WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:13.320 practical ways. Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in once again 4 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.640 to the Bible Guys. I am Chris and I'm Kyle, 5 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:18.800 and today we're your Bible Guys because Jeff is on 6 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:21.280 this mission across the world helping people get to know 7 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:24.760 Jesus to the Timothy Initiative. And we are in the 8 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.920 middle of a series called Dangerous. 9 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.359 Prayers, bind about surrendered. 10 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.399 And you know, this whole week has been quite a journey, right. 11 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:35.560 So it's been Isaiah in heaven talking about, you know, 12 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:40.600 send me God, and then we talked about Moses who says, okay, God, 13 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:43.560 show me your glory. You know, I want your presence 14 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.000 to be with me. What a dangerous prayer, right, to 15 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:49.079 desire God's glory more than anything else. And then yesterday 16 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.920 we talked about the disciples who are faced with a 17 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.679 really hard truth, who say, God, help us to increase 18 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:57.520 our faith. Right, so think about that, you know, send 19 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:00.200 me on whatever mission you want. God, help me to 20 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:04.200 know your presence more than anything else. And God increased 21 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:06.079 my faith so that I can do what you asked 22 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:09.239 me to do. Those are three dangerous prayers, and today 23 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:13.719 we're actually talking about the prayer that Paul prayed about 24 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:15.920 the thorn in his flesh. What is known as the thorn. 25 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.519 I've always hated that phrase. I've always hated it. 26 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:20.879 Really. 27 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.280 Yeah, I don't know, because it's not a literal thorn. Yeah, 28 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.640 I don't know. It's just for some reason, when we 29 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:29.120 when we attach things to you know, it's just become 30 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:29.879 known as the thorn. 31 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:30.879 What is it? 32 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:32.640 Yet, it's like it's like he never you know, I 33 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.239 guess a translation referred to as the thorn. That's that's 34 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:37.879 why where the name came from. Yeah, but anyway, all. 35 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.319 Right, so before we even get into that, we're going 36 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:41.439 to be playing this game. It's guess the word. And 37 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:43.400 I'm gonna be the host of this game. And I 38 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.239 don't know if you know this, but people call me 39 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:48.280 the king of catchphrase. 40 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:50.400 Apparently, because that's what that's what that's how this is rich. 41 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:52.920 That's right, wrote this game and or this made this 42 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:54.959 And she knows that if she's been my house a 43 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:57.840 few times in which we've played the game catchphrase. And 44 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.159 I'll be honest, although I am good at catchphrase. My wife, 45 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:03.200 I have to minute. She'll she may not listen to 46 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:05.040 this podcast right now for this day, but she is 47 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:05.879 definitely better than me. 48 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:06.439 Kristen. 49 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:08.479 Yeah, she's not a competitive person at all, but for 50 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:11.879 some reason catchphrase, she gets very competitive. She's good queen, 51 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:12.719 She's the queen. Yep. 52 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:13.080 All right. 53 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:14.360 So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get I'm 54 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:15.240 gonna have a word. 55 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.000 And by the way, this is sort of like taboo. 56 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.360 And if you're listening online, if you're watching online on video, 57 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.280 what we're going to try to do, hopefully is put 58 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.719 all the forbidden words on the screen so that you 59 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:26.800 can watch along with us and make sure that Kyle 60 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.879 doesn't make a blunder. Yes, so watch yourself, monitor yourself. 61 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:32.120 I'll be careful. So basically, there's a word that I 62 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.560 want Chris to say, but I have to avoid saying 63 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:36.280 these other words that you're going to see on this 64 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:38.400 The audience should race me, all right, So we'll go 65 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:43.360 number one. Yes, this word is something you will eat 66 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.639 in Apple. Nope, it's something you may get at doat 67 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.240 Francesca's probably a basic thing on the menu. 68 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:50.199 Lasagna. 69 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:53.680 Nope, it's even more basic than that lapasta. Nope, it's 70 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:58.240 similar tophistic part of that. Yes, I can't say those words. Nope, 71 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.719 it's it's like basic man's chef. Yep, there you go, boom, spehetti. 72 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:02.319 Okay. 73 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:04.919 Number two, this one is gonna be toughka no. 74 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:06.319 No, you can't move on yet. You gotta tell us 75 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:07.639 the words that you are not allowed to say. 76 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:12.319 I couldn't say pasta, noodles, Italian sauce, or meat balls. 77 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.719 Now, by the way, once I say the words, you're 78 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:16.840 allowed to say that, okay, gotcha. So so if I 79 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.879 was like I said pasta, you can say what's another 80 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:20.680 word for past. 81 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:22.479 There you go, you can say that. There you go. 82 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:23.039 All right. 83 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:24.319 Our next one, this one's gonna be a tough one. 84 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:28.479 All right. So this maybe somebody is a magician and 85 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:32.360 they would do this. They will no, they would shoot. 86 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:38.319 It's one word and it's something where they're uh teleport Nope, 87 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:41.520 shoot a word. I almost just said, okay, So they're 88 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:46.159 making you think something that isn't actually there an illusion. Boom, 89 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.599 that's the word illusion. Nice work, all right. So the 90 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:55.199 words I couldn't say were magic, trick, deception, mirage, or fake. Wow, 91 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:56.719 So good job do you. I know, that's kind of hard. 92 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.919 That was tough, So I said, magician, I don't know, hopefully, 93 00:03:59.919 --> 00:04:00.759 I I. 94 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:03.479 Don't know how I would say illusion. 95 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:04.520 Yeah, it's tough. 96 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:06.639 Yeah, a lot of times the way I approach this 97 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:08.639 game is I try to go at a different angle. Yeah, 98 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:10.719 and I say, like, it's like, what's that movie with 99 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:14.840 you know, the Illusionist? So yeah, cut it down illusion. Yeah. 100 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:16.600 So that's even like for the spaghetti One's why I 101 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:18.519 went with Duffer Chessca's. Canat know you like the place? 102 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:19.879 But okay, yeah, this next one is can. 103 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:22.560 Be brutal, although I do like daffern Chesca's, but you 104 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:27.240 know it beats it. Oh yeah, it's it's my spot. 105 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:28.759 It's number one for sure. 106 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:32.160 Nice all right. So third one here, I got a 107 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.959 word here where basically you can fall into it. You 108 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:41.079 may see this on a beach, a pit. It's more 109 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.920 in movies. Something you might see in movies, and it's 110 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:47.240 something where you end up falling into it and it's 111 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.319 really hard to get out of this thing. You may 112 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:53.959 see like Indiana Jones, you know, like an Indiana Jones 113 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:00.319 type thing where they are quick sand yes boom, okay, 114 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.519 couldn't say sink. No, sink. You can't say sink. You 115 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:07.959 can't say trap, desert, mud or struggle. 116 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:13.120 Okay, because sink would have given yes. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Yep. 117 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.199 Okay, all right. Fourth one, all right, oh, here we go, 118 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:17.519 give me a moment. Here, I gotta look at these 119 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.600 ones here. Okay, this is hard. 120 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:21.920 Yeah, these are these are decently tough. 121 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:26.399 Yes, okay. Fourth one is it's it's an attribute that 122 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:34.680 somebody may have character, no, mm, integrity, thank you, get 123 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.879 me go, Oh my gosh, this is tough. Okay. It's 124 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:41.759 also something in that thank you you're uh, it's something 125 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:43.199 that may go out at your home. 126 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:44.240 Electricity. 127 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:46.639 Uh, that is one of the words. It's electricity. But 128 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:48.560 what is power? Power? 129 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:49.040 Thank you? 130 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:52.240 Attribute somebody may have as I went wrong on that 131 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:55.720 west So it's strength, energy, electricity, control, and authority. So 132 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:57.639 it did a good job of locking it. But once 133 00:05:57.639 --> 00:05:59.480 you said electricity, that was great okay. 134 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.160 And and the word was power. 135 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:02.600 Yeah, power. That's why I said it's something you can 136 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:04.279 lose in a home. You said electricity, Where does that 137 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:04.600 come from? 138 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:07.800 I would have said, like the old he Man cartoon says, 139 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.160 I have the blank. 140 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:11.120 Yeah, okay, I need to do a better job of 141 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.480 looking at it. Yeah, pop culture. Thanks. Okay, all right, 142 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.720 here we go this next one. Yea, it's not it's 143 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.000 the opposite of white as far black colors. Okay, that's 144 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.759 the first word. And then this is something you would 145 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:23.720 fall into. 146 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:24.199 Black pit. 147 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:26.680 Nope, something else you'd fall into. You got it? 148 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:27.680 Black ditch? 149 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.839 Oh yeah, no, it's it's a black hole, there it is. 150 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:32.279 Yeah. 151 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:34.120 Well I didn't even say anything. You just got there 152 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:38.720 right so that the words were uh, space, gravity, galaxy, 153 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:42.279 universe or suck. So for you, I feel like when 154 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:45.319 I went with your your strategy of opposite of white black, 155 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:46.800 there you go. So you gotta du that was good. 156 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:47.800 Do you get all five? 157 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:49.079 Next word? 158 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.800 All right? All right? So speaking question is did the 159 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:53.560 fans beat me? 160 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:55.560 Did the fans beat you? Yees? So I guess let 161 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.199 us know. I meant we mentioned this a couple of 162 00:06:57.240 --> 00:06:58.839 days ago. We love to read your comments. I don't 163 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:00.639 know if you know what's but his comments. Yes, she 164 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.319 comments all the times, very encouraging words. So maybe if anything, 165 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:05.160 just that could be a reason to start reading the comments. 166 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:07.560 Let us know if you beat us in that game, 167 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:09.560 beat Chris, and that game beat me? I guess I 168 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:11.720 once thought I was the king of catchphrase. That was tough, though. 169 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:15.160 I bet you my good friends Maria and Craig Brown, 170 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.480 dear friends of ours. Yeah, I bet you that they're 171 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.040 going to comment because I mentioned the restaurant that they 172 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:22.560 always take us to, Licious. Yes, and they're going to comment. 173 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:26.560 And oh my goodness, Yes, Maria Craig say hi. If 174 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:28.639 you're listening to this, yes, say hi, And that's all 175 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:29.000 you have to do. 176 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.079 Just say. Then everybody else tune in to see Marie 177 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:35.879 and Craig say hi. Yes, So everybody engage. Everybody writes something. 178 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:37.600 Yeah, let us know. I mean, that's so that's their 179 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.879 favorite spot is Luciano's, right, Oh yeah, okay, So here's 180 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:41.480 what I want to do, just because I want to 181 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:43.759 hear on that comment. Let us know what your favorite 182 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:45.759 local restaurant is. It might be nice to show some 183 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.879 love to local fun spots, you know, local spots, local restaurants. 184 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:49.279 Nice. 185 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.920 All right, So clearly that was not a weakness of 186 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:54.000 yours or mine that game, right, you'd say that was 187 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:54.800 a strength of yours. 188 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:57.480 Right, yeah, oh good. 189 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:59.160 But job, some people this kind of thing may be 190 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.040 a weakness. And today we're actually going to talk about 191 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:05.160 turning your weakness into a strength. Whow as we lean 192 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.480 into Second Corinthians twelve, it's good, that's good. 193 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:10.199 Right, you took the assignment seriously? Yeah, yeah, you really 194 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:11.240 did well. Good. 195 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:12.920 But I saw weakness and I was like, oh, that 196 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:14.480 was good. That was the strength of yours. Because if 197 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:16.000 you would have said I'm not really that good at that, 198 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.360 that would have been my segue. But anyways, you are good. 199 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.720 And today we're going to be reading in Second Corinthians 200 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:24.120 in chapter twelve, and as Chris mentioned earlier, it's about dangerous, 201 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:28.600 dangerous prayers of surrender. Second Corinthians. You good if I 202 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:29.279 start yep? 203 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:29.920 All right? 204 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:34.480 Twelve one through ten says this, This boasting is Paul speaking. 205 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:37.440 This boasting will do no good, but I must go on. 206 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.240 I will reluctantly tell about the visions and revelations from 207 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:44.039 the Lord. I was caught up to the Third Heaven 208 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:47.279 fourteen years ago. Whether I was in my body or 209 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:49.720 out of my body, I don't know. Only God knows. Yes, 210 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:51.600 only God knows whether I was in my body or 211 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:53.840 outside my body. But I do know that I was 212 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:57.440 caught up to paradise and heard things so astounding that 213 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.960 they can astounding that they cannot be expressed in words. 214 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.679 Things no human is allowed to tell. That experience is 215 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:06.240 worth boasting about. But I'm not gonna do it. I 216 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:09.639 will boast only about my weaknesses. If I wanted to boast, 217 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.720 I would be no fool in doing so, because I 218 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.639 would be telling the truth. But I won't do it 219 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:16.919 because I don't want anyone to give me credit beyond 220 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.120 what they can see in my life or hear in 221 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.799 my message. Even though I have received such wonderful revelations 222 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.679 from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I 223 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:28.679 was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from 224 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.879 Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. 225 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:34.799 Three different times I beg the Lord to take it away. 226 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:38.759 Each time he said, my grace is all you need. 227 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:42.200 My power works best in weakness. So now I'm glad 228 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.879 to boast about my weaknesses so that the power of 229 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:47.840 Christ can work through me. That's why I take pleasure 230 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:52.159 in my weaknesses and the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles 231 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.759 that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, 232 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:57.000 then I am strong man. 233 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:59.799 That's I love this It's one of the most p 234 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.679 found on paradoxical statements in the Bible, you know, and 235 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:07.320 they always say, like, you know, in order to be exalted, 236 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.360 you have to be humble, in order to be last, 237 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:12.080 in order to be first, you have to be last. 238 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:15.000 You know, the most powerful direction is not up and down, 239 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.799 and you know, goodness, there's so many other ones, but 240 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:21.360 you know, in order to live, I have to die, right, 241 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:24.320 I mean, there's so many different opposite kind of things, 242 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:27.639 and this is probably one of the most powerful. He says, 243 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.720 for when I am weak, then I am strong, because 244 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.759 the reason why it's powerful is because the concept is 245 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:37.600 deeper than most. Right. So it's like what he's really 246 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.240 saying is he's saying that there's a human part of 247 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:44.759 yourself and you're gifted, right, You're gifted in all sorts 248 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:47.919 of strong ways. You have all these gifts that you 249 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.720 know that that allow you to progress in this world. 250 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:53.600 And you know, being a good talker, a good communicator, 251 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:57.039 a good persuasive person, a good relational person. Right, all 252 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.879 these different things, your your wisdom and all these different things. 253 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:05.559 But whenever you operate in your own strengths, it's it's 254 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:07.919 less of a spotlight on God's power in your life. 255 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.559 So you could say that, you know, a really talented 256 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:15.080 person could operate in their own strength and be like 257 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.559 even a pastor or a leader. We've certainly seen those 258 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.879 the share of those kinds of people right where it's like, wow, 259 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:24.279 they're just a phenomenal, charismatic leader, but it seems like 260 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.600 it's all them and it's nothing about the power of God. 261 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.159 And then sometimes, not often, i should say not the majority. 262 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.639 It is often, but not the majority. But oftentimes we'll 263 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.919 see a pastor fall and we'll say, well, that's because 264 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:42.360 he was operating in his own strengths. He was operating 265 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:45.519 in it was all about him, right, or you know whoever. 266 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.440 So I think that I think that this concept is 267 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:51.080 so deep because what it's saying is it's saying that 268 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:56.200 whenever you're deficient, you have no choice but to rely 269 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:58.919 on the power of God in your life. And it's like, well, God, 270 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.799 I'm in Cape. It's like Gideon, right, It's like I'm 271 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:04.759 incapable of doing these things. And God's like, perfect, You're 272 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:07.080 exactly where I want you to be. And you're like, 273 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:08.720 what do you mean, Well, God, I can't do this. 274 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:11.919 Perfect David goes out there to fight Goliath. You know, 275 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.919 I can't put on Saw's armor perfect. Now you're gonna 276 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:17.639 see God's strength come through because there's no way you 277 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:21.639 could defeat Golias like this, right, I mean, come on, 278 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:23.600 I mean he was a good shot with the slang, 279 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:26.320 but that hadn't been gotten right. And so it's like, 280 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:29.840 it's like, that's what it means. It means Paul is saying, 281 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:32.799 like I have I am. So you think about Paul Man, 282 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:36.120 it's credentials. Think about Paul. There was nobody that could 283 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:39.320 have boasted more than Paul. Yes, and and and yet 284 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.440 what he's saying is is he's saying, there's this thing 285 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.879 in my life and and and uh and it's just 286 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.240 there to remind me that I have to stay humble, 287 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:50.200 right because because if this thing weren't there, I probably 288 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:51.720 wouldn't rely on God as much as I do. 289 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.559 Yeah, So would you say the dangerous prayer here would 290 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:56.600 be the fact that he prayed three times for the 291 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:58.960 Lord to take the flesh or the thorn away. 292 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:00.000 Yeah. 293 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:03.639 And then God's response was that my grace is enough. 294 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:05.759 I think it says in this translation I've always heard, 295 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:07.919 is that my grace is sufficient for you. You've probably heard 296 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:13.480 that before and IV translation translations, sufficient is defined as enough. 297 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:15.440 And I don't know why, I've always loved that that 298 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:18.519 that that word that's saying, my grace is sufficient sufficient. 299 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:20.240 So here it says, is all you need. 300 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:20.480 All you need. 301 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:20.799 Okay. 302 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.279 I love that my grace is all you need. Whenever 303 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:25.639 you know he's saying, he said, hey, take this away 304 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:27.720 from me. Hey, just you know, my grace is enough. 305 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:29.679 You don't need anything more or anything less. This is 306 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.200 what I got for you. I love that, But I 307 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:33.879 think for me that you agree with you. I love 308 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:36.360 the fact that he's talking about boasting in the things 309 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:38.720 that you're weak at, because when you're weak, then He 310 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:41.000 has made strong. And it's a reminder, yeah, for all 311 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.080 of us or anybody really here who maybe is going 312 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.080 through something that maybe it's a sickness, maybe it's an illness, 313 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:47.960 maybe it's something in your life. I don't know about you, 314 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.120 but I think it's powerful to pray and ask God. 315 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.200 We should be praying, we should be praying for healing 316 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:54.600 over things. But you and I both have seen a 317 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:58.519 fair share of prayers that you're just asking God's will 318 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.320 to be done right. You're just praying. And oftentimes I 319 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.919 think one of the problems is that sometimes we start 320 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:07.720 to attach people's faith or lack of faith into that healing. 321 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:09.440 But we see here, here's Paul, who is like the 322 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:11.720 most faith right, he's the most God following person. Yet 323 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:14.960 God didn't take away that sickness, that ailment, that illness, 324 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:16.840 whatever it. Maybe that thorn in his flesh. God said, 325 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:19.720 don't worry about relying on me. Just a fun story 326 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:21.159 that just I don't know if I've ever shared this 327 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.000 story with you, but there's one time many years ago 328 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:27.120 the youth group I was leading, there's a big group 329 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.240 of students and leaders that went to a concert for 330 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:31.960 a well known worship group in the country. They're a 331 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.639 well known traveling worship group. But they also had their 332 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:36.399 known to do like healings at the end of the service, 333 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.960 and so we had a bunch of students and adult 334 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:42.240 leaders who went out there with these with to see 335 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:45.200 this worship concert and at the end there was a 336 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.600 healing part of the service where they told people that 337 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:49.840 if you just had enough faith, enough faith small as 338 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.200 a mustard seed, God will heal you of whatever it is, 339 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:54.399 but you just have to take the step. And so 340 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:57.799 we had a person actually who is maybe a junior, 341 00:14:57.840 --> 00:14:59.840 who actually drove himself checked this out. He drove himself 342 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:02.279 an hour to get there to this kount he everybody 343 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:05.159 else drove together. He had been running to something he had. 344 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:09.240 He has serious eyesight issues. If only he had faith, 345 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:10.679 then God would heal him. So what he did is 346 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:13.279 he broke his glasses that he needed to see, broke 347 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:15.720 him in half walk to the altar, could barely see. 348 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:18.600 And God did not take that from God did not 349 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.960 heal his his eyesight right there. And then his mom 350 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:25.240 called me the next day, devastated because for one her 351 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:28.600 son had to drive in this condition where he could 352 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:30.360 barely see. He is on the road driving an hour away. 353 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.559 I didn't know about this until the next day, and 354 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.720 then also came home feeling extremely discouraged that his his 355 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.679 what he has perceived lack of faith because God clearly 356 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:40.960 didn't heal him. I remember just thinking, man, and. 357 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:43.120 That's the danger. We can blame ourselves. What my faith, 358 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:43.840 My faith was. 359 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:46.480 Percent And I think this is always a reminder for 360 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:48.879 me that like, maybe it's not like I think we 361 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.159 should pray for healing. Maybe we should one hundred percent. 362 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.600 We should pray him, believe that God can heal us 363 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:56.360 and will if if he so desires. But the same 364 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:58.360 time trusting in what Paul is saying here that like 365 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:00.559 his grace is still enough. And I don't know if 366 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:02.320 you've had his stories like that where you've winned people 367 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:04.679 who like man, it must be my lack of faith 368 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:08.080 that God didn't heal this thing. And it's sad, yeah. 369 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:10.639 It is. And again the sad part is in the 370 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:17.399 fact that we sometimes take God's word and we say, well, 371 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:19.559 we're able to name it and claim it because the 372 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:22.679 choice is up to us. When when actually, in every 373 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:25.039 single time that God says, hey, if you have enough 374 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.960 faith ask this will be done. It'll be done. But 375 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.960 what God always does is he always throws it under 376 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:35.080 the umbrella that it's God. God is the one doing 377 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.480 the miracle. And so therefore it has to align with 378 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:41.480 God's will. Right, So it is if God chooses right, 379 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:44.679 and so so yes, we can have move We can 380 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.720 move mountains, We can see mountains moved with incredible faith. 381 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.799 We can see mulberry trees cast into the sea, we 382 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:53.799 can see all these different things. You know, with the 383 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:57.200 size of a mustard. See, but that's if God wills it. Right. 384 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.559 So God is able and we are able. Period, that's 385 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:04.200 the end of that sentence. Right. We can do this 386 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:07.839 with faith under the umbrella of if God wills it, 387 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.920 because after all, if it were just a name it 388 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:13.799 and claim it kind of a thing, then Paul's forlorn 389 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:17.880 in his flesh would have been gone. Yep. So Paul 390 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.200 has enough, certainly has enough faith. I mean, if anybody 391 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.759 has the quality of faith, and you know who makes 392 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:28.359 the cut, it's going to be Paul, right, So you know, Paul, 393 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:31.319 Paul is a guy in Act chapter nine where Jesus 394 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:35.279 appeared in front of him, He's the only apostle that is, 395 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.160 you know, to be categorized with the other twelve apostles, right, 396 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:41.519 He's the only other parstle that Jesus came down and 397 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:44.079 hand picked. And he did so after he died and 398 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.720 rose again, he came back down to the earth to 399 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:48.559 choose Paul to get the rest of the job done 400 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:51.759 to spread the gospel. I mean, he physically appeared in 401 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.400