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Brought to you by Virginia's Insurance Marketplace 20 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.439 that's Marketplace dot Virginia dot com of. 21 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:05.040 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 22 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:07.799 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 23 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:14.560 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. It 24 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.760 is Friday. If you're listening day to day, and so we. 25 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.280 Are, it's an important day. Yes, it is an. 26 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:24.040 Important day because because it's everybody's favorite segment. 27 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:28.879 Well, that's because but in a world full of injustice, 28 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:32.680 this is what made Chris mad this week. That's right, 29 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:33.319 that's good. 30 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:33.840 I like it. 31 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:36.920 Hey, I think you should introduce it every single time 32 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:39.200 in the world, in Christmas world. 33 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:42.040 Yes, it's just full of injustice. 34 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:45.840 So typically when I am asked the question what made 35 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:49.359 Chris mad this week? I would say the majority of 36 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:54.959 the time, wouldn't you say that my complaints are against 37 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:58.280 sort of like dumb people in bad customer service, bad 38 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:00.159 customer service, and. 39 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:01.519 People who don't take the carts back. 40 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:06.319 Yes, and I and I get mad for the behalf 41 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:06.680 of us. 42 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:07.760 Yes, for the little people. 43 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:10.439 Yes, yes, you you are mad for me and all 44 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:11.680 the other little people in the world. 45 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:15.439 Well, this maeks a little bit different because I'm still 46 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.840 mad for the masses. Okay, I'm not just mad for me. 47 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:21.719 I'm mad for the world. Yes, they have to experience 48 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.000 what I'm going to complain about, Okay, but I'm mad 49 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:30.919 at time time because my knees aren't holding up the 50 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:31.759 way that they used to. 51 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:32.400 Oh. 52 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:35.520 Oh, I'm working out and I'll step wrong, and literally, 53 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:37.520 all of a sudden, I go like this, I step wrong, 54 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:39.639 and I go in. My wife goes, what was that. 55 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:42.240 I'm like, I don't know, right, And then like you 56 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:45.000 bend over in your back, it's like, oh, or maybe 57 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:47.159 you'll twist. You're in your car and you twist and 58 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:48.759 you go grab something, and all of a sudden, like 59 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:53.000 this pain comes up and it just won't, you know, 60 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:57.319 go away for a minute. And then I also realized 61 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.719 that when I was thirty, I if I wanted to 62 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.360 drop to ten pounds, I could do it in five minutes. 63 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:07.639 It seems like right right, And it seems like the 64 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:12.800 oher you get right hard it is. And I have 65 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:18.000 been recognizing lately that yes, I'm currently right now, I'm 66 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:21.400 not overweight. Currently, right now, I'm eating well. Currently right now, 67 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:23.879 I'm working out, and I'm doing all those things. So 68 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:28.159 like I'm definitely being active. So it's not as if 69 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:29.120 you could look at me and be. 70 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:30.840 Like, okay, being active. 71 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:33.840 Come on, mister, say get off the couch, you know. Like, 72 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:39.360 so I'm being active, and because I'm being active, I'm 73 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:43.400 recognizing how much I am not a friend of time. 74 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:45.960 I don't like time. I'm out of time currently. 75 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:49.639 Yes, but you're getting so distinguished. Time is making you 76 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:50.919 like this distinguished. 77 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.919 Okay, So you're saying there's some benefits of time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 78 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:59.240 there's there's this much benefit, there's this much drawback. Okay, 79 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.800 that's fine, which I would even argue that that's pretty subjective. Okay, right, 80 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:07.840 but I really think time is a terrible thing to 81 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:08.159 do with. 82 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:08.919 Wow. 83 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:12.080 Yeah, don't you agree? You're the same age as me. 84 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:16.240 Yeah, so people ask me that. People get frustrated that 85 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:17.800 I don't feel bad about being my age. 86 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:20.040 I like my age every year. I never. I never 87 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:22.120 dread a birthday. I never. 88 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:26.199 I'm like, oh, I'm getting old everything. Like I don't 89 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.680 play softball very much anymore. Right, I loved baseball, and 90 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.319 softball I don't play it much anymore because that season 91 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:32.959 my life is over. 92 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:34.959 But I'm I'm a grandfather. 93 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.240 Now, How cool is this, and I'm I'm in a 94 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:39.680 place where finally, financially things are getting a little bit 95 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:43.000 more stable, and and you know, I feel like I 96 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.800 have a patience and a wisdom I didn't stab So 97 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.160 I like my life today, okay, And I don't resent. 98 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:49.680 None of that. 99 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:51.240 Is that what I'm talking about talking about? 100 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:51.600 Physically? 101 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:51.839 Yeah? 102 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:53.000 Yeah, I don't know. 103 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:55.519 Yeah, because everything you're saying I have. 104 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.439 My left knee is a little goofy. But I just 105 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.519 always keep thinking I should go get it. Then I 106 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:04.000 have it, but I don't. I don't know, and I 107 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:05.560 never think of it like, oh, man, I wish I 108 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:06.439 wasn't old. 109 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:10.160 You don't think of it as oh, that's new. When 110 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.839 I'm working out with my trainer and she and she's like, hey, 111 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.279 do this, and I go, oh, I make it, and 112 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:19.360 she's like, what's your problem now, I'm like, hang on, 113 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:22.000 I have to rest for a minute because it's an 114 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:25.519 old person thing. Or she'll say do do reverse lunches 115 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:26.279 and I'll go back. 116 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:31.399 And she specializes in like geriatric, she does all of. 117 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:32.879 The old people we send to that trainer. 118 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.240 No, that is not so. 119 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.360 If you don't know, if you're if you're a new listener. 120 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:39.319 The church that we passed her at Heritage Church in 121 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:43.079 uh outside of Detroit, Michigan. You take the We have 122 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.560 a gym, yes, the Hetage Fitness Project. Yes, and we 123 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:47.519 have several trainers. 124 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.120 By the way, it's a great gym, fabulous. 125 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:51.759 Gym, And we have several trainers. 126 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:52.199 Yes. 127 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:56.160 And your trainer is the one that also trains all 128 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:56.959 of the old people. 129 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:02.439 My trainer. You to be ready for this. For a living, 130 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:06.839 she did physical therapy, so she was an actual pet person. 131 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.680 That she was. She's fabulous, Yeah, which means she. 132 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:15.439 Contains knowledge for those up in age that other people 133 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:16.519 do not contain. 134 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:17.839 That's what I think I would saying. 135 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:21.720 So I would say the specializes the wisdom of Chris May, 136 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:24.759 who leads the thing, would say, anybody who's a little 137 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:29.079 bit older go to her because she's better. She won't 138 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.480 hurt you like she's no, that's okay, well, actually that is. 139 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.519 She'll give you modified exercises well because the young people. 140 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:37.639 Yeah, when I had. 141 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:40.399 Two mensca surgery, she knew every modified extra absolutely. 142 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:41.879 Yeah. 143 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.720 She does not specialize in Jerryachers, I love it. 144 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.319 I love Yes. No, she's great though, yees, she is great. 145 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.439 But I'm mad at time, mad at time? 146 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.160 Thank you, buddy, thank you, thank you, because I wouldn't 147 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:56.240 have even thought to be mad at. 148 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:56.720 Time for people. 149 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.600 Yes, yeah, because you're closer to heaven. Did you ever 150 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:07.639 see the movie with Will Smith were He's mad at 151 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:13.920 death and time and love? No, what's that called? Anyway? Yeah, 152 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:15.600 he's actually mad at time. 153 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:21.639 Okay, nope, I'm not not yet anyway. Okay, well, hey, 154 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:24.199 thank you Chris for that. I know many of our 155 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:25.519 listeners probably. 156 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:26.560 It's called collateral beauty. 157 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:30.439 Okay, no I haven't. Yeah, uh, I'm sure many of 158 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:34.319 our listeners are grateful for your your concern. 159 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:35.079 Thank you. 160 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:36.800 Yes, and if you could do something about it, then 161 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.680 that help be helpful. Yeah, because when you're in a 162 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:42.879 parking lot and you see somebody not put away their cart, 163 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:43.519 you just yell. 164 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.480 At him put your card away. What kind of person 165 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:45.839 are you? 166 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:46.199 Yeah? 167 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:46.800 Well this right? 168 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:47.759 Yeah, you're right, you kid? 169 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:48.920 Yeah yeah yeah. 170 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:50.279 But if you can work it out, if you can 171 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:52.680 work out a solution for this time thing, then let 172 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:53.000 us know. 173 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:54.800 Yeah yeah, yeah, get to. 174 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:57.079 Work on it, no problem, I'll let you know. 175 00:07:58.439 --> 00:07:59.600 Well, thank you, thank you, thank you. 176 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:02.199 Hoops dropped my is to get to get to heaven 177 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.079 before you and to convince God to change the system. 178 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.040 Yeah, that's which is not going to happen. Okay, it's 179 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:09.519 not gonna happen. You're not gonna get to heaven for me. 180 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:11.720 Well, I mean, I'm a pretty good influencer, but probably not. 181 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:14.000 He's not sure he's getting to heaven. People, you heard 182 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:14.600 it here first. 183 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:18.800 You remember the old nineteen seventies movies Oh God, Remember 184 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:19.439 Oh God? 185 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:20.759 Yeah, with George Burns. 186 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.240 Yeah, yeah, not very biblical, but there's a conversation and 187 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:26.759 oh God. Book two, he's having a conversation with a 188 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.360 little girl and she and she's real small, and they're 189 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:32.799 walking together and she goes, God, She goes, why did 190 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:36.559 you make the giraffes next so long? And he goes 191 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:39.600 to have to eat off of the high trees, and 192 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.039 she goes, why didn't you make the tree shorter? And 193 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:44.960 he just looks down and he smiles, and he goes, 194 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:46.639 where were you? And I needed you? 195 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:49.159 There? 196 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:50.919 You go, Yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of us 197 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.120 who really helped God Outah right, okay, well, hey today, 198 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:55.840 do you have a transition for us? 199 00:08:56.360 --> 00:09:03.440 Yes, speak speaking of speaking of Wait a minute, I 200 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.360 did God. Book two quotes. So I gotta go back 201 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.399 to the time. Speaking of time, we are going to 202 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.679 skip over the time that Solomon built the temple, because 203 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:14.720 that is a lot of time. And we're going to 204 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:18.639 skip over to the time where he actually dedicates the temple. 205 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:21.840 Okay, to the dedication time, not the building time. 206 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:22.480 Correct. 207 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:23.120 Okay. 208 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:24.720 See, it's a terrible transition. 209 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:27.240 That was a terrible which is our goal. Our goal 210 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:28.279 is terrible transitions. 211 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.399 So, if you're a Bible reader, which I hope you are, 212 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:37.080 there is something really special about these chapters that talk 213 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:40.679 about the glory of the temple. Yes, it describes the 214 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:46.919 exterior being just massive. The interior is magnificent. Remember this 215 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:50.759 is a building that is worth billions upon billions of 216 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.519 dollars with the gold and silver and all these things. 217 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.960 It is an unbelievably magnificent building. And then it talks 218 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:03.639 about the furnishings. And I mean King Solomon went all out, Yes, 219 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:08.120 came to the glory of God's place right temple, and 220 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:09.000 then the life applications. 221 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:10.759 He loved his father, Yeah. 222 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.360 And he honored his father, and his father really set 223 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:15.840 the precedence for this thing because it was actually David's 224 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.879 brainchild and it was. It was David's passion, right and 225 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:20.720 his sacrifice. 226 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:21.279 That's correct. 227 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:25.360 So yeah, So then in the Life Application Study Bible, 228 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:28.480 there's a couple of cross sections and some pictures and 229 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:30.720 those kinds of things, and tons of notes, and so 230 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.519 honestly we're skipping twenty pages here of really great stuff 231 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:37.039 that if you would go back and read it. Both 232 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:40.960 it's found in First Kings and then also in Second Chronicles. 233 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:45.320 These these two passages or two books kind of highlight 234 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.440 the same basic stories. So we're going to be reading 235 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:52.200 from Second Chronicles, chapter seven, and it says when Solomon 236 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.320 finished praying, right, he prayed this amazing prayer about everything 237 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.120 comes from you and you are great and glorious and 238 00:10:59.240 --> 00:10:59.720 all these things. 239 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:00.360 Is really great. 240 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:04.159 And then it says when Solomon finished praying, fire flashed 241 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:07.039 down from heaven and burned up the burnoff frings in 242 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:09.480 the sacrifice. This in the glorious presence of the Lord 243 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:10.080 filled the. 244 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:13.039 Temple, I think makes me think of Indiana Jones. 245 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:17.399 Yeah, no, caid, the priests could not enter the temple 246 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:19.919 of the Lord because the glorious presence of the Lord 247 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:20.480 filled it. 248 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:22.720 When all the people of Israel. 249 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.519 Saw the fire coming down in the glorious presence of 250 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:26.840 the Lord filling the temple. They fell face down on 251 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:29.039 the ground and worshiped and praised the Lord, saying he 252 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:33.120 is good, His faithful love endures forever. Then the king 253 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.840 and all the people offered sacrifices to the Lord. King 254 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.840 Solomon offered a sacrifice a twenty two thousand cattle, one 255 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.320 hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats, and so the 256 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:43.840 king and all the people dedicated the temple of God. 257 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.120 The priests took their assigned positions, and so did the Levites, 258 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:51.279 who were singing His faithful Love and doers forever, That's 259 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.759 their song. They accompanied the singing with music from the 260 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:58.159 instruments David had made for praising the Lord. Across from 261 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.559 the levites, the priests blew the trumpet while all Israel stood. 262 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.840 Solomon then consecrated the central area of the courtyard in 263 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.519 front of the Lord's temple. He offered burnt offerings and 264 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:10.600 the fat of peace offerings there because the bronze altar 265 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.200 he had built could not hold all the burnt offerings, 266 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.559 grain offerings, and sacrificial fat. For the next seven days, 267 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:19.799 Solomon and all Israel celebrated the Festival of Shelters. A 268 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:23.720 large congregation had gathered from as far away as Lebohemath 269 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.120 in the north into the Brook of Egypt in the south. 270 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:29.159 On the eighth day, they had a closing ceremony, for 271 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:32.039 they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days, 272 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.039 the Festival of Shelters for seven days. Then at the 273 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.360 end of the celebration, Solomon sent the people home. They 274 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:39.600 were all joyful and glad because the Lord had been 275 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.960 so good to David and to Solomon and to his 276 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:46.519 people Israel. So Solomon finished the Temple of the Lord 277 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:49.600 as well as the royal Palace, and he completed everything 278 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:51.159 he had planned to do in the construction of the 279 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:53.120 temple in the palace. And then one night the Lord 280 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:55.840 appeared to Solomon and said, I've heard your prayer, and 281 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.759 I've chosen this temple as the place for making sacrifices. 282 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:01.279 At times I might shut up to heavens so that 283 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.480 no rainfalls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or 284 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:07.679 send plagues among you. Then if my people who are 285 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.000 called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and 286 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:14.039 seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, I 287 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:17.240 will hear from heaven, will forgive their sins and restore 288 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:19.759 their land. My eyes will be open and my ears 289 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.679 attended to every prayer made in this place. For I 290 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:25.000 have chosen this temple and set it apart to be holy, 291 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:27.679 a place where my name will be honored forever. I 292 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:29.600 will always watch over it, for it is dear to 293 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:32.840 my heart. As for you, if you faithfully follow me 294 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.360 as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees 295 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:40.360 and regulations, then I will establish the throne of your dynasty. 296 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:42.759 For I made this covenant with your father, David, when 297 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:45.159 I said one of your descendants will always rule over Israel. 298 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:46.720 But if you or your. 299 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:49.399 Descendants abandon me and disobey the decrees and commands I've 300 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.840 given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, 301 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:54.120 then I will uproot the people from this land that 302 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.120 I have given them, and I will reject this temple 303 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.039 that I have made holy to honor my name. I 304 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.159 will make it an object of mockery and res to 305 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.320 qele among the nations. And though this temple is impressive, now, 306 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:06.240 all who pass by will be appalled. They will ask, 307 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.320 what did the Lord do or why did the Lord 308 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:09.320 do such terrible. 309 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.960 Things as this land and to this temple? Is that 310 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.200 where I end one more vership. 311 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:17.440 And the answer will be because this people abandoned the Lord, 312 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:19.960 the god of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, 313 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.519 and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down into them. 314 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:25.120 That is why he has brought all these disasters on them. 315 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:26.200 Wow. 316 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:29.879 Yeah, So up to this point there had never been 317 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:33.039 a permanent address for God. There was the Tabernacle, which 318 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:36.480 was a mobile even though it wasn't It was very 319 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.279 stationary in one place for long periods of time, but 320 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:39.840 they would. 321 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:40.399 Pick it up and move it there. 322 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:42.720 They would pick it up. It was tense, yeah, yeah, 323 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:46.120 are tense yep. And it was elaborate, I mean it was. 324 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.039 It was not you know, a circus tent where you 325 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:52.679 put up in one day. But however it was mobile. 326 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:56.360 And but this is the first time where brick and 327 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:01.720 mortar and stone and gold and silver and everything else 328 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.200 comes together, and it is the most I would imagine 329 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:11.879 it is probably the most elaborate building, maybe perhaps ever 330 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.840 created in human history. At this point. Would you agree 331 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:16.440 with that? Yeah? 332 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.799 Well, if you get in and read the descriptors, I mean, 333 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:23.120 the everything covered in gold, the magnificent design of it. 334 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:28.360 But then it was so delicately made that there there 335 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:32.039 were leaves on this this one thing inside the temple, 336 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.720 there was a tree and there were leaves, and each 337 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:37.159 of the leaves was independent, and when the wind would 338 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:39.039 blow through, the leaves would rustle. 339 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:42.159 But it was made out of gold. Right, it's phenomenal. 340 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:45.879 The artistry in this is it's the peak. It's the 341 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:47.679 pinnacle of everything that had ever been made in the 342 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:50.320 world up to that point. Right, And you and I 343 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.399 we've been to the Pyramids before. I've been to all 344 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.759 kinds of pretty amazing things that happened before this time, 345 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:58.120 but I've never seen anything that even came close to 346 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:03.200 the intricacies and the delicacy of how fabulous and ornate 347 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:04.000 this building was. 348 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:06.080 Yeah, it's pretty pretty phenomenal. 349 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:09.120 So it's yeah, it's got to be one of the 350 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:12.720 greatest structures ever built. God says, Hey, listen, I'm impressed. 351 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.879 I like it a lot. Don't mess with me or 352 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.559 I'll destroy it, because this building is not more important 353 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:21.600 to me than your heart. Right, what you built for 354 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:23.080 me is not more important to me. There if you 355 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.279 cheat on me. This building means nothing to me. That's 356 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:28.480 what he says. Right, I'll destroy it and the world 357 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:32.120 will mock it. And that that's really amazing that even then, 358 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:35.080 in this great act of worship, God still only really 359 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.200 wants the heart. Thank you for the nice gift, but 360 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:38.000 I want the heart. 361 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.200 Because because the temple for God is just a vessel. 362 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:44.440 For this is where the sacrifices will be. I'll hear 363 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:48.000 the prayers in this building. That's the promise. And as 364 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.320 long as you worship me, this building will be important 365 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:52.720 to me. If you if you don't worship me, I'll 366 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:55.600 make it mockery this building. So yeah, you're right, it is. 367 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:58.519 It is only important because of the people. It's only 368 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.240 important because God's cheap desire hire is to have a 369 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:05.000 personal relationship. And by the way, that's that's a sermon altogether. 370 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:05.319 Isn't it. 371 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:10.759 Because you know, people think that you know that Jesus. 372 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:13.400 Sometimes they would claim or think that Jesus came to 373 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:16.279 start a religion. Jesus didn't start to coming just to 374 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.079 start a religion. He came to start a relationship, right 375 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:21.680 with with with you and with me. That's his chief goal. 376 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:25.240 That's God's end game from the very beginning was our 377 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:28.799 relationship were stored with our heavenly Father and uh and 378 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:35.799 then also, uh, we're to understand that that God uh 379 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:39.720 wants us more than our even our obedience. So what 380 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:41.480 is he saying in the Old Testament? He says, uh 381 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.920 uh uh, it's it's more obedience is more important than sacrifice. 382 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:49.279 The human response is more important than a thousand burnt offerings. 383 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:49.880 Right. 384 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:54.279 So so it's always primarily the person over action, and 385 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:58.119 it's over in this case the temple right right, which 386 00:17:58.160 --> 00:17:59.920 which which translates today into churches. 387 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.599 Yeah, it's always the person over religious action. To what 388 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:06.119 God's saying is you're demonstrating your love for me by 389 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.480 how you behave. And he said, when you decide you're 390 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:10.440 going to go after other idols, when you're gonna decide 391 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:13.200 that you're going to reject my law. Then he said 392 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:14.880 there's going to be consequence of this, and to the 393 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:17.319 point where he finally says, I'm going to set. 394 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:20.640 This aside and I will hear your prayers here. I'm 395 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:21.519 going to make it holy. 396 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:24.440 The idea that God makes anything holy just means the 397 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.160 word holy for us, we think means perfect behaves in 398 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:29.599 a perfect way. Holy for God means it's set aside 399 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:32.400 for me. It's not for you, it's for me now, right, 400 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:34.240 And he says, so, I'm going to make this holy. 401 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:37.440