WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:17.280 practical ways. Hey today, Oh wow, todayda Hey everybody. 4 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.719 I was just gonna say happy Monday because today's Monday. 5 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:22.920 Oh, it's everybody's favorite day except for Garfield. You sound 6 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:25.079 a little too excited about it. 7 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:26.160 It was happy Monday. 8 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:28.079 Well, I'm trying to manufacture. 9 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:29.000 Energy, Okay, I try. 10 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:33.439 I'm trying to tell myself that I'm excited because it 11 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.119 was It's nine am in the studio. It was believable, 12 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:39.000 and today's actually Wednesday. 13 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:39.640 Wednesday. 14 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.560 But happy Monday to the listener. If you're listening on 15 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:44.240 those days, they could be archiving this. 16 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:45.640 I bet they are. 17 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.399 They could be at the gymnasium. I can't believe I 18 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.520 said gymnasium. They could be at the gym working out jimsium. 19 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.439 How old are you, dude, Well, you know. 20 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:58.000 The Red Wagon. 21 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:00.719 So no, they could be at the gym at two 22 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.000 in the morning. I just got that in the lobby too, Okay. 23 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:04.719 Guy came up to me and says, you know, I'm 24 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.079 the guy that works out at two am and every day, 25 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:09.560 And I said, you work at at two am, he said, listen. 26 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:12.280 To the Bible, guys. Why so happy technical morning. 27 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:13.959 Okay, well, good morning to you. 28 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:14.640 Yes for sure. 29 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:17.280 Well, hey, we have a special for our two. 30 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:21.120 Am listeners because we have a very special segment this 31 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:25.079 morning as we're doing. Yesterday was Easter, and so we're 32 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:29.560 going to do an Easter draft for our favorite things 33 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:30.159 about Easter. 34 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:31.879 Yeah, what do we like the most about Easter? 35 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.239 Easter traditions? What do you like the most about Easter? 36 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:35.519 Yeah, the same. 37 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:37.200 All right, we're gonna do rock paper scissors, so you 38 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:41.519 get to go, sure, we go. Okay, ready wrong? Two three? Oh? 39 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:43.599 He had rock, eye had scissors, So you get to 40 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:44.000 go first. 41 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:44.680 I'm superior. 42 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:47.760 You always beat me, right you cheat? Did you cheat? 43 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:51.599 No, no, you don't, Liz, I know your mind's or Liz. 44 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:56.040 So here's scary thought. Here's my favorite favorite thing about Easter. 45 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:58.200 And it has to be and I'm going to take 46 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.719 still your thunder. Uh, the Christmas services at churches? 47 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.359 So right, because I know Christmas services at churches. 48 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:06.239 What did I say? 49 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:09.520 You say, Christmas Easter services at church? Easter services at 50 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.039 church are your favorite thing about Eastern No? 51 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.280 No, no, wait a minute, you didn't say it has 52 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:14.960 to be number one. 53 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:16.000 Is Trump's number two? 54 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:17.479 You know? But I mean I get it. 55 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:19.599 It's so it's traditions, it's all your favorite it's in 56 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:21.439 the things that you like in the top. 57 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:23.800 But you're going to steal my thunder because. 58 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:27.280 That's what you're going to say. Okay, right, no, oh right, 59 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:28.159 We'll go ahead and like, so. 60 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.400 Yours is all the gajillions of services. So we did 61 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:33.759 like twenty two services across our campuses. 62 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.479 Yeah, I love you. Love love the camaraderie. I love 63 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:38.000 the people. 64 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.199 I love the energy, the chaos. 65 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:42.400 I love the chaos. I love all the people, the 66 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:44.280 artistic moments, all of it. 67 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:44.879 Yep. 68 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:48.360 Yeah, So favorite things about Easter? So that was your 69 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:50.879 first draft pick, number one draft pick. You used your 70 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:52.919 draft pick on Eastern Service. 71 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:54.360 Hush, are you going to make fun of me because 72 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:55.159 of my family staff? 73 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:59.520 So nope, My favorite thing about Easter is Jesus the Resurrection. 74 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:01.120 The Resurrection. 75 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.680 You left the best player on the board, dude, So 76 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:08.960 the resurrection is kind of a big deal about Easter. 77 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:12.879 Okay, I didn't know you were meaning what that. I 78 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:15.280 thought you you experiencing the holidays. 79 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:18.919 You said your favorite thing about Easter why. 80 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.479 You're doing so much set up? You set me at 81 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:21.919 the fail. 82 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.599 I was just hoping, I was hoping you'd choose anything 83 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.879 other than that. Yeah, So I got the Resurrection. Big fan, 84 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.520 big fan by the way, big fan of the Resurrection. 85 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.800 One of my favorite things. 86 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:40.159 That's a journey Christian love. All Right, I'm gonna go with. 87 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:44.120 Uh, Okay, anything besides. 88 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:45.479 Is out. 89 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:52.039 I'm gonna say, he's your basket, Resurrection Salvation, Okay, right, 90 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:53.599 so I'm gonna. 91 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:55.560 Go with you know, I just I just drafted Tom Brady. 92 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.080 You know that, right, Okay? Okay. 93 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:57.840 So here's the thing. 94 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.680 Uh, did you just compare Tom Brady the Resurrection, well 95 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:02.080 the goat? 96 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.280 Okay, I would say this. I would say. 97 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:09.680 I enjoy very much so the tradition that I have 98 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:12.280 with my family that most people who know me know this. 99 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:14.520 Yes, we hide Easter baskets. 100 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.199 And my kids are in their twenties, and I even 101 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:20.439 have one that's in her thirties. And she said, she said, 102 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:22.720 I will never get too old for Easter baskets. I said, oh, 103 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:26.120 trust me, there will be a day where I mean, 104 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:27.759 I'm not going to be eighty and you're going to 105 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:31.079 be fifty coming home for you know, Easter, and then say, Dad, 106 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.040 hide my Easter basket. I said, this is not going 107 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:37.600 to happen, right, but currently I can't believe I'm still 108 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:37.920 doing it. 109 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:40.879 But here I do. Here, I find myself hiding Easter 110 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:41.839 baskets every year. 111 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:44.160 It's a big deal. I mean, like very big deal. 112 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:47.079 You have epic videos the whole night. Yr Yeah, I 113 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.639 figured you'd say that. So after my first draft pick, 114 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:53.920 I'm going to take a flyer. No, no, no, no, 115 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:59.560 I'm going to take a flyer and say, Reese's peanut 116 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:00.199 butter eggs. 117 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.199 Wow, resurrection. 118 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:05.560 I don't want you to steal those from me. I 119 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:06.759 don't want you to steal those from me. 120 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:09.680 Yeah, yeah, so I don't want you to steal those 121 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:11.759 because I was afraid you would punish me. 122 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.920 That's what I was afraid I should have. I should 123 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.800 I needed to grab that one. 124 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:18.720 Thank Okay. 125 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:22.199 The third thing that I'm going to choose as I'm 126 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:26.319 going to say that, my family does another big, crazy 127 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.360 thing and it's and it's it's massive. It's just as 128 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.639 big as the easter baskets. And that is we do 129 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.800 an egg fight. And so we do egg fights just 130 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:37.639 like the Greeks. Or the Italians. Uh, it's it's tradition. 131 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:39.879 If you ever seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Yes, 132 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:41.959 the movie, I remember they walked by and they did 133 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:43.240 it and they cracked the eggs. 134 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:44.560 Well, we have brackets. 135 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.040 I'm glad you explained it, because most people were envisioning 136 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:48.839 like flinging eggs each other. 137 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:51.079 That's correct, Thank you, thank you, You're welcome. 138 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:52.759 So we do we do egg fights. 139 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:56.639 And so like my Youngstown family growing up Youngstown, Ohio, 140 00:05:57.399 --> 00:05:59.519 what they would do is they would literally, like you 141 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.560 would have a fights in your own home and then 142 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.120 you would meet together. And so like my uncle would 143 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:07.160 have egg fights with his family, and then the winner 144 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:10.680 of that egg he would bring to the final round 145 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:12.839 right right, and then he would bring it all over. 146 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.079 And then we would just do winners against winners, and 147 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:17.959 everybody has to submit names for their eggs and everything. 148 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:19.040 I mean, it's pretty crazy. 149 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.519 Okay, So can you give us the ground rules very 150 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:22.959 quickly on how to do an egg fight? 151 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.240 Yeah, see hardbown egg and then one person holds it 152 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:28.120 and the other person depends on you know, who's on 153 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.240 the bracket on the draft. But one person holds it 154 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:33.199 and one person strikes pointy, a gets pointy. 155 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.639 Only one's going to crack. Always two don't crack. It's 156 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:37.040 just one. 157 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.160 Then you flip it and you do the other side. 158 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:41.519 And if it's one in one, then the third one wins. 159 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.399 And sometimes if you have one end cracked and one 160 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.959 and not, I've seen a limp egg make it all 161 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.959 the way to the end, like one end is cracked. 162 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:52.600 One is not, and he wins. 163 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.759 How is there a limit to how hard you can hit? 164 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:58.839 Just hard enough to crack the shell? 165 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.079 Okay, tap, not a smash. 166 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:04.399 I'm sure if you smash smashed, both of them probably 167 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:05.600 would bring and then they're both out. 168 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:07.399 Yeah, that would be okay. 169 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:10.160 Okay, So you're trying to crack the other one. You're 170 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:11.839 hitting just hard enough to crack the other one, but 171 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.079 not crack yours. Correct, Okay, good, it is riveting. This 172 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.839 is riveting material, by the way. Okay, so was that 173 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:19.600 your number three? We got to get hurrying. 174 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:19.800 Then. 175 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:24.079 I love gathering the family around after a great Easter 176 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:25.759 church services. 177 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:27.240 And having a big Easter dinner. 178 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:29.079 Yeah, I love it, and I love it, and I 179 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:33.879 would say, uh, another tradition for us is I would 180 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:38.360 say I love well ge whiz, I'm gonna go with 181 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:42.879 our Easter dinner too, okay, yep, okay, so yours versus mine? 182 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:44.360 Yes, okay, that's better. 183 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.519 I doubt it. And then actually. 184 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.279 Then I would say around the Easter time, I love 185 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.000 the My wife is usually starting to fill every everything 186 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.519 with flowers. So yeah, the daffodils and all the stuff 187 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:01.160 coming up in Michigane, she loves that. 188 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:02.360 So we're done. 189 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:04.800 Okay, Was that it was that in our five? Okay? 190 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:08.560 Well it was four at least, so at least four. Good. Well, hey, 191 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:09.360 we have. 192 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.800 Been going through chronologically through the Old Testament, and we 193 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:18.240 kind of have been a in a Isaiah chunk. 194 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.560 But then you did a bunch of proverbs and psalms, you. 195 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:26.600 Right, speaking of chunks of chunklate, there are also chunks 196 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:27.120 of scripture. 197 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:32.720 Yeah, okay, good, good, because I was having trouble with 198 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.759 a with a bad thing. So for this chunk of 199 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.639 scripture that we're going to talk about is Psalm ninety 200 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:39.240 one today? 201 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:40.200 Chunks of scripture? 202 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.200 Well it is, yeah, it's okay. 203 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:44.360 Well, so when God wrote it, had it written, He 204 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.600 didn't have it written in verses and chapters, correct, right, 205 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:51.480 which people actually So then people chunked it up, okay, 206 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:52.720 leader or not. 207 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.720 Most people don't know about the verses in chapters right right, Yeah, 208 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.639 they don't really know that they came in the form 209 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:02.120 of you know, mostly let in long manuscripts. 210 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.600 So we are in Psalm ninety one today, and the 211 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.960 Bible doesn't necessarily say who the author was. No, so 212 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.720 it says anonymous actually a ninety mouse, So here you go. 213 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:15.799 It says those who live in the shelter are the 214 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.919 most high, will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 215 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.279 This I declare about the Lord. He alone is my refuge, 216 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.639 my place of safety. He is my God, and I 217 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.799 trust him, for he will rescue you from every trap 218 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:31.080 and protect you from deadly disease. He will cover you 219 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:33.759 with his feathers, he will shelter you with his wings. 220 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:37.240 His faithful promises are your armor and protection. Do not 221 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:39.159 be afraid of the terrors of the night, for the 222 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:42.000 arrow that flies, nor the arrow that flies in the day. 223 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:45.600 Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor 224 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.799 the disaster that strikes at midday. Though a thousand fall 225 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:51.000 at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, 226 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.000 these evils will not touch you. Just open your eyes 227 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.399 and see how the wicked are punished. If you make 228 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:58.440 the Lord your refuge, if you make the most High 229 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.519 your shelter, no evil will conquer you, No plague will 230 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.639 come near your home, for he will order his angels. 231 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:05.480 To protect you. Wherever you go. 232 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:07.840 They will hold you up with their hands, so you 233 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.600 won't even hurt your foot on a stone. You will 234 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.039 trample upon lions and cobras, and you will crush fierce 235 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.720 lions and serpents under your feet. The Lord says, I 236 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:17.879 will rescue those who love me. I will protect those 237 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.120 who trust in my name. When they call on me, 238 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.600 I will answer. I will be with them in trouble. 239 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.320 I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them 240 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:29.039 with a long life and give them my salvation. I 241 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:30.720 love that those who live in the shelter are the 242 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:33.279 most high, will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 243 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:34.279 Yeah. I love that. 244 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.159 Yeah, it's one of the most poetic verses in the Bible. 245 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:38.159 Yeah, I agree. 246 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.519 So we love the Life Applications study Bibles and the 247 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.480 first note here underneath that says God is a shelter. 248 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:47.840 A refuge when we are afraid. 249 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:51.440 The writer's faith in God as protector would carry him 250 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:52.039 through all. 251 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:53.240 The dangers and fears of life. 252 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:55.919 This should be a picture of our trust, trading all 253 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:59.480 of our fears for faith in Him, no matter how 254 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:04.039 intense our fears. Then we must live and rest with Him. 255 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:08.240 By entrusting ourselves to his protection and pledging our daily devotion. 256 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:09.840 To him, we will all be kept safe. 257 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.600 You know, when it says refuge, uh, in the Old Testament, 258 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:18.039 there were actually cities of refuge, right, And I'm not 259 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:21.559 sure anybody really grasps the fact that you know that 260 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.759 word refuge is you know, there were places where you 261 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.960 could run and claim refuge. 262 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.039 So if you were being hunted. 263 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:33.799 Or if you were being you know, unlawfully chased, you 264 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:37.840 could actually go to and and it's very similar to sanctuary. 265 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:38.840 Right, yeah, it's exact same. 266 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:42.519 Yeah, So so you could actually and and uh, you 267 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.399 know what, I went to Cuba one time. Well, you 268 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:47.840 were in Cuba too. You probably saw the doors. Did 269 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:49.080 you see how thick the doors were? 270 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:50.240 They give you that speech. 271 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:51.840 So there's this really. 272 00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:55.919 Big cathedral in Cuba, and and and as they were 273 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:59.320 giving us this tour, uh, they had opened these doors. 274 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:01.120 And this is from the same sixteen hundreds, and so 275 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:02.639 this seventeen. 276 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.320 Yeah, because that one tower was built in seventeen seventy six. 277 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:06.080 That's why I remember that. 278 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:09.639 Oh, there you go, that's funny, seventeen seventy six. Anyway, 279 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:12.799 they opened the doors, and this door was I mean 280 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:17.120 probably three inches thick, and it was it was solid wood. 281 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.720 And to move the door even it wasn't he look 282 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:23.559 like an incredible amount of strength. And you could see 283 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:28.399 how somebody would run into a church and claim sanctuary 284 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.440 and they would shut these doors and both them and 285 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.759 it would quite frankly keep out like I wouldn't say 286 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:38.799 an army, but raging hordes. I would definitely say, I 287 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:42.279 would say, you know, definite you know, groups of bandits 288 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.279 and thieves and mobs, mobs and things like that. Right, 289 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.320 and so, but in the Old Testament, they actually had 290 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.320 cities that were like this, And so didn't David run 291 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:53.480 to Gath. 292 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:56.480 Yeah that wasn't a sanctuary city. That was a philistine city. 293 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:57.639 Oh that was a philistine city. 294 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:00.279 But he found sanctuary there. Okay, So the premise behind 295 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:04.120 the Old Testament sanctuary cities was God set those up 296 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:08.080 as places to be able to get a fair trial. 297 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:11.279 So if you were riding your camel and you accidently 298 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.919 ran over some guy and he dies, there wasn't like 299 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:19.919 the sheriff in town. So the families would choose a 300 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:23.000 blood avenger, somebody to hunt down the guy who killed 301 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:27.480 the family. And you know, it couldn't be the whole family. 302 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:29.279 It just had to be the one blood avenger, and 303 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:32.279 he would be then like deputized to be the sheriff, 304 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:34.679 but he'd also be the judge and the executioner, so 305 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.639 he'd try to he'd hunt you down, he'd find you 306 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:41.279 and execute you. So they so they set up these 307 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:43.759 cities of refuge in the north and the south, the 308 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.799 east and the west of Israel, and if you felt 309 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:49.679 like it was an accident, you could run to that 310 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:52.799 city claim refuge. They would protect you until they could 311 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:55.799 do a legal trial. So that was the original idea 312 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:57.159 behind the cities of refuge. 313 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:57.759 It's in the law. 314 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:00.759 I'm not sure if we talked about that when we 315 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:02.440 when we were in that part of the Bible. But 316 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.360 then in this one, refuge in general is just a 317 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.480 safe place, right. It's a it's a castle if you're thinking, 318 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:12.399 or it's a it's a high spot when the flood 319 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.600 is is, you know, pouring in, it's it's all those things. 320 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.120 It's that the safest place you can possibly be. And 321 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:19.879 that's what it's trying to explain, is that God is 322 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:22.840 our safest place in the middle of the storm or 323 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:23.320 the problems. 324 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:26.000 Can you imagine being slow enough to where you couldn't 325 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:27.080 get out of the way of a camel? 326 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:28.519 Yeah? 327 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:34.000 Or if you're the writer, oh no, a. 328 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:36.000 Lot of There were a lot of camel accidents back then. 329 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:37.879 If you just read the old newspapers, it was pretty 330 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:38.519 pretty horrific. 331 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:42.440 So yeah, exactly. 332 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:47.279 So I love the imagery of those first four verses right, 333 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:50.320 that He alone is my refuge, my place of safety. 334 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.320 He's my God. I trust him. He will rescue you 335 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:57.399 from every trap, protect you from deadly disease. He'll cover 336 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:00.159 you with his feathers, He'll shelter you with his wings. 337 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.519 His paint faithful promises are your armor and protection. Have 338 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:05.960 you ever seen a hen that will drop down and 339 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.679 pull all of her baby chicks underneath? And if you've 340 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.639 ever come in and startled a hen with a bunch 341 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.639 of chicks, the chicks will immediately turn and run from you, 342 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:17.360 and the hen will run towards her chicks, throw out 343 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:18.919 her feathers, the chicks will run. 344 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:20.879 Underneath, and she'll use her body to protect her. 345 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.120 Shall we share with our listeners the goose that's outside, Yeah. 346 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:26.879 You've got just outside. Well, that's how we keep the 347 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:28.759 riff raff out of the studio. So we've got a 348 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:29.519 couple of geese. 349 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:33.559 Yeah, and one is nesting and the other is protecting. 350 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.879 And so literally, if you walk too closed. And I 351 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.240 was walking in with my buddy Jeff Miller and who's 352 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.120 here of this today, And so as we were walking 353 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:44.240 in together, I said, don't even go near that side. 354 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:45.720 Of the parking lot. He goes why, and I go, oh, 355 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:46.279 it'll get you. 356 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.120 I've been gotten yeah, yeah, yeah, you got got several 357 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:50.879 times last year. 358 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:54.279 Yes, yes, and so, and that goose keeps on coming back. 359 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:57.039 And it's in the landscaping of the building. And for 360 00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:57.720 some reason they. 361 00:15:57.639 --> 00:15:59.879 Think make a big nest in the mulch. 362 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:02.480 Yeah, that's that's where they wanted. That's what they wanted. 363 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:04.159 That's because they found a bunch of cowards they can 364 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:06.639 bully us, so they just keep coming back, I guess. 365 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.320 But so there's this this imagery that the farmers the 366 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.960 agricultural type people. You know, most people get their chicken 367 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.120 in a bag handed out the window now in our 368 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:23.440 in our culture, right, But back then chicken was was 369 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:28.639 you know, you kept chickens and then you'd have your eggs, certainly, 370 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:30.919 and then eventually you'd make you so because of that, 371 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.279 they would have chickens everywhere. This is one of those 372 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.679 images that everybody would have known. Everybody would have understood 373 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:42.600 this one, right, that she'll she'll die protecting her chicks. Right, 374 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:46.039 she provides the shelter and the protection for those chicks 375 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.559 is under her wings, under her care. And that's what 376 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.639 it's talking about here, is that's how God views his people. 377 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:53.960 So those first four. 378 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:56.399 And by the way, I love how God connects his 379 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:00.679 nature to motherhood, right because you know he created both 380 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:05.039 Adam and Eve both in his image. And so you know, 381 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:08.000 we all, you know, twenty twenty five nobody wants to 382 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.160 well not nobody, but culture is trying to make men 383 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.240 and women less different than they are, right, and so 384 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.880 we have to understand, like, you know, God created men 385 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:20.920 completely different than women. So if you look at all 386 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:24.039 the differences, it's pretty striking, right, right. But you know, 387 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:28.759 somehow culture wants to say, you know, and by the way, 388 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:32.599 equality is different. We believe that you know equal rights 389 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:36.359 versus you know, different roles. Right. So anyway, the point 390 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:42.079 is is that the motherhood role, which is usually you know, 391 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:45.920 fulfilled by the motherly instinct, that that is also a 392 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:49.000 god instinct. Right, That's a God. That's part of God's nature, 393 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:51.440 which is pretty cool, I think. 394 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:52.079 So it is. 395 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:57.200 Yeah, So this is I think the most important phrase 396 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.559 is in verse two. He alone is my refuge, my 397 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.839 place of safety. He is my God, and I trust him. 398 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:08.720 Then everything else in this chapter it talks about terrors 399 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:12.119 of the night, arrows that fly in the day, diseases 400 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:15.119 that stalk in the darkness, disaster that strikes at midday, 401 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:19.039