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 --> 00:00:13.960 practical ways. Hey to our listeners, thank you for tuning 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.519 in and joining us for another episode assumingly of the 5 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:18.079 Bible Guys. 6 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:18.879 Are you going to sing? 7 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:20.120 Nope? 8 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:24.559 Not today, and I can do good morning? No, good morning? Okay? 9 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:28.640 Come on, all right, well maybe maybe next week. People, 10 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:30.280 I was trying to get you started. 11 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.759 I was planning to see so you like to know 12 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:33.880 this really black visions? 13 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:37.240 Come on, moning, come on, okay. 14 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:38.840 I think I want to withhold. I think I think 15 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:39.320 I want you to. 16 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:41.840 Marry right, So, so all of our listeners that love 17 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:46.200 it when Chris sings he's forcing you to fast this week? Yes, 18 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:49.399 and maybe next week maybe maybe if you're really good, 19 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:50.759 if you're really really good. 20 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:53.719 Does anybody really like the fact that I see James? 21 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:54.520 Oh? They love it. 22 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:56.200 There's like three people. 23 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:01.000 Okay, Well today Desiree has for us one of our 24 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.759 favorite segments. Yes, Who's most likely? I do like this segment, 25 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:04.560 Who's most likely? 26 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.400 Who's most likely? And really we just have to instinctively, 27 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:08.480 as you know. 28 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:10.879 Fast as we can, Yeah, fast as we can top 29 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:11.239 of our head. 30 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:13.799 Answer yep, and we usually agree. 31 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:15.840 That's right. We usually do because we're very similar. 32 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:16.359 Yeah. 33 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:19.560 Yeah, I haven't read these yet, have you yet? 34 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.280 So there's five of them. I'll do number one. Here 35 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:25.599 we go. The first one says, who's most likely to 36 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:30.560 spontaneously decide to build a d I Y project without 37 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.040 reading the instructions? You? That's me, for sure. 38 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:34.280 That is you. It's not me. 39 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:34.799 Yep. 40 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.239 I don't do DIY projects, so it doesn't do any 41 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:39.200 good to read the instructions. 42 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:42.560 I recently took some days off and did a little 43 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:47.159 staycation for about four days. Yeah, and did did some 44 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:48.599 serious DIY projects. 45 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:52.359 It's is good. Yes, I am terrible at DIY projects. One. 46 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.519 I'm a starter, not a finisher, so that's a problem. 47 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:59.920 And then I usually cut myself, hurt myself, break a thing. 48 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:04.000 It's twenty five trips to home depot. Right, it's just 49 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.039 a miserable. I'm just better off letting experts do. I'm 50 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.960 good at some things. I'm not good at the DIY projects. Yeah, 51 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:11.639 terrible at them. 52 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:12.520 Oh that's great. 53 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:16.080 So I'm comfortable with that. I'm secure in my manhood 54 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:18.159 to be able to say I'm not good with power 55 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:19.280 tools or which. 56 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:23.919 By the way, my best friend Jeff Miller, he always 57 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:26.879 talks about the difference between himself and myself. So I 58 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:30.639 did landscaping right, and I actually like had two yards 59 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.240 of black malts delivered, went out and just did all 60 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:37.039 this preparation, trimmed everything, cleaned everything, and shoveled all this 61 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:41.039 malts into wheelbarrows. It took me hours and hours and hours. 62 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:42.840 Then I sent him a video and I was like, hey, 63 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:44.639 look and he's like, yeah, he goes, I made a 64 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.879 phone call and I said, I said yeah, I said, 65 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.280 I spent about one hundred and twenty dollars would you 66 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:52.199 spend He said, I wrote a check for three thousand 67 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:55.719 and the end results and the end result was the same, The. 68 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.080 Same is the same, yep, yep, yep. Okay. So here's 69 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:01.199 number two. Who's most likely to try and talk their 70 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:04.960 way into a VIP event with a completely fabricated backstory. 71 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:05.759 That's you. 72 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:07.159 That is one thousand. 73 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:08.840 How many times have you actually done it? 74 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:11.520 Oh, I'm not even exaggerating. I'm not even kidding when 75 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:11.879 I say this. 76 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.000 It's over one hundred, over one hundred times you've gotten 77 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.800 into VIP events. Yeah, at least you're the wedding crash 78 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:18.360 there was. 79 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.360 There was. Weddings are easy. Yeah, I'm not even talking 80 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.000 about that. I'm talking about I had a reputation and 81 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.400 I'm not even kidding. I remember one time we went 82 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:30.159 to you know, Christian concerts, you know how it is, right, 83 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.680 like like like they're only popular in the Christian world, right, 84 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:35.680 But we went to like main venues, like almost like 85 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:36.439 Pine Knob. 86 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.560 Type venues, especially back when CCM was really rocking, right, 87 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.639 it was big and there's thousands of people showing up 88 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:43.879 with these big concerts. 89 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:45.919 Yes, so we went to this like big venue that 90 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:48.879 was very much like DT Pine Knob and if you 91 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:49.280 live in the. 92 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:50.599 Detroit area, oh door Amphitheater. 93 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:53.599 That was with my youth group, and at the time 94 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:56.039 I was a youth pastor. I had such a reputation 95 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.879 of doing exactly this that I remember Gus Morgan, one 96 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.800 of my teenagers, looks over at the crowd and says, Okay, 97 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:04.560 he goes, everybody knows you're going to find a way 98 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.639 to go, you're going to get backstage illegally, and you're 99 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:09.759 going to shake the hand of the artist, he goes, 100 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:12.560 So go ahead and do it. And I said, okay, 101 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:14.319 And I just saw it as a rise of a 102 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.680 challenge because I've done it so many times before, and 103 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.360 I said, just watch and learn. So, like, literally, they're 104 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.800 all standing there, and within seconds there was a crowd 105 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.319 of people who had paid to meet backstage. You know, 106 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:28.680 they were the people with the passes. Yeah, and I 107 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:31.079 went over to them. They had opened the door and 108 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:32.839 I had walked over and I had pretended like I 109 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:34.959 was talking to somebody that I held the door, and 110 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.439 just when the security guard turned his back, I snuck 111 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:39.199 in there. And I just left my. 112 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:40.120 Kids there you go. 113 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.199 And then and so literally they were they were outside 114 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:44.680 waiting for me. They had no choice. Okay, I waited out. 115 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:46.240 They waited outside like almost an hour. 116 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.519 So back in the nineties, that was really cool. Now 117 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.199 the FBI is watching you, you know that, right. 118 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:53.720 I think that nobody cares. 119 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:56.120 They're gonna know they think you're a terrorist or something. 120 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:58.439 You know what I always used to say, I would say, 121 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.319 what are they gonna do? Throw me in like in 122 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:01.519 music jail? 123 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.480 Yes, right, yes, And if they do so, well, they 124 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.839 should have Okay, wow, so lots of times, and I mean, dude, 125 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:09.680 you have like a hundred of those kind of stories. 126 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.720 I've heard so many crazy stories. Okay, I am not 127 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.399 that guy. I wait in line if I didn't pay 128 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.399 my way, I just assume I'm not supposed. 129 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:17.600 To do the thing. 130 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:23.000 I've never done it one time, never. Wow, Yeah, I 131 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:25.600 am that guy. Wow. Okay. Who's most likely to get 132 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:28.000 stuck in a public place because they're too busy talking 133 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:30.800 to someone to notice they were locked in? Me? Yeah, 134 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:32.639 that's that's me. That's you, that's me. 135 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:36.079 That's really funny. They were too busy talking to someone 136 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:37.279 to notice they were lucky. 137 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:39.600 Yeah, there's been so many times just chit chatting and 138 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:44.519 suddenly realize there's nobody here. 139 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.079 All right. Number four. Who's most likely to build an 140 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.480 elaborate fort out of furniture and then insist on spaying 141 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:50.920 the night in it. 142 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:53.319 I've actually done that. 143 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:55.240 I've done that one hundred times as well. 144 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:58.120 Yeah it might be us. 145 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:01.800 Oh let's vote for we we yes? Yeah, so we 146 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.439 used to have this couch with huge, firm, large cushions 147 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:09.639 that were perfect for doing this. I currently still have 148 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.480 holes in my ceiling in my living room because my 149 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.000 daughter Tory, who was dating her current boyfriend, Like, and 150 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:19.240 we're talking like high school stuff. We're talking like she 151 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:22.680 was like junior year of high school, and she goes, Dad, 152 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:24.879 can you build us a fort to watch TV in? 153 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.000 And so I put nails in the ceiling and hung 154 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.639 bed sheets to the nails and created this elaborate like 155 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.519 fourth that turned into a massive tent that enclosed the TV. Yeah, 156 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:39.879 and they had to and the only way to get 157 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:41.480 to it was you had to crawl through a tunnel 158 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:45.120 on the carpet, through this big long tunnel and then 159 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.480 it just sort of turned into this massive cave. 160 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:54.199 That's super cool. Yep, super cool. Yes. Number five, number five. 161 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.000 Who's most likely to accidentally create a viral video by 162 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.240 doing something completely unexpected in a public You? That's me 163 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:03.680 as well, Yeah. 164 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:05.040 Because because remember I'm standing in line doing what I'm 165 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:05.519 supposed to do. 166 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:08.439 Yeah, I'm and I'm I'm usually wanting to do pretty 167 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:09.399 crazy things. 168 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:10.519 Yeah wow. 169 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:11.279 Yeah. 170 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:14.560 Okay, So there you go, just another little insight into 171 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:19.800 the mind and reality of Chris and Jeff. Yes, yes, wow, thrilling, 172 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:23.240 thrilling stuff. Yeah, well that one wasn't you know, I 173 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.319 elaborated a little bit, but we probably need to move on. So, well, 174 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:28.560 here's what I would say, is we could keep this 175 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:32.319 up and really impress people with our really amazing stories, 176 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.240 or we could get into, you know, the life of Samson. Yeah, 177 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:36.680 and so which do you think would be better? 178 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.319 Oh, let me think, let me pray about it. Yeah Samson. Okay, 179 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:41.560 so we're in. 180 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:44.360 We're just going to go through the four chapters of 181 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:47.560 Samson's life right there, because his life is spread over 182 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:50.680 four chapters. Starts in Judges thirteen ands and Judges sixteen, 183 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:53.759 So we're reading fourteen. Now he had the announcement of 184 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.079 his birth and his parents committing to raise him to 185 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:00.600 honor God. That's in chapter thirteen. Then in chapter fourteen suddenly, 186 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:05.279 now he's an adult. Right, So between thirteen and fourteen 187 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:07.120 a lot happens, but we don't know what it is. 188 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:10.439 Yeah, probably at least teenager or above. 189 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:13.879 Right, Yeah, I think he's inn. I think he's an 190 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:14.600 adult adult. 191 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:15.839 What do you think thirty? 192 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.160 Yeah? Really, Well, he wants to get married, and usually 193 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.439 Israelite men getting married would have been in their thirties. Okay, yeah, 194 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.120 But anyways, one day, here's what it says in Judge's 195 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:30.720 fourteen one. One day when Samson was in tim No. 196 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.279 One of the Philistine women caught his eye. When he 197 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:35.120 returned home, he told his father and mother, a young 198 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.200 Philistine woman and tim had caught my eye. I want 199 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:40.080 to marry her. Get her for me. His father and 200 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:42.919 mother objected. Isn't there even one woman in our tribe 201 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:45.519 or among all the Israelites that you could marry? They asked, 202 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:48.559 we must Why must you go to the pagan Philistines 203 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:51.559 to find a wife? But Sampson told his father get 204 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.240 her for me. She looks good to me. His father 205 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.360 mother didn't realize the Lord was at work in this, 206 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.799 creating an opportunity to work against the Philistines, who ruled 207 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.679 over Israel at that time. As Samson and his parents 208 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.519 were going down to Timna, a young lion suddenly attacked 209 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:07.240 Samson near the vineyards of Timna. At that moment, the 210 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.600 spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, and he 211 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:12.480 ripped the lion's jaws apart with his bare hands. He 212 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:14.759 did it as easily as if it were a young goat, 213 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:16.600 but he didn't tell his father and mother about it. 214 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.639 When Samson arrived at Timna, he talked with the woman 215 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:22.279 and was very pleased with her. Later, when he returned 216 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.600 to Timna for the wedding. He turned off the path 217 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:26.080 to look at the carcass of the lion, and he 218 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.159 found that a swarm of bees had made some honey 219 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.360 in the carcass. He scooped some of the honey into 220 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:32.240 his hands and ate it along the way. He also 221 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:34.440 gave some to his father and mother, and they ate it, 222 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:36.159 but he didn't tell that he'd taken the honey from 223 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.639 the carcass of the lion. As his father was making 224 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:42.000 final arrangements for the marriage, Samson threw a party at Timna, 225 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:44.639 as was the custom for elite young men. When the 226 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:47.440 bride's parents saw him, they selected thirty young men from 227 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:50.440 the town to be his companions. Samson said to them, 228 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:52.360 let me tell you a riddle. If you solve my 229 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.480 riddle during these seven days of the celebration, i'll give 230 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.879 you thirty fine linen robes and thirty sets of festive clothing. 231 00:09:58.000 --> 00:09:59.960 But if you can't solve it, then you must give 232 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.279 me thirty fine linen robes and thirty sets of festive clothing. 233 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:05.759 All right, theakered, let's hear your riddle, So she said, 234 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:09.480 out of the one who eats came something to eat 235 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.399 out of the strong came something sweet. Three days later, 236 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:14.799 they were still trying to figure it out. On the 237 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.080 fourth day, they said to Samson's wife and Tys, your 238 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.240 husband explained the riddle for us, or we will burn 239 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:21.559 down your father's house with you in it. Did you 240 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.320 invite us to this party just to make us poor? 241 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.000 So Samson's wife came to him in tears and said, 242 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:29.320 you don't love me. You hate me. You've given my 243 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.399 people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer. 244 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:33.639 I haven't even given the answer to my father and mother. 245 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:38.080 He replied, why should I tell you so? So she 246 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.799 cried whenever she was with him, and kept it up 247 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:43.519 for the rest of the celebration. At last, on the 248 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:45.519 seventh day, he told her the answer because she was 249 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:49.679 tormenting him or with her nagging. Then she explained the 250 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:52.399 riddle to the young men. So before sun set of 251 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:54.039 the seventh day, the men of the town came to 252 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:57.240 Samson with their answer, what is sweeter than honey? What 253 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:01.039 is stronger than a lion? Samson? If you hadn't plowed 254 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.440 with my heifer, you wouldn't have solved my riddle. 255 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.679 That is a statement. That is a statement, that's a choice. 256 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:13.159 Then that was a choice. Then the spirit of the 257 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.279 Lord came powerfully upon him, and he went down to 258 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.559 the town at Ashkalan, killed thirty men, took their belongings, 259 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:20.720 and gave their clothing to the men who'd solved his riddle. 260 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:23.559 But Samson was furious about what had happened, and he 261 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:25.399 went back home to live with his father and mother. 262 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:27.559 So his wife was given a marriage to the man 263 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:29.960 who'd been Samson's best man at the wedding. 264 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:33.840 Well, so his wife was given in marriage to the 265 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:35.759 man who'd been Samson's best man. 266 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.480 Yeah. Yeah, so that means, you know, there would be 267 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:41.919 this long celebration before the consummation of the of a marriage, 268 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:45.000 and so until the consummation, it was just a commitment. 269 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:47.360 They were engaged, they were, but they were called husband 270 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:49.360 and wife. Yeah right, because this is the beginning of 271 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:51.320 the wedding. But he basically he divorced her before they 272 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:52.320 consummated their marriage. 273 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:55.159 Yeah, that's that's pretty unbelievable. 274 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:55.840 And that it's crazy. 275 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:58.919 Yeah, and if you hadn't plaid with my heifer, you 276 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:00.799 wouldn't have solved my Yeah. 277 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:02.720 Hey, you know on those things where people write in 278 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:05.840 and ask us big questions. Yeah, Chris, I'm curious, what 279 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:06.600 does that mean? 280 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.919 Plot with my heifer? Yes, well, you know it's uh, 281 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:15.639 it's my field, it's my cow. Righth you went into 282 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:19.679 my barn. You you uh, you know you that's you're 283 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:21.960 you're in your that's what he's saying, right, I mean, 284 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.360 there's not a sexual thing. 285 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.559 He's calling his wife a heifer, a cow. 286 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:33.919 Yes, yes, yes, that's that's Uh, that's unbelievable. And and uh, 287 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:35.799 you know what you know, the funny thing is here 288 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:40.120 is that it says that God was going to use 289 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:44.320 this idea that Samson wanted a wife with the Philistines. 290 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:49.559 But at the same time, Uh, wasn't he forbidden? No, 291 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:51.279 he was. He wasn't forbidden to. 292 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:54.440 All of the Israelites were forbidden. 293 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:57.039 That's what it was. This wasn't this wasn't a condition 294 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:00.519 of the Nazarites. That's right, right, So he wasn't forbidden 295 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:02.600 by God. This wasn't the disobedience to God. 296 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:04.200 Yes it was. It was against God's. 297 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:07.120 Law, against God's law to be a part of that. 298 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:11.480 So Exodus thirty five, Deuteronomy seven, he said, don't marry them. 299 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.600 Oh, don't talk to them, don't. 300 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.320 Live among them. So that's a standard law. But it's 301 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:20.000 not a Nazarite boo issue. It's it's the law of Israel. 302 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:24.000 You cannot marry people from other nations. You must marry 303 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.080 within your own nation, with your own people. 304 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:28.879 Isn't it interesting how God could take something out of 305 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:33.559 disobedience and he's going to use it for good? And 306 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:35.799 isn't that the way that God does? Sometimes he takes 307 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.879 our mistakes, he takes our bad choices, even things that 308 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:42.120 are you know, not good. And what He's going to 309 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:44.240 do sometimes is You'll have to find a way to 310 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:45.320 bring beauty from ashes. 311 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.519 That's right. So I think it's a it's one of 312 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.679 those deals that it's not that God made him sin, right, 313 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:54.519 which is the sin. It's a sin to break God's law. 314 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:56.919 Wasn't that God made him sin, It was that God 315 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:00.639 was going to use this bad decision to the war 316 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:05.679 because he's he's he goes and kills thirty guys, right, Philistines, 317 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.799 And this is the beginning of Samson establishing among the Philistines, 318 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.039 you cannot defeat me, but you're gonna pay. I'm going 319 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.679 to exact a heavy price. But it shows a lot 320 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.240 about his character and I look at this when I 321 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:21.000 read those first few verses, I just think, what a 322 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:21.919 snotty brat. 323 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:24.480 Right, she looks good to me, Go get her? 324 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.440 Yeah, he demands it, right, right, a young Philistine woman 325 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:29.159 in tim to cut my eye. I want to marry 326 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:31.320 get her for me. He doesn't say please, he doesn't 327 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:33.639 say is it okay, He doesn't look for counsel. He 328 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.720 just makes a demand. His father goes, don't go to 329 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:40.399 the pagan Philistines to get a wife. Right? You know 330 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:43.480 his father just asked the angel, you know several years before, 331 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.559 how do we how do we rais ing? What do 332 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:49.639 we do? We want to go God's way, That's what 333 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.000 he's saying. So he knows the laws of God and 334 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.679 then he but he doesn't bring it up. This is 335 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.600 a sin against God. He's just saying he's talking poorly 336 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:02.000 about the Philistines. Instead of he's talking about the negative. 337 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:05.159 Instead of elevating God's word, he could have elevated God's Hey, 338 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.679 God has a better way. Hey, we know what God's 339 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.120 word says. Let's go God's way. He doesn't do that. Instead, 340 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:12.759 he's like, oh, stinking Philistines are pagans. Why would you 341 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.000 want right? So he's kind of attacking the girl that 342 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:19.639 Samson wants instead of elevating God's words in law right. 343 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.519 And so then Samson's argument is again back to the girl, 344 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:25.039 making it. 345 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:29.159 Sound like it's good advice as opposed to commandments, right, right, like, hey, 346 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:31.960 it would be better advice to do this. 347 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:36.240 And he's attacking the philistine people. Is the way that 348 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.799 Samson would have taken it. He's pagan philistines as opposed 349 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:41.919 to elevating the importance of God's word. 350 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:42.399 Right. 351 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:48.320 So God's word isn't anti others, it's pro what's best, right, 352 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:51.759 That's what's happening. And so I think sometimes parents are 353 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:54.200 tempted to go after and talk about how bad that 354 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.440 friend is or rather than elevating God's better way, right, 355 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:00.559 does that make sense? And so this what they do 356 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.879 and instead, so then his argument he comes back and 357 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:08.399 he argues for her as a person, right, she she 358 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:10.159 go get it for me. She looks good to me. 359 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.159 And so this is what happens, is he gets what 360 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:16.320 he wants on this. He's just kind of snotty, which 361 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.960 I think is a temptation. They couldn't have a baby, 362 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.799 They couldn't you know, they were barren for so long. 363 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:25.919 He's an answer to their prayer. So in some ways, 364 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:28.360 you know, they're very curious and excited to raise him 365 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:29.519 the way that God said to raise him, and the 366 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:31.039 other way they spoil him rotten. 367 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:33.879 Right, certain that way. 368 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.919 Well, so all we know is they named him Samson 369 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:41.399 and the next verse is he demands what he wants. 370 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:43.039 Now he gets it. 371 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:45.759 There's another thing here where he touches the dead carcass 372 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:48.679 of a lion. Yeah, and yet it says that he's 373 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:50.639 not supposed to touch anything. 374 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:54.399 Dead that would be. That's so it wasn't in the 375 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:56.679 declaration from the Angel of the Lord, but that is 376 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.600 in what we know from the Nazarite bows mentioned in 377 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:02.399 the law. So the law highlights what a nasaray would be, 378 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:03.480 and that would be one of them is that they 379 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:05.519 couldn't touch a dead a dead animal. 380 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:07.319 It doesn't it doesn't say that when the when the 381 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:13.400 angel uh No told manah oh oh. Yeah, he just 382 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:19.720 says razor wine and food and forbidden food. 383 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:21.079 Yeah, I don't eate the forbidden food. 384 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:23.559 Okay, So I'm using my other knowledge here. 385 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:27.160 Yeah, yeah, your other knowledge deep deep nine deep cross 386 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:27.880 referencing here. 387 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:31.839 Yeah, Well, I didn't. I wasn't realizing even about mirroring 388 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:34.240 outside of your tribe here. And then then I looked 389 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:38.759 at the Life Application study notes you referenced Excess thirty 390 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:40.839 four and Deuteronomy seven. I was like, wow, that looked 391 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.960 and I was like, oh, he's all right there. But 392 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:47.119 you know what, the fact that he was able to. 393 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.000 Reach good resources makes you look smart. 394 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.880 Yes, yes, well, I mean that's the reason why we encourage. 395 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:54.119 The Life Application said about them. That's exactly right, that's 396 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:58.400 exactly right. But anyway, so he so he disobeyed. It 397 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:02.519 seems like he's sort of not being respectful to his parents. 398 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:05.000 He's he's going outside of God's law but wanting to 399 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:08.319 marry philistine. What we know about in an azard, he's 400 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:10.680 not supposed touch anything dead or and clean. And he 401 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:14.400