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 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:12.800 Good morning, everybody. 5 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:14.640 I just want to announce that Jeff had a bad 6 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:16.000 traffic experience getting here. 7 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:20.239 No, it was a NonStop bad It wasn't a bad experience. 8 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:22.199 It was forty four minutes of bad experience. 9 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:24.800 So my question is, maybe you're listening to the Bible 10 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:26.320 Guys on your way to work, and maybe you're in 11 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:27.079 traffic right now. 12 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:28.879 Yeah, so we're hoping we're bringing you good news. 13 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:31.879 That's right, right, Yeah, so just shake it off, that's right, 14 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:33.640 shake it off, shake it off. 15 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:36.079 Yeah, that was not what I was thinking. I was 16 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:38.320 not thinking. Yeah, Taylor Swift. 17 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:41.200 Oh well, at least you get the reference. That's good. 18 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:44.399 Hey, welcome everybody to the Bible Guys. I'm Chris, this 19 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.039 is Jeff, and we are starting our day with a segment. 20 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:50.679 You know, the segment's called I. 21 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:51.880 Just now Opened up. 22 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:53.840 Bags. 23 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:59.359 Yeah. So that's our only segment that has its own 24 00:00:59.359 --> 00:00:59.799 theme something. 25 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:03.759 Yes it does, and we stole it from Blues. 26 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:17.000 Super sophisticated. Again, we don't know why you people, isn't. 27 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:17.599 All right? This is Sandra M. 28 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:21.480 And Sandra M asked the question and she says, did 29 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.280 you have any nicknames growing up? 30 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:25.239 And if you did, what was your favorite one? 31 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:26.040 Wow? 32 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:28.640 Now your nickname was my favorite one growing up. You 33 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:31.480 already told this before, but not, I don't think on 34 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:32.640 the podcast, I had a. 35 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:34.319 Bunch of nicknames. What nickname did I tell you? 36 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:36.560 Oh? The goofiest one that was so good? 37 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:38.719 Come on forse fire. 38 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:44.640 Nope, no Booper, but Booper Yeah that's it. Yeah, Booper. Yeah, 39 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:45.439 that's hilarious. 40 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:46.840 That's great, that one. 41 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:47.799 Yes, that's great. 42 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:49.959 Yeah, that was my mom. That's my mom. Call me? Okay, 43 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:51.599 nobody just loved to call me then, So how do 44 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:54.120 you spell that? I have no idea what is it? 45 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.519 I don't think Booper Booper Booper? 46 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:01.599 Yeah, I don't know. I don't know where it came from, 47 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:03.159 but it's my whole life. 48 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:04.719 Oh did you say forest fire? 49 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:05.040 Yeah? 50 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:05.879 I guess that makes sense. 51 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.719 Yeah, the kids call me fort and then what else? 52 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:09.479 Anything else? 53 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:10.759 Sir? 54 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:17.080 A lot of guys called me sir, MVP. 55 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:23.080 Yeah, I don't know those pretty much it. Yeah, well, 56 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:24.599 I did a lot of fighting when I was a kid, 57 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:26.680 so people didn't call me many things. 58 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.199 Right, right, that's funny. 59 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.439 I had older brother maybe just once, but it didn't 60 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:33.479 catch up, right, I had. 61 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:35.879 Older brothers with the reputation, so nobody called me anything either. 62 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:41.360 But because my family used to call me Chrissy, oh yeah, 63 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:43.520 because it was chuck you down, he told me Jimmy yeah, 64 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:45.280 and so I had no choice. 65 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:48.240 So that was my mom still, I tell you, I 66 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:49.439 think I made reference to this. 67 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:51.759 It was like not even like maybe ten years ago, 68 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.439 and my mom referenced on Facebook and she said Chrissy 69 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:57.400 and I called her up and I said, Mom. 70 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:00.840 You can't do that. You can't do my mom in 71 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:02.840 front of my five thousand friends. 72 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:06.719 And then but you know, I think my favorite nickname 73 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.599 I didn't have too many nicknames, uh, but my favorite 74 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.319 nickname that I did have was my dad. 75 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:15.520 Called me fur. Christopher. 76 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:16.960 Oh Christopher, call you fur? 77 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:17.319 Yeah? 78 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.199 And he would and he would walk in a lot 79 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.879 of times and he would say, and I'd be sad. 80 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:24.919 When I was sad, he'd come in. He'd sit down 81 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:28.280 next to me and he'd say Christopher. And then I 82 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:30.960 had this thing where I said, what a fur and 83 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:31.879 he'd say, what's. 84 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:36.759 Your frown in for? So anyway, that was that was 85 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:37.520 sort of something. 86 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:40.680 So my mom called me Booker, which was a sign 87 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:41.840 of affection. 88 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:42.759 Uh huh. 89 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:45.400 My dad called me jughead because he spent most of 90 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:46.520 his time frustrated with me. 91 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:48.719 Okay, jug head head. 92 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:50.360 He still calls me jug head. My dad's eighty six 93 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:52.240 years old. I'm fifty three and he calls me jug head. 94 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:53.039 That's great. 95 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:59.120 Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure I have any nicknames besides that. Oh, 96 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:01.400 my last name, I was thinking of Chris. Growing up 97 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:03.759 in college, I had Uh. 98 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:06.639 I was only known as Dago, which is right, Yes, 99 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.800 I forgot about you, which is a slur for Italian. 100 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:11.599 Uh and uh. 101 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.759 Anyway, but my my my buddy Jeff and Norm, my 102 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:16.000 buddy's Jeff, Norm started it. 103 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:18.879 When I first got there, nobody knew my name. So 104 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:20.279 years later, ten years. 105 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:22.279 Later, I was invited back to be the keynote speaker 106 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:24.160 at Baptist Baba College during fellowship week. 107 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:26.600 No, it was during alumni days. 108 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:29.399 So you were known by a slur, a racial slur. 109 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.439 Oh yeah, In fact, Kenny Gilming. Uh. They said, hey, 110 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.199 the keynote speaker is Chris Sarba, And he said Chris Sarbaugh. 111 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:37.199 He goes, I don't know a Chris. 112 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.399 He said, I remember a gym's arba he and I 113 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:43.680 remember a Diego' zar ba and uh so everybody just 114 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:47.160 they only knew me as Dago and nobody nobody knew 115 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:47.800 my first name. 116 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:49.240 Nobody, nobody knew it. 117 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:51.160 You could have gotten away with so much stuff. 118 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:54.680 Well, imagine imagine going through four years of your life 119 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.519 and every person that you interact with at college referred 120 00:04:58.519 --> 00:04:59.759 to you as your nickname. 121 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.000 There you go, good job, that was me. That's fantastic. 122 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:03.759 And then and then when I got to my Uh, 123 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:04.519 I don't think it's. 124 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.600 Great that they called you a racial slur, but yeah, 125 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:07.560 they fantastic that. 126 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.680 You got back back in the ages of college, nobody cared. 127 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:15.000 Because all the college shows movies always have those guys 128 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:16.560 that have the nicknames. 129 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:17.319 Oh yeah yeah. 130 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.120 And then and then when I got Atlanta, right right 131 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:23.759 when I got to Atlanta, I I made sure that 132 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:25.439 name went away because I was tired of it. And 133 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.920 I said, I want to be called Chris again. So 134 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:30.120 like it's a wonderful life. 135 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:31.439 I just want to go back you. 136 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:36.560 Clarence helped me, well, well, Chrissy, we are so glad 137 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:41.800 that you're with us, Okay, and uh yeah, well, hey, 138 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:44.879 that was kind of fun. Thank you Sandra for digging 139 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:46.680 up all that trauma from our childhood. 140 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:56.480 Right and then orbs z Man Oh yeah, yeah, well 141 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:58.839 yeah with the Z, I figured you'd have tons of 142 00:05:58.879 --> 00:05:59.800 like Z type name. 143 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.079 I spoke at a retreat one time and they stood 144 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.519 up there, they introduced me, and they all brainstormed on 145 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:07.879 these ridiculous names, and they came. 146 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:09.720 Up with like ten names per session. 147 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:10.720 Oh wow, and I. 148 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.120 Remember it was ridiculous. And one of my favorites was 149 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:18.560 they said Zarbie's roast beef sandwiches, and then one of 150 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.360 them was he said, he goes, it's not your ball, 151 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:22.399 it's zar ball. 152 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:27.399 That's awesome. 153 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:28.240 Yeah, it was funny. 154 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:33.000 Okay, Well, we are in Psalm chapter thirty three today, 155 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:37.399 so if you survived those last few minutes, we are 156 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:40.800 in Psalm thirty three, which is one of my favorite psalms. 157 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.240 To be honest with you, from a worship perspective and 158 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:49.480 from an understanding of David's view of God is pretty fantastic. 159 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:54.279 So because God's creator, He's worthy of all of our 160 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:56.639 trust and praise is kind of the note here. So 161 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.240 I'll just read the whole chapter. Psalm chapter thirty three says, 162 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:02.680 let the godly sing for joy to the Lord. It's 163 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.560 fitting for the peer to praise him. Praise the Lord 164 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:08.839 with melodies on the lear. Make music for him on 165 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:12.000 the ten stringed harp, sing a new song of praise 166 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.800 to him. Play skillfully on the harp, and sing with joy. 167 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:17.240 For the word of the Lord holds true, and we 168 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.879 can trust everything he does. He loves whatever is just 169 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:23.639 and good. The unfailing of the Lord fills the earth. 170 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.399 The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He 171 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.160 breathed the word, and all the stars were born. He 172 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.000 assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in 173 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:36.399 its vast reservoirs. Let the whole world fear the Lord, 174 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:38.319 and let everyone stand in awe of him. For when 175 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:41.399 he spoke, the world began. It appeared at his command. 176 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:44.759 The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations and thwarts 177 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:48.000 all their schemes. But the Lord's plans stand firm forever. 178 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:51.279 His intentions can never be shaken. What joy for the 179 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.720 nation whose God is the Lord, whose people he has 180 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:56.879 chosen as his inheritance. The Lord looks down from heaven 181 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:59.759 and sees the whole human race. From this from his 182 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:02.120 head thrown, he observes all who live on the earth. 183 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:04.879 He made their hearts, so he understands everything they do. 184 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.959 The best equept army cannot save a king, nor is 185 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.680 great strength enough to save a warrior. Don't count on 186 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.839 your war horse to give you victory. For all its strength, 187 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.600 it cannot save you. But the Lord watches over those 188 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:20.519 who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing love, 189 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.199 and he rescues them from death and keeps them alive 190 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:26.120 in times of famine. We put our hope in the Lord. 191 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:28.360 He is our help and our shield. In him. 192 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:30.600 Our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. 193 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:34.200 Let your unfailing love surround us. Lord, for our hope 194 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:35.240 is in you alone. 195 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:39.320 Well, there you go, there you go. You stole it 196 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:39.639 from me. 197 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.080 I did all right, I did well. 198 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.240 The first thing I want to say is Verse number 199 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:49.440 nineteen is not a ironclad guarantee that all believers will 200 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:51.240 be delivered from death and starvation. 201 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:53.279 Right he rescues those. 202 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:56.320 He rescues them from death and keeps them alive alive 203 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:00.240 in times of famine. It is a proclamation that God 204 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:04.200 works miracles, and only God can do such things, because 205 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:07.600 it would be the exact same thing where if, for instance, 206 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.399 you and I saw God kill somebody for cancer from cancer, 207 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:13.679 and let's just say it was a miracle, we would 208 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.840 say He's the only God that can heal you miraculously 209 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.480 from cancer in the way that we saw, you know, 210 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:22.720 And it doesn't mean that he heals everybody from cancer. 211 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.120 It just means that, Wow, that is the God who 212 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.519 does great things. Just in the same way when it 213 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:30.960 says he is the God who parts the Red Sea, 214 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.159 he doesn't part the Red Sea for everyone, right, He 215 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:36.919 hasn't part the Red Sea constantly. He is the God 216 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:41.679 who has the power and has demonstrated his awesome ability 217 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.000 to part the Red Sea in this miracle. You know, 218 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.799 it's an encouragement to know that God is able to 219 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.440 do miracles at any time. And so we just need 220 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:56.320 to never give up hope. We need to pray, and 221 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:00.519 we need to be faithful and believe that God can 222 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:04.679 and will, you know, uh do great things when we 223 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:07.759 just continue to pray and just be faithful. Did I 224 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.639 tell you about this guy that I went and prayed 225 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:12.240 for in the burn unit. 226 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:14.960 Yes, you told me, But I don't think you talked 227 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:15.600 about it on here. 228 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.879 So there's a guy that works with my son, Matt, 229 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:23.240 and he had an accident at work, you know, electricly. 230 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.799 My son's studying to be an electrician, and so this 231 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:29.159 guy had a little bit of an explosion. It was 232 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:32.919 actually quite a big explosion, and he was thinking about 233 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.440 they were thinking about giving him skin grafts, and he 234 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.519 had burned his arms and they were bandaged from his 235 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:41.120 fingertips all the way up to maybe his you know, biceps. 236 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:43.120 And he's laying in the burn unit and. 237 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.720 Anyway, you know, people, can you imagine being in there, 238 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.679 You know, you'd be scared. You'd be scared about your future, 239 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:54.000 whether or not your nerve endings would ever work again, 240 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:54.600 whether or not you. 241 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:55.960 Can continue in the trade. 242 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:57.919 Not to mention all the time off of work and 243 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.679 the you know, providing for the family and all these things. 244 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:02.679 And so he's laying there in the burn unit, you know, 245 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:04.360 and thinking like, I don't know how long I'm going 246 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:06.519 to be there, and all these kinds of things. So 247 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.279 we went there and and so I prayed over him 248 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:12.639 and prayed a very strong prayer, and it was a 249 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:15.080 great time together. And he and his wife were there 250 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.240 and so I left and and the all of a sudden, 251 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.440 we hear, uh, he's doing great. And the text, you know, 252 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.759 and now listen, this is take it for what it's worth. 253 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:27.879 This comment right, so that but this, this is the 254 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:30.679 text that came in. The text came in and she 255 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.440 said to my wife. She texted my wife and she said, 256 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:37.720 when your Chris came down and prayed over my mat 257 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:40.480 she said, all of a sudden, everything took a onet 258 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:44.279 eighty and he just got better and the doctors are amazed, 259 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.000 and all of a sudden, the next text is I 260 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.559 can't believe it, but they said, no skin grass, And 261 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:51.000 all of a sudden, the next text came in and 262 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:51.559 they said. 263 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.840 He's going home. He's doing so good. He's going home. 264 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.360 And we're like, what. All of a sudden, the next 265 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:58.720 text came in. There's a picture he's approved of driving. 266 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:02.519 His fingers now move, I'm like, and it's like what, So, 267 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:04.399 all of a sudden, he's you know, now he's back 268 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:07.200 at home, and uh and this is going on currently 269 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:07.759 right now. 270 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:10.799 And last week, yeah, this is like last week. 271 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:15.120 And uh so anyway, again, you know, she says, she says, 272 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:17.559 when your Chris comes right, you know. That's that's the 273 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:19.600 funny part. Hey, maybe I should go pray over people. 274 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:24.000 More off, but that walk the hallways of the hospital. 275 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:26.840 Right, But that's not that's not the emphasis of the story. 276 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:30.000 The emphasis of the story is, uh, you know, I 277 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.320 actually prayed, and I said, I pray that there might 278 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.799 be such a miraculous healing that the doctors would be amazed, 279 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:38.000 and that we would have no choice but to give 280 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.440 you all the honor and the credit and the glory. 281 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:41.960 And uh. 282 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:45.600 And I think that's exactly what's happening right now. I 283 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:47.559 think that's what the doctor said. I think that that's 284 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:50.320 what they attributed to. Well, hey, it's a power prayer, 285 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.639 that's what they said. They said, we get prayed over. 286 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.320 This is it. And I'm telling you, it's just. 287 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.000 A great experience to see when everybody is amazed. 288 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:00.799 Right. 289 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.519 So that would be equivalent to Psalm thirty three. I 290 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.000 could say, God, you are the God who heals. 291 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:09.000 Yeah, in the midst of the burn unit, right, yeah. 292 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:10.960 Yeah, he spoke and everything changed. 293 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:11.399 That's right. 294 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:14.159 That's that's that's what he's singing. Here is the power 295 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:16.519 of God. I think that one of the great ones 296 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:19.759 for a king to be writing in these days for 297 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:24.000 him to say, we're not trusting in our best equipped army. 298 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.919 I'm not trusting in my war horses, right, they can't 299 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:29.080 save me, which is. 300 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:30.879 A symbol of strength, earthly strength. 301 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.200 Right. Well, he's talking there, I'm not trusting in my 302 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:36.759 nukes right right, I'm not trusting in my in my 303 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.320 abrams tanks. I'm not trusting in my F thirty five 304 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:42.559 fighter jets or my BE three bombers. He said, I'm 305 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.039 there is no hope for me if I'm only relying 306 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:48.399 on the on the very best that men can come 307 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.679 up with. Right, And so he's saying, you know, the 308 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:52.960 Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely 309 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:55.720 on his unfailing love, and he's the one who rescues 310 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:58.480 us from death and keeps us alive in times of famine. 311 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:00.440 So we put our hope in the Lord. He's our 312 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:01.320 help and our shield. 313 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:06.440 And also I cannot put my hope and money right right, 314 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:07.759 there's strength and wealth, isn't there? 315 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:08.639 Yeah? Yeah, yeah. 316 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:11.240 So you were a worship leader. 317 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.440 You studied, you studied a lot of this right when 318 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:18.000 you were in college, you you really broke down like 319 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.120 the intricacies of worship which we touched on a little 320 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:20.720 bit last week. 321 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.240 Yeah, well, these first five verses are really significant right 322 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:27.120 with regard to worship. So he's making a big deal 323 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.799 about let the godly sing for joy to the Lord. 324 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.120 You know you and I have talked you in your past. 325 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:36.919 You some of the ministries you worked in, or a 326 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:42.519 ministry significant ministry worked in, elevated all of the things 327 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:45.600 necessary to capture people's attention, which is really important to 328 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.080 me too. I think that's super important. But sometimes on 329 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:53.279 occasion would minimize worship, corporate worship right right in the strength. 330 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:56.360 So then when you came to Heritage and you began 331 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.679 leading our arts team and our worship team and our 332 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.639 our teaching team, everything that's happened on stage early on, 333 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:05.840 I talked about the idea that I think that worship 334 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.440 is one of the great witnesses to people who don't 335 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:12.039 yet know Jesus. Right, So I don't believe that lost 336 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:16.279 people can worship, but they can witness godly people worshiping 337 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:17.919 and realize, man, there's something missing. 338 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.879 This was just on the testimony video. Do you remember 339 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:22.200 the testimony video on Sunday? 340 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:23.080 Oh you didn't see. 341 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:25.200 It didn't get out? Yeah, we had a difference. 342 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:28.559 She attributed her coming back to heritage as a person 343 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:29.960 who doesn't know Christ. 344 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:31.080 To a worship song. 345 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:32.159 Yeah, she said. 346 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:34.440 She came in, sat down, looked up, and they were 347 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:36.240 singing a certain song. 348 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:38.960 She knew the song, she knew the date, and she said, 349 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:40.639 and I knew right there, I had to come back. 350 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:45.000 I'm telling you lost people cannot worship, but when they 351 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:48.840 see godly people worship, they realize those people have something 352 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:49.320 I don't have. 353 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:49.799 Yeah. 354 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:53.080 Right, it's one of the few things that we truly have. 355 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:57.639 If you're truly a godly person and you're truly worshiping God, 356 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:00.279 you have something that the rest of the world does 357 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:02.279 not have and they can barely fathom. 358 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:03.879 We should do a series own worship. 359 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:06.720 Yeah, we really should. Yeah. And so here it says, 360 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:09.600 let the godly sing for joy to the Lord, and 361 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:12.200 then it's fitting for the peer to praise him. Now, 362 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:14.919 you and I, in and of ourselves are not godly people, 363 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:17.600 and neither any of our listeners. Hate to break it 364 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.799 to him today, right, and none of us are in 365 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:21.960 and of ourselves pure. 366 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.159 Right, we're talking about the depravity of man. 367 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.559 Right, right, that's right, we are. We are sinners. And 368 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.159 so we don't deserve to stand before a holy God. 369 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:33.720 But because of Jesus, because of God's grace, only God's grace, 370 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.240 he makes it possible for us to be godly in 371 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.120 Christ and for us to be pure in and through Christ. 372 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:43.639 And so what he's saying here to you know, we're 373 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:46.240 New Testament Christians, and as New Testament Christians, what he's 374 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:49.000 saying to us is, because of Jesus, you can stand 375 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:52.440 and you can sing for joy, and you can praise him. 376 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.039 And then he goes on. He says, hey, praise him 377 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.120 on the leer, which is like a little guitar, right, 378 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.039 Praise him on the harp, which is going to be 379 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:03.600 string tarp. That's gonna be the other guitar, you know, 380 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:06.759 in our situation, sing a new song of praise to him, 381 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.839 play skillfully. So you know, as a musician, I've always 382 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:14.359 worked hard to get better and better musicians, and to 383 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:16.640 work harder and harder at getting better and better at 384 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:19.839 our craft and all those kinds of things. And here's why, 385 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:22.680 it's not just that you have a desire to be 386 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:26.480 in the band. You should probably be pretty good at it, right, 387 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:28.400 and you should be getting better. You should be better 388 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:30.720 tomorrow than you wore three weeks ago. You should be better, 389 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:32.759 you know, next month than you were ten months ago. 390 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:36.880 You should be constantly improving. So play skillfully and sing 391 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:41.799 with joy. Other translations say play skillfully with a loud noise. Right, 392 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.279 So God's like, get after it. Don't just play at 393 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:48.559 this thing, get after it. And then he talks about 394 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:50.400 then it's the word of the Lord that holds true. 395 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:53.599 It's not our opinions about God. It's God and his 396 00:17:53.720 --> 00:18:00.519 word that hold true. When Paul gives the gospel and 397 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.359 in Corinthians, he said, he talks about the reserve, you know, 398 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:06.839 the price that Christ paid on the cross and his 399 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:10.599 resurrection according to the scriptures. That is what he said. 400 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:13.720 So we don't just invent our own fantasies and our 401 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:18.200