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 --> 00:00:17.719 practical ways. Morning Morning, we time, good morning, good morning 4 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:20.000 to you and you and you. 5 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:20.600 Wow. 6 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:22.679 I added the and you and you. 7 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:23.280 I liked it. 8 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.199 Yeah, because it's not it's not the it's not the 9 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:27.039 it's not on the song. 10 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:28.719 I know, but I usually help you out with that. 11 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:30.679 And I and every time I sing that, By the way, 12 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:32.039 I think Reynolds. 13 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:33.960 You think of Debbie Reynolds. 14 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:36.439 Yeah, because she's the one that stays the same. Yeah, 15 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:41.840 She's like, it's morning, Okay, hey, good morning everybody. Year 16 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:43.719 the Bible Guys, we want to welcome you, and we 17 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:44.799 thank you for tuning. 18 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:46.759 In today and now that everybody's delighted that you sang 19 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:49.359 to them. Yes, I just can't imagine how good the 20 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:50.960 rest of this day it's going to be for everybody. 21 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:52.600 It sets the day in motion. Y. 22 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:54.359 Yes, it does, Yes, it does. 23 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.159 It does for me it does, and well no, not really, 24 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.840 but it's a good morning. I'll just I'll say, you 25 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:03.159 know what, it is fun to be happy. 26 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:06.280 It is fun to be happy, and happy is a choice. 27 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:07.359 Happy as a choice. 28 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:09.359 I agree, and so. 29 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:12.920 Which is different than joy. God gives joy. 30 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:18.200 Yeah. I was just reading about this idea in a 31 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:20.879 book called The Gap and the Gain, and it was 32 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:23.799 talking about the fact that a lot of people hope 33 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.560 that their achievements will make them happy, or that their 34 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:31.560 their acquisitions will make them happy. And it's exactly the opposite. 35 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:35.040 When you choose joy, When you choose to be happy, 36 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:39.879 everything else is better. But most people that think that 37 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:43.079 one more accomplishment or one more acquisition will make them 38 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.439 happy are never happy. They're never happy. Right. 39 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.719 It has dependent on circumstances. 40 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:52.519 That's right. So happiness, joy is an outlook that we choose. 41 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.120 We choose it, and it comes from contentment. This is 42 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:00.319 why Paul says contentment is great gain, right, right, and 43 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:02.480 being satisfied with what we have, being happy with what 44 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:06.040 we have, then it makes the people were around the 45 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.199 things we're doing just so much more enjoyable because we've 46 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:10.759 chosen to be happy. Good morning, good morning. 47 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:10.960 Right. 48 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.400 That's a choice. Yeah, And it's not pulling a you know, 49 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:18.560 a mask over your face and not paying attention or whatever. 50 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:23.080 It's just it's a choice to decide, Hey, I'm not 51 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:25.080 going to let the circumstances around me pull. 52 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:25.879 Me down, that's right. 53 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.439 Yeah, and then all your accomplishments are more fun, all 54 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:29.520 your acquisitions are more fun. 55 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:30.879 This is bonus material. 56 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:32.520 It's extra, yes, extra. 57 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:33.759 There's no charge for that. 58 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:34.599 That is extra today. 59 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:35.479 Yeah, it's free everybody. 60 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:37.960 Yeah, it's good. So you choose to be happy once 61 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:39.840 a week when you sing good morning to us. 62 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:40.039 That's right. 63 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:40.879 Yeah, it's a choice. 64 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:42.599 And by the way, I told my daughter that joke 65 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:45.800 this morning, the freebie, Oh, you know. 66 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.319 From last week in our dad jokes. 67 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.360 Yes, And I loved my freebee joke. 68 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:56.120 And the joke was something like, I asked for twelve bees, 69 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.319 but the beekeeper gave me thirteen, and he said it 70 00:02:58.319 --> 00:02:58.800 was a freebie. 71 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:00.919 Yes, And I told her and she. 72 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:05.560 Laughed so hard. She is so cute, she is adorable, 73 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:08.360 and she thought that was the funniest thing ever. All right, anyway, Hey, 74 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.879 here's the segment that we now have three less minutes 75 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:12.919 to do, which is called advice booth. 76 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:14.520 I don't know how to do this one. This one's 77 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:14.960 a hard one. 78 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.599 I don't either, but I think I have answers to these, Okay, 79 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:19.680 think I do. Okay, here's what it says, This is 80 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:21.560 a brand new segment. We've never done this before. It 81 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.080 says you'll each give your advice on a topic and 82 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:28.039 let the listeners vote to see who has the better advice. 83 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.520 Okay, advice booth in vision having a little booth and 84 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:33.759 you come in and you just ask us any question, 85 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:37.439 remember and from the wisdom, the deep well of wisdom 86 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:38.039 that we both have. 87 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:41.599 Well, do you remember Linus and Lucy and Charlie Brown. 88 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:43.080 Didn't Lucy have a booth? 89 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:45.439 It was advice? Okay? 90 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:46.400 Was it something like that? 91 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:48.919 Maybe I thought it was. It wasn't a kissing booth. 92 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:51.360 No, No, I don't think so. 93 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:51.919 I don't know. 94 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:57.120 But anyway, here's the first one. Okay, Desrae wants us 95 00:03:57.159 --> 00:03:59.560 to give advice on this. How do I convince my 96 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:02.240 dog to stop stealing my socks? 97 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:04.120 M that's a good question. 98 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:05.080 You currently have dogs? 99 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:05.960 We have two dogs? 100 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:07.080 Yeah, yes, I. 101 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:08.919 Don't have dogs, and I have not had dogs since 102 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:11.479 I was in high school. However, I do have an 103 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:12.039 answer for this. 104 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:13.240 You do you do? 105 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:16.879 And that is spray it with cleaner. Oh yeah, spray 106 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:19.839 your socks with cleaner, because then if it's a if 107 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:22.959 it's the right kind of cleaner, then if it's you know, 108 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.279 not harmful to skin and things like that, your socks 109 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.319 will smell fresh and your dogs will not want to. 110 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:31.240 But they might just like to chew fresh socks. 111 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.199 No, no, no, not with cleaner, I would say, ertastes spray. 112 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:35.439 And with hot sauce. 113 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:40.720 There you Yeah, you might ruin your socks so and 114 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.879 you might not want to wear them as well. So 115 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.720 uh so let's let the let's let the voters vote. 116 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:52.879 Yeah, hot sauce, hot sauces or cleaner, which, by the way, 117 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:55.160 I know hot sauce is effective. I do know that, 118 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:58.439 so uh and it's from a different animal. But my 119 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:01.600 wife has bird feet in the backyard. She loves bird feeders, 120 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:03.639 and the squirrels always want to come and eat all 121 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:05.839 the all the seeds that she has out. Yeah, but 122 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.000 if you if you put hot sauce on them, the 123 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.480 squirrels won't eat it. But the birds can't taste hot sauce. 124 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.680 It doesn't bother them at all. But the but the yeah, 125 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:15.600 they don't, they don't have they don't taste like that. 126 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.839 So hot sauce doesn't bother birds, but it bothers the squirrels. 127 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.480 The squirrels won't eat it. It's a fact. So that's 128 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:23.199 why I know. I know if you put hot sauce 129 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:24.879 on your socks, your dogs will not chew them up. 130 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.879 Wow yeah wow, But I don't want to wear socks 131 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:29.439 with hot soace. 132 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.680 I just don't spicy spicy. Hey, what color the socks? Mallow? 133 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:38.519 An orange orange? Spotchy? 134 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:41.319 Yeah? And then every every place here, everybody's but they're like, 135 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:43.720 I think I'm hungry for Mexican right right? 136 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:44.240 Right? 137 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:47.079 Or that's grossty Okay, so our listeners have to vote 138 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:48.560 on that one, yep, okay, all right. 139 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:51.639 Number two, how do I convince someone to share their 140 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:58.600 snacks without looking desperate? I can only think of one thing, but. 141 00:05:58.720 --> 00:05:59.879 Oh no, I was gonna say, I have no an 142 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:01.680 for that one. I haven't figured it out yet. If 143 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.279 I could crack that one, yeah right, I think it'd 144 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:05.560 solve all my problems in my life. 145 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:07.920 Oh, this is this is a you're you have a 146 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.079 vested interest to exactly. 147 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:12.759 I have no answer for this. So because I'm always desperate, 148 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:13.800 can I have that? Please? Can't? 149 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:14.519 Yeah? 150 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:14.759 Yeah? 151 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:15.000 Yeah? 152 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:16.920 The only thing I could even think of to say 153 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:24.079 is is somehow convinced them that you have great snacks later? Right, 154 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:26.399 and and that, and that you'll share and that come. 155 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.920 On, I'll share my amazing snacks tomorrow if you share 156 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:29.560 your goodness. 157 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:32.000 Yes, it's the only thing I think of, right, It's like, 158 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.920 it's like, I want your snacks now, and I'm desperate 159 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:35.839 to have your snacks now. 160 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:38.240 That seems reasonable and so and so the only. 161 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:39.720 Thing I could do is promise something I don't have 162 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:42.240 in the moment, okay, right, and then and then follow through. 163 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:44.480 Isn't that what Whimpy did in the in the comic books. 164 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:48.680 That's exactly right. Gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburgers today. 165 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:51.639 That's what That's what it's. Yeah, that's what he is saying. 166 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:53.439 Was okay, yeah, that's hilarious. 167 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:54.399 So now now you know. 168 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:56.199 And by the way, we're showing our age in that one. 169 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:58.720 What he comes from. 170 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:00.800 I don't remember pop Popeye? 171 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.800 Yeah, Whippy was the guy from Pompeye. Yes, yes, And 172 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.759 by the way, Popeye is still a movie that I quote. 173 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:10.279 Really I do with my kids all the time. In fact, 174 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:13.120 Steven's listening. He listens every day. Is it an hour 175 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:14.759 commute almost to work? 176 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.680 Every day? Hi? Stephen? Yeah, hey, Stephen, keep you guys 177 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.040 on the road, buddy, and he already knows what. 178 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:22.560 I'm going to say, because Robin Williams starred in Popeye 179 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.920 in nineteen seventy nine. And uh, and uh, there's a 180 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:29.079 there's a I don't know why, but I always say 181 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:30.560 lies lies. 182 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:32.240 There's no buried treasure. 183 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:35.720 I don't know why because that was just something I 184 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.199 okay say it has no relevance today it has no relevance. 185 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:41.800 I don't know why I say it. Yes, but it 186 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.959 was just a great, great phrase. So there it is. 187 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:49.079 So I just bored you with random trivia about me. 188 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:50.879 I loved it. But I'm going to take advantage of 189 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.480 the idea of promising better snacks later. Oh, they have 190 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:54.160 to current snacks. 191 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:55.800 They have to vote yet to vote on You can 192 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:57.199 take advantage, but you got to come up with your 193 00:07:57.199 --> 00:07:59.800 own well, because the listeners have to vote. 194 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:02.560 I'm just gonna concede that one. 195 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:02.959 Really. 196 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:05.279 Yeah, I'm going to concede that. I don't know. I 197 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.959 don't know how to get people to share snacks with 198 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:09.000 me without looking desperate. 199 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:15.160 I would have more leverage your position. Yeah, threatened them, 200 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.800 threaten them with firing them, because everybody I'm around I employ. 201 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:22.920 So that's The only thing I can do is if 202 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.160 you don't give me your snack, just pack up your 203 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:25.680 stuff and go. 204 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:29.360 So that's my advice. How about that. 205 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:33.200 I think the voters are gonna side with me. 206 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:34.240 Yeah maybe. 207 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:39.159 Yeah, that's hilarious. That's so good. Do you know who 208 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:40.480 I am? Give me your yet? 209 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:41.000 Yeah, exactly. 210 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:42.600 Do you know what you're talking to? Yeah, that's right. 211 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:43.720 That seems reasonable to me. 212 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.159 That's so funny. Well, hey, that's. 213 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.200 Desperate times, desperate measures. There you go. 214 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:51.679 Well, hey, you know, uh. 215 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:53.519 That get me in trouble. Probably it would get you 216 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:54.000 in trouble. 217 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:55.679 And you know what that would not be that you 218 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:57.120 would not be choosing holiness. 219 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:59.720 I wouldn't be. And and today's prayer is all about 220 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:01.080 keeping you out of trouble. 221 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:02.000 Yeah, and choosing holiness. 222 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:06.639 Yes, yeah, So it's a horrible transition. Psalm one is 223 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:09.840 a psalm of David, and poor David, whenever you got 224 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.120 in trouble, so instinct was the prey. 225 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:13.519 So do you see at the top it has the 226 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:15.120 topic of the day, the prayer that keeps you out 227 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.519 of trouble. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then she has just 228 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:20.519 kind of a some one one one through four choosing 229 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.879 it holiness in a corrupt environment. Yes, it's kind of 230 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.240 like a summary of that has So we we cover both. 231 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:27.679 We booked it. Yeah, yeah, yah, we cover both. 232 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:32.279 Okay, So David always praise when he gets in trouble. 233 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:33.919 His first instinct is the pray. 234 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:34.919 Yeah, he's pretty good at that. 235 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:35.600 He's really great. 236 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:36.200 He's a big fan. 237 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:37.200 Yeah, he's a big fan. 238 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:39.759 So it's one forty one. We're going to read one 239 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:41.799 through four. Uh, we're not going to read the rest 240 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:43.600 of the chapter because he's really big on throwing his 241 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:45.440 enemies off the cliffs. So we're not going to talk 242 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:47.519 about that prayer. But the first part is says, Hey. 243 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.200 To be fair, it was his assignment from God. 244 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.440 Yeah, take got his enemies. It was. Uh, he was 245 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:54.679 a harsh man. That's all I'm saying. David was a 246 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:55.440 very harsh man. 247 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:56.360 Why is a warrior? 248 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:00.000 So he says this, Oh Lord, I am calling to you. 249 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.919 Please hurry listen when I cry to you for help. 250 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.000 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my 251 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:10.799 upraised hands as an evening prayer offering. Take control of 252 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:12.799 what I say, Oh Lord, and guard my lips and 253 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:15.399 don't let me drift toward evil or take part and 254 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.440 acts of wickedness. Don't let me share in the delicacies 255 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:21.039 of those who do wrong. Well, there you go. 256 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.159 Yeah, and so you can see how both of these 257 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:27.559 topics are great. So the title is the prayer that 258 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:30.159 keeps you out of trouble? Yes, right, So that's what 259 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.759 he's doing. He's saying, like, hey, help me to not drift. 260 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.000 Toward evil, help me to take control of what I say. 261 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.679 Take control what I say. You know, I don't want 262 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.399 to partake in the things around me acts of wickedness. 263 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.039 And then the description next to some one forty one 264 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:49.200 one through four says choosing holiness and a corrupt environment. 265 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:51.799 And how relevant is that? Right? 266 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.559 I mean, we find ourselves in corrupt environments all the time, 267 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:58.960 and just because there are things around us. You know, 268 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.559 if we're on mission and we're strong, were there in 269 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:04.600 the power of God, we can we can be in 270 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:09.799 corrupt environments. But dangerous is the fine line? 271 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:10.440 Right? 272 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:14.159 Isn't there a fine line with sometimes corrupt environments You're 273 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:17.000 like number one, I don't need to be there if 274 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.200 there's no purpose in you being there. And number two, 275 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:23.360 especially if it's going to influence you to do corrupt things, right, 276 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:26.720 And so one of the one of the most unwise 277 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:29.799 things a lot of us can do is try to 278 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.679 place ourselves in corrupt environments when we know we're going 279 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:33.679 to struggle. 280 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.799 Right right, Well, so I don't know that we always 281 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:40.000 know that, right, we lie to ourselves. The art is 282 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.240 deceitful above all things, and desperately with it. Who can 283 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:44.000 really know it for sure? So most of the time 284 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:46.919 we justify going I'm pretty strong, I'm just how many 285 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.399 how many people do I know? I had a friend 286 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:52.240 who was running our Celebrate recovery program and he had 287 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:55.200 a friend who fell off the wagon. And the guy 288 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:59.639 was like, how what happened? And the guy said, I 289 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.840 don't know, Oh, I just it just suddenly happened. He said, well, 290 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:04.320 tell me about it. So he starts talking about swell. 291 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:06.200 After work, all the guys go down to the bar. 292 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.559 He said, So, you know, alls I was having is 293 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:13.000 just having a sprite, Yeah, right, for how long? Oh months? 294 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:16.039 It's like, dude, you go to the barbershop. Long long enough, 295 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:17.600 you sit in the barbershop long enough, you're gonna get 296 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:20.000 your hair cut. Right, That's what happened. It's not a surprise. 297 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.360 You put yourself in that position for months, and then 298 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.200 of course you fell, right, so you got to stay 299 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.799 away from those things. But he had it in his head. 300 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:31.279 I'm strong now, I'm not gonna, but on any given 301 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:35.000 day we can. Weakness takes over, temptation can take over. 302 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:37.159 And so what David is saying here is God, take 303 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.879 control of my words, guard my lips. Don't let me 304 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:42.240 drift towards evil. And that's what we do. We don't 305 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:45.080 usually fall into sin. We drift towards sin, right right, 306 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:47.639 It's just this slow drift. You just don't even realize 307 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.120 that happens, and bang, there you are, and then we 308 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:52.879 seem surprised by it. It's very rare that we just go, oh, 309 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.960 there's some sin, let's just swan dive into it. It 310 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:57.919 very rarely ever happens. It's more like we just kind 311 00:12:57.960 --> 00:12:58.679 of drift into it. 312 00:12:58.759 --> 00:12:58.960 Yeah. 313 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.080 Well, you know, it reminds me of the pitching your 314 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:02.039 lot towards sodom. 315 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:06.720 So so, oh lot, a. 316 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:08.840 Lot, pitch your tent? 317 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:09.639 Yeah yeah, yeah. 318 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:11.799 Isn't that funny because a lot is another word and 319 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:15.679 that's his name. That's so so it's it's interesting because 320 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.320 in the Book of Genesis, there's that there's that sort 321 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:21.159 of message that's that's right there in front of us, 322 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.159 where it says that when that when they chose, you know, 323 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.720 to divide the lands, that lot pitched his tent toward 324 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:30.879 the wicked city of Sodom. And then all of a sudden, here, 325 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:32.960 you know, a couple of verses later, we find out 326 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:36.360 that he's in the city of and then we find 327 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:40.720 out that he's a prominent member health society society in Sodom. 328 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.519 And it starts with the fact that he, you know, 329 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.759 has his tent, you know, toward that area. So every 330 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:48.240 day when he gets up, what's the first thing that 331 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:51.440 he sees, right, And so it's just that progression. And 332 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:54.080 then it's also reminds me of what what psalm is 333 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.919 it where it says, uh, where you sort of walk 334 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:58.759 walk in the way of centers, you sit in the 335 00:13:58.759 --> 00:13:59.720 seat of the scornful. 336 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:01.679 Oh yeah, you know we're talking about was that some 337 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:02.360 one or. 338 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:05.480 Something someone some oh someone, I know it's one of 339 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:08.559 the psalms, but uh, but it's uh, it's uh it 340 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.440 sort of talks about how you uh, how you uh 341 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.519 you're you're you're walking by someone and then all of 342 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:18.080 a sudden you stand with them, and then all of 343 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.159 a sudden you're sitting with them the next thing, you know. 344 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:22.279 Yeah, it says, oh, the joys of those who do 345 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:24.559 not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around 346 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:28.080 with sinners, or join in with mockers. But they delight 347 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.200 in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day 348 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:32.720 and night. They're like trees planned along the river bank, 349 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:36.519 bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they 350 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.600 prosper in all they do. But not the wicked. They're 351 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.200 like worthless chaff scattered by the wind. They will be 352 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:43.639 condemned at the time of judgment. Sinners will have no 353 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.200 place among the godly, for the Lord watches over the 354 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:48.240 path of the godly, but the path of the wicked 355 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:49.000 least the destruction. 356 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:50.279 What song is that? 357 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.200 Someone? It's so funny, you know, because it sounds different 358 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:54.759 than King James. 359 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:59.639 Yeah, yeah, yeah, so uh someone uh in the King 360 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:03.399 James is how you and I grew up memorizing things. 361 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.159 So it says, blessed is the man that walks, not 362 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:09.720 walks not it does not walk right. Well, I'm trying 363 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:10.919 to do the I'm trying to. 364 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:12.480 Avoid you reading King James just read it. 365 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:14.360 I wish I had the new King James. Do I 366 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:15.200 have the new King James? 367 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:15.600 Not? 368 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:15.919 Really? 369 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.480 So blessed, okay, fine, blessed is the man that walketh 370 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:23.039 not in the council of the ungodly, nor standeth in 371 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:25.440 the way of sinners? Why why I just say, Walker 372 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:29.039 stand stand in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in 373 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:31.480 the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in 374 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:33.919 the law of the Lord. And so again. Growing up 375 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.639 in Bible College, you know, I loved the fact that 376 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:40.559 this was a progression. Also, right, he's walking by, now, 377 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:44.360 he's standing, now, he's sitting right, and so so yeah, 378 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:45.879 it translates a little bit different. 379 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.399 There's always a progression for sin, right, that's right. That 380 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:54.600 it starts off pretty innocuous, and I'm strong and then 381 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:55.919 I'll just flirt with a little bit, but I'm not 382 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:57.720 going to let it take over next thing. You know, 383 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:00.399 we're trying to recover from it, and it's just it's 384 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.240 a devastate thing. There's the old preacher that you used 385 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:04.879 to say, sin will take you farther than you want 386 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:06.200 to go and will cost you far more than you 387 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:09.120 want to pay. Yeah, right, And that's that's true. So 388 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:13.960 here's in the Life Hapacation study Bible for the note 389 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.120 for verses three and four says David ask God to 390 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:19.039 guard his lips. What comes out of your lips is 391 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:21.799 determined by what resides in your heart. Remember Jesus said, 392 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:23.840 out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. 393 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:25.799 That's right, right, the King James says, out of the 394 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:29.840 abundance of heart, the mouth speaks. Speak if speak if yeah, sorry? 395 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.120 Uh So, what comes out of our mouth is determined 396 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.879 by what resides in our heart. Ultimately, word issues are 397 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.919 heart issues. The same is true with our actions. Evil 398 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:44.480 acts begin with evil desires from the heart. Isn't enough 399 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:46.600 just to ask God to keep you away from temptation 400 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:49.360 and make you stronger change your circumstances. You must ask 401 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.519