WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.759 practical ways. Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Bible Guys. I'm Chris, this. 4 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:16.800 Is Jeff and here we are ready and raring to go. 5 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:20.359 Yes, and we're still in this temporary setting and the 6 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:23.480 heritage room at our church because there's construction going on. 7 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:27.280 So hopefully you'll enjoy this makeshift table. 8 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.239 Super awesome, super awesome, super awesome. 9 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:32.039 But we're excited about it. 10 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.799 Nonetheless, we'll just work extra hard to bring it today. 11 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:37.439 Yeah, we will. We will. And if you're watching on video, 12 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:39.479 you know that if you're not, then nobody cares. 13 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:43.280 It's a difficult life we live, Yes, such a hard thing. 14 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:45.200 We're recording it a temporary space. 15 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:46.119 Oh so bad. 16 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.479 So we are in middle of a series called God's 17 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.399 Promises and we're thinking about or we're not thinking. We 18 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:57.880 are going through contemplating. No, no, I mean we're not contemplating. 19 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.880 I mean we're discussing, discussing different promises, one for each week. 20 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:06.319 They're themed and they're different context for the same promise. 21 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:09.879 That's right, right, So we're talking this week about God's protection. 22 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:12.480 But before we do that, we have our classic dad 23 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:16.200 joke competition. Ooh classic, it is classic. Okay, so we're 24 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.920 gonna just read all five. Each will take turns and 25 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:21.000 then decide who has the better batch of jokes. 26 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.359 Okay, all right, have you looked at yours yet? 27 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:24.079 No? 28 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.599 I did not look at mine either. So here it goes. 29 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:29.319 Are you ready? Let me do it first? Okay? I 30 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:31.439 get number one. I had to return the vacuum cleaner. 31 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:32.439 It sucked. 32 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.120 Oh that was That was pretty good because it was straight, 33 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:36.879 straight forward. 34 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:38.640 Yeah yeah, yeah, just right on the nose, right on 35 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:39.040 the nose. 36 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:43.239 There's a shock value to that one. 37 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:44.799 Yeah, okay, I like it good. 38 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.480 Okay, number number one for me. Why can't your nose 39 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:49.680 be twelve inches long? 40 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:56.560 I don't know, because then it would be a foot okay, clever? Yeah, okay, 41 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:02.400 all right, what's an astronaut's favorite chocolate Mars bar? That's 42 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:03.040 a rough one. 43 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:04.239 Yeah, that's pretty rough? 44 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:04.760 All right? 45 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.680 Okay. Why don't eggs tell jokes? 46 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:12.240 I don't know, they crack each other up? Oh no, 47 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:14.240 is this the way today's going? 48 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:14.879 I think? 49 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:17.960 Oh boy, I think we're going downhill? Do you think? 50 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:19.800 By the way, so you know you're a little bit 51 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:22.159 of a conspiracy theorist. You'll go down the rabbit hole. 52 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:27.840 Sure do you think does gives us bad dad jokes 53 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.280 on Monday just to make Monday worse? 54 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:30.879 Oh? 55 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:32.879 Do you think what that is a theory? 56 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:34.520 Do you think that's what she's doing? 57 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:35.520 That is a theory? Right? 58 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.400 Because I mean there's times we laugh, we laughed so hard, yes, 59 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:44.439 and then you know Monday ones. You know what I think, really, mars. 60 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:46.560 Bar, I think we may be giving her too much credit. 61 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:48.840 I'm not sure she does. 62 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.520 She's sitting right over there. I know she's like some 63 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:57.479 evil you know, I don't know, sitting in her lair. 64 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:06.719 She's plotting against us, sitting with bad dad jokes. Okay, anyway, sorry, sorry, 65 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:10.479 does we didn't mean to go ahead? Number three my 66 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.919 wife rearranged the labels on my spice rack. I haven't 67 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.759 confronted her yet, but the time is cuman. 68 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:20.400 Oh that was worse than. 69 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:21.759 All of them. 70 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:25.800 Okay, this one's not horrible. Okay, what do you get 71 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:29.080 when you put a duck in a cement mixer? I 72 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:34.599 don't know, quacks in the pavement, So this is not good. 73 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:36.319 But the concept of a duck in this sent Max 74 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.560 for funny Man. Yeahs, I'm so close to becoming a billionaire. 75 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.159 I have all the zeros now I just need a one. 76 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.919 There you go. Okay, that's good, that's pretty good. 77 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:48.919 Yeah, I got all the zeros. Yeah, nine zeros. 78 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.680 Baby, all right, here we go, ready, now this one. 79 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:53.639 See they progressively get better. I like this one. 80 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:53.919 Okay. 81 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:58.599 Scientists recently managed to weigh a rainbow. Turns out it 82 00:03:58.639 --> 00:03:59.199 was pretty light. 83 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:05.400 Pretty light. Yeah, he's pretty like, you get it. It's 84 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:06.759 pretty it's pretty late. 85 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:08.080 It is, it's it's life. 86 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.919 It's pretty funny. Did you hear about the wig thief 87 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.960 who escaped prison? At least are combing the area to 88 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:19.480 find him. Oh yeah, see see this conspiracy theory holds 89 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:22.319 up today. It holds up what I didn't understand. They're 90 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:26.399 combing the area for the wig thief. A wig thief, 91 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:30.680 wig thief. I didn't care. It's pretty complex. It's a 92 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:36.040 lot of moving parts, a lot of. 93 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:42.439 All right. Number five, the man that invented throat lodginges 94 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.800 died last week. There was no coffin at his funeral. 95 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:51.360 You got a couple of goes there. 96 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:54.079 I like the rainbow one, the duck quack thing was 97 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:55.639 not bad. The coffin one wasn't bad. 98 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.920 Okay, I had the vacuum cleaner was the peak? 99 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.079 Yeah, yeah you peaked. Everything else was down here? Okay, 100 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:05.399 So I clearly. 101 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:08.000 It was a plot against me, I'm telling you all right. 102 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:10.759 Well, I mean I clearly had the better batch. So 103 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.759 I went right, Hey, coffin quacks and uh and what 104 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:19.639 what else? And ducks? No rainbows? Rainbows? 105 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:24.920 If desiree Ye was an what what? 106 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:25.000 What? 107 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:28.639 Like a James Bond villain spy was an evil villain? 108 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:33.000 What would her name be? 109 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:38.839 Ooh, I wonder what does does chat GPT know enough about? 110 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:41.279 I think it will. I think you'll know who Desiree is? 111 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:41.839 So? 112 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:49.120 Uh what does it say? So I did it in 113 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:55.519 the wrong thing? Okay, you did the wrong check? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 114 00:05:55.560 --> 00:06:00.439 I did the wrong one. If Desiree was an evil villain, what. 115 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:01.519 Kind of villain would you be? You know? 116 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:07.079 What would her name be? What would her name be? Okay, 117 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:09.040 here we go, let's see what it says. 118 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:21.120 Uh, despair way, despare ray instead of lady dreadoray, Desiree 119 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.399 the devourer that tongues. 120 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.480 No, it's it's yeah, okay, we're just sticking with Desiree. 121 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:28.000 Yep. 122 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:31.920 Yeah, all those were laying Desiree the conspirator. That's what 123 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:32.959 it is anyway. 124 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:37.560 Okay, well, hey, thanks Daz, and we're moving on to uh. 125 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:39.680 They thank goodness, you're family moving on. 126 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:41.519 You know what I think. I think when the people 127 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:44.360 heard us making fun of Desiree, they had an instinct 128 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:45.040 to protect her. 129 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:46.120 I think so too. 130 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:49.639 Yeah, and you know we're talking about the Lord protecting 131 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:50.600 us today. 132 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:54.120 Oh good one, good transition. Yeah, we all were talking 133 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:55.120 about the protection of the Lord. 134 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:55.560 That's right. 135 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:57.959 The Lord will strengthen you and protect you. That's what 136 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:01.480 it says, even from the onslaught of the show hosts Desiree. 137 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:02.000 That's right. 138 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:06.240 Okay. So we are in Second Thessalonians, chapter three today, 139 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.920 and the highlight is verse three. Yes, but I'm just 140 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:10.720 gonna read the whole chapter. 141 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:11.759 Oh there's a lot of highlights. 142 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.360 Yeah, I'm gonna read the whole chapter. It's only eighteen 143 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:16.839 verses and he covers a lot of stuff here. Finally, 144 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:19.160 dear brothers and sisters, we ask you to pray for us. 145 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:21.600 And when he says we and us, he's talking about 146 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:24.800 him and his travel companions, Paul. Pray that the Lord's 147 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.319 message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, 148 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.279 just as when it came to you. Pray too that 149 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.920 we will be rescued from wicked and evil people. For 150 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.199 not everyone is a believer, but the Lord is faithful. 151 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:39.240 He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. 152 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:41.959 And we are confident in the Lord that you are 153 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:45.199 doing and will continue to do, the things we commanded you. 154 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.120 May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding 155 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:50.000 and expression of the love of God and the patient 156 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:53.720 endurance that comes from Christ. And now, dear brothers and sisters, 157 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:55.480 we give you this command in the name of our Lord, 158 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:59.199 Jesus Christ. Stay away from all believers will live idle lives, 159 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.439 and don't follow the t eddition they received from us, 160 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:03.959 For you know that you ought to imitate us. We 161 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:05.680 were not idle when we were with you. We never 162 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.199 accepted food from anyone without paying for it. We worked 163 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:10.079 hard day and night so we would not be a 164 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:12.199 burden to any of you. We certainly had the right 165 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:13.959 to ask you to feed us, but we wanted to 166 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:16.879 give you an example to follow. Even while we were 167 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.480 with you. We gave you this command. Those unwilling to 168 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:23.160 work will not eat. Yet we hear that same or 169 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:25.279 that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to 170 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:28.279 work and meddling in other people's business. We command such 171 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:29.959 people and urge them, in the name of the Lord 172 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.559 Jesus Christ, to settle down and work to earn their 173 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:34.720 own living. As for the rest of you, dear brothers 174 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:37.440 and sisters, never get tired of doing good. Take note 175 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:39.279 of those who refuse to obey what we say in 176 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.279 this letter. Stay away from them so they will be ashamed. 177 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:44.799 Don't think of them as enemies, but warn them as 178 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:47.440 you would a brother or sister. Now, May the Lord 179 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.480 of Peace himself give you his peace at all times 180 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.120 and in every situation. The Lord be with you all. 181 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:57.200 Here is my greeting in my own handwriting, Paul, I 182 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.559 do this in all my letters to prove they are 183 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.279 from me. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 184 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:02.919 be with you all. 185 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:05.799 There you go there it is. 186 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.000 Yeah, well, Paul thinks you ought to get back to 187 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:11.000 work and give back to work and not the idol. 188 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:11.679 That's right. 189 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:16.879 Yeah. I had to laugh when he said, uh, stay 190 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.799 away from evil people because not everybody's a believer, which 191 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:23.960 then implies that every believer is not wicked or evil. Right, yeah, 192 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:27.240 so that's that's really funny. But think about think about 193 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.960 the warning though that he is giving, because in his context, 194 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:34.159 those who aren't believers, they were plotting to capture and 195 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:37.360 kill him. Oh sure, right, So he's not saying, like 196 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:42.720 a believer who maybe has malicious intentions of slandering reputations 197 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.120 or you know, all all the all the things that 198 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.200 maybe we deal with in America today where you're like, hey, 199 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.960 these Christians they say and do things. But that's not 200 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.480 what he's saying. He's saying, stay away from, you know, 201 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.080 deliver us from the evil people who aren't believers because 202 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:02.159 they're after them. And didn't he actually have people who 203 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:06.120 pretended to be believers who tried to harm him? 204 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.360 Well, there were there were people who claimed to be 205 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:13.200 Christians that he had what Simon that wanted to buy, 206 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:17.120 wasn't it? Was it Paul where Simon wanted to buy 207 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:20.799 the Holy Spirit? Or was it Peter and John in 208 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:23.519 the Book of Acts? Remember, Yeah, yeah, that guy caused 209 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:27.480 him trouble. He complains about Alexander the copper smith who 210 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.200 inside the church was still causing a lot of trouble. 211 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:34.840 He he He talks about how Demus left him and 212 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.720 you know, abandoned the enemy. Yeah. He has a lot 213 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.720 of sad stories of people that claimed to be Christians 214 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:45.399 or were around fringe, they were hanging around the Christians 215 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:47.039 that just caused a lot of trouble. 216 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:50.440 Yeah, so that's that's an interesting thing. But the main 217 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:52.720 verse is, but the Lord is faithful and he will 218 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:56.919 strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. 219 00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:57.360 Right. 220 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:02.159 So, and he's writing that too the Church of Thessalonica, 221 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:06.159 right so, so dear brothers and sisters. Finally, dear brothers 222 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:07.080 and sisters. That's right to the. 223 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.240 Christians there, He's right to Christians absolutely. 224 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:13.200 So the promise then is that the Lord is faithful, right, 225 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.039 and he's going to guard you and strengthen you and 226 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:17.240 keep you from the evil one. 227 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:17.360 So. 228 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:20.679 Uh So that promise then, even though it was given 229 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.919 to that church, is you know, you could probably build 230 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:25.879 a case and say that that is a general promise 231 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:30.919 because it's not for a circumstance for them, it is 232 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.240 a truth about who God is, right right, Yeah, And 233 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:37.720 so whenever whenever there's a promise coming from God, uh, 234 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:41.759 you know, you know, banking on who he is and 235 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:44.759 his nature and his character. That holds true for today 236 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:47.480 because God is the same yesterday, today and forever. So 237 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:50.320 God's going to always, you know, bless us, keep us, 238 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:53.879 protect us, watch over us, and certainly guard us from 239 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:56.159 the evil one in our lives. Yeah. 240 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.320 So the whole context here is pray that the Lord's 241 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.240 message will spend rapidly and be honored wherever it goes. 242 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:04.639 And then he says, because it turns out, not everybody's 243 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.039 a believer, and not everybody likes it, That's what he's saying. 244 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:10.399 Not everybody likes that the Gospel is coming to their village. 245 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.240 He said, pray that it will be spreading everywhere, that 246 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:17.200 it'll be received well honored wherever it goes. But then 247 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:19.720 he says, and then also there's times we're going to 248 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:21.879 be rescued because not everybody likes the fact that the 249 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:24.399 Gospel is showing up there. And that's okay, And it's 250 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:27.440 in that context, he says, but even though not everybody's 251 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:29.720 a believer, the Lord is faithful and he'll strengthen you 252 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:31.120 and guard you from the evil one. It's in the 253 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:34.600 context of sharing the gospel that he that this promise comes, 254 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.039 God will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. 255 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:40.120 He's not saying when you're going to the grocery store, 256 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:43.120 God's going to protect you and protect you from the evil. 257 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:44.519 You know, deliver you and protect you from the evil. 258 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:47.399 And that's not the context, you know, when you're out 259 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.279 there arguing politics, it doesn't say that God's going to 260 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.799 deliver you and protect you from the evil one. It's 261 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.600 in the context of pray that the gospel will spread 262 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:57.960 quickly and be well received, because not everybody likes to 263 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.759 hear the gospel, right, And so then I'll protect you 264 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.480 in that way, so you know, and we're confident in 265 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:06.919 the Lord that you're you are doing and will continue 266 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.720 to do the things we commanded you, which is go 267 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:12.639 tell everybody which is honor or live right all. 268 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.240 So let me play devil's advocate on this promise. So 269 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:18.759 what was the name? I know you know this already 270 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:22.039 because we had mentioned it literally, I think on HC 271 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:25.000 Daily this is how far back they go. But I 272 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.480 think I mentioned what's the name of the tribe where 273 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:30.240 the men go and then they're killed and the women 274 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:32.080 go back and then they lead the tribe to career. 275 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:35.720 It was the Akka tribe and they were in Ecuador, 276 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:40.039 and yeah, in the fifties. According to anthropologists, they were 277 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:44.000 the most violent group of people that had ever been studied. 278 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:49.399 And they were basically an un reached people as far 279 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.799 as like nobody had actually been able to get into 280 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:55.679 that village and teach them English or teach them how 281 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:59.159 to read or anything. They were just hunter gatherers in 282 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:03.080 the in the junk and they had a seventy five 283 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.559 or eighty percent homicide rate. The majority is like seventy 284 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:10.200 five or eighty percent of every person who died inside 285 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:14.320 the tribe was murdered. Wow, yeah, it's pretty crazy. So 286 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.039 and so then it was Nate Saint and Jim Elliott 287 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:19.200 and all those guys and their families, all these young 288 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:22.279 couples from was it Wheaton isn't where they were from. 289 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.440 They went down and with a plane and started trying 290 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:26.279 to reach these people. 291 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:30.080 And finally, so where was this promise for them? There's 292 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:34.759 the Devil's advocate, right yeah, So so God to protect 293 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:35.480 you until he's. 294 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:39.000 Done with you, that's correct, right, yeah, Okay, And. 295 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:44.120 Maybe God's purpose for them was martyrdom, right, martyrdom to 296 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:48.279 make a lasting impact well beyond oh yeah, lifetime. 297 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.759 Man alive, you know. So for most people, they're so 298 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:56.360 terrified of death that they can't imagine anything worse. Most 299 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:59.120 people think, my own death is worse than the idea 300 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:03.120 of an entire trib going to hell for eternity. Right, 301 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:06.399 that's what most people think, most people, And it's and 302 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:08.240 this is why Paul so frustrated. He said, death, where's 303 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:14.080 your sting? There's no sting. But for most people, the 304 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.480 devil has gotten us so afraid of the idea of dying. 305 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:19.639 We're really afraid more of the idea because we don't 306 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.039 know what it's gonna be, like, what about pain, what 307 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.960 about whatever? We're just afraid of that. That's what we're 308 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:29.759 afraid of. Whereas on occasion God will allow. John Fox 309 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.879 wrote Fox's Book of Martyrs back in the Middle Ages 310 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.200 or something, maybe a little after Reader on the Reformation, 311 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:40.120 something like that. Anyways, he wrote that the blood of 312 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:43.120 the martyrs is the seed of the church. Is the phrase. 313 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:44.879 Yeah, that's a great sat phrase. 314 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:50.879 So oftentimes those first people pushing in, like Stephen in 315 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:56.120 Jerusalem was martyred, then the church explodes, right, this happens 316 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:01.120 all throughout history that sometimes having something willing that you're 317 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.480 willing you'd rather die for than to give up on, 318 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:09.679 is inspiring to all the other moderate and good people 319 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:12.279 in that group, go, I can't believe they're willing to 320 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:16.399 die for that, right, And that's what happened with Jim Elliott, 321 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:18.399 Nate Saint and all them, and then their wives went back. 322 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.000 A couple of them, Elizabeth Elliott and Nate Saint's wife 323 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:25.080 both went back and began sharing the gospel. And Nate 324 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:28.399 Saint's sister actually moved in with that tribe and wound 325 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.600 up leading them all to Christ, almost all of them, 326 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:36.120 and they turned into a very aggressive evangelists, traveling all 327 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.399 throughout the jungle to all the other because they were 328 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:41.480 the fearsome warrior tribe and they would come in early on. 329 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:43.840 They would come in dressed as warriors into village and 330 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:47.320 then lay down their weapons, take off their their warrior garb, 331 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:50.039 and then say, Jesus changed us, and He'll change you too. 332 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.759 That was their evangelism strategy. Did you know that? 333 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:54.039 Oh? 334 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:56.120 No? I? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool. So min 335 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.879 Kai was the guy who killed Nate Saint and was 336 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:02.320 one who killed Jim Elliott, and later on he became 337 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:04.960 the leader of all the Christian preachers all throughout that 338 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:07.279 that part of Ecuador in the jungle. Wow, and so 339 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:09.559 a lot of time. So this promise, but the Lord 340 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:12.240 is faithful. Hey, that promise is always true. God is 341 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.759 always faithful. He will strengthen you. I believe he strengthened Nate. 342 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.720 He strengthened Jim Elliott. Jim Elliott is the one. Before 343 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:20.480 they left, people were like, why would you go to 344 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:22.359 the auchatribe. They're the most dangerous people in the world. 345 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.799 And Jim Elliott said, he is no fool who is 346 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.839 willing to give what he cannot lose, or give what 347 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.599 he cannot keep, in order to gain what he cannot lose, right, right, 348 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.599 which is like, I can't I can't keep my life. 349 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.559 I'm willing to give that in order to gain say 350 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:43.960 it again, he is no fool who is willing to 351 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:47.599 lose what he cannot keep in order to gain what 352 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:51.440 he cannot lose. It's great quote, right, great quest, and 353 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:54.759 the idea being, I'm willing to give my life if 354 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.640 that's all it takes, because the devil can never take 355 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.200 away my martyr's crown. The devil can never take away 356 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.319 the opportunity leading these people to Jesus, right, and that's 357 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.319 what happened. So in this situation, then the Lord was 358 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:08.720 faithful even to Jim Elliot and Nate Saint and the 359 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:12.720 other three guests. And he did strengthen them, right, and 360 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:14.720 he did guard them from the evil one. It doesn't 361 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:17.599 say he guarded them from evil right, right, from the 362 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:22.000 evil one, right. And you know, so where Satan would 363 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:25.440 love to just destroy them and keep them separated from 364 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:28.680 God for eternity, they you know, they had the strength 365 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.880 to face it. And there's worse things than dying, you know. 366 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:34.440 So anyways, that's that and I love it. So God 367 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.440 is faithful and he will strengthen you, and he will 368 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.960 guard you, and and those are all true. I believe 369 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:42.000 they're true. They're particularly true in the context of spreading 370 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:46.000 the gospel, right, and then you are invincible until God's done, 371 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.640 and then that's gonna be okay, Right, That's gonna be okay. 372 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:52.720 But then I love it where he pivots and he's like, hey, 373 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.000 and I love Paul if you read any of his books. 374 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.200 So from from the Book of Romans on he gets 375 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:01.440 to the last chapter, and he's like, cramming a bunch 376 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:03.279 of stuff in at the end. Oh, and by the way, 377 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:05.640 don't forget this, And a lot of times it's stuff 378 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.160 that's not doesn't have anything to do with the whole 379 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.720 rest of the book. And here he pivots and he goes, hey, 380 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:12.480 by the way, keep back to work. What are you 381 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:15.319 people doing? Why are you being so lazy? Right? And 382 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:17.400 he's like, oh, I forgot I got to address that. 383 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.880 They got a bunch of bums over there in thessal Andika, 384 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:23.559 and you guys need to quit quit just looking for 385 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:27.359 handouts and being lazy. And you know, he says, those 386 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:28.839 unwilling to work won't get to eat. 387 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.519 Yeah, he's stay away from those who are believers who 388 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:33.319 live idle lives. 389 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:34.400 Yeah, stay away from him. 390 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:36.000 Yeah, and he says, he goes, just you know, you 391 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.359 should imitate us. He goes, we worked hard, Yeah, and 392 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.079 we we actually worked hard to be an example for you, right, 393 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:43.519 follow me as I follow. 394 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:44.279 Christ right right? 395 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.200 Yeah. And by the way, that's a that's a great 396 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:49.400 sermon hidden right in there by itself, isn't that? So 397 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:52.119 you know, if we're leading somebody, because we always say 398 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.960 everybody leads somebody. Right, So whether you're leading your kids 399 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:58.119 or leading at work, and you have influence pretty much 400 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:01.200 wherever you go and your friendships and anything else. It's 401 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:07.559