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 --> 00:00:13.919 practical ways. Hey, everybody, it is Friday, and we're hoping, 4 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.480 we're hopefully you're excited. Maybe it's your last day at 5 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.440 work today, or or maybe you're a weekend warrior and 6 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:22.280 maybe this is the first big day. Maybe you we're 7 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:23.280 at a restaurant and. 8 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:24.760 Yeah, but we're all grateful it's Friday. 9 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:25.920 You're buckling up for a. 10 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:26.879 Friday, that's right. 11 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:32.280 Yeah, but either way, thanks tuning. It's it's always very great, 12 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:35.640 says Tony the Tigers. You're wearing sort of orange today. 13 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:38.520 Look at you, and all you gotta do is put 14 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:41.920 your hand up when you say it. There you go. So, hey, listen, 15 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.439 welcome to the Bible Guys. Thanks for tuning in, and 16 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:48.280 we're gonna be talking about First Thessalonians chapter five today. 17 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:49.479 Yeah, which is a good one. 18 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:52.560 It's good. But before we do that, we have a 19 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:54.759 segment that we are very excited. 20 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.799 Yes, well, normally on a Friday, the highlight of everybody's 21 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:01.359 week is what made Chris math this. Yeah, not today, 22 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:05.239 but we also have a significant highlight that our fan base. 23 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:08.920 Our long timers know they this is incredibly important because 24 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.560 we bring an important service to our people. We bring 25 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:15.879 important news. We scour the internet for news or for 26 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.879 special interest pieces or good parenting suggestions. 27 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:20.519 And I would say ninety percent of the time when 28 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:23.480 we read from this, I'm very It makes me very happy. 29 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:24.120 Yes, me too. 30 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:25.239 It's very funny. 31 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:28.319 So we find our very best news on the Babylon 32 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:31.519 Bee website we do, which is probably as good as 33 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:34.680 any other news source out there. More beneficial. 34 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:39.120 I doesn't say, way more beneficial than most, yes, most news sources. 35 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:40.560 And if you don't know, the Babylon b is a 36 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:44.040 satire website, very funny. They don't sponsor us at all. 37 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:46.480 They should. I don't know sponsors all, but you should. 38 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.760 You should check them out. They're funny. Anyways, this one 39 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:51.959 is it has a hey do you know what? Do 40 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.719 you know what this month is? It's a thirty fifth 41 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.159 anniversary of Home Alone. 42 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:58.040 That's incredible the Christmas movie. 43 00:01:58.159 --> 00:01:59.400 Yeah, isn't that amazing? 44 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:01.040 It's really It makes me feel pretty old. 45 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:04.560 So with Home Alone the spirit of Home Alone in 46 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:08.520 our minds. This headline says, reminder, if you leave your 47 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.639 kids home alone this holiday season. Make sure they have 48 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.560 plenty of paid cans, blow torches, and a cutout of 49 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:18.159 Michael Jordan. That's the headline if you've seen the movie Okay, says. 50 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:21.000 US authorities issued a public service announcement in time for 51 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.680 the holiday season, reminding parents that if they leave their 52 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:26.639 children home alone, they just ensure that they have access 53 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.439 to plenty of paiate cans, a blowtorch, and a cardboard 54 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:32.319 cutout of Michael Jordan. In a pinch, a cardboard cutout 55 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.919 of Shaquille O'Neil would also be acceptable. The Federal Administration 56 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.319 for Children and Families held the press conference on Wednesday, 57 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:40.280 and which it called in the public to remain vigilant 58 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.280 throughout the holidays by keeping a sufficient supply of paint cans, 59 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:48.360 blow torches, bowling balls, nail guns, tar micromachines, hot irons, 60 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:52.719 old gangster movies, and tarantulas. We know the holiday season 61 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:54.879 is a busy time of year and attempting to leave 62 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:56.800 your kids alone at home while you run errands or 63 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.479 fly to Europe, But if you do, we're asking you 64 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:02.599 to do the right thing. Make sure they have access 65 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.319 to your tool shed, and to cutout a major sports 66 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:09.840 figure FACF director Richard Keller said, and please keep in 67 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:12.400 mind your state's self defense laws to determine if a 68 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.199 Michael Jordan cut out, our cardboard cutout is right for 69 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:18.560 your family. Families were also being encouraged to hit stores 70 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.759 early to stock up on supplies for all the feathers 71 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.680 and large fans were sold out. Do not wait for 72 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.039 Black Friday sales. It'll be too late, authorities warned at 73 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.039 publishing time. Authorities had also encouraged families to make friends 74 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:32.719 with a kindly old man who Selt sidewalks on their street. 75 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:34.520 That's so funny. 76 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.039 So you definitely have to have seen Home Alone. 77 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:41.080 So so, did you ever see the cartoon version where 78 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:46.719 it actually says if Home Alone's thieves were normal, reasonable 79 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:48.919 people or something like that. Oh no, it's pretty funny 80 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:52.159 where it's like they walked in and they walked in 81 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:55.879 through the through the door, and in the one thief 82 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:58.159 books at the other and goes, hey, watch your step. 83 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:02.039 There's there's broken glassrooms and the guy goes, oh, thanks, 84 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.639 and he steps over it and he goes, yeah, did 85 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:06.240 you have any trouble getting in? He goes, well, he goes, 86 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:08.800 I want to go reach for the doorknob, he goes, 87 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.400 and it was a little hot, so I immediately let 88 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.599 it go, and I decided to not keep my hand 89 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:18.399 on it, he goes, So I just came in through 90 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:21.040 the window or something like that. But it's just hilarious, 91 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:23.439 how you know, Like you've got to be a pretty 92 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:24.879 dumb thief in order to fall for it. 93 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:26.480 But I gotta admit, I want to go watch the 94 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:26.959 movie again. 95 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:29.240 Oh yeah, it's a classics, right well. 96 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.279 I love the line in this one where it says, 97 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:34.279 we know it's tempting to leave your kids alone at 98 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:38.720 home while you're on errands or fly to Europe, right right, right, 99 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:41.600 It's so good. 100 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:44.319 Yeah. And you know what the best part about home 101 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:47.639 alone for me at the time is, even back in 102 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:50.199 nineteen ninety, I was, you know, just graduating high school 103 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:52.959 and in college, and I actually remember seeing the preview 104 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.399 back then, and I remember my buddy and I talked 105 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.360 about it and I said, there's not been this is 106 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.800 a brand news story, like nobody's nobody's come up with 107 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.639 this story. This is an original idea, yeah, right, The 108 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:07.920 idea of like leaving your kid home, that's a that's 109 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.959 an original idea back then, and I actually thought to myself, Wow, 110 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:13.639 that's gonna be great because it's it's a brand new. 111 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:15.600 Here we are thirty five years later and we still 112 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:20.120 don't have something better. Yeah, well I thought elf Elf 113 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.000 was original. 114 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:25.120 That's a good story. Yeah. Yeah, it is an original idea. 115 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:28.600 And uh, it's actually really hard today to come up 116 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.959 with an original story. A lot of stories are like 117 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.959 you know, you're like, oh, Avatar, that's just dancing with wolves. Yeah, 118 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.279 just recycled on a planet, right, it's like that's what 119 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:38.639 it is. 120 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:40.839 Yeah, And it's like. 121 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:44.439 Yeah, but then you see a brand new movie come 122 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.680 out that has a brand new idea and you're like, 123 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.680 wreck it. Ralph and it was a kid's it was 124 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:52.279 a Pixar film. But it's like what it's like a 125 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.639 bad guy wanting to be good and in video games. 126 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.000 I mean it was brilliant. I remember thinking I saw 127 00:05:58.040 --> 00:05:58.600 record Ralph for. 128 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:02.319 The first bad guy. Doesn't make me bad guy? 129 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:05.759 Right, right? I remember thinking like, this is a brilliant 130 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.319 script because it's brand new, right, and you look at 131 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.600 the theater now, it's like it's like you got the 132 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:14.319 Running Man, you get all that stuff. It's it's all 133 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.920 the recycled stuff, right, now so. 134 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:21.240 Anyway, well, we're not going to recycle anything today. We're 135 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:26.160 bringing original opinions. Yes on second, third, or first That'salonians 136 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:26.759 chapter five. 137 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.879 That's right. We're not going to recycle some old you 138 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:32.240 know commentary. 139 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.639 That's right there it is, that's right, that's right. We 140 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:36.399 are pulling it right off the top of our head 141 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.639 and making this stuff off as we go. So if 142 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:43.240 you're new to our show, wow, it's so greats. 143 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:46.959 Don't rely on some well versed you know, a group 144 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:50.560 of guys who get together and scholars, scholars who you 145 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.720 know bring you like great information to you. 146 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.800 Just just so, the whole premise behind our podcast if 147 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.160 you're new, is that we are two friends who like 148 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:02.000 to talk about the b in fun and practical ways, 149 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.399 and we really do take our faith seriously. We just 150 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:06.279 don't take ourselves too seriously. So we laugh a lot. 151 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:07.959 Yeh works around. We have a little bit of fun, 152 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:11.439 bring your very critical news and special interest pieces sometimes, 153 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:13.519 but we also like talking about the Bible. And today 154 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.800 we're talking about God's promises and we are in first 155 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:19.079 that Saloneiast chapter five, and our big promise today is 156 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:21.199 in verse twenty four. But we just decided we're going 157 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:23.399 to read from the very beginning of chapter five, says 158 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:26.240 now concerning how and when all this will happen, dear 159 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:28.879 brothers and sisters, we don't really need to write to you, 160 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:30.480 for you know quite well that the day of the 161 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.560 Lord's return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. 162 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:37.040 When people are saying everything is peaceful and secure, then 163 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:39.199 disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant 164 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.319 woman's labor paints begin, and there will be no escape. 165 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:44.480 But you aren't in the dark about these things, dear 166 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:46.360 brothers and sisters, and you won't be surprised when the 167 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:48.360 day the Lord comes like a thief, for you are 168 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:50.720 all children of the light and of the day. You 169 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.759 don't belong to darkness and night. So be on your guard, 170 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:57.240 not asleep like others, Stay alert and be clear headed. 171 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:01.040 Night is the time when people sleep and drinker get drunk. 172 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.040 But let us who live in the light be clear headed, 173 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:06.560 protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing 174 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.560 is our helmet, the confidence of our salvation. For God 175 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:12.279 chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not 176 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:15.399 to pour out his anger on us. Christ died for us, 177 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:18.199 so that whether we are dead or alive, when He returns, 178 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.920 we can live with him forever. So encourage each other 179 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.680 and build each other up, just as you are doing already. 180 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:27.240 Dear brothers and sisters, honor those who are your leaders 181 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.680 in the Lord's work. They work hard among you and 182 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:33.120 give you spiritual guidance. Show them great respect and wholehearted 183 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.559 love because of their work, and live peaceably with each other. 184 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:38.799 Brothers and sisters. We urge you to warn those who 185 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.720 are lazy, encourage those who are timid, take tender care 186 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.919 of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone. See 187 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:47.200 that no one pays back evil for evil, But always 188 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.679 try to do good to each other and to all people. 189 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.200 Always be joyful, never stop praying, be thankful in all circumstances, 190 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.159 for this is God's will for you, who belong to 191 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:59.320 Christ Jesus. Do not stifle the Holy spirit. Do not 192 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.320 scoff at price ophees, but test everything that is said, 193 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.200 Hold on to what is good, Stay away from every 194 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.000 kind of evil. Now that may may the God of 195 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.120 Peace make you holy in every way. May your whole 196 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.639 spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our 197 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:17.159 Lord Jesus Christ comes again. God will make this happen, 198 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:21.399 for he who calls you is faithful. Dear brothers and sisters, 199 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:23.480 pray for us. Greet all the brothers and sisters with 200 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:25.679 the sacred kiss. I command you, in the name of 201 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:27.919 the Lord, to read this letter to all the brothers 202 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.399 and sisters, and may the grace of our Lord Jesus 203 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.440 Christ be with you. Doesn't sound that sound like the 204 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:37.639 end of Hebrews, right, I'm just saying right, right, if 205 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:39.039 you missed it. At the beginning of that, we talked 206 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.559 about Hebrews, and we argued about who are we debated 207 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:43.879 about who was the author of Hebrews, And I just 208 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.960 said that the last chapter of Hebrews feels like the 209 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.559 last chapter of most books that Paul wrote. And here 210 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:50.879 it is right here, right, same way, and by. 211 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.559 The way our operator verses verse twenty four, where it 212 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.080 says God will make all this happen, for he who 213 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.360 calls you is faithful. 214 00:09:58.440 --> 00:09:58.840 That's right. 215 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:01.879 So it's again just another promise in a different context 216 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.360 about God's faithfulness. So the same promise, just different context. 217 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.240 So Paul is writing to the church in Thessalonica, and 218 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:12.159 he's giving final advice, just like Jeff said, Hey, don't 219 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.960 forget these ten things at the very end, and he's 220 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:19.879 just reminding us that God is faithful, right, pray for us. 221 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.080 He's going down on the line. But again, just this 222 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:26.120 wonderful reminder that God is always going to be faithful 223 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:30.919 to us in all different scenarios is great. You know, 224 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:36.480 there's a note that I was glancing at. Oh, I 225 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:40.840 know it was. It was Paul's final advice for church leaders. Right, 226 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:45.240 So in verse number twelve through like twenty two, Basically 227 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:50.120 he talks about, you know, honoring church leaders who are 228 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:53.120 in God's will and you know, just to follow them 229 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:55.559 and how they work hard and invest in you. So 230 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:57.480 there's a note here that says this, it is tragic 231 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:01.200 when believers neglect or ignore the local church. No family 232 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:04.360 is perfect, and no local churches perfect. But without a 233 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.279 family to protect him and to provide for him, a 234 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:10.720 child would suffer and die. The child of God needs 235 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:13.320 the church family if he is to grow, developing his 236 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:17.320 gifts and serve God. Right, and then has another note 237 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:20.279 here about spiritual leaders in spite of their limitations, God's 238 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:23.919 spiritual leaders should be respected and obeyed unless it's obvious 239 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.480 that they are out of God's will. As the spiritual 240 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:30.559 leaders of the church meet together, plan, pray, and seek 241 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.240 and follow God's will, we can be sure that God 242 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.120 will rule and overrule in the decisions that they make. 243 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.559 The result of the church's family following the spiritual leaders 244 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:45.240 will be peace and harmony in the church. Now, as 245 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.039 church leaders, we love that, yes, because there are people 246 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:51.480 who they lose sight of that, don't they. You know, 247 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:53.559 one of the funniest one of the funniest comments that 248 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:57.120 I made was we have a discipleship class at Heritage 249 00:11:57.759 --> 00:11:59.639 called one oh one and we do one on one 250 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:01.639 to a one three oh one, four one and one 251 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.000 one sort of like an introduction to Heritage. It covers membership, 252 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:07.960 it covers baptism, salvation and these are basics, but we 253 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:10.159 do it pretty deep dive, right, and then we do 254 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:12.720 membership Covenant and you know, the rules of the Church 255 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:16.879 and things like this. But anyway, there's a section in 256 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:19.120 there that talks about our structure. I think it's under 257 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:23.799 the structure where it talks about disunity understructure, and so 258 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:27.399 it basically says, hey, listen, if you come to Heritage, 259 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:29.519 just know that we're not going to do a lot 260 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.159 of voting. We're not a big committee church, and voting 261 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.480 tends to divide. We do, we do vote on the 262 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.399 important things, but you know you're not going to come 263 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:39.679 here expecting to vote on the paint on the walls 264 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:42.720 and things like that. But here's my favorite part. My 265 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:47.440 favorite part is that says disunity causes strife and sin, 266 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:51.799 and then we always have a Bible verse or two 267 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.000 Bible verses to back up that. But on the disunity part, 268 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:57.799 we have like seventeen hundred Bible. 269 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.399 Yeah, a bunch. I mean, it's it's legitimately, and if 270 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:02.960 you don't believe me, there's twenty five verses. 271 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.080 Yeah, it's probably like twenty five verses, and it just 272 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:08.440 lists verse after verse after verse, and I just I 273 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.080 make a joke about it every time because I'm like, hey, listen, 274 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.799 I'm like, if you're wondering why the other points have 275 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.519 two Bible verses to back it up, you know, based 276 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:19.679 off of what God's word says. Here's twenty five that's say, 277 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:22.120 if you're coming to Heritage Church and you plan on 278 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:25.360 causing just unity, this is not a church that welcomes in. 279 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:30.200 Yeah. Well, Paul was so aggressive against unity, disunity he's 280 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.960 frustrated in First Corinthians, he's frustrated in the Second Corinthians. 281 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:38.200 He challenges him here at Thesalonaika, he challenges them an Ephesians. Right, 282 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:41.799 unity is so important, and we're supposed to act like 283 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:44.200 brothers and sisters are supposed to build up and encourage. 284 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:48.440 I think it's interesting from verse eleven to the end 285 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.720 of the chapter, he's really hitting this idea of being encouraging. 286 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:59.759 Always be joyful brothers, Honor those who are your leaders. Right, 287 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:04.840 there's this honor idea. There's a respect idea. In verse thirteen, 288 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:10.639 there's a challenge, warn nos idea. Encourage those who are timid, 289 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:14.519 take tender care those who be patient. Right, he's talking 290 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:16.320 about all these behaviors. 291 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.799 Yep, anybody can be away full. Don't stifle the Holy Spirit. 292 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:25.919 Yeah yeah, never stop praying, don't scoff all these things. 293 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.000 So there's a note in the Life Application Study Bible 294 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:31.840 for encouragers. I think it's interesting. A lot of people 295 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:34.720 tell me I'm just not really sure what God wants 296 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.279 me to do in the church, and what they're saying 297 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:39.639 is I'm not a preacher, I'm not a singer. I 298 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:41.720 really don't have a desire to serve the children or 299 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:43.639 the teenagers? Am I supposed to do? And I always say, 300 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.600 then probably your goal God's God's plan for you is 301 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:49.279 to be an encourager. Right, anybody can be an encourager. 302 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:51.120 Not all of us have a skill set to be 303 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:55.840 a Bible teacher, a singer, or a children's worker, but 304 00:14:55.879 --> 00:15:00.720 we can all be part of the crowd cheering on, celebrating, 305 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:02.240 encouraging one another. 306 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:04.480 Right, do you think you're good at that? No? 307 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:06.879 Encouraging, I'm I'm not great at current encouraging. I want 308 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:08.720 to be you, Are I am? 309 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.720 I think I was about to say, no, I'm not. No, 310 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.240 Maybe I just maybe it's just that I long to 311 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.279 be so much more. Maybe, But I actually I was 312 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:19.879 about to say, I don't think that I am. But 313 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:21.519 if you think I am, maybe I'm better in a thing. 314 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:23.360 I get to the work of it, and so I'm 315 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:25.240 moving on to the next thing, the next thing, the 316 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:26.799 next thing. I'm alwas trying to make a thing better. 317 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.759 I have to really, really really work to remember to 318 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:32.279 encourage people. But there's some people you get around them 319 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:34.720 and you feel like a million bucks when you Bob Harvey, 320 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:35.840 the founding pastor. 321 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:36.080 Head is true. 322 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.000 On my word, you can't be around that guy for 323 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:38.519 five minutes. 324 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:39.320 What he is. 325 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.759 Man, I'm ready when I'm done talking to Bob Harvey, 326 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:43.519 I'm ready to charge hell with a squirt gun. 327 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:44.159 Yeah he is. 328 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:45.240 I just I'm so excited. 329 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:46.000 He's like Barnabas. 330 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:49.840 I know. He just encourages everybody can be if we 331 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.360 would choose to be encouraging. And so in the life 332 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.120 appicationis study Bible. It points these out. Here are the commands. 333 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:59.039 By the way, the last twenty times I've seen Bob Harvey, 334 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.039 I bet you twenty of twenty, he always says, We're 335 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:04.720 so glad that your heritage. Man, We're so thankful, You're 336 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:06.960 so great. And I'm just like, oh my gosh, I'm 337 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:08.639 I love this guy. I love this guy. 338 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:12.039 Bob hug me right right, yeah, And he's probably listening 339 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:14.039 to the podcast right now. But the Bible says this, 340 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:17.519 from verse eleven to verse twenty three. He tells us 341 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:20.159 build each other up. Yep, right, that's point out some 342 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:24.200 quality about something that you appreciate about him. Honor your leaders, 343 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.480 look for ways to cooperate with the people that are authority. 344 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:29.519 Show your leader's great respect, hold back from making critical 345 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.840 comments about those in position responsibility, and instead thank them 346 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:36.759 for their efforts. Live in peace, So search for ways 347 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.759 to get along is what he's saying there. That's an 348 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:43.519 act of when you're living in piece, you're actively choosing peace. 349 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:47.200 You're looking for ways to cooperate. Warn the lazy. So 350 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:50.360 it's important we got to challenge people. Sometimes challenge someone 351 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.159 to join you in a project might be the best 352 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:54.279 way to do that. Hey, hey, don't sit on sidelines. 353 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:54.799 Get involved. 354 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:58.320 Come on, it's recruiting is really what it is. Encourage 355 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:01.840 the timid right, Remind those that are timid of God's promises. Hey, 356 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:04.480 don't be afraid God, It's going to take care of you. 357 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:06.720 Take care of the week. Support those for a week 358 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:11.319 by loving them and praying for them. Be patient. That's 359 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.559 a hard one, but we can choose patience. Resist revenge 360 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:18.039 verse fifteen. Resist revenge instead of planning to get even 361 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:21.119 with somebody, do good to them. Be joyful is in 362 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:23.720 verse sixteen. Remember that even in the midst of turmoil, 363 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:26.039 God's and control, so we can have joy because He's 364 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:28.400 the winner. I read the back of the book, Jesus wins. 365 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.480 Everything else is incidental to the fact that he wins. 366 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:35.920 Never stop praying in verse seventeen, because God's always with you, 367 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:38.119 so keep talking to him. That's why you can be joyful. 368 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.880 Verse eighteen. Give thanks. That's a good way to start, right. 369 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:42.519 Make a list of all the things that God's given 370 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.319 to you and done for you. Don't stifle the Holy Spirit. Instead, 371 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:47.480 the better thing is to cooperate the Holy Spirit. Next 372 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:49.440 time he prompts you, if you think of something good 373 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:51.119 to do, do it. You think something good to say, 374 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:53.880 say it right. Don't hold back what the Holy Spirit 375 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:57.319 say to you. Instead, act on it. Don't scoff at prophecies. 376 00:17:57.400 --> 00:18:00.319 And He's best basically saying, receive God's words from those 377 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.559 are speaking. Stay away from every kind of evil, avoid 378 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:05.839 situations where you're gonna be drawn into temptation, and then 379 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:09.319 count on God's constant help. Realize that Christian life is 380 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:11.480 to be lived not in our own strength, but through 381 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:13.799 God's power. That's such a dude. If you can only 382 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:15.920 have one chapter on what it means to be a 383 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:19.400 follower of Jesus, how you should be living first, Thessalonians 384 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:20.079 is right up there. 385 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.799 With Romanswel I say, yeah, it's not a bad chapter. Verst. 386 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:24.960 Scealonians five and Romans twelve, I think are the two 387 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:26.759 best passages that say. 388 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:27.240 Just do this. 389 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.039 Yeah, oh, I don't know what God's will it's for me. 390 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:32.519 How about just take that chapter and start working on 391 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:33.519 those fifteen things? 392 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:33.720 Right? 393 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:39.559 Was it? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen? Yeah, fifteen? Wow, 394 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:42.519 look at you bank? Yeah, I was noticing it was 395 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:44.720 in groups of five, that's why. 396 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:48.400 Yeah, So that's that's actually pretty amazing. You know, I 397 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:52.119 remember teaching verse number nineteen. I did a whole little 398 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.640 devotion one time on that one verse and you and 399 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:58.880 I memorized it as do not grieve the Holy Spirit, right, 400 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:01.640 the Holy Spirit of God, but do not stifle the 401 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:05.480