WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:14.679 Good morning, Jeff, Good morning Chris. Hey, it is a 5 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:16.960 good morning because this is the Bible Guys. 6 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.280 We're back. We are better than ever. Yes, and we're 7 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:21.679 both wearing black today. 8 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:24.679 Yes, back in back in battle black. 9 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.320 I've got the Bible Guy's logo on my shirt. 10 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:29.480 Yes, and I have just a black shirt. 11 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:32.119 Yes. All right, Well, hey today dangerous. 12 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.439 Yes, we're actually launching into a brand new series called 13 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:37.079 Dangerous Prayers. 14 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:38.920 Maybe that's why we're feeling dangerous. 15 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.960 Yeah, we are danger Yeah. 16 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.079 Have you ever see the grin Sisto Christmas? Yes, Jim 17 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:49.079 Carrey version. Yes, that's one of my favorite parts saw though, 18 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:52.200 when he's talking to this Lulu, what's your name, Cindy, 19 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:57.320 Luhu Cindy and he goes dangeranger That's what I like. Okay, 20 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:01.960 I like that part anyway. Yeah, anyway, it just comes 21 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:02.479 into my mind. 22 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:04.120 Well that's what she got on Monday people. 23 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:08.079 Sorry, sorry, we're gonna be jumping into a segment before 24 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:12.319 we jump into the prayer thing that Desiree wrote here 25 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.439 and it's called show Video what is that. 26 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:18.079 Oh, no, that's rolling video. No, No, she didn't name 27 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:18.480 the section. 28 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:19.560 She didn't name this segment. 29 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:20.400 Oh that's it. 30 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:22.959 Yeah, I was reading the line. He read the line 31 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.079 before on the show notes on the roll in. 32 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.040 Yeah, that's the roll in note. 33 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:31.439 It says today we're starting a new series on dangerous prayers, 34 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:34.640 and today's passage is about the prayer that could ruin 35 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.760 your comfort. So let's ask this question, when's the last 36 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.640 time you did something that scared you in a good way. Now, 37 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:45.120 I've I've jumped out of planes a couple of times, 38 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:48.959 three times. I've done rock climbing over like three hundred 39 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:53.400 foot cliffs. I've done bungee jumping. I've done pair sailing. 40 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:55.799 Usually anything with heights gets me. 41 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.120 Really, what's a pair of sailing scared to you? 42 00:01:58.159 --> 00:01:59.359 Oh it's twelve hundred feet? 43 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:00.920 What was it scary? 44 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.879 Uh? Yeah, kind of because you know, at any. 45 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.200 Time people are just kind of floating there like that. 46 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:11.039 Yeah, that that part is smooth, But like think about 47 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:16.159 like something go wrong and just if it fell, you're done, Okay, right, sure, 48 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:19.560 there's always a possibility, there is, so so yeah, I 49 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:20.919 would say it was a little scary. 50 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:22.680 Literally wearing a parachute. 51 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:27.080 No, you're it's it's not the same. It's not the 52 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:28.599 same as a parachute. 53 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:30.360 What's something behind you? 54 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:30.759 Okay? 55 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:34.879 Did you also know that if the boat stops going, 56 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:36.599 then you go down? 57 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:38.599 Yeah with the parachute. 58 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:42.360 Yeah, no, it's it's faster than you think. 59 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:47.240 So anyway, Uh, you're probably right, but I just I 60 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:49.960 just want to It just felt dangerous. It felt dangerous 61 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:50.159 to me. 62 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:52.319 The perception of danger was there. 63 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:56.400 Okay, And anyway, but I've done like scary roller coasters, 64 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:59.719 and so the question was, when's the last. 65 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.000 Time, And yeah, I'm having a hard time. 66 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.120 Remember I'm having a hard time too, because here's the thing. 67 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:07.840 I don't think I've done anything that extreme for. 68 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.080 A little bit. It's time, it is time, I think, 69 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:12.280 I think it is time. 70 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.800 But I think probably the last time I did something 71 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.439 extreme was jump out of a plane and that was 72 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:22.560 like six years ago. But I have done height things, 73 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:24.560 like I remember going. 74 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:25.080 To the top of a. 75 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.759 Very tall lighthouse with just a couple of inches walking 76 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:33.479 around the ledges. That felt pretty dangerous. Again, height things 77 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:34.360 are a big thing for me. 78 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:37.520 I went on like a glass bridge, you know. 79 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:39.919 I went to the top of the deal in New York, 80 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:43.280 you know, those kinds of things, but maybe a roller coaster. 81 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:44.599 I don't know. 82 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.719 Have you been historically the kind of person who does 83 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:50.439 like extreme things? 84 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:52.800 Yeah? Yeah, like not do things. 85 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:53.400 Yeah. 86 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:56.199 Well, you know what, when I was younger, I always 87 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:59.360 thought to myself, because I am definitely afraid of heights, 88 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:00.840 I just want. 89 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.159 To do those things overcome it, to overcome it. 90 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:07.560 So I've done all the height things, right, and then 91 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:10.280 you know, I've done fast things I've done. I've done 92 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:14.159 reckless dangerous things in that way too, But you know, 93 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:15.439 some things I did not enjoy. 94 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:16.959 Yeah, I have. 95 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:19.480 I have things on my you know, I've mentioned before, 96 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:21.319 I have a bucket list. I've got like one hundred 97 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:23.560 and something thing, one hundred fifty things or something like 98 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:25.839 that on my bucket list. But a few of them 99 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.040 I can't do because Heritage Church has a key Man 100 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.680 life insurance policy on me, and it specifically excludes them. 101 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:38.720 Like I'm not allowed to cage dive with sharks, I'm 102 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:41.279 not allowed to skydive. I'm not allowed to drive a 103 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.319 race car. There's a few things like that I'm allowed 104 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:45.959 to do. So that's kind of frustrating to me. So 105 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:47.800 I'm a little nervous about saying the things I have 106 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:48.360 been doing. 107 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.439 There you go in fear that the insurance agent is 108 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:54.839 listening listeners. 109 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.959 Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I've always been that person that 110 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:03.879 somebody says, dare you, and I'm like, okay, I just 111 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:06.319 always have had a lot of confidence in my ability 112 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:08.600 to pull a thing off or to survive a thing, 113 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:10.839 and you know whatever. And then I have a weird 114 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:15.800 mechanism in my head that says, Okay, it's dangerous, right, 115 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:20.040 there's this perception of danger. But how many one hundred 116 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.800 thousand people did that thing jumped out of a plane 117 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:26.639 today or this week and not all of them died, 118 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.879 like one hundred thousand of them lived whatever. And so 119 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:31.439 there's this mechanism in my head he goes, it's not 120 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.439 that dangerous. There's a perception of danger, but these companies 121 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:37.040 couldn't stay in business if they were. 122 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:38.000 Yeah. 123 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:40.519 I did that on my first guy, Dife, the guy 124 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:42.600 that was tandem strapped to me, I said, how many 125 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.439 times have you because you know, there's three shoots, there's 126 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.279 a shoot, then there's a backup shoot, then there's even 127 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:51.360 an altimeter shoot, which if we both pass out, it 128 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:54.319 opens and so so I felt okay there. But I 129 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:56.000 looked at him and he was an older guy, and 130 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:57.800 I said, how many times have you jumped? And he goes, oh, 131 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:00.800 he goes, I'm in a really really elite c I 132 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.839 said what, and he goes, I've jumped ten thousand times. 133 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:06.920 I said, you've jumped ten thousand times, right, and he 134 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.279 said yeah. And I was like, oh, I'm good. Immediately 135 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:09.920 was good like that. 136 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:11.800 You didn't have a sense like he's about due. 137 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:12.560 No. 138 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:15.279 I did not, No, I just it was the same 139 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.839 logic you this is like, it's like, oh, I'm good. 140 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:19.800 This guy knows what he's doing, right, he's going to 141 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:20.399 pack the Shoot. 142 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:23.759 Fine, I'm going next week. I'm going to a pretty 143 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.759 dangerous city. It's a in the world. It's a well 144 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:27.879 known dangerousy I don't want. 145 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:28.279 To say it, but. 146 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:31.800 And I had a couple of people go, oh, maybe 147 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:33.839 he shouldn't go. That's such a dangerous city. So well, 148 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:36.079 how many people live there? Like, I don't know, I said, 149 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:39.120 over twenty million people live there, right, right. 150 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:39.639 So. 151 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.319 That's how many people lived there yesterday. There's twenty many people. 152 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:45.839 Do you know how many people woke up this morning? 153 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:47.560 Twenty million people. 154 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:49.839 Well maybe not, maybe not. 155 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:53.399 No, Still, they didn't lose twenty million people yesterday, right, 156 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:55.759 So the probability is something bad happening to you on 157 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.319 that day is really really small. It's like greater than 158 00:06:58.319 --> 00:06:59.360 getting struck by lightning. 159 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:00.199 Right. 160 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.639 So right, Well, I did go to South Sudan when 161 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.439 it was very unsafe, and but that wasn't something. 162 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:08.040 That I was fearing in a good way. 163 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.519 That was actually a bad way. 164 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:11.879 Yeah, that was intense. 165 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:14.680 Yeah, yeah, I've had some of those. A lot of 166 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.199 mine are with animals. I think maybe I was thinking, 167 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:19.720 you know, I've been this whole time just killing time, 168 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:22.040 trying to figure out something recent. I think the most 169 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:25.519 recent thing that happened to me that scared me. I 170 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.279 was on the border of Sudani Kenya. So when you 171 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:32.120 said Sudanic clicked, Yeah. And we were staying in this 172 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:36.160 I don't know, like a Safari kind of a camp 173 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:40.399 and in my room on the second night, oh yeah, 174 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:42.439 you told me this. In my room on my second night, 175 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.519 I had a tarantula that I had to get out 176 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:48.439 of my room and I didn't want to go ask 177 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:52.240 for help because those guys are so tough. Yeah, you know, 178 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:53.959 And so I had to figure out how to get 179 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:56.040 it out myself. I wound up catching it and getting notes. 180 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:57.920 I didn't want to kill it, so I caught it 181 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:00.360 and got it outside. But it was one of those 182 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:04.199 things that I had seen it subconsciously and hadn't It 183 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.759 didn't register the first day, and then I slept all 184 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:09.560 night with that spider in my room. 185 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:11.680 Yeah, and then the next. 186 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.439 Day my wife, My wife just shivered. 187 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.519 It was it was about it was about as big 188 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.000 as my hand, not quite as big as my hand, 189 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:19.399 maybe half the size of my hand. 190 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.319 You know, you and I live parallel lives, right, I 191 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:24.079 mean we had a lot of the same stories I had. 192 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.920 That happened to me in u in Haiti. There was 193 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:27.560 a transla. 194 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.519 Oh really, yeah, it was. It trapped me in a shower. 195 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:31.319 It trapped you. 196 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:33.120 Yes, there was one hallway. 197 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.039 There was one hallway, and it was right there and 198 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:38.799 I was screaming coming out of the shower and screaming help, help, 199 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:40.840 and nobody was around, and it literally it was a 200 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:42.159 really thin transla. 201 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:44.240 Saw you coming out of the thing. It was screaming too. 202 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:47.399 Help A right, right, I only had a towel, that's it. 203 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:49.039 So I didn't know what to do. So I just 204 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:50.600 I had to hold up the towel because those things 205 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:52.480 could leap. I had to hold the towel, and I 206 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:54.360 had to walk by, and I was I was as 207 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:55.879 close to that transfer as me to you. 208 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:57.480 You didn't me too. I had to catch it. I 209 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:00.000 had to catch mine. Oh you didn't show your towel 210 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:01.320 on the translate. 211 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.600 I was, yeah, no, I didn't think of that. 212 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:06.399 Throw your towel on the translant, scoop it up, get outside. 213 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.000 Yeah, no, anyways, I just held the towel up, thinking 214 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:10.320 if he jumps, she's gonna hit the towel. 215 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:13.399 Right, that's funny. Yeah, that's probably the main one. But 216 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.120 most of mine are animals or events like what you 217 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:18.039 were talking about, you know, skydive and stuff like that. 218 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:19.639 I just I'm not allowed to do those things. 219 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:20.759 So gotcha. 220 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.080 Okay, well talking about dangerous, Yes. 221 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:27.200 We're talking about dangerous. Well that was an easy transition. 222 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:27.879 It was, it was. 223 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:31.120 But for the next couple of weeks, they're all dangerous prayers. Yes, 224 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.240 And I thought this was a really cool idea. You know, 225 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:36.879 many of us we pray these prayers, you know, these polite, 226 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:40.840 little dinner time prayers, right, you know, God is good, 227 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:41.519 God is great. 228 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:42.840 Kind of stuff. 229 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:44.639 It's that is great. God is good. 230 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:45.799 God is great. God is good. 231 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:48.120 What do we because because people think for some reason, 232 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:49.120 food rhymes was good? 233 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:51.919 Okay, good good food? Yeah? 234 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:55.000 What's what's the ones we teach our kids? Now, I 235 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:57.759 lay me down to sleep. Yeah, yeah, those are the 236 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:00.000 kind of prayers that most of us wind up praying. 237 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:04.720 Do you know what? We pray for Aunt Gertrude's bunions? Right, 238 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:06.399 we pray for those kinds of things. 239 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:08.039 I can't believe you just said that. That is but 240 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:10.480 I keep going all day without that visual aid. 241 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:12.600 Right. 242 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.480 But we wonder why there's not a lot of power 243 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:18.960 and sometimes why there's not a lot of adventure in 244 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.200 our lives. And it's because we're praying either weak prayers 245 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.240 or we're praying the wrong kind of prayers. And so 246 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.279 I thought, hey, this would be a fun series to do. Hey, 247 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:29.159 dig into the Bible all these really powerful, dangerous prayers. 248 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:32.559 I don't often say this because I always tell stories 249 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:35.240 of dysfunction of my family, but did you know that 250 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.840 my family would not have a family meal, which we 251 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:40.480 did almost every night we had a family meal. We 252 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.399 would not have a family meal without saying a prayer. 253 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:45.559 And we never went to church growing up, but it 254 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:47.879 was that prayer. God is great, God is good, And 255 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:51.000 where are me thinking? For this food from his hands 256 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:52.879 we must be fed. Give us a little this daily bread, 257 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:54.679 Amen and something. 258 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:55.039 Yeah. 259 00:10:55.399 --> 00:11:00.799 So, as insanely dysfunctional as your family was, I like 260 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:02.399 the poke fun that you you pretty. 261 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:02.960 Much grew up feral. 262 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.519 Yes, yes, yes, but. 263 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.399 You guys had family dinner every night, almost every night. Yeah, 264 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.440 and you prayed together. 265 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:11.960 Yes. 266 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:12.879 Isn't that amazing? 267 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:14.879 They didn't. They didn't call it prayer though. They said, say. 268 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:15.600 Grace, yea, I say grace. 269 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:16.080 Yeah. 270 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:19.240 Wow, that's amazing. That's probably why you guys are still close, 271 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:21.200 even though you had such a crazy family grow up, 272 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:23.879 growing up with family dinner, family dinner is magical. 273 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:27.080 Man. Okay, anyways, we've killed enough time. Let's jump into this. 274 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.960 We're only looking at two prayers, but the reality is 275 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.759 Psalm one thirty nine, the whole thing is a prayer. 276 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:33.639 Yeah right. 277 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:35.759 As a matter of fact, as you read through the Psalms, 278 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.720 they're all songs that the Hebrew people, the Jewish people 279 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.480 would sing many times going up to the temple or 280 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.360 in the temple or throughout their day and other things. 281 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:48.120 But every one of them is also a prayer that 282 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.960 was put to song, right, put to music, and so 283 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:55.840 this one is a psalm of David, and he ends 284 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:58.360 the prayer with this. He says in verse twenty three, 285 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:01.679 search me, Oh God, and know my heart, test me 286 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:05.279 and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me 287 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.919 that offends you, and lead me along the path of 288 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:08.799 everlasting life. 289 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:12.480 Yeah. So, dude, that's a that's a dangerous prayer. God. 290 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.600 He's literally inviting God to do some exploratory surgery. Yes, hey, 291 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:18.759 just check a see is there anything in there that 292 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:19.480 I need to be fixed? 293 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:22.279 Right? That's amazing. But let's give a little bit of context. 294 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.240 He says, point out. Yeah, he wants he wants God 295 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:26.840 to bring to his attention. 296 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.200 Yeah yeah, search me, point it out, you show me God, 297 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:31.559 I love you so much. 298 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.799 I want you to show me anything in me that 299 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:34.440 needs to change. 300 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:36.080 And that's powerful. That's like standing in front of your 301 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:37.879 husband and says, does this dress make me look fat? 302 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:42.080 Tell me the truth? But they don't want the truth. Yeah, right, 303 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:43.600 But but David's praying for the truth. 304 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:48.559 So for some context, he really lays out already through 305 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:51.919 this whole chapter. God, you know everything right, That's really 306 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:54.080 what he's doing through this whole chapter. In the first 307 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:57.039 six verses, it says, Oh, Lord, You've examined my heart 308 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:59.159 and know everything about me. You know when I sit 309 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:01.720 down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when 310 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:04.279 I'm far away. You see me when I travel, when 311 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:07.240 I rest at home, you know everything I do. You 312 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.840 know what I'm going to say even before I say it. Lord, 313 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:12.720 you go before me and follow me. You place your 314 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:15.279 hand a blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too 315 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.840 wonderful for me, too great for me to understand. He 316 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:20.679 goes on. He says, I can never escape your spirit. 317 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:22.519 I can never get away from your presence. If I 318 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:23.919 go up to heaven, you're there. If I go down 319 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:25.759 to the grave, you're there. If I ride the wings 320 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:28.159 of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest sea, 321 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:30.519 even there, your hand will guide me, and your strength 322 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.000 will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me, 323 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:34.639 and the light around me to become night. But even 324 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.080 in the darkness I cannot hide from you. To you, 325 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:40.360 the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light 326 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:43.759 are the same to you. You made all the delicate 327 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.080 inner parts of my body and knit me together my 328 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.080 mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex. 329 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.440 Your workmanship is marvelous. How well I know it? Just 330 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:56.960 so funny, man, God, you did a good job making me. 331 00:13:57.320 --> 00:13:58.720 Look how marvelous this is. 332 00:13:58.759 --> 00:13:59.960 It's wonderfully come back. 333 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:04.120 How well I know it. Your workmanship is marvelous, he says. 334 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:06.759 You watch me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, 335 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:08.960 as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. 336 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:11.639 You saw me before I was born. Every day of 337 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:14.080 my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was 338 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.960 laid out before a single day had passed. How precious 339 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:19.799 are your thoughts about me? Oh God, they cannot be numbered. 340 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.639 I can't even count them. They outnumber the grains of 341 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:24.799 the sand. And when I wake up, you're still with me. 342 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:28.720 Oh God, if only you would destroy the wicked. And 343 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.679 now he's mad at it. He does this a lot 344 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:34.039 in his prayers. He's like, God, you are so awesome. 345 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:34.799 You're so great. 346 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:36.320 By the way, I got some enemies. If you kill 347 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:36.840 them for me. 348 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.000 And he get out of my life, You murderers, they blespheme. 349 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.360 You your enemies misuse your name. Oh Lord, shouldn't I 350 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.799 hate those who hate you? Shouldn't I despise those who 351 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.360 oppose you? Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for 352 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:55.799 your enemies are my enemies. And then he says, search me, o, God, 353 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:57.480 and know my heart, and test me and know my 354 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:01.480 anxious thoughts, point out anything in that offends you, and 355 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:06.320 lead me along the path of everlasting life. So really 356 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:08.720 really powerful because he admits, God, you know everything about 357 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.039 me from the first second of conception. 358 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:11.840 You knew who I was. 359 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:15.600 You know I love It's been a while since I've 360 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:17.879 thought of this. When he says, how precious are your 361 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:20.399 thoughts about me? Oh God, they cannot be numbered. They 362 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.279 I can't even count them. They outnumber the grains of sand. 363 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:29.039 So David is saying that if you try to count 364 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:34.879 all the grains of sand, God has more precious thoughts about. 365 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:38.759 You than the grains of sand. Yes, And I know 366 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:39.519 it's David saying. 367 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.840 It's not God saying it, sure, but it is, you know, 368 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.720 inspired by God, and it is contained in God's word. 369 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:48.480 So I have to believe that that's true, Right, I 370 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:49.399 have to believe. 371 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.919 That that God has precious thoughts about us. 372 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:54.279 That out number the grains of sand. 373 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:57.559 Is amazing if it's in his Holy word, right, pretty amazing. 374 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:00.919 So either way, it's it's just a phenomenal right, that 375 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:03.240 God has precious thoughts about me, and he says, you 376 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:08.320 know all my days, time is time is relevant, day 377 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:09.320 and night is irrelevant. 378 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:13.039 To you God, everything is the same. And then also, 379 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:15.360 of course this is a very famous chapter. 380 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:18.000 We have to say this. It's a very famous chapter 381 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:24.039 that is very pro life, isn't it. It's the pro 382 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:24.639 life chapter. 383 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:29.159 It's well, I'm sure that there are multiple places in 384 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:31.000 the Bible where God highlights the value. 385 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:31.720 Of human life. 386 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:34.039 Yeah, you're right, but this one is talking about God 387 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.559 knew me at conception, that's right, that's what and was 388 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:40.159 paying attention to me from the moment I was conceived, 389 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.679 all through my development before I was ever born, and 390 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:45.720 God had a plan for my life before I was 391 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:46.399 ever even born. 392 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:49.720 Yeah, and he talks about knowing the number of days 393 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.919 while he's in the womb, and so he mentions it 394 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:53.480 several times. 395 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:53.759 Yeah. 396 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:54.960 So the reason why I say pro. 397 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:56.480 Life, I was gonna say, don't think David wrote it 398 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:57.679 to be political. 399 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:58.000 No, of course not. 400 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.279 But the reason why I was saying that is because normally, 401 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:04.079