WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.359 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. We're 4 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:15.519 so glad that you decided to tune in and join 5 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:16.640 us for another episode. 6 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:19.239 Man, this is going to be maybe the highlight of 7 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.399 their next ten minutes, twenty minutes. 8 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:26.839 The high light of the next twenty four and a 9 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:27.359 half minute. 10 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:28.679 It's going to be incredible. 11 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:31.879 Yes. So, and today we are in well, we're in 12 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:35.960 the middle of a series that we're having about Jesus, 13 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:38.119 and we're saying, what if Jesus had a podcast and 14 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:41.600 probably talk about all the famous things that he has done? 15 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:45.719 And today's saying is be dressed and ready for service. 16 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:49.679 Wooh okay that get ready? Yeah, people, get ready. 17 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.320 People get ready. But before we get into that, we 18 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:54.520 have a news article. 19 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:58.640 Only the finest news We scoured the internet and always 20 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:03.119 come back to the same Babylon only only the most 21 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:06.280 trustworthy news sources. And so this is from the Babylon 22 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:08.799 B July ninth. If you've never read the Babylon B, 23 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:12.159 it's a satire website, very very funny, and says here 24 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:16.200 a man's faith in God shaken after prayer for lightsaber 25 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:17.120 goes unanswered. 26 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:18.040 That's so good. 27 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:22.680 We just talked about this guy. Yes, he's praying fervently. 28 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.840 This is Huntsville, Alabama. Local man Brad Sharp had his 29 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.840 faith in God shaken to its core after his prayer 30 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:32.840 for a real, functioning lightsaber went unanswered. How could a good, loving, 31 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.719 all powerful God not give me a lightsaber? Sighed Sharp, 32 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.040 staring at the sky. Where are you, God? Are you 33 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.879 even listening? According to sources, Sharp prayed for God to 34 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.439 grant him a lightsaber, not once, but three times. Yet 35 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:47.959 Sharp was met with nothing but silence from the Lord, 36 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:52.040 prompting something of an existential crisis. It's tough to reconcile 37 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:56.799 belief in an omnipotent, beneficent God with not getting a lightsaber, 38 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.680 said Sharp's friend Kevin Darnault, especially if you scifically asked 39 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:02.879 for one. He's taking it pretty hard and it's causing 40 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:05.040 him to question a lot of his beliefs. He really 41 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:08.719 wanted that lightsaber. At publishing time, Sharp's faith in God 42 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:11.919 had again been tested as he failed to bench press 43 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:15.439 five hundred pounds despite wearing a Philippians four thirteen bracelet. 44 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:19.240 That is that is a great add on, isn't it, 45 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:23.280 despite wearing a Flip's fourth orteen brains. Yeah, that is 46 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:24.439 one of the funniest things. 47 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:25.000 Uh. 48 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:27.199 You know, when I when I went to Bible College, 49 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.240 they had a poster in the weight room, which was 50 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:33.000 barely a weight room, and it said Flippings four thirteen. 51 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.199 And there was a picture of a weight weight build 52 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:41.479 bodybuilder named rich Gaspari and he was this massive guy 53 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:43.599 and he and he had any and he just you know, 54 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:45.680 held up this you know, you know, it was picture 55 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:48.039 in bench pressing and it said Flippings four thirteen. I 56 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:52.599 can do all things and that all was capital all 57 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.479 through Christ, who strengthens me. And I thought, I can't 58 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:58.479 believe in a Bible college that we hung up a 59 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:02.039 poster that it just took the verse out of context 60 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.319 and here it is, it's articles making fun of it. 61 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:09.960 Well, we talked just a couple of days ago, if 62 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.879 you missed it on the podcast. We talked about the 63 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:17.159 fact that yes, Jesus promises that God will answer all 64 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:19.960 of our prayers, but he brackets it with we have 65 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:22.400 to be on his mission and it's to bring glory 66 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:24.759 to God. Right, those are the two things. And so 67 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:28.360 that's kind of this this this article is kind of 68 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:30.240 making fun of this idea that you can just have 69 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:33.759 anything you want from God, right right, lightsabers and five 70 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:35.439 hundred pound bench presses. 71 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:37.960 How could an all how could how could a god 72 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.800 be all loving it all good and not give me 73 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:45.080 a specific functioning lightsaber? By the way, can you imagine 74 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:46.840 having a functional lightsaber? 75 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:48.400 I think we'd get in trouble with it? 76 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:50.639 Oh my goodness, gracious. Don't you think it's sort of 77 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.319 like the ultimate weapon? It goes through everything, doesn't it. 78 00:03:53.639 --> 00:04:01.240 Yeah, I would say I would rather have a. 79 00:03:58.560 --> 00:03:59.960 A laser gun than. 80 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:03.120 Than a laser sword. 81 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:04.240 Yeah. 82 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.680 Really, well, because you don't want hand to hand combat. 83 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.360 Yeah yeah, yeah, that's it, and we can get you 84 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:15.400 across the room right right. So okay, there's that anyways, 85 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:17.720 that has nothing to do with anything. 86 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:18.759 No, it doesn't. It's just fun. 87 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:20.040 Uh huh. 88 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.839 By the way, Babylon B, in my opinion, is it's 89 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:27.079 that sophisticated. Now today wasn't as sophisticated, But is that 90 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.759 sophisticated kind of humor? Very it makes me laugh like 91 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.000 twice as hard. Yeah, you know, it's just like not 92 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:33.319 quite in your face. 93 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:35.680 They're great and they if you haven't ever been on 94 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.759 their website, they do a lot of funny politics on 95 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:40.160 both sides of the aisle, so don't get worked up 96 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:42.639 about it. They make fun of everybody. They do a 97 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.120 lot of social commentary, very very very funny stuff. So 98 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.759 I enjoy the Babylon b So, you. 99 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:53.199 Know, speaking of enjoying things, you. 100 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.399 Know what I enjoy getting dressed up. I was gonna say, Jesus, 101 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:57.360 oh Jesus. 102 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:02.000 Yea, but yeah, you're getting dressed up. Actually, actually don't 103 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:02.839 enjoy I don't. 104 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:04.639 Enjoy getting you don't like you don't enjoy getting. 105 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:06.480 Dressed No, no, no, I. 106 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:08.519 Would have thought you would be like kind of a 107 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:10.120 fancy boy, you'd like to get all dressed up. 108 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.240 No, that's you. You're you're you love that, But I 109 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:17.279 don't love it at all. I actually, uh, I'm like 110 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:19.920 the million If I had like millions of dollars, i'd 111 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:21.480 be the millionaire with velcrow shoes. 112 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:22.319 Yeah. 113 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:25.399 You know, have you ever seen a millionaire belcro shoes? 114 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:26.519 Yeah? Yeah, that's true. 115 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:29.720 That's what they do. And the millionaires today are different 116 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:33.279 than they were eighty years ago. Right back then, everybody 117 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:34.319 was fancy smancy. 118 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.399 But today I think it was Mark Cuban. I read 119 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:41.720 a thing Mark Cuban was talking about when you walk 120 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:45.319 into a business meeting, Yeah, don't pay attention to the 121 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:47.759 high powered people in suits across the table from you. 122 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:50.639 Look for the guy who's wearing sweatpants and tennis shoes 123 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:52.800 in the corner. And that's the one with the power. 124 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:53.279 Yep. 125 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.360 Because he said, I've done all the work. I don't 126 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.000 have to dress like they dressed. I can dress however 127 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:57.399 I want to. 128 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:00.959 Dress, right, that's right. And he said that's the one 129 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:02.600 of the most power. Right, that's it. 130 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:04.720 He said leisure pants as we said, I think he 131 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.079 said like Lululemons or something. 132 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:09.160 Have you ever gone to downtown Detroit and uh seen 133 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:12.199 what what's the headquarters of Ford where it started? Where's 134 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:14.439 that at? But the big the big one, you know 135 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:17.439 where it started out? Okay, okay, anyway, they have this 136 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.360 massive photo right and and it's like a it's the 137 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:23.079 size of the entire wall. And they had taken a 138 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:25.800 picture of all the men working in the Ford plant 139 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:27.160 in the nineteen whatever it was. 140 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.319 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, dress pants, dress shirts. 141 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:34.480 Dude, three piece suits like not dress pants, dress shirts. 142 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:36.480 No, they're there. 143 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.519 They are coming to work in suits. Now. Think about it. 144 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:42.920 Back then no air conditioning, right, uh, you know, probably 145 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:44.600 in the summer, it looked. It looked like a very 146 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:48.079 nice day. I'm thinking to myself, everybody back then smelled 147 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.160 so bad. It's the only thing I think of. You 148 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.519 think of. They're all together, they're all together, And I'm 149 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:55.839 thinking to myself, if I was in the know of 150 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:59.399 that crowd, I would probably physically and literally pass out 151 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:00.519 because it's so bad. 152 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.399 Really, so I I you know, we had to wear 153 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.560 suits and ties to class when in seminary and all 154 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:07.079 that stuff. 155 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:07.639 I did too. 156 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:08.360 I didn't mind it. 157 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:09.000 I don't. 158 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:09.240 I don't. 159 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.759 I don't mind wearing a tie. I don't like wearing 160 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.920 a suit. You get overheated really easy. Oh, it's so 161 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:20.360 it's way more than run hot. Well, you hate being uncomfortable. 162 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:24.120 And I don't even think about it. Yeah, like I don't. 163 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:25.480 I don't think about the fact I got a tie 164 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:26.959 around my neck. I don't think about the fact that 165 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.680 I got an extra jacket on around wearing a past 166 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:32.480 None of that stuff bothers me. So, but I do 167 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.120 like the accessories. Yeah, I like a nice pair of 168 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:35.759 cuff lengths. 169 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:39.439 When I come home from work, I am almost always 170 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:42.079 immediately jump into pajamas. 171 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:45.240 Yeah, yeah, you told me that. You told me that before. 172 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.360 Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's it's I want to 173 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:49.680 get comfortable if I'm not doing something where I know 174 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:51.199 I have to go back out or go in the 175 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:52.439 back porch or go in the backyard. 176 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:53.920 Comfort high value. 177 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:57.360 Why would you not be comfortable? Why why would you not? 178 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:59.120 I don't know that I have an awareness that I'm 179 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:00.560 not comfortable what I'm saying. 180 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:03.240 But you're way more comfortable with with with those kinds 181 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.759 of clothes on. So you're like, oh, it's just so comfortable. Yeah, yeah, 182 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:08.240 I love it. 183 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:09.600 Okay, well good. 184 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.800 So I like a nice tie, I like good cuff links, 185 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.680 I like a nice matching watch. Right now, as a 186 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.040 matter of fact, on my list of exorbitantly expensive stupid 187 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.920 things that I want is I want to a mont 188 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:27.920 Blanc logoed cuff links. Well, yeah, there's stupid expensive, right. 189 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.040 I don't need them, right, I can plan a church 190 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.399 for what it would cost me to three hundred fifty 191 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.120 bucks or some dumbthing. But yeah, it's just I like it. 192 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:38.120 I don't have any reason to dress up. Anyways, Jesus 193 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:40.240 says to dress up, Chris, You just do what Jesus 194 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:40.679 says to do. 195 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:42.320 Is that what got us there? 196 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:44.200 Yes, it was like two minutes ago. So it was 197 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:46.399 it was four minutes, I think. But here we are. 198 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.639 In Luke chapter twelve, it says this in verse thirty five. 199 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:53.039 Be dressed for service, and keep your lamps burning as 200 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:55.279 though you were waiting for your master to return from 201 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:57.679 the wedding feast. And then you'll be ready to open 202 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:00.639 the door and let him in the moment he arrives 203 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:02.840 and knocks the servants who are ready and waiting for 204 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:04.879 his return to be rewarded. And I tell you the truth, 205 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:07.840 he himself will seat them, put on an apron, and 206 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:10.240 serve them as they sit and eat. He may come 207 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:12.720 in the middle of the night or just before dawn, 208 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.159 But whenever he comes, he will reward the servants who 209 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:19.440 are ready. Where are we ending? Oh yeah, well keep going. 210 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:22.200 Understand this. If a homeowner knew exactly when a burglar 211 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:23.960 was coming, he would not permit his house to be 212 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.840 broken into. You also must be ready all the time, 213 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.399 for the sun man will come when least expected. Peter 214 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:33.279 asks Lord, is that illustration just for us or for everyone? 215 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.679 Lord replied? A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom 216 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.080 the master can give the responsibility of managing his other 217 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:43.799 household servants and feeding them. If the master returns and 218 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:45.320 finds that the servant has done a good job, there 219 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:46.840 will be a reward. And I tell you the truth, 220 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:48.639 the master will put that servant in charge of all 221 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:53.480 he owns. But what if the servant thinks my master 222 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:55.480 won't be back for a while, and he begins beating 223 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:58.399 the other servants, parting and getting drunk. The Master will 224 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.000 return unannounced and unexpected, and he will cut the servant 225 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.960 in pieces and banish him with the unfaithful and a 226 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.440 servant who knows what the master wants but isn't prepared 227 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:10.320 and doesn't carry out those instructions be severely punished. But 228 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:12.759 someone who does not know and then does something wrong 229 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:16.399 will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, 230 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:19.039 much will be required in return. When someone has been 231 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:26.559 entrusted with much, even more will be required. Woo man, Wow, 232 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:28.399 that's a tough one. 233 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:29.360 You know what I'm not going to do. 234 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:31.799 Start at the end, You start at the end. I 235 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:33.480 knew so you're going back going, what do we talk 236 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:36.960 about at the beginning? Well? What I love that. 237 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:39.159 So if you're just doing him for the first time, 238 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:41.759 I mentioned the fact that normally Zarabad jumps in and 239 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:43.480 talks about the last thing we talked about first. 240 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:46.200 Yeah, well, I mean, but again, this is the striking 241 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:46.879 thing at the end. 242 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:50.720 Rure, sure at the beginning, you know, coming back in 243 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:51.159 any minute. 244 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.720 Yeah, it's not as it's not as uh hot topic, 245 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.440 is it. Right, that's when I started the talk. 246 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:59.120 You know you want to you know, you want to 247 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:00.399 cut in. 248 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.720 Pieces really good gravy. Wow. 249 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:05.519 Yeah. 250 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:07.960 And then he says, he says, at the very end, 251 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:10.960 when someone has been given much, much will be required 252 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.840 in return. When someone has been entrusted with much, even 253 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:19.200 more will be required. So the responsibility factor of God 254 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:25.519 and trusting us comes with a pretty sober warning here, right, 255 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:29.039 And so yeah, it really should sort of give you 256 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:31.600 a fear of God in a pretty good, healthy way. 257 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:34.320 Well, and for me, I read that, and it's inspiring 258 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:36.639 to me because now he sets a bar that I 259 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.039 want to achieve. He says, if I've given you a lot, 260 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.039 I'm going to expect a lot from you. Yeah, And 261 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:43.240 so I feel motivated not to just coast. 262 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:44.080 I want. 263 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.600 I feel like God's given me so many advantages and 264 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.879 so many blessings and so much favor that I feel 265 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:52.960 like it's an inspiration to me to think, Okay, it's 266 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:55.639 not just for me to consume. To whom much is given, 267 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:57.559 much is going to be required. I want to give 268 00:11:57.639 --> 00:11:58.840 him as much as I can back. 269 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.080 And I'm pretty confident that I'm not going to get 270 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:02.799 drunk and beat up servants. 271 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:03.279 Yeah. 272 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.399 Yeah, right, So there's not that really big fear in me. Yeah, 273 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:07.399 So I think I'm good. 274 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:10.759 So I worked for at the time one of the 275 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:15.200 richest men in Michigan back when I was in college. 276 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.080 During I worked the whole summer on one of his estates, 277 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:22.519 and he owned a lot of land. We had a farm, 278 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:25.960 a two hundred and fifty acre cattle breeding operation right 279 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.320 next door to a two hundred and fifty year old 280 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:33.120 historic estate. It was like a twelve thousand square foot 281 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:35.840 log cabin out in the woods that the I think 282 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.200 it was the Anheuser family had built as a hunting 283 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:42.720 and he built it. It's just so is this historically beautiful, 284 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.200 just really great thing. And then he had about two 285 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:53.679 hundred acres of essentially, you know, finally trimmed hedges, and 286 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:59.240 he had a giant, probably twenty acre formal gardens and 287 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:01.919 so we're constantly planting and trimming and doing all these things. 288 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:02.559 It was really great. 289 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:08.399 So it was three college guys and on the estate 290 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:12.279 side the guy there was an adult man. Two adult 291 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:16.799 men that were our boss bosses. And those guys they 292 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:19.879 made good money. They made really good money. They were 293 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.159 horticulturalists by degree. 294 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:23.000 Right. 295 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:27.080 The guy who ran the cattle breeding operation had a PhD. 296 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.120 Right. These guys were geniuses. They were paid very very 297 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:32.000 very very very well. 298 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:38.360 Our boss on the landscaping side was a full on jerk, 299 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:42.320 like just a jerk, but he acted like king of 300 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:47.279 the world. Super nice guy when the owner was around, right, 301 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:51.039 but he would disappear for sometimes days at a time, 302 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:53.759 days at a time where we wouldn't see him. We'd 303 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:55.919 see him when we showed up on the property. He'd 304 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:57.600 give everybody their work for the day and then he'd 305 00:13:57.600 --> 00:13:59.919 be gone all day. Well, then we found out he 306 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:01.919 we would just go into town, hang out at the 307 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.240 at the diner, he'd go to his girlfriend's house, this 308 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:09.279 crazy stuff. So and then we found out. He had 309 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:12.559 built a like a place, like a place for taking 310 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:14.440 naps and all this kind of stuff. He had alarm 311 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:16.879 clocked the whole nine yards up in a loft in 312 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:18.000 the one. 313 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:20.159 Of the big barns. We couldn't find him. 314 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:21.919 Finally we stumbling, we find him, like, dude, you know 315 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:25.480 you're gonna get in trouble for that whatever. So the boss, 316 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:28.879 the owner had a helicopter, and you sometimes, you know, 317 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:31.679 he wouldn't tell us he was coming, obviously coming in 318 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:34.360 land like this. He came in and immediately he asked 319 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:36.720 for that guy. Well, we had all just seen him. 320 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:39.840 He had empty bottles all around him up in the 321 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:42.279 up in this loft where he was taking that and 322 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.759 he was sound asleep when the owner come in and 323 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:48.639 fired him on the spot, told him off whole thing, 324 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:50.480 and that one of the young guys, one of the 325 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.600 teenage It wasn't teenage guy, college guy. He is a 326 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:54.240 couple of years older than me. He'd worked there for 327 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:57.720 several summers. The owner immediately turned to him and said, okay, 328 00:14:57.720 --> 00:14:59.000 you're in charge for the rest of the summer and 329 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:01.480 put this colleg this guy in charge. Gave him a 330 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:04.120 huge pay raise and fired this guy who was making 331 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:07.480 a small fortune to just manage a rich man's estate. 332 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:10.559 It wasn't a hard job, right, he had all the help, 333 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:12.720 all these things, but he's just sitting around drinking and 334 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:17.799 drink himself to sleep. And so I actually saw this happen. 335 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.320 He didn't cut me to pieces, but that would have 336 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:25.519 been kind of cool. Kicked him off the property, and 337 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:29.000 this guy lost a cake job over the fact that 338 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:30.759 he just didn't believe that the owner was going to 339 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.240 show up. It just happened suddenly. 340 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:36.480 Well, and what a dramatic entrance to at a helicopter. 341 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:37.879 Oh he come in every time, every time he come 342 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:38.679 in on a helicopter. 343 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:43.720 Yeah, yeah, wow, that's that's crazy. So this is very 344 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:47.200 similar to what we read what two days. 345 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:48.879 Ago, yeah, a few days ago, when he was saying, hey, 346 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:53.159 you got to be ready. So I think there's a 347 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:56.799 verse here. It says the kingdom seekers prepare themselves to 348 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:01.639 offer whatever service God requires. They keep their lamps lit, 349 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:05.919 ready to welcome him without delay. Jesus repeatedly said that 350 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.480 he would leave this world but would return at some 351 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:11.519 future time. He also said that a kingdom was being 352 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.840 prepared for his followers, and so a lot of Greeks 353 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:19.440 envisioned this as a celestial, idealized spiritual kingdom. Jews like 354 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.440 Isaiah and John the writer of Revelation, understood that it 355 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:26.840 would be a restored earthly kingdom. So it's kind of both. Right, 356 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:29.519 he's talking about Jesus is going to come back. He's 357 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.440 going to set up his kingdom here on earth. We 358 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.159 have to be physically ready, and then there's the spiritual 359 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.679 side of it, that we have to be ready spiritually 360 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.679 for him because of eternity, and both of those things 361 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:44.519 are true simultaneously. And then what happens is the Master 362 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.799 shows up and he's going to reward faithful servants, ready servants. 363 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.840 And so I think we have this sleeping giant of 364 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:56.639 the church. Most Christians go to church, do their church thing, 365 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:58.759 and then just live the rest of their lives, not 366 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:02.159 really paying attention the fact that Jesus is coming back 367 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:05.039 at any minute, and to whom much has been given, 368 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.400 much will be required, and he wants to see that 369 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:09.640 we have that we have a good return for the 370 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:10.759 investment he's given us. 371 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:12.839 Let me ask you this question, have you ever done 372 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.480 something and while you're doing it, like, for instance, I 373 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:17.319 give you an example, maybe this will help you understand 374 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:20.839 it better. I took my family to Disney, where all 375 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.680 five of us went down to Disney, and the kids 376 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:24.960 were a little you know, they were little. It was 377 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:26.799 like two thousand and seven, so it's quite a while ago. 378 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:29.559 And I remember while I was there, I thought to myself, 379 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:33.680 we'll come back and do this again, all five of us. 380 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:38.359 And from that time until this time, we've never done it. Now, 381 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:41.920 so here's my question. Have you ever thought to yourself, Oh, 382 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.839 next time we're back, Yeah, well, next time we're back, 383 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.880 we'll come back. When I was in India, I remember 384 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.720 looking at the leader and I said, hey, I'll be back. 385 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.000 And I've never been back. Yeah, and I went in 386 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:53.680 two thousand and nine. 387 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:54.880 Yeah, I've done it many times. 388 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:57.920 Right where it's like, somehow in the moment, you think 389 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:02.200 either A, I have more time, or be I'll come 390 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.000 back and I'm gonna I'm gonna return, I'm gonna do 391 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:08.720 this again. But you don't. But you don't, right, And 392 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.440 I just think to myself, it's this idea of like 393 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:17.359 being ready, It's this idea of urgency. Right. So you 394 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:20.240 always hear in movies because I'm a movie guy, obviously. 395 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:22.039 So when you hear movies where it says, man, if 396 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:23.720 I'd have known that was the last time I was 397 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.079 going to talk to him, I'd have said this, you know, 398 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:28.160 if I had just known this, if I'd have just 399 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.480 known that, you know, I think in our lives we 400 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:37.240 probably go through life not realizing the importance of a 401 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:40.160