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 --> 00:00:14.560 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to another exciting episode of 4 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:15.519 The Bible guys Man. 5 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:18.320 Today we're going to be in Ezra chapter three, and 6 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:20.039 this is where the comeback begins. 7 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:22.399 Yes, the altar is going to be be rebuilt. 8 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:24.359 That's right. Well, I think this is amazing because the 9 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:26.559 whole city is standing in ruins. But they don't build 10 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:28.640 the walls first, they build the altar first. Oh that's 11 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:29.760 pretty good, pretty great. 12 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:30.359 Yeah, that's really good. 13 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:33.240 We're gonna start with that, but before we do, we 14 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:35.880 have a segment because today's Friday. 15 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:39.200 Oh yeah, I was just sitting here going, I don't 16 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:40.479 even know where you're going with this. I do know 17 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:43.600 where you're going. It's time for everybody's favorite segment. Yeah, well, 18 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.119 I mean for everybody that listens to the Bible Guys 19 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:48.280 more than just a week or two. Yes, this is 20 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:52.479 their favorite segment. What made Chris mad this week? 21 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:56.200 This week? Well, I have one, Jeff, And you know 22 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:56.679 what makes. 23 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:01.159 Me moan shock shock? This is my shock face. 24 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.040 Yeah, yeah, that's what I always do. 25 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:06.439 Okay, you know what makes me mad? And actually it 26 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:07.799 really truly gets me mad. 27 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:09.319 Is top golf? 28 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:13.439 Really? Yes, you don't like top golf. I love top golf, okay, 29 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:14.879 but top golf makes you mad. 30 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:16.040 Very much, so okay? 31 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:20.560 And you know why no, Because they impose upon everybody 32 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.719 short rubber teas, and they don't give you an option 33 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:28.040 to go tall. Right, even though that much of the 34 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:30.040 golf community, and the reason why I know it's much 35 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.000 is because it may be mad so much. We took 36 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.120 how many people there are fifty, yeah, fifty our staff. 37 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:40.719 I walked around and asked everybody about if they golf 38 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:43.280 regularly and whether or not they hate the rubber teas. 39 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:46.000 And I would say at least half of just our 40 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:50.239 group said they can't stand these short rubber tees because 41 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:54.280 there's different swings in golf, and so some do tee 42 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:56.599 it up very very low, and to be honest, they 43 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.120 have the better swings, right, so they get down low 44 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.439 and they lift it everything else. And and you know 45 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:03.599 some people can go to top golf and crank it 46 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:04.760 over the net even right. 47 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.359 Well, that's what they lowered him, you know that, right. 48 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.159 They used to be taller and then they lowered. 49 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:10.960 Him okay, well, then I even hate it more than 50 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:13.319 ye because people are putting them over the build a 51 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:13.879 taller net. 52 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:16.680 How tall dude. All I'm saying. 53 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:18.639 Is, anyways, I this is your rage. 54 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:21.840 Now this is my rage because I can, to be honest, 55 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:26.120 I can't hit My swing just won't allow it. And 56 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:28.680 so you know, the net is only what two hundred. 57 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:29.080 And fifty yards away. 58 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:32.319 Can't adjust, No, cannot adjust. 59 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:34.560 You cannot adjust. And so Chad, Chad says to the 60 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.680 whole staff. Oh, when Chris hits a ball, he swings 61 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:39.879 out of his shoes and he tells everybody, right, because 62 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:41.199 I can hit it. I can hit a drive three 63 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.240 hundred yards if I you know, if I hit on 64 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:45.479 a good, good swing, and uh. 65 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:49.120 So you have hit a ball three hundred yards. 66 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:55.000 Sure of right, So so I could do that, but 67 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:57.840 you know, the top golf, the net is only like 68 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.840 two hundred and something yards away, and I can't hit 69 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:05.479 it on a fly because my swing won't all out because. 70 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:07.680 I I just I just I can't do it. And 71 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:10.800 so I'm just thinking to myself, ge, whiz, can't you 72 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:14.639 just can't you just have it? It's not gonna be hard. 73 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:17.000 But according to you, they lowered it on purpose. 74 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:19.879 Do you think some people hit that that back netting? 75 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.639 Oh I saw Connor Meed do it. Yeah yeah, Connor 76 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:24.919 me literally put on there. 77 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:26.840 See anybody do it fourteen times? 78 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.759 Uh no, but I'm sure Connor could do it. Oh 79 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:33.159 you did it because you swing alone, apparently. 80 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:33.360 Yeah. 81 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:35.400 Yeah, you have a little swing. Yeah, okay. 82 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:37.280 I'm not a good golfer. I'm not, but I can 83 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:41.360 crush that ball. Yeah yeah, yeah. So uh we played, 84 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.759 I forgot like eight six games. Yeah, and I hit 85 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.680 the back net in the air on the fly, on 86 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:48.000 the fly. 87 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:49.479 Oh wow, fourteen. 88 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:52.840 Times I hit it. I hit the back net twenty 89 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.120 something times. That's the only way I was getting any 90 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:56.960 points because I can't. I can't. I don't have any accuracy. 91 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.719 I can't actually hit any of those circles out there. 92 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:00.560 So I just got to crush it. You try to 93 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.439 get it that way. And so I hit the back 94 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:05.719 net twenty something times, but I hopped it towards the enda, 95 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:07.639 starting to run out of gas. But that at the 96 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.000 beginning my first three rounds, I hit the net like 97 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:10.919 every other swing. 98 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:11.919 That's fun. 99 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:14.919 Yeah, well my swing will not allow it because I 100 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:17.480 I just it it up so high, so I can't 101 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.720 use any other golf teas besides the extra long ones. 102 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:24.079 So if what if? What if you moved your grip 103 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:27.519 further back on the list, what if us the longer 104 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:29.040 try that game all day long. 105 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:32.439 But that's a whole different ballgame, right, that's a whole 106 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.639 different game to say, change your swing, right, change your 107 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.480 swing is is definitely an option. 108 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:42.399 But currently, I so it makes you mad, dude, It 109 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.800 outrages me furious, because are you ever going to go back? 110 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:48.560 I love golf. Oh yeah, I'll go back all the 111 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:50.600 time because it's amazing. 112 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:55.279 But I wish, I wish that I somehow was able 113 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.360 to lift it up by probably double. 114 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:00.160 So have you ever seen the guy who bring is 115 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.839 that little thing that sits inside of it? On YouTube? No, 116 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:05.920 he has he has a little extender and they'll come 117 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:07.720 and take it from him. But while he's got it 118 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:08.920 and he's putting it over the fence. 119 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:12.560 Wow, I didn't know they've seen it. Huh. 120 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:14.480 Yeah, he's got he's got a little thing that sits 121 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.639 inside the I would love that. Yeah. Well, the problem 122 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:19.759 is if he accidentally hits it, he knocks it way 123 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:21.959 out on the thing too, right, that's the problem. 124 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:24.800 Yeah, well I could, I could probably, I don't know. 125 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:28.720 That's a pretty good height. Could I hit it over 126 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:30.720 the net with. 127 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.040 The right teeth with an extension? 128 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:34.560 It's pretty high? 129 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:36.959 Maybe, So that's a matt You could just look the 130 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:38.879 mat up, pull that out, stick your own in. 131 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:40.920 What you mean, like an actual tea? 132 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.759 No, no, just just get a rubber one like that. 133 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:44.240 That's tall. 134 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:46.000 Yeah, well, I don't. 135 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.800 I don't have that much intentionality beyond you know, for 136 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:51.319 for golf, you know. 137 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:57.000 Anyways, talking about having intentionality, Oh yeah, Ezra had some intentionality. 138 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:01.480 Was intentional about about writing about rubble bulls? Intentionality? 139 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:03.079 Wow? 140 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:04.959 Of taking the people back to Jerusalem? 141 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:05.399 You know what? 142 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.000 Actually that started off as a good transition and then 143 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:09.959 ended up being really. 144 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:10.600 Really, really horrible. 145 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:12.079 Yeah that's really funny. 146 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.759 So, uh well you are in Ezra chapter three. Oh 147 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.399 that's so good, Ezra chapter three. And thank you for 148 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:21.959 sharing your outrage on behalf of holl So because it's 149 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.000 never just for you. I'm mad for all the other 150 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:25.279 people who are mad about the fact. 151 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.680 That wasn't It wasn't just me, it was the other 152 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.040 thirty people in our staff. I was outraged. 153 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:31.519 Four just be clear, I didn't care. 154 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.399 I didn't. I didn't say I cared about you caring. Yeah, 155 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:36.639 I cared about the other people. 156 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:38.199 The other people are a bunch of whiners too. 157 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:41.920 Wow, you just call it half our. 158 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:48.879 Well yeah, anyways, Uh, here's what is that you're right now, 159 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:50.800 I'm in trouble. I'm not gonna be able to show 160 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:52.040 my face in the office for a week. 161 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:53.600 There it is there, it is. 162 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:58.839 There, he is there, he is Okay. So in Ezra 163 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.199 chapter three, it said, in early autumn, when the Israelites 164 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:05.040 had settled in their towns, all the people ascended, ascended 165 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:09.639 assembled there you go, assembled in Jerusalem with the unified purpose. 166 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:14.399 I like that. Then Jesua son of Jehosah Jehosah daht 167 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:19.120 Great joined his fellow priests, and Zerubeble son of shell 168 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.720 Shiel t l with his family in rebuilding the altar 169 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:29.720 of the God of Israel. Okay, So Zerobebel joined his 170 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.519 family members in rebuilding the altar. Let's just because I 171 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:33.879 stumbled through a lot of names there. 172 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:38.319 Yeah, I've always pronounced it Zerubble. Okay, So, but I 173 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:42.199 guess it's just yeah, long you are. 174 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.560 Yeah, I like er you say zerubble I say zerubebl 175 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:52.759 tomato tomato. Okay. Anyways, it says they wanted the sacrifice 176 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.240 burnt offerings on it, as instructed in the Law of Moses, 177 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:57.600 the Man of God. Even though the people are afraid 178 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.680 of the local residence. They rebuilt the altar at its 179 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:02.920 old Then they began to sacrifice burnt offerings on the 180 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.920 altar to the Lord. Each morning and evening they celebrated 181 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.319 the Festival of Shelters as prescribed in the law, sacrificing 182 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:11.600 the number of burnt offerings specified for each day of 183 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.079 the festival. They also offered the regular burnt offerings and 184 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:17.639 the offerings required for the New Moon celebrations and the 185 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.959 annual festivals as prescribed by the Lord. The people also 186 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:24.800 gave voluntary offerings to the Lord. Fifteen days before the 187 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:29.720 Festival Shelters began, the priests began to sacrifice burnt offerings 188 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.000 to the Lord. This was even before they'd started to 189 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:35.840 lay the foundational Lord's temple. Then the people hired masons 190 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.639 and carpenters and bought cedar logs from the people of 191 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.480 Tire and Sidon, paying them with food, wine, and olive oil. 192 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:44.360 The logs were brought down from the Lebanon Mountains and 193 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:47.159 floated along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to Joppa, 194 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:50.480 for King Cyrus had given permission for this. The construction 195 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:52.440 of the Temple of God began in mid spring during 196 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:55.159 the second year after they arrived in Jerusalem. The workforce 197 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:57.320 was made up of everyone who had returned from exile, 198 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:04.039 including Zerubabyle son of shielt L, Jeshua son of Jehozadakh 199 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:07.039 and his fellow priests, and all the Levites. The Levites 200 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.080 who were twenty years old or older were put in 201 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:12.840 charge of rebuilding Lord's Temple. The workers at the Temple 202 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:16.120 of God were supervised by Jeshua with his sons and relatives, 203 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:19.480 and Kadmiel and his sons that all descendants of Oodevaiah. 204 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.120 They were how do you usually say that name? 205 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:24.399 I don't I don't know. 206 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:29.000 They were helped in this task by the levites of 207 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:32.840 the family of Henna Dad. When the builders completed the 208 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.080 foundation of the Lord's Temple, the priests put on their 209 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:37.639 robes and took their places to blow their trumpets, and 210 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.919 the Levites and descendants of Asaf clashed their symbols to 211 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.399 praise the Lord. Just as King David had prescribed, with 212 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:45.919 praise and thanks, they sang this song to the Lord. 213 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:49.879 He is so good, his faithful love for Israel endures forever. 214 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.519 Then all the people gave a great shout, praising the 215 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.879 Lord because of the foundation of Lord's Temple had been laid. 216 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.480 But many of the older priests, levites, and other leaders 217 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:01.559 who had seen the first temple wept aloud when they 218 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:04.960 saw their new temples foundation. The others, however, were shouting 219 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.919 for joy. The joyful shouting and weeping mingled together in 220 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:12.639 a loud noise that could be heard far in the distance. Yeah, 221 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:14.320 they were holding anything back, were they? 222 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:15.480 No, they weren't. 223 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.360 And first of all, let's let's go back to the 224 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:21.519 beginning here, because I have I have some comments about 225 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:26.279 the whole shouting. But when it says the altar was rebuilt, 226 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:31.600 I love how you noticed that even before they laid 227 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.399 the foundation, even before they started building, even before they 228 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:38.320 started doing anything, the first thing that they did was 229 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:40.960 rebuilt the altar right where the old one was right, 230 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:45.679 and which means that there had to have been older 231 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:49.759 people perhaps that were there right, because it does say 232 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:52.200 at the end, it says, but the older priest Levites 233 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:53.840 and the other leaders who had seen the first Temple 234 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:57.279 wept aloud right because they saw the new temples foundation, 235 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:02.799 which means that there were people who remembered exactly how 236 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:06.279 the old Temple used to be, right, right, And so anyway, 237 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.320 all that to say, I just think it's amazing that 238 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:12.759 that's the very first thing that they did. And can 239 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:17.120 you imagine just the joy of being able to celebrate 240 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.320 the festival of shelters as prescribed in the law, you know, 241 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.840 on that space, just the absolute joy of being back 242 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.840 there in Jerusalem would probably be something that you and 243 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:31.360 I could look, a joy that we would probably never 244 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:32.440 even be able to comprehend. 245 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:38.200 Right. Well, you know, God doesn't promise to give favor 246 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:42.159 to people who ignore him. So they had a lot 247 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:45.080 of things they needed to do. But the last time 248 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:47.639 they were in Jusalem, they were pretty strong. They had 249 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:50.919 held off the Egyptians, they'd held off the Assyrians, right, 250 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:55.559 they were pretty strong. But they weren't making God their priority. 251 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:59.840 They weren't giving him his rightful attention. They weren't worshiping him, 252 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.120 and they lost. Even though they were strong. Now they're 253 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.919 few and they're weak. The walls of their city are 254 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:08.960 torn down, and the only hope they have is that 255 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:12.879 God give them favor and protect them. Right, And I'm 256 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:14.360 going to say that's not a terrible place to be 257 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:17.519 when you realize the only hope you have is God, 258 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:19.919 that's a pretty good place when you think you also 259 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:22.600 have other things to help God out. I think you're 260 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:24.919 kind of in danger there. But in this situation, and 261 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:27.240 then it's the power of worship, right, The power of 262 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:34.360 worship transforms them, certainly puts their dependency on God. And 263 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:38.360 God honors that. He respects that to the point that 264 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.399 he names a whole bunch of people that aren't mentioned 265 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:43.799 at any other time in the Bible. But Guy's like, hey, 266 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.759 I'm going to give them special honorable mention. Where here 267 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.120 we are now twenty five hundred years later, trying to 268 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:51.679 sound out these guys' names. And while to us it 269 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:54.000 feels a little weird, God gives honor to whom honor 270 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:57.600 is due. Also in the situation, these men, they led 271 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:01.759 the people to worship God first, right, Yeah, and then 272 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:06.840 I think that gets God's attention. That's what I'm trying 273 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.840 to say. God named them by name because they got 274 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.799 God's attention. There's nothing else special about them. It doesn't. 275 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.000 It doesn't say that they were particularly rich, It doesn't 276 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.360 say that they were super powerful. It just says that 277 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:21.840 they grabbed their trumpets, they led the people. They began 278 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:25.240 laying the foundation to build this temple, to build the altar. 279 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:27.559 They didn't build the temple just to build the altars 280 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:29.799 so that the people could worship, and God goes. Those 281 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:32.159 people got my attention. You want to get the attention 282 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:33.440 to God. It's not going to be in all the 283 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.720 other performative things you do. It's going to be in 284 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:37.919 your posture of worship. 285 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:39.840 Yeah. 286 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:44.399 So the foundation that they laid, the New Temples foundation, 287 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:46.600 was considerably smaller than. 288 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:48.200 The other one. Yeah, And. 289 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:53.240 So I wonder, I wonder if you know it doesn't say, 290 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.679 but it says many of the older priestly vice and 291 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:57.759 other leaders who've seen the first Temple wept allow when 292 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.399 they saw the New Temples foundation. The others, however, were 293 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:05.440 shouting for joy. So it indicates that the weeping was 294 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:06.080 not joy. 295 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:07.440 Does that makes sense? 296 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:07.720 Yeah? 297 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:12.159 I believe that's true, right, because because the uh because otherwise, 298 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:16.240 because it says the others however, right, So it seems 299 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:19.200 to be in contrast, So the weeping could have been 300 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:21.720 because it was smaller. 301 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.399 Well, they and they knew the glory. So Solomon's Temple 302 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.240 was you know, both temples had cedar from Lebanon, but 303 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:32.440 Solomon's was covered in gold and silver and was so grand. 304 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:35.159 And it was in the middle of this great jewel 305 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.159 of a city, the great walls, the prosperity of Jerusalem, 306 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:41.639 all that kind of stuff. And so these old guys 307 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:43.840 remembered how great that was, you know what. And now 308 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.840 they're looking at this new foundation, it's not even built yet, 309 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:49.480 the temple. They're looking at this a new place, sitting 310 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.320 among ruins. Right, I was just going to say, points, 311 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.399 so their sin is what brought him to that point. 312 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.080 Yeah, I was just gonna say the same thing. I 313 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:59.159 almost recant what I said. It wasn't because it was smaller, 314 00:14:59.200 --> 00:14:59.919 although it could have been. 315 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:03.519 Possibly, it's less. It's less than it's worse. 316 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:06.080 It's less than it could have been. What you just said, 317 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:09.759 it's just so sad. The story of the temple is 318 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:12.240 so sad. The story of the people is so sad. 319 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:14.759 The story of them having to learn the hard way 320 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:18.399 is so sad. Right, all of the captivity, all of 321 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.799 you know, the glory of what was versus what is 322 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:25.360 no more. It's just it's just how did it come 323 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:25.600 to this? 324 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:29.759 That kind of thing. So yeah, yeah, so it's probably 325 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:30.320 all of that. 326 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:32.799 But you have to remember that these guys are in 327 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:37.639 their mid to late eighties, right, right, that can remember 328 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:42.360 that everybody else is thrilled, right, everybody else. Yeah, so 329 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:45.399 we don't have to ruin everybody else's party, right. This 330 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:46.879 is the best that they know at the time, and 331 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:48.919 they're doing the best they can to put God first 332 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.840 and honor God. So I'm not saying boo on these 333 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:55.480 old men, but that was a previous time and now 334 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:58.600 they're just going to take some work they do. Drewsom 335 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.559 does get rebuilt and is pretty great eventually, but there's 336 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.200 a lot of hard work because of our own choices. 337 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:07.960 Now we have a ton of hard work, and it's 338 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:10.039 not as glorious as it used to be, but we 339 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:13.039 can rebuild this thing and then eventually, you know, Harritt's 340 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:16.559 Temple's pretty pretty phenomenal. But between here and there, it's 341 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:18.519 several hundred years and so we've got a lot of 342 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:18.960 work to do. 343 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:22.480 So in two thousand and I don't know what it 344 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.600 was two thousand and two something like that. I was. 345 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:31.559 I was pretty connected to a guy that you may. 346 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:32.279 Know, Louis Iglio. 347 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:33.480 You know him. 348 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:36.279 So Louis had this thing called One Day and it 349 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.080 was in Bells, Texas. And what he did was he 350 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:43.399 decided to build a quite literally a million dollar stage 351 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:45.320 in the middle of the field somewhere on this guy's 352 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.919 property in Bells, Texas. And his goal was one hundred 353 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:51.480 thousand college students to drive down to Bell's, Texas to 354 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:52.759 have one big day of worship. 355 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:53.639 Any called it one Day. 356 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.799 He didn't quite hit the hundred thousand, but there were 357 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:00.440 tens of thousands of people right and did every time 358 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.600 he invited us on stage to prank and so and 359 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:03.320 so it's like I'm on. 360 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:05.400 Stage and I'm seeing this ocean. 361 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:08.759 Of of of of of college students. It was really cool. 362 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.839 So anyway, here's here's what he did. He read from 363 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.759 Ezra chapter one. He read this passage and it sticks 364 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:19.240 out in my mind. And so he says, he says, 365 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.839 excuse me as Rich chapter three, excuse me. But he says, 366 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:25.200 all the people gave a great shot praising the Lord 367 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:27.200 because the foundation of the temple's Lord has been made, 368 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:32.400 and he said, others wept, others were joyful. However, the shot, 369 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:36.319 the joyful shot of weeping, mingled together with a loud 370 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.359 noise I could be heard great in the distance. So 371 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.279 he said, wherever you're at in your life, he said, 372 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:42.559 cry oud to God, and we're going to make a 373 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:43.240 big crowd to God. 374 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:43.680 Ready to go. 375 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.680 Now, you have never heard a shot like this. I'm 376 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:50.559 telling you, It'll stick out my mind probably until the 377 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.720 day I day, unless I lose my marbles. Okay, I 378 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:59.640 remember this moment. Everybody shouts just forever, and there's so 379 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:01.799 extreme and you know, there's over the top. 380 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.359 It just didn't end right. It's like it's almost like. 381 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:06.720 A when you take a breath and you sort of 382 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:09.400 overlap on the choir and you're you're, you know, you're 383 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:11.759 you're having to like stagger just because we want we 384 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:12.920 want it to be one big loud thing. 385 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.599 It went on for like I bet you it. 386 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:20.160 Was a five minute shout. 387 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.720 Five minutes. Can you even imagine tens of thousands of people. 388 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:28.160 So anyway, at the end of this great story, he 389 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:30.279 brought it to a conclusion and said that there are 390 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:31.240 people in the audience. 391 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:32.559 There are people in the crowd. 392 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.960 Who they're absolutely in the worst place of their lives, 393 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.000 and then there's people who are in the best place 394 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.160 of their lives. And there's everybody in between. And all 395 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:45.839 of our emotions toward God, all of our yearnings, all 396 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:50.039 of our desires, he say, God knows every single one. 397 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:53.599 And he said, the shouts of joy are mixed with 398 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:56.279 the shouts of weeping. And he said in the shout 399 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:58.359 could be heard a great distance away. That was his 400 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:00.519 big thing, he said, let us let him in the 401 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:02.519