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 --> 00:00:13.439 practical ways. Well, good morning, Jeff. 4 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:18.719 Yeah, I thought you're going to sing to me today. Yeah. 5 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:21.440 I got so excited my heart just left and then 6 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:22.239 he just yanked. 7 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:23.960 It's a wamp wamp. 8 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:24.399 Yeah. 9 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:28.640 Yeah, Well guess what it'll come on another day, Jeff, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll. 10 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:30.320 Come that appetite. 11 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:34.119 So good morning everybody, or evening. But welcome to the 12 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:37.000 Bible Guys. I'm Chris, this is Jeff, and we are 13 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:42.880 two friends who talk about the Bible. That's what they say. 14 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.119 What nerve of them friends? 15 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:45.719 That's right? 16 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:48.759 Uh? And now Desiree has us doing a segment before 17 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.759 we launch into what is going to be a riveting, 18 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:53.159 riveting discussion. 19 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.280 Quite certain of it, yes, but. 20 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.320 Desree wants us to do the very famous and lovely 21 00:00:58.679 --> 00:00:59.880 who's most. 22 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:01.079 Like, oh yeah, these are good? 23 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:03.920 Yeah, So who's most likely to do these things? We'll 24 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:04.959 just vote on me or you? 25 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:06.359 Yes, number one? 26 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:09.439 Who's most likely to google something instead of just asking 27 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:15.879 just asking who I I? I? I guess that's assuming 28 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:20.280 that there's an answer available by by asking like if. 29 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:22.879 We're talking and something comes up, we just google instead 30 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:27.599 of ask each other. I suppose, Yeah, I'm quick to google. 31 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:29.560 I'm pretty quick to google, pretty. 32 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:31.680 Quick to google. Yeah, So who's most. 33 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:35.599 Likely I google something every time? 34 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:36.200 Okay? 35 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:38.280 And and I will say this, Well, I have. 36 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.359 This vault of unnecessary information in my head, so I 37 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:43.359 google more than you probably. 38 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:45.239 Yeah, yeah, and all of that. But like I google 39 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.480 stuff that doesn't matter. So like, for instance, I'll say, 40 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:51.159 I'll say, oh, what was the name of that movie? Again? 41 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.239 And I just will not let it go. 42 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:54.319 So you got to look it up. 43 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:55.120 I got to look it up. 44 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:58.040 Yeah. So yeah, So I'm so we're going to vote 45 00:01:58.040 --> 00:01:59.760 for Chris today. We're going to lean on me. Okay, 46 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:03.159 who's most likely to eat leftovers that are definitely questionable? 47 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:07.719 I do it often, so I don't know if I'm 48 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:09.159 more likely, but I have no question. 49 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:12.039 Okay, then I'm gonna say you, here's why, because you 50 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.560 seem to be more in charge of those decisions in 51 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:17.680 your household than I have control over mind. Oh, because 52 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:20.639 my wife is a So I always use the word 53 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:22.719 freak in a loving way, you know, when somebody's I 54 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:25.800 can like an organized freak a freak. Yeah, so I 55 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:28.439 mean in a negative way. But but I will. 56 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:31.280 Go on so she would probably say very conscientious. 57 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:34.439 I'll go on record and say I do not apologize 58 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.919 for saying when it comes to throwing food away, she 59 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:39.599 is a freak. Oh okay, she'll say, She'll say. 60 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:40.199 Oh, very conscientes. 61 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:42.680 Yeah, this meat loaf is bad. I'm like, you made 62 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:43.960 it ten minutes ago, right. 63 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:47.560 Okay, it was bad? It sat out? No, my family 64 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.800 always makes funkus. I'm like, what goes wrong in ravioli? 65 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:54.159 Yeah, what's gonna get right? 66 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.520 What goes bad in sausage? Right? So I'm always my 67 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.599 family won't eat stuff now and I'm still eating it. 68 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:04.000 I've already anticipating that my wife is going to yell at. 69 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:07.560 Me and for calling her free conscientious, yeah live just 70 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:08.759 so you know, and she and she. 71 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.759 Is going to say that she is only following what 72 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:14.240 is recommended, because she has shown me before, like plenty 73 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.240 of Instagram things. She sent them to me, sure where 74 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:20.120 it says how long can you keep lunch meat? How 75 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:23.000 long can you keep protein? How long? And she's already 76 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.080 sent this to me, And to be honest, she does 77 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.639 follow those things. Sure, But I think those things are dumb. 78 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:33.759 Okay, good, yep, yeah, the milk, you know, so my 79 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:37.759 family members, my daughter, my son, my wife, all in 80 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:41.919 our house. They still if it's best buy. Yeah, it 81 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:45.120 doesn't say must use by, just best by. There's a 82 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:48.080 big difference between used by and best buy right used 83 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:50.759 by by the way used by means either use it 84 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:53.520 or freeze it right, right, And if you freeze it 85 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.520 you can keep it for you know, months longer and 86 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:58.240 then still come back out. And if you thought out 87 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.199 and use it right, then you still find right. The 88 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:04.280 best buy is just a freshness thing. It's totally fraudulent thing. 89 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:07.240 But man, they'll throw it away. They will throw it away. 90 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:08.919 We throw away so much food that we don't need 91 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:11.639 to throw away. But anyways, yeah, that's always my question. 92 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.599 What goes bad? You know? In that's good? 93 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:20.199 That's so good? In gabble? Yeah, okay, all right. Number three, 94 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:25.439 who's most likely to argue with Apple maps? I'd say you, 95 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.480 because you you are standing on the higher moral ground, 96 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:33.199 not moral ground, the higher map ground. 97 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.279 Yeah, so I don't argue with me. If it says 98 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.000 to turn right, I turn right for real, I don't. 99 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:43.040 Then my wife argues with Google Maps all the time, 100 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:45.480 but not Apple Maps, well any of them, any of 101 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:47.519 the maps thinks She's like, that's not the right way, 102 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:49.199 and she goes another way. I'm like, girl, you don't 103 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:51.439 even know where you are. If there's not a Starbucks 104 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:52.839 on the corner, a Target on the corner, she don't 105 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:53.319 know where she is. 106 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:56.360 Well, I will say this, when Apple first came out 107 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.560 and they didn't use like good sources, like sure, they 108 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.600 were inaccurate for a long time. Yeah, and every once 109 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:08.199 in a while there is something that shows up that 110 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:09.160 isn't quite accurate. 111 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.000 So you argue with Apple Maps, Well, let me tell you. 112 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:13.639 Let me tell what happened. This is totally worth it. 113 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.160 I'm going to take sixty seconds wait for this. So 114 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:19.600 one time I typed in an address because my old 115 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.680 administrative assistant at my previous church said, Hey, you're doing 116 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:24.439 a funeral all the way on the east side of 117 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:27.360 town way in the east side. She goes, why don't 118 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:29.120 you just stop by my house and go in my 119 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:32.360 house and use my house to take a shower and 120 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:35.160 change into your suit after you do X, Y and Z, 121 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:37.360 And I said great. So I typed in the address 122 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.279 and I pulled into the driveway where exactly where it 123 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.120 told me. I could even see on the Apple maps, 124 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.519 like third house on the left right. So I pulled 125 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:47.759 in the address or pulled the house, open the door, 126 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.680 go all upstairs in the master bedroom, take a shower, 127 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:53.600 get my suit on. And as I'm getting my suit on, 128 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:55.120 I look at all the pictures on the wall and 129 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:56.800 realize it's the neighbor across the street. 130 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:00.959 That's the honesty, god truth, Oh my goodness. 131 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.959 I broke into a stranger's house, went up to their 132 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:10.160 master bedroom and showered in their room, and then and 133 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:13.360 then and then she had to tell them what had 134 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:15.759 happened in case there was any evidence of a stranger 135 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.279 breaking in their mouse. No, it's true, and that was 136 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:20.040 Apples that. 137 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:23.000 Did it to me. Okay, So I thought it was 138 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:24.959 weird that you would be like, oh, okay, I'll go 139 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:26.920 over to one of my employee's house to take a shower. 140 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:29.240 So home, I know, but it's still weird to me, 141 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:31.399 like like I wouldn't do that. It just feels weird 142 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:36.240 to me. But then you did the weird thing wrong 143 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.319 and went to the wrong house. 144 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:42.680 And hey, Apple Laps, Apple Laps man, that was not 145 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.680 my fault. That was not my fault, that was a 146 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:46.959 that was an Apple maps to act. 147 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:52.759 Can you imagine what would have happened if good thing 148 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:54.639 you didn't like make a sandwich or a coffee or 149 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.120 I know, I know, Oh my gosh, And that's fabulous. 150 00:06:58.199 --> 00:06:59.959 Yeah, she's like, no, I'm I'm the red House. 151 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:02.800 And I'm like, what telling you? Only you I know 152 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:08.040 right right now? Stories Yeah, crazy. So who's most likely 153 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:10.040 to say I'll be there in five minutes when they 154 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:10.720 haven't left you? 155 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:14.040 Oh yeah, that would definitely be me. That would definitely 156 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.120 be me, as you look over with your eyes. 157 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:17.879 Although I was late to I was late to the 158 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:19.199 podcast today, so yeah. 159 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.000 But you were in the building talking to people, and 160 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:25.000 that's a work understandable thing I have. I'm notorious for 161 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.439 being late and I have no excuse, and I am 162 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:29.160 a bad person. 163 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:33.600 No, you know what you are? You and you and 164 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:38.759 so are my executive pastor Chad. Yeah, he he's similar 165 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.120 to you, both of you. You look at your watch 166 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:44.560 and you go, oh, I've still got seven minutes. I'm 167 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.800 going to try to do these nine things. Yes, you're 168 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:48.439 going to make this phone call. I'm going to answer this. 169 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:50.920 There's no question. Oh hey, and you see somebody in 170 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:52.560 the hallway and you stop on the way, you're talking 171 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.279 on the phone, whatever, you got all these things going on. 172 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:59.399 It's you guys that are highly driven to just get 173 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.519 another thing done. Every minute is an opportunity. For me. 174 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:05.040 I'm not that way. 175 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:05.399 Yeah. 176 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:07.439 I don't feel a lot of pressure about my schedule. 177 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.680 I just keep doing whatever the next thing is. But 178 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.319 I am not good at doing three things at one time. Well, 179 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:14.240 I do one thing at a time, and I don't 180 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.639 even do all those one things. Well, but if I'm 181 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.399 doing three things, I might as well not do anything. 182 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:21.759 I was getting ready this morning to come in. I 183 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.680 had a nine forty five meeting that you know that 184 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:26.560 I had, and I actually looked at the clocket it 185 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.959 said nine twenty nine, and no, no, I'm sorry. I 186 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:31.839 thought to myself, I have to leave by nine twenty nine. 187 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.000 Oh right, And so I thought, okay. So I looked 188 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:35.720 at the clockt it was like nine sixteen or something, 189 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:38.639 and I was like, oh wow, I got time. So 190 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.360 instead of coming and just being like twelve minutes early, 191 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:43.559 I decided to do all these things. Then I get 192 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:45.279 in my car and it said like it said like 193 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:48.399 nine thirty six, I had like nine minutes, and I 194 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:51.399 was like, dude, it's gonna take me like fourteen to 195 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:53.360 get here at least, and then to walk in, and 196 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:54.879 I thought, I'm gonna be late again. 197 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:58.240 And then whenever you have to be somewhere, do you plan? 198 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:02.279 It's fourteen minutes from my house to there, and I 199 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:05.639 have to be there at you know, nine forty five, 200 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.919 So I leave it nine thirty one or whatever, fourteen minutes. 201 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:10.279 There are some pretty tight like that. 202 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:14.159 There are times I get way more than that I should. 203 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:17.039 I'm almost always trying to build a buffer. It doesn't 204 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:19.360 always work, but usually in my mind, I'm building a buffer, 205 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:22.080 you know, five or ten minutes. Yeah, on a thing. 206 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:25.320 So yeah, that's funny, man, but that's true. Yeah, we're 207 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:26.639 gonna need to wrap this Upay, last one. 208 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.440 So who's most likely to laugh? Snow so hard they snort? 209 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:30.720 I do it on a regular basis. 210 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:32.159 Yeah, I'm gonna say you I don't. 211 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:33.480 I rarely do that. Yeah I do. 212 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:34.440 I usually wheeze. 213 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:40.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're a weezer. Yeah, thank you? Is 214 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:41.919 that I'm always? 215 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:42.960 Is that me? 216 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:45.720 That's that was yourtion to me? 217 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:50.960 Okay, great? You know what now that you've said that 218 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:54.799 it's gonna be hard to love you because you have 219 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:57.200 posture yourself as an enemy to me, making fun of mine. 220 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:58.600 It did it build up some hostility? 221 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.960 Yeah? It built up somehow, satility the point you were 222 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:03.960 in this moment. You're my enemy. 223 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:06.480 You know one of my goals would be to work 224 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:10.960 towards lasting peace. Oh yeah, yeah, the note that this 225 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.120 is incredible. This is incredible. This happened today. Wow, Because 226 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:18.039 Desiree wrote Matthew five forty three through forty eight teaches 227 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:22.120 us the act of love disarms hostility and builds what 228 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:22.919 a transition. 229 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.879 This is our chance, Chris, this is our chance. 230 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.039 Yeah. I felt like I should just snorted there. Okay. 231 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:36.080 So Verse forty three in Matthew chapter five built off 232 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.960 of the fact that Jesus says God blesses those who 233 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.399 work for peace. Right, So it says, you've heard the 234 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:47.120 law says love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But 235 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:50.480 I say, love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, 236 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.000 and that way you'll be acting as true children of 237 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.919 your father in heaven, for he gives his sunlight to 238 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.120 both the evil and the good, and he sends rain 239 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.720 on the just and the unjust alike, If you love 240 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:02.799 only those who love you, what reward is there for that? 241 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.840 Even crept tax collectors do that much. If you're kind, 242 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:08.200 only do your friends, how are you different from anyone else? 243 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.120 Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, 244 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.639 even as your father in heaven is perfect. Wow. 245 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:18.799 And that word perfect means complete, complete, right, So be 246 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:23.039 complete in your love, right, is what he's saying. He's 247 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:27.279 not meaning perfect like Denzel Washington and remember the Titans. 248 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:32.200 You will be perfect. This team will be perfect, right, 249 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.600 even though that you know you can never shoot for perfection. 250 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:37.360 But that's not necessarily what he's meaning. He's meaning your 251 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:40.559 faith being complete, your love being complete to the point 252 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:44.720 to where God's love is demonstrated. Here Jesus says, hey, 253 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:51.320 everybody needs sunlight for crops, right, everybody needs rain. Right. 254 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:56.159 God gives sunlight and rain to the just and the unjust. 255 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:00.679 So therefore, Jesus says, go ahead and love your enemies, 256 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.519 pray for those who persecute you. You know, don't just 257 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:08.600 love one group, love the other group, because you know, 258 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.320 God's definition of love is a new concept in the 259 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:15.919 first century. I mean think about it. You hear love 260 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.960 one another and you're like, oh, that's as old as time, right, 261 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:21.960 But Jesus says a new command I give to you 262 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.720 love one another. And he's saying he's saying, I want 263 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:29.120 you to love everybody. Right. The Law of Moses says, hey, 264 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.399 there's there's justification to hate your enemies and those who 265 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:34.960 persecute you. And I'm telling you that you should give 266 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.919 grace and mercy and love to even your enemies. It's crazy. 267 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:43.720 Yeah, you know, it's interesting that there's a we Love 268 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:45.080 the Life Application study Bible. 269 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:45.320 Yeah. 270 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:49.039 Yeah. And the note for this passage says, by telling 271 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:52.440 us not to retaliate, Jesus is keeping us from taking 272 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:55.320 law into our own hands, which which really is the 273 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.399 foundation to this whole idea. You don't have the right 274 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:00.000 to take the law into your own hands. God has 275 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.399 government set up for these reasons for judgment and execution 276 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:05.879 and all that kind of stuff. But for you, God 277 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.120 never gives you the right to be a vigilanti. Right. 278 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.000 And it says by loving and praying for our enemies, 279 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:16.200 we can overcome evil with good. We need God's supernatural 280 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.960 help to love people who commit cruel and evil acts. 281 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:23.919 Then it says the Pharisees interpreted Leviticus nineteen eighteen as 282 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.600 teaching that they should love only those who love and return, 283 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:29.679 and then Psalms one thirty nine nineteenth through twenty two, 284 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:31.919 and one forty nine through eleven as meaning that they 285 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.159 should hate their enemies. David talks about how he hates 286 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.799 those who hate God, right, and so they're like, oh, 287 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.399 this is justification as opposed to we should never make 288 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.519 any kind of theology based on the book of Psalms. Right. 289 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:50.039 Psalms and Proverbs they're poetic books and they're not legal 290 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.279 books or law books. And the Pharisees knew that, but 291 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.720 they were happy to justify bad behavior anyways. And so 292 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.240 where David poetically is saying, man, I can't stand those 293 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.320 people that are again you or hate you, or my 294 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.200 enemies that want to kill me, I want to kill 295 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.200 them back, They're going, oh, God put that in the Bible. 296 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:08.639 We can go ahead and embrace that idea. And Jesus 297 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:11.399 is saying, no, that's not okay, right, Jesus says, we 298 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:13.559 are to love our enemies. If you act and love 299 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.159 for your enemies, treating them well, you will show that 300 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:19.480 Jesus truly rules your life. And this becomes possible when 301 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:22.519 we give ourselves fully to Jesus's lord, because then he 302 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:25.240 can deliver us from our natural self centeredness. We must 303 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.840 trust the Holy Spirit to help us show love to 304 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:30.879 those for whom we may not feel love, which is 305 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:34.159 I think a very powerful idea. It's not that he 306 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:36.759 because he's saying, you don't get any credit for loving 307 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:40.120 the people you already love, right, he said, even the 308 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.159 Pagans do that. So he's challenging us to love the 309 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:45.559 people that don't feel very loving. 310 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:49.879 Yeah. I love the idea that in different parts of 311 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:54.519 the Gospels, Jesus tells his disciples, And the phrase is 312 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:56.960 sticking out my mind is he says, with you, it 313 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:01.000 shall be different, right, because whenever you're talking about behaviors. 314 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:02.360 Yeah, he does. He does that multiple times. 315 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.120 Multiple times. Yeah, he says, he says, not so with you, 316 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:08.000 with you, it shall be different. What he's really doing 317 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.600 is he's calling us out like that. I forget what 318 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:13.879 passage it is? What what what passage says? We are 319 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:14.840 peculiar people. 320 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:19.120 You know what I'm talking about. Peter wrote about it. 321 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:23.080 He says we are a called out people. A peculiar people. 322 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.919 The King James says, peculiar, right, and and and and 323 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:29.399 so it's it's being in the world, but not of 324 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:32.519 the world being completely different. And so the idea that 325 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:36.600 Christians should be different is uh something that we need 326 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:39.919 to hold on to because our behavior needs to be 327 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:42.879 so different than what the world would typically do. And 328 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:47.000 that would definitely include loving your enemies. I remember so 329 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.440 many times I have forced myself to be nice to 330 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.159 a teacher that didn't like me, or to go overboard 331 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:56.000 and reward an enemy who you know, in front of 332 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.480 everybody else, and to honor somebody when I could have 333 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.399 slammed them, you know, not to make an opportunity to 334 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.159 put somebody down, you know, when I could have you know, 335 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:10.039 I remember there there was a strangely enough, I'm short, right, 336 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:12.200 but I played volleyball, and you know, in high school 337 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:14.840 I played decent, you know, and I could at the time, 338 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:17.039 I could have jumped and spiked. And there was this kid. 339 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:20.240 He was small, and he was verbal, and he said 340 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.919 something to me in front of everybody, in front of 341 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.919 a whole gym. And there was a time where they 342 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.639 set me up and I could have just jammed this 343 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:32.039 thing in his face. Man, I could have been like bam, 344 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:35.120 but instead I was just like boop, right, and I 345 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:37.240 just did it. And I remember thinking to myself, I'm 346 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.279 not going to do it. I'm gonna be the better person. 347 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:41.480 I'm not going to hurt him when I could, right, and. 348 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.639 I could have, and and there's just certain things that 349 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.200 you know, happened. I remember one time I double tipped 350 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:51.799 a server, you know, or you know, we're getting money 351 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:53.960 for being bus boys and things like this, and you're 352 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.159 supposed to, you know, go back and forth and tip 353 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:58.879 up other people. And he was actually a bar back, 354 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:01.080 you know. But but the point is is that I 355 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:03.320 should have given him some of my money. Well you 356 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:05.119 know it's like ten percent or something. Well I gave 357 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:06.799 him like twenty five percent at the end of the night, 358 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:09.880 and he was he was like you might. I mean, 359 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:15.039 he's my sworn enemy, right and anyway, yeah. 360 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:19.440 Well that's it's those kinds of things practical application, Jesus says, 361 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.240 But with you, it's going to be different. And I 362 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.599 think that that's the goal because when you get to 363 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:26.359 the end of this passage and you already comment on it, 364 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:28.400 but he says, because you're supposed to be perfect, even 365 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:30.680 as your father in heaven is perfect. And we read 366 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.319 and hear the word perfect in English, very different than 367 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.200 what his listeners would have heard. And so we see 368 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:40.000 that word perfect and I go man alive. It's hard 369 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.839 for me to do it one time right, right, but 370 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:45.000 to do it perfect every time. And so we have 371 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.000 to understand that the Greek word there that is translated 372 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:53.240 perfect here for us does mean complete, and it's possible 373 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:58.000 for me to be complete in Jesus. Jesus completely forgave 374 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:02.799 my sins. He completely loved me, He completely has set 375 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.119 me apart for his own use, and he's going to 376 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.880 completely completely take me to heaven when I die. And 377 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:09.880 in the meantime, he's going to complete this new work 378 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:12.079 he's doing in me. All those things to be true. 379 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:14.240 And at the same time, I can still have room 380 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:17.839 to grow, right, I need to grow more in love, 381 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:21.319 I need to grow more in peacemaking. I can grow more. 382 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:23.599 I can get better at it. Even though God has 383 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:27.279 completely saved me, I still can be better at this. 384 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.519 I can be more like Jesus. And this is why 385 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:31.680 he can tell us that you're complete and at the 386 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:35.000 same time say grow up. In your faith grow up 387 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.720 into the full stature of Jesus Christ. So if Jesus 388 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:43.359 is my God loves me completely, he's restored me completely. 389 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:46.759 He's bringing me to His kingdom. Or redeem me completely 390 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:48.680 was the word I meant to say. And he's bringing 391 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.759 me completely into eternity someday. But there's still work to 392 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:55.720 be done for me to choose. Like he said to 393 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:57.920 his disciples, for you, it's going to be different, and 394 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:00.640 I can I can decide in that moment. Okay, this moment, 395 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:03.279 I don't have to prove anything anybody because I'm complete 396 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.720 in Christ. But I'm gonna try to be better at this. 397 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:09.359 And so there's a really great note in the Life 398 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:11.519 filf Case just said by about this, and it says 399 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:15.680 our shortcomings must never deter us from striving to be 400 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.960 more like Jesus. He wants all his disciples to rise 401 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:23.599