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 --> 00:00:12.759 practical ways. Hey, everybody, happy Thursday. 4 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:14.160 Happy Thursday. 5 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:15.119 Sure, why not? 6 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:17.719 We're so excited we can hardly stand it. 7 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:19.839 Make this day the best Thursday ever? 8 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:20.480 Okay? 9 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:22.519 And uh and by the way, it could be the 10 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:23.079 end of the day. 11 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:26.399 Yeah, I think I think Thursday doesn't get very good attention, 12 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:31.079 right with you. I mean, there's Monday. Everybody hates Mondays. Yeah, 13 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:34.000 Wednesday's hump day. You're like, hey, we're over the hump now, 14 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:36.359 we're halfway to the good part of the week. Friday 15 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:38.600 or Fridays, thank god, it's Friday. 16 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:39.439 Weekends are great. 17 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:40.640 Weekends are amazing. 18 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:45.600 So really, Tuesday and thursdayild. 19 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.240 We just forget forgotten. So hey, it's time for us 20 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:48.600 to give honor to whom honor is due. Thursday's been 21 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.600 standing there for us, Thursday. If it weren't for Thursday, 22 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.119 we wouldn't have anything to do between Wednesday and Friday. 23 00:00:55.240 --> 00:01:00.679 A little buddy Thursday. All right, all right, hey, today 24 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.359 we are before we jump into the what is titled 25 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:04.840 as the hardest. 26 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.280 Prayer, hardist prayer, how about that. 27 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:11.879 Okay, we have a segment and this is Stump the Pastor. Oh, 28 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:16.680 Stump the Pastor is actually something that we actually collect questions. 29 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.599 We enjoy them, and we encourage you to email us 30 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.519 right now. So go to info actually send an email 31 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.680 to info at the Bible guys dot com. It'll get 32 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:28.840 to us. Or just comment on YouTube and we'll try 33 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:30.519 to grab your question right there. 34 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.840 I love questions like this. I love like just open 35 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:35.280 forum Q and a kind of stuff. 36 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:37.359 Do you enjoy that, yes, Well, it shows that people 37 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.959 are thinking, yeah, and it shows that people care and 38 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:41.640 they're like, hey, I have a question about the Bible 39 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:42.879 and I really want to know this answer. 40 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.840 Yeah. Several times, a couple times a year. Usually I'll 41 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:50.239 meet with our high schoolers and just take an hour 42 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:53.480 or two and say, hey, it's just any question you 43 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:55.799 want to ask. And it's amazing how they they'll stay 44 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:58.519 sometimes for hours and hours just as questions. So I'll 45 00:01:58.519 --> 00:01:59.680 tell them I'll stay as long as your pans will 46 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:01.439 let you stay. And so then they started this as 47 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:03.000 then all of a sudden, Mom and Dad are all 48 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:04.840 standing around. We got the crowd of people stand around 49 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.359 just asking Bible questions. Done it a few times with 50 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:09.560 our young adults. We got one hundred and something young 51 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:11.879 adults in our church, and and we do the same 52 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:15.280 thing there. We gotta fly flying around us, and so 53 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.960 do the same thing with our interns and residents will 54 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.680 do it. I just I love it when people are 55 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.800 using their minds. They've come across the thing, they're not 56 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:26.800 sure what the answer is. And instead of just giving up, 57 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:28.759 like I think a lot of people have grown up 58 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:31.879 with a religious view or belief of don't ask questions. 59 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.599 It offends God, right, Instead, I love it. The Book 60 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.039 of Jeremiah says, come now, let's reason together. Says the 61 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.080 Lord God wants us to use our minds. He God 62 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.960 invented your mind. That's right, he did, right, and he 63 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:46.159 knows that you have this ability to have big questions. 64 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:48.639 And he's not offended when we have questions. So I 65 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:50.759 love it. I love this segment. And so what's what's 66 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:51.240 our questions? 67 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:54.759 But by the way, did you I learned recently learned 68 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.599 that Chad is more reluctant to let me do a 69 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:58.879 public Q and A than you. 70 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:02.360 Our executive pastor, executivestor. Our executive pastor is very protective, 71 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.479 you know, why because he's because you go rogue. 72 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.039 Well he's not. He's not afraid of my theology of 73 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:15.800 the answer. He's he's afraid of my diplomacy lack of it. Right, So, 74 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.159 so so he's like, he's like, and I'm not even 75 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:19.560 I'm not even sure afraid is the word. 76 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.879 He's just a little bit more cautious. Cautious. He's like, 77 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:26.159 we don't we don't really know if Chris is going 78 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:28.879 to be you would do fine. 79 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:32.000 Because we all know that you're diplomatic. Well, it's definitely 80 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:33.599 clear that you're way more diplomatic than. 81 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:38.000 Me at times at times, Okay, I can also be 82 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.080 a bigger jerk than you, so right at times? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 83 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.560 So my lows are lower and my highs are higher. 84 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.719 My lows are lower, my eyes are higher. Yeah yeah, 85 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:50.599 that's pretty good. All right. Yeah, So this this question 86 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:51.639 is written by Bill T. 87 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:53.039 Bill Bill T. 88 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.280 Yes, Hey, Bill Yes, not Bill T, but. 89 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:57.919 Bill Bill T. Okay. 90 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:00.599 So he writes this, is there a distinction in the 91 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:06.759 Bible between justifiable and unjustifiable anger? Can Christians express anger 92 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.000 in a righteous way as Jesus did in the temple, 93 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:13.919 or should all anger be avoided entirely. Yeah. 94 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.040 Well, I'm afraid to answer this question at but Bill 95 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:16.839 to be mad at me. 96 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:21.319 But I'm bumping. Ah, I see what you did there? Yeah, 97 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:24.759 so yeah, I mean, like, so I remember a sermon. 98 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:28.560 You know, some sermons you remember forever, right, I don't 99 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.480 know if you do. I do, But I remember a 100 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:36.360 sermon that Bill Heibels gave at a leadership summit back 101 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.279 in like two thousand and six, and so we were 102 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:44.079 actually at the leadership summit and he actually talked about 103 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:50.000 righteous indignation, and he talked about how Jesus had righteous 104 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:54.240 indignation and how he flipped over the money changer's temple 105 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.160 or money changers tables at the temple. 106 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.360 So and by the way, because made a whip. 107 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:04.480 Yeah, because that's correct he did. Because that's been mentioned twice. 108 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:06.560 We might as well at least explain that way. 109 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:06.920 Sure. 110 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:12.319 So Jesus actually in the Bible got angry, and he 111 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:16.160 got angry at the fact that he actually said, you 112 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.079 have made my house into a den of thieves, right, 113 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:25.079 And he was referring to people who were abusing what 114 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:30.600 it was like selling sacrifices and making a profit, unreasonable profit. 115 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:32.759 Oh yeah, it was exorbitant. They had kind of a 116 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:37.199 monopoly on the If you were traveling hundreds and hundreds 117 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:40.240 of miles to the temple, normally you wouldn't bring your sacrifice. 118 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:43.360 You would take that perfect sacrificial animal. You would sell it, 119 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:46.800 bring the money to Jerusalem and buy another animal that 120 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.600 you could do rather try to bring it the whole way. Well, 121 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.399 what was happening was the money changers and then the 122 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:56.759 people running businesses at the temple. They were you know, five, six, ten, 123 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.800 twenty times more expensive than what you could have gotten 124 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:01.720 or village for the same animal. And it's because they 125 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:03.959 had a monopoly on it. They were abusing people just 126 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.000 to make money. And it really made Jesus man. So 127 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:09.079 he makes a whip, he clips over the tables and 128 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:11.360 sets all the animals free and spills all their money 129 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:13.279 everywhere and really chews them out. 130 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:16.319 Yeah, well, I mean Jesus with a whip is not 131 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:18.519 a common painting. Yeah. 132 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.079 Usually it's usually it's like a sad Jesus with long 133 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:25.120 hair and blue eyes looking up into the Caucasian Yeah. Yeah, 134 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:28.040 the stars, and he's holding the lamb and hugging a child. 135 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:28.959 Right. 136 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:32.079 I don't usually think of Jesus with his sleeves rolled up, 137 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:34.439 whipping people, flipping tables. 138 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:36.920 And none of that. But like he was a strong man. Yeah, 139 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.680 he is a carpenter, right, and so he was a specimen. 140 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.879 I mean we know that just from the physical uh 141 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.040 you know, brutality of even you know what he endured 142 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.800 and he endured it, right, So yeah, so I mean 143 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:53.480 this the picture would be a strong muscular man, angry 144 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.360 with a whip, flipping over tables. And so I almost 145 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:00.879 wonder because again, everything to me is Hollywood, not for 146 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:02.439 the sake of Hollywood, by the way, for the sake 147 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:05.720 of reality. Right, So Hollywood, meaning when I say Hollywood, 148 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:08.079 I mean like I can picture the whole entire scene 149 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:10.399 right now, That's what I mean. But I don't mean 150 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:14.480 Hollywood fake or Hollywood dramatization. I don't mean any of 151 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:15.800 those terms. When I say Hollywood. 152 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.920 What I mean you see a movie. 153 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:21.000 I could see this being played out. And so oftentimes 154 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:24.480 when I Hollywood, I as a narrative, I will I 155 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:28.399 will try to suppose or wonder and think to myself, like, 156 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.839 did somebody try to oppose him? Like? It doesn't say so, right, 157 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:34.720 It does not say that somebody came up to him, 158 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.959 and he pushed them out of the way. Or three 159 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.040 men were thinking about charging him, and then he held 160 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.360 up the whip and looked at them, and they knew 161 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:45.199 he was serious, and so they backed off. Right. But 162 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:49.360 I'm sure those things happen, right, because guess what, You 163 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:53.120 don't come into a place and destroy people's profitability in 164 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:57.519 their livelihood without opposition, You just don't, Right. I'm sure 165 00:07:57.560 --> 00:07:59.959 they caught him by surprise, and I'm sure that everybody 166 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:02.959 knew who Jesus was. I mean, they certainly knew who 167 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.199 he was, so there might have been a fear of like, 168 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:06.360 I don't know what to do right. 169 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:08.439 Now, Yeah, just get out of here, Like I. 170 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:11.639 Don't know, I'm a nobody. I'm a guy who's making 171 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.199 a profit off animal sacrifices. And here's that's and I 172 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.680 know who that is. That's Jesus, and so I don't 173 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.800 know what to do right now. But those are the 174 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:22.040 kind of things when I say, Hollywood is things I 175 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:25.600 think to myself, like, how did that play out? Yeah, 176 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:30.480 because certainly people had to have a reaction to Jesus anyway. 177 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:34.600 Well. In Ephesians four twenty six is it twenty six? 178 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:41.080 Ephesians four something, let me find it. Ephesians four four. 179 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:47.120 I know, Ephesians four thirty two. I know if He'sans four. 180 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:49.480 Twenty oh, yeah, there you go for twenty six. And 181 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:55.399 don't let sin, and don't sin by letting anger control you. Right, 182 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:58.480 don't let the sun go down while you're still angry. 183 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.120 For angry anger gives a foothold to the devil. Another 184 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.399 translation says, be angry and sin not and then don't 185 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:10.159 let the sun go down, right, and so, so anger 186 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:12.960 isn't the same, right right. Anger is just an emotion. 187 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:17.720 Where it becomes sinful is when it's self centered. I'm 188 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.960 angry at you because you offended me. If you just 189 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:23.279 if you just let that fester. This why I says, 190 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:24.799 don't let the sun go down on your anger. You 191 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:27.360 let that fester, it's going to turn into bitterness. This 192 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:30.919 bitterness gives a foothold to the devil. So, uh, you 193 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:34.720 talked about righteous indignation. Man, If somebody was coming through 194 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.159 the door to hurt my wife and my daughter in 195 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.600 the middle of the night, that's correct. Believe me, they're 196 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:42.720 going to get the full force of Jeff right. And 197 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:46.559 it's the anger then is driven by the threat to 198 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:48.759 what I love so dearly. So first of all, I 199 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:51.919 have to I have to really make sure I love 200 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:55.039 the right things. It's not just me, it's not just 201 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:59.600 my happiness and my comfort. But I love my wife, 202 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:03.320 I love my daughter, I love my freedom, I love right. 203 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.080 There's a lot of those things, and so because of 204 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.559 that major threats to those things. It's not a sinful 205 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:14.000 thing to have that anger feeling, that that rush come 206 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:16.799 into you saying I need to defend this. The Bible 207 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:19.360 talks multiple times that it's responsibility the strong to protect 208 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:21.200 the weak, to speak up for those who don't have 209 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:24.120 a voice, to protect those who can't protect themselves. Right. 210 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.720 So the Jesus talks about at one point, you know, 211 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.320 the kingdom he's putting violent men will have to seize it, right, 212 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.159 And he's not talking about like violence like you and 213 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:37.600 I think of blood and gore, but by men, men 214 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:39.559 that just stand up in their strength and grab a 215 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:45.519 hold of this thing. So I'm always cautious when people 216 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.559 start to ask is it sometimes okay for me to 217 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:51.879 be angry? Because on occasion I'm not saying in bill 218 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.759 Ty is this guy, But on occasion it's people who 219 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:56.759 have trouble with their anger and they're trying to justify 220 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:00.480 it and win an argument with their spouse later, right, or. 221 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.080 If they're an angry person in general, they may be 222 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:04.919 generally concerned about their demeanor. 223 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:11.759 If you are having trustworthy people, spouses, children, friends, saying, boy, 224 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.720 you seem like you're pretty angry lately, then maybe you're 225 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.080 starting to cross the line between being angry and sinning. 226 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.000 Not right, you need to get back to that. Don't sin. 227 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.159 So let your anger drive you to do something good. 228 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:27.679 Right So, right now, for instance, one of the ministries 229 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:31.159 you're really focusing a lot on lately has been child trafficking, 230 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:34.679 right right, So how does that make you feel? You 231 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:37.480 drive through those neighborhoods, and you know what's happening in 232 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:40.519 Dominican Republic. Their parents are selling their own children. 233 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:43.399 I'll actually make a statement. When I went on a 234 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.879 tour and I actually saw I saw it with my eyes. 235 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:49.519 I saw it, I saw the child, I saw what 236 00:11:49.559 --> 00:11:52.240 was happening and the men protecting it, and I saw 237 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.679 a person go up and inquire about it. I have 238 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:59.720 never felt more anger in my entire life, in my 239 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.120 whole life, and I've gotten angry about a lot of 240 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.120 things I've never felt more anger than that. 241 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:08.120 So God is not calling you to be Batman becomes 242 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:12.000 some vigilante, right, come swooping in, kick the doors down, necessarily, 243 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:15.840 But that anger has driven you to start helping build 244 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:19.879 a system to rescue those kids, raise the money through 245 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:24.919 transform one, and actively begin working towards a good solution. 246 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.840 And that may not be repaying evil with evil, right, 247 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:30.639 it's repaying evil with good. And so how do you 248 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:31.720 how do you go solve that? 249 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:34.360 So which which, by the way, since you already mentioned it, 250 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.960 I wasn't going to say it, but by the time 251 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:40.080 this goes on the air, we will be two weeks 252 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.279 out from our five k. And if you want to 253 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:43.159 make a small. 254 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:45.399 Donation or a big donation or a big donation, we 255 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:47.159 don't we don't want to limit your donation. I would 256 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:48.080 you like to make a donation? 257 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:50.279 I would. I would love it if if somebody who 258 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.879 normally isn't a part of heritage, because you know, a 259 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:54.879 lot of people who listen to this are part of 260 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.039 our community anyway, and they're like, I have already heard 261 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:58.919 about this, Yes, but there has to be. 262 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.000 Thousand, thousands of people who don't know what you don't know. 263 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.480 What we're talking about. Would you do me a favorite? 264 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.840 Go to Heritage Church dot com slash five k. Everything's 265 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.679 on there, so if to donate or watch the video 266 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:12.200 find out more about it herdichurch dot com slash five 267 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:13.720 k making donation, that'd be awesome. 268 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:17.600 Yeah. So if you're asking the question because you've had 269 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:21.799 people tell you you seem really angry lately, then let 270 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:23.759 that be God's way of saying, hey, you're starting to 271 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:27.000 cross the line. Yeah, right, don't use Bible versus to 272 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:32.080 justify your anger. But if you're feeling a holy anger 273 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.879 or a righteous indignation towards some kind of wrong thing 274 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.000 in society, and you're wondering at my sinning, well no, 275 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.960 you're not sinning necessarily, as long as you direct that 276 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.960 in a way that causes you to then address this 277 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:49.679 issue in a healthy, godly way. Right. So people are 278 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.200 not your enemy. Satan is our enemy, and so we 279 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:55.759 don't fight people. We fight the actions of Satan in 280 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:58.639 society and we did so. Yeah, it's great, it's great. Hey, thanks, 281 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:00.519 good question, Bill, that's great. 282 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:04.600 All of those answers are people, you know, people wonder 283 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:06.559 about those, so that's why they're called stump the pastors 284 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:09.720 because because and sometimes stump the pastors are I don't 285 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:12.879 know right right because depending on the question. But this 286 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.159 is something I've heard so many times, So thanks Bill 287 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:16.559 for asking. 288 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:18.679 I've thought several times it would be fun to do 289 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:23.360 Stump the pastor week. Oh if we could get enough 290 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:25.639 people to write in questions, if we could get like 291 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:27.679 one hundred questions, we could do three or four day 292 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:28.879 let's let's let's. 293 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.840 Let's announce it right now after the Dangerous Prayers series. Yeah, 294 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:35.120 let's do a five day stint where we do a 295 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:37.399 stump the pastor, you know. 296 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:38.639 Not make the whole episode. 297 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:40.279 I was going to say, the one question may not 298 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:41.200 carry us the whole episode. 299 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.200 Yeah, but if we get if we get a hundred questions, 300 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:45.000 we could just filter through them and find the ones 301 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.039 that would fill up the twenty five minutes every day. 302 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:47.720 I think it'd be fun. 303 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:49.759 Yeah, it'd be fun. Okay, So there it is. There's 304 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:52.840 your assignon. People. If you want to see this series 305 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.679 come into fruition, then comment on YouTube right now, or 306 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.960 comment online or email us at info at the Bobble 307 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.000 Guys dot com and we would love to get your 308 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:03.159 stuff to past their questions. 309 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.279 Cool, well that's neat. Well there you go. All right, 310 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:10.159 Well I get permission from des right, right, because we 311 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:13.159 only have we only have the appearance of being in 312 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:15.320 control of this podcast, but we know who the real 313 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:17.559 puppet master is. Yes, yep, you know. 314 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:21.759 Even no matter how angry we get, we are still 315 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:26.000 commanded to forgive Ooh, you're right. And that leads us 316 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:31.399 to this next segment, or this next passage where Jesus 317 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:32.840 forgives Yeah. 318 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:34.080 Well, good transition. 319 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.679 That was actually a good transition. That was not a 320 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:37.360 bad transition. 321 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:39.559 No, that was a very good one. So we're going 322 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:42.799 to pick up on at Luke chapter twenty three, verse 323 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:45.720 thirty two. It says to others, both criminals were led 324 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:49.080 out to be executed with him talking about Jesus right, 325 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.200 and when they came to a place called the Skull 326 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.639 or Galgatha, they nailed him to the cross, and the 327 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:56.960 criminals were also crucified, one on his right and one 328 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:00.600 on his left. Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they 329 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:03.720 don't know what they are doing, and the soldiers gambled 330 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:06.320 for his clothes by throwing dice. The crowd watched and 331 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:09.279 the leader scoffed he saved others, They said, let him 332 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.679 save himself, as if he really is God's Messiah, the 333 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.879 chosen One. The soldiers mocked him too by offering him 334 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.279 a drink of sour wine. They called out to him, 335 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:20.320 if you are the king of the Jews, save yourself. 336 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.480 A sign was fashioned above him with these words, this 337 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:26.480 is the king of the Jews. One of the criminals 338 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:28.759 hanging beside him scoffed, So you're the Messiah? Are you 339 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:31.399 prove it by saving yourself and us two while you're 340 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:33.960 at it? But the other criminal protested, don't you fear 341 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.120 God even when you've been sentenced to die. We deserve 342 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:39.200 to die for our crimes. But this man hasn't done 343 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:42.039 anything wrong. And then he said, Jesus, remember me when 344 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:44.799 you come into your kingdom. And Jesus replied, I assure 345 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:47.440 you today you'll be with me in Paradise. And by 346 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.480 this time it was about noon, and darkness fell across 347 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.960 the whole land, until three o'clock the light from the 348 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:54.120 sun was gone, as suddenly the curtain in the sanctuary 349 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:58.879 of the temple was torn down the middle. Then Jesus shouted, Father, 350 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:02.200 I entrust my spirit into your hands and with those words, 351 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.480 he breathed his last. 352 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:08.160 Wow, there's a lot in there. 353 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:11.279 Yes, well, I think the big, the dangerous prayers Father 354 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:11.880 forgive them. 355 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.680 Yeah, that is definitely the focus of the topic. Uh. 356 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:17.960 And we can go on forever about everything else that's 357 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.759 in there. Uh. But I don't know why. I just 358 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.319 got super emotional thinking about the criminal. You know. He 359 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.039 you know, here's this criminal who doesn't have a name, 360 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:28.720 just known as the criminal. 361 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.319 Yeah, and one day we're criminal one and criminal two. 362 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:33.559 Right, We're gonna get to heaven. And I'm you know, 363 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:35.359 there's a lot of questions. I think that God will 364 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:38.079 indulge us with these questions. I do, I do. I 365 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:41.960 think I think we'll have time, obviously sure to explore 366 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.039 every question that we have and uh that we have 367 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:47.759 now on this earth. And I think that, uh, I 368 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:50.480 I would love to talk to this criminal. The the 369 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:55.160 idea that that one of them, you know, is scoffing 370 00:17:55.200 --> 00:18:00.000 and then the other is completely recognizing that in belief 371 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:02.759 that he's the son of God and saying, don't you 372 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.480 fear God? He's saying, how dare you talk to God 373 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:08.599 this way? I mean, he is he is a believer, 374 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:12.799 you know, keep in mind that. It did say that 375 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:17.079 there were so many people there at that what am 376 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:17.920 I What am I trying to say? 377 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.839 Pass Over week, Yes, pass over fester. The city was 378 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:23.799 just it was bursting at the seams at this point. 379 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.319 And it said that, It said many were there because 380 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:28.480 they had heard that he had raised Lazarus from the dead. 381 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:32.799 So his popularity had grown to such a degree to where, 382 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:34.920 you know, people had heard his claims to be the 383 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:38.960 Messiah at this time. You know, he held nothing back 384 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:42.079 and so he had done nothing wrong. Everybody knew it. 385 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:45.119 This is even a testament of the public, you know. 386 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.960 You know sometimes when when something happens and there's a patsy, 387 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.519 it's like you can't sort of I just watched it yesterday. 388 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:55.319 I watched the movie where everybody knew that what was 389 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:58.680 happening was unjust and this person who was the patsy 390 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:01.319 didn't deserve to get fired from his job. But everybody 391 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:03.000 knew it. Everybody knew it, but nobody wanted to talk 392 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:05.359 about it because everybody was afraid of the authorities. That 393 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:08.240 happened just last night, and so here it is. This 394 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:12.400 man makes a statement that represents like everybody here knows 395 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.119 that this man is in a sense everybody here knows 396 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:19.480 he's done nothing wrong, and this man recognizes Jesus. Anyway, 397 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.319 that's not the focus of the dangerous prayer. 398 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:25.799 I want to point out one interesting thing to me. 399 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:33.640 This guy on the cross, maybe in this specific moment 400 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:39.160 in history, had the most faith of maybe everybody else 401 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:45.480