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 --> 00:00:13.320 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:16.239 My name is Chris and this is Jeffrey Man. 5 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:18.839 And I'm so only my mom calls me Jeffrey and 6 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:22.399 only when I'm in trouble. Okay, Jeffrey Michael, that's what 7 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:22.960 she's saying. 8 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:25.640 Then I'm Christopher. I'm Christopher, and this is Jeffrey. 9 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:27.000 Well, didn't your mom call you Chrissy? 10 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:27.839 Still does? 11 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:29.199 Yeah, okay, still does. 12 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:33.280 And then you know the reason why, Chucky, Donnie, Tommy, Jimmy. 13 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:34.920 Oh yeah, and so you had to be You're the 14 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:35.320 young guest. 15 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:38.119 And so I'm the one cursed with it doesn't work 16 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.439 with my name, right, everybody else it kind of works, right. 17 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.280 Uh So yeah, I'm I'm the fifth one that doesn't 18 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:46.000 really work with my name. And by the way, I 19 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.679 was supposed to be Jonathan Christopher, but I was born 20 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:52.240 on Palm Sunday, just after midnight, and so she wanted 21 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.280 to name me after actually, you know, she grew up Catholic, 22 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.240 so Saint Christopher. So she says, oh no, let's make 23 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:01.679 it more of a religion name, because she did. She 24 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:05.359 there wasn't a saint named Jonathan, right, and so I mean, 25 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:07.120 you know, unless you consider. 26 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:09.000 Saint John who wrote the Bible part of the part 27 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:09.560 of the Bible. 28 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:12.760 But but but no, so she named me after the saint, 29 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:14.599 which is anyway. 30 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:16.239 So that's why I became Chris Well. 31 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:18.840 And it's why you're so saintly. That is, people tend 32 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:19.799 to live up to their names. 33 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:20.319 Halo. 34 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:24.959 Yeah, So hey, we have a segment before we jump 35 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:29.400 into our UH series about Jesus and his famous sayings. 36 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:32.400 And this is what Desiree wrote. She said, this is 37 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:33.519 called a draft list. 38 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:35.799 Okay, we're going to draft since. 39 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:36.319 We are in this series. 40 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:39.159 If Jesus had a podcast, let's do a draft list 41 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:41.920 of people you would love to have as. 42 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:43.599 A guest on the Bible. 43 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:46.200 Guys, you rock paper scissors to see who gets the 44 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.319 first draft pick list. 45 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:53.439 And go until you have five people. Wow, rock paper scissors? Ready? One? 46 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:54.599 Two? 47 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:55.280 Three? Oh? 48 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.640 I did scissors. He did rock. He beats me like 49 00:01:57.680 --> 00:01:58.560 ninety percent of the time. 50 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:00.239 I don't know why I do. I just I'm in 51 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:00.640 your mind. 52 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:02.040 You're a pro, you're pro. 53 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:04.239 I'm a pro. You get it. I don't play the game. 54 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:08.800 I play the player, so play the man. 55 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.479 So uh so I'm assuming that what she is meaning 56 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.840 is if I were Jesus and I had a podcast, 57 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:18.280 which means like Biblical characters. 58 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:20.719 I don't know, I don't know what. 59 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:23.120 Because it wouldn't make sense to say, zach Efron. 60 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.000 Let's let's ask it. Well it makes sense for you. 61 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:27.199 Let's ask does this sitting right back there? Does? Did 62 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:31.159 you mean Bible characters or just anybody? Anybody? 63 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:31.719 Oh? 64 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:33.800 He said anybody, so you can have any So there 65 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:35.479 you go, zach Efron, Is that your first vote? 66 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.800 No, I'm just say I'm using a ludicrous example. 67 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:43.319 Okay, so if people you would love to have as 68 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.439 a guest, just just plain guest anybody? Well you wi 69 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:49.080 is okay, Well, then I would like to have number one. 70 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:50.800 My first draft pick is Chris Pratt. 71 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.800 Chris Pratt, who is a very strong game. 72 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:56.800 He is a very very outspoken yes and and uh. 73 00:02:56.680 --> 00:03:00.439 And I love the fact that he is uh. He 74 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:06.639 is not afraid to talk about Jesus. And even though 75 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.080 even though that he you know, may be rejected by 76 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.400 some people, they may shy away from him casting him, 77 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:13.599 he doesn't seem to be hurting right. 78 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:16.560 Yeah, and he's an outspoken Christian. I'd love to hear 79 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:17.360 his story of faith. 80 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:18.159 Would be interesting. 81 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:19.080 Yeah, for sure. 82 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.080 Who else should we have on the Bible Guy's podcast? 83 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:28.080 Let me see, I think it would be cool to 84 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:33.120 have David N. Wilson. We haven't had both of them 85 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.800 on our podcast before. Wow, wouldn't that be neat? 86 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:36.240 Yeah? 87 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.319 So David N. Wilson work on the staff at Heritage Now. Yeah, 88 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:43.199 and they have a podcast. I actually misquoted it at 89 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.360 Heritage Church. I said they have a million listeners a month. Oh, 90 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:48.960 and then Dave heard it and he said, he goes, Hey, 91 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:50.759 it goes. It's okay that you said that, he goes, 92 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.240 but you know, it's a million listeners a week. And 93 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:56.199 I said, and I was like, well that kind of 94 00:03:56.199 --> 00:04:00.960 Trump's are fifteen thousand for the Bible Guys, which is 95 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.919 our easily fifteen thousand. 96 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:05.919 We get like twenty thousand. Yeah, yeah, but still. 97 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:09.599 A million a week and ours are twenty thousand a month. Yeah, 98 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:11.439 So that's pretty funny. 99 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:15.199 So family Life Live, by the way, Yes, family life live. 100 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.839 So family life today, what is it? I think it's 101 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:21.920 Family life Today isn't it. It's one of those two. 102 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:25.319 I think it's today. Okay anyway, So okay. 103 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:26.279 So I think it'd be great to have them. 104 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:27.399 That's a great choice. 105 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:27.959 Yeah. 106 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:30.439 So I'm gonna go, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with 107 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:32.399 the stars, and I'm gonna say Carrie Underwood. 108 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:33.519 Carrie Underwood. 109 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.519 Yeah, so one of my one of my favorite country 110 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:39.879 singers of all time. Respect her voice tremendously, but also 111 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.000 she is an incredible woman of faith. And one of 112 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.600 my favorite little videos to watch is when she and 113 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:51.800 Vince Gill saying how great thou art and everybody stood 114 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:53.560 up at the what is it? 115 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:54.199 Was it? No? 116 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:56.680 No, no, no, it was actually at like a country 117 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.920 music awards, just a regular country music awards. 118 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:00.879 Uh whatever it was. 119 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:02.920 Yeah, I think it was the CMAS and she sang 120 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:04.800 how great there art, and every stood up and people 121 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.399 in the audience were crying, which goes to show you 122 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:11.319 that even amongst normal people who don't normally live out 123 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:13.639 faith or people who grew up with faith, they probably 124 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:16.680 have like a hidden faith, or as like a suppressed 125 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:19.319 faith or a faith that faith that isn't active deep 126 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:20.360 down inside they believe. 127 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:23.199 So here she is she sings how great there. 128 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:26.000 Art, and she sings it with such conviction that people 129 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:28.000 stood up and they're crying in the audience, people that 130 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.879 you wouldn't expect, because that's what you can do when. 131 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:32.800 You are bold with your faith. 132 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:36.399 There you go, that's pretty cool, that's fantastic. I think 133 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.720 I would have And this is I have personal reasons 134 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.120 for this one. David and Jared Nelms would be fun 135 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:43.600 to have on here. 136 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:44.040 Oh yeah. 137 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.279 So David is the founder of the Timothy Initiative and 138 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:50.959 Jared Nelms is the current CEO, and we work together 139 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:54.519 helping train disciple makers all around the world one hundred 140 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.720 and sixty thousand or something like that right now. And yeah, 141 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:59.279 so I think that'd be really fun to kind of 142 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:04.000 talk to them about father son interactions leading an organization 143 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:06.560 and then how do you scale, you know, at the 144 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.240 rate that they've scaled over the last fifteen years, twenty 145 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:11.759 years and pretty amazing. Yeah, Okay, I'm always intrigued by 146 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:12.319 people like that. 147 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:14.920 All right, and then I'm going to go with I'm 148 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:18.079 going to go with this. Still to this date, my 149 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:25.920 favorite communicator in terms of like content and style and 150 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:28.800 and just the ability to capture people is Andy Stanley. 151 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:30.720 Oh yeah, I'm going to say Andy Stanley, and. 152 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:33.680 I know that he's been you know, he's ruffled some 153 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.120 feathers with some things. 154 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:36.800 You know. Well, one of the questions asked, what were 155 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:37.759 you thinking? Andy? Yeah? 156 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.319 Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah right right. So now that we 157 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:42.279 have you in the Baba Guys, our question is what 158 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.120 were you thinking? Yeah? But I do believe the best 159 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.560 in Andy. I always do, and even when even when 160 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:51.759 people say, well, he definitely is. 161 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:52.519 This way or that way. 162 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:56.720 So I've known him for a while, I've talked with 163 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.319 him personally at least three dozen times. 164 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:04.040 Yeah, And I would just say. 165 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:07.959 I think I give him way more credit than some 166 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:08.439 people do. 167 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:09.800 How about that. That's a safe comment. 168 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:11.920 I give him a lot more credit, and I believe 169 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:13.920 the best way more than a lot of people. 170 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:14.720 Anyway. 171 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:19.439 I love him as a communicator, regardless of any type 172 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:23.279 of controversy, and I would absolutely love to be his 173 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.639 friend personally and have him on the Bible Guys as 174 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:27.040 a guest. 175 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.879 Oh wow, yep, I'd like to introduce or to interview 176 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:35.360 David Green, the founder of Hobby Lobby. Oh wow, I 177 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.040 think that'd be a neat one. Yeah, number one it's 178 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.519 fun talking to billionaires that'd be neat. But beyond that, 179 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:47.600 here's a guy that founded a company on Christian principles. 180 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:49.920 It's one of the best places in America to work. 181 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:56.040 Almost every year, they give Sundays off to all their employees, right, 182 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:58.399 giving up one seventh of their income. Same thing Chick 183 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.519 fil A did. So let's talk to Dan Kathy too, 184 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.720 I guess. But right, those guys and where they're willing 185 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:07.040 to give up a significant portion of their potential income 186 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:11.199 by being closed an entire day, and yet they're thriving 187 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:14.360 in their industries beyond everybody else. It turns out when 188 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:16.240 you do what God says to do, he gives you favor, 189 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.040 he gives you his blessing. So I'd love to talk 190 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:19.040 to both of those guys about that. 191 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:19.800 Yeah, that's great. 192 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:25.360 Yes, I described two yeah, yeah, ready, David Green, Dan Cathy. 193 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:30.079 Yep, okay, And he snuck one in there. So because 194 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.399 you mentioned David Nelms, you're on the board for TATI, 195 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:34.960 I'm gonna go with Jeff Jones. 196 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:35.720 Oh yeah, good one. 197 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:35.960 Yeah. 198 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.360 Jeff Jones is the founder of the ministry that I'm 199 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.919 on the board for, which is anti sex trafficking ministry 200 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:46.720 in the Dominican Republic called called Transform One, and I 201 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:49.000 would love to have him on and just talk about 202 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.879 his heart and his story and all the good that 203 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:52.840 happens there. 204 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:53.279 And to be fun. 205 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:54.000 That'd be neat. 206 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:57.360 Yeah. Well, you you mentioned preachers, so I would say 207 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:59.360 maybe one of the ones that had the biggest impact 208 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:01.120 on me as a pastor was Rick Warren. 209 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:01.879 Yeah. 210 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:03.639 And I've had the privilege of doing some stuff with 211 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:06.039 Rick a few times and went to Rwanda with him 212 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.759 and different things, So that'd be really cool to have, yeah, 213 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.559 have him on. And he is he he's retired now, 214 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.639 he's retired from the church, but he's running a ministry 215 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:18.320 called uh finishing the Task how do we get the 216 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:21.679 Gospel everywhere to everyone in our generation? So it's pretty neat. 217 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:22.519 That's really neat. 218 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.039 Okay, here's the last guy that I would uh love 219 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.720 to have have on is actually. 220 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:36.519 Sir Patrick Stewart. Yeah really so you know, yeah, yeah Picard, Yeah, 221 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:37.200 Star Trek. 222 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:40.879 So he is an incredible man of faith, and he 223 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.279 is dignified and knowledgeable. And I tell you what, every 224 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.480 interview I've ever seen him on, he impresses me with 225 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.440 his wisdom and his life. 226 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.480 Of knowledge and and and. 227 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.639 Then he's extremely clever and witty. Yes, So it just 228 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:01.320 he has so much depth. 229 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:04.759 But he's so interesting, yes, yes, And I respect him 230 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:08.639 and everything that he acts in and and I love 231 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:10.279 him and everything I've ever seen him in. 232 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.440 And so for me, he'll always be Jean Luc Picard 233 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:17.240 and he will not be Professor X. But he is both. 234 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:18.399 Yeah, he is he is both. 235 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:19.679 Yeah, no doubt. 236 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:22.840 Well, you've chosen two actors three three? 237 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:25.120 Oh no, no, you're right, actors. 238 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.720 So I'll choose one. I think it'd be really cool 239 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.000 to talk to Denzel Washington. 240 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:29.639 Oh. 241 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:32.360 He seems to be on this very public spiritual journey. Yes, 242 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:34.720 over the last several years. I'd love to just sit 243 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.759 down and talk with him and here what's going on 244 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:38.759 in his life and how God's been doing what he's 245 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:39.480 been doing in his life. 246 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:40.080 That's really cool. 247 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:42.720 Remember how you grab two and you cheated? Okay, I'll 248 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:43.519 say Jim Carrey too. 249 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:48.080 You want to talk to Jim Carrey. He's also on Yeah, 250 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:51.320 Jim talking about pain bringing him that that's a powerful 251 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:52.000 you ever see that video? 252 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:52.200 Oh? 253 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:55.120 Yeah, powerful video? How pain is what's gotten his attention? 254 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:56.600 Yep, it's really great. 255 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:03.159 Well, talking about pain, Oh, I don't know. We're in 256 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.000 Matthew chapter six. That was a painful transition. 257 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:10.519 Well, then talking about pain, that's the most. 258 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:12.320 Painful transition I've done in a long time. 259 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:15.720 Oh, that was actually a very long time. 260 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:17.320 Well, Jesus said, don't worry. 261 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:18.039 Yep. 262 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:19.759 That's and that's that's where we're at. We're in this 263 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:22.600 segment about don't worry. So we continue in the Sermon 264 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.960 on the Mountain, yep. And we jumped through the rest 265 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.440 of chapter five and he talks about all kinds of stuff, 266 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:33.159 giving to the needy, praying, fasting, loving our enemies. I mean, 267 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:36.279 he says so many things. We're not going to preach 268 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:38.759 the whole sermon, but you should read it. And then 269 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:41.919 he talks about money, don't store up treasures on earth, instead, 270 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.639 store up treasures in heaven. And then finally he gets 271 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:48.919 to verse twenty five, and we're going to read twenty 272 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:53.159 five through four thirty four. In the sixth chapter, he says, 273 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:55.519 that is why I tell you not to worry about 274 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:59.759 every day life, whether you have enough food and drink 275 00:11:59.879 --> 00:12:02.639 or enough clothes to wear. Isn't life more than food 276 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:05.519 and your body more than clothing. Look at the birds. 277 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:07.799 They don't plant or harvest or store food and barns 278 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.639 for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't you or 279 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.200 my wife? My wife spends the small fortune feeding birds, 280 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:17.320 so mine too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they don't plant or 281 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.840 harvest or And I keep telling her, hey, you're taking 282 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:22.360 God's job away from him. It's his job to feed 283 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:24.080 the birds. We don't need to spend so much money 284 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.519 on me. Back to the script, okay, says aren't you 285 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:29.600 far more valuable to him than they are? Can all 286 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.799 your worries at a single moment to your life? And 287 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:35.120 why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of 288 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.440 the field and how they grow. They don't work or 289 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:40.399 make their clothing. Yet Solomon, in all his glory, was 290 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:42.879 not dressed as beautifully as they are. And if God 291 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:46.200 cares so wonderfully for wild flowers that are here today 292 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:49.159 and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care 293 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.759 for you. What do you have so little faith? So 294 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:53.799 don't worry about these things, saying what shall we eat? 295 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:55.519 Or what shall we drink? Or what will we wear? 296 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.519 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, But your heavenly 297 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.519 Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of 298 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:04.600 God above all else, and live righteously, and he will 299 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:07.720 give you everything you need. So don't worry about tomorrow. 300 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.440 For tomorrow bring its own worries. Today is trouble enough 301 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:10.960 for today. 302 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:15.360 Yeah, don't worry about tomorrow. Let tomorrow worry about itself. Yeah, 303 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:20.600 it's such a great thing to be reminded of because 304 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.919 I don't know, I don't care who you are unless 305 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.360 you're an anomaly because I've not met you. Everybody worries 306 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.879 and and and it's and it's one of these things 307 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:35.440 where you know, Jesus is basically saying don't do it. 308 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:40.600 And we also realize, based on every single study or 309 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.120 article that we've ever read and by life experience, that 310 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:48.759 worry accomplishes nothing, that worry is only negative and never positive. 311 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:49.799 There's no value and worry. 312 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:50.080 Yeah. 313 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.879 The only thing that maybe worry can bring that I 314 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:56.200 can muster out of a positive out of worry is 315 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:01.519 sometimes when we're flippant, we don't maybe take cautions. 316 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:03.559 Yeah, it can cause you to be a little bit 317 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:04.159 more focused. 318 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.159 Yeah, like maybe like if you're if you're not worried 319 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.360 about falling off a cliff. You may fall off cliff, right, 320 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:12.679 and so maybe maybe that could be the only thing. 321 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:13.080 Maybe. 322 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:18.279 Yeah, if you're saying attentiveness, you know, you're equating attentiveness. Yeah, 323 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:20.200 it's probably not the same showing a concern. 324 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:21.840 Yeah, probably not the same thing. 325 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:25.120 Well, I think there's a spectrum of worry. Yeah, there's 326 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:29.799 terror on one end, and there's just a conscious awareness 327 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.480 on the other end there's terror, yeah, yeah, and there 328 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.480 so there's a spectrum to it. So worry that brings focus. 329 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:40.360 Maybe that's what we're talking about. What Jesus is saying, 330 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:44.720 is this debilitating worry that just consumes your life and 331 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.840 becomes examples, becomes the definition of your life. 332 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:51.159 Because he's talking about like clothing and food and things like. 333 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:52.519 That, the fundamental things of life. 334 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:53.960 And you think about it this way. 335 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.360 In the first century, like there were people who actually 336 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:59.399 did think, I wonder if I'm going to eat tomorrow? 337 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.320 Right, and and and honest people on earth today. 338 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:06.879 Well, yes, of course, yes, uh wow, that was really insssive. 339 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:07.559 That I spoke like that. 340 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:09.720 Oh I wasn't trying to point that out it no, 341 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:12.080 I know, but it was it was, Well, Jesus was 342 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:14.240 talking to people like that, and we still have them 343 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:15.200 on the planet today. 344 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:15.639 Yeah for sure. 345 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:19.159 And uh and and not only that, but like he's 346 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:23.440 he's talking about, uh, you know, God's creation, right, So 347 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.879 he uses creation as an example, and it's just a 348 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:30.080 beautiful thing to say, Hey, God created the flowers and 349 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.120 the birds. He takes care of them. They don't worry, 350 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:36.200 and and and they just through their natural instinct they 351 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.639 go through life. And somehow, some way, God always provides. 352 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.799 And and so God also created you, right and and 353 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.039 and he gave you a more sophisticated brain, and he 354 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:47.759 gave you all sorts of things. 355 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:49.960 But but just if you just have a. 356 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:53.279 Natural instinct to rely on God, uh, you know, just 357 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:54.919 just trust the way that the birds do and the 358 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:55.960 way that the flowers do. 359 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:57.799 It's a beautiful thing. 360 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.600 And yet we as humans realize wory accomplishes nothing, and. 361 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:03.000 Yet we do it all the time. 362 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:06.759 We just get consumed with worry, and worry can take over. 363 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.879 Worry could actually In fact, I'm going to go on 364 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.559 a limb and say, I bet you I have no 365 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.320 ways to substantiate this, but I bet you ninety percent 366 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.320 of people who are listening to these words, right, now 367 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:21.279 are probably saying to themselves, Yeah, I need to hear this, 368 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:25.759 because I struggle with worry, and worry consumes me, and 369 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:27.919 worry gets the best of me, and it adds years 370 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:30.039 to my life, and I have more gray hairs. I 371 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:34.960 feel anxiety, and I feel stressed, and most of the 372 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:38.039 time when I worry, most of the things that I 373 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:39.679 worry about don't come into fruition. 374 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:43.000 It's true, it's true, right, Yeah, I agree with you. 375 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.320 I think worry is one of the consuming issues that 376 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:50.679 most people face. You know me well enough to know 377 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:55.039 I don't worry about a lot of things. Yes, It's 378 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:59.799 not an habitual thing for me. It's very frustrating to my. 379 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:02.440 Wife, right, it's frustrating to America. 380 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:04.359 She wants me to join her world. She wants me 381 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:08.279 to join her sometimes and the things she's worrying about. 382 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:11.640 So there's a lot of reasons for that. It's not 383 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:13.640 that I'm hyper spiritual. It's mostly that I'm not paying 384 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:18.519 attention and that, and. 385 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:20.519 That you have a very healthy mindset on worry. 386 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:24.680 So but I had this, I had this season, this 387 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:29.640 this this window of time about ten years ago where 388 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.119 I just was getting I felt like getting beat to 389 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:36.039 death by most people around me like I couldn't make 390 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:38.880 anybody happy. I had some staff members that were mad 391 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:40.960 at me. I had a bunch of volunteers that just 392 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:43.559 were mad at me. I had people I thought were 393 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:46.799 allies that just turned out weren't allies. And all these 394 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:49.720 things were happening at the same time. And so normally 395 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:52.200 I go to bed at night, and this is is 396 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:54.480 frustrating too. If I lay my pill my head on 397 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:56.839 my pillow, I'm asleep within five minutes. Just to sleep, 398 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:59.039 just out, man, I just I don't lay there and 399 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:00.640 worry about stuff. I don't think about it. I just 400 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.559 turned my brain off, go to sleep. It's because tomorrow 401 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:06.599