WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.400 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.000 practical ways. So Jeff I was approached last Sunday. You 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.440 know the Roland currently says a couple of guys, a 5 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:19.760 couple of friends talk about the Bible and fun and 6 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:20.679 practical ways. 7 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:21.320 That's correct. 8 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:26.160 And he said that he thought for several episodes apparently 9 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.800 that it was impractical ways. 10 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:29.679 Fun impractical ways. 11 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:37.399 Yes, yeah, well it's probably more accurate fun comma impractical ways. 12 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:39.079 That's great. 13 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:42.840 They talk about the Bible and fun and practical ways. 14 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:45.320 It is a little presumptuous for us to say that 15 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.079 everything we say is practical. 16 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:47.799 That's true. 17 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:51.640 That's true, So fun impractical ways. And he keeps listening. 18 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:56.039 He funny figured out. He's like, oh, it's it's and 19 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:57.119 practical way. 20 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:00.280 Yes, we should reshoot that Roland to have a us 21 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:02.359 fun and practical ways. 22 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:07.480 Right, and also things that are practical ways of practice. 23 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.040 So whichever way works for you, that's the way we're 24 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:11.319 doing it. 25 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:12.840 How much correct? That's correct. 26 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.879 So today we're going to open up with Friday. This 27 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:19.680 is so incredibly important, right. We hope that you had 28 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:24.840 an amazing week last week, yes, and this week also. Right, 29 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:28.799 it's kind of been a staycation for you. This is yes, 30 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:32.359 all right, we drug you out of your staycation into 31 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:36.680 the studio today. Yes, for our listeners. Right. The sacrifices 32 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:40.400 you make for our listeners are incredible, boundless. Now I've 33 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.159 found staycations are mostly work caations. Yes, is that what 34 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:44.439 it is? 35 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:45.359 That's exactly what I'm doing. 36 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:47.599 Yeah. I always tell me I don't want to do staycations. 37 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:50.719 I want cation, want I want a vacation, and I 38 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:53.920 want to stay cation because staycations are work cations. 39 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:54.599 Yeah. 40 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:58.280 I've actually worked harder in the last three days than i've. 41 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:01.560 Physically than I have in like months and months and months. 42 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:06.400 Yeah. So if you're watching on YouTube right now or 43 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:09.400 one of the other platforms, and you see how haggard 44 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:11.800 and worn out Chris looks, he's not dying, he's not sick, 45 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:13.919 he's just been doing chores all week. 46 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:14.240 That's right? 47 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:14.759 Is that it? 48 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:16.840 In fact, I look sort of tan in my face 49 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:18.319 and in my arms, But look at. 50 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:21.000 This, you got that farmer look. 51 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:24.919 It's not even it's that's what I have too. 52 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:30.319 Yeah, it's crazy. Well that's great. Well, nothing says, welcome back, 53 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:34.520 like jumping into our favorite segment, right, and so nothing, 54 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:36.879 So what made you mad this week? 55 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:37.360 Well? 56 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:38.319 I have one, Jeff. 57 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.680 Really, that's incredible. 58 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:42.840 There are sometimes go ahead and pause. 59 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:44.439 And think about it for a second. You know you're 60 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:44.879 already ready. 61 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:47.599 There are sometimes I do have to think. But I 62 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:53.039 was so mad yesterday. So but I'm mad for the world, 63 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:55.560 jes okay, not for me, not for you. 64 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:56.879 So what ends up happening is. 65 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:01.759 My wife and I just had our thirty second wedding 66 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:02.840 anniversary yesterday. 67 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:06.439 Wow, congratulations thirty two years and thirty two years. 68 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.800 So what's the same to you, Liz, Yeah, that's right. 69 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:13.520 So I had to run because we were having company. 70 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.280 We had company over and so I only had a 71 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:18.639 limited amount of time. So I run into the florist 72 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:21.439 and I have this thing. It's not been every year, 73 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:25.000 but I try on our anniversary to buy the number 74 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:26.919 of roses that were married. 75 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.000 So it started off just as one rose. 76 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:29.719 That was easy. 77 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:31.719 Year one was easy, right, and you never expected to 78 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.039 make it as far so three right? 79 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:35.919 Right? So now the bill is quite high. 80 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:38.159 Right, So I go into a place and I say, hey, 81 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.000 give me thirty two roses. 82 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:42.639 Uh, you know, fully made up an arrangement. 83 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.599 Well she's like, well that's two hundred dollars right. I'm like, well, 84 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:47.039 you know it is what it is. This is an 85 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:49.680 anniversary tradition that I've been doing for a very long time. 86 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:52.000 And again I've missed a couple of years for sure. 87 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:54.759 But anyway, so I want to get these thirty two 88 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.439 red roses. Well, this time, I don't have time for 89 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.719 her to wait to make it. So I called her 90 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:01.199 on the oh and I said, hey, if I would 91 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:02.680 have you make this arrangement, how much would it be? 92 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:05.280 She said two hundred dollars and I was like, I 93 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:06.639 don't know if I had the time. Well, then our 94 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:08.639 guests were late, so I decided to run over there 95 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:10.199 and I said, you know what, I'll just grab them, like, 96 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:12.080 I'll just have them wrap them up. I'll come home 97 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:14.319 and I'll make the arrangement, right, So just just wrap 98 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.720 them up for me. So I went into the place 99 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:20.120 and I said, hey, just just wrap up these roses, 100 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.199 grab me that vase over there and throw some baby's 101 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:24.360 breath and wrap those up. 102 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:26.120 And how much will it be? So she adds up 103 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:26.920 on a calculator and. 104 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:32.240 She goes one hundred and ninety eight fifty five, and 105 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:33.959 I said, wait a minute. If I would have called 106 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.399 and waiting forty five minutes, you would have done the arrangement. 107 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:39.680 You'd have only gotten paid two dollars of labor. Like, 108 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.959 are you like I'm doing the I'm doing the arrangement myself. 109 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.199 I'm coming home and I'm cutting all of them. I'm 110 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:48.040 putting them all together. I was like, and it's gonna 111 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:50.319 be one hundred ninety dollars and she's like, I don't 112 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:51.720 have to tell you, it's just the price. 113 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:53.759 And I was like wow. But then I started to think, 114 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:55.560 well maybe they were giving me a deal on making 115 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.160 the arrangement. So I'm like, no big deal. 116 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:00.439 So I go to pay and she goes, okay, it's 117 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.399 going to ask you a series of questions, okay. 118 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:05.839 To leave a tip, and literally. 119 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:10.000 Instinctively I hit the ten percent button because there's ten fifteen, 120 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.480 twenty twenty five, you know, it's ten percent of two 121 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:17.439 hundred dollars, this twenty bucks, And I hit the button 122 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:20.079 and there's no way to go back. So now I 123 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.120 have this uncomfortable because I instinctively hit it real quick, 124 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:24.319 and I thought I didn't mean to hit that because 125 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:26.279 then it says you're going to add twenty dollars under 126 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:30.279 your right And I'm like, this lady who literally turned 127 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:33.160 around and grabbed something wrapped up and gives it to 128 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:35.839 me a twenty dollars tip. 129 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:36.439 For a florist? 130 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:37.519 Are you super generous? 131 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.279 Are you kidding me? So guess what I do. 132 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:46.360 I'm literally like cancel and I canceled it, and she goes, 133 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:48.720 what are you doing? I'm like, I'm like, uh, I'm 134 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:53.120 forced to say, well, I believe that there are certain 135 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:56.600 jobs that are created for tips and certain jobs that 136 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:01.079 aren't supposed to be tips. Oh right, because this isn't 137 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:04.959 a tip. A tip is like somebody who serves you right, like, 138 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:06.959 you know, like they wait on you right. 139 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:11.319 Like they actually make an arrangement for you. Well, yeah, 140 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.160 this lady, if she made you arrangement, that'd be fine, 141 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:15.879 But she just grabbed the flower stuck on in the box 142 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:17.800 for the same price. 143 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:19.920 I don't know. I don't think I would have tipped 144 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.240 it even if she would have done the arrangement, because 145 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:24.399 it was their job. It's not a tip paying job, 146 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.360 right right? Okay, So anyway, here's here's what makes me mad. 147 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:28.800 You can't blame a person for hustling. 148 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:34.079 Is not become a thing until COVID, Right, yeah, since COVID, 149 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:37.120 people have said, oh, there's a series of questions. 150 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:38.160 I saw a meme. 151 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:40.680 It was like one of these little church memes. You know, 152 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.680 the church and there's a there's a worship leader in 153 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:45.439 the lobby at a church. This is like a little 154 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.560 not a meme, uh, little video whatever. The guys walking 155 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:53.240 around the church lobby and somebody walks out there and says, oh, 156 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:56.519 they're like the worship was so great today. And the 157 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:00.279 guy turns around with his iPhone it has tip, and 158 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:02.680 he goes, oh, that's so great, thank you so much. 159 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:04.600 Here go ahead and answer a series. 160 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:08.680 Of questions like you're going to worship leader. 161 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.920 But that's what makes you mad, the idea that you 162 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:16.319 are somehow socially obligated, and they play on the idea that, like, 163 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.360 you know, people who aren't like me would absolutely hit 164 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:24.279 ten percent a twenty dollars tip to turn around and 165 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.040 hand me a vase. Right, I'm gonna pay you twenty bucks. 166 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:30.839 Wow, no, thanks, Wow. I wonder why the price was 167 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.399 so close. I know, I know, maybe maybe when you 168 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:36.240 buy the flowers they do a free arrangement. 169 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.279 Well maybe maybe, because at first I was mad, and 170 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.600 then I thought the positive side of things, giving them 171 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:43.839 the benefit of that, which is like, hey, maybe the 172 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.439 service just comes with free arrangements, or. 173 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:47.879 She knows that you're under the gun. 174 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:52.639 Maybe, but listen, I wasn't going to bark. I wasn't 175 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.240 going to bark at the price because I know that. 176 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.959 So I just had some friends that celebrated, like their 177 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:00.639 sixty seventh anniversary. Are you going to do that? It's 178 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:02.800 going to cause you like one thousand dollars for flowers? 179 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.399 Well no, Jeff, do the math. Math is math? 180 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.199 Yeah, Well, inflation is inflation. Oh that's true, right, thirty 181 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:11.040 two years ago, where you're spending the kind of money 182 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:12.319 you're spending now per Rose. 183 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:17.040 No, well, well hopefully I'm making you one thousand dollars more. 184 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.800 That's a So congratulations to you. Yeah, right, you're punching 185 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:29.399 way above your weight. Yeah, and my condolences to live. 186 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.679 So your thirty second anniversary is also this this year? Yeah? 187 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:35.840 Is it thirty thirty two or thirty three thirty two? 188 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.360 Is it thirty two to get married sometime? Yeah? 189 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:39.960 Yeah, okay, yes, thirty two. 190 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:41.480 Yeah, and it's coming up with December. 191 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:45.679 December. Yeah, yeah, so and I'm the luckiest guy in 192 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:50.360 the world, So okay, so we should move into Hey, 193 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:52.960 here's another audible. We're calling because we were supposed to 194 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:57.440 move on to Deborah, which is we're going to move 195 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:00.519 to next week. H it's really great. She's the the 196 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.480 first woman judge of Israel, so that's gonna be really cool. 197 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.120 But I didn't want to miss this one. So if 198 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:08.120 all of the judges, the one I used to giggle 199 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.759 the most about when we would read them is this one. 200 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.120 E Hud so Afnil was the first judge. He delivered 201 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.919 the people of Israel. He defeated a king that was 202 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:21.600 such a bad guy and all this kind of stuff, 203 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:23.720 and the people followed him for what was it like 204 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.480 forty years, But then I Hud comes along because the 205 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:30.320 people forget. And it says this in Judges chapter three, 206 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.240 verse twelve. Once again, the Israelites did evil in the 207 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.320 Lord's sight, and the Lord gave King Eglon, a Moab, 208 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:40.279 control over Israel because of their evil. So God took 209 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:44.440 this wicked king and used him to put control over Israel, right, 210 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:49.559 So it's pretty amazing. Egglin enlisted the Ammonites and the 211 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:52.919 Amalekites as allies, and they went out and defeated Israel, 212 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.840 taking possession of Jericho, the city of Poems, and the 213 00:09:55.879 --> 00:10:00.279 Israelites served Eglon of Moab for eighteen years. But when 214 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.600 the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, 215 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:05.000 the Lord again raised up a rescuer to save them. 216 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.440 His name was Ehud, son of Gera, a left handed 217 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.879 man of the tribe of Benjamin. The Israelites sent Ehud 218 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.639 to deliver their tribute money to King Eglon of Moab. 219 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:17.399 So Ehud made a double edged dagger that was about 220 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:20.039 a foot long, and he strapped it to his right thigh, 221 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:23.279 keeping it hidden under his clothing. He brought the tribute 222 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:27.240 money to Eglon, who was very fat. After delivering the payment, 223 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.519 Ehud started home with those who had helped carry the tribute. 224 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.080 But when he had reached the stone Idols near Gilgal, 225 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:35.399 he turned back and he came to Eglon and said, 226 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.559 I have a secret message for you. So the king 227 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:40.360 commanded his servants be quiet, and he sent them all 228 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:42.960 out of the room. Ehud walked over to Eglon, who 229 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:46.159 was sitting alone in a cool upstairs room, and Ihud said, 230 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.720 I have a message from God for you. As King 231 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:51.600 Eglon rose from his seat, Ehud reached with his left hand, 232 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.120 pulled out the dagger strapped to his right thigh, and 233 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:56.759 plunged it into the king's belly. The dagger went so 234 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.399 deep that the handle disappeared beneath the king's fat, so 235 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:02.559 Ehud did not pull out the dagger, and the king's 236 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.639 bowels emptied. Then Ehud closed and locked the doors of 237 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.919 the room and escaped down the latrine ill yes After 238 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.600 Ehud was gone, the king's servants returned and found the 239 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:16.480 doors to the upstairs room locked. They thought he might 240 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:18.559 be using the latrine in the room, so they waited, 241 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:20.639 but when the king didn't come out after a long delay, 242 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:23.000 they became concerned he got a key. When they opened 243 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:25.440 the doors, they found their master dead on the floor. 244 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:28.679 While the servants were waiting, he had escaped, passing the 245 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.159 stone Idols on his way to Sira. When he arrived 246 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.159 in the hill country of Ephraim, Ehud sounded a call 247 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.120 to arms, and then he led the band of Israelites 248 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.240 down from the hills. Follow me, he said, for the 249 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.879 Lord has given you victory over Moab. Your enemy. So 250 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.039 they followed him, and the Israelites took control of the 251 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:47.320 shallow crossings of the Jordan River across from Moab, preventing 252 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:50.399 anyone from crossing. They attacked the Moabites and killed about 253 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:53.279 ten thousand of their strongest, most able bodied warriors. Not 254 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:56.159 one of them escaped. So Moab was conquered by Israel 255 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.600 that day. There was peace in the land for eighty years. 256 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:02.480 Eighty years, right, he does, well, then let me read 257 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.919 one more verse, because here's the another one. Shamgar says, 258 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.399 after Ehud Shamgar of an As rescued Israel, he once 259 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:13.639 killed six hundred Philistines with an ox gode the end, 260 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:17.320 the end. Yeah, one verse, good job, Shamgar. 261 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:21.720 Yeah, hey, uh, an ox gode. What's an ox gode? 262 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:24.840 It's it's it's what you're used to. Yeah, it's to 263 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:27.519 prod the cattle to keep going. Yeah, that must have 264 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:28.679 been just a little poker. 265 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:30.200 Well, it must have been one heck. 266 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.879 Of a poker, ye, Silistines. 267 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:36.480 Yeah, I mean you would think that if you were 268 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:41.080 like in the four hundredth you know, regiment of Philistines 269 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:44.799 going against this guy swinging an ox gode, that you 270 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:48.039 would figure out how to you know, overcome the fighting 271 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:49.360 pattern of the ox gode. 272 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:51.080 Yeah, but nope, apparently not. 273 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.840 Yeah, so people could use it like a fighting spear, 274 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:56.120 not a throwing spear, but a fighting spears. How it 275 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:59.279 would have been used. Yeah, So that's that's quite a 276 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:04.840 feat either way, right, Well, which one, Yeah, Well, Shamgar's 277 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:07.840 killing six hundred people with a you know, Philistine soldiers 278 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.960 with an ox code, and so the message there is 279 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.960 and I preached this message that he did what he could, 280 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:18.000 he used what he had where he was right. So 281 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.679 he was out in the field, he had an ox code, 282 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:24.399 and he did what he could. Because the Philistines were raiders, 283 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.320 so they would come in and just plunder villages and 284 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:31.200 take everything. So the Israelites would grow all the food, 285 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.320 and then the Philistines had just waded around to harvest it. 286 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:36.840 Harves In fact, the Philistines would wait around until they'd 287 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.679 taken the wheat and threshed it and turned it into 288 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:42.720 you know, flour, and then they'd come through and just 289 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:45.200 steal everything and they'd kill everybody, burn the villages, and 290 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:46.759 they come back do it again next year, come back 291 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:49.840 to it again next year. So it was perpetual plundering 292 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.639 of all of the work that Israel would do, and 293 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:55.159 so it left the people of Israel starving and hungry 294 00:13:55.639 --> 00:14:00.759 and always, you know, in poverty. And so I just 295 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:01.080 love it. 296 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:03.200 Just described the plot of a bugs life. 297 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:08.440 Yeah, there you go. Yeah, very sophisticated. H I love 298 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:11.840 how you think Chris and his game. Yeah. Yeah, So 299 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:15.200 Shamgar is just out in the field. Philistine's come and 300 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.519 he's like, nope, this is done. I'm going to do 301 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.840 what I can. Yeah, and so he gat where he was, 302 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.039 picked up his ox goaden. 303 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.240 Yeah, Flick the ant built a bird. He didn't he 304 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:27.000 didn't take an ox. 305 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.399 Good. 306 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:31.720 Okay, So hey, we got to get into the e 307 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:35.279 Hud story. Yeah, because this is one of the craziest. 308 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:38.360 Yeah, because wow. Yeah right, So I don't think that 309 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:42.799 there's a story that is uh is there a more 310 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:43.720 gross story? 311 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:46.360 It's pretty gross, right, I mean. 312 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:47.159 Think about it. 313 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:50.039 I mean, uh, you know, I'm thinking about where it 314 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.600 says David knuck into the cave and Saul was relieving himself. 315 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.840 But all that happened in there was he just cut 316 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.200 off a hem of his garment. It's just the fact 317 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:00.879 that you know that that Saul was going to the bathroom. 318 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:04.559 That's really the only reference there. This is stabbing into 319 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:05.879 a guy that's so fat. 320 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:06.320 Yeah. 321 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.600 That literally the handle of the blade. 322 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:12.279 Of a one foot knife. It was a foot long. 323 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:13.399 It was a foot long. 324 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:17.200 It's twelve inches. Yeah, he stabs the guy in and 325 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:17.840 it's it's. 326 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.679 Well the twelve inches of the blade, wasn't it right, 327 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:23.240 the blade, which means the handles and other five inches right, 328 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:25.879 So you're talking like a foot and a half all that. 329 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:29.320 And then it says he emptied his bowels, right. Do 330 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.440 you think that means it comes out of the like 331 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:33.679 his guts came out. 332 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:36.240 Do you think like he emptied his bows? 333 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:38.840 He emptied his bowse I don't know, yeah, because it 334 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:39.960 could be it could be either way. 335 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:43.840 We both Yeah, in the King James King James Bible says, 336 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:45.120 and the dirt came out. 337 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:47.960 And the dirt came out. Yeah, so it's even worse. 338 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:51.799 Yeah, so it's yeah, yeah, I think it's emptied his bowels. 339 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:54.120 Yeah the other way yeah. Yeah. 340 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:57.480 So so this is an upstairs room. Yeah, and it 341 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:00.600 wasn't uncommon. My wife and I were just in Europe 342 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:02.960 and we went and visited a bunch of castles, And 343 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.759 it was funny how many of these little toilet rooms 344 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:08.639 were just off the side, right, and it was just 345 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:10.519 a hole that just dropped down to the side of 346 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:14.519 the wall of the of the castle. Right. That's kind 347 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:17.120 of a medieval solution, so very similar to this. It's 348 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.480 probably an upstairs room for sure, we know that part. 349 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:23.120 And there was a latrine, there was a toilet there, 350 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:24.799 so very likely it was just a little room, a 351 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.919 seat that stuck out, you know, from the wall, and 352 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:31.759 he do his business. And so this guy he gets stabbed, 353 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:36.559 you know, Egglon, he's a bad man, and e Hud 354 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:38.840 comes in. But the thing I love about it is 355 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:43.200 e Hud is the Bible takes great care to remind 356 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:45.720 us or to let us know. He's a left handed 357 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:52.320 fighter from the tribe of Benjamin. Right, so left handedness historically, 358 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.320 especially in ancient times, was considered for some was considered 359 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:59.279 a curse, but was always considered an extreme disadvantage, almost 360 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:03.000 like a disability. But the fighters in Benjamin there's also 361 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.079 you remember it also talks about there were some left 362 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:09.079 handed slingers, people who would use slings, and they were 363 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:12.599 left handed from Benjamin as well. These very various skilled fighters. So, 364 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.359 for whatever reason, on a genetic level or whatever, the 365 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:17.799 tribe of Benjamin, which is a small tribe, there were 366 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:19.640 a lot of left handed fighters, and this was an 367 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:23.880 advantage because nobody expected that he'd be carrying a weapon 368 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.160 right right. And so he comes in with his weapon 369 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:32.440 underneath his inside of his thigh, underneath his skirt or 370 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:35.240 his robe, and he comes, hey, I got a message 371 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.319 from you from God? What crazy phrase? 372 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:43.519 It's a crazy phrase. Here's a message because he didn't 373 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:44.400 say anything, why he did it? 374 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:46.880 Yeah? Yeah, And it's a full on assassination, yes, And 375 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:48.839 the only thing he says is I have a message 376 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:53.279 for you from God and then loses his knife inside 377 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:53.880 the guy's gut. 378 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.119 Well, you know what's interesting about this is that. 379 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:01.119 The Bible doesn't give us any insight as to whether 380 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:05.200 or not this message was given to e Hud, Like, 381 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:07.680 did God say to e Hud, this is what you 382 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:10.359 shall do. You shall take a knife, you shall put 383 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:11.519 it on your inner thigh. 384 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:13.079 Right right like God? 385 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:17.440 Like? Could this have been an orchestrated plan from God? 386 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:21.640 Because I'm under the belief that, you know, just because 387 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.599 it's not recorded doesn't mean it didn't happen. 388 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:26.839 Yeah, it says when the people of Israel cried out 389 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:29.160 to the Lord for help. So this is their repentance moment. 390 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:29.519 Right. 391 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:32.960 It says the Lord again raised up a rescuer to 392 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:35.359 save them, right, But it doesn't say that he directly 393 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:38.519 communicated with him. I think it's likely, well, God put 394 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:39.960 it on his heart to say, hey, you're the one 395 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.640 that's gonna deliver the people of Israel. But it doesn't 396 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:45.000 say what God told him to do. 397 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:47.480 Yeah, well raised up? Or did it just work this out? 398 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:50.319 Think about the phrase he God raised them up? That 399 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:55.119 that's that's that's about as genericas saying Apollo Creed then 400 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:58.200 trained Rocky to defeat Clever Lang. 401 00:18:58.720 --> 00:18:59.079