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 --> 00:00:13.240 practical ways. Well we're back, Wesley. Yeah, here it is. 4 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:18.199 It's Friday, Yes, everybody's favorite day. And so we are 5 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:22.440 going to preserve Chris's personal role in what made Chris 6 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:23.120 mad this week. 7 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:25.600 We don't need to jump into that because you're a 8 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:27.600 happy guy. Look at your big smile on your face. 9 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:29.160 And I'm always a happy guy. 10 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.359 There's something about when Chris does that, that part. 11 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:34.679 Well, he's doing it on behalf of all the rest 12 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:36.880 of us, you know what I mean? And I think 13 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:38.560 when you and I get mad, where is mad for us? 14 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:40.200 But he is. 15 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:45.640 So magnanimous and generous humanity, And it's just different. It's 16 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:47.399 a different thing. So I don't know we can we 17 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:52.439 can execute on that very well. So instead we're going 18 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:54.759 to do a new one. We've never done this segment before. 19 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:00.159 Desiree wants us to talk about the anti bucket list. 20 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:01.960 What we want to put in the bucket. 21 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:02.640 That's right, that's right. 22 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.840 So if our listeners don't know what a bucket list is, 23 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:07.920 this idea is it's really fun to have a list 24 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:10.239 of all the things you'd like to try to accomplish, 25 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:13.439 the adventures, the things that just make life full. Yeah, 26 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:17.799 make this list and it's like it'll fill your bucket 27 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:18.439 before you die. 28 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:19.480 That's what you're trying to do. 29 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:21.840 And so I've mentioned before on here that I have 30 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:23.400 a bucket list. I got like one hundred and ten 31 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:25.799 things on my bucket list. Yeah, and I've been just 32 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:27.159 kind of checking them off. I've got a bunch of 33 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:28.480 them we've done, but I've got a bunch more I 34 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:29.840 want to do, and it kind of gives me something 35 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:30.319 to look forward to. 36 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.359 It's fun. Yeah, if you never saw the movie The 37 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.159 bucket List, Yeah, that's what comes from. 38 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.040 So instead of creating a list of things you want 39 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:39.760 to do, in this one, we need to create a 40 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:42.480 list of things we hope we never have to do again. 41 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.239 Let's do let's do five things we hope we never 42 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:48.040 have to do again. 43 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:50.560 That is tough. So what's tough about this? I'm a 44 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:52.000 pretty adventurous person. 45 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:54.079 Yeah, So I'm like, you like to do I guess 46 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:55.079 so like I will. 47 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:59.280 Just three weeks ago, four weeks ago, my wife and 48 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.760 I it was Saturday morning. I'm like, you want to 49 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.000 go to Lansing. So we just hopped in the car 50 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:08.840 drove to lands So I'm pretty so that's gonna be Now. 51 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:12.599 I could quickly name like a food item, Okay, I 52 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.319 hope I never have to have say it. 53 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.000 It would be guacamole. 54 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.400 What guacamole should be banned from the planet Earth? 55 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.120 Get out, just get out. I need that kind of 56 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:26.159 negativity in my life. 57 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:28.240 You know what. 58 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.000 You know what ruined it for me was I got 59 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:36.439 a burrito once from Taco Bell put guacamole on it. 60 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:39.199 It was the worst substance I've ever. 61 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:44.360 That's fake guacam That's not Taco Bell. 62 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.199 You're gonna try the real stuff, like when you go 63 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.159 to a Mexican restaurant. Just after that Taco Bell experience, 64 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:54.879 I just don't want the green and stuff. 65 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:55.919 I can't do. 66 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:00.319 This could happen to you. Don't go to Taco Bell game. 67 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:04.360 I would also do a food item for I think 68 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:06.439 of all the things in my life that I hope 69 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:08.800 I never ever have to do again. 70 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:10.520 Liver and onions. 71 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.719 Yeah, my mom used to cook it all the time, but. 72 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:16.120 I yeah hate it. 73 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:19.159 I have friends who love it, yeah, and I hate it. 74 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:22.280 So that that's the top of my list, just a 75 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:24.400 y okay, what else do you have? 76 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:25.479 So we will have one. 77 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:30.280 Else that I would never want to do again. Yeah, 78 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.240 this is a tough one, Jeff. There's not a lot 79 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:35.879 but I can think of. 80 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:37.520 I got a bunch. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I 81 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.039 don't ever want to go back to middle school. 82 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.719 Oh yeah, now but wait, here's a catch to that. 83 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:46.719 If you could go back to middle school with today's knowledge. 84 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:50.960 Still not middle school. 85 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:51.680 High school? 86 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:55.960 Yeah, but not middle school. Yeah yeah, so I guess 87 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:59.319 I could agree with that. I might say certain grades 88 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:01.520 in elementary school. I don't want to go back and 89 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:03.719 repeat like that. 90 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:05.520 Let me see, I've got another one. 91 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:08.039 I hope I never have to fly Air France again. 92 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:12.280 Oh I hate their friends. 93 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:16.560 Customer service is bad, the planes are bad, the seats 94 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:19.720 are hard. Everything about Air France is bad. The food 95 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:20.639 isn't even good. 96 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.600 Man, they're French, for kind out loud, it should be 97 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:25.199 good food. No, everything is bad. 98 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:26.199 No, I will say. 99 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.240 When we were on that one flight together on Air France, 100 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.319 they didn't translate anything in English. 101 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:34.199 It was French or nothing. 102 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.240 So the pilot got on like halfway through the flight 103 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:37.959 said something. 104 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:38.680 We don't know what he. 105 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.639 Said, if you fly a lot, most airlines have somebody 106 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:45.920 who is designated to be able to make top level decisions, 107 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.000 like behind the counter or whatever. With Delta, it's somebody 108 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.120 wearing a red coat. So if they're wearing a red 109 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:54.360 coat or red vest, they can stop a plane if 110 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:59.120 they need to. So Air France has people like that, 111 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.600 So I know that. And the French, normally, the French 112 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:07.519 workers for Air France normally don't want to be bothered 113 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:12.560 by an American. And so what I always like to 114 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:14.360 ask is do you have the power to help me? 115 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:19.120 Because people like having power. They're wearing that vest on 116 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:24.720 purpose and so you know, appeal to that. That's a 117 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:26.319 nice thing. Hey, you're powerful. 118 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:26.639 I'm not. 119 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.399 So I asked this lady, and I really needed help, 120 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.079 really needed help, and I'm in Paris, and I said, 121 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:37.040 uh hey, I I was wondering, do you have the 122 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:39.800 power to help me? And she goes, yes, I do. 123 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.600 And I said, okay, great, would you help me do this? 124 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:44.920 Do you have the power to help me do this? 125 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.319 She says yes, I do. And I said would you 126 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.560 help me? She says not today? 127 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:50.879 Walk away? 128 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:51.680 Oh no. 129 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:54.480 She told me twice she had the power to help 130 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:55.120 me could do. 131 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.040 But now she's on her iPad and she turns it 132 00:05:58.079 --> 00:05:59.639 and she just walks like three steps away from me. 133 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.879 Where her to me? That is a lyric. 134 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:04.959 So then one of the other gate people called me over, Hey, 135 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:06.519 can I help you? And I said, wow, she said 136 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:08.680 I can't do that, like I know you can't. I 137 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:09.959 need her to do and she. 138 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:10.759 Wouldn't come and help me. 139 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.360 Whoa, I'm telling you man, So I have to fly 140 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:14.399 air France next week. 141 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:15.839 I'm already dreading it. 142 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:19.399 Okay, let's just make it three to three things we 143 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:22.160 hope anti bucket list air France. I should have said 144 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.759 air France first, liver on on in, second in middle school. 145 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.639 Third for me, wack them only number one the only. 146 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.240 Okay, well, there you go talking about things people never 147 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:31.639 want to do. 148 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.000 Again, there we go. 149 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.120 That's a that's actually a good one. 150 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:41.399 So ezra Is has realized, you know, worship has been 151 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:46.439 restored in Jerusalem after all these years of being in exile. 152 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.360 And but he realizes very with me, the people have 153 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:56.000 compromised and they've begun adopting the practices of the pagan gods, 154 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:00.800 and they married into pagan families. And we talked briefly 155 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.160 in one of the other episodes about some of the 156 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:06.920 behaviors of these detestable practices. It's not just like, oh, 157 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.959 they have a little buddhis statue on the shelf, although 158 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:13.839 you shouldn't have that, but it was, you know, temple 159 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:19.040 prostitution and sacrificing humans and just all kinds of horrific. 160 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:19.639 Things that go along with that. 161 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:25.040 So Ezra is a priest, he's from the direct family 162 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.439 of Aaron, and he falls to his knees and he 163 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.319 begins to repent on behalf of the people. And then 164 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:37.720 that's in chapter nine. In chapter ten, Ezra is praying. 165 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:40.399 While he's praying, the people come and they see what's 166 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.040 going on. And so Ezra chapter ten says, while Ezra 167 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:47.560 prayed and made this confession, weeping and lying face down 168 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.160 on the ground in front of the temple of God, 169 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.040 a very large crowd of people from Israel, men, women 170 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:55.439 and children gathered and wept bitterly with him. Then schek 171 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.600 and Ayah, son of Jehiel, a descendant of Elam, said 172 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.120 to Ezra, we have been on faithful to our God, 173 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.279 for we have married these pagan women of the land. 174 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.879 But in spite of this there is hope for Israel. 175 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:07.879 Let us now make a covenant with our God to 176 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:10.040 divorce our pagan wives and to send them away with 177 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.240 their children. We will follow the advice given you, given 178 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.319 by you and by the others who respect the commands 179 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:17.240 of our God. Let it be done according to the 180 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:19.399 law of God. Get up, for it is your duty 181 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:21.399 to tell us how to proceed in setting things straight. 182 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:23.879 We are behind you, so be strong and take action. 183 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:27.160 So Ezra stood up and demanded that the leaders of 184 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:28.959 the priests and the Levites and all the people of 185 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.120 Israel swear that they should do as shek and Ayah 186 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.840 had said. And they all swore us while a solemn oath. 187 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:37.120 Then Ezra left the front of the Temple of God 188 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:42.039 and went to the room of jeh jehohanan son of Eliahship. 189 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:44.559 He spent the night there without eating or drinking anything, 190 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:46.879 and he was still in mourning because of the unfaithfulness 191 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.559 of the return to exiles. Then a proclamation was made 192 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:52.919 throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should come 193 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:55.440 to Jerusalem. Those who failed to come within three days 194 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:58.360 would if the leaders and elders so decided, forfeit all 195 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.840 their property be expelled from messembly the exiles, so you 196 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:02.600 better show up. 197 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:04.519 Yeah, we ain't playing. 198 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:06.559 This is an optional, that's right. 199 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.360 Within three days, all the people of Judah and Benjamin 200 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:14.120 had gathered in Jerusalem, and this took place on December nineteenth, 201 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.519 and all the people were sitting in the square before 202 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.240 the Temple of God. They were trembling, both because of 203 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:21.960 the seriousness of the matter because it was raining. Then 204 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.440 Ezra the priests stood and said to them, you have 205 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:27.360 committed a terrible sin by marrying pagan women. You have 206 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:30.720 increased Israel's guilt. So now confess your sin to the Lord, 207 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.000 the god of your ancestors, and do what he demands. 208 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.799 Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from 209 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.840 these pagan women. Then the whole assembly raised their voices 210 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:40.120 and answered, yes, you were right. 211 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:41.200 We must do as you say. 212 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.399 Then they added, this isn't something that can be done 213 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:46.039 in the day or two, for many of us are 214 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:49.080 involved in this extremely sinful affair, and this is the 215 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:51.600 rainy season, so we cannot stay out here much longer. 216 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.039 Let our leaders act on behalf of us. 217 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:54.360 All. 218 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:56.600 Let everyone who has a pagan wife come at a 219 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.360 scheduled time, accompanied by the leaders and judges of this city, 220 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:02.840 so that the fierce anger of our God concerning this 221 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:06.039 affair may be turned away from us. Only Jonathan's son 222 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:10.120 of Asahl, and jaza Aya, son of Tikva, opposed this 223 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.360 course of action, and they were supported by Meshalum and 224 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.879 Shabbathai the Levite. So this was the plan they followed. 225 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.840 Ezra selected leaders to represent their families. Designated each of 226 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.559 the representatives by name. On December twenty ninth, the leaders 227 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.200 sat down to investigate the matter. By March twenty seventh, 228 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.080 the first day of the new year, they had finished 229 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:33.120 dealing with all the men who had married pagan wives. Wow, 230 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:34.559 well that's an extreme response. 231 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:36.960 Yeah, there you go. Yeah. 232 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:41.039 I know Pastor Kevin at Heritage Church where we where 233 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.840 we were part of, he always says, when you mess up, 234 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:44.600 fess up. 235 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:45.039 Yeah. 236 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.200 Then he says, fess up fast, Yeah, fest up fast. Yeah. 237 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.039 So when you mess up, just come clean. 238 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.879 God knows what you did when you did it, so 239 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:56.320 it's not like you're hiding anything. He saw it when 240 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:59.000 you did it. So just fess up, come clean, ask 241 00:10:59.000 --> 00:10:59.679 for forgiveness. 242 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:01.120 Hey. 243 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:04.120 So we talked yesterday about why this was such a 244 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:07.960 big issue right with God, and Ezra had confessed. But 245 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.720 then this revival begins to spread. Ezra realized what he 246 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:13.519 was doing, and it says while he was praying that 247 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.159 people saw what he was doing, and he was weeping 248 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:17.720 and lying face down on the ground in the front 249 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:20.200 of the Temple of God. A large crowd from Israel, 250 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.000 men and women and children gathered and wept bitterly with. 251 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:25.159 Him, and they begin to realize we did the wrong thing. 252 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:30.600 So revival often it just starts with one God breaks 253 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:33.480 one person. One person's heart is broken for the loss, 254 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.759 broken over sin, and God begins to change them, and 255 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.679 others begin to see it. Others are aware, they're just 256 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:41.240 waiting for the one. 257 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:43.159 I think it was. 258 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:49.360 John Wesley said, you know, when you set yourself on fire, people. 259 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:50.919 From all around will come and see you burn, right, 260 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:52.639 And he's talking about for God. 261 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:56.679 And there is something about that that when you are 262 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:00.759 completely sold out, you are completely dialing and others will 263 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:02.720 be inspired by it, and so you don't have to 264 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:03.960 be alone. And I think this is one of the 265 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.639 beauty of what's happening here is Ezra's realizing we have 266 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:08.080 done a terrible thing. I don't even know how to 267 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.399 fix it, and just his broken heart and his repentance 268 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:15.600 before God, his sincerity. He's not blaming other people, you 269 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:18.480 shameful people. He's saying, I'm a part of it. Because 270 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:21.879 I'm a part of these people. That was enough to 271 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:25.000 capture the attention of some. And they also began to weep, 272 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:29.120 and it begins to spread. Revival spreads, and so he's 273 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.600 still on his face praying, and then check and Ayah 274 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.480 steps up. He's the next one, right, So one goes 275 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.120 to two and then he goes to three, and then 276 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:38.639 it spreads to so many. 277 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:40.360 He says, we've also been unfaithful. 278 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.159 But I love it because he said there's still hope, right, 279 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:47.200 there's still hope for us. And so if it's not revival, 280 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:51.200 if we're just sorry, yeah, right, it's revival when we're 281 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:54.919 done with our sin and we're ready to walk a 282 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:57.600 clean life. And that's I think what you hear from 283 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.960 Check and Aya is, Hey, we're done and we're willing 284 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.720 to make radical decisions in order to prove that we're 285 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:04.840 done with this the sin. 286 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:06.440 Yeah. I don't know why, Jeff. 287 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:10.320 What comes to mind with this passage is that video 288 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:14.440 from Simon Sinek, and he's talking about that one person 289 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.639 and that one person I think it's dancing or something. 290 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:19.799 It's like a silly example. 291 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:22.840 But the point is that one person is able to 292 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:27.360 get everyone around them going doing the same thing. That 293 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:30.759 can be for good or for evil, you know, in 294 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.799 the context of what we're reading today. So yeah, I 295 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:36.720 think it's amazing how one person can make other people 296 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.879 catch on fire, so to speak, to do the right thing. 297 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.679 So they don't just apologize here. They're not just like, oh, 298 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.480 we're sorry and go on about their life. They make 299 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:49.440 a covenant that that that's like a contract with God. 300 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:53.320 They make a promise with God to separate from these 301 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.080 these families that they had begun, you know, these marriages 302 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:59.440 that they had begun to go into. And it says 303 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:02.919 and they're children. So this hasn't been years and years 304 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:05.240 and years. I don't know that these are the children 305 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:08.879 of the of the Israelites. Necessarily with these women, it 306 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:11.240 could have been that they married women with children, right. 307 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:12.440 So so that's part of it. 308 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:15.720 But whatever it is, it was very painful, it was 309 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:22.080 very costly, but it was necessary to restore this this 310 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:24.480 walk with God. Right they had they had gone down. 311 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:26.600 They needed to get get away from all this. So 312 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.759 repentance isn't just about feelings. It's not just about how 313 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.039 you feel about your sin. It also has it includes 314 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:39.799 follow through. So it begins with me changing my mind. 315 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.240 That's the beginning of repentance. It is me going I 316 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.080 was going this way and I realized this the wrong way. 317 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:46.759 God, it changed my mind. I'm going to go your way. 318 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.799 But the going is what got me there, and the 319 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.200 going is what's going to get me away from there. Right, 320 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:57.200 So it's not just a mental agreement with God. It's 321 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:00.639 not just feeling sorry. It's also the follow through of 322 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.120 it that Hey, God, I am repenting and I'm going 323 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:09.240 your way. And sometimes this obedience hurts, Yeah, sometimes it 324 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.639 really does hurt. But compromise. Ultimately it's going to hurt 325 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.159 way more. It's going to cost far more. And so 326 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:19.279 the earlier we can cut these things out of our lives, 327 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:19.720 the better. 328 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:20.440 Yeah. 329 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.200 But I really love the act of just circling back 330 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.399 to that, the act of being a representative, you know, 331 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:31.639 having that repentant heart. Other people seeing that makes them say, 332 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:34.679 you know what, maybe I need to get my act together. 333 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.679 And I think about that in terms of our family units. 334 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.799 When that one person in the family decides to give 335 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:42.720 their life to Christ, and you know, I'm going to 336 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:44.600 start reading my Bible, I'm going to go to church. 337 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:47.639 It's like, huh, what are they doing over there? And 338 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:51.639 then a wildfire starts to spread. So I see all 339 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.840 that to say, maybe this change that we're kind of 340 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.200 reading about starts with you, the listener, whoever is listening 341 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.279 to us today. Maybe you're the to be the catalyst 342 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:04.279 to cause the wildfire, so to speak, to spread in 343 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:05.279 your family. 344 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:06.720 Or where you work or wherever. 345 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:07.120 Yeah. 346 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:10.240 Yeah, yeah, so and I believe that that's that's how 347 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.840 revival starts. Yeah, is with one or two and it 348 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:19.240 just spreads. So then the leadership really matters in hard moments. 349 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:19.559 Yeah. 350 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:22.919 And so he he rises up when sheek and Aya 351 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:26.600 challenged him, Hey, move with us. I think while he's 352 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:27.639 on his face praying, he. 353 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:29.639 Thinks he's the only one that recognizes their sin. 354 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:30.799 Yeah. 355 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.200 And then shek and ayah and he gets. 356 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:34.759 A hold him, Hey, man, rise up, show us what 357 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:36.919 to do next. And he stands up and he rises, Hey, 358 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.080 there's a lot of people here that are grieving over 359 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:42.440 the sin and repenting, and so there is I have 360 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:45.600 this this leadership, I've learned it from mentors. But move 361 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.639 with the movers, yeah right, don't be worried about what 362 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:49.799 everybody else is going to say. 363 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:51.200 Yeah, who's moving with you? 364 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:52.720 And move with them? Right. 365 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.559 So he has this group that's willing to go down 366 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:58.519 this path. And so what happens is when leaders take 367 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.039 sin seriously, or take anything seriously, the people. 368 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:02.120 Follow a lot of times, right. 369 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.920 And so they show up in the cold rain, they're trembling, 370 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.440 partly because of the rain, partly because of their sin, 371 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.039 and he's like, hey, you have to be here. If 372 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:12.799 you're not here, you're going to lose your land. So 373 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:15.039 we're not messing around. This is serious. And so he's 374 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:19.400 all in. He's leveraging everything in his influence to make 375 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:23.839 sure that everybody comes stands accountable for God. And here's 376 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:26.640 you know, here's the results. And there's something about that 377 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:29.119 at that point, this bold leadership, now that he realizes, hey, 378 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:30.480 I've got some people that are going with me. 379 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.079 Yeah, and they went along with it, so to speak 380 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:37.319 Verse twelve, the whole assembly. It doesn't say two people 381 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:39.200 or four people or one family. 382 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.279 All that says everybody out in the rain yes. 383 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:47.480 Raise their voices and answer, yes, you're right, we must 384 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.359 do as you say. So I think there's something about 385 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:53.799 everyone coming together corporately and saying, you know what, we 386 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:54.519 were wrong. 387 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:56.039 We missed the mark. 388 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.759 So we have to separate from these people. And it 389 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.599 takes three months, by the way, so this is careful. 390 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:07.880 It's case by case. And so it looks like there 391 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:12.119 were somewhere around twenty nine thousand families that had moved 392 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.519 back to Israel, and it looks like there were one 393 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:19.279 hundred and thirteen of these situations. So you're not talking 394 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:21.359 about the whole nation. It's talking there's one hundred and 395 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:25.319 thirteen of them in a relatively short amount of time. 396 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.240 And even then with those on hundred three, it took 397 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:32.920 three months to navigate all of this, right, So it's 398 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:36.319 not a reckless purge. Lot oftimes people decide they're gonna 399 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:38.720 make some big decision and they just go rip it 400 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:40.880 and tearing, And this is pretty surgical. 401 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:41.720