WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.199 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. Here 4 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.039 we are. We are right here in the podcast studio 5 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:17.879 where we always are. 6 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:19.440 And we're so glad you came back. If you're a 7 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:20.679 returning listener. 8 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:22.879 Yes, and if you're a brand new listener, good luck. 9 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:28.320 Buckle up. All right, we're gonna start off with a 10 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:31.320 segment that Desiree has for us called the World Record 11 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:33.439 draft List, which is very okay, fun. 12 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:34.560 We've never done this before. 13 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:37.280 Well, I think it's actually a little unusual. I don't 14 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:39.600 know how to answer it. This is how it reads. 15 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:42.679 It says, for today's draft list, let's talk about world records. 16 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:45.920 Let's shall we? Okay, if you could hold a work 17 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:48.320 I just don't know how to answer this. If you 18 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.320 could hold a world record for anything in the world, 19 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:52.119 what would it be? 20 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:52.920 I have no idea. 21 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.520 Do rock paper scissors to determine who gets the first 22 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:57.799 pick and then go intol. You have three top world 23 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.520 records each, So one shoot okay? Ready? One two three? 24 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.480 Shoot oh? We both went scissors one two three shot oh? 25 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:08.840 I went rock my scissors. It's rare I beat you. 26 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:11.359 Yeah, but you've but you've said that enough to word. 27 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:12.200 Now I'm starting to wonder. 28 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:14.120 Yeah, yeah, no, it's rare that I beat you. Okay, 29 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.599 So I get to get the first world record draft list. 30 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:20.079 So if I could have any world record, what would 31 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:22.560 it be? Well, I don't know, I've never thought about 32 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:23.159 this too much. 33 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.480 Yeah, I would think that not at all. 34 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.519 So I'm gonna say, make the most money the fastest. Yeah, 35 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:32.079 there you go, which is what I'm pretty sure you 36 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.640 said before we started this segment. Yes, yes, So I'm 37 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:36.760 taking that your top draft pick. I just pulled it 38 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:39.000 right off the table. Okay, I'm gonna see Yeah, although 39 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.239 I don't I don't know that I would want that 40 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:41.359 kind of money, to be honest with you. 41 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:43.840 But yeah, yeah, and uh, and I'm going to say, 42 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.560 uh to eat the most Handles ice cream from Youngstown, 43 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:52.120 Ohio butter Brican Sundays without gaining any weight. 44 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:58.159 The world record for the most butterbecan ice cream from Handles, Yes, 45 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.319 in Youngstown, in Youngstown, with getting fat. 46 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:03.719 With a quarter in my left front pocket. 47 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:08.599 Okay, okay, it's a very specific, very specific world record yeah, 48 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:10.879 just booked the World Records, is in the process of 49 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:15.240 printing that out, going with the quarter in his left pocket. Okay, 50 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:26.080 world record, let's do a serious one. I think the 51 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:30.680 fastest person to travel to all un recognized countries and 52 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:31.639 territories in the world. 53 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:33.120 Oh, that'd be kind of cool. 54 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:35.560 They'd be kind of neat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was 55 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.280 tracking with a guy that was on pace before COVID 56 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:41.599 that he was going to be the youngest person to 57 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:43.479 have ever made it to all the countries. Then COVID 58 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.759 hit and he got blocked out of four of the 59 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:48.439 countries or five of the countries that he needed to 60 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.080 get into he couldn't get into, and a girl beating 61 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:54.960 because the countries she had left were countries that were 62 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.800 still open she could get into. Yeah, that's kind of neat. 63 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:01.120 So the fastest person to all hundred and ninety six 64 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:02.280 recognized countries. 65 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:06.560 I'm gonna say it'd be cool to have the world's 66 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:11.199 largest world record, largest baptism event. 67 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.360 Ooh, that'd be pretty good. I wonder what that would be. 68 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:16.800 I don't want if that'd be either, but that'd be awesome. 69 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:17.719 Yeah, that would be cool. 70 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:20.360 Yeah, because obviously baptism is a sign of people. 71 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:24.039 I was part of a baptism event where we baptized 72 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:25.560 thirty one hundred people at one time. 73 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:28.120 You just had a trump peer Yeah yeah, yeah, just 74 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:30.919 by one hundred, one hundred. Yeah, that's funny. 75 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:35.919 Nothing right, kind of costs two, right right, let me see. 76 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.800 So so what was that that was number two for you? Okay, 77 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:43.360 so this is my third one. I think a world 78 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:49.400 record that would be really cool to have is the 79 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:50.400 land speed record. 80 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.560 Oh really, wow, that's yeah, that's it? 81 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:55.240 Be crazy? 82 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:56.400 Are you seriously thinking? 83 00:03:56.439 --> 00:04:00.280 I think that'd be terrible, terrifying, terrifyingly scary. 84 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.240 Because when people wreck from that, they don't come back. 85 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:02.479 Yeah. 86 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:05.479 Yeah, that's all right, that's all right, yeah yeah, yeah, heaven. 87 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:07.479 I don't know if you wrecking the thing like that, 88 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:09.560 you don't want to come back from it, do you? 89 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:13.719 That's probably true? Yeah. Okay, well then I'm going to 90 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:14.639 say something similar. 91 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:16.680 I'm going to say I want to change it. 92 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:20.360 Oh really? Oh yeah, go ahead, I know, I totally 93 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:22.560 give you a promessionally change please do it. I was 94 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:31.439 going to say, uh, the uh, the longest ever traveled 95 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:34.759 with a jet pack, The longest distance ever. 96 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:37.040 Traveled with a jet pack, yep, yep. Again you don't 97 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:38.360 come back from those recks either. 98 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:41.560 Yeah, I do think really, but with a jet pack, 99 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:43.639 Oh wouldn't it jet pack be awesome? 100 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:45.920 Yeah, it would be. It'd be like flying pretty much 101 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:49.160 a part I thought by now as a kid, Yeah, 102 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:52.000 watching you know, all the movies and stuff. I thought 103 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.519 by twenty twenty five we would have jet packs. I 104 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.639 thought cars would be floating, right. I didn't think we'd 105 00:04:58.680 --> 00:04:59.639 be on roads anymore. 106 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:02.639 Roads. I know we're going. 107 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:06.240 We don't need roads, that's right now. I was gonna say, 108 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:10.680 go the furthest into space. Oh yeah, I would you 109 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.600 go into space if they give you? So we got 110 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:16.240 citizens out there doing doing a space walk this week. 111 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:21.199 I want to say yes, but I in the end, 112 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:23.759 I just don't think it's important enough to me, Like 113 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:26.759 I would be so cool. But that to me is 114 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.000 as silly as going down to see the Titanic. I 115 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:32.160 can see it on the films, you know what I mean. Yeah, 116 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:34.600 it's like it's like, Wow, would it be so cool 117 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.240 to go down there. I'm like, yeah, it really would be. 118 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:37.480 Would I do it? 119 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:37.800 You know? 120 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.759 Because because one has to outweigh the other, right, So, 121 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.639 like the jetpack thing, that might outweigh the danger for that. 122 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:46.360 For me, I'd have to be convinced of it, right, 123 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.800 But but it's like, wow, the payoff. 124 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:50.439 Well, there's a lot of things you can see in 125 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.360 a video or a picture that you still want to 126 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:53.120 go see. 127 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:56.439 I know, but like the payoff of like being the 128 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:58.920 furthest in space or actually your question was would I 129 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:02.439 go into space and the payoff of being in space 130 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.600 versus what you're facing. I just don't know the payoff 131 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:11.639 would be big enough for me because space is absolutely terrifying. 132 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:17.240 Wow. Well, speaking of payoffs, yeah, David is now about 133 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:21.040 to regret his bad decision yesterday, right right, Yep, the 134 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:22.720 payoff isn't worth it. 135 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:25.000 It was a pretty weak transition, but. 136 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:31.199 You'll permit it. Okay. So yesterday we talked about David 137 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:37.600 sin with Beesheba and him ultimately committing murder and just 138 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:41.120 so many horrible things. And he's the king, so to 139 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.519 some extent, he's expecting his power to protect him, and 140 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:47.839 he's expecting that he is going to be immune to 141 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:52.000 any consequences. And so in Sewo Samuel chapter twelve, verse one, 142 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:55.480 it says, so the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to 143 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:58.480 tell David this story. There were two men in a 144 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:00.920 certain town. One was rich and one was poor. The 145 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.199 rich man owned a great many sheep and cattle. The 146 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:06.519 poor man owned nothing but one little lamb that he bought. 147 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:08.639 He raised that little lamb, and it grew up with 148 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:10.759 his children. It ate from the man's own plate, and 149 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.160 drank from his company, cuddled it in his arms like 150 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.040 a baby daughter. One day a guest arrived at the 151 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.160 home of the rich man, but instead of killing an 152 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:20.959 animal from his own flocker herd, he took the poor 153 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.519 man's lamb and killed it and prepared it for his guests. 154 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.680 David was furious. As surely as the Lord lives, he 155 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.319 vowed any man who would do such a thing deserves 156 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.240 to die. He must repay four lambs to the poor 157 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:35.439 man for the one that he stole, and for having 158 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:39.399 no pity. Then Nathan said that David, you are that man. 159 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.000 The Lord, the God of Israel, says, I anointed you 160 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:44.360 king of Israel and saved you from the power of Saul. 161 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.120 I gave you your master's house and his wives, and the 162 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.759 kingdoms of Israel and Judah. And if that had not 163 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.800 been enough, I would have given you much much more. 164 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:55.240 Why then, have you despised the word of the Lord 165 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:58.720 and done this horrible deed? For you've murdered Youriah the Hittite, 166 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.519 with the sword of the Ami Nights, and stolen his wife. 167 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.199 From this time on, your family will live by the 168 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:07.240 sword because you've despised me by taking your eyes wife 169 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.360 to be your own. This is what the Lord says. 170 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:11.600 Because of what you've done, I will cause your own 171 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:14.759 household to rebel against you. I will give your wives 172 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.519 to another man before your very eyes, and he will 173 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.759 go to bed with them in public view. You did 174 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.319 it secretly, but I will make this happen to you openly, 175 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:23.399 in the sight of all Israel. 176 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:28.720 Oh, I will give your wives to another man before 177 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:30.319 your very eyes, and he will go to bed with 178 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:36.240 them in public wow view. You did this secretly, but 179 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:37.480 I'll make this happen openly. 180 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:39.360 Oh. It's terrible, isn't it. Oh? 181 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.440 Yeah, you know. And doesn't David make a reference. We 182 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.200 might even read it next podcast. But doesn't he say 183 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:49.000 my sins are Now? 184 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:50.759 What does he say ever before me? 185 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.960 Ever before me? Yeah? We're meaning like now the whole 186 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.600 nation knows them. He knows everybody knows my deep and 187 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:05.399 dark secrets. And you know, this idea that that David 188 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:10.360 has been cursed is pretty radical considering that David up 189 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:12.480 to this point has you know, been shown nothing but 190 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:17.519 favor blessings, and David has had God's hand upon him. 191 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:24.200 David has acted righteously, godly up to this point. David 192 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.200 has really just lived the life right. And so can 193 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.679 you imagine the moment where you know, Nathan sticks his 194 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.159 bony little finger out and looks in the public court 195 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:37.120 and says, you're the man. 196 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:42.200 It's how courageous is Nathan, because Nathan also knows David 197 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:45.279 kills people who bring bad messages, right, and he goes 198 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.879 he had the courage that God said, hey, go confront him, 199 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.919 and he had the courage to confront immorality. You know, 200 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:55.039 he was a spiritual leader and prophet and he had 201 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.240 the guts to go say it regardless of the consequences, 202 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:00.720 because God didn't tell him go and I'll protect you. 203 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.320 I just say go do it. And he obeyed and 204 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:03.919 he went and did it. 205 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:08.399 And yeah, and and by the way, what a brilliant 206 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.960 I'm yawning because of the low light. Everybody sorry about that. 207 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.919 But so he says yeah, so I say, uh, well again, 208 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.159 sleep last night I had dreams. I was an r 209 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:22.399 E M. 210 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:22.960 Good. 211 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.000 I'm not like extra tire good for you. So it 212 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.600 has to be a little lighting, must be. No, But 213 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.919 tell me how brilliant the little lamb story is. 214 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.080 Oh, well, David, he spent his whole life as a 215 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:34.919 shepherd as a young man. 216 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.480 Yes, it has levels of brilliance. 217 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.360 Well, the sheep would have been his only friends, right, Yeah, 218 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:43.639 he's this lonely little kid watching a few sheep. His 219 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.360 brothers even said, where are you with your few sheep? Yes, 220 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.360 it wasn't like they had massive flocks. 221 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:51.799 And imagine how much you love your pet, your animals? 222 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:52.039 Right? 223 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:55.559 Imagine know you you love your dogs Gucci and Coco 224 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:56.559 whatever their names. 225 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.519 Are, Chanel, And they're not my dogs, they're my wife 226 00:10:59.559 --> 00:10:59.919 and daughter. 227 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.440 Yeah, I love my cats. Yah, right, so and so 228 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.320 can you imagine you know, David would have loved Dave 229 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:09.879 would have known exactly what this was like. He would 230 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:11.399 have loved this sheep. 231 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:14.039 Right and then and then he appeals to the idea 232 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:16.720 of a rich man abusing a poor man. Yes, right, 233 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.559 And David thought of himself as a man of the people. Yes, right, 234 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.279 he remember, just a little while ago, he's bringing the 235 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:26.120 Ark of the Covenant back into the city and he 236 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.840 passes out bread and cakes of raisins and cakes of dates. 237 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.559 He thinks of himself as a man of the people. 238 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:36.080 Right, And when Michael says, you're undignified like a commoner, right, right, 239 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:39.639 He's like, that's fine, Yeah, I'll become more undignified. 240 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:41.399 Because she thought he should be behaving like a king, right, 241 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.559 And he's like, nope, I'm going to celebrate like everybody 242 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.399 else is celebrating, right, the goodness of God. Right, So 243 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.440 he thinks of himself as a champion of the people. 244 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.240 That's what he was. They're saying, Oh, Saul's killed his thousands. 245 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.679 David's killed his ten thousands. He's always been a champion 246 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:56.679 of the people. He's just one of the good guys. 247 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.200 He's just one of the people. And so he hears 248 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:02.480 about this rich man who goes and steals one little sheep, 249 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:04.440 and this rich man has all the sheep he needs. 250 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.879 David had how many wives? Right? He has what like 251 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.879 six wives? Isn't that what he had? Two? Three, four 252 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:16.320 or five? Yeah? Five wives? So he's fine, he's got 253 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.000 more than he needs. More than was legal according to 254 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:23.440 God's law. And he goes and steals bast Sheba and 255 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.799 he just gets furious when he hears this story that 256 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.919 guy should die. Now she die, she'd pay back four 257 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:30.759 times what he told. 258 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.879 I mean, think about how disgusting that act was. If 259 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:36.679 that story were true, which I mean technically it was 260 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:40.320 because it wasn't sheep, but it was wives. But if 261 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:44.879 that story were true about the lambs, what an absolute 262 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:46.600 horrid thing to do. 263 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:47.399 Yeah, what a jerk? 264 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.559 Oh big, big time, right, I mean, like you have 265 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:52.440 no soul, right right. 266 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:53.320 So heartless? 267 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:57.519 Yes, yeah, and yet and he says, you're the selfish 268 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:01.679 And I can imagine that David, with this big public image, 269 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:08.799 you know, always being good, he probably already suspected that 270 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:13.399 people were murmuring. He probably already suspected that, you know, 271 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:16.519 the emperor has no clothes right right, and that nobody's 272 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:19.679 willing to tell him, and he probably understood all of that. 273 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.600 He's living a lie. He probably feels terrible about it 274 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:25.360 because we know he's a good man, so he knows 275 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:28.080 he's done wrong and he's living with this. And so 276 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.720 maybe perhaps one of the reasons why he didn't, you know, 277 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:34.639 respond to Nathan the way that he's responded to other 278 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:39.320 messengers is because he knows this judgment is righteous, This 279 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:43.000 judgment is just you know, and and how could I, 280 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:50.240 you know, possibly thwart God's message and and and come 281 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.440 against it because by the way, and he's seems to 282 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:52.919 all do that. 283 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.080 Yeah, and by the way, this is I think a 284 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:59.200 brilliant just just for people who are in a situation 285 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:05.519 where you have to deal with difficult confrontations or bad news. 286 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:10.000 The tactic that Nathan uses here is brilliant. He comes 287 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.080 in and puts a straw man third party story right, 288 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:15.720 and gets the guy, gets David to come to a 289 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:19.519 conclusion about the third man straw man story right, and 290 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:24.679 David that way, He didn't come in attacking David, you evil, 291 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.720 wicked person, which is what we want to do, right. Instead, 292 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:30.480 he takes a third party story elevates it. Now this 293 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:31.919 one winds up being a straw man. It's not a 294 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.320 true story, it's just an illustration. But sometimes you can 295 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:36.960 just bring in a third party, say hey, I heard 296 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.240 about this time or I saw this time before, and 297 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.279 he brings up this third party and then both of 298 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:45.039 both of them, David and Nathan came to the same conclusion. 299 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:48.200 That's a horrible thing, right, And so sometimes where I 300 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.200 can't get you to come all the way to me, 301 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.440 I can't get you to come to this third party story, 302 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.120 and two of us can meet there. And that's what did. 303 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:56.559 It was brilliant and it diffused the situation. You know, 304 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:00.159 Solomon wrote a soft answer, turns away wrath, right, and 305 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.120 so he comes in with a softer version of what 306 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.120 he's doing here. He's still confrontational, he's still going to 307 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.720 say you're the man, but he's going to set David 308 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.360 up with this third man's story, third third party story, 309 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:12.519 get him to get there first. And then once we 310 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.000 agree on that one, then let me just say, isn't 311 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.480 that what you did, David? Didn't you kill you Rayah 312 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:20.799 and take his wife? Aren't you the rich man? And 313 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.440 wasn't you right of the poor man? Right? And David 314 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.000 admits it, right, He takes that part of it. But 315 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:30.279 one of the things that Nathan tells David is he says, 316 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.600 God says to you, I gave you your master's house 317 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:36.240 and his wives, and the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. 318 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.799 And if that had not been enough, I would have 319 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:47.159 given you much much more. What There's always more with God, 320 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.279 no matter how far you've gone with him up to 321 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.720 this point, there's more, no matter how far he's taken you, 322 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:59.879 there's more. And David threw it all away, and God says, 323 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.279 we're done. From this point on, it's going to be 324 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:05.759 the sword in your house. It's going to be disloyalty 325 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:08.000 in your house. It's going to be a struggling house. 326 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.159 You understand. If you had just kept walking with me, 327 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.799 there was so much more, much much more for you. 328 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:18.720 I've already given you all your wildest dreams, but you 329 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.600 were just getting started. And now you threw it all away. 330 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:24.320 And so from here on out it's going to be 331 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.320 a struggle in your family. And buddy, let me tell 332 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.240 you the struggles in this man. We'll talk about in 333 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:30.559 the future. Hey, so there's more to this passage. We 334 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:32.960 didn't finish reading by the way, we were supposed to 335 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:34.320 read all the way through verse twenty five. 336 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:37.759 Oh really, Oh, because he got interrupted with some fifty one. 337 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:40.960 That's right. So then the Bible says David confessed to 338 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:44.039 Nathan and verse thirteen, I have sinned against the Lord. 339 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.679 And they replied, yes, But the Lord has forgiven you, 340 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.799 and you won't die for this sin. Nevertheless, because you've 341 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.320 shown utter contempt for the Lord by doing this, your 342 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.480 child will die. After Nathan returned to his home, the 343 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.879 Lord sent a godly illness, a deadly illness, to the 344 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:00.960 child of David and your Eye's wife. David begged God 345 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:02.960 to spare the child, and he went without food and 346 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:05.559 lay all night on the bare ground, and the elders 347 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:07.319 of his household pleaded with him to get up and 348 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:09.640 to eat with them, but he refused. Then, on the 349 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:13.000 seventh day, the child died. David's visors were afraid to 350 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.359 tell him. He wouldn't listen to reason while the child 351 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:17.599 was ill. They said, what drastic thing will he do 352 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:20.240 when we tell him the child is dead. When David 353 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:22.519 saw them whispering, he realized what had happened. Is the 354 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:26.079 child dead? He asked, yes. Dave replied, he is dead. 355 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:28.759 Then David got up from the ground and washed himself 356 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.359 and put on lotions and changed his clothes. He went 357 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.279 to the tabernacle and worshiped the Lord. After that he 358 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:37.480 returned to the palace with served food and ate. His 359 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.079 advisors were amazed. We don't understand you, They told him. 360 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:43.000 While the child was still living, he wept and refused 361 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:44.920 to eat. But now that the child is dead, you 362 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.119 stopped your morning and are eating again. David replied, I 363 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.599 fasted and wept while the child was alive, for I said, 364 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.480 perhaps the Lord will be gracious to me and let 365 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.039 the child live. But why should I fast when he's dead. 366 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.680 Can I bring him back again? I will go to 367 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:00.680 him one day, but he cannot return to me. Then 368 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.519 David comforted bath Sheba, his wife, and slept with her, 369 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:05.240 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, 370 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:08.359 and David named him Solomon. The Lord loved the child 371 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:11.079 and sent word through Nathan the prophet they should name 372 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:14.359 him Jedediah, which means beloved the Lord, as the Lord 373 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:15.000 had commanded. 374 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:23.640 You know, it's so evident that the servants had no 375 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:29.200 clue about God's sovereignty, right like, they were so confused. 376 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.599 They had it backwards, like, hey, if your child is sick, 377 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:36.119 at least he's living, right like like heads, you know 378 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:40.640 he's living, come on, let's go. There's there's hope here. Completely, 379 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.160 you know, just oblivious to the fact that you know, 380 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:49.599 they don't recognize God's God's word. Here, Nathan is still 381 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.799 doing this publicly. At least we assume right that you know, 382 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:54.559 Nathan gave it. 383 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.039 It's in the court of David. 384 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:57.759 At least, right, it's in the court of David. And 385 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:01.200 so Nathan says, your child will die, and so here 386 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:04.079 it is like, this is God's word. And so the 387 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:07.880 servants should have recognized that what David was doing was 388 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.839 he was going before God and communing with God. But 389 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:12.640 they're like, no, no, no, no, there's a chance he 390 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:15.599 could live. There's a chance. And then when the child dies, 391 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:18.960 they're like, oh, this is really bad news. But David 392 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:20.680 didn't see it that way. He didn't see like, oh, 393 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:22.599 at least he's living, and oh no, now he's dead. 394 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.960 This is a tragedy. He thought the whole thing is 395 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.000 a tragedy. But let me plead to God, you know, 396 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:32.599 in these seven days, so that God would show his 397 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.599 grace and mercy. And in once God executes his judgment, 398 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:39.920 he's like, Okay, God has made up his mind. And 399 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:43.960 so it's just so different how those two mentalities are. 400 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:48.720 And the biggest difference is is that David understood and 401 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:52.599