let us know where you're listening from. 124 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:27.360 You can send us an email info at the Bible 125 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.319 Guides dot com, or you can leave a comment on 126 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.240 the if you're watching on YouTube, or you can how 127 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.639 else can they I guess send up a bat signal. 128 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:39.959 Yes, yeah, well. 129 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:41.839 I mean they could always email us directly. It's we're 130 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:44.040 not hard to find if you go to Heritage Church 131 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:46.920 dot com. Uh, that is our church, and then our 132 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.160 emails are you know, on those things too. So yeah, 133 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.560 by the way, my brother lives in Plano. 134 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.519 Texas, not sorry from Dallas, not. 135 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:54.920 Far at all. 136 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:58.079 So I have been to Plano several times and been 137 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:00.399 to Dallas several times. And I got to tell yeah, 138 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.560 I love Texas and I love Dallas. 139 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:05.319 Yeah, and I love playing. 140 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.199 We lived in Texas for a few years and so 141 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:10.319 served as a church down there, my my wife and 142 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:16.560 my my two sons Tyler. We lived near Beaumont, Texas. Yeah, 143 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.120 so right down on the Louisiana border, right on the 144 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:20.399 Gulf of Mexico. Yeah. 145 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:20.759 Wow. 146 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:23.480 It was just a big swamp. There were more alligators 147 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:25.920 in our county than there were people. So but I 148 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.759 loved it, loved Texas and been all over the whole 149 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:30.800 state so many times. But what I was telling you 150 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.439 about state fairs and fairs in general. In Texas, everything's 151 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:35.800 on a stick and you can eat it and then 152 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:39.959 it's fried. You get fried. Uh. Maybe the best single 153 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.680 greatest thing I ever put in my mouth for food 154 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:46.040 at a fair was a fried twinkie on a stick. Wow, 155 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.759 and it sounds horrible. It was amazing, And went back 156 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:52.120 I got another one. I've had fried alligator on a stick. 157 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:55.000 Of course, you get chicken and pork. And I had 158 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:57.639 ribs on a stick one time there where they ran 159 00:06:57.639 --> 00:06:59.360 a stick between each rib all the way up. 160 00:06:59.399 --> 00:06:59.560 You know. 161 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:02.439 Oh yeah, all kinds of everything. You get everything to 162 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.399 eat on a stick, and a lot of it's. 163 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:05.600 Fried donuts on a stick. 164 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:07.000 Yeah. Yeah, I've had donuts on a stick. 165 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:07.920 Yeah, that's really great. 166 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.519 So man, go to Texas for the state fair. Now 167 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:13.399 that we know that the biggest state fairs in Dallas, 168 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.600 that's a million visitors. That's incredible. 169 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:17.560 Holy Christmas, I know that's amazing. 170 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:21.639 So there you go, Dallas. You're represented the day. Yes, 171 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.800 And I think you have the second best football team. 172 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.560 Do that second fourth best? In twenty two. 173 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:31.800 I was going to say yeah, I was going to 174 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:33.079 say they're they're definitely. 175 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:35.560 I always have. I always have so much hope for 176 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:40.000 the Cowboys and then they just underperform every year. 177 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:42.480 I have not liked the Cowboys ever since they beat 178 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:43.680 us in our playoff game. 179 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.000 The loss back in nineteen ninety yeah whatever, it was 180 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:48.920 ninety seven, ninety three. 181 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:52.120 No, no, no, were we taking off on the one playoff game? 182 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.560 Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Dallas was the one that 183 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:55.040 took us out. 184 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:55.680 Yeah, that's right. 185 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.600 Yeah, and I mean obviously not last year. Lines were 186 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.160 actually good last year. Yeah, I'm talking about previous. 187 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:03.519 Year back in the nineties. No, no, not that one, 188 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:05.680 because we lost to We lost to the Cowboys in 189 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:07.959 the nineties too, back and Bass Andanders. 190 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.800 Was playing, well, the Cowboys are a cursed then, yes, 191 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:10.839 for the lines. 192 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:13.000 Right, well, we hate the Cowboys when we bring that up, 193 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:17.639 just ruin the whole podcast. Okay, well we've been We 194 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:21.279 started off yesterday telling the story of David and his men. 195 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:24.360 He has got six hundred men and they ask for 196 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:27.759 food from Neyball, a very wealthy man, and he has 197 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.680 a really bad temper. He starts talking. He's all kinds 198 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.919 of smack about David and about his people, and he 199 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:38.000 doesn't want to share. Abigail Nabel's wife is like, man, 200 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.799 we're about ready to get wiped out because of David, 201 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.159 and she packs up a whole bunch of she picks 202 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:43.200 up the whole entry. 203 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:44.679 I love we didn't talk about it yesterday, but I 204 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:50.039 love how she's referred to as sensible, kind and then beautiful. Yes, yes, 205 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:52.840 that's right, right, because because we have to picture her 206 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:53.480 in our minds. 207 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:54.000 Right. 208 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.279 So, here's this woman who's who's who's riding down? Here 209 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.639 comes these four hundred men. They're like, nobody's going to 210 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:03.720 be left live. And then you got this really beautiful, kind, 211 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:07.879 sensible woman who has decided to clean up the pantry 212 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:11.480 and take you know, two hundred packs of raisins and 213 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:15.960 all these different you know, donkey's loaded up with food 214 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:16.440 for these men. 215 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:21.600 That's right. So and David literally says, get all of 216 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:24.679 your stuff. We're gonna go wipe this guy out. That's 217 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.000 what he tells his men. And so then in First Samuel, 218 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:32.519 chapter twenty five, verse twenty three, Abigail is riding her 219 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:36.360 donkey towards David and says, when Abigail saw David, she 220 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.840 quickly got off her donkey and bowed low before him. 221 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.399 She fell at his feet and said, I accept all 222 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:43.759 blame in this matter, my lord, Please listen to what 223 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:46.159 I have to say. I know Nabel is a wicked 224 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:49.360 and ill tempered man. Please don't pay any attention to him. 225 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:52.159 He's a fool, just as his name suggests, which, by 226 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.120 the way, Nabel literally means fool. 227 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:54.559 Wow. 228 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:56.919 I don't know who names their kid that, but right, 229 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.039 but I never even saw the young men. You now 230 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.320 my Lord, as surely as the Lord lives, and you 231 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.200 yourself lives. Since the Lord has kept you from murdering 232 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:08.840 and taking vengeance into your own hands, Let all your 233 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:10.840 enemies and those who try to harm you be as 234 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.240 cursed as Nabal is. And here is a present that I, 235 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:16.720 your servant, have brought to you and your young men. 236 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.039 Please forgive me if I've offended you in any way. 237 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:22.039 The Lord will surely reward you with a lasting dynasty, 238 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:25.360 for you are fighting the Lord's battles, and you've not 239 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:28.679 done wrong throughout your entire life. Even when you are 240 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.720 chased by those who seek to kill you. Your life 241 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:32.440 is safe in the care of the Lord, your God, 242 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:35.480 secure in his treasure pouch. But the lives of your 243 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:38.639 enemies will disappear like stones shot from a sling when 244 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:40.679 the Lord has done all he promised and has made 245 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:43.039 you leader of Israel. Don't let this be a blemish 246 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:45.519 on your record. Then your conscience won't have to bear 247 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.480 the staggering burden of needless bloodshed and vengeance. And when 248 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.480 the Lord has done these great things for you, please 249 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.639 remember me, your servant. Davy replied to Abigail. Praise the Lord, 250 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:56.840 the God of Israel, has sent you to meet me 251 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.919 this day. Thank God for your good sense. Bless you 252 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.519 for keeping me from murder and from carrying out vengeance 253 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:05.879 with my own hands. For I swear by the Lord, 254 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.000 the God of Israel, who has kept me from hurting you, 255 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:09.879 that if you had not hurried out to meet me, 256 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.519 not one of Nabel's men would still be alive tomorrow morning. 257 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:17.120 That's a strong statement. Then David accepted her present and 258 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.720 told her return home in peace. I've heard what you said. 259 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:23.600 We will not kill your husband. When Abigail arrived home, 260 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:25.519 she found that Nabal was throwing a big party and 261 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:28.559 was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so 262 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:30.600 she didn't tell him anything about her meeting with David 263 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.679 until dawn the next day. In the morning, when Nabal 264 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:35.919 was sober, his wife told him what had happened, and 265 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.000 as a result, he had a stroke and he laid 266 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:42.559 paralyzed on his bed like a stone. About ten days later, 267 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:46.480 the Lord struck him and he died. When David heard 268 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.080 that Nabal was dead, he said, praise the Lord whos 269 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:52.240 avenged the insult. I wascerived from Nabal and has kept 270 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:55.399 me from doing it myself. Nabal has received the punishment 271 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:58.320 for his sin. Then David sent his messengers to Abigail 272 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.519 to ask her to become his wife. When the messengers 273 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.399 arrived at Carmel, they told Abigail, David has sent us 274 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.720 to take you back to marry him. She bowed low 275 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:09.799 to the ground and responded, I, your servant would be 276 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.039 happy to marry David. I would even be willing to 277 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:14.919 become a slave. Watching the feet of his servants, quickly 278 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.440 getting ready, she took along five of her servant girls 279 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:21.480 as attendants, mounted a donkey and went with David's messengers, 280 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:24.320 and so she became his wife. David also married a 281 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:28.360 Hannoem from Jezreel, making both of them his wives. It's all. Meanwhile, 282 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.000 had given his daughter Michael, David's wife, to a man 283 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:37.039 from a Galum named Pulti, son of Leish. Well Yeah, 284 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:37.840 what is that? 285 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:38.759 Yeah? 286 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.360 Well, I mean, you know, can we just before we 287 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.919 get to the awesome story. That was a thing back then, ye, 288 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:49.960 marrying multiple wives, and everybody of every nation did it. 289 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:54.000 But God never in the Bible, not once has God ever, 290 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:57.759 God told him not to right, God did not approve 291 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.320 of multiple wives. And yet it seems like everybody in 292 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:07.440 power decided to exercise that right. 293 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.279 Not a right. I guess legally it's a right, isn't it. 294 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:12.879 Right, Yeah, as they decided to exercise their legal right 295 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:14.039 to have multiple wives. 296 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:16.759 And it was a cultural thing, and they were embracing 297 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.480 the culture rather than doing what God had said was appropriate. Right. 298 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:23.200 The only time, like we read about Boaz with Ruth, right, 299 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:26.480 there was this thing that take care of your brothers 300 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:29.759 or your relative's wife if she's a widow. Right, So 301 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:32.279 if your brother your relative dies, you're supposed to take 302 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:34.360 care of her. That would be a different kind of 303 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:38.759 a situation usually than this idea of just go out 304 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:40.399 and hey, there's a pretty woman, I'm going to make 305 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:41.720 her my wife, and there's another one, I'm going to 306 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:43.960 make her my wife. Just go around collecting women. It 307 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:46.799 was a very different thing. So that was inappropriate on 308 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:51.600 David's part. But the rest of this story is pretty incredible, 309 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.399 the fact that Abigail had the courage to come and 310 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:58.360 deflect David's anger by saying, hey, blame me. 311 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:01.200 Do you know that I actually teared up when you 312 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:02.159 were reading that story? 313 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:04.919 I actually did, which is so crazy. 314 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:08.919 He said, what an obscure story from the Old Testament 315 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:11.399 to have so much emotion. But but I was actually 316 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.879 just thinking, like, you know, first of all, she gets 317 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:17.600 off her donkey and she uh, you know, goes down, 318 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:19.600 and I think I just found it so beautiful that 319 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:24.039 she took responsibility in such a way. And you know, 320 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.360 and again she's you know, saying, hey, he should be cursed, 321 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:30.799 because you know, she recognizes the weight of his insults. 322 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.720 She's like, listen, he's an idiot, right. 323 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:37.679 His name suggests. 324 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.039 But but the point is is, though check her out, man, 325 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:43.600 she is she is filled with so much nobility and 326 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:48.000 wisdom and uh and think about the uh you know, 327 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:51.039 just as she said, she says, do not let this 328 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:54.639 be a blemish on your record. And then David says, 329 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:58.000 thank God for you that God sent you here, because 330 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:00.759 let me tell you what we almost did. And yet 331 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:03.519 you know, not only me as the commander, but then 332 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:06.200 the four hundred people that are behind me, and then 333 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:09.120 my reputation for the rest of my life. This would 334 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.200 have been this thing. I would have murdered him and 335 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:14.840 everybody else in my anger. And thank God for you 336 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:16.519 that you have shown so much wisdom. 337 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:17.399 That's what he. 338 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:21.399 Said, her wisdom right. And it reminds me of how 339 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:24.399 many times in my life that somebody has come up 340 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.720 to me and given me fair warning, hey, you're not 341 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.000 acting correctly. And it could be in a small way, 342 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:31.960 or it could be in a large way, you know, 343 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:35.120 like a life changing decisions, you know, or the huge 344 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.879 mistakes that have the potential to, you know, derail you 345 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:38.559 in a big way. 346 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:40.399 I've had those moments. 347 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:44.080 But more so it's been in small ways where people have, 348 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:45.679 you know, said hey, let me pull you aside. 349 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:46.879 You know what, you're wrong. 350 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:50.159 She's right, and you're acting this way, but you don't 351 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:52.279 realize it, and all of a sudden you sort of 352 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:54.759 have this lightning moment, you know, this light bulb moment 353 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:58.639 that says, oh, my goodness, yeah, you know they're correct. 354 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:05.879 Well, David was remember a few weeks ago? Was it 355 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:09.799 last week? We had the question, you know about the 356 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:13.279 law says don't kill tank commandments? I shall not kill. 357 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:14.720 Oh that was a while back. 358 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:17.039 Yeah, when was that? This was a couple weeks ago? Yeah, 359 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.039 it was some weeks last week or a couple weeks ago. 360 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:23.440 The question was, you know, the law says thou shalt 361 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:25.240 not kill? But why why is there so much killing 362 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.399 in the Bible? And we talked about the fact the 363 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.320 pastor yeah, the stump the pastor that was last week's week, 364 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.000 that was last week you were talking about Exodus twenty Yeah, yeah, no, 365 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:34.320 I was like wow. And so the question was why 366 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.240 is there so much killing in the Bible? And we 367 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:43.279 differentiated between your individual right to get revenge meditated premeditated 368 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:47.360 murder and the idea of God establishing the government to 369 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:51.679 bring judgment on wicked people. Right, so God establishes the 370 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:55.960 death penalty for murder. If somebody commits intentional murder, then 371 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:58.799 the government is supposed to execute that person right now. 372 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:00.679 A life for a life is what God says in 373 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:02.879 the law, those kind of things. So there's all these 374 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.119 established things, and so in a war environment, in a 375 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:11.279 battle kind of situation, God allows this kind of you know, 376 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.440 the you're allowed to protect your nation, you're allowed to 377 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.759 protect your your property, you're allowed to protect your family, 378 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:19.759 even if it means the death of the other person. 379 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:23.480 You're allowed to protect those things. In this situation, David 380 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:26.559 acknowledges that his bad attitude towards an the ball was 381 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:31.880 purely revenge r and David acknowledged this would have been murder. 382 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:34.960 Isn't it amazing? So David killed Goliath in a battle. 383 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:37.799 Everybody's like woo hoo, and God celebrates the fact that 384 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.240 David kills this, this wicked man that was, you know, 385 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.079 mocking the people of Israel and the God and bringing 386 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:47.240 war against pillaging against the people of Israel. They're allowed 387 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:49.240 to protect their land, They're allowed to protect their resources 388 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:52.319 and their assets. But in this situation, David is just 389 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.640 ticked off and goes, boys, we're going to go wipe 390 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:57.799 this guy out. We're going to kill him and everybody 391 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:01.480 that works for him. And Abigail comes and goes, hey, 392 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:04.480 if you do this, his blood will be on your 393 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:06.559 hands and on your conscience the rest of your life 394 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:09.720 because you're a good man. Right, Your reputation is you're 395 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:11.759 a good man. The Bible calls David a man after 396 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.000 God's own heart, right right, Nobody has that kind of 397 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:20.279 accolade about David's general heart for God is so great 398 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:22.480 that he's always pursuing God, which, by the wayhole Bible. 399 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.240 Just as a side note, it's wonderful that David still 400 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:30.319 has that, you know, that sentence set about him by God, 401 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:34.079