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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:17.039 Well, good morning, good morning, what we talk through? Good morning? 5 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:22.079 Oh, good morning? You and you and you man. This 6 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:23.359 is a double feature this week. 7 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:24.920 Yeah, twice twice in a one. 8 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:27.000 Oh my goodness. I don't know if we can contain 9 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:30.559 all of just the overwhelming joy of the moment. 10 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:33.759 Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure people out there are so joyful. 11 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.039 Man, you know, if we can have what made Chris 12 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:38.159 mad this week, this is like the best week ever. 13 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:41.840 It's the best week ever. You always act like people 14 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:42.679 just love it. 15 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:45.439 They do love it. We get a lot of comments 16 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:45.679 on it. 17 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:46.799 That's funny. 18 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:48.039 People comment about all the time. 19 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:49.840 They love they love it. I love it. 20 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:51.840 Well you know, you know you sing that to people 21 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:53.359 in the morning and then they walk around singing it all day. 22 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:54.000 Good morning. 23 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:54.799 Yeah. 24 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:56.880 Yeah, And somebody just told me that on Sunday yep, so, 25 00:00:56.880 --> 00:00:57.920 which is really funny. 26 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:00.359 And by the way, I want you to take this 27 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:01.240 moment too. 28 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.480 If you care about that segment or that little tidbit 29 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:06.400 that I just did, then I want to take this 30 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.599 moment to say, watch Singing in the Rain. 31 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:11.000 Okay, watch it. You've never seen it. 32 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:12.400 I have seen Singing in the Rain. 33 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:14.439 Oh you have seen Yeah, yeah, Okay, I just don't 34 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:16.920 know all the songs, right it. 35 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.319 Well you say it, you say it like I'm not 36 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:22.959 a music guy. Music guy. 37 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.400 Well, so didn't you tell us last week that you 38 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:28.719 listened to movies or you watch movies in the shower. 39 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:30.200 You just watch movies all the time. 40 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.920 I watched today. 41 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:35.079 I was taking a shower and I put my phone 42 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:37.680 up on the little ledge there in the shower, and 43 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:40.200 I only had you know, it's like a ten minute shower. 44 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:41.799 But I said, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna watch this 45 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.879 one scene. So I put on the ending of a movie. 46 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:45.400 It was. 47 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.200 Endgame. Remember when remember when Captain America? 48 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:52.200 Uh, you know, it was like this and all of 49 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:53.840 a sudden it goes cap on your left, and then 50 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:56.000 all of a sudden the doctor Strange gets the army 51 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:58.560 and then they do that final battle. I was like, oh, 52 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:00.599 I was just move to see that. So I watched 53 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:03.280 that ten minute segment. Okay, well it's showering. 54 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.799 I think that's the difference between like you being this 55 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:11.759 committed movie guy in me occasionally watching movies. Right, So 56 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:17.400 you watch it for entertainment, it informs you in your 57 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:20.000 life and a those things. I watch it for amusement 58 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:24.599 and amusement amuse no thought, Well, I literally watch a 59 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:27.479 movie tomorrow. I may or may not remember the plot. 60 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:29.560 But man, it was a good movie. Somebody said, you 61 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:30.520 say movie, Yeah, it was. 62 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:32.919 Good, and I think it's I saw, and I think 63 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:37.439 the core before we get into that, the core of 64 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:41.599 any movie, any great movie, is storytelling, right, and so 65 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:43.000 telling a story. 66 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:44.560 Is and blowing stuff up. Blowing stuff up is a 67 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:46.560 big stuff a big part of it too. 68 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.800 Yeah for most of the movie you watch, yes, but 69 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:54.240 story for any great movie is and that's what life is. 70 00:02:54.360 --> 00:03:00.719 Life is storytelling, living stories, identifying with stories. Because because movies, 71 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:03.840 at the core of great movies is all about story. 72 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:07.120 Well, maybe that's why we loved the Bible. Guys, the 73 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:08.759 way we do it the way we do the Bible, 74 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:10.080 guys say, maybe that's why we do it that way. 75 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:11.319 It's because we love the story of the Bible. 76 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:15.680 Okay, so very quickly, tell us did you like Wicked? Really? 77 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:15.960 Yeah? 78 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.520 I thought visually it was really impressive. Yeah, I thought 79 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:22.199 musically it was less than the original. So I saw 80 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:26.960 Wicked twice with the two originals. Sure, sure, phenomenal was 81 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:38.000 good and I felt like, particularly that who played Glinda, 82 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.919 I felt like she was hitting her marks, not acting. 83 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.680 Oh like, I did not think she was funny in it. 84 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.919 I felt like Christian Chenowith in her little segment was 85 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:52.039 twice as funny as Ariana ever was in the whole movie. 86 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:54.919 So I loved the callback to that piece. And then 87 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:58.039 the deviations from the original were significant. You said that 88 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:00.479 they weren't significant. I thought they were significant enough. Yeah, 89 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.159 so it was good. It was good. 90 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:02.960 I didn't think it was great. 91 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:06.039 Yeah, I'm going to have to significantly disagree. 92 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:08.159 That's okay. It visually it was stunning. 93 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:11.240 Yeah yeah, So so did you did you feel like? 94 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:15.319 I felt very mechanical. Ariana Grande specifically felt very mechanical. 95 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:20.160 And then the lady that played Alpha Ba just doesn't 96 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:26.079 have Adina's voice, so musically the live was back with 97 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.600 the originals. Was they should have made the movie with them? 98 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:31.040 Huh? Yeah? 99 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:35.839 And then the chemistry between Christian, Kristin and Edina were 100 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:39.480 was over the top versus the chemistry of those two 101 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.639 where they definitely were hitting their lines and saying their parts, 102 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:42.319 and it was right. 103 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:43.560 Did they did it correctly? 104 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:45.000 Did you get emotional? 105 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.920 No? Yeah, in tear upts okay, and I went, I 106 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:49.519 get it. 107 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:52.680 It was very well done. Okay, but then the additions. 108 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:54.920 I don't think any of the additions added to the story. 109 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:57.160 Oh god, that's no. Stop. 110 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:00.720 Every one of them was. It's not like I went, oh, 111 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.079 thank god, they finally got it right. I thought I 112 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:04.319 thought the original was better. 113 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:04.879 Yeah. 114 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.079 Anyways, all right, hey, okay, So so those those of 115 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:10.519 you that are out there that are are wicked haters, yes, 116 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:11.000 I'm with you. 117 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.040 I don't hate it. I just don't care about it. 118 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:15.319 The movie, I didn't care about it. 119 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.319 You're you're with them, the wicked haters. 120 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:23.439 Like it was unnecessary. Wow, there you go. Wow. 121 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:25.439 Well you know what, Jeff, It's why we make a 122 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:29.480 good team. It's the But I was excited to watch 123 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:30.120 it because you love. 124 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:30.480 It so much. 125 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.240 Oh, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. 126 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:34.279 So it was for you, Chris that I watched it. Okay, 127 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:36.000 Well we have and I and I'll be honest with you, 128 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:38.240 I wanted to like it. Yeah, I wanted to. I 129 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:42.560 really did. Okay, So okay, right, Well, so we're going 130 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.519 to answer a question we've answered three times two times 131 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:45.959 in the past. 132 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:47.879 Yeah, and we only have a couple of minutes. We've 133 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:49.120 wasted a lot of time there. 134 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:51.680 This next part has one big idea and that I think, 135 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:52.319 so we're gonna be. 136 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:55.439 Okay, okay. So this is a stump the pastor question. 137 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.120 And this question comes from Ashley N and so, and 138 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.920 the question is simply this, do you think dogs go 139 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:02.360 to heaven? 140 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:10.879 What kind of dogs? Kind of dogs? Yeah, that's funny. 141 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:13.360 So so first of all, I'll just give you the 142 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:16.279 short answer and you can give the long answers. The 143 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:20.399 short answer is nobody knows, right, That's usually how something 144 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:29.439 past their questions go anyway, right, But I personally think yes, yeah, yeah, 145 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:33.920 there are animals in heaven for sure. Just everything that 146 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:38.959 we know about heaven and God restoring things, I would say, 147 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:44.920 there's no reason not to believe that. Well, there's no 148 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.319 solidifying reason not to believe that dogs don't go to happen, 149 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:50.399 So I'm gonna I'm. 150 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:51.439 Gonna choose to believe. Yes. 151 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:56.600 So I think the logical question would be, then do 152 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:02.720 you think all life goes into eternity like Mosquito's Yeah, 153 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:04.079 how far down does that go? 154 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:05.319 Is it sentient beings? 155 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.920 And how do you know that mosquitoes aren't thinking, oh no, 156 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.800 what's that big hand right right before it smashes me 157 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:12.160 or whatever? 158 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:13.160 So I don't know about that. 159 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.000 So there is that one argument that, wow, there's a 160 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.920 lot of creatures on the planet and whatever. But the 161 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:20.439 other side of it is, and I think we've answered 162 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:23.959 it this beforey before, God is good and when the 163 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:26.319 Bible says that God created everything, he looked on the 164 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:28.800 planet he made with dogs on it and said. 165 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:30.040 It's very good. 166 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:30.639 It's very good. 167 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:32.560 Yeah, I really like it. I like it just like that. 168 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:35.040 He liked it the way he made it, and then 169 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:36.720 we messed it up. So now he's gonna have to 170 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:38.360 make a new one. So he's going to make a 171 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:40.959 new one. There's kind of a restoration kind of a 172 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.879 concept in this new world that he's going to make 173 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.560 at the end of time. Right, it's a restoration more 174 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:49.959 than it is a I'm going to get rid of 175 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:52.720 the old idea and get a new idea. Right, It's 176 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:54.560 like I'm going to make it all new again. I'm 177 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:55.920 going to bring it back to what it was supposed 178 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:57.600 to be. So if that's the case, I think it's 179 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:01.480 very likely. The Bible mentions Isaiah, man, we we did 180 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.199 a fun thing. But we've answered this question before, and 181 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:04.879 we set all these answers. But then we did a 182 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:08.519 fun thing, and right before the program, I typed in 183 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:10.839 do dogs go to Heaven? And chat GPT and it 184 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:12.680 gave the same answer as you and I always give right, 185 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.360 But it mentions there in Isaiah that the animals. It 186 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.199 mentions that animals are in peace in the New in 187 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.040 the New Kingdom, right, and that kind of thing. So yeah, 188 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:26.000 it's not unreasonable to say, man, I hope my pet 189 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.959 is there, whether it's that pet or pets in general, 190 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:32.279 or animals in general or whatever. Right, but we do 191 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:35.159 know that animals are in eternity, which is really cool. 192 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.480 Yes, so yeah, very cool. 193 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:39.440 I'm not against I'm not against you saying I think 194 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.480 my dog went to heaven. Yes, Now, if he was 195 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:45.879 a bad boy, I don't know. But if he's a 196 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.679 good boy, that's not how that's not how people get 197 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:49.960 to heaven, but it might be out to always get 198 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:50.320 to have it. 199 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:52.919 That's so funny. That's awesome. 200 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:53.159 Yeah. 201 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:56.960 Well, hey, thank you Ashley, for writing in and listen. 202 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:58.799 If anybody else wants to write in. 203 00:08:59.159 --> 00:08:59.600 Please do. 204 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.320 But we actually love questions that come in, and we 205 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:06.480 would love to consider your question and comments. By the way, 206 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:07.759 we love comments and feedback. 207 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:10.799 So actually I think our summary is we think it's 208 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:15.000 totally possible. Yeah, right, the animals go to heaven, yeah, yeah, 209 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:17.399 or that we do know animals are in heaven, are 210 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.480 in eternity, so yeah, yeah, Well. 211 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:23.519 Hey, I just want to say this, that segment needed 212 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:26.080 a lot of work. You know, there's a lot of work. 213 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:30.519 Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. And speaking of that, you know 214 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:31.879 what else needed a lot of work? 215 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:36.440 But the temple, Yes, you're right, especially after somebody took over. 216 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.360 Yeah, and so the temple had gotten in disrepair. Huh, 217 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.919 and so they did a lot of work to redo it. 218 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.679 So Joe Ash takes over, Yes, repairs the temple. 219 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:47.320 What do you think? 220 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:48.600 It was a terrible transition. 221 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.919 I love it, Thank you, thank you. I volunteered to 222 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:52.759 do every trends. 223 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:53.480 Every transition this week. 224 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:55.519 That's why I went back and restated our answer, hoping 225 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:56.879 that you go, oh we should. 226 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:59.039 I forgot actually, and then finally I just remembered. 227 00:09:59.080 --> 00:09:59.320 Good. 228 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.000 Okay, so we're in Second King's Chapter twelve, verse one, 229 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:04.000 and it says joe Ash began to rule over Judah 230 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:06.080 in the seventh year of King jay Who's reign in Israel. 231 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:10.159 He reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibia 232 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.679 from Beersheba. All his life, Joash did what was pleasing 233 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:17.600 in the lord's sight. Because of Jehoida, the priest instructed him. 234 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:20.399 Yet even so, he did not destroy the pagan shrines, 235 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:22.799 and the people still offered sacrifices and burn incense there. 236 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:25.519 So he followed the lord, but he didn't make his 237 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.759 people do it. One day, King Joash said that the 238 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.639 priest collect all the money brought as a sacred offering 239 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:33.600 to the lord's temple, whether it's a regular assessment, a 240 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.519 payment of vows, or a voluntary gift. Let the priest 241 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:38.360 take some of that money to pay for whatever repairs 242 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:40.799 are needed at the temple. But by the twenty third 243 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:42.960 year of joe Ash's reign, the priests still had not 244 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:43.840 repaired the temple. 245 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:44.960 Well, that took a while. 246 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.519 Yeah, that's like me when I started a painting project, 247 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.320 right twenty three years later, twenty three years Yeah, So 248 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.639 King joe Ash called for Jehoida and the other priests 249 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:56.960 and asked them, why haven't you repaired the temple. Don't 250 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.559 use any more money for your own needs. From now on, 251 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:02.360 it must all be spent on temple repairs. So the 252 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:04.480 priests agreed not to accept any more money from the people, 253 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:06.919 and they also agreed to let others take responsibility for 254 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.960 pairing the temple. And Jehoyaa, the priest, bored a hole 255 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:11.639 in the lid of a large chest and set it 256 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.159 on the right hand side of the altar at the 257 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:16.720 entrance of the Temple of the Lord, and the priests 258 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:19.879 guarding the entrance put all of the people's contributions into 259 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:22.440 the chest. Whenever the chest became full, of the court 260 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:24.399 secretary and the high priests counted the money that had 261 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:26.720 been brought to the Lord's Temple and put it into bags. 262 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:29.360 Then they gave the money to the construction supervisors or 263 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.519 used it to pay the people working on the Lord's temple, 264 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.799 the carpenters, the builders, the masons, and the stonecutters. They 265 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:36.559 also used the money to buy the timber and the 266 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:38.720 finished stone needed for repairing the Lord's temple, and they 267 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:41.600 paid in any other expenses related to the temple's restoration. 268 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:43.840 The money brought to the temple was not used for 269 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.759 making silver bowls or lamp snuffers, or basins, or trumpets 270 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.159 or other articles of gold or silver for the Temple 271 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:51.200 of the Lord. It was paid to the workmen who 272 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.399 used it for the temple repairs. No accounting of this 273 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.960 money was required from the construction supervisors because they were 274 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.120 honest and trustworthy men. 275 00:11:58.399 --> 00:11:59.720 Oh I don't know about that one. 276 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.559 However, the money that was contributed contributed for guilt offerings 277 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.679 and sent offerings, was not brought in the Lord's temple. 278 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:07.960 It was given to the priests for their own use. 279 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.000 Yeah, okay, so there you go. 280 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:16.240 Yeah, I would not say it's advisable to not expect 281 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:17.559 your construction management. 282 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.559 Yeah, foreman to not keep it attention. Yeah. 283 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:23.200 Yeah, Well, these were guys who were working on the temple. 284 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.639 And have you ever have you ever had a bunch 285 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.679 of construction people do a building project and they all 286 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.639 come together and and like like like we build a 287 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:34.720 building in my previous church that I worked at, and uh, 288 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:37.639 and and everybody who was super excited who sort of 289 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:40.200 took the reins. They were in construction for business, but 290 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:42.159 they're Christians and dedicated. 291 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:44.519 To that church. And uh, and that felt great. 292 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:45.480 Yeah, you know what I mean? 293 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:46.120 That felt great. 294 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:48.559 So I can imagine that these were people who attended 295 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.240 the church or the temple, right. 296 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.480 Yes, and and and uh, and that they were all 297 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.360 in they just happened to do construction. Uh. You know 298 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.080 that reminds me of do you remember Jim Gaffigan? 299 00:12:58.840 --> 00:12:59.960 You remember him? Yes? I remember? 300 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.159 Do you remember that? Remember that? 301 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:05.919 What you're talking like, Okay, what I meant to say 302 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:07.919 was do you remember the bit? 303 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:08.600 Yes? 304 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:12.399 I don't know that he that he talked about gates 305 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:12.840 in heaven? 306 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:14.600 Yes, why do you need gates in heaven? 307 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:16.799 He's He's like, they talk about the gates of heaven. 308 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:18.399 He goes, why do you need gates? He goes. What 309 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:19.600 kind of neighborhood is this? 310 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.279 He goes, Yeah, we had to install some gates because 311 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:24.679 all the kids kept on sneaking in. 312 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:29.360 And use the pool, he goes. He goes, we had 313 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:30.879 to build the gates all the way around. He goes, 314 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:32.080 it was terrible. It was hard. 315 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:33.399 He goes, we had to go all the way down 316 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:35.279 to Hell and find construction workers and everything. 317 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:38.120 So it's really funny. 318 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:41.720 So so it's like that that one joke is sort 319 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:46.679 of like my son who's in construction would love that joke. Yes, right, 320 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:50.600 but yeah, in this case here, these guys are honest 321 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:53.679 and trustworthy men, and to be honest with you, it 322 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:56.279 almost seems like in this passage, they're the ones that 323 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:59.559 are honest, and the and the the priest for the 324 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:05.279 ones who uh didn't didn't step up at the beginning. Right, 325 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.960 So it's not it didn't say they abused the money, 326 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:10.320 did it. It didn't say it's they used it for 327 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:14.000 their own needs. Right, So, so own needs doesn't mean 328 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:15.639 there's no indication. 329 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.600 That it was, you know, used in a terrible manner. 330 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:21.720 In fact, I would venture to say it's it's a 331 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.399 really good assumption that it wasn't used in a bad manner, 332 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:26.639 because usually when that happens, the Bible will go out 333 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:29.159 of twitter say so right like it had it had 334 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:32.879 it been abused or squandered or stolen or miss misused, 335 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:37.399 the Bible would say that she the pre squandered the money, 336 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:39.840 they used it for their own selfish needs, they used 337 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:40.360 it for sin. 338 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:42.879 It didn't say any of that, right, It just says 339 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:44.679 they just used the money. It's almost like they got 340 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:45.000 a raise. 341 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:47.799 Yeah, right, Hey, we want to do this much ministry 342 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.000 and now we have more money coming in. And now 343 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.080 we're doing this much money. 344 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:52.480 Well, you and I, so we lead that. 345 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.799 We lead a church has a it's a large church, 346 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.080 large budget. A lot of money comes in. Yeah, we 347 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:01.000 give clear accounting, and I mean we're really careful with it. 348 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:03.399 But you know how it can be. It doesn't matter 349 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:06.399 how much money comes in. Our staff can find things 350 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:10.480 that their team needs. We're not saying they're wasting it, 351 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.360 but they can consume all the money comes in. So 352 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.879 on occasion, you know, you and I and the other 353 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.399 key leaders, we have to redirect and say, but there 354 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:21.720 are priorities, right, there are these. We make sure we 355 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.799 ten percent of the income that comes into heritage or 356 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:26.200 more goes outside of heritage. 357 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:27.960 It's not spent insight on us, right. 358 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:28.879 It's actually eleven percent. 359 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:30.320 Yeah. 360 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:36.440 And the staff if we said hey, this extra you know, 361 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:39.399 hundreds of thousands of dollars is available to you, they 362 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:40.440 could use it and use it in. 363 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:40.879 A good way. 364 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:44.399 Oh they'll hire people, yeah, get offer more services, offer 365 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:48.639 more ministry things whatever. Right, And so what happened was 366 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.240 I think it was just a fade. It wasn't that 367 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.440 the Levites were bad guys or the priests were bad guys. 368 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:55.320 It's just they were consuming everything coming in on what 369 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:58.879 they viewed as necessary things. And finally, Joe ash I 370 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.360 don't know why he didn't attention when you're young. Maybe 371 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.240 he just didn't notice it, or you're believing all the reasons. Well, 372 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:05.879 you know, we need to increase the budget by fifteen 373 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:06.960 percent in order for us to get this. 374 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:08.279 Project done or whatever. You know, he doesn't know. 375 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:10.480 Finally he realizes, wait a minute. He's thirty years old 376 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:13.320 at this point. He goes, wait a minute, get it 377 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:16.000 done right, And I love that about him. Right twenty 378 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:17.960 three years in, he only has seventeen years left in 379 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.039 his rain. But he says, get it done, no more excuses, 380 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:23.600 and that there is a leader moment there that we 381 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:26.240 finally see. This is the first really big leadership moment 382 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:28.240 you see Joe ash in Is. He had said, Hey, 383 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:30.120 I want the temple repaired, and that's cute. Little kid 384 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:31.919 wants temple repair. That's great, we'll work on it. 385 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:32.440 We'll get there. 386 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:34.759 We got budgets to balance, we got we got ministries 387 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:36.879 to run right out all these things. But find this kid. 388 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:37.120 Yeah. 389 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:39.200 Yeah, But finally he's an adult and he's like, get 390 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.639 it done, and they buckled down and they did. And 391 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.759 then he had trustworthy men that are are doing you know, 392 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.759 the finished stone and all the wood and all that 393 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.279 kind of stuff. And apparently it was a very fair 394 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:54.519 rate that they're that they're charging to do these things. 395 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.559 It must have been you know, I don't know. The 396 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:59.960 Bible is not hinting that it was a discounted rate 397 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.240 hitting that at all. Right, there's no hint here that 398 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:04.880 there was an expectation that these guys would do it 399 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:07.640 for free. There's no expectation that they do it as 400 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.519 a discount. But it must have been very fair because 401 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.240