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 --> 00:00:17.239 practical ways. Good morning, good morning, talk the whole morning. 4 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:20.280 Good morning to you and you and you. 5 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:22.679 Okay, well you got that out of your system. 6 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:23.039 That's it. 7 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:23.839 That's a job. 8 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.039 Thursday thrilled. This riveted. 9 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:31.559 They are thrilled. Your fan base is thrilled, which is 10 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:33.640 both of them. Both of them are going to send 11 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:34.640 us an email today. 12 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:36.359 My wife, yeah, and my daughter. 13 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:37.399 They love it. 14 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.039 That's funny. Hey, well listen, good morning to you. Welcome 15 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:44.520 to the Bible guys. We are Christian, Jeff and we 16 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.320 are or Jeff and Chris. You know Chris as the 17 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:50.520 sign says, never know, the sign says Jeff and Chris. 18 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:52.159 Yeah, but you're the one talking, so you get to 19 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:52.399 do it. 20 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:55.320 Okay, So Chris and Jeff and Jeff and we have 21 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:56.320 a great segment for you. 22 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.359 I think people really know it's Chris and Jeff, it's 23 00:00:59.359 --> 00:00:59.759 not Jeff. 24 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.880 Whatever. Hey, to be truth be told. We don't really 25 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:05.040 know how this segment's. 26 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:06.840 Going to go. We've never done it before. 27 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:08.040 Yeah, it's a new one. 28 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.359 Yeah, I'm kind of looking at this segment skeptically. 29 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:13.560 Skeptically. Yeah, I don't know how it's going to go either, 30 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.840 but you know we did. We played along with that 31 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:20.719 other segment on Tuesday, right, which is that weird share 32 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:23.840 name thing. We'll get through that, okay, yeah, so we'll 33 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:24.560 see how this goes. 34 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:25.359 Let's see. 35 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.879 Oh, this is called story time but wrong. So Jeff 36 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:33.719 will start to tell a well known story and then 37 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:38.439 Chris will interrupt with lines altering the story and completely 38 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:39.680 unexpected ways. 39 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:41.480 How do we know when we're done? 40 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:42.439 I don't know. 41 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.920 You just just twenty four minutes. 42 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.719 Of No, it's just a few minutes. Okay, all right, 43 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:51.760 So tell me a common story, Jeff. Actually, you know what, 44 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:53.480 don't tell me, tell the audience. 45 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:55.560 Tell the audience a common story. 46 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:57.480 Yeah, have you ever heard the one about the what 47 00:01:58.200 --> 00:01:58.959 the Okay? 48 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.079 Once upon a time? Yep, there was a farm girl 49 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:03.719 in Kansas. 50 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:05.239 Oh yeah, sure, Yeah. 51 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:11.639 They had a puppy. Yeah, and the neighbor lady next 52 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:13.560 door was particularly mean to her. 53 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:17.120 Right, and then I remember this, the lady took the 54 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:23.280 puppy and put it in a bag and threw it 55 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.520 in the lake, and that puppy died. 56 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.800 Wow, I know. So then she got another puppy, and 57 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:32.759 the lady hated that one too, and she named that 58 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:39.439 one Toto. Okay, keep going, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then 59 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:43.520 she was dreaming of somewhere over the rainbow. 60 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:50.280 Yeah. But on the way to this place, the house 61 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:56.319 stopped and landed on Mars. I'm not sure many people 62 00:02:56.439 --> 00:03:01.159 understood this. Mars that actually the tornado. Well, I mean, 63 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:02.159 where's where's Oz? 64 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:04.439 Where's Oz on Mars? Apparently? 65 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.240 No, no, no, it's it's it's on Mars. 66 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:08.639 Is on the way Mars is on the way to Oz. 67 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:13.000 Correct. Yeah, so the house, but many people don't realize 68 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:14.960 that the Wizard of Oz just sort of skips over 69 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:15.360 this part. 70 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:16.159 Oh okay, but. 71 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:19.560 It landed on Mars, and it actually the house landed 72 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:22.639 on a Martian, So go ahead. 73 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.360 Okay, green Martian. Yeah, and this Martian had red shoes? 74 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:28.680 Is this is this the one that landed. 75 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.840 On Uh, it's up to you. You tell the story, dude. 76 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:32.560 You know, our listeners are like, what the heck is 77 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:33.159 happening right now? 78 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:35.800 I don't know where that came from. It just came 79 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:36.400 out of my brain. 80 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:40.159 So they take the red shoes and they have to 81 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:43.120 get to the Wizard of Oz. And so I guess 82 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:45.159 what you're trying to tell me, which we never knew 83 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.240 up to this point, was that the yellow brick road 84 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:49.599 led from Oz all the way to Mars. 85 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:52.719 Wow. That that is not where I. 86 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:58.759 Was because Oz is Oz is a green city. 87 00:03:58.960 --> 00:03:59.240 Wow. 88 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:01.039 Wow, is that what you're saying? 89 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.159 Wait a minute, So are we concluding this terrible segment 90 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:09.120 by saying that that Emerald City is actually a Martian city? 91 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:11.280 This is what I think you just taught us. 92 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:16.720 Wow. Well, congratulations for this terrible lightning segment. 93 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:20.480 Yes, if anybody is still listening after four minutes of that, right, 94 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:24.959 we are not talking about Martians in the next sege. 95 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:28.040 Wait. Hey, by the way, to get off of this segment, 96 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:32.800 I did have about ten or twelve people or so 97 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:39.120 approached me and say thank you for promoting Wicked because 98 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.240 they went and saw it only because we talked about it. 99 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:44.519 Oh wow, and I was so passionate about it, and 100 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:47.120 they said it was unbelievable and they came up and 101 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:47.439 thanked me. 102 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:49.639 We also had people file complaints on it too, so 103 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:54.319 both sides talk complaints about us surprise that we would 104 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.879 promote it. So it's both sides. We got it both ways, well, 105 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:58.360 people love us and hate us. 106 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:03.199 That's what happens all the time, even as if Wicked's bad. Yeah, 107 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:03.560 you mean. 108 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.399 Like Harry Potter, which, oh you're inviting all kinds of 109 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.279 junk right now, dude, just leave it, That's what I 110 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.079 would do, all right. Yeah, Well, I was just saying, 111 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.240 there's the people who are fans of what you say, 112 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:16.959 and there are people who don't like what you say. 113 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:17.639 I understand. 114 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:19.279 And that's that's for both of us. It's true. 115 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.319 Okay, all right, that's all for. 116 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:23.319 Both of us, Just people who like what we say 117 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:25.199 and what we don't say. Sure, there's people who like 118 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:26.839 what we like, and there's people who don't like what 119 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:27.160 we like. 120 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:28.040 I understand. 121 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:32.439 You particularly like Wicked. Yes, I'm on the record of 122 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:33.360 saying I've never seen it. 123 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.600 Yes, that is so funny. 124 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:38.759 It's not a Broadway show. 125 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.319 But I've literally watched it twenty times. 126 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:46.199 I bet you have. It's only been out ten days, 127 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:50.160 but you've seen it twenty times. Right, Okay, all right. Second, 128 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:55.639 King's chapter four talking about Wicked. Elisha's not wicked. He's 129 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:56.519 a good guy. 130 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:01.399 That was a perfect, terrible transition speaking Wicked. There's no 131 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:06.000 wickedness in Elijah, and. 132 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:08.279 He's with this woman from Shunam, the Shunamite woman. 133 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.720 And I bet all the anti wicked people love. 134 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:13.519 That, that's right. One day Elisha went to the town 135 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.399 of Shunem. A wealthy woman lived there, and she urged 136 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:17.879 him to come to her home for a meal, and 137 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.720 after that, whenever he passed that way, he would stop 138 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.399 there for something to eat. She said to her husband, 139 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:25.240 I am sure this man who stops in from time 140 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.439 to time is a holy man of God. Let's build 141 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:29.480 a small room for him on the roof and furnish 142 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.800 it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, 143 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:33.879 and then he will have a place to stay whenever 144 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.720 he comes by. One day Elisha returned to Shunam, and 145 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:39.920 he went up to this upper room to rest, and 146 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.639 he said to his servant Gahazi, tell the woman from Shunham, 147 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.120 I want to speak to her. When she appeared, Elisha 148 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.040 said to Gahazi, tell her, we appreciate the kind concern 149 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.360 you have shown us. What can we do for you. 150 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.639 Can we put in a good word for you to 151 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.360 the king or to the commander of the army. No, 152 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.319 she replied, my family takes good care of me. Later, 153 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.720 Elisha asked, Ahazi, what can we do for her? Gayzi applied, 154 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:05.920 she doesn't have a son, and her husband's an old man. 155 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.399 Call her back again, Elijha told him. When the woman returned, 156 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:11.639 Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway, 157 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:13.920 next year, at this time, you'll be holding a son 158 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.240 in your arms. No, my lord, she cried, Oh, Man 159 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:19.399 of God, don't deceive me and get my hopes up 160 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.879 like that. But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant, 161 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.319 and at that time the following year, she had a son, 162 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:31.519 just as Elisha had said. Wow, I'm reading a long 163 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:32.079 passage here. 164 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:33.399 Yep, you're going to thirty seven. 165 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.480 One day, when her child was older, he went out 166 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.000 to help his father, who was working with the harvesters, 167 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:40.399 and suddenly he cried out, my head hurts, my head hurts. 168 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:42.600 His father said to one of the servants, carry him 169 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:44.720 home to his mother. So the servant took him home 170 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:47.360 and his mother held him on her lap. But around 171 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.360 noontime he died. She carried him up and laid him 172 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.319 on the bed of the Man of God, and then 173 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:54.639 shut the door and left him there. She sent a 174 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:56.759 message to her husband, send one of the servants and 175 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:58.879 a donkey so that I can hurry to the Man 176 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.720 of God and come right back. Why go today, he asked, 177 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:03.920 It is neither a new moon festival nor a sabbath. 178 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.319 But she said it'll be all right. So she saddled 179 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:09.800 the donkey and said to the servant, hurry, don't slow 180 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.319 down unless I tell you to. As she approached the 181 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.000 Man of God at Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her in 182 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.319 the distance, and he said to Gahazi, look, the woman 183 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:19.720 from Shunam is coming. Run out to meet her and 184 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:22.040 ask her. Is everything all right with you, your husband and 185 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:25.360 your child? Yes? The woman told Gahazi everything is fine. 186 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:27.120 But when she came to the Man of God at 187 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:28.920 the mountain, she fell to the ground before him and 188 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.560 caught hold of his feet. Gahaze began to push her away, 189 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:33.960 but the Man of God said, leave her alone. She's 190 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:35.720 deeply troubled, but the Lord has not told me what 191 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.200 it is. Then she said, did I ask you for 192 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:40.759 a son, my Lord, and didn't I say? Don't deceive me? 193 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.799 Get my hopes up. Then Elisha said to Gahazi, get 194 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:46.600 ready to travel, take my staff and go. Don't talk 195 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.399 to anyone along the way, go quickly and lay the 196 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:51.159 staff on the child's face. But the boy's mother said, 197 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:54.159 as surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, 198 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:57.960 I won't go home unless you go with me. So 199 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.279 Elisha returned with her Gahaz. He hurried on ahead and 200 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.639 laid the staff on the child's face, but nothing happened. 201 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:05.360 There was no sign of life. He returned to meet 202 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:08.240 Elisha and told him the child is still dead. When 203 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:11.159 Elisha arrived, the child was indeed dead, lying there on 204 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:14.039 the prophet's bed. He went in alone and shut the 205 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:15.519 door behind him and prayed to the Lord. And then 206 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:17.559 he laid down on the child's body, placing his mouth 207 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:19.840 on the child's mouth, his eyes on the child's eyes, 208 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:22.200 and his hands on the child's hands. And as he 209 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.360 stretched out on him, the child's body began to grow 210 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:27.279 warm again. Eliicia got up, walked back and forth across 211 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:28.960 the room once, and then stretched himself out in the 212 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.799 child again. This time, the boy sneezed seven times and 213 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:35.679 opened his eyes. Then Elijha summoned Gahazi called the child's mother, 214 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:38.879 he said, and when she came in, Elisha said, here, 215 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.679 take your son. She fell at his feet and bowed 216 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:44.320 before him, overwhelmed with the gratitude. Then she took her 217 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.679 son in his arms and carried him downstairs. Wow. 218 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.159 I've always thought that this is one of the most 219 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:55.600 peculiar miracles in the Bible. Yeah, Like, you know, remember 220 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:59.639 how like when Jesus healed the blind man, he spit 221 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:01.919 in the dirt and rub mud on his eyes. I 222 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.480 always wondered like, yeah, I always not like, why why 223 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.759 just speak the words? Why the spit and the mud? 224 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:09.240 Right? 225 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.200 And and but you know who can tell, right, who 226 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.080 can tell why the spit was necessary? Uh? You know 227 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:19.480 what was the significance of it? Right? And in this one, 228 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:21.960 I'm like, why, why why the mouth against the mouth, 229 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:25.080 the eyes against the eyes, you know, laying on top 230 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:28.480 of them, which again, he's been dead for days, right, 231 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.120 this child's been dead for days, and so you're laying 232 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:33.240 on a you know, have you ever felt a dead 233 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:34.639 corpse after a couple of days? 234 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:35.200 Right? 235 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.600 It doesn't feel great? And then uh and and so yeah, 236 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:42.200 so's he's doing all that and uh, but yet, you know, 237 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:45.200 you can't overlook the fact that it's just this unbelievable 238 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:50.519 miracle that once again God does the impossible in this case, 239 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.720 it's the miracle of all miracles, right, bringing somebody back 240 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:58.919 to life. What a strange and yet wonderful thing. And 241 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.039 by the way, I got emotion when you read that, 242 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.440 did you I did I get emotional? Yeah? This woman 243 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:06.960 who you know. 244 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:08.279 She's just don't get my hopes up? 245 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:13.679 Yeah, she just she falls in front of Elisha and 246 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:17.919 and and she says, didn't I tell you, doctor, get 247 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:19.799 my hopes up? I didn't ask you for this. You're 248 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:22.440 the one that did this. And now he's dead. And 249 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.159 and then and he says, okay, go back, and you know, 250 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:28.600 go in my name and lay the staff. And she's like, 251 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.120 it's just just think about the love of a mother. 252 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.399 Yeah right, yeah, yeah, it just gets me emotional. 253 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:39.799 The thing I read, the thing that really stood out 254 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.159 to me is, you know, the Bible only tells us 255 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:45.879 some of the highlights, correct, but it doesn't tell us everything. 256 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:49.120 Like John says at the end of the Book of 257 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:51.919 the Gospel of John. John says, if I tried to 258 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.200 write everything that Jesus did just in these three and 259 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.240 a half years, the world couldn't contain the books, right, right, 260 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:59.320 It's what John's saying, is what I wrote here. It 261 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.480 was like that all day, every day, all the time, right, right, 262 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:05.120 I couldn't possibly write everything. I just wrote the highlights. 263 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.159 So in this situation, Elisha says to Gahazi, hey, get 264 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:10.879 ready to travel, take my staff. Just late on his face, 265 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:14.080 he'll be fine. Gahazi doesn't even question. He goes, oh, okay, 266 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:18.759 because this is what we do, right, This is what 267 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:23.480 we do right, And he goes, oh okay. So apparently 268 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.960 Elisha was in the habit of doing miracles, you know, 269 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:30.360 long distance. He's doing these long distance miracles with a Gahazi. Hey, 270 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.519 take the staff. Elisha's probably getting towards being an old 271 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.360 man or whatever. He take the staff and go heal 272 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:38.039 this kid for me, because you know, this lady's been 273 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.840 really good to me, and hell this kid. And he 274 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.080 doesn't he doesn't even go, what are you talking about? 275 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:45.799 I can't do that. He goes all right, and he 276 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.000 goes all the way from Mount Carmel all the way 277 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.720 to shoot him. Right, it's quite quite a wayte this 278 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.039 is going to take a good journey, and that idea 279 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.159 is just hysterical to me. He goes, okay, this is 280 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.399 what we do. We you know, Elisha and me, we 281 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:02.720 we just raised dead kids, right right, So so again 282 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:05.799 we're only getting little glimpses of the things that God 283 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.000 did through Elisha and this power that God had in 284 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.080 Elisha's life at the time. But he gets up and 285 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:13.919 he goes and why did all this happen? It start 286 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:20.960 off because this woman show, a wealthy woman, saw Elisha 287 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.720 coming through shun him sometimes and needing a place to stay. Yeah, 288 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:29.039 you know in in Israel, I've noticed. And then this 289 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.720 is true out west too, as a matter of fact, 290 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:33.919 here in Michigan. So you know, Michigan used to be 291 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.360 the where we live now. Michigan used to be the northwest. Right. 292 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:39.799 When when you hear that phrase go west, young man, 293 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:44.519 remember that ye from Horace Greeley. He was talking about 294 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:47.240 going to Michigan. There was jobs here, logging here, all 295 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:52.759 this stuff. Right, So our towns tend to be half 296 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:57.360 a day's journey between towns is where the town's in. 297 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:00.639 The rural communities in Michigan tend to be. And so 298 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:02.639 you can go to one town, refuel and get to 299 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.200 the next town in a day's ride on a horse. 300 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.120 And it's that way throughout the West. They're about a 301 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.399 day or half a day in between towns. That's that's 302 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.559 so shoot him. It was kind of in one of 303 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:19.120 those places where for Elisha, if he was heading in 304 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:21.240 that direction, it's not uncommon for him to want to 305 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:25.399 stop off and shoot him. And you know they didn't 306 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.039 have you know, Mary up back then, and so you 307 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.600 know where you're going to stay. And so this woman 308 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:32.039 says to her husband, I think this is a man 309 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.600 of God. We should we should honor this man of God. 310 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:36.440 Let's just put a let's build a room up on 311 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:38.320 the rooftop, and let's put a bed there and a 312 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.759 chair there and a lamp there. Let's just make it 313 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:43.360 comfortable for him when he comes by. And she saw 314 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:46.559 the benefit of having a man of God, the access 315 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.759 to man of God for her family, right, And that's 316 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:51.600 where you get the This is where you get the 317 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:53.679 idea of the prophets chamber. A lot of churches will 318 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:56.639 have profits chambers, and it's it's this idea of let's 319 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:59.960 have a place that when people of God are travel 320 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.200 link somewhere they need to somewhere to stay, they stay there. Right. 321 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:05.720 Don't judge me for this, but I've never heard the 322 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:07.679 term profits chamber in my life. 323 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:09.679 Never heard it never, oh, man, that was that's a 324 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:12.679 Baptist thing. Man, every independent Baptist church. It seemed like 325 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:15.399 head of profits chamber. If they love missionaries, So if 326 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:19.639 you're in a high missionary kind of environment or a 327 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:21.519 lot of evangelists, yeah, they use them. 328 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:25.240 What do they call it when we've had people personage? Yeah, 329 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:26.240 I'm familiar that. 330 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.679 Yeah, that's that's a home for the pastor. But then 331 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:32.960 oftentimes they would have a room many many churches still do. 332 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.480 We'll have a room set aside for pastors and missionaries 333 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:40.879 and people cutting through travel, save them money. Yeah. So 334 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:43.720 my wife and I in our house, we have begun 335 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:46.720 working on our guest guest rooms specifically for that purpose, 336 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:50.559 so that when people of God are coming in the town, 337 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.279 need some place to stay and stay spending two hundred 338 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.360 bucks in a hotel, come and stay with us, right, Yeah, 339 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:57.159 And my mom and dad did that, And in fact, 340 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:59.879 the trajectory of my life has changed because my mom 341 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.559 and dad set aside We had a very small house, 342 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:06.360 so they set aside my bedroom as a prophet chamber. 343 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:09.720 And they explained this story, and they explained this idea 344 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:12.679 that hey, we want to have access to the men 345 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:15.240 of God and women of God who come through our area, 346 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:17.200 and so we wanted to make an offer. And my 347 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.679 mom is a tremendous cook and so in great hostess. 348 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:22.360 But we had a very small house. I think my 349 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:23.840 house when I was growing up was eight hundred and 350 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:24.639 something square feet. 351 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:25.440 That's pretty small. 352 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:29.519 Pretty small. And I hit my bedroom. I could stand 353 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.000 and I could, I could. I could touch the walls 354 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:35.960 like this and like this, so north and southeast west, 355 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:36.720 I could touch the walls. 356 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:38.840 It's like a Harry Potter under the stage kind of thing. 357 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:41.320 So my dad built in my bed with all of 358 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:43.159 my storage was underneath, and then I had a little 359 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:45.120 little closet. I could hang out a couple suits in 360 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:47.960 the thing. And then he built a bowed window and 361 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.919 that's where I kept. All my stuff was there. So 362 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.960 basically I could walk in turn the corner in my bed. 363 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.399 That that was it. But we would use that for 364 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.480 pastors and stuff that would come along, and I would 365 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.360 say six to eight times a year we would have 366 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:07.680 a missionary and evangelist, a traveling singer, somebody a preacher 367 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:12.559 staying in our home. And so I wound up becoming friends, 368 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.279 even as a teenager with a bunch of godly men 369 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:17.759 who began to kind of take me under their wing, 370 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:21.000 encouraged me. I had one guy would offer to take 371 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.039 me to different conferences or events that he was going 372 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:25.079 to be at. I'd just ride along and be me 373 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:29.440 and a bunch of adult preachers going somewhere. One of 374 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.759 these men was the one who told me about the 375 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:35.640 opportunity to win a scholarship for college. Because he asked me, 376 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:36.599 where are you going to go? I said, oh, no, 377 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:38.000 I don't know how I'm going to afford school, and 378 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:39.599 he goes, I know, you can go win a scholarship 379 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:42.480 at this school in a music competition. And it was 380 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:45.400 the men of God in our house all the time, 381 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:49.039 and they had a huge impact on my life and 382 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.640 on my brother's. Let my mark the next one down 383 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:54.519 our lives and it was because of this idea. So 384 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:58.759 something to that about getting access to your family, getting 385 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:02.920 your family access to godly people. I'm not saying me 386 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:05.160 as a preacher, saying godly people in general. 387 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:07.839 Yeah, yeah, yeah, see I would never would have had 388 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:14.160 that angle, not angle, But like, like immediately your first 389 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:18.359 phrase was this woman who was a wealthy woman knew 390 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:21.359 the benefit of having access to the man of God. 391 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:23.039 And she thought there was benefit yeah. 392 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:27.079 Yeah, And I would never have thought that ever, because 393 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:29.839 I would have thought that what she's saying is, hey, 394 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:32.200 I've been blessed with a lot. Let me be a 395 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:36.480 blessing to this man of God with nothing, expecting absolutely 396 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:38.839 nothing in return. So when he went to her and said, hey, 397 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:40.240 what can I do for you, She's like nothing. 398 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:44.680 Yeah. I don't know that her intent was what she 399 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:48.359 could get, yeah, correct. Yeah, And my mom and dad 400 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:54.319 read this story and said, hey, there's benefit o having 401 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.559